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R. A. Riddell, Esq., Director of the Great Western Extension Railway
A. Macdonald Ritchie, Esq., Middle Temple, London, Director of the
Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway
Richard Rowe, Esq., Beauvoir-terrace, Maida Vale
William Sidebotham, Esq., Glossop, J.P. for Derbyshire, Director of
the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
James Shaw, Esq., Salford, Director of the Manchester and Rugby
Direct Railway
Edward Smith, Esq., 13arnsbury Park, Director of the Great Eastern
and Western Railway
William Studley, Esq., North Brixton, Director of the Leeds and
Carlisle Railway
Joseph Thompson, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton Railway
Charles F. Thornley, Esq., Eastfleld House, Westbury, near Bristol,
Director of the Leeds and Carlisle, and Manchester, Settle, and
Car isle Railways
Sir Warwick Hele Tonkin, J.P., Teignmouth, Director of the London
Salisbury, Yeovil, and Exeter, the Dartmouth and Exeter, and
Ashburton and Newton Railways.
Thomas T►bbutt, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
Sir William Twisden, Bart., Cavendish-street, Cavendish-square
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Leeds and Carlisle
Railway, and Director of the Commercial Bank of London.
Charles Waite, Esq.,Willesden, Director of the Great Western, East-
ern Counties, and Ipswich and Southampton Railways
George Walker, Esq., Manchester
Major White, 105, Pall-mall, Director of the South Midland Railway
Mathew Wyatt, Esq., Upper Hyde-park-street, Director of the
London, Salisbury, Yeovil, and Exeter, and Ashburton and Newton
Railways
William Ayscough Wilkinson, Esq., Woodbury Downs, Director of
the Waveney Valley Railway
Robert Wynne Williams, Esq., 29, Bedford-place, Russell-square
Thomas Wynne, Esq., Longton, Staffordshire, Director of the Leeds
and Carlisle, and South Union a.ndliirrningharn Junction Railways
Sir William Wynne, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, Chairman of the North

Wales Railway
Wm. Byrom, Esq., Oldham, Director of the Oldham District, the Bir-
kenhead and Holyhead, York and Lancaster, and Cheltenham,
Oxford, and London Railways
Thomas Byrom, Esq., Wigan, Director of the York and Lancaster,
Rugby, Derby and anchester, Staffordshire Potteries, and Man-
chester, Wigan, and Southport Railways
John Lord, Esq., Standish-hall, Lancashire, Director of the Staf-
fordshire Potteries, Liverpool and Manchester Direct, and Lan-
cashire, Cheshire, and Staffordshire Junction Railways
Henry Taylor, Esq., Wigan, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct, Liverpool, Preston. and North Union, Rugby, Derby, and
Manchester and Oxford, Cheltenham and London Railways
John Thompson, Esq., Frood Ironworks, near Wrexham, and
Wigan, Director of the Birkenhead and Holyhead, Manchester
and Wigan, Liverpool, Preston, and North Union, and Dover and
Bristol Railways
Nathaniel Cooke, Esq., Bayswater, Director of the Eastern Counties
Junction and Southand Railway
Herbert Ingram, Esq., Director of the Eastern Counties Junction
and Southend Railway
George Laurie, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Eastern Counties
Junction and Southend Railway
(With power to add to their number).
CONSULTING ENGINEER—T. Urpeth Rastrick, ESQ.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Eimslie and Preston, Moorgate-street
J. E. Beales, Esq., 7, John-street, Adelphi
William Burdett, Esq., Manchester.
BANKERS.
London—The Commercial Bank of London
Manchester—The National Provincial Bank of England.
SECRETARY—Nichs. J. Kempe, Esq.
Company's Offices, Palace-chambers, St. James's.

