The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-18 00:00:00

ON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER is, 1545.

'DIRECT WESTERN RAILWAY
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Southampton will be twenty-three miles less than by any other route
Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway Company. (Provisionally Registered.)
of The deviations from a perfectly straight line between Rugby and
Capital, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares
e. 251. each.
Macclesfield to avoid high ranges of hills, ornamental parks, or .Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
The Hon. Charles Pelham Vll ors, M Director of the South Mid-
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Sir Henry Webbe, Bart., 105, Pall-mall
The Company has made arrangements with the North Londo Frederick Hodgson, Esq. M.P. for B tale 3 Carlton Gardens
ei.,_ Junction Railway Company, whereby it has secured the useo.:l re Howard Elphinstone, Esq' , M.P , 10, EatonPpl' '
i' Merton (of the extent of six acres) 'lithe centre of the City of London, Ralph Neville, Esq., M.P. for Windsor, Hill-s-traeZ London
at the bottom of Moorgate-street, which will prove of the utmost Charles Barry Baldwin, M.P. for Totness, 6, Nall Berkeley-square
ent-street
importance to this line;
Hon. Percy Evans Freke, 3, Belgrave-square
Amidst the many railway projects that now occupy the public
Thomas Nugent Vaughan, Esq , 32, Grosvenor-place, London
.g mind, and involve a vast outlay of capital, it will readily be conceded William Bradley, Esq., Manor'
Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the
g that a line that will attain such important results at so small an Sheffield and Manchester and Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
outlay of capital, and the time required for its construction, and Companies
4 withgeneral approbation, andat thewithout interfering with any existing vested interests, must meet Sir John Key, Bart ,9, King's Alderman of the City of
investment for capital
Liverpool and Leeds Railway Company
The shareholders in the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Ports- F
Thomas
=comb, Esq., Griffin's Wharf, Tooley-street, Alderman
month, in the London and Birmingham, and in the Manchester and of the City of London, and NY trnin
and Director of the London es -
Birmingham Railways, will have a preference in the allotment of ster Bank, and of the London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidder-
the shares.
minater Railway
The deeds will provide that no call shall be made on the share- Tho Ch • Esq., mas albs E 32, Wilson-street, Finsbury, Alderman of the
holders beyond the deposit now paid, until the Act of Parliament is City of London'
obtained, and power will be taken in the Act to allow 41. per cent. Edward Harrison Burwell, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the North-
interest on all calls.
ampton. Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway, and Director of the
Application fir detailed prospectuses, maps, and shares, may be
, made to the Secretary, at tke Office, 78, King William-street, City,
London, end the following sharebrokers :—Messrs. R. Sutton,
Ch ibble, aril Sutton, 22, North-side Royal Exchange, London, and
George Burnand; Esq., Comhill ; Messrs. Houghland and Leese, 51,
King-street, Manchester; John Wills, Esq., Royal Bank-buildings,
Liverpool ; Messrs. Wellbeloved an 1 Oastler, Leeds ; Messrs. Ed-
wards and Son, and W. H. Land, Esq., Bristol ; J. R. Lane, Esq.,
Birmingham ; Messrs. Garton and Wright, Sheffield •J. G. Ker- South Midland Railway
Joseph Armitage, Esq. Mlle's Bridge House, Huddersfield, Deputy
Lieutenant and a Magistrate'
for the West Riding of Yorkshire,
Chairman of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
William Gordon Thomson, Esq., 33, Gloucester-road, Hyde Park,
Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham, and
South Midland Railways
Donald Maclean, Esq., 37, Brunswick-square, London, Deputy
Chairman of the Trent Valley Continuation Rath) ay
shim, Esq., Huddersfield ;F. C. Spencer, Esq., Halifax ; Messrs. Thomas Lawrence, Esq., 3, St. Mary Axe
Hall, Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham ; Henry Beaumont and Co.. Philip W. Courtney, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, London
Exeter; R. P. Lemon, Esq., Bath; and Joseph Clark, Esq., Millis Coventry, Esq.,hitehart-court, Lombard-street.
Southampton, Barnet L. 'Philips, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, and
George-street, Mansion House
John Wheelton, Esq., Aleopham Bank, Tunbridge, Kent, Direetor of
the Leicester and edford Railway
Boswell Middleton Jolland, Esq., Holderness House, near Hull,
Deputy Lieutenant and Magistrate for the East Riding of Yorkshire
Charles Robert Coleman, Esq., Irongate Wharf
William Eales, Esq., Mincing lane, London, late Director of the
Devon and Cornwall Banking Company
Charles Downes, Esq., Warwick-street, Charing-cross, Director of
the South Midland Railway
Martin Stutely, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park, London,
Director of the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine, and the South
Essex Railways
Francis Ede, Esq., 34, Great Winchester-street
John Griffith Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Director of the Londonderry
and Coleraine and the Londonderry and Enniskillen Railways
John Addis, Esq., Rotherhithe and Mark-lane, London, Director of
the Central Terminus Railway, and of the Licensed Victuallers'
Fire and Life Insurance Company
James Renshaw, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street, and West
Heath House, Erith, Kent, Director of the South Staffordshire
Railway
Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brembo Ironworks, Wrexham, and Cannon-
street, London
H. G. Atkinson, Esq., Upper Gloucester-place, Regent's Park
George M'lntosh, Esq., 127, Seymour-street, Portman-square
Frederick Sony Flood, Esq., Alpha-road, Regent's Park, London •
Major White, 105, Pall-mall, London, Director of the South Midland
Railway
Charles Bleaden, Esq., Coulsden-court, Surrey, Chairman of the Li-
censed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company
J. G. Hammack, Esq., Essex House, Mile-end-road, Director of the
Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company
Patrick Fras. Johnston, Esq., Great Cumberland-place
Joseph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, Mlnories, Director of the London and
Blackwell Railway Company
W. D. Bruce, Esq., F.S.A., 17, Charles-street, St. James's, and Ripon
Cuthbert Woodstock, Esq., Grove-road, North Brixton
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 93, Bryanstene-street, Portman-
square, Director of Tring, Reading, and Basignstoke, the Exe-
ter, Dorchester, and Weymouth, and the Great Western Extension
Railways
George Hammond Whalley, Esq., 30, Pall-mall, London, Assistant
Tithe Commissioner
William Hagan, Esq., 60, Baker-street, Portman-square
William Breynton, Esq., Montpelier, Cheltenham, and Temple, Lon-
don, Director the Leicester and Tamworth Railway
Richard Harris Purcell, Esq., Cambridge-street, Hyde Park, Lon-
don, Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Railway
Company
Philip Baker, Esq., Euston-square, London, Auditor of the London
and Blackwell Railway Company
Charles James Heath, Esq., 6, London-street, Mark-lane
Captain E. N. Trowbridge, R.N., 11, Eaton-square
