The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY ErENING, SEPTEMBER 16, 145.

D IRECT WESTERN RAILWAY,
(Upon the Broad Gauge),
From London to the Land's-end ; with Diverging Lines to Bath and
Bridgewater t espectively.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 251. each. •
Deposit, V. 158. per Share.
rsovistonst. COMIC/TM
The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., Director of the South Mid.
land Railway, Brookes' Club, St. James's-street
Sir Francis Dugdele Astley, Bart., Everly House, Pewsey, Wilts
Sir Henry Webb., Bart., 105, Pall-mall -
Frederick,Hodgson, Esq., M.P. fbr Barnstiple, 3, Carlton Gardens
Howard -Elphinstone, Esq., M.P., 10, Eaton-place, London
Ralph Neville, Esq., M.P. for Windsor, Hill-street, Berkeley-square
Charles Barry Baldwin. M.P. for Totness, 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 John Key, Hart , 9, King's Arnimyard, Alderman of the City of
London, Director of the Direct Manchester and London and Direct
. ,
Liverpool and Leeds Railway Company
Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Griffin's Wharf, Tooley-street, Alderman of the City of London, and Director of the London and Weetanin-
stet Bank, and of the LOndon, 'Warwick, Leamington, and Kidder-
minster Railway
Thomas Challis, Esq., 32, Wilson-street, Finsbury, Alderman of the
City of London
Edward Harrisson Harwell. Esq., Deputy Chairman of the North-
ampton. Banging, and Cheltenham Railway, and Director of the
South Midland Railway
Joseph Armitage, Esq., MLitt's Bridge House, Huddersfield, Deputy
Lieutenant and a Magistrate 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
South Midland Railways
Donald Maclean, Eeq., 37, Brunswick-square, London,' Deputy
Chairman of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway
Thomas Lawrence, Esq., 3, St. Mary Axe
Philip W. Courtney, Esq. Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, London
Millis Coventry, Esq.,: itihitehart-court, Lombard-street
Barnet L. !Philips, Esq., Cornwall:dense% Regent's Park, and
George-street, Mansion House
John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, Tunbridge, Kent, Direetor of
the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Boswell Middleton Jolland, Esq., Holderness House, near Hull,
Deputy Lieutenant and :Magistrate for the East Riding of Yorkshire
Charles Robert Coleman, Esq., Irongate Wharf William •
gales, Esq., Mincing lane, London, late Direetor of the
Devon and Cornwall Banking Company
Charles Downes, Esq., Warwick-street, Charing-cross, Director et
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 Griffith Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Director of the Londonderry
and Coleraine and the Londonderry and Ennlskl3,en Railways
John Addis, Esq., Rotherhithe and Mark-lone, London, Director of
the Central Terminus Railway, and of the Licensed Victuallers'
Fire and Life Insurance Company
James Renshaw, Esq., Whitehart-conrt, Lombard-street, and West
Heath House, Erith, Kent, Director of .the South Staffordshire
Railway
Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brembo Ironworks, Wrexham, and Cannon-
streak:London
IT. G. Atkinson, Esq., UpDer Gloucester-place, Regent's Park
George M'lntosh, Esq., 19
.7, Seymour-street, Portman-square
Frederick Solly Flood, r.sq., Alpha-road, Regent's Park, London
Major White, 105, Pall-mall, London, Director of the South Midland
Railway
Charles Bleaden, Esq., Coulsden-court, Surrey, Chairman of the Li-
censed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company
J. G. Hammack, Esq., Essex House, Mlle-end-road, Director of the
Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company
PatFkkFras. Johnston, Esq., Great Cumberland-place
Joseph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, Minoriee, Director. of the London and
Blaekwall Railway Company •
W. D. Bruce, Esq., F.S.A., IT, Charles-etreet, St. James's, and Ripon
Catchbert Woodstock, Esq., Grove-road, North-road, North Brixton
Robert Andrew Riddell. Esq., Ini, Eryenstone-street, penman-
square, Direstor of 'Fring, Reading, and Basignstoke, the Exe-
ter, Dorchester, and Weymouth, and the Great Western Extension
Railways
George Hammond Whalley, Esq, 30. Pall-mall, London, Assistant
Tithe Commissioner
William Hagan, Esq., 60, Raker-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
Company
Baker, Eeq,, Euston-square, London, Auditor of the London
and Blackwell 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's Dock Company
William E. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square
Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., Clopton House, Warwickshire, and
Luton Moo, Bedfordshire
George Payne, Esq., Sulby Hall, Northamptonshire, and Cheri*
street, Berkeley-square
Jamey Beech, Esq., Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, and Grosvenor,
place, London .
Nicholas Philpot Leader, Esq., DromagitCastle, county Cork; Union
Club, Trafalgar-square, Director of the Killarney .Jtmetien
Rail-
way Company •
Samuel Baker, Esq., Lyppiat Park, Gloucestershire, and London
William Congreve Russell, Esq.' Leamington, Warwickshire; Di-
, rector of the Warwickshire and inndon Railway
Henry Bradley, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire
John William Yerbary, Esq., Belcombe House, Wiltshire, Captain 3d
Light Dragoons
Robert Main, Esq., Ravensbourne Park, Lewisham, and Trinity-
square, London
Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsall House, Retford, Nottinghamshire -
John Gillyatt Booth, Esq., Crouch' Hall, Bonney • •
Major-Gen. Martin White, Marlborough-buildings, Bath
Rev. T. Harvey Ashworth, Burlyns House, near Newbury, Berke
Col. Burslem, Harwood Lodge, Newbury, Berke •
Major Kirwan, Great Pulteney-street, Bath . I
Rev. Dr. Godfrey, Grosvenor-place, Bath
Edward Cooper, Esq., Stavertoo, Wilts, Magistrate of the County
Henry Toogood Davis,
.Esq., Waterhouse, Wilts, Magistrate of the
County
Rev. Chas. li'l'ac. Bamfylde, Rector of Dunkerton, near Bath
Richard 3dortimore,Esq., Chippenham, Wilts
George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, Director of the Bristol and Birming-
ham Railway Company
R. Wootten, Jan., Esq., Banker, Oxford, Director of the Buckingham-
shiraltailway and Wolverton Junction
Richard Mortimore, Esq, Kingemill, Collumpton
Rev. John Sydenhain, Collampton
Rev. R. A. Roberts, Rector of Kentlibere, Collumpton
- -
Charles Justice, Esq., Collumpton, Devon
' Richard Marker, Esq., lifculm Cottage, Tiverton
Colonel Henry Dundas Campbell, North End House, Portsmouth
George Pearce, Esq., Bradninch House, near Collumpton
Wm. H. Halcomb, Esq., Chilton, Hungerford, Chairman of the Barks
Union Banking Company
William Holcomb, Esq., Marlborough, Manager of the Willis and
Dorset Bank
Captain W. G. Mnr•lean, R.N., Taunton
R°bert,srsorns, -Esq., Taunton
John balsell,•Ewl., Wallingford, Berke
Thomas Carlisle, Esq. Clifton, Bristol
John Kerle liabertied, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
TrooP, Esq.. Hastings
• dchn Robson. Esq., Clifton, Bristol
John Morferd 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 Mippin, 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 Manchester and
Railway jun.,
-
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
tames Ogden, 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 Bartudey"
Committee, and Member of the acting Committee of the "Liver-
pool and Leeds Direct Railway Companies"
John 'Telford, Esq., Itushohn Hall, Maneheeti*;k,
C. 11. Jones, Eaq„ Huddersfield, Deputy Chairman ot-the-Fludders-
_ field and -Sheffield, and Director of the Halifax -and Bradford
•-• •
Charles Bamford, jun., 416119 Director of the Hull and Itatinsley
Zitnction - -
John Lillie, Esq.,, Meeeheater. Direetorsof Manchester and, Simnh-
, amount „
I John Robson, F..sq., Iletton-le-Hole, Durham
Cornelius Randall, Esq. MarialitiferV Difeetek:ofilie ell el 4 and
Mancheiter and Otr;irrnatt-' of the' Manellastero Birkenhead,. and
Midland Railway Companies
Isaac Holmes, Esq., Liverpool
Win. B. Xerebery, 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
Samuel Swann Brittain, Esq., Sheffield, Direetor of the East and West
of England Railway Company,
John Fawcett, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Wakefield and Ilar-
rowgate Railway Company
William Marriott, Esq., Attercliff-terraee, 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 Hinter, Esq., Clarendon'eqttare, Leamington • •
Rev. Charles Cottle, Rector of Walton, Northamptonshire.
Major Wormun, Clarence-square, Cheltenham
Edward Hall, Esq., Westbank House, Maccleefield, 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, Assistant Tithe Com-
missioner
John Norton, Esq., Moat House, Brentwood, Essex
William John M'Guire, Esq. Hampton Court
John Gray Wilson, Esq. Oxford-terrace
Capt. J. P. Macdougall, Grove, North Brixton, Surrey
W. J. Lefevre, Esq., Alderman and Magistrate of Southampton
Thomas Chas. Harrison, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's Park
G. B. Bunbury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the
Coventry and Leicester Railway
Captain Tringhtue, R.N., Solyhull, Warwickshire
William Jonson Neale, Esq., King's Bench-walk, Temple
James Whitney. Esq., Shrewsbury
Henry Paul Harwood, Esq., M.D., Sheffield
(With power to add to their number).
BaNiczas—Messrs. Curries and Co., Cornhill, London.
JOINT SOLICITORS.

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SOUTH MMLAND, or NORTHAMP TON and
LEICESTER- RAILWAY COMPANY.
Notice is hereby given, that on and after WEDNESDAY, the 17th
net, the Offices of this Company will be at No. 3, Princes-street,
Westminster. By order,
GEORGE NEWTON BROWNE, Secretary.
1, Gray's lan-square, Sept. 15, 1845.

