The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-11 00:00:00

No. 16,586 LONDON, SiVITRDAY 417.'
TR U OCTOBER 11, 1845,
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MC,
ERE WASH VALLEY EXTENSION, and '
ROC EIDALE, BLACKBURN, and EAST LANCASHIRE
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 1,750,0001., in 87,500 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
C. H. Anderson, Esq., Upper Clapton, Director of the South Mid- ,
land Railway Company
Charles Dickson Archibald, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A., York-terrace, Re-
gent's-park, and Walney, Director of the Trent Valley Railway
Company
William Bean, Esq., Tulse-hill
William Beresford, Esq., M.P., 77, Pall-mall, London, Director of
the Thames Valley Railway Company
Hon. Augustus Berkeley, Berkeley-house, Spring-gardens
William Blanford, Esq., Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
Company
John Bloor, Esq., Leetbury, Staffordshire, Director of the Tean and
Dove Valley, the Derby, Gainsborough and Great Grimsby Junc-
tion, the Sheffield, Leith, and Potteries, and the Shropshire Mineral
Railway Company
William Walker Botterill, Swallow House, Burnly, Director of the
Wolverhampton, Chester, and Birkenhead Junction, and the York
and Bangor Railway Companies
Charles Bradley, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continuation,
and of the Manchester and Birmingham Continuation Railway
Companies
Joseph Brown, Esq., Director of the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport,
and Portsmouth, and the South and Midland Railway Companies
Louis Buckland, Lloyd's, Director of the Manchester and Rugby
Railway Company
Thomas Byrom, Esq., Wigan, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct, the Keighly, Halifax, and Huddersfield, the York and Lan-
caster, the Staffordshire Potteries, and the Rugby and Derby Rail-
way Convents.
William Byrom, Esq., Oldham, Director of the Oldham Districts, the
Liverpool anti Leeds Direct. the Birkenhead and Holyhead Junc-
tion, and the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction Rail-
way Companies
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Westbourne-house, Sheffield, Director cf the
Isle of Ely, Wisbech, and Lincolnshire ; of the Great Grimsby
and Lincolnshire; and of the Direct Western Railway Companies
William Caldwell, Esq., thee-hall, near Wigan, Director of the Staf-
fordshire Potteries Railways, the York and Lancashire, the Liver-
pool and Leeds Direct, and the Keighly, Halifax, and Hudders-
field Railway Companies
William Campbell, Esq., Fairfield, Ayrshire
Richard Carpenter, Esq., Magistrate of Middlesex, Deputy-Chairman
of the Warwick and Worcester ; and Director of the Taw Vale
Railway Companies
Rev. H. U. Chandos Pole, M.A., Rector of Radbourne and Muggen-
ten, Derbyshire
John Churchill, Esq., Director of the Manchester anti Birmingham
Continuation Railway Company
Major Morse Cooper, Wargrave, Henly-on-Thames, Director of the
South and Midlands, and Thames Valley Railway Companies
Samuel Walker Cox, Esq., Breadvale, Derbyshire, Director of the
Tean Dove Valley, and of the Thames Valley Railway Com-
panies
William Thomas Cox, Esq., Spordon, Derbyshire, Director •f the
Tean and Dove Valley Railway Company
John Dennis, Esq., Director of the West Midlands and of the Thames
Valley Railway Companies
John Alceek Dixon, Esq., Burnly, Director of the Leeds and Liver-
pool,
and of the Huddersfield, Halifax, Reithby Railway Companies
Henry Dodson, Esq., Suffolk-house, TuLse.hill
Col. Robert Douglas, Director of the London and Birmingham Ex-
tension, and of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway Companies
The Right lion. Lord Duuboyne, Director of the Thames Vale},
Railway Company
Warner Ewart, Esq., 4, Brick-court, Temple, Director of the Great
Leeds and London Direct, the Liverpool and London Direct, and
the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway Companies
Sir James Eyre, Lower Brook-street
Captain Seth N. Fisher, Director of the South and Midlands, and
of the London and Birmingham Extension Railway Companies
W. T. Fraser, Esq., Manchester-square, Director of the Manchester
and Rugby Railway Company
John Grant, Esq.. Northampton, Director of the Manchester, Burnly,
Settle, and Carlisle Direct Railway Company
Lieut.-Colonel Sir L. Grant, K.C.13., 31, Harley-street
Sir Andrew Pellett Green, Director of the Hull and Doncaster Rail-
way Company
Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbaston, Director of the South
Staffordshire, of the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth ;
of the London and Birmingham Extension, and Northampton,
Daventry, and Warwick ; and of the Manchester and Birmingham
Continuation, and Welsh Junction Railway Companies
F. J. Hail, Esq., Torrington-square, London, The Grange, Alfreton,
Director of the Bideford and Tavistock Railway Company
S. C. Hall, Esq., F.S.A., Inner Temple, Director of the Great
London and Leeds Direct, and of the Thames Valley Railway
Companies
Robert Hammeraley, Esq., Leek, Director of the Macclesfield mid
Lichfield Railway
Frederic Hewett. Esq., Clapham, Surrey, Director of the Great
Western, Southern, and Eastern Counties, and of the Leek and
Mansfield Railway Companies
George Price Hill, Esq., Gavenbrae-house, Hampstead, Director of
the Thames Valley Railway Company
Roger Molinswortie Esq , Birmingham, Director of the Trent Valley
Continuation Railway Company
Henry Hoiroyd, Esq , Burnly, Director of the Wolverhampton,
Chester and Birkenhead Junction Railway Company
John Douglas Hopkins, Esq., Director of the Lond.ai and Birming-
ham Extension, and of the Staffordshire Potteries Railway
Companies
Abraham Howe, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Great Grimsby and
Sheffield Railway Company
W. Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &e., Alderman of London,.
Chairman of the Birkenhead, Chester, Mold, Rhuabon, and Val.
of Llangollen ; of the Leek and Mansfield ; and of the Great
Western, Southern, and Eastern Counties Railway Companies
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire, and
Parthenon Club, Regent-street, Director of the Chepstow and
Forest of Dean and Gloucester ltailway Companies
Frederick I. Jones, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Director of the Warwick ,
and Worcester, Staffordshire Potteries, and South and Midland
Railway Companies •
Hr. Alderman Kelly, Director of the London and Birmingham Ex-
tension, and of the West Midland Railway Companies
Thomas Kidley, M.D., Sheffield, Director of the Direct Western
Railway Bompany
Charles George Knox, Esq., Old-square, Lincoln's Inn
William Law, Esq., Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
Companies
George Lawton, Esq., Dutchlers, Essex, Director of the South
Midland and South Union, and of the Thames Valley Railway
Companies
Rev. Richard Lee, rector of Darley-dale, Derbyshire
Thomas Lee, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park
Stephen Lewis, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway Company
William Alexander Long, jun., Esq., Yingswood-house, Wotton-
under-Edge, Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth
Railway Company
John Lord, Esq., Standish Hall, near Wigan, Director of the Liver-
pool and Leeds Direct, the Keighly, Halifax, and Huddersfield, and
of the Blackburn, Chorley, and Liverpool ltailway Companies
William 31argetson, Esq., Streatham
Henry Blair Mayne, Esq., 14, Wilton-street, Grosvenor-square
John Motlady, Esq., Marble-hall, Warwick, Director of the London
and Birmingham Extension, and of the Exeter and Weymouth
Railway Companies
Peter Morrison, Esq., Prince's-street, Bank, London, Director oftho
Thames Valley, Railway Company
Robert William Netterville, Esq., Cruise Rath, County Meath, and
Sackville-street, Dublin
John George Norbury, Esq., Mancetta-house, Atherstoue, Director
of the Thames Valley Railway Company
Henry Gerard Ohrley, Esq , Director of the South and Midlands, and
of the Oxford and Worcester Extension Railway Companies
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., 8, Upper Hyde Park street, Director of the
Thames Valley Railway Company
George Parbury,' Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Leeds and
Carlisle Railway Company
Lewis Pocock, Esq., Director of the Southampton, Manchester, and
Oxford Junction Railway
The Rev. John Poole, M.A., Mansfield
John Rawson, Esq., Stoney Roy d, Halifax, Director of Rosalie's
Great Northern of France ; of the Manchester, Liverpool, and
Great North of England ; and of the Liverpool and Leeds Railway
Companies
David R Ross, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Belfast, and Director of
the London and Manchester Railway Companies.
Henry Savage, Esq., 34, Dorset-place, Dorset-square, Director of the
Oxford and Worcester Extension Railway Company
James Shaw, Esq., Aldred-place, Salford, Director of the Western,
York, and Lancashire, the Chester and Manchester Dir ect, and
the Rugby and Manchester Direct Railway Companies
Joseph Shaw, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Eastern Union
Railway Company
William Shaw, Esq., Director of the Warwick and Worcester, and
Thames Embankment Companies
William Simpson, Esq., York
William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Director of
the Southend Midlands Railway, and Belfast, Lame, and Bally-
mena Railway Companies
James Smallpage, Esq., Green Bank, Burnly, Director of the
Wolverhampton, Chester, and Birkenhead Railway Company
Henry Taylor, Esq., Wigan, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct, the Keighly, Halifax, and Huddersfield, the York and
Lancashire, and the Cheltenham, Oxford, and London Railway
Companies
William H. Terrell, Esq.. Stone-buildings, Lincoln's Inn, Director of
the Hull and Doncaster Railway
William Thornton, Esq., Berkeley-street, Portman-square
Thomas Hammond Tooke, Esq., Director of the Bideford and Tavis-
tock, and London and Birmingham Extension Railway Companies
Sir William Twysden, Bart., Portman-square, Dorset-street, Director
of the Chepstow and Forest of Dean and Gloucester Junction Rail-
way Company
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Blackheath-park and Norwich, Director of
the Oxfbrd and Worcester Extension Railway Company
C. Waite, Esq., Willesden, Director of the Worcester and Warwick
Railway Company
Robert Watkins, Esq., Director of the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport,
and Portsmouth Railway Companies
Samuel Watkins, Esq., Forest Hill
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq. Director of the Waveney Talley and Great
Yarmouth Railway Company
B. B. Williams, Esq:, Wyndham-place, Bryanston-square, Director
of the Direct London and Manchester Railway Company
John Wheelton, Esq.
Francis Sacheverel Wilmot, Esq., Storton-by-Dale, Derbyshire,
Director of the Tean and Dove Valley Railway Company
G. N. Wright, M.A., Coed Coelyn, Denbighshire, and Lonsdale-
square, London, Deputy-Chairman of the West Midlands, and
Director of the Oxford and Worcester Railway Companies
William Wright, Esq.. Thorp-house, Norton, near Sheffield, Direc-
tor of the Sheffield, Barnsby, and Wakefield Junction Railway
Companies
Sir William Wynn, Meseynewadd, Chairman of the North Wales,
and Directlr of the Warwick and Worcester Railway Company

