The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-24 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMMER 24 1845.

WORCESTERT,
ard.
AND
Bromviay LEOMINSTER
(Registered provisionally.)
Capital 600,0001., In 30,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Henry George Ward, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Great Eastern and
Western Railway Company
John Barneby, Esq., M.P., Brockampton, Eromyard
William Barneby, Clayton Park, Brorayard, Magistrate of
Herefordshire

James Bost, Esq., Worcester
Mr. Edward Bannister, wool
minter
William Bestow, Esq., Surrey-place, London
Walker Chamberlayne, Esq., Worcester, Royal Porcelain Menu
factory
George Beauchamp Cole, BK., Chester-street, Grosvenor-place, Dl
rector of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company
Mr. James Coucher, wool-merchant, Worcester
Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Copthall-court, and Old Palace, Richmond.
Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway
Captain Charles Dutton, Bredenbury-house, Bromyard
Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlborough-place, St. John's-wood, Di-
reetor of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company
Henry Clarke Duppa, Esq., Quarry-house, Boughtou, Morchelsea,
Kent, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Com-
pany
James Eckley, Esq., Bromyard
John Freeman, Eoq., Gains, Bromyard, Magistrate of Herefordshire
and Worcestershire
John Matthew Clutch, Esq., Banker, Worcester, Director of Wor-
cester, Warwick, and Rugby Railway
Mr. Edwin Gardner, corn, hop, and seed merchant, Worcester
E. W. Howes, Esq., Bromyard
Richard Hemming, Esq., Livington, near Bromyard, and Kingsland,
Leominster
James Hemming, Esq., Church House, Bromyard
Mr. John Hughes, wool merchant, Clopgate. Worcester
Mr. John Hood, merchant and carrier, Worcester
Mr. George Hill, of the firm of Messrs. Hill and Turley, Worcester
Henry James, Esq., Leominster, Mayor of Leominster
John Kempson, Esq., sen., Birchey-flelds House, Bromyard
John Kempson, jun., Eeq., Birchey-fields House, Bromyard
John Wheeley Lea, Esq., Vice Chairman of the Severn Navigation
Company, Managing Director of the Droitwich Patent Salt Com-
pany, and a Director of the Great Eastern and Weetern Railway
John Lilly, Esq., Alderman of Worcester, Worcester Royal Porce-
lain manufactory.
Edward Lloyd, Esq., Sheriff of Worcester
William Lawrence, Esq., Brixton, Director of the London and
Manchester Direct
James Maemillan, Esq., Southampton, Director of the Southampton,
Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railway
Arthur Mann, Esq., Woburn-square, Director of the Great Eastern
and Western Railway
Mr. F. H. 'Needham, marcnant, Worcester
Mr. Powell, wise-merchant, Worcester
Mr. James Rea, of the firm of Messrs. Rea and Sons. masters,
Worcester
Mr. J. P. Rea, of the firm of Messrs. Rea and Sons, maltsters, Wor-
cester
Jas. Reeves, Esq., Cheapside and Loyten, Direetor of the Direct
London and Manchester, and Great Manchester and Rugby, and
Southampton Railway Companies
James Robertson, Esq., Worcester
Joseph Sturton, Esq., Munderfield House, Bromyard. and Lincoln's
Inn, London. Magistrate of Hereford.
James L'pfill, Esq., The Green, Bromyard, Director of the Stafford-
shire and Shropshire, and Dover and Bristol Railways
T. P. P. Wight, Esq., Tedstone Court, Bromyard
Philip Warburton, Esq., Bromyard, High Bailif of Bromyard
Philip Warburton, Gent., Bromyard
John Walker, Esq., Luisley Court, Bromyard
Mr. Wells, Hop-merchant, Worcester
Mr. Woodward, Hipp-merchant, Worcester
John Henry Walsh, Esq., Worcester
Mr. James Wall, Merchant and Carrier, Worcester
(Whh power to add to their number.)
CHINS ENGINNEA—WiIIiam F.R.S.
ASSISTANT ENGIN/WA—S. F. Griffin, Esq., C.E.
SOLICITOZS.
Messrs. Blmslie and Preston, 47, Ifoorgate.stroet, London
Henry Foley, Esq., Worcester
BANKINS.
London—The London and Westminster Bank, Lothbary
The Commercial Bank of London.
Worcester—Messrs. Farley, Lavender, and Co.
LOCAL AOSNTS.
Messrs. W. and F. Devereaux, Bromyard
This line willjoh diverge Bedford,erge omfr
nste-rthe Great Eastern and
Western Railway, near Worcester, and proceeding by Brom-
yard, will end at Leominster, at which point it will unite with the
proposed lines connecting Hereford and Shrewsbury with North
Wales.
The communication by railway between these important towns
and the continuous hop and cider districts has been entirely left
unprovided for by existing arrangements. and this line is brought
forward under the auspices of the Great Eastern and Western
Railway Company, on the strong representations and request of a
large and most influential body of the landed gentry of the neigh-
bourhood.
The object proposed is to make a direct communication between
Leominster, Bromyard, and Worcester, which latter town has always
been the natural market for the produce of these districts, and to af-
ford the inhabitants the most direct communication with London, as
eompared with other lines, by upwards of 30 miles.
No person will be liable for more than his deposit till the act is ob-
tained, and power will be applied for to allow interest at 41. per cent.
on all calls from the time of their respective payments, as well as to
limit the liability of the shareholders to the amount of their subscrip-
tions.
Applications for Shares, in the ann,xed form, to be made to the
Provisional Committee, at the Office, 5, Gresham-street, London,
or Messrs. John Shewell and Son, sharebrokers, Tokenhouse-yard ;
Messrs. R. and M. Boyd, 4, Bank-buildings, and Mr. John Smith, 3,
Shorter's-court, London ; Mr. John Duncuft, sharebroker, Manchester;
Mr. John O'Neil, sharebroker, Manchester ; Messrs. Schultz and Carr,
sharebrokers, and Messrs. Reynolds and Son, Liverpool; Messrs. H.
and C. Beardshaw, sharebrokers, Leeds ; Messrs. Tate and
Nash, sharebrokers, Bristol ; Mr. James Pearson, sharebroker, Bir-
mingham ; Messrs. Samuel Hutchinson and Co., sharebtokers, Brad-
ford ; Mr. William Miles, sharebroker, Worcester ; Mr. Robert Allan,
sharebroker, Edinburgh ; Mr. William Gordon, sharebroker, Aber-
deen ; Messrs. Black and Co., sharebrokers, Buchan-street, Glasgow ;
Messrs. Buchanan and Aitken, sharebrokers, Glasgow; and Messrs.
Bruce and Symes, sharebrokers, Dublin ; of whom proepeotuses may
be had.

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THE NORTHERN and SOUTHERN
CONNECTING RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered under 7 and S Vict., cap. 110.)
Gapital 900,0001., in 36,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
Uniting the London and Birmingham, Great Western, the South
Western, the London and Brighton, South-Bastern, and Northern
and Eastern Railways, and accommodating, en route, Hertford, Hat-
field, St. Albans, Watford, Rickmansworth, Uxbridge, West Drayton,
Colnbrook, Staines, Eghain, Chertsey, Weybridge, Leatherhead,
Dorking, and Reigate.

FEOFISIONIT, COMMITTER.
Major Adair, United Service Club, Pall-inall, Direetor of the Goole
and Doncaster Railway
John Anderson, Esq., Lothbury. Director of the South Midland, and
Birmingham and Lichfield Railways
William Ayrton, Esq., Abbey-square, Cheater
William Arnold Bainrigge, Esq., Uttoxeter, Staffordshire
John Barnes, Esq., Director of the Union Bank, Chorley Wood
House, Hertfordshire
William Bastow, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Railway
George A. Brown, Esq., 20, Gower-street
Pierce Somerset Butler, Esq., 31. r., Director of the Lancaster and
York, Waterford and Kilkenny, and Great Munster Railway
Jasper Capper, Eaq , Watling-street
John Castendeick, Esq., 37, Mincing-lane
Walter Chamberlain, Esq., Worcester
Jeremiah Clarke, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's
London, Manchester, Derbyshire. Staffordshire, and Wor-
cester Railways
Major John T. Croft, Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman of the
Chester and Manchester Railway, &c.
William Croft, 1-'sq., Chertsey, Surrey
Thomas Clutterbuck, Eaq., Red Hall, Watford
Charles John Dimsdale, Esq., Essendon-place, Hertfordshire
Thomas Edward Dyson, Esq., Tollpits, Hertfordshire
Joseph Graham, Esq., Clapham, Surrey
Hastings Green, Esq., Sion House, Kilkenny, Director of the Water-
ford and Kilkenny Railway
Captain Hodges, 65, Connaught-terrace., Hyde Park, Director of the
Mauritius Railway, &c. &c.
Henry Jennlns, Esq., Leeds
Swinfen Jervis, Esq., Whitehall-place, and Darla.ston Hall, Stafford-
shire
Daniel Turton Johnson, Req., Aldermary Churchyard, Director of
Remington's London and Manchester, the Cheater and Manchester
Direct, and the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and 'Worcestershire
Railways
John Joseph Keene, Esq., St. John's-wood, Director of the National
Bank of Ireland
John King, Esq., Glastonbury, and St. John's-wood, London, Direc-
tor of the Somersetshire Midland Railway
%VIM= King, Esq., Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London, Director of
the Freemasons' Life Assurance Company
tl,orge Laishley, Esq., Clarence Lodge, Shirley, Southampton, Direc-
tor of the Isle of Wight, and of the Oxford, Newbury, Andover,
Manchester, and Southampton Junction Railways
Daniel William Lucas, Esq., Mark-lane, and Crescent Lodge, Stook-
well Park
ilorace William Meteyard, Esq., Director of Remington's London and
Manchester, the Chester and Manchester Direct, and the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railways
Joseph Bostick Massey, Esq., Catered, Hertfordshire, antl.so, Cam-
bridge-terrace, Hyde Park.
.:'aptain Ogle, 44, Eaton-place, Eaton-square, London.
::enjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., Upper Hyde Park-street, Director
of the Manchester, Liverpool, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and
Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railways, &c.
liillebrant Meredith Parratt, Esq., Magistrate, Efilngham House,
Surrey
William John Palmer, Plug., Molewood-hill, Eengeo, Hertfbrdshire
Rev. G. B. P. Pollen, Magistrate, Little Bookham Rectory, Surrey
W. H. Ravenhill, Esq., Pedwell House, Worcestershire
John Rawson, Esq., Deputy Lieutenant of the West Riding of York-
shire, and J.P., Stoney Royd, Halifax, Director of Rosamel's Great
North of France Railway, of the Manchester, Liverpool, and
Great North of England Union Railway, and the National Bank
of Ireland
J. B. Shuttleworth, Esq., Eastcheap
Edward Scard, Esq., Kew, Surrey, Magistrate, Director of the
Toronto and Lake Huron, and Jamaica Railways
Julian Shrine, Esq., Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln Railway
William H. Swinton, Esq., 49, Moorgate-street, and Sussex-gardens,
Directornare
of the South Staf-
fordshire Park
WilliamThotnas Toser,Stephe nEssq, Esq,
fordshire Junction Railway
E is h4OperAgmaete- s_tsrtreeeet -ts.q
Thomas Weedon, Esq., Loudwater Mills, Hertibrdskire
James Whitchurch, Esq., South Cliff, Netley Abbey
(With power to add to their number.)
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. •
John King, Esq.
George Laishley, Esq.
D. W. Lucas, Emq.
H. W. Meteyard, Esq.
George Scard, Esq.

Major Adair
J.hn Anderson, Esq.
Jasper Capper, Esq.
Jeremiah Clarke, Esq.
Joseph Graham, Esq.
D. T. Johnson, Esq.

,
SAMISEN.
Mews. Rogers, (Wing, and Co., 29, Clement's-lane, London
The London and County Bank
Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, Manchester.
Excuomaa—Joseph Gibbs, Esq.
LAND AOJNT—Layton Cooke, ESQ.
LAND fIUSYEYOES.
W. T. Buckland, Esq.
Messrs. Sanderson and Ryde.
LOCAL NOLICITOEN.
St. Alban's, Herts—Richard Grove Lowe, Esq.
Chertsey, Surrey—Richard John Cole, Esq.
Dorking, Surrey—Messrs. Hart and Hart.
Hertford—Edward Robert Spence, Esq.
Uxbridge, Middlesex—Messrs. Riches and Woodbridge.

Watford and Rickmansworth—John Sedgwick,Esq.

.. . .
The object of this undertaking is to form an unbroken link or
communication with all the existing railways, by which means
more particularly the Western, Southern, Eastern, . South-Eastern,
and South-
western parts of the kingdom map' be traversed IYom the
Northern Districts, without the necessity of making the metropolis
a resting-place either for passengers or 'goods : and thus obviating
considerable expense and great lop of time.
The length of the main line will be 62 wiles, oommencing at Hert-
ford, (which has already a branch to the North-Eastern Railway),
continuing its oonrse by Hatfield, St. Alban's, to Watford, where it
will eross the London and Birmingham Railway, front theme to
Rickmaneworth, Uxbridge, and West Drayton, where it will pass
under the Great Western Railway, proceeding by Colnbrook, (having
a branch to Windsor from the main line at Horton), cross the Thames
at Staines, to Egharn, Chertsey, passing into tho South Western
Railway at the Weybridge Station, approaching Cobham, Leather-
head, Dorking, and terminating at Reigate, where it will form a
Junction with the south-Eastern and London and Brighton Railways.
The great distance from each other of the various termini of rail-
way* in London, has for a length of time occupied the 4ilention of
the legislature and of the interested Companies ; but the great value
_ nope_rtycehast been an insuperable obstacle to effecting any improve-
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reasonable rates.
In oonsulting the but statiat 1
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and fluctuating traffic on so novel a f t f oLd4ll‘itng the existing
m ure as thia proisst“. . a Considerable difficulty has necessarily pr Prevented iii—eif.7 r,g4WAY,
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procally with the counties through which the railway is intended to
pass, the revenue upon the capital will yield at least 10 per cent.
As the project developer itself, the most cheering patronage is
manifest from influential landowners and other proprietors declaring
that the formation of this line is indispensable to meet the demands;
and who have promised to give this project their undivided support.
Government for a length of time have deemed it advisable to send
troops with all their materiel by railways, and the facilities which
can be thus afforded will form a communicating medium with ever.,
military depot throughout Great Britain.
Suffice it to state that coal, wool, timber, corn, bark, lime, an..
every variety of product or manuflicture must inevitably find then
transit by this railway, to meet the demands or exigencies of se-
veral counties hitherto subjeeted to the impost of incalculable ex-
pense and delay attendant on goods at present being compelled to
pass through London.
SonciToss—Messrs. Miller and Carr, 47, Baitcheap, London.

Applications for Shares to be made to Messrs.. Miller and
Carr, 47, Eastcheap ; and Messrs. Johnson, Longden and Co.,
Tokenhouse-yard ; and to the local solicitors, Messrs. Hart and
Hart, Dorking ; Messrs. Riches and Woodbridge, Uxbridge ; Richard
John Cole, Esq., Chertsey ; Richard Grove Lowe, Esq., St. Alban's ;
Edward Robert Spence, Esq., Hertford ; John Sedgwick, Esq., Wat-
ford ; and also to Mr. Crewdson. Liverpool ; Mr. 9. Slater, Man-
chester ; Messrs. Watson, Tootal, and Barff, Leeds ; Messrs. Charles
Bell and Co., Leeds; Mr. J. Wright, Birmingham ; Mr. J. Bowden,
Hull; and Messrs. George Edwards and Son, Bristol.
W. JENKINS, secretary.
Temporary Offices, 47, Eastcheap, London.
FORM OF APPLICATION.
_ .

