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E SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVEN I NCB OCTOBER 17 1845

John Lowe, Esq., Norfolk Crescent, Hyde-park
William Phillips Lamb, Esq., Ockham House, Sussex
Edward Augustus Lamb, Esq., Westfield, Battle, Sussex, Director of
the Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway
Darnton Lurton, Esq , Potter Newton Hall, Mayer of Leeds, Direc-
tor of the Leeds and York, and Wakefield and Bradford Railways
Sir William Lowthrop, Rat., Hull, Director of the Leeds, Hudders-
field, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Direct Railway
John Lord, Esq., Standish Hall, Lancashire, Director of the Black-
burn, Charley, Wigan, and North Union Junction Railway, and of
the-Staffordshire Potteries, and Manchester and Liverpool Direst
Railway
James Lamb, Esq., Hyde Park-square, Director of the Tring,
Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
Rowland Mackenzie, Esq., Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square,
Director of the Tring, Reaing, and Basingstoke, and Cheltenham,
Oxford, and Brighton Railways
Thomas Gibbon Moneypenny, Esq., Hole-Park, Rolvenden, Kent
Major Moore, Queen Anne-street, Director .f the Brighten and Chel-
tenham Direct and the London and Nottingham Railway
James Joseph M'Swiney, Esq., Sandal View, Wakefield, Director of
the Wakefield and Harrogate Railway
J. Mee Mathew, Esq., Assistant Tithe Commissioner, Director of the
Worcestershire, Derbyshire, and Staffordshire Railway
Captain Macdougall, Fir-grove, North Brixton, Director of the Read-
ing, Guildford, and Reigate Railway
' John George Norbury, Esq., Mancetter-house, Atherstone, Director
of the Teen and Dove Valley, and South Staffordshire Junction
Railways
Joseph Norton, Egq., Clayton West, Huddersfield, Director of the
Huddersfield, Halifax, and Bradford Union Railway, and the
Wakefield and Harrogate Railway
George Parbury, Esq., Mansfield House, Russell-square, Director of
the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
William Peppercorne, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex, Director of the West
Midland Railway -
Captain Thomas Ross, 58, Dorchester-terrace, Director of the Direct
Northern, Eastern, and Western Junction Railway
William Raines, Esq., Temple, Director of the London and Notting-
ham Railway
James Russell, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director of
the Direct Leeds and London Railway
Frederick William Seymour, Esq., Carlton-terrace, Director of the
Lynn, Wisbeach, Peterborough, &c., Railway
William Spooner, Esq., London, Director of the South Staffordshire
Junction Railway, and of the Liverpool, Manchester, and New-
castle-upon-Tyne Junction Railway
Henry Scott, Esq., 17, Pall-mall
S. E. Sichell, Esq., merchant, Bradford, Director of the Leeds, York,
and Midland Junction Railway
George Turner, Esq., Hunton Hill, Erdington, Director of the South
Staffordshire Junction Railway
Henry Taylor, Esq., Alderman, Wigan, Director of the Manchester
and Wigan, and the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union
Junction Railways
George Turton, Esq., Bagden Lodge, Clayton West, Huddersfield
William Tinker, Esq., Conock, Wilts, Director of the Manchester,
Southampton, aril Poole Railway
George Thomas Thompson, Esq., Dover, Coroner for the Cinque
Ports
John Thompson, Esq., Alderman of Wigan, Director of the Birkhen-
head and Holyhead Railway, of the Manchester and Wigan Rail-
way, and Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction Railway
John Taylor, Esq., Hull, Director of the Lincolnshire and Eastern
Counties Railway
James Upfill, Esq., The Green, Herefordshire, Director of the Staf-
fordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway
George Unett, Esq., The Laurels, Handsworth, Stafibrashire, Direc-
tor of the Birmingham, Lichfield. and Manchester Railway, ana
Lynn, Wisbeach, and Peterborough Railway
Thomas Bolman Upfill, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Birming-
ham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway
James Vickers, Esq., Mark-lane, Director of the Jersey Pier and
Railway
Major White, Pall-mall, Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing-
stoke Railway
Walter Unett, Esq., Captain 3d Light Dragoons, Maidstone, Director
of the Nottingham and South Staffordshire, and the Lynn,
Wisbeach, and Peterborough Railways
William Boyden Watts, Esq., M.D., Birmingham, Director of the
Lincoln, Louth, and Great Grimsby Railway
Thomas Wakefield, Esq., London, Director of the Nottingham and
South Staffordshire Railway
Smith Whilock, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Staffordshire and
Shropshire Junction Railway
Robert William Watson, Esq., Dover
John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, near Tonbridge, Director of
the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Sir William White, Director of the Stafford, Uttoxeter, and Derby
Railway
J. W. Yerbury, Esq., Belcornbe-house, Wilts, Capt. 3d. Light Dra-
goons, Director of the Direct Western Railway.
Lodge Morris Murray Prior, Esq., Coventry, Director of the
Dublin, Tullamore, and Parsonstown Railway
Edward Knight, Esq., M.D., Stafford, Director of the Grand Junction
and Midlands' Union Railway
William Henry Skelton, Esq., Shadwell, near Leeds
Charles William Reynolds, Esq., Captain 16th Lancers, Maidstone,
Director of the Worcester, Warwick and Rugby Railway
Thomas Braman, Esq., Mayor of Tamworth, Deputy Chaiman of
the Leicester and Tamworth Railway
Richard Hughes,. .Esq., Stafford, Director of the Staffordshire and
Shropshire Junction Railway
Henry Wenman Newman, Esq., Thornbury-park, near Bristol, De-
puty-Lieutenant of Gloucestersshire, and magistrate of Gloucester-
shire and Bristol.
1 homas Folliott Powell, Esq., 16th Lancers, Lucan-konse, Ripen,
Yorkshire
Alexander Prince, Esq., London, Director of the Tonbridge Wells,
Hastings and Brighton Railway
Francis Ewart, Esq., Temple, Director of the Great Leeds and Lon-
don Direct, and of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Rail-
ways
Thomas Stocker, Esq., St. Ives, Director of the Wisbeach, St. Ives,
and Cambridge Railway
John Granville Dewes, Esq., Loxley, Warwickshire
George Ewing Scott, Esq., Stoke Bishop, near Bristol
Seignelay Thomas Cuthbert, Esq., Clifton
Charles Rates, Esq., Richmond-court, Clifton
David Bryan, Esq., Northampton, Director of the Liverpool, Man-
chester, and Warrington, and the Worcester and Leominster
Railway
Benjamin Swan, Esq., Weymouth and Jermyn-street
Edmund Francis Dayrell, Esq., Lillingston Dayrell, High Sheriff of
Bucks, and Director of the inehead and Bridgewater Railway
John James Rippon, Esq., Ealing, Middlesex, Director of the Bir-
mingham, Westbromwich, Wednesbury, and Walsall Junction
Railway
Stephen Mills, Egg., Elstono-house, Wilts
Major Buttenshaw, Bath
John Ellershaw, Esq., Grove-house, Searcroft, near Leeds
Major W. James, Saltford-house, near Bath, Magistrate for Somer.
setshire
Robert Bell, Esq., Norris Castle, Isle of Wight.
Samuel Perrin, Esq., Temple Cloud, near Bristol
Captain Edward Smith, Dorset-square
Sankey Gardner, Esq., Neath, Director of the Vale of Neath Railway
Thomas Bolton. Esq., merchant, Hull
Robert Cottle, Esq., Basingstoke
Captain Page, Charlton-house, Somerton, Director of the South Staf-
fordshire Junction
Captain Boland, Marlborough-buildings, Bath
ENGINEER-IN-CHlEF—Francis Giles, Esq.
ENGINEERS—Edward James Maude, Esq.; John Neville Warren, Esq.
BANKEWiI.
London—Messrs. Rogers, Oldlng, and Co.; the 'Union Bank
ltristol Stuckey's Banking Company
Bath—West of England and South Wales District Bank
Bradford and Trowbridge—The Wilts and Dorset Banking Company
Dover—Messrs. Latham and Co.
JOINT SOLICITORS, - _

Edwin Smith, Esq., and Messro,vLawis and Ford, London ; Edward
Burges, Esq., Bristol.

BIRMINGHAM AND MANCHESTER
DIRECT RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 900,0001., in 45,000 Shares of 291. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Sir George Prescott, Bart
The Hon. Cecil Lawless, Lynbarth, Kildare, and St. James's-street
Sir Love Parry Jones Parry, Major-General, K.H., Madryn, Car-
narvonskire, Director of the Leicester, Bedford, and of the Direct
East and West Junction Railways
Sir William Twisden, Bart., Dorset-square, Director of the Chepstow
and Forest of Dean Railway
I r Wm. Young, Bart., East India Director, Westbourne-street,
Hyde Park-gardens, Director of the Sheffield, Nottingham, and
London Direct Railway
Sir William Wynn, K.C.8., Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, Chairman of
the North Wales Railway
Sir Henry Webb, Bart., 105, Pall-mall, Director of the York and
Lancaster Railway
The Sheriff of York, Director of the Sheffield, Nottingham, and
London Direct Railway
Ayscough, Rear-Admiral, Prospect-place, Southampton, Director of
the Sheffield, Nottingham, and Loudon Direct Railway
Adair, Major, Director of the Church of England Assurance Society,
and of the Burton-upon-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and New-
town, and Indian Peninsular Railways
Arnold, Henry, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of Remington's Direct
London and Manchester Railway
Booth, John, Esq., Park-cottale, Macclesfidd, Director of the Leeds,
Huddersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct, and Sheffield, Notting-
ham, and London Direct Railways
Brookes, John, Esq., Alderman of Manchester, Director of Reming-
ton's Direct London and Manchester Railway
Brown, Henry, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Director of Remington's
Direct London and Manchester Railway
Brown, Isaac Baker, '27, Oxford-square, Hyde-park
Buck, W. C., Esq.
Cambridge, John, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of the
Burton-on-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newtown Railway
Chambers, Wm., Esq., Cocks Bench, Derby, Director of Remington's
Direct London and Manchester Railway
Clarke, Jeremiah, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Cleobury, Thomas Mortimer, Esq., Acton, Middlesex, Director of the
Sheffield, Nottingham, and London Direct Railway
Cook, John, the Rev., Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, Director of the Shef-
field, Nottingham, and London Direct Railway
Croft, Major J. T. Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman, Director of
Remington's Direct London and Manchester Railway
Crossley, John, Esq., Lumberhurst, Sussex, Director of the Sheffield,
Nottingham, and London Direct Railway.
Cumberlege, N., Esq., York-terrace, Regent's Park, Director of the
Burton-upon-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newtown, and
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railways
Dalby, J. R., Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Dale, Major Thurston, Ashbourne, Director of the Burton-on-Trent.
Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newton, and Leeds, Huddersfield, and
Wolverhampton Direct Railways
Daniel, R., Esq , Oakhill, Stoke. upon-Trent, Director of the Leeds,
Huddersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway
Darlington, John, Esq., Shipley Hall, Bradford, Director of the Liver-
pool and Leeds Direct Railway
Dewhurst, Richard, Esq., Apsley House, Huddersfield, Director of
the West Riding Union Banking Company, and Director of the
West Riding Junction Railway
Dent, Edward, Esq., Director of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and
Great Grimsby Direct Railway
Dent, John, Esq., Director of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and
Great Grimsby Direct Railway
Eastwood, Abraham, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds, Hud-
dersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway
Eastwood, Edmund, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds, llud
dersfleld, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway
Ellis, John, Esq., Temple
Ewart, Francis, of 4, Brick-court, Temple, Director of the Great
Leeds and London Direct, Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Me-
tropolitan Junction Railways
Fitche, George, Lieutenant-Colonel, 36, York-terrace, London, Di-
rector of the London and Lancaster Railway
Franklin, Benjamin, Harley-street, London
Garde, Richard, Esq., 16, Steven's-green, Dublin
Gisborne, Henry Francis, Esq., Derby, Director of tke Burton-on-
Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newtown Railway
Grant, Daniel, Esq., Manchester, Director of Remington's Direct
London and Manchester Railway
Hammond, George, Esq., Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railway
Heneage, C. Esq., Pall-mall, Cadeley Place, Lincolnshire, Director
of the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway
Herries, Robert, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway
Hind, Abraham, Esq., Director of tke Manchester,: Huddersfield and
Great Grimsby Direct Railway
Holdforth, J. D., Esq., Burley, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway
Hughes, Hughes W., Esq., Alderman of the City of London
Ingleby, Joseph, Esq., Cheadle, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield,
and Wolverhampton Direct Railway
Johnson, Richard William, Esq., Moorgate, Director of the Brighton
and Cheltenham, and Remington's Direct London and Manchester
Railways
Jones, Edward, Esq. Windmill-place, Camberwell, Director of the
Leeds, Huddersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway
Jones, the Rev. J. P., Vicarage, Alton, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Keene, John Joseph, Esq., St. John's Wood, Regent's Park, Di-
rector of the Burton-on-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and New-
town Railways
King, William, Esq., Stepney, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction, and Brighton and Cheltenham
Railways
Knight, Ed ward, M.D., Stafford, Director of the Burton-on-Trent,
Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newtown Railway
Lambert, Richard, Esq., Lyston-hall, Sudbury
Lea, John Wheeley, Esq., Worcester
Mackenzie, T., Esq., Duke-street, Liverpool
Macmillan, James, Esq., 17, Manchester-buildings, Westminster, Di-
rector of the Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Railway
M'Cann, Nicholas, Esq., 50, Parliament-street
M'Mahon, Daniel, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Mainwaring, John, Esq., Eagle-Hall, Pateley-bridge, Director of the
York and Lancaster Railway
Mann, T., Esq., Chapel-cottage, Holloway
3laskery, Thos., Esq., Norburphall, Director of the Brighton and
Cheltenham Railway
Meteyard, Horace W., Esq., Director of Remington's Direct London
and Manchester Railway
Moore, Major, Anne-street, Cavendish-square, Director of the Burton-
on-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newtown Railway
Murray, James T., Esq., George-street, Hanover-square, Director of
the Burton-upon-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newton Railway
Musgrave, S., Esq.
Nadin, Joseph, Esq., Stapenhill, Director of Remington's Direct Lou•
don and Manchester Railway
Nadir', Nathaniel, Flca., fitaponhiil, Tierh3ralallry
ton's Direct London and Manchester Railway
Norton, Joseph, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Nottingham and
London Direct Railway
Ogle, Nathaniel, Esq., Heath-lane Lodge, Twickenham, Director of
the Burton-on-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newtown Rail-
way
Pulteney, Captain Douglas Kinnaird, 4, Parliament-street, Chairman
of the York and Lancaster Railway, and Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Richardson, Joseph, Esq.
Riddle, Robert Andrew, Esq., 23, Bryanston-street, Portman-square,
Director of the Tring, Reading,
and Basingstoke, and of the Ox-
ford and Worcester Extension Railway
Robinson, John, Esq., Silcoates-cottage, Wakefield, Director of the
Leeds, Huddersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct, and Sheffield,
RodNeontt,inTg.hca.m,
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Roden, T. c., Req., Birmingham, Director of the Leeds, Iltedders-
field, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway.
Shipton, Robert, Esq., Scropton, Derbyshire, Director of Remington's
Esq., Barton-house, Ashborne, Derbyshire
Direct London and Manchester Railway
Skidmore, J. A., Esq , St. John's, Wakefield, Director of the Great
Leeds and London Direct, and Hull and Holyhead Direct Railways
, Leeds, Director of the Leeds, Hudders-
field, and Wolverhampton Direct, and Liverpool- and Leeds Direct
Railways
Smith, Wm., Clifton, Derbyshire, Director of the Brighton and
Cheltenham Railway
Smith, Smith,
Thomas,Jolm,
Esq.,
Ist.D.
Sneyd, Thomas, Esq., Belmont
Spiers, Edward John, Esq., Carlton-villa, Maida-vale, Director of the
Staffordshire, Derbyshire, and Worcestershire Railway
Stanho-e, Lieutenant-Colonel Leicester, Chairman of Remington's
Meet London and Manchester Railway
Trapp, Benjamin, Esq., banker, Bedford, Director of Remington's
Direct London and Manchester Railway
Tyler, George, Esq., Holloway-place, London, Director of the
Brighton and Cheltenham Railway
Walker, Charles, Esq., Eliastone
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Walker, George,
Esq., Wootton-park, Ashborne
,alnpqßato: Direct Railway
Waller, Major James, K.H., St. James's-square, Director of the
Leeds, Huddersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct, and Brighton
Esq., Bakewell, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield
113wIttacycslestield, Director of Remington's London
Warren, Jos. Loxdale, Esq., the Lodge, Market Drayton, Salop
Esq., Director of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and
WDirect Railway Company
and Manchester Direct Railway
Esq., Tean, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield,
sttejli.:lesoaE,sialicum—W. Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq.
Esq',
Staffordshire Railway
Wardle,
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rWalters,
Henry,
ne Cheltenhamrr
James,yh
merchant, Derby, Director of the Derbyshire,
Weston,
Sheffield,Ge lrs eh
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Worcestershire Junction Railway.
Wright.s Wilkinson,tairor,ii
ENGINEER—George Remington, Esq.
SECRETARY—A. A. Flint, Esq.
BANEEtts—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co.
LOCAL AGENT—R. IL Tarleton, Esq., Birmingham.

of - Ttarrairas.

The title of this line sufficiently and correctly explains the object
of the undertaking.
The Birmingham terminus will be placed In communication with
all the other railways having a station in that town, and will be
norther as near as practicable to its centre. Proceeding thence hi a
northerly direction, and on the west side of the Lichfield road, it will
pass within a short distance of Sutton Coldfield, and to Lichfield, at
the latter of which places there will be a tation in communication
with the projected Walsall lines.
Thence crossing the Trent Valley, near King's Bromley, it will
pursue the course of the Blythe Valley, or by or near to Abbots
ill'omley to Leigh, where it will leave the Blythe Valley, and by a
short cutting reach the Tean station on Remington's London and
Manchester line at the junction of the Crewe branch, or by a junc-
tion with whichever of the projected lines to Manchester may be
adopted by Parliament.
The entire length of the new' line to be made will not exceed
thirty-four miles, and the whole will be carried over a most favour-
able country—two-thirds being a water-level.
Sections ofa great portion of the line have been made, and the en-
tire Parliamentary survey will be completed by the 9th of October.
This railway will afford.a route from Birmingham to Manchester
eleven miles shorter than by any existing or projected line. It will
also give the best and nearest line between Huddersfield, and Bir-
mingham.
It will also furnish a nearer and more direct route from Birming-
ham to the Potteries than any line made er projected by several
miles, assuming any of the projected Pottery lines to have their ter-
mini at Colwich, on the Trent Valley, or at Stafford, on the Grand
Junction Railway ; thus giving to Manchester, and also the Pot-
teries, the shortest, easiest, and most direct route to Birmingham.
It will also give the nearest line between Huddersfield and Birming-
ham and Southampton.
This railway crosses the projected Leeds and, Huddersfield and
Wolverhampton Direct Railway. In the Blythe 1 alley a'station will
be placed, and communication effected, so as to afford to Birmingham
the shortest route by many miles, with Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield,
and the northern parts of England. In allotting shares every legi-
timate preference will be given to the landholders on the line.
It is obvious that the projected line will afford an ample return to
the shareholders.
For prospectuses,
rtoproNsvp.ecAtrnusoelsd,
Bshaainrebsr,iggane,dEesqve.,ry information, apply to the
Uttoxeter ; or at the Offices
so
of the Company, No. 1, Moorgate, London.

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

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Directors of the " Birmingham and Manchester Direct
Railway."
I request you to allot me shares in the above undertaking' •
and I agree to pay up the deposit of 21. 2s. per share, and sign the
necessary deeds when required thereto.
Dated this day of , 1845.
Name in full .. ••••.• • • • • •
Profession or Business
Place of Residence
Place of Business • • • • • • • •
Names of Refers. • • • •

BIRMINGHAM AND MANCHESTER
DIRECT RAILWAY COMPANY.
Company's Offices,
lications for Shares can
Notice is hereby given that no further App
1, Moorgate-street, London, Oct. 13, 1845.
received after Wont-WAY, the 15th instant. .
By order,
A A.FLIN T, Etcretsu7.

