The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-18 00:00:00

THE Still LOI;TDO.T,_ SATITRDAY_EVENING, OCTOBER 18, 1845.

N ORTH LONDON JUNCTION RAILWA7
COMPANY, 8, Finsbury-place South.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 110
Capital, 1,303,000/., in 65,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21.25. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.

John Attwood, Esq., 1►1.P., Park-lane, Chairman
James Horne, Esq., F.R.S., Clapham Common, Deputy-Chairman
Sir John Edward De Beauvoir, Hart., London
James Henry Attwood, Esq., Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square
John Bagskaw, Esq., I.loucester-place, Portman-square
Richard Bothell, Esq., Queen's Counsel, Lauderdale House, Highgate
George Bishop, Esq., South Villa, Inner Circle, Regent's Park
Augustus Bosanquet, Esq., Osidge, Southgate
Joseph Brown, Esq., Director of the Treut Valley Continuation
Railway
George Woodroffe Franklyn, Req , Clifton, Bristol
W. Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., Alderman of the Cit,y of
London
Henry Morton, Esq., Iltddick, Durham
George Parintry, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manehester
and Birmingham Continuation Railway
Richard Spooner, Esq., ➢I.P., 39, St. James's-place
Georg: Ron,gemont, Esq., 14, Broad-street-buildings
Nicholas Wood, Esq., Kellingworth, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
DANIZERS.
Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills and Co., London
Bank of Liverpool
The Union Bank, Manchester.
ENGINEER—George Parker Bidder, Esq., E.I.C.E.
AACUlTECT—RobertAbraham, Esq., Torrington-street, Russell-square.
SGLICITOR—John ';sethell, Esq., 78, King William-street, City.

SEczEXAßT—llixrryurr.ard Farnall, Esq,

The Provisional, Committee of the North London junction Rail
way Company 'nave great satisfaction in informing their subscribers
that negotiataOus are now pending between the Provisional Commit-
tee of this Company and the Directors of the Railways north of tho
Thames Of such a character as to assure them that the City terminus
of this Company will form the Grand Terminus of all the City traffic
north of London.

To effect this important object, an area of 10 acres of grouxd (the
southern boundary of which is within 500 yards of the Bank of
England) has been most carefully surveyed and valued, and the re-
port of the architect and engineer is of so favourable a character as to
have induced the Provisional Committee to determine on purchasing
the entire Fl:te, and it has, therefore, been resolved by them to in-
crease the Capital of this Company to 1,300,0801.
The Provisional Committee consider it of paramount importance
to se3nre 'within the limits of their City terminus, the amplest and
in.;)st complete accommodation for the traffic of each of the railway
Companies who may co-operate with them, an object which will be
effected by opening the very extensive and 'valuable space of ground
alluded to, within the centre of the City of London.
In conjunction with this enlarged plan, it is intended to embrace
that of a branch line to the present station of the Eastern Counties
Railway in Shoreditch, which will effect an entire junction between
the eastern and western parts of the metropolis ; and at the same
time afford a direct communication between the whole of the rail.
ways, which reacts London lathe north of the Thames, and give
full development to each of their schemes by creating for them a
common centre within the heart of the metropolis.
Independently, therefore, of the almost incalculable local traffic
which the position of their City terminus will ensure to this Com-
pany, will be added that of those companies also who will eventually
co-operate with the North London Junction Railway Company, and
the perfection of a project of no ordinary magnitude and importance
will be realised throughout the whole of this short but very valuable
line of railway.

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A lithographic sketch now publishing will accurately define the
entire district throcgh which this Company proposes to rut this line;
by this means the most casual observer will be enabled to ascertain
that the environs of London, north of the Thames, will be placed iu
immediate communication with the City ; while the dense popu-
lation of the City will enjoy a fact' ity of connexion with its suburban
localities, necessarily aCording it the ;greatest accommodation.
With such important local resources, therefore, together with the
vast traffic on which the shareholders of this Company have a right
to rely for profit, a large amount of revenue may be fairly and justly
anticipated, fully commensurate with the outlay of the proposed
capital. That revenue will be derived thus :

The daily passenger traffic on the Great Western amounts to
3,345, one-half of which reaches the City. The London and Bir-
mingham amounts to 4,322 daily, two-thircs of which reach the
City. The Eastern Counties amounts to 2,400 persons daily, half
of whom pass to the West-end of London. The omnibus traffic daily
is 30,894 passengers, two-thirds of which may be given to the City.
Passengars from the suburban districts reaching the City, now un-
accommodated by any railway, are estimated at 4,000 daily.
From these sources the following products are derived:—

Per Inn.
Passengers from the Great Western and Birmingham Rail-
way, at 6d. each ....
Passengers from the Eastern Counties to the City terminus
of this Company, at 3d. each
Omnibus passengers' traffic, at 6d. each, as taken at
present ..... • •• •• • • .••.••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • .. 187,929
142,208 tons of goods and parcels pass annually from the
Great Western and the London and Birmingham Rail-
ways into the City, at an average cost of carriage of 3s.
6d. per ton throughout. For the carriage of these goods
and parcels, therefore, at tke reduced cost of 2s. 6d. per
ton, a revenua may be derived of ... .....
From the carriage of goods, parcels, and mails, bringing in
to the Eastern Counties Railway Company a revenue of
40,000 f. a year, may be derived the suns of 10,000

12,06

17,776

The total of their calculations amoants t 0.... £280,289
Deduct 40 per cent. for workers' expenses .............. 112,115

PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.
GREAT LEEDS AND LONDON- -DIRECT
RAILWAY.
By a Junction with the Eastern Counties Railway it Bedford.
Distance, 120 miles.
Capital, 2,500,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 251. eat
Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
Pur:uant to the Standing Orders of the House of Co aimons.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
1 The Right Hon. Lord Duuboyne
The Lord Stephen Chick ester, Ormeau, Belfast, and Art iy and Navy
Club, London
Sir Robert Alexander, Bart., Charles-street, Maneheste --square
Sir William Twisden, Bart., Dorset-street, Portman-squ are, Director
of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester J unction, and
Erewash Valley Extension Railways
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Parthenon Club, Di rector of the
Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction, and of the
South and Midland Junction, and West Midlands Roth rays
Sir John Oshoni, Bart., Earl's-court, Brompton
Sir John Key, Bart., 9, King's Arms-yard, Alderman of: London, Di-
rector of the Manchester and London, and of the Dire at Liverpool
and Leeds Railway
Captain Frederick Polhill, M.P. for Bedford
Major-General Sir Robert Barton, K.C.H., Director oft 're York and
Lancaster Hallway
Major-General Thomas Morgan, Singleton-house, Torqr sty
Major-General Wright, Royal Engineers, Gloucester-pine' Portman-
square
William Ackroyd, Esq., Westbourne Lodge, Otley, Dii Teter of the
East and Weat York, Liverpool and Leeds Direct, an I Leeds and
Carlisle Railways
Thomas Alexander, Esq., Director of the Italian and A astrian, and
Trent Valley Continuation Railways
Francis Simes Alliott, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Amber-
gate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction , and one of
the Provisional Committee of the Nottingham and. ( :ainsborough
Railway Companies
Henry Ambler, Esq., worsted spinner and manufacturer, . Watkinson-
hall, near Halifax, Director of the West Yorkshire ] railway, and
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
C. H. Andersen, Esq., Upper Ciapton, Director of the So ath Midland
Railway
Gedrge Ashiin, Esq., Director of the Liverpool and Now castle-upon-
Tyne Railway
Richard Armitage, Esq., Huddersfield and Great Gilman, by, Director
of the Manchester and Great Grimsby, and Keighley, and
Huddersfield Junction Railways
The Rev. Charles Edward Armstrong, M.A., Hemsworth
John Alexander Bicknell, Esq., Brandon-cottage, Bristol, I firector of
the Oxford and Worcester Extension Railway
Charles Bamford, jun., Esq., Director of the Hull and Ba rnsley, and
Leeds and Carlisle ailways
William Bardgett, Esq., Winchester-house, Broad-street, Director of
the Italian and Austrian, and the Derby, Uttoxeter, : and Stafford
Railways
William Banks, Esq., Honey-lane-market, Director of n Manches-
ter and Rugby Direct Railway, via Macclesfield
John Byng Banks, Esq., Stockwell, Surrey
William Fechney Black, Esq, Wilton-place, Belgrave-sq. uare, Diree-
torof the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midis nd Junction