COMMITTEE OF DIRECTION.

CHAIRMAN—W. HUGHES HUGHES,
.Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c.
Alderman
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—JOSEPH BROWN, Esq.
Sir William Bacon Johnson, Bart. Charles George Knox, Esq.
G. N. Wright, M.A. William Law, Esq.
William Bean; Esq. Stephen Lewis, Esq.
Richard Carpenter, Esq. William Shaw, Esq.
John Churchill, Esq. Robert Watkins, Esq.
F. J. Hall, Esq. W. A. Wilkinson, Esq.
Frederick Hewitt, Esq.

BANKERS.
London—The Commercial Bank, Lothbury
Derby—The Derby and Derbyshire Bank
Rochdale —Messrs. Clement Royds and Son
Blackburn—The Manchester and Liverpool Banking Company,

CONSULTING ENGINEERS
Sir John Macneill, LL.D. and F.R.S.
James Thompson, Esq., F.R.S.E. and
ENGINEERS.
William B. Prichard, Esq.. C.E.
William Thomson, Esq., C.E.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—Messrs. Dyson, Hall, Parkes, and Coates,
SOLICITOR—HuII Terrell, Esq., 30, Basinghall-street,London
LOCAL AGENTS.
J. Cressy Hall, Esq., Alfreton, Derbyshire
George Henry Richardson Cox, Esq., Spondon, Derbyshire '
SECRETARY—Stlllingtleet Locker, Esq.

Assuming the northern terminus of the Erewash Railway
as its origin, this line will pass through localities totally un-
provided with railway accommodation, into the populous ma-
nufacturing districts of Lancashire. It will continue the
important line from which it borrows the prefix of its name,
from Alfreton, in Derbyshire, where it will be a recipient of
traffic from the Cromford Canal—communicating with the Ccalnor
ironworks —along the Misting Vale, and, obeying the course of the
river Dcrwent, enter Yorkshire, in the vicinity of Saddleworth. In
its course, it will pass through or near to Matlock, Ashbourue, Glos-
sop, Mottram, Hyfleld, and Duckenficld, In reaching which point, the
Manchester and Sheffield Railway will be intersected, and the Hud-
dersfield Canal Railway passed, near to the Rochdale station of the
Manchester and Leeds Railway.
It is unnecessary to state here the character of the country from
Rochdale to Blackburn : it will he sufficient to observe, that it is the
seat of those manufactures to which England owes her accumulating
wealth. The line will proceed thence through or near to Whitworth
and Rossendale, and fall into the East Lancashire Railway, in the
vicinity of Haslingden.
A branch will be thrown out of the trunk line, from the Junction
with the East Lancashire line near llaslingden, by Low-Moor iron-
works and Bacup, to Todmorden.
The Erewash Extension will be the only direct route from the
centre of Derbyshire to the great manufacturing towns and chiee
seaports of Lancashire. It will traverse a valley district adorned
with the most picturesque scenery, and, at the same time, rich in
mineral preduce. It will communicate, laterally, with several trunk
lines of railway, and will be fed by no less than five working canals—
the Cromford—the Manchester and Sheffield—the Huddersfield—the
Manchester and Leeds—and the Liverpool and Blackburn.
To the multiplication of advantages which intersecting railways
and lines of still-water navigation are compelled to afford, the throw-
ing out of branches from the line itself in so many directions will add
still further powers of accommodation, and, when the dens. popula-
tion In the localities traversed is considered, there is every reason to
conclude that au ample remuneration for vested capital will be ob-
tained. •
Dytolioring the iburee of oms, thie ing4n. fill

