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FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

To the Provisional Committee of the South Staffordshire Junction
Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me Shares of 251.
each in this undo: taking, and I agree to pay the Deposit on that or
any smaller number of shares which may be allotted to me ; and I
engage also to execute the Subscribers' agreement and Parliamentary
contract, when so required. _

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BIRMINGHAM and OXFORD JUNCTION
RAILWAY,
With a DIVERGING LINE through STRATFORD-ON-AVON, to
UNITE with the MORETON-IN-MARSH RAILWAY.

Capital 600,000/., in Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. per Share.
Provisionally Registered, puruant to Act 7th and Bth Yid.. c. 110.

Offices, 449, West Strand.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Mayor of Birmingham
John Adams, Esq., Sergeant-at-Law, London
J. T. Alston, Esq., Liverpool
W. ::. Alston, Esq., Elintion Hall, near Birmingham
John Aston, Esq., Birmingham
Robert James Atty, Esq., Ingon Grange, Stratford-on-Avon
F. P. Barlow, Esq., London
Matthew P. W. Boniton, Esq., Great Tew Park, Oxon
Colonel Charles Minch! Bowles, North Aston Park
W. E. Boyes, Esq., Alkerton, near Banbury
James Malin, Esq., Westfield House, near Rugby
C. H. Corbitt, Esq., Adminton
Walter Cowan, Esq., Ot;Church Bray, near Leamington
John Crosthwaite, Esq , Liverpool
Sir George Dashwoi id, Bart., Kirtlington Park, Oxon
William Dickens. Esq.. Cherrington, near Shipston
Rev. John Ellis, Wooton, Henley-in-Arden
Edmund Darby Ford, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon
John Branston Freer, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon
.1. Gardiner, Esq., south=
Darwin Galion, Esq., Edstone Hall, near Stratford-on-Avon
Robertson Gladstone, Esq., Liverpool
John Griffith, Esq., Alveston,-near Stratford-en-Avon • '
J. Haddon, Esq., Leamington
W. Judd Harding, Esq., Baraset House, near Stratford-on-Avon
Lawrence Ileyworth, Esq., Liverpool
Captain Ilitchins, Idlicote House, near Shipston
Charles Lawrence, Esq., Liverpool
John Lechmere, Esq., Steeple Aston
George Lucy, Esq., Charlecote Park, near Stratford-on-Avon
Charles Mann, Esq., Leamington
William Marshall, Esq., Husbands' Bosworth, Leicestershire
William Mathews, Esq., Edgbaston, Birmingham
J. W. Miles, Esq., Bristol
Rev. Richard Morris, Eatington, near Stratford-on-Aron
John Moss, Esq., Liverpool
P. H. Muntz, Esq., Birmingham
Rev. Charles i'aliner, Lighthorne
J. G. Reeves, Esq , Birmingham
John Rich, Esq., Bearley
John Roskell, Esq., Bath
Francis Rufford, Esq., Bellbroughton, near Stourbridge
Charles Russell, Esq., M.P., London
Charles Shaw, Esq., Birmingham
Major-General Smith, Rugby
Gustavus T. Smith, Esq., Goldicote, near Stratford-on-Avon
John Staunton, Esq., Tidmington, near Shipston
Samuel Edward Steward, Esq., Leamington
Thomas Thomson, Esq., M.D., Mayor of Stratford-on-Avon
T. H. Thorne, Esq., Leamington
Rev. Henry Townsend, Bennington, near Shipston
George Richard Walker, Esq., Ileathfield-house, Bletchington, Oxon
Charles Woodmass, Esq., Avonhuret, near Stratford-on-Avon.
(With power to add to their number.)
RANKERS.
Messrs. Robarts, Curtis, and Co., London
Messrs. Attwood, Spooner, amid Co., Birmingham
The Birmingham Banking Company, Birmingham
Messrs. Miles, ilarford, and Co., Bristol
The Leamington Priors and 'Warwickshire Banking Company, and
tit.. Warwick and Leamington Banking Company, Leamington
and Warwick
Messrs. Moss and Co.,Liverpool.
The Stourbridge and idderminster Banking Company, Stratford-on-
Avon.

SOLICITORS.

Messrs Patterson, Haymes, and Hanbury, Leamington and Warwick
Hunt, Esq., and Charles Stevens, Esq., No. 10, Whitehall,

London
Messrs. Clay and Swift, Liverpool.
The object of this undertaking is to establish the most direct and
efficient railway communication that can be formed between Bir-
mingham and Oxford, connecting by the shortest possible route the
whole of the Lancashire manufacturing districts and sea-ports with
the south of England and its long line of coast in the British Chan-
nel. The existing lines afford but a very imperfect and circuitous
communication through London, and it is singular that the com-
peting lines of railway now before the public do not supply the de-
ficiency orprovide for the objects now contemplated. Under these
circumstances, there can be no doubt that this railway will confer
essential benefits on the districts through which it is intended to pass,
as well as on the commercial and industrious classes of the north,
and a very cursory inspection of the map will satisfy the inquirer
that the line is so peculiarly situate as to command an unusually
large amount of through traffic, independent of its local resources,
which are very great.
It cannot fail to be observed, that the Birmingham and Oxford
Junction will save a considerable distance on the route towards the
Etattrf besides
and Oxford, Reading, &c., while the cheapness of construction and
excellence of the gradients will enable the Company to convey pas-
sengers and goods at very low rates, such as would not remunerate
an expensive line, but which are calculated to afford an ample return
for the small capital required for this undertaking.
The railway will commence by a comexlon with the Grand Junc-
tion Railway at Birmingham, and, proceeding in nearly a straight
line by Warwick And Leamington, fall into the intended Oxford and
Rugby Line, Lear Fenny (7on.pton ; the entire distance from Bir-
mingham to Oxford will thus be about 62 miles.
The Stratford• on-Avon line which will be constructed simulta-
neously with the line by Warwick and Leamington, will join the
main railway at or near to Kingswood. From Stratford-on-Awn to
Moreton-in-the-Marsh, by an improvement of the existing railway,
a distance of 14 miles, the communication through Stratford will be
complete to Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton line, d the
Oxford, "ending. and the south of England
It is confidently believed that this extension of the Oxford line to
the Grand Junction Railway at Birmingham, taking Leamington and
Warwick hi its course, will runtish such strong corroborative proof
of the public importance and necessity of the Oxford and Rugby
line (now promoted by the Great Weetern Company,) as to insure its
success In Parliament. If the broad gauge should be adopted, ar-
rangements have been made with the Great Western company to
run dispatch trains between London and Birmingham in less than
three hours, and also to provide, at low rates, means of conveyance
for every description of traffic, whether of passengers, carriages,
horses, cattle, or merchandise and minerals,
The Provisional Committee, however, promote this measure as one
of great national importance, and do not intend it to be contingent
in any degree on the success or failure of the Oxford and Rugby
Railway, but they will be guided in the final selection of the line,
in the principle of construction, and in the mode of working it, by the
evidence which may be adduced during the present session, and by
the result of the applications now before Parliament, as far as they
may appear consistent with the experience still to be obtained on the
relative merits of the systems.
They need only add in conclusion. that if the Oxford and Rugby
line is successful, the capital of 600,0001. will be ample, as the coun•
try has been carefully examined. No engineering difficulties exist,
and there will be no tunnel throughout the line.
The landed interests affected by the proposed railway are favour-
able, and the Bill will be applied for in the next session of Parliament.