The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-23 00:00:00

PROSPECTUS.

The object of this line of Railway is to complete the chain of coast
communication, and form a connexion with lines already established
Or projected with reasonable hopes of success.
It will commence at or near the city of Limerick, and taking a nor-
therly direction, proceed through the counties ofClare, Galway, Mayo,
and Sligo, terminating at Sligo, by a junction with the Sligo and Ennis-
killen Railway, and accommodating on its route they,portant cities and
towns of Limerick, Ennis, Gort, Loughrea, Athenr Monives., Team,
Ballinrobe, Castlebar, Westport, Foxford, Bettina, Kilalla, Swineford,
Streamstown, and Sligo, which town being connected with the north,
east, and south, by the different lines through Enniskillen, Landon.
derry, Coleraine, Belfast, Armagh, Newry, Dundalk, Drogheda,
Dublin, Wicklow, Wexford, Waterford, Cork, Killarney, Valentia,
Tralee, and Limerick, the establishment of this line will cause Ire-
land to present a completeness of locomotive communication which
no other country in the world enjoys.
The country through which the proposed line travels is most fertile
in mineral and agricultural products; it embraces many extensive
coal fields, whose advantages it will extend to all parts of Connaught
and Ulster; and intersecting, as it does, so many metropolitan lines
of railway, it will develops those advantages in an equal degree to
the province of Leinster.
The lead, iron, marble, and slate works on its route, will be
rendered available to the most distant parts of the island, and
perhaps not the least advantage, in a national point of view, will be
the establlshment of an intercourse between the population of the
extreme north and that of the extreme south, as well as placing the
trade of, and communication with, Scotland, within the easy reach
of all towns of any importance in Ireland. Added to this the cer-
tainty that on the completion of the projected southern, eastern, and
western lines, the noble natural harbours on the Atlantic shore of
Ireland will become the British depots of American traffic, and most
probably the established packet stations for postal communication
between the two countries,. it is impossible to over-rate the value of
this truly national projection.
The counties which this railway traverses abundantly supply the
English markets with cattle, pigs, &c. This line, communicating with
so many ports, will afford the greatest facilities for the shipping of
this portion of trade, some idea of the extent of which may be formed
from the fact of upwards of five hundred fairs being held annually
in its immediate vicinity, among them, the fair of Ballinasloe, ac-
knowledged the greatest for sheep and cattle in the British islands.
It has been ascertained that the country presents great engineering
facilities for the construction of a railway, and in communications
which have been received from the landowners along the line, the
greatest anxiety is manifested for its completion.
The subscribers will be held liable only to the extent of their first
deposits until an Act of Parliament is obtained, and afterwards only
to the amount of their subscriptions.
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D IRE CT WESTERN RAILWjAY
(Upon the Broad Gauge),
From London to the Land's-end ; with Di-.•erginz Lines to Bath and
Bridgewater respectively.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 251. e.t.a.
Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., Director of the South Mid-
land Railway, Brookes' Club, St. James's-street
Sir Francis Dugdale Astley, Bart., Everly House, PeWsey, Wilts
Sir Henry Webbe, Bart. 105, Pall-mall
Frederick Hodgson, Esq., au. for Barnstaple, 3, Carlton Gardens
Howard Elphinstone, Esq., M.P., 19, Eaton-place, London
Ralph Neville, Esq., M.P. for Windsor, Hill-street, Berkeley-square
Charles Barry Baldwin, M.P. for Totness, 6, Parliament-street
Hon. Percy Evans Freks, 3, Belgrave-square
Thomas Nugent Vaughan, Esq., 32, Grosvenor-place, London
William. Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the
Sheffield and Manchester and Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
Companies
Sir John Key, Bart., 9, King's Arms-yard, Alderman of the City of
London, Director of the Direct Manchester and London and Direct
Liverpool and Leeds Railway Company
Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Griffin's Wharf, Tooley-street, Alderman
of the City of London, and Director of the London and Westmin-
ster Bank, and of the London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidder-
minster Railway
Thomas Challis, Esq., 32, Wilson-street, Finsbury, Alderman of the
City of London
Edward Harrisson Barwell, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the North-
ampton. Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway, and Director of the
South Midland Railway
Joseph Armitage, Esq., Mills's Bridge House, Huddersfield, Deputy
Lieutenant and a Magistrate for the West Riding of Yorkshire,
Chairman of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
William Gordon Thomson, Esq., 33, Gloucester-road, Hyde Park,
Director of the Northampton. Banbury, and Cheltenham, and
South Midland Railways
Donald Maclean, Esq., 37, Brunswick-square, London, Deputy
Chairman of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway
Thomas Lawrence, Esq., 3, St. Mary Axe
Philip W. Courtnay, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, London
Millis Coventry, Esq.,' Whitehart-court, Lombard-street
Barnet L. ;Philips, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, and
George-street, Mansion House
John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Hank, Tunbridge, Kent, Director of
the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Boswell Middleton Jolland, Esq., Holderness House, near Hull,
Deputy Lieutenant and Magistrate for the East Riding of Yorkshire
Charles Robert Coleman, Esq., Irongate Wharf
William Eales, Esq., Mincing lane, London, late Director of the
Devon and Cornwall Banking Company
Charles Downes, Esq., Warwick-street, Charing-oroes, Director of
the South Midland Railway
Martin Stutely, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park, London,
Director of the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine, and the South
Essex Railways
Francis Ede, Esq., 34, Great Winchester-street
John Griffith Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Director of the Londonderry
and Coleraine and the ondonderry and Enniskillen Railways
John Addis, Esq., Rotherhithe and Mark-lane, London, Director of
the Central Terminus Railway, and of the Licensed Victuallers'
Fire and Life Insurance Company
James Renshaw, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street, and West
Heath House, Erith, Kent, Director of the South Staffordshire
Railway
Thomas Drane, Esq., Pall-mall, and St. Mary Church, Devon, Direc-
tor of the Bridport and Exeter, and Goole and Doncaster Railways
Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brembo Ironworks, Wrexham, and Cannon-

