The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 2, 1845.

D ;RECT WESTERN RAILWAY
(Upon the Broad Gauge),
From London to the Land's-end ; with Diverging Lines to Bath and
Bridgewater respectively.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 3,900,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. per Share..
Offices, 20, Poultry, London.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Camperdown, Sidney-place, Bath
The Viscount Mandeville, Kimbolton-park, Hants
Lord James O'Bryen, Royal-crescent, Bath
Lord William Powlett, Bath, and Downham-hall, Brandon, Suffolk
General Sir John Slade, Bart., Muntys Court, Taunton
Colonel Luttrell, Kilve Court, Somerset
The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., Director of the South Mid-
land Railway, Brookes' Club, St. James's-street
Sir-Francis Dugdale Astley, Bart., Everly House, Pewsey, Wilts
Sir Henry Webbe, Bart., 105, Pall-mall
Frederick Hodgson, Esq., M.P. for Barnstaple, 3, Carlton Gardens
Howard Elphinstone, Esq., M.P., 19, Eaton-place, London
Ralph Neville. Esq., M.P., Hill-street, Berkeley-square
Charles Barry Baldwin, M.P., 6, Parliament-street
Hon. Percy Evans Freke. 3, Belgrave-square
Thomas Nugent Vaughan, Esq., 32, Grosvenor-place, London
Wllllam Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the
Sheffield and Manchester, and Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
Companies

Sir Robert Price, Bart., M.P. Raley. Herefordshire
Sir John Cave Brown Care Bart Rexilworth, Warwickshire
Sir William Young, Bart., Wvstbourae•green, Hyde-park, East India
Director
John Clark, Esq., Benefield House, near Trowbridge, Wilts, Magis-
trate for the counties of Wilts and Somerset
Alfred Batson. Esq., Ramsbury, Wilts, and Upper Bedford-place
Major Hunt Gmbbe, Eastwell House, Devizes
Jolla Sealy, Esq., Bridgwater, banker
John Love! Sealy, Esq., Bridgwater, banker
William Adair Bruce, Esq., Lansdown-crescent, Bath
Sir John Key, Bart., 9, King's Arms-yard, Alderman of the City of
London, Director of the Direct Manchester and London and Direct
Liverpool and Leeds Railway Company
Thomas Paraconstr, Esq., Griffin's Wharf, Teeley-street, Alderman
of MS City of London, and Director of the London and Westmin-
fifes Bask. and of the London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidder-
asinsMr Railway
Thomas Challis, Esq., Enfield, Alderman of the City of London
Edward if arrimon Barwell, Esq., Deputy Chairmaa of the North-
ampton. Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway, and Director of the

Soak Midland Railway _
Joseph ♦rmitage, Esq., Miler's Bridge House, Huddersfield, Deputy
Lieutenant and a Magistrate for the West .Riding of Yorkshire.

Chairman of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Hallway
William Gordon Thomson, Emu, 33, Gloticester-read, Hyde Park,
Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham. and

Sontk Midland Railways
Donald Maclean, Esq., 37, Branswiek-stiaare, Loadsn, Depaty

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Clairman of tko Trent Valley Continnation Railway
Thomas Lawrence, Esq., 3, St. Nary Axe
Philip W. Courtney, Eeq., Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, London
Millis Coventry, Esq., Whitekart-court, Lombard-street
Barnet L. 'Philips, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, aid

(George-street, Ilansion Mouse
Boswell Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holderne,ss Rouse, near Null,
Deputy Lieutenant and Ilalistrate for the East Riding of Yorkshire
Charles Robert Coleman, Esq., Irougate Wharf
William Eales, Esq., Mincing lane, London, late Director of the
Devon and Cornwell Ranking Company
h.arlea Downes, Esq., Warwick-street, Charing-eress, Director of
the South Midland Railway
Martin Stutely, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park. London.
Director of the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine, and the South
Essex Railways
Francis Ede, Esq., 34, Great Winchester-street
John Addis, Esq.,totherhithe and Mark lane, Loudest, Director of
the Central Terminus Railway, and of the Licensed Victuallers'

Fire and Life Insurance Co►apany
tames Renshaw, Esq., Wkitehart-coart, Lombard-street, and West
Heath House, Er.th, Kent, Director of the south iitalfertishire

Railway
Thomas I)rane, Esq., Pall-mall, and tit. Mary Chard:, Doyen, Direc-
tor of the Bridport and Exeter, and Goole and Doncaster Railways
Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brentlx) Ironworks, Wrexkam, aid Ciumon-

street, London -
11. G. Atkinson, Esq., tipper Gloucester-place, Regent's Park
George M`lntash, Eq., 127, Seymour-street, Portman-sqltare
Frederick Solly Flood, Esq., Alpha-road, Regent's Park, London
Major White, 105, Pall-mall, London, Director of the South Midland

Railway
Charl-4 Bleaden, Esq., Couladen-court, Surrey, Chairman of the Li-

ceased Tictalthers' Fire and Life assurance Company
J. G. Hammack, Esq., Essex House, Mile-end-road, Director of the

Licensed Victuallers' Firs and Life Assurance Company
Patrick Eras. Johnston, E 1., Great Cumberland-place
Joseph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, Miuorics, Director of the Leaden and

Railway Company
Willtampowiling Brue.o, Esq., F.S.A., 17, Ckarles-street, St. James's,

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and Ripon
Cuthbert Woodcock, Esq., Grove-road, North Brixton
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, ltryanstone-street, Portman-
square, Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth, and
His Great Western Extension Railways
George Hammond Whalley, Esq., 30, Pall-mall, London
11-tgan, Esq. 60, LW:ex-street, PortinAn-square
William Itreynton, i4q., Montpelier, Cheltc,tham, and Temple, Lon-
don, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth Railway
Richard Har -is Purcell, Esq., Cianiaridge-street, Hyde Park, Lon-
don, Director o the Wilts, Eotnerset, and Southampton Railway

Company
Philip Rater, Esq., En3ton-square, London, Auditor of the Louden
and I I okwall Railway Coindany
Charles James Heath, Esq., 1, London-street, Mark-lane
Captain E. N. Trowbridge, M.N., 11, Eaton-equare
Anthony Ridley, Big , Queen-square, Bloomsbury, a Director of the
St. Katherine Docks Company, and of the General *hipowners'
Society
William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-plocie, Be!grave-square
cliarles Thoinas IViirde,Eel., Clodton House, Warwickshire, and

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Luton Ilex, Bedfordshire
(;ee.rge Payne, Esq., Sun), Hal!, Northarapten.shire, and Cliarles-
sti, 't, Berkeley-square
Jaxnee.'eoch, Esq., Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, and Grosvenor-
ptaro. London
lilt:1101ga itiipot Loader, Esq., Droinai;ll Castle, ciunty Cork, Union
Club, Traalgar-square, Director of the Killarney Junction Rail-
way C. is,auy
Samuel Baker, Eel., Lyppiat Park, Gloucestershire, and Lon,'•n
Congreve Russell, Esq., Le.onington, Warwickshire, DI-

router of the Warwickshire and Lendon ttailway
/Leary Lradley, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire
John Wllll.tra Yerbury, Esl., Ilelconabu House, Wiltshire, Captain 3d

Light Dragoons
Snbext Main, Esq., Ravensbourne Park, Lewisham, and Trinity-
Loatiets
rebel. Millington, Esq., Ordsall House, 144forri, Nottinghamshire
Jelin Gill,rttt Booth, Esq., Crouch Hall, Hernsey
Major-sten. Martin White, Misrlboroiwii-buildings, Bath
rev. T. Harvey Ashworth, Burlyus House, near Newbury, Becks
Col. Burstein, Harwood Lodge, Newbury, Berks
Major Kirwan, Great Pulteney-street, Bath
ittitv. Dr. Godn-ey, Grosvenor-place, Bath
littward Cooper, P.sq., Staverton, Wilts, Magistrate of the County
Henry Tougood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse, Wilts, Magistrate of the

• Cty
nev Cbas. Fras. BluntVide, Rector of Dunkarten, near Bath, Magls-

trate, for Somerset
inobard MorthuOre, Esq., Chippenham, Wilts
Georje Tetc, Esq., Tewkesbury, Dinkttor of the Bristol and Birraidg-

Itain sllll%ray Company
jt. Wootten, jun., Dui, Banker, Oxford, Director •f the Buckingham•
. .

Airs nallalway and Wolverton Junction
Meagre' Ifortimore, Fsq., Kingsoirlll, CoHampton
Itev. John Sydeuham, Collutuptou
Iter. ILA. Roberts, Rector of Keutiskere, Collar's/ston
Charles Justiee, Esq., Colluinpton, Devon
itiebard Marker, Esq., tirculin Cottage, Tiverton
Colonel Henry I)undas Campbell, North End House, Portsmetttl
George Pearce, Esq., liradni itch lieut.!, near Collumpton
Wm. 11. Macomb, Esq., Chilton, Ifingerford, Chairman of the Berke
Voles Banking Company
William Haleomb, Esq., Marlborough, Manager of the Wilte and

Dorset Bank
Captain W. C. Maclean, R.N., Taunt's
Robert Parsons, Esq., Taunter
John Dalzoll, Esq., Wallingford, Perks
Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
John Kees liabertelti, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
lamas Troup, Esq., Hastings
John Robson, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
hhn Morford Cottle, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington, Direator

of Coventry and Leicester Railway
I osepk Knight, Esq., Leicester, Director of South Midland aid Nortis-

&tampion, iiaubary and Cheltenham Railways
John Newton Mapptn, Esq., Sheffield, Direetor of Use Manchester,

Sheffield, and Midland Railway Company
John Ridgeway, Esq., Cauldon-place, the Potteries, Statorishire,
Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway
James Ilurt, jun., Esq.. Manchester, Director of the Chester and
Birkenhead. and Manchester and Southampton Railways
Bdward Norris, Esq., Clairville, Manchester, Director of the Direet
London and Manchester, and North Cheshire Railway Companies
Joseph Kadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and
Wigan, and Manchester and Southampton Railways
James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Salford
Sir William Lowthrop, Hull, Magistrate for the East Riding of York
and for the borough of Hull, Chairman of the " Hull and Barnsley"
Committee, and Member of the acting Committee of the "Liver-
pool and Leeds Direct Railway Companies"
John Holford, Esq., Rushohn Hall, Manchester
C. IL Jones, Esq., kladderstleld, Deputy Chairman of the /ladders-
told and Sheffield, and Director of the Halifax aid Bradford

Union Railway
Charles Bamford, jun., Esq., Bull, Director of the Hall and Barnsley

Junction
John Lillie, Esq., Manchester, Direetor of Manehester and South-

ampton Railway
John Robson, Esq., Hetton-le-Hole, Durham
Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Sheffield and
Manchester, and Chairman of the Manchester, Birkenhead, and
Midland Railway Companies
/sane Holmes, Rsq., Liverpoo
Wm. B. Newbery, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Dudley and
Iron Bridge Railway Company
C. Appleby, EM., Broomhill, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and
Manehester Railway Company
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeack,
and Lincolnshire Railway, and Salisbury and Swindon Railways
John Ward, Esq.' Machin Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield,
Rotherham, anil Chesterfield Life Assurance-office
Wm. Thompson, Esq., Uppertherpe, near Sheffield, Director et the
Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
Adderley Howard, Esq., Sutton Wisbech, Director of tke East Coast

Railway Company
Captain Bowker, It. NL, Devonport
U. S. Bright, ICsq., Hull, Director •f the Liverpool and Leeds Di•

reet Railway
Samuel Swann Brittain, Esq., Sheffield Direct or of the East and West
of England Railway Company
Jehn Fawcett, Esq., Sheffield, Director if the Wakefield and Bar-
rewgate Railway Company
William Marriott, Esq., Attereliff-terraee, Sheffield, Director of the
Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Junction Railway.
Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln, Director of the London and York
and East Lincolnshire Railways
John Johnstone Hamilton, Esq., LiTerpeel
David Price, Esq., Manchester
William Hunter, Esq., Clarendon-sqaare, Leamington
Roy. H. vst. Cottle, Vicar of Watford, Northamptonshire
Major Wormun, Clarence-square, Cheltenham
Edward Nall, Esq., Westbank House, Macclesfield, Director of the
South Midland and the Northampton and Cheltenham Railways
Henry Habbersty, Esq., Hull
John Ostler, Esq., Hull, Director of the Nall and Barnsley Junction
Henry Shaw, Esq., Fetter-lane
Henry Sayer, Esq., Commercial-read, Limehease, merchant
John Moe Mathew, Esq., Gray's Inn-square
Jelin Norton, Esq., Moat Noise, Brentwood, Essex
William John M'Guire, Esq., Hampton Court
John Gray Wilson, Esq., Oxibrd-terrace
Copt. J. P. Macdougall, Fir Grove, North Brixton, Surrey
W. J. Lefeuvre, Esq., Alderman and Magistrate ofSeuthampton
Thomas qua.. Ibux;Juit, Esq., F York-terrace, Regent's Park
G. B. Rebury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the
Coventry and Leleester Railway
captain Tringhans, R.N., Solyhull, Warwickshire
William Jenson Neale, Esq., Ring's Bench-walk, Temple
Janes Whitney, Esq., Shrewsbury
Henry rani Harwood, Esq., M.D., Sheffield
The Hon. F. Byron, 21, Eaton-place
William Higgins, Esq., Turvey, High Sheriff of Bedfordshire
Sir Raymond Jarvis, Fair Oak-park, near Winchester, Deputy-Lieu-
tenant, and magistrate for the county of Hants
William Jackson, Esq , Birkenhead, Chairman of the Cheater and
Birkenhead Railway
E. H. Langworthy, Esq., Manchester
Thomas Sidney, Esq., Alderman, and Sheriff of London and Mid-

dlesex _ -
Nathaniel Gould, Esq., Barge-yard, Backlersbury, and Taristook-

square
Rdmund Lionel Welles, Esq., Cadogan-place, and West 3lonloop,
Surrey
Duncan Dunbar, Esq., East India-road, an I Llmehouse, Director of
the London Dock Company, the Marine Assurance Company, and
the General Shipowner's Society
William Jackson, Esq Si fll ` 1
~ ea ,Director of the
Railway
George P. Earle, Esq., Hull
Stephen. Knowles, Esq., Exeter
Lawrence,joh„ Brixten
" '''`unn(mth, E'sa. Edinburgh, Chairman of the Edlnlytirgh and
Glasgow, and North British Railway Companies
Wellington Hots
Montague-place, Russell-square,
Director of the Itmt.g.b,y_,rupea'etrl:yBq, and Manchester Railway
William 'Tuner,
-street, Blackfriars
Req.,
E Kherimrn GruAlT"
John Booth,
Matthew Benjamin Robson,
Grange, Durham
John Holmes, Esq., St. Jame 's
-street,
Director
WeymouthWeymouthßailway, and York and reeLancasterrolftlilewp°ayrthester and
William G. Bernard, Esq , Clifton, Bristol
59,1 taker-street, Portman-square
Thomas Smallwood Rich irs,
Jalles Shaw, Esq., Sal:"ord, l
Manchester
N. M`Cann, Esq. Parnt Went-street
Henry IVeninan Esq.,
Esq., Bristol, Magistrate for that City, a
Depnly-Liculcaant and Magistrate for the county of Gloucesternd
William ii,watio Harrison, Esq., Sunbury
William Empson Jalland, Esq., Iloitioniess House, near Hull
Thomas thicket Massey, Esq., Newark-upon-Trent
Robert Cook; Esq.,' Gainsborough, Dirccior of the Gainsborough,
Goole, 'and Isle'tif Axholmc, anti of the Wiebeach, Ely and iali_
e tin thireltailways
William Ruston, Esq:, Cath,.:rine-court, Trinity-square
G. Wingrove COW, Esq., Temple, London
C. I. Selwyn, Esq:, Exeter
Joseph Hopwood, Esq., Exeter, Director of the Exeter and Falmouth
Rail way
Richard Compton, Esq., Ethrmgton House, Hungerford, Barks, a
als;istrate for the counties of Wilts and Berks
Henry Coa Coupe, Goldliangcr, Malden, Essex
Richard Davis, Esq., St. Helen's-place, Director of the South gicliand
Tway

Edward Hyde Clarke Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of
the Warwickshire a4d London Railway
The Constable of Hungerford
Captain Wiliam Lionel Lampert, The Highlands, Oxfordshire, and
Leamington, Warwickshire
Francis Burton, Esq., 3filverton House, Warwickshire
Captain Stewart, R.N., Leamington, Warwickshire
Samuel Haines, Esq.. Chad-house, Edgbaston, Birmingham, Director
_ _ .

of the South Stafiordshit e Railway
William Northage, Esq., Upper Gower-street, Bedford-square
John Wodley Hughes, Esq., Gloucester, Director of the Birmingham

and Bristol Railway
Lewis Bruce Knight Brace, Esq., The Priory, Roehampton, Surrey
Francis Cole Humbert, Esq., Oxford-street; Hyde

Algernon Greville, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park
John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park
James Lamb, Esq., Hyde-park-square

It'chard Grolicoci: lisq.,(Bow-churchyard, and Dulwich, Director

of the Direct Manchester Railway
J. B. Simpson, Bsq., Rutland-ledge, Brixton
Henry BeDerby, Esq„ Sheriff of York
Henry Ledgard, Esq., 39, Wood-street, Cheapside, Director of the

Rugby and Miceleiffield Direct Railway -
John Williams, Esq., Eaton-square.
Thomas Grimsditch, Esq., M.P., Macclesfield, Cheshire
Samuel Griffiths, Esq., Penn-fields, Wolverhampton, Director of the

Liverpool and Leeds Railway
Wfilians Miller, jun., Esq., Leicester

Edward Westlake, Esq., Southampton

Erasmus R. Foster, ESei,, Birchin-lane

William Bargett, Broad-street
Peter It. Morrison, Esq., Princes-street, Bank

Thomas Miller, Jun., Esq., Leicester
John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Enfield, Director 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
fleorge Sercombe, Esq., Exeter
John Clampit Sercombe, Esq., Exeter
William Pearce, Esq., Liverpool
W. Holliday, Esq., Chad Valley, Edgbaston, Birmingham
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Robert Henry Hurst, Esq., jun; Temple
William Nash, Esq., Capham Common
Grey Hazlerigg, Esq., West Carlton Hall, Leicester
Captain Twisleton Graves, Duke-street, St. James's, Director of the
Leicester and Tean and Dove Valley Railway
(With power to add to their number).
ENSINERRS IN SHIRR.
Sir John Macnlell, LL.D., F.R.S.
James Thomsen, Esq., F.R.S.E., 3f.R.1.A.
Esxratio--Messrs. Cturies and Co., Cornhill, London.
JOINT SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Bell, Brodrick, and Bell, Bow Churchyard, London
Messrs. Rickards and Walker, 29, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London
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Messrs. Haynes and Moore, Warwick and Louden
Messrs. J. V. and J. T. Harting, 24, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London.
SIICRETARY—Thomas Hosier Saunders, Esq.
ASSISTANT-SECRETARY —Charles J. Whalley, Esq.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
At Newbury—Messrs. Godwin and Gray, and 8.1'111111240, Esq.

At Ramstairy—William Rowland, Esq.
At Devizes, Henry Gilbert, Esq., and John Edwards Hayward, Esq.
At Troubridge and Bradford, Messrs. Stelae and Rodway
At Bath, Messrs. Batehellor, Harford, and Staunton
At Shepton Mallett—Francis Isaac Nalder, Esq.
At Bridgewater, Messrs. G. S. and J. R. Poole
At Exeter—William Denis Moore, Esq.
At Tiverton, T. L. T. Ronde% Esq., and J. A. Tomo, Esq.
At Laanceston—Messrs. Lawrence and Pattisen

At Bodmin

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At Falmouth—Messrs. Tresidder and Son
The object of this line is to effect a direct aimanimaiention 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 3,0110,600/. 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 Plytnouth; and various ether 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 couatry in regard
to this, its most important outport—" 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 commanded
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 aecomniodation 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-
trict of Trowbridge (from which a diverging line will lse carried by
Bradford direct to Bath), Westbury, Frome, 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 wnule
instance from London to Falmouth, a saving of about ninety miles.
With reseect to the trafllc on the upper portioa of the lino it is
needless to say mote than that there is already thorough traffic suffi-
cient to justifY the coustrection of this portion of the Direct Wes-
tern : that it will shorten the distance trout London to Tiverton
about 32 miles, that it will traverse rich and populous agricultural
and manufacturing districts, and receive a large ameant of Bottle as
well from rallways!now iu course of construction as film ellen pre-
jected, with every chance of success.
Is to the traffic on the lower portion of the line, it is erident that
the vast number of merchant vessels coati:many detained In the
Channel `dy 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 mauls of this railway;
and therefure—withont speculating on the extent to which the purls
on either side of the great promontory of the Land's Bad may, by
means of this railroad, attract the commerce respectivsly of Bristol
and Southampton ; t e what extent the inexhattatible mineral wealth
of Cornwall, and the unrivalled agricultural resources of Devonshire
may be farther developed, or the genial climate of Penzance and
Mount's Bay, " the Montpellier of England," attract a larger propor-
tion of winter visitants—it is obvious that this line will command a
traffic both in goods and passengers, from its western terminus, the
amount of which may be said to be without limit. 0 glance at the
map will make it manliest that uo competing trunk line can ever be
established between Tiverton and the Land's End. As between
Taunton and Reading, an inspection of the map will show a vast ex-
tent of midland distrist, comprising rich and populous parts of So-
inersetshire, Doraetshire, and Wiltshire, now altogether destitute of
railroad accommodation.
Recurring to the features of this project as a national work, one of
the greatest in point of magnitude, of vital haportance in the event of
war, and of almost incalculable advantage to the general and packet
commerce of the kingdom; It may net be oat of place to quote here
the following expressions of Sir Robert Peel. Speaking of the project
of a direct lino from London to Liverpool through the Treat Valley,
which bore much the same relation to the Birmingham and Grand
Junction that this bears to the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter
Railways, he is reported to hove said :—"I consider that the com-
munication between the metreaolis and the groat oatperts to be not
a question of hours, bat a euestien of ininatc." Of the necessity of this
particular line, Parliament has already expressed an opinion ; for in the
report of the Committee on the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth
line, which was promoted by the Great Western Railway Company,
it was stated that that Company had been required to pledge itself
not hereafter to oppose a direct line to Falmouth ; and it may be
farther observed, that a proposed line from Plymouth to Yalecouth
was last session rejected, on the groaud that it might he sapposed
to interfere with that great aaticial 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 Mr-
wardaess, and the whole will be ready for the next session of Par-
liament.
It is sufficient, as to these points, here to state that there are no
engineering difficulties in any part of the line which have not been
repeatedly surmounted in other cases ; that the first portion will be
constructed at au unusually small expense ; that the undertaking
will meet with the cordial support, concurrence, and co-eperation of
the landowners, and that the Directors are justified in asserting that
this will prove to be one of the most remunerative railways it the
kingdom.
Powers will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow interest at
four pounds per centuna per annum on the deposits, and preference
ha 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 Weston' 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, 1245.
FORM OF APPLICATION.

To the ProTisional Committee of the Direct Western railway
Company.
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Gentlemen,—l request you willallOt is shares of 25/. each is
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 execute the Subscribers' Agreeraent aid Parliamentary Coa.
tract when required.
Dated 1845.

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DIRECT WESTERN RAIL WAY,
with diverging lines to BATH and BRIDGWATER.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Notice is hereby given, that no further Applications for Shares in
this Company will be received after TUESDAY. the 7th of October, inst.
T. H. SAUNDERS, Secretary.
20, Poultry, London, Oct. 1, 1845.

THE DIRECT LONDON, PORTSMOUTH,
AND CHICHESTER, AND DIRECT PORTSMOUTH
AND CHATHAM RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
VIA REIGATE.
Capital, 1,700,000/., in 85,000 Shares of 20/. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PSOVISIONAL COMMITTHE.
The Right lion. the Earl of Egmont, of Cowdray Park, Sussex
Colonel George Wyndham, of Petworth House, Sussex
The Hon. and Rev. L. Vernon Harcourt, of West Dean, Sussex
The Right Hon. Lord de Lisle, of Penshinst, Kent
The Right Hon. Lord Pelham Clinton, of Carleton Villas, Maida.lllll
The Right lion. Lord Ressmore, of the Dell, Windsor
Sir Charles William Taylor, Bart., of Hollyeombe House, Sussex
The Hon. Robert Gore, M.P., of 21, Wilton-crescent
The Hon. William M. Dawson, Poole Lodge, Dorset
The Hon. Stafford Jerningham, Brook-street:
The Hon. Percy Freke, 3, Beigrave-square
Sir William Young, Bart., 7 Westbourne-street, Hydo ?ark, Director
of the East India Company
Sir James Eyre, of 11, Brook-street, Grosvenor-square
Sir James Carmichael, Bart., of 40, Sussex-gardens
Sir... Robert Schomburgh, of New Kingston, Surrey
Howard Elphinstone, 14sq., M.P., of Eaton-place, Director of the
Direct Western Railway Company, the Thames Embankment
Company, &c. •
William liulkeloy Hughes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid-
land Railway
Robert Wynne Williams, Esq., Director of the Nottington and Gains-
borough Railway
Lee Stecre, Esq., of Jay's Park, Surrey
Captain Charles Shirley, of Midhurst, Sussex
Lieut.-Colonel Eden, 1, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square
Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq., of Broom Hall, Surrey
Admiral John Ayscough, of Prospect-place House, Southampton
Lancelot Archer Burton, Esq., of Woodlands, Emsworth, Hants
Charles Dixon, Esq., of Stanstead Park, Sussex
Archibald Douglas Stewart, of Itruton-street
E. T. Dayrell, Esq., 15, Old Cavendish-street, High Sheriff of Buck-
inghamshire
Colonel Henry Dindas Campbell, of North-end House, Portsmouth,
Deputy-Lieutenant for Hants
Major Snow, of 4, Old Cavendish-street
The Rev. Henry Garrett Newland, of Weetbeurne Rectory, Sussex
Francis Lysons Price, Esq., of Sydenham, Kent, Director of the
Shropshire Mineral Railway
James Beech, Esq., of Brandon Hall, Warwickshire
George Grantham, Esq., of Barcombe-place, Sussex
Charles Hurst, Esq., of Midhurst, Sussex
George Harrison, Esq., F.S.A., 7, Harleyford-place, Kennington
Frederick Clarkson, Esq., of Tottenham, Directors of
Robert Chapman, Esq., of I, Park-place, Regent's the Great
Park, }Manchester
William Watson Prole, Esq., of Thurlow-squared Railway
Brampton, J Company
Thomas Chitty, Esq., of 8, Upper Gower-street, Barrister-at-Law,
Director of the Birminrhain and Leicester Railway Company
John Napper, Esq., of Ifold House, Surrey
Stephen Loudell, Esq., of Lindfleid, Sussex
George Barker, Esq., of Stilland, Sussex
James Hitchins, Esq., of Lincoln, Director of the Manchester and
Southampton Railway Company
Lewis Pocock, Esq of Montague-street, Russell-square
Thomas Neale, Esq., of Reigate, Surrey
Samuel Eel!, Esq., of Rulgate, Surrey
Thomas Peale, jun., of Reigate, Surrey
John Lucas, Esq., of Van elan-101, Haelemere
Thomas Bowles, Esq , of Midhurst, Sussex
Wittrieolporlll"!bnYub'ledaY, Esq., F.L.S., of Great Surrey-street, Director of
.iNtiVneer:ivul,c:kc.,oanndpal,Viyorcester Railway
ilardr, Esq. F.S.A., of Croydon, Surrey, Director of Me-
John Davidson Faul-
., of Trotton-hou.se,near Midhurst
Edmund Sadler, sq., of Beaton
Anthony Dickson, Esq., Edrl Sussngtonthouse, near Berwick-upon-
Joseph
Watson,Vci Escl "EosfqClaphamof
rCn!gmros-grove, Roxburghshire, Director of
Bristol and Exeter Railway Company
Samuel Brown, Esq., of Clapham
Joseph Scales, Esq ,of 3, Dunster-court, Mincing-lane, and Uppes '
Clapton
John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., of 30, Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park,
Director of the Readini and Reigate Railway Company

John Helbert Helbert, Esq., of Gloucester-place, Director of the Lei-
caster and Birmingham ailway Company
Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., of Clopton House, Stratford-on-Avon,
Director of the Warwick and London Ridlway Company
Captain William Cousins, of Compton-street, Brunswick-square, Di-
rector of the Doncaster and Goole Railway Company
Captain Frederick Chamfer, of Halkin-street, Belgrave-square, Di-
rector of the Fampoux and Hazebreuck Railway
John Barnett, Esq., of Cheltenham, Coroner of the county of Glou-
cester
John 3foreton Cottle, Esq., of Leamington, Director of the Coventry
and Birmingham Railway Company
John Brightman, Esq., of Regency-square, Brighton, Director of the
Leeds and Carlisle Railway Company
William Spooner, Esq., of Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, Director of
the Newcastle and Liverpool Railway Company
Aleiander Greig, Esq., of Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square, Director
of the Rugby, Warwick, MA Worcester Railway
Captain Trophinrus Hodges, of 65, Connaught-terrace, Hyde Park,
Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway Company
George Parbury, Esq., of 37, Russell-square, Director of the Mandl:tes-
ter and Rugby Railway Company
George R. Peppercorne, Esq., of Bexhill, Sussex, Director of the
Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railway Company
Thomas Henry Evans, Esq., of Lothbury, Director of the Rugby,
Warwick, and Worcester Railway Company
Benjamin Franklin, Esq., of 3, Harley-street
Rev. F. H. Hall, D.D., Rector of Fulbourne, Cambridgeshire
Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Herefordshire
W. Woode, Esq., of Chilgrove, Sussex
Henry Morley, Esq., of Midhurst, Sussex
William Gambier, Esq., Sacombe Park, Herts
C. A. Tulk, Esq., of Totteridge Park, Herta
James Peard Ley, Esq., Seyton Ironworks, Whitehavea
John Inglis Jerdein, Esq., 150, Piccadilly
H. R. bowman, Esq., of 47, Upper Bedford-place, Director of the
Cambrian and Grand Junction Railway
David Mountague, Esq., of Regent's-park
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Ludgate•hill, Director of the Waveney
Valley Railway Company
James Gernon, Esq., Director of the London and Nottingham Rail-
way Company
James Macmillon, Esq., Southampton
Rev. Cecil Greene, A.M. of Midhurst
Rev. Charles Edward Tlyford, of Trotton Rectory, Sussex
Major James Adair, Director of Church of England Insurance
Company
Captain Charles Frederick Parkinson, of Manchester, Director of
the Manchester and Southampton Railway, Managing Director of
the West Lancashire Railway, and of the Manchester, Wigan, and
Southport Railway
Robert Sykes, Esq., of Manchester. Director of Clitheroe Junction
Railway
John Clark Prescott, Esq., of Manchester, Director of Oxford, South-
ampton, and Gosport Railway, and of Macclesfield and Rugby
Railway
Henry Farrington, Esq.. of Manchester, Director of Wigan and
Southport Railway, and of York and Lancaster Railway
Josephus Hurney Higson, Esq., of Manchester, Director of Chester
and Manchester Direct Railway, and of Manchester and Rugby
Railway
Daniel Grant, Esq., of Springside, Bury, Lancaster, Director of Rem-
ington's Direct London and Manchester Railway, and of the
Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Janetion
Railway
Thomas Townend, Esq., of the Polygon, Manchester, Director of
London and Manchester Direct Railway
Join Burgess, Esq., of Manchester, Boroughreeve of Manchester,
Director of the London and Manchester Direct Railway Company,
and of the Manchester, Burnley, Settle, and Carlisle Direct
Railway
James Shaw, Esq., of Salford, Lancashire, Director of the 3fanchester
and Rugby !railway
Edward Parrett, Esq., of the Sutton'. Romford
John George Hammond, Esq., Essex-house, Bow, Director of the
Direct Western Railway
Joseph Bishop, Esq., Director of the Blackvrall Railway
Phillip Baker, Esq., Easton-square
Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Esq., Twyford-hall, Derby
John Webster, Esq., 35, Meeklenburgh-square, Director of the Great
Grimsby, and Lincoln Railway
The names of other noblemen and gentlemen will appear In a
thither advertisement, whose support has been promised to the un-
dertaking.

COMMITTEE Or MANAGEMENT.
Samuel Brown, Esq. Edward Parrott, Esq.
Frederick Clarkson, Esq. Wm. B. Hughes, Esq., M.P.
Robert Chapman, Esq. Robert Wynne Williams, Esq.
Joseph. Scales, Esq. IL R. Downman, Esq.
_John Parkinson, Esq. David Montague, Esq.
ENGINEERS—Messrs. Drayson, of No. 2, Palace-yard, Westminster.
SOLICITORS TO THE COMPANY—Messrs. POIIIireX and Moginlo, b, St.
Andrew's-court, Holborn, London.
BANKERS—The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury

LOCAL AGENTS.
Messrs. Rhoades and Greene, solicitors, Chichester
Thomas Hart, Esq., solicitor, Reigate
William Minchin, Esq., solicitor. Portsea and Portsmouth
Thomas Hill, Esq., solicitor, Chatham
Daniel Smart, Esq., solicitor, Emsworth
Edwin Aldbery, Esq., solicitor, Midhurst
Thomas Holmes Bosworth, Esq., solicitor, Westerham.

