The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-01 00:00:00

E SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY VENING OCTOBER 1, 1845.

Edward Hyde Clarke ,Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of
the Warwickshire and London Railway
The Constable of Hungerford
Captain William Lionel Lampert, The Highlands, Oxfordshire, and
Leamington, Warwickshire
Francis Burton, Peg., liiiverton House, Warwickshire
Captain Stewart, R.N., Leamington, Warwickshire
Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbaston, Birmingham, Director
of the South Staffordshit e Railway
William Northage, Esq., Upper Gower-street, Bedford-square
*John Walley Hughes, Esq., Gloucester, Director of the Birmingham
and Bristol Railway
Lewis Bruce Knight Bruce, Esq., The Priory, Roehampton, Surrey
Francis Cole Humbert, Esq., Oxibrd-street, Hyde,-?ark
Algernon Greville, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park
John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park
James Lamb, Esq., Hyde-park-square
Richard Groucock, Esq.,! Bow-churchyard, and Dulwich, Director
of the Direct Manchester Railway
d. B. Simpson, Esq., Rutland-lodge, Brixton
Henry Bellerby, Esq„ Sheriff of York
Henry Ledgard, Esq., 39, Wood-street, Cheapside, Director of the
Rugby and Macclesfield Directtallway
John Williams, Esq., Eaton-square.
Thomas Grimeditch, Esq , M.P., Macclesfield, Cheshire
Samuel Griffiths, Esq., Penn-fields, Wolverhampton, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Railway
William Miller, jun., Esq., Leicester
Edward Westlake, Esq., Southampton
Erasmus It. Foster, Esq., Birchin-lane
William Bargett, Esq., Broad-street
Peter It. Morrison, Esq., Princes-street, Bank
Thomas Miller, jun., Esq., Leicester
John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Enfield, Diricior of the York and Lan-
caster Railway
Thomas Kidley, Esq., M.D., Sheffield
James Sheppard, Esq., jun.. White Hart-court, Lombard-street
Valentine Knight, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, Magistrate
for Middlesex
George Sercombe, Esq., Exeter
John Clampit Sercombe, Esq., Exeter
William Pearce, Esq., Liverpool . .
W. Holliday, Esq., Chad Valley, Edgbaston, Birmingham •
Robert Henry Hurst, Esq., jun., Temple
William Nash, Esq., Capham Common
Grey Hazlerigg, Esq., West Carlton Hall, Leicester
Captain Twisieton Graves, Duke-street, St. James's, Director of the
Leicester' and Tean and Dove Valley Railway
(With power to add to their number).
ENGINEERS IN CHIEF.
Sir John Macniell, LL.D., F.R.S.
James Thomson, Esq., F.R.S.E., M.R.I.A.
Baussas--Messrs. Cu; des and Co., Cornhill, London. s
JOINT SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Bell, Brodrick, and Bell, Bow Churchyard, London
Messrs. Rickards and Walker, 29, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Loudon
Messrs. Haynes and Moore, Warwick and London
Messrs. J. V. and J. T. Harting, 24, LincoluSr Inn-fields, London.
SECRETARY—Thomas Hosier Saunders, Esq.
Assurrarr-Secarrsav—Charles J. Whalley, Esq.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
At Newbury—Messrs. Godwin and Gray, and B. Pinniger, Esq.
At Ramshury—William Rowland, Esq.
At Devises, Henry Gilbert, Esq., and John Edwards Hayward, Esq.
At Troubridge and Bradford, Messrs. Stone and Rodway
At Beth, Messrs. Batehellor, Harford, and Staunton
At Shepton Mallett—Francis Isaac' Nalder, Esq.
At Bridgewater, Messrs. G. S. and J. It. Poole
At Exeter—William Denis Moore, Esq.
At Tiverton, T. L. T. Rcndell, Esq , and J. A. Toms, Esq.
At Launceston—Messrs. Lawrence and Pattison
At Bodmin
At Traro
At Penzance
At Falmouth—Messrs. Tresidder and Son
The object of this line is to effect a direct eemMunication between
London and the Land's End.
In a national point of view such a line is indispensable. With
the advantage, of a direct railroad, Falmouth, from its situation at the
western extremity of the kingdom, would undoubtedly long since
have been the principal port on that coast. With the advantage of
at least 280 miles of heavy road, that place has attained its high po-
sition as a Packet Station. Southampton, with far less natural ad-
vantages, has, since the opening of the South-Western Railway, in-
creased its imports from 200,0001. to 3,080,8001. per annum. At Bris-
tol, before the opening of the Great Western Railway, the imports
were declining,; since then they have very considerably increased.
The merits of a line to the Land's End as an investment for ca-
pital, it was not left to the present Company to discover. The Great
Western and Bristol and Exeter Railway having already reached
Exeter, it has been in contemplation to extend that line to Fal-
mouth by way of Plymouth ; and various other projects have been
set on foot on the conviction that Falmouth must be reached by
railway.
The object of this prospectus is to show that no ether line than the
resent can ultimately satisfy the exigencies of the country in regard
to this, its most Important eutport—" the natural Packet Station of
the. empire."
The present project is distinguished by this—that it is direct. It is
as nearly as possible a straight line from London to the Land's End.
The London, Bath, and Bridgewater Company having amalga-
mated with this Company, the immense local influence ooraraanded
by them will now contribute to the great national object of a direct
line • while means have been taken for securing the traffic and afford-
ing all the accommodation contemplated by that Company.
The Direct Western availing itself of the Great Western Railway
so far as Reading, pursues its course by or near Newbury, Hunger-
ford, Great Bedwin, Marlborough, Devizes, the manufacturing dis-
triet of Trowbridge (from which a diverging line will be carried by
Bradford direct to Bath), Westbury, Frame, Shepton Mallet, Wells
(from which another diverging line will be taken to Bridgewater),
Glastonbury to Taunton, being shorter by about thirty-two
miles than any existing railways between these points, and without
a tunnel. From Taunton the Bristol and Exeter Railway (now
leased to the Great Western) is traversed to Tiverton, whence it is
proposed to carry this line direct to the Land's End, Falmouth, St.
Ives, and Penzance, being shorter by about sixty miles than the
lately proposed line by way of Plymouth, and effecting, in the whole
distance from London to Falmouth, a saving of about ninety miles.
With respect to the traffic on the upper. porde* of the line it is
needless to say more than butt there is already thorough traffic suffi-
cleat to justify the construction of this portion of the Direct Wes-
tern : that it will shorten the distance from London to Tiverton
about 32 miles, Stith will traverse rich and populous agricultural
and manufacturineet stricts, and receive a large amount of traffic as
well from railways how in.course of construction as front ethers pro-
jected, with every chance of Success.
As to the traffic on thelower portion of the line, it is evident that
the vast number of merchant vessels continually detained in the
Channel by adverse winds, would effect an immense saving both in
insurance and time, by discharging their cargoes at Falmouth, and at
once transmitting them to their destination by means of this railway;
and therefisre—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 ;1 o what extent the inexhaustible mineral wealth
of Cornwall, and the unrivalled agricultural resources if Devonshire
may be further developed, or the genial elimate of Penzance anti
Mount's Bay, " the Montpellier if England," attract a larger propor-
tioi of winter visitants—it is °belong 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 lino can ever be
established between Tiverton and the Land's End. As between
Taunton and Reading, 'an inspection of the map will skew a vast ex-
tent of midland district, comprising rich and populous parts of So-
mersetshire, Dorsetahire, and Wiltshire, new altogether destitute of
railroad accommodation.
Recurring to the features of thleprejeet 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 cut of place to quote here
the following expressions of Sir Robert Peel. Speaking of the project
of a direct line from London to Liverpool through. the Treat Talley,
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 et' 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 eppose a direct line to Falmouth ; and it may be
farther observed, that a proposed line from Plymouth to Falmouth
was last session rejected, on the ground that ft 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, sad 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 an unusually small expense ; that the undertaking
will meet with the cordial support, concurrence, and co-operation of
the landowners, and that the Directors are justified 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 at the deposits, and preference
in the allotment of shares will be given to the proprietors of the land
through which 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, at the Company's
Offices, 20, Poultry, London, or to the local solicitors, or to any re-
spectable broker in town or country
20, Poultry, London, September, 1845.
FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Direct Western Railway
Company.
Gentlemen,—l request yoq will allot me shares of 251. each in
the above Company, and I undertake to pay the deposit of 21.125. 6d
per share thereon, or on any less number you may appropriate to me,
and to execnte the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Con•
tract when required
Dated

