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THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAV EVENING-5_ SEPTEMBER 261 1845.

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By the :construction, therefore, of little more than 60 miles of
rail, as here proposed, the shortest, most direct, and convenient
communication between Manchester and Southampton will be es-
tablished—a line, also, however superior in position to others pro-
mising similar advantages, may yet be considered as competing
with none, but as an independent work, originating at Birmingham
and terminating in the seaports of Weymouth, Christchurch, Poole,
and Southampton.

In the allotment of shares in this Company the Directors propose
giving a preference to shareholders in the South and Midlands'
Junction Railway Company.
Applications for prospectuses and plans may be made, and forms
of application for shares had, at the Office of W. B. James, Esq.,
Solicitor, 5, Basinghall-street ; and of the following gentlemen :
London—Messrs. Peppercorne, 2, Old Broad-street; Mr. J. B. Har-
rison, 8, Bank Chambers ; Mr. Thomas Hanbury, 4, Angel-court.
Liverpool—Messrs. Mills and Co., and Messrs. Neilson.
Manchester—Messrs. Houghland and Leese, and Mr. William
Marshall.

Hull—Messrs CoHinson and Flint.
Leeds—Messrs. Young and Son.
Stratford-on-Avon—Mr. William Bolton.
Exeter—Mr. Thomas Sanford.

Plymouth—Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer-
Birmingham— Mr. Collis, and Mr. John Wright.
Glasgow—Messrs. Tassie and Co.

Edinburgh—Messrs. Robertson and Co., and Messrs. M'Callum
and Co.

Derby—Messrs. Eyre and Co.
. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
_ . . _ _

To the Provisional Committee of the West Midland, Manchester,

and Southampton Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me
Shares of 201. 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 me ; and I undertake also to execute the Parlia-
mentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
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THE WEST MIDLAND, MANCHESTER,
AND SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY, AND BIRMINGHAM,
SWINDON, DEVIZES, AND SALISBURY JUNCTION.
Notice is hereby given, that after the 30th of SEPTEMBER instant,
no applications for shares in this undertaking can be received.
By order of the Board, G. N. WRIGHT.
5, Basinghall-street, London, Sept. 23, 1845.

MADRID AND VALENCIA RAILWAY,
authorised by an Ordinance of her Majesty the Queen of

Spain
Capital 2,400,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 201. each, Spanish reals
(Mellon) 2,000, 11'. 500, of which 80,000 will be allotted in this
country.

Deposit 2/. per Share, reels 200, fr. 50.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Most Noble the Marquis of Winchester, 27, Cavendish-square
The Lord de l'lsle and Dudley, 16, New Burlington-street
The Lord Rossmore, the Dell, Windsor
The Right Hon. Lord Charles Beauclerk, Chesham-place, Belgrave-
square, and the Riding, Northumberland
The Right Hon. George Lionel Dawson Darner, M.P., 6, Tilney-street
The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., 27, Regent-street
Sir William Wynn, Chairman of the North Wales it ailvray
C. Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P., 6, Parliament-street, Chairman of the
Paris and Strasbourg Railway
Benjamin Williams, Esq., banker (Mesas. Cockburn and Co.)
William Collins, Esq.. M.P., Reform Club
Edward Bates, Esq., Managing Director of the Argus Life Assurance
Company
Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Beesthorpe Hall, Newark, Netts, and 8, Great
Ryder-street, St. James's
John Capper, Esq., merchant, 1, Adelaide-place, London-bridge
William Chadwick, Esq., Montagu-square, Chairman of the Rich-
mond Railway
John Chariche, Esq., Park Village East
Gideon Colquhoun, Esq., Weimer Lodge, Avenue-road, Regent's-
park, Director of the Worcester and South Wales Railway
Company
William Cooper, Esq., merchant, 20, Mark-lane, and Kingswood
Lodge, Dulwich
Edmund F. Dayrell, Esq., 15, Old Cavendish-street, and Lillingstone
Dayrell, Bucks, High Sheriff of Bucks, Deputy-Lieutenant of the
County, Chairman of the Cheltenham and Gloucester Railway and
Bridgewater and Minehead
W. Eales, Esq., merchant, Mincing-lane, Director of the Direct
Western Railway
Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of the City of London, Director
of the London and Westminster Bank
Richard Forman, Esq , Upper Thames-street
James Gernon, Esq., 13, Conduit-street
Major Graham, 16, Grove, Clapham
John Joseph Keene, Esq., St. John's-wood, near London, Director
of the National Bank of Ireland
Wm. King, Esq., Director of the Freemasons' Life Assurance Com-
pany
James Jahn Kinloch, Esq., 21, Gloucester-road, Hyde-park, Director
of the North Wales Railway Company
John Knill, Esq., Fresh-whart, Thames-street, Director of the
Worcester and Crewe Railway
T. Laurence, Esq., St. Mary-axe, Director of the Direct Western
Railway
Major James Oliver Lindam, K.H., 8, New-street, Dorset-square,
Chairman of the Gloucester and Aberystwith and Central Wales
Railway, and Director of the South Midland Junction Railway
Nicholas M'Cann, Esq., 50, Parliament-street, Director of the Man-
chester and Rugby Direct Railway
Charles Carroll Mactavish, Esq., 22, Rutland-gate
J. B. Montetlore, Esq., 2, Winchester-buildings, Director of the
Australian Mining Company
William Nicholson, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester
and Rugby Railway
S. P. Pratt, Esq., 55, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Director of the Kennet and
Avon Canal Company
George Clavering Redman, Esq., Limehouse
Colonel Edward Stopford, 9, Manchester-square, Director of the
Barbadoes Railway Company
William Gordon Thompson, Esq., Director of the South Midland
Junction
S. J. Waley, Esq., 22, Devonshire-place
William Lechmere Whitmore, Esq., 19, James-street, Buckingham-
gate, Director of the London Central Railway Terminus.

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NANY/018.
London—Messrs. Curries and Co., Conduit ; Messrs. Mastennan and
Co., Nicholas-lane; Messrs. Cockburn and Co., Wkitehall.
Madrid—Bank of Isabella 11.
STANDING COUNSEL—Jacob Waley, Esq., Lincoln's Inn
lgoLiciroas—Messrs. Keddell, Baker, and Grant, 84, Lime-street.
CONAULTING ENGINEER—P. Prichard ISaIJ, Esq.
SECRETARY—F. Kirkham Fowell, Esq.
Offices of the Company, 37, Moorgate-street.

The present Company has been formed for the construction of a
line of railway from Madrid to the cityand port of Valencia, the moss
central seaport on the Mediterranean. It will open out the re-
sources of an extensive district of country, eastward from the capital,
remarkable for the richness and fertility of its soil, the varied abun-
dance of its productions, and the commercial spirit of its inhabitants.
This railway is authorised by a special ordinance of her Majesty
the Queen of Spain ; and from its vast importance as a national route
or; intercommunication her Majesty has been pleased to accompany
the grant with all the privileges and immunities which the Crown is
empowered to confer upon a railway compasy. Amongst these may
be enumerated—
I. A lease of the line and of its branches for 99 years.
2. The gratuitous grant of such Government and corporation lands
as may be required for the railway.
3. The free use of all timber, the property of the State, that may be
necessary for the works, or for other purposes.
4. The exemption for ten years, to be computed Aona the com-
mencement of the works, of all import duties on the machinery,
rails, and other articles requisite for the completion of the railway.
5. The entire exemption from all national and local taxes that
could otherwise be levied upon the railway, works, or buildings of
any description, and upon the capital represented by the shares.
6. The Government is not to interfere with the Company's tariff
of charges for the space of forty years from the completion of the
works ; and no revision thereof is to take place on the expiration of
that period that can sink the profits below 15 per cent.
7. The line is to be classed, by a special law, under the title of a
" work of public utility," and as such to enjoy the royal patronage
and protection, and all the peculiar privileges attached to important
national undertakings.
The proposed line, thus largely endowed, is about 240 miles in
length, being upwards of 150 miles nearer the capital than the ports
of Cadiz and the north coast of Spain, and generally nearer than any
other port in the kingdom. Although it has not yet been minutely
surveyed, it is well known that there is no similar district of equal
extent in the kingdom which presents so few engineering difficulties.
Fer upwards of 80 miles the ling will traverse the almost level plain
of Valencia ; and emerging from the boundaries of the province, it
will follow as nearly as possible the course of the rivers which flow
east and west from the central plateau in the province of Cuenca,
and approach Madrid by the valley of the Manzanares. The line
will either pass through or accommodate the most important towns
in the two provinces, which will thus be brought Into rapid com-
munication with the capital on the one side, a seaport on the other.
This railway will be the means of supplying Madrid, containing
300,000 inhabitants, entirely dependent for provisions upon the con-
tiguous provinces, at a cheap rate, with the rich products of the pro-
vinces of Valencia, which abounds in most valuable mines, and is
beyond comparison the most fertile district of Spain.
Valencia, brought by this communication within ten 'hours' dis-
tance of the chief market of Spain, must necessarily become the
port at which all vessels with supplies for the metropolis will unload,
and the centre of the coasting trade along the whole sea-line from
Barcelona to Gibraltar,

The traffic in passengers and goods now existing between Madrid
and Valencia has been correctly ascertained, showing the following
results :
The annual number of passengers travelling between
Madrid and Valencia, and the intermediate towns, is
upwards of 42,000 ; but taking that number at the
present cost of conveyance by stage coaches, private
Z-carriages, galeras, and waggons, the amount will be £67,800
The annual weight of goods conveyed betwePc the two
cities and the intermediate localities is 4,9(0,000 ce•. •
from which the return is estimated at

1,223,400

Assuming that two-fifths only of the existing charges
become a source of revenue to the railway, and that
the tariff be reduced considerably below the State
tariff of Belgium, there will be deducted .. _

X 1,291,200

752,320

Remains .. -----
£53 ,880
Supposing that the present traffic will only he doubled
by the railway, although experience has proved the
increase to be equal to 300 and 400 percent., there will
be added ..

534,86(

And add £1,077,760
For the transport of troops, military stores, &a., which
the Government will substitute tbr the conveyance by
waggons .. .. .. .
25 per Cent., at the least, for the Alicant trams

50,000
215,952

From which &clad. nearly 50 per cent, for maintenance
of way, &c. • • .. .. .. „ • •

£1,343,712

671,856

Leaving a net profit of
Or of nearly 28 per cent. upon the capital.
The capital now proposed to be raised has been estimated, by
competent authority, to be amply sufficient for the completion of the
railway, including stations, a double line for rails, and the working
plant.
The royal ordinance authorises the erection of an electric tele-
graph along the line, which will answer the double purpose of placing
the railway under the special protection of the Government, and
closely uniting it with all the railways that intersect the kingdom
and have their common termini in Madrid, to which capital maritime
and mercantile information from the Mediterranean can be instan-
taneously communicated.
One-third of the shares are, by the terms of the concession, con-
ceded to Spain.
The locale of the Company will be in Spain, and it will be framed
on the principle of a compania anonima, agreeably to the commercial
code of that country.
The affairs of the Company will be conducted by a Board of Di-
rectors in London, assisted by a highly influential Committee in
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£671,856

A deposit of 21. per share is payable on allotment, and no future
call will exceed V. per share, of which two months' notice at least
will be given.

Applications for shares, according to the subjoined form, to be ad-
dressed to" Messrs. Keddell, Baker, and Grant, solicitors, 34, Lime-
street, London ; to Messrs. Hutchinson and Son, stockbrokers, Loth-
bury ; Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Threadneedle-street; Messrs.
Johnston, and Co., Manchester ; Messrs. Townley and Whitehead,
Liverpool ; Messrs.Wreford, and Co., Bristol ; Mr. N. Lea, Birming-
ham ; Messrs. Watson, and Co. Leeds ; Messrs. Wilkinson and Earle,
Hall ; Messrs. Buchanan and Aitkin, Glasgow ; Mr. W. Gordon,
Aberdeen ; Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, Dublin ; and to the
Secretary, at the office, 37, Moorgate-street, London.
London, Sept. 10, 1845.
FORM OF APPLICATION.
each in the above C
To the Directors of the Madrid and Valencia Railwa3 Company.
same, or any less num°bem
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me s. arcs of 201.
pay the deposit thereon oDrfaw2n/hY.ir.;,
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Dated this day of

1845.
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MADRID and VALENCIA
No APPLICATION FOR SHARES will be received after
WEDeESDAY, the First day of October next.
Ey order,
F. KIRKHAM FOWLER, Secretary,
Office, 37, 3f oorgate-street, Sept. 25,1845.

rrHE LEEDS, HUDDERSFIELD, SHEF-
AIL FIELD, and SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE (or LEEDS
WOLVERHAMPTON, and DUDLEY) DIRECT RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,700,0001., in 85,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Shrewsbury, Alton Towers, Staffordshire
Sir William Young, Bart., East India Director, Westbourne-street,
Hyde-park Gardens
Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Deputy Chairman of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Rail-
way, &c.
Sir William Boothby, Bart, Ashbourne-hall, Derbyshire
Sir William Lowthrop, Knt., Hull, and Alga-house, Scarborough, Di-
rector of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junc-
tion Railway
Col. the Hon Leicester Stanhope, Ashburham House, Chairman of
Remington's London and Manchester Direct Railway
Hon. Captain Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Chairman of the York and
Lancaster Railway, and Director of the Nottingham and Boston
Railway, Parliament-street, London, &c., &c.
The Sheriff of York
Arnold, Henry, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of Remington's London and
Manchester Railway
Blurton, Robert, Esq., banker, Smallwood Manor, Uttoxeter, Direc-
tor of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction
Railway
Booth, John, Esq., Macclesfield
Bright, Selim, Esq., Buxton
Bradley, Septimus, Esq., Ashbourne, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Burgess, John, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester
Buxton, John Harry, Esq., Ashbourne
Clarke, Jeremiah, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's Lon-
don and Manchester Direct Railway
Cleobury, Thomas, Esse, Askew Villa, Acton
Cooke, the Rev. J., Uttoxeter, Director of the East and West Junction
Railway, &c.
Cooke, John, Esq., Macclesfield
Cooper, John Douglas, Esq., Holine Cottage, Ashbourne
Cox, Walker, Esq., Breadsall, Derby, Director of the Teen and Dove
Valley Railway
Crockett, T. Esq., Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire,
and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &c.
Croft, Major J. T., 15, Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman of Reming-
ton's London and Manchester Direct Railway
Crossley, John, Esq., Lamberhurst, Sussex, and Uttoxeter, Director
of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction
Railway
Dalby, John, Robert, Esq., Ashbourne, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Dale, Major, Thurston, Ashbourne
Daniel, Richard, Esq., Oak Hill, Stoke-upon-Trent
Dawson, Samuel, Esq., sen., Ashbourne
Dent, Edward, Esq., Westfield, Huddersfield
Dent, John, Esq., Northgate, Huddersfield
Dyson, Thomas, Esq., Well-house, Holmfirth
Earp, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Railway
Eastwood, Edmund, Esq., Huddersfield
Eastwood, Abraham, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Hudders-
field, Sheffield, and Halifax Railway
Edensor, Richard, Esq., Road-meadow, Ashbourne
Fidler, Peter Pichott, Esq., Higgin Grange, Derbyshire
Fisher, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railway
Frost, Meadows, Esq., Chester
Garle. Samuel, Esq., Uttoxeter
Garle, William, Esq. Uttoxeter
Gilpin, aid Co., Messrs. 'William, Wedges Mills, Cannock, Director of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Goddard, Thomas, Esq., Bank-house, Longton, Staffordshire
Haden, Joseph, Esq., Dudley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford.
shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Haines, Samuel, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbaston, Director of the Lei.
cester and Birmingham Railway
Hartshorne, Robert James, Esq., Ashbourne
Harpin, John, Esq., Birk's-house, Holmfirth
Hatfield, Thomas, Esq., Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &c.
Haywood, Richard Howard, Esq., Staffordshire Potteries
Hill, John, Esq., Derby
Hirst, Abraham, Esq., York-house, Huddersfield
Ingleby, Joseph, Esq., Cheadle, Staffordshire
Jones, the Rev. J. P., Vicarage, Alton, Staffordshire, Director of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Johnson, John Goodwin, Esq., Bentley Hall, Ashbourne
Johnson, D. T., Esq., Aidermary Churchyard, Director of the Ches-
ter and Manchester Railway
Johnson, Richard Wm., Esq., Moorgate, Director of Remington's
London and Manchester Direct Railway
Knight, Edward, Esq. M.D., Stafford, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railway
Keene, John Joseph, Esq.„ St. John's Wood, Regent's Park, Director
of the National Bank of Ireland, &c.
King, William, Esq., Waterloo-place, Director of the Freemasons'
Life Assurance, &.
Lambert, Richard, Esq., Lyston Hall, Sudbury
Lawrence, Richard Corbett, Esq., Wandfield-hall, Uttoxeter, Director
of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railway
Laughton, Richard, Esq., Barrow-hill, Uttoxeter
Langley, Henry, Esq., Rakeway House, Cheadle, Director of the Der-
byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Lassetter, Richard, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Lassetter, James, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Lea, John Wheeley, Esq., Worcester, Vice-Chairman of the Severn
Commission, &c.
Marlow, Joseph, Esq., Walsall
Mason, Charles James, ' Esq. Staffordshire Potteries
Mason, George Miles, Esq., Wetley Abbey, etaffordshire
Meteyard, Horace, Wm., Esq., Director of Remington's London and
Manchester Railway, Middle Temple, and Chatham-place
31`11fahon, Daniel, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the Derbyshire
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Manors, John, Esq. Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Mellard, James, Esq., Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Minors, John, Esq., Eaton Dovedale, Derbyshire, Director of the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Minors, John, Esq., The Parks, Uttoxeter, Director of the East
and West Junction Railway
Mathew, John Mcee, Esq., Director of the East and 'Vest Junction
Railway
Milner, William, Esq., Teen, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby.
shire, Staffordshire, and Warcestershire Junction Railway
Mountford, Thomas John, Esq., Ashbourne
Moorhouse, Joshua, Esq., Holmfirth
Maskery, Thomas, Esq., Norbury, Derbyshire
North, Joseph, Esq., Clayton West, Huddersfield
Norton, George, Esq., Clayton West, Huddersfield,Director of the Li-
verpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Orion, James, Esq., Woodford, near Uttoxeter, Director of the Der-
byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Parkinson, John, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge-terrace, Myde-park, Di-
Direetor of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Rail-
way, &c.
Phillips, William, Esq., Springfield House, Uttoxeter. Director of the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Roberts, Thomas, Esq. Manchester
Robinson, John, Esq.,f,Sileoates, Cottage, Wakefield
Roden, Thomas Clarke, Esq., Birmingham
Sant, Edward, Esq.' Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Shipton, Robert, Esq., Scroptoe, .perbyshire, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Smith, Charles, Esq., Alton, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railway
Smith, Thomas, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York
Railway
Smith, Thomas, Esq., Blore-hall, Staffordshire, Director of the Der.
byshire, Statfordtthire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Smith, William, Esq., Sedsall, Derbyshire, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railway
Smith, William, Esq., Clifton, Derbyshire, Director of Tears and Dove
Valley Railway &c.
Smith, John, Esq., Barton House, Derbyshire
Smythe, John Vere, Esq., Kensington, Middlesex, Director of the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Spiers, E. J., Esq., Carlton Villas, London, Director of the East and
West Junction Railway
Stephenson, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Agriculturist Cattle As-
surance Company
Terry, Benjamin, Esq., Mayor of Walsall, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway, &a.
Tibbits, Thomas, Esq., Norton Manor-house, Leicester
Tomlinson, Thomas, Esq.' Bradley Pastures, Ashbourne
Toogood, Rupert, Esq , Ashbourne
Tylecote, Edward, Esq., surgeon, Great Heywood, Staffordshire
,i
Tyler, George, Esq., Holloway-place, Holloway, London, Director of
Waller,
r, EastxMajor,
ja.nrd, Junction
ess sßailway,a re &Dcrector of the Chester and
Manchester Railway, &c,
Walter, James Smith, Esq., Bakewell, Derbyshire
Walters, J. T., Esq., Rugeley
Watts, William Royde, Esq., Birmingham
Weston, Samuel, Esq., Leeds
Weston, Thomas, Esq., Tean, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Willes, George, Esq., Thagerford-park, Berkshire
Williamson, Hugh Heushall, Esq., Greenway Bank, Staffordshire
Potteries
Williamson, Robert, Esq., Ramsdell-hall, Staffordshire Potteries
Wise, Thomas, Esq., Ashbourne
Witham, John, Esq., Ashbourne
Woolrich, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Wood, Charles, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Wood William, Esq., M.D., Chetwynd House, Newport, Salop, Di-
rector of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junc-
tion Railway
Wood, William Hurd, Esq., Ashbourne
Wright, Thomas, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Gainsbo-
rough Railway.

