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London, England, 1845-09-18 00:00:00

BANKIILS.

Messrs. Jones, Loyd and Co., Lothbury, London
Messrs. Cockburns and Co., 4, Whitehall,
Messrs. Adams, Warren, and Co., Shrewsbury and Market Drayton
The Bilston District Banking Company, Wolverhampton
The Shropshire Basking Company, and its Branches.
ENGINEER IN CHlEF—Samuel Clegg, Esq•, C'E'
ACTING ENOINEER—Francis Briscoe, Esq.

SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Yarborough and Adams, Lincoln's liw-ields, London
E. Garbutt, Esq., Wellington, Salop.

LOCAL AGENTS.
Messrs. G. and R. Anderson, Ludlow
Thomas Weyman, Esq., Ludlow
John William Butterton, Esq., Eccleshall
Thomas Bernard Baddeley, Esq., jun., Newport
Edward Edwaids, Esq., Church Stratton
Gilbert Brown, Esq., Shansi
Charles G. Brown, Esq., Bilston, Staffordshire
Philip Octavius Jervis, Esq., Bishop's Castle
Thomas Griffiths, Esq., Clun and Bishop's Castle
Thomas Walker, Esq., Wolverhampton
T. R. Hodgson, Esq., Birmingham
William Harding, Esq., Moslem, Staffordshire Potteries
SECRETARY—George Bond, Esq.
Offices, Royal Exchange-buildings, London.

The line of Railway intended to be constructed by this Company
will commence at or near Norton Bridge (a station of the Grand
Junction Railway), in the county Of Stafford, and proceed from
thence by Eceleshall, Offiey, Norbury, Forton, Newport, Donnington
Wood, Oaken Gates, Priors Lee, Stirchley, Dawley, Madeley, and
Iron Bridge, to Coalbrook-dale ; there, crossing the proposed " Wor-
cester and Crewe Railway," it will pass along the slope of Wenlock-
edge, by Rushbury and Eaton-under-Haywood, to Wistanstow, in
the county of Salop, where it will run into, and forma junction with
the " Shrewsbury, Hereford, and North Wales Railway."
The line will traverse a rich minerai district, and will have a secure
and extensive traffic by the carriage of coal from the Shropshire
of Radnorshire and Herefordshire,
coal-field, to a depot psoposed to be formed at Wistanstow, for the
supply of South Shropshire, part
and also from whence it will be conveyed by the " Hereford, Shrews-
bury, and North Wales Railway," into Montgomeryshire and the
neighbouring counties, where coal does not exist. It is impossible to
calculate the extent to which this traffic may be carried, as ter the
direct railway communication thus opened between the Shropshire
coal-field, and the important manufacturing towns of Newtown
and Llanidloes, the price per ton will be reduced one-half at
those places, and the flannel manufacturers, nowdepend-
ing upon water power, will+ by the cheapness of coal, be
enabled to employ steam, and to extend their trade in proportion to
the great demand which exists for the Welsh flannels, in preference
to any other. The importance of this subject will have its due weight
with those who so often witness the bad effects upon the trade, caused
by the stoppage of Ile mills from an insufficiency of water.
A considerable amount of tonnage is now incurred by the Shrop-
shire ironmasters,f or the conveyance of lime-stone from the neigh-
bourhood of Much Wenlock to the furnaces, by several transits of
land and water carriage, whereas the proposed railway will convey
it direct into the heart of the works, and at one-third of the expense.
By its junction with the " Grand Junction" and the " Hereford
and Shrewsbury" Railways, this line will form a direct communica-
tion between Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, York and Hull, and
Swansea and South Wales.
As a junction line alone (connecting as it will such important rail-
ways), s large passenger traffic may be depended upon, but when it
is considered that the centre of the line passes through a densely-
populated mining district, and the remainder through a thriving
agricultural neighbourhood, it will be obvious that a sufficient local
traffic exists to pay a highly remunerative interest on the amount of
capital required to be embarked.
The line, which will not interfere with any property of an orna
mental or costly character, will not exceed 46 miles in length, and
will be constructed at much less than the average cost.
Such important local co-operation has been secured, that no oppo-
sition is anticipated or can be sustained against the Daeasure.
The liability of the Shareholders w.. 1 be limited, by the Act, to the
amount of their subscription to the capital stock ; and power will be
applied for to allow interest at the rata of four per cent,per annum
on the amount of the deposit, and upon the further calls, from the
date of each payment until the opening of th..) line ; and the first
dep,ysit being paid, a further call will not be made until the Act •
Parliament shall have been obtained.
Maps of the line, prospectuses, &c., are to be obts.bied from the
Secretary, the solicitors, the local agents, also the brokers, Messrs.
Mieville and Co., Angel-court, Throgmorton-street, London ; Messrs.
Cameron, Cazenove, and Taunton, Liverpool ; Messrs. Green and Old-
ham, Manchester ; Nathaniel Lea, Esq., Birmingham ; mean. Holmes
and Tripp, Bristol ; Messrs. Turley and Cooper, Leeds ; J. Senior, Esq.
Sheffield; Messrs. Brady and Staniforth, Hull; to whom applications
ffir Shares (which must be on printed forms) may e addressed ; and.
if will be necessary that reference he made to a banker, solicitor, or
person eff responsibility.

