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London, England, 1845-09-15 00:00:00

Registered Provishnally.
ESSEX and SUFFOLK RAILWAY COM-
PANY.
From the Norwich and Brandon Railway at Thetford, by Bury St.
Edmund's, Lavenham, Milford, Sudbury, Halstead and Braintree, to
the Eastern Counties Line at Chelmsford, and thence to the Port of
Mahlon, with a branch to Cavendish and Clar.
Offices, 24, 3loergate-street, London, and Sudbury, Suffolk.
Capital, 1,000,000/. in Shares of 251. each.
The Provisional Directors beg to inform the Shareholders, that
negotiations are in progress for a satisfactory arrangement with the
Eastern Counties and Norwich and Brandon Railway Companies,
the full particulars of which will shortly be submitted for their con-
sideration.
In the meantime, ppplications for Shares may be made to the
Company's offices, 24, Moorgate-street, or the solicitors, 1, Gray's
Inn-square, or Sudbury ; and to the following sharebrokers :
Messrs. Hichens and Harrison, 18, Threaneedle-street, London;
Mr. J. Jameson, Leeds ; Mr. J. Greaves, Liverpool ; Messrs. Card-
well and Sons, Manchester; Messrs. Henry Beaumont and Co.,
Exeter ; Mr. D. Pane, Glasgow ; Messrs. Drury and Richardson,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Messrs. E. 31'C:ilium and Co., Edinburgh;
Mr. John Wright, Birmingham • Messrs. Coliinson and Flint, Hull.
Shareholders in the Eastern &unties, Northern and Eastern, and
Norwich and Brandon Railways, and original subscribers to the
Norwich Direct Railway, will please to notify the same in their ap-
plications.
A preference will be given to them, as far as possible, in the allot •
mein. By order,
R. MAPLETOFT, Secretary.
EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY COMPANY.
The Directors of the Eastern Counties Railway Company, observ-
ing that, in the Advertisements of the Chelmsford and Bury Railway
Company, it is stated that their particular line is supported and
sanctioned by the Eastern Counties Railway Company, have to an-
nounce that no such support or sanction has been giver.
The Company's engineer, Mr. Robert Stephenson, has been in-
structed to examine the entire district, and to advise upon the line
of railway to he constructed through it, which the Eastern Counties
Railway Company must sanction as most conducive to public inte-
rest. By order of the Board,
A BULKELEY, Secretary.
Offices, London Terminus, Aug. 12, 1845.

ESSEX and SUFFOLK RAILWAY OFFICE,
24, Moorgate-street, September 5, 1845.
Notice is hereby given that NO APPLICATION for SHARES in
this undertaking can be RECEIVED after TUESDAY, the 16th inst.,
and:that the Allotment of Shares will take place as soon as possible
thereafter. By order,
ROBERT MAPLETOFT, Secretary.

BIRMINGHAM AND LICIIFIELD
RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 300,000/., in 15,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per share, in accordance with the standing orders of
the Houses of Lords and Commons
No call to be made until the Act is obtained —and no Subscriber to be
answerable beyond the Amount of his Subscription.
raovistoxs.r. COMMITTEE.
Richard Soner, Esq., M.P. for Birmingham
Geo. rrentrpoies iinmz, hsq., M.l'. lor Birmingham
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The Right Worshipful the Mayor of Birmingham
John Wilk Unett, Esq., The Woodlands, Smethwick, Staffordshire
George Unett, Esq., The Laurels, Handsworth, Staffordshire

William Jacoi, Esq., New Hall, Sutton Colfleld,

C. 1). Archibald, Esq., F.R.S., Rusland Hall, Lancashire, and Re•

gent's Park, London
John Godfrey Hudson, Esq., St. George's-terrace, Hyde-park, Direc-

tor of the London Central Terminus Company
George Turner, Esq., Bunton Hill, Erdington, Warwickshire, Direc-
tor of the South Staffordshire and the Southampton and Oxford
Railways

Thomas Welch, Esq., Birmingham
Charles Machin, Esq., Blythe House, Erdington, Warwickshire
R. Fowler, Esq., Manchester-square, London, and Tilton-park,
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Bristol
Samuel Phillips, Esq., Chester-terrace, Regent's-park, London, and
Levant House, St. Helen's-place, London, merchant
W. L. Whitmore, Esq., Director of the Great Western (Irish), and

the Worcester and South Wales Railways
Thos. Davies, Esq., The Austens, Handsworth, Staffordshire
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David Barnett, Esq., merchant, Birmingham
Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad House, Edgbaston, Birmingham

Smith Whilock, Esq., Birmingham
John Bonlton, Esq., Birmingham
Bell Elcock Fletcher, Esq., M.D. Birmingham

Thomas Bol'man Upfl, Esq. Birmingham
Edward Rabone, Esq., Smethwlek Hall, Staffordshire

Major Moore, DirectOi• of the Great Indian R
Henry Coe Cope, Esq., Hungerford Park, Wilts, Military Secretary
at Hyderabad
William Boyden Watts, Esq., Birmingham

J. Mee Mathews, Esq., Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and

Manchester Railway
Theophilus Richards, Esq., Edgbaston, near Birmingham
Thomas Pemberton, Esq., Wharstone House, near Birmingham
Capt. M'Dougal, Fir Grove, North Brixton
John Anderson, Esq., Honourable East India Company's Service,
Euston-place, Euston-square, London
Sir William White, Director of the Church of England Insurance
Company
Griffith Frith, Esq., Director of the Londonderry and Coleraine
Railway, &c. &c.
John Johnson, Captain, R.N., Edgbaston, Birmingham
George Edwards, Esi., Birmingham
Hercules Hades Duncocks, Esq., Manor House, Kempsey, Glouces-

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tershire
William Edwards, Esq., Aston, near Birmingham
John George•Norbury, Esq., Manchester House, Atherstone, Direc-
tor of the Tean and Dove Valley and South Staffordshire Railways
(leo. Frederick Gregory, Esq., Seacombe, Cheshire
Tames Russell, Esq., Endwood Court, Handsworth, Staffordshire
Thomas E. Davies, Esq., Benefield House, near Birmingham

John Russell, Esq., Flancisworth, Staffordshire
Lieutenant-Colonel Elrington, Scots Fusilier Guards, Director of the
Manchester, Southampton, and Oxford Junction, and Leeds and

Liverpool Railway
Joshua Horton, Esq., 'Etna iron-works, Smethwlck, Staffordshire
Richard Underhill, Esq., Birmingham
R. B. Williams, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Di-
rect, the Leicester and Tamworth Junction, and the Leeds and
Liverpool Railway Companies
(With power to add to their number.)
Ammo ENGINEER.—E. J. Maude, Esq., C.E.
JOINT SOLICITORS.
J. Graham, Esq., 60, Moorgate-street, London.
Richard Ford, Esq., 28, Essex-street, Strand, London.
LOCAL AGENTS.

Birmingham—W. H. Reece, Esq., New-street ; and C. H. Jagger,

Esq., New-street.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Spooner, Attwood, and Co.' London.
Messrs. Atwood, Spooner, and Co., Birmingham.

This short but very important Line of Railway will commence at
the nearest point on the Trent Valley Railway to the City of Lich-
fleld, and proceed through a rich and populous country, by Shenstone,
Sutton Coldfleld, and Erdington, to the town of Birmingham.
The length of the Line will be only about sixteen miles, and a
glance at the map will suffice to show the very numerous advan-
tages which this Railway offers. The projected " South Unioa Rail-
way," from Manchester, joins or falls into the Trent Valley Railway
just below Lichfield, and, proceeding along the Trent Valley Line,
via Tamworth and Rugby, will form the shortest and most direct
route from Manchester to London, but will leave Birmingham on the
west, which can, only be reached by the circuitous route through
Tamworth, a distance of twenty-five miles.
The proposed Birmingham and Lichfield Railway will effect an ex-
tension of the South Union, North Staffordshire, and other projected
Railways, from Lichfield in a direct Line to Birmingham, and thus
save no less than nine miles in the twenty-five, and constitute the
shortest and best line between Manchester and Birmingham yet de-
vised. ,
As to the returns to be expected for the capital embarked, it is
sufficient to mention, that in addition to the very large income aris-
ing from the local passenger and goods traffic (the latter of which is
very great, as most of the agricultural supplies of Birmingham, the
emporium of the Midland Counties, and its densely populated neigh-
bourhood, are derived from the vicinities of, and must pass along this
Line), every passenger direct from Manchester to Birmingham must
necessarily proceed along the projected Railway, should either of the
lines from Manchester to Lichfield be made.
This line will also form the nearest route from Derby and the
North to Birmingham.
The Capital proposed to be raised is 300,0001., in 15,000 Shares of
201. each. A deposit of 21. 2s. per Share will be required to be paid
upon the allotment, to the credit of the Directors with the Bankers
of the Company.
No call will be made until the Act of Parliament shall be obtained,
and power will be taken in the Act to allow Interest at 41. per cent.
per annum, upon the amount of each call, from the date of payment
until the opening of the line, and Subscribers will not be answerable
beyond the amount of their Shares.
The Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contract, which
shall contain a clause empowering the Directors to amalgamate with
any other Railway now formed, or to be formed, to extend or make
Branch Lines, or transfer, mortgage, or dispose of the present un-
dertaking for the benefit of the Company, as they may deem proper,
will be ready on the day fixed for the payment of deposit, and will
be required to be executed when the bankers' receipts are exchanged
for certificates of Scrip ; and the shares of any Subscribers making
default in the execution of those deeds within the time limited, of
which fourteen days' notice will he given, will be absolutely forfeited.
No application for shares can be attended to, unless accompanied
by a reference to a member of the Provisional Committee, one of the
Solicitors, Agents, or a Banker.
Forms of application for shares, copies of the prospectus, and a
map of the line, may be obtained at the temporary offices of the
Company, 60, Moorgate-street, London; from the Solicitors; from
Local Agents ; from Mr. B. B. Williams, 17, Throgmorton-street,
London ; Mr. A. Sym, 9, Tokenhouse•yard, Lothbury, London ;
from Mr. W. 11. Collis, 104, New-street, Birmingham ; Messrs.
Ludlow, Brothers ; and Messrs. Pownall and Worthington, Liver-
pool; Mr. John Barlow, Manchester; Messrs. Robinson and Furlay,
Leeds ; Mr. Thomas Evans, MiLsom-street, Bath ; Messrs. .Ellgood
and Harrison, Leicester.
BIRMINGHAM AND LICIIFIELD RAILWAY.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Birmingham and Lichfield

Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me Shares of 201.
each in the above Company ; and I undertake to accept the same, or
such smaller number as may be allotted to me, and to pay the de-
posit of •4/. 2s. per share thereon, and to execute the Subscribers'
agreement and Parliamentary contract when required.
)sated this day of 1845.
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