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London, England, 1845-10-18 00:00:00

BANKERS IN LONDON.

London and Westminster Bank.
Union Bank of London.
Commercial Bank of London.
Messrs. Strahan, Paul, Bates, ar.:, Co.
Liverpool Bank, Liverpool.
ENGLISH ENGINEERS—Sir John itenni^,t captain W. S. jianorannt.
SOLICITOR--.TOSer:., Carey, Esq.
JOINT-SECRETARIES TO THE Er
PROVISIONAL COSOUTTIE.
Eugene L. Deprez, Thomas Morton, Esq.
The above French and
.Citglisu Committees, having formed a
Company to compete for the adjudication of this line, are for the
most part composed of the active promoters of the Great Northern
of France Railway 'tltosainel Company). A preference will, in con-
sequence, be give in the allotment of shares (in proportion to the
number held in the Rosamel Company) to parties presenting the
certificates of that Company, and upon signing the proper form of
applicatio,d, on or before the 18th of October instant.
It is expected that this railway will be soon put up for adjudication,
which renders it necessary to close almost immediately the list of ap-
plications.

Applications fbr shares at the disposal of the English Provisional
Committee, in the usual form, will be received, with a reference to
a respectable banker or broker, for the remainder of the shares, ad-
dressed to the Secretaries, 63, Moorgate-street ; Messrs. Sutton,
Gribble, and Sutton, Royal Exchange ; Messrs. Johnson, Longden,
and Co., Tokenbonse-yard ; G. Peppercorne, Esq., 2, Old Broad-
street ; John Metcalfe, Esq., Change-alley, Cornhill, Louden ; Messrs.
William Reynolds and Son, Morris Reynolds, Esq., and Highileld
and Withers, Liverpool ; Messrs. Cardwell and Sons, and John
Ouly:uft, Manchester ; H. and C. Bradshaw, Leeds ; James Hervey,
II Atka ; Andrew Brand, Glasgow; Tate and Nash, Bristol.
Office, 63, Moorgate-street.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Great Paris and Strasbarg

Railway.

Gentlemen,—l hereby subscribe for shares of 201. each in
the capital stock of this railway, and I undertake to accept that, or
any less number of shares that may be allotted to me, to pay the
deposit and fature calls when requested, and to conform to the statutes,
rules, and regulations of the Company, as duly authorised by the
laws of France, upon such conditions as the Directors shall accept of
the French Government.

Dated this day of 1845.
Christian and Surname in Hill .....
Profession or Calling...—. .
Place of Residence and Address
Name and Address of Reference ••• • •

BEAT PARS AND STRASBOURG
Nir RAILWAY (UNION COMPANY).

,
N,,tice is hereby given. that no further Applieatiiras for Shares »ill
be received after the 22.1 instant, nor can any be attended to unac-
companied by a reference to a banker, or to one of the Provieonal
Committee, or some persons well known to them.

E. L. DE PREZ, 1
THOMAS MOM :j do" *retain*

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 400,0001., In 20,000 Shares of 20/. each.
Deposit, 21.25. per Share,
PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS.

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of the Great Manchester and Southampton Railways
John Downes, Esq. 6, Bedford-place, Russell-square, London

M. H. Williams,Esq. Bridgnoith

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capitall,2oo,oool., in 48,009 Shares of 28/. task.
Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.

lAONDON CENTRAL RAILWAY
TERMINUS COMPANY.

The Committee of the London Central Railway Company hereby
give notice to those Proprietors of the Charing- cross Bridge Com-
pany who were desirous of confirming the arrangement which had
been entered into by the Directors, and subsequently confirmed at a
General Meeting of the Proprietors, that the Committee have
tmanimomly resolved to give such Proprietors the privilege of
taking Shares in the London Central Railway Terminus Company,
in proportion to the number of Bridge Shares held by them, provided
application is made for the same on or before WEDNESDAY NEXT.
By order, JOHN F. NEALE, Secretary.
28, Mosrgate-street, Oct. 16, 1845.

