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SEPTEMBER 26, 1845, PRICE) SUPPLEMENT
LONDON, _FRIDAY
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Ni. 16,572.

IN-OTICE is hereby given that the GUARAN-
TEE SOCIETYhas REMOVED from 28, Poultry, to the
premises lately occupied by the London Assurance Corporation, 19,
Uirchin-lane, Cornhill.

NORTH LANCASHIRE AND CRAVEN
ASSURANCE COMPANY.
NOTICE.—So numerous are applications for shares in this Com-
pany, that no more will be received after FRIDAY, the third day of
October next.
ALCOCK and DIXON, Burnley, } Joint Solicitors.
HALL and BALDWIN, Clitheroe,
Burnley, Sept. 22,1845.

WEST OF SCOTLAND EXCHANGE IN-
VESTMENT COMPANY.
To Merchants, Brokers, or Persons of Talent and Experience con-
nected with the Money and Share Market, and possessing general

knowledge of mercantile business,
The lucrative appointment of MANAGER of the above Company
is open for a Gentleman who combines the above requisites, and
may be found fully qualified to fill so responsible a situation. All
applicationS will be considered as strictly confidential.
• Applications, with references, either personally or in writing, to
be made to Robert Mutrie, Esq., 93, Watling-street, London ; or
George Bowman Leech, Esq., Interim Secretary, 133, St. Vincent-
street, Glasgow:

ESSEX AND SUFFOLK RAILWAY.
24, Moorgate-street, Sept. 23, 1845.
The Allotment of Shares in this Railway being now completed,
the Committee of Management desire to express their regret that,
owing to the numerous applications from parties locally interested,
and holders of Shares in the Eastern Counties and Norwich Com-
panies, they have been compelled to disappoint many applicants of
the very highest respectability, and of necessity to limit the number
of Shares in each Allotment.
The Committee likewise take this:opportunity of informing the
Shareholders that satisfactory arrangements have been concluded with
the Norfolk Company for securing their support, and for the future
working of the line.

By order,
R. MAPLETOFT, Secretary.

W.ELSH SOUTH
°TOW, -FOREST OF
JUNCTION EXTENSION RAIL
(Registered
Capital 900,0001., in 45,
Deposit, 2/. 21
No Shareho!der to be liable bey

vIIDLA.ND, or CHEF-
DEAN, AND GLOUCESTER

MAY.
Provisionally.)
~000 Shares of 201. each.
!s. per Share.
Pond the amount of his Shl

PROVISIONAL
The Right Hon. Lord Rossmore

COMMITTEE.
William Hughes Hughes, Alder-

The Right Hon. Col. Dawson
Darner,
The Hon. C. Pelham Villiers, M.P.

man of London
Col. Hugh Caldwell
George Lawton, Esq.

The Hon. Robert Gore, M.P.
The lion. Col. Westenra, M.P.
Sir Henry Hunleke, Bart.

W. P. Andrew, Esq.
C. R. Colman, Esq.
Joseph Davies, Esq.

Sir Henry Webb, Bart. Join; Wheelton, Esq.
Sir William Twysden, Bart. Edward Hall, Esq.
Sir William Bacon Johnson, Bart. Major White
Sir Henry Seale, Bart Captain J. P. Macdougall
William Collins, Esq., M.P. William Shelford Fitzwilliam, Esq.
Edmund Francis Dayrell, Esq., William Frederick Beadon, Esq.
High Sheriffof Buckinghamshire Hartley Kennedy, Esq.
William Strahan, Esq. James Beech, Esq.
James Morrison, Esq.
(With power to add to their number.)
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Edward Francis Dayrell, Esq., Chairman
Edward Hall, Esq., Deputy-Chairman
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart. George Lawton, Esq.
Sir William Twysden, Bart. W. P. Andrew, Esq.
Major White C. R. Colman, Esq.
Wm. Hughes Hughes, Esq., Al- W. S. Fitzwilliana, Esq.
derman W. F. Beadon, Esq.

James Moriison, Esq.
ENGINEER.
William Gravatt, Esq., F.R.S.
LONDON BANKERS.
Messrs. Glynn and Co.; and Messrs. Strahan, Paul, and Co., Strand

PROVINCIAL BANKERS.
Messrs. Bromage and Co„ Chepstow
Messrs. Bailey, Greatrex, and Co., Monmouth •
Messrs. Williams and Sons, Newport
The West of England Banking Company and Branches
The Monmouth anti Glamorgan Banking Company and Branches
The National Provincial Banking Company and Branches
The Gloucestershire Banking Company and Branches
The County of Gloucester Banking Company and Branches.

SOLICITORS.
Mr. W. T. H. Phelps, Newport. Monmouthshire
Messrs. A'Beckett, Son, and Sympson, 7, Golden-square, London

LOCAL AGENTS.
Chepstow—Messrs. Baldwin and Morgan, Solicitors
Gloucester—Messrs. Ellis, Elliott, and Co., Solicitors
SECRETARY.
Mr, William Prothero, 10, Old Jewry Chambers, London.