Anthony Ridley, Esq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury, a Director of the
St. Katherine's Dock Company
William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square
Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., Clopton House, Warwickshire, and
Luton Moo, Bedfordshire
George Payne, Esq., Sulby Hall, Northamptonshire, and Charles-
street, Berkeley-square
James Beech, Esq., Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, and Grosvenor-
place, London
Nicholas Philpot Leader, Esq., Dromagh Castle, county Cork, Union
Club, Trafalgar-square, Director of the Killarney Junction Rail-
way Company
Samuel Baker, Esq., Lyppiat Park, Gloucestershire, and Louden William Congreve Russell, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Di-
rector of the Warwickshire anLondon Railway
Henry Bradley, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire
John William Yerbury, Esq., Belcombe House, Wiltshire, Captain 3d
Light Dragoons
Robert Main, Esq., Ravensbourne Park, Lewisham, and Trinity-
square, London
Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsall House, Retford, Nottinghamshire
John Gillyatt Booth, Esq., Crouch Hall, Hornsey
Major-Gen. Martin White, Marlborough-buildings, Bath
Rev. T. Harvey Ashworth, Burlyns House, near Newbury, Berks
Col. Burslem, Harwood Lodge, Newbury, Berks
Major Kirwan, Great Pulteney-street, Bath
Rev. Dr. Godfrey, Grosvenor-place, Bath
Edward Cooper, Esq., Staverton, Wilts, Magistrate of the County
Henry Toogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse, Wilts, Magistrate Of the
County
Rev. Chas. Fras. Bamfylde, Rector of Dunkerton, near Batk
Richard Mortimore, Esq., Chippenham, Wilts
George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, Director of the Bristol and Birming-
ham Railway Company
R. Wootten, jun., Esq., Banker, Oxford, Director Of the Thickingharn-
shire Railway and Wolverton Junction
Richard Mortimore, Esq., Kingsmill, Collumpton •
Rev. John Sydenham, Collumpton
Rev. R. A. Roberts, Rector of Kentisbere, Cellumpton
Charles Justice, Esq., Collumpton, Devon
Richard Marker, Esq., Ufculm Cottage, Tiverton
Colonel Henry Dundas Campbell, North End House, Portsmouth
George Pearce, Esq., Bradninch House, near Collumpton
Wm. H. Halcomb, Esq., Chilton, Hungerford, Chairman of the Berks
Union Banking Company
William Halcomb, Esq., Marlborough, Manager of the Wilts and
Dorset Bank •
Captain W. G. Maclean, R.N., Taunton
Robert Parsons, Esq., Taunton
John Dalzell, Esq., Wallingford, Berks
Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
John Kerle Habertleld, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
Troup, Esq., Hastings
John Robson, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
John Morford Cottle, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington, Director
of Coventry and Leicester Railway
Joseph Knight, Esq., Leicester, Director of South Midland and North-
ampton, Banbury and Cheltenham Railways
John Newton Mappin, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Midland Railway Company
John Ridgeway, Esq., Cauldon-place, the Potteries, Staffordshire,
Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway
James Burt, jun., Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and
Southampton Railway
Edward Norris, Esq., Clalrville, Manchester, Director of the Direct
London and Manchester, and North Cheshire Railway Companies
Joseph Nadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and
Wigan, and Manchester and Southampton Railways
James Ogden, M.D., Salford
Sir William Lowthrop, Hull, Magistrate for the East Riding of York
and for the borough of Hull, Chairman of the " Hull and Barnsley"
Committee, and Member of the acting Committee Of the "Liver- ,
pool and Leeds Direct Railway Companies"
John Holford, Esq., Rusholm Hall, Manchester
C. H. Jones, Esq., Huddersfield, Deputy Chairman of the Rudders-
field and Sheffield, and Director of the Halifax and Bradford
Union Railway
Charles Bamford, jun., Req., Hull, Direetor of the Hull and Barnsley ,
Junction
John Lillie, Esq., Manchester, Director of Manehester and South-
ampton Railway
John Robson, Esq., Hetton-le-Hole, Durham
Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Sheffield and
Manchester, and Chairman of the Manchester, Birkenhead, and
Midland Railway Companies
Isaac Holmes, Esq., Liverpool
Wm. B. Newbery, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Dudley and
Iron Bridge Railway Company
C. Appleby, Esq., Broomhill, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and
Manchester Railway Company
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach,
and Lincolnshire Railway, and Salisbury and Swindon Railways
John Ward, Esq., Machin Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield,
Rotherham, and Chesterfield Life Assurance-office
Wm. Thompson, Esq.; Upperthorpe, near Sheffield, Director of the
Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
Adderley Howard, Esq., Sutton Wisbech, Director of the East Coast
Railway Company
Captain Bowker, R.N., Devonport
H. S. Bright, Esq., Hull
Samuel Swann Brittain, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the East and West
of England Railway Company
John Fawcett, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Wakefield and liar-
rowgate Railway Company
William Marriott, Esq., Attereliff-terrace, Sheffield, Director of the.
Isle of Ely, Wisbeach and Lincolnshire Junction Railway. z-e-
Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln, Director of the London and York
and East Lincolnshire Railways
John Johnstone Hamilton, Esq., Liverpool
David Price, Esq., Manchester
William Hunter, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington
Rev. Charles Cottle, Rector of Walton, Northamptonshire
Major Wornum, Clarence-square, Cheltenham
Edward Hall, Esq., Westbank House, Macclesfield, Director of the
South Midland and the Northampton and Cheltenham Railways
Henry llubbersty, Esq., Hull
John Ostler, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Jeactien
Henry Shaw, Esq., Fetter-lane
Henry Sayer, Esq., Commercial-road, Limehouse, merchant
John Mee Mathew, Esq., Gray's Inn-square, Assistant Tithe Com-
missioner
John Norton, Esq., Moat House, Brentwood, Essex
William John 31`Guire, Esq., Hampton Court
John Gray Wilson, Esq., Oxford-terrace
Capt. J. P. Macdougall, Fir Grove, North Brixton, Surrey
W. J. Lefenvre, Esq., Alderman and Magistrate of Southampton
Thomas Chas. Harrison, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's Park
G. B. Banbury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the
Coventry and Leicester Railway
Captain Tringham, R.N., Solyhull, Warwickshire
William Jonson Neale, Esq., King's Bench-walk, Temple
James Whitney, Esq., Shrewsburg
Henry Paul Harwood, Esq., M.D., Sheffield
(With power to add to their number),
Bemeens--Ifessrs. Curries and Co., Cornhill, London,
JOINT OLICITORS.
Messrs.
lies It ell, Brodriek, and Bell,S
Bow Churchyard, London
srs. Rickards and Walker, 29, Lincoln's Inn-fields Ld,on on
Messrs. Haynes and Moore, Warwick and London
Messrs. J. V. and J. T. Harting, 24, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London
SECRETARY—Thomas Hosier Saunders, Esq. .
ASSISTANT-SECRETARY—Charles J. Whalley, Esq.
LOCAL SOLICITORS ALREADY APPOINTED.
At Devizes, Henry Gilbert, Esq.
At Troubridge and Bradford, Messrs. Stone and Rodwa
At Bath, Messrs. Batehellor, Harford, and Staunton Y
At Bridgewater, Messrs. G. S. and J. R. Poole
At Tiverton
At Truro
At Penzance
At Falmouth