THE CHESTER AND MANCHESTER
DIRECT RAILWAY.
The Shares in this Railway having been allotted to all Deposits
duly paid, the Committee of Management have much pleasure in in-
forming their Shareholders that the Parliamentary surveys are pro-
gressing to their entire satisfaction, and that every care is being
taken to insure compliance with the standing orders on going before
Parliament. By order,

_
O. BARRETT, Secretary.
1, Royal Exchange-buildings, London, Sept. 27, 1845.

RUGBY, WARWICK, and WORCESTER
RAILWAY.
The Directors, in consequence of their recoiling daily applications
for shares in this Company, announce that the list was finally closed
on Saturday last, and that no further applications can be entertained
By order,
September 2Gth, 1845.

GEO. H. WELLER, Secretary.

RUGBY, WARWICK, and WORCESTER
L AY.
The Directors in reply RAI
to the numerous applications on the
subject, beg to Inform the public that the shares in this Company
are now in course of allotment, and that they, the Directors, intend
issuing the letters of allotment so soon as the requisite examination
has taken place into the application for shares.
By order,
September 27, 1845. GEO. IL WELLER, Secretary.

RUGBY, WARWICK, AND WORCESTER
RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 900,0001., in 45,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
At a meeting of the Provisional Committee, numerously attended,
convened by circular, and held at the Oftlees of the Company, No. I.
Guildhall-chambers, Basingnall-street, London, the 30th September,
1845,
W. H. HUGHES, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., in the Chair,
The following resolutions were adopted :
Resolved,—That the Prospectus issued as that of the Provisional
Committee be now approved and adopted.
Resolved,—That the following gentlemen do constitute the Com-
mittee of Management:—
William Frederick Bowdon, Esq
Thomas Farmer Cooke, Esq.
Peter Colston, jun., Esq.
Edward Doubleday, Esq.
John Freeman, Esq.
Alexander Greig, Esq.
Mr. Alderman Hughes Hughes
Thomas Bagger, Esq.
John Haddon, Esq.
Richard Parry Jones, Esq.
E. W. Morris, Esq.
Resolved,—That the following be appointed the Bankers of the
Company :
The London and Westminster Bank In London.
The L011:1011 and County flanking Company,l
The Northamptonshire Banking Company, at Northampton.
Messrs. Butlin and Son, at Rugby.
The Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company,
at Leamington, Warwick, and South=
Messrs. Berwick and Co., at Worcester.
The Committee have great pleasure in informing time public of the
extraordinary support this Company has received, and they regret
that, in consequence of the number of applicants for.shar..s in this
undertaking, many highly respectable and influential claims must
unavoidably be unsatisfied.
The allotment is now being proceeded with, and the letters will
be issued in. the course of a week ; thqse parties, therefore, who do
not receive letters, must be pleased to accept the above as the apology
of the Committee. By order,
Gulltilleal-Chautbers, Basingimall!strEe°ei, llls.tloVcEtroteEr,Rl,BS4esc.retary.
~m

James Morrison, Esq.
Cornelius Nicholson, Esq,
Benjamin Payne, Esq.
Robert Rising, Esq.
Thomas Sharp, Esq.
Joseph Satchel!, Esq.
John Wheelton, Esq.
Edward IVaddelove, Esq.
Edward Welch, Esq.
John Woolston, jun., Esq

N ORTH LONDON JUNCTION RAILWAY
COMPANY, 8, Finsbury-place South.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 110.)
Capital,' 1,300,0001., in 65,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21.25. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMIUTIIIIE. -
John Attwood, Esq., M.P., Park-lane, Chairman

James Home, 'Reg:, F.R.S., Clapham Common, Deputy-Clutlrman
Sir John Edward De Beanvoly, Bart., London

James lienry Attwood, Esq., Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square
John Bagshaw, Esq., uloucester-place, Portman-square
Richard Bethell, Esq., Queen's Counsel, Lauderdale House, Highgate
George Bishop, Esq., South Villa, Inner Circle, Regent's Park
Augustus Bosanquet, Esq., Osidge, Southgate
Joseph Brown, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continuation

Railway
George Woodreffe Franklyn, Esq , Clifton, Bristol
W. Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.L.S., Alderman of the City of

London
Henry Morton, Esq., Biddick, Durham
George Parbnry, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manchester
and Birmingham Continuation Railway
Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P., 39, St. James's-place
George Rougemont, Esq., 14, Broad-street-buildings
Nicholas Wood, Esq., Kellingworth, Newcastle-on-Tyne.

tors in London and Dublin ; to the Loeal Agents ; to the Secretary,
at the office of the Company, 10, Old Jewry Chambers ; to Seoble
Willesford, Esq., Castle-street, Exeter ; and to the undermentioned
brokers :—Messrs. Martin and lieseltine, Finch-lane, Cornhill ; Mr.
D. B. Major, Change-alley, Cornhill ; Mr. Anthony Laurie, Liver-
pool ; Messrs. Brady and Staniforth, Manor-street, Hull ; Mr. S.
Grindrod, Manchester ; Messrs. Watson and Co., Le.xls ; Mr. eieorge
Edwards, Bristol ; Mr. John Balms, Gloucester ; Messrs. Tyetla
and Wills, Plymouth ; Mr. T. Sandfbrd, Exeter; Mr. Robert Allan,
Edinburgh; Messrs. M'Ewen and Auld, Glasgow; Mr. William Gor-
don, Aberdeen ; Messrs. Curtis and Power, Dame-street, Dublin ;
Mr. James Morgan, Cork. of whom Prospectuses may be had.

GAINSBOROUGH AND NOTTINGHAM
RAILWAY.
(THE TRENT LINE.)
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 300,0301., in Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. . _

This important line of ritilway, commencing at the port of
Gainsborough. is intended to pass along the Trent flat by
Sturton-le-Steeple, North Leverton, South Leverton, Treswell,
Bampton, Laneham, Dunham, Bagnal, Fleetborough, Marn-
ham, Normanton, Grassthorpe, Sutton-upon-Trent, Carlton,
Cromwell, Norwell, Bathley, North Muskham, Little Carlton,
Kelliam, to Newark, with a connecting branch from KeWarn
to Averham, thence by the Midlands Extension line of the Notting-
ham and Lincoln Railway to Nottingham, by the existing Midlands
branch, making the total distance to Nottingham thirty-nine miles,
thus effecting, by twenty-four miles of new railway, a direct line
from Gainsborough to Nottingham, which will connect Derby, Bir-
mingham, Gloucester, and the West of England generally, with
Hull and Great Grimsby. The object of the promoters of this rail-
way is to afford the existing interests an opportunity of uniting to
secure the immense traffic which exists along this line in its original
and legitimate course, via Newark-upon-Trent to Nottingham. They
propose no unfair interference with the rights and properties of
vested companies, but by cutting off the angles and curves of the
Aver, render the route the most direct, economical, and speedy of any
railway that can be made. It is free from any engineering difficulty
or obstruction, and its cost of construction will be less by at least
one-third than that of sty other competing company. The merits
of the line want no extrinsic patronage from distant parties, but will
command a high station amongst the best railway projects of the
day. It will stand the test of public scrutiny as well as the Parlia-
mentary ordeal.

prospectus and plan are in progress, and will be ready for de-
livery in a few days, with a most influential Committee of parties
locally interested ; and in the meantime further particulars may be
bad of the Joint Solicitors, G. P.:111ll, Esq., 21 ♦, Soho-square, and J.
T. Sanders, Esq., 11, Gray's Inn-square ; at the temporary offices of
the Company, 11, Gray's Inn-square, where all communications are
to be addressed.

G. P. HILL, Esq., Solicitors.
J. T. SANDERS, Esq.,

NORTH-WESTERN TRUNK RAILWAY,
FROM CREWE DIRECT TO GLOUCESTER, passing
through the Towns of Market-Drayton, Newport, Shiffnal, Kidder-
minster, Wereester, and Tewkesbury, with a branch from Newport
to Wellington, forming the shortest and most desirable Communica-
tion between Liverpool, Manchester. and the Northern Parts of
England and Gloucester and the Bristol Channel.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,250,6001., in 62,500 Shares of 201. each.
;Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
. .

iligekv la aseordanCeWitlithe Standing Orders of the Hone of
Commons.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, 4, Parliament-street, White.
hall, Chairman of the York aid Lancaster Railway
Sir William Boothby, Bart., Ashbeurn Hall, Derbyshire, Director of
the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway
Sir Henry Webb, Bad., Pall-mall, Director of the York and Lan-

caster Railway
Major White, Pall•mall. Director of the South Midland and North-
ampton and Banbury Railways
The Rev. Charles Leicester, of Whitton Hall, Shropshire, Magistrate
for Shropshire, and Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
John Bloor, Bag., Tutbury, Staffordshire, Director of the Stafford-
shire Potteries and Manchester and Liverpool Railway, and of the
Derby and Manchester and Shropshire Mineral Railways
John George Norbury, Esq., Mancetter House, Atherstone,
Director of tke Leicester and Bedford and Shropshire Mineral
.... ..

