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No. 16,593.

THE DIRECT LONDON and EXETER
RAILWAY (with EXTENSION to FALMOUTH and
PENZANCE).
The Committee of Management hereby give Notice that they
have COMPLETED the ALLOTMENT of SHARES, and that the
usual letters are this day issued. In the arduous duty of deciding on
claims unprecedented, it is believed, in their number and respecta-
bility, the Committee have been obliged to give a preference to ap-
plicants locally interested, or likely to bring to bear for tha Company
a large share of legitimate influence. The numerous persons, with
umioubted claims on the score of wealth and social standing, whose
appOcations have either been passed over or cut down, are requested
to accept this reason as the Committee's apology.
The Committee d6sire to add, that while attestations of public
support are daily reaching them from the most influential quarters,
the engineering preparations, under Mr. Braithwaite, are so far ad-
vanced, that the project cannot fail to be placed before Parliament in
a manner the most satisfactory to the Shareholders.
E. S. BLUNDELL, Hon. Sec.

BIRMING.HAM AND MANCHESTER
DIRECT RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 900,0001., in 45,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21.25. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Sir George Prescott, Bart.
The Hon. Cecil Lawless, Lynbarth, Kildare, and St. James's-street
Sir Love Parry Jones Parry, Major-General, K.H., Madryn, Car-
narvonskire, Director of the Leicester, Bedford, and of the Direct
East and West Junction Railways
Si William Twisden, Bart., Dorset-square, Director of the Chepstow
and Forest of Dean Railway
r Wm. Young, Bart., East India Director, Westbourne-street,
Hyde Park-gardens, Director of the Sheffield, Nottingham, and
London Direct Railway
Sir William Wynn, K.C.8., Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, Chairman of
the North Wales Railway
Sir Henry Webb, Bart., 105, Pall-mall, Director of the York and
Lancaster Railway
The Sheriff of York, Director of the Sheffield, Nottingham, and
London Direct Railway
Ayscough, Rear-Admiral, Prospect-place, Southampton, Director of
the Sheffield, Nottingham, and London Direct Railway
Adair, Major, Director of the Church of England Assurance Society,
and of the Burton-upon-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and New-
town, and Indian Peninsular Railways
Arnold, Henry, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of Remington's Direct
London and Manchester Railway
Booth, John, Esq., Park-cottage. Macclesfield, Director of the Leeds,
Huddersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct, and Sheffield, Notting-
ham, and London Direct Railways
Brookes, John, Esq., Alderman of Manchester, Director of Reming-
ton's Direct London and Manchester Railway
Brown, Henry, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Director if Remington's
Direct London and Manchester Railway
Brown, Isaac Baker, 27, Oxford-square, Hyde-park
Buck, W. C., Esq.
Cambridge, John, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of the
Burton-on-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newtown Railway
Chambers, Wm., Esq., Cocks Bench, Derby, Director of Remington's
Direct London and Manchester Railway
Clarke, Jeremiah, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Cleobury, Thomas Mortimer, Esq., Acton, Middlesex, Director of the
Sheffield, Nottingham, and London Direct Railway
Cook, John, the Rev., Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, Director of the Shef-
field, Nottingham, and London Direct Railway
Croft, Major J. T. Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman, Director of
Remington's Direct London and Manchester Railway
Crossley, John, Esq., Lumberhurst, Sussex, Director of the Sheffield,
Nottingham, and London Direct Railway.
Cumberlege, N., Esq., York-terrace, Regent's Park, Director of the
Burton-upon-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newtown, and
Derbyshire, Staffordshire. and Worcestershire Junction Railways
Balby, J. ' Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Dale, Major Thurston, Ashbourne, Director of the Burton-on-Trent,
Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newton, and Leeds, Huddersfield, and
Wolverhampton Direct Railways
Daniel, R Esq , Oakhill, Stoke-upon-Trent, Director of the Leeds,
Huddersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway
Darlington' John, Esq., Shipley Hall, Bradford, Director of the Liver-
pool and Leeds Direct Railway
Dewhurst, Richard, Esq., Apaley House, Huddersfield, Director of
the West Riding Union Banking Company, and Director of the
West Riding Junction Railway
Dent, Edward, Esq., Director of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and
Great Grimsby Direct Railway
Dent, John, Esq., Director of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and
Great Grimsby Direct Railway
Eastwood, Abraham, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds, Hud-
dersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway
Eastwood, Edmund, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds, Mud
dersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway
Ellis, John, Esq., Temple
Ewa, t, Francis, of 4, Brick-court, Temple, Director of the Great
Leeds and London Direct, Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Me-
tropolitan Junction Railways
Fitche, George, Lieutenant-Colonel, 36, York-terrace, London, Di-
rector of the London and Lancaster Railway
Franklin, Benjamin, Harley-street, London
Garde, Richard, Esq., 16, Steven's-green, Dublin
Gisborne, Henry Francis, Esq., Derby, Director of the Burton-on-
Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newtown Railway
Grant, Daniel, Esq., Manchester, Director of Remington's Direct
London and Manchester Railway
Hammond, George, Esq., Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railway
Heneage, C., Esq., Pall-mall, Cadeley Place, Lincolnshire, Director
of the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway
Herries, Robert, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway
Hind, Abraham, Esq., Director of the Manchester,: Huddersfield and
Great Grimsby Direct Railway
Holdforth, J. D., Esq., Burley, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway
Hughes, Hughes W., Esq., Alderman of the City of London
Ingleby, Joseph, Esq., Cheadle, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield,
and Wolverhampton Direct Railway
Johnson, Richard William, Esq., Moorgate, Director of the Brighton
and Cheltenham, and Remington's Direct London and Manchester
Railways
Jones, Edward, Esq., Windmill-place, Camberwell, Director of the
Leeds, Huddersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway
Jones, the Rev. J. P., Vicarage, Alton, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Keene, John Joseph, Esq., St. John's Wood, Regent's Park, Di-
rector of the Burton-on-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and New-
town Railways
King, William, Esq., Stepney, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction, and Brighton and Cheltenham
Railways
Knight, Ed arard, M.D., Stafford, Director of the Burton-on-Trent,
Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newtown Railway
Lambert, Richard, Esq., Lyston-hall, Sudbury
Lea, John Wheeley, Eaq., Worcester
Mackenzie, T., Esq.. Duke-street, Liverpool
Macmillan, James, Esq., 17, Manchester-buildings, Westminster, Di-
rector of the Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Railway
M'Cann, Nicholas, Esq., 50, Parliament-street
IL'lllahon, Daniel, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Mainwaring, John, Esq., Eagle-Hall, Pateley-bridge, Director of the
York and Lancaster Railway
31-ten, T., Esq., Chapel-cottage, Holloway
Maskery, Thos., Esq., Iforbury-hall, Director of the Brighton and
Cheltenham Railway
Meteyard, Horace W., Esq., Director of Remington's Direct London
and Manchester Railway
Moore, Major, Anne-street, Cavendish-square, Director of the Burton-
on-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newtown Railway
Murray, James T., Esq., George-street, Hanover-square, Director of
theßurton-upen-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newton Railway
Mesgrave, S., Esq.
Nadin, Joseph, Esq., Stapenhill, Director of Remington's Direct Lon-
don and Manchester Railway
Nadin, Nathaniel, E-11., Stapenhill, Derbyshire, Director of Reming-
ton's Direct London and Manchester Railway
Norton, Joseph, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Nottingham and
London Direct Railway
Ogle, Nathaniel, Esq., Heath-lane Lodge, Twickenham, Director of
the Burton-on-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newtown Rail-
way
Pulteney, Captain Douglas Kinnaird, 4, Parliament-street, Chairman
of the York and Lancaster Railway, and Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Richardson, Joseph, Esq.
Riddle, Robert Andrew, Esq., 23, Bryanston-street, Portman-square,
Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and of the Ox-
ford and Worcester Extension Railway
Robinson, John, Esq., Sllcoates-cottage, Wakefield, Director of the
Leeds, Huddersfield and Wolverhampton Direct, and Sheffield,
Nottingham, and London Direct Railways
Roden, T. C., Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Leeds, Huddders-
field, and Wolverhampten Direct Railway.
Shipton, Robert, Esq., Scropton, Derbyshire, Director of Remington's
Direct London and Manchester Railway
Skidmore, J. A., Esq., St. John's, Wakefield, Director of the Great
Leeds and London Direct, and Hull and Holyhead Direct Railways
Smith, John, Esq., Barton-house, Ashborne, Derbyshire
Smith, Thomas, Esq., M.D., Leeds, Director of the Leeds, Hudders-
field, and Wolverhampton Direct, and Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railways
Smith, Wm., Esq., Clifton, Derbyshire, Director of the Brighton and
Cheltenham Railway
Sneyd, Thomas, Esq., Belmont
Spiers, Edward John, Esq., Carlton-villa, Maida-vale, Director of the
Staffordshire, Derbyshire, and Worcestershire Railway
Stanhore, Lieutenant-Colonel Leicester, Chairman of Remington's
Direct London and Manchester Railway
W. Wynnie Thomas, Esq., Cross, Oswestry
Trapp, Benjamin, Esq., banker, Bedford, Director of Remington's
Direct London and Manchester Railway
Tyler, George, Esq., Holloway-place, London, Director of the
Brighton and Cheltenham Railway
Walker, Charles, Esq., Ellastone
Walker, George, Esq., Wootton-park, Ashborne
Waller, Major James, K.H., St. James's-square, Director of the
Leeds, Huddersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct, and Brighton
and Cheltenham Railways
Walters, James, Esq., Bakewell, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield
and Wolverhampton Direct Railway
Warren, Jos. Loxdale, Esq., the Lodge, Market Drayton, Salop
Wardle. Henry, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's London
and Manchester Direct Railway
Welsh, Robert, Esq., Director of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and
Great Grimsby Direct Railway Company
Weston Thomas, Esq., Tean, Director of the Leeds, Huldersfleld,
Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railway
Wilkinson, J., Esq.
Wright. Thomas, Esq., merchant, Derby, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway.
SOLICITDR—W. Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq.
ENGINEER—George Remington, Esq.
SECRETARY—A. A. Flint, Esq.
BANKERS—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co.
Local. AGENT—R. 11. Tarleton, Esq., Birmingham.

Leicester and Bedford,- and Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Glou-
cester Junction Ralways
Williams, Benj., Esq, banker, 4, Whitehall
Williams, William, Esq., Royal Foundry, Bedford, Director of Re
mington's Direct London anal Manchester Railway
Wood, John, Esq., IVednesbury, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf

RAILWAY
Y.

LONDON CENTRAL
TERMINUS COMPAN
PROVISIONAL COSIMITTEI
The Earl of Kilmorey -
William Bland, Esq.
J. B. Boothby
J. B. Byron, Esq.
Edward Crawley, Esq.
William Chadwick, Esq.
Edward Chapman, Esq.
William Chaplin, Esq.
The Count Eyre
Charles Finch, Esq.
Rowland Hill, Esq.
Colonel Henderson
J. D. Lowden, Esq.
Apsley PVlatt, Esq.
H. L. Smale, Esq.
Thomas Smith, Esq.
William Shadbolt, Esq.
T. B. Simpson, Esq.
C. F. Whiting, Esq.,
John Addis, Esq.
J. D. Brown, Esq.
Thomas Farncomb, Esq.
J. G. Hudson, Esq.
A. Inderwick, Esq.
George Miller, Esq.
Captain M'Kinnon
Nicholas M 46, Esq.
Wo.lLOtiot Esq.
The Committog ;Won Central Railway Terminus Corn.
pany hereby -beg to nform the public that, in consequence of the
extraordinary proceedings of the Proprietors of the Charing-cross
Bridge Company, in reference to the proposed purchase of that struc-
ture by this Company, they decided on availing themselves of another
means of communication with the Middlesex shore, they are happy
to state that their overtures for that purpose have been most favour-
ably received, and every facilitYpromised ; indeed, the Committee en-
tertain no doubt that such an 'artangement will very shortly be
effected as will promote the interest of all gaitcerned, and take this
opportunity of stating also that the Allotmnt of Shares will take
place forthwith.

DIRECT WESTERN RAILWAY.
In reply to the numerous inquiries made of the Committee
of Management, they beg to announce, that in consequence of the
number of Shares applied for having exceeded one million four hun-
dred thousand, considerable delay has nece sarily taken place in
making the allotment, which, however, will be completed in a few
days.

fordshire, ant Wortestershire Junction Railways
Weston, Thomas, Eii., Tean, Staffordshire, Director of the Leeds,
Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South St.: ffordshire, and of the Der-
byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railways
Wood, William, Esq., Chetwynd-house, Newport, Salop, Di-
rector of the Shropshire Mineral, Ord of the Leeds, Huddersfield,
Sheffield, and South Staffordshirelways
Wood, Charles, Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction, and of the Leeds, Huddersfield,
Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railways
Woodward, John, Esq., Worcester
W. Wynnie Thomas, Esq., Cross, Oswestry
Yzarn, J. Berwick, Herne-hill, Surrey.

The Committee have the satisfaction of stating that the surveys
and Farliamentary plans are in a very forward state. and that al I
will be ready for the next session of Parliament.

By order,
T. H. SAUICDERS, Secretary.

20, Poultry, London,
17th October, 1845.

WOLVER HAMPTON, CHESTER, and
BIRKENHEAD JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that no farther Applications for Shares will
be entertained after Motibsy, the 20th inst.
W. G. VARDY, 18, Finsbury-place, London.
JOHN SMITH, } Birmingham.
C. J. NOBLE,
October 14, 1845.

ENGINEERS.
Sir John Rennie, F.R.S., and
Georgo'Remington, Esq., C.E.
BANKERS.

/SHE EASTERN COUNTIES EXTENSION
A. and CAMBRIDGE and WORCESTER DIRECT RAILWAY,
from Cambridge through Bedford, Blisworth,yenny-Compton, Strat-
ford-on-Avon, to Worcester, connecting the Eastern and North-
Eastern Counties with North and South Wales, South Staffordshire,
Cheshire, Shropshire, Gloucestershire, Bristol, the West of England,
and the Midland Counties.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 1,000,000/., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21.25. per Share.
PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS.
Samuel Anderson, Esq. I Directors of the Eastern Counties Rai
F. Valeatine Lee, Esq.,
Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Pall-mall, London
Major-General Sir Love Jones Love Parry, Bart., K.C.R.,
Madry n-paPk, C aern arvonshi re
William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., Alderman
of London, Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead
Continuation Railway Company
Captain William Cousins, Director of the Goole and Doncaster
Railways
James Beach, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place, London, and Bran-
don-lodge, Nsiarwickshire, Director of the South Midland

Bedford—
Cambridge—Messrs. Foster
N,rthampton—The Northamptonshire Banking Company.
Leamington, Warwick, and Southam—The Leamington Priors and
. .. Warwickshire Banking Company.
SOLICITORS.
Augustus Walter Arnold, Esq., 31, Golden-square
John Owens, Esq., 35, Moorgate:street
3corge Pell, Esq., jun., Northampton. •
LOCAL AGENTS.
Worcester—Messrs Gilliam and Sons

PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED,
Pursuant to 7 and S Vict. c. 110.

