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London, England, 1845-09-29 00:00:00

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PROITLAIONALLY REGISTERED'
GREAT LE EDS AND LONDON* DIRECT.
RAILWAY,
By a Junction with the lll.stern Counties ItailwaY at Bedfora
Distance, 120 miles.
Capital 2,500,0 001., in 100,000 shares of 25/. each.
Deposit 21. Its. 6d. Per Share.
(Pursuant to the Standing Orders of the Homo of Commons..

PROYLIIONAL COM-MITTEE.

The Right Hon. Lord Dunboynnoro -sq
e t-street ,POrtmanuare, Dlrecto.
Sir William Twysden, Bart,
- of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction, sad
Erewash Valley Extension l'ailwaYs
Sir William Bacon Johnston. Bart., Parthenon Club, Director of the
• Chepstow, Forest of Derma' and Gloucester Junction Railway, and
of the South and Midland Junction, and West Midland Railways
Major-General Sir Robert Barton, K.C.H., Director of the York and
• Lancaster Railway
F:sq., Director of the Italian and Austrian, and
Thomas Alexander,
Trent Valley Conti-mean Railways
Henry Ambler, worsted splutter and manufacturer, Watkinson
Hall, near Ilalitar, Director of the West Yorkshire Railway, and
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
C.g.Anderson, P.,
Upper Clapton, Director of the South Midland
Bathyal
joixn Alexander Bicknell, F.sq., Brandon Cottage, Bristol, Director of
tjse Oxford and Worcester E,'xtension Railway
William Raulgett, Esq., Winchester-street, Broad-street, Director of
Italian and Austrian, and the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford,
waltrays
0:1,:lialn Banks, Esq., Honey-lane Market
Jobi • Byng Banks, Esq., Stockwell, Surrey
un Fechney Black, Esq. WJlton-place, Belgrave-wpare, Th-
ree for of the Italian and ..iiist:rfßn, and South and Midland Junction
RaLlweys
Henry 'speech Burgess, Esq., Temple's Park, Hampstead, Director of
the S. itetlield, Buxton, Leek, Potteries, and Crewe Railway
Charles Rolisbury ruttier, Esq., the Lodge, Upper Clapton-
Josiah B arrowes, Req., Castle House, Goeuerball, near Leeds
Thomas 1 turnley, Esq., Gomeritall, near Leeds, Director of the Lends
and We, t,t Riding Junction Railway, and of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Mt tl way
Samuel Bat Vnan, Esq., Croft House, sear Bradford, Director of the
Liverpool a Id Leeds Direct Railway
Henry Smith _Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hall and Selby

Railway
Joseph Browne, . Esq., Bedford
Dr. Brigstock, Darby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester
Railway
James Brand, Esq., 9, New Broad-street, Director of the Cambridge
and Lincoln, atut Great Luxembourg Railway
Job Bullinart, Esq., i ',est Redford
William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., J.P., Hull, Director of the Rugby
Warwick, and Leamington, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railways
John Carter, Esq., Knortingley
Thomas Carter, Esq., Tanshelf, .7:P...f0r the Borough of Pontefract
Charles Chamock, Esq., Holmßeld House, near Ferrybridge
Millis Coventry, Esq., Director of the South and Midland Junction,
and Birmingham Extension Railways
jr, Clements, Esq., Lowndes-square, Director of the Western Jamaica

Itailway
J. Cottatn, Esq., Bast Redford
gpix, et Cook, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Manchester, Mid-
lan,.,'. and Great Gfrnsby, (iainsborough, Goole, and Isle of Axholme,
and t he Wisbeach, Isle of Ely, and Lincolnshire Junction Railways
John Cn its, Esq., Little Barfield Hall, near Braintree, Essex
Jam,. CA it, Esq., Director of the Paris and Strasbourg, Southampton
maneb,‘ :ter, and Oxford, and the Manchester, Rugby, anti Macdes-

field Rii;hwaYs
W. 8, Cross, Esq., Director of the London and Birmingham Eaten•

Henry Shera rte Coleman, Esq., Crown-court, Old Broad-street
Francis Dacre:.. Req., Stratford, Essex
J. Dawson, Boi., Pontefract •
John Dennis, 1:94 Director of the West Midland, and Thames Val-
ley Railways
Joseph Dent, Esq. . Albston Hall, near Leeds, Magistrate for the
North West Ridin, if of Yorkshire
A. A. Davenport, EA 1., Pirector of the Oxfbrd and Worcester Exten-
sion, and Worceste, • Junction Railways
Joseph L. Davenport. Esq.,Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby,
and Manchester Rare way
John Alcock Dixon, Isq., Burnley, near Leeds, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Virect Railway
Richard Dransflekt, Dalton, Huddersfield, Director of the
Rugby, Derby, and 11, tnchester, of the Liverpool and Leeds Di-
rect, and of the Keighley, Hatlif.tx, and Huddersfield Junction

Railways
Edward Doubleday, Esq., 1%'.L.5., Director of the Rugby, Warwick,
and Worcester Railway
Francis Ewart, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey
mouth Railway
Lient.-Col. Fitch, 36, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Managing Direc•
tor of theTork and Lancaster Railway
Eraaimus Forster, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Eaten.

sion hallway
liolomon Foster, Esq., Manofleici, Director of the Nottingham, Mans-

and Midland Junction Railway
"Martin Furniss, Egg., Itansfleld, Director of the Erewash and Shef-

_
field Railway
John Griffiths Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Chairman of the London,
• dotty and Coleraine, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways
George Green, Esq., Pontefract
' Charles Gibson, Esq., Holland-place, Clapham
.lathes Gilbertson, Esq., Hertford
William;Gibson, Esq., Glasgow
ll.' P. Gipps, Esq., Director of the Coventry and Nuneaton 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
Riehard Hall, Esq.,"carnarvon Hall, Stratford, Director of the Strat-
ford and Thames Junction, and North Woolwich Railways
John Charles Hall, Esq., New Grove-street, East Redford
R. F. Hall, Esq., Wiseton, near Bawtry
S. C. Hall, Esq., F.S.A., Inner Temple, Director et the Brewash Val-
ley Extension and West Midland Railways
Samuel Hammond, Esq., Leeds
Jolla George Hammack, Esq., Director of the Direct Western and
the Metropolitan Junction Railways
William Hepworth, Esq., Pontefract, a Deputy-Lient. and J.P. for the

• West Riding of Yorkshire
John Mason Hepworth, Esq., Eden-plaee, Ackworth, J.P. for the
West Riding of Yorkshire
Joshua Hepworth, Esq., Rogerthorpe Hall, Bedsworth
Thomas Heelis, Esq., Skipton Castle, Skipton, Director of the Lan-
cashire and North Yorkshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire north-
Eastern, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways
Robert Herries, Esq., East-street, Leeds, Director of the Liverpool
and Leeds Direct Railway
Charles Holbrooke, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and

Manchester
John Holmes, Esq., Bast Redford
John Midge, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and Direc-
tor of the Derby and Stafford Railway
William Empeon Jalland, Esq.,Holderness House, near Hull, DI-

rector of the York and Hull Railway
Barwell Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holderness House, near Hull, Ma-
gistrate for the East Riding of York and Borough of Hull, and
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds, and Hull and Barnsley
Railways
John Jameson, Esq., Honey-lane Market
William Janson, Esq., Shelton, Staffordshire, Director of the Staf-
fordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways
Joseph Jones, l:sq., Mayor of Hull, and Director of the Liverpool and

.Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq:, Director of the Blythe and Churnel
Valleys, or Macclesfield and Lichfield Railways
George Lawton, Esq., Ditchleys, Essex, Director of the Chepstow,
Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway
Lefahy, Esq., St. James's-square
Moses Edward Legg, Esq., Watling-street, London
Captain Henry Leech, Bedford
William Ley, Esq., 40, Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director el
the ReViag and Reigate Railway
L. Stephens Lyne, Esq., Bread-street, Director of the Western Ja-

maim Railway •
P. Bennett Lucas, Esq., Director of the Sligo and Shannon, the
Ipswich and Southampton, and the Cork Passage and Kinsale
Railways
John 11. Mann, Esq., Leeds
Thomas Hackett Massey, Esq., Newark-upon-Trent, and Bedford.
square, Ilyde Park
Thomas M`Turk, Esq., Hull
William Moe, Esq., East Redford
W. R. Mesham, Esq., M.D., Bedford
Robert Mellington, sq., Ordehall House, near East Redford, Director
of the Leeds and Carlisle RAilway
William lloorhouse, Esq., Marine Villa. Knottingley, Provisional
Director of the Sheffield, Barnsley, avid Wakefield Railway
Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of South and Mldlanda' Junction, and
London and Birmingham Extension Railways
James Muscroft, Esq:, Pontefract, J. P. for the Borough, a Provi-

aioual Director of ilia Oxford and Worcester Extension and Chester

Junction, Railway
Joseph Nadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and
Southampton, and the Leeds and Carlisle Railways
..)Villiam Joseph Nash, Esq. Bedford
John Norton, Esq., 1, St. George's-square, Westminster, and Moat

House, Brentwood, Director of the Great Western Direct Railway
Henry G,:rard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley and Con-
tinuation and Holyhead Junction, and West Midland and South
Midland and Oxford Extension Railways
Robert Oxley, Esq., M.D., Pontefract
Bennett Pell, Esq., 12, Finsbury-place North
William Perfect, Esq., Monkliill, near Pontefract
John Phillips. Esq. Mayor of Pontefract
Thofna.s Ingham Raynor, Esq., Birstal, Leeds, Director of the Leeds
and West Riding Junction, and the Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railways
John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Birming-
ham Direct, Leicester, Iron, and Dove Valley Railways
Robert Richards, Esq., Director of the West Midland Railway
John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Ityctillah House, Enfield, Managing
Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester,
and Weymouth Junction, the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke,
and the Direct Western Railways.
James Robson, Esq., Tanshelf, J. I'. for the Borough of Pontell'act
George Robinson, Esq., Hull, Director °rule hull and Barnsley Junc-
tion, and of the ttinby, Derby. and Manchester ltailways
John Richardson, Esq., Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate,
the East and West Yorkshire, and the Midland and Thirsk Junc-
tion Rail wiy
'Phoning Itontlidge, Esq., Alderman, Pontefract
James Russell, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director o.
the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton, of the Tring,

