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line will open up a communication by railroad between Portsmouth
and Dover.
From all inspection of the map, it will be seen that the Redhill
station, near Reigate, lies nearly in a direct line between Ports-
mouth and Chatham, and in pursuing the line of communication to
the last-mentioned naval and military depot, this line will pass
through or near the towers of Bletchingley, Godston, Limpsfleid,
Westerham, Seven Oaks, Ightham, Town Mailing, Wrotham, Off-
ham, Snodiand, Lower Hailing, and Woodham.
The distance between Chatham and Reigate will involve the
making of 31 miles of railroad, and the line of railroad between
Portsmouth and Chatham will extenl over 82 miles.
To the naval and military establishments :of this kingdom the
construction of this projected line will afford the 'most important fa-
cilities in the transit of troops, stores, baggage, &c. &s., diminishing
the tardy course of communication which at present necessarily
exists between Portsmouth and Chatham, at present usually extend-
ing over the space of two days, and placing them in that direct com-
munication with each other which, in two hours, or thereabouts,
will enable the journey between them to be made.
The formation of of a direct line of rail way between Portsmouth
and Chatham will afford the opportunity of establishing, by the
electric telegraphic, that celerity of communication so important total
obtained between places of national importance.
The warm support of the principal landowners on the greater part
of the lins is pledged to this undertaking.
The Provisional Committee abstain from making any special re-
ference to the contemplate I profit to result from carrying into effect
this undertaking, feeling convinced that the extent of traffic through
the populous and rich districts over which this line and its branches
are projected to pass is sufficiently known, and is decisive of the
Inutility of all comment in that respect.
Applications for the shares, in the form given below, to be made
to the Solicitors and Local Agents, or to any of the following
Brokers :—Messrs. R. Sutton, Gribble, and Sutton, Royal Exchange,
London ; Messrs. l'eppercorne and Co., No. 2, Old Broad-street,
London ; Mr. H. Pritchett, of No. 74, Old Broad-street ; Messrs.
Neilson, sharebrokers, Liverpool ; John Duncuft, Esq., sharebroker,
Manchester ; Mr. R. M`Ewen, 18, St. Ann's-street, Manchester ;
John Watson, Esq., sharebroker, Leeds ; Messrs. Ridsdale, Myers,
and Bailey, brokers, Leeds ' • Messrs. Schultz and Carr, brokers, Li-
verpool ; Messrs. Hope and Rastrick, brokers, Manchester ; Messrs.
Tyeth and Luscombe, stockbrokers, Plymouth ; George Edwards
and Son, Bristol ; Messrs. Watson and Co., Hull ; Messrs. Pott and
Levick, Nottingham ; and Messrs. Collis and Son, Birmingham.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Direct London, Portsmouth, and
Chichester, and Direct Portsmouth and Chatham Railway

EXETER, DORCHESTER, AND WEY-
MOUTH JUNCTION COAST RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management beg to inform the public that the
shares in this Company are now in course of allotment, and that they
(the Committee) Intend issuing the Letters and Allotmentsas soon as
the requisite examination has taken place into the application for
shares. By order,
Oct. 2, 1845. FRANCIS CREW, Secretary.

RUGBY, WARWICK, and WORCESTER
RAILWAY.
The Directors, in consequence of their receiving daily applications
for shares in this Company, announce that the list was finally closed
on Saturday last, and that no further applications can be entertained.
By order,
September 26th, 1845. GEO. H. WELLED, Secretary.

RUGBY, WARWICK, and WORCESTER
RAILWAY.
..

The Directors in reply to the numerous applications on the
subject, beg to inform the public that the shares in this Company
are now in course of allotment, and that they, the Directors, intend
issuing the letters of allotment so scon as the requisite examination
has taken place into the application for shares.

September 27, 1545.

By order,
GEO. 11. WELLER, Secretary

THE CHESTER AND MANCHESTER
DIRECT RAILWAY.
The Shares in this Railway having been allotted to all Deposits
duly paid, the Committee of Management have much pleasure in in-
forming their Shareholders that the Parliamentary surveys are pro-
gressing to their entire satisfaction, and that every care is being
taken to insure compliance with the standing orders on going-before
Parliament. By order,
A. BARRETT, Secretary.
1, Royal Exchange-buildings, London,- Sept. 27, 1845.

GREAT EASTERN and WESTERN RAIL-
WAY

Abergavenny, Sept. 29, 1843.
At a MEETING of the INHABITANTS of this town and neigh-
bourhood, convened by public reqiiisition, and held here this day,
The Bev. WM. POWELL, Vicar of Abergavenny, in the Chair,
It was proposed by Mr. DANIEL, seconded by ➢lr. ISAAC, and unani-

That this meeting, being deeply convinced of the necessity and ad-
vantage of direct railway communication between the town of
Abergavenny and the great iron district of Monmouthshire and
Breconshire, and finding that this district is embraced in the grand
scheme of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company, does
most cordially approve of its plans, and is determined to render it
all the aid it can command.