BIRMINGHAM AND LICHFIELD
RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 300,0001., in 15,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per share, in accordance with the standing orders of
the Houses of Lords and Commons.
No call to be made until the Act is obtained —and no Subscriber to be
answerable beyond the Amount of his Subscription.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P. for Birmingham
'Geo. Frederick Muntz, Esq., M.P. for Birmingham
The Right Worshipful the Mayor of Birmingham
John Wilke Unett, Esq., The Woodlands, Smethwick, Staffordshire
George Unett Esq., The Laurels, Handsworth; Staffordshire
William Jacot Esq., New Hall, Sutton Colfield
C. D. Archibald, Esq., 1.R.5., Busland Hall, Lancashire, and Re-
gent's Park, London
John Godfrey Hudson*, Esq., St. George's-terrace, Hyde-park, Direc-
tor of the London Central Terminus Company
George Turner, Esq., Minton Hill, Erdington, Warvriekshire, Diree-
tor of the South Staffordshire and the Southampton s.nd Oxford
Railways
Thomas Welch, Esq., Birmingham
Charles Machin, Esq., Blythe House, Erdington, Warwickshire
R. Fowler, Esq., Manchester-square, London, and Filton-park,
Bristol
Samuel Phillips, Esq., Chester-terrace, Regent's park, London, and
Levant House, St. Helen's-place, London, merchant
W. L. Whitmore, Esq„ Director of the Great Western (Irish), and
the Worcester and South Walee Railways
Thos. Davies, Esq., The Austens, Handsworth, Staffordshire
David Barnett, Esq., merchant, Birmingham
Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad House, Edgbaston, Birmingham
Smith Whilock, Esq., Birmingham
John Boulton, Esq., Birmingham
Bell Elcock Fletcher, Esq., M.D., Birmingham
Thomas Botiman Upfil, Esq. Birmingham
Edward Rabone, Esq., Smethwick Hall, Staffordshire
Major Moore, Director of the Great Indian Railway
Henry Coe Cope, Esq., Hungerfordyark, Wilts, Military Secretary
at Hyderabad
William Holliday, Esq., Chad Valley, Edgbaston, Birmingham
Edward Harrison Barwell, Esq., Mayor of Northampton, Director
of the South Midland; the Northampton, Banbury and Chelten-
ham ; Leeds and Carlisle ; Manchester and Southampton, and
other Railways
T. R. Wright, Esq„ Northampton, Director of the South Midland
Railway
William Horatio Harrison, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Tam-
worth, Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railways
weonlad,evvEnsq,atEts.,Sq,DE.ir,sllo. , Green-street, Grosvenor-square, and
J. T. Walters, Esq., Rugeley
MeeW.
l:n
William
Drury
Mathews, Locke Park Derbyshire, Director of the Lichfield and Mac.olesdeld
Railway
John Kenme Devonshire, Esq., River Dale Villa, Hampton
Manchester Railway t'oßrionnf geghDaermJ. layshire, Staffordshire, and
Theophilus Richards, Esq., Edgbaston, near Birmingham
Themes Pemberton, Esq., Wharstone House, near Birmingham
Capt. M`Dougal, Fir Grove, North Brixton
John Anderson, Esq., Honourable East India Company's Service,
Euston-place, Euston-square, London
Sir William White, Director of the Church of England Insurance
Company
Griffith Frith, Esq., Director of the Londonderry and Coleraine
Railway, &c.,
John Johnson Captain, R.N., Edgbaston, Birmingham
George Edwards,l Esq., Birmingham
Hercules Hallos Duncocks, Esq., Manor House, Rempsey, Glouces-
tershire
William Edwards, Esq., Aston, near Birmingham
John Geoige Norbury, Esq., Manchester House, Atherstone, Direc-
tor of the Teen and Dove Valley and South Staffordshire Railways
Geo. Frederick Gregory, Esq., Seacombe, Cheshire
James Russell, Esq., Endwood Court, Handsworth, Staffordshire
Thomas E. Davies, Esq., Belletleld House, near Birmingham
John Russell, Esq., Mandsworth, Staffordshire
Lieutenant-Colonel Elrington, Scots Fusilier Guards, Director of the
Manchester, Southampton, and Oxford Junction, and Leeds and
Liverpool Railway
Joshua Horton, Esq., ;Etna Iron-works, Smethwick, Staffordshire
Richard Underhill, Esq., Birmingham
R. B. Williams, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Di-
rect, the Leicester and Tamvrorth Junction, and the Leeds and
Liverpool Railway Companies
(With power to add to their number.)
ACTING ENGINEER.--E. J. Maude, Esq., C.E.
JOINT SOLICITORS.
J. Graham, Esq., 60, Moorgate-street, London.
Richard Ford, Esq., 28, Essex-street, Strand, London.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Birmingham—W, 11. Reece, Esq., New-street ; and C. 11. Jagger,
Esq., New-street.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Spooner, Attwood, and Co., London.
Messrs. Attwood, Spooner, and Co., Birmingham.