FORM OF APPLICATION.

To the Provisional Committee of the Manchester and Rugby Direct

Railway Company, via Macclesfield.
I request that you will allot to me • of 201. each in
the capital of the above-named railway, and I will accept the same,
or any less number and will pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per Share, and
sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when
required,

Dated the

1845.

day of
Name ..• • • • • • •
Address . •• . . •
Profession .• . • • .. • • .
Reference

ATA.I\.TCHESTER and RUGBY DIRECT
RAILWAY, via MACCLESFIELD.
The Provisional Committee beg to announce, that practical Engi-
neers of great experience have gone over the proposed Line, and
have satisfied the Committee that the country is perfectly practi-
cable for railway purposes. They have likewise the satisfaction to
state, that Contractors of known respectability are willing to execute
the whole of the works within the estimate in eighteen months, thus
putting the matter of time and money beyond a doubt.

The object of this line Is to effect a direct communication between
London and the Land's End.
In a national point of view such a line is indispensable. With
the advantage of a direct railroad, Falmouth, from its position at the
western extremity of the kingdom, would undoubtedly long since
have been the principal port on that coast. With the advantage of
at least 280 miles of heavy road, that place has attained its high po-
sition as a Packet Station. Southampton, with far less natural ad-
vantages, has, since the opening of the South-Western Railway, in-
creased its imports from 200,0001. to 3,000,0001. per annum. At Bris-
tol, before the opening of the Great Western Railway, the imports
were declining ; since then they have very considerably increased.
The merits of a line to the Land's End as an investment for ca-
pital, it was not left to the present Company to discover. The Great
Western and Bristol and Exeter Railway having already reached
Exeter, it has been in contemplation to extend that line to Fal-
mouth by way of Plymouth; and various other projects have been
set 'on foot on the conviction that Falmouth must be reached by
railway.
The object of this prospectus is to show that no other line than the
present can ultimately satisfy the exigencies of the country in regard
to this, its most important outport--" the natural Packet Station of
the empire."
The present project is distinguished by this—that it is direst. It Is
as nearly as possible a straight line from London to the Land's End.
The London, Bath, and Bridgewater Company having amalga-
mated with this Company, the immense local influence commanded
by them will now contribute to the great national object of a direct
line ; while means have been taken for securing the traffic and afford-
ing all the accommodation contemplated by that Company.
The Direct Western availing itself of the Great Western Railway
so far as Reading, pursues its course by or near Newbury, Hunger-
ford, Great Bedwin, Marlborough, Devizes, the manufacturing dis-
trict of Trowbridge (from which a diverging line will be carried by
Bradford direct to Bath), Westbury, Frome, Shepton Mallet, Wells
(from which another diverging line will be taken to Bridgewater),
Glastonbury to Taunton, being shorter by about thirty-two miles than
any existing or projected railways between these points, and without
a tunnel. From Taunton the Bristol and Exeter Railway (now
leased to the Great Western) is traversed to Tiverton, whence it is
proposed to carry this line direct to the Land's End, Falmouth, St.
with respect
London to
tramc Ives, and Penzance, being shorter by about sixty miles than the
lately proposed line by way of Plymouth, and effecting, in the whole
di
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needless to say more than that there
is already thorough traffic suffi-
cient to justify the
tern that it will construction of this portion of the Direct Wes-
about 82 _ shorten the distance from London to Tiverton
miles that it will traverse dell mud popilloa4

FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Direct western Railway
Company.
Gextlemen,—l request you:will allot nae shares of 251. each in
the above Company, and I undertake to pay the deposit of 21.125. 6d.
per skare thereon, or on any less number you may appropriate to me,
and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Con-
tract when required.
Dated

Name In fulllB4B. •
• • • • • • • • • • • •
Residence...... • ..........
Trade or Profession
Place of Basiness (If any)
Reference.• • •
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LIVERPOOL AND BURY RAILWAY.
CONTRACT FOR SLEEPERS.
he DIRECTORS are READY to RECEIVE TENDERS for the
SUPPLY of RAILWAY SLEEPERS, conformable to Specifications
to be seen at the Company's Otlices, 33, Dale-street, Liverpool; or at
the Office of Sir John Macneill and James Thompson, 9, Whitehall-
place, Loudon.
Offers to be forwarded to the Secretary, up to the Ist Novem-
ber next. By order,

Liverpool and Bury Railw JOHN S. HERON, Secretary.
ay Office, 33, Dale-street,
Liverpool, 6th September, 1845.

MANCHESTER, MIDLAND, and GREAT
GRIMSBY JUNCTION RAILWAY.
gi en
Shareholders are respectfully informed that attendance will be
vallk the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement,
for execution by the Shareholders, at the following places, on the
undermentioned days, between the hours of Ten and Five o'Clock,
when the Bankers' Receipts may be exchanged for Scrip.
Manchester—Moseley Anne
Liverpool—Adelphl Hotel, Friday and Saturday, 19th and 20th
September.
ditto.
Bradford—Mr. Mason's Office, Sharebroker, Wednesday, 24th
ditto. , Monday and Tuesday, !2d and 23d
Huddersfield—Mr, Moore's Office, Thursday, 25th ditto.
Leeds—Royal Hotel, Friday and Saturday, 26th and 27th ditto.
London—Castle and Falcon, Aldersgate-street, Tuesday, 30th
September, and Wednesday,
Ist October.
FRANCIS PARKER, Secretary.

Rotherham, Sept 13, 1845,

yoRK AND LANCASTER RAILWAY,
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Ctuntlusty—The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney.
VicE-Cnenowt—Sir Henry Webb, Bart.
Bart
Sir Thomas Woollaston White, John Holmes, Esq.
.
J. W. Hamilton, Esq.
Philip Henry Howard, Esq., M. P. Richard Keily, Esq.
William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., John Learmonth, Esq.
M.P.
John Manwaring, Esq.
William Bradley, Esq. Nathaniel Ogle, Esq.
John Chauntler, Esq. John Reginald Riddell, Esq.
Rev. H. R. Fowler A. Macdonald Ritchie, Esq.
Colonel Fitch Joseph Underwood, Esq.
NOTICE.—The Committee of 3fanagement are proceeding with
the investigation of the applications for Shares in this Company, but
from the great number applied for, several days must necessarily
elapse before the allotment can be effected.
By order,

SAUEL WR
Palace Chambers, St. JameMs's-streetHOLD, Sept.S 160, 184T5H., Secretary,

WILTS, SOMERSET, AND 'SOUTHAMP-
TON JUNCTION RAILWAY.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
The DEEDS of this COMPANY will LIE for SIGNATURE as
follows :
SOUTHAMPTON—At the Offices of W. H. Maberly, Esq., soli-
citor, Portland-street, en Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, the
15th, 16th, and 17th of September instant, between the hours of
Eleven and Four each day.
In BRISTOL—At the Bush Hotel, on Tuesday and Wednesday,
the 16th and 17th instant, between the hours of Eleven and Five
each day.
In SHEFFIELD—At the Tontine Hotel, on Thursday and Friday,
the 18th and 19th instant, between the hours of Eleven and Five
each day.
In LEEDS—At the Royal Hotel, on gaturday and Monday, the
20th and 22d instant, between the hours of Eleven and Five
each day.
In YORK—At the Black Swan Inn, on Tuesday and Wednesday,
the 23d and 24th instant, between the hours of Eleven and Five
each day.
In NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE—At the George Inn, on Thursday
and Friday, the 25th and 26th instant, between the hours of Eleven
and Five each day.
In EDENBURGH—At the Gibb's Hotel, Princes-street, on Mon-
day and Tuesday, the 29th and 30th instant, between the hours of
Eleven and. Five each day.
Returning from Edinburgh, the Deed will be at Manchester, at the
Albion Hotel, on Friday and Saturday, the 3d and 4th October, be-
tween the hours of Eleven and Five each day,

By order,

H. B. SHERIDAN, Secretary.

London, August 13, 1845.