To the Provisional Committee of the Northern and Southern Cca

necting Railway.

Gentlemen,—l request you to allot -me Shares 1)4 tit
above undertaking ; and I hereby undertake to pay the deposit
upon them or any smaller number that mAy be allotted to me, an.
to execute the Parliamentary contract and subscribers' agreemen
when required to do so.
I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
Name in full ....... „„ „ .....
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Business or profession
Residence ..................
Reference ...................
Date of application ..... .

THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN
CONNECTING RAILWAT.
Notice is hereby given, that no Applications for Shares in this
Railway will be received from parties resident in London or its yid-
silty after TRURADAY, the 25th, and elsewhere after SATURDAY, the
27th instant.

By order of the Committee of Management,
W. JENKINS, Secretary.
'Peawrary (glees, 47, Easteheap, Sept. 19, 1845.

ROYAL NORTH OF SPAIN RAILWAY.
The undersigned Directors, in whom the management of the
affairs of this company is now vested, deem it due to the Proprietors
to state, that measures are in progress which will put the immediate
and prospective advantages of this undertaking to the severest test.
Should the result be such as the Directors confidently anticipate,
the position of the Shareholders will be materially improved by the
eo-operation of parties of the highe.t experience in railway affairs.
(Signed) WILLIAM It. COLLETT, Chairman.
WILLIAM JACKSON, Deputy Chairman.
JOSHUA WALMSLEY.

United Peninsular Railway Offices, Royal Exchange-buildings,
22d Sept. 1845.

IDLAND,
DEAN, AND GLOUCESTER
.WAY.
)rovisionally.)
,1100 Shares of 201. each.
1. per Share.
and the amount of his Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

WELSH SOUTH ]
STOW, FOREST OF
JUNCTION EXTENSION RAIL'
(Registered P
Capital 900,0001., in 45,1
Deposit, 21. 4s
No Shareholder to be liable beyc

The Right Hon. Lord Rosemore

The Right Hon. Col. Dawson
Darner, M.P.
The Hon. C. Pelham Villiers, M.P.
The Hon. Robert Gore, M.P.
The Hon. Col. Westenra, M.P.
Sir Henry Hnnleke, Dart.
Sir Henry Webb, Bart.
Sir William Twyaden, Bart.
Sir William Bacon Johnson, Bart.
Sir Henry Seale, Bart
William Collins, Esq., M.P.
Thomas Gill, Esq., M.P.
Edmund Dayrell, Esq., High
Sheriff of Buckingisamshire.
William Strahan, Esq.

William
_Hughes Hughes, Alder•

man of London _
Col. Hugh Caldwell
George Lawton, Esq.
W. P. Andrew, Esq.
C. R. Coleman, Esq.
Joseph Davies, Esq.
John Wheelton, Esq.
George Hall, Esq.
Major White
Captain J. P. Macdougal
William Shelford Fitzwilliam, Esq,
William Frederick Beadon. Esq.
Hartley Kennedy, Esq.
James Beech, Esq.

(With power to add to their number.)
COMMITTEE Or MANAGEMENT.
Edward Francis Dayrell, Esq., Major White
Chairman W. P. Andrew, Esq.
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart. C. R. Coleman, Esq.
Sir William Twysden, Bart. W. S. Fitswilliam, Esq.
Edward Hall, Esq. W. F. Beallon, Esq.
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INGINEDIL
William Gravatt, Esq., F.R.S.
LONDON BANKERS.

Messrs. Glynn and Co. ; and Messrs. Strahart, Paul, and Cu., Strand
PROVINCIAL BANKERS.
Messrs. litromage and Co„ Chepstow
Messrs. Bailey, Greatrcx, and Co., Monmouth
Messrs. Williams and Sons, Newport
The West of England Banking Company and Branches
The Monmouth and Glamorgan Banking Company and Branches
The National Provincial Banking Company and Branches
The Gloucestershire Banking Company and Branches
The County of Gloucester Banking Company and Branches.

SOLICITORS.
Mr. W. T. H. Phelps, Newport. Monmouthshire
Messrs. A'Beckett, Son, and Sympeon, 7, Golden-square, London

_
LOCAL AGENTS.
Chepstow—Messrs. Baldwin and Morgan, Solicitors
Gloucester—Mesars. Ellis, Elliott, and Co., Solicitors
•ICIITAIY.
Mr. William Prothero, 10, Old Jewry Chambers, London.

This Line will join the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester
Junction Railway at Chepstow, and extend westward near to
Piercifleld, the far-famed Windcliff, and Tintern Abbey, to the towns
of Usk and Pontypool, and over the centre of the great iron and coal
field of South Wales, passing near to and througk the midst of the
extensive iron work➢ and collieries of Monmouthshire and Glamor-
ganshire, to jein the Aberdare branch of the Taff Yale Railway,
which connects Merthyr Tydvil and Aberdare with Cardiff—thus
forming a much more direct and almost straight Line—by means of
the railways already made and projected between those immensely
populous districts, and the centre of the kingdom and London, by
means of which the journey by land will be shortened between the
metropolis and this great seat of industry to four and a half, and
between Newport and Cardiff to five hours, which at present, even by
the aid of existing railways, cannot be performed in less than from
ton to twelve hours.

It will be found by reference to the official census of 1831 and
1841, that the average increase of population of the county of Mon-
mouth exceeded that of any other county in England or Wales ; this
tact Is referred to as Illustrative of the rising importance of the
country through which this railway is intended to pass, and of
the very large passenger traffic which may reasonably be calculated
upon.

The town of Usk, with Ragland. and the rich agricultural district
for many miles around, are supplied by carts from the vicinity of
Pontypool with coal and lime, which are there obtained at a cheap
rate, and in return cattle and provisions of all kinds, hay, corn, and
pit timber to an enormous extent, are sent to the Iron works and
collieries, whore the consumption is immense. This traffic alone
' must necessarily ensure a considerable revenue to the Company, in-
dependent of the great traffic from the manufactured iron, fire
bricks, and paving stone, which is of superior quality, and In great
abundance. The present cost of conveying and delivering iron and
tin plates from the works to London, including transit to the port,
shipping charges, freight, and insurance, amounts to little less than
20s. per ton, whilst by this railway, and those it 18 intended to join,
the average cost at the rate usually charged for such goods on rail-
ways will effect a saving of at least 25 per cent., and be conveyed
within twenty-four hours, instead of the average voyage round the
Land's End of three, and not unfrequently six weeks, and with the
very important advantage of delivering the iron free from rust,
which is unavoidable on a sea voyage, in small bars more particu-
larly, causing a deterioration of from 15s. to 20s. per ton at least.
This railway, by means of the Chepstow Forest of Dean, and
Gloucester Junction, and the Birmingham and Gloucester Railways,
will open Birmingham as a market for the manufactured iron of
South Wales, from which It has been in a measure excluded, from
the difficult and expensive transit by the River Severn and Canals.
Large quantities ofiron ore, known aa " Hannatete ore," is imported
into Wales, from Lancashire, Cumberland, Devon, and Cornwall; whilst
ore of a similar quality, and equal productiveness for iron making,
exists in abundance in the Forest of Dean, and may be raised and
delivered from thence by means of this and the Chepstow, Forest of
Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway to the different iron works
in Monmouthshire and Glamorganshlre at an average of from 25 to 30
per cent. less than it costs at present, and at the same time leave a
handsome remuneration to the Railway Companies.
The Committee of Management have gone very earefully into
estimates of the goods traffic especially, and they feel justified in
expressing a decided opinion that the revenue from this source alone
will yield 5 per cent. on the proposed capital of the Company, in
addition to the revenue to be derived from the other traffic.
This Railway will pass close to, and within a few miles of, all the
iron and tin works of Monmouthshire, and the principal part of
those in Glimorganshire ; and the following short statistic of the
extent of those stupendous undertakings will give an idea of the vast
importance of the present project. The iron and tin works com-
mence at Pontypool, and are—
.

I. The Pontym—olle.Tin and Iron Works of Capel Hanbury Leigh,
Esq.
2. The Blaendare Iron and Coal Works of R. J. Blewitt, Esq.,
M.P.
9. The extensive Tin Works of Messrs. Conway, Messrs. Fother-
gill, and Messrs. Jenkins
4. The Pentwyn, Golonos, and Varteg Iron Works and Rolling
Mills of Messrs. Williams
5. The British Iron Company
6. The Blaenavon Iron Company
7. The Nantylylo, Messrs. Bally, Brothers
11. The Coalbrooke Vale, Messrs. Brewer
9. The Cwn Celya and Bieina Company
10. The Beaufort, Messrs, Bally, Brothers
11. The Ebbw Vale, Messrs. Darby
12. The Victoria Company
13. The Abberearne, Pontymister, sad Tydee Tia Works, Messrs.
Lewis
14. The Tredegar Iron Company
15. The Shirhowey, Messrs. Darby
16. The Rhymney and Bute Company
17. The Dowlais Iron Works, Sir John Guest, Bart, M.P., and
Company
18. Carfartha. Wm. Crawehay, Esq.
And added to which, in the vicinity, are the extensive' works and
collieries in the Aberdare Valley.
And on either side of the intended railway are collieries raising
and vending about one million and a half tons of coal per anum,
which it is not unreasonable to expect will be greatly extended, by
the facilities offered through the Intended railway.
In the districts of Merthyr, Aberdare, and westward, there exists
an inexhaustible abundauce of a peculiar description of coal, which,
though inflammable, is nearly smokeless, and is found to be superior
in quality for steam purposes to any yet known. In the London
market it meets with a ready sale at 30 per cent. higher than any of
the best north country Hartley', ; and notwithstanding the high
price, so highly is it esteemed, that the present importation amounts
to nearly 100,000 tons per annum. This coal for the most part is
brought from a distance of 24 miles, and shipped at Cardiff, from
whence freights to London have averaged from 10s. to lls. per ton
during the peat year; but so uncertain is the supply to the metropo-
lis, owing to the scarcity of ships on the Welsh coast, and the long
and precarious navigation round the Land's End, that many who are
anxious to adopt their engine grates for its use, are deterred from
the too great uncertainty which exists against obtaining a regular
and constant supply ; these difficulties will be entirely superseded by
the proposed railway, and these it is intended to join, with the great
additional advantage and impetus to increased use and consumption,
that it may be delivered to the consumer at from 2s. to 3s. per ton
less price than at present. Under such circumstances, it will not
appear unreasonable to those unacquainted with the trade, to expect
that the consumption in the metropolis alone will be increased four-
fold, whilst a new-found trade will be opened out with Chepstow,
Gloucester, Cheltenham, Witney, Oxford, and the numerous inter-
mediate towns to London, whore steam coal is used.
It has been considered more Judicious to form a separate Company
for the Extension line from Chepstow to the Taff Vale, than to alter
the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway
Company at present, but powers are proposed to be taken for uniting
the two
Boards of Direction hereafter, with the assent of their respective
.
Preference will be given to those locally interested, and to the
holders of Shares in the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester
Junction Railway.
A reference to the map will show the importance of this line as
forming a direct line of railway communication between the great
mineral district of Monmouthshire and Glarnormshire, with the
hear* of the Kingdom and London.
It may confidently be stated that in connexion with the Chep-
stow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway, there is
not a line of railroad in the Kingdom which offers greater advan-
tages to the Shareholders than the present. Provision will be made
In the Act of Parliament which will be applied for in the next ses-
sion to limit the liability of the Shareholder 'to the amount of his
te cent.
shall
n bt
obtained,he ea
the affairs of this
ns
Company shall be under the control of the Managing Directors, to
Acta I loofwPfa. Parliament ne
whom power is given to allot the Shares, and to apply the fluids of
shares,
Until endan
the Company in payment of all the expenses incurred in its forma-
tion, and in the preparation of the Plans and Sections submitted to
Parliament.

Power will be applied tbr in the Aet (and in the meantime is
hereby given to the Managing Directors as above), to raise any addl•
tienal capital, to extend or abandon any branch of the line, to make
branch lines, or enter into any arrangements, by amalgamation or
otherwise, With any other company or companies, and also to nomi-
nate the first Directors of the Company.

_Applications for Shares, in the form annexed, to be made to the
Solicitors, or to Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Threadneedle Street,
and Messrs. Deckhouse and Co.. No. 4, Angel Court, Throgmorton
Street, London ;—Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham ;
Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol I —Mr. Thomas Evans, Bath ;
Messrs. Bradley, Ford, and Parker, Manchester ;--Messrs. H. Davies
and Co., Dale Street, Liverpool ;—Messrs. Chantrell and Boys, Leeds ;
—Messrs. Wilkinson and Earle, Hull ;—and Messrs. Labertouche and
Stafford, Dublin. •

To the Provisional Committee of the Welsh South Midland or Chep-
stow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway Extension.

I request that you will apportion ma shares of 201. each, in
the Welsh South Midland or Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Glouces-
ter Junction Extension Railway; and I do hereby undertake to ac-
cept the same, or any lees number you may allot me, and to pay the
deposit of 21. 2s. per share, and all future calls thereon, and to sign
the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when re-
quired.

day of

1845.

Dated tttla
same in full ... . ...... . ....... , ........
Itesklenee •• • .
Business or Profession •.• • • • ...• .. • • • • • •
liesldence. and Profeasloi of 55iati040‘......"...
intal Striatum Of ATipiflant .11 11-:. 1..

D IRE CT WESTERN RAILWAY
Upon the Broad ( k•lge),
From London A the Land's-end with Diverging Lines to Bath and
B ridge wa t er ra.etively.
(Provisionally
Cap' al, 3,000,000/., in 120,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, Si. 12s. Gd. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. _

The lion. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., Director of the South Mid-
land Railway, Brookes' Club, St. James's-street
Sir Francis Dugdale Astley, Bart., Everly House, Pewsey, Wilts
Sir Henry Webbe, wart., 105, Pall-mall
Frederick Roggoen, Esq., M.P. for Sarnstaple, 3, Carlton Gardena
Howard Elphinstene, Req., M.P., 19, Eaton-place, London
Ralph Neville, Esq , M.P. for Windsor, Hill-street, Berkeley-square
Charles Barry Ballwin, M.P. for Totnesa, 6, Parliament-street
Hon. Percy Evans Frets, 1, 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, Bart,. 9, King's Arms-yard, 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 Westmin-
ster 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 Bagwell, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the North-
ampton. Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway, and Director of the
South Midland Railway
Joseph Armitage, Esq., :kiln'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, Esq., 37, Brunswick-square, Londe*, Depaty
Chairman of the Trent Valley Continuation Railv, ay
Thomas Lawrence, Esq., 3, St. Mary Axe
Philip W. Courtney, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, London
Millis Coventry, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street
Barnet L. Philips, Eaq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, and
George-street, Mansion House
John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, 'Tunbridge, Kent, Director of
the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Boswell Middleton Jolland, Esq., Holderness House, near Mull,
Deputy Lieutenant and Magistrate for the East Riding of Yorkshire
Charles Robert Coleman, Erg., Irongate Wharf
William Eales, Esq., Mincing lane, London, late Director of the
Devon and Cornwall Banking Company
Charles Downes, Esq., Warwick-street, Charing-cross, Director of
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 Enniskillen Railways
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 Staffordshire

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
H. G. Atkinson, Esq., Upper Gloucester-place, Regent's Park
George M'lntodh, Esq., 127, Seymour-street, Portman-square
Frederick Solly Flood, Esq., Alpha-road, Regent's Park, London
Major White, 105, Pall-mall, London, Director of the South Midland

Railway
Charles Bleaden, Esq., Con Wen-court, Surrey, Chairman of 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 Free. Johnston, Esq., Great Cumberland-place
Joseph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, 3Enories, Director of the London and
Blackwall Railway Company
W. D. Brace, Esq., F.S.A., 17, Charles-street, St. James's, and Ripon
Cnthbert Woodstock, Esq., Grove-road, North Brixton
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanstene-street, Portman-
square, Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth, and
the Great 'Western Extension Railways
George Hammond Whalley, Esq., 30, Pall-mall, London, Assistant
Tithe Commissioner
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, Req., Cambridge-street, Hyde Park, Lon-
don, Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Railway
Company
Philip Baker, Req., Euston-square, London, Auditor of the London
and Blaekwall 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 F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, BelgraTe-square
Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., Clopton House, Warwickshire, and

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

street, Berkeley-square
James Beech, Esq., Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, and Grosvenor•

place, London -
Nicholas Philpot Leader, Esq., Dromagh Castle, eeunty Cork, Union
Club, Trafalgar-square, Director of the Killarney Junction Rail-

- .
way Company
Samuel Baker, Esq., Lyppiat Park, Gloucestershire, and London
William Congreve 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 ad

Light Dragoons
Robert Main, Eeq., Ravensbourne Park, Lewisham, and Trinity.

• ..
square, London
Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsall House, Retford, Nottinghamshire
John Gillyatt Booth, Esq., Crouch Hall, Hornsey
Major-Gen. Martin White, Marlborough-buildings, ?lath
Rev. T. Harvey Ashworth, Burlyns House, near Newbury, /Serb
Col. Burslem, Harwood Lodge, Newbury, Berks
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

County
Rey. Chas. Eras. Bamfyide, Rector of Dunkerton, near Bath
Richard Mortimore, Esq., Chippenham, Wilts
George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, Director of the Bristol and Binning-

ham Railway Company
U. Wootten, jun., Esq., Banker, Oxford, Director of the Buckingham-
shire Railway and Wolverton Junction
Richard Mortimore, Esq., Kingsmill, Collumpton
Rev. John Sydenham, Collumpton
Rev. R. A. Roberts, Rector of Kentisbere, Collumpton
Charles Justice, Esq., Collumpton, Devon
Richard Marker, Esq., Ufculm Cottage, Tiverton
Colonel Henry Dundas Campbell, North End House, Portsmouth
.George Pearce, Esq., Bradninch House, near Collumpton
Wm. H. Macomb, Esq., Chilton, Hungerford, Chairman of the Berks

_
Union Banking Company
William Haleomb, Beg.. Marlborough. Manager of the Wilta and

Dorset Bank
Captain W. G. Maclean, R.N., Taunton
Robert Parsons, Esq., Taunton
John Dalzell, sq., Wallingford, Berke
Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
John Kerte Haberfleld, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
Jame+ Troup, Esq., Ilastings
John Robson, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
John Morford Cottle, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington, Director

_ . .
Joseph Knight, Esq., Leicester, Director of South Midland and North-
of Coventry and Leicester Railway
ampton, Banbury and Cheltenham Railways
John Newton Mappin, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Midland Railway Company
joDhnßctiodr of the Manchester and Southampton Railway
James Burt, jun., Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and
Southampton Railway
Manchester, Director of the Manchester and
Edward Norris, Esq., Clairville, Manchester, Director of the Direct
London and Manchester, and North Cheshire Railway Companies
of Hull, Chairman of the " Hull and Barnsley"
jolsVepighaNn,adanind' MEausq.c'hester and Southampton Railways
James Ogden, M.D., Salford
Member of the acting Committee of the " Liver-
Sir William Lowthrop, Hull, Magistrate fbr the East Riding of York
Esq., Rusholm Hall, Manchester
DirectboroughM Railway Companies"
=Huddersfield, Deputy Chairman of the Rudders-
field, and Director of the Halifax and Bradford
John andpco
°nmlllf,
an:::
ftdot theered Leeds
an,i
C .dieti.dJ oanneds ~

DK., Manchester, Director of Manchester and South-
ampton .
Union Railway
Charles Bamford, junto
Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley
Junction
Esq., Manchester, Director of the Sheffield and
°he the
s t er,MDirancehaneertern,f BthirekeDnuhdeladay,
and
John Robson, Esq., fletton-le-Hole, Durham
Midland Railway Companies
Isaac Holmes, Esq., Liverpool
CjoohrnnelLiuilslia Randall,ilway E
Iron Bridge Railway. Company
Manchester, and Chairmaidannn
C. Appleby, Eeq., Broomhill, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and
Manchester Railway Company
Wm. B. Newberg, DK.,
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 llowker, R.N., Devon Port
H. S. Bright, Esq., 'lull, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Di-
rect Railway
Samuel Swann firittain, Esq.,*.Sheflield Director of the East and West
of England Railway Company
John Fawcett, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Wakefield and liar-
rowgate Railway Company
William Marriott, Esq., Attercliff-terrase, Sheffield, Direeter 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 Juaotion
Henry Shaw, Esq., Fetter-lane
Henry Sayer, Esq., Commercial-road, Lisnehouse, merchant
John Moe Mathew, Esq., Gray's Inn-square, Assistant Tithe Cem-

missioner
John Norton, Esq., Moat HousePrentwood, Essex
William John M`Guire, Esq., Hampton Court
John Gray Wilson, Esq., Oxford-terrace
Capt. J. I'. Macdougall, Grove, North Brixton, Surrey
W. J. Lefeuvre, Esq., F R.S.,Alderman and Magistrate of Southampton
Thomas Chas. Harrison, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's Park
G. B. Banbury, Esq., Leamington, Warwiekshire, Director of the
Coventry and Leicester Railway
Captain Tringhara, 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).
A further list of influential names will shortly appear.
Bartnnas—Messrs. Curries and Co., Comhill, London.
JOINT SOLICITOIS.
Messrs. Bell, Brodrick, and Bell, Bow Churchyard, London
Messrs. Riekards and Walker. 29, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London
Messrs. Haynes and Moore, Warwick and London
Messrs. J. Y. and J. T. Harting, 24, Lincoln's Inn-flelds, London.
Szcarrsiv—Thomas Hosier Saunders, Esq.
ASSISTANT-SECRET/AT—Charles J. Whalley, Esq.
LOCAL AGENTS.
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, T. L. T. Wendell, Esq., and J. A. Toms, Esq.
At Truro
At Penzance - - -
At Falmouth
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 3.000,000/'
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 End as an investment for ca-
pita!, 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-
month by way of Plymouth ; and various other projects have been
set on foot on the conviction that Falmouth must be reached by
important eutport—" the natural Packet Station of
railway.
The object of this prospectus is to *how that no other line than the
present can ultimately satisfy the exigencies of the country in regard
to this, its most
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 smearing 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-
tbrd, Great Bedwin,(from which a diverging line will be carried by
Marlborough, Devizes, the manufacturing dis-
trict of Trowbridge
Bradford direct to Bath), Westbury, From°, Shepton Mallet, Wells
(from which another diverging line will be taken to Bridgewater),
Glastonbury to
miles than any existing railways between these points, and without
Taunton, being shorter by about thirty-two
a tunnel. From Taunton the Bristol and Exeter Railway (now
leased to the Great 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
lattulyce frprOpooni usedlinnedobnytowaFy‘lomf
oPulthym. a saving of about ninety miles. Plymouth, and effecting, in the whole
eit
hawipspe4 to the train on the upper porliott of the line it le
CO QV MOM tllitil that thVit to aireadY through Mae suM.

dent to justify the construction of this portion of the Direct Wes-
tern : that it will shorten the distance from London to 'Tiverton
about 32 miles 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
and Southampton ; to what extent the inexhaustible 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 aaarger 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 Eud. As between
Taunton and Reading, an inspection of the map will show a vast ex-
tent of midland distriit, 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 Landon to Liverpool through the Trent Valley,
which bore much the same relation to the Birmingham and Grand
Junction that this bears to the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter
Railways, lie 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, bnt 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
■ot hereafter to oppose a direct line to Fahnouth ; 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
corre't estimates of the expenditure and returns are in a state of for-
war6l63i, and the whole will be ready for the next cession 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
c,oustructed 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 centum 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
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. 12s. 61.
per stare 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.

Name in full .....................
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Place of Business (if a.sy)
Reference................ • • • • •• • • •
Signature......

THE OXFORD and WORCESTER EXTEN-
SION and CHESTER JUNCTION RAILWAY, with
Branches to Shrewsbury and Northwiteh. On the Broad Gauge.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 2,2.50,0001., in 112.500 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL. COMMITTEE.
Lord George Paget, Uxbridge House
The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, 4, Parliament-street, Directte
of the Nottingham and Boston Railway
William Beresford, Esq., M.P., 77, Pall-mall, Director of the Tean
and Dove Talley Raiway
Sir William Bacon Johnson, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire, Director
of the Chester and Forest of Dean Railways
Sir John Edward de Beauvoir, Chairman of the London and Bir-
mingham Extension
Sir Samuel Brown, Director of the Warwick and Worcester Railway
Sir John Hare, Langham-place, Director of the London and Bir-
mingham Extension
Sir John Key, Bart., 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,Regent's-park, Director of the South
and Midlands Railway
Sir John Haneler, Deputy Lieutenant of the county of Essex, Wal-
ton, near Saffron Walden, Essex
Admiral J. Ayscough, Prospect-place, Southampton, Director of the
South and Midland Railway
Major Croft, 15, Regent-street. 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 Hitchens, 11.E.1.C.5., Director if the Birmingham and Ox-
ford Railway
Samuel Kenrick, Esq., banker, Wrexham
Captain F. Chamfer, Halkin-street, Belgrave-square, Director of the
Great Paris and Lyons Railway
WM. Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., Alderman of Lon-
don, Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation,
Chairman of the London and Greenwich Railways, &c., Btc.
Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South
Midland Railway
Matthew Harrison, Esq., Chester, Director of the North and South
Wales Bank
John Knanersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the
London and Manchester Direct Railway, and South Midland
Thos. Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South
Midland Railway
Thos. Challis, Esq., Alderman of London, Wilson-street, Finsbury
Thos. Sidney, Esq., Alderman of London, Sheriff of London and
Middlesex
Captain Alex. Hamilton Earle, Royal Artillery, Reform Club.
John Inglis Jardein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby
and Southampton Railway
Win. Morley, Esq„ Blackheath
Wm. Lee, Esq., Director of the Gravesend and Rochester, and Essex
and Suffolk Railways
Rd. Carpenter, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Henry Wright, Esq., Director of the South and Midland's Junction
Railway
Jokn Wheelton, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Thomas Collingridge, Esq., Highgate, Middlesex
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
John Brooke W albsuicke, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
Rd. Win. Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester and
Derbyshire and South Staffordshire Railways
Francis Valentine Lee, Esq., Temple, Director of the Eastern Counties
Railway
Major Jelf Sharp, Deputy-Chairman of the Thames Embankment
Railway
Major-General Brooks Parlby, C. 8., 18, 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 Leeds Railways
Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of the London and Birmingham
Railway
W. F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Director of the
Italian and Austrian Railway
W. G. Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway
John James, Esq., Secondary of London
Robert Henry Lyndam, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth
Railway
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanston-street, Portman-square,
Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
J. B. Richardson, Esq., Director of the Colchester and Cambridge
Railway
Julian Skreene, Esq., Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln
Railway
Frederick James Hall, Esq., Torrington-square, Director of the Bide-
ford and Tavistock Railway
Captain C. W. Tyndale, Director-of the South-Eastern Railway
Henry Lewis Smale, Esq., Willoughby House, Tottenham, Director
of the London and Dover Railway
Frederick Jones, Esq., Director of the Warwick and Worcester
Railway
C. Waite, Esq., Willesden, Middlesex
R. W. Wood, sq., Lodge-place, St. John's Wood, Director of the
North Metropolitan Railway
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manchester
and Birmingham Railway
Win. Shaw, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment Railway
Wm. Alfred Hill, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith
Railway
Richard Dutton Esq., Director of the Lincoln. York, and Leeds
Railway
Wm. Slark, Esq., Director of the Guarantee Society
James Reeves, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Railway
Frederick Collingridge, Esq., Thurlow-square, Brompton
Warren Stortnes Hale, Esq., Gresham-street
Robert Richards, Esq., Temple, Director of the Birmingham and Lon-
don Extension Railway
Kingamill Grove Key, Esq., Wandsworth-common
The Rev. F. K. Hall, D.D., Rector of Falbonrne, Cambridge
Daniel Penton Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Manches-
ter Railway
Charles Green, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith
Railway
John Barber, Esq., Director of the Gloucester aid Aberystwith
Railway
Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Hereford
E. R. Foster, Esq., Director of the Derby, Uttozeter, and Stafford-
shire Railway
Martin Furnis, Est, Director of the Nottingham, Newark, and
Boston Railway
Richard Groucock, Esq. Dulwich, Director of the Direct Manchester
Railway
W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the Birmingham and Manchester
Extension
W. Bardgett, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian Railway
Richard Parish, Esq., Bank House, Wordsley, Staffordshire
Samuel Parish, Esq., Wordsley, near Stourbridge, Staffordshire
Alexander Greig, Esq., Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square, Director of
the Leicester and Birmingham Railway
Thomas Yates Hunt, Esq., Brades, near Birmingham
William Singleton, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool
Direct Railway
Win. Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Railway
James Muscroft, Esq., Pontefract
David William Nell, Esq., Leeds, J.P., Director of the Leeds and
Thirsk Railway
Joseph Robert Wilkin Atkinson, Esq., Director of the Leicester and
Bedford, and York and Lancaster Railways
John Fagan, Esq., Gloucester-road, Old Brompton
Charles Holden, Esq., Director of the Great Grimsby and Sheffield

Railway
J. D. Hopkins, Esq., Bedford•asquare, Director of the London and
Birmingham Extension Railway
Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds. Director of the West Riding Junction

Railway
Peter Fairbairne, Esit., Leeds, Chairman of the Lincoln, York and
Leeds Railway
John Blackburn, Esq., Leeds
J. M. Douglas, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth
Railway
W. Sloane, Esq., Wimp°le-street
John Anderson, Esq., Lothbury, Director of the South and Midland
Railway
W. Ley, Esq., Gloucester-place, Pertman-square
Robert Power, Esq., Director of the Great Britain Life Assurance•
(Ace, Queen-street, May Fair,
Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Old Palace, Richmond
W. Bestow, Esq., Surrey-place
James Burnes% Esq., Leyton, Essex
G. N. Wright, M.A.
John Alexander Bicknell, Esq., Brandon Cottage, Bristol, Director of
the South and Midlands' Junction Extension Railway
James Lees, Esq., Delph, Saddleworth, near Manchester, Director of
the Saddleworth Banking Company
Arthur Agard Davenport, Esq., Eastwood, Notts, Director of the
Great Leeds and London Direct Railway
Joseph Lancelot Davenport, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby,
Derby, and Manchester Railway
(Wl'h power to add to their number.)
The names of an influential Committee formed at Worcester and
Chester will be published in a few days.

RANKERS.
The Commercial Bank of London
lartumeta—William Mußinger Higgins, Esq.
TARLIAMENTAR AGENTS.
Messrs. Parrott and Walmesley.
SOLICITORS.
rotted' and Collingridge, 5, Basinghall-street ; W. B. James, Esq.,
5, Basinghall-street,
SECRETARY—Hilton T. Jenkins, Esq.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Worcester—Charles Creswell, Esq. ; C. G. H. St. Patrick, Esq.
Whitchurch—James Bromfield, Esq.
Chester—John F. Maddock, Esq.
Shrewsbury—W. Cooper, Esq.
Wellington—George Marcy, Esq.
The geographical position of Worcester has caused its adoption as
the point where the broad gauge trunk:lines of the west are to have a
common terminus. From Oxford the Great Western Company have
decided on constructing a line of rail :—another project under the pa-
tronage of the same powerfld direction is now before the public,
uniting Worcester with Warwick ; and, that the broad gauge will be
carried from Worcester into Wales, and to the Irish packet stations
on that coast, is now no longer doubtful. This undertaking will com-
plete a series of great avenues of iron-road, whose ramification
ftom Worcester will render every part of the kingdom directly
accessible from that city. Passing up the Severn Vale, where
it will disclose a succession of picturesque scenes, it reaches
Stourport, and proceeding thence through Kidderminster, arrives at
BewdleY• This district is one of the chief seats of our carpet manu-
factures, and in the towns here named, exclusive of the intervening
districts, upwards of 30,000 persons are located. Leaving Stourbridge
a little to the east, the line is taken to gridgenorth, a town enjoying
an active Inland trade, and possessing woollen manufactures and iron
works, that.give employment to a population of about 15,U00. Pass-
ing through or near to Much Wenlock, Broseley, and Madeley, from
goare there will be a branch to Shrewsbury, the line amends
Dale, an approaching in its clumsy WilllingtOu ant Wens

enters Whitchurch. From this central place a branch will be formed
to Norwich via Stoke, forming a junction with the Liverpool and
Crewe Railway. The trunk line will continue from Whitchurch, and
passing through or near Malpas, have its northern terminus in the
city of Chester. . . . .

In estimating the probable amount of revenue which the Worces-
ter and Chester Railway may be expected to yield, many sources of
profit present themselves, such are the dense population located along
the length of the Severn Vale, and the enriching works of industry
in which they are engaged. Amongst the latter may be mentioned
the Chinananufactories of Worcester, the iron; coal, and earthen-
ware works at Broseley and other places; the agricultural produce
brought to Stourport market ; the inexhaustible fields of coal and
mines of iron ore in the vicinity of Colebrock 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-
tion 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
for investment, or a wider range of accommodation for traffic and
travelling. This project constitutes a lengthened link in the chain
that will connect Liverpool with Bristol, the grand trunk of the
West of England ;—its southern terminus, Worcester, is the half-
way station of: the London and Portdynnilaen broad gauge line
by projected lines a direct communication will be afforded west-
ward to Swansea and Aberystwith, and, eaalward, to Warwick and
Northampton, Cambridge, Peterborough, Harwich, Lynn, Lincoln,
and Hull.

The line has been repeatedly and carefully examined by the Corn-
pany's acting engineer, who reports that the rail for many miles may
be laid on the natural level—that the gradients are in every is-
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 prospectuses and plans may be made, and forms
of application for shares had at the offices of Messrs. Potter and
Collingridge, solicitors, 5, Bail:when-street ; also of W. B. James,
Esq., solicitor, 5, Basinghall-street ; of the local agents ; and of the
following gentlemen:—

Mr. Samuel Hanbury, 4, Angel-court ;
Loudon .. ./ Mr. Whiston Powell, 12,'Copthall-court; and
Messrs. Peppercorne, 2, Old Broad-street
Liverpool ...... ....Messrs. Alston and Gage.
_ _ _

Messrs. Iloughland and Leese, and Mr. Wit
Manchester • • .... [ ham Marshall.
[Messrs. Collinson and Flint, and James
Hull• ••'•••• • ' •• • • Bowden
Leeds • •
[Messrs. Smith and Perfect, and
J. Young and Co.,
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.

Messrs. Robertson and Co., and
Edinburgh • • • • .... [Messrs. M`Callum and Co.

Huddersfield ...• ..3iessrs. Wilson and Hellawell

Worcester • • • ..... Mr. Thomas Henry Wheeler.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

THE OXFORD and WORCESTER EXTENSION and CHESTER
JUNCTION RAILWAY, with BRANCHES to SHREWSBURY
and NORTHWICH.
Capital, 2,250,0001., in 125,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.

To the Provisional Committee of the Worcester and Chester
Railway.
_ . _

Gentlemen, —I 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 al.
lotted to me; and I undertake also to execute the Parliamentary
Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
Name (in MR) ...... •• • •• • .
Trade or Profession •••••• • • •• ••
Address of Referee ......• .. • •

OXFORD and WORCESTER EXTENSION
and CHESTER JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that no flirther applications for Shares in
this Company will be received after Tuesday, the 30th instant.
By order, HILTON THOMAS JENKINS, Secretary.
5, Basinghall-street, September 23, 1845.

TAMAICA SOUTHERN, EASTERN, AND
'0 NORTHERN RAILWAY, FROM KINGSTON TO MON-
TEGO BAY.

Office, No. 43, Moorgate-street.
Capital 1,500,0001., in 30,000 Shares of 501. each.
Deposit 21. per Share.
_

A Reservation of Shares for the PrOprietary, and others Interested in

the Island.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Major-Gen. Sir Love Parry, K.C.8., 31adryn Park, Caernarvoitshire
Sir John Key, Bart, Alderman of London, King's Arms-yard
Sir John J. Hansler, F.R.S., Upper Bedford-place
Sir George Rich, 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 Blackwall Railway
Johnßlunt, 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 Gullies, 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., Aldermary Churchyard, Director of the London
and Manchester Railway
John Francis Lambert, Esq , 6, Kensington Gardens-terrace
Francis Lloyd, Esq., 10, Crown Office-row, Temple
_ .

James MacMillan, Esq., Southampton, Director of the Southampton
Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railway
Thomas Newte, Esq., Harley-street, Director of the Barbadoes Rail.

way
James Reeves, Esq., Cheapside and Layton, Director of the Loudon
and Manchester Direct Railway
Edward Scard, Esq., Kew, Director of the Toronto and Lake Huron
Railway
E. 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 Barbadoos, and Great Eastern and Western Railways
W. G. Beare, Esq., Porchester-place, Director of the Worcester,
Shrewsbury, and Crewe Railway
William Fitzgibbon, Esq., Director of the Cork and Bandon, and
Cork and Kilkenny Railways
John Joseph Keene, Esq., St. John 's
-wood, Director of the National

Bank of Ireland
William King, Esq., WaterloO-place, Director of the Fr

surance Company
Matthew Richard Scott, Esq., Devonshire-place, Portman-square,
and Jamaica
John Griffith Frith, Esq., Austin-friars
Charles Itleaden, Esq., Adelaide-place, London-bridge, and Coulsden
Court, Surrey, Chairman of the ,Licensed Victualler? General
Fire and Life Assurance Company
Henry Stock, Esq., Bcddgelert, North Wales

-
Major Croft, 15, Regent-street, Deputy Chairman of the Chester and
Manchester. Railway Company
John King,Esq., St. John's-wood, London, and Glastonbury, Somer-
setshire
John Lilley, Esq., Worcester, Director of the Somersetshire Midland
Radway
J. Haines, Esq., Edgbaston, Birmingham

_ .
John Burgess, Esq., the Roroughreeve of Manchester, Director of
the Manchester and Birmingham Continuation an,' Welsh Junc-
tion Railway
Captain D. K. Pulteney, Parliament-street
Jeremiah Clark, Esq., Macclesfield.

(With power to add to their number.)

ENerxreas—William Gravatt, Esq., F.R.S. ; James Pilbrow, Esq.,
C.E. ; Frederick Braithwaite, Esq., 31.1.C.E..

SOLICITORS—Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street ;
Andrew Graham Dignurn, Esq., Jamaica.

RANKERS—Sir Claude Scott, Bart.' and Co., 1, Cavendish-square;
Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., 29, Clement's-lane, London;
The Planters' Bank, Jamaica.

The great difficulty, delay, and expense attending the transit 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 i 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
30s. per passenger.
_ _

The difference in the freights between the northern and southern
sides of the island and England is such, that independently of the
saving of time, this railway will enable proprietors on the northern
side, after payment of the costs of transit, to ship their produce at
much less expense than at present, and will afford them the advan-
tage of shipping at all times from the very excellent 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 Railway, and proceed thence by or near Rock
Fort, Yallahs, Morant Town, Port Morant, Plantain Garden, Man-
chioneal Harbour, Port Antonio, Buff Bay, Annotto 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 productive portion of the
island. _ _

Through the southern 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-
Ccles 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 vita, ebony, Spanish
elm, fine cedar, and other trees of enormous bulk. The line will
also bring largely into use the valuable pelmet) , and various other
woods for agricultural and household purposes, aad 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 he 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 sufficient 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 centage, 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, ➢loorgate-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.
Al,ton 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 the Provisional Committee of the Jamaica Southern, Eastern,
and Northern Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me shares of
501. each 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. --I am,
Gentlemen, your obedient servant,

Name in full ••••••..• • • • • • • •
Trade or Profession .............. • •
Place of business (If any) . . .
Date..
Reference .. •••• • • • • • •
*Wood is prepared nearly as hard as iron, and in that climate Ls
more durable.

JAMAICA. SOUTHERN, EASTERN, AND
NORTHERN RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that no further application for shares in
this undertaking, can be received from parties resident in London
after THURSDAY, the 25th day of September instant ; and from parties
resident in the country after SATURDAY, the 27th day of September
instant. By order,
g1A414,13 and ritzslaff, &tenon:
47. Mborgate•atreet, Sept. I% NW.

(REGISTERED PROVISIONALLY.)
PRELIMINARY NOTICE. lELD
THE SOUTHAMPTON and PETERSF
RAIL WAY. . -5 Iron
This line, by communicating with the intended rail be,
London to Portsmouth, will effect a saving of' about eight "I
tween London and Southampton. inforrniug
The promoters of this undertaking take this means of Att
the public that, in a few days, they will issue a prospectus, Tr"—
influential Committee.
In the meantime, applications for shares, and other int:selluiti:
may be obtained of Wm. Rodwell, Esq., Stockbroker, '".,treet,
morton-street ; of Messrs. Tilson and Squance, 29, Coleraae-
London ; or of Richard Randall, Esq., Solicitor, Southampton
ESSEX AND SUFFOLK RAIL
OFFICE, 24, Meorgate-street, Sept. 23, 1845. ...10d,
The Allotment of Shares in this Railway being now comp the!
the!
Committee of Management desire to express their regret sppli"
have not been able to comply so fully as they desired with ,u ttio
catons of parties locally interested, and of holders of shares
Eastern Counties and Norfolk Companies. that ewlebgeest'
The public generally will also accept as an apology,
the unprecedented number of applications the Committee " ty
compelled to disappoint many of the very highest respeetebin
of necessity to limit the number of shares in each allotment'
R. R. MAPLETOFI',
G RAND UNION RAIL 11IVA h
COMMITTEE OF DIRECTION.
Sir George G. de H. Larpent, Bart., Chairman
Wynn Ellis, Esq., M.P.
William Hutt, Esq., M.P.
The Mayor of Nottingham
Thomas Calvert Braseley, Esq., Marston, near Grauthlk!
Jonathan Burton, Esq., Nottingham
Frederick Cooke, Esq., Boston
William Gibson, Esq., Nottingham
Mr. Thomas Gee, Nottingham
Frederick Plant, Esq., Nottingham
Frederick Fowler Robertson, Esq., Grantham
Henry Smyth, Esq., Nottingham
Thomas Wakefield, Esq., Nottingham.
G
ENGINEER IN CHlEF—Charles Vignoles, Esq.,
ACTING ENHINEEE—George Thompson, Esq'
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Capes and Stuart, Gray's Inn, London.
Messrs. W, and S. Parsons, jun., Nottingham.
M. Staniland, Esq., Boston.
Messrs. White, Kewney, and White, Granthal• od CA4
PARSIAMENTART Aaiun's—Messrs. Dorrington, Hayward'
Parliament-street
The Directors have the satisfaction to inform their Paro7oiol
that arrangements have been concluded with the Norfolk r.
for an extension of the line from Wisbeach, via DeNenh_„eloicill,
to Brandon, thus completing an independent line of COl"-.,fsetn,er
from Yarmouth and Norwich to Nottingham and the rnaejso' oce4
districts, and securing by the alliance the passing of We a refer',
the entire portion of the Grand Union and Extension rj
to. The distance between Nottingham and Yarmouth by
posed extension will be as short as by the Lynn and Der frolOr
Lynn and Ely lines, while the traffic to apd from the north, DOtilt
central, west, and south parts of Norfolk; the north of COI for
shire, and the counties of Suffolk and Essex, will be seewred
united undertaking. jot.
The Extension Line will be made by the two ComPe: 8115
and the shares will be apportioned amongst the respecter
holders of each. OR.
•
It is intended that the Norfolk and Grand Union ConlPvile§ to tDO
guarantee four per cent dividend, with a division of Pr°- 0
shareholders of the new line. fro
.yien
The direction will consist of an equal number of gentle- DeDB
the Norfolk and Grand Union boards, and Mr. Robert Step
will co-operate with Mr. Vignoles as engineer of the line.
Further particulars will be shortly advertised. nacre°
By order, ALFRED BEESTON,
BARNET and NORTH METROPOLLIkvo
JUNCTION RAILWAY.II
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and Bth Victoria, etIP.
Capital, 400,0001., in 20,000 Shares of 201. each.
,a 0
Deposit, 21.25. per Share. enbSetir
No Shareholder to be liable beyond the amount of his
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Aug .-
The Hon. F. M. F Berkeley, M.P., Chairman, Director of.. a
Hounslow, and Western Railway Company yXl3°9
William Alfred Hill, Esq., Deputy-Chairman, also Denot- fl.
of the Oxford,, Witney, and Cheltenham Railway ComPa' s°n
Sir John Osborne, Bart., Director of the Tring, Reading, 0(
stoke Railway Company Vr6
Sir Henry Richardson, Knight, Chessel, near SouthaMPten
the Manors of Chipping Barnet and East Barnet
The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne, Belle Hatch House, He-111'L O °id
William Wilberforce, Esq., James-street, Buckingloun'
Highwood House, Highwood Hill, Hendon
Samuel Dendy, Esq., Montague-street, 1,00 of
Russell-square,
Manor of Hendon
Lieut.-Colonel .Gillies, Porchester House, Bayswater 100

William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, 'Director of the h
Austrian Railway lei
Josiah Beale, Esq., Gray's Inn ..illi,
',r —'• (" . AbeeVi"-

Major Lindam, K.H., Chairman of the Gloucester,
~,Defterg
Central Wales Railway Company
Henry Beckley Richardson, Esq., F.S.A., Director of OA
Camhridge, and Harwich Junction Railway Cs'lna'
Rowland Hill Mackenzie, Esq., M.D., Mortimer-street,
of
square • for
Henry Chaytor, Esq., Clervaux Castle, Darlington, Pre
Warwick and Worcester Railway
Thomas Hemming Jchnson, Esq., Older's Hall,
Hendon, Wdrdisolig
Thomas Priestley, Esq., Principal of Mill Hill Graintue`

Hendon, Middlesex
The Rev. H. J. Crump, Mill Hill, Hendon, Middlesex
Captain Grover, R.N. 11001
Captain John Innes, 11.C.5., Wentworth House, M---m
Middlesex St. 14
The Rev. Bartholomew Nicholls, M.A., Incumbent of
Mill Hill, Hendon, Middlesex

Mr. William Ward, iinderhill, Barnet collie
Mr. Bruce Johnson, Finchley
William Christopher Daniel Deighton, Esq., Fellow of o..tieell' Act*
Dor," Cambridge, Holloway
Ralph .Allen •Frogley, Esq., Hounslow, Director 0.. the
Hounslow, and Western Railway ---"
Colonel Taylor White, Hadley-green, Barnet --- ----- - - '
Abraham Scott, Esq., Hadley Priory, Barnet
W. J. M`Gwire, Esq., 74, St. James's-street

W. PrOsser, jun., Esq., 36, New Broad-street, City
James Berington, Esq., East-street, Hoxton
George Freeman, Esq., Grange House, Leeds

Richard Cowley Polhill, Esq., Director of the London, 11l
Western Railway Company
G— Godfrey, Et Thi H'