The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TITESDAX MORNING OCTOBER 21,

Staffordshire Potteries, Birmingham, Derby, Leicester, Manchester,
Liverpool, Leeds, Newcastle and Berwick, and with the great manu-
facturing and mining districts of the north of England.
The numerous parishes and districts which will be traversed by the
line comprise a population of nearly 1,500,000 persons, and passing,
as it will, a ra,rtion of the counties of Berks and Oxford, the whole
of Buckinghamshire, and by the celebrated Vale of Aylesbury, adn
uniting with the several completed or projected railways under-
mentioned, viz.:—

The London and Birmingham
The Great Western
The Southampton Union
The South Midland
The Midland Counties
The Northampton and Leicester
The Northampton and Peterborough, and thus with
The Direct Manchester
It cannot be doubted that it must prove extremely convenient and
beneficial to the public, and highly advantageous to the proprietors.
The liability of the shareholders will be restricted by Act of Par-
liament to the amount of their subscriptioi.s, and power will be ap-
plied for in the Bill to allow interest at 4 per cent. per annum on all
calls, from the passing of the Act until the opening of the line.
Arrangements have been made that the survey shall be completed,
and the plans and sections deposited in thne for obtaining an Act
during the ensuing session of Parliament.
Applications for shares may be addressed, in the form annexed, to
the undermentioned brokers, viz.:—Messrs. B. and M. Boyd, Princes-
street, John Shewell, Esq., Threadneedle-street, and Messrs. Wells,
Westropp, and Prinsep, 75, Old Broad-street, Mr. Jolla Smith.
Shorter's -court, Throgmorton-street, London; Messrs. Graystone and
Earle, York; Mr. Thackray, Harrogate; Mr. Joseph Nelson, Settle;
Mr. W. Wel h, Lancaster; Messrs. Geddes and Drinkwater, and Mr.
Henry Waterton, Bank-buildings, Castle-street, Liverpool ;
Mr. Peter Leicester, Messrs. Green and Oldham, Messrs.
Green and Lockwood, Manchester; Mr. James Pearson, Birming-
ham; Messrs. Joshua Wood and Son, Messrs. Watson and Co., and
Messrs. E. King and Co., Leeds ; Messrs. Brady and Ftaniforth,
hull ; Mr. J. A. Butehart, Huddersfield ; Mr. Itervey, llalifax ; Mr.
Nightingale, Wakefield ; Messrs. Samuel Hutchinson and Co., Brad-
ford ; Mr. Luke Arnold, and Mr. George Edwards, Bristol ; Mr. G.
R. Gliddon, and Mr. Thomas Sandford, Exeter; Messrs. Hall,
Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham ; Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer, Ply-
mouth ; Mr. Robert Alan, Messrs. Itngh Munro and Co., Mr. David
Kinnear, and Mr. James Pringle, Edinburgh ; Mr. W. Pringle,
Leith ; Messrs. M'Ewen and Auld, Glasgow ; Mr. Win. Gordon,
Aberdeen ; Mr. S. A. Gloag, Perth ; of whom prospectuses may be
had ; or to the Previsional Committee, at the offices of the Company.

r rHE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT
A. RAILWAY, via ABINGDON, WANTAGE, lIUNGERFORD,
and LUDGERSIIALL. _

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 1,200,0001., in 48,000 Shares of 25/. each.
Deposit 2/. 12s. Gd. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Dillon, Ditchley-park, Oxon
The Right lion. Lord Suffield, Gunton-park, North Walsham
The Right Hon. Lord Rossmore, the Dell, Windsor
The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne, Belle Hatch-house, Henley
The [fox. Robert Gore, R.N., M.P., 21, Wilton-crescent
The Hon. William M. Dawson, Parkstone-lodge, Poole, Director of
the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
The Hon. Edward Stafford jerningham, Director of the London and

Nottingham Railway
Sir William Drummond Stewart, Bart.
Sir John Key, Bart., King's Arms-yard, Alderman of London,
Director of the Direct Manchester and London Railway
Brigadier-General Sir Henry ['yon, United Service Club
E. F. Dayrell, Esq., Lilling,ston Dayrell, High Sheriff of Bucking n.
. .

,•
shire, Chairman of the Minehead and Bridgewater Railway
James Macmillan, Esq., Southampton, Director of the Worcester,

Warwick, and Rugby Railway
Frederick William Seymour, Esq., Carlton-gardens, Director of ill*?

