The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-19 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 19 IMS.

I °sport, rasd Portsmouth, a feature presented by no other proposed
railway. By adopting the Rugby and Oxford branch of the Great
Western as far as Didcot, and thence the proposed Oxtbrd, Southamp-
ton, Gosport, and Portsmouth line, the distance from Manchester to
Southampton will be twenty•three miles less than by any other route,
ant on this account the project has been warmly supported by the
Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway Company.
The deviations from a perfectly straight line between Rugby and
Macclesfield to avoid high ranges of hills, ornamental parks, or
valuable buildings are very slight, and the line in general ofers no
engineering difficulties of any magnitude. The towns more directly
interested as a local line are Nuneaton, Hinckley, Atherstone, Market
Bosworth, Burton azpon-Trent, Tutbury, Ashbonrne, and Leek.
The Company has made arrangements with the North London
Junction Railway Company, whereby it has secured the use of their
station (of the extent of six acres) in the centre of the City of London,
at the bottom of Moorgate-street, which will prove of the utmost
importance to this line.
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DIRE CT WESTERN RAILWAY
(Upon the Broad Gauge),
I Join London to the Land's-end ; with Diverging Lines to Bath and
Bridgewater respectively.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Hon. ~'harlee Pelham Villiers, M.P., Director of the South Mid-
land Railway, Brookes' Club, St. James's-street
Sir Francis Dugdale Astley, Bart., Everly House, Pewsey, Wilts
Sir Henry Webbe, Bart., 105, Pall-mall
Frederick Hodgson, Esq., M.P. for Barnstaple, 3, Carlton Gardens
Howard Elphinitone, Esq., M.P., 10, Eaton-place, London
Ralph Neville, Esq . M.P. for Windsor, Hill-street, Berkeley-square
Charles Barry Baldwin, M.P. for Totness, 6, Parliament-street
Hon. Percy Evans Freke, 3, Belgrave-square
Thomas Nugent Vaughan, Esq., 32, Grosvenor-place, London
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield. Director of the
Sheffield and Manchester and Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
Companies
Sir John Key, Bart , 9, King's Arms-yard, Alderman of the City of
London, Director of the Direct Manchester and London and Direct
Liverpool and Leeds Railway Company
Thomas Farneomb, Esq., Griffin's Wharf, Tooley-street, Alderman
of the City of London, and Director of the London and Westmin-
ster Bank, and of the Loudon, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidder-
minster Railway
Thomas Challis, Esq., 32, Wilson-street, Finsbury, Alderman of the
City of London
Edward Harrisaon Barwell, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the North-
ampton. Banbury; and Cheltenham Railway, and Director of the
South Midland Railway
Joseph Armitage, Esq., Milies Bridge House, Huddersfield, Deputy
Lieutenant and a Magistrate for the West Riding of Yorkshire,
Chairman of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
William Gordon Thomson, Esq., 33, Gloucester-road, Hyde Park,
Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham, and
South Midland Railways
Donald Maclean, Esq., 37, Brunswick-square, London, Deputy
Chairman of the Trent Valley Continuation Relit' ay
Thomas Lawrence, Esq., 3, St. Mary Axe
Philip W. Courtnay, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgravi-square, London
Millis Coventry, Esq., IVhitehart-court, Lombard-street
Barnet L. Philips, Esq., Comwaletetrace, Regent's Park, and
George-street, Mansion House
John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank,, Tunbridge, Kent, Director of
the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Boswell Middleton Jolland, Esq., Hdderness House,
near Hull,
Deputy Lieutenant and Magistrate for the East Riding of Yorkshire
Charles Robert Coleman, Esq., Irongate Wharf
William Eales, . Esq., Mincing lane, London, late Director of the
Devon and Cornieall Banking Company
Charles Downes, Esq., Warwick-street, Charing-cross, Director of
the South Midland Railway
Martin Stutely, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park, London,
Director of the Dublin,
.Belfast, 'and Coleraine,' and the South
Essex Railways
. .
Francis Ede, Esq., 34; (great Winchester-street
John Griffith Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Director of the Londonderry
and Coleraine and the Londonderr3* and Enniskillen Railways
John Addis, Esq., Rotherhithe and Mark-lane, London, Director of
the Central Terminus Railway, and of the Licensed Victuallers'
Fire and Life Insurance Company
James Renshaw, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street, and West
Heath House, Erith, Kent, Director of the South Staffordshire
Railway
Robert Bramwell, Esq., BreMbo Ironworks, Wrexham, and Cannon-
street, London
H. G. Atkinson, Esq., Upper Gloucester-place, Regent's Park
George 3Plntosh, Esq., 127, Seymour-street, Portman-square
Frederick Solly Flood, Esq., Alpha-road, Regent's Park, London
Major White, 105, Pall-mall, London, Director of the South Midland
Railway
Charles Bleaden, Esq., Coulsden-court, Surrey, Chairman of the Li-
censed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company
J. G. Hammack, Esq., Essex House, Mile-end-road, Director of the
Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company
eliiptE,aiEsqlsqw.
a.F,ye.ser.elsmc.ievnatn,y3linories, Director of the London and
Patrick Fras. Johnston, Esq., Great Cumberland-place
17,Charles-street, St. James's, and Ripon
CjWo3eßiehDrabhekrilit'lnvislaiVii,oodstoCk, Esq., Grove-road. North Brixton .
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanstoae-street, Portintiete.
square, Director of Thug, Reading, and Basignstoke, the Exe-
ter. Dorchester, and Weymouth, and the Great Western Extension
Railways •
George Hammond Whalley, Esq., 3S, Pall-mall, London, Assistant
Tithe Commissioner
WWiimmlliaam
jiHraegy,flo,
n,Esq., 60, Baker-street, Portman-square "
Esq., Montpelier, Cheltenham, and Temple, Lon-
don, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth Railway
Richard Harris Purcell, Esq., Cambridge-street, Hyde Park, Lon-
don, Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Railway
Company
Philip Baker, Esq., Euston-square, London, Auditor of the London
and Blackwell Railway Company
Charles James Heath, Esq., 6, London-street, Mark-lane
William
aKmaFth. eprilniec'ks, DEoevik., Company
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Captain E. N. Trowbridge, R.N., 11, Eaton-square
Anthony Ridley, Esq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury, a Director of the
Charles Thomas Warde, .Esq., Clopton . House, Warwickshire, and
Wilton-place,mpan Bolgrave-square
y
Luton Uoo, Bedfordshire
George Payne, Esq., Selby Hall, Northamptonshire, and Charles-
street, Berkeley-square .
James Beech, Esq., Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, and Grtisvenor-
place, London
Nicholas Philpot Leader, Esq., Dromagh Castle, county Cork, Union
Club, Trafalgar-square, Director of the Killarney Junction Rail-
' way Company
Samuel Baker, Esq., Lyppiat Park, Gloucestershire, and London.
William Congreve Russell,,Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Di-
rector of the Warwickshire and London Hallway
Henry Bredley,'Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire
John William Yerbury, Esq., Belcombe House, Wiltshire, Captain 3d
Light Dragoons • ,
Robert Main, Esq., Ravensbourne Park, Lewisham, and Trinity-
square, London
1 Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsall Houso, Retford, Nottinghamshire
John Gillyatt Booth, Esq., Crouch Hall, Hornsey
Major-Gen. Martin, White, Marlborough-buildings, Bath ~ . .
Rev.
BTu.
rilmae,
rvmeyllaArtsoodvortL ge, BurlyusNNewbury, Berke
Major Kirwan, Cereat Pulteney-street, Bath.
Rev. Dr. Godfrey, Grosvenor-place, Bath
_Edward Cooper, Esq.,
ileziry Tdogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse, Wilts, Magistrate of the
Staverton, Wilts, Magistrate of the County
County ewbury, House,Bne.s e'rk 'r
Rev. Chas. Fras. Bamfylde, Rector of Dunkerton, near Bat 1t
Richard Mortimore, Ess., Chlppenhatn, Wilts
George Tate, Egq., Tewkesbury, Director of the Bristol and Birming-
ham Railway Company .. ,
R. Wootten, jun., Esq., Banker, Oxford, Dfrectoref the Buckingham-
_Aire Jeuilwey and Wolverton Junction -
Richard Morthnore, Esq., Kingsmill, Collumpton,.
.-Ittiv. John Sydenham..Collumpton• • , , • .
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Rev. R. A. Roberts, Rector of Kentisbere.,Collumpten • ,
.Charles Justice; eleq.,• collumpton,• Devoe ;, . . -
Richard Marker, Esq., Ufcuhn Cottage, Tiverton ~., . , .
Colonel Henry Dundee Campbell, North. End, House, Portsmouth
George Pearce, Esq., Bradninch House, near Collumpton
Win. H. Macomb, Esq„ Chilton, Itungerford. Chairman of the Berks '
ITnlon4lanking Company .
William nali,oinb, Esq., 3iXarlhorough, Manager of the Wilts and
Dorset Bank
Captain W. G. Maclean, R.N., Taunton ,
Robert Parsons, Esq., Taunton.
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John Dalzell, Esq., Wallingford, Befits
-Thotna;,C9rlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol'
John Ke'He Habertleld, tesq., Clifton, Bristol •. . ,
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Amidst the many railway projects that now occupy the public
mind, and involve a vast outlay of capital, it will readily be conceded
that a line that will attain such important results at so small an
' outlay of capital, and the time required for its construction, and
without interfering with any existing vested interests, must meet
with general approbation, and at the same time offer a very excellent
investment for capital
The shareholders in the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Ports-
mouth, in the London and Birmingham, and in the Manchester and
Birmingham Railways, will have a preference in the allotment of
the shares.

The deeds will provitk that no call shall be made on the share-
holders beyond the deposit now paid, until the Act of Parliament is
obfaineil, and power will be taken in the Act to allow 41. per cent.
interest in all calls.
Application for detailed prospectuses, maps, and shares, may be
made to the Secretary, at the Office, 78, King William-street, City,
London, and the followli g sharebrokers :—Messrs. It. Sutton,
itble, and Sutton, 22, North-side Royal Exchange, London, and
George Bumand, Esq., Comhill ; Messrs. Houghland and Leese, 51,
King-street, Manchester ; John Wills, Esq., Royal Bank-buildings,
Liverpool ; Messrs. Wellbeloved anl Oastler, Leeds ; Messrs. Ed-
wards and Son, and W. H. Land, Esq., Bristol ; J. R. Lane, Esq.,
Birmingham ; Messrs. Garton and Wright, Sheffield ; J. G. Ker-
shaw, Esq., Huddersfield; F. C. Spencer, Esq., Halifax; Messrs.
Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham; Henry Beaumont and Co.,
Exeter ; IL P. Lemon, Esq., Bath ; and Joseph Clark, Esq.,
Southampton. .

Troup, Esq., Hastings
jblui Itobsbn, Esq., Clifton, Bristol '
John Mortbrd Cottle, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington, Director
- of Coventry and' Leicester Railway *
Joseph Knight, Esq., Leicester, Director of South Midland and North-
ampton, Banbury and Cheltenham Railways
Manchester, Director of Manchester and
John Newton Mappin, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Midland Railway Company
joDhnireßctiodrgoefwtahe,lllEatielester and Southampton Railway
Jasmociisthßamurit;to.lnoloß.
Edward Norris, Esq., Clairville, Manchester, Director of the Direct
London and Manchester, and North Cheshire Railway Companies
Joseph Nadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and
Wigan, and Manchester and Southampton Railways
James Ogden, M.D., Salford
Sir William Lowthiop, Hull, Magistrate for the East Riding of York
and for the borot'aillEh:(3)11:Hull, Chairman of the " Hall and Barnsley"
Committee, and MieimusbheorimofHtahlel, acting Committee of the "Liver-
pool and Leeds Direct Hallway Companies"
Huddersfield, Deputy Chairman of the Hudders-
field and Shefileld, and Director of the Halifax and Bradford
Union Railway
Charles Bamford, Jun., Esq., Hull, Director of the Mall and Barnsley
Junction
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Hjoonlfeosrd, Isq'-sq,
John Lillie, Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and South-
ampton Railway •
John Robson, Esq., Helton-le-Hole, Durham
Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Sheffield and
Manchester, and Chairman of the Manchester, Birkenhead, and
Midland Railway Companies
Isaac Holmes, Esq., Liverpool
Esq., Broomh Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and
Wm. B. Newbery, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Dudley and
Iron Bridge Railway Company
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Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach,
and Lincolnshire Railway, and Salisbury and Swindon Railways
John Ward, Esq. maehiu Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield,
Railway Company
Rotherham, and Chesterfield Life Assurance-office
Appleby,
Wm. Thompson, Esq., UPperthorpe, near Sheffield, Director of the
Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
Adderley Howard, Esq., Sutton Wisbech, Director of the East Coast
Railway Company
Captain Bowker, Devonport
H. S. Bright, Esq., Hull
Samuel Swann Brittain, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the East and West
of England Railway • Company
John Fawcett, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Wakefield anti Har-
rowgate Railway Company
William Marriott, Esq., Attercliff-terrace, Sheffield, Director of the
Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Junction Railway.
Thomas
et roll, Esq., Lincoln, Director of the London and York
and East Lincolnshire Railways
John Johnstone Hamilton, Esq., Liverpool
David Price, Esq., Manchester
William Hunter, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington
Rev. Charles Cottle, Rector of Walton, Northamptonshire
Major Wonnun, Clarence-square, Cheltenham
Edward Han, Esq., Westbank House, Macclesfield, Director of the
South Midland and the Northampton and Cheltenham Railways
Henry Hubbersty, Esq., Ilull
John Ostler, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction
Henry Shaw, Esq., Fetter-lane
Henry Sayer, Esq., Commercial-road, Limehouse, merchant
John Moe Mathew, ES)., Gray's Inn-square, Assistant Tithe Corn-

and manufacturing districts, and receive a large amount of traffic as
well from railways now in course of eghstruction as from others pro-
jected, with every chance of success.
As to the tralic on the lower portion of the line, it is evident that
the vast number of mechant vessels continually detained in the
Channel by adverse winds, would effect an Immense sa-,ing both in
insurance and -Vine, by discharglin; their canoes at Falmouth, and at
offee transmitting them to their destination by means of this railway;
and therefore—without speculating on the extent to which the ports
on either side of the great promontory of the Land's End may, by
means of this railroad, attract the commerce respectively of Bristol
and Southampton ; to what extent the inexhaustible mineral wealth
of Cornwall, And the unrivalled agricultural resources of Devonshire
may be further developed, or the genial climate of Penzance and
Mount's Bay, " the Montpellier of England," attract a larger propor-
tion of winter visitants—it is obvious that this line will command a
traffic both in goods and passengers, from its western terminus, the
amount of which may be said to be without limit. A glance at the
map will make it manifest that no competing trunk line can ever be
established between Tiverton and the Land's End. As between
Taunton and Reading, an inspection of the map will show a vast ex-
tent of midland district, comprising rich and populous parts of So-
mersetshire, Dorsetshirc, and Wiltshire, now altogether destitute of
railroad accommodation.

Recurring to the features of this project as a national work, one of
the greatest in point of magnitude, of vital importance in the event of
war, and of almost incalculable advantage to the general and packet
commerce of the kingdom ; It may not be out of place to quote here
the following expressions of Sir Robert Peel. Speaking of the project
of a direct line from Loudon to Liverpool through the Trent Valley,
which bore much the same relation to the Birmingham and Grand
Junction that this bears to the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter
Railways, he is rePorted to have said :—" I consider that the com-
munication between the metropolis and the great outports to be not
a question of hours, but a question of minutes." Of the necessity of this
particular line, Parliament has already expressed an opinion ; for in the
report of the Committee on the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth
line, which was promoted by the Great Western Railway Company,
it was stated that that Company had been required to pledge itself
not hereafter to oppose a direct line to Falmouth; and it may be
further observed, that a proposed line from Plymouth to Falmouth
was last session rejected, on the ground that it might be supposed
to interfere with that great national object.
The survey of the line has been to a great extent completed, and
correct estimates of the expenditure and returns are in a state of for-
wardness, and the whole will be ready for the next session of Par-
liament.

It is sufficient, as to these points, here to state that there are no
engineering difficulties in any part of the line which have not been'
repeatedly surmounted in other cases ; that the first portion will be
constructed at Ari unusually small expense; that the undertaking•
will meet with the cordial support, concurrence, and co-operation of
the landowners, and that the Directors are jestitled in asserting that
this will prove to be one of the most remunerative railways in the
kingdom. '
Powers will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow interest at
four pounds per centum per annum on the deposits, and preference
in the allotment of shares will be given to the proprietors of the land
through-whWi the line. will pass, and to the shareholders in the
Great Western, the Bristol and Exeter, and other railways connected
with the Direct Western district.

Applications for shares, in the form subjoined, to be addressed to
the solicitors to the Company, or to the Secretary.
London. September 11, 1845.

FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Direct Western Railway
• • • • • Company.
Gentlemen,—l reqvest you:will allot me shares of 251. each In
the above Company, and I undertake to pay the deposit of 21. 12s. 6d.
per share thereon, or on any less number you may appropriate to Me,
and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Con-
tract when required.
Dated

1845.

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BARNET and NORTH METROPOLITAN
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and Sth Victoria, cap. 110.)
Capital, 400,0001., in 20,000 Shares of SOL each. ..
Deposit, 21.25. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.
The Hon. F. H. Berkeley, M.P., Chairman, Director of the London,
Hounslow, and Western Railway Company
William Alfred Hill. Esq., Deputy-Chairman, also Deputy-Chairman
of the Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham Railway Company
Sir Jahn Osborne,• Bart., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing-
stoke Railway Company •
The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne, Belly Hatch House, Henley
William Wilberforce, Esq., James-street, Buckingham-gate, and
Highwood Hill, Hendon
Lieut.-Colonel Gullies, Porchester House, Bayswater
_William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Director of the Italian and
Austrian Railway - , •
Josiah Heale, Esq., Gray's Inn
Major Lindam, K.H., Chairman of the Gloucester; Aberystwith, and
Central Wales Railway Company
Henry Beckley Richardson, Esq., F.S.A., Director 'of the Colchester,
Cambridge, and Harwich junCtion Railway
Rowland Hill Mackenzie, Esq., 31. D., Mortimei-street, Cavendish-
squaie
Henry Chaytor, Esp., Clervaux ' Castle, Darlington, Director of the
Warwick and Worcester Railway
Thomas Hemming Jchnson, Esq., Older's Hall, Hendon, Middlesex
Thomas Priestley, Esq., Principal of Mill Hill Grammar school,
Hendon, Middlesex
The Rev. H. J. Crump, Mill Hill; Hendon, Middlesex
Captain Grover, R.N.
Captain John Innes, H.C.S., Wentworth House, Mill Hill, Hendon,
Middlesex
The Rev. Bartholomeiv ViCholls, 31. A., Incumbent of St. Paul's,
31111 Hill, Hendon, Middlesex
Ward, Cnderhill, Barnet
Mr. Bruce Johnson, Finchley
.• William. Christopher DanielDeighton, Esq., Fellow of Queen's College,
Cambridge, Holloway
Ralph Allen Frogley, Esq., Honnalow, Director of the London,
Hounslow, and Westev,itailway -
Colonel Taylor White, Hadley-green, Barnet.
Abraham Scott, Esq.,- Hadley Prioiy, Barnet - •
W. J. M'Gwire, Esq., 74,-St. James's-street
W. Prosser, jun., Esq.,'36, New Broad-street, City ,
James Berington, Esq., East-street, Buxton
George Freeman, Esq., Grange House, Leeds ~
Richard Cowley Polhill, Esq., Director of the London, Hounslow, and
Western Hallway COMPanY
George Godfrey, Esq., The Elms, Hutton, Essex
Robert Wright Wood, "tiq., Diiector of, the Tring, Reading, and
Basingstoke Railway Cornequy,
Alexander Prince, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing-
7-,,,stoke Atailwap,
'Peter Graham, Esq., Angelo Villa, Gleimester-riad, Regent's Park
William Henry Halpin„Esp., 23, Grafton-street, Fitzroy-square
Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Director of the-Tring, Reading, and
~13naingstolce„Railway,,Corapany, , ,
Charles Green, Esq., Director of the Gloucester, Aherystwith; and
Central, Wales Railway ponapa.ny
J. N. Nieholay, Esq., Oxford-street
John Godfrey B. Hudson, Esq., Director of the Central Terininus
Railway Company
Th* Rev. G. A. Walker, Alvisthorpe, Wakefield, Director of the
Wakefield and Bradford Railway Company .
,„*Wlth power to add to their number.)

COMMITTEE OF MANAOEMENT.
The Hon. F. H. F. Berkeley, MX., W. H. Halpin, Esq.
Chairman , Richard Cowley Polhill, Esq.
William Alfred Hill,Esq., Deputy- Alexander Prince, Esq.
Chairman . ,1 George Freeman, Esq.
Major Lindam, K.H. George Godfrey, Esq.
Henry Beckley Richardson, Esq,, Robert Wright Wood, Esq.
F.S.A. Charles Green, Esq.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—Francis Wishaw, Esq., C.E., Brook Lodge,
Hendon. '

ACTING ENGINEER—J. Bailey Denton, Esq., 10, Gray's Inn-square,
BANKERS—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths,
JOINT SOLICITORS.
Edward Elkins, Esq., 59, Newman-street, Oxford-street
G. P. Hill, Esq., 21A, Soho-square.
LOCAL AGENTS.

Henry Hammond, Esq.,solicrtol,Wentworth Lodge, Finchfey
lan Hughes, Esq., solicitor, Whetstone.
SEcarreaY (pro tem.)—A. Doull, Esq.

This railway will connect the important and hitherto neglected
town of Barnet with the London and Birmingham and the Great
'Western Railways, at or near Hoisdon-green ; with the Northern
and Eastern and the Eastern Counties Railway, at or near Totten-
ham ; and the proposed Direct London and Manchester, and the Lon-
don and York Railways.
The line, in Its course, will unite the town of Barnet with What-
stone, Totteridge, llighwood Hill, Mill Hill, Finchley, Holder's Hill,
Hendon, Burrows, Golder's Hill, Gutterhedge, Kingsbury, Neesdon,
Wilsdon, Wilsdon Green, Holsdon Green, Kensall Green, Westbourne
Green, Maida Hill, Kilburn, Hampstead, West End, Highgate, Crouch
End, Hornsey, Muswell Hill, West Green, Tottenham, Edmonton,
Chinford, Stamford Hill, Stoke Newington,, Newington Green, Clap-
ton, Highbury, Holloway, Kingsland, Layton, Stratford, West Ham,
Bow, Bromley, Bethnal Green, Limehouse, Holton, Homerten,
Hackney, Shacklewell, Dalston, Islington, St. Pancras, Shoreditch,
Blackwell, Euston-square, Paddington, Kensington, Hammersmith,
Brompton, Fulham, Chelsea, &c. ; connecting those places with the
various railways named, and all those south of the river Thames.
The distance from the town of Barnet to the station of the London
and Birmingham Railway, at Euston square, by this route, will be
1.5 miles.

The length of the main line, from the point of junction at Totten-
ham to the London and Birmingham Railway, will be 11 miles ; and
the length of the branch line to Barnet, will be 41i miles. From the
junction with the Birmingham Railway to Chipping B irnet, 934
miles ; from the Decoy (near Brent-street, Hendon). on the proposed
Barnet and North Metropolitan Junction Railway, to the Northern
and Eastern Counties Railway, by Stamford-hill, 61. i miles.
There are no engineering difficulties throughout the entire distance.

The line will proceed beyond the range of the Highgate and Hamp-
stead Hills, and the branch from the main line to Barnet will follow
the valley of the river Brent to the intended station at Barnet ; thus
the expense of construction will be less than any other metropolitan
line of railway, for the above reason, and because it will pass through
an agricultural district, avoiding all ornamental property and large
collections of houses and buildings.

Upon the completion of this railway, a large and daily-increasing
population, resident beyond the limits of the metropolitan omnibuses,
will be largely benefited, and land and agricultural produce, hitherto
affording an inadequate return to their cultivators, will be quad-
rupled in value.

The ancient, populous, and once-flourishing town of Barnet, too,
will now have a railway communication of its own, without depend-
ing upon the caprice or uncertain goodnature of any company who
may hold out a prospect of a branch, in future times, from some of
the trunk lines now contemplated.
An ample return of profit to the investments of shareholders may
be safely anticipated, and will arise from the following sources,
amongst others :-
1. From the conveyance of passengers.

2. From the carriage of goods and merchandise from the City and
Docks, &c., to the several railways which are intersected by this
line, avoiding the delay and excessive cost of conveyance through
London ; also from the conveyance of cattle, &c., more particularly
during the period of the large Barnet fairs
3d. From the conveyance of coal, both inland and seaborne, fuel,
and other commodities of general consumption, the great expense
of which has long been felt by all classes as a most grievous evil.

missioner
John Norton, Esq., Moat House,-Brentwood, Essex
William John M'Guire, Esq., Hampton Court
John Gray Wilson, Esq., Oxford-terrace
Capt. J. P. Macdougall, Grove, (forth Brixton, Surrey
W. J. Lefeuvre, Esq., Alderman and Magistrate of Southampton
Thomas Chas. Harrison, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's Park
G. B. Bunbury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the
Coventry and Leicester Railway
Captain Tringham, R.N., Soiyhull, Warwickshire
William Jenson Neale, Esq., King's Bench-walk, Temple
James Whitney, Esq., Shrewsbury
Henry Paul Harwood, Esq., M.D., Sheffield
(With power to add to their number).
BANKERS—Messrs. Curries and Co., Comhill, London.
JOINT SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Bell, Brodrick, and Bell, Bow Churchyard, London
Messrs. Rickards and Walker, 29, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London
Messrs. Haynes and. Moore, Warwick and London
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Messrs. J. V. and J. T. Harting, 24, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London.
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SECRETARY—Thomas Hosier Saunders, Esq.
ASSISTANT-SECRETART—CharIes J. Whalley, Bag.
LOCAL SOLICITORS ALREADY APPOINTED.
At Devizes, Henry Gilbert, Esq.
At Bath,
14. Messrs. Batehellor, Harford, and Staunton
At
tt Trouteie and Bradford, Messrs. Stone. and. Rodway
Bridgewater, Mess G. ' and J R Poole
At Tiverton . S.
* *
At Truro
have been the
At Penzance
At Falmouth
atlleast2l9dinthil
ee
sLoafnhdei
LondonTii e object of this line Is to effect a direct communication between
In a national point of view such a line is indispensable. With BARNET and NORTH METROPOLITAN
the advantage from its position at the JUNCTION RAILWAY.
western extrethity
inincipal port on that coast.
of a dolfretchterailroad, Falmouth,
kihgdom, would undoubtedly long since At a public meeting of the inhabitants of Barnet and its vicinity,
With the advantage of convened by a requisition, numerously signed and duly published,
has attained its high po- Betel at the yictorla Hall, Union-street, Barnet, tile 17th day of Sep!
sition its with far less natural ad- tember Instant,
, a Packet Statio Southampton,
vanta,tee, has, since the n*
of the South-Western Railway, in- JOHN'. HEY PUGET, Esq., of Totteridge, in the Chair ;
crearel its imports froMe2poeoningloto
3,000,0001.
Land's End.
that place
per annum. At Bris- . It was proposed by J. SPENCER, Esq. ; seconded by the Rev, J. D.
(>l, belbre the opining of the Great Western Railway, the imports' - TuomesoN, and carried unanimously— ' . • •
' Were de,auu - • •ng ; since then they have very
considerably increased. 1: That it is the opinion of this meeting that a direct railway
. The merits of a line to the Land's End as an investment for ca- . communication between the northern districts of the metropolis and
pital; it way not let to the resent Company to discover. • The Great - the to w!# or Barnet is of vital importance to its prosperity, and is now
Western and Bristol and 'Eider Railway having already reached imperatively called for.
'Exeter, it has been in contemlation to extend • that line to Fel- It was proposed by BENJAMIN SMITH, Esq. • seconded by Mr. JOHN
Youth by way of Plymouth . and various other projects have been - - • HOPEWELL, and resolved unanimously—
set on foot op the ' Falmouth must be reached by 2. That this meeting having duly considered the prospectus and
conviction that
railway, .• • . - map, of the line of the proposed Barnet and North Metropolitan
The object of this prospectus is to show that no other line than the
)potent
Railway, and on comparing the same with-•the other pro.
present can ultimate:mosey the exigencies of the country in regard Jeeted lines, • does most unhesitiltingly declare , that the proposed
to this, jest important . - ..the natural Packet Station of BArnet, and 'North Metropolitan Junction Railway will afford to the
eutport—
the emp town greater advantages than any line of railway hitherto proposed
The present project is distinguished by this—that it is direct. It is to come in the vicinity of Barnet, it being the only one which will
as nearly as possible a straight line from London to the Land's End. afford to the residents of the town the advantage of a station, and
The London, Bath, and Bridgewater Company having amaiga- that it deserves the support-of the inhabitants and all others having
mated with this Company tine immense local influence commanded an interest in Barnet and its vicinity ; and that a petition be pre-
by them Will now con tribute to the great national object of a direct rented in favour of the line immediately upon the assembling of the
line ; while means have been taken for securing the traffic and afford- Houses of Parliament. And tills meeting pledges itself to further the
lug all the accommodation contemplated by that Company. - views of the Company, and resolves that a Committee be appointed to
The Direct Western availing itself of the Great Westernitallway promote the object and • secure the interest of the town of Barnet:
so-the as Reading, Pursues its course by Or near Newbury, Hunger-
_That the Committee consist of .
ford, Great Bedwin, Marlborough, Devizes,the manufacturing dis:
Benjamin Smith, Esq.' - ' Mr. Brunt • -
triet'of Trowbridge'(fro di
m which a ver ngi g line will be-carried by Mr. John Hopewell . Mr. Spencer .
Bradford direct to Bath), Westbury Frome, Shepton Mallet, Wells Mr. George Bower • The Rev, Mr. Stewart
(from 'which anothe ' • 'will be taken to Bridgewater), ,
r diverging line- Mr. James HUI The Rev. John DawsonThomp-
Glastonbury to Tanntrin by about thirty-two miles than
, Ping shorter Mr. James Cooper . son
any existing or Projected "i•allways*between these points, and without With power to add to their number.
a tunnel. From Taunton the Bristol and Exeter Railway (now It was proposed by tile Rev. ALEXANDER STUART; and seconded by
leased to the Greet Western) is traversed to Tiverttm, whence it is
J. SPENCER, Esq,, end carried unanimously—
St
proposed to carry this line direct to the Land's End, Falmouth, 3. That the thanks of the meeting be tendered to the Honourable T.
Ives, and Penzance, being shorter by about sixtythan the*
milesi the ' H. F.- Berkeley, the Chairman, and toihe Depuly-Chairnian, and tile
lately proposed iine * way Of Plymouth, and effecting, i
tilwhole other memsers of the deoutation from the t'artiet and North
distance from -London to Falmouth, a saving of about
Tiverton,lliYm it '.*
Metropolitan function, Rai way Company, for the able manner in
With respect to the traffic between London and; which they have laid before the meeting the project of the Company.
gh traffic sure- .
needless to siy more than that there is already
thorough
Direct We I. It• •was proposed by W. HILL, Esq.,; and seconded by W. H.
dent to justify the construction of this portion o (1-. • , , HALpm. Esq,, and carried unanimously—
tern : that it will shorten. the distance from L 1 4. That a vote of thanks be tendered to John hey Puget, Esq., for
ab°2t 32 milse that It will traverse rich and populoua agricultural hia impartial and able conduct in the chair, ~
•

The Committee of Management reserve to themselves the power
of adopting, upon this line, locomotive power, or Prosser's Railway
Ode and safety wheels, as may be deemed expedient.
Applications for Shares in the form annexed (and communi-
cations from persons desirous of promoting the objects of the Com-
pany), may be addressed to the Secretary, at the Provisional Offices
of the Company, b 9, Newman-street, Oxford-street ; to the Joint
Solicitors, Edward Elkins, Esq., 59, Newman-street ; and G. P.
Hill, Esq., 21A, Soho-square.

r HE WEST MIDLAND, MANCHESTER,
JL AND SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY, AND SWINDON AND
B iItMINGIIAM JUNCTION,
Being an extension of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,200,0004, in 60,000 shares of 201. each.
_ Deposit 21. 2s. per share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Lori Georze ttwet, lixbridse House
Major licresrord,
William Bulkeiey Hughes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid-
land, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Richard Price, Esq. M.P., Director of the Welsh Midland, and
Director of the Sodth and Midlands' Junction Railways
David R. Ross, Esq., 31. P., Chairman of the Belfast, Director of the
London and Manchester, and South and Midlands' Junction Rail-
ways
Sir John E. De Beauvoir, Bart., Chairman of the London and Bir-
mingham. Extension, and Director of the South and Midlands'
Junction Railways
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire, Director
of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Harts, Director of
the Chester and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junc-
tion Railways
Sir William Wynn, Maesynewadd, Chairman of the North Wales,
and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Ppm, Director of the Direct Western
Railway
Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London, Director of the London
and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
Sir Williarn.TwySdeti, But, Director of the Chepstow and Forest of
Dean Railway
William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., Alderman of Lon-
am, .• Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation,
and London and Greenwich Railways, &c. &c.
Thomas Sydney, Esq., Alderman and Sheriff of London, Director of
the London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junc-
tion Railways
Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the Lon-
don and Westminster Bank, and Namur and Liege, and South and
Midlands' Junction Railways
John Kinnersley Hooper, 'Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the
London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
Thomaa Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South and
Midlands' Junction Railways
Donald Maclean, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Trent Valley Con-
tinuation, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
Major Oliver Lindam, Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberys-
twith, and Central Wales, and Director of the South and Midlands'
„Jungtion Railways
Makir-generat Parlby, C. 8., Rutland-gate Director of the Worces-
ter and Crewe, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways •
Captain James Patrick Macdougal, late Bengal Royal General Staff,
Fir-grove, North Brixton, Director of the Chester and Forest of
Dean, and South and Midlands' Junction ,Railways, &c.,
Captain Alexander Hamilton Carle, Royal Artillery, Reform Club
John James, Esq., Secondary of the City of London, Director of the
Legal and Commercial Insurance Company, the Great Western of
Bengal, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Robert Henry Lyndam, Esq„ Director of the Exeter and Weymouth
Railway
Major Jelf Sharp, Deputy-Chairman of the Thames Embankment
Railway
Richard William Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Man-
• chester, and Derbyshire and South Staffordshire Railways
William Fechney Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Direc-
' for of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways. •
Peter Morrison, Esq., Managing Director of the Biitannla Life Insu-
rance Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
James Clay; Esq., Brompton, . Director of the Furness and White-
haven, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Col. Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, Director of the London and
Birmingham Extension, and South and Midlands' Junction Rail-
ways
William Shaw, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment, Manag-
ing Director of the .Farmers', Life Insuranee Coinpany and Di-
rector of the South and Midlands' Jmiction Railway
Richard Carpenter, • Dig , Magistrate of the County of Middlesex,
Deputy-Chairman of the London and Birmingham Extension, Di-
rector of the Leicester and. Bedford, and South and Midlands'
. Junction Railways
G. W. Kiilett Potter, Esq., Secondary' of the City'of London
Lieut.-General Sir Lewis Grant, K.C.8., 31, Harley-street .
JohnJenningli, Esq., Elm-grove, Hammersmith'
William S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Director of the
Oxford, Witney and Cheltenham, and South and Midlands' Junc-
tion Railways -
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., 8, Upper Hyde-park-street
William Singleton, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds,
and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of the Britannia Life Insurance
Company, and Derby and Stafford, and South and Midlands' June-
. tion Railways
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the. Manchester
and Birmingham Railway
Daniel Penton Johnson, psq., Director of the London and Manches-
ter,
Railway
Richard Parish, Eig., Bank House, Wordsley, Staffordshire
Samuel Parish, Esq., Wordsley, near Stourbr dge, Staffordshire
John Anderson, Esq., Director of the Church of England
Life InStarance, and South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Henry Lewis Smale, Esq., Willoughby House, Tottenham, Director
of the, London and Dover, and South and Midlands' Jtinction
Railways
Janes Reeves,,Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Direct,
and South and MidlandS'Janction.Railways
John Cash, Esq.
Henry Wright, Esq„ Brunswick-square, Director of the Warwick
and,Worcestar, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
John Casteudick, Esq., Lewisham.
Robert Richards, Esq:, Inner Temide, London,' Director of the South
and Midlands'Junctian Railway
George It. Coltman, Esq., Director of the South'and Midlands' Juic-
tion, and''Noriliamnton and Banbury Railways
William ;Paxton; Esq., Lang,ford, near Bicester, Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
William llardgett, Winchester House, Broad-street, 'Director
of the Italian and Austrian, and Smith and Midlands' Junction
Railways
W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the. Manchester and Birmingham Con-
tinuation Railway , '
John Blackburn, Esq., Leeds
Peter Fairbairne. Esq., Leeds, Vice Chairnian of the Leeds and York
Railway
J. D. Hopkins, Esq„ Bedford-square Direct& of the London and
Birmingham Extension Railway
Henry Corufoat, Esq., Old Palace, Richmond
James Durness, Esq, LeYtouStonet,Essex
N, Wright, 31,4., CoedCelyn, Denbighshire, arid Lonsdale-square,
Islington
Stephen Lewis, Esq„.pireetor,of the South Wales Railway
Martig,Furpess, Esq„ Director of the Newark and Sheffield Railway
William Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Lincoln, York and
.L.Lee4.441,11TV,
Edmund ?haps, Esq., Avon mouse, Melitsham, Directoi of
the South and Midlands Junction Railway
Charles Thomas Ward, Esq., Luton Bop, Beds, and Clopton House,
Stratford-on-. Avon, Director of
,the South'. and Midlands' Junction

/

Pro.
and Southampton Railway project, a combination of advantag,
tents itself—the result of a design, to a great et tent, but °love/
gentles also. If it be eiesirab:e that the terminus of everyfps re•
should be situated at some commercial or populous place,
nut be
erect the preser:t project is pecallarly fortunate. If GolT t
resolved on countenanchw tin, shortest and most directorY
will be seen, by laying a ruin on 1:1,-; map of England franl7tn thtse
to Manchester, that a marse duo north and south bet's lb!!
places will pass very nearly through the towns mentioneovos
prospectus, as being on the proposed lire; and actual plea' ;010'01
has shown this line to be the shortest between SouthaLuP'
Manchester b 26 miles.
By the coy
nstruction, therefore, of little more than ojeo-
rail, as here proposed, the shortest, most direct, and Rill be er
communication between Manchester and Southampton pro*
tablished--a line, also, however superior in po-ition to 01_1'0,' venlig
mising similar advantages. may be considered as 'who!'
with none, but as an independent work, originating at 81, roote.
*ld terminating In the seaports of Weymouth, Christchtat
and Southampton. Pc°
In the allotment of shares in this Company the Diret teuttd
to give a preference to the original shareholders of the
Midlands' Junction Railway Company. or
and
Applications for prospectuses and plans may be Made: „,e,
of application for shares had, at the Office of W. 13. ''?"..„es!,
Solicitor, 5, Basinghall-street ; and of the following gentte'--et;
London—Messrs. J. Peppercorne and Co., 9, Old Broad-,5,t.,/burif
J. B. Harrison, 8, Bank Chambers ; Mr. Thomas
Angel-court.
Liverpool—Messrs. Mills and Co , and Messrs. Neilson. 01001
Manchester—Messrs. Houghland and Leese, and 31r.

Marshall.
Hull—Messrs CoHinson and Flint.

Leeds—Messrs. Watson and Co•
Stratford-on-Avon--Mr. William Bolton
Exeter—Mr. Thomas Sanford.

Ilymouth—Messrs.Heyward and Pulmer

Birmingham— Mr. Collis, and Mr. John Wright.
sll°
Glasgow—Messrs. Tassie and Co. giC
Edinburgh—Messrs. Robertson and Co., and Meo3ll'

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.,.. ,beiter'
To the Provisional Committee of the west Midland, P.'"
and Southampton Railway. w
t
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me ne 0
Shares of 201. each in this Company, and I undertake t° ober
same, and to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less n
May be allotted to me ; and I undertake also to execate;ed,
.„
mentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when req"— .• .• ,
. •
Name (in hill)• • • • • • • • '''' „
Trade or Profession • • '''' ..•••
Reference .... •
Address of Referee • •
Date

and G.

"1-14,j ot!
BRIDGWATER and MINEHEAD, $OO
AILAY COMPANY uniting the BriO'tocen
fish Channels, and forming a direct 'communication "A" 200,1'0e
South of Ireland and Wales, with Bristol and Lottdon, litto
the South-Eastern and Western Coasts of England, pare
Channel Islands.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 300,0001. in 15,000 shares of 201. each' AI/
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
riptialßi
Liability expressly limited to the amount of subsc",
is intended to make no further call until the Act of .'-
obtained.. .

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE, _l.
Sir Henry Seale, Bart., Mount Boom, Dartmouth drop, v"
Sir John Hansler, •P.R.S., Walton, near Saffron Iv' tY
Lieutenant of the county of Essex
,0300 of
Colonel Luttrell, Kilve Court, near Minehead, Vice-Ch fto
Somerset Quarter Sessions -..tritt` 0
John Halliday, Esq., Chapel Cleeve, near Minehead,...., 14' „if
county of Somerset o
John Cridland, Esq., Spring-grove Park, near WivellsOu'l*
trate for the Count of Somerset De
Henry William Chichey te sr, E' sq. Rose House, Ramp
0
R. Beaden Buller, Esq., Nether Stowey, Somerset
Edwin Ley, Esq., Penzance, Cornwall

The Mayor of the Town and County of Poole
04
Richard Pinney, Esq., shipowner, Poole QsoI
ld
t
E. F. Dayrell, Esq., of Lillingstone Dayrell, and 15. - O
street, London, High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire
_,Alse dt,
W. S. Fitzwilliam, Esq., Pinner's Hall, Broad-street, et,o'r"
W. Revell Vigers, Esq., 50, Russell-square, and Aldc''."
merchant
W. S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park t Pe
James Morrison, Esq., 28, St. Mary-at-hill, merchant St,
games Colhoun, ESq. 5, Half-moon-street, Piccailllt,
kgf
chambers, Cornhill, merchant 005,
Samuel Pocock, Esq., Bloomsbury-square, and St. Be_ ,
Anthony Mervyn Storey Maskelyne, Esq., Glanusk ee°"'"-"
shire
F. W. Green, Esq., shipowner, Cornhill
W. F. Beadon, Esq., I I, John-street, Berkeley-square.
W. Stratton, Esq., Banker, Strand.
_t.
Office-3, Alderman's-walk, New Brood—
.tree

SOLICITORS. Ore.
Messrs. A'Beckett, Son, & Sympson, 7, Golden-elate,
Mr. Vaughan Prance, Nether Stowey and Bridg"
MANAGING DIRECTORS.'
E. F. Dayrell, Esq. James
w•
.Vigers, Esq.
W. S. Fitzwilliam, Esq. Samuel Poeoea W 4.••
W. F. Beadon, Esq. James 3forria°l4
F. W. Green, Esq.
S.
SECRETARY—Mr. Edward Parrott.
Potter,
10;
ANKERS':
Messrs. Straban and Co.; an A Messrs. Roberts and Co'
..tito,y
Messrs. Stuckey and Co., Bristol, Bridgwater, and 11;;ed iw
Applications for Shares, plans, prospectuses, and detrAidef!V
tion, may be made at the Offices of the Company, NO. 800:
walk, City, London ; at the Offices of the ComPan.',,, 1•00/
Messrs. A'Beckett, Soo: ;And Sympson, 7, Golden-50a; 01.,,
Mr. Vaughan Prance, Nether Stowey and Bridgwater+Zai ;
Local' Agents—Mr. William Woodland, solicitor, Tau,'" ,„itof, )0'
Pearce, solicitor, Wiveliscombe ; Mr. James Parsons, sollwester
Port ;. Messrs.. Stone and Symonds solicitors, D0.„rn,1',4, Ord
Thomas Phippaid, solicitor, Wareham; Mr. M. R. We'`'-' fulw
Poole ; mr. Henry Poole, solicitor, .Bristol ; and of the sos•A,
Stock and Share-brokers--Messts. Tucker Barnett, and . 10701;
Biliallrc,bißnc-olaneors; ananda
M•Coe.s,usChelliteurihggainmgs; Morcoo• 1;9;
Mr. ThpriAsEvons, Bath; Mr. Charles Manchester;
.H„giftles and Co., Liverpool; Messrs. -Chantrell and sore.
51%
Messrs. Wilkinson and Eatie, Hull ; Messrs. Labertouelle.,
and Lang, London, 0,041,
ford, Dublin,; Mr. Lilly, Bridgwater; Mr. R. Bali, l'aunt°'• • ,
iiichai•d'NeVille Parker, solicitor:Cork. ' •
FORM OF 'APPLICATION-FOR. suArcv,;" blip
To the Managing Directors of "the' Bridgwater and ,
Junction Railway-Con:m/IY.
eei
in'thV ab • , . shayi
ei €fr
u merl,—love'und requeresttOking ; 'yott will d
Ihereby undertakealkit me &seee f•V,
: an
same, or any less dumber you may allot to me, on the f!'4
prospectus, and to pay the dOtlOSit Oft 21, 2s. per share, dtbor
calls thereon, and to sign tire parliamentary contract an
7 . .
agreement, and other-deeds, when required so to do. - •
Elated this- • day of 1845.
Name in full .. „ ..... •• • • • • •. •
, Place of business— ••• • '''''
: Residence ' • " •
••• ..••• ,••••
ofession or business •• ••• • • •,„•
• • • • ilinnaltignat •• referee 'Nolte r ure
of refe c,
BRIDGWATER and
hge
1"
, residence, &e•' AD u
,TtilioaNt
BNbtice-is-hereby given o Application for s ed, unless the same' be-made in the- form Prese'.l4"
Managing Director/4; -and the appliettuto mast also refer a./
of the. Provisional Committee, or to some' -Orson of onowe
Avi
bility.--Dated September 12, 1845. • By or ler, /4.1(;0!
- Messrs. A'BECKETT, SON, and ST3:si,
1,
VAUGHAN PRANCE, Solicitors to tll_
;;.I.,dP
LEWES,' Mt AND TEAN AND ,
VALLEY JUNCTION RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 300,0001., in 15,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share..
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Honourable the Earl of Uxbridge
The Right Honourable Lord William Graham

•
Railway
Joseph Brook, Esq., Greenhead, Huaderetleld, Director of the Leeds,
Dewsbury, and Manchester, and Huddersfield and Sheffield Junc-
tion, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
George .Henry Brook, Esq,,, Faigulin,lodge, Huadersfield..Provisional
Director of the Huddeestield, Halifax .and Bradford Union Rail-
way, and-Director oe tha-South,aod Xidlandie 'Junction Railway
Captain Hitching, H.E.1.C.5., Queen Anne-street, Cavendish-square,
Director of the Birmingham and Oxford, and South Midlands'
Junction Railways
~ •
James Beech, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place, and Brandon Ledge, near
• Coventry, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Rail-
way
William Watrmrrole: tag:, Thtirloe:Square, 'nroinpton, Director of
. .
the JerSey. and Smith'inid Midlands' Junction Rail*ltys
Thomas Cleobury, Esq., 30, Sackville-street
Major Walker, K.H., Director of the London and Manchester Direct,
and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Frederick James Hall, Esq., Torrington-square, and Alfreton, Derby,
Director of the Trent Valley Continuation, and South and Mid-
lands' Junction Railways
J. R. W. Atkinson, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford, and
South and MI Hands' Junction Railways
Joseph Underwood, Esq., The Hall, Blackheath, Director of the Me-
tropolitan Life Insurance Company, and Director of the London
and Birmingham Extension Company, and Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
W. A. Hill, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith and
Central Wales, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Chairman
of the Church of England Life Insurance Company, and Director
of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Colonel Fitch, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
Richard Dutton, Esq., Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Railway, Director of the Legal and Commercial Life Insurance
Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
Captain C. W. Tyndale, Director of the South-Eastern and South
and Midlands' Junction Railways
Frederick Jones, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Director of the Warwick and
Worcester, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
John Englis Jerdein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester,
Rugby and Southampton Railway
William Morley, Esq., Blackheath
William Lee, Esq., Director of the Gravesend and Rochester, and
Essex and Suffolk Railways
Thomas Gooch, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands'
Junction Railway
4, Harvey, Esq., Rush-hill, Surrey
John Wheelton, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Thomas Collingridge, Esq., Highgate, Middlesex
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
C. Waite, Esq., Willesden, Middlesex
R. W. Wood, Esq., Lodge-place, St. John's Wood, Director of the
North Metropolitan Railway
William Stark, Esq., Director of the Guarantee Society
Frederick Collingridge, Esq., Thurlow-square, Brompton
Warren Storms Hale, Esq. Gresham-street, Director of the Oxford
and Worcester Extension
Kingsmill Grove Key, Esq.
Thomas Yates Hunt, Esq., Brades, near Birmingham
Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds, Director of the West Riding Junction, and
South Midlands' Junction Railways
W. Lee, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square
Robert Power, Esq., M.D., Queen-street, May-fair
Admiral J. Ayscough, Prospect-place House, Southampton, Director
of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Joseph Thompson, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton. and
South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Major Grubbe, Eastwell House, Potterne, Wilts, Magistrate of the
County, and Director of the South and Midlands'Junction Railway
Captain Seth N. Fisher, Director of the Warwick and Worcester, and
South and Midlands' Junction Railways
T. G. Norbury, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Henry Getard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continua-
tion, and aouth and Midlands' Junction Railways, and of the Legal
and Commerciar Life Insurance Company
William Hallett, Esq., Kemp Town, Brighton, Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
John Brocke Walbaecke, Esq., Directs): of the South and Midlands'
Junction Railway
Captain Hamilton Earle, Royal Artillery
William Lee, Esq., Director of the Reading Railway
Henry Savage, Esq., Dorset-place, Dorset-square
William T. Thornton, Esq., Berkeley-street, Portman-square
John Dennis, Esq., Director of the Erewash Valley Extension Railway
Joseph Crockett, Esq , Alderman of Devizes, and Director of the
North Wilts Banking Company, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
John II elbert Delbert, Esq., Gloucester-place, London, Director of
the Leicester and Birmingham Railway
Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Herefordshire
Thomas Chitty, Esq., Gower-street, London, Director of the Rugby
and Worcester Railway
William Peppercorne, Esq., London, and Bexhill, Sussex
Captain T. Hodges. Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park, Director of the
Leeds and Carlisle Railway
F. Duffield, Esq., Bolton House, near Bradford
Rev. F. R. Hall, D.D., Rector of Fulbourne, Cambridge
'John jiarnett,Esq.", Coroner for the County of Gloucester, Director
of the: Oxford and Cheltenham Railway
William Spooner, Esq., Chapel:street, Belgrave-square, Director of
the Newcastle and Liverpool Railway
Alexander Prince, Esq., 14, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Director of the Bar-
net North Junction Railway
James Lees, Esq., Delph, Saddleworth, near Manchester, Director of C)
the Saddleworth Banking Company
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(With power to add to their number). FAMPOUX (ARRAS) and HAZE-811
Barimas—The Commercial Bank of London. RAILWAY (O'NEILL'S COMPANY).
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CONSULTING ENGINEER—Sir John Manned, LL.D., F.R.S.
Amato ENGINEER—WiIIiam Mullingar Higgins, Esq., C.E. IN F PROVISIONAL
RAN DIRECTORS.
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BoLicrroa---W. B. James, Esq., 5, Basinghall-street. . Le Vicomte d'Abancourt, Peer of France, Director of sa.
• • • LOCAL AGENTS.
St. Etienne Railway
It appears that England will be divided longitudinally by four great Le Marquis de Eters, Conseiller ala Cour des Comptes A lines of railway, which will become so many main trunks, intersee- • If:'Gabriel Helm, Entrepreneur de Transports, paris
ing and intersected by numerous lines, both transverse and oblique, M.
liallette, Proprietaire de Forges et Fonderies, Arras rtiesP-
opening rapid and, ready communication with the intermediate dis- M. Alphonse Laurent, Banker, Director of the Orleans an* 0,05, tracts, with packet stations, and with sea-port towns. The more Railway, Ancien President of the Tribunal of Conuner''
easterly of these; which is also the longest, originating at Newcastle- M. Felix O'Neil!, Banker, Paris 1
upon- Tyne; and passing through York, Peterborough, and Cambridge, M. Louis Riant, Maitre de Forges, Paris _kits may be said to terminate in London, whence all places are accessible. 'Le Baron de Tascher, Mentbre.d,u Conseil General, die
tot
The second line, counting westward, is more tortuous, and has also du Cher.
a common northern ternilitas with 'the preceding, by which its ad- . • IN ENGLAND. 1)
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vantages are materially restricted. This line, descending the Ere- Frederic Chamier, Esq., R.N., Senior United Serelce a'•
wash Vale, and passing through Rugby and Oxford, becomes a South- of the Great Paris and Lyons Railway poriP
ampton line by falling into the South-Western Railway at Basing- James Watts Peppercorno, Esq., No. 28, Old P,road-attet,,foo
Stoke.
Andrew Spottiswoode, pyvr of the
—der'
The third longitudinal line, or the most westerly, is still more de- Chairman of the Namuand Liege Realway
4. fie'
fective in design than the preceding ; employing the steep and narrow William Strahan, E. Banker, Stratd genii .
railway called the Birmingham and Gloucester as its first link, it George Whitmore, Esq., Deputy-C}, an of the North
traverses nearly, in a right line the least populous and most undulating Railway.
parts of Gloucester, Beres, Wilts, and Hants ; and,properly speaking, BANKERS—Messrs. Strallan,m, Esq., 20, Austin-al at°. fi
Pauls, and Bates, 217, stray
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has no independent terminus.
SOLICITOR—E. Benham, A large longitudinal section of the kingdom—the West Midland
SECRETARY--W. Freeling Jerdan, Esq. herebi
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district—a district inviting a similar species of accommodation from The Enlish provisional Committees of the Company tp15,1 ec°l4,
concentrated local 'advantages, still remains unprovided with a thief their Shareholders that, on the 9th Instant, the lease`' of 3.fics
trunk line ; and it is contemplated to remedy this deficiency by the railway was adjudicated to their Company for the tem, by
present undertaking, or a fourth longitudinal line. and 316 days, being 49 clays only under the term tendereeW %ge,
Adopting Birmingham as a northern terminus of the West Mid- Rothschild and others, representing the United " Ne'rtbraolirle,,,ied'o
land, Manchester, and Southampton Railway, it is Proposed to carry nies. . Notice is therefbre :hereby given, that the e requ'-;
e live thrmigh or near to Stratford-on-Avon, thence between Moreton, I Shares issued by the English Provisional Directors ar
Stow, NOrthleach, Falrford, Cricklade; and Swindon, where it will or before the let day of October next, to pay a Call of,,as. 011"
merge in the South and Midlands' Junction Railway. their respective Shams, at the Banking-house of Nt-,-.,eerS.
The length of the proposed line will be about sixty miles, and the Pauls, anti Bates, No. 217, Strand, the English Di"- _eon
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district traversed by it is gently undulating and densely peopled. At , Company.
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its southern terminus, awhalen, it becomes idenOcal with tha South The Provisional Directors also give notice, that a "in, 9n it,f
mei atialende, by -means of which it opens a most direct communica- of rho,. mpiroohlers will be held WEDNESDAY eas
tioa hitherta suggested with the harbours of Weymouth, aide?, nut, as first advertieeAl on TUESDAY, the 23d 11101-goociail
church, Poole, and S.,uthampton. At its northern terminus, ir- o'clock in the afternoon, at the offices of their thex-
mingham, it communierttes with.* series of lines, Praleeted, in pro- the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors o
gress, or completed, which will form tri
most direct line that can and prospects of the Company. 'Etear..*e
eveir be constructed between the. southern Ports
great maniffactu of Eugland and the . . By order.
riug districts.
la the alliillloo of lines forminf the West Midlatid, Blanchester.,
„alstin-friars,
seruverW. rr14E1E81.4517G JERDA.I4'

The Right Honourable Lord Alfred Paget, M.P.
The Right Honourable Lord George Paget
OTIID"-
Sir Richard Dobson, F.R.S., 47, Gloucester-place, - P
London
The Honourable Francis Curson, Barrow Hall, Derby
Tile Hononrable Frederick Byron
Edward Buller, Esq., M.P., Dilhorn Hall, Staffordshire
Major Berestord, M.P., 77, Pall-mall, London
George Dodd, Esq., M.P., Grosvenor-place, London don AO
William Henry Gregory, Esq., M.P., 5, Cork-street, Loll,4,avr-
John Buller Yarde Buller, Esq., 10, New-street, SP
London, and Holne Park, Devon
William John Blake, Esq., 62, Portland-place, Loudon '
The Rev. Reginald Chandos Pole, Radbourn Rectory
John Bott, Esq., Cotton-hall, Staffordshire
Henry Barton, Esq Rangemoor-house, Burton-on-s., add
Wm. C. Twisieton Graves, Army and Navy Club, Lona,ttieel
Wm. Caere Brocklehurst, Esq., Hurdsfield-house, Macem"
_SS
Richard Dyott, Es Freeford-hall, Lichfield l°P.-
Charles Dickson Aq.,
rchibald, Esq., F.R.S., F.A.S., TOr
Regent's-park, and Walney, Lancashire
Jonathan Hopkinson, Esq., 55, Chester-square, London oto
Joseph Hoare, Esq., banker, Hampstead, London .
William J. Denne, Esq., 6, Lower Berkeley-street, For.- ,
London 0
George Dixon, Esq., Colonel Scots Fusilier Guards, 77,
street, London
Edward Thomas Coke, Esq., Mansfied Wood-house
Edward t lyde Clarke, Esq., Hyde-hall, Stockport
Thomas Landor, Esq., the Manor-house, Burton-on-Trent
William Sharp, Esq., Linden-hall, Lancaster
Thomas Webb, Esq., Tutbury, Staffordshire
Samuel Walker Cox, Esq., Breadsall-lodge, near Derby
Henry 3leakin, Esq., Burton-on-Trent
Moses Cartwright, Esq., Stanton-house, Derbyshire
John R. Raworth, Esq., Leicester
George Roden, Esq., St. George's-terrace, Kensington
(With power to add to their number).
ENGINEERS. 04.
Joseph Cubitt, Esq. J. F. Bateman,
SOLICITORS.
Treat
Messrs. J. and J. Richardson, Burton-upon-
G. H. R. Cox, Esq., Derby.
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Barnett, Mares, and Co.
Messrs. Roberts, Curtis, and CO.
_aer Commercial Bank of London
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Leicester and Ashby-de-la-Zouch—The Leicester an. -
Banking Company
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Burton-on-Trent—The Burton, Uttoxeter, and "Lem-
Bank.
I,rot.
SECRETARY—John Richardson, Esq., Burton-en' od
PROSPECTUS. , cow;d
This short but important line of railway is intended toot at a point in the Teats and Dove Valley Railway, at
Snareston, and to extend to Leicester. the
It will thus furnish a link necessary for carrying
brought to Leicester by means of the south Midlands, ilaet ordlf
and the Peterborough Railways (all of which terminatellg ° C.
Leicester), to the Staffordshire Potteries and the great CO ~o.i„0,
cashire and Cheshire, and complete an unbroken line of rSpory
the best and nearest practicable route, from the various op,
railway termini at Leicester to Manchester and LiverPo°', the
This great line of railway, it will be observed, traverse:4ooloc
coal fields in the country, and embraces the towns of /Jima, S
Trent, Uttoxeter, Cheadle, Leek, Macclesfield, Lane
..,•-rtestil
upon-Trent, and Newcastle-under-Lyme, and the 1017-0
rapidly-increasing potteries of Swadlincote and Gresle)",
those of Staffordshire. . llO6 ooh
Art inspection of the map will show that the junction it
proposed is essential for the accommodation of the public, e' to
not fail to be exceedingly remunerative to the proprietors. and
The undertaking has the cordial support of the Tan Jett
Valley Railway Company.
to Slit'reli Oln the allotment of shares preference will be given
we-
in that Company, and to parties locally interested in the
ow Jo
The capital of the Company will be 300,0001., divided id or
shares of 201. each ; a deposit of 21. 2s. per hare must be Peal rAo
lotment, and each original subscriber must execute the Ille.frtriX
mentary and Subscription Contract, or his shares will be il'socf:ii
Copies of the prospectus and map may be had fromih;de leo;
and Solicitors; and applications for shares must be leather tp
Secretary only, accompanied by a reference to a member 0
visional Committee, a banker, or to one of the lOC'to OOff!
Company.
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Shareholders in the Teen and Dove Valley Rakers-. t Coor pf
will please to state the number of shares they hold in that
Burton-on-Trent, Sept. 18, 1845