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London, England, 1845-07-28 00:00:00

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WatTil I)EVON RAILWAY COMPANY
Capital 1,75E1,000/.. In 70,030 Sharon, of 251. each.

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Deposit 1/. Is. 6d. paynble on each Share.
Liability limited to amount of Subsacptlon. -
raovlsto,NaL cousinin.
The Right Hon. Earl Fortescue
The Right Hon, Lord Clinton
The Right Hon. Lord Poltimore
The Right lion. Lord Palmerston, 31. P.
Lord Courtenay, M.P.
Lord Viscount Ebrington, M.P.
Sir Bourchier Palk 'Prey, Bart.
Sir Robert George Throckmorton., Bart.
Sir John Trevelyan, Bart.
Sir Thomas Buckler Lethbridge, Bart.
Lieut.-General Sir George A.danis
Sir Antony Bullar
Lewis William Buck, Esq., M.P.
Charles Russell, Esq., M.P., chairman of the Great Western Railway

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Company
Montague Gore, Ssq., M.P.
Frederick Hodgson, Esq., M.P.
Thomas Gill, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the SOuth DeVon Boll' way

Company
Frederick Wynn Knight, Esq., M.P.
William G. Harter, Esq., M.P., Director of the Great Western Rail-
way Company
Charles Bviry Baldwin, Esq., M.P.
John Henthcoat, Esq., M.P.
Edwarl'. tyshford Sanford, Esq., Nynehead Court, Somerset
Samuel Trehawke Kekewich, Esq., Peamore, Devon
John Knight, Esq., Simonsbath, Devon
George S. Buck, Esq., Hartland Abbey, Devon
Augustus S. Willett, Esq., Tapley Park, Devon
William Arundell Teo, Esq., Fremington, Devon
James Wentworth Buller, Esq., Downes, Devon
Frederick Pratt Barlow, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway
Company
John Ilippesley, Esq., Shobrooke Park, Devon
John 3fackrell, Esq., Barnstaple
John Beavis Bignell, Esq., M.D., Barnstaple
James Whyte, Esq., Pilton House, Barnstaple
George Bragington, Esq., Bideford
James Gibbs, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Bristol and Exeter Rail-
way Company
Thomas G. Harding, Esq., 3fonkleigh, Devon
William Tardrew, Esq., Annery House, Devon
Edward St. Aubyn, Esq., Director of the South Devon Railway
Company
Christopher Shapland, Esq., Sneed Park, Bristol
Montague Baker Bere, Esq., Morebath House, Devon
Henry Badcock, Esq., Taunton. Somerset
George Eters, Esq., Stogumber, Somerset
Philip Broadmead, Esq., Wiveliscombe, Somerset
John Blommart, Esq., Willett House, Wiveliscombe, Somerset
William Hancock, Esq., Wiviliscombe, Somerset
Henry D. Harvey, Esq., Wiviliscombe, Somerset
William Morgan, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Exeter Railway
Company
William Henry Hawker, Esq , Plymouth
George Jones, Esq., Redland House, Bristol
Henry Hooper, Esq., Exeter
Patrick Miller, Esq., M.D., Director of the Bristol and Exeter Rail.
way Company
J. C. Wileocks, Esq., Exeter
Charles Bowles Fripp, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Exeter
Railway Company
Richard Bastard, Esq., Exeter
Edward Davy, Esq., Crediton, Devon
l'hilip Davy, Esq., Morehead Bishop, Devon
Willoughby Bryant Stilwell, Esq., Rhyll, East Anstey, Devon
Henry Simonds, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway Com-
pany
Henry Wm. Chichester, Esq., Rose House, Bampton
William Fox, Esq., Director of the South Devon Railway Company
John Grilable, Esq., Barnstaple
Stephen Bencraft, Esq., Barnstaple
William Watson, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Exeter Railway
Company
Abraham Smith, Esq., Traesheer, Devon
John Knill Cotton, Esq., Barnstaple
Gilbert Knill Cotton, Esq., Barnstaple
Wi liarn Avery, Esq., Barnstaple
William Bioford, Esq , South Molten
Humphrey John Norris Bawden, Esq., South Molten
John Rundle, Esq., Director of the South Devon Railway Company
John Elworthy Cutliffe, Esq., South 3folton
William Gould Smyth, Esq., South Molton
Francis Maunder Hitchcock, Esq., South Molton
Gilbert Scott, Esq., Cockram House, South Molton
William Tothill, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway Com-
pany
Thontas Besley, Esq., Tiverton
Colonel Harris, Radford, near Plymouth
John Colewell Roe, Esq., Lynmouth
Charles Palk Collyns, Esq., Duiverton
Ralph Cole, Esq., Plymouth
John Tamiyn, Esq., 44, Chancery-lane, London
John Benson, Esq., Tavietock
Henry Northcote Idsley, Devon
Nicholas Lockyer, Esq., Plymouth
John Browne, Esq., Bridgewater
Thomas B. Chanter, Esq., Bideford
James Marsh, Esq., Alphington, Esq.
With power to add to their number.
ENcINEEa—I. K. Brunel, Esq.,
This Company is formed with the view of establishing a compre-
hensive system of railways for the county of Devon, in connexion
with the existing lines, embracing all the principal towns, and giving
to each the advantages of communication in different directions to
the greatest possible extent, consistent with a general plan.
Taking Barnstaple and Bideford as the principal and most im-
portant points in North Devon, and as representing a district, it is
proposed to form a direct communication eastward, towards Taunton
and Tiverton ; and southward, with Exeter on the one hand and Ply-
mouth on the other.
To effect this in the most complete manner, embracing the largest
amount of population, and giving also the greatest extent of inter-
communication between the several towns, it is proposed to carry a
line from Bideford to Barnstaple, and thence by South Molten to
Tiverton ( joining the Tiverton Branch of the Bristol and Exeter
Railway), with a line diverging eastward, from a point a few miles
east of South 3folton, and carried by Wiveliscombe and 3filverton,
in a direct line towards Taunton, giving the whole of the district thus
traversed a very direct communication with the north and east via
Taunton, and with Exeter via Tiverton.
From Barnstaple and Bideford, as points of departure, another
line would be taken southwards towards Hatherleigh, and from the
neighbourhood of that place proceed on the one h ,nd to Plymouth,
and on the other to Exeter, via Crediton ; Okehampton being either
close to what may be called the main line of this system, or having
a branch communicating with it. By these means, Barnstaple would
have a second road to Exeter, and, with Bideford, would have direct
railway communication with all the principal places of South Devon-
shire ; and Exeter would have the great advantages of railway com-
munication with all these parts.
The ground has been sufficiently surveyed to enable the
engineer to report upon the practicability of constructing lines in the
general directions above mentioned, the total length of which will be
about 120 miles, but the precise course of such lines must he depen-
dent upon the results of more detailed surveys ; the object of the
promoters being to construct the most perfect and complete system
that the country admits of, weighing equally and fairly the advan•
tages to the respective interests and to the public generally.
The Company is formed by an influential local proprietary, includ-
ing the Promoters of the North Devon, Crediton and Barnstaple
Railway Company, and the parties who have interested themselves
in the for :ation of a line from Barnstaple to Tiverton, united with
Crea' Western, the Bristol and Exeter, and South Devon Rail-
,:y Companies, it being proposed that the three latter companies
ould contribute one-half of the capital, and join in the direction of
affairs of the Company
The important interests which these railways will subserve and
be,e-ilt may be estimated from a statement of the fact, that the
g',.•ater part of the entire population of Devonshire, which exceeded
at the last census 530,000 persons, is located at the extremities of
th ,so lines, or in the districts traversed by them, the latter includ-
ing s',lne of the finest agricultural portions of Devon and Somerset.
The traffic to the interior from the Seaport Towns, both on the
English and Bristol Channels, and the supplies of corn, wool, cattle,
and other produce which flow to the latter in return, are already
very censiderable, and may confidently be expected to be augmented
to a great extent by the increased facilities and diminished cost of
transport afforded by railway conveyance; the advantages of which,
especially in the articles of coal, lime, and minerals, are manifest.
The opening of a direct and speed}, communication between the
north and south coasts, which the railway will effect, is a feature in
the present undertaking of much importance in a public point of view ;
and with reference to local advantage, and a profitable source of in-
come to the proprietary, a line of railway to a port in the Bristol
channel is of considerable moment.
The number of visitors attracted annually to the watering places
and romantic scenery of the north of Devon is also very great, and
will doubtless be much increased.
Arrangements are in progress for obtaining exact accounts by actual
observation of the traffic on the lines ; but the promoters are already
possessed of sufficient evidence to justify the confident expectation of
a remunerative income on the proposed capital, which they are
assured is fully adequate to accomplish all the objects proposed.
The numerous assurances of support already received from the
landowners leave no doubt of the successthl issue of the application
which will be made to Parliament for an Act of Incorporation in the
next session. Powers will be sought in such Act to allow interest
at £4 per cent. per annum on the deposit, and on all paid up calls
during the progress of the works ; and no subscriber will incur
liability beyond the amount of his subscription.
Applications for shares in the form annexed (accompanied by a
satisfactory reference when the parties are not personally known to
members of the Provisional Committee) may be addressed to the
following solicitors, of whom, and at the undermentioned Banks,
copies of the Prospectus may be obtained.
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Glyn, Hallifax, and Co.
Bristol—Messrs. Miles, Harford, and Co. ; Messrs. Baillie, Ames, and
Co. ; Messrs. Stuckey's Banking Company ; the West of England
and South Wales District Bank; the National Provincial Bank.
Plymouth and Devonport—Messrs. Harris Harris and Co. ; Messrs.
Hodge and Norman ; the Devon and Cornwall Bank ; the Na-
tional Provincial Bank.
Exeter—Messrs. Sanders and Co. ; Messrs. Milford and Co. ; the
West of England and South Wales District Bank ; the Devon and
Cornwall Bank ; the National Provincial Bank.
Barnstaple—Messrs. Drake, Gribble and Co. ; the West of England
and South Wales District Bank ; the National Provincial Bank.
Bideford and Torrington—Messrs. Harding, Braginton, and Co. ; the
National Provincial Bank.
South Nfolton—The National Provincial Bank.
Tiverton—Messrs. Dunsford, Barne, and Co.; the National Pro-
vincial Bank.
Wiveliscombe—Messrs. Ilancock and Son.
Taunton—Messrs. Stuckeys' Banking Company; the West of Eng-
land and South Wales District Bank ; Messrs. Badcock and Co.
Tavlstock—Messrs. Gill and Rundle ; the Devon and Cornwall Bank.
Launceston—Messrs. Gill and Rundle ; Messrs. Robins and Co. ; the
Devon and Cornwall Bank.
Okehampton—The National Provincial Bank.
SOLICITORS.

