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London, England, 1845-09-10 00:00:00

(PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.

CORNWALL andDEVON CENTRAL RAIL-
WAY, from EXETER to FALMOUTH and PENZANCE,
with branches to Plymouth, Tavistock, Bideford, Barnstaple, and St.
Austell, forming,[ n continuation of the London and South Western—
London, Salisbury, and Yeovil—and Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester
Railways, a direct line from London to Exeter, Falmouth and
Penzance.

Capital, 3,000,0001. in 120,000 Shares of 251. eacb.
Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
With power to decrease the capital to 2,000,0001., should the bratrebee
be carried out by auxiliary Companies.
PROVISIONAL CONIMPIR.

The Meet Noble the Marquis of Wiiicheilier, •ii1111)011 }louse, Emits,
Chairman of the London, Salisbury, and Yeovil Railway Company
The Right Hon. Lord Vivian Glynn, Cornwall
The Right Hon. Lord Arundell, Wardour Castle, Wilts, on the Pro-
visional Committee of the London, Salisbury, and Yeovil Railway
The Right Hon. Lord Bridport, Cricket Lodge, on the Provisional
Committee of the London, Salisbury, and Yeovil Railway Company
The Right Hon. Lord Carteret, Ampthill
The Hon. W. Ashley, Stable-yard, St. James's, Deputy Chairman of
the London, Salisbury, and Yeovil Railway Company
The Hon. W. E. Fitzmaurice, M.P., Chesbam-street, London, en the
Provisional Committee of the London, Salisbury, and Yeovil Rail-
way Company
Sir W. L. S. Trelawney, Bart., Harewood, Lord-Lieutenant of the
county of Cornwall
Francis Rodd, Esq., Trebartha Ball, High Sheriff of the county of
Cornwall
Sir Joseph Sawle Ci, Sawle, Bart., Penrioe, Cornwall
Sir Henry Paul Seale, Bart., Mount Boon, Dartmouth, on the Pro-
visional Committee of the Dartmouth, Torbay, and Exeter Rail-
way Company
Sir Warwick H. Tonkin, Teignmouth, on the Provisional Committee
of the Dartmouth, Torbay, and Exeter Railway Company
Edward W. W. Pendarves, Esq., Pendarves, M.P. for West Corn-
wall, Chairman of Quarter Sessions for Cornwall
George Moffat, Esq., M.P. for Dartmouth, 85, Eaton-square, on the
Provisional Committee of the Dartmouth, Torbay, and Exeter
Railway
Hanway Plumridge, Esq., M P. for Falmouth, Chester-square, London
William Taylor Copeland, Esq., M.P., Lincoln's Inn-fields, London
J. H. Tremayne, Esq., Heligau, St. Austell, Chairman of Quarter
Sessions for Cornwal
J. K. Lethbridge, Esq., Tregeare, Launceston, Chairman of Quarter
Sessions for Cornwall
The Mayor of Exeter, Chairman of the Exeter, Yeovil, and Dor-
chester Railway Company
The Mayor of Launceston
The Mayor of Bodmin
W. H. Arundell, Esq., Trebursye, Cornwall, Magistrate fbr Cornwall
Edward Archer, Esq., Trelaske, Launceston, Magistrate for Cornwall
T. 1L Avery, Esq., Delabole, Boscastie
W. Arming, Esq., Walnut House, Exeter, on the Provisional Com-
mittee of the Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester Railway Company
James Henry Attwood, Esq., Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square
W. Braddon, Esq., Litton Park, Devon, Magistrate for Devon
R. G. Bennett, Esq., Tresillian House, Truro, Magistrate for Cornwall
John Braddon, Esq , Tregleith, Cornwall:
S. J. Capper, Esq., Adelaide-place, London-bridge
William Chadwick, Esq., Montague-square, London, Chairman of the
Richmond Railway Company
John Chapman, Esq., Blackheath Park, London, on the Provisional