CHEPSTOW, FOREST OF DEAN, AND
GLOUCRSTER JUNCTION RAILWAY,
An extension Of this line is under survey, to connect it with the
heart of the mineral district of South Wales. The project has been
registered, !UR particulars of Which will appear is a few days.
WILLIAM PROTHEROR, Secretary.
10, Old Jewry Chambers. -

r. OXFORD and WORCESTER EXTEN-
.. •
SION and CHESTER JUNCTION RAILWAY, with
Branches to Shrewsbury and Northwitch. ' On the Broad Gaups.
(Provisionally registered.)
Capital 2,250,0001., in 125,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit .21. 2s. per Share.
•
PROVISIONAL COMMIT7I2.
Lord George Paget, txbridge House
• The Iron. Douglas Kinnaird Poultney, 4, Parliathent-street. Director
of the Nottingham and" bastion Railway
Major Berestbrd, M.P. •
Sir William Bacon Johnson, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire, Director
of the Chester and Forest of DeSiut Railways •
Sir Win. Wynn, Maesyneward, Chairman of the /forth Walesßailway
Sir Samuel Brown, Director a the Worcester and Warwick Railway
Sir John Edward do Beatsvoir, Chairman of the London and Bir-
mingham Extension
Sir John Hare, Langham-place, Director of the London and Bir-
mingham Extension
Sir John Key, Bert., Alderman of London, Director of the London
. and Manchester and Leeds and Liverpool Railways
Colonel Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, Director of the London and
Birmingham Railway
Colonel Fitch, 36, York-terrace, Dlreetor of the South and Midland •
Admiral J. Ayscough, Prospect-place, Southampton, Director of the
South And Ifidharid
Major Croft, 15,Negent-etreet, Deputy Chairman of the Manchester
and Chester Railway
Major Chase, 31, Nottingham-place •
Captain S. M. Fisher, jun., Director of the Warwick and Worcester
Railway
Captain Hitehens, H.R.1.C.5.. Director of the Birmingham and Ox-
ford Railway
Captain F. Chatnier, Halkin-street, Beigrave-square, Director of the
Great Paris and Lyons Railway.
Win. Hughes Hughes, Zest:, F.S.A., F.L.S., /cc., Alderman of Lon-
den, Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation.
Chairman of the London and Greenwich Railways, •
Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South
Midland Railway
John Kinnersley Hooper. Esq.. Alderman of London, Director of the
London and Manchester Direct Railway, and South Midland
Thos. Farneemb, Esq., Alderman of London. Director of the Smith
Midland Railway
Thee. Challis, Esq., Alderman of Londen, Wilson-street, Finsbury
Thos. Sidney, Esq., Alderman of London. Sheriff of London and
Middlesex
Captain Alex. Namlltea Carle, Royal Artillery, Reform Club.
flohn Inglis Jardein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby
and Southampton Railway
Wm. Morley, F.se, Blackheath
Win. Lee, P.sq., Director of the Gravesend and Rochester, and Essex
and littitblk Railways
• Bd. Carpenter, Esq., Direetor of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
• Chas. Robt. Colman, Req., Director of the !oath and Midland Rail-
way -
Henry Wright, lastly Direetor of the South and Midland Junction
Railway, &v.
John Wheelttae, req., Director of the Leicester and Bedfbrd Railway
Tberna*Collingridge, Highgate, Middlesex
Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
John Rrocke Walbancke, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
Rd. Wm. Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester and
Derbyshire and South Staffordshire Railways
Prane.o Valentine Lee, Esq., Temple, Director of the Eastern Counties
jtailWay
Major dell Sharp, Deputy Chairman of the Thames Erablutkusent
Railway
'Major-General Brooks Partby, C. 8., 13, Rutland-place
W. Simpson Potter, Esq., Director of the Oxford, . Witney. and
Cheltenham Railway
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester
Direct and Liverpool and' eeds Railways
`Peter Morrison, Esq., Dlreetor of the London and Birmingham
Railway
W. F. Black, Esq., Wilten-place, Belgrave-square„ Director of the
Italian and Austrian Railway
W.G. Maly, Req., Directoref the Trent Valley Continuation Railway
John James, Bag., Secondary of London
Robert Henry Lyndans, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth
Railway
Robert Andrew Riddell. Esq., to, Bryanston-street, Portman-square,
Director of the Trine. Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
J. B. Richardson, Esq., Director of the Celchester and Cambridge
Railway
Julian oksome, Bag., Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln
Railway
Frederick James Hall, Esq., 'Torrington-square, Director of the Bide-
fbrd and Tavistock Railway
Captain C. W. Tyndall, Director if the South-Eastern Railway
Frederick Jones, Esq., Director of the Warwick and Worcester
Railway
Henry Lewis Steals, Bag., Willoughby House, Tottenham. Director
of the London and Dover Railway
C. "Waite, Esq., Willesden, Middlesex
X W. Wood, Esq., Lodge-place, St. John's Wood, Director of the
North Metropolitan Railway
George Parbury, Esq.. Russell-square, Director of the Manchester
- and Birmingham Railway
Wtn. Shaw, Esq., Direetor of the Thames Embankment Railway
Win. Alfred Hill, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith
Railway
Richard Dutton. Esq., Director of the Lincoln. York, aid Leeds
. Railway
Win. Slark, Esq., Director of the Guarantee Society
James Reeves, Esq., Director of the Londou and Manchester RallWay
Frederick Collingridge, Bee., Thurlow-square,Brompton
Warren S. Hale, Esq., Greeshant-street
Robert Richards, Esq., Temple, Director of the Birmingham and Leas
• . don Extension-Railway
lingsmill Grove Key, Esq., Wandsworth Common
The Rev. F. K. Hall, D.D., Rector of Palbourne, Cambridge
Daniel Penton Johnson, ESQ., Director of the London and /dandies-
ter Railway
Charles Green. Esq., ,Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith
Railway
John Barber, Esq. Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith
Railway
Rev. Thome* Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Hereford
B. R. Foster, Esq., Director of the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafibrd-
shire radlway
alartin Furnis. Req.. Director or the Nottingham. Newark. and
Boston Railway
W. 8. Cross, Esq., Director of the Birmingham and Manchester
Extension Railway
W. Banlgett, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian Railway
Richard Parish, Esq., Bank House, Wordsley, Staffordshire
Samuel Parish, Esq., Wordeley. near Stourbridge, Staffordshire
Alexander Greig, Esq., Lowndes-street, Beigrave-square, Direetor of
the Leicester and Birmingham Railway
Thomas Yates Hunt, Esq., Braden, near Birmingham
William Singleton, £.q, Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool
Direct Railway
Wm. Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Railway
James Museroft. Esq.. Pontefract
David William Nell, Esq.. Leeds, J.P., Director or the Leeds and
Think Railway
Joseph Robert Wilkin Atkinson, Esq., Director Of the Leicester sad
Bedford, and York and Lancaster Railways
John Fagan, Req., Gloucester-road, Old Brompton
Charles Hoblen, Esq.; Director of the Great Grimsby tug Sheffield
Railway
Z. D. Ho,pkine, Esq., Bedford-square, Director of the tondos! and
Birraingham Extension Railway
JOseph Gill, Esq., Leeds, Director of the rest Riding Joineries. Railway
rioter Pairbalme, Esq., • Leeds, Chairman Of the Lincoln, York. and
Leeds Railway . _
John Blackburn, Esq., Leeds
J. M. Douglas, Rsq.. Director Of the Hader and Weyntouth
Railway
W. Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-:dreet
John Anderson, Esq., Director of the South and Midland Ralfivay
W. Ley, 'Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square
Robert Power, Esq., M.D., Queen-street, May Fair
henry Cornfoot, Esq., Old Palace, Richmond
W. Paxton, Esq., Surrey-place
James Berates. Esq.,. Leyton..lllelex • -
(I. MA,'- "-
Bohn .Alexander Bicknell, Esq., Brandorl-i;ottege, BiLsfol. Dlrecter.of
the South and Midlands/ Junction Ettenelon Itallway
Jetnee lases; Esq., Saddleworth. nearpganchester, Director-of
the Manchester Banking Company ' • ,
• ••• • ' (Fitt pdwer 1e Oct to, their ...esimirr.)• .
The names of an influential Coital:l4k" Ibrmed at Wtireester, and
...a hi al feir ditAiro
a 4 iv
sTrir•Tdolitterr,,of London
Serstmcsanv-.' Higgins, Esq.
' '
.lairt.tcrrolit .
-ache! and 'Colllngridgets.jasaingtiall,street ;W. R. J • antes, gag,.
orromrAY:r—Hilton Thomas Jenkins,"Esn.
- AORRTS,
• Mr"harch--James Bromfield, Esq.
dre7diagton-'George Marcy, Esq.
P.:nrewsbury—eiV. Cooper, Esq.
• • .
t7eAlf,graphleal position of Worcester h,as caused its adeption as
the ;mint where the his-oft inseelnini Mies of the west are to hive a
"S.,aznYon termisms:. FrorriOxterdthe Great Western Company have
dec.'s:4d on coitstructior rait'snother project under the pa-
wo" age of the Skeie 'powerful' direction is now beibre the public,
Vetting Worcester With Wnfting; ;arid, that the broad gauge will be
carried from Woreelte'rlizicWgs, and to the Irish packet stations
on that voaat, is nteir'ilb'' defibtftil. This undertaking
.plate a series of great‘setittues et iron-road, whose ramivrillficaeons-
tion
tom Worcester 1011- render every part of the kingdom directly
teceseible from that city: Passing up the Severn Vale, where
t (Name a snooession of pleturesqte scenes, It reaches.
Stourport, and proceeding thence through Kidderminster, arrives at
Ifewdley. This district ist one of the chief seats of our carpet manu-
factures, ant,-in thetowni here named, exclusive of the intervening
Itstricte, upwards._, f 30,000 persona are located. Leaving' Stourbridge
an
nattelue to due east, the line is taken to itridgenorth, a town enjoying
rA inland trade, and possessing woollen manufactures and iron
Sires employment.% a population of aboutls,ooo. Pass.;
111,,' through or near to "Musih-Wenlock, Broseley. and Madeley from
altdch place there be. branch to Shrewsbury, the line a'seendis
Colebrook Dale, and tip-pro/Aching in its course Wellington and Warn,
sitters Whitehur,"•:n.. From this central placea branch will be formed
to Norwich villw-Stokei forming a junction with the Liverpool and
Crewo.rasilwiy. The trunk line will continue from Wilitchurch, and
thrOugh or near Malpas,- have its northern terminus in the
at.' of Chester.
Ba estimating the probable amount of revenue which the Woreee-
ier and Chester Railway may be expected to yield, many sources of
profit present theruselvee, such are the deneepopulation located along
the length of the Severn Vale, and the enriching works of industry
to which they-lire engaged. Amongst the latter may be mentioned
the China manufactories of Worcester ; the iron, coal, and earthen-
ware
works at BroSeley and other places ; the agricultural product
brought to Stourport market t the -inexhaustible fields of coal and,
miner of iron ore in the vicinity of Colebrook Dale, Ironbridge, and
the districts to the east of Shrewsbury generally.
In calculating the cost of construction unusual advantages are also
obvious. The line traverses-a district affording levels of several
miles in extent, and with a surface peculiarly favourable, The resi-
dent population, disappointed by the postponement of promised pro-
jects, have warmly espoused the present, and the labouring popula-
tio
n being familiar with mining operations, will be found better
qualified for the execution of railway works here than in many other
localities.
As a link in the railway network of England, or as auxiliary
to existing or projected lines passing in various directions, few
schemes hitherto proposed appear to afford greater inducement
fir investment, or a wider range of accommodation for traftle and
travelling. This project oonstitatea a lengthened link in the chain
that will connect Liverpool with Bristol, the grand trunk of the
West of England ;—lts southern terminus, Worcester, it the half-
way station of the London and Port Dynnilaen broad gauge line
by projected lines a direct communication will be afforded west-
ward to Swansea and Aberystwith, and, eastward, to Warwick and
Northampton, Cambridge, Peterborough, Harwich, Lynn, Lincoln,
anf Null.
The line has been repeatedly and carefully examined by the Com-
pany's acting engineer, who reports that the rail for many miles may
he laid on the natural level—that the gradients are in every in-
Stance favourable—that the geological structure of the districts to
be traversed is equally so, and that the want of such a line of com-
munication is acknowledged by the interests seated en its proposed
course.
Applications for prospeetuses and plans may be made, and Parma
of application for shares had at the Mikes of Misers. Potter and
Coillagridge, solicitors, 5, Basinghall-street ; also of W. n. James,
meg.. solicitor, 3, Basinghall-street ; of the local agents 3 and of the
following gentlemen :

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Sept. 12. 1845.

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SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Yarborough and Adams, Lincoln's lan-fields, London
E. Garbett, Esq., Wellington, Salop.
LOCAL AGINTII.
Messrs. G. and R. Anderson, Ludlow
Thomas Weyman, Esq., Ludlow
John William Butterton, Esq., Eccleshall
Thomas Bernard Baddeley, Esq., jun., Newport
Edward Edwards, Esq., Church Stretten
Gilbert Brown, Esq., Shifts'
Charles G. Brown, Esq., Bilston, Staffordshire
Philip Octaying Jervis, Esq., Bishop's Castle
Thomas Griffiths, Esq., Clun and Bishop's Castle
Thomas Walker, Esq., Wolverhampton
T.R. Hodgson, Esq., Birmingham
William Harding, Esq., Burslem, Staffordshire Potteries
Sacirrans—George Bond, Esq.
Offices, Royal Exchange-buildings, London.

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.
Szcarraar —Thomas Hosier Saunders, Esq.
AIIBISTANT-SZCEETAIT—ChiIieII J. Whalley, Esq.
LOCAL SOLICITORS ALREADY APPOINTED.
At Devizes, Henry Gilbert, Esq.
At Troubridge and Bradford, Messrs. Stone and Rodway
At Bath, Messrs. Batehellor, Harford, and Staunton
At Bridgewater, Messrs. G. S. and J. R. Poole
At Tiverton
At Truro
At Penzance
At Falmouth
The object of this line is to effect a direct eommunlcation 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 it. position at the
western extremity of the kingdom, would undoubtedly long since
live 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-
ranta,ges, has, since the opening of the South-Western Railway, in-
creased its imports from 200,0001. to 3.000,000/. 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 Eud as an investment for ca-
pital, It was not left to the present Company to discover. The Groat
Western and Bristol and Exeter Railways 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 line of Railway intended to be constructed by this Company
will commence at or near Norton Bridge (a station of the Grand
Junction Railway), in the county of Stafford, and proceed from
thence by Eccleshall, Oftley, Norbury, Forton, Newport, Donnington
Wood, Oaken Gates, Priors Lee, Stirchley, Dawley, Madeley, and
Iron Bridge, to Coalbrook-dale; there, crossing the proposed " Wor-
cester and Crewe Railway," it will pass along the slope of Wenlock-
edge, by Rushbury and Eaton-under-Haywood, to Wistanstow, in
the county of Salop, where it will run into, and form a junction with
the " Shrewsbury, Hereford, and North Wales Railway."
The line will traverse a rich mineral district, and will have a secure
and extensive traffic by the carriage of coal from the Shropshire
coal-field, to a dep6t imposed to be formed at Wistanstow, for the
supply of South Shropshire, part of Radnorshire and Herefordshire,
and also from whence it will be conveyed by the " Hereford, Shrews-
bury, and North Wales Railway," into Montgomeryshire. and the
, neighbouring counties, where coal does not exist. It is impossible to
calculate the extent to which this traffic may be carried, as by the
direct railway communication thus opened between the Shropshire
coal-fleld, and the important manufacturing towns of Newtown
and Llanidloes, the price per ton will be reduced one-half at
those places, and the flannel manufacturers, now depend-
ing upon water power, will, by the cheapness of coal, be
enabled to employ steam, and to extend their trade in proportion to
the great demand which exists for the Welsh flannels, in preference
to any other. The importance of this subject will have its due weight
with those who so often witness the bad effects upon the trade, caused
by the stoppage of the mills from an insufficiency of water.
A considerable amount of tonnage is now incurred by the Shrop-
shire ironmastar“ or the conveyance of lime-stone from the neigh-
bourhood of Much Wenlock to the furnaces, by several transits of
land and water carriage, whereas the proposed railway will convey
it direct into the heart of the works, and at one-third of the expense.
By its junction with the " Grand Junction" and the " Hereford
and Shrewsbury" Railways, this line will form a direct communica-
tion between Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, York and Hull, and
Swansea and South Wales.
Asa junction line alone (connecting as it will such important rail-
ways), s large passenger traffic may be depended 'von, but when it
Is considered that the centre of the line passes through a densely-
populated mining district, and the remainder through a thriving
agricultural neighbourhood, it will be obvious that a sufficient local
traffic exists to pay a highly remunerative interest on the amount of
capital required to be embarked.
The line, which will not interfere with any property of an orna
mental or costly character, will not exceed 46 miles in length, and
will be constructed at much less than the average cost.
Such important local co-operation has been secured, that no oppo-
sition is anticipated or can be sustained against the measure.
The liability of the Shareholders wh'_ be limited, by the Act, to the
amount of their subscription to the capital stock ; and power will be
applied for to allow Interest at the rate of four per cent per annum
on the amount of the deposit, and upon the further calls, from the
date of each payment until the opening of the line ; and the first
deposit being paid, a further call will not be made until the Act o
Parliament shall have been obtained.

London Mr. Samuel Maury, 4, Angel-court,
•••• • • / Mr. r. Whiston Powell, Copthall-eonrt and
L
Messrs. Peppereorne, 2, Old Broad-street
trirpeol.. • • • • •• • • Messrs. Alston and Gage.
Manchester ..... S Mows. Houghland and Leese, and Xr. wil.
Mull. • • • • • • • • • Um Marshall.
• • • • Masers. Collinson and Flint.
Leeds lMessrs. Watson and Co., and
(Messrs. Smith and Perfect
Stratfbrd-on-Avon-Mr. William Bolton.
Exeter • • • • • • • • • • •• Mr. Thomas Sanford.
lymouth Messrs. Hayward and Palmer.
Birmingham • • • • • • Mr. Collis and Mr. John Wright.
Glasgow • • • • • • • • • • Messrs. Tsasie and Co.
Robertson. and Ce., and Messrs. Weal-
Edinburgit • • • • • • • • Mium"8"::130,
Huddersfield
Woroester • . ..%. -Mr. Thomas Henry Wheeler.

The object of this prospectus le to show that no other line than the
Present can ultimately satisfy the exigeneies of the country in regard
to this, its most important outport—" 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 Company, 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),
"I"t"buTT to Taunton, being shorter by about thirty-two miles than
anyt
u nenei 1
the reat
tingroor projected railways between these points, and without
thiWs ;linteerndisr)iestlfoavtehaede Latondri's
leased
to y Gm Taunton the Bristol and Exeter Railway (now
veertnodn,,rwsumhenouceth,ltsist.
proposed to carry
Ives, and Penzance, being
lately proposed line by way
otl.lbY about sixty miles than the
oath, and effecting, in the whole
distance from London to ralmouth, K' and
eaonbodutTnityleirtoetynm, itsts
already thorough
Direct
sufit-
With respect to the traffic betweellis
needless to say more than that there Is
cient to justify the construction of this
Wes-
tern ; that it will Shorten the distance from London to recTitv:Trloeet;
&boa; 3? 11 ii . • , , • rse rich awl populottS agricultural

FORK OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
Tu tho Provisional Committee of the Worcester and Cheater
Railway.
oantlemse,—l request that you will allot to me Shares of
201. each in this Company, and I undertaXe t 6 aceept the same, an
to pay the depoolt thereon, or upon any less number that may be al.
lotted to me ;
_SW I undertake also to execute the Parliamentary
Contract and aliburibers' Agreement when required.
• Name (in Pall) .....
Residence .
Trade or ProPossioa
• ••
Sethrenoo.. • • • • • • • . • • • ....... •• •••• e . • •
Addren of Relive.

