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London, England, 1845-10-06 00:00:00

Tit E SUN, LO NDON ON D A

_DOVER and BRISTOL RAILWAY,
in continuation of the South-Eastern Railway, from Reigate
Upon the Narrow Gauge.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,500,0001, in 75,000 Shares, of 201. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.

to Bris

PEOVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right lion. Lord ItosSmore, the Dell, Windsor
The Hon. William 31. Dawson, Parkstone Lodge, l'oole, Director of

le Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
Hon. Edward Stafford Jerningham, Director of the London and

Nottingham Railway
Lieut.-Col. the Hon. J. C. Westenra, M.P., Director of the East and
West Junction Railway, and of the Brighton and Cheltenham Di-
rect Railway
Sir William B. Johnston, Bart., Director of the Chepstow, Forest of

Dean, and Gloucester Railway
Admiral Ayscough, Pro-Tect-place-house, Southampton, Director of
the Birmingham and Leicester Railway, and South and Midland
Railway
Admiral Sir Georges Sartorius, Director of the Direct Northern,
Eastern, and Western Junction Railway
Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Director of the York and Lancaster
Railway
William Collins, Req., M.P., Warwick
A. K. Baker, Esq., Longford-house, Cheltenham Directors of the
John W. Hughes, Esq., Gloucester Bristol and Bir-
George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, mingham Railway
The Worshipful the Mayor of Dover
The Worshipful the Mayor of Bath
Henry Butcher, Esq, the Mayor of Des Izes
Daniel Nazar, Esq.
Edward Poole, Esq. Town Councillors of Dover
William Henry Payn, Esq.
Edward Seward, Esq.,
The Rev. Just Henry Alt, Enford, Wilts, Director of the Manches-
ter, Southampton, and Poole Railway
Charles Dickson Archibald, Esq., liusland-hall, Lancashire, Director
of the South StatiOrdshire Railway
J. R. W. Atkinson, Esq., Elmwood house, Leeds, Director of the
Lancashire and North Yorkshire, and North Eastern Railways
George Addison, Esq., Bradford, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway
John Anderson, Esq., London, Director of the Tring, Reading, and

Basingstoke Railway
Joseph Acton, Esq., J.P., Wigan, Director of the Manchester and

Wigan Railway
William Ascroft, Esq., the Willows, Bury, Director of the Stafford-
shire Potteries, Liverpool, and Manchester Direct Railway
Joseph Austin, Esq., Heddingley-hill, Leeds, Director of the Leeds

and York Railway
William Ackroyd, Esq., Westbourne Lodge, Ottley, Yorkshire, Di-
rector of the East and West Yorkshire. the Midlands and Thirsk
Junction, and Leeds and York and Midland Junction
James Beech, Esq., Grosvenor-place, and Brandon, Warwickshire,
Director of the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway
Cecil Brook Boothby, Esq., Ashbourne-hall, Derbyshire, Director of
the South Union
William Gabbett Beare, Esq., Porchester-place, Connaught-square,
Director of the Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union Railway
John Boulton, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Birmingham, Lich-
field, and Manchester Railway
Thomas Byrom, Esq., Alderman, Wigan, Director of the Manchester
and Wigan, and the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction
Railways
.George Brown, Esq., Twining-park, Worcestershire
Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds

Direct Railway
Robert Bell, Esq., Manor House, Chiswick, Director of the Great
Eastern and Western Junction, and London and Nottingham
Railways
Robert S. Butterfield, Esq., Bradford, Yorkshire, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Luke Eutler, Esq., Alderman, Dublin, Director of the Galway and
Kilkenny, and Cork and Waterford Railways
William Clod° Braddon, Esq., Regency-square, Brighton
Christopher Bentham, Esq , Birkenhead, Director of the Chester and
Birkenhead Railway, and of the North and South Wales Bank
William Byrom, Esq., Oldham, Director of the Oldham Districts, the
Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction, and the Birken-
head and Holyhead Junction Railways
Thomas Chitty, Esq., Gower-street, Director of the Central Kent

Railway
Joseph Charles Cohen, Esq., merchant, Birmingham
John James Conway, Esq., Liverpool
John Carmichael, Esq., Cork, Director of the Cork and Waterford
Railway

__in Henry Collis, Esq., Handsworth, Staffordshire, Director of
he Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway
Thomas Cockscy, Esq., Atherton and Bolton, Director of the Man•

chester and Wigan Railway
William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., Hull, Director of the Rugby, War
wick, and Leamington Railway
William Clifford, Esq , Hull, Director of the Lincolnshire and Eastern
Counties Railway
William Caldwell, Esq., Alderman, Ince-hall, Wigan, Director of the
Staffordshire Potteries, Liverpool, and Manchester Direct Railway
Henry Coe Coape, Esq., Goldhanger, Essex, Director of the Man-
chester, Oxford, and Southampton Junction Railway
John Townshend Compton, Esq., Wedhampton, Wilts, Director of
the Manchester, Southampton, and Poole Railway
Captain F. Chamier, Haikin-street, Belgrave-square, Director of the
Fampoux and Hazebrouck Railway
Henry Toogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse Bradford, Magistrate for
Wilts and Somerset
John Campbell Dickers, Esq., New Hall, Neston, Cheshire, Director
of the Birkenhead and Holyhead, and the Rugby, Derby, and Man-
chester Railways
Thomas Davies, Esq., the Austins, Handsworth, Staffordshire, Di-
rector of the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway
W. T. S. Daniel, Esq., Recorder of Ipswich
Miles Dormer, Esq., London, Director of the Exeter,. Dorchester,
and Weymouth Coast Railway
John Doughill, Esq., Lockwood, Huddersfield
Joseph Dowson, Esq., merchant, Lambeth
Thomas 11. Evans, Esq., Mayor of Carnarvon
Henry D. Erskine, Esq., Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, and Kirby
Dale, Yorkshire, Director of the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway
George Edwards, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Birmingham,
Lichfield, and Manchester Railway
John Edwards, Esq., Chester, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway
William Edwards, Esq., Aston Furnaces, Birmingham, Director of
the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway
Captain Gustavus Evans, R.N., Headly-grove, Reigate
John FillitiS, Esq., merchant, Dover
Charles Fitzgerald, Esq., Charles-street, St. James's, Director of the
London and Nottingham Railway.
Webster Flockton, Esq., Weybridge, Surrey
Bell Fletcher, Esq., M.D., Birmingham, Director of the Birmingham,
Lichfield, and Manchester Railway
Benjamin Franklin, Esq., 5, Harley-street, Cavendish-square, Di-
rector of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton
Railway
William Tulloh Fraser, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square,
Director of the Dorking, Brighton, and Arundel Railway
Charles Hay Frewen, Esq., Brickwah, Northiam, Sussex
William Fitzgibbon, Esq., 21, Cambridge-street, Connaught-square,
Director of the Cork and Passage and Cork and Bandon Railways
Major Grubbe, Eastwell-house, magistrate for Wilts
William Gambier, Esq., Sacombe-park, Herta
Captain Goulde, Charles-street, St. James's
George Frederick Gregory, Esq., Seacombe, Cheshire, Director of the
Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway
Henry Francis Gisborne, Esq., Derby, Director of the South Stafford-
shire Junction, the Derby and Crewe, the Macclesfield and Lich-
field, and the Leicester and Tamworth Railways
John Griffith Frills, Esq., merchant, Austin-friars, Chairman of the
Londonderry and Coleraine Railway
James Gernon, Esq., Conduit-street, Bond-street, Director of the
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate, Manchester, Oxford, and South-
ampton, and Cheltenham and Brighton Railways
Gatliff, Esq., merchant, Leeds, Director of the West Yeti-
shire Railway
Joseph Gill, Esq , Potter Newton Mount, Leeds,Director of the Leeds
and York and Midland Junction Railway
John Hall, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and York Railway
William Holliday, Esq., Chad Valley, Edgbaston, Director of the
Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway
Samuel Haines, Esq , Chad House, Edgbaston, Director of the
Leicester and Tamworth Railway
William Horatio Harrison, Esq., Sunbury, Director of the Leicester
and Tamworth and South Staffordshire Junction Railways
William Wilkes Hill, Esq., Beeston Hall, Leeds
Lewis Hoffman, Esq., Temple, Director of the Nottingham and South
Staffordshire Railway
James Inglis, Esq., M.D., Halifax, Director of the Manchester,
Southampton, and Oxford Junction, and the London, Holyhead, and
Portdynllaen Railways
John Johnson, Esq., R.N., Birmingham
Kensington Lewis, Esq., Worcester-park, Surrey, Director of the
Cheltenham, Oxford and Brighton Junction, and the Lynn, Wis-
beach, and Peterborough and Midland Counties' Railways
John Lowe, Esq., Norfolk Crescent, Hyde-park
William Phillips Lamb, Esq., Ockham House, Sussex
Edward Augustus Lamb, Esq., Westfield, Battle, Sussex, Director of
the Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway
Darnton Lurton, Esq , Potter Newton Hall, Mayor of Leeds, Direc-
tor of the Leeds and York, and Wakefield and Bradford Railways
Sir William Lowthrop, Knt., Hull, Director of the Leeds, Hudders-
field, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Direct Railway
