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.THE DIRECT LONDON and EXETER
RAILWAY (with EXTENSION to FALMOUTH and
PE NZANCE).

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The Committee of Management hereby give Notice that they
ihave COMPLETED the ALLOTMENT of SHARES, and that the
usual letters are this day issued. In the arduous duty of deciding on
claims unprecedented, it Is believed, in their number and respecta-
bility, the Committee have been obliged to give a preference to ap-
ricants loe:zIly interested,pr likely to bring to bear for tha Company
1 a large share of legitimate influence. The numerous persons, with
undoubted claims on the score of wealth and social standing, whose
applications
.have either been passed over or cut down, are requested
to accept this reason as the Committee's apology.
The Committee desire to add, that while attestations of public
support are daily reaching them from the most influential quarters,
the engineering preparations, under Mr. Braithwa!te, are so far ad-
vanced, that the project cannot fail to be placed before Parliament In
a manner the most satisfactory to the Shareholders..
E. S. BLUNDELL, Hon. Sec.

PROSPECTUn OF THE
UOND A and ELY VALLEYS JUNCTION
RAILWAY, GLA'AEO2CA.NSHIRE.

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

of Dunraven.
Capital, 200,0001., in 10,c:00 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Viscount !dare, M.P., Dunraven Castle, Glamorgan
Viscaoil, swliz untlie.,sitsrhei,reC.l3. R.N. .N. M.l'., Brompton-park and Ingestre-
h
Crawshaw Bailey, Esq. Iron-works, Nantyglo
Su' Robert Price, Bart., Foxiey, Herefordshire
Sir John Osborn, Bart., Fulham, Director of the Great Leeds and
London Direct Railway
Sir Wm. Ii Aeon Johnston, Bart., Parthenon Club, London, Director
of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, aid Gloucester Railway
Sir Win. Twysden, 41, Dorset-street, Portman-square
Richard Price, Esq., :M.P., Radnorshire
Sir William Wynn, Macs Newydd, Chairman of the north Wales
Railway
lames G. Barrett, Esq., Ross, Herefordshire
Henry A. Bruce, Esq., Duffryn House, Cardiff
William Bradley, rag., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the Shef-
field and Manchester Railway
Charles Richard Bigge, Esq., 19, Bryanston-square
John Castendick, Esq., Lewisham, Kent
Thomas Chitty, Esq., Director of the Rugby and Worcester
Railway
The Rev. James Cezens, Ynys Plwm, Glamorganshire
Edward Co ton, Esq., 20, Keppel-street, Russell-square, Director of
the Commercial Bank
Nicol Carac, Esq., D.C.L., Dimlaud's-house, Cowbridge, Director of
the Vale of Neath Railway
Captain Dawson, R.N., Barnes, Surrey, Director of the Cambridge
and Liiroin Extension Railway
George Dennis, Esq., Director of the Great Leeds and London Direct
Railway
Richard Dutton, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
William Edmondes, Esq., of Cowbridge, Glamorganshire
Thomas H. Evans, Mayor of Carnarvon, Director of the Rugby and
Worcester Railway
The Rev. H. H. Fowler, Felton, near Bristol, and No. 7, Manehester-
square
Rev. Thomas Granow, 29, Brompton.square and Court Herbert, near
Neath, Director of the Val* of Neath Railway
Captain Hewitt, Tyr Mali Eris, Glamorganshire
Windsor 11. Humphreys, Esq., Garth Hal!, 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 Midlands' Junction Railway
John legles Jerdein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby,
and Southampton Railway
Vero Clarke Kemball, Esq., Hyde-park-gardens, Director of the
South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Richard Keli,e, Esq., Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
Griffith Llewellyn, Esq., Raglan Hall, Glamorganshire
William Llerellyn, Esq., Director of the Dridgend Branch of the
National Provincial Bank of England
James Mackirdy, Esq., City of London Club
James Morrison, Esq., Director of the Chepstow and Forest of Dean
Railway
Thomas Morris, Esq., of Newport, Monmouthshire
Leyshon Morgan, Esq., Lower Treinalns, Bridgend, GlamoEganskire
Samuel P. Pratt, Esq., F.R.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. l'ye, Esq., Lavenham, Suffolk
Evan Prichard, Esq., Collenna House, Glamorganshire
James Brown, Esq., of Ton Mu, 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
John Randall, Esq., Old Castle, Bridgend, Glamorganshire
Richard Lewis fleece, Esq., County Coroner, Cardiff
Edward Scard, Esq., of New Green, Surreys and Garth Hall, Glamor-
ganshire
Henry James, Esq., Finsbury-square, London
Robert Wright, Esq., Lonslale-square, Middlesex, and Bread-street-
hill, London, Director of the Great Trinidad Railway
John Williams, Esq., Furnival's Inn, London, and Llanlihangel,
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).

MANAGING tOMMITTEE.
VISCOUNT ADARE, Chairman.
Sir Robert Price, Bart., M.P. Captain W. J. Damon, R.N.
William Bradley, Esq. Crawshay BaPey, Esq.
John Ran fall, Esq. Griffith Llewellyn, Esq.
The Rev. Thomas Gronow Richard Kelly, Esq.
James Morrison, Esq. The Rev. 11. R. Fowler
William Simpson Potter, Esq. Samuel R. Pratt, Esq.
Nichol Came, D.C.L. Henry James, Esq.
Richard Lewis Reece, Esq.
(With power to add to their number.)

STANDING CouNsEL—Edward Lewis Richards, Esq., Middle Temple,
F.:mac:mu—W. B. James, Esq., 5, Ba.singhall-street, Loudon.

BANKERS.
Commercial Bank of London
National Provincial Bank, Bridgend and Cardiff.
Towgood and Co., Cardiff.
ENOTNEER—CharIes Edward Bernard, Esq.
SECR ETARY— JOllll Petherick, Esq.,• pro ten.
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This Railway Is projected for the purpoae of uniting the Rhondda
and Ely VllDies, with the South Wales Railway, at a few miles dis•
tanco 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 win pass through the central portion of the great coal-field of
Glamorganshireovhere 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 districts, of the very
best deseripti.m for steam purposes, being nearly smokeless, although
inflammable, indeed so pro-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 hanelsomQ return for the capital invested,
as has been demonstrated In every instance where even tram-roads or
canals have been constructed to open the mineral resources of other
less promising rallies in Wales than the Rhondda, which is cele-
brated for the abundance, quality, and facility of obtaining its pro-
ductions.

An inexhaustible supply of limestone (so necessary fer the manu-
facture of iron and for agricultural purposes) may be •btained by
means of this hallway, much nearer and cheaper than by any other
lino.

This line will afford to the increasing populaties of the rick vales
of Ely anti Rhondda a much desired communication with the great
market town and port of Cardin; front whence, at present, they may
be said to be almost excluded.

It is intended that the line shall commence at ?Jaen 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 listaace, with all the ports in the
Bristol channel.
A preliminary survey has already bc.en made by competent par-
ties, and it is lcund 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 undertakine*,
and the llama of many influential proprietors will be found en 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 or
his subscription.
Until an Aet 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 Shari s, 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
to Parliament.
Power will be applied for in the Act (and in Die 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 ary arrangements, by amalgamation or
otherwise, with any other company er companies, and also to nomi-
nate the first Directors of the Company.

In the allottmcnt of Shares, a preference will be given to
landowners en the line and other parties locally interested.
Prospectuses and Maps may be had of and applications fbr
Shares may be addressed in the form annexed to, X. B. James, Esq.
Solicitor, 19, Northumberland-street, Strand; to W. Morgan, Esq.
Solicitor, Bridgend, Glamorganshire ; and to tile undermentioned
Brokers ; but no application for Sharer 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.
" Messrs. J. Peppercorne and Co., 2, Old Broad-street.
Liverpool—Messrs. Boultt and Co.

Manchester—Messrs. Houghland and Leese
Leeds—Messrs John Young and Co.

Bristol Luke Arnold, Esq.; Messrs. Taite and Nash
Birmingham—Mr. Collis
Bardwell aid Sons.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Rhondda and Ely Valleys

Junction Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me shares of 20t,
each in this Company, and I undertake to accept the saine, and to
pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that may be allotted
to in. ; and t also undertake to execute the Parliamentary Contract
and Subscribers' Agreement when required.

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BRIGHTON AND CIIELTENIIAM DIRECT
RAILWAY.
(Registered Provisionally.)
Capital, 1,, 00,0001., in Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
The Right Hon. Lord Rossmore, Dell, Windsor,
The Right Hon. George Lionel Dawson Damn, re TilneY-
street., Park. lane
The Hon. Robert core, M.P.
Lieutenant-Colonel the non. J. C. Westenra, M.P., Brook's Club
The Hon. W. Dawson, Pftrkstone-lodge, ;oole
The lion. T. W. Gage, Westbury-house, Westmeon, Peterslield
Sir Henry Webb, Bart. Pall-mall
Georga William Prescott, Bart. Chairman
Sir William Bathby, Bart. Ashbotirne-hall, Derbyshire
Arnold, Thomas James, Esq., Sergeants' Inn, Temple, revising bar-
rister for the City of London
Cleobury, Thomas Mortimer, Esq. Askew-villa
Coape Henry Coe, Esq. Goldhanger. Mahlon
Cuinberlege, N, Esq. York-terrace, Regent's-park
DalbY, John It., Esq. Ashbourne, Derbyshire
Dayrell, E Francis, Esq. Lilingston Dayrcll, Bucks, THAI Sheriff of
Backs, Chairman of the Minehead and Bridgewater Railway
Everitt, Ilenry Yarburgh, Esq. Brighton
Gernon, James, Esq. 13, Conduit-street
Greig, A., Esq. Lowndes-street, Belgrave-Square
Heaviside, Richard, Esq. Brighton
Heneage, Charles, Esq. Cadeby-house,Lincobashire
Henty, J., Esq. Chichester
Keene, John Joseph, Esq. Chairman, director of the National Bank
of Ireland, St. John's-wood, Regent's Park
M'Cann, Nicholas, Esq., 50, Parliament-street
Meteyard, Horace William, Esq. Chatham-place
Moore. Major, Queen Ann-street, Cavendish-square, director of the
Indian Peninsular Railway
Seymour, Frederick, Esq. St. James's-square, director of the Lon-
don and Nottingham Railway
Watkins, Robert, Esq. Augusta-house, Worthing
Willes, George, Esq. Hungerford-park
ENGINEERS.
Sir John Bennie, I George Remington, Esq., C.B.
ACTING ENGINEER—Henry Wrigg, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Augustus Walter Arnold, Esq., 31, Golden-square, London
JohnSOwens, Esq., 35, Ikloorgate-street, London.
LOCAL SOLICITORS— illessrs.Attrec,Clarke, and M'lYhinnle, Brighton.
LOCAL AGENTS.
William Mitchell, Esq., PeterAtlold
Messrs. Bailey and Wickham, WITIChOSter.
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Barnard, Dimsdale, and Co., 50, Cornhill
Messrs. Cockburn, and Co., Whitehall
Brighton—The Union Bank
Branch of London and eounty Joint-Stock Banking Coln-
pally
i—Branch of the National Provincial Bank of England
-Branch of London and County Joint-Stock Banking
Company.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT— Cadwalladar F. Wadtly, Esq. Fludyer-
street.
SECRETARY—Mr. Frederick Penny.

Chclteith
Petersfiel

BRIGHTON and CHELTENHAM DIRECT
,11J0 RAI [WAY.
Notice is hereby given, that no further application for shares in
this Company can be received. The Committee are now proceeding
with the allotment, and the letters will be issued as soon as the re-
quisite inquiries as to the responsibility of the applicants can be com-
pleted.

FREDERICK PENNY, Secretary.
Company's Offices, 34, Moo" Agate-street,
October 14, 1845.