Dover and Bristol Railway
Henry D. Erskine,'Esq., Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, and Kirby
Dale, Yorkshire, Director of the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway
Major Moore, Queen Anne-street, Director of the Brighton and

Cheltenham Direct Railway
Major Graham, late Scots Greys,l6, Grove,Clapham
G. It. Ilunbury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the

Coventry and Manchester Railway
The Rev. 11. R. Fowler, Felton, near Bristol, and 7, Manchester-
square, Director of the Rhondda and Ely Valleys Junction

Railway
James Gernon, Esq., 13, Conduit-street, Vice-Chairman of the Gal

way and Ennis Grand Junction Railway
Archibald Douglas Stewart, Esq., Grandtully Castle
Robert Bell, Esq., Manor-house, Chiswick, Director of the Dover

and Bristol Railway
Joseph Bull, Esq., Manchester
Thomas Ferranti Deaden, Esq., Rochdale
Charles Haigh, Esq., Rochdale
Charles Welland, Esq., Liverpool
James Shaw, Esq., Pendleton, Manchester
The Rev. F. K. Hall, D.D., Rector of Fulborne, Cambridgeshire
Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlborough-place, St.
Directors of the
E. S. Blundell, Esq., 18, Lower Seymour-street Direct Lon-
W. L. Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex don and Exe-
G. W. Evans, Esq., Milbury-terrace, Regent's-park ter Railway
Walter Shairp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park,
John Allen, Esq. 12, Gloucester-terrace, Kensington
Francis Roose, Eset., tipper Montague-street, Montague-square
Francis Ewart, Esq., Temple, Director of the Equity and Law
Life Assurance Company, and of the Exeter, Dorchester, and
Weymouth Railway
William Gambier, Esq., Sacombe-park, Herts
Benjamin Swan, Esq., Jermyn-street, St. James's
Nehemiah John Reed, Esq., R.N., Marlborough, Director of the

London and South Wales Direct Railway
'Hobert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough
F. Walker Botterill, Esq., Burnley
James Paxton, Esq., M.D., Director of the Rugby and Manchester,

. . _
Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Railways - -
Thomas Ingham Rayner, Esq., Lilac-cottage, Birstal, near Leeds, Di-
rector of the Great Leeds, and London, Midland, and Thirsk, and
other Railways
Major Henry Lyster, 9, Spring-terrace, Wandsworth-road, Director

_ .
of the Lincolnshire and Eastern Counties Railway
J. Russell, Esq. Gloucester-place, Portman-square
James Scott, M.D., Grove End-lodge, St. John's-wood, Director
of the Hull and Holyhead, and of the Bristol, Bath, and Poole
Railways
William Doe Belcher, Esq., Mayor of Abingdon
John Hyde, Esq., jun., Alderman of Abingdon
John Tumkins, Esq.
John Harris, Esq. Members of the Town Council, Abi ng-
Thomas Copeland, Esq. don
Edwin James Trendell, Esq ,
John King, Esq., Abingdon
George Cox, Esq., Abingdon
George Jackson, Esq., Abingdon
John Knight, Esq., Abingdon
Mr. Thomas Payne, jun., Abingdon
John Aldworth, Esq.,Frilford, Berks
Caudwell, Esq., Drayton, near Abingdon
William Dewe, Esq., Stonehill, near Abingdon
John Towle, Esq.
1 Members of the City Council, Oxford
R. C. Godfrey, Esq..
James Morrell, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant of the county of Oxford,
Director of the Londo and Cheltenham Direct Railway
Santuary, Esq., Kidlington, Oxon
Captain 11. Strong, Oxford, Director of the Oxford and Worcester
Extension Railway
Rowland Mackenzie, Esq., fAt, Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square.
Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and of the Chel-
tenham and Oxford Railways
Abraham Bauer, Esq., 9, Arthur-street West, King William-street
Daniel Hanley, Esq., Oxford
William Seckham, Esq., Killington, Oxon
Charles Shillingford, Esq., Sonter Town, Oxon
Min Williams, Esq., Somer Town, Oxon
Mr. Thomas Hyde, Oxford
Mr. Wm. Thompson, Oxford
John Brightman, Esq., Regency-square, Brighton, Chairman of the
Hounslow Railway
David Bryan, Esq., Northampton, Director of tha Eastern and
Midland Counties Railway
Charles Liddiard, Esq., Wantage
Mr. Ilenry James Palmer, \Vantage
Thomas Brown, Esq. West Lockinge, Berks
William Stone, Esq. Charlton, Berks.
Richard Barnard, Esq. Charlton, Berks
Henry Hayward, Esq. Stirlings, Wantage
James Staley, Esq. Wantage
Thomas Brown, Esq. Wantage
Mr. Charles Hart, foundry, Wantage
Mr. William Beesley, Wantage
John William Palmer, Esq. Letcombe Regis, Berks
Mr. J. Pottinger Palmer, Letcombe Regis, Berks
John Blunt, Esq., Upper Bedford-place, Director of the London
Docks
William Bartow, Esq., Surrey-place, Kent-road, Director of the

Commercial and General Life Assurance Association
Robert Bastow, Esq., Surrey-place, Director of the Great Eastern
and Western Railway
John King, Esq., St. John's-wood, London, Director of the Somer-
setshire Midland Railway
Henry Stock, Esq., Beddgelert, North Wales, Director of the Great
Eastern and Western Railway
D. T. Johnson, Esq., Ahlemary-churchyard, Director of the Direct
Independent London and Manchester Railway
John illoor, Esq., Ttithury, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Man-

chester Railway
T. A. Dale, Esq., Malvern-house, Cheltenham, Director of the Bin
kenhead and Holyhead Junction, and South Staffordshire and Pot.
teries Railways
Charles Johnston, Esq.,Aldersgate-street, Director of the Lynn,