with the exact direction of the projected line, highly favourable gra-
dients are obtained for a considerable pact of the length; and every
other section of the country, upon a preliminary survey, has been
reported as snore than commonly practicable. While the return for
capital cannot be questioned, and the necessities of the district de-
mand accommodation, the expenditure must necessarily fall below
the usual amount for works of equal magnitude.
To identify this project with that of the Erewash Valley, although
'not included under, or belonging to the same executive, it is pro-
posed to allow subscribers in that Company shares in the Erewash
Extension : the number to be regulated by the Interest retained in
the elder project.
The deeds will provide that no call shall be made on the Share-
holders beyond the deposit now paid, until the Act of Parliament is
obtained; and power will be taken in the Act to allow 4 per cent. in-
terest upon all calls.
Prospectuses; maps, and forms, may be had at the Offices of Hull
Terrell, Esq., solicitor, 30, Basingliall-street, London ; G. Cressy
Hall, Esq., solicitor, Alfreton ; George Henry Richardson Cox, Esq.,
Spondon, Derbyshire; and the following Sharebrokers :—Messrs.
;Taunton and Bush, 26, Austin-friars; Mr. T. Uztelll, 75, Old
Broad-street, London ; Mr. W. Wren, Preston ; Messrs. Flint and
Tootal, Mill; Mr. W. Mason, Bradford; Messrs. Gray-stone and
Earle, York; Mr. W. Cronienu, Halifax ; Messrs. T. N. Bardwell and
Sons, Sheffield ; Mr. S. Eyre, Derby; Mr. T. Boardman, Blackburn ;
Mr. Lemon, Bath ; Mr. Henry Carr, Colchester ; Mr. William Allbut,

Hanley.
Applications for shares must be accompanied by references to a
member of the Provisional. Committee—to the Solicitor or Local
Agent—to some person of known respectability—or to the applicant's
banker in London or elsewhere.
Notice.—No ffirther applications for Shares in this Company can
be received after Wednesday, October 15.
Offices of the Company, 44, Finsbury-circus.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
.To the Provisional Committee of the Erewash Valley Extol sion, and
Rochdale, Blackburn, and East Lancashire Junction Railway Com-
pany.
Capital, 1,750,000/., in 87,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 201. each
in the above Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the same,
or any portion of that number you may allot me, and to pay the de-
posit of 21. 2s. per share on them, as wel as all future calls, also to
sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' ..4-greement when-
ever required.
Dated . _

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ViREWASH VALLEY EXTENSION, AND
ROCHDALE, BLACKBURN, AND EAST LANCASHIRE
JUNCTION RAILWAY. COMPAN Y.

Notice is hereby given, that no farther Applications for Shares in
this Company can be received after WEDNESDAY next, the 15th day
of October, immediately after which'the Allotment will take place.
By order, STILLINGFLEET LOCKER, Secretary.
44, Finsbury-circus.

FREWASH VALLEY EXTENSION, AND
ROCHDALE, BLACKBURN, AND EAST LANCASHIRE
JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.

Notice is hereby given, that the OFFICES of this Company ARE
REMOVED to 44, FINiBURY-CIRCUS.
By order,

STILLINGFLEET LOCKER, Secretary.

October 9, 1845.

NOTTINGHAM, BIRMINGHAM, AND
COVENTRY JUNCTION RAILWAY,
Uniting Warwick, Coventry, and Birmingham, with Nottingham,

Newark, and Lincoln.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Offices—(temporary), 19, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street.
Capital 550,0001., in 27,500 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.
IMOVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Viscount Lifford, Astley Castle, Coventry
Matthew Gisborae, Esq., Walton Hall, Derbyshire
Sir Edwin Pearson, F.R.S., 5, Gloucester-terrace, Regent Park
Sir John Penniston Milbanke, Bart., Great Portland• street
William Collins,Esq.,M.P. for Warwick, Director of the Leicester

and Tamworth Railway
Michael Thomas Bass, Esq., Burton-upon-Trent
Major Croft, 15, Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman of the Chestsr and

Manchester Direct Railway -
Fraser B. Henshaw, Esq., Lower Seymour-street,' Portman-square,
Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction
Railway
Major Waller, ICH., 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, D rector of the
Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle Junction Railway
T. E. Bigge, Esq., 19,_Bryanston-square, Director of the Warwick

and Cheltenham Railway
The Hon.W. E. Fitzmaurice, M.P., Ckeshant-street, Belgravo.square
Henry Dann, Esq., 42, Duke-street, St. James's, Director of the
Shrewsbury, Worcester, and Crewe Railway
Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Marts, Director of
the Soutk and Midlands' Junction Railway
John Clement Ituding, Esq-, Director of the National Bank of

Ireland
John Rawson, Esq., Halifax, Deputy-Lieutenant tbr Yorkshire, and
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Railway
The Hon. Colonel Leicester Stanhope, Ashburnham House, Ckairman
of the Chester and Manchester Direct Railway
John Thomas lilworth, Esq., Leicester
Thomas Hackett, Esq., Derby, Director of the Great Manchester and

Southampton Railway
John S. andars, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Crewe Railway
John Fisher, Esq., Short-hill, Nottingham, and Watling-street,

London
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

Tantworth 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, Ifyde Park-square
Douglas Fox, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Crewe Railway
Frederick Cayley Worsley, Esq., Isaberhorne House, Sussex
John Taylor, Esq., Cross-street, City, Director of the Commercial
sank of London
Lancelot Llewhellyn Ilaslope, Esq., Lifford, near Birmingham, Di-
rector of the Warwick and Cheltenham Railway
John Eames, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Captain Beare, Director of the Worcestershire, Shrewsbury, and
Crewe Railway
W. Fitzgibbon, Esq., Director of the Cork and Bandon Railway
Matthew Wyatt, Esq., 1, Upper Hyde Park-street, Director of the
.Manchester, Oxford, and Southampton Railway
John Douglas Cooper, Esq., Holme Cottage, Ashbourno, Director of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway
John B. Story-, sq. Lockington Hall, Leicester
Captain Holden, Locke l'ark, Derbyshire
The Mayor of Nottingham
George Bacon, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
William Charles Boden, Esq., Apsley Hall, Nottingham
Thomas Wakefield, Esq., magistrate, Nottingham
Thomas Fisher, Esq., Sort Hill, Nottingham
Henry Attenburrow, Esq., Nottingham
William Hannay, Esq., magistrate, Nottingham
William Cartledge, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Lewis Heyman, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland Hollow, Alfreton
Joshua Harding, Esq., Rosliston, Derbyshire
Morris Piddocke, Esq., Stanton, near Burton-upon-Trent
Robert Collings Gilbertson, Esq., Barton-upon-Trent
David Melville, Esq., 13, Wood-street, Cheapside, and Nottingham
William Clark, Esq., the Mayor of Coventry
Alderman Dunn, Coventry
Francis Wyley, Esq., Coventry
Captain Frederick Willmot Horton, R.N., Catton-hall, Derbyshire
Charles Noel, Esq., Kirby Mallory, Leicestershire
Mr. Alderman Newton, Coventry
Robert Power, Esq., Atherstone
George Meek, Esq., 29, Russell-square
Thomas Winkwortb, Esq., Gutter-lane
Dr. Williams, Nottingham
John Smith Mansfield, Esq., 3, Essex-court, Temple
Edward Coleman, Esq., Atherstone
Thomas Dicken, Esq., St. Stephen's-hill, Staffordshire
John Mott, Esq.,' the Close, Lichfield, Director of the Schith Stafford-

shire Railway
William Shadbolt, Esq., Greenwich, Chairman of the Greenwich
Railway

(With power to add to their number.)
SOLICITORS.
Abraham Bass, Esq., Burton-upon-Trent.
Messrs. Lacy and Bridges, 19, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street.
Messrs. Sir George Stephen and Hutchinson, 1, Exchange-baildings

PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.
Messrs. Dyscn, Hall, Parkes, and Coates.
BANKERS.
The London Joint-Stock Bank, Princes-street.

