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Messrs. Glynn and Co.; and Messrs. Strahan, Panl, and Co., Strand.

PROVINCIAL RANKERS.
Messrs. Bromage and Co„ Chepstow
Messrs. Bailey, Greatrex, and Co., Monmouth
Messrs. Williams and Sons, Newport
The West of England Banking Company and Branches
The Monmouth and Glamorgan Banking Company and Branches
The National Provincial Banking Company and Branches
The Gloucestershire Banking Company and Branches
The County of Gloucester Banking Company and Branches.

SOLICITORS.
Mr. W. T. H. Phelps, Newport. Monmouthshire
Messrs. A'Beckett, Son, and Sympson, 7, Golden-square, London

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LOCAL AGENTS.
Chepsto*—Messrs. Baldwin and Morgan, Solicitors
Gloucester—Messrs. Ellis, Elliott, and Co., Solicitors
SECRETARY.
Mr. William Prothero, 10, Old Jewry Chambers, London.

This Line will join the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester
Junction Railway at Chepstow, and extend westward near to
Piercifield, the far-famed Windcliff, and Tintern Abbey, to the towns
of Usk and Pontypool, and over the centre of the great iron and cal
field of South Wales, passing near to and through the midst of the
extensive iron works and collieries of Monmouthshire and Glamor-
ganshire, to join the Aberdare branch of the Taff Vayt Railway,
which connects Merthyr Tydvil and Aberdare with Cardlff—thus

lorming a much more direct and almost straight Line—by means of
the railways already made and projected between those immensely
populous districts, and the centre of the kingdom and London, by
means of which the Journey by land will be shortened between the
metropolis and this great seat of Industry to four and a half, and
between Newport and Cardiff to five hours, which at present, even by
the aid of existing railways, cannot be performed In less than from
ten to twelve hours.

It will be found by reference to the official census of 1831 and

1841, that the average increase of population of the county of Mon-
mouth exceeded that of any other county in England or Wales ; this
fact is referred to as illustrative of the rising importance of the
country through which this railway is intended to pass, and of
the very large passenger traffic which may reasonably be calculated
upon.

The town of Usk, with Ragland, and the rich agricultural district
for many miles around, are supplied by carts from the vicinity of
Pontypool with coal and lime, which are there obtained at a cheap
rate, and in return cattle and provisions of all kinds, hay, corn, and
pit timber to an enormous extent, are sent to the iron works and
collieries, where the consumption is immense. This traffic alone
must necessarily ensure a considerable revenue to the Company, in-
dependent of the great traffic from the manufactured iron, fire
bricks, and paving stone, which is of superior quality, and in great
abundance. The present cost of conveying and delivering iron and
tin plates from the works to London, including transit to the port,
shipping charges, freight, and insurance, amounts to little less than
20s. per ton, whilst by this railway, and those it is intended to join,
the average cost at the rate usually charged for such goods on rail-
ways will effect a saving of at least 25 per cent., and be conveyed
within twenty-four hours, instead of the average voyage round the
Land's End of three, and not unfrequently six weeks, and with the
very important advantage of delivering the iron free from rust,
which is unavoidable on a sea voyage, in small bars more particu-
larly, causing a deterioration of from 15s. to 20s. per ton at least.
This railway, by means of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and
Gloucester Junction, and the Birmingham and Gloucester Railways,
will open Birmingham as a market for the manufactured iron of
South Wales, from which it has been in a measure excluded, from
tke difficult and expensive transit by the River Severn and Canals.
Large quantities of iron ore, known as " Ilvematete ore," Is imported
into Wales, from Lancashire, Cumberland, Devon, and Cornwall; whilst
ore of a similar quality, and equal productiveness for iron making,
exists in abundance in the Forest of Dean, and may be raised and
delivered from thence by means of this and the Chepstow, Forest of
Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway to the different iron works
in Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire at an average of from 25 to 30
per cent. less than it costs at present, and at the same time leave a
handsome remuneration to the Railway Companies.
The Committee of Management have gone very carefully into
estimates of the goods traffic especially, and they feel justified in
expressing a decided opinion that the revenue from this source alone
will yield 5 per cent. on the proposed capital of the Company, in
addition to the revenue to be derived from the other traffic.

This Railway will pass close to, and within a few miles of, all the
iron and tin works of Monmouthshire, and the principal part of
those in Glamorganshire ; and the following short statistic of the
extent of those stupendous undertakings will give an idea of the vast
importance of the present project. The iron and tin works @com-
mence at Pontypool, and are-
1. The Pontymoile Tin and Iron Works
2. The Blaendare Iron and Coal Works
3. The extensive Tin Works of Messrs. Conway, Messrs. Fother-
gill, and Messrs. Jenkins
4. The Pentwyn, Golonos, and Varteg Iron Works and Rolling
Mills
5. The British Iron Company
6. The Blaenavon Iron Company
7. The Nantylylo
8. The Coalbrooke Vale
79. The Cwn Celyn and Blaina Company
10. The Beaufort
11. The Ebbw Vale
12. The Victoria Company
13. The Abtetcarne, Pontymister, and Tydee Tin Works, Messrs.
Lewis
14. The Tredegar Iron Company
15, The Shlrhowey

The Rhymney and Bute Company
The Dowlais Iron Works
Carfartha.

Added to which, in the vicinity, are the extensive works and
collieries in the Aberdare Valley, and on either side :or the intended
railway are collieries raising and vending about one million and a
half tons of coal per annum, which it is not unreasonable to ex-
pect will be greatly extended, by the facilities offered through the
intended railway.
In the districts of Merthyr, Aberdare, and westward, there exists
an inexhaustible abundance of a peculiar description of coal, which,
though inflammable, is nearly smokeless, and is found to be superior
in quality for steam purposes to any yet known. In the London
market it meets with a ready sale at 30 per cent. higher than any of
the best north country Hartley's ; and notwithstanding the high
price, so highly is it esteemed, that the present importation amounts
to nearly 100,000 tons per annum. This coal for the most part is
brought from a distance of 24 miles, and shipped at Cardiff, from
whence freights to London have averaged from 10s. to I Is. per ton
during the past year; but so uncertain is the supply to the metropo-
lis, owing to the scarcity of ships on the Welsh coast, and the long
and precarious navigation round the Land's End, that many who are
anxious to adopt their engine grates for its use, are deterred from
the too great uncertainty which exists against obtaining a regular
and constant supply ; these difficulties will be entirely superseded by
the proposed railway, and these it is intended to join, with the great
additional advantage and impetus to increased use and consumption,
that it may be delivered to the consumer at from 2s. to 3s. per ton
less price than at present. Under such circumstances, it will not
appear unreasonable to those unacquainted with the trade, to expect
that the consumption in the metropolis alone will be increased four-
fold, whilst a new-found trade will be opened out with Chepstow,
Gloucester, Cheltenham, Witney, Oxford, and the numerous inter-
mediate towns to London, where steam coal is used.
It has been considered more judicious to form a separate Company
for the Extension line from Chepstow to the Taff Vale, than to alter
the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway
Company at present, but powers are proposed to be takenfor uniting
the two Companies hereafter, with the assent of their respective
Boards of Direction.

Preference will be given to those locally interested, and to the
holders of Shares in the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester
Junction Railway.

A reference to the map will show the importance of this line as
forming a direct line of railway communication between the great
mineral district of Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, with the
heart of the Kingdom and London.
It may confidently be stated that in connexion with the Chep-
stow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway, there is
not a line of railroad in the Kingdom which offers greater advan-
tages to the Shareholders than the present. Provision will be made
in the Act of Parliament which will be applied for in the nest ses-
sion to limit the liability of the Shareholder to the amount of his
shares, and to allow feur per cent. On the calls.
Until an Act of Parliament shall be obtained, the affairs of this
Company shall be tinder the control of the Managing Directors, to
whom power is given to allot the Shares, and to apply the funds of
the Company in payment of all the expenses incurred in its forma-
tion, and in the preparation of the Plans and Sections submitted to
Parliament.

Power will be applied for in the Act (and in the meantime is
hereby given to the Managing Directors as above), to raise any addi-
tional capital, to extend or abandon any branch of the line, to make
branch lines, or enter into any arrangements, by amalgamation or
otherwise, with any other company or companies, and also to nomi-
nate the first Directors of the Company.
Applications for Shares, in the form annexed, to be made to the
Solicitors, or to Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Threadneedle Street,
and Messrs. Backhouse and Co., No. 4, Angel Court, Throgmorton
Street, London ;—Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham ;
Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol ; —Mr. Thomas Evans, Bath ;
Messrs. Bradley, Ford, and Parker, Manchester ;—Messrs. H. Davies
and Co., Dale Street, Liverpool ;—Messrs. Chantrell and Boys, Leeds ;
—Messrs. Wilkinson and Earle, Hull ;—and Messrs. Labertouche and
Stafford, Dublin.

To the Provisional Committee of the Welsh South Midland or Chep-
stow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway Extension.
I request that you will apportion me shares of 201. each, In
the Welsh South Midland or Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Glouces-
ter Junction Extension Railway ; and I do hereby undertake to ac-
cept the same, or any less number you may allot me, and to pay the
deposit of V. 2s. per share, and all future calls thereon, and to sign
the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement, when re-
quired

Dated this day of 1845.
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WELSH SOUTH MIDLAND, or CHEP-
STOW, FOREST of DEAN, and GLOUCESTER JUNC-
TION EXTENSION RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given that no Application for Shares In Ws Ooin •
any can be recwfted after the lot of Qetobernext.

r HE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT
jL RAILWAY, via ABINGDON, WANTAGE, HUNGERFORD,
and LUDGERSHALL.
(Provisionally registered.)
Capitall,2oo,oool., in 48,000 Shares of 251. eack.
Deposit 21. 15s. per Share.
PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT.
The importance of connecting remote parts of England by Rail-
ways, with the advantages thereby conferred upon intermediate towns
and districts, can scarcely be better exemplified than by the Line
which is now proposed to form a short and direct channel of inter-
course between Oxford and Salisbury. Numerous projected lines
now before the public will make Oxford at the north, and Salisbury
at the south of the intended Railroad the central points from which
various radii will diverge to the north-west, north, and north-east of
the former, and to the east, south, and west of the latter; and the
proposed Line from Cambridge to Oxford, continuing to that city the
course of Railway from the north-eastern parts of the island, requires
the appliance now suggested to effect a complete means of transit to
the western and south-western counties.

Ths Oxford and Salisbury Direct Railway, in addition to
the benefits which will be conferred upon the nation at
large, by preferring a direct line of commurVcation be-
tween the north-eastern and western and south-western
parts of England, will afford to the borough of Abingdon,
the market towns of Vantage, Hungerford, and Ludgershall, and
the adjacent villages, an important railway accommodation, of which
the agricultural districts in which they are seated stand in much
need, and will provide a facility for the interchange of produce be-
tween the rural, manufacturing, and commercial population of the
kingdom.
The want of railway accommodation has long been felt to press
unfairly upon the inhabitants of the important and thriving town of
Abingdon. Their means and opportunities of competing with the more
fortunate traders of those towns which are already provided with di-
rect channels of transit, are thus severely crippled. The same remark
applies in some degree to the market town of \Vantage, which, as
well as Hungerford and Ludgershall, claims a share of the profits
and advantages produced by railway traffic.
It has therefore been determined to commence the proposedlt ne at
Oxford, and to proceed through Abingdon to the station of the Great
Western Railway at Steventon, thus giving to Abingdon a direct rail-
road to London. By continuing the projected railway to Wantage, the
same facility of transit to London will be afforded to that place ; and
a perfect line of road from the north-eastern counties will, by a junc-
tion with the projection from Cambridge to Oxford, be produced,
through the towns which have been named, Hungerford and Ludgers-
hall to Salisbury, and thence to the south and western ports and dis-
tricts.

A map of the line, and a statistical report of the whole country
intended to be traversed, is in course of preparation, and with the
names of an influential provisional Committee, will very shortly
be published. In the meantime, further information may be ob-
tained from Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street,
London, solicitors to the undertaking, to whom, at present, applica
tion for shares may be made.