street, London - -
H. G. Atkinson, Esq., 17poer Gloucester-place, Regent's Park
George M'lntosh, Esq., 127, Seymour-street, Portman-square
Frederick Solly Flood, Esq., Alpha-road, Regent's Park, London
Major White, 105, Pall-mall, London, Director of the South Midland
Railway
Charles Bleaden, Esq., CouLsden-court, Surrey, Chairman of the Li-
censed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company
J. G. Hammack, Esq., Essex House, Mile-end-road, Director of the
Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company
Patrick Fras. Johnston, Esq., Great Cumberland-place
Joseph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, Minories, Director of the London and
Blackwall Railway Company
W. D. Bruce, Esq., F.S.A., 17, Charles-street, St. James's, and Ripon
Cuthbert Woodstock, Esq., Grove-road, North Brixton
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanstone-street, Portman-
square, Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth, and
the Great Western Extension Railways
George Hammond Whalley, Esq., 30, Pall-mall, London, Assistant
Tithe Commissioner
William Hagan, Esq., 60, Baker-street, Portman-square
William Breynton, Esq., Montpelier, Cheltenham, and Temple, Lon-
don, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth Railway
Richard Harris Purcell, Eeq., Cambridge-street, Hyde Park, Lon-
don, Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Railway

Company
Philip Baker, Esq., Euston-square, London, AUditor of the London
and Blackwall Railway Company
Charles James Heath, Esq., 6, London-street, Mark-lane
Captain E. N. Trowbridge, R.N., 11, Eaton-square
Anthony Ridley, Esq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury, a Director of the

St. Katherine's Dock Company
William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belg,rave-square
Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., Clopton House, Warwickshire, and
Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire
George Payne, Esq., Sulby Hall, Northamptonshire, and Charles-

street, Berkeley-square
James Beech, Esq., Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, and Grosvenor-
place, London
Nicholas Philpot Leader, Esq., Dromagh Castle, county Cork, Union
Club, Trafalgar-square, Director of the Killarney Junction Rail-
way Company
Samuel Baker, Esq., Lyppiat Park, Gloucestershire, and London
William Congreve Russell, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Di-
rector of the Warwickshire and London Railway
Henry Bradley, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire

John William Yerbury, Esq., Belcombe House, Wiltshire, Captain 3d
Light Dragoons
Robert Main, Esq.. Ravensboume Park, Lewisham, and Trinity-
square, London
Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsall House, Retford, Nottinghamshire
John GlHyatt Booth, Esq., Crouch Hall, Hornsey
Major-Gen. Martin White, Marlborough-buildings, Bath
Rev. T. Harvey Ashworth, Burlyns House, near Newbury, Barks
Col. Burslem, Harwood Lodge, Newbury, Berks
Major Kirwan, Great Pulteney-street, Bath
Rev. Dr. Godfrey, Grosvenor-place, Bath
Edward Cooper, Esq., Staverton, Wilts, Magistrate of the County
Henry Toogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse, Wilts, Magistrate of the
County
Rev. Chas. Fras. Bamfyide, Rector of Dunkerton, near Rath
Richard Mortimore, Esq., Chippenham, Wilts
George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, Director of the Bristol and Birming-

ham Railway Company
R. Wootten, jun., Esq., Banker, Oxford, Director of the Buckingham.

shire Railway and Wolverton Junction
Richard Mortimore, Esq., Kingsmill, Collumpton
Rev. John Sydenham, Collumpton
Rev. R. A. Roberts, Rector of Kentisbere, Collumpton
Charles Justice, Esq., Collumpton, Devon
Richard Marker, Esq., Ufculm Cottage, Tiverton
Colonel Henry Duadas Campbell, North End House, Portsmouth
George Pearce, Esq., Bradninch House, near Collumpton
Wm. H. Holcomb, Esq., Chilton, liungerford, Chairman of the Berks
Union Banking Company
William Holcomb, Esq., Marlborough, Manager of the Wilts and
Dorset Bank
Captain W. G. Maclean, R.N., Taunton
Robert Parsons. Esq., Taunton
John Dalzell, Esq., Wallingford, Berks
Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
John Kerle Haberfield, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
James Troup, DK., Hastings
John Robson, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
John Morford Cottle, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington, Director
of Coventry and Leicester Railway
Joseph Knight, Esq., Leicester, Director of South Midland and North-
ampton, Banbury and Cheltenham Railways
John Newton Mappin, Esq. Sheffield, Director of the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Midland Railway Company
John Ridgeway, Esq., Cauldon-place, the Potteries, Staffordshire,
Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway
James Burt, jun., Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and
Southampton Railway
Edward Norris. Esq., Clairville, Manchester, Director of the Direct
Lta4ou and Manchester, and North Cheshire Railway Companies
Joseph! Nadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and
Wigan, and Manchester and Southampton Railways
James Ogden, M.D., Salford
Sir William Lowthrop, Hull, Magistrate for the East Riding of York
and for the borough of Hull, Chairman of the " Hull and Barnsley"
Committee, and Member of the acting Committee of the "Liver-
pool and Leeds Direct Railway Companies"
John Holford, Esq., Rusholm Hall, Manchester
C. H. Jones, Esq., Huddersfield, Deputy Chairman of the Hudders-
field and Sheffield, and Director of the Halifax and Bradford

Union Railway
Charles Bamford, jun., Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley

Junction
John Lillie, Esq., Manchester, Director •f Manchester and South-

ampton Railway
John Robson, Esq., Hetton-le-Hole, Durham
Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Sheffield and
Manchester, and Chairman of the Manchester, Birkenhead, and
Midland Railway Companies
Isaac Holmes, Esq., Liverpool
Wm. B. Newbery, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Dudley and
Iron Bridge Railway Company
C. Appleby, Esq., Broomhill, Sheffield, Director of the Sheflield and
Manchester Railway Company
Bdwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach,
and Lincolnshire Railway, and Salisbury and Swindon Railways
John Ward, Esq., Machin Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield,
Rotherham, and Chesterfield Life Assurance-office
Wm. Thompson, Esq., Upperthdrpe, near Sheffield, Director of the
Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
Adderley Howard, Esq., Sutton Wisbech, Director of tie East Coast
Railway Company
Captain Bowker, R.N., Devonport
H. S. Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Di-
rect Railway
Samuel Swann Brittain, Esq., Sheffl9l..Dlfe3tsr of the East and West
of England Railway Company
John Fawcett, Esi., Sheffield, Director of tie Wig old and Har-
rdevgate Railway Company
William Marriott, Esq., Atterclltr-terrace, Sheffield, Direct,; of the
Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Junction Rae, y.
Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln, Director of the London and York
and East Lincolnshire Railways
John Johnstone Hamilton, Esq., Liverpool
David Price, Esq., Manchester
William Hunter, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamingteit
Rev. H. W. Cottle, Vicar of Watford, Northamptonshire
Major Wornum, Clarence-square, Cheltenham
Edward Hall, Esq., Westbank House, Macclesfield, Director of .the
South Midland and the Northampton and Cheltenham Railways
John Henry
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Henry Shaw, Esq., Fetter-lane
Henry Sayer, Esq., Commercial-road, Limehonse, merchant
John Mee Mathew, Esq., Gray's Inn-square, Assistant Tithe Com-
missioner
John Norton, Esq., Moat House,'Brentwood, Essex
William John M`Guire, Esq., Hampton Court
John Gray Wilson, Esq., Oxford-terrace
Capt. J. P. Macdougall, Fir Grove, North Brixton, Surrey
W. J. Lefenvre, Esq., F R.S.,Alderman and Magistrate of Southampton
Thomas Chas. Harrison, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's Park
G. B. Banbury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the
Coventry and Leicester Railway
Captain Triugham, R.N., Solyhull, Warwickshire
William Jenson Neale, Esq., King's Bench-walk, Temple
James Whitney, Esq., Shrewsbury
Henry Paul Harwood, Esq., M.D., Sheffield
(With power to add to their number).
A further list of influential names will shortly appear.
Bantams—Messrs. Curries and Co., Cornhill, London.
JOINT SOLICITOS.S.
Messrs. Bell, Brodrick, and Bell, Bow Churchyard, London
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Messrs. Rickards and Walker, 29, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London
J. Harting, 24, London.
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Secazzasy—Thomas Hosier Saunders Esq.
AJOISTANT-SECRETAIIII—CharIes J. Whatley, Esq.
LOCAL AGENTS.
At Devizes, Henry Gilbert, Esq.
At Troubridge and Bradford, Messrs. Stone and Rodway
At Bath, Messrs. Batehellor, Harford, and Staunton
At Bridgewater, Messrs. G. S. and J. R. Poole
At Tiverton, T. L. T. Rendell, Esq., and J. A. Tome, Esq.
At Truro
At Penzance
At Falmouth