S HEFFIELD, BUXTON, LEEK, --
POTTE-
RIES, and CREWE RAILWAY.
(Registered Provisionally under 7 and 8 Victoria, c. 110.)
Capital, 800,0001., in 32,000 Shares of 251. each,
Deposit, I/. Is. 6d. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
John Burgess, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester, Director of the
Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction
Railway
John Belford, Esq., Rusholme House, Manchester
John Gaunt, Esq., Banker, Leek
Overton JohnJTo
Josiah
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Challenor,v .
Gaunt, Edwars
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Powys,°eavte Hall, near Congleton
Rector of Bagnall and Cheddletjn
Heaton House, and Leek
Thomas Finchett Maddock, Esq., Chester
Josiah Gaunt, jun., Esq., Horton Hall, near Leek
The Rev. James Rostock, Cliffe Park
James Wardle, Esq., Leek
John Macfarlane, Esq., Manchester
John Collier, Esq., Manchester
George Edensor Marsden, Esq., Manchester
Penrose Nevins, Esq., Old Trafford, Manchester
Wilson Overend, Esq., Sheffield, Chairman of the Manchester, Shef-
field, and Midland Junction Railway
Henry Wilkinson, Esq., Endcliffe Hall, Sheffield, Provisional Director
of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction Railway
,Tames Robins, Esq., Blakenills, Rugby, and Leek
James Challenor, Esq., Blackwood-hill
Charles Heaton, jun., Esq., Leek
Robert Younge, Esq., Grey Stones, Sheffield, Provisional Director
the Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction Railway
Thomas Kidiey, Esq., Sheffield
Thomas Carr, Esq., Leek
J. A. West, Esq., Western Lodge, Durham
Benjamin Smith, Esq., Duckmanton Lodge, Chesterfield
William Newton, Esq., Bakewell
Robert Micklington, Esq., Ordsall Hall, Retford, Notts
John Squire, Esq., Leek
Henry C. Leahy, Esq.,
St. James's-square
William Wood, Esq., M.D., Chetwynd House, Newport, Salop
Thomas Birch, Esq., the Bank, Leek
John Green, Esq., Sheffield, Provisional Director of the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Midland Junction Railway
Nathan Davenport, Esq., Leek
John Newton Mappin, sq., Sheffield, Provisional Director of the
Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction Railway
William Milner, Esq., Leek
Thomas Smith, Esq., De-Bank House, near Leek
Robert Hanunersley, Esq., Bridge-end, Leek
John Leek
Samuel Swann Brittain, Esq., Sheffield, Provisional Director of the
Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction Railway
Ward, Esq.,
Josiah Brunt, Esq., Leek
Samuel Young, Esq., Lyra House, near Leek
John Spence, Esq., Manchester •
James Ridont, Esq., Leek
Thomas Heaton, Esq., Endon, near Leek
Samuel Butcher, Esq. Provisional Directors of the Manchester,
George Dawson, Esq. j Sheffield, and Midland Junction Railway.
(With power to add fo their number.)
ENGINEER—Charles VignoleS, Esq., M.R.1.A.,
Somenron—Thomas Redfern, Esq., Leek
LONDON "Warm—Thomas Whalley Bolton, Esq., 4, Elm-court,
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Local. Paoussioxsz AGENT—R. H. Wilson, Esq., Solicitor, Moseley-
street, Manchester
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London—Messrs. Rogers and Co. ; Messrs. Smith, Payne and Smith
SECRETARY PRO Titst.-111r. John Minshull.

prehensive line of communication, by
The object of this undertaking is to effect the most direct and cora-
railways—the Manchester, Buxton, and Ambergate, the North Der-
byshire Union, and the Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction Lines—between the Potteries, the iron districts of Staffordshire and
Shropshire, Cheshire, North Wales, Holyhead, Sheffield, the Ports
le
and the who
Gainsborough, Grimsby and Hull, North Derbyshire,
of the West Riding of the County of York. Applications for shares In the following form may
Esq., Solicitor, 4, Elm-court, Temple, London ; be made to
Thomas Redfern, so
E ''' Solicitor, Leek; Thomas Whalley Bolton,
means of existing and projected
Younge, and Pierson, Solicitors, Sheffield ; at the Offices of the Com-
pany, Leek ; and No. 7, Surrey-street, Sheffield; or to the following
Sharebrokers, from whom Prospectuses may be obtained :
London—Messrs. F. and W. Atkinson, Threadneedle-street
York—Mr. Thomas Johnson
Leeds—Messrs. R. B. Watson and Co.
Hull—Messrs. Flint and Tootal
Liverpool—Mr. Thomas Forsyth
Manchester—Mr. Joseph Fernyhough
Huddersfield—Mr, Burchart Messrs. Wilson,
Derby—Messrs. Eyre and Shaw
Lichfield—Mr. J. W. W. Proffitt.
tered previous to the 29th of Jul 1 It f 11. 7 6d. is
In consequence of this Company having been provisions. rei-
V ast, the depos o
House of Lords, a
sufficient to comply with the Standing Orders of the House of Com-
mons ; but, in order to comply with those of the further amount of 11. N. will be called for after the Bill 1. -Is bean
u-
, _
read a second time "in the Commons, of which due notice wwillgiven to the shareholders.

FORM F APLICATION. To the Provisional Committee P of the Sheffield, Buxton, teek' Pot'
Gentlemen,—l r
teries, and Crewe Railway.
shares, of 251.
uest you will allot me
each in the above request you will allot me
to accept the
each In the above undertaking, and I hereby agree to accept the
same, or such less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to
the regulations of the Company, and to pay the deposit,
and sign the
Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement, when required•
Dated this day of 1845.
Name in Hill ...•• ..... • • .....
•
Business or profession ••••• • • • • •• ‘•
•••
Name and residence of a Referee of respectability.

SHEFFIELD, BUXTON,
RIES, AND CREWE RAILWAY.
1845.
Leek, 11th Septembzr,
Shares in
Notice Is hereby given, that no further applications for
this Company will be received aftar MONDAY, the 22d dsy of uSeP-
tember instant, except from 'parties locally interested, floor
Applications will be received until THURSDAY, the 25th instant•
By order of the Committee •
JOHN AILNBIII7LL, SeeretaryPro tem.
LEEK, POTTE-

