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THE GRAND LONDON AND DUBLIN
APPROXIMATION RAILWAY.

Itastrick's Line,

(Provisionally Registered pursuant to 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 110,

sec. 4.)

Designed to avoid the present circuitous route, and so effect a very
considerable saving, both of time and distance, between the two
capitals of England and Irclaad, running in a direct line from Lon-
don to Bangor and Holyhead, through Shrewsbury, and touching or
accommodating in its route the following towns and places, namely,
Riekmansworth, Chesham, Wendover, Ay:esbury, Bicester, Dod-
dington, Banbury, Kineton, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick, Alces-
ter, Bromsgrove, Worcester, Kidderminster, Bridgnorth, Wcnlock,
Broseley, Coslbrookdale, ,brewsbury, Lian-y-mynech, Welchpool,
Oswestry, Llangollen, Llanrahaladr, Alochnant, Corwen, rentre-
voelas, Capel Cerrig, Bangor, and Holyhead.
Capital 6,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 501. each.
Deposit 5/. ss. per share.
Temporary offices of the Company. 4, Great Winchester-street,
London.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Combermere, G.C.8., G.C.H.
Lord Viscount Mandevilie
Lord Claud Hamilton' M.P.
Hon. Captain Fenton Evan Freke, Belgrave-square, Director of the
Bandon and Bantry Railway
Hon. Geoffrey Browne, Castle Margaret, County Matto, Ireland
Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Parliament-street, Chairman of
the York and Lancaster Railway
Sir Robert Murray, Bart., Ardley Bury, Herts. Director of the Oxford
and Cambridge Railway
General Sir John F. Fitzgerald, K.C.8., Montague-street, Bryan-
ston-aquare
Col. Sir Duncan M'Dougal, K.C.8., Eaton-square
Rear-Admiral Sir Salusbury Davenport, C. 8., K.C.H., Bramall-hall,
Cheshire, and Weedon-hall, Bucks
Sir J. Gaspard Le Merchant, K.C.11., Cork
Major-General Sir Love Parry, Madryn Park, Carnarvon, Director
of the North Wales Railway
Col. Sir F. Hankey, G.C.M.G., Director of the Direct London and
Exeter Railway
Sir George Rich, Director of the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and
Portsmouth Railway
Brigadier-General, Sir Henry Pynn, Clifford-street, Director of the
London anti Exeter Railway
Sir James Pitcairn, Cork
Sir James Eyre, Lower Brook-street
Rear-Admiral Ross, C. 8., Mount Wise, Devonport
Thomas Whitmore, Esq., Apley Park, Deputy-Lieutanant of the
County of Salop
John Meredith, Esq., Hasbora Park, Magistrate for the Counties of
Worcester and Salop
Major-General Henry Bowdler, Sidney-terrace, Cork
Captain Robert Peel Dawson, Upper Grosvenor-street, and Castle-
dawson, Ireland
B. B. Williams, Esq., Wyndham-place, Bryanston-square
Jeremiah Pilcher, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Dublin and
Armagh Inland Railway
The O'Gorman Mahon, Mabonherg, County of Clare, Ireland
Charles Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.F., Bovine, King's County, Ireland,
Director of the Cork and Waterford Railway
The O'Moore, Choghan Castle, High Sheriff of the County of Ros-
common
Robert Hart, Esq., Dripshill-lodge, Worcester, Director of the Wor-
cester, Ludlow, and Tenbury Railway
W. Hutchins, Esq., Llsaintfried-court, hlonmouthildre
Charles William Spicer, Esq., Portman-square, Director of the Ar-
magh, Coleraine, and Portrush—Dublin and Armagh Inland—
Shropshire Mineral—and Direct London a-Ad Exeter Railways
The Rev. C. Leicester, Whitton-hall, Magistrate for the County of
Salop, Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
Charles Fox, Esq., D.L., Rutland-square, Dublin, Director of the

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Dublin and Armagh Inland Railway
William Johnson Neale, Esq., Tcmple
Thomas Meyer Carvick, Esq., Highwood, Director of the Dublin and

Armagh Railway
William Leehmere Whitmore, Esq., Director of the Dublin and Gal.

way Railway, &c.
George A. Brown, Esq., Director of the Callao and Lima Railway
William Seymonr, Esq, Montague-place, Russell-square
William John Macguire, Esq., Hampton Court, Director of the Wilts,

Somerset, and Bristol Rail Way
Rey. Pooley Shuldam Henry, D.D., Commissioner of the National
Board of Education and Charitable Bequests, Ireland
Christopher Wallis Popham, Esq., Trevarno, Cornwall, Director of
the Strabane Ship Canal Company.
Robert John Lattey, Esq., Claremont-place, Grove End-road, St.
John's Wood.
William Ayscough Wilkinson, Esq., Woodbury Down, Middlesex,
Director of the Waveney Valley, Great Yarmouth, ant Armagh,

Coleraine, and Portrush
Colonel Edward Nichols, R. 11., Shooter's-hill and Coleraine, Direct
tor of the Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush, and Sligo, and Shan,

non Railways
Griffin Curtis Galt, Esq., Charles-street, Manchester-square, Diroc-
tor of the Armagh, Coleraine, and I'ortrush, and Sligo and Shan-
non Railways
Captain James Wood, R.3f., Woolwich
William Justin O'Driscoll, Esq., banker, Dublin
Richard Edward Arden, Esq., Bedford-square, Director of the Dub-

lin and Armagh Inland Railway
Captain Rodgers, Clovenedon-house, Longhall, Ireland
John Stewart, Esq., Portman-square, Director of the Marine In.

surance Office
Joseph Cragg, Esq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury
John Anderson, Esq., Director of the South Midland Junction Rail

way, &c.
W. Freome, Esq., Old House, Shrewsbury
G. Hazlorigg, Esq., West Carlton-hall, Leicestershire, Director of the
Rugby and Huntingdon Railway, &c.
J. 31`31illan, Esq., Director of the Worcester, Rugby, and Warwick

Railway -
J. Bright, Esq., M.D., Cambridge-square, London
Colonel Pereira, Bengal Artillery, Great Coram-street
George Hammond Whalley, Esq., Pall-mall, Director of the Direct

