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London, England, 1845-09-29 00:00:00

:IHE S CisT, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 29 1845.

IRISH GREAT WESTERN (DUBLIN to
GALWAY) RAILWAY:
The deeds of this Company will lie for signature on and after
WEDNESDAY, the Ist of October, at No. 19, Moorgate-street, London,
where also the new scrip may be had.
The letters of allotment for the exchange of scrip are in course of
issue according as the respectability of the applicants is ascertained.
FITZSTEPHEN FRENCH, Chairman.

September 25, 1845,

DIRECT WESTERN RAILWAY
(Upon the Broad Gauge),
From London to the Land's-end ; with, Diverging Lines to Bath and

Bridgewater respectively.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
Offices, 20, Poultry, London.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Camperdown, Sidney-place, Bath
The Viscount Maudeville,.Kimbolton-park, Hunts
Lord Jamcs O'Bryen, Royal-crescent, Bath
Lord William Powlett, ltath, and Downham-hall, Brandon, Suffolk
General Sir John Slade, Bart., Muntys Court, Taunton
Colonel Luttrell, Kilve Court, Somerset
The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., Director of the South Mid-

land Railway, Brookes' Club, St. James's-street
Sir Francis Dugdale Astley, Bart., Everly House, Pewsey, Wilts
Sir Henry Webbe, Bart., 105, Pall-mall
Frederick Hodgson, Esq., M.P. for Barnkaple, 3, Carlton Gardens
Howard Elphiustone, Esq., M.P., 19, Eaton-place, London
Ralph Neville, Esq , M.P., Hill-street, Berkeley-square
Charles Barry Ballwin, M.P., 6, Parliament-street
Hon. /'ercy Evans Freka, 3, Belgrave-square
Thomas Nugent Vaughan, Esq., 32, Grosvenor-place, London
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the
Sheffield and Manchester, and Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
Companies
Sir Robert Price, Bart., 3f.P., Foxley, Herefordshire •
Sir John Cave Brown Cave, Bart , Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Sir William Young, Bart., Westbourne-green, Hyde-park, East India
Director
John Clark, Esq., Benefield House, near Trowbridge, Wilts, Magis-
trate for the counties of Wilts and Somerset
Alfred Batson, Esq., Ramsbury, Wilts, and Upper Bedford-place
Major Hunt Grnbbe, Eastwell House, Devizes ,
John Sealy, Esq., Bridgwater, banker
John Level Sealy, Esq., Bridgwater, banker
William Adair Bruce, Esq., Lansdown-crescent, Bath
Sir John Key, Bart., 9, King's Arms-yard, Alderman of the City of
London, Director of the Direct Manchester and London and Direct
Liverpool and Leeds Railway Company
Thomas Farncornb, Esq., Griffin's Wharf, Toeley-street, Alderman
of the City of London, and Director of the London and Westmin-
ster Bauk, and of the London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidder-
minster Railway
Thomas Challis, Esq., Enfield, Alderman of the City of London
Edward Harrissou Barwell, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the North-
ampton. Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway, and Director of the
South Midland Railway
Joseph Armitage, Esq., Miln's Bridge House, Huddersfield, 'Deputy
Lieutenant and a Magistrate for the West Riding of Yorkshire,
Chairman of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
William Gordon Thomson, Esq., a 3, Gloucester-road, Hyde Park,
, Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham, and
South Midland Railways
Donald Maclean, Esq., 37, Brunswick-square, London, Deputy
Chairman of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway
Thomas Lawrence, Esq., 3, St. Mary Axe
Philip W. Courtney, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, London
Millis Coventry, Esq., Whltehart-court, LoMbard-street
Barnet L. !Philips, Req., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, and
George-street, Mansion Mouse
Boswell. Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holderness House, near Hull,
Deputy Lieutenant and Magistrate for the East Riding of Yorkshire
Charles Robert Coleman, Eaq., Irongate Wharf
William Eales, Esq., Mincing.lane, London, late Director of the
Devon and Cornwall Banking Company
Charles Downes, Esq., Warwick-street, Charing-cross, Director of
the South Midland Railway
Martin Stutoly, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park, London,
Director of the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine, and the South
Essex Railways
Francis Ede, Esq. 34, Great Winchester-street
John Addis, Esq.;Rotherhithe and Mark-lane, London, Director of
the Central Terminus Railway, and of the Licensed Victuallers'
Fire and Life Insurance Company
James Renshaw, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street, and West
Heath House, Erith, Kent, Director of the South Staffordshire
Railway
Thomas Drane, Esq., Pall-mall, and St. Mary Church, Devon, Direc-
tor of the Bridport and Exeter, and Goole and_Doncaster Railways
Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brembo Ironworks, Wrexham, and Cannon-
street, London
H. G. Atkinson, Esq., Upper Gloucester-place, Regent's Park
George M`lntosh, Esq., 127, Seymour-street, Portman-square
Frederick Sony Flood, Esq., Alpha-road, Regent's Park, London
Major White, 105, Pall-mall, London, Director of the South Midland

Railway
Charles Bleaden, Esq., Coulsden-court, Surrey, Chairman if the Li-
censed Victualers' Fire and Life Assurance Company
J. G. Haut:tack, Esq., Essex House, Mile-end-road, Director of the
Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company
Patrick Fres. Johnston, Esq., Great Cumberland-place
Joseph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, Minories, Director of the Louden and
Blackwall Railway Company
William Downing Bruce, Esq., F.S.A., 17, Charles-street, St. James's,
and Ripon
Cuthbert Woodcock, Esq., Grove-road, North trixton
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanstene-street, Portman-
square, Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth, and
the Great Western Extension Railways
George Hammond Whalley, Esq., 30, Pall-mall, London
William Hagan, Esq., 60, Baker-street, Portman-square
William Breynton, Esq., Montpelier, Cheltenham, and Temple, Len-
don, Director of the Leicester and,Tansworth Railway
Richard Harris Purcell, Esq., Cambridge-street, Hyde Park, Lon-
don, Director of the Wilts, fLornerset, and Southampton Railway
Company
Philip Baker, Esq., -
.I';iston-square, London, Auditor of the London
and Blackwall railway
Company
Charles Jan,;,ts Reath, Esq., 6, London-street, Mark-lane
Captain L. N. Trowbridge, R.N., 11, Eaton-square
Antilony Ridley, Esq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury, a Director of the
St. Katherine Docks Company, and of the General Shipowners'
Society
William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square
Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., Clopton Honse, Warwickshire, and
Luton 800, Bedfordshire
George Payne, Esq., Sulby Hall, Northamptonshire, and Charles-
Street, Berkeley-square -
James Beech, Esq., Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, and Grosvenor-

place, London
Nicholas Philpot Leader, Esq., Droinagh Castle, minty Cork, Union
Club, Trafalgar-square, Director of the Killarney Junction Rail-
way Company
aamuel Baker, Esq., Lyppiat Park, Gloucestershire, and London
William Congreye Russell, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Di-
rector of the Warwickshire and London Railway
Henry Bradley, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire
John William Yerbury, Esq., Itolcombe House, Wiltshire, Captain 3d
Light Dragoons
Robert Main, Esq., Ravensbourne Park, Lewisham, and Trinity-

square, London
Robert Millington' Esq., Ordsall House, itetford, Nottinghamshire
John Gillyatt Booth, Esq., Crouch Hall, Hornsey
Major-Gen. Martin White, Marlborough-buildings, Bath
Rev. T. Harvey Ashworth, Burlyns House, near Newbury, Berke
Col. Burslem, Harwood Lodge, Newbury, Berks
Major Kirwan, Groat Fulteney-street, Bath
Rev. Dr. Godfrey, Grosvenor-place, Bath
Edward Cooper, Esq., Staverton, Wilts, Magistrate of the County
Henry Toogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse, Wilts, Magistrate of the
County
Rev Chas. Eras. Bamftylde, Rector of Dunkerten, near Bath, Magis-

trate for Somerset
Richard Nfortimore, Esq., Chippenham, Wilts
George Tate, Esq., Tewksbury, Director of the Bristol and Riming.

barn Railway Company
R. Woollen. jun., Esq., banker, Oxford, Director elite Buokligham.

shiraltailway and Wolverton Junction
Richard Mortimore, Esq., Kingsmill, Collumpton
Rev. John Sydenham, Collumpton
Rev. R. A. Roberts, Rector of Kentisbere, Collumpton
Charles Justice, Esq., Collumpton, Devon
Richard Marker, Eq., Ufculm Cottage, Tiverton
Colonel Henry Dundas Campbell, North End House, Portsmouth
George Pearce, Esq., Bradninch House, near Collumpton
Wm. H. Holcomb, Esq., Chilton, Hangerford, Chairman of the Burks
Union Banking Company
William Haleomb, Esq., Marlborough, Manager of the Wilts and
Dorset Bank
Captain W. G,3faclean, R.N., Taunton.
Robert Parsons, Esq., Taunton
John Dalzell, Esq., Wallingford, Berks
Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
John Kerle Haberileld, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
James-Troup, Esq., Hastings
John Robson, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
John Morford Cottle, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington, Director
of Coventry and Leicester Railway
Joseph Knight, Esq., Leicester; Director of South Midland and North-

ampton, Banbury and Cheltenham Railways
John Newton Mappin, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Midland Railway Company
John Ridgeway, Esq., CauLion-place, the Potteries, Staffordshire,
Director of the Manchester and Southanipton Railway
James Burt, jun.' Esq., Manchester, Director of the Chester and
Birkenhead, and Manchester and Southampton Railways
Edward,Norris, Esq., Clairville, Manchester, Director of the Direct
London and Manchester, and North Cheshire Railway Companies
Joseph Nadia, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and

Wigan, and Manchester and Southampton Railways
James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Salford
Sir William Lowthrop, Hull, Magistrate for the East Riding of York
and fdr the borough of Hull, Chairman of the " Hull and Barnsley"
Committee, and Member of the acting' Committee of the "Liver-
pool and Leeds Direct Railway Companies"
John Raiford, Esq., Rusholm Hall, Manchester
C. H. Janes, Esq., Huddersfield, Deputy Chairman of the Hudders-
field and Sheffield, and Director of the Halifax and Bradford

Union Railway
Charles Bamford, jun., Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley
Junction
John Lillie, Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and South-
ampton Railway
John Robson, Esq., Hetton-le-Hble, Durham
Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Sheffield and
Manchester, and Chairman of the Manchester, If irkenhead, arid
Midland Railway Companies
Isaac Holmes, Esq., Liverpoo
Wm. B. Newbery, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Dudley and
Iron Bridge Railway Company •
C. Appleby, Esq., Broomhill, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and
Manchester Railway Company
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach,
and Lincolnshire Railway, and Salisbury and Swindon Railways
John Ward, Esq., Machin Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield,
Rotherham, and Chesterfield Life Assurance-office
Wm. Thompson, Esq., Upperthorpe, near Sheffield, Director of the
Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
Adderlay Howard, Esq., Sutton Wlsbech, Director of tke East Coast

Railway Company
Captain Bowker, R.N., Devonport
11. S. Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Liverpool and Leeda Di-
re.qt Railway
Sesnuel Swann Brittain, Esq., Sheffield Director of the Eaat and West
of Ensland Railway Company
John Fawcett, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Wakefield and Har-

_
rowgate Railway Company .
Witliam Marriott, Esq. Attercliff-terrace, Sheffield, Director of the
Itle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Junction Railway.
Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln, Director of the London and Tork
and East Lincolnshire Railways
John Johnstone Hamilton, Esq., Liverpool
David Price, Esq., Manchester
William Hunter, Esq., Clarenden4einare, Leamington
Rev. H. sW Cottle, Vicar of Watford, Northamptonshire
Major Wornum, Clarence-square, Cheltenham
Edward Hall, Esq., Westbank House, Macclesfield, Director of the
South -Midland and the Northampton and Cheltenham Railways
Henry liubbersty, Esq., Hull
John Ostler, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hall and Barnsley Junction
Henry Shaw, Esq., Fetter-lane
Henry Sayer, Esq., Commercial-road, Limehouse,- merchant
John Mee Mathew, Esq., Gray's Inn-square
John Norton, Esq., Moat Mese Brentwood, Essex
William John M`Guire, Esq., Hampton Court
John Gray Wilson, Esq., Oxford-terrace
Capt. J. P. Macdougall, Fir Grove, North Brixton, Surrey
W. J. Lefenvre, Esq., Alderman and Magistrate of Southampton
Thomas Chas: Harrison, Esq., F 8.5., York-terrace; Regent's Park
G. B. Butibury,.Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the
Coventry and Leicester Railway
Captain Tringham, R.N., Solyindl, Warwickshire
William Jonson Neale, Esq., King's Bench-walk, Temple
James Whitney, Esq., Shrewsbury
Henry Paul Harwood, Esq., M.D., Sheffield
The Hon. F. Byron, 21, Eaton-place
William Higgins, Esq., 'Purvey, High Sheriff of Bedfordshire
Sir Raymond Jarvis, Fair Oak-park, near Winchester, Deputy-Lieu-
tenant, and magistrate for the county of Hants
William Jackson, Esq , Birkenhead, Chairman of the Chester and
Birkenhead Railway
E. H. Langworthy, Esq., Manchester
Thomas Sidney, Esq., Alderman, and SheritT of London and Mid-
dlesex
Nathaniel Gould, Esq., Barge-'yard, Bucklersbury, and Tavistock-

square
Edmund Lionel Welles, Esq., CifilOgan.place, and West 51oulsey,
Surrey
Duncan Dunbar, Esq., East India-road, and Limehouse, Director of
the London Dock Company, the Marine Assurance Company, and
the General Shipowner's Society
William Jackson, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Goole and Doncaster
Railway
George F. Earle, Esq., Hull
Stephen Knowles, Esq., Exeter
W. Lawrence, Esq., Brixton
John Learmonth, Esq., Edinburgh, Chairman of the Edinburgh and
Glasgow, and North British Railway Companies
Wellington Ross Seymour, Esq., Montague-place, Russell-square,
Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway
William Tanner, Esq., Gieat Surrey-street, Black&tars
John Booth, Esq., Sherburn Grange, Durham
Matthew Benjamin Robson, Esq., Whitweil Grange, Durham
John Holmes, Esq., St. Jamc,'s-street, Director of the Dorchester and
Weymouth Railway, and York and Lancaster Railway
William G. Bernard, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
Thomas Smallwood Richards, Esq., 59,Baker-street, Portman-square
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Henry: Wenman Newman, Esq., Bristol,' Magbitrate for that City, and
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T elnity-Lieutenant and Magistrate for the county of Gloucester
olden:tem House, near Hull
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Newark-hpon-Trent
11{lorneratiC400ainckPk,etElsiqja.:1Ziti:.'filbcirFgli, Director of the Gainsborough,
Goole, and Isle of Axholme, and of the Wus* beach, Ely, and Lin-
colnshire Railway' • ,

