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THE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT
RAILWAY.
No Application for Shares can be received after THURSDAY NEXT,
the 23rd instant.
The followiEg letter has been received from Samuel Charles Brees
Esq., the engineer to this. Company, viz.:
" Stoke Newington, 18th October, 1845.
" Sir,—l have the honour to report, for the infonnation of the
Board of Directors, my return from Oxford. Agreeable to their com-
mands I made further examinations of the line of country, and have
engaged and given instructions to a large and efficient stafrof sur-
veyors and assistants to perform the survey. I have much satisfac-
tion in aading that my last visit has been such as to warrant the
statements made by me at the meeting of the Provisional Committee
concerning the elegibility of the line, and have no hesitation in saying
that the survey will be completed, aid the Parliamentary plaits de-
posited, by the 30th November.
"I have the honour to be, Sir,
" Your obedient servant,
" SAMUEL CHARLES BREES.
"Engineer in Chief, Oxford and Salisbury Direct Railway.
" To Z. Hubbersty, Esq.
Secretary, Oxford and Salisbury Direct Railway."
By order of the Committee of Management,
Z. AUBBERSTY, Secretary.

HUDDERSFIELD AND LIVERPOOL
DIRECT RAILWAY.
By Rochdale, Bury, and Bolton, forming the shortest practicable
route from Liverpool to Leeds, Hull, and Goole.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 1,250,0001., in 62,500 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.

G. H. Brook, Esq.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTIR.
of the firm of - Joseph Brook, Sons, and
Golden
- Armitage Brothers
- D. Shaw, ions, and Co.
ditto
- J. and C. W. Brook and
Company
Henry Brook and Sons
John Hannah and Co.
-k George Dyson and Co.?
- John Wrigley and Sons
- . Geo. Mallinson and Sons
- J. Beaumont and Son
- J. and T. C. Wrigley
and Co.
William Shaw, Esq. - ~ - J. W. and H. Shaw
Thomas Salkeld, Esq. - ~ - J. and T. Salkeld
Beaumont Taylor, Esq. •• - Beaumont Taylor & Son
Thomas Kilner, Esq. - „ - Thomas Kilner and Son
Charles Johnson, Esq. - ~ - J. Johnson and Sons
James Booth, Esq. Market-placo, - - - - Huddersfield
Abraham Hepworth, Esq., Brunswick-honse, Lindley, near ditto
Henry Hawxby, Esq. Clare-hill - - - ditto
James Campey Laycock, Esq. - - - ditto
Abraham Hirst, Esq. York-house, - - ditto
Jeremiah Riley, Esq. Birkby, near - - . ditto
Thomas Wilson, Esq. Birkby, near - - . ditto
Thomas Varley, Esq. Edgerton-house, - - . ditto
Richard Hirst, Esq. bank manager, - _ ditto
ditto
Erisqgle.yß,enEtssq-c.otctraogfte
e :hous, Nether-
ton,JSoamhnue
ditto
Batley Matlaekiyn*
William Greenwood, Esq. - - _ _ _ ditto
near ----- _
Thomas England, Esq. ditto
Samuel Oldfleld, Esq. Spring-vale, near - . - ditto
John Kaye, Esq. Dalton-hall, near - - - ditto
William 'Winans, Esq. West-parade, - .. ditto
Thomas Ibbetson, Esq. Bent's-house, - - ditto
