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Chatham, Sheerness, Gravesend, &c., it will afford direct and speedy
access to Hastings, Brighton, