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London, England, 1845-09-26 00:00:00

T OTTINGHA Al". BIRMINGHAM, AND
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Newink and Lincoln.
(Provisionally Registe ed.)
Offices—(temporary), 19, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street
Capital 420,000!., in 21,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Sir John Penniston Milbanke, Bart., Great Portland- street
William Collins, Esq., M.P. for Warwick
Michael Thomas Bass, Esq., Burton-upon-Trent
Major Croft, 15, Regent-street, Deputy Chairman of the Chester and
Manchester Direct Railway
Fraser B. Henshawe, Esq., Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square,
Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction
Railway
Major Waller, K.H., Deputy Chairman of the South and Midlands
Junction Railway
Lieutenant-Colonel Hutchinson, F.R.S., 15, Upper Montague-street,
Montague-square, Director of the College of Civil Engineers
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., Hyde Park-place, D rector of the
Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle Junction Railway
T. E. Bigge, Esq., 19, Bryanstone-square, Director of the Warwick
and Cheltenham Railway
The Hon. W. E. Fitzmaurice, M.P. for Bucks, C he3ham-street,
Belgrave- square
Henry Dann, Esq., 42, Duke-street, St. James's, Director of the
Shrewsbury, Worcester, and Crewe Railway
Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Herts, Director of
the South and Midland Junction Railway
John Clement Rutting, Esq., Director of the National Bank of
Ireland
John Rawson, Esq., Halifax, Deputy Lieutenant for Yorkshiro, and
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Railway
The Hon. Colonel Leicester Stanhope, Ashburnham House, Chairman
of the Chester and Manchester Direct Railway
John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Leicester
Thomas Hackett, Esq., Derby, Director of the Great Manchester and
Southampton Railway
John Sanders, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Crewe Railway
John Fisher, Esq., Short-hill, Nottingham, and Watling-street,
London
Captain Horatio Thomas Austin, R.N., C.B.
Nathaniel Nadin, Esq., Stapenhill, Burton-upon-Trent
Capt. Gustavus Evans, R.N., Headley Grove, Surrey
Henry Francis Gisborne, Esq., Derby, Director of the Leicester and
Tamworth, and Derby, Gainsborough, and Great Grimsby Junc-
tion Railway
Edmund Sharpe, Esq., Swandlincote, Potteries
Sheldon Craddock, Esq., Leicester
John Gretton, Esq., brewer, Rurton•upon-Trent
Ambrose Moore, Esq., Milk-street, Cheapside
James Arbouin, Esq., Mark-lane, Director of the London and York
Railway
Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.8., Director of the East India Company
Lieut.-Gen. Taylor, Clarendon-place, Hyde Park
George Ledwell Taylor, Esq., 45, Hyde Park-square
Douglas Fox, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Crewe Railway
Matthew Gisborne, Esq., Walton Hall, Derbyshire
Frederick Cayley Worsley, Esq., Imberhorne House, Sussex
John Taylor, Esq., Cross-street, City, Director of the Commercial
Bank of London •

(With power to add to their number.)
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Bass and Sweeting, Burton-upon-Trent.
Messrs. Lacy and Bridges, 19, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street.
Messrs. Sir George Stephen and Hutchinson, 1, Exchange-buildings,
Royal Exchange.
BANKERS.
The London Joint-Stock Bank, Princes-street.
The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury, and 6, Henrietta-street,
Covent-garden.
The Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashbourne Union Banking Company,
Burton-upon-Trent, and Ashbourne.
Messrs. Evans and Co., Derby.
ACTING ENGINEER—EIijah Galloway, ESQ.
This line will commence at the Long Eaton station of the Midland
Counties Railway, and will proceed in a direct line to or near Castle
Donington, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Meacham, and Market Bosworth to
Nuneaton; joining, at Market Bosworth, the Birmingham branch,
projected by the Tamworth and Leicester Company, and at Nuneaton,
the projected Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester
Railway, at the point where that line crosses the Trent Valley line.