Railways
Jeremiah Clarke, Escl., Macclesfield and London, Director of the
Direst London and Manchester and Shropshire Mineral Railways
Clement Tabor, Esq., Corahill, London, and Rayne, Essex, Director
of the London and County Bank. of the National Loan Fund
Assurance Company, and of the Direct London and Holyhead
Railway.
Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Abehurch-lane, Londoi, Director of
the Chelmsford and Bury Railway
thomas Bernard Baddeley, Esq., Newport, Salop, Director of the
Shropshire Mineral Railway
Alexander Brodie Cochrane, jun., Esq , iroumaster, Holly Hall,
sear Dudley, Director of the Dudley, Madeley, and Broseley
Railway
George H. Fourdrinler, Esq., Hanley, Staffordshire Potteries, Diree-
ter of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
John Benson, Esq., Park-place Villa, Maida-hill, London, Director of
the London and Holyhead Railway
William Shaw, Esq., Managing Director of the Royal Farmers' Fire
and Life Assurance Company, Director of the London and Bir-

lank= Extension, and Warwick and Worcester Railways
Richard Lambert, Esq., Lyston Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk, Director
•f the Cork and Fermoy Direct Railway
Ambrose Miller, Esq., Lower Thames-street, and Upper Bedford-
place, Russell-square, Leudon, Director of the Oxford, Wltney, and

Cheltenham Railway
William Millington, Esq., irontnaster, Summerhill Works, Tipton,
Staffordshire, Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
William Holmes, Esq., St. George's-terrace, Kensington, and Kentish-

town
William Simpson Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, and
Lower Thames-street, Director of the South and Midlands June-

thou Railway
Thomas Lamle Murray, Esq., George-street, Hanover-square, DI-

rector of itosamen Great Northern Railway, of the National Bank
of Ireland, and of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
John Rawson, Esq., Stoney Boyd, near Halifax, Magistrate, and
Deputy-Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and Director
of the Manchester, Liverpool, and great North of Eugland
Union Railway, of the Shropshire Mineral Railway, and of the

National Bank of Ireland
Joseph Charles Ridge, Esq., merchant, Manchester, Director of the
London, Holyhead, and Portdynilsen Railway
William Toilet(neon Riley, Esq., Millfl•ld Works, Bilston, Director
of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction
Railway
Joseph Bull, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Staffordshire Pot-
teries and Manchester and Liverpool, and of the Shropshire
Mineral Railway
James Stead, Esq., Bradford, Yorkshire, Director of the Liverpool

and Leeds, and Shropshire ➢lineral Railways
Samuel Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street and Hull, Director of the
Derby, Uttozeter, and Stafford Railway
William Wood, Esq., M.D., Chetwynd House, Newport, Salop, Di-
rector of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and of the Derbyshire
_ .

Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railways
Edward Edwards, Esq., Ironbridge, Shropshire, Director of the
Direct London and Ilolyhead, and of the Dudley, Madeley, and
Rro.eley Railways
Rev. Matthew Yatman Starkie, Rector of Rushbury, near Church
Stretton, Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
Sitarles Merritt Rigg, Esq., M.D., York-place, Portman-square,
Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
Rev. Thomas Humphreys, Bishops Castle, Director of the Shropshire
Mineral Railway
James M‘Millan, Esq., Manchester-buildings, Westminster
George Young, Esq., Riley House, Longton, Staffordshire Potteries
Sampson Bridgwood, Esq., Spratsiade House, Longton

Williau Ottey, Esq., Longton
John Ashwell, Esq., Longton, Director of the Nottingham and Gains-
borough, and Staffordshire Potteries, Liverpool and Manchester
Railways.
William George, Esq., Weston, near Mneh-Wenlock
Thomas Goddard, Esq., Bank House, Longton, Staffordshire Potteries
Thomas Weaver Lewty, Esq., Wilden Ironworks, near Stourport,
Director of the Dudley, Madeley, and Broseley Railway.
Joseph Thompson, Esq., John-street, Medford-row, London, Director
of the London and Brighton, Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire,
and Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation Railways
William Heatrell Dowse, Esq., Chancery-lane, London
and Johnson, Bsq., Derby, Director of the Shropshire Mineral

Railway. astd of the Derby, Galnaborougls, and (treat Grimsby

William Dutton, Esq., Tlttensor 'Villa, Stone, Staffordshire, and
Ebury-stxeet, Eaton-square, Director of the Direst London and
Holyhead Railway
George Cowen, Esq., Dalston, near Carlisle, Director of the London

and HolyheUd Railway
Robert Foreman, Esq., Abbott's Hill, Derby, Director of the Teen
and Dove Valley Railway
Joseph Gilham, Esq., Hargreaves House, Oldham, Director of the
Shropshire Mineral Railway
Peter Wood, Esq., merchant, Manchester, Director of the Shrop-
shire Mineral Railway
George Swift, Esq., Elford Hill, Beeleshall, Director of the Shrop-
shire 'Mineral Railway
John Robertson, Esq., 6t. Mary's-buildings, Glasgow
A. W. B. Greville, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of
the Great Eastern and Western, and Barbadoes General Railways.
William White Coleman, Esq., Banbury, Oxfordshire
Barnes Austin, Esq., Banbury
William Calees, Esq., Banbury

ZANICIRS.
Messrs. Rogers, Oldiag, and Co., Clement's-lane, London
The London and County Bank, Lombard-street, London
Messrs. Adams, Warren, and Co., Shrewsbury and Market Drayton
The Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall
_ . . . _

The National Provincial Bank of England, liewport and Gloucester
Mews. Farley and Turner, Kidderminster

Messrs. Farley, Lavender, and Co., Worcester

The GloaceeterShire Banking Company, Worcester and Tewkesbury
ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF—SEIRIIeI Clegg, Esq., C.B.
SOLICITORS.
Ingleby Thomas Miller, Esq., 3, Abchureh-lane, London
Edmund Garbott, Esq., Wellington, Salop
William Brinton, Esq., Kidderminster
Gilbert Brown, Esq., Shiffnal.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Henry Hine, Esq., Liverpool
William Burdett, Esq., Manchester
John Brampton, Esq., Worcester
Charles G. Brown, Esq., Bllston
Thomas Griffin, Esq., Shelton, Staffordshire Potteries
Thomas Bernard Baddeley, junior, Esq.. Newport
William Harding, Esq., Burslem
Henry Saban, Esq., Stafford.
SECRETARY—J. Stevens, Esq.
Temporary Offices, 3, Abchnrch-lane, London.
This line of railway will commence at the junction of the Man-
skeeter aid Birmingham, Chester and Crewe, and Grand Junction
Railways, at Crewe, in the county of Cheater, and proceed from
thence through or near the towns of Market Drayton, Newport, and
Shiffnal, in Shropshire, thence through the flourishing town of Kid-
derminster, to Worcester and Tewkesbury, and to the Bristol Rail-
way at Gloucester. By this means it will form the most direct
route from Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Hall, and Chester to the
important ports of Gloucester aid Bristol, indeed the most direct
line from the north of England to the Bristol Channel. It will also,
Is conjunction wtih the proposed Hereford and Worcester, and Swan-
sea, Merthyr-Tydvil, and Hereford Railways, form the most advan-
tageous route from Swansea and the iron distrieta of South Wales,
to Liverpool, Manchester, and Null.
The line will cress the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway at
Shiffnal, and the Shropshire Mineral Railway and the Trent Talley
Union at the thriving town of Newport. It will form a junction
with the two latter railways at Newport, whereby persons and lug-
gage may be conveyed to Stafford, Derby, the midland counties,
Staffordshire Potteries, Sheffield, and Hull; and, in addition to the
carriage of heavy goods from Bristol, Gloucester, Worcester, and
Kidderminster, to Manchester, Liverpool, the whole of the north of
Ragland, and Scotland—will secure a large passenger traffie in the
district through which it passes. A branch will be made from New-
port to the important torn of Wellington.
The proposed railway will be about 87 miles in length, and be-
tween the two termini of Crewe and Gloucester, will save in distance
at least 20 miles, and the journey can be accomplished, at the pre-
sent rapid rate of travelling, in cheat two hours. This project as a
junction line, connects itself with some of the most important rail-
ways In the kingdom. It also skirts the large, extensive, and densely-
populated iron districts of Shropshire and Staffordshire, and in its
course passes through a rich agricultural country. It mast, there-
fbre, be &pylon' that there will be a sufficient tratfie to pay a high
rate of interest on the capital required.
There are no engineering difficulties in the country through which
the line is intended to pass, the whole being nearly oa a level, and
ou reference to the map of country, taken from the Ordnance survey,
which accompanies the prospectus, the line will appear straight, and
will at the same time show the superior advantages it possesses, and
that it eaanot be surpassed by any existing or projected lines between
the same termini.

