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London, England, 1845-10-03 00:00:00

Nu. 16,576 LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING SUN, OCTOBER 3,

ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE,
LONDON.
The LECTURES at this INSTITUTION will commence on
MONDAY, Nov ember 10, 1645, at . Twelve o'clock, when Professor
SEWELL will give the Introductory Address.
Hospital Practice and Chemical Instructions daily, by Professors
Sewell, Spooner, and Simonds.
Ausclomy, Physiology, and Pathology of the Horse, by Mr.
Spooner.
Special Anatomy and Diseases of other Domesticated Animals,
by Mr. Simonds.
Chemistry and Materia Medico, by Mr. Morton.
Anatomical Demonstrations, by Mr. Mayhew.
Perpetual Entrance Fee, Twenty Guineas.

.TO SURVEYORS.
101+ERSONS competent to undertake either large
. or small portions of a RAILWAY SURVEY will meet with
vow liberal terms upon producing proper testimonials, and applying,
either personally er by letter, to Edward James Maude, Esq., C.E.,
37, Upper Temple-street, Birmingham.

'l[lo THE EMBARRASSED.-IMPORTANT.
—There are thousands of persons who have struggled long
against the force of misfortune, but few are aware that by a very
recent act all small traders owing debts not exceeding 3001., farmers,
and all others owing to any amount, can be entirely raised trom
their difficulties at small expense, and without imprisonment or bank-
ruptcy. All such .11r. Weston begs will apply to him :1 Moiraruptcy.
Chambers, 17, Ironmonger-lase, Cheapside, by letter or personally.

THE LONDON MARBLE AND STONE
WORKING COMPANY, Esher-street, Holywell-street, Milbank,
Westminster (established 1821), are enabled, with their PATENT
MACHINERY, to execute Chimney Pieces, Monuments, Tablets,
Slabs for Furniture, and every description of such-Work, with an
accuracy, rapidity of execution, beauty and durability of Polish, and
reduction of cost, which cannot be obtained elsewhere.
The Public are invited to inspect their extensive SHOW-ROOMS,
containing the largest stock in this country.
Tim Trade supplied with every description of Rough Slab Blocks,
or Scantlings; or Blocks sent to the Works cut to order.
Please to be accurate in copying the Address, to prevent itnpost
don, the Company having no connexion with any other Establish-
ment but that in Esher-street.

THE PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL
BENEFIT ASSOCIATION and BENEVOLENT FUND.
42, Moorgate-street, London.
TRUSTEES.
Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. I W. G. Prescott, Esq.
Thomson Hankey, jun., Esq. Baron L. de Rothschild.
TREASURER OP THE BENEVOLENT FUND—John Abel Smith,
Esq., M.P.
Forms of proposal for mutual ife assurance to meet every contin-
gency, annuities, endowments, loans, &c., the fourth Annual Report,
and every information may be had at the Offices, where donations
and subscriptions to the Benevolent Fund are received.
GEORGE THOMAS, Chairman.
ICJ'S. An Abstract of the Proceedings at the Election of An-
nuitants, and at the Dinner on 28th May last, may be had ou ap-
plication.

KING'S HEAD COMMERCIAL INN AND POSTING HOUSE
DISS.
WILLIAM BUTTON begs to return his sin-
cere thanks to to the nobility, gentry, commercial gentle-
men, and the public generally, for the kind and liberal support so
many years conferred upon his late mother-in-law, Mrs. Maplestone.
He takes the same opportunity of informing them he has succeeded
to the business of the above Inn, which, having been recently re-
built and enlarged, he is enabled to afford increased comfort and ac-
commodation ; at the same time he assures them no exertion shall
be wanting on his part to secure a continuation of their patronage.
Assembly, Concert, and Auction Rooms. Good Stabling. Post
and Job Horses.