1845.
Name in full ........ •• .•
Rpiplence • • • • • • • • • • • • • ..... • • • • • • • •
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THE' LEEDS, HUDDERSFIELD, SHEF-
FIELD, and SOUTH" STAFFORDSHIRE (or LE b3DS
WOLVERHAMPTON, and DUDLE 19 DIRECT RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,700,000/., in 85,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Shrewsbury, Alton Towers, Staffordshire
Sir William Young, Bart., East India Director, Westbourne-street,
Hyde-park Gardens
Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobaids, Deputy Chairman of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Rail-
way, &c.
sSiirr Williamwiam
LnrwthhbrTop..BKartnt„."lsihubolLurnalute-Alhaglla,-Dhoeurbsey,shscaire
Scarborough, Di-
rector of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Jane-
Col. the Hon Leicester Stanhope, AshburbahmairHmoanns House, tion Railway
of the Chairman
of
ork and
Remington's London and Manchester bireet Raßailway;
Hon. Captain Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Chairman
Lancaster Railway, and Director of the Nottingham anal Roston
Railway, Parliament-street, London, &c., &c.
The Sheriff of York
Arnold, Henry, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of Rethlagtoa's London and
Manchester Railway
Bright, Sellm, Esq., Buxton
Barrett, IL, Leeds, Director of the beighley, Halifax, and Rudders-
field Union Railway
Buck, W. C., Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York Railway
Blurton, Robert, Esq., banker, Smallwood Manor, Uttoxeter, Direc-
tor of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Janctiou
Railway
Booth, John, Esq., Macclesfield
Bright, Selim, Esq., Buxton
Sr
Bradley' Septhnus, Esq., Ashbourne, Director of the Derbyshire,
tag
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efsfzilsohhinro,,Easqnd.,WßoorrcouesgtherrestfireyeeoJfuniucantiochnesltteairlway
Bu
Brixton, John Harry, Esq., Ashbourne
Clarke, JereMlah, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington S Loa-
don and Manchester Direct Railway
Cleobury, Thomas, Esq.,
Askew Villa, Acton
Cooke, the Rev. J., Uttoxeter, Director of the East and West Janette!).
Railway, &c. "
Cooke, John, Esq,, Macclesfield '
Cooper, John Douglas, Esq., Hohne Cottage, Ashbourae
Cox, Walker, Esq., Breadsall, Derby, Director of the Than and Dove
Valley Railway
Crockett,. T. Esq., Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire,
and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &e.
Croft, Major J. T., 15, Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman of Reming-
ton's London and Manchester Direct Railway
Crossley, John, Esq., Lamberhuret, Sussex, and Uttoxeter, Director
of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction
Railway
Cumberlege, Nathaniel, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's Park
Dolby, John, Robert., Esq., .Ashbourae, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Dale, Major, Thurston, Ashbounus
Daniel, Richard, Esq., Oak Hill, Stoke-upon-Trent
Dawson, Samuel, Esq., sen., Ashbourno
Dent, Edward, Esq., Westfield, Huddersfield
Dent, John, Esq., Northgate, Huddersfield
Darlington, J., Esq., Bradford
Dyson, Thomas, Esq., Well-house, Holmfirth
Earp, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-

shire, and *orcesiershire Railway
Eastwood, Edmund, Esq., Huddersfield
Eastwood, Abraham, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Haddon-

field, Sheffield, and Halifax Railway
Edensor, Richard, Esq., Road-meadow, Ashbonrne
Elershaw, John Esq., Leeds
Fidler, Peter Pichott, Esq., lliggin Grange, Derbyshire
Fisher, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct

Railway
Frost, Meadows, Esq., Chester
Garle. Samuel, Esq., Uttoseter
Garle, William, Esq. Uttoxeter
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Jun
Olipin, mid Co., 'Messrs. William, Wedges Mills, CannOcetkloDnifteactilowraoyf
Girs,ehoiernepet,4l,eannrya
TFarman,eviors,t.hEßsqau
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Railway &c.
of the Staffordshire,
asdhn, j
ao'ruZPhWOErcsges.tur'
Goddard, 'Thomas, Esq., Bank-house, Longton, Staffordshire
il
Dauhidireeyj,,Duilerteictonornaleflwthaey Derbyshire, Ste ord-
Haines, Samuel, Esq., Ched-honsa, Edgbaston, Director of the Lei-
cester and Etinninzhiun Railway
Ilarpin, John, Esq., Birk's-house, ilolnittrth
Hatfield, 'rhomas,Esq.,•itugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &c.
HaMinotul, :(1., Esq., Leeds, Director or the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct -Railway
_Harrison, John, Esq., Banker, Ripon, Director of the Liverpool
and Leeds Direct Railway
Hartshorne, Robert James, Esq., Ashbemme

Haywood, Richard Howard, Esq., Staffordshire Potteries
Holdforth, Joseph Dempsey, Esq., of Burley, Leeds, Director of the
Leeds and Liverpool Railway
Herries, Robert, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool
Direct Railways , •
Hill, John, Esq., Derby
Hirst, Abraham, Esq., York-house, Huddersfield
Ingleby, Joseph, Esq., Cheadle, Staffordshire
Johnson, John Goodwin, Esq., Bentley Hall, Ashbourne
Johnson, D. T., Esq., Aldermary Churchyard, Director of the Chea-
ter and Manchester Railway
Johnson, Richard Wm., Esq., Moorgate, Director of Remington's
London and Manchester Direct Railway
Jones, the Rev. J. P., Vicarage, Alton, Staffordshire, Director of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Jitrtion Railway
Jones, Edward, Esq.' Windmill-place, Camberwell
Knight, Edward, Esq., M.D., Stafford, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railway
Kingdom, Wm. Esq., Westbourne-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of

the Birmingham and Manchester Direct Railway
Keene, John Joseph, Esq., St. John's Wood, Regent's Park, Director

of the National Bank of Ireland, &oz. -
King, William, Esq., Waterloo-place, Director of the Freemasons'