Thetford, and Ipswich Railway
Admiral Ayscouuh, Southampton, Director of the Birmingham and
Leicester Railway
Frederick Chamier, Esq., R.N., Halkin-street, Belgrave-square,
Director of the Northampton and Cambridge Railway
George It. Peppercorns, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex, Director •f the Rugby
anti Warwick Railway
Thomas Salkeld, ERq. Huddersfield, Director of the Manchester,
Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby, and Huddersfield and Liverpool
Direct Railway
Charles Finch, Esq., Fisherton, Salisbury
General Wright, Gloucester-place, Portman-square
(With power to add to their aumber).
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Chairman.

William Bastow, Esq. , W. L. Pope, Esq.
William Doe Belcher, Esq. Brigadier-General Henry
Robert Bell, Esq. Pynn
E. S. Blundell, Esq. M.D. Francis Roose, Esq.
Francis Ewart, Esq. Walter Shairp, Esq.
Charles Liddiard, Esq. Henry Stock, Esq.
James Macmillan, Esq.
(With limited power to add to their number).
ENGINEER-IN-CHlEF—Samuel Charles Brees, Esq.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street,
London.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT—Cadwallader F. Waddy,
BANKERS.
London—The Commercial Bank of London
Oxford—The London and County Bank
A Salisbury—Thebi,ig
ii3tes
sn Wilts
Henryaud KnappDorsen
Dorset County
Co. ;
Bank
and the Cann' y
Batik
Wautage—Messrs. Henry Knapp and Co.
Newbury—The Berkshire Union Bank
Hungerford—Messrs. Tanner and Pinckney.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Oxford—John Francis Wilde, Esq.
Salisbury—Stephen Hill, Esq.
Abingdon—Messrs. Graham and Soa
WantalTe—William Ormond, Esq.
Hungerford and Marlborough—John Halcomb, Esq.
SECRETARY—Z. Hubbersty, Esq.
The importance of connecting remote parts of England by rail-
ways, with the advantages thereby conferred upon intermediate towns
and districts, can scarcely be better exemplified than by the line
which is Low proposed to form a short and direct channel of inter-
course between Oxford and Salisbury. Numerous projected lines
now before the public will make Oxford at the north, and Salisbury
at the south of the intended railroad, the central points from which
various radii will diverge to the northwest, north, and north-east of
the former, and to the south and west of the latter ; and the
proposed line from Cambridge to Oxford, continuing to that city the
coarse of railway from the north-eastern parts of the island, requires
the appliance now suggested to effect a complete means of transit to
the western and south-western counties.
The Oxford and Salisbury Direct Railway, in addition to
the benefits which will he conferred upon the nation at
large, by perfecting a direct line of commun'cation be-
tween the north-eastern and western and south-western
parts of England, will afford to the borough of Abingdon,
the market towns of Wantage, Hungerford, and Ludgershall, and
the adjacent villages, an important railway accommodation, of which
the agricultural districts in which they are seated stand in much
need, and will provide a facility for the interchange of produce be-
tween the rural, manufacturing, and commercial population of the
kingdom. The projected line will bring the Cathedral City of Salis-
bury into immediate connexion with the City and University of
Oxford, combining also the advantage of a direct communication
with the sister University of Cambridge ; thus strengthening the
ecclesiastical and academical relations of the whole, whilst the corn-
mercial prosperity of the two terminal cities must of necessity be
essentially enhanced.

The want of railway accommodation has long been felt to press
unfairly upon the inhabitants of the important and thriving town of
Abingdon. Their means and opportunities of competing with the more
fortunate traders of those towns which are already provided with di-
rect channels of transit, are thus severely crippled. The same remark
applies in some degree to the market town of Wantage, which, as
well as Hungerford and Ludgershall, claims a share of the profit.,
and advantages produced by railway traffic.
It has therefore been determined to commence the proposed line at
Oxford, and to proceed through Abingdon to the station of the Great
Western Railway at Steventon, thus giving to Abingdon a direct rail-
road to London. By continuing the projected railway to Wantage, the
same facility of transit to London will be afforded to that place ; and
a perfect line of road from the north-eastern counties will, by a junc-
tion with the projection from Cambridge to Oxford, be produced,
through the towns which have been named, Ilungerford and Ludgers-
hall, to Salisbury, and thence to the south and western ports and dis-
tricts.