PR.OVISIONAI Li REGISTERED.
GREAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT
.RAILWAY.
By a Junction.evith the Er stern Counties Railway at Bedford.
Distaima, 120 miles.
Capital, 2,500,000 e, in 100,U00 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. ',,i2s. 6d. per Share.
Pursuant, to the Standing Orders of the House of Commons.
raovis £0.N.1.1. COUMITTEE.
The Right /fon. Lord Dunose
The Lord. Stephen Chichesterb ne.
Orrueau, Belfast, and Army and Navy
Club, London
Sir Robert. Alexander, Bart., Charles-street, Manchester-square
Sir William Twistien, Bart., Dorset-street, Portman-square, Director
of toe. Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction, and
Eresvash Valley Extension Railways
Sir Willi:am Bacon Johnston, Bart., Parthenon Club, Director of the
Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction, and of the
Saaeth and Midland Junction, and West Midlands Railways
Sir lohn Oseorn, Bart., Earl's-court, Broil-110ton
S.r John Key, Bart., 9, King's Arms-yard, Alderman of London, Di-
rector of the Manchester and London, and of the Direct Liverpool
and Leeds Railway
Captain Frederick Polhill, M.P. for Bedford
Major-Geaseral Sir Robert Barton, CII Director of the York and
Lancaster Railway • • . "
Major-General Thomas Morgan, Singleton-house, Torquay
Major-General Wright, Royal Engineers, Gloucester-place, Portman-
sqnare
1
William Ackroyd, Esq., Westbourne Lodge, Catty, Director of the
East and West York, Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and Leeds and
Carlisle Railways
IThomas Aleaander, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian, and
Trent Valley Continuation Railways
Francis crimes Anima Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Amber-
gate, Nottinghem, and Boston, anal Eastern Junction, and one of
she Provisional Committee of the Nottingliern and Gainsborough
Railway Comparries
Henry Ambler, Esq., worsted spinner and manufacturer, Wetkinson-
hall, near llalitax, Director of the West Yorkshire Railway, and
Liverpool alai Leeds Direct Railway
C. H. Anderson, Esq., Upper Clapton, Director of the South Midland
Railway
George Ashlin, Esq., Director of the Liverpool and Newcastle-upon-
Tyne Railway
Richard Anuitaae, Esq., Huddersfield and Great Grimsby, Director
of the Manchester and Great Grimsby, and Keigliley, Halifax and
Huddersfield Junction Railways
The Rev. Charles Eciward Armstrong, M.A., liemsw°rth
Join) Alexander Bicknell, Esq., Brandon-cottage, Bristol, Director of
tile Oxford mid Worcester Extension Reilway
Cla'. its baintoi:l, jun., Req., Director of the Hull and Barnsley, and
Leeds and Carl eta Railways
Williars Berdeat t, Esq., Winchester-house, Broad-street, Director of
the Italian and Austrian, and the Derby, Utaexeter, and Stafford
Railways
William Banks, Esq , Honey-lane-market, Director of the Manches-
ter and Rugby Direct Railway, via Macclesfield
John IlYpa Banes, Esq., Stockwell, Surrey
William Fechney Black, Esq, Wilton-place, BelaraTe'square' Direc-
tor of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midland Junction
Railways
Henry Weech Burgess, Esq., Temple's-park, Hampstead, Director of
the Goole, Doncaster, and Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Great
Grimsby Railway
Charles 4alisbury Butler, Esq.,thc Lodge, Upper Clapton
Josiah Bikrowes, Esq., Castle-house, Gornersall, near Leeds
Thomas Burnley, Esq., Goinersall, near Leeds, Director of the Leeds
and West Riding Junction Railway, and of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway
Samuel Bateman, Esq., Croft-house, near Bradford, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Henry Smith Bright, Req., Hull, Director of the Hull and Selby
Railway
Dr. Brig,stock, Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester
Railway
Joseph Browne, Esq., Bedford
James Brand, Esq., 9, New Broad-street, Director of the Cambridge
anti Lincoln, and Ch eat Luxemburg Railway
John More, Esq., Tutbury, Director of the Tean and Dove Valley,
the Derby and Gainsboreugh, the Shropshire Mineral Railways, &c.
Job Bullivant, Esq., East Retford
William Butt, Esq., Sandiacrc, Derbyshire
Robert Burton, Esq., merchant, Woodville, Nests
James Butlin, Boat, banker, West Field-house, Rugby, Director of
the Rugby and'Huntingdon, and one of the Provisional Committee
of the Oxford and Birmingham Junction Railway Companies
Richard Bidale, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Richard Birkin, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
John Fillingharn Bishop, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Thomas Butt, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Richard Bradley, Esq., Grantham, Director of the Amber-gate, Not-
tingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Chairman of the Direct
Western, and Isle of Ely and Lincolnshire Junction Railways
John Fowler Burbelge, Esq., Mayor of Grantham, Director of the
Amber-gate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction
Railway
Jonathan Burton, Esq., merchant, Carrington, Nottinghamshire,
Director of the Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway
William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., magistrate, Hull, Director of the
Rueby, Warwick, and Leamington, and of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railways
Thomas Challis, Esq., Alderman of London
John Carter, Esq., Knottingley
Thomas Carter, Esq., Tanshelf, Magistrate for the Borough of Pon.
tefract
Charles Charnock, Esq., Holmfleld-house, near Ferrybridge
Millis Coventry, Esq., Director, of the South and Midland Junction,
and Birmingham Extension Railways
B. Clements, Esq., Lowndes-square, Director of the Western Ja-
maica Railway
Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Manchester, Mid-
land, and Great Grimsby, Gainsborough, Goole, and rale of Ax-
holme, and the Wiebeticla Isle of Ely, and Lincolnshire Junction
Raiways
J. Cotten), Esq., East Retford
John Cutts, Esq., Little Bardfleld-hall, near Braintree, Essex
James Clift, Esq., Director of the I'aris and Strasburg, Southampton,
Manchester, and Oxford, • and the Manchester, Rugby, and mee_
elesileld Railways
W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of time London and Birmingham
Extension
Henry Sherrard Coleman, Esq., Crown-court, Old Broad-street
John Caunt, Eeq., Nottingham
Thomas Mark Carter,
Esq., weedgreaves-house, near Wakefield, Di-
rector of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Direct
Railway
George Augustus Hamilton Chichester, Esq., Oakfleld, Donegal, and
15, Cliesham-place, Belgrave-square, Director of the Grand Wales
Central, and London amid Exeter Direct Railways
William Champion, Esq., Worksop
William Cheetham, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Nathan Cooper, Esq., Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Francis Dacre,Esq., Stratford, Essex
George Dennis, Esq., Director of the Rhondda and Ely Valleys Junc-
tion Railway
Joseph Dent, Esq., Rieston-linll, Wetherby, Magistrate for the
North-west Riding of Yorkshire
A. A. Davenport, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Exten-
sion, and Worcester Junction Railways
Joseph L. Davenport, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby,
amid Manchester Railway
John A Ilcock Dixon, Esq., Burnley, Lancashire, Director of the Li-
verpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Richard Drausfield, Esq., Dalton, Huddersfield, Director of the
Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, of the Liverpool and Lads Direct,
and of the Keighley, Halifax, and Iludderstleld Junction Railways
Edward Doubleday, Esq , F.L.S., Director of the Rugby, Warwick,
