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London, England, 1845-08-23 00:00:00

Provisionally Registered.

QOUTH-EASTERNAN-I) CONTINENTAL
k_Y STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.—BEST ROUTE to BELGIUM
and GERMANY, via DOVER and OSTEND.—The South-Eastern and
Continental Steam-packet Company's splendid fast iron steam-ship
PRINCESS MARY, carrying the English and Belgian mails, and
performing the passage in four hours and a half, leaves Dover for
Ostend every Thursday and Sunday morning early, enabling tra-
vellers to leave Ostend by the early trains, and returns to Dover en
Tuesdays and Fridays.
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Departures from Dover :
August 24, at 6h. A.M. I August 28, at 6h. A.M.
August 31, at Bh. A.M.
Luggage, parcels, &c., expeditiously forwarded.
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For particulars apply at the South-Eastern Railway-station. Lon -
don-bridge ; and to John Hayward, jun., Dover.

LONDON, HOUNSLOW, and WESTERN
RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that NO APPLICATIONS for SHARES in
this Company will be received after MONDAY, Ist September.
By order of the Committee,
T. S. BROWN, Sec. pro. tern.
7, Walbrook.

THE OXFORD, SOUTHAMPTON, GOS-
PORT, AND PORTSMOUTH RAILWAY.

Provisionally Registered.
Oarital 500,0901., in 25,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 28. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Hon. Howe Browne, Chairman of the Manchester and Bir-
mingham Continuation Rallway
John Attwood, Esq., M.P., Park-lane, Hyde-park
John Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street, Banker
Sir John Campbell,
Sir John Pixie, Alderman, Bakk, Directors of the Peninsular and
Pedro de Zulueta, Esq., Oriental Steam Packet Company
B. M. Wdoox, Etq.,
Sir William Wynn, Chairman of the North Wales Railway
Sir George Rich, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square
Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of the City of London
William Hughes Hughes, Esq., Alderman of the City of Landon, late
M.P. for Oxford, and late High Sheriff of Hants
John Humphery, Esq.,-Aiderman of the City of London, and M.P. for

the BoroUgh of Southwark
The Mayor of Newbury
George Adam, Esq.' White Lion-court, Cornhill
James Henry Attwood, Esq., Seymour-street, Portman-square
Charles Baker, Esq., Southampton
James Beech, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place
Samuel Bovill, Esq., Southampton
Samuel Swami Brittain, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Midland Junction, and East and West of England
Junction and Crewe Railways
Boyes, Esq., Banbury, Director of the Birmingham and Oxford

Raaway
Robert Barbrur, Esq., Manchester
John Churchill. Esq., Bayswater, Director of the Manchester and
Birmingham Continuation Railway
C. R. Colmati.-Esq., irongwe-wharf and General Steam Navigation
Company, Director of the South Midland Railway
William Chadwick, Esq., Chairman of the Richmond Railway
Samuel James Capper, Esq., Adelphi-place, Londou-bridge
F. F. Clossman, Esq., Mincing-lane
George Dawson, Esq , Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Midland

Junction Railway
William Dredge, Esq., Newbury, Berks, Alderman
Captain Farrington, R.N., West Cowes, Isle of Wight
William Henry Forman, Esq., Upper Thames-street
W. S. Fitzwilliarn, Esq., Old Broad-street, Director of the Essex and
Suffolk Railways
J. Farrow, Esq., Newbury, Director of Union Bank
Samuel Haines, Esq. Chad House, Edgbaston, Director of the Man-

chesterand lirmingham Continuation Railway
William Hill, Esq., Manchester
John Newington Hughes, Esq., Winchester
William Jacomb, Erq., Huddersfield, Director of the East and West

of England Railway
J. Kinloch, Esq., Gloucester-road, Hyde-park, Director of the North
Wales and Newry and Enniskillen Railway
Edward Lomer, Esq., Southampton
James Lees, Esq., Deputy Chairman of Union Bank, Manchester
Captain James Patrick 3lacdougal, Brixton, Surrey, late Bengal Ge-

neral Staff
Captain George Probyn, Bryaqston-square
'William Prescott, Esq.. Ma"chester
David Price, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Leeds and Bolton

Railway
N. M. Priaulx, Esq., of the South-Western Steam Packet Company,

Southampton
George Parbury, Eeq., Director of the East and West of England

Railway
William Watson Prole, Esq., Director of the Jersey Railway
William Langley Pope, Esq., Birchin-lano and Woodfonl, Director of
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ii;;;Falmotrthand -Exeter Railway
Clements Royds, Esq., Chairman of the Preston and Wire Railway
3fajor Selwyn, lt.E., Director of the East and West of England

dunction Rd lway
Walter Shairp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, and Austin-friars,
Director of the Cobra Mining Company
Benjamin Shaw, Esq., Kilburn Priory, Director of the Dublin and

Kilkenny Railway
T. Bridge Simpson, EM., Deputy Chairman of the Richmond Railway
Edmund Slocock, Esq., Newbury
Robert Watkins, Esq., Director of the East and West of England

Railway _
Edward Westlake, Esq.. Southampton
BANKERS—Messrs. Masterman and Co., Lonelon,
ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF—Joseph Lock, Esq.
ACTING ENGINEERS—Messrs. J. B. and E. Birch
SOLICITORS.
John Bethel, Esq., 78, King William-street, City
Messrs. Sharp and Harrison, Southampton
SECRETART—John Dunlop, Esq.

The great importance and increasing prosperity of the port of
Southampton requires that more extensive railway accommodation
should be at once provided.
According to the evideneelately given before Parliament by Mr. Ed-'
wards, the Collector of Customs at that port, the exports have more
than quadrupled during the last three years, and he expressed his
conviction, that if a more direct communication with the manufac-
turing districts was made, the exports would increase to no less a
sum than ten millions the first year afterwards.
All the steamers from England to Jersey, and the Channel Islands,
to Portugal, Gibraltar, the Mediterranean, Malta, Italy, Greece,
Turkey, Egypt, and the East and West Indies, now depart from and
arrive at Southampton. It is also the most direct and shortest course
to rule througk Havre. _ _ _

Large quantities of goods are now brought to it from Manchester
and the manafacturing districts for export, which would be greatly
increased if the means of transit were easier and less expensive, and
the supply of clothing and naval stores from Yorkshire, Lancashire,
and Staffordshire, to her Majesty's dockyards, and victualling stores
at Portsmouth and Gosport, in addition to the export trade, is neces-
sarily very great, so that It is clear, that a more direct railway com-
munication from the manufacturing districts to Southampton, Gos-
port, and Portsmouth. is absolutely necessary.
The passing of the Oxford and Rugby, the Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton Acts this session, has afforded the facilities of effect-
ing this communication in the most direct course.
By making the railway, which will now be constructed by this
Company, from Didcot, on the Great Western Railway, where
the Oxford Line terminates, through Newbury, to the Southamp-
ton and Gosport Railway, near the Andover Road station, a distance
of only thirty miles, the most direct and the shortest commu-
nication will be formed from all parts of the north of England and
the manufacturing districts, to Southampton, Gosport, and Ports-
mouth. _ _ _

The line goes through a favourable country, and will be made at
little cost. The traffic on it, wholly irrespective of that from Man-
chester and the north, will be very large. A communication from
Newbury to a port is much wanted, so that the large quantities of
corn brought to that market may be exported along the coast. A
quick transit from Oxford to Winchester, to Southampton and
France, and to the Isle of Wight and Portsmouth, will be secured.
From Oxford railways are about to be made to Cambridge, Peter-
borough, and Lincoln, and to Rugby, there joining the Midland and
fork Railways ; by this means affording the most direct and shortest
road to Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Lincolnshire, Sheffield,
the large cloth districts of Yorkshire, and to York and Scotland.
The whole of this traffic, together with the carriage of the cutlery and
plated goods of Sheffield, and the cloth goods of Yorkshire, must
belong exclusively to this line, and it is quite sufficient of itself
to maintain it, and to secure for it a large share of support, even
if it had no further claims on public attention ; but when
reference is made to the map, it will be seen that, from the
Oxford and Rugby Railway, near Banbury' another railway will
proceed to Birmingham, which brings that most important town
several miles nearer to the port of Southampton than by the route
Proposed by other parties through Cheltenham. Again, from Rugby
the Trent Valley and North Staffordshire Railway will carry the
traffic on to Manchester, by which route the distance to Manchester
from Southampton is considerably less than by the same route round
Cheltenham, and will be further redueed.by the Rugby and Maccles-
field line when made ; and as the goods coming by this line to South-
ampton will, for the greater part of the distance, travel over rail-
ways possessing a very large traffic of their own, and which can
afford to carry this extra traffic at very much lower rates than a new
company, whioh depends for its support entirely on such traffic, can
PosSiblido, they will be brought much cheaper by this line, than by
any line which can be made between Southampton and Cheltenham.
But it is of the most vital importance to the town of Southampton
that this communication with the manufacturing districts should be
completed in order that the continuance of
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way will be made and opened in twelve months after the passing of
the Bill, i.e., the Ist of September, 1847, whereas the line, via Chel-
tenham. cannot be finished in less than three years.
The Railways from Yeovil and Dorsetshire, and parts to the west-
ward, will join this line near Whitchurch, and bring great portion of
the traffic trom the west over this lino to Oxford and the places
beyond it.
As to the gauge there will be no difficulty. The Commission now
sitting will decide that. and there is not the least doubt, but that
goods will ho brought from Manchester, Birmingham, &c., in the
same truck, and without any shifting throughout the whole line to
the ship's side in the docks at Southampton and to Gosport.
Applications for detailed prospectus, maps, and shares, may he
made to the Secretary, at the office, 78, King William-street, city,
London.