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THE SUE, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER IS, 1845.

MANCHESTER, BUXTON, MATLOCK,
and MIDLANDS JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Company's Offices, 27, George-street, Manchester, Sept. 8, 1954.
The Corn nittee of Management give notice that they have this (
resolved, in exercise of the powers vested in them by the subscribers'
agreement, to INCREASE the CAPITAL of this Company by the
sum of 600,0001., for the purpose of carrying out certain branches
and extensions of their original undertaking; and that they haze
further resolved to increase the deposit upon the shares of this Com-
pany to 21. 25., in obedience to the new requirements of the House of
Lords.
New capital, upon which a like deposit of 21. 29. per share will be
payable, will be allotted in the proportion of one new for every two
exifting share, to those parties who shall, on or before the 30th
September instant, deposit at the Company's offices, for registry and
exchange, the scrip now held by them, with a statement and ap-
plication in the annexed form, and (in the case of parties not being
original allottees of shares) a satisfactory reference to some party of
known respectability.•

The reqpisite order to one of the Company's bankers to receive the
increased deposit, and a letter of allotment of new shares will be
issued, in the case of original allottees within two days after registry
of the scrip, and in the case of other parties so soon as the Committee
shall be satisfied of their sufficiency.
Scrip, In respect of which the holders shall fail to take the neces-
sary steps for payment of the required deposit, within the specified
6eriod, will,be forfeited.
Forms of application for registry of scrip may be obtained on appli-
cation to the Secretary, at the offices of the Company.
HENRY TOOTAL. Deputy Chairman.
FRED. WRAGGE, Secretary.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR REGISTRY OF SCRIP.
To the Committee of Management of the Manchester, Buxton, Mai

lock, and Midlands Junction Railway.
Gentlemen,—Herewith are scrip for snares in the Man-
chester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midlands Junction Railway Com-
pany, in respect of which I request you to issue me new scrip ; and I
agree to pay such deposit, and to execute such deeds and agreements
as you may require.
I further request you to allot me new shares in the Com-
pany, in respect of which, or of such number as may be allotted to
me, I agree to pay the deposit, and to execute the Parliamentary
contract and subscribers' agreement, as and when I may be required.
Name in ibll
Description ..................
Address in full .
References
• This form must be tilled up in the hand-writing of the applicant.

C OVENTRY, NUNEATON, BIRMINGHAM,
AND LEICESTER RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 840,0001., in Shares of 251. each.
This Railway will connect Leicester, Birmingham, and Coventry,
by the nearest practicable route; and was provisionally registered
and capital subscribed long before any other scheme was projected
for supplying railway accommodation to the district.
COMPARATIVE TABLE OF DISTANCES.
Present Proposed Distance
distance. distance. saved.
Leicester to Birmingham.... 49 ........ 37
Leicester to Coventry • • • 31 ........ 24
This line will commence at or near the Wigston station
of the Midland Counties Railway, will pass by or near
the manufacturing localities of Narborough, Sapcote, Earl
Shilton, Burbage, and :Hinckley, through a district most favourable
for engineeriag purposes, to a junction with the Trent Valley at Nun-
eaton, thence It continues nearly dne west to the Whitacre station of
the Birmingham and Derby Railway, and south-west by Bedworth
to the Coventry station of the London and Birmingham Company.
The line will communicate with the Swannington Railway ei.h yr by
means of the proposed Broughton Astley branch of the Midlands, or
of a separate branch to be formed by this Company ; thereby opening
the entire of the Leicestershire coal-field to the counties south-east
of Leicester.
The Directors, for the last few months, having used their best
exertions for the interests of the Company, feel it their duty, now
that the surveys, plans, and other arrangements are sofar advanced,
to acquaint their shareholders with the position and prospects of the
undertaking.
The Coventry, Bedworth, and Nuneaton line, which received the
favourable report of the Board of Trade, and was before Parliament
last session, forms part of the present projected plan for connecting
Leicester, Coventry, and Birmingham.
The Directors have, by personal Inspection, accompanied by their
engineer, satisfied themselves of the remarkable facilities presented
by the district for executing the greater part of the line ; and from
careful investigation the Directors have the pleasure of informing the
shareholders that this undertaking eannot fail to prove a profitable
investment if supported by local traffic only, and with the certainty
that a through traffic from the eastern and western lines, combined
with the great advantages afforded by the junction with the Trent
Valley for the transit of goods to and from Liverpool, Scotland, Ire-
land, and the United States, its importance cannot be overestimated.
From the extent of population accommodated by this railway
—from the convenience afforded to the trade and manufactures of
the Midland Counties—from the vast mineral resources of the dis-
tricts traversed, and from its position in regard to other important,
established, and projected railways, the Directors feel confident that
it will be amply remunerative to the Shareholder, and highly advan-
tageous to the public.
The capital has been subscribed, and the Parliamentary deeds have
been executed, and the preliminary survey completed.
A list of a new and highly influential local direction, and a map of
the line, will be published in a few days.
By order, H. CASSIN, Secretary pro tem.
Offices, 3, Church-court, Old Jewry, London, Sept. 10, 1845.

RUGBY, DERBY, AND MANCHESTER
RAILWAY.
(Provisionally registered, pursuant to 7th and Bth Vic., c. 110.)
Capital, 1,500,000/. in 60,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
Is order to insure compliance with the Standing Orders both of the
Lords and Commons.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Right Hon. Lord George Paget, Uxbridge House, London
Sir Wm. Young, Bart., Westbourne-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of
the East India Company
Sir Wm. Hyde Pearson, Bart., 16, Hanover-square
Sir James Carmichael, Bart., 40, Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Direc-
tor of the Reading and Reigate Railway Company
Sir Wm. Boothby, Bart., Ashbourne Hall, Ashbourne
Sir John Hensler, Bart., Deputy-Lieutenant of Essex
The Mayor of Derby
Wm. Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.R.S. F.L.S., Alderman of London,
Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, Direc-
tor of the London and Greenwich, North London Junction, the
Oxford, Southampton, Gosport and Portsmouth and Chepstow,
Forest of Dean and Gloucester Junction Railways
John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., 80, Carebridge-terrace, Hyde Park,
Director of the Irish Great Western, and the Northampton, Ban-
bury and Cheltenham Railways
Thomas Stevenson, Esq., F.S.A., 37, Upper Grosvenor-street, Hyde
Park, Director of the Irish Great Western and the Reading and
Reigate Railways.
Henry Cane Leaky, Esq., 5, St. James's-square, a Director of the
Great Welch Junction Railway, the Bognor and London and
Brighton Junction Railway, and of the Lincoln, Louth, and Great
Grimsby Railway
Thomas Bent, Esq., M.D., Derby, Director of the Derby, Gait:Lebo-
rough, and Great Grimsby Junction Railway
James Clifford, Esq., Shardlow Hall, Derbyshire
William Cox, Esq., Brallsford, Derbyshire
David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland Hollow, Derbyshire
James Sutton, Esq., Shardlow Hall, Derbyshire
Goodwin Johnson,Esq., magistrate and landowner, Ashbourne
P. Wilmot, Esq., Welbeck-street, Cavendish-square
Major Thurston Dale, Ashbourne
Joseph Bridgett, Esq., Aldermanbury, London; and Colney Hatch,
near Barnet, and Derby
Cecil Brook Boothby, Esq., Ashbourne Hall, Ashbeurne, and Bolton-
street, Piccadilly
Henry Brigstock, Esq., M.D., Derby, Director of the Derby, Ut-
toxeter, and Stafford Railway
Joseph Lancelot Davenport, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby, Ut-
toxeter, and Staffordshire Railway
Frederick Fox, Esq., Melbourne, Agent for Lord Melbourne
James Joseph Dolman, Esq., Melbourne, Derbyshire
John Earp, Esq., Melbourne, Derbyshire
Charles Holbrooke, Esq., Alvaston, near Derby, Director of the
Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford, and of the Derby, Gainsborough,
Stafford, and Grimsby Railways
Jeremiah Pilcher, Esq., Russell-square, London, Director of the
Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Railway
William Seymour, Esq., Montague-place, Russell-square
William Chance, Esq., Spring-grove, Birmingham, Deputy-Chair-
man of the Birmingham and Leicester Railway, Director of the
Trent Valley, Midland, and of the Manchester and Southampton
Junction Railways
James Witham, Esq., Eaton-square
A. A. Fry, Esq., Temple
Thomas George Smith, Esq., Doughty-street, Meehlenburgh-square
John Hill, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford
Railway
Thomas Mimes, Esq., Melbourne, Derbyshire
Thomas Helmsley, Esq., Melbourne, Derbyshire
Henry Orton, Esq., King's Newton, Derbyshire
George Vandeleur, Esq., King's Newton, Derbyshire
Samuel Robinson, Esq., Shaw House, Melbourne, Derbyshire
John Towle, Esq., Borrowash Mills, Derbyshire
George WootoD, Esq., Chelston, Derbyshire
William Leetimere Whitmore, Esq., Director of the Irish Great
Western Railway
James Hothngworth, Esq., Melbourne and Derby
Wellington Ross Seymour, Esq., Montague-place, Russell-square
James Renshaw, Esq. Westheath House, Erith, Kent, Director of
the South Staffordshire Junction Railway
A. Inderwick, Esq., Brompton, Middlesex
With power to add to their number.
ENGINEER—CharIes Blunt, Esq., C. E.
SOLICITOR—Thomas Gibson Brewer, Esq., 13, Gray's Inn-square
STANDING Cot:rum—William Holt, Esq, Chancery-lane.
COUNTRY SOLICITORS.
Derby—John Moss, Esq.
Manchester—Messrs. Crossley and Sndlow
Ashbourne—John Fox. Esq.
Ashby-de-la-Zouch—Henry Minion Hawkesworth, Esq.
Hinckley—E. Kem Jarvis, Esq.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT—Thomas Baker, ESQ., Spring-gardens.
BANKERS,
Messrs. Masterman, Peters, Mildred and Co.
Derby—Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company
AGENTS.
London—Thomas G. Smith, Esq., 2, Warnford-court, Throgrnerton-
street
Ashbourne—Thomas Jones, Esq.
Derby—Augustus G. Greaves, Esq.
Leicester—Messrs. Eigood and Harrison
Hull--Messrs. Flint and Tootal
Liverpool—Messrs. J. B. and D. Neilson.
SECRETARIES.
William Richard Scott, Esq.
Horace Green, Esq.
Temporary Offices, 13, Gray's Inn-square.
The Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway, is a direct line from
London to Manchester, coming from London to Rugby along the
London and Birmingham line, and proceeding from Rugby to
Hinckley, through Market-Bosworth and .Ashby-de-la-Zouch, to
Derby, thence to Ashbourne, by Leek, to Macclesfield, and along the
Macclesfield and Stockport, and Stockport and Manchester Railways,
into Manchester.
A branch to Buxton is in contemplation.
The principle of this railway is to obtain a direct through line be-
tween some of the most important districts in the kingdom with the
least possible amount of new railway, and consequently the smallest
expenditure of capital.
It will also establish the shortest direct communication between
Derby and London, Sheffield and London, and between all the towns
on the North Midland Railway and London.
The Manchester, Derby and Rugby Railway will open a direct
communication between Manchester and Derby, and will considerably
shorten the distance between Manchester and Nottingham, and Man-
chester and Leicester.
The line from Derby to Rugby will establish the direct communi-
cation from that town to London, which has been so long considered
desirable by the inhabitants.
The same will apply to Sheffield, when the Sheffield and Chester-
field branch of the North Midland Railway is made. 'the Rugby,
Derby, and Manchester Railway, in connexion with the Oxford and
Rugby and Oxford, Southampton and Gosport Railways forms a di-
rect Manchester and Southampton line.
THE GREAT ADVANTAGES
of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway over the other pro-
jects into Manchester, among others, are—
First, That there are only seventy-five miles of railway to be
made, in place of one hundred and eighty-nine.
Secondly, That it is a more direct line from London to Manchester
than even the proposed direct lines.
Thirdly, That it interferes with ne existing railway property or
vested interests.
Fourthly, That it passes through a district rich in manufactures,
agriculture, and minerals, but which—more especially as regards its
agricultural produce, and a convenient system of intercommunication
for the conveyance of that agricultural produce, to supply the large
manufacturing towns in the vicinity—has been hitherto left totally
without railway communication.
Fifthly, That it passes through the towns in its route, instead of
avoiding them.
Sixthly, That the whole line of railway from Rugby to Manchester
will be completed and in working order within ten months from the
passing of the Act of Parliament.
Seventhly, That the maps, plans, estimates, and other documents
required by the standing orders of Parliament, will be lodged with
the Parish Clerks, the Clerks of the Peace for the Counties, and
the Parliamentary offices, on the 10th of November next, being
twenty days within the time required by the regulations of Parlia-
ment.
In the allotment of shares a preference will be given, to the extent
of 10,000 shares, to the holders of stock in the London and Birming-
ham Railway, also of 2,000 shares to the shareholders in the Oxford,
Southampton, and Gosport Railway Company, of 1,000 shares to the
Oxford and Rugby It iilway Company, and 2,003 shares to the Man-
chester and Birmingham Railway Company.
Applications for shares may be made to the Solicitor of the Com-
pany, or any of the agents or local etlicitors of the Company, but
all such applications must be accompanied by a reference to a mem-
ber of the Provisional Committee, or banker, solicitor, or stock-
broker.
No applications for shares will be received after Friday next, the
20th of September instant.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
RUGBY, DERBY, AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY.
Capital,
1,500,0001., in 60,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 2/. 12s. 6d. per Share.
To the Provisional Committee of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester
Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me shares in
the above proposed Railway, and I agree to accept that or any less
number that you may please to allot me, and I undertake to pay the
deposit of V. 123. 6d., per share on the same, and to sign the Parlia-
mentary Contract and Subscribers Agreement, and all other usual
day
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LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.
The Directory of the London and Birmingham Railway feel
themselves called upon to give Notice, that that Company has no
connexion whatever with a proposed line, announced as the " Lon-
don and Birmingham Extension Railway." The Directors of the
London and Birmingham Railway have instructed Mr. Robert
Stephenson to make the necessary surveys for a line from North-
ampton to Weedon, to connect their Peterborough Branch with the
proposed London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidderminster lino;
Acts for both which lines will be applied for in the ensuing Parlia-
mentary session.
The London and Birmingham Railway Company being of opinion
that the proposed London and Kidderminster line is, in connexion
with the London and Birmingham line, best adapted for the accom-
modation of the Public, will give it their most cordial support and
co-operation. By order,
Office, Euston-station, R. CREED, Secretary.
Sept. 10th, 1845.

THE OXFORD and WORCESTER EXTEN-
SION and CHESTER JUNCTION RAILWAY, with
Branches to Shrewsbury and Northwiteh. On the Broad Gauge.
(Provisionally registered.)
Capital 2,250,000!., in 125,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Lord George Paget, Uxbridge House
The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Poultney, 4, Parliament-street, Director
of the Nottingham and Boston Railway
Major Beresford, M.P.
Sir William Bacon Johnson, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire, Director
of the Chester and Forest of Dean Railways
Sir Wm. Wynn, Maesyneward, Chairman of the North Wales Railway
Sir Samuel Brown, Director of the Worcester and Wanvlck Railway
Sir John Edward de Beauvoir, Chairman of the London and Bir-
mingham Extension
Sir John Hare, Langham-place, Director of the London and Bir-
mingham Extension
Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London, Director of the London
and Manchester and Leeds and Liverpool Railways
Colonel Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, Director of the London and
Birmingham Railway
Colonel Fitch, 36, York-terrace, Director of the South and Midland
Admiral J. Ayscough, Prospect-place, Southampton, Director of the
South and Midland
Major Croft, 15, Regent-street, Deputy Chairman of the Manchester
and Chester Railway
Major Chase, 31, Nottingham-place
Captain S. M. Fisher,jun., Director of the Warwick and Worcester
Railway
Captain Hitchens, H.E.1.C.5., Director of the Birmingham and Ox-
ford Railway
Captain F. Chamfer, Halkin-street, Belgrave-square, Director of the
Great Paris and Lyons Railway.
Wm. Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., Alderman of Lon-
don, Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation,
Chairman of the London and Greenwich Railways, Sec., &c.
Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South
Midland Railway
John Kinnersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the
London and Manchester Direct Railway, and South Midland
Thos. Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South
Midland Railway
Thos. Challis, Esq., Alderman of London, Wilson-street, Finsbury
Thos. Sidney, Esq., Alderman of London, Sheriff of Loudon and
Middlesex
Captain Jas. Patrick Macdongai, late Bengal Royal General Staff,
Fan-grove, North Brixton, Director of the Chester and Forest of
Dean Railway, &c.
Captain Alex. Hamilton Carle, Royal Artillery, Reform Club.
John Inglis Jardein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby
and Southampton Railway
Wm. Morley, Esq„ Blackheath
Wm. Lee, Esq., Director of the Gravesend and Rochester, and Essex
and Suffolk Railways
Rd. Carpenter, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Chas. Robt. Colman, Esq., Director of the South and Midland Rail-
way
Henry Wright, Esq., Director of the Warwick and Worcester Rail-
way
John Wheelton, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Thomas Collingridge, Highgate, Middlesex
Chas. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
John Brock Walbanck, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
Rd. Wm. Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester and
Derbyshire and South Staffordshire Railways
Francis Valentine Lee, Esq., Temple, Director of the Eastern Counties
Railway
Major Jelf Sharp, Deputy Chairman of the Thames Embankment
Railway
Major-General Brooks Parlby, 18, Rutland-place
W. Simpson Potter, Esq., Director of the Oxford, Witney, and
Cheltenham Railway
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester
Direct and Liverpool and Leeds Railways
Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of the London and Birmingham
Railway
W. F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Director of the
Italian and Austrian Railway
W. G. Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway
Robert Henry Lyndam, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth
Railway
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanston-street, Portman-square,
Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
J. B. Richardson, Esq., Director of the Colchester and Cambridge
Railway
Julian Skreene, Esq., Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln
Railway
Frederick James Hall, Esq., Torrington-square, Director of the Bide-
ford and Tavistock Railway
Captain C. W. Tyndall, Director of the South-Eastern Railway
Frederick Jones, Esq., Director of the Warwick and Worcester
Railway
Henry Lewis Smale, Esq., Willoughby House, Tottenham, Director
of the London and Dover Railway
C. Waite, Esq., Willesden, Middlesex
R. W. Wood, Esq., Lodge-place, St. John's Wood, Director of the
North Metropolitan Railway
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manchester
and Birmingham Railway
Wm. Shaw, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment Railway
Wm. Alfred Hill, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith
Railway
Richard Dutton, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands Junction
Railway
Wm. Slark, Esq., Director of the Guarantee Society
James Reeves, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Railway
Frederick Collingridge, Esq., Tharlow-square, Brompton
Warren S. Bale, Esq., Greesham- street
Robert Richards, Esq., Temple, Director of the Birmingham and Lon-
don Extension Railway
Kingsmill Grove Key, Esq.
The Rev. F. K. Hall, D.D., Rector of Falbourne, Cambridge
Daniel Penton Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Mulches-
ter Railway
Charles Green, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystsfith
Railway
John Barber, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith
Railway
Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Hereford
E. R. Foster, Esq., Director of the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford-
shire Railway
Martin Funds, Esq., Director or the Nottingham, Newark, and
Boston Railway
W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the Birmingham and Manchester
Extension Railway
W. Bardgett, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian Railway
Richard Parish, Esq., Rank House, Wordsley, Staffordshire
Samuel Parish, Esq., Wordsley, near Stourbridge, Staffordshire
Alexander Greig, Esq., Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square, Director of
the Leicicester and Birmingham Railway
Thomas Yates Hunt, Esq., Brades, near Birmingham
William Singleton, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool
Direct Railway
Wm. Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Railway
James Muscroft, Esq., Pontefract
David William Nell, Esq., Leeds, J.P., Director of the Leeds and
Thirsk Railway
Joseph Robert Wilkin Atkinson, Esq., Director of the Leicester and
Bedford, and York and Lancaster Railways
John Fagan, Esq., Gloucester-road, Old Brompton
Charles Holden, Esq., Director of the Great Grimsby and Sheffield
Railway
J. D. Hopkins, Esq., Bedford-square, Director of the London and
Birmingham Extension. Railway
Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds, Director of the West Riding Junction
Railway
Peter Fairbairne, Esq., Leeds, Chairman of the Lincoln, Tork and
Leeds Railway
John Blackburn, Esq., Leeds
J. M. Douglas, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth
Railway
W. Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street
John Anderson, Esq., Director of the South and Midland Railway
W. Ley, Esq., Gloucester-place, Pertman-square
Robert Power, Esq., M.D., Queen-street, May Fair
John Anderson, Esq., E.1.C.5., Lothbury
Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Old Palace, Richmond
W. Pastow, Esq., Surrey-place
James Darness, Esq., Leytonstone, Essex
G. N. Wright, M.A.
John Alexander Bicknell, Esq., Brandon Cottage, Bristol, Director of
the South and Midlands' Junction Extension Railway
(With power to add to their number.)

