The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-24 00:00:00

SUN, LON DON, IVEDN_ESDA.Y EVEN ING, SEPTEMBER 24 1845.

W ORCESTER AND LEOMINSTER
RAILWAY, via Bromyard.
(Registered provisionally.)
Capital 600,0001., in 30,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. .
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Henry George Ward, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Great Eastern and
Western Railway Company
John Barneby, Esq., M.P., llrockampton, Bromyard
William Barneby, Eaq., Clayton Park, Bromyard. Magistrate of
Herefordshire
James Best, Esq., Worcester
Mr. wool-merebant and wool-manufaeturer, Leo-
Ldtwattannister,
erard
William Bestow, Esq., Surrey-place, London
Walker Chamberlayne, Esq., Worcester, Royal Porcelain Manu-
factory
George Beauchamp Cole, Esq., Chester-street, Grosvenor-place, Di-
rector of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company -
Mr. James Coucher, wool-merchant, Worcester
Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Copthall-court, and Old Palace, Richmond,
Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway
Captain Charles Dutton, Bredenbury-house, Bromyard
Thomas Dowgiasse, Esq., Marlborough-place,-.-6t.- Jelita:Wood, Di-
rector of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company
Henry Clarke Duppa, Esq., Quarry-house, Boughton, Morchelsea, I
Kent, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Com-
pany
James Eckley, Esq., Bromyard
John Freeman, Esq., Gains, Bromyard, Magistrate of Herefordshire
and Worcestershire
John Matthew Gulch, Esq., Banker, Worcester, Director of Wor-
cester, Warwick, and Rugby Railway
Mr. Edwin Gardner, corn, hoe, and seed merchant, Worcester
E. W. Howes, Esq., Bromyard
Richard Hemming, Esq., Livington, near Bromyard, and Kingsland,
Leominster
James Hemming, Esq., Church House, Bromyard
Mr. John Hughes, wool merchant, Clopgate, Worcester
Mr. John Hood, merchant and carrier, Worcester
Mr. George Hill, of the firm of Messrs. Hill and Turley, Worcester
Henry James, Esq., Leominster, Mayor of Leominster
John Kempson, Esq., sett., Birchey-fields House, iironnyard
John Kempson, jun., Esq., ilirchey-fields Home,
Breinyard
John Wheeley Lea, Esq., Vice Chairman of the Severn Navigation
Company, Managing Director of the Droitwich Patent Salt Com-
paoy, and a Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway
John Lilly, Esq., Alderman of Worcester,
Forgo-
lain manufactory. Worcester royal Force-
Edward-Lloyd, Esq., Sheriff of Worcester
William Lawrence, Esq., Brixton, Director of the London and
Manchester Direct
James Macmillan, Esq., Southampton, Director of the !Southampton,
Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railway
Arthur Mann, Esq., Woburn-square, Director of the Great Eastern
and Western Railway
Mr. F. 11. Needham, mercnant, Worcester
Mr. Powell, wino-merchant, Worcester
Mr. James Rea, of the firm of Mesas. Bea and Sons, malsters,
Worcester
Mr. J. P. Rea, of the firm of Messrs. Bea and Sons, maltsters, Wor-
cester
Jas. Reeves, Esq , Cheapside and Layton, Director of the Direct
London and Manchester, and Great Manchester and Rugby, and
Southampton Railway Companies
James Robertson, Esq., Worcester
Joseph Sturton, Esq., Munderneld House, Bromyard, and Lincoln's
Inn, London, Magistrate of Hereford.
James lipflll, Esq., The Green, Bromyard, Director of the Stafford-
sh!re and Shropshire, and Dover and Bristol Railvrays'
T. P. P. Wight, Esq., Tedstono Court, Bromyard
Philip Warburton, Esq., Bromyard. High Bailiff of Bromyard
Philip Warburton, Gent., Brotnyard
John Walker, Esq., Luisley Court, Bromyard
Mr. Wells, Hop-merchant, Worcester
Mr. Woodward, Hop-merchant, Worcester
John Henry Walsh, Esq., Worcester
Mr; James Wall, Merchant and Carrier, Worcester
(With power to add to their number.)
Cater ENGINEER—WiIIiam Gravatt,Esq,,,Eß:S.
ASSISTANT EseiNksa—S. F. Griffin, Esq., C.E.
SOLICITORS..
Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate.street, London
Henry Foley, Esq., Worcester
RANKERS.
London—The London and tYestminster Bank, Lothbary
The Commercial Bank of London.
Worcester—Messrs. Farley, Lavendar, and Co.
LOCAL AGENT,.
Messrs. W. and F. Devereaux, Bromyard
John Bedford, Esq., Leominster
This line will diverge from the line of the Great Eastern and
Western Railway, near Worcester, and proceeding by Brom-
yard, will end at Leominster, at which point it will unite with the
proposed lines connecting llereford and Shrewsbury with North
Wsles.
The communication by railway between these important towns
and the continuous hop and cider districts has been entirely left
unprovided for by existing arranaements, and this line is brought
forward under the auspices of the Great Eastern and Western
Railway Csimpany, on the strong representations and request of a
large and most influential body of the landed gentry of the neigh-
bourhood.
The object proposed is to make a direct communication between
Leominster, Brornyard, and Worcester, which latter tows' has allays
been the natural market for. the produce of these districts, and to af-
ford the inhabitants the most direct communication with London, as
compared with other lines, by upwards of 30 mles.
No person will be liable for more than his deposit till the act is ob-
tained, and power will be appliel for to allow interest at 41. per cent.
on all calls from the time of their respective payments, as well as to
limit the liability of the shareholders to the amount of their subscrip-
tions.
Applications for Shares, in the ann •xed form, to be made to the
Provisional Committee, at the Office, 3, Gresham-street, London,
or Messrs. John Shewell and Son, sharebrokers; Tokenhouse-yard ;
Messrs. B. and M. Boyd, 4, Bank-buildings, and Mr. J.-hn Smith, 3,
Shorter's-court, London ; Mr. John Duncuf, , sharebroker, Manchester;
Mr. John O'Neil, sharebroker, Manchester ; Messrs. Schultz and Carr,
sharebrokers, and Messrs. Reynolds and Son, Liverpool; Messrs. H.
and C. Beardshaw, sharebrokers, Leeds; Messrs. Tate and.
Nash, sharebrokers, Bristol ; Mr. James Pearson, sharebroker; Bir-
mingham ; Messrs. Samuel Hutchinson and Co., sharebrokers, Brad-
ford ; Mr. William Miles, sharebroker, Worcester ; Mr. Robert Allan,
sharebroker, Edinburgh ; Mr. William Gordon, sharebroker, Aber-
deen; Messrs. Black and Co., sharebrokers, Buchan-street, Glasgow;
Messrs. Buchanan and Aitken, sharebrokers, Glasgow; and Messrs.
Bruce and Symes, sharebrokers, Dublin ; of whom prospectuses may
be had.

THE NORTHERN and SOUTHERN
CONNECTING RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered under 7 and 8 Viet., cup. 110.)
Capital 900,040/., in 36,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 21. 12s. 6,1. per Share.
Uniting the London and Birmingham, Great Western, the South
Western, the London and Brighton, South-Eastern, and Northern
and Eastern Railways, and accommodating, en route, Hertford, Hat-
field, St. Albans, Watibrd, Rickmansworth, Uxbridge, West Drayton,
Colnbrook, Staines, Egbax, Cliertsey, Weybridge, Leatherhead,
Dorking, and Reigate.

procally with the counties through which the railway is intended to
pass, the revenue upon the capital will yield at least 10 per cent.
As the project developes itself, the most cheering patronage is
manifest from influential landowners and other pro, rietors declaring
that the formation of this line is indispensable to meet the demands
and who have promised to give this project their undivided support.
Government for a length of time have deemed it advisable to send
troops with all their materiel by railways, and the facilities which
can be thus afforded will form a communicating medium with ever
military depot throughout Great Britain.

