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SO.UTHERN COUNTIES UNION, AND
ERISTOL, BATH, AND DOVER DIRECT RAILWAY.
7, King William-street, Mansion House (Entrance in Clement's-
lane).
Capital, 1,500,0001., in 60,000 Stares of 257. each.
Deposit 2/. 12s. fid.

Notice is hereby given, that the Share List of this Company closed

this day.
The Committee have great satisfaction in stating that Sr Richard
Jenkins, G.T.1.8., director of the East India Company, and William
Bradley, Esq. of Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Chairman of the Direct
Western Railway Company, &c., have joined the Direction, and that
the Report received from their Engineers and Surveyors satisfies
them beyond a doubt that they will be in every respect prepared to go
to Parliament in the ensuing session.
By order of the Directors,
R. H. GADESDEN, Secretary.
Thursday, Oct. 16, 1845.

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GREAT WESTERN AND FALMOUTH
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
On the Broad Gauge.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Viet., cap. 110.
Capital, 1,250,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 21. 12s. 6J. per Share.
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PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. - . - .. . _

Rear-Admiral Ayscough,SOuthampton, director of the Southampton

and Manchester Railway
Sir John De Beauvoir, Fart. Chairman of the London and Birming-
ham Extension and Warwick snd Worcester Railways
John Brightman, Esq. Regency-square, Brighton, Chairman of the
Hounslow Railway
Henry William Burgess, Esq. Temple's-park, Hampstead, London,
director of the Eastern Counties Railway
William Segar Bastard, Esq. Exeter
Abraham Bettridge, Esq. 4, Devonshire-terrace, Camden-road,
London, director 'of the Great Grimsby and Midland Junction
Railway
William Banks, Esq. director of the Great Leeds and London Direct,

an! Manchester and Rugby Railways
John Byng Banks, Esq. Lansdown-road, Stockwell, director of the
Great Leeds and London Direct Railway
Thomas Carnsew, Esq. Flexbury-hall, Stratton, Cornwall
Frederick Chamier, Esq. R.N. Halkin-street, Belgrave-square, Lon-
don, director of the Fampoux and Hazebrook Railway
Dunbar, John Cother, Esq. M.A. director of the Brecon and Merthyr
Railway
John Morford Cottle, Esq. Leamington, director of the Coventry and
Leicester Railway
John Carter, Esq. Park-lodge, Stockwell, director of the Grand
Trunk, and Oxford, Whitney, and Cheltenham Railways
William Came, Esq. of Ellenglaze-house, Truro, Cornwall
Edward William Cox, Esq. 3, Crown-office-row, Temple, London,
director of the Direct Bristol and Exeter, and the Ililiddlesox and
Surrey Junction Railways
Edward G. Cann, Esq. Herdwicke-house, Holdsworthy, Devon
Anthony William Clarke, Esq. director of the London and Hounslow
Rai lw

William Cole Cole, Esq. High-field, Exmouth, Devon
George Borlase Childs, Esq. 34, Fore-street, London
James OM, Esq. 30, Bloomsbury, director of the Paris and Stras-
burg, Rugby and Macclesfield, and Cheltenham and Brighton

Railways
James Robins Croft, Esq. Birkenhead, director of the Tring, Cam-
bridge, and Newmarket Railways
Edward Doubleday, Esq. F.L.S. Great Surrey-street, London, director
of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, and the Rugby, Warwick,
and Worcester railways
Philip Davy, Esq. Southcott, Morchard Bishop, Devon
J. Dennis, Esq. Bradiford-villa, Pilton, Devon
John Campbell Dicker, Esq. New-hall, Reston, Cheshire, director of
the Birkenhead and Holyhead Railways
William Eccles, Esq. Old Broad-street, London, director of the Great
Grimsby and Midland Junction Railway
Alfred Evans, Esq. Exeter
Edward Eagleton, Esq. Newgate-street
F. W. Etheredge, Esq. Park-street, Westminster
H. Its Fowler, Esq. 7, Manchester-square, London, and Filton-park,
Bristol, one of the Committee of the Birmingham and.Lichtield

Railway
George Fortescue, Esq. New Hayes, St. Thomas, Exeter
Charles Fitzgerald, Esq. Jermyn-street, London, director of the Ox-
ford and • outhampton Railway
Willi .m Fitzgibbon, Esq. director of the Cork and Bandon Railway
Robert Fisher, Esq. Highbury-park, director of the Lincolnshire and
Eastern Counties Junction, old of the Liverpool, Preston and
North Union Railways
Edwar I Goddard, Esq. Stonehouse, near Newbury, Berks •
James Golsworthy, Esq. the Mint, Exeter
Charles Golds]] nth, Esq. Friday-street, director of the Manchester
and Rugby Dir,ct Railway
Edmund Haynes, Esq. Summerland-Place, Exeter
S. Hutchison, Esq London Gas Works, Vauxhall, London, director
of the Grand Trunk Railway
John Hill, Esq. Victoria-terrace, Exeter
Samuel Haydon, Esq. Mount Radford, Exeter
Templar James, Esq. Brixton-rise, Surrey
John Jameson, Esq. St. George's-place, Brixton, director of the Ox-
ford and Brighton Puilway
Win. Jameson, Esq. Shelton, Staffordshire, director of the Stafford-
shire Potteries Railway
Capt. w us. Keats, R.N. Porthill, near Bideford, Devon
Win. KeallaWay, Esq. Barnfled, Exeter
V. Knight, Esq. 3, Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, London
Lawranee Kortright, Esq. director of the Barbadoes Railway
Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq. Abehurch-lane, director of the Tring,
Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
James Lawford, Esq. Homefield-lodge, Heavitree, Devon
G. W. W. Mason, Esq. 33, Bucklersbury, and 12, Stockwell-common
Surrey
William Morley, Esq. London, Deputy-Cha"rman of the Manchester
and Birkenhead Continuation Railway
Caleb Norris, Esq. Lancaster-place, Strand, London, director of the
Exeter, Dorchester and Weymouth, and the Windsor, Slough and
Staines Railways
George R. Peppercorne, Esq. Bexhill, Sussex, director of the Paris
and Strasburg Railway
George I'ell, Esq. Welford and Northampton
J. Reeves, Esq. 150, Cheapside, London, and Leyton, Essex, di-
rector of the Great Manchester, Rugby and Southampton Railway
Henry Reynolds, Esq. 45, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park
J. C. Ridgway, Esq. Rochampton-lodge, near Putney, Surrey
Richard Richards, Esq. Chudleigh, Devon
Charles Richards, Esq. Bedford-circus, Exeter
C. H. Rogers Ili rrison, Esq. F.R.O Upper Montague-street, Port-
man-square, London, director of the Grand Trunk Railway
Thomas Rogers, Esq. Bradfold, director of the Liverpool and Leeds,
the Hull and Holyhead direct, the Great Northern and Southern,
and the Liverpool and Derby Railways
John M. S. G. Schack, Esq. Barton-house, Dawlich, and Teignmouth,
Devon
John Slade, Esq. Langtree, Torrington, Devon
W. Sloane, Esq. 37, Wimpole-street, London
W. H. Swinton, Esq. 49, Moorgate-street, London, and Sussex-gar-
dens, Hyde-park
J. W. Snell, Esq. Monte le Grande, Exeter
Rev. J. T. Symons, Rector of Trevalga, Cornwall
Marler Troake, Esq. Topsham, Devon
Nicholas Tuckett, Esq. Exeter
William Wilsn, Esq.evonport-street, Sussex-square, Hyde-park,
London, director of the Great Grimsby and Midland Junction

...asiway
William Wrentmore, Esq. Mount Radford, Exeter
ENGINEER—G. H. Julian, Esq.
SURVEYOR - George Braund, jun. Esq.
ARCHITECT—Henry Flower, Esq. 39, Regent's-square, and 18,
Barge-yard Chambers, Bucklersbury.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Redden, Baker and Grant, 34, Lime-street, London
Thomas Harvey, Esq. 68, Old Broad-street, London
John Stogdon, Esq. Exeter.
BANKERS.
The Union Bank of London.
Bristol—The West of England and South Wales District Bank
Exeter—The National Provincial Bank; West of England and
South Wales District Bank; the Devon and Cornwall Bank, and
all its Branches,
St. Columb
Tnsro —Messrs. Ricketts, Enthoven, and Co,
Falmouth
Penzance

LOCAL AGENTS.
Bodmin—William Pearse Esq. Liskeard—
Truri—J. F. Benallack, Esq. St. Colamb—
Penryn—ltobert Rimell, Esq. Wadebridge--
Falmouth—Samuel Bamfield, Esq. Camelford—
St. Ives—ROM. H. Bamfield, Esq. Launceston—E. Spettigue, Esq.
Penzance—James Pascoe, Esq. Okehampton—
St...A.ustell—John W. Jeffery, Esq. T avistock essrs. Willesford
Devooport—W. J. Little, Esq. and Tucker

Cornwall has long been struggling to procure the benefits of rail-
way communication, but divisions amongst its friends have for
several successive years prevented any scheme from being carried

and Falmouth Junction Railway Company."

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out.
At length, on the 20th August last, at a full county meeting at
Bodmin, presided over by the High Sheriff, it was unanimously
resolved :—" That the general interests of the county of Cornwall, as
well as of the public at large, absolutely requite that no trunk line
should be sanctioned through the county which does not afford the
most direct, central, safe, and continuous railway communication
from Falmouth and Penzance to London." This decision, in con-
junction with the appearance of the scheme of the North Devon
Company, has appeared to the promoters of the Great Western
and Falmouth Junction railway, to present a favourable opportunity
for bringing before the public a Central Line, on the broad guage,
which, by the combination of four powerful companies, is now, it
may be said, brought almost to the boarders of Cornwall.
The Great Western railway, already open to Exeter, is now being
extended to Crouton, and from thence the North Devon Company
intend to construct a main line to join their north and south Devon
line, in the neighbourhood of Hatherleigh, thirty milt s directly west
from Exeter, and about seventy miles from Fahnouth.
The Great Western and Falmouth Junction Railway will com-
mence near Hatherleigh, and will be about seventy miles in length,
and form a direct extension of the line from Crediton to that place,
proposed by the North Devon Company, and will thence proceed by
Lettuces' on, Bodmin, and Truro to Falmouth; and in order to pre-
serve the old line of communication from Cornwall to 'Plymouth, ad-
mitted to be of great local importance, a branch will run from the
main line near Bodmin, through or near Liskeard, to join the South
Devon and Tavistock Railway, near Plymouth.
By means of this railway, and the North Devon, Credipo and
Exeter, Bristol and Exeter, road Great Western Rallwaythere will
be a direct and unb• oken line on the broad gauge ;from Falmouth
through Exeter, to London, on the one hand, and to Plymouth and
the South Coast on the other; and it will also be connected with the
railways and canals already existing in Cornwall, and, by branches,
with all the most important towns in that county and the North of
Devon. It is also intended that the line shall be the best in engineer-
ing qualities which the natural formation of the country will allow,
and that the formidable difficulties, which induced the Board of Trade
to report to Parliament against the late Cornwall and Devon Central
line, shall be avoided.
This scheme has a decided advantage Os er any other at present
proposed for giving to Cornwall the benefits of railway cammunica•
lion, and is the only line which can with certainty effect the object
to which the county became pledged, by the resolution of the 20th of
August last—no other line affords " direct, central, safe and con-
tinuous railway communication from Falmouth and Penzance to
London." The Cornwall and Devon Central Railway will not en-
sure a continuous line from Falmouth to London, until three other
independent Companies shall have succeeded in obtaining their
Bills ; and these projected lines have also to contend against the op-
position of through and integral lines from London to Exeter. The
West of England below Exeter, is obviously the country of the
broad gauge, and there is no probability that Parliament will sanction
the introduction of any other gauge into that district, which would be
productive of endless confusion and inconvenience. With the South
Devon line on the one hand, the projected North Devon line on the
other, the Exeter and Crediton and its projected extension westward
to Hatherleigh, and the West Cornwall line from Truro to Penzance,
all on the broad gauge, and all projected or supported by the
Great Western, and its associated Companies—there can be
little doubt that no narrow gauge line will be permitted to run
parallel with those already sanctioned by the legislature, or proposed
for the further accommodation of the country by such influential
companies. In order fully to comply with the expressed wishes of
the county of Cornwall and to secure that " direct, central, sale, and
continuous railway communication" so much required, the present
line has been projected, and will, when completed, form the Central
link of the great series of lines already under the direction of the
Great Western, and the other associated Companies. It is therefore
confidently presumed that no other scheme for connecting Cornwall
and West Devon with the Metropolis, and the North of England,
can compete with the present line with any probability of success,
presenting as this line does the prominent points of national and local
advantage, and possessing all the elements essential to command the
favourable consideration of Parliament.
As a work of national importance, it has been long admitted that a
line o f railway to the important Port of Falmouth must be carried
out ; the promoters of this railway do not, therefore, think it neces-
sary to repeat the here the highly satisfactory results of the traffic
over the line, which were long since ascertained. It is sufficient to
say, they prove an ample return on the capital to be invested.
The survey is in progress, and will be completed in time to apply to
Parliament in the ensuing Session ; and the promoters having already
received highly satisfactory assurances of support, as well local as
general, feel justified in expressing their conviction that their appli-
cation will be crowned with success.
The capital will be divided into 50,000 shares of 251. each, upon
which a deposit of 21. 12e. Gd. per share must be paid upon the allot-
ment. Power will be taken to pay interest on the deposit, and all
calls till the line is opened ; and no subscriber will be liable for more
than the amount of his deposit milli the Act be obtained, and then
not beyond the amount of his subscription.
Preference will be given, in the allotment, to landowners, to local
applicants, and to parties holding shares in the Great Western, Bristol
and Exeter, Exeter and Crediton, North Devon, and West Cornwall
Railways.
Applications for shares, in the form annexed, to be addressed to
the Solicitors of the Company ; or to any respectable brokers in town
or country.
68, Old Broad-street, London, Ist Oct. V. 45.

FORM._OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of Managemont of" The Great Westerr

Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me- shares of 251.
each, in the above railway, and I undertake to accept the same, or
any less number you may appropriate to me, subject to the regula-
tions of the Company, and to sign the Parliamentary Contract and
Subscribers' Agreement, and when required to pay the deposit ot
21. 12s. 6d. per share

GREA.II WESTERN AND FALMOUTH
Jl7 z•+:.,'l' ON IiA.ILIVA.Y.
f Arp'l,ll.,n 10 Shari, in this Railway can bc ent •
taLLA.,,i by the ouiwi Uwe :liter Tr, spAY nc xt tlu. 21bt lust.
KEDDELL, BAKER, and GAUNT, Joint
THOS. HARVEY, J} Sollcitor~.
JOHN STOODON,
68, 014 BrOdlitre9ta Undo, Oct. let 184),