London—Messrs. W. 0. and W. Hunt, 10, Whitehall.
Bristol—Messrs. Osborne, Ward, and Co. ; Messrs. Savery, Clark,
and Co.
Plymouth and Devonport—Messrs. Whiteford, Bennet, and Tucker.
Exeter—Charles Brutton, Esq. ; Mark Kennaway, Esq.
Barhstaple—Messrs. Bremridge and Toiler; Messrs. L. and J. Ben-
craft.
Crediton—Thomas Pring, Esq.
South Molton—ldessrs. Riccard and Son.
Tiverton—William Upton Tripp, Esq.
Wiveliscombe—Messrs. Reweliffe and Son ; Frederick Bower, Esq.
Dulvcrton—A. P. Browne, Esq.
Milverton—James Randolph, Esq.
Taunton—Messrs. Beadons and Sweet.
Dated, 17th July, 1845.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR gIIARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the North Devon Railway
company.
Gentlemen,—I request you will allot to me Shares of 251.
etch in the proposed North Devon Railway Company, and I under-
take to accept so many Shares as may be allottd to m not exceeding
the above number, and to pay the deposit of sleds. 6d.e per share,
execute the necessary Deeds when required.
Dated day of , 1845.

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Reference

`7;oamellor Reilly is shortly to be married to Miss
Sugden, the youngest daughter of the Irish Lord Chancellor.
• rent rej ,i,•in..rs took place at Ramsay Abbey,
Huntingdonshire, on Tuesday, in honour of the arrival of Mr.
Fellowes, sI.P., an,t his bride. the Hon. Miss daughter
of l ord Sondes. Triumphal arches were erected, and 100
dime of beef distributed amongst 2.000 of the inhabitants.
anytb ?1 the Hon. ‘I ember's tenantry, with other inhabitants,
met happy couple, and escorted them to the family seat.
I:LAR AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday
last a boy named Hartley, the son of a widow, and ern-
Plod as a yard-boy b
wieh. met with his death Mr. Clarke, gardener, at North-
a in a very singular manner. He was
iu
vthfeosrt:.blhea,,tinea; horse the other
r with the butt-end of a pikle, or
haend towards his own body, when
the animal struck out suddenly, and hit the handle of the pikle
with such force as to drive the
prongs completely into the boy's
breast, killing him instantaneously.
Monday, and a verdict of "Ae An inquest was held on
dental death" returned.
Liverpool Mercury.
FOUR PERSONS KILLED.—On Tuesday morning,
last a dreadful accident occurred near Merthyr, mine called
Cyfarthfa Wynch Fawr. Four men, named a
at a
tkinJ?
Sixty-one ; Lewis Powell, his son.in.law, thirty.one ;'DavidneD aged
Davies,
twenty-seven ; and Thomas Jones. twenty-three, entered a bucketis
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to descend the shaft, when, about seven or eight yards from the
top. the balance chain, or a link of the other chain to which the
bucket was attached, broke, and the poor fellows went down with
terrible speed to the bottom, a depth of nearly one hundred yards.
The three first named died instantaneously ; but Thomas Jones
survived till he was taken to the mouth of the level, and conversed
with those who ran to his assistance. Three of the deceased men
have left wives and families. A brother of the deceased Lewis
Powell narrowly escaped death, as it seems he entered the bucket
with the others, but recollecting he had forgotten his candle, he
jumped up for the purpose of procuring it. The lender then re.
fused to let him re.enter the bucket, saying, "Four men are quite
enough to go down at once."—Bristol /earned.
THE COST OF PULLING A. AIAN96 Nosn.—John Her•
bert of Hawsker, farmer, was brought before the bench of magis-
trates, at Whitby. on Tuesday last, and fined 31. for pulling the
most prominent part of the face of Mr. William Thompsou, a
aeighbouring farmer, in rather an unceremonious manner.—Yerh.
Airman.