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DENDRE VALLEY RAILWAY AND
CANAL COMPANY.
The Directors' Report to the shareholders in this undertaking,
containing a detailed account of the present position and future
prospects of the Company, with a second Report of Mr. George
Rennie, their engineer, a map of the line, and much statistical in-
formation subjoined, Is now published, and in the course of delivery
at the Company's offices.

JOHN M'TAGGART, Chairman.
11, Old Jewry-chambers, London, Oct. 17, 1845.

G PEAT EASTERN AND WESTERN
RAILWAY.

At a PUBLIC MEETING of the Iron-masters, Landed Proprie-
tors, and others interested in the Mineral District of South Wales,
held at Tredegar, on Monday, the 20th inst.'
It was moved by JOHN RUSSELL, Esq., of Risca, and seconded by
JOHN EVANS, Esq., of Dowlais, and resolved—
That the thanks of this meeting are due and be given to the de-
putation • of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company for
their attendance here to-day; and to Mr. Ward in particular, for his
very able statement of the views and intentions of that Company ;
and, that it is the opinion of this meeting, the Great Eastern and
Western Railway Company, as the first to project and prove the
practicability of direct communication between Merthyr and Here-
ford, deserves the support of the Mineral Districts of South Wales.
October 24, 184.5.

GIIE A T NORTHERN RAILWAY OF
FRANCE. _

(LIFFITE'd COMPANY.)
The holders of English allotments who have rot received the
Gircular Report of the Directors, dated 17th instant, may receive a
copy of it by applying at the office, No. 62, King William-street
City. The forms are ready, which require to be signed for the 'piur
pose of receiving the constituted shares, together with the amount o
the surplus of the deposits
18th October, 1845.

ED. AI ME. Sec,

irVERPOOL AND BURY RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that, in pursuance of the authority
given to them by the resolutions of the EXTRAORDINARY GE-
NERAL MEETING of the Bth instant, the Directors have resolved
to issue Scrip in Fifth 10/. Shares to represent the unallotted Shares
to which the Company is entitled under the agreement of amalgama-
tion with the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company, and that
such Scrip will be offered to the Proprietors registered on the 3,1 No-
vember next, in the proportion of one-fifth share to each original
share standing in the Proprietor's name on the said 3d of November,
subject to the payment of a deposit of 11. per share (out of which the
expense of the application to Parliament for carrying the amalgama-
tion into effect, if unsuccessful, will be defrayed), and to the condi-
tions of the letter of allotment, which will be issued immediately
after the said 3d of November.
By order of the Directors,
JOHN S. HERON, Secretary.

BIRMINGHAM AND MANCHESTER DI.
RECT RAILWAY.

No further application for shares can be received herein, the same
hating closed ou the 15th inst.
The Committee are actively engaged In the consideration of the
applications, but in consequence of their Immense number, some days
must elapse before the letters of allotment can be posted.
A. A. FLINT, Secretary.
Dated this 21st day of October, 1845.

riniE BIRMINGHAM, NOTTINGHAM
GAINSBOROUGH, AND HULL RAILWAY.
Capital 1,600,0001., is 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
(Proristonally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 6 Viet., cap. 110.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Combermere
The Right lion. Lord Viscount Ingestre, M.P.
The Right Hon. Lord Charles Beauclerk, Cheshant-plaos, Bele-rare-
square
The Right lion. Lord Thomas Pelham Clinton
The Right Hon. Lord E Chichester
The Right Hon. Lord Stephen Chichester
The Right Hoe. George R. Dawson
The lion. Captain Percy Evans Freke, 3, Relgrave-square
The Hon. Cecil Lawless
Sir James D. H. Hay, Bart., Rose Croft, Surrey
Sir William Lowther)), Hull
William R. Collett, Esq., M.P.
Thomas Bateson, Esq., M.P.
Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P., Birmingham •
.George Frederick Muntz, Esq., M.P., Birmingham
The Worshipful the Mayor of Hull
C. S. rooter, Esq., High Sheriff of Staffordshire
G. B. Thorneycroft, Esq., Shrubbery and Bradley Ironworks, Staf-
fordshire, chairman of the Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South
Staffordshire Junction Railway
Michael Gratzeb_l-ook, Esq., Stourbridge, chairman of the Staffordshire
iron trade
Thomas Bagnall, Esq., Coltish'll Ironworks, Staffordshire
W. H. Allen, Esq., Leadenhall-street, London
,ielin Aston, Esq., Birmingham
,ederick Pratt Barlow, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway
William Brox:ken Esq., Cork•street, Burlingten-gardens
:Major Frederick Brownlow, United Service Club
-William Chance, jun., Esq., merchant, Birmingham
Robert Chapman, Esq., Director of the Cambrian and Grand Junc-
tion Railway
George A. Hamilton Chichester, Esq., Chesham-place, Be%gen-
allure
Frederick Clarkson, Esq.. Doctors'-commons, London
Henry Crane. Esq., Wolverhampton
Anthony Dickson, Req., Enlington-house, Berwickshire
Henry R. Downinan, Esq., Director of the Cambrian and Grand
Junction Railway
Dencan Dunbar, Esq., East India-road, Director of the London
Dock Company
Henry John Enthoven, Esq., Director of the Dutch Rhenish Railway
Thomas Hartshorne, Esq., silkmore-house, Stafford
Joseph Gilboa, Esq., Birmingham
Charles James Heath, Esq., London
James l'eard Ley, Esq., Seaton Ironworks, Whitehaven
Samuel Wilfred Lucas, Esq., Sandhill-house, Birmingham, Director
of the Direct Birmingham and Leicester Railway
William Mathews, Esq., Edghaston, Birmingham, and Corbyes-hall
Ironworks, Director of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhamp-
ton Railway
alimpas Davies, Asq., the lusting,. Handsworth, Staffordshire, and
Croekhay Ironworks, West Bromwich
Thomas Hackett Massey, Esq., Oxford-square, London
Robert Marsden Massey, Esq., Oxford-square, London
David Montague, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester and South-
ampton Railway
William Morgan, Esq., Director *of the Bristol and Gleuoeeter
Railway •
P. H. Manic, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the South Staffordshire
Junction Railway
Francis Parker, Esq., Manchester
Archibald F. Paul, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway
William Watson Prole, Esq., Thurlow-square, Brompton, Director of
the Grand Junction and Midlands Union Railway
John Gibson Reeves, Esq., Director of the Direct Birmingham and
Leicester Railway
Frederick Ricketts, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway
d'ohn Shaw, Esq., Wolverhampton
Charles Shaw, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Direct Birmingham
and Leicester Railway, and Director of the Bristol and Bir-
mingham Railway
Henry Symonds, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway
Thomas Timmins, Esq., Wolverhampton
Charles Augustus Tulk, Esq., Totteridge-park, Hefts
Samuel Walker, ESQ., Ablow-house, Wolverhampton, Director of
the South Staffordshire Junction Railway
William Watson, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Exeter Railway
John Webster, Esq., 35, Mecklenburgh-square, Director of the
Great Grimsby and Lincoln Railway
Henry Wright, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and
'• Southampton Railway
John Brearley Payn, Esq., Birmingham
Samuel Keerick, lrsq., Handsworth-hall, Staffordshire
Robert Peasegood Sleight, Esq., Hull, Provisional Director of the
Hull and Holyhead Railway
William lyre, sen., Esq., /Tall, Provisional Director of the Lynn and
Ely Railway
Joseph lyre, Esq., Kull
John Wells, Esq., Hull
Wakefield Pira, Esq., Hull, Provisional Director of the Hull and Liu-
coin Railway
Dr. Bell Fletcher, Birmingham
Benjamin Bartleet, Esq., Birmingham
Thomas Clark, Esq., Wolverhampton
James Shaw, Esq., merchant, Birmingham
C. S. Cotterill, Esq., magistrate, Walsall, Director of the South Staf-
fordshire Junction Railway
Benjamin Gibbons, Esq., Shut-end, Dudley, Director of the South
Staffordshire Junction Railway
John Neve, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the South Stafford-
shire Junction Railway
• Samuel Underhill, Esq., Wolverhampton
John Barker, Esq., Chillington Ironworks, Wolverhampton, DI-
• rector of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway
Christopher Musgrave, Esq., Lord of the Manor of Birmingham
John Dixon, Iron Master, Wolverhampton
Charles Greatrex. Esq., Walsall, director of the South Staffordshire
Junction Railway
• (With power to add to their number).
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Edwards, Mason, and Edwards, 8, Moorgate-street, and De •
lehay-street, Westminster ; and
Messrs. Motteram and Knowles, Birmingham.
Ibierxera IN Cnrzr—Sir John Rennie, F.R.S.
ACTING ENGINEER—W. H. Pardon, Esq.
. BANKERS.
%4 Birmingham Banking Company, and Messrs. Attwooda, Spooner,
and Co., Birmingham.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Trull—Messrs. Frost and Moss
Nottingham—Samuel Maples, Esq.
SECRETARY—Eciward Hart Hart, EN.
Orrieres—No. I, Royal Exchange-buildings, London ; said
36, Upper Temple street, Birmingham.

It is proposed by this Company to establish a direct line if commu-
nication between Birmingham, Nottingham, Gainsborough, and Hull,
at the smallest outlay of capital, and with the least possible injury to
existing Interests. To effect this object, use will be made of existing
Or projected lines, as far as practicable, and the chain of communica-
tion will be completed by throwing out new lines, where requisite.
Commencing at B 1 rm Ingham, it is proposed to use the Birmingham
and Derby Railway as far as Whitacre, whence a new line, about 29
milesin length, will be made, passing through Ashby-de-la-Zouch and
Castle Donnington, to the Long Eaton or Sawley Station on the Mid-
land Counties Railway
The communication being thus perfect to Nottingham, It will he
carried forward as far as Gainsborough, either by the proposed Not-
tingham and Gainsborough' Railway, or by a line springing oat of the
line from Nottingham to Lincoln. for which an Act was obtained by
the Midland Counties. Company during the last session of Parliament.
From Gainsborough this railway will proceed to Barton-on-the-
Humber, or New Holland, in the immediate vicinity of Hull, thereby
rendering complete and entire the chain of communication between
Birmingham and Hull.
By this project the advantages will result to the public of a
Direct line from Birmingham to Nottingham,
•
Birmingham to Gainsborough,
and from Birmingham to Hull;
and by means of the proposed South Staffordshire Junction Railway,
and the intended extension to Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Alrewas, a
direct line from Wolverhampton and Dudley to Nottingham, and
the other towns already enumerated.
The support of several companies will be enlisted in favour of the
line, which, together with its own merits, will ensure its success in
Parliament.
As a considerable portion of the line of communication is already
made, or in progress, the time required for the completion of this
great national undertaking will be materially shortened.
Independently of the advantages to he derived by a direct commu-
nication between the important seaport of Hull and the miffing and
manufacturing districts of Warwickshire and Staffordshire, a large
traffic in timber, corn, metals, aze., may be contldently expected.

The revenue of the Company, in addition, will be derived from the
great thorough traffic from Birmingham and the midland counties to
Nottingham and Gainsborough, and the immense traffic from Bir-
mingham to Hull, the port at which the exports are shipped to ham-
burgh, the German States, and the North of Nurope ; and from the
conveyance of merchandise, agricultural produce, and cattle from the
southern, western, and midland counties.
A preference will be given in the allotment of shares to landowners
on the line, and other local proprietors, as well as to directors and
shareholders in railways interested in supporting this undertaking,.

No subscriber will be liable beyond the amount of the deposit
until the Act Is obtained, and then not beyond the amount of his
subscription.
The asual power will be taken to allow Interest at the rate of four
per cent. froia tho time of payment wpon each call until the op; sing
of the lines.

No applications will be attended to without a reference to a
member of the Committee, a hanker, or the solicitors to this Company.
The Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contract must be
executed when the bankers' receipts are exchanged for scrip certifi-
cates. of which due notice will be given ; and the deposits paid by
any party making default in the execution of those deeds will be for-
feited.

Plans and prospectuses, with forms of applications for shares, may be
had of the Solicitors, and of the following Stock and Sharebrokers,
via.:—Messrs. Wells, Westropp, and Prinsep, 75, Old Broad-street ;
Mr. 11. Pritchett, 1, Royal Exchange-buildings; Messrs. }Melilla and
Harrison, 18, Threadneedle-street ; and Messrs. Peppercorns and Son,
2, Old Broad-street, London ; Messrs. Gardiner and Heap, Charles
M. Williams, and Messrs. Bradley, Ford, and Parker, Manchester;
Messrs. Watson and Co., and Mr. Samuel Phillips, Hull ; Messrs.
Davies and ilon, Liverpool ; Messrs. Aldsdale, Myers, and Co., Leeds ;
Messrs. Earp and Son, Derby ; Messrs. l'ott and Leviek, Notting-
ham ; Messrs. Wreford, Nicholls, and Wreford, Bristol ;. and Mr.
James Robinson Lane, 11;rmingham.