Suttee It to state that coal, wool, timber, corn, bark, lime, alb..
every variety of product or manufacture mast inevitably find their
transit by this railway, to meet the demands or exigencies of se-
ven' counties hitherto subjected to the impost of incalculable ex-
pense and delay attendant on goods at present being compelled to
pass through London.
Souctroas—Messrs. Miller and Carr, 47, Easteheap, Loudon.

Applications for Shares to be made to Messrs. Miller and
Carr, 47, Easteheap ; and Messrs. Johnson, Longden and Co.,
Tokenhouse-yard ; anti to the local solicitors, Messrs. Hart and
Hart, Dorking ; Messrs. Riches and Woodbridge, Uxbridge I- Richard
John Cole, E ChsrtoeY; Richard Grove Lowe, Esq., St. Alban's ;
,Kdvrard Rotief ice, Esq., Hertford ; John Sedgwick, Esq., Wat-
ford ; and also to Mr. Crewdson. Liverpool ; Mr. S. Slater, Man-
ch' ster; Messrs. Watson, Tootal, and Barff, Leeds; Messrs. Charles
Bell and Co., Leeds; Mr. J. Wright, Birmingham ; Mr. J. Bowden,
Hull; and Messrs. George Edwards and Son, Bristol.
W. JENKINS, Secretary.
Temporary Offices, 47, Eastcheap, London.
. FORM OF APPLICATION. _ _

To the Provisional Committee of the Northern and Southern Ca-
neeting Railway.

cleiatlemen,—l request you to allot me Shares it
above undertaking ; and I hereby undertake to pay the deposit
.upon them or any smaller number that may be allotted to me, an
to execute the Parliamentary contract and subscribers' agreenaen
when required to do so.
I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
Name in full ....- ............
Business or profession ..... ......, •
Reference
Date of applicatiOn • . ... • . • • • • •• • •

THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN
CONNECTING RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that no Applications lbr Shares in this
Railway will be received from parties resident in London or its vici-
nity after THURSDAY, the 25th, and elsewhere after SATURDAY, the
27th instant.

By order of the Committee of Management,
W. JENKINS, Secretary.
Temporary °faces, 47, Eaateheap, Sept. 19, 1845.

ROYAL. NORTH OF SPAIN RAILWAY.
The undersigned Directors, in whom the management of the
affairs of this company is now vested, deem it due to the Proprietors
to state, that measures•are in progress which will put the immediate
an 4 prospective advantages of this undertaking to the severest test.
Should the result be such as the Directors confidently anticipate,
the position of the Shareholders will be materially improved by the
co-operation of parties of the highest experience in rail ,ray affairs.
(Signed) WILLIAM It. COLLETT, Chairman.
WILLIAM JACKSON, Deputy Chairman.
JOSHUA WALMSLEY.

United Peninsular Railway Offices, Royal Exchange-buildings,

22d Sept. 1845

WELSH SOUTH 2
STOW, FOREST OF
JUNCTION EXTENSION RAIL'
(Registered P
Capital 900,0001., in 45,1
Deposit, 21. 2e
No Shareholder to be liable beyo
PROVISIONAL
The Right Hon. Lord Roesmore
The Right Host. Col. Dawson
Darner,
The Hon. C. Pelham Villiers, M.P. I
The Hon. Robert Gore, M.P. '

MIDLAND,
DEAN, AND GLOUCESTER
MAY.

'rovisionally.)
,100 Shares of 201. each.
s..per Share.
and the amount of his Share.
COMMITTEE.
'William Hughes Hughes, Alder•

man of London
Col. Hugh Caldwell
George Lawton, Esq.
W. F. Andrew, Esq.
C. It. Coleman, Esq.
Joseph bay e. Esq.
John Wheelton, Esq.
George Hall, Esq.
Major White
Captain J. P. Macdougal
William Shelford Fitzwilliam, Esq,
William Frederick Beadon, Esq.
Hartley Kennedy, Esq.
James Beech, Esq.

The lion. Col. Weatenra,
Sir Henry Hanleke, Bart.
Sir Henry Webb, Bart.
Sir William Twysden, Bart.
Sir William Bacon Johnson, Bart.'
Sir Henry Seale, Bart
William Collins, Esq., M.P.
Thomas Gill, Esq., M.P.
Edmund Dayrell, Esq., High
Sheriff of Buckingkamshire.
William Strahan, Esq.
(With power to add

COMMITTEE OF
Edward Francis Dayrell, Esq.,
Chairinan • ' •

Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart,
Sir William Twysden, Bart.
Edward Hall, Esq.

to their number.)
tANAGEMENT.
Major White
W. P. Andrew, Esq.
C. R. Coleman, Esq.
W. S. Fitzwilliam, Esq.
W. F. Beaton, Esq.

INGINEED.
William Gravatt, Esq., F.R.S.
LONDON DA N ELS.

Messrs. Glynn and Co.; ;;liiiiesaro.Stralcan, Paul, and Co.. Strand.

PIOVISCIAL lANKEZII.
Messrs. liromage and Co„ Chepstow
Messrs. Bailey, Greatrez, and Co., Monmouth
Messrs. Williams and i4Ons, 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. IL Phelps, Newport. Monmouthshire

Messrs. A'Beckett, Son, and SympsOn, 7, Golden-square, London

LOCAL AGENTS.
Chepstow—Messrs. Baldwin and Morgan, Solicitors
Gloncester—Mesers. Ellie, Elliott, and Co., Solicitors
SECEETAET.
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
Plercifield, the far-famed Windcliff, and Tintern Abbey, to the towns
of Usk and Pontypool, and over the centre of the great iron and c al
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 Yale Railway,
which connects Merthyr Tydvil and Aberdare with Cardiff—thus
forming 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 tour and a half, and
between Newport and Cardiff to live hours, which at present, even by
the aid of existing railways, cannot be performed In less than (tom
ten to twelve hours.

It will be lOund 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 tratlic 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 flrom 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 scut 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 soperior quality,,and in great
abundance. Tho 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 leer than
20s. per ton, whilst by this railway, and those it is intended to Join,
the average cost at tho rate usually charged for such goods on rail-
ways will effect a saving of at least 25 per oent., and be conveyed

within twenty-four hours, Instead of theaverageToyage round the

Land's End of three, and not unfrequently six weeks, and with the
very important a Ivantage 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 15e. 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
the difficult and expensive transit by the River Severn and Canals.
Large quantities of iron ore, known as" Haamatete ore,"ls 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 an:
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 2h to 30
per cent. less than tt costs at present, and at the same time leave a
handsome remuneration to the RallWay Companies.

The Committee of Management have gone very eareflfily into
estimates of the goods traffic es-tecially, and they, feel justified In
expressing a decided opinion that the revenue from this source alone
will yield 5 par cent. on the proposed capit►l of the Company, in
addition to the reveuue 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 Oluaorganshire ; 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 of Cape! Ilimbury Leigh,
Esq.
2. The Blaendare Iron and Coal Works of R. J. Melva, Esq .
M.P. •
3. The extensive Tin Works of Messrs. Conway, Messrs. Fother-
gill, and Messrs. Jenkins
4. The l'entwyn, Golonos, and Varteg Iron Works and Rolling
Mills of Messrs. Williams
5. The British Iron Company
6. The Itlaenavon Iron Company
7. The Nantylylo, Messrs. Bally, Brothers
8. The Coalbrooke Vale, Messrs. Brewer
9. The Cwu Celya and Bleina Company
10. The Beaufort, Messrs. Bally, Bmthers
11. The Ebbw Vale, Messrs. Darby
12. The Victoria Company

13. The Abberearne, Pontymister, and Tydee Tin Works, Marne
Lewis
14. The Tredegar Iron Company
15. The Shirhovrey, Messrs. Darby

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16. The Rhymney and Bute Company
• ' - -- • •• -

17. The DOwlais Iron Works, Sir John attest, Bart.. M.P., and
Company
It. Carfartha. Wm. Crawshay, Esq.
And added to which, In the vicinity, are the extensive works and
collieries in the Aberdare Valley.
ttoheixnpteeentdwediclabilewagyro. greatly extended, by
And on either side of the intended railway are collieries raising
and vending about one million and a half tons of coal per anum,
In the districts of Merthyr, Aberdare, and westward, there exists
an inexhaustible abundance of a peculiar description of coal, which,
twhhelcfahcilltitlise.nootffeurnedreas:riolaubglhe
e
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', ; 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 ls. to 3s. per ton
less price than at present. Trader 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
nasetnooenwsLio-dfneorduedonnd,mtwroahrd:rejeuwdsliticeliao;ctooopealfoninnesdusaoeduste. with Chepstow,
Gloucester, Cheltenham, Witney, Oxford, and the numerous Inter-
tate
has
for the Extension line from Chepstow to the Taff Volpe",
medlt
the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway
Company at present, but powers are thateanCotompalatenyr
proposed to be taken for uniting
the two Combection. anies hereafter, with the anent of their respective
Preference will be given to those locally interested, and to the
Junctio
holders of
R Shares in the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester
n ailway.
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-
tape to the Shareholders than the present. Prevision will be made
in the Act of Parliament which will be applied for in the next ses-
Mon to limit the liability of the Shareholder to the amount of his
shares, and to allow four per cent. on the calls.

until an Act of Parliament shall be obtained, the affairs of this
Company shall be under the control of the Managing Directors, to
whom power is given to allot the Shares, and to apply the fluids of
the Company in payment of all the expenses incurred in its forma-
thin, and in the preparation of the Plans and Sections submitted to
Parliament.

Power will be applied fbr in the Aet (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 Due, to make
branch lines, or enter into any arrangements, by ant.d,tmation 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, Throsrmorton
Street, London ;—Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and Co.. Cheltenham
Messrs.
Messrs. Tate arid 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 Muslin+. 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 Giouces-
tsr Junction Extension Railway; and ; do hereby undertake to ac-
cept the same, or any less number you may allot me, and to pay the
deposit of 21. 2s. per share, and all future calls thereon, and to sign
the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when re-
quired.

Dated this
Varna hi full.. • ..... • ...

day of

1843.

Residence. • .. • • • • • • • • • • • • • ......... • • • • • • • • • •
Business or Profession • • •• • • •
tatoatie. Renidellon. And trOatop, et
6414tatt, Of ApplXtat rp.'e?V=rl YarYl'.. •

DIRECT• WESTERN RAILWAY
Upon the Broad
From London m the Land's-end • w'h Diverging Lines to Bath and
Blchrew •terra vely.
(Provisionally ..tered.)
Capl 41, 3 000,000/., in 120,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., Director of the South Mid-
land Railway, Brookes' Club, St. James's-street
Sir Francis Dugdale Astley, Bart., Everly House, rewsey, Wilts
Sir Henry Webbe, Bart., 103, Pall-mall
Erederick Hodgson, Esq., M.P. for Barnstaple, 3, Carlton Gardens
Howard Elphinstone, Esq., M.P., 19, Eaton-place, London
Ralph Neville, Esq , M.P. for Wind4or, Hill-street, Berkeley-square
Charles Barry Ballwin, M.P. for Totness, 6, Parliament-street
Hon. Percy Evans Fzeke. 3, Belgrave-square
Thomas Nugent Vaughan, Mil., 37,- Grosvenor-place, London
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the,
Sheffield and Manchester and Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway

tmnpanies
London, Director of the Direct Sfanchester and London and Direct
Sir John Key, Bart 9, King's Arms-yard, Alderman of the City of

Liverpool and Leeds Railway Company
Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Griffin's Wharf, Tooley-street, Alderman
of the City of London, and Director of the London and Westmin-
ster Bank, and of the London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidder-
minster Railway
Thomas Challis, Esq., 32, Wilson-street, Finsbury, Alderman of the
City of London
Edward Harrisson Barwell, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the North-
ampton. Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway, and Director of the
South Midland Railway
Joseph Armitage, Esq., Milt's Bridge House, Huddersfield, ')eputy
Lieutenant and a Magistrate for the West Riding of Yorkshire,
Chairman of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
William Gordon Thomson, Esq., 33, Gloucester-ro.d, Hyde Park,
Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham, and
South Midland Railways
Donald Maclean, Esq., 37, Brunswick-square, London, Deputy
Chairman of the Trent Valley Continuation Rails'. ay
Thomas Lawrence, Esq., 3, St. Mary Axe
Philip W. Courtnay, Esq., Chapel-street, Beigrave-square, London
Millis Coventry, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street
Barnet L. Philips, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, and
George-street, Mansion House
John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, Tunbridge, Kent, Director of
the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Boswell Middleton Jolland, Esq., Holderness House, near Hall,
Deputy Lieutenant and Magistrate for the East Riding of Yorkshire
Charles Robert Coleman, Ebq., Irongate Wharf
William Eales, Esq., Mincing lane, London, late Director of the
DCVO* and Cornwall Banking Company
Charles Downes, Esq.' Warwick-street, Charing-cross, Director of
the South Midland Railway
Martin Stutely, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park, London,
Director of the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine, and the South
Essex Railways
Francis Ede, Esq., 34, Great Winchester-street
John Griffith Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Director of the Londonderry
and Coleraine and the Londonderry and Enniskillen Railways
John Addis, Esq., Rotherhithe and Mark-lane, London, Director of
the Central Terminus Railway, and of the Licensed Victuallers'

Fire and Life Insurance Company
James Renshaw, Esq., I'Vlitehart-court, Lombard-street, and West
Heath House, Ef.th, Kent, Director of the South Staffordshire

Railway
Thomas Drane, Esq., Pall-mall, and St. Mary Church, Devon, Three-
tor of the Brldport and Exeter, and Goole and Doncaster Railways
Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brembo Ironworks, Wrexham, and Cannon-

street, London
IL G. Atkinson, Esq., Upper Gloucester-place, Regent's Park
George M'lntosh,Esq., 127, Seymoar-street, Portman-esparto
Frederick Solly Flood, Esq., Alpha-road, Regent's Part, London
Major White, 10, Pall-mall, London, Director of the South Midland
Railway
Charles Bleaden, Esq., Coulsden-court, Surrey, Chairman of the Li-
censed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company
J. G. Hammack, Esq., Essex House, Mile-end-road, Director of the
Licensed Victualler,' Fire and Life Assurance Company
Patrick Fras. Johnston, Req., Great Cumberland-place
Joseph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, mineries, Director of the London and
Blackwall Railway Company
W. D. Bruce, Esq., F.S.A., 17, Charles-street, St. James's, and Ripon
Cuthbert Woodstock, Esq., Grove-road, North Brixton
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanstone-street, Portman-
square, Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth, and
the Great Western Extension Railways
George Hammond Whalley, Esq., 30, Ps.ll-mall, London, Assistant
Tithe Commissioner
William Hagan, Esq., 60, Baker-street, Portman-square
William Breynton, Esq., Montpelier, Cheltenham, and Temple, Lon-
don, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth Railway
Richard Harris Purcell, Esq., Cambridge-street, Hyde. Park, Lon-
don, Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Railway

Company . ,
Philip Ra'ter, Esq., Euston-square, London, Auditor of the London
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and Blackwell Railway Company
Charles James Heath, Esq., 6, London-street, Mark-lane
Captain E. N. Trowbridge, It N., 11, Eaton-square
Anthony Ridley, Esq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury, a Director of the

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St. Katherine's Dock Company
William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square
Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., Clopton House, Warwickshire, and

Luton 800, Bedfordshire - -
George Payne, Esq., Sulby Hall, Northareptonshire, and Charles-

street, Berkeley-square
Jamas Beech, Esq., Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, and Grosvenor.

