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church, Poole, and Southampton. At its northern terminus, Bir-
ingham, it communicates with a series of lines, projected, in pro-
gress, or completed, which will form the most direct line that can
ever probably be constructed between the southern ports of England
and the great manufacturing districts.
In the alliance of lines forming the West Midland, Manchester
and Southampton Railway project, a combination of advantages pre-
sents itself—the result of a design, to a great extent, but of contin-
gencies also. If it be desirable that the terminus of every railway
should be situated at some commercial or populous place, in this re-
spect the present project is peculiarly fortunate. If Government be
resolved on countenancing the shortest and most direct lines, it
will be seen, by laying a rule on the map of England from Salisbury
to Manchester, that a course due north and south between these
places will pass very nearly through the towns mentioned in this
prospectus, as being on the proposed line ; and actual measurement
has shown this line to be the shortest between Southampton and
Manchester by 26 miles.
By the construction, therefore, of little more than 80 miles of
rail, its here proposed, the shortest, most direct, and convenient
communication between Manchester and Southampton will be es-
tablished—a line, also, however superior in position to others pro-
mising similar advantages, may yet be considered as competing
with none, but as an independent work, originating at Birmingham
and terminating in the seaports of Weymouth, Christchurch, Poole,
and Southampton.
In the allotment of shares in this Company the Directors propose
giving a preference to shareholders in the South and Midlands'
Junction Railway Company.
Applications for prospectuses and plans may be made, and forms
of application for shares had, at the Office of W. B. James, Esq.,
Solicitor, 5, Basin,hall-street ; and of the following gentlemen:—
London—Messrs. Peppercorne, 2, Old Broad-street; Mr. J. B. Har-
rison, 8, Bank Chambers ; Mr. Thomas Hanbury, 4, Angel-court.
Liverpool—Messrs. Mills and Co , and Messrs. Neilson.
Manchester—Messrs. Houghland and Leese, and Mr. William
Marshall.
Hull—Messrs Collinson and Flint.
Leeds—Messrs. Young and Son.
Stratford-on-Avon—Mr. William Bolton.
Exeter—Mr. Thomas Sanford.
Plymouth—Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer.
Birmingham— Mr. Collis, and Mr. John Wright.
Glasgow—Messrs. Tassie and Co.
Edinburgh—Messrs. Robertson and Co., turd Messrs. M'Callum
and Co.
Derby—Messrs. Eyre and Co.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the West Midland, Manchester,
and Southampton Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to are
Shares of 201. each in this Company, and I undertake to accept the
same, and to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that
may be allotted to me ; and I undertake also to execute the Parlia-
mentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
Name (hr full)
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Date

r HE WEST MIDLAND, MANCHESTER,
Al AND SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY, AND BIRMINGHAM,
SWINDON, DEVIZES, AND SALISBURY JUNCTION.
Notice is hereby given, that after the 30th of SapTanana Instant,
no applications for shares in this undertaking can be received.
By order of the Board, G. N. WRIGHT.
5, Basinghall-street, London, Sept. 23, 184 b.

.3/I[ADRID AND 'VALENCIA RAILWAY,
authorised by an Ordinance of her Majesty the Queen of

Spain
Capital 2,400,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 201. each, Spanish reels
(Vellon) 2,000, fr. 500, of which 80,000 will be allotted in this
country.

Deposit 2/. per Share, ma's 200, fr. 50,
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Most Noble the Marquis of Winchester, 27, Cavendish-square
The Lord de l'lsle and Dudley, 16, New Burlington-street
The Lord Rossmore, the Dell, Windsor
The Right Hon. Lord Charles Beauclerk, Chesham-place, Belgrave-
square, and the Riding, Northumberland
The Right Hon. George Lionel Dawson Danner, M.P., 6, Tilney-street
The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., 27, Regent-street
Sir William Wynn, Chairman of the North Wales Railway
C. Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P., 6, Parliament-street, Chairman of the
Paris and Strasbourg Railway
Benjamin Williams, Esq., banker (Mesas. Cockburn and Co.)
William Collin., Esq., M.P., Reform Club
Edward Bates, Esq., Managing Director of the Argus Life Assurance
Company
Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Beesthorpe Hall, Newark, Netts, and 8, Great
Ryder-street, St. James's
John Capper, Esq., merchant, 1, Adelaide-place, London-bridge
William Chadwick, Esq., Montagu-square, Chairman of the Rich-
mond Railway
John Charretie, Esq., Park Village East
Gideon Colquhoun, Esq., Walmer..Lodge, Avenue-road, Regent's-
' park, Director of the Worcester and South Wales Railway
Company
William Cooper, Esq., merchant, 20, Mark-lane, and Kingswood
Lodge, Dulwich
Edmund F. Dayrell, Esq., 15, Old Cavendish-street, and Lillingstone
Dayrell, Bucks, High Sheriff of Bucks, Deputy-Lieutenant of the
County, Chairman of the Cheltenham and Gloucester Railway and
Bridgewater and 3finehead
W. Sales, Esq., merchant, Mincing-lane, Director of the Direct
Western Railway
Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of the City of London, Director
of the London and Westminster Bank
Richard Forman, Esq , Upper Thames-street
James Gernon, Esq., 13, Conduit-street
Major Graham, 16, Grove, Clapham
John Joseph Keene, Esq , St. John's-woed, near London, Director
of the National Bank of Ireland
Wm. King, Esq., Director of the Freemasons' Life Assurance Com-
pany
James John Kinloch, Esq., 21, Gloucester-road, Hyde-park, Director
of the North Wales Railway Company
John Knill, Esq., Fresh-wharf, Thames-street, Director of the
Worcester and Crewe Railway
T. Laurence, Esq., St. Mary-axe, Director of the Direst Western
Railway
Major James Oliver Lindam, K.H., 8, New-street, Dorset-square,
Chairman of the Gloucester and Aberystwith and Central Wales
Railway, and Director of the South Midland Junction Railway
Nicholas M'Cann, Esq., 50, Parliament-street, Director of the Man-
chester and Rugby Direct Railway
Charles Carroll Mactavish, Esq., 22, Rutland-gate
J. B. Montefiore, Esq., 2, Winchester-buildings, Director of the
Australian Mining Company
William Nicholson, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester
and Rugby Railway
S. P. Pratt, Esq., 55, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Director of the Kennet and
Avon Canal Company
George Clavering Redman, Esq., Limehouse
Colonel Edward Stoprord, 9, Manchester-square, Director of the
Barbadoes Railway Company
William Gordon Thompson, Esq., Director of the Senth Midland
Junction
8. J. Welty, Esq., 22, Devonshire-place
William Lechmere Whitmore, Esq., 19, James-street, Buckingham.
gate, Director of the London Central Railway Terminus.
BANKERS.
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London—Messrs. Curries and Co., Cornhill ; Messrs. Masterrnan and
Co., Nieholss-lane ; Messrs. Cockburn and Co., Whitehall.
Madrid—Bank of Isabella 11.
STANDING COUNSEL—Jacob Waley, Esq., Lincoln's Inn
gouciTons--Messrs. Keddell, Ilaker, and Grant, $4, Lime-street.
CONSULTING ENGINBER—P. Prichard Baly, Esq.
SECIETAItY—F. Kirkham Fowell, Esq.
Offices of the Company, 37, Moorgate-street.
The present Company has been formed for the construction of a
line of railway from Madrid to the city and port of Valencia, the mast
central seaport on the Mediterranean. It will open out the re-
sources of an extensive district of country, eastward from the capital,
remarkable for the richness and fertility of its soil, the varied abun-
dance of its product!ons, and the commercial spirit of its inhabitants.
This railway is authorised by a special ordinance of her Majesty
the Queen of Spain ; and from its vast importance as a national route
of intercommunication her Majesty has been pleased to accompany
the grant with all the privileges and immunities which the Crown is
empowered to confer upon a railway company. Amongst these may
be enumerated—

1. A lease of the line and of Its branches for 99 years.
2. The gratuitous grant of such Government and corporation lands
as may be required for the railway.
3. The free use of all timber, the property of the State, that may be
necessary for the works, or for other purposes.
4. The exemption for ten years, to be computed from the com-
mencement of the works, of all import duties on the machinery,
rails, and other articles requisite for the completion of the railway.
5. The entire exemption from all national and local taxes that
could otherwise be levied upon the railway, works, or buildings of
any description, and upon the capital represented by the shares.
6. The Government is not to Interfere with the Company's tariff
of charges for the space of forty years from the completion of the
works ; and no revision thereof is to take place on the expiration of
that period that can sink the profits below 15 per cent.
7. The line is to be classed, by a special law, under the title of a
" work of public utility," and as such to enjoy the royal patronage
and protection, and all the peculiar privileges attached to important
national undertakings.
The proposed lino, thus largely endowed, is abent 240 miles in
length, being' upwards of 150 miles nearer the capital than the ports
of Cadiz and the north coast of Spain, and generally nearer than any
other port in the kingdom. Although it has not yet been minutely
surveyed, it is well known that there is no similar district of equal
extent in the kingdom which presents so few engineering difficulties.
Fer upwards of 80 miles the line will traverse the almost level plain
of Valencia; and emerging from the boundaries of the province, it
will follow as nearly as possible the course of the rivers which flow
east and west from the central plateau in the province of Cuenca,
and approach Madrid by the valley of the Manzanftres. The line
will either pass through or accommodate the most important towns
in the two provinces, which will thus be brought into rapid com-
munication with the capital on the one side, a seaport on the other.
This railway will be the means of supplying Madrid, containing
300,000 inhabitants, entirely dependent for provisions upon the con-
tiguous provinces, at a cheap rate, with the rich products of the pro-
vinces of Valencia, which abounds in most valuable mines, and is
beyond comparison the most fertile district of Spain.
Valencia, brought by this communication within ten hours' dis-
tance of the chief market of Spain, must necessarily become the
port at which all vessels with supplies for the metropolis will unload,
and the centre of the coasting trade along the whole sea-line from
Barcelona to Gibraltar.

The traffic in passengers and goods now existing between Madrid
and Valencia has been correctly ascertained, showing the following
results :
The annual number of passengers travel:ing between
Madrid and Valencia, and the intermediate towns, is
upwards of 42,000 ; but taking that number at the
present cost of conveyance by stage coaches, private
"carriages, galeras, and waggons, the amount will be X 67,800
The annual weight of goods conveyed betwe.tr: the two
cities and the intermediate localities is 4,900,000 cr.
from which the return is estimated at

1,223,400

£1,291,200

damming that two•flfths only of the existing charges
become a source of revenue to the railway, and that
the tariff be reduced considerably below the state
tariff of Belgium, there will be deducted .. „

752,320

Remains .. .. .. £53.,80
Suppo!ing that the present traffic will only be doubled
by the railway, although experience has proved the
increase to he equal to 300 and 400 per cent., there will
be added ..

838,86(,

And add £1,077,760
For the transport of troops, military stores, Ec.e., which
the Government will substitute fur the conveyance by
waggons ..
96 per Cent., at the least, for the Aiicant traille

50,000

215.4"
,C 1,343,712

From which deduct nearly 50 per cent. for maintenance
of way, &c. . • .. .. .. .. ..

671,856

Leaving a net profit of

4671,856

Or of nearly 28 per cent. upon the capital.
The capital now proposed to be raised has been estimated, by
competent authority, to be amply sufficient for the completion of the
railway, including stations, a double line for rails, and the working
plant.

The royal ordinance authorises the erection of an electric tele-
graph along the line, which will answer the double purpose of placing
the railway under the special protection of the Government, and
closely uniting it with all the railways that intersect the kingdom
and have their common termini in Madrid, to which capital maritime
and mercantile information from the Mediterranean can be instan-
taneously communicated.

One-third of the shares are, by the terms of the concession, con-
ceded to Spain.

The locale of the Company will be in Spain, and it will be framed
on the principle of a cornpania anonima, agreeably to the commercial
code of that country.

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The affairs of the Company will be conducted by a Board of Di-
rectors in London, assisted by a highly influential Committee in
Madrid. The remuneration to the Directors will be made in ac-
cordance with the plan usually adopted in continental railways, and
that to the Concessionaires consists of a mere contingent interest in
two-twentieths of net profits, after five per cent. shall have been se-
cured to the shareholders.

A deposit of 21. per share Is pay-able on allotment, and no future
call will exceed 21. per share, of which two months' notice at least
will be given.

Applications for shares, according to the subjoined form, to be ad-
dressed to Messrs. Keddell, Baker, and Grant, solicitors, 34, Lime-
street, London ; to Messrs. Hutchinson and Son, stockbrokers, Loth-
bury ; Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Threadneedle-street; Messrs.
Johnston, and Co., Manchester ; Messrs. Townley and Whitehead,
Liverpool ; Messrs.Wreford, and Co., Bristol ; Mr. N. Lea, Birming-
ham ; Messrs. Watson, and Co., Leeds ; Messrs. Wilkinson and Earle,
Hull; Messrs. Buchanan and Aitkin, Glasgow; Mr. W. Gordon,
Aberdeen ; Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, Dublin ; and to the
Secretary, at the office, 31, Moorgate-street, London.
London, Sept. 10, 1845.
FORM OF APPLICATION.
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To the Directors of the Madrid and Valencia Railway Company.
Gentlemen,--I request you will allot me s arcs of 201.
each in the above Company; and I hereby tuldertaketo accept the
same, or any less number which you may appropriate to t.• e, and to
pay the deposit thereon of 21. per share.
Dated this day of

1845.
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MADRID and VALENCIA RAILWAY.—
No APPLICATION FOR SHARES will be received after
Wrzsr.snAr, the First day of October next.
By order,

f. iuKHAAI FOWLiER SecrigssY•
Oface 37, Igoorgate-street,sept. 2 R
3, 1845.

PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.
GMAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT
RAILWAY,
By a ,;unction with the Eastern Counties Railway at Bedford.
Distance, 120 miles.
Capital 2,500,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 257. each.
Deposit 21. Its. 6cl. per Share.

cannot be a doubt but that preference would be given to the Great
Leeds and London Direct Railway.

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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
wharfs 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 offesed by the Great Leeds and London
Direct Railway, and by branch railways to the main trunk line,
through which all goods from the whole of the manufacturing dis-
tricts 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 an invaluable connexion
between the rivers Clyde and Thames.
It has been ascertained that there are no engineering difficulties,
that the works 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 Parliament 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.
Applications for Shares (in the form annexed) may be made to J.
R. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-court, and Messrs. Owen Gray and
Midge, 25, Great Tower-street, the joint solicitors to the Company,
at the Company's temporary offices, 9, Copthall-court, London ; or
to the following sharebrokers :
London—Messrs. Marten and lieseltine, 9, Flash-lane
Leeds—Messrs. Hoppe and Co.
Liverpool—Messrs. Joseph King and Son
Hull—Messrs. Flint and Tootal
Manchester—Messrs. Cardwell and Sons
Bradford—Mr. Josiah Scholefield
Edinburgh—Mr. Charles Couper, 30, St. Andrew's-square
No application will be attended to unless accompanied by a satis-
factory reference.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
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To the Proyisisnal Committee of the Great Leeds and London Direct

Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares, of 251.
each, in the above undertaking, and I undertake to pay the deposit
thereon, or upon any less number that may be allotted to me, and
also to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agree-
ment when required. Name in full .............. .....

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GREAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT
RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management of this Railway hereby giro no-
tice, that in consequence of the unprecedented number of applications
already made for shares in this Important undertaking, they hare
determined upon rejecting all further applications made after the
9th September instant. Immediately after that day they will
proceed to make the allotment of the shares and procure the execu-
tion of the Parliamentary contract and subscription deeds.
Signed by order of Use Committee,
J. R. GIBSON,
OWEN GRAY, Registered Solicitors.
J. B. MIDGE,
29th September, 1845.

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S H WSBU R Y, WOLVERHAMPTON,
DUDLEY, and BIRMINGIIAIf RAILWAY.
WM. ORMSBY GORE, M.P.. Chairman.
The Hon. ROET. H. CLIVE, M.P., Deputy-Chairman.
John Benbow, Esq., MP.
W. Richford Collett, Esq., M.P.
W. Fechney Black, Esq.
James Clay, Esq.
Richard Norman, Esq.
Stephen Phillips, Esq.
Richard Smith, Esq.
R. A. Slaney, Esq.
Sir W. Young, Bart.
In consequence of the repetition ofidyertisements signed "Thomas
H. Smith," and an " Original Shareholder," the Committee of Ma-
nagement think it their duty to publish the names of that Commit-
tee, as the best answer to the latter anonymous writer, and to caution
the Shareholders against being misled by any statements which
might be made at any meeting called by Thomas H. Smith, of whom
the Committee of Management know nothing.
The Committee of Management take this opportunity to state, that
the surveys from Shrewsbury to Wolverhampton are nearly completed,
and that the surveys from Wolverhampton to Birmingham are being
made under the direction of a joint Committee representing this
Company, the London and Birmingham Railway Company, and the
Birmingham Canal Company, the whole under the immediate super
intendence of Mr. Robert Stephenson.
By order,
3, Moorgate-street, Sept. 22, 1845

GEO, KNOX, Secretary.

D IRE CT WESTERN RAILWAY
(Upon the Broad Gauge),
From London to the Land's-end ; with D verging Lines tea Bath and
Bridgewater respectively.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 21. 12s. Gd. per Share.
Office, 20, Poultry.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Camperdown, Sidney-place, Bath
The Viscount Mandeville, Kimbolton-park, Hunts
Lord James O'Bryen, Royal-crescent, Bath
Lord William Powlett, Bath, and Downham-hall, Brandon, Suffolk
General Sir John Slade, Bart, Muntys Court, Taunton
Colonel Luttrell, Kilve Court, Somerset
The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., Director of the South Mid-
land Railway, Brookes' Club, St. James's-street
Sir Francis Dugdale Astley, Bart., Everly House, Pewsey, Wilts
Sir Henry Webbe, Bart, 105, Pall-mall
Frederick Hodgson, Esq., M.P. for Barnstaple, 3, Carlton Gardens
Howard Elphinstone, Esq., M.P., 19, Eaton-place, London
Ralph Neville, Esq , M.P., Hill-street, Berkeley-square
Charles Barry Baldwin, M.P., 6, Parliament-street
Hon. Percy Evans Prete, 3, Belgrave-square
Thomas Nugent Vaughan, Esq., 32, Grosvenor-place, London
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the
Sheffield and Manchester and Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
Companies
Sir Robert Price, Bart., M.P., Foxley, Herefordshire
Sir John Cave Brown Cave, Bart., Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Sir William Young, Bart., Westbourne-green, Hyde-park, East India
Director
John Clark, Esq., Bellefleld House, near Trowbridge, Wilts, Magis-
trate for the counties of Wilts and Somerset
Alfred Batson, Esq., Ramsbury, Wilts, and Upper Bedford-place
Major Hunt Grubbe, Eastwell House, Devizes
John Sealy, Esq.; Bridgwater, banker
John Level Sealy, Esq., Bridgwater, banker
William Adair Bruce, Esq., Lansdown-crescent, Bath
Sir John Key, Bart., 9, King's Arms-yard, Alderman of the City of
London, Director of the Direct Manchester and London and Direct
Liverpool and Leeds Railway Company
Thomas Farneomb, Esq., Griffin's Wharf, Tooley-street, Alderman
of the City of London, and Director of the London and Westmin-
ster Bank, and of the London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidder-
minster Railway
Thomas Challis, Esq., 32, Wilson-street, Finsbury, Alderman of the
City of London
Edward Harrisson Barwell, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the North-
ampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway, and Director of the
South Midland Railway
Joseph Armitage, Esq., Miln's Bridge House, Huddersfield, Deputy
Lieutenant and a Magistrate for the West Riding of Yorkshire,
Chairman of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
William Gordon Thomson, Esq., 33, Gloucester-road, Hyde Park,
Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham, and
South Midland Railways
Donald Maclean, Esq., 37, Brunswick-square, London, Deputy
Chairman of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway
Thomas Lawrence, Esq., 3, St. Mary Axe
Philip W. Courtney, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, London
Millis Coventry, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street
Barnet L. 'Philips, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, and
George-street, Mansion House
Boswell Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holderneas House, near Hull,
Deputy lieutenant and Magistrate for the East Rieder of Yorkshire
Charles Robert Coleman, Esq., Irongate Wharf
William Eales, Esq., Mincing.lane, London, late Direeter of the
Devon and Cornwall Banking Company
Charles Downes, Esq., Warwick-street, Charing-cross, Director of
the South Midland Railway
Martin Stutely, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park, London,
Director of the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine, and the South
Essex Railways
Francis Ede, Esq., 34, Great Winchester-street
John Addis, Esq., Rotherhithe and Mark-lane, London, Director of
the Central Terminus Railway, and of the Licensed Victuallers'
Fire and Life Insurance Company
James Renshaw, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street, and West
Heath House, Er.th, Kent, Director of the South Staffordshire
Railway
Thomas Drane, Esq., Pall-mall, and St. Mary Church, Devon, Direc-
tor of the Bridport and Exeter, and Goole and Doncaster Railways
Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brembo Ironworks, Wrexham, and Cannon-
street, London
H. G. Atkinson, Esq., limier Gloucester-place, Regent's Park
George M'lntosh, Esq., 127, Seymour-street, Portman-sqnftre
Frederick Solly Flood, Esq., Alpha-road, Regent's Park, London
Major White, 105, Pall-mall, London, Director of the South Midland
Railway
Charles Bleaden, Esq., Conlsden-court, Surrey, Chairman of the Li-
censed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company
J. G. Hammack, Esq., Essex House, Mile-end-road, Director of the
Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company
Patrick Fres. Johnston, Eels Great Cumberland-place
Joseph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, Minories, Director of the London and
Blackwell Railway Company
William Downing Bruce, Esq., F.S.A., 17, Charles-street, St. James's,
and Ripon
Cuthbert Woodcock, Esq., Grove-road, North Brixton
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanstene-street, Portman-
square, Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth, and
the Great Western Extension Railways
George Hammond Whalley, Esq., 30, Pall-mall, London
William Hagan, Esq., 60, Baker-street, Portman-square
William Breynton, Esq., Montpelier, Cheltenham, and Temple, Lon-
don, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth Railway
Richard Harris Purcell, Esq., Cambridge-street, Hyde Park, Lon-
don, Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Railway
Company
Philip Baker, Esq., Euston-square, London, Auditor of the London
and Blackwell Railway Company
Charles James Heath, Esq., 6, London-street, Mark-lane
Captain E. N. Trowbridge, R.N., I I, Eaton-square
Anthony Ridley, Esq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury, a Director of the
St. Katherine Docks Company, and of the General Shipowners'
Socieey
William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square
Charles Thomas Warde, Eeq., Clopton House, Warwickshire, and
Luton 1100, Bedfordshire
George Payne, Esq., Sulby Hall, Northamptonshire, and Charles-
street, Berkeley-square
James Beech, Esq., Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, and Grosvenor-
place, London
Nicholas Philpot Leader, Esq., Dromagh Castle, county Cork, Union
Club, Trafalgar-square, Director of the Killarney Junction Rail-
way Company
Samuel Baker, Esq., Lyppiat Park, Gloucestershire, and London
William Congrave Russell, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Di-
rector of the Warwickshire an London Railway
Henry Bradley, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire
John William Yerbury, Esq., Beleousbe House, Wiltshire, Captain 3d
Light Dragoons
Robert Main, Esq., Ravensboume Park, Lewisham, and Trinity-
square, London
Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsall Hou fl_Nottinalialasss,
slssissets'etts. ‘ltettratf-rfrilte, Mar rough-buildings, Bath
Rev. T. Harvey Ashworth, Burlyns House, near Newbury, Barka
Col. Bursiem, Harwood Lodge, Newbury, Beets
Major Kirwan, Great Pulteney-street, Bath
Rev. Dr. Godfrey, Grosvenor-place, Bath
Edward Cooper, Esq., Staverton, Wilts, Magistrate of the County
Henry Toogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse, Wilts, Magistrate of the
County
Rev Chas. Fres. Bamffylde, Rector of Dunkerton, near Bath, Magis-
trate for Somerset
Richard Mortimore, Esq., Cleippenham, Wilts
George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, Director of the Bristol and Birming-
ham Railway Company
R. Wootten, jun., Esq., Banker, Oxford, Director of the Buekingham-
shire Railway and Wolverton Junction
Richard Mortimore, Esq., Kingsmill, Collumpton
Rev. John Sydenham, Collumpton
Rev. R. A. Roberti, Rector of Kentisbere, Collumpton
Charles Justice, Esq., Collumpton, Devon
Richard Marker, Esq., Urculm Cottage, Tiverton
Colonel Henry Dundas Campbell, North End House, Portsmouth
George Pearce, Esq., Bradninch House, near Collumpton
Wm. H. Halcomb, Esq., Chilton, Hungerford, Chairman of the Berks
Union Banking Company
William Halcomb, Esq., Marlborough, Manager of the Wilts and
Dorset Bank
Captain W. G. Maclean, R.N., Taunton
Robert Parsons, Esq., Taunton
John Dalzell, Esq., Wallingford, Berks
Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
John Kerle Haberlield, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
James Troup, Esq., Hastings
John Robson, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
John Moe-ford Cottle, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington, Director
of Coventry and Leicester Railway
Joseph Knight, Esq., Leicester, Director of South Midland and North-
ampton, Banbury and Cheltenham Railways
John Newton Mappin, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Midland Railway Company
John Ridgeway, Esq., Cauldon-place, the Potteries, Staffordshire,
Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway
James Burt, jun., Esq., Manchester, Director of the Chester and
Birkenhead, and Manchester and Southampton Railways.
Edward Norris, Esq., Clairville, Manchester, Director of the Direct
London and Manchester, and North Cheshire Railway Companies
Joseph Nadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and
Wigan, and Manchester and Southampton Railways
James Ogden, Esq.,'M.D., Salford
Sir William Lowthrop, Hull, Magistrate for the East Riding of York
and for the borough of Hull, Chairman of the " Hull and Barnsley"
Committee, and Member of the acting Committee of the "Liver-
pool and Leeds Direct Railway Companies"
John Holford, Esq., Rusholm Hall, Manchester
C. H. Jones, Esq., Huddersfield, Deputy Chairman of the Hudders-
field and Sheffield, and Director of the Halifax and Bradford
Union Railway
Charles Bamford, jun., Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley

. .
Junction
John Lillie, Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and South-
ampton Railway
John Robson, Esq., Hetton-le-liole, Durham
Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Sheffield and
Blanchester, and Chairman of the Manchester, Birkenhead, and
Midland Railway Companies
Isom Holmes, Esq., Liverpool

Wm. B. Newbery, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Dudley and
Iron Bridge Railway Company
C. Appleby, Esq., Broomhill, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and
Manchester Railway Company
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach,
and Lincolnshire Railway, and Salisbury and Swindon Railways
John Ward, Esq., Machin Bank, Sheffield, I)irector of the Sheffield,
Rotherham, and Chesterfield Life Assurance-office
Wm. Thompson, Esq., Upperthorpe, near Sheffield, Director of the
Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
Adderley Howard, Esq., Sutton Wisbech, Director of the East Coast
Railway Company
Captain Bowker, R.N., Devonport
H. S. Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Di-
rect Railway
Samuel Swann Brittain, Esq., Sheffield Director of the East and West
of England Railway Company
John Fawcett, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Wakefield and Har-
rowgate Railway Company
William Marriott, Esq., Attercliff-terrace, Sheffield, Director of the
Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Junction Railway.
Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln, Director of the London and York
and East Lincolnshire Railways
John Johnstone Hamilton, Esq., Liverpool
David Price, Esq., Manchester
William Hunter, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington
Rev. H. W. Cottle, Vicar of Watford, Northamptonshire
Major Wornum, Clarence-square, Cheltenham
Edward Hall, E.sq., Westbank House, Macclesfield, Director of the
South Midland and the Northampton and Cheltenham Railways
Henry Hubborsty, Esq., Hull
John Ostler, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction
Henry Shaw, Esq., Fetter-lane
Henry Sayer, Esq., Commercial-road, Limehouse, merchant
John Mee Mathew, Esq., Gray's Inn-sqaare
John Norton, Esq., Moat House, Brentwood, Essex
William John M‘Guire, Esq., Hampton Court
John Gray Wilson, Esq., Oxford-terrace
Capt. J. P. Macdougall, Fir Grove, North Brixton, Surrey
W. J. Lefeuvre, Esq., Alderman and Magistrate ofSouthampton
Thomas Chas. Harrison, Esq., F R.S., York-terrace, Regent's Park
G. B. Bunhury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the
Coventry and Leicester Railway
Captain Tringham, R.N., Solyhull, Warwickshire
William Jonson Neale, Esq., King's Bench-walk, Temple
James Whitney, Esq., Shrewsbury
Henry Paul Harwood, Esq., M.D., Sheffield
The Hon. F. Byron, 21, Eaton-place
William Higgins, Esq., Turvey, High Sheriff of Bedfordshire
Sir Raymond Jarvis, Fair Oak-park, near Winchester, Deputy-Lieu-
tenant, and magistrate for the county of Hants
Wiillam Jackson, Esq , Birkenhead, Chairman of the Chester and
Birkenhead Railway
E. H. Langworthy, Esq., Manchester
Thomas Sidney, Esq., Alderman,", and Sheriff of London and Mid-
dlesex
Nathaniel Gould, Esq., Barge-yard, Bucklorsbury, and Tavistock-

square
Edmund Lionel Welles, Esq., Cadogan-place, and West Moulsey,
Surrey
Duncan Dunbar, Esq., East India-road, and Limehouse, Director of
the London Dock Company, the Marine Assurance Company, and
the General Shlpowner's Society
William Jackson, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Goole and Doncaster
Railway
George F. Earle, Esq., Hull
Stephen Knowles, Esq., Exeter.
W. Lawrence, Esq., Brixton
John Learmonth, Esq., Edinburgh, Chairman of the Edinburgh and
Glasgow, and North British Railway Companies
Wellington Ross Seymour, Esq., Montague-place, Russell-square,
Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway
William Tanner, Esq., Great Surrey-street, Blackfriars
John Booth, Esq., Sherburn Grange, Durham
Matthew Benjamin Robson, Esq., Whitwell Grange, Durham
John Holmes, Esq., St. James's-street, Director of the Dorchester and
Weymouth Railway, and York and Lancaster Railway
William G. Bernard, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
Thomas Smallwood Richards, Esq., 59, Baker-street, Portman-square
James Shaw, Esq., Salford, Manchester
N. M'Cann, Esq., Parliament-street
Henry Wenman Newman, Esq. Bristol, Magistrate for that City, and
Deputy-Lieutenant and Magistrate for the county of Gloucester
William Moratio Harrison, Esq„ Sunbury
William Empson Jalland, Esq., Holdemess House, dear Hull
Thomas liacket Massy, Esq., Newark-upon-Trent
Robert Cook, Esq., Gaiusborough, Director of the Gainsborough,
Goole, and Isle of Axholnae, and of the Wisbeach, Ely, and Lin-
colnshire Railways
William Roston, Esq., Catherine-court, Trinity-square
G. Wingrove Cooke, Eiq., Temple, London
C. I. Selwyn, Esq., Exeter
Joseph Hopwood, Esq., Exeter, Director of the Exeter and Falmouth
Railway
Richard Compton, Esq., Eddington House, Hungerford, Berks, a
Magistrate for the counties of Wilts and Berks
Henry Con Coape, Esq., Goldhanger, Malden, Essex
The Constable of Hungerford
Riclfard Davis, Esq., St. Helen's-place, Director of the South Midland
Railway
Edward Hyde Clarke, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of
the Warwickshire and London Railway .
Captain William Lionel Lampert, The Highlands, Oxfordshire, and
Leamington, Warwickshire
Francis Burton, Esq., Milverton House, Warwickshire
Captain Stewart, R.N., Leamington, Warwickshire
Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbaston, Birmingham, Director
of the South Staffordshir a Railway
William Northage, Esq., Upper Gower-street, Bedford-square
John Walley Hughes, Esq., Gloucester, Director of the Birmingham
and Bristol Railway
Lewis Bruce Knight Bruce, Esq., The Priory, Roehampton, Surrey
Francis Cole Humbert, Esq., Oxford-street, Hyde-park
Algernon Greville, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park
John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park
James Lamb, Esq., Hyde-park-square
Richard Groucock, Esq.,; Bow-churchyard, and Dulwich, Director
of the Direct Manchester Railway
J. B. Simpson, Esq., Rutland-lodge, Brixton
Henry Bellerby, Esq„ Sheriff of York
Henry Ledgard, Esq., 39, Wood-street, Cheapside, Director of the
Rugby and Macclesfield Direct Railway
John Williams, Esq., Eaton-square.
Thomas Grimsditch, Esq., M.P., Macclesfield, Cheshire
Samuel Griffiths, Esq., Penn-fields, Wolverhampton, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Railway
William Miller, jun., Esq., Leicester
Edward Westlake, Esq., Southampton
Erasmus R. Foster, Esq., Birchin-lano
William Bargett, Esq., Broad-street
Peter R. Morrison, Esq., Princes-street, Bank
Thomas Miller, jun., Esq., Leicester
John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Enfield, Director of the York and Lan-
caster Railway
Thomas Kidley, Esq., M.D., Sheffield
James Sheppard, Esq., jun.
Valentine Knight, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, Magistrate
for Middlesex
aleorge Sercombe, Esq., Exeter
John Clampit Sercombe, Esq., Exeter
William Pearce, Esq., Liverpool
W. Holliday, Esq., Chad Valley, Edgbaston, Birmingham
Robert Henry Hurst, Esq., jun., Temple
William Nash, Esq., Capham Common
Grey Hazlcrigg, Esq., West Carlton Hall. Leicester
Captain Twlsieton Graves, Dake-street, St. James's, Director of the
Leicester and Tean and Dove Valley Railway
(With power to add to their number).
Baxgras--Messrs. Curries and Co., Cornhill, London.
_ _ JOINT SOLICITORS.

Messrs. Bell, Brodrick, and Bell, Bow Churchyard, London
Messrs. Rickards and Walker, 29, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London
Messrs. Haynes and Moore, Warwick and London
Messrs. J. V. and J. T. Harting, 24, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London.
SECRETARY—Thomas Hosier Saunders, Esq.
Assisranz-Secarrauv—Charles J. Whalley, Esq.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
At Newbury—Messrs. Godwin and Gray, and B. Pinniger, Esq.
At Ramsbury—William Rowland, Esq.
At Devises, Henry Gilbert, Esq., and John Edwards Hayward, Esq.
At Troubridge and Bradford, Messrs. Stone and Itodway
At Bath, Messrs. Batehellor, Harford, and Staunton
At Shepton Mallett—Francis Isaac Nalder, Esq.
At Bridgewater, Messrs. G. S. and J. R. Poole
At Exeter—William Denis Moore, Esq.
At Tiverton, T. L. T. Rendell, Esq., and J. A. Toms, Esq.
At Launceston—Messrs. Lawrence and Pettis=
At Bodmin
At Truro
At Penzance
At Falmouth-3lessrs. Tresidder and Son
The object of this line is to effect a direct communication between
London and the Land's End.
In a national point of view such a line is indispensable. With
the advantage of a direct railroad, Falmouth, from it., situation at the
western extremity of the kingdom, would undoubtedly long since
have been the principal port on that coast. With the advantage of
at least 280 miles of heavy road, that place has attained its high po-
sition as a Packet Station. Southampton, with far less natural ad-
vantages, has, since the opening of the South-Western Railway, in-
creased its imports from 200,0001. to 3,000,0001. per annum. At Bris-
tol, before the opening of the Great Western Railway, the imports
were declining ; since then they have very considerably increased.
The merits of a line to the Land's End as an investment for ca-
pital, it was not left to the present Company to discover. The Great
Western and Bristol and Exeter Railway having already reached
Exeter, it has been in contemplation to extend that line to Fal-
mouth by way of Plymouth ; and various other projects have been
set on foot on the conviction that Falmouth must be reached by
railway.
The object of this prospectus is to show that no other line than the
resent can ultimately satisfy the exigencies of the country in regard
to this, its most important eutport—" the natural Packet Station of
the empire."
The present project is distinguished by this—that it is direct. It is
as nearly as possible a straight line from London to the Land's End.
The London, Bath, and Bridgewater Company having amalga-
mated with this Company, the immense local influence commanded
by them will now contribute to the great national object of a direct
line ; while means have been taken for securing the traffic and afford-
ing all the accommodation contemplated by that Company.
The Direct Western availing itself of the Great Western Railway
so far as Reading, pursues its course by or near Newbury, Hunger-
ford, Great Bedwin, Marlborough, Devizes, the manufacturing dis-
trict of Trowbridge (from which a diverging line will be carried by
Bradford direct to Bath), Westbury, Frome, Shepton Mallet, Wells
(from which another diverging line will be taken to Bridgewater),
Glastonbury to Taunton, being shorter by about thirty-two
miles than any existing railways between these points, and without
a tunnel. From Taunton the Bristol and Exeter Railway (now
leased to the Great Western) is traversed to Tiverton, whence it is
proposed to carry this line direct to the Land's End, Falmouth, St.
Ives, and Penzance, being shorter by about sixty miles than the
lately proposed line by way of Plymouth, and effecting, in the whole
iistance from London to Falmouth, a saving of about ninety miles.
With respect to the traffic oa the upper portion of the line it is
needless to saylmore than that there is already thorough traffic suffi-
cient to justify the construction of this portion of the Direct Wes-
tern ; that it will shorten the distance from London to Tiverton
about 32 miles, that it will traverse rich and populous agricultural
and manufacturing districts, and receive a large amount of traffic as
well from railways now in course of construction as from ethers pro-
jected, with every chance of success.
As to the traffic on the lower portion of the line, it is evident that
the vast number of merchant vessels continually detained in the
Channel by adverse winds, would effect an immense saving both in
insurance and time, by discharging their cargoes at Falmouth, and at
once transmitting them to their destination by means of this railway;
and therefore—without speculating on the extent to which the ports
on either side of the great promontory of the Land's End may, by
means of this railroad, attract the commerce respectively of Bristol
and Southampton ; t o what extent the inexhaustible mineral wealth
of Cornwall, and the unrivalled agricultural resources of Devonshire_
may be further develened—ar_Aseir-ui-fracr-a-rargerpriffipol'-
&-snrorivinter visitants—it is obvious that this line will command a
traffic both in goods and passengers, from its western terminus, the
amount of which may be said to be without limit. A glance at the
map will make it manifest that no competing trunk line can ever be
established between Tiverton and the Land's End. As between
Taunton and Reading, an inspection of the map will show a vast ex-
tent of midland district, comprising rich and populous parts of So-
mersetshire, Dorsetshire, and Wiltshire, now altogether destitute of
railroad accommodation.
Recurring to the features of this project as a national work, one of
the greatest in point of magnitude, of vital importance In the event of
war, and of almost incalculable advantage to the general and packet
commerce of the kingdom; it may not be out of place to quote here
the following expressions of Sir Robert Peel. Speaking of the project
of a direct line from London to Liverpool through the Trent Valley,
which bore much the same relation to the Birmingham and Grand
Junction that this bears to the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter

Railways, he is reported to have said :—" I consider that the com-
munication between the metropolis and the great outperts to be not
a question of hours, but a question of minutes." Of the necessity of this
particular line, Parliament has already expressed an opinion ; for in the
report of the Committee on the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth
line, which was promoted by the Great Western Railway Company,
it was stated that that Company had been required to pledge itself
not hereafter to oppose a direct line to Falmouth; and it may be
further observed, that a proposed line from Plymouth to Falmouth
was last session rejected, on the ground that it might be supposed
to interfere with that great national object.
The survey of the line has been to a great extent completed, and
correct estimates of the expenditure and returns are in a state of for-
wardness, and the whole will be ready for the next session of Par-
lia►nent.

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

through which the line will pas;, and to the shareholders in the
Great Western, the Bristol and Exeter, and other railways connected
with the Direct Western district. . . .

Applicationi for shares, in the form subjoined, to be addressed to
the solicitors to the Company, or to the Secretary, or to any respect-
able broker in town or country
20, Poultry, London, September 11, 1845.
' FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Direct Western Railway
Company.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 251. each in
the above Company, and I undertake to pay the deposit of 21. 12s. 6d.
per share thereon, or on any less number you may appropriate to me,
and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Con-
tract when required.
Dated

1845.

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THE ENFIELD,ED MONTO..o, „Ala.
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COUNTIES' JUNCTION RAILWA.. _„,,,,,,ne, yip.,
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 v'-:'„,..E. •
Capital, 30,0001., in 1,500 Shares of WI. .--
. Deposit, 21. 2s; per Share.
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. on.
•
Liability limited to amount of subscrll
Jacob Vale Asbury,
Length of line three miles.
Edward Beckett, Esq., 16, IVt;:cwick-street, W
L. 511401
Charles Dennis Bowers, Esq., Cannon-street,
Thomas Dobson, Esq., Forty-hill,. Eallela
Captain Holt, It N. Baker:: jIree:SEI
John Dixon, Esq., Forty-hill, Enlie ld
oxvirsql.o,SrAL COMMITTER. _ 0 Ina
Daniel Harrison,Chase-hill, elt, t, ,nfii), 4
William Henry Holt, Esq., M.D., Ilake.'''s
,treeia -••
Astley Holt, Esq., M.D., Baker-street, 1 'mat. Edmea.ten
Henry Samuel Hammond, Esq., Church-s tr'''"''
William Haiuworth, Esq., Enfield Town
Enfield Chal.o
John Fulford Owen, Esq., Ridgeway Oaks, -
Major Ramsay, 1111 Lodge, Clay-hill, Enfie
Henry Lewis Smalc, Esq., Willoughby llou.
Robert Wollaston, Esq., Tottenham tSCI.
ENGINEER--Robert Stephenson, l
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PARL/AMENSIARY AGENT—MOWS. rarratt a 11,
.sireet,l3ll4.
BANKERS—Messrs. Drewett and Fowler, Princ, *
sotictroas. •
John Sawyer, Esq., Enfield
Henry Knight Esq,, Edmonton
W. B. James, Esq., London.
—.-------r— Olret
PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS.
',v%rtfittl4T __
14ve, TottenhatrA
This line of railway is intended to cornretence at
~ one at toe:
and to form a' junction with the Eastern COUntieb _ . mroool
he.
Edmonton station, crossing the turnpike-road at Lova
,„ ;bat Wag
where a station would be placed for the accorow udati°n " • and
bourhood. 1 So rfA's' ek
It will be three miles in length, over an unifornr leve •at
froin the circumstance of its not involving the as crincisife, • .gric;,
:iivelder.46tr:-Ite'n-84 laare
&ciliary property (n.arly the whole of it being la nd n _ o Its
ture), its cost has been estimated by comp" ent p ere": 1;0,14
surveyed it, at a sum very much below that of ordin arY "1,,„..11, if of
By this junction, pasSeDgers will be conveyed, at n Carl,ool7
the present cost, fl•om Enfield to Loudon in lialf-ful-D0i1,,, et ble
that time Is now consumed in reaching the nearvst I ,n; wale'
Eastern Counties' line. It may i.,e expected, independes_l. trt c
at,
diate neighbourhood of its station,'', to draw consideraw°,'.vuere 13,,
the following places, viz.:—Nortkaw, South Minims, ' southlPr.ii,
Hadley, Chipping Barnet, East listrnet, Cock Forster6J,ition "'"
Winchmore Hill, and it will also open a direct commtleue
the markets and villages north of Enfield. dot, te dee;
The expensive coach fares to Enfield have long been bat wbeil
metro'
ciate the value of house property in the n'igßbourhe°dl, triableleet.",.
residents will be enabled, by means of this" line to rees_,ire
polis at a moderate cost, not only such propeolY,
building purposes, of which there are many fa"llrable SP
be greatly improved in value. oitsblo.
but law "074 coals
COO fel!,
In addition to the passenger traffic, which ig Teri' the on .4
there would be realised a large amount, annually, fr°lTirthimeS,lC,,,mit
ance of coal, corn, and other goods, from the ever ,pencil I° "c.
which a communication is now in the course of Pet °$ tern cootie'
neighbourhood, by means of the junction of the Ells
with the Blackwall RallwaY ; and which, when c 01 nP1e.......5; 131aa
cure to the public the convenience of three termini,, viz"
h• re'
wall, Fenchurch-street, and shoreditcla. from t •e 0
To market-gardeners, as aiso to farmers, this r to,
t alrantsb
remarkable contiguity of its stdtions, would offer ge3et other 10; •
b affordinthem the means of conveying their fru. gn WO ril
wit 1 encorer
deco to the London markets, more expeditiously
ar
d'oug, till
of in • -
Jur), than by their present very Inconvenient, te ,
,arki;
Pensive mode of conveyance; and to the Spitalfiel di ',l,`,r such Pr°,
particularly, on account of its being the principal one •`:,,,00 one
duce, and close to the Shoreditch terminus. From thi, ''
d 101.
a very large return would be obtained. slue - r .
Enough may have already been stated to shoe,' th f.,
i,„reholde
~
portance of this project to the neighbourhood and ti me
~
fropid se:
but the fact should not be overlooked; that wlteneftuetrer°lls;,l-
-
vill oe:
convenient communication has been opened with the • °dual/ •Lo
traffic very far beyond what before existed has isou' webs I'D,
lowed ; and from a project which would facilitate the
lit
of
inaFnryo From
advantages
very
favourite and healthful a spot as Enfield, the same ret
anticipated. wid,to •
• "ark ,
i 214 " / 1.-
capital invested may be confidently expected.
of which have been particularly noticed, a large ram of
moderate outlay
lineo
of railway
awyill be req. -. . ferf 00.0,..
The responsibility of the shareholders will be u"--sa 11 r
of Parliament to the amount of their shareff• .., part'.os Wei'
....1,
In' the allotment of the shares, applications' ..,Y
Ow'
terested will have the preference. SollyltorL _ortoy
Applications for shares may be made to Me Tbr''' ;reef
offices •es , and to Messrs. Oswin and Co., Angel-cavil" rsad-e
Did 13
street ; and to Messrs. Peppercorne ad C 0.,., 2,
London.
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FORM OF APPLICATION FOR 511.0.1--- _Tops
T. the Previsional Committee of the Enfield, Edniontokas '
Gentlemen, —I request that you will allot line ii $0
.fipmireste
iii:
.4,
Counties' Junction Railway. il tared' icsil•
ThttclOn_./ be
proposed Enfield, Edmonton, ant Eastern Counties' e is snits
way, and I agree to take all such shares, or so rgl'l.tro" teat:4
allotted to me, and to pay the deposit thereon, and '''.-.0. fel
Parliamentary Contract and Subscriber's Agreement /c
,"--
so to do. ..
Name
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°All'roolCitoi
LONDON and NOTTINGHAM It ,
LEEDS connecting. LONDON, NOTTINGHAM, Sll
Viet' 4. 00.)
(Provisionally Registefed, pursuant to 7 and 8 . a.
Capital, 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 20,' P-- a
Deposit, '2./. 2s. per Share.
the liar 't
(In compliance with the Standing Orders of
Parliament.)
ruovislONLL COMMITTEIt• r.)
~,,,
(With power to add to their nolo% lie"'
The Right Hon. Digby, Lord Middleton, Pi °Raton
The Hon. E. M. Lloyd Mostyn, M.P.
The Hon. William Mackenzie Dawson ace
I,OP
The Hon. Edward Stafford Jerningham A fil. 4-ri'rl'
Sir George G. De Hochepied La Pent, Bart., .eO-,,--1
William Collins, Esq., 31. P. Notting"dlf"
Thomas Adams, Esq., merchant, Lenton Firs, near ,A,eid 50
Charles Appleby, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the bilei'
chester Railway 0
0/404
Ge( rge Bacon, Esq., merchant, Nottingham Direct.
Richard Bailey, Esq., Castle Dyke, near Sheffield,
.., 10/
Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction ItailelLora r.-
Frederick Pratt Barlow, Esq., Director of the Great 1 vw
Robert Bell, Esq., Manor House, Chiswick doe
Charles Richard Bigge, Esq., Bry-awston-square,
Len
William Boden, Esq., Apsley Hall, near Nottingham 0°
William Bradley, Esq., Sheffield tun. Setti" ,t
Joseph Braithwaite, Esq., Magistrate, Standard =--
co`!
.„ te s-
James Brand, Esq., New Broad-street, London
George B. Bunbury, Esq., Leamington, Director of th. ,nt, i 0
Nuneaton Railway ~trate
Edward Pegge Burnell, Esq., Winkburn, Notts, I,r-elfr
County
Wm. Butcher, Esq., the master cutler of Sheffield
Samuel Cartledge, Esq., Mapperley, near Nottingham
William Cartledge, Esq., merchant, Nottingham -
Charles Chouler, Esq., Wollaton, Notts
Thomas Close, Esq., magistrate, Nottingham
Henry Coe Coape, Esq., Union Club, London '4*
Major E. T. Coke, magistrate, Woodhouse Grove, Nett°
s, tea
Sheldon Craddock, Esq., Leicester
Thomas Cullen, Esq., merchant, Nottingham 1.004°
tre, doe
Edmund Francis Dayrell, Esq., Old Caveridish-e-- yoe
Lillingstone Dayrell, High Sheriff for Bucks ~__,,, Faace' _
Lieut.-Col. Elrington, Scots Fusilier Guards, WYheal'"fsaraell
Henry D. Erskine, Esq., 93, Mount-street, Grosvenor odd,
William Felkin, Esq., merchant, Nottingham refill'
William Edmund Ferrer's, Esq., Bucklersbury, Direct()
and Holyhead Railway 001°'
James Fisher, Esq., 12, Watling-street, London .... Deetir,
Charles Fitzgerald, Esq., London, Director ot the °°llll.
and Southampton Railw Leud°
The Rev. Henry Robert Fowler, Manchester-Were' .
Smith Fowler, Esq., merchant, Nottingham _.--- -
Francis Gamble, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough "
George Gamble, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough
James Gernon, Esq., 13, Conduit-street, London ~, i ,
William Gilbertson, Esq., Baglan, Neath
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Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Liverpool - .
Railway
Thomas Foster Gimson, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
William Hannay, Esq., magistrate, Nottingham
John Heard, Esq., magistrate, Nottingham t I,
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Richard Heaviside, Esq., London, Director of the Grea . ,
Hallway
Lewis Heymann, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Samuel Hollins, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
John Horsfall, Esq., magistrate, Standard-hill,
The Rev. Charles Hudson, Saundby, Notts
Riehard Hutchinson, Esq., 31 D., Nottingham
Robert James, Esq., merchant, Nottingham '.
Thomas Kidley, Esq., M.D„ Sheffield
Cynric Lloyd, Esq., Brook-street
pp , London „,,aOll
Robert Low, Esq. Keel-street, Russell-square, i'v- :,,,si
The Mayor of Nottingham NottinOhani
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David Melville, Esq., merchant, Standard-hill, -"tiler of til '
Major J. A. Moore, Queen Ann-street, London, Dirge
Indian Peninsular Railway (0!:(1
JolWNewton Mappin, Esq., Sheffield
Edward Munk, Esq., merchant, the Park, Nottinghed3
Henry Newbould, Esq., Sharrow Bank, Sheffield
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John Nunn, Esq., magistrate, Nottingham Park
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Wilson Overend, Esq., Sheffield, Magistrate for ~..e
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Capt. Adamson George Parker, Mapperley Mount, e''''
Samuel Parsons, Esq., M.D., Sackville-street, London
William Raines, Esq., the Temple, London
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J. Thomas Raworth, Esq., Leieester Park flee-
Jonathan Reckless, Esq., merchant, Nottingham = se,
James Salmond, Esq., magistrate, Mansfield WooP.olllo,
thigham, Director of the Newark and Sheffield Ilauwia,ficiflis
Frederick William Seymour, Esq., St. James's-square,,lattlegl2.
George Shelton, Esq., jun., merchant, Arnold, near - _Aireve.,
Henry Simonds, Esq., Director of the Great IVestern 1...-
John Simpson, Esq., Arnot Hill, near Nottingham
Thomas Smith, Esq., Meadow Hall, near Sheffield
William Smith, Esq., Dam House, near Sheffield COI
Henry Smyth, Esq., merchant, the Park, Nottingh
William Taylor, Esq., Ratcliffe Hall, Notts, Nottingham illeold '
William Thompson, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the ll°
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William Vickers, Esq., magistrate, Nottingham
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Thomas Wakefield, Esq., magistrate, Nottinghamnerbfl
John Ward, Esq., Wood-street, London, and Belper,
Robert Watkins, Esq., Director of the Manchester an"
Extension Railway
Edward Webster Bullock Webster, Esq., Hendon Apr
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William Webster, Esq., Oakham, Rutland plffs7
Johningall "%Verge, Esq., Woodborough Hall, Notts,
NeWark and Sheffield Railway

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Jo]. Henry Weste, Cmla, Monaghan
David Wimatcroft,nra Esq., a
Buckland Hollow, near --41fret°
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John Wild, Esq., merchant, the Park, Nottingham ,„„xj,
Henry Wilkinson, Esq., Endclitie Hall, near Slicci`
the Sheffield and Chesterfield Railway ng i 11°
John Calthrop Williams, Esq., M.D., magistrats, 'stt
Robert Wynne Williams, Esq., Bedford-place, London
Henry Willoughby, Esq., Settington House, Melton'
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. Ch.olllo
Sir George G. de Hochepied Larpent, Bart.,
lletzry Robert Fowler, Deputy-Chairin..li
Frederick Pratt Bsulow Es 4 ' Cernoll• I'Safstl•
,_ • ames Acid,
BrancT,-E - Mounts Waac „go
Edmund Francis Dayrell, .Esq. Capt. Adamson
Lieut.-Col. Elrington Samuel Parsons,
William Edmderrercao,
trESCINSL_. William Raines, rt
STANDING !11,
soma:or:3.Serg:ant Clars,
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Messrs. Birch and Bramah, Great VP;.nctieB,
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Messrs. Forbes and Drake, Warnford-co:art-
Messrs. Freeth and Rawson, Nottingham,
LOCAL AGENTS. Id OM,
Messrs. Parker and Smith, Shane- oil
C. S. Busby, Esq., Chesterfield. , .
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—MCSSIS. GregorY, .° ,• •
11, Parliament-street.
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BANKERS. fret Vt
Messrs. Robarts, Curtis, and Co., 15, Lombard-8--,:ains
Messrs. Moore and Robinson, Nottinghamshire
Nottingham. efttei4
The Sheffield and llallarnshire Banking CoMPan-T„' gpileslo„jan•
SECRETARY (pro tem.)—Mr. William sv- ,„
Offices of the Company, No. 8, Wharnford-cont` f toirostirTo
The object of this Company is to form a direct hflea:j aiTo of re
tween the large and important town of Nottinghar. es o°,.otltele
sed lin ..st
polls,' which, by means of the existing aim pcoP°- A 4aiort-- ,ef,
former place, will afford also the most direct ontyp oe,8:,
tweeze, London, Sheffield, Huddersfield, Leeds, 3tftniotleth°
land generally and Scotland, and between Lond°tonfo_relnrs'esinoloB o°litisoetti
It is not the present intention of this C•mpanY
wait L" 41.1 C oc
dent line between London and Bedford, but to o osa
ensuing session of Parliament, and to take advaut"eelye as
ttoahfkTeithpihiergeojLpaerecettoedpiusolrsaltinueres.between those places as Shall rec toP
. la
of
course
de
nroairtlilivwayarw,iitllhrtohuegrhefotrhee commenceoteet occ oce•
Ferrara, to or near Kettering and MeltoP;r3lloVbriltti:cilbel":o6/04c5,itiede.
almost a straight line to Nottingham. Its len° •4 °° pr°ror
eget.'" f the fa e e
through a thickly-populated country, and one ~e 4 o 111
of any moment to the construction, in a direct cetht-trois h vol To that
railway. A reference to the map will shove tha,-,haln',lo4B' ,sect
junction with the proposed railways north of Netiuselieid, •1" yo"P`Der
nearest route from London to Sheffield, linduffeurs of „70
north of England, and Scotland ; while, by rt-otoo•
Nottingham and Ambergate, and Manchester,
cometuqu
gate lines, it will be found to oiler a more direct cu".`" 41011
11 be
any in existence between London and Manchester,
0001, f Pri
with any one projected between those places' under sO" et'r
The promoters are already assured that the
_, inter(.„„st
1e Iti
cordially approved by the landed and other locsfo_„, :01.1; of
the sanction and active assistance of Director
..y,-„,,po);ine 04'1os
line of railway which it affects. It has the col.1,1;1, ood
habitants of the towns of Nottingham and north,
oricl tileupoo, trctr°
facturing and; commercial classes of the north,
riv,te•
_4004 4,1
ye or P low rgs
are not aware of any grounds, either Pub- , s
the sanction of Parliament can be withheld il'onietors
ten
yjolvtie4
ee
the amount of its traffic, guarantees to the Prril;ay in es t°l:cfr
turn upon the capital to be invested as any Pro
gIY re de'
will ." 001 o‘'ine r
In the allotment of shares a preference wilber 0.11
an j
locally interested in the line, and a certain
cnonnected
coieleitteset
for the shareholders in railways immediately
sent undertaking. visional _tor,
io Co.'
A prospectus, with plan and list of the I roi.n ~e
any further particulars, may be obtained fro
..Ldvor,l.fr
offices of the Company, to whom, or to '
'Sharebrokers, 53, Threadneedle-street, oPP '-
the usual form, may be made. • •