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f RE AT PARIS AND STRASBOURG
•_A _ RAILWAY (UNION COMPANY).
63, Moorgate-street, London.

Notice is hereby given, that on and after the 18th Applications from
the holders of the Great Northern France Shares (Rosamel's Com-
pany) will not be entitled to a preference in the allotment.
By order of the Committee,
E. L. DE PREZ, Joint Secretaries.
THOMAS MORTON,
October 15, 1845.

BEDFORDSHIRE, HERTFORDSHIRE, and
ESSEX JUNCTION RAILWAY. '
The Committee have to apprise the public that no further Applica •
Lions for Shares can be received except from parties locally interested
in the line. The allotment of shares is being proceeded with, with as
little delay as the numerous applications will admit, and in the mean-
time, the surveys are being completed, and in fact are in such a state
of forwardness as to leave no doubt as to this CoMpany being able
to apply to Parliament and proceed with, their dill during the ensu-
ing session. Preparations are also being made for the removal of the
offices of the Company to a more convenient house in the City.
WILLIAM GLEADAH,, Secretary.
9, Adath-street, Adeiphi, dated this 21St-Oct., 1845.

GREAT WESTERN. AND FALMOUTH
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
No further 'Application for Shares in this Railway can be enter-
tained by the Committee after Tuts DAY. . . .
KEDDELL, BAKER, and GRANT.
Joint
THOS. HARVEY, •
•
Solicitors.
JOAN STOGDON, .
68, Old Broad-street, London, Oct. 21. 1845.

THE STAFFORDSHIRE . AND NORTH
. MIDLAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. •
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 700,0001., in 35,000 Shares 01.20/. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. ' ' •
The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Ingestre, ALP. 'l3iimpton-park,
Middlesex
The lion. and Rev. Augustus Duncombe, Calwich Abbey, Ash-
bourne, Derbyshire
SLI J. E. Anderson, Bart. New Burlington-street, London
Sir John Cave Brown Cave, Batt chairman of the Derby and
Crewe Railway . .
Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman, King's-Arms-yard, London, director
of the Direct London and Manchester Railway
Francis Simes Alliot t, Esq. Nottingham
Thomas Bishop, Esq. Standard-hill, Nottingham, deputy-chairman
of the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, and Eastern Junction.
Railway
John Fowler Burbidge, Esq. Mayor of Grantham
John Bloor, Esq. Tutbury, Staffordshire, director of the Cambridge
and Lincoln Extension Railway
W. Gabbett Beare, Esq. 6, Porchester-place, Connaught-square,
director of the Direct London and Manchester Railway
John Bradley, Esq. Nottingham-park
Joseph Bridgett, Esq. Aldermanbury, London
William Cantrell, Esq. Wirksworth
John Chambers, Esq. The Hurst, Alfreton, Derbyshire, director, of
the Derby and Crewe Railway
Charles Kelly CoOper, Esq. Ashbourne
Robert Cresswell, Esq. Idridgehay, Wirksworth, director of the
Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock Midland Railway
Henry Cox, Esq. deputy-chairman of the Derby and Crewe Railway
Charles Clarke, Esq. Matlock, deputy-chairman of the Quarter Sea-
-sions of the county of Derby
Francis Critchlow, jun. Esq. Mayfield, Ashbourne
Philip Dawson, Esq. Walton-bank, Ashbourne
John Earp, Esq. Uttoxeter
Lieut.-Colonel Elriogton, Wyndham-place, Bryanstone-square, direc-
tor of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
David Evans, Esq. Belper
Robert Forman, Esq. Derby
Henry Plumptre Gipps, Esq. 2, Montagu-place, Bryanstone-square,
director of the Direct London and Manchester Railway -
Francis Green Goodwin, Esq. Wigwell Grange, Derbyshire
William Greaves, Esq. The Hermitage, Mayfield, Ashbourne
Thomas Hartshorne, Esq. Silkinore-house, Stafford
William Harding, Esq. Lea-hall, Ashbourne
Thomas Holmes, Esq. The Elms, Cheadle
Robert James Hartshorne, Esq. Ashbourne
Richard Hurt, Esq. Wirksworth, Derbyshire
Edward Anthony Holden, Esq, Aston-lodge, Derbyshire
Thomas Hackett, Esq. Derby
William Harding, Esq. Ladbroke Villa, Notting-hill, London .
John Jackson, Esq. Eccleston-place, Euston-square, London
John Keys, Esq. Whiston, Cheadle, Staffordshire
Wm. Lawrence, Esq. Brixton, director of the Direct London and
Manchester Railway
James Mines, Esq. Alten-manor, Wirksworth
Charles Milnes, Esq. Torr-house, Matlock
James Mills, Esq. Wood-end, Matlock
Charles John Mold, Esq. Makeney-house, Belper •
Daniel Oakden, Esq. Bentley-hall, Ashbourne
William Orpe, Esq. Birchwood-moor, Ashbourne
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq. F.R.S., Upper Hyde-park-street, director of
the Direct London and Manchester Railway
Kenyon Stevens Parker, Esq. Q.C.' Gower-street, London, director of
the Direct London and Manchester Railway
Edmund Percy, Esq. Nottingham
James Peate, Esq. Alderman, Derby
Thomas Richardson, Esq. Derby, director of the Liverpool and Derby
Railway
John Skevington, Esq. Ashbourne
W. B. Spurgeon, Esq. Derby
John Swan, Esq. Nottingham, director of the Amber Gate, Notting-
ham, Boston, awl Eastern Junction Railway
John B. Storey, Esq. Lockington, Derbyshire
John Smedley, Esq. Lea, Matlock
Francis Edward Shipley, Esq. Giltbrook-house, Nottinghamshire
Walter Shaina, Esc!. Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, London
Joseph Shipley, Esq. Uttoxeter
John Smedley, Esq. Lea-bridge, Matlock
William Taylor, Esq. Derby
Charles Walker, Esq. Ellastone, Staffordshire
Joseph Loxdale Warren. Esq. The Lodge, Market Drayton, and Con-
seil hall, Cheadle, director of the Macclesfield and Lichfield Rail-
way
George Walker, Esq., Wootton Park, Ashbourne
Joseph Wass, Esq , Lea, near Matlock, director of the Manchester,
Buxton, Matlock, and Midland Junction Railway
Thomas Walker, Esq., Belper •
James Dyer Williams, Esq. Milton-street, Dorset-square, London,
director of the Taw Vale Railway Extension and Dock Company.
Frederick Williams, Esq. Hampstead
William Wright, Esq. Wirksworth
B. B. Williams, Esq. Wyndham-Place, Bryanstone-square, director
of the Direct London and Manchester Railway
Thomas Wise, Esq. Ashbourne
William Hurd Wood, Esq. Ashbourne
Joseph Wyles, Esq. Grantham, director of the Amber Gate, Not-
tingham, Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
John Wright, Esq. Derby
Nathaniel Wheatcroft, Esq. Willersly, Cromford.
(With power to add to their number.)
CONSULTING ENGINEER—Joseph Locke, Esq. C.E.
RESIDENT ENGINEER—Stourges Meeke, Esq. C.E.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Roberts, Curtis, and Co., Lombard-street, London
Sir Benjamin Heywood, Bart. and Co., Manchester
The Uttoxeter, Burton, and Ashbourne Union Banking Company,
Uttoxeter and Ashbourne
The Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby
The Manchester and Liverpool District Banking Company, Stafford
Messrs. Samuel Smith and Co., Nottingham.
SOLICITORS.
Thomas Richardson, Esq. Uttoxeter
Philip Hubbersty, Esq. Wirksworth.
LOCAL SOLICITOR.
John J. Wise, Esq. Ashbourne.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS-31essrs. Sudlow and Kingdon, 6, New
Palace-yard, Westminster.
SECRETARY, (pro tem)—Thomas Richardson, Esq.
" COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
The Honourable and Rev. Augustus John Bloor, Esq.
Duncombe Will am Cantrell, Esq.
John Chambers, Esq. Charles Walker, Esq.
Thomas Bishop, Esq. William Hurd Wood, Esq.
Joseph Wyles, Esq. T. ltichardson, Esq. ,
John Keys, Esq. Thomas Walker, Esq.
Joseph Wass, Esq. John Earp, Esq.
Charles Clarke, Esq. . - James Milnes, Esq.
. .... , " 'PROSPECTUS. .
