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DUDLEY and BIRMINGHAM JUNCTION
RAILWAY.
Capital, 200,0001., in B,eoo Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 21. 10s. per Share.
(Provisionally Registered.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Eight lion. Lord William Paget, 3LP. Uxbridge-house, London
Edward Hyde Clarke, Esq. Leamington Priors and Hyde-hall,
Cheshire, director of the Leicester, Tean, and Dove Valleys Juno-
Von, the Worcester and Warwick, and other railways
C:Aeli Trotter, Fsq. 10, College-green, Gloucester, director of the
Gloncestor and Dean Forrest, and Worcester, Hereford, and Glou-
cester ;allways
William :,:lannix, Esq. M.D. Gorsbrook, near Wolverhampton, ma-
r,eistra.

wr the county of Stafford
11"tlii of MoLtague, Esq. tragistra'e for the city of Gloucester
J,seph Underwood, Esq. Blackheath-park, London, director of the
Coinmereial Leitcion and Provincial, director of the Regent's
Cara', Direct Western, and ether Railways
James Fisher, Esq., Bailiff of Dudley
James Caulfield Brown, Esq. the Vicarage, Dudley
Joseph Griffin Walker, Esq. nailmaster, Netherton, Dudley
Mr. Thomas Lester, wine-merchant, Dudley, director of the Dudley,
Ma !ehy, Ironbridge, and Shrewsbury Railways
Mr. Thomas Henry Neracher, Dudley, director or the Leeds, Wol-
verhampton, and Dudley, Sheffield, Nottingham, and London
Direct, and Brighton and Cheltenham Railways
William Eagles Johnson, Esq surgeon, Dudley
Mr. George England, Hall-street brewery, Dudley
Wood, wine-merchant, Dudley
~1!»!11 Harrison, merchant, Dudley
Mr. William Fletcher, nahmaster, Dudley
Walker, Esq. merchant, Wolverhampton, director of the
Wolverhampton Junction, the South Staffordshire

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l'irms:one, Esq. ironmaster, nightieid's works, Bilston,
one of tin Provisional Committee at' the Shrewsbury, Wolver-
hampton, end South S!affercishire Railway
John Neve, Esq. iron merchant, Wolverhampton, one of the Pro-
vis:o:sal Committee of the South Staffordshire Junction Railway
Ral pit Gogh, Esq. Cors'Jrook-housc, near Wolverhampton
John MtuTay Gladstone, ironmaster, Wolverhampton
Samuel Haines, Esq. Chad-house, Edgbaston, director of the Leices-
ter mid Birmingham, South Staffordshire Junction, Dudley, Made-
ley, Brosek,y, and Shrew.silary, and ether Railways
J. M. Ilecdonal t, Esq. merchant, Liverpool, director of the Lancas-
ter and NtSvcasac-upoii-Tyne, London and Holyhead Direct, Shef-
Sell and Midland, and other Railways
W. W. Are!, •ozil.l, Est. Liverpool, director of the Landon and Holy-
head Direct, and Lancaster and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Railways
Charles Heetc,n, jun., Esq. Leek, Staffordshire, director of the London
and Manchester Direct Independent, and other Railways
Abraham Mauer, Esq. merchant, London, Manchester, and Hamburgh
Charles Naylor, East. Leeds
George Clements, E,q. Liverpool
John Dyne', Banks, Req. Lansdowne-road, Stockwell, Surrey, director
of the Lee le and London Direct, the Cumberland Union, and the
Cheltenhaln, Oxford, and Brighton Railways
Jofni, Rater fie, Esq. Liverpool, director of the Halifax and Hudders-

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Francis- C. Noton, Esq. Shrewsbury
Jelm .Jameson; Esq. merchant, St. George's-place, Brixton, Surrey,
directer of the Leeds and London Direct, the Cumberland Union,
and the Cheltenham, Oxford, and Brighton liailways
George, iomart, Esq. merchant, Birmingham
Mr. Thomas Mercer, Prebend-place, Leicester
(With power to add to the!r number.)

SOLICITORS,

F. T. Elgie, Esq. Worcester
John Bolton, Esq. Dudley
BA NKERS

Th.,. Commercial Bank of
rietta-strect, Covent-sari:lea

31 Jorgate-street, and 6, Hen-

Birmingham—The Birmingham Banking Company
Du:lley—Tho Birmingham Banking Company.

PROSPECTUS.
This lino is intended to commence at the station of the Oxford,
Worcester, :tad Wolverhampton hallway at Dudley, and to run Into
the lire of the Grand Junction Company near to Birmingham, and
it is also propascal to hare additional stations (for local traffic) as near
the centre of each of those towns as circumstances will permit. The
Foe will traverse or pass in the immediate vicinity of Old-
bury, Westbromwich, Handswortla and Smethwick, and
in its course, will afibrd railway accommodation to a
manufacturing and mining population of upwards of
quartera of a million. The names of the places of the proposed
termini, and the aheve halication of the course of the intended line,
must abutalantly satisfy every one that it presents the certainty of a
lucrative traf.ic, both in goods and passengers ; and it is almost un-
necessary to speak further of so plain a necessity as that of railway
accommodation for such a district. The intended line will not in-
terfere with any existing railway, but will materially extend the
usethiners of the several lines about to be connected with
Dudley, and afford to the populous districts, around the direct
benefit of fair and liberal competition in passenger convey-
ance, and in the transit of their industrial products to their
principal markets. The number of oinnibuscs, coaches, and swift
canal packet-beats continually travelling between the termini afford
the strongast oast:trance of the prospect of a large passenger traffic,
111111 e the bulky nature, and vast extent of the mining and manufac-
turing prcidaee of the district equally vouch for th .t in goods, and the
white leaves no doubt but that the financial returns af such an un-
dertaking must yield an ample remuneration for the capitalexpendcd.
In an engineering point of view, it has been ascertained that the
line is highly favourable, so that, altogether, there is probably no rail-
way now before the public so much entitled in every way to the
favourable consideration of the parties locally interested, or of capita-
lists in general. No further call (beyond the deposit) will be made
until the Act shall be obtained, and power will be applied for in such
Act to allow interest at 41. per cent. per annum on the deposits and
calls from the date of each payment until the opening of the line.
Applications for shares in the annexed form may be addressed to
the solicitors.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Dudley and Birmingham

Junction Pathway.
request you to allot me shares of 251. each
in the aty:ve railway, and I undertake to accept the same, or such
itss minth;_r as you may appropriate to me, and to pay a deposit of
2/. 104. per shire thereon, and execute the Subscribers' Agreement
and Parliamentary Contract, when required,.
Dated this day of

1845.
Name In full
Profession
Place of business
Resideme
Name, profession, and residence
of referee --

DUDLEY and BIRNIINGLIAM JUNCTION
RAILWAY.
_Notice is hereby given, that NO FURTHER APPLICATIONS
for SHARES in this Company will be received after WEDNESDAY,
the 22d day of October instant, exceptfroin parties locally interested,
from whom applications will be received until FRIDAY, the 24th inst.
F. T. ELGIE, •• 1 Joint Solicitors.
JOHN BOLTON,
Dudley, Oct. 17, 1845.

THE ROYAL GRAND JUNCTION
RAILWAY,
Connecting the London and South-Eastern, London and Brighton,
London and So..:th-Western, and London and Great Western Rail-
ways ; commencing at the Reigate station of the Brighton Rail-
way, and passing through or near Reigate, lietehWorth, Dorking,
aliekleham, Leatherhead, Fetcham, Great and Little Bookham,
Stoke D'..-kbernon, Cobham, Faremile, Claremont, Esher, Walton,
Weybridge, Chertsey, Thorpe, Egli fun, Ascot, Windsor, Staines,
Eton, and Slough ; and terminating at the Slough station of the
Great Western Railway.
Capital, (iCtO,OOOl., in 30,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to the 7th and Bth Victoria,

cap. 110, sec. 4.)
Temporary offices of the Company, 4, Great Winchester-street,
Broad-street.
Jiastrick, Es q.
Acme, ENGiNEES—J. VV. Bazalgette, Esq., C.E.