PORTSMOUTH AND LANGSTON RAIL-
WAY AND DOCK COMPANY. •
Capital, 2,000,0001., in shares of 25/. each.
Deposit 2/. 12s. 6d. per Share.
\o Shareholder to be liable for more than the amount of his shares.
Offices, 46, Moorgate-street.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. Lord Suffield, Gunton-park, Norfolk
The Right Hon. Lord Pelham Clinton
The Right Hon. Lord Stephen Chichester
The Right Hon. Lord Edward Chichester
The Hon. G. A. Hamilton Chichester, K.P.
The Hon. Wm. Dawson Darner, Parkston-lodge, Poole
Sir John Owen, Part. M.P. Orielton-house, Lord-Lieutenant of Pem-
brokeshire, Vice-Admiral of the coast, Governor of Milford
Haven, &c.
Sir J. Douglas Hamilton Hay, Bert. Rose Croft, Surrey
Sir Win. Ogilvie, Bart. Brompton
Sir Samuel Raymond Jarvis, Fair Oak-park, near Winchester, De-
puty-Lieutenant for Hants
Captain Sir Win. Henry Pierson, R.N. West-house, Emsworth, Hants
Sir George Rich, Lowndes.strect, Belgrave-square
Sir James Eyre, 11, Lower Brook-street, Grosvenor-squaie
Wm. Bulkeley Hughes, Esq. M.P. Plas-Cosh, Anglesey, Chairman
of the Welsh Midland Railway
Captain C. A. Manning, Portland Castle, Resident Magistrate and
Deputy-Lieutenant for Portland and Dorset
Colonel Henry Dundas Campbell, Northend-house, Portsmouth,
Deputy-Lieutenant for Hants
Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Greive, Green-park, Bath
Major Charles Jasper Selwyn, Royal Engineers, Exeter, director of
the Oxford, Southampton, and Portsmouth Railway
Captain Hulme, Royal Engineers, Exeter
Daniel Tupper, Esq. Queen's Receiver, Guernsey
Edward Woolmer, Esq. mayor of Exeter
William Gordon; Esq. M.D. F.L.S. Hull
George Spry, Esq. Surbiton, Surrey
Henry Vie, Esq. Colchester, Receiver-General of Taxes for Essex and
Suffolk
James Macmillan, Esq. Southampton and London, director of the
Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railway
John Boyd, Esq. magistrate, Newry
Benjamin Collett, Esq. Grafton Manor House, Broomagrove
William Douglas, Esq. merchant, Liverpool
Captain Edmund Normcott, R.N. Blackheath
Francis Boyle Garty, Esq. director of the Birmingham, Oxford and
Reading Junction, Hull, Great Grimsby, and Southampton Direct
Railways
Rev. George Ingram, Chedburgh Rectory, Suffolk
Edward Ward Jackson, Esq. Edge-hill, Liverpool, director of the
Staffordshire Potteries, Liverpool and Manchester, and of the direct
Liverpool and Leeds Railways
James Irvine, Esq. Liverpool, director of the Cheltenham, Oxford,
and London Junction, and Liverpool and Bolton Direct Railways
John B. Baukhead, Esq. director of the Great County Down Railway
Wm. Kirkpatrick, Esq. director of the Newry, Armagh, and Lon-
derry Junction
Henry Keate, Esq. Claremont-hill, Shrewsbury, director of the Di-
rect Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
Robert Medill, Esq. merchant, director of the Direct Birmingham,
Oxford, Reading. and Worcester Railway
R. 31931ain, Esq. director of the Great County Down Railway
Captain Wm. Tringham. R.N. Solihull, Warwickshire
D. W. Whitehead, Esq. Manchester, director of the Direct Birming-
ham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
Wm. S. Sichell, Esq. Manchester, director of the Direct Leeds and
Liverpool Railway.
Major John T. Croft, deputy-chairman of the Chester and Manches-
ter Direct Railway
James Milman Coley, Esq. Bridgenorth, director of the Cambrian and
Grand Junction Railway
Wm. Birmingham Costello, Esq. Wyke-house, Brentford, director of
the Direct London and Exeter Railway
Rob. Baugh Blakemore, Esq. Director of the Shrewsbury, Wolver-
hampton. and South Staffordshire Railway
W. H. Cooper, Esq. Shrewsbury, director of the Direct Birmingham,
Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
F. Carvill, Esq. director of the Newry and Enniskillen Railway
Alex. Geo. Gordon, Esq. Linley-hall, West Broseley, director of the
London and Dublin Approximation Railway
Charles Hurst, Esq. Midhurst, Sussex
A. C. Jeffry, Esq. Liverpool, director of the Direct Birmingham, Ox-
ford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
Hunter, Esq. Leamington, director of the Direct Western, and
Rugby and Manchester Railways
George Gordon, Esq. Shrewsbury
John Onions, Esq, Broseley, Salop, iron-master, director of the Dud-
ley, Madeley, and Broseley Railway ; Grand Junction and Cam-
brian ; and London and Dublin Approximation Railway
Isaac Taylor, Esq. Monkinoor, Shropshire, director of the Direct
Birmingham, Oxford, and Reading Railway
John Thorn, Esq. Broseley, director of the Dudley, Madeley, and
Broseley; the Grand Junction and Cambrian; and the London
and Dublin Approximation Railway
Richard Thurstield, Esq. Much Wenlock, Salop, magistrate
Robert Andrew Riddle, Esq. Bryanstone-street, Portman-square,
chairman of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway
John Reginald Riddle, Esq. Bycullah House, Enfield, mauaging
director of the Leeds and London Railway
Alexander Bicknell, Esq., Brandon Cottage, Bristol
Richard Lambert, Esq. Leyton Hall, Sudbury
George Henry Thompson, Esq., Greenwood Park, County Down
(With power to add to their number)
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Coverdale and Lee, 4, Bedford-row, London.
ENGlNEElts—Messrs. Rennie.
SECRETARY—George N. White, Req.
RANEERS.
London—Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Compana,
Liverpool—The Bank of Liverpool
Manchester—The Bank of Manchester
Birmingham--Messrs. Attwood, Spooner, and Company
I.eeds—The Leeds Banking Company
Portsmouth—Messrs. Grant and Company.
Successive Administrations, froni,he time of Mr. Pitt, have recog-
nised the importance of establishing at a point of the southern Coast
of England, within an eligible distance from the Metropolis, a Har-
bour with docks and warehouses for bonding merchandise, whereby all
vessels from the westward may save the delay and expense of a
voyage up channel, and avoid the risk to which that tedious and
dangerous navigation necessarily exposes them. Tile political con-
siderations which originally suggested the formation of such a har-
t; the revolution eil
vastly effected
irionufignlittellh3e. satgrceintyt•hoefnsedtebaym
such an undertaking with a commercial importance which could not
tir
naval
ravaarel ,woafrfcoaurrse
through
have been previously anticipated.
im-
proved modes of transit between London and the provinces invest
On the whole southern coast, from the Land's-end to the :Core,
Langston affords the only harbour adapted to the combined purposes
here indicated. Its proximity to the great naval depot of Portsmouth
—the unequalled excellence of its anchorage—the capacity of its
basin—the ease and safety with which, at at all times of tide, it will
be accessible to vessels of every burthen, establish its nautical supe-
riority; while with London, only 66 miles from the docka, a rapid
communication is ensured by railway.
The promoters have great satisfaction In announcing that the un-
dertaking has received the approval of the Lords of the Treasury, of
the Board of Ordnance, and of the Woods and Forests, whose sanc-
tion is a guarantee for the intrinsic excellence of the measure on
public and national grounds. A grant of Crown lands for the site
of the Docks has been obtained, subject to stipulation* most favour-
able to the Company.
The circumstances under which the land is secured will allow of
such a reduction in the scale of charges and the expenses of ma-
nagement, compared with those of similar establishments, as must at
once command an extensive business ; and the Committee feel as-
sured that they may recommend the undertaking as an investment
likely to prove highly remunerative.
The plan inclosed with the prospectus exhibits the situation of the
intended docks and warehouses, and of the adjacent localities in con-
nexion with the harbour. The area proposed to be inclosed by the
boundary wall is 220 acres, of which 100 will be appropriated to
docks, and 120 for warehouses, quays, roads, &c.
Of the immense extent of the commerce for which these advan-
tages are available at Langston, some idea may be acquired front the
subjoined data, taken from the official returns presented to Parlia-
ment during the last session:—
Tonnage of vessels registered at Portsmouth, for the year 1844,
13,623 tons :—Of coasting vessels entering the pert of London, duri g
1843, 2,901,271 tons :—Of ships entering London from the colonies,
during the same date, 492,805 tons : —Of vessels entering from foreign
ports, during the same date, 814,592 tons :—And of general shipping.
entered during the same period, 1,317,671 tons. Total, 5,539,962

reamington, Warwick, and Southam—Messrs. Patterson, Haynes,
Danbury, and Gardner
Lo don—Messrs. Barnard, Dimsdale, and Co., 50, Cornhill ; Messrs.
Cockburn and Co., Whitehall; Messrs. llopkinsou and Co., Wa-
terloo-place

SECRETARY—D. C. Riggs, Esq.
Offices II the Company, Mo. 34, Moorgate-street,
PROSPECTUS.

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Commencing at Cambridge, which has now become the traffic-
centre of the Eastern Counties, by the line of railway intended to be
formed by that Company, this line will proceed to Bedford, there
passing near Olney it will cross at or near the Blisworth Station of the
London and Birmingham Railway, where it will communicate with
the Northampton ani itipterborough line; it will then proceed west—
ward, crossing the Oxiitrd and-Rugby line at or near Fenny-Compton
to Stratford-on-Al:cm, there joining the proposed use from Warwick
and Leamington to Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bristol, and the West of
England ; continuing its course through Alcester, the line will go di-
rect to Worcester, and thus terminate at the great centre of traffic
for the mineral and manufactariug districts of South Staffordshire,
Shropshire, and North and South Wales. This proposed line does
not interfere with any existing railways, and presenting, as it does,
an unbroken line between two great centres of traffic, the importance
of the undertaking needs no further comment.
Negotiations have been entered into with the Eastern Coun-
ties Railwa)c Company, by which their support and co-operation will
be ensured for obtaining the line now proposed.
An arrangement has also been made with the proposed Rugby,
Warwick, and Worcester Company, which this line will join at Al-
cester, and by means of which the Eastern Counties' traffic will pro-
ceed to Worcester.
Power will be reserved to the Directors to amalgamate with any
other existing or projecting Companies, or to vary the line.
Application for shares may be made to the Secretary, and to the fol-
lowing Sharebrekers, of whom prospectuses, with maps of the line.
may be obtained :—London—Messrs. Peppercorne and Co., 2, Old
Broad-street ; Messrs. Preece and Evans, 39, Lothbury ; Messrs.
Boyd. Birmingham—Mr. W. H. Collis. Blackburn—Mr. Thomas
Boardman. Bradferd Mr. G. Clark ; Messrs. Tate and
Nash. Cheltenham—Mr. James Stokes. oventry—Mr. J. S.
Holland. Derby—Messrs. Eyre and Shaw. Dublin—Messrs.
Labertouche and Stafford. Edinburgh—James Pringle, Esq.,
79, Princes-street ; Messrs. Beaumont and Langworthy.
Glasgow—Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson. Halifax—Mr.W.Cronhelm.
Huddersfield—Messrs. Everard and Co. Hull—Mr. Frederick Stamp.
Leeds—Messrs Wellbeloved and Oastler. Leicester—Messrs. Parse
and Freer. Liverpool—Messrs. Townley and Whitehead ; Messrs.
Cameron and Co. ; Mr. Morris Reynolds. Macclesfield—Mr. Richard
E. Hine. Manchester—Messrs. Cardwell aed Sons; Messrs. A.
Birchall and Co. ; Mr. Charles O'Neil. Nottingham—Mr. Charles
Spencer. Sheffield—Messrs. T. N. Bardwell and Sons. South-
ampton—Mr. Joseph Clark, jun. Wakefield—Mr. E. H. Armitage.
Worcester—Mr.Miles. York—Messrs. Grayston and Earle.— Salis-
bury—Mr. William Fawcett. Birkenhead—Mr. Andrew Milligan, 2,
Lord-street.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Eastern Counties Extension,
and Cambridge and Worcester Direct Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares, of 20/.
each in the above railway ; and I undertake to accept the same, or
such less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the regu-
lations of the Company, and to sign the necessary deeds, and to pay
when required the deposit thereon of 2/. 2s. per share.
Dated this day of , 1845,
Name, in full • • • • • • • • • •
Profession and Professional Residence in fhll.
Private Residence in full • • • • • • • • • •
Usual 5ignature..............
Residence • • • •• •• .• •• •• ••
And Profession of Referee .. • • • • • •
Offices, 34, Moorgate-street,

