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London, England, 1845-10-17 00:00:00

Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continuation
and Holyhead Junction, and West Midland and South Midland and
Oxford Extension Railways •
John Ostler, Esq., Director of the Hell and Barnsley, and Leeds and
Carlisle Railways
Robert Oxley, Esq., M.D., Pontefract
George Osgood, Esq., Raymond-buildings, Gray's Inn
Charles 'Frederick Palgrave; Esq., Bedford
Bennett Pell, Esq., 12, Finsbury-place North
W. Perfect, Esq., Monkhill; near Pontefract
John Phillips, Esq., Mayor of Pontefract •
George Parbcry, Esq., Mansfield-house, Russell-square
William Patterson, Esq., Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire
Robert Power, Esq., Director of the Great Britain Life Assurance
Society
Thomas Ingham Raynor, Esq., B:rstal, Leeds, Director of the Leeds
and West Riding Junction, and the Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railways •
John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Birming-
ham Direct, Leicester, Iron and Dove Valley Railways
Edward Rawlins, Esq., Bedford
Robert Richards, Esq., Director of the West Midland Railway
John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Bycullah-house, Enfield, Managing
Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
James Robson, Esq., Tanshelf, Magistrate for the Borough of Pon-
tefract
Frederick Redden, Esq., Bedford
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester,
and Weymoath Junction, the bring, Reading, and Basingstoke,
and the Direct Western Railway
George Robinson, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Bainsley
Junction, and of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railways
John Richardson, Esq., Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate,
the East and West Yorkshire, and the Midland and Thirsk Junc-
tion Railways
Thomas Routlidge, Esq., Alderman, Pontefract
James Russell, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director of
the Great. Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton, of the Tring,
Reading, and Basingstoke Railways
Edward Sankey, Esq., Canterbury
Henry Savage, Esq., Director of the Irving, Reading, and Basing-
stoke Railway
Benjamin Shaw, Esq., Kilburn Priory, Director of the Charnel
and Blythe Valleys Railways
J. E. Sided, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and
of the Leeds, York, and Midland Railways
William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Director
of the South Midland Junction Railway, &c. &c.
George Walker Smith, Esq., Horbury-hall, Sheffield, Director of
the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Smith, Esq., M.D., 30, North-street, Leeds,Director of the
Leeds and York, and Liverpool and Leeds Railways
Joseph Smithson, Esq., Kirkless Mills, near Halifax
John Sanders, Esq., Bedford
J. W. Scriven, Esq., Throstlenest, near Otley, Director of the
Leeds, York, and Midland Junction Railway
Richard Shaw, Esq., Tulledge, near Burnley, Director of the Keigh-
ley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railway
James Henry Simpson, Esq., M. 8., Pontefract
Joshua Annable Skidmore, Esq., St. John's-place. Wakefield
William Starkey, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Sheffield, Wort-
ley, Silkstone, and Wakefield, and the Leeds and York Railways
William Stewart, Esq., Horbury, near Wakefield
George Eaton Stanger, Esq., Nottingham
Samuel Herrick Surplice, Esq., Beeston, Notts
John Streets,.Esq., merchant, Spring Field-house, Sandiacre, Derby-
shire
William Surplice, Esq., ttingham
Samuel James Sykes, Esq., Hull
James Templer, Esq., Brixton-rise, Director of the Derby, Uttoxeter,
and Stafford Railway
Thomas S. Trapp, Esq., banker, Bedford
John Best Trapp, Esq., Redford
Samuel Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street and Gorbals, Hall, Di-
rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway
Thomas 'Putney, Esq., Park-lodge, near Halifax
William Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street and Gorbals, Hull
Joseph Francis Tempest, .Esq., F.S.A., the Mount, Ackworth
Charles Vickers, Esq., Pontefract, Director of the Manchester, Hud-
dersfield, and Great Grimsby Railway
Wm. Watson,Esq , Daybrook, Nottinghamshire, Director of Amber-
gate, Nottingham and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
Samuel Warburton, Esq., Hunslet, Leeds, Director of the Wakefield
and llarrogate Railway
The Rev. Richard Whitelock, M.A., Saddleworth, Magistrate
,for
the West Riding of Yorkshire •
Joseph Whitaker, Esq., Ramsdale, Nottinghamshire
William White, Esq., Bedford
John Williams, Esq., M.D., Magistrate for Yorkshire, Director of
the York, Hull, and East and West Riding Junction Railway
Abraham Wood, Esq., Rochdale, F.R.C.S.
Joseph Wyles, Esq., Grantham, Director of the Amber-gate, Not-
tingham, and Boston, an Eastern Junction Railway
David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland-hollow, Derbyshire, Director of
the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, and Direct Birmingham and
Leicester Railways
William Williams, Esq. Royal Foundry, Bedford
Charles Waite, Esq., 3;01d Burlington-street, and Willesdon-house, .
Middlesex
John Wheelton. Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Willett, Esq., Bradford
The Rev. 11. Burdett Worthington, Bedford
G. N. Wright, M.A., Coed y Celyn, Denbighshire, and L ns ale-
square. London, Director of the Thames Valley Railway
George Yates, Esq., merchant, Halifax
George Witt, Esq., F.R.S., Direetor of the Bedford, London, and
Birmingham Railway, and Aldermand of Bedford
