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London, England, 1845-10-17 00:00:00

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

To the Provisional Committee of the Midland Grand Junction
Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot to me shares of 231.
,ach in the Midland Grand Junction Railway, and I hereby undertake
to accept that, or any loss number that may be allotted to me, and te
pay the deposit of 21. 12s. Ed. per share thereon, and te execute the
Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required,
Name in full
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MIDLAND GRAND JUNCTION RAIL-
WAY COMPANY.
NOTlCE.—Applications for Shares WILL NOT be received after
TUESDAY NEXT, the 21st instant.
By order,
NICHOLAS J. KEMAIi, Secretary.
Palace-chambers, St. James's, Oct. 14, 1845.

John Lowe, Esq., Norfolk Crescent, Hyde-park
William Phillips Lamb, Esq., Ockham House, Sussex
Edward Augustus Lamb, Esq., Westfield, Battle, Sussex, Director of
the Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway
Darnton Luf ton, Esq , Potter Newton Hall, Mayer of Leeds, Direc-
tor of the Leeds and York, and Wakefield and Bradthrd Railways
Sir William Lowthrop, Kitt., Hull, Director of the Leeds, Hudders-
field, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Direct Railway
John Lord, Esq., Standish Hall, Lancashire, Director of the Black-
burn, Charley, Wigan, and North Union Junction Railway, and of
the Staffordshire Potteries, and Manchester and Liverpool Direet
Railway
James Lamb, Esq., Hyde Park-square, Director of the Tring,

Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
Rowland Mackenzie, Esq., Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square,
Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and Cheltenham,
Oxford, and Brighton Railways
Thomas Gibbon Moneypenny, Esq., Hole-park, Rolvenden, Kent
Major Moore, Queen Anne-street, Director .f the Brighien and Chel-
tenham Direct and the London and Nottingham Railway
James Joseph M'Swiney, Esq., Sandal View, Wakefield, Director of
the Wakefield and Harrogate Railway
J. Mee Mathew, Esq., Assistant Tithe Commissioner, Director of the
Worcestershire, Derbyshire, and Staffordshire Railway
Captain Macdougall, Fir-grove, North Brixton, Director of the Read-
ing, Guildford, and Reigate Railway
John George Norbury, Esq., Mancetter-bouse, Atherstone, Director
of the Teen and Doce Valley, and South Staffordshire Junction
Railways
Joseph Norton, Kee., Clayton West, ITreldersfield, Director of the
Huddersfield, Halifax, and Bradford Union Railway, and the
Wakefield and Harrogate Railway • 4*
George Parbury, Esq., Mansfield House, Russell-square, Director of
the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
Peppercorne, Esq , Bexhill, Sussex, Director of the West
Midland Railway
Captain Thomas Ross, SS, Porehester-terrace, Director of the Direct
Northern, Eastern, ant W,stern Junction Railway
William Raines, Esq., Temple, Director of the London and Notting-
ham Railway
James Russell, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman square, Director of
the Direct Leeds and London Railway
Frederick William Seymour, Esq., Carlton-terrace, Director of the
Lynn, IVisheacb, Peterborough, Etc., Railway
William Spooner, Esq., London, Director of the South Staffordshire
Junction Railway, and of the Liverpool, Manchester, and New-
castle-upon-Tyne Junction Railway
Henry Scott, Esq., 17, Pall-mall
S. E. Sichell, Esq., merchant, Bradford, Director of the Leeds, York,
and Midland Junction Railway
George Turner, Esq., Minton Hill, Erdington, Director of the South
Staffordshire Junction Railway
Henry Taylor, Esq., Alderman, Wigan, Director of the Manchester
and Wigan, and tho Liverpool, Pr- stop, and North Felon
Junction Railways
George Turton, Esq., Bagden Lodge, Clayton West, Huddersfield
William Tinker, Esq., Conock, Wilts, Director of the Manchester,
Southampton, rule Poole Railway
George Thomas Thompson, Esq., Dover, Coroner for the Cinque
Ports
John Thompson, Esq., Alderman of Wigan, Director of the Birkhen-
head and Holyhead Railway, of the Manchester and Wigan Rail-

way, and Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction Railway
John Taylor, Esq., Hull, Director of the Lincolnshire and Eastern
Counties Railway
James Upllll, Esq., The Green, Herefordshire, Director of the Staf-
fordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway
George Unett, Esq., The Laurels, Handsworth, Staffordshire, Direc-
tor 01 the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway, ana
Lynn. Wisbeach, and Peterborough Railway
Thomas Dolman Upflll, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Birming-
ham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway
James Vickers, Esq., Mark-lane, Director of the Jersey Pier and
Railway
Major White, Pall-mall, Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing-
stoke Railway
Walter Unett, Esq., Captain 3d Light Dragoons, Maidstone, Director
of the Nottingham and South Staffordshire, and the Lynn,
Wisbeach, and Peterborough Railways
William Royden Watts, Esq., M.D., Birmingham, Director if the
Lincoln, Louth, and Great Grimsby Railway
Thomas Wakefield, Esq., Louder,, Director of the Nottingham and
South Staffordshire Railway
Smith Whilock, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Staffordshire and
Shropshire Junction Railway
Robert William Watson, Esq., Dover
John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, near Tonbrid,ge, Director of
the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Sir William White, Director of the Stafford, Uttoxeter, and Derby
Railway
J. W. Yerbury, Esq., Belcombe-house, Wilts, Capt. 3d. Light Dra-
goons, Director of the Direct Western Railway.
Lodge Morris Murray Prior, Esq., Coventry, Director of the
Dublin, Tullatnore, and Parsonstown 'Railway
Edward Knight, Esq., M.D., Stafford, Director of the Grind Junction
and Midlands' Union Railway
William Henry Skelton, Esq., Shadwell, near Leeds
Charles William Reynolds, Esq., Captain 16th Lancers, Maidstone,
Director of the Worcester, Warwick and Rugby Railway
Thomas Bramall, Esq., Mayor of Tamworth, Deputy Chairman of
the Leicester and Tamworth Railway
Richard Hughes, Esq., Stafford, Director of the Staffordshire and
Shropshire Junction Railway
Henry Wenman Newman, Esq., Thornbury-park, near Bristol, De-
puty-Lieutenant of Gloucestersshire, and magistrate of Gloucester.,
shire and Bristol.
homas Folliott Powell, Esq., 16th Lancers, Lucitu-house, Ripon,
Yorkshire
Alexander Prince, Esq., London, Director if the Tonbridge Wells,
Hastings and Brighton Railway
Francis Ewart, Esq., Temple, Director of the Great Leeds and Lon-
don Direct, and of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Rail-
ways
Thomas Stocker, Esq., St. Ives, Director of the Wisbeach, St. Ives,
and Cambridge Railway
John Granville Dewes, Esq., Loxley, Warwickshire
George Ewing Scott, Esq., Stoke Bishop, near Bristol
Seignelay Thomas Cuthbert, Esq., Clifton
Charles Eales, Esq., Richmond-court, Clifton
David Bryan; Esq., Northampton, Director of the Liverpool, Man-
chester, and Warrington, and the Worcester and Leominster
Railway
Benjamin Swan, Esq.. Weymouth and Jermyn-street
Edmund Francis Dayrell, Esq., Lillingston Dayrell, Nigh Sheriff of
Bucks, and Director of the Minehead and Bridgewater Railway
John James Rippon, Esq., Ealing, Middlesex, Director of the Bir-
mingham, Westbromwich, Wednesbury, and Walsall Junction
Railway
Stephen Mills, Esq., Elstone-house, Wilts
Major Buttenshaw, Bath
John Ellershaw, Esq., Grove-house, Searcroft, near Leeds
Major W. James, Saltford-house, near Bath, Magistrate for Somer.
setshire
Robert Bell, Esq., Norris Castle, Isle of Wight.
Samuel I'errin, Esq., Temple Cloud, near Bristol
Captain Edward Smith, Dorset-square
Sankey Gardner, Esq., death, Director of the Vale of Neath Railway
Thomas Bolton, Esq., merchant, Hull
Robert Cottle, Esq., Basingstoke
Captain Page, Charlton-house, Somerton, Director of the South Staf-
fordshire Junction
Captain Boland, Marlborough-buildings, Bath
ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF—Francis Giles, ESQ.
ENGINEERS—Edward James Maude, Esq.; John Neville Warren, Esq.

BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Rogue, %ling, and Co. ; the Union Bank
Bristol— Stuckey 's Banking Company
Bath—West of England and South Wales District Bank
Bradford and Trowbridge—The Wilts and Dorset Banking Comm
Dover—Messrs. Latham and Co.

JOINT soucnrous.
Edwin Smith, Esq., :no MeSsrF, Lewis and Ford, London ; Edward
Surges, Esq., Bristol.

LOCAL bOLICITORS.
G. F. Thompson, Esq., Dover ; Henry Gilbert, Esq., Devizes; W.
11. Recce, Esq., Birmingham ; Messr4. Timbrell and Meyrick,
Bradford and Trowbridge • Messrs. Taylor, Kemp, and Kingston,
Bath ; Joseph Charles Shebbeare, Esq., Basingstoke ; Messrs. Hoff-
man and Son, Reading; Thomas Lamb, Esq , Andover; 2.fes rs.
J. and W. Rees Mogg, Cholwell, near Bristol
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT—Cadwallader F. Faddy, Esq.
SEQRETARY—CharIes Martin, Esq.
This Company has been formed for the purpose of constructing a
line in continuation of the South-Eastern Railway at Reigate,
whereby a direct junction will be edected between the whole of the
south-eastern coast, including the port and harbour of Dover and the
several ports mid towns of Southampton, Gosport, Portsmouth, and
Bristol; and, by means of the Bristol and Birmingham Railway, with
Gloucester, Worcester, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, and
the north of England.
From its proximity to the Continent, the port of Dover will always
be the most accessible point of the English coast ; an expeditious
communication therefore between that and the other ports, harbours,
and inland towns of the United Kingdom, must necessarily lse regarded
as a great national advantage.
Dover is at present the chief port of embarkation for Calais,
Boulogne, Ostend, and other continental towns, and the vast numbers
already resorting there both on business and pleasure, will be im-
measurably increased when the • railways of France, Belgium, Hol-
land, and Germany are fully brought into operation.
In addition to which, the Government Commissioners having
selected Dover as a Harbour of Refuge, and recommended the outlay
titer. of 1,500,0001., it cannot fail of becoming a place of the
greatest resort for the shipping and commercial interests of the coun-
try, aal perhaps the most important town on the southern coast.
In every point of view, therefore, whether for national security, or
for travelling excursions, or the invaluable interests of our shipping
and commerce, the paramount importance of a cheap :r, more conve-
nient, and accelerated intercourse between tnis great port and all
parts of the kingdom, must be sufficiently obvious. This the pro-
moters fully anticipate will be attained by the proposed railway,
which will form a portion of a grand trunk line, completing ti•:e
chain of railway communication Loon the narrow gauge between the
south-e- stern coast, and Bristol anti the western, northern, and mid-
land counties.

The lice will commence at the terminus of the South-Eastern Rail-
way at Reigate, proceed thence by Dorkins, Godalming, Farnham,
and Odiham to the Basingstoke station, on the South-Western Rail-
way. It will then proceed by Andover towards Devizes, Trow-
bridge, and Bradford, with a branch to Bath, anti pursuing its course
through the Somersctshire coal-field, throwing off a branch towards
Itasistoek into the heart of the collieries, terminate in ajunction with
the Bristol and Birmingham Ra!bray at Bristol.
By its course through Dorking, Godahning, Fesnham, and OSll-
ham, It will supply the railway accommodation so much required by
those towns, and connect the rich and fertile hop districts of Surrey,
Kent, and South Hants, and afford the means of conveyance of their
produce to the great Hop-fair it t lYtyhill.
By its junction with the contemplated " Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate Railway," it will afford to the Inhabitante of Reading, Oxford,
and to the midland counties generally, the best and shortest route to
the Continent, as well as to Worthing, Hastings, Brighton, and the
other watering-places in gusset, and Kent ; and a vast increase of
visitors will undoubtedly be attracted to those places from the interior
of England by the accommodation and facilities Mr travelling which
will be accomplished by Cs is and the proposed railway from Reading.
and
By Its Intersection of the South-11 Railway at Basingstoke,
of the proposed Blanchester and Southampton Railway
farther
west, the present line Will connect Dover towards the south, with
Southampton (the packet station for the East and West Indies, &c.),
Gosport, and Fortsmouth, and towards the north, with Cheltenham,
Gloucester, Worcester, Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool, also
with Shrewsbury, Chester, and Holyhead, and Infect with the whole
of North and South Wales.
At Basingstoke, also, this lino will join the proposed London, Salis-
bury, and renTll Railway, and throw open to Dover and the south-
eastern counties the populous and wealthy cities of Salisbury and
Exeter, the rich agricultural ettentles of Wilts, Dorset, Somerset,
and
the mineral gier,s of Cornwall.,
of bridge, Bradford, and Bath, and the other towns
in the vicinity Dl' i course, the bettent Which this line will confer
carrot Sc too highly estimated; to the -coal districts of Somerset-
shire It will open large and constant markets both in Bristol and to
the eolith and east, while to the inhabitants of Bristol especially, cou-
nesting its channel with the Straits of Dover and the Downs, pro-
viding a perfect line for telegraphic communication, and securing to
them the whole of the trade between tits south-east of England and
the West and south of Ireland, it seems difficult, considering the enor-
mous traffic which must necessarily flew to that city, to conceive a
Project mere deserving of their cordial support.
n the memorable Parliantentary contest last session between two
great riv comanies, the Legislattrre fur first time admitted
ela!mthat princip'e of competition wills existing kinterests which was
ed by the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Company for
tts protection ndbenefit of the public ; and it is with no fear of
the rcsuit that the promoters of the present undertaking invite
attention to Otte distinguishing' feature it contains, viz., that by the
construction of the line from Bristol t 7, Basingstoke, the Box Tunnel
coil be avoided, and a new and independent communication will be
established between Bristol and London, by a shorter line ott the
narrow gauge than by the devious course of the Great Western, inde-
pendently of all the advantages of the proposed central station at
Hungerford-bridge, and the. convenient access to the Thames both
there and at Nine Elms, over the distant and inconvenient station
of the Great Western at Paddington,
, In length the proposed lino will be nearly 110 miles (assuming this
Company to have the construction of tbat portion between Regate
and Dorking, for which plans have been deposited by the South-
Eastern Company)--the country through which it passes does not
present any engineering difficulties of moment, nor will any resi-
dential or ornamental property be interfered with except nude an
inoperative necessity.
A reserve of shares will be male for lan.lowners on the line, and
inpa
17d50, 0,100 allotment. shares o f
the Committee also retain to themselves the power to vary the course
of the line with reference to any arrangements with existing interests
at 4/. per cent.
and projected lines that may be considered advantageous to the
shareholders.
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allowisb areetoii)
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20/. each,
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01 ilevecra capital it
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shall he answerable fb -
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the line, and no subscriber
per annum, upon all deposits and subscriptions until the Oman e
subscription.
beyond the amount of his _
viler_ .
amount of his deposit until the Act has been obtained, and then not
proposed
deposit
sed
b tyo o the I es2elr.a Act2l: e.
The Subscribers' Agreement and the r. , —enters Contract will
be ready for execution, and the scrip iSn'ssi Immediately um pay-
ment of the deposits.
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O. 12, Gray's Inn-p ,lace , only , but no appli-
cation Applications for shares rms-st be addressed to the Secretary, at the
Offices of the Company,
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cation will be atter
aed to unless accompanied by a reference to a
member of the --
rovisional Committee, one of the solicitors to the
Company, 'sr a banker.
CoPiSss of the prospectus and fbrm of application for shares may be
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obt.oned at the offices of the Company, or of Messrs. Peppercorn
!dread-street ; Mr. Sym, 9. Isoketthouse-yard ; and Mr. B. B. Wil-
liams, Throgmerton-street, Stock and sharebrokers, London.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Dover and Bristol Railway.Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 201. each
In this Company, ani I agree to accept the same, or any smaller
number which may be allotted to me, to pay the deposit thereon,
and execute the
when required.
Duted thls ' T Arliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement
1845,

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