Reading, and Basingstoke Railways
Henry Savage, Esq., Director of the Irving, Reading, and Basing.
stoke Railway
Benjamin Shaw, Esq., Kilburn rriery, Director of the Churnet and
Blythe Valleys Railways
J. E. Sichel, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and
of the Leeds and York, and Midlittid Railivays
William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Director 'of
the South Midland Junction Railway, &c., &C.
George Walker Smith, Esq., Ilorbury Hall, Sheffield, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Smith, Esq., M.D., 30, North-street, Leeds, Director of the
Leeds and York, and Liverpool and Leeds Railways
Joseph Smithson, Esq., larkkies Mills, near Halifax
James Templer, Esq., Brixton-rise, Director of the Derby, Uttoxeter,
and Staftnrd Railway.
Thomas S. Trapp, Esq., Banker, Bedford
Itamitel Tudor, E.sq., Upper Thames-street, and Gerbals, Hull, Di.
rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway
William Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street, and Gorbals, Hull
Thomas Turney, Esq., Park Lodge, near Ilelifax
David Wheatcrott, Esq., Buckland Hollow, Derbyshire, Director of
the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, and Direct Birmingham and
Leicester aallways
Mater-General Wright, Royal Eugineers,Giouees+-=1"-,.lhe 1.
co, Portman.
square
William IVilii:ame, Esq., Royal Yortmiery, Bedford
Charles Waite, Egg., Willesden House, Middlesex
John Wheelton, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, tut
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Willett, gag., Bradford
George Yates, Esq., merchant, Halifax
(With power to add to their number.)
ENGINEER-INCIDEF—SIr John M`tien, L.L.D., and F.R.S.
Aftrima ENGINEER—WiIIiam Mulling= Higgins, Esq.
LONDON SOLICITORS.
J. R. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-court
. Owen Gray, Esq., }25 Great Tower-street,J. B. M ' Midge, Esq.,

BANKERS.
L.ndon—Messrs. Rogers, Ming, and Co.
Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Co.

The objeet of this railway is to connect, in the most direct coarse,
the important and increasing manutactaring town of Leeds with the
I"tmeolii, the want of which has long been felt, and is toe univer-
'anY acknowledged to need any comment, and it is under this con-
vietion that this important undertaking, after several minute exa-
ralnation.s of the country through which it will pees, has been brought
forward.
The proposed line will commence at the Junction of the Manches-
ter and Leeds, and York and North Midland Railways, near Wake-
Cod,ieand will terminate by means of a Junction with the Eastern
ties Railway at Redford (to whichplace it is the intention of
that Company to extend their line in the ensuing session of Parlia-
ment), and by thus availing itself es far as possible of the existing
railways, will complete the most 'direct least expensive trunk
Hate, from London to Leeds, York, and Hull, It will pass In its route
wi bin an available distance of Wakefield, Pontefract, Doncaster,
Rotherham, East Redford, Nottingham, Nowark, Grantham, Melton
Mowbray, Oakham, and Stamford.
The importance of such a line is obvious, both from the nature of
Its course (embrackg, as it does, a most extensive population within
its litnits) AS also m the absence of any direct communication for
the conveyance of passengers and merchandise.
By the construction or this railway, railway oommtmleation to
London will be given to Peterbor melt and Leicester (by means of
the Syston and Peterborough Railway), to Newark and _Nottingham
(by the Nottingham and Lincoln line), and to Sheffield and Gainsbo-
rough (by the Sheffield and Gainsborough line), by a much shorter
toute than by any existing Railivays. •

Independently of the advantages offerod to the towns in the several
counties through which this Ling will pass, the Line in itself consi-
d2red as a direct trunk line between London and Leeds, is sufficient
to justify its formation, it being well known that the existing traffic
between these two places would produce such a return on the capital
required. as to admit of a dividend, equal to that of any railway in
operation : but when it is borne in mind, that a Company is being
forined for the purpose of connecting Glasgow with Leeds by means of
a junction with the York and Carlisle Railway, no better line can he
presented to the public, as It will not only effect a direct communica-
tion from Glasgow and the Western parts of Scotland to London, but
would also connect Edinburgh and the Eastern parts of Scotland as
werrais Durham and Newcastle (by the York and North Midland, and
Great North of England Railways), with the Metropolis, which would
be considerably shorter than the accommodation offered by any
othsr Company, and when cost of construction is considered there