William Ruston, Esq., Catherine-court, Trinity-equara

G. Wlugrove Cooke, Esq., Temple, London

C. I. Selwyn, Esq., Exeier,

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Joseph Hopwood, Esq., Exeter, Director of the Exeter and Falmouth
It a away
Richard Compton, Esq., Eddington House, Hungerford, Berks, a
Magistrate for the counties or Wilts arid Berks
Henry Coa Coape, Esq., Goldhanger, Malden, Essex
The Constable of Hungerford
Richard Davis, Esq., St. Helen's-place, Director of the South Midland
Railway
Edward Hyde Clarke, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of
the Warwickshire and London Railway
Captain William Lionel Lampert, The Highlands, Oxfordshire, and
Leamington, Warwickshire
Francis Burton, Esq., Milverton House, Warwickshire

Captain Stewart, R.N., Leamington, Warwickshire
Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbaston, Birmingham, Director
of the South Staffordahite Railway
William Northage, Esq., Upper Gower-street, Bedford-square
John Wodley Hughes, Esq., Gloucester, Director of the riirmingham
and Bristol Railway
Lewis itruce Knight Bruce, Esq., The Priory, Roehampton, Surrey
Francis Cole Humbert, Esq., Oxford-street, Hyde:Park
Algernon Greville, Esq., Cambridge-terracei Hyde Park

John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge-terraCe„cllyde Park
James Lamb, Egg., Hyde-park-square
Richard Grouceck, Esq.,; Bow-churchyard, and Dulwich, Director
of the Direct Manchester Railway
J. B. Simpson, Esq., Rutland-lodge, Brixton
Henry Bellerby, Esq., Sheriff of York

Henry Lodi;lord, Esq., 39, Wood-street, Cheapside, Direetor of the
Rugby and Macclesfield Direct Railway
John Williams, Esq., Eaton-square. •
Thomas Grlmsditch, Esq , M.P., 3facclesfield, Cheshire

Samuel Griffiths, Esq., i'enn-fields, Wolverhampton, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Railway
William Miller, jun., Esq., Leicester
Edward Westlake, Esq., Southampton
Erasmus R. Foster, Esq., Birehitt-lane

William Burgett, Esq., Broad-street
Peter R. Morrison, Esq., Princes-street, Bank

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Thomas Kld 3!.D., Sheffield

James Sheppard, Esq., An.. White Hart-court, Lombard-street
Valentine Knight, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, Magistrate
for Middlesex
George Sercombe, Esq., Exeter

John-Clampit Seicombe, Esq., Exeter
William Pearce, Esq., Liverpool

W. Holliday, Esq., Chad Valley, Edgbaston, Birmingham
Robert Henry Hurst, Esq. jun., Temple

William Nash,.Esq., Caphain Common
Grey Hazierlgg, Esq., West Carlton Hall, Leicester
_ _

Captain Twisleton Graves, Duke-street, St.. James's, Director of the
Leicester and Tean and Dove Valley Railway
(With .power to add to their number).
ENGINEERS IN CHIEF.
Sir John Macuiell, LL.D., F.R.S.
James Thomson, Esq., F.R.S.E.,
BAnnsas—Messrs. Curries and Co., Coruhill, London.
JOINT SOLICITORS.'
Messrs. Bell, Brodrick, and Bell, Bow Churchyard, London
Messrs. Rickards and Walker, 29, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London
Messrs. Haynes anti Moore, Warwick and London

Messrs. J. Y, and J. T. Harting, 24, Lincoln's Inu-flelds, London.
SECRETARY—Thomas Hosier Saunders, Esq.
ASSISTANT-SECRETARY—CharIeS J. Whalley, ESQ.
• LOCAL SOLICITORS.
At Newbury—Messrs. Godwin and Gi7tiy, and B. Pinniger, Esq.
At Ramsbury—William Rowland, Esq.

At Devizes, Henry Gilbert, Esq., and John Edwards Hayward, Esq.
At Troubridge and Bradford, Messrs. Stone and Rodway
At Beth, Mesas. Batehellor, Harford, and Staunton
At Shepton Mallett—Francis Isaac Nalder, Esq.
At Bridgewater, Messrs. G. S. and J. R. Poole

At Exeter—William Denis Moore, Esq

At Tiverton, T. L. T. Reridell, Esq , Ai-1(1J. A. Toms, Esq.

At Launcelton—Mesers. Lawrence and Pattison
At Bodmin

At Traro

At Penzance
At Falmouth—Messrs. Tresidder and Son •
The object of this line is to effect ft direct communication between
London and the Land's End. '

In a national point of view such a line is indispensable. With
the advantage of a direct railroad, Falmouth, from it. situation at the
western extremity of the kingdom, would undoubtedly long since
have been the principal port on that coast. With the advantage of
at least MO miles of heavy road, that place has attained its high po-
sition as a Packet Station. Southampton, with far less natural ad-
vantages, has, since the opening of the South-Western Railway, in-
creased its imports from 200,0001. t. 3,0e0,e001. per annum. At Bris-
tol, before the opening of the Great Western Railway, the imports
were declining ; since then they have very considerably increased.
The merits of a line to the Land's End as an investment .for ca-
pital, it was not left to the present Company to discover. The Great
Western and Bristol and Exeter Railway having already reached
Exeter, it has been in contemplation to extend that line to Fal-
mouth by way of Plymouth ; and various other projects have been
set on foot on the conviction that Falmouth must bo reached by
railway. _ _

