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station, from whence the line will be continued in as direct a course as
possible to Holyhead
In its progress it will pass through or near to the following towns :
—Rickmsmsworth, Chesham, Wendover, and Aylesbury; it will then
proceed to within a short distance of Bieester and Deshlington, and
from thence to Banbury ; it will touch upon Kineton or Kingtown,
thence proceed onward to Stratford-on-Avon, approach within a
short distance of Warwick, Alcester, and 'Worcester, where it will
cross the Birmingham and Gloucester Railroad near to Bromsgrove,
and proceeding thence to Kidderminster, Bridgnorth, and Wenlock,
near to Broseley and Coalbrookdale, will enter the Vale of the
Severn, which it will traverse to Shrewsbury; it will thence con-
tinue its route up the course of the Severn, and passing into the Vale
of the River Vyruwy, will proceed to Llan-y-mynech, Llaurhaladr,
and Mochnant, accommodating Welchpool, Oswestry, and Llangollen.
At this point there are three passes, which have been inspected, and
it remains for the engineer to select one as an entrance or passage
into the Vale of the River Dee, when the line will proceed round by
Corer into the Vale of the River Alwen, from whence it will run
nearly parallel with the great Holyhead Mail-coach-road, by Pentre-
voelas to Capel Cerrig, it will then descend the Vale of Nant Francon
to Bangor and Holyhead.
This line will in its progress feed, and be also fed by the most consi-
siderable railroads of the kingdom, particularly those of the Great
Western ; the Birmingham, Gloucester, and Bristol; the Oxford,
Worcester, and Wolves hampton ; the London and Birmingham ; and
the South Staffordshire Railway. As this last line will connect
Dudley, Bilston, Wednesbury, Walsall, and Lichfield with the
Derby Railway and the Grand Junction Railway, it would
be superfluous to expatiate on the advantages of bring-
ing all those important centres of the coal and iron trade and
other traffic, and the vast coal and iron fields of Shropshire
into close intercourse, and thus establishing the cheapest and
quickest means of transit between the minerals of Shropshire and the
furnaces of Staffordshire, and the markets of Dublin, London, and
Birmingham. The success of the undertaking is secured beyond a
doubt, by the obvious fact that it will not only bring the richest
mineral and manufacturing portions of England much nearer to the
two capitals, but it will open for the carriage of the valuable pro-
duce of these districts the intermediate country not at present pos-
sessed of any direct line of railway communication. On the other
hand, the Grand London and Dublin Approximation Railway will
give to London an the neighbourhood of Birmingham a route to
Dublin shorter by nearly seventy miles than that of any other exist-
ing railroad ; and finally, enable travellers to complete the entire
distance in ten hours.
It will also ensure two mail deliveries in the day.
Up to the point where the line approaches Corwen, no engineering
difficulties are presented. At Conran a deviation from the straight
line may be requisite to avoid tunnelling, after which a straight line
will be resumed to Bangor, where that already in construction will
he adopted for the rest of the route to Holyhead ; or, if found de-
sirable, power will be taken in the Bill to continue an independent
line by Beaumaris to Holyhead.
Atter a careful investigation of the traffic arising from passengers,
the conveyance of mineral and agricultural produce, and the direct
transmission of the mails, the Directors fed warranted in anticipating
a return of at least ten per cent. on the capital invested.
A treaty is in progress with a Steam Navigation Company to run
powerful steamers between the harbours of Holyhead and Kingston
on the arrival of the trains, so that passengers and merchandise may
be booked throughout from London to Dublin, including all the inter-
mediate stations, and be thus enabled'to complete the entire distance
in ten hours, without the inconvenience so painfully felt of changing
from the conveyance of one proprietary to that of another. The
railways now in active progress in Ireland, running from Dublin
north and south throughout the heart of the island, render it self-
evident that the chain of communication between the sister countries
is, by this present undertaking, rendered at once complete
and intimate to the last degree. As the leading aim of
this Company is is save time and distance, every attention of
the Directors, and every advancement in science wilt be made
available to gain the utmost possible amount of speed, com-
patible with safety, the lines being formed expressly for this end ;
while, finally, the very lowest rate of fares will he adopted for both
passengers and traffic, and the pnblic will find in the improvement of
the inferior carriages, and some additional comforts for those of the
first class, that the Grand London and Dublin Approximation Rail-
way will be placed in advance of any other now existing, and in all
its details will be rendered worthy an enterprise so national in its
character.

Application will be made for a Bill to incorporate the Company
early in the next session. The usual power will be taken by the Act
to allow interest at 4/. per cent. per a,nuin on the amount of the
subscriptions paid up; and no subscriber will be answerable for more
than the amount of his deposit until the Act be obtained, and then not
beyond the amount of his subscription.
Applications for Shares may be made, in the subjoined form, to the
following Solicitors, Brokers, and Agents :—Mr. Roger Mortimer,
Throgmorton-street, London; B. R. Pemberton, Esq., Atherton-
buildings, Mr. Wm. Kerl, and Messrs. Schultz and Carr, Liverpool;
Mr. J. R. Lane, Birmingham ; James Jamieson, Esq., Leeds ; Messrs.
Cardwell and Sons, Manchester; Mr. James Butchart, Huddersfield;
Messrs. J. and J. Kimpster, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Mr. Hervey,
Halifax ; Wm. Lee, Esq., Cheltenham ; R. P. Clark, Esq., Bristol ;
Messrs. Graystone and Earl, York; Henry Beaumont, Esq., Exeter;
Messrs. Munro and Co., 44, George-street, Edinburgh; Charles
Couper, Esq., 1, Parkside-street, Edin-burgh ; James Jardine, Esq.,
Glasgow; Wm. Oliphant, Esq., Perth ; Messrs. Labertouche and
Stafford, Dublin ; and Messrs. Cameron and Bains, 18, Parliament-
street, London.

PROSPECTUS OF THE
RHONDDA and ELY VALLEYS JUNCTION
RAILWAY, GLAMORGANSHIRE.

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

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of Dunraven.
lapital, 200,0001., in 10,000 Shares of 201. each,
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.

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
Sheffield—Messrs. Bardwell and Sons.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SIIAr.E.S.
To the Provisional Committee of the Rhondda and Ely Valleys

Junction Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me shares of 20.,
each in this Company, and I undertake to accept the same, and to
pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that may be allotted
to ma ; and I also undertake to execute the Parliamentary Contract
and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
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Residence •••••• • • • • • • ...... ••• • • •• •
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RHONDDA AND ELY VALLEYS
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
No farther applications for shares In this Company can be received
after FRIDAY, the 10th instant. By order,
JOHN PETHERICK, Secretary.
5. Rasinghall-street, 3d October, 1845.

MIDLAND GRAND JUNCTION
RA ILWAY.
Connecting the Great Western, London and Birmingham, and Direct
Manchester. From Reading via Henley-on-Thames, Aylesbury,
Buckingham, and Northampton.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 1,250,0001. in 50,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 2/. 12s. Gd. per Share.

NORWICH and DEREHAM DIRECT
The PROVISIONCOMMITTEE announce to the shareholders
and the public that they have. concluded a most satisfactory arrange-
ment with the Norfolk Company, by which the interests of the two
Companies have Income identical. The line will be made as ori-
ginally projected, and in conjunqion with the Lynn and Denham
Railway, and the projected railway from Derehiun to Wells, the best
possible accommodation will be supplied to the-entire district of
West Norfolk.

Norwich, Oct. 2, 1845,

EDWARD WILLETT, Chairman.

GRAND JUNCTION, GREAT WESTERN,
and SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY JUNCTION.
Completing the Line from London to Birmingham and Liverpool by
the shortest route.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 1,200,000/., in £O,OOO shares of 201. each.
Deposit 2/. 2s. per share.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Sir W Young, Bart., Director of the Honourable East Inlia Company
Major-General l•arlby, Itutiand-gale, Director of the Worcester and
South Wales Railway
Mr. John Ayres, Princes Risborough
Rev. John Samuel Barron, Parsonage, Mal, Justice of the Peace for
Bucks
W Bean, Esq., Tulse-hill, Director of the Erewash Valley Continua-
tion Railway
C. Bigge, Esq., Bryanston-square, Director of the Irish North Mid-
land Railway
Charles Richard Bigge,
Esq., 19, Bryanston• square, Director of the
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway, and Isle of Ely, Wis-
beach, and Lincolnshire Railway
Joseph Bishop,
, Crescent, Minories, Director of the Black-
wall Railway
Borton, Esq., Blackthorn°
William W. Botterill, Swallow lions Burnley
David Beyan, Esq., Northampton
James Brand, Esq., Oli Broad-street, Director of the Cambridge
Lincoln, and Great Luxemburgh Railway
James Burness, Esq., Leyton, Essex, Director of the Staffordshire
Potteries, and Oxford and Worcester Extension and Chester June
Lion Railways
Messrs. Butler and Son, Wycombe
Rev. George Chetwode, Chilton-house, Vicar of Chilton, and Justice
of the Peace for Bucks and Oxon
Thomas Camplin, Esq., Ilearne-bay, Director of the Argus Office
Edward Turst Carver, Esq., Forest Lodge, Tulse-hill, Director
the North Wales and Namur and Liege Railways
R. Chapman, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby and
Southampton Railways
Edward Chapman, Esq., Gibson-square
Rev. W. Cleobury, Parsonage, Piddington, Justice of the Peace for
Bucks
Frederick Colingridge, Esq., Thurlow-square, Rrompton
Win. Davis, Esq., Bicester, J.P. for Bucks and Oxen
Thomas Dawson, Esq., Bicester
William Delf, Esq., St. Mary's, Beccies
Henry Dodson, Esq., Suffolk House, Tuise-hill, Director of the Grand
Trunk Railway
Mr. Win. Dossett, Princes Risborough
Samuel Douglass, Esq., Doctors'-commons
Rev. Gregory Lempster Dryden, Vicarage, Ambrosden
John Edmonds, Esq., Princes Risborough
Captain Gustavus Evans, R.N., Headly Grove, near Dorking, Di-
rector of the Reading and Reigate Railway
Henry Farrar, Esq., Princes Risborough
Joseph Forster, Esq., Blunt's Hall, Witham, Essex, Director of the
Mahlon and Braintree Railway
Rev H. R. Fowler; 7, Manchester-square, London, Director of the
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway, and Deputy-Chairman
of the London and Nottingham Railway
James Furness, Esq., Newland-cottage, Wycombe
John George, Esq., Bicester
Charles Goodwin, Esq., Battersea, Director of the London and Wind-
sor Railway
Rev. C. E. Gray, Rectory, Princes Risborongh
Edmund Tertius Grundy, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Cam-
bridge and Lincoln, and Oxford, Newbury, Andover, Manchester
and Southampton Railways
Warren Stormes Hale, Esq., Gresham-street
J. G. Hammock, Esq., Essex House, Chairman of the Ratcliffe Gas
Company, and Director of the Direct Western Railway
George Harman, Esq., Alderman of Wycombe
Thomas Humfrey, Esq., Brill
Joseph Hunt, Esq., Mayor of Wycombe
Wm. Jackson, Esq., Justice of the Peace for Wycombe
John Inglis Jerdein, Esq., 150, Piccadilly, Director of the Great
Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway
Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of the City of Loudon, Paragon
Streatham
Henry Garrett Key, Esq., Tulse-hill, Director of the Merefersi, New-
port and Abergavenny Railway
Edward King, Esq., Blackthorne
Wm. King, Esq., Ambrosden
Thomas Knight, Esq., Brill
Captain A. L. Kuper, C. 8., R.N., Plymstock, Devon
W. Kuper. Esq., Camberwell, Director of Leeds, York, and 111,11antis'
Junction Railway
Alfred Lane, Esq., Alderman of Wycombe
Joseph Littlehales, Esq., Shaulston
/Lowland M'Kenzie, Esq., Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square, Diree
for of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, of the Cheltenham,
Oxford, and Brighton, and the Great Western Extension Railway
Companies
John Meads, Esq., Brill
The Rev. W. E. Partridge, Horsendon-house, Risborough, Rector of
Horsendon, Vicar of Illmire, and Magistrate for the county of
Bucks

ALISB URY and SWINDON EXTENSTON
L of the WILTS, SOMERSET, and SOUTHAMPTON JUNC-
TION RAILWAY.

l'rovistmnplly register:A

On the Broad Gauge.
From Salisbury, by Amesbury, the Vale of Avon, and Marlborough,
to Swindon, fonuing a direct line of railway through Cheltenham
and Gloucester, to Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool.
Capital 700,0001., in 28,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 12s. Oct. per Share.
COMMITTOE OF MANAGEMENT.
John Bagsharr, Esq., Chairman of the Wilts, Somerset, and
Southampton Junction Railway, and Director of the Northern and
Eastern, and Eastern Counties Railway Companies, London
William .Bradle,F,rEsli., .Deptni---chairtuan siptist Wiltoznerzei,
• and Southampton Junction Railway, and Director of the S' afield
. and Manchester, and Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway Compa-
nies, Manor Oaks, Sheffield
William Bardgett, Esq., Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and South-
ampton Junction Railway, and the Italian and Austrian Railway
Companies, London.

George Hunt, Esq., Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southamp-
ton Junction Itailway..Company, banker, Southampton •
William James Le Feuvre, Esq., Director of the Wilts, Somerset,
and Southampton Junction Railway Company, Alderman and
Magistrate, Southampton
Edward Lomer, Esq., Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and South-
atnpton Railway Company, merchant, Southampton
William John M'Gwire, Esq., Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and
Southampton Junction Railway Company, Hampton Court,
London
Richard Harris Purcell, Esq., Director of the Wilts, Somerset, um!
Southampton Junction Railway Company,' London
George Rougemont, Esq., Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and
Southampton Junction Railway, and of the Paris and Caca
Railway Companies, London
J. Stewart, Esq., M.P., Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and South-
ampton Junction Railway, and of the Paris and Caen and Northern
of France Railway Companies, London
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Director of the Wilts, Somerset, mid South.
ampton Junction Railway Company, Westbourne-house, Sheffield
Miles Coventry, Esq , Mark-lane, London, Director of the Wills, So-
well:el, and Southampton Jti.ction Railway Company

BANKERS.
Messrs. Roberts, Curtis, and Co., London
- The Hampshire Bank, Southampton.
JOINT SOLICITORS.
James Coppock, Esq., 3, Cleveland-row, St. James's
John Bell, Esq., Craven-street, London
W. H. Moberley, Esq , Southampton.
ACTING ENGINEERS —3les,rf. Birch, Cannon-row, London.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
C. W. Squarey, Esq., Salisbury
John Pyke, Esq.' Marlborough
Messrs. Crowdy, Swindon.
The Directors of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Junction
Railway Company, having completed the whole of their arrange-
ments, and having been compelled to refuse at least three-fourths 01
the applications for shares in their line, have had their attention
forcibly and repeatedly called to the necessity of a direct communi-
cation between Salisbury and Swindon, the station on the Great
Western Railway, by which the most direct and remunerative con-
nexion will be formed between Southampton and Manchester.
The advantages, in point of speed, to be derived from the broad
gauge, as al o the superiority of the gradients obtained by the rout(
of the Valey of the Avon, together with the importance of placieg the
city of Salisbury on the main trunk line from the north to South-
ampton, must insure to this undertaking the sanction of the Legis-
lature and the local support of the towns and districts through which
the line will past

Besides fo:ming a direct communication with the great manufac-
turing towns in the north, the Salisbury and Swindon Extension wir
make a complete line of railway between Southampton, Salisbury.
and all parts of North and South Wales.
After most mature deliberation, the Directors have resolved to re-
commend to their shareholders and the public the immediate carry-
ing out of a railway to effect the above otject, which will be most
desirable as a completion to their own line, and highly advantageo►s
In a pecuniary sense and on public grounds. They have directed all
the necessary surveys to be made, so as to apply to Parliament in
the ensuing session, at the same time as the Wilts, Somerset,
Southampton Junction Railway, with a view to the ultimate amal•
gamation of both lines under one management.

In the allotment of shares, preference will be given to the holders:
of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Junction Railway shares,
as also to parties locally interested, due regard being at the same
time had to public interest ; and every original shareholder in that
line may, on production of his scrip certificate, receive an allotment
of a similar number of Salisbury and Swindon Extension shares.
The holders of Great Western, and of Wilts, Somerset, and Wey-
mouth shares, will also have a preference.

Applications may be made, in the following form, to the Previsions:
Committee, at the Offices of the Company, 26, Gresham-street, the
solicitors, the local agents, or to the principal brokers in town and
country,

QALISBURY and SWINDON EXTENSION
L. 3 of the WILTS, SOMERSET, and SOUTHAMPTON JUNC-
TION RAILWAY

(On the Broad Gauge),
From Salisbury, by Amesbury, the Vale of Avon, and Marlborough,
to Swindon, forming a direct line of railway through Cheltenham
and Gloucester to Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool.
(Provisionally Registered.)

In consequence of the enormous quantity of Applications for
Shares in this Company, notice is hereby given that the List will be
CLOSED cm FUIDAT NEXT, the lOth instant, when the Allotment
will be immediately proceeded with.
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H. B. SHERIDAN, Secretary.
26, Gresham-street, London, Oct. 6, 1845.