George Gillett, Esq., 2, Grsovenor-gate, Hyde-park
(With power to add to their number).
ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF—Sir John Macneil, LL.D., and F.R.S.
ACTING ENGINEER—WiIIiam Mullingar Higgins, Esq., C.E.
LONDON SOLICITORS.
J. R. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-court.
Owen Gray, Esq. 1 25, Great Tower-street.
J. B. Midge, Esq.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Leeds—Charles Naylor, Esq., and
Pontefract—Henry John Coleman, Esq.
Rotherham—John Oxley, Esq., and John Wright Potter, Esq.
East Retford—Messrs. Mee, Rigsby, and Mee.
Nottingham—Messrs. Fox and Butlin.
Oakhain—Henry Hough, Esq.
Kettering—Thomas Marshall, Esq.
Bedford—Ezra Eagles, Esq.
SECRETARY —J. B. Owens, Esq.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT..-J. M. Widdicombe, Esq.
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co.
Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Company
Doncaster '1
The Yorkshire Banking Company.
Pontefract
The object of this railway is to connect, in the most direct course,
the important and increasing manufacturing town of Leeds with the
metropolis, the want of which has long been felt, and is too univer-
sally acknowledged to need any comment, and it is under this con-
viction that this important undertaking, atter several minute exa-
minations of the country throughwhich it will pais, has been brought
forward.
The proposed line will commence at the jniection of the Manchester
and Leeds, and York and North Midland Railways, near Wakefield,
and will terminate by means of a junction with the Eastern Coun-
ties Railway, at Bedford (to which place it is the intention of that
Company to extend their line in the ensuing session of Parliament),
and by thus availing itself as far as possible of the existing railways,
will complete the most direct and least expensive trunk line, from
London to Leeds, York, and Hull. It will pass in its route within an
available distance of Wakefield, Pontefract, Doncaster, Rotherham,
East Redford, Nottingham, Newark, Grantham, Melton Mowbray,
Oaklitun, and Stamford.
The importance of such a line is obvious, both from the nature of
its cow se (embracing, as it does, a most extensive population within
its limits), as also from the absence of any direct communication
for the conveyance of passengers and merchandise.
By the construction of this railway, railway communication to
London will be given to Peterborough and Leicester (by means of
the Systole and Peterborough Railway), to Newark and Nottingham,
(by the Nottingham and Lincoln line(, and to Shenield and Gains-
borough, )by the Sheffield and Gainsborough line), by a much shorter
route than by any existing railways.
Independently of the advantages offered to the towns in the seve-
ral counties through which this line will pass, the line in itself, con-
sidered as a direct trunk line between London and Leeds, is sufficient
to justify its formation, it being well known that the existing traffic
between these two places would produce such a reture on the capital
required, as to admit of a dividend equal to that of any railway in
operation; but when it is borne in mind that a company is being
formed for the purpose of connecting Glasgow with ;Leeds by
means of a junction with the York and Carlisle Railway, no better
line can be presented to the public, as it will not only effect a direct
communication from Glasgow and the western parts of Scotland to
London, but would also connect Edinburgh and the eastern parts of
Scotland, as well as Durham and Newcastle (by the York and North
Midland, and Great North of England Railway s) with the metropo-
lis, which would be considerably shorter titan the accommodation '
offered by any other company ; and when cost of construction is con-
sidered, there cannot be a doubt but that preference would be given
to the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway.
The fact of the Eastern Counties Railway being connected by a
branch line with the East and West India Docks on the river
Thames, and the Railway Company leaving recently leased for 999
years the extensive pepper warehouses belonging to those docks,
which are capable of receiving 12,000 tons of goods, together with
wharfs adjoining, where the shipment and trans-shipment of goods
from all parts of the world can take place, is a most important fea-
ture in favour of the direct communication from the manufacturing
towns of Glasgow and Leeds offered by the Great Leeds and London
Direct Railway and, by branch railways to the main trunk line,
through which all goods from the manufacturing districts could be
conveyed at once to these warehouses for shipment, thereby avoiding
the present delay and expense of cartage, and in reality establishing
an almost direct and invaluable connexion between the rivers Clyde
and Thames.
It has been ascertained that there are no engineering difficulties,
that the w irks will be easy, and the gradients remarkably good, and
that it will not materially interfere with any ornamental property.
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.
It is proposed to take power in the Bill to allow interest at 4 per
cent. per annum on all calls until the opening of the line, and also
to extend the line to Hertford on the Eastern Counties lbw, in the
event of that Company not prosecuting their lino to Bedford.
BROKERS.
London—Messrs. Marten and Heseltitte, 9, Finch-lane
Leeds—Messrs. Hopp and Co.
Liverpool—Messrs. Joseph King and Son
Hull—Messrs. Flint and Tootal
larnnehester—Messrs. Cardwell and Sons
Bradford—Mr. Josiah Scholefield
Edinburgh—Mr. Charles Couper, 30, St. Andrew's-square

GREAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT
RAILWAY.
The Managing Committee of this Railway hereby give notice that
they are now proceeding in the Allotment of the shares in the above
undertaking, and that all the Letters of Allotment will be issued in
the ensuing week.

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Temporary Offices, Adelaide-place, J. B. OWEN, Secretary.
London-bridge.

GREAT LEEDS AND LONDON DifiEuT
RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management of this Direct Railway beg to ex-
press regret at the delay in issuing their Letters of Allotment, which
has been solely occasioned through the unprecedented number of
applications for shares to which they hare been required to give
consideration, and which has thrown upon them some very exten-
Sive labours, from which, however, they are happy to say they will
shortly be relieved, as the Letters of Allotment are now in the course
of preparation, and will all be sent to their different destinations by
the evening post of to-morrow. The Committee also much regret
their inability to make allotments to a very numerous amount of
applicants of unexceptionable repute; but tkey have, in every in-
stance, endeavoured to arrive at their decisions in a manner best cal-
culated to promote alike the interests of the public and the various
shareholders and promoters of this very important project.
J. B. OWEN, Secretary.
Temporary Offices, Adelaide-place, London-bridge,
. 16th October, 1845.

EEDS AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.
The Committee of Allotment has completed the task com-
mitted to •them, and the Letters of Allotment will be posted this
evening. The Committee of Management regret that the number of
applications for shares (exceeding one million in amount) have made
it a very difficult matter to arrange, and they trust that the
numerous and respectable claimants for shares, which it was:impos-
sible for 'the Allotment Committee to accommodate, will take this
into their consideration, and assign the failure of their reoest
to this reason solely.
WM. BERESFORD, Chairman.
Offices of the Compaay, Basinghall-street,

Oct:15:1845.

GREAT WESTERN, BRE N TFO RD, and
CENTRAL TERMINUS JUNCTION RAILWAY, from
the vicinity of West Drayton, through Hounslow, Brantford, Ham-
mersmith, Kensingtsn, Chelsea, and Westminster, to a Central
Terminus, near Charing-Cross.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Offices, 53, Charing-cross.
Capital, 850,u00/., in 42,500 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Earl of Devon
Vernon Abbott, Esq., 70, Gower-street
Philip Anslnither, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment

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Railway Junction Company
Ilenjaiiiiii John Armstrong, Esq., Southall, Magistrate for Middlesex
John Auldjo, Esq., Noel House, Kensington
Henry Pratt Barlow, Esq., 24, Kensington-square
Edward Oliver Benson, Esq., Hounslow
William Sprott Boyd, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment
Railway Junction Company
Thomas Brainall, Esq., Deputy Chairman ef,the Leicester and Tam-
worth Railway
Sir John Macpherson P.rackenbury
Sir Archer Denman Crott, Bart., Director of the Thames Embank-
ment Railway Junction Company
Major John T. Croft, Deputy Chairman of the Chester and Manches-
ter Railway
John Chevalier Cebbold,:Esq., Chairman of the Eastern .11141011 Rail
way
W:liain Cumming, Esq,, North Bank, Regent's Park
George Cooper, Esq., Brentford
George James Stredwick Camden, Esq., Hounslow
Charles Downes, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
J. Fisher, Esq., Isleworth
Major David Fitzgerald, Valentin, county of Kerry
Captain Forbes, R.N., Forest, Windsor
Sir Andrew Pellatt Green, R.N., K.
Ii
James Montgomery, Esq., Brentford
John Bovv'yer Nichols, Esq., liammersmith
The on, Colonel Phipps, Norwood-grQm
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William Simpson rater. Esq., Director of the South and Midlinad
Railway
Henry -Pownall, Esq., Spring-grove, Hounslow, Magistrate for
Middlesex
John F, Fownall, Est, Spring grove, Hounslow