The survey is in a state of great forwardness, and will be com-
pleted in sufficient time to enable the Company to apply to Parlia-
ment in the next session ; and the promoters having received general
and most satisfactory assurances of support from the local gentry,
landowners, traders, and influential inhabitants, have reasonable
ground to anticipate the unobstructed passing of the necessary Act
for the formation of the Oxford and Salisbury Direct Railway during
the ensuing session.
Applications for shares and prospectuses to be made to Messrs.
Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street ; to the Secretary, at the
offices of the Company, 37, Gresham-street ; and to the following
Brokers :—Messrs. Peppercorns, 2, Old Broad-street, Messrs. W
and P. Ewart, 13, Finch-lane, and Messrs. Preece and Evans,
Lothbury, London ; Messrs. Alston and Gage, and Messrs.
Reynolds and Son, Liverpool ; Mr. John Duncuft, and Mr.
O'Neil, Manchester: Messrs. A. and C. Bradshaw, and Messrs.
ed and Co., Leeds; Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol; Mr.
Pearson,v Birmingham ; Messrs. Samuel Hutchinson and Co.,
Wm. Miles, Worcester ; Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and
CoCheltenham ; Mr. Thomas Sandford, Exeter ; Messrs. Easty and
~
Southampton; Mr. Robert Allan, Edinburgh; Messrs. Black
Sons,
I Messrs. Buchanan and Aitken, Glasgow; Mr. Wm.
and Co., ail, -
Aberdeen ; and Messrs. Bruce and Symes, Dublin.
Gordon,
Bradfordlj-11;cml: 111eli° ;

FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee
ailway. of the Oxford /tad Salisbury Direct
R

Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares in the
above undertaking; and I hereby agree to accept the same, or any
less number which may be allotted to me, and also to pay the de-
posits thereon, and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement, Parlia-
mentary Contract, and all other necessary instruments, when re-
quired so to do.

I am, Gentlemen, your obedient Servant,
Name iH full . .
Roidence• •
• • • • • •• • • • • •
Post Town .. •
Usual
ROce creirpeasntieigel
ure :••
Elmslle and Preston 47, Moorgate-street, Lendon.

THE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT
RAILWAY.
No Application for Shares can be received after THURSDAY NEXT,
the 23rd instant.

The fodowing letter has been received from Samuel Charles Brew;
Esq., the engineer to this' Company, viz.:
" Stoke Newington, 18th October, 1845.
" Sir,—l have the honour to report, for the information of the
Board of Directors, my return from Oxford. Agreeable to their corn-
=lids I made further examinations of the line of country, and have
engaged and given instructions to a large and efficient staff of sur-
veyors and assistants to perform thesurvey. I have much satisfbc-
tion in adding that my last visit has been such as to warrant the
statements made by me at the meeting of the Provisional Committee
concerning the elegibility of the line, and have no hesitation in saying
that the survey will be completed, and the Parliamentary plans de-
posited, by the 30th November.
"I have the honour to he, Sir,
" Your obedient servant,
" SAMUEL CHARLES' BRERS,
" Engineer in Chief, Oxford and Salisbury Direct Itailveky
" To Z. Ilubbersty, Esq.
Secretary, Oxford and Salisbury Direct Railway."
By order of the Committee of Manumits''.
IRIBBERSTY, Sesretary.

BRISTOL AND ENGLISH CIIANNELS
DIRECT JUNCTION RAILWAY ; with a Branch to
Wivellscdmbe ; in Continuation of the North Devon, Bristol and
Exeter, and Great Western Railways.
(Registered Provisionally.)
Capital, 1,000,0001, in 40,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 2/. 12s. 6d. per Share.
No other Call is intended to be made until the Act has been ob-
tained. Parties' I.abilities will be limited to the extent of their
Shares.

PROVISIONAL sommirrzw.
The Hon. William Dawson, Parkstone, Dorset
Sir Robert George Throckmorton, Bart., Buckl=ll,l
near Farringdon, Berks
Sir John Trevelyan, Bart, Nettlecombe Court, near 11 Directors of
the North
Watchet, Somerset, and Wallington, Northum-
Devon
Berland
Railway
Lieut. General Sir George Pownell Adams, R.C.H.,

Ockington House, near Wivetiscombe
Lieut. Colonel Sir Henry Bayly, K.H., Burley-villa, Lyme Regis,
Dorset
Henry John Reuben Dawson Darner, Esq., Milton Abbey, Dorset
Edward Ayshford Sanford, Esq., Nynehead Court, Somerset, di-
rector of the North Devon Railway
Humphry Weld, Esq., Chidcock House, near Bridport, Commis.

sinner of Bridport Harbour
Walter CAlverly Trevelyan, Esq., Nettlecombe Court
John Knight, Esq., Wolverley-hall, Worcestershire, and Simons-
bath, Somerset, director of the North Devon Railway
Frederick Wynn Knight, Esq., M.P., Wolverly.hall, director of
the North Devon Railway
Thomas Alexander Mitchel, Esq., M.P. for Bridport
Lieutenant. Colonel Bragge, Sadborrow-house, near Chard
Robert Aitchison, Esq.,. Captain, R.N., Maperton-house, near
• '