The names of as influential Committee formed at Worcester and
Chester will be published In a few days.

BANKERS.
The Commercial Bank of London
Erromp.za—William Mullingar Higgins, Esq.
SOLICITORS.

Potter and Collingridge, 5, Basinghall-street ; W. B. James, Esq.,
5, Basinghall-street.
SnatETAßT—Hilton Thomas Jenkins, Esq.

The geographical position of Worcester has caused its adoption as
the point where the broad guage trunk lines of the west are to have a
common terminus. From Oxford the Great Western Company have
decided on constructing a line of rail :—another project under the pa-
tronage of the same powerful direction is now before the public,
uniting Worcester with Warwick ; and, that the broad gauge will be
carried from Worcester into Wales, and to the Irish packet stations
on that coast, is now no longer doubtful. This undertaking will com-
plete a series of great avenues of iron-road, whose ramification
from Worcester will render every part of the kingdom directly
accessible from that city. Passing up the Severn Vale, where
it will disclose a succession of picturesque scenes, it reaches
Stourport, and proceeding thence through Kidderminster, arrives at
Bewdley. This district is one of the chief seats of our carpet manu-
factures, and in the towns here named, exclusive of the intervening
districts, upwards of 30,000 persons are located. Leaving Stourbridge
a little to the east, the line is taken to Bridgenorth, a town enjoying
an active inland trade, and possessing woollen manufactures and iron
works, that gives employment to a population of about 13,000. Pass.
ing through or near to Much Wenlock, Broseley, and Madeley, from
which place there will be a branch to Shrewsbury, the line ascends
Colebrook Dale, and approaching in its course Wellington and Wem,
enters Whitchurch. From this central place a branch will be formed
to Norwich via Stoke, forming a junction with the Liverpool and
Crewe Railway. The trunk line will continue from Whitchurch, and
passing through or near Malpas, have its northern terminus in the
city of Chester.

In estimating the probable amount of revenue which the Worees-
ter and Chester Railway may be expected to yield, many sources of
profit present themselves, such are the dense population located along
the length of the Severn Vale, and the enriching works of industry
In which they are engaged. Amongst the latter may be mentioned
the China manufactories of Worcester; the iron, coal, and earthen-
ware works at Broseley and other places; the agricultural produce
brought to Stourport market ; the inexhaustible fields of coal and
mines of iron ore in the vicinity of Colebrook Dale, Ironbridge, and
the districts to the east of Shrewsbury generally.
In calculating the cost of construction unusual advantages are also
obvious. The line traverses a district affording levels of several
miles in extent, and with a surface peculiarlyfavourable. The resi-
dent population, disappointed by the postponement of promised pro-
jects, have warmly espoused the present, and the labouring popula-
tion being familiar with mining operations, will be found better
qualified for the execution of railway works here than in many other
localities.

As a link in the railway network of England, or as auxiliary
to existing or projected lines passing in various directions, few
schemes hitherto proposed appear to afford greater inducement
for investment, or a wider range of accommodation for traffic and
travelling. This projea constitutes a lengthened link in the chain
that will connect Liverpool with Bristol, the grand trunk of the
West of England ;—its southern terminus, Worcester, is the half-
way station of the London and Port Dynnllaen broad gauge line :
by projected lines a direct communication will be afforded west-
ward to Swansea and Aberystwith, and, eastward, to Warwick and
Northampton, Cambridge, Peterborough, Harwich, Lynia, Lincoln,
an I Hull.

The
line has been repeatedly and t t carefullytherail for n
examined,anbyymthileesCinomay-
pany's acting engineer, who reports that
be laid an the natural level—that the gradients are in every in-
stance favourable—that the geological structure of the districts to
be traversed is equally so, and that the want of such a line of com-
munication is acknowledged by the interests seated on its proposed
course.
Applications for prospectuses and plans may be made, and forms
of application for shares had at the offices of Messrs. Potter and
Collingridge, solicitors, 5, Basinghall-street ; also of W. B. James,
Esq., solicitor, 5, Basingliall-street ; of the local agents ; and of the
following gentlemen :
Mr. Samuel Hanbury, 4, Angel-court,
London .......... Mr. Whiston Powell, Copthall-court and
Messrs. Peppercorne, 2, Old Broad-street
_ _ _

Alston and Gage.
Manchester ••• • • • [Messrs. Houghland and Leese, and Mr. Wil-
liam Marshall.
Hu11......... . Messrs. Collinson and Flint.

Leeds • • • • • • •• • • • • r Messrs. Watson and Co., and
IMessrs. Smith and Perfect
Stratford-on-Avon-11r. William Bolton.
Exeter....... ..... Mr. Thomas Sanford.
Plymouth ... ••• .. Mess s. Hayward and Palmer.
Birmingham •• • • Mr. Collis and Mr. John Wright.
Glasgow.. . Messrs. Magic and Co.
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Edinburgh Messrs. Robertson and Co., and Messrs. M'Cal-
tura and Co.
Huddersfield
Worcester

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR A
To the Provisional Committee of the WoSHrcestßer E and Cheater
Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me Shares of
201. each in this Company, and I undertake to aceept the same, an
to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any lees number that may be al-
lotted to me ; and I undertake also to execute the Parliamentary
Contract and Subscribers' Agreen9.ent. when required.

Dato .: ~. •. ~....:..

Ifime (In full)..
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EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY
COMPANY.
iNreW Shakes of 14/. 165., on which 4/. 16s. has been paid.
Parties holding bankers' recests for the first instalment of V. 16s.
are requested to send in such receipts forthwith to the Company's
Office, for the purpose of being exchanged for scrip ; and those par-
ties who hare lodged the bankers' receipts at the Office, but who hate
not applied for the scrip, are requested to take up the same.
By order of the Board,

A. BULKELEY, Secretary.
Offices, Shoreditch Station, Sept. 12, 1845.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY
EXTENSION STOCK, No. 2.
The Directors of the Eastern Counties Railway Company do, in
pursuance of the powers vested in them by the General Meeting of
the Proprietors held on the 28th August last, and for the purposes
mentioned in the report of the Directors to the Proprietors, CALL
the sum of FGUR POUNDS per Share on the shares of the Exten-
sion Stock, No. 2, of the Eastern Counties Railway Company, 2/.
per Share thereof to be paid on TUESDAY, the 23d day of September
instant, and the remaining 21. per share thereof on TUESDAY, the
18th day of November next, to any of the under-mentioned bankers
of the Company. Interest will be charged upon these instalments at
the rate of 5/. per cent. per annum, if not duly paid at the above-
montioned dates.

The holders of certificates of Extension Stock, No. 2, must deliver
the same up to the bankers on paying such first instalment of 21. per
share, and the bankers' receipt for the same must be exchanged at
the Company's office for new scrip, representing 21. 13s. 4d. as paid
upon each share. . . . . .

All outstanding bankers' or office receipts for the instalments of
13s. 4d. per share, formerly paid, and not yet exchanged for scrip,
must be forthwith sent to the Company's office, to be exchanged for
scrip certificate ; London and Westminster Bank, Lothbury, or any
of its branches ; Liverpool Borough Bank, Liverpool ; Manchester
and Liverpool District Bank, Manchester; Wilts and Dorset Banking
Company, Salisbury ; Messrs. Lemon and Co., Brentwood ; Messrs.
Mills, Bawtree, and Co., Colchester ; Messrs. Sparrow and Co.,
Chelmsford ; National Provincial Bank, Bath ; National Provincials
Bank, Birmingham ; National Provincial Bank, Boston; Wester ;
Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh ; Western Bank of Scotland, Glasgow
Royal Bank of Ireland, Dublin; East of England Bank, Great Yar-
mouth ; West of England and South Wales District Bank, Bristol ;
Messrs. Harveys and Hudsons, Norwich ; Messrs. Bacon, Cobbold,
and Co., and Messrs. Alexanders and Co., Ipswich ; Cheltenham and
Gloucestershire Bank, Cheltenham.
By order of the Board,
A. BULKELEY, Secretary,
Offices, Shoreditch Station, Sept. 12, 1815.

IRISH WEST COAST RAILWAY
(Registered Provisionally.)

Capital, 2,560,0601., in 100,000 Shares.of 251. each.
Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d.

pro Subscriber to be liable beyond the amount of his Shares.)

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Sir Valentine Blake, Bart., M.P., Menlough Castle, Galway
Mark Blake, Esq., M.P., Ballinafad, Mayo
Robert Dillon Browne, Esq., M.P., Glencorrib, Mayo
John Patrick, Somers, Esq., M.P., Sligo
Sir Thomas Bernard Going Dancer, Bart., Mcolreeny house, Clough-
Jordon, county Tipperary, Director of the Galway and Kilkenny
Railway
The Hon. Geoffry Browne, Wilton-crescent, London, and Castle
M`Garrett, Mayo
The Hon. Douglas Kinniard Pulteney, Parliament-street, Whitehall,
Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
Michael Gallagher, Esq., Mayor of Sligo
Johh Netterville Barron, Esq., Resident Magistrate, Sanders Park,
Cork
William Campbell, Esq., Sackville-street, and Brighton
John Carmichael, Esq., T.C., Rivertson House, Cork, Director of the
Cork and Killarney Railway
Thomas Coming, Esq., Ballybrit House, Galway
John Dunn, Esq., M.D., M.R.C.S., L. and D., Drumsna, Leitrim
Robert Graham, Esq., J.P., Dramgoon Fermanagh
Henry Griffith, Esq., D.L., J.P., Port Royal, Sligo, Director of the
Sligo and Shannon Railway
W. A. Hill, Esq., Lonsdale-square, Deputy Chairman of the Gloucester
and Aberystwith Railway
Robert Hughes, Esq., Ely House, Wexford, Director of the Provin-
cial Bank of Ireland
William King, Esq., Spring Gardens, and Putney, Surrey
John Knox, Esq., Greenwood Park, Mayo
Capt. Charles Carden Mansergh, Longraigue. Wexford, Director of
the Wexford, Waterford, and Valentia Railway
Capt. Newton, Bruton-street, and Lugwardin, Herta
Charles Ormheby, Esq., D.L., Cummin, Sligo
Michael Perrin, Esq., Galway
Rees Price, Esq., M.D., Tyne Hall, Great Ilford, Essex
Joseph Richardson, Esq., J.P. Summer-hill House, Clones
Thomas Seymour, Esq., J.P., Ballymore Castle, Ballinasloe
James Sexton, Esq., J.P., Limerick
S. W. Simcockes Esq., Galway
John Walsh, Esq , Castlehill, Mayo
Captain George Edward Watts, R.N., Langton Grange, Darlington

With power to add to their number. ..-
ENGINEER.—CoIoneI Landmann, R.E., F.A.S.,
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co.
Ireland—National Bank and Branches
Provincial Bank and Branches.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Langley and Mead, Bedford-row, London.
William Thomas Kelly, Esq., 16, Mountjoy-square, North, Dublin,
and Castlobar, Mayo.

LOCAL AGENTS.
Galway.--Captain F. O'Shaughnessy
Castlebar.—Mr. Henry Murphy
Sligo, Mr. W. C. Tuite.
SEcurturr.—Henry P. Stuart, Esq.
PROSPECTUS.

The object of this line of Railway is to complete the chain of coast
communication, and form a connexion with lines already established
or projected with reasonable hopes of success.
' It will commence at or near the city of Limerick, and taking a nor-
therly direction, proceed through the counties ofClare, Galway, Mayo,
and Sligo, terminating at Sligo, by a junction with the Sligo and Ennis-
killen R ailway, and accommodating on it 8 route the important cities and
towns of Limerick, Ennis, Gort, Loughrea, Athenry, Monivea, Tuam,
Ballinrobe, Castlebar, Westport, Foxford, Balling, Kilalla, Swineford,
StreaniStovtri, and Sligo, which town being connected with the north,
east, and south, by the different lines through Enniskillen, London-
derry, Coleraine, Belfast, fArmagh, Newry, Dundalk, Drogheda,
Dublin, Wicklow, Wexford, Waterford, Cork, Killarney, Valentia,
Tralee, and Limerick, the establishment of this line will cause Ire-
land to present a completeness of locomotive communication welch
no other country in the world enjoys.
The country through which the proposed line travels is most fertile
. .

in !mineral and agricultural products; it embraces many extensive
coal fields, whose advantages it will extend to all parts of Connaught
and Ulster ; and intersecting, as it does, so many metropolitan lines
of railway, it will develops those advantages in an equal degree to
the province of Leinster.

The lead, iron, marble, and slate works on its route, will be
rendered available to the most distant parts of the island, and
perhaps not the least advantage, in a national point of view, will be
the establishment of an intercourse between the population of the
extreme north and that of the extreme south, as well as placing the
trade of, and communication with, Scotland, within the easy reach
of all towns of any importance in Ireland. Added to this the cer-
tainty that on the completion of the projected southern, eastern, and
western lines, the noble natural harbours on the Atlantic shore of
Ireland will become the British depots of American traffic, and most
probably the established packet stations for postal communication
between the two countries ; it is impossible to over-rate the value of
this truly national projection.
_

The counties which Ws railway traverses abundantly supply the
English markets with cattle, pigs, &c. This line, communicating with
so many ports, will afford the greatest facilities for the shipping of
this portion of trade, some idea of the extent of which may be formed
Man the fact of upwards of five hundred fairs being held annually
in its immediate vicinity, among them, the fair of Ballinasloe, ac-
knowledged the greatest for sheep and cattle in the British islands.
It has been ascertained that the country presents great engineering
facilities for the construction of a railway, and in communications
which have been received from the landowners along the line, the
greatest anxiety is manifested for its completion.
The subscribers will be I eld liable only to the extent of their first
deposits until an Act of Parliament is obtained, and afterwards only
to the amount of their subscriptions. _ _

Power will be applied for in the Act—and in the meantime is
hereby given to the Committee—to increase the capital, If necessary ;
to alter or abandon any part of the line, to make branch lines, or
enter Into arrangements with any other company or companies ; and
also to nominate the first directors of the company.
The Parliamentary contract and subscribers' agreement will be
ready for signature on payment of the deposits.
Subjoined will be found, in the form of an appendix :
First. The population of the counties and principal towns through
which the line will pass, showing that accommodation will be
afforded to more than one million and a half of inhabitants.

Secondly. Extracts from the Railway Commissioners' Report en
Ireland, giving accounts of the exports and imports at the different
harbours on the line, in 1835, but the vast increase in trade which
has taken place since that period, must very much enlarge any esti-
mate to be made on their data.
Thirdly, An account of the mineral products before referred to.
A perusal of these differen tables, it is presumed, will afford con-
clusive evidence of the profitable nature of this undertaking.
It will be seen, from the accompanying plan, that the railway in-
tersects many main lines, and will thus contribute to, and receive
from them a considerable amount in passenger and merchandise
traffic.

From the estimates that have been made, a return of at least 10
per cent. must be realised on the capital.
Application for shares to be made to the Solicitors in London and
Dublin ; to the Local Agents ; to the Secretary, at the office of the
Company, 10, Old Jewry Chambers ; and to the undermentioned
brokers :—Mr. D. B. Major, Change-alley, Cornhill ; Mr. Anthony
Laurie, Liverpool ; Messrs. Brady and Staniforth, Manor-street,
Hull ; Mr. S. Grindrol, Manchester ; Messrs. Watson and Co.,
Leeds ; Mr. George Edwards, Bristol ; Messrs. Tyeth and Wills,
Plymouth; Mr. Robert Allan, Edinburgh; Messrs. M`Ewen and
Auld, Glasgow; Mr. William Gordon, Aberdeen; Messrs. Curtis and
Power, Dame-street, Dublin ; Mr. James Morgan, Cork ; of whom
Prospectuses may be had. . .