ThoobJtet of this prospectus is to show that ne ether line than the

resent can ultimately satisfy the exigencies of the country in regard
to this, its most important eutport—" the natural Packet Station of
the empire."
The present project is distinguished by this—that it is direct. It is
as nearly as possible a straight line from Landon to the Land's End.
The London, Bath, and Bridgewater Company haying amalga-
mated with this Company, the immense local influence commanded
by them will now contribute to the great national object of a direct
line ; while means have been taken for securing the traffic and afibrd-
lag all the accommodation, contemplated by that Company.
The Direct Western availing itself of the Great Western Railway
so far as Reading, pursues its course by or near Newbury, Hunger-
ford, Great Bedwin, Marlborough, Devizes, the manufacturing dis-
trict of Trowbridge (from which a diverging line will be carried by
Bradford direct to Bath), Westbury, From., Shepton Mallet, Wells
(from which another diverging line will be taken to Bridgewater),
Glastonbury to Taunton, being shorter by about thirty-two
miles than any existing railways between these points, and without
a tunnel. From Taunton the Bristol and Exeter Railway (now
leased to the Great Western) is traversed to Tiverton, whence it is
proposed to carry this line direct to the Land's End, Falmouth, St.
Ives, and Penzance, being shorter by about sixty miles than the
lately proposed line by way of Plymouth, and effecting, in the whole
iistance from London te Falmouth, a saving of about ninety miles.
Wlth respect to the traffic on the upper portion of the line it is
needless to sitylmore than that there is already thorough traffic suffi-
cient to justify the construction of this portion of the Direct Wes-
tern ; that it will shorten the distance from London to Tiverton
about 32 miles, that it will traverse rich and populous agricultural
and manufacturing districts, and receive a large amount of traffic as
well ftom railways now in course of construction as from ethers pro-
jected, with every chance of success.
As to the traffic on the lower portion of the lino, it is evident that
the vast number of merchant vessels continually detained in the
Channel by adverse winds, would effect an immense saving both in
insurance and time, by discharging their cargoes at Falmouth, and at
once transmitting them to their destination by means of this railway;
and therefore—without speculating on the extent to which the ports
on either side of the great promontory of the Land's End may, by
means of this railroad, attract the commerce respectively of Bristol
and Southampton ; t • what extent the inexhaustible mineral wealth
of Cornwall, and the unrivalled agricultural resentrces of Devonshire
may be further developed, er the genial climate of Penzance and
Mount's Bay, " the Montpellier of England," attract a larger propor-
tion of winter visitants—it is obvious that this line will command a
traffic both in goods and passengers, from its western terminus, the
amount of which may be said to be without limit. A glance at the
map will make it manifest that no competing trunk line can ever be
established between Tiverton and the Land's End. As between
Taunton and Reading, an inspection of the map will show a vast ex-
tent of midland district, comprising rich and populous parts of So-
mersetshire, Dorsetshire, and Wiltalire, now altogether destitute of
rallroalsitccommodation.
It em rng to the features of this ptiojOt as a national work, one of
the greatest in point of magffitude, et vital importance in the event of
war, and of almost incalculable advantage to the general and packet
commerce of the kingdom; it may not be out of place to quote here
the following expressions of Sir Robert Peel. Speaking of the project
of a direct line from London to Liverpool through the Trent Valley,
which bore much the same relation to the Birmingham and Grand
Junction that this bears to the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter
Railways, he is reported to have said :—" I consider that the cons-
ratmication between the metropolis and the great outports to be not
a question of hours, but a question of minutes." Of the necessity of this
particular line, Parliament has already expressed an opinion ; for in the
report of the Committee on the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth
line, which was promoted by the Great Western Railway Company,
it was stated that that Company had been required to pledge itself
not hereafter to oppose a direct line to Falmouth ; and it may be
further observed, that a proposed line from Plymouth to Falmouth
was last session rejected, on the ground that it might be supposed
to interfere with that great national object.
The survey of the line has been to a great extent completed, and
correct estimates of the expenditure and returns are in a state of for-
wardness, and the whole will be ready for the next session, of Par-
liament.
It is sufficient, as to these points, here to state that there are no
engineering difficulties in any part of the line which have not been
repeatedly surmounted in other cases ; that the first portion will be
constructed at an unusually small expense; that the undertaking
will meet with the cordial support, concurrence, and co-operation of
the landowners, and that the Directors are justified in asserting that
this will prove to be one of the most remunerative railways in the
kingdom.
Powers will be taKen in the Act of Parliament to allow interest at
four pounds per centum per annum on the deposits, and preference
in the allotment of shares will be given to the proprietors of the land
through which.the line will pass, and to the shareholders in the
Great Western, the Bristol and Exeter, and other railways connected
with the Direct Western district.

Applications for shares, in the form subjoined, to be addressed to
the solicitors to the Company, or to the Secretary, al the Company's
Offices, 20, Poultry,
rctablo broker in town or country
London,coormtpoanthye local solicitors, or to any re-
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20, Poultry, London, September, 1845.
FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Direct Western Railway
... •

Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 251. each in
the above Company, and I undertake to pay the deposit of 21. 12s. 6d.
per share thereon, or on any less number you may appropriate to me,
and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Con-
tract when required.
Dated

1845.
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THE LEEDS, HUDDERSFIELD, SHEE-
FIELP, and SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE (or LEEDS
WOLTERHAMPTON, and DUDLEY) DIRECT RAILWAY.
(Provisionally; Registered.)
Capital, 1,700,0001., in 85,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
FROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Right hon. the Earl of Shrewsbury, Alton Towers, Staffordshire
Sir William Young, Bart., East India Director, Westbourne-street,
Hyde-park Gardens
Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theohalds, Deputy Chairman of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Rail-
way, &c.
Sir William Boothhy, Bart, Ashbourne-hall, Derbyshire
Sir William Lowthrop, Knt., Bull, and Alga-house, Scarborough, Di-
rector of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junc-
tion Railway
Col. the Hon Leicester Stanhope, Ashburham Douse, Chairman of
Remington's London and Manchester Direct Railway
Hon. Captain Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Chairman of the York and
Lancaster Railway, and Director of the Nottingham awl Boston
Railway, Parliament-street, London, &c., Sr.O.
The Sheriff of York
Arnold, Henry, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of Remington's London and
Manchester Railway
Bright, Selim, Esq., Buxton •
Barrett, H., Leeds, Director of the Kelghley, Halifax, and Hudders-
field Union. Railway
Duck, W. C., Esq.. Leeds, uiroctor of the Leeds and York Railway
Blurton,Bobert, Esq., banker, Smallwood Manor, Uttoxeter, Direc-
tor of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction
Railway
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Booth, John, Esq., Macclesfield
Bright, Selim, Esq., Buxton
Bradley, Septimus, Esq., Ashhourne, Direetor of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Burgess, John, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester

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Buxton, John Harry, Esq., Ashbourne
Clarke, Jeremiah, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's Lon-
don and Manchester Direct Railway
Cleobury, Thomas, Esq., Askew Villa, Acton
Cooke, the Rev. J., Uttoxeter, Director of the East and West Junction
Railway, &c.
Cooke, John, Esq., Macclesfield
Cooper, John Douglas, Esq., Hohne Cottage, Ashbourne
Cox, Walker, Esq., Breadsall, Derby, Director of the Tean and Dove
Valley Railway
Crockett, T. Esq., Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire,
and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &c.
Croft, Major J. T., 15, Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman of Reming-
ton's London and Manchester Direct Railway
Crossley, John, Esq., Lamberhuret, Sussex, and Uttoxoter, Director
of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction
Railway
Cumberlege, Nathaniel, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's Park
Dalby, John, Robert, Esq., Ashbourne, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordthire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Dale, Major, Thurston, Ashbourne
Daniel, Richard, Esq., Oak Hill, Stoke-upon-Trent

Dawson, Samuel, Esq., sen., Ashbourne
Dent, Edward, Esq., Westfield, Huddersfield
Dent, John, Esq., Nortligate, Huddersfield
Darlington, J.; Esq., Bradford
Dyson, Thomas, Esq.. Well-house, Holmfirth
Earp, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-

bare, and Worcestershire Railway
Eastwood, Edmund, Esq., Huddersfield
Eastwood, Abraham, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the 'Judder,-
field, Sheffield, and Halifax Railway
Edensor, Richard, Esq., Road-meadow, Ashbourne
Elershaw, John, Esq., Leeds
Fidler, Peter Pichott, Esq., Higgin Grange, Derbythire
Fisher, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct

Railway
Frost, Meadows, Esq., Chester
Gene. Samuel, Esq., Uttoxeter
Garle, William, Esq. Uttoxeter
Gilpin, awl Co., Messrs. William, Wedges Mills, Cannock, Director of
the Derbyshire, StaflOrdshire, and WorcestOrshire unction Railway
Gisborne, Henry Francis, Esq., Derby, Director of the Staffordshire,
Leicester, and Tamworth Railway, Sec.
Goddard, Thomas, Esq., Bank-house, Longton, Staffordshire
Haden, Joseph, Esq., Dudley, Director of the Derbyshire, Ste ord-
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shire, and Vforcestereigre Junction Railway