• . .
Bridport
Alexander Ramsay, Esq., Beaminster, near Bridport
John Dorrien Magens, Esq., 49, Cornhill, London
Joseph Barrow Montefiore, Esq., York-street, Portman-square
Thomas Laurence, Esq., St. Mary Axe, London, director of the
Leeds and Carlisle Railway
John Charritie, Esq., Park-village East, Regent's-park, director
of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
Tfingias Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln, Director of the London and
Irk and East Lincolnshire Railway
Thomas Challis, Esq , Alderman of London, director of the Liver-
pool and Derby Railway
John Knill, Esq., London Bridge-wharf, London, director of the
Worcester, Shrewsbury and Crewe Railway
John Stewart, Esq., M.P. for Lymington, director of the Liver.
pool and Derby and East and West of England Railways
Henry M. Kemshead, Esq., Westbourne-house, Paddington
Charles Bamford, jun., Esq., Hull; director of the Leeds and
Carlisle, and Hull and Barnsley Junction Railway
William Tanner, Esq., 84, Great Surrey-street, director of the
Leeds and Carlisle Railway
William Lechmere Whitmore, Esq., James.street, Buckingham.
gate, director of the Worcester and South Wales Railway
The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P. for Wolverhampton
William Gordon Thompson, Esq., 33, Gloucester-road, Hyde.
park, director of the South Midland, and Northampton, Ban-
bury and Cheltenham Railway
Martin Stutely, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Regent's.park, director
of the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine, and South Essex Railways
Henry Rendell Wotton, Esq„ Fitzroy-square, London

IA devisee in trust of
the late Earl of Egre.
Lawrence Walker, Esq., King's-road, Inont, owner of the
Gray's Inn, London Harbour of Watchet,
and extensive adjacent
manors and estates

William Eales, Esq., Mincing-lane
Frederick William Drewe, Esq., Woodlands.house, near Stowey,
Somerset
Joseph Gundry, Esq., Hyde-house, near Bridport, merchant and ship.
owner, Commissioner of Bridport Harbour
Robert Langham, Esq., Cottesbrooke, Northampton
John Hill, Esq., Fairfield-house, Lyme Regis, Dorset, merchant
William Tucker, Esq., Coryton-park, near Axminster, Devon
Thomas Hoskins, Esq., Haselbury, Plucknett, near Crewkerne,
Somerset
Thomas Fox, Esq., Beaminster, Dorset, Commissioner of Bridport
Harbour
William Loveridge, Esq., Paradise.lodge, near Chard
Charles Warre Loveridge, Esq., Crewkerne, banker
Benjamin Pearkes Gundry, Esq., Bridport, merehant
William Trevelyan Cox, Esq., Cheddington.court, near Beaminster
R. Walter, Esq., Coombe.head, near Chard
William Colfox, Esq., Eax-house, Bridport, merchant and ship.
owner, Commissioner of Bridport Harbour
Stephen Whetham, Ear; , Bridport, merchant and shipowner, Corn-
misaioner of Bridport Harbour
John Pike Stephens, Esq., Bridport, merchant and shipowner, Com.
missioner of Bridport Harbour
John Kenway, Esq., Bridport, merchant
Thomas Colfox, Esql, Rax.house, Bridport, merchant
William Kinglake, Esq., Wilton.house, Taunton
William Beadon, Esq., Gotton-boUse, near Taunton
James Bunter, Esq., Taunton, banker
Henry Hooper, Esq. (late Mayor of Exeter), architect, director of
the North Devon Railway, and Deputy Chairman of the Exeter
and Crediton Railway
Richard Carver, Esi., Taunton, architect, county surveyor for So-
mersetshire
James Carrot Wilcocks, Esq., Exeter, director of the North Devon
Railway, and of the Exeter and Crediton Railway
James Marsh, Esq., Alphington, Exeter, director of the North
Devon Railway
John Hancock, Esq., Halse, near Taunton
Henry Daubney Harvey, Esq., Wiveliscombe, director of the
North Devon Railway
Phillip Hancock, Esq., Ford-house, near Wiveliscombe
James Thomas Benedictus Notley, Esq., Coombe, Sydenham-house,
near Watchet
tieorge Notley, Esq., Chillington, Somerset
Joseph Hitchcock, Esq., The Grove, Taunton
H. D. King, Esq., Taunton
Stephen William Whetham, Esq., Bridport, merchant and ship-
owner, Commissioner of Bridport Harbour
Walter Eustace Gundry, Esq., Bridport, banker and merchant
Alfred Wichoietta, Esq., Woaderwell, near Bridport
William Battiscombe, Esq., East Cottage, near Bridport, brewer,
Commissioner of Bridport Harbour
Thomas Ewens, Esq., Ailington, near Bridport, merchant and ship-
owner, Commissioner of Bridport Harbour
William Hounsell, Esq., Wykes -court, near Bridport, merchant
Richard Hayward, Esq., West Chinnock, Somerset, merchant and
sax-mill owner
John Hounsell, Esq., Bridport
Theophilus Miller Gunn, Esq., Bridport
James Brown, Esq., Burton, Bradstock, near Bridport
Joseph Hounsell, Esq., Bridport, merchant
Richard Tucker, Esq., Bridport, merchant
William Tucker, Esq., Allington.villa, near Bridport
Richard Turle, Esq., Taunton, merchant
Robert Parsons, Esq., Taunton, merchant
Thomas Powell, Esq., The Gaer, near Newport, Monmouthshire,
coal proprietor ; a director of the Taff' Vale Railway
anshire, of the firm of
Thom
Franklin a s Hughes,
Meager,
we ga shn, i
el
al
awmp
oo
rr
gt
M. I. Michael and F. Meager
Esq., Stogumber near Watchet
Stogumber, near Watchet
George Bucknell, Esq., Crowcombe, near Watchet
jGHoeehonnrrgy7FEuotloehrtcseTLEibrnggL.,inESgioggumber, director of the North Devon Rail-
way
John Williams, Esq., Buckland, near Farringdon, Berko
William Cockburn, Esq., Minehead, Somerset
Robert Hole, Esq., Alcombe, near Minehead
Henry Cadet!, Esq., Stampford Brett, near Watchet
Frederick William Rossiter, Esq., Williton, near Watchet
William Avery, Esq., Barnstaple, member of the Provisional Corn.
mittee of the North Devon Railway
Alfred Marriott, Esq , Broadlands-lodge, Taunton
John William Marriott, Esq., Taunton
Henry Alford, Esq., Taunton
John Eales White, Esq., Taunton, brewer
Jonathan Payne, Esq., Norton, near Taunton, corn-factor and