Life Assurance, &c.
Lambert, Richard, Esq., Lyston Hall, Sudbury
Laughton, Richard, Esq., Barrow-hill, Uttoxeter
Langley, Henry, Esq., Rakeway House, Cheadle, Director of the Der-
byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Lassetter, Richgrd, Uttdieter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Lassetter, James, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Lea, John Wheeley, Esq., Worcester, Vice-Chairman of the Severn

Commission, &c.'
Marlow, Joseph, Esq., Walsall
Mason, Charles James, Esq., Staffordshire Potteries
Mason, George Miles, Esq., Wetley Abbey, etaffordshire
Meteyard, 13ordce, Wm.. Esq., Director of Reinington's London and
Manchester Railway, Middle Temple, and Chatham-place
M'Mahon, Daniel, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the Derbyshire
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Manors, John, Esq. Rageley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Meilard, James, Esq., Rugelcy, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Musgrave, Simeon, Esq., KlrkstaU, near Leeds, Director of the Thirsk

and Midland Junction
Minors, John, Esq., Eaton Dovedale, Derbyshire, Director of the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Minors, John, Esq., The Parks, .Uttometer, Director. of the East
and West Junction Railway
Mountford, Thomas John, Esq., Ashbourne
neorhouse, Joshua, Esq.,.Holmtlrth
Maskery, Thomas, Esq., Norbury, Derbyshire
North, Joseph, Esq., Clayton West, Huddersfield
Norton, George, Esq., Clayton West, Huddersfichl,Director of the Li-

verpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Orton, James, Esq., Woodford, near Uttoxeter, Director of the Der-
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byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Parkinson, John, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge-terrace, layde-park, I),

Direct?iof the Ni;l:thampton, Banbury, and Cheltenhitm Raft

way, &c. _
Phillips, William, Esq., Springfield House, Uttoxeter, Director of the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Poberts, Thomas, Esq., Manchester
Robinson, John, Esq., Silcoates, Cottage, Wakefield
Roden, Thomas Clarke, Esq., Birmingham
Richardson, Joseph, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York
Railway
Sant, Edward, Esq., Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Shipton, Robert, Esq., Scroptoe, .uerbyshire, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Smith, Charles, Esq., Alton, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Smith, Thomas, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York

Railway •
Smith, .Thomas, Esq., Blore-hall, Staffordshire, Director of the Der

bysiiire, Stadordtlire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway •
Smith, William, Esq.; Sedgell, Derbyshire, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Smith, William, Esq., Clifton, Derbyshire, Director of Tean and Dove

Valley Railway
Smith, John, Esq., Barton House. Derbyshire
Smythe, John Vere, Esq., Kensington, Middlesex, Director of the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Sidney, Thomas, Esq., Alderman and Sheriff, City of London, Direc-
tor of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct Railways
Spiers, E. J., Esq., Carlton Villas, London, Director of the East and

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-We;t JunCtioditailway
Stephenson, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Agriculturist Cattle ls-

sarance Company
Terry, Benjamin, Esq., Mayor of Walsall, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway, Bco.
Tibbits, Thomas, Esq., Norton Manor-house, Leicester
Tomlinson, Thomas, Esq., Bradley Pastures, Ashbourne
Toogood, Rupert, Esq , Ashbourne
Tylecote, Edward, Esq., surgeon, Great Heywood, Staffordshire
Tyler, George, Esq., Holloway-place, Holloway, London, Director of
the East and West Junction Railway, Sec.
Waller, Major, K.H., St. James's-square, Director of the Chester and
Manchester Railway, &c,
Walter, James Smith, Esq., Bakewell, Derbyshire
Walters, J. T., Esq., Rugeley
Watts, William Royde, Esq.' Birmingham
Weston, Samuel, Esq., Leeds
Weston, Thomas, Esq., Tean, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Willes, George, Esq., Thagerford-park, Berkshire
Williamson, Hugh Henshall, Esq., Greenway Bank, Staffordshire

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Potter's,
Williamson, Robert, Esq., Ramsdell-hall, Staffordshire Potteries
Wise, Thomas, Esq., Ashbourne
Witham, John, Esq., Ashbourne
Woolrich, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Wood, Charles, Esq., Irttoxeter, Director if the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Wood William, Esq., Chetwynd House, Newport, Salop, Di-
rector of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junc-
tion Railway
Wood, William Hurd, Esq., Ishbourne
Wilkinson John, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool
Direct Railway
Wright, Thomas, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Gahasho-
rough Railway.

EANZERN.
Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clement's-lass, London
Messrs. Barnard, Dimsdale, and Co., Cornhill, London
The Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashbourne, Union Bank, Uttoxeter
Ditto Ditto, Ashbourne
Dudley and West Inurwich Banking Co., Dadley
Derbyshire Banking Co., Derby
Ripon—Messrs. Terry, Mattison and Co.
Bradford—The Leeds and West Riding Bank
Messrs. I. and Hamilton Richardson, solicitors, Leeds
SOLICITORS.
Jolla Owens, Esq., 35, Moorgate-street, London
William Arnold Bainbrlgge, Esq., Uttoxeter
INGINEERS.
Sir John Rennie, F.R.R.
George Remington, Esq., C.E.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Armishaw, J., Esq., Rugeley
Bolton, Thomas, Esq., Wolrerlaamptoa
Bolton, John, Esq., Dudley
Eggington, A., Esq., Lichfield
Green, James J., Esq., Walsall.
Lowe, Richard, Esq., Cheadle
Floyd and Booth, Muddersfield and 1101N1n/01
RUMMEL
Messrs. Xitching and Marshall, Leeds
Messrs. Turley and Cooper, Leeds
Mr. Thomas Oskwith, Ripon

This line of railway, will& is about sixty-flys miles in length, is

intended to commence at Uttoxeter (the terminus of the proposed
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway) and
to proceed to Sheffield and Huddersfield. It will form a direct com-
munication between two of the most important manufacturing and
mining districts in England, viz., South Staffordshire, Huddersfield,
and Sheffield, and Rotherham in Yorkshire ; the South Staffordshire
portion including Dudley, Tipton,Walsall, Bilston, Wednesbury, and
Wolverhampton.
This line will also open it direct railway eommunication bet Ween
Leeds, Huddersfield, and the West Riding of Yorkshire and Kidder-
minster, Worcestershire, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bristol, Taunton,
and Exeter, and with Ludlow, Leomhister,' Hereford, Brecon, Car-
diff, Heath, Swansea, Llanelly, Caermarthen, Milford Haven, Fish-
guard, Aberystwith, and with Port Dynnllaen, the future outport for
Ireland. And also the most direct communication between Leeds
and Southampton. •
The line will pass nearly along the Uttoxeter and Caldon Canal to a
point near Prestwood, in case the canal be purchased by the pro-
moters of this undertaking. It will proceed through Ellaston and
Mayfield to Ashbourne, thence near Dovedale, Buxton, and Chapel-
en-la-Frith, Woodhead and Holmfirth to Huddersfield, where it will
join the Huddersfield and Leeds Railway, and so to Thirsk. It will
open new mines, in addition to those already in work, of lead, coal,
iron ore, barytes, and carboniferous and magnesian limestone on the
route, in addition to forming a direct, speedy, and cheap conunttnica•
tion betvreen the important towns above mentioned.
Arrangements have been made with other companies to run into
this line from Sheffield. This company reserves the right to raise
additional capital to extend the line to Leeds.
Many of the above-mentioned mineral productions are essential to
the mining districts of South Staffordshire and Sheffield. The North
Staffordshire and Derbyshire Limestone is much superior to that of
South Staffordshire in the fluxion of iron (15 cwt. of the former being
equal to a ton of the latter), and producing a bettor quality of ma-
terial. At present, the mode of transit is very circuitous and expen-
sive, the line from the Caldon Mines haying to go by canal round
by Etruria, Leek, and the Potteries, to the Dudley and surrounding
furnaces, when, by this railway, it would be taken in a straight line
to them ; and the Ashbourne, Cromford, Worksworth, and Bakewell
country would have an entirely new trade opened to them. The iron-
stone in the neighbourhood of Sheffield is also becoming very scarce,
and great quantities are introduced front Scotland; the same scarcity
exists in South Staffordshire ; and the route of this line would far-
nish a cheap and good supply, at present not worked, and withoat a
market,-tfo' th north and south. In addition to. these,:groat advan-
ages, a good local market „would be Oened MOmettie agricultural
Mid other parts of-i-theiiistrlct • At pronent very badly supplied kith
lime and coal, and that of an inferior quality, _and bar vlpen crir-
rine,.. • Itri.s,therefereotext to-impossible .to calculate the immense
trUffie'writeh would pour down this line and the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, mid Worcestershire Junction Railway.
The calculations which have been made show a very large profit.
There are large lead and slate quarries on the line which only want •
an outlet like the one now contemplated to bring them into full work.
The coal is of a superior quality.
• There are also extensive barytes and paint-works at Ashbourne,
Crotfiford, and other places on the line. The scenery of Derbyshire
is the resort of vast numbers of tourists ; and particular ears will be
taken, in passing of the line near Dovedale, not to interfere with or
change its beautiful and romantie character. The convenience,
therefore, which this line will afford must necessarily cause a great
influx of passengers, both on business and pleasure.
Ironstone is not so abundant in the South as in North Staffordshire,
and vast quantities are sent by the tardy, circuitous, and expensive
canal company, -which this and other fixate of railway meeting at
Uttoxeter will remedy.

The gypsum formation runs from Staffordshire to the Humber, and
the demand for this article for building, agricultural, and manufac-
piling purposes along this line will be great.
The timber from the neighbourhood of the Needwood Forest,
Banks, Bagots Woods, and Kingston Woods, upwards of 4,500
acres, chiefly finds its way to the Manchester market by a
like objectionable route of tardy and circuitous anal convey.
ance ; whereas this line would open a direct, easy, and cheap
communication to new markets. The line has been viewed prior to
a detailed survey, and there are not more than ordinary engineering
difficulties. In consequence of the late Parliamentary decialoos, It is
intended to make this line on the broad gauge principle, but the pro-
moters do not pledge themselves absolutely to do so.
At the argent suggestion of some of the most influential mhabi-
tants of Aakbourne, the Committee have ordered a survey of si tine-
ton line to connect that town with tie Derby, and witk the Derby
and Gainsborough and Midland Railways
Applieations for Shares to be made to John Owens, lisq., 15,
Moo gate-street, London, and William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq.,
Uttoxeter ; and to the following Sharebrokere :—Messrs. Preece and
Evans, 39, Lothbury ; Mr. Miles, Worcester; Mr. Thomas Henry
Wheeler, Worcester ; Messrs. *Townley and Whitehead. Liver'
pool ; Messrs. Cameron and Co., Liverpool ; Mr. Morris Rey-
nolds, Liverpool ; Mr. Richard E. Hine, Macclesfield ; Mr.
James Jamieson, Leeds ; Messrs. Wellbeloved and (holler
Leeds ; Mr. Frederick Stamp, Hull ; Mr. Thomas Boardman, Black-
burn ; Mr. George Clark, Bradford ; Mr. William Mason, Bradford ;
Mr. William Cronhelm, Halifax; Mr. Charles Spencer, rottinghani;
Messrs. Eyre and Shaw, Derby ; Messrs. Grayston and Earle,
York; Mr. E. H. Armitage, Wakefield; Messrs. Lettering
and Marshall, Leeds; Mr, James Stokes, Cheltenham; Mr.
Joseph Clark, jun., Southampton; Messrs, Tate aid Nash, Bris-
tol; Messrs. Beatunout and Langvrorthy, Exeter; Mr. Thomas
SMS.
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Messrs. A. Birehalf and Co., Manchester; Messrs. T. N. Bardwell
and Sons, Sheffield; Mr. W. H. Collis, Birmingham ; Mr.L. Weather.
Mr. James Boss, Perth.
sum, jun., Huddersfield; Messrs. Everard and Co., Huddersfield;
FOR SHARES.
Messrs.. Payne. and Freer, Leicester; Mr. Nicholson, Edinlourgh;
APPLICATION
Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Glasgow ; 3lessrs. Labertoueke
To the Provisional Committee of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield,
and South Staffordshire Direct Railway.
and Staffordi,,OClowllegoeigrAeernr,
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me Shares of 211. 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, whoa
required, the Deposit thereon of V. 2s. per Share.
Dated this day of , 184 .
Name In full • • • • • • • • • • • . • • ...
Profession and professional residence. .....
Residence in full • • • • • • • • • .......... .;

F.EEDS, HUDDERSFIELD, SHEFFIELD,
and SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, or LEEDS, WOLVER•
HAMPTON, and DUDLEY DIRECT RAILWAY.
Capital, 2,000,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.

The Acting Committee of Direction have agreed: " that a Branch
Line from Ashboumo lo Derby be adopted by this Company, and
that the capital of the Company be Increased from 1,700,0001. to
2,000,0001. for that purpose."
JOHN OWENS, Joint
WM. ARNOLD BAINBRIGGE,S Solicitors,
OfBces of the Company, 1, Moorgate. Sept. 26, 1845.

LEEDS, HUDDERSFIELD, SHEFFIELD,
and SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, or LEEDS, WOLYER-
IIIMPTON; and DUDLEY DIRECT RAILWAY.

Capital, 2,000,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 201. oaGh.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.

Notice is hereby given, that no applications for shares In this line
Will be received after SATURDAY, the 4th day of October.
WM. MINOLD BAINBRIGGE, Joint'
JOHN OWENS, S Solteitore,
Offices of the Coinpany',l, Moofpts Apt 26, 1846.

OXF°RDs. NEWBURY, ANDOVER, MAN-
CHESTER, AND SOUTHAMPTON JUNCTION RAILWAY
COMPANY.

Southampton, Wednesday, Sept, 24, 1845.
At a meeting of the Borough Council, held this day at the Audit
House, or Council Chamber, in Southampton,
WILLIAM HOOKE STEERE, Esq., Alderman, in the Chair;

It was moved by FRANCIS COOPYIR, Esq. ; seconded 'by A. ADZAHA3f,
Esq., and resolved—

That the proposed Oxford, Newbury, Andover, Manchester, and
Southampton Junction Railway, is calculated essentially to benefit
the town and port of Southampton, as well as to be of groat public
advantage ; and that in the opinion of this Council the proposed un-
.dertaking is deserving their utmost support.
It was moved by-It. MAnsox, Esq.) seconded by JOSEPH BALL, Esq.,

3d. The traffic arising from the carriage of coal from the coast to
be distributed on the course of the line.

4th. The carriage of tire celebrated lime of Purlfeet for agricaltura
and for building purposes, along the course of the line, and through-
out the eastern counties.

Besides the traffic of passengers and merchandise which will be de-
rived from the local population, it is certain that cheap and expedi-
tious travelling to and from Southend will estabish It as a place of
recreation and resort for the population of the metropolis, scarcely
second to Gravesend, and form a source of revenue almost incalculable.
The estimated traffic, as shown in the annexed table, from the
above sources, shows a clear profit of more titan ten per cent. upon
the capital, and the payment of interest at four per cent. upon She
calls between the passing of the Act and the construction of the rail-
way will form one of the clauses of the Bill.

Applications for shares may be addressed to the Provisional Com-
mittee, at the temporary offices of the Company, 5, Laurence Pount-
ney-place, London, the Solicitors, or through any of the Brokers un-
dermentioned, viz.:—Messrs. Thomas and Sons, 50, Threadneeflle-
street, London; Messrs. Graystone and Earl, York; Mr. Thackray,
Harrogate; Mr. Joseph Nelson, Settle; Mr. W. Welch, Lancaster;
Mr. Anthony Laurie, and, Mr. May, Liverpool; Mr. Peter Leicester,
Messrs. Cardwell and Co., and Messrs. Houghiand al Leese,
Manchester; Mr. James Pearson, Birmingham; Messrs. Joshua
Wood and Son, Messrs. Watson and Co., and Messrs. E. King and
Co., Leeds ; Messrs. Brady and Stanifortii, Hull ; Mr. J. A. Butchart,
Huddersfield Mr. J. W. Carr, Culver-street, Colchester ; Mr. Hervey,
Halifax; Mr. Nightingale, Wakefield ; Messrs. Samuel Hutchinson and
Co., Bradford ; Mr. Luke Arnold, and Mr. George Edwards, Bristol ;
Mr. G. R. Gliddon, and Mr. Thomas Sandford, Exeter ; Messrs. Hall,
Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham ; Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer, Ply-
mouth ; Mr. Robert Allan,' Messrs. Hugh Munro and Co., Mr. David
Kinnear, and Mr. James Pringle, Edinburgh ; Mr. W. Pringle,
Leith; Messrs. M`Ewen and Mild, Glasgow; Mr. William Gordon,
.berdeen ; Mr. S. A. GlOag, Perth; of whom prospectuses, plans,
and forms of application may he obtained.

rfUNBRIDGE WELLS, BRIGHTON, AND
HASTINGS JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.
Notice is hereby given, that in consequence of the numerous appli-
cations for shares in this undertaking, none can be received after
TuesDAY, the 7th October.
HENRY L. FREUND, Secretay, pro tem.
Temporary Offices, 76, Basinghall-street,
September 30, 1843.

LONDON and NOTTINGHAM RAILWAY,
Connecting London, Nottingham, Sheffield, and Leeds.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Vict. c. 110.)
Capital 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
(In compliance with the Standing Orders of the Houses of Parliament.)
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Sir George G. De Hochepied Larpent, Bart., Chairman.
Rev. Henry Robert Fowler, Deputy Chairman.
Frederick Pratt Barlow, Esq. James Gernon, Esq.
Joseph Braithwaite, Esq. William Hannay, Esq.
James Brand, Esq. Thomas Wakefield, Esq.
Edmund Francis Dayrell, Esq. Capt. Adamson George Parker
Lieutenant-Colonel Eirington Samuel Parsons, Esq.
William Edmond Ferrers, Esq. William Raines, Esq.
NorNEEx-IN-Csmr—Charles Hutton Gregory, Esq.. C.E.
ACTING ENGINEERS—Nathaniel Briant, Esq., C.E.
STANDDio COUNSEL—Mr. Sergeant Clarke.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Birch and Bramah, Great Winchester-street
Mebirs. Forbes and Drake, Warnford-court
Meagre. Freeth and Rawson, Nottingham.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Messrs. Parker and Smith, Sheffield
C. S. Busby, Esq., Chesterfield.
PARLIAKENtAny:ADENrs—Messrs. Gregory, Faulkener, and Co., 11,
Parliament-street.
RANKERS.
Messrs. Roberts, Curtis, and Co., 15, Lombard-street, London
Messrs. Moore and Robinson, Nottinghamshire Banking Company,
Nottingham
The Sheffield and Hampshire Banking Company, Sheffield.
SteatrAm PRO TEM.—Mr. William It. Drake.
Offices of the Company, No. 8, Warnford-court, London.
No further application for shares in this Company will be received
after MONDAY, the 6th day of October next, except from parties
locally interested in the line, from whom applications will be received
up to WEDNESDAY. the Bth day of October next.
Copies of the prospectus, with forms of application, may be had at
the offices of the Company ; Messrs. Edward Ellis and Co., 53,
Threadneedle-street, London; of the Solicitors and Local Agents ;
and of the following persons :—Messrs. Stockley and Thompson,
Solicitors, Liverpool; Messrs. Johnson, Bradley, and Co., Share-
brokers, Manchester ; Mr. Guy, Sharebroker, York ; Mr. A. Brand,
Sharebroker, Glasgow ; Mr. Charles Cowper, Sharebroker, St.
Andrew's-square, Edinburgh; Messrs. Allardyce and Jopp, Brokers,
Aberdeen; Alexander Scott, Esq., Perth; Messrs. Bruce and Symes,
Sharebrokers, Dublin; and Messrs. Ridsdale, of Leeds.
By order of the Committee of Management,
WILLIAM It. DRAKE, Secretary.

PORT of WISBECH, PETERBOROtiiiii,
BIRMINGHAM, and MIDLAND COUNTIES UNION
RAILWAY.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 300,0001., in Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 50. per Share.