This Line will join the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester
Junction Railway at Chepstow, and extend westward near to
Piercifleld, the far-famed Windcliff, and Tintern Abbey, to the towns
of Usk and Pontypool, and over the centre of the great iron and coal
field of South Wales. passing near to and througk the midst of the
extensive iron works and collieries of Monmouthshire and Glamor-
ganshire, to join the Aberdare branch of the Taff Vale Railway,
which connects Merthyr Tydvil and Aberdare with Cardiff—thus
banning a much more direct and almost straight Line—by means of
the railways already made and projected between those immensely
populous districts, and the centre of the kingdom and London, by
means of which the journey by land will be shortened between the
metropolis and this great seat of industry to four and a half, and
between Newport and Cardiff to five hours, which at present, even by
the aid of existing railways, cannot be performed in less than from
ten to twelve hours.
It will be found by reference to the official census of 1831 and
1841, that the average increase of population of the county of Mon-
mouth exceeded that of any other county in England or Wales ; this
fact is referred to as illustrative of the rising importance of the
country through which this railway is intended to pass, and of
the very large passenger traffic which may reasonably be calculated
upon.
The town of Usk, with Ragland, and the rich agricultural district
for many miles around, are supplied by carts from the vicinity of
Pontypool with coal and lime, which are there obtained at a cheap
rate, and in return cattle and provisions of all kinds, hay, corn, and
pit timber to an enormous extent, are sent to the iron works and
collieries, where the consumption is immense. This traffic alone
must necessarily ensure a considerable revenue to the Company, in-
dependent of the great traffic from the manufactured iron, fire
bricks, and paving stone, which is of superior quality, and in great
abundance. The present cost of conveying and delivering iron and
tin plates from the works to London, including transit to the port,
shipping charges, freight, and insurance, amounts to little less than
20s. per ton, whilst by this railway, and those it is intended to join,
the average cost at the rate usually charged for such goods on rail-
ways will eftect a saving of at least 25 per cent., and be conveyed
within twenty-four hours, instead of the average voyage round the
Land's End of three, and not unfrequently six weeks, and with the
very important advantage of delivering the iron free from rust,
which is unavoidable on a sea voyage, in small bars more particu-
larly, causing a deterioration of from 15s. to 20s. per ton at least.
This railway, by means of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and
Gloucester Junction, and the Birmingham and Gloucester Railways,
will open Birmingham as a market for the manufactured bon of
South Wales, from'which it has been in a measure excluded, from
tke difficult and expensive transit by the River Severn and Canala.
Large quantities of iron ore, known as " Iliematete ore," is imported
into Wales, from Lancashire, Cumberland, Devon, and Cornwall; whilst
ore of a similar quality, and equal productiveness for iron making,
exists in abundance in the Forest of Dean, and may be raised and
delivered from thence by means of this and the Chepstow, Forest of
Penn, and Gloucester Junction Railway to the different iron works
in Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire at an average of from 25 to 30
per cent. less than it costs at present, and at the same time leave a
handsome remuneration to the Railway Companies.
The Committee of Management have gone very carefully into
estimates of the goods traffic esaecially, and they feel justified in
expressing a decided opinion that the revenue from this source alone
will yield 5 per cent. on the proposed capital of the Company, in
addition to the revenue to be derived from the other traffic.
This Railway will pass close to, and within a few miles of, all the
iron and tin works of Monmouthshire, and the principal part of
those in Glamorganshire ; and the following short statistic of the
extent of those stupendous undertakings will give an idea of the vast
importance of the present project. The iron and tin works com-
mence at Pontypool, and are-
1. The Pontymoile Tin and Iron Works

2. The Blaendare Iron and Coal Works
3. The extensive Tin Works of Messrs. Conway, Messrs. Pother-
gill, and Messrs. Jenkins
4. The Pentwyn, Golonos, and Varteg Iron Works and Rolling
Mills
5. The British Iron Company

The Blaenavon Iron Company
The Nantylylo

The Coalbrooke Vale

9. The Cwn Celyn and Blalna Company
10. The Beaufort
U. The Ebbw Vale
12. The Victoria Company
13. The Abbercarne, Poutymister, and Tydee Tin Works, Messrs.
Lewis
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14. The Tredegar Iron Company
15. The Shirhowey
16. The Rhymney and Bnte Company
17. The Dowlais Iron Works
IS. Carfartha.
Added to which, in the vicinity, are the extensive works and
collieries in the Aberdare Valley, and on either side :of the intended
railway are collieries raising and vending about one million and a
half tons of coal per annum, which it is not unreasonable to ex-
pect will be greatly extended, by the facilities offered through the
intended railway.
In the districts of Merthyr, Aberdare, and westward, there exists
an inexhaustible abundance of a peculiar description of coal, which,
though inflammable, is nearly smokeless, and is found to be superior
in quality for steam purposes to any yet known. In the London
market it meets with a ready sale at 30 per cent. higher than any of
the best north country Hartley's ; and notwithstanding the high
price, so highly is it esteemed, that the present importation amounts
to nearly 100,000 tons per annum. This coal for the most part is
brought from a distance of 24 miles, and shipped 'at Cardiff, from
whence freights to London have averaged from 103. to 1 ls. per ton
daring the past year; but so uncertain is the supply to the metropo-
lis, owing to the scarcity of ships on the Welsh coast. and the long
and precarious navigation round the Land's End, that many who are
anxious to adopt their engine grates for its use, are deterred from
the too great uncertainty which exists against obtaining a regular
and constant supply ; these difficulties will be entirely superseded by
the proposed railway, and those it is intended to join, with the great
additional advantage and impetus to increased use and consumption,
that it may be delivered to the consumer at from 2s. to 3s. per ton
less price than at present. Under such circumstances, it will not
appear unreasonable to those unacquainted with the trade, to expect
that the consumption in the metropolis alone will be increased four-
fold, whilst a new-bated trade will be opened out with Chepstow,
Gloucester, Cheltenham, Witney, Oxford, and the numerous inter-
mediate towns to London, where steam coal is used.
It has been considered more judicious to form a separate Company
for the Extension line from Chepstow to the Taff Vale, than to alter
the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway
Company at present, but powers are proposed to be taken for uniting
the two Companies hereafter, with the assent of their respective
Boards of Direction. _ _

Preference will be given to those locally interested, and to the
holders of Shares in the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester
Junction Railway.
A reference to the map will show the importance of this line as
forming a direct line of railway communication between the great
mineral district of Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, with the
heart of the Kingdom and London.
It may confidently be stated that in connexion with the Chep-
stow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway, there is
not a line of railroad in the Kingdom which offers greater advan-
tages to the Shareholders than the present. Provision will be made
in the Act of Parliament which will be applied for in the next ses-
sion to limit the liability of the Shareholder to the amount of his
shares, and to allow four per cent. on the calls.
Until an Act of Parliament shall be obtained, the affairs of this
Company shall be under the control of the Managing Directors, to
whom pswer is given to allot the Shares, and to apply the fluids of
the Company in payment of all the expenses incurred in its forma-
tion, and in the preparation of the Plans and Sections submitted to
Parliament.
Power will be applied for in the Act (and in the meantime is
hereby given to the Managing Directors as above), to raise any addi-
tional capital, to extend or abandon any branch of the line, to make
branch lines, or enter into any arrangements, by amalgamation or
otherwise, with any other company or companies, and also to nomi-
nate the first Directors of the Company.
Applications for Shares, in the form annexed, to be made to the
Solicitors, or to Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Threadneedle Street,
and Messrs. Backbones and Co., No. 4, Angel Court, Throgmorton
Street, London ;—Messrs. Hall, Brothers,. and Co., Cheltenham ;
Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol ; —Mr. Thomas Evans, Bath ;
Messrs. Bradley, Ford, and Parker, Manchester ;—Messrs. H. Davies
and Co., Dale Street, Liverpool ;—;Messrs. Chantrell and Boys, Leeds.;
—Messrs. Wilkinson and Earle, Hull ;---and Messrs. Labertottche and
Stafford, Dublin.
To the Provisional Committee of the Welsh South Midland or Chep-
stow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway Extension.
I request that you will apportion me shares of 201. each, in
the Welsh South Midland or Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Glouces-
ter Junction Extension Railway ; and I do hereby undertake to ac-
cept the same, or any less number you may allot ins, and to pay the
deposit of 21. 2s. per share, and all future calls thereon, and to sign
the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when re-
quired. _ . .