Thus a direct communication will be formed between the important
towns of Nottingham, Newark, and Unpin on the one side, and
Birmingham, Coventry, and Warwick on elle other side, at the same
time supplying a rich mineral and agricultural district with railway
advantages.

A reference to the map will show that this railway will also com-
mand other collateral advantages.
There is no doubt that the proposed railway communication be-
tween Cheltenham and Warwick will be effected, in which case the
proposed line will fill up the railway chasm at present existing be-
tween the counties of Gloucester and Worcester, and Nottingham
and Lincoln, and thus form a direct line from the Severn at Glouces-
ter to the Humber at Great Grimsby. An amalgamation of the Great
Grimsby and Sheffield Junction with the Grimsby Dock Company
being now determined on, a large amount of capital will be expended
in rendering Great 'Grimsby a port of the first importance ; and it
must be obvious that the traffic to that port, from the district south-
west of Warwick, will be vecy great.
The distance saved by the proposed line between Leamington,
Warwick, Coventry, and Nottingham will be about fourteen miles ;
and between Birmingham and Nottingham (by either of the projected
lines from Birmingham to Leicester) the saving will be about ten
miles. Being so much the shortest route from Birmingham to Not-
tingham and Lincoln, it must secure the traffic from Birmingham to
Nottingham, Newark, Lincoln, and the port of Great Grimsby ; and
by joining with the Erewash Valley Railway at Long Eaton, it must
command the traffic from Coventry, Warwick, and the district south
of those towns to Sheffield, Leeds, York, and the north of England
generally. It will also afford a direct communication between Not-
tingham and the district bet,. een Warwick and Worcester, by means
of the projected Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby, and the Warwick
and Worcester Railways.
The entire length of the line will be under thirty miles. The Com-
pany's Engineer has completed his preliminary survey, and has
made his report, that the character of the country through which
the line is intended to pass is unusually favourable for engineering
purposes.

It passes directly through a very productive mineral district, in-
tersecting the Leicestershire coal-fields and lime-works, and will
afford communication north and south, to the Derbyshire Potteries.
With such an assured immediate and prospective amount of traffic,
the profits on the small capital required cannot fail to be highly re-
munerative.
Powers for alLwrance of interest at four per cent. on the paid-up
capital will be taken, and the liability of shareholders limited to the
amount of their subscriptions.
TABLE OF DISTANCES.
Present Distances. About IBy proposed
Miles Route, about

Saving

Warwick to Nottingham, by
Hampton and Derby •••••• • • 72%
Warwick to Nottingham, by
Rugby and Leicester • • 673
Warwick to Lincoln ••• • • 103%
Coventry to Nottingham . • 58%
Coventry to Lincoln .......... ........
Birmingham to Nottingham • • 57
Birmingham to Lincoln ..
Cheltenham to Nottingham, by
Birmingham and Derby...... 103

Prospectuses may be had at the Temporary Of of the Company.
i 9, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street, London ; where also applica-
tions for shares, addressed to the Provisional Committee, will be
attended to.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional. Committee of the Nottingham, Birmingham, and
Coventry Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares of 201.
each, in the abeve railway ; and I undertake to accept the same,
or such less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the
regulations of the Company, and to sign the necessary deeds, and to
pay when required the deposit thereon of 21. 2s. per share.
Dated this day of 1845.
Profession and professional residence in MR
Residence in f 1111.• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
References ••• • • • • • --

LYNN, WISBEACH, & PETERBOROUGH,
MIDLAND COUNTIES, and BIRMINGHAM JUNCTION
RAILWAY COMPANY (Original Line).
(Provisionally Registered Bth of August, 1845.)
Capital 325,0001., in 15,000 Shares of 20/. each.
Deposit, 21.:25. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Hon. Edward Stafford Jemingham, Tonbridge Castle, Ton-
bridge
The Right. Hon. Lord George Paget, Director of the Rugby, Derby,
and Manchester Railway
The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Chairman of the York and
Lancaster Railway Company.
