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George Lawton, Esq., Ditchleys, Essex, Director of the Chepstow
Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway
Moses Edward Legg, Esq., \Vatting-street, London
Captain Henry Leech, Bedford
Charles Denton Leech, Esq., Bury St. Edmund's
William Ley, Esq., 40, Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director
of the Reading and Reigate Railway
L. Stephens Lyne, Esq., Broad-street, Director of the Western
Jamaica Railway
P. Bennett Lucas, Esq., Director of the Sligo and Shannon, the
Ipswich and Southampton, and the Cork Passage and Kinsale
Railways
James Lamb, Esq., 25, Hyde Park square, Director of the Scot-
tish Western and the Direct Western Railways.
John Lart, Esq., Wood-street, Cheapside
James Leeming, Esq., Bradford, Director of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct, and Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junc.
tion Railway
Samuel Lovell, Esq., Merchant, Bedford
Capt. J. Macdougall, Fir Grove, North Brixton, Director of
the Leeds, Fleetwood, and Liverpool, and Isle of Man Railways
John B. Mann, Esq., Leeds
Thomas Hackett Massey, Esq., Newark-upon-Trent, and Bedford •
square, Hyde-park
Thomas M`Turk, Esq., Hull
William Mee, Esq., East Retferd
W. R. Mesham, Esq , M.D., Bedford
Robert blellington, Esq., Ordsall.house, near East Retford, Director
of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
William Moorhouse, Esq., Marine Villa, Knottinglcy, a Provisional
Director of the Sheffield, Barnsley, and Wakefield Railway
Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of South and Midlands Junction,
and London and Birmingham Extension Railways
James bluscroft, Esq., Pontefract, Magistrate for the Borough, a
Provisional Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension
and Chester Junction Railway
George Mackintosh, Esq., Upper Seymour-street, Portman.square
John Manwaring, Esq., Pateley.bridge, Yorkshire, Director of the
York and Laricaster Railway
Lord Massey, Esq., Hawks.house, Burnley, Director of the Liver-
pool and Leeds Direct, the Blackburn, Chorley, and Liverpool,
and Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railways
Thomas Micklethwaite, Esq., Wakefield
Charles Middleton, Esq., Nottingham-park
Joseph Nadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and
Southampton, and the Leeds and Carlisle Railways
William Joseph Nash, Esq., Bedford
John Norton, Esq., 1, St. George's-square, Westminster, and
Moat-house, Brentwood, Director of the Great Western Direct
Railway, &c.
Robert Newland, Esq., Kempston-house, Bedfordshire
Thomas North, Esq., Mayor of Nottingham
Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq , Director of the Trent Valley Continu-
ation and Holyhead Junction, and West Midland and South
Midland and Oxford Extension Railways
John Ostler, Esq., Director of the Hull and Barnsley, and Leeds
and Carlisle Railways
Robert Oxley, Esq., M.D , Pontefract
George Osgood, Esq., Raymond-buildings, Gray's Inn
Charles Frederick Palgrave, Esq., Bedford
' Bennett Pell, Esq., 12, Finsbury-place, North
William Perfect, Esq., Monkhill, near Pontefract
John Phillips, Esq., Mayor of Pontefract
George Parbury, Esq., Mansfield-house, Russell-square
William Patterson, Esq., Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire
Robert Power, Esq., Director of the Great Britain Life Assurance
Society
Thomas Ingham Raynor, Esq., Birstal, Leeds, Director of the
Leeds and West Riding Junction, and the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railways
John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bir-
mingham Direct, Leicester, Iron and Dove Valley Railways
Edward Rawlins, Esq., Bedford
Robert Richards, Esq., Director of the West Midland Railway
John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Bycullah-house, Enfield, Managing
Dirictor of the York and Lancaster Railway
James Robson, Esq., Tanshelf, Megistrate for the borough of
Pontefract
Frederick Redden, Esq., Bedford
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester,
and Weymouth Junction, the Tring, Reading, and Basings toke
and the Direct Western Railways