Committee of the London, Salisbury, and Yeovil Railway Company
The Chisholm, Chapel-street, Grosvenor-square, London, on the Pro-
visional Committee of the London, Salisbury, and Yeovil Railway
Company
F. F. Clossman, Esq., Mincing-lane, London
Richard Davy, Esq., Redruth, Magistrate for Cornwall
W. B. Davy, Esq., Topsham, Devon, Magistrate for Exeter, on
the Provisional Committee of the Dartmouth, Torbay, and Exeter
Railway
Stephen Davy, Esq., Redrnth, Magistrate for Cornwall
Baldwin Fulford, jun., Esq., of Great Fulford, Devon, Chairman of
the Quarter Sessions
Edward Goldsmid, Esq., 41, Upper Harley-street, Chairman of the
Globe Insurance Company
Day Le Grice, Esq., Penzance, Magistrate for Cornwall
Goldsworthy Gurney, Esq., Woodleigh, Launceston, Magistrate for
Cornwall
Edward Gard, Esq., Exeter, on the ProVisional Committee of the
Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester Railway Company
Mr. Sergeant Gazelee, Cambridge-square, London
Captain Hext, R.N.' Tredethy, Bodmin, Magistrate for Cornwall
D. P. Iloblln, Esq.,Colquite, Bodmin, Magistrate for Cornwall
James Harvey, Esq., St. Day
J. D. Hanis, Esq., of Rayne, Launceston
Richard Harvey, Esq., St. Day
Captain Hulme, ILE., Exeter, on the Provisional Committee of the
Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester Railway Company
Joseph Hodge, Esq., Truro
Rev. Thomas Hockin Kingdon, Pyeworthy, Devon, Magistrate for
-Devon
J. S. Togo, Esq., Coran
William Peter Kempe, Esq., Truro
J. J. Kinloch, Esq. GiouceSter-road, Hyde-park, London, on the
Provisional Committee of the London, Salisbury, and Yeovil Rail-
way Company
Charles Kelson, Esq., Teignmonth, Magistrate for Devon, on the Pro-
visional Committee of the Dartmouth, Torbay, and Exeter Railway
Company
John Masterman, jun., Esq., banker, London
William-Michell, Esq., M.D., Bodmin
H. Mallett, Esq., of Ash
General Napier, H.E.I.C.S.
John Parsons, Esq., Falmouth
John Parsons, Esq., R.N., Falmouth
Thomas Pearse, Esq., Launceston, Magistrate for Cornwall
Edward Prior, Esq., Berry Hill Villa, Brixham, on the Provisional
Committee of the Dartmouth, Torbay, and Exeter Railway Com-
pany
Captain George Probyn, Woodford, Essex, Director of the London
Assurance Company
J. H. Peter, Esq., Harlyn, Padstow
Rev. Charles Rodd, North Hill, Cornwall
Coryndon Rowe, Esq., M.D., Launceston
William Carpenter Rowe, Esq., 3, Little Ryder-street, St. James's,
London
Edward Shearm, Esq., Stratton
Joseph Shephard, Esq., Exeter, on the Provisional Committee of the
Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester Railway Company
C. B. Sawle, Esq., Penrice, Magistrate for Cornwall
Rev. IL A. Simcoe, Penheale, Launceston
M. C. Seton, Esq., Malda 11111, London
Captain Spett igue, R.N., Falmouth
John Taylor, Esq., 2, Duke-street, Adelphi, London
John Vowler, Esq., Parnacott, Devon, Magistrate for Devon
Humphrey Willyams, Esq., Carnanton, St Columb, Magistrate for
Cornwall
W. J. Watts, Esq., banker, Teignmouth, on the Provisional Com-
mittee of the Dartmouth, Torbay, and Exeter Railway Company
ENGINEER—Joseph Locke, Esq.
RESIDENT ENGINEER—MI. Richard Thomas.
SOLICITORS.

Messrs. Bull and Tilley, Falmouth
Messrs. Johnston, Farquhar, and Leech, 65, Moorgate-street, London
Messrs. Ellicombes and Mr. John Daw, Exeter
INTERIM SECRETARY—Lewis Crumble, ESC/.
BANNERS.

Messrs. Masterman and Co., London
Messrs. Williams, Hodge, and Co., Truro and Camborne
DISTRICT RANICIRS.