No SharehOlder to be Ilable beyond the amount of his subscription.
PROVISIONAL CWMISITTIE.

John Humphcry, Esq., M.P., Alderman of the City of London, Di-
rector of the Central Rent Railway
Thomas Sidney, Esq., Alderman and Sheri of London, Director of
Rastrick's Direct Manchester Railway
D. R. Rost, Esq., M.P., Director of the London and Manchester, and,,
South Midland Railways
Gee ge Danb,y.Pahner, Esq.„ inaglittla4 the cOunty of Norfolk,
and borouWof Great Grimsby"; Ureetor of the WaTeneY:ValleAl
and Great Y4rmouth, and the Ligcoln, Louth, and Great Gilinsb7l
. . *
Railways* '
Richard Hammond, Esq., magistrate for the borough of Great Yar-
mouth, Director of the Waveney Valley Railway
John King, Esq„ Director of the Lincoln, Louth, and Groat Grimsby
Railway.
The Rev. H. B.Fowler. 7, Manchester-square, Director of the London
and Nottingham Railway *
W. A. carapbeji, Esq., Director of the Wexford, Waterford, and Va-
lentia Railway
F. Barretto, Esq., Portland-place, London
Joseph Thompson, Esq., • Director of the London and Brighton
Railway
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Norwich, and Blackheath Park, Kent, Di-
rector of the Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury
W. S. Potter, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
Ambrose Miller, Esq., Director of the Oxford, Cheltenham, and
Gloucester Railway
Major White, Pall-mall, Director of the Northamptom, Banbury, and
Cheltenham Railway
Frederick White, Esq., R.N., Sheerness, Director of the Metropolitan
Junction Railway
George Parbury, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
Samuel Pocock, Esq., Bloomsbury-square, London

John Inglis Jerdein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby,
and Southampton Railway
Capt. Heathom, Director of the Smith Metropolitan Gas Company
it. Gray, Esq., 5, Adam's-court, Old Broad-street, London

R. C.:6Olotait: taq., Director .of the Leeds and Liverpool Dirac

Railway
Peter Morrison, Esci Director of the South Midland Railway

Henry Chator, Esq., Clervaux Castle, Darlington

James Morrison, t'sq Director of the Bridgewater and Minehead

_
Railway
W. C. Duppa, Esq., Director of the Canterbury and Dovor Railway
William G. Harrison, Esq., Hill House, Upper Tooting, Surrey
George R. Pye, Esq., Lavenham, Suffolk

William Tulloch Fraser, Esq., Director of the Blanchester and Rugby
Direct Railway
(With power to add to their number.)
BANKERS.
London—The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury
Wisbech—Messrs. Gurney, Peckover, and Co.
Lynn—Messrs. Gurney, Creswell, and Co.
ENGINEERS.
B. Albano, Esq., M. Inst. C.E., and Wm. Laxton, Esq., C.E.

SOLICITOR—Ing lebyThomas Miller, Esq., 3, Ibchuich-faro, Lom-

bard-street, London,

SECRETARY 110 TEM.—W. 0. J. Wollaston, ESQ.
This line is intended fb commence at the Port of Wisbech, by a
junction with the line of railway now forming from Lynn, and pro-
ceed by Thorney to Peterborough, there uniting with the brand' of
the London and Birmingham Railway to Northampton, and the
Peterborough and Syston branch of the Midland Counties Railway,
forming a through line from Yarmouth, Norwich, Dereham, Swaff-
ham, Lynn, and Wisbech, to Northampton, Birmingham, Derby,
Nottingham, and the whole of the northern and western parts of
England. The entire distance being completed in about 18 miles.
The importance of this railway, though only 18 miles in length,
will be at once seen by an inspection of the map, when the following
points will be self-evident.
1. That the port of Wisbech is the nearest sea-port for Birming-
ham, Staffordshire, and the Midland districts of England.
2. That this line will open the whole of the manufacturing and
mineral districts of the Midland Counties and the Potteries to Wis-
bech, the nearest port for Belgium, Holland, Germany, and the nor-
thern States of Europe.
. .

3. That by the formation of this line a direct railway ommunica-
tion will be opened between the port of Wisbech, and the ports of
Southampton, Bristol, Gloucester, and Liverpool.
4. That this line will unite the Birmingham and Midland Counties
system of railway with those of Norfolk, communicating with Nor-
wich and Yarmouth. _ _

Application for shares (which must in all cases be in tbe usual form,
and accompanied by a reference to a hanker or to a member of the
Provisional Committee) or prospectuses, may be made to the Pro-
visional Committee, at theoffices of Mr. I. T. Miller, solicitor to
the Company, or the following Sharebrokers :—Messrs. Shewell and
Son, Tokenhouse-yard ; Messrs. Lyon, 2, Birchin-lane, London;
Messrs. Mann and Son, Norwich; Messrs. Cruso and Son, L 3 nn;
Messrs. Peet, Son, and Potter, Nottingham ; Mr. Collis, Birmingham;
Mr. F. C. Spencer, Halifax; and Mr. Carr, Culver-street, Colchester.
FOBM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Port of Wisbech, Peterborough,

Birmingham, and Midland Counties Union Railway.
request you will allow shares in this undertaking,
and I agree to take the same or such less number as may be al-
lotted to me, and to pay the deposit thereon, and sign the Parlia-
mentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement, when required.
Dated this day of , 184:5.
Name in full ........
Residence• • ...• .
• Profession or Occupation..." • • ••
Usual Signature
Beferenca tIlr
euue in full :. • • .. • • • •
AWNS 4614..6 :Po •••• 611 .

GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY,
Forming a connecting line between the Midland and Grand
Junction Railways, with a Branch from Ashby-de-la. Zonch to
Derby

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 2111. each.
Deposit, V. 2s. per Share.
PROVISDWAL COMMITTEE.

CIIAIRSIAN—Sir JOHN ED.MtND DE BEAUVOIR. Bart., Con-
naught-terrace, Hyde Park.
DEPUTT-CRAIRMAN—WILLIAM SIMPSON POTTER, Esq., 7, Sus-
sex-gardens, Hyde Park, Director of the Oxford, Gosport, and
Southampton Railway
Francis Valentine Lee, Esq., Chester-place, Regent's Park,. Director
of the Eastern Counties Railway
Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq., Carlton House-terrace, Chairman of the
Irish North Midland Railway
Barnet Laurence Phillips, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park,
Director of the Direct Western Railway
George Hammond Whalley, Esq., Pall-mall, Director of the Direct
Western Railway
Valentine Knight, Esq., 3, Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, Director
of the Dendre Valley Railway
Henry Garrett Key, Esq., Director of the Newport and Abergaveuny
Railway
Hugh Henshall Williamson, Esq., Greenway Bank, Newcastle-under-
Lyn., Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Stafford
John Robinson, Esq., Silcoats Cottage, Wakefield, Director of the
Bradford, Wakefield, and Midland Railway, and of the Leeds, York,
and Midland Junction Railway
Stephen Hutchison, Esq., London Gas Works, Vauxhall
Henry Cave Leary, Esq., 5, St. James's-square, Director of the Great
Welch Junction Railway
John Shaw, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the South Stafford-
shire Junction Railway
Daniel Wlllahon, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway
Samuel Walker, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the illeuth Staf-
fordshire Junction Railway
Thomas Timmias' Esq., Wolverhampton
Thomas Randle Andrews, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the
Shrewsbury and Grand Junction Railway
William Griffiths, Esq., Park House, Wellington, Salop, Director of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway
Herbert Broom, Esq., Kidderminster, and Essex-court, Temple
Caleb Norris, Esq., Lancaster-place, Strand, Director of the Exeter,
Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway .
John Hayes, Esq., South-fields, Leicester
Charles J. Mason, Esq., Fenton, Staffordshire Potteries, Director of
the South Union and Birmingham Junction Railway
Joseph Henry, Esq., South:street,,Finsbury, Director of the Loudon,