The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury, aid 6, Henrietta-street,
Covent-garden.
The Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashbourne Union Banking Company,
Burton-upon-Trent, and Ashbourne.
Messrs. Evans and Co., Derby,
I. and John Charles Wright and Co., Nottingham.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—CharIes Fox, Esq.
NNGINLIRS.
Elijah Gallaway, Esq.
James Builivant Temalin, Esq.

This line will commence at a point on the Midland Counties Rail-
way, near Kegworth, and will proceed in a direct line to Nuneaton,
and thus, by means of other projected lines, a direct communication
will be formed between the important towns of Nottingham, Newark,
and Lincoln on the one side, and Birmingham, Coventry, and War-
wick on the other; and as there is no doubt the proposed rail-
way between Cheltenham and Warwick will be formed, a direct
communication will thus be effected between the Severn at Glouces-
ter, and the Humber at Great Grimsby. At the same time, a rich
mineral and_ agricultural district will be supplied with railway ad-
vantages.
The line will pass through a very productive district, intersecting
the Leicestershire coal-fields and limeworts, and will afford commu-
nication, 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 remunerative.
In consequence of the lines in the course of formation, exclusive of
those projected to Great Grimsby, that port will be rendered of the
first Importance, and it must be obvious that traffic from the district
south-west of Warwick will be very great.
The distance saved by the proposed line between Leamington,
Warwick, Coventry, and Nottingham, will be about twenty allies ;
and between Birmingham and Nottingham about six miles. As
it is the shortest :route from Birmingham to Nottingham and
Lincoln, it must secure the traffic from Birmingham to Notting-
ham, Newark, Lincoln, and the port of Great Grimsby ; and by com-
municating with the Erewash Valley Railway at Long Eaton, it must
command the traffic from Coventry, Warwick, and the district smith
of those towns to Sheffield, Leeds, York, and the north of England
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, aad the Warwick
and Worcester Railways.
The entire length of the line will be about twenty-four miles. The
Parliamentary surveys are now in active progress, and contracts have
been entered into with eminent surveyors, which will insure ample
time for a compliance with the standing orders. The engineer also
reports the country to be free from all engineering difficulties, and to
present unusual facilities for the formation of the line.

The Committee having determined upon making provision for com-
pleting the whole line to Coventry, in case circumstances should ren-
der such a course expedient, have resolved to raise the capital to
550,0001., in 27,500 shares of 201. each. Any parties who may be
desirous of withdrawing their applications in consequence of the
above alterations in the project, must signify the same forthwith,
otherwise the applicants for shares will be considered as acquiescing
therein.

Powers for alllwanco 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.
TABLB OF DTATANCES.

Present Distances. Miles

By proposed I saving
Route. i

Warwick to Nottingham, by
Hampton and Derby • • about 71
Warwick to Nottingham, by
Rugby and Leicester ••• • • •do. 65
Warwick to Lincoln • ..... .•dcl 97
Coventry to Nottingham do. 62
Coventry to Lincoln
Birmingham to Nottingham do.( 55
Birmingham to Lincoln do, •. .
Cheltenham to Nottingham, byi
Birmingham and Derhy do.l 100

5 s 20
1
1. 14
83 14
42 20
...... • • • • 20
49 I G

Prospectuses may be had at the Temporary Offices of the Company,
i 9, King's Arms-yanl, 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 Junction Railway,
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares of 201.
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 of 1845.
Name in
Profession and Professional Residence in
Residence in full „ „
..4, .44!

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NNORTHAMPTON, LINCOLN, and HULL
RAILWAY, commencing at Northampton, and proceeding
by way of Kettering; Uppingharn, Oaiiham, Grantham, on to Lin-
coln, with two extensions from that city—one to the port of Gains-
borough, and the other to Market Raisen and the rising and im-
portant port 01 Great Grimsby.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 2,000,000/., in 100,000 Shares of 201. each.
Dep6sit 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.
Admiral Ayscough, Southampton
J. R. W. Atkinson, Esq., Elmwood-house, Leeds, Director of the Lei-
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caster and Bedford Railway Company
Mr. Joseph Anuitt, merchant, Northampton
Francis ,Imes Alliott, Esq., Nottingham
Thomas J. Arnold, Esq., Revising Barrister for the City of London
Slr Arthur de Capel Broke, Bart., Oakley-hall, near Kettering
Robert M. Bates, Esq., banker, Strand
Robert Bell, Esq., Manor house, Chiswick
Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Esq., Beesthorpe-hall, Newark, Notts
John Richards Burbidge, Req., Surbiton-hill, Surrey
John Brightman, Esq., Regency-square, Brighton
Mr. Aldennan Brooks, Manchester
C. Bnschek, Esq., merchant, 133, Fenchurch-street, London
Jonathan Burton, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Grand Union
and Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway Companies
George Buxton, Esq., Northampton
J. 1). Barry, Esq., London and Paris, Director of the Orleans, Tours,

and Bordeaux Railway Company
Charles Britten, Esq., Northampton
Mr. Alderman Bean, Nottingham
John Bradley, Esq., the Park, NottinghaM
Mr. Sergeant Clarke, Recorder of Northampton and Lincoln
Thomas Chitty, Esq., Upper Gower-street
Richard Carpenter, Esq., Lonsdale-square, London
Henry Coe Coape, Esq., Goldhanger, Essex
Thomas Mortimer Cleoby, Esq., Acton, Middlesex
N. Camberlege, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's-park
Mr. Edward Cotton, merchant, Northampton
J. M. Cottle, Esq., Leamington
Peter Coniston, jun., Esq., Husbands Bosworth, near Wclford
Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
• John Robert Dalby, Esq., Ashbourne, Derbyshire
The Right Hon. George Lionel Dawson Darner, M.P., 6, Tilney-
street, Park-lane
Hon. W. Dawson Darfirr, Pahattffte lodge, Poole
Edmund F. Dayreil, Lillingstone Dayrell, High Sheriff of Bucks
John Eyston, Esq:, Welford and Salford-hall, Warwickshire
Hon. Percy Evans Freke, 3, Belgrave-square
Benjamin Fowler, Esq., Tamworth, Director of the Northampton,
Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway Company
John Freeman, Esq., Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and

