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Staffordshire Potteries, Birmingham, Derby, Leicester, Manchester,
Liverpool, Leeds, Newcastle and Berwick, and with the great manu-
facturing and mining districts of the north of England.
The numerous parishes and districts which will be traversed by the
line comprise a population of nearly 1,500,000 persons, and passing,
as it will, a portion of the counties of Barks and Oxfbrd, the whole
of Buckinghamshire, and by the celebrated Vale of Aylesbury, adn
uniting with the several completed or projected railways under-
mentioned, viz.:—
The London and Birmingham
The Great Western
The Southampton Union
The South Mdland
The Midland Counties
The Northampton and Leicester
The Northampton and Peterborough, and thus with
The Direct Manchester
it cannot be doubted that it must prove extremely convenient and
beneficial to the public, and highly advantageous to the proprietors.
The liability of the shareholders will be restricted by Act of Par-
liament to the amount of their subscriptions, and power will be ap-
plied for in the Bill to allow interest at 4 per cent. per annum on all
calls, from the passing of the Act until the opening of the line.
Arrangements have been made that the survey shall be completed.
and the plans and sections deposited in time for obtaining an Act
during the ensuing session of Parliament.
Applications for shares may be addressed, in the form annexed, to
the undermentioned brokers, viz. :—Messrs. B. and M. Boyd, Princes-
■treet, John Shewell, Esq., Threadneedle-street, and Messrs. Wells,
Westropp, and Prinsep, 75, Old Broad-street, Mr. John Smith.
Shorter's-court, Throgmorton-street, London; Messrs. Graystone and
Earle, York ; Mr. Thackray, Harrogate ; Mr. Joseph Nelson, Settle ;
Mr. W. Welch, Lancaster; Messrs. Geddes and Drinkwater, and Mr.
Henry Waterton, Bank-buildings, Castle-street, Liverpool ;
Mr. Peter Leicester, Messrs. Green and Oldham, Messrs.
Green and Lockwood, Manchester ; Mr. James Pearson, Birming-
ham ; Messrs. Joshua Wood and Son, Messrs. Watson and Co., and
Messrs. E. King and Co., Leeds ; Messrs. Brady and Staniforth,
Hull ; Mr. J. A. Butchart, Huddersfield ; Mr. Hervey, Halifax ; Mr.
Nightingale, Wakefield; Messrs. Samuel Hutchinson and Co., Brad-
ford ; 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 Auld, Glasgow ; Mr. Wm. Gordon.
Aberdeen ; Mr. S. A. Gloag, Perth ; of whom prospectuses may be
had ; or to the Provisional Committee, at the offices of the Company

John
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the sTsaffordshire and Shropshire Junctiun Railway
Darnton 1.7.4 ton, Esq , Potter Newton Hall, Mayer of Leeds, Direc-
tor of the Leeds and York, and Wakefield and Bradford Railways
Sir William Lowthrop, Kilt., Hull, Director of the Leeds, Hudders-
field, Shetgeld, and South Staffordshire Direct Railway
John Lord, Esq., Standish Hall, Lancashire, Director of the Black-
burn, Chorlev, Wigan, and North Union Junction Railway, and of
the Staffordshire Potteries, and Manchester and Liverpool Direct
Railway
James Lamb, Req., Hyde Park-square, Director of the Tring,
Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
Rowland Mackenzie, Esq., Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square,
Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and Cheltenham,
Oxford, and Brighton Railways
Thomas Gibbon Moneypenny, Esq., Hole-park, Rolvenden, Kent
Major Moore, Queen Anne-street, Director of the Brighton and Chel-
tenham Direct and the London and Nottingham Railway
James Joseph M`Swiney, Esq., Sandal View, Wakefield, Director of
the Wakefield and Harrogate Railway
J. Mee Mathew, Esq., Assistant Tithe Commissioner, Director of the
Worcestershire, Derbyshire, and Staffordshire Railway
Captain Macdougall, Fir-grove, North Brixton, Director of the Read-
ing, Guildford, and Reigate Railway
John George Norbury, Esq., Mancetter-house, Atherstone, Director
of the Tean and Dove Valley, and South Staffordshire Junction
Railways
Joseph Norton, Esq., Clayton West, Huddersfield, Director of the
Huddersfield, Halifax, tied Bradford Union Railway, and the
Wakefield and Harrogate Railway
George Parbury, Esq., Mansfield House, Russell-square, Director of
the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
William Peppercorne, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex, Direotor of the West
Midland Railway
Captain Thomas Ross, 55, Porchester-terrane, Director of the Direct
Northern, Eastern, and 'Western Junction Railway
William Raines, Esq., Temple, Director of the London and Notting-
ham Railway
James Russell, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman square, Director of
the Direct Leeds and London Railway
Frederick William Seymour, Esq., Carlton-terrace, Director of the
Lynn, Wisbeach, Peterborough, &c., Railw•ty
William Spooner, Esq., London, Director of the South Staffordshire
Junction Railway, and of the Liverpool, Manchester, and New-
castle-upon-Tyne Junction Railway
Henry Scott, Esq., 17, Pail-mall
S. E. Sichell, Esq., merchant, Bradford, Director of the Leeds, York,
and Midland Junction Railway
George Turner, Esq., Hinton Hill, Erdington, Director of the South
Staffordshire Junction Railway
Henry Taylor, Esq., Alderman, Wigan, Director of the Manchester
and Wigan, and the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union
Junction Railways
George Turton, Esq., Bagden Lodge, Clayton West, Huddersfield
William Tinker, Esq., Conock, Wilts, Director of the Manchester,
Southampton, and Poole Railway
George Thomas Thompson, Esq., Dover, Coroner for the Cinque
Ports
John Thompson, Esq., Alderman of Wigan, Director of the Birkhen-
head and Holyhead Railway, of the Manchester and Wigan Rail-
.

BIRMINGHAM AND MANCHESTER
DIRECT RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 900,0001., in 45,000 Shares of 211. each.
Deposit, 21.25. per Share.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Sir George Pregeott, Bart.
The Hon. Cecil Lawless, Lynbarth, Kildare, and St. James's-street
Sir Lore Parry Jones Parry, Major-General, K.H., Madryn, Car-
narronskire, Director of the Leicester, Bedford, and of the Direct
East and West Junction Railways
SP: William Twisden, Bart., Dorset-square, Director of the Chepstow
end Forest of Dean Railway
i r Wm. Young, Bart., East India Director, Westbourne-street,
Hyde Park-gardens, Director of the Sheffield, Nottingham, and
London Direct Railway
Sir William Wynn, K.C.8., Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, Chairman of
the North Wales Railway
Sir Henry Webb, Bart., 105, Pall-mall, Director of the York and
Lancaster Railway
The Sheriff of York, Director of the Sheffield, Nottingham, and
London Direct Railway
Ayscough, Rear-Admiral, Prospect-place, Southampton, Director of
the Sheffield, Nottingham, and London Direct Railway
Adair, Major, Director of the Church of England Assurance Society,
and of the Burton-upon-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and New-
town, and Indian Peninsular Railways
Arnold, Henry, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of Remington's Direct
Londoa and Manchester Railway
Booth, John, Esq., Park-cottage, Macclesll,ld, Director of the Leeds,
Huddersfield, and Wolv‘rhainpton Direct, and Sheffield, Notting-
ham, and London Direct Railways
Brookes, John, Esq., Alderman of Manchester, Director of Reming-
ton's Direct London and Manchester Railway
Brown, Henry, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Director of Remington's
Direct London and Manchester Railway
Brown, Isaac Baker, 27, Oxford-square, Hyde-park
Buck, W. C., Eaq.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

To the Provisional Committee of the Midland Grand Junction

Cambridge, John, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of the
Burton-on-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and .Newtown Railway
Chambers, Wm., Esq., Cocks Bench, Derby, Director of Remington's
Direct London and Manchester Railway
Clarke, Jeremiah, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Cleobury, Thomas Mortimer, Esq., Acton, Middlesex, Director of the
Sheffield, Nottingham, and London Direct Railway
Cook, John, the Rev., Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, Director of the Shef-
field, Nottingham, and London Direct Railway
Croft, Major J. T. Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman, Director of
Remington's Direct London and Manchester Railway
Crossley, John, Esq., Lumberhuret, Sussex, Director of the Sheffield,
Nottingham, and London Direct Railway.
Cumberlege, N., Esq., York-terrace, Regent's Park, Director of the
Burton-upon-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newtown, and
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railways
Dalby J. R. Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch

Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot to me shares of 251.
rach in the Midland Grand Junction Railway, and I hereby undertake
to accept that, or any less number that may be allotted to me, and to
pay the deposit of 21. 12s. Cd. per share thereon, and to execute the
Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required,
Name in full
Profession or Trade
Residence
Place of business
Reference

MIDLAND GRAND JUNCTION RAIL-
WAY COMPANY.
NOTlCE.—Applications for Shares WILL NOT be received after
TUESDAY NEXT, the 21st instant.
By order,
NICHOLAS J. KBIIII3. Secretary.
Palace-chambers, St. James's, Oct. 14, 1845.

way, and Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction Railway
John Taylor, Esq., Hull, Director of the Lincolnshire and Eastern
Counlles Railway
James Upflll, Esq., The Green, Herefordshire, Director of the Staf-
fordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway
George Unett, Esq., The Laurels, Handsworth, Staffordshire, Direc-
tor of the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway, and
Lynn, Wisbeach, and Peterborough Railway
Thomas Bolman Uptill, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Birming-
ham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway
James Vickers, Esq., Mark-lane, Director of the Jersey Pier and
Railway
Major White, Fall-mall, Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing-
stoke Railway
Walter Unett, Esq., Captain 3d Light Dragoons, Maidstone, Director
of the Nottingham and South Staffordshire, and the Lynn,
Wisbeach, and Peterborough Railways
William Royden Watts, Esq., M.D., Birmingham, Director of the
Lincoln, Louth, and Great Grimsby Railway
Thomas Wakefield. Esq., London, Director of the Nottingham and
South Staffordshire Railway
Smith Whilock, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Staffordshire and
Shropshire Junction Railway
Robert William Watson, Esq., Dover
John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, near Tonbridge, Director of
the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Sir William White, Director of the Stafford, Uttoxeter, and Derby
Railway
J. W. Yerbury, Esq., Belcombe-house, Wilts, Capt. 3d. Light Dra-
goons, Director of the Direct Westcrit Railway.
Lodge Morris Murray Prior, Esq., Coventry, Director of the
Dublin, Tullamore, and Parsonstown Railway
Edward Knight, Esq., M.D., Stafford, Director of the Grand Junction
and Midlands' Union Railway
William Henry Skelton, Esq., Shadwell, near Leeds
Charles William Reynolds, Esq., Captain IGth Lancers, Maidstone,
Director of the Worcester, Warwick and Rugby Railway
Thomas Braman, Esq., Mayor of Tamworth, Deputy Chaiman of
the Leicester and Tamworth Railway
Richard Hughes, Esq.' Stafford, Director of the Staffordshire and
Shro ishire Junction Railway
Henry -Wenman Newman, Esq., Thornbury-park, near Bristol, De.
puty-Lieutenant of Gloucestersshire, and magistrate of Gloucester-
shire sad Bristol.
'Thomas Foliiott Powell, Esq., 16th Lancers, Lucan-louse, Ripen,
Yorkshire
Alexander Prince, Esq., London, Director of the Tonbridge Wells,
Hastings and Brighton Railway
Francis Ewart, Esq., Temple, Director of the Great Leeds and Lon-
don Direct, and of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Rail-
ways
Thomas Stocker, Esq., 6t. Ives, Director of the Wisbeach, St. Ives,
and Cambridge Railway
John Granville Dewes, Esq., Loxley, Warwickshire
George Ewing Scott, Esq., Stoke Bishop, near Bristol
Seignelay Thomas Cuthbert, Esq., Clifton
Charles Eales, Esq., Richmond-court, Clifton
David Bryan, Esq., Northampton, Director of the Liverpool, Man-
chester, and Warrington, and the Worcester and Leominster
Railway
Benjamin Swan, Esq.. Weymouth and Jermyn-street
Edmund Francis Dayrell, Esq., Lillingston Dayrell, High Sheriff of
Bucks, and Director of the Minehead and Bridgewater Railway
John James Rippon, Esq., Ealing, Middlesex, Director of the Bir-
mingham, Westbromwich, Wednesbury, and Walsall Junction
Railway
Stephen Mills, Esq., Elstono-horse, Wilts
Major Buttenshaw, Bath
John Ellershaw, Esq., Grove-house, Searcroft, near Leeds
Major W. James, Saltford-house, near Bath, Magistrate for Somer.
setshire
Robert Bell, Esq., Norris Castle, Isle of Wight.
Samuel Perrin, Esq., Temple Cloud, near Bristol
Captain Edward Smith, Dorset-square
Sankey Gardner, Esq., Neath, Director of the Vale of Neath Railway
Thomas Bolton, Esq., merchant,.Hull
Robert Cottle, Esq., Basingstoke
Captain Page, Charlton-house, Somerton, Director of the South Staf-