Hounslow, and Western Railway ,
Edward Gulson, Esq., Cloinnel, Ireland, Director of the Coventry,

Nuneaton, and Leicester Railway?
William B. Costello, Esq., Wylie House, Middlesex, Director of the
Direct Lond?‘n and Exeter Railway
Martin Stutly, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terraCe, Regent's Park, Director
of the Direct Western, Dublin and Belfast, and London and South
Essex Railways.
Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brembo Iron Works, Wrexham, North
Wales, and Cannon-street, Director of the Oxford, South-
ampton, Gosport and Portsmoutb, and Direct Western Railways.
Thomas Wynne, Esq., Longton, Staffordshire, Director of the South
Union and Birmingham Junction Railway
Menry Dodson, Esq., Suffolk House, Upper Tulse-hill, Director of the

Grand Junelima', Great Western, and South-Western Junction
Railways
Joseph Loxdale Warren, Esq., the Lodge; Market Drayton, and Coll-
oid' Hall, near Cheadle, Director of the Manchester and Liverpool
District Bank, and Director of the Cambrian and Grand Jauotion
Railway
Alfred Brodie, Esq., Upper Montagu-street, kontagn-square
Robert Chaplin, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Edward Mammatt, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
John 13eavington;•Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
T. S. Kirkland, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Thomas Cantrell, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
William Mathew, Esq., Staunton 'Harold; Lesiee of the atannton

Harold Coal, Lead, and Lime Works •
Joseph Bostock, Esq., Breedon-on-Hill, Lessee of the Breeden Lime

works
James Reeves, Esq., 150, Cheapside, Director of the Direct tondos

and Manchester Railway
Harvey Wyatt, Esq., Acton-hill, Stafford, Director of the Trent
Valley, Midlands ad Grand Junction Railways, and of the Dudley,
Madeley, Brossely, and Iron Bridge Railway
Benjamin Payne, Esq., Leicester, Director of the Rugby, Warwick,
and Worcester Railway, and the Leicester and Birmingham Direct

Railway
Thomas Farmer Cooke, Esq., Leicester, Director of the Rugby, War-
wick, a-tt Worcester Railway, and the Leicester and Birmingham

Direct Railway - - •
John Carter, Esq., F.R.A.S., Park Lodge, Stockwell, Director of the
Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Junction Coast Railway
Joseph Carrington Ridgway, Esq., Roehampton 'Lodge
Edward Tylecote, Esq., Great Heywood, Staffordshire
William Field, Esq., Rugeley, Staffordshire
Samuel Ginders, Esq., Ingestre, Staffordshire, Ageat to the Right

Hon. the Earl of Talbot, K.G.
R. S. J. Winterton, Esq., Sketchley Hall, near Hinckley, a Magis-
trate of the County, Director of the Coventry, Nuneaton, and

Leicester Railway
James Morrison, Esq., St. Mary-at-hill, Director of the Bridgewater

and Minehead Ilailway
C. 11. Rogers Harrison, Esq., Upper Montagu•street, Montagu-square
George Augustus M'Dermott, Esq., Chesterton Hall, near Newcastle-

under-Lyne
Captain Macdougall, Fir Grove, North Brixton
James Lamb, Esq., Hyde Park-square
Wm. Tulloch Fraser, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square
Wm. Clode Braddon, Esq, Regeney-square, Brighton
George Parbury, Esq., Mansfield House, Russell-square
Jolla Lode, Esq., Norfolk-crescent, Hyde Park
John Griffith Frith, Esq., Chairman of the Londonderry and Cole-

raine Railway _
Major- General Parlby, C. 8., Rutland-gate, Director of the London,
Bristol, and South Wales Railway, and Manchester and Rugby
Railway
John Thompson, Esq., Gieat St. Helens, Broad-street
Walter Mutt, Esq., aptain of 3d Light Dragoons, Director of the
Dover and Bristol, Lynn, Wisbeach, and Peterborough, Notting-

ham, and South Staffordshire Railways
George Unett, :Esq., Hundsworth, Staffordshire, Director of the Bir-
mingham, Lichfield, and Manchester, and Dovor, and Bristol
• Rallwaya
George Augustus Browne, Esq., 20, Gower-street,
Francis Ewart, Esq., Brick-Court, Temple
William Cremer, Esq., Barnes, Surrey, Director of the Northern and
Southern Railway
Jeremiah Evans, Esq., St. John's Lodge, Clapham Rye, and King

William-street
Richard Burton Phiilipson, Esq., Director oithe Rugby, Leamington,

and Warwick Railway
William Gambier Esq., Sacombe Park, Harts
Admiral Asycough, Southampton, Director of the Birmingham and
Leicester Railway
James W. Peppercorne, Esq., Dulwich, Surrey, Director of the Rugby
and Worcester 'Railway
Rev. J. K. Hall, Rector of lrulbourne, Cambridgeshire
Rev. Thomas Price, Reetor of Llanrothes, Herefordshire

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Alfred Brodie, Esq. • Edward Mammatt, Esq.
Hubert Broom, Esq. James Morrison, Esq.
John Carter, Esq. Barnet Laurence Phillips, Esq,
Henry Garrett Key, Esq. William Simpson Potter, Esq.
Valentine Knight, Esq. C. H. Rogers, Esq.
Francis Valentine Lee, Esq. Martin Stutly, Esq.
Daniel M'Mahon, Esq. ,John Thompson Esq.
BAKkoas—The Union Bank of Lond•n.

STANDING COUNSEL.
Charlos Ilovrard Whltehuret, Esq., Q.C.
J. Mee Mathew, Esq., F.S.A.
ENOINEEN—J. U. Rastrick, Esq.
&maims—Messrs. Watts, Galsworthy, and Galsworthy, 19, Illy.
place, Holborn
SZCIMARI—SamueI Stanway, Esq.