NINETY-FOURTH SALE.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, LONDON, n,--TOBEE, 1845.
FOR SALE, by Order of the Honourable
COMMISSIONERS of HER MAJESTY'S CUSTOMS, at
Twelve o'clock at Noon precisely, on MONDAY, 13th, TUESDAY, 14th,
WEDNESDAY, 15th, THURSDAY, 16th, FRIDAY, 17th, and SATURDAY,
18th October, 1845, at the Commercial Sale-rooms Mincing-lane,
The following GOODS for HOME CONSUMPTION:—
540 Pieces Black Silk Hat Plush
22 Persian Rugs, 50 Dozen Cambric Handkerchiefs
156 Dozen Steel Umbrella Frames, 332 Cameos
186 Pieces Silk Bandannas, East India Mats
1,097,000 Silk Worm Gut, 3 Cases Phosphorus
1,442 Pieces Pillow Lace
181 Clocks, 274 Gold and 54 Silver Watches
140 Sacks Potato Flour
Figured Silk, Gauze, French, and other Shawls.
Accordions, Artificial and Dyed Flowers, Barege, Braces, Bruabes,
Boas, Steel Beads, Coral Beads, Snuff Boxes, Wafer Boxes, Boot
Laces, Buttons, Clocks, Cotton Braid, Currie Powder, Chatney,
Coloured Porcelain, Copper Mattrices,Coutille, Canton Crape Shawls,
Buhl Cabinets, China Jars, a quantity of French Baskets, Embroidered
Muslin Dresses and Curtains, Embroidery, Embroidered East India
Muslin Skirts, East India and China Mats, Silk Gauze, Dresden
Porcelain Figures, Old and Inlet 1 Furniture, Hand Mirrors and
Frames, Hair Fronts, Lay Figures, Lasting, Ladies' Velvet Bags, and
Silk Manufactures, Lacquered Ware, Musical Boxes and Instru-
ments, Mock Jewellery, Merinoes,Meerschaurn and other Pipe Bowls,
Mousseline de Laiee, Capsules, Hatchets, Needlework, Night Lights,
Palmyrene, nine Garnitures, Perflimery, Silk Mitts, Silk Dresses,
Figured Silk Curtains,' Steel Manufactures, Elastic Trousers, Toy
Prints, Walking Canes Mounted, Walstcoatings, Watch Key Pipes,
Superfine Woollen Cloths and Casshneres, Tea, Sugar, Rum, Brandy,
Geneva, Tobacco, Cigars, Hard Soap. Spars, &e.
For Exportation Only :—Clocks, Glass, Printers' Types, &c.
For EXPORTATION, at buyers' prices ; or HOME CONSUMP-
TION on payment of the duties.
Crape Shawls, Pongee Silk Handkerchiefs, Silk Manufactures,
Spirits, Wine, Sugar, Molasses, Books, &c.,&c.
To be viewed at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom-house, Thames -
street, at the St. Katherine's, London, West India, and East India
Docks and at the Tatum Ground, Rotherhithe, on Wednesday Bth,
Thursday 9th, Friday 10th, Saturday, 11th October, 1845, from ten
o'clock in the morning until three oclock in the afternoon, and on
days Of Sale, from ten o'clock in the' morning until twelve o'clock at
noon.
Take notice, that the goods sold at this sale will not be delivered
until after two clear days of the day they are sold, and that no lots
eau be paid for at the Office of Receiver of Fines after two o'clock in
the afternoon. During the days of sale money will not be received
by the Receiver of Fines after eleven o'clock in the forenoon.
Catalogues may lie had at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom-house,
price One Shilling each.
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SELLING OFF CARPETS.
LUCK, KENT, and CUMMING beg to inform
the Nobility and Gentry, as well as their friends and the pub-
lic, that they have REMOVED their business from CARPENTERS'
HALL, LONDON WALL, to their long-established warehouse, 4,
REGENT,STREET, WATERLOO-PLACE, opposite Howell and
..r!LMeles, *mita 9S, HATTON,-GARDEN, HOLBORN, where they trust
that o:l.tronage will be continued which they have enjoyed for up-
wards of a century. A onsidere.ble portion of their large Stack of
Brussels, Kidderminster, and other Carpeting, to be sold at a great
reduction. P. addition to Carpeting, they have, at their West-End
Establishment, large stock of Chintzes, Damasks, Tabornets,
&c., well worthy 6f fltketion.
The extensive wardhouse of Carpenters' Hall, with a capital
Dweit",,ng House, to be Let, with immediate possession. For par-
ticulars Apply to Mr. Jones, house agent, 130 4, Pheapaide.
DAVIES'S BEST MOULD CANDLES, ad.
per lb., with tie; improved Wax Wicks ; Storo Candles,
91,4 d. ; Price's, 10d. ; Ogleby's 80-5 d.;
5d.; Hale's Superb Composite,
tame Wax, Is.; German Was, J. 2d. ; Fine Wax, Is. bd. ;
Transparent Wax, Is. Bd. ; Genuine WO, 2s. Id. ; Genuine Sperm,
la. Bd. ; Palmer's Metallic, Oid. and 80,• ; R-Sle's Metallic, 74d. ;
Yellow Soap, 46a., 525., and 58s. per 11110; 's
eta,
60s. and
645.; White Windsor, la. 4d. per Packet ; Pahri, Is. 44. ; Old
Brown Windsor, Is. 9d. ; Rose, 2a.; Almond, So. 6d. ; Superfine
Sealing Wax, per lb.; Genuine Spermls, 64, per gallon ;
Ogleby's Patent Oil, equal to Sperm, 4s. 6d. ; Solar, 311, 00.
For Cash, at DAVIES'S Old Established Warehouse, OS, St. Mar-
tin's-lane, opposite New Slaughter's Coffee-house.
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arIHE :public is most respectfully informed that
Messrs. NICOLL have received permission, aecording to the
specificatiOri in the Aft 6 and 7 Vict., cap 65, to alter and otherwise
adapt the coat, mown as the REGISTERED PALETOT, to be
suitable for winter Wei.r. and its now being made of a thicker mnew
a-
terial, viz., of milled LlamaLlamath it is waterproofed by the
method, which, it is well known, Clefts not unnecessarily confine the
heat of the body, but the material, when any; operated upon, remains
as porous as other that has not undergone tri:4! process, the effect
being that it does not sop, and will turn a stout shower of rain, but
not that of 24 hours' duration. Nicoll); Registered Paletot for winter
wear is a garment that is warm withogt being heavy, which,
even for travelling, the necessity of wrapping Up in a cumber-
some manner, has of late years been found needless, 444110011 being
so much shortened by present railway and other conveyailiniS.
Nicoll's Registered Paletot, used alone as a morning frock coat, not
over another, is found to be a most agreeable garment for walking
exercise ; and from the skilful way it is formed, it does not
confine the chest or shoulders, but has an equally neat and
-,ntlemanly appearance when worn in cold wet w2ather, or in
the e 7ening over a morning or dross coat. The price is three
guineas, fiat for summer wear being two. It may be ob-
served that .1:::°" principles are retained that has obtained for
the Registered the patronage of more than ono of the
Crowned Heads of The Prince Consort, Prince
George of Cambridge, the
thief members of the Court, prin-
cipal families in the kingdonl, it is well known are
distinguished in their taste for perfect nea;Zss of
tered Paletot having therefore necessarily dress. The Re
excluifd Anything vulgar
or outré in appearance, would alone recommend itself to the liak)2.o
of
the respectable members of the middle classes, was it not Anther as-
sisted by its moderate price, being for ready money. It May be ob-
tained of the principal tailors of the chief provincial cities ; but as
only most of the respectable firms are appointed agents, any attempt
on the part of others will thus by the public be at once detected, and
such attempts, when known, will be visited by the penalties provided
in the Act beforementioned ; and in furtherance of wWeh a reward
of fifty pounds will be paid fOr information that may lead to the
conviction of such parties by H. J. and G. .Nicoll, 114, Regent-
street, London.

MIDLAND RAILWAY.
CONTRACT FOR WORKS.
The Directors of the nd RailwayMidla Company will meet at e
Railway station, Derby.
on TUES, the 7th October, to rece thive
TENDERS for the execution of the railway, to connect the Midland
Railway station, at Sheffield, with the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne,
and Manchester Railway station, being a distance of half a mile or
thereabouts.
The contract includes the execution of a tunnel of 350 yards in
length, or thereabouts.
A plan, section, drawings and specifications, may be seen at the
engineer's office, railway station, Chesterfield, where printed forms of
tenders may be obtained.
All tenders must be delivered to the Secre tary,at the railway sta-
tion, Derby, before 10 o'clock a.m., on Tuesday, the 7th of October,
when GEORGE HUDSON,
are requested to be in attendance.
GEpaORGE Chairman of the Board of Directors.
JOHN ELLIS, Deputy Chairman.
(By order) • J. F. BELL, Secretary.
Derby, 23d Sept., 1845.