WAY
(Registered Provisionally, pursuant to the 7th and Bth Vic., cap. 110
Capital 800,0001., in 40,000 Shares of 20/. each.
Deposit, 2/. 21.—(Liability to be restricted )
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Magnay, Sir William, Bart., Alderman of London, Director of the
Leicester and Tamworth Railway
Simpson, Sir John, Alderman of York, Director of the York and North
Midland, and of the Newcastle and Darlington Railways
Hare, Sir John, 11, Langham-place, Director of the London and
Manchester Direct Independent Railway, and of the Liverpool and
Leeds Railway
Tomllne, George, Esq., M.P., Rihy Grove, Lincolnshire
riumphery, John, Esq., M.P., Alderman of London
Rose, David R., Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Belfast, and Director
of the London and Manchester Railway
Beresford, William, Esq., M.P., 77, Pall-mall, Director of the Leeds
and Carlisle Railway
Allenby, Samuel, Esq., Maidenwell, near Louth
Archibald, Charles D., Esq., F.R.S., Conservative Club, and Rustland
Ulverstone, Lancaire, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Railway
Bellerby, Henry, Esq., Sheriff of 'Fork, Governor of the Merchants'
Company of York, and Director of the Leeds and Sheffield, and
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Best, the Rev. Thomas, Kirkby-on-Bane, near Homeastle, Magis-
trate for the County of Lincoln
Brook, William Henry, Esq., Lincoln
Banks, John Tatham, Esq., M.D., Louth
Bartell, Z., Esq., M.D., Market Raisin
Bettrhige, Abraham, Esq., 4, Devonshire-terrace, Camden-road
Bewicke, Calverly, Esq., Barham House, Beccler, Suffolk, Director
of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Binge, Charles R., Esq., 26, Sackville-street
Clift, James, Esq., 30, Bloomsbury-square, Director of the Paris and
Strasburg Railway, and Argus Life Office
Copeland, John, Esq., Skellingthorpe, near Lincoln
Cadman, Edwin, Esq., Westbourne House, Sheffield, Director of
the Leeds and Carlisle Railway, and of the Direct Western
Railway
Collett, Benjamin, Esq., Grafton Manor House, Bromsgrove, Ma-
gistrate for Worcestershire
Cornfoot, Henry, Esq., Old PalaCe, Richmond
Dakeyne, the Rev. J. 0., Lincoln, Rector of South Hykeham, In-
cumbent of St. Benedict, and Magistrate of the County
Duppa, Henry C., Esq., Quarry House, Brighton, Director of the
Canterbury and Dover Railway
Eccles, William, Esq., 59, Old Broad-street
Fowler, the Rev. H. R., 7, Manchester-square
Fraser, William Ttillock, Esq., 5, Manchester-square, Director of the
Sovereign Life Assurance Office
Gay, John, Esq., London, Director of the Birmingham Extension
Railway
Gresham, William, Esq., Alderman of Lincoln, and Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Railway
Gamble, Francis, Esq., Gainsborough
Hood, John, Esq., Nettleham, near Lincoln
Hobson; John Overton, Esq., Woodhall, near Eorncastle
Hammond, Richard, Esq., Great Yarmouth, Magistrate for that
borough, and Director of the Waveney Valley and Great Yarmouth
Railway
Hewlett, John Grigg, Esq., Resident Director of Pilbro's Atmospheric
Railway
Hair, J. 8., Esq., 288, Regent-street
Harrison, George IL, Esq., Great Tower-street, London
Hitchins, James, Esq., Coroner for the city and county of Lincoln,
and Director of the Warwick and Worcester Railway
Harrison, George William, Esq., Hill House, Upper Tooting, Surrey
Jackson, John, Esq., Louth
Kidley, Thomas, Esq., M.D., Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield, Bux-
ton, and Potteries Railway
King, John, Esq., College-hill, London, and Muswell-hill, Middlesex,
Director of the City of London and Tottenham Extension Railway
Kelly, Richard, Esq., 6, Cleaveland-row, St. James's, Chairman of
the New Ross, Carlow, and Kilkenny Railway
Lincoln, the Mayor of
Lees, John Bailey, Esq., Louth
Lomas, Samuel Curtis, Esq., Horncastle
Martin, Buckle'', Esq., Great Yarmouth, Director of the Waveney
Valley and Great Yarmouth Railway
Nicholls, Hawkins, Esq., Thurlhy Grange, Lincolnshire and London
Nell, David William, Esq., J.P., Leeds, Deputy Chairman of the
East and West Yorkshire Junction Railway, and Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Railway
Philbrick, Thotnas, Esq., M.D., Louth
Palmer, George Denby, Esq., Great Yarmouth, Magistrate for the
county of Norfolk and borough of Great Yarmouth, Director of
tile Waveney Valley and Great Yarmouth Railway
Pye, George Richard, Esq., Lavenham, Suffolk
Potter, William Simpson, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Director
of the Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham Railway
Palmer, Samuel, Esq., late Mayor of Great Yarmouth, and Solicitor
of the Waveney Valley and Great Yarmouth Railway
Paget, Samuel, Esq., Great Yarmouth, Director of the Waveney
Valley, and Great Yarmouth %ailway
Paxton, Joseph, Esq., Chatsworth, Derbyshire, Director of the Man-
chester, Buxton, and Matlock ; the Leeds, and Liverpbol ; and
the Manchester and Southampton Railways
Parbury, George, Esq., 37, Russell-square
Pownall, the Rev. Charles Colyear Beaty, Milton Ernest, Beds, and
Wykeham, Lincolnshire
Peirce, the Rev. William Matthews, West Ashby, near Horncastle
Richardson William, Esq., Alderman of York, Director of the Man-
chester and Southampton Railway
Richardson James, Esq., Clifton, York, Director of the York and
North Midland and the Newcastle and Berwick Railways
Rockcliffe, Thomas, Esq.; Horncastle
Robinson, John, Esq., Silcoates Cottage, near Wakefield, Director of
Leeds, York, and Midland Junction Railway
Smith, Cornelius, Esq., Gracechurch-street, London
Stark, Adam, Esq., Gainsborough
Sharp, George, Esq., Lincoln
Steward, Thomas Fowler, Esq., Great Yarmouth
Smith, The Rev. John Bainbrige, D.D., Horncastle
Searle, Maurice Grant, Esq., Spalding and Louth
Skrine, Julian, Esq., Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln Rail-
way
Studley, William, Esq., Alfred-place, Brixton
Tall, John, Esq., Hull, Hanoverian Consul, and Director of the Hull
Dock Company
Turner, John, Esq., Lincoln
Thompson, Joseph, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton
Railway
Trought, Samuel, Esq., J.P., Louth
Thomas, George, Esq„ Winchester House, Broad-street, Chairman of
the Mutual Life Association
Underwood, Joseph, Esq., Blackheath, Director of the Commercial
Bank of London, and Director of the Warwick and Worcester,
and the Liverpool and Leeds Railway
Wallis, Alfred Arthur, Esq., Healing, near Great Grimsby
Wrangharn, William, Esq., Wragby
Ward, William, Esq., M.D., Horncastle
Wilson, William, Esq., Devonport-street, Sussex-street. Hyde Park,
Director of the Warwick and Worcester Railway
Worthington, Rev. Dr., Sidmouth-place, Mecklenburgh-square
Webster, John, Esq., 19, Aldermanbury
Watts, William Boyden, Esq., M.D., Birmingham, Director of the
Lichfield and Birmingham Railway
Weiss, F. Foveaux, Esq., 33, Cheater-terrace, Regent's Park
Young, John, Esq., King-street, London
(With power to add to their number.)
COMMITTEE or MANAGEMENT.
Magnay, Sir William, Bart., Alderman, Chairman
Bellerby, Henry, Esq., Deputy Chairman
Humphery, John, Esq., M.P. I Paxton, Joseph, Esq.
Palmer, George Danby, Esq, Richardson, William, Esq.
Underwood, Joseph, Esq. Smith, Cornelius, Esq.
Archibald, Charles D., Esq. King, John, Esq.
Palmer, Samuel, Esq. Gay, John, Esq.
JOINT ENGINEERS.—Robert Stephenson, Esq. ; Frederick Swan,
wick, Esq.
SOLICITOR.--Frederick Carritt, Esq , 10, 13asinghall-street,
London.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.—Messrs. Williamson and Hill, 4, Veru
lam-buildings, Gray's Inn.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Louth—William Grant Allison, Esq., and Henry Orme, Esq
Horncastle—Edward Babington, Esq.