The Hon. C. M. Dawson, Director of the Dublin, Tullamore, and
Parsonstown Railway
Wynne Ellis, Esq., 31. P., Cadogan-place, Belgrave-square
Samuel Wells, Esq., Fen-office, Ely, Registrar of the Corporation
of the Bedford Level, and Clerk to the Commissioners of the
River Nene
Frederick Seymour, Esq., Kemp Town, Brighton
Hugh Seymour, Esq., 5, Carlton-terrace
Henry Erskine, Esq., 95, Mount-street, Gresvenor-square, and Kirby
Dale, Yorkshire
Robert Bell, Esq., Manchester-square, Chairman of the Galway and
Ennis Railway Company, &c.
James Gernon, Esq., 13, Conduit-street, Bond-street, Deputy-Chair-
man of the Galway and Ennis Railway Company
W. S. Wilson, Esq., Temple
John George Norbury, Esq., 3, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square, of
Mancetta-house, Atherstone, Director of the Boston, Stamford,
and Birmingham and other Railway Companies
William Horatio Harrison, Esq., Sunbury, Director of the South Staf-
fordshire Railway
Major Lindham, K.H., 8, New-street, Dorset-square, Chairman of
the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
Alexander Prince, Esq., 14, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Director of the Tring,
Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
Thomas George Smith, Esq., Doughty-street, Mecklenburgh-square,
Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway
William Holt, Esq., Inner Temple, and the Elms, Watford, Herts
A. A. Fry, Esq., Temple, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Man-
chester Railway
R. Lewis, Esq., Stratford-place, and Worcester Park, Surrey
George Thomas Smith, Esq., Oakham Ballemdaham
J. F. Raworth, Esq., Leicester, Director of the Leicester and Bir-
mingham Direct Railway Company
Charles Dickson Archibald, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park,
and of Rowland Hall, Lancashire, Director of the Leicester and
Tamworth Railway Company
Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad House, Edgbaston, Director of the South
Staffordshire Junction Railway Company
William Henry Collis, Esq., Handsworth, Staffordshire, Director of
the South Staffordshire Railway Company
James Upfill, Esq., the Green, Bromyard, Herefordshire, Director of
the Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway Company
Thomas Boleman Uptill, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Dover
arid Bristol Railway Company
Thomas Gibson Brewer, Esq., Gray's Inn
Hardy Hislop, Esq., Duke-street, St. James's, Director of the
Dublin, Tullamore, and Parsonstown Junction Railway Company
Colonel Fitch, Director of the York and Lancaster Company
Walter Unett, Esq., Captain 3d Light Dragoons, 21, Great James's-
square, Director of the Dover and Bristol Railway Company.
George Unett, Esq., Handsworth, Staffordshire. Director of the Dover
and Bristol Railway Company
Smith Whilock, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Dover and Bris-
tdl Railway Company
(With power to add to their number).
No stronger recommendation of this proposed line need be given,
than the fact that since it was provisionally registered on the Bth of
August last, the idea of the project has been pirated by companies
to whose cupidity the lines appear to hold the strongest temp-
tations.
The object of this Company is to form a direct communication be-
tween the extensive ports 01 Lynn and Wisbeach, and the mnnufae-
tiring and midland counties of England, by means of a direct rail-
way from Lynn, through Wisbeach, to Peterborough, thereby
completing the line from the eastern coast of England,
to No'thampton, and to Lincoln, Birmingham, Manchester, and
Liverpool. The inhabitants of Lynn, Wisbeach, and Peterborough
will then enjoy the advantage of a cheap and direct intercommunica-
tion between their respective towns, while the important commer-
cial interests connected with the 'manufacturing and export trades
between the midland counties and the eastern parts of the coast will
have very valuable additional facilities afforded them.