BANKERS,

Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co. Clement's-lane, London
Messrs. Barnard, Dimsdale, and Co., Cornhill, London
The Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashbourne, Union Bank, Uttoxeter
Ditto Ditto, Ashbourne
Dudley and West Bunwich Banking Co., Dudley
Derbyshire Banking Co., Derby
SOLICITORS.
John Owens, Esq., 35, Moorgate-street, London
William Arnold Bainbrigge,•Esq., Uttoxeter
ENGINEERS.
Sir John Rennie, F.R.S.
George Remington, Esq., C.E.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Armishaw, J., Esq., Rugeley
Bolton, Thomas, Esq., Wolverhampton
Bolton, John, Esq., Dudley
Eggington, A., Esq., Lichfield
Green, James J.. Esq., Walsall.
Lowe, Richard, Esq., Cheadle
Floyd and Booth, Huddersfield and Holmflrth
This line of railway, which is about sixty-five miles in length, is
intended to commence at Uttoxeter (the terminus of the proposed
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway) and
to proceed to Sheffield and Huddersfield. It will firm a direct com-
munication between two of the most important manufacturing and
mining districts in England, viz., South Staffordshire, Huddersfield,
and Sheffield, and Rotherham in Yorkshire ; the South Staffordshire
portion including Dudley, Tipton,Walsall, Bilston, Wednesbury, and
Wolverhampton.
This line will also open a direct railway communication between
Leeds, Huddersfield, and the West Riding of Yorkshire and Kidder-
minster, Worcestershire, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bristol, Taunton,
and Exeter, and with Ludlow, Leominster, Hereford, Brecon, Car-
diff, Neath, Swansea, Llanelly, Caermarthen, Milford Haven, Fish-
guard, Aberystwith, and with Porthdynllaen, the future outport for
Ireland. And also the most direct communication between Leeds
and Southampton.
The lino will pass nearly along the Uttoxeter and Caldon Canal to a
point near Prestwood, in case the canal be purchased by the pro-
moters of this undertaking. It will proceed through Ellaston and
Mayfield to Ashbourne, thence near Dovedale, Buxton, and Chapel-
en-la-Frith, Woodfield and Hohnfirth to Huddersfield, where it will
join the Huddersfield and Leeds Railway, and so to Thirsk. It will
open new mines, in addition to those already in work, of lead, coal,
iron ore, barytes, and carboniferous and magnesian limestone on the
inaddittihoe ponitmortt att forming
a direct, speedy, and cheap communica-
tion
t between
Arrangements have been made with other companies to run into
this line from Sheffield. This company reserves the right to raise
additional capital to extend the line to Leeds.
Many of the above-mentioned mineral productions are essential to
the mining districts of South Staffordshire and Sheffield. The North
Staffordshire and Derbyshire Limestone is much superior to that of
South Staffordshire in the fluxion of iron (15 cwt. of the former being
equal to a ton of the latter), and producing a better quality of ma-
terial. At present, the mode of transit is very circuitous and expen-
sive, the line from the Callon Mines having to go by canal round
by Etruria, Leek, and the Potteries, to the Dudley and surrounding
furnaces, when, by this inilway, it would be taken in a straight line
to them ; and the Ashbourne, Cromford, Worksworth, and Bakewell
country would have an entirely new trade opened to them. The iron-
stone in the neighbourhood of Sheffield is also becoming very scarce,
and great quantities are introduced from Scotland; the same scarcity
exists in South Staffordshire ; and the route of this line would flir-
fish a cheap and good supply, at present not worked, and without a
market, both north and south. In addition to these great advan-
tages, a good local market would be opened along the agricultural
and other parts of the district at present very badly supplied with
lime and coal, and that of an inferior quality, and by expensive car-
riage. It is, therefore, next to impossible to calculate the immense
traffic which would pour down this line and the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, asd Worcestershire Junction Railway.
The calculations which have been made show a very large profit.
There are large lead and slate quarries on the line which only want
an outlet like the one now contemplated to bring them into full work.
The coal is of a superior quality.
There are also extensive barytes and paint-works at Ashbourne,
Cromford, and other places on the line. The scenery of Derbyshire
is the resort of vast numbers of tourists; and particular care will be
taken, in passing of the line near Dovedale, not to interfere with or
change its beautiful and romantic character. The convenience,
therefore, which this line will afford must necessarily cause a great
influx of passengers, both on business and pleasure.
Ironstone is not so abundant in the South as in North Staffordshire,
and vast quantities are sent by the tardy, circuitous. and expensive
canal company, which this and other lines of railway meeting at
Uttoxeter will remedy.

The gypsum formation runs from Staffordshire to the Humber, and
the demand for this article for building, agricultural, and manufac-
turing purposes along this line will be great.
The timber from the neighbourhood of the Needwood Forest
Banks, Bagots Woods, and Kingston Woods, upwards of 4,000
acres, chiefly finds Its way to the Manchester market by a
like objectionable route of tardy and circuitous canal convey-
ance ; whereas this line would open a direct, easy, and cheap communication to new markets. The line has been viewed prior to
a detailed survey, and there are not more than ordinary engineering
difficulties. In consequence of the lute Parliamentary decisions, it is
intended to
motors do not pledge this line on the broad gauge principle, but the pro-
themselves absolutely tO do so.

At the urgent suggestion of some of tho most influential inhabl•
tantscf Ashhottrite,!lti. C..: .. *:., . a s:trvey

tion line to connect that • : ;herb a
and Gainshorough trt(l

Applications for Shares to be made to John Owens, Esq., 3L,
Moorgate-street, London, and William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq.,
Uttoxeter ; and to the following Sharebrokers :—Metsrs. Preece and
Evans, 39, Lothbury ; Mr. Miles, Worcester; Mr. Thomas Henry
Wheeler, Worcester; Messrs. Townley and Whitehead, Liver-
pool ; Messrs. Cameron and Co., Liverpool ; Mr. Morris Rey-
nolds, Liverpool ; Mr. Richard E. Hine, Macclesfield Mr.
James Jamieson, Leeds ; Messrs. Wellbeloved and Oastler
Leeds ; Mr. Frederick Stamp, Hull ; Mr. Thomas Boardman, Black-
burn ; Mr. George Clark, Bradford ; Mr. William Mason, Bradford ;
Mr. William Cronhelm, Halifax; Mr. Charles Spencer, Nottingham;
Messrs. Eyre and Shaw, Derby ; Messrs. Grayston and Earle,
York; Mr. E. H. Armitage, Wakefield; Messrs. Kettering
and Marshall, Leeds ; Mr, James Stokes, Cheltenham ; Mr.
Joseph Clark, jun., Southampton; Messrs, Tate and Nash, Bris-
tol • Messrs. Beaumont and Langworthy, Exeter; Mr. Thomas
Sandford, Exeter; Mr. J. S. Holland, Coventry; Messrs, Houghiand
and Leese, Manchester ; Messrs. Cardwell and Sons, Manchester ;
Messrs. A. Birchall and Co., Manchester; Messrs. T. N. Bardwell
and Sons, Sheffield; Mr. W. H. Collis,Birmingham ; Mr.L. Weather.
burn, jun., Huddersfield ; Messrs. Everard and Co., Huddersfield;
Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester; Mr. Nicholson, Edinburgh;
Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Glasgow ; Messrs. Labertouche
and Stafford, College-green, Dublin; Mr. James Ross, Perth.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield,
and South Staffordshire Direct Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me Shares of 281. each
in the above Railway, and I undertake to accept the same or such
less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the regulations
of the Company, and to sign the necessary Deeds, and to pay, when
required, the Deposit thereon of 21. 2s. per Share,
Dated this day cf , 184 .
Name in full ..
Profession and professional residence.....
Residence in fu11......

GREAT NORTH of ENGLAND RAILWAY
RICHMOND BRANCH.
TO RAILWAY CONTRACTORS AND OTHERS.
The Directors of this Company will be prepared to receive TEN
DERS for the EXECUTION of the WORKS of the BRANCH from
the GREAT NORTH of ENGLAND RAILWAY to RICHMOND.
Plans, Sections, and Specifications of the same may be seen on
application to Mr. Joseph Stephenson, at the Office of the Company,
in Northgate, Darlington, on and after the 20th inst.
The Directors will meet at their Office, in Darlington, on TUESDAY
the 30th inst , at Twelve o'clock, for the purpose of letting tht
Contracts, and all Tenders must be sent in, sealed, addressed to the
Secretary of the Company, before 12 o'clock on the day previous.
The Directors do not bind themselves to accept the lowest
Tenders. H. PARKER, Secretary.
Darlington, Sept. 3, 1845.

DIRECT LONDON AND EXETER RAIL-
WAY COMPANY,
(With Extension to Falmouth and Penzance).
Through Hammersmith, Turnharn-green, Brentford, Isieworth,
Hounslow, Staines, Egharn, Bagshot, Ascot, Bracknell, Bonfield,
Wokingham, Kingsclere, Andover, and Salisbury ; Shaftesbury,
Sherbourne, Yeovil, Crewkerne, Axminster, and Honiton, to
Exeter.

Capital, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 11. 7s. 6d. per Share.
ffith further Deposit of 11. ss. per Share after the Bill has passed
the House of Commous.]
With power to raise 1,000,0001. more, if necessary.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Vic., c. 110.)
OFFICES, No. 52, REGENT-STREET, WATERLOO-PLACE,
• Adjoining the County Fire Office.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Mexborough, Dover-street, Piccadilly,
Director of the Direct London and Manchester Railway
Lord Henry Loftus, Belgrave-square
Sir Henry Hervey Bruce, Bart., Montague-square, and Down-hill,
Londonderry
The Hon. Cecil J. Lawless, 71, Pall-mall, Director of the Great Man-
chester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway
Colonel Sir Frederick Hankey, G.C.M.G., Queen Ann-street, Caven-
dish-square, Director of the lonian and Ceylon Banks, and Bor-
deaux, Toulouse, and Cette Railway
J. R. PhWimore, Esq., LL.D., 42, Clarges-street, Chancellor of
Salisbury
John David Chambers, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Recorder of Salisbury
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, 19, Clifford-street, Director of
the County Fire-office, and South and Midlands Railway
Sir Raymond Jarvis, Fair Oak Park, near Winchester, Director of
the Manchester and Southampton Railway
The Hon. A. Capel, Theyden House, Essex, and Park-street, Gros-
venor-square
Charles William Spicer, Esq., 28, Portman-square, Director of the Man-
chester, Southampton, and Oxford Junction, Warwick and Wor-
cester, Shropshire Mineral, and Grand London and Dublin Ap-
proximation Railways
William Burge, Esq., Q.C., Temple
The Rev. Bourchier Wrey Savile, Oakhampton, Devon
G. Thompson Jacob, Esq., Blandford, Magistrate, and Deputy-Lieu-
tenant fer Dorset
Richard Francis Roberts, Esq., Burton Bradstock, near Bridport
H. H. Hungerford, Esq., Dingley Park, Market Harborough, and
Dover-street, Piccadilly, Director of the Leicester and Bedford
Railway
Francis Dawson, Esq., Grosvenor-street
Richard Francis Power, Esq., 73, Eccleston-square, and Long-
Orchard, Tipperary
Lieutenant-Colonel P. W. Pedlar, Nutley House, Devon, Director of
the Manchester, Southampton, and Poole Railway.
Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., 31arlough-place, St. John's-wood, Di-
rector of the Great Eastern d'd Western, and Manchester and
Birkenhead Continuation Railways
Walter Shairp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Director of the
Oxford, Southampton, and Portsmouth Railway
The Hon. Henry Savile, Dover-street
A. W. Hillary, Esq., 66, Cadogan-place
W. L. Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex, Director of the Oxford, South-
ampton, Gosport;and Portsmouth Railway
George Evans, Esq., Milbury-terrace, Regent's Park, Director of the
London and Holyhead Railway
Francis Lloyd, Esq., Temple, Loudon, and Bingley House, Bir-
mingham
William Thomas Davies Lhoyd, Esq., Lhoydiarth, Anglesey
E. S. Blundell, Esq., 18, Lower Seymour-street
John Allen, Esq., 12, Gloucester-terrace, Kensington
William Birmingham Costello, Esq., M.D., Wyke House, Brentibrd
T. Piers Healey, Esq., Elm-court, Temple
William Gunston, Esq., Piccadilly
A. Abrahams, Esq., Member of the Town Council of Southampton
William Lowten Jones, Esq., Wood Hall, Hilgay, Norfolk
Thomas Champion, Esq., Stoke Wood House, Dorsetshire
Captain T. C. Forde, Gracefleld, Aslane, Dublin
Captain Sir Andrew Pellatt Green, R.N., K.C.H., 9, St. James's-
street, St. James's-park, Director of the Australasia, British North
America, and the lonian Banks, and Director of the Mutual Life
Assurance Company
Charles Gover, Esq., City Club
J. Lane, Esq., LL.D , King's Bench-walk, Temple, and Keppel-
street
George Waite, Esq., Old Burlington-street, Director of the Chelten-
ham and Brighton Railway
H. Cane Leahy, Esq., St. James's-square, Director of the Sheffield,
Buxton, Potteries, Leeke and Crewe, the Rugby, Derby, and Man-
chester, the Direct Birmingham, Oxford and Brighton, the Bognor
and London Brighton Junction' the Great Leeds, the Great Welsh
Central Railway, the Calais, Dunkirk, and Bruges, and Ghent and
Brussels Railways
John Harvey, Esq., Ruth Hill, Wandsworth, Surrey, Director of the
Commercial Bank of London
Thomas Houghton Harclinge, Esq., 23, Park-lane
Edward William Cox, Esq., Crown-office-row, Temple
W. A. Hill, Esq., Deputy Chairman ofthe Oxford and Witney Railway
Company, and Barnet and Metropolitan Railway Company.
Henry Ludnell Dampier, Esq., of Colnishays House, near Bruton
Sh .vPa.yD.L., King's County. High Sheriff County
Augustus E. Greaves, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby,
GoawnedllMmaonocrhertEersql.i,ai
Roscommon
Captain Charles Frederick Parkinson, Polygon, Manchester, Ma-
naging Director of the North Lancashire, and Manchester and
Southamptan Railways
James Macmillan, Esq., Southampton, Director of the Worcester,
Warwick, and Rugby Railway
Archibald Drummond Stewart, Esq., Grundully Castle
The Hon. Stafford Jerningham, 44, Brook-street
John Blunt, Esq., Director of the London Docks
James Gernon, Esq., Vice-Chairman of the Galway and Ennis Grand
Junction, and Director of the London and Nottingham
William Bastow, Esq., Director of the Worcester, Warwick, and
Rugby Railway
Robert Bastow, Esq., Director of the Great Eastern and Western
Railway
John Greathead, Esq., 133, Piccadilly
Captain James Edward Carnegie, Somerset-street, Portman-square,
and Bruce-hall, near Ingerness, Director of the Reading and Rei-
gate and Guernsey Railways.
COMMITTER OF MANAGEMENT.
Colonel Sir Frederick Hankey, T. Piers Healey, Esq.'
G.C.M.G. A. W. Hillary, Esq.
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn H. H. Hungerford, Esq.
E. S. Blundell, Esq. W. L. Pope, Esq.
Thomas Dowglasse. Esq. Walter Shairp, Esq.
George Evans, Esq. Charles William Spicer, Esq.
(With limited power to add to their number.)
eENGINEER—John-sroeceltT
;O
E . Braithwaite,Columbine,
Esq., C.E., 4, Trafalgar-square.
JOINT
Esq,, S. Carlton Chambers, Re-
Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street.
LONDON BANKERS—Messrs. Curries and Co., 29, Conihill ; London
ggent-street;
tsßs—D.
Messrs.
and Westminster Bank, St. James's-square.
LOCAL BANKERS

Bath—Thgwell and Co.
Birmingham—Attwood, Spooner, and Co.
BB
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pfoo
rr dt(York)—Banking
s e ts
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Bristol—Baillie, Aimes, Baillie, and Co.
Cheltenham—County of Gloucester Bank
Devonport—Messrs. Hodge and Norman
Exeter—Saunders and Co. ; Milford, Snow, and Co. ; West of Eng-
land Bank Compan3', Bradford
and South Wales District Bank
Halifax—Joint Stock Bank
Hull—East Riding Bank
Launceston—Foster, Bolitho, and Co.
Liverpool—Liverpool Banking Company
Manchester—Scholes and Co.
Neweastle-on-Tyne—W. H. Lambton and Co.
Norwich—Harvey, Hudsons, and Co.
Nottingham—Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company
Plymouth—Harris, Mudge, and Co.
Salisbury—Everett and Co. ; W. B. Brodie and Co. ; Wilts and
Dorset Bank
Shaftesbury—Messrs. Brodie. King, and mackun
Sherborne—Wilts and Dorset Banking Company
York—Swan, Clough, and Co.
Prospectuses, and plans of the line, with forms of Applications for
Shares, may be had at the offices of the Company as above, and of
the following Stock and Share-brokers, viz. :
Messrs. Sutton, Gribble, and Sutton, Royal Exchange; Messrs.
Taunton and Bush, Austin Friars, London. Also,
Exeter—Henry Matcher; John Langworthy ; Wilkinson and Sons
Bath—J. B. Munday
Leeds—Potter and Co. ; Kirk and Co. ; Ridsdale and Co.
Huddersfield—Williara Moore and Co.
Derby—Eyre and Shaw
Hull—Sibary and Simpson ; Samuel Phillip
York—Grayston and Earle
Wakefield—Henry Billingham
Plymouth—Hopwood and Palmer
Cheltenham—Hall Brothers and Co.
Newcastle-on-Tyne—W. W. Dickinson ; R. F. Bell and Co.
Birmingham—W. H. Collis
Taunton—Richard Ball
Shaftesbury—Raymond and Son
Manchester—Myers and Birkbeek ; WM. Marshall ; Cardwek& Sons
Norwich—John It. Mann and Son
Edinburgh—Muurd and Co; James Pringle; A. W. Moffatt',
Bristol—Luke Arnold
Coventry—John Thomas Holland
Gloucester—J. M. Balms
Glasgow-31essrs. H. and W. A. Tassie ; James Watson ; Thomas
Gray
Leicester—Williams and Sunderland
Nottingham—Roworth and Shepperly
Liverpool—Messrs. Sudlow, Brothers .
Halifax—H. C. Spenser
Bradford, Yorkshire—W. Mason ; James Clayton
Reading—B. Cowderoy
Settle—Joseph Nelson.
The following gentlemen are appointed as Local Solicitors
in furtherance of the interests of the Company, from whom
Prospectuses and Applications for Shares may also be obtained :
Exeter—W. Lambert, Esq.
Egham—Thomas Harvey, Esq.
Bagshot—John Mears, Esq.
Bracknell—Charles Cave, Esq.
Wokingham—Francis Soames, Esq.
Salisbury—Henry Cooper, Esq. ; Messrs. Foot and Radcliffe
Shaftesbury—Messrs. Wills and Burridge
Sherborne—George Hancock, Esq. ; Samuel Foot, Esq.
Bruton—Messrs. Dyne and Son
Yeovil—George Hancock, E;q.
Crewkerne—Robert Lowman, Esq.
Axminster—Walter Hancock, Esq.
Blandford—George Moore, Esq.
Dorchester—George Cull, jun., Esq.
Bridport—S. H. Gunimer, Esq. ; Henry B. Fox, Esq.
Honiton—lsaac I. Cox, Esq.
Lynn—George Platten, Esq.
Lyme Regis—N. P. Waring, Esq.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of Management of the Direct London
and Exeter Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of MI.
each in the above railway, and I undertake to accept the
same or such less nnmber you may appropriate to me, subject to the
regulations of the Company, also to sign the necessary legal docu
racing, and to pay, when required, the deposit thereof of 1/. 7s. 6d
per share

rrofessl
in af full.
Reference.
and Professional Residence, in full,
Residence
llefetenee.
Date

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Signature of Applicant...." • • • • • •

IRECT LONDON and EXETER RAIL-
WAY, with Extension to Falmouth and Penzance.
The Committee of Management of the above Company, in order to
remove any possible misapprehension in the minds of the public, beg
to assure the landowners and others interested in this undertaking,
that the engineeer of the Company, John Braithwaite, Esq., and his
assistants, are now actively engaged in completing the necessary
surveys, in order to comply with the standing orders of Parliament.
By order,
D. E. COLOMBINE, 7 Joint Solicitors to
ELMSLIE and PRESTON, S the Company.
Direct London and Exeter Railway Company, Offices, 6, Great
Winchester-street, Broad-street, and 52, Regent-street
Sept. 25, 1845,

OTTINGHA NT, BIRMINGIIAM AND
)
0 VENT!? Y itAT I .WAY.
ventry, and Birmingham with Nottingham,
Newark, and Lincoln.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Offices —(temporary), 19, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street.
Capital 420,0001., in 21,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVLSIONAL COMMITTEE.
Sir John Penniston Milbanke, Bart., Great Portland. street
William Collins, Esq., M.P. for Warwick
Michael Thomas Bass, Esq., Burton-upon-Trent
Major Croft, 15, Regent-street, Deputy Chairman of the Chester and
Manchester Direct Railway
Fraser B. Henshawe, Esq., Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square,
Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction
Railway
Major Waller, K.H., Deputy Chairman Of the South and Midlands
Junction Railway
Lieutenant-Colonel Hutchinson, F.R.S., 15, Upper Montague-street,
Montague-square, Director of the College of Civil Engineers
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., Hyde Park-place, I) rector of the
Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle Junction Railway
T. E. Bigge, Esq., 19, Bryanstone-square, Director of the Warwick
and Cheltenham Railway
The Hon. W. E. Fitzmaurice, M.P. for Bucks, ( hesham-street,
Belgrave- square
Henry Dann, Esq., 42, Duke-street, St. James's, Director of the
Shrewsbury, Worcester, and Crewe Railway
Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Herts, Director of
the South and Midland Junction Railway
John Clement Ending, Esq., Director of the National Bank of
Ireland
John Rawson, Esq., Halifax, Deputy Lieutenant for Yorkshire, and
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Railway
The Hon. Colonel Leicester Stanhope, Ashburuham House, Chairman
of the Chester and Manchester Direct Railway
John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Leicester
Thomas Hackett, Esq., Derby, Director of the Great Manchester and
Southampton Railway
John Sandars, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Crewe Railway
John Fisher, Esq., Short-hill, Nottingham, and Watling-street,
London
Captain Horatio Thomas Austin, C.B.
Nathaniel Nadin, Esq., Stapenhill, Burton-upon-Trent
Capt. Gustavus Evans, R.N., Headley Grove, Surrey
Henry Francis Gisborne, Esq., Derby, Director of the Leicester and
Tamworth, and Derby, Gainsborough, and Great Grimsby Junc-
tion Railway
Edmund Sharpe, Esq., Swandlincote, Potteries
Sheldon Craddock, Esq., Leicester
John Gretton, Esq., brewer, Burton-upon-Trent
Ambrose Moore, Esq., Milk-street, Cheapside
James Arbouin, Esq., Mark-lane, Director of the London and York
Railway
Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.8., Director of the East India Company
Lieut.-Gen. Taylor, Clarendon-place, Hyde Park
George Ledwell Taylor, Esq., 45, Hyde Park-square
Douglas Fox, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Crewe Railway
Matthew Gisborne, Esq., Walton Hall, Derbyshire
Frederick Cayley Worsley, Esq.' Imberhorne House, Sussex
John Taylor, Esq., Cross-street, City, Director of the Commercial
Bank of London