FORM OF APPLIC A.TION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Irish West-Coast Railway
Company.
gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me Shares of
251. each in the above undertaking ; and I agree to accept such
shares as may be allotted to me, and to pay the Deposit of 2/.
123. 6d. each thereon; and also tO sign the Parliamentary Contract
and the Subscribers' Agreement, when required.
Dated the day of 1643.
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•I) IRECT WESTERN RAILWAY,
(Upon the Broad Gauge),
From London to the Land's-end ; with Diverging Lines to Bath and
Bridgewater tespectively.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 21. 15s. per Share.
IMOVISIONAL COITMITTEE.
The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., Director of the South Mid-
land Railway, Brookes' Club, St. James's-street
Sir Francis Dugdale Astley, Bart., Everly House, Pewsey, Wilts
Sir Henry Webbe, Bart., 105, 14.,,p1an
Frederick Hodgson, Esq., M.P. for Barnstaple, 3, Canton Gardens
Howard Elphinstone, Esq., M.P., 10, Eaton-place, London
Ralph Neville, Esq , M.P. for Windsor, Hill-street, Berkeley-squan‘
Charles Barry Baldwin, M.P.. for Totuess, 6, Parliament-street
Hon. Percy Evans Freke, 3, Belgrave-square
Thomas Nugent Vaughan, Esq., 32, Grosvenor-place, London
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the
Sheffield and Manchester and Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
Companies.
Sir John Key, Bart , 9, King's Arms-yard, Alderman of the City of
London, Director of the Direct Manchester and London and Direct
Liverpool and Leeds Railway Company
Thomas Famcomb, Esq., Griffin's Wharf, Tooley-street, Alderman
of the City of London, and Director of the London and Westmin-
ster Bank, and of the London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidder-
minster Railway
Thomas Challis, Esq., 32, Wilson-street, Finsbury, Alderman of the
City of London
Edward Harrisson Barwell, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the North-
ampton. Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway, and Director of the
Louth Midland Railway
Joseph Armitage, Esq., Miln's Bridge House, Huddersfield, Deputy
Lieutenant and a Magistrate for the West Riding of Yorkshire,
Chairman of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
William Gordon Thomson, Esq., 33, Gloucester-road, Hyde Park,
Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham, and
South Midland Railways
Donald Maclean, Esq., 37, Brunswick-square, London, Deputy
Chairman of the Trent Valley Continuation Eallsl ay
Thomas Lawrence, Esq., 3, St. Mary Axe
Philip W. Courtnay, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, London
Millis Coventry, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street
Barnet L. !Philips, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, and
George-street, Mansion House
John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, Tunbridge, Kent, Director of
the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Holderness House, near Hull,
13orepeunty:5Liiidedulteetuoanntjalidan3d14Eisscitra'te for the East Riding of Yorkshire
Charles Robert Coleman, Esq., Irongate Wharf
William Eales, Esq., Mincing lane, London, late Director of the
Devon and Cornwall Banking Company
Charles Downes, Esq., Warwick-street, Charing-cross, Director of
the South Midland ailway
Martin Stately, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park, London,
Director of the Dublin, ,Belfast, and Coleraine, and the South
Essex Railways
Francis Ede, Esq., 34, Great Winchester-street
John Griffith Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Director of the Londonderry
and Coleraine and the Londonderry and Enniskillen Railways
John Addis, Esq., Rotherhithe and Mark-lane, London, Director of
the Central Terminus Railway, and of the Licensed Victuallers'
Fire and Life Insurance Company
James Renshaw, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street, and West
Heath House, Er.th, Kent, Director of the South Staffordshire
Railway
Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brembo Ironworks, Wrexham, and Cannon-
street, London
H. G. Atkinson, Esq., Upper Gloucester-place, Regent's Park
George 31'Intosh, Esq., 127, Seymour-street, Portman-sqnare
Frederick Solly Flood, Esq., Alpha-road, Regent's Park, London
Major White, 105, Pall-mall, London, Director of the South Midland
Railway
Charles Bleaden, Esq., Coulsden-court, Surrey, Chairman of the Li-
censed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company
J. G. Hammack, Esq., Essex House, Mile-end-road, Director of the
Licensed Victualler? Fire and Life Assurance Company
Patrick Fres. Johnston, Esq., Great Cumberland-place
Joseph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, Minorles, Director of the London and
Blackwell Railway Company
W. D. Bruce, Esq., F.S.A., 17, Charles-street, St. James's, and Ripon
Cutchbert Woodstock, Esq., Grove-road, North-road, North Brixton
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanstone-street, Portman-
square, Director of Tring, Reading, and Basignstoke, the Exe-
ter, Dorchester, and Weymouth, and the Great Western Extension
Railways
George Hammond Whalley, Esq., 30, Pall-mall, London, Assistant
'etas Commissioner
William Hagan, Esq., 60, Baker-street, Portman-square
William Breynton, Esq., Montpelier, Cheltenham, and Temple, Lon-
don, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth Railway
Richard Harris Purcell, Esq., Cambridge-Street, Hyde Park, Lon-
don, Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Railway
Company-
Philip Baker, Esq.' Euston-square, London, Auditor of the London
and Blackwall Railway Company
Charles James Heath, Esq., 6, London-street, Mark-lane
Captain E. N. Trowbridge, R.N., 11, Eaton-square
Anthony Ridley, Esq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury, a Director of the
St. Katherine's Dock Company
William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square
Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., Clopton 'House, Warwickshire, and
Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire
George Payne, Esq., Sulby Hall, Northamptonshire, and Charles-
street, Berkeley-square
James Beech, Esq., Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, and Grosvenor-
place, London
Nicholas Philpot Leader, Esq., Dromagh Castle, county Cork, Union
Club, Trafalgar-square, Director of the Killarney Junction Rail-
way Company
Samuel Baker, Esq., Lyppiat Park, Gloucestershire, and London
William Congreve Russell, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Di-
rector of the Warwickshire and London Railway
Henry Bradley, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire
John William Yerbury, Esq., Belcombe House, Wiltshire, Captain 3d
Light Dragoons
Robert Main, Esq., Ravensbourne Park, Lewisham, and Trinity-
square, London
Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsall House, Retford, Nottinghamshire
John Glilyatt Booth, Esq., Crouch Hall, Homsey
Major-Gen. Martin White, Marlborough-buildings, Bath
Rev. T. Harvey Ashworth, Burlyns House, near Newbury, Berks
Col. Burslem, Harwood Lodge, Newbury, Berks
Major Kirwan, Great Pulteney-street, Bath
Rev. Dr. Godfrey, Grosvenor-place, Bath
Edward Cooper, Esq., Stavertoo, Wilts, Magistrate of the County
Henry Toogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse, Wilts, Magistrate of the
County
Rev. Chas. Fres. Bainfyide, Rector of Dunkerton, near Bath
Richard Mortimore, Esq., Chippenham, Wilts
George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, Director of the Bristol and Birming-
ham Railway Company
R. Wootten, jun., Esq., Banker, Oxford, Director of the Buckingham-
shire Railway and Wolverton Junction
Richard Mortimore, Esq., Kingsmill, Collumpton
Rev. John Sydenham, Collumpton
Rev. R. A. Roberts, Rector of Kentisbere, Collumpton
Charles Justice, Esq., Collumpton, Devon
Richard Marker, Esq., Ufculm Cottage, Tiverton
Colonel Henry Dundas Campbell, North End House, Portsmouth

George Pearce, Esq., Bradninch House, near Collunipton
Wm. H. Halcomb, Esq., Chilton, Hungerford, Chairman of the Berks
Union Banking Company
William Halcomb, Esq., Marlborough, Manager of the Wilts and
Dorset Bank
Captain W. G. Maclean, R.N., Taunton
Robert Parsons, Esq., Taunton
John Dalzell, Esq., Wallingford, Berks
Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
John Kerle Haberfield, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
Troup, Esq., Hastings
John Robson, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
John 3forford Cottle, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington, Director
of Coventry and Leicester Railway
Joseph Knight, Esq., Leicester, Director of South Midland and North-
ampton, Banbury and Cheltenham Railways
John Newton Mappin, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Midland Railway Company
John Ridgeway, Esq., Cauldon-place, the Potteries, Staffordshire,
Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway
James Bart, jun., Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and
Southampton Railway
Edward Norris, Esq., Ciairville, Manchester, Director of the Direct
London and Manchester, and North Cheshire Railway Companies
Joseph Nadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and
Wigan, and Manchester and Southampton Railways
James Ogden, M.D., Salford
Sir William Lowthrop, Hull, Magistrate for the East Riding of York
and for the borough of Hull, Chairman of the " Hull and Barnsley"
Committee, and Member of the acting Committee of the "Liver-
pool and Leeds Direct Railway Companies"
John Holford, Esq., Rusholm Hall, Manchester
C. H. Jones, Esq., Huddersfield, Deputy Chairman of the Hudders-
field and Sheffield, and Director of the Halifax and Bradford
Union Railway
Charles Bamford, jun., Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley
Junction
John Lillie, Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and South-
ampton Railway
John Robson, Esq., Hetton-le-Hole, Durham
Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Sheffield and
Manchester, and Chairman of the Manchester, Birkenhead, and
Midland Railway Companies
Isaac Holmes, Esq., Liverpool
Win. B. Newbery, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Dudley and
Iron Bridge Railway Company
C. Appleby, Esq., Broombill, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and
Manchester Railway Company
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach,
and Lincolnshire Railway, and Salisbury and Swindon Railways
John Ward, Esq., Machin Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield,
Rotherham, and Chesterfield Life Assurance-office
Wm. Thompson, Esq. UpperthorPe, near Sheffield, Director of the
Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
Adderley Howard, Esq., Sutton Wisbech, Director of the East Coast
Railway Company
Captain Bowker, Devonport
H. S. Bright, Esq., Hull
Samuel Swann Brittain, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the East and West
of England Railway Company
John Fawcett, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Wakefield and Har-
rowgate Railway Company
William Marriott, Esq., Attereliff-terrace, Sheffield, Director of the
Isle of Ely, Wisbeach and Lincolnshire Junction Railway.
Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln, Director of the London and York
and East Lincolnshire Railways
John Johnstone Hamilton, Esq., Liverpool
David Price, Esq., Manchester
William Hunter, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington
Rev. Charles Cottle, Rector of Walton, Northamptonshire
Major Wornum, Clarence-square, Cheltenham
Edward Hall, Esq., Westbank House, Macclesfield, Director of the
South Midland and the Northampton and Cheltenham Railways
Henry Hubbersty, Esq., Hull
John Ostler, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction
Henry Shaw, Esq., Fetter-lane
Henry Sayer, Esq., Commercial-road, Limehouse, merchant
John Mee Mathew, Esq., Gray's Inn-square, Assistant Tithe Com-
missioner
John Norton, Esq., Moat House, Brentwood, Essex
William John M`Guire, Esq. Hampton Court
John Gray Wilson, Esq., Oxford-terrace
Capt. J. P. Macdougall, Fir Grove, North Brixton, Surrey
W. J. Lefevre, Esq., Alderman and Magistrate of Southampton
Thomas Chas. Harrison, Esq., York-tPrrace, Regent's Park
G. B. Banbury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the
Coventry and Leicester Railway
Captain Tringham, R.N., Solyhull, Warwickshire
William Jonson Neale, Esq., King's Bench-walk, Temple
James Whitney, Esq., Shrewsbury
Henry Paul Harwood, Esq., M.D., Sheffield

(With power to add to their number).
Berms---31essrs. Curries and Co., Cornhill, London.
JOINT SOLICITORS.
Messrs. 8011, Brodrick, and Bell, Bow Churchyard, London
Messrs. Rickards and Walker, 29, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London
Messrs. Haynes and Moore, Warwick and London
Messrs. J. V. and J. T. Harting, 24, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London.
SECRETARY—Thomas liOSier Saunders, Esq.
AssisTANT-SzcarrAav---Charles J. Whalley, Esq.
LOCAL SOLICITORS ALREADY APPOINTED.
At Devizes, Henry Gilbert, Esq.
At Troubridge and Bradford, Messrs. Stone and Rodway
At Bath, Messrs. Batellenor, Ilarford, and Staunton
At Bridgewater, Messrs. G. S. and J. R. Poole
At Tiverton
At Truro
At Penzance
At Falmouth
The object of this line is to effect a direct communication between
London and the Land's End.
In a national point of view such a line is indispensable. With
the advantage of a direct railroad, Falmouth, from its position at the
western extremity of the kingdom, would undoubtedly long since
have been the principal port on that coast. With the advantage of
at least 280 miles of heavy road, that place has attained its high po-
sition as a Packet Station. Southampton, with far less natural ad-
vantages, has, since the opening of the South-Western Railway, in-
creased its imports from 200,0001. to 3,000,0001. per annum. At Bris-
tol, before the opening of the Great Western Railway, the imports
were declining ; since then they have very considerably increased.
The merits of a line to the Land's End as an investment for ca-
pital, it was not left to the present Company to discover. The Great
Western and Bristol and Exeter Railways having already reached
Exeter, it has bean in contemplation to extend that line to Fal-
mouth by way of Plymouth ; and various other projects have been
set on foot on the conviction that Falmouth must be reached by
railway.

The object of this prospectus Is to show that no other line than the
present can ultimately satisfy the exigencies of the country in regard
to this, its most Important outport—" the natural Packet Station of
the empire."

The present project is distinguished by this—that it is direct. It is
as nearly as possible a straight line from London to the Land's End.
The London, Bath, and Bridgewater Comrany having amalga-
mated with this Company, the immense local influence commanded
by them will now contribute to the great national object of a direct
line ; while means have been taken for securing the traffic and afford-
ing all the accommodation contemplated by that Company.
The Direct Western availing itself of the Great Western Railway
so far as Reading, pursues Its course by or near Newbury, Hunger-
ford, Great Bedwin, Marlborough, Devizes, the manufacturing dis-
trict of Trowbridge (from which a diverging line will be carried by
Bradford direct to Bath), Westbury, Frome, Shepton Mallet, Wells
(from which another diverging line will be taken to Bridgewater),
Glastonbury to Taunton, being shorter by about thirty-two miles than
any existing or projected railways between these points, and without
a tunnel. From Taunton the Bristol and Exeter Railway (now
leased to the Great Western) is traversed to Tiverton, whence it is
proposed to carry this line direct to the Land's End, Falmouth, St.
Ives, and Penzance, being shorter by about sixty miles than the
lately proposed line by way of Plymouth, and effecting, in the whole
distance from London to Falmouth, a saving of about ninety miles.
With respect to the traffic between London and Tiverton, it is
needless to say more than that there is already thorough traffic sufli-
dent to justify the construction of this portion of the Direct Wes-
tern ; that it will shorten the distance from London to Tiverton
about 32 miles ; that it will traverse rich and populous agricultural

and manufacturing districts, and receive a large amount of traffic as
well from railways now in course of construction as from others pro-
jected with every chance of success.
As to the traffic on the lower portion of the line, it is evident that
the vast :number of merchant vessels continually detained in the
Channel by:adverse winds, would effect an immense saving both in
insurance and time, by discharging their cargoes at Falmouth, and at
once transmitting them to their destination by means of this railway;
and therefore—without speculating on the extent to which the ports
on either side of the great promontory of the Land's End may, by
means of this railroad, attract the commerce respectively of Bristol
and Southampton ; to what extent the inexhaustible mineral wealth
of Cornwall, and the unrivalled agricultural resources of Devonshire
may be further developed, or the genial climate of Penzance and
Mount's Bay, "the Montpellier of England," attract a larger propor-
tion of winter visitants—it is obvious that this line will command a
traffic both in goods and passengers, from its western terminus, the
amount of which may be said to be without limit. A glance at the
map will make it manifest that no competing trunk line can ever be
established between Tiverton and the Land's End. As between
Taunton and Reading, an inspection of the map will show a vast ex-
tent of midland district, comprising rich and populous parts of So-
mersetshire, Dorsetshire, and Wiltshire, now altogether destitute of
railroad accommodation.

Recurring to the features of this project as a national work, one of
the greatest in point of magnitude, of vital importance in the event of
war, and of almost incalculable advantage to the general and packet
commerce of the kingdom ; it [may not be out of place to quote here
the following expressions of Sir Robert Peel. Speaking of the project
of a direct line from London to Liverpool through the Trent Valley,
which bore much the same relation to the Birmingham and Grand
Junction that this bears to the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter
Railways, lie is reported to have said :—"I consider that the com-
munication between the metropolis and the great outports to be not
a question allows, but a question of minutes." Of the necessity of this
particular line, Parliament has already expressed an opinion ; for in the
report of the Committee on the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth
line, which was promoted by the Great Western Railway Company,
it was stated that that Company had been required to pledge itself
not hereafter to oppose a direct line to Falmouth ; and it may be
further observed, that a proposed line from Plymouth to Falmouth
was last session rejected, on the ground that it might be supposed
to interfere with that great national object.
The survey of the line has been to a great extent completed, and
correct estimates of the expenditure and returns are in a state of for-
wardness, and the whole will be ready for the next session of Par-
liament.

It is sufficient, as to these points, here to state that there are no
engineering difficulties in any part of the line which have not been
repeatedly surmounted in other cases ; that the first portion will be
constructed at an unusually small expense ; that the undertaking
will meet with the cordial support, concurrence, and co-operation of
the landowners, and that the Directors are justified in asserting that
this will prove to be one of the most remunerative railways in the
kingdom.
Powers will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow interest at
our pounds per centum per annum on the deposits, and preference
in the allotment of shares will be given to the proprietors of the land
through which the line will pass, and to the shareholders in the
Great Western, the Bristol and Exeter, and other railways connected
with the Direct 'Western district.

Applications for shares, in the form subjoined, to be addressed to
the solicitors to the Company or to the Secretary.
London, September 11, 1845.

FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Direct Western Railway
Company.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 251. each
in the above Company, and I undertake to pay the deposit of 21. 15s.
per share thereon, or on any less number you may appropriate to me,
and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Con-
tract when required
Dated

1845.

Name in full • • **
Residence .. .• • ..
Trade or Profession • •
Place of Business (if any) • •
Reference .... • • • • • • .. • •
Signature.. .. . ..... ........ .

MANCHESTER and RUGBY DIRECT
RAILWAY, via MACCLESFIELD.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,700,0001., in 85,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Hon. Howe Browne, Chairman of the Manchester and'
Birmingham Continuation Railway
John Attwood, Esq., M.P., Park-lane, Hyde Park
John Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street, banker
Sir John Pine, Bart., Alderman of the City of London, Di-
rector of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Packet Com-
pany
William Hughes Hughes, Esq., Alderman of the City of
London, late M.P. for Oxford, and late High Sheriff for
Hants
James Henry Attwood, Esq., Seymour-street, Portman-square
George Adam, Esq., White Lion-court, Cornhlll
John Bagshaw, Esq., Director of the Northern and Eastern
Railway
Joseph Brown, Esq., Director of the East and West of Eng-
land Junction
William Chadwick, Esq., Chairman of the Richmond Railway
William Henry Forman, Eel., Upper Thames-street
Capt. George Probyn, Bryanston-square
Robert Watkins, Esq., Director of the East and West of Eng-
land Railway
Josh. Underwood, Esq., Director of the Commercial Bank of
London,
The Hon. Geo. Browne, Lowndes-square, Belgrave-square
Sir Geo. Rich, 43, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square
Sir Henry Richardson, Chessel House, Southampton
Sir William Wynne, 5, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, Chairman of the
North Wales Railway, and Director of the Oxford, Southampton,
and Portsmouth Railway
Sir G. A. Lewin, Upper Harley-street, London
The Mayor of Newbury, Director of the Oxturd, Southampton, and
Portsmouth Railway
John Addis, Esq., of Rotherhithe, Surrey, Director of the Central
Terminus, and of the Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Office
Charles Anstey, Esq., Rugby
The Rev. J. Harvey, Ast worth, NCI, bury
M. W. C. Alston, Esq., Binning ham
W. C. Alston, Esq., Elmdou Hall
Hugh Beaver, Esq., Mancheste r
William Fechnez Black, Esq., 19, Wilton-place, Belgrave-square,
Director of the Italian and An strian Railway Company
Joseph Browne, Esq., Bedford
Captain Burney, R.N., Gosport
William Bardgett, Esq., Old Br oad-street and Carshalton, Surrey,
Director of the Italian and Ansirian Railway Company
Samuel Swann Brittair, , Esq., Sheffield •
Charles Baker, Esq., Southampton
William Bland, Esq., Brixton, Director of the North Wales Railway
George Burnand, Esq., Sussex.squ are, Hyde Park
William Bevan, Esq., 48, Conduit-street, Bond-street, Director of the
North Wales Mineral Railway
Jacob Bell, Esq., Langham-place, London
W. E. Boyce, Esq., Alkerton, Bar.bury, Director of the East and
West of England Railway
Henry Brown, Esq., Ashby-de-la- Zouch
William Bradley, Esq., Director of the Sheffield and Manehestet
Railway, and Chairman of the I nrect Western Railway
George Borrett, Esq., Southampto n
Lieutenant-Colonel Burslam, North Hants
Charles Bailey, Esq., Winchester
Henry Baker, Esq., Mark-lane, Lonelon
H. Buning, Esq., LL.D., Gosport
John Burgess, Esq., late Boroughne nre, Manchester
Joseph Beech, Esq., 15, Grosvenor. place
F. F. Clossman, Esq., Mincing-lan
John Chapman, Esq., Leadenhail-street, Director of the Devon and
Cornwall Railway
S. J. Capper, Esq., Adelaide-place, :London-bridge
Edward Chapman, Esq., Strand, Lo ndon, Director of the Richmond
Railway
Sheldon Cradock, Esq., Manchester
Philip Warner Courtenay, Esq., 36, Capel-street, Belgrave-square
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Direct Western
Railway
Francis Carleton, Esq.
James Clift, Esq., Bloomsbury-ogees;n
Robert Cruickshank, Esq., Gosport
John Churchill, Esq., Bayswater, Directorof the Manchester and Bir-
mingham Continuation Railway
William Dredge, Esq., Newbury
George Dawson, Esq., Norfolk-sti *et, Sheffield
Colonel Geo. Disbrow, Chester-pl ace, London
John Fawcett, Esq., Broom Hall, Sheffield, Director of the Great
Western Railway
Capt. Farrington, R.N., West CON vet s, Isle of Wight
E. S. Farrow, Esq., Newbury
W. S. Fitzwilliam, Esq., Old Brot id -street, Director of the Essex and
Suffolk Railway
F. B. Freer, Esq., Stratford-on-A von
W. E. Gray, Esq., Newbury
Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds
H. P. Gipps, Esq., Montague-ple‘ee, Bryanstonc-square
Captain Augustus Heyman, Cae foetal-square
Thomas Charles Higgins, Esq. ' vey House, Bedfordshire
Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad dome , Edgsbaston, near Birmingham,
Director of the East and West and Birmingham and South Stafford-
shire Railways
Joseph Hopgood, Esq., Exeter,. Director of the East and West of
England
H. H. Hornby, Esq Blackburn.
George Calvert Holland, Esq.,

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John Newington Hughes, Esq. St. Michael's, Winchester
William Hill, Esq., Manchester
John Haddon, Esq., Director o 1 the East and West of England Rail-
way Company
James Home, Esq., Clapham 00 mmon, Director of the North Lon-
don Railway Company
John Hemming, Esq., North TPank, Regent's Park, Director of the
Worcester and South Wales Etailway
T. A. Hall, Esq., Ashfield Horse , Newcastle, Staffordshire'
Frederick Hewitt, Esq., Clapl tal n, Surrey
William .Jacomb, Esq., Hudth mf,fleld, Director of the East and West
of England
J. Kinloch, Esq., Gloucester- mad, Hyde-park, Director of the North
Wales
John Knill, Esq., Thames- street, Director of the Worcester and
South Wales Junction Railaray
Charles Kelson, Esq., Teignr ae ath, Devon, Director of the East and
West of England ailway
William Knott, Esq., 4, Ade 19.1 de-place, Director of the Richmond
Railway
Edward Lomer, Esq., South an mton
William Lechmere Whitmor e, Esq., James-street, Buckingham, late
Director of the Worcester m id South Wales Railway
Henry Ledgard, Esq., Wood -street
John Dawson Lowden, Esq., Doughty-street, Director of the Rich-
mond Railway

James Lees, Esq., Crescent, Salford
Joseph Liggins, sq., Kensh *tan, Director of the Southampton Dock
Company
G. H. Leckie, Esq., Richmond
Stephen Lewis, Esq., Direct or of the South Wales Railway
William Mills, Esq., Newbury
Joseph Maunder, sq., Ash.'m d .
John Malleson, Esq., Wim bl edon, Director of the Great Indian
Peninsular Railway
W. Malins, Esq., Mansion- ho'ase-place, London, Director of the
South Staffordshire Reilly. sy•
George Miller, Esq., Director- .of the Centre Railway Terminus
Charles Mann, Esq., Leamin gton
Charles Musgrave, Esq., Mel vex ton-hill, Leamington
R. F. Mushet, Esq., Birchin te, and Coleford
John Marshall, Esq., Horms'orf..h Hall, near Leeds, late Mayor of
Norwich
William Nash, Esq., Chairman of the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings
Railway
William Nicholson, Esq., Mar let tester
George Parbury, Esq., Russ& dl -square, Director of the East and
West of England Railway
Apsley Pellatt, Esq., Director- celsthe Staines and Richmond Railway
Thomas Parker, Esq., Spring -gardens, London
John Clarke Prescott, Esq., l des ichester
William Simpson Potter, Esq -of Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Di-
rector of the Oxford, Win trey, and Cheltenham Independent
Railway
B. Price, Esq., Rugby
James Paxton, Esq., Rugby
Richard Burton Phillipson, Esq., Rugby
N. M. Priaulx, Esq., South Western Steam-packet Company,
Southampton
Stephen Philips, Esq., Director of the Whitehaven and Furness
Railway
William Rallies, Esq., Temple, rector of the Manchester and Car-
lisle Railway
Richard Rlckett, Esq.
George Rougemont, Esq. 9, Che a•-terrace, Regent's Park, Director
of the North London junction Railway
Major Charles T. Selwyn, of the Royal Engineers, Exeter, Director
of the East and West of Engle ad Junction
Charles Slocock, Esq., Newbury
Edmund Slocock, Esq., Newbury-
Christapher Shapland, Esq., 13h 4111,01, Director of the Bristol and.
Gloucester, South Devon, and t 307 mwall Railway Companie
T. Bridge Simpson, Esq., Deputy ‘'.:ll tairman of the Richmond Railway
W. Shairp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Il .yde Park
John Stewart, Esq., M.P. for Lyn sir ngton, Director of the East and
West of England Railway
Joseph Thompson, Esq., John-st rev3t, Bedford-row, Director of the '
London and Birmingham Railway
Thomas Thomson, Esq., Stratford ai n-Avon
Charles B. Frlpp, Esq., Bristol, Di re ctor of the Jersey Railway
J. Underwood, Esq., Blackheath 1 'a.. -k
Thomas Varley, Esq., Shorsten H 111. , Melton
Edward Westlake, Esq., Southern ph ni
Charles Fenton Whiting, Esq., JR sat tfort House, Strand, Director of
the Richmond R alway
B. M. Wilcox, Esq., Hantsville, T oDquay
John Ward, Esq., Machin Bank, 311(.111eld, Director of the Sheffield
Fire and Life Insurance Compel iy
George Whitmore, Esq., Austin-fri air:3, Deputy Chairman of the North
Kent Railway
Thomas Woodham, Esq., Winches tel
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director Of the Yarmouth and Waveney
Valley Railway
George Young, Esq., Denmark-hill,- ,Surrey