RUGBY, WARWICK, AND WORCESTER
RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 900,0001., in 45,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
At a meeting of the Provisional Committee, numerously attended,
convened by circular, and held at the Offices of the Company, No. I,
Guildhall-chambers, Basingnall-street, London, the 30th September,
1845,
W. H. HUGHES, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., in the Chair,
The following resolutions were adopted :
Resolved,—That the Prospectus issued as that of the Provisional
Committee be now approved and adopted.
Resolved,--That the following gentlemen do constitute the Com-
mittee of Management:—
William Frederick Beadon, Esq.
Thomas Farmer Cooke, Esq.
Peter Colston, jun., Esq.
Edward Doubleday, Esq.
John Freeman, Esq.
Alexander Greig, Esq.
Mr. Alderman Hughes Hughes
Thomas Ilag,ger, Esq.
John Haddon, Esq.
Richard Parry Jones, Esq.
E. W. Morris, Esq.
Resolved,—That the following be appointed the Bankers of the
Company :
The London and Westminster Bank lln The London and County Banking Company, London.
The Northamptonshire Banking Company, at Northampton.
Messrs. Butlin and Son, at Rugby.
The Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company,
at Leamington, Warwick, and Southam
Messrs. Berwick and Co., at Worcester.
The Committee have great pleasure in informing the public of the
extraordinary support this Company has received, and they regret
that, in consequence of the number of applicants for shares in this
undertaking, many highly respectable and influential claims must
unavoidably be unsatisfied.
The allotment is now being proceeded with, and th letters will
be Issued in the course of a week ; thqse parties, therefore, who do
not receive letters, must be pleased to accept the above as the apolcgy
of the Committee. By order,
GEO. H. WELLER, Secretary.
Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street, Ist October. 1845.
J)
IRECT SHEFFIE LD and MACCLESFIELD
RAILWAY, forming Junctions with all the important Rail-
ways in Great Britain.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and Bth Vic., c. 110.)
Capital 800,0001., in 40,009 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
(With power to add to their number.)
Pierce Somerset Butler, Esq., M.P„ Chairman of the Waterford and
Kilkenny, and of the City of Toronto and Lake Huron Rail-
way Companies
William Chaplin, Esq., Lad-lane, London, and Greenhithe, Kent,
Chairman of the Iron Steam-boat Company
John Chaplin, Esq., Gracechurch-street, and Greenhithe, Kent
Edwin Ward Jackson, Esq., Edgehill, Liverpool, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds, North-Western, Manchester, Liverpool, and
Great North of England, and Staffordshire Potteries Railways
Rowland Hill Mackenzie, Esq., Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square,
London, Director of the Trine*, Reading, and Basingstoke, and of
the Cheltenham and Oxford "'unction Railways
T. S. Richards, Esq., Baker street, Portman-square, Director of the
Ipswich and Soutampton Railway
Edward Scard, Esq.,magistrate for Surrey and Middlesex, Kew-green,
Director of the Toronto and Lake Huron Railway
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Park, Blackheath, Director of the Com-
mercial Bank, and of the Metropolitan Life Office
John Tall, Esq., Hanoverian Consul, merchant and shipowner, Hull,
Director of the Hull Dock Company
Rear-Admiral Ay-seough, Prospect-place-house, Southampton
John Francis Bacon, Esq., Austin-friars, London
Captain Crawley, Edgbaston, Birmingham
Thomas Chitty, Esq., Gower-street, Director of the Rugby and War-
wick Railway
Captain F. Chamier, R.N., Halkin-street, Belgrave-square, Director
of the Hazebrouck and Fampoux (French) Railway
C. F. Colman, Esq , Shirley, Southampton
Captain William Cousins, Director of the Goole and Doncaster
Railway
Thomas 11. Evans, Esq., Mayor of Carnarvon, Director of the
London and Holyhead Railway
Robert Green, Esq., Birchin-lane, London and Macclesfield
William Holloway, Esq., Lime-street-square, London
William Jenking, Esq., 11/dull-heath, Birmingham
Edward Bichards, Esq., 16, New Broad street-buildings
Sir William White, Director of the Church of England Life Insurance
Company
George R. Peppercorn, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex, Director of the Rugby
and Worcester Railway
Thomas Whitaker, Esq., Captain, R.N., Kirk Ella, near Hull,
Director of the Hull and Barns'ey Junction. Railway
Isaac Whitaker, Esq., Hessle, near Hull, Director of the York, Hull,
and East and West Yorkshire Junction Railway
Thomas Ward, Esq., shipowner, Hull, Director of the Dudley,
Madeley, Brosely, and Ironbridge, and of the Hull and Barnsley
Junction Railways
George Robinson, Esq., Hull, Director of the Dudley, MaAleley,
Brosely, and Ironbridge, and of the Hull and Barnsley Junction
Railway
John Ostler, Esq., Hull, Dirdctor of the Hull and Barnsley Junction
Railway
Thomas Digby, Esq., Banker, Hull, Director of the Hull and Barns-
ley Junction Railway
George Newte, Esq., Director of the Barbadoes Railway
Fitzherhert Macqueen, Esq., Great Winchester-street
Sir James Anderson, Bart., Buttovant Castle, Director of the Cork
and Fermoy Direct Railway
John Corfleld, Esq., Southwick-street, Hyde Park-gardens
James Adair, Esq., Director of the Church of England Life Assurance
Company, and of the Northern and Southern Railway
John G. Barrett, Esq., Ross, Herefordshire
William Diernas, Esq., Beverley
Colonel W. M. sioane, Director of the Bristol and Dover Railway
Lawrence Kortwright, Esq., Director of the Barbadoes Railway
John Upham, Esq., Clarges-street, Director of the Guernsey and
Mauritius Railways
John Grey Wilson, Esq., Director of the Western Gas Company, and
of the Direct Western Railway
William Henry Halpin, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and
Basingstoke Railway
Matthew William Stainee, Esq., 64, Conduit-street, Hanover-square
Samuel Pocock, Esq., Bloomsbury-square
Bentinck W. Doyle, Esq., Director of the North Jamaica Railway
E. D. Warrington, Esq., merchant, New City Chambers, Bishops-
gate-street
John Chandler, Esq., Connaught 4.errace, Hyde-park
Edward Power, Esq., Middle Temple
Simeon Musgrove, Esq., Kirkstall, near Leeds
Sir William Lowthrop, Hull, and Algoa House, Scarborough, Chair-
man of the Hull and Barnsley Junction, and Director of the Liver-
pool and Leeds Railways
Captain J. P. Macdougall, Director of the Cambrian Grand Junction
Railway
W. F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Deputy Chairman
of the Ipswich and Brighton Railway
G. A. Foster, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Woreester Extension,
and Chester Junction Railways
Miles Coventry, Esq., Director of the Direct Western Railway
William Gordon, Esq., M.D., hull, Director of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct, and Hull and Barnsley Junction Railways
Col. Robert Douglas, C. 8., United Service Club
Samuel Palmer, Esq., Great Yarmouth, Director,of the Great Grimsby,
Louth, Homcastle, Lincoln, and Midland Junction Railway
Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of the Britannia Insurance Company
John Haigh, Esq., Leds
Richard Kelly, Esq., Cleveland-row, Chairman of the New Ross,
Carlow, and Kilkenny Railways, and Managing Director of the
York and Lancaster Railway
Henry Bellerby, Esq., Sheriff of York
Frederick Ramsden, Esq., Seymour House, Old Trafford, Manchester,
Director of the Birkenhead, Holyhead, and Mold Extension ; the
Liverpool, Preston, and North Union ; the Staffordshire Potteries ;
and the London and Holyhead Railways
Samuel Giles, Esq., Bowden, near Manchester, Director of the Man-
chester and Birmingham Continuation. and Welsh Jtmction, and
the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railwiys
P. Bennett Lucas, Esq., Manchester-street, Manchester-square,
Director of the Great Leeds and London, Direct Ipswich and
Southampton, Sligo and Shannon Railways
Charles Tottenham, Esq., Magistrate of the county of Wexford,
Chairman of the Exeter and Dorchester Railway
Robert Bissett Richmond, Esq., 31. D., 40, Great Castle-street,
Cavendish-square, London
Thomas W. George, Esq., Leeds, Director of the West Yorkshire
Railway
J. Helbert Helbert, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director
of the Birmingham and Leicester Railway
John Samuel Whitchurch, Esq., Weymouth •
William llawtry, Esq., Fulham
Richard Rowe, Esq., eaufoy-terrace, 3laida Vale
James Carroll Wilcocks, Esq., Exeter, Director of the Exeter,
Yeovil, and Dorchester, Exeter and Creditor, and North Devon
Railways
Darnton Lupton, Esq., the Worshipful the Mayor of Leeds, Director
of the Leeds and York, and York and Hull, and Nottingham and
Gainshoroughßailways
Thomas 3linnely, Esq., Leeds
Joseph Itichardeon, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York, the
Midland and Thirsk Junction, and the London, Hounslow, and
Western Railways
John Brightman Esq., Comilla, London, and Regency-square, Brigh-
ton, Chairman of the London and Hounslow Railway
John Barnett, Esq., Cheltenham, Coroner for the County of Glouces-
ter, and Director of the Oxford and Whitney Railway
Mathew Pierpoint, Esq., Worcester, Chairman of the Rugby, Derby,
and Manchester, and Director of the Welsh Midland. and Dudley,
Madeley, and Broseley and Ironbridge Railways
F. Duffield, Esq., Bolton-house, Bradford, Director of the Cambridge
and Lincoln Extension Railway
James Hamilton, Esq., Balsall-heath, Birmingham
Daniel T. Johnson, Esq., Aldermary-churchyard, Watling-street,
London, Director of Remington's Direct London and Manchester
Railway
Richd. Clay, Esq., Winchester-street, London, and Lloyd's
Klein Grant, Esq., St. James's-street, London, Director of the
Direct Western Railway.

mously resolved—

James Morrison, Esq.
Cornelius Nicholson, Esq,
Benjamin Payne, Esq.
Robert Rising, Esq.
Thomas Sharp, Esq.
Joseph Satchel!, Esq.
John Wheelton, Esq.
Edward Waddelove, Esq.
Edward Welch, Esq.
John Woolston, jun., Esq

WILLIAM POD ELL, Chairman.
was proposed by Mr. J. H. ➢loncav, seconded by Mr. IV. IV.
SEcarrAN, and unahnously resolved—
That the thanks of this meeting be offered to the Chairman.

THE DIRECT LONDON AND DUBLIN
RAILWAY COMPANY (PILBROW'S ATMOSPERIC).
Performing the whole distance in ten hours.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Offices, Charlotte-row, Mansion-house.
In Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.

It has been stated by the highest official authority during the last
session, that the most direct and speedy communication between the
English and Irish capitals is a desid-ratinn of the Government; and
the object of the present undertaking is to afford this accommodation,
which, from the best evidence, can, no dsnbt, be effected by the
passage from Porthdynilaen to Kingstown direct.' It has, there-
fore, been determined to adopt this line ; and the Committee have
the satisfaction to state that they are encouraged to do so by many
of the leading proprietors and influential noblemen and gentlemen
in North Wales, and the south and west of England and Ireland.
The line to be formed will commence by a junction, at Birming-
ham, with the London and Birmingham Railway; thence it will pro-
ceed, as nearly as possible, in a straight direction to Porthdynllaen,
Passing through or close by Dudley, Shrewsbury, Bala, and other
principal towns on the route.
The importance, nay, the necessity of such a line has long been
felt, not only by the merchant, but also by:the statesman.. This,
therefore, may fairly be considered a great national undertaking ;
opening facilities for the most expeditious transit between the two
capitals, it will at the same time offer a most direct communication
with the south of Ireland, via Wicklow; thus conferring an immense
benefit on the public at large.
Hitherto, the nature of some of the districts to be traversed has
been generally considered as opposing obstacles too formidable for
locomotive transit ; which circumstance accounts for the principa-
lity having thus continued without the advantage of a railway.
Happily, however, such are the advances of science, that the atmo-
spheric can surmount that which is denied the locomotive power ;
and in this respect the plan proposed at once removes every objection

Company.
I request that you Trill allot to me shares 01201. each in the
above named Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the same,
or any less number that may be allotted to me, and to pay the de-
posit of 21. 2s. on each share, and to execute the Parliamentary Con-
tract and Subscribers' Agreement as may be required of me.
Dated this day of 1845.
Usual signature ••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • "
Name in full• • .... • ..... ••••••• • •• • • • •
Profession or Trade •• • • • •
Place of Business (if any) • • • • • • • • •• • • • •

Residence of Reference • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

N.D. No application will be attended to except with a reference to
a banker, or from an applicant referring to, and who is known b y
some of the Provisional Committee, or the solicitors, or local agents,

BM, MIN GHAM. AND MANCHESTER
DIRECT RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 900,0001., in 45,000 Shares of 20/. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.
The Hon. Cecil Lawless, Lynbarth, Kildare, and St. James's-street
Sir William Twisden, Bart., Dorset-square, Director of the Chepstow
and Forest of Dean Railway
Sir Wm. Young, Bart., East India Director, Westbourne-street,
Hyde Park-gardens, Director of the Sheffield, Nottingham, and
London Direct Railway
The Sheriff of York, Director of the Sheffield, Nottingham, and
London Direct Railway
Ayscough, Rear-Admiral, Prospect-place, Southampton, Director of
the Sheffield, Nottingham, and London Direct Railway
Adair, Major, Director of the Church of England Assurance Society,
and of the Burton-upon-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and New-
town, and Indian Peninsular Railways
Arnold, Henry, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of Remington's Direct
London and Manchester Railway
Booth, John, Esq., Park-cottage, Macclesfield, Director of the Leeds,
Huddersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct, and Sheffield, Notting-
ham, and London Direct Railways
Brown, Henry, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Director of Remington's
Direct London and Manchester Railway
Buck, W. C., Esq.
Cambridge, John, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of the
Burton-on-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury-, and Newtown Railway
Chambers, Win., Esq., Cocks Bench, Derby, Director of Remington's
Direct London and Manchester Railway
Clarke, Jeremiah, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Cleobury, Thomas Mortimer, Esq., Acton, Middlesex, Director of the
Sheffield, Nottingham, and London Direct Railway
Cook, John, the Rev., Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, Director of the Shef-
field,oft,
MajorN t Nottingham, aTm. ,
Regent-street,
eLnot
-nsdter
ene Direct
RailwayDeputy-Chairman,
Director of
Remington's Direct London and Manchester Railway
Crossley, John, Esq., Lumberhurst, Sussex, Director of the Sheffield,
Cr
Nottingham, and London Direct Railway.
Cumberlege, N., Esq., York-terrace, Regent's Park, Direetor of the
Burton-upon-Trent, Stafford,: Shrewsbury, and Newtown, and
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railways
Dale, Major Thurston, Ashbourne, Director of the Burton-on-Trent,
Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newton, and Leeds, Huddersfield, and
Wolverhampton Direct Railways
Daniel, It., Esq , Oakhill, Stoke-upon-Trent, Director of the Leeds,
Huddersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway
Darlington, John, Esq., Shipley Hall, Bradford, Director of the Liver-
pool and Leeds Direct Railway
Dewhnrst, Richard, Esq., Apsley House, Huddersfield, Director of
the West Riding Union Banking Company, and Director of the
West Riding Junction Railway
Dent, Edward, Esq., Director of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and
Great Grimsby Direct Railway
Dent, John, Esq., Director of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and
Great Grimsby Direct Railway
Eastwood, Abraham, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds, Hud-
dersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway
Eastwood, Edmund, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds, Had
dersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway
Evart, Francis, of 4, Brick-court, Temple, Director of the Great
Leeds and London Direct, Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Me-
tropolitan Junction Railways
Fisher, Thomas, Esq., Ripon, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway
Franklin, Benjamin, Harley-street, London
Gisborne, Henry Francis, Esq., Derby, Director of the Burton-on-
Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newton Ra lway
Hammond, George, Esq., Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railway
Harrison, John, Esq., banker, Ripon, Director of the Leeds, Hudders-
field, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway
Herries, Robert, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway
Hind, Abraham, Esq., Director of the Manchester; Huddersfield and
Great Grimsby Direct Railway
Holdforth, J. D., Esq., Burley, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway
Hughes, Hughes W., Esq., Alderman of the City of London
Ing'eby, Joseph, Esq., Cheadle, Director of the Leeds, Hudiersfield,
and Wolverhampton Direct Railway
Johnson, Richard William, Esq., Moorgate, Director of the Brighton
and Cheltenham and Remington's Direct London and Manchester
Railway
Jones, Ede, Esq., Camberwell, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield,
and Wolverhampton Direct Railway
Jones, Edward, Esq., Windmill-place, Camberwell, Director of the
Leeds, Huddersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway
Jones, the Rev. J. P., Vicarage, Alton, Director of tee Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Keene, John Joseph, Esq., St. John's Wood, Regent's Park, Di-
rector of the Burton-on-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and New-
town Railways
King, William, Esq , Stepney, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, arid Worcestershire Junction, and Brighton and Chelteuhain
Railways
Knight, Ed ;rani, M.D., Stafford, Director of the Burton-on-Trent,
SlTerorO, Shrewsbury, and Newtown Railway
La' abert, Richard, Esq., Lyston-hall, Sudbury
All! Mahon, Daniel, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Mainwaring, John, Esq., Eagle-Hall, Pateley-bridge, Director ef the
York and Lancaster Railway
Mann, T., Esq., Chapel-cottage, Holloway
Maskery, Thos., Esq., Norbury-hail, Director of -the Brighton and
Cheltenham Railway
Meteyard, Horace W., Esq., Director of Remington's Direct London
and Manchester Railway
Moore, Major, Anne-street, Cavendish-square, Director of the Burton-
on-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newtown Railway
Musgrave, S., Esq.
Norton, Joseph, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Nottingham and
Dondon Direct Railway
Ogle, Nathaniel, Esq., Heath-lane Lodge, Twickenham, Director of
the Burton-on-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newtown Rail-
way
Pulteney, Captain Douglas Kinnaird, 4, Parliament-street, Chairman
of the York and Lancaster Railway, and Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Richardson, Joseph, Esq.
Robinson, John, Esq. Silcoates-cottage, Wakefield, Director 'of the
Leeds, Huddersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct, and Sheffield,
Nottingham, and London Direct Railways
Roden, T. C., Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Leeds, Hudelders-
field, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway.
Shipton, Robert, Esq., Scupton, Derbyshire, Director of Remington's
Direct London and Manchester Railway
Smith, John, Esq., Barton-house, Ashborne, Derbyshire
Smith, Thomas, Esq., M.D., Leeds, Director of the I.eedi, Tlnaders-
field, and Wolverhampton Direct, and Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railways
Smith, Wm., Esq., Clifton, Derbyshire, Director of the Brighton and
Cheltenham Railway
Sneyd, Thomas, Esq., Belmont
Stanhore, Lieutenant-Colonel Leicester, Chairman of Remington's
Direct London and Manchester Railway
Tyler, George, Esq., Holloway-place, London, Director of the
Brighton and Cheltenham Railway
Waller, Major James, K. 11., St. James's-square, Director of the
Leeds, Huddersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct, and Brighton
anti Cheltenham Railways
Walters, James, Esq., Bakewell, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield,
and Wolverhampton Direct Railway
Watts, W. It., Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield,
and Wolverhampton Direct Railway
Welsh,
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Company
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'Wilkinson, J., Esq.
Wright. Thomas, Esq., merchant, Derby, Director of the Derbyshire,
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explains the object
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway.
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of the undertaking.
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all the ;other railways havinga Stall"
that
neommunication with
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town,
brought as near as practicable to its centre.Proceedingtahned
ce will be
northerly direction, and on the west side of the Lichfield roanditin
willa
pass within a short distance of Sutton Coldfield, and to Lichfield, at
the latter of which places there will be a station in coin •
mtuncation
with the projected Walsall lines.
Thence crossing the Trent Valley, near King's Bromley, it will
pursue the course of the Blythe Valley, or by or near to Abbots
Bromley to Leigh, where it will leave the Blythe Valley, and by a
short cutting reach the Teen station on Remington's London and
Manchester line at the junction of the Crewe branch, or by a junc-
tion with whichever of the projected lines to Manchester may be
adopted by Parliament.
The entire length of the new line to be made will not exceed
thirty-four miles, anti the whole will be carried over a most favour-
able country—two-thirds being a water-level.
Sections of a great portion of the line have been made, and the en-
tire Parliamentary survey will be completed by the 9th ofOctober.
This railway will affortta route
from Birmingham to Manchester
eleven miles shorter than by any existing or projected line. It will
also give the best and nearest line between Huddersfield, and Bir-
mingham.
It will also furnish a nearer and more direct route from Birming-
ham to the Potteries than any line made or projected by several
miles, assuming any of the Pottery lines to have their termini at Col-
wieb, on the Trent Valley, or at Stafford, on the Grand Junction
Railway ; thus giving to Manchester, and a:so the Potteries, the
shortest, easiest, and most direct route to Birmingham. It will
also give the nearest line between Huddersfield and Birmingham and
Southampton.
This railway crosses the projected Leeds and Huddersfield and
Wolverhampton Direct Railway. In the Blythe Valley a'station will
be placed, and communication effected, so as to afford to Birmingham
the shortest route by many miles, with Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield,
and the northern parts of England. In allotting shares every
legi-
timate preference will be given to landholders on the line.
It is obvious that the projected line will afford an ample return to
the shareholders.
For prospectuses, shares, and every Information, apply to the
solicitors, W. Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttoxeter ; or at the Offices
of the Company, No. 1, Moorgste, London.
BROKERS.
Messrs. B. and M. Boyd, New Bank-buildings
Messrs. Townley and Whitehead, Liverpool
Messrs. Cameron and Co., Liverpool
Mr. Merris Reynolds, Liverpool
Mr. Richard E. Hine, Macclesfield
Mr. James Jamieson, Leeds
Messrs. Vrellbeloved and Oastler, Leeds
Mr. Frederick Stamp, Hull
Mr. Richard Baines, Blackburn
Mr. George Clark, Bradford
Mr. William Mason, Bradford
Mr. William Cronhelm, Halifax
Messrs. Gray stop and Earle, York
Mesers. Kettering and Marshall, Leeds
Mr. Joseph Clark, jun., Southampton
Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol
Messrs. Houghland and Leese, Manchester
Messrs. A. Birchall and Co., Manchester
Mr. W. 11. Collis, Birmingham
Mr. L. Weatherburn, jun., Huddersfield
Messrs. Everard and Co., Huddersfleld
I%,dessrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester
J. N. Balme, Gloucester.
teat et Or APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Directors of the " '
Birmingham and Manchester Direct
I request you to allot me Railway."
and I agree to pay up the deposit shares in the above undertaking;
necessary deeds when requiredtl of
2 2s.
per share, and sign the
Dated this day of keret:).

that has been raised against this easy mode of traction. r It avoids
the necessity of tunnelling, and greatly reduces the cost of construc-
tion ; and further, it prevents the possibility of accidents by fire or
collision.

Very great obstacles have hitherto existed, and still exist, in the
way of a communication between Bangor and Holyhead ; but by
the proposed route the great difficulty and expense of crossing the
Menat Straits are avoided, while the extent of the country to be
traversed will be mach shorter than by Chester and Holyhead, even
were the bridge already established ; which, it Is very generally ap-
prehended, will beprocluctive of great hindrance and danger to the
navigation. This fact is fully confirmed by Captain Beaufert's report
made to the Railway. Commissioners of Ireland.
The distance between Porthdynllaen and Kingstown is about six
and a half miles further than between Kingstown and Holyhead ;
but in consequence of the position of the latter place being two or
three points to leeward of the acknowledged prevailing gales of St.
George's Channel, a shorter passage can be wade, on an average,
throughout the year, from Porthdynllaen. This also is confirmed
by Captain Beaufort, as nlerred to in the masterly report made by
Sir John Rennie ; in which, after going into details (coinciding in
every material point with the opinions of Mr. Page and others), Sir
John concludes with a general summary of the case—" That it is two
points further to windward than Holyhead," and, to use the expressive
words of Captain Beaufort, " has a fair wind both ways to and from
Kingstown." This is particularly important, because it enables the
passage to he made in equal, if not less time, than from Holyhead,
although the distance is rather greater, and is not less important to
maintain the communication between the two countries, during the
stormy winter season, with as much speed and as little interruption
as possible.
_There are many other, and, perhaps, equally important reasons,
for preference being given to Porthdynllaen (some arc mentioned in
the second report of the House of Commons upon the subject of rail-
ways in Ireland), but they are too numerous to mention in a prelimi-
nary prospectus.
In the allotment of shares, preference will be given to landholders
and others locally interested; the subscribers will be held liable only
for the amount of their first deposit until an Act of Parliament be
obtained; afterwards only to the amount of their subscriptions.
Power will be applied for in the Bill to allow interest at the rate of
41. per cent. per annum en all calls, from the passing of the Act
until the opening of the line.
The Provisional Committee have great p'easure in announcing that
the engineers are completing their surveys, and that influential names
will be advertised in a few days.

WOLVEItIIAMPTON, BRIDGNORTI-I and
LUDLOW RAILWAY, connecting the Agricultural dis-
tricts of Herefordshire, Shropshire, North and South Wales with
the whole of the Midland Counties, Liverpool, Manchester, and the
North.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Vic., cap. 110.)
Capital 700,0001., in 35,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 25. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Hon. G. F. Hamilton; Burwarton Hall, Salop
Sir Wilram Edward Rouse Boughton, Bart.', Downton-hall, Ludlow
Thomas Murray Gladstone,
.Esq., ironmonger, Wolverhampton,
Provisional Director of the Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South
Staffordshire Junction Railway
John Dixon, Esq., irentnaster, Wolverhampton, Director of the South
Stifforaltire Junction Railway
Thomas Clark, Esq., The Oaks, Wolverhampton, Provisional Director
of the Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Staftbrdshire
Jmae-
lion Railway.
William Bailey, Esq., Wolverhampton, Provisional Director of the
Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire Junction
Railway
Samuel Walker, Esq., Wolverhampton, Provisional Director of the
South Staffordshire Junction Railway
John Hartley, E-q., ironmaster, Wolverhampton, Provisional Direc-
tor of the Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire
Junction Railway
John Parsons Firmstone, Esq., ironmaster, Wolverhampton, Direc-
tor of the Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire
Junction Railway
J. B. Payne, Esq., Edgbaston, Director of the Leicester and Birming-
ham, and South Staffordshire Junction Railways
Edward Terry, Esq., Mayor of Dudley, Director of the Oxford, Wor-
cester, and Wolverhampton Railway
James Whitney, Esq., Shrewsbury, Provisional Director of the
Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire Junction
Railway
C. D. Archibald, Esq., F.R.S., F.S A., Rusland Hall, Lancashire, Di-
rector of the South Staffordshire Junction Railway
Thomas Whitmore Wylde Browne, Esq., Woodlands, near Bridg-
north, Magistrate of the County of Salop and of the Borough of
Brldgnert h
Thomas Pardoe Purton, Esq , Faintree-hall, Bridgnorth, Magistrate
for the County of Salop, and Borough of Bridgnorth
Thomas Nock, Esq., Mayor of Bridgnorth
John Baker, Esq., Dolforwyn-halt, Montgomeryshire and Bridgnorth,
Magistrate of the Borough of Bridgnorth
Henry Slater Richards, Esq., Magistrate of the Borough of Bridg-
north
William M'Michael, Esq., Magistrate of the Borough of Bridgnorth
John Jacob Smith, Esq., Town-Clerk, Bridgnorth
Joseph Hall, Esq., Bridgnorth
James Mihnan Coley, Esq., M.D., Bridgnorth
John Green, Esq., Badger-heath, near Bridgnorth
Thomas Gricrson, Esq., carpet-manufacturer, Bridgnorth
Joseph Southwell, Esq., carpet manufacturer, Bridgnorth
William Southwell, Esq., carpet manufacturer, ltridgnorth
John Ilincksman, Esq., Charlcott, Bridguortla
John Phillips, Esq., Bridgnorth
John Dallewy, Esq., Bridgnorth
WilliamThomasDWeilige3ll-,thEns'qE.,sUßeynardgelir near rth
Wellington
John Onions, Esq., Broseley
John Thorn, Esq., Whitehall, Broseley
John Stevens, Esq., Albyns, Magistrate of the Borough of Bridg-

north
Charles Powell, Esq., Sutton, Ludlow, Magistrate of the County of
Salop
James Davies, Esq., Elm-lodge, Ludlow, Magistrate of the County of
Salop
Henry Whitton, Esq., Mayor of Ludlow
Benjamin Urwick, Esq., Magistrate of the Borough of Ludlow
Robert Thomas, Esq., Ashford Rowdier, Ludlow, Magistrate of the
Borough of Ludlow
John Thomas, Esq., Dinham House, Ludlow, magistrate of the bo-
rough of Ludlow.
William Lawrence, Esq., Ludlow
William Edwards, Esq., magistrate of the borough of Ludlow
John Tench, Esq., Ludlow
Edward Honing Owen, Esq., The Moor, Ludlow
Humphrey Smith,. Esq., Overton, Ludlow, magistrate of the borough
of Ludlow
Frederick Ricketts, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Bristol and kbrzeter
Railway
John Masterman, jun., Esq., banker, London
Alderman Farncomb, London
illiara Morley; Esq., Blackheath
W. T. Andrew, Esq., Grosvenor-street, Orosvenor.sonare
George Emery, Esq., London, Director of the Waterford and Kilkenny
Railway
W. G. Allen, Esq., Leadenhall-street
William Watson, Esq., Bristol, Director of the Bristol and Exeter
Railway
H. Ridout Downman, Esq., London, Provisional Director of the
Cambrian and Grand Junction Railway
A. F. Paull, Esq., Director of the South Wolff Railway
William Morgan,
.Esq., Bristol', Director of the Bristol and Exeter
Railway
William Watson Prole, Esq., London, Director of the Isle of Jersey
Line
Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brymbo Ironworks, North Wales, and 57,
Cannon-street, London
James Renshaw, Esq., merchant, Crosby-square, London
Abram Gartside, Esq., Liverpool, -
Robert Chapman, Esq., London, Provisional Director :of the Great
Ilanehester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway

BANKERS.
Messrs. Mastcrman and Company, London
Messrs. Pritchard and Boycott, Bridgnorth and Broscley
Messrs. Cooper, Parton, and Cooper, Bridgnorth and Wenlock
Messrs. Rocke, Eyston, Campbell and Bayleys, Ludlow
The Ludlow and Tenbury Bank
The 'Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking Company, Wolvcr
harapton

BANKERS.
Commercial Bank, Lothbury, London.
The Leeds and West Riding Bank, Leeds.
National and Provincial Bank, Birmingham.
Messrs. Pease and Liddells, Hull.
Messrs. Moore and Co., Nottingham.
TENGINEEust Ssanheffieufeoldruaintd,.Ruertifineridi, BEasqnki, taigndeof
Hpa.nia,
unton, Esq.,
2, Parliament-street.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Cattarns and Fry, 62, Mark-lane, London.
G. A. Colman, Esq., 2, New Inn, Strand, London.
LOCAL SOLICITOR.
Bennett, Esq., Chapel-en-le-Frith.
SECRETARY.
George F. Hire, Esq.
This important line, commencing at the terminus of the Manches-
ter and Sheffield Railway, in the populous manufacturing town
of
Sheffield, will proceed, in a direct course, by or through Hope,
Hathersage, Castieton, Chapel-en-le-Frith, and Whaley (the great
canal-port of the Potteries), to the terminus of the Manchester and
Macclesfield Railway, at Macclesfield, the total lsngth of the line
being nearly thirty miles.
The importance of connecting these termini would, alone, be suffi-
cient to ensure full support to the present undertaking, from the
dense population, manufacturing influence, and general traffic of the
towns in question ; but when it is considered that this connexion, or
junction, stands in time very centre of the entire railway system of
England, and that it will complete the chain of railway communi-
cation and transit between the river Humber, the towns of Sheffield
and Macclesfield, the Staffordshire Potteries, the Salt Wiches of
Cheshire, the city of Chester, the docks of Liverpool and 'Birkenhead,
Bangor Ferry, and the harbour of Holyhead, the advantages are too
manifest to be for a moment questioned.

ENGINEER—John R. ➢l`Lean, M.I.C.E.
SOLICITORS.

3ressrs. EdwardS, Mason, and Edwards, Moargate-street, Londor
and Delahay-street, Westminster
M. Haywood Williams, Est., 13ridgnorth

Charles Corser, Esq., Wolverhampton
Messrs. Williams and Urwick, Ludlow
SECRETARY—John Trevor, Esq.
This Railway will commence at the important town of Wolver-
hampton, proceeding through or near to Seisdon, Try-sull and
Claverley, to the manufacturing town of Bridgnorth ; from thence
it will continue through a rich agricultural and populous district to
Ludlow, and there fall into other projected lines to all parts of Eng-
land, North and South Wales, and Ireland, a distance of about thirty-
two miles,
It will afford direct communication between Ludlow, Bridgnorth
and Wolverhampton, Dudley, &c.; and, by the South Staffordshire
Junction Railway, give to those towns and districts the most direct
route for passengers and goods to and from the Central, North Eastern
and Eastern parts of the Kingdom, and from which those towns have
hitherto been excluded by every project of the day.
It will convoy to the agricultural districts of Herefordshire and
South Shropshire, and also to the towns of Bridgnorth and Ludlow,
coals and the mineral productions of Staffordshire, Worcestershire,
and the Ciee Hills, at nearly one-half the present cost of those ne-
cessary articles, and be the means of conveyance for corn, cattle,
sheep, cider, wool, hops and other agricultural productions, as also
timber from the before-mentioned agricultural counties, to the heart
of the mining and manufacturing districts, which cannot fail to pro-
duce an immense traffic.
To the towns embraced in this line, the valueof obtaining thereby,
at tke cheapest rate, coal and the necessaries of life, will be of the ut-
most importance.
One principal feature in this projection Is, that as either
be Ludlow' or
Bridgnorth will lie in the direct route of one of the projects to pro-
posed to Parliament in the next session, for the most direct commu-
nication
South Staffordsel
nsiiciraeilvosibtubreyt:leveoni:reland and the metropolis, this line will thereby
afford to passengers the easiest communication to and from the cen-
tral parts of the kingdom.
It is satistactory to the promoters to state that they have the sanc-
tion of the Grand Junction Company, and the co-operation of the
been announced in competition with its acknowledged claim on public
fihr ae
Junction'ttoft mt dc
oSouthmp Companies,
iSetsa, tiabordd s i
thatr e
n o Junction,project andl
support.
The whole Eno is free from engineering difficulties, and can be
constructed at a moderate cost, and has obtained the approval of the
landed interest, whose ornamental properties have been strictly pro-
tected.
Until an Act of Parliament shalt be obtained, the affairs of the
Company will be under the direction and control of the Committee of
Management, who are hereby empowered to enter into such arrant nge-
ments as shall best' serve the interests of this Company, and the pc,
with existing or projected Companies, and also to nominate the first
Directors of the Company.
Power will be taken under the Act to limit the responsibility of
shareholders to the amount of their subscription, and to allow four
per cent. interest on the calls.
Preference to the allotment of shares will be given to those locally
interested, and to the shareholders of lines in connexion with is.
lucliltolersss,
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Bankers, or Brokers of the Company.
Applications for shares, in the usual form, to be made, not later
itoliganßtrhokeelrs2tl::L Westropp, 76, Old Woad-
of October, to the respective Solicitors and the follow-
London—Messrs. Wells, Prinseps, itnei

The surveys are now in progress, and will be 'completed without
delay, in order to go to. Parliament at the ensuing session.
In the aiiotment of shares, the applications from parties resident
on the line will be preferred.

Applications for prospectuses and shares to be made at the offices of
the Company's Solicitors, Messrs. Cattarns and Fry, 62, Mark-lane,
London, and G. A. Colman,' Esq., 2, New Inn, Strand; and of the under-
mentioned Sharebrokers :—L. H. Hazlewood, Angel•court, Throgmor-
ton-street, London; W. W. Foote, Sheffield; It. E. Hine, Maccles-
field ; Schofield and West, Hull ; John IValkington and Co., Leeds ;
Hebden and Parkinson, Leeds ; Smith, Knowles, and Cooke, Leeds ;
Cuff and Fox, Derby; William Miles, Worcester; M. Birkbec
Worcester ; Jokn Smith, Birmingham ; W. H. Collis, Birmingham ;
Messrs. Cook and Co., Bradford; Wm. Wood, Manchester, J. and
D. Wilsen, sManchester ; A. Moffittt, Edinburgh; Henry Vatchcr,
Exeter; Hall, Brothers and Co., Cheltenham; Black and Co., Glas-
gow ; E. Bayliffe, Liverpool ; George Edwards and Son, Bristol ; B.
P. Clarke, Bristol ; and J. Bamforth, Rotherham.
In consequence of the number of shares already applied foe, ne fur-
ther town applications will be attended to after the 15th day •of Octo-
ber Inst., and from the country after the 18th inst.

0845.
Name in full . ..........
Profession or Business ........
Place of Residence.......,,,
Place of Business ••
olinea ot Refer •. • • •*.

streat
Wolverhampton—Mr. Payne
Liverpool--Messrs. Lloyd and Price,

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, OCrOBER 3, 1845.

WORCESTER, WARWICK, AND RUGBY
RAILWAY. Offices, 5, Gresham-street, Bank. London,
Oct. 2, 1845.

(Provisionally Registered.)

The list of applications for shares in this Com.any is closed.
The Committee of Management are investigating the applications
for shares recdved, and will allot the shares as early as possible. Due
notice will be given of the issue of the letters of allotment.
(Signed) JOHN HUGHES, Secretary.

ASHBURTON, NEWTON, AND SOUTH
DEVON JUNCTION RAILWAY.
( Provisionally Registered according to the Act 7 and 8 Vie., c. 110.)
Capital no,ooei., in 5,200 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21, 10s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right llon. Lord Clinton, Heanton Satchville Hall, Devon
James Matheson, Esq., M.P., 13, Cleveland-row, London
Thomas Gill, ESq., M.P., Plymouth, Chairman of the South Devon

Railway Company •
William Fox, Esq., Plymouth, Director of the South Devon Railway

Company
John Rundle, Esq , banker, Tavistock, Director of the South Devon

Railway Company
Charles Lyall, Esq., 33, Westbourne-terrace, London, Director of the
Irish North Midland, Aylesbury and Thane, and Sambre, and
Mettle Junction Railway Cdmpanies
John Caunter, Esq., Waye House, Ashburton, a Magistrate for Devon
Charles Kebon, Esq., Hennons, Teignmonth, a Magistrate for Devon
Rev. Wm. Marsh, Ashburton, Vicar of Ashburton
Sir IV. H. Tonkin, Knight, Teigninouth, a Magistrate for Devon
Rev. F. H. Hele, Littlehempston, Rector of Littlehempston
_ .

. .
W. 1. Cockcy, Esq , Portreeve of Ashburton
Thomas Finsent, Esq., Greenhill King•steignton
Richard Counter, Esq., merchant, Ashburton
J. F. I'. Phillips, Esq., Gitcombe-house, Totnes
Ca fit. G. P. White, R.N., Buckfost Abbey, Buckfastlelgh

Edward White, Esq.,' merchant, Ashburton
John Thudl, Esq., merchant, Forger-,green, Broadhemptson

Solomon Tozer, L sq., Ashburton
John Hatherley, Esq., Alfred-place, London
_ .

E. F. Bean, Esq., Ashburton

Elias Ford,Esq..,merchant, Newton
H. H. Helc, Esq., Ashburton
Henry Caunter, Esq., merchant, Ashburton
. _

Thomas Cousins, Esq., merchant, Ashburton
James Woodley, Esq., Haishanger-house, Ashburton

J. B. Paige, Esq., Ashburton.
IV. R. Whiteway, Esq., merchant, Ashburton

Thomas Lyle, Esq., Ashburton.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS Messrs. Burke, Venables, and Pritt,

London.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Barclay and Co., London
Messrs. WdHams, Deacon, and Co., London
Devon and Cornwall Banking Company, Plymouth, Exeter,
and Newton
Messrs. Watts, Whiteway, and Co., Newton and Teignmouth
Messrs. Harris and Co., Naval Bank, Plymouth.
Sofamous—Mr. Tucker, Ashburton; and Mr. G. Caunter, Ashburton.
This railway is intended to commence at or near Buckfastleigh,
and to join the South Devon Railway at Ford, near Newton ; dis-
tance, ten miles.
This railway, by forming a direct communication with the great
trunk line of the county, -will open for the manufacturing towns of
Ashburton and :Buckfastleigh, and the adjacent agricultural district,
the readiest access to the ports of Teignesouth and Torquay, and to
the important and increasing markets which these towns and the
other watering places on the south coast, as well as Newton, present
for the disposal of all kinds of agricultural produce.
Ashburton and the surrounding district, rich in mineral wealth,
only require a cheap and easy mode of transit to unfold ;their tree-
, sures,- which have hitherto been raised only sparingly, in conse-
quence of the expense of land carriage.
Within the average distance of two miles of Ashburton are thirteen
lime kilns, at which are now burnt annually above 50,000 hogshead::
of lime. Five sate quarries, in some of which the slate is of the best
quality, and has received the approval of some of the first London
architects. And within the district which would derive benefit from
this railroad, are six tin and copper mines in work, and three more
are now about to be worked.
The manufactured goods of Ashburton and the adjacent district aro
of very considerable value—the woollen manufacture alone gives em-
ployment to nearly 3,000 persons.
Large quantities of timber are annually felled and sent to the sea-
coast, from the wooded district at the back of Ashburton.
It has been ascertained that the number of persons travelling from
this district to and from the east of Ashburton, amounts to about one
thousand weekly.
The romantic scenery of the Dart, near Ashburton, now attracts
yearly a great influx of visitors. The opening of this railway would,
by bringing the banks of the Dart within easy access of Exeter, and
all the watering places on the southern coast, doubtless much increase
the number.
To the manufacturer and merchant, the formation of this railway
would afford a great boon, by establishing a cheap and easy transit
for their goods; to the agriculturist, the saving of one-seventh in the
present price of lime would offer a manifest advantage; and on the
inhabitants of the district generally great benefit would be conferred
by the reduction of at least 251. per cent. in the price of coal and other
articles.
The Provisional Committee, after careful inquiries as to the antici-
pated traffic, have reason to believe that the net return will pay a
handsome rate of interest on the capital required.
The population of the district to be benefited by this railway Is
above 16,000

The line presents no engineering difficulties.
The Directors of the South Devon Railway Company with the
authority of a general meeting of their Proprietors, have agreed to
take shares to a considerable amount, and are acting in cordial co-
operation with the Provisional Committee. The arrangements with
the South Devon Board embrace a provision for leasing the line on
its completion to that Company, and provide for the supervision of
the planning and construction of the line by Mr. Brunel.
The advantages of attracting to this undertaking the important
combination of interests represented by the South Devon Company
and its numerous alliances will be readily appreciated.
Power will be sought by the Act of Incorporation to allow interest
at 41. per cent. per annum on all deposits and calls from the time of
payment until the opening of the line.
No liability will be incurred by any Shareholder beyond the amount
of his shares.
Applications for shares may be made to the Provisional Com-
mittee, at their office, East-street, _Ashburton; or to the Solicitors,
Mr. Tucker, or Mr. George Caunter, Ashburton ; or to the following
Sharebrokers :—Messrs. B. and M. Boyd, New Bank-buildings, Lon-
don; Messrs. Houghiand and Leese, Manchester; Mr. Thomas For-
syth, Liverpool ; Mr. Anthony LaWrie, Liverpool ; Robert Allan,
Earl-, St. Andre W's-square, Edinburgh ; Mr. Pembroke, and Messrs.
May and Co., Exeter ; Mr. Luke Arnold, Bristol ; and Messrs. Hop-
wood and Palmer, Plymouth.
FORM OF APPLICATION. _ _

To the Provisional Committee of the Ashburton, Newton, and South

Devon Junction Railway,

Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 251.
each in the above-named Railway, and I will accept the same or any
less number allotted to me, and pay the deposit of 21. 10s. per share
thereon, and sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers'
Agreement when required.
Dated the day of

1845.

Profession .• • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Reference • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

ASHBURTON, NEWTON, AND SOUTH
DEVON JUNCTION RAILWAY.
No Application for Shares in the above Railway will be received
after FRIDAY, the 10th October.
By order of the Provisional Committee,
TUCKER '1 Solicitors.
G. CAUNTER,

COVENTRY, BANBURY, AND OXFORD
DIRECT JUNCTION RAILWAY,
From Coventry to the Oxford and Rugby Railway, at or near Southam,
being the Direct Route from Manchester to Southampton.
Capital 200,0001., in Shares of 20/. each.
Deposit 21.25. Gd. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Sir F. Shuckburgh, Bart., Shuckburgh-park, Warwickshire
Henry Thomas Chamberlayne, Esq., Stoneythorpc, Warwickshire,
one of the Lords of the Manor of Southam

Sir P. W. L. Dwarris, Knight, London
Henry Lilley Smith, Esq., Southam
The Rev. Charles Palmer, Lightholme Rectory, Warwickshire, Di
rector of the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Company
Thomas Williams Oldham, Esq., Southam
Richard William Rann, Esq., Wormleighton, Warwickshire

Richard Allen, Esq., Long lehington
William Cotterill, Esq., Walsall, Staffordshire, Town Clerk of Walsall
The Rev. J. D. Winslow, Napton Vicarage, Warwickshire
Dr. Middleton, Leamington, Director of the Coventry, Nuneaton,
Birmingham, and Leicester Railway Company
Joseph Walter King Eyton, Esq., Leamington
Wm. Edward Boyes, Esq., Alkerton, near Banbury, Director of the
Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Company, and the Ox-
ford, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway Company
Henry Corbett Wilson, Esq., Broughton-castle, near Banbury

Dr. Hawkins, Farnboro ugfi,7near Banbury
William Gulliver, Esq., Bloxham, near Banbury
Joha Haddon, Esq., Leamington, Director of the Birmingham and
Oxford Junction Railway Company, and the Coventry, Nun-
eaton, Birmingham, and Leicester Railway Company
William Cottle, Esq., Leamington, Director of the Coventry, Nun-
eaton, Birmingham, and Leicester Railway Company
Major M'Mahon, Leamington

Dr. Henry Homer, Leamington
John Meredith, Esq., Leamington, Chairman of the Town Commission
Richard Spra:gett, Esq., Southain
F. Smith. Etl., outham
STilliam Middleton, Esq., Leamington, Director of the Coventry,
Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Le!cestcr Railway Company
Walter Hands, Esq., Napton, near South=
Smith Tibbitts, Esq., Hennock, Devonshire
Robert Wheeler, Esq., Cliff-house, Warwick

G. T. Smith, Esq., Leamington
Edward Cooper, Esq., Henley-in-Aran, Director of the South Star
fordsldre Junction Railway

John Clark, Esq., Leamington
James Loveday, Esq., Warwick

Dr. S: B. Bucknill, Rugby
Robert Welchman, Esq., Eathorpe, near Southern
George Mallabar, E:q., Daventry, Director of the London, Weedon,
Warwick, and Kidderminster Railway Company
Dr. Lee, Daventry, Director of the London, Weedon, Warwick, and
Kidderminster Railway Company

Edward Thompson, Esq., Daventry
William Molds, Esq., Staverton
Dr. H. F. Burman, Henley-hi-.4sden
Richard Harris, Esq., Leicester, Director of the Coventry, Nuneaton,
Birmingham, and Leicester Railway Company
William Deakin Whitehouse, Esq., Hardwick House, Studley
W. Pell, Esq., Hullesthorpe, Leicestershire

D. G. Squiriff Leamington
Henry Blenkinsop, Esq., Warwick
R. Hartley Kennedy, Esq., Leamington, Director of the Coventry,
Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester Railway
Win. Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the Man-
chester and Sheffield Railway, Chairman of the Direct Western
Ralway, of the Isle of Ely, and of the St. Alban's and Hereford
David Wheatcroft, Esq., Bucklaud Hollow, Derbyshire

Sir Henry Webb, Bart.
The Hon. Sir Dudley Kinnaird Pultcney
Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London, London and Cheltenham
J. H. Thorne, Esq., Director of the Coventry, Nuneaton, Birming.

ham, and Leicester Railway
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Westbournc-house, Sheffield, Director of the
Direct Western, Leeds, Carlisle, &c., Railway
Thomas Asline Ward, Esq., Town Regent, Sheffield

Sir William Lowthropp, Hull
H. Bright, Esq., Hull
Henry Beßally, Esq., Sheriff of York
Henry Lidgard, Esq., Wood-street, London
Jeremiah Clark, Esq.' Macclesfield, Director of Remington's Man•
chester and London Railway
(With power to add to their number).
BANKERS—Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., London.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Wright and Walchman, Southam and Leamington

John Chinery, Esq., Leamington.
This railway is intended to branch out of the Oxford and Rugby
line at Southam, and proceed in a direct course to Coventry, there
to form a junction with the lines diverging from that city to the
Trent Valley Railway, at Nuneaton, and to Leicester, Burton-upon-
Trent, and Manchester.
,IThe main. objects of this railway are —First, to complete an im-
portant link in the chain of communication between Manchester and
the improving port of Southampton by the nearest possible route,
the great and increasing traffic between which two important parts
of the kingdom this railway must necessarily embrace.
Secondly. It will afford important local advantages by connecting
the city of Coventry and neighbourhood (containing a population of
upwards of 50,000 inhabitants), and the valuable and extensive
manufacturing, mineral, and agricultural districts, particularly the
extensive coal fields, stone quarries, and limeworks of Warwickshire,
Leicestershire, Derbyshire, and Staffordshire, with Southam, Ban-
bury, Woodstock, Oxford, Southampton, and the inter nediate and
surrounding country, affording to those several districts all the ad-
vantages of direct railway communication, in lieu of the present cir-
cuitous route by canal. It is confidently expected that the local
traffic alone, independently of the vast through traffic from Man-
chester to Southampton, will be amply remunerative to the share-
holders, whilst the great reduction which this railway will effect in
the price of coals and other mineral productions must prove highly
advantageous to the public.
The survey of the line is in progress, and the country is unusually
favourable.

Application to Parliament for an Act of Incorporation will bo
made in the next session. The Provisional Directors reserve to
themselves the right of amalgamating or making arrangements with
other companies. The usual power will be taken in the Act of Par-
liament, which will be applied for next session, to allow interest at
41. per cent. on the deposit, and the liability of sharehold rs will be
limited to the amount of their subscriptions.
Applications for prospectuses and shares may be made to the
solicitors, or to the following sharebrokers :—Messrs. P. W. Thomas
and Son, 50, Threadneedle-street, London ; Brown and Clarke, or
J. Merredew, Coventry ; Forsyth and Pritchard, or T. Crewdson,
Liverpool; Johnstone and Bradley, or S. W. Graves, Manchester;
Lane, Birmingham; White and Son, or Mr. T. W. Powell, Learning.
ton ; George Edwards and Son, or Luke Arnold, Bristol ; W. Lee,
or Hall Brothers and Co., Cheltenham ; Eigood and Harrison,
Leicester; William Miles, Worcester; Freeman and Son, North-
ampton ; Hugh Munro and Co., Edinburgh ; George Browne,
Glasgow ; Bruce and Symes, Dublin ; and Peed and Son, Not-
tingham.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Coventry, Banbury, and Oxford

Direct Junction Railway .
I request you will allot me shares in the above under-
taking ; and I agree to take all such shares, or so many thereof as
you may allot to me, and to pay the deposit, and to sign the Par-
liamentary Contract and the Subscribers' Agreement when required.
same in full ••• • • • .....
Residence...... ... ............
Track. or Profession
Reference ... .

ORTII LONDON JUNCTION RAILWAY
COMPANY, 8, Finsbury-place South.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 110.)
Capital, 1,100.000/., hi 65,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Johi Attwood, Esq., M.P., Park-lane, Chairman
James Horne, Esq., F,R.S., Clapham Common, Deputy-Chairman

Sir John Edward De Beauvoir, Bart., London
James Henry Attwood, Esq., Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square
John B.igshaw, Esq., loucester•place, Portman-square
Richard Iltthell, Esq., Queen's Counsel, Lauderdale House, llighgate
George Bishop, Esq., South Villa, tuner Circle, Regent's Park
Augustus Bosauquet, Esq., OsMge, Southgate
Joseph Brown, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continualon
Railway
George Woodroffe Franklyn, Esq , Clifton, Bristol
W. Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.•z.A., F.L.S., Alderman of the City of
London

Henry Morton, Esq., Bidcll,l, Durham
George I'arbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manchester
and Birmingham Continuation Railway
Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P., 39, St. James's-place
George Rougemont, Esq., 11, Broad-street-buildings
Nicholas Wood, Esq., Kellingworth, Newcastle-On-Tyne.

BANKERS.
Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills and Co., London
Bank of Llyerpool
The Union Bank, Manchester.
ENGINEER—George Parker Bidder, Esq., E.1.C.3.C.
ARCHITECT—IIobert Abraham, Esq., Torrington-street, Russell-square,
SGLICITOR-John Bethel], Esq., 78, King William-street, City.
SECRETARY—Harry Burrard Fantail, Esq.

The Provisional Committee of the. North London Junction Rail-
way Company have great satisfaction In informing-their subscribers
that negotiations are now pending between the Provisional Commit-
tee of this Company and the Directors of the Railways north of the
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 Loudon.

To effect this important object, an area of 10 acres of ground (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 Etvourable a character as to
have induced the Provisional Committee to determine on purchasing
the entire site, and it has, therefore, been resolved b., them to in-
crease the capital of this Company to 1,300,0001.
The Provisional Committee consider it of paramount importance
to secure within the limits of their City terminus, the amplest and
mast 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

hat 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
ariord a direct communication between the whole of the rail.
ways, which reach London to the 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-opera•e 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 valuab:e
line of railway.
♦ lithographic sketch now publishing will accurately define the
entire district through which this Company proposes to run this line;
by this meow the most casual observer will be enabled to ascertain
that the environs of London, north of the Thames, will be placed in
in:mediate communication with the City ; while the dense popu-
lation of the City will enjoy a fact ity of connexion with its suburban
localities, necessarily affording it the greatest accommodation.
With such important local resources, therefore, together with the
vast traffic on which the skarehollers 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-
reingham amounts to 4,322 daily, two-thirds of which reach the
City. The Eastern Counties amounts to 2,403 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.
Passengers 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 Ann.

Pass engers 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 Gd. each, as taken at
present.. • ....... ••••••••• • • • • • • • • •
142,208 tops 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.
Gd. per ton throughout. For the carriage of these goods
and parcels, therefore, at the reduced cost of 2s. Gd. per
ton, a revenue may be derived of . ...... • • 17,776
From the carriage of goods, parcels, and mails, bringing in
to the Eastern Counties Railway Company a revenue of
40,0001. a year, may be derived the sum of .. ••• . • . 10,000

12,06

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

£168,174
Estimated Rental to be received from other Compaaies for
the use of Terminus .. .

£198,174
Being a revenue of more than 15 per cent. on a eapital of 1,300,0001.
The capital, as now extended, will be divided into 65,000 shares of
201. each, upon which a deposit of 21. is. per share will be payable
forthwith.

A portion of the shares will be allotted to parties locally interested.
The remainder will be distributed amongst the present shareholders
and the public generally, upon application being made by them in a
manner hereinafter mentioned. _ _

•The Directors, In compliance with the advice of their Parlia-
mentary Agents, deem it expedient, in consequence of the recent
standing crd,rs of the House of Lords, to require a deposi of 101.
per cent. The shareholders arc, therefore, requested, in order to
carry this arrangement into effect, to deposit their scrip certificate
witk the Secretary, on or before the Ist of October next, in exchange
for which they will obtain a certificate upon which the bankers of
the Company will receive the amount of the difference payable, and,
upon producing the receipt and signing the new Parliamentary Deeds,
fresh scrip will be delivered to them.
Applications for prospectuses, maps, and shares, may be made to
the Secretary, at the Offices, No. 8, Flnsbury-place South, and the
following sharebrokers :
Messrs. R. Sutton, Gribble, and Sutton, N, North-side, Royal

Exchange, London
Messrs. Capel, Cuerton, and Lawford, 3, Royal Exchange
George Burnand, Esq , Cornhill
Messrs. Houghland and Leese, 51, King-street, Manchester
William Marshall, Esq., Bank-buildings, Manchester
William Haynes, Esq., Manchester
John Wells, Esq., Royal Bank-buildings, Llverpo•l
Messrs. Wellbeloyed and Oastler, Leeds
Messrs. Edwards and Son, and W. 11. Land, Esq.; Bristol
J. It. Lane, Esq., Birmingham
Messrs. Garton anti Wright, Sheffield
J. G Kershaw, Esq., Huddersfield
Y. C. Silencer, Esq , Halifax
Messrs. Henry Beaumont and Co., Exeter
It. P. Lemon, Esq., Bath.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR CHANGE OF SCRIP.

To the Secretary of the North London Junction Railway Company

Slr,—l herewith transmit to you scrip certificates of shares held by
Me in this Company numsend as at foot, and I undertake to make
the further payment of 14s. 6d. per share on the said shares, forth-
with, and to execute the new Parliamentary Contract And Subscribers'
Agreement when required.
Dated this day of 1845.
Christian and surname hi full ........ • • ..
Business or Profession .. • ..
Residence . • • • • • • • • • • • • • ..... • • • • • • • • • •

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

To the Provisional Committee of the North London Junction Ititilway

Company.
I request you will allot to use shares of 201. each in the
capital of the above-named railway, and I will accept tho same or
any less number, and pay the deposit of 2/. 2s. per share, and sign
the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when re-
quired.
Dated the

day of 1845.
Christian and surname in .
Business or Profession • • ..
Address• • • • • • • ....... ..

IRISH WEST COAST RAILWAY
(Registered Provisionally.)
capital, 2,500,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 25/. each.
Deposit, 21. 12e. 6d.
(No Subscriber to be liable beyond the amount of his Shares.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Mark Blake, Esq., M.P., Ballinafad, Mayo
Robert Dillon Browne, Esq., M.P., Gleacorrib, Mayo
John Patrick Somers, Esq., M.P., Sligo
Sir Thomas Bernard Going Dancer, Bart., Modreeny House, Clough-
Jordon, county Tipperary, Director of the Galway and Kilkenny
Railway
The lion. Geoffry Browne, D.L., Wilton-crescent, London, and Castle
M'Clarrett, Mayo
The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pniteney, Parliament-street, Whitehall
Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway
The Right Hon. John Ladareze Arabin, Lord Mayor of Dublin
Michael Gallagher, Esq., Mayor of Sligo
John Netterville Barron, Esq., Resident Magistrate, Sanders Park,
Cork
Owen Edmond Blake, Esq., J.P., French fort, Galway
James F. Burke, Esq., J.P., St. Clarence, Galway
Dominick Joseph Burke, Esq., J.r., Greenhill, Mayo
Theobald Burke, Esq., J.P., 'Woodville, Mayo
William Campbell, Esq., Saukville-street, and Brighton
John Carmichael, Esq., T.C., Rivertson House, Cork, Director of the
Cork and Killarney Railway
Charles Collins, Esq., Adelaide-place, London-bridge, Director of the
Southern, Eastern, and Northern Jamaica Railway
Thomas Comics, Esq.' ..•,allybrit House, Galway
Edward Deane, Eeq., J.P., Cnrragowan, Mayo
John Campbell Dicker, Esq., New Wall, by Weston, Cheshire, Direc-
tor of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway
James Dillon, Esq., J.P., Cogne, Mayo
John Dunn, Esq., M.D., M.R.C.S., L. and D., Dramsna, Leitrim
Thomas Edwards, Esq., King William-street, London, Director of the
Direct London and Dublin Railway
Robert Fiske, Esq., Chepstow, Monmouthshire
Robert Graham, Esq., J.l'., Dinmgoon, Fermanagh
Klein Grant, Esq., M.D., St. James's-street, Pall-mall. Director of
the Southern, tern, and Northern Jamaica Railway
Henry Griffith, Esq., D.L., J.P., Port Royal, Sligo, Director of the
Sligo and Shannon Railway
W. A. Hill, Esq., Lonsdale-square, Deputy-Chairman of the Glouces.
to and Aberystwith Railway
Dean John Iloare, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square
Edward Hoare, Esq., J.P., Percy-street, Bedford-square,',Director of
the Great Welsh Central Railway, &e.
T., Hodges,
,Esq., Connaught-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of the
Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway, &c.
Robert Hughes, Esq., Ely House, Wexford, Director of the Provin-
cial Bank of Ireland
John Kerschner, Esq., Middle Temple
William King, Esq., Spring-gardens, and Putney, Surrey
John Knox, Esq., J.P., Greenwood Park, Mayo
Joseph Myles M'Dennell, Esq., J.P., Doocastle, Mayo
Rowland 11. Mackenzie, Esq., Mortimer-street, Cavendish•square,
Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and Great Wes-
tern Extension Railways
Capt. Charles Carden Mansergh, Longraigne, Wexford, Director of
the Wexford, Waterford, and Yalentia Railway
Capt. Newton, Bruton-street, and Lugwardin, Huts
Francis R. O'Grady, Esq., Tavrane, Mayo
Richard O'Grady, Esq.,:Mayo
John O'Hara, Esq., Raheen Gort, Treasurer, County Galway
Charles Ormsby, Esq., D.L., Cummin, Sligo
Robert Dudley Persse, Esq., Galway
Michael Perrin, Esq., Galway
Rees Price, Esq.' M.D., Tyne Hall, Great Ilford, Essex
Richard Cowley Polhill, Esq , Brompton, Middlesex
Joseph Richardson, Esq., J.P. Summer-hill House, Clones
George Rutledge, Esq., J.P., Brabazon Park, Mayo
Thomas Seymour, Esq., J.P., Ballymore Castle, Ballinaaloo
James Sexton, Esq., J.P., Limerick
John Sainsbury, Esq., Kensington
James Shirreffs, Esq , M.D., Liverpool-road, Islington
Despard Taylor, Esq., Newport, Swords
John Walsh, Esq , Castlehill, Mayo
Captain George Edward Watts, R.N , Langton Grange, Darlington
Edward West, Esq., Weston Hill, Surrey
(With power to add to their number.)
CONSULTING Erceincomi---Colonel Landm
Lewis,
R.E., F.A.S., 111.1.C.E.
ENGINEER—G. C.E.
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Prescott, Grote, and Co.
Scotland—Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank
Ireland—National Bank and Branches
Provincial Bank and Branches.
STANDING COUNSEL—James Monson CRITOIV, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Langley and Mead, Bedford-row, London.
William Thomas Kelly, Esq., 16, Mountjoy-Square North, Dublin,
and Castlebar Mayo.

LOCAL AGENTS.
Cork—James Morgan, Esq., 4, ratriek's-quay
Tralec and Killarney—John F. Eager, Esq.
Lirnerlek—David Fitzgerald, Esq., George-street
Ennis—J. B. Knox, Esq.
Galway—Francis O'Shatighnessy, Esq.
Castlebar—James Conry, Esq.
Slig,o—Mr. W. C. Tulle.
SECRETARY—Henry T. Stuart, ESQ.

PROSPECTUS.
The object of this line of Railway is to complete the chain of coast
communication, and form a connexion with lines already established
or projected with reasonable hopes of success.
It will commence at br near the city of Limerick, and taking a nor-
therly direction, proceed through the counties ofClare, Galway, Mayo,
and Sligo, terminating at Sligo, by a junction with the Sligo and Ennis-
killen Railway, and accommodating on its route the important cities and
towns of Limerick, Ennis, Gort, Loughrea, Athenry, Monivea, Tuam,
Ballinrobe, Castlebar, Westport, Foxford, Ballina, Kilalla, Swineford,
Streamstown, and Sligo, which town being connected with the north,
east, and south, by the different lines through Enniskillen, London-
den'i, Coleraine, Belfast, Armagh, Nuwry, Dundalk, .Drogheda,
Dublin, Wicklow, Wexford, Waterford, Cork, Killarney, Valentia,
Tralee, and Limerick, the establishment of this line will cause Ire-
land to piescnt a completeness of locomotive communication which
no other country in the world enjoys,
Application fer.eiaree to be made in the 'usual term to the Solid.