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place, London
Nicholas Philpot Leader, Esq., Dromagh Castle, ceunty Cork, Union
Club, Trafalgar-square, Director of the Killarney Junction Rail-
way Company
Samuel Baker, Esq., Lypplat Park, Gloucestershire, and London
William Congreve Russell, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Di-
rector of the Warwickshire and London Railway
Henry Bradley, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire
John William Yerbury, Esq., Belcombe House, ;Wiltshire, Captain 3d
Light Dragoons
Robert Main, Esq., Ravensbourne Fart, Lewisham, and Trinity-

square, London
Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsall House, Rettbrd, Nottinghamshire
John Gillyatt Booth, Esq., Crouch Hall, Hornsey
Major-Gen. Martin White, Marlborough-buildings, Bath
Rev. T. Harvey Ashworth, Burlyns House, near Newbury, Barks
Col. Burslcm, Harwood Lodge, Newbury, Berks
Major Kirwan, Great Pulteney-street, Bath
Rev. Dr. Godfrey, Grosvenor-place, Bath
Edward Cooper, Esq., Staverton, Wilts, Magistrate of the County
Henry Toogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse, Wilts, Magistrate of the

County _
Rev. Chas. Eras. Bamfylde, Rector of Dunkerten, near Bath
Richard Mortiinore, Esq., Chippenham, Wilts
George Tate, Esq., Tewkeebury, Director of the Bristol and Birming-

ham Railway Company
R. Wootten, jun., Esq., Banker, Oxford, Director of the Buckingham-
shire Railway and Wolverton Junction
Richard Mortimore, Fsq., Kingsmill, Collumpton
Rev. John Sydenham, Collumpton
Rev. R. A. Roberts, Rector of Kentisbere, Collumpton
Owlet; Justice, Esq., Collumpton, Devon
.Richard Marker, Esq., Ufculm Cottage, Tiverton
Colonel Henry Dundas Campbell, North End Rouse, Portsmouth
.George Pearce, Esq., Bradninch House, near Collumpton
Win. H. liidcomb, Esq., Chilton, Hungerford, Chairman of the Berks

Union Banking Company •
William Holcomb, Egg.. Marlborough, Itionager of the Wilt* and

Dorset Dank
Captain W. 0. Maclean, R.N., Tattntu
Robert Parsons, Esq., Taunton
John Dalzell, Esq., allingford, Barks
Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
John Kerle Ilaberfteld, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
James Troup, Esq., Hastings
John Robson, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
John Morford Cottle, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington, Director

of Coventry and Leicester Railway
Joseph Knight, Esq., Leicester, Director of South Midland and North-
ampton, Banbury and Cheltenham Railways
John Newton Mappin, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Midland Railway Company
Jo
Cauldon.place, the Potteries, Staffordshire,
Director geireßctiodrowf tahTe'3Elaingclester and Southampton Railway
James Burt, jun., Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and
Southampton Railway
Edward Norris, Esq., Clairville, Manchester, Director of the Direct
London and Manchester, and North Cheshire Railway Companies
Joseph Nadin, F,sq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and
Wigan, and Manchester and Southampton Railways
James Ogden, M.D., Salford
Sir William Lowthrop, Hull, Magistrate for the East Riding of York
and for the borough of Hull, Chairman of the " Hull and Barnsley"
Committee, and Member of the acting Committee of the "Liver-
pool and Leeds Direct Railway Companies"
cJoh
Huddersfield, Deputy Chairman of the Hudders-
field and •lheffield, and Director of the Halifax and Bradford
JohnHolford,
jones,
sq., Esq., Rusholm Hall, Manchester
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Charles Bamford, jun., Esq., Hull, Director of the Uull and Barnsley

Esq., 3,fancheater, Director of Manchester and South-
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Junction
John Robson, Esq•• Hetton-le-Hole, Durham
Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Sheffield and
Manchester, and Chairman of the Manchester, Eirkenhead, and
Midland Railway Companies
Isaac Holmes, Esq., Liverpool
J oahinn Lillie,o i,
Hail
Wm.
B. Newbery, Egg., Manchester, Director of the Dudley and
BridgeivritlYilway, and Salisbury and Swindon Railways
Company
F,,,q,, Broomhill, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbcach,
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a.
Manchester
Appleby,nr Iron nn e
Lincolnshirehe
Esq.. Upperthorpe, near Sheffield, Director of the
John Ward, Esq., Machin Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield,
Rotherham, and Chesterfield Life Assurance-office
ster Railway Company
Adderloy ll,,ward, Esq., Sutton Wisbech, Director of the East Coast
Railway Company
Wm.
dTdehrommflepisdotat
Captain Itowker, R.N., Devonport
;id Sheffield Railway
11. 5. Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Dl-

rect Railway
Samuel Swann Brittain, Esq., ;Sheffield Director of the East and West
of England Railway Company
Johnrnw
gA teßailway
Fawcett,Esq., Sheltield, Diregtor of the Wakefield and Mar-
William Marriott, Esq., Attercliff-terrate, Sheffield, Director el the
Isle et' Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Junction Railway.
Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln, Director of the London and Yerk
and East Lincolnshire Railways
John Johnstone Hamilton, Esq., Liverpool
Company
David Price, Esq., Manchester
William-Hunter, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington
Rev. 11. W. Cottle, Vicar of Watford, Northamptonshire
Major Wornum, Clarence-square, Cheltenham
Edward Hall, Esq., Westbank House, Macclesfield, Director of the
South Midland and the Northampton and Cheltenham Railways
Henry Hubbersty, Esq., Hull
John Ostler, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hall and Barnsley Junction
Henry Shaw, Esq., Fetter-lane
Henry Sayer, Esq., Commercial-road, Limehouse, merchant
John Mee Mathew, Esq., Gray's Inn-square, Assistant Tithe Com-
missioner
John Norton, Esq., Moat House,lßrentwood, Essex
William John M`Guire, Esq., Hampton Court
John Gray Wilson, Esq., Oxford-terrace
Capt. J. P. Macdougall, Fir Grove, North Brixton, Surrey
W. J. Lefeuvre, Esq., F R.S.,Alderman and Magistrate ofSouthampton
Thomas Chas. Harrison, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's Park
G. B. Banbury, Esq., Leamington, Wanviekshire, Director of the
Coventry and Leicester Railway
Captain Tringhatn, R.N., Solyhull, Warwickshire
William Jonson Neale, Esq., King's Bench-walk, Temple
James Whitney, Esq., Shrewsbury
Henry Paul Harwood, Esq., M.D., Sheffield
(With power to add to their number).
A further list of influential names will shortly appear.
Ilanknas—Messrs. Cutries and Co., Cornhill, London.
JOINT SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Bell, Brodrick, and Bell, Bow Churchyard, London
Messrs. Rickards and Walker. 29, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London
Messrs. Haynes and Moore, Warwick and London
Messrs. J. V. and J. T. Harting, 24, Lincoln's lan-fields, London.
SECRETARY—MOM :LS nosier Saunders, Esq.
ISSISTANT-SECRBTAB.T —Charles J. Whalley, Esq.
LOCAL AGENTS.