_ .
Cheltenham Railway Company
William Gambier, Esq , Seacombe-park, Hertfordshire
Hon. Robert Gore, M.P., 21, Wilton-cresceat
Major-General Greenstreet, Northampton
John Cooper notch, Esq., banker, Kettering
James Gernon, Esq., Conduit-street, Bond-street
Alexander Greig, Esq., Lowndes-strcet, Belgrave-square, London
Frederick William Green, Esq., shipowner, Coruhill, London
The Rev. George Edward Harmer, Rector of Loddington and Over-
stone, Northamptonshire
Frederick William Hamilton, Esq.
Henry Hensman, Esq., Pytehley, Nor hamptonshire
George Harper, Esq., Moss-fields, Salop
William Herbert, Esq., Nottingham
Thomas nagger, Esq., Northampton, Director of the Northampton,
Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway Company
Thomas Hopkins' Esq., Nottingham
Arthur llaymes, Esq., Methuen-villa, Leamington
John Helbert Helbert, Esq., Upper Gloucester-place, London
Mr. William Higgins, merchant, Northampton •
Edward Hall, Esq., West Bank-house, Macclesfield, Director of the
Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway Company
John Baron Ho xse, Esq., Irthlingborough-grange, Northampton-

shire
Mr. Alderman Hells, Northampton
Richard Hopper, Esq., Upper Clapton, London, Director of the Direct
London and Manchester Railway Company
Hon. Edward Jernhigham
Richard Parry. Jones, Esq., Whitchnrch, Salop
William Laycock, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Nottingham and
Gainsborough, and rand Union Railway Companies
Sir Gregory A. Lewin, Recorder of Doncaster
F. Valentine Lee. Esq., Chester-terrace, Regent's-park, London,
Director of the Eastern Conties Railway Company
Charles Wottley Lovell, Esq., Great Billing, Northamptonshire
Charles Leavers, Esq., the Park, Nottinaiam
Major-General Mercer, C.D., Queen Anne-street, Cavendish-square
Christopher Markham, Esq., Northampton
William Mackenzie, Esq , Liverpool and Paris, Director of the Or-
leans, Tours, and Bordeaux Railway Company
James Morrison, Esq., St. Mars -et-hill, London
G. Marshall, Esq., Godalming, Surrey
E. W. Morris, Esq., Grovehurst, Pembury, Kent
Major J. A. Moore, Queen Annc-street, Cavendish-square
George Murray, Esq., Chichester
Samuel Oxenham, Esq., Chester-terrace, Regent's-park, London
Sir George Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Herta
Samuel Percival, Esq., banker, Northampton
Mr. Alderman Porter, Northampton
The Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Herefordshire
Edward Pell, Esq., Bywell-hall, Northamptonshire
George Ryley Peppercorne, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex
Vaughan Prance, Esq., Nether Stowey, Somersetshire
Henry Pywell, Esq., Northampton
John Phipps, Esq., Northampton
Benjamin Payne, Esq., Leicester
The Lord Rossmore, the Dell, Windsor
Mr. George Ronde, merchant, Nottingham
The Rev. John Lucas Sutton, Rector of Weekly, Northamptonshire
Henryitr. n
sF. Curwen Smith, Esq., Frognall-hall. Hampstead
Thomas Sharp, Esq.,tock
bu
Ehsaqm.,p
jto.pn,.,
Northampton Director of the Northampton,
Northampton,
rtßanbury, and Cheltenham Railway Companies
Lei
Frederick Seymour, Esq., St. James's-square
G. W. Smith, Esq., Harbury-hall, Sheffield
William Spooner, Esq., Chapel-street, Beigrave-square, London
James Robert Spiller, Esq-, balker, Northampton
Archibald Douai., Stewart, Esq., Grantley Critic
William Strong, Esq., Northampton
Benjamin Williams, Esq., banker, I, Whitehall, London
Major James Waller, St. James's-street
Mr. Alderman Williams, Northampton
Mr. Thomas Woodhouse, manufacturer, Nottingham
David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland-hollow, Derbyshire, Director of
the Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway Company
George Willes, Esq., Hungerford, Berks
John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, Turbridge, Rent,•Director of
the Leicester and Bedford Railway Company
Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., Clopton-house, Stratford-on-Avon, and
Luton HO9, Bedfordshire
The Rev. C. F. Watkins, Vicar of Brexworth, Northamptonsh- ire
Mr. John Woolston, jun., merchant, Wellinborough
Mr. Joseph Wykes, merchant, Northampton ,
Mr. Alderman Walker, Northampton
Mr. Marmaduke Wetherell, merchant, Northampton
Charles Loxdale Warren, Esq., the Lodge, Market Drayton, and
Consall-hall, Staffordshire
Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. J. C. Westenra, M.P., Brooks's Club
Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Pall-mall, London
Allen Allicocke Young, Esq.. Orlingbury, Northamptonshire
T. Borwick Yzarn, Esq., Herne-hill, Surrey
Chadwick, William, Esq., Montague-square, Chairman of the Rich-
mond Railway
Cailde, Thom .s, Esq., banker, Hull
Digby, Thomas, Esq., banker, Hull
Sleight, Robert P., Esq., Hull
Atkinson, John, Esq., merchant, Hull
Bamford, Charles, jun., Esq., merchant, Hull
Bamford, Charles, Esq., merchant, Hull
Casey, William, Esq., merchant, Hull
Grutt, Thomas Charles, Esq., merchant, Hull
Garthorne, John, E q., merchant, Den
Hammond, Charles, Esq., merchant, Hull
Hammond, Thomas Dorston,
Esq., merchant, Hull
Hall, John, Esq., merchant, Hull
Hubbersty, Harry, Esq., merchant, Hull
Holmes, George, Esq., merchant, Hull
Norman, Win. V. Esq., merchant, Hull
Ostler, John, Esq., merchant, Hull
Pearson, William Hunt, Esq., merchant, Hull
Petchell, Thomas, Esq., merchant, Hull
Thompson, Thomas, Esq., merchant, Hull
Whittaker, Isaac, Esq., merchant, Hull.
George Abbey, Esq., orthampton
Mr. Thomas Atherton, merchant, Northampton
Henry Broadwood, Esq., AC P
Whitehall
John Booth, Esq., Glendon-hall, near Kettering
Edmond Singer Burton, Esq., Daventry, Northamptonshire
Mr. W. Bunting, wool merchant, Spratton, Northamptonshire
W. F. Beadon, Esq., John-street, Berkeley-square, London
Sir Montague Chohnloy, Bart, Easton-hall, Lincolnshire
Sir Francis Cockburn, Dover
John Collis, Esq., Mears Ashby, NortliamptOnshire, Director of the
Northampton Union Bank
John ChOwns, Esq., Friestoa-house, Claythorpe, near Grantham
The Rev. Thomas Clayton, Rector of Cottlnghain-cum-Mddleton,
Northamptonshire
Stanior, and
The Rev. Thomas Cook, Rector of Grafton Underwood,
Briggstock, Northamptonshire
Mr. John Groom, manufacturer, Northampton
Fitzwilliam Humo, Esq., Barton-place, St. James's
Hon. Colonel Hutchinson, Weston-house, Worcester
Charles Heneage, Esq., Cadeby-house, Lincolnshire
nshire DI
H. H. H. Hungerford, Esq., Dingley-park, Northampt 0 ,
rector of the Leicester and Bedford Railway CompanY
Mr. S. S. Hobson, manufacturer, Leicester
Ambrose hated, Esq., Ecton, Northamptonshire
Major Thomas Isham, Lamport, Northamptonshire
John Jeffery, 144 q., Northampton
Thomas Michael Keyworth, Esq., Lincoln
John Lovell, Esq., Towcester, Northamptonshire
tonshire
Herbert Longhorn, Esq., Cottesbrooke-hall, NorthaMP
Mr. Fletcher Mercer, merchant, Gainsborough
Rev. Robert Montgomery, Rector of Holcot, Northamptonshire
John Nethercoat, Esq., Moulton-grange, Northamptonshire
George Osborn, Esq. Northampton
John Percival, Esq ,%Voodlands, of Wight
Mr. Francis Parker, manufacturer, Northampton
Archibald Robertson, Esq., M.D., Northampton
hire
John Reddall, Esq., Dallington-hall, Northamptons
Northamptonshire
The Bev. Henry Rokeby, Rector of Arthingwortk.
William Rudgard, Esq., Lincoln
Richard Whitton, Esq., Lincoln tonshire
Thomas Wood, sq., Arthingworth-hall, Northamp
H. R. Whitworth, Esq., Northampton
Major Maidwell Young, Northamptonshire
The Rev. Humphrey Waldo Sibthorpo, II as hingborough, near Lin-
coln, Director of the London and York Railway Compel)),
George Smith, Esq., Oakham Rutland
Mr. Matthew Sooby, jun., merchant, Gainsborough
The Rev. Thomas Sanders, Vicar of Moulton, Northamptonshire
Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln, Director of the London and York
Railway Company
The Rev. Zacharia Shrapool Warren, Rector of Ancaster, near
Grantham.