NORTH UN lON, TRENT VAL LEY, AND
MIDLAND COUNTIES JUNCTION, AND MACCLES-
FIELD, WARRINGTON, AND LIVERPOOL DIRECT RAIL-
WAY COMPANY. _ _

James Lawrence, Esq. mayor of Liverpool, and director of the Liver-
pool, WarringtAm, Stockport, and Manchester Direct
Charles Mann, Esq. Manchester, and Laurel Villa, Leamington,
director of the Oxford and Birmingham Junction, the East and
West of England, and the Manchester and Rugby Direct, and pro-
prietor of the Victoria Basin, Manchester
John Holford, Esq. Rusholine-hall, Manchester
Edward Morris, Esq. West-cottage, Chorley, director of the Black-
burn, Chorley, and Liverpool, the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, the
Great Western, Southern, and Eastern, or Ipswich and Southamp-
ton, and the Keighley, Halifax, and Hudderstleldi

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Jasper Fletcher, sq. ilanchester _
Henry Taylor, Esq. Wigan, director of the London and Liverpool
Direct, the Staffordshire Potteries, the York and Lancaster, the
Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, and other railways
__ _ ..._ . . .

Gervise Cressy Hall, Esq. Alfrann, Derbyshire
Wilhain Byron, Esq. Oldham, a director of the Liverpool, Preston,
and North Union, the Dover and Bristol, and the London and
Liverpool Direct
William Walker, Esq. Lea Wood. Derbyshire, director of the Liver-
pool and Derby, and the Northampton, Lincolnshire, and Hull
Railways

Thomas Byrom, Esq. Wigan, director of the York and Lancaster,
the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, the Keighley, Halifax, and
Huddersfield Junction, and the London and Liverpool Direct

Railway
William Caldwell, Esq. Ince, alderman of the borough of Wigan, and
director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and Keighley, Halifax,
and Huddersfield Railway
James Middleton, Esq. merchant, Eve: ton, Liverpool
Arthur Henderson, Esq. merchant, member of the select vestry,
Liverpool
William Alexander Dow, Esq. Inner Temple, London, member of the

Ilon. Society of Lincolit's Inn, London -
John Bridge Aspinall, Esq. barrister-at-law, London and Liverpool,
director of the Huddersfield, Manchester, and Great Grimsby, and

the Lincolnshire and Eastcru Counties Railway
William Dossa Whitehead, Esq. merchant, Cheetwood, Manchester,
director of the Hull, Great Grimsby. and Southampton, and the

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Lincolnshire and Eastern Counties Railways
Joseph Lockett, Esq. Marlborough Villa, Higher Broughton, Man-

chester
Robert Ryder, Esq. Arthvick-place, Manchester
John Formby, Esq. J.P. Liverpool and Cheshire, director of the Holy-

head Junction Railway
Peter Marrow, Esq. corn merchant, Liverpool
John Rawlins Postiethwaite, Esq. cotton spinner, Ribblesdale-place,

Preston
Proctor Walker, Esq. Moor-park, Preston, director of the Liverpool
and Leeds Direct, and the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield

Railways •
Henry Edwards, Esq. Audley Villa, Everton, Liverpool
Samuel Routledge, Esq. Huddersfield, director of the East and West
Coast Railway, the Manchester and Great Grimsby Direct, and
other railways
Thomas gobson, Esq. Darlington Cottage, Pendleton, Manchester
William Melville Lomas, Esq. merchant, Liverpool, director of the
London and Holyhead, the Lancashire, Cheshire, and Stafford,hire
Junction, the North Western Trunk, the Midland Grand Junction,

;.nd several other railways
William Atkinson Gardiner, Esq. Cecil-street, London, vice-chair-
man of the Midland Union, director of the Boston, Stamford, and
Birmingham, the Oxford, Newbury, and Andover, the Manchester
and Southampton, and the Direct Liverpool and London Railways
Edward Ward Jackson, Esq. Clare-terrace, Edge-hill, Liverpool,
director of the London and Edinburgh Direct, the Staffordshire
Potteries, and Manchester and Liverpool Direct, the Direct Shef-

field and Macclesfield, and several other railways
W. W. Prole, Esq. Thurloe-square, London, director of the Cambrian

end Grand junction Railway
John Webster, Esq. director of the Great Grimsby and Lincoln
Railway, 35, Mecklenburgh-square, Landon
Richard Chapman, Esq. Park-place, Regent's-park, London, director

Jas. Peard Ley, Esq. Seyt-on Ironworks, Whitehaven, and Reform
Club, London, director of the Nottingham, Birmingham, Gains-
borough, and Hull Railway
David Montague, Esq. Baddington, London, director of the Ports-
mouth and Chatham Railway
Cornelius Nicholson, Esq. the Grange, Kendal, director of the Cale-
donian, Kendal, and Windermere, and the Lancaster and Carlisle
Railways
Edward Robinson, Esq. Hull, director of the Rugby, Derby, and
Manchester, and the Direct Sheffield and Macclesfield Railways
John Del% burst, Esq. Preston, director of the North Union Junction

Railway _
George Carry, Esq. merchant, Penwortham House, near Preston,
director of the Fleetwood and West iding Railway
George Smith, Esq. cotton spinner, Beech Grove, Moor Park,Preston
John Lord, Esq. Standish Hall, director upon the Dover and Bristol,
the Eastern and Western, the Southern, or Ipswich and Southamp-
ton, and the Staffordshire Potteries
Joseph Pimlott Oates, Esq. Sutton-Coldfleld, director of the Leicester
and Birmingham Direct, Midland and South Junction, and several
other railways _

William Jones, Esq. Liverpool.
Reddish, Esq. Sharston, near Warrington
William Cantrell, Esq. Wirksworth, Derbyshire, director of the Am-
bergate and _Nottingham, the Loudon and Nottingham, Liverpool
and Derby Direct, and the Staffordshire and North Midland Junc-
tion Railways
Jonathan Dunn, Esq. merchant, Liverpool, director of the Lancaster
and Preston, Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester, and other Railways
Thomas Bailey, Esq. merchant, Aigburth Old Hall, Liverpool
John Grant Morris, Esq. coal merchant, Liverpool, director of the

Liverpool and Bolton Direct Railway
Thomas Ward, Esq. Macclesfield, provisional director of the Man-
chester, Ashton-under-Lynn, Stalybridge, and North Derbyshire

_
Railway
John Cooke, Esq. Macclesfield, provisional director of the Sheffield,

Nottingham, and London Direct Railway
Jeremiah Clarke, Esq. Macclesfield, provisional director of the
London and Manchester Direct (Remington's)
John Massey, Esq. merchant, Manchester
(With power to add to their number).
ACTING COMMITTEE.
James Lawrence, Esq. Mayor of Liverpool
Charles Mann, Esq. Manchester and Leamington
W. A. Dow, Esq. Inner Temple, London
Edward Morris, Esq. Chorley
Henry Taylor, Esq. Wigan
Thomas Byrom, Esq. Wigan
Joseph Lockett, Esq. Manchester
John Lord, Esq. Standish Hall
IL Edwards, Esq. Evgrton, Liverpool
Samuel Routledge, Es 4. Huddersfield
Proctor Walker, Esq. Preston
William Byrom, Esq. Oldham
William Melville Lomas, Esq. Liverpool
William Jones, Esq. Liverpool
(With power to add to their number).
ACTING ENGINEER—Henry Turbeville Edwards, Esq,
BANKERS.
London--Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths,
Manchester
Liverpool
Macclesfield The Manchester and Liverpool District
arrinton Banking Company
Wigan
Preston,
Leeds—The Yorkshire Banking Company
Birmingham—The Birmingham Banking Company
SOLICITORS TO TUE COMPANY—J. and W. Andrew, Manchester
LOCAL SOLICITOUS.
Liverpool—Messrs Avison and Pritt ; and John Greatly, Esq.
Macclesfield—Richard Wormald, Esq.
Preston—George Todd, Esq.
Wigan— Henry Gaskell, Esq.

SECRETAILV-Nir. W. F. westan
The great objects of this compar are twofold. The first is to --esta-
blish the most direct line of re:iway
communication between all th-
midland and southern and:
northern counties of England ; and also
with Scotland, by a pLiort junction line of about 22 miles in length
from the North r
..nion Railway, at or near Parkside, to apoint oil the
Manchester
..nd Birmingham Railway, at or near Prestbury, and
thence to Macclesfield, there uniting with some one or more of such
of tb
undermentioned proposed lines, to or near that place, as may be
...maimed by Parliament,,and effect a junction with the Trent Val-
ley, London and Birmingham, and Midland Counties Railways
Birmingham and Manchester Direct Railway
Churnet and Blyth, or Macclesfield and Lichfield dtirictloll
Railway
Tean and Dove Valley
North Staffordshire
London and Manchester Direct (Remington's and Rastrick's
Amalgamated)
North Cheshire'
South Union
Rugby, Derby, and Manchester
Manchester and Rugby Direct
Direct Sheffield and Macclesfield. _ _ _

A continuous line of railway communication will thus be formed
from LDndon, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and the Potteries,
with Wigan, Preston, the ports of Fleetwood and Lancaster, and
with Carlisle; and from that place, by the Caledonian Railway,
to Edinburgh and Glasgow, and all the important cities and towns
in Scotland, thus establishing the most important and uninter-
rupted, and at the same time the shortest and most expeditious line
of comniunication between the metropolis of England and that of
Scotland,. and all the intermediate places. In conjunction with the
oposed line from Sheffield to Macclesfield, the moat direct commu-
nication between Liverpool and Sheffield will be effected.

The second object of this Company is by the proposed branch to
Warrington, there uniting with the contemplated line of the Grand
Junction Railway Company from that place to the Liverpool allq
and Manchester Railway, at lluyton, to effect the shortest and nnitt
convenient line of communication between Maccieetlekl, Warrington,
and Liverpool.

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Whet, it is considered that Macclesfield and its environs, with a
population of 50,000, must become so important a centre of railway
communication from the midland, western, and southern counties of
England, and that there is not at present any direct railway front
thence, connecting it with all the important manufacturing, coal,
and other mineral districts, in the direct line to Scotland, and that
this line would meet the existing deficiency, and form the most di-
rect route, by effecting a saving of sixteen miles in the distance from
Macclesfield to Parkside and also to Warrington, over any estate
blished or proposed line in a northern direction—the desireabieness of
this project, in a na tonal point ef view, must, it is presumed, be ad-
mitted ; and that it will form an important trunk line of communi-
cation, over which a larger amount of passenger traffic, agricultural,
mineral, and the manufacturing produce would pass, than any other
line of the same length in the kingdom. The advantage which this
project offers to the public will be sufficiently apparent, without ffir-
ther comment.

Tke 11afolit37 of each shareholder will be restricted to the amount
of the shares taken ; and power will be applied for in the Bill to
allow intmst, at the rate of 4/. per cont. per annum, on all calls
made from the time of paym,mt to the opening of the line.
The survey of the line is now in progress, and, with other neces-
sary areangen-,nts, will be completed without delay, in order to go
Pqrlhl;no:lt the ensuing G;;sslon.
P171:1,1 slr the this, and copies or' thc pro,pecf,g;td fbm,, of
plication for shares, may be had from the Company's solicitors; or
from the following sharehrokers:—Mr. T. C. Munday, 17, Royal
Exchange, London ; Messrs. Wells, Westropp, and Princep, 75, Old
Broad-street, London; Mr. David Kinnear, 46, Hanover-street,
Edinburgh; MossrpOletighlanclanVdeuse, Ktukotreet; Manchester;

LOCAL AGENTS.
Oxford—John Francis Wilde, Esq.
Salisbury—Stephen Hill, Esq.
Abingdon—Messrs. Graham and Son
Vantage—William Ormond, Esq.
Huugerford and Marlborough—John Holcomb, Esq.
SECRETAItT.-.Z. ItabberSty, Esq.

THY. OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT
RAILWAY, via ABINGDON, WASTAGE, HUNGERFORD,
and LUDGERSHALL.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Portarlington
The Right Hon. Lori Viscount Dillon, Ditchley-park, Oxon
The Right Hon. Lord Suffield, Gunton-park, North Walsham
The Right lion. Lord Rossmore, the Dell, Windsor
The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne, Belle Hatch-house, Henley
The HQa. Robert Gore, R.N., M.P., 21, Wilton-crescent
Lieut.-Col. the Hon. J. C. Westenra, M.P., 13, Conduit-street, Di-

rector of the East and West Junction Railway
The Hon. William M. Dawson, Parkstono-lodge, Poole, Director of
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the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
The Hon. Edward Stafford Jerilihgliam, Director of the London and

Nottingham Railway
Sir William Drummond Stewart, Bart.
Sir John Rey, Dart., King's Arms-yard, Alderman of London,

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Director of the Direct Manchester and London Railway
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, United Service Club
E. F. Dayrell, Esq.. Lillingston Dayrell, High Sheriff of Buckingham-
shire, Chairman of the Minchead and Bridgewater Railway
Lieut.-Colonel Elringion, Scots Fusilier Guards, Wyndham-place,
Bryanston-square, Director of the Great Western Extension

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Atmospheric Railway
James Macmillan, Esq., Southampton, Director of the Worcester,

Warwick, and Rugby Railway
Frederick William Seymour, Esq., Carlton-gardens, Director of the

Dover and Bristol Railway
Henry D. Erskine, Esq., Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, and Kirby
Dale, Yorkshire, Director or the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway
Major Moore, Queen Anne-street, Director of the Brighten and

Cheltenham Direct Railway
Major Graham, late Scots Greys,l6, Grove, Clapham
G.B. Banbury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the

Coventry and ➢lauchester Railway
The Rev. H. It. Fowler, Felton, near Bristol, and 7, Manchester-
square, Director of the Rhondda and Ely Valleys Junction

Railway
James Gernon, Esq., 13, Conduit-street, Vice-Chairman of the Gal-
way and Ennis Grand Junction Railway
Archibald Douglas Stewart, Esq., Grandtully Castle
Rebert Bell, Esq., Manor-house, Chiswick, Director of the Dover

and Bristol Railway
Joseph Bull, Esq., Manchester
Thomas Ferrand Deaden, Esq., Rochdale
Charles Haigh, Esq., Rochdale
Charles Welland, Esq., Liverpool
James Shaw, Esq., Pendleton, Manchester
The Rev. F. K. Hall, D.D., Rector of Fulborne, Cambridgeshire
Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlborough-place, St.
John's-wood Directors of the
E. S. Blundell, Esq., 18, Lower Seymour-street Direct Lon-
W. L. Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex don and Exe-
G. W. Evans, Esq., Milbury-terrace, Regent's-Park ter Railway
Walter Shairp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-Park,
John Allen, Esq. 12, Gloucester-terrace, Kensington
Francis Roose, Esq., Upper Montague-street, Montagne-square
Francis Ewart, Esq., Temple, Director of the Equity and Law
Lice Assurance Company, and of the Exeter, Dorchester, and

Weymouth Railway
William Gambier, Esq., Sacombe-park, Herts
Benjamin Swan, Esq., Jermyn-street, St. James's
Nehemiah John Reed, Esq., R.N., Marroorough, Director of the
London and South Wales Direct Railway
Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough
F. Walker Botterill, Esq., Burnley
James Paxton, Esq.. M. 1)., Director of the Rugby and Manchester,
Ibuldersileld, and Great Grimsby Railways
Thomas Ingham Rayner, Esq., Lilac-cotta,ge, Birstal, near Leeds, Di-
rector of the Great Leeds, and London, Midland, and Thirsk, and

other Railway-,
Major Henry Lyster, 9, Spring-terrace, Wandsworth-road, Director
of the Lincolnshire and Eastern Counties Railway
J. Russell, Esq. Gloucester-place, Portman-square
William Doe Belcher, Esq.. Mayor of Abingdon
John Hyde, Esq., jun., Alderman of Abingdon
John Tomkins, Esq.
John Harris, Esq. Members of the Town Council, Ibing-
Thomas Copeland, Esq. don
Edwin James Trendell, Esq ,
John Sing, Esq., Aningdea
George Cox, Esq., Abingdon
George Jackson, Esq., Abingdon
John Knight, Esq., Abingdon
Mr. Thomas Payne, jun., Abingdon
John Aldwcrth, Esq.,Frilford, Berks
William Candwell, Esq., Drayton, near Abingdon
Will-am Dews, Esq., Sionehill, near Abingdon
John Towle, Esq.
Charles Hickman, Esq. Members of the City Council, Oxford
John Weaving, Esq.,
It. C. Godfrey, Esq.,
James Morrell, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant of the county of Oxford,
Director of the London and Cheltenham Direct Railway
Captain H. Strong, Oxford, Director of the Oxford and Worcester
Extension Railway
William Mead Warner. Esq., Oxford
Daniel ?Manley, Esq., Oxford
William Seckham, Esq., Kidlington, Oxon
Charles Shillingford, Esq., Sorter Town, Oxon
Adin Williams, Esq., Somer Town, 0211 a.
Mr. Thomas Hyde, Oxford
Mr. Wm. Thompson, Oxford
James Wickens, EN., Oxford
John Brightman, Esq., Regency-square, Brighton, Chairman if the
Hounslow Railway
David Bryan, Esq., Northampton, Director of the Eastern and
Midland Counties Railway
Capt. James Edward Carnegie, Somerset-street, Portman-square,
and Bower-hall, Inverness, Director of the Reading and Reigate
Railway
Charles Liddiard, Esq., Wantage
Mr. Henry James Palmer, Wantage
Thomas Brown, Esq. West Lockinge, Berks
William Stone, Esq. Charlton, Berks
Richard Barnard, Esq. Charlton, Berks
Henry Hayward, Esq. Stirlings, Wantage
James Staley, Esq. Wantage
Thomas Brown, Esq. Wantage
Mr. Charles Hart, foundry, Wantage
Mr. William Beesley, \Vantage
John William Palmer, Esq. Leteombe Regis, forks
Mr. J. Pottinger Palmer, Letcombe Regis, Berke
John Blunt, Esq., Upper Bedford-place, Director of the London
Docks
William Bestow, Esq., Surrey-place, Kent-road, Director of the
Commercial and General Life Assurance Association
Robert Bestow, Esq., Surrey-place, Director of the Great Eastern
and Western Railway
John King, Esq., St. John's-wood, London, Director of the Somer.
setshire Midland Railway
Henry Stock, Esq., Beddgelert, North Wales, Director of the Great
Eastern and Western Railway
D. T. Johnson, Esq. Aldemary-churchyard, Director of the Direct
Lidependent London and Manchester Railway
John Bloor, Esq., Tutbury, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Man-
chester Railway
T. A. Dale, Esq., Malvern-house, Cheltenham, Director of the Bir-
kenhead and Holyhead Junction, and South Staffordshire and Pot-
teries Railways
Charles Johnston, Esq., Aldersgate-street, Director of the Lynn,
Thetford, and Ipswich Railway
Admiral Ayscoutzh, Southampton, Director of the Birmingham and
Leicester Railway
Frederick Chamier, Esq., R.N., Halkin-street, Belgrave-square,
Director of the Northampton and Cambridge Railway
George R. Peppercorn, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex, Director of the Rugby
and Warwick Railway
Thomas Salkeld, Esq. Huddersfield, Director ef the Manchester,
DHiurdederstield,and Great Grimsby, and Huddersfield and Liverpool
et Railway
Charles Finch, Esq., Fisherton, Salisbury
jamofestheScHotutil Danl.Dd.,RGolyroliveeadE, End-lodge,
Railways
General Wright, Gloucester-place, Portman-square
(With power to add to their number). t h Director
Pile
,thSet. Bristol,
Railways

• COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
William Bastow, Esq. BObert Bell, Esq.
William Doe Belcher, Esq. W. L. Pope, Esq.
E. S. Blundell, Esq. M.D. Brigadier-General Sir HenryE.
Thomas Dowglasse, Esq. Pynn
Francis Ewart, Esq. Francis noose, Esq.
Charles Liddiard, Esq. Walter Shairp, Esq.
James Macmillan, Esq. Henry Stock, Esq.
(With limited power to add to their number.)
ENGINEER-IN-CHlEF—Saniel Charles Breve, Esq.
SOLICITOBS—Menre. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Morgate-street,
London.
TAILLIAMENTA.Ia AGENT—Cadwallader F. Waddy,
BANKERS.
London—The London and Westminster Bank, and the Com-
mercial Bank of London
Oxford—The London and County Bank
Salisbury—The Wilts and Dorset County Bank
Abingdon—Messrs. Henry Knapp and Co. ; and the County
Bank
Wastage—Messrs. Henry Knapp and Co.
Newbury—The Berkshire Union Bank
Hungerford—Messrs. Tanner and Pinckney.

The imrortance of connecting remote parts of England by rail-
ways, with the advantages thereby conferred upon intermediate towns
aid districts, can scarcely be better exemplified than by the line
which is now proposed to form a short and direct channel of inter-
course between Oxford and Salisbury. Numerous projected lines
now before the public will make Oxford at the north, and Salisbury
at the south of the intended railroad, tile central Points from which
various radii will diverge to the north-west, north, and north-east of
the former, and to the south and west of the latter ; and the
proposed line from Cambridge to Oxford, continuing to that city the
course of railway from the north-eastern parts of the island, requires
the appliance now suggested to effect a complete means of transit to
the western and south-Western counties.
The Oxford and Salisbury Direct Railway, is addition to
the benefits which will be conferred upon the nation at
large, by perfecting a direct line of commun'eatioit be-
tween the north-eastern and western and south-western
parts of England, Will afford to the boron:Ile, of Abingdon,
the market towns of "Vantage; thingerford, and Ltidgershon, and
the adjacent Viiiagee, an important railway accommodation, of w
much
the agricultural districts in which they ate Seated Stand in
need, and will provide a facility fond interchange of ondnee be_
tween the rural, manufacturing,
commercial population Of the
kingdom. The prOjected line will bring the Cathedral City of Salis-
bury into iiiiitittiiatB dditheßiMl with the City and University of
Oxford, combining also the adVantage of a direct communication
with the Sikter U thus strengthening
rittersity of Cambridge ; the
eneleedgical and Academical relations of the whole, whilst the com-
mercial prosperity of the two terminal cities must of necessity be
essentially enhanced.
The want of railway accommodation has long been felt to press
ttnfairly upon the inhabitants of the important and thriving town of
Abingdon. Their means mad opportunities of competing with the more
fortunate traders of those towns which are already provided with di-
rect channels of transit) arc thus Se-fere:qv crippled. The same remark
a:milea in some degree to the market town of Vintage, which, as
wel as Hungerfbrd and Ltidgertnati, via:A rs a Share of the profits,
and adtentages tirtidticcd hY iiiIWAY t".-alas.
it itat therefore been determined to commence the proposed MIA at
Oxford, and to proceed through Abingdon to the station of the Great
We.stern Railway at SteVenton, thus alVing to Abingdon a direct rail-
road to Tiondbli. sly continuing the projecteu railway ti Watitage, the '
same facility of transit to London will be afforded to that plaea I and
a perfect line of road from the nortit-easterri counties Will, by a junc-
tion with the prejetiloit from eambridge ta Oii!Thill. be prod/iced,
through the towns which have been named, liunuerford aril tOdgets,
hall, to Salisbury, an,l thence to tke South and western ports and dig-
tricts,
The survey is in a state of great to-rwerdnesS, and will be com-
pleted in sufficient time to enable the CoMpatlY to apply to Parlia-
ment in the next session ; and the promoters !..1111g received general
id most satisfactory assurances of support f- i l'vcal gentry'
landowners, traders, and influential inhabitants, the
rea°l_ll,beict,
ground to /I of the necessary _
anticipate the unobstructed passin
Pr the formation of ode Oxford and ti.insiinry Direct Railway duringi i in,",,..._ tiv.., ensuin4 session.
Applications for shai- ' Ind ros e.t . .
P P c t••scs to be made to ,fe- s t '-
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EICESTER, TEAN AND DOVE VALLEY,
AND STAFFORD JUNCTION RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
CHARLES ROBERT COLVILE, Esq. M.F. Lullington, Derbyshire,

Chairman.
JOHN BULLER YARDE BULLER, Esq., Holne-park, Devon,
Deputy-Chairman.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Uxbridge
The Right Hon. Lord Montagu William Graham
The Right Hon. Lord .Alfred Paget, MA'.
The Right Hon. Lord George Paget
Sir Richard Dobson, F.R.S. 47, Gloucester-place, Portman-square,

London
The Hon. Francis Curzon, Barrow-hall, Derby
The Hon. Frederick Byron, 21, Eaton-place,London
Edward Buller, Esq. M.P, Dilhorn-hall, Staffordshire
The Hight Hon. Colonel George Lionel Dawson Dallier, M.P. 6,

Tllney-street, London
Major Beresford, M.P. 77, Pall-mall, London
George Dodd, Esq. M.P. Grosvenor-place, London
William Henry Gregory, Esq. M.P. 5, Cork-street, London
William John Blake, Esq. 62, Portland-place, London
The Rev. Reginald Chandos Pole, Radbourn Rectory
John Bott, Esq. Cotton-hall, Staffordshire
Henry Barton, Esq. Rangemoor-house, Burton-on-Trent
Captain C. Twisleton Graves, Army and Navy Club, London
William Coare Brocklehurst, Esq. Hurdsfield-house, Macclesfield
Richard Dyott, Esq. Freeford-hall, Lichfield
Charles Dickson Archibald, Esq. F.R.S. F.A.S. York-terrace,
Regent's-park, and Rusland-hall, Lancashire
Jonathan Hopkinson, Esq. 55, Chester-square, London
Joseph Hoare, Esq. banker, Hampstead, London
William J. Dennie, Esq. 6, Lowerßerkeley-street, Portman-square,
• Landoll
John Dixon, Esq. Macclesfield
Edward Thomas Coke, Esq. Mansfield Wood-horse
Thomas Landor, Esq. the Manor-house, Burton-on-Trent
William Sharp, Esq. Linden-hall, La caste
ncast
Thomas Webb, Esq. Tutbury, Staffordshire
Satinet Walker Cox, Esq. Breadsall-:edge, near Derby
Edward Hyde Clarke, Esq. Hyde-hall, Stockport
Henry Deakin, Esq. Burton-en-Trent
Moses Cartwright, Esq. Stanton-house, Derbyshire
John T. Raworth, Esq. Leicester
George Boden, Esq. St. George's-terrace, Kensington
Charles Bemers Plestow,Wadingtonall, Lynn Regk, and
Princes-street, Cavendish-square, London
James Valiance, Esq. 25, Cavelidish-square, London, and Sitting-
bourne, Kent
Colonel Cheney, Gaddesby, Leicester
Thomas Bladon, Esq. Dove-bank, Uttoxeter
Henry Boden, Esq. the Field, Derby
henry John Pye, Esq. Clifton, Staffordshire
Charles Edward Eugene Mousley, Esq. Hatinton, Staffordshire
The Rev. Theodore Echalaz, vicar of Lullington
Hampden Clements, Esq. Snareston-lodge, Leicestershire
Captain Wilmot Horton, R.N. Catton-hall, Derbyshire
Francis Willington, Esq. Tamworth
Edward William Smith, Esq. Routh, near Beverley, Yorkshire
(With power to add to their number).
ENGINEERS.
J. F. Bateman, Esq.
Joseph Cubitt, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. J. and J. Richardson, Burton-on-Trent
G. H. R. Cox, Esq. Derby.
tion to extend their line to Alrewas,
„rhea. e
• and, in addition to its
be
The Provisional Committee beg to annortincite,stbuaituintitios
wthiteilre
ainpterao-.
jected branch of the Trent Valley lt
To effect this
to
object, the farom willcapital.eicoefstteirletocoSntiaffpaonryd.
other advantages, form a direct line
-..ed to 500,00(1., to he diNh.e • - d intcr2s,o3o shares of 20/. each.
for shares as may desire to withdraw their
so. No further applications can be re-

--,anlT, secretary.