Dale, Major Thurston, Ashbourne, Director of the Burton-on-Trent,
Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newton, and Leeds, Huddersfield, and
Wolverhampton Direct Railways
Daniel, R., Esq , Oakhill, Stoke•upon-Trent, Director of the Leeds,
Huddersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway
Darlington, John, Esq., Shipley Hall, Bradford, Director of the Liver-
pool and Leeds Direct Railway
Dewhurst, Richard, Esq., Apsley House, Huddersfield, Director of
the West Riding Union Banking Company, and Director of the
West Riding Junction Railway
Dent, Edward, Esq., Director of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and
Great Grimsby Direct Railway
Dent, John, Esq., Director of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and
Great erimsby Direct Railway
Eastwood, Abraham, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds, Hud-
dersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway
Eastwood, Edmund, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds, Hud
dersfleld, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway
Ellis, John, Esq., Temple
Ewart, Francis, of 4, Brick-court, Temple, Director of the Great
Leeds and London Direct, Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Me-
tropolitan Junction Railways
Fitche, George, Lieutenant-Colonel, 36, York-terrace, London, Di-
rector of the London and Lancaster Railway
Franklin, Benjamin, Harley-street, London
Garde, Richard, Esq., 16, Steven's-green, Dublin
Gisborne, Henry Francis, Esq., Derby, Director of the Burton-on-
Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newtown Railway
Grant, Daniel, Esq., Manchester, Director of Remington's Direct
London and Manchester Railway
Hammond, George, Esq., Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railway
Heneage, C., Esq., Pall-mall, Cadeley Place, Lincolnshire, Director
of the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway
Herries, Robert, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway
Hind, Abraham, Esq., Director of the Manchester, Huddersfield and
Great Grimsby Direct Railway
Holdforth, J. D., Esq., Burley, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway
Hughes, Hughes W., Esq., Alderman of the City of London
Ingleby, Joseph, Esq., Cheadle, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield,
and Wolverhampton Direct Railway
Johnson, Richard William, Esq., Moorgate, Director of the Brighton
and Cheltenham, and Remington's Direct London and Manchester
Railways
Jones, Edward, Esq., Windmill-place, Camberwell, Director of the
Leeds, Huddersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway
Jones, the Rev. J. P., Vicarage, Alton, Director of tee Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Keene, John Joseph, Esq., St. John's Wood, Regent's Park, Di-
rector of the Burton-on-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and New-
town Railways
King, William, Esq., Stepney, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction, and Rrighton and Cheltenham
Railways
Knight, Edward, M.D., Stafford, Director of the Burton-on-Trent,
Stafford, Shrewsbury, and NeWtOWII Railway
Lambert, Richard, Esq., Lyston-hall, Sudbury
Lea, John Wheeley, Esq., Worcester
Mackenzie, T., Esq., Duke-street, Liverpool.
_ _

DOVER and BRISTOL RAILWAY
in continuation of the South-Eastern Railway, from Reigate
to Bristol. Upon the Narrow Gauge.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,500,0001., in 75,000 Shares, of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Right Hon. the Earl of Warwick, Warwick Castle
The Right Hon. Lord Rossmore, the Dell, Windsor
The Right lion. Lord Suffield, Gunton-park, Norfolk
The Right Eon. Lord Charles Beauclerc, Chesham-place, Belgrave-
square
The Right. Hon. Lord Sussex Lennox, Piccadilly
The Right Hon. Lord Alfred Paget, M.P., Uxbridge Mosso
Count Bathyany, Audley-square
The Hon. William M. Dawson, Parkatone Ledge, Poole, Director of
the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
The Hon. Edward Stafford Jemingham, Direotor of the London and
Nottingham Railway
Lieut.-Col. the Hon. J. C. Westenra, Director of the East and
West Junction Railway, and of the Brighton and Cheltenham Di-
rect Railway
The Right Worshipful the Mayor of Bristol
George Woodruffe Franklyn, Esq. I Late Mayors of Bristol
John Kerte Habertleld, Esq.
Major-General W. Innes, C. 8., Bath
Sir William B. Johnston, Bart., Director of the Chepstow, Forest of
Dean, and Gloucester Railway
Admiral Ayscough, Prospect-place-house, Southampton, Director of
the Birmingham and Leicester Railway, and South and Midland
Railway
Admiral 'Sir George Sartorius, Director of the Direct Northern,
Eastern, and Western Junction Railway
Sir Henry Webh, Bart., Director of the York and Lancaster
Railway
Major-General Martin White, Bath
William Collins, Esq., M.P., Warwick
George Dodd, Esq., M.P.; Maidstone
Wynne Ellis, Esq., M.P., Ponsbonne-park, Hutford
Colonel Edward Stopford, 9, Manchester-square
A. K. Baker, Esq., Longford-house, Cheltenham Directors of the
John W. Hughes, Esq., Gloucester Bristol and
George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, Birmingham
William Cother, Esq., Gloucester Railway
The Worshipful the Mayor of Dover
The Worshipfhl the Mayor of Bath
The Worshlpfhl the Mayor of Devizes
The Worshipful the Mayor of Andover
The Worshipful the Mayor of Basingstoke
The Worshipful the Mayor of Bridport
William Kay, Esq M.D., Clifton, Alderman of Bristol
John George Mogg, Esq. Manor-house, Farrington, Gurney, near
Bristol, Magistrate for the county of Somerset
William Kingsmill, Esq. Sidmonton, Hants, Magistrate and Deputy-
lieutenant of the county of Southampton
John Hippesley, Esq. Stone Easton, near Bath, Magistrate for the
county of Somerset

James Crang, Esq., Timsbury, near Members of the Provisional
Bristol
Committee of the Bath,
Robert Prancis Wright, Esq,
Wells and Exeter Jimetioe
Rai
James Perrino, Esq. Temple Cloud, '
lway
rear Bristol
Edmund Fillingham King, Esq., banker, Grantham, Director of the
Vale of Belvoir Railway
Philip Jones, Esq., merchant, Keynsham and Bristol
Lieut.-Colonel Wil,lam Swinton, Bath
Francis Yerbury, Esq., Bath, and Belcome-house, Bradford, Wilts
J. H. Wadham Pigott Smyth Pigott. Esq., Brockley-hall, Somerset
shire
Major-General Wright, R.E., Gloucester-place, Portman-square
John Clarke, Esq. Bellefield-house, Trowbridge, Magistrate for the
county of Somerset
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Mlles, Porchester-house, Bayswater
William Gilbert, Esq., Hippenscombe, near Andover
Robert Rawlins, Esq , Bere Hill-house, Whitchurch
R. H. Webb, Esq., Mansion-house, Kingsdown, near Bristol
Thomas Heard Mortimore, Esq., Andover
William Child, Esq., Manor-house, Vernham, near Basingstote
John Reeves, Esq., Clatford, Hants, Director of the Oxford, Newbury,
Andover, and Southampton Railway Company, and of the Hamp-
shire Banking Company
Turner Poulter Clark, Esq , Andover
William Richardson, Esq., merchant, Southampton
Daniel Nazer, Esq.
Edward Poole, Esq. Town Councillors of Dover
William Henry Payn, Esq.
Edward Seward, Esq.,
The Rev. Just Henry Alt, Enford, Wilts, Director of the Manches-
ter, Southampton, and Poole Railway
Charles Dickson Archibald, Esq., Rusland-hall, Lancashire, Director
of the South Staffordshire Railway
J. R. W. Atkinson, Esq., Elmwood-house, Leeds, Director of the
Lancashire and North Yorkshire, and North Eastern Railways
George Addison, Esq., Bradford, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway
John Anderson, Esq., London, Director of the Tring, Reading, and
Basingstoke Railway
Joseph Acton, Esq., J.P., Wigan, Direetor of the Manchester and
Wigan Railway
William Ascroft, Esq., the Willows, Bury, Director of the Stafford-
shire Potteries, Liverpool, and Manchester Direct Railway
Joseph Austin, Esq., Heddingley-hill, Leeds, Director of the Leeds

and York Railway
William Ackreyd, Esq., Westbourne Lodge, Ottley, Yorkshire, Di-
rector of the East and West Yorkshire. the Midlands and Thirsk

Junction, and Leeds and York and Midland Junction
James Beech, Esq., Grosvenor-place, and Brandon, Warwickshire,
Director of the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway
Cecil Brook Boothby, Esq., Ashbourne-hall, Derbyshire, Director of

the South Union
William Gabbett Beare, Esq., Porchester-place, Connaught-square,
Director of the Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union Railway
John Boulton, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Birmingham, Lich-
field, and Manchester Railway
Themes Byrom, Esq., Alderman, Wigan, Director of the Manchester
and Wigan, and the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction
Railways
George Brown, Esq., Twining-park, Worcestershire
Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway
Robert Bell, Esq., Manor Home, Chiswick, Director of the Great
Eastern and Western Junction, and London and Nottingham
Railways
Robert S. Butterfield, Esq., Bradford, Yorkshire, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Luke Butler, Esq., Alderman, Dublin, Director of the Galway and

'Kilkenny, and Cork and Waterford Railways
William Clode Braddon, Esq., Regency-square, Brigbton
Christopher Bentham, Esq., Birkenhead, Director of the Chester and
Birkenhead Railway, and of the North and South Wales Bank
John Benson , Esq., Maida-hill, Director of the Staffordshire and

Shropshire Junction Railway
William Byrom, Esq., Oldham, Director of the Oldham Districts, the
Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction, and the Birken-

head and Holyhead Junction Railways
Thomas Chitty, Esq., Gower-street, Director of the Central Kent
Railway
Mr. Sergeant Clarke, Temple, Director of the South 'Union Extension,
and of the South Staffordshire Junction Railways
John James Conway, Esq., Liverpool
John Carmichael, Esq., Cork, Director of the Cork and Waterford
Railway
William Henry Collis, Esq., Handsworth, Staffordshire, Director of
the Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway
Thomas Cocksey, Esq., Atherton and Bolton, Director of the Man-
chester and Wigan Railway
William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., Hull, Director of the Rugby, War-
wick, and Leamington Railway
William Clifford, Esq , Hull, Director of the Lincolnshire and Eastern
Counties Railway
William Caldwell, Esq., Alderman, Ince-hall, Wigan, Director of the
Staffordshire Potteries, Liverpool, and Manchester Direct Railway
Henry Coe Coupe, Esq., Goldhanger, Essex, Director of the Man-
chester, Oxford, and Southampton Junction Railway
John Townshend Compton, Esq., Wedhampton, Wilts, Director of
the Manchester, Southampton, and Poole Railway
Captain F. Chamfer, Halkin-street, Belgrave-square, Director of the
Fampoux and Hazebrouck Railway
Henry Toogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse Bradford,
Magistrate for
Wilts and Somerset
Esq., New Hall, Neston, Cheshire, Director
John Campbell
hCea
Birkenheadmp bell Dickers,an and
Holyhead, and the Rugby, Derby, and Man-

chester Railvrays
Thomas Davies, Esq., the Austin, Handsworth, Staffordshire, Di-
rector of the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway
W. T. S. Daniel, Esq., Recorder of Ipswich
Miles Dormer, Esq., London, Director of the Exeter, Dorchester,

and Weyrno'uth &last Railway
John Doughill, Esq., Lockwood, Huddersfield
Joseph Dawson, Esq., merchant, Lambeth
Thomas H. Evans, Esq., Mayor ofCarnarvon
Henry D. Erskine, Esq., Mount•street, Grosvenor-Square, anti Kirby
Dale, Yorkshire, Director of the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway
George Edwards, Esq., Birmingham, Director oft e Birmingham,