At Devizes, Henry Gilbert, Esq.
At Troubridge and Bradford, Messrs. Stone and Rodway
At Bath, MesNrs. Batehellor, Hartbrd, and Staunton
At Bridgewater, Messrs. G. S. and J. R. POOlO
At Tiverton, T. L. T. Rendsll,
Esq ,and J. A. Toms, Esq.
At Truro
At Penzance
At Falmouth
The object of this line is to effect a direct communication between
London and the Land's End.
In a national point of view such a line is indispensable. With
the advantage of a direct railroad, Falmouth, from it- situation at the
western extremity of the kingdom, would undoubtedly long since
have been the principal port on that coast. With the advantage of
at least 280 miles of heavy road, that place has attained its high po-
sition as a Packet Station. Southampton, with far less natural ad-
vantages, has,
creased its imports from 200,0001. to 3,000,0001. per annum. At Brie-
since the opening of the South-Western Railway, in-
tol, before the opening of the Great Western Railway, the imports
were declining ; since then they have very considerably increased.
The merits of a line to the Land's End as an investment for ea-
pital, it was not left to the present Company to discover. The Great
Western and Bristol and Exeter Railway having already reached
Exeter, it has been in contemplation to extend that line to Fal-
mouth by
set ou foot on the conviction that Falmouth must be reached by
way of 113-month ; and various other projects have been
railway.
The object of this prospectus Is to show that no other lino than the
present can ultimately satisfy the exigencies of the country in regard
to this, its most important outport—" the natural Packet Station of
the empire."
The present project is distinguished by this—that it is direct. It Is
as nearly as possible a straight line from Landon to the Land's End.
The London, Bath, and Bridgewater company having amalga-
mated with this Company, the immense local influence commanded
by them will now contribute to the great national object of a direct
line ; while means have been taken for securing the traffic and afford-
ing all the accommodation contemplated by that Company.
The Direct Western availing itself of the Great Western Railway
so far as Reading, pursues its course by or near Newbury, Hunger-
fbrd, Great Beduin, Marlborough, Devizes, the manufacturing dis-
trict of Trowbridge (from which a diverging line will be carried by
Bradford direct to Bath), Westbury, Frome, Shepton Mallet, Wells
(from which another diverging line will be taken to Bricle•ewater),
Glastontury to Taunton, being shorter by about thirty-two
miles than any existing railways between these points, and without
a tunnel. From Taunton the Bristol and Exeter Railway (now
leased to the Great Western) is traversed to Tiverton, whence it is
pronged to carry this line direct to the Land's End, Falmouth, St.
T. el,. and Penzance, being shorter by about sixty miles than the
Idly pro ed line by way of Plymouth, and effecting, in the whole
4.
&tame London to Falmouth, a saving of about ninety miles.
islin to the tra4c on the moor_ portion- of-the line it 19.
Y iitoY4 fta that tees Li Woe albruagh tat* dal.
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cient to iustify the construction of this portion of the Direct Wes-
tern : that it will shorten the distance from London to Tiverton
about 32 miles that it will traverse rich and populous agricultural
and manufacturing districts, and receive a large amount of traffic as
well from railways now in course of construction as from ethers pro
jected, with every chance of success.

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As to the trade on the lower portion of the line, it is evident that
the vast number of merchant vessels continually detained in the
Channel by adverse winds, would effect an immense saving both in
insurance and time, by discharging their cargoes at Falmouth, and at
once transmitting them to their destination by means of this railway;
and therefore—without speculating on the extent to which the ports
on either side of the great promontory of the Laud's End may, by
means of this railroad, attract the commerce respectively of Bristol
and Southampton ; to what extent the inexhaustible mineral wealth
of Cornwall, and the unrivalled agricultural resources of Devonshire
may be further developed, or the genial climate of Penzance and
Mount's Bay, " the Montpellier of England," attract alarger propor-
tion of winter visitants—it is obvious that this line will command a
Itraffic• bojh in goods and passengers, from its western terminus, the
amount of which-may. be said to be without limit. A glance at the
map will make it manifest that no competing trunk line can ever be
established between Tivertor. itild-Aho Land's End. As between
Taunton and Reading, an inspection of the map will show a vast ex-
tent of midland distri?t, comprising rich and populous parts of So-
mersetshire, Dorsetshire, and Wiltshire, now altogether destitute of
railroad accommodation.

Recurring to the features of this project as a national work, one of
the greatest in point of magnitude, of vital importance in the event of
war, and of almost incalculable advantage to the general and packet
commerce of the kingdom; it may not be out of place to quote here
the following expressions of Sir Robert Peel. Speaking of the project
of a direct line from Loudon to Liverpool through the Trent Valley,
which bore much the same relation to the Birmingham and Grand
Junction that this bears to the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter
Railways, he is reported to have said : —"I consider that the com-
munication-between the metropolis and the great outperts to be not
a question of hours, but a question of minutes." Of the necessity of this
particular line, Parliament has already expressed an opinion ; for in the
report of the Committee on the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth
line, which was promoted by the Great Western Railway Company,
it was stated that that Company had been required to pledge Itself
sot hereafter to oppose a direct line to Falmouth; and it may be
further observed, that a proposed line from Plymouth to Falmouth
was last session rejected, on the ground that it might be supposed
to interfere with that-great national object.
The survey of the line has been to a great extent completed, and
cor=e .t estimates of the expenditure and returns are in a state of for-
wErd3lo3., and the whole will be ready for the next session of Par-
liament.

It is sufficient, as to these points, here to state that there are no
engineering difficulties in any part of the line which have not been
repeatedly surmounted in other cases ; that the first portiOn will be
constructed at an unusually small expense ; that the undertaking
will meet with the cordial support, concurrence, and co-operation of
the landowners, and that the Directors are justified in asserting that
this will prove to be sue of the most remunerative railways in the
kingdom.
Powers will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow interest at
four 'pounds per centum per annum ai the deposits, and preference
in the allotment of shares will he given to the proprietors of the land
through which the line will pass, and to the shareholders in the
Great Western, the Bristol and Exeter, and other railways connected
with the Direct Westeni district.

Applications for shatcs, in the form subjoined, to be addressed to
the solicitors to the Company, or to the Secretary, or to any respect-
able broker in town or country
London, September 11, 1845.
FOltsl OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Direct Western Railway
Company.
Gentlemen,— I request you will allot me shares of 25/. each in
the above Company, and I undertake to pay the deposit of 21.125. Gd.
per skare thereon, or on any less number you may appropriate to me,
and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Con-
tract when required.
Dated

1845.
Resides ce.
Trade or Profession ..
Place of Business (if aoy) • • .. • • • •
Reference.... ...... ..........
Signature .... • -