r HE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT
11 RAILWAY, via ABINGDON, WANTAGE, HUNGERFORD,
LUDGERSHALL.
(Provisionally registered.)
Capital 1,200,0001., hn 48,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 155. per Share.
PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT.
The IMportance of connecting remote parts of E..gland by Rail-
ways, witlf the advantages thereby conferred upon intermediate towns
and distrktS, ran scarcely be better exemplified than by the Line
which is how prop.
_d
to form a short and direct channel of inter-
course between Oxfo:d 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 east, smith, and west of the latter; and the
proposed Line from Cambridge to Oxford, continuing to that city the
coarse of Railway from the north-eastern parts of-the island, requires
the appliance now suggested to effect 4 eOnaPiete means of transit to
the western and south-western counties.
The Oxford and Salisbury Direct BailWity, in addition to
the benefits which will be conferred upon the nation at
large, by preferring a direct line of committee cation be-
tween the north-eastern and western and south-western
parts of England, will afford to the borough of Abingdon,
the market towns of vantage, Hungerford, and Ludgershall, and
the adjacent villages, an important railway acecinnfodation, of which
the agricultural districts in which they are seated stand in much
need, and will provide a facility for the interchange of produce be-
, tween the rural, manufacturing, and commercial populfttion of the
kingdom.
The want of railway accommodation has long been felt to press
unfairly 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 flirt town of Wautage, which, as
well as Hungerford and Lud,ger 11, claims a share of the profits
and advantages produced by railway traffic.
It has therefore been determined to commence the proposedu ne at
Oxford. and to proceed through Abingdon to the station of the Great
Western Railway at Steventon, thus giving to Abingd, n a direct raU-
road to London:: By continuing the projected railway to Wantage, the
same facility of triusit 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,
throuh the towns wh:ch have been named, liungeriord and Ludgers-
hall to Salisbury, and thZince to tke south and western ports and die-
tricts.
A map of the line, and a statistical report of the whole country
intended to be traversed, is in course of preparation, and with the
names of an influential provisional Committee, will very shortly,
be published. In the meantime, further information May be ob-
tained from Messrs. Elinslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-stiaat,
- London, solicitors to the undertaking, to %tem, at present, applica
Ilea for shares may be made.

(PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.)
SOUTHAMPTON and GREAT WESTERN.
JUNCTION RAILWAY.

Capital, 750,0001., in Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s.
Negotiations now pending with the Great Western and South-
Western Companies have occasioned delay in publishing the names of
the Provisional Committee of this line. These, with an enlarged
prospectus, will appear in a few days. In the meantime, application
for shares may be addressed as before, to the Solicitor, Wm. Bevan,
Esq., 6, Old Jewry, London; and Messrs. Sharp and Harrison,
Southampton.

RUGBY, DERBY, and MANCHESTER
RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and Bth Vic., c. 110.)
Capital, 1,500,000/., in 60,000 shares of 251. each.
"Deposit, 21. 12. 6d. per share.
(In' order to insure compliance with the standing orders both of the
Lords and Commons.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.
Lord George Paget, Uxbridge• house, London
Sir William Young, Bart., Weetbourne-terraco, ISyde-part, a Director

of the East India Company
Sir James Carmichael, Bart., 40, Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Di-
rector of the Reading and Reigate Railway Company
Sir William Boothby, Bart., Ashbeurne-hall, Ashbourne
Sir Robert Wilmot, Bart., Ormaston-hall, Derbyshire
Sir William Lowthrop, Bart., Alga-house, acarborough, Chairman of

the Hull and Barnsley Railway Company
Sir John Hensler, Deputy-Lieutenant of Essex -
The Mayor of Derby
John Parkinson, Esq., R.R.S., 80, Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park,
Director of the Irish Great Western, and the Rorthampton, Ban-
bury, and Cheltenham Railways
Thomas Stevenson, Esq., F.5.A.,37, Upper Grosvenor-street, Hyde
Park, a Director of the Irish eat Western, and the Reading and
Reigate Railways
Thomas Bent, Esq., M.D., Derby, Director of the Derby, Gains-
borough, and Great Grimsby Junction Railway
James Clifford, Esq., Broughton House, Shardlow, Derbyshire
William Cox, Esq., Brailsford, Derbyshire
David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland Hollow, Derbyshire -
James Sutton, Esq., Shardlow Hall, Derbyshire
P. Wilmot, Esq., Welbeck-street, Cavendish-square
Major Thurston Dale, Aahbourna
Joseph Bridgett, Esq., Aldermanbary, London, Colney Hatch, near
Barnet, and Derby
Cecil Brook Boothby, Eeq., Ashbourne Hall, Ashbourne, and Bolton-
street, Piccadilly
William Holt, Esq., Great Coram-street, and The Elms, Watford
A. G. Greavcs, Esq., Darby
John Robinson, Esq., Silcoates Cottage, near Wakefield, Director of
the Bradford, Wakefield, and Midland and Leeds, York and Mid-
land Junction Railway
Edward 3fammatt, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zoech
Samuel Simpson, Esq., of the Greaves, Lancaster, a Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Douglas Fox, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby, Gainsborough,
and Great Grimsby Junction Railway
George Robinson, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley

Junction Railway
Thomas 11I'Turk, Esq. Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley June-

tion Railway
Matthew Pierpoint, Esq., Crown East, Worcestershire, Deputy Lieu-
tenant of the county of Worcester
Henry Brigstock, Esq., M.D., Derby, Director of the Derby, Uttoze-

ter, and Stafford Railway
Joseph Lancelot Davenport,,Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby, Ut-

toxeter, and Stafford Railway
Frederick Fox, Esq., Melbourne, agent for Lord Melbourne
James Joseph Dolman, Esq., Melbourne, Derbyshire
John Earp, Esq., Melbourne, Derbyshire
Charles Holbrooke, Esq., Alvaston, near Derby, Director of the
Derby, Uttoxeter and Stafford, and of the Derby, Gainsborougb,

Stafford, and Grimsby Railway
Jeremiah Filcher, Esq., Russell-square, London, Director of the
Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction, and of the Grand

London and Dublin Approximation Railways
William Seymour, Esq., Montague-place, Russell-square, Director of
the Grand London and Dublin Approximation, and of the South-
ampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railways
William Chance, Esq., Spring-grove, Birmingham, Deputy-Chairman
of the Birmingham and Leicester Railway, Director of the Trent
Valley Midland, and of the Manchester and Southampton Junction
Railway
James Witham, Esq., Eaton-square
A. A. Fry, Esq., Temple
Thomas Geo. Smith, Esq., Doughty-street, Mecklenburgh-square,