It will not interfere with any ornamental property, and to tunnel-
ling will be required.
Application is intended to be made, in the ensuing session of Par-
liament, for a direct line of railway (of which a survey has been
made) from Southampton to Kidderminster, and by which a ready
comunuticationwill be afforded to the most southern parts of England.
The liabilities of tke Sharehelders will be limited to the amount et
their subscriptions, and interest will be allowed on the deposits and
fUrtler calls, from the date of the several payments to the opening et
the line.

Prospeetuses, with maps and forms of application for shares, cam
be had from the Secretary on application at the temporary offices
of the Company, 3, Abehurch-lane, London ; from the Solicitors and
Looal Agents; also from the following Brokers, viz.:—Messrs. Lyon,
2, Birchin-lane, London ; Mr. Andreff Milligan, 2, Lord-street, Bir-
kenhead; Mr. E. 11. Collis, Birmingham ; Mr. W. Whitseore, St.
George, Liverpool; Messrs. Sohmes and Tripp, Bristol; Messrs.
Turley and Cooper, Leeds ; and Messrs. Green and Oldham, Man-
chester; to whom applications for shares may be addressed. It
will be necessary that reference be made to a Banker, Solloltor,
or permit of responsibility.
NORTH WESTERN TRUNK RAILWAY, PROM CREWE
DIRECT TO GLOUCESTER,
Passing through the Towns of Market-Drayton, Newport, Shiffual,
Kidderminster, Worcester, and Twkesbury, forming the shortest
and most desirable communication between Liverpool, Manchester,
and the northern parts of England and the Bristol Channel.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Crpital 1,250,0001., in 62,500 Shares of 20/. ceob.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per share.

Being in accordance With the Standing Orders of the House of

COIIIIIIOIIB,

Gentlamen,—l request you to allot me Shares in the North-
Western Trunk Railway; and I undertake to pay the Deposit et
2/. as., and all further calls upon the same, or such lesser 'lumber
as you may allot to mo, and to execute the Subscribers' Agroement
and the Parliamentary Contract when called upon to do so.
Dated this day of 1841.

I am, Gentlemen, your obedient humble servant,

Christianand Surname in inn:.

Profession ........... .
Re5idence......................
Reference •• • • •... •• ............
Residence of Referee............
To the Provisional Directors of the North-Western

Trunk Railway, 3, Abohurch•laue, London.

MANCHESTER AND RUGBY DIRECT
RAILWAY, via MACCLESFIELD.
(Provisionally Registered.) .
Capital 1,700,0001., in 85,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The lion. Howe Browne, Chairman of the Manchester and- e
Birmingham Continuation Railway a
John Attwood, Esq., M.P., Park-lane, Hyde Park
John Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street, banker
Sir John Pirie, Bart., Alderman of the City of London, Direc-
tor of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam-packet Company 2 °,°.,
William Hughes Hughes, Esq., Alderman of the City of Lon- g g
den, late M.P. for Oxford, and late High Sheriff for Hants a.
im
:.:
James Henry Attwood, Esq., Seymour-street, Portman-square .5 S
George Adam, Esq., White Lion-court, Cornhill c.
t. ~,2
John Bagshaw, Esq., Director of the Northern and Eastern r 4 44
Railway
Joseph Brown, Esq., Director of the East and West of Eng-
land Junction A t
Wildam Chadwick, Esq., Chairman of the Richmond Railway °.0;,.;
William Henry Forman, Upper Thames-street •.,g
Captain George Probyn, Bryanston-square w •
Robert Watkins, Esq., Director of the East and West of Eng- Z
land Railway
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Director of the Commercial Bank t
of London
A William Langley Pope, Esq. Woodford, Essex,
.- q
The Hon. George Browne, L'ovendes-square, Belgrave-square
Sir George Rich, 43, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square
Sir Henry Richardson, Chessel-house, Southampton
Sir William Wynne, 5, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, Chairman of the
North Wales Railway, and Director of the Oxford, Southampton,
and Portsmouth Railway
Sir G. A.Lewin, Upper Harley-street, London
Sir John Hare, Langham-place
The Mayor of Newbury, Director of the Oxford, Southampton, and
Portsmouth Railway
John Addis, Esq., of Rotherhithe, Surrey, Director of the Central
Terminus, and of the Lincensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Office
The Rev. J. Harvey Ashworth, Newbury
M. W. C. Alston, Esq., Birmingham
W. C. Alston, Esq., Elmdon Hall
Samuel Ashton, Esq., Wood Hill, Prestwich
James Atty, Esq., Rugby
James Bancroft, Esq., Alderman of the Borough of Manchester
Henry Barlow, Esq., Highfield, Stockport
Samuel Barton, Esq., Didsbury, Director of the Chester and Man-
chester Direct Raiway
Hugh Beaver, Erq., Manchester
William Fechnez Black. Esq., 19, Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Di-
rector of the Italian and Austrian Railway Company
Joseph Brown, Esq., Bedford
Captain Burney, R.N., Gosport
William Bardgett, Esq., Old Broad-street, and Carshalton, Surrey,
Director of the Italian and Austrian Railway Company
Samuel Swann Brittain, Esq., Sheffield
Charles Baker, Esq., Southampton
William Bland, Esq., Brixton, Director of the North Wales Railway
Tt4onai Brittain, Esq., Manchester
George Burnand, Esq., Sussex-square, Hyde-park
William Bevan, Esq., 48, Conduit-street, Bond-street, Director of the
North Wales Mineral Railway
Jacob Bell, Esq., Langham-place, London
W. E. Boyes, Esq., Alkerton, Banbury, Director of East and West
of England Railway
Henry Brown, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Robert Bramwell, Esq., Upper Thames-street
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the Shef-
field and Manchester Railway, and Chairman of the Direct
Western Railway
George Borrett, Esq., Southampton
Lieutenant-Colonel Burslem, North Hants
Charles Bailey, Esq., Winchester
Henry Baker, Esq., 79, Mark-lane
H. Burnly, Esq., LL.D., Gosport
Jceeph Beech, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place
George Bovill, Esq., Mill-wall, Poplar
Louis Buckland, Esq., Lloyds, and Avenue-road, St. John's wood
Robert Berrien, Esq., Donnington House, Stow-on-the-Wold, Glou-
cestershire
W. Bailey, Esq., Wolverhampton
F. F. Clossman, Esq., Mincing-lane
John Chapman, Esq., Leadenhall-street, Director of the Devon and
Cornwall Railway
S. J. Capper, Esq., Adelaide-place, London-bridge
Edward Chapman, Esq., Strand, London, Director of the Richmond
Railway
Sheldon Cradock, Esq., Leicester
Philip Warner Courtenay, FAO., 26, Capel-street, Belgrave-square
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Direct Western Rail-
way
Francis Carleton, Esq.
James Clift, Esq., Bloomsbury-square
Robert Cruickshank, Esq., Gosport
John Churchill, Esq., Bayswater, Director of the Manchester and
Birmingham Continuation Railway
Robert Charles, Esq., 23, Endsleigh-street, Tavistock-square
G. Colquiroun, Esq., Director .of the Worcester and South Wale.
Railway
James Consterdine, Esq., Manchester
Joseph Cragg, Esq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury
Colonel George Disbrowe, Chester-square, London
William Dredge, Esq., Newbury
James Denis Devitre, Esq., 7, Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square
Director of the North-Western Railway
George Dunlop, Esq., Southampton
George Dawson, Esq., Sheffield
Richard Dyott, Esq., Freefbrd
John Alcock Dixon, Esq., Burnley, Director of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct Railway
Captain Farrington, R.N., West Cowes, Isle of Wight
E. S. Farrow, Esq., Newbury
W. S. Fitzwilliarn, Esq., Old Bread-street, Director of the Essex
and Suffolk Railway
F. B. Freer, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon
William Tullooh Fraser, Esq., 5, Manchester-square
John Fawcett, Esq., Broom Hall, Sheffield, Director of the Great
Western Railway
J. P. Fernistone, Esq., of Ilighfields, Wolverhampton
George Fernistone, Esq., Lays Ironworks, Stourbridge
W:E. Gray, Esq., Newbury
Samuel Giles, Egg., Manchester
Joseph OM, Esq., Leeds
IT, P, Gipps, Esq., Montague-place, Bryanston-square
William Cibb, Esq., Manchester
John Gould, Esq., Ardwlck, Manchester
Captain Augustus Heyman, Cadogan-square
Thomas Charles Higgins, Esq., Turvey-house, Bedfordshire
Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbaston, near Birmingham,
Director of the East and West, and Birmingham South Stafford-
shire Railway
Joseph Hopgood, Esq., Exeter, Director of the East and West of
England Railway
W. H. Hornby, Esq., Blackburn
George Calvert Holland, Esq., M.D., Sheffield
John Newington Hughes, Esq., St. Michael's, Winchester
William 11111, Esq., Manchester
John Haddon, Esq., Director of the East and West of England Rail-
way Company
Joseph Haden, Esq., ironmaster, Dudley
David Harrison, Esq., Staley-bridge, Director of the Manchester and
Birmingham and Cheshire Junction Railway
T. Hodges, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
James Horne, Esq.,! Clapham-common, Director of the North Lon-
don Railway Company
John Hemming, Esq., North Bank, Regent's Park, Director of the
Worcester and South Wales Railway
T. A. Hall, Esq., Ashfleld-house, Newcastle, Staffordshire
Frederick Hewett, Esq., Clapham, Surrey
J. H. Higson, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Chester and Man-
chester Railway
T. Hodges, Esq., Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park, Director of the
Leeds and Carlisle Railway
George Calvert Holland, Esq., M.D., Sheffield
John Hyde, Esq., Manchester
William Jacomb, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Rut and West
of England Railway
William Jenkinson, Esq., Marlhorough-square, Salford
George Jones, Esq., Rediand, Bristol
V. Clark Kemball, Esq., 6, Chester-place, Hyde-park
J. Kinloch, Esq., Gloucester-road, Hyde-park, Director of the North
Wales Railway
John Knill, Esq„ Thaes-street, Director of the Worcester and
South Wales Junction Railway
Charles Kelson, Esq. Teignmouth, Devon, Director of the East and
West of England Railway
William Knott, Esq., 4, Adelaide-place, Director of the Richmond
Railway
H. W. King, Esq., Amblicote-hall, Stourbridge
Edward homer, Esq., Southampton
William Lechmere Whitmore, Esq., James-street, Buckingham-gate,
Director of the Worcester and South Wales Railway
Henry Ledgard, Esq., Wood-street
John Dawson Lowden, Esq., Doughty-street, Director of the Rich-
mond Railway
James Lees, Esq., Brookville, near Manchester
Joseph Liggins, Esq., Kensington, Director of the Southampton Dock
• Company
Captain J. H. Leckie, Richmond, Surrey
Stephen Lewis, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway
James Lamb, Esq., 25, Hyde-park-square, Director of the Tring,
Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
Samuel Lovell, Esq., Bedford
F. Valentine Lee, Esq., Chester-place, Regent's-park
William Mills, Esq., Newbury
Joseph Maunder, Esq., Ashford-house, Staines
John Malleson, Esq., Wimbledon, Director of the Great Indian Pe-
ninsular Railway
William Malins, Esq . Mansion-house-place, London, Director of the
South Staffordshire Railway
William Robert Mesham, Esq., M.D., Bedford
George Miller, Esq., Director of the Central Railway Terminus
Charles Mann, Esq., Leamington
Charles Musgrave, Esq., Melverton Hill, Leamington
R. F. Musket, Esq., Birchin-lane and Coleford
John Marshall, Esq., Homforth Hall, near Leeds, late Mayor of
Norwich
John Macfarlane, Esq., Director of the Sheffield Railway
Thomas Markland, Esq., Malfield, Manchester
James Marshall, Esq., Brinnnigton Mount, Stockport
Robert Millington, Esq,, Ordsall House, Retford, Nottinghamshire
G. Moore, Esq., St. John's Priory, Banbury
Nicholas M'Cann, Esq., 50, Parliament-street
William Nash, Esq., Chairman of the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings
Railway
Cornelius Nicholson, Req., Cowan Head, Kendal, Deputy-Chairman
of the York and Carlisle Railway
Captain Alexander Nairn*, Director of the Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Company
Joseph Naden, Esq., Dudley
Edward Norris, Esq., Manchester
Robert Ogden, Esq., The Oaks, Manchester
James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Salford, Director of the Chester and
Manchester Direct Railway
P. Oldfield, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and
Liverpool Railway
Count Eyre, Director of the South-Western Railway
Vincent Eyre, Director of the South-Western Railway
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the East and West
of England Railway
Apsley Pellet, Esq., Director of the Staines and Richmond Railway
Thomas Parker, Esq., Spring-gardens, London
John Clarke Prescott, Esq., Manchester
William Simpson Potter, Esq., of Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Direc-
tor of the Oxford, Witney and Cheltenham Independent Railway ',
Charles Potter, Esq., Darwen, Director of the Blackburn, Darwen,
and Bolton Railway
James Paxton, Esq., Rugby
Richard N. Philipps, Esq., Sheffield
John, Perks, Esq., Wolverhampton
Richard Burton Phillipson, Esq., Rugby
N. M. Priaulx, Esq., South-Western Steam Packet Company, South-
ampton
Stephen Phillips, Esq., Director of the Whitehaven and Furness
Railway
Charles Phillips, Esq., Camberwell, Surrey
John Thomas Price, Esq., Heald Grove, Manchester
William Raines, Esq., Temple, Director of the Manchester and Car-
lisle Railway
Richard Ricketts, Esq., Bristol
George Rougemont, Esq., 9, Chester-terrace, Hyde-park, Director of
the North London Junction Railway
Thomas Rolls, Esq., Bank, Chipping Norton
Thomas Robinson, Esq., Charles-street, Middlesex Hospital
David Roxburgh, Esq. Bloomfield-read, Maids-hill
Hartley Sager, Esq., Ran Grove, Colne, Yorkshire
Samuel Sangster, Esq., Brixton-hill, Director of the City Gas Com-
pany
Major Charles T. Selwyn, of the Royal Engineers, Exeter, Direetcc
of the East and West of England Junction
James Shaw, Esq., Salford
John Sidebottom, Esq., Harewood-lodge, Cheshire
William Sidebottom, Esq., Etherton-house, Cheshire
David giltzer, Esq.. Rhodes, near Manchester •
Charles Slocock, Esq., Newbury
Edmund Slocock, Esq., Newbury
Christopher Shapland, Req., Bt istol, Director of the Bristol and Glou-
cester, South Devon and Cornwall Railway Companies
Joseph Stocks, Esq., Shibden Hull, near Halifax, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
W. Senhouse, Esq., Daventry
T. Bridge Simpson, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Richmond Railway
Walter Shairp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park
John Stewart, Esq., M.P. for Lymington, Director of the East and
West of England Railway
T. 11. Sheppard, Esq., Towcester
Joseph Shaw Esq., Huddersfield
lloratiO Snalth, Esq., Strangeways Hall, Manchester
W, Tehbutt, Esq., Manchester
Joseph Thompson, Esq., John-street, Bedford-row, Director of the
London and Brighton Railway
Thomas Thomson, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon
W, Tinker, Esq., Manchester, and Hyde, Cheshire
( harks B. Fripp, Esq , Bristol, Director of the Jersey Railway
Thomas Varley, Esq., Shorsten Ilan, Melton
Edward Westlake, Esq., Southampton
Charles Penton A biting, Esq., Beaufort House, Strand, Director of
the Richmond Railway
' Benjamin Williams, Esq., Banker, 4, Whitehall
B. M. Wilcox, Esq., Hantsville Torquay
John Ward, Esq., Machin Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Shef-
field Fire and Life Insurance Company
George Whitmore, Esq., Austin-friars, Deputy-Chairman of the
North Kent Railway
Thomas Woodham, Esq., Winchester
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the Yarmouth and Wavettey Val-
ley Railway
Daniel Watney, Esq., Wandsworth, Surrey, distiller
W. F. Warrington, Esq., Walsall
Smith Whilock, Esq., Birmingham
IV, D. Wills, Esq., ristol
Alexander H. Wylie, Esq., Liverpool
Edmund M. Wavell, Esq., Halifax
S. Watkins, Esq., Forest-hill, near Worksop
Paul Ferdinand Willert, Esq., Alderman of the Borough of Man-
chester
Charles James Staley Walker, Esq., Longford-house, Stretford