Lynn and Wisbeach should be, and by the proposed line will be-
come, to Birmingham and the midland counties, what Liverpool is
to Manchester, Lancashire, and the counties in the north More-
over, by the proposed line a direct railway intercourse will be esta-
blished between Lynn, Wisbeach, Southampton, Bristol, Gloucester,
&c., as also between Lynn and Swaffham, Dereham, Thetford,
Norwich, and Yarmouth. On the other hand, proceeding northwards,
the line at Peterborough fails into others which constitute the great
northern railways of England.
This line will net interfere with either of the proposed lines to Wis-
beach, as those lines will proceed towards London, through Hunting-
don, St. Ives, and Ely ; while this line is intended to afford means of
direct communication with all the manufacturing and midland
districts.
Apart from the large populations which will be benefited in the
towns, through which this line will run, there are, according to the
last census, more than a million of residents in Norfolk, Cambridge-
shire, and Northampshire, whom it will directly benefit. This calcu-
lation is quite apart from the advantages which will be con-
ferred upon many other districts, from each of which large traffic and
passenger returns may with certainty be calculated upon.
The districts through which the line will pass already possess an
immense trade, and the rapidity of its increase at present and for
years past exhibits in most favourable colours the enterprise of the
population and the capabilities of the country.
Within a few years the quantity of wheat sold at Wisbeach was
increased more than fourfold. In 1826, the number of quarters sold
there was 60,080; in 1834, it increased to 122,198 quarters; and in
1844 it was augmented to 250,000 quarters.
The increase in the corn trade at Lynn has also been very great.
abVery
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and
the increase last year (1844), comparatively speaking, was greater
than that at any other port in the kingdom.
A great impulse must be given to the trade of those ports by the
oto tons: they
proposed line. They must become the ports for Birmingham and
the whole of the midland district ; the productions, to save distance
and time, would be sent thither for exportation to the whole of the
north of Europe

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Some idea may be formed of the vast capacities for trade which
Lynn possesses, from the fact that in its harbour 200 vessels can
float ; and, by navigable rivers, it has a direct communication with
no less than eight counties, as stated by Mr. Wells, the registrar of
the Bedford Level, In his history of that vast undertaking.
Lynn imports large quantities of timber from the Baltic. Its coal
trade with Newcastle is very great ; it has also a considerable traffic
with Holland and Belgium, and it is the most direct and economical
port from which the wool of Norfolk, the Fein, Lincolnshire, North-

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RUGBY, DERBY,
RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and Bth Vic., c. 110.)
Capital, 1,500,0001., in 60,000 shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 2/. 12. Cal. per share.
(In order to insure compliance with the standing orders both of the
Lords and Commons.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Lord George Paget, Uxbridge. house, London
Sir William Young, Bart., Westbourne-terrace, Hyde-park, a Director
of the East India Company
Sir James Carmichael, Bart., 40, Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Dl-
rector of the Reading and Reigate Railway Company
Sir William Boothby, Bart., Ashbourne-hall, Ashbourne
Sir Robert Wilmot, Bart., Orraaston-hall, Derbyshire
Sir William Lowthrop, Bart., Alga-house, Scarborough, Chairrosa c f
the Hull and Barnsley Railway Company
Sir John Hensler, Deputy-Lieutenant ofEssex
The Mayor of Derby