Lichfield, and Manchester Railway •
John Edwards, Esq., Chester, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway
William Edwards, Esq., Aston Furnaces,
the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Birmingham,sterßa•iNNay
Captain Gustavus Evans, R.N., Headly-greve, Reigate Director of
John Finals, Esq., merchant, Dover
Charles Fitzgerald, Esq., Charles-street, St. James's, Director of the
London and Nottingham Railway
Webster Flockton, Esq., Weybridge, Surrey
Bell Fletcher, Esq., M.D., Birmingham, Director of the Birmingham,
Lichfield, and Manchester Railway
Benjamin Franklin, Esq., 5, Harley-street, Cavendish-square, Di-
rector if the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton
Railway
William Tulioh Fraser, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square,
Director of the Dorking, Brighton, and Arundel Railway
Charles Hay Frewen, Esq., Brickwall, Northiam, Sussex
William Fitzgibbon, Esq., 21, Cambridge-street, Connaught-square,
Director of the Cork and Passage and Cork and Bandon Railways
Major Grubbe, Eastwell-house, magistrate fur Wilts
William Gambier, Esq., Sacombe-park, Herts
Captain Gould, Charles-street, St. James's
George Frederick Gregory, Esq., Seacombe, Cheshire, Director of the
Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway
Henry Francis Gisborne, Esq., Derby, Director of the South Stafford-
shire Junction, the Derby and Crewe, the Macclesfield and Lich-
field, and the Leicester and Tamworth Railways
John Griffith Frith, Esq., merchant, Austin-friars, Chairman of the
Londonderry and Coleraine Railway
James Gernon, Esq., Conduit-street, Bond-street, Direetor of the
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate, Manchester, Oxford, and South-
ampton, and Cheltenham and Brighton Railways
William, Gatliff, Esq., merchant, Leeds, Director of the West York-
shire Railway
Joseph Gill, Esq , Potter Newton Mount, Leeds, Director of the Leeds
and York and Midland Junction Railways
John Hall, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and York Railway
William Holliday, Esq., Chad Valley, Edgbaston, Director of the
Birmingham, Lichfield. and Manchester Railway
Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad House, Edgbaston, Director of the
Leicester and Tamworth Railway
William Horatio Harrison, Esq., Sunbury, Director of the Leiceste
and Tamworth, and Birmingham and Litchfield, and Mancheste
Railways
Wlm Wilkes Hill, s Beesten Hall, Leeds
LewisJamesStaffordshireiionegmi sn ,REFic
Ist
Railway
,Temple,aliy.np Director of the Nottingham and South
psootirtathyanmathe:,itaziw,z7i.d.,
Junction,
Director of the „Manchester,
and the London, Holyhead, and
John Johnson, Esq., R.N., Birraln
ILecm,ingt.etienbUairla,rx:oErPiLiWß°TreeighSiteren. Junction, iSurrey.
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beach, and Peterborough and Midhuideeotun'iti''eiSl'R't

tordshire Junction
Captain Boland, 31arlborough-buildings, Bath
ENGINEER-IN-CHlEF—Francis Giles, ESQ.
ENGINEERS—Edward James Maude, Esq.; John Neville Warren, Eacb

BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co. ; the Union Bank
Bristol—Stuckey 's Banking Company
Bath—West of England and South Wales District Bank
Bradford and Trowbridge—The Wilts and Dorset Banking Company
Dover—Messrs. Latham and Co.

JOINT ISOLICITORS.
Edwin Smith, Esq., and Ileum Lewis and Ford, London ; Edward
Burges, Esq., Bristol.

Macmillan, James, Esq., 17, Manchester-buildings, Westminster, Di
rector of the Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Railway
M'Cann, Nicholas, Esq., 50, Parliament-street

M`Mahon, Daniel, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Mainwaring, John, Esq., Eagle-Hall, Pateley-bridge, Director of the
York and Lancaster Railway
Minn T. Esq., Chapel-cottage, Holloway

Maskery, Thos., Esq., Norbury-hall, Director of the Brighton and
Cheltenham Railway
Meteyard, Horace W., Esq., Director of Remington's Direct London
and Manchester Railway
Moore, Major, Anne-street, Cavendish-square, Director of the Burton-
on-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newtown Railway
Murray, James T., Esq., George-street, Hanover-square, Director of
the Burton-upon-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newton Railway
Musgrave S., Esq.

Nadin, Joseph, Esq., Stapenhill, Director of Remington's Direct Lon-
don and Manchester Railway
Nadin, Nathaniel, EA., Stapenhill, Derbyshire, Director of Reming-
ton's Direct London and Manchester Railway
Norton, Joseph, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Nottingham and
London Direct Railway
Ogle, Nathaniel, Esq., Heath-lane Lodge, Twickenham, Director of
the Burton-on-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newtown Rail-
way
Pulteney, Captain Douglas Kinnaird, 4, Parliament-street, Chairman
of the York and Lancaster Railway, and Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, arid Worcestershire Junction Railway
Richardson, Joseph, Esq.
Riddle, Robert Andrew, Esq., 23, Bryanston-street, Portman-square,
Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and of the Ox-
ford and Worcester Extension Railway
Robinson, John, Esq., Silcoates-cottage, Wakefield, Director of the
Leeds, Huddersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct, and Sheffield,
Nottingham, and London Direct Railways
Roden, T. C., Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Leeds, Huddders-
field, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway.
Shipton, Robert, Esq., Scropton, Derbyshire, Director of Remington's
Direct London and Manchester Railway
Skidmore, J. A., Esq.,S.tp..,JLoleiena'ssilDiriarkeeefitoerldo,
fDtirheectorof
Leeds, the
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Leeds and London Direct, and Hull and Holyhead Direct Railways
Smith, John, Esq., Barton-house, Ashborne, Derbyshire
solvEasrqh.a' m
mptoa Direct, and Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Smith,fleid, Tahnodm isa,
Railways
smith, Wm., Esq., Clifton, Derbyshire, Director of the Brighton and
Cheltenham hallway
Sneyd, Thomas, Esq., Belmont
Spiers, Edward John, Esq., Carlton-villa, Mahla-vale, Director of the
Staffordshire, Derbyshire, and Worcestershire Railway
Stanho7e, Lieutenant-Colonel Leicester, Chairman of Remington's
Direct London and Manchester Railway
Trapp, Benjamin, Esq., banker, Bedford, Director of Remington's
Direct London and Manchester Railway
Tyler, George, Esq., Holloway-place, London, Director of the
Railwayoite
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and Wolverhampton
DirectDi rßTeir,Raetajacoi
Macclesfield,p RailwayDi
Waller, Major James, K. 11., St. James's-square, Director of the
Walker,
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Wootton-park,
Ashborne
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Leeds, Huddersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct, and Brighton
and Cheltenham Railways
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Walters, James, Esq., Bakewell, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield
Welsh,W
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Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railway
Wilkinson, J., Esq.
Wright, i hoinas, Esq., merchant, Derby, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffor,lst ire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway.

SOLICITDR—W. Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq.
ENGsIENcEREERT—ARGyefI. e Remington,A. Flint, E Esq.
Esq.
BANKERS—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co.
Locax. AGENT—B. H. Tarleton, Esq., Birmingham.

The title of this line sufficiently and correctly explains the object
of the undertaking.
The Birmingham terminus will be placed in communication with
all the other railways having a station in that town, and will be
brought as near as practicable to its centre. Proceeding thence in a
northerly direction, and on the west side of the Lichfield road, it will
pass within a short distance of Sutton Coldfleld, and to Lichfield, at
the latter of which places there will be a tation in communication
with the projected Walsall lines.
Thence crossing the Trent Valley, near King's Bromley, it will
pursue the course of the Blythe Valley, or by or near to Abbots
Bromley to Leigh, where it will leave the Blythe Valley, and by a
short cutting reach the Teen station on Remington's London and
Manchester line at the junction of the Crewe branch, or by a junc-
tion with whichever of the projected lines to Manchester may be
adopted by Parliament.
The entire length of the new line to be made will not exceed
thirty-four miles, and the whole will be carried over a most favour-
able country—two-thirds being a water-level.