John Lord, Esq., Standish Hall, Lancashire, Director of the Black-
the Staffordshire Potteries, and Manchester and Liverpool Direct
Railway
James Lamb, Esq., 65, Hyde Park-square, Director of the Tring,
Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
Rowland Mackenzie, Esq., Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square,
Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and Cheltenham,
Oxford, and Brighton Railways
Thomas Gibbon Moneypenny, Esq., Hole-park, Rolvenden, Kent
Major Moore, Queen Anne-street, Director of the Brighton and Chel-
tenham Direct Railway
James Joseph IPSwiney, Esq., Sandal View, Wakefield, Director of
the Wakefield and Harrogate Railvisy
J. Mee Mathew, Esq., Assistant Tithe Commissioner, Director of the
Worcestershire, Derbyshire, and Staffordshire Railway
Captain Macdougall, Fir-grove, North Brixton, Director of the Read-
ing, Guildford, and Reigate Railway
John George Norbury, Esq., Mancette r-house, Atherstone, Director
of the Teen and Dove Valley, and South Staffordshire Junction
Railways
Joseph Norton, Esq., Clayton West, Huddersfield, Director of the
Huddersfield, Halifax, and Bradford Union Railway, and the
Wakefield and Harfogate Railway
Captain Thomas Ross, 58, Porchester-terrace, Director of the Dl-
riNorthern, Eastern, and Western Junction Railway
George Parbury, Esq.' Mansfield House, Russell-square, Director of
the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
William Peppercorne, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex, Director of the West
Midland Railway
William Raines, Esq., Temple, Director of the London and Notting-
ham Railway
Frederick William Seymour, Esq., Carlton-terrace, Director of the
Lynn, Wisbeach, Peterborough, Railway
William Spooner, Esq., London, Director of the South Staffordshire
Junction Railway, and of the Liverpool, Manchester, and New-
castle-upon-Tyne Junction Railway
Henry Scott, Esq., 17, Pall-mall
S. E. Sichel, Esq., merchant, Bradford, Director of the Leeds, York,
and Midland Junction Railway
George Turner, Esq., Ralston Hill, Erdington, Director of the South
Staffordshire Junction Railway
Henry Taylor, Esq., Alderman, Wigan, Director of the Manchester
and Wigan, and the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union
Junction Railways
George Turton, Esq., Bagden Lodge, Clayton West, Huddersfield
William Tinker, Esq., Conock, Wilts, Director of the Manchester,
Southampton, and Poole Railway
George Thomas Thompson, Esq., Dover, Coroner for the Cinque
Ports
John Thompson, Esq.,•Alderman of Wigan, Director of the Birkhen-
head and Holyhead Railway, of the Manchester and Wigan Rail-
way, and Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction Railway
John Taylor, Esq., Hull, Director of the Lincolnshire and Eastern
Counties Railway
James Upfill, Esq , The Green, Herefordshire, Director of the Staf-
fordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway
George Unett, Esq., The Laurels, Handsworth, Staffordshire, Direc-
tor of the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway, and
the Lynn, Wisbeach, and Peterborough Railway
Thomas Bolman Unfit], Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Birming-
ham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway
Major White, Pall-mall, Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing-
stoke Railway
Walter Unett, Esq., Captain 3d Light Dragoons, Maidstone, Director
of the NottinOam and South Staffordshire, and the Lynn,
Wisbeach, and Peterborough Railways
William Boyden Watts, Esq., M.D., Birmingham, Director of the
Lincoln, Louth, and Great Grimsby Railway
Thomas Wakefield, Esq., London, Director of the Nottingham and
South Staffordshire Railway
Smith Whylock, Esq., Birmingham, Director ofthe Staffordshire and
Shropshire Junction Railway
Robert William Watson, Esq., Dover
John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, near Tonbridge, Director of
the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Sir William White, Director of the Stafford, Uttoxeter, and Derby
Railway
J. W. Yerbury, Esq., Belcombe-house, Wilts, Capt. 3d. Light Dra-
goons, Director of the Direct Western Railway.
Lodge Murry Murry Prior, Esq., 19th Lancers, Coventry, Director
of the Dublin, Tullamore, and Parsonstown Railway
Edward Knight, Esq.,-M.D. Stafford, Director of the Grand Junction
and Midlands' Union Railway
William Henry Skelton, Esq., Shadwell, near Leeds
Charles William Reynolds, Esq., Captain 16th Lancers, Maidstone,
Director of the Worcester, Warwick and Rugby Railway
Thomas Braman, Egg., Mayor of Tamworth, Deputy Chaiman of
the Leicester and Tamworth Railway
Richard Hughes, Esq., Stafford, Director of the Staffordshire and
Shropshire Junction Railway
Henry- Wenman Newman, Esq., Thornbnry-park, near Bristol, De-
puty-Lieutenant of Gloucestersshire, and magistrate of Gloucester-
shire and Bristol.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—
ACTING ENGINEER—Edward James Maude, Esq., C.E.
BANKERS.
London-31eWs. Rogers, Olding, and Co. ; the Union Bank
Bristol —Stuckey's Banking Company
Bradford and Trowbridg,e—The Wilts and Dorset Banking Company
Dover—Messrs. Latham and Co.
JOINT SOLICITORS.

