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ASHBURTON, NEWTON, AND SOUTH
DEVON JUNCTION RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered according to the Act 7 and 8 Vic., c. 110.)
Capital 130,0001., in 5,200 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 10s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Right Hon. Lord Clinton, Heanton Satchville Hall, Devon
James Matheson, Esq., M.P. 13, Cleveland-row, London
Thomas Gill, Esq., M.P., Plymouth, Chairman of the South Devon
Railway Company
William Fox, Esq., Plymouth, Director of the South Devon Railway
Company
John Rundle, Esq., banker, Tavistock, Director of the South Devon
Railway Company
Charles Lyall, Esq., 33, Westbourne-terrace, London, Director of the
lush North Midland, Aylesbury and Thame, and Sambre, and
Meuse Junction Railway Cdmpanies
John Caunter, Esq., Waye House, Ashburton, a Magistrate for Devon
Charles Kelson, Esq., Hennons, Teignmouth, a Magistrate for Devon
Rev. Win. Marsh, Ashburton, Vicar of Ashburton
Sir W. H. Tonkin, Knight, Teignmouth, a Magistrate for Devon
Rev. F. H. Hele, Littlehempston, Rector of LittlOempston
W. A. Cockey, Esq., Portreeve of Ashburton
Thomas Pinsent, Esq., Greenhill Kingsteignton
Richard Caunter, Esq., merchant, Ashburton
J. F. P. Phillips, Esq., Gitcombe-house, Totnes
Capt. G. H. P. White, R.N., Buckfast Abbey, Buckfastleigh
Edward White, Esq., merchant, Ashburton
John Thuell, Esq., merchant, Forder-green, Broadhemptson
Solomon Tozer, Esq., Ashburton
John Hatherley, Esq., Alfred-place,' London
E. F. Bean, Esq., Ashburton
Elias Ford, Esq., merchant, Newton
H. H. Hele, Esq., Ashburton
Henry Caunter, Esq., merchant, Ashburton
Thomas Cousins, Esq., merchant, Ashburton
James Woodley, Esq.,Haishanger-house, Ashburton

1. B. Paige, Esq., Ashburton
W. R. Whiteway, Esq., merchant, Ashburton
Thomas Lyle, Esq., Ashburton.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS— Messrs. Burke, VenableS, and Pritt,
London.
BANEERS.
Messrs. Barclay and Co., London
Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., London
Devon and Cornwall Banking Company, Plymouth, Exeter,
and Newton
Messrs. Watts, Whiteway, and Co., Newton and Teignmouth
Messrs. Harris and Co., Naval Bank, Plymouth.
SOLICITORS—Mr. Tucker, Ashburton ; and Mr. G. Caunter, Ashburton.
This railway is intended to commence at or near Buckfastleigh,
and to join the South Dovon Railway at Ford, near Newton ; dis-
tance, ten miles.
This railway, by forming a direct communication with the great
trunk line of the county, will open for the manufacturing towns of
Ashburton and :Buckfastleigh, and the adjacent agricultural district,
the readiest access to the ports of Teignmouth and Torquay, and to
the important and increasing markets which these towns and the
other watering places on ihe south coast, as well as Newton, present
for the disposal of all kinds of agricultural produce.
Ashburton and the surrounding district, rich in mineral wealth,
only require a cheap and easy mode of transit to unfold ,their trea-
sures, which have hitherto been raised only sparingly, in conse-
quence of the expense of laud carriage.
Within the average distance of two miles of Ashburton are thirteen
lime kilns. at which are now burnt annually above 50,000 hogshead.;
of lime. Five &ate quarries, in some of which the slate is of the best
quality, and has received the approval of some of the first London
architects. And within the district which would derive benefit from
this railroad, are six tin and copper mines in work, and three more
are now about to be worked.

The manufactured goods of Ashburton and the adjacent district are
of very considerable value—the woollen manufacture alone gives em-
ployment to nearly 3,000 persons.
Large quantities of timber are annually felled and sent to the sea-
coast, from the wooded district at the back of Ashburton.

It has been ascertained that the number of persons travelling from
this district to and from the east of Ashburton, amounts to about one
thousand weekly.
The romantic scenery of the Dart, near Ashburton, now attracts
yearly a great influx of visitors. The opening of this railway would,
by bringing the banks of the Dart within easy access of Exeter, and
all the watering places on the southern coast, doubtless much Increase
the number. _ _ _

To the manufacturer and merchant, the formation of this railway
would afford a great boon, by establishing a cheap and easy transit
for their goods; to the agriculturist, the saving of one-seventh in the
present price of lime would offer a manifest advantage ; and on the
inhabitants of the district generally great benefit would be conferred
by the reduction of at least 25i. per cent. in the price of coal and other
articles.

The Provisional Committee, after careful inquiries as to the antici-
pated traffic, have reason to believe that the net return will pay a
handsome rate of interest on the capital required.
The population of the district to be benefited by this railway is
above 16,000
The line presents no,engineering difficulties.
The Directots of the South Devon Railway Company with the
authority of a general meeting of their Proprietors, have agreed to
take shares to a considerable amount, and are acting in cordial co-
operation with the Provisional Committee. The arrangements with
the South Devon Board embrace a pfovision for leasing the line on
its completion to that Company, and provide for the supervision of
the planning and construction of the line by Mr. Brunel.
The advantages of attracting to this undertaking the important
combination of interests represented by the South Devon Company
and its numerous alliances will be readily appreciated.

Power will be sought by the Act of Incorporation to allow interest
at 4/. per cent. per annum on all deposits and calls from the time of
payment until the opening of the line.
No liability will be incurred by any Shareholder beyond the amount
of his shares.

Applications for shares may be made to the Provisional Com-
mittee, at their office, East-street, Ashburton; or to the Solicitors,
Mr. Tucker, or Mr. George Caunter, Ashburton ; or to the following
Sharebrokers :—Messrs. B. and M. Boyd, New Bank-buildings, Lon-
don ; Messrs. Houghiand and Leese, Manchester ; Mr. Thomas For-
syth, Liverpool ; Mr. Anthony Lawrie, Liverpool ; Robert Allan
Esq., St. Andrew's-square, Edinburgh ; Mr. Pembroke, and Messrs:
May and Co., Exeter ; Mr. Luke Arnold, Bristol ; and Messrs. Hop-
wood and Palmer, Plymouth.
FORM OF APPLICATION.

To the Provisional Committee of the Ashburton, Newton, and South
Devon Junction Railway.

Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 251.
each in the above-named Railway, and I will accept the same or any
loss number allotted to me, and pay the deposit of 2/. 10s. per share
thereon, and sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers'
Agreement when required.
Dated the day of 1845.
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Reference

ASHBURTON, NEWTON, AND SOUTH
DEVON JUNCTION RAILWAY.
No Application for Shares in the above Railway will be received
after FRIDAY, the 10th October.
By order of the Provisional Committee,
.R. TUCKER Solicitors.
G. CAUNTER,

COVENTRY, BANBURY, AND OXFORD
DIRECT JUNCTION RAILWAY,
-riramEcimsta to the Oxford and Rugby Railway, at or mar Southaro,
Capital 200,0001., in Shares o I . eac .
Deposit 2/. 2s.'od. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Sir F. Shuckburgh, Bart., Shuckburgh-park, Warwickshire
Henry Thomas Chamberlayne, Esq., Stoneythorpe, Warwickshire,
one of the Lords of the Manor of Southam
Sir F. W. L. Dwarrls, Knight, London
Henry Lilley smith, Esq., Southam
The Rev. Charles Palmer, Lightholme Rectory, Warwickshire, Di-
rector of the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Company
Thomas Williams Oldham, Esq., Southam
Richard William Raun, Esq., Wormleighton, Warwickshire

Richard Allen, Esq., Long Ichington
William Cotterill, Esq., Walsall, Staffordshire, Town Clerk of Walsall
The Rev. J. D. Winslow, Napton Vicarage, Warwickshire
Dr. Middleton, Leamington, Director of the Coventry, Nuneaton,

Birmingham, and Leicester Railway Company
Joseph Walter King Eyton, Esq., Leamington
Wm. Edward Boy es, Esq., Alkerton, near Banbury, Director of the
Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Company, and the Ox-
ford, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway Company
Henry Corbett Wilson, Esq., Broughton-castle, near Banbury

Dr. liawkins, Farnborough, near Banbury
William Gulliver, Esq., Bloxham, near Banbury
John Haddon, Esq., Leamington, Director of the Birmingham and
Oxford Junction Railway Company, and the Coventry, icun.
eaton, Birmingham, and Leicester Railway Company
William Cottle, Esq., Leamington, Director of the Coventry, Nun_
eaton, Birmingham, and Leicester Railway Company
Major M`Mahon, Leamington
Dr. Henry Homer, Leamington
John Meredith, Esq., Leamington, Chairman of the Town Commission
Richard Spraggett, Esq., Southam

F. Smith. Esq., Foutham
William Middleton, Esq., Leamington, Director of the Coventry,
Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester Railway Company
Walter Hands, Esq., Napton, near Southam
Smith Tibbitta, Esq., Hennock, Devonshire
Robert Wheeler, Esq., Cliff-house, Warwick

G. T. Smith, Esq., Leamington
rd Cooper, Esq., Henley-in-Arden, Director of the South Staf-
for shire Junction Railway
John lark, Esq., Leamington
James Loveday, Esq., Warwick

Dr. S. B. Bucknill, Rugby
Robert Welchman, Esq., Eathorpe, near Southam
George Mallabar, E.q., Daventry, Director of the London, Weedon,

Warwick, and Kidderminster Railway Company
Dr. Lee, Day entry, Director of the London, Wcedon, Warwick, and

Kidderminster Railway Company
Edward Thompson, Esq., Daventry
William Molds, Esq., Stavertor.
Dr. H. F. Burman, Heißey-in-Arden
Richard Harris, Esq., Leicester, Director of the COventrY, Nuneaton,

Birmingham, and Leicester Railway Company
William Deakin Whitehouse, Esq., Hardwick House, Studley

W. W. Pell, Esq., Hullesthorpe, Leicestershire
D. G. Squirhill, Esq., Leamington
Henry Blenkinsop, Esq., Warwick
R. Hartley Kennedy, Esq., Leamington, Director of the Coventry,
Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester Railway
Wm. Bradley, Esq., Manor Oakes, Sheffield, Director of the Man-
chester and Sheffield Railway, Chairman of the Direct Western
Railway, of the Isle of Ely, and of the St. Alban's and Hereford
David Wheateroft, Esq., Buckland Hollow, Derbyshire
Sir Henry Webb, Bart.
The Hon. Sir Dudley Kinnaird Pulteney
Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London, London and Cheltenham
J. IL Thorne, Esq., Director of the Coventry, Nuneaton, Binning-

ham, and teice-sier Railway.
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Westbourne-house, Sheffield, Director of the
Direct Western, Leeds, Carlisle, &c., Railway
Thomas Asline Ward, Esq., Town Regent, Sheffield

Sir William Lowthropp, /fall

H. Bright, Esq., Hull
Henry Bellahy, Esq., Sheriff of York
Henry Lidgard, Esq., Wood-street, London
Jeremiah Clark, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's Man-
chester and London Railway
(With power to add to their number).
BANKERS—Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., London.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Wright and Welchman, Southam and Leamington

John Chineri, Esq., Leamington.
This railway is intended to branch out of the Oxford and Rugby
line at Southern, and proceed in a direct course to Coventry, there
to form a junction with the lines diverging from that city to the
Trent Valley Railway, at Nuneaton, and to Leicester, Burton•upon-
Trent, and ➢ianchester.

%The main objects of this railway'are —First, to complete an im-
portant link in the chain of communication between Manchester and
the improving port of Southampton by the nearest possible route,
the great and increasing traffic between which two important parts
of the kingdom this railway must necessarily embrace.
Secondly. It will afford important local advantages by Connecting
the city of Coventry and neighbourhood (containing a population of
upwards of 50,000 inhabitants), and the valuable and extensive
manufacturing, mineral, and agricultural districts, particularly the
extensive coal fields, stone quarries, and limeworks of Warwickshire,
Leicestershire, Derbyshire, and Staffordshire, with Southam, Ban-
bury, Woodstock, Oxford, Southampton, and the intermediate and
surrounding country, affording to those several districts all the ad-
vantages of direct railway communication, in lieu of the present cir-
cuitous route by canal. It is confidently expected that the local
traffic alone, independently of the vast through traffic from Man-
chester to Southampton, will be amply remunerative to the share-
holders, whilst the great reduction which this railway will effect in
the price of coals and other mineral productions must prove highly
advantageous to the public.

The survey of the line is in progress, and the country is unusually
favourable.

Application to Parliament for an Act of Incorporation will be
made In the next session. The Provisional Directors reserve to
themselves the right of amalgamating or making arrangements with
other companies. The usual power will be taken in the Act of Par-
liament, which will be applied for next session, to allow interest at
41. per cent. on the deposit, and the liability of shareholders will be
limited to the amount of their subscriptions.

Applications for prespectuses and shares may be made to the
solicitors, or to the following sharebrokers :—"Aressm. P. W. Thomas
and Son, 50, Threadneedle-street, London ; Brown and Clarke, or
J. Merredew, Coventry ; Forsyth and Pritchard, or T. Crewdson,
Liverpool ; Johnstone and Bradley, or S. W. Graves, Manchester;
Lane, Birmingham ; White and Son, or Mr. T. W. Powell, Leaming-
ton ..George Edwards and Son, or Luke Arnold, Bristol ; W. Lee,
or nail Brothers and Co., Cheltenham ; Elgood and Harrison,
Leicester ; William Miles, Worcester ; Freeman and Son, North-
ampton; Hugh Munro and Co., Edinburgh; George Browne,
Glasgow ; Bruce and Symes, Dublin ; and Peed and Son, Not.
tingham.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the,—Provlsiolial Committee of the Coventry, Banbury, and Oxford