Sections ofa great portion of the line have been made, and the en-
tire Parliamentary survey will be completed by the 9th ofOctober.
This railway will afford a route from Birmingham to Manchester
eleven miles shorter than by any existing or projected line. It will
also give the best and nearest line between Huddersfield, and Bir-
mingham.

It will also furnish a nearer and more direct route from Birming-
ham to the Potteries than any line made or projected by several
miles, assuming any of the projected Pottery lines to have their ter-
mini at Colwich, on the Trent Valley, or at Stafford, on the Grand
Junction Railway ; thus giving to Manchester, and a:so the Pot-
teries, the shortest, easiest, and most direct route to Birmingham.
It will also give the nearest line between Huddersfield and Binning-
limn and Southampton.
This railway crosses the projected Leeds anti Huddersfield and
Wolverhampton Direct Railway. In the Blythe Valley a station will
be placed, and communication effected, so as to afford to Birmingham
the shortest route by many miles, with Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield,
and the northern parts of England. In allotting shares every legi-
timate preference will be given to the landholders on the line.
It is obvious that the projected line will afford an ample return to
the shareholders. .

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For prospectuses, shares, and every information, apply to the
solicitors, W. Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttoxeter ; or at the Offices
of the Company, No. I, Moorgate, London.

BROKERS.
Messrs. B. and M. Boyd, New Bank-buildings
Messrs. Townley and Whitehead, Liverpool
Messrs. Cameron and Co., Liverpool
Mr. Morris Reynolds, Liverpool
Mr. Richard E. Hine, Macclesfield
Mr. James Jamieson, Leeds
Messrs. Wellbeloved and Outlet*, Leeds
Mr. Frederick Stamp, Hull
Mr. Richard Baines, Blackburn
Mr. George Clark, Bradford
Mr. William Mason, Bradford
Mr. William Cronhelm, Halifax
Mr. J. W. Paibley, Gainsborough
Messrs. Freeman and Son, Northampton
Messrs. Grayston and Earle, York
Messrs. Kettering and Marshall, Leeds
Mr. Joseph Clark, jun., Southampton
Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol
Messrs. Houghland and Leese, Manchester
Messrs. A. tirchall and Co., Manchester
Mr. W. H. Collis, Birmingham
Mr. L. Weatherburn, jun., Huddersfield
Messrs. Everard and Co., Huddersfield
Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester
J. N. Balme, Gloucester
Mr. C. Wood, Uttoxeter

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SIIARES.
To the Directors of-the " Birmingham and Manchester Direct

Railwa
I request you to allot me shares in the above undertaking;
and I agree to pay up the deposit of V. 2s. per share, and sign the
necessary deeds when required thereto.
Dated this day of , 1845.
Name in full •• • • ..... ••• • • •
Profession or Business
Place of Residence • • ..... ..
Place of Business • . • . • . • .
N 2111169 of Refere'gs..•• • . ••

1102IRMINGHAM AND MANCHESTER
ail DIRECT RAILWAY COMPANY.
Company's Offices, 1, Moorgate-street, London, Oct. 13, 1845.
Notice is hereby give❑ that no thrther Applications for Shares can
received after WEDNESDAY, the 15th instant.
By order,
A A. FLINT. Secretary.

4111 E SUN, I.ONDoN, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 17 1845.

THE DIRECT WEST. END AND CROYDON
RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 800,0001., in 4 ,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Shard.
PROVISIONAL comarrzz.

The Viscount Ingestre, ALP., Brompton-park, London
Sir James Anderson, M. R. I. A., New Burlington-street ; Director
or the Hereford and Merthr Tydvil Railway
John Byng Banks, Esq., Lansdown-road, Stockwell, Director of the
Great Leeds and London Direct Railway
James Bailey, Esq , Highbury-park, Director of the Sligo, Donegal,
Tyrone, Londonderry, and Belfast Junction, and of the Scar-
borough, Whitby, Stockton-on-Tees, and Newcastle and York
Junction Railways
William Banks, Esq., 4, Honey lane, Director of the Manchester and
Rugby, and great Leeds and London Railways
Lieut.-t ;extend Sir R Barton, K.C.8., 2 Montagu-place, Montagu-
square, Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
Major Beresford, M.P., 77, Pall-mall ; Chairman of the Leeds and
Carlisle, and Director of the Teen and Dove Valley, and West
Midland, Manchester, and Southampton Railways
Charles R. ?liege, Esq., 10, Bryanston-square; Director of the Great
Grimsby, Louth, Horneastle, Lincoln, and Midland Junction Railway
William Bland, Esq., Brixton ; Director of the North Wales, and
Richmond and West-end Junction Railways
William Illanshard, Esq., York ; Chairman of the Liberty of Ripon
Quarter Sessions, and Director of the York, Hull, and East and
West Yorkshire Junction Railway
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield ; Chairman of the Isle
of Ely Railway, and Director of the Manchester and Sheffield
Railway
Alfred Brodie, Esq., Upper Montagu-street, Montagu-square Direc-
tor of the Grand Trunk Railway
Isaac Baker Brown, Esq., Oxford-square, Hyde-park, Director of the
Bristol and Dover Direc Junction Railway
Thomas Byrom, Esq. Wigan, director of the Leeds and Liverpool
Direct, and Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction Rail
ways
William Byrom, Esq., Oldham ; Director of the York and Lancaster,
the Cheltenham, Oxford, and London Railways
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Westbourne House, Sheffield, Director of the
Direct Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
William Caldwell, Esq., Ince Hall, near Wigan, Lancashire ; Direc-
tor of the Manchester, Derby, and Rugby, and Leeds and Liver-
pool Direct Railways
William Carr, Esq., Blackheath-park
John Carter, Esq., F.R.A.S., Park Lodge, Stockwell, Director of the
Grand Trunk Railway
E. Turst Carver, Esq., Forest Lodge, Tulse-hill, Director of the
Direct Birmingham, Oxford, and Brighton Railway
John Castendieck, Esq., Lewisham, Kent
John Chauntler, Esq., Friday-steet, London ; Director of the
Chelmsford and Bury, and York and Lancaster Railways
Thomas Challis, Esq., Alderman of London; Director of the Direct
Western Railway
Richard Clark, Esq., Farnham, Hants
George Clive, Esq., Sanderstead, near Croydon, Director of the Chel-
tenham, Oxford, and London Junction Railway
Benjamin Collett, Esq., Manor House, Bromsgrove; Worcestershire;
Director of the London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kiddermin-
ster; and Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railways
Nathaniel Cooke, Esq., Bayswater; Director of the Ambergate,
Nottingham, Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
Millis Coventry, Esq., White Hart-court, Lombard-street ; Director
of the Birmingham Extension and Great Leeds and London
Direct Railways
WilliainCroudson, Esq., Manor Cottage. Wigan, director of the Li-
verpool and Leeds Direct, of the Staffordshire Potteries, of the
Keighley, HaPfax, and Huddersfield, and the Cheltenham, Oxford,
and London Railways
John Croudson, Esq. King-street-house, Wigan, director of the Li-
verpool and Leeds Direct, of the Keighley, Halifax, and Hudders-
field, of the Staffordshire I'otteries, and of the York and Kenyon
Junction Railways
Lieutenant-Colonel Lothian Dickson,Curzon-street, May-fair; Direc-
tor of the Reading and Reigate Junction Railway
Charles R. Dodd, Esq., North Brixton, Director of the Great Welsh
Central Railway, of the Bath, Bristol, and Dover Railway, of the
Hull and Holyhead Railway, &c.
Miles Dormer, Esq., Hans-place, Sloane-street ; Director of the
Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway
Colonel Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, United Service Club;
Director of the London and Birmingham Extension Railway
Daniel Ebbetts, Esq., Mincing-lane; Director of the Direct Western
Railway
Colonel Elrington, Scots Fusilier Guards, Wyndham-place, Bryan-
ston-square, Director of the London and Manchester, and Liverpool
and Leeds Direct Railways
Francis Ewart, Esq,., Brick-court, Temple; Director of the Great
Leeds and London Direct, and of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey-