George Robinson, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley
Junction, and of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railways
John Richardson, Esq., Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate,
the "last and West Yorkshire, and the Midland and Thirsk
Junction Railways
Thomas Routlidge, Esq., Alderman, Pontefract
James Russell, Esq., Gloucesler.place, Portman.square, Director of
the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton, of the Tring
Reading, and Basingstoke Railways
Edward Sankey, Esq., Canterbury
Henry Savage, Esq., Director of the Irving, Reading, and Basing-
stoke Railway;
Benjamin Shaw, Esq., Kilburn Priory, Director of the Churnet
and Blythe Valleys Railways
J. E.l Sicbel, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct,
and of the Leeds, York, and Midland Railways
William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Direc-
tor of the South Midland Junction Railway, &c. &c.
George Walker Smith, Esq., Horbury-hall, Sheffield, Director of
the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Smith, Esq., bI.D., 30, North-street; Leeds, Director of the
Leeds and York, and Liverpool and Leeds Railways
Joseph Smithson, Esq Kirklees-mill, near Halifax
John Sanders, Esq., Bedford
J. W. Scriven, Esq., Throstlenest, near Otley, Director of the
Leeds, York, and Midland Junction Railway
Richard Shaw, Esq., Tulledge, near Burnley, Director of the
Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railway
Jamee Henry Simpson, Esq., M. 8., Pontefract
Joshua Annable Skidmore, Esq , St. John's.place, Wakefield
William Starkey, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Sheffield,
Wortley, Silkstone, and Wakefield, and the Leeds and York
Railways
William Stewart, Esq., Horbury, near Wakefield
George Eaton Stanger, Esq., Nottingham.
Samuel Herrick Surplice, Esq., Beeston Notts
John Streets, Esq.,
.Merchant, Spring Field House, Sandiacre,
Derbyshire
William Surplice, Esq., Nottingham
Samuel James Sykes, Esq., Hull
James Templer Esq , Brixton Rise, Director of the Derby, Uttox-
eter, and Stafford Railway
Thomas S. Trapp, Esq., Banker, Bedford
John Best Trapp, Esq. Bedford
Samuel Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street and Gorbals, Hull,
Director of the Derby and Stafford Railway
Thomas Turney, Esq., Park-lodge, near Halifax
William Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street, and Corbels. Hull
Joseph Francis Tempest, Esq., F. S. A , the Mount, Ackworth
Charles Vickers, Esq., Pontefract, Director of the Manchester,
Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Railway
William Watson, Esq., Daybtook, Nottinghamshire, Director of
Ambergate, Nottingham and Boston, and Eastern Junction
Railway
Samuel Warburton, Esq., Hunslet, Leeds, Director of the Wake-
field and Harrogate Railway
The Rev. R'c'iard Whitelock, bL A., Saddleworth, Magistrate for
the West Riding of (Yorkshire and County Palatine of Durham
Joseph Whitaker, Esq . Ramsdale, Nottinghamshire
William White, E sq., Bedford
John Williams, Esq., M.D., Magistrate for Yorkshire, Director of
the York, Hull, and East and West Riding Junction Railway
Abraham Wood, Esq., Rochdale, F.rt.C.S.
Joseph Wyles, Esq., Grantham, Director of the Ambergate,
Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland Hollow, Derbyshire, Director
of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, and Direct Birmingham
and Leicester Railways
William Williams, Esq., Royal Foundry, Bedford
Charles Waite, Esq., Willesden-house, Middlesex
John Wheelton, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Willett, Esq., Bradford
The Rev. H. Burdett Worthington, Bedford
G. N. Wright, M.A., Coed y Celyn, Denbighshire, and Lons.
dale.square, London, Director of the Thames Valley Railway
George Yates, Esq., merchant, Halifax
( With power to add to their number).
CONSULTING ENGINEER—Sir John Macneill, L.L.D, and F.R.S.
ACTING ENGINEER—WiIIiam Mullingar Higgins, Esq., C.E.
LONDON SOLICITORS.
J. R. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-court
Owen Gray, Esq., and J. B. Illidge, Esq., 25, Great Tower-street.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.