and manufacturing districts, and receive a large amount of traffic as THE WEST MIDLAND, MANCHESTER,
well from railways now in course of construction as from ethers pro- „ % s ..s. „
' " ' AND
jetted, with every chance of succes,s.-
' BI
Being au exteusiou Midlands' JfiliQiiOn Railway.
As to the traffic on the lower portion of the line, it is evident that
the vast 'number of merchant vessels continually detained in the
(Provisionally Registered.)
would effect an immense saving both in
Capital, 1,200,0001., in 60,000 shares of 201. each.
insurance
ebyanadd
adverse winds,
whyinddissCharging their cargoes at Falmouth, and at .
once transmitting them to their destination by means of this railway; Deposit 2/. 2s. per share,
and therefore—without speculating on the extent to which the ports PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Lord George Paget, on either side of the great promontory of the Land's End may, by P
means of this railroad, attract the commerce respectively of Bristol Major Beresford, M.P.
House.
William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid-
awl Southampton ;to what extent the inexhaustible mineral wealth land, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways
of Cornwall, and the unrivalled agricultural resources of Devonshire Richard Price, Esq., M.P., Director of the Welsh Midland, and
may be further developed, or the genial climate of Penzance and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Mount's Bay, " the Montpellier of England," attract a larger propor- David R. Ross, Esq. 31. P., Chairman of the Belfast, Director of the
tion of winter visitants—it is obvious that this line will command a London and Manchester, and South and Midlands' Junction Rail-
traffic both in goods and passengers, from its western terminus, the ways
amount of which may be said to be without limit. A glance at the Sir John E. Be Beauvoir, Bart.; Chairman of the London and Bir-
map will make it manifest that no competing trunk line can ever be mingliam Extension, and Director of the South and Midlands'
established between Tiverton and the Land's End. As between
Taunton and Reading, an inspection of the map will show a vast ex- Junction RailwaysSi William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire, Director
tent of midland district, comprising rich and populous parts of So- of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
mersetshire, Dorsetshire, and Wiltshire, now altogether destitute of
Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Hetes, Director of
railroad accommodation.
Recurring to the features of this project as a national work, one of the
tion RChester Chaster Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' June-
s
the greatest in point of magnitude, of vital importance in the event of Sir William Wynn, , Chairman of the North Wales,
w Maesynewadd
wear, and of almost incalculable advantage to the general and packet
and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways
commerce of the kingdom ; it ;may not be out of place to quote here
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, Director of the Direct Western
the following expressions of Sir Robert Peel. Speaking of the project R
of a direct line from London to Liverpool through the Trent Valley, Sir John ay
Key, Bart., Alderman of London, Director of the London
which bore much the same relation to the Birmingham and Grand and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction
Junction that this bears to the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter
he is reported to have said : —"I consider that the corn- Railways
Sir William Twysden, Bart., Director of the Chepstow and Forest of
Railways,ation between the metropolis and the great outports to be not
in nidn
Dean Railway •
a question of hours, but a question of minutes." Of the necessity of this
William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., Alderman of Lon-
particular line, Parliament has already expressed an opinion ; for in the don Chairman of the Machester and Birkenead Continuation,
report of the Committee on the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth and London and Greenwich Railways, &c. &c.
use, which was promoted by the Great Western Railway Company,
Thomas Sydney, Esq., Alderman and Sheriff of London, Director of
it was stated that that Company had been required to pledge itself
not hereafter to oppose a direct line to Falmouth ; and it may be the London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' June-
further observed, that a proposed line from Plymouth to Falmouth tion Railways
Was last session rejected, on the ground that it might be supposed Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the Lon-
to interfere with that great national object. don and Westminster Bank, and Namur and Liege, and South and
The survey of the line has been to a great extent completed, and' Midlands' Junction Railways
John Klnnersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the
correct estimates of the expenditure and returns are in a state of for-
wardness, and the whole will:Dpsebe7armanetioesadt yrefmorunthereantievxot
rsauesswioanysofinPtahre- London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
liament.
It is sufficient, as to these points, here to state that there are no ThßivoimiidlaiwasanKydesal,l
jyn,nEesqunsnAßlaidelwrmayana of London, Director of the South and
engineering difficulties in any part of the line which have not been
repeatedly surmounted in other caseseeo;anptchaunarrsteenrcee,flarnsat pocort-oipoenrawtiollnl be Donald
that the undertaking Donald Maclean, Esq,, Deputy-Chairman of the Trent Valley Con-
tors are justified in asserting that tinuation, and Dirctor of the South and Midlands' Junction
Major Oliver Lindam, K.H , Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberys-
twith, and Central Wales,' and Director of the South and Midlands'
willtth
ihoenssl
wtmanvail claottpew
landowners,
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enunotnrhuti unusually
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Junction Railways
kingdom.
Major-General Parlby, C.B Rutland-gate, Director of the Worces-
Powers will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow interest at ter and Crewe, and S th d Midlands' Junction Railways
four pounds per centum per annum (Si the deposits, and preference
in the allotment of shares will be given to the proprietors of the land Captain James,. Patrickm3facdanougal, late Bengal Royal General Staff,
Fir-grove, North Brixton, Director of the Chester and Forest of
through which the line will Pass, and to the shareholders in the Dean, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways, &c.
Great Western, the Bristol and Exeter, and other railways coanected Captain' Alexander Hamilton Carle, Royal Artillery, Reform Club
with the Direct 'Western district.
J
Applications for shares, in the form subjoined, to be addressed to John James, Esq., Secondary of the City of London, Director of the
the solicitors to the Company, or to the Secretary, Legal and Commercial Insurance Company, the Great Western of
London, September 11, 1845. Bengal, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Robert Henry Lyndam, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth
Railway
Major Jelf Sharp, Deputy-Chairman of the Thames Embankment
Railway
Richard William Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Man-
chester, and Derbyshire and South Staffordshire Railways
William Fechney Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Direc-
tor of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
?eter Morrison, Esq., Managing Director of the Britannia Life Insu-
rance Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
James Clay, Esq., Brompton, Director of the Furness and White-
haven, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Col. Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, Director of the London and
Birmingham Extension, and South and Midlands' Junction Rail-
ways
William Shaw, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment, Manag-
ing Director of the Farmers' Life Insurance Company, and Di-
rector of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Richard Carpenter, Esq , Magistrate of the County of Middlesex,
Deputy-Chairman of the London and Birmingham Extension, Di-
rector of the Leicester and Bedford, and South and Midlands'
Junction Railways
G. W. Killett Potter, Esq., Secondary of the City of London
Lieut.-General Sir Lewis Grant, K.C.8., 31, Harley-street
John Jennings, Esq. Elm-grove, Hammersmith
William S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Director of the
Oxford, Wftney and Cheltenham, and South and Midlands' Junc-
tion Railways
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., 8, Upper Hyde-park-street
William Singleton, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds,
and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of the Britannia Life Insurance
Company, and Derby and Stafford, and South and Midlands' Junc-
tion Railways
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manchester
and Birmingham Railway
Daniel Penton Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Manches-
ter Railway
Richard Parish, Esq., Bank House, Wordsley, Staffordshire
Samuel Parish, Esq., Wordsley, near Stourbridge, Staffordshire
John Anderson, Esq., E.1.C.5., Director of the Church of England
Life Insurance, and South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Henry Lewis Smale,i Esq., Willoughby House, Tottenham, Director
of the London and Dover, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
James Reeves, Esq. Director of the London and Manchester Direct,
and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
John Cash, Esq.
Henry Wright, Esq., Brunswick-square, Director of the Warwick
and Worcester, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