BANKERS.
Northampton—The Union Bank, and the Northamptonshire Bankim

Company
Kettering—Messrs. Gotch and Sons
Lincoln, Gainsborough, Brigg, Caistor, Grimsby,and Market Raison
—Messrs. Smith, Ellison, and Co.
ElvelNEEß—Joseph Urpeth Rastrick, Esq.
SOLlClTORS—London—Augustua Walter Arnold, Esq., 31, Golden.
square
Kettering—Messrs. Lamb and Nettleship
Northampton and Welford—Mr. George Pell, jun.
LOCAL AGENT—Arthur Wells, Esq., Nottingham
PAILLIMENTABY AGENT _Cadwallader F. addy, Esq., Fliul
street

SECRETARY—Richard Kirwan, Esq.
Offices of the Company, 34, Moorg,ate-street.
PROSPECTUS.

The objects intended to be accomplished by this undertaking are-
1. The supply of. local railway accommodation to the important
oafywestern counties, and tile
districts embraced by the line.
the
ee
and es loiva
titnhhecorfi
lines
naaei railway
railway communication
proedbettoweienn.
the rarer 2. The benefit of railway communication with the metropolis to a
district of country upwards of si/utiles in length at present unprovided
with that accommodation.
north-eastern districts of the kingdom and the river Humber, and its
rTivheer ofcompletionnwi
ports, including that of Hull•
adindreMoanwcirrsteertoptrhoe-
Commencing at the town of Northampton, in conjunction with the
London and Birmingham,
verge at that town front Cheltenhain, and the West from Worcester
and from Warwick, the line will proceed in a direct course to the
ppeotsiengtofoprastshe l
market town of Kettering, by which place all the companies coin-
market towns. of Uppingliani, Oa sham, and Grantham, to Lincoln.
The, country lying between the towns of Northampton and Gran-
thamiinte,,oifiirtitiiiewnayprbeoctewer
aiLsoo,ndionna
'is wholly wititottt eXlSting or even proposed railway accommo-
dation, not only to tile south, but also to the north.
At Lincoln the line will fork, and proceed on the one hand in a
northerly direction to the flourishing port of Gainsberough, and on
the ether by a north-eastern course to the market town of Market
Raiser', on the rising port of Great Grimsby.
By an union with the Sheffield and Great Grimsby Junction Rail-
way at Market Raisen, a d rest and
all chain of commu-
nication will be established between all the above-mentioned districts
anti the town And port of Hull. .
The sources of traffic which tausline will secure are various and
very considerable ; seine of thClll only cab be here enumerated,

viz.:--
Starting from Great Grimsby the line will appropriate to itself the
whole of thz traffic thence to the metropolis, and also the southern
and western districts of the country, and, in uddit'on, it will secure
the important and incrosing local traffic between that town and
Market Raiser and L':ucoln.
From GainsborrAgh, the termini of several' railways from the
north and nory,, west, this lino will carry the traffic to Lincoln, its
county tow ---."
The "4* win to the metropolis, and also to the west, will
at Market Raiser, and proceed thereon to
rron Lincol► themust
intermediate toivnl! e c
am
whole of the traffic passing to the west and the
pass over this line.
bridge and Lincoln Railway Company not
In the event of n
the# the traffic from Lincoln to the south and
~,... obtaining their Dilli __., . pass
aim
:tills
line
,of
risityv ;
1 -e;:i.n.ejcin(ur.parne frtholns I line
•A •.. west, and alio the raewvuut
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the former the whole distance, and the latter at any event to Gran-
tham, a distance of about twenty-five miles ; and should the London
and York Company not succeed, such traffic will proceed on to Ket-
tering or Northampton.
The entire district between Grantham and Kettering, a distance of
more than forty miles, and including the market towns of Oakham
and Uppingliam, is without railway or water-carriage accommoda-
tion, and the whole of its traffic therefore will travel over this line of
railway, which will be in the direct course not only to the west but
also to London.
At Kettering this line will unite with that one of the now com-
peting schemes passing that town from Manchester and Leicester to
London which shall be successful before Parliament.
The country is free from engineering difficulties, with one or two
exceptions only, and those are more than counterbalanced by the very
favourable gradients of by far the greater: portion of the line ; indeed,
for many miles the line 'will run upon a water level.
The lire will not interfere with any ornamental property.
The landowners on the line are favourable to the undertaking.
The promoters reserve power to alter and vary the route, and ex-
tend the proposed line of railivay, and to increase the amount of
capital, as may be necessary or advisable.
Applications for shares may be made to the Secretary, or to the
following •Sharebrokers, of whom Prospectuses, with Maps of the
l.ne, may be obtained :—London, Messrs. l'eppercorne and Co., 2,
Old Broad-street ; Messrs. Preece and Evans, 39, Lothbury ; Bir-
mingham, Mr. W. H. Collis; Blackburn, Mr. Thomas Boardman ;
Bradford, Mr. George Clark ; Bristol, Messrs. Tate and Nash ; Chel-
tenham, Mr. James Stokes ; Coventry, Mr. J. S. Holland ; Dublin,
Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford ; Edinburgh, James Pringle, Esq.,
79, Princes-street ; Exeter, Messrs. Beaumont and Langworthy ;
Glasgow, Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson; Halifax, Mr. William
Cronheim ; Huddersfield, Messrs. EVerard and Co. ; Hull, Mr. F.
Stamp ; Leeds, Messrs. Wellbeloved and Oastier ; Leicester, Messrs.
Payne and Freer; Liverpool, Messrs. Townlyand Whitehead, Messrs.
Cameron and Co., Mr. Morris Reynolds ; Macclesfield, Mr. Richard
E. Hine; Manchester, Messrs. Cardwell and Sons, Messrs. A. Birchall
and Co., Mr Charles O'Neil Nottingham, Mr. Charles Spencer ;
Sheffield, Messrs. T. N. Bardvrcll and Sons ; Southampton, Mr.
Joseph Clark, jun. ; Wakefield, Mr. E. H. Arniitage ; Worcester, Mr.
Miles ; York, Messrs Grayston and Earle. •