This unndertaking is designed to supply the wants of. an extensive,
mineral and populous district, the local traffic of which alone is ad-
mitted to be sufficient to: support a railway and amply remunerate the
shareholders ; the line will not only accomplish so desirable an ob-
ject, but it also possesaes the advantage of terming a direct commu-
nication, by the shertest practicable route, (in connexion with exist-
ing and projected railways) between two of the most important
divisions of the kingdom. ,
• It is intended to commence by joining the Grvd Junction
Railway at Stafford, and proceed by Uttoxeter, Rocester and
Aahbonrne, to a junction with the Midland Railway, the
Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland Railway, and the
Amber Gate, Nottingham, Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway,
at the general terminus at Amber Gate; a.short branch from Wicks-
worth will • connect the line with that town, and the important lime-
I stone and mineral district connected with it. The line will be about
forty miles long, and by its connection with the Midland Railway at
Amber Gate, and the Derby
_and Llrewe Railway at Uttoxeter, will
be the nearest practicable route from Sheffield, York, Leeds, Hull,
the populous manufacturing districts of Yorkshire and the north and
north-eastern part of England, to the salt districts of Cheshire, the
Potteries Liverpool and North Wales, and by its junction at Stafford
with the 'Shropshire Union Railway, will be the nearest route from
those important districts to Shrewsbury and South W ales, and by the
Grand Junction Railway to the densely populated districts of South
Staffordshire.
The district is destitute of water communication, and it is only
necessary to advert to a few of the prominent resources of the coun.
try to spew the magnitude of the local traffic.
The price of coals on all parts of the line is very high, being carted
a distance of 10 to 15 miles. The cost-of this indispensible article of
consumption will be reduced nearly one half, as this line-will tamediatela eommunicate with the Derbyshire and Staffordshire coal fields.
The line will pass several valuable quarries of Derbyshire marble
which is extensively usdd in all parts of the kingdom, and also nu-
merous lead smelting,' works and rolling mills, producing large
quantities of pig and • skeet lend. It will afford an inexhaustible
supply of lime for the highly cultivated land on the banks of the
Dove and Southward. It will open the Derbyshire mines to the
copper and zinc smelting' works in the neighbourkood of Cheadle,
and will afford a direct comomnication with Sheffield for the articles
manufactured at those works, which at present are carted to Derby,
a distance of more than twenty miles.
Already Marge cattle traffic exists with the north, which will unques-
tionably be greatly augmented by the facilities of this railway ; large
Importations of Scotch and Yorkshire cattle will be brought for fat-
tening on the luxuriant pasture's of the Dove, taking in return to the
consuming 'districts, the corn; eheese;wool, and other produce of the
extensive and fertile agricultural district which is intersected by this
railway. It will bring the already large cheese and cattle fairs of
Uttoxeter and Ashbourne into greater importance.
The iron furnaces of South Staffordshire consume annually nearly
a million tons of limestone. It is well known that the ironmasters
give a decided preference to the limestone of the South Peak, over
any other that has hitherto been tried; the very great fusibility of
this stone rendering it peculiarly suitable as a flux for reducing the
stubborn iron ores of South Staffordshire, and were it not for the di-
latory and expensive means of transit, it would now be used to the
total exclusion of all other kinds. The proximity of this railway to
the iron district, the fact of its entering the limestone range at its
most southern extremity, and the advantage of excavating the stone
immediately on the line of rails, cannot but insure it a very large
share of that enormous traffic, If it do not engross the whole.
The visitors to Dovedale and the Peak are already very numerous.
When this One, and the Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland
Junction Railway, open this romantic scenery to the industrious arti-
zans who chiefly compose the great hives of population with which
this railway will communicate, and make it easily accessible to this
' class of persons at a trifling sacrifice both of time and money, tine
revenue from this sours - alone during the summer months will be
found ,to be of no inconsiderable amount.
The projectors feel convinced that this- railway contains the- ele-
ments of great prosperity, and that as an investinent it offers more
than ordinary security.
The landowners on the -line are favourable to this undertaking,
and Me names of many influential proprietors - will be found on the
Provisional Committee. . -
Arrangements have been made with the Derby and Crowe Rail-
way Company, who take a portion of the -capital, :and give the line
.ent are: fortunate in having secured
th theireT The
eas
valuable
support
et services and
Committee co-operation.. e r3opifea
nr:ii,t irg.oe. n. il
oc
le..
as
consulting engineer, and of
Air. Meeke, as resident engineer), 3y.ho have ,A,asured ;the Committee
-that the plans and survoyE will be ready:fors application to Pa!lia-
raent the negt session. .
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Applications for Shares to be addretind W the !Secretary OY 6
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