John Castendick, Esq., Lewisham
Robert Richards, Esq., Inner Temple, London, Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
George R. Colman, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junc-
tion, and Northampton and Banbury Railways
William Paxton, Esq., Langford, near, Bicester, Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
William Bardgett, Esq., Winchester House, Broad-street, Director
of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Con-
tinuation Railway
John Blackburn, Esq., Leeds
Peter Fairbairne, Esq., Leeds, Vice Chairman of the Leeds and York
Railway
J. D. Hopkins, Esq., Bedford-square, Director of the London and
Birmingham Extension Railway
Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Old Palace, Richmond
James Durness, Esq., Leytonstone, Essex
G. N. Wright, M.A., Coed Celyn, Denbighshire, and Lonsdale-square,
Islington
Stephen Lewis, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway
Martin Furness, Esq., Director of the Newark and Sheffield Railway
William Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Lincoln, York and
Leeds Railway
Edmund Phillips, Esq., Avon House, Melksbam, Wilts, Director of
the South and Midlands Junction Railway
Charles Thomas Ward, Esq., Luton Hoo, Beds, and Clopton House,
Stratford-on-Avon, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
Joseph Brook, Esq., Greenhead, Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds,
Dewsbury, and Manchester, and Huddersfield and Sheffield Junc-
tion, and south and Midlands' Junction Hallways
George Henry Brook, Esq., Edgulin-lodge, Huddersfield, Provisional
Director of the Huddersfield, Halifax and Bradford Union Rail-
way, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Captain Hitchins, H.E.1.C.5., Queen Anne-street, Cavendish-square,
Director of the Birmingham and Oxford, and South Midlands'
Junction Railways
James Beech, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place, and Brandon Lodge, near
Coventry, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Rail-
way
William Watson Prole, Esq., Thurloe-square, Brompton, Director of
the Jersey, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Thomas Cieobury, Esq., 30, Sackville-street
Major Walker, K.H., Director of the London and Manchester Direct,
and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Frederick James Hall, Esq., Torrington-square, and Alfreton, Derby,
Director of the Trent Valley Continuation, and South and Mid-
lands' Junction Railways
I. R. W. Atkinson, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford, and
South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Joseph Underwood, Esq., The Haife AlnrtanencesionCocmompapny, and Director of the London
Hall, Blackheath, Director of the
Birmingham M-
etropolitan
Company, and Director of the South
tan
and Midlands' Junction Railway
W. A. Hill, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith and
Central Wales, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Chairman
of the Church of England Life Insurance Company, and Director
of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Colonel Fitch, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
Richard Dutton, Esq., Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Railway, Director of the Legal and Commercial Life Insurance
Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
Captain C. W. Tyndale, Director of the South-Eastern and South
and Midlands' Junction Railways
Frederick Jones, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Director of the Warwick and
Worcester, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
John Englis Jerdein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester,
Rugby and Southampton Railway
William Morley, Esq., Blackheath
William Lee, Esq., Director of the Gravesend and Rochester, and
' Essex and Suffolk Railways
Thomas Gooch, Esq., Director of the. South and Midlands'
Junction Railway
J. Harvey, Esq., Rash-hill, Surrey
John Wheelton, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Thomas Collingridge, Esq., Highgate, Middlesex
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director ofthe South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
C. Waite, Esq., Willesden, Middlesex
R. W. Wood, Esq., Lodge-place, St. John's Wood, Director of the
North Metropolitan Railway
William Slark, Esq., Director of the Guarantee Society
Frederick Collingridge, Esq., Thurlow-square, Brompton
Warren Stormes Hale, Esq. Gresham-street, Director of the Oxford
and Worcester Extension
Kingsmill Grove Key, Esq.
Thomas Yates Hunt, Esq., Brades, near Birmingham
Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds, Director of the West Riding Junction, and
South Midlands' Junction Railways
W. Lee, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square
Robert Power, Esq., M.D., Queen-street, May-fair
Admiral J. Ayscough, Prospect-place House, Southampton,'Director
of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Joseph Thompson, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton. and
South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Major Grubbe, Eastwell House, Potterne, Wilts, Magistrate of the
County, and Director of the South and Midiands'Junction Railway
Captain Seth N. Fisher, Director of the Warwick and Worcester, and
South and Midlandk Junction Railways
T. G. Norbury, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continua-
tion, and south and Midlands' Junction Railways, and of the Legal
and Commercial Life Insurance Company
William Hallett, Esq., Kemp Town, Brighton, Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
John Brocke Walbaneke, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands'
Junction Railway
Captain Hamilton Earle, Royal Artillery
William Lee, Esq., Director of the Reading Railway
Henry Savage, Esq., Dorset-place, Dorset-square
William T. Thornton, Esq., Berkeley-street, Portman-square
John Dennis, Esq., Director of the Erewash Valley Extension Railway
Joseph Crockett, Esq , Alderman of Devizes, and Director of the
North Wilts Banking Company, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
John Helbert Helbert, Esq., Gloucester-place, London, Director of
the Leicester and Birmingham Railway
Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Herefordshire
Thomas Chitty, Esq., Gower-street, London, Director of the Rugby
and Worcester Railway
William Peppercorns, Esq., London, and Bexhill, Sussex
Captain T. Hodges, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park, Director of the
Leeds and Carlisle Railway
F. Duffield, Esq., Bolton House, near Bradford
Rev. F. R. Hall, D.D., Rector of Fulbourne, Cambridge
John Barnett, Esq., Coroner for the County of Gloucester, Director
of the Oxford and Cheltenham Railway
William Spooner, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, Director of
the Newcastle and Liverpool Railway
Alexander Prince, Esq., 14, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Director Of the Bar-
net North Junction Railway
James Lees, Esq., Delph, Saddleworth, near Manchester, Director of
the Saddleworth Banking Company
(With power to add to their number).
BANKERS—The Commercial Bank of London.
Coxswain° ENGINEER—Sir John Maonell, LL.D., F.R.S.
ACTING ENGINEER—WiIIiam Mullingar Higgins, Esq., C.E.
SOLICITOR—W. B. James, Esq., 5, Basinghall-street.
LOCAL AGENTS.
It appears that England will be divided longitudinally by four great
lines of railway, which will become so many main trunks, intersec-
ing and intersected by numerous lines, both transverse and oblique,
opening rapid and ready communication with the intermediate dis-
tricts, with packet stations, and with sea-port towns. The more
easterly of these, which is also the longest, originating at Newcastle-
upon. Tyne, and passing through York, Peterborough, and Sambridge,
may be said to terminate in London, whence all places are accessible.
The second line, counting westward, is more tortuous, and has also
a common northern terminus with the preceding, by which its ad-
vantages are materially restricted. This line, descending the Ere-
wash Vale, and passing through Rugby and Oxford, becomes a South-
ampton line by falling into the South-Western Railway at Basing-
stoke.
The third longitudinal line, or the most westerly, is still more de-
fective in design than the preceding ; employing the steep and narrow
railway called the Birmingham and Gloucester as its first link, it
traverses nearly in a right line the least populous and most undulating
parts of Gloucester, Berks, Wilts,, and Hants ; and, properly speaking,
has no Independent terminus.
A large longitudinal section of the kingdom—the West Midland
district—a district inviting a similar species of accommodation from
concentrated local advantages, still remains unprovided with a chief
trunk line ; and it is contemplated to remedy this deficiency by the
present undertaking, or a fourth longitudinal line.
Adopting Birmingham as a northern terminus of the West Mid-
land, Manchester, and Southampton Railway, it is proposed to carry
a line through or near to Stratford-on-Avon, thence between Moreton,
Stow, Northleach, Fairford, Cricklade, and Swindon, where it will
merge in the South and Midlands' Junction Railway.
The length of the proposed line will be about sixty mil" and the
district traversed by it is gently undulating and densely peopled. At
its southern terminus, Swindon, it becomes identical with the South
tion hitherto suggested with the harbours of Weymouth, Christ-
and Midlands, by means of which it opens a most direct communica-
church, Poole, and Southampton. At its northern terminus, Bir-
mingham, it communicates with a series of lines, projected, in pro-
gress,ever be constructed between the southern ports of England and the
or completed, which will form the most direct line that can
great manufacturing districts.
In tho alllanco of line, forming tho N 443110114 AinCheSteri

eri;
and Southampton Railway project, a combination of advantages pre- I Committee in the colony,
who will afford the most cord!al co-0,,,, •
acute itself—the result of O. de,sio, ton ::,••i..t e,-,teut, but of e,;no.u- i tio -
I.lc les :dso. If it be desiraMe t 1 , _

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Lll,-; ulrect ;IfIQS, It
will be seer, by laying a rult, on ilh rnp.p of 1-.11.f' 1,11,1 from Salisbury
to Manchester, that a course due horth and south between these
places will pass very nearly through the towns mentioned in this
prospectus, as being on the proposed Lune; and actual measurement
has shown this line to be the shortest between Southampton and
Manchester by 26 miles.
By the construction, therefore, of little more than 60 miles of
rail, as here proposed, the shortest, most direct, and convenient
communication between Manchester and Southampton will be es-
tablished--a line, also, however superior in position to others pro-
mising similar advantages, may yet be considered as competing
with none, but as an independent work, originating at Birmingham
and terminating in the seaports of Weymouth, Christchurch, Poole,
and Southampton.
In the allotment of shares in this Company the Directors propose
to give a preference to the original shareholders of the South and
Midlands' Junction Railway Company.
Applications for prospectuses and plans may be made, and forms
of application for shares had, at the Office of W. B. James, Esq.,
Solicitor, 5, Basinghall-street ; and of the fellowing gentlemen :
London—Messrs. J. Peppercorns and Co., 9, Old Broad-street; Mr.
J. B. Harrison, 8, Bank Chambers ; Mr. Thomas Hanbury, 4,
Angel-court.
Liverpool—Messrs. Mills and Co., and Messrs. Neilson.
Manchester—Messrs. Houghland and Leese, and Mr. William
Marshall.
Hull—Messrs Collinson and Flint.
Leeds—Messrs. Watson and Co.
Stratford-on-Avon—Mr. William Bolton.
Exeter—Mr. Thomas Sanford.
Plymouth—Messrs. Heyward and Fulmer.
Birmingham--Mr. Collis, and Mr. John Wright.
Glasgow—Messrs. Tassie and Co. 1
Edinburgh—Messrs. Robertson and Co., and Messrs. Al‘Callum
and Co.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the West Midland, Manchester,
and Southampton Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me
Shares of 201. each in this Company, and I undertake to accept the
same, and to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that
may be allotted to me ; and I undertake also to execute the Parlia-
mentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
Name (in full)
Residence •• • .
Trade or Profession ................
Reference ....... ........
Address of Referee ..

Date

BRIDGWATER and MINEHEAD JUNC-
Lir TION RAILWAY COMPANY, uniting the Bristol and Eng-
lish Channels, and forming a direct communication 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
Charnel Islands.

APPlit':it;, - .. ' •ln the ft,rm aintaNed, and for coP,''.: o , 6,r,
o 31
pro.q.,,tits :4.:. 1,1 L:l,-1-. , in,l, to he aajro,F.C,l to the Provisioac•
mittee, at the West India Chainbels, Old Jewry, on or before day'
'
the 6th of October. ? ,
itc Übe
,
Copies of the prospeoftrkmay also be obtained from Air. —a in
trotherspoon, in Liverpool;. and Messrs. Dennistoun andJaraw ."
Glasgow. .

West India Committee-Rooms, London, 17th Sept., 1845.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 300,0001. in 15,000 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 is
obtained.