John Parkinson, Esq., R.R.S., 80, Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park,
Director of the Irish Great Western, and the Northampton, Ran-
bury, and Cheltenham Railways
Thomas Stevenson, Esq., F.S.A., 37, Upper Grosvenor-street, Hyde
Park, a Director of the Irish Great Western, and the Reading and
Reigate Railways
Thomas Bent, Esq., M.D., Derby, Director of the Derby, Gains-
borough, and Great Grimsby Junction Railway
James Clifford, Esq., Broughton House, Shardlow, Derbyshire
William Cox, Esq., Brailsford, Derbyshire
David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland Hollow, Derbyshire
James Sutton, Esq., Shardlow Hall, Derbyshire
P. Wilmot, Esq., Welbeck-street, Cavendish-square
Major Thurston Dale, Ashbourne
Joseph Bridgett, Esq., Aldermanbury, London, Colney Hatch, near
Barnet, and Derby
Cecil Brook Boothby, Esq., Ashbourne Hall, Ashbourne, and Bolton-
street, Piccadilly
William Holt, Esq., Great Coram-street, and The Elms, Watford
A. G. Greaves, Esq., Derby
John Robinson, Esq., Silcoates Cottage, near Wakefield, Director of
the Bradford, Wakefield, and Midland and Leeds, York and Mid-
land Junction Railway
Edward Mammatt, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Samuel Simpson, Esq., of the Greaves, Lancaster, a Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Douglas Fox, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby, Gainsborough,
and Great Grimsby Junction Railway
George Robinson, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley
Junction Railway
Thomas M'Turk, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junc-
tion Railway
Matthew Pierpoint, Esq., Crown East, Worcestershire; Deputy Lieu-
tenant of the county of Worcester
Henry Brigstock, Esq., M.D., Derby, Director of the Derby, Uttoxe-
ter, and Stafford Railway
Joseph Lancelot DavenportlEsq., Derby, Director of the Derby, Ut-
toxeter, and Stafford Railway
Frederick Fox, Esq., Melbourne, agent for Lord Melbourne
James Joseph Dolman, Esq., Melbourne, Derbyshire
John Earp, Esq., Melbourne, Derbyshire
Charles Holbrooke, Esq., Alvaston, near Derby, Director of the
Derby, Uttoxeter and Stafford, and of the Derby, Gainsborough,
Stafford, and Grimsby Railway
Jeremiah Filcher, Esq., Russell-square, London, Director of the
Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction, and of the Grand
London and Dublin Approximation Railways
William Seymour, Esq., Montague-place, Russell-square, Director of
the Grand London and Dublin Approximation, and of the South-
ampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railways
William Chance, Esq., Spring-grove, Birmingham, Deputy-Chairman
of the Birmingham and Leicester Railway, Director of the Trent
Valley Midland, and of the Manchester and Southampton Junction
Railway
James Witham, Esq., Eaton-square
A. A. Fry, Esq., Temple
Thomas Geo. Smith, Esq., Doughty-street, Mecklenburgh-square,
Director of the Lynn, Wisbeach. and Peterborough Railway
John Hill, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Staf-
ford Railway
Thomas Mimes, Esq., Melbourne, Derbyshire
Thomas Hemsley, Esq., Melbourne, Derbyshire
Henry Orton, Esq., King's Newton, Derbyshire
George Vandeleur, Esq., King's Newton, Derbyshire
Mr. Samuel Robinson, Shaw House, Melbourne, Derbyshire
John Tewle, Esq., Borrowash Mills, Derbyshire
George Wooton, Esq., Chelston, Derbyshire
James Hollingworth, Esq. Melbourne and Derby
Wellington Ross Seymour, Esq., Montague-place, Russell-square
James Renshaw, Esq., West Heath House, Erith, Kent, Director of
the South Staffordshire Junction Railway,, and 3, White Hart-
court, Lombard-street
A. Inderwick, Esq., Brompton, Middlesex
John Groom, Esq., Member of the Town Council, Northampton
James J. M'Swiney, Esq., Sandal View, near Wakefield, a Director
of the Wakefield and Harrowgate Junction Railway
Richard Dransfleld, Esq., West-place, Dalton, Huddersfield, a Director
of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and of the Keighley, Halifax,
and Huddersfield Junction Railway
Robert Docksey Goodwin, Esq., Ashbourne
John Bainbrigge Storey, Esq., Lockington Hall, Leicestershire
Edward Doubleday, Esq., F.L.S., Great Surrey-street, a Director of
the Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railway
William Caldwell, Esq., Ince Hall, Wigan, Alderman of the Borough
of Wigan, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway, the
Staffordshire Potteries Railway, Liverpool and Manchester Direct
Railway
Henry Stock, Esq., Bedggelert, North Wales, Director of the Great
Eastern and Western
John Campbell Dicker, Esq., New Hall, by Weston, Cheshire, Director
of the Birkenhead and Holyhead Railway
John Curzon, Esq., Derby
James Peet, Esq., Derby
William Taylor, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby, Gainsborough and Great Grimsby Junction Railway
Charles Milnes, Esq., Dale-house, Matlock, Derbyshire
Henry George Gascoyne, Esq., Lea-hall, Rugeley, Staffordshire
Perry Dicker., Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
George Clark, Esq., Windham-lodge, Brighton, and Rusholme Park,
Manchester, a agistrate
James Consterdine, Esq., Rosinhall, Manchester, a Magistrate
F. R. Hodgson, Esq., Oakey, near Manchester, Merchant
Edward Attolden, Esq., Aston-hall, Derby;
Henry Taylor, Esq., Wigan, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct ; the York and Lancaster ; the Eastern, Western, and
Southern, or Ipswich and Southampton ; Reigate ; the Halifax and
Huddersfield ; the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction ;
the Staffordshire Potteries; the Dover and Bristol; and of the
Cheltenham and Oxford Railways
Captain T. Folliott Powell, Ashbourne
Thomas Byrom, Esq., Wigan, a Director of the York and Lanais.
ter and Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and the Keighley, Halifax
and Huddersfield Junction Railway
Thurston Dale, jun., Esq., Ashbourne
John Douglas Cooper, Esq., Holm College, Ashbourne
C. Kelly Cooper, Esq., Ashbourne
John Witham, sen., sq., Ashbourne
Thomas J. Mountfort, Esq., Ashbourne
James Osborne, Esq , Ashbourne
Samuel Dawson, jun., Esq., Walton Bank, Ashbourne
John Smith, Esq., Barton House, Ashbourne
Thomas Smith, Esq., Blore Hall, Staffordshire
John Bloor, Esq., Tutbury
Samuel Fox, jun., Esq., Derby
John Smith, Esq., Biddle Temple, and 2, Bury-street, St. James's,
London, Director of the Leeds, York, and Midland Railway
Joseph Peel, Esq., Singleton Brook, Manchester
Edward Lucas, Esq., Member of the Town-Council, Birmingham
John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Leicester, a Director of the Leicester
and Birmingham, and London, Bristol, and South Wales Railway
John Osier, Esq., Hull, Member of the Provisional Committee of the
Hull and Barnsley Junction and Leeds and Carlisle Railway
C. Bamford, jun., Esq., Hull, Member of the Provisional Committee
of the Hull and Barnsley Junction and Leeds and Carlisle Railway
R. B. Childs, Esq., Swarkenstone Lewes, near Derby
(With power to add to their number).
ACTING COMMITTEE.
Jeremiah Filcher, Esq., Russell-square, London
John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.i., 80. Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park
Thomas Stevenson, Esq., F.S.A., 37, Upper Grosvenor-street, Hyde.
park
The Mayor of Derby
Matthew Pierpoint, Esq., Crown East, Worcestershire, Deputy-Liett
Co. Worcester
Joseph Bridgett, Esq., Aldermanbury, London
William Seymour, Esq., Montague-place, Russell-square
A. A. Fry, Esq., Temple
Thomas George Smith, Esq., Doughty-street, Mecklenburgh-square
A. Inderwick, Esq., Brompton, Middlesex
Sir Wm. Young, Bart., Westbourne-terrace, Hyde-part
Sir William Boothby, Bart., Ashbourne-hall, Ashbourne
David Wheatcro' t, Esq., Buckland Hollow, Gerbyshire.
ENGINEER—CharIes Blunt, Esq., C.E.
SOLICITOR—Thomas Gibson Brewer, Esq., 13, Gray's Inn-square.
STANDING COUNSEL—WiIIiam Holt, Esq., Chancery-lane.