C

(With power to add to their number.)
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Bass and Sweeting, Burton-upon-Trent.
Messrs. Lacy and Bridges, 19, King' s Arms-yard, Coleman-street.
Messrs. Sir George Stephen and Hutchinson, 1, Exchange-buildings,
Royal Exchange.
RANKERS.
The London Joint-Stock Bank, Princes-street.
The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury, and 6, Henrietta-street,
Covent-garden.
The Barton, Uttoxeter, and Ashbourne Union Banking Company,
Burton-upon-Trent, and Ashbourne.
Messrs. Evans and Co., Derby.
ACTING ENGINEER—EIijah Galloway, Esq.
This line will commence at the Long Eaton station of the Midland
Counties Railway, and will proceed in a direct line to or near Castle
Donington, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Measham, and Market Bosworth to
Nuneaton; joining, at Market Bosworth, the Birmingham branch,
projected by the Tamworth and Leicester Company, and at Nuneaton,
the projected Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester
Railway, at the point where that line crosses the Trent Valley line.
Thus a direct communication will be formed between the important
towns of Nottingham, Newark, and Lincoln on the one side, and
Birmingham, Coventry, and Warwick on the other side, at the same
time supplying a rich mineral and agricultural district with railway
advantages.
A reference to the map will show that this railway will also com-
mand other collateral advantages.
There is no doubt that the proposed railway communication be-
tween Cheltenham and Warwick will be effected, in which case the
proposed line will fill up the railway chasm at present existing be-
tween the counties of Gloucester and Worcester, and Nottingham
and Lincoln, and thus form a direct line from the Severn at Glouces-
ter to the Humber at Great Grimsby. An amalgamation of the Great
Grimsby and Sheffield Junction with the Grimsby Dock Company
being now determined on, a large amount of capital will be expended
in rendering treat Grimsby a port of the first importance ; and it
must be obvious that the traffic to that port, from the district south-
west of Warwick, will be vecy great.
The distance saved by the proposed line between Leamington,
Warwick, Coventry, and Nottingham will be about fourteen miles;
and between Birmingham and Nottingham (by either of the projected
lines from Birmingham to Leicester) the saving will be about ten
miles. Being so much the shortest route from Birmingham to Not-
tingham and Lincoln, it must secure the traffic from Birmingham to
Nottingham, Newark, Lincoln, and the port of Great Grimsby ; and
by joining with the Erewash Valley Railway at Long Eaton, it must
command the traffic from Coventry, Warwick, and the district south
of those towns to Sheffield, Leeds, York, and the north of Eng'and
generally. It will also afford a direct communication between Not-
tingham and the district between Warwick and Worcester, by means
of the projected Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby, and the Warwick
and Worcester Railways.
The entire length of the line will be under thirty miles. The Com-
pany's Engineer has completed his preliminary survey, and has
made his report, that time character of the country through which
the line is intended to pass is unusually favourable for engineering
purposes.

It passes directly through a very productive mineral district, in-
tersecting the Leicestershire coal-fields and lime-works, and will
afford communication north and south, to the Derbyshire Potteries.
With such an assured immediate and prospective amount of traffic,
the profits on the small capital required cannot fail to be highly re-
munerative.
Powers for all,,wance of interest at four per cent. on the paid-up
capital will be taken, and the liability of shareholders limited to the
amount of their subscriptions.
TABLE OF DISTANCES.
Present Distances. About I I _
Miles

RBoyu
tper,opaobsoeuilt I say,

Warwick to Nottingham, by
Hampton and Derby • • ••
Warwick to Nottingham, by
Rugby and Leicester .
Warwick to Lincoln

—.. .. • • • •
Coventry to Nottingham
Coventry to Lincoln
Birmingham to Nottingham
Birmingham to Lincoln .. ..
Cheltenham to Nottingham, by
Birmingham and Derby

Prospectuses may be had at the Temporary Offices of the Company,
i 9, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street, London ; where also applica-
tions for shares, addressed to the Provisional Committee, will be
attended to.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Nottingham, Birmingham, and
Coventry Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares of 201.
each, in the abeve railway; and I undertake to accept the same,
or such less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the
regulations of the Company, and to sign the necessary deeds, and to
pay when required the deposit thereon of 2/. 2s. per share.
Dated this day of 1845.
Profession and professional residence in full
Residence in Hill.. • • • • . • • • •• • •
References ....
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I YNN, WISBEACH, & PETERBOROUGH,
. MIDLAND COUNTIES, and BIRMINGHAM JUNCTION
RAILWAY COMPANY (Original Line).
(Provisionally Registered Bth of August, 1845.)
Capital 325,000/., in 15,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21.:25. per Share.
PRO VISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Hon. Edward Stafford Jerningham, Tonbridge Castle, Ton-
bridge
The Right. Hon. Lord George Paget, Director of the Rugby, Derby,
and Manchester Railway
The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Chairman of the York and
Lancaster Railway Company.
The Hon. C. M. Dawson, Director of the Dublin, Tullamore, and
Parsonstown Railway
Wynne Ellis, Esq., M.l'., Cadogan-place, Delgrave-square
Samuel Wells, Esq., Fen-office, Ely, Registrar of the Corporation
of the Bedford Level, and Clerk to the Commissioners of the
River Nene
Frederick Seymour, Esq., Kemp Town, Brighton
Hugh Seymour, Esq., 5, Carlton-terrace
Henry Erskine, Esq., 95, Mount-street, Gresvenor-square, and Kirby
Dale, Yorkshire
Robert Bell, Esq., Manchester-square, Chairman of the Galway and
Ennis Railway Company, &c.
James Gernon, Esq., 13, Conduit-street, Bond-street, Deputy-Chair-
man of the Galway and Ennis Railway Company
W. S. Wilson, Esq., Temple
John George Norbury, Esq., 3, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square, of
Mancetta-house, Atherstone, Director of the Boston, Stamford,
and Birmingham and other Railway Companies
William Horatio Harrison, Esq., Sunbury, Director of the South Staf-
fordshire Railway
Major Lindham, K.H., 8, New-street, Dorset-square, Chairman of
the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
Alexander Prince, Esq., 14, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Director of the Tring,
Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
Thomas George Smith, Esq., Doughty-street, Mecklenburgh-square,
Direclor of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway
William Holt. Esq., Inner Temple, and the Elms, Watford, Herts
A. A. Fry, Esq., Temple, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Man-
chester Railway
R. Lewis, Esq., Stratford-place, and Worcester Park, Surrey
George Thomas Smith, Esq., Oakham Ballemdaham
J. F. Raworth, Esq., Leicester, Director of the Leicester and Bir-
mingham Direct Railway Company
Charles Dickson Archibald, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park,
and of Rowland Hall, Lancashire, Director of the Leicester and
Tamworth Railway Company
Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad House, Edgbaston, Director of the South
Staffordshire Junction Railway Company
William Henry Collis, Esq., Handsworth, Staffordshire, Director of
the South Staffordshire Railway Company
James Upfill, Esq., the Green, Bromyard, Herefordshire, Director of
the Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway Company
Thomas Boleman Upllll, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Dover
arid Bristol Railway Company
Thomas Gibson Brewer, Esq., Gray's Inn
Hardy Bishop, Esq., Duke-street, St. James's, Director of the
Dublin, Tullamore, and Parsonstown Junction Railway Company
Colonel Fitch, Director of the York and Lancaster Company
Walter Unett, Esq., Captain 3d Light Dragoons, 21, Great James's-
square, Director of the Dover and Bristol Railway Company
George Unett, Esq., Handsworth, Staffordshire, Director of the Dover
and Bristol Railway Company
Smith Whilock, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Dover and Brit-
tdl Railway Company
(With power to add to their number).
No stronger recommendation of this proposed line need be given,
than the fact that since it was provisionally registered on the Bth of
August last, the idea of the project has been pirated by companies
to whose cupidity the lines appear to hold the strongest temp-
tations.
The objeet of this Company is to form a direct communication be-
tween the extensive ports of Lynn and Wisbeach, and the mnnutae-
turing and midland counties of England, by means of a direct rail-
way from Lynn, through Wisbeach, to Peterborough, thereby
to N
completing the line from the eastern coast of England,
o‘thampton, and to Lincoln, Birmingham, Manchester, and
Liverpool. The inhabitants of Lynn, Wisbeach, and Peterborough
will then enjoy the advantage of a cheap and direct intercommunica-
tion between their respective towns, while the Important commer-
cial interests connected with the 'manufacturing and export trades
between the midland counties and the eastern parts of the coast will
have very valuable additional facilities afforded them.
Lynn and Wisbeach should be, and by the proposed line will be-
come, to Birmingham and the midland counties, what Liverpool is
to Manchester, Lancashire, and the counties in the north. More-
over, by the proposed line a direct railway intercourse will be esta-
blished between Lynn, Wisbeach, Southampton Bristol, Gloucester,
&c., as also between Lynn and Swaffham, Southampton,
Thetford,
Norwich, and Yarmouth On the other hand, proceeding northwards,
the line at Peterborough Jails into others which constitute the great
northern railways of England.
This line will not interfere with either of the proposed lines to Wis-
beach, as those lines will proceed towards London, through Hunting-
don, St. Ives, and Ely ; while this line is intended to afford means of
direct communication with all the manufacturing and midland
districts.
Apart from the large populations which will be benefited in the
towns, through which this line will run, there are, according to the
last census, more than a million of residents in Norfolk, Cambridge-
shire, and Northampshire, whom it will directly benefit. This calcu-
lation is quite apart from the advantages which will be con-
ferred upon many other districts, from each of which large traffic and
passenger returns may with certainty be calculated upon.
The districts through which the line will pass already possess an
immense trade, and the rapidity of its increase at present and for
years past exhibits in most favourable colours the enterprise of the
population and the capabilities of the country.
Within a few years the quantity of wheat sold at Wisbeach was
increased more than fourfold. In 1826, the number of quarters sold
there was 60,000; in 1834, it increased to 122,198 quarters; and in
1844 it was augmented to 250,000 quarters.
The increase in the corn trade at Lynn has also been very great.
Very few years have passed since the exports and imports of
Wisbeach were only 29,000 tons : they are now 169,678 tons ; and
the increase last year (1844), comparatively speaking, was greater
than that at any other port in the kingdom.
A great impulse must be given to the trade of those ports by the
proposed line. They must become the ports for Birmingham and
the whole of the midland district ; the productions, to save distance
and time, would be sent thither for exportation to the whole of the
north of Europe.
Some idea may be formed of the vast capacities for trade 'which
Lynn possesses, from the fact that in its harbour 210 vessels can
float ; and, by navigable rivers, it has a direct communication with
no less than eight counties, as stated by Mr. Wells, the registrar of
the Bedford Level, in his history of that vast undertaking,
Lynn imports large quantities of timber from the Baltic. Its coal
trade with Newcastle is very great ; it has also a considerable traffic
with Holland and Belgium, and it is the most direct and economical
port from which the woel of Norfolk, the Fens, Lineoln,shiro, North.