mill-owner
William Middleton, Esq , Chard, brewer
Silvanus Stephens, Esq., Bridpnrt
William Manley, Esq., Bridport
James Haydon, Esq. ) Flax- manufacturers,
Robert Turner, Esq. J Greenham mills, Crewkerne
James
Llewellyn, ,Ch.rd
Thomas Esq.,
Taunton
Thomas Stoate, Esq., Washford•mills and Watchet, merchant
HEilli

and ship-owner
William Stoate, Esq., Watchet-mills, merchant and ship-owner
William Gimblett, Esq., merchant and ship.owner, Watchet
William G. Hole, Esq., merchant and ship-owner, Watcbct
J. Wansbrough, Esq., / Paper-makers, Paper-mills, Watchet
John Date, Esq., and Bristol
William James, Eiq., Doniford, near Watchet
Henry George Hole, Esq„ merchant and ship.owner, Watchet
Joseph Williams, Esq., banker, Williton, near Watchet
Thomas Hawkes, Esq., land agent and surveyor, Williton, near
Watchet

(With power to add to their number )
CoNstn.TING ENGINEER—C. B. Vignoles, Esq., F.R.S.A.
ZNaiNEgis W. C. Mylne, Esq., F.R.S., Principal Engineer to the
New River Company; R. W. Mylne, Esq.
LONDON RANKERS.
Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph and Biddulph, 43, Charing-cross
Messrs. Currie and Co., 29, Cornhill.

COUNTRY BANKERS.
Stuckey's Banking Company, at their various branches
The West of England and South Wales' District Bank, at their

various branchei
Messrs. Williams and Co., Bridport, Dorchester, and at their ♦ariou

branches
biessis. S. and W. E. Gundry, Bridport, and at their various

branches
Messrs. H. R. and I. Badceck, jun., Taunton.
Ssixrorria COUNSEL—A. W. Kinglake, Esq., 24, Old-square,

Lincoln's Inn.
SECRETARY-Mr. Charles P. Meryon.

SOLICITORS IX LONDON—Messrs. Keddell, Baker, and Grant, 34,

Lime-street.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—Messrs. Sudlow and Kingdon,
Palace-yard.

SOLICITORS IN THE COUNTRY.
Mr. Edwin Nicholetts, Bridport
Mr. Baruch Fox, Beamister
Messrs. Rowclifre and Son, Stogumber, near Watchet.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Mr. Samuel Walter, Chard
Mr. Woodland, Taunton
Mr. W. Bridge, Dorchester
Mr. F. Napier Bower, Wiveliscombe
Mr. J F. Knight, Axminster...

The object of this Company is to establish a direct line of rail-
waysfor passengers, goods, and commercial, mining, and agricul.
tural produce between the harbour of Watchet on the Bristol
Channel, and the harbour of Bridport on the English Channel, and
provide means of Inland transit for a large proportion of the pro-
duce at present necessarily sent by the dangerous and uncertain
passage round the Land's End, and at the same time afford to the
Intermediate rich and populous districts ready and convenient rail-
way communication. _ _ _

The direct line will be 48 miles in length, and will proceed from
Watchet to Taunton, and thence by Hatch Beauchamp, and by
Ilminster to Chard, and by Crewkerne and Beaminster to Bridport
harbour. A branch will proceed out of the line, about mid-way
between Watchet and Taunton, directly to Wiveliscombe. All
these towns and their neighbourhoods are populous and opulent,
and many of them very much so, and the localities are remarkable
for their richness, fertility, beauty, and numerous resident gentry.
At Wiveliscombe this line will avail itself of the North Devon
Railway to Taunton, and also westward; at Taunton it will
enter the station of the Bristol and Exeter Railway, and thence
proceed to Mangerton, four miles short of Bridport, where it will
unite with the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth, one of the
Great Western lines of Railway, and thence proceed on that line
to Bridport Harbour.