mouth Railways
Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of the City of London ; Director
of the London and Westminster Bank, and Director et the London
Warwick. Leamington, and Kidderminster Railway
Edmurd Al6ani Fawcett, Esq., London, Derby, aud Nottingham
Robert Fisher, Esq., Ilixhbury Park, Director if the Trent Valley
Continuation Railway
The Rev. 11. R. Fowler, Manchester-squar, ; Director if the Direct
Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
George Gamble, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Nottingham and
Gainsborough Railway
Francis Gamble, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Nottingham
and Gainsborough Railway
Henry Glynn, Esq , Garden-court, Temple
Captain Twistleton Graves, Duke-street, St. James's, director of the
Easton Counties Junction and Southend and the Midland Grand

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Junction Railways
F. W. Hamilton, Esq., 59, Gloucester-place, Portman-square; Di-
rector if the York and Lancaster Railway
C. 11. Rogers Harrison, Esq., Upper Montagu-street, Montagu-square;
Director of the Grand Trunk Railway
George R. Harrison, Esq., Harlingford-place, Kennington ; Director
of the Grand Trunk Railway
Thomas Hartshorne, Esq., Silkmore-house, Stafford
William Hay, Esq., 19, Clifford-street, Bond-street.
Josiah Heale, Esq., Gray's Inn-square; Director of the Chelmsford
and Bury Railway
Lawrence Heyworth, Esq., Yew Tree, Liverpool
A. W. Hillary, Esq., 66, Cadogan-place ; Director of the Direct Exe-
ter, Auxerre, and La Roche Railways
G. E. Hodgkin son, Esq., 7, York-terrace, Regales-park
Jelin Holford, Esq., Rusholm-hall, Manchester ; rPirector of the York
and Lancaster Railway
John Holmes, Esq., 88, St. James's-street ; Director of the York and
Lancaster, and Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railways
William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid-
land, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
W. Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., Alderman of London,
Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, and
London and Greenwich Railways
Stephen Hutchinson, Esq., London Gas-works, Vauxhall, Director of
the Grand Trunk Railway
John Kynnersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of Linden ; Director of
the London and Manchester Direct Railway
Herbert Ingram, Esq., 198, Strand, and Swineshead Abbey, Lincoln-
shire ; Director of the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, and
Eastern Junction Railway
W. H. Jackson, Esq. 66, Red Lion-street, Clerkenwell
John Jameson, Esq., St. George's-place, Brixton, Director of the
Great Leeds and London Direct, and of the Cumberland Union
Railways
Slegerich C. Kreeft, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and
Weymouth Junction Coast Railway
Richard Kelly, Esq., 6, Cleveland-row ; Chairman of the New Ross,
Carlow, and Kilkenny, and Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln
Extension Railways
Sir J. Key, Bart., Alderman of London ; Director of the London and
Manchester Direct Railway
Valentine Knight,-Esq., 5, Cornwall-terrace, Regent's-park, Director
of the Direct Western, Dendre Talley, and Grand Trunk Railway
James Lamb, Esq. 25, Hyde-park-square ; director of the Dover and
Bristol Railway
William Lawrence, Esq., Brixton ; Director of the London and Man-

chester and Direct Western Railways
William Alexander Long, jun., Esq., Kingswood House, Wootton-
under-Edge ; Director of the Erewash Valley Extension Railway
Captain J, P. Macdougall, Fir-grove, Brixton ; Chairman of the Isle
of Man Railway, and director of tb e Leeds and Fleetwood Railway
William Margetson, Esq., Streatham-hill, Brixton

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J. Mee Mathew, Esq., 4, Gray's Inn-square; Director of the Direct
Western Railway
James Macmillan, Esq. London and Southampton ; director of the
Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby Railway, &c. &c.
James Meaburn, Esq.' Grove-hill, Camberwell
Thomas Morris, Esq., Fairhurst Hall, near Wigan ; Director of the
Blackburn, Chorley, and Liverpool, and Leeds and Liverpool
Direct Railways
James Morrison, Esq., Director of the Chepstow and Forest of Dean
and Rhondda and Ely Valleys Junction Railway
_ .

[oratio Nelson, Esq., birector of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wcy
mouth Railway

William Nevill, Esq. West-green, Stamford-hill
G. Parbury, Esq., Russell-square; Director of the Manchester ant
Birmingham Railway

W. Simpson Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens ; Director of the Grand
Trunk, the Oxford and Pitney, and Reading and Reigate Junction
Railways

Samuel P. Pratt, Esq., F.R.S., Bath, and 55, Lincoln's-inn-flelds ;
Director of the Kennet and Avon Canal Company, and York and
Lancaster Railway _ _

George Richard Pye-, Esq., Lavenham, Suffolk

Lewis Pocock, Esq., Moritagu-square, Director of the Souti
ampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction and Brighton and Chel
tenham Direct Railways
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Sir George Rich, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square ; Director of the
Metropolitan Railways Junction Company, and of the London,
Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway

John Reginald Riddell, F:so., Tiycullah House, Enfield, Middlesex
Director of the York and Lancaster Railway

R. A. Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanston-street, Portman-square ; Director
•' tie Trim', Reading, and Basingstoke, and Oxford and Worcester
Extension Railwsys

James Reid, Esq., Beulah Wood, Croydon, Director of the Metropo-
litan Railways Junction Compar.y

A. Macdonald Ritchie, Esq.' Middle Temple, London ; Director of
the ;mat Western Extension Atmospheric Railway
Richard Rowe, Esq.. Beaufoy-terrace, Maida Vale
H. Sava e, Erq., Dorset-place, Dorset-square ; Director of the West
Midland, Manchester, and Southampton Railway
Edward H. 0. Scott, Esq., Hoe Garden House, Plynnuth ; Director
of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway
A. Scott, Esq.; Hadley Priory, Middle,ex
Julius le Soeuf, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the St. Albans and Hert-
ford, and Director of the Bristol and Dever Direct Junct.on
Ra lways •
William Studley, Esq., Alfred-place, Brixton ; Director of the Great
Grimsby, Louth, Horncastie, Lincoln, and Midland Junction
Railways
Martin Stately, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of
the Leeds and Carlisle, Direct Western, and Grand Trunk Railways
Timothy Stewan'i, Esq., Heigliam Lodge, near Norwich
Henry Taylor, Esq , Wigan ; Director of the Leeds and Liverpool
Direct, Manchester and Wigan, and Liverpool, Preston, and North'
Union Railways
James Templer, Esq., Brixton-rise, Director of the Great Leeds and
London, and Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford Railways
Joseph Underwood, Esq., The Hall, Blackheath Park ; Director of
the Direct London and Manchester, and Leeds and Liverpool Direct
Railways

Robert Watkins, Esq., Augusta-house, Worthing, Director of the
Oxford, Southampton, and Gosport, and Liverpool and Derby
Railways

Sir Henry Webb, Bart, 105, Pall-mall, London ; Director of the

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York and Lancaster, and Direct Western Railways
Davt.d Wheatcroft, Esq. director of the Rugby, Derby, and Man

cl.ester, and Nottingham and Gloucester Ways
Job.n Lowe, Esq. Norfolk-crescent, Hyde-park, Director of the Leeds,
I'leetwood, and Liverpool Railway
Major White, Pall-mall, Director of the South Midland, and Leeds,

Fleetwood, and Liverpool Railways
Si r Thomas Woollasten White, Bart., Walling Wells, Nottingham
Thomas Williams, Esq., M.D., Belgrave-street, South Belgrave-

square
W. S. Wilson, Esq., Norwich, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle, and

Maryport and Carlisle Hailsqtys
Sir William Wynn, }faesynewadd, and Suffolk-pl Ace, Pall-mall ;
Chairman of the North Wales, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways

(With power to add to their number).
COMMITTEE 01' MANAGEMENT.
Major Beresford, M.P. F. W. Hamilton, Esq.
William Bulkeley Hughes, M.P. Captain J. P. Macdougall
Sir J. Anderson, 31.R.1.A. William Bradley, Esq.
Sir J. Key, Bart. Joseph Underwood, Esq.
Sir H. Webb, Bart, Nathaniel Cooke, Esq.
A. W. Hillary, Esq. , Charles It. Begg, Esq.
(With power to add to their number.)
BANms.—The Commercial Bank of London.
CONSULTING ENGINEER.
Sir John Macneil, L.L.D., F.R.S., )f.1.C.E.,
ACTING ENGINEERS.
Messrs. R. and T. Hopkins,M.l.C.E.; Messrs.Gough and Roumien,C.E.
BrißVEYOßS.—Messrs. Shuttleworth and Sons.
SOLICITORS.
MeSST a. Chauntler and Westwood, it, Gray's Inn-square.
SECRETARY—J. L. Cotton, Esq.
The principal objects of *he scheme are-Ist. To remedy the evils
of delay and inconvenience to which parties are, at the present time,
access, ,rily subjected in proceeding from the west end of the metro-
polis to Croydon, or the most distant places on the South-Eastern
and '..ondon and Brighton Railways, as well as the several sea ports
and packet-stations on the coasts of Kent and Sussex; and 2d. To
sun ply to the numerous and wealthy inhabitants of the district
through which the intended line will,pass (at present wholly with-
o• at railway accommodation), a greatly improved means for the in-
terchange of communication with the metropolis, and with each other.
Commencing at the intended terminus of the South-Western Rail-
way, at Hungerford or Waterloo-bridge, the line will take the most
practicable route to Kennington, from thence it will follow as near as
possible the old turnpike road, passing through or near to the
wealthy and populous districts of Stockwell, Clapham, Brixton,
Tulse-hill, Streatham, Norwood, Beulah, and Thornton-heath, effect-
ing a junction at Croydon with the several existing or projected
linos from that place.
It is also proposed to form a branch or branches from the neigh-
bourhood of Streatham to Mitcham and Tooting, and thus to extend
to those places, and their respective neighbourhoods, tile advantages
of a direct railway communication with the metropolis.
A great porden of the tradic in passengers and goods upon the
Brighton and Dover lines is supplied from the west-end of London
and the Birmingham and Great Western Railways. The necessity
of proceeding to the station at Londc,n-bridge, and by the present
circuitous route to Croydon, is a serious and unnecessary inconveni-
ence, entailing additional expense and delay. The removal of this
long-felt grievance is a leading object with the promoters of the pre-
sent undertaking. They deem it right, however, to observe, in lay-
ing this scheme before the public, that they have no desire to inter-
fere. with existing railway interests, further than is absolutely indis-
pensable, but that on the other hand it will be their object to yield
awsistance to, and in return endeavour to secure it, from each COM.
Willy with which this line may ultimately be connected.
A glance at the map will show, that as a branch or arm of the.
London and Brighton Railway, this undertaking completes a straight
lime of communication from the west end of London to er,woor,
Reigate, and Brighton, and renders the ports of DoVer and Folk, -
atone, as well as the several places on the South-Eastern line, more
easily accessiWe from that part et' the metropolis.
The grea amount of trade at the present time upat the roads be-