amptortsthire, And Lefeelterfhire, ean he consir.7,o. !,rfl the
larg, marinfacuirin,

cilities afforded by nature for its construction are greater than those
upon auy other English line.
The cheapness of the construction of lines in Belgium, and the
safety upon them, arising from the level character of the country,
are proverbial. The districts through which the line will pass, pos-
sess all the advantages of a Belgian course, together with the ad-
ditional facility afforded by the established dead level of the Nene
navigation.
A survey, by a distinguished engineer, has resulted in a report
that the expenses of its construction will be small beyond all prece-
dent, and that in an unusully .short space of time the various towns
and districts which it will affect, may be in possession of the com-
mercial, social, local, and general benefits which it is so calculated to
confer.
Public meetings will promptly be held in all the towns along the
line, at which a deputation from the promoters will attend, to give
whatever information may be required.
Applications for shares may be addressed to William Andrews,
Esq., at the Offices of the Company, No. 41, Moorgate-street; or to
Thomas George Smith, Esq., at No. 2, Warnford-court, Throgmorton-
street, London.

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41, "Moorgate-street, Sept. 17, 1845.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provfsional Committee of the Lynn, Wisbeach, and Peter-
borough, Midland Counties, and Birmingham Junction Railway
//Company (ORIGINAL LINE).
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me of 201.
each in the above-named Company, and I hereby undertake to ac-
cept the same, or any less number that may be allotted to me, to pay
the deposit of 21. 2s. per share thereon, end to sign the StilscribJrs'
Agreement and Parliamentary Contract when required.
Dated this day of 1845.
Name in fall ............
Profession or Business
Residence, Private and Professional
Reference .......-

UGB Y, DERBY,
RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and Bth Vic., c. 110.)
Capital, 1,500,000/., in 60,000 shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 2/. 12. 6d. per share.
(In order to insure compliance with the standing orders both of the
Lords and Commons.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Lord George Paget, Uxbridge-house, London
Sir William Young, Bart., Westbourne-terrace, Hyde-park, a Direct( r
of the East India Company
Sir James Carmichael, Bart., 40, Sussex-gardens, Hyde-parle, Dl-
rector of the Reading and Reigate Railway Company
Sir William Boothby, Bart., Ashbourne-hall, Ashbourne
Sir Robert Wilmot, Bart., Onnaston-hall, Derbyshire
Sir William Lowthrop, Bart., Alga-house, Scarborough, Chainr tcf
the Hull and Barnsley Railway Company
Sir John Hensler, Deputy-Lieutenant ofEssex
The Mayor of Derby
Jolm Parkinson, Esq., R.R,S., 80, Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park,
Director of the Irish Great Western, and the Northampton, Ban-
bury, and Cheltenham Railways
Thomas Stevenson, Esq., F.5.A.,37, Upper Grosvenor-street, Hyde
Park, a Director of the Irish reat Western, and the Reading and
Reigate Railways
Thomas Bent, Esq., M.D., Derby, Director of the Derby, Gains-
borough, and Great Grimsby Junction Railway
James Clifford, Esq., Broughton House, Shardlow, Derbyshire
William Cox, Esq., Brailsford, Derbyshire
David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland Hollow, Derbyshire
James Sutton, Esq., Shardlow Hall, Derbyshire
P. Wilmot, Esq., Welbeck-street, Cavendish-square
Major Thurston Dale, Ashbourne
Joseph Bridgett, Esq., Aldennanbury, London, Colney Hatch, near
Barnet, and Derby
Cecil Brook Boothby, Esq., Ashbourne Hall, Ashbourne, and Bolton-
street, Piccadilly
William Holt, Esq., Great Coram-street, and The Elms, Watford
A. G. Greaves, Esq., Derby
John Robinson, Esq., Silcoates Cottage, near Wakefield, Director of
the Bradford, Wakefield, and Midland and Leeds,' York and Mid-
land Junction Railway
Edward Mammatt, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Samuel Simpson, Esq., of the Greaves, Lancaster, a Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Douglas Fox, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby, Gainsborough,
and Great Grimsby Junction Railway
George Robinson, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley
Junction Railway
Thomas M'Turk, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junc-
tion Railway
Matthew Pierpoint, Esq., Crown East, Worcestershire, Deputy Lieu-
tenant of the county of Worcester
Henry Brigstock, Esq., M.D., Derby, Director of the Derby, Uttoxe-
ter, and Stafford Railway
Joseph Lancelot Davenport,;Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby, 'La-
i toxeter, and Stafford Railway
Frederick Fox, Esq., Melbourne, agent for Lord Melbourne
James Joseph Dolman. Esq., Melbourne, Derbyshirn
John Earp, Esq., Melbourne, Derbyshire
Charles Holbrooke, Esq., Alvaston, near Derby, Director of the
Derby, Uttoxeter and Stafford, and of the Derby, Gainsborough,
Stafford, and Grimsby Railway
Jeremiah Pilcher, Esq., Russell-square, London, Director of the
Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction, and of the Grand
London and Dublin Approximation Railways
William Seymour, Esq., Montague-place, Russell-square, Director of
the Grand London and Dublin Approximation, and of the South-
ampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railways
William Chance, Esq., Spring-grove, Birmingham, Deputy-Chairman
of the Birmingham and Leicester Railway, Director of the Trent
Valley Midland, and of the Manchester and Southampton Junction
Railway
James Witham, Esq., Eaton-square
A. A. Fry, Esq., Temple
Thomas Geo. Smith, Esq., Doughty-street, Mecklenburgh-square,
Director of the Lynn, Wisbeach. and Peterborough Railway
John Hill, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Staf-
ford Railway
Thomas Haimes, Esq., Melbourne, Derbyshire
Thomas Hemsley, Esq., Melbourne, Derbyshire
Henry Orton, Esq., King's Newton, Derbyshire
George Vandeleur, Esq., King's Newton, Derbyshire
Mr. Samuel Robinson, Shaw House, Melbourne, Derbyshire
John Tewle, Esq., Borrowash Mills, Derbyshire
George Wooton, Esq., Chelston, Derbyshire
James Hollingworth, Esq. Melbourne and Derby
Wellington Ross Seymour, Esq., Montague-place, Russell-square
James Renshaw, Esq., West Heath House, Erith, Kent, Director of
the South Staffordshire Junction Railway,: and 3, White Hart-
court, Lombard-street
A. Inderwick, Esq., Brompton, Middlesex
John Groom, Esq., Member of the Town Council, Northampton
James J. 3l'Swiney, Esq., Sandal View, near Wakefield, a Director
of the Wakefield and Harrowgate Junction Railway
Richard Dransfield, Esq., West-place, Dalton, Huddersfield, a Director
of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and of the Keigliley, Halifax,
and Huddersfield Junction Railway
Robert Docksey Goodwin, Esq., Ashbourne
John Bainbrigge Storey, Esq., Lockington Hall, Leicestershire
Edward Doubleday, Esq., F.L.S., Great Surrey-street, a Director of
the Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railway
William Caldwell, Esq., Ince Hall, Wigan, Alderman of the Borough
of Wigaa, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway, the
Staffordshire Potteries Railway, Liverpool and Manchester Direct
Railway
Henry Stock, Esq., Bedggelert, North Wales, Director of the Great
Eastern and Western
John Campbell Dicker, Esq., New Hall, by Neston, Cheshire, Director
of the Birkenhead and Holyhead Railway
John Curzon, Esq., Derby
James Peet, Esq., Derby
William Taylor, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby, Gainsborough,
and Great Grimsby Junction Railway
Charles Milnes, Esq., Dale-house, Matlock, Derbyshire
Henry George Gascoyne, Esq., Lea-hall, Rugeley, Staffordshire
Perry Dicker,, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
George Clark, Esq., Windham-lodge, Brighton, and Rusholme Park,
Manchester, a Magistrate
James Consterdine, Esq., Rosinhall, Manchester, a Magistrate
F. R. Hodgson, Esq., Oakey, near Manchester, Merchant
Edward Attolden, Esq., Aston-hall, Derby:
Henry Taylor, Esq., Wigan, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct; the York and Lancaster; the Eastern, Western, and
Southern, or Ipswich and Southampton; Reigate ; the Halifax and
Huddersfield ; the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction ;
the Staffordshire Potteries ; the Dover and Bristol; and of the
Cheltenham and Oxford Railways
Captain T. FoWott Powell, Ashbourne
Thomas Byrom, Esq., Wigan, a Director of the York and Lancas-
ter and Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and the Keigbley, Halifax,
and Huddersfield Junction Railway
Thurston Dale, jun., Esq., Ashbourne
John Douglas Cooper, Esq., Holm College, Ashbourne
C. Kelly Cooper, Esq., Ashbourne
John Witham, sen., Esq., Ashbourne
Thomas J. Mountfort, Esq., Ashbourne
James Osborne, Esq , Ashbourne
Samuel Dawson, jun., Esq., Walten Bank, Ashbourne
John Smith, Esq., Barton House, Ashbourne
Thomas Smith, Esq., Blore Hall, Staffordshire
John Bloor, Esq., Tutbury
Samuel Fox, jun., Esq., Derby
John Smith, Esq., Middle Temple, and 2, Buty-street, St. James's,
London, Director of the Leeds, York, and Midland Railway
Joseph Peel, Esq., Singleton Brook, Manchester
Edward Lucas, Esq., Member of the Town-Council, Birmingham
John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Leicester, a Director of the Leicester.
and Birmingham, and London, Bristol, and South Wales Railway
John Osier, Esq., Hull, Member of the Provisional Committee of the
Hull and Barnsley Junction and Leeds and-Carlisle Railway
C. Bamford, jun., Esq., Hull, Member of the Provisional Committee
of the Hull and Barnsley Junction and Leeds and Carlisle Railway
R. B. Childs, Esq., Swarkenstone Lowes, near Derby
(With power to add to their number).
ACTING COMMITTEE.
Jeremiah Pilcher, Esq., Russell-square, London
John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.3., 80, Cambridge-terrace, Hyde -park
Thomas Stevenson, Esq., F.S.A., 37, Upper Grosvenor-street, Hyde-
park
The Mayor of Derby
Matthew Pierpoint, Esq., Crown East, Worcestershire, Deputy-Lieut.
Co. Worcester
Joseph Bridgett, Esq., Aldermanbury, London
William Seymour, Esq., Montague-place, Russell-square
A. A. Fry, Esq., Temple
Thomas George Smith, Esq., Doughty-street, 3lecklenburgh-square
A. Inderwiek, Esq., Brompton, Middlesex
Sir Wm. Young, Bart., Westbourne-terrace, Hyde-park
Sir William Boothby, Bart., Ashbourne-hall, Ashbourne
David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buck-land Hollow, I,erbyshire.
ENGINEER—CharIes Blunt, Esq., C.E.
SoLiciroa—Thomas Gibson Brewer, Esq., 13, Gray's Inn-square.
STANDING COUNSEL—WiIIiam Holt, Esq., Chancery-lane.
COUNTRY SOLICITORS.
Derby—John Moss, Esq.
Manchester—Messrs. Crossley and Sudlow
Ashbourne—John Fox, Esq.
Ashby-de-la-Zouch—Henry Minion Hawkesworth, Esq.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT.—Thomas Baker, Esq., Spring-gardens.
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Masterman, Peters, Mildred, and Co.
Derby—Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company
Ashbourne—The Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashbourne Union Bank,
AGENTS.
London—Thomas G. Smith, Esq., 2, Warnford-court, Throgmorton-
street
Ashbourne—Thomas Jones, Esq.
Leicester—Messrs. Elgood and Harrison
Hull—Messrs. Flint and Tootal
Liverpool—Messrs. J. B. and D. Neilson.
SECRETARIEs.—WIWam Richard Scott, Esq. ; Horace Green, Esq.
Offices of the Company, 33, Gresham-street.
The Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway is a direct line from
London to Manchester, coming from London to Rugby, along the
London and Birmingham line, and proceeding from Rugby to Hinck-
ley through Market-Bosworth and Ashby-de-la-Zouch, to Derby,
thence to Ashbourne, by Leek to Macclesfield, and along the Mac-
clesfield and Stockport, and Stockport and Manchester Railways, into
Mareltester.
A branch to Buxton is in contemplation.
The principle of this railway is to obtain a direct through line be-
tween some of the most Important districts in the kingdom with the
least possible amount of new railway, and, consequently, the smallest
expenditure of capital.
It will also establish the shortest direct communication between
Derby and London, Sheffield and London, and between all the towns
on the North Midland Railway and London.
The Manchester, Derby, and Rugby Railway, will open a direct
communication between Manchester and Derby, and will consider-
ably shorten the distance between Manchester and Nottingham and
Manchester and Leicester.
The line from Derby to Rugby will establish the direct communi-
cation from that town to London, which has been so long considered
desirable by the inhabitants.
The same will apply to Sheffield, when the Sheffield and Chester-
field branch of the North Midland Railway is made.
The Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway, in connexion with
the Oxford and Rugby, and Oxford, Southampton, and Gosport Rail-
way, forms a direct Manchester and Southampton line.
THE GREAT ADVANTAGES
Of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway, over the other pro-
jects into Manchester, among others, are-
-First. That there are only seventy-five miles of railway to be made
In place of one hundred and eighty-nine.
Second. That it is a more direct line from London to Manchester
than even the proposed direct lines.
Third. That it interferes with no existing railway property or
' vested interests.
Fourth. That it passes through a District rich in manufactures,
agriculture, and minerals, but which—more especially as rerds it
agricultural produce, and a convenient system of Intercommgaunica-
s
tion for the conveyance of that agricultural produce, to supply the
large manufacturing towns in thevicinity—has been hitherto left to-
tally without railway communication.
Fifth. That it passes through the towns in Its route, instead of
avoiding them.
Sixth. That the whole line of railway from Rugby to Manchester
will be completed and in working order within tcn months from the
passing of the Act of Parliament.
Seventh. That the maps, plans, estimates, and other documents
required by the standing orders of Parliament will be lodged with the
parish clerks, the clerks of the peace for the counties, and the
Parliamentary offices, on the 10th of November next, being twenty
days within the time required by the regulations of Parliament.
In the allotment of shares a preference will he given, to the exe
tent of 10,000 shares, to the holders of stock in the London and Bir-
mingham Railway; also, of 2,000 shares to the shareholders in the
Oxford, Southampton, and Gosport Railway Company; of 1,000
shares to the Oxford and Rugby Railway Company ; and 2,000
shares to the Manchester and Birmingham Railway Company.

