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As to the traffic on the lower portion of the line, it is evident that
the vast .number of merchant vessels continually detained in the
Channel by adverse winds, would effect an immense saving, both in
insurance and time, by discharging their cargoes at Falmouth, and at
once transmitting them to their destination by means of this railway;
and therefore—without speculating on the extent to which the ports
on either side of the great promontory of the Land's End may, by
means of this railroad, attract the commerce respectively of Bristol
and Southampton ; to what extent the inexhaustible mineral wealth
of Cornwall, and the unrivalled agricultural resources of Devonshire
may be further developed, or the genial climate of Penzance and
Mount's Bay, " the Montpellier of England," attract a larger propor-
tion of winter visitants—it Is obvious that this line will command a
traffic both in goods and passengers, from its western terminus, the
amount of which may be said to be without limit. . A glance at the
map will make it manifest that no competing trunk line can ever be
established between Tiverton and the Land's End. As between
Taunton and Reading, an inspection of the map will show a vast ex-
tent of midland district, comprising rich and populous parts of So-
•mersetshire, Dorsetshire, and Wiltshire, now altogether destitute of
railroad accommodation.

Recurring to the features of this project as a national work, one of
the greatest in point of magnitude, of vital importance in the event, of
war, and of almost incalculable advantage to the general and packet
commerce of the kingdom ; it 'may not be out of place to quote here
the following expressions of Sir Robert Peel. Speaking of the project
of a direct line from London to Liverpool through the Trent Valley,
which bore much the same relation to the Birmingham and Grand
Junction that this bears to the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter
Railways, he is reported to have said :—" I consider that the coin-
munication between the metropolis and the great outports to be not
a question of hours, but a question of minutes." Of the necessity of this
particular line, Parliament has already expressed an opinion ; for in the
report- of the Committee on the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth
line, which was promoted by the Great Western Railway' Company;
it Was stated that that Company had been required to pledge itself
not hereafter to oppose a direct line to Fahnouth ;, and •it may be
further Obse'rved," that a proposed line from Plymouth to Falmouth
Was last session rejected, on the ground that it might be supposed
to interfere with that great national object. •
The survey of the line has been to a great extent completed, and
correct estimates of the expenditure and returns are in a state of for-
wardness, and the whole will be ready for the next session of Par-
liament.

It is sufficient, as to these points, here to state that there are no
engineering difficulties in any part of the line which have not been
repeatedly surmounted in other cases ; that the first portion will he
constructed at an unusually small
-expense; that the undertaking
will-meet with,the cordial support, concurrence, and co-operation of
the landowners, and that the Directors are justified in asserting that
this will prove to be one of the most remunerative railways in the
kingdom. . , . - .

fowers will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow interest at
four pounds per centum per annum on the deposits, and preference
in the allotment of shares will be given to the proprietors of the land
through which the line will pass, anetto the shareholders in the
Great Western, the Bristol and Exeter, and other railways connected'
with the Direct Western district.

Applications for shares, in the form subjoined, to be addressed to
the solicitors to the Company, or to the Secretary.
London, September 11, 1845.

•' FORM OF APPLICATION.
• To therrovLsional Committee of the. Direct Western Railway
Company.
Gentlemen,—l request youwill allot me . shares of 251. each in
the above Company, and I undertake'to pay the deposit of 21. Its. 6d
per skare thereorf, or on any less number you may appropriate to me
and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Con•
tract when tequired.
Dated

1845.

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BARNET and NORTH . METROPOLITAN
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and Sth Victoria, cap. 110.)
Capital, 400,0001., in 20,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21.25. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Hon. F. H. Berkeley, M.P., Chairman, Director of. the London,
Hounslow, and Western Railway Company
William Alfred Hill, Esq., Deputy-Chairman, also Deputy-Chairman
of the Oxford, Wttney, and Cheltenham Railway Company
Sir John Osborne, Bart., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing
stoke Railway Company •
The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne, Belly Hatch House, Henley
William Wilberforce, Esq., James-street; . Buckingham-gate, and
Ilighwood Hill, Hendon
Lieut.-Colonel Gillies, Porchester House, Bayswater
William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Director of the Italian and
Austrian Railway
•
Josiah Beale, Esq., Gray's Inn
Major Lindam, K.H., Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and
Central Wales Railway Company ' . -
Henry Beckley Richardson, Esq., F.S.A., Director of the Colchester,
Cambridge, and Harwich Junction Railway
Rowland Hill Mackenzie, Esq., M.D., Mortimer-street, Cavendish-
square
Henry Chaytor, Esq., Clervaux Castle, Darlington, Director of the
Warwick and Worcester Railway
Thomas Hemming Johnson, Esq., Older's Hall, Hendon, Middlesex
Thomas Priestley. Esq., Principal = of, Mill Hill Grammar School,
Hendon, Middlesex
The Rev. li. J: Crump, Mill Hill, Hendon, Middlesex
Captain Grover, R.N.
Captain John Innes, H.C.S., Wentworth House, Mill Hill, Hendon,• __. _ .

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The Rev. Bartholomew Nicholls, MA., Incumbent of St. Paul's,

Mill Hill, Hendon, Middlesex -
Mr. William Ward, Underhill, Barnet
Mr. Bruce Johnson,.Finchley
William Christopher Daniel Deighton,Esq., Fellow of Queen's College,
• Cambridge, Holloway
Ralph Allen Frogley, Esq., Hounslow, Director of the London,
• Hounslow, and Western Railway
Colonel Taylor White, Hadley-green, Barnet
Abraham Scott, Esq., Hadley Priory, Barnet
W. J. M'Clwire, Esq., 74, St. James's-street
W. Prosser, Jun:; Esq.; 36, New BrOad4treet, City
James Berington, Esq., East-street, Hoxton
George Freeman, Esq., Grange House, Leeds
Richard Cowley Polhill, Esq., Director of the London, Hounslow, and
Western Railway Company
George Godfrey, Esq., The Elms, Hutton, Essex
Robert Wright Wood, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and
Basingstoke Railway Company
Alexander Prince, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing-
stoke Railway
Peter Graham, Esq., Angelo Villa, Gloucester-road, Regent's Park
William Henry Halpin, Esq., 23, Graftonr-itreet, Fitzroy-square
Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Director Of the Tring, Reading, and
Basingstoke Railway Company
Chltrles Green, Esq., Director of thii Gloucester, Aberystwith, and
Central Wales Railway Company
I. N. Nicholay, Bsq., Oxford-street
John Godfrey B. 'Hudson, Esq., Director of the Central Terminus
Itaflway Company
The Rev. G. A. Walker, Alvisthorpe, Wakefield, Director of the
Wakefield and Biadford Railway Company
(With power to add to their number.)
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
The Hon. E. H. F. Berkeley, M.P., W. H. Halpin, Esq.
Chairman Richard Cowley Polhill, Esq.
William Alfred Hill, Esq., Deputy- Alexander Prince, Esq.
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F.S.A.F. S.A. Charles Green, Esq.
ACTING ENGINEER—J. Bailey Denton,
n, Esq., 10, Gray's Inn-square.
BANKERS—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths,