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C. Waite, Esq., Willesden, Middlesex

Wm. Shu7k, Esq., Director of the Guarantee Society

Kiugsmill Grove Key E;q 'Wandsworth-common

James .11-uscroft, Esq., Pontefract

John Blackburn, Esq., Leeds

W. Sloane, Esq., Wlrnpole-street

Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Old Palace, Richmond

W. Pistow, Esq., Surrey-place

James Burriess,tig., Leyton, Essex
G. N. Wright, M.A. _ _

BANNERS.
The Commercial Bank of London
ENGINEER—WiIIiam Mullingar Higgins, Esq.
SOLICITORS.

Birmingham Mr. Collis and Mr. John Wright.
Glasgow. •••• • • • —Messrs. Tassie and Co. _

r Messrs. Robertson and Co., and
Edinburgh • • / Messrs. M'Callum and Co.

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O
XFORD, WORCESTER, end WOLVER-
HAMPTON RAILWAY. ,
The Royal Assent having been given to the Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton Railway Bill, holders of Scrip in that undertaking
are re.imrk,:. to forwart: the same on or btfore the 20th of , 1 . ‘..-.tr
next .to the Company's offices at Worcester, or 449 West
London, with a Letter (the form of which may be obta ne on appli-
cation at either office), requesting to be registered for their respective
shares. A receipt will be given for the scrip, which receipt may be
exchanged for sealed certificates OR or after the 30th Septcnbsr next.
Shares, in respect of which no application for registry shall be made
as above, will be registered in the names of the original subscribers,
after which they can only be passed by formal transfer, agreeably to
the Act, Bth Victoria, cap. 16.
Aug. 16, 1845

N. T. SMITH, Secretary.

THE OXFORD and WORCESTER EXTEN-
SION and CHESTER JUNCTION RAILWAY, with
Branches to Shrewsbury and Northwitch. On the Broad Gauge.
(Provisionally registered.)
Oapital 2,250,0001., in 125,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Lord George Paget, Uxbridge House
The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, 4, Parliament-street, Directo
of the Nottingham and Boston Railway
Major Beresford, M.P.

Sir William Bac.on Johnson, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire, Director
of the Chester and Forest of Dean Railways
Sir Wm. Wynn, Maesyneward, Chairman of the North Wales Railway
Sir Samuel Brown, Director of the Warwick and Worcester Railway
Sir John Edward de Beauvoir, Chairman of the London and Bir-
mingham Extension

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, Director of the South and Midland
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
3lajor Chase, 31, Nottingham-place
Captain S. M. Eisher,jun., Director of the Warwick and Worcester
Railway
Captain kitchens, 1LE.1.C.5., Director of the Birmingham and Ox-
ford Railway
Captain F. Chamier, 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., &c.
Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South
Midland Railway
John Kiuneraley 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 Carle, Royal Artillery, Reform Club.
John Inglis Jardein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby
and Southampton Railway
Wm. Morley, Race, 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
Chas. Robt. Colman, Esq., Director of the South and Midland Rail-
way

Henry Wright, Esq., Director of the South and Midland's Junction
Railway
_ _

John 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 Brocke Walbancke, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
Rd. Wm. 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 Jeff 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 Skreenc, Esq., Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln
Railway
. _

Frederick Jades Hall, Esq., Torrington-square, Director of the Bide-
ford and Tavistock Railway

Captain C. W. Tyndale, Director of the South-Eastern Railway
Frederick Jones, Esq., Director of the Warwick and Worcester
Railway

Henry Lewis Smale, Esq., Willoughby House, Tottenham, Director
of the London and Dover Railway
_ _

R. W. Wood, Esq., Lodge-place, St. John's Wood, Director of the
North ➢ietropolltan Railway

George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manchester
and Birmingham Railway

Wm. 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

James Reeves, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Railway
Frederick Collingridge, Esq., Thurlow-square, Brampton

Warren StormesHaTe; Esq., Gresham street
Robert Richards, Esq., Temple, Director of the Birmingham and Lon-
don Extension Railway

The Rev. F. K. Hall, D.D.,Rector of Falbourne, 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 hr.,' Aberystwith
Railway
Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Hereford
E. R. Foster, Esq., Director of the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford-
shire Railway

Martin Furnis, Esq., Director of the Nottingham, Newark, and
Boston Railway

W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the Birmingham and Manchester
Extension Railway
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

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-square, Director of the London and
Birmingham Extension Railway
Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds, Director of the West Riding Junction
Railway
. _

Peter Fairbairne, Esq., Leeds, Chairman of the Lincoln, York and
Leeds Railway

J. M. Douglas, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth
Railway

John Anderson, Esq., Lothbury, Director of the South and Midland
Railway

W. Ley, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square
Robert Power. Esq., Queen-street, May Fair, Director of the Great
Britain Life Assurance-office.

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 Manchester Banking Company
(With power to add to their number.)

The names of au influential Committee formed at Worcester and
Chester.will be published in a few days.

Potter and Collingridge, 5, Basinghall-street ; W. B. James, Esq.,
5, Basinghall-street.
SEMETAav—Hilton T. Jenkins, Esq.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Worcester—C. Geo, H. St. Patrick, Esq.
Whitchurch—James Bromfield, Esq.
Chester—John P. Maddock, Esq.
Wellington—George Marcy, Esq.
Shrewsbury—W. Cooper, Esq.
The geographical position of Worcester has caused its adoption as
the point where the broad guage trunk lines of the west are to have a
rommon terminus. From Oxford the Great Western Company have
lecided on constructing a line of rail :—another project under the pa-
tronage of the same powerful 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 doubtl4l. This undertaking will com-
plete a series of great avenues of iron-road, whose ramification
from 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 Bridgenorth, a town enjoying
an active inland trade, and possessing woollen manufactures and iron
works, that give employment to a population of about 15,000. Pass-
ing through or near to Much Wenlock, Broseley, and Madeley, from
which place there will be a branch to Shrewsbury, the Nile ascends
Colebrook Dale, and approaching in its course Wellington and Wens,
enters Whitchurch. From this central place a branch will be formed
to Norwlch 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 may be expected to yield, many sources of
n
such are the dense population located along
profit
tnd present Chester Railway
ther length of the Severn Vale, and the enriching works of industry
in which they are 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 produce
brought to Stourport market ; the inexhaustible fields of coal and
mines 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»
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, ordfreattitux.lll, fewarY
to existing or projected lines passing In various
schemes hitherto pro
cxlation for traffic and
for investment, or a wider range of accomm
d link in the chain
constitutes si lengthene
the grand trunk of the
epeotsedappear to afford greater inducement
travelling. This project
Worcester, Is the tllviae
West
tmolfllEcongnlnanecdt;_Lii
gauge line half-
way station of the Lon lontand
communication will be afforded ,ewrniptlo;rtercilynisltuoislii,mon
broad
:
by projected lines a direbcery,
twith, and, ma:ward, to Warwick and
west-
ward to Swansea and A
;—its southern
e Peterborough, Harwich Lynn, Lincoln,
Northampton, Cambridg ,
anl Hull.
repeatedly and carefully examined by the Corn-
The line has been
who reports that the rail for many mil
pony's acting engineer, es may
pan, natural level—that the gradients are in every in-
stance laid on the
the geological struchrof
e favourable—thate the districts to
statnrcaversed Is equally so, and that the want of such a line of com-
mbeunication Is acknowledged by the interests seated on 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, Bashighall-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,
London .. •• • • •• • /
Mr. Whiston Powell, 12, Copthall-court ; and
Messrs. Peppercorns, 2, Old Broad-street
L verpool• • • . . • . • • • Messrs. Alston and Gage.
Manchester ......Messrs. Houghland and Leese, and Mr. Wil-
t Liam Marshall.
Hull
...
•••• 00 •• •• [Messrs. Collinson and Flint, anal James
Bowden
Leo ~
.. [Messrs. Smith and Perfect, and
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Messrs. J. Young and Co.,
Stratford-on-Avon-Mr. William Bolton.
Exeter....
Plymouth . ..... .. Messrs. Hayward and Palmer.

Huddersfield ..... .liessrs. Wilson and Hellawall
Worcester ..
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

To the Provisional Committee of the Worcester and Chester
Railway.

Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me Shares of
20/. each in this Company, and I undertake to accept the same, an
to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number tliat may be al-
lotted to me; and I undertake also to execute the Parliamentary
Centract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
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Trade or Profession .. •• •• •• •• ••
Reference......... •••••••••••
Addrese of Referee •• •• •• .•
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