RUGBY, DERBY, AND MANCHESTER
RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that the last day for receiving applications
was Friday the 19th, and in consequence of the gnat number re-
mitted fir exceeding that to be allotted, no others Can possibly be
received.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
meet°
The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne
SirotWthilleiCamheTwYpstowsd,eFnc; r of the
Erewash Valley Extension Railways
Club, Directo ,
reßsatli
o.,fDporesaelt,:streedt,
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Parthenon
Junction Ranson and
Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester
va d Batways .
of the South and Midland Junction, and West . if n
K of the York and
K.C.H., Director
Major-General Sir Robert Barton, Glouces e
i, 0a
Lancaster Railway n and Austria ,
Thomas Alexander, Esq., Director of the Italia
on
Trent Valley Continuation Railways welkin-
Portmant-srglntariec'tion, auu;
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Henry Hall
,neAmbler,ar
Director worsted spinnerWesta ncl myaonrikffsahcitren repr,a
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
nireetor of
Railway Bristol, '''''"
C. H. Anderson, Esq., Upper Clapton, Director of the South
John Alexander Bicknell, Esq., Brandon Cottage, 1
the Oxford and Worcester Exist Railwa
Broad-street, Director ,
William Bardgett, Esq., Wnr-street, an, „acre
the Italian and Austrian, toad the Derby, Uttoxete , a "tab
Railways
ilwaji'd,:d
William Banks, Esq., Honey-lane Market
care, 91..
John Byng Banks, Esq., Stockwell, Surrey
n lerave-gl" ..,,ctioo
William Feehney Black, Esq Wilton-place, -e-- • (1,1,--
~
Rreanctowraoyfsthe Italian and Austrian, and South and:el:l:i
iroot et
Henry Weech Burgess, Esq., Temple's Park, HalnPs ....,,,,,e0
the Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, Potteries, and Crewe 1ta,0,,
Charles Salisbury Butler, Esq., the Lodge,
Josiah Burrowes, Esq., Castle House, Gomereall, near len, teedels,
Thomas Burnley, Esq., Gomersall, near Leeds, Director 01.1:2'd
and West Riding Junction Railway, and of the Liverl4°4
Upper Clalk 4 _..
of al
Direct Railway Direct°
Samuel Bateman, Esq., Croft House, near Bradford, flees,
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway null Pi
Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the r•- •
Railway
choler
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Joseph Browne, Esq.,,
Bedford and 3fan
Dr. Brigstock, Derby Director of the Rugby, Derby,
'111,4
Railwa
WilliamJJ
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Warwick,
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Lincoln,
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Railwayt , Director
Railways
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Jahn Carter, Esq., Knottingley f rem.-
Thomas Carter, Esq., Tanshelf, J.P. for the Borough e
Charles Charnock, Esq , Holmfleld House, near FerrybLiditdeptcsilon.
Millis Coventry, Esq.,' Director of the South and Ulan"'
Jal44lca
and Birmingham Extension Railways
B. Clements, ]laq., Lowndes-square, Director Of the We4terrh
Railway Jo•Fith, Hettliy,
eryffoorecitatordoLfeedstbe Boreciagbl
~,- lild-
J. Cottam, Esq., East Redford !wiles."' 100,
Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the 3,lfai le Of Ailf il
land, and Great Grimsby, Gainsborough, Goole, and -I, two tal-`°'
and the Wisbeach, Isle of Ely, and Lincolnshire Jul cEsseS ion
sot,- ler
John Cutts, Esq., Little Barfield Hall, near Braintree, hgroP
James Clift, Esq., Director of the Paris and Strasbourg
no yiicc
Manchester, and Oxford, and the Manchester, Beg*
fleld Railways - inghs-ra Sat°.
W. S. Cross, Esq., 'Director of the London and - , 102
sion otrot
Henry Sherard Coleman, Esq., Crown-court, Old Moe'
Francis Deere, Esq., Stratford, Essex es V°l.
J. Dawson, Esq., Pontefract and Thain
John Dennis, Esq., Director of the West Midland, the
ley Railways M„„,,,trste for
Joseph Dent, Esq., Aibston Hall, near Leeds, 114‘. owl'
North West Ri ding of Yorkshire Oster
A. A. Davenport, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Niro,.
Del'
sion, and Worcester Junction Railways Bog*
Joseph L. Davenport, Esq.,Derby, Director a we
of tee
and Manchester Railway Director
John Alcock Dixon, Esq. Burnley, near Leeds, tea
r
Liverpool and Leeds Direct RailwaY . Director c' tea
Richard Dransfleld, Esq., Dalton, Iluddersilele,
_, ea
ctio
Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, of thane LaivieiruldeelNeld --n°- 1 _
rest, and of the Keighley, Halifax, WO cj'
Railways liogbY,
Edward Doubleday, ER , F.L.S., Director of the s' or
and Worcester Itailwe.y
Francis Evart, Esq.,
mouth Railway lasoffiot
- Director of the Exeter,
Lieut.-Col. Fitch, 36, York-terrace, Regent's-park' tefr
ter
tor of the York and. Lancaster Railway worces
Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of the Oxford and
OW
stun Railway hart,
Solomon Foster, Erg., Mansfield, Director of the Nottingshef-
, and Midland Junction Railway ~r0.,,,a51i Old
Martin Furniss Esq., Mansfield, Director of the .. oAor
the eo '
field Railway of t
John Griffiths Filth, Ese., Austin-friars, Chairman vs Dorchester, 41411:0„
derry and Ccderaine, and Leeds and Carlisle Rail"
George Green, Esq., Pontefract
Charles Gibson, Esq., Holland-place, Clapham
James Gilbertson, Esq., Hertford all°l
William Gibson, Esq., Glasgow , ,Tooeaton 13
H. P. Gipps, Esq., Director of the Coventry and ' „AlSod
Charles Goldsmith, Esq., Friday-street, Cheapside the Tiyere"-
William Gordon, Esq., M.D., F.L.S., Director of "'
Leeds Direct Railway fax
Henry Swan Graves, Esq. Ely Bank Lodge, .. etr*
John Gully, Esq. Ackwortli ParHka,llA,ckworth
Richard Hall, Ee'q 'C
ford and Thame's'.Juarnentionenand NorlthraWtfotrincliirecell&dr-;:lithe
~a, l'fr John Charles Hall, Esq., New' Grove-street, East ll 44'
H. F. Hall, Esq,, Wiseton near BawtrY
S. C. Hall, Esq the gre"'--
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ley Exteusioa and. West Midland Railways
west.
Samuel Hammond, Esq , Leeds
John George Hammack', Es gas Director -red
of the In -0
~ F.S.A., Inner Temple, Director of -
William t h e Metropolitaniiepworth,
Esq.J nitc ti on
Pontefract,Railways
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„worth,
West Riding of Yorkshire . Edena:l:l3eu'll?di:s:o.irt.ll the al°
r lir
Joshua Hepworth, Esq., Rogerthorpe Hall, cctof 0. per
Dl,orobite 1
Thomas Heelis, Esq. Skipton Castle, Skipton,
cashire and Nort 1; Yorkshire Lancashire and
BO /gee
Eastern, and of th Liverpadand Leeds Direct P
_., tee e.
Robert Herries, Esq., East-street, Leeds, Director .
to, 0,1
and Leeds Direct Railway
J.Coh3haliralreniscoillimleoseltbse,rrooEks:, Esq., Derby, Director of the Bnifil'l34l
had 91ret.
E' Redford 'ddle°'
John Midge, P
William Ern -p-soscin"Jl4all,t'eanSdh,enEirsqo.f, ~o OW li 4
tor ofthe Derby and Stafford Railway
B rector of the York, and Hull R 11 ey
gistrate for the. sr Line; sed
London and 3111,1_0e,
0000,,j):
arwell Middleton Jall , E aw‘
ss House' neof 1..;0141
ofillidernaend Doroughao li
East Riding York
and 'Lull
Director of tlae Liverpool and Leeds, hull
Railways
of 0 Stifs.
nee Jameson,
t e les s ,
William Jameson, , 01., Honey-lane Market for 0. ,s'ipett°,l
John
fordjs ha;
am ameson,
and Live '
l&sq. Shelton Staffordshire, Dire Direct 1
oi 0
Joseph Liverpool and .r of the ,n' -,el
Leeds Direct Rai
Esq., Mayor of Hull, and Director
ilia and Cur
Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Director of the B#) 'trio
Valleys, or Mac':l - - ---- • -8 Clef'
e Lawton, Esq., Ditchle s, Essex,
esfield and Lichfield Railways f tile
George Lawton,
of Dean, and GloucesterY Junction RailwaY
- Leahy, Esq. et,
Capt.—et. , J ames's-square Of
Moses Edward Legg, Esq., Watling-street, London
Henry Leech., Beford
Director
William Ley, Esq., -ey, 40, Gloucester-place, Portraan'4, 1,1-
re
the Reading ancßeigate Railway ofTh. li'cl"
L. Stephens Lyne, Esq., Broad-street, Director ,--- „00
mates, Railway elialli"e'ssa
P. Bennett Lucas, Esq., Director of the Sligo and od '-
Ipswich and Southampton, and the Cork Pass"-
Railways Director
c
pi'
John B. Mann, Esq., Leeds
Newark-upon-,Trent' And iiedf°
Thomas Hackett Masai'. Es
WThisouciminaarasmell3,llHe'TeTirek,PEarsqk., ;till' q.'
Rw.o.bnert.
mmeesihurlaingElsoq•En.7, E..esci.sm.t:ltploerd.dßforddf A free°
the Leeds and Carlisle Railway r.., 9
, hallo,rd __,,titedfo 0,
proms
William Dro
Knottinglcf,,oo
so
William Moorhowse, Esq., Mari VIII
Director of the Sheffield, Barnsley, aNaS Wakefield "nut' etiA
Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of South and
ouse, near Lae
Lond_on and Itirm midlands s *
James Muscroft, Esq„ ugh' a
atonal Director of the
ngham Extension ItailwaYs rouge' a
ea
and Worcester der A
Junction, Railway
Southampton, ad the Leedseles -,480c134"
Joseph Pooyjnaterdfract, J. P. for the itoe
Nadin, Esq., man of the ..-
.William Joseph Nasb, Esq. BedtenforrlrddDCarirelicloerßailwaYll Ti c°
John Norton, Esq., 1, St. George's-square, West ...-„rer t P-", cot
R Midlandt In u atl on a
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Oxford
ro,„.te , tie°
E House, Brentwood, Director of the Great Western -1-'_,,,,, 000
enry Gerard Olarly, Esq., Director of the Trent V.,,'',,„d and
Robert Oxley, Esq., ydhEetdteJausinacatipaomilwaan:s West Ildlaus-
M.D., l'ontefract
Bennett
pPell, Esq., 12, Finsbury-place North
Willie Lie
Thomas InghampE Raayittiyi.b.rEoafciP,onptiefrtaacit
John Philleirsfe,et'sqE.sql'o
Morikhill, near Pontefract
and West Riding junotion-:and le Leeds,.Lirerpool aue-
Railways rel 91'.-
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Director of the York and John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Bycullah House,
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Thee' the porcile''kee'
aDnidreLcatonrcaosftteirmaaWiehysta:lidlSidgd, oar
ter,
and Weymouth Junction the Trines eßfeading, and - t
and the Direct Western Railways ' , ~,, rontelaceew
James Robson, Esq., Tanshelf, J. P. for the Borongil - ,slel
George Robinson, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and /53, 001
tion, and of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Ralls/S:011„,"
John Richardson, Esq., Director of the Wakefield anoirsit -
the East and West Yorkshire, and the Midland and
tion Railway
Rontlidge, Esq., Alderman Pontefract tof 4%
RtJamesheeadoßi
nrugessa 11,Esq
Manchester,. , lou Gloucester-place, sat ebr -p la'c e ,
Thomas Direr„-,4, 00
Exeter,Bosiopto
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or Pn,..
SA $
and Basingstoke Railways
~,„, and 9
doii
Henry gy, and Southampton, '4 r
ry Savage, Esq., Director of the Irving, Beau' tr '
Benjamin Shaw, Esq.,
stoke Railway 41,8 Ch d
Kilburn Peery, Director of .- , pad
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Blythe Valleys Railways of DU
J. E. Sichel, Esq., Director of the Leeds and LiverP4 t eof
William Sloane,
o ffhe Leeds and York, and Midland Railways „rg. Dlrec-e .
I
DifeCt°f ° ~,e
Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-S/01 w- ‘4'
the South Midland Junction Railway, acc r &C.
George Walker Smith, Esq., Horbury Hall,'Sheftlee-, - r.-
of
mas Smith, Esq., M.D., 30, North-street, Leeds,
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Direct°
Tho
Joseph Smithson, Esq., Kirklees Halifax trtt°°l* 6 and York, and Liverpool and-Leeds RailY/4Y°
ear
James Templer, Esq., Brixton-rise,
and Stafford Railway. Mills,drenctor of the Debt'
,ii 1'
Thomas S. Trapp, Esq., Banker, Bedford _ ow.,
Gorbals,
Samuel Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street, and
rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway I/43
William Tudor,
Thomas T
Esq., Upper Thames-street, and Gorbali, . or
urney, Esq., Park Lodge, near Halifax pirectecipa
David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland Hollow, DerbYsbire', cliani
the Rugby, Derby, and , and Direct 13irrox- p -
Majeicester Railways
or-Gene al Wright, Royal EnManchestergineers, Gloucester-Place' or rt"'
square
William Williams, Esq., Royal Foundery, Bedford
Charles Waite, Esq., Willesden House Middlesex „041100."
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John Wheelton, Esq., late Sheriff of 'London 'and .-
Thomas George W
Yates,i l Willett, t ,
Esq,E s ci
al. ,
merchant, Halifax
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct ItallWAY
Halifax
(With power to add to their number.) g.O.
ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF-Sir John M`Neil, L.L.D., ands,„Bin
Acme() ENGINEER-William Mullingar Wee '
LONDON SOLICITORS.
J.
Gray, R.
GGibsey, n'Esq.,
9,
Copthall-court
Esq., 125 Great Tower-Street,
J. H. Midge, E 8,4 ,
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BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Rogers, ()WM and CL
Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Co.