BANICERS.
London—Messrs. Robarts, Curtis, and Co., Lombard-street ; the Com-
mercial Bank of London, Lothbury.
Louth and Horncastle—Messrs. Garfit, Claypons, and Co. ; Lincoln
and Lindsay Banking Company
tincoln and Market Raisen—Messrs. Smith, Ellison, and Co.; and
Lincoln and Lindsay Banking Company
Great Grimsby—Messrs. Smith, Ellison, and Co., and Branch of
Hull Banking Company.

szeitx.r.kny.
Thomas Coshead, Esq.
This railway Is intended to commence at the terminus of and
unite with the Nottingham and Lincoln Railway, at Lincoln, and to
proceed by or near Wragl•y and Market Raison to Great Grimsby,
with a branch from or near Market Raison to Louth, and a branch
from the main line near to and through Wragby to Horncastle.
The length of the main line from Lincoln to Grimsby will be about
32 miles, the branch to Louth about 10 miles, and the branch to
Horncastle about 14 miles—together 56 miles.
The advantages of the line will be self-evident to those acquainted
with the locality; amongst other benefits, it may be observed, that
this line will form a direct and speedy communication between the
port of Great Grimsby and the midland and western counties, as well
as the metropolis ; and the port of Groat Grimsby (which may now be
looked upon as the future Liverpool of the Humber) is admitted by
maritime and practical men to be the best situated northern port of
England for the whole of the markets of the continental Europe.
A glance at the map of Europe will show its superior local advantages.
The completion of this undertaking will facilitate a passenger
traffic as well as the transmission of grain, cattle, butter, wool, tim•
ber, stone, lime, manure, and other goods and merchandise, to and
from the great towns of Birmingham, Coventry, Leicester, Derby,
Nottingham, Manchester, Liverpool, and the intermediate towns and
manufacturing districts, and will open the coal-fields of Nottingham-
shire, Leicestershire, and Derbyshire, to Lincolnshire, and a direct
communication between the midland and western counties and the
port of Great Grimsby for cx ortation and importation to and from
the markets of continental Europe. It will likewise render easy of
access that ancient and now much-frequented and improving Fea-
bathing place Cleethorpes, to and from which place a large amount
of passenger traffic may be relied on, being within the distance of
two miles from the proposed terminus at Great Grimsby.
The county of Lincoln abounds in agricultural productions, whilst
it is believed an inadequate recompense has hitherto accrued to
those engaged therein, by reason of which both produce ;rut land
have been depreciated in value, but now important advantages
will present themselves to both the agricultural and mercantile in-
terest.

The gradients of the line are exceedingly favourable, and the
expense of construction will be unusually low; the promoters have
therefore every reason to anticipate a most satisfactory return for
the capital to be invested.
The plan of this Company also comPthea one of great National in-
terest, when viewed in connexion with other improvements of the
Port of Great Grimsby, and the formation of a harbour of refuge
for the German and Baltic Seas• _ _

The Committee of Management have much pleasure in announc-
ing to the public that this undertaking has the cordial approval and
sapport of the Midland Railway Company.
Application will be made for power to allow interest at the rate of
M. per cent. on all deposits and calls paid up, and for restricting the
liability of shareholders to the amount of their respective shares.
All ornamental property on the line will, as far as possible, be re-
spected.
A reservation of shares will be made in favour of parties locally
interested or otherwise. _

Prospectuses may be had, and applications for shares, in the form
annexed, containing a reference to a member of the Committee of
Management or a Banker, are to be made either to the Solicitor to
the Company, the Local Agents, or the Secretary. Prospectuses may
also be had at the offices of Messrs. George Baker and Sons, 29,
Threadneedle-street; or Mr. J. 'Sr Scott, 3, Bartholomew-lane, Lou-
don; but no application will be attended to unless accompanied by
such reference. _

Offices, 6, Guildhall Chambers, Basiughall-street,,
September, 1845.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES,

To the Committee of Management of the Great Grimsby, Louth,
Horncastle, Lincoln, and Midland Junction Railway (registered
provisionally).
I request that you will apportion me shares of
201. each in this Company, and I undertake to accept the same, or
any 1943 number you may allot to me, and to pay the deposit of
21. 2s. per share, and all future calls thereon, and to sign the Par-
liamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
Dated this day of _ _ 1845.