This short but very important Line of Railway will commence at
the nearest point on the Trent Valley Railway to the City of Lich-
field, and proceed through a rich and populous country, by ,Shenstone,
Sutton Coldfield, and Erdington, to the town of Birmingham.
The length of the Line will be only about sixteen miles, and a
glance at the map will suffice to show the very numerous advan-
tages which this Railway offers. The projected " South Union Rail-
way," from Manchester, joins or falls into the Trent Valley Railway
just below Lichfield, and, proceeding along the Trent Valley Line,
via Tamworth and Rugby, will form the shortest and most direct
route from Manchester to London, but will leave Birmingham on the
west, which can only be reached by the circuitous route through
Tamwoith, a distance of twenty-tire miles.
The proposed Birmingham and Lichfield Railway will effect an ex-
tension,of the South Union, North Staffordshire, and other projected
Railways, from Lichfield in a direct Line to Birmingham, and thus
save no less than nine miles in the twenty-fire, and censtitute the
shortest and best line between Manchester and Birmiagham yet de-
vised.

As to the returns to be expected for the capital embarked, it is
sufficient to mention, that in addition to the very large income aris-
ing from the local passenger and goods traffic (the latter of which is
very great, as most of the agricultural supplies of Birmingham, the
emporium of the Midland Counties, and its densely populated neigh-
bourhood, are derived from the vicinities of, and must pass along this
Line), every passenger direct from Manchester to Birmingham must
necessarily proceed along the projected Railway, should either of the
lines from Manchester to Lichfield be made. _ _

This line will also form the nearest route from Derby and the
North to Birmingham.
The Capital proposed to be raised is 300,0001., in 15,000 Shares of
201. each. A deposit of 21. 2s. per Share will be required to be paid
upon the allotment, to the credit of the Directors with the Bankers
of the Company.
No call will be made until the Act of Parliament shall be obtained,
and power will he taken in the Act to allow Interest at 41. per cent.
per annum, upon the amount of each call, from the date of payment
until the opening of the line, and Subscribers will not be answerable
beyond the amount of their Shares.
The Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contract, which
shall contain a clause empowering the Directors to amalgamate with
any other Railway now formed, or to he formed, to extend or make
Branch Lines, or transfer, mortgage, or dispose of the present un-
dertaking for the benefit of the Company, as they may deem proper,
will be ready on the day fixed for the payment of deposit, and will
be required to be executed when the bankers' receipts are exchanged
for certificates of Scrip ; and the shares of any Subscribers making
default in the execution of those deeds within the time limited, of
which fourteen days' notice will be given, will be absolutely forfeited.
No application for shares can be attended to, unless accompanied
by a reference to a member of the Provisional Committee, one of the
Solicitors, Agents, or a Banker.
Forms of application for shares, copies of the prospectus, and a
map of the line, may be obtained at the temporary offices of the
Company, 60, Moorgate-street, London ; from the Solicitors ; from
Local Agents; from Mr. B. B. Williams, 17, Thrormorton-street,
London ; Mr. W. H. Collis, 104, New-street, Birmingham ; Messrs.
Ludlow, Brothers ; and Messrs. Pownalt and Worthington, Liver-
pool ; Mr. John Barlow, Manchester ; Messrs. Robinson and Furiay,
Leeds ; Mr. Thomas Evans, Milsom-street, Bath ; Messrs. Xllgood
and llarrison, Leicester.

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BIRMINGHAM AND LICHFIELD RAILWAY.
FORK OF APPLICATION FOp SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Birmingham and Lichfield
Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me Shares of 20/.
each in the above Company; and I undertake to accept the same, or
such smaller number as may be allotted to me, and to pay the de-
posit of •.d. 2s. per share thereon, aid to execute the 6abseribero'
agreement and Parliamentary contract when required.
Dated this day of 184.5.
N
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READING AND REIGATE RAILWAY.
, Notice is hereby given, that NO APPLICATIONS for
SHARES will be RECE WED after WEDNESDAY next, the 24th inst.
By order of the Board.
DIGBY FOITELL, Secretary (pro tent.)
Offices, 1, Old Jewry, Sept. 16, 1845.