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The object of this railway is to connect, in the ped A'
the important and increasing manufacturing town of jeao
d io co
Metropolis, the want of which has long been felt, an der ttri es
sally acknowledged to need any comment, and ft 10 un.„,inut
viction that this important undertaking, after several 'ln woe,
minations of the country through which it will pass, la° be
forward. •
The proposed line will commence at the junction of thnee3afrlleres:
ter and Leeds, and York and North Midland RailwaYt the HS°O et.
field, and will terminate by means of a junction with interiti_,°
C ounties Railway at Redford (to which place it is the of is'ieij
that Company to extend their line in the ensuing se'l°tlie
ment), and by thus availing itself as far as Possible o..."„Dnoiee
railways, will complete the most direct and least n"; in its Toni,
flute, from London to Leeds, York, and Hull. It will Pt. DOOl3OO
WI hill an available distance of Wakefield, Pontefraciia,
Rotherham, East Redford, Nottingham Newark, Grant of
Mowbray, Oakham, and Stamford. the
The Importance of such a line is obvious, both from -eJ far
its course (embracing, as it does, a most extensive polooanile-n lion
its limits) as also from the absence of any direct corinun fa
Oen of
the conveyance of passengers and merchandise. „idea
By the construction of this railway, railway eni.Tby Ingalont
London will be given to Peterborough and Leicesre d et,"
the Syston and Peterborough Railway), to Newark wand 6.,-,„rter
(by the Nottingham and Lincoln line), and to Sheffield lai eav
rough (by the Sheffield and Gainsborough by ana 10114
route than by any existing Railways. the le riel"
Independently of the advantages offered to the towns in 'fen
itse:iew
counties through which this Line will pass, the Line 0100
dered as a direct trunk line between London and Leeds, ;tin% rtai
to justify its formation, it being well known that the e'd
the
between these two places would produce such a return on
required, as to admit of a dividend, equal to that of any is pe 010
operation : but when it is borne in mind, that a ComPab-ilnea pel
formed for the purpose of connecting Glasgow with Leeds_ c
a junction with the York and Carlisle Railway, no bettei
oninar pe
presented to the public, as it will not only effect a direct fn,der tit
tion from Glasgow and the Western parts of Scotland tof'gentla roe:
would also connect Edinburgh and the Eastern Puts Affdlara Waelt;
well as Durham and Newcastle (by the York and North
Great North of England Railways), with the Metropolis'"ed by ,n
be considerably shorter than the accommodation olleacsed r
other Company, and when oat of conotruCtlon 1,1 0211''