Western Railway
W. Clement, Esq., Shrewsbury
Richard Harris rurcell, Esq., Cambridge-street, Hyde-park, and
County Cork, Director of the Direct Western, Isle of Ely, and
Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Railways.
Robert Remmett, Esq., Victoria-square, Grosvenor-place, Director of
the Sovereign Insurance Office, &c.
Thomas Gresham, Esq., Raheny Park, Dublin
F. W. Heath, Esq., Armagh
F. F. Pole, Esq., St. John's Grove-house, County Cork
George Stevens, Esq., Oak Lodge, High Beach, Essex
Edmund Matthew, Esq., Somerset-street, Portman-square
Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlborough-place, St. John's Wood, Di-
rector of the Direct London and Exeter Railway
Major David Fitzgerald, Valentia, Ireland
Wm. Sprott Boyd, Esq., Cleveland-row, St. James's
Thomas Gulliver, Bloxham, near Banbury, Oxon, Director of the
Northampton and Banbury, and Oxford and Witney Railways
Wm. Gulliver, Esq., Swallcliff, near Banbury, Oxon
Captain Julius Newell, R.N., United Service Club
Captain Bradshaw, R.N., Hatherley-place, Cheltenham
J. Brooks, Esq., Magistrate, Wenlock
Col. Cairnes, C. 8., Coleraine
Edward King, Esq., Blackthorns, Oxfordshire
Wm. H. Spicer, Esq., Portman-square
George Beanclerc, Esq., Grosvenor-street West, Grosvenor-place
Robert A. Riddell, Esq., Bryanston-street, Portman-square, Director
of t:te Great Leeds and London Railway
J. A. Bicknell, Esq., Brandon Cottage, Bristol, Director of the Oxford
and Worcester Extension, and Chester Junction Railways
Major Humphreys, Miltown-house, Strabane, Ireland
Capt. Thos. P. Newton, Bruton-street, Berkeley-square, and Lugwar-
dine, Herefordshire, Director of the Isle of Man, and Irish West
Coast Railways
The Mayor of Bridgnorth
Benjamin Watts, Esq., Alderman of the Borough of Bridgnorth
Thomas Glass, Esq. Members of the Corporation of Bridg-
Josiah Minton Olasc, Esq. north
Edward Richard Pratt, Esq.
Samuel Ridley, Esq., Rridgnorth
Edmund Ridley, Esq., Bridgnorth
Henry Cane Leahy, St. James's-square, Director of the Sheffield,
Buxton, Derby, and Manchester Railway
E. S. Blundell, Esq., Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square, Direc-
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tor of the London and Exeter-Railway
Richard Fisher, Esq., Alcester Lodge, Warwick, Director of the War-
wickshire and London Extension and Worcester Junction Railway
James Whitehouse, Esq., Ipsley Court, Warwick
James Reading, Esq., Redditch, Worcestershire, manufacturer
George Hollyoake, Esq., Redditch. Worcestershire
Christopher Royston, Esq., Redditch, Worcestershire
John Onions, Esq., Broseley, ironmaster, &c., Director of the Stour-
bridge, Madeley, Ironbridge, and Breseley, and the Grand Junc-
tion and Cambrian Railways
John Thorn, Esq., Whitehall, Broseley, Director of the Stourbridge,
Madeley, Ironbridge, and Broseley, and the Grand Junction and
Cambrian Railways
Alexander John Got don, Esq., Linley Hall near Brosely
Thomas Deighton, Esq., Bridgnorth
Joseph Southwcll, Esq. Bridgnorth, Manufacturers
William Southwell, Esq.
William Cole, Esq., Bicester
Edward Deaking, Esq., Bicester
Horace Townsend, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant, Woodside, County
Cork
E. D. Freeman, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant, Castle Cor, County Cork
St. John Jeffrey, Esq., J.P., Blarney Castle, County Cork
Pierce Purcell, Esq., Altemira, County Cork
James Smith Barry, Esq., Lota Lodge, Cork
Edward Dean Freeman, Esq.. Sandileld, county Cork
J. H. Bainbridge, Esq., Bear Forest, Mallow
St. John Galwey, M.D., Mallow
George Washington Brazier Creagh, Esq., J.P., Creagh-castle
John Carmichaej, Esq., Riverston-house, Cork, Director of the
Cork and Bandon, and Bandon and Bantry Railways
P. Bennett Lucas, Esq., Manchester-street, Manchester-square,
Director of the Ipswich and Southampton, and Sligo and Shannon
Railways
W. 11. O'Driscoll, Esq., Clifton, near Bristol
The Rev. William Wilson, 8.D., Over Worton, near Deddington,
Oxon
Charles Faulkner, Esq., F.G.S., DedcUngton, Oxfurdsliire
William toms, Esq., Bloxham
Lieutenant-Colonel Cruttenden, Balincollig

William Coppinger, Esq., Barry's-court
W. Reeves, Esq., J.P., Tramoro, Cork
William D. Whitehouse, Esq., Studley, Warwickshire, Director of
the Warwickshire and London Extension, and Worcester Junction
Railways
George Wyman, Esq., Alcester, Warwickshire
William Henry Rough, Esq., Temple, Director of the Metropolitan
Junction Company
Edward Power, Esq., Eccleston-terrace, Eaton-square, Director of
the Ipswich and Southampton Railway
Colonel Henry Dundas Campbell, North-end-house, Portsmouth,
Deputy-Lieutenant of the County of Hants, Director of the Direct
Western Railway
Henry Watson, Esq., High Sheriff of the City of Limerick
Robert Baegh Blakemore, Esq., Shrewsbury, Director of the Shrews-
bury, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire Railway
.Henry Keate, Esq., Shrewsbury / Directors of the Birmingham and
Isaac Taylor, Esq., ditto," Brighton Railway
Major-General Turner, Commander of the Cork District
Lieut-Colonel Westropp, J.P., Cork
Major North Ludlow Beamish, F.R.S., Balllncurrig, Near Douglas,
Cork
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Joseph Leycester, Esq., Cork
Matthew Pier•point, Esq., Crow's Nest, Worcester
John Rowlands, Esq., Tallyllin, Merloneth
George Paul, Esq., banker, Worthing, and 217, Strand
Morgan Culhane, Esq., M.D., Worthing, Sussex
Charles Thelluson, Esq., Summer-lodge, Worthing
John Green, Esq., Hales Owen, magistrate for the county of

Worcester
James Thomas Thompson, Esq., 35, Gloucester-road, Hyde-park-

gardens
George Gun Hay, Esq., 127, Sloane-street, Director of the Medical

Invalid Insurance Office
Wm. John O'Connell, Esq., 32, Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square
Joseph Turner, Esq., Mayor of Bevrdley
John Bedoe, Esq., merchant, Bewdley
Sir Henry Winston Barron, Bart., M.P., Belmont, Ireland
Wyse, Esq., The Manor, Waterford
W. K. Rodgers, Esq., late High Sherif of the county of Cork, and Di-
rector of the Cork and Passage Railway

(With power to add to their number).
COUNSEL IN ENGLAND.

Mr. Sergeant Allan, sergeant's Inn ; Walter M`Grigor, Esq., Lin-

ln's co -Inn . ,
COUNSEL IN TBELAND—Joseph Napier, Esq., Q.C.
ENGINEER IN CHIEF—J. U. Rastrick, Esq.
ACTING ENGINEERS.
W. Mackenzie, Esq., C.E. ; J. W. Bazalgette,
SOLICITORS.
[n London—Messrs. Ogle and Younghusband, 4, Great Winchester-
street, London

i Irel;nd—John Cummins, Esq., 51, North Great Goorge-street,
Dublin.

BANKEAS.

Messrs. Afasterman, Peters, and Co. ; the London and Westminster

Bank.
SECRETARIES IN ENGLAND— H. Newell, Esq., and Henry Cowper, E,q.
SECRETARY IN IRELAND—Frederick Francis Pole, Esq., 51, Ninth
Great George-street, Dublin.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.

igh Innes Cameron and George Bain, Ewa , 18, Parliament-

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street, London.
J. R. L. Wit!matey, Esq., North-street, Westminster.