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Railways
Henry IVecch Burgess, Esq., Temple's-park, Hampsteat 1, Director of
the Goole, Doncaster, and Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyt .0, and Great
Grimsby Railway
Charles Salisbury Butler, Esq.,the Lodge, Upper Claptol
Josiah Burrowes, Esq., Castle-house, Gomersall, near L reds
Thomas Burnley, Esq., Gm-tiers:lß, near Leeds, Director of the Leeds
and West Riding Junction Railway, and of the Liverp and Leeds
Direct Railway
Samuel Bateman, Esq., Croft-house, near Bradford, Ed rector of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hu 11 and Selby
Railway '
Dr. Brigstock, Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, ass i Manchester
Railway
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Joseph Browne, Esq., Bedford
James Brand, Esq., 9, New Broad-street, Director of the Cambridge
and Lincoln, and Great Luxemburg Railway
John Blore, Esq., Tntbury, Director of the Tean and . Dove Valley,
the Derby and Gainsborough, the Shropshire Mineral] tailways, &c.
Job Bullivant, Esq., East Retford
William Butt, Esq., Sandiacre, Derbyshire
Robert Burton, Esq., merchant, Woodville, Notts
James Butlin, Esq., banker, West Field-house, Rugby, Director of
the Rugby and untingdon, and one of the Prey's! onftl Committee
of the Oxford and Birmingham Junction Railway (10111paniea
Richard Biddle, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Richard Birkin, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
John Fillingham Bishop, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Thomas Butt, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Richard Bradley, Esq., Grantham, Director of the An fiber-gate, Not-
tingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railwr
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Chairm an of the Direct
Western, and Isle of Ely and Lincolnshire Junction . Railways
John Fowler Burbidge, Esq., Mayor of Grantham, Director of the
Amber-gate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Es stern Junction
Railway
Jonathan Burton, Esq., merchant, Carrington, N:ottinghamshire,
Director of the Nottingham and Gainsborough Ra Ilway
William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., magistrate, Hull, Director of the
Rugby, 'Warwick, and Leamington, and of the Liv erjipoi and Leeds
Direct Railways
Thomas Challis, Esq., Alderman of London
John Carter, Esq., Knottingley
Thomas Carter, Esq., Tanshelf, Magistrate for the Bormigh of Pon-
tefract
Charles Charnock, Esq., Helmfleld-house, near Forrybrid ge
Millls Coventry,'Esq., Director, of the South and Midlar ,d Junction,
and Birmingham Extension Railways
B. Clements, Esq., Lowndes-square, Director of the 'Western. Ja-
maica Railway
Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Manultester, Mid-
land, and Great Grimsby, Gainsborough, Goole, an d Isle of Az-
hohne, and the Wisbeach, Isle of Ely, and Lincoln shire Junction
Ralwaya
J. Cottam, Esq., East Retford
John Cutts, Esq., Little Bardfield-hall, near Braintree,. Essex
James Clift, Esq., Director of the Paris and Strasburg, Southampton,
Manchester, and Oxford, and the Manchester, Rugby, an& Mac-
clesfield Railways
W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the London and Birmingham
Extension
Henry Sherrard Coleman, Esq., Crown-court, Old Bro ad-street
John Caunt, Esq., Nottingham .
Thomas Mark Carter, Esq., Woodgreaves-house, near Wakefield, Di-
rector of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Direct
Railway
George Augustus Hamilton Chichester, Esq., Oakfleld, Donegal, and
15, Chesham-place, Belgrave-square, Director of the Grand Wales
Central, and London and Exeter Direct Railways
William Champ!on, Esq., Worksop
William Cheetham, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Nathan Cooper, Esq., Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Francis Deere, Esq., Stratford, Essex
George Dennis, Esq., Director of the Rhondda and Ely V.:alleys Junc-
tion Railway
Joseph Dent, Esq., Ribston-hall, Wetherby, Magistrate for the
North-west Riding of Yorkshire •
A. A. Davenport, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Exte-
nsion, and Worcester Junction Railways
Joseph L. Davenport, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby,

and Manchester RailwaY
John Ailcock Dixon, Esq., Burnley, Lancashire, Director of the Li-
verpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Richard Dransfield, Esq., Dalton, Huddersfield, Director of the
Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct,
and of the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railways
Edward Doubleday, Esq., F.L.S., Director of the Rugby, Warwick,
and Worcester Railway
Matthew Dawson, Esq., Pontefract
William Dawson, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Peterborough,
Wisbeach, Lynn, and Boston, and the Sheffield, Wortley, Silk-
stone, and Wakefield Railways
John Campbell Dicker, Esq., New-hall, by Reston, Director of the
Birkenhead and Holyhead, and the Birmingham, Oxford, and
Reading Railways
Henry Dunn, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Manchester, Hudders-
field, and Great Grimsby Railway
Francis Ewart, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey-
mouth Railway
John Elliott, Esq., Townhead-house, Rochdale
Lieut.-Col. Fitch, 36, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Managing Direc-
tor of the York and Lancaster Railway
Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Ex-
tension Railway
Solomon Foster, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Nottingham, Mans-
field, and Midland Junction Railway
Martin Furniss, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Erewash and Shef-
field Railway
John Griffiths Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Chairman of the London-
derry and Coleraine, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways
William Fisher, Esq., Amcotts-house, near East Retford
James Fothergill, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Richard W.Fitzpatrick, Esq., barrister-at-law,Gloncester-road, Myde-
park-gardens
George Green, Esq., Pontefract -
James Gilbertson, Esq., Alderman, and Magistrate for Hertford
William Gibson, Esq., Glasgow
H. P. Gipps, Esq., Director of the Coventry and Nuneaton Railway
Charles Goldsmith, Esq., Friday-street, Cheapside
William Gordon, Esq , M.D., F.L.S., Director of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct Railway
Henry Swan Graves, Esq., Ely Bank-lodge, Halifax
John Gully, Esq., Ackwerth-park, Ackworth
William Gibbs, Esq.,Camberwell, Director of the South Metropolitan

Cemetery Company
William Gill, Esq., Richmond, Yorkshire, Director of the Leeds and
Carlisle, and Northumberland and Lancashire Railways
John Godber, Esq., Hucknall Torkard, Nottinghamshire, Director of
the Amber-gate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction,
and Nottingham and Gaii:sborough Railway Companies
Thomas John Green, Esq., Mayor of Bedford
Richard Hall, Esq., Carnarvon-hall, Stratford, Director of the Strat-
ford and Thames Junction, and North Woolwich Railways
R. F. Hall, Esq., Wiseton, near Bawtry
S. C. Hall, Esq., F.S.A., Inner Temple, Director of the Erewash

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Valley Extension and Nest Midland Railways
W. 11. lialpin,Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Easing-

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stoke, and Sheffield and Macclesfield Railways
Robert Hull, Esq., M.D., Norwich
Samuel Hammond, Esq., Leeds
John George Hammack, Esq., Director of the Direct Western, and

the Metropolitan Junction Rellways
William Hepworth, Esq., Pontefract, a Deputy-Lieutenant and J.P.
for the West 'Riding of Yorkshire
John Mason llcpworth, Esq., Eden-place, Ackworth, J.P. for the

West Riding' of Yorkshire -
Joshua Hepworth, Esq., Rogerthorpe-hall, Badsworth
Thomas Heel's, Esq., Skipton Castle, Skipton, Director of the Lanca-
shire and North Yorkshire, Lancashird and Yorkshire North
Eastern, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways
John Holmes, Esq., East Retford
Robert Henries, Esq., East-street, Leeds, Director of the Liverpool

and Leeds Direct Railway
Charles liolbrooke, Esq. Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and

Manchester
John Howard, Esq., Royal Foundry, Redford
Thomas Haigh, Esq., Wakefield, late High Constable of Wakefield
John Hardy, Jun., Esq., banker, Grantham, Director of the Amber-
gate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
John Harris, Esq., Springfield-house, near Bedford
Charles Hig7lns, sen., Esq., St. Cuthbert's, Bedford
Geerge Higgins, Esq., Bedford
The Rev. Charles Walter Hudson, Rectory, Saundby, near Gains-

borough
George Hurst, Esq., Bedford
John Midge, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and DI-

rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway
Wm. Empson Janami, Esq., Holderuess House, near Hull, Director

of the York and Hail Railway
Boswell Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holderness-house, near Hull, Magis-
trate for the Eaet Riding of York and Borough of Hull, and Di-
rector of the Liverpool and Leeds, and Hull and Barnsley Railways
John Jameson, Esq., Honey lane-market
Wiliam Jameson, Esq., Shelton, Staffordshire, Director of the
Staffordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct
Railways
Wm. Jones Johnson, Esq., Bedford
Joseph Jones, Esq., Mayor of Hull, and Director of the Liverpool and

Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Reginald Komp, Esq., Director of tke Blythe and Churnet
Valleys, or Macclesfield and Lichfield Railways
Jeremiah Kaye, Esq., Huddersfield and Great Grimsby, Director
of the Manchester and Great Grimsby, and Keighley, Halifax, and
Huddersfield J unction Railways
George Kippax, Esq., Ordsall-villa, gear East Retford
Mr. Samuel Knight, Pontefract
George Lawton, Esq., Ditchley's, Essex, Director of the Chepstow,
Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway
H. C. Leahy, Esq., St. James's-square
Moses Edward Legg, Esq., Watling-street, London
Captain Henry Leech, Bedford
Charles Denton Leech, Esq., Bury St. Edmunds
William Ley, Esq., 40, Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Dlreator of

the Reading and Reigate Railway
L. Stephens Lyne, Esq., Broad-street, Director of the Western

Jamaica Railway
P. Bennett Lucas, Esq., Director of the Sligo and Shannon, the Ips-
wich and Southampton, and the Cork Passage and Kinsale
Railway
James Lamb, Esq., 25, Hyde-park-square, Director of the Scottish
Western, and tile Direct Western Railways
'John Lart, Esq., Wood-street, Cheapside
James Looming, Esq., Bradford, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds

Direct, and Keighttiy, Halifax and Huddersfield Junction Railway
Samuel Lovell, Esq., merchant, Bedford
Captain J. P. Macdougall, Fir-grove, North Brixton, Director of the
Leeds, Fleetwood, and Liverpool, and Isle of Man Railways
John B. Maim, Esq., Leeds
Thomas Hackett Massey, Esq., Nowark•upon•Treut, and Bedford-
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Thomas M'Turk, Esq., Hull
William Alec, Esq., East Belford
W. R. Afesham, Esq., M.D., Bedford
Robert Mellington, sq., Ordsil-house, near East Itetford, Director

of the LeedsandCarlisle Railway
William Moorhouse, Esq., Marine-villa, Knottingley, a Provisional
Director of the Sheffield, Barnsley, and Wakefield Railway
Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of South and Midlands Junction, and
London cud Birmingham Extension Railways
.James Muscroft,Esq., Pontefract, Magistrate for the Borough, a Pro-
visional Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension and
Chester Junction Railway
George Mackintosh, Esq., Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square.
John Manwaring, Esq., Pateley-bridge, Yorkshire, Director of the

York and Laneliter Railway
Ord Massey, Esq., Hawkes-house, Burnley, Director of the Liverpool
and Leeds Direct, the Blackburn, Chorley, and Liverpool, and
Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railways
Thomas Micklethwaite, Esq., Wakefield
lharles Middleton, Esq., Nottingham•paik
Joseph Nadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and
Southampton, and the Leeds and Carlisle Railways
William'doseph Nash, Esq., Bedford
Joni 1, St. c eoro's-sietar(, Wutin luster, and Moat -
house, Brentwood, Director of the Great Western Direct Rail-
way, &c. • -
Robert Newland, Esq., Kempson-house, Bedfordshire
The Xvlli Xsq., Mayor of NyttingbAu4

Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continuation
and Holyhead Junction, and West Midland and South Midland and
Oxford Extension Railways
John Ostler, Esq., Director of the Hall and Barnsley, and Leeds and
Carlisle Railways
Robert Oxley, Esq., M.D., Pontefract
George Osgood, Esq., Raymond-buildings, Gray's Inn
Charles Frederick Palgrave, Esq., BethOrd
Bennett Pell, Esq., 12, Finsbury-place North
W. Perfect, Esq., Monkhill, near Pontefract
John Phillips, Esq., Mayor of Pontefract
George Parbury, Esq., Mansfield-house, Russell-square
William Patterson, Esq., Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire
Robert Power; Esq., Director of the Great Britain Life Assurance
Society
Thomas Ingham Raynor, Est., Birstal, Leeds, Director of the Leeds
and West Riding Junction, and the Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railways
John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Birming-
' ham Direct, Leicester, Iron and Dove Valley Railways
Edward Rawlins, Esq., Bedford
Robert Richards, Esq., Director of the West Midland Railway
John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Byeullah-house, Enfield, Managing
Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
James Robson, Esq., Tansheif, Magistrate for the Borough of Pon-
tefract
Frederick Redden, Esq., Bedford
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester,
and Weymoatit Junction, the a ring, Reading, and Basingstoke,
and the Direct Western Railway
George Robinson, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley
Junction, and of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railways
Joha Richardson, Esq., Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate,
the East and West Yorkshire, and the Midland and Thlrsk Junc-
tion Railways
Thomas Routlidge, Esq., Alderman, Pontefract
James Russell, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director of
the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton, of the Tring
Reading, and Basingstoke Railways
Edward Sankey, Esq., Canterbury
Henry Savage, Esq., Director of the Irving, Reading, and Basing-
stoles Railway
Benjamin Shaw, Esq., Kilburn Priory, Director of the Churnet
and Blythe Valleys Railways
J. E. Sichel, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and
of the Leeds, York, and Midland Railways
William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Director
of the South Midland Junction Railway, &c. &c.
George Walker Smith, Esq., Horbury-hall, Sheffield, Director of
the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Smith, Esq., M.D., 30, North-street Leeds, Director of the
Leeds and York, and Liverpool and Leeds Railways
Joseph Smithson, Esq , Kirkless Mills, near Halifax
Eansqd.,MTiundlaendgde, Junction Railway
John Sanders, Esq., Bedford
J. W. Scriven, Esq., Throstlenest, near Otley, Director of the
RiLchearet'SYhoarwk,
Jaurnßctiuronlnelallyt, Directorwa3 of the Keigh-
ley, Halifax, and Huddersfield
James Henry Simpson, Esq., M. 8., Pontefract
Joshua Annable Skidmore, Esq., St. John's-place. Wakefield
William Starkey, Esq., Wakefield, Director cf the Sheffield, Wort-
ley, Silkstoue, and Wakefield, and the Leeds and York Raillvays
William Stewart, Esq., Horbury, near Wakefield
George Eaton Stanger, Esq., Nottingham
Samuel Herrick Surplice, Esq., Beeston, Notts
John Streets, Esq., msrchaut, Spring Field-house, Sancliaere, Dezby.
shire
William Surplice, Esq., X ttingham
Samuel James Sykes, Esq., Hull
James Templer, Esq., Brixton-rise, Director of the Derby, Uttoxoter,
and Stafford Railway
Thomas S. Trapp, Esq., banker, Bedford
John Best Trapp, Esq., Idedford
Samuel Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street and Gorbals, Hull, Di-
rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway
Thomas Turney, Esq., Park-lodge, near Halifax
William Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street and Gorbals, Hull
Joseph Francis Tempest, Esq., F.S.A., the Mount, Ackworth
Charles Vickers, Esq., Pontefract, Director of the Manchester, Hud-
dersfield, and Great Grimsby Railway
Wm. Watson,Esq , Daybrook, Nottinghamshire, Director of Amber-
gate, Nottingham and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
Samuel Warbarton, Esq., Humid, Leeds, Director of the Wakefield
and Harrogate Railway
The Rev. Richard Whitelc,ck, M.A., Saddleworth, Magistrate for
the West Riding of Yorkshire
Joseph Whitaker, Esq., ltamsdale, Nottinghamshire
William White, Esq., Bedford
John Williams, Esq., M.D., Magistrate for Yorkshire, Director of
the York, Hull, and East and West Riding Junction Railway
Abraham Wood, Esq., Rochdale, F.R.C.S.
Joseph Wyles, Esq., Grantham, Director of the Amber-gate, Not-
tingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland-hollow, Derbyshire, Director of
tl'e Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, and Direct Birmingham and
Leicester Railways
William Williams, Esq., Royal Foundry, Bedford
Charles Waite, Esq., 3, Old Burlington-street, and Willesdon-house,
Middlesex
John Wheelton, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Willett, Esq., Bradford
The Rev. H. Burdett Worthington, Bedford
G. N. Wright, M.A., Coed y Celya, Denbighshire, and L Wide-
square. London, Director of the Thames Valley Railway
George Yates, Esq., merchant, Halifax
George Witt, Esq., F.R.S., Direetor of the Bedford, London, and
Birmingham Railway, and Aldermand of Bedford
George Gillett, Esq., 2, Grsovenor-gate, Hyde-park
(With power to add to their lumber).
ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF—Sir John Macneil, LL.D., and F.R.S.
ACTING ENGINXER—WiIIiam 3lullingar Higgins, Esq., C.E.
LONDON SOLICITORS.
J. R. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-court.
Owen Gray, Esq.
J. B. 'Ridge, Esq. 1 25, Great Tower-street.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Leeds—Charles Naylor, Esq., and
Pontefract—Henry John Coleman, Esq.
Rotherham—John Oxley, Esq., and Joha Wright Potter, Esq,
East Retford—Messrs. Mee, Bigsby, and Mee.
Nottingham—Messrs. Fox and Butlin.
Oakham—Henry Hough, Esq.
Kettering—Thomas Marshall, Esq.
Bedford—Ezra Eagles, Esq.
SECRETARY —J. B. Owens, Esq.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT—J. M. WiddiColllbe, ESCI.
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co.
ces
Pontefract-3ie " . Beckett and Company
DoncasterT'
The Yorkshire Banking Company.

The object of this railway is to connect, in the most direct course,
the important and increasing manufacturing town of Leeds with the
metropolis, the want of which has long been felt, and is too univer-
sally acknowledged to need any comment, and it is under this con-
viction that this Important undertaking, alter several minute exa-
minations of the country through which it will pass, has been brought
forward.

The proposed line will commence at the inaction of the. Manchester
and Leeds, and York and North Midland Railways, near Wakefield,
and will terminate by means of a junction with the Eastern Coun-
ties Railway, at Bedford (to which place it is the intention of that
Company to extend their line in the ensuing session of Parliament),
and by thus availing itself as far as possible of the existing railways,
will complete the most direct and least expensive trunk line, from
London to Leeds, York, and Hull. It will pass in its route within an
available distance of Wakefield, Pontefract, Doncaster, Rotherham,
East Redford, Nottingham, Newark, Grantham, Melton. Mowbray,
Oakham, and Stamford.
The importance of such a line is obvious, both from the nature of
its Mlle (embracing, as it does, a most extensive population within
its limns), as also from the absence of any direct communication
for the conveyance of passengers and merchandise.
By the construction of this railway, railway communication to
London will be given to Peterborough and Leicester (by means of
the Syston and Peterborough Railway), to Newark and Nottingham,
(by the Nottingham and Lincoln line(, and to Sheffield and Gains-
borough, )by the Sheffield and Gainsborough line), by a much shorter
route than by any existing railways.
Independently of the advantages offered to the towns In the seve-
ral counties through which this line will pass, the line in itself, con-
sidered as a direct trunk line between London and Leeds, is sufficient
to justify its formation, it being well known that the existing traffic
between these two places•would produce such a retura on the capital
required, as to admit of a dividend equal to that of any railway in
operation; but when it is borne in mind that a company is being
formed for the purpose of connecting Glasgow with ;Leads by
means of a junction with the York and Carlisle Railway, no better
line can be presented to the public, as it will not only effect a direct
communication from Glasgow and the western parts of Scotland to
London, but would also connect Edinburgh and the eastern parts Of
Scotland, as well as Durham and Newcastle (by the York and North
Midland, and Great North of England Railways) with the metropo-
lis, which would be considerably shorter than the accommodation
offered by any other company ; and when cost of construction is con-
sidered, there cannot be a doubt but that preference would be given
to the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway.
The fact of the Eastern Counties Railway being connected by a
branch line with the East and West India Docks on the river
Thames, and the Railway Company having recently leased for 999
years the extensive pepper warehouses belonging to those docks,
which are capable of receiving 12,000 tons of goods, together with
wharik adjoining, where the shipment and trans-shipment of
goods
from all parts of the world can take place, is a most important fea-
ture in favour of the direct communication from the manufacturing
towns of Glasgow and Leeds offered by the Great Leeds and London
Direct Railway and, by branch railways to the main trunk line,
through which all goods from the manufacturing districts could be
conveyed at once to these warehouses for shipment, thereby avoiding
the present delay and expense of cartage, and in reality establishing
an almost direct and invaluable connexion between the rivers Clyde
and Thames. _

It has been ascertained that there are no engineering difficulties,
that the w ,rks will be easy, and the gradients remarkably good, and
that it will not materially interfere with any ornamental proPerty.
The subscribers will be held liable only to the extent of their first
deposits, until an Act of Parl:ament is obtained, and afterwards only
to the amount of their subscriptions.
It is proposed to take power in the Bill to allow interest at 4 per
cent. per annum on all calls until the opening of the line, and also
to extend the line to Hertford on the Eastern Counties line, in the
event of that Company not prosecuting their line to Bedford.

BROKERS.
London—Messrs. Marten and Hesenine, 9, Finch-lane
Leeds—Messrs. llopps and Co.
Liverpool—Messrs. Joseph King and Son
Hull—Messrs. Flint and Tootal
Manchester—Messrs. Cardwell and Sons
Bradford—Mr. Josiah Scholefleld
Edinburgh—Mr. Charles Couper, 30, St. Andrew's-square.
_

GREAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT
RAIL WAT.
The Managing Committee of this Railway hereby give notice that
they are now proceeding in the Allotment of the Shares in the above
undertaking, and that all the Letters of Allotment will be issued in
the ensuing week.

J. B. OWEN, Secretary.

Temporary Offices, Adelaide-place.
London-bridge.

GREAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT
RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management of this Direct Railway beg to ex-
press regret at the delay in issuing their Letters of Allotment, which
has been solely occasioned through the unprecedented number of
applications for shares to which they have been required to give
consideration, and which has thrown upon them some very exten-
sive labours, from which, however, they are happy to say they will
shortly be relieved, as the Letters ofAllotment are now in the course
of preparation, and will all be sent to their different destinations by
the evening post of to-morrow. The Committee also much regret
their inability to make allotments to a very numerous amount of
applicants of unexceptionable repute; but they have, in every in-
stance, endeavoured to arrive at their decisions hi a manner best cal-
culated to promote alike time interests of the public and the various
shareholders and promoters of this very important project.
J. B. OW.EN, Secretary.
Temporary Offices, Adelaide-place, London-bridge,
16th October, 1845.

Tand SPALDING JUNCTION RAILWAY, giving,
HE LEICESTER, MELTON MV‘q----i----wißthAoth-yer,
formed and projected lines, the nearest route from Birmingham
Coventry, and Leicester to the Eastern Coast, and a communication'
from Birmingham, via Nuneaton, Leicester, and Melton Mowbray,
to Spalding

(Provisionally Registered.)
Offices, 4, Trafalgar-square, Charing-cross.
Capital 500,000/., in 23,000 Shares of 20/. each.
Deposit 2/. 2s. per Share.
ACTING COMMITTEE.
Wynn Ellis, Esq. M.P. for Leicester, director of the Brandon arid
Spalding Railway
Francis Valentine Lee, Esq. director of the Eastern Counties Railway
Ambrose Moore, Esq. Milk-street, Cheapside
John D. Cooper, jun. Esq. Holme-cottage, Ashbourne, Derbyshire,
director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcester Railway
Josiah Wilson, Esq. Stamford-hill
John Smith 3lansfield, Esq. 3, Essex-court, Temple
George Meek, Esq. 29, Russell-square,
.director of the Nottingham,
Birmingham, and Coventry Railway
Captain Gustavus Evans. R.N. Headley-grove, Surrey, director of the
Nottingham, Birmingham, and Coventry Railway
Thomas Wakefield, Esq. Nottingham, director of the Brandon and
Spalding Railway.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—CharIes Fox, Esq.
ENGINEER—JOhII Hughes, Esq.
BANKERS.

The London Joint-Stock Bank, Princes-street
Messrs. Pagcts and Kirby, Leicester
Pare's Leicestershire Banking Company, Melton-Mowbray
The Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Company, Spalding
Messrs. Evans and Co., Derby
SOLICITORS--Messrs. Lacy and Bridges, 19, King's Arms-yard, Cole-
man-street ; Abraham Bass, Esq. Burton-upon-Trent.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—Messrs. Dyson, Hall, Parkes, and Coates,
Parliament-street.
SECRETARY--IVllliaM Ranyard, Esq.
The first of this line is to connect the town of Birmingham,
Coventry, and Leicester, with the eastern coast by the nearest route,
and to supply an important link of communication between the town
of Spalding and the eastern coast with the Western and Midland
districts.
Commencing at the Spalding station of the Norwich, Dereham,
Lynn, and Holbeack Railsvays, the line will Proceed by Bourn,
Witham, Castle Bytham, South Wytham, and Wymondham, to a
point on the Syston and Peterborough line of railway near Melton-
Mowbray, thus forming, by the Syston and Peterborough and Mid-
land Counties Railway, an -almost direct route to Leicester, and
thence to Coventry and BirrninOiam by the proposed Coventry,
Nuneaton, Leiester, and Birmingham Railway.
The projected line will form the most direct communication be-
tween the eastern and midland districts of the kingdom, and will, by
means of the vropose4l lines acreiss tie counts' of L is e r, via Bur-
tun-Upon-'Trent, to Stallord, bring the inarlets of Lincoln, Norfolk;
Shropshire, and North Wales, nearer to each other by
many miles
than any other line of railway.
It will corm, with otter projected railways, au idmoet direct hue

across the kingdom, from Yarmouth, via Norwich, on the east, to
Aberystwith, via Newton and Shrewsbury, on the west.
The entire length will not exceed thirty miles. There is no tunnel-
ling, cutting, or embanking of any importance necessary; the line
from Bourn to Spalding, a distance of about twelve miles, is very
level, and may be constructed at a small cost.
It will secure the advantages of railway communication to a tract
of country at present destitute of this accommodation, besides open-
ing out sources of trade undeveloped for want of the means of transit.
Tile central midland districts leave felt greatly: the want of direct
communication with the coast ; and this line will at once supply the
deficiency to the greater part of Staffordshire and Leicestershire.
It will afford a transit for the Staffordshire, Derbyshire, and Lei-
cestershire coal into districts heretofore entirely dependent upon
supply from the 'north at high prices ; it will also secure the advan-
tages of an unlimited supply of lime from the Leicestershire works,
to the agricultural districts of Lincoln, which are at present only
supplied at very high rates; and, in return traffic, the midland die-
tricts will obtain the advantage of a direct transit for the stock and
agricultural produce of Lincolnshire and Norfolk.
Several proposed lines of railway converge at Spalding, which is
the nearest point on the eastern coast for the midland counties, and
connected by the River 'Welland with the German Ocean.
The proposed capital will be sufficient for the construction of the
necessary works and every subsequent expense ; and the income
derivable from the traffic in passengers between Birmingham, Co-
ventry, Leicester, Derby, Melton, Spalding, and Boston, the trans-
port of corn, cattle, and other produce of the great agricultural
districts through which the lisle passes to the principal consuming
districts, and of coals, lime, and staple commodities for the inland
districts, will be sufficiently ample to warrant the outlay.
The Parliamentary surveys have been commenced, and are now
in active progress, and contracts leave been entered into which en-
sure sufficient time for compliance with the standing orders.
A Provisional Committee of gentlemen in now in !course of for-
mation, and will be published, with the prospectuses and plan, on
Monday next. In the meantime, application for shares, in the sub-
joined form may be addressed to the Secretary, at the offices of the
Company, 4, Trafalgar-square, Charing Cross.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Leicester. Melton Mowbray,

and Spalding Junction Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares of 201.
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 re-
gulations of the Company, and to sign the necessary deeds, and to
pay when required the deposit of 21. 2s. per share.
Dated this day of , 1845.
Name in full
Profession and •Professional Residence
Residence in fu11.... •„
Reference.... • • .

GREAT WESTERN, BRENTFORD, and
CENTRAL TERMINUS JUNCTION RAILWAY, from
the vicinity of West Drayton, through Hounslow, Erentford, Ham-
mersmith, Kensington, Chelsea, and Westminster, to A Central
Terminus, uear Charing-Cross.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Offices, 53, Charing-cross.
Capital, 850,000/., in 42,500 Shares of 201. each.

Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Earl of Devon
Vernon Abbott, Esq., 70, Gower-street
Philip Anstruther, Esq.,• Director of the Thames Embankmen
Railway Junction Company
Benjamin John Armstrong, Esq., Southall, Magistrate for Middlesex
John Auldjo, Esq., Noel House, Kensington
Henry Pratt Barlow, Esq., 24, Kensington-square
Edward Oliver Benson, Esq., Hounslow
William Sprott Boyd, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankmen
Railway Junction Company
Thomas Braman, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Leicester and Tam.
worth Railway
Sir John Macpherson Brackenbury
Sir Archer Denman Croft, Bart., Director of the Thames Embank-
ment Railway Junction Company
Major John T. Croft, Deputy Chairman of the Chester and Manches-
ter Railway
John Chevalier Cobbold, Esq., Chairman of the Eastern Vnion Rail
way
Wi!liam Cumming, Esq., North Bank, Regent's Park
George Cooper, Esq., Brentford
George James Stredwick Camden, Esq., Hounslow
Charles Downes, Esq., Director of the outh Midland Railway
J. Fisher, Esq. Isleworth
Major David Fitzgerald, Valentia, county of Kerry
Captain Forbes, R.N., Forest, Windsor
Sir Andrew Pellatt Green, R.N., K.C.H.
James Montgomery, Esq., Brentford
John Bowyer Nichols, Esq., Hammersmith
The Hon. Colonel Phipps, Norwood-grean
William Simpson Potter, Esq., Director of the South and 31Idland
Railway
Henry Pownall, Esq., Spring-grove, Hounslow, Magistrate for
(Middlesex
John F. Pownall, Est., Spring-grove, Hounslow
Colonel Reid (2d Life Guards), Bulstrode Park
Thomas Berry Rowe, Esq., Brentford
John Coysgarne Sim, Esq., No. 9, Clifton-place, Hyde Park-gardens
Major Jelf Sharp, Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for Middlesex,
Deputy-Chairman of the Thames Embankment Railway Junction
Company
Henry Webb Smith, Esq., Hounslow
William Spooner, Esti., Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and
Newcastle Railway
Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq., Chairman of the Irish North Midland
Railway
John Stewart, Esq., M.P.
Frederick Thompson, Esq., 20, Kensington-square
Robert Richard Tighe, Esq., Bank, Windsor
Henry Taffnell, Esq., M.P.
(With power to add to their number.)
ENGINEER—Thomas Page, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Wilkinson and Cobbold, 7, Lincoln's Inn-gelds
William Sim, Esq., 8, King's Bench-walk. Temple.
BANKERS.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS
_ _

Messrs. Hugh Ines CameronLiidQ;;BWlB,Parliament-street
SEcaETAar—Henry Moreing, Esq.

Applications for shares, in the subjoined form, may be made,
addressed to the Provisional Committee, at the Offices of the Com-
pany, 53, Charing-cross, to the Solicitors and Parliamentary Agents,
and to the following agents and sharebrokers :—Messrs. Carden and
Whitehead, 6138, Threadneedle-street; Mr. IL J. Williams, 80, Old
Broad-street, London ; Messrs. Bradley and Co., Manchester ; Mr. B.
it. Pemberton, and Messrs. H. Davis and Co., Liverpool ; Mr. Luke
Arnold, Bristol; Messrs. Chantrell and Boyes, Leeds ;Messrs. Wil-
kinson and Earle, Hull ; Messrs. Buchanan and Aitken, Glasgow,
and Messrs. Grayston and Earle, York, of whom prospectuses may
be obtained.

No applications for Shares In this Company will be received which
do not contain a reference to one of the Provisional Committee, the
Sharebrokers, Officers of the Company, or a Banker.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To tihe Provisional Directors of the Great Western, Brentford, att
Central Terminus Junction Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 201. each
in the above Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the same,
or any lesser number that may be allotted to me, to pay the deposit of
21. 2s. per share thereon, and to sign the Subscribers' Agreement and
Parliamentary Contract when required.
Name in fall ••.• • • • • ••
Residence
Trade or Profession • • .• • • • .....
Reference in ........ .

THE GREAT WESTERN, BRENTFORD,
and CENTRAL TERMINUS JUNCTION RAILWAY
COMPANY.

Office, 53, Charing-cross.

At a meeting of the inhabitants and owners of property in Brent-
ford and its vicinity, held on Saturday, the 11th instant, in pursuance
of a requisition most numerously and respectably signed,
HENRY POWNALL, Esq., Spring-grove, in the Chair,
It was proposed by G. COOPER, Esq., seconded by Mr. WALBRAN,

S HREWSBURY AND TRENT VALLEY
UNION RAILWAY.
Company's Offices, 68, George street,
Manchester, October 3d, 1845.
The Committee of Management of the Shrewsbury and Trent
Valley Union Railway Company having this day unanimously re-
solved, that it is expedient that this undertaking should be combined
with the Shropshire Union Railway and Canal Company, and that
for thL purpose the Shrewsbury and Trent Valley Union Railway
Company should be dissolved and its affairs wound up;—
Notice is hereby given, that scrip holders must forward their scrip
to these offices on or before the 31st October instant, and signify in
the annexed form, their election either to receive back their deposit,
which, in that event, will be returned to them without deduction for
past expenses, or to take in exchange for the scrip of the Shrews-
bury and Trent Valley Union Company, a corresponding number of
Shares in the Shropshire Union Railway and Canal Company.
Parties who shall so elect may receive back their deposits forthwith
on depositing their scrip.
Parties who elect to take shares in the Shropshire Union Railway
and Canal Company, may, in like manner, os depositing their scrip,
obtain a letter of allotment for a coresponding number of shares in
the new Company, which allotment will be forwarded to original
allottees immediately after the scrip !hall have been deposited, and
in other cases so soon as the Directors shall be satisfied of the suffi-
ciency of the depositors.
Parties who shall fail to send in their scrip and notify their wishes
in or before the 31st October, will be considered as having elected
to receive back their deposits.
The Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement of the
New Company, together with a Deed of Release, will lie for signa-
ture on and after Monday, the 13th October instant;—iu Manches-
ter, at No. 58, George-street, and in London, at a place to be here-
after named ; and the scrip of the New Company will be issuable
immediately after the deeds shall have been executed.
HENRY TOOTAL, Deputy Chairman,
R. FOSS, Secretary.
FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Shrewsbury and Trent
Valley Union Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—Hereetith are Scrip for shares iu the
Shrewsbury and Trent Valley Union Railway, in respect of which I
request you* to cause to be allotted to me a corresponding number of
shares in the Shropshire Union Railway and Canal Company, and I
agree to pay such deposit, and execute such deeds and agreements
as may be required iu respect of such new allotment.
Date................. ........
Name in full ......
Description ...... ..........
Address in fu11......
This form must be filled up in the handwriting of the applicant.
* Parties declining te take shares in the new Company, can substi-
tute the following for the remainder of the foam of application—" Ti
return me the amount of the deposit thereon."

AIASBURY AND SWINDON EXTEN..
L SION of the WILTS, SOMERSET, and SOUTHAMPTON
JUNCTION RAIDWAY.
On the Broad Gang.), from Salisbury, by Amesbury, the Vale
of Avon, and Marlborough, to Swindon, forming a direct Line of
Railway through Cheltenham and Gloucester to Birmingham, Man-
chester, and Liverpool.

(Provisionallyßegistered.)
Capital 700,0001., in 28,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
LOCAL COMMITTEE.
The Hon. and Rev. Canon Bouverie Pewsey
Ambrose Goddard, Esq. the Lawn, Swindon
John Browne, Esq. Chiseldon, Swindon
Rev. Edward Hake, Lake-house, near Swindon
Joseph Purnell, Esq. Amesbury
Charles Dew, Esq. Salisbury
Robert Squarey, Esq. magistrate, Salisbury
George Bracher, Esq. Salisbury-
Newell Vleary Squarey, Esq. Salisbury
William Blackmore, Esq. town councillor of Salisbury
Colonel Stone, Bath, and Chisledon, near Swindon
John Stone, Esq. Bath, and Chisledon, near Swindon
John Harding Sheppard, Esq. Swindon
William Fawcett, Esq. Salisbury.

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
John Bagshaw, Esq. Chairman„ William John M`Gwire, Esq.
London Hampton-court, London
William Bradley, Esq. Deputy. Richard Harris Purcell, Esq. Lon-
Chairman, Sheffield don
William Bardgett, Esq. London George Rougemont, Esq. London
George Hunt, Esq. banker, South- J. Stewart, Esq. M.P. London
ampton! Edwin Cadman, Esq. Westbourne-
William James Le Feuvre, Esq. house, Sheffield
Alderman ar.d Magistrate, Millis Coventry, Esq. Lombard-
Southampton street, London.
Edward Lomer, Esq. merchant,
Southampton

BANKERS.
Messrs. Rebarts, Curtis, and Co. London
The Hampshire Bank, Southampton
Wilts and Dorset Banking Company.
JOINT SOLICITORS.
James Coppock, Esq. 3, Cleveland-row, St. James's
John Bell, Esq. Craven-street, London
W. H. Moberley, Esq. Southampton.
ACTING ENGINEERS—Messrs. Birch, Cannon-row, London.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
C. W. Squarey, Esq. Salisbury
John Pyke, Esq. Marlborough
Messrs. Crowdy, Swindon.
The Allotment of Shares is being proceeded with, but owing to the
immense quantity ofapplications, and the determination of the Direc-
tors to allot to none but eligible and responsible persons, the Letters
cannot be posted for a few days.

The SURVEYS are NEARLY COMPLETED, and the Directors
are gratified in being able to state that they are now fully in a posi-
tion to PROCEED to PARLIAMENT in the ENSUING SESSION.
H. B. SHERIDAN, Secretary.

26, Greshath-street, Oct. 15.

PROSPECTUS OF THE
BOSTON, GRANTHAM, LEICESTER, and
MIDLAND COUNTIES JUNCTION RAILWAY
COMPANY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Offices-5, Guildhall Chambers, Baslnghall-street.
Capital, 800,0001., in 40,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Wm. Corbett Smith, Esq., Bitteswell-hall, High Sheriff of Leices-
tershire
John Summerscales, Esq., Sheriff of Lincoln
Sir Wm. Wynn, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, Chairman of the North
Wales Railway
Sir George Rich, Lonndes-street, I3elgrave-square, Director of the
Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway
Major-Gen. Sir Love Parry, Madryn, Carnarvonshire, Director of
the Noith•Wales Railway
Hon. J. C. Westenra, M.P., Sharavogue, Roscrea
Honourable Captain Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Parliament-street,
London, Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway
Rear-Admiral Ayscough, Southampton, Director of the Manchester
and Southampton Railway
Lieutenant-Colonel Eirington, Scotch Fusilier Guards, 12, Wynd-
ham-place, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Railway
Lieutenant-Colonel Fitch, 36, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Director
of the South and Midland Railway
Adamthwaite, John, Esq., Oakhill, Teen, Staffordshire
Allen, George Charles, Esq., East Shilton, Leicestershire, Director of
the Direct Birmingham and Leicester Railway
Atkinson, J. 8., Esq., Elmwood House, Leeds, Director of the Lei-
cester and Bedford Railway
Bell, Robert, Esq., Manor House, Chiswick, Director of the Direct
East and West Junction Railway
Bland, William, Esq., 11 , Park-terrace, Brixton-road, Director of
the Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire, and
the North Wales Railways
Betts, William, Esq„ Bevois Mount, Southampton
Browne, Joseph, Esq., Bedford, Director of the East and West of
England Junction Railway
Surd, John, Esq., Alderman, Manchester
Caldecott, William Lloyd, Esq., Laura-place, Bath
Carver, Edward Turst, Esq., Forest-lodge, Tulse-hill, Director if the
North Wales, and the Namur and Liege Railways
Cooke, T. F., Esq., Leicester
Collett, Benjamin, Esq., Manor House, Bromsgrove
Croft, Major J. T., Regent-street, Piccadilly, Deputy-Chairman of
the Chester and Manchester Railway
Cumberlege, Nathaniel, Esq., Director of the Direct East and West
Junction Railway
Dalby, John, Esq., Ashboume, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield,
Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railway
Bales, William, Esq., Mincing-lane, London, Director of the Direct
Western, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways
Gernon, J., Esq., 12,Concluit-street,Hanover-square, Vice-Chairman
of the Galway and Ennis Railway
Gillham, Joseph, Esq., Hargreaves House, Oldham, Director of the
Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction Railway
Graves, Captain Twisleton, Director of the Leicester, Teaa and
Dove Valley Railway
Hazelrlgg, Grey, Esq., Carlton-hall, Leicester
Heneage, Charles, Esq., Cadeby-house, Lincolnshire
Holmes, Isaac, Esq., Liverpool
Hunzerford, H. IL, Esq., Dingley-park, Market Harboreugh
Kebbel, W. 11., Esq., Glebe-house, Kilby, Leicester
Knight, Joseph, Esq., Leicester, Director of the Midland Counties,
Leicester, and Bedford Railways
Lambert, Richard, Esq., Lyston-hall, Sudbury, Director of the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Laurie, George, Esq., Manchester
Macmorafi, A. M., Esq., 58, Cambridge-street, Hyde-park, Director
of the Mrect East and West Junction Railway
Mann, A., Esq., Denver-hall, Norfolk, Director of the Liverpool,
Manchester, and Newcastle Junction Railway
Maunder, Joseph, Esq., Liverpool, Director of the Rugby and Man-
chester
Direct Railway
Meteyard, Horace Wm., Esq., 8.C.L., London, Director of Reming-
ton's London and Manchester Railway
Miller, Thomas, jun., Esq., Leicester, Director of the Direct Bir-
mingham and Leicester Railway
Mosse, R., Esq., Princes-street, Great George-street
Parker, Francis, Esq., Northampton, Director of the South Midland
Railway
Parkinson, John, Esq , Cambridge-terrace, Regent's park, Director
of the South Midland Railway
Payne, Benjamin, Esq., Leicester, Director of the Direct Birming-
ham and Leicester Railway
Ramsey, J., Esq., Bushey House, Hefts
Raworth, J., Esq., Leicester, Director of the Direct Birmingham
and Leicester Railway
Shaw, Joseph, Eaq., York-place, Huddersfield, Director of the East
and West of England Junction Railway
Shaw, George, Esq., M.D., Leicester
Spiers, E. 1., Esq. ,Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and
Worcestershire Junction Railway
Stone, Nathaniel C., Esq., Rawley-fields, near Leicester, Director of
the Direct Birmingham and Leicester Railway
Sagar, Hartley, Esq., Ball's Grove, Colne, Director of the Leeds
and Carlisle, and the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railways
Threlfall, Edward, Esq., Regent Road Mills, Manchester, Director of
the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway
Tebbutt, Thomas, Esq., Rusholm, Manchester, Director of the
Rugby and Manchester, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways
Williams, B. 8., Esq., 70, Portland-place, Director of the Leeds
and Liverpool, Leicester and Tamworth Railways.
____

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Sir George Wm. Prescott Richard Lambert, Esq.
Sir George Rich A. M. Macmoran, Esq.
Sir William Wynn Horace Wm. Meteyard, Esq.
Lieut.-Colonel Elrington It. 3fosse, Esq.
Lieut.-Celonel Fitch John Parkinson, Esq.
E. T. Carver, Esq. S. Parsons, Esq.
13. Collett, Esq. I. Ramsay, Esq.
Major Croft J. Raworth, Esq.
Nathaniel Cumberlege, Esq. Major Waller
J. Dalby, Esq. Thos. Mortimer Cleobury, Bag•
Charles Heneage, Esq. Robert Bell, Esq.
Joseph Knight, Esq.

BANKERS.
Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clement's-lane, London
Messrs. Garth, Clapoa, and Co., Boston
Messrs. Kenney and King, Grantham
Mare's Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester and Melton
Mowbray.

ENGINEER—C. Nixon, Esq.
SOLICITOR—J. A. J. Macgregor, Esq., 26, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall,
London.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Manners and Son, Grantham, and
Messrs. Millington and Kenrick, Boston.
SEeRETAnr--George Ferrer, Esq.

. -
The object of this line of railway is to connect, by a direct route,
the important town and seaport of Boston with the centre of Eng-
land, by way of Grantham and Melton Mowbray, where it will join
the Syston and Peterborough branch of tho Midland Counties Railway.
It is unnecessary to enlarge upon the advantages which will arise
from this railway, which passes through one of the richest and
most fertile parts of England. The population is dense, and a
glance at the map will show that this line is well laid out, net
only for the direct traffic from Leicester and the intermediate
places to Boston, but also for the general traffic which will be
brought to this line by the several railways which will be connected
with it.

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By this railway, which will be about forty-four miles in length,
and
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a gi level,a m it, Grantham,
s intended
Stoke,toluts by or
near
Roth-
ford, and Melton Mowbray. It is evident that this line will be of
great convenience and utility, by affording to a part of the country
at present deprived of it the advantage of railway communication
with the counties of Rutlandshire, Leicestershire, Northampton-
shire, Warwickshire, &c., and thus connecting the agricultural
districts of Lincolnshire with the manutacturing parts of England,
affording to the latter an easy and accessible means of export for
their manufactures.
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way willthe
porfasfleiraelse, holders,aild r,
aiennt
will
and assistance is
landed interests along the line, whose concurrence
of the influential
etiets'ornathile-
flilly relied on by the promoters, by whom most
Midland Counties Cmouadn
received except those
applications will be .
ihiteloMn
sary trouble, no other
landholders have been canvassed ; and,
member of the Provisional Commit-
tee,
in order to prevent unneces-
sary
herein reference is made to a nrem
may be obtained :
from whom prospectuses and plans
Cribble and Sutton, Royal Exchange
Messrs Sutton, . ,
to the Solicitors or Bankers, or the following Sharebrokers,
Townley and Whitehead, Liverpool
Messrs.
Mr. Keel, 20, Atherton-buildings, Liverpool
Messrs. Preece and Evans, 39, Lothbury, London
Messrs. Welibeloved and Oastier, Leeds
Mr. Frederick Stamp, Hull
Mr. Geo. Clark, Bradford
Mr. Wm. Croulteltn, Halifax
Mr. Charles Spencer, Nottingham
Messrs. Eyre and Shaw, Derby
Messrs. Grayston and Erie, York
Mr. E. 11. Armitage, Wakefield
Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol
Messrs. lloughland and Leese, Manchester
- Messrs. T. N. -Bardwell and Sons, Sheffield •
Mr. W. H. Collis, Birmingham
Mr. L. Wetherburn, jun., IludderSfleld
Mr. R. Rozzell, Leicester
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Mr. James Pringle, 79, Princes-street, Edinburgh
Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Glasgow
Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, College-green, Dublin.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Boston, Grantham, Leicester,
and Midland Counties Junction Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me shares of
20/. each in the above proposed railway ; and I undertake to pay the
deposit of 21. 2s. per share thereon, or any less number you may ap-
propriate to me, and to execute the Subscriber's' Agreement and Par-
liamentary Contract when required.
Dated this day of
Residence........
Trade or Profession
Reference......

1845.

BOSTON, GRANTHAM,LEICESTER, AND
PANY, MIDLAND COUNTIES JUNCTION RAILWAY COM-

(Provisionally Registered.)
Offices-5, Guildhall-chambersZßasinghall-street.
Capital, 800,0001., in 40,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
In consequence of the numerous Applications for Shares in the
above railway, no further application can be received after WEDNES-
DAY, the 224 of October instant, when the lists will be finally closed
for allotment.
. Dated the 14th October, 1845.
J. A. J. MACGREGOR, Solicitor to the Company.
5, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street.

S HEFFIELD ,NoTTLN GUAM, and LONDON
DIRECT RAILWAY.
The Shares Committee give notice that they arc occupied daily in
obtaining information and deciding upon the great number of appli-
cations received, and they hope in a few days to issue the letters of
allotment.

1, Moo gate, Oct. 16, 1845,

11. T. ALSTON, Secretary,

DIRECT WESTERN RAILWAY.
In reply to the numerous inquiries made of the Committee
of Management, they beg to announce that, in consequence of the
number of Shares applied for having exceeded one million four hun-
dred thousand, considerable delay has necessarily tiken place in
making the Allotment, which, however, will be completed in a
few days.
The Committee have the satisfaction of stating, that the surveys
and Parliamentary plans are in a very forward state, and that all will be ready for the next session of Parliament.
By order,