The object of this line is to effect a direct communication between
London and the Land's End.

In a national point of view such a line is indispensable. With
the advantage of a direct railroad, Falmouth, from its situation at the
western extremity of the kingdom, would undoubtedly long since
have been the principal port on that coast. With the advantage of
at least 280 miles of heavy road, that place has attained its high po-
sition as a Packet Station. Southampton, with far less natural ad-
vantages, has, since the opening of the South-Western Railway, in-
creased its imports from 200,0001. to 3,000,0001. per annum. At Bris-
tol, before the opening of the Great Western Railway, the imports
were declining ; since then they have very considerably increased.
The merits of a line to the Land's End as an investment for ca-
pital, it was not left to the present Company to discover. The Great
Western and Bristol and Exeter Railway having already reached
Exeter, it has been in contemplation to extend that line to Fal-
mouth by way of Plymouth; and various other projects have been
set on foot on the conviction that Falmouth must be reached by
railway.
The object of this prospectus is to show that es ether line than the
?resent can ultimately satisfy the exigencies of the country in regard
Io this, its most important outport—" the natuidd Packet Station of

the empire."
The present project is distinguished by this—that it is direct. It is
as nearly as possible a straight line from London to the Land's End.
The London, Bath, and Bridgewater Company having amalga-
mated with this Company, the immense local influence commanded
by them will now contribute to the great national object of a direct
line ; while means have been taken for securing the traflie and afford-
ing all the accommodation contemplated by that Company.
The Direct Western availing itself of the Great Western Railway
so far as Reading, pursues its course by or near Newbury, Hunger-
ford, Great Bedwin, Marlborough, Devizes, the manufacturing dis-
trict of Trowbridge (from which a diverging lino will be carried by
Bradford direct to Bath), Westbury, Frome, Shepton Mallet, Wells
(from which another diverging line will be taken to Bridgewater),
Glastonbury to Taunton, being shorter by about thirty-two
miles than any existing railways between those points, and without
a,„.ttnwninditt7.:::Fsereoeditia Taunton the Bristol and Exeter Railway (now
leased to the Great Western) is traversed to Tiverton, whence it is
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Icleat to justify the construction of this portion of the Direct Wes-
tern ; that it will shorten the distance from London to Tiverton
about 32 miles that it will traverse rich and populous agricultural
and manufacturing districts, and receive a large amount of traffic as
well from railways now in course of construction as from ethers pro-
jected, with every chance of success.
As to the traffic on the lower portion of the line, it is evident that
the vast number of merchant vessels continually detained in the
Channel by adverse winds, would effect an immense saving both in
insurance and time, by discharging their cargoes at Falmouth, and at
once transmitting them to their destination by means of this railway;
and therefore—without speculating on the extent to which the ports
on either side of the great promontory of the Land's End may, by
means of this railroad, attract the commerce respectively of Bristol
and Southampton ; to what extent the inexhaustible mineral wealth
of Cornwall, and the unrivalled agricultural resources of Devonshire
may be further developed, or the genial climate of Penzance and
Mount's Bay, " the Montpellier of England," attract a larger propor-
tion of winter visitants—it is obvious that this line will command a
traffic both In goods and passengers, from Its western terminus, the
amount of which may be said to be without limit. A glance at the
map will make it manifest that no competing trunk line can ever be
established between Tiverton and the Land's End. As between
Taunton and Reading, an inspection of the map will show a vast ex-
tent of midland district, comprising rich and populous parts of So-
mersetshire, Dorsetshire, and Wiltshire, now altogether destitute of
railroad accommodation.
Recurring to the features of this project as a national work, one of
the greatest in point of magnitude, of vital importance in the event of
war, and of almost incalculable advantage to the general and packet
commerce of the kingdom; it 'may not be out of place to quote here
the following expressions of Sir Robert Peel. Speaking of the project
of a direct line from London to Liverpool through the Trent Valley,
which bore much the same relatM to the Birmingham and Grand
Junction that this bears to the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter
Railways, he is reported to have said : I consider that the com-
munication between the metropolis and the great outports to be not
a question of hours, but a question of minutes." Of the necessity of this
particular line, Parliament has already expressed an opinion ; for in the
report of the Committee on the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth
line, which was promoted by the Great Western Railway Company,
it was stated that that Company had been required to pledge itself
not hereafter to oppose a direct lino to Falmouth ; and it may be
further observed, that a proposed line from Plymouth to Falmouth
was last session rejected, on the ground that it might be supposed
to interfere with that great national object.
Tke survey of the line has been to a great extent completed, and
cm rey t estimates of the expenditure and returns are in a state of for-
w aresto34, and the whole will be ready for the next session of Par-
liament.
It is sufficient, as to these points, here to state that there are no
engineering difficulties in any part of the line which have not been
repeatedly surmounted in other cases ; that the first portion will be
constructed at an unusually small expense ; that the undertaking
will meet with the cordial support, concurrence, and co-operation of
the landowners, and that the Directors are justified in asserting that
this will prove to be one of the most remunerative railways in the
kingdom.
Powers will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow interest at
four pounds per centum per annum on the deposits, and preference
in the allotment of shares will be given to the proprietors of the laud
through which the line will pass, and to the shareholders in the
Great Western, the Bristol and Exeter, and other railways connected
with the Direct Western district.
Applications for shares, in the form subjoined, to be addressed to
the solicitors to the Company, or to the Secretary, or to any respect-
able broker in town or country
London, September 11, 1845.
FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Direct Western Railway
that' great‘nY, Company.
Ge-,..riTne.--ik request you will allot me shares of 251. each in
sad I undertake to pay the deposit of 21.125. 6d.
pc. O. of it n, or on any less number you may appropriate to me,
a.ine zee,— 1, the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Con-
tract when required.
Dated 1845.
Name in full ........ .......
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Trade or Profession ...... ............
Place of Business (if any) ....
Reference.. • • • • • • ...... • • • • • • • • • • •

READING AND REIGATE RAILWAY,
connecting the GREAT WESTERN, SOUTH WESTERN,
LONDON and BRIGHTON, and SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAYS.
Provisionally registered, pursuant to 7 & 8 Vict., c. 110.
Capital, £600,000 in 30,000 shares of £2O each.
Deposit, £2 2s. per share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Visceunt Chelsea, M.P. for Reading
Charles Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P., 6, Parliament-street
John Humphery, Esq., M.P., and Alderman of the City of London
Sir James Carmichael, Bart., 40, Sussex-gardens
Sir William Young, Bart., Director of the East India Company
SirJamesspEroyTte,Bßoyadrt;,
Esq.,Low Cleveland-row
Daniel Grosvenor-square
William
Daniel Mildred, Esq., Banker, Nicholas-lane
Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq., Carlton-terrace, and Broome Hall,
Dorking
Daniel Watney, Esq., Wandsworth, Surrey
William Strahan, Esq., banker, Strand, and Ashurst, Dorking
Le Marchant Thomas, Esq., Itillingbear Park, Wokingham, Berke
Major David Fitzgerald, Pall-mall, and Valentia, Ireland
Colonel Robert Douglas, R.A., United Service Club, Director of the
Bideford and Tavistock Railway
Major Jelf Sharp, Twickenham, Deputy Chairman of the Thames