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Eris—Messrs. Prescott and Co.
Cauc —tea. v.. 78" re- anti yoarrplitigband;-4,- Great Winchester-
street, Loudon. _ _ .

rAULIAMENTAIIY AGENTS—Ha

h limes Cameron and George Bain,

Esqs., it, Parliaa.ent-street, London.
In consequence of the total want of system in the selection of rail-
ways in England, especially those emanating from the grand centre
of intercourse, London, there are inany wealthy and populous dis-
tricts that are totally devoid of the benefits of railway conveyance.
tOr instance, is that between Reigate and Windsor—a country
unequalled in agricultural resources, and loaded with population, a
vast number of whom are connected more or less with mercantile
pursuits, and, consequently, In frequent habit or necessity of reach-
ing the metropolis, market towns, ports, and manufacturing locali-
ties. Tiieeo considerations, weighty in th eruselves, but light in com-
parison wish others, first gave rise to the present undertaking; and
when It 1.3 eonsidered that this line of thirty miles will be the con-
nectini; link of five of the largest railways in England, through
which it will be fed by incalculable numbers, totally independent of
its exteesive local traffic, it must be evident to the most sceptical,
that it forms not only a desirable but an absolutely necessary artery
in the present system of railway communication.
There are many lines now in contemplation which will afford
additional prosperity to the Royal Grand Junction ; among which
may be named the London and l'ortsrn outh Direct ; Epsom, Brighton,
and Arundel; Reigate And Reading ; London, Staines, and Ascot;
Direet London and Exeter, &e.
The lino is Litended to commence at the Iteiga to station of the
London and Brighton Railway, and passing through Reigate, Betch-
worth, and within a quarter of a mile of Dorking, will continue its
course along the picturesque vale of Mickleham, at the foot of Box-
hill and Barbary, following as near as may be the river Mole to
Leatherhead ; alter which it will pass through the parishes of
Fetch= and Stoke D'Abernon, an d at the back of Claremont, the
property of his Majesty the King of the Belgians ; from thence near
Esher, Walton, and- Wey bridge, to Chertsey, Thorpe, Egham, Ascot,
Windsor, Eton, and Slough ; and terminating at the Slough station of
the Groat Western Railway. _ _ _

In addition to the many sources of income to be derived from the
conveyance of passengers, merchandise, and agricultural produce on
this line, and which has been estimated at 15 per cent., it will afford
a dir,t and continuous railway comm unication for the accommoda-
tion of her Majesty and the Royal Family between Windsor, London,
Claremont, Portsmouth, and Brighton ; thus approximatingone with
the other her Majesty's five favourite residences, and avoiding the
present inconvenient changes from the railway to the road, and
from one proprietary to another, it being proposed to lay down the
narrow gauge, that being adopted by four out of five of the lines this

railway is designed to conneet.
It is proposed to erect royal station-houses at Windsor and Clare-
mont, for the use of her Majesty, and to make such deviations and
arrangements as shall meet the royal assent and approbation, as also
to forward the views of the Company.
It may be as well to acid, that the whole country has been care-
fully selected. so that no difficulties can interfere with the completion
of the line, and the land th rough which it will take its course is, on
an average, considerably below the usual value of property ; and,
lastly, having obtained the sanction of the most influential proprietors
throughout the line, no opposition can be made or sustained against
the prouicters of the undertaking, who will use use every endeavour
to obtain a Bill to Incorporate the Company early In the next ses -

sMn.
Applications for shares may be made, in the usual form, to the so-
liciors, or to the following brokers :—Mr. Roger Mortimer, Throg-
mosion-street, London ; B. R. Pemberton, Esq., Atherton-buildiugs,
and Messrs. Schultz and Carr, Liverpool; Mr. J. R. Lane, Birming-
ham ; James &tiniest's', Esq., Leeds; Messrs. Cardwell and Sons,
Manchester; illr. James Eutchart, HuddersilAd ; Messrs. J. and J.
Kimpster, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Mr. Hervey, Halifax; William
Lee, Esq., Chtitenhans ; It. I'. Clark, Esq., Bristol; Henry Beau-
mont, Esq., Exeter; 2lessrs. Munro and Co., 44, George-street,
Ed irshu4h ; James Jardine, Esq., Glasgow.
N.B. 'She snaps and prospectuses, wills a powerful Committee, will
be published on Wednesday morning next.