and Worcester Railway
Matthew Daweon, Esq , Pontefract
William Dawson, Esq., tWalesfield, Director of the Peterborough,
Wisbeach, Lynn, and Boston, and the Sheffield, Wortley, Silk-
sloes, and Wakefield Railways
John Campbell Dicker, Esq., New-ball, by Neston, Director of the
Birkenhead and Holyhead, and the Birmingham, Oxford, and
Reading Railways
Henry Dunn, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Manchester, Hudders•
field, and Great Grimsby Railway
Francis Ewart, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wcy.
mouth Railway
John Elliott. Esq., Townhoad-house, Rochdale
Lieut.-Col. Fitch, 31, York -terrace, Regent's-park, Managing Direa
for of the York and Lancaster Railway
Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Ex.
tension Railway
Solomon Foster, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Nottingham, Mans-
field, and Midland Junction Railway
Martin Furniss, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Erewash and Shef-
field Railway
John Griffiths Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Chairman of the London-
derry and Coleraine, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways
William Fisher, Esq., Ameotts-house, near East Retford
James Fothergill, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Richard W.Fitzpatrick, Esq., barrister-at-law,Gioncester-road, Hyde-
park-gardens
Georee.Green, Esq., Pontefract
James Gilbertson, Esq , Alderman, and Magistrate for Hertford
William Gibson, Esq., Glasgow
H. P. Gipps, Esq., Director of the Coventry and icUlleatOlt Railway
Charles Goldsmith, Esq., Friday-street, Cheapside
William Gordon, Esq , M.D., F.L.S., Director of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct Railway
Henry Swan Graves, Esq., Ely Bank-lodge, Halifax
John Gully, Esq., Ackworth-park, Ackworth
William Gibbs, Esq., Camberwell, Director of the South Metropolitan
Cemetery Company
William Gill, Esq., Richmond, Yorkshire, Director of the Leeds and
Carlisle, and Northumberland and Lancashire Railways
John Godher, Esq., Hucknall Torkard, Nottingli enshire. Director of
the Amber-gate, Nottinpam, and Bos,on, and Eastern Junction,
and Nottingham and Gatesborough Railway Companies
Thomas John Green, Esq., Mayor of Bedford
Richard Hall, Esq., Carnan-on-hall, Stratford, Director of the Strat-
ford and Thames Junction, and North Woolwich Railways
It. F. Hall, Esq., Wiseton, near Bawtry
S. C. Hall, Esq., F.S.A., Inner Temple, Director of the Erewash
Valley Extension and West Midland Railways
W. H. Halpin, Esq., Director of the Tying, Beading' and Basing-
stoke, and Sheffield and Macclesfield Railways
Robert Hull, Esq., M.D., Norwich
Samuel Hammond, Esq., Leeds
John George Hammack, Esq., Director of the Direct Western, and
the Metropolitan Junction Railways
William Hepworth, Esq., Pontefract, a Deputy-Lieutenant and J.P.
for the West Riding of Yorkshire
John Mason Hepworth, Esq., Eden-place, Ackworth, J.P. for the
West Riding of Yorkshire
Joshua Hepworth, Esq., Itogerthorpe-ball, Badsworth
Thomas Heelis, Eeq., Skipton Castle, Skipton, Director of the Lanca-
shire and North Yorkshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire North
Eastern, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways
John Holmes, Esq., East Retford
Robert Berries, Esq., East-street, Leeds, Director of the Liverpool
and Leeds Direct Railway
Charles Holbrooke, Esq. Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and
Manchester
John Howard, Esq., Royal Foundry, Bedford
Thomas Haigh, Esq., Wakefield, late High Constable of Wakefield
John Hardy, jun., Esq., banker, Grantham, Director of the Amber-
gate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
John Harris, Esq., Springfield-house, near Bedford
Charles Higgins, sen., Esq., St. Cuthbert's, Bedford
Geerge Higgins, Esq., Bedford
The ltev. Charles Walter Hudson, Rectory, Saundby, near Gains-
borough
George Hurst, Esq., Bedford
John Illidge, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and Di—
rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway
Wm. Empson Jalland, Esq., Holderness House, near Anil, Director
of the York and Hull Railway
BO; well Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holderness-house, near Hull, Magis-
trate for the East Riding of York and Borough of Hull, and Di-
rector of the Liverpool amid Lea7s, and Hull and Barnsley Railways
John Jameson, Esq., Honey lane-market
William Jameson, Esq., Shelton, Staffordshire, Director of the
Staffordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and 3lanehester Direct
Railways
Wm. Jones Johnson, Esq., Bedford
JosepkJones, Esq., Mayor of Hull, and Director of the Liverpool and
Lees Direct Railway
Director of the 111 alme and Churnet
3
Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq.,
Valleys,
Grimsby, Director
or Macclesfield and Lichfield Railways
Jeremiah Kaye, Esq., Iludderefleld
_y, anti Keighley, Halifax, and
Great
of the Manchester and Gr
Huddersfield Junction Ra eat
Grimsbilways
George Kippax, Esq.,
Ordsall-villa, near East Retford
Essex, Director of the Chepstow,
Mr. Samuel Knight, Pontefract
George Lawton, Esq., Ditc ,s,
onßailway
Forest of Dean, and GlouceselYer Juncti
11. C. Leahy, E Stsq., •
James's square
Moses Edward Legg, Esq., IVatling-strect, London
Captain Henry Leech, Bedford
Charles Denton Leech, Esq.,Bury St. Edmunds
William Ley, Esq., 40, Gloucester-place; Portruan-square, Director of
the Reading
road-street Director
and Reigate Railway
L. Stephens Lyne, Esq., B , of the Western
Jamaica Railway
1. Bennett Lucas, Esq., Director of the Sligo and Mennen, the Ips-
wich and Southampton, and the Cork Passage and Kinsale
Rail way
James Lamb, Req., 25, n a4(luyde-Pare Director of the Scottish
are,
Western, and the Direct Western Railways
John Ear t, Esq , Wood-street, Cheapside
Tamer :Lem Director of tee
:Leming, Esq., Bradford,Liverpool and Leeds
Samuel LO null Esq., me Keigbley,
rchant, B
e
d
ford Budd ersfield Junction Railway
Captain J. P. Macdougall,
, Director of the
Leeds, Fleetwood, and LiverpooFe lag rol, vea,mid NorthLi Brixton,
oßfriMan Railways
John B. Mann, Esq., Leeds
el ark upon-Trent, and Bedford-
Thomas Hackett Massey, Eva, Newark
square, Hyda-park
Thomas APTurk, Esq., Hull
IVilliam Mee, Esq., East Retford
W. It. Mesbam, Esq., M.D., Bedford
Robert 3lellington, Esq., Ordsall-house, near East Retford, Director
of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
William Moorhotmse, Esq., Marine-villa, Knottingley, a Provisional
Director of the Sheffleid, Bantsley, and Wakefield Railway
l'eter Morrison, Esq., Director of South amid Midlands Junction, and
Landon and Birmingham Extension Railways
James Muscroft, Esq., Pontefract, Magistrate for the Borough, a Pro-
visional Director of time Oxford and Worcester Extension and
Chester Junction Railway
George Mackintosh, Esq., Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square.
John Manwaring, Esq., Pateley-bridge, Yorkshire, Director of the
York and Lancaster Railway
Ord Massey, Esq., I lawkes-house, Burnley, Director of the Liverpool
and Leeds Direct, the Blackburn, Chorley, amid T.i
--ver1)001, and
Keigbley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railways
l'hom ae Micklethwaite, Esq., Wakefield Thanes Middleton, Esq., Nottinghairepaik
Joseph Naha Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and
Southampton, and the Leeds and Carlisle Railways
William Joseph Nash, Esq., Bedford
John Norton, Esq., I, St. George's-square, Westminster, and Moat-
house, Brentwood, Director of the Great Western Direct Rail-
way, &c.
Robert 'Newland, Esq., Kenson-house, Bedfordshire
Thomas North ;Esq., Mayer Of ;siottioghain

Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continuation
and Holyhead Junction, and West hlidlo.nd and South Midland and
Oxford Extension Railways
John Ostler, Esq., Director of the Hell and Barnsley, and Leeds and
I Carlisl, Railways
Robert Oxley, Esq., M.D., Pontefract
George Osgood, Esq., Ray-mond-buildings, Gray's Inn
Charles Frederick Palgrave, Esq., Bedford
Bennett Pell, Esq., 12, Finsbury-place North
W. Perfect, 1 sq., Monkhill, near Pontefract
John Phillips, Esq., Mayor of Pontefract
George parbery, Esq., Mansfield-house, Russell-square
William Patterson, Esq., Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire
Robert Power, Esq., Director of the Great Britain Life Assurance
Society
Thomas Ingham Raynor, Esq., Birstal, Leeds, Director of the Leeds
and West Riding Junction, ana the Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railways
John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Birming-
ham Direct, Leicester, Iron and Dove Valley Railways
Edward Rawlins, Esq., Bedford
Robert Richards, Esq., Director of the West Midland Railway
John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Byeullah-house, Enfield, Managing
Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
James Robson, Esq., Tansheit; Magistrate for the Borough of Pon-
tefract
Frederick Redden, Esq., Bedford
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester,
and Weymoath Junction, the a ring, Reading, and Basingstoke,
and tics Direct Western Railway
George Robinson, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley
Junction, and of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railways
John Richardson, Esq., Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate,
the East and West Yorkshire, and the hlidiand and Thirsk Junc-
tion Railways
Thomas Routlidge, Esq., Alderman, Pontefract
Janes Russell, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director of
the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton, of the Thug,
Reading, and it isingstoke hallways
Edward Sankey, Esq., Canterbury.
Henry Savage, Esq., Director of the Irving, Reading, and Basing-
stoke Railway
licejamin Shaw, Esq., Kilburn Priory, Director of the Charnel
and Blythe Valleys Railways
J. E. Sidle], Esq., Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and
of the Leeds, York, and Midland Railways
William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Director
of the South Midland Junction Railway, &c. &c.
George Walker Smith, Esq., Horbury-hall, Sheffield, Director of
the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Smith, Esq., M.D., 30, North-street, Leeds,Director of the
.Leeds raid York, and Liverpool and Leeds Railways
Joseph Smithson, Esq , Kirkiess Mills, near Halifax
John Sanders, Esq., Bedford
J. W. Seriveil, Esq., Throstlenest, near Otley, Director of the
Leeds, York, and Midiend Junction Railway
Richard Shaw, Esq., Tulledge, near Burnley, Director of the Keigh-
ley, Hal.fax, and Hwidersileld Junction Railway
James Henry Simpson, Esq., 31.8., Pontefract
Joshua Amiable akidinore, Esq., St. Joisn'sq.eace, Wakefield
William Starkey, Esq., IVaketiell, Director ef the Sheffield, Wort-
ley, Silkstone, and Takeficid, and the Leeis and York Railways
William Stewart, Esq., Horbury, near Wakefield
George Eaton Stanger, Esq., Nottingham
Samuel Herrick Surplice, Esq., Beeston, Notts
John Streets, Esq., merchant, Spring Field-house, Sandiacre, Derby-
shire
William Surplice, Esq., S; Hingham
Samuel James Sykes, Esq., Hull
James Templer, Esq., Brixton-rise, Director of the Derby, Uttoxeter,
and Stailbrd Railway
Thomas S. Trapp, Esg., banker, Bedford
John Best Trapp, Esq., Redford
Samuel Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street and Gorbals, Hull, Di-
rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway
Thomas Turney, Esq., Park-lodge, near Halifax
William Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street and Gorbals, Hull
Joseph Francis Tempest, Esq., F.S.A., the Mount, Ackworth
Charles Vickers, Esq., Pontefract, Director of the Manchester Hud-
dersfield, and Great Grimsby Railway ,
Win. Watson,Esq , Daybrook, Nottinghamshire, Director of Amber-
gate, Nottingham slid Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
Samuel iVarburton, Esq., Hunslet, Leeds, Director of the Wakefield
and Harrogate Railway
The Rev. Richard Whitelock, 31. A., Saddleworth, Magistrate for
the West Riding of Yorkshire
Joseph Whitaker, Esq., Ramsdale, Nottinghamshire
William White, Esq., Bedford
John Williams, Esq., M.D., hfagistrate for Yorkshire, Director of
the York, Hull, and East and West Riding Junction Railway
Abraham Wood, Esq., Rochdale, F.R.C.S.
Joseph Wyles, Esq., Grantham, Director of the Amber-gate, Not-
tingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
David IVheatcroft, Esq., Buckland-hollow, Derbyshire, Director of
tke Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, and Direct Birmingham and
Leicester Railways
William Williams, Esq., Royal Foundry, Bedford
Charles Waite, Esq., 3, Old Burlington-street, and IVillesdon-house,
Middlesex
John Wheelton. Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Willett, Esq., Bradford
The Rev. H. Burdett Worthington, Bedford
G. N. Wright, M.A., Coed y Wyse, Denbighshire, and L natal°.
square, London, Director of the Thames Valley Railway
George Yates, Esq., merchant, Halifax
George Witt, Esq., F.R.S., Director of the Bedford, London, and
' Birmingham Railway, and Aldermand of Bedford
George Gillett, Esq., 2, Grsovenor-gate, Hyde-park