Embankment Company
Major Oliver Lindam, K.H., Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberystivith,

and Central Wales Railway
Charles Dickson Archibald, Esq., F.R.S., Rushland Hall, Lancashire,
Director of the Tean and Dove Valley Railway
Major Morse Cooper, Wargrave, Berks
Captain G. Evans, TIN., Headley Grove, Dorking
James Garrard, Esq., Pinner, Middlesex
John Leveson Gower, Esq., Bill Hill, Wokingham, Berks
James Hartley, Esq., Leadenhall-street, Director of the Peninsular

and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
James Hayward, Esq., Wokingham, Berks
Thomas Neale, Esq., Banker, Reigate
Thomas Neale, jun., Esq., Reigate
Samuel Relf, Esq., Reigate
Captain Hodges, Connaught-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of the
Leeds and Carlisle, and Manchester and Direct Rugby Railways
John Jackson, Esq., Upper Belgrave-place, Eaton-square
Charles Johnson, Esq., Hennerton House, Berks
John Keene, Esq., Director of the National Bank of Ireland
John Weldale linollys, Esq., Reading
William Ley, Esq., 40, Gloucester-place, Portman-square
Donald Maclean, Esq., 37, Brunswick-square
David Mocatta, Esq., F.S.A., 32, Brunswick-square
Peter Morrison, Esq., Managing Director of the Britannia Life-office
Edward E. Molyneux, Esq., Inner Temple, Director of the Shrews-
bury and Hereford Railway
John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., 80, Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park
Lewis Pocock, Esq., F.S.A., 29, Montague-street, Russell-square
William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Chairman
of the Church of England Life Insurance Company
John Southgate, Esq., Pebble Coombe, Reigate
Thomas Stevenson, Esq., F.S.A., 37, Upper Grosvenor-street, Gros-

venor-square
James Joseph Wheble, Esq., Bu'marsh Court, Reading, Berks
John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, Tunbridge, Director of the

Leicester and Bedford, and Leeds and Liverpool Railways
William Lechmere Whitmore, Esq., 17, James-street, Buckingham.

gate
Henry Wright, Esq., Brunswick-square, Director of the Warwick and
Worcester Railway
(With power to add to their number).
ENGINEER—SamueI Hughes, Esq., C.E.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Richards and Rogers, Reading.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Wokingham—J. L. Roberts, Esq.
Dorking—Mark Smallpiece, Esq.
Reigate—Thomas Hart, Esq.
Bracknell—Charles Cave, Esq.
Bagshot—John Mears, Esq.
Kingston—R. F. Bartrop, Esq.
BANKERS.
London—Messrs• Masterman, Peters, Mildred, and Co.
Reading—Messrs. J. and C. Simonds and Co.
Reigate—Messrs• Nash and Neale.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.

mtnpsaannyd, z.pl, , which may be obtained
Old Jewry, or from the
Hugh nines Cameron and George Bain, Esqs., 18, Parliament-street.
SECRETARY (pro tern )—Digby Fowell, Esq.
Temporary Offices, No. 1, Old Jewry.
Solicitors, Parliamentary or Local Agents, or the following Share-
brokers :—Messrs. Sutton and Gribble, Exchange, London ; Messrs.
atrthoer
Tate and Nash, Bristol ;Gloucester ; Mr. Thomas
Sandford, Exeter ; Mr. Collis, Birmingham ; Mr. Nelson, Liver-
tpeartmplocuralaryrs
Ill; Messrs. Newmarch and Withington, Manchester ; Messrs.
Bingley, Rawson, and Bingley, Leeds ; Mr. Nightingale, Wakefield ;
Messrs. Grayson and Earle, York; Messrs. Flint and Tootal, Hull;
Osmeenetha
Messrs. Eyrc and Shaw, Derby ; Mr. W. J. Eaglesfield, Leicester •
Peet and Son, Nottingham ; Messrs. Pillans and
Messrs. J. PHome,
Edinburg ,
Edinburgh • and Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, Dublin.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Reading and Reigate Railway
Company.
allot me
Gentlemen,—I request you will shares of 201. each
in this Railway, and I undertake to accept the same, or any less
number you may appropriate to me, to pay the deposit of 21. 2s.
per share, and all future calls thereon, and to execute the Sub-
scribers Agreement and Parliamentary Contract when required.
184
Dated this day.::)f
Name in full ... • • • • • • • •.. .....
Profession .............
Reference to fifi1.................... : :

REowmpticieNbei'GßyheorrAedber REIGATE RAILWAY.
that NO APPLICATIONS for
fter To-Ifoazow (Wednesday), the
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4HthARInsENStA. DIGBY FOWELL, Secretary (pro tem.)
Sept. 23, 1845.
Offices, 1, Old Jewry, RECEIVEDo:i' 't
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Board,

PORT of WISB CH, PETERBOROUGII,
BiRmiNGHAm, and bIIDLAND COUNTIES UNION
RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 300,0001., in Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. ss. per Share.
No shareholder to be liable beyond the amount of his subscription.
rsovistorikr.commiTTEE.

John Humphery, Esq.—, -M.P., Alderman of the City of London, Di-
rector Esq., Alderman and Sheriff of London, Director of
Rastrick's Direct Manchester Railway
D. R. Ross, Esq., M.P., Director of the London and Manchester, and
Thomas
sofiatnheey, C antral Kent Railway
South Midland Railways
George Danby Esq., magistrate for the county of Norfolk,
and borough of Great Grimsby ; Director of the Vraveney Valley,
and Great Yarmouth, and the Lincoln, Louth, and Great Grimsby
Railways
Richard Hammond, Esq., magistrate for the borough of Great Yar-
mouth, Director of the Waveney Valley Railway
Samuel Palmer, Esq., late Mayor of Great Yarmouth, Director of the
Lincoln, Louth, and Great Grimsby- Railway
John King, Esq„ Director of the Lincoln, Louth, and Great Grimsby
Railway.
The Rev. H. R. Fowler. 7, Manchester-square, Director of the London

and Nottingham Railway
W. A. Campbell, Esq., ➢►rector of the Wexford, Waterford, and Va-
lentia Railway
F. Barretto, Esq., Portland-place, London
Joseph Thompson, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton

Railway
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Norwich, and Blackheath Park, Kent, Di-
rector of the Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury

W. S. Potter, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
Ambrose Miller, Esq., Director of the Oxford, Cheltenham, and
'Gloucester Railway
Major White, Pall-mall, Director of the Northamptom,Banbury, and

Cheltenham Railway
Frederick White, Esq., R.N., Sheerness, Director of the Metropolitan
Junction Railway
George Parbury, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
Samuel Pocock, Esq., Bloomsbury-square, London
John Inglis Jerdein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby,
and Southampton Railway
Capt. Heathorn, Director of the South Metropolitan Gas Company
R. Gray, Esq., 5, Adam's-court, Old Broad-street, London
E.C. Colman, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct

Rail way
Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
Henry Chator, Esq., Clervaux Castle, Darlington
James Morrison, Esq., Director of the Bridgewater and Minehead
Railway
W. C. Duppa, Esq., Director of the Canterbury and Dovor Railway
William G. Harrison, Esq., Hill House, Upper Tooting, Surrey
George R.
Pye, Esq., Lavenham, Suffolk
William Tulloch Fraser, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Rugby
Direct Railway
(With power :o add to their number.)
BANYERS•
London—The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury
Wisbech—Messrs. Gurney, Peckover, and Co.
Lynn-. Messrs. Gurney, Creswell, and Co.
ENGINEERS.
B. Albano, Esq., M Inst. C.E , and Wm. Laxton, Esq., C.E.
SOLlClTOB.—lnglebyThomas Miller, Esq. 3, Abchurch-lane, Lom-
bard-street, London.
SECRETARY PRO TEM.—W. O. J. Wollaston, Esq.
This line is intended to commence at the Port of Wisbech, by a
junction with the line of railway now forming from Lynn, and pro-
ceed by Thorney to Peterborough, there uniting with the branch of
the London and Birmingham Railway to Northampton, and the
Peterborough and Syston branch of the Midland Counties Railway,
forming a through line from Yarmouth, Norwich, Dercham, Swaff-
ham, Lynn, and Wisbech, to Northampton, Birmingham, Derby,
theh n
Nottingham, and the whole of the northern and western parts of
England. The entire distance being completed in about 1$ miles.
The importance of this railway, though only 18 miles in length,
will be at once seen by an inspection of the map, when the following
points will be self-evident.
l atet
thea re port of Wisbech
Holland,h
e port for nearest
sea-port for Birming-
ham, Staffordshire, and the Midland districts of England.
2. That this line will open the whole of the manufacturing and
ethe
mineral districts of the Midland Counties and the Potteries to Wis-
bech,thern States of Europe.
3. That by the formation of this line a direct railway ommunica-
tion will be opened between the port of Wisbech, and the ports of
Southampton, Bristol, Gloucester, and Liverpool.
4. That this line will unite the Birmingham and Midland Counties
system of railway with those of Norfolk, communicating with Nor-
wich and Yarmouth.
Application for shares or prospectuses containing more detailed
particulars (which must be in the usual form, and in all cases accom-
panied by a reference to a banker or to a member of the Provisional
Committee) may be made to the Provisional Committee, at the
offices of Mr. I. T. Miller,
solicitor to the Company, or the following
Sharebrokers :—Messra. Shewell and Son, Tokeuhouse yard ; Messrs.
Lyon, 2, Birchin-lane, London ; Messrs. Mann and Son, Norwich ;
Messrs. Cruso and Son, L 3 nn; Messrs. Peet
cerand Son, Nottinghamti ;
Mr. Collis, Birmingham • Mr. F. 0. Spen, Halifax ; an Hr.
Darr, Culyer4treet, Coictiester.

IIOYAL NORTH OF SPAIN RAILWAY.
The undersigned Directors, in whom the mane.gern +.f the
affairs of this company is now vested, deem it due to the Proprietors
to state, that measures are in progress which will put the immediate
and prospective advantages of this undertaking to the severest test.
Should the result be such as the Directors confidently anticipate,
the position of the Shareholders will be materially improved by the
co-operation of parties of the highest experience in railway affairs.
(Signed) WILLIAM It. COLLETT, Chairman.
WILLIAM JACKSON, Deputy Chairman.
JOSHUA WALMSLEY.

United Peninsular Railway Offices, Royal Exchange-buildings,
22d Sept. 1845.

THE GREAT NORTHERN and SOUTHERN
DIRECT RAILWAY FROM HUDDERSFIELD TO
DERBY.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 1,500,0001. in 75,003 Shares of 20'. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share, in compliance with the Standing Cndas cf

Parliament.

BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Masterman and Co.
Huddersfield—The West Riding Union Banking Company.
ENGINEERS.
Consulting Engineer—J. U. Rastrick, Esq.
Acting Engineer—
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Bature and Clay, and Mr. Robert B. Robinson, Huddersfield.

LONDON AGENTS.
Messrs. Sudlow, Sons, and Torr, 20, Chancery-lane.

The object of this Railway is, in conjunction with the intended
Huddersfield, Halifax, and Keighley Railway, to connect in the most
direct line the important and increasing manufacturing towns of
Huddersfield, Halifax, Bradford and Keighler with the Metropolis
and South of England, and at the same time complete the intended
chain of railway communication from Glasgow and the North, by
the shortest and most direct route, with London, and from the south
to Glasgow and other parts of Scotland.
It is intended to commence by a junction with the Huddersfield and
Sheffield Railway (for which an Act of Parliament has already been
obtained), at or near Holmfrith, and to proceed from thence through
the lastmentioned place to Woodhead, and across the Manchester
and Sheffield Railway there, thence to or near Athersage, Nether
Padley, Froggatt, Bubnell, Bakewell, Matlock, Cromford, and to
follow the eourse of the River Derwent to iM junction with the North
Midland Station near to Ambergate, and from thence to Belper or
Derby.

The line will be about 51 miles long, and the most direct com-
munication that can be formed between Glasgow, Carlisle, Settle,
Skipton, Colne, Keighley, Halifax, Huddersfield (by means of the pro-
jected Railway), and the counties of Derby, Wottingham, Leicester,
Northampton, Bedford, and London.

It will open the extensive and celebrated stone quarries and coal
mines of West Yorkshire, and afford an inexhaustible supply of coal
and stone to the midland and southern counties, and at the same
time open fresh markets for the products of the celebrated Derby-
shire mines, the cost of which, from the increased facilities ofdirect
transit to be afforded by this Railway will be materially lessened, and
at the same time the markets of the manufacturing towns of West
Yorkshire will be rendered infinitely more accessible for the corn,
wool, cheese, and other productions of the extensive and fertile agri-
cultural districts of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, and the south.
The present route from Huddersfield to Derby is very circuitous ;
it is contemplated that by the intended line a saving of sixteen miles
will be effected when compared with the Manchester and Leeds, and
the North Midland.

The survey of the line has been to a great extent completed, and
correct estimates of the expenditure and returns are in preparation.
There are no engineering difficulties in any part of the line which
have not been repeatedly surmounted in other cases, whilst by far the
greater portion of the southern part of the line will be constructed at
an unusually small expense.
Powers will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow interest at
41. per centum per annum on the deposits, and preference in the al-
lotment of shares will be given to the proprietors of the land through
which the line will pass, and to the shareholders in the Huddersfield
and Sheffield, and Huddersfield, Halifax, and Keighley lines.
The names of a large and influential Committee, with a detailed
Prospectus, will shortly be published.
All communications relative to the Line, as also applications for
Shares (in the form below), accompanied by a satisfactory reference,
may be made and addressed to the Solicitors, at whose office every
necessary information will be given.