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London, England, 1845-10-27 00:00:00

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LARNE, BELFAST, and BALLIIIAI
RAILWAY.
(With Extension to Portglenone.) tie
The Managing Committee having received the following_aftle
from Messrs. Sherrard and Hall, their Engineers, have the Plea'
of submitting the same for the satisfaction of their Shareholder&
By order,

J. KNIGHT, Secrets/.
4, Coleman-street, London, Oct. 23, 1845.
" 2, Great George-street, Westminster, Oct. 24,y.-.t,
" To the Managing Committee of the Lame, Belfast, and 13a1.0''

Railway.
" Gentlemen,—We beg to state, fer the information of the IN
that the surveys of this Rua are in a very forward state, and
completed in due time to comply with the standing orders
liament without fail.—We are, Gentlemen,

" Your obedient servants,
"SHERRARD and II IL~

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GALWAY) RAILWAY. old
The DEEDS of this Company wilt LIE for SIGNATURE, '—,dos,
Scrip will be Exchanged, at the offices, 19, Moorgate-street,ll.
from Ten till Four o'clock daily, until SATURDAY, the Ist et
vember. The duplicate of the letters of exchange will be c°ll'llott,
in a few days, of which parties who have not yet received such Doi
tere are requested to take notice, and to excuse the delay which die
been occasioned by the strict investigation entered into as
respectability of the Scripholders.
EITZSTE PH EN FILE N CH,
' Chairina°.
19, Moorgate-street, Oct. 24, 1845.

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EXTENSIONS of the Ilt Sli
WESTERN (DUBLIN to GALWAY) RAILWAY- 01
Prospectuses, with Maps of these Extensions, together Witll,7„,e,
of Application for Shares, to be had at the Company's of
AIES BRYDE'

19, Moorgate -street, London,
October 24, 1845.

GRAND JUNCTION, GREAT WF4614
EST'
AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY JUNCTION.
The Managing Committee of the above Company hereby'
notice, that the delay in allotting the Shares is consequent
immense number of applications received, which necessarily 1,01
plc s a considerable time in the investigation thereof, but bet'
complete their labours in the ensuing week, and the Allotment
ters will be issued on the 28th instant. ainej.
N.B. The many applications daily received cannot be entert
By order, JOHN SOUTHGATE, jam,
2, Charlotte-row, Mansion-house.

Office

BIRMLNGHADI AND AIANCIIESTE-
AILWAY.
No further application forRECT sharesß the
can be received herein,
having closed on the 15th inst.
The Committee are actively engaged in the consideration :do
applications, but in consequence of their immense number, some
must elapse before the letters, of allotment can be posted. top
A. A. FLINT, Secre

Dated this 21st day of October, 1845,

WORCESTER AND MERTHYR TA
JUNCTION RAILWAY. The Committee of Management inform the Applicants .0r
in OA. Company that the Letters of -.111,..u.aut Lwvo ta.t.mitte.
but that, owing to the large number of applications, the ennd id
have been obliged to refuse many most respectable person'', coIA'
all cases greatly to abridge the number applied for. TM DI
mittee trust that this explanation will be accepted as an e 0
all applicants who have not received allotments.
o tern'
By order, WM. BORROW, Secretary Pr-
Dated 25th Oct., 1845.

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C AMBRIDGE ANL) LINCOLN EX--
UNCTI
SION, and LINCOLN, YORK, and LEEDS -
RAILWAY, with a Branch to Doncaster. • this WWI;
Notice is hereby given, that the Allotment of Shares in t
regre
taking is now completed, and the Directors of the Company ebb
that it has net been in their power to meet the wishes of all, nor.
plicants for shares, but they have endeavoured to snake tu_e_eoui
ment with due impartiality and discrimination out of the mu"
body who applied.
i'l‘
The Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement,
and m
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for Signature at the offices of the Company, both in London
felloirjg
Leeds, on Monday, the 3d of November next, and the live nP
days, between the hours of Ten and Four, when and where the
will be delivered to the shareholders. he deo
Due notice will be given of the other places and times
will lie for signature.

By order,
GEORGE S. DYER, c.,Acreisrf
1, Guildhall Chambers, Basinghall-street, London.

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TUNBRIDGE and RYE lIARBOUR 1)-`13'14
RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Frederick Lawrence, Esq. Registered Projector.
Capital, 500,000/., in Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 2/. 2s. per Share
Temporary Offices, 94, Cheapside.
COMMITTE.
Field-Marshal Lord ViscountPROVISIONAL
Beresford, G.C.B.edgbilt '
C.B. P.C. -
park, Kent
The Hon. James William King, Capt. R.N. Angley, Cranbroot
Thomas Law Hodges, Esq. Hemstead-park, Benenden, Kent
Alexander Beres.ord Hope, Esq. M.P. Bedgbury-park, Ken'.
Thomas Walton Roberts, Esq. Glastoabury, Kent
Capt. Michael Tweedie, Rolvenden, Kent
Edward Foynder, Esq., Oakfield-lodge, Ilawkhurst
George French, Esq , Rixden, Hawkhurst, Kent
Sackville Hhelps, Esq. Tongs-wood, Hawkhurst
Major Curteis, Leashsun-house, Rye
Thomas Twisdeu Hodges, Esq. Sandgate, Kent
Admiral J. Ayscough, Southampton
George Ballard, Esq. Sandhurst
John Bishop, Esq. Bodiam, Sussex
Henry Coe Coape, Esq. Goldhanger, Essex, director of the
cheater, Oxford, and Southampton Railway, &c.
W. H. Collis, Esq. Handsworth, Staffordshire, director of the
and Shropshire Junction Railway
John James Conway, Esq. Liverpool, director of the Dover And
tel Railway
Robert Cook, Esq. Gainsborough
John Mercer Durrant, Esq. Theobald's, Hawkhurst, Kent
Thomas Mercer Durrant, Esq. Attwaters, Hawkhurst Wl°
Thomas Evans, Esq. Mayor of Carnarvon, director °tale
and Holyhead Railway
John Hilder, Esq. Old-place, Sandhurst
tweet° Sir Wm. Bacon Johnston, Bart. Hilton, Aberdeenshire,
the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Railway of the
William Phillips Lamb, Esq. Ockham-house, Sussex, director
Dover and Bristol, and Staffordshire and Shropshire
Railway
Rev. G. A. Lamb, D.D., Iden, Sussex
baraPtA James Macmillan, Esq. Southampton, director of the Son-
t
Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railway gQIItr
Thomas Gybbon Monypenny, Esq. Hole-park, Rolvenden,
director of the Dover and Bristol Railway
E. W. Morris, Esq. Pembury, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, diree.--
Great North and South Wales Railway
Francis Reeves, Esq. Delmonden, Hawkhurst
George Smith, Esq. the Lambs, Staffordshire
Robert Tooth, Esq. Swift's-place, Cranbrook, Kent
the c° a
Wm. Bastow, Esq. 20, Surrey-place, London, director 0-
f
mercial Life Assurance Company, and Worcester, Wanvie
Rugby Railway
11
Robert Bestow, Esq. Surrey-place, London, director of the 0110;i
mercial Life Assurance Company, and Worcester, Warw.
Rugby Railway the
J. Benson, Esq. Park-place-villas, Maida-hill West, director •
Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway
Thomas Ferrand Dearden, Esq„ Rochdale
and Og°
John Blunt, Esq. director of the Lund n Docks Compeer,
Eastern and Western Railway 2100
Alfred Bush, Esq. Queen-square, Bath, director of the Great r
and South Wales and Worcester Railway of tles
Captain F. Chamier, Halkin-street Belgrave-square, director
liazebroak and Fampoux Railway
M. Clements, Esq. 69, Lowndes-square, director of the Great „I
and Loudon Direct Railway
Henry Cornfoot, Esq. 6, Copthall-court, director of the C°'°
Bank of London of
Miles Dormer, Esq. 51, Han,-place, Sloane-street, diree-ttv
Great Welsh Central, Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth''
end and Eastern Counties Junction
Edward Evans, Esq. Stones-end, Borough, director of
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Cetnsl
cial Life Assurance Company
toe
D. T. Johnson, Esq. Aldermary-churchyard, director of Be
Direct Manchester Railway f
A. M'Moran, Esq., Cambridge-street, Hyde-park, director
Grantham, Nottingham, Leicester, and Soth Midlands Junerdl)
Major-General Parlby, C.B.,Rutland-gate, Hyde-park, direct
London and Manchester tailway
gene"
James W. Peppercorn, Esq. Old Broad-street, director of the
brouk and Fampoux Railway
R. M. Preece, Esq. Lothbury, and 24, l'ark-square s JO°
James Reeves, Esq. Leyton, director of the South Midlands
and Direct London and Manchester Railway
Francis noose, Esq. Upper Montagu-street, Montagu-square, tor...‘ei
James Russell, Esq. Gloucester-place, Portman-square, nirtra'r"'
the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton and
Reading, and Basingstoke Railways
James Saynes, Esq. Great Dover-street, Borough
AY° s'ij
Edwin Smith, Esq. 51, Great Ormond-street, director of the
Severn Railway
°1 John Taylor, Esq. Hoxton, director of the West-End end S 0
Counties Railway
Thomas Wakefield, Esq. director of the Dover and Bristol
(With power to add to their number).
BANKES—Cemmercial Bank of London, Lothbury
ENGINEERS—Francis Giles, Esq. and Alfred Giles,
STANDING COUNSEL.—Francis Barrow, Eel' , 00'4
Soracrroas—Meaars. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgme-
London.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Messrs. Willis and Neve, Cranbrook
Mr. John Elliot Wilson, Cranbrook
Messrs. Beechsm and Upperton, Hawkhurst
SECRETARY—E. A. Lamb, Esq.
PROSPECTUS.
e° This line will pass in a direct course from Tunbridge, v,-'ia he pa•ledic
wood (thus connecting itself with Maidstone), through Theae!'"ess-
of Brenchley, Horsmonden, Goudhurat, Cranbrook, .
Hawkhurst, Sandhurst, Rolvenden, Newenden, Northam' of of
marsh, Beckley, Iden, and Playden, to the town and
.of, ittP;„,
Rye, and ft will embrace a large extent of adjacent counn 4001-
sent unprovided with, and much requiring the admitted 414 egi
of railway transit. a g
The length of the line will be about twenty-five rimei'oPa
portion of it will pass through a level country, and the,olo Pd
,sfl
part is free Prom any material engineering difficulty, or 1, ogee,'
to require any serious outlay, and it is not expected to be _eel
to interfere with any re'idences or ornamental property. obi"
The saving of distance to Rye, and all the other places
by this line, will be considerable.
The capital required is estimated not to exceed 580,00 a ode fbift
During the last session of Parliament application vfaS wht
a similar line, partially embracing the same coaritrY(':,,oweiDo`rx.
was shown in detail, by evidence produced before the for 5c,.10,1
that the contemplated traffic, after deducting 401. per ceni• 10.01,00„
ing expenses, would leave a large per tentage upon thebest art 01
Capital. That line was rejected on the ground that the the Pete-
tion had not been selected, but with an intimation thaitri the in
re,
Rye was e titled to a direct railway communication w The Lc
rior of the country, in the best direction towards London'dvan,7,,i
sent scheme has been based upon this intimation, takin_gyesitgatie,"i
of the merits and defects which appeared upo,, that tt,uotrY•., of
and as it embraces a more populous and productis benefit
passes in a more direct line to London, and will have re, of trig
better access to other and more numerous lines, the souiZeileve,;
are considerably increased, and there is every reason touplau win
what passed during the last session, that the present
et Of $
favourably entertained by the Legislature. belle • Viet'
The chief object is to open the port of Rye to the fulltive d's veil
railway communication, through a populous and pro s
in the direction of I ondon, to the best point at whichauc .
other
itselfof the existing and contemplated lines. iime an-. I, die
The imports of Rye, particularly coals, with " Wine 0.11
line
manures
will , are of
and great
chea impoperrtance
and better mode to the country
goiriel hir
pass,
Increase the demand for them, and give the oPPorturn o e
Xing-
provement in the cultivation of the adjacent tr
euun-.L.rict of „tog
A railway through the heart of the chief hop di
coininun.-.et
and
cattle distrl
timber, and
dom, also producing corn, hop-poles,
at its terminus with a great part of the important
egt
Romney Marsh, must be a public advantage.
outlet and ancic.
The port of Rye is admitted to be the best
aA there
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rout to Paris and to other parts of the Continent,
.e ;jai toodetio,..
no doubt if a direct railway should be made to 3 Led' oar
p
Improvement in the harbour, that it would be much ado
with t
atncei
cularly as a national and commercial comn.vunicauon
d to tins
and by persons travelling on business. to be eddresee -a se.
Applications for shares and prospectme „yin o-
Secretary, at the offices, 94, Cheitpside ; Messrsiator, craub7;: 'l9l
rs. flaw ne •
Ucitors, Cranbrook ; Mr. John Elliot Wilson, so khars
to Messrs. Beecham and Upperton, solicit°
Peppercort
to the following Brokers :—Loudon 3icssrs. Dun
Aston
Co., 2, Old Broad-street; Messrs. Preece a
anr
o.vat
oi_essrs
Messrs. Fryer and Co., 1, Birchin-lane.
L3ivicr. PJosepli Brice,4;o.
and Gage; Messrs. Reynolds and Son; Leed
chester—Mr. John Duncuft ; Mr. John
alte'r_3tr.
A. and C. Beardshaws ; Messrs. Wellbelov_ead st_rdpeCaors'on.4lB„dis;
Messrs. Tate and Nash, Birmingham—Mr....L. utotc7ster_....
ford—Messrs. Samuel Hutchinson and Co. w
Miles. Cheltenham—Messrs. Hall,
Thomas Sanford. Southampton—Messrs.. E
3lr Robert •AiiirAitkin•
burgh—Mr. J. W. Lyon, 89, George-street ,
Buchanan a
_yowe.
Co.; 3lessls.
Bruce and b
goo—Messra. Black and
srs.
Aberdeen—Mr. W. Gordon. Dublin—Mes
Brothers, and Co.
sEoxoes:..

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TUNBRIDGE and RYE HARBOUR,
Lj
.At an adjourned meeting of RlaAnTedWpAriroPrietors and others locag
interested in the above line, held at the Ball Inn, CranbrooX,
tober 20,

T. L. HODGES, Esq., in the Chair ; T.
was moved by the Heil. Captain KING, and seconded by
31orsirPENNT, Esq., and carried unanimousy;
~ That a railway from Tunbridge, via Paddock-wood,
and port of Rye, passing to or near the parishes of BrenchleY, idea,
monde'', Goudhurst, Cranbrook, Bennenden, Hawkhurg',. 'Oen,
Must, Rolvenden, Newenden, Northeain, Beckley, Peasernarsi`,
Playden, and Guildford, is desirable." .., Ig.
It was moved by A. J. B. HOPE, Esq. M.P. and seconded
TOOTH, Esq., and carried ;north"
" That the line, as explained by Mr. Giles, passing to the
east side of the town of Cranbrook, is the best line to be adopted b,
Moved by T. G. MoNTPENNY, Esq. ; and seconded by W. r• I'm''
Esq. POI'
" That the following gentlemen be added to the Provisional s- ~
mittee :—The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Beresford, the 110 a. Copt.
J. W. King. R.N. ; Thomas Law Hodges, Esq. ; Alexander J! l!oet.
Beresford Hope, Esq., 3LP, ; Thomas Walton Roberts, Esq. ; 31'1•r/go
to the oto,svr:
Curteis ; Captain Michael Twedie • Sackville Phelps, Esq. °ldol
French, jun., Esq. ; Edward Poynder, Esq. ; and Thomas Twi
Hodges, Esq.,tb°
Lord Beresferd having been called temporarily to the
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thanks of the meeting were given to the Chairman, Thomas .b."
Hodges, Esq. G. A. LAMB, Secretart.