PROSPECT [JS,

' The imperative necessity, alike in a social, commercial, or political
point of view, for drawing as closely together as possible the capitals
of England and Ireland, has suggested the formation of the Grand
London and Dublin Approximation Railway,—a line, the value of
which it is difficult to over estimate, since it will be found to take a
nearly direct course from the English metropolis to Holyhead. It
will pass through or near the populous and noble county town of
Shropshire (as yet unprovided with railway communication), and
will traverse along its whale extent districts second in wealth, re-
sources, trAde, and commerce, to none in the empire ; bring them
more nearly and immediately in contact with London and Dublin,
than has hitherto been thought possible. This project is wholly in-
dependent of any other line already before the public, and as it
possesses national advantages which none can surpass, must, when
carried out, become, without exception, the most important railway
in Great Britain. _

One of the first objects of this Company will be to obtain a most
central an I accessible terminus in London, and Farringdon-street has
been fixed upon for that purpose.
It is proposed to make a tunnel from that point to the Great Western
station, from whence the line will be continued in as direct a course as
possible to Holyhead
In its progress it will pass through or near to the following towns :
—Rickmansworth, Chesham, Wendover, and Aylesbury; it will then
proceed to within a short distance of Bicester and Deddington, and
from thence to Banbury ; it will touch upon Kineton or Kingtown,
thence proceed onward to Stratford-on-Avon, approach within a
short distance of Warwick, Alcester, and Worcester, where it will
cross the Birmingham and Gloucester Railroad near to Bromsgrove,
and proceeding thence to Kidderminster, Bridgnorth, and Wenlock,
near to Broseley and Coalbrookdale, will enter the Vale of the
Severn, which it will traverse to Shrewsbury; it will thence con-
tinue its route up the course of the Severn, and passing into the Vale
Of the River Vyrnwy, will proceed to Littn-y-myneeh, Llandrhaladr,

and 3fochnant, accommodating Welehpool, Oswestry, and Llangollen.
At this point there are three passes, which have been inspected, and
it remains for the engineer to select one as :in entrance or passage
into the Vale of the River Dee, when the line will proceed round by
Corwen into the Vale of the River Alwen, from whence it will run
nearly parallel with the great Holyhead. Mall-emelt-road, by Pentre-
voelas to Capel Cerrig, it will then descend the Vale of Nant Francon
t o Bangor and Holyhead.

This line will in its progress feed, and be also fed by the most consi-
siderable railroads of the kingdom, particularly those of the Great
Western ; the Birmingham, Gloucester, sad Bristol ; the Oxford,
Worcester, and Wolverhampton ; the London and Birmingham ; and
the South Staffordshire railway. As this last line will connect
Dudley, Bilston, Wednesbury, Walsall, and Lichfield with the
Derby Railway and 'the Grand Junction Railway, it would
be superfluous to expatiate on the advantages of bring-
ing all those important centres of the coal and iron trade and
other traffic, and the vast coal and iron fields of Shropshire
into close intercourse, and thus establishing the cheapest and
quickest means of transit between the minerals of Shropshire and the
furnaces of Staffordshire, and the markets of Dublin, London, and
Birmingham. The success of the undertaking is secured beyond a
doubt, by the obvious fact that it will not only bring the richest
mineral and manufacturing portions of England much nearer to the
two capitals, but it will open for the carriage of the valuable pro-
duce of these districts the intermediate country not at present pos-
sessed of any direct line of railway communication. On the other
hand, the Grand London and Dublin Approximation Railway will
give to London and the neighbourhood of Birmingham a route to
Dublin shorter by nearly seventy miles than that of any other exist-
ing railroad ; and finally, enable travellers to complete the entire
distance in ten hours.
It will also ensure two mail deliveries in the day.
to the point where the line approaches Comet], no engineering
difficulties are presented. At Corwen a deviation from the straight
line may be requisite to avoid tunnelling, after which a straight line
will be resumed to Bangor, where that already in construction will
be adopted for the rest of the route to Holyhead ; or, if fount de-
sirable, power will be taken hi the Bill to continue an independent
line by Beaumaris to Holyhead.
After a careful investigation of the traffic arising from passengers,
the conveyance of mineral and agricultural produce, and the direct
transmission of the malls, the Directors fed warranted in anticipating
a return of at least ten per cent. on the capital invested.

A treaty is in progress with a Steam Navigation Company to run
powerful steamers between the harbours of Holyhead and Kingston
on the arrival of the trains, so that passengers and merchandise may
be booked throughout from London to Dublin, Including all the inter-
mediate stations, and be thus enabled to complete the entire distance
in ten hours, without the inconvenience so painfully felt of changing
from the conveyance of one proprietary to that of another. The
railways now in active progress in Ireland, running from Dublin
north and south throughout the heart of the island, render it self-
evident that the chain of communication between the sister countries
is, by this present undertaking, rendered at once complete
and intimate to the last degree. As the leading aim of
this Company is is save time and distance, every attention of
the Directors, 'and every advancement in science wilt be made
available to gain the utmost possible amount of speed, com-
patible with safety, the lines being formed expressly for this end ;
while, filially-, the very lowest rate of fares will be adopted for both
passengers and traffic, and the public will find in the improvement of
the inferior carriages, and some additional comforts for those of the
first class, that the Grand London and Dublin Approximation Rail-
way will be placed in advance of any other now existing, and is all
its details will be rendered worthy an enterprise so national in its
character.

Application will be made for a Bill to incorporate the Company
early in the next session. The usual power will be taken by the Act
to allow interest at 4/. per cent. per annum on the amount of the
subscriptions paid up ; and no subscriber will be answerable for more
than the amount of his deposit until the Act be obtained, and then not
beyond the amount of his subscription.
Applications for Shares may be made, in the subjoined form, to the
following Solicitors, Brokers, and Agents :—Mr. Roger Mortimer,
Throgmorton-street, London; B. R. Pemberton, Esq., Atherton-
buildings, Mr. Win. Kerl, and Messrs. Schultz and Carr, Liverpool;
Mr. J. R. Lane, Birmingham ; James Jamieson, Esq., Leeds ; Messrs.
Cardwell and Sons, Manchester; Mr. James Butchart, Huddersfield;
Messrs. J. and J. Kimpster, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Mr. Hervey,
Halifax ; Wm. Lee, Esq., Cheltenham ; R. P. Clark, Esq., Bristol;
W. H. Cooper, Esq., Shrewsbury ' • Messrs. Graystoneand Earl, York ;
Henry Beaumont, Esq., Exeter; Messrs. Munro and Co., 44, George
street, Edinburgh ; Charles sCouper, Esq.,' 1, Parkside-street, Edin-
burgh; James Jardine, Esq., Glasgow; Wm. Oliphat, Perth; and
Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, Dublin.
FORM OF APPLICATION.