IRISH WEST COAST RAILWAY.
(Registered Provisionally.)
Capital, 2,500,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 25/. each.
Deposit, 2/. 12s. 6d.
(No Subscriber to be liable beyond the amount of his Shares.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Mark Blake, Esq., M.P., Ballinafad, Mayo
Robert Dillon Browne, Esq., M.P., Glencorrib, Mayo
John Patrick, Somers, Esq., M.P., Sligo
Sir Thomas Bernard Going Dancer, Bart., Moslreeny House, Clough-
Jordon, county Tipperary, Director of the Galway and Kilkenny
Railway
Thejlon. Geoffry Browne, D.L., Wilton-crescent, London, and Castle
M`Garrett, Mayo
The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pultency, Parliameut-street, Whitehall,
Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
Michael Gallagher, Esq., Mayor of Sligo
Joins Netterville Barron, Esq., Resident Magistrate, Sanders Park,
Cork
Owen Edmond Blake, Esq., J.P., Frenchfort, Galway
William Butler, Esq., J.P., Bunnahow, Ennis (late High Sheriff of
Clare)
James F. Burke, Esq., J.P., St. Clarence, Galway
Dominick Joseph Burke, Esq., J.P., Greenhill, Mayo
Theobald Burke, Esq., J.P., Woodville, Mayo
William Campbell, Esq., Sackville-street, and Brighton
John Carmichael, ESq., T.C., Rivertson House, Cork, Director of the
Cork and Killarney Railway
Thomas Comins, Esq., Ballybrit House, Galway
Edward Dean, Esq., J.P., Curragowan, Mayo
John Dunn, Esq., M.D., M.R.C.S., L. and D., Drumsna, Leitrim
Robert Graham, Esq., J.P., Drumgoon, Fermanagh
Henry Griffith, D.L., J.P., Port Royal, Sligo, Director of the
Sligo and Shannon Railway
W. A. Hill, Esq., Lonsdale-square, Deputy Chairman of the Gloucester
and Aberystwith Railway
Robert Hughes, Esq., Ely House, Wexford, Director of the Provin-
cial Bank of Ireland
William King, Esq., Spring-gardens, and Putney, Surrey
John Knox, Esq., J.P., Greenwood Park, Mayo
Joseph Myles M'Dennell, Esq., J.P., Deocastle. Mayo
Capt. Charles Carden Mansergh, Longraigue, Wexford, Director of
the Wexford, Waterford, and Valentia Railway
Capt. Newton, Bruton-street, and Lugwardin, Hats
Francis R. O'Grady, Esq., Taviane, Mayo
Richard O'Grady, Esq., Taviane, Mayo
Charles Ormsby, Esq., D.L., CuMMin, Sligo
Michael Perrin, Esq., Galway
Rees Price, Esq., M.D., Tyne Hall, Great Ilford, Essex
Robert Dudley Persse, Esq., Galway
Joseph Richardson, Esq., J.P. Summer-hill House, Clones
Thomas Seymour, Esq., J.P., Baflymore Castle, allinasloe
James Sexton, Esq., J.P., Limerick
S. W. Simcockes Esq., Galway
John Walsh, Esq , Castlehill, Mayo
Captain George Edward Watts, R.N., Langton Grange, Darlington
(With power to add to their number.)
ENottana—Colonel Landmann, R.E., F.A.S., M.I.C.E.
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co.
Scotland—Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank
Ireland—National Bank and Branches
Provincial Bank and Branches.
STANDING COUNSEL—James Monson Carroty, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Langley and Mead, Bedford-row, London.
William Thomas Kelly, Esq., 16, Mountjoy-square North, Dublin,
and Castlebar, Mayo.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Galway—Captaln.P. O'Shaughnessy
Castlebar—Mr. Henry Murphy
Sligo—Mr. W. C. Tuite.
SECRETART—Henry T. Stuart, Esq.

PROSPECTUS.
The object of this line of Railway is to complete the chain of coast
communication, and form a connexion with lines already established
or projected with reasonable hopes of success.
It will commence at or near the city of Limerick, and taking a nor-
therly direction, proceed through the counties ofClare, Galway, Mayo,
and Sligo, terminating at Sligo, by a junction with the Sligo and Ennis-
killen Railway, and accommodating on its route the important cities and
towns of Limerick, Ennis, Gort, Loughrea, Athenry, Monivea, Tuam,
Ballinrobe, Castlebar, Westport, Foxford, Ballina, Kilalla, Swineford,
Streamstown, and Sligo, which town being connected with the north,
east, and south, by the different lines through Enniskillen, London-
derry, Coleraine, Belfast, Armagh, Newry, Dundalk, Drogheda,
Dublin, Wicklow, Wexford, Waterford, Cork, Killarney, Valentia,
Tralee, and Limerick, the establishment of this line will cause Ire-
land to present a completeness of locomotive communication which
no other country in the world enjoys.
The country through which the proposed line travels is most fertile
in mineral and agricultural products ; it embraces many extensive
coal fields, whose advantages it will extend to all parts of Connaught
and Ulster; and intersecting, as it does, so many metropolitan lines
of railway, it will develope those advantages in an equal degree to
the province of Leinster.
The lead, iron, marble, and slate works on its route, will be
rendered available to the most distant parts of the island, and
perhaps not the least advantage, in a national point of view, will be
the establishment of an intercourse between the population of the
extreme north and that of the extreme south, as well as placing the
trade of, and communication with, Scotland, within the easy reach
of all towns of any importance in
prof
Added to this the cer-
tainty that on the completion of the projected southern, eastern, and
western lines, the noble natural harbours on the Atlantic shore of
Ireland will become the British depots of American traffic, and most
probably the established packet statierns-foi, postal communication
between the two countries, if is impossipte to nver-rate the value Of
this truly national projection.
The counties which this railway traverses -abundantly supply the
English markets with cattle, pigs, &c. 'This line, eofrinntnioatingWith
so many ports, will afford the greatest facilities forthe shipping of
this portion of trade, some idea of the extent of whibli nutY-ke formed
from the fact of upwards of five hundred fairs being held annually
in its immediate vicinity, among them, the fair of Rallinasloe, ac-
knowledged the greatest for sheep and cattle in the British islands.
It has been ascertained that the countrypreserits great engineering
facilities for the construction of a railway, and in communications
which have been received from the landowners along the line, the
greatest anxiety is manifested for its completion.
The subscribers will be held liable only to the extent of their first
deposits until an Act of Parliament is obtained, and afterwards only
to the amount of their subscriptions.
Power will be applied for in the Act—and in the meantime Is
hereby given to the Committee—to increase the capital, if necessary;
to alter or abandon any . pint of the line, to make bran
companiech lines and
or
enter into arrangements with any other company or s ;
also to nominate the first directors of the company.
The Parliamentary contract and subscribers' agreement will be
ready for signature on payment of the depo. slts_.n.
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It will be seen in the plan that thenradway 1 t
lines, and will thus contribute to, a d receive from them a con-
siderable amount in passenger and merchandise traffic.
From the estimates that have been made, a return of at least 10
per cent. must be realised on the capital.
Application for shares to be made to the Solicitors in London and
Dublin ; to the Local Agents ; to the Secretary, at the omco of the
Company, 10, Old Jewry Chambers; and to the undermentioned
brokers'—Mr. D. Messrs.B Change-alley, Cornhill Anthony
Liverpool ; Brady and 4taniforth, Manor-street,
Laurie,
Bull; Mr. S. Orlndrod, Manchester; Messrs. Watson and Co.,
Leeds ; Mr. George Edwards, Bristol ; Messrs. Tyeth and Wills,
Plymouth ; Mr. Robert Allan, Edinburgh ; Messrs. M'Ewen and
AuM, Glasgow; Mr. William Gordon, Aberdeen; Messrs. Curtis and
Power, Dame-street, Dublin ; Mr. James Morgan, Cork, of whom
Prospectuses may be had.

FORM OF APPLIC kTION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Irish West-Coast Railway

Gentlemen,—l request that you Company. will allot to me Shares of
25/. each in the above undertaking ; and I agree to accept such
si*res as may be allotted to me, and to pay the Deposit of 21.
12p. 6d. each thereon; and also to sign the Parliamentary Contract
and the Subscribers' Agreement, when required.
Dated the day of 1845.
Name and Surname in full ..........

Residence
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Railway •
Henry Lewis Snip.% Esq., Willoughby House, Tottenham, Director
of the London and Dover Railway
C. Waite, Esq., Willesden, Middlesex
R. W. Wood, Esq., Lodge-place, St. John's Wood, Director of the
North Metropolitan Railway
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manchester
and Birmingham Railway
Wm. Shaw, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment Railway
Wm. Alfred Hill, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aiberystwith

Railway
Richard Dutton, Esq., Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds

Railway
Wm. Slark, Esq., Director of the Guarantee Society
James Reeves, Esq, Director of the London and Manckester Railway
Frederick Collingridge, Esq., Thurlow-square, Brompton
Warren Stormes Hale, Esq., Oresham-street
Robert Richards, Esq., Temple, Director of the Birmingham and Lon-

