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London, England, 1845-10-21 00:00:00

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES,

To the Provisional Committee of the Leicester, Melton Mowbr, y,
and Spalding Junction Railway.
Gentlemen,-1 request you to allot me shares of •:1/,
each in the above railway ;. and I undertake to accept the sante, or
such less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the e-
gulations of the Company, and to sign the necessary deeds, and ~o
pay when required the deposit thereon of 2/.25. per share.
Dated this day of , 1845.
Name in full ....
Proiession and Professional Res!dci,
Residence in fu11........... • .... • • • •
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QOUTHEIIN COUNTIES UNION, AN 1)
BRISTOL, BATH, and DOVER DIRECT RAILWA
70, King William-street, City (Entrance hi Clement's-lane).
Capital 1,500,000/., in 60,000 Shares of 25/. each.
Deposit 21. 12s. 6d.
COMMITTEE OF DIRECTION.
Sir RICHARD JENKINS, G.C.B. E.T.D., Chairman
WILLIAM HUGHES ifuGHEs., Esq. F.A.S. F.L.S. Alder•na-,
Deputy Chairman
R. Hopkins Anima, Esq. M.D. George Harrison, Esq.
William Bradley, Esq. Frederic Hewitt, Esq.
George Augustus Brown, Esq. P. Bennett Lucas,
James Clift, Esq. I Colonel Nieolls
Griflin Curtis Galt, Esq. 1 Thomas S. Richards, Esq.
The Committee have the "ratification to announce the aece:s:o, ;,f
Sir Richard Jenkins, E. 1.11., as Chairman of Ito Compact',
and of William Bradley, Esq. of Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Chairimni • ;
the Direct Western Railway Company as a member of their Direeth
They have also to state, the Engineer and Surveyor of the Ca
patty, in their reports, furnished by order twice a week, continue o
give the moat satisfactory assurances, which place it beyond a ‘7,,t
that they will be in every respect prepared to go to Parliament in e
ensuing session.
NOTICE.—The Share-list closed on the 16th inst.
In consequence of the extraordinary number of applications
shares in this Company, and the anxiety of the Committtee to rciaLT
an impartial and fair allotment, some days imust necessarily elai so
before their laborions duties can be completed, immediately aft,,T
which notice will by given, by advertisement, of the day on wh'.la
Letters of Allotment will be issued.
By order of the Board,
R. 11. GADESDEN, Secretary.

THE GREAT GRIMSBY, LOUTH, HORN:
CASTLE, LINCOLN, AND MIDLAND JUNCTION RA IL-
WA Y.

(Provisionally Registered.)
The Allotment of Shares being in course of issue, the Commit e
take this opportunity of informing parties who do not receive lett,!'s
of allotment, that, owing to the unprecedented demand for shat
beyond the number at their disposal, they have been compelled o
overlook the wishes of a very numerous and highly respectable c
of applicants, who are requested to accept this notice as a reply ,o
their individual letters.

By order,
THOMAS COXIIEAD, Secretary,
Offices, 6, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street,
20th Oct., 1845.

PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT.

r HE LIVERPOOL and HULL DIRE(
jl._ CONNECTING RAILWAY, via BLACKBURN, BCR7-:-
LEY, and LEEDS.
(Provisionally Registered.)
:Capital 1,200,000/., in 60,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. 6d. per Share.
This line has been projected for the purpose of forming the shorWit
and most direct route between the ports of Liverpool and Hull, a,•d
giving to the important towns of North Lancashire and the Wi—t
Riding of Yorkshire a direct railway communication with those po:
and each other.

The line, in conjunction with projected railways from Liverpool 'o
Blackburn, will proceed thence by Burnley across the extensive fin ;-
stone fields of Worsthorn to Shipley or Bradford, where it will uni
with lines now in existence, including the Leeds and Selby line.
A highly influential local and other Committee is in the course of
formation for carrying out the above object, and a detailed prospe,-
tus will shortly appear; in the meantime, all communication, bide-
ing applications for shares, in the usual form (accompanied by a ra-
ference), may be made to Charles William Cobby, of No. 22, Pater-
noster-row, London, the Solicitor to the Company, or to the follow-
ing brokers :—Mr. Thomas Rayson, 32, Coleman-street, Londe•
Messrs. Neilson, Mr. Gillow, and Messrs Fletcher mid Sharp, Liverpc, 1.
Messrs. Ridsdale and Co., Messrs. M'Leanand Dinwoodle, and Ides, t.
Cardwell and Sons, Manchester. Messrs. Ridsdale and Co., lr.
Richard Binney, Mr. J.M. France, and Messrs. Hicks and Co., Leeds.
Mr. Thomas Bordman, Mr. John Radcliffe, Mr. G. Y. BoOth,
Mr. W. H. Morrice, Blackburn. Mr. Thomas Wren, Preston. 8..
Welch, Lancaster. Messrs. Collinson and Flint, Hull. Mess:-
Knowles and Cooke, and Mr. William Mason, Bradford. Mr. Fred,.
rick Turner, Huddersfield, and Mr. Gorton, Bolton ; of all of whom
forms of application for shares may be obtained.
This project being the same in every respect to the one before a,t-
vertised under this title, parties who had applied for shares, and de-
sirous of obtaining an allotment in the present scheme, must rem,
their applications at an early period.
CHARLES WILLIAM COBBY, Solicitor to the Company.
22, Paternoster-row.