To the Provisional Directors of the Grand London and Dublin
Approximation Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 501.
each in this undertaking, and I hereby agree to accept the same, or
any less number that may be allotted to me, and to pay the deposit
thereon, and sign the Parliamentary Contract and lubscribers'
Agreement when required. _

Name in 11111
Besidence—
Profession orßusinese

Reference (two or more)

Witness
And his Address

PROSPECTUS OF THE

RHONDDA and ELY VALLIES JUNCTION
RAILWAY, GLAMORGANSHIRE.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Promoted with the sanction and support of the Right Hon. the Earl

of Dunraven.
capital, 200,0001., in 10,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
iisconnt Adare, M.P., Dunraven Castle, Glamorgan
Crawshaw Bailey, Esq., Iron-works, Nantyglo
Sir Robert Price, Bart., M.P., Fealty, Herefordshire
Sir John Osborn, Bart., Fulham4Director of the Great Leeds and
London Direct Railway
Sir. Win. Bacon Johnston, Bart., Parthenon Club, London, Director
of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Railway
Sir Wm. Twysden, 41, Dorset-street, Portman-square
Richard Price, Esq., M.P., Radnorshire
Sir William Wynn, Macs Eewyeld, Chairman of the North Wales
Railway
lames G. Barrett, Esq., Ross, Herefordshire
Henry A. Bruce, Esq., Duffryn louse, Cardiff
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the Shef-
field and Manchester Railway
Charles Richard Bigge, Esq., 19, Bryanstone-square
John Castendieck, Esq., Lewisham, Kent
Thomas Chitty, Esq., Director of the Rugby and Worcester
Railway
The Rev. James Cozens, Ynys Plwm, Glamorganshire
Edward Cotton, Esq., St. James's-square and Kenilworth, Director
of the Commercial Bank
Captain Dawson, R.N., Barnes, Surrey, Direeter of Cambridge and
Lincoln Extension Railway
George Dennis, Esq., Director of the Great Leeds and London Direct
Railway
Richard Dutton, Eq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
Edmondes,William Esq., of Cowbridge, Glamorganshire
Thomas H. Evans, of Carnarvon, Director of the Rugby and
Worcester Railway
The Rev. 11. R. Fowler, Felton, near Bristol, and No. 7, Manchester-
square
The Rev. Thomas Gronow, 29, Bromptoa-squaro
Captain Hewitt, Tyr Mab Ellis, Glamorganshire
Windsor H. Humphreys, Esq., Garth Hall, Glamorganshire
John J. Harris, Esq., Treverig, Glamorganshire
John Hopkins, Esq., Killely, Glamorganshire
William Harrison, Esq., Hill House, Upper Tooting
John James, Esq., Secondary of the City of London, and Director of
the South and fidlands' Junction Railway
John Ingles Jerdein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby,
and Southampton Railway
Tero Clarke Kemball, Esq. Hyde-park-gardens, Director of the
South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Richard Kelly, Esq., Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
Griffith Llewellyn, Esq., Baglan Hall, Glamorganshire
William Llewellyn, Esq., Director of the Bridgend Branch of the
National Provincial Bank of England
James Mackirdy, Esq., City of London Club
James Morrison, Esq., Direetor of the Chepstow and Forest of Dean

Railway
Thomas Morris, Esq., of Newport, Monmouthshire
Leyshon Morgan, Esq., Lower Tremains, Bridgend, Glamorganshire
Samuel P. Pratt, Esq., F.E.S., Bath, and No. 55, Lincoln's Inn-
fields, Director of the Kennet and Avon Canal
William Simpson Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park
George B. Pye, Esq., Lavenham, Suffolk
Evan Prichard, Esq., Collenna House, Glamorganshire
James Brown, Esq., of Ton Ddu, near Bridgend
Richard Fowler Rickards, Esq., Lantrissent House, Glamorganshire
James Reeves, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Direct,
and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Edward L. Richards, Esq., Merthyr Tydvil, Glamorganshire
John Randall, Esq., Old Castle, Bridgend, Glamorganshire
Richard Lewis Reece, Esq., County Coroner, Cardiff
Edward Beard, Esq., of Kew Green, Surrey, and Garth Hall. Glamor-
ganshire
Henry James, Esq., Finsbury-square, London
Robert Wright, Esq., Lonsdale-square, Middlesex, and Bread-street-
hill, London, Director of the Great Trinidad Railway
John Williams, Esq., Furnival's Inn, London, and Llanflhangel,
Denbighshire
Joseph Underwood, Esq., the Hall, Blackheath, Director of the
London and Birmingham Extension Railway Company, and Di-
rector of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.
(With power to add to their number).
STANDING COUNSEL—Edward Lewis Richards, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
W. B. James, Esq., 5, Bas'tighall-street, London
William Morgan, Esq., Bridgend, Glamorgan.
BANKERS.
Commercial Bank of London
National Provincial Bank, Bridgend and Cardiff.
ENGINEER—CharIes Edward Bnrnard, Esq.

This Railway is projected for the purpose of uniting the Rhondda
and Ely Vallics, with the South Wales Railway, at a few miles dis-
tance from the Port of Cardiff; and to open a new mineral district,
one of the richest and most important in South Wales, which is at
present without the means of transit for its immense and valuable
products.

It will pass through the central portion of the great coal-field of
Glamorganshire, where iron-stone also abounds with the coal In Im-
mense quantities, and laying, geologically speaking, nearly flat, and,
obtainable, for the most part, by proper levels. The coal in addition
to Its being of excellent quality for iron making, as is proved at Mer-
thyr and Aberdare, is also, like that of those distriots, of the very
bast description for steam purposes, being nearly smokeless, although
inflammable, indeed so pre-eminently is the superiority of this de-
scription of coal established for steam purposes over any other,
that the demand for it far exceeds the supply, and promises, accord-
ing to the opinion of the most eminent marine engineers, to super-
sede all others for purposes of steam navigation. This source of
traffic alone will afford a handsome retura for the capital invested,
as has been demonstrated in every instance whore even tram-roads or
canals have been constructed to open the mineral resources of other
less promising vallies in Wales than the Rhondda, which is cele-
brated for the abundance, quality, and facility of obtaining ita pro-
ductions.

An inexhaustible supply of limestone (so necessary for the manu-
facture of iron and for agricultural purposes) may be obtained by
means of this Railway, much nearer and cheaper than by any other

This line will afford to the increasing population of the rich vales
of Ely and Rhondda a much desired communication with the great
market town and port of Cardiff, from whence, at present, they may
be said to be almost excluded.

It is intended that the line shall commence at Bitten Rhondda, the
head of the Rhondda Valley, and proceed down by a natural pass
between the hills at Ffrwd Amws, a distance of eight miles, where it
will enter the Ely Valley and proceed down (a further distance of
six miles) to Lanelay-bridge, near Lantrissent, and there join the
South Wales Railway, thus opening a communication under the most
advantageous circumstances as to distance, with all the ports in the
Bristol channel.

A preliminary survey has already been made by competent par-
ties, and it is found that the country admits of highly favourable
gradients, so much so that It is confidently anticipated that the
works will be executed very considerably under the advertised ca-
pital.
The landowners along the line are favourable to this undertaking,
and the names of many influential proprietors will be found on the
Provisional Committee. _ _ _ _

No Subscriber will be answerable beyond the amount of his de-
posit until the Act is obtained, and then not beyond the amount et
his subscription.
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 funds
of the Company in payment of all the expenses incurred in its forma-
tion, and in the preparation of the plans and sections to be submitted
t• Parliament.

Power will be applied for in the Act (and in the meantime is
hereby given to the Managing Directors as above), to raise any addi-
tional capital, to extend or abandon any part of the line, to make
branch lines, or enter into any arrangements, by amalgamation or
otherwise, with any other company or companies, and also to nomi-
nate the first Directors of the Company.