.
Director of the Lynn, Wisbeach. and Peterborough Railway
John Hill, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Ste-

ford Railway
Thomas Holmes, Esq., Melbourne, Derbyshire
Thomas Hemsley, Esq., Melbourne, Derbyshire
Henry Orton, Esq., King's Newton, Derbyshire
George Vandeleur, Esq., King's Newton, Derbyshire
Mr. Samuel Robinson, Shaw Howe, Melbourne, Derbyshire
John Tewle, Esq., Borrowash Mills, Derbyshire
George Wooton, Esq., Chelston, Derbyshire
James Hollingworth, Esq. Melbourne and Derby
Wellington Ross Seymour, Esq., Montague-place, Russell-square
James Renshaw, Esq., West Heath House, Erith, Kent, Director,of
the South Staffordshire Junction Railway,: and 3, White Hart-
court, Lombard-street
A. Inderwick, Esq., Brompton, Middlesex
John Groom, Esq., Member of the Town Council, Northampton
James J. M'Swiney, Esq. Sandal View, near Wakefield, a Director
of the Wakefield and Esq.,
Junction Railway
Richard Dransfleld, Esq., West-place, Dalton, Huddersfield, a Director
of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and of the Keighley, Salifax,
and Huddersfield Junction Railway
Robert Doeksey Goodwin, Esq., Ashbourne
John Bainbrigge Storey, Esq., Lockington Hall, Leieestershire
Edward Doubleday, Esq., F.L.S., Great Surrey-street, a Director of
the Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railway
William Caldwell, Esq., Ince Hall, Wigan, Alderman of the Borough
of Wiwi, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direet Railway, the
Staffordshire Potteries Railway, Liverpool and Manchester Direct

Railway
Henry Stock, Esq., Bedggelert, North Wales, Dirostor of the Great

Eastern and Western
John Campbell Dicker, Esq., New Hall, by Weston, Cheshire, Director
of the Birkenhead and Holyhead Railway
John Curzon, Esq., Derby
James Peet, Esq., Derby
William Taylor, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby, Gainsborougb,
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and Great Grimsby Junction Railway
Charles Milnes, Esq., Dale-house, Matlock, Derbyshire
Henry George Gascoyne, Esq., Lea-hall, Rugeley, Staffordshire
Perry Dicken, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
George Clark, Esq., Windham-lodge, Brighton, and Rushohne Park,
. .

Manchester, a Magistrate
James Consterdine, Esq., Rosinhali, Manchester, a Magistrate
F. R. Hodgson, Esq., Oakey, near Manchester, Merchant
Edward Attolden, Esq., Aston-hall, Derby;
Henry Taylor, Esq., Wigan, Directs!' of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct ; the York and Lancaster ; the Eastern, Western, and
Southern, or Ipswich and Southampton ; Reigate ; the Halifax and
Huddersfield ; the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction ;
the Staffordshire Potteries; the Dover and Bristol; and of the
Cheltenham and Oxford Railways
Captain T. Folliott Powell, Ashbourne
Thomas Byrom, Esq., Wigan, a Director of the York mad Lancas-
ter and Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and the Keigbley, Halifax,
and Huddersfield Junction Railway
Thurston Dale, jun., Esq., Ashbourne
John Douglas Cooper, Esq., Holm College, Ashbearne
C. Kelly Cooper, Esq., Ashbourne
John Witham, sen., Esq., Ashbouree
Thomas J. Mountfort, Esq., Ashboarne
James Osborne, Esq Ashbourne
Samuel Dawson, jun. Esq., Walton Bank, Ashbourne
John Smith, Esq., Barton Mouse, Ashbourne
Thomas Smith, Esq., Blurs Hall, Staffordshire
John Bloor, Esq., Tutbury
Samuel Fox, jun., Esq.. Derby
John Smith, Esq., Middle Temple, and 2, Busy-street, St. James's,
London, Director of the Leeds, York, and Midland Railway
Joseph Peel, Esq., Singleton Brook, Manchester
Edward Lucas, Esq., Member of the Town-Council, Birmingham
John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Leicester, a Director of the Leicester
and Birmingham, and London, Bristol, am!South Wales Railway
John Osier, Esq., Hull, Member of the Provisional Committee of the
Hull and Barnsley Junction and Leeds and Carlisle Railway
C. Bamford, jun., Esq., Hull, Member of the Provisional Committee
of the Hull and Barnsley Junction and Leeds and Carlisle Railway
R. B. Childs, Esq., Swarkonstone Lewes, near Derby
(With power to add to their number).

E'PON'S
THE- LONDON G
AND MANCHESTER
DIRECT INDEPENDENT RAILWAY.
The.COMMITTEE of MANAGEMENT hereby give notice that
one part of the PARLIA MENT.A.RY CONTRACT and SUB
SCRIBERA' AGREEMENT will LIE for EXECUTION, and
Scrip Certifleates will be issued to the Subscribers in exchange for
the Bankers' Receipts, ai the places,and times mentioned below :
Bath—At the 'York Hotel, on Tuesday, the 23d day of September
instant. .
Bristol—At the Bush Hotel, on Wednesday, the 24th day of Sep-.
tember instant.
Worcester--At the Star Hotel, on Friday, the 26th day of Septem-
ber instant.
Birmingham—At Dee's Royal Hotel, on Saturday, the 27th day of
September iustant.
Lichfield—At the Swan Inn, on Monday, the 29th day of September
instant.
Leicester—At the Three Crowns Inn, en Tuesday, the 30th day of
September instant.
Bedford—At the Company's Office in the High-street, on Thursday,
the 2d day of October next.
Uttoxeter—At the Offices of William Arnold Bainbridge, Esq., Soli-
citor, en Tuesday, the 23d day of September instant.
Burton-upon-Trent—At the Offices of Messrs. Bass and Sweting,
Solicitors, an Wednesday, the 24th day of September instant.
Ashby-de-la-Zouch—At the Offices of Edward M. Green, Esq., So-
licitor, on Thursday, the 25th day of September instant.
Cheadle—At the Offices of Richard Lowe, Esq., Solicitor, on Satur-
day, the 27th day of September instant.
Leek--At Alto Offices of Thomas Redfern, Esq., Solicitor, on Monday,
the 29144 day of September instant.
Macclesfield—At the Offices of 31esars. Parrott, Colville, and May,
Solicitors, on Tuesday, the 30th day of September instant, and
Wednesday, the Ist day of October next.
Manchester—At the Offices of the Company, St. Ann's-square, on
Thursday and Friday, the 2d and 3d days of October next.
Derby—At the Offices of Henry Mosley, Esq.,friolieltor, ea Tuesday,
the 23d day of September instant.
Leeds.—At tlko Royal Hotel, ou Wednesday, the 24th day of Septem-
ber instant.
Hull-fit- the Victoria Hotel, on Friday, the 26th day of Septentber
instant.
Edinburgh—At the London Hotel, on Tuesday, the 30th day of Sep-
tember instant.
Glasgow—At the London Hotel, en Thursday, the 2d day of Oc-
tober next.
next. Liverpool—At
the Adelpthyl Hotel,order: on Monday, the 6tk day of October