Edwin Smith, Esq., and Messrs. Lewis and Ford, London ; Edward
Borges, Esq., Bristol

Gloucester, Worcester, Birmingham,

the north of England.
From its proximity to the Continent, the port of Dover will always
be the most accessible point of the English coast; an expeditious
communication therefore between that and the other ports, harbours,
and inland:towns of the United Kingdom, must necessarily be regarded
as a great national advantage.
Dover is at present the chief port of embarkation for Calais,
Boulogne, Ostend, and other continental towns, and the vest numbers
already resorting there both on business and pleasure, will be im-
measurably increased when the railways of France, Belgium, Hol-
land, and Germany are fully brought into operation.
In addition to which, the Government Commissioners having
selected Dover as a Harbour of Refuge, and recommended the outlay
then, of 1,500,0001., It cannot fall of becoming a place of the
greatest resort for the shipping and commercial interests of the coun-
try, and perhaps the most hnportant town on the southern coast.

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In every point of view, therefore,. whether for national security, or
for travelling excursions, or the invaluable interests of our shipping
and commerce, the paramount importance of a cheaper, more conve-
nient, and accelerated intercourse between this great port and all
parts of the kingdom, must ho sufficiently obvious. This the pro..
motors fully anticipate will be attained by the proposed railway,
which will form a portion of a grand trunk line, completing the
chain of railway communication upon the narrow gauge between the
south-eastern coast, and Bristol and the western,, northern, and mid-
land counties.

The lire will commence at the terminus of the South-Eastern Rail-
way at Reigate, proceed thence by Dorkin;, Godahning, Farnham,
and Odiham to the Basingstoke station, on the South-Western Rail-
way. It will then proceed by Andover towards Devizes, Trow-
bridge, and Bradford, with a branch to Bath, and pursuing its esurse
through the Somersetshire coal-field, throwing off a branch towards
Radstock into the heart of the collicries,",:terminate in a junction with
the Bristol and Birmingham Railway at Bristol.
By its course through Dorking, Godalming, Farnham, and Ckli-
ham, it will supply the railway accommodation so much required by
those towns, and connect the rich and fertile hop districts of Surrey,
Kent, and South Rants, and afford the means of conveyance of their
produce to the great Hop-fair at Weyiiiit.
By its junction with the contemplated " Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate Raihvay," it will afford to the inhabitants of Reading, Oxford,
and to the midland counties generally, the best and shortest route to
time Continent, as well as to Worthing, Hastings, Brighton, and the
other watering-places in Sussex and Kent ; and a vast increase of
visitors will undoubtedly be attracted to those places from the interior
of England by the accommodation and facilities tbr travelling which
will be accomplished by this and the proposed railway from Reading.
By its intersection of the South-Western Railway at Basingstoke,
and of the proposed Manchester and Southampton Railway further
west, the present line will connect Dover towards the south, with
Southampton (the packet station for the East and West Indies, &c.),
Gosport, and I ortsmouth, and towards the north, with Cheltenham,
Gloucester, Worcester, Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool, also
with Shrewsbury, Chester, and Holyhead, and in fact with the whole
of North and South Wales.

At Basingstoke, also, this line will join the proposed London, Salis-
bury, and Yeovil Railway, and throw open to Dover and the south-
eastern counties the populous and wealthy cities of Salisbury and
Exeter, the rich' agricultural counties of Wilts, Dorset, Somerset,
and Devon, the ports of Plymouth, Devonport, and Falmouth, and
the mineral regions of Cornwall.

To Devizes, Trowbridge, Bradford, and Bath, and the other towns
in the vicinity of its course, the benefit which this line will confer
camot be too highly estimated; to the coal districts of Somerset-
shire it will open large and constant markets both in Bristol and to
the south and east, while to the inhabitants of Bristol especially, con-
necting its channel with the Straits of Dover and the Downs, pro-
viding a perfect line for telegraphic communication, and securing to
them the whole of the trade between the south-east of England and

the west and south of Ireland, it seems difficult, considering the enor-
mous traffic which must necessarily- flow to that city, to conceive a
project more aeser.lng of their cordial sopnorr
In the memorable Parliamentary contest last session between two
great rival companies, the Legislature for the first time admitted
that princip7e of competition with existing interests which was
claimed by the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Company for
the protection" and benefit of the public ; and it is with no fear of
the result that the promoters of the present undertaking invite
attention to one distinguishing feature it contains, viz., that by the
construction of the line from Bristol t, Basingstoke, the Box Tunnel
will be avoided, and a new and independent communication will be
established between Bristol and London, by a shorter line on the
narrow gauge than by the devious course of the Great Western, inde-
pendently of all the advantages of the proposed central station at
llungerford-bridge, and the convenient access to the Thames both
there and at Nine Elms, over the distant and inconvenient station
of tile Great Western at Paddington.

In length the proposed line will be nearly 110 miles (assuming this
Company to have the construction of that portion between Reigate
and Dorking, for which plans have been deposited by the South-
Eastern Company)—the country through which it passes does not
present any engineering difficulties of moment, nor will any resi-
dential or ornamental property be interfered with except ander an
imperative necessity.
A reserve of shares will be made for landowners on the line, and
the Committee also retain to themselves the power to vary the course
of the line with reference to any arrangements with existing interests
and projected lines that may be considered advantageous to the
shareholders.
The capital proposed to be raised is 1,500,0001., in 75,000 shares of
201. each, with a deposit of 21. 2s. per share, to be paid on allotment.
Power will be taken by the Act to allow interest, at 41. per cent.
per annum, upon all deposits and subscriptions until the opening of
the line, and uo subscriber shall be answerable for more than the
amount of his deposit until the Act has been obtained, and then not
beyond the amount of his subscription.
The Subscribers' A greement and the Parliamentary Contract will
be ready for execution, and the scrip issued immediately upon pay-
ment of the deposits.
Applications for shares must be addressed to the Secretary, at the
Offices of the Company, No. 12, Gray's Inn-place, only ; but no appli-
cation will be attended to unless accompanied by a reference to a
member of the Provisional Committee, one of the solicitors to the

Company, or a banker.
Copies of the prospectus and form of application for shares may be
obtained at the offices of the Company, or of Messrs. Peppercorne, Old
Broad-street ; Mr. Syrn, 9, Tokenhouse-yard ; and Mr. B. B. Wil-
liams, Throgmorton-street, stock and sharehrokers, London.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
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To the Provisional Committee of the Dover and Bristol Rt./ray.
Gentlemen,-1 request you will allot me shares of 201. each
In this Company, and I agree to accept the same, or any smaller
number which may be allotted to me, to pay the deposit thereon,
and execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement
when required.
Dated this 1845.

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EXETER, DORCHESTER, AND WEY-
MOUTH JUNCTION COAST RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management beg to inform the public that the
shares in this Company are now in course of allotment, and that they
(the Committee) intend issuing the Letters and Allotments as soon as
the requisite examination has taken place into the application for
By order,
FRANCIS CREW. Secretary.

Oct. 2, 1845.

BOSTON, GRANTHAM, LEICESTER, and
MIDLAND COUNTIES JUNCTION RAILWAY CO3l
PANY.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 800,0001., hi 40,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. ss. per Share
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Wm. Corbett Smith, Esq., Bitteswell-hall, High Sheriff of Leicester.

shire
John Summerscales, Esq., Sheriff of Lincoln
Sir Wm. Wynn, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, Chairman of the North

Wales Railway
Sir tjeorge Yileh, Lownder-street, Belgrave-square, Director of
Oxford, Southampton, oseport, and Portsmouth allway
Major-General Sir Love Parry, Madryn, Carnarvonshire, Director of
the North Wales Railway
lion. Captain Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Parliament-street, London,
Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway
Rear-Admiral Ayscough, Southampton, Director of the Manchester
and Southampton Railway
Lieut.-Col. Elrington, Scotch Fusilier Gnards, 12, Wyndham-Place,
Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Railway
Lieut.-Col. Fitch, 36, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of the
South and Midland Railway
Adamthwaite, John, Esq., Oakhtll, Teen, Staffordshire
Allen, George Charles, Esq., East Shilton, Leicestershire, Director
of the Direct Birmingham and Leicester Railway
Atkinson, J. 8., Esq., Elmwood House, Leeds„ Director of the Lei-
cester and Bedford Railway
Bell, Robert, Esq., Manor House, Chiswick, Director of the East and
West Junction Railway
Betts, William, Esq., Bevois Mount, Southampton. •
Browne, Joseph, Esq., Bedford, Director of the Direct East and West
of England Junction Railway
Burd,.John, Esq., Alderman, Manchester
Caldecott, William Lloyd, Esq., Laura-place, Bath
Collett, Benjamin, Esq., Manor House, Bromsgrove
Croft, Major J. T., Regent-street, Piccadilly, Deputy-Chairman of
the Chester and Manchester Railway.
Cumberlege, Nathaniel, Esq., Director of the Direct East and West
Junction
Dalby, John, Esq., Ashbourne, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield,
Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railway
Eales, William, Esq., Mincing-lane, London, Director of the Direct
Western and Leeds and Carlisle Railways
Gernon, J., Esq., 12, Conduit-street, Hanover-square, Vice-Chairman
of the Galway and Ennis Railway
Ilazelrigg, Grey, Esq., Carlton-hall, Leicester
Heneage, Charles, Esq.,
Holmes, Isaac, Esq.,Liverpool
Cadeby-house, Lincolnshire
Knight, Joseph, Esq., Leicester, Pirector of the Midland Counties
and Leicester and Bedford Railway
Lambert, Richard, Esq., Lyston-hall, Sudbury, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Macmorn, A.M., Esq.,n
58, Cambridge-street, Hyde-park, Director of
the Direct East and West Junction Railway
Mann, E., Esq., Denver-hill, Norfolk, Director of the Liverpool, Man-
chester, and Newcastle Junction Railway
Maunder, Joseph,
Esq., Liverpool, Director of the Rugby and Man-
chester Direct Railway
Meted ard, Horace William, Esq., 8.C.L., London, Director of
Remington's London and Manchester Railway
Miller, Thomas, jun., Esq., Leicester, Director of the Direct Bir-
mingham and Leicester Railway
}fosse, R., Esq., I'r.nce's-street, Storey's-gate
Packe, C. Hussey, Esq., Keythorpe-hall, Lincolnshire
Parker, Francis, Esq., Northampton, Director of the South Midland
Railway
Parkinson, John, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Regent's-park, Director
of the South Midland Railway
Raworth, J., Esq., Leicester, Director of.the Direct Birmingham and
Leicester Railway
Spiers, E. J., Esq., Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and
Worcestershire Junction Railway
Stone, Nathaniel C., Esq., Raveley-helds, near Leicester, Director of
the Direct Birmingham and Leicester Railway'
Tibbutt, Thomas, Esq., Rusholin, Manchester, Director of the Rugby
and Manchester and Leeds and Carlisle Railways
Wetherall, Thomas, Esq., Lincoln, Director of the London and York
Railway
lace, Director of.the Leeds and
Williams, B. 8., Esq., 70, Portland-p
Liverpool, Leicester, and Tarnworth Railways.
BANKERS. ,
Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clement's-lane, London
Messrs. Garfit, Clapon, and Co.,Boston
Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester, and Melton
Mowbray

ENGINEER—C. Nixon, Esq.
SomaToi—J. A. J. Macgregor, Esq., 26,-Suffolk-street, Pall-mall,
London.
LocALSoiacrroas—Messrs. 3farncrs and Son, Grantham ; Messrs.
Millington and Kcnrick, Boston.
'I he object of this line of railway Is to connect by a direct route
the important town and seaport of Boston with the centre of Eng-
land, by way of Grantham and Melton Mowbray, where it will join
the Syston and Peterborough branch of the Midland Counties
will be about forty-four miles in length,
Railway.
nearly level, it is intended- to pass by or
near Swineshead, Donington, Folkiugham, Grantham, Stoke, Itoch-
anildylatildiisthrroailuwglaiy,a weohuinethrY
ford, and Melton MowbraY• It is evident that this line will be of
great convenience and utility, by affording to a part of the country,
at present deprived of it, thei advantage of railway communication
and thus
. connecting the agricultural districts of
with the counties of Radas fire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire,
and accessible means of export for their manufac-
ILVitaferwolinesiriii;eirie.:ltBlictle manufacturing parts of England, affording to
which
unnecessary to enlarge upon the advantages which will
the
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this
passes through one of the richest and
most fertile parts a England.
that
The population is dense, and a glance
at the 'nap will show this line is well laid out, not only for the
direct traffic from Leicester and the intermediate places to Boston,
but also for the general traffic which will be brought to this line by
the several railways which will be connected with it.
In the allotment of shares, holders in the Midland Counties Rail-
way will receive a preference, and reservation will be made for the
landed interests along the line, whose concurrence and assistance is
fully relied on by the promoters, by whom most of the influential
landholders have been canvassed ; and in order to prevent unneces-
sary other applications. will be received except those
is made to a Member of the Provisional Commit-
Rary wherein trouble,re
Commit-
tee, to the solicitors or bankers, or the following sharcbrokers, from
whom prospectuses and plans May be obtained :
ference
w 31essrs. Sutton, Gribble, and Nutton, Royal Exchange
Messrs. Preece and Evans, 39, Lothbury, London
Messrs. Townley and Whitehead, Liverpool
Mr. Keil, 20, Atherton-buildings, Liverpool
Messrs. Wellbeloved and Dander, Leeds
Mr. Frederick Stamp, Run
Mr. George Clark, Bradford
Mr. Wm. Cranhelm, Halifax
Mr. Charles Spencer, Nottingham
Messrs. Eyre and Shaw, Derby
Messrs. Grayston and Erie, York
dlr. E. 11. Armitage, Wakefield
:Messrs. 'fate and Nash, Bristol
Messrs. lionghland and L ce__ se, Manchester
Messrs. T. N. Barnwell and Sons, Sheffield
Mr. W. 11. Collis, Birmingham
Mr. L. Wetherburn, jun., Huddersfield
dlr. R. Rozzell, Leicester
Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester
Mr. James pringle, 1
•9, Princes-street, Edinburgh
Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Glasgow
Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, College-green, Dublin.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To ti e Provisional Committee of the Boston, Grantham, Leicester

I request that you will allot me
and Midland Counties ,Titnetion Railway Company.
shares of 201.
railway; and I undertake to pay the
clea::lieniilttlioctilmfe2e/na. b's;:epePrrgarreelliereen, or any less number you may ap-
prvriate to me, and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and
Parliamentary Contract when required.
Dated 1.1118 day of 1845.

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