William Moore, Esq. Seed-hill, - _ _ ditto
John Newhouse, Esq. Brunswick-house, - ditto
T. A. Heaps, Esq. - - - _ _ ditto
E. G. Williams, Esq. Belgrave-terrace, - - ditto
T. B. Cawshaw, Esq. Newhouse, - - .. _ ditto
Matthew Hirst, Esq. woolstapler, - - . ditto
Cookson Stephenson Floyd, Esq. _ _ _ ditto
Joseph Dransfield, Esq. Mold-green - - ditto
Humphrey Dyson, Esq. Spring-gardens, near - ditto
Benjamin Vickerman, Esq. Taylor-hill, near - ditto
George Turton, Esq., Bagden Lodge, Clayton West, near ditto
Josepk Sykes, Esq. Newtown - - ' - ditto
W. P. England, Esq. ditto
Edward Learoyd, Esq. - _ _ _ ditto
Thomas Wrigley, Esq. _ ditto
William Shaw, Esq. Bottom-hall, Golcar,"near - ditto
Joseph Broadbent, Esq. Snow Lee-house, Longwood, near ditto
Henry Brook, Esq. Longwood,
near - - - ditto
John Gatliff, Esq. - .. - - - - ditto
Thomas Sands, Esq. Elms-wood, late Mayor of Liverpool
Charles Turner, Esq. Dingle-head - - - Liverpool
Edward S. Tuton, Esq.
Thomas Morris, Esq. ditto
Francis Shand, Esq. ditto
William Nicol, Esq. - - - - ditto
Francis Haywood, Esq. - ditto
George Armstrong, Esq. ditto
Robert Dudgeon, Esq. - - - - - ditto
William Balling, Esq.
Thomas Rowley, Esq, 7,
Great Oxford-street North ditto
Maurice Telo, Esq. ditto
John Rohm, Esq.
Samuel Walker, Esq. Stanery-hall - - - Stainland
James Shaw, Esq. Holywell-greon - - - ditto
Ely Sutclifo, Esq. Firth-house-mill, - - - ditto
Samuel Shaw, Esq. Holywell-green - - - ditto
John Mason Holroyd, Esq., Manor-house - - ditto
John Holroyd,Esq. Manor-house - - - - ditto
Samuel Harper Walker, Esq.
Benjamin Holroyd, Esq. Whitehouse - - - ditto
John Denton Whiteley, Esq.
John Whitely, Esq. Firth-house-mills - - - ditto
Ely Walker Shaw, Esq., wolle,n manufacturer - ditto
Ely Walker, Esq. Stannery-hall - - - - ditto
Benjamin Mellor,tEsq. wollen'manufacturer - ditto
Thomas, Whiteley, Esq. ditto - - - - ditto
Thomas Hodgson, Esq.
John Walker, Esq. worsted-spinner - - - ditto
- - - -
BEleynjpainsitoin Writegise7:EEssqq..wollen manufacturer - ditto
ditto
Thomas E. Walker, Esq. Bower's-mill - ditto
-
Benjamin Walker, Esq. Mytholnuoyd - - ditto
J. W. Wheelright, Esq. Heath-cottage - Eipponden
John Robinson, Esq. - - .. _ 1 _ ditto
William Broadbent, Esq. - - - - - ' ditto
John Dyson, Esq. Briam Boyd - -
John Stott, Esq. ditto
William Wilkinson, Esq. Brow-bridge - . ditto
John Baldwin, Esq. worsted spinner - - - ditto
David Porter, Esq. worsted spinner - - ditto
Thomas Nicholl, Esq. worsted spinner - ditto
Benjamin Outram, sen., Esq., Ellistones - - ditto
Benjamin Outram, jun. Esq., Ellistonos - - ditto
William Baxter, Esq. Lower-hall - - - Barkisland
Isaac Taylor, Esq. cloth manufacturer - - ditto
Samuel Hodgson, Esq. The Bowers - - - ditto
M. Hoyle, Esq. The Grove - - - - • ditto
Joshua Rouse, Esq. ditto
Thomas Whiteley, Esq. Pit-hill - - - - ditto
John Holdsworth, Esq. Shaw-lodge - - - Halifax
James Hoatson, Esq. West-hill - - - - ditto

George Armitage, Esq.
Benjamin L. Shaw, Esq.
James Shaw, Esq.
Joseph Brook, jun., Esq.

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Henry Brook, Esq
John Hannah, Esq.
George Dyson, Esq,
William Wrigley, Esq. -
George 3laHinson, Esq. -
Joseph Beaumont, jun., Esq. „
C. Wrigley, Esq. - „

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AFXTENS lONS of the IRISH GREAT
WESTERN (DUBLIN to GALWAY) RAILWAY.
Prospectuses, with Maps of these Extensions, together with forms
of Application for Shares, to be had at the Company's offices here.
JAMES BRYDEN.

19, ]loorgate•atreet, London,
October 24, 1845.

PRELIMINARY NOTICE.
r HE EXETER, TIVERTON, A-ND MINE-
HEAD DIRECT RAILWAY, with extension from Minehoad
to Ilfracombe.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,600,0001., in 64,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 2/. 12s. Gd. per Share.

This railway will pass from the city of Exeter, through the
rich valley of the Exe, ♦ia Silverton and Bickleigh, direct to
Tiverton, one of the chief towns of this important district, and
formerly the principal market and manufacturing town of the west
of England. It will administer largely to the prosperity of this
rich and productive country, and will pass from Tiverton, by Baum-
ton, Dulverton, and Dunster, to the port of Minehead in the Bristol
Channel, opposite Lancia ff, Swansea, and Cardiff, from whence the
produce of the rich mines and quarries of Merthyr Tydvil, Ponty-
pool, and Newport, in Wales, can be transferred by the shortest
route to the English markets. From Minehead it will pass by
Porlock and Combo-Marten to the much-frequented watering-place
of Ilfracombe, where it unites with the Barnstaple and Ilfracombe
Railway. At .Minehead It will also join the Bridgewater and Mine-
head Railway, to which it will serve as an important feeder, connect-
ing the towns on the north coast of Devon directly with the great
western trunk railroads passing from London to the Land's End. It
will also form a very short and direct junction of the Bristol and
English Channels.
A mote valuable and important line: o the country which it will
traversecould not be projected. A list of the Provisional Committee
wilt be published in a few days ; and in the meantime further infor-
mation may be obtained, and applications for shares may be made
to, the solicitors, Messrs. Ehnslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street,
Londen, or at the Company's Ofticso, No. r, Gresham-street, City.

LANCASTER AND NEWCASTLE-UPON-
TYNE RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 2,000,000/., in 100,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.

SWANSEA and DULAIS VALES IRON and
COAL COMPANY.
Notice Is hereby given, that Applications for Shares in the above
Company will not be received after MoNDAY, the 10th of November.
By order of the Committee,
ROBERT COLES, Secretary pro tern. '
Temporary Office, 32, Bucklersbury, Oct. 25, 1845.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY
COMPANY.
Notice is hereby given, that a SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING
of the Proprietors of this Company will be held on THURSDAY, the
30th day of October instant, at One o'clock precisely, at the London
Tavern, Bishopgate-street, London, to take into consideration, and
decide upon resolutions which will then be submitted to the meeting,
for sanctioning extension or new lines being made from Cambridge to
York, and from Tottenham to Farringdon-street, by the Proprietors
of the Consolidated Stock and New Shares of the Eastern Counties
Railway Company, in conjunction with the Cambridge and Lincoln
Company's Shareholders, and other parties, and for raising the neces-
sary capital of 4,500,0001. required for such new lines.

The Directors beg to announce that the surveys of those new lines
are in a forward state for deposit of the necessary plans, sections, and
books of reference, in order to comply with the standing orders of
Parliament.

By order of the Board,
GEORGE. HUDSON, Chairman
A. BULKELEY, Secretary.
Eastern Counties Railway Office, Shoreditch, 17th Oct., 1845.

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, EDIN-
BURGH, and (DIRECT) GLASGOW JUNCTION RAIL-
WAY, with a Branch by the North Tyne, to Hexham.
Capital, 1,500,0001., in 75,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Vic. cap. 110.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
William Henry Charlton, Esq. Ilesleyside, Northumberland
Robert Charleton, Esq. Lee-hall, Northumberland
Thomas Cookson, Esq. Swinburn Castle, Northumberland
Mr. John Crawford, paper manufacturer, Warden, Northumberland
Mr. Edw. Campion, iron manufacturer, Hareshaw Ironworks, North-
umberland
Ralph Wm. Grey, Esq. Chipchase Castle, Northumberland
Jasper Gibson, Esq. Hexham, Northumberland
Mr. John Green, iron manufadturer, Ridsdale Ironworks, Northum-
berland
Mr. Wm. Grace, Saltwick, Northumberland
J. Haggerston, Esq., Reedsmouth, Northumberland
James Kirsopp, Esq. The Spital, Hexham, Northumberland
Nicholas Maughan, Esq. Newbreugh-lodge, Northumberland
Charles Atticus Monck, Esq. Humshaugh, Northumberland
Mr. W. R. Rayne, paper manufacturer, Haughton, Northumberland
Thomas Ridley, Esq. Parkend, Northumberland
Smith Stobart, Esq. banker, Hexam-abbey, Northumberland
Captajo R, Jobling„Neivton.,liall, Northumberland
Rov.-Wm. Relf,`rector of Corsenside, Northumtierland
W. C. Trevelyan, jun. Esq. Topsham, Devon
Sir John Fife, Kut. Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Mr. Thomas Gray, tobacco manufacturer,. Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Mr. Charles Rayne, merchant, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Mr. Henry Glynn, C.E. Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Mr. Win. Anderson, Jun. coal-owner, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Mr. Wm. Hunter, colliery viewer, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Mr. John Coulson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
T. C., Granger, Esq. M.P. Durham
Andrew White, Esq. Tunetal Ledge, Sunderland.
Richard White, Esq. Thorny-close, Sunderland
A. J. Moore, Esq. Hill. house, Sunderland
Mr. Michael Brown, merchant, Sunderland
Hugh Dixon, Esq. manufacturer, Sunderland
Mr. Joshua Green, merchant, Gateshead
John Gibson, Esq. provost of Lanark
Thomas Brownlie, Esq. Convener Trades-house, Glasgow'
William Bankier, Esq. provost of Calton, Glasgow
Haury Taylor, Esq. alderman, Wigan
(With power to add to their number.)
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Glyn and Co. _ .

Newcastle-upon-Tyne—The Northumberland and Durham District
Dank.

LOCAL ENGINEERS.
' Messrs. John and Benjamin Green.
SOLICITORS.

Mr. John Brown, and Messrs. Laws and Glynn, Iceweastie-upon-Tyne.

PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.
Messrs. Spottiswoode and Robertson, Great George-street, London.
This railway is intended, by 'means of a junction with the Edin-
burgh and Hawick and the Caledonian, and Caledonian Extension
lines, to form a direct communication between Newcastle and Edin-
burgh and Glasgow. Starting from the Newcastle and North Shields
Railway station at Newcastle, the main line will proceed northward
by Coxlodge, and thence, by nearly a straight line, in the direction of
Ponteland and Belsay, by Lislesburr. to Woodburn, on the Reed,
whence it will follow the course of that river, passing Horsely, Bird-
hope, Woolaw, Catcleugh, and Whitelee, to Carter Fell, where the
Border will be crossed by a tunnel into Scotland, and so on to
Hawick, where it will join the before-mentioned lines from that town
to Edinburgh and Glasgow.

By this line the distance by railway between Newcastle and Edin-
burgh will be very materially shortened, whilst it will form the
shortest and (except by the circuitons route of the east coast line),
the only railway communication from Newcastle to Glasgow.
It is also intended, by a branch from the main line at Woodburn,
down the Valley of the North Tyne, to join the Newcastle aid Car-
lisle Railway near Hexham, and thus, by the lines now proposed to
be made, to form a direct communication from London to Scotland,
by the Midland and shortest route.
It !will be observed, that the terminus at Newcastle has been
altered ;—this has been done after mature consideration, and with the
view of affording to the proposed line the additional facility of ship-
ment, by means of the tunnel which the Newcastle and Shields Rail-
way Company are under engagements, by their Act, to make from
their line to the Quayside, and of the proposed branch from that line,
at Percy Main, to the intended Docks at Coble Dean.

The Union which has just been effected between the North Tyne
Junction, and the Newcastle, Hawick, Edinburgh, and Glasgow
Junction Companies, gives to the united Company the countenance
and support of nearly the whole of the landed proprietors, as well as
of the owners and lessees of the extensive coal fields and ironworks
in the distrk`ts through which the proposed line will pass.
Amongst til various sources of revenue which will accrue to the
proposed line, the following may be briefly adverted to :—Facilities
will be afforded for the transit oflime and manure to, and of agricul-
tural products from, the extensive and valuable districts of North-
umberland, stretching in a north-westerly direction from Newcaatle
to the Scottish border, and the fertile counties of Roxburgh, Selkirk,
Peebles, and Lanark ; whilst the transport of live stock, from the
same districts will be in an especial degree facilitated by this line,
since the roads, used for generations by the Scottish; drovers, will be
inlimmediate contact with it for a considerable portion of its length.
The supply of coal to the populous manufacturing districts of Scot-
land, including the towns of Hawick, Jedburgh, Kelso, Melrose,
Galashiels, Peebles, Lanark, &c., has become an urgent necessity.
And the proposed line, proceeding as it does front the extensive coal
fields of the south-eastern portion of Northumberland, and through
the hitherto unapproachable seams of coal up the course of the Reed,
will become the principal means of supplying it, and thus derive an
abundant source of revenue from its transit ; as a proof of which,
coals are at present shipping, in considerable quantities, from New-
castle to Glasgow, through the Caledonian Canal, at heavy tonnage
rates, far exceeding the cost of transit by the proposed line, through
the entire distance from Newcastle to Glasgow.
An important feature, presented by this undertaking, is the de-
velopment, which will thereby be afforded, of extensive beds of
minerals in the districts of the North Tyne and Reed, especially of
limestone and ironstone ; the latter of great richness and superiority,
for the manufacture of which extensive works are now in operation
at Hareshaw and Ridsdale, and others are projected and in course of
erection, tile entire produce of which would be conveyed by the
proposed line to Newcastle, for consumption and shipment
By means of this line, the Tyne will become the most expeditious
aid economical place of shipment for all that portion of the manufac-
iiires of Glasgow, and other manufacturing towns before mentioned,
intended for the eastern coast of England and the northern ports of
Europe.
Lastly, the passenger traffic between the towns on the western
side of Scotland, and the eastern and middle portions of England,
added to the great, local, and general traffic on the several parts of
the line, will form a large and constantly increasing item ofreturn,
always aided by the consideration, that the line laid down for this
railway will shorten the distance from the western and many other
parts of Scotland, to all the eastern portions of England, by not less
than thirty miles.
From these united sources will flow an amount of income, that will
abundantly compensate the shareholders for the outlay upon the line.
A survey is rapidly proceeding, which the Committee-are assured
by the engineers will be completed in time to deposit the requisite
plans, and to enable them to obtain an Act in the next session of Par-
liament for, at least, that part of the line which will lay open a very
considerable portion of the agricultural and mineral wealth, which
will form so important a feature in the general value of the under-
taking.
Applications for prospectuses and shares to be made to the follow-
ing brokers :—Messrs. Warburton and Co., Central Exchange,
Market-street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Robert Allan, Esq.. and
Messrs. Mans and Home, Edinburgh ; Messrs. Mein and Cunning-
ham, Glasgow ; Messrs. Wm. Reynolds and ions, Liverpool ;
Messrs. Alsop and Son, Hull; Messrs. Beaumont and Williamson,
Leeds ; Messrs. Robertson and Bates, Manchester ; Mr. J. R. Lane,
Birmingham ; Messrs. Walmsley, Woodhead and Co.. Bradford;
mears. tow and Tunstal, Bristol; Messrs. Wm. Moore and Co.,
Hudthersfleld ; Mr. J. N.Balme, Gloucester; Messrs. Warburton and
Crosland, Sheffield ; Messrs. Ilelliwell and Davis, Halifax ; Mr. T.
C. Maynard, Durham ; Messrs. Hills and Allason, and Mr. W. I.
Barker, Sunderland; Mr. Wm. Davison, Alnwick ; Mr; T. Glover,
South Shields ; Mr.. John Hurst, Louth ; Mr. Jos. Nelson, Settle ;
Mr. John Sturrock, jun., Dundee ; Mr. Jas. Ross, Perth."
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES:
To the Provisional Committee of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Edin-
burgh, and Direct Glasgow Junction Railway, with a Branch by
the North Tyne to Hexham.
Gentlemen,—I hereby 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 also undertake to execute the Parlia-
mentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement, when required.
Name in full .. • • • • • • • ........ .........
Residence..
Trade or Profession (if any) ..
Place of Business • • . • • ............ .....
Address of Referee ....
Date of Application

GRAND JUNCTION, GREAT WESTERN,
AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY JUNCTION.
The Managing Committee of the above Company hereby give
notice, that the delay in allotting the Shares is consequent on the
immense number of applications received, which necessarily occu-
pies a considerable time in the investigation thereat, but they will
complete their labours in the ensuing week, and the Allotment Lot-
ters will be issued on the 28th instant.
N.B. The many applications daily received cannot be entertained.
By order, JOHN SOUTHGATE, jun., Hon. Sec.
Office', 2, Charlotte-row, Mansion-house.

MANCHESTER, AND SOUTHAMPTON
RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that the Parliamentary Contract and Sub-
scribers' Agreement will Lie for further Execution on THURSDAY next,
the 30th instant, at the offices of Messrs. Oswin and Co., 11, Angel-
court, Throgmortou-street, between the hours of ten and four o'clock.
All shares in respect of which the deeds are not then executed by
parties in London or the neighbourhood will be forfeited.
JAMES WALKINSIIAW, Deputy-Chairman.
JOHN WHEELER, Secretary.
19, Great George-street, Westminster, Oct. 28, 1845.

THE EASTERN COUNTIES, t3ARKING,
AND THAMES JUNCTION RAILWAY, AND COAL AND
COASTING DOCK, WITH STEAM-BOAT WHARF.
(Registered Provisionally.)
Capital 500,000/., in 20,000 Shares of 25/. each.
Deposit, 21. 12s. Gd. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Lord George Lennox
The Hon. F. H. F. Berkeley, Xl'.
The Hon. A. F. Berkeley, Tuntingdon, Sussex
Sir Edward Pym, Bart. Clifford-street
The Hon. Captain John Arbuthnot Keane, Iftrrl and Army Club
The Hen. Adolphus Capel
James Adams, Esq. Thames-street