It will also cross the proposed line from Yeovil to Exeter
about two miles west of Crewkerne.
The junction of the two Channels was long since deemed an im-
portant object. To effect it, surveys were successively made for v
ship canal by the late Mr. Rennie, Mr. Telford, and other scientific
men, who concurred in the importance of such a work in a na.
Ilona! point of view ; the design was matured, and in 1824 an Act
of Parliament was passed ; and it stands recorded as the opinions of
Mr. Telford and Captain Nichols, that the canal would afford a
remuneration to the subscribers of 16 14 per cent. on a capital of
1,712,944/.

The sum required for this work, being so much less than that
for the Ship canal ; the increased demand of a greatly increased
population, and the present vast commercial energies of the
country, make it manifest that goods may be conveyed by this
railway at far less than half the charge upon which Mr. Telford
and Captain Nichols formed their opinion.

The intended line from Minehead to Bridgewater, will meet
ati4 cross this line near Watchet.

No railway, either made, or being made, or projected, will serve
the purposes which this important and favoured line will serve.
The country it will pass through possesses a population exceed-
ing 150,000. It leads to marine watering places of much resort—
Weymouth, 'Lyme, and Seaton on the English Channel shore, and
Linton, Minehead, and Blue Anchor on the shore of the Bristol
Channel. Taunton, which may now be considered the county
town of Somersetshire, has always been the market and trading
town of the country northwest of it, including Watchet and its
surrounding district; the route to which, from London and the
north, is through Taunton.

A well remunerating passenger traffic may hence be expected.
The country also contains between 80 and 100 mills and fac-
tories, many of which are worked by steam in aid of water-power,
and many more of the proprietors will avail themselves of steam-
power when coals shall be procurable at a reduced rate by this
railway. The millers are most desirous of having the markets of
South Wales opened to them. Several influential coal proprietors
of South Wales are members of the Provisional Committee.

The country also possesses several extensive lime quarries, for
manure; the lime is burnt with culm brought from Wales ;
the conveyance both of the culm and lime is at present attended
with much expense to the agriculturist. The line will also be of
high importance to this agricultural district by opening to it the
markets of Taunton, Tiverton, South Aloßon, Barnstaple, in the
north of Devon, Exeter, and London. The towns of Taunton,
Ilminster, Chard, Crewkerne, Beaminster, Broadwindsor, Brid-
port, Axminster, Charmouth, and Lyme Regis, will be connected
by the line, and derive from it supplies of coals, culm, timber, dry
goods, and other articles of import. The line will afford to those
towns and their populous neighbourhoods, increased facilities of
communication with other lines of railroad.

The usual prevalence of westerly winds during the winter months
is so great as to render the passage round the Land's-end very un.
certain. The facilities offered by the prrposed railway will obviate
such uncertainty, save many hundred miles of dangerous sea pas-
sage, and more than compensate for the charges attending re-ship-
ment at Bridport from Watchet, particularly in the article of
Welsh coals, now in great demand in and about London for steam.
engines, steam-boats, and other purposes.
The harbour of Bridport admits ♦essels at spring.tides of 350
tons burthen; it receives large supplies of coals, culm, flax, hemp,
Baltic and American timber, iron, slate, tallow, staves, and nu.
merous other articles; which, in the aggregate, last year, amounted
to nearly 40,000 tons, a large portion of which consisted of flax
and hemp, for the numerous manufactories of yarns, sailcloth,
sacks, nets, lines, twines, and linen goods, which when wrought
would pass along the line to the two ports, for shipment, or to
other railways.

The harbour of Watcbet, at spring.tides, admits vessels of '2OO
tons burthen, and carries on an extensive and important daily trad.
with the ports of Tenby, Vanally, Swansea, Neath, Cardiff, New-
port, and Merthyr Tydvil, in coals, culm, corn, flour, and other
provisions, cattle, sheep, salt, timber, slates, iron; and other articles
of merchandise ; employing twelve vessels belonging to the harbour
regularly and exclusively; one trading with Liverpool. It has
also a considerable corn, malt, flour, and goods trade with Bristol,
and employs therein several vessels regularly
Both the harbours are capable of being much improved, and
belong to proprietors able and willing to improve them to meet the
increased wants of the community,
The port of Watchet, as it is, has the largest and most important
trade on the English side of the Bristol Channel. This Railway
will increase that trade fourfold, and therewith its own prosperity.
The shore contiguous to Watchet exclusively abounds with lime
of the wrest celebrated description, both for water-works and ex-
terior building, being the same as the universally known and cele-
brated Aberthaw lime, which also is on the directly opposite coast;
and at and around Watchet are extensive corn and flour mills,
paper mills, and clothing mills.

The foregoing facts show that the line must have a very eaten.
sive goods traffic.

It is not intended to put forward Watchet as a packet station
either for Ireland or South Wales; nor does this measure require
such aid. No portion of the coast of the Bristol Channel, east of
Ilfracombe, can have the slightest pretension to be, or be
made, a packet station. In the first place, it is obvious that
the railway in actual progress from the Government Dockyard
at Pembroke (or Hobbe's Point, 100 miles farther down the Brie.
tol Channel) will take all the packet trade from the south of Ireland :
Liverpool takes Dublin;whilst Ilfracombe ( 50miles west of Watchet),
and Swansea (directly opposite to Ilfracombe), maintain a regular
steam packet passenger and goods traffic; and in the second place,
all the harbours on the English side east of Ilfracombe are dry and
for a great length, at low water, the shores being very fiat, and to
construct a harbour on them, to admit large class steamers and to
land passengers at all times of the tide, would, if not impracticable,
cost an enormous sum. To hold out expectations that either of
them might be such packet station, would for the above reasons be
delusive.

The extended North Devon line of railways will serve the pot
of Ilfracombe and its packets.

A survey has been made by the engineers, who have reported
that the line is easy of construction, and will not interfere with any
park.

It affords great satisfaction to the promoters to be enabled to
announce that the directors of the Bristol and Exeter Railway
Company have promised to give this measure their favourable con.
sideration, and the promoters entertain a sanguine expectation that
it will receive their support.
The neighbouring landowners and gentry are favourahle to the
measure, and all the merchants and traders both at Watchet and
Bridport, as well as the prineipal cal proprietors in South Wales,
and all persons throughout the line, entertain a high opinion of its
merits, and earnestly desire it.

Many extensive landowners on the line, whose names do not
appear on the Provisional Committee, have yet expressed them..
selves as friends to the measure.

The Act will be applied for next session, and the liabilities will
be limited to the amount of subscriptions, and interest at four
per cent, will be paid on all calls front the time of payment until
the opening of the line.

An early allotment of the shares will be made, and the usual
Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contract must be exe.
cuted by the Shareholders when called upon.

Applications for shares to he made, in the form annexed, to
Messrs. Keddell, Baker, and Grant, 34, Lime.street ; to either of
the solicitors in the country; Messrs. George Burnand and Co.,
Cornhill ; John Mocatta, Esq., Copthall-cluunbers ; H. J. Barker,
Esq., Tekenhouse-yard i John Brewer, Esq., New Market-hill, Man.
chester ; Messrs. Francis and James Mill, Liverpool ; Messrs.
Wreford, Nicholls, and Co., Bristol; or John Bannehr, Esq.,
Exeter.
Taunton, Sept. 29, 1845.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
Bristol and English Channels Direct Junction Railway.
I request you will allot to me shares in this under-
taking, and I agree to take the same or such of them as may be
allotted to me upon the terms stated in the prospectus, and to pay
the deposit thereon, and sign the Parliamentary Contract and
Subscribers' Agreement when required.
Dated this day of , 1845.

. ,
Name
Residence
Profession or Occupation

Reference Name •.•
Address ...
To the Committee of the Bristol and English Channels
Direct Junction Railway Company. .

-E{RIG HTON, LEWES, TUNBRIDGE
WELLS, GRAVESEND, and EASTERN COUNTIES
JUNCTION RAILWAY, with branches to Chatham and Maid.
stone.

Capital 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 20/. each.
Deposit 2/. 2s. per Share.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Vic., c. 110.)

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.

Sir John Key, Bart. Wm. Kuper, Esq.
The Mayor of Gravesend John Kerschner, Esq.
John Brough, Esq. S. H. Powell, Esq.
T. M. Cleobury, Esq. W. White, Esq.
(With power to add to their number).

PRELIMINARY NOTICE.
rr HE EXETER, TIVERTON, AND MINE-
HEAD DIRECT RAILWAY, with extension from illnehead
to Ilfracombe.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,000,6001., in 64,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 2/. 12s. 6d. per Share.
This railway will pass from the city of Exeter, through the
rich valley of the Exe, via Silverton and Bickleigh„direct to
Tiverton, one of-the chief towns of this important district, and
formerly the principal market and manufacturing town of the west
of England. It will administer largely to the prosperity of this
rich and productive country, and will pass from Tiverton, by Ba.np-
ton, Dulverton, and Dunster, to the port of Minehead in the Bristol
Channel, opposite Landaff, Swansea, and Cardiff, from whence the
produce of the rich mines and quarries of Merthyr Tydvil, Ponty-
pool, and Newport, in Wales, can be transferred by the shortest
r into to the English markets. From Minehead it will pass by
Porlock and Combe-Marten to the much-frequented watering-place
of Ilfracombe, where it unites with the Barnstaple and Ilfracombe
Railway. At Minehead it will also join the Bridgewater and Mine-
head Railway, to which it will serve as an important feeder, connect-
ing th - towns on the north coast of Devon directly with the great
western trunk railroads passing from London to the Land's End. It
will also form a very short and direct junction of the Bristol and
F.:lash Channels.

A imhe valuable and important line to the country whIA it will
traverse could not be projected. A list of the Provisional Committee
will be published in a few days ; and in the meantime further intbr-
mation may be obtained, and applications for shares may be made
to, the solicitors, Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street,
London, or M the Company's Offices, it"o. 37, Gresham-street, City.