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AS OCTOBER 4, 1845.

LAENAVON IRON and COAL COMPANY.
_ 'I. Notice is hereby given, that, in pursuance of a resolution
passed this day by the Board of Directors, a DIVIDEND of 20s.
per share upon the old shares of this Company will be paid on and
after the sth of November next, on account of the profits of the pre-
sent year. By order of the Board,
JAMES BOOTH, Secretary.
Offices 4 Pancras-lane, Oct. 3, 1845.

N.8.--:The Transfer-books will be closed from the 10th instant to
the sth November.

TO SURVEYORS.
PERSONS competent to undertake either large
or small portions of a RAILWAY SURVEY will.meet with
very liberal terms upon producing proper testimonials, and applying,
either personally or by letter, to Edward James Maude, Esq., C.E.,
37, Upper Temple-street, Birmingham.

?TO THE EMBARRASSED.-IMPORTANT.
—There are thousands of persons who have struggled long
against the force of misfortune, but few are aware that by a very
recent act all small traders owing debts not exceeding 3001., farmers,
and all others owing to any amount, can be entirely raised trom
their difficulties at small expense, and without imprisonment or bank-
ruptcy. All such Mr. Weston begs will apply to him f i Moira
Chambers, 17, Ironmonger-lane, Cheapside, by letter or personally.

WEST OF SCOTLAND EXCHANGE IN-
VESTMENT COMPANY.
To Merchants, Brokers, or Persons of Talent and Experience con-
nected with the Money and Share Market, and possessing general
knowledge of mercantile business,
The lucrative appointment of MANAGER of the above Company
is open for a Gentleman who combines the above requisites, and
may be found fully qualified to till so responsible a situation. All
applications will be considered as strictly confidential.
Applications, with references, either personally or in writing, to
be made to Robert Mutrie, Esq., 93, Watling-street, London ; or
George Bowman Leech, Esq., Interim Secretary, 133, St. Vincent-
street, Glasgow.

CIRCULAR NOTES AND LETTERS OF CREDIT.
nIIHE LONDON and WESTMINSTER BANK
ISSUES CIRCULAR NOTES, for the use of Travellers and
Residents ( n the Continent. These Notes are payable at every
luiportant place in Europe, and thus enable a traveller to vary his
route without inconvenience ; no expense is Incurred except the price
of the stamp, and when cashed no charge is made for commission.
For the convenience of the public, these notes may be obtained
either at the Head Office of the London and Westminster Bank, in
Lothbury, or at the Branches of the Bank, viz.
I, St. James's-square I 4, Stratford-place, Oxford-stree
213, Nigh Holborn I 3, Wellington-street, Borough
87, High-street, Whitechapel,
By order of the Board,
JAMES WILMA.

GILBART, General Manager.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,
26, CORNHILL, LONDON.
Capital X 500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
This institution offers important and substantial advan-
'ages with respect both to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities.
The assured has, on all occasions, the power to bornw, without ex-
pense or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium paid,
(see table); also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion
of his interests to meet other conveniences or necessity. Assurances
for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates.
DIVISION OF PROFIT:.
The success and increasing prosperity of the Soc...ety has enabled
:he Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a third
Bonus, varying from 30 to 75 per cent. on the premiums paid on
each Policy effected on the Profit scale.
EXAMPLES.

14INCOLN, LOUTH, and GREAT GRIMSBY
RAILWAY.
(Registered Provisionally.)
NOTICE.—This Company will hereafter be announced under tie
name of the GREAT GRIMSBY, LOUTH, HORNCASTLE, LIN-
COLN, and MIDLAND JUCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.
By order,
THOS. COXREAD, Secretary.

OUTHAMPTON and GREAT WESTERN
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Capital, 750,000/., in Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s.
Negotiations now pending with the Great Western and South-
Western Companies have occasioned delay in publishing the names of
the Provisional Committee of this line. These, with an enlarged
prospectus, will appear in a few days. In the meantime, application
for shares may be addressed as before, to the Solicitor, Wm. Bevan,
Esq., 6, Old Jewry, London, and Messrs. Sharp and Harris,n,
Southampton.

RUGBY, DERBY, and MANCHESTER
RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and Bth Vic., c. 110.)
Capital, 1,500,000/., in 60,000 shares of 25/. each.
Deosit, 12. Gd. r sha.
(In order to insure complpiance2/. with the standing orders both of the
Lords and Commons.)

PROVISIONAL COMMITTE.
Lord George Paget, Uxbridge. house, Lo don E
Sir William Young, Bart., IV,stbourne-terrace, Hyde-park, a Director
of the East India Company
Sir James Carmichael, Bart., 40, Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, D 4
rector of the Reading and Reigate Railway Company
Sir William Boothby, Bart., Ashbourne-hall, Ashbourne
Sir Robert Wilmot, Bart., Onnaston-hall, Derbyshire
Sir William Lowthrop, Hart., Alga-house, Scarborough, Chairman ol
the Hull and Barnsley Railway Company
Sir John Hensler, Deputy-Lieutenant of Essex
The Mayor of Derby
John Parkinson,
Director
Esq., R.R.S., 80, Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park,
Irish Great Western, and the Northampton, Ban-
bury, and Cheltenham Railways
Thomas Stevenson, Esq., F.S.A., 37, Upper Grosvenor-street, Hyde
of
Park, a Director of the Irish Great Western, and the Reading and
Reigate Railways
Thomas Bent, Esq., M.D., Derby, Director of the Derby, Gains-
borough, and Great Grimsby Junction Railway
James Clifford, Esq., Broughton House, Shardlow, Derbyshire
William Cox, Esq., Bralisford, Derbyshire
David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland Hollow, Derby-shire
James Sutton, Esq., Shardlow Hall, Derbyshire
P. Wilmot, Esq., Welbeck-street, Cavendish-square
Major Thurston Dale, Ashbourne
Joseph Bridgett, Esq., Aldermanbury, London, Colney Hata, near
Barnet, and Derby
Cecil Brook Boothby, Esq., Ashbourne Hall, Ashbourne, and Bolton-
street, Piccadilly
William Holt, Esq., Great Coram-street, and The Elms, Watford
A. G. Greaves, Esq., Derby
John Robinson, Esq., Silcoates Cottage, near Wakefield, Director of
the Bradford, Wakefield, and Midland and Leeds, York and Mid-
land Junction Railway
Edward Mamma% Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Samuel Simpson, Esq., of the Greaves, Lancaster, a Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Douglas Fox, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby, Gainsborough,
and Great Grimsby Junction Railway
George Robinson, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley
Junction Railway
Thomas M•Turk, Esq. Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junc-
tion Railway
Matthew Pierpoint, Esq., Crown East, Worcestershire, Deputy Lieu-
tenant of the county of Worcester
Henry Brigstock, Esq., M.D., Derby, Director of the Derby, .Uttoxe.
ter, and Stafford Railway
Joseph Lancelot Davenport, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby, Ut-
toxeter, and Stafford Railway
Frederick Fox, Esq., Melbourne, agent for Lord Melbourne
James Joseph Dolman, Esq., Melbourne, Derbyshire
John Earp, Esq., Melbourne, Derbyshire "
Charles Holbrooke, Esq., Alvaston, near Derby, Director of the
Derby, Uttoxeter and Stafford, and of the Derby, Gainsborough,
Stafford, and Grimsby Railway
Jeremiah Filcher, Esq., Russell-square, London, Director of the
Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction, and of the Grand
London and Dublin Approximation Railways
William Seymour, Esq. Montague-place, Russell-square, Director of
the Grand London and Dublin Approximation, and of the South-
ampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railways
William Chance, Esq., Spring-grove, Birmingham, Deputy-Chairman
of the Birmingham and Leicester Railway, Director of the Trent
Valley Midland, and of the Manchester and Southampton Junction
Railway
James Witham, Esq., Eaton-square
A. A. Fry, Esq., Temple
Thomas Geo. Smith, Esq., Doughty-street, Mecklenburgh-square,
Director of the Lynn, Wisbeach. and Peterborough Railway
John Hill, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Staf-
ford Railway
Thomas Mimes, Esq., Melbourne, Derbyshire
Thomas Hemsley, Esq., Melbourne, Derbyshire
Henry Orton, Esq., King's Newton, Derbyshire
George Vandeleur, Esq., King's Newton, Derbyshire
Mr. Samuel Robinson, Shaw House, Melbourne, Derbyshire
John Tewle, Esq., Borrowash Mills, Derbyshire
George Wooton, Esq., Chelston, Derbyshire
James Hollingworth, Esq. Melbourne and Derby
Wellington Ross Seymour, Esq., Montague-place, Russell-square
James Renshaw, Esq., West Heath House, Erith, Kent, Director of
the South Staffordshire Junction Railway,: and 3, White Hart-
court, Kombard-street
A. Inderwick, Esq., Brompton, Middlesex
John Groom, Esq., Member of the Town Council, Northampton
James J. M'SwineY, Esq., Sandal View, near Wakefield. a Director
of the Wakefield and Harrowgate Junction Railway
Richard Dransfield, Esq., West-place, Dalton, Huddersfield, a Director
of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and of the Keighley, Halifax,
and Huddersfield Junction Railway
Robert Doeksey Goodwin, Esq., Ashbourne
John Bainbrigge Storey, Esq., Lockington Hall, Leicestershire
Edward Doubleday, Esq., F.L.S., Great Surrey-street, a Director of
the Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railway
William Caldwell, Esq., Ince Hall, Wigan, Alderman of the Borough
of WigaP, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway, the
Staffordshire Potteries Railway, Liverpool and Manchester Direct
Railway
Henry Stock, Esq., Bedggelert, North Wales, Director of the Great
Eastern and Western
John Campbell Dicker, Esq., New Hall, by Neston, Cheshlre,Director
of the Birkenhead and Holyhead Railway
John Curzon, Esq., Derby
James Peet, Esq., Derby
William Taylor, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby, Gainsborough,
and Great Grimsby Junction Railway
Charles Milnes, Esq., Dale-house, Matlock, Derbyshire
Henry George Gascoyne, Esq., Lea-hall, Rugeley, Staffordshire
Perry Dicker., Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
George Clark, Esq., Windham-lodge, Brighton, and Rusholme Park,
Manchester, a agistrate
James Consterdine, Esq., Rosinhall, Manchester, a Magistrate
F. R. Hodgson, Esq., Oakey, near Manchester, Merchant
Edward Attolden, Esq., Aston-hall, Derby:
Henry Taylor, Esq., Wigan, Director of the 'Liverpool and Leeds
Direct; the York and Lancaster;. the Eastern, Western, and
Southern, or Ipswich and Southampton ; Reigate ; the Halifax and
Huddersfield ; the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction;
the Staffordshire Potteries ; the Dover and Bristol; and of the
Cheltenham and Oxford Railways
Captain T. Folliott Powell, Ashbourne
Thomas Byrom, Esq., Wigan, a Director of the York and Lancas-
ter and Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and the Keighley, Halifax,
and Huddersfield Junction Railway
Thurston Dale, jun., Esq., Ashbourne
John Douglas Cooper, Esq., Holm College, Ashbourne -
C. Kelly Cooper, Esq., Ashbourne
John Witham, sen., sq., Ashbourne
Thomas J. Mountfort, Esq., Ashbourne
James Osborne, Esq , Ashbourne
Samuel Dawson, jun., Esq., Walton Bank, Ashbourne
John Smith, Esq., Barton House, Ashbourne
Thomas Smith, Esq., Blore Hall, Staffordshire
John Bloor, Esq., Tutbury
Samuel Fox, jun., Esq.. Derby
John Smith, Esq., Middle Temple, and 2, Buty-street, St. James's,
London, Director of the Leeds, York, and Midland Railway
Joseph Peel, Esq., Singleton Brook, Manchester
Edward Lucas, Esq., Member of the Town-Council, Birmingham
John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Leicester, a Director of the Leicester
and Birmingham, and London, Bristol, and South Wales Railway
John Osier, Esq., Hull, Member of the Provisional Committee of the
Hull and Barnsley Junction and Leeds and Carlisle Railway
C. Bamford, jun., Esq., Hull, Member of the Provisional Committee
of the Hull and Barnsley Junction and Leeds and Carlisle Railway
R. B. Childs, Esq., Swarkenstone Lowes, near Derby
(With power to add to their number).

WEAR VALLEY RAILWAY.
CONTRACT FOR THE EXECUTION OF WORKS.
The Directors are desirous of Letting by Tender the Making and
Completing the entire Works of the above Railway, with the excep
tion of finding Rails and Chairs for the Permanent Way. Length of
line about twelve miles.

The plans and specifications may be seen at the office of Mr. John
Dixon, Civil Engineer, Darlington, on and after Monday, the 20th day
of Oetober next ; and Tenders must be sent into Mr. Thomas
3l'Nay, the Secretary, at the Company's office in Darlington, on or
before ➢fonday, the 3d of November.

GEORGE H. WILKINSON. Chairman,
Wear Valley Railway-office, Darlington, Sept. 22, 1845.

PONTEFRACT, DONCASTER, WORKSOP,
and MANSFIELD JUNCTION RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 900,0001., in 45,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. Lord Thomas Pelham Clinton
The Hon. Francis Henry Fitzhardinge Berkeley, M.P.
C. Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P,, Chairman of the Paris and Strasburg
Railway
W. Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P.
The Hon. A. Capel, Epping
The Hon. A. F. Berkeley
E. F. Dayrell, Esq., High Sheriff of Bucks. Lillingstone Dayrell,
Chairman of the Cheltenham and Gloucester Railway
Wynn Ellis, Esq., M.P.
Ilon. Robert Gore, M.P.
Charles Holte Bracebridge, Esq., The Hall, Atherstone, Chairman of
the Leicester and Birmingham and Boston, Stamford and Bir-
mingham Railways
Sir Andrew P. Green, K.C.H., Director of the Australasian, lonian.
and Canadian Banks
The Hon. Stafford Jerningham
The Hon. Cecil Lawless, Lyons-castle. Kildare, Director of the Great
Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway
William Chance, Esq., Birmingham, Deputy-Chairman of the Leices-
ter and Birmingham and Boston, Stamford and Birmingham
Railways
Sir William Drummond Stewart, Bart.
Archibald Douglas Stewart, Esq., Grantelly Castle
Hon. Colonel Westenra, M.P.
Hay Fotheringhay Hunter, Esq., Kilburne-hall, Derbyshire,
Director of the Midland Union, and Great Grimsby, Gainshorough,
and Derby Railways
Robert Ramsden, Esq., Carlton-hall, Worksop
John Joseph Shuttleworth, Esq., Hodsock-park, Notts
John Brewley Payn, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Leicester
and Birmingham and Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham
Railways
John Phillips, Esq., Mayor of Pontefract
Major Bilbee, Nettleworth-hall, Mansfield, Magistrate of the City
of Perby, and Director of the Derby and Gain.sborough Railways
Samuel Raines, Esq., Birmingham; Director of the Leicester and
Birmingham and Boston, Stamford afießirmingliam Railways
Edward Middleton, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Leicester
and Birmingham and Boston, Stamford and Birmingham
Railways
William Freer, Esq., Atherstone, Director of the Leicester and Bir-
mingham and Boston, Stamford and Birmingham Railways
Frederick Wollaston, Esq., Sheapy, near Atherstonc, Director of
the Leicester and Birmingham and Boston, Stamford and Bir-
mingham Railways
Frederick Ricketts, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway
Richard Burton Phillipson, Esq., Director of the Rugby, Leamington,
and Warwick Railway
Rev. W. S Cursham, Mansfield
Charles Lindley, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Nottingham and
Mansfield Railway
John George Norbury, Esq., Mancetter-house, Itherstone, Director
of the Leieester and Birmingham and Boston, Stamford and Bir•
mingham Railways
Martin Furniss, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Nottingham and
Mansfield Railway
Samuel Watkins, Esq., Forest-hill, Worksop, Director of the Man-
chester and Rugby Railway
I. W. Spurr, Esq., Wigthorp, Worksop
. Robert Newbold, Esq. (firm Joseph Rodgers and Sons), Sheffield
R. P. Harwood, Esq., M.D., Director of the Wakefield and Harrow-
gate Railway
John Rodgers, jun., Esq. (firm Joseph Rodgers and Sons), Sheffield
John Ward, Esq., Machon Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Great
Grimsby and Sheffield Railway
Sidney Roberts, Esq., Dial-house, Loxley, Sheffield
Robert Mitchell, Esq., merchant, Sheffield
Henry Unwin, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the:Manchester, Hudders-
field, and Great Grimsby Railway
Frederick Hunt, Esq. (firm Robert Hunt and Co., carriers), Sheffield
Richard Truswell, Esq., brewer, Sheffield
The Hon. Major Napier, Rugby
Samuel Hurt, Esq., Mansfield
William Chambers, Esq., corn-merchant, Doncaster
Dr. James 11. Simpson, magistrate for the borough ofPontefract
Joshua Skidmore, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Hull and Holy-
head Railway
Henry May, Esq. (firm Smith and May, brewers), Oldcoats,
Worksop
John Gulley, Esq., Ackworth-park, Pontefract
Joseph Birley, Esq. Alderman, Doncaster
Abraham Whetcroft, Esq., Cromford, Derbyshire
Wm. Green Armytage, Esq., Lockwood, Huddersfield
Joseph Brooke, jun., Esq., Green-head, Huddersfield
Phineas Franklin, Esq., Galway
Charles Fitzwilliam Hannam, Esq., Clixby Manor-house, Calston,
Lincolnshire
John Jephson Rowley, Esq., Rowthorne, Mansfield
Robert Smith, Esq. (firm Smith and May, brewers), Oldcoats,
Worksop
James Scott, Esq., Worksop
Samuel Sketchley, Esq., merchant, Worksop
John Miller, coal merchant and maltster, Worksop
William Shadbolt, Esq., Chairman of the Greenwich Railway, and
Director of the London Joint-stock Bank
Henry Erskine, Esq., Mount. street, Grosvenor-square, Director of
the Great Manchester Railway
William Rothery, Esq., 10, Stratford-place, Director of the Leeds and
Liverpool Railway
James Reeves, Esq., Cheapside, and Leyton, Essex
William Morley, Esq., Director of the Goole and Doncaster Railway
Rev. G. A. Walker, Huddersfield, Director of the Goole and Don-
caster Railway
W. Wood, Esq., Director of the Goole and Doncaster Railway
C. James Heath, Esq., Director of the Goole and Doncaster Railway
Charles Robert Coleman, Esq., Irongate-wharf, London, Director of
the Goole and Doncaster Railway
David Mountague, Esq., Regent's-park, Director of the Great Man-
chester Railway
Benjamin Franklin, Esq., Harley-street, Director of the Leeds and
Carlisle Railway
Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Esq., Beeathope-hall, Newark, Director of the
Grand Junction and Midland Union Railway
Herbert Ingram, Esq., Director of the Ambergate, Nottingham, and
Boston Amalgamated Railway
John Burgess, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester, and Director of
the Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston Amalgamated Railway
Nathaniel Cooke, Esq., Director of the Ambergate, Nottingham, and
Boston Amalgamated Railway
James Gernon, Esq., Vice-Chairman of the Galway and Ennis
Grand Junction Railway
Lieut.-Col. Elrington, Wyndham-place, Bryanston-square, Director
of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
Jacob Mentifiore, Esq., Chester-terrace, Belgrave-square
John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park, Di-
rector of the South Midland and Northampton and Banbury
Railway
Edward Baxter, Esq., merchant, Worksop
Henry Base, Esq., merchant, Worksop
Robert Carr, Esq., Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Com-
pany, Worksop
James Drabble, timber_merchant and builder, Carlton, Worksop
William Hepworth, Esq. Pontefract, Deputy-Lieutenant and Ma-
gistrate of the West Riding of Yorkshire
William Moorhouse, Esq., Knottingley, Pontefract, Director of the
Sheffield, Barnsley, an Wakefield Railway
John Carter, Esq., Knottingley, Pontefract
Thomas Routledge, Esq., Alderman, Pontefract
George Green, Esq., Pontefract
Thomas Carter, Esq., J.P. of the Borough of Pontefract
James Robson, Esq,, J.P. of the Borough of Pontefract
.Adam Jessop, Esq., Castle Ford, Pontefract
William Clarke, Esq., Ackworth, Pontefract
Major-General Wright, R.E., Director of the Great London and
Dublin Railway
James Russell, Esq., 57, Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director
of the Great London and Dahlia Railway
Francis Ewart, Esq., Temple
Anthony Dickson, sq., Edrington-house, Berwickshire, Director of
the Grand Junction and Midland Jnion Railway
John Weston, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester and South-
ampton Railway
Frederick Clarkson, Esq., Doctors' Commons, Director of the Grand
Junction and Midland Union Railway
W. Prole, Esq., Director of the Grand Junction and Midland Union
Railway
Robert Chapman, Esq., Director of the Grand Junction and Midland
Union Railway
William Watson, Esq., Director of the Grand Junction and Midland
Union Railway
James Macmillan, Esq., Director of the Southampton and Oxford
Junction Railway
Captain J. P. Macdougall, Director of the Oxford and Southampton
Railway •
Peter Henry Edliu, Esq., Temple, Director of the Warwick and Wor-
cester Railway
Thomas Hawker, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith
Railway
W. Tulloch Frazer, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Rugby Di-
rect Railway
John Inglis Jerdein, Esq., 150, Piccadilly, Director of the Great Man-
chester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway
P. Ridout Downmai, Esq., Director of the Cambrian and Grand
Junction Railway
Samuel Barwick Bruce, Esq., M.D., Ripon, Yorkshire, Director Of the
Barbadoes General Railway
T. It. Thelluson, Esq., Hyde Park-street
James Simpson, Esq., Foxhill Bank, Accrington, late Director of the
Manchester and Leeds Railway
Joseph Snowe, Esq., Barrister-at-law, Hanover Cottages, Regent's
Park
Simeon Musgrove, Esq., Kirkstall, near Leeds, Director of the Mid.
land and Thirsk Railway
Benjamin Hardwicke Teal*, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Manchester
Southampton, and Poole Rallway4
Christopher Rumbold Meltzer, Esq., Leeds
George Johnson, Esq., Mansfield
William Gethen, Esq., Mansfield
Joha Calthorpe Williams, Esq., M.D., Nottingham
John Jessop, Esq., Lockwood, Huddersfield

B
London—Messrs. Rogers, OldingANKERS.
and Co.
Pontefract and Doncaster—Messrs. Leatham, Tew, and CO.
Worksop, Mansfield, and Nottingham—The Nottingham Banking
Company
Sheffield—The Sheffield and Rotherham Banking Company
ENGINEERS—Sir John Macneill and James Thompson, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
William Unwin, Esq. 1 Sheffield.
William Bickley Esq. 3
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—Messrs. Deans, Dunlop, and Hope,
Fludyer-street, Westminster.
HONORARY SECRETARY—John Nathaniel Spellen, Director of the
Barbadoes Railway.
LONDON AGENTS—Messrs. Thomson and Debenham, Salter's Hall,
St. Swithen's-lane, London.
LOCAL LAW AGENTS.
W. E. Carter, Esq., Pontefract
William Marratt, Esq., Doncaster
John Whall, Esq., Worksop
Arthur John Cursham, Esq., Mansfield.
Temporary Offices, No. 1, Royal Exchange Buildings.

This undertaking is projected by influential local interests to supply
the requirements of the above important district; and a reference to
the map will show that it will also complete the communication be-
tween York, Leeds, and the intermediate towns in the most direct
course with London. The surveys have been made by Sir John Mac-
neill and James Thompson, Esq., and the country is found to be fa-
vourable to the construction of a railway, and to require neither tun-
nels nor heavy embankments ; and there is, perhaps, no line of such
importance which could be constructed at comparatively so small au
expense as the sum named in the estimate.

The length of the line will be but about thirty-nine miles ; and by
means of this short link, in connexion with existing projects from
Nottingham, a saving will be effected between Leeds and the metro-
polis exceeding thirty miles.
...

It will commence at the projected terminus of the Wakefield, Pon-
tefract, and Goole Railway, at Pontefract, and from thence proceed
through Doncaster, Tickhill, and Worksop, to the terminus of the
Nottingham, Mansfield, and Midland Counties Railway, at Mansfield ;
thereby completing, by means of the York and North Midland Rail-
way, the shortest route from York to Nottingham and London. It
will also, by the proposed extension line of the Wakefield, Pontefract,
and Goole, from the York and North Midland, near Methley, form
the nearest line between Leeds. Nottingham, the Midland and South-
ern Counties, and by the Goole and Doncaster line, an uninterrupted
communication with Goole and the shipping ports of the Humber.
It will also form a means of communication with the several pro-
jected lines, to the rising port of Great Grimsby.
It is a remarkable feature in this line, that there is no competing
scheme, nor does it at all interfere with any ornamental or residen-
tial property. -

It is itot considered essential to enter into the details of traffic ; the
value of the lines In the district, in that respect, is a sufficient test of
its extent, in addition to which, the railway will become the recipient
of much of the northern traffic, arising from the numerous branches
with whichit is connected.
A preference will be given in the allotment to the shareholders in
the adjacent lines.
Application for shares may be made in the usual form, to the Se-
cretary ; solicitors, Messrs. Thompson and Debenham, Salters'-hall,
London, and to the local agents and the following brokers :—London,
Taunton and Bush, Austin-friars ; Mr. H. Pritchett, 74, Old Broad-
street ; and Mr.T.C.:Munday, 17, Royal Exchange (eastern entrance);
Messrs. Price and Brown, Change-alley. Sheffield—George Bandon,
Jun. Manchester—Messrs. Hope and Rostrum. Liverpool—Messrs.
Schultz and Carr. Leeds—Messrs. Richdale, Myers, and Ridsdale.
Hull—Messrs Wilkinson and Earl. Wakefield—Messrs. Ridsdale
and Rogers ; and Nottingham —Mr. Wakefield.

THE LEEDS, HUDDERSFIELD, SHEF-
FIELD, and SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE (or LEEDS
WOLVERHAMPTON, and DUDLEY) DIRECT RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 2,000,0001., in 100, 00 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Shrewsbury, Alton Towers, Staffordshire
The Right Hon. Lord lngestrie, M.P.
Sir William Young, Bart., East India Director, Wetatbourne-street,
Hyde-park Gardens
Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theohalds, Deputy Chairman of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Rail-
way', &c.
Sir William Boothby, Bart, Ashbourne-hall, Derbyshire
Sir William Lowthrop, lint.' Hull, and Alga-house, Scarborough, Di-
rector of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junc-
tion Railway
Col. the Hon Leicester Stanhope, Ashburliam House, Chairman of
Remington's London and Manchester Direct Railway
The Sheriff of York
Arnold, Henry, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of Remington's London and
Manchester Railway
Benwell, George, Esq , Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Blurton, Robert, Esq., banker, Smallwood Manor, Uttoxeter, Direc-
tor of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction
Railway, &c.
Bright, Sam, Esq., Buxton
Bradley, Septimus, Esq., Ashbourne, Director of the Derby-hire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Buxton, John Harry, Esq., Ashbourne
Clarke, Jeremiah, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's Lou-
don and Manchester Direct Railway
Cooke, the Rev. J., Uttoxeter, Director of the East and West Junction
Railway, &c.
Cooper, John Douglas, jun., Esq., Holine Cottage, Ashbourne
Cox, Walker, Esq., Breadsall, Derby, Director of the Tean and Dove
Valley Railway
Crockett, T. Esq., Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire,
and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &c.
Croft, Major J. T., 15, Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman of Reming-
ton's London and Manchester Direct Railway
Crossley, John, Esq., Lamberhurst, Sussex, and Uttoxeter, Director
of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction
Railway
Dalby, John, Robert, Esq., Ashbourne, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Dale, Major, Thurston, Ashbourne
Dawson, Samuel, Esq., sen., Ashbourne
Earp, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
:shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Edensor, Richard, Esq., Road-meadow, Ashbourne
Fidler, Peter Pichott, Esq., Higgin Grange, Derbyshire
Fisher, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railway
Garle, Samuel, Esq., Uttoxeter
Garle, William, Esq. Uttoxeter
Gilpin, and Co., Messrs. William, Wedges Mills, Cannock, Director of
• the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway'
Haden, Joseph, Esq., Dudley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shb e, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Haines, Samuel, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbaston, Director of Lei-
cester and Birmingham Railway
Hartshorne, Robert James, Esq., Ashbourne
Hartshorne, Thomas, Esq., Silkmoor-house, near Staffera
Hatfield, Thomas, Esq., Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &c.
Hill, John, Esq., Derby
Jones, the Rev. J. P., Vicarage, Alton, Staffordshire, Director of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Johnson, John Goodwin, Esq., Bentley Hall, Ashbourne
Johnson, D. T., Esq., Aldermary Churchyard, Director of the Ches-
ter and Manchester Railway
Johnson, Richard Wm., Esq., Moorgate, Director of Remington's
London and Manchester Direct Railway
Knight, Edward, Esq., M.D., Stafford, Director of the Derbyshire,
• Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railway
Keene, John Joseph, Esq., St. John's Wood, Regent's Park, Director
of the National Bank of Ireland, &c.
King, William, Esq., Waterloo-place, Director of the Freemasons'
Life Assurance, &c.
Lawrence, Richard Corbett, Esq., Wandfield-hall, Uttoxeter, Direc-
tor of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction
Railway
Langley, Henry, Esq., Rakeway House, Cheadle, Director of the Der-
byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Lassetter, Richard, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Lassetter, James, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Lea, John Wheeley, Esq., Worcester, Vice-Chairman of the Severn
Commission, &c.
Meteyard, Horace, Wm., Esq., Director of Remington's London and
Manchester Railway, Middle Temple, and Chatham-place
M`Mahon, Daniel, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the Derbyshire
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Manors, John, Esq. Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Mellard, James, Esq., Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Minors, John, Esq., Eaton Dovedale, Derbyshire, Director of the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Minors, John, Esq., The Parks, Uttoxeter, Director of the East
and West Junction Railway
Mathew, John Mee, Esq., Assistant Tithe Commissioner, Director of
the East and West Junction Railway
3filner, William, Esq., Teen, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Mountford, Thomas John, Esq., Ashbourne
Martin, Joseph, Esq., Walsall, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &c.
Maskery, Thomas, Esq., Norbury, Derbyshire
Orton, James, Esq., Woodford, near Uttoxeter, Director of the Der-
byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Parkinson, John, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge-terrace, Nyde-park, Di-
Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Rail-
way, &c.
Pulteney, Douglas Kinnaird, Captain, Director of the Nottingham
and Boston Railway, Parliament-street, London, &c., &c.
Phillips, William, Esq., Springfield House, Uttoxeter, Director of the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Robinson, John, Esq., Silcoates Cottage, Wakefield
Sant, Edward, Esq., Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Shipton, Robert, Esq., Scropton, trerbyshire, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Smith, Charles, Esq., Alton, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Smith, Thomas, Esq., Blore-hall, Staffordshire, Director of the Der-
byshire, Stafford-hire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Smith, William, Esq., Sedsall, Derbyshire, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Smith William, Esq., Clifton, Derbyshire, Director of Teau and Dove
Valley Railway
Smith, John, Esq., Barton House, Derbyshire
Smythe, John Vere, Esq., Kensington, Middlesex, Director of the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Spiers, E. J., Esq., Carlton Villas, London, Director of the East and
West Junction Railway
Stephenson, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Agriculturist Cattle As-
surance Company
Terry, Benjamin, Esq., Mayor of Walsall, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway, &c. Tomlinson, Thomas, Esq., Bradley Pastures, Ashbourne .
Toogood, Rupert, Esq , Ashbourne
Tylecote, Edward, Esq., surgeon, Great Heywood, Staffordshire
Tyler, George, Esq., Holloway-place, Holloway, London, Director of
the East and West Junction Railway, &c.
Waller, Major, K.H., St. James's-square, Director of the Chester and
Manchester Railway, &c,
Walter, James Smith, Esq., Bakewell, Derbyshire
Walters, J. T., Esq., Rugeley
Weston, Thomas, Esq., Tean, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Wise, Thomas, Esq., Ashbourne
Witham, John, Esq., Ashbourne
Woolrich, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Wood, Charles, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Wood William, Esq., M.D., Chetwynd House, Newport, Salop, Di-
rector of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junc-
tion Railway
Wood, William Hurd, Esq., Ashbourne She
Wright, Thomas, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Galusbo-
rough Railway.

BANKERS.
Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clement's-lane, London
Messrs. Barnard, Din:Male, and Co., Cornhill, London

John Owens, Esq., 35, Moorgate-street, London
William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttoxeter
SECRETARY—R. Shellan Mackenzie, D.C.L.
ENGINEERS.
Sir John Rennie, F.R.S.
George Remington, Esq., C.E.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Armishaw, J., Esq., Rugeley
Bolton, Thomas, Esq., Wolverhampton
Bolton, John, Esq., Dudley
Eggington, A., Esq., Lichfield
Green, James J., Esq., Walsall.
This line of railway, which is about sixty-five miles In length, is
intended to commence at Uttoxeter (the terminus of the proposed
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway) and
to proceed to Sheffield and Huddersfield. It will form a direct com-
munication between two of the most important manufacturing and
mining districts in England, viz., South Staffordshire, Huddersfield,
and Sheffield, and Rotherham in Yorkshire ; the 'South Staffordshire
portion including Dudley, Tipton,Walsall, Bilston, Weduesbury, and
Wolverhampton.

This line will also open a direct railway communication between
Leeds, Huddersfield, and the West Riding of Yorkshire and Kidder-
minster, Worcestershire, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bristol, Taunton,
and Exeter, and with Ludlow, Leominster, Hereford, Brecon, Car-
diff, Neath, Swansea, Llanelly, Caermarthen, Milford Haven, Fish-
guard, Aberystwith, and with Port Dynnllaen, the fidure outport for
Ireland. And also the most direct communication betweei Leeds
and Southampton.

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The line will pass nearly along the Uttoxeter and Caldon Canal to a
point near Prestwood, in case the canal be purchased by the pro-
moters of this undertaking. It will proceed through Ellaston and
Mayfield to Ashbourne, thence near Dovedale, Buxton, and Chapel-
en-la-Frith, Woodhead and Holmflrth to Huddersfield, where it will
join the Huddersfield and Leeds Railway, and so to Thirsk. It will
open new mines, in addition to those already in work, of lead, coal,
iron ore, barytes, and carboniferous and magneslan limestone on the
route, in addition to forming a direct, speedy, and cheap communica-
tion between the important towns above mentioned.
Arrangements have been made with other companies to run into
this line from Sheffield. This company reserves the right to raise
additional capital to extend the line to Leeds.

Many of the above-mentioned mineral productions are essential to
the mining districts of South Staffordshire and Sheffield. The North
Staffordshire and Derbyshire Limestone is much superior to that of
South Staffordshire in the fluxion of iron (15 cwt. of the former being
equal to a ton of the latter), and producing a better quality of ma-
terial. At present, the mode of transit is very circuitous and expen-
sive, the line from the Caldon Mines having to go by canal round
by Etruria, Leek, and the potteries, to the Dudley and surrounding
furnaces, when, by this railway, it would be taken in a straight line
to them ; and the Ashbourne, Cromford, Worksworth, and Bakewell
country would have an entirely new trade opened to them. The iron-
stone in the neighbourhood of Sheffield is also becoming very scarce,
and great quantities are introduced from Scotland; the same scarcity
exists in South Staffordshire ; and the route of this line would fur-
nish a cheap and good supply, at present not worked, and without a
market, both north and south. In addition to these great advan-
tages, a good local market would be opened along the agricultux►l
and other parts of the district at present very badly supplied with
lime and coal, and that of an inferior quality, and by expensive car-
riage. It is, therefore, next to impossible to calculate the immense
traffic which would pour down this line and the Derbyshire, Stafford.
shire, aed Worcestershire Junction Railway.
The calculations which have been made show a very large profit.
There are large lead and slate quarries on the line which only want
an outlet like the one now contemplated to bring them into full work.
The coal is of a superior quality.

There are also atensive barytes and paint-works at Ashbourne,
Cromford, and other places on the line. The scenery of Derbyshire
is the resort of vast numbers of tourists ; and particular care will be
taken, in passing of the line near Dovedale, not to interfere with or
change its beautiful and romantic character. The convenience,
therefore, which this line will afford lutist necessarily cause a great
influx of passengers, both on businesiand pleasure.
Ironstone Is not so abundant in the South as in North Staffordshire,
and vast quantities are sent by the tardy, circuitous, and expensive
canal company, which this and other limes of railway meeting at
Uttoxeter will remedy.
The gypsum formation runs from Staffordshire to the Humber, and
the demand for this article for building, agricultural, and manufac-
turing purposes along this line will be great.
The timber from the neighbourhood of the Needwood Forest,
Banks, Bagots Woods, anti Kingston Woods, upwards of 4,000
acres, chiefly finds its way to the Manchester market by a
like objectionable route of tardy and circuitous canal convey-
ance ; whereas this line would open a direct, easy, and cheap
communication to new markets. The line has been viewed prior to
a detailed survey, and there are not more than ordinary engineering
difficulties. In consequence of the late Parliamentary decisions, it is
Intended to make this line on the broad gauge principle, but the pro.
rooters do not pledge themselves absolutely to do so.
At the urgent suggestion of some of the most influential (lambi-
D6ferabyj u n
ande.
tants of Ashbourne, the Committee haveyo,rdaenredd
withe si
toe,
tion to connect that town with
Gainsborough and Midland Railways
Applications for Shares to be made to John
..Owens, Esq 35
Moorgate-street, London, and William Arnold Bainbgge, *Ego,:
Uttoxeter ; and to the following Sharebroke • Messrs, Preece
Evans, 39, Lothbury ; Mr. Miles, Worcester; Mr. Thomas Henry and
Wheeler, Worcester; Messrs. Townie and Whitehead, Liver-
pool ; Messrs. Cameron and Co., Liverpool ; Mr. Morris Rey-
nolds, Liverpool ; Mr. Richard E. Hine, Macclesfield • Mr.
James Jamieson, Leedan::s Messrs. Wellbeloved and dealer
Leeds.; Mr. Frederick St ull ; Mr. Thomas Boardman, Black-
burn ; Mr. George Clark, Badford ; Mr. William Mason, Bradford ;
Mr. William Crenhelm Halifax;
Messrs. Eyre and Shawl, Drb
Messrs.
Charles Spencer, Nottingham;
mesrs.rs
J.
amraertsotonkaensd, Earle, York;
Mr. E. H. Armitage, Wakefield;y
Mr. Joseph Clark, jun., Southampton; Messrs, Tate and Nash, Bile! tol ; Messrs. Beaumont and LangwortllY, Exeter; Mr. Thomas
Sandford, Exeter Mr. J. 8. Holland, Cvnutsy News, Uoughland