Maps of the line, prospectuses, &e., are to be obta..'ned from the
Secretary, the solicitors, the local agents, also the brokers, Messrs.
Mievills and Co., ♦ngel-court, Throgmorton-street, London ; Meagre.
Cameron, Cazenove, and Taunton, Liverpool ; Messrs. Green and Old-
ham, Manchester; Nathaniel Lea, Esq., Birmingham ; Messrs. %Imes
and Tripp, Bristol ; Messrs. Turley and Cooper, Leeds ; J. Senior, Xsq.
Sheffield ; Messrs. Brady and Staniforth, Hull ; to whom applications
for Shares (which must be on printed forms) may e addressed ; and
if will be necessary that refererrea be toads to a banker suUCttor, or
person Of responsibility.

ste• . ~ ,;-:lrr, :11.;

Powers will be taken in the Aet of Parliament to allow interest at
• our pounds per centum per annum fin 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 theSecretacy.
London, September-11, 1845.

FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Direct Western Railway
Company.
Gentlemen,—l request yott:will allot me shares of 25/, each
in the above Company, and I undertake to pay the deposit of 21. Ms.
per skare thereon, or on any less number you may appropriate to me,
and to execute the Subscribers• Agreement and rarliamentary Con-
tract When required.
Dated

•
Capital, 00,00014 hi flO3OOO SitafeS of Oa each,
DePoill, it, 24,
Re subscriber to be liable beyond the amount of his subscription, libel
no call to be made until the Actds obtained.
PROV/SIONAL COMMITTEE..
The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Combermere
The Right Hon. Lord Thomas Pelham Clinton
Thejtight lion, G. R. Dawson •
The Hon. Cecil Lawless
Sir Arthttr De Capel.Broke, Bart.
Thotna4 North, Esq., Mayor of Nottingham
Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Esq., Beesthorpe-hall, Notti.
Fred. Ricketts, Dig, London, Director of the Great Western
Hallway:
J. C. Williams, Esq.. Nottingham, Director of the Boston, Sheffield,
and Newark ttailwtky.
William Hannay, Esq. Nottingham Directors of the Ambergate,
George Bacon, Esq., Esq.,
Nottingham, and Boston
Fras. Braithwaithe, Esq., Nottingham, Railways
Thomas Wakefield, Esq., Nottingham, IDirectors of the Notting-
David Wheatcrott, Esq., Nottingham. ham and Gainsborough
William Boden, Esq., Nottingham, Railway
Thomas Close, Esq., Nottingham
William Welkin, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Nottingham,
Mansfield, and Midlands Junction Railway
J. Enthoren, Esq., London
P. Barlow, Esq., London, Director of the Great Western Railway
Thomas Adams, Esq., Nottingham
Francis Parker, Esq., Manchester, Director of the London and York
Railway
William Watson, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Exeter Railway
Archibald W. Paull, Esq., London, Director of the South Wales Rail-

Xame in full .. • •
Residence.. • • • • • •
Trade or Profession ... • .........
Place of Business (if any) .. • •
Reference......., • • . .
Signature...—. • • • • • ... . . .......

11HE CHESTER AND MANCHESTER
DIRECT RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that the Parliamentary Contract and Sub-
scriberi• Agreement are now lying for execution at the Company's
Office, No: 1, Royal Exchange Bindings, Loudon, between the hours
of Ten and Fire o'clock in the day, when, upon signature of the deed,
the Banker's Receipt will be exchanged for Scrip.
By order, A. BARRETT. Secretary.

QHROPSHIRE MINERAL RAILWAY,
vy forming,: in conjunction with other existing and projected
lines, a direct communication between Liverpool, Manchester, Shef-
field, York, and Hull, and Swansea and South Wales.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 700,0001., in 36,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 31. 2s. per Share.
(The Deposit is in accordance with the Standing Order of the House
of Commons.)
slovisiottEL COMMITTER.
Adams, Mr. Sergeant, Stanhope-place, Hyde-park
Baddeley, Thomas Bernard, Esq., Newport, Salop
Barker, Joseph, Esq., Macclesfield
Batson, James, Esq., Ironmaster, Great Bridge, Staffordshire Di-
rector of the South Stanbrdshire Railway
Beddoes, Thomas, Eaq,, Cheney Longueville, near Church Stratton
Flemish, Captain, Kensington-square
Blanford. Wm., Req., Chairman of the Thames Plate Glass Company
Req.; Merchant, Tatbury, Suffolk
,Bull, Joseph, Esq., Snedshill Don Works, Shropshire and Manchester
`Bitrroughs, Captain, Duties-street, Berkeley-square
Clarke, Jeremiah, Req., Macclesfield and London, Director of the
Direct London and Manchester Railway
Clemson, John, Esq., Red Bank, Manchester
,Cochrane, T. Esq., Ironmaster, Woodside Works, Wolverhampton
'Cox, George, Esq., Wolverhampton
"Davies,
-Captain, 13rynglass. Montgomeryshire
Davies, Thomas, Big., Ironmaster, Goldshill, near Ironwoods
Deakin, Addison, Esq., Eccleshall
Downes, Thomas R. C., Esq., Munslow, near Ludlow
Edwards, Edward, Esq.. Iron-bridge, Shropshire
Evans, Thomag, Esq., Clun, Shropshire
Ewbank, Captain, Junior United Service Club
Eyke, William, Esq., Stanton, Shiffnall, ghropehlre
Firmstone, John Parsons, Esq., Ire-master, Highfields Works, Bib
• ston, Director of the South Stallerdshire, Worcester, and *Aram!.
bury Junction
Fisher, James Esq,, tratmaster, Bilston, Staffordshire
FOurdrettler,' ebret 11.. Esq., Hanley. Staffordshire Potteries
George, Winton, Esq., Weston, near Much Wenlock
GriMths, Samuel, Esq.. Wolverhampton
Gregory, T. Esq., Ironmaster Wetithremwich, Staffordshire
Hall, Joseph, Esq., Ironrnast4,lllonmfield, Tipton, Staffordshire
Hodgson, Lieutenant-ColOngl, Stadholme, Welbeck-Street, Caven-
Ash-square
:Holcombe, Charles T., Esq., Valentines, /Mord, Essex, Director of
the Anglo-Belgian Railway
' Humphreys, William, Esq., the Rectory, Berriew, Welsh Pool, Mont-
gomeryshire
Humphreys, John, Ens, iterriew, Welsh Pool, Montgomeryshire
litimphreys, Re*: Thos., Bishop's Castle
Jones, Robert, Req., Stretford, near Church Stretton
L:nibert, Rithard, Esq., Lyston Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk •
taw,
William, Esq., Woburn-place, Russell-square
ester, Rev. Charles. J.P., Whitton Hall, Salop
Loveridge, Henry, Esq.. Wolverhampton
Luckock, the Rev. T. 0. M., Parsonage, Great Birr, Staffordshire
Marston, Francis, Esq., J.P., Aston, llopesay, Salop
Miller, Anabroso, Esq., Lower Thames-street, Director of the Oxford,
Wither, and Cheltenham Railway
Millington, William, Esq., Ironmaster, Sammerhill Works, Tipton,
Staffordshire
Minton, John, Esq.. Chltbury North, Shropshire
Newcombe, Esq., Upper Gloucester-place, and Langley-fields
Ironworks, Dawley, Salop
Plowden, William, Esq., Plowden-hall, near Bishop's Castle, and
Rotherwas, near. Hereford, J.P., Shropshire
Potter, William Stinson, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, and
Lower Thames-street, Director of the Oxford, Witney, and Chel-
tenham, and of the South and Midlands Junction Railways •
Price, Francis Lysons, Esq., William-street, Blackfriars, Director of
the Chartered Gas Light and Coke Company
Pultenity, Captain Douglas Kinnaird, Parliament-street, Director of
the Direct Landon and Manchester Railway
Ridge, Joseph Charles, Esq., merchant, Manchester
RIEE. Charles M., Esq., York-place, Portman-square •
Riley,-W. T.' Esq., Ironmaster, Millfield Works, Bilston, Director of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Byton .William, Esq., Wolverhampton
Shayr, W iarn, Esq,„ Sanitgi 'neDir%torkf the Ring Forme Fire
Le* Comisany ; .Dir*.tor'of th 6 "London an Rir-
• minghim ExtinsiOn, said-garstrwick-antrWbfeeirlillitilways ,
Simms, William,. Cul.,.Snedshili Ironworks, Shiffnal •
Silvester and Jackson, 34iiirs.-Irpninyiters, West. Bronxtvich Sladeethe Prerhamplon
Smalman, John, Esq., J.P.,, Quatford gsi , rid
tio,pgnarth, Dliector
of the Worcester and Crewe Railway - - •
Spicer, Charles W., Esq Portniargatitilire;Difectiir of the Arifiagh,
Coleraine, and , Portrusiii and. Grand,London and Dublin Apbroxi--
_ mation Railways': • • • • •
Stead, James, BSq.,-Bradford, Yorkstdie, Provisional Director of the
LiverPosilthdteedi Railway
Summers, Thomas, Esq., Much Wenlock
Swift, Henry, Esq., Eccieshall and Wootton
Swift, Gegrge, Esq., Elford-hill, Eccieshall
Thacker, Robert, Esq., Wolverhampton
Tildesley, James, Bath, Merchant, Willenhall, Staffordshire
Tudor, Samuel, Rsq:, Upper Thames-street, and Hull, Direeter ol
• the Derby, Stafford, and Ifttoxeter Railway •
Turner, Henry, Esq., lirewood Hall, Staffordshire
Underhill, George Lees, Esq., Ironmaster, Wolverhampton
Wainwright, Richard, Esq. Stanway Court, Church Stretton
Webster, Frank D. Bullock, Esq., Director of the Ifew River Com-
• pony, Brentbridge House, Hendon, Middlesex
Wells, Thos., Esq., Irontnaster, Morley Steel Works
Wernan, Thomas, Esq , Purelow Hall, near Clun, Shropshire
Williams, Messrs. James and Co., Iromnasters, Whittington Iron
Works, near Stourbridge
Wilson, Lient.-General Sir John, K.C.8., Bolton-street, Piccadilly
and Lianrylln, Montgomeryshire •
Wood, Peter, Esq., merchant, Manchester
Wood, William, Esq.,•Chetwynd House, Newport, Salop, Director of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway
Wolryche, Stephen, Esq., J.P., Quatford Villa, near Bridgnortb.
Salop (With power to add to their lumber.)
JUNIORS.
Messrs. Jones, Loyd and Co., Lothbury,
Messri. Cockburns and Co., 4, Whitehall,/ London
Messrs. Adams, Warren, and Co., Shrewsbury and Market Drayton
The Bilston District Banking Company, Wolverhamptoa
The Shropshire Basking Company, and its Branches.
ENcitrzza IN Cmurs—Samuel Clegg, Esq., C.B.
ACTING EN*lNllPM—Francis Briscoe, Esq,

EAST AND WEST OF ENGLAND JUNC-
.. TioN RAILWAY,
FROM NORTHAMPTON TO CHELTENHAM.
Broad Gauge.
The deeds of this Company will lie for signature meth day, at the
offices, 35, Charing-cross; during this week, except Wednesday
n-xt, the 17th instant, when the deeds will lie at Mr. Bethel's offices,
78, King William-street London-bridge, between the hours of
Eleven and Four o'clock.
By order, _

ROBERT IVATKI:SS,jun., Secretary,
35, Charing-um, Sept. 15, 1845.

NOTTINGIIAM, MIDLANDS, AND TEAN
AND bovr. VALLEY UNION RAILWAY.
Provisionally Registered.
This Railway is intended to carry on the Eastern Branch of the
proposed Tean and Dove Valley Railway from a p Int on the Mid-
lands Railway, at or near to Findern, in the County of Derby, to
another point on the Midlands Railway, at or near to Sawley, in the
seine county. The Line will not exceed Ten Miles in length, and
will, with the aid of the Midlands, and Tean and Dove Valley Rail-
ways, afford a more directcommunication bstween Nottingham and
the Eastern Counties, and the Staffordshire Potteries, Chester, Liver-
pool; Birkenhead, and Ireland, than any Line either existing or pro-
jected.
A ProspectUS, with arList of the •
Provisional Committee, will be
published in a few days.
J. and J. RICHARDSON, Burtomon•Tront,l Solicitors to the
G. H. R. COX; Derby. j Promoters.
Burton-on-Trent, Sept, tb, 11146.

. , , --
way
William Morgan, Esq., Director of the Bristc.l and Gloucester Rail-
Way
James Beech, Esq., Brandon Lodge, Warwickshire, Director of the
gbUth Midland Railway
WM. Watson Prole, Esq.,l Directors of the Great Manchester,
Robert Chapman, Esq., Rugby, and Southampton Railway
Anthony Dickson, Esq,, Edrington House, Berwickshire.

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COVENTRY, NUNEATON, BIRMINGHAM)
AND LEICESTER RAILWAY.
nt,otatoL)
Capital, 840,0004 tit shares of 251. each.
This Railway wilt tolititet Ltleeeter, Birmingham, and Coventry,
by the near t practicable route; and. was. provisionally reglittettil
eii
and ritPlUi subscribed long before any ether ratted!' Wad Prtijeeted
thr.sUpplying risilivaraceornmodatintt W the district.
COMPAIZATIVI4 ~,MILL O DISTANCES.
Present Proposed Distance
distance. distance, steed.
Leloestot lii itirminghtun- - •• • • 37 \SS, k..• 12
Leicester to Coventry .... • • 31 24
This line will commence at or neat the Wigston station
of the Midland Counties Railway, will pass by or near
the manufacturing localltine of Narborough, Sapeote, Earl
Shilton, Burbage, anti :Hinckley, through a district moat nwourable
for engineering purposes, to .ajunction with the Trent Valley at Min-
eatons thence it continues Hearty duswest to the Whitacre station of
the filrmingliam and Derbyllailway, and south-rrect by Bedworth
to the Coventry station of the London and Birmingham Company,
The line will oommunicate ,wlth the SWallaington Railway either by
means of the proposed Broughton Astley branch of the Midlands, or
of a separate branch to be formed by this Company ; thereby opening
the entire of the Leicestershire coal-field to the counties sestivelist
ef Leleester.
The Directors, for the last few months, having Used their best
exertions for the interests of the Company, feel it their duty, now
that the itirveys, plans, and other arrangements are so far advanced,
to acquaint their shereholdere with the position and prospects of the
undertaking.
The Coventry, Bedworth, and Nuneaton line. which reeelVed the
favourable report of the Board of Trade, and was beibre Parliament
last session, forms part of the present prtjeited plan for connecting
Leicester, Coventry, and gtrmingh 1,
The Directors have by pefseltal 111Spection, accompanied by their
engineer, satisfied thennitiVes of the remarkable facilities presented
by the Mallet tot o..iteliting the greater part of the lint' I Mid from
cereal InVetoligation the Directors havethe pleAstiteif informing the
shareholders that this undertaking Atitihd kit to prove a profitable
investment if supported by toosii thtilic only, and with the certainty
that a through traffic front the eiintern and western lines, combined
with the great MUM:Agee afforded by the junction with the Trent
Valley list the transit of goods to and from Liverpool, Scotland, Ire-
lanft; anti the United States, its importance cannot be over estimated.
Prom, the' extent of po_pitlition Aeddinmodated by this railway
—from the convenience afforded to the trade and manufactures of
the Midland Counties'-front • the vast mineral resources of the dis-
tricts travertted, and from its position in regard to other important, established, tul.projected railways, the Directors feel confident that ,It will be amply remunerative to the Shareholder, and highly advert- ' tageous to the public. •
The capital has been subscribed, and the Parliamentary deeds have
been executed, and the preliminary survey completed.
A list of a new and highly influential local dlrectien, and a nap of
the line, will be published Ina few days.
By order, 11, CASSIN, Secretary pro tern.
Oakes, 3, Church-court, Old Jewry, London, Sept. 10, 1845.

CENTRAL KENT COUNTY RAILWAY,
Difeet line from Londoi, through Maidstone to Folkestone and
Doter,

COMiaitt'rka oP MANAGEMENT.
ilitAttlEti ELLIS IMISTOWE, Esq., Chairman
P. P. Barlow, Esq. Archibald F. Paull, Esq.
Lord Thomas Pelham Clinton F. Ricketts, Esq.
ir Morgan; Moil. W. Watson, Esq.
R. Yr. PrOle, Etl4.

(Registered Provisionally.)
-Capital, 1,500,0064 in 60,000 Shares of 251, each.)
aSponit si, Ws, Per Share, as required by the Standing Orders of
Parliament.)
The following Noblemen and Gentle Men, principal proprietors o
estates en and near to the proposed line of railway; have autho.
rifled- the announcement of their names as approving of and sup-
porting the measure :
The Most Noble the Marquis Camden
The Itightflon. the Earl of Jersey
-The Right Hon. the Earl of Romney
Sir Edmund Filmer, Bart., M.P. for West Kent
Charles Wykeham Martin, Isq., M.P., Leeds Castle
James Stoddart Dongiste, Esq.. M.P , Chllston Park, Lenham
Edward Darell, Esq., CalehilL Charing
Wtn. Wriothesley Turner Baldwin, Esq., Stede-hill, Harrieteham
Charles Milner, Esq., Preston Hall, Ayiesford
John Alfred Wigan,'Esq., Clare House, East Mailing
Rev. Samuel Wyatt Cobb, rector of Ightham
Captain Randolph, R.N., Great Comp, Wroth=
Richard Thomas, Esq., Eyehorn House, Moilingbourne
Edward Austen Taylor, Esq., Maidstone:
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
James. Stoddart Douglas, Esq., M.P., Chilston Park, Lenham
George Dodd, Esq., M.P., Grosvenor-place, London
John Humphrey, Esq., M.P., Alderman of London
Henry Shovell Marsham, Esq., Captain R.N., Heyle-place,
. Maidstone, J.P. for Kent
W jm.p.
for, Turner Baldwin, Esq., Stede-hill, Ilarrietshiun,
Edwin Stacey, Esq., Mayor of Maidstone
Colonel Middleton, commanding Cavalry Depot, Maidstone .
John Hollingworth, Esq„ Turkey Mills, Maidstone, director of the
Kent Fire and Life Assurance Company
John Mercer, Esq., Maidstone, treasurer of the county of Kent, and
director of the Kent Fire and Life Assurance Company
Richard Thomas, Esq., Eyhorne House, Hollingbourne
John Twells, Esq., Gracechurch-street, banker
Charles Hopkinson, Esq., Regent-street, banker
Getirge Prentis, Esq., Maidstone, and the Warren, IghthaM
Henry Godden, Esq., Maidstone
Robert Tassel!, Esq„ East Mailing, director of the Kent Fire and
Life Assurance Company
Cornelius Butler, Esq., Ingatestone, Essex, director of the Eastern
' Counties Railway.
Thomas Chitty, Esq., 8, Upper Gower-street, director of the Leices-
ter and Birmingham Railway
Charles Robert Colman, Esq., Irongate-wharf, St. Katherine's, di-
rector of the South Midland and South Union, Manchester, and-
Potteries Railways
William Richardson, Esq., 6, Charlotte-street, Bedford-square, De-
puty-Chairman of the Wexford and Valentia Railway
John Knill, Esq., London Bridge-iyhi* ;.ircetl.4*-9f Worcester
and e,opth, Jllattiolgiailitily ks A e
John Atitinatttl Bolger,itsq.7l3rahtert,
Thomas Nulau-Qieddisivr--Esq7,---Beividere-rOak 1t5P3b14), Awl , unga..A.hpe
Kent, - •
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f
William White, Esq., Cheapside; kheath
• Henry Allnutt, Esq.; Ivy Mills, Maidstone
Natter dialer Ksq.,--MnidstOne • '" 3
Rev. Samuel. Wyatt Cobb, Rector of Iglithaus, J.P. fot'Kent
(With. poiver to add to tibeititutubar4 '
aKscllja
George Dodemsck, _
.t. -A. Bolger, Esq.
-John Twells, . R. Colman, Esq.
Charles Hopkinson, Esq, William Richardson, Dig
Thomas Chitty, Esq. • John KWH, Esq.
William White, Esq.
Captain Marsham, R.N. C. Butler, Esq,
Henry Goddert, Esq, Robert Tassel], Esq.
John Mercer, Esq. George Prentis, Esq.
CONSULTING ENGlNna—John Braithwaite, Esq.
ENGINgza—X, W. Bazalgette, Esq.
BANKEits.
, Messrs. Spooner, Attwood, and Co., Gracechurch-street, London
Messrs. Charles Hopv.nson and Co., Regent-street
Messrs. Mercer, Randall, and Mercer, Maidstone.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Wilcies and Son, Maidstone
Messrs.emp
pi, and Winckworth, St. Swithin's-lane, London
rrsitT---Gritham Simson, Esq.
set's. Beadel and Foulkes, Graham-street.
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*Coleman-street-buildings, Moorgate-stree
oz
a Pearce, ezaoTr offices,
e Phillips,
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No. ileilsei

soLteitOlS.
Messrs. Edwards, Mason, and Edwards, 8, Moorgate-street, and 8,
Delahay4treet, Wetitttlituiter,
The proposed railway IS intended td ettliffiellee Oft the Trent
:Valley Railway near Stafford, and proceed thence in tin easterly di-
rection, to_ pass through, or near to, Tiall, Haywootown of Burtond, ColWielt, 'and
ithbott't Brottiley, tO the rapidly.itierxeasing -upoil,
.Trent, where it will rttn into the Birmingham and Derby Railway,
forming the shortest and belt practicable tette froM Staffordshhe to
Derby: Ltavintthe tilfiflitiglieffi and Derr it ItailifitY at Berton-
tipon-Trent, it Will 'lofted along the valley untie 't rent by !lepton;
Swarkestone, and Shah:llov, to the Midland Counties Railway At the
point where that failway forma ajUnction with the Derby and Not,
thigham Rail Way i and thUs, by Means of these and other railways
in pitigrellS, ittftlia tioniplete line Of riiiitlestY etnintinnicatlon between
the central towns of Stafford, Derby, Nottingham, LitiCoin, Deters-
ter, Peterborough, and Boston, on the east, and Shrewsbury, Chet.
ter, and Holyhead, North Wales, and Ireland, on the west.
This railway will, therefore, form the only connecting link re-
quired in the great chain of railway communication from east and
west through the heart of the kingdom, uniting the shores of the
German Ocean on the east with those of the Irish Sea on the west,
and traversing in its course the rich agrtcultural districts of the
eastern midland, and western counties, and accommodating the im-
portant manufacturing towns of Stafford, Derby, Nottingham, Lei- .
center, and Shrovsbury. But another most important advantage ,
that will result from the formation of this line will consist in the
fad or its affording, in connexion with the proposed South Union, or
Manchester and Potteries Railway, by far the shortest and best
route between Derby, Nottingham, Newark, Lincoln, Peterborough,
Leicester, and Loughborough, and the extensive and populous dis-
tricts of the Staffordshire Potteries, Macclesfield, Stockport, and
Manchester. By the proposed line the distance between Nottingham
and Derby and Manchester will be at least from 15 to 20 miles less
than by the present circuitous route by Sheffield.
The traffic on this line must necessarily be equal, if not superior,
to that of any line in the district.

The length-of the line v;illVabout 33 miles, through a countr;
presenting no difficulties of more than an ordinary kind for Its con
struction.

The capital proposed to be raised is 600,0001., in shares of 201.
each, upon which a deposit of 21. 2s. per share must be paid upon the
allotment. No call will be made until the Act is obtained, and no
subscriber will be liable beyond the amount of his deposit until the
Act is obtained, and then not beyond the amount of his subscription ;
and the usual power will be taken to allow interest at four per cent.
from the time of payment upon each call until the opening of the
line.

The subscribers' agreement and the Parliamentary contract must
be executed when the bankers' receipts are exchanged for scrip cer-
tificates, of which 14 days' notice will be given ; and the deposits
Paid by any party making default in the execution of those deeds will
be forfeited.

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Applications for Shares may be made to the solicitors.

JAMAICA, SOUTHERN, EASTERN, AND
NORTHERN RAILWAY, FROM KINGSTON TO MON-
TEGO BAY.

()Mee, No. 43, Moorgate-street.
Capital 1,500,0001.0 n 30,000 Shares of 501. each.
Deposit 21. per Share.
A Reservation of Shares.for the Proprietary, and others interested in
the Island.
PROYINONAL COMMITTIE.
Major-Gen. Sir Love Parry, K.C.B. Madryn Park, Caernarronshire
Sir John Key, Bart, Alderman of London, King's Arms-yard
Sir John J. Hansler, Bart., F.R.S., Upper Bedford-place
Sir George Rich, Bart., 43, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square
P. S. Butler, Esq., M.P., Queen-square, Westminster
Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of London
Major Adair, U.S. Club, Pall-mall, - Director of the Church of Eng-
land Insurance Company
Joseph Bishop, Esq., Director of the Blackwell Railway
John Mint, Esq,.,,Upper Bedford-place. Director of the London Docks
Charles Collins, 'Esq., Caldwell Hall, Worcestershire
Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Copthall-court, Director of the Commercial
Bank, London
Captain Edwards, Baker-street, Portman-square
Thomas Edwards, Esq., Bethel-place, Camberwell
Lieutenant-Colonel Gillies, Cambridge-terrace
F. W. Hamilton, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square
Klein Grant, M.D., 73, St. James's-street, Pall-mall
D. J. Hoare, Esq., Percy-street, Bedford-square
D. T. Johnson, Esq. Aldennary Churchyard, Director of the London
and Manchester Esq.,
Francis John Lambert, Esq., 6, Kensington Gardens-terrace
Francis Lloyd, Esq., 10, Crown Onlce-row, Temple
James Macmillan, Est., Southampton, Director of the Southampton,
Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railway
Thomas Newte, Esq., Harley-street, Director of the Barbadoes Rail-
'Stay
James Reeves, Esq., Cheapoide and Leyton, Director of the Loudon
• -and Manchester Direct Railway
Edward Scard, Esq., Kew, Director of the Toronto and Lake Huron
.." Railway
B. M. Senior, Esq., Compton Lodge, Jamaica, Magistrate of St.
Elizabeth's
J. G. Senior, Esq., Leonard-place, Kensington, and Jamaica
Algernon W. B. Greville, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park, Di-
rector of the Barbadoes, and Great Eastern and Western Railways
•W. C. Beare, Esq.' Porchester-place, Director of the Worcester,
Shrewsbury, and Crowe Railway
William Fitzgibbon, Esq., Director of the Cork and Bandon, and
Cork and Kilkenny Railways _ ... .-.. r.,--.,. -I-
Za ir t ro' the N tli‘
-Jotter-fornig KeMe, Et., St. tiori-w_v_.., j). ec Q, , la. al
Alt* ontelaud' .„7 , . , • '-'
W.llliain King-,-Esq., Waterloo-place, Director of the`Fieeinasons' Ili- '
suyanqe ConApany,. ~ .i.- .. . • ,- • 1
%H en Crbnier Esq.,Limerstrolt, and Barnes, Surrey' z• ',, •
":Jbtiri t*tilith Frith, Esq..; A:tiAtip,p;iars !,. . , ~ t : ,1 ~
VharTAS Bletdeif; Eek., ActPaide-Place, Iyondon,bridge, and Coalsden
' • Court, Surrey, Chairnian of the Licensed 'Victuallers' General: -
Fire and Life•Assurance:conpanY,. , "..:.,... ' •
E'''., ;, 1 `,,97ltikpawg.c,tpokao. idtheir number:),
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ROINERRS—WPRID Ortkvatt. ,Esq.,iF..RA: ; xiernes•Pilbro*, ksq.,
.E.; Frederick Braithwaite, Esq., M.I.C.E.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street.
Barnum—Sir Claude Scott, Bart., and Co., 1, Cavendish-square;
Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., 29, Clement's-lane. •

The great difficulty, delay, and expense attending the trausit of
passengers and goods from Kingston to Montego Bay and the inter-
mediate ports, either by sea or land, is well known to all persons
conversant with the islan 1 of Jamaica.
The average passage by steamer between Montego Bay and King-
ston, occupies forty-four hours ; and the costs, including expenses on
the route, amount to nearly 51. each passenger, while the quickest
journey by land occupies three days, and the expenses, including
horse hire, reach nearly 201. By the railway the whole line will be
traversed in eight hours, at an expense not exceeding an average of
308. per passenger.
The difference in the freights between the northern and souther;
sides of the island and England is such, that independently of tilt
saving of time, this railway will enable proprietors on the northers
side, after payment of the costs of transit, to ship their produce at
much lees expense than at present, and will afford them the advan-
tage of shipping at all times from the very exce:lent harbour of King-
ston, instead of being confined, as they now are, to the exposed ports
of the east and north of the island.
The line will commence at a spacious quay, to be constructed at
Kingston Harbour, with a depth of water sufficient for vessels of the
largest tonnage employed in the export trade of the Island ; at or
near to which point it is proposed to form a junction with the King-
ston and Spanish Town hallway, and proceed thence by or near Rock
Fort, Yallahs, Morant Town, Port Morant, Plantain Garden, Man-
chioneal Harbour, Port Antonio, Buff Bay, Anotto Bay, Port Maria,
St. Ann's, Duncan, Martha Brae, and terminate at or near Montego
Bay. By these means a line of intercommunication will be formed
between the most important and populous places, and facility offered
for carriage of the produce of the most prodactive portion of the
island.
Through thstsouthern portion of the line, the physical features are
gentle elevations, almost parallel to the principal range of moun-
tains, which run east and west, nearly the length of the island ; the
eastern portion, from Port Morant to Plantain Garden, is almost
level ; while the northern runs through an exceedingly rich country,
rising into hills separate from each other by spacious vales. The
whole of the country traversed by the line abounds in the staple ar-
ticles of sugar, coffee, rum, molasses, ginger, pimento, and other
spices, dye wood, drugs, &c.; and as more than one-third of the
land is still .uncultivated, the production of these articles will, by
the increased facility for traffic, be greatly increased ; and cotton,
indigo, cocoa, &c., and dry stuffs, at present unimported, will again
be brought into extensive cultivation. Timber of great variety
abounds along the line ; besides the pimento tree, which flourishes
spontaneously, there are mahogany, lignum vital, ebony, Spanish
elm, fine cedar, and other trees of enormous bulk. The line will
also bring largely Into use the valuable palmetto, and various other
woods for agricultural and household purposes, and cabinet works.
The mineral wealth of the country on the line is very considerable ;
lead ore is extremely rich and heavily impregnated with silver ;
whilst every variety of copper ore is found in abundance. Carbonate
of lime, valuable as manure, &c., of which Long Mountain is com-
posed, will form a considerable item in the tables of traffic.
The peculiarly favourable circumstances attending the construction
of this Railway render it highly probable that a considerable portion
of the capital demanded will not • be required, as every material*
necessary for its formation is to be found on the line, and should the
atmospheric principle of propulsion be adopted, the necessity for cut-
tings and embankments will be generally superseded.
A gratuitous grant of the unappropriated land required for the line,
and the free use of all the timber, stone, &c., necessary for its con-
struction, will, it is expected, be ceded by the Legislative Assembly ;
—the mineral wealth, which may be developed by the construction
of the line, will accompany the grants of the land, and may be leased
to capitalists for the benefit of the Shareholders.
Of the various imports, and the internal traffic, a satisfactory esti-
mate can scarcely be given—it will be stifficient to state, that Coals,
Fish, Lime and Salt, empty Puncheons, Shingles, Bricks, Hoops,
Lead, Timber, Provisions, Cattle, Flour, Tobacco, Hardwares, and
Manufactures generally, form important sources of profit.
The working expenses of the railway will require but a moderate
per tentage, and from all the circumstances already stated, and care-
ful inquiries into the traffic, there can be no doubt that this line of
railway will yield a very remunerative return upon the capital re-
quired, and the speedy communication established between the
island and Great Britain, by means of the Royal Mail Steam Packet
Company, will :enable the Directors in this country to exercise an
efficient control over the management of the affairs of the island.
The Committee propose to make provision in the Local Act for the
payment of 4% per cent. interest upon the amount paid upon the
shares from the passing of the Bill until the opening of the line.
Applications for shares in the usual form may be made to the
Provisional Committee, at the offices of the Company, 43,
Moorgate-street ; to Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, solicitors,
47, Moorgate-street, London ; and the following Sharebrokers :
Mr. S. H. Ellis, 17, Throgmorton-street ; Messrs. Preece and Evans,
39; Lothbury; Mr. D. B. Major, 27, 'Change-alley, London;
Messrs. Schroeder and Ashlin, Mr. W. A. Brown, and Messrs.
Alston and Gage, Liverpool ; Mr. John Clegg, and Messrs. Green and
Oldham, Manchester; Messrs. R. B. Watson and Co., Leeds; Messrs.
Tate and Nash, Bristol ; Mr. Wm. Miles, Worcester ; Mr. F. Stamp,
Hull; Mr. James Pearson, Birmingham; Mr. Samuel Hutchinson,
Bradford ; Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and Co., and Mr. William Lee,
Cheltenham; Messrs. Eyre and Shaw, Derby; Mr. Thomas F. Dick-
enson, Newcastle-on-Tyne; Mr. F. C. Spenser, Halifax ; Messrs.
Thomas May and Co., Exeter ; Mr. Joseph Clark, jun., Southampton ;
Mr. Samuel Clerk, Edinburgh; Mr: Wm. Gordon, Aberdeen; Messrs.
Black' and Lorimer, Glasgow ; Mr. Percy Bolger, Garden-street,
Dublin ; and Mr. C. Forster, Cork ; and of whom prospectuses may
be had.
To rho Provisional Committee of the Jamaica Southern, Eastern,
and Northern Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me shares of
50ereech in this undertaking, and I engage to pay the deposit of 21.
per share upon the number allotted to me, and to sign such deeds as
may be necessary, in furtherance thereof, when required.—l am,
Gentlemen, your obedient servant.,
Name in full • • • • • • • • •
Trade or Proft • •
eefon ....................
Boaidenee• •
Place of business (if any)
iteterenee. ....... „
* Wood is prepe.re4 ilearliy as ;lard as inn, MA in Ulat climate is
more dtirable.

This Company has been formed for the purpose of constructing a
railwiy from London to Maidstone, and from thence to Ashtbrd,
joining there the South-Eastern Railway to Folkestone, Dover, and
Canterbury, and a branch railway from Ightham, near Seveneaks, to
Tunbridge.
The main line Is intended to commence by a junction with the
near New Cross, passing through
'erica through Otford, near Sevenoaks,
Mailing', and Ditton, to the town of
• no• Ecmwimpatatyhl station there near Week-street, in
Maidstone;iLtgeohwn Ightham,
oah:
nTdt
oohwCiatn3ymigda
wol
aenyn Railway,
front of the Sesslons-house and county gaol, from thence posing
through Hollingbourne, Harrietsham, Lenham, and Charing, to
Ashford.
The line to Tunbridge will branch from Ightham, and take the
course of the valley by West Peckham and Hadlow to Tunbridge,
communicating with the South-Eastern Railway from Tunbridge to
Tunbridge Welle.
The whole length of the lines to be constructed will be sigtiaiCour
miles.

The country has been carefully surveyed, and, with the exception
of a tunnel through the Chalk-hill, near Otford, the works are not
of an expensive character, and the lines are free from curves or gra-
dients of an objectionable nature.
The line will be laid down so as to be adapted to the locomotive or
atmospheric principle, which ever mode of propulsion it may ulti-
mately be found most advisable to adopt.
By reference to the map of Kent it will be perceived that the lines
of the proposed railway are those indicated by the natural features
of the country ; that such railways are calculated to effect in the
most advantageous manner the great ()bled); of direct " through"
communication between London and/Folkestone and Dover, and be-
tween London and Tunbridge and Tunbridge Wells, taking the nearest
practicable line to Bromley, Sevenoaks, Maidstone, Lenham, and
Ashford, and by a comparatively trifling expense in forming a short
branch from We.stwell, to join the present railway from Ashford to
Canterbury, at Wye, placing the city of Canterbury, and the whole
of the district communicating with that city, within a few miles in
distance and a few minutes in time as near to London as could be
effected by the outlay of a vast sum in the construction of a separate
railway to Canterbury, affording also the means of railway commu-
nication between Canterbury and Maidstone (the county towns of
East and West Kent), and the other principal towns, and generally
throughout the coanty.
In further explanation of the merits of the proposed lines, It may
be noticed that Maidstone, the county town of Kent, is situate in
the centre of the county, on the river Medway, contains the county
gaol, courts of justice, cavalry depot, and various other public esta-
blishments ; that the assizes and sessions are held at Maidstone, and
that the county business generally is there conducted ; that by means
of the central situation of Maidstone, and the advantages of the navi-
gation of the river, a very large wholesale business is carried on
there ; that the town and immediate vicinity contain numerous and
extensive paper manufactories, mills, breweries, iron fouuderies, and
other works, and that the district surrounding Maidstone comprises
the most extensive hop and fruit plantations in Kent.
The necessity for the construction of new lines of railway for the
purpose of reducing the distance between London and Folkestone
and Dover, and between London and Maidstbne, has been fully
admitted ; and the want of railway communication between Bromley,
Sevenoaks, Wrotham, and other principal places in the centre of the
county, not only with London, but with the city of Canterbury and
Maidstone, has been of serious injury to a very large portion of the
county. And it has been thought most advisable for the interests of
the county and the public, that a: measure of such local as
as well as general importance should be undertaken by a Company
formed for the express purpose of carrying out the project ; uninflu-
enced by any conflicting interests, and connected with, and as far as
practicable identified with, the county. It has also been considered
advisable that this measure should be supported entirely upon its owh
merits, without attempting to engross the traffic of the northern side
of the county, or to oppose the gonstruction of any railways which
that portion of the county may consider necessary for their accom-
modation. Under this impression, several gentlemen, resident in and
near Maidstone, have, with the general sanction and support of the
landed proprietora interested in the measure, and of the inhabitants
of Maidstone, united with an influential body of capitalists in the
formation of this Company, with the full intention of carrying out
the project as a measure for the benefit of the county'and the public,
feeling confident that the very great traffic which this railway must
necessarily command will enable the proprietors to provide every
accommodation the public can require at a very moderate charge,
and will also afford a very liberal remuneration for the amount of
capital to be invested in the undertaking.
The Provisional Committee have no reason to anticipate any effec-
tual opposition to a measure so obviously beneficial, and so generally
and powerfully supported by those best qualified to form an opinion
of its merits, and most interested in carrying it into effect.
The usual power will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow
interest at 4 per cent. per anuum on the deposit, as well as upon all
future calls, from the date of the passing of the Act until the opening
of the railway, and no shareholder will be liable beyond the amount
of his subscription

Applications for shares to be made in the usual form, to the Secre-
tary, at the Company's °nice, No. 1, Colernau-street-buildings, Moor-
gate-street, London ; to the Solicitors ; or to the following Stock and
Sharebrokers :—Mr. John Wagg, 4, Shorter's-court, Throgmorton-
street, and Messrs. Edward Ellis and Co., 53, Threadneedle-street,
',London ; Messrs. Cameron, Cazenove, 'and Taunton, Lijiernool ; aid
7 t
Meserf,R. B. Watson, Toptal, and Barr, Leeds.

, and manufacturing districts, and mote It large amount of traffic as f
t . ..
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MANCHESTER, MIDLANDA. and GREAT ' WAVE.NEY itAbLET , slid G 1 AT t -
well from rallwaYs now in mirk of construction as from others pro- .
L ~94110DT at:Prcttdit iiIiLWA.t.
allotted the whole of the Sfares, and letters are issued this day. The
MOUTH RAILWAT:
jected with every chante Of success.
• ,Oe Slik4qhlaers are respectfully informed that attendance will be .. The Committee of Management beg to give notide that they helve
As to the trafthi on the lower portion of the line, it is evide% that • tl;ren with the Parliamentary Contract and Subscriberxe Agreement,
the vast Itiktnber of merchant vessels continua% is
in the
..,.
t' hathrel by:adverse winds, would effect an libliK e saving both in
Insurance and time, by dischantilig• theiVeargoes at Falmouth, and at ,
once transmitting then! tb Weir destination by means of this railway;
1
and therefore-.lfilWont speculating on the extent to which the ports! F;eptember. •
on either Int of the great promontory' of the Land's End mayi_...,b for execution by the Shareholders, at the foliowing places, on the Committee have to express their regret that owing to the very great
undermentioned days, between the hours of Ten and Five o'Clock, demand for the-Shares, they have been obliged not only to pass over
when the Bankers' Receipts' may be exchanged for Scrip.
e—t_Ad3telosephialyloatuttel, F$ rilirdayatida;da:tutridizti-,4;11i
ithmaannda
20th73a the number of Shares applied for in those asses where allotments
many very eligible applicants, but also to deduct considerably from
~
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,i have been made. 2y order/
~ ~ ii. R. DiNiEfq StErefrial,
MolllS of this railroad, attract the commerce respectively of /1113tol ' ditto.
• bated Tuesday, September iii, 1840:
hnd Southampton ; to what extent the inethatiStibit Miller:11 wealth
T have
• .
Bradford—Mf. %WIN Office, Sharebroker, Wednesday, 24th
of Cornwall, and the unrivalled attittakicti resources of Devonshire , dit.t„
may be further developed, tit ' thii genial climate of Penzance and Ittiddersfield—Mr. Moore's Office, Thursday, 25th ditto.
Mount's Bay, " the Mont lief' or England," attract a larger p Leeds,---Royal Hotel, Friday and saturday, 2Gth and 27th ditto.
tion of winter 'VliftaSta,--it. Is obvious that this line wllibbmmand a London—Castle and Falcon, Aldersgate-street, , Tileaday, 30th
tnttlic bolli Val ' toods and passengers, frqm lte Cistern terminus, the -
'
arrunin September, and Wednesday, ISt October.
tet Which may be said to be Without limit. A
g FRANCIS PARKER, Secietare
lance at the
•
stale Will make it manifest Volt Bo competing trunk line can ever be him, Sept. 13, 1845.
established between riVerton and the Land7s End. As between _ 2,Othet •
Taunton and Reeding, an inspection of the map will ebeW it bast ex-
tent of Midland district, comprising rich and piptitoim parts of So-
mortztahire, Dorsetshire, and Wiltshiret lit* altogether destitute of
railroad accommodation,
Recurring to the featikftb a this project as a national work, one of
the greatest In point 'Of magnitude, of vital importance in the treht of
war, and ot'alThost incalculable advantage to the grin/rid and packet
commette of the kingdom ; it Inlay not be Mkt b? place to quote here
the Ibllowing expressions of Sir Robert Peel. Speaking of theptoject
of a direct line from London to Liverpool through the Trent Valley,
which bore much the tonne relation to the Birmingham and Grand
'Junction that this Witt to the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter
Railways, he it reverted to have said :—" I consider that the com-
munication between the metropolis and the great outporta to be, not
a que,stionofhours, but a qtieetion 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, Soinerset, 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
hither observed, that a proposed line from Plymouth to Falmouth
'was last session rejected, on the ground that it might be supposel
to interfere with that great national object.
The survey of the line has been to a great extent completed, and
correct eetimates of the expenditure and returns are in a state of for-
waniness, 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 thfiletilties 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.

THE GRAND JUNCTION and MIDLANDS
UNION RAILWAY, connecting Stafford and the Pot-
tories, via Burton-upon-Trent, with, Derby, Nottingham, and the
klasWn Chhnitia

PlrEt,titttltAill, PROSPECTUS.

(Regifiered Pretitsionally.)
THE BRISTOL, BATH, rititi BRIDGWATER
GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY,
Connecting with the Great Western Railway on the one side, anti
on the other with the Riitol end Exeter Railway, the following im-
Ilartant places—Keynsham, Burnt{; Marksbury, Stanton Priory,
Farnborough, Timsbury, High Littleton, lialbstron, Paulton,Wellon,.
Midsummer, Norton, Radstoke, Kilmersdon, Iceriterry, Coleibrd,
"'Ran!, I.sigh-upon-Mendip, Stolle-lane, Downside, Shepton
gitilef; CreiSteo it/114er, the- city of Wells, Coxley, Polshttin,
,OtOillitiTY.; Street; Waiiiiitr Atheot, Higher and Lower Pethvell,
Orehitou. Shhivriek, Cato* bdgitl4cni, Moorlineh, Sutton Mallet,
Chedzoy, Dinwear, and Brikwater.
It is proposed. that 'thi4 Grand Junction line should steft from near
the station of the Great Western Railway at lieynsham, and proceed
by Burnet to Marksbury and Farattairowlt. Thence it will pass on
the 'Weal side of Timsbury, and go on through the numerous and ex-
' toilette coal works by Radford, Camerton, and Clandown, to Rad-
, stoke: Thence to Klineftlown, which it will skirt on the western
sides anti thence through Babiagton to the eastern side of Newberry,
from which Mere will be a branch line to Frome, passing by Elm on
I-the southern side. The main line will hold its course beside the
Upper and Lower Vobstef coal works and Goodeve's coal works,
through Melcombe Wood to the southern point of Leigh-upon-Mendip.
Thence it will proceed over Long Cross Bottom to the western side
' Of limbic% and to the eastern side of Shepton Mallet, and the western
Cie cf HoWnshire, its course thence will be along the western sides
Of tlßdi, Cresscombe, and binder, to the southern point of the city
of Wells. Fft;iti this it will hold its way between Coxley and Coxley
Pound to the westefil tide of Southsay and the eastern side of Pci-
sham, and so on to the Western side of Glastonbury, where it will
MSS the North-road: Thence passing Bickworthy Mill, it will skirt
on the n°llll,lll side Street and Walton, pass Ashcot on the southern
side, proceed on the north side of Higher Pedwell between Shipwick
and Greinton, and so on to the northern side of Moorlinch. Thence
to the northern side of Sutton Mallet, then over Sutton Moor to.
Chedzoy, passing over Fowler's Plot, then through Dimwear to the
southern side of the Bridgwater station on the Bristol and Exeter
Railway, and thence Spanning, the railway into the borough of
Bridgwater.

The length of the main line will be about forty-three miles; that
of the branch from Newberry to Frome, four miles seven furlongs.
The line has been carefully laid down after accurate investiga-
tio►Ls, and it presents no engineering difficulties whatsoever. There
will be no tunnel or viaduct, or other costly work, and there will be
no heavy cuttings or embankments. The line passes through a fer-
tile, rich, and populous district, and serves all the principal towns in
the county of Somerset, and brings them into connexion with all the
regions traversed by the Great Western and the Bristol and Exeter
Railways, and with the metropolis. It is so obvious that this Grand
Junction Railway must command an immense traffic in passengers,
goods, and minerals, that it would be idle to dilate on the subject.
A prospectus containing the list of the Provisional Committee, the
amount of capital required, the number of shares to be issued, and the
names of the officers, will be published iu a few days, accompanied
by a map of the line and the adjacent country, laid down upon the
scale of one inch to a mile.

EDWARD LEWIS, 7, Adam-street, Adelphi,

OVEREIGN LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
No. 5, ST. JAMES'S-STREET, LONDON.
To be established by Act of Parliament, for the Assurance of Lives,
and for effecting all other contracts depending upon Life Contingen-
cies; and also for granting Loans, upon a new and highly beneficial
system.

Capital, 1,000,0001., in 100,000 Shares of lOL each.
Deposit, it. 10s. per Share.
Note.-.41t pursuance of the Act of Parliament, 10s. per cent. only
(or Is. per Are) 'win be received until the Company obtains a cer-
tificate of complete fsgistration, when notice will be given for the
payment of the residue of tho deposit, and the Company will coin-
Mince Its operations.