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London, England, 1845-08-23 00:00:00

August 18, 1845.

DIRECT LONDON AND EXETER RAIL-
WAY COMPANY.
[WITH EXTENSION lIEREAFTER TO FALMOUTH.]
Capital, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares, of 25/. each.
Deposit 11. 7s. Gd. per Share,
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 Comity Assurance Company.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
_

The Right Hon. the Earl of Mexborough, Dover-street, Piccadilly,
Director cf the Direct London and Manchester Railway.
The Right Mon. Viscount Sidmouth, Upper Ottery, Devon

Lord Henry Lofit;,ileigrave-square
Sir Henry Hervey Bruce, Bart., Montague-square, and Down-hill,
Londonderry
Sir George Rich, 43, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square
J. R. Phillimore, Esq., LL.D., 42, Clarges-street, Chancellor of Salis-
bury
Jno. David Chambers, Esq., Recorder of Salisbury
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, 19, Clifford-street
The Hon. A. Capel, Theyden House, Essex, and Park-street, Groove-

nor-square - -
Charles William Spicer, Esq., 28, Portman-square
G.:Thompson Jacob, Esq , Blandford, 3lagistrate, and Deputy Lieu-

tenant for Dorset'
W. F. A. Delane, Esq., Bracknell
IL H. Hungerford, Esq., Dlngley 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, 3futley House, Devon
Thomas Dmtglasse, Esq., Marlborough-place, St. John's Wood
The Hen. Henry Savile, Dover-street
A. W. Hillary, Esq., 66, Cadogan-place

W. L. Pope,Y3sq.,liroo4ord, Essex
George Evans, Esq., Milbury-terrace, Regent's Park
Francis Lloyd, Esq., Bingley House, Birmingham
William Thomas Davies Lhoyd, Esq., Anglesey

John Ly-all, Esq., Chelsea
E. S. Blundell, Esq., 18, Lower Seymour-street
John Penhall, Esq., Springfield, Wandsworth-road
John Allen, Esq., Gloucester-terrace, Kensington.

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
John Allen, Esq., Gloucester-terrace, Kensington
Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlborough-place, St. John's Wood
George Evans, Esq., 31ilbury-terrace, Regent's Park
A. W. Hillary, Esq., 66, Cadogan-place

John Lyall, i;q., Chelsea
John Penhall, Esq., Springfield
W. L. Pope, Esq., Woodford, EsseX
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, 19, Clifford-street

Charles William Spicer, Esq.., 28, Portman-square
(With limited power to add to their number.)

ENGINEEB—:John Braithwaite, Esq., 4, Trafalgar-square, Engineor

of the Eastern Counties Railway
BANKLRS—Messrs. Currie and Co., 29, Cornhill

SoLterroa—D. E. Colombine, Esq., 8, Carlton ellainberB, Regent-street
The object of this Company is to establish a railway from London to
Exeter direct, through Salisbury and other considerable towns, hither-
to deprived of that great improvement of the age. The most impor-
tant feature, however, of this undertaking will be, that it will establish
an uninterrupted, direct, and sdeedy communication between the me-
tropolis and our largest maritime ports—Plymouth and Falmouth,
and thus form an immediate transit to the extreme part of the west
of England. To the shipping interest, both at home and abroad, this
facility will be of the utmost importance, and if war should unfortu-
nately arise, the advantages of such a line are evident.
The Committee feel the importance of the duty imposed upon
them, and rely with confidence on the sueepas of the undertaking,
possessing, as it does, the strongest claims for support, whether as a
permanent and judicious investment of capital, or as a great national
undertaking. It is not intended to comment on the various railway
schemes partially affecting the line the Committee propose should be
adopted, further than to observe, that none of them have been based
to co int
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upon a sufficiently comprehensive view to afford " a direct organic
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railway is offered to the public as affording not only an independent
and direct intercourse between the metropolis, Exeter, and the va-
rious
important towns upon it, but will effect a saving of thirty miles
and upwards, in the circuitous and expensive route by Bristol.
The opinion of Sir Robert Peel is particularly applicable to this
project—that the tendency of the improvements which are almost
daily introduced, was decidedly in favour of the shortest and most
direct line s ; and it is deserving of remark, that when the Wilts and
Somerset Railway Bill (which has lately received the royal sanction)
was before Parliament, its projectors were required to pledge them-
selves that they should not offer hereafter any impediment to a direct
line to Falmouth, being precisely such an undertaking as the one now
proposed, thereby proving the importance attached by Parliament to
direct communications, and the London and York having obtained
the consent of the House of Commons to their Bill, after a prolonged
opposition, shoal.the weight attached to direct independent railways.
It is proposed that this railway shall take its course between the
Great Western and the South-Western, as far as Kingsclere--though
it will not in any way interfere with those lines —and is the course
actually suggested by the Board of Trade in its Fourth Report,
sec. 42, by which an opening was made in this very line, stating that
there is nothing in the present settlement of existing railways to
prevent a shorter or competing line to Exeter being brought forward.
The Direct London and Exeter Company intend to form their ter-
minus in the most central part of London which can be obtained. It
will be in the immediate vicinity of Sloane-street and Knightsbridge.
It is also intended that this Company shall join the railway projected
to cross the Thames, and thus effect an immediate connexion with a
central terminus at Hungerford-bedge.
From the London terminus the line will branch off to or near
Hammersmith, Turnhant-green, Brentford, Isleworth, Hounslow,
Staines, Egham, Bagshot, Ascot, Bracknell, Binfleld, Wokingham,
Kingsciere, Andover, and Salisbury ; Shaftesbury, Sherbourne,
Yeovil, Crewkerne, Axminster (or from Salisbury to Criuthourne,
Blandford, Dorchester, Bridport, Axminster), and Iloniton, to Exeter.
The line chosen was nearly the one adopted by the Romans ; and
as they, whenever practicable, adopted the straight line, the Com-
mittee intend, as nearly as possible; following their example. This
road was also the old mail coach line, until the circuitous course of
the Great Western, in the infancy of railway traffic, diverted the
traffic from it.
The line of this railway will Pass through Staines, as before ob-
served ; and it is proposed to form a branch to Windsor, it being re-
presented that that mode of immediate communication with the
metropolis will be most congenial to the wishes of the inhabitants of
that town and its vicinity. The Skimmittee are, therefore, desirous
of accomplishing that object, and invite the immediate and active
co-operation of the landholders and inhabitants of Windsor to this
part of their scheme especially.
To the sporting world, also, this undertaking offers a desideratum
which has long been felt; it is calculated the number of persons
annually visiting Ascot and Egham Races exceeds 250,000; this line
will pass in the immediate vicinity of these race-courses; and near
Ascot a handsome and commodious station will be erected for the ac-
commodation of the public. The traffic tables which are now in
course of preparation will, when completed, be published ; but from
the official returns, and other sources which have come within the
Committee's cognisance, a very ample interest for the capital neces-
sary for this undertaking is shown, and as the traffic, from the great
accommodation this railway will afford to every description of pro-
perty in the district through which it will pass, will be greatly in-
creased, so also will be the financial returns.
The rejection of the Bill before Parliament of the Plymouth and
Falmouthline, induces the Committee to propose an immediate ex-
tension of the direct line from Exeter to Falmouth. Prospectuses for
this extension will be published as soon as the plans and surveys are
matured, and in the allotment of shares for this part of the line pre-
ference will be given to the original holders of shares in the Direct
London and Exeter Company, and the landowners on the Falmouth
line.
The entire line
has been partially surveyed, and the essential bene-
fit arising from avoiding the elbow of Bristol been ascertained beyond
sections, and books of reference will be ready
a doubt. The plans,
by the Standing Orders of P
within the time prescribed arilament,
Bill to i
ade for a incorporate the Company and application will be m
usualpower ession. The
early in the next s
Act to allow interest at 41. per cent. perannum, after Passing the Act,
on the amount of the subscriptions paid up, and that no subscriber
than the amount of his deposit until the
answerable for more
shall be
Act be obtained, and then not beyond the amount of his sub-
scription. sanction thepresent Parliament should not undertaking,
In case t
active means will b taken o secure, the money de-
posited,
which every
necessary exenses attending the projection,
deducting the
, will be returned to the shareholders.
i communication with
The Committee have been nMany influential
whom promises of support have been
on the line, from
landowners invite the co-operation and assistance of all
obtained, and earnestly
upon it, desirous of furthering the object in
parties holding property t
requested, may be ee communicated to the
view, whose names, it s Company forthwith
Committee or to the solicitor to the •
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 sharebrokers--vlz
Messrs. Sutton, Gribble, and Sutton, Royal Exchange. London, also
M nday Bath •r.J. B. u ~ Potter and Co.,
John Langworthy, Easter ,
Win, Moore and Co.,uddersfield •
and Rldsdale and Co., Leeds ; .
and Simpson, Bun% G .
rayston and
Eyre and Shaw, Derby; Sibary
Wakefield; Hopwood and Palmer,
Earle, York; Henry Billingham,
Cheltenham • Nes
Brothers and Co., , • IV. Dickinson,
Plymouth ; Hall, Br
H• Collis, Birmingham ; my,
s a and Birkbeck,
Newcastle-on-Tyne ; W. U. _
and Sons, Manchester • at d and
Wm. Marshall, and Cardwell , uur
Son, Norwich
John B. Mann and ; A. w. Moffatt
Co., Edinburgh ; .
Arnold,Bristol ,
1 • John Thomas Holland '
,Coventry;
Edinburgh; Luke p
._. ___, Glasgow ; Rowortb and Shennerlv
James Watson, and Thomas urerydson,
Liverpool. " - '
Nottingham ; and Thomas C
The following gentlemen are
among those
appointed as Local
interests of the company in furtherance of the . y, from whom
Agents,
applications for shares may also be obtained :
prospectuses and
Esq. Yeovil—George Hancock, E
Egham— Thomas Harvey.. .
Crewkerne—Rolat•L Sq.
Mears, E. • owman,Esq.
Bagshot—John s _q.
B orge alandford—Ge loooe, Esq.
Bracknell—Charles Cave, E .
•
Wokingham—Francis Soanies,E
3qd Bridport-8. H.
. Dorchester—Goo,—,Ji
un.,Estl•
Salisbury—Henry Cooper, Esq. an
and Henry B• Fox, Esq. urnmer, Esq.
Foot and Radcliffe
Bruton—Dyne and Son .
OFAPPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To
FORM
the Provisional Committee of the Direct London and Exeter
Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me Shares, of
,and I o
undertak
Mate toe accept the same,
to
251. each, in the above
as you may apPr , subject to the P Ine
or such less number
regulations of the Company,
also to sign the necessary legal deal
- -
meats, and to pay, when required, the deposit thereof of 11. T. 6d.
per share.

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LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, and NEW-
CASTLE-UPON-TYNE JUNCTION RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management, in consequence of negotiations of
Importance to the interests of this Company being still pending, have
been obliged to defer the issue of the letters of allotment for a few
days. By order,
W. H. INGRAM, Secretary.
22, Parliament-street, London, Aug. 22, 1845.

MANCHESTER, SOUTHAMPTON AND
POOLE RAILWAY, viA CHELTENHAM, CIRENCESTER,
MARLBOROUGH ate! SALISBURY.

(Registered Provisionally.)
REGISTERED PROMOTER.
Henry Charles Lacy, Esq., Kenyon House, Lancashire.

A Company is now forming for the above object, and in a few days
the detailed prospectus, headed by a strong and influential Provisional
Committee, will be published.
This line accomplishes everything proposed by the Manchester and
Southampton Railway Company in an equally full and complete
manner.
It is quite as short between the termini.
_ It requires less line to be made, as it uses twenty-three miles more
of existing lines, thereby ensuring support instead of opposition.
It passes through a more cultivated and much more thickly inha-
bited district, embracing the important city of Salisbury.

It will form a direct communication with the harbour of Poole—a
harbour possessing extraordinary advantages wantliv, only a small
outlay to make it the finest natural dock In the kingdom, and where
the port and other duss are almost nominal.
HODDING, HOODING, and TOWNSEND,
Salisbury Joint
E. TAVERNER, 9, New Broad-street, Solicitors.
London
Salisbury, Aug. 21, 1845.

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE RAILWAY, AND
OXFORD AND WOLVERTON JUNCTION.
Capital 2,250,0001., in Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 10s. per Share.
Registered Provisionally, pursuant to 7 and S Vie., c. 110.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
His Grace the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, K.G.
The Right Hon. Lord Nugent, Lilies, Aylesbuary, Bucks
Sir John Chetwode, Bart., M.P., Chetwode Manor House. Bucks
Sir Thomas Digby Aubrey, Bart., Oving Mouse, Bucks
Sir Harry Verney, Bart., Claydon House, Bucks
Lieutenant-General Sir James Watson, K.C.8., Wendover House,

Bucks
The Hon. Philip Sidney Pierrepont, Evenley Hall, Brookley, North-

amptonshire
Edmund Francis Murrell, Esq., Lillingstope Dayrell, Bucks, High

Sheriff of Bucks
Charles John Raillle Hamilton, Esq., Thame Park, Oxfordshire
Rico Richard Clayton, Esq., M.P., Hedgerley Pakk, Bucks
John Deering. Esq., The Lee, Bucks
Georgo Morgan, Esq„ Biddlesden Park, Bucks
Robert Bullock Marsham, Esq., L.L.D., Caversfield House, Ox-

fordshlre
Walter Henry Bracebridge, Esq., Morvillo House, Warwickshire and

Chetwode Priory, Bucks
John Barnes, Esq., Chorley Wood, Hertz
William Osmond Hammond, Esq., St. Alban's-court, Wingham, Kent
Benjamin Price, Esq., Westbury, Bucks
Colonel John Hall, Life Guards' Barracks, Hyde Park, London
John Newman, Esq., Brand's House, Hughenden, Backs
Thomas Newland Allen, Esq., The Vache, Chalfont, Bucks
Henry William Beauclerk, Esq., 61, Chester-square, London
Robert Fox, Esq., Wendover Lodge, Bucks
William James Bally, Esq., Shenley House, Backs
Thomas Sands Chapman, Esq., The Park, Aston Clinton, asks
Robert Marriott Freeman, Esq., Stony Stratford Bucks
George Parrott, Esq., Castle Farm, Buckingham
Captain Edward Dewes, Buckingham
Humphrey Humphreys, Esq., Buckingham
William Stowe, Esq., Buckingham
William Davis, Esq., Bicester, Oxfordshire
Captain William SO le, R.N., Bleeder, Oxfordshire
John Norwood, Esq., leteane Park, Brackley, Northamptonshire
John Henry Butterfield, Esq., Brackley
William King Malins, Esq., Brackley
Alfred Hoperaft, Esq., Brackley
Charles Tawney, Esq., Oxford
Richard Wootton, jun., Esq., Oxford
Jonathan Samuel Browning, Esq., Oxford
Henry William Tancred, Esq., M.P., London
Timothy Rhodes Cobb, Esq., Banbury, Oxon
Zacharia Daniel Hunt, Esq., Aylesbury, Bucks
Joseph Ashby Gillett, Esq., Banbury, Oxon
George Carr Glynn, Esq., London
Joseph Frederick Ledsam, Esq., Birmingham
Edward Cropper, Esq., Liverpool
Thomas Smith, Esq., Reigate Lodge, Surrey
Thomas Young, Esq., Albany, London
Ross Donelly Mangles, Esq., M.P., London
Captain Constantine Richard Moorsom, R.N.,

Directors
of the
London
and
Birmingham
Railway

Birmingham
Robert Benson, jun., Esq., Fairfield, Manchester
Edw. Wm. Selby Lowndes, Esq., Winslow, Bucks
With power to add to their number.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Sir Harry Verney, Bart. G. C. Glyn, Esq.
The Hon. P. S. H. Pierrepout J. F. Ledsam, Esq.
E. F. Dayrell, Esq. Edward Cropper, Esq.
Z. D. Hunt, Esq. Thomas Smith, Esq.
Captain Edward Dewes Captain C. It. Moorsom, R.N.
Humphrey Humphreys, Esq. Robert Benson, Jun., Esq.
J. R. Cobb, Esq. Thomas Young, Esq.
Jon. Samuel Browning, Esq. Ross D. Mangles, Esq., M.P.
With power to add to their number.
Eriumsa—Robert Stephenson, Esq.
BANKERS. _ _ _ . .

London—Messrs. Glyn, lialllrai,iiiis: and Co., Lembard-street
Aylesbury—Messis. Rlekford and Hunt ; the London & County Bank
Buckingham—Messrs. Bartlett, Parrott, and Hearn ; the London and

County Bank
Banbury—Messrs. Cobb and Co. ; Messrs. Gillett and Tawney
Oxford—Messrs. Wootton and Co. ; the London and County Bank
Bicestor—Messrs. Tubb. _ _

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SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Parker, Hayes, Barnwell, and Twisden, Lincoln's Inn-fields,
London
Mr. Samuel Carter, Birmingham, and 37, Great George-street, West-

minster
Mr. William Meyrick, 2, Furnival's Inn, London
Messrs. Rose and Messrs. Tindal, Aylesbury
Messrs. Hearn and Nelson, and Mr. Henry Smith, Buckingham
The object of this undertaking is to supply railway communication
to the towns and districts lying between the London and Birmingham,
and the Great Western Railways, giving them the best means of access
to the metropolis, and connecting them also with the Northern and
Eastern lines of railway, as well as with Oxford and the South.
The main line will commence from the London and Birmingham
Railway, near Harrow, and passing to the north of Uxbridge, will
proceed up the Valley by Chalfont, near Amersham and Chesham to
Missenden and Wendover, and thence to Aylesbury; from which
place it will extend to Buckingham, and passing near Winslow, and
approaching Brackley, will terminate by a Junction with the proposed
Warwickshire and London Railway, near Banbury.
In addition to the line above described. it is intended also to con-
struct a Railway from the central station of the London and Bir-
mingham Railway at Wolverton te Buckingham, and thence through
Bicester to Oxford ; and in connexion with tho line here proposed,
the Bedfori, and London and Birmingham Company, intend to snake
a connecting lino between Bedford and Wolverton.
The proposed Zuckingham and London and Birmingham Railway
Company (for the construction of a lino from Wolverton to Bicestor)
is amalgamated with this Company.
Accurate snrveys of the country have been taken by Mr. Robert
Stephenson, and it has been ascertained that no engineering difilzulty
under a lease, in perpetuity, at
of importance presents itself.
The undertaking has already received the sanction and support of
Company
;outlay, with a conditional
a very large proportion of the Nobility, Gentry, and Proprietors of
land through or near whose property it is intended to pass.
It is proposed that these lines should be made with the co-operation,
Rpearilua-nanyumCoonanp
and under the direction and superintendence of the London and
arrange-
ment as to the surplus profits.
It is intended to offer the shares in such proportion as the amount
of capital will allow of, to the holders of shares in the London,
Worcester and South Staffordshire Hallway Company,
subject to the
approbation of the Committee of Management, with tile exception
of such as may be required for parties having local interests.
Birminghamfotir pereent.

BUCKINGHAM and LONDON and Bllt-
M1N6112131 RAILWAY.
The public are respectfully informed that the Company for con-
structing the BUCKINGHAM and LONDON and BIRMINGHAM
RAILWAY is amalgamated with the BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
RAILWAY COMPANY.
Any parties locally interested, who have applied for Shares in the
Buckingham and London and Birmingham Company, and who may
wish to take Shares in the Buckinghamshire Company, are re-
quested to make application on or before the 20th day of August
instant, to any of the solicitors of the Buckinghamshire Railway.
In consequence of the arrangements with the Buckinghamshire
Railway Companyt no mares can be allotted exeeptto parties lees
nteres•'

THE OXFORD, SOUTHAMPTON, GOS-
PORT, AND yORTSMOLTTII RAILWAY COMPANY.•

In consequence of the most numerous applications that have been
already recOivei f.r.Sharetherein, no further applications can be re-
ceived atterWEDßElttax, the 27thsAugust instant.