THE DIRECT WEST-END AND CROYDON
RAILWA Y.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 800,000/., its 4 ,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Viscount Ingestre, M.P., Bromptou-park, London
Sir James Anderson, M. R. I. A., New Burlington-street ; Director
of the Hereford and Merthr Tydvil Railway
John Byng Banks, Esq., Lansdown-road, Stockwell, Director of the
Great Leeds and London Direct Railway
James Bailey, Esq , Mis,,hbury-park, Director of the Sligo, Donegal,
Tyrone, Londonderry, and Belfast Junction, and of the Scar-
borough, Whitby, Stockton-on-Tees, and Newcastle and York
Junction Railways
William Banks, Esq., 4, Honey lane, Director of the Manchester and
Rugby, and great Leeds and London Railways
Lieat.-General Sir R Barton, K.C.11., 2 Montagu-place, Montagu-
square, Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
_Major Beresford, M.P., 77, Pall-mall ; Chairman of the Leeds and
Carlisle, and Director of the Tean anti Dove Valley, and West
Midland, Manchester, and Southampton Railways
Charles R. Biggs, Esq., 10, Bryanston-square; Director of the Great
Grimsby,L uth, tlorneastle, Lincoln, and Midland Junction Railway
William Bland, Esq., Brixton; Director of the North Wales, and
Richmond and West-end Junction Railways
William Blanshard, Esq., York ; Chairman of the Liberty of Ripon
Quarter Sessions, and Director of the York, Hull, and East and
West Yorkshire Junction Railway
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield ; Chairman of the Isle
of Ely Railway, and Director of the Manchester and Sheffield
Railway
Alfred Brodie, Esq., Upper Montagu-street, Montagu-square Direc-
tor of the Grand Trunk Railway
Isaac Baker Brown, Esq., Oxford-square, Hyde-park, Director of the
Bristol and Dover Direct Junction Railway
Thomas Byrom Esq. Wigan, director of the Leeds and Liverpool
Direct, and Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction Rail
ways
William Byrom, Esq., Oldham ; Director of the York and Lancaster,
the Cheltenham, Oxford, and London Railways
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Westbourne House, Sheffield, Director of the
Direct Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
William Caldwell, Esq., Ince Hall, near Wigan, Lancashire ; Direc-
tor of the Manchester, Derby, and Rugby, and Leeds and Liver-
pool Direct Railways
William Carr, Esq., Blackheath-park
John Carter, Esq., F.R.A.S., Park Lodge, Stockwell, Director of the
Grand Trunk Railway
E. Turst Carver, Esq., Forest Lodge. Tulse-hill, Director 'of the
Direct Birmingham, Oxford, and Brighton Railway
John Castendieck, Es 4., Lewisham, Kent
John Chauntler, Esq., Friday-steet, London ; Director of the
Chelmsford and Bury, and York and Lancaster Railways
Thomas Challis, Esq., Alderman of London; Director of the Direct
Western Railway
Richard Clark, Esq., Farnham, Hants
George Clive, Esq., Sanderstead, near Croydon, Director of the Chel-
tenham, Oxford, and London Junction Railway
Benjamin Collett, Esq., Manor House, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire;
Director of the London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kiddermin-
ster; and Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railways
Nathaniel Cooke, Esq., Bayswater; Director of the Ambergate,
Nottingham, Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
Millis Coventry, Esq., White Hart-court, Lombard-street ; Director
of the Birmingham Extension and Great Leeds and London
Direct Railways
William Croudson, Esq., Manor Cottage, Wigan, director of the Li-
verpool and Leeds Direct, of the Staffordshire Potteries, of the
Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield, and the Cheltenham, Oxford,
and London Railways
John Croudsen, Esq. King-street-house, Wigan, director of the Li-
verpool and Leeds Direct, of the Keighley, Halifax, and Hudders-
field, of the Staffordshire Potteries, and of the York and Kenyon
Junction Railways
Lieutenant-Colonel Lothian Dickson, Curzon-street, May-fair; Direc-
tor of the Reading and Reigate Junction Railway
Charles R. Dodd, Esq., North Brixton, Director of the Great Welsh
Central Railway, of the Bath, Bristol, and Dover Railway, of the
Hull and Holyhead Railway, &c.
Miles Dormer, Esq., Hans-place, Sloane-street ; Director ef the
Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway
Colonel Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, United Service Club;
Director of time London and Birmingham Extension Railway
Daniel Ebbetts, Esq., Mincing-lane ; Director of the Direct Western
Railway
Colonel Elrington, Scots Fusilier Guards, Wyndham-place, Bryan-
ston-square, Director of the London and Manchester, and Liverpool
and Leeds Direct Railways
Francis Ewart, Esq., Brick-court, Temple; Director ef the Great
Leeds and London Direct, and of the Exeter,. Dorchester, and Wey-
mouth Railways
Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of the City of London ; Director
of the London and Westminster Bank, and Director et' the London
Warwick, Leamington, and Kidderminster Railway
Edmund Aldam Fawcett, Esq., London, Derby, and Nottingham
Robert Fisher, Esq., Highbury Park, Director of the Trent Valley
Continuation Raiway
The Rev. H. R. Fowler, Manchester-square ; Director if the Direct
Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
George Gamble, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Nottingham and
Gainsborough Railway
Francis Gamble, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Nottingham
and Gainsborough Railway
Henry Glynn, Esq , Garden-court, Temple
Captain Twistleton Graves, Duke-street, St. James's, director of the
Eastern Counties Junction and Southend and the Midland Grand
Junction Railways
F. W. Hamilton, Esq., 59, Gloucester-place, Portman-square; Di-
rector of the York and Lancaster Railway
C. H. Rogers Harrison, Esq., Upper Montagu-street, Montagu-square ;
Director of the Grand Trunk Railway
George It. Harrison, Esq., Harlingford-place, Kennington ; Director
of the Grand Trunk Railway
Thomas Hartshorne, Esq., Silkmore-house, Stafford
William Hay, Esq., 19, Clifford-street, Bond-street.
Josiah Ileale, Esq., Gray's Inn-square; Director ef the Chelmsford
and Bury Railway
Lawrence Heyworth, Esq., Yew Tree, Liverpool
A. W. Hillary, Esq., 66, Cadogan-place ; Director of the Direct Exe-
ter, Auxerre, and La Roche Railways
G. E. Hotterkinson, Esq., 7, York-terrace, Regent's-park
Jelin Holford, Esq., Rusholm-hall, Manchester ; Director of the York
and Lancaster Railway
John Holmes, Esq., 88, St. James's-street ; Director of the York and
Lancaster, and Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railways
William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid-
land, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
W. Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., Alderman of London,
Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, and
London and Greenwich Railways
Stephen Hutchinson, Esq., London Gas-works, Vauxhall, Director of
the Grand Trunk Railway
John Kynnersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London ; Director of
the London and Manchester Direct Railway
Herbert Ingram, Esq., 198, Strand, and Swineshead Abbey, Lincoln-
shire ; Director of the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, and
Eastern Junction Railway
W. H. Jackson, Esq. 66, Red Lion-street, Clerkenwell
John Jameson, Esq., St. George's-place, Brixton, Director of the
Great Leeds and London Direct, and of the Cumberland Union
Railways
Slegerich C. Kreeft, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorcheiter, and
Weymouth Junction Coast Railway
Richard Kelly, Esq., 6, Cleveland-row; Chairman of the New Ross,
Carlow, and Kilkenny, an.a Director or the Cambridge and Lincoln
Extension Railways
Sir J. Key, Bart., Alderman of London ; Director of the London and
Manchester Direct Railway
Valentine Knight, Esq., 3, Cornwall-terrace, Regent's-park, Director
of the Direct Western, Dendre Talley, and Grand Trunk Railway
James Lamb, Esq. 25, Hyde-park-square ; director of the Dover and
Bristol Railway
William Lawrence, Esq., Brixton ; Director of the London and Man-
chester and Direct Western Railways
William Alexander Long, jun., Esq., Kingswood House, Wootton-
under-Edge ; Director of the Erewash Valley Extension Railway
Captain J, P. Macdougall, Fir-grove, Brixton ; Chairman of the Isle
of Man Railway, and director of tb e Leeds and Fleetwood Railway
William Margetson, Esq., Streatham-hill, Brixton
J. Mee Mathew, Esq., 4, Gray's Inn-square; Director of the Direct
Western Railway
James Macmillan, Esq. London and Southampton • director of the
Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby Railway, &c.
James Meaburn, Esq., Grove-hill, Camberwell
Thomas Morris, Esq., Fairhurst Hall, near Wigan ; Director of the
Blackburn, Chorley, and Liverpool, and Leeds and Liverpool
Direct Railways
James Morrison, Esq., Director of the Chepstow and Forest of Dean
and Rhondda ant Ely Valleys Junction Railway
Horatio Nelson, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey-
mouth Railway
William Nevill, Esq. West-green, Stamford-hill
G. Parbury, Esq., Russell-square; Director of the Manchester and
Birmingham Railway
W. Simpson Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens ; Director of the Grand
Trunk, the Oxford and Witney, and Reading and Reigate Junction
Railways
Samuel P. Pratt, Esq., 1.R.5., Bath, and 55, Lincoln's-inn-fields ;
Director of the Kennet and Aron Canal Cofnpany, and York and
Lancaster Railway
George Richard Pye, Esq., Lavenham, Suffolk
Lewis Pocock, Esq., F.S.A., Montagu-square, Director of the South-
ampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction and Brighton and Chel-
tenham Direct Railways
Sir George Rich, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square ; Director of the
Metropolitan Railways Junction Company, and of the London,
Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway
John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Bycullah House, Enfield, Middlesex ;
Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
R. A. Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanston-street, Portman-square ; Direct&
ef the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and Oxford and Worcester
Extension Railways
James Reid, Esq., Beulah Wood, Croydon, Director of the Metropo-
litan Railways Junction Compaq,
A. Macdonald Ritchie, Esq., Middle Temple, London ; Director of
the Great Western Extension Atmospheric Railway
Richard Rowe, Esq., Beaufoy-terrace, Maida Vale
H. Savage, Esq., Dorset-place, Dorset-square ; Director of the West
Midland, Manchester, and Southampton Railway
Edward H. 0. Scott, Esq., Hoe Garden House, Plymauth ; Director
of the Exeter, Dorchester, and. Weymouth Railway
A. Scott, Esq., Hadley Priory, Middlesex
Julius le Soeuf, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the St. Albans and Hert-
ford, and Director of the Bristol and Dover Direct Junction
Railways
William Studley, Esq., Alfred-place, Brixton ; Director of the Great
Grimsby, Louth, Horncastle, Lincoln, and Midland Junction
Railways
Martin Stutely, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of
the Leeds and Carlisle, Direct Western, and Grand Trunk Railways
Timothy Steward, Esq., Heigham Lodge, near Norwich
Henry Taylor, Rag , Wigan ; Director of the Leeds and Liverpool
Direct, Manchester and Wigan, and Liverpool, Preston, and North
Union Railways
James Templer, Esq., Brixton-rise, Director ef the Great Leeds and
London, and Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford Railways
Joseph Underwood, Esq., The Hall, Blackheath Park ; Director of
the Direct London and Manchester, and Leeds and Liverpool Direct
Railways
Robert Watkins, Esq., Augusta-house, Worthing, Director of the
Oxfcrd, Southampton, and Gosport, and Liverpool and Derby
Railways
Sir Henry Webb, Bart., 105, Pall-mall, London ; Director of the
York and Lancaster, and Direst Western Railways
David Wheatcroft, Esq. director of the Rugby, herby, and Man-
chester, and Nottingham and Gloucester Railways
John Lowe, Esq. Norfolk-crescent, Ilyde-park, Director of the Leeds,
Fleetwood, and Liverpool Railway
Major White, Pall-mall, Director of the South Midland, and Leeds,
Fleetwood, and Liverpool Railways
Sir Thomas Woollasten White, Bart., Walling Wells, Nottingham
Thomas Williams, Esq., M.D., Belgrave-street, South Belgrave-
square
W. S. Wilson, Esq., Norwich, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle, and
Maryport and Carlisle Railways
Sir William Wynn, Maesynewadd, and Suffolk-place, Pall-mall ;
Chairman of the North Wales, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways

(With power to add to their number).
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Major Beresford, M.P. F. W. Hamilton, Esq.
William Bulkeley Hughes, M.P. Captain J. P. Macdougall
Sir J. Anderson, M.R.I.A. William Bradley, Esq.
Sir J. Key, Bart. Joseph Underwood, Esq.
Sir H. Webb, Bart. Nathaniel Cooke, Esq.
A. W. Hillary, Esq. Charles R. Begg, Esq.
(With power to add to their number.)
BANKERS.—The Commercial Bank of London.
CONSULTING ENGINEER.
Sir John Macneil, L.L.D., F.R.S., 11.1.C.E.,
ACTING ENGINEERS.

Messrs. R. and T. Hopkins,l.l.l.C.E.; Messrs.Gough and Roumieu, C.E.

SURYETORS.—Messrs. Shuttleworth and Sons.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Chauntler and Westwood, $, Gray's Inn-square.
SECRETART—J. L. Cotton, Esq. _ _

The principal objects of the scheme are—lst. To remedy the evils
of delay and inconvenience to which parties are, at the present time,
necessarily subjected in proceeding from the west end of the metro-
polis to Croydon, or the most distant places on the South-Eastern
and London and Brighton Railways, as well as the several sea ports
and packet-stations on the coasts of Kent and Sussex; and 2d. To
supply to the numerous and wealthy inhabitants of the district
through which the intended line will pass (at present wholly with-
out railway accommodation), a greatly improved means for the in-
terchange of communication with the metropolis, and with each other.
Commencing at the intended terminus of the South-Western Rail-
way, at Hungerford or Waterloo-bridge, the line will take the most
practicable route to Kennington, from thence it will follow as near as
possible the old turnpike road, passing through or near to the
wealthy and populous districts of Stockwell, Clapham, Brixton,
Tulle-hill, Streatham, Norwood, Beulah, and Thornton-heath, effect-
ing a junction at Croydon with the several existing or projected
lines from that place.
It is also
_proposed to form a branch or branches from the neigh-
bourhood of Streatham to Mitcham and Tooting, and thus to extend
to those places, and their respective neighbourhoods, the advantages
of a direct railway communication with the metropolis.
A great portion of the traffic in passengers and goods upon the
Brighton and Dover lines is supplied from the west-end of London
and the Birmingham and Great Western Railways. The necessity
of proceeding to the station at London-bridge, and by the present
circuitous route to Croydon, is a serious and unnecessary inconveni-
ence, entailing additional expense and. delay. The removal of this
long-felt grievance is a leading object with the promoters of the pre- -
sent xndertaking. They deem it eght, however, to observe, in lay-
ing this scheme before the public, that they have no desire to inter-
fere with existing railway interests, further than is absolutely India-
bensable, but that on the other hand it will be their object to yield
assistance to, and in return endeavour to secure it, from each com-
pany with which this line may ultimately be connected.
A glance at the map will show, that as a branch or arm of the
London and Brighton Railway, this undOrtaking completes a straight
line of communication from the west end of London to Croydon ,
Reigate, and Brighton, and renders the I.'orts of Dover and Folke-
stone, as well as the several places on the sOuth-Eastern line, more
easily accessible from that part of the metropOLig•
The pea amount of traffic at the present time PM. the roads he-

THE DIRECT WEST END and CROYDON
RAILWAY.—The Provisional Committee give notice that
no applieation for Shares in this Company can be received after the

20th instant. By order, -
J. L. COTTON, Secretary
34, Gracechurch-street, Oct. 10th, 1845.

PRELIMINARY ANNOUNOEMENT,

ALIFAX AND HULL DIRECT, AND
HULL, GOOLE, GRIMSBY, AND YORK AND. NORTH
MIDLAND GRAND JUNCTION (at or near Methley) RAILWAY,
via, Hipperholme, Lightclifie, Cleckheaton, Mills-bridge, Gomersal,
Birstal, Batley, Hanging Heaton, Ardsleys, Lofthouse, Stanley to
Methley, with a branch to Wakefield.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 600,0001. in 30,000 shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21.25. per Share, in compliance with the Standing Orders of

Parliament

The object of this railway is to provide for the above-named
densely populated and rapidly improving manufacturing towns and
villages, a dirict and convenient outlet towards York, Selby, Hull,
Goole, Grimsby, and the east. .

In conjunction with the West Riding Union, Liverpool and Leeds,
and other projected railways passing through or near to Halifax, the
undertaking now proposed will form one of the most direct railway
communications, as well between the ports of Liverpool and Hull, as
between the great manufacturing districts of the west, and the agri-
cultural districts of the East.

The population residing upon and along the proposed line between
Halifax and Methley exceeds 200,000 persons, who are chiefly engaged
in manufacturing and mining industry—to such a community a rail-
way passing immediately through it, giving a nearer and snore con-
venient access to the Irish Channel and the German Ocean anq the
intermediate places, is an object of importance, and promises, viten
accomplished, to confer great advantages on the inhabitants, and to
secure to the shareholders an ample return for the capital invested.
By this project the valuable coal fields of Nike, Batley, Soothill,
East and West Ardsley, Lofthouse, and ;Stanley (containing
the well known " Bowling and Low Moor," " High Moor,"
and Stanley Main," beds which re now wrought to acon-
siderable extent), will be furnished, for the first time, with
the means of cheap and convenient railway transit tollalifax
and other large towns westward, and to York, Selby, Hull,
Goole, Grimsby, and various other places eastward. The celebrated
flagstone quarries of NorthOwram and Southowram, which annually
export from Goole, Selby, 'and Hull, to the eastern coast of England
and to the Continent, large quantities of flags, paving stones, arid
slates, will supply this line of railway with a considerable amount of
traffic.

By means of the Leeds and Dewsbury Railway, now in course of
construction (which the proposed line will intersect at Batley), the
inhabitants of the clothing districts previously mentioned will hav
the readiest access to the Leeds markets and to the country nortk
of Leeds.

By a junction at Cleckheaton with the Bradford and Dewsbury
branch of the West Riding Union Railway the present scheme will
give to Halifax and its populous neighbourhood the shortest railway
communication with Dewsbury, and in connexion with other pro-
posed lines with Barnsley, &c.
The same junction at Cleckheaton will give to Bradford and the
important iron works at Wibsey, and Low Moor, the nearest route to
Selby, Hull, and the east; consequently this railway company may
fairly lay claim to carry a large portion of the raw material and ma-
nufactured productions, used and produced in that densely-peopled
portion of Yorkshire
From a point on the main line at or near Soothill, it is intended to
make a branch to Wakefield of about five miles down► the Alverthorpe
Valley, there to join the Pontefract and Goole, the Wakefield branch
of the London and York, and the Midland Railways. It is evident,
therefore, that the proposed railway and its intended branch (aided
by the West Riding Union line between Bradford and Cleckheaton)
will provide the shortest route hitherto projected from Halifax and
Bradford to Wakefield, Doncaster, and the eastern counties.
From Halifax to the proposed junction at Methley the distance will
be about nineteen miles ; and, although the undulating surface of the
country along a portion of the line will occasion some expensive
works, yet the proposed capital is amply sufficient to complete the
whole of the railway, with its branches and stations. And the pro-
moters are enabled to state most confidently that the through and
local traffic in passengers, goods, and minerals, will be such as to
render this undertaking one of the most profitable in the kingdom.
The gradients are not unfavourable, there are no rivers or canals
to cross, and the project does not interfere with ornamented property
of any kind.
The Parliamentary survey is now in progress and will be ready
for the forthcoming session.

The liability of the shareholders will be limited by the Act of Par-
liament to the amount of their shares, and power will be taken to
allow interest at 4 per cent. on all deposits and calls from the time of
payment to the opening of the line.
A more enlarged prospectus, together with the names of an infinen-
tial Provisional Committee, will shortly be published; in the mean-
time, every information may be obtained of the solicitors, to whom
application for shares may be made in the subjoined form. A pre-
ference will be given in the allotment to landowners on the line and
parties locally interested.

By order,
CARR and NETTLETON, Solicitors to the Promoters,
Wakefield, October 8, 1845.
To the Provisional Committee of the Halifax and Hull Direct
Railway Company.

Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares of 201.
each in the above proposed railway, and I undertake to accept the
same, or any less number you may appropriate to me, subject to the
regulations of the Company, to execute the Parliamentary Contract
and the Subscribers' Agreement, and to pay, when required, the
deposit of 21. 2s. per share.

Name In full ........ • • .... •. •
Profession, Trade, or Occupation .....
Place of Business (if any) ...........
Name and Address of Referee

THE DIRECT LONDON, PORTSMOUTH,
AND CHICHESTER, AND DIRECT PORTSMOUTH
AND CHATHAM RAILWAY, via REIGATE.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,900,0001., in 95,000 Shares of 201. cash.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Frederick Clarkson, Esq., Chairman
•
Robert Chapman, Esq., Vice-Chairman
Samuel Brown, Esq. Wm. B. Hughes, Esq., M.P.
Joseph Scales, Esq. H. R. Downman, Esq.
John Parkinson, Esq. David Montague, Esq.
Edward Parratt, Esq. Thomas Stevenson, Esq.

BANKERS.
London —The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury
Chichester—Messrs. Dendy, Comper and Co., and
The London and County Banking Company
Rochester—Messrs. Day and Nicholson
Riegate —Messrs. Nash and Neale
Portsmouth and Portsea—National and Provincial Bank of
England, and Messrs. Grants, Oilman and Long
Manchester and Liverpool—The Manchester and Liverpool Dis-
trict Bank
Petworth—John Stoveld. Esq.
Enotrizzas—Messrs. Drayson, of 2, Palace-yard, Westminster.
SOLICITORS TO TUE COMPANY—Messrs. Pontifex and Moginie, 5. St.
Andrew's-court, Holborn-hill, London.
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 Albery, Esq., solicitor, Midhurst
Thomas Holmes Bosworth, Esq., solicitor, Westerhasa.
William King, Esq , Godalming
Arthur Daintry, Esq., Petworth
SECRETARY—Mr. John C. Sommers.
Offices of the Company, I A, Adelphi- terrace, Strand.

In submitting this undertaking to the public, the promoters are
Influenced no less by a conviction of its importance as a direct con-
necting line between the important towns of Chichester and Ports-
mouth and the metropolis, than by its grand national importance in
affording a direct communication between the two great naval and
military arsenals of Great Britain.—Portsmouth and Chatham.
The projected undertaking, by proceeding to the two termini at
Chichester and Portsmouth, will extend the facilities of communica-
tion with the coast branches of railways along the south of England,
connecting itself with Brighton to the eastward, and Southampton
towards the west. By the main line falling into the Brighton Rail-
way the advantage of two termini In London will be secured—the
one at the Bricklayers' Arms, and the other at Londondaridge—the
latter of which, from its proximity to the Custom House, and the
several docks on the Thames, is acknowledged to be the best position
for a London terminus for merchandise of all descriptions.
The line of railway intended to be constructed by this Company will
commence at or near the Redhill station near Reigate, on the Lon-
don and Brighton Railway, a distance of 21 miles from London-
bridge.
In its course to Portsmouth it will pass through or near Reigate,
Newdigate, Capel, Ockley, Ewhurst, Rudgwick, Cranley, Alfold,
Billinghurst, Wisborough-green, Plaistow, Haslemere, Chiddingfold,
North Chapel, Kirdford, Petworth, Midhurst, Chilgrove, Stoughton,
Radon, Westbourne, and Emsworth, at or near which last mentioned
place this projected line will join the Chichester and Portsmouth Rail-
way to Portsmouth.
At the earnest recommendation of some of the principal land-
owners, branches are proposed to be made to Godalming and Peters-
field. The branch to Godalming will be from a point in the main
line between Plaistow and North Chapel ; and the branch from
Betersfield will join the main line at a point between Midhurst and
!lepton. These extensions of this undertaking have rendered an in-
crease necessary in the amount of the capital originally fixed on ;
but from the increased accommodation which these branches will
afford, the promoters of the undertaking feel confident that a com-
mensurate profit will result to the shareholder.
A branch is proposed to be made from Dorking to join the main
linelatloemear Capel.
Ilv this-tourse the entire distance to travel between London and
Portsmouth will be abridged to 73 miles, a distance considerably
shorter than that by which any line hitherto projected between
Londo&and Port-mouth has proposed to pass, and also pursuing
a ronterniore populous and productive than any hitherto presented
topublic notice. It will involve the construction of only 45 miles of
railway to complete the course between the Redhill station (near
Reigate) and Emsworth.
From London to Reigate by the London and Brighton

Railroad is • •
The junction to be made by this Company is .
From the point near Emsworth to Portsmouth by the

21 miles,
45 „

Chichester and Portsmouth Railway is ..• .• .• • •

7 „

Total distance from London to Portsmouth .•.. .. 73 miles.
From Chilgrove a line of seven miles will be constructed, and
which will. place Chichester in direct communication with London.
The distance between Chichester and London by this route will be
62' miles.
Trains will run direct between London and Chichester, without
stopping at Chilgrove.
Inasmuch as the existing line of railway to Dover branches off
from the London and Brighton Railroad at Reigate, this projected
line will open up a communication by railroad between Portsmouth
and Dover.
From en inspection of the map, it will be seen that the Redhill
station, near Reigate, lies nearly in a direct line between Ports-
mouth and Chatham, and in pursuing the line of communication
to the last-mentioned naval and military depot, this line will pass
through or near to the towns of Bletchingley, Godston; Limpsileld,
Wcsterham, Seven Oaks, If,,,hthain, Town Mailing, Wrotham, Off-
ham, Snodland, Lower Hailing, and Wouldham.
The dLetance between Chatham and Reigate will lnyolve the