Leeds—Charles Naylor, Esq.
Pontefract—Henry John Coleman, Esq.
Rotherham—John Oxley, Esq., and John Wright Potter, Esq,
East Retford—Messrs. Mee, Rigsby. and Mee.
Nottingham—Messrs. Fox and Butlin
Oakham—Henry Hough, Esq.
Kettering—Thomas Marshall, Esq.
Bedford—Ezra Eagles, Esq.

BANKERS.

London—Messrs. Rogers, Olding and Co.
Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Company
Doncaster and Pontefract—The Yorkshire Banking Company.

The object of this railway is to connect, in the most direct
course, the important and increasing manufacturing town of Leeds
with the metropolis, the want of which has long been felt, and is
too universally acknowledged to need any comment, and it is under
thistt. conviction that this important undertaking, after several
muter eaxnaamiLneedatios,ns of the country through which it will pass,
has been brought forward.
The Proposed line will commence at the junction of the Man.
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and York and North Midland Railways, near
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the existing railways, will
pensive trunk line, from London to Leeds, York, at,d Hull. It
will pass in its route within an available distance of Wakefield,
Nottingham,
Pontefract, Doncaster, Rotishteorwhatmra,y,Eao:ktham,foarndci.
Newark, Grantham, Melton
The importance of such a line is obvious, both from the nature
of its course (embracing, as it does, a most extensive population
within its limits) as also from the absence of any direct commu
cation for the conveyance of passengers and merchandise.
By the construction of this railway, railway communication to
London will be given to Peterborough and Leicester (by means of
the Syston and Peterborough Railway), to Newark and Nottingham
(by the Nottingham and Lincoln line), and to Sheffield and Gains-
borough (by the Sheffield and Gainsborough line), by a much
shorter route than by any existing
railways.
Independently of the advantages offered to the towns in the
several, counties through which this line will pass, the line in
itself considered as a direct trunk line between London and Leeds
is suficient to justify its formation, it being well known that the
exiting traffic between these two places would produce such a
reaurn on the capital required, as to admit of a dividend, equal to
that of any railway in operation; but when it is borne in mind
that a company is being formed for the purpose of connecting
Glasgow with Leeds by means of a junction with the York and
Carlisle Railway, no better line can be presented to the public,
as it will not only effect a direct communication from Glasgow and
the western parts of Scotland to London, but would also connect
Edinburgh and the eastern parts of Scotland as well as Durham
and Newcastle (by the York and North Midland, and Great North
of England Railways) with the metropolis, which would be con-
siderably shorter than the accommodation offered by any other
company, and when cost of construction is considered, there cannot
be a doubt but that preference would be given to the Great Leeds
and London Direct Railway

The fact of the Eastern Counties Railway being connected by a
branch line with the East and 'West India Docks on the River
Thames, and the Railway Company having recently leased for 990
years the extensive pepgcr warehouses belonging to these Docks,
which arecapable 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 offered by the Great Leeds and Lon-
don Direct Railway, and, by branch railways to the main trunk
line, through which sll goods from the whole of thernanufacturing
districts could be conveyed at once to these warehouses for ship-
ment, thereby avo:ding the present delay and expense of cartage,
and in reality establishing an almost direct end an invaluable con-
nexion between the rivers Clyde and Thames.
It has been ascertained that there artno engineering difficulties,
that the works will be easy, and the gradients remarkably good,
and that it will not materially interfere with any ornamental pro.
perty.

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 subscription.
It is proposed to take power in the Bill to allow interest at 4 per
cent. per annura 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.
BROILERS.
Landon—Messrs. Marten and Ileseltine, 9, Finch-lane
Leeds—Meeari, Heppe an 4 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.

THE DIRECT WEST-END AND CROYDON
RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 800,0001., is 40,000 Shares of 20/. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Sir -lame% Anderson, M. R. I. A., New Burlington-street ; Director
of the Hereford and Merthr Tydvil Railway
Lieut.-General Sir R. Barton, K.C.8., 2 Montagu-place, Montagu-
square, Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
Major Beresford, M.P., 77, Pall-mall ; Chairman of the Leeds and
Carlisle, and Director of the Tean and Dove Valley, and West
Midb-.nd, Manchester, and Southampton Railways
Charles It. ?liege, Esq., 10, Bryanston-square; Director of the Great
Grimsby, Lentil, Horncastle, Lincoln, and al idlandJunction Railway
William Bland, Esq., Brixton ; Director of the North Wales, and
Richmond and West-end Junction Railways
William Blanchard, Esq., York ; Chairman of the Liberty of Ripon
Quarter Sessions, and Director of the York, Hull, and East and
West Yorkshire Junction Railway
Willi un Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield ; Chairman of the Isle
of Ely ltilway, and Director of the Manchester and Sheffield
Railway
Alfred Brodie, Esq., Upper Montagu-street, Montagu-square Direc-
tor of the Grand Trnnk Railway
Thomas Byrom, Esq., Wigan ; Director of the Leeds and Liverpool
Direct, and Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction Railways
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Westbourne House, Sheffield, Director of the
Direct Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
William Caldwell, Esq., ince Hall, near Wigan, Lancashire ; Direc-
tor of the Manchester, Derby, and Rugby, and Leeds and Liver-
pool Direct Railways
John Castendieck, Esq., Lewisham, Kent
John Chauntler, Esq., Friday-sleet, London ; Director of the
Chelmsford and Bury, and York and Lancaster Railways
Thomas Challis, Esq., Alderman of London; Director of the Direct
Western Railway
Richard Clark, Esq., Farnham, Hants
George Clive, Esq., Sanderstead, near Croydon
Benjamin Collett, Esq., Manor House, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire;
Director of the London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kiddermin-
ster; and Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railways
Nathaniel Cooke, Esq., Bayswater ; Director of the Ambergate,
Nottingham, Roston, and Eastern Junction Railway
Millis Coventry, Esq., White Hart-court, Lombard-street ; Director
of the Birmingham Extension and Great Leeds and London
Direct Railways
Charles R. Dodd, Esq., North Brixton
Lieutenant-Colonel Lothian Dickson, Curzon-street, May-fair; Direc-
tor of the Reading and Reigate Junction Railway
Miles Dormer, Esq., Hans-place, Sloane-street ; Director of the
Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway
Colonel Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, United Service Club;
Director of the London and Birmingham Extension Railway
Daniel Ebbetts, Esq., Mincing-lane. ; Director of the Direct Western
Railway
Francis Ewart, Esq., Brick-court, Temple ; Director of the Great
Leeds and London Direct, and of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey-
mouth Railway
Thomas Farneomb, Esq., Alderman of the City of London ; Director
of the London and Westminster Bank, and Director of the London
Warwick, Leamington, and Kidderminster Railway
Edmund Aldarn Fawcett, Esq., London, Derby, and Nottingham
Robert Fisher, Esq., Highbury Park, Director of the Trent Valley
Continuation Railway
The Rev. IL R. Fowler, Manchester-square ; Director of the Direct
Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
Henry Glynn, Esq , Temple
F. W. Hamilton, Esq., 59, Gloucester-place, Portman-square; Di-
rector of the York and Lancaster Railway
C. J. Rogers Harrison, Esq., Upper Montagu-street, Montagu-square ;
Director of the Grand Trunk Railway
George R. Harrison, Esq., Harlingford-place, Kennington ; Director
of the Grand Trunk Railway
William Hay, Esq., 19, Clifford-street, Bond-street.
Josiah Neale, Esq., Gray's Inn-square ; Director of the Chelmsford
and Bury Railway
Lawrence Heyworth, Esq., Yew Tree, Liverpool
A. W. Hillary, Esq., 66, Cadogan-place ; Director of the Direct Exe-
ter Railway
John Holfonl, Esq., Rusholm-hall, Manchester ; Director of the York
and Lancaster Railway
John Holmes, Esq., 88, St. James's-street ; Director of the York and
Lancaster, and Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railways
William Bulkelcy Hughes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid-
land, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
W. Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., Alderman of London,
Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, and
London and Greenwich Railways
John Kynnersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London ; Director of
the London and Manchester Direct Railway
Herbert Ingram, Esq., 128, Strand, and Swineshead Abbey, Lincoln-
shire ; Director of the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, and
Eastern Junction Railway
Slegerich C. Kreeft, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and
Weymouth Junction Coast Railway
Richard Keily, Esq., 6, Cleveland-row; Chairman of the New Ross,
Carlow, and Kilkenny, and Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln
Extension Railways
Sir J. Key, Bart., Alderman of London ; Director of the London and
Manchester Direct Railway
William Lawrence, Esq., Brixton ; Director of the London and Man-
chester and Direct Western Railways
William Alexander Long, jun., Esq., Kingswood House, Wootton-
under-Edge ; Director of the Erewash Valley Extension Railway
William Margetson, Esq., Streatham-hill, Brixton
J. Mee Mathew, Esq., 4, Gray's Inn-square; Director of the Direct
Western Railway
Thomas Morris, Esq., Fairhurst Hall, near Wigan ; Director of the
Blackburn, Chorley, and Liverpool, and Leeds and Liverpool
Direct Railways
James Morrison, Esq;, Director of the Chepstow and Forest of Dean
and Rhondda and Ely Valleys Junction Railway
Horatio Nelson, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey-
mouth Railway
G. Parbury, Esq., Russell-square; Director of the Manchester and
Birmingham Railway
W. Simpson Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens ; Director of the Grand
Trunk, the Oxford and Whitey, and Reading and Reigate Junction
Railways
Samuel I'. Taft, Esq., F.R.S., Bath, and 55, Lincoln's-inn-fields ;
Director of the Kennet and Avon Canal Company, and York and
Lancaster Railway
George Richard Pye, Esq., Lavenham, Suffolk
Sir George Rich, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square ; Director of the
Metropolitan Railways Junction Company, and of the London,
Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway
John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Bycullah House, Enfield, Middlesex ;
Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
R. A. Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanston-street, Portman-square ; Director
of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and Oxford and Worcester
Extension Railways
James Reid, Esq. Director of the Metropolitan Railways Junction
Compacy
A. Macdonald Ritchie, Esq., Middle Temple, London; Director of
the Great Western Extension Atmospheric Railway
Richard Rowe, Esq., Beanfoy-terrace, Maida Vale
H. Savage, Esq., Dorset-place, Dorset-square ; Director of the West
Midland, Manchester, and Southampton Railway
William Stud'ey, Esq., Alfred-place, Brixton ; Director of the Great
Grimsby, Louth, Horncastle, Lincoln, and Midland Junction
Railways
Timothy Steward, Esq., Ileigham Lodge, near Norwich
Edward H. 0. Scott, Esq., Hoc Garden House, Plymmith; Director
of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway
Henry Taylor, Esq , Wigan ; Director of the Leeds and Liverpool
Direct, Manchester and Wigan, and Liverpool, Preston, and North
Union Railways
James Templer, Esq., Brixton-rise, Director of the Great Leeds and
London, and Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford Railways
Joseph Underwood, Esq., The Hall, Blackheath Park ; Director of
the Direct London and Manchester, and Leeds and Liverpool Direct
Railways
Robert Watkins, Esq., 45, Lower Brook-street, Grosvenor-square ;
Director of the Oxford, Southampton, and Gosport, and Liverpool
and Derby Railways
Sir Ilenry Webb, Bart., 105, Pall-mall, London ; Director of the
York and Lancaster, and Direct Western Railways
Sir Thomas Woollaston White, Bart., Walling Wells, Nottingham
Thomas Williams, Esq., Belgrave-street, Belg,rave-square
Sir William Wynn. Maesynewadd, and Suffolk-place, Pall-mall ;
Chairman of the North Wales, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
James M.`Miller, Esq., Southampton
Lewis Pocock, Esq., F.S.A., Montagu-square, Director of the South-
ampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction and Brighton andChel-
tenham Direct Railways
James Meaburn, Esq., Grove-hill, Camberwell
John Byng Banks, Esq., Lansdown-road, Stockwell, Director of the
Great Leeds and London Direct Railway
Sir William Magnay, Bart., Alderman of London, Director of the
Great Grimsby, Louth, Horncastle, Lincoln and Midland Junction,
and Leicester and Tamworth Railways
IV. S. Wilson, Esq., Norwich, Director of the Leeda and Carlisle, and
Maryport and Carlisle Railways
William Carr, Esq., Blackheath-park
George Gamble, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Nottingham and
Gainsborough Railway
Francis Gamble, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Nottingham
and Gainsborough Railway
Colonel Elrington, Scots Fusilier Guards, Wyndham-place, Bryan-
ston-square, Director of the London and Manchester, and Liverpool
and Leeds Direct Railway
John Jameson, Esq., St. George's-road, Brixton, Director of the
Great Leeds and London Direct, and of the: Cumberland Union
Railways

(With power to add to their number.)
BANICERS.—The Commercial Bank of London.
CONSULTING ENGINEER.
Sir John Macneil, L.L.D., 1.R.5., M.1.C.E.,
ACTING ENGINEERS.
Messrs. R. RYA T. ilopkins,M.l.C.E.; Messrs.Gough and Roumien, C .E
SURVEYORS.—Messrs. Shuttleworth and SOUL
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Chauntler and Westwood, 8, Gray's Inn-square.
SECRETARY—J. L. Cotton, Esq.

The principal objects of the scheme are—lst. To remedy the evils
of delay and inconvenience to which parties arc, at the present time,
necessarily subjected in proceeding from the west end of the metro-
polis to Croydon, or the most distant places on the South-Eastern
and London and Brighton Railways, as well as the several sea ports
and packet-stations on the coasts of Kent and Sussex; and 2d. To
supply to the numerous and wealthy inhabitants of the district
through which the intended line will pass (at present wholly with-
out railway accommodation), a greatly improved means for the in-
terchange of conununicatioa with the metropolis, and with each other.

Commencing at the intended terminus of the South-Western Rail-
way, at Hungerford or Waterloo-bridge, the line will take the most
practicable route to Kennington, from thence it will follow as near as
possible the old turnpike road, passing through or near to the
wealthy and populous districts of Stockwell, Clapham, Brixton,
Tulle-hill, Streatham, Norwood, Beulah, and Thornton-heath, effect-
ing a junction at Croydon with the several existing or projected
lines from that place. . . _

It is also proposed to form a branch or branches from the neigh-
bourhood of Streatham to Mitcham and Tooting, and thus to extend
to those places, and their respective neighbourhoods, the advantages
of a direct railway communication with the metropolis.
A great portion of the traffic in passengers and goods upon the
Brighton and Dover lines is supplied from the west-end of London
and the Birmingham and Great Western Railways. The necessity
of proceeding to the station at London-bridge, and by the present
circuitous route to Croydon, is a serious and unnecessary inconveni-
ence, entailing additional expense and delay. The removal of this
long-felt grievance is a leading object with the promoters of the pre-
sent undertaking. They deem it right, however, to observe, In lay-
ing this scheme before the public, that they have no desire to inter-
fere with existing railway interests, further than is absolutely indis-
pensable, but that on the other hand it will be their object to yield
assistance to, and in return endeavour to secure it, from each com-
pany with which this line may ultimately be connected.
A glance at the map will show, that as a branch or arm of the
r London and Brighton Railway, this undertaking completes a straight
;tile of communication from the west end of London to Croydon,
t w'a gsteoaytdaozo3unt tteohfatatraffiTematti the
etgate, and Brighton, and renders the ports of Dover and Folke-.
stone, as well as the several places on the South-Eastern line, more
easilyrl accessible from that part of the metropolis.
rtahveeraoaatdsoat-
that the existing railway facilities &c.,
all meet the exigencies
do not at •
Preseanntd
of the mass of population to tLimonednornp
whom this line will be available.
The population who reside upon orimmediateneighbour-
hood
of the proposed line, independent li
nt of the the
he metropolis,
and between
the intended termini, exceeds 100, 000, whose wants are almost
wholly supplied from the London markets, &c., and who have, at
the present time, no mode of conveyance but upon the turnpike
road. In the transit of building materials, corn, coal, lime, and
other heavy goods, from the warehouses and wharfs on the banks of
the Thames, and for marketable produce in each direction, this line
must become to them particularly useful and contt
Some idea may be formed of the local necessity of railway
when it is known that the number of passengers whyo avail themselves
of the accommodation afforded by the several omnibuses and other
public vehicles, running upon the turnpike-road, have been ascer-
tained to exceed 2,600 daily. An equal number (at least) proceed
passengers,
by private and other conveyances. Of foot
no accurate estimate .can be formed of them, it is considered that
they at least number four times that of passengers who travel by con-
veyance. The tonnage of goods it is calculated will be in full
pro-
portion to the receipt from passengers.
that on however Experience has fully proved, liberal a scale the
probability of future traffic in the transit of goods and
passengers has
been judged, almost every line of railway has, upon its completion,
calculated amount. There
vastly exceeded the are, however, M this
instance, reasons for supposing that the extended facilities of com-
munication will cause more than an ordinary increase in the con-
veyancecountry which the line of railway will
of passengers. The
beautiful,and in addition w•-•
open is singularly picturesque and
admired districts of Brixton and Streatham, the long-favoured and
much-freauented Beulah and Norwood ),),111 be placed within easy
access, and become more than ever, objects of interest and delight
to the visitor and resident of the metropolis.
There can therefore be little doubt but that the present line must
become a profitable and eligible scheme for the investment of capital.
The promoters of this undertaking have pleasure in announcing
that it is approved of, and will be generally supported by local in-
fluence. They have caused a partial survey to be made, which will
be completed shortly, and they have the assurance of their engineers
that there are not more than ordinary difficulties to contend with.
The liability of the shareholders will be restricted, by Act of Parlia-
ment, to the amount of their subscriptions; and power will be applied
for in the Bill to allow interest at 4/. per cent. per annum on all calls
from the passing of the Act until the opening of the line.
Applications for further information, prospectuses, and shares (in
the form annexed), may he addressed to the Solicitors; to the Secre-
tary, at the offices of the Company, No. 34, Gracechurch-street; or
to the following Brokers :—viz., Messrs. B. and M. Boyd, Princes-
street ; Mr. H. J. Williams, 80, Old Broad-street ; Messrs. Greystone
and Earle, York; Mr. Anthony Laurie, Liverpool; Messrs. Cardwell
and Co., and Mr. Henry Benton, Manchester ; Mr. James Pearson,
Birmingham; Item's. Watson and Co., Leeds; Messrs. Brady and