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An extcr:l.7.ll. [4.11U,A. ••• Sv COTIRC.seL A with the
heart of the mineral district of South Wales. The project has been
registered, full particulars ofWlh wich will appear in a few days.
WILLIAM PROTHEROE, Secretary.

10, Old Jewry Chambers.

yORK AND LANCASTER RAILWAY.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
CHAIRIIAN —The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney.
VICE-CHAIRMAN—Sir Henry Webb, Bart.
Sir Thomas Woollaston White, John Holmes, Esq.
Bart. J. W. Hamilton, Esq.
Philip Henry Howard, Esq., M.P. Richard Kelly, Esq.
William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., John Learmonth; Esq.
31. P. John Manwarlng, Esq.
'illiam Bradley, Esq. Nathaniel Ogle, Esq.
ohn Chauntler, Esq. John Reginald Riddell, Esq.
Rev. IL It. Fowler A. Macdonald Ritchie, Esq.
Colonel Fitch Joseph Underwood, Esq.
NOTICE.—The Committee of Management arc proceeding with
the investigation of the applications for Shares in this Company, but
from the great number applied for, several days must necessarily
elapse before the allotment can be effected.
By order,
SAMUEL HOLDSWORTH, Secretary.
Palace Chambers, St. James's-street, Sept. 16, 1845.

PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT.
illA G RCE AHTE SG
TRINFMARsiIYHDIURDECDTER.RuSLWFIEYLvDia,BAARNNTDS-
) DONCASTER, commencing at Penistone Station at the
_ _ Jf the Sheffield, Ashton under-Lyre and Manenester and
illuildersfleld and iheflield Railways.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 1,000,0001. in 50,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 2/. 2r.
per share in compliance with the standing orders of Parliament.
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Glyn, Hallifax, Mills, and Co. Huddersfield—The
Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Company.

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junction

CONSULTING ENGINEER.-ACTING ENGINEER.
W. BiHinton, Esq., C.E.
Sotterroas.-31essrs. Floyd and Booth, Huddersfield.
LONDON AGENTS.-➢lessrr. Sudlow, sons, and Torr, 20, Chancery-
lane.
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The object of the proposed line is to complete a direct chain of
railway communication between the Western and Eastern Coasts,
from Liverpool to great Grimsby.
It is intended as above stated to commence the line at Peniston
at the Junction of the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manches-
ter, and the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railways, and to proceed in a
direct course south of and near to Barnsley, passing thence through
or near to the extensive and inexhanstiOle coal fields of Worsborough
Dale, Silkatone, Cawthorn, Darton, Bretton, Billingley, and others
in the Barnsley District, thence continuing in a direct line throngh
or near to Wombwell, Darfield (where it will cross the North Mid-
land Railway), Thurnscoe, Wath Swinton, Bolton, Hickleton, Barm-
borough, Mexborough, Conisborough, Sprotborougli, Bentley, Don-
caster (where it will cross the London and York Railway), and
proceed through or near to Armthorpe, Cawtley, Brampton (with a
future branch to Thorne, and such further branches as may be
eventually determined upon), Auckley, Wroot (where it will enter the
Isle of Axholme), and through or near to Haxey. Epworth, Belton,
Butterwick, Owston, Messingham, and then terminate in a junction
with the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Railway, at or near Glanford
Brigg, thus connecting, by the construction of a new line of railway
of forty-six miles in length, or thereabouts (the entire line required to
be made). The great manufacturing, mineral, and agricultural dis-
tricts of Lancashire and Yorkshire with Lincolnshire and the rapidly
improvineport of Great Grimsby, so as to afford the products of the
several counties a most direct course of transit, thereby also greatly
facilitating the introduction of foreign merchandise, and by this
means perfecting the channel of communication between the Irish
Sea and the German Ocean.
The existing routes are very circuitous, so much so, that the pro-
posed line will effect a saving of about twenty miles, when compared
with the Manchester, and Leeds, and the Wakefield, Pontefract and
Goole Railways to Great Grimsby, and of about fifteen miles com-
pared with the Sheffield and Manchester, and the Oreat Grimsby
and Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railways, and the relative distance
from other places will be proportionally shortened.
Several schemes are now before the public to connect, in the best
practicable manner, Keighly and Halifax with Huddersfield, so as to
effect a direct North'and South communication. When this desidera-
tum shall be accomplished, the proposed new line, will, in addition to
the advantages before mentioned, forni a grand direct railway com-
munication from Scotland and the Northern Counties, via Hudders-
field, to the flourishing port of Great Grimsby, whilst the additional
traffic brought to bear upon the proposed line to and from the con-
templated new Staffordshire and Derbyshire Lines, by uniting with
the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway, at or near Holmfirth, must
considerably enhance the value of the undertaking.
Independent of the above, and of the superior advantages afforded
by the proposed line for the shipping of coal to the London and other
markets, a considerable augmentation of traffic may be expected
from the North AllcUand and the London and York Railways.
The important and agricultural town and neighbourhood of Don-
caster, hitherto comparatively isolated, for want of proper railway
accommodation, will, by the aid of the London and York Railway and
the proposed line, both passing through the town, be at once brought
in connexion with all the main railway arteries in the kingdom.
The value of the stock in the Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction
Railway must necessarily be greatly increased by the proposed line,
whilst the facilities given for the transit of goods from Liverpool and
Manchester to Great Grimsby must eventually materially add to the
importance and benefit of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway.
The country through which the line will pass is admirably adapted
for carrying out the design of the promoters. Nothing beyond ordi-
nary enrineering difficulties is to be met with. A satisfactory survey
of the entire line, by the acting engineer, has already been made, and
the sections of the line are in course of preparation, so that there is
the utmost confidence that the scheme will be fully perfected in due
time for the approaching session of Parliament.
The number of Shares already subscribed for is very considerable,
and an early allotment may therefore be expected. An influential
Proyisional Committee is now forming, and the Tomes of the gentle-
men composing it will shortly be publicly announced. In the mean-
time, further information may be obtained from the Solicitors, at
whose Offices Plans and Surveys of the Line are lodged for inspection,
and applications for Shares (in the form given below), accompanied
with satisfactory references, may also he aeklressed to them, to their
London Agents, or to the following Brokers ; namely, Messrs. Lloyd,
and Price, Liverpool; Messrs. Cardwell_ and Sons, Manchester;
Messrs. Welibeloved, and Co., Leeds ; Messrs. Garton and Wright.
Sheffieldi Charles Claye, Esq., Halifax ; and Messrs. Wilson and
Hella.well, Huddersfield.
Huddersfield, Sept. 13, 1845.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and
Great Grimsby Direct Railway Company. . .

I request that you will allot to me Shares of 201. each in
the above undertaking, and I agree to accept the same, or any less
number that may be allotted to me, and also to pay the deposit of
21.25. per Share thereon, and to sign the Parliamentary Contract and
the Subscribers' agreement.
Dated day of

, 1845.
Name (in full) •••••••• •• • • • • .
Trade or Profession ...........
Refbrenee.. ............ ..... •

rrRINID AD RAILWAY COMPANY
_L (To be Established and Incorporated by an Act of the Colonic'
Legislature.)
Capital 300,0001., in 12,000 shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 21. 10s. per share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Henry Barkly, Esq., M.P.
William Frederick Burnley. Esa.. Glasgow
James Cavan, Esq., Park-crescent
John Constable, Esq., Lime-street
Henry Davidson, Esq., Lime-street-square
William Eccles, Esq., Glasgow
John Alexander Hankey, Esq., Brook-street
Thomson Hankey, jun., Esq., Mincing-lane
John Irving, Esq., M.P.
Michael 31`Chlery, Esq., Finsbury-circus
Alexander Macgregor, Esq., Chester-street
Charles Marryat, Esq., Laurence Pountney-lane
Philip William S. Miles, Esq., M.P.
James Milligan, Esq., Tokenhouse-yard
Andrew Ranken, Esq., Glasgow
Sir John Rae Reid, Bart., M.P.
Charles William Short, Esq., Laurence Pountney-lane
William Smith, Esq., Glasgow
Thomas Wilson, Esq., Dublin
(With power to add to their number.)
BANlEns—Sir Charles Price, Bart., Marryat, and Price.
SOLICITORS
Is Tilson and Squance, Coleman-street.
This Company Is formed to supply the valuable island of Trinidad
with the advantages of railway communication.
No part of the British dominions appears to present greater natural
facilities for their construction, or to afford a better prospect of return
for the capital required to be invested.
From the time that the island was ceded to the British Crown, at
the peace of Amiens, it steadily advanced until the abolition of
slavery, when it sustained a severe check, in common with the other
colonies, though its production was not diminished in the same pro-
portion. The fertility of its soil, and the high wages of labour, have
since that period attracted emigrants from all parts, and especially
from the other West India Islands—so that cultivation has been
gradually restored, as will be seen by the official statement of exports
to
And, according to the census lately taken, the population appears
have increased in the same period fifty per cent.
As the arrangements now made for encouraging immigration pro-
mise to bring a large accession of labour into the colony, so there is
every probability that its production will be progressively aug-
mented. It may be doubled without any addition to the existing
establishments: and it is capable of indefinite extension, there being
still in the possession of the Crown upwards of a million of acres of
the finest virgin land within the tropics. With the increase of popu-
lation, and the prosperity of agriculture, there would of course be a
corresponding increase of traffic.
In forming a system of railway communications which will suit the
present condition of Trinidad, and which will yield an immediate re-
turn, it is, therefore, desirable to contemplate their gradual extension
with the advancement of the colony.
An outline of such a plan has been submitted to the Secretary of
State for the Colonies ; and, although no conclusive arrangement can
I be made without the assent of the Legislative Council of the island,
Lord Stanley has intimated that "he is willing to give every en-
couragement he can to the proposed undertaking, consistently with
his duty of watching over the interests of the colony, and that he
will recommend the subject to the favourable consideration of the
Local Government."
Under this recommendation it is expected that a great part of the
land, as well as all the timber, which may be required for the con-
struction of the railways, and the works connected therewith, will be
obtained gratuitously from the Crown ; and it is also confidently be-
lieved that individual proprietors will in like manner grant the land
for the lines that may intersect their estates. The precise course of
these lines will depend, in some degree, upon this encouragement.
It is further anticipated that liberal grants of Crown lands, contiguous
to the railways, will be made in connexion with their progressive
extension.
These concessions, while justly made in consideration of important
public advantages, will be of great value to the Company, both im-
mediately and prospectively.
As the Company will be able to conduct the transport of produce,
and the conveyance of passengers, at one-third, or even one-fourth,
of the present expense (which appears to be from three to four
shillings per ton per mile), with the additional advantage of cer-
tainty at all seasons, and protection from waste and plunder, there
can be no doubt that their railways will command the whole of the
existing traffic in the districts which they are to traverse, as well as
any increase which may arise.
It appears that a single line, with passing places, sufficient to ac-
commodate four-fifths of the cultivated parts of the colony, may be
constructed for the amount of capital now proposed ; and upon a
careful examination of the probable revenue, the Provisional Com-
mittee are satisfied that it will yield a large return.
It is proposed that the Engineer of the Company shall proceed
forthwith to Trinidad, accompanied by an adequate number of Sur-
veyors, for the purpose of surveying the intended lines ; and that AO
plan shall be finally adopted until he makes a detailed report. He
will be put in communication with an influential and intelligent
Committee in the colony, who will afford the most cordial co-opera-
tion and support.
Provision will be made in the Act constituting the Company for
limiting the responsibility of the Shareholders to the amount of their
respective subscriptions.
Applications for shares, in the form annexed, and for copies of the
prospectus and relative map, to be addressed to the Provisiona
Ml Com-
onday
mittee, at the West India Chambers, Old Jewry, on or before ,
the 6th of October.
Copies of the prospectus may also be obtained from Mr. Matthew
Wotherspoon, in Liverpool ; aad Messrs. DOIMIStOUR and Jardine, in
Glasgow.
West India Committee-Rooms, London, 17th Sept., 1845.