H. W. MATTHEWS, Secretary.

THE LEEDS, HUDDERSFIELD,. SHEF-
FIELD, and FirotTH STAFFORDSHIRE (or LEEDS
WOLVERHAMPTON, and DUDLEY) DIRECT RAILWAY.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 2,000,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21.25. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Right lion. the Earl of Shrewsbury, Alton Towers, Staffordshire
The Right lion. Lord ingestrio,
Sir William Young, Bart., East India Director, Westbouruo-streot,
Hyde-park Gardens
Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Deputy Chairman of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, aid Worcestershire Junction Rail-
way, &c.
Sir William Bo•thby, Bart, Ashbourne-hall, Derbyshire
Sir William Lowthrop, Knt., Hull, and Algit-house, Scarborough, Di-
rector of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire June-

tion Railway
Col. the Hon Leicester Stanhope, Ashburham House, Chairman of
Remington's London and Manchester Direct Railway
The Sheriff of York
Arnold, Henry, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of Remington's London and

Manchester Railway
Benwell, George, Esq , Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Murton Robert, Esq., banker, Smallwood Manor, Uttoxeter, Direc-
tor of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction
Railway, &c.
Bright, &Jim, Esq., Buxton
Bradley, Septhnus, Esq., Ashbourne, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Buxton, John Harry, Esq., Ashbourne
Clarke, Jeremiah, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's Lon-
don and Blanchester Direct Railway
Cooke, the Rev. J., Uttoxeter, Director of the East and WeatJuaction

Railway, &c.
Cooper, Joie► Douglas, jun., Esq., Ilohne Cottage, Ashbourne
Cox, Walker, Esq., Brcadsall, Derby, Director of the Tean and Dove

'Valley Railway
Crockett, T. Esq., Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire,
and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &c.
Croft, Major J. T., 15, Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman of Reming-
ton's London and Manchester Direct Railway
Crossley, John, Esq., Lamberhurst, Sussex, and latoxeter, Director
of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction
Railway
Dalby, John, Robert, Esq., Ashbourne, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Dale, Major, Thurston, Ashbourne
Dawson, Samuel, Esq., sen., Ashbourne
Earp, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Edensor, Richard, Esq., Road-meadow, Ashbourne
Fidler, Peter Pichott, Esq., Iliggin Grange, Derbyshire
Fisher, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct

Railway
Garle, Samuel, Esq., Uttoxeter
Garle, William, Esq, Uttozeter
Gilpin, and Co., Messrs. William, Wedges Mlle, Cannock, Director of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Haden, Joseph, Esq., Dudley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shb e, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Haines, Samuel, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbaston, Director of tLei-

tester and Birmingham Railway
Hartshorne, Robert James, Esq., Ashbourne
Hatfield, Thomas, Esq., Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway, Re.
Hill, John, Esq., Derby
Jones, the Rev. J. P. Vicarage, Alton; Staffordshire, Director of
the Derbyshire, StaffOrdshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Johnson, John Goodwin, Esq., Bentley Hall, Athbounte
Johnson, D. T., Esq., Aldennary Churchyard, Director of the ekes •
• ter and Manchester Railway
Johnson, Richard Win., Esq., Moorgate, Director of Remington's
London and Manchester Direct Railway
Knight, Edward, Esq., M.D., Stafford, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railway
Keene, John Joseph, Esq., St. John's Wood, Regent's Park, Director
of the National Bank of Ireland, &c.
King, William, Esq., Waterloo-place, Director of the Freemasons'
Life Assurance, tc.
Lawrence, Richard Corbett, Esq., Wandfield.hall, Uttoxeter, Direc-
tor of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction
Railway
Langley, Henry, Esq., Rakeway House, Cheadle, Director of the Der-
byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Lassetter, Richard, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway -
Lassetter, James, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Lea, John Wheeley, Esq., Worcester, Vice-Chairman of the Severn
Commission, Re.
Meteyard, Horace, WV* , Esq., Director of Remington's London and
Manchester Rallss ay, Middle Temple, and Chatham-place
W3lalion, Daniel, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the Derbyshire
Staffordshire, end Worcestershire Junction Railway
Manors, John, Etc'. Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Won eslershire Junction Railway
Mellard, James, Esq., Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Minors, John, Esq., Eaton Dovedale, Derbyshire, Director of the
Derbyshire, Statferdshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Minors, John, Esq., The Parks, Uttoxeter, Director of the East
and West Junction Railway
Mathew, John Mee, Esq., Assistant Tithe Commissioner, Director of
the East and West Junction Railway
Milner, William, Esq., Tears, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
iJunct Junction hail Mountford, Thomas John, Esq., Ashbourne
Martin, Joseph, Esq., Walsall, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire itrishiear3r'
Msskery, Thomas, Esq., Norbury,
Orton, James, EA. Woodford, near Uttoxeter, Director of the Der-
byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Parkinson, John; MK., 1.R.5., Cambridge-terrace, Ityde-park, Di-
Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Rail-
way, Re.
Pulteney, Douglas Kinnaird, Captain, Director of the Nottingham
and Boston Railway, Parliament-street, London, &c.,
Phillips, William, Esq., Springfield House, Uttoxeter. Director of the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Robinson, John, Esq., Silcoates Cottage, Wakefield
Sant, Edward, Esq., Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Shipton, Robert, Esq., Scroptoo, srerbyshire, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
S m Smith,uhCharles,Thomas,
h o mas
Esq.,Esq. B
Alton,l
Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and 'Worcestershire Junction Railway
Staffordshire,Worcestershire
ore.i,au, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby_
Smith, William, Esq., Sedsall, Derbyshire, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
le Smith, William,
Clifton, Derbyshire, Director of Teau and Dove
Valley Railway tiDneirteiocntoßr
Railway
fwtahye Der-
byshire, Staffordshire, and
Smith, John, Esq., Barton House, Derbyshire
Smythe, John Vere, Esq., Kensington, Middlesex, Director of the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Spiers, E. J., Esq., Carlton Villas, London, Director of the East and
West Junction Railway
Stephenson, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Agriculturist Cattle As-
surance Company
Terry, Benjamin, Esq., Mayor of Walsall, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway, Re.
Tomlinson, Thomas, Esq., Bradley Pastures, Ashbourne
Toogood, Rupert, Esq , Ashbourne
Tylecote, Edward, Esq., surgeon, Great Heywood, Staffordshire
Tyler, George, Esq., Holloway-place, Holloway, London, Director of
the East and West Junction Railway, Re.
Waller, Major, K. 11., St. James's-square, Director of the Chester and
Manchester Railway, Re.
Walter, James Smith, Esq., Bakewell, Derbyshire
Walters, J. T., Esq., Rugeley
Weston, Thomas, Esq., Term, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Wise, Thomas, Esq., Ashbourne
Witham, John, Esq., Ashbourne
Woolrich, Thomas, Req., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Weed, Charles, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Wood William, Req., M.D., Chetwynd House, Newport, Salop, Di-
rector of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junc-
tion Railway
Wood, William Hurd, Esq., Ashbourne
Wright, Thomas, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Gaineho-
rough Railway.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clement's-lane, London
Messrs. Barnard, Dimsdale, and Co., Cornhill, London
SOLICITOR&
John Owens, Esq., 35, Moorgate-street, London
William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttoxeter
SECRETARY—R. Sheller' Mackenzie, D C.L.
ENGINEERs.-
Sir John Rennie, F.R.S.
George Remington, Esq„ C.E.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Armishaw, 1., Esq., Rugeley
Bolton, Thomas, Esq., Wolverhampton
Bolton, Joins, Esq., Dudley
Eggington, A., Esq., Lichfield
Green, James J., Esq., Walsall.
This line of railway, which is about sixty-five miles lu length, is
intended to commence at Uttoxeter (the terminus of the proposed
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway) and
to proceed to Sheffield and Huddersfield. It will form a direct com-
munication between two of the most import ant manufacturing and
missing districts in England, viz., South Staffordshire, Huddersfield,
and Sheffield, and Rotherham in Yorkshire ; the South Staffordshire
portion including Dudley, Tipton,Walsall, Hasten, Wednesbury, and
Wolverhampton.
This line will also open a direct railway communication between
Leeds, Huddersfield, and the West Riding of Yorkshire and Kidder-
minster, Worcestershire, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bristol, Taunton,
and Exeter, and with Ludlow, Leominster, Hereford, Brecon, Car-
diff, Ncath, Swansea, Llanelly,Caermarthen, Milford Haven, Fish-
guard, Aberystwith, and with Port Dynnllaen, the future outport for
Ireland. And also the most direct communication between Leeds
and Southampton.
caselt canal the
pr proceed eebtel Ptlirreolu nle 4 E I 1 as ton and by the pro-
moters line will pass nearly along the Uttoxeter and Caldon Canal to a
pointoter
snoefa
this
r eutveoro (bit
k,
in
Mayfield to Ashbourne, thence near Dovedale, Buxton, and Chapel-
en-la-Frith, Woodhead and Holmfirth to Huddersfield, where it will
join the Huddersfield and Leeds Railway, and so to Tliirsk. It will
open new mines, in addition to those already in work, of lead, coal,
iron ore, barytes, and carboniferous and magnesian limestone on the
route, in addition to forming a direct, speedy. and cheap communica-
tion between the important towns above mentioned.
Arrangements have been made with other companies to run into
this line from Sheffield. This company reservers the right to raise
additional capital to extend the line to Leeds.
Many of the above-mentioned mineral productions are eesential to
the mining districts of South Staffordshire and Sheffield. The North
Staffordshire and Derbyshire Limestone is much superior to that of
and producing ter Of a-
equal to a ton of the latter),
South Staffordshire in the fluxion of iron (15 a
cbet wt. of thquality e former be
ming
ferial. At present, the mode of transit is very circuitous and expen-
sive, the line from the Caldon Alines having to go by canal round
by Etruria, Leek, and the Potteries, to the Dudley and surrounding
furnaces, when, by this railway, it would be taken in a straight Hue
country wod have an entirel new trade opened to them. The iron-
old Is also becoming very scarce,
stone in theul neighbourhood ofy Sheffi
to them ; and the Ashbourne, Cromford„ Worksworth, and Bakewell
exists in South Staffordshire; and thi route of this line would fur-
nish a cheap and good supply, at present not worked, and without
li
i o e- fai ad -
and great quantities are introduced from Scotland; the same scarcity
mgl,o? Pet!! Th9l4 "d In girlit.Pn lh 0 v. am
1.1,ral other parts of the district at present very badly supplied with
tages, locarrni4-‘l@ wPfll4 WWI tileng the agrienltnyal

lime and coal, and that of an inferior quality, and by expensive car-
riage. It is, therefore, next to Impossible to calculate the immense
traffic which would pour (10W11 this line and the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, 'aid Worcestershire Junction Railway.
The calculations which have been made show a very large profit.
. .

There are large lead and slate quarries on the lino which only want
an outlet like the one now contemplated to bring them into fall work.
The coal is of a superior quality.
There arc also extensive barytes and paint-works at Ashbourne,
Cromford, and other places on the line. The-scenery of Derbyshire
is the resort of vast numbers of tourists; and particular care will be
taken, in passing of the line near Dovedale, not to interfere with or
change its beautiful and romantic character.. The convenience,
therefore, which this line will afford must necessarily cause a great
influx of passengers, both on business and pleasure.
Ironstone is not so abundant in the South as in North Staffordshire,
and vast quantities are sent by the tardy, circuitous. and expensive
canal company, which this and other Hues of railway meeting at
Uttoxeter will remedy.
The gypsum formation runs from Staffordshire to the Humber, and
the demandpurpo purposes
alongthis article elleinfeowr
ibliubiledignrge,aatg. agricultural, and manufac-
turing. Tho timber from the neighbourhood of the Neodwood Forest,
Banks, Bagots Woods, and Kingston Woods, upwards of 4,00 d
acres, chiefly finds its way to the Manchester market by a
like objectionable route of tardy and circuitous canal convey-
ance ; whereas this line would open a direct, easy, and cheap
communication to new markets. The line has been viewed prior to
A detailed survey, and there are not more than ordinary engineering
difficulties. In consequence of the late Parliamentary decisions, it is
intended to make-this line on the broad 'gauge principle, but the pro-
moters do not pledge themselves absolutely to do so.
At the urgent suggestion of some of the most influential inhabi-
tants of Askboilrne, the Committee have ordered a survey of a jam-
lion to_ connect that town with Derby, and with the Derby and
Gainsborough and Midland Railways
_ _

Applications for Shares to be made to John Owens, Esq., 35,
• Moorgate-street London, and William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq.,
Uttoxeter ; and to the following Shizebrokers :—Messrs. Preece and
Evans, 39, Lothbury ; Mr. Miles, Worcester; Mr. Thomas Henry
Wheeler, Worcester; Messrs. Townley and Whitehead, Liver-
pool ; Messrs. Cameron and Co., Liverpool ; Mr. Morris Rey-
nolds, Liverpool ; Mr. Richard E. Hine, Maoclesfleld • Mr.
James Jamieson, Leeds ; Messrs. Wellbeloved and dastler
Leech's ; Mr. Frederick Stamp, Hull ; Mr. Thomas Boardman, Black-
burn ; Mr. George Clark, Bradford ; Mr. William Mason, Bradford ;
Mr. William Cronhelm, Halifax ; Mr. Charles Spencer, Nottingham;
-Messrs. Eyre and Shaw, Derby ; Messrs. Grayston and Emit, York ;
Mr. E. H. Armitage, Wakefield; Mr.. James Stokes, Cheltenham;
Mr. Joseph Clark, jun:, Southampton; Messrs, Tate and Nash, lisis-.
tol • Messrs. Beaumont and Langworthy, Exeter ; Mr. Thomas
SanCifeni, Exeter; Mr. J. S. Rolland, Coventry; Messrs, Houghland
and Leese, Manchester; Messrs. Cardwell and Sore, Manchester;
Messrs. A. Birchall and Co., Manchester; Messrs. T. N. Bardwell
and Sons, Sheffield; Mr. W. H. Collis,Birmingham ; Mr.L. Weather.
ourn, jun., Huddersfield ; Messrs. Everard and Co., Hudrlorstisid;
Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester; Mr. Nieholson, Edinburgh;
Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Glasgow ; Messrs. Labertouche
and Stafford, College-green, Dublin.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

To the Proyisional Committee of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield,
and South Staffordshire Direct, Railway.

Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me Shares of 261. each
in the above Railway, and I undertake to accept the same or such
less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the regulations
of the Company, and to sign the necessary Deeds, and to pay, when
required, the Deposit thereon ef 21. 2s. per Share.
Dated this day of , 184 .
Name in hill -
Profession and professional residence.. • • .
Residence in full •••••• ........ •••

LEEDS, HUDDERSFIELD, SHEFFIELD,
and SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, or LEEDS, WOLVER-
HAMPTON, and DUDLEY DIRECT RAILWAY.
Capital, 2,000,0001., in 100,000 shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.

The Acting Committee of Direction have agreed " that a Branch
Line from Ashbourno lo Derby be adopted by this Company, and
that the capital of the Company be increased from 1,700,0001. to
2,000,0001. for that purpose."
JOHN OWENS, 1 Joint
WM. ARNOLD BAINBRIGGE,j Solicitors.
Offices of the Company, 1. Moorgate. Sept. 26, 1845.

LEEDS, HUDDERSFIELD, SHEFFIELD,
and SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, or LEEDS, WOLVER-
HAMPTON, and DUDLEY DIRECT RAILWAY.
Capital, 2,000,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
Notice is hereby given, that no applications for shares in this line
will be received after SA.TuanAT, the 4th day of October.
WM. ARNOLD BAINBRIGGE, Joint
JOHN OWENS, Solicitors.
Offlees of the Company. 1, Moorgate• Sept. 26, 1845
T"

_E . MONMOUTHSHIRE RAILWAY
COMPANY.
Capital 1,000,0001., in 40,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 10s. per Share.
(Under the sanction ofthe Right Honourable the Earl ofkbergavenny,

and other Extensive 2iiineral Proprietors of the District.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
John Barnes, Esq., Chorley Wood House, Herts
Reginald James Biewitt, Esq., M.P., Liantarnara Abbey, Monmouth-
shire
James Brand, Esq., Now Broad-street, London

John Brightman, Esq., Cornhill, LondOn
William Brewer, Esq., Newport, Monmouthshire

Tom Llevrellln Brower, Es q., Coalbrook Vale, Iron Works, Mon-

mouthshire
Edmund E. Beckingham, Esq., Manager of the West of England and
South Wales District Bank, Newport, Monmouthshire
The Chisholm, Chapel-street, Grosvenor-place
. __

Charles Conway, Esq., Pontrhydyryn Tin Works, Monmouthshire

John Chapman, Esq., I.eadeniall:sti•eet

Jeremiah.Cairtis, esq., Secretary to the Newport Dock Company,
Newport, Monmouthshire
Edward Dowling, Esq., Mayor of Newport, Monmouthshire
lion. W. E. Fitzmaurice, Chesham-street, Belgrave-square
Thomas Gratres, Esq., Banker, Monmouth
lienn Ilanmdm, Esq., M.P., Marlow, Bucks

Samuel Homfray, Esq., Tredegar Iron Works, Monmouthshire
Thomas Hughes, Esq., King's Hill, Newport, Monmouthshire
John Hellicar, Esq., Merchant, Newport, Monmouthshire
William Jenkins, Esq., Pontheer Tin Works, Monmouthshire

. _ .
John Jenkins, jun., Esq., Caerleon, Monmouthshire
William Conway James, Esq., Poutnewydd Tin Works, Monmouth-

shire
Henry Jarrett Key, Tokenhouse-yard, Londoi

, -
John Lewis, Esq.,4ydes Tin Works, Monmouthshire
Joseph Latch, Esq., Newport, Monmouthshire

John Lawrie, Esq., Charles-street, St. James's, London
John Lawrence, Esq., Newport, Monmouthshire
John Masterman, jun., Esq., Banker, London

Morris Brothers, find Morian, Abercarrne Tin Works, Monmouth-

. _ .
shire
William Mountford Nurse, Tr.sq., Cavendish-square, London
Edward Harris Phillips, Esq., Pontypool _ _

Thomas Powell, Esq., the ltter, nea7Newport, Momnouthshiro
Sir David Scott, Bart., Porchester-terrace, Hyde Park, London
Thomas Sanders, Esq., merchant, Bristol
Edward Thomas, Esq., merchant, Bristol

henry Allen Wedgwood, Esq., Woking, Surrey
William Williams, Esq., Raner, Aborgavenny

William WlMama, Esq., Proprietor of the Petitwyn and Golynss and
Varteg Iron Works, Monmouthshire
pkilip Williams Esq., Beaufort Iron Works, Monmouthshire.

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Cbstirman—The Hon. W. E. FITZMAURICE, M.P.
Deputy Chairman—THE CH ISHOL3f.
John Barnes, Esq. Thomas Gratrex, Esq.
Reginald James Blewitt, Esq., Henry Garrett Key, Esq.
M.P. John Lawrie, Esq.
James Brand, E4q, William Meuntford Nurse, Esq.
John Brightman, Esq. Edward Harris Phillips, Esq.
John Chapman, Esq. Sir David Scott, Bart.
SoLicrroas—Messrs. Johnston, Farquhar, and Leech, London
Messrs. Prothero, Toogood, and Fox, Newport
Messrs. Gabb and Secretan, Abergavenny.
BANKERS.
London—Union Bank of London ; Messrs. Masterman and Co.
Newport—Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire
Abergavenny—Messrs. Baileys and Co.
This Company is formed for the purpose of carrying into effect an
agreement which has been concluded with the Monmouthshire Canal
Company for the purchase and transfer of the whole of the Important
interest of that extensive and valuable property.
The Monmouthshire Canal Company was first incorporated by an
Act passed in the year 1793. Two subsequent Acts have extended
the sphere of the Company's operations, and their present tram-
roads communicating with most of the great iron and coal works of
the district exceeds fifty miles in length, whilst the extent of their
two branches of canal is twenty-two miles.
During the last forty-five years the concern has continued to be
one of a highly profitable description, the average annual dividend
paid to the shareholders having been during the whole of that period
at the rate of 71. 12s. per cent., and during the last twenty-five years
the average annual dividend has exceeded 101. per cent., being 101..
per share on the original 100/. shares.
The value of these shares has of course increased with the im-
proved dividends, and the purchase-money now agreed to be paid
for the whole of the canal property is at the rate of 2001. per share.
The purchase will secure to the Monmouthshire Railway Com-
pany the whole of the present profitable trade of the Canal Company,
with the certainty of a very great increase therein, as the consequence
of the intended application of the modern principle of railway loco-
motive power to the present train-roads of the Canal Company.
Thus, beyond its prospective advantages, this undertaking is distin-
guished from most of the numerous projects now before the public,
in this—that an immediate return will arise to the shareholders from
the, present works of the Canal Company now in full operation.
For a long time past large sums have been annually expended by
the Canal Company in solid improvements of their property. The
last projected improvement is the formation of a line of railway
upon the modern construction from Newport to Pontypool, a distance
of ten miles, and to carry out this object an Act of the Legislature
passed during the last session, and which railway forms a part of the
highly valuable purchase made by this Company.
Although by the Newport and Pontypool Railway Act a reduction
has been made in the amount of tonnage hitherto payable to the
Canal Company, this will not lessen tile actual value of the property,
for it is undeniable that much of the natural traffic of the Company
has been.diverted into other channels solely in consequence of the
high standard of the rates of tonnage. The recent Act confers on
the Company the power which they did not previously possess, of
becoming carriers on their lines, and it is only reasonable to calcu-
late that by the judicious use of this power and the vigorous prose-
cution of the improvements of the existing tram-roads the traffic so
alienated will be recovered, as well as much now traffic created.

Thus, whilst the value of the canal property will be materiall en-
hanced, the freighters will at the same time reap all the advantages
designed for them in the recent Parliamentary revision of the
tonnages.

It 1; further proper to state that the branch lines intended to have
been made and purchased by the Canal Company to the iron, coal,
and other works, will also be formed, thereby securing a consider-
able Increase of trade upon the main lines.

Owing mainly to the obstacles in the way of cheap and quick
transit, the endless resources of Monmouthshire have as yet been
but very partially developed ; but, in the face of these obstacles, the
quantity of iron now annually exported from Newport is not less
than 200,000 tons, and of coal 700,000 tons.

The port of Newport 'Assesses an extensive trade in the exporta-
tion of tin „plate and fire-brick, in the importation of iron ores from
Cornwall, Lancashire, and Cumberland, and of the agricultural pro-
duce from the western counties of England, together with a cous'der-
able and improving trade in foreign and English timber, bark, and
Irish provision. . .

Shares to the amount of 20,0001. in the Newport Dock form part of
the purchase of the canal interest. These extensive docks have
been constructed in the best possible manner, with a lock capable of
admitting vessels of the largest class. In proof of this it may bo
stated that vessels of 1,060 tone registered tonnage have with ease
entered and been loaded in the dock.

The Canal Company have not hitherto afforded any accommoda-
tion whatever to passenger traffic, consequently no revenue has been
derived from this usually fertile source of profit, but reference need
oily bo made to the dense resident population engaged in the 13,04,
tin, and coal works 'of Monmouthshire to prove that a very great
passenger traffic would be the result of the introduction into these
districts of the modern railway facilities.

The general extension of railway communication contemplated in
the neighbouring districts of Wales and England, will, in connexion
with the lines of this Company, most advantageously open to Mon-
mouthshire uninterrupted intercourse with all other portions of the
kingdom, Thus, whilst facilities hitherto unknown will be created
for the exportation of the mineral wealth of the locality, the freest
admission will be given to the agricultural produoe awl manufac-
tures of other parts of the king,tom, for both Of which a constant de-
mand exists in the mineraldistrictS,

In the allotment of shtres, tetibrenee will be given to Proprietors
in the AlunioUthshire (Jana , to Share! olden; in the Newport, Aber-
gavemiy, and Hereford Railway, and to lanclownera on the line.

Applications for shares, in tho form Annexed, to be addressed to
the Provisional Committee, 4t tho:r tamp nary offices, No. 23, Moor-
gate-street, London Messrs. Gab) and Seeretan, Abergavenny ;
Meagre. Protheroe, Toogood, all,l Fox, Newport ; or to Mr. Thomas
Cooke, or Mr. Samuel3tonntoutlfslfire Canal Oftlec

GARB and SECRETAN, Interim Secretaries.
FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provlsiona: Committee or the 31onmontlishire Railway

Company.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me shares of 25/.,
each in the proposed Monmouthshire Railway Company ; and I
hereby undertake to pay the deposit of 21. 10s. per share thereon,
and to execute the necessary deeds when required.
Name in full •• • • •• • . .•• ..... .......,
Business, Profession, or Trade ............
Residence
Place of Business (if any)
Date • • • ............. ..

Reference.. .
The applicant, if a holder ofj A holder of shares in the
'shares in the Monmouthshire' Monmouthshire Canal Company.
Canal Company, or the Newport,
Aberg,avenny. and Hereford Rail- A holder of shares In the
way Company, is requested to Neviport, AbergaVeuny, and Here-
apply the opposite blanks, as thelford Railway.
case may be.

11mM-signet Ire of AK)HOW.