Henry Weech Burgess, Esq. Temple-park, Hampstead, director of
the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway, and Goole, Doncas-
ter, and Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Great Grimsby Rail-
way, and of the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford Railway
James Burness, Esq. Stratford-grove, Essex, and 64, Cornhill, di-
rector of the Stafford Potteries, Liverpool, and Manchester Direct
Railways
John James Cavan, Esq. 7. Charles-street, St. James's-square, di-
rector Of the Eastern Counties. Junction, and Southend Railway
Miles Dormer, Esq. 31, Hans-place, Sloane-street, Chelsea, director
of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway, and
Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railways
Thomas Terrand Dearden, Esq. Rochdale, director of the Eastern
Counties Junction, and Southend and Staffordshire Potteries
Railways
Captain Seth N. Fisher, director of the Warwick and Worcester
Railway
Rev. IL R. Fowler, Manchester-square, director of the York and
beneaster Railway
Captain Farrington, R.N. West Cowes
Thomas Finlay, Esq 69, Cambridge-terrace, Edgeware-road
Captain Twistleton Graves, Duke-street, St. James's, director of the
British Mutual Life-office
John Holmes, Esq. St. James's-street, director of the York and Lan-
caster, and Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railways
Thomas Harley, Esq. 11, Benlomond-place, Stockwell
Thomas Hodges, Esq. Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park
Thomas Hawker, Esq. I, New Broad-street
Wrn. Kempe, Esq. Teign-villa, Teignmouth, Devon
D. B. Major, Esq. Albert-terrace, Knightsbridge
Nathaniel Ogle, Esq. Heath-lane Lodge, Twickenhatn, director of
the York and Lancaster, and Eastern Counties Junction and South-
end Railways
Alexander Macdonald Ritchie, Esq. director of the York and Lancas-
ter Railway
James Reed, Esq. Northbury-house, Barking
F. Robinson, Esq. Barking
William Shaw, Esq. director of the London and Birmingham Exten-
sion, and South ant Midlands Junction Railways, and managing
director of the Royal Farmers' and General Fire and Life and Hail
Insurance Company
Tuson, E. W. Esq. F.R.S. 10, Russell-place, Bedford-square
James Vickers, t sq. Markham, director of the Armagh, Coleraine,
and Portrush, Sligo, and Shannon, Dorking, Brighton, Arundel At-
mospheric Railway
Colonel Verner

Richard White, Esq. coal and ship-owner, Sunderland
Robert Moon Watson, Esq. coal and skip-owner, Croadale Colliery-

office, Sunderland . .
George Harrison, Esq. ship-owner, Sunderland
Augustus Collingridge, Esq. Regent-street, Pall-mall, director of the
_ . _

Merchant Traders' Insurance Association
Villiers C. Villiers Surtees, Esq. coal-owner, Newcastle, director of
the Avon and Severn Railway . .

(With power to add to their number).
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Henry Weech Burgess, Esq. B. D. Major, Esq.
Miles Dormer,Esq. W. Shaw, Esq.
John Holmes, Esq. Charles Waite, Esq.
Nathaniel Ogle, Esq. Captain Fisher.
CONSULTING ENGINEER--Col. Landman, F.S.A.
ENGINEER—George Montgomery Lewis, C.E.
BANKERs—Commercial Bank of Loudon.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Reed and Robinsom, 31, Moorgate-street.

AGENT AT SUNDERLAND—RObCTI Browne, Esq.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT—Thomas Baker, Esq. Spring-gardens

