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London, England, 1845-09-20 00:00:00

ILTS, SOMERSET, AND SOUTHAMP-
TON JUNCTION RAILWAY.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,

The DEEDS of this COMPANY will LIE as
follows:—
In SOUTHAMPTON—At the Offices of W. H. Maberly, Esq., &JR--
eitor, Portland-street, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, the
15th, 16th, and 17th of September instant, between the hours of
Eleven and your each day.

In BRISTOL—At the Bush Hotel, on Tuesday and Wednesday,
the 16th and 17th instant, between the hours of Eleven and Five
each day.
In SHEFFIELD—At the Tontine Hotel, on Thursday and Friday,
the 18111 and 19th instant, between the hours 01 Eleven and Five
each day.
In LEEDS—At the Royal Hotel, on Saturday and Monday, the
20th and 22d instant, between the hours of Eleven and Five
each day. . _

In yojEK—At the Black Swan Inn, on Tuesday and Wednesday,
the -23 d and 24th instant, between the hours of Eleven and Five
each day.

In NE.'NVCASTLE-ON-TYNE-At the George Inn, on Thursday
and Friday, the 25th and 26th instant, between the hours of Eleven
and Five each day.
Iu EDINBURGII—At the Gibb's Hotel, Princes-street, on Mon-
day and Ttiesday, the 29th and 30th instant, between the hours of
Eleven and Five each day.

Returning from Edinburgh, the Deed will be at Manchester, at the
Albion Hotel, on Friday and Saturday, the 3d and 4th October, be-
tween the hours of Eleven and Five each day. •
By order,

H. R. SHERIDAN, Secretary.

London, August 13, 1845.

EXETER, 'DORCLIESTER, AND WEY-
MOUTH JUNCTION COAST RAILWAY.
( i.rovisicanally Registered, pursuant to 7 and S Vict., cap. 110.)
Capital, 1,250,0001., its 62,500 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21.- 2s. per Share.
raovistossAL COMMITTEE.
Lieut.-General Sir Robert Barton, IS,c,H., Montague-place, Mon-
tague-square.
Jacob Bell, Esq., Langham-place
John Carter, Esq., F.R.A.S., Park ,Lodge, Stockwell
Jelin Carter, Esq., Dorset-place, Portman-square
John Chauntler, Esq., Friday-street, Director of the York and Lan-
caster Railway
Wiliam x, Esq., Rex House, 13ridport
W. S. Cross, Esq., New-court, Temple, Director of the Leatilon
an,l_Birmiugham Extension Railway
Newton Crouch, Esq.,Seitthampton-place, London, Director of the
York and Lancaster Railway
The Hon. Miles Dormer, Hans-place, Sloane-street.
Colonel Lothian Sheffield Dickson, Curzon-street, May-fair
Colonel Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, C. 8., Director of the Bide-
ford and Tavistock Railway
Peter Henry Edlin, Esq., Director of the Warwick and Worcester
Railway
Francis Ewart, Esq., Brick-court, Temple, Director of the Equity and
Law Life Assurance Coinpanies
Captidn S. N. Fisher. Junior United Service Club, Director of the
Manchester and Birmingham Continuation Railway
Major Fitzgerald, Mount Edgar, Sidmouth
John Foster, Esq., Barges) ard, Bucklcrsbury
The Rev. 11. Fellowes, J.P., ViCar of Sidbury
Theophilns M. Gunn, E-q.,Bridsrort
Captain Sir Andrew l'ellett Green, R.N., K.C.11., James-street, Deta-
ins-ham-gate, Director of the Bank of Australasia
Frederick James Hall, Esq., Torrington-square, Director of the Trent
Valley Continuation Railway
W. Newton Harriat, Esq., Odiham, Hants
Josiah Heale, Esq., Gray's Jim-square, Director of the Chelmsfbrd
and Bury-Railway
Thomas Ileatheock, Esq., The lifermitage, Sidmouth
George Price Hill, Esq., Gawanbro House, Hampstead
F. B. Hoare, Esq., Lincoln's Inn
Jo to Holmes, Esq., Liverpool, and St. James's-street, Westminster,
Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
Michael Elijah Dewey, Esq., Duchess-street, Portland. place, and
Lawn Cottage, Twickenham
Swynfen Jervis, Esq., Whitehall-place, and Darlaston Hall, Staf-
fordshire, Director of the Great Indian ' _Beninsular Railway, and
of the Bideford and Tavistock Railway
Frederick_Jones, Esq., Lincoln's But, Director of the Warwick and
Worcester Railway
Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London, Director of the London
and Manchester Direct Railway
Sir Wiliam Wynn, Chairman of the North Wales Railway
Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, and Director of the W6r-
- crater and South Wales Junction Railway, and of the Londori and
Birmingham Extension Railway ss„,
Richard Keily, Esq., Cleveland-row, St. James's, Chairman of,.'t
New Ross, Carlow,. and Kilkenny Railways
Siegerich C. Kreeft, Esq., 9, Billicer-square
William Ley, Esq., Director of the Reading and Reigate Railway
L. Llewellyn, Esq., Yule Penllwch, and Graig-Avon, Glamorgan--
shire
Robert' Henry Lindham, Esq., NeW-street, Dorset-square, Director
of the London and Birmingham Extension Railway
C. W. Lovesy, jun., Esq., Charlton Kings, Cheltenham
William Alexander Long, jun., Esq., Wootton-under-Edge
J. Mee Mathew, Esq., Gray's Inn-square, Director of the Derby-
shire,'Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway
Captain Mathews, It.N., Sidmouth Lodge, Sidmouth
Peter Morrison, Esq., Managing Director of the Britannia Life In-
surance Company, and Director of the South and Midland Junc-
tion Railway
Caleb Norris, Esq., Lancaster-place
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, and Director of the Trent
Valley Continuation Railway
William S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Director of the
Oxfor e, Witncy, and Cheltenham Railway
Robert Rea, Esq., Exeter, and Cromwell Rock, Waterford
John Rawson, Esq. Deputy-Lieutenant of the West Riding of York-
shire, and J.P., Esq.,
Boyd, Halifax, Director of Ilosames Great
Northern of France Railway, of the Manchester, Liverpool, and
Great North of England Union Railway, and of the National Bank
of Ireland
Robert Richards, Esq., Inner Temple, London. Director of the South
teed Midlands' Junction Railway
J. Reginald Riddell, Esq., Bycuilah House, Enfield, Director of the
York and Lancaster Railway
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq.. Bryanston-strect, Portman-square,
Director of the Galway and Belfast Railway
J. Carrington Ridgway, Esq., Roehampton Lodge, Surrey
W. Digby Seymour, Esq., Doughty-street, Mecklenburgh- square
William Sloane Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Chairman
of the Church of England Life Insurance Company
Henry Lewis Smale, Esq., Willoughby House,- Tottenham, Director
of the South-Eastern Railway
Andrew Spottiswoodc, Esq.. Deputy Governor of the Union Bank of,
London, and Chairman of the Irish North Midland Railway
Henry Savage, Esq., 31.13., F.R.C.S., Dorset-place, Dorset-square,
Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
John Wheelton, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, Director
of the Leicester and Bedford Railway, and of the Taw Vale
Railway
Henry Wright, Esq., Brunswick-square, Director of the Warwick
and Worcester Railway
(With p saver to add to their number).
CONSULTING ENGINUEE—Sir John Macneil, LL.D., F.R.S., M.I.C.E.
ENGINEERS.
Messrs. Rice and Thomas Hopkins, M.I.C.E.
Messrs. Gough and Roumieu.
SURVEYORS—Messrs Shuttleworth and Sons.
SOLICITOkS.
Messrs. Chauntler and Westwood, 8, Gray's Inn-square
Edward Strick, Esq., 10, Doughty-street.
SECRETARY—D. Bartle, ESQ.
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Mar tin, Stones, and Martin, Lombard-street
The London and County Bank, Lombard-street
Southampton—Messrs. Atherley, Fall, and Atherley
Weymouth—Messrs. Eliott and Pearce.

LOCAL AGENTS.
Weymouth—George Arden, Esq.
Brldport—E. Nieholetts, Esq.
Sidiuouth—Edwin Church Everitt, Esq.
Exeter—George William Turner, Esq.

This railway is intended to commence at the east part of the city
of Exeter, neat St. Sidwells, and after passing through Topshain
m,with a fork at Woodbury by Lympstoue to, Exmouth,
will proceed,
an east,rly direction, towards Sidmouth, and thence, near Colyton,
Beer, Seaton, Axmouth, Lyme Regis, and Charmouth, to Bridport•
At Bridport the line will divide, tailing the course direct to Dor
chester, to join the Southampton and Dorchester Railway, and the
other, passing near Bridport harbour and Ahbotsbury to IVeymouth.
At Exeter, junction.:will be formed with the Bristol and Exeter and
North Devon Railways, and at Exmouth with the South Devon, by
as
means of their steam ferry, thus mak fig the most direct route to
nytneuth fun]
well as
be Also at Dorchester and Weymouth it will
with the Dorchester and Southampton at Do •chester.
It will he seen, on refl•renle to the snap, that by forming a June-
Bon with the lines of coast railway that have already been con-
structed or commenced from Exeter westward, and from Dorchester
eastward, and by.following the coast as nearly as is practicable be-
be connected with the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth,
tween its termini, this line will effectually complete a railway com-
manic din, from Dover to the Lands End, ass undertaking in itself
of great national importance, and likely to meet with the cordial sup-
port of the Government. • •
Its fixing tins course which this Railway will take, it has been the
careful consideration of the Promoters to project only such a Line as
will afford the greatest facility of communication to the populous and
important towns and fashionable watering places which are situated
on and near that part of the Coast which this Railway is Particu-
larly meant to accommodate; whilst, at the same B.: e, the Agri-
cultural, Ma.nutheturing, and Commercial Interests of this part of
the Kingdom have been equally studied.
• This Line will also open such additional means of communication
to the Port of Weymouth, the large Manufacturing Town and °Hanr-
bour of Bridport, and the Harbour of Lyme Regis, as must eve-
tually replace them in that high position, when compared with the
other j'orts of the Kingdom, which they formerly held. The Water-
Mg-Places of Exmouth, Budleigh-Salterton, Sidrnouth, Charmouth,
Lyme-Regis, We' mouth, &c., will be thus thrown open to every part
of England and Wales, and accommodated with that facility of ac-
cess which they alone require to place thesis on an equal position
with other favourite places of resort, for which the picturesque In-
land and bold Coast-Scenery of Devonshire and Dorsetshire is pre-
eminently proverbial, and justly entitles them to hold.
The following extract from the Report of the Select Committee of
the House of Lords on the " Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Rail-
way," made on the 18th of June, 1845, will show the sense enter-
tained by that body of the importance of a line of railway In the di-
rection proposed by the present Company.:—" In snaking their re-
port, the Committee, feel it their duty to state that the great diffi-
culty with them, in deciding on the Bill referred to them, had arisen
from tile fear they entertained whether, in allowing the Great
Western Railway to come down to the so. at Weymouth, or, even be-
low Yeovil, they might not be creating a difficulty as to making a
railway' in the most desirable manner to Falmouth, the most westerly

port iu the Channel."
The great importance of this railway may be further estimated,
from a consideration of the fact that the local population which would
be benefited by its construction exceeds two hundred thousand

persons.
which will be one of the termini of the
And also that Weymouth,
line, is about to become a great National Harbour of Refuge and
Packet-station, lay the construction of a breakwater in Portland
Roads, in accordance with the recommendation of the Government
Commissioners, for which purpose a grant was made during the last
session of Parliament for commenting the works. The additional
population and traffic, which will thus be attracted to this port, will
be very considerable.
A preliminary euriey has been made, and there are no peculiar
e igincering difficulties. The length of the main line, from Exeter to
Dorchester, will be about fifty-two miles; and of the Forks, or exten-
s'.ons, to Weymouth, and Exmoeth, about sixteen miles ; making, in
the whole, sixty-eight miles of railway.
The sentiments of the landowners are favourable to the construc-
tion of a railway calculated, as this is, very greatly to benefit their
properties, and In the aliotment of shares preference will be given
to the applications of persons locally interested.
Estimates of the traffic have been carefully prepared by the pro-
moters of the line, from which it is evident that an ample re-
turn will be obtained for the investment of capital ha the undertak-
ing. More detailed traffic tables will, however, be forthwith com-
piled, as required by the Committees of both Houses of Parliament.
The usual power will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow
nterest at 41. per cent. on the amount of deposit and calls from the
passing of the Act until the completion of the line, and the liability
of Shareholders will be limited to the amount of their subscriptions.
Applications for copies of the prospectus, and for shares, may be
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to the fol-
lowing sharebrokers :—Messrs. B. and M. lloyd, 4, New Bank-
buildings, and Messrs. TauntonTauntonand Bush; 26, Austin-friars, Lon-
don; Henry 'Catcher, Esq., and John Langworthy, Esq., Exeter;
Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer, Plymouth; Messrs. Tate and Nash,
Bristol ; Thomas Forsyth, Esq., Liverpool ; Henry Benton, Dm.,
Manchester ; Messrs Rhodes, Leeds ; W. H. Collis, Esq., Birming-
ham; Messrs. Graystone and Earle, York ;* William Mason, Ettei
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Bradtbrd, Yorkshire; F. Stamp, Esq., Hull; Thomas Boardman,
Esq., Blackburn; Messrs. John Robertson and Co., Edinburgh;
Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson. Glasgow ; awl Messrs. Mewburn
and Blakey, Halifax.
To the Provisional Committee of the Exeter, Dorchester, and
Weymouth Junction Coast Railway Company.
j' I request that you will apportion me Shares of 20/. each, in
'the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway Company;
I and I
'do hereey undertake to accept the seine, or any less number you may
allot to me; and to pay the deposit of 2/. 2s, per share and all future
calls thereon, and to sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscri-
bers' Agreement when required.
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