The Sun.
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THE SUN, LONDON,SATITRDA Y EVENING, SEPTEMBER 27. 1845.

churakyoole, and Southampton. At its northern terminus, Bir-
ingharrt, it communicates with a series of lines, projected, in pro-
gress, or completed, which will form the most direct line that can
ever probably be constructed between the southern ports of England
and the great manufacturing districts.
In the alliance of lines forming the West Midland, Manchester
and Southampton Railway project, a combination of advantages pre-
sents itself—the result of a design, to a great extent, but of contin-
gencies also. If it be desirable that the terminus of every railway
should be situated at some commercial or populous place, in this re-
spect the present project is peculiarly fortunate. If Government be
resolved on countenancing the shortest and most direct lines, it
will be seen, by laying a rule on the map of England from Salisbury
to Manchester, that a course due north and south between these
places will pass very nearly through the towns mentioned in this
prospectus, as being on the proposed line ; and actual measurement
has shown this line to be the shortest between Southampton and
Manchester by 26 miles.
By the :construction, therefore, of little more than 60 miles of
rail, as hero proposed, the shortest, most direct, and convenient
communication between Manchester and Southampton will be es-
tablished—a line, also, however superior in position to others pro-
mising similar advantages, may yet be considered as competing
with none, but as an independent work, originating at Birmingham
and terminating in the seaports of Weymouth, Christchurch, Poole,
and Southampton.
In the allotment of shares in this Company the Directors propose
giving a preference to shareholders in the South and Midlands'
Junction Railway Company.
Applications for prospectuses and plans may be made, and forms
of application for shares had, at the Office of W. B. James, Esq.,
Solicitor, 5, Basinghall-street ; and of the following gentlemen:—
London—Messrs. Peppercorns, 2, Old Broad-street; Mr. J. B. Har-
rison, 8, Bank Chambers ; Mr. Thomas Hanbury, 4, Angel-court.
Liverpool—Messrs. Mills and Co., and Messrs. Neilson.
Manchester—Messrs. Houghland and Leese, and Mr. William
Marshall.

PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED. '
GREAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECS
RAILWAY,
By a Junction with the Eastern Counties Railway at Bedfor.,
Distance, 120 miles.
Capital 2,500,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
(Pursuant to the Standing Orders of the House of Commons.

cannot be a doubt but that preference would be given to the Great I
Leeds and London Direct Railway.
The fact of the Eastern Counties Railway being connected by a
branch line with the East and West India Docks on the river
Thames, and the Railway Company having recently leased for 919
years the extensive pepper warehouses belonging to those docks,
which are capable of receiving 12,000 tons of goods, together with
wharfs adjoining, where the shipment and trans-shipment of goods
from all parts of the world can take place, is a most important fea-
ture in favour of the direct communication from the manufacturing
towns of Glasgow and Leeds offered by the Great Leeds and London
Direct Railway, and by branch railways to the main trunk line,
through which all goods from the whole of the manufacturing dis-
tricts could be conveyed at once to these warehouses for shipment,
thereby avoiding the present delay and expense of cartage, and in
reality establishing an almost direct and an invaluable connexion
between the rivers Clyde and Thames.
It has been ascertained that there are no engineering difficulties,
that the works will be easy, and the gradients remarkably good, and
that it will not materially interfere with any ornamental property.
The Subscribers will be held liable only to the extent of their first
deposits until an Act of Parliament is obtained, and afterwards only
to the amount of their subscriptions.
It is proposed to take power in the Bill to anew interest at 4 per
cent. per annum on all calls until the opening of the line, and also to
extend the line to Hertford on the Eastern Counties line, in the event
of
Applicationst hat Cop many
for
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may
be made to J.
It. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-court, and Messrs. Owen Gray and
Illidge, 25, Great Tower-street, the joint solicitors to the Company,
at the Company's temporary offices, 9, Copthall-court, London ; or
to the following sharebrokers :
London—Messrs. Marten and Heseltine, 9, Finch-lane
Leeds—Messrs. Hopps and Co.
Liverpool—Messrs. Joseph King and Son
Hull—Messrs. Flint and Tootal
Manchester—Messrs. Cardwell and Sons
Bradford—Mr. Josiah Scholefield
Edinburgh—Mr. Charles Couper, 30, St. Andrew's-square
N. application will be attended to unless accompanied by a satis-
factory reference.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Great Leeds and London Direct

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right lion. Lord Dunboyne
Sir William Twysden, Bart., Dorset-street, Portman-square, Directo.
of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction, and
Erewash Valley Extension Railways
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Parthenon Club, Director of the
Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway, and
of the South and Midland Junction, and West Midland Railways
Major-General Sir Robert Barton, K.C.11., Director of the York and

Lancaster Railway
Thomas Alexander, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian, and
Trent Valley Continuation Railways
Henry Ambler, Esq., worsted spinner and manufacturer, Watkinson
Hall, near Halifax, Director of the West Yorkshire Railway, and
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
C. H. Anderson, Esq., Upper Clapton, Director of the South Midland
Railway
John Alexander Bicknell, Esq., Brandon Cottage, Bristol, Director of
the Oxford and Worcester Extension Railway
William Bardgett, Esq., Winchester-street, Broad-street, Director of
the Italian and Austrian, and the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford,
Railways
William Banks, Esq. Honey-lane Market
John Byng Banks, Esq., Stockwell, Surrey
William Fachney Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Di-
rector of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midland Junction
Railways
Henry Weech Burgess, Esq., Temple's Park, Hampstead, Director of
the Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, Potteries, and Crewe Railway
Charles Salisbury Butler, Esq., the Lodge, Upper Clapton
Josiah Burrowes, Esq., Castle House, Gomersall, near Leeds
Thomas Burnley, Esq., Gomersall, near Leeds, Director or the Leeds
and West Riding Junction Railway, and of the Liverpool aisd Leeds
Direct Railway
Samuel Bateman, Esq., Croft House, sear Bradford, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Mull and Selby
Railway
Joseph Browne, Esq., Bedford
Dr. Brigstock, Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Headwater
Railway
James Brand, Esq., 9, Now Broad-street, Director of the Cambridge
and Lincoln, and Great Luxembourg Railway
Job Bullinart, Esq., East Redford
William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., J.P., Hull, Director of the Rugby
Warwick, and Leamington, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railways
John Carter, Esq., Knottingley
Thomas Carter, Esq., Tansheif, J.P. for the Borough of Pontefract
Charles Charnock, Esq., Holmfield House, near Ferrybridge
Millis Coventry, Esq., Director of the South and Midland Junction,
and Birmingham Extension Railways
B. Clements, Esq., Lowndes-square, Director of the WestemJamaica
Railway
J. Cottam, Esq., East Redford
Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborougb, Director of the Manchester, Mid-
land, and Great Grimsby, Gaiusborough, Goole, and Isle of Axholme,
and the Wisbeach, Isle of Ely, and Lincolnshire Junction Railways
John Cutts, Esq., Little Barfield Hall, near Braintree, Essex
James chin, Esq., Director of the l'aris and Strasbourg, Southampton
Manchester, and Oxford, and the Manchester, Rugby, and Maccles-
field Railways
W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the Loadon and Birmingham Exten-
sion

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Hull—Messrs Colllnson and Flint.
Leeds—Messrs. Young and Son.
Stratford-on-Avon—Mr. William Bolton.
Exeter—Mr. Thomas Sanford.

Plymouth—Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer.
Birmingham— Mr. Collis, and Mr. John Wright.
Glasgow—Messrs. Tassie and Co.
Edinburgh—Messrs. Robertson and Co., and Messrs. M'Callum
and Co.
Derby—Messrs. Eyre and Co.
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Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me Shares, of 251.
each, in the above undertaking, and I undertake to pay the deposit
thereon, or upon any less number that may be allotted to me, and
also to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agree-
went when required.
Address in full . ..... ... ..... ..•
Occupation .. ..... ..• .. • .......
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FORM OF APPLICATION FOE SHARES.

To the Provisioaal Committee of the West Midland, Manchester,

and Southampton Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me
Shares of 201. each in this Company, and I undertake to accept the
same, and to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that
may be allotted to me ; and I undertake also to execute the Parlia-
mentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
Name (in full) .. • .. ...... ...........
Residence. •••••••••••••
Trade or Profession ......... ...... .
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Date

GREAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT
RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management of this Railway hereby give no-
tice, that in consequence of the unprecedented number of applications
already made for shares in this important undertaking, they have
determined upon rejecting all further applications made after the
29th September instant. Immediately after that day they will
proceed to make the allotment of the shares and procure the execu-
tion of the Parllamentary contract and subscription deeds.
signed by order of the Committee,
J. R. GIBSON,
OWEN GRAY, Registered Solicitors.
J. B. MUDGE,
29th September, 1845.

THE WEST MIDLAND, MANCHESTER,
AND SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY, AND BIRMINGHAM,
SWINDON, DEVIZES, AND SALISBURY JUNCTION.
Notice is hereby given, that after the 30th of Szrrzwasi instant,
no applications for shares in this undertaking can be received.
By order of the Board, G. N. WRIGHT.
5, Basinghall-street, London, Sept. 23, 1845.

SHREWSBURY, WOLVERHAMPTON,
DUDLEY, and BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.
WM. ORMSBY GORE, M.P.. Chairman.
The Hon. ROOT. H. CLIVE, M.P., Deputy-Chairman.
John Benbow, Esq., MP.
W. Richford Collett, Esq., M.P.
W. Fechney Black, Esq.
James Clay, Esq.
Richard Norman, Esq.
Stephen Phillips, Esq.
Richard Smith, Esq.
R. A. Slaney, Esq.
Sir W. Young, Bart.
In consequence of the repetition ofAdvertisements signed "Thomas
H. Smith," and an " Original Shareholder," the Committee of Ma-
nagement think it their duty to publish the names of that Commit-
tee, as the best answer to the latter anonymous writer, and to caution
the Shareholders against being misled by any statements which
might be made at any meeting called by Thomas H. Smith, of whom
the Committee of Management know nothing.
The Committee of Management take this opportunity to state, that
the surveys from Shrewsbury to Wolverhampton are nearly completed,
and that the surveys from Wolverhampton to Birmingham are being
made under the direction of a joint Committee representing this
Company, the London and Birmingham Railway Company, and the
Birmingham Canal Company, the whole under the immediate super-
intendence of Mr. Robert Stephenson.
By order,
3, Moorgate-street, Sept. 22, 1845.

MADRID AND VALENCIA RAILWAY,
authorised by an Ordinance of her Majesty the Queen of

Spain.
Capital 2,400,000!., in 120,000 Shares of 201. each, Spanish reals
(Vellon) 2,000, fr. 500, of which 80,000 will be allotted in this
country.
Deposit 2/. per Share, reals 200, fr. 50.
PSOVISIONAL COMMITITr.
The Most Noble the Marquis of Winchester, 27, Cavendish-square
The Lord de l'lsle and Dudley, 16, New Burlington-street
The Lord Rossmore, the Dell, Windsor
The Right Hon. Lord Charles Beauclerk, Chesham-place, Belgrave-
square, and the Riding, Northumberland
The Right Hon. George Lionel Dawson Darner, M.P., 6, Tilney-street
The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., 27, Regent-street
Sir William Wynn, Chairman of the North Wales Railway
C. Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P., 6, Parllament-street, Chairman of the
Paris and Strasbourg Railway .

Henry Sherard Coleman, Esq., Crown-court, Old Broad-street
Francis Deere, Esq., Stratford, Essex
J. Dawson, Esq., Pontefract
John Dennis, Esq., Director of the West Midland, and Thames Val
ley Railways
Joseph Dent, Esq., Aibston Hall, near Leeds, Magistrate for the
North West Riding of Yorkshire
A. A. Davenport, Esq., Director of the Oxfbrd and Worcester Exten-
sion, and Worcester Junction Railways
Joseph L. Davenport, Esq.,Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby,
and Manchester Railway
John Adcock Dixon, Esq., Barniey, near Leeds, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Richard Dransfield, Esq., Dalton, Huddersfield, Director of the
Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, of the Liverpool and Leeds Di-
rect, and of the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction
Railways
Edward Doubleday, Esq F.L.S., Director of the Rugby, Warwick,
and Worcester Railway
Francis Ewart, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey-
mouth Railway
Lieut.-Col. Fitch, 36, Yoric-terrace, Regent's-park, Managing Direc-
tor of the York and Lancaster Railway
Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of tke Oxford and Worcester Exten-
sion Railway
Solomon Foster, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Nottingham, Mans-
field, and Midland Junction Railway
Martin Furniss, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Erewash and Shot
field Railway
John Griffiths Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Chairman of the London•
decry and Coleraine, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways
George Green, Esq., Pontefract
Charles Gibson, Esq., Holland-place, Clapham
James Gilbertson, Esq., Hertford
William Gibson, Esq., Glasgow
H. P. Gipps, Esq., Director of the Coventry and Nuneaton Railway
Charles Goldsmith, Esq., Friday-street, Cheapside
William Gordon, Esq., M.D., F.L.S., Director of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct Railway
Henry Swan Graves, Esq., Ely Bank Lodge, Halifax
John Gully, Esq. Ackworth Park, Ackworth
Richard Hall, Esg.,.Carnarvon Hall, Stratford, Director of the Strat-
ford and Thames Junction, and North Woolwich Railways
John Charles Hall, Esq., New Grove-street, East Redford
R. F. Hall, Esq., Wiseton, near Bawtry
S. C. Hall, Esq., F.S.A., Inner Temple, Director of the Erewash Val-
ley Extension and West Midland Railways
Samuel Hammond, Esq., Leeds
John George Hammack, Esq., Director of the Direct Western and
the Metropolitan Junction Railways
William Hepworth, Esq., Pontefract, a Deputy-Lieut. and J.P. for the
West Riding of Yorkshire
John Mason Ilepworth, Esq., Eden-place, Ackworth, J.P. for the
West Riding of Yorkshire
Joshua Ilepworth, Esq., Rogerthorpe Hall, Bedsworth
Thomas Heelis, Esq., Skipton Castle, Skipton, Director of the Lan-
cashire and North Yorkshire, Lancashire aid Yorkshire North-
Eastern, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways
Robert Herries, Esq., East-street, Leeds, Directer of the Liverpool
and Leeds Direct Railway
Charles Iloibrooke, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and
Manchester
John Holmes, Esq., East Redford
John Midge, Esq., Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and Direc-
tor of the Derby and Stafford Railway
William Empson Jalland, Esq., Holdemess House, near Hull, Di-
rector of the York and Hull Railway
Harwell Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holderness House, near Hull, Ma-
gistrate for the East Riding of York and Borough of Mull, and
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds, and Hull and Barnsley
Railways
John Jameson, Esq., Honey-lane Market
William Jameson, Esq., Shelton, Staffordshire, Director of the Staf-
fordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways
Joseph Jones, Esq., Mayor of Hull, and Director of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Director of the Blythe and Churnet
Valleys, or Macclesfield and Lichfield Railways
George Lawton, Esq., Ditchleys, Essex, Director of the Chepstow,
Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway
Leahy, Esq., St. James's-square
Moses Edward Legg, Esq., Watling-street, London
Captain Henry Leech, Bedford
William Ley, Esq., 40, Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director of
the Reading anßeigate Railway
L. Stephens Lyne, Esq., Broad-street, Director of the Western Ja-
maica Railway
P. Bennett Lucas, Esq., Director of the Sligo and Shannon, the
Ipswich and Southampton, and the Cork Passage and Kinsale
Railways
Joint 11. Mann, Esq., Leeds
Newark-upon-Trent, and Bedford-
square,Thomas M'Turk, Esq., Hull
Thomas Hacketti)de r ar.k Massey,
William Mee, Esq., East Redford
W. R. Mesham, Esq., M.D., Bedford
Hoofbtrit,
e 3
William 3foorhouse, Esq., Marine Villa, Knottingley, Provisional
Director of the Sheffield, Barnsley, aid Wakefield Railway
LieelleidnsgWannj CarlisleEsq'Ordshall House, near East Redford,Director
Railway
Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of South and Midlands' Jtuaction, and
London and Birmingham Extension Railways
James Muscroft, Esq., Pontefract, J. P. for the Borough, *Provi-
sional Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension and Chester
Junction, Railway
Joseph Nadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and
Southampton, and the Leeds and Carlisle Railways
William Joseph Nash, Esq. Bedford
John Norton, Esq., 1, St. George's-square, Westminster, and Moat
House, Brentwood, Director of the Great Western Direct Railway
Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley and Con-
tinuation and Holyhead Junction, and West Midland and South
Midland and Oxford Extension Railways
Robert
Bennett°PielellY' Esq., M.D., Pontefract
William Perfect, Esq.,
Monkhill, near Pontefract
John Phillips, Esq. Mayor of Pontefract
Thomas Ingham Raynor, Esq., Birstal, Leeds, Director of the Leeds
,
Esq. 12, Finsbury-place North
and West Riding Junction, and the Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railways
John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Birming-
ham Direct, Leicester, Iron, and Dove Valley Railways
ltoohb
'REsde Director of the West Midland Railway
Riddell, Esq., Bycullah House, Enfield, Managing
John Reginald
RReigiciniaardlds
id
Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester,
and Weymouth Junction, the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke,
and the Direct Western Railways
James Robson, Esq., Tanshelf, J. P. for the Boroagh of Pontefract
George Robinson, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junc-
tion, and of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railways
John Richardson, Esq., Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate,
the East and West Yorkshire, and the Midland and Thirsk Junc-
tion ltallwly
Thomas Rontlidge, Esq., Alderman, Pontefract
James Russell, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director o.
the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton, of the Tring,
Reading, and Basingstoke Railways
Henry Savage, Esq., Director of the Irving, Reading, and Basing-
stoke Railway
Benjamin Shaw, Esq., Kilburn Priory, Director of the Churnet and
Blythe Valleys Railways
J. E. Sichel, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and
of the Leeds and York, and Midland Railways
William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Director of
the South Midland Junction Railway, &c., &c.
George Walker Smith, Esq., Horbury Hall, Sheffield, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Smith, Esq., M.D., 30, North-street, Leeds, Director of the
Leeds and York, and Liverpool and Leeds Railways
Joseph Smithson, Esq., Kirklees Mills, near Halifax
James Templer, Esq., Brixton-rise, Director of the Derby, Uttexeter,
and Stafford Railway.
and Gorbals, Hun
Thomas S. Trapp, Esq., Banker, Bedford
Samuel Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street, and Gorbals, Hull, Di-
rector of
tianpped SAffboardrnoßailway
Thomas Turner. Kea- Pariskodee
David Wheatcroft, Esq. stand , cffiwinni inrector of
the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, and Direct Birmingham: and
Leicester Railways
Major-General Wright, Royal Engineers, Gloucester-place, Portman-
square
William Williams, Esq , Royal Foundery, Bedford
Charles Waite, Esq., Willesden House, Middlesex
John Wheelton, Esq., late Sheriff of London 'and Middlesec. as
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Willett, Esq., Bradford
George Yates, Esq., merchant, Halifax
(With power to add to their number.)
ENGINEEZ-IN.CHIEF—Sir John M'Neil, L.L.D., and F .R.S.
ACTING ENGlNDEl—William MlLilingaT Higgins, EMI.
LONDON BOLICITO2II.
J. R. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-court
Owen Gray, Esq., 2 20 --,
Great Tower-street,
J. B. Midge, Esq.,

Benjamin Williams, Esq., banker (Mess,. Cockburn and Co.)
William Collins, Esq., M.P., Reform Club
_ _

Ed—w;d Bates, Esq., Managing Director of the Argus Life Assurance
Company
Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Beesthorpe Hall, Newark, Netts, and 8, Great
Ryder-street, St. James's

John Capper, Esq., merchant, I, Adelaide-place, London-bridge
William Chadwick, Esq., Montagu-square, Chairman of the Rich.
mond Railway

GEO, KNOX, Secretary.

John Charretie, Esq., Park Village East
Gideon Colqnhoun, Esq., `Palmer. Lodge, Avenue-road, Regent's-
park, Director of the Worcester and South Wales Railway
Company

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D IRE CT WESTERN RAIL VVAY
(Upon the Broad Gauge),
From London to the Land's-end ; with Diverging Lines to Bath and

Williatii Cooper, Esq., merchant, 20, Mark-lane, and Kingswood
Lodge, Dulwich

Bridgewater respectively.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
Office, 20, Poultry.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Camperdown, Sidney-place, Bath
The Viscount Mandeville, Kimbolton-park, Hunts
Lord James O'Bryen, Royal-crescent, Bath
Lord William Powlett, Bath, and Downham-hall, Brandon, Suffolk
General Sir John Slade, Bart., Muntys Court, Taunton
Colonel Luttrell, Kilve Court, Somerset
The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., Director of the South Mid-
land Railway, Brookes' Club, St. James's-street
SieFrancis Dugdale Astley, Bart., Ererly Nouse, Pewsey, Wilts
Sir Henry Webbe, Bart., 105, Pall-mall
Frederick Hodgson, Esq., M.P. for Barnstaple, 3, Carlton Gardens
Howard Elphinstone, Esq., M.P., 19, Eaton-place, London
Ralph Neville, Esq , M.P., Hill-street, Berkeley-square
Charles Barry Baldwin, M.P., 6, Parliament-street
Hon. Percy Evans Freke, 3, Belgrave-square
Thomas Nugent Vaughan, Esq., 32, Grosvenor-place, London
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the
Sheffield and Manchester and Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
Companies
Sir Robert Price, Bart., M.P., Foxley, Herefordshire
Sir John Cave Brown Cave, Bart., Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Sir William Young, Bart., Westbourne-green, Hyde-park, East India
Director
John Clark, Esq., Benefield House, near Trowbridge, Wilts, Magi'.
tr ate for the counties of Wilts and Somerset •
Alfred Batson, Esq., Ramsbury, Wilts, and Upper Bedford-place
Major Hunt Grubbe, Eastwell House, Devizes
John Sealy, Esq., Bridgwater, banker
John Lord Sealy, Esq., Bridgwater, banker
William Adair Bruce, Esq., Lansdown-crescent, Bath
Sir John Key, Bart-, 9, King's! Arms-yard, Alderman of the City of
London, Director of the Direct Manchester and Loudon and Direct
Liverpool and Leeds Railway Company
Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Griffin's Wharf, Teoley-street, Alderman
of the City of London, and Director of the London and Westmin-
ster Bank, and of the London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidder-

Edmund F. Dayrell, Esq., 15, Old Cavendish-street, and LiMngstone
Dayrell, Bucks, High Sheriff of Bucks, Deputy-Lieutenant of the
County, Chairman of the Cheltenham and Gloucester Railway and
Bridgewater and Minehead
W. Eales, Esq., merchant, Mincing-lane, Director of the Direct
Western Railway
Thomas Farucomb, Esq., Alderman of the City of London, Direetor
of the London and Westminster Bank

Richard Forman, Esq , Upper Thames-street
James Gernon, Esq., 13, Conduit-street

Major Grakam, 16, Grove, Clapham
John Joseph Keene, Esq., St. John's-wood. near London, Director
of the National Bank of Ireland

Wnt.King, Esq., Director of the Fi

i' Life Assurance Corn,

pany
James John Kinloch, Esq., 21, Gloucester-road, Hyde-park, Director
of the North Wales Railway Company

John Kuill, Esq., Fresh-wharf, Thames-street, Director of the
Worcester and Crewe Railway

T. Laurence, Esq., St. Mary-axe, Director of the Direct Western
Railway

Major James Oliver Lindam, K.H., 8, New-street, Dorset-square,
Chairman of the Gloucester and Aberystwith and Central Wales
Railway, and Director of the South Midland Junction Railway
Nicholas M'Cann, Esq., 50, Parliament-street, Director of the Man-
chester and Rugby Direct Railway

Charles Carroll Mactavish, Esq., 22, Rutland-gate
J. B. Monteflore, Esq., 2, Winchester-buildings, Director of the
Australian Mining Company

William Nicholson, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester
and Rugby Railway

S. P. Praa,-Esq., 55, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Director of the Kennet and
Avon Canal Company

George Clavering Eedn-tan, Esq., Limehotnio
Colonel Edward Stopford, 9, Manchester-square, Director of the

Barbadoes Railway Company
William Gordon Thompson, Esq., Director of the Beath Midland
Junction

S. J. Waley, ESQ., 22, Devonshire-place
William Lechmere Whitmore, Esq., 19, James-street, Buckingham•
gate, Director of the London Central Railway Terminus.
BANKERS.

minster Railway
Thomas Challis, Esq., 32, Wllsoa-street, Finsbury, Alderman of the

London—Messrs. Curries and Co., Cornhlll ; Messrs. liasterraan and
Co., Nicholas-lane ; Messrs. Cockburn and Co., Wkiteliall.
Madrid—Bank of Isabella 11.

City of London
Edward Harrisson Barwell, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the North-
ampton„Banbury,and Cheltenham Railway, and Director of the

STANDING COUNSEL —Jacob Waley, ESCI., LIIICOIIed Int

Somenoes—Messrs. Keddell, Baker, and Grant, $4, Lime-street.
CONSULTING ENGINIEI-P. Pilchard Baly, ESQ.
SECRETARY—F. Kirkham Powell, ESQ. •
Offices of the Company, 37, Moorgate-street.

smith Midland Railway
Joseph Armitage, Esq. Mtn's' Bridge House, Huddersfield, Deputy
Lieutenant and a Esq.,
for the West Riding of Yorkshire,
Chairman of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
William Gordon Thomson, Esq., 33, Gloucester-road, Hyde Park,
Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham, and

The present Company has been formed for the construction of a
line of railway from Madrid to the cityand port of Valencia, the nwst
central seaport on the Mediterranean. It will open out the re-
sources of an extensive district of country, eastward from the capital,
remarkable for the richness and fertility of its soil, the varied abun-
dance of its productions, and the commercial spirit of its inhabitants.
This railway is authorised by a special ordinance of her Majesty
the Queen of Spain ; and from its ♦ast importance as a national route
of intercommunication her Majesty has been pleased to accompany
the grant with all the privileges and immunities which the Crown is
empowered to confer upon a railway company. Amongst these may
be enumerated—

South Midland Railways
Donald Maclean, Esq., 37, Brunswick-square, London, Deputy
Chairman of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway
Thomas Lawrence, Esq., 3, St. Mary Axe
Philip W. Courtnay, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, London
Millis Coventry, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street
Barnet L. I,Philips, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, and
George-street, Mansion Rouse
Boswell Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holderness House, near Hull,
Deputy Lieutenant and Magistrate for the East Riding of Yorkshire
Charles Robert Coleman, E.g., Irongate Wharf
William Eales, Esq., 3lincinglane, London, late Director of the
Devon and Cornwall Banking Company
Charles Downes, Esq., Warwick-street, Charing-cross, Director of

1. A lease of the line and of its branches for 99 years.
2. The gratuitous grant of such Government and corporation lands
as may be required for the railway.
3. The free use of all timber, the property of the State, that may b.
necessary for the works, or for other purposes.
4. The exemption for ten years, to be computed from the com-
mencement of the works, of all import duties on the machinery,
rails, and other articles requisite for the completion of the railway.
5. The entire exemption from all national and loeal taxes that
could otherwise be levied upon the railway, works, or buildings of
any description, and upon the capital represented by the shares.
6. The Government is not tcelnterfere with the Company's tariff
of charges for the space of forty years from the completion of the
works ; and no revision thereof is to take place on the expiration of
that period that can sink the profits below 15 per cent.
7. The line is to be classed, by a special law, under the title of a
" work of public utility," and as such to enjoy the royal patronage
and protection, and all the peculiar privileges attached to important
national undertakings.
The proposed line, thus largely endowed, is about 240 miles in
length, being upwards of 150 miles nearer the capital than the ports
of Cadiz and the north coast of Spain, and generally nearer than any
other port in the kingdom. Although it has not yet been minutely
surrey ed, it is well known that there is no similar district of equal
extent in the kingdom which presents so few engineering difficulties.
Far upwards of 80 miles the line will traverse the almost level plain
of Valencia ; and emerging from the boundaries of the province, It
will follow as nearly as possible the course of the rivers which flow
east and west from the central plateau in the province of Cuenca,
and approach Madrid by the valley of the Manzanares. The line
will either pass through or accommodate the most important towns
in the two provinces, which will thus be brought into rapid com-
munication with the capital on the one side, a seaport on the other.
. . . .

the South Midland Railway
Martin Stutely, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park, London,
Director of the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine, and the South
Essex Railways
Francis Ede, Esq., 34, Great Winchester-street
John Addis, Esq., Rotherhithe and Mark-lane, London, Director of
the Central Terminus Railway, and of the Licensed Victuallers'

Fire and Life Insurance Company
James Renshaw, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street, and West
Heath House, Erith, Kent, Director of the South Stafordshire

Railway
Thomas Drane, Esq., Pall-mall, and St. Mary Church, Devon, Direc•
tor of the Bridport and Exeter, and Goole and Doncaster Railways
'Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brembo Ironworks, Wrexham, and Cannon-

street, London
IL G. Atkinson, Esq., Upper Gloncester-place, Regent's Park
George M'lntosh, Esq., 127, Seymour-street, Portman-sqsare
Frederick Solly Flood, Esq., Alpha-road, Regent's Park, London
Major White, 105, Pall-mal, London, Director of the South Midland

Railway
Charles Bleaden, Esq., Coulsden-court, Surrey, Chairman •f the Li-
censed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company
J. G. Hammack, Esq., Essex House, Mile-end-road, Director of the
Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company
Patrick Fres. Johnston, Esq., Great Cumberland-place
Joseph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, Minories, Director of the London anti
Blackwell Railway Company
William Downing Bruce, Esq., F.S.A., 17, Charles-street, St. James's,

and Ripon
Cuthbert Woodcock, Esq., Grove-road, North Brixton
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanstone-street, Portman-
square, Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth, and
the Great Western Extension Railways
George Hammond Whalley, Esq., 30, Pall-mall, London
William Hagan, Esq., 60, Baker-street, Portman-square
William Breynton, Esq., Montpelier, Cheltenham, and Temple, Lon-
don, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth Railway
Richard Harris Purcell, Esq., Cambridge-street, Hyde Park, Lon-
don, Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Railway

This railway will be the means of supplying Madrid, containing
300,000 inhabitants, entirely dependent for provisions upon the con-
tiguous provinces, at a cheap rate, with the rich products of the pro-
vinces of Valencia, which abounds in most valuable mines, and is
beyond comparison the most fertile district of Spain.
Valencia, brought by this communication within ten hours' dis-
tance of the chief market of Spain, must necessarily become the
port at which all vessels with supplies for the metropolis will unload,
and the centre of the coasting trade along the whole sea-line from
Barcelona to Gibraltar.
The traffic in passengers and goods now existing between Madrid
and Valencia has been correctly ascertained, showing the following
results :
The annual number of passengers travelling between
Madrid and Valencia, and the intermediate towns, is
upwards of 42,000 ; but taking that number at the
present cost of conveyance by stage coaches, private
7 carriages, galeras, and waggons, the amount will be £67,800
The annual weight of goods conveyed between the two
cities and the intermediate localities is 4,900,000 cr. ~
from which the return is estimated at

Company
Philip Baker, Esq., Euston-square, London, Auditor of the London

and Blackwall Railway Company
Charles James Heath, Esq., 6, London-street, Mark-lane
Captain E. N. Trowbridge, R.N., 11, Eaton-square
Anthony Ridley, Esq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury, a Director of the
St. Katherine Docks Company, and of the General Shipowners'
Socieey
William E. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square
Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., Clopton House, Warwickshire, and

Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire -
George Payne, Esq., Sulby Hall, Northamptonshire, and Charles-

1,223,400

£1,291,200

street, Berkeley-square
James Beech, Esq., Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, and Grosvenor-
place, tondon
Nicholas Philpot Leader, Esq., Dromagh Castle, county Cork, Union
Club, Trafalgar-square, Director of the Killarney Junction Rail-

Assuming that two-fifths only of the existing el►arges
become a source of revenue to the railway, and that
the tariff be reduced considerably below the State
tariff of lielgium, there will be deducted .. • •

752,320

way Company
Samuel Baker, Esq., Lypplat Park, Gloucestershire, and London
William Congrove Russell, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Di-
rector of the Warwickshire and London Railway
Henry Bradley, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire
John William Yerbury, Esq., Belcombe House, Wiltshire, Captain 3d

Remains .. .. • • £s3' ,880
Supposing that the present traffic will only be donbled
by the railway, although experience has proved the
increase to be equal to 300 and 400 per cent., there will

L[gtct Drag..lia
Monett Main, Esq., rark, tcyriaharn, and Trinity.

And add
For the transport of troops, military stores, &e., which
the Government will substitute for the conveyance by
waggons .. •• .• •• • • •• • •
M per Cent., at the least, for the 11leant train• ..

£1,077,760

square, London
Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsall House, Retford, Nottinghamshire
John Gillyatt Booth, Esq., Crouch Hall, Hornsey
Major-Gen. Martin White, Marlborough-buildings, Bath
Rev. T. Harvey Ashworth, Badyna House, near Newbury, Berks
Col. Burslem, Harwood Lodge, Newbury, Berke
Major Kirwan, Great Pulteney-street, Bath
Rev. Dr. Godfrey, Grosvenor-place, Bath
Edward Cooper, Esq., Staverton, Wilts, Magistrate of the County
Henry Toogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse, Wilts, Magistrate of the

50,000
215,952

.01,343,712

From which deduct nearly 60 per cent. for maintenance
of way, &c. • • .. • • • • .• • • • •

671,1156

Leaving a net profit of
Or of nearly 28 per cent. upon the capital.
The capital now proposed to be raised has been estimated, by
competent authority, to be amply sufficient for the completion of the
railway, including stations, a double line for rails, and the working
plant.
The royal ordinance authorises the erection of an electric tele-
graph along the line, which will answer the double purpose of placing
the railway under the special protection of the Government, and
closely uniting it with all the railways that intersect the kingdom
and have their common termini in Madrid, to which capital maritime
and mercantile information from the Mediterranean can be instan-
taneously communicated.
One-third of the shares are, by the terms of the concession, con-
ceded to Spain.
The locale of the Company will be in Spain, and it will be framed
principle of a cornpania anonirna, agreeably to the commercial
The affairs of the Company will be conducted by a Board of Di-
rectors in London, assisted by a highly influential Committee in
Madrid. The remuneration to the Directors will be made in ac-
cordance with the plan usually adopted in continental railways, and
that to the Concessionaires consists of a mere contingent interest in
two-twentieths of net profits, after five per cent. shall have been se-
cured to the shareholders.
A deposit of 21. per share is payable on allotment, and no future
call will exceed 21. per share, of which two months' notice at least
will be given.
Applications for shares, according to the subjoined form, to be ad-
dressed to Messrs. Keddell, Baker, and Grant, solicitors, 34, Liine-
street, London ; to Messrs. Hutchinson and Son, stockbrokers, Loth-
bury ; Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Threadneedle.street ; Messrs.
Johnston, and Co., Manchester ; Messrs. Townley and Whitehead,
Liverpool ; Messrs.Wreford, and Co., Bristol ; Mr. N. Lea, Birming-
ham ; Messrs. Watson, and Co., Leeds ; Messrs. Wilkinson and Earle,
full; Messrs. Buchanan and Aitkin, Glasgow; Mr. W. Gordon,
Aberdeen ; Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, Dublin ; and to the
Secretary, at the office, 37, Moorgate-street, London.

.. £671,556

County
Rey Chas. Fras. Bamffylde, Rector of Dunkerton, near Bath, 31agis-

trate for Somerset
Richard Mortimore, Esq., Chippenham, Wilts
George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, Director of the Bristol and Birming.

ham Railway Company
R. Wootten, jun., Esq., Banker, Oxford, Director of the Buckingham-
shire Railway and Wolverton Junction
Richard Mortimore, Esq., Klngsmill, Collumpton
Rev. John Sydenham, Collumpton
Rev. R. A. Roberts, Rector of Kentisbere, Collumpton
Charles Justice, Esq., Collumpton, Devon
Richard Marker, Esq., Ufeulm Cottage, Tiverton
Colonel Henry Dundas Campbell, North End House, Portsmouth
George Pearce, Esq., Bradninch House, near Collampton
Wm. H. Halcomb, Esq., Chilton, Hungerford, Chairman if the Berks
Union Banking Company
William Halcomb, Esq., Marlborough, Manager of the Wilts and

BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co.
Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Co.

The object of this railway Is to connect, in the most direct course,
the important and increasing manufacturing town of Leeds with the
Metropolis, the want of which has long been felt, and is toe univer-
sally acknowledged to need any comment, and it is wider this con-
viction that this important undertaking, after several minute exa-
minations of the country through which it will pass, has been brought
forward.
The proposed line will commence at the junction of the Manches-
ter and Leeds, and York and North Midland Railways, near Wake-
field, and will terminate by means of a junction with the Eastern
Counties Railway at Bedford (to which place it is the intention of
that Company to extend their line in the ensuing session of Parlia-
ment), and by thus availing itself as far as possible of the existing
railways, will complete the most direct and least expensive trunk
linte, from London to Leeds, York, and Hull. It will pass in its route
wi bin an available distance of Wakefield, Pontefract, Doncaster,
Rotherham, East Redford, Nottingham, Newark, Grantham, Melton
Mowbray, Oakham, and Stamford.
The importance of such a line is obvious, both from the nature of
Its course (embracing, as it does, a most extensive population within
its limits) as also from the absence of any direct communication for
the conveyance of passengers and merchandise.
By the construction of this railway, railway communication to
London will be given to Peterborough and Leicester (by means of
the Syston and Peterborough Railway), to Newark and Nottingham
(by the Nottingham and Lincoln line), and to Sheffield and Gainsbo-
rough (by the Sheffield and Gainsborough line), by a much shorter
route than by any existing Railways.
Independently of the advantages offered to the towns in the several
counties through which this Line will pass, the Line in itself consi-
dered as a direct trunk line between London and Leeds, is sufficient
to justify its formation, it being well known that the existing traffic
between these two places would produce such a return on the capital
required. as to admit of a dividend, equal to that of any railway in
operation : but when it is borne in mind, that a Company is being
formed for the purpose of connecting Glasgow with Leeds by means of
a junction with the York and Carlisle Railway, no better line can be
presented to the public, as it will not only effect a direct communica-
tion from Glasgow and the Western parts of Scotland to London, but
would also connect Edinburgh and the Eastern parts of Scotland as
well as Durham and Newcastle (by the York and North Midland, and
Great North of England Railways), with the Metropolis, which would
be considerably shorter than the accommodation offered by any
other Company, and when cost of construction is considered there

Dorset IBank-
Captain W. G. Maclean, 8.N., Taunton
Robert Parsons, Esq., Taunton
John Dalzell, Esq., Wallingford, Berks
Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
John Kerle Haberfleld, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
James Troup, Esq., Hastings
John Robson, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
John Morford Cottle, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington, Director
of Coventry and Leicester Railway
Joseph Knight, Esq., Leicester, Director of South Midland and North-

ampton, Banbury-and Cheltenham Railways
John Newton Mappin, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Midland Railway Company
John Ridgeway, Esq., Cauldon-place, the Potteries, Staffordshire,
Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway
James Burt, jun., Esq., Manchester, Director of the Chester and
Birkenhead, and Manchester and Southampton Railways
Edward Norris, Esq., Clairville, Manchester, Director of the Direct
London and Manchester, and North Cheshire Railway Companies
Joseph Nadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and
Wigan, and Manchester and Southampton Railways
James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Salford
Sir William Lowthrop, Hull, Magistrate for the East Riding of York
and for the borough of Hull, Chairman of the " Hull and Barnsley"
Committee, and Member of the acting Committee of the "Liver-
pool and Leeds Direct Railway Companies"
John Holford, Esq., Rusholm Hall, Manchester
C. H. Jones, Esq., Huddersfield, Deputy Chairman of the Hudders-
field and Sheffield, and Director of the Halifax and Bradford

London, Sept. 10, 1845.
FORM OF APPLICATION.

To the Directors of the Madrid and Valencia Railwa3 Company.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me s. ares of 201.
each in the above Company ; and I hereby undertaketo accept the
same, or any less number. which you may appropriate to e, and to
pay the deposit thereon of 21. per share.
Dated this day of

1845.
Name .. •• • • .... .•

Residence .. ..
Profession or Trade • ....• •
Place of Business
Reference ••• . • ..... ••• • •

Union Railway
Charles Bamford, jun., Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley

Junction
John Lillie, Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and South•

MADRID and VALENCIA RAILWAY.—
No APPLICATION FOR SHARES will be received after
WEDNESDAY, the First day of October next.
By order,
F. KIRKHAM FOWLER Secretary.
Office 37, Moorgate-street,Sept. 25,1845.

ampton Railway
John Robson, Esq., Hetton-le-Hole, Durham
Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Sheffield and
Manchester, and Chairman of the Manchester, Birkenhead, and
Midland Railway Companies
Isaac Holmes, Esq., Liverpool

Win. B. Newbery, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Dudley and
Iron Bridge Railway Company
C. Appleby, Esq., Broomhill, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and
Manchester Railway Company
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach,
and Lincolnshire Railway, and Salisbury and Swindon Railways
John Ward, Esq., Machin Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield,
Rotherham, and Chesterfield Life Assurance-office
Wm. Thompson, Esq., Upperthorpe, near Sheffield, Director of the
Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
Adderley Howard, Esq., Sutton Wisbech, Director of the East Coast
Railway Company
Captain Bowker, R.N., Devonport
H. S. Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Di-
rect Railway
Samuel Swann Brittain, Esq., Sheffield Director of the East and West
of England Railway Company
John Fawcett, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Wakefield and Har-
rowgate Railway Company
William Marriott, Esq., Attercliff-terrace, Sheffield, Director of the
Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Junction Railway.
Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln, Director of the London and York
and East Lincolnshire Railways
John Johnstone Hamilton, Esq., Liverpool
David Price, Esq., Manchester
William Hunter, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington
Rev. H. W. Cottle, Vicar of Watford, Northamptonshire
Major Wornum, Clarence-square, Cheltenham
Edward Hall, Esq., Westbank House, Macclesfield, Director of the
South Midland and the Northampton and Cheltenham Railways
Henry Hubbersty, Esq., Hull
John Ostler, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction
Henry Shaw, Esq., Fetter-lane
Henry Sayer, Esq., Commercial-road, Limehouse, merchant
John Mee Mathew, Esq., Gray's Inn-square
John Norton, Esq., Moat House, Brentwood, Essex
William John M`Guire, Esq. Hampton Court
John Gray Wilson, Esq., Oxford-terrace
Capt. J. P. Macdougall, Fir Grove, North Brixton, Surrey
W. J. Lefeuvre, Esq., Alderman and Ilagistrate efSouthampton
Thomas Chas. Harrison, Esq., F R.S., York-terrace, Regent's Park
G. B. Bunbury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the
Coventry and Leicester Railway
Captain Tringham, R.N., Solyhull, Warwickshire
William Jonson Neale, Esq., King's Bench-walk, Temple
James Whitney, Esq., Shrewsbury
Henry. Paul Harwood, Esq., M.D., Sheffield
The Hon. F. Byron, 21, Eaton-place
William Higgins, Esq., Turvey, High Sheriff of Bedfordshire
Sir Raymond Jarvis, Fair Oak-park, near Winchester, Deputy-Lieu-
tenant, and magistrate for the county of Hants
William Jackson, Esq , Birkenhead, Chairman of the Chester and
Birkenhead Railway
; E. H. Langworthy, Esq., Manchester
Thomas Sidney, Esq., Alderman,: and Sheriff of London and Mid-
dlesex
Nathaniel Gould, Esq., Barge-yard, Bucklersbury, and Tavistock-

square
Edmund Lionel Welles, Esq., Cadogan-place, and West Moulsey,
Surrey
Duncan Dunbar, Esq., East India-road, and Limehouse, Director of
the London Dock Company, the Marine Assurance Company, and
the General Shipowner's Society
William Jackson, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Goole and Doncaster
Railway
George F. Earle, Esq., Hull
Stephen Knowles, Esq., Exeter
W. Lawrence, Esq., Brixton
John Leannonth, Esq.' Edinburgh, Chairman of the Edinburgh and
Glasgow, and North British Railway Companies
Wellington Ross Seymour, Esq., Montague-place, Rusell-square,
Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway
William Tanner, Esq., Great Surrey-street, Blackfriara
John Booth, Esq., Sherburn Grange, Durham
Matthew Benjamin Robson, Esq., Whitwell Grange, Durham
John Holmes, Esq., St. James's-street, Director of the Dorchester and
Weymouth Railway, and York and Lancaster Railway
William G. Bernard, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
Thomas Smallwood Richards, Esq., 59, Baker-street, Portman-square
James Shaw, Esq., Salford, Manchester
N. M'Cann, Esq., Parliament-street
Henry Wellman Newman, Esq., Bristol, Magistrate for that City, and
Deputy-Lieutenant and Magistrate for the county of Gloucester
William Horatio Harrison, Esq., Sunbury
William Empson Jalland, Esq., Holderness House, near Hall
Thomas Racket Massy, Esq., Newark-upon-Trent
Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Gainsborough,
Goole, and Isle of Axholme, and of the Wisbeach, Ely, and Lin-
colnshire Railways
William Ruston, Esq., Catherine-court, Trinity-square
G. Wingrove Cooke, Esq., Temple, London
C. I. Selwyn, Esq., Exeter
Joseph Hopwood, Esq., Exeter, Director of the Exeter and Falmouth
Railway
Richard Compton, Esq., Eddington House, Hungerford, Berks, a
Magistrate for the counties of Wilts and Berke
Henry Coa Coape, Esq., Goldhanger, Maiden, Essex
The Constable of Hungerford
Richard Davis, Esq., St. Helen's-place, Director of the South Midland
Railway
Edward Hyde Clarke, Esq., Leamington, Wanvickshire, Director of
the Warwickshire and London Railway
Captain William Lionel Lampert, The Highlands, Oxfordshire, and
Leamington, Warwickshire
Francis Burton, Esq., Milverton House, Warwickshire
Captain Stewart, R.N., Leamington, Warwickshire
Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbaston, Birmingham, Director
of the South Staffordshire Railway
William Northage, Esq., Upper Gower-street, Bedford-square
John Wodley Hughes, Esq., Gloucester, Director of the Birmingham
and Bristol Railway
Lewis Bruce Knight Bruce, Esq., The Priory, Roehampton, Surrey
Francis Cole Humbert, Esq., Oxford-street, Hyde-park
Algernon Greville, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park
John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park
James Lamb, Esq., Hyde-park-square
Richard Groucock, Esq.,l Bow-churchyard, and Dulwich, Director
of the Direct Manchester Railway
J. B. Simpson, Esq., Rutland-lodge, Brixton
Henry Bellerby, Esq., Sheriff of York
Henry Ledgard, Esq., 39, Wood-street, Cheapside, Director of the
Rugby and Macclesfield Direct Railway
John Williams, Esq., Eaton-square.
Thomas Grimsditch, Esq , M.P., Macclesfield, Cheshire
Samuel Griffiths, Esq., Penn-fields, Wolverhampton, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Railway
William Miller, jun., Esq., Leicester
Edward Westlake, Esq., Southampton
Erasmus It. Foster, Esq., Birchiu-lane
William Bargett, Esq., Broad-street
Peter It. Morrison, Esq., Princes-street, Bank
Thomas Miller, jun., Esq., Leicester
John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Enfield, Director of the York and Lan-
-caster Railway
Thomas lidaley, Esq., M.D., Sheffield.
James Sheppard, Esq., jun.
Valentine Knight, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, Magistrate
for Middlesex
• eorge Sercombe, Esq., Exeter
John Clampit Sercombe, Esq., Exeter
William Pearce, Esq., Liverpool
W. Holliday, Esq., Chad Valley, Edgbaston, Birmingham
Robert Henry Hurst, Esq., jun., Temple
William Nash, Esq., Capham Common
Grey Hazlerigg, Esq., West Carlton Hall, Leicester
Captain Twisleton Graves, Duke-street, St. James's, Director of the
Leicester and Tean and Dove Valley Railway
(With power to add to their number).
Batureas—Messrs. Curries and Co., Coruhill, London.
JOINT SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Bell, Brodrick, and Bell, Bow Churchyard, London
Messrs. Rickards and Walker, 29, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London
Messrs. Haynes and Moore, Warwick and London
Messrs. J. V. and J. T. Harting, 24, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London.
Secarram—Thomas Hosier Saunders, Esq.
IssisTaxr-SECRETARY----Charles J. Whalley, Esq.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
At Newbury—Messrs. Godwin and Gray, and B. Pinniger, Esq.
At Ramsbury—William Rowland, Esq.
At Devizes, Henry Gilbert, Esq., and John Edwards Hayward, Esq.
At Troubridge and Bradford, Messrs. Stone and Rodway
At Bath, Messrs. Batchelor, Harford, and Staunton
At Shepton Mullett—Francis Isaac Nalder, Esq.
At Bridgewater, Messrs. G. S. and J. R. Poole
At Exeter—William Denis Moore, Esq.
At Tiverton, T. L. T. Mendell, Esq , and J. A. Toms, Esq.
At Launceston—Messrs. Lawrence and Pattison
At Bodmin
At Truro
At Penzance
At Falmouth—Messrs. Tresidder and Son
The object of this line is to effect a direct communication between
London and the Land's End.
In a national point of *view such a line is indispensable. With
the advantage of a direct railroad, Falmouth, from its situation at the
western extremity of the kingdom, would undoubtedly long since
have been the principal port on that coast. With the advantage of
at least 280 miles of heavy road, that place has attained its high po-
sition as a Packet Station. Southampton, with far less natural ad-
vantages, has, since the opening of the South-Western Railway, in-
creased its imports from 200,0001. to 3,000,0001. per annum. At Bris-
tol, before the opening of the Great Western Railway, the imports
were declining ; since then they have very considerably increased.
The merits of a line to the Land's End as an investment for ca-
pital, it was not left to the present Company to discover. The Great
Western and Bristol and Exeter Railway having already reached
Exeter, it has been in contemplation to extend that line to Fal-
mouth by way of Plymouth ; and various other projects have been
set on foot on the conviction that Falmouth must be reached by
railway.
The object of this prospectus is to show that no ether line than the
resent can ultimately satisfy the exigencies of the country in regard
to this, its most important eutport—" the natural Packet Station of
the empire."
The present project is distinguished by this—that it is direct. It is
as nearly as possible a straight line from London to the Land's End.
The London, Bath, and Bridgewater Company having amalga-
mated with this Compdhy, the immense local influence commanded
by them will now contribute to the great national object of a direct
line ; while means have been taken for securing the traffic and afford-
ing all the accommodation contemplated by that Company.
The Direct Western availing itself of the Great Western Railway
so far as Reading, pursues its course by or near Newbury, Hunger-
ford, Great Bedwin, Marlborough, Devizes, the manufacturing dis-
trict of Trowbridge (from which a diverging line will be carried by
Bradford direct to Bath), Westbury, Frome, Shepton Mallet, Wells
(from which another diverging line will be taken to Bridgewater),
Glastonbury to Taunton, being shorter by about thirty-two
miles than any existing railways between these points, and without
a tunnel. From Taunton the Bristol and Exeter Railway (now
leased to the Groat Western) is traversed to Tiverton, whence it is
proposed to carry this line direct to the Land's End, Falmouth, St.
Ives, and Penzance, being shorter by about sixty miles than the
lately proposed line by way of Plymouth, and effecting, in the whole
distance from London to Falmouth, a saving of about ninety miles.
With rearect to the traffic on the upper portion of the line it is
needless to saylmore than that there is already thorough traffic suffi-
cient to justify the construction of this portion of the Direct Wes-
tern : that it will shorten the distance from London to Tiverton
about 32 tulles, that It will traverse rich and populous agricultural
and manufacturing districts, and receive a large amount of traffic as
well from railways now in course of construction as from ethers pro-
jected, with every chance of success.
As to the traffic on the lower portion of the line, it is evident that
the vast number of merchant vessels continually detained in the
Channel by adverse winds, would effect an immense saving both in
insurance and time, by discharging their cargoes at Falmouth, and at
once transmitting them to their destination by means of this railway;
and therefore—without speculating on the extent to which the ports
on either side of the great promontory of the Land's End may, by
means of this railroad, attract the commerce respectively of Bristol
Ana dootliamptoa , o, hat, e...LeaL We liaealt.watible mineral wealth
of Cornwall, and the unrivalled agricultural resources of Devonshire
may be further developed, or the genial climate of Penzance and
Mount's Bay, " the Montpellier of England," attract a larger propor-
tion of winter visitants—it is obvious that this line will command a
traffic both in goods and passengers, from its western terminus, the
amount of which may be said to be without limit. A. glance at the
map will make it manifest that no competing trunk line can ever be
established between Tiverton and the Land's End. As between
Taunton and Reading, an inspection of the map will show a vast ex-
tent of midland district, comprising rich and populous parts of So-
mersetshire, Dorsetshire, and Wiltshire, now altogether destitute of
railroad accommodation.
Recurring to the features of this project as a national work, one of
the greatest in point of magnitude, of vital importance in the event of
war, and of almost incalculable advantage to the general and packet
commerce of the kingdom; It may not be out of place to quote here
the following expressions of Sir Robert Peel. Speaking of the project
of a direct line from London to Liverpool through the Trent Valley,
which bore much the same relation to the Birmingham and e.raind
Junction that this bears to the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter
Railways, he is reported to have said :—" I consider that the com-
munication between the metropolis and the great outperts to be not
a question of hours, but a question of minutes." Of the necessity of this
particular line, Parliament has already expressed an opinion ; for in the
report of the Committee on the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth
line, which was promoted by the Great Western Railway Company,
it was stated that that Company had been required to pledge itself
not hereafter to oppose a direct line to Falmouth; and it may be
fUrther observed, that a proposed line from Plymouth to Falmouth
was last session rejected, on the ground that it might be supposed
to interfere with that great national object.
The survey of the line has been to a great extent completed, and
correct estimates of the expenditure and returns are in a state of for-
wardness, and the whole will be ready for the next session of Par-
liament.
It is sufficient, as to these points, here to state that there are no
engineering difficulties in any part of the line which have not been
repeatedly surmounted in other cases ; that the first portion will be
constructed at an unusually small expense ; that the undertaking
will meet with the cordial support, concurrence, and co-operation of
the landowners, and that the Directors are justified in asserting that
this will prove to be one of the most remunerative railways in the
kingdom.
Powers will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow interest at
four pounds per centnm per annum on the deposits, and preference
in the allotment of shares will be given to the proprietors of the land
through which the line will pass, and to the shareholders in the
Great Western, the Bristol and Exeter, and other railways connected
with the Direct Western district.
Applications for shares, in the form subjoined, to be addressed to
the solicitors to the Company, or to the Secretary, or to any respect-
able broker in town or country
20, Poultry, London, September 11, 1845.
FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Direct Western Railway
Company.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 251. each in
the above Company, and I undertake to pay the deposit of 21.125. 6d
per share thereon, or on any less number you may appropriate to me
and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Con•
tract when required
Dated

1845.

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