PONTEFRACT, DONCASTER, WORKSOP
and MANSFIELD JUNCTION BALMY AY.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 900,0001., in 45,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right llon. Lord Thomas Pelham Clinton
The Hon. Francis Henry Fitzhardinge Berkeley, M.P., 6, Spring-
gardens.
C. Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Paris and Strasburg
Railway
IV. Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P. Chairman of the Welsh Midland

Railway
Henry ➢larsland, Esq., Woodbank, near Stockport, M.P.
The Hon. A. F. Berkeley, 31. P., 6, Spring-gardens
William Collins, Esq., 31. P.
E. F. Dayrell, Esq., High Sheriff of Bucks, Lillingstona Dayrell,
Chairman of the Cheltenham and Gloucester Railway
Sir John M`Taggart, Bart., M.P.
Wynn Ellis, Esq., ➢S.P., 30, Cadogan-place, and Ponsborne-park,

Herts
lion. Robert Gore, ALP.
Charles Holte Bracebridge, Esq., The Hall, Atherstone, Chairman of
the Leicester and Birmingham, and Boston, Stamford and Bir-
mingham Railways
Sir Andrew P. Green, K.C.H., Director of the Australasian, lonian,

and Canadian Banks
The Hon. Staftbrd Jerningham
The [lon. Cecil Lawless, Lyons-castle, Kildare, Director of the Great
Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway
Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.8., Director of the East India Company
William Chance, Esq., Birmingham, Deputy-Chairman of the Leices-
ter and Birmingham, and Boston, Stamford and Birmingham
Railways
Henry John Enthoven, Esq., Moorgate-street, Director of the Dutch

and Rhenish Railway
Sir William Drummond Stewart, Bart.
Archibald Douglas Stewart, Esq., Grantelly Castle
Hon. Colonel Westenra, M.P.
Charles Vickers Bunter, Esq., Kilburue-hall, Derbyshire, Director

of the Midland Union Railway
Frederick Ricketts, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway,Sr.o.
Robert Ramsdell, Esq., Carlton-hall, Worksop
John Joseph Shnttleworth, Esq., Hodsock-park, Notts
George Calvert Holland, Esq., M.D., Sheffield, Director of the Hudders-
field and Manchester, and Great Grimsby and Sheffield Railways,
and Deputy Chairman of the Wakefield and Harron-gate Railway,
John Brcarley Payn, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Leicester
and Birmingham, and Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham
Railways
John Phillips, Esq., Mayor of Pontefract
Major Bilbee, Nettleworth-hall, Mansfield, Magistrate of the County
of Derby, and Director of the Derby and Gainsborough Railways
Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbaston, Birmingham, Director
of the Leicester and Birmingham, and Boston, Stamford and Bir-
mingham Railways •
Edward Middleton, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Leicester
and Birmingham, and Boston, Stamford and Birmingham
Railways
William Freer, Esq., Atherstone, Director of the Leicester and Eir
mingham, and Boston, Stamford and Birmingham Railways
Henry Fotheringhay Hunter, Esq., Kilburne-hall, Derbyshire,
Direct, r of the Midland Union, and Great Grimsby, Gainsborough,
end Derby Railways
Frederick Wollaston, Esq., Sheepy, near Atherstone, Director if
the Leicester and Birmingham, and Boston, Stamford and Bir-
mingham Railways
Richard Burton Phillipson, Esq., Director of the Rugby, Leamington,

and Warwick Railway
Rot. W. S. Cur,ham, Mansfield
Charles Lindley, Esq., Mansfield, Direct*r of the Nottingham and

Mansfield Railway
John George Norbury, Esq., Maneetter-house, Atherstone, Director
of the Leicester and Birmingham, and Boston, Stamford and Bir
mingliam Railways
John Francis Woody, Esq., Tamwerth, Director of the South Union

Railway
Martin Farniss, Esq., Mansfield. Director of the Nottingham and

Mansfield Railway
Samuel Watkins, Esq., Forest-hill, Worksop, Director of the Man-
chester and Rugby Railway
Ambrose Moore, Esq., Director of the Joint Stock Bank
I. W. Spurr, Esq., Wigthorpe, Worksop
Robert Newbold, Esq. (firm Joseph Rodgers and Sons), Sheffield
R. P. Harwood, Esq., M.D., Director of the Wakefield and Harrow-

gate Railway
John Rodgers, jun., Esq. (firm Joseph Rodgers and Sons), Sheffield
John Ward, Esq., Machon Bank, Sheffield
Sidney Roberts, Esq., Dial-house, Loxley, Sheffield
Robert Mitchell, Esq., merchant, Sheffield
Henry Unwin, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Manchester, Hndders
field, and Great Grimsby Railway
Frederick Hunt, Esq., (firm Robert Hunt and Co., carriers), Sheffield
Richard Truswell, Esq., brewer, Sheffield
The Hon. Major Napier, Rugby
•
Samuel Hurt, Esq., Mansfield
William Chambers, Esq., corn-merchant, Doncaster
Dr. James H. Simpson, magistrate for the borough of Pontefract
Edwin Unwin, Esq., Managing Director of the Sheffield Gas Com-
pany
Thomas Sands, Esq., late Mayor of Liverpool, Elms-wood, Mosely-

hill, Liverpool
William Leech, Esq., Manchester
Dr. Robert Oxley, Pontefract
Richard, Pope, Esq., Crigglestone, near Wakefield
James Robinson, Esq., Director of the Bradford, Wakefield, and Mid-

land and Sheffield Railway
Th y,
omas Bateson,Esq.,M.P.,Alban and Belvoir-park, county Down
Henry Francis Gisborne, Esq., Derby, Director of the South Staf
fordshire Junction, Leicester and Tamworth, Tring and Beading
and Basingstoke, and Derby and Crewe Railways
Frederick Hunt, Esq. (firm of Frederick F. Hunt and Co.), Sheffield
Dr. James. H. Simpson, Pontefract
Charles Turner, Esq., Liverpool
Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol, Director of the Leeds and
_ _

Carlisle Railway
A. Betteridge, Esq., 4, Devonshire-terrace, Director of the Great
Grimsby, Louth, and Ilorncastle Railways
Thomas Mark Carter, Esq., Woolgreeyes-house, Banda% Magna

Pontefract
Joshua Skidmore, Esq., Wakefield
Henry May, Esq• (firm Smith and May, brewers), Oldcoats.

Worksop
John Gulley, Esq., Ackworth-Park, Pontefract
Josepli Birley, Esq., Alderman, Doncaster
Abraham Wheatcroft, Esq., Cromford, Derbyshire
Wm. Green Armytage, Esq., Lockwood, Huddersfield
Joseph Brooke, jun., Esq., Green-head, Huddersfield
Phineas Franklin, Esq., Shantilla, Galway
Charles Fitzwilliam Hatmam, Esq., Clixby Manor-house, Caistor

Lincolnshire
John Jephson Rowley, Esq., Rowthorne, Mansfield
Robert Smith, Esq., (firm Smith and May, brewers), Oldcoats,

Worksop
James Scott, Esq., Worksop
chant, Worksop
Samuel Sketchley, Esq., me
John Miller, coal merchant and maltster, Worksop
John Durham, Esq., miller and merchant, Worksop
William Shadbolt, Esq., Croom's-hill, Greenwich, Chairman of the
Greenwich Railway, and Director of the London Joint-stock Bank
Henry Erskine, Esq., Mount-street, Grosvenor-s lucre, Director of
the Great Manchester Railway
William Rothery, Esq., 10, Stratford-place, Director of the Leeds and
Liverpool Direct Railway
James Reeves, Esq., Cheapside, and Leyton, Essex, Director of the
Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railways
William Morley, Esq., Director of the Goole and Doncaster Railway
Rev. G. A. Walker, Huddersfield, Director of the Goole and Don-
caster Railway
W. Wood, Esq., Director of the Goole and Doncaster Railway
Charles James Heath, Esq., London-street, Fenchurch-street, Director
the Great Manchester Railway
Charles Robert Coleman, Esq., Irongate-wharf, London, Director of
the Goole and Doncaster Railway
David Mountague, Esq., Regent's-park, Director of the Groat Man-
cheater Railway
Benjamin Franklin, Esq., Harley-street, Director el the Great Man-
chester Railway
Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Esq., Beesthope-hall, Newark, Director of the
Grand Junction and Midland Union Railway
se; Bert Ingram, Esq., Director of the Ambergate, Nottingham, and
Bos:on Amalgamated Railway
John But;eas, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester, and Director of
the Ambei; ate, Nottingham, and Boston Amalgamated Railway
Nathaniel Cooii,", Esq., Director of the Ambergate, Nottingham, and
Boston Amalgab:ated Railway
James Gernan, Esq., Vice-Chairman of the Galway and Ennis
Grand Junction RalliCaY
Lieut.-Col. Eirington, Wyrdham-place, Bryanston-square, Director
of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
Jacob Mentenore, Esq., Chester-terrace, Belgrave-square
John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S.. Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park, Di-
rector of the South Midland Ind Northampton and Banbury
Railway
Edward Baxter, Esq., merchant, Worksop
Henry Hese, Esq., Worksop
Robert Carr, Esq., Worksop
James Drabble, timber-merchant and builder, Carlton, Worksop
Ma-
William Hepworth, Esq., Pontefract, Deputy-Lieutenant and
gistrate of the West Riding of Yorkshire
William Moorhouee, Esq., Knottingley, Pontefract, Director of the
Sheffield, Barnsley. and Wakefield Railway
John Carter, Esq., Knottingley, Pontefract
Thomas Routledge, Esq., Alderman, Pontefract
George Green, Esq., Pontefract
Thomas Carter, Esq., J.P. of the Borough of Pontefract
James Robson, Esq., J.P. of the Borough of Pontefract
Adam Jessop, Esq., Castle Ford, Pontefract
William Clarke, Esq., Ackwortle Pontefract
Major-General Wright, RE., Director of the Great London and
Dublin Railway
James Russell, Esq., 57, Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director
of the Great London and Dublin Railway
Francis Ewart, Esq., Temple
Anthony Dickson, Esq., Edrington-house, Berwickshire, Director of
the Grand Junction and Midland Jnion Railway
John Weston, Esq., Director of the Great. Manchester and South-
ampton Railway
Frederick Clarksoa, Esq., Doctors' Cominons, Director of the Grand
Junction and Midland Union Railway
W. Prole, Esq., Director of the Grand Junction and Midland Union
Rati ;YaY
Robert CL.apinan, Esq., Director of the Grand Junction and Midland
Union Raii7vaY
William Watson, Egg., Director of the Grand Junction and Midland
Union Railway
James Macmillan, Esq., Director of the Soithampton and Oxford
Junctio:i Railway
Captain I. P. Macdougall, Director of the Southampton and Oxford
Junction Railway
Peter Henry Edlin, Esq., Temple, Director of tke Warwick and Wor-
ceeter Railway
Thames Hawker, Esq., Gloucester and Alserystwith Railway
W. Tulloch Frazer, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Rugby Di-
rect Railway
John Inglis Jerdein Esq., 150, Piccadilly, Director of the Grand
Junction, Great Western, and South-Western Junction
and Gra Railway
nd
P. Ridout Downme.n, Esq., Director of the Cambrian
Junction Railway
M.D., Ripon, Yorkshire, Director of the
Samuel Barwick Bruce, Esq.,
Barbadoes General Railway
T. R. Thelluson, Esq. Hyde Park-street
James Simpson, Bsq.,,Foxhill Bank, Accrinton, late Director of the
Manchester and Leeds Railway
Alderman Hughes Hughes, Director of the various Railways
Joseph Snowe, Esq., Barrister-at-law, Hanover Cottages, Regent's
Park near Leeds, Director of the Mid-
Simeon Musgrave, Esq., Kirkstall,
land and Thirsk Railway
Leeds, Director_ of the kfanelieSter
Benjamin Ilardwicke Teale, Esq.,
Southampton, and Poole Railway
Christopher Reinhold ]Seltzer, Esq., Leeds
John Jessop, Esq., Lockwood, Huddersfield.
Frazer, B. Renshaw, Esq.,
London, Director of the Liverpool, Man-
chester, and Newcastle. upon-Tyne Railway.
MANAGING COMMITTEE.
Lord THOMAS PELHAM CLINTON.
W. Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P.
Frederick Ricketts, Esq. Henry John Enthoven, Esq.
G. Cecil Lawless W. W. Prole, Esq.
G. Calvert Holland, Esq., M.D. Benjamin Franklin, Esq.
Robert Newbold, Esq. Joseph Snowe, Esq.
henry Unwin, Esq. Jacob Monteflore, Esq.
Henry P. Harwood, Esq., M.D. T. R. Thelluson, Esq.
Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Esq. J. I. Jerdein, Esq.
HONORAIT SCRETARY—J. N. Spent*, Esq..
BASHERS.

London—Merrs. Rogers, Olding and Co.
Pontefract and Doncaster—Messrs. Leatham, Taw, and Co.
Worksop, Mansfield, and Nottingliam—The Nottingham and Not-
tinghamshire Banking Company
Sheffield—The Sheffield and Rotherham Banking COMPSIIY.
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ENGINEERS—Sir John Macneill and James ThomOm,
SOLICITORS.

William Univin,Esq. 7 Sheffield.
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tbeiniTtluiliedirietsilitosiwn:‘°that it will also complete the communication be,
tts‘heenlavkl, Leeds, and the intermediate towns In the most direct
course with London. The surveys have been made by Sir John Mac-
neill and James Thompson, Esq., and the country is found to be fa.
yourable to the construction of a railway ; and there is, perhaps, no
lino of such importance which could be constructed at comparatively
0 small an expense as the sum named in the estimate.
T 1 a length of the line will be but about thirty-nine miles ; and by
means of this short link, in connexion with existing projects from
Nottingham, a saving will be effected between Leeds and the metro-
polis exceeding twenty-live miles.
It, will commence at the projected terminus of the Wakefield, Pon-
tefract, aid Goole Railway, at Pontefract, and from thence proceed
1 through Doncaster, Tickhill, and Worksop, to the terminus of the
Nottingham, Mangold, and Midland cknuttiee Railway, at Ma34telcl i