Dated this
Name in fu11...
Residence . • . • •
Business or Profession ..........
Name, Residence, and Profession of Referee....
Usual Signature of Applicant

day of

•WELSH SOUTH MIDLAND, or CHT.P.
STOW, FOREST of DEAN, and GLOUCESTER JUNC-
TION EXTENSION ItAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given that no Application for Share
.tny eau be received after the lot of October rtex

REMINGTON'S LINE.
THE LONDON AND MANCHESTER
DIRECT INDEPENDENT RAILWAY.
The COMMITTEE of 3IA.NAGEMENT hereby give notice that
one part of the PARLIAMENTARY CONTRACT and SUB-
SCRIBERS' AGREEMENT will LIE for EXECUTION, and
Scrip Certificates will be issued to the Subscribers in exchange for
the Bankers' Receipts, at the places and times mentioned below :
Bath—At the York Hotel, on Tuesday, the 23d day of Septentiser

instant.
Bristol—At the Bush Hotel, on Wednesday, the 24th day of Sep-

•
tember instant.
Worcester—At the Star Hotel, on Friday, the 26th day of Septem-
ber instant.
Birmingham—At Dee's Royal Hotel, on Saturday, the 27th day of
September instant.
Lich&ld—At the Swan Inn, on Monday, the 29th day of September
instant.
Leicester—At the Three Crowns Inn, 011 Tuesday, the 30th day of
September instant.
Bedford—At the Company's Office in the High-street, on Thursday,
the 2d day of October next.
Uttoxeter—At the Offices of William Arnold Bainbridge, Esq., Soli-
citor, en Tuesday, the 23d day of September instant.
Burton-upon-Trent—At the Offices of Messrs. Bass and Sweting,
Solicitors, on Wednesday, the 24th day of September instant.
Ashby-de-la-Zouch—At the Offices of Edward 51. Green, Esq., So-
licitor, on Thursday, the 25th day of September instant.
Cheadle—At the Offices of Richard Lowe, Esq., Solicitor, on Satur-
day, the 27th day of Veptember instant.
Leek—At the Offices of Thomas Redfern, Esq., Solicitor, on Monday,
the 29th day of September instant.
Macclesfield— At the Offices of Messrs. Parrott, Colville, and May,
Solicitors, on Tuesday, the 30th day of September instant, and
Wednesday, the Ist day of October next.
Manchester—At the Offices of the Company, St. Ann's-square, on
Thursday and Friday, the 2d and 3d days of October next.
Derby—At the Offices of Henry Mosley, Esq., Solicitor, on Tuesday,
the 23d day of September Instant.
Leeds—At the Royal Hotel, on Wednesday, the 24th day of Septem-
ber instant.
Hull—At the Victoria Hotel, on Friday, the 26th day of September
instant.
Edinburgh—At the London Hotel, on Tuesday, the 30th day of Sep-
tember instant.
Glasgow—At the London Hotel, on Thursday, the 2d day of Oc-
tober next.
Liverpool—At the Adelphi Hotel, on Monday, the 6th day of October
next. By order,
H. W. MATTHEWS, Secretary.

GRAND UNION RAILWAY.
COMMITTEE OF DIRECTION.
Sir George G. de 11. Larpent, Bart., Chairman
Wynn Ellis,' Esq., M.P.
William Hutt, Esq., M.P.
The Mayor of Nottingham
Thomas Calvert Braseley, Esq., Hurston, near Grantham
Jonathan Burten, Esq., Nottingham
Frederick Cooke, Esq., Boston
William Gibson, Esq., Nottingham
Mr. Thomas Gee, Nottingham
Frederick Plant, Esq., Nottingham
Frederick Fowler Robertson, Esq., Grantham
Henry Smyth, Esq., -Nottingham
Thomas Wakefield, Esq., Nottingham.
EsiGninna ix CHlEF—Charles Vignoles, Esq., F.R.A.S., M.R.I.A.
ACTING ENGINEER—George Thompson, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Capes and Stuart, Gray's Inn, London.
Messrs. W, and S. Parsons, jun., Nottingham.
M. Staniland, Esq., Boston.
Messrs. White, Kewney, and White, Grantham.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—Messrs. Dorrington, Hayward, and Ce.,
Parliament-street
The Directors have the satisfaction to inform their Shareholders
that arrangements have been concluded with the Norfolk Company
for an extension of the line from Wisbeach, via Downham Market,
to Brandon, thus completing an independent line of communication
from Yarmouth and Norwich to Nottingham and the manufacturing
districts, and securing by the alliance the passing of the traffic over
the entire portion of the Grand Union and Extension Line referred
to. The distance between Nottingham and Yarmouth by the pro-
posed extension will be as short as by the Lynn and Dereham and
Lynn and Ely lines, while the traffic to and from the north, from the
central, west, and south parts of Norfolk, the north of Cambridge-
shire, and the counties of Suffolk and Essex, will be secured for the
united undertaking.
The Extension Line will be made by the two Companies jointly,
an the shares will be apportioned amongst the respective share-
holders of each.
It is intended that the Norfolk and Grand Union Companies should
guarantee four per cent dividend, with a division of profits to the
shareholders of the new line.
The direction will consist of an equal number of gentlemen from
the Norfolk and Grand Union boards, and Mr. Robert Stephenson'
will co-operate with Mr. Vignoles as engineer of the line.
Further particulars will be shortly advertised.
By order, ALFRED BEESTON, Secretary.