THE OXFORD and IVORCESTER EXTEN-
SION and CHESTER JUNCTION RAILWAY, with
Branches to Shrewsbury and Northwitch. On the Broad Gauge.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 2,250,0002., in 112,500 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.
Lord George Paget, Uxbridge House
The lion. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, 4, Parliament-street. Direct r
of the Nottingham and Boston Railway
William Beresford, Esq., M.P., 77, Pali-mall, Director of the Tian
and Dove Valley Railway
Sir William Bacon Johnson, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire, Director
of the Chester and Forest of Dean Railways
Sir John Edward de Beauvoir. Chairman of the London and Bir-
mingham Extension
Sir Samuel Brown, Director of the Warwick and Worcester Railway
Sir John Hare, Langhatn-place, Director of the London and Bir-
mineham Extension
Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London, Director of the London
and Manchester and Leeds and Liverpool Railways
Colonel Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, Director of the London and
Birmingham Railway
Colonel Fitch, 36, York-terrace,Regent's-park, Director of the South
and Midlands Railway
Sir John Haneler, Deputy Lieutenant of the county of Essex, Wal-
ton, near Saffron Walden, Essex
Admiral J. Ayscough, Prospect-place, Southampton, Director of the
South and Midland Railway
Major Croft, 15, Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman of the Manchester
and Chaster Railway
Major Chase, 31, Nottingham-place •
- Captain S. M. Fisher, jun., Director of the Warwick and Worcester
Railway
Captain Ilitchens, 11.E.1.C.5., Director of the Birmingham and Ox-
ford Railway
Samuel Kentick, Esq., banker, Wrexham
Captain F. Chamier, Halkin-street, Beigrave-square, Director of the
Great Paris and Lyons Railway
Wm. Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., Alderman of Lon-
don, Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation,
Chairman of the London and Greenwich Railways, &c., &c.
Thorna.s Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the Soutb
Midland Railway
Matthew Harrison, Esq., Chester, Director of the North and South
Wales Bank
John Kiunersley Hooper. Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the
London and Manchester Direct Railway, and South Midland
Thos. Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South
Midland Railway
Thos. Challis, Esq., Alderman of London, Wilson-street, Finsbury
Thos. Sidney, Esq., Alderman of London, Sheriff of London and
Middlesex
Captain Alex. Hamilton Earle, Royal Artillery, Reform Club.
John Inglis Jardein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby
and Southampton Railway
Wm. Morley, Esq„ Blackheath
Wm. Lee, Esq., Director of the Gravesend and Rochester, and Essex
and Suffolk Railways
Rd. Carpenter, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Henry Wright, Esq., Director of the South and Midland's Junction
Railway
John Wheelton, Esq.. Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Thomas Collingridge, Esq., Highgate, Middlesex
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
John Brocke Walbaneke, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
Rd. Wm. Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester and
.. .... Derbyshire and South Staffordshire Railways
Fiancis Valentine Lee, Esq., Temple, Director of the Eastern Counties
Railway
Major Jet,' Sharp, Deputy-Chairman of the Thames Embankment
Railway
Major-General Brooks Parlby, C. 8., 18, Rutland-place
W. Simpson Potter, Esq., Director of the Oxford, Witney, and
Cheltenham Railway
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester
Direct and Liverpool and Leeds Railways
Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of the London and Birmingham
Rail way
W. F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Director of the
Italian and Austrian Railway
W. G. Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway
John James, Esq., Secondary of Lomion
Robert Henry Lyndam, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth
Rail way •
Robert Andrew Riddell. Esq., 23, Bryanston-street, Portman-square,
Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
J. B. Richardion, Esq., Director of the Colchester and Cambridge
Railway
Julian Skreene, Esq., Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln
Railway
Frederick James Tall, Esq., Torrington-strare, Director of the Bide-
.ford and.Tavlstock Railway
Captain C. W. Tyndale. Director of the South-Eastern Railway
Henry Lewis Smale. Esq., Willoughby House, Tottenham, Director
of the London and :toyer Railway
Frederick Jones, Esq., Director of the Warwick and Worcester
Railway
C. Waite, Esq., Willesden, Middlesex
It. W. Wood, Esq., Lodge-place, St. John's Wood, Director of the
North Metropolitan Railway .
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manchester
and Isinningham Railway
Wm. Shaw. Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment Railway
Wm. Alfred Hill, Elea., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith
1 • Railway
Richard Dutton Esq., Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Railway
Wm. Stark, Esq., Director of tie Guarantee Society
James Reeves, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Railway
vrelerick Collingrge,- Esq., Thurlow-square, Brompton
Warren Stormes lisle, Esq., Gresham. street
Robert Richards, Esq., Temple, Director of the Birmingham and Lon-
' don Extension Railway
Kingsmill i /rove Key, Esq. Wandsworth-common
The Rev. F. K. Hall, D.D.;Rector of Falhourne, Cambridge
Daniel Penton Johnson, Esq:, Director of the London and Manches-
ter Railway •
Charles Green. Esq., Director of the Gloucester and A.berystwith
Railway
John Barber, Esq., . 'Director of the -Gloucester and Aberystwith
Railway
Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Hereford
E. It. Foster, Esq., Director of the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford-
shire Railway
Martin Furnis, Eat., Director of the Nottingham, Newark, and
Bost in Railway
Richard Groucock, Esq. Dulwich, Director of the Direct Manchester
Railway
W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the Birmingham and Manchester
Extension
W. Bardgett, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian Railway
Richard Parish, Esq., Bank House, Wordsley, Staffordshire
Samuel Parish, Esq., Wordsley, near Stourbridge, Staffordshire
Alexander Greig, Esq. Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square, Director of
the Leicester and Birmingham Railway
Thomas Yates Hunt, Esq., Braden, near Birmingham
William Singleton, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool
Direct Railway
Wm. Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Railway
James Muscroft, Esq., Pontefract
David William Nell, Esq., Leeds, J.P., Director of the Leeds and
Thirsk Railway
Joseph Robert Wilkin Atkinson, Esq., Director of the Leicester and

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Bedford, and York and Lancaster Railways
John Fagan, Esq., Gloucester-road, Old Bromptol .„ •
Charles Holden, Esq., Director of the Great Grimsby slid Sheffield

Railway _
J. D. Hopkins, Esq., Bedford-square, Director of the London and
Birmingham Extension Railway
Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds. Director of the West Riding Junction
Railway
Peter Fairbairne, Esq., Leeds, Chairman of the Lineoln, York and
Leeds Railway
John Blackburn, Esq., Leeds
J. M. Douglas, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth
Railway
W. Sloane, Esq. Wimpole-street
John Anderson, Lothbury, Director of the South and Midland
Railway
W. Ley, Esq., Gloucester-place, Pertman-square
Robert Power. Esq., Director of the Great Britain Life Assurance-
office, Queen-street, May Pair,
Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Old Palace, Richmond
W. Bestow, Esq., Surrey-place
James Bnness, Esq., Leyton, Essex
0. N. Wright, 3[.A.
John Alexander Bicknell, Esq., Brandon Cottage, Bristol, Director of
the South and Midlands' Junction Extension Railway
James Lees, Esq., Delph, Saddleworth, near Manchester, Director of
the Saddleworth Banking Company
Arthur Agard Davenport, Esq., Eastwood, Notts, Director of the
Great Leeds and London Direct Railway
Joseph Lancelot Davenport, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby,
Derby, and Manchester Railway
(WI h power to add to their number.)
The names of an influential Committee formed at Worcester and
Chester will be published in a few days.

BANKERS.
The Commercial Bank of London
NNGINBER Mullingar Higgins, Esq.
YARLIAMENTAR AGENTS.
Messrs. Parrott and Wahnesley.
SOLICITORS.
Potter and Collingridge. 5, Basingliall-street ; W. B. James. Esq.,
5, Basingliall-street.
filEcarrawr—Milton T. Jenkins, Esq.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Worcester—Charles Creswell, Esq. ; C. G. 11. St. Patrick, Esq.
Whitchurch—James Bromfield, Esq.
Chester—John F. Maddock, Esq.
Shrewsbury—W. Cooper, Esq.
IVellington—George Marcy, Esq.
't he geographical position of Worcester has caused its adoption as
the point where the broad gattge trunk:lines of the west are to have a
common terminus. From Oxford the Great Western Company have
decidt d on constructing a line of rail :—another projetA under the pa-
tronage of the same powerful direction is now before the public,
uniting Worcester with Warwick ; an.l, that the broad gauge will be
carried from Worcester into Wales, and to the Irish packet stations
on that coast, is now no longer doubtful. This undertaking will com-
plete a series of great avenues of iron-road, whose ramification
from Worcester will render every part of the kingdom directly
accessible from that city. Passing up the Severn Vale, where
it will disclose a succession of picturesque scenes, it reaches
Stourport, and proceeding thence through Kidderminster, arrives at
Bewdley. This distrlct is one of the chief seats of our carpet manu-
facturer, and in the towns here named, exclusive of the Intervening
districts, upwards of 30,0)0 persons are located. Leaving Stourbridge
a little to the east, the line is taken to nridgenorth, a town enjoying
an active inland trade, and possessing woollen manufactures and iron
works, that give employment to a population of about 15,000. Pass-
ing through or near to Much Wenlock, Broseley, and Madeley, from
NtAc_it.pht.ce theye will be a, branch to S4rewsbn -, the line ace-glide
VOUIVIWI appltfuting its obtuseWft,
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enters Whitchurch. From this ,entral place a branch will he formed
to Norwich via Stoke, forming a Junction with the Liverp of and
Crewe Ita,lway. The trunk line will continue from Whitelinrch, and
passing through or near 3lalpas, have Its northern terminus In the.
city of Chester.
In estimating the probable amount of revenue which the Worces-
ter and Chester Railway may be expected to yield, many sources of
profit present thcrfiselves, such are the dense population located along
the length of the Severn Vale, and the enriching works of industry
in which they are engaged. Amongst the latter may be mentioned
the ChlnKmanufactories of Worcester, the iron, coal, and earthen-
ware works at Broseley and other places; the agricultural produce
brought to Stourport market ; the inexhaustible fieldS of coal and
mines of iron ore in the vicinity of Colebrook Dale, Ironbridge, and
the districts to the east of Shrewsbury generally.
In calculating the cost of construction unusual advantages are also
obvious. The line traverses a district affording levels of several
miles in extent, and with a surface peculiarly favourable. The resi-
dent population, disappointed by the postponement of promised pro-
jects, have warmly espoused the present, and the labouring popula-
tion being familiar with mining operations, will be found bettor
qualified for the execution of railway works here than in many other
localities.

