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r HE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT
RAILWAY, via ABINGDON, WANTAGE, LIUNGERFORD,
and LUDGERSHALL.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capitall,2oo,oool., in 48,009 Shares of 251. eaoh.
Deposit 2/. 12s. Gd. per Share.

PROTISIONALCOMMITTEE.

The Right Ron. the Earl of Portarlin,gton
The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Dillon, Ditchley-park, Oxon
The Right rim. Lord Suffield, Gunton-park, North Walsham '
The Right Hem. Lord Rossmore, the Dell, Windsor
The Right Hon. Lord Dunboync, Belle Hatch-house, Henley
The Hon. Robert Gore, R.N., M.P., 21, Wilton-crescent
Lieut.-Col. the Roil, J. C. Westenra, M.P., 13, Conduit-street, Di-
rector of the East and West Junction Railway
The Hon. William M. Dawson, Parkstone-lodge, Poole, Director of
the Manchester and MOT Direct Railway
The Hon. Edward Stafford Jerningham, Director of the London and

Nottingham Railway
Sir William Drummond Stewart, Bart.
Sir John Key, Bart., King's Arms-yard, Alderman of London,
Director of the Direct Manchester and London Railway
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Ppm, United Service Club
E. F. Dayrell, Esq., Lillingson Dwell, High Sheriff of Buckingham-
shire, Chairman of the Minehead and Bridgewater Railway
Lleut.-Colonel Elrington, Scots Fusilier Guards, Wyndham-place,
Bryanston-square, Director of the Great Western Extension
Atmospheric Railway
James Macmillan, Esq., Southampton, Director of the Worcester,
Warwick, and Rugby Railway
Frederick William Seymour, Esq., Carlton-gardens, Director of the
Dover and Bristol Railway
Henry D. Erskine, Esq., Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, and Kirby
Dale, Yorkshire, Director of the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway
Major Moore, Queen Anne-street, Director of the Brighton and
Cheltenham Direct Railway
Major Graham, late Scots Greys,l6, Grove,Claphant
G. B. Banbury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the
Coventry and Manchester Railway
The Rev. H. R. Fowler, Felton, near Bristol, and 7, Manchester-
square, Director of the Rhondda and Ely Valleys Junction
Railway
James Gernon, Esq., 13, Conduit-street, Vice-Chairman of the Gal-
way and Ennis Grand Junction Railway
Archibald Douglas Stewart, Esq., Grandtully Castle
Robert Bell, Esq., Manor-house, Chiswick, Director of the Dover

and Bristol Railway
Joseph Bull, Esq., Manchester
Thomas Ferrand Deaden, Esq., Rochdale
Charles Ibigh, Esq., Rochdale
Charles Welland, Esq:,' Liverpool
'James Shaw, Esq., Pendleton, Manchester
The Rev. F. K. Hall, D.D., Rector of Fulborne, Cambridgeshire
Thomas Dowglaese, Esq., Marlborongh-place, St.
Directors of the
John's-wood
E. S. Blundell, Esq., 18, Lower Seymouf-street - Dire ct Lon
W. L. Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex don and
G. W. W. Evans, Esq., Milbury-terrace, Regent's-parki ter Railway
Walter Shairp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park,
John Allen, Esq. 12, Gloucester-terrace, Kensington
Francis Roose, Esq., Upper Montague-street, Montague-square
Francis Ewart, Esq., Temple, Director of the Equity and Law
Life Assurance Company, and of the Exeter, Dorchester, and

Weym,outh Railway
William Gambier, Esq., Sacombe-park, Herts
•
Benjamin Swan, Esq., Jermyn-street, St. Jrmes's
Nehemiah John Reed, Esq., R.N., Marlborough, Director of the
London and South Wales Direct Railway
Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough
F. Walker Botterill, Esq., Burnley
James Paxton, Esq.. M.D., director of the Rugby and Manchester,
Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Railways
Thomas Ingham Rayner, Esq., Lilac-cottage, Birstal, near Leeds, di-
rector of the Great Leeds, and London, Midland, and Thirsk, and
other Railwaya
Major Henry Lyster, 9, Spring-terrace, Wandsworth-road, Drector
of the Lincolnshire:and Eastern Counties Railway
J. Russell, Esq. Gloucester-place, Portman-square
William Doe Belcher, Esq., Mayor of Abingdon
John Hyde, Esq., jun., Alerman of Abingdon
John Tomkins, Esq.
John Harris, Esq. Members of the Town Colwell, Abing-
Thomas Copeland, Esq. don
Edwin James Trendell, Esq ,
John King, Esq., Abingdon
George Cox, Esq., Abingdon
George Jackson, Esq., Abingdon
John Knight, Esq., Abingdon
Mr. Thomas Payne, jun., Abingdon
John Aldworth, Esq., Frilford, Berks
William Caudwell, Esq., Drayton, near Abingdon
William Dewe, Esq., Stonehill, near Abingdon
John Towle, Esq.
Charles Hickman, Esq. Members of the City Council, Oxford
John Weaving, Esq.,
R. C. Godfrey, Esq.,
James Morrell, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant of the county of Oxford,
Director of the Londo and Cheltenham Direct Railway
Captain H. Strong, Oxford, Director of the Oxford and Worcester
Extension Railway
William Mead Warner, Esq., Oxford
Daniel Hanley, Esq., Oxford
William Seckham, Esq., Kidlington, Oxon
Charles Shillingford, Esq., Sourer Town, Oxon
Min Williams, Esq., Sourer Town, Oxon
Mr. Thomas Hyde, Oxford
Mr. Wm. Thompson, Oxford
James Wickens, E'q., Oxford
John Brightman, Esq., Regency-square, Brighton, Chairman of the

Hounslow Railway
David Bryan, Esq., Northampton, Director of Ow Eastern and
Midland Counties Railway
Capt. James Edward Carnegie, Somerset-street, Portman-square,
and Bawer-hall, Inverness, Director of the Reading and Reigate

Railway
Charles Liddiard, Esq., Wantage
Mr. Henry James Palmer, Wantage
Thomas Brown, Esq. West Lockinge, Berks
William Stone, Esc'. Charlton, Berks
Richard Barnard, Esq. Charlton, Berks
Henry Hayward, Esq. Stirlings, Wantage
James Staley, Esq. Wantage
Thomas Brown, Esq. Wantage
Mr. Charles Hart, foundry, Wantage
Mr. William Beesley, Wantage
John William Palmer, Esq. Lete,omhe Regis, Berks
Mr. J. Pottinger Palmer, Letcombe Regis, Berks
John Blunt, Esq., Upper Bedford-place, Director of the London
Docks
William Bastow, Esq., Surrey-place, Kent-road, Director of the
Commercial and General Life Assurance Association
Robert Bastow, Esq., Surrey-place, Director of the Great Eastern
and Western Railway
John King, Esq., St. John's-wood, London, Director of the Somer.
setshire Midland Railway
Henry Stock, Esq., Beddgelert, North Wales, Director of the Great
Eastern and Western Railway
D. T. Johnson, Esq., Aldemary-churchyard, Director of the Direct
Independent Lonon and Manchester Railway
John Bloor, Esq., Tatbury, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Man-
chester Railway
T. A. Dale, Esq., Malvern-house, Cheltenham, Director of the Bir-
kenhead and Holyhead Junction, and South Staffordshire and Pot-
teries Railways
Charles ',Johnston, Esq., Aldersgate-street, Director of the Lynn,
Thetford, and Ipswich Railway
Admiral Ayscoueh, Southampton, Director of the Birmingham and
Leicester Railway
Frederick Chamier, Esq., RN., Halkin-street, Belgrave-square,
Director of the Northampton and Cambridge Railway
George R. Peppercorne, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex, Director of the Rugby
and Warwick Railway
Thomas Salkeld, Esq. Huddersfield, director of the IManchester,
Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby, and Huddersfield and Liverpool
Direct Railway
Charles Finch, Esq., Fisherten, Salisbury
James Scott, M.D., Grove End-lodge, St. John's-wood, Director
of the Hull and Holyhead, and of the Bristol, Bath, and Poole
Railways
General Wright, Gloucester-place, Portman-square
(With power to add to their number).
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
William Bastow, Esq. Robert Bell, Esq.
William Doe Belcher, Esq. W. L. Pope, Esq.
E. S. Blundell, Esq. M.D. Brigadier-General Sir Henry
Thomas Dowglasse, Esq. Pynn
Francis Ewart, Esq. Francis Roost, Esq.
Charles Liddiard, Esq. Walter Shairp, Esq.
James Macmillan, Esq. Henry Stock, Esq.
(With limited power to add to their number.)
ENGINEER-IN-CRlEF—Samuel Charles Brees, Esq.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street,
London.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT—Cadwallader F. Waddy, Rsq.
RANKERS.
London—The London and Westminster Bank.
Oxford—The London and County Bank.
Salisbury—The Wilts and Dorset County Bank.
Abingdon—Messrs. Henry Knapp and Co. ; and the County
Bank
Wantage—Messrs. Henry Knapp and Co.
Newbury—The Berkshire Union Bank
Hungerford—Messrs. Tanner and Pinckney.

LOCAL AGENTS.
Oxford—John Francis Wilde, Esq.
Salisbury—Stephen Hill, Esq.
.Abingdon—Messrs. Graham and Son
\Vantage—William Ormond, Esq.
Hungerferd and Marlborough—John Halcomb, Esq.
SECRETARY—Z. Hubbersty, Esq.

The importance of connecting remote parts of Eogland by rail- I
ways, with the advantages thereby conferred upon intermediate towns
and districts, can scarcely be better exemplified than by the line
which is now proposed to forma short and direct channel of inter-
course between Oxford and Salisbury. Numerous projected lines
now before the public will make Oxford at the north, and Salisbury
at the south of the intended railroad, the central points from which
various radii will diverge to the north-west, north, and north-east of
the former, and to the south and west of the latter ; and the
proposed line from Cambridge to Oxford, continuing to that city the
course of railway from the north-eastern parts of the island, requires
the appliance now suggested to effect a complete meals of transit to
the western and south-western counties.
The Oxford and Salisbury Direct Railway, in addition to
the benefits which will be conferred upon the nation at
large, by perfecting a direct line of communication be-
tween the north-eastern and western and south-western
parts of England, will afford to the borough of Abingdon,
the market towns of Wantage, Hungerford, and Ludgershall, and
the adjacent villages, an important railway accommodation, of which
the agricultural districts in which they are seated staid in much
need, and will provide a facility for the interchange of produce be-
tween the rural, manufitcturing, and commercial population of the
kingdom. The projected line will bring the Cathedral City of Salis-
bury into immediate connexion with the City and University Of
Oxford, combining also the advantage of a direct communication
with the sister University of Cambridge ; thus strengthening the
ecclesiastical and academical relations of the whole, whilst the com-
mercial prosperity of the two terminal cities must of necessity be
essentially enhanced.
The want of railway accommodation has long been felt to press
smfairly upon the inhabitants of the important and thriving town of
Abingdon. Their means and opportunities of competing with the more
fortunate traders of those towns which are already provided with di-
rect channels of transit, are thus severely crippled. The same remark
applies in some degree to the market town of Wantage, which, as
well as llungerford and Ludgershall, claims a share of the profits
and advantages produced by railway traffic.
It has therefore been determined to commence the proposed line at
Oxford, and to proged through Abingdon to the station of the Great
Western Railway at Steventon, thus giving to Abingdon a direct rail-
road to London. By continuing the projected railway to Wantage, the
same facility of transit to London will be afforded to that place ; and
a perfect line of road from the north-eastern counties will, by a junc-
tion with the projection from Cambridge to Oxford, be produced,
through the towns which have been named, Hungerford and Ludgcrs -
hall, to Salisbury, and thence to the south and western ports and dis-
tricts.
The survey is in a state of great forwardness, and will be com-
pleted in sufficient time to enable the Company to apply to Parlia-
ment in the next session ; and the promoters having' received general
and most satisfactory assurances of support from the local gentry,
landowners, traders, and influential inhabitants, have reasonable
ground to anticipate the unobstructed passing of the necessary Act
for the formation of the Oxford and Salisbury Direct Railway during
the ensuing session.
Applications for shares and prospectuses to be made to Messrs.
Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street, and to the followlne.
Brokers :—Messrs. Peppercorne, 2, Old Broad-street, Messrs.
and D. Ewart, 13, Finch-lane, and Messrs. Preece and Evans,
Lothbury, London ; Messrs. Alston and Gage, and Messrs.
Reynolds and Son, Liverpool ; Mr. John Duncuft, and Mr.
.lohn O'Neil, Manchester; Messrs. A. and C. Bradshaw, and Messrs.
Wellbeloved and Co., Leeds ; Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol ; Mr.
James Pearson, Birmingham ; Messrs. Samuel Hutchinson and Co.,
Bradford; Mr. Wm. Miles, Worcester; Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and
Co., Cheltenham ; Mr. Thomas Sandford, Exeter ; 3lessrs. Easty and
Sons, Southampton; Mr. Robert Allan, Edinburgh; Messrs. Black
and Co., and Messrs. Buchanan and Aitken, Glasgow; Mr. Win.
Gordon, Aberdeen ; and Messrs. Biuce and Symcs, Dublin.

FORM OF APPLICATION,

To the Provisional Committee of the Oxford and Salisbury Direct

Railway.
Gentlemen,—I request you to allot me shares in the
above undertaking ; and I hereby agree to accept the same, or any
less number which may be allotted to me, and also to pay the de-
posits thereon, and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement, Parlia-
mentary Contract, and all other necessary instruments, when re-
quired so to do.
I am, Gentlemen, your obedient Servant,
Name he till
Residence ••..••
Post •Town • • .. . • • • • • • • • • • •
Occupation • . • .
Reference ... • • • • • • • .• • • • • • • • .....
Ilstril Signature
Dated •••• • • • . .••• • . • ...... ..• .• • •
Elinslie and Preston 47, Moorgate-street, London.

PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT.
"FRE DIRECT. LINCOLN, GRANTHAM,
_A AND NORTHAMPTON RAILWAY, by way of Oakham
and Market Harborough, and thence to Northampton, by the pro-
jected South Midland, with extension to Gainsborough.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 20/. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
(Willi power to increase the capital.)
• Liability limited to Subscription.
This line will be a feeder to the projected lines to Great Grimsby
and Hull. A detailed prospectus will shortly be published.
Communications may be addressed to the Secretary, J. Browne,
Esq., 7, Whitehall place, London.

/SHE EASTERN COUNTIES EXTENSION
-..AL and CAMBRIDGE and WORCESTER DIRECT RAILWAY,
from Cambridge through Bedford, Blisworth,yenny-Compton, Strat-
ford-on-Avon, to Worcester, connecting the Eastern and North-
Eastern Comities with North and South Wales, South Staffordshire,
Cheshire, Shropshire, Gloucestershire, Bristol, the West of England,
and the Midland Counties.
(Provisionally Registered.)
capital 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.

PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS.
Samuel AnderSoil; Directors of the Eastern Counties Rat
F. Valentine Lee, E 5...?•.
Sir Henry Webb, Bart., 74.11-mall, London
'4 Love Parry, Bart., K.C.R.,
..
Maior•General Sir Love Jo.
Madryn-park, Cacrnarvonshire
William Hughes Hughes, Esq , F.S.A. 11.7,.5., k'.., Alderman
of London, Chairman of the Manchester' Zitl Birkenhead

Continuation Railway Company
Captain William Cousins, Director of the Goole and Doncaster

Railways
James Beach, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place, London, and grafi-
don-lodge, Warwickshire, Director of the South Midland
Railway Company
Robert Rising, Esq., The Shrubbery, Worcestershire
James Morrison, Esq., Raymond-buildings, Gray's Inn, Pro-
visional Director of the Bridgewater and Minehead Railway
Company
Admiral Ayscough, Southampton
John Brightman, Esq., Regency-square, Brighton
Captain Chamfer, Halkin •street West, Belgrave-square, London
Thomas May, Esq., 8, Upper Gower-street, London
Thomas Henry Evans, Esq., 30, Lothbury, and Mayor of Caer-

narvon
Alexander Greg, Esq., Lowndes-street, Belooe-ware,

to;

London
John llelbert Holbert, Esq., Upper Gloucester-street, London
James Watts Peppercorne, Esq., Old Broad-street, and Du'
Surrey,
Sir William Boothby, Bart., Ashby-hall, Derbyshire, Director of the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction, and of the
Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railways
William Lowthrop, Hull, and Alga-house, Scarborough, Director
of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire, and
of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction
Railways
Major, Esq , Director of the Church of England Assurance
Company
Atkinson, J. R. W., Esq., Leeds
Anderson, James, Esq., Bridge street, City
Barry, D. Esq., Paris and London
Brindley, 'Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, S
fordshre, and Worcestershire Junction, and of the Direct East and
West Junction Railways
Brooks, John, Esq., Aldermen of Manchester, Director of Reming-
ton's Direct London and Manchester Railway
Brown, Thomas, Esq., Silsoe
Brown, Joseph, Esq., Alderman of Bedford
Burgess, John, Esq., Boroughreeve, St. James's-square, Manchester,
Director of Remington's Direct London and Manchester Railway
Burnett, John, Esq., Cheltenham
Burgess, John, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester
Buschek, C., Esq., 133, Fenchurch-street
Cockburn, Sir Francis, Dover
Cumberledge, N. Esq., York-terrace, Regent's-Park
Clarke, Jeremiah,' Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's Lon-
don and Manchester, and of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and
Worcestershire Junction, and of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield,

Nvich,

and South Staffordshire Railways
Cleobury, Thomas Mortimer, Esq., Acton, Middlesex
Cooper, John Douglas, Esq., Home-eottage, Ashbourne, Director of
the-Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Rail-
way
Croft, John T., Major, 15, Regent-street, Piccadilly, Deputy Chair-
man of the Chester and Manchester Railway; and Director of the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction, of the
Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire, and of the
Direct East and West Junction Railways
Crocket, Tho Mas, Esq., Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction, and of the Leeds, Huddersfield,
Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railways
Cooke, Rev. John, Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction, and of the Leeds, Hudders-
field, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Direct East and West
Junction Railways
Cooke, John, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's Direct
London and Manchester Railway
Carpenter, R., Esq.
Coape, Henry Coe, Esq., Goldhangers, Maldon, Essex, Director of the
Oxford, Manchester, and Southampton Junction Railway
Cottle, J. M., Esq., Leamington, Director of the Coventry and Lei-
cester Railway •
Dawson Darner, the Right Hon., M.P., Tilney-street, Park-lane
Dawson Darner, the Hon. win., Parlutone-lodge, Poole
Dalby, John Robert. Esq., Ashbourne, Derbyshire, Director of the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction, awl of
*the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Itail-

ways
Dale, Major Thurston, Ashbourne, Director of the Leeds, Hudders-
field, Sheffield, and south Staffordshire Railway
Dayrell, E. Francis, Esq., Lilingstone Dayrell, Bucks, High Sheriff

for Backs
Eames, John, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Edinton, Harvey, Esq., Worcester
Ekin, Wm., Esq., Cambridge
Erskine, Henry D., Esq., Mount-street, Grosvenor-Square
Freke, the Hon. Percy Evans, 3, Beigrave-square
Fitch, Colonel George, 36, York-terrace, London, Director of the
York and Lancaster Railway
Gore, the Hon. Robert, M.P.
Gisborne, Henry Francis, Esq., Derby, Director of the Staffordshire,
Leicester and Tannvorth, and Derby and Crewe, Macclesfield and