BRIDGWATER and MINEHEAD JUNO-
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
Channel Islands,

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 500,0001. In 25,000 shares of 201. eaeh.
Deposit 2/. 2s. per Share.
Liability expressly limited to the amount of subscription ; and it
is intended to make no further call until tho Act of Parliament is
obtained.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. the Lord Sherborne, Sherborne, Gloieestershire
Sir Henry Seale, Bart., Mount Boone, Dartmouth
Sir John Hensler, F.R.S., Walton, near Saffron Waldroi, Deputy-

Lieutenant of the county of Essex
Colonel Luttrell, Kilve Court, near Minchead
Edward Ayshford Sandford, Esq., Nynehead-court, near Taunton
George William Blaythwaite, Esq., Dyrham Park, Gloucestershire
John Halliday, Esq., Chapel Cleave, near llinehead,Magistrate of the

county of Somerset
John Cridland, Esq., Spring-grove Park, near Wiveliscombe, Magis-
trate for the county of Somerset
Henry William Chichester, Esq., Rose House, Bampton, Devon
Charles Bailey, Esq., 5, Stratford-place, London
R. Beaden Buller, Esq., Nether Stowey, Somerset
Edwin Ley, Esq., Penzance, Cornwall
The Mayor of the Town and County of Poole
Richard Pinney, Esq., shipowner, Poole
E. F. Dayrell, Esq., of Lillingstone Dayrell, and 15, Old Cavendish-

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street, London, High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire
W. S. Fitzwilliam, Esq., Pinner's Hall, Broad-street, merchant
W. Revell Vigers, Esq., 50, Russell-square, and Alderman's-walk,
merchant
W. S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park
James Morrison, Esq., 28, St. Mary-at-hill, merchant
James Colhoun, Esq., 5, Half-moon-street, Piccadilly, and St. Peter's
chambers, Conditll, merchant
Samuel Pocock, Esq., Bloomsbury-square, and St. Bride's-wharf
Anthony Mervyn Storey Maskelyne, Esq., Glanusk House, Brecon-
shire
F. W. Green, Esq., shipowner, Cornhill
W. F. Beadon, Ese , I I, John-street, Berkeley-square
W. straiten, Esq., Banker, Strand.
Office-3, Alderman's-walk. New Broad-street.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. A'Beckett, Son, & Sympson, 7, Golden-square.
Mr. Vaughan Prance, Nether Stowey and Bridgwater.
MANAGING DIRECTORS.
E. F. DAYRELL, Esq., Chairman.
Charles Bailey, Esq. James Colhoun, Esq.
W. S. Fitzwilliam, Esq. W. S. Potter, Esq.
W. F. Beadon. Esq. Samuel Pocock, Esq.
F. W. Green, Esq. James Morrison, Esq.
W. R. VIGERS, Esq., Deputy Chairman
SECRETAB.T—Mr. Edward Parma.
BANKERS.

Messrs. Strahan and Co. ; an .1 3
Messrs. Stuckey and Co., Bristol

Messrs. Robarts and Co., London
)1, Bridgwater, and Taunton.

In consequence of the favourable reception of this measure by
many important landowners and others locally interested, a number
of whom have become Members of the Provisional Committee, and
the additional evidence of the great traffic, the Managing Directors
have resolved upon adopting a Double, instead of a Single Line, and
increasing the capital to 500,0001., in 25,000 Shares, of 201. each, and
all applications for Shares received up to the present time will be
treated in the allotment as made upon the present capital, unless
recalled before the 27th instant.
Applications for Shares, plans, prospectuses, and detailed informa-
tion, may be made at the Offices of the Company, No. 3, Alderman's-
walk, City, London; at the Offices of the Company's Solicitors,
Messrs. A'Beckett, Son, and Sympson, 7, Golden-square, London;
Mr. Vaughan Prance, Nether Stowey and Bridgwater ; and of the
Local Agents—Mr. William Woodland, solicitor, Taunton ; Mr. N.
Pearce, solicitor, Wiveliscombe ; Mr. James Parsons, solicitor, Lang-
port; Messrs. Stone and Symonds, solicitors, Dorchester; Mr.
Thomas Phippard, solicitor, Wareham ; Mr. M. K. Welch, solicitor,
Poole ; Mr. Henry Poole, solicitor, Bristol ; and of the following
Stock and Share-brokers—Messrs. Tucker, Barnett, and Ellis, 11,
Birchin-lane ; and Messrs. 'lnnings and Lang, London; Messrs.
Hall, Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham ; Mr. John Morcom, Bristol ;
Mr. Thomas Evans, Bath; Mr. Charles O'Neil, Manchester ; Messrs.
i H. Davies and Co., Liverpool ; Messrs. Chantrell and Boys, Leeds;
Messrs. Wilkinson and Earle, Hull ; Messrs. Labertouche and Staf-
ford, Dublin; Mr. Lilly, Bridgwater; Mr. B. Ball, Taunton; and Mr.
Richard Neville Parker, solicitor, Cork

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Managing Directors of the _ Bridgwater and Minehead

—— - -
Junction Railway Company.

-
;wi will
and
et rme
bey
undertake to accept the
shares of £2O
eaGchenintltehmeeanb,
above
same, or any less number you may allot me, on the terms of the
undertakingreuesyon
prospectus, and to pay the deposit of 2/. 2s. per share, and all future
calls thereon, and to sign the Parliamentary contract and subscribers'
agreement, and other deeds, when required so to do.
Dated this day of , 1845.
Name in full ••• • • . .• . ..............
Place of business
Residence• • . .....
Profession or business • •
Usual signature • • • •
Name, residence, &c., of referee in full..

BRIDGWATER, and MINEHEAD JUNC-
TION RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that no Application for Shares will be en-
tertained, unless the same be made in the form prescribed by the
Managing Directors; and the applicants must also refer either to one
of the Provisional Committee, or to some person of known respects-
bUlty.—Dated September 12, 1845. fly order,
A'BECKETT, SON, and SYMPSON; and
VAUGHAN PRANCE, Solicitors to the Company.
Offices, 3, Alderman's-walk, Old Broad-street.

BRIDGWATER and MINEHEAD JUNC-
TION R AILW 41C COMPANY.
Notice is hereby given, that no further Application for Shares is
this Company can be received after SATURDAY, the 27th inst.
By order, EDWARD PARRATT, Secretary.
Offices, 3, Alderman's-walk, Old Broad-street,
September 20, 1845.

rrHE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT
RAILWAY, via ABINGDON, WANTAGE, HUNGERFORD,
and LUDGERSHALL.
(Provisionally registered.) •
Capital 1,200,0001., in 48,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 15s. per Share.
PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT.
The importance of connecting remote parts of England by Rail-
ways, with the advantages thereby conferred upon intermediate towns
and districts, can scarcely be better exemplified than by the Line
which is now proposed to form a short and direct channel of inter-
course between Oxford and Salisbury. Numerous projected lines
now before the public will make Oxford at the north, and Salisbury
at the south of the intended Railroad the central points from which
various radii will diverge to the north-west, north, and north-east of
the former, and to the east, south, and west of the 'latter ; and the
proposed Line from Cambridge to Oxford, continuing to that city the
course of Railway from the north-eastern parts of the island, requires
the appliance now suggested to effect a complete means of transit to
the western and south-western counties.
The Oxford and ialisbury Direct Railway, in addition to
the benefits which will be conferred upon the nation at
large; by preferring a direct line of commun'cation be-
tween the north-eastern and western and south-western
parts of England, will afford to the borough of Abingdon,
the market towns of Wantage, Hungerford, and Ludgershall, and
the adjacent villages, an important railway accommodation, of which
the agricultural districts in which they are seated stand in much
need, and will provide a facility for the interchange of produce be-
tween the rural, manufacturing, and commercial population of the
kingdom.
The want of railway accommodation has long been felt to press
unfairly upon the inhabitants of the important and thriving town of
Abingdon. Their means and opportunities of competing with the more
fortunate traders of those towns which are already provided with di-
rect channels of transit, are thus severely crippled. The same remark
applies in some degree to the market town of Wantage, which, as
well as Hungerford and Ludgershall, claims a share of the profits
and advantages produced by railway traffic.
It has therefore been determined to commence the proposcdli ne at
Oxford, and to proceed through Abingdon to the station of the Great
Western Railway at Stcventon, thus giving to Abhigd-n a direct rail-
road to London. By continuing the projected railway to Wantage, the
same facility of transit to London will be afforded to that place; and
a perfect line of ro from the north•eastn cunties will, b a junc-
tion with the projection from Cambridge too Oxford, be pry oduced,
through the towns which have been named, Ilungerford and Ludgers-
hall to Salisbury, and thence to the south and western ports and dis-
tricts.
A map of the line, and a statistical report of the whole country
intended to be traversed, is in course of preparation, and with the
names of an influential provisional Committee, will very shortly
be published. In the meantime, further information may be ob-
' tained from Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street,
London, solicitors to the undertaking, to whom, at present, applica'j
' tlou for sham may be made.

LINCOLN, LOUTH, and GREAT GRIMSBY
RAILWAY.
(Registered Provisionally.)
NOTICE.—This Company will hereafter be announced under the
name of the GREAT GRIMSBY, LOUTH, HORNCASTLE, LIN-
COLN, and MIDLAND JUCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.
By order,
THOS. COXIIEAD, Secretary.

GREAT GRIMSBY, LOUTH, HORN-
CASTLE, LINCOLN, and MIDLAND JUNCTION RAIL-

WAY.
(Registered Provisionally, pursuant to the 7th and Bth Vic., sap. 110.)
Capital 800,000/., in 40,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, Si. 25.—(Liability to be restricted.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Magnay, Sir William, Bart., Alderman of London, Director of the
Leicester and Tamworth Railway
Simpson, Sir John, Alderman of York, Director of the York and North
Midland, and of the Newcastle and Darlington Railways
Hare, Sir John, 11, Langham-place, Director of the London and
Manchester Direct Independent Railway, and of the Liverpool and
Leeds Railway
Tomline, George, Esq., M.P., Riby Grove, Lincolnshire
Humphery, John, Esq., M.P., Alderman of London
Ross, David R., Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Belfast, and Director
of the London and Manchester Railway
Beresford,
Esq., M.P., 77, Pall-mall, Director of the Leeds
and Carlisle Railway
Allenby, Samuel, Esq., Maidenwell, near Louth
Archibald, Charles D., Esq., F.R.S., Conservative Club, and Rustland
Ulverstone, Lancashire, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Railway
Bellerby, Henry, Esq., Sheriff of York, Governor of the Merchants'
Best, DC oe Company
thebpyas nhßyi
re:J.
Staffordshire,York,T hor andas DK aeknebtd3o:oi ol_fß Worcestershiretahne on-Bane,
L near
ee
a rs
Junctionlat tot reln Sheffield,cas tail Magi-
strate andy
for the County of Lincoln
Brook, William Henry, Esq., Lincoln
Banks, John Tatham, Esq., M.D., Louth
Barton, Z., Esq., M.D., Market Raisin
Bettridge, Abraham, Esq., 4, Devonshire-terrace, Camden-road
Bewicke, Calverly, Esq., Barham House, Beccler, Suffolk, Director
of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Bigze, Charles R., Esq., 26, Sackville-street
Clift, James, Esq., 30, Bloomsbury-square, Director of the Paris and
Strasburg Railway, and Argus Life Office
Copeland, John, Hag , Skellingthorpe, near Lincoln
Cadman, Edwin, Esq., Westbourne House, Sheffield, Director of
the Leeds and Carlisle Railway, and of the Direct Western
Railway •
Collett, Benjamin, Esq., Grafton Manor House, BromsgroVe, Ma-
gistrate for Worcestershire
Corofoot, Henry, Esq., Old Palace, Richmond
Dakeyne, the itev. J. 0., Lincoln, Rector of South Hykeham, In-
cumbent of St. Benedict, and Magistrate of the County
Duppa, Henry C., Esq., Quarry House, Brighton, Director of the
Canterbury and Dover Railway
Eccles, William, Esq., 59, Old Broad-street
Fowler, the Rev. H. R., 7, Manchester-square
Fraser, William Tullock, Esq., 5, Manchester-square, Director of the
Sovereign Life Assurance Office
Gay, John, Esq., London, Director of the Birmingham Extension
Railway
Gresham, William, Esq., Alderman of Lincoln, and Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Railway
Gamble, Francis, Esq., Gainsborough
Hood, John, Esq., Nettleham, near Lincoln
Hobson, John Overton, Esq., Woodhall, near llorneastle
Hammond, Richard, Esq., Great Yarmouth, Magistrate for that
borough, and Director of the Waveney Valley and Great Yarmouth
Railway
Hewlett, John Grigg, Esq., Resident Director of Pilbro'e Atmospheric
Railway
Hair, J. 8., Esq., 288, Regent-street
Harrison, George 8., Esq., Great Tower-street, London
Hitchins, James, Esq., Coroner for the city and county of Lincoln,
and Director of the Warwick and Worcester Railway
Harrison, George William, Esq., Hill House, Upper Tooting, Surrey
Jackson, John, Esq., Louth
Kidley, Thomas, Esq., M.D., Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield, Bux-
ton, and Potteries Railway
King, John, Esq., College-hill, London, and Muswell-hill, Middlesex,
Director of the City of London and Tottenham Extension Railway
Kelly, Richard, Esq., 6, Cleaveland-row, St. James's, Chairman of
the New Ross, Carlow, and Kilkenny Railway
Lincoln, the Mayor of
Lees, John Bailey, Esq., Louth
Lomas, Samuel Curtis, Esq., Horncastle
Martin, Hezekiah, Esq., Great Yarmouth, Director of the Waveney
Valley and Great Yarmouth Railway
Nicholls, Hawkins, Esq., Thurlby Grange, Lincolnshire and London
Nell, David William, Esq., J.P., Leeds, Deputy Chairman of the
East and West Yorkshire Junction Railway, and Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Railway
Philbrick, Thomas, Esq., M.D., Louth
Palmer, George Danby, Esq., Great Yarmouth, Magistrate for the
county of Norfolk and borough of Great Yarmouth, Director of
the Waveney Valley and Great Yarmouth Railway •
Pye, George Richard, Esq., Lavenham, Suffolk
Potter, William Simpson, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Director
of the Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham Railway
Palmer, Samuel, Esq., late Mayor of Great Yarmouth, and Solicitor
of the Waveney Valley and Great Yarmouth Railway
Paget, Samuel, Esq., Great Yarmouth, Director of the Waveney
Valley, and Great Yarmouth Railway
Paxton, Joseph, Esq., Chatsworth, Derbyshire, Director of the Man-
chester, Buxton, and Matlock; the Leeds, and Liverpool; and
the Manchester and Southampton Railways
Parbury, George, Esq., 37, Russell-square
Pownall, the Rev. Charles Colyear Beaty, Milton Ernest, Beds, and
Wykeharn, Lincolnshire
Peirce, the Rev. William Matthews, West Ashby, near Horncastle
Richardson William, Esq., Alderman of York, Director of the Man-
chester and Southampton Railway
Richardson James, Esq., Clifton, York, Director of the York and
North Midland and the Newcastle and Berwick Railways
Rockcliffe, rhomas, Esq., Horncastle
Robinson, John, Esq., Silcoates Cottage, near Wakefield, Director of
Leeds, York, and Midland Junction Railway
Smith, Cornelius, Esq., Gracechurch-street, London
Stark, Adam, Esq., Gainsborough
Sharp, George, Earl., Lincoln
Steward, Thomas Fowler, Esq. Great Yarmouth
Smith, The Rev. John Bainbridge, D.D., Horncastle
Searle, Maurice Grant, Esq., Spalding and Louth
Skrine, Julian, Esq., Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln Rail-
way
Studley, William, Esq., Alfred-place, Brixton •
Tall, John, Esq., Hull, Hanoverian Consul, and Director of the Hull
Dock Company
Turner, John, Esq.' Lincoln
Thompson, Joseph, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton
Railway
Trought, Samuel, Esq., J.P, Louth
Thomas, George. Paq., wtocitester House, Broad-street, Chairman of
me mutual Life Association
Underwood, Joseph, Esq., Blackheath, Director of .the Commercial
Bank of London, and Director of the Warwick and Worcester,
and the Liverpool and Leeds Railway
Wallis, Alfred Arthur, Esq., Healing, near Great Grimsby
NVrangharn, William, Esq., Wragby
Ward, William, Esq., M.D., Horncastle
Wilson, William, Esq., Devonport-street, Sussex-street, Hyde Park,
Director of the Warwick and Worcester Railway
Worthington, Rev. Dr., Sidmouth-place, Mocklenburgh-square
Webster, John, Esq., 19, Aldermanbury
Watts, William Royden,
—sq., M.D., Birmingham.
Lichfield and Birmingham Railway
Weiss, F. Foveau.x, a
—Sq., .39 Cheater-terrace, Regent's Park
Young, John, Esq., King-street, London
(With power to add to their number.)
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. Director of the
Magnay, Sir William, Bart., Alderman, Chainuaa
Bellerby, Henry, Esq., Deputy Chairman
Humphery, John, Esq., M.P. Paxton, Joseph, Esq•
Palmer, George Danby, Esq. I Richardson, William, Esq,
Underwood, Joseph, Esq. Smith, Cornelius, • Esq.
Archibald, Charles D., Esq,
JOINT ENGINEERS.—Robert Stephenson, Esq. ;
King, John, Esq.
I
Palmer, Samuel, Esq. Gay, John, Esq.
Frederick Swan-

wick, Esq.
Somcrroit.—Frederick Carritt, Esq , 10, Basinghall-street,
London.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.—MeSSTS. Williamson and Hill, 4, Peru

lam-buildings, Gray's Inn.
LOCAI. AGENTS.
Louth—William Grant Allison, Esq., and Henry Grine, Esq.
Horneastle—Edward Babington, Esq.
tuults.
London—Messrs. Robarts, Curtis,m and Co.,Lombard-street ; the Com-
mercial Bank of London, Lothbury.
Louth and Hoeastie—Messrs. Garfit, Claypons,
and Lindsay Banking Company and Co.;Lincoln
rn
Lincoln and Market Raisen—Messrs. Smith, Ellison, and CO. ; and
Lincoln and Lindsay Banking Company
Great Grimsby-3lessrs. Smith,
Ellison, and Co., aid Branok of
Hull Banking Company.

GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY,
Forming a connecting line between the Midland and Grand
Junction Railways, with a Branch from Derby to Ashby-de-la•
Zouch.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 1,000,000/., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.

‘VARIVICKSHIRE and LONDON
RAILWAY.

TO SCRIPHOLDEBS,

In consequence of modifications of this line, rendered necessary by
the decisions of Parliament in the late session, and of the increase of
the Parliamentary deposit required by the New Standing Orders, the
Provisional Committee find it necessary to call in the scrip hitherto
issued, for the purpose of replacing it by new scrip, to require an ad-
ditional deposit of 12s. per share, and to cause new deeds to be pre-
pared for the signature of the Proprietors. Parties to whom scrip
has been issued are accordingly requested to send in their scrip, on
or before the first day of October next, to the Secretary. New letters
of allotment will at once be issued to such of the present holders of
scrip so sent in, as were original subscribers for their shares; but
where the scrip has changed hands, satisfactory references as to the
responsibility of the holders will be required by the Directors before
new letters of allotment can be issued ; on the additional deposit
being paid (in accordance with the new letters of allotment), and the
new deeds being executed, the new scrip will be issued.
On and after the 10th of October next, the present scrip (unless it
shall have been sent in to the Secretary, and received by him pre-
viously to that day) will be considered as cancelled, and the shares It
represents will be re-allotted. Parties sending scrip are requested to
write their names across each scrip certificate for the sake of security,
and to send by a post letter, at the same time that they send their
ofan
dt h(ei f scrip
necessary) they
thatha of
their
re dispatched,references,
nacletsl
attached in full to the end of such list.
By order of the Provisional Committee,
WYNDHAM HARDING, Secretary.
Euston Railway Station, Sept. 20, 1845.
their own
a list o
name,f the
rensulmdebnecrse,

CA.AIBRIDGE and LINCOLN EXTENSION,
and LINCOLN, YORK, and LEEDS JUNCTION RAIL-
WAY, with a Branch to DONCASTER.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 1,200,0001., in 60,000 Shares of 201. tech.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Lord Viscount Dillon, Belgrave-square, Ditchley, Oxon
Lord George Paget, Uxbridge House
Sir William Henry Clarke, Bart., Baker-street, Portman-square,

_
Director of the Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railway
Sir Henry Webbe, Bart., Pail-mall, Director of the Rugby, Warwick,

and Worcester Railway
Major-General Parlby, C. 8., 18, Rutland-gate, Director of the Wor-
cester and Crewe, and Shropshire Union Railways
Major Beresford, M.P., 77, Pall-mall
Admiral Aysceugh, Southampton, Director of the South and Mid-
lands' Junction Railway
Hugo Charles Meynell Ingram, Esq., Temple, Newsam, Leeds
J. B. Atkinson, Eeq., J. P., Leeds
James Holdforth, Esq.,J.P., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Liver-

pool Direct, and Leeds, York and Midland Railways
Richard Hobson, Esq., M.D., Leeds
Joseph Robert Wilkin Atkinson, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leices-
ter and Bedford, and Rugby and Huntingdon Railways
John Ellershaw, Esq.. Roundhay, Leeds
Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds, York and Midland,
and South andMidlanis' Junction Railways
William Singleton, Esq., Leeds, Director of the South and Midlands'
Junction, and Leeds and Liverpool Direct Railways
Charles Hives, Esq., Chapel Allerton, Leeds
John Wilkinson, Esq., Gledhow Mount, Leeds, Director of the Leeds
and Liverpool Direct Railway
Thomas lieatherington Barker, Esq., Leeds
George Young, Esq., Ridge House, Leeds
William Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Oxford and Worcester
Extension, and West Midland Railways
Joseph Austin, Esq., Leeds
John Hillary Hebblethwaite, Esq., Thorp Arch, near Leeds
Richard Harrison, Esq., Woodiesford, Leeds
Charles Reynard, Esq., Hob-green, Ripley
The Worshipful the Mayor of Ripon
S. Pencoffs, Esq., Manchester
Joseph Clarke, Esq., Shcrburn, near Ferrybridge
The Worshipful the Mayor of Doncaster
Sir Gregory A Rant Lewin, Recorder of Doncaster
Josept Birley, Esq:, Alderman, Doncaster, late Mayor of Doncaster
Frederick Fisher, Esq., Westfield House, Doncaster, Member of the

Corporation
William Cooper, Esq., Doncaster
Frederick, William Flack, Esq., Gainsborough
William Lister Sharpe, Esq., Gainsborough
Robert Cook, Esq.' Gainsborough
Henry Hall, Esq., Gainsborough
John Hepworth Hill, Esq., Leeds, Recorder of Pontefract
Francis Valentine Lee, Esq., Temple, Director of the Eastern Conn-
ties Railway
Richard Dutton, Esq., London, Director of the South and Midlands'
Junction, and West Midland Railways
Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., Clopton House, Warwickshire, Director
of the Warwickshire and London Railway
Thomas Chitty, Esq., 8, Upper Gower-street, Director of the Rugby
and Worcester Railway
Captain T. Hodges, 65, Connaught-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of
the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
W. F. Beadon, Rsq., John-street, Berkeley-square, Director of the
Essex and Suffolk Railway
Thomas H. Evans, Esq., Lotlibury, Mayor of Carnarron, Director of
the Rugby and Worcester Railway
Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the
Loudon and Westminster Bank, and of the Namur and Liege, and
I South and Midlands' Junction Railways
' Captain T. Changer, Halken-street, Beigrave-square, Director of the
Great Paris and Lyons Railway
Alexander Greig, Esq., Lownde's-street, Belgrave-square, Director
of the Leicester and Birmingham Railway
William Shaw, Esq., London, Managing Director of the Farmer's
Life Insurance Company
John Anderson, Esq., Director of the Church of England Life In-
surance, and South and Midlands' Junction Railway
John James, Esq., Secondary of the City of London
T. G. Norbury, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
James Beech, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place, and Brandon Lodge, Co-
ventry, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Joseph Underwood, Esq., The Hall, Blackheath, Director of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and Director of the London

and Birmingham Extension Ralh-vayCompany
W. P. Courtenay, Esq., Temple, Director of the Legal and Commer-

cial Life Insurance Company
Clarkson Stanfield, Esq., R.A., Mornington-place, Hampstead-road
John Helbert Helbert, Esq., Gloucester-place, London, Director of the
Leicester and Birmingham Railway
Rev. F. R. hall, D.D., Rector of Fulbourne, Cambridge
William Spooner, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgrave•square, Director of

the Newcastle and Liverpool Railway
J. M. Cottle, Esq., Leamington, Director of the Coventry, Nuneaton,
and Leicester Railway
Captain William Cousins, Director of the Goole and Doncaster
Railway
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Leeds and

Carlisle Railway
George William Kinett Potter, Esq., Secondary of the City of London
Martin John West, Esq., Preston Hall, near Leeds
Charles Robert Colman. Esq., Irongate Wharf, London
John Campbell Dicke:, Esq., New Hall by Neston, Cheshire, Direc-
tor of the Birkenhead and Holyhead Railway
William Shaw, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment Company,
and Managing Director of the Farmers' Life Insurance Company
W. F. Fraser, Esq., Manchester-square, Director of the Manchester

and Rugby Railway
John Brocke Walbanke, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands'

_
Junction Railway
Major Morse Cooper, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway, Wargrave, Henley-on-Thames -
James Burness, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Exten-
sion, and of the Stafforishire Potteries line, and Loudon and LVer-
pool Direct Railway, 64, Cornhill, London
Vero Clarke Kernball, Esq., Chester-place, Hyde Park-gardens,
Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Samuel Griffiths, Esq., Pense-fields, Wolverhampton, Director of the

Liverpool andleeds Railway
Charles R. Court, Esq., Leamington, Director of the Coventry and
Birmingham Railway
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield
Richard Deily, Esq., Chairman of the Ross, Carlow, and Kilkenny
Junction Railway, and Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
James Reeves, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junction

Railway
Warren Stormes Hale, Esq., Director of the Oxford and 'Worcester

Extension Railway
Colonel Fitch, Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension
Railway
John Inglis Jerdein, Esq., Director of the Manchester, Rugby, and
Southampton Railway
William Hallett, Esq., Kemp Town, Brighton, Director Of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
John Dennis, Esq., Director of the Erewash Valley Extension
Railway
H. G. Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley, and South and
Midland Junction Railways
William Peppercorns, Esq., London, and Bexhill, Sussex
Thomas Callingridge, Esq., Highgate, Middlesex
J. Bennet Lucas, Esq., Manchester-street, Manchester-square
Willis Coventry, Esq., Director of the Britannia Life Assurance
Office
J. M. Douglas, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth Railway
Colonel Robert Douglas, C. 8., United Service Club, Director of Lon-
don and Birmingham Extension, and South Midlands' Junction
Railway
Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of South and Midland Junction
Railway
William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Chairman
of Church of Englad Life Insurance Company
John Anderson, Esq., E.1.C.5., Director of Church of England Life
Insurance and South Midlands' Junction Railway
John floor, Esq., Finsbury, Director of Teen and Dove Valley, and
Buxton, Leek, and Staffordshire Potteries Railway
George Henry Brook, Esq., Edgulin Lodge. Iluddersfleld, Director of
the Huddersfield, Halifax and Bradford Railway
John Wheelton, Esq., Bath-street, Newgate-street, Director of
Leicester and Bedford Railway
R. S. Wilson, Esq., Olson Hall, Warwickshire
Major White, Pall-mall
Sir William Twisden, 41, Dorset-street, Portman-square
Captain Wm. Dawson, R.N., Barnes, Surrey, Director of the Rhondda
and Ely Valleys Railway
William S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Director of
the Leeds and Carlisle, and the Great Grimsby, Louth and Lincoln
Railways
William G. Harrison, Esq., Hill House, Surrey, Director of the Wis-
beach, Peterborough, and Birmingham Railway
George R. Pye, Esq., Lavenham, Suffolk
Henry Chaytor, Esq., Chevereux Castle, Darlington, Director of the
Wisbeach, Peterborough and Birmingham Railway
R. Gray, Esq., 5, Adam court, Broad-street, Director of the Oxford,
Witney, and Cheltenham Extension Railway
Samuel Pocock, Esq., Bloomsbury-square, Director of the Bridge-
water and Minehead Railway
Nicholas M'Cann, Esq., Parliament-street, London
William Lawrence, jun., Esq , Brixton, Surrey, Director of the Lon-
don and Manchester Direct Railway
Rev. Stephen Isaacson, M.A., Director of the Hull and Holyhead, and
Cheltenham, Oxford and Brighton Railway
Robert Charles, Esq.
Richard Lambert, Esq., Lyston-ball, Essex, Director of the East and
West Junction Railway
J. E. Bristowe, Esq., Beesthorpe-park
Bamford Samuels, Esq., Poultry
Sir John Hensler, F.R.S., Deputy-Lieutenant of Essex, Walton, near
Saffron Walden, Essex
Thomas Strother, Esq., Claypit-house, Leeds, Councillor of the Bo-
rough of Leeds
George Price Hill, Esq., Gowan-tree-house, Hampstead
Richard Kelly, Esq., Director of the York and Lincoln, and Rhondda
and Ely Valleys Railway
Charles R. Bigge, Esq., 17, Bryanstone-square
Rev. R. O. Fowler, Felton, near Bristol, and 7, Manchester-square,
Director of the Rhondda and Ely Valleys Junction allways
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junc-
tion Railway
(A further list will be published in a few days.)
BANKERS.

London—
Doncaster—Yorkshire Banking Company
Leods—Beckett and Co., and Leeds and Commercial Banking Com
pang.
ENGINEERS

, and Messrs. George Leather and Sou

SOLICITORS.
Leeds—John Blackburn, Esq.
London—W. B. James, Esq., 5, Baslnghall-street.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.—MCSSII. PR/TSII and Waimsley, Palace-

yard, Westminster
While two gigantic projects are struggling for victory, which, If ob-
tained, would inevitably prove fruitless to the victor, the dense and
wealthy population between Lincoln and York, and between Lincoln,
and Leeds, are left unsupplied with railway accommodation. Not les
of
ambitious cf accomplishing a great public benefit, the projecttiorLin-
the Lincoln, York, and Leeds Junction Railway have
Leeds
coin (with 30,000 inhabitants), York (with 40,000), a
on the
ill;
15'2,000), as the termini of their line ; and, calculating up ulti-
-11 is the ensuing
mate success success of the Cambridge and Lincoln frem
sion of parliament, propose to complete the ‘1‘1•11oledline of rail
London to York and Leeds by the executiou of this esign.
Leaving the tertninus of the Cambridge and Lincoln line
at Lincoln, the proposed line will Se taken by gaxelby and
Lea to Gainshorough, where it will cross the Trent, and thence to
Maxey-gate, whence a branch will issue to Doncaster. At this lat-
ter place a communication will be formed with projected lines from
Manchester and Sheffield to the port of Goole; and by this arrange•
meta a communication will be opened with the inexhaustible coal
fields of Elsecar and Silkstone—a species not inferior to that of Dur
ham and Sunderland—as well as with the limestone quarries at
Warmsworth, so valuable for building purposes.
Proceeding to Thorns, the line reaches Snaith, and, continuing its
direct course westward to Selby, near to which it is crossed by the
Hull and Selby Railway, will have its northern terminus at the city
of York.
At Thorne, or some convenient pointt near to it, an auxiliary line
will emanate from the main trunk , and either by means
of the proposed branch to the Wakefoiecdk, SkPeornntefract and Goole line
to that place, or by an independent course, as may hereafter be deter-
mined upon, will run through Pontefract direct to Leeds. By this
Means the whole of the manufacturing districts of the West Riding
of Yorkshire and Lancashire will be rendered easily accessible.
This line will be the shortest between Lincoln and York ; Lincoln
and Leeds ; Lincoln and Selby ; York and Selby ; and York and

The gradients throughout the line are so favourable, that none exceed
15% feet In the mile, an instance unparalleled, if the length of it be
taken into consideration. There will be no tunnels i the works will