Haines, Samuel, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbaston, Director of the Lei-
cester and Birmingham Railway
Harpin, John, Esq., Birk's-house, Holmfirth
Hatfield, Thomas, Esq., Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &c.
Hammond, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds.
Dirnet Railway
Harrison, John, Esq., Banker, Ripon, Director of the Liverpool
and Leeds Direct Railway
Hartsborne, Robert James, Esq., Ashbourne
Haywood, Richard Howard, Esq., Staffordshire Potteries
Holdforth, Joseph Dempsey, Esq., of Burley, Leeds, Director of the
Leeds and Liverpool Railway
Herries, Robert, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool
Direct Railway
Hill, John, Esq., Derby
Hirst, Abraham, Esq., York-house, Huddersfield
Ingleby, Joseph, Esq., Cheadle, Staffordshire
Johnson, John Goodwin, Esq., Bentley Hall, Ashbourne
Johnson, D. T., Esq., Aidermary Churchyard, Director of the Ches-
ter and Manchester Railway
Johnson, Richard Wm., Esq., Moorgato, Director of Remington's
London and Manchester Direct Railway
Jones, the Rey. J. P., Vicarage, Alton, Staffordshire, Director of
tho Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Jones, Edward, Esq., Windmill-place, Camberwell
Knight, Edward, Esq., M.D., Stafford, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railway
Kingdom, Wm. Esq., Westbourne-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of
the Birmingham and Manchester Direct Railway
Keene, John Joseph, Esq., St. John's Wood, Regent's Park, Director
of the National Bank of Ireland, &e.
King, William, Esq., Waterloo-place, Director of the Freemasons'
Life Assurance, &c.
Lambert, Richard, Esq., Lyston Hall, Sudbury
Laughton, Richard, Esq., Barrow-hill, Uttoxeter
Langley, Henry, Esq., Rakeway House, Cheadle, Director of the Der-
byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Lassetter, Richard, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Lassetter, James, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Lea, John Wheeley, Esq., Worcester, Vice-Chairman of the Severn
Commission, &c.
Marlow, Joseph, Esq., Walsall
Mason, Charles James, Esq., Stafords'ilre Potteries
Mason, George Miles, Esq., Wetley Abbey, Ftaffordshire
Meteyard, Horace, Wm., Esq., Director of Remington's London and
Manchester Railway, Middle Temple, and Chatham-place
M`Mahon, Daniel, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the Derbyshire
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Manors, John, Esq. Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Mallard, James, Esq., Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Musgrave, Simeon, Esq., Kirkstall, near Leeds, Director of the Thirst
and Midland Junction
Minors, John, Esq., Eaton Dovedale, Derbyshire, Director of the

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Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Minors, John, Esq., The Parks, Uttozeter, Director of the East
and West Junction Railway
Mountford, Thomas John, Esq., Ashbourne
Moorhousa, Joshua, Esq., Holinflrth
Maskery, Thomas, Esq., I'orbury, Derbyshire
Not th, Joseph, Esq., Clayton West, Huddersfield
Norton, George, Esq., Clayton West, Huddersfield,Dlrector of the Lt.
yerpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Orton, James, Esq., Woodford, near Uttozeter, Director of the Der-
byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Parkinson, John, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge-terrace, Ilyde-park, Dt-

Director of th. Northampton, Danbury, and Cheltenham Rail.

way, &a.
Phillips, William, Esq., Springfield House, Uttozeter, Director of the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Roberts, Thomas, Esq., Manchester
Robinson, John, Esq., Silcoates, Cottage, Wakefield
Roden, Thomas Clarke, Esq., Birmingham
Richardson, Joseph, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York

Railway - -
Sant, Edward, Esti:, Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford.

shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Shipton, Robert, Esq., Scropto., .verhyshira, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Smith, Charles, Esq., Alton, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Smith, Thomas, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York

Railway
Smith, Thomas, Esq., Illore-hall, Staffordshire, Direetor of the Der-
byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Smith, William, Esq., Sedsall, Derbyshire, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Smith, William, Esq., Clifton, Derbyshire, Director of Teau and Dove

Valley Railway
Smith, John, Esq., Barton House, Derbyshire
Smythe, John Vere, Req., Kensington, Middlesex, Director of the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Sidney, Thomas, Esq.,alderman and Sheriff, City of London, Ditec-
tor of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct Railways
Spiers, E. J., Esq., Carlton Villas, London, Director of the East and

West Junction Railway
Stephenson, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Agriculturist Cattle As-

sarance Company
Terry, Benjamin, Esq., Mayor of Walsall, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway, &o.
Tibbits, Thomas, Esq., Norton Manor-house, Leicester
Tomlinson, Thomas, Esq., Bradley Pastures, Ashbourne
Toogood, Rupert, Esq , Ashbourne
Tylecote, Edward, Esq., surgeon, Great Heywood, Staffordshire
Tyler, George, Esq., Holloway-place, Holloway, London, Director of
the East and West Junction Railway, &c.
Waller, Major, K.H., St. James's-square, Director of the Chester and
Manchester Railway, &c,
Walter, James Smith, Esq., Bakewell, Derbyshire
Walters, J. T., Esq., Rugeley
Watts, William Royde, Esq., Birmingham
Weston, Samuel, Esq., Leeds
Weston, Thomas, Esq., Tean, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Willes, George, Esq., Thagerford-park, Berkshire
Williamson, Hugh Henshall, Esq., Greenway Bank, Staffordshire

Potteries
Williamson, Robert, Esq., Ramsdell-hall, Staffordshire Potteries
Wise, Thomas, Esq., Ashbourne
Witham, John, Esq., Ashboume
Woolrich, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Wood, Charles, Esq., littoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Rood William, Esq., M.D., Chetwynd House, Newport, Salop, Di-
rector of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junc-
tion Railway
Wood, William Hurd, Esq., Ashbourne
Wilkinson John, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Liverpeol

Direct Railway
Wright, Thomas, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and G ainsbo-
rough Railway.

BANKERS.
Messrs. Rogers, (Ming, and Co., Clement's-lane, London
Messrs. Barnard, Dimsdale, and Co., Coruhill, London
The Burton, Uttozeter, and Ashbourne. Union Bank, Uttozeter
Ditto Ditto, Ashbourne
Dadley and West Bunwich Banking Co., Dudley
Derbyshire Banking Co., Derby
Ripen—Messrs. Terry, Harrison and Co.
Bradford—The Leeds and West Riding Bank
Messrs. I. and Hamilton Richardson, solicitors, Leeds
SOLICITORS.
John Owens, Esq., 35, Moorgate-street, London
William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttozeter
ENGINEERS.
Sir John Rennie, F.R.S.
George Remington, Esq., C.B.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Armishaw, J., Esq., Bugeley
Bolton, Thomas, Esq., Wolverhampton
Bolton, John, Esq., Dudley
Eggington, A., Esq., Lichfield
Green, James J., Esq., Walsall.
Lowe, Richard, Esq., Cheadle
Floyd and Booth, Nuddersfield and Holmfirth
BROKERS.
Messrs. Kitching and Marshall, Leeds
Messrs. Turley and Cooper, Leeds
Mr. Thomas Oskwith, Ripon

This line of railway, which is about sixty-flue miles In length, is
intended to commence at Uttozeter (the terminus of the proposed
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway) and
to proceed to Sheffield and Huddersfield. It will form a direct com-
munication between two of the most important manufacturing and
mining districts in England, viz., South Staffordshire, Huddersfield,
and Sheffield, and Rotherham in Yorkshire ; the South Staffordshire
portion including Dudley, Tipton,Walsall, Bilsten, Wednesbury, and
Wolverhampton. . . . .

This line ;fill also open a direct railway communication between
Leeds, Huddersfield, and the West Riding of Yorkshire and Kidder-
minster, Worcestershire, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bristol, Taunton,
and Exeter, and with Ludlow, Leominster, Hereford, Brecon, Car-
diff, Neath, Swansea, Llanelly, Caermarthen, Milford Haven, Fish-
guard, Abcrystwith, and with Port Dynullaen, the future outport for
Ireland. • And also the most direct communication between Leeds
and Southampton.
The line will pass nearly along the Uttoxeter and Caldon Canal to a
point near Prestwood, in case the canal be purchased by the pro-
moters of this undertaking. It will proceed through Ellaston and
Mayfield to Ashbourne, thence near Dovedale, Buxton, and Chapel-
en-la-Frith, Woodhead and Holrafirth to Huddersfield, where it will
join the Huddersfield and Leeds Railway, and so to Thirek. It will
open new mines, in addition to those already in work, of lead, coal,
iron ore, barytes, and carboniferous and magnesian limestone on the
route, in addition to forming a direct, speedy, and cheap communica-
tion between the important towns above mentioned.
Arrangements have been made with other companies to run into
this line from Sheffield. This company reserves the right to raise
additional cmital to extend the line to Leeds. •

Many of the above-mentioned mineral productions are essential to
the mining districts of South Staffordshire and Sheffield. The North
Staffordshire and Derbyshire Limestone is much superior to that of
South Staffordshire in the fluxion of iron (15 cwt. of the former being
equal to a ton of the latter), and producing a bettor quality of ma-
terial. At present, the mode of transit is very circuitous and expen-
sive, the line from the Caldon Mines having to go by canal round
by Etruria, Leek, and the Potteries, to the Dudley and surrounding
furnaces, when, by this railway, it would be taken in a straight line
to them ; and the Ashbottrne, Cromford, Worksworth, and Bakewell
country would have an entirely new trade opened to them. The iron-
stone in the neighbourhood of Sheffield is also becoming very scarce,
and great quantities are introduced from Scotland; the same scarcity
exists in South Staffordshire; and the route of this line would fur-
nish a cheap and good supply, at present not worked, anclwithottt a
market, both north and south. In addition to these great advan-
tages, a good local market would be opened along the agricultural
and other parts of the district at present very badly supplied with
lime and coal, and that of an inferior quality, and by expensive car-
riage. It is, therefore, next to impossible to calculate the immense
traffic which would pour down this line and the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, asd Worcestershire Junction Railway.
Tho calculations which have been made show a very large profit.
There are large lead and slate quarries on the line which only want
an outlet like the one now contemplated to bring theta into full work.
The coal is of a superior quality.
There are also extensive barytes and paint-works at Ashbourne,
Cromford, and other places on the line. The scenery of Derbyshire
is the resort of vast numbers of tourists; and particular care will be
taken, in passing of the line near Dovedale, not to interfere with or
change its beautiful and romantic character. The convenience,
therefore, which this line will afford must necessarily cause a great
influx of passengers, both on business and pleasure.
Ironstone is not se abundant in the South as in North Staffordshire,
and vast quantities are sent by the tardy, circuitous, and expensive,
canal company, which this and other limes of railway
,meeting at
Uttoxeter will remedy.
The gypsum formation runs from Staffordshire to the Hnmber, and
the demand for this article for building, agricultural, and manufac-
turing purposes along this line will be great.
The timber from the neighbourhood of the Needwood Forest,
Banks, Bagots Woods, and Kingston Woods, upwards of 4,000
acres, chiefly finds its way to the Manchester market by a
like objectionable route of tardy and circuitous canal convey-
ance ; whereas this line would open a direct, easy, and cheap
communication to new markets. The line has been viewed prior to
a detailed survey, and there are not more than ordinary szigmeering
difficulties. In consequence of the late Parliamentary decisions, it is
intended to make this line on the broad gauge principle, but the pro-
moters do not pledge themselves absolutely to do so.
At the urgent suggestion of some of the most influential inhabi-
tants of Askbourue, the Committee have ordered a survey of a junc-
tion line to connect that town with the Derby, and with the Derby
and Gainsborough and Midland Railways

Applications for Shares to be made to John Owens, Esq., 8.5,
Moorgate-street, London, and William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq.,
Uttoxeter ; and to the following Sharebrokers :—Messrs. Preece and
Evans, 39, Lothbury ; Mr. Miles, Worcester ; Mr. Thomas Henry
Wheeler, Worcester; Messrs. Townley and Whitehead, Liver
pool ; Messrs. Cameron and Co., Liverpool ; Mr. Morris Rey-
nolds, Liverpool ; Mr. Richard E. Hine, Macclesfield • Mr.
James Jamieson, Leeds ; Messrs. Wellbeloved and dastler
Leeds ; Mr. Frederick Stamp, Hull ; Mr. Thomas Boardman, Black-
burn ; Mr. George Clark, Bradford ; Mr. William Mason, Bradford ;
Mr. William Cronhelm, Halifax ; Mr. Charles Spencer, Nottingham ;
Messrs. Eyre and Shaw, Derby ; Messrs. Graystoa and Earle,
York; Mr. E. H. Armitage, Wakefield; Messrs. Kettering
and Marshall, Leeds ; Mr. James Stokes, Cheltenham; Mr.
Joseph Clark, jun., Southampton; Messrs, Tate and Nash, Bris-
tol ; Messrs. Beaumont and Langworthy, Exeter ; Mr. Thomas
Sandford,- Exeter; Mr. J. S. Holland, Coventry; Messrs, Houghland
and Leese, Manchester ; Messrs. Cardwell and Sons, Manchester ;
Messrs. A. Birchall and Co., Manchester ; Messrs. T, N. Bardwell
and Sons, Sheffield ; Mr. W. H. Collis, Birmingham ; Mr.L. Weather.
ourn, jun., Huddersfield ; Messrs. Everard and Co., Huddersfield;
Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester; Mr. Nicholson, Edinburgh;
Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Glasgow ; Messrs. Labertouche
and Stafford, College-green, Dublin; Mr. James Ross, Perth.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield,
and South Staffordshire Direct Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me Shares of 201. each
in the above Railway, and I undertake to accept the same or such
less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the regulations
of the Company, and to sign the necessary Deeds, and to pay, when
required, the Deposit thereon of 2/. 2s. per Share.
'Dated this day of , 184 .
Name in full . .
Profession and professional residence
Residence in full .. .......... . .
Reference • • • • • •

LEEDS, HUDDERSFIELD, SHEFFIELD,
and SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, or LEEDS, WOLVER-
HAMPTON, and DUDLEY DIRECT RAILWAY.
Capital, 2,000,0001., in 100,000 Shares Of 20/. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
The Acting Committee of Direction have agreed: " that a Braneh
Line from Ashbourne to Detty_ be adopted by this Company, and
that the capital of the Company be increased from 1,700,0001. to
2,000,0001. for that purpose."
JOHN OWENS, Joint
WM. ARNOLD BAINBRIGGE,S Solicitors.
Offices pf the Company, 1, Mooriate, Sept. 26, 1645,

LEEDS, HUDDERSFIELD, SHEFFIELD,
and SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, or LEEDS, WOLVER-
HAMPTON, and DUDLEY DIRECT RAILWAY.
Capital, 2,000,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
Notice is hereby given, that no applications for shares in this line
will be received after SATURDAY, the 4th day of October.
WM. ARNOLD BAINBRIGGE, C Joint
JOHN OW ENS, s Solicitors.
Offices of the Company, 1, Moorgate, Sept. 26, '1845.