GuLtetchh,fiJe(lillnitNatialtwth3eYws , banker, Worcester, Director of Reining ton's
Direct London and Manchester, of the Direct East and West
Junction, and of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcester

Junction Railways
Gambler, William, Esq., Salcombe-park, Bedfordshire
Gernon, James, Esq., Conduit-street
Hutchinson, The Hon. Colonel, Weston-house, Toweester
Heneage, Charles, Rig., Cedeby-house, Liacolnshire
Hume, Fitzwilliam, Esq., Park-place, St. James's
Haines, Samuel, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbaston, Director of the Di-
rect East and West Junction Railways
Hadon, Joseph, Esq., irontna.ter, Dudley, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction, and of the Leeds,
Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railways
Holford, John, Esq., Manchester, Director of Remington's Direct
London and Manchester, of the Direct East and West Junction,
and of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction

Railways
Hamer, S., Esq., General Post-office, and Southampton-row, Rus-
sell-square, Direetor of Remington's Direct London and Man-
chester Railway
Hale, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Potteries
Railway
Hill, John, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire,
and Worcestershire, and of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, anti
South Staffordshire Railways
Hurst, George, Esq., Bedford, Director of Remington's Direct Louden
and Manchester Railway
Hall, the Rev. J. V., Rector of Fulbourne, Cambridge
Hooke, Benjamin, Esq., Norton-hall, near Worcester
Howard, John, Esq., Britannia Foundry, Bedford, Director ef Re-
mington's Direct London and Manchester Railway
Jerningham, the Hon. Edward
Jones, Rev. J. P., Alton Vicarage, Cheadle, Staffordshire, Director ef
Remington's Direct London and Manchester, and of the Leeds,
Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire, and of the Derby-
Esq., Waterloo-place, Director of Freemasons' Life As-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Direct Junction Railways
St. John's Wood, Regent's-park, Director
Keene, John Joseph, Esq.,
of the National Bank of Ireland, and Chester and Manchester
Ring,
a William,nee-0
Direct Railway
Knight, Edward, Esq., M.D., Stafford, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction, and of the Leeds, Hud-
dersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railways
Kilpin and Son, Bedford
Knight, James, Esq., Worcester
Lasle t
,William, Esq., Abberton-hall, near WorcesterLassetter, Richard, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Lees, David, Esq., Wednesbary, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire,Langley,Henry, Esq., 11.akeway-house, Cheadle, Director of Reming-
ton's Direct London and Manchester, of the Leeds, Huddersfield,
and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Sheffield, and South Staffordshire, and of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
M'Cann, Nicholas, Esq., u
shire, and Worcestershire 50, Parliame-ilways street
Moore, Major, Queen Ann-street, Cavendish-square, Direetor of the
J nction R
nta
Indian Peninsular Railway
Meteyard, Horace William, Esq., Chatham-place, Director of Reming-
ton's Direct London and Manchester, of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction, of the Leeds, Huddersfield.
Sheffield, and South Staffordshire, of the Direct East and West
Junction, and of the Chester and Manchester Direct Railways
Milner, Wm., Esq., Tean, Staffordshire, Director of the Leeds, Hud-
dersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire, and of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railways
Murray, Samuel T. Esq., 16, George-street, Hanover-square, Director
of the National Loan Assurance Company
bEsq., Stanhope-street, Mayfair
lontilorMarshall,
ee,
G. , Joseph,Esqh:
Godaiming_.
Surrey
Newman, Henry W., Esq., Clifton, Deputy-Lieutenant of the County

of Gloucester
Nugent, the Hon. M. W. 8., Higham orange, Leicestershire
Neracher, Thomas Henry, Esq., Dudley
Norris, Edward, Esq., Clairville, Director of Remington's Direct Lon.
don and Manchester Railway
Prescott, Sir George, Bart., Theobald's, Herts
Price, Thomas, Rev., Llarothel, Herefordshire
Pilkington, Henry, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Director of Remington'
Direct London and Manchester Railway
The Lord Rossmore, the Dell, Windsor
Riley, Wm. T., Esq., Pendeford-house, Wolverhampton, and Millfleld
Ironworks, Bilston, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and
Worcestershire Junction, and of the Shropshire Mineral Railways
Robertson, .Tames, Esq., Worcester, Director of the Worcester and
Leominster, and Bristol, Bath, and Dover Direct Railway
Robinson, John. Esq., Silcoates-cottage, Wakefield, Director .f the
Bradford, Wakefield, and Midlands ; of the Stockton, North, and
Leeds ; Leeds, York, and Midlands' Junction; Leeds, Huddersfield,
Sheffield, and South Stt. JanaffordshireKUM Railways
Seymour, Fred., Esq., S:ICS'S-
Sanders, John, Esq., Royal Foundry, Bedford, Director of Reining-
ton's Direct London and Manchester Railway
Sharpe, George Henry, Esq., Bedford, Director of Remington's Direct
London and Manchester Railway
Sheppard, James Pook, Esq., Worcester
Sheppard, Edgar, Esq., Worcester
Skene, George R., Esq., F.R.M. and C.S., Bedford, Proprietor of the
Bedford Mercury, Director of Remington's Direct London and
Manchester Railway
Skrine, Julian, Esq., Cambridge, Director of the Cambridge and Lin-
colnshire Railway
Smith, William, Esq., Clifton, near Ashbourne, Director of the Tom
and Dove Valley Railway ; of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and
Worcestershire Junction Railway ; of the Leeds, Huddersfield,
Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railway; aid of the Direct East
and West Junction Railway
Smith, Thomas, Esq., Blore Hall, Ashbourne, Director of the Leeds,
Sheffield, Huddersfield, and South Staffordshire, and of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railways
Spiers, Edmund John, Esq., Carlton Villas, Maida Yale, Paddington.
Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire
Junction, and of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staf-
fordshire Railways
Smith, F. Curven, Esq., Frognall Hall
Stephenson, Thomas, Esq., Worcester
The Sheriff of `fork, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield,
and South Staffordshire, and of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and

Worcestershire Junction Railways
Trapp, Benjamin, Esq., banker, Bedford, Director of Remington's
Direct London and Manchester Railway
Trapp, Thomas S., Esq., banker, Bedford, Director of Remington's
Direct London and Manchester Railway
Tyler, George, Esq., Holloway-place, London, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction, of the Leeds,
Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire, and of the Direct

East and West Junction Railways
Tylecote, Edward, Esq., Great Haywood, Staffordshire, Director of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction, and
the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Rail-
ways:
Turner, J., Esq., M.P., Truro
Westenra, The Hon. J. C., M.P.
Waller, Ma
Georg
J am es's-square
Willis, George, sq., Hungerford-park
Welch, Edward, Esq., Leamington
Walker, George James Alexander, Esq., Norton Villa, near Worcester
Walsh, John Henry, Esq., Worcester
Walter, James Smith, Esq., Director of the Hayes, Bakewell, Per-
byshire, Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire
Railways
Wardle, Henry, Esq., Macclesfle'd, Director of Remington's IYrect
London and Manchester, and Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Wor-
cestershire Junction Railways
Warde, C. Thomas, Esq., Clopton-house, Stratford-on-Axon, and
Luton Hoe, Bedfordshire
Wheelton, John, Esq., AfeoPham Bank, Tonbridge, Director of the
Leicester and Bedford, and Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Glou-
cester Junction Railways
Williams, Benj., Esq., banker, 4, Whitehall
Williams, William' Esq., Rorto Foundry, Bedford, Director of Re
mington's Direct London and Manchester Railway
WLUiams, Phillip Henry, Esq., XX., Wev,ester

Wood, John. Esq., Wednesbury, Director v.f the Derbyshire, Staf
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Raihefty* " the Leeds,
Weston, Thomas, Esq., Tean, Staffordshire. Director of
Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South St ,tfordshire, and of tno P'l-
- Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railways
Weod, William, Esq., M.D., Chetwynd house, Newport, Salop, Di-
rector of the Shropshire Mineral, and of the Leeds, Ilacidersg.eid,
_ _ _ _ _ . _

Sheffield, arid South Staffordshire R,tilways
Wood, Charles, Eq., Uttoxeter, Director of the. Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction, and of the Leeds, Huddersfield,
Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railways
Woodward, John, Esq., Worcester
Yzarn, J. Borwick, Berne-hlll, Surrey.

ENGINEERS.
Sir John Rennie, F.R.S., and
George Remington, Esq., C.B.
JUNEAU'.

Bedford—
Cambridge—Messrs. Poster
N,sthampton—The Northamptonshire Banking Company.
Leamington, Warwick, and Southam—The Leamington Priors and

Warwickshire flanking Company. -
SOLICITORS.
Augustus Walter Arnold, Esq.. 31. Golden-square
John Owens, Esq., 35, Moo'-gate-street
Sleorge Pell, Esq., jun., Northampton.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Worcester—Messrs Gilham and Sons
. . . .

.:eamington, Warwick, and .S'outhani—.pacers. Patterson, lia,,TMes,
Hanbury, and Gardner
Lo den—Messrs. Barnard, Dirnsdale, and Co., 50, Conihill; 2lefsrs.
Cockburn and Co., Whitehall; :Messrs. llopkinson and Co., Wa•
terico-place

SECTIETAILY—D. C. rligg, Esq.
Offices of the Company, No. 34, Moorgatc-street.
PROSPECTUS.
Commencing at Cambridge, which has now bccome the traffic-
centre of the Eastern Counties, by the line of railway intended to be
formed by that Company, this line will rroeeed to Bedford, there
pgs,sing near Olney it will crass at or "ear the Ellsworth Station of the
Landon and Birmingham Railway, where it will communicate with
the Werth:m.On Peterhorongh line; it will then proceed west-
ward, Crossing the Oxford and Rugby line at or near Fenny=Uompton
fel Stratford-on-Avon, there Joining the proposed 11130 from Warwick
and Leamington to Cheltenham, Oloneester, Bristol, and the West of
Enulaipi ; continuing its coarse through Aleester, the line will go di-
rect to Worcester, and thus terminate at the great centre of traffic
air the Mineral- MA Malin 1 74 014rillg ilistrieto of tSwth St4ffordahiro,
shropFbire, and North and South Wales. This proutsed line doe..
not interfere with any existing railways, and presenting, as it does,
an unbroken line between 44) grit Ceiltres of traffic, the importance
of 111c:undertaking needs ho further comment,

Igegoitailons have been entered into with the Eastern Coun-
ties Railway Company, lay which their support and co-operation will
bo ensured for obtaining the line novr proposed.
An arrangement has also been made with the proposed Rugby,
Warwick, and -Worcester Company' which this line will join at Al-
cester, and by means of which the Ezsterti Counties' trails will pro-
ceed to Worcester.

Power wi be reserved to the 'Directors to amalgamate with any
ether existing or projecting Companies, or to vary the line.
Appli..atien for shares may be made to the secretary, and to the fol-
lowing Sharebrokers, of whom prospectuses, with mars of the line,
may be obtained :—London—Messrs. Peppercorne and Co., 2, Old
Broad-street ; Messrs. Preece and Evans, 39, Lothbury ; Messrs.
Boyd. Birmingham—Mr. W. H. Collis. Blackburn—Mr. Thomas
Boardman. Bradford Mr. G. Clark ; Messrs. Tate and
Nash. Cheltenham—Mr. James Stokes. Coventry—Mr. J. S.
Holland. Derby—Messrs. Eyre and Shaw. Dublin—Messrs.
Labertouche and Stafford. Edinburgh—James Pringle, Esq.,
79, Princes-street; Messrs. Beaumont and Langworthy.
Glasgow—Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson. Halifax—Mr.W.Cronhelm.
Htt•Jdirstleld—Messrs. Everard and Co. Hull--Mr. Frederick Stamp.
Leeds—Messrs Wellbeloved and Oastler. Leioester—Messrs. Payne
and Freer. Liverpool—Messrs. Townley and Whitehead ; Messrs.
Cameron and Co. ; Mr. Morris Reynolds. Macclesfield—Mr. Richard
E. Hine. Manchester—Messrs. Cardwell and Sons; Messrs. A.
Birehall and Co. ; Mr. Charles o'.NeiL Nottingham—Mr. Charles
Spencer. Sheffield—Messrs. T. N. Bardwell and Sons. South-
ampton—Mr. Joseph Clark, jun. Wakefield—Mr. E. H. Armitage.
Wercester—Mr.Miles. York—Messrs. Grayston and Earle.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Eastern Counties Extensioa.

and Cambridge and Worcester Direct Railwni.
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares, of 201.
each in the above railway; and I undertake to accept the same, er
such less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the regu-
lations of the Company, and to sign the necessary deeds, and to pay
when required the deposit thereon of 2/. 2s. per share.
Dated this day of , 1845,
Name, in full .. • • •• • •• • ••
Profession and rrofessional Residence in full.
Private Residence in full .. • •
Usual 5ignature..............
Residence • • • • . • • ••
And Profession of Referee ••
Offices, 34, Moorgate-street,

BIRMINGHAM AND BOSTON DIRECT
RAILWAY COMPANY,
WITH A BRANCH TO GRANTHAM.
Capital, 1,000,0011., in Shares of DI. each.
Depositr2/. 2s. per Share.
(Provisionally Registered.)

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Right Hon. Lord Edward Chichester, director of the Hull and
Holyhead Direct and Great Welsh Central hallways
The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyn-, director of the Harwich Docks, and
Birmingham and Central Enzand Railways
The Right Hon. Lord Stephen Chichester, Ormean, Antrim, director
of the London, Staines, and Ascot, and of the Reading and Reigate
Atmo4heric Railways, &c.
The Right lion. Viscount Glamis
The Count Bathyany, b, Audley-squate, director of the Liverpool
and Derby Direct Railway, &c.
The Hon. Cecil Lawless, Ss, Jermyn-street, director of the Great
Manchester, Rugby and Southampton Railway.
The lion. Captain Percy Eva .s Freke, 3, Belgrave-square, director
of the Birmingham, Nottingham, Gainsborough slut Hull Railway
Lieutenant-Colonel Lothian Dickson, Curzon-treet, Mayfair, H. M.
Civil Commissioner at the Cape, director of the Exeter, Dorches-
ter, and Weymouth Janct,on Coast Railway, &c.
Caotain J. P. Macdougall, Fir Grove, North Brixton, Chairman of

the Isle of Man Railway ; director of the Cq.ford, Southampton,
Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway, &c.
Colonel Thomas Fitzgerald, Maperton, Somerset, Deputy-Lieutenant
of Somerset and West Riding of Yorkshire
The Hon. George Augustua Hamilton Chichester, 1, St. Alban's-place,
and Oakfields, Donegal, director of the London and Exeter Direct
Railway, &c.
Sir George Sartorius, R.N., Senior United Service Club, director of

tahre: e.omveiraine, }o eo
dnßr:issgti Iti airway, &c.
chi, en-court, • Surrey, Chairman of the
Licensed Victuallers' and General Fire and Life Insurance Com-
vrtrritertrennses--.4.-....-ii tern Ttrithsw., &c _
Major O'Doherty, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall
George Downing Bruce, Esq. Deputy-Lieutenant of Yorkshire ;
diractor of the Oxford, Worcepter, and Wolverhampton Extension

Railway
Major Itawkes, 72, Baker-street, Portman-square, Chairman of the
Jamaica North Midland Railway
R. Atkyus, Esq. Devonshire-street, Portland-place, director of the
Guernsey-pier and Railway Company, &c.
Wm. Tulioh Fraser, Esq. Gloucester-glace.
Portman-square,
Thos. Ross, Esq. bB, Porchester-terrace, Directors of the Dover
Hyde-park, and Bristol Rail-
John Lowe, Esq. 26, No. folk-crescent, Hyde- way, ice.
park,

Kensington, Lewis, Esq. Stratford-place, J
W. Augustus Lewis' Esq. B.A. F.G.S. director of the Wolverkamp-
ton, Chester, and Birkenhead Railway, &c.
Challoner Ogle, Esq. 4s, Eaton-place
James Lamb, Esq. 25, Hyde-park-square, director of the Grand
Trunk Railway, &c.
John Thorpe, Esq. Bloomsbury-terrace, Lower Broughton, Man-
chester
Charles Phelps, Esq. Montague-place, Russell-square
Henry Brown, Esq. Ilarleyford-place, Kennington, director of the
Great Welsh Crntral Railway
Thomas Rogers, Esq. Laura-place, Bradford, Yorkshire, director of
the. Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and of the Hull and Holyhead
Direct, and the Liverpool and Derby Railways, &c.
John Thompson, Esq. Tottenham, director of the Southampton,
Peterstield, and London Railway
James Adair, Esq. director of the Goole and Doncaster Railway, &c.
Algernon W. Grevllle, Esq. Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park, director
of the Great Eastern and Western Railway, &c.
H. Grenville Dewes, Esq. St. James's-square . _

Geoi ge Parbury, Esq. Mansfield-house, Russell-square, director of
the Port of Wisbeach, Peterborough, Birmingham, and idland
Counties Union Railway, &c.
Captain Twisleton Graves, 49, Duke-sheet, St. James's, director o
the Leicester and Tenn and Dove, Mid the Direct Western Rail-
ways, &c.
John Chapman, Esq. Langham-place, director of the Hull and
Holyhead Direct Railway
G. Gun Hay, Esq. 127, Sloane-street
William Sladden, Esq. Canterbury Directors ofthe
John Minnie, Esq. b, Lower Belgrave-street, Bel- Reading and
grave-square Reigate At-
W. Fechney Black, Esq. 10, Wilton-place, Belgrave- mospheric
square Railway, &c.
Captain Strutt, Cranford-lodge, Middlesex,
Edward Sankey, Esq. Canterbury, director of the Metropolitan Junc-
tion Railway Company
William Thomas Symonds, Esq. Thornton-heath, Croydon
C. M. Rigg, Esq. York-place, Portman- t Directors of the Shrop-
square shire Mineral Rail-
Major Newcombe, way
Colonel Cannon, Oriental Club, director of the St. George's Point and
Calcutta Railway
B. W. Doyle, Esq. director of the Sheffield and Macclesfield Railway
Charles Owen Snow, Esq. Lecke-hall, Cheshire
Lumsden Mackeson, Esq. Old-square, Lincoln's Inn, director of the
Leeds and Carlisle Railway, &c.
Alfred G. Harris, Esq. 38, Alsop-terrace, New-road
William Henry Burke, Esq. Tottenham
Edward F. Finden, Esq. Southampton-place, Euston-square
George Fowler, Esq. Newington-place
Peter Paterson, Esq. Leyton, Essex
George Evans, Esq. Melbury-terrace, Regent's-park, director of the
London and Exeter Direct Railway, &c.
John Thompson, Esq. Great Saint Beet's, director of the Grand

Trunk Railway
Sir John Key, Bart. Alderman of London, Chairman of the Mauri-
tius Railway, and
director of
ooff
the
ee LonrkyitteilitdiLjoealkicess, :cord lutairilmwiatigy,hBcame.
Captain N ewton, R.N., director of the Hull and Holyhead Railway, &c.
JJamesoahinidß7l e'urnnatctr,3ahn Moor, Er'l issE:q46:a.,:dluiartnebdeutroßyra
Staffordshire,
at
ftYol 'iredS:cLi :tor: d,
do
inr
eeDocks,torof t
haen dßeadingDerby,Go
tan
end-
Reigate Atmospheric Railway,
ii.dk,Gurseqa.t Grimsby Railway
remiah
Manchester Direct
1 Directors of the London and
JR.floei
Manchester, Railway Cempany
John Burgess, Esq. Manchester, late (Remington's)
Borouglireeve,
Lewis Buckland, Esq. Aveune-road, Regent's-park
Capt. E. H. Scott, R.N. director of the St. Alban's and Hertford
Extension Railway Company
Edward Paterson, Esq. Clapton
A. W. Hillary, Esq. 66, Cadogan-place, Belgrave-square, director of
the London and Exeter, and of the Direct West-end and Croydon
Railways, &c. &c.
William James lyie, Esq. 21. Northampton-square, director of the
Southern Counties, and Bristol, Bath, and Dover Direct Railways
James Vickers, Esq. Mark-lane, director of the Jersey Pier and
Railway Company
Charles Smith Rayner, Esq. Kew-green
(With power to add to their number.)
BANKERS.

Lo Moorgate-street, and 3,
Henrietta
-street, Covent-garden
Messrs Spooner, Attwoods, and•Co.,27,
eoi—Co.sminer, etal Bank of London
Graceehurelt-street
Birmingham.—Messrs. J. L. 3lodhet and Sous, Birmingham and
"mWarickshire Bank

JOINT SOLICITORS.
W. W. Oldershaw, Esq. 7, Tokanhouse-yard
Messrs. C. T. and A. JenlOnson, 76. Cannon-street, City
LOCAL AGENT—Birmingham.—A
N. H. Peace, Esq.
ENGINEERS.
Ssndiforth F. Gritlln, Esq. C.E.
A. A. B. Bennet, Esq. C.E.
ARCHITECT AND SURVEYOR—E. N. Clifton, Tokenhouse-yard
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—MtOSTS. Sudlow and Kingdon, 6, New
Palace-yard
SEcnirren-f.--.Talms Elliott, Esq.
Offices of the Company-, 26, Muorgate street, London.
PROSPECTUS.

derived by a rich, progressing, and populous
town, 1:
This line is designed to open a direct Jim munication between the
towns of Birmingham and Boston.
T 1
the great manufacturing centre of the
kingdom, having a direct commimication with a port on the eastern
coast facing the Continent, and that point the nearest to it by geo-
graphical position, need but to be mentioned to be appreciated.
eiii,leli•la asntaugeirsnitillgrx ilon,
The name of Birmingham speaks for itself; the capacity and
value of Boston as a commercial port is daily increasing, and re-
quires hut little enterprise to enable it to compete with some of our
Lest por.s.
It is proposed that this line should commence at Leicester, where
It will form a etatitmation of the direct line from Birmingham to
great centre of England, and Boston,
that town, and proceeding by or near Melton Mowbray, Corby,
eeventuslly must command the train
Folkenhaui, and Donnington, terminate at Boston ; thus affording a
it is in connexion and the opposite
direct coMmunicatlon between Birmingham and its important mann-
f 'ot,,,,lfilo' :ere
etifuri,treoirnifoledlitailitiristiit:,rst(ita're iotshnserttsaip-:;:eoci tiirif
,:gill.bi'a‘:'Yllini:ldbi ectellhilaflosno ,i,ec withouttotthe
e at
large all interfering
and influential town
is easy, presenting few or no engineering difficulties.
of Grammy!).
;lamp held out by this project is the. hnprevernent of
ill thAellilleoatrtiLeurarnatdr3vot. Boston, whereby it will be restored to that eminent
posltion it formerly held among the ports and harbours of the
ki»gdom.
~
The us Will b9taken by the Act to allow int3rest at 4

per cent. per annum after passing the Act, on ti • a
subscription paid up, No subscriber shall be any mount of the,verable for more
than the amount of hie deposit until the Act
ly
not beyond the amount of his subscription. obtained and then
A mote detailed prospectus will be issued 1,, „ few days, containing
the names of many influential gentlemen % " -
locally interested, in the
and prospectuses,
tl2O.Aobifiletiltelieno,';Thher ';'°Bl.the'rtoirsl4of ttt 3:Zpedanyfo,rm7,,Tokenhouse-yaril,
the offices of the Company, 26,
stock and sharebrokors :
a
ant, 16, Throgmorton-street ; Mr.
onednodr
(4736na,_t
eCE
esztyavtalriredde
tt
ttoyfoo;i:.1Boa
vti;
William indwell, 2_l, Throgmorton-street; Mr. A. Sym, Token-
house-yard ; S. Pidgeon, 10, Warnford-court, Throgmorton-
street:
Birmingham—Mr. F. H. West, 48, New-stroht ; Mr. William Green,
26, Ann -street.
Bristol—Mr. W. H. Land.
Blackburn—Mr. Wm. H. Monica.
Edinbnrgh ; Messrs. Dowling !;nd Bowden, South St. Andrew-street;
Mr. Pringle.
Exeter—Mr. Thomas Sanford.
Glasgow—Messrs. Black and Lorrimer, Buchanan-street.
Alsop and Son; Messrs. Wilkinson and Earls.
Elverpool—Mr, Lawrie; Messrs. Thomas Coglan and Son; Mr. Jo-
seph Bryce, Sweeting-street.
Lei(' citer—Messrs. Windram and Son, Bishop-street
Leeds—Messrs. J. and T. Rhodes; Messrs. Charles Bell, Beverley,
and Co

Lynn—Messrs. I. 11. Sampson and Son, King Stalth.square
M, nohes'er—Messrs. Johnston, Bradley, and Walker; Mr. Earle
Langston, Abraham's. court, Market-street ; Messrs. Green and
NtAtin;;hatn—Messrs. Pcetsou and Potter
Perth -Mr. J. A. Gloeg

SheMeld—MessrA. Muncuter and Wilson
Wakefield—Mr. Thomas Nightingale
York—Mr. W. H. Cowling,

FORM OF APPLICATION.
To tho Proylolonal Committee of the Birmingham and Boston Direct

Railway.
I request you will apportion me shares of 201. each in
the Birmingham anti Boston Direct Railway Company, and I do
hereby undertake to accept the same, or any less number you may
allot to me, and to pay the deposit of V. 2s. per share, and all fut are
calls thereon, and to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Sub-
soriLe& Agreement when required.
Dated this day

1645.

Name in nth
Usual Sl„ruatnre ........
Residence • ... •• •
Business or Profession
Ifrasne of Referee • • ...........
Residence and Profession o lbeferse • •

THE DEAL AND DOVER JUNCTION
RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
The Prospectus of this Company will be issued in a few days, and
in the meantime application for shares to be made to the Secretary,
at the temporary Offices, 26, Bucklersbury, Mansion-house, London.
By order of the Provisional Committee,
lIIPPISLEy JUSTIN'S, Secretary.

October 15, 1845.

W OLVERHAMPTON, B RID GNORTH,
AND LUTLOW RAILWAY,
Connecting the Agricultural Districts of Herefordshire, Shropshire,
North and South Wales, with the whole of the Midland Counties,
Liverpool, Manchester, and the North.

Provishinaatly Registered, pursuant to-7
and S Victoria, cap. 110.
Capital 700,0001., in 35,000 Shares of2o/. eack.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Hon. G. F. Hamilton, Burwarton-hall, Salop
Sir William Edward Rouse Boughton, Bart. Downton-hall, Ludlow
Thomas Murray Gladstone, Esq. ironmaster, Wolverhampton, pro-
visional director of the Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and :South
Staffordshire Junction Railway
John Dixon, Esq. ironmaster, Wolverhampton, director of the South
Staffordshire Junction Railway
Thomas Clark, Esq. the Oaks, Wolverhampton, provisional director
of the Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire Junc-
tion Railway
William Bailey, Esq. Wolverhampton, provisional director of the
Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire Junction
Railway
Samuel Walker, Esq. Wolverhampton, provisional director of the
South Staffordshire Junction Railway
John Hartley, Esq. ironmaster, Wolverhampton, provisional director
of the Shrewsbury, Wolverbtunpton, and South Staffordshire Junc-
tion Nail way
John Parsons Firmstone, Esq. ironmaster, Wolverhampton, director
of the Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire Junc-
tion Railway
Joshua Farmer, Esq. iron merchant, Wolverhampton
J. B. Payne, Esq. Edghaston, director of the Leicester and Birming-
ham, and South Staffordshire Junction Railways
Edward Terry, Esq. Mayor of Dudley, director of the Oxford, Wor-
, crater and Wolverhampton Railway
James Whitney, Esq. Shrewsbury, provincial director of the Shrews-
bury, Wolverhampton and Routh Staffordshire Junction Railway
C. D. Archibald, Esq. F.R.S., r.s.A., Rusland Hall, Lancashire,
director of the South Staffordshire Junction Railway
Thomas Whitmore Wyld Browne, Esq. Woodlands, near Bridgnorth,
magistrate of the county of Salop, and borough of Bridgnorth
Thomas Pardon Parton, Esq Faintree-hall, Bridgnorth, magistrate
for the county of Salop, and borough of Bridgnoi th
Thomas North, Esq. mayor of Bridgnorth
John Baker, Esq. Dolforwyn-hall, Montgomeryshire, and Bridgnorth,
magistrate of the borough of Bridgnorth
Henry Slater Richards, Esq. magistrate of the borough of Bridgnorth
William M`Michael, Esq. magistrate of the borough of Rridgnorth
Edward Ridley, Esq. magistrate of the borough of Bridgnorth
John Jacob Smith, Esq. town clerk, Bridgnorth
Joseph Hall, Esq. Bridgnorth
James Milman Coley, Esq. M.D. Bridgnorth
John Green, Esq. Badger Heath, near Bridgnorth
Thomas Grierson, Esq. carpet manufacturer, Bridgnorth
Joseph Southwell, Esq. Bridgnorth, carpet manufacturer,
Richard Boycoth, Eaq. banker, Bridgnorth
William Southwell, Esq. Bridgnorth, carpet manufacturer
John Hineksman, Esq. Charlcott, Bridgnorth
John Phillips, Esq. Bridgnorth
John Dallewy, Esq. Bridgnorth
Thomas Deighton, Esq Bridgnorth
William Wiley, Esq. Vineyard, near Wellington
John Stevens, Esq. Albyns, magistrate of the borough of Bridgnorth
Charles Powell, Esq. Sutton, Ludlow, magistrate of the county of
Salop
James Davies, Esq. Elm Lodge, Ludlow, magistrate of the eounty
of Salop
Henry Whitton. Eaq. Mayor of Ludlow
Benjamin Unviek, Esq. magistra.e of the borough of Ludlow
Robert Thomas, Esq. Ashford Bowdler, Ludlow, Magistrate of the
borough of Ludlow
John Thomas, Esq. Dinham-house, Ludlow, Magistrate of the
borough of Ludlow
William Edwards, Esq. Magistrate of the borough of Ludlow.
John Tenth, Esq. Ludlow
Edward liming Owen, Esq. the Moor, Ludlow
Humphrey Smith, Esq. Overton, Ludlow, Magistrate of the borough
of Ludlow
Frederick Ricketts, Esq. deputy-chairman of the Mist* mild Exeter
Railway
John Ma.sterman, jun., Esq., banker, London
James Whiskin, Esq. London, director of the London and Croydon
Railway
William Morley, Esq. Blackheath
W. T. Andrew, Esq. Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square
George Emery, Esq. London, director of the Waterford and Kilkenny
Railway
W. G. Allen, Esq. Leadenhall-street
William Watson, Esq. Bristol, director of the Bristol and Exeter
Railway
H. Ridout Downman, Esq. London, provisional director of the Cam-
brian and Grand Junction Railway
A. F. Paull, Esq. director of the South Wales Railway
William Morgan, Esq. Bristol, director of the Bristol and Exeter
Railway
William Watson Prole, Esq, London, director of the Isle of Jersey
Line
Robert Bramwell, Esq. Brymbo Ironworks, North Wales, and 57,
Cannon-street, London
James Renshaw, Esq. merchant, Crosby-square, London
Abram Gartside, Esq. Liverpool
Emanuel Zewilcherbart, Esq. provisional director of the Liverpool,
Manchester, and Newcastle Junction Railway
Robert Chapman, Esq. London, provisional director of the Great
Manchester, Rugby and Southampton Railway
James Bramwell, Esq. Dyers-hall-wharf, Upper Thames-street,
London
Joseph Jones, Esq. Mayor of Hull
Charles Lloyd Browning, Esq. Wolverhampton
Francis Hamp Adams, Esq. Ross, Herefordshire.

BANKERS.
Messrs. Masterman and Co. Landon
Messrs. Pritchard and Borett, Bridgnorth and Broseley
Messrs. Cooper, Purton, and Cooper, Bridgnorth and Wenlock
The Ludlow and Tenbury Bank
The Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking Company, Wolver-
hampton.

ENGINEER—John R. M'Lean, M.I.C.E.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Edwards, Mason, and Edwards, Moorgate-street, Lon.

•
don, and Helahay-street, Westminster
M. Haywood Williams, Esq. Bridgnortli
Charles Corser, Esq. Wolverhampton
Messrs. Williams and Urwiek, Ludlow.
SECRETARY—John Trevor, ESQ.

This railway will commence at the important town of Wolver-
hampton, proceeding through or near to Seisdos, Trysull, and Cla-
verly, to the manufacturing town of Bridgnorth : from thence it will
continue through a rich agricultural and populous district to Lud-
low, and there fall into other projectt d lines to all parts of England,
North and South Wales, and Ireland, a distance of about thirty-two
miles.

It will afford direct communication between Ludlow, Bridgnorth,
and Wolverhampton, Dudley, &c. ; and, by the South Staffordshire
Junction Railway give to those town.; and districts the most direct
route for passengers and goods to and from the Central, North
Eastern, and Eastern parts of the Kingdom, and from which those
towns have hitherto been excluded by every project of the day.

It will convey to the agricultural distrfcti of Herefordshire and
South Shropshire, and also to the towns of Bridgnorth and Ludlow,
coals and the mineral productions of Staffordshire, Worcestershire,
an the Clee-hills, at nearly one-half the present cost of those neces-
sary articles, and be the means of conveyance for corn, cattle, sheep,
cider, wool, hops, and other agricultural productions, as also timber
from the before-mentioned agricultural counties, to the heart of the
mining and manufacturing districts, which cannot fail to produce an
immense traffic.

To the towns embraced in this line, the value of obtaining thereby,
at the cheapest rate, coal and the necessaries of life, will be of the
utmost importance.

One principal feature in this projection is, that as either Ludlow or
Bridgnorth will lie in the direct route of *lie of the projects to be pro-
posed to Parliament in the next session, for the most direct commu-
nication between Ireland and the Metropolis, this line will thereby
afford to passengers the easist:communication to and from the central
parts of the kingdom.

It is satisfactory to the promoters to state, that they have the
sanction of the Grand Junction Company, and the co-operation of the
Shrewsburyf Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire Junction, and
the South Staffordshire Junction Companies, and that no project has
been announced in competition with its acknowledged claim on public
suoport.

The whole line is free from engineering difficulties, and oan be con-
structed at a moderate cost, and has obtained the approval of the
landed interest, whose ornamental properties have been strictly
protected. _

Until an Act of Parliament shall be obtained, the affairs of the
Company will be under the direction and control of the Committee
of Management, who are hereby empowered to enter into such ar-
rangements as shall best serve the interests of this Company and the
public, with existing or projected companies, and also to nominate
the first directors of the Company.
Power will be taken under the Act to limit the responsibility of
Shareholders to the amount of their subscription, and to allow four
per cent. interest on the calls.
Preference to the allotment of shares will be given to those locally
interested, and to the shareholders of lines in connexion with this.
No applications for shares can in any case be attended to, unless
reference be made to one ofthe Provisional Committee, the Solicitors,
Bankers, or Brokers of the Company.
Applications for shares to be made to the respective Solicitors, and
the following brokers :
London—Messrs. Wells, Prinseps, aid Westropp, 76, 01d Broad-street
Mr. T. C. Munday, 1, Royal Exchange-buildbigs
Wolverhampton—Mr. Payne
Liverpool—Messrs Lloyd and Price
Kidderminster—Mr. C. H. Saunders.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the ProvisionaliCommittee of the Wolverhampton, laridgrorth,

and Ludlow Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares in the Wol-
verhampton, Bridgnorth, and Ludlow Railway ; and I undertake to
pay the deposits of 2/. 25., and all further calls upon the Some, or
such lesser number as you may allot to me, and to execute the sub-
scribers' agreement and the parliamentary contract when called
upon to do so.
Dated this

day of 1845.
I am, gentlemen, your obedient humble eervant,
Christian and Surnames, in full .. •
Profession .•
Residence.. ... ....... •
Reterence• •
Residence of Referee ..... ••••••• • • • • • •

OLVEMIA M PTON, BRIDGENORTH,
and LUDLOW RAILWAY.
Thv Provisional Committee hereby give notice, that no fluffier
Ap lietvions for Shares Li this Company will be received after MoN-
DA Z, the 20th inst.

By order,
JOHN TREVO3, Socrettry to the Cotrraly.

PRICE, SD.

I NOR THA Mp TON, LINCOLN, and HULL
RILWAY, commencing at Northampton, and prooeedi
by -w ay of A
Kettering, Uppingham, Oakham, Grantham, and Lincoln,ng ect to Hull.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 2,000.000/., in 100,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISION
Admiral Ayscough, SouthamptonAL
COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. R. N. Smith, M.P. for Northampton
J. R. W. Atkinson, Esq., Elmwood-house, Leeds, Director of the Loi.
caster and Bedford Railway Company
Mr. Joseph Adnitt, merchant, Northampton
Francis Simes Al'loft, Esq., Nottingham
Thomas J. Arnold, Esq., Revising Barrister for the City of London
John Abbey, Esq. Grange, Wellingborough, Northampton
Sir Arthur de Capel Broke, Bart., Oakley-hall, near Kettering
Robert M. Bates, Esq., banker, Strand
Charles Holk Bracebridge, Esq., Atherstone-hall, Warwickshire
Robert Bell, Esq., Manor house, Chiswick
John Richards Burbidge, Esq., Surbiton-hill, Surrey
John Brightman, Esq., Regency-square, Brighton
Mr. Alderman Brooks, Manchester
C. Buschek' Esq., merchant, 133, Fenchurch-street, London
Jonathan Burton, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Grand Union
and Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway Companies
Batchellor Brownlow, Esq., merchant, Bull
Cnarles Holt Bracebridge., Esq. Atherstone-hall, Warwickshire
George Buxton, Esq., Northampton, Director of the Northampton
Union Bank
J. 1). Barry, Esq., London and Paris, Director of the Orleans, Tours,
and Bordeaux Railway Company
Charles Britten, Esq., Northampton
Mr. Alderman lean, Nottingham
John Bradley, Esq., the Park, Nottingham
William Boston, Esq. merchant, Northampton
Charles Bamford, Esq. merchant, Hull
Mr. Sergeant Clarke, Recorder of Northampton and Lincoln
Thomas Chitty, Esq., Upper (lower-street
Richard Carpenter, Esq., Lonsdale-square, London
Henry Coe Coape, Esq., Goldbanger, Essex
Thomas Mortimer Cleoby, Esq., Acton, Middlesex
N. Camberlege, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's-park
Mr. Edward Cotton, merchant, Northampton
J. 21. Cottle, Esq., Leamington
I'eter Coulston, jun., Esq., Husbands Bosworth, near Welford
Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
Edward Cook, Esq. merchant, Northampton
John Robert Dolby, Esq., Ashbourne, Derbyshire
The Right Hon. George Lionel Dawson Darner, 6, Taney-
strt-: Park-lane
Hon. DawsOn Damen Parkstone lodge, Poole
Edmund F. Dayrell, Esq., Lillingstone Dayrell, High Sheriff of Bucks
F. S. Doubleday, Esq. Great Surrey-street, London
John Eyston, Esq., Welford and Salford-hall, Warwickshire
Richard Ellison, Esq. Boultham-hall, Lincolnshire
Hon. Percy Evans Freke, 3, Belgrave-square
Benjamin S. Fowler, Esq., Tamworth, Director of the:Northatnpton,
Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway Company
John Freeman, Esq., Director of the Northampton. Banbury, and '
Cheltenham Railway Company
John Fantail, Esq. Lincoln
Edward Fowler, Esq. Lincoln
Edward Fisher, Esq. Little Bowden, near Market Barborough, Di-
rector of the Leicester, and Bedford, and Rugby, and iluatiugdon
Railway Companies
William Gambier, Esq., Seacombe-park, Hertfordshire
Hon. Robert Gore, 31. P., Wilton-crescent
Major-General Greenstreet, Northampton
Joint Cooper Getth, Esq., banker, Kettering
James Genion. Esq., Conduit-street, Bond-street
Alexander Greig, Esq., Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square, London
Frederick William Green, Esq., shipowner, Conthill, London •
The Rev. George Edward Hanmer, Rector of Loddingtou and Over-
stone, Northamptonshire
Frederick William Hamilton, Esq. Gloucester-place, London
Henry Hensman, Esq., Pytchley, Nor hamptonsitire
George Harper, Esq., Moss-fields, Salop
William Herbert, Esq., Nottingham
Thomas nagger, Esq., Northampton, Director of k Northampton.
Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway Company
Thomas Hopkins, Esq., Nottingham
Arthur Haymcs, Esq., Methuen-villa, Leamington
John Halbert llelbert, Esq., Upper Gloucester-place, London
Mr. William Thomas Higgins, merchant, Northampton
John Baron Howse, Esq., Irthlingborough-grange, Northampton-
shire
Mr. Alderman Hollis, Northampton
Richard Hopper, Esq., Upper Clapton, London, Director of the Direct
London and Manchester Railway Company
Hon. Edward Jentingham
Richard Parry Jones, Esq., Whitchurch, Salop
William Laycock, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Nottingham and
Gainsborough, and Grand Union Railway Companies
Sir Gregory A.-Lewitt, Recorder of Doncaster
F. Valentine Lee. Esq., Chester-terrace, Regent's-park, London,
Director of the Eastern Couties Railway Company
George Wortley Lovell, Esq., Great Billing, Northamptonshire
Charles Leavers, Esq.. the Park, Nottin4ntm
Major-General Mercer, C. 8., Queen Anne-street, Cavendish-square
Christopher Markham, Esq., Northampton
William Mackenzie, Esq , Liverpool and Paris, Director of the Or-
leans, Tours, and Bordeaux Railway Company
James Morrison, Esq., St. Mart -at-hill, London
G. Marshall, Esq., Godalming, Surrey
E. W. Morris, Esq., Grovehurst, Pembury, Kent
Major J. A. Moore, Queen Anne-street, Cavendish-square
George Murray, Esq., Chichester
Samuel Oxenham, Esq., Chester-terrace, Regent's-park, Loudon
Sir George Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Ilerts
Samuel Percival, Esq., banker, Northampton
Mr. Alderman Porter, Northampton
The Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Llannothel, Herefordshire
Edwin Pell, Esq., Sywell-hall, 'Northamptonshire
George Ryder Peppercorne, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex
Vaughan Prance, Esq., Nether Stowey, Somersetshire

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Henry Pywell, Esq., Northampton
John Phipps, Esq., Northampton
Benjamin Payne, Esq., Leicester
The Lord Rossmore, the Dell, Windsor
Mr. George Rands, merchant, Nottingham
The Rev. John Lucas Sutton, Rector of Weekly, Northamptonshire
F. Calmer' Smith, Esq., Frognall-hall, Hampstead
Thomas Sharp, Esq., Northampton, Director of the Northampton,
Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway Companies
Frederick Seymour, Esq., St. James's-square
G. W. Smith, Esq., Harbury-hall, Sheffield
William Spooner, Esq., Chapel-street, Beigrave-square, London
James Robert Spiller, Esq., banker, Northampton
Archibald Douglas Stewart, Esq., Grantley Castle
William Strong, Esq., Northampton
Benjamin Williams, Esq., banker, 4, Whitehall, London 1
Major James Waller, St. James's-street
Mr. Alderman Williams, Northampton
Mr. Thomas Woodhouse, manufacturer, Nottingham
David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland-hollow, Derbyshire, Director of
the Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway Company
George Willes, Esq., Hungerford, Berks
John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, Tunbridge, Kent, Director of
the Leicester and Bedford Railway Company
Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., Clopton-house, Stratford-on-Avon, and
- Luton 800, Bedfordshire
The Rev. C. F. Watkins, Vicar of Brexworth, Northamptonshire
Mr. John Woolston, merchant, Wellinborough
Mr. Joseph Wykes, merchant, Northampton
Mr. Mannaduke Wetherell, merchant, Northampton
Joseph Loxdale Warren, Esq., the Lodge, Market Drayton, and
Consall-hall, Staffordshire
Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. J. C. Westenra, M.P., Brooks's Club
Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Pall-mall, London
Allen Allicocke Young, Esq.. Orlingbury, Northamptonshire
T. Borwick Yzarn, Esq., Herne-hill, Surrey
Chadwick, William, Esq., Montague-square, Chairman of the Rich-
mond Railway
Carlile, Thomas, Esq., banker, Hull
Digby, Thomas, Esq., banker, Hull
Sleight, Robert P., Esq., Hull
Atkinson, John, Esq., merchant, Hull
Bamford, Charles, jun., Esq., merchant, Hull
Bamford, Charles, Esq., merchant, Hull
Cities', William, Esq., merchant, Hull
Grutt, Thomas Charles, Esq., merchant, Hull
Garthorne, John, E•q., merchant, Hull
Hammond, Charles, Esq., merchant, Hull
Hammond, Thomas Dowton, Esq., merchant, Hull
Hall, John, Esq., merchant, Hull
Hubbersty, Henry, Esq., merchant, Hull
Holmes, George, Esq., merchant, Hull
Norman, Win. 0. Esq., merchant, Hull
Ostler, John, Esq., merchant, Hull
Pearson, William Hunt, Esq., merchant, Hull
Petchell, Thomas, Esq., merchant, Hull
Thompson, Thomas, Esq., merchant, Hull
Whittaker, Isaac, Esq., merchant, Hull
George Abbey, Esq., Northampton
Mr. Thomas Atherton, merchant, Northampton
Henry Broadwood, Esq., M.P., 5, Whitehall-yard
Edmond Singer Burton, Esq., Daventry, Northamptonshire
Mr. W. Bunting, wool merchant, Spratton, Northamptonshire
Sir Francis Cockburn, Dover
John Collis, Esq., Mears Ashby, Northamptonshire, Director of the
Northampton Union Bank
John Chowns, Esq., Friestou-house, Claythorpe, near Grantham
The Rev. Thomas Clayton, Rector of Cottingham-cum-Middleton,
Northamptonshire
The Rev. Thomas Cook, Rector of Grafton Underwood, Stanior, and
Briggstock, Northamptonshire
Mr. John Groom, manufacturer, Northampton
Fitzwilliam Hume, Esq., Park-place, St. James's-street, Deputy
Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace, and High Sheriff of the
County of Wicklow
Hon. Colonel Hutchinson, Weston-house, Worcester
Charles Heneage, Esq., Cruieby-house, Lincolnshire
H. H. H. Hungerford, Esq., Dingley-park, Northamptonshire, Di
rector of the Leicester and Bedford Railway Company
Mr. S. J. Hobson, manufacturer, Leicester
Ambrose Isted, Esq., Ecton, Northamptonshire
Major Thomas Isham, Lamport, Northamptonshire
John Jeffery, Esq., Northampton
Thomas Michael Keyworth, Esq., Lincoln
John Lovell, Esq., Towcester, Northamptonshire
Herbert Langham, Esq., Cottesbrooke-hall, Northamptonshire

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Rev. Robert Montgomery, Rector of Holcoi, Northamptonshire
John Nethercoat, Esq., Moulton-grange, Northamptonshire
John Percival, Esq , Woodlands, Isle of Wight
Mr. Francis Parker, manufacturer, Northampton
Archibald Robertson, Esq., M.D., Northampton
John Redden, Esq., Dallington-hall, Northamptonshire
The Rev. Henry Rokeby, Rector of Arthingworth, Northamptonshire
William Rudgard, Esq., Lincoln
Richard Whitton, Esq., Lincoln
Thomas Wood, Esq., Arthingworth-hall, Northamptonshire
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Sib t ashingborough, near Lin-
coln, Director of the London and York Railway Company
George Smith, Esq., Oakham Rutland
Mr. Matthew Sooby, jun., merchant, Gainsborough
The Rev. Thomas Sanders, Vicar of Moulton, Northamptonshire
Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln, Director of the London and York
Railway Company
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Rev. Zacharla Shrapnel Warren, Rector of Ancaster, near Grantham.
Thontas Adams, Esq., f.enton-firs, Nottinghamshire
John Coupland, Esq., Shellingthorpe-hall, near Lincola
Robert Carr Andrew, Esq., Brixworth, Northamptonshire
George Bacon, Esq., Nottingham
Mr. Alderman Cullen, Nottingham
John Eagleton, Esq., Belton-hall, Rutlandshire
J. F. Edmonds, Esq., Rye-hills, Northamptonshire
Richard Field, Esq. Leigh-house, Lower Tooting, Surrey
Smith Fowler, Esq. Nottingham
John Gladstone, Esq. director of the Direct London and Manchester
Rev. E. R. Eagle, Rectory, Belton, Rutlandshire
Railway Company
Captain Twistleton Graves, director •f the Leicester and Tean and
Dove Valley Railway
Thomas C. Higgins, Esq. Tarvey-house, Bedfordshire
John Harrison, Esq. Nottingham
T. Richard Tucker Hodgson, Esq. Birminghana
R. S. Hutchinson, Esq. M. D. Nottingham
Robert Hawley, Esq. Oakham
Mr. Alderman Heeoper, director of the Direct London and Manchester
Railway Company
Mr. J. K. Higgins, wine merchant, Northampton
John Judkins, Esq. Stowe-hill, Northamptonshire
Godfrey Kemp, Esq. Belton, Rutlandshire
William Lawrence, Esq. director of the Direct London and Manches•
ter Railway Company
John Leavers, Esq. the Park, Nottingham
Edward Lynch Hough, Esq. Grantham
Robert Lee, Esq. Grantham
John Manning, Esq. Itarpole, Northamptonshire
James Morley, Esq. Basford-hall, Nottinghamshire
N. Warm, Esq. 50, Parliament-street, director of theßright( n and
Cheltenham, and Manchester and Rugby Railroads
Mr. Fletcher Mercer, merchant, Gainsborough
Charles Morris, Esq., the Grange, Oakham
Charles Miller, Esq. Grantham
The Rev. J. A. Nash, 27, Westbourne-terrace, Hyde-park-garieLS,
London
George Payne, Esq., Snlby-hall, and Phsford-house, Northampton-
shire
Thomas Pell, Esq., Northampton
Mr. James Pell, Sywell, Northamptonshirc.
Frederick ferns Newcombe, Esq. Grantham
Mr. Thomas Parsons, Uppingham
William Perrin, Esq. Northampton
William Wright Pell, Esq. Helesthorpe, Leicestershire
William Quintus, Esq. Knuster-hall, Northamptonshire
John Ridgway, Esq. Cauldon-place, Staffordshire Potterles
John Sepperson, Esq., Director of the Direct London and Manchester
Railway Company
Robert Rising, Esq., the Shrubbery, Worcester
Esq., Leawood, &ear Matkek
Mr. Thomas Shaw, beach proprietor, Northampton
John Tresham, Esq. Red Lodge, Old and Broughton, NorthaMptoa
Esq. bankeiranthara
William White, Esq., Director of the Direct London and Manehe Au'
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BANKERS.
Northampton—The Union Bank, and the Norttuunptonshire Banking
Company
Kettering—Messrs. Gotch and Sons
Uppingharn—Tho Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Compa
Oakham—Messrs. Eaton and Cayley
Grantham—Messrs. Hardy, Walkington, and Hardy
ncoln, Gainsborough, Market Raisen, lirigg, Caistor, and Grims'g
—Messrs. Smith, Ellison, and Co.
Hull—Messrs. Raikes and Co.
Exons-EER—Joseph Urpeth Rastrick, Esq.
JOINT SOLICITORS.
London—Augustus Walter Arnold, Esq., 31, Golden-square
Kettering--Messrs. Lamb and Nettleship
Northampton and Welford—George Pell, jun. Esq.
SECRETARY—Thomas James Searle, Esq.
LOCAL SOLIFITORS.
Uppingham—W. Gilson, Esq.
Oakham—Messrs. Ades and Adam
Grantham—Fred. Malim, Esq.
Lincoln—Richard Carline, Esq.
Nottingham—Arthur Wells, Esq.
Hull—Mcssrs. England and Shackells
Offices of the Company, 34, Moorgate-street.
PROSPECTUS.
The objects intended to be accomplished by this undertaking am—
t. Tile formation of a direct line of railway between Hull and Ike
metropolis.
2. The supply of local railway accommodation to the important
districts embraced by the line.
3. The benefit of railway communication with the metropolis ex-
tended to a district of country, west of Grantham, upwards of 50 miles
in length at present unprovided with that accommodation.
4. The completion of the chain of railway communication between
Bristol, Gloucester, the river Severn, and the southern and western counties, and the north-eastern districts of the kingdom and the river
Humber, and its ports, including that of Hull.
5. The connecting of the two imporMnt ports of Hull and South-
ampton by one continuous chain of railways.
Commencing at the town of Northampton, in conjunction with the
London and Birmingham, the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheitc ham, and the other lines of railway proposed to converge at that
town from the west, from Worcester and from Warwick, the
line will proceed in a direct course to the market town of Kettering,
by which place all the companies competing for the line of railw
between London and Manchester propose to pass. It will then p- o-
ceed, also, in a direct course by the market towns of Uppinglia.n,
Oakham, and Grantham, to Lincoln.
The country lying between the towns of Northampton and Gren-
tham is wholly without existing or even proposed railway acconm
dation, not only to the south, but also to the north.
From Lincoln the line will proceed bylthe shortest and best prat d-
cable course to Hull.
The sources of traffic which this line will secure are various 1,141
very considerable ; some of them only can be here enumeratud.
They are,—

Starting from Hull the line will appropriate to itself the whole of
the traffic thence to the Metropolis, Bristol, Southampton, Glom. s-
ter, Oxford, Cheltenham, and the whole of the Souther n and Neste Zi
districts of the kingdom, and, in addition, it will secure the very ii
portant and increasing local traffic between Hull and Lincoln a id
the intermediate towns.

In the event of the Cambridge and Lincoln Railway Company tilt
II obtaining their Act of Parliament, then the traffic from the hefty-
mentioned places and Lincoln to the south and west, also to the Sr ,t-
-tropolls, will pass along this line of railway; the former the whsle
distance, and the latter in any event to Grantham, a distance of ab6:l
twenty-five miles ; and should the London and York Company r. .t
succeed, such traffic will proceed further to Kettering or Northampto;i.
The entire district between Grantham and Kettering, a distance of
more than forty miles, and including the market towns of °skits is
and Uppingham, is without railway or water-carriage accommod.t.
tion, and the whole of its traffic therefore will travel over this line it
railway, which will be in the direct course not only t• the west but
also to London.

At Kettering this line will unite with that one of the now com-
peting schemes passing that town from Manchester and Leicester to
London which shall be successful before Parliament.
From the singularly important advantages which this undertaking
presents to the capitalist, as well as to the public at large, the Pro-
visional Directors do not think it necessary, with reference ;to the
supposed traffic or otherwise, to say more than that they fully thl-
lieve that the return will be, upon the capital required, highly re-
munerative.

The country is free from engineering difficulties, with one or two
exceptions only, and those are more than counterbalanced by the very
favourable gradients of by far the greater portion of the line ; indevd,
for many miles the line will run upon a water level.
. . .

The line will not interfere with any ornamental property.
The promoters have made every necessary arrangement for the
active prosecution of the undertaking, and for applying to Parlia-
ment in the ensuing session.
No call will be made, with the exception of the deposit, till the Act
is obtained, and power will be applied for in the Act of Parliament,
to allow interest at the rate of 41. per cent. per annum on all calls from
the date of their payment, and to limit the liability of each share.
holder to the amount of his subscription.
The landowners on the line are favourable to the undertaking.

The promoters reserve power to alter and vary the route, to ex-
tend the proposed line of railway to Great 2rimsby or elsewhere,
and to Increase the amount of capital, as may be necessary or ad-
visable.

Prospectuses and Plans may be obtained on application to any of
the several Solicitors or Local Agents, the Secretary, or to the
lowing Brokers, viz. :—Messrs. Peppercorne and Co., 2, Old Broad-
street ; Messrs. Preece and Evans, 39, Lothbury ; or Messrs,
Edward Ellis and Co. 33, Threadneedle-street, London; Mess?",
Freeman and Son, or Mr. Cornfield, Northampton ; Messrs. Flat
and Tootal, Messrs. Tarbottom and Whiting, or Mr. Simpson, Hull ;
Messrs. Grayston and Earle, York ; Mr. John Watson or Mr. James
Jamieson, Leeds ; Messrs Tempest and Butchart, Huddersfield ; 112:r.
Charles Spencer, Nottingham; Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester;
Messrs. Alston and Gage, Liverpool ; Messrs. George Edwards and
Son, or Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol ; Mr. John Duncuft, or Mr.
Joseph Fernyhough, Manchester ; Mr. James Scott, Birmingham ;
3fessrs. Tassie and Co., Glasgow; Messrs. Robertson and Co., Ed'n_
burgh ; Messrs. Thomas Atkinson and Co., 'S ewcastle ; Mr. John Crag,
Skipton ; or Mr. Bamforth, Rotherham; to any of wnom Al)l:fictitious
for Shares in the under-mentioned form may be addressed.