The attention of the public and of the civic antkorities of this
great metropolis, through the powerful medium of the public press,
has upon several occasions been excited by the detail of numerous
and almost daily occurring accidents on the river Thames. With a
view to abate, If not altogether remove an evil of enormously grow-
ing magnitude, the dangerous navigation of the river, the present
project is put before the public.
Although the chief cause of this danger is ackno.viedged to be the
blocking up the navigation, by the numberless tiers of colliers and
their attendant barges, and their ingress and egress to and from their
station, still no efficient remedy has been hitherto proposed.
It is admitted by all that the only mode by which this great and
dangerous nuisance can be removed is by a dock, at a considerable
distance from the Pool, and a suitable and most convenient site has
been selected, in every way adapted for the object contemplated ;
and which not only combines facilities, in no ordinary degree, for
coal and coasting vessels to enter at all times of the tide, at a dis-
tance far removed from the Pool (about three miles below Woolwich),
but also at a locality, by the aid of a railway, from which the various
produce may be transmitted within half an hour into the very heart
of the City.
It is proposed to construct a dock at a point in that part of the
river, four and half miles below Blackwall, called Gallion's Reach,
and thence to carry a railway four miles long through East Ham,
Plaistow, and West Ham, to the Eastern Counties Railway at Strat-,
ford, where it will join the Northern and Eastern Railway, and form
a central point from which goods may be transmitted to the various
parts of the country which those railways traverse, and to London.
The spot at which the dock and works will be constructed has been
selected as being a part of the river where at the lowest state of the
tide there will always be a sufficiency of water to permit the ingress
and egress of vessels, as a reference to the Admiralty charts will de-
monstrate ; by this arrangement they will be enabled to discharge
their cargoes, leave dock, and take in ballast (which is in the imme-
diate vicinity where the Trinity House dredge Is generally working),
almost before they could have even reached their ordinary station in
the Pool, as at present. The great saving in time thus effected, it
is manifest, will be of the utmost consequence and advantage to the
owners of these vessels ; and by materially decreasing the cost,
would enable them to supply the consumer at a much less rate than
at present.
It is intended also to erect a sea-wall and wharf, 1,500 feet long,
for the accommodation of passengers by steam-packets and other
vessels passing to and fro. The economy of time thus effected will
he very considerable ; for by the aid of this railway (bringing Shore,
ditah and the intended terminus at Finsbury within twenty minutes)
nearly three-quarters of an hour ,will be saved over every other
mode of conveyance.
It is moreover to be remarked that from this spot Gravesend can
be reached in forty minutes, consequently tile time consumed, from
Finsbury to Gravesend by this route, would be about one hour.
As the Eastern Counties Railway will be united to all the other
great trunk lines, by means of the northern and southern connecting
line just projected, it may be justly said that the Steam-Packet
Wharf now proposed will be the only metropolitan Continental ter-
minus.

By the construction of this railway, with its very important ad-
junct, a coal and coasting dock, a most valuable addition will be
made to the Eastern Counties revenue by calling into existence a
traffic which, under any other circumstances, could not be created ;
thereby developing to the proprietors of that extensive line that its
capabilities have hitherto lain dormant, and only required the neces-
sary extension to the Thames with a dock to secure to it a national
depot for produce for all parts of the globe to he disseminated
through the numerous and increasing extensions of the parent line.
The carriage of coal alone would add no insignificant sum to the
hitherto fieclared dividends of the Eastern Counties, when it is con,
sidered that more than two and a half millions of tons arc annua.ly
imported into the port of London, which amount would be greatly
increased by means of the facility of railway transmission thus
afforded.

It may be proper to remark that it would be difficult to find, so
near the metropolis, a tour miles course in every sense so eligible
for a railway, so free from obstruction, and so cheap of construction,
that the coal traffic of itself would yield an ample return for the
outlay.
Prospectuses, plans, and forms of application for shares, may be
had of the Solicitors, at the temporary Offices of the Company, 31,
Moorgate-street, London, and of Mr. D. B. Major, 27, Change Alley,
Cornhill, London; and of the following brokers :—Messrs. Geo.
Edwards and Son, Bristol ; Mr. Geo. Smith and Mr. P. Leicester,
Manchester ; Mr. James Jameson, Leeds ; Mr. G. IL • Glidden,
Exeter; Messrs. Flint and Tootal, Hull; and Messrs. Thomas F.
Dickinson and Co., Newcastle-upon Tyne.

EASTERN COUNTIES, BARKING, AND
THAMES JUNCTION RAILWAY, AND COAL AND
CO STING DOCK.
The Committee have much pleasure in announcing to the public
that they are fully prepared to go to Parliament in the ensuing ses-
sion, end that they have received assurances of the most cordial sup-
port from the ship-owners!and coal proprietors in Newcastle, Sunder-
land, Shields, and other districts in the north.
F. G. MARGANY, Secretary.
31, Ifoorgate-street, 27th Oct., 1845.

I E GEN T'S CANAL RAILWAY
COMPANY.
The promoters of this undertaking are anxious to confer and nego-
tiate with the parties who are locally interested along the line. For
this purpose a PUBLIC MEETING will be held as soon as the Par-
liainentary surveys are completed, and the Committee of Manage-
ment in a position to detail the exact course which it is their inten-
tion to pursue. Due notice of the time and place will be publicly
advertised, and all persons possessing property on the canal, as well
as those whose interests will be affected by the extension to the Post-
office, and on the line of Sir G. Duckett's Canal, will be requested to
attend.—By order of the Board, _ _

F. COLLIER, Secretary.
Gresham-rooms, Basinghall-street, Oct. 22, 1845.

REGENT'S CANAL RAILWAY.
BRANCH to the EAST, RN COUNTIES and CAM-
BRIDGE RAILWAYS.—No further applications for Shares can be
received. , FREDERICK COLLIER, Secretary.
Gresham-rooms, Basinghall•street, Oct. 28, 1845.

LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE NORTH
EASTERN RAILWAY, FROM srarrox TO YORK.

The Directors beg to state, for the information it their share-
holders' that the additional shares created in this Company will be
allotted to each (approved) scrip holder, in the proportion of one
additional share for every three original shares now held by them,
and the shams In the Lancashire and North Yorkshire Railway
Company, placed at the disposal of this Company, In the same ratio.
The Allotment is now in active progress, and the Letters will be
issued with as little delay as pcssible. The Directors are also glad
to be able to state that this will complete the arrangements for pro-
secuting the announced extension of the line to York, and that the
Parliamentary plans and sections for that purpose are in a forward
and satisfactory state. _

_
By order,
ANDREW PATON, Secretary.
Manchester, 23d October, 1845.

STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES and LIVER-
► POOL and :MANCHESTER DIRECT RAILWAY.
R. E. Heathcote, Esq. Chairman.
C. Randall, Esq. Deputy-Chairman.
Notice is hereby given, that the Subscribers' Agreement and Par-
liamentary Contract of this Company will Lie for Execution by the
Shareholders from Ten o'clock, A.M., to Four o'clock, P.M., on the
days and at the places following :
Manchester—At the offices of the Company, No. 1, Hope-street,
Piccadilly-, on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday, the 28th and
29th days of Oct. and Ist day of Nov.
Staffordshire Potteries—At the office of Mr. J. A. Stevenson, soli-
citor, Stoke-upon-Trent, on Thursday and Friday, the 30th and
31st days of Oct.
Liverpool—•At the Waterloo Hotel, on Monday, the third day of No-

vember.
London—At the London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hlll, on Tuesday,
Wednesday, and Thursday, the 4th, sth, and Gth days of No-
vember.

The bankers' receipt for the deposit must be delivered up, and in
exchange scrip certificates will be given. Any party unable to at-
tend, must execute a power of attorney, authorising the Secretary
to sign for him, which power will, on the application of the party,
and at his expense, be prepared by the solicitors to the Company,
and no person who was not an original applicant will be allowed to
sign.

J. C. KEMP, Secretary.
1, Hope-street, Piccadilly, Manchester,
Oct. 21, 1845.

MTORCESTER and LEOMINSTER RAIL-
WAY, via BROMYARD, communicating with the Great
Eastern and Western Railway.

At a public meeting held at the Falcon Hotel, in the town of
Bromyard, on Thursday, the 23d day of October instant,
JOHN BARNEBY, Esq. M.P. in the Chair;
4.

Moved by IVuxtard BIRNEBY, Esq. Clater-park ; seconded by PETER
WARBITETON, Esq. High Bailiff of Bromyard, and carried unani-
mously-
-Ist. That this meeting highly appreciates the liberal spirit in
which the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company has re-
sponded to the appeal addressed to them, in a memorial signed by
the most influential landed proprietors and others interested in this
locality, by affording their prompt and zealous aid in forming and
supporting a line of railway from Leominster by this town to unite
with the Great Eastern and Western Railway near the city of Wor-
cester, but for which prompt response and aid this locality would
have been deprived of all direct railway communication, the Welsh
Midland Company having, though memorialised, abandoned it, and
the Great Western Company having declined to include it in any of
their schemes ; and that the warmest thanks of this meeting be con-
veyed, through the Chairman, to the Great Eastern and Western
Railway Company for the valuable accommodation which the pro-
posed Worcester and Leominster Railway is calculated to afford to
the town and district of Bromyard.

Proposed by JOHN KnesoN, Esq. ; Seconded by WILLIAM EcE.LEY,

_ .
Esq., and carried unanimously,
2d—That this meeting comprising as it does a large body of the
landowners and residents upon the intended line of the Worcester
and Leominster Railway, is resolved to give its strenuous aid to the
Directors of that Company in carrying the Bill through Parliament
in the ensuing session, and that a Local Committee be formed for
that purpose, and that these resolutions be published in the Hereford
and Worcester papers.

Moved by JOSEPH STINTON, Esq., and seconded by How JAMES,

_
Esq., Mayor of Leominster,
3d—That the thanks of this meeting be given to the Chairman for
his able conduct in the chair.

Bromyard, Oct. 23, 184 h,

JOHN BARNEBY, Chairman