Messrs. Sanders and Co., Exeter
Messrs, Milford, Snow, and Co. Exeter
West of England and South Wales District Bank, Exeter
The Devon and Cornwall Bank, Exeter
The National Provincial Bank of England, Exeter
Naval Bank, Plymonth
Messrs. Hodge and Norman, Devonpori
Messrs. Gill and Rundle, Tavistock
The Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple
The Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Torrlagton
The Devon and Cornwall Bank, Launceston
Messrs. Gill and Rundle, Launceston
Messrs. Robins; Foster, and Co., Launceston
Messrs. Batten, Came, and Marrack, Penzance
Messrs. Bolithos, Sons, and Co., Penzance.
PROSPECTUS.

The Bill for making a Railway from Plymouth to Falmouth, and
the West Cornwall Railway Bill, having been both rejected by Par-
liament, and the projected South Devon Railway from Exeter to
Plymouth pursuing only a winding and precarious course along the
margin of the Southern Channel, the great area of Devonshire west
of Exeter, and the whole of the county of Cornwall, are now desti-
tute of railway accommodation.
The object of the present undertaking is to provide an efficient sys-
tem of railway communication for the whole of this Western Penin-
sula ; and as the waste of capital and time, involved in the circuitous
route by Bristol, is greatly complained of, the leading and indispens-
able feature of the project will be to obtain the most direct, punctual,
and economical line between London, Falmouth, and Penzance. As
far as Exeter, that project is already in the hands of the " London

and South-Western," the "London, Salisbury, and Yeovil Junction,"
and the " Yeovil, Dorchester, and Exeter" Companies. It was th:s
Central Line, westward, which the Committee of the House of Lords,
in the Wilts and Somerset Railway Bill, in the late session, obliged
the Great Western Railway Company to pledge themselves not to
oppose ; and which they speak of in their report " as the line which
the best interests of the country require, and which must eventually
be carried direct to Falmouth, the most westerly port is the
Channel. 4
Under these auspices, and with this strong expression from the
Legislature, it may be considered that a continuous line of railway,
from London, through Salisbury, to Yeovil and Exeter, no less than
thirty miles shorter than the devious course of the Great Western
Railway, is already morally secured. In order, therefore, to com-
plete this great national project thus suggested by the House of
Lords, it remains only to extend this direct Exeter line, without
change of gauge or terminus, direct to Falmouth and Penzance.
The saving in actual distance thus effected, between London and
Falmouth, as compared with the Great Western and its extensions,
amounts to more than fifty miles; whilst the time also saved by
avoiding the passage of the Hamoaze, to say nothing of all other
difficulties involved In that project, was estimated, in the recent in-
quiry before Parliament, as equal to a saving of fifteen or twenty
miles more.

Bearing in mind, therefore, the geographical position of Falmouth
and Penzance, especially the great advantages of the former, as the
most Westernly station for our naval and packet service, and as af-
fording a most secure harbour of ieftige in the event of war ; and re-
membering, too, that this must eventually become the highway to
the Mediterranean, the East and West Indies, and America, the im-
portance to the Admiralty and Lloyd's, of such a direct railway, with
a continuous and efficient electric telegraph, can hardly be over-rated.
The central district from Exeter, westward, has been recently re-
surveyed, and has bten found to afford a main trunk line, with good
locomotive gradients, attainable without engineering difficulties, and
at a reasonable expense ; the general course being sear or through
Crediton, Bow, llatherlei,gh, North Tawton, Okehampton, Launces-
ton, Camelford, Bodmin, St. Columb, St. Austell, (by means of a
branch,) Truro, and Penryn, to Falmouth ;—at Truro, an extension
line through West Cornwall will diverge to Chacewater, Redruth,
Camborno, Ilayle, (with a branch to St. Ives,) Marazion, and Pen-
zance.
This extension runs for more than 30 miles through the most popu
lous and flourishing part of Cornwall; and the Tables of the recently
rejectly West Cornwall Bill showed an existing traffic, through that
district, of 101. per cent. after deducting working expenses. But as
the constructing and working this line by a separate company would
be productive of unnecessary expense and inconvenience to the public,
the line to Penzance, as well as to Falmouth, will form an integral
portion of the main work under one and the same management.
From Truo, eastward, the main line will pass several important
mines ; and near Bodmin will throw out a branch through the China
slay district to St. Austell, and its populous raining neighbourhood.
It wffialso avail itself of the railways now in process of construction
from Newunay on the north, and Par on the southern Channel ;
whilst a connexion with the already constructed railway from Bod-
min to Wadebridge, will open, through the port of l'adstow, the best
communication between Cork, the south of Irdsgfl, and London.
Advancing farther, an opportunity will occur ef efilleilishing a traffic
with the well-known Delabole Slate Quarries on the one hand, and the
flourishing Caradon Mines on the other ; whilst the sand supplied by
the Bude Canal, and the lime which abounds in the neighbourhood
ef Launceston, will form the subject of most considerable transport
into the highly improvable agricultural districts westward and east-
ward.
Passing onward into Devonshire, a breach will be thrown out from
the main line to the port of Bideford, thus opening, for the mineral
produce of Wales, a market in Central Devon and Cornwall, which
are destitute of coal ; and another branch will diverge southward by
Tavistock to Plymouth, thus affording the most direct communica-
tion between those towns and Exeter. This branch being also
accessible from Launceston will open for the north and West of Corn-
wall, and for Falmouth, a line to Plymouth, in point of time, shorter
than the lately projected line across the Hamoaze from Plymouth to
Falmouth. Should the traffic, nevertheless, be found to justify an-
other branch from a point noar Bodmin, through Liekeard, to Ply-
mouth, such a branch may and will be constructed.
Arriving within fourteen miles of Exeter, the main line will be
joined from the north by a direct line from Ilfracombe and Barn-
staple to Exeter, and about seven miles further on by the Dartmouth,
Brixhain, Torbay, and Exeter line, an amalgamation of which two

lines is now under consideration, thus affording to these two friendly
companies a direct communication from north to south, from the
Bristol to the English Channel, and carrying their traffic on one com-
mon trunk, on to one common terminus, with the Yeovil line at
Exeter.

The inspection of a map will better show the importance of this
comprehensive scheme, which overspreads the surface of Devon and
Cornwall, and leaves little to be desired to give full value and effect
to objects of such importance.

The supply and demand created by this large area,—its population,
amounting to more than 600,000,—its Ports, situate on both Chan-
nels,—its Fisheries, Mining, Commercial, and Agricultural advan-
tages,—its exports of Corn, Wool, and Cattle,—its probable con-
sumption of Coal, Manure, and general supplies,—were; fully
gone into in the recent inquiry before the House of Lords, and forcibly
require increased facilities, and diminished cost of transport. The
general evidence, also, given in that House, showed a good remune-
rative existing traffic, without any each increase as may reasonably
be expected from a well-digested system of Branches ; and when the
further increase in passenger and general traffic, east and west, is
taken into consideration, which must necessarily arise from bringing
Falmouth, its harbour and foreign relations, and Penzance, with its
much-sought climate and early markets, so much nearer to the Me-
tropolis, and the northern and eastern parts of England than can
possibly be accomplished by any other devisable railway communi-
cation ; and when it is also borne in mind, that from the Peninsular
form of the county of Cornwall, this line, when established, can have
no competitor, it is not too much to assert that this project offers a
very eligible opportunity for the investment of capital.
The strong feeling in favour of a central line, evinced by public
meetings and petitions from every part of the county of Cornwall
and West Devon ; the support of Noblemen, Magistrates, Merchants,
Mine-owners, and Agriculturists, in the recent-struggle : the numerous
and strong assurances of support already received from the landowners
and general interests along the line ; and the hearty concurrence
appliedo for
an t he which
ainnedmcbe"
successful o-operatlon of the Associated Companies, the names of whose
appear in the; Provisional Committee,'. leave no doubt
of the
The Act to be
issue f ther applicationwill contain
Par-
liament in the next session.
usu'alTiliclableisems fa:relitmo limiting
the liabilities of Shareholders to t
and for allowing interest at 41. Cent.per per annum, on all Calls,
from the time of payment until the opening of the line.
The Provisional Committee reserve ;to themselves
the power of
malting such alterations in the Main Line, or Branches, and also of .