As a link in the railway network of England, or as auxiliary
to existing or projected lines passing in various directions, few
schemes hitherto proposed appear to afford greater inducement
for investment, or a wider range of accommodation for traffic and
travelling. This project constitutes a lengthened link in the chain
that will connect Liverpool with Bristol, the grand. trunk of the
West of England ;—its southern terminus, Worcester, is the halt=
way station of: the London and Porblymillaen broad gauge line:—
by projected lines a direct communication will be afforded west-
ward to Swansea and Aberystwith, and, VW. ward, to Warwick and
Northampton, Cambridge, Peterborough, Harwich, Lynn, Lincoln,
and Hull.

The line has been repeatedly and careftilly examined by the Com-
pany's acting engineer, who reports that the rail for many miles may
be laid on the natural level—that the gradients are in every in-
stance favourable—that the geological struct•ire of the districts to
be traversed is equally so, and that the want of such a line of com-
munication is acknowledged by the interests seated on its proposed
course.

Applications for prospectuses and plans may be made, and forms
of application for shares had at the offices of Messrs. Potter and
Collingridge, solicitors, 5, Basingliall-street ; also of W. B. James,
Esq., solicitor, 5, Bash•gliall-strect ; of the local agents ; and of the
following gentlemen :7_

Mr. Samuel Hanbttry, 4, Angel-court;
Loudon .. •••. • • • Mr. Whitton Powell, 12, Copthall-court ; and
Messrs. Peppercorne, 2, Old Broad-street
Liverpool....

I-Messrs. Houghland and Leese, and Mr. Wl].
_Manchester . . Liam Marshall.
1
r Messrs. Collinson, and Flint, and James
Bowden
Messrs. Smith and Perfect, and
Leeds • • • • • • • • • • • • J. Young and Co.,
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Stratford-on-Avon..lar. William Bolton.
Exeter.... •• • ..... Mr. Thomas Sanford.

Plymouth • .......Messrs. Hopwobd and Palmer.
Birmingham . . Mr. Coils and Mr. John Wright.

Glasgow.... • ....• Messrs. Tassle and Co.

Edinburgh [Messrs. Robertson and Co., and
Messrs. M'Callum and Co.

Huddersfield ......gessrs. Wilson and Hellawell

Worcester . • • • Mr. Thomas Henry Wheeler.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

THE OXFORD and WORCESTER EXTENSION and CHESTER
JUNCTION RAILWAY, with BRANCHES to SHREWSBURY
and NOSITHWICH.
Capital, 2,250,0001., in 125,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.

To the Provisional Committee of the Worcester and Chester

Railway

Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me , Shares of
201. each in this Company, and I undertake to accept the same, and
to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that may be al-
lotted to me ; and I undertake also to execute the Parliamentary
Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
?Same (in Jull)• • • • • • • • •
Residence... ••. • • •••••• • • • • .
Trade or Profession • •
Address of Referee •• .. • •
'Date

OXFORD and WORCESTER EXTENSION
and CHESTER JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that no flwther applications for Shares in
this Company will be received after Tuesday, the 30th instant.
By order, HILTON THOMAS JENKINS, Secretary.
3, Basinghall-street, September 23, 1845.

JAMAICA SOUTHERN, EASTERN, AND
NORTHERN RAILWAY, FROM KINGSTON TO MON-
TEGO BAY.

Office, No. 43, Moorgate-street.
Capital 1,500,0001., in 30,000 Shares of 501. each.
Deposit 2/. per Share.

A Reservation of Shares for the PriTrietary, and others interested in

the Island.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Major-Gen. Sir Love Parry, K.C.8., Madryn Park, Caeniarvoashire
Sir John Key, Bart, Alderman of London, King's Arms-yard
Sir John J. Hansler, PALS., Upper Bedford-place
Sir George Rich, 43, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square
P. S. Butler, Esq., M.P., Queen-square, Westminster

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Thomas Farncomb, Esq.' Alderman of London
Major Adair, U.S. Club, Pall-mall, Director of the Church of Eng-
land Insurance Company
Joseph Bishop, Esq., Director of the Blackwall Railway
John Blunt, Esq., Upper Bedford-place. Director of the London Docks
Charles Collins, Esq., Caldwell Hall, Worcestershire
Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Copthall-court, Director of the Commercial
Bank, London
Captain Edwards, Baker-street, Portman -cquare
Thomas Edwards, Esq., Bethel-place, Camberwell
Lieutenant-Colonel Gillies, Cambridge-terrace

F. W. Hamilton, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square
Klein Grant, M.D., 73, St. James's-street, Pall mall
D. J. Hoare, Esq., Percy-street, Bedford-square
D. T. Johnson, Esq., Aldermary Churchyard, Director of the London
and Manchester Railway
John Francis Lambert, Esq , 6, Kensington Gardens-terrace
Francis Lloyd, Esq., 10, Crown Office-row, Temple

James Mac nillan, Esq., Southampton, Director of the Southampton,
➢lanch4ster, and Oxford Junction Railway
Thomas Newte, Esq., Harley-street, Director of the Barbadoes Rail.

way
James Reeves, Esq., Cheapside and Leyton, Director of the Loudon
and Manchester Direct Railway
Edward Scard, Esq., Kew, Director of the Toronto and Lake Huron
Railway
B.M. Senior, Esq., Compton Lodge, Jamaica, Magistrate of St.

Elizabeth's
J. G. Senior, Esq., Leonard-place, Kensington, and Jamaica
Algernon W. B. Greville, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park, Di-
rector of the Barbadoes, and Great Eastern and Western Railways
W. G. Beare, Esq., Porchester-place, Director of the Worcester,

Shrewsbury, and Crewe Railway
William Fitzgibbon, Esq., Director of the Cork and Bandon, and
Cork and Kilkenny Railways ,
Jim Joseph Keene, Esq., St. folm 'a
-wood, Director of the National

Bank of Ireland - -
William King, Esq., Waterloo-place, Director of the Freemasons' In•

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eurance Company
Matthew Richard Scott, Esq., Devonshire -place, Portman-sqttare,

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`and Jamaica
John Griffith Frith, Esq., Austin-friars
Charles Itleaden, Esq., Adelaide•place, London-bridge, and Conliden
Court, Surrey, Chairman of the Licensed Victuallers' General
Pint and ,Life Assurance Company
Henry Stock, Esq., lieddgelert, North Wales
Major Croft, 15, Regent-street, Deputy Chairman of the Chester and
Manchester Railway Company
John King, Esq., St. John's-wood, London, and Glastonbury, Somer-
setshire
John Linty, Esq., Worcester, Director of the Somersetshlre Midland
Railway
J. Haines, Esq., Edgbaston, Birmingham
John Burgess, Esq., the Boroughreeye of Manchester, Director of
the Manchester and Birmingham Continuation ant Welsh Junc-
tion Railway
Captain D. K. Pulteney, Parliament-street
Jeremiah Clark, Esq., Macclesfield. . .