THE LEEDSand CARLISLE or NORTHERN
TRUNK RAILWAY of ENGLAND.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 2,000,0001., in 80,000 Shares of 25/. each.
Deposit 2/. 12s. 6d. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. Lord Charles Beanclerk, Cliesham-place, Be'grave-
square, and the Riding, Northumberland
William Ackroyd, Esq., Westbourne Lodge,. Otley, Director of the
East and West Yorkshire, Leeds, York and Midland, and Liverpool
and Leeds Direct Railway
William Ackroyd, Esq., Cookridge-grove, Leeds -
George Thomas Allan, Esq., Harewood-grove, near Darlington
William Hammond Ambler, En., Bishop Auckland, Director of the
No vcastie, Durham, and Lancashire Junction Railway
John Atkinson, Esq., Alderman of Hull, Director of the Hull and
Barnsley Junction, and of the York, Hull, and East and West
Yorkshire Railway
Edward Atkinson, Esq., Portland-place, Bradford, Provisional Di-
rector of the Leeds and York and Midland Junction Railway
George Bacon, Esq., merchant, Nottingham, Director of the Not-
tingham and Mansfield Railway
Charles Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P., Director of the Cork and Water-
ford Railroad
Charles Bamford, Esq., Director of the York, Hull, and East and
West Yorkshire Railways
Thomas Dixon Barrow, Esq., Settle, Director of the Manchester,
Liverpool, and Staffordshire Potteries Railway, also of the Chel-
tenham, Oxford, and London Junction, the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct, and the Keighley, Halifax, awl Huddersfield Junction
hails c
Edward 11. Barwell, Esq., Mayor of Northampton, and Director of
the South Midland and Direct Western Railways
J. Errington Bell, Esq., South Shields
Thomas Bell, Esq., Leeds
Robert Bendlc, Esq., Carlisle
John Bowring, Esq., M.P., L.S.D., Director of the Blaskwall Railway
Robert Beverley, Esq.. Quarry House, Potternewton, Leeds, Director
of the Midland and Thirsk Junction Railway
Edward Bilton, Esq., merchant, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Joseph Bishop, Esq., 109, St. John's-road, Director of the Blackwell
Railway Company
'William Charles Boden, Esq., Apsley Hall, Nottinghamshire, Director
of the Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway
John Brightman, Esq., Regency-square, Brighton, Chairman of the
General Maritime Insurance-office
Thomas Brown, Esq., banker, Sunderland
John Brown, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Erewash Valley, and
the Oxford and Southampton Railway
James Burt, jun., Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester
and Southampton, the Chester and Birkenhead Railways
John Octavius Butler, Esq., ironmaster, Kirkstall, near Leeds,
Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and Midland and Thirsk
Junction Railways
Edwin Cadman, Esq, Sheffield, Director of the Direct Western
Railway
Robert Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Worcester and Ches-
ter Railway, and of the Leeds and York Railway
William Cadman, Esq., Leeds
Richard Carpenter, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford
Railway
William Cartledge, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Nottingham
and Gainsborough Railway
Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol, Director of the Direct Western
Benjamin Casson, Esq., Hull
Samuel Cavan, Esq., Bedford-street, Liverpool
William Chadwick, Esq. (Messrs. Chadwick and Co.), Leeds
J. Charrctie, Esq., Park Village East, Regent's Park
James Clay, Esq., Director of the Furness, and of tilt Birmingham,
Dudley, and Wolverhampton Railways
Thomas Collett, Esq., Leeds
Thomas Coiling, Esq., Ripon
G. Colquhoun, Req., Weimer Lodge, Regent's Park, London, Chair-
man of the Asturian Mining Company, and Director of the Man-
'heater and Southampton Railway
George Cowen, Esq., Dolston, near Carlisle, Director of the Mary-
port and Carlisle Railway
Robert Cowen, Esq., Carlisle
C. Cunningham, Esq., 4, Clarges-street, Piccadilly
John Darlington, Esq., Shipley Hall, Managing Director of the
Leeds and West Riding Bank, Bradford
Thomas Drane, Esq., Pall-mall, and St. Mary Church, Devon, Di-
rector of the Bridport and Exeter, Goole and Doncaster, and
Direst Western Railways
William Hartley Deighton, Esq., Oatley, Provisional Director of the
East and West Yorkshire Railway
Richard Dransfield, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Rugby, Hali-
fax, and Huddersfield Junction Railway, and of the Liverpool and
Leeds
Thomas Duncan, Esq., Otley
Colonel Elrington, Scots Fusilier Guards, Wyndham-place, Bryan-
stone-square, Director of the London, Manchester, Liverpool, and
Leeds Direct Railway
Charles Heneage Elsley, Esq., Recorder of York, Director of the
York and Hull and East and West Yorkshire Railways
Thomasi England, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway
William Evans, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Dublin and
Drogheda Railway
Richard Tomkin Evans, Esq., Craven-street, Manchester
George Faith, Esq., Mincing-lane, Director of the London, Hounslow,
and Western Railway
John Forster, Esq., Headingley, near Leeds, Director of the East
and West Yorkshire Junction Railway
William Foster, Esq., Settle, Director of the Manchester, Liver-
pool, and Staffordshire Potteries Railway ; also of the Cheltenham,
Oxford, and London Junction Railway
John Griffiths Frith, Esq.' 11, Austin Friars, anti Director of the
Londonderry and Coleraine Railroad
James Fullalore, jun., Esq., Shakespeare-terrace, Pendleton, Man-
cheeter
John Garthorne, Esq., Hull
William Gill, Esq., Richmond, Yorkshire, Provisional Director of
the Northumberland and Lancashire Junction Railway
Charles Grant, Esq., 53, Fitzroy-square, London
John Grant, Esq., Northampton, Director of the London and Bir-
mingham Extension Railway
Sir Andrew Pellet Green, R.N., James's-place, Rockingham-gate
George Oates Greenwood, Esq., Bradford
Edmund Gwyer, Esq.' merchant, Bristol
William George Harrison, Esq., Hill House, Upper Tooting, and
Bucklersbury
John Harland, Esq., Merrick, Richmond, Yorkshire, Provisional
Director of the Northumberland and Lancashire Junction Railway
William Hawthorn, Esq., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Director of the
Nevecastle, Durham, and Lancashire Junction Railway.
Robert Hawthorn, Esq., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Director of the New-
castle, Durham, and Lancashire Junction Railway
William Henry Hornby, Esq., Blackburn, Chairman of the Black-
burn, Darwen, and Bolton Railway, and Director of the Blackburn,
Clitheroe, and North Western Railway, the Manchester and Wigan
Railway, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
€ley Hazlerigg, Esq., West Carlton Hall, Leicestershire, Director of
the South Midland, Nottingham, and Gainsborough, and the Great
Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton, and other railways
Charles James Heath, Esq., New London. street, City, Director of the
Great Manchester, Rugby and Southampton, and Direct Western
Railways
Thomas Coulthard Heysham, Esq., Carlisle
Captain Hodges, Connaught-terrace, Regent's Park, Director if the
London and Hounslow Railway
George Holmes, Esq., Hull
John Holmes, Esq., Hull, Managing Director of the Hull Banking
Company
Thomas Holmes, Esq., Hull, Director of the Flax and Cotton Mill
