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Edward Hyde Clarke Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of
the Warwickshire and London Railway
The Constable of Hungerford
Captain William Lionel Lampert, The Highlands, Oxfordshire, and
Leamington, Warwickshire
Francis Burton, Esq., Milverton House, Warwickshire
Captain Stewart, R.N., Leamington, Warwickshire
Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbaston, Birmingham, Director
of the South Staffordshire Railway
William Northage, Esq., Upper Gower-street, Bedford-square
John Wodley Hughes, Esq., Gloucester, Director of the Birmingham
and Bristol Railway
Lewis Bruce Knight Bruce, Esq., The Priory, Roehampton, Surrey
Francis Cole Humbert, Esq., Oxford-street, Hyde:Park
Algernon Greville, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park
John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park
James Lamb, Esq., Hyde-park-square
Richard Groucock, Esq.,l Bow-churchyard, and Dulwich, Director
of the Direct Manchester Railway
J. B. Simpson, Esq., Rutland-lodge, Brixton
Henry Bellerby, Esq„ Sheriffof York
Henry Ledgard, Esq., 39, Wood-street, Cheapside, Director of the
Rugby and Macclesfield Direct Railway
John Williams, Esq., Eaton-square.
Thomas Grimsditch, Esq., M.P., Macclesfield, Cheshire
Samuel Griffiths, Esq., Penn-fields, Wolverhampton, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Railway
William Miller, jun., Esq., Leicester
Edward lVeetlake, Esq., Southampton
Erasmus It. Foster, Esq. Birchin-lane
William Bargett, Esq., Esq.,
Peter R. ilforrison, Req., Princes-street, Bank
Thomas Miller, jun. Esq., Leicester
John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Enfield, Director of the York and Lan-
caster Railway
Thomas Kidley, Esq., Sheffield
Janice Sheppard, Esq., jun.. White Hart-court, Lombard-street
Valentine Knight, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, Magistrate
for Middlesex '
George Sercombe, Esq., Exeter
John Clampit Scrcombe, Esq., Exeter
William l'earce Esq., Liverpool
W. Holliday, Eaq., Chad Valley, Edgbaston, Birmingham
Robert Henry Hurst, Esq., jun., Temple
William Nash, Esq., Capham Common
Grey Hazlerigg, Esq., West Carlton Hall. Leicester
Captain Twisleton Graves, Duke-street, St. James's, Director of the
Leicester and Tean and Dove Valley Railway
(With power to add to their number).
ENSINSER3 IN CHIRP.
Sir John Macniell, LL.D., F.R.S.
James Thomsen, Esq., F.R.S.E., M.R.I.A.
Baxxess--Messrs. Curries and Co., Cornhill, London.
JOINT SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Bell, Brodrick, and Bell, Bow Churchyard, London
Messrs. Rickards and Walker, 29, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London
Messrs. Haynes and Moore, Warwick and I,ondon
Messrs. J. V. and J. T. Harting, 24, Lincoln's lan-fields, Lento'.
Smarr...my—Thomas Hosier Saunders, Esq.
AssisTANT-Szertzzaar—Charles J. Whalley, Esq.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
At Newbury—Messrs. Godwin and Gray, and B. Pinniger, Eaq.
At Ramsbury—William Rowland, Esq.
At DOViZie, Henry Gilbert, Esq., and John Edwards Hayward, Esq.
At Trowbridge and Bradford, Messrs. Stone and Redway
At Bath, Messrs. Batehellor, Harford, and Staunton
At Shepton Mallett—Francis Imes Nalder, Esq.
At Bridgewater, Messrs. G. S. and J. R. Poole
At Exeter—William Denis Moore, Esq.
At Tiverton, T. L. T. Rendell, Esq., and J, A. Toms, Esq.
At Laanceuton—Messrs. Lawrence and Pattisen
At Ballwin
At Truro
At Penzance
At Falmouth—Messrs. Tresidder and Son
The object of this line is to erect a direct eoamtudeation between
London and the Land's Ent.