(With power to add to their number.)

Exortima--William Gravatt, Esq., F.R.S. ; James Pilbrow, Fact

C.E. ; Frederick Braithwaite, Esq., M.I.C.E.

_ . .
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Elrqslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street ;
Andrew Graham Dignum, Esq., Jamaica.

RANKEU—Sir Claude Scott, Bart., and Co., 1, Cavendish-square
Messrs. Rogers, Oldit.g, and Co., 29, Clement's-lane, London.
The Planters' Bank, Jamaica.

The great difficulty, delay, and expense attending the transit of
passengers and goods from Kingston to Montego Bay and the inter-
mediate ports, either by sea or land, is well known to all persons
conversant with the islan I of Jamaica.

The average passage by steamer between Montego Bay and King-
ston, occupies forty-four hours ; and the costs, including expenses on
the route, amount to nearly 51. each passenger, while the quickest
journey by land occupies three days, and the expenses, including
horse hire, reach nearly 201. By the railway the whole line will be
traversed in eight hours, at an expense not exceeding an average of
395. per passenger.
The difference in the freights between the northern and southern
sides of the island and England is such, that independently of the
saving of time, this railway will enable proprietors on the northern
side, after payment of the costs of transit, to ship their produce at
much less expense than at present, and will afford them the advan-
tage of sh pping at all times from the very exce lent harbour of King-
ston, instead of being confined, as they now are, to the exposed ports
of the east and north of the island.

'the line will commence at a spacious quay, to' be constructed at
Kingston Harbour, with a depth of water sufficient for vessels of the
largest tonnage employed in the export trade of the Island ; at or
near to which point it is proposed to form a junction with the King-
ston and Spanish Town Railway, and proceed thence by or near Rock
Fort, Yallahs, Morant Town, Port Morant, Plantain Garden, Man-
chioneal Harbour, Port Antonio, Buff Bay, Annotto Bay, Port Maria,
St. Ann's, Duncan, Martha Brae, and terminate at or near Montego
Bay. By these means a line of intercommunication will he formed
between the most important and populous places, and facility offered
for carriage of the produce of the most prodacttve portion of the
island.

Through the southern portion of the line, the physical features are
gentle elevations, almost parallel to the principal range of moun-
tains which run east and west, nearly the length of the island ; the
eastern portion, from Port Morant to Plantain Garden, is almost
level ; while the northern runs through an exceedingly rich country,
rising into hills separate from each other by spacious vales. The
whole of the country traversed by the line abounds in the staple ar-
t:cles of sugar, coffee, rum, molasses, ginger, pimento, and other
snices, dye wood, drugs, &c.; and as more than one-third of the
land is still uncultivated, the production of these articles will, by
the increased facility for traffic, be greatly increased ; and cotton,
indigo, cocoa, &c., and dry stuffs, at present unimported, will again
be brought into extensive cultivation. Timber of great variety
abounds along the line ; besides the pimento tree, which flourishes
spontaneously, there are mahogany, lignum vita;, ebony, Spanish
elm, fine cedar, and other trees of enormous bulk. The line will
also bring largely into use the valuable pahmttl , and various other
woods for agricultural and household purposes, Ltd cabinet works.
The mineral wealth of the country on the line is very considerable ;
lead ore is extremely rich and heavily impregnated with silver ;
whilst every variety of copper ore is found in abundance. Carbonate
of lime, valuable as manure, &c., of which Long Mountain is com-
posed, will form a considerable item in the tables of traffic.

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The peculiarly favourable circumstances attending the construction
of this Railway render it highly probable that a considerable portion
of the capital demanded will not be required, as every material.
necessary for its formation is to be found on the line, and should the
atmospheric principle of propulsion be adopted, the necessity for cut-
tings and embankments will be generally superseded.
A gratuitous grant of the unappropriated land required for the line,
and the free use of all the timber, stone, &c., necessary for its con-
struction, will, it is expected, be ceded by the Legislative Assembly ;
—the mineral wealth, which may be developed by the construction
of the line, will accompany the grants of the land, and may be leased
to capitalists for the benefit of the Shareholders.
Of the various imports, and the internal traffic, a satisfactory esti-
mate can scarcely be given—it will be sufficient to state, that Coals,
Fish, Lime and Salt, empty Puncheons, Shingles, ?tricks, Hoops,
Lead, Timber, Provisions, Cattle, Flour, Tobacco, Hardwares, and
Manufactures generally, form important coerces of profit.
The working expenses of the railway will require but a moderate
per centage, and from all the circumstances already stated, and care-
ful inquiries into the traffic, there can be no doubt that this line of
railway will yield a very remunerative return upon the capital re-
quired, and the speedy communication established between the
island and Great Britain, by means of the Royal Mail Steam Packet
Company, will enable the Directors in this country to exercise an
efficient control over the management of the affairs of the island.
The Committee propose to make provision in the Local Act for the
payment of 4% per cent. interest noon the amount paid upon the
shares fro. the passing of the Bill until the opening of the line.
Applications for shares in the usual form may be made to the
Provisional Committee, at the offices of the Company, 43,
Moorgate-street ; to Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, solicitors,
47, Moorgate-street, London ; and the following Sharebrokers :
Mr. S. 11. Ellis, 17, Throgmorton-street ; Messrs. Preece and Evans,
39, Lothhury; Mr. •D. B. Major, 27, 'Change-alley, London ;
Messrs. Schroeder and Ashlin, Mr. W. A. Brown, and Messrs.
Alton and Gage, Liverpool; Mr. John Clegg, and Messrs. Green and
Oldham, Manchester; Messrs. R. B. Watson and Co., Leeds; Messrs.
Tate and Nash, Bristol; Mr. Wm. Miles, Worcester; Mr. F. Stamp,
Hull; Mr. James Pearson, Birmingham; Mr. Samuel Hutchinson,
Bradford ; Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and Co., and Mr. William Lee,
CheTtenham ; Messrs. Eyre and Shaw, Derby: Mr. Thomas F. Dick-
enscn, Newcastle-on-Tyne; Mr. F. C. Spenser. Halifax ; Messrs.
Thomas May and Co., Exeter ; Mr. Joseph Clark, jun., Southampton ;
Mr. Samuel Clerk, Edinburgh; Mr. Wm. Gordon, Aberdeen; Messrs.
Clack and Lorimer, Glasgow; Mr. Percy Bolger, Garden-street,
Dublin ; and Mr. C. Forster, Cork ; and of whom prospectuses may
be had.

To the Provisional Committee of the Jamaica Southern, Eastern,

and Northern Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me shares of
501. each in this undertaking, and I engage to pay the deposit of 21.
per share upon the number allotted to me, and to sign such deeds as
may be necessary, in furtherance thereof when required.—l am,
Gentlemen, your obedient servant,

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*Wood is prepared nearly as hard ai iron, and in that climate is
More durable.

JAMAICA SOUTHERN, EASTERN, AND
NORTHERN RAILWAY.

—Notice Is hereby given, that no further application for shares In
this undertak'w, can be received from parties resident in London
after THURSDAY. the 25th day of September instant ; and from parties
resident in the country after SATURDAY, the 27th day of September
instant. By order.

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