This railway will form, as nearly as may be practicable, a direct
line from Reading, in Berkshire—one of the ost important and
rapidly improving towns in the kingdom—to the large and populous
town of Northampton, where it will form a junction with the
Northampton and Peterborough Railway
The line will proceed from the Reading station of the Great Western
Railway, and by the way of Henley-ou-Thames, Great Marlow,
West Wycombe, Aylesbury, and Buckingham, through some of the
richest and most fertile districts of England, from whence vast
supplies of live stock and agricultural produce are constantly fur-
nished to the metropolis; and from Buckingham it will be continued
direct to Blisworth and Northampton.
From Blisworth a line proceeds to Wellingborough, and forms a
Junction with the Direct Manchester Railway ; and it is intended
that a branch shall be formed from West Wycombe to the station at
Slough, on the Great Western Railway
The proposed line with the branch will be about seventy-Ave miles
in length, and it has been ascertained that it may be constructed
with unusual facility, whilst, by means of the intended junctions with
the Great Western Railway at Slough and Reading, with the London
and Birmingham Railway at Blisworth, and the Direct Manchester

Railway at-Wellingborough, an uninterrupted and most desirable
railway communication will be opened between Portsmouth, Gos-
port, the Isle of Wight. Southampton, Bedford, Huntingdon, the
Birmingham, Dorby, assaaenester,
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Leeds, Newcastle and Berwick, and with the great mann-
a!roprodosllp PnftDri..,
manu-
facturing and mining districts of the north of 1: ngland.
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 p ,rtion of the counties of Barks and Oxford, the whole
of Buckinghamshire, and by the celebrated Vale of Aylesbury, and
uniting with the several completed or projected railways under-
mentioned, viz.:—
The London and Birmingham
The Great Western
The Southampton Union
The South Midland
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 Hue.
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-
street, John Showell, Esq., Threadneedle-street, and Messrs. Wells,
Westropp, and Prinsep, 75, Old Broad-street, London; Messrs. Gray-
stone and Earle, York ; Mr. Thackray, Harrogate ; Mr. Joseph Nel-
son, Settle; Mr. W. Welch, Lancaster; Messrs. Geddes and Drink-
water, and Mr. Henry Waterton, Bank-buildings,. Castle-street,
Messrs. Christian and Tomes, Harrington--srreet, Liverpool ;
Mr. Peter Leicester, Messrs. Green and Oldham, Messrs.
Green and Lockwood, Manchester; Mr. James Pearson, ?tinning-
ham ; Messrs. Joshua Wood and Son, Messrs. Watson and Co., and
Masers. E. King and Co., Leeds ; Messrs. Brady and gtaniforth,
Hull 1 arr. 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.
B. Gliddon, and Mr. Thomas Sandford, Exeter; Messrs. Hall,
Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham ; Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer, Ply-
mouth 1 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. Gleag, Perth ; of whom prospectuses may be
had ; or to the Provisional Committee, at the offices of the Company.

Wm. Paxton, Esq., Langford Farm
Lewis Pocock, Esq., F.S.A., Montague-street, Russell-square, Di-
rector of the Argus Insurance Company, and the Southampton,
Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railway
G. W. K. Potter, Esq., Secondary of the City of London,
Alexander Prince, Esq., Lincoln's Inn-fields
John Prestage, Esq., Wycombe
W. W. Prole, Esq., Thurlow-square, Brompton, Director of the
Jersey Railway
S. 11. Powell, Esq., Brixton, Director of the Leeds, York, and Mid-
lands' Junction Railway
Win. Reynolds, Esq., Ambrosden
Robert Shedden, Esq., Torr Abbey, Devon, Director of the South-
Western Railway, and Deputy-Lieutenant for the county of Devon
E. R. Simmonds, Esq., Gloucester Lodge, Croydon
William Slack, Esq., Crickelwood, Director of the Guarantee Society
John Southgate, Esq., Pebble Coombe, Dorking, Director of the
Reading and Reigate Railway
John Southgate, Jun., Esq., Old Change, London
Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq., Broom Hall, near Dorking, Deputy
Governor of the Union Bank of Loudon, Chairman of the Irish
Midland Railway
Mr. James Stratton, Princes Risborough
William H. Terrell, Esq., Lincoln's Inn-fields
Edward Hughes Thorpe, Esq., Bicester
Tredwell, Esq., Piddington
Charles Frederick Thornley. Esq., Westbury, near Bristol
William Walker, Esq., Eldon-terrace, Leeds
Captain F. Beyly Wardroper, H.C.S., Director of the Hlrmingham
Extension Railway
Walter White, Esq., Fitzroy-square, Director of the London and
Winds Railway
Wm. White, Esq., Blackheath, Director of the Central Kent Comity

Railway
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Woodbury Down, Director of the Waveney
Valley and Great Yarmouth Railway
Robert Winslow, Esq., Princes Rlsborough
Robert Winslow, Jun., Esq., Princes Risborough
Thomas Wragg, Esq., Boarstall

(With power to add to their number.)

James Brand, Esq.

MANAGING
_COMMITTEE.
H. Garrett Key, E.
W. Kuper, Esq. „
B. H. Powell, Esti.
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Henry Tuna. Carer, Esq.
E. Chapman, Esq.
Henry Dodson, Esq.
Samuel Douglas, Esq.
E. T. Grundy, Esq.
John Inglis Jerdeln, Esq.
(With limited power to add to their number.)

ENGINEERS.
Sir John Macneill, LL.D., F.R.S.
James Thomson, Esq., F.R.s.E.,

SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Roy, Blunt, and Johnstone, Lothbury
George Smith, Esq., 24, Golden-square.

RANKERS.
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith, Lombard-street
The Union Bank of London
Messrs. Cockburn and Co., Whitehall
Maidenhead—Messrs. Stephens, Blandy and Co.
Wycombe—Messrs. Wheeler and Sons
Bicester—Messrs. Tubb
Thame—Thomas Stone, Esq.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Maidenhead—James Smith, Esq.
High Wycombe and Princes Risborough—Charles Harman, Esq.
liicestet—Richard Maley, Esq.
Oxford—John Looker, Esq.
Windsor—C. S. \routes, Esq.
HONORARY SECRETARY, pro. tem.—John Southgate. Jun., Bsq.
Offices of the Company-2, Charlotte-row, Mansion HOUSS.

The great importance of the above line of railway, not exco actin)
64 miles in length, will be immediately seen by referring to the map.
It commences at the Farnborough station of the South-Westernßall-
way, crossing the Great Western Bie between Slough and Maiden-
head, and terminates on the Oxford and Rugby line of railway at
Heyford, beyond Oxford, on the route to Birmingham, accommo-
dating in its course, Bracknell, Sunning-hill,Bagshot, Ascot, Windsor,
Great Marlow, High Wycombe, Princes Risborough. Theme, Bicester,
and many other places at present without railway communication.
It will form the most direct route from London to Banbury, War-
wick, and Birmingham, and by the Grand Junction Railway to Man_
chester, Liverpool, Lancaster, and Carlisle, and by the Caledonian
Railway to Glasgow and Edinburgh ; also from Crewe to Chester,
y the Great Western
Birkenhead, Birkenhead, and Holyhead, thus opening the most direct communica-
tion with Dublin.
It will also by the branch to Woodstock, in connexion with
the Cheltenham and Oxford line, form the most direct route to South
Wales, Waterford, and the south of Ireland, as well as by the Ox-
ford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton line to 'Worcester, and come_
quently to all the central portion of Wales, thus forming the shortest
route to all Wales and Ireland.
The length of this line will not exceed 64 miles, and it will save an
average distance of 14 miles to each of the before-mentioned places,
RasawaalPya.red with
difficulties, and that the land is the least valuable of any in the mull:
outtihsefeertoourtye ntoowetete traversedthet
there are no engineering
tics through which this line is intended to pass, avoiding, as it does,
parks and ornamental property.
To the advantages offered to the above places' by saving about
fourteen miles in the transits to London, must be added that of con-
necting them with the South-Western and the Reading and Reigate
lines, affording passengers an opportunity of proceeding to South-
ampton, Portsmouth, Isle of Wight, Dover, Brighten, and all adja:
cent places, without the necessity ef passing through the
thereby saving much time and inconvenience.metropolis,
It will be seen from the foregoing facts that the formation of this
line will afford very great advantages to nearly all parts
of England,
Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, as it will materially facilitate the de'
livery of their many marketable products by opening,
u a__,.ier
and
more direct route to London. It is not, therefore, too much:c7l
to
ex_
pect that, independently of a great local traffic. there will be also an
immense through traffic brought on thisline, which must pay at
least 10 per cent. on the capital required. This
is manifest, as the
construction of the line will not cost 20,0001. per Mile, while the
London and Birmingham Railway cost 53,0001. per mile, upon which
15 per cent.
enormous outlay it continues to hay
Shareholders in the Grand Junction, Great Western, South
Western, Oxford and Rugby, Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhamp-
ton, and Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railways will have a pre-
ference in the allotment of shares after parties locally interested.
The deeds will provide that no ball shall be t
act of ade the share-
holders beyond the deposit now paid, until the Act of the
shall be obtained ; and power will be taken in the Aet to allow font.
per cent. interest on all calls until the line be completed, which,
from the nature of the ground to be gone over, is not expected to
exceed two years.
The Committee have decided,with '
in compliance the suggestions
of landowners of groat influence, to form branches from the Thante
station on the proposed main line to Oxford and Aylesbury, thereby
establishing a dtwootteasasusalcation between those important piae j
Application fir starts =ay be °made, in the annexed form, to the
following sharebrekers :—London : Mr. W. West, Capel_couri ,
Mr. Benjamin ituukin, Tokenbouse-yard , Mr. M. L. Pritchard
and Mr. Branokner, Liverpool ; Messrs. Cardwell and :Sons, Messrs.
Green and Oldham, and Messrs. Gardiner and Heap, Manchester;
Messrs. Potter and Smith, Leeds ; Mr. Andrew Moffat, Edin-
burgh ; Messrs. Bruce and Spines, Dublin ; Messrs. Graydon.
and Earle, York ; Messrs. Sohines and Tripp, Bristol; Messrs.
Hopwood and Palmer, Plymouth ; Mr. T. Sandford, Exeter ; Arr.
J. Wright, Birmingham ; Messrs. Sihary and Simpson, Hull ; Mr.
Isaac Ironside, Sheeld ; Memr4* Mann and Son, Norwich ; Mr:
ffi
Joseph Ivey Baker, Cheltenham ; to the Secretary, at the offices of
the Company ; Messrs. Roy, Blunt, and Johnstone, Lothbury ;
George Smith, Esq., solicitor, No. 24, Golden-square ; and to Mr.
A. Brand, Glasgow -