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-1 REAT GRIMSBY, LOUTH, HORN-
W CASTLE. LINCOLN, and MIDLAND JUNCTION RAIL-
WAY COMPANY,
(Provisionally Registered.)
The public are informed that no further applications for shares In
this Company will be received from parties residing in London, after
SATURDAY, the 4th day of October, and from parties residing In the
Country, after MONDAY, the 6th day of October.
Dy order, *
TiKraUS =HUD, X,egets7y,

Railway •
Alfred Brodie, Esq., Upper Montagu-street, Montagu-square, Direc-
tor of the Hull and Holyhead, and Southern-Counties Railway
Robert Chaplin, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Edward Mammatt, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
John Beavington, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
T. S. Kirkland, Esq., shby-de-la-Zouch
Thomas Cantrell, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
William Mathew, Esq., Staunton Harold, Lessee of the Staunton
Harold Coal, Lead, and Lime Works
Joseph Bostock, Esq., Breedon-on-Hill, Lessee of the Breedon Lime
Works
James Reeves, Esq., 150, Cheapside, Director of the Direct London
and Manchester Railway
Harvey Wyatt, Esq., Acton-hill, Stafford, Director of the Trent
Valley, Midlands and Grand Junction Railways, and of the Dudley,
Madeley, Brossely, and Iron Bridge Railway
Benjamin Payne, Esq., Leicester, Director of the Rugby, Warwick,
and Worcester Railway, and the Leicester and Birmingham Direct
Railway
Thomas Farmer Cooke, Esq., Leicester, Director of the Rugby, War-
wick, and Worcester Railway, and the Leicester and Birmingham
Direct Railway
John Carter, Esq., F.R.A.S., Park Lodge, Stockwell, Director of the
Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Junction Coast Railway
Joseph Carrington Ridgway, Esq., Roehampton Lodge
Edward Tylecote, Esq., Great Heywood, Staffordshire
William Field, Esq., Rugeley, Staffordshire
Samuel Ginders. Esq., Ingestre, Staffordshire, Agent to the Right
Hon. the Earl of Talbot, K.G.
R. S. J. Wintirton, Esq., Sketchley Hall, near Hihckley, a Magis-
trate of the County, Director of the Coventry, Nuneaton, and
Leicester Railway •
James Lamb, Esq., Hyde Park-square
James Morrison, Esq., St. Mary-at-hill, Director of the Bridgewater
and Minehead Railway
C. IL Rogers Harrison, Esq., Upper Montagu -street, Montagu-square,
Director of the Southern-Counties Union Railway
George Augustus M.Dermott, Esq., Chesterton Hall, near Newcastle-
under-Lyne
Captain Macdougall, Fir Grove, North Brixton, Director of the Direct
Western Railway
Win. Tulloch Fraser, Esci., Gloucester-place, Portman-square
Wm. Clode Braddon, Esq, Regeney-square, Brighton
George Parbury, Esq., Mansfield House, Russell-square
John Lowe, Esq., Norfolk-crescent, Hyde Park
John Griffith Frith, Esq., Chairman of the Londonderry and Cole-
raine Railway
Major- General Parlby, C. 8., Rutland-gate, Director of the London,
Bristol, and South Wales Railway, and Manchester and Rugby
Railway
John Anderson, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway, and Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
Samuel Griffiths, Esq.; Penn Fields, Wolverhampton
Henry Turner, Esq., Brewood Hall, Brewood, Staffordshire, Director
of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
Henry Scott, Esq., Banker, Waterford, and 17, Pall-mall
Lewis Adamis, Esq., B asford Hall, Stoke-upon-Trent
Thomas Miller, jun., Esq., Banker, Leicester.
George Harrison, Esq., F.S.A., Director of the Hull and Holyhead
Railway
Shirley Palmer, Esq., Tamworth, Director of the Leicester and Tam-

worth Railway
Etiernne Bruno Hamel, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Tam.

worth Railway
John Thompson, Esq., Great St. Helen's
John Dove Harris, Esq., Leicester
Richard Gray, Esq., Adam-street, Broad-street
BANKERS—The Union Bank of London.

STANDING COUNSEL.
Charles Howard Whitehuret, Esq., Q.C.
J. Mee Mathew, Esq., F.S.A.
ENGINEER—J. U. Rastrick, Esq.
ACTING ENGINEER—Robert Nicholson, Esq.

SoLiMom—Messrs. Watts, Galsworthy, and Galiwoithy, 19, Ely.
placo, Holborn
SECRETARY—SamueI Stairway, Esq.

The first line of the Grand Trunk Railway will commence at the
Loughborough station on the Midland Counties line, and pro-
ceed through the Vale of Sheepshead, to Pegs Green Colliery,
near to the terminus of the Leicester and Swannington Rail-
way, and from thence through the coal-fields of Swanßington
and Cole-Orton to Ashby-de-la-'touch. It will thence proceed across
the Moira Coal-field and through the rich agricultural districts of
Seal, Clifton Campville, and Edingale, to the Birmingham and Derby
Railway, which it will cross Rear to Elford Park Farm, and thence
traverse the Valley of the Tame until it reaches Alrewas, where it
will form a junction with the branch of the Trent Valley line now in
progress of making. At this point it also meets the proposed South
Staffordshire line, by which means it reaches Lichfield, and by means
of one of the proposed lines it will afford communication with Bir-
mingham.

From Loughborough the line will be further continued to A sfordby
on the Syston and Peterborough Railway, now in progress, and by
means of this latter line, a direct intercourse will be opened with
Melton Mowbray and the various towns through which that route
passes to Peterborough.
By its junction with Ithe Trent Valley line at: Alrewas, the
Grand Trunk reaches Colwich, and there meets the proposed North
Staffordshire line, which proceeds through the heart of the Potteries
to Newcastle-under-Lyne, Leek, and Macclesfield. By means also
of the same Trent Valley line at Alrewas the Grand Trunk pro-
ceeds through Rugeley to Stafford, thus completing its route, and
forming a connecting line between the Midland and Grand Junction
Railways. This branch of the line was formerly surveyed by Mr.
Rastrick, and approved of by him as a canal communication, so that
no engineering difficulties exist.
The second line of the Grand Trunk Railway will commence at the
Derby station, and taking the course of the Derby Canal proceed to
Chellaston, where there are extensive plaster-works, and thence
by Swarkestone to the river Trent, which it will cross near to
the ferry at Weston Cliffe, and so proceed to Kings Newton
and Melbourne. From the latter place it will pass by the
village of Wilson to Breedon-on-the-Hill, where there are extensive
lime-works, and thence proceed by Staunton Harold, communicat-
ing by a branch line with the lead, lime, and coal works there ;
thence by the Lount Colliery to Worthington Rough, where it will
follow the line of the Cole-Orton and Swannington Railway until its
junction with the first line of the Grand Trunk at or near the Pegs
Green Colliery, and so proceed from thence to Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
At Ashby-de-la-Zouch the Grand Trunk forms a junction with the
proposed Nottingham and Birmingham, and with the proposed Great
Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railways. Its importance as
a line for passengers is too obvious for comment, forming as it does a
complete junction between those two great thoroughfares, the Mid-
land and Grand Junction Railways, and by its branch from Derby to
Ashby-de-la-Zouch another complete junction between the Great
Northern and Southern lines now in progress, thus opening a direct
line of communication to all parts of the kingdom.
As a line for traffic, the Grand Trunk will form the most direct
transit to the Leicestershire, Staffordshire, and Shropshire iron and
coal fields, to the Burton breweries, to North and South Wales, and
Ireland to Scotland, and all parts of the north, and to the eastern,
southern, and western parts of the empire. It will also be the
nearest and most direct communication from the east to the north-
western manufacturing districts, as well as become the great route
from all parts of the kingdom to the midland counties of England.
The mineral resources aro of the very highest order. The Moira
coal-field is inexhaustible, whilst the coal-beds at Staunton Harold
alone comprise the finest quality of Kennel to a depth of seven feet,
with a super stratum of attain coal to a depth of six feet. The sub-
stratum is yet to be worked. There are beds of Kennel and main
coal at Cole Orton of equal quality, though not of equal depth with
those of Staunton Harold, whilst the main coal at Swannington is un-
rivalled, being, in fact, the bowl of the Leicestershire and Derbyshire
coal strata. It is needless to describe the beneficial results which
must arise from this opening of the midland coal district to the Lon-
don and southern markets.

At Staunton Harold and Calke exist rich veins of lead ore, now in
full course of working.

The properties of the Breedon, Staunton Harold, and Ticknall lime
are so weil known to agriculturists and others, that an extension of
traffic for so valuable a commodity into mare remote districts must
be of the utmost importance to the practical farmer.

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In approaching the Trent, on leaving the lime district, the Grand
Trunk will fall in with most valuable quarries of millstone grit, ser-
viceable for paving and building purposes, and for which a ready
market would be found along the line. The country also abounds
in gypsum, of which immense quantities are used in Birming-
ham and elsewhere : these markets will thus become opened for the
quarries at Chellaston.
Anew and extensive outlet will also be opened for the earthenware
of Wooden Box and Griesley Potteries.

Until the Act of Parliament be obtained, the affairs will be under
the control of the Committee of Management, to whom power is
given to allot the shares and apply the funds of the Company in
payment of all proper expenses in the formation of the Company and
otherwise.

Power will be applied for in the Act, and in the meantime the
Committee of Management take power, to alter or extend the lines,
to make branch lines, to abandon any part of the line, to raise addi-
tional capital, and to enter into arrangements with any other Com-
pany or Companies.

Application for shares must be made to the solicitors to the Com-
pany, Messrs. Watts, Galsworthy, and Galsworthy, 19, Ely-place,
Holborn, Loudon ; to the Secretary, at the Offices of the Company,
3, Adelaide-place, London-bridge ; and to the following

LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Messrs, Keen and Hand, Stafford
Thomas Bolton, Esq., Wolverhampton
E. Kern Jarvis, Esq., Hinckley
Messrs. Kcary and Sheppard, Stoke-upon-Trent
Thomas Piddock, Esq., Asaby-de-la-touch
F. J. Hamel, Esq., Tamworth
John Perks, Esq., Burton-upon-Trent
Beauvoir Brock, Esq., Loughborough
Charles Griesley, Esq., Lichfield
Messrs. Moore and Gregory, Leicester.
Also to the following :

SHAREBROKERS.
London—Messrs. Hill, Fawcett, and Hill, Threadneedle-street

Messrs. Harris and SOns, 'Change-alley
Mr. A. Sym, Tokenhouse-yard
Liverpool—Messrs. Townley and Whitehead
Bristol—Messrs. Tate and Nash
Leeds—Mr. James Jamieson and Mr. W. Cronhelm
_ _

Messrs. Weataerburn and Jennings
Birmingham —Mr. J. H. Lane
Newcastle—Mr. W. W. Dickinson
Bradford—Mr. William Mason
Sheffleld—Messrs. Bardwell and Sons
Hull—Mr. Francis Stamp
Wakefield—Mr. S. H. Armitage
Nottingham—Mr. C. Spencer
Worcester—Mr. W. Miles
York—Messrs.' Grayston and Erle
Blackburn—Mr. Thomas Boardman
Southamptoni—Mr. Joseph Clark, jun.
Exeter—Messrs. H. Beaumont and Co.
Edinburgh—Mr. Charles Couper, 30, St. Andrew's-square
Cheltenham—Mr. James Stokes
Leicester—Messrs. Williams and Sunderland Messrs. Eaglefield
and 0.

Lord Viscount Dillon, Belgrave-square, Ditchley, Oxon
Lord George Paget, Uxbridge House
Sir William Henry Clarke, Bart., Baker-street, Portman-square,
Director of the Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railway
Sir henry Webbe, Bart., Pall-mall, Director of the Rugby, Warwick,
and Worcester Railway
Major-General Parlby, C. 8., 18, Rutland-gate, Director of the Wor-
cester and Crewe, and Shropshire Union Railways
Major Beresford, M.P., 77, Pall-mall '
Admiral Aysceugh, Southampton, Director of the South and Mid-
lands' Junction Railway
Hugo Charles Meynell Ingram, Esq., Temple, Newsam, Leeds
J. R. Atkinson, Evil, J. P., Leeds
James Hoidforth, Esq., J.P., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Liver-
pool Direct, and Leeds, York and Midland Railways
Richard Hobson, Esq., M.D., Leeds
Joseph Robert Wiikin Atkinson, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leices-
ter and Bedford, and Rugby and Huntingdon Railways
John Ellershaw, Esq., Rotuldhay, Leeds
Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds, York and Midland,
ani South and Midlands' Junction Railways
William Singleton, Esq., Leeds, Director of the South and Midlands
Junction, and Leeds and Liverpool Direct Railways
Charles Hives, Esq., Chapel Allerton, Leeds
John Wilkinson, Esq., Gledho'vr Mount, Leeds, Director of the Leeds
and Liverpool Direct Railway
Thomas Heatherington Barker, Esq., Leeds
George Young, Esq., Ridge House, Leeds
William Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Oxford and Worcester
Extension, and West Midland Railways
Joseph Austin, Esq , Leeds
John Hillary Hebblethwaite, Esq., Thorp Arch, near Leeds
Richard Harrison, Esq., Woodlesford, Leeds
Charles Reynard, Esq., Hob-green, Ripley
The Worshipful the Mayor of Ripon
S. Pencoffs, Esq., Manchester
Joseph Clarke, Esq., Sherbum, near Ferrybridge
The Worshipful the Mayor of Doncaster
Sir Gregory Allnut Lewis, Recorder of Doncaster
Josept Birley, Esq., Alderman, Doncaster, late Major of Doncaster
Frederick Fisher, Esq., Westfield House, Doncaster, Member of the
Corporation
William Cooper, Esq., Doncaster
•
Frederick, William Flack, Esq., Gainsborough
William Lister Sharpe, Esq., Gainsborough
Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough
Henry Hall, Esq., Gainsborough
John Hepworth Hill, Esq., Leeds, Recorder of Pontefract
Francis Valentine Lee, Esq., Temple, Director of the Eastern Coun-
ties Railway
Richard Dutton, Esq., London, Director of the South and Midlands'
Junction, and West Midland Railways
Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., Clopton House, Warwickshire, Director
of the Warwickshire and. London Railway
Thomas Chitty, Esq., 8, Upper Gower-street, Director of the Rugby
and Worcester Railway
Captain T. Hodges, 65, Connaught-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of
the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
W. F. Beadon, Esq., John-street, Berkeley-square, Director of the
Essex and Suffolk Railway.
Thomas H. Evans, Esq., Lothbury, Mayor of Carnarvon, Director of
the Rugby and Worcester Railway
Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the
London and Westminster Bank, and of the Namur and Liege, and
South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Captain T. Chamfer, Halken-street, Belgrave-square, Director of the
Great Paris and Lyons Railway
Alexander Greig, Esq., Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square, Director
of the Leicester and Birmingham Railway
William Shaw, Esq., London, Managing Director of the Farmer's
Life Insurance Company
John Anderson; Esq., Director of the Church- of England Life In-
surance, and South and Midlands' Junction Railway
John James, Esq., Secondary of the City of London
T. G. Norbury, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
James Beech, Esq., 15, 44rosvenor-place, and Brandon Lodge, Co-
ventry, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Joseph Underwood, Esq., The Hall, Blackheath, Director of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and Director of the London
and Birmingham Extension Railway Company s
IV. P. Courtenay, Esq., Temple, Director of the Legal and Commer-
cial Life Insurance Company
Clarkson Stanfield, Esq., R.A. Mornington-place, Hampstead-roadl
John Helbert Helbert, Esq., Gloucester-place, London, Director of tilt
Leicester and Birmingham Railway
Rev. F. R. Hall, D.D., Rector of Fulbourne.:Cam*miclge
William Spooner, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, Director of
the Newcastle and Liverpool RallwaS,
J. M. Cottle, Esq., Leamington, Director of the Coventry, Nuneaton,
and Leicester Railway
Captain William Cousins, Director of the Goole and Doncaster
Railway
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Leeds and

Carlisle Rail l;-ay
George William Killett Potter, Esq., Secondary of the City of London
Martin John West, Esq., Preston Hall, near Leeds
Charles Robert Colman, Esq., Irongate Wharf, London
John Campbell Dicke:, Esq., New Hall by Neston, Cheshire, Direc-
tor of the Birkenhead and Holyhead Railway
William Shaw, Esq., Director ofthe Thames Embankment Company,
and Managing Director of the Farmers' Life Insurance Company
W. F. Fraser, Esq., Manchester-square, Director of the Manchester
and Rugby Railway
John Brocke Walbanke, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands'
Junction Railway
Major Morse Cooper, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway, Wargrave, Henley-on-Thames
James Burness, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Exten-
sion, and of the Staffordshire Potteries line, and London and Liver-