The first line of the Grand Trunk Railway will eemmenee at the
Loughborough station en the Midland Counties line, and pro-
ceed through the Vale of Sheepshead, to Pegs Green Colliery,
near to the terminus of the Leicester and Swannington Rail-
waf, and frona thence through the coal-fields of Swannington
and Cole-Orton to Ashby-de-la-Zouch. It will thence proceed across
the Moira Coal-field and through the rich agricultural districts of
Seal, Clifton Campville, and Edingale, to the Birmingham and Derby
Railway, which it will cross near to Elford Park Farm, and thence
traverse the Valley of the Taint until it reaches Alrewas, where it
will form a junction with the branch of the Trent 'Valley line now in
progress of making. At this point it also meets the proposed South
Staffordshire line, by which means it reaches Lichfield, and by means
of one of the proposed lines it will afford communication. with Bir-
mingham.
By means of its junction with the Trent Valley line at Alrewas, the
Grand Trunk reachei Colwlch, and there meets the proposed North
Staffordshire line, which proceeds through the heart of the Potteries
to Newcastle-under-Lyne, Leek, and Macclesfield. By means also
of the same Trent Valley line at Alrewas the Grand Trunk pro-
ceeds through Rugeley to Stafford, thus completing its route, and
forming a connecting line between the Midland and Grand Junction
Railways. This branch of the line was formerly surveyed by Mr.
Rastrick, and approved of by him as a canal communication, so that
no engineering difficulties exist.
The second line of the Grand Trunk Railway will commence at the
Derby station, and taking the course of the Derby Canal proceed to
Chellaston, where there are extensive plaster-works, and thence
by Swarkestone to the river Trent, which it will cross near to
the ferry at Weston Cliffe, and so proceed to Kings Newton
and Melbourne. From the latter place it will pass by the
village of Wilson to Breedon-on-the-Hill, where there are extensive
lime-works, and thence proceed by Staunton Harold, communicat-
ing by a branch line with the lead, lime, and coal works there ;
thence by the Lount Colliery to Worthington Rough, where it will
follow the line of the Cole-Orton and Swannington Railway 'Mil its
junction with the first line of the Grand Trunk at or near the Pegs
Green Colliery, and so proceed from thence to Ashby-de-la-Zoueh.
At Ashby-de-la-Zouch the Grand Trunk forms a junction with the

proposed tiottingham and Birmingham, and with the proposed Great
Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railways. Its importance as
a line for passengers Is too obvious for commeak, torrnipg as It does a
complete jiirictioniktiften thcfpk,tWo' great thoroughfares, the Mid-
land and Grand JundflOhltallWaysf,land bYits branch from Derby to
Ashby-de-la-Zouch another t•tIAMI6te junction between the Great
Northetta and Southentlinesnow-tn progress, thus opeming a direct
line of-communication to all parts of the kingdom. . .

As a line for traffic, tho Grand Trunk will form the most direct
transit to the Leicestershire, Staffordshire, and Shropshire iron and
coal fields, to the Burton breweries, to North and South Wales, and
Ireland to Scotland, and all parts of the north, and to the eastern,
southern, and western parts of the empire. It will also be the
nearest and most direct communication from the east to the north-
western manufacturing districts, as well as become the great route
from all parts of the kingdom to the midland counties of England.
The mineral resources are of the very highest order. The Moira
coal-field is inexhaustible, whilst the coal-beds at Staunton Harold
alone comprise the finest quality of Kennel to a depth of seven feet,
with a super stratum of main coal to a depth of six feet. The sub-
stratum is yet to be worked. There are beds of Kennel and main
coal at Cole Orton of equal quality, though not of equal depth with
those of Staunton Harold, whilst the main coal at Swannington is un-
rivalled, being, in fact, the bowl of the Leicestershire and Derbyshire
coal strata. It is needless to describe the beneficial results which
must arise from this opening of the midland coal district to the Lon-
don and southern markets.

At Staunton Harold and Calke exist rich veins of lead ore, now in
full course of working.
The properties of the Breedon, Staunton Harold, and Ticknall lime
are so weil known to agriculturists and others, that an extension of
traffic for so valuable a commodity into mare remote districts must
be of the utmost importance to the practical farmer.
In approaching the Trent, on leaving the lime district, the Grand
Trunk will fall in with most valuable quarries of millstone grit, ser-
viceable for paving and building purposes, and for which a ready
market would be found along the line. The country also abounds
in gypsum, of which immense quantities are used in Birming-
ham and elsewhere these markets will thus become opened for the
quarries at Chellaston.
A new and extensive outlet will also be opened fbr the eartkeuwaro
of Wooden Box and Griesley Potteries.
Until the Act of Parliament be obtained, the affairs will be under
the control of the Committee of Management, to whom power is
given to allot the shares and apply the funds of the Company in
payment of all proper expenses in the formation of tke Company and
otherwise. _ _ _

Power will be applied for in the Act, and in the meantime the
Committee of Management take power, to alter or extend the lines,
to make branch lines, to abandon any part of the line, to raise addi-
tional capital, and to enter into arrangements with any ether Com-
pany or Companiee,
Application for shares mast be made in the usual fbrm to the soli-
citors to the Company, Messrs. Watts, Galsworthy, and Galsworthy,
19, Ely-place, Holborn, Loudon ; to the Secretary, at the Offices of
the Company, 3, Adelaide-place, London-bridge ; and to the fol-
lowing

LOCAL soLionlara.
Messrs, Keen and Hand, Stafford
Thomas Bolton, Esq., Wolverhampton
E. Kern Jarvis, Esq., Hinckley
Messrs. Kcary and Sheppard, Stoke-npon-Trent
Thoraas Piddock, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
F. J. Hamel, Esq., Tamworth
John Perks, Esq., Burton-upon-Trent
Beauvoir Brock, Esq., Loughborough
Charles 2riesley, Esq., Lichfield
Messrs. Moore and Gregory, Leicester.
Also to the following :

VIARETSKOMS.
London—Messrs. 11111, Fawcett, aad Hill, Thresdneedle-street
Messrs. Harris and Sons, 'Change-alley
Mr. A. Sym, Tokenhouse-yard
Liverpool—Messrs. Townley and Whitehead
Bristol'—Messrs. Tate and Nash
Leeds—Mr. James Jamieson and Mr. W. Crouhelut
Messrs. Weatherburn and Jennings
Birmingham—Mr. J. R. Lane
Newcastle—• Mr. W. W. Dickinson
Bradford—Mr. William Mason
Sheffield—Messrs. Bardwell and Sons
Hull—Mr. Francis Stamp
Wakefield—Mr. S. H. Armitage
Nottingham—Mr. C. Spencer
Worcester—Mr. W. Miles
York—Messrs. Grayston and Erie
Blackburn—Mr. Thomas Boardman
Southampton—Mr. Joseph Clark, jun.
Exeter—Messrs. 11. Beaumont and Co.
Edinburgh—Mr. Charles Couper, 30, St. Andrew's-Kttare
Cheltenham—Mr. James Stokes
Leicester—Messrs. Williams and Sunderland Messrs. Eaglefleld
and Co

GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that the List for receiving Shares
will be closed on the following days, viz. :—for London, SATURDAY,
October 4th, for the Country, Mon,Ay, October 6th.
By order,
STANWAY, Serottarf,
3, Adalaidepido, Londot,bricrit