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don Extension Railway
Kingsmill Grove Key, Esq., Wandsworth-common
The Rev. F. K. Hall, D.D., Rector of Falbourne, Cambridge
Daniel Penton Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Manche"-

ter Railway ...
Charles Green, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aborystwith

Railway
John Barber, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith

Railway _
E. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Hereford
E. R. Foster, Esq., Director of the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Staftbrd-
__

shire Railway
Martin Furnis, Esq., Director of the Nottingham. Newark, and

_
Boston Railway
W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the Birmingham and lianehester

Extension Hallway
W. Bardgett, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian Railway
Richard Parish, Esq., Bank House, Wordsley, Staffordshire
Samuel Parish, Esq., Wordsley, near Stourbridge, Staffordshire
Alexander Greig, Esq., Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square, Director of

the Leicester and Birmingham Railway
Thomas Yates Bunt, Esq., Brades, near Birmingham
William Singleton, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool
Direct Railway
Win. Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Railway
James Muscroft, Esq., Pontefract
David William Nell, Esq., Leeds, J.P., Director of the Leeds and

Thirsk Railway
Joseph Robert Wilkin Atkinson, Esq., Director of the Leicester mid
Bedford, and York and Lancaster Railways
John Fagan, Esq., Gloucester-road, Old Brompton
Charles Rolden, Esq., Director of the Great Grimsby and Sheffield
Railway
J. D. Hopkins, Esq., Bedford-square, Director of the London and
Birmingham Extension Railway
Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds, Director of the West Riding Junction

Railway
Peter Fairbairne, Esq., Leeds, Chairman of the Lincoln, York aad

Leeds Railway - -
John Blackburn, Esq., Leeds
J. M. Douglas, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth

Railway
W. Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street
John Anderson, Esq., Lothbury, Director of the South and Midla*d
Railway
W. Ley, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-Bs:Mars
Robert Power, Esq., Queen-street, May Irsdr, Director Of the Great

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Britain Life Assurance-office.
Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Old Palace, Richmond
W. Pastow, Esq., Surrey-place
James Burness, Esq., Leyton, Essex
G. N. Wright, M.A.
John Alexander Bicknell, Esq., Brandon Cottage, Bristol, Director of
the South and Midlands' Junction Extension Railway
James Lees, Esq., Delph, Saddleworth, near Manchester, Director of
the Manchester Banking Company
(With power to add to their number.)
The names of ax influential Committee formed at Worcester and
Chester_wM be published in a few days.

DANMS.
The Commercial Bank of London
BNonizas--William Mullingar Higgins, EB4.
SOLICITORS.

Potter and Collingridge, 5, Baslnghall-street ; W. B. James, Esq.,
5, Basinghall-street.
SECRETARY—HiIton T. Jenkins, Esq.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Worcester—C. Geo, H. St. Patrick, Esq.
Whitchurch—James Bromfield, Esq.
Chester—John P. Maddock, Esq.
Wellington—George Marcy, Esq.
Shrewsbury—W. Cooper, Esq.