(With power to add to their number).
ENGINEER-IN-CIIIEP—Sir John Macneil, LL.D., and F.R.S.
ACTING ENGINEER Mullingar Higgins, Esq., C.E.
LONDON SOLICITORS.
J. R. Gibson, Esq., 9, Coptliall-court.
Owen Gray, Esq. 1 25, Great Tower-street.
J. B. Midge, Esq.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Leeds—Charles Naylor, Esq., and
Pontefract—Henry John Coleman, Esq.
Rotherham—John Oxley, Esq., and John Wright Potter, Esq.
East Itetford--Messrs. Mee, Bigsby, and Mee.
Nottingham-3fessrs. Fox and Butlin.
Oakham—Henry Hough, Esq.
Kettering—Thomas Marshall, Esq.
Bedford—Ezra Eagles, Esq.
SECRETARY —J. B. Owens, Esq.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT —T. M. Widdicombe,
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co.
Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Company
Doncaster t The Yorkshire Bankin Company.
Pontefract g
The object of this railway is to connect, in the most direct course,
the important and increasing manufacturing town of Leeds with time
metropolis, the want of whica has long been felt, and is too univer-
sally acknowledged to need any comment, and it is under this con-
viction that this important undertaking, alter several minute exa-
minations of the country through which it will pais, has been brought
forward.
The proposed line will commence at the junction of the Manchester
and Leeds, and York and North Midland Railways, near Wakefield,
and will terminate by means of a junction with the Eastern Coun-
ties Railway, at Bedford (to which place it is the intention of that
Company to extend their line in the ensuing session ofParliament),
and by thus availing itself as far as possible of the existing railways,
will complete the most direct and least expensive trunk line, fiona
London to Leeds, York, and Hull. It will pass in its route within an
available distance of Wakefield, Pontefract, Doncaster, Rotherham,
East Redford, Nottingham, Newark, Grautham, Melton Mowbray,
Oakharn, and Stamford.
The importance of such a line is obvious, both from the nature of
its cow se (embracing, as it does, a most extensive population within
its limits), as also from the absence. of any direct communication
for the conveyance of passengers and merchandise.
By the construction of this railway, railway communication to
London will be given to Peterborough and Leicester (by means of
the Syston and Peterborough Railway), to Newark and Nottingham,
(by the Nottingham and Lincoln line(, and to Sheffield and (;alas-
borough, )by the Sheffield and Gainsborough line), by a much shorter
I route than by any existing native.) s.
Lidependen:ly of the advantages offered to the towns in the seve-
ral counties through which this line will pass, the line in Itself, con-
sidered as a direct trunk line between London and Leeds, Is sufficient
to justify Its thrill:Mon, it being well known that the existing traffic
between these two places would produce such a retorts on the capital
required, as to admit of c. dividend equal to that of any railway in
operation; but when it is borne in mind that a company is being
formed for the purpose of connecting Glasgow with ,Leeds by
means of a junction with the York and Carlisle Railway, no better
line can be presented to the public, as it will not only effect a direct
communication from Glasgow and the western parts of :Scotland to
London, but would also connect Edinburgh and the eastern parts of
Scotland, as well as Durham and Newcastle (by the York and North
Midland, raid Great North of England Railway s) wills the metropo-
lis, which would be considerably shorter than the accommodation
offered by any other company ; and when cost of construction is con-
sidered, there cannot be a doubt but that preference would be given
to the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway.
The fact of the Eastern Counties Railway being connected by a
branch line with the East and West India' Docks on the river
Thames, and the Railway Cempany having recently leased for 999
years the extensive peppef vrarehouses belonging to those docks,
which are caPable of receiving 12,000 tons of goods, together with
wharfs adjoining, where the shipment and trans-shipment of goods
from all parts of the world can take place, is a most important fea-
ture in favour of the direct communication from the manufacturing
towns of Glasgow and Leeds offered by the Great Leeds and London
Direct Railway and, by branch railways to the main trunk line,
through which all goods from the manufacturing districts could be
conveyed at once to these warehouses for shipment, thereby avoiding
the present delay and expense of cartage, and in reality establishing
an almost direct and invaluable connexion between the rivers Clyde
and Thames.
It has been ascertained that there are no engineering difficulties,
that the w irks will he easy, and the gradients remarkably goad, and
to deposits,ihmee
amounts subscribers b sunctrili
that it will not materially interfere with any ornamental property.
baees r sfs Rottniw Parliamenthelder ipl
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to extend the line to Hertford on the Eastern Counties lime, in the
event of that Company not prosecuting their line to Bedfonl.
BROKERS.
London—Alessrs• • Marten and Ileseltine, 9, Finch-land
Leeds—Messrs. Hoppa and Co.
Liverpool—Messrs. Joseph King and Son
takeeaiirolifb es
subscriptions.
Hull—Messrs. Flint and Tootal
Manchester—Messrs. Cardwell and Sons
Bradford—Mr. Josiah Scholefield
Edinburgh—Mr. Charles Couper, 30, St. Andrew's-square.

GREAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT
RAILWA. The Managing Committee of this Rai Ylway hereby giveotice that
they are now proceeding in the Allotment of the Shares innthe above
undertaking, and that all the Letters ofAllotment will be issued in
the ensuing Week.

Temporary Offices, Adelalde-plaee, J. B. OWEN, Secietary•
London-bridge.

GREAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIitEUT
RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management of this Direct Railway beg to ex-
press regret at the delay in issuing their Letters of Allotment, which
has been solely occasioned through the unprecedented number of
applications for shares to which they have been *required to give
consideration, and which has thrown upon them some very exten-
sive labours, from which, however, they are happy to say they will
shortly be relieved, as the Letters ofAllotment are now in the course
of preparation, and will all he sent to their different destinations by
the evening post of to-morrow. The Committee also much regret
their inability to snake allotments to a very numerous amount of
applicants of unexceptionable repute ; but they have, in every in-
stance, endeavoured to arrive at their decisions in a manner best cal-
culated to promote alike the interests of the public and the various
shareholders and promoters of this very important project.
J. IL Temporary Offices, Adelaide-place, London-bridge, OWEN, Secretary.
16th October, 1845.

GREAT WESTERN, BRE N TPO 11, and
CENTRAL TERMINUS JUNCTION RAILWAY, from
the vicinity of West Drayton, through Hotmslow, Brentford, Ham-
mersmith, Kensington, Chelsea, and Westminster, to a Central
Terminus, near Charing-Cross.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Offices, 53, Charing-cross.
Capital, 850,t,001., in 42,500 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.
I'IIOVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Earl of Devon
Vernon Abbott, Esq., 70, Gower-street
Philip Anstruther, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment
Railway Junction Company
Benjamin John Armstrong, Esq., Southall, Magistrate for Middlesex
John Auldjo, Esq., Noel House, Kensington
ST
ihro
Johnm Railway
a
Henry Pratt Barlow, Esq., 24, Kensington-square
sj3r Junctionani
Macphersoni,E Companyrpaeekpeunt
' Edward Oliver Benson, Esq., Hounslow
William Sprott Boyd, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment
Deputy Chairman of the Leicester and Tam-
worth Railway
Sir Archer Denman Croft, Bart., Director of the Thames Epabank-
meat Railway Junction Company
Major John T. Croft, Deputy Chairman of the Chester and Manches-
ter Railway
John Chevalier Cobbold,:Esq., Chairman of the Eastern 'Union Rail
way
Winiam Cumming, Esq., North Bank, Regent's Park
George Cooper, Esq., Brentford
George James Stredwiek Camden, Esq., Hounslow
Charles Downes, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
J. Fisher, Esq., Isleworth
Major David Fitzgerald, Valentia, county of Kerry
Captain Forbes, R.N., Forest, Windsor
Sir Andrew Pellatt Green, R.N., K.C.H.
James Montgomery, Esq., Brentford
John Bowyer Nichols, Esq., Hammersmith
The Hon. Colonel Phipps, Norwood-green
William Simpson Potter, Esq., Director of the South and Midland

Railway
Henry Pownall, Esq., Spring-grove, Hounslow, llagistribto for
Middloaex
John F. Pownalr, Spring-grove, Hounslow

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit,Share.
No further call will be made until an Act of Parliament is obtained,
and no party will be liable beyond the amount of his shares.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Ilon. the Lord Beauclere, 8, Chesham-place, Delgrave-
square
The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Parliament-street, London,
Chairman of the York and Lancaster, and Director of the Direct
London and Manchester Railways
The lion. Captain Evans Freke, Grenadier Guards, 3, Belgrave-
square
The lion. Captain Evans Freke, Life Guards, 3, Tielgrave-square
Sir Montague John Cholzucley, Bart., Easton-hall, Lincolnshire
Sir William Bacon Johnson, hart., Director of the Clienstow,:Foresl
of Dean, and Gloucester, and the South and Midland Junction
Railway
William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., Alderman of Lon-
don, late M.P. for Oxford, Chairman of the Erewash Valley Ex-
tension, the Leek and Macclesfield, the Great Western, Southern
and Eastern Counties, and of the Birkenhead, Chester, Mold,
Ithaubon, and Vale of Llangollen Railways
William Bradley, Esq., Manor-oaks, Sheffield, Director of the Cam-
bridge and Lincoln Extension, and the Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Junction Railways
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., 8, Upper Hyde-park-street, and
Brookes' Club, St. James's, Director of the West Midland, and
Manchester and Southampton Railways
Villiers C. Vihicrs Surtees, Esq., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Director of
the Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire Railway
William Lloyd Caldecot, Esq., 6, Laura-place, Bath
William Breynton, Esq., 3iontpellier, Cheltenham, and Temple,
London, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth, and other
Railways
H. H. DaticoAs, Esq., the Manor-house, Kempley, Gloucestershire,
Director of the Birmingham, West Bromwich, and Wednesbury,
and Walsall Junction Railways
James Maurice Shipton, Esq., R.N., Warmer-hall, near Tewkesbury,
Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce at Gloucester, and Vice-
Consul of Russia at that port
Richard Hodges Carter, Esq., Gloucester, late Mayor of the City of
Gloucester, and Deputy-Chairman of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean,
and Gloucester Railway
Samuel Hitch, Esq., M.D., Gloucester
Charles F. Thornley, Esq., merchant, Bristol
Cornelius Brady, Esq., Aston-house, Erdington, 'Warwickshire
Paris Dick, Esq., M.D., Forthampton, Tewkesbury
Georg'e Smith, Esq., Pre:menu, near Cheltenham
Thomas Avery, Esq., Gloucester
Caleb Trotter, Esq., ditto
Arthur H. Jenkins, Esq., Alderman of Gloucester
Edward L. Kendall, Esq., merchant, ditto
Robert Heane, Esq., ditto
Charles Walker, Esq., ditto
Henry Fox, Esq., ditto
Ed ward J. Woodhouse; Esq., ditto,
John Ladds, Esq., Abbot's-court, Twyning and Tewkesbury-
Aaron Goold Bilsome, Esq., Forest of Dean, Director of the East and
West of England, and the Worcester and South Wales Railways
John George Norbury, Esq., Great Cumberland-street, Hyde-park,
and Mancetter-house, Atherstone, Director of the Teen and Dove
Valley, South Staffordshire, and Dover and Bristol Railways
Kensington Lewis, Esq., Worcester-park, Surrey, and Stratford-
place, Director of the Midland Counties, and the Cheltenham, Ox-
ford, and Brighton Jundtion Railways
William. Horatio Harrison, Esq., Sunbury, Director of the Leicester
and Tatuworth, and South Staffordshire Junction Railways
Robert 11. Shombur,gle, Esq., New Kensington, Surrey, Chairman of
the Barbadoes General Railway
George Frederic Gregory, Esq., Scacombe, Cheshire, Director of the
Staffordshire and Shropshire, the Grand Junction and Midlands
Union, and Dover and Bristol Railways
John Campbell Dickers, Esq., Newhall, Cheshire, Director of the
Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction, and the Cheltenham, Oxford,
and London Junction Railways
George Unett, Esq. the Laurels, Handsworth, Staffordshire,
Director of the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester, and
Dover and Bristol Railways
Walter Unett, Esq., Captain 3d Light Dragoons, Director of the
Dover and Bristol, and Grand Trunk Railways
Major White, Pall-mall, London, Director of the Northampton,
Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway
Lewis Hoffmann, Esq., Reading, Berkshire, and Inner Temple,
London, Director of the Nottingham and South Staffordshire, and
the Dover and Bristol Railways
Thomas Wakefield, Esq., London, Director of the Dover and Bristol
Railway
Edward Augustus Lamb, Esq., Westfield, Battle, Sussex, Director of
the Staffordshire, and Shropshire, and Dover and Bristol Railways
William Byrom, Esq., Oldham, Director of the Oldham Districts, the
London Bristol and South Wales Direct, the Cheltenham, Oxford,
and London, the Birkenhead and Holyhead, and the Liverpool,
Preston, and North Union Railways
William Caldwell, Esq , Ince-hall, Wigan, Director of the Liverpool
and Leeds Direct, the Lancaster and York, and the Staffordshire
Potteries Railways
Henry Taylor, Esq., Alderman of Wigan, Director of the Leeds and
Liverpool Direct, and the York and Lancaster, and other Railways
Charles Collins, Esq., Caldwell-hall, Worcesterthire, and Adelaide-
place, London-bridge, Director of the Southern and Eastern, and
Northern Jamaica, and the Irish West Coast Railways
John Bird, Esq., Dimas Mowddy, North Wales
W. H. Watts, Esq., M.D., Birmingham, Director of the Lincoln and
Great Grimsby, the Dover and Bristol, and the Birmingham, West
Bromwich, Wednesbury, and Walsall Junction Railways
Edward Shilton, Esq., Bath-cottage, Handsworth, Staffordshire
George Edwards, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Birmingham,
Lichfield, and Manchester, and the Birmingham, Westbromwich,
Wednesbury, and Walsall Railways
Thomas Byrom, Esq., Wigan, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct, the York and Lancaster, the Liverpool and Bolton Direct,
and the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railways
Henry Spicer, Esq., 28, Portman-square, Director of the London and
Exeter, and other Railways
W. Drury Holden, Esq., 10, Green-street, Grosvenor-square. and
Locko-park, Derbyshire, Director of the Lichfield and Macclesfield
Railway
Capt. Gould, Charles-street, St. James's
Samuel Kempson, Esq., Little Sutton, near Birmingham, Director of
the Birmingham, Westbromwich, Wednesbury, and Walsall Railway
Edwin Smith, Esq., 51, Great Ormond-street, London, Director of the