(With power to add . 'to their number).
BANKERS—Messrs. Masi :Orman and Co., London.
ENGINEER 11/ CHIEF.
ACTING E NG 'NEMO.
Messrs. J. B. and E. Birch, Westminster
Brackstone Baker, Et q.
SOLICITOR—John Bethel, Esq., 7 8, King William-street, London.
That another and a more direct ine•of railway is necessary between
the metropolis and the manufacturing districts around Manchester, is
now fully admitted, and the quest ion is, which is the best line to be
adopted.

The above proposed railway wilt. E jrm the shortest and most di-
rect route from London to Manch esti Ir, and will therefore complete
the direct communication with the Ins tropolls at a much less expen-
diture of capital than by either of tilt 3 projected London and Man-
chester lines (Remington's and Ashes st's), the actual distance to be
constructed being only 73, Instead a - 170 to 180 miles.

A careful preliminary survey has determined the promoters of this
railway to adopt nearly a straight line from Rugby to Macclesfield, 6;
an increased expenditure 0f200,0001. or 350,0001. judicially applied in
the present perfected state of civil engineering, and at the reduced cost
of the execution of earth works, will wove in the end a far greater
real economy, both to the Company itself in the saving effected in
the annual expense of working, and also, what is of more importance,
to the country in general, by accomplishing, at a much less cost, the
same end proposed by an entire and distinct line from London to
Manchester.

These considerations have not been sufficiently kept in view by
other parties who have also proposed to make a railway from Rugby
to Macclesfield, but who, by deviating from the direct tract to pursue
valleys and to avoid the irregularities of the face of the country,
obviously lose the advantages proposed by this Company.
The Parliamentary Oecision on the choice &the London and Brighton
Railway is a parallel case, the direct line, although presenting more
difficulties to overcome, and involving a greater outlay, having been
adopted by Parliament in preference to the many competing projects,
in a more or less sinuous direction, which were at that time supported
in the House by very influential parties.
Should it be found necessary, arrangements have been made by
which additional lines of rails will be laid between Rugby and Lon-
don on the London and Birmingham Railway, whereby the surplus
traffic northwards will be abundantly provided for.
The line also possesses the singular advantage of affording the
shortest and most direct route from Manchester to Southampton,
Gosport, and Portsmouth, a feature presented by no other proposed
railway. By adopting the Rugby and Oxford branch of the Great
Western as far as Didcot, and thence the proposed Oxford, Southamp-
ton, Gosport, and Portsmouth line, the distance from Manchester to
Southampton will be twenty-three miles less than by any other route,
and on this account the project has been warmly supported by the
Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway• Company.
The deviations from a perfectly straight line between Rugby and
Macclesfield to avoid high ranges of hills, ornamental parks, or
valuable buildings are very slight, and the line in general offers no
engineering difficulties of any magnitude. The towns more directly
interested as a local line are Nuneaton, Hinckley, Atherstone, Market
Bosworth, Burton-upon-Trent, Sutbury, Ashbourne, and Leek.
The Company has made arrangements with the North London
Junction Railway Company, whereby it has secured the use of their
station (of the extent of six acres) in the centre of the City of London,
at the bottom of Moorgate-street, which will prove of the utmost
importance to this line.
Amidst the many railway projects that now occupy the public
mind, and involve a vast outlay of capital, it will readily be conceded
that a line that will attain such important results at so small an
outlay of capital, and of the time required for its construction, and
without interfering with any existing vested interests, must meet
with general approbation, and at the same time offer a very excellent
nvestment for capital
The shareholders in the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Ports-
mouth, in the London and Birmingham, and in the Manchester and
Birmingham Railways, will have a preference in the allotment of
013 shares. _ _

The deeds will provide that no call shall be made on the share-
holders beyond the deposit now paid, until the Act of Parliament is
obtained, and power will be taken in the Act to allow 4/. per cent.
interest on all calls.

Application fin* detailed prospectuses, maps, and shares, may be
made to the Secretary, at the Office, 78, King William-street, City,
London, and the following sharebrokers :—Messrs. R. Sutton,
Gi itble, and Sutton, 22, North-side Royal Exchange, London, and
George Burnand, Esq., Cornhlll ; Messrs. Houghland and Leese, 51,
King-street, Manchester; John Wills, Esq., Royal Bank-buildings,
Liverpool ; Messrs. Wellbeloved an 1 Oastler, Leeds ; Messrs. Ed-
wards and Son, and W. H. Land, Esq., Bristol ; J. R. Lane, Esq.,
Birmingham ; M: ssrs. Garton and Wright, Sheffield ; J. G. Ker-
shaw, Esq., Huddersfield ; P. C. Spencer, Esq., Halifax ; Messrs.
Hall, Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham ; Henry Beaumont and Co.,
Exeter ; R. P. Lemon, Esq., Bath ; and Joseph Clark, Req.,
Sontl amp ton.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

To the Provisional Committee of the Manchester and Rugby Direct
Railway Company.

Gentlemen—l request that you will allot to me Shales
of 201. each in this Company, and I hereby agree to accept the same,
or any less number that may be alloted to me, and to pay the deposit
of 21. 2s. per Share thereon, and also to execute the Parliamentary
Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
Dated this day of 1845.
Name in fnll ............ ........
Residence • • ..
Trade or Profession ..............
Reference.................•

Registered Provisionally.

ESSEX and SUFFOLK RAILWAY COM-
PANY.

From the Norwich and Brandon Railway at Thetford, by Bury St.
Edmund's, Lavenham, Milford, Sudbury, Halstead and Braintree, to
the Eastern Counties Line at Chelmsford, and thence to ,he Port of
Maldon, with a branch to Cavendish and Clar.

Offices, 24, Moergate-street, London, and Sudbury, Suffolk,
Capital, 1,000,000/. in Shares of 251. each.
__ _ .

The Provisional Directors beg to inform the Shareholders, that
negotiations are in progress for a satisfactory arrangement with the
Eastern Counties and Norwich and Brandon Railway Companies,
the full particulars of which will shortly be submitted for their con-
sideration.

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In the meantime, ppplications for Shares may be made to the
Company's offices, 24, Moorgate-street, or the solicitors, 1, Gray's
Inn-square, or Sudbury ; and to the following sharebrokers ;
Messrs. lichens and Harrison, 18, Threadneedle-street, London;
Mr. J. Jameson, Leeds ; Mr. J. Greaves, Liverpool ; Messrs. Card-
well and Sons, Manchester; Messrs. Henry Beaumont and Co.,
Exeter ; Mr. D. Pane, Glasgow ; Messrs. Drury and Richardson,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Messrs. E. M`Callum and Co., Edinburgh;
Mr. John Wright, Birmingham ; Messrs. Collinson and Flint, Hull.
Shareholders in the Eastern Counties, Northern and Eastern, and
Norwich and Brandon Railways, and original subscribers to the
Norwich Direct Railway, will please to notify the same in their ap-
plications.

A preference will be given to them, as far as possible, in the allot
ment. By order,

R. MAPLETOFT, Secretary.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY COMPANY,

The Directors of the Eastern Counties Railway Company, observ-
ing that, in the Advertisements of the Chelmsford and Bury Railway
Company, it is stated that their particular line is supported and
sanctioned by the Eastern Counties Railway Company, have to an
uounce that no such support or sanction has been given.
The Company's engineer, Mr. Robert Stephenson, has been in-
structed to examine the entire district, and to advise upon the line
of railway to be constructed through it, which the Eastern Counties
Railway Company must sanction as most conducive to public inte-
rest. By order of the Board,

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A I3ULKELEY, Secretary.
Offices. London Terminus, Aug. 12, 1845.

ESSEX and SUFFOLK RAILWAY OFFICE,
24, Moorgate-street, September 5, 1845.
Notice is hereby given that NO APPLICATION for SHARES in
this undertaking can be RECEIVED after TUESDAY, the 16th inst.,
andTithat the Allotment of Shares will take place as soon as possible
thereafter. By order,
ROBERT MAPLETOFT, Secretary.

BIRMINGHAM AND LICHFIELD
RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 300,0001., in 15,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per share, in accordance with the btanding orders of.

the Houses of Lords and Commons.

No call to be made until the Act is obtained —and no Subscriber to be
answerable beyond the Amount of his Subscription.