To the Provisional Committee of the Grand Junction, Groat Western,
and South-Western Railway Junction Company,
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me shares hi
the above Company, and I agree to take all such shares, or so many
as may be allotted to me, and to pay the deposit thereon, and to exe-
cute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when
required so to do. _

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ter, and Weymouth Railway
John Saddington, Esq., Mayor of Gravesend
Medhurat Troughton, Esq., Alderman of Gravesend
Thomas Pallister, Esq., Alderman of Gravesend
Mr. -- Tisdell, Councillor of Gravesend
Jeremiah Rosher, Esq., Rosherville, near Gravesend
John Brough, E'q., Herne Bay
John Burgess, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester, Director of the
London and Manchester Railway
Thomas Camplin, Esq., Herne Bay
W. A. Campbell, Esq , Wanstead.park
Col. Fitch, York.terrace, Regent's-park, Director of the South and
Midlands Junction Railway
Charles Goodwin, Esq., Battersea
James Harmer, Esq.. Ingress Abbey, Greenhithe, Kent
William Kuper, Esq., Director of the Grand Junction, Great
Western, and South Western Railway
T. R. Kemp, Esq., Director of the Blythe and Churnet Valley,
and Macclesfield and Lichfield Railways
John Kerschner, Esq., Middle Temple•lane
Edward Lacey, Esq., St. I'aul'a•churchyard, and Gravesend
Jonas Levy, Esq., 55, Tavistock-square
H. C. Leahy, Esq., St. James's •square, Director of the Direct Bir-
mingham and Brighton, and Gteat Welsh Junction Railway
R. H. Lewis, Esq., 12, Upper Moutague.street, Director of the
Cheltenham, Oxford, and Brighton Railway
John Wheeley Lea, Esq., Worcester, Vice-Chairman of the Se.
vern Commission
The Hon. Captain Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Chairman of the
York and Lancaster Railway
Edmund Pallister, Esq., Gravesend
S. H. Powell, Esq., Director of the Leeds, York, and Midland
Junction Railway
R. A. Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanston-street, Portman-square
E. R. Simmons, Esq., Gloucester Lodge, Croydon
Walter White, Esq., Fitzroy.square, Director of the London and
Windsor Railway
J. D. Williams, Esq., Milton.street, Dorset.square
(With power to add to their numbers).

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Sir John Key, Bart.
The Mayor of Gravesend I SW.ml-1.. Powell, Esq..
EsE'qq..
John Brough, Esq. I Walter White, Esq.
John Kerschner, Esq.
(With power to add to their number).

NANILIe.
Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and C0.,1C Clement's-lane ; Messrs. Cocks,
Biddulph, and Co., Charing-cross.
At Lewes—Messrs. Molyneux, Whitfield and Co.
Cowsulanio EtwiNzEits—Sir John Macneil and James Thom.

son, Esq.
ENGINEER--Wm. Laxton, Esq., C.E.
Soucrroa IN LONDON—George Smith, Esq., 24, Golden-square.

LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Coombe and Sharland, Town.hall, Gravesend
Messrs. J. and E. Blaker, Lewes.
The object of this undertaking is to open a direct line of rail-
way to connect the Northern, Eastern, and South Essex Railways,
by means of a steam ferry from Tilbury Fort to Gravesend, with
Tunbridge Wells, Lewes, and Brighton.
It is contemplated to proceed from the Eastern Counties Rail-
way at or near Harlow station to Tilbury, crossing the river
by a steam floating.bridge to Gravesend, passing by Wrotham to
Tunbridge, thence by the South• Eastern Railway to Tunbridge
Wells, passing Uckfield to Lewes, anti thence joining the Brighton,
Lewes, and Hastings Railway to Brighton.
An inspection of the map will clearly show the great import-
ance of this railway, whether considered in a local or national
point of ♦iew, forming as it will a most useful chain of local com-
munication for the fertile and populous tracts through which it
parses.

It will bring the Northern and Eastern Counties, the mouth of
the Thames, and North Kent, into direct communication, by
way of Brighton, with Dieppe and Havre, and thus form, in con.
junction with the railways now in progress on the Continent, the
shortest possible route to Paris and the Mediterranean.
By this railway the large population of the North Eastern Coun-
ties, numbering nearly two millions, will have a direct and easy
communication with the whole of the populous and important
oounties of Kent and Sussex, without going round to London, and
thereby avoiding the inconvenience arising from the unconnected
lines north and south of the metropolis.
The utility of this line to the naval and military service, both in
times of peace and war, for the conveyance of troops and stores, is
evident.

With the existing railways, and those now in progress in Kent
and Sussex, a most complete system of local communication will be
effected ; and as such, the project has been received with the most
distinguished approbation and pledges of support from the principal
proprietors along the line, and the Corporation of Gravesend have
promised their entire sanction to, and will cordially support it.
The ground has been carefully surveyed, and found to present
no difficulties to the formation of a good working line.
The existing local traffic has been ascertained to be amply suf.
ficient to fulfil the requirements of the undertaking; but a large
accession of valuable traffic cannot fail to be the result of the
increased accommodation thus afforded to the public, and rendering
the undertaking one of the most important as well as productive
lines of railway. in that part of the country.
The Committee reserve power to themselves to form a branch
from Wrotham to Chatham.

The liability of the shareholders will be restricted by Act of
Parliament to the amount of their subscriptions, and power will be
applied 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.
Applications for prospectuses, and also for shares, may be ad-
dressed in the form annexed to George Smith, Esq., Solicitor, '24,
Golden-square; Messrs. Coombe and Sharland, 'rown.hall, Graves-
end ; Messrs. J. and E. Maker, Lewes ; and also to the following
Sharebrokers :—Messrs. Field, Son, and Bayley, Warnford-court,
Throgmorton-street, London ; Messrs. Harris and Sons, Change-
alley, London; Messrs. S. R. and R. Healy, Liverpool ; Messrs.
Gardiner and Heap, Manchester; Mr. Isaac Ironside,
Sheffield ; Messrs. E. C. Hopps and Co., Leeds ; Messrs. Hopwood
and Palmer, Plymouth; Mr. J. B. Mundy, Bath; Mr. A. Moffatt,
Edinburgh.-

To the Provisional Committee of the Brighton, Lewes, Tunbridge

Walls, Gravesend, and Eastern Counties Railway.
I request that you will allot me shares In the proposed
Brighton, Lewes, Tunbridge Wells, Gravesend, and Eastern Coun.
ties Railway ; and I agree to take all such shares, or so many as
may be allotted to me, and to pay the deposit thereon, and to execute
the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when re-
quired 13 to do.

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