Directors of the
Worcester, Here-
for(l,and Glouces-
ter Railway

Lynn, Wisbeaeb,an;l Peterborough Railway
Robert Grove, Esq., Edgbaston, Birmingham, Director of the Bir-
mingham, Weatbrorawieh, IVodneslituy, and Walsall Junction
Railway.

ENGINEER.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Lewis and Font, 28, Essex-street, Strand, London
W. H. Reece, Esq., Birmingham..
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Bonn, Rugby
William Tibbits, Esq., Stratford-on• Avon
Anthony Sproule, Esq., Tewkesbury.
BANKERS—Messrs. Rogers, Whig, and Co., Clement's-lane, London,
SECRETARY—Henry Brookes, Esq.

The proposed railway will commence at Rugby, on the London
and Birmingham Railway, the terminus of the Midland Counties
and Trent Valley Railways, and the [whit to which several other
projected railways converge, and will proceed through or near to
Leamington, Warwick, Stratford-on-Avon, Evesham, Tewkesbury,
and Cheltenham, to Gloucester. The length of the line will be
about 56 miles.
The advantages that will result from the construction of this line
are numerous and highly important, and such as cannot fail to secure
a very large amount of local and through traffic, and a highly-re-
munerative return upon the capital invested. By means of existing
and proposed railwa3 s, it will form a complete chain railway com-
munication between the whole of the midland and north-eastern
counties of EnAand, the populous cities and towns before-named, and
the southern and western districts, and thus bring Leicester, _Not-
tingham, Newark, Lincoln, Gainsborough, Great Grimsby, and 11111,
into direct communication with the favourite and fashionable
rned
spas of
Leamington and Cheltenham, the richly-productive and .
Vale of Bresnan], and the seaports of Gloucester, Bristol, Plymouth,
and Falmouth, and those of South Wales.
The inhabitants and visitors of the much-frequented watering-
places of Leamington and Cheltenham, will thus obtain a direct line
between those resorts, instead of thc present n
Birmingham, affording that facility ofiniatescroi friocroaemnitiroz(zii circuitous route
intercommunication
ut ei o antltioiinsvt throughhifcahi
has long been ardently desired ;
and
iti will
who, attracted as well by
daily of access to the innumerable visitors
the beauty of the scenery as the memory of Shakspeare, annually
resort to Stratford-on-Avon.
To those east and north-east, direct to Glou-
passengers from
bwintryy,
tcou
Cheltenham,
anglewill
affordo thae
Gloucester, the line from Telt]Ri•lke-aell
Birmingham and Glouccnslearsnving
in distance of at least eight miles,
grbaes;'dteasetahaendnelnnadyactifatnlicasntosoparge.,a,tt
'jiu'eNillianellizanNiv.ith the proposed line
At Tewkesbury it a
from that place to 31alvern, affording the Most direct communication
to the numerous visitors to the magnificent scenery and invigorating
atmosphere of the celebrated Malvern-hills.
To the inhabitants of the ancient and populous borough of Tewkes•
bury, portion of the proposed line will prove immensely advan-
' ti
geoutsli:a
situated within ten miles of the important city and port of
Gloucester, they have nevertheless to travel by the present railway
route nearly twice that distance, an inconvenience which has
already materially affected the trade, and prejudiced the interests of
the town. The proposed line, running close to the town, will remove
this great Meow, enience, and restore its trade to its former state of
prosperity.
The value of this line to the city and port of Gloucester cannot
be too highly estimated, as it will not only open to it immense
sources of traffic from the whole of the eastern and north-eastern counties, but will very materially lessen the distance between it
and Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire, making
Gloucester still more securely the nearest and most accessible outlet
for the whole of that inunensely productive manufacturing region z
and it • is impollible to conceive any project better calculated to