In a national point of view such a line is indispensable. With
the advantage of a direct railroad, Falmouth, from it. situation at the
western extremity of the' kingdom, would undoubtedly long since
have been the principal port on that coast. With the advantage of
at least 280 miles of heavy road, that place has attained its high po-
sition as a Packet Station. Southampton, with far lees natural ad-
vantages, has, since the opening of the South-Western Railway, in-
creased its imports from 200,0001. to 3,000,6001. per annum. At Bris-
tol, before the opening of the Great Western Railway, the imports
were declining ; since then they have very considerably increased.
The merits of a line to the Land's End as an investment for ea-

pital, it was not left to the present Company to discover. The Great
Western and Bristol and Exeter Railway having already reached
Exeter, it hag been in contemplation to extend that line to Fal-
mouth by way of Plymouth ; and various ether projects have been
set on foot on the conviction that Falmouth must be reached by
railway.

The object of this prospectus is to show that ne ether line than the
resent can ultimately satisfy the exigencies of the country in regard
to this, its most important eutport—" the natural Packet Station of
the empire."
The present project is distinguished by this—that it is direct. It is
as nearly as possible a straight line from London to the Land's End.
The London, Bath, and Bridgewater Company having amalga-
mated with this Company, the immense local influence commanded
by them will now contribute to the great national object of a direct
line ; while means have been taken for securing the traffic and afford-
ing all the accommodation contemplated by that Company.
The Direct Western availing itself of the Great Western Railway
so far as Reading, pursues its course by or near Newbury, Hunger-
ford, Great Bedwin, Marlborough, Devizes, the manufacturing dis-
trict of Trowbridge (front which a diverging line will be carried by
Bradford direct to Bath), Westbury, Frome, Shepton Mallet, Wells
(from which another diverging line will be taken to Bridgewater),
Glastonbury to Taunton, being shorter by about thirty-two
miles than any existing railways between these points, and without
a tunnel. From Taunton the Bristol and Exeter Railway (now
leased to the Great Western) is traversed to Tiverton, whence it is
proposed te carry this line direct te the Land's End, Falmouth, fit.
Ives, and Penzance, being shorter by about sixty miles that the
lately proposed line by way of Plymouth, and effecting, its the wnole
distance from London to Falmouth, a saving of about ninety miles.
With tearect te the traffic on the upper portion of the line Is is
needless to say more than that there is already thorough traffic suffi-
cient to justify the construction of this portion of the Direct Wes-
tern : that it will shorten the distance from London to Tiverton
about 32 miles, that it will traverse rich and populous agriealtural
and manufacturing districts, and receive a large amount of traffic as
well from railwayenow in course of construction as front ethers pro-
jected, with every chance of success.

As to the trafile en the lower portion of the line, it is evident that
the vast number of merchant vessels continually detained in the
Channel by adverse winds, would effect an immense saying both in
insurance and time, by discharging their cargoes at Falmouth, and at
once traninnittlng them to their destination by means •f this railway;
and therelbre—without speculating on the extent to which the ports
on either side of the great pretnontery •f the Land's Bad may, by
means of this railroad, attract the commerce respectiv,dy of P,rist•l
and iiontliainpten ; t • what extent the inexhaustible mineral wealth
of Cornwall, awl the unrivalled agrioulteral res•arces •f Devonshire
may be further developed, •r the genial climate •f Penzance and
Mount's Bay, " the Montpellier •f England," attract a larger propor-
tion of winter visitants—it is obvious that this line will command a

traffic both in goods and passengers, from its weetern ters7l7u; ' the
amount of which may be said to be withont limit. A glance at the
map will make it manliest that no competing trunk line can ever be
established between Tiverton and the Land's End. As between
Taunton and heading, an inspection of the map will show a vast ex-
tent of midland distriot, comprising rich and populous parts of So-
inersetshire, Dorsetshire, and Wiltshire, a* w altogether destitute of
railroad accommodation.

Recurring to the features of this projeet as a natlenal work, one of
the greatest in point of magnitude, of vital importance la the event of
war, and of almost incalculable advantage to the general and packet
commerce of the kingdom; it may net be oat of place to quote here
tke following expressions of Sir Robert Peel. Speaking e the project
of a direct line Item London to Liverpool through the Treat Talley,
which. bore much the same relation to the Itirmingha►a and Grand
Janctlon that this bears to the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter
Railways, he is reported to hare said :—"I consider that the com-
munication between the metropolis and the groat mallets to he not
a question °Mears, hat a question of minutes." Of the necessity of this
particalar line, Parliament has already expressed an opinion ; fir in the
report et the Committee on the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth
lino, which was promoted by the Great Weatera Railway Company,
it was stated that that Company hint been required to pledge itself
net hereafter to oppose a direct line to Falmouth; and it 'nay be
farther observed, that a ?reposed line from Plymouth to Falmonth
was last session rejected, on the groand that it might be supposed
to iaterfere with that great National object.

The snrvey of the line has been t• a great extent completed, and
correct ectiriates of the expenditure and returns are is a state •f Mr-
nardiess, cad the whole will be ready Mr the next session •f Par-
liament.

It is sufficient, as to these points, here to state that there are ne
engineering difilculties in any part of the line which have sot been
repeatedly surmounted in ether cases ; that the first portion will be
constructed at an unusually small expense ; that the undertaking
will meet with the cordial support, concurrence, and es-operation of
the landowners, and that the. Directors are jastifled in asserting that
this will prove to be one of the most remunerative railways in the
kingdom.
Powers will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow interest at
four pounds per centmn per annum an the deposits, and preference
in the allotment of shares will he given to the proprietors of the land
through which the line will pass, and to the shareholders In the
Great Western, the Bristol. and Exeter, and other railways connected
with the Direct Western district.
Applications for shares, in the form subjoined, to he addressed to
the solicitors to the Company, or to the Secretary, at the Company's
Offices, 20, Poultry, London, or to the local solicitors, or to any re-
spectable broker in town or country
20, Poultry, London, September, 1345.
FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Direct Western Railway
Company.
Gentlemen,—l request yon will allot me shares of 25/. each I■
the above Company, and I undertake to pay the deposit of 2/.128.64.
per share thereon, or on any less number you may appropriate to me,
and to execute the Subscribers Agreement and Parlianewitary Con-
tract, when requires':
Dated

1845.

Name in full
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DIRECT WESTERN RAILWAY,
with diverging lines to BATH and BRIDGWATER.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Notice is hereby given, that no further Applications for Shares In
this Company will be received after TUESDAY, the 7th of October, inst.
T. H. SAUNDERS, Secretar
20, Poultry, London, Oct. 1, 1845. y.

THE DIRECT LONDON, PORTSMOUTH,
AND CHICHESTER, AND DIRECT PORTSMOUTH
AND CIIATIIA3I RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
VIA REIGATE.
Capital, 1,700,000/., in 85,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTBE.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Egmont, of Cowdray Park, Sussex
Colonel George Wyndham, of Pctworth House, Sussex
The Hon. and Rev. L. Vernon Harcourt, of West Dean, sasscx
The Right lion. Lord de Lisle, of Penshurst, Kent
The Right Hon. Lord Pelham Clinton, of Carleton Villas, Makin. hill
The Right lion. Lord Ressntere, of the Dell, Windsor
Sir Charles William Taylor, Bart. of Hollycombe House, Sussex
The Hon. Robert Gore, M.P., of Bart.,
Wilton-crescent
The Hon. William M. Dawson, Poole Lodge, Dorset
The Hon. Stafford Jerningham, Brook-street,
The lion. Percy Freko, 3, Belgrave-square
Sir William Young, Bart., 7 Westbourne-street, Hyde Park, Director
of the East India Company
Sirir James Jame Bart., of 40,
James
Carmichael,Eyre,of Brook-street,
sGusrsoesxv.egnaorrd-eeqnsuare
s
Sir Robert Schomburgh, of New Kingston, Surrey
Howard Elphlastone, Esq., M.P., of Eaton-place, Director of the
Direct Western Railway Company, the Thames Embankment
Company, &c.
William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid.
land Railway
Robert Wynne Williams, Esq., Director of the Nottington and Gains.
borough Railway
Lee Steere, Esq., of Jay's Park, Surrey
Captain Charles Shirley, of Midhurst, Sussex
Lieut.-Colonel Eden, 1, Lowndes-streot, Belgrave-square
Andrew Spottiewoode, Esq., of Broom Hall, Surrey
Admiral John Ayscough, of Prospect-place House, Southampton
Lancelot Archer Burton, Esq., of Woodlands, Entsworth, Banta
Charles Dixon, Esq., of Stanstead Park, Sussex
Archibald Douglas Stewart, of Bruton-street
E. T. Dayrell, Esq., 13, Old Cavendish-street, High Sheriff of Buck-
inghamshire
Colonel Henry Dundee Campbell, of North-end House, Portsmouth,
Deputy-Lieutenant for Hants
Major Snow, of 4, Old Cavendish-street
The Rev. Henry Garrett Newland, of Westbsurne Rectory, Sussex
Francis Lysons Price, Esq., of Bydenham, Kent, Director of the
Shropshire Mineral Railway
James Beech, Esq., of Brandon Hall, Warwickshire
George Grantham, Esq., of Barcombe-place, Sussex
Charles Hurst, Eeq., of Midhurst, Sussex
George Harrison, Esq., F.S.A., 7, Harleyford-place, Kennington
Frederick Clarkson, Esq., of Tottenham, Directors of
Robert Chapman, Esq., of 1, Park-place, Regent's the Great
Park, Manchester
William Watson Prole, Eeq., of Thurlow-squared Railway
Brompton, J Company
Thomas Chitty, Esq., of 8, Upper Gower-street, Barrister-at-Law,
Director of the Birmingham and Leicester Railway Company
John Napper, Esq., of Ifold House, Surrey
Stephen Londell, Esq., of Lindfield, Sussex
George Barker, Esq., of Stilland, Sussex
James Hutchins, Esq., of Lincoln, Director of the Manchester and
Southampton Railway Company
Lewis Pocock, Esq., of Montague-street, Russell-square
Thomas Neale, Esq., of Reigate, Surrey
itihneL u
Samuel Reif, Esq., of Reigate, Surrey
Thomas Neale, Esq., jun., of Reigate, Surrey
JoThomas Bowles, Esq.. of Midimrst, Sussex
tropolltan Juiaett" F,o'S'A"
icEtsq.....Fd.WL.oSr.,ceosfteGrreßaant Surrey-street,way Director of
John Davidson -,Etszt,
William Hardy, E of Croydon, Surrey, Director of Me-
Cooffractntoyn-house, near Midhurst
~ of Varndall-hill,
epton, Sussex
Rugby,e antmEl;vll Haslemere
AEd.mthuonndy Sadler, 1154
Edrington-house, near Berwick-upon.
oxburgluthire, Dfrector of
Tweed
.Toseph Eade, Esq., of Clapham Common
William. Watson. Esq.. of Burn- rove, R
Bristol and Exeter Railway. Company
Samuel Brown, Esq., ef Clapham
Joseph Scales, E5T.,..0.t. X .Punster-court,
Clapton ant., an,l Upper
John Parkinson, Esq. F.R.S., of 30, Cambridge-terrace, llya Park,
Director of the MAW and Reigate Railway Company

John Helbert Holbert, Esq., of Gloucester-place, Director of the Lei-
cester and Birmingham Railway Company
Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., of Clepton House, Stratford-on-Avon,
Director of the Warwick and London Railway Company
Captain William Cousins, of Compton-street, Brunswick-square, Di-
rector of the Doncaster and Goole Railway Company
Captain Frederick Chamfer, of Halkin-street, Beigrave-square, Di-
rector of the Fampoux and Hazebrouck Railway
John Barnett, Esq., of Cheltenham, Coroner of the county of Glou-
cester
John Moreton Cottle, Esq., of Leamington, Director of the Coventry
and Birmingham Railway Company
John Brightman, Esq., of Regency-square, Brighton, Director of the
Leeds and Carlisle Railway Company
William Spooner, Esq., of Chapel-street, Beigrave-square, Director of
the Newcastle and Liverpool Railway Company
Aleiander Greig, Esq., of Lowndes-street, Beigrave-square, Director
of the Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railway
Captain Trophinrus Hedges, of 65, Connaught-terrace, Hyde Park.
Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway Company
George Parbury, Esq., of 37, Russell-square, Director of the Mandles-
ter and Rugby Railway Company
George R. Peppercorne, Esq., of Bexhill, Sussex, Director of the
Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railway Company
Thomas Henry Evans, Esq.. of Lothbury, Director of the Rugby,
Warwick, and Worcester Railway Company
Benjamin Franklin, Esq., of 6, Harley-street
Rev. F. H. Hall, D.D., Rector of Fulbourne, Cambridgeshire
Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Herefordshire
W. Woods, Esq., of Chilgrove, Sussex
Henry Morley, Esq., of Midhurst, Sussex
William Gambler, Esq., Sacombe Park, Herts
C. A. Tulk, Esq., of Totteridge Park, Herts
James Peard Ley, Esq., Seyton Ironworks, Whitehaven
John Inglis Jerdcin, Esq., 150, Piccadilly
H. R. Dowman, Esq., of 47, Upper Bedford-place, Director of the
Cambrian and Grand Junction Railway
David Mountague, Esq., of Regent's-park
W. A. Wilkinson' Esq., Ludgate-hill, Director of the Waveney
Valley Railway Company
James Gernon, Esq., Director of the London and Nottingham Rail-
way Company
James Macmillon, Esq., Southampton
Rev. Cecil Greene, A.M., of Midhurst
Rev. Charles Edward Twyford, of Trotton Rectory, Snssex
Msjor James Adair, Director of Church of England Insurance'
Company
Captain Charles Frederick Parkinson. of Manchester, Director of
the Manchester and Southampton Railway, Managing Director of
the West Lancashire Railway, and of the Manchester, Wigan, and
Southport Railway
Robert Sykes, Esq., of Manchester, Director of Cilantro° Junction
Railway
John Clark Prescott, Esq., of Manchester, Director of Oxford, South-
ampton, and Gosport Railway, and of Macclesfield and Rugby
Railway
Henry Farrington, Esq., of Manchester, Director of Wigan and
Southport Railway, and of York and Lancaster Railway
Josephus Harney Higson. Eel., of Manchester, Director of Chester
and Manchester Direct Railway, and of Manchester and Rugby
Railway
Daniel Grant, Esq., of Bpringside, Bury, Lancaster, Director of Rem-
ington's Direct London and Manchester Railway, and of the
Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction
Railway
Thomas Townend. Eeq., of the Polygon, Manchester, Director of
London and Manchester Direct Railway
John Burgess, Esq., of Manchester, Boroughreeve of Manchester,
Director of the London and Manchester Direct Railway Company,
and of the Manchester, Burnley, Settle, and Carlisle Direct
Railway
James Shaw, Esq., of Salford. Lancashire, Director of the Manchester
and Ruby Hallway
Edward Parrett, Esq., of the Buttons, Romford
John George Hammond, Esq., Essex-house, Bow, Director of the
Direct Western Railway
Joseph Bishop, Esq., Director of the Blackwell Railway
Phillip Baker, Esq., Euston-square
Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Esq., Twyford-hall, Derby
John Webster, Esq., 35, Mecklenburgh-square, Direetor of the Great
Grimsby, and Lincoln Railway
The names of other noblemen and gentlemen will appear in a
thrther advertisement, whose support has been promised to the un-
dertaking.

COMMITTER OF MANAGEMENT.
Samuel Brown, Esq. Edward Parratt, Esq.
Fredorick Clarkson, Esq. Wm. B. Hughes, Esq., M.P.
Robert Chapman, Esq. Robert Wynne Williams, Esq.
Joseph Scales. Esq. H. R. Downman, Esq.
John Parkinson, Esq. David Montague, Esq.
ENGINEERS—Messrs. Drayson, of No. 2, Palace-yard, Westminster.
SOLICITORS TO THE COMPANY—Messrs. Pontifex and Moginlo, 6, tit.

Andrew's-court, Holborn, London.
BANKERS —The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury