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PEOSPECTUS

The main line of this important undertaking will commence at the
abrupt termination of the Macclesfield branch of the Manchester and
Birmingham Railway at Macclesfield, and proceed thence in an
almost direct line to a point on the Trent Valley Railway near to
Atherstone, and about fifteen miles north-west of Rugby.
It will therefore embrace in its course the towns of Leek, Cheadle,
Tean, Uttoxeter, Tutbury, and Burton-upon-Trent, the coal-fields
and Potteries of Swadlincote and Gresley, and the baths and coal-
fields of Moira, the whole of which wealthy and important tract of
country (with the exception of the town of Burton) is wholly destitute
of railway accommodation.
From Tean it is intended to construct a branch through the Staf-
fordshire Potteries by way of Longton, Lane End, Stoke-upon-Trent.
and Newcastle-under-Lyne, to Crewe and Nantwich, uniting at
Crewe with the numerous railways centering there, and joining at
Nantwich the railway about to be formed by the conversion of the
Elle,smere and Chester, and Birmingham and Liverpool Junction
Canals. _ . _

It is also intended to construct a branch from the main line, at or
near Tutbury to Derby.
Such is the project, comprising the best parts of the old and well-
known " Manchester South Union" Scheme, which, in the year 1836,
elicited from a Committee of the House of Commons the most un-
qualified expressions of approval, and which an inspection of the map
of the country will show to be highly desirable, indeed almost indis-
pensable for the public interest.
It will open a shorter communication from Manchester, Stockport,
and Macclesfield, to London (by Rugby), and from Derby (and the
towns northward) to London, than any other line now before the
public.
It will unite Manchester with Derby, Nottingham, Leicester, and
the whole of the 'Midland and Eastern Counties.
It will afford to Nottingham, Leicester, Derby, and Burton-upon-
Trent the most direct communication with the Staffordshire Potteries,
Crewe, Chester, Runcorn, Liverpool, and the new Docks at Birken-
head, as well as with North Wales and Ireland.
By its means the towns of Leak, Cheadle, Tean, Uttoxeter, Tut-
bury, and the surrounding country, will receive, for the first time, the
benefits of railway communication, and the rich and extensive coal-
fields of Biddulph, Poynton, Adlington, Cheadle, Gresley, Swadlin-
cote. and Moira, will be opened to the whole kingdOm.
The traffic must necessarily be immense, and the returns highly
remunerative.

Thus the Committee are enabled to bring forward a legitimate and
independent undertaking, having due regard to a profitable invest-
ment of capital, as well as to the interest and accommodation of the
public.
The Committee desire to add, that in presenting, in its present
shape, their complete and comprehensive scheme independently of
any ether Railway not actually formed, or now under the consideration
of Parliament, they are not influenced by a wish to supplant other
parties who may have a legitimate claim to a portion of the ground
they propose to occupy, but simply by a desire to form a shorter com-
munication between the great towns of Lancashire, Cheshire, and
Staffordshire, and the Metropolis and the Midland and Eastern Coun,

ties, and to secure to a great district yeiii7ioietTed, that railway accom-
modation which its wealth and importance demand, whatever may be
the fate of other projects which may have in view the partial or im-
perfect attainment of somewhat similar objects.
Powers will be taken in the Act to allow interest at the rate of 4/.
per cent. per annum on all deposits and calls until the opening 0 the
Line.

Applications for Shares may be addressed to the Solicitors; or to
the following Sharebrokers, :—Messrs. Tucker, Barnett, and Ce.,
Messrs. Barry and Co., or Mr. D. B. Major, London ; Messrs. Earp
and Son, or Messrs. Cuff and Fox, Derby; Messrs. Scholes and Hors-
fall, Messrs. Fletcher and Sharp, or Mr. John °reeves, Liverpool ;
Messrs. T. Cardwell and Sens, or Messrs. Hougland and Leese,
Manchester; Messrs. Hartley and Ingham, Leeds; Mr. Tatham,
or Messrs. Peet and Son, Nottingham ; Mr. Charles Townsend,
Chester ; Mr. Bellingham, Wakefield ; Mr. Dickenson, Newcastle-
upon-TYne ; Mr. William Tomkinson, Newcastle-under-Lyre ; Mr.
Collis, Birmingham ; and Mr. Charles Couper, Edinburgh.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the" Teen and Dove Talley and
Eastern and. Western Junction Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me Shares in this
undertaking, and I agree to accept the same, or any portion thereof,
subject to the _provisions of the Subscribers' Agreement ; and I fur-
ther agree to execute the same and any other Agreement or Deeds,
and to pay the. Deposit when required.
Dated this day of 1845.
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THE TEAN and DOVE VALLEY and
EASTERN AND WESTERN JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Office of the Company, High.stmet, Burton-on-Trent, July 15, 1845.
Notice is hereby given, that no applications for Shares in this Rail-
way can be received after the 26th instant, except from parties lo-
cally interested, from whom applications will be received until the
31st instant.

JOSEPH RICHARDSON, Secretary (pro tem.)

THE STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES and
LIVERPOOL and MANCHESTER DIRECT RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
The object of this railway Is to open a direct communication from
the ,Staffordshire Potteries northwards with Liverpool, Manchester,
and the north of England, Scotland, and southward with Bristol,
London, and the south of England. The line will commence at
Stafford, and proceed through the heart of the Potteries, giving
the best and most ample accommodation to Stoke Longton, New-
castle. Stoke Hanley, Burstein, and the whole of the Pottery district,
whence it will pass betwixt Congleton and Sandbach, through
Knutsford direct to Mtrincham, where It will join the South Junction
Railway to Manchester, an Act for which has been obtained. A
branch northwards, from the Potteries to Crewe, will connect the
line with Chester and Birkenhead; and branches from Knutsford on
the one hand, through Northwich to Preston Brook, and on the other
to the Cheadle station of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway,
will open A communication between the Salt districts and the Pot-
teries, Liverpool, Hull, and the eastern ports of England.
The advantages of this railway will be very great to a large and
most important extent of country, hitherto totally unprovided with
railway communication, and will be more fully detailed in a future
prospectus, whieh, with Maps and the names of an influential pro-
visional Directory, -will be issued with as little delay as possible. The
surveys and estimates are in the course of completion, and no parks
or ornamentals grounds will be interfered with.
Parties interested in the undertaking may communicate with the
solicitors, Messrs. J. and T. Roscoe, Knutsford; and W. Burdett,
Esq., Manchester.
16th July, 1845.

ATHERSTONE, ASH By DE LA ZOUCH
and BURTON-UPON-TRENT RAILWA.T.
( With Branch and Extensionand in
Lgondon.) the nearest route between chMan-
Capital 750,0001., in 37,500 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 11. 2s, per share.
(Provisionally registered under 7 and 8 Via., e. 110.)
PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS.
Charles Holte Bracebridge, Esq., The Hall, Atherstone.
William Chance, Esq., Birmingham.
John George Norbury, Esq., Mancetter House, Atherstone.
Thomas Macauley, Esq., Leicester.
Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad House, Edgbaston, Birmingham.
William Atkinson Gardner, Esq., No. 4, Cecil-street, Strand, London
Frederick Wollaston, Esq., Sheepy, Atherstone.
William Freer, Esq., Atherstone,
Edward Middleton, Esq., Birmingham.
John Brierly Payn, Esq., Birmingham,
Robert Faux, Esq., Cliff HOW, Twycross, near Atherstone
William H. Clare, Esq., Twycross, near Atherstone
B. North Arnold, Esq., M•D', Atherstone
(With power to add to their number.)
BANKERS.

Messrs. Glyn and Co., 67, Lombard-street, London.
The Leicestershire Banking Company at Leicester, Atherstone,
Hinckley, and Ashby de la Zouch.
Messrs. Jones, Loyd, and Co., Manchester.
The Burton-upon-Trent and Uttoxeter Banking Company, at Burton-
upon-Trent and Uttoxeter.
This line of railway will commence at or near to the Trent Valley
station at Atherstone, and pass by Snarestone, Measitam, Ashby.de-
la-Zouch,"and Burton-upon-Trent, to a junction with the Ch et
Valley portion. of the sortb Staffordshire Railway, near Tutbury,
Y de la Zouch Canal,
with a branch on or near to the line of the Ashb
by Market. Bosworth and Hinckley to the Leicester and Birmingham
Railway.
This line will form the shortest and most direct route from Man-
chester to London. It will also bring the valuable coal fields of
by means of the Trent
Moira and Ashby Woulds into direct and immediate communication
with the southern and western markets,
Valley, Midland, and Churnet Valley districts of the North Stafford-
ulous country to the north and west, shire Railways. It will also give to the important town of Burton-
upon-Trent, and the populous
con-
venient access to this district.
Another principal feature of the line is, to supply railway com-
munications to the established mineral baths at Moira and Ashby
de la Zouch, and to the inhabitants of the latter town and neigh-
bourhood.
It will also afford an outlet to the extensive trade and fabrics of
the Leicestershh e and Derbyshire Potteries. It will also. by a short
branch, have access to the Leicester and Swannington Railway and
coal field.
Another local advan4age will be the supply of lime to extensive
agricultural districts by this line from the quarries of Ticknall, Cloud
Hill, and Bredon.
With these various sources of traffic, the absence of competing
lines, and the unusual facilities in the character of the country for
the construction of a railway—no considerable work being required,
and the gradients being peculiarly favourable for the working of the
line, and the opening of the shortest route between Manchester and
Lendon—there is a certain prospect of a more than ample return for
the capital.
A plan and prospectus will be issued in the course of a few days,
and in the meantime applications for Shares, with proper references,
may bo made to S. S. Baxter, Esq., solicitor, Atherstene,
AtterstOno, ink June, 1846.

TRASBOURG AND PARIS RAILWAY
COMPANY.—Temporary Offices, 4, Great Winchester-street,
London, July 14, 1845.
The Projet de Loi for the above line of railway having now passed
both the French, Chambers, and requiring the formation of branches
to Rheims, Metz, and Saarbruck, the Directors have the pleasure to
announce that they have effected a junction with the powerful Com-
pany of the Comte de Monthion (which already has four-fifths of the
capital subscribed), together with other influential Individuals in
France, and that a Board of Directors has been formed, consisting of
the following persons :
PRESIDENT—M. le Lieutenant-General Comte de MONTHION,

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Pair de France.
M. la Comte Anatole de Montesquiou, Pair de France.
M. le Comte Alexis de Saint Priest, Pair de France.
M. Croisant, Depute de la Meurthe.
M. Champanhet, Depute.
M. Husson, Colonel de la 6me. Legion, Membre de Conseil, General
de la Seine.
M. Saint Elme Petit, ancien Wye de l'Ecole Polyteclutique.
M. Jules Bechet, sine, ancien Banquier.
M. Ernest Bechet, Banquier.
M. le Cointe de la Roche Pouchin, Marechalde Camp.

ADMINISTRATEURS HONORAIRES.
M. Juste Noailles, Duc de Poix.
M. le Lieutenant-General Comte Lagrange, Pair de France.
M. Herve, Conseiller a la Cour de Caseation, Depute.
M. Jules Lefebvre, Proprietaire.
M. le Comte de Singly, Proprietaire.
M. le Contre Amiral de Hell, Prefet Maritime de Cherbourg, Depute
du Bas Rhin.
M. Denis, Depute du Var.
M. le Comte Grzymala, Fondateur de VEntrepet General du Com-
merce.
M. Gabriel Heim, Gerant de l'EntrePot General du Commerce et des
Transports du Chemin de Fer du Rouen et de Havre.
DIRECTEVR PROVISOIRE.
M. Bessas Lamegle, Ancien Maire du lOme. Arrondissement.
ENGLISH DIRECTORS. -

George Alexander Hamilton, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Dublin
and Drogheda Railway, and Deputy-Chairman of the Dublin
and Belfast Junction Railway.
The Hon. R. Howe Browne, Chairman of the Manchester and Bir-
mingham and Welch Junction Railway.
Sir George Rich.
Colonel James Grant.
Captain Thomas Dickenssn,
Augustus W. Hillary, Esq. Resident Directors in France.
Geo. P. Irving, Esq.
George Brown, Esq.
Thomas C. Hamilton, Esq.
BANKERS—The London and Westminster Bank.