In the allottmcnt of Shares, a preference will be given to
landowners on the line and other parties locally interested.
Prospectuses and Maps may be had of, and applications for
Shares may be addressed in the form annexed to, NV. B. James,
Esq., Solicitor, 5, Basinghall-street, London; to IV. Morgan, Esq.,
Solicitor, Bridgend, Glamorganshire ; and to the undermentioned
Brokers ; but no application for Shares will receive the attention of
the Committee, unless accompanied by a reference to one or more
of the Provisional Committee, Solicitors, or the Engineers:—
London—Messrs. John Shewell and Son, 25, Tokenhouse yard.
.4 Messrs. J. Peppercorne and Co., 2, Old Broad-street.

Liverpool—Messrs. Betiht and Co.
Manchester—Messrs. Houghland and Leese
Leeds—Messrs John Young and Co.
Bristol Luke Arnold, Esq. ; Messrs. Taite and:Nash
Birmingham—Mr. Collis
Sheffield—Mmrs. Bardwell and Sons.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES,

To the Provisional Committee of the Rhondda and Ely Panics

Junction Railway.

Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me shares of 20/.
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 allotted
to m' ; and I also undertake to execute the Parliamentary Contract
and Sttbscribers' Agreement when required.

Name in fllli .. • • • • • • • • • • • .......
Residence • . • • • • • • , • • • • • • • .
Trade or Profession • . • • • • • • ........
Reference with Address • • • • • • • • • .....
Date of Application .............

RHONDDA AND ELY VALLIES
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
No further applications for shares in this Company can be received
after FaIDAY, the 10th instant. By order,
JOHN PETHERICK, Secretary.
5, Basinghall-etreet, 3d Ckleber, 1846.

DIRECT S FI E FFIE LD and MACCLESFIELD
RAILWAY, forming Junctions with all the Important Rail-
ways in Great Britain.
(Provisionally Renistered, pursuant to 7th and Bth Vic., c. 110.)
Capital 800,0001., in 40.009 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL CO3DIITTEE.
(With power to add to their number.)
Pierce Somerset Butler, Esq., M.P.. Chairman of the Waterford and
Kilkenny, and of the City of Toronto and Lake Huron Rail-
way Companies
William Chaplin, Esq , Lad-lane, London, and Greenhithe, Kent,
Chairman of the Iron Steam-boat Company
John Chaplin, Esq., Gracechurch-street, and Greenhithe, Kent
Edwin Ward Jackson, Esq., Edgehill, Liverpool, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds, North-Western, Manchester, Liverpool, and
Great North of England, and Staffordshire Potteries Railways
Rowland Hill Mackenzie, Esq., Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square,
London, Director or the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and of
the Cheltenham and Oxford Junction Railways
T. S. Richards, Esq., Baker street, Portman-square, Director of the
Ipswich and Southampton Railway
Edward Scard, Esq., magistrate for Surrey and Middlesex, Kew-green,
Director of the Toronto and Lake Huron Railway
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Park, Blackheath, Director of the Com-
mercial Bank, and of the Metropolitan Life Office
John Tall, Esq., Hanoverian Consul, merchant and shipowner, Hull,
Director of the Hull Dock Company
Rear-Admiral Ayscough, Prospect-place-house, Southampton
John Francis Bacon, Esq., Austin-friars, London
Captain Crawley, Edgbaston, Birmingham
Thomas Chitty, Esq., Gower-street, Directer of the Rugby and War-
wick Railway
Captain F. Chamier, R.N., Halkin-street, Beigrave-square, Director
of the Hazebrouck and Famponx (French) Railway
C. F. Colman, Esq , Shirley, Southampton
Captain William Cousins, Director of the Goole and Doncaster
Railway
Thomas H. Evans, Esq., Mayor of Carnarron, Director of the
London and Holyhead Railway
Robert Green, Esq., Birchin-lane, London and Macclesfield
William Holloway, Esq., Lime-street-square, London
William Jerking, Esq., Balsall-heath, Birmingham
Edward Richards, Esq., 16, New Broad. street-buildings
Sir William White, Director of the Church of England Life Insurance
Company
George R. Peppercorn, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex, Director of the Rugby
and Worcester Railway
Thomas Whitaker, Esq., Captain, R.N., Kirk Ella, near Hull,
Director of the Hull and Barnsiey Junction Railway
Isaac Whitaker, Esq., Bessie, near Hull, Director of the York, Hull,
and East and West Yorkshire Junction Railway
Thomas Ward, Esq., shipowner, Hull, Director of the Dudley,
Madeley, Brosely, andlronbridge, and of the Hull and Barnsley
Junction Railways
George Robinson, Esq.. Hull, Director of the Dudley, Madeley,
Brosely, and Ironbridge, and of the Hull and Barnsley Junction
Railway
John Ostler. Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction
Railway
Thomas Digby, Esq., Banker, Hull, Director of the Hull and Barns-
ley Junction Railway
Thomas Newts, Esq., Director of the Barbadoes Railway
Fitzlierbert Macqueen, Esq., Great Winchester-street
Sir James Anderson, Bart., Buttevant Castle, Director of the Cork
and- Fermoy Direct Railway
Jelin Corfield, Esq., Southwick-street, Hyde Park-gardens
James Adair, Esq., Director of the Church of Englar.d Life Assurance
Company, and of the Northern and Southern Railway
John G. Barrett, Esq., Ross, Herefordshire
William Ditmas, Esq., Beverley
Colonel W. M. Sloane. Director of the Bristol and Dover Railway
Lawrence Kortwright, Esq., Director of the Barbadoes Railway
John Upham, Esq., Charges-street, Director of the. Guernsey and
Mauritius Railways
John Grey Wilson, Esq., Director of the Western Gas Company, and
of the Direct Western Railway
William-I Henry Halpin, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and
Basingstoke Railway
Matthew William Staines, Esq., 64, Conduit-street, llanover-square
Samuel Pocock, Esq., Bloomsbury-square
Bentinck W. Doyle, Esq., Director of the North Jamaica Railway
E. D. Warrington, Esq., merchant, New City Chambers, Bishops-
gate-street
John Chandler, Esq., Connaught •terrace, Hyde-park
Edward Power, Esq., Middle Temple
Simeon Musgrove, Esq., Kirkstall, near Leeds
Sir William Lowthrop, Hull, and Algoa House, Scarborough, Chair-
man of the Hull and Barnsley Junction, and Director of the Liver-
pool and Leeds Railways..
Captain J. P. Macdougall, Director of the Cambrian Grand Junction
Railway
G. S. Foster, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension,
and Chester Junction Railways
Miles Coventry, Esq., Director of the Direct Western Railway
William Gordon, Esq., M.D„ Hull, Director of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct, and Hull and Barnsley Junction Railways
Col. Robert Douglas, C. 8., United Service Club
Samuel Palmer, Esq., Great Yarmouth, Director of the Great Grimsby,
Louth, Horncastle, Lincoln, and Midland Junction Railway
Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of the Britannia Insurance Company
John Haigh, Esq., Leeds
Richard Kelly, Esq., Cleveland-row, Chairman of the New Ross,
Carlow, and Kilkenny Railways, and Managing Director of the
York and Lancaster Railway
Henry Bellerby, Esq., Sheriff of York
Frederick Ramsdell, Esq., Seymour House, Old Trafford, Manchester,
Director of the Birkenhead, Holyhead, and Mold Extension ; the
Liverpool, Preston, and North Union ; the Staffordshire Potteries;
and the London and Holyhead Railways
Samuel Giles, Esq., Bowden, near Manchester, Director of the Man-
chester and Birmingham Continuation, and Welsh Junction, and
the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railways
P. Bennett Lucas, Esq., Manchester-street, Manchester-square,
Director of the Great Leeds and London, Direct Ipswich and
Southampton, Sligo and Shannon Railways
Charles Tottenham, Esq., Magistrate of the county of Wexford,
RobertCiairmnaisnseotftthßeiEchxmeter
zd, and Dorchester
m.
rchespte.r, R4aol,lwo reat Castle-street,
Cavendish-square, Londena
Thomas W. George, Esq., Leeds, Director of the West Yorkshire

Railway _ _ ________
J. Helbert Helbert, Esq.. Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director
of the Birmingham and Leicester Railway
John Samuel Whitchurch, Esq., Weymouth
William Hawtry, Esq., Fulham
Richard Rowe, Esq., taufoy-terraoe, Maida Vale
James Carroll Wilcocks, Esq., Exeter, Director of the Exeter,
Yeovil, and Dorchester, Exeter and Croditou, and North Devon

Railways
Darnton Lupton, Esq., the Worshipful the Mayor of Leeds, Director
of the Leeds and York, and York and Hull, and Nottingham and
Gainsborough Railways
Thomas Nunneley, Esq., Leeds
Joseph Richardson, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York, the
Midland and Thirsk Junction, and the London, Hounslow, and
Western Railways
John Brightman Esq., Conditll, London, and Regency-square, Brigh-
ton, Chairman of the London and Hounslow Railway
John Barnett, Esq., Cheltenham, Coroner for the County of Glouces-
ter, and Director of the Oxford and Whitney Railway
Matthew Pierpoint, Esq., Worcester, Chairman of the Rugby, Derby,
and Manchester, and Director of the Welsh Midland. and Dudley,
Madeley, and Broseley and Iroubridge Railways
F. Duffield, Esq., Bolton-house, Bradford, Director of the Cambridge
and Lincoln Extension Railway
F. B. Hamilton, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester and Bandon
Railways
James Hamilton, Esq., Balsall-heath, Birmingham
Daniel T. Johnson, Esq., Aldermary-churchyard, Watling-street,
London, Director of Remington's Direct London and Manchester
Railway
Richd. Clay, Esq., Winchester-street, London, and Lloyd's
Klein Grant, Esq., St. James's-street, London, Director of the
Direct Western Railway.
William Pritchard, Esq., Doctors'-commons, London, High Bailiff of
Southwark

RANKERS.
Commercial Bank, Lothbury, London.
The Leeds and West Riding Bank, Leeds.
National and Provincial Bank, Birmingham.
Messrs. Pease and Liddells, Hull.
Messrs. Moore and Co., Nottingham.
The Sheffield and Retferd Banking Company, Sheffield.
ENGlNEERS—Sandiforth F. Griffin, Esq., and J. 11. Taunton, Esq.,
2, Parliament-street.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Cattarns and Fry, 62, Mark-lane, London.
G. A. Colman, Esq., 2, New Inn, Strand, London.
LOCAL SOLICITOR.
Wm. Bennett, Esq., Chapel-en-le-Frith.
BECRETART.—George F. Hire, Esq.
This important line, commencing at the terminus of the Manches-
ter and Sheffield Railway, in the populous manufacturing town of
Sheffield, will proceed, in a direct course, by or through Hope,
Hathersage, Castleton, Chapel-en-le-Frith, and Whaley (the great
canal-port of the Potteries), to the terminus of the Manchester and
Macclesfield Railway, at Macclesfield, the total length of the line
being nearly thirty miles.
The importance of connecting these termini would, alane, be suffi-
cient to ensure full support to the present undertaking, from the
dense population, manufacturing influence, and general traffic of the
towns in question ; but when it is considered that this connexion, or
junction, stands in the very centre of the entire railway system of
England, and that it will complete the chain of railway communi-
cation and transit between the river Humber, the towns of Sneineld
and Macclesfield, the Staffordshire Potteries, the Salt Wiches of
Cheshire, the city of Chester, the docks of Liverpool and Birkenhead,
Bangor Ferry, and the harbour of Holyhead, the advantages are too
manifest to be for a moment questioned.

The surveys are now in progress, and will be completed without
delay, in order to go toyarliament at the ensuing session.
In the allotment of shares, the applications from parties resident
on the line will be preferred. _ _ _

Applications for prospectuses and shares to be made at the offices of
the Company's Solicitors, Messrs. Cattarna and Fry, 62, Mark-lane,
London, and G. A. Colman,. E
-"
so New Inn, Strand ; and of the under-
mentioned Sharebrokers :—L. H. Hazlewood,
Angel court, Thregmor-
ton-street, London; W. W. Foote, Sheffield; R. E. Hine, Maccles-
field; Schofield and West, Hull; John Walkington and Co., Leeds;
Hebden and Parkinson, Leeds ; Smith, Knowles, and Cooke, Leeds ;
Cuff and Fox, Derby; William Miles, Worcester; C. H. Birkbec,
Worcester ; John Smith, Birmingham ; W. H. Collis, Birmingham;
Messrs. Cook and Co., Bradford; Wm. Wood, Manchester, J. an I
D. Wilsen, Manchester; A. Moffatt, Edinburgh; Henry Vatcher,
Exeter; Hall, Brothers and Co., Cheltenham ; Black and Lorimer,
GlaTow ; B. Rayliffe, Liverpool; George Edwards and Son, Bristol;
A. P. Clarke, Bristol ; and J. Banatbrth, Rotherham.
Iu consequence of the number of shares already applied for, no fur-
ther town applications will be attended to after the 15th day of Octo-
ber inst., and from the country after the 18th inst.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHIRES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Direct Sheffield and Maccles-
Reid Railway Company.
Gentlenten,—l request you will allot me shares of 201. each
in the above-named Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the
same, or any less number that may be allotted to me, to pay the de-
posit of 21.25. per share thereon, and to sign the Subscribers' Agree-
ment and Parliamentary Contract when required.
Dated this day of 1845.
Name in fi11....... ••••• ' • • • • • ••• • • •
••• • •
Profession or Business •• • •
Residence, Private and Professional • • ••

Reference:... .........
Residence of Reference• ••••• • • • • ••
Usual Signature of AlpliCant • • .. • • •• • •

•
N ORTII LONDON JUNCTION RAILWAY
COMPANY, 8, Finsbury-place South.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and Bth Victoria, eap. 110.)
Capital, 1,300,000/., in 65,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.
John Attwood, Esq., M.P., Park-lane, Chairman
James Home, Esq., F.R.S., Clapham Common, Deputy-Chairman
Sir John Edward De Beauvoir, Bart., London
James Henry Attwood, Esq., Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square
John Bagshaw, Esq., tileuce.ster-place, Portman-square
Richard Bethell, Esq., Queen's Counsel, Lauderdale House, Highgate
George Bishop, Esq., South Villa, Inner Circle, Regent's Park
Augustus Bosanquet, Esq., Osidge, Southgate
alley Continuation
Joseph Brown, Esq., Director of the Trent V

. ..
Railway
George Woodreffe Franklyn, Esq ,Clifton, Bristol
W. Hughes Hughes, Esq., r.s.A., F.L.S., Alderman of the City of
London
Henry Morten, Esq., Blddiek, Durham
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manchester
and Birmingham Continuation Railway
Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P., 39, St. James's-place
Georg* Rougemont, Esq., 14, Broad-street-buildings
Nicholas Wood, Esq., Kellingworth, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
BANICIIRS.
Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, 31111 s and Co., London
Bank of Liverpool
The Union Bank, Manchester.
ENGINEER—George Parker Bidder, Esq., E.T.c.R,
Alcinracr—Robert Abraham, Esq., Torrington-street, Rume,.ll.
square.
Soincrroa—John Bethell, Esq., 78, King William-street, City.
SECRETARY—Harry Burrard Fantail, Esq.
The Provisional Committee of the North London junction Rail.
way Company have great satisfaction In informing their
subscribers
that negotiations are now pending between the Provisional Commit-
tee of this Company and the Directors of the Railways
north of the
Thames of such a character as to assure them that the City terminus
of this Company will form the Grand Terminus of all the City traffic
north of London.
To effect this important object, an area of 10 acres ofground (the
southern boundary of which Is within 500 yards of the Bank of
England) has been most carefully surveyed and valued, and the re-
port of the architect and engineer is of so favourable a character as lo
have induced the Provisional Committee to determine on purchasing
tile entire site, and it has, therefore, been resolved ...
..), them to In-
crease the capital of this Company to 1,300,0001.
The Provisional Committee consider it of paramount
Importance
to secure within the limits of their City terminus, the amplest and
mast complete accosmnodation for the Mac of each of the railway
companies who may co-operate with them, an object which will be
effected by opening the very extensive and valuable space of ground
alluded to, within the centre of the City of London.
In conjunetlon with this enlarged plan, it is intended to embrace
that of a branch line to the present station of the Eastern Counties
Railway in Shorediteb, which will effect an entire junction between
tile eastern and western parts of the metropolis ; and at the same
time afford a direct communication between the whole of the rail.
ways, which reach London to the north of the Thames, and give
full development to each of their schemes by creating for them a
common centre within the heart of the metropolis.
Independently, therefore; of the almost incalculable local traffic
which the position of their City terminus will ensure to this Com-
pany, will be added that of those companies also who will eventually
co-operate with the North London Junction Railway Company__,
and
the perfection of a project of no ordinary magnitude and Importance
will be realised throughout the whole of this short but very valuable
lino of railway.
A. lithographic sketch now publishing will accurately define the
entire district through which this Company proposes to run this line;
by this means the most casual observer will be enabled to ascertain
that the environs of London, north.of the Thames, Will ba placed la

in;rnediatp commurication with the City ; while the dense popu-
lation of the City will enjoy a fad By of connexion with its suburban
localities, necessarily affording it the greatest accommodation.
With such important local resources, therefo-e, together with the
vast traffic on which the skareholders of this Company have a right
to rely for profit, a large amount of revenue may be fairly and justly
anticipated, fully commensurate with the oatlay of the proposed
capital. Tbat revenue will ho derived thus :
The daily passeuger traffic on the Great Western amounts to
3,345, one-half of which reaches the City. The London and Bir-
mingham amounts to 4,322 daily, two-thirds of which reach the
City. The Eastern Counties amounts to 2,400 persons daily, half
of whom pass to the West-end of London. The omnibus traffic daily
is 30,894 passengers, two-thirds of which may be given to the City.
Passengers from the suburban districts reaching the City, now un-
accommodated by any railway, are estimated at 4,000 daily.
From these sources the following products are derived:— •

Per Ann.
P acis.saeyng,
aetl dfr. °eine cthil.e Great Western and ltirmingham Rail-
. x 52,523
Passengers from the Eastern Counties to the City terminus
ofthis Company, at 3d. each ....... ..... .......... •• • . 12,061
Omnibus passengers' traffic, at Gd. each, as taken at
• . • ••• • • 187,929
142,208 tons of goods and parcels pass annually from the
Great Western and the London and Birmingham Rail-
ways into the City, at an average cost of carriage of 3s.
Gd. per ton throughout. For the carriage of these goods
and parcels, therefore, at the reduced cost of 2s. Gd. per
ton, a revenuz may be derived of •• • •
From the carriage of goods, parcels, and mails, bringing in
to the Eastern Counties Railway Company a revenue of
40,0001. a year, may be derived the sunt of • • • • •

17,776

10,000

The total of their calculations amounts t 0.... X 280,289
Deduct 40 per cent, for workers' expenses ........ ••.• •. 112,11 b

SHREWSBURY AND HEREFORD RAIL-
WAY COMPANY (LATE SHREWSBURY, HEREFORD
AND NORTH WALES RAILWAY COMPANY).
Notice is hereby given, that the Deeds of this Company will lie for
execution from Ten o'clock, A.M., until Four o'clock on the
days, and at the places respeotivay affixed in the following towns :
Manchester Royal Hotel, Wednesday the Bth instant
Liverpool The Adelphi, Thursday the 9th instant
Blackburn . • Watson's Hotel, Friday the 10th Instant
Leeds The Royal Hotel, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday,
the 13th, 14th, and 15th instant
York.... • • • • The Railway Hotel, Thursday the 16th instant
Hull . • The Victoria Hotel, Friday and Saturday, the 17th and
18th instant
Sheffield Tontine Hotel, Monday the 20th instant
Birmingham Dee's Royal Hotel, Thursday the 9th instant
Shrewsbury Mr. Howe's Offices, Swan-hill, Saturday the 11th
instant
Ludlow ... •• . Mr. Lloyd's Offices, Towngate, Monday the 13th
instant
Leominster. • • .Mr. Woodhouse's Offices, Wednesday the 15th in-
stant
Hereford... Messrs. Bodenham's Offices, Friday the 17th instant
Bristol... The Bush Hotel, Monday the 20th instant
Exeter ...• • .•The Old London Hotel, Tuesday the 21st instant
The deeds now lie for 'signature at the Offices of the Company in
London, and will remain there until the 31st instant.

Parties who haye not signed the deeds on or before the 31st of
October, will forfeit their shares.
By order of the Committee of Management,
CONWAY ROSE, Secretary.
449, West Strand, October 4, 1845.

WOLVEEHAMPTON, BRIDGNORTH and
LUDLOW RAILWAY, connecting the Agricultural dis-
tricts of Herefordshire, Shropshire, North and South Wales with
the whole of the Midland Counties, Liverpool, Manchester, and the
North.