Henry Hubbersty, Esq., Hull, Director of the York, Hull, and East
and West Yorkshire, the Hull and Barnsley Junction. and the
Direct Western Railways
Richard Ella Hutchinson, Esq., Masham, Tork
John Jackson, Esq., Alderman of Leeds, Headingley-bill. near Leeds,
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and Leeds and York
Railwayst
Joseph Jones, Esq., Mayor of Hull, Director of the Hull and
Barnsley Junction, and York, Hull, and East and West Yorkshire
Railways
Thomas Kidley, Esq., M.D.,Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield, Leek,
and Staffordshire Railway
Edward Kipling, Esq., Darlington
Francis Kipling, Esq., Darlington
John Knill, Esq., London-bridge-wharf, London, Director of the Wor-
cester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe, the Worcester and South Wales
Junction Railroad, ecc. Sc.c.
James Lamb, Esq., 25, Hyde Park-square, Director of the Tring,
Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
Joseph Lambert, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Direct Leeds and Liver-
pool, and Leeds and York Railways
Thomas Laurence, Esq., Leadenhall-street, London, Director of the
Direct Western Railway
William Lawrence, Esq., Brixton, Director of the Leeds and Man-
chester Direct Railway
George Lee, Esq., 5, St. Martin's-place, Charing-cross, Director of the
Blackwell Railway Company
John Lovitt, Esq.. Hull
John Darnton Luccock, Esq. Alderman of Leeds, Director of the
Leeds and York Railway, &c.
Captain James Macdougal, the Grove, North Brixton
Lumsden Mackeson, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Director of the Reading and
Reigate and Guernsey Railways, and Pier Company
Captain Charles Edward Mangles, Director of the Northern and
Eastern anti Blackwell Railways
William Marsden, Esq., Greenwood-street, Manchester
James Middleton, Esq., Knostrop, near Leeds, Director of the Mid-
land and Thirsk Junction Railway
Michael Middleton, Esq., Darlington
Robert Middleton, Esq., Deansgate, Manchester
Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsell House, Retford
John 11. Miners, Esq., Bedford-street, Liverpool
Charles Morris, Esq., Portugal-street, Grosvenor-square, Director of
' the Bank of Australasia
Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of the Direct Western and South and
Midland Railway
Francis Morley, Esq., Merrick Park, Richmond, Yorkshire, Pro-
visional Director of the Northumberland and Lancashire Junction
Railway
Edward Munk, Esq , The Park, Nottingham, Director of the Not-
tingham and Mansfield Railway
Christopher Musgrave, J.P.,' Milverton-hill, Leamington, Lord of the
Manor of Birmingham, Director of the Leamington and Rugby,
Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and Manchester and Rugby
Railways
Joseph Nadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and
Southampton Railway
W. Neesham, Esq., M.D., Director of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Joint-Stock Bank
B. Oliveira, Esq., Upper Hyde-park-street, Director of the London
and Manchester Direct Rallivay
John Ostler, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction,
and Direct Western Railway
John Parker, Esq., Shipley, near Bradford
Archibald Paull, jun., Esq., Devonshire-place, Portman-square, Di-
rector of the London and York Railway
Thomas Peacock, Esq., Bishop Auckland, Director of the Newcastle,
Durham, and Lancashire Junction Railway
A. Maxwell Pickwoad, Esq., Penton Lodge, Bridport, Dorset
George Richard Pyo, Esq., Ravenham, Suffolk
Edward Railton, Esq., Broome Hall, Durham, Director of the New-
castle, Durham, and Lancashire Junction Railway
Richard Riddell, Esq , 23, Bryanstone-street, Portman-square, Direc-
tor of the Direct Western and the Great 'Western Extensio
Railway
George Robinson, En., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley June-
tion Railway
Thomas Salkeld, Esq., Holme Hill, near Carlisle
Richard Sandbach, Esq., Manchester
Dennison Sanderson, Esq., Manor House, Manchester
Hartley Sager, Esq., Ball's Grove, Colne
George Saul, Esq., Blunstock, near Carlisle
Dalton Haskell Serrell, Esq., North Bank, Regent's Park, Director
of the Independent London and Manchester Direct RAilway
W. H. Saynaasas E.g., 24. Limo-street
Samuel Sharp, Esq., Quarry House, Harperley Park, Durham,
Director of the Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire Junction
Railway
John Simpson, Esq., Farm Ville Lodge, Leeds
Henry Smith, Esq., The Park, Nottingham, Director of the Grand
Union Railway
John Spence, Esq., Otley, Director of the East and West Yorkshire,
Leeds, York, and Midland Railways
Robert Stanfield, jun., the Breck, near Halifax, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Joseph Stocks, Esq., Shibden Hall, Halifax, Director of the East
and West Yorkshire Junction, and Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railways
Colonel Edward Stopford, 9, Manchester-square, Deputy-Chairman
of the Barbadoes Railway
WHliam Stords , Esq., Director of the Carlisle City and District Bank
William Studely, Esq., Alfred-place, North Brixton
Martin Stutely, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of
the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine, and South Essex Railway
Villiers Charles Vilders Surtees, Esq., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Fl-
rector of the Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire Junction Railway
William Tanner, Esq., 84, Great Surrey-street, Blackfliars, Provi-
sional Director of the Direct Western Railroad
Thomas Tebbult, Esq., merchant, Platt-terrace, Bueholme, near
Manchester
Benjamin Thompson, Esq., Hull
Henry Alderson Thompson, Esq., Rceth, near Richmond, Yorkshire
John Thompson, Esq , Piccadilly, Manchester
Thomas Thompson, Esq., Alderman of Hull, Director of the Hull
and Barnsley Junction, and York, Hull, and East and West
Yorkshire Railways
W. Gordon Thompson, Esq., 33, Gloucester-road, Hyde-park, Director
of the South Midland and Northampton, Banbury, and Chelten-
ham Railways.
C. F. Thornby, Esq., Eaetfield House, Westbury, Bristol
George William Todd, Esq.' Stockton-on-Tees
Jutnes Walkinshaw, Esq., Old Park, Isle of Wight, Deputy-Chair-
man of the Manchester and Southampton Railway, &c.
Robert Watkins, Esq., 45, Lower Brook-street, Director of the East
and West of England, Oxford, Southampton, and Gosport Railways
Richard Webster, Esq., Leeds
James Atkinson West, Esq., Western Lodge, Durham, Director of
the Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire Junction Railway
Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln, Director of the London and York,
and East Lincolnshire Railways
John Wheelton, Esq., late Sheriff of London, Meopham Park, Tun-
bridge Wells
J. Wightman, Esq., Director of the Cheltenham and Oxford Railway
B. B. Williams, Esq., Wyndham-place, Bryanston-square, Director
of the London and Manchester Direct Railway, and Liverpool and
Leeds Direct Railway
John Wilkinson, Esq., flax-spinner, Gledhow Mount, near Leeds,
Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct Railway
William Stitt Wilson, Esq., Norwich, Director of the 3faryport and
Carlisle Railway
Edward Woolmer, Esq., Mayor of Exeter
Smith Wormald, Esq., Tickton Orange, Beverley, Director of The
York, Hull, and )cast and West Yorkshire Railways