pool Direct R dlway, 64, Cornhill, London
Vero Clarke Kemball, Esq., Chester-place, Hyde Park-gardens,
Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Samuel Griffiths, Esq., Pense-fields, Wolverhampton, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Railway
Charles R. Court, Esq., Leamington, Director of the Coventry and
Birmingham Railway
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield
Richard Kelly, Esq., Chairman of the ANIS, Carlow, and Kilkenny
Junction Railway, and Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
James Reeves, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
Warren Stormes Hale, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester
Extension Railway
Colonel Fitch, Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension
Railway
John Inglis Jerdein, Esq., Director of the Manchester, Rugby, and
Southampton Railway
William Hallett, Esq., Kemp Town, Brighton, Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
John Dennis, Esq., Director of the Erewash Valley Extension
Railway
H. G. Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley, and South and
Midland Junction Railways
William Peppercorne, Esq., London, and Bexhill, Sussex
Thomas Callingridge, Esq., Highgate, Middlesex
J. Bennet Lucas, Esq., Manchester-street, Manchester-square
Willis Coventry, Esq., Director of the Britannia Life Assurance
Office
J. M. Douglas, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth Railway
Colonel Robert Douglas, C. 8., United Service Club, Director of Lon-
don and Birmingham Extension, and South Midlands' Junction
Railway
Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of South and Midland Junction
Railway
William Sloane, Esq. Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Chairman
of Church of England Life Insurance Company
John Anderson, Esq., E.1.C.5., Director of Church of England Life
Insurance and South Midlands' Junction Railway
John floor, Esq., Finsbury, Director of Tean and Dove Valley, and
Buxton, Leek, and Staffordshire Potteries Railway
George Henry Brook, Esq., Edgulin Lodge, Huddersfield, Director of
the Huddersfield, Vlalifax and Bradford Railway
John Wheelton, Esq., Bath-street, Newgate-street, Director of
Leicester and Bedford Railway
R. S. Wilson, Esq., Olson Hall, Warwickshire
Major White, Pall-mall
Sir William Twisden, 41, Dorset-street, Portman-square
Captain Wm. Dawson, R.N., Barnes, Surrey, Director of the Rhondda
and Ely Valleys Railway
William S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Director of
the Leeds and Carlisle, and the Great Grimsby, Louth and Lincoln
Railways
William G. Harrison, Esq., Hill House, Surrey, Director of the Wis-
beach, Peterborough, and Birmingham Railway
George R. Pye, Esq., Lavenham, Suffolk
Henry Chaytor, Esq., Chevereux Castle, Darlington, Director of the
Wisbeach, Peterborough and Birmingham Railway
R. Gray, Esq., 5, Adam-ceurt, Broad-street, Director of the Oxford,
Witney, and Cheltenham Extension Railway
Samuel Pocock, Esq., Bloomsbury-square, Director of the Bridge-
water and Minehead Railway
Nicholas MiCann, Esq., Parliament-street, London
William Lawrence, jun., Esq , Brixton, Surrey, Director of the Lon-
don and Manchester Direct Railway
Rev. Stephen Isaacson, M.A., Director of the Hull and Holyhead, and
Cheltenham, Oxford and Brighton Railway
Robert Charles, Esq.
Richard Lambert, Esq., Lyston-hall, Essex, Director of the East and
West Junction Railway
J. E. Bristowe, Esq., Beesthorpe-park
Bamford Samuels, Esq., Poultry
Sir John fancier, F.R.S., Deputy-Lieutenant of Essex, Walton, near
Saffron Walden, Essex
Thomas Strother, Esq., Claypit-house, Leeds, Councillor of the Bo-
rough of Leeds
George Price Hill, Esq., Gowan-tree-house, Hampstead
Richard Kelly, Esq., Director of the York and Lincoln, and Rhondda

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and Ely Valleys Railway
Charles R. Bigge, Esq., 17, Bryanstone-square
Rev. R. U. Fowler, Felton, near Bristol, and 7, Manchester-square,
Director of the Rhondda and Ely Valleys Junction ailways
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junc-
tion Railway

(A further list will be published in a few days.)
BANKERS.

London—
Doncaster—Yorkshire Banking Company
Leeds—Beckett and Co., and Leeds and Commercial Banking Com-
pany.
ENGINEERS

, and Messrs. George Leather and Son.
SOLICITOUS.
Leeds—John Blackburn, Esq.
London—W. B. James, Esq., 5, Basinghan-street.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.—Messrs. Parratt and Walmsley, Palace-

yard, Westminster ,
While two gigantic projects are struggling
tamed, would inevitably prove ftnitlessdtyork,
and between Lincoln
wealthy population between Lincoln and
accommodation. Not less
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Lea to Gaiusborou,gh, where it will cross the Trent, and thence to
Haxey-gate, whence a branch will issue to Doncaster. At this let-
ter place a communication will be formed with projected lines from
Manchester and Sheffield to the port of Goole; and by this arrange-
ment a communication will be opened with the inexhaustible coal
fields of Elsecar and Silkstone—a species not inferior to that of Dur-
ham and Sunderland—as well as with the limestone quarries at
Wannsworth, to valuable for building purposes. •
Proceeding to Thorne, the line reaches Snaith, and, continuing its
direct course westward to Selby, near to which it is crossed by the
Dull and Selby Railway, 'will have its northern terminus at the city
of York.
At Thorne, or some convenient point near to it, an auxiliary line
will emanate from the main trunk to Askern, and either by means
of the proposed branch to the Wakefield, Pontefract and Goole line
to that place, or by an independent course, as may hereafter be deter-
mined upon, will run through Pontefract direct to Leeds. By this
means the whole of the manufacturing districts of the West Riding
of Yorkshire and Lancashire will be rendered easily accessible. -
This line will be the shortest between Lincoln and York ; Lincoln
and Leeds ; Lincoln and Selby ; York and Selby ; and York and
Hull.

The gradients throughout the line are so favourable, that none exceed
15% feet in the mile, an instance unparalleled, if the length of it be
taken into consideration. There will be no tunnels ; the works will

That their engineer has completed his survey of the line, which
not only proves to be free from any material difficulty, but is re-
markably easy of construction, going along the valley of the Avon
the greater part of the distance.

They have concluded arrangements with the promoters of the
Evesham Valley Railway, under which the projected Evesham Valley
Company is incorporated with this Company, and powerful local in-
fluence is thus secured.

They are also at the present time engaged in negotiations, which
they are sanguine will secure very influential co-operation, both
local and otherwise.

The Shareholders are doubtless aware of the great interest caused
by the question of the broad and narrow gauges situated between
and communicating with important lines constructed on both gauges ;
this subject must, of course, claim the serious consideration of the
Directors of this line. The various and, in some respects, conflicting
interests and circumstances connected therewith must be duly
weighed before a final decision can be arrived at.

The Directors have the satisfaction to state that everything is in
such a state of forwardness as to ensure all the preliminary steps
being taken In due time, and that they continue to have unabated
confidence In the capabilities and value of the line. Its cost of con-
struction will be much below the average, whilst its through traffic
in passengers, goods, and minerals, will be large, and its local
traffic between the towns of Leamington, Warwick, Stratford,
Evesham, and Cheltenham, and their rich agricultural neighbour-
hoods, will be such as of itself to secure a good return for the out-
lay incurred. These considerations must undoubtedly command a
favourable issue to their application to Parliament next session.

Signed by order of the Directors, -----
R. HARTLEY KENNEDY, Chairman.
Leamington, Sept. 24, 1845.