By order of the Committee,
3011 N F. NEALE, Secretary

Railway Company
Robert Rising, Esq., The Shrubbery, Worcestershire
James Morrison, Esq., Raymond-buildings, Gray's Inn, Pro-
visional Director of the Bridgewater and Minehoad Railway
Company
Admiral Ayscough, Southampton
John Brightman, Esq., Regency-square, Brighton
Captain Chamfer, Halkin -street West, Belgrave-square, London
Thomas Chitty, Esq., 8, Upper Gower-street, London
Thomas Henry Evans, Esq., 30, Lothbury, and Mayor of Caer-
narvon
Alexander Greig, Esq., Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square,
London
John Helbert Helbert, Esq., Upper Gloucester-street, London
James Watts Peppercorn, Esq., Old Broad-street, and Da
Surrey,
Sir William Boothby, Bart., Ashby-hall, Derbyshire, Director of. the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction, and of ,the
Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railsiays
William Lowthrop, Hull, and Alga-house, Scarborough, Director
of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire, and
of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction
Railways
Major, Esq., Director of the Church of England Assurance
Company
Atkinson, J. R. W., Esq., Leeds
Anderson, James, Esq., Bridge-street, City
Actme.sley, Sir James
Barry, D., Esq., Paris and London
Brindley, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordsh!re, and Worcestershire Junction, said of the Dirt* East and
West Junction Railways
Brooks, John, Esq., Alderman of Manchester, Director of Renting-
ton's Direct London and Manchester Railway
Brown, Thomas, Esq., Silsoe
Brown, Joseph, Esq., Alderman of Bedford
Burgess, John, Esq., Boroughreeve, St. James's-square, Manchester,
Director of ReMington's Direct London and Manehester Railway
Burnett, John, Esq., Cheltenham
Burgess, John, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester
uschek, C.. Esq., 133, Fenchurch-street
Co ckburn, Sir Francis, Dover
Cuniberledge, N., Esq., York-terrace, Regent's-park
Clarke, Jeremiah, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's Lon-
don and Manchester, and of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and
Worcestershire Junction, and of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield,
and South Staffordshire Railways
Cleobury, Thomas Mortimer, Esq., Acton, Middlesex
Cooper, dohs Douglas, Esq., Home-cottage, Ashbourne, -Director of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Rail-
way
Croft, John T., Major, 15, Regent-street, Piccadilly, Deputy Chair-
roam of the Chester and Manchester Railway, and Director of the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction, of the
Leads, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire, and of the
Direct East and West Junction Railways
Crocket, Thomas, Esq., Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction, and of the Leeds, Huddersfield,
Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railways
Cooke, Rev. John, Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction, and of the Leeds, Hudders-
field, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Direct East and West
Junction Railways
Cooke, John, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's Direct
London and Manchester Railway
Carpenter, IL, Esq.
Coape, Henry Coe, Esq., Goldhangers, Maldon, Essex, Director of the
Oxford, Manchester, and Southampton Junction Railway
Cottle, J. M., Esq., Leamington, Director of the Coventry and Lei-
cester Railway
Dawson Darner, the Right Hon., M.P., Tilney-street, Park-lane
Dawson Darner, the Hon. Wm., Parkstone-lodge, Poole
Dalby, John Robert, Esq., Ashbourne, Derbyshire, Director of the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcesterihire Junction, and of
the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Rail-
ways
Dale, Major Thurston, Ashbourne, Director of the Leeds, Rudders-
a.,sld, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railway
Dayrell, E. Francis, Esq., Lffing,stone Dayrell, Bucks, High Sheriff
for Bucks
Eames, John, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zonch
Edinton, Harvey, Esq., Worcester
Ekin, Wm., Esq., Cambridge
Erskine, Henry D., Esq., Mount-street, Grosvenor-square
Freke, the Hon. Percy Evans, 3, Belgrave-square
Fitch, Colonel George, 36, York-terrace, London, Director of the
York and Lancaster Railway
Gore, the Hon. Robert, M.P.
Gisborne, Henry Francis, Esq., Derby, Director of the Staffordshire,
Leicester and Tamworth, and Derby and Crewe, Macclesfield and
Lichfield Railways
Gutch, John Matthew, banker, Worcester, Director of Remington's
Direct London and Manchester, of the Direct East and West
Junction, and of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcester
Junction Railways
Gambier, William, Esq., Salcombe-park, Bedfordshire
Gernon, James, Esq., onduit-street
Hutchinson, The Hon. Colonel, Weston-house, Towcester
Heneage, Charles, Esq., Cadeby-house, Lincolnshire
Hume, Fitzwilliam, Esq., Park-place, St. James's
Haines, Samuel, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbaston, Director of the Di-
rect East and West Junction Railways
Radon, Joseph, Esq., iromna,ter, Dudley, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction, and of the Leeds,
Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railways
Holford, John, Esq., Manchester, Director of Remington's Direct
London and Manchester, of the Direct East and West Junction,
and of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction
Railways
Hamer, S., Esq., General Post-office, and Southampton-row, Rus-
sell-square, Director of Remington's Direct London and Man-
chester Railway .
Hale, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Potteries
Railway
Hill, John, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire,
and Worcestershire, and of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and
South Staffordshire Railways
Hurst, George, Esq., Bedford, Director of Remington's Direct London
and Manchester Railway
Hall, the Rev. J. V., Rector of Fulbourne, Cambridge
Hooke, Benjamin, Esq., Norton-hall, near Worcester
Howard, John, Esq., Britannia Foundry, Bedford, Director of Re-
mington's Direct London and Manchester Railway
Jerningham, the Hon. Edward
Jones, Rev. J. P., Alton Vicarage, Cheadle, Staffordshire, Director of
Remington's Direst London and Manchester, and of the Leeds,
Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire, and of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Direct Junction Railways
King, William, Esq., Waterloo-place, Director of Freemasons' Life As-
surance-office
Keene, John Joseph, Esq. St. John's Wood, Regent's-park, Director
of the National Bank Of Ireland, and Chester and Manchester
Direct Railway
Kilpin and Son, Bedford
Knight, Edward, Esq., M.D., Stafford, Director of ths Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction, and of the Leeds, Hud-
dersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railways
Knight, James, Esq., Worcester
Laslatt ,William, Esq., Abberton-hall, near Worcester
Lassetter, Richard, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Lees, David, Esq., Wednesbury, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Langley, Henry, Esq., Rakeway-house, Cheadle, Director of Reming-
ton's Direct London and Manchester, of the Leeds, Huddersfield,
Sheffield, and South Staffordshire, and of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railways
M'Cann, Nicholas, Esq., 50, Parliament-street
Moore, Major, Queen Ann-street, Cavendish-square, Director of the
Indian Peninsular Railway
Meteyard, Horace William, Esq., Chatham-place, Director of Reming-
ton's Direct London and Manchester, of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction, of the Leeds, Huddersfield,
Sheffield, and South Staffordshire, of the Direct East and West
Junction, and of the Chester and Manchester Direct Railways
Winer, Wm., Esq., Tean, Staffordshire, Director of the Leeds, Hud-
dersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire, and of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railways
Murray, Samuel T. Esq., 16, George-street, Hanover-sqaare, Director
of the National Loan Assurance Company
Montefiore, Joseph, Esq., Stanhope-street, May-fair
Marshall, G., Esq., Godslming, Surrey
Newman, Henry VT., Esq., Clifton, Deputy-Lieutenant of the County
of Gloucester
Nugent, the Hon. M. W. 8., Higham Grange, Leicestershire
Neracher, Thomas Henry, Esq., Dudley
Norris, Edward, Esq., Clairville, Director of Remington's Direct Lon-
don and Manchester Railway
Prescott, Sir George, Bart., Theobald's, Recta
price, Thomas, Rev., Llarothel, Herefordshire
Pilkington, Henry, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Director o Remington'
Direct London and Manchester Railway
The Lord Rossmore, the Dell, Windsor
Riley, Wm. T., Esq., Pendeford-house, Wolverhampton, and Millfield
Ironworks, Bilston, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and
Worcestershire Junction, and of the Shropshire Mineral Railways
Robertson, James, Esq., Worcester, Director of the Worcester and
beominster, and Bristol, Bath, and Dover Direct Railway
Robinson, John, Esq., Silcoates-cottage, Wakefield, Director of the
Bradford, Wakefield, and Midlands ; of the Stockton, North, and
Leeds ; Leeds, York, and Midlands' Junction ; Leeds, Huddersfield,
Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railways
Seymour, Fred., Esq., St. James's-square
Esq., Royal Foundry, Bedford, Director of Renting-
Sandersol,sD,
Sharpe, George Henry, Esq., Bedford, Director of Remington's Direct
John,irect London and Manchester Railway
London and Manchester Railway
Sheppard, James Pook, Esq., Worcester
Sheppard, Edgar, Esq., Worcester
Rene, George R., Esq., F.R.M. and C.S., Bedford, Proprietor of the
Bedford Mercury, Director of Remington's Direct London and
Manchester Railway
Skrine, Julian, Esq., Cambridge, Director of the Cambridge and Lin-
colnshire Railway
Smith, William, Esq., Clifton, near Ashbourne, Director of the Tean
and Dove Valley Railway ; of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and
Worcestershire Junction Railway ; of the Leeds, Huddersfield,
Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railway; aid of the Direct East
and West Junction Railway
Smith, Thomas, Esq., Blore Hall, Ashbourne, Director of the Leeds,
Sheffield, Huddersfield, and South Staffordshire, and of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railways
Spiers, Edmund John, Esq., Carlton Villas, Maida Tale, Paddington,
Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire
Junction, and of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staf-
fordshire Railways
Smith, F. Curven, Esq., Frognall Hall
Stephenson, Thomas, Esq., Worcester
The Sheriff of York, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield,
and South Staffordshire, and of the Derbyshire,
Worcestershire Junction Railways Staffordshire, and
Trapp, Benjamin, Esq., banker, Bedford, Director of Remington's
Direct London and Manchester Railway
Trapp, Thomas S., Esq., banker, Bedford, Director of Remington's
Direct London and Manchester Railway
Tyler, George, Esq., Holloway-place, London, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction, of the Leeds,
Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire, and of the Direct
East and West Junction Railways
Tylecote, Edward, Esq., Great Haywood, Staffordshire, Director of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction, and
the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Rail-
ways;
Turner, J., Esq., M.P., Truro
Westenra, The Hon. J. C., M.P.
Waller, Major, St. James's-square
Welch, Edward, Esq., Leamington
Walker, George James Alexander, Esq., Norton Villa, near Worcester
Willis, George, Esq., Hungerford-park
Walsh, John Henry, Esq., Worcester
Hof the
Esq., Director
meld, and ayes, Bakewell, Der-
South Staffordshire
Railways Macclesfield, Director of Remington's Direct
Wardle, Henry, Esq., Mace
rdshid W
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hire n and
Junction Railways , and Derbyshire, or-
Staffo re, an
Wba lyt Behr r James
a nies
Leeds, Smith,
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Warde, C. Thomas, Esq., Clopton-house , Stratford-on-Avon, and
Luton Iloo; Bedfordshire Abridge, MOW of the
cesters
Whoetton, John, BK., Moopham Bank, To

28, Moorgate-street, Oct. 10, 1845

LOYD_ON CENTRAL RAILWAY
TERMINUS COMPANY.

The Committee of the London Central Railway Company hereby
give notice to those Proprietors of the Charing- cross Bridge Com-
pany who were desirous of confirming the arrangement which had
been entered into by the Directors, and subsequently confirmed at a
General Meeting of the Proprietors, that the Committee have
unanimously resolved to give such Proprietors the privilege of
taking Shares in the London Central Railway Terminus Company,
in proportion to the number of Bridge Shares held by them, provided
application is made for the same on or before WEDNESDAY NEXT.
By order, JOHN F. NEALE, Secretary.
28, Moorgate-street, Oct. 16, 1845.

lwich;

CENTRAL KENT COUNTY RAIL WAY.
The Committee of Management beg to announce that the
Letters of Allotment have been posted, and that every expedition
consistent with prudence has been adopted.
The Committee have given their most assiduous attention to the
Allotment of the Shares, particularly with a view to a fair distri-
bution and those parties who either do not receive any, or only a
small allotment, must attribute it solely to the unprecedented num-
ber of applications with which the Committee had to deal.

By order,.

GRAHAM SIMSON, Secretary.
1, Colman-street-buldings, Moorgate-street, Oct. 20, 1845.

RHONDDA and ELY VALLEYS JUNC-
TION RAILWAY.
The Allotment of Shares in this Company has been completed, and
the Committee regret that, in consequence of the very numerous
demands for shares from persons locally interested, it has been under
the necessity of omitting many most respectable applications.
WILLIAM DAWSON, Chairman.
19, Nerttuftaberland-street, Strand, Oct. 18, 1845.

THE LONDON UNION RAILWAY
COM PANY.
Connecting the London and Birmingham and the Great Western,
with the South-Eastern, the London and Brighton, and the South-
Eastern Railways.
Capital 500,0001. in 50,000 Shares of 101. each.
Deposit 1/. Is. per Share.
(Provisionally Registered.)

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
William Feilden, Esq. M.P. 18, Hanover •square, and Feniseowles,
Blackburn, deputy-lieutenant for the county of Lancaster
Thomas Carlisle, Esq. Hyde-park-place West, and Clifton, Bristol,
chairman of the Tunbridge-wells, Brighton, and Hastings Junction
Railway
Emanuel Cooper, Esq. Southwark, deputy-chairman of the London
and County Batik
William Cory, Esq. Commercial-road, Lambeth, and Battersea,
director of the London and County Joint Stock Bank
Montague Joseph Feilden, Esq. Feniscowles, Blackburn, J.P. for the
county of Lancaster
Thomas Phillips, Esq. Wandsworth, Surrey
Frederick Harrison, Esq. Beaufoy-terrace, Maida-vale, deputy-
chairman of the Tunbridge-wells, Brighton, and Hastings Junction
Railway, and director of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Life
Assurance Company
Stephen Hutchison, Esq. London Gas-works, Vauxhall, and Brom-
ley, Kent
Abraham Bettridge, Esq. Devonshire-terrace, Camden Villas, direc-
tor of the Great Grimsby; Lincoln, and Midland Junction Railway
Edward Whitfield, Esq. M.D. Marine-parade, Brighton, director of
the Tunbridge-wells. Brighton, and Hastings Junction Railway
William Eccles, Esq. Old Broad-street, London
The Rev. Lewis Evans, fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, South-
wood-terrace, Highgate
E. H. Day, Esq. Brixton-hill, Surrey
Major Rybot, Hon. East India Company's Service
W. Bulkeley Glasse, Esq. New-square. Lincoln's Inn, 'avid South-
crescent, Bedford-square
Joseph Barker, Esq. Macclesfield, Cheshire, director of the Shropshire
Mineral Railway
John Havers, Esq, York-road, Lambeth
P. Bennett Lucas, Esq. Manchester-street, Manchester-square, di-
rector of the Leeds and London Direct, and of the Tunbridge Wells,
Brighton, and Hastings Junction Railways
Richard Ladell, Esq. London, director of the Chelmsford and Bury
Railway
Henry Wardle, Esq. London and Macclesfield, director of Reming-
ton's Direct London and Manchester Railway
Augustus L. Lobach, Esq. Livonia, near Sidmouth, Devon
James Cockell, Esq. Bernard-street, Russell-square
John Britten, Esq. Basinghall- street, director of the Tunbridge-wells,
Brighton, and Hastings Junction Railway
Captain Charles M. M. Wright, R.N.
William Birmingham Costello, Esq. M.D. Wyke-house, Brentford
Griffin Curtis Galt, Esq. Charles-street, Manchester-square
Colonel Nicoils, Coleraine, and Shooter's-hill, Woolwich
Charles Rogers Dodd, Esq. North Brixton, director of the Hull and
Holyhead Railway
B. W. Doyle, Esq. Bentinek-street, Manchester-square, director of
the Sheffield and Manchester Direct Railway
The Rev. Samuel Andrew, Lincoln College, Oxford, and Highgate
Reginald Read, Esq. St. John's-square, director of the Tunbridge-
Wells, Brighton, and Hastings Junction Railway
William May, Esq. Lime-street
William Wilson. Esq. M.D. Devonport-street, Sussex-square, director
of the Tunbridge-wells, Brighton, and Hastings Junction Railway
William Alexander Dow, Esq. Nelson-square, and King's Bench-
walk, Temple
Joseph Clowes, Esq., Director of the British and Foreign Gas Light
and Meter Company
Charles Rayner, Esq. Kew-green
G. B. Child, Esq. Fore-street, director of the Great Western and Fal-
mouth Railway.

D:0 VE R AND BRISTOL RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given that the Lists are Closed, and that
no further Applications for Shares in this Company can be received.
The Allotment is being proceeded with, and the letters will b.
issued in the early part of the ensuing week.
By order,
CHARLES MARTIN, Secretary.
Offices of the Company, 12, Gray's Inn-place,
Oct. 18, 1845.

DOVER and BRISTOL RAILWAY.
The Committee have great pleasure in announcing that the
most active exertions are being continued to bring this undertaking
forward in the next session of Parliament. The greater portion of
the surveys are already completed, and the remainder in such a state
of forwardness, that the Engineers can confidently promise that the
whole will be completed abundantly in timeC.
By order, HARLES MARTIN.
Offices of the Company, 12, Gray's Inn-place.

and skill,

CONSULTING INOINEER.
ENGINEER.—F. Rumble, Esq. C.E.
SURVEYOR.—CharIes Lee, Esq. 20, Golden-square.
STANDING COUNSEL.
A. A. Fry, Esq. John WOubrey, Esq.
JOINT SOLICITORS.
G. J. Lloyd, Esq. 49, Doughty-street, Bedford-row.
W. B. Cooper, Esq. 5, Heathcote-street Mecklenburgh-square.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT—William Bryden, Esq. 4, New Palace-

yard. - -
SECRETARY—WiBUM Case, E 54.
BANKERS—The London and County Joint-Stock Bank in London and

Croydon,

The object of this Company is to connect the London and Birming-
ham. and the Great Western, with the South-Western, the London
and Brighton, and the South-Eastern Railways, by means of a line
commencing at a point on the London and Birmingham Railway,
about four miles from the station at Euston-square ; proceeding from
which, it will join the Great Western, and continue onwards by Ken-
sington, Chelsea, Walham-green, Parson's-green, and Pulliam, there
crossing the river Thames to Wandsworth. It will then proceed to
the station of the South-Western Railway on Wandsworth-common,
and continue its course by Upper and Lower Tooting, Streatham,
and Mitcham, to the joint station of the London and Brighton, and
the South-Eastern Companies at Croydon.
That the great trunk lines of railway which connect the provinces
with the metropolis, should be united by a common terminus, has
long been an object much desired by all who take an interest in the
completion of our railway system.
Various schemes have been entertained from time to time for the
accomplishment of the object, but in the opinion of practical men,
from the inconvenience which must arise to existing interests, and
the consequent destruction of valuable property in the heart of a
great city by such a project, it has always been discountenanced as
impracticable. This Company, therefbre, propose to get rid of the
difficulty by the" formation of this connecting line, at the least in-
convenient distance from the metropolis, by which the great lines
already mentioned will enjoy the advantages of intercommunication
in a manner most conducive to the interests of the public, and at the
same time with little injury to the property of individuals.
The Company have reason to think that their labours will be con-
siderably diminished by taking advantage of the present West Lon-
don Railway (which, in fact, forms a portion of their proposed line),
by some amicable arrangement with its present proprietors, the
London and Birmingham Railway Company; and they will thus be
enabled to secure a great saving both of money and time in carrying
out their project.
There is one feature in this undertaking which cannot fail to inte-
rest the inhabitants of Wandsworth, and of the populous districts
around it. The construction of a bridge over the Thames, adequate
not merely for the purpose of a railway, but also of sufficient width
and of proper arrangement to serve as a public thoroughfare for car-
riages and foot passengers, must of necessity be of immense advan-
tage to the inhabitants not only of that district, but those of the
western parts of the metropolis. It is evident that it must be so,
when it is considered that in proceeding to Wandsworth, Tooting,
or Croydon, they are now obliged to cross the Thames by a circuitous
route, over one of the old wooden bridges, either at Battersea or
Putney, both being very far out of the direct line to those places al-
ready mentioned.
It is equally clear that it must be a source of considerable income
to the shareholders of this Company, as it is intended to take tolls,
which being moderate, will at the same time (from the great traffic
that may reasonably be anticipated) form a source of great remunera-
tion to the shareholders.
Independent of the profitable source of revenue which must accrue
from the traffic both in passengers and goods between the several
great railways which this line will connect, the Company have
every reason to hold out the most flattering encouragements to the
public, from the rapidly increasing importance of the several suburban
towns on the course of the line.
The Company intend to make at the Wandsworth end of the pro-
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of the country ; but to the public generally the following statement
may be necessary. •
The inducements to shipowners and merchants to adopt Langston
are of the strongest possible nature, for not only ate the well-known
perils of the Channel altogether avoided, but the saving on a voyage
ussp,otailndd
btleo7nonChaannel,
vessela doisftanlscoe ot.ofntsh,resewh.mli6dsre. dOdmi.; leosfe3awch wtoanys:
1021. 2s. ; of 600 tons, 2281. 188. 6d., and on one of 1,060 tons,
358/. 16s.—exclusive of the saving of insurance, the difference of port
charges, pilotage, light dues, seamens' wages, and various other items
of expediture, familiar to every merchant and shipowner.
Though it is impossible to approximate to an accurate estimate of
the proportion of this vast trade likely to be secured to Langston, yet
it must be evident that much of it must be secured, and that even a
fractional part of it would alone constitute a very extensive busi-
ness.
But it will be apparent that a large proportion must be concen-
trated at the Langston Docks, when it is considered that a great por-
tion of the goods hoportedlis housed and bonded for exportation ; that
such goods cannot be deposited so advantageously as at Langston, to
which the privileges of a bonded port are already accorded by the
Treasury; and that thence merchandise may be re-shipped and dis-
patched to sea more speedily and at far less expense than any other
port in the United Kingdom.
In connexion with the extreme eligibility of Langston for bonded
warehouses, it should be mentioned, that by the railway to be con-
structed as indicated on the plan, and by railways now in
regularly exhibited in the suffices of the London brokers, as from the
East or West India Docks. By this mode of conveyance all descrip-
tionsmy
of light goods may be forwarded to the metropolis, while a
most
operationb e
and in the course of construction, mercantile samples as
economic transit to the same destination is secured to heavy mer-
chandise, by the canal already opened between the harbour and the
Thames.
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now furnished by a circuitous and expensive route to the populous
towns of Portsmouth, Havant, POrtSett, Gosport, Fareham, and Chi-
chester, and the South and the South Midland counties. Of these
places Langston will naturally have the exclusive supply; and the
population whose wants in the consumption of these commodities will
be thus administered to, amounts to considerably upwards of ohs
t million, of whom 120,000 are engaged in trade and commerce. This
result is obtained by taking merely the counties of Hants, Sussex,
Wilts, and Dorset, though a much more comprehensive area may
reasonably be included, as certain to participate in the advantages
which Langston, of all harbours on the southern coast alone pre.
gents. Thus this depot for articles consumed within the limited
circle described, is in itself sufficient to create a market that would
warrant the construction of the proposed docks and bonded ware-
houses. •
The combined advantages of the locality for all purposes contemn-
plated by the Company or required in a national or mercantile point
of view, leave no doubt of the complete success of this great commer-
cial project, which, while it disturbs no existing interests, is calcu-
lated to develop° fresh resources of the country, and stimulate indivi-
dual enterprise to a degree to which no mere private speculation af-
fords a parallel.
At present, the rate of interest is estimated at .71 per cent. ; but
the most cursory analysis of the merits of this undertaking must de-
monstrate that such a calculation is considerably below the average
of mercantile probabilities.
Until an Act of Parliament be obtained, the affairs of this Com-
pany will be under the control of the Providonal Committee of Ma-
' nagement, which shall have full power to effect arrangements with
the projectors of this undertaking for the purchase of their interest in
the site for the docks ; and to effect any other arrangements whatso-
ever in anywise relating to the said railway and docks.
Copieshad ot
Messrs. of t ecoProspectusv
Messrs. Johnson, longdeu, and Co., 22, Tokenhouse-yard ; Messrs.ir.
1 mill and Berlyn, and Mr. J. Fernyhough, Manchester; 3
Liver-
pool ; Mr. John Watson, Messrs. Kirk and Co., and Messrs. Rictsdale
da l e anadnid.eFe solicitors,rmsof Application
P4P,IBi eel°, Bedford-row. -froorw, Shams
London;:
h 111 • Messrs. Tugg and
Leeds ; Messrs. Lucas and Co. Binning ,
B.m.elsorsw:lleit.•osy.,
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Mr James. Nicholson
Hodgson, Hull; Mr. Peter Dixon, Glasgow; .
Edinburgh ; Messrs. t_ amp., .n ; Al r.
and Mr. Charles Couper,
(South Mall) Cork ; Messrs. Edwards and Son, Bristol;
Ilanipson. Messrs. Powell and Lowndes, and Messrs. Neilson, ver-
T. It. Evans, •
od:rd",•OnE;xeSteirr.;
Messrs. Warburton and Crossland, and Messrs. Bardwcll and Son,
Sheffield; Messrs. hall (Brothers) and Co., Cheltenham ; Messrs.
Co., Southampton ; Messrs. Cape and Son. Derby • Mr. Charles
Wikeus, Northampton; Mr. Samuel Collinson, and Messrs. Potts
and Levick, Nottingham ; Mr. Mason, Bradford, Yorkshire ; Mr.
1311,iri.kiWng.olatonnd,
Mr. StratfordT.s-
31ills, Worcester; Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer,
Plymouth; Mr.
Richard Hine, Macclesfield; Mr. W. Crowell, lialifax•i Mr. T.
-
Boardman, Blackburn; Mr. E. Armitage, Wakefield ; Mr. J.
Holland, Coventry ; Mr. S. Weatherburn, Huddersfield • S.
Payne and Freer, and Messrs. Windram and Son, Leicester ;Messa. and at
the Company's Offices, 46, Moorgatc-street, Londoh,

The title of this line sufficiently and correctly explains the object
of the undertaking.
The Birmingham terminus will be placed in communication with
all the other railways having a station in that town, and will be
brought as near as practicable to its centre. Proceeding thence in a
northerly direction, and on the west side of the Lichfield road, it will
pass within a short distance of Sutton Coldfleld, and to Lichfield, at
the latter of which places there will be a tation in communication
with the projected Walsall lines.
Thence crossing the Trent Valley, near King's Bromley, it will
pursue the course of the Blythe Valley, or by or near to Abbots
Bromley to Leigh, where it will leave the Blythe Valley, and by a
short cutting reach the Teen station on Remington's London and
Manchester line at the junction of the Crewe branch, or by a junc-
tion with whichever of the projected lines to Manchester may be
adopted by Parliament.
The entire length of the new line to be made will not exceed
thirty-four miles, and the whole will be carried over a most favour-
able country—two-thirds being a water-level.
Sections of a great portion of the line have been made, and the en-
tire Parliamentary survey will be completed by the 9th ofOctober.
This railway will afford a route from Birmingham to Manchester
eleven miles shorter than by any existing or projected line. It will
also give the best and nearest line between Huddersfield, and Bit,
mingham.
It will also furnish a nearer and more direct route from Birming-
ham to the Potteries than any line made or projected by several
mile., assuming any of the projected Pottery lines to have their ter-
mini at Colwich, on the Trent Valley, or at Stafford, on the Grand
Junction Railway ; thus giving to Manchester, and also the Pot-
teries, the shortest, easiest, and most direct route to Birmingham.
It will also give the nearest line between Huddersfield and Birming-
ham and Southampton.
This railway crosses the projected Leeds and Huddersfield and
Wolverhampton Direct Railway. In the Blythe Valley a station will
be placed, and communication effected, so as to afford to Birmingham
the shortest route by many miles, with Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield,
and the northern parts of England. In allotting shares every legi-
timate preference will be given to the landholders on the line.
It is obvious that the projected line will afford an ample return to
the shareholders.
For prospectuses, shares, and every information, apply to the
solicitors, W. Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttoxeter ; or at the Offices
of the Company, No. 1, Moorgate, London.
SMOKERS.
Messrs. B. and M. Boyd, New Bank-buildings
Messrs. Townley and Whitehead, Liverpool
Messrs. Cameron and Co., Liverpool
Mr. Morris Reynolds, Liverpool
Mr. Richard E. Hine, Macclesfield
Mr. James Jamieson, Leeds
Messrs. Wellbeloved and Oastler, Leeds
Mr. Frederick Stamp, Hull
Mr. Richard Baines, Blackburn
Mr. George Clark, Bradford
Mr. William Mason, Bradford
Mr. William Cronhelm, Halifax
Mr. J. W. Paibley, Gainsborough
Messrs. Freeman and Son, Northampton
Messrs. Grayston and Earle, York
Messrs. Kettering and Marshall, Leeds
Mr. Joseph Clark, jun., Southampton
Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol
Messrs. Houghland and Leese, Manchester
Messrs. A. Birchall and Co., Manchester
Mr. W. H. Collis, Birmingham
Mr. L. Weatherburn, jun., Huddersfield
Messrs. Everard and Co., Huddersfield
Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester
J. N. Balme, Gloucester
Mr. C. Wood, Uttoxeter
Mr. William Fawcett, Salisbury
Mr. Andrew Milligan, 2, Lord-street, Birkenhead
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Directors of the " Birmingham and Manchester Direct

posed bridge a depot for goods, which will give great facility for the
conveyance by water carriage, on the one hand, for goods intended
for exportation, and on the other a cheap and expeditious mode of
transit for goods intended for the interior.
Passengers going by the Birmingham, or Great Western Railway,

or from the western parts of the metropolis, to the railways on the
south of the Thames, will not only avoid the great inconvenience of
passing through the crowded streets of London, but will also effect a
saving in time of one hour and a quarter by means of this proposed
As an earnest for the speedy completion of the undertaking, the
Company have it in their power to state that surveys have already
been made, and that all the other necessary proceedings in the engi- '
neering department are in such a state of forwardness as to warrant
them in stating that the necessary plans required by the standing
orders of Parliament will be ready for depositing by the 10th of No-
vember next.
The liability of the shareholders will be limited to the amount of
their several subscriptions, and in the allotment of shares preference
will be given to parties locally interested.
Power will be taken in the Act to allow interest at the rate of V.
per cent. upon all calls previous to the opening of the line.
Applications for shares, in the form annexed, may be made
to the Solicitors, or to the Secretary, at the temporary Offices of
the Company, . and to the following
hurebrokers ;—ln London—William E. Robson, Esq. 37, Thread-
needle-street ; J. T. Berkley, Esq. 37, Threadneedle-street;
Messrs. Aston and Scott, 32, Throgmorton-street; and Messrs.
Price and Brown, 4, Change-alley. In Liverpool—B. R. Pemberton,
Esq., Atherton-buildings. In Manchester—Messrs. M`Lean and
Dinwoodie. In Bristol—Messrs. Wreford, Nicholls, and Co. In
Leeds—Messrs. Whalley and Thompson, Bank-street. In Glou-
caster—J. N. Balms, Esq. In Cheltenham—Josh. J. Baker, Esq.
In Boston—J. A. Thomas, Esq. In Huddersfield—J. Moore, Esq.
In Macclesfield—Richard E. Hine, Esq.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

To the Provisional Committee of the London Union 11a` way
Company.
Gentlemen, -I request you to allot me shares in the
above Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the same, or any
less number that may be allotted to me, and to pay the deposit of
ni.diss.upbesrerishbearrse, tAhgerreeoonn,eazitd,,t_ioleenxreecquttieiretdh.e Parliamentary Contract
Dated this day of 1845.
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PROVIS,IONAL COMMITTEE.
Lieutenant-General the Right Hon. Lord Bloomfield, 0.C.1.,
0.C.H., Nenagh, Tipperary
Lord Stephen Chichester, Ormeau, Antrim
The Right Hon. Lord Edward Chichester, 15, Chesham-place, and
Oakfield, Donegal, director of the London and Exeter Direet
Railway
Lieutenant-Colonel Nathaniel Cameron, Dan.y.Graig, near Swan.
sea, Glamorganshire
The Hon. Francis Henry Needham, Morne.park, Newry, director
of the Hull and Holyhead, the Newry and Carlingford, and the
Lincoln and Northampton Railways
Sir James Douglas Hamilton Hay, Bark, Rose Croft, Surrey
Sir William Ogilvie, Bart. Brompton
Sir James Eyre, Bart. Lower Brook-street, director of the Pens-
mouth and Langston Dock Company
Peter, Count D'Alton„l.P. Grenanstewn, Nenagh
Frederick Ledwill, Esq. J.P. Dunard, Itoscrea
Michael Ledwili, Esq. Thurles
John Parkinson, Esq. F.R.S. director of the South Midland, 31,1
Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railways
C. D. Archibald, E•q. F.R.S. Rutland.halt, Lancashire, and Re-
gent's-park, director of the Birmingham and Lichfield Railway
It. Esq. director of the (heat County Down Railway
F. Carvill, Esq. director of the Newry and Enniskillen Railway
William Kirkpatrick, Esq. director of the Newry, Armagh, :old
Londonderry Junction
A. C. Jeffry, Esq. Liverpool, director of the Newry and Carling-
ford Railway
George H. Thompson, Esq. Greenwood Park, County Down
Edward Ward Jackson, Esq. merchant, Liverpool, director of the
Leeds and Liverpool Direct Railway
W. Douglas, Esq., merchant, Liverpool, director of the London
and Edinburgh Railway
J. Irvine, Esq., merchant, Liverpool, director of the Oxford and
Cheltenham Railway
Captain Edward Smith, R.N. Greenwich
Major Wornum, H.E.1.C.5., Cheltenham
George Spry, Esq. Surbiton, Surrey, director of the Portsmouth aid
Langston Dock Comp my
John M. Cottle, Esq. Leamington, director of the Direct Birming-
ham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
Major Amsinck, director of the Direct Northern Railway
Gibb, Esq. Manchester, director of the Birmingham, Oa.
ford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
John Onions, lira. Moseley, Salop, ironmaster, director of the
Dudley, Madely, and Broseley Railway, of the Grand Junction
and Cambrian Railway, and of the London and Dublin Approai.
illation Railway
S. K Sichcll, Esq. Manchester, director of the Leeds and Liverpool
Direct Railway
John Boyd, Esq. magistrate, Seneschal of Newry
John ThorN, Esq. Moseley, director of the Grand Junction, and
London and Dublin Approximation Railways
W. H. Cooper, Esq. Shrewsbury, director of the Birkenhead, Bir-
mingham, and Brighton Union Bailway
D. W. Whitehead, Esq. Manchester, director of the Direct Bir-
mingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
Henry Keate, Esq. Shrewsbury, director of the London and Dubliii
Approximation Railway
Alexander John Gordon, Esq. Linley Hall, West Broseley, director
of the London and Dublin Approximation Railway
William Birmingham Costello, Esq. Wyke House, Brentfor.t,
director of the Direct London and Exeter Railway
Robert Medill, Esq. merchant, director of the Birkenhead, P.ira
mingham, and Brighton Union Railway
Isaac Taylor, Esq. Monkrnoor, Shropshire, director of the Dirr. t
Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
James Millman Coley, Esq. Britigenorth, director of the Cambrian
and Grand Junction Railway
Robert Baugh Blakcmore, Esq. director of the Shrewsbury, NSW-
verhampton, and South Staffordshire Railway
Richard Lambert, Esq. Leyston-halt, Sudbury, director of the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway
Henry Dinley Cockburn, Esq. Woolwich, Kent, director of the
Swansea and Loughar Railway
William Henry Kebbel, Esq. Glebe-house, Kilby, Leicestershire
John A. Layard, Esq. 40, Keppel.street, Russell square, director
of the hull, Birmingham, and Swansea Junction Railway
Henry S. Coleman, Esq. provisional director of the Great Letda
and London Direct Railway, and of the Direct Aunties:it r,
Leeds, and York Railway
(With power to add to their numbers.)

BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Spooner, Attwood, and Co.
Birmingham—Messrs. Attwoode and Spooner
Manchester—The National Provincial Bank of England
Liverpool—Liverpool Union Bank
Dublin—Bank of Ireland and its Branches, the Provincial Bank of
Ireland and its Branches, and the Royal Rank
Belfast—Northern Banking Company and its Branches
CONSULTING ENGINEER—Sir John M`Neil, LL.D. and F.R.S.

SOLICITORS.
In London—Thomas Nias, Esq., 3, Copthall-court
In Dublin—Messrs. F. G. Tinkler and Robert T. Cummins, 9,
Upper Gloucester-street, and I I, D'Olier-street.
PARLIAMENTARY AUENT—George Lewis Smyth, Esq. :3, Derby.
street, Parliament-street.
SECRETARY—ii. T. Jones,

The length of this line will be 80 miles, serling as a d're,s
main trunk connexion and continuation of two other import. t

lines; one in the course of formation, viz.—from Kilkenny t.)
♦Yaterford, and the other, the Midland Great Western Extension

to Sligo—of whose success next session the requirements of 11

country and the intrinsic excellence of that project forbid ai y

reasonable doubt being entertained. The aggregate of the tt.r.-;

lines will be about 170 miles, traversing, almost in a strailo
course, the entire centre of the island, from its principal p::tt
on the North-west, to its principal port on the South..east ;
intersecting districts whose teeming fertility is proverbial even :1,

Ireland, and opening up sources of mineral and manuracturi!.g
wealtit hitherto neglected, or discredited; because deprived ,)f
those facilities ea, eutial to their profitable developmtnt, which l i•
the object of the present undertaking to supply.

interfering with no existing interests, and not susceptible of bolAg
itself menaced by futute schemes, the Great \\•a'crford,
and Sligo Railway appeals to public consideration on ground: m‘ re
important than probably anything of a like nature yet breached in
Ireland. W ithout the .lightest increase, the preAent traffic wootel

guarantee an untnwally lucrati•c return upon the investment of
the capital called for ; anti such is the peculiar nature of the

country, that the completion of the line must be productive or
vast advantages to the nation generally, in furnishing an i►, x.

haustible home supply of costly and indispensable counnodities of

universal consumption now eircuitotndy imported over •,

while it must alto held out irresistible intiticcumnts for the

ion, along it 6 route, of Brit'.ll and foreign enterpri.e, wea;th.

This is the only line in Ireland embracing the
almost the exclusive—seats of native coal and iron. At it,.
southern terminus of the eighty rakes about to be t-ti-

strutted, coal in illimitable quantity And of the finest quality
abounds ;—at the northern terminus the Mlle may be said of
iron, though for want of the means of smelting, the or*

has been turned to little or no account on the spot, and of cour,,e&

market at a distance is unattainable by prvent modes of conveyai.ce.
The advantages of thus bringing these coal and iran mines i uto
juxta position need not be enumerated ; and it would be equally
superfluous to dwell on the pecuniary merits of a line which, in
addition to the distinguishing feature just mentioned, accomnso.
dates an agricultural interest surpassing that of any area of tbe

same extent in Ireland.
Commencing at the Waterford and Kilkenny terminus, in Use
latter city, the line will pass, almost midway, through the 'teat
grazing and corn-growing districts of the Queen's and King's,
County, Westmeath, and Longford, touching at or near all their
principal towns, namely—Freshfield, Ballyragget, Durrow, B.IU.
nakill, Abbeyleix, Balleyrowan, Mountrath, hfaryborough, Mount.
mellick, Portarlington, Geashill, Tullamore, Phillipstown, Kll.
beggan, Clara, hfoate, Ballymahon, and Longford. The popula, ion
is upwards of rime million and .1 quarter, more than one-half of the
inhabitants of the towns being engaged in trades and manufactures.
Hence the passenger traffic, computed with great care, has boas
moderately estimated at 90,3371. per annum ; while the live stock
of the district was valued in 1841 at 3,639,035/. the conveyance of
which must devolve upon this Company. A vast increase in both
these items may with certainty be anticipated, for the following,
among many other reasons :-
Ist. By the junction at Longford with the Midland Great Wow

tern Extension, much of the produce of Sligo, now going a :Ile
mile voyage to Liverpool, and much more that hardly pays the cost
of rearing, because of the Isolated position of that county, must
come along this line, directly communicating with so fine a port as
Waterford, the nearest to Bristol, and to the profitable markets of
the seuth.west of England. All writers on the capabilities of ire..
land have enforced the necessity of throwing open Sligo to such 111-

tercourse ai is here offered, and the recent data of the " Tim( s'"
Commissioner more than confirm the propriety of such suggestion`
2d. Being met at Longford by the Limerick and Belfast Union,
which, like the majority of the Northern railways, finds a con-neon
focus at Clones, the principal markets of Ulster, Central Leinster,
and the East of Munster, are rendered mutually available by this
line. And,
3dly. No line of any considerable length can be constructed In
Ireland without becoming, in a greater or less degree, an auxiliary
to this line nor can any be projected to its material detriment,
unless running precisely parallel Thom terminus to terminus.
The suitability of the proposed SO miles, for engineering pur-
poses, may begathered fl'om the fact, that the line will cross both the
Grand and the Royal Canals, the summit level of the former being
279, and of the latter, at Mullingar, only 322 feet above the 12reg
of the sea, and few elevations along the whole route are greater.
In Longford county, on the Roscommon and Sligo border, the
line slightly skirts Lough Allen while the Midland Great Western
Extension, immediately after, enters the valley of the Arigna, the
history of the iron-works on whose banks se long and fatally In.
fluenced industrial enterprise in Ireland, though happily even
the►e prosperity is now rapidly becoming manifest. The exit &or.
dinary abundance and unequalled excellence of the iron in this

district are a matter both of history ant' present nototiety. Two
centuries ago, when charcoal could be procured for smelting, It
formed a large article of sx4rt to London, being prized as we now
prize Swedish and Russian Iron—used only for steel, chile cake,
and the like—and of treble and quadruple the value of Bri'lsh
iron. Dr. Kane, in his invaluable volume, " The Industrial Rs.
sources of Ireland," adduces ample reason for anticipating that
the transport of coal (especially the anthracite coal of Kilkenny)
into the neighbourhood of Lough Allen, and the improvements isa
the preparation of peat fuel, will restore the superiority in thla
article, which the singular richness of the mineral should secure to
the locality. The reader is referred to the foregoing standard
authority (second edition, 1845) for the fullest and most satifatt-
tory information on this point ;:and also for a complete confirms: ion
of what bas already been imperfectly glanced at, as to the re,ilta
certain to spring from the contemplated railroad.
Not only does the railroad about to be made by this Company
couple the iron and coal works of Ireland in a direct and conti
out line, but the route abounds with numerous other elements of
manufacturing and commercial greatness, all of which will lees
called into active vitality as this undertaking progresses.
In estimating the magnitude of this project in its entirety, as
extending from shore to shore through the heart of Ireland, it le
hardly possible to exaggerate the importance of the proximity of
the noble harbour of Waterford to the English coast ; and these
advantages must every day increase in proportion as railway c,
munication between London and the southern counties improve,.
A much extended Provisional Committee will shortly be Fah.
fished ; meanwhile the co-operation of all influential resicionto
along the line is invited, to whom every information will ba
aftbrilcd on application, personally or by letter, to the Solicitors,
of at the Offices of the Company, 16, Finsbury-placc;south, I 'p-
don, where Prospectuses may h,: had, and also of the folio,. tug
Brokers,—Mr. James Thomas Berkeley, IS, Threadneedle street,
London ; Messrs Lynill and Berl, n, and Mr. .1. Fernyhoosk,
Manchester; Mr. Hampson, and Messrs. Powell and 1 owitilse,
Liverpool ; Mr. John Watson, and Messrs. Kirk and Co.,
Leeds; Messrs. Lucas and Co., Birmingham ; Messrs. 'Trigg
and Hodgson, Bull; Mr. Peter Dixon, Glasgow; Mr. 3,,auls,
Nicholson, and Mr. Charles Coulter, Edinburgh ; Messrs. Ed-
wards and Son, Bristol; Mr. \V. Bolton, Stratford-on-A, on;
Mr. B. Cowderoy, Reading ; Messrs. Warburton and Cross-
land, Sheffield ; Messrs. Hall Brothers and Company, Chel-
tenham ; Messrs. Wilkingson, and Mr. T. S. Sandford, Exeter;
Messrs. H. S. Easty and Co., Southampton; Messrs. Cape and
Son, Derby ; Mr. Charles Wikens, Northampton; Mr. Samuel Col.
Union, and Messrs. Potts and Levick, Nottingham; Mr. Meson,
Bradford, Yorkshire; Mr. Mills, Worcester; Messrs. Hopwood
and Palmer, Plymouth ; Mr. Richard Hine, Macclesfield ; Mr.
W. Crowell, Halifax ; Mr. T. Boardmen, Blackburn ; Mr. E. 11.
Armitage, Wakefield; Mr. J. S. Holland, Coventry ; • Messrs.
Bardwell and Son, Sheffield; Mr. S. Weatherburn, Huddersfield;
Messrs. Payne and Freer, and Messrs. Windram and Son, LOI.
crater and Mr. T. R. Evans: South Mall, Cork.

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