(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and S Vie., cap. 110.)
Capital 700,0001., in 35,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Hon. G. F. Hamilton, Burwarton Hall, Salop
Sir William Edward Rouse Boughton, Bart., Downton-hall, Ludlow
Thomas Murray Gladstone, Esq., ironmonger, Wolverhampton,
Provisional Director of the Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South
Staffordshire Junction Railway
John Dixon, Esq., ironmaster, Wolverhampton, Director of the South
Staffordshire Junction Railway
Thomas Clark, Esq., The Oaks, Wolverhampton, Provisional Director
of the Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire Junc-
tion Railway.
William Bailey, Esq., Wolverhampton, Provisional Director of the
Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire Junction
Railway
Samuel Walker, Esq., Wolverhampton, Provisional Director of the
South Staffordshire Junction Railway
John llartley, EN., ironmaster, Wolverhampton, Provisional Direc-
tor of the Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire
Junction Railway
John Parsons Firmstone, Esq., ironmaster, Wolverhampton, Direc-
tor Junction Railway
J. B. Payne. Esq., Edgbaston, Director of the Leicester and Birming-
of the Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton,
RailwayscasitnodnralSoupt
and Wolverhampton Railway
ot' the Oxford, Wor-
cester,"Shersewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire Junction
Railway
andhi Terry.te SouthjE., s
Eq.
,s Esq.,
StaffordshiretsyShrewsbury,
vfsbJuurny Junction ti
Dudley,opnEir
Provisional
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near Bridg-
Edhmwaamrd
C. D. Archibald, Esq., F.R.S., F.S A., Rusland Hall, Lancashire,
TDi-
rectorhoirinofs v thehitmSooruet Staffordshirehwy ide Browne,
Bridg-
north, Magistrate of the County of Salop and of the Borough of
Bridgnerth
Thomas Pardoe Purton, Esq., Falntrce-hall, Bridgnorth, Magistrate
for the County of Salop, and Borough of Bridgnorth
Thomas Nock, Esq., Mayor of Bridgnorth
John Baker, Esq., Dolforwyn-hall, Montgomeryshire and Bridgnorth,
Magistrate of the Borough of Bridgnorth
Henry Slater Richards, Esq., Magistrate of the Borough of Bridg-
north
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William M`Michael, Esq., Magistrate of the Borough of Bridgnorth
q.,
John Jacob Smith, Esq., Town-Cierk, Bridgnorth
Joseph Hall, Esq., Bridgnorth
BBnrriiddgnanoortrthh
John Green, Esq., Badger-heath, near Bridgnorth
William Southwcll, Esq., carpet manufacturer, Bridgnorth
John Hinckstnan, Esq., Charlcott, Bridgnorth:
John Phillips, Esq., Bridgnorth ihreeSttaortroordfshtihree
J
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Thomas Deighton, Esq., Bridgnorth
SJoolhhi an Dma
Onions,lllVewie C 1
Esq., Broseley
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sTtehovrnen,s,EEsqm.,.7.,illibtyehmaall
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BroseleyMagistrate of the Borough of Bridg-
north
Charles Powell, Esq., Button, Ludlow, Magistrate of the County of
EEsEqscsi.Eq,.:;24l.4.m,asm-ylhodoagfrogroidesft,LLuumdlooww, Magistrate of thsutedrlaCotwoetionftythoef
William,7e I l l Thomas,ro,faiLudlow.
Lawrence,
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Thomas,t
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Esq,, Ludlow
William Edwards,
Esq"
magistrate of the borough of Ludlow
John Tench, Esq., Ludlow
Edward 'Leming Owen, Esq., The Moor, Ludlow
Humphrey Smith, Esq., Overton, Ludlow, magistrate of the borough
ee Ludloweri
Frederick
Ricketts, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Bristol and Exeter
Railway
John Masterman, jun., Esq., banker, London
Alderman Farncomb, London
William Morley, Esq., Blackheath
W. T. Andrew, Esq., Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-souare
George Emery, Esq., London, Directorof the Waterford and Kilkenny
Railway
W. G. Allen, Esq., Leadenhall-street
William Watson, Esq., Bristol, Director of the Bristol and Exeter
Railway
H. ltidout Downman, Esq., London, Provisional Director of the
Cambrian and Grand Junction Railway
A. P. Paull, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway
William Morgan, Esq., Bristol Director of the Bristol and Exeter
Railway
William Watson Prole, Esq., London, Director of the Isle of Jersey
Line
Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brymbo Ironworks, North Wales, and 57,
Cannon-street, London
James Renshaw, Esq., merchant, Crosby-square, London
Abram Gartside, Esq., Liverpool
Robert Chapman, Esq., London, Provisional Director of tho:Great
Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway
RANKERS.
Messrs. Masterman and Company, London
Messrs. Pritchard and Boycott, Bridgnorth and Broseley
Messrs. Cooper, Purton, and Cooper, Bridgnorth and Weniock
Messrs. Rocke, Eyston, Campbell and Bayleys, Ludlow
The Ludlow and Tenbury Bank
The Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking Company, Wolver-
hampton

ENGINEER—John R. lti`Lean, Itt.I.C.E.
SOLICITORS.

Messrs. Edwards, Mason, and Edwards, 3loorgate-Street, London,
and Delahay-street, Westminster
M. Haywood Willtams,Ey!., Bridgnorth

Charles Comer, Esq., Wolverhampton
Messrs. Williams and Umlek, Ludlow

SEcIETART—John Trevor, Esq.
This Railway will commence at the important town of Wolver-
hampton, proceeding through or near to Seisdon, Trysull and
Claverley, to the manutacturing town of Brldgnorth ; from thence
it will continue through a rich agricultural and populous district to
Ludlow, and there fall into other projected lines to all parts of Eng-
land, North and South Wales, and Ireland, a distance of about thirty-
two miles.

It will afford direct communication between Ludlow, Bridgnorth
and Wolverhampton, Dudley, &c.; and, by the South Staffordshire
Junction Railway, give to those towns and districts the most direct
route for passengers and goods to and from the Central, North Eastern
and Eastern parts of the Kingdom, and from which those towns have
hitherto been excluded by every project of the day.
It will convey to the agricultural districts of Herefordshire and
south Shropshire, and also to the towns of Bridgnorth and Ludlow,
coals and the mineral productions of Staffordshire, Worcestershire,
and the Clee Hills, at nearly one-half the present cost of those ne-
cessary articles, and be the means of conveyance for corn, cattle,
sheer, cider, wool, hops and other agricultural productions, as also
timber from the before-mentioned agricultural counties, to the heart
of the mining and manufacturing districts, which cannot fail to pro-
duce an immense traffic.

To the towns embraced in this line, the ♦slue of obtaining thereby,
at the cheapest rate, coal and the necessaries of life, will be of the ut-
most importance.

One principal feature in this projection is, that as either Ludlow or
Bridgnorth will lie in the direct route of one of the projects to be pro-
po4ed to Parliament in the next session, for the most direct commu-
nication between Ireland and the metropolis, this line will thereby
afford to passengers the easiest communication to and from the cen-
tral parts ofthe kingdom.
It is satisfactory to the promoters to state that they have the sanc-
tion of the Grand Junction Company, and the co-operation of the
Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton and South Staffordshire Junction, and
the South Staffordshire Junction Companies, and that no project has
been announced in competition with its acknowlcdVdclainl on public
support.
The whole line is free from engineering difficulties, and can be
cOnStrueted at a Inc/deride cost, and has obtained the approval of the