The geographical position of Worcester has caused its adeption as
the point where the broad guage trunk lines of the west are to have a
r,ommon terminus. From Oxford the Great Western Company hare
lecided on constructing a line of rail :—another project under the pa-
tronage of the same powerful direction is now before the public'
Uniting Worcester with Warwick ; and, that the broad gauge will bi;
(rattled from Worcester into Wales, and to the Irish packet stations
on that coast, is now no longer doubtful. This undertaking will com-
plete a series of great avenues of iron-road, whose ramification
from Worcester will render every part of the kingdom directly
accessible from that city.- Passing up the Severn Vale, where
it will disclose n succession of picturesque scenes, it readies
Stourport, and proceeding thence through Kidderminster, arrives at
Bewdley. This district is one of the chief seats of our carpet manu-
factures, and in the towns here named, exclusive of the intervenint
districts, upwards of 30,000 persons ars located. Leaving Stourbridge
a little to the east, the line is taken to gridgenorth, a town enjoying
an active inland trade, and possessing woollen manufactures and iron
works, that give employment to a population of about 15,000. Pass-
ing through or near to Much Wenlock, Broselet, and Madeley, from
which place there will be a branch to Shrewsbury, the line ascends
Colebrook Dale, and approaching in its course Wellington and Wed.
enters Whitchurch. From this central place a branch will be formed
to Norwich via Stoke, forming a junction with the Livellwl and
Crewe Railway. The trunk line will continue from Whitchtu-ch, and
passing through or near Maipas, have its northern terminus ;t1 tho
city of Chester.
In estimating the probable amount of revenue which the Worces-
ter and Chester Railway may be expected to yield, many sources of
profit present themselves, such are the dens:: population located along
the length of the Severn Vale, and the enriching works of industry
in which they are engaged. Amongst the latter way be mentioned
the China manufactories of Worcester ; the iron, coa2,. and earthen-
ware works at Broseley and other places ; the agricultOral produce
brought to Stourport market ; the inexhaustible fields of Mal and
mines of iron ore in the vicinity of Colebrook Dale, Ironbriagg, and
the districts to the east of Shrewsbury generally.
In calculating the cost of construction unusual advantages are also
obvious. The line traverses a district affording levels of several•
miles in extent, and with a surface pecUliarly favourable- The resi-
dent population, disappointed by the postponement of promised pro-
jects, have warmly espoused the present, and the labouring popula-
tion being familiar with mining operations, will be found better
qualified for the execution of railway works here than in many (Aber
localities.
As a link in the railway network of England, or as austharie
to existing or projected lines passing in various directions, fors
schemes hitherto proposed appear to afford greater, inducement
for investment, or a wider range of accommodation for traffic and.
travelling. This project constitutes a lengthened link in the
of chain
that will connect Liverpool with Bristol, the grand trunk the
Weat of England ;—its southern terminus, Worcester, is the half-
way station of the London and Port Dynntlaen broad gauge line :
by projected lines a direct communication will be afforded west-
ward to Swansea and Aberystwith, and, eastward, to Warwi and
Northampton, Cambridge, Peterborough, Harwich, Lynn, Lincoln.
ck
and Hull. nmedanlmithieesCmomay-
pany's acting engineer, Is
The line has been repea_hteodrleypt4Trtsd
that the rexallaZ
be laid on the natural level—that the gradients are in every in•
stance favourable—that the geological structure of the districts t,
be traversed is equally so, and that the want of such a line of cont..
mutiication is acknowledged by the Interests seated en its proposed
plans may be made, and forms
course.
Applications for prospectuses and
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esoffirs.w..Pßot.tejramanesd.
Cofonalipipgrilicadgtieo,nsolifocirtosrhsar, shares
es
°al s
o Esq., solicitor, 5, Basinghall-street ; of the local agents ; and of the
following gentlemen :7_

IMr. Samuel Banbury, 4, Angel-court,
London . •. • r. Whiston Powell, 12, Copthall-court; and
3lessrs. Peppercorn, 2, Old Broad-street
L verpool. ..... Alston and Gage.
Manchester r Messrs. Ilonghland and Leese, and Mr. W 11...
/ Ham Marshall.
Hun .......
.. [Messrs. Collinson and Flint, and James
Bowden
Messrs. Smith and Perfect, and
Leeds •"• • •
Stratford-on-Avon..Mr. William Bolton.
Exeter.....• Mr. Thomas Sanford.
Plymouth • .messrs. Hayward and Palmer.
Birmingham ...... Mr. Collis and Mr. John Wright.
Glasgow.......... Messrs. Taste and Co.
r Messrs. Robertson and Co., and
Edinburgh • / Messrs. M`Calltun and Co.
Huddersfield
Worcester .....
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Worcester and asset*?

Railway.
Gentlemen, —I request that you *ill allot to me /*bares of
201. each in this Company, and .I undertake to accept the swam as
to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any lees number that may be al-
lotted to me; and I undertake also to execute the Parliameatori
Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
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