COUNTRY SOLICITORS.
Derby—John Moss, Esq.
Manchester—Messrs. Crossley and Sudlow
Ashbourne—John Fox, Esq.
Ashby-de-la-Zouch—Henry Minion Hawkesworth, Esq.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT.—Thomas Baker, Esq., Spring-gardens.
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Masterman, Peters, Mildred, and Co.
Derby—Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company
Ashbourne—The Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashbourne Union Bank.
AGENTS.
London—Thomas G. Smith, Esq., 2, Warnford-court, Throgmorton.
street
Ashbourne—Thomas Jones, Esq.
Leicester—Messrs. Elgood and Harrison
Hull—Messrs. Flint and Tootal
Liverpool—Messrs. J. B. and D. Neilson.
SECRETARIES.—WIIIiam Richard Scott, Esq. ; Horace Green, Esq.
Offices of the Company, 33, Gresham-street.
The Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway is a direct line from
London to Manchester, coming from London to Rugby, along the
London and Birmingham line, and proceeding from Rugby to Hinck-
ley through Market-Bosworth and Ashby-de-la-Zouch, to Derby,
thence to Ashbourne, by Leek to Macclesfield, and along the Mac-
clesfield and Stockport, and Stockport and Manchester Railways, into
Mandiester.
A branch to Buxton is in contemplation.
The principle of this railway is to obtain a direct through line be-
tween some of the most important districts in the kingdom with the
least possible amount of new railway, and, consequently, the smallest
expenditure of capital.
It will also establish the shortest direct communication between
Derby and London, Sheffield and London, and between all the towns
on the North Midland Railway and London.
The Manchester, Derby, and Rugby Railway, will open a direct
communication between Manchester and Derby, and will consider-
ably shorten the distance between Manchester and Nottingham and
Manchester and Leicester.
The line from Derby to Rugby will establish the direct communi-
cation from that town to London, which has been so long considered
desirable by the inhabitants.
The same will apply to Sheffield, when the Sheffield and Chester-
field branch of the North Midland Railway is made.
The Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway, in connexion with
the Oxford and Rugby, and Oxford, Southampton, and Gosport Rail-
way, forms a direct Manchester and Southampton line.
THE GREAT ADVANTAGES
Of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway, over the other pro-
jects into Manchester, among oth'rs, are—
First. That there are only seventy-five miles of railway to be made
in place of one hundred and eighty-nine.
Second. That it is a more direct line from London to Manchester
than even the proposed direct lines.
Third. That it interferes with no existing railway property or
vested interests.
Fourth. That it passes through a District rich in manufactur es,
agriculture, and minerals, but which—more especially as regards its
agricultural produce, and a convenient system of intercommunica-
tion for the conveyance of that agricultural produce, to supply the
large manufacturing towns in the vicinity—has been hitherto left to-
tally without railway communication.
Fifth. That it passes through the towns in its route, instead of
avoiding them.
Sixth. That the whole line of railway from Rugby to Manchester
will be completed and in working order within ten months from the
passing of the Act of Parliament.
Seventh. That the maps, plans, estimates, and other documents
required by the standing orders of Parliament will be lodged with the
parish clerks, the clerks of the peace for the counties, and the
Parliamentary offices, on the 10th of November next, being twenty
days within the time required by the regulations of Parliament.
In the allotment of shares a preference will be given, to the exi
tent of 10,000 shares, to the holders of stock in the London and Bir-
mingham Railway; also, of 2,000 shares to the shareholders in the
Oxford, Southampton, and Gosport Railway Company ; of 1,000
shares to the Oxford and Rugby Railway Company ; and 2,000
shares to the Manchester and Birmingham Railway Company.

RUGBY, DERBY, AND MANCHESTER
RAILWAY.

Notice is hereby given, that the last day for receiving applications
was Friday the 19th, and in consequence of the great number re-
mitted far exceeding that to be allotted, no others can possibly be
received,