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London, England, 1845-09-26 00:00:00

THE. SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, .hIII'EMTI' ER 26, 1845.

THE LEEDS, HUDDERSFIELD, SHEF-
FIELD, and SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE (or LEEDS
WOLVERHAMPTON, and DUDLE 1) DIRECT RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,700,0001., in 85,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21.25. per Share.
PROVISIONAL CO3I3IITTEE.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Shrewsbury, Alton Towers, Staffordshire
Sir William Young, Bart., East India Director, Westbourne-street,
Hyde-park Gardens
Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Deputy Chairman of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Rail-
way, &c.
Sir William Boothby, Bart, Ashbourne-hall, Derbyshire
Sir William Lowthrop, Knt., Hull, and Alga-house, Scarborough, Di-
rector ef the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junc-
tion Railway
Col. the Hon Leicester Stanhope, Ashburham House, Chairman of
Remington's London and Manchester Direct Railway
Hon. Captain Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Chairman of the York and
Lancaster Railway, and Director of the Nottingham and Boston
Railway, Parliament-street, London, &c., &c.
The Sheriff of York
Arnold, Henry, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of Remington's London and
Manchester Railway
Murton, Robert, Esq., banker, Smallwood Manor, Uttoxeter, Direc-
tor of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction
Railway
Booth, John, Esq., Macclesfield
Bright, Selim. Esq., Buxton
Bradley, Septimus, Esq., Ashbourne, Director of the Derbyrhire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Burgess, John, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester
Buxton, John Harry, Esq., Ashbourne
Clarke, Jeremiah, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's Lon-
don and Manchester Direct Railway
Cleobury, Thomas, Esq., Askew Villa, Acton
Cooke, the Rev. J., Uttoxeter, Director of the East and West Junction
Railway, &c.
Cooke, John, Esq., Macclesfield
Cooper, John Douglas, Esq., Hohne Cottage, Ashbourne
Cox, Walker, Esq., Breadsall, Derby, Director of the Tean and Dove
Valley Railway
Crockett, T. Esq., Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire,
and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &c.
Croft, Major J. T., 15, Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman of Reming-
ton's London and Manchester Direct Railway
Crossley, John, Esq., Lamberhurst, Sussex, and Uttoxeter, Director
of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction
Railway
Dolby, John, Robert, Esq., Ashbourne, Director of the Derbyshire
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Dale, Major, Thurston, Ashbourne
Daniel, Richard, Esq., Oak Hill, Stoke-upon-Trent
Dawson, Samuel, Esq., sen., Ashbourne
Dent, Edward, Esq., Westfield, Huddersfield
Dent, John, Esq., Northgate, Huddersfield
Dyson, Thomas, Esq., Well-house, Holmfirth
Earp, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, S
shire, and Worcestershire Railway
Eastwood, Edmund, Esq., Huddersfield
Eastwood, Abraham, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Hudders,
field, Sheffield, and Halifax Railway
Edensor, Richard, Esq., Road-meadow, Ashbourne
Fidler, Peter Pichott, Esq., Higgin Grange, Derbyshire
Fisher, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railway
Frost, Meadows, Esq., Chester
Garle, Samuel, Esq., Uttoxeter
Garle, William, Esq. Uttoxeter
Gilpin, and Co., Messrs. William, Wedges Mills, Cannock, Director of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Goddard, Thomas, Esq., Bank-house, Longton, Staffordshire
Haden, Joseph, Esq., Dudley, Director ef the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Haines, Samuel, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbaston, Director of the Lei-
cester and Birmingham Railway
Hartshorne, Robert James, Esq., Ashbourne
Harpin, John, Esq., Birk's-house, Holmfirth
Hatfield, Thomas, Esq., Rageley, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &c.
Haywood, Richard Howard, Esq., Staffordshire Potteries
Hill, John, Esq., Derby
Hirst, Abraham, Esq., York-house, Huddersfield
Ingleby, Joseph, Esq., Cheadle, Staffordshire
Jones, the Rev. J. P. Vicarage, Alton, Staffordshire, Director of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Johnson, John Goodwin, Esq., Bentley Hall, Ashbourne
Johnson, D. T., Esq., Aldermary Churchyard, Director of the Ches •
ter and Manchester Railway
Johnson, Richard Wm., Esq., Moorgate, Director of Remington's
London and Manchester Direct Railway
Knight, Edward, Esq., M.D., Stafford, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and orcester Junction Railway
Keene, John Joseph, Esq.,, St. John's Wood, Regent's Park, Director
of the National Bank of Ireland, &c.
King, William, Esq., Waterloo-place, Director of the Freemasons'
Life Assurance, &c.
Lambert, Richard, Esq., Lyston Hall, Sudbury
1 Lawrence, Richard Corbett, Esq., Wandileld-hall, Uttoxeter, Director
of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railway
Laughton, Richard, Esq., Barrow-hill, Uttoxeter
Langley, Henry, Esq., Rakeway House, Cheadle, Director of the Der-
byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Lassetter, Richard, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Lassetter, James, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Lea, John Wheeley, Esq., Worcester, Vice-Chairman of the Severn
Commission, &c.
Marlow, Joseph, Esq., Walsall
Mason, Charles James, Esq., Staffordshire Potteries
Mason, George Miles, Esq., Wetley Abbey, etaffordshire
Meteyard, Horace, Wm., Esq., Director of Remington's London and
Manchester Railway, Middle Temple, and Chatham-place
M`Mahon, Daniel, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the Derbyshire
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Manors, John, Esq. Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Mellard, James, Esq., Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Minors, John, Esq., Eaton Dovedale, Derbyshire, Director of the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Minors, John, Esq., The Parks, Uttoxeter, Director of the East
and West Junction Railway
Mathew, John Mete, Esq., Director of the East and 'Vest Junction
Railway
Milner, William, Esq., Tean, Staffordshire, Direator of the Derby.
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Mountford, Thomas John, Esq., Ashbourne
Moorhouse, Joshua, Esq., Holmfirth
Maskery, Thomas, Esq. Norbury, Derbyshire
North, Joseph, Esq., Clayton West, Huddersfield
Norton, George, Esq., Clayton West, Huddersfield,Director of the Li-
verpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Orton, James, Esq., Woodford, near Uttoxeter, Director of the Der-
byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Parkinson, John, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park, Di-
Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Rail-
way, &c.
Phillips, William, Esq., Springfield House, Uttoxeter, Director of the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Roberts, Thomas, Esq., Manchester
Robinson, John, Esq.,Silcoates, Cottage, Wakefield
Roden, Thomas Clarke, Esq., Birmingham
Sant, Edward, Esq., Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Shipton, Robert, Esq., Scropto., .uerbyshire, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Smith, Charles, Esq., Alton, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railway
Smith, Thomas, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York
Railway
Smith, Thomas, Esq., Blore-hall, Staffordshire, Director of the Der-
byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Smith, William, Esq., Sedsall, Derbyshire, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railway
Smith, William, Esq., Clifton, Derbyshire, Director of Tean and Dove
Valley Railway &c.
Smith, John, Esq., Barton House, Derbyshire
Smythe, John Vere, Esq., Kensington, Middlesex, Director of the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Spiers, E. J., Esq., Carlton Villas, London, Director of the East and
West Junction Railway
Stephenson, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Agriculturist Cattle As-
surance Company
Terry, Benjamin, Esq., Mayor of Walsall, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway, &c.
Tibbits, Thomas, Esq., Norton Manor-house, Leicester
Tomlinson, Thomas, Esq.' Bradley Pastures, Ashbourne
Toogood, Rupert, Esq , Ashbourne
Tylecote, Edward, Esq., surgeon, Great Heywood, Staffordshire
Tyler, George, Esq., Holloway-place, Holloway, London, Director of
the East and West Junction Railway, &c.
Waller, Major, K.H., St. James's-square, Director of the Chester and
Manchester Railway, &c,
Walter, James Smith, Esq., Bakewell, Derbyshire
Walters, J. T., Esq., Rugeley
Watts, William Royde, Esq., Birmingham
Weston, Samuel, Esq., Leeds
Weston, Thomas, Esq., Tean, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Willes, George, Esq., Thagerford-park, Berkshire
Williamson, Hugh Henshall, Esq., Greenway Bank, Staffordshire
Potteries
Williamson, Robert, Esq., Ramsdell-hall, Staffordshire Potteries
Wigs, Thomas, Esq., Ashbourne
Witham, John, Esq., Ashbourne
Wooirich, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Wood, Charles, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Wood William, Esq., M.D.," Chetwynd House, Newport, Salop, Di-
rector of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junc-
tion Railway
Wood, William Hurd, Egg., Ashbourne
Wright, Thomas, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Gainsbo-
rough Railway.

BANKERS.
Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co. Clement's-lane, London
Messrs. Barnard, Dimsdale, and Co., Cornhill, London
The Burton, Uttozeter, and Ashbourne, Union Bank, Uttoxeter
Ditto Ditto, Ashbourne
Dudley and West Bunwich Banking Co., Dudley
Derbyshire Banking Co., Derby
SOLICITORS.
John Owens, Esq., 35, Moorgate-street, London
William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttoxeter
ENGINEERS.
Sir John Rennie, F.R.S.
George Remington, Esq., C.E.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Armishaw, J., Esq., Rugeley
Bolton, Thomas, Esq., Wolverhampton
Bolton, John, Esq., Dudley
Eggington, A., Esq., Lichfield
Green, James J., Esq., Walsall.
Lowe, Richard, Esq., Cheadle
Floyd and Booth, Huddersfield and Holmflrth
This line of railway, which is about sixty-five miles in length, is
intended to commence at Uttoxeter (the terminus of the proposed
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway) and
to proceed to Sheffield and Huddersfield. It will form a direct com-
munication between two of the most important manufacturing and
mining districts in England, viz., South Staffordshire, Huddersfield,
and Sheffield, and Rotherham in Yorkshire ; the South Staffordshire
portion including Dudley, Tipton,Walsall, Bilston, Wednesbury, and
Wolverhampton.
This line will also open a direct railway communication between
Leeds, Huddersfield, and the West Riding of Yorkshire and Kidder-
minster, Worcestershire, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bristol, Taunton,
and Exeter, and with Ludlow, Leominster, Hereford, Brecon, Car-
diff, Neath, Swansea, Llanelly, Caermarthen, Milford Haven, Fish-
guard, Aberystwith, and with Porthdynllaen, the future outport for
Ireland. And also the most direct communication between Leeds
and Southampton.
The lins will pass nearly along the Uttoxeter and Caldon Canal to a
point near Prestwood, in case the canal be purchased by the pro-
moters of this undertaking. It will proceed through Ellaston and
Mayfield to Ashbourne. thence near Dovedale, Buxton, and Chapel-
en-la-Frith, Woodhead and Holmflrth to Huddersfield, where it will
join the Huddersfield and Leeds Railway, and so to Think. It will
open new mines, in addition to those already in work, of lead, coal,
iron ore, barytes, and carboniferous and magnesian limestone on the
route, in addition to forming a direct, speedy, and cheap communica-
tion between the important towns above mentioned.
Arrangements have been made with other companies to run into
this line from Sheffield. This company reserves the right to raise
additional capital to extend the line to Leeds.
Many of the above-mentioned mineral productions are essential to
the mining districts of South Staffordshire and Sheffield. The North
Staffordshire and Derbyshire Limestone is much superior to that of
South Staffordshire in the fluxion of iron (15 cwt. of the former being
equal to a ton of the latter), and producing a better quality of ma-
terial. At present, the mode of transit is very circuitous and expen-
sive, the line from the Caldon Mines having to go by canal round
by Etruria, Leek, and the Potteries, to the Dudley and surrounding
furnaces, when, by this railway, it would be taken in a straight line
to them ; and the Ashbourne, Cromford, Worksworth, and Bakewell
country would have an entirely new trade opened to them. The iron-
stone in the neighbourhood of Sheffield is also becoming very scarce,
and great quantities are introduced from Scotland; the same scarcity
exists in South Staffordshire; and the route of this line would fur-
nish a cheap and good supply, at present not worked, and without a
market, both north and south. In addition to these great advan-
tages, a good local market would be opened along the agricultural
and other parts of the district at present very badly supplied with
lime and coal, and that of an inferior quality, and by expensive car-
riage. It is, therefore, next to impossible to calculate the immeeze
traffic which would pour down this line and the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, aed Worcestershire Junction Railway.
The calculations which have been made show a very large profit.
There arc large lead and slate quarries on the line which only want
an outlet like the one now contemplated to bring them into full work.
The coal is of a superior quality.
There are also extensive barytes and paint-works at Ashbourne,
Cromford, and other places on the line. The scenery of Derbyshire
is the resort of vast numbers of tourists ; and particular care will be
taken, in passing of the line near Dovedale, not to interfere with or
change its beautiful and romantic character. The convenience,
therefore, which this line will afford must necessarily cause a great
influx of passengers, both on business and pleasure.
Ironstone is not so abundant in the South as in North Staffordshire,
and vast quantities are sent by the tardy, circuitous, and expensive
canal company, which this and other lines of railway meeting at
Uttoxeter will remedy.
The gypsum formation runs from Staffordshire to the Humber, and
the demand for this article for building, agricultural, and manufac-
turing purposes along this line will be great.
The timber from the neighbourhood of the Needwood Forest
Banks, Bagots Woods, and Kingston Woods, upwards of 4,000
acres, chiefly finds its way to the Manchester market by a
like objectionable route of tardy and circuitous canal convey-
ance ; whereas this line would open a direct, easy, and cheap
communication to new markets. The line has been viewed prior to
a detailed survey, and there are not more than ordinary engineering
difficulties. In consequence of the late Parliamentary decisions, it is
intended to make this line on the broad gauge principle, but the pro-
moters do not pledge themselves absolutely to do so,

Date

At the urgent suggestion of some of the most influential inhabi-
tants of Ashbourne, the Committee have ordered a survey of a junc-
tion line to connect that tc,wn with the Derby, and with the Derby
and Gainsliorough and Midland Railways
Applications for Shares to be made to John Owens, Esq., 35,
Moorgate-street, London, and William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq.,
Uttoxeter ; and to the following Sharebrokers :—Messrs. Preece and
Evans, 39, Lothbury ; Mr. Miles, Worcester ; Mr. Thomas Henry
Wheeler, Worcester; Messrs. Townley and Whitehead, Liver-
pool ' • Messrs. Cameron and Co., Liverpool ; Mr. Morris Rey-
nolds, Liverpool ; Mr. Richard E. Hine, Macclesfield ; Mr.
James Jamieson, Leeds ; Messrs. Wellbeloved and Oastler
Leeds ; Mr. Frederick Stamp, Hull ; Mr. Thomas Boardman, Black-
burn ; Mr. George Clark, Bradford ; Mr. William Mason, Bradford ;
Mr. William Cronhelm, Halifax; Mr. Charles Spencer, Nottingham;
Messrs. Eyre and Shaw, Derby; Messrs. Grayston and Earle,
York; Mr. E. H. Armitage, Wakefield; Messrs. Kettering
and Marshall, Leeds ; Mr. James Stokes, Cheltenham; Mr.
Joseph Clark, jun., Southampton ; Messrs, Tate and Nash, M is-
tol • Messrs. Beaumont and Langworthy, Exeter; Mr. Thomas
Sandford, Exeter; Mr. J. S. Holland, Coventry; Messrs, Houghland
and Leese, Manchester; Messrs. Cardwell and Sons, Manchester;
Messrs. A. Birchall and Co., Manchester; Messrs. T. N. Bardwell
and Sons, Sheffield ; Mr. W. H. Collis, Birmingham ; Mr.L. Weather-
bunt, jun., Huddersfield ; Messrs. Everard and Co., Huddersfield;
Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester; Mr. Nicholson, Edinburgh;
Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Glasgow ; Messrs. Labertouche .
and Stafford, College-green, Dublin; Mr. James Ross, Perth.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield,
and South Staffordshire Direct Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me Shares of 281. each
in the above Railway, and I undertake to accept the same or such
less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the regulations
of the Company, and to sign the necessary Deeds, and to pay, when
required, the Deposit thereon of 21. 2s. per Share.
Dated this day cf , 184 .

Name in full
Profession and professional residence
Residence in fu11.... • • . •

GREAT NORTH of ENGLAND RAILWAY
RICHMOND /3RANCIL
TO RAILWAY CONTRACTORS AND OTHERS.
The Directors of this Company will be prepared to receive TEN
DERS for the EXECUTION of the WORKS of the BRANCH from
the GREAT NORTH of ENGLAND RAILWAY to RICHMOND.
Plans, Sections, and Specifications of the same may be seen on
application to Mr. Joseph Stephenson, at the Office of the Company,
in Northgate, Darlington, on and after the 20th inst.
The Directors will meet at their Office, in Darlington, on TUESDAY
the 30th inst , at Twelve o'clock, for the purpose of letting the
Contracts, and all Tenders must be sent in, sealed, addressed to the
Secretary of the Company, before 12 o'clock on the day previous.
The Directors do not bind themselves to accept the lowes
Tenders. H. PARKER, Secretary,
Darlington, Sept. 3, 1845
Itafford- I DIRE

CT LONDON AND EXETER RAIL-
WAY COMPANY,
(With Extension to Falmouth and Penzance).
Through Hammersmith, Turnham-green, Brentford, Isleworth,
Hounslow, Staines, Egham, Bagshot, Ascot, Bracknell, Bonfield,
Wokingham, Kingsclere, Andover, and Salisbury; Shaftesbury,
Sherbourne, Yeovil, Crewkerne, Axminster, and Honiton, to
Exeter.

Capital, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 251. each.
" Deposit, H. 7s. 6d. per Share.
[With further Deposit of 1/. ss. per Share after the Bill has passed
the House of Commons.]
With power to raise 1,000,0001. more, if necessary.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Vic., c. 110.)
OFFICES, No. 52, REGENT-STREET, WATERLO-PLACE,
Adjoining the County Fire Office.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Mexborough, Dover-street, Piccadilly,
Director of the Direct London and Manchester Railway
Lord Henry Loftus, Belgrave-square
Sir Henry Hervey Bruce, Bart., Montague-square, and Down-hill,
Londonderry
The Hon. Cecil J. Lawless, 71, Pall-mall, Director of the Great Man-
chester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway
Colonel Sir Frederick Hankey, G.C.M.G., Queen Ann-street, Caven-
dish-square, Director of the lonian and Ceylon Banks, and Bor-
deaux, Toulouse, and Cette Railway
J. R. Phillinaore, Esq., LL.D., 42, Clarges-street, Chancellor of
Salisbury
John David Chambers, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Recorder of Salisbury
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, 19, Clifford-street, Director of
the County Fire-office, and South and Midlands Railway
Sir Raymond Jarvis, Fair Oak Park, near Winchester, Director of
the Manchester and Southampton Railway
The Hon. A. Capel, Theyden House, Essex, and Park-street, Gros-
venor-square
Charles William Spicer, Esq., 28, Portman-square, Director of the Man-
chester, Southampton, and Oxford Junction, Warwick and Wor-
cester, Shropshire Mineral, and Grand London and Dublin Ap-
proximation Railways
William Burge, Esq., Q.C., Temple
The Rev. Bourchier Wrey Savile, Oakhampton, Devon
G. Thompson Jacob, Esq., Blandford, Magistrate, and Deputy-Lieu-
tenant for Dorset
Richard Francis Roberts, Esq., Burton Bradstock, near Bridport
H. H. Hungerford, Esq., Dingley Park, Market Harborough, and
Dover-street, Piccadilly, Director of the Leicester and Bedford
Railway
Francis Dawson, Esq., Grosvenor-street
Richard Francis Power, Esq., 73, Eccleston-square, and Long-
Orchard, Tipperary
Lieutenant-Colonel P. W. Pedlar, Mutley House, Devon, Director of
the Manchester, Southampton, and Poole Railway.
Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlborough-place, St. John's-wood, Di-
rector of the Great Eastern and Western, and Manchester and
Birkenhead Continuation Railways
Walter Shairp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Director of the
Oxford, Southampton, and Portsmouth Railway
The Hon. Henry Savile, Dover-street
A. W. Hillary, Esq., 66, Cadogan-place
W. L. Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex, Director of the Oxford, South-
ampton, Gosport, 'and Portsmouth Railway
George Evans, Esq., Milbury-terrace, Regent's Park, Director of the
London and Holyhead Railway
Francis Lloyd, Esq., Temple, London, and Bingley House, Bir-
mingham
William Thomas Davies Lhoyd, Esq., Lhoydiarth, Anglesey
E. S. Blundell, Esq. 18, Lower Seymour-street
John Allen, Esq., 12, Gloucester-terrace, Kensington
William Birmingham Costello, Esq., M.D., Wyke House, Brentiord
T. Piers Healey, Esq., Elm-court, Temple
William Gunston, Esq., Piccadilly
A. Abrahams, Esq., Member of the Town Council of Southampton
William Lowten Jones, Esq., Wood Hall, Hilgay, Norfolk
Thomas Champion, Esq., Stoke Wood House, Dorsetshire
Captain T. C. Forde, Gracefleld, Aslane, Dublin
Captain Sir Andrew Pellatt Green, R.N., K.C.H., 9, St. James's-
street, St. James's-park, Director of the Australasia, British North
America, and the lonian Banks, and Director of the Mutual Life
Assurance Company
Charles Gover, Esq., City Club
J. Lane, Esq., LL.D , King's Bench-walk, Temple, and Keppel-
street
George Waite, Esq., Old Burlington-street, Director of the Chelten-
ham and Brighton Railway
H. Cane Leahy, Esq., St. James's-square, Director of the Sheffield,
Buxton, Potteries, Leeke and Crewe, the Rugby, Derby, and Man-
chester, the Direct Birmingham, Oxford and Brighton, the Bognor
and London Brighton Junction, the Great Leeds, the Great Welsh
Central Railway, the Calais, Dunkirk, and Bruges, and Ghent and
• Brussels Railways
John Harvey, Esq., Ruth Hill, Wandsworth, Surrey, Director of the
Commercial Bank of London
Thomas Houghton Hardinge, Esq., 23, Park-lane
Edward William Cox, Esq., Crown-office-row, Temple
W. A. Hill, Esq., Deputy Chairman ofthe Oxford and Witney Railway
Company, and Barnet and Metropolitan Railway Company.
Henry Ludnell Dampier, Esq., of Colnishays House, near Bruton
Augustus E. Greaves, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby,
and Manchester Railway
Gowell Moore, Esq., S.P.D.L., King's County, High Sheriff County
Roscommon
Captain Charles Frederick Parkinson, Polygon, Manchester, Ma-
naging Director of the North Lancashire, and Manchester and
Southampton Railways
James Macmillan, Esq., Southampton, Director of the Worcester,
Warwick, and Rugby Railway
Archibald Drummond Stewart, Esq., Getindully Castle
The Hon. Stafford Jerninghara, 44, Brook-street
John Blunt, Esq., Director of the London Docks
James Gernon, Esq., Vico-Chairman of the Galway and Ennis Grand
Junction, and Director of the London and Nottingham
William Bestow, Esq., Director of the Worcester, Warwick, and
Rugby Railway
Robert Bastow, Esq., Director of the Great Eastern and Western
Railway
John Greathead, Esq., 133, Piccadilly
Captain James Edward Carnegie, Somerset-street, Portman-square
and Bruce-hall, near Inverness, Director of the Reading and Rei-
gate and Guernsey Railways.

COMMITTER OF MANAGEMENT.
Colonel Sir Frederick Hankey, T. Piers Healey, Esq.'
G.C.M.G. A. W. Hillary, Esq.
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn H. H. Hungerford, Esq.
E. S. Blundell, Eq. W. L. Pope, Esq.
Thomas Dowglasse. Eq. Walter Shairp, Eq.
George Evans, Esq. Charles William Spicer, Esq.
(With limited power to add to their number.)
ENGINEER—John Braithwaite, Eq., C.E., 4, Trafalgar-square.
JOINT SOLICITORS—D. E. Colombine, Eq., 3, Carlton Chambers, Re-
gent-street; Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street.
LONDON BANKERS—Messrs. Curries and Co., 29, Cornhill ; London
and Westminster Bank, St. James's-square.
LOCAL BANKERS.

Bath—Tugwell and Co
Birmingham—Attwood, Spooner, and Co.
Bradford (York)—Banking Company, Bradford
Bridport—Dorsetshire Bank
Bristol—Baillie, Aimes, Baillie, and Co.
Cheltenham—County of Gloucester Bank
Devonport—Messrs. Hodge and Norman
Exeter—Saunders and Co. ; Milford, Snow, and CO. ; West of Eng.
land and South Wales District Bank
Halifax—Joint Stock Bank
Hull—East Riding Bank
Launceston—Foster, Bolitho, and Co.
Liverpool—Liverpool Banking Company
Manchester—Scholes and Co.
Neweastle-on-Tyne—W. H. Lambton and Co.
Norwich—Harvey, Hudsons, and Co.
Nottingham—Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company
Plymouth—Harris, Mudge, and Co.
Salisbury— Kverett and Co.; W. B. Brodie and Co.; Wilts and
Dorset Bank
Shaftesbury—Messrs. Brodie. King, and Macklin
Sherborne—Wilts and Dorset Banking Company
York—Swan, Clough, and Co.
Prospectuses, and plans of the line, with forms of Applications for
Shares, may be had at the offices of the Company as above, and of
the following Stock and Share-brokers, viz. :
Messrs. Sutton, Gribbin, and Sutton, Royal Exchange; Messrs
Taunton and Bush, Austin Friars, London. Also,
Exeter—Henry Matcher; John Langworthy ; Wilkinson and Sons
Bath—J. B. Munday
Leeds—Potter and Co.; Kirk and Co. ; Ridsdale and Co.
Huddersfield—William Moore and Co.
Derby—Eyre and Shaw
Hull—Sibary and Simpson ; Samuel Phillip
York—Grayston and Earle
Wakefield—Henry Billingliam
Plymouth—Hopwood and Palmer
Cheltenham—Hall Brothers and Co.
Newcastle-on-Tyne—W. W. Dickinson ; R. F. Bell and Co.
Birmingham—W. H. Collis
Taunton—Richard Ball
Shaftesbury—Raymond and Son
Manchester—Myers and Birkbeck ; Wm. Marshall ; Cardwell.* sons
Norwich—John R. Mann and Son
Edinburgh—Muurd and Co; James Pringle ; A. W. Moffatt;
Bristol—Luke Arnold
Coventry—John Thomas Holland
Gloucester—J. M. Bahne
Glasgow—Messrs. H. and W. A. Tassie ; James Watson ; Thomas
Gray
Leicester—Williams and Sunderland
Nottingham—Roworth and Shepperly
Liverpool—Messrs. Sudlow, Brothers
Halifax—H. C. Spenser
Bradford, Yorkshire—W. Mason ; James Clayton
Reading—B. Cowderoy
Settle—Joseph Nelson.
The following gentlemen are appointed as Local Solicitors
in furtherance of the interests of the Company, from wham
Prospectuses and Applications for Shares may also be obtained :
Exeter—W. Lambert, Esq.
Egbam—Thomas Harvey, Esq.
Bagshot—John Mears, Esq.
Bracknell—Charles Cave, Esq.
Wokingham—Francis Soames, Esq.
Salisbury—Henry Cooper, Esq. ; Messrs. Foot and Radcliffe
Shaftesbury—Measrs. Wills and Berridge
Sherborne—George Hancock, Esq. ; Samuel Foot, Esq.
Bruton—Messrs. Dyne and Son
Yeovil—George Hancock, Esq.
Crewkerne—Robert Lowman, Esq.
Axminster—Walter Hancock, Esq.
Blandford—George Moore, Esq.
Dorchester—George Cull, jun., Esq.
Bridport—S. H. (hummer, Esq. ; Henry B. Fox, Esq.
Honiton—lsaac I. Cox, Esq.
Lynn—George Platten, Esq.
Lyme Regis—N. P. Waring, Esq.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of Management of the Direct London

and Exeter Railway Compiny.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 25/.
each in the above railway, and I undertake to accept the
same or such less number you may appropriate to me, subject to the
regulations of the Company, also to sign the necessary legal docu-
ments, and to pay, when required, the deposit thereof of 11. 7s. 6d.
per share.

Namein full . ..... ......... •••• • • • ••• • • • • .
Profession (If any) and Professional Residence, in full.
Residence in full— .. • • •• • • • • ...... • • ' • • • •• • • . .
Reference

Signature of Applicant.... • • • • •• • • • •

DIRECT LONDON and EXETER RAIL-
WAY, with Extension to Falmouth and Penzance.
The Committee of Management of the above Company, in order to
remove any possible misapprehension in the minds of the public, beg
to assure the landowners and others interested in this undertaking,
that the engineeer of the Company, John Braithwaite, Esq., and his
as.istants, are now actively engaged in completing the necessary
surveys, in order to comply with the standing orders of Parliament.
By order,
D. E. COLOMBINE, 1 Joint Solicitors to
ELMSLIE and PRESTON, the Company.
Direct London and Exeter Railway Company, Offices, 6, Great
Winchester-street, Broad-street, and 52, Regent-street
Sept. 25, 180.

amptonshire. and Lelee.terdthoe, can be co-isivred to fun and the

this line ri2ittler a profitable amount of traffic certain, ttic fa-
cilities afforded by nature for its construction arc greater than those
upon any other English line.
The cheapness of the construction of lines in Belgium, and the
safety upon them, arising from the level character of the country,
are proverbial. The districts through which the line will pass, pos-
sess all the advantages of a Belgian course, together with the ad-
ditional facility afforded by the established dead level of the Nene
navigation.
A survey, by a distinguished engineer, has resulted in a report
that the expenses of its construction will be small beyond all prece-
dent, and that in an unusully short space of time the various towns
and districts which it will affect, may be in possession of the com-
mercial, social, local, and general benefits which it is so calculated to
confer.
Public meetings will promptly be held in all the towns along the
line, at which a deputation from the promoters will attend, to give
whatever information may be required.
Applications for shares may be addressed to William Andrews,
Esq., at the Offices of the Company, No. 41, Moorgate-street ; or to
Thomas George Smith, Esq., at No. 2, Warnford-court, Throgmorton-
street, London.
_ _

41, koorgitie-street, Sept. 17, 1845.
FORS! OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provfsional Committee of the Lynn, Wisbeach, and Peter-
borough, Midland Counties, and Birmingham Junction Railway
liCompany (ORIGINAL LINE).
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 21/.
each in the above-named Company, ant I hereby undertake to ac-
cept the same, or any less number that may be allotted to me, to pay
the deposit of 21. 2s. per share thereon, end to sign the SuLscrib
Agreement and Parliamentary Contract when required.
Dated this day of 1845.
Name in full .. • .....
Profession or Business • • • •
Residence, Private and Professional
Reference.. -

Williani Fechney Black, Esq., Wilton-place, - ,-,,,,dhara,
rector of the Italian and Austrian, and South ano"'''
Dowel
Railways
liant_P°„tesd•Bnosl Henry Weech Burgess, Esq., Temple's Park,
the Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, Potteries, and C 7,1'
~,, 11.0atral ~
Charles Salisbury Butler, Esq., the Lodge, uPP- ear Lee"' e te'
Josiah Burrowes, Esq., Castle House, Gomemall, n
for or the
Lee°
Thomas Burnley, Esq., Gomersall, near Leeds, D., ,_„,.,,ci and
and West Riding Junction Railway, and of thelo'r."
,„. 0,0
Direct Railway
Samuel Bateman, Esq., Croft House, near Bradford, pirect°l 'OOl
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway and
Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director - a the gail
Railway
and ginell°
Joseph Browne, Esq., Bedford nerhlt -
Dr. Brigstoek, Derby, Director of the Rugby, .----.
~,atilie
Railway
Direct) r ef tl/' "'-
James Brand, Esq., 9, New Broad-street,
and Lincoln, and Great Luxembourg Railway
Job Bullinart, Esq., East Redford bra~ef 4
William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., J.P., Hull,
____APlreflc-
Warwick. and Leamington, and of the LiVerPo'"
Railways
efract
John Carter, Esq., Per, 4, °front
Thomas Carter, Esq., Tanshelf, J.P. for the Bore ee- ~ridge etell,
Charles Charnock, Esq Holmfield House, near Fer_l7,',,,d Jai'
Millis Coventry, Esq., Director of the South and Sji." -Ic/
and Birmingh Extension Railways
B. Clements, Esqam., Lowndes-square, Director of thewateratTO"
Railway 3f14.
, J. Cottam, Esq., East Redford ganchesre!,noe,
Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the
r, we of A:ors11
land, and Great Grimsby, Gainsborough, Goole, aty.,„etioa l''
and the Wisbeach, Isle of Ely, and Lincolnshire "-Baia „pros
John Cutts, Esq., Little Barfield Hall, near Braintree, soaths"'lee
James Clift, Esq., Director of the Paris and Strasboutt, Asti,'"
Manchester, and Oxford, and the Manchester, Rugw' tier
field Railways gieua '".
W. S. Cross, ESQ., Director of the London and WOW t
sion
Old roadrstre.
Henry Sherard Coleman, Esq., Crown-court, -- 13
Francis Deere, Esq., Stratford, Essex 1 4'
J. Dawson Esq., Pontefract A and ?hid ej
John Dennis, Esq., Director of the West Midland, fef ",,
ley Railways liagistr°
Jo seph Dent, Esq., Aibston Hall, near Leeds, Biter
North West Riding of Yorkshire „, woreester
A. A. Davenport, Esq., Director of the Oxford an. per,'
sion, and Worcester Junction Railways gabY,
Joseph L. Davenport, Esq.,Derby, Director of the ''' or t 9
Director and Manchester Railway
John Alcock Dixon, Esq., Burnley, near Leeds, „r to
tor v,, Pr
Liverpool and LeedDirect Railway , t La- yet.' doll
Richard Dransfleld, Esq., Dalton, Iludderslle," ol sod Jeuc'
Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, of the Liverpo Acid
ets' •J,
rect, and of the Keighley, Halifax, and Mudd 01
ii
Railways Ilagbl' r
Edward Doubleday, Esq., F.L.S., Director of the
sod IV
and Worcester Railway Do •
Francis Ewart, Esq., Director of the Exeter, m--- DO
mouth Railway arratnig
„,.e lif 0'
Lieut.-Col. Fitch, 36, York-terrace, Regent'a-INY-' I:1'
osier
tor of the York and Lancaster Railway
and wore- fo.
Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of the Oxford )ls
sion Railway Nrottiog"°' Shat'
Solomon Foster, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the - -
.4 5D
field, and Midland Junction Railvetty TF, siva?' ''''
faJor
Martin Furniss, Esq., Mansfield, Dlrector of the
field Railway of the
John Griffiths Frith? Esq., Austira-friars, Chair Man„,„.„,
derry and Coleraine, and Leeds and Carlisle liail"'"'
George Green, Esq., Pontefract
Charles Gibson, Esq., Holland-Nee e, Clapham
James Gilbertson, Esq., Hertford Ilse
William Gibson, Esq., Glasgow ~, este,'
soi
Int
H. P. Gipps, Esq., Director of the Coventry and 'r.
Charles Goldsmith, Esq., Friday-street, Chealoide, the 141 err
William Gordon, Esq., ht.D• , F,,L.S• , Director 0,
Leeds Direct Railway
011°'
Henry Swan Graves, Esq., Ely Bank Lodge, Ilia° eels
John Gully, Esq., Ackworth Park, Ackworth
~,,ctar
__,
Richard Hall, Esq., Carnarvon Hall, Stratford, AT-Baal/A" •
ford and Thames Junction, rent North Woolwich edford
_,e
John Charles Hall, Esq., New Grove-street, East
it r*
se-
re
R. F. Hall, Esq., Wiseton, near I3awtry
S. C. Hall, Esq., F.S.A., Inner Temple, Director of the E °
$53
ley Extension and West Midland Railways ern
Samuel Hammond, Esq., Le,xls wreet t
forth
John George Hammack, Esq. Director of the .""'
T r,
the Metropolitan Junction Railways sad ". Os
William Hepworth, Esq., Pontefract, a Deputy-Lie--t. r (is
. West Riding of Yorkshire
kivortb' .i.
John Mason Hepworth, Esq., Eden-place, fic- I,
West Riding of Yorkshire rth filt. Oa
Joshua Hepworth, Eye, Rogerthorpe Hall, Bedsyr°,,tor ° 10
Thomas Heelis, Esq ~ Skipton Castle, Skipton, '-
Tlorit'elille oposi
cashire and North Yorkshire, Lancashire and Bathe- f'
Eastern, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct „., to
.4
Robert Herries, Esq. East-street, Leeei, Director "'` of, ''"
D '
Charles
Leeds Direct itailway
Charles Holbrooke, Esq., Derby, Director of the Bug*
orer
Manchester
11111 John Holmes, Esq., Bast Redford er'ddies''''' , I,l'
John Midge, Esq.., late Sheriff of London and ~,e-, AO,
tor of the Derby and Stafford Railway ..,.„. nee"- 9
William Empson Jalland, Esq,, ikddermas Bow-, or,
,Lej
rector of the York and Hull Railway _...,,,_ near ersii:kf
Barwell Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holderness 80.7 A of .-
gistrate for the East Riding of York and Bur°ead
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds, and °a.""
sts(' Railways ine A
of , los ,
John Jameson, Esq., Honey-lane Market
William Jameson-.treater ,11511 SP
Esq., Mayor .-- tree.' troo.
, Rag., Shelton Staffordshire, . ..D
fordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and Man . jos ert
Joseph Jones,
Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq , Director of the Bv"-8 ter '
of Hull, and Director of,_,`" h"
gooaCP:o.
Valleys, or Macclesfield andlachfield Railways _ of tile v-
George Lawton, Esq., Ditchleys, Essex, Director
Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Raw"'
Leahy, Esq., St. James's-square
. stloare, Vile4' to
Moses Edward Legg, Esq., wetting-
Captain Henry Leech, Bedford street, London
William Ley, Esq. 40, Gloucester-place, Portman- ,atert'
the Reading and'Reigate Railway .., tne, W.-- ea
L. Stephens Lyne, Esq., Broad-street, Director Y.
~io'ol'
melee Railway a sh,,- 0
P. Bennett Lucas, Esq., Director of the Sligo an an -
Ipswich and Southampton, and the Cork ra-- '
Railways iied‘'ti
John B. Mann, Esq., Leeds
Thomas Hackett Massey, E.,.,..., Newark-nPuuTreat, 8111
square, Hyde Park
Thomas M`Turk, Esq., Hull ~tof
William Mee, Esq., East Reclaim Dr
W. R. Mesham, Esq., M.D., Bedford
Robert Mellington, ~..tiledf°l•6/ •0143
Pe"' i
of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
Esq. Ordshall House, near."'" ~,,0
1 1 0
William Moorhouse, Esq., Marine Villa, Knotting ei,,:'oae,-.op,
Director of the Sheffiel, Barnsley, and Wakefield Jaucia 41'
Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of South and Mew"- irr;et
London and Birmingham Extension Railways rouglii,4o•
James on and
Esq., Pontefract,theMon ail ,00/
sional Director of tb.e Oxford and Worcester E-u"'- OP
Junction, Railway
.h 3./ancle
Joseph Nadin, Esq., Manchester Director of t-e. - Ot
31'
Southampton, and the Leeds and Carlisle Railways ,1 '
0,011 William Joseph Nash, Esq. Bedford
John Norton, Esq., +minster, , ce
I, St. George's-square, .1-Ves`- VW"' :41,031
House, Brentwood, Director of the Great W-esterratioy rj7,
Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trout wand
tinuation and Holyhead Junction, and West '"' r/-
Midland and Oxford Extension Railways
Robert Oxley, Esq., M.D. Pontefract
Bennett Pell, Esq. 12, Finsbury-place North eolj
William Perfect, E
Esq., Monkhill,nearPontefract ~f,
Thomas Ingham Raynor, Esq , Birstal Leeds,
John Phillips, Esq. Mayor, of Pontefract DO i yee „or
and West Riding Junction, and the 'Liveol. anee'icl °f!::::
Railways ter and A
John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Director of the Lefelway'S Af
ham Direct, Leicester, Iron, and Dove ValleY Raid Bail, fy,S"
Robert Richards, Esq., Director of the West Midla.e.nodeld, JO
John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Byeunah House, - , ply
Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
Robert Andrew Riddell, R
--scl , Director of the ~-„,,,- d 13: e et.
and Weymouth Junction, • the Trine, Reading, --
..,,,,ter, ' 40
teloP
and the Direct Western Railways of?' .'ll' „
James Robson, Esq., Tanshelf, J. P. for the Bor.:alec. /di Barr - ,I''
George Robinson, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hun 80nalvaY karrf,
tion, and of the Rugby, Derby. and Manchester It
ond .
ply'
John Richardson, Esq., Director of the Waketl,eld,,tid 1.1)
the East and West Yorkshire, and the Midland - t„r°,'
tion Railway - pliO. 410'
Thomas Rontlidge, Esq., Alderman, Pontefract -
~tore, 41 e). ,
James Russell, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-5. ton, of '
*oo'
the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton'
.„.4 /3 1
Reading, and Basingstoke Railways ~.atng, '-
Henry Savage, Esq., Director of the Irving, BY.— 11101'
1,
stoke Railway the `' t,..0 $D
Benjamin Shaw, Esq., Kilburn Priory, Director of 4
___,,al Dif. ' ,rd
Blythe Valleys Railways 4,
J. E. Sichel, Esq., Director of the Leeds and I,llerr- ~,B e` ,„,
of the Leeds and York, and Midland Railways usref' i W
William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-54
#te f"'
the South Midland Junction Railway, ace., See' A pitefr f tii.
George Walker Smith, Esq., Horbury Hall, 511°.`"„,
"„ ' ''r°
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway , 'Pit ct
totit
Thomas Smith, Esq., M.D., 30, North-street, Leees, .
Leeds and York, and Liverpool and Leeds Railways 40-
Joseph Smithson, Esq., Kirklees Mills, near HalifTherbi, w Pi'
James Templer, Esq., Brixton-rise, Director of the T ,
and Stafford Railway. It
Thomas S. Trapp, Esq., Banker, Bedford
Samuel Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street, and Wit'''' sle-11 et
rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway A 0011015' CtdrOJ
William Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street, and
Trimey, Esq., Park Lodge, near Halifax
David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland Hollow,
the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, and Direct
Leicester Railways
~,,,re ter-PlAce, '
Major-General Wright, Royal Engineers, Gloucester-places
IA
square
A
William Williams, Esq Royal F drY
~oun e , Bedford 13shirtaire,i, Piiroriliste°olo,
0
Charles Waite, Esq., Willesden House, Middlesex gitla
:and
John Wheelton, Esq., late Sheriff of London
Railway
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Thomas Willett, Esq., Bradford 4.
George Yates, Esq., merchant, Halifax
umber.)
and F.;
Derby
(With power to add to their n
nS,
Eshatierea-he-Cuiee—Sir John M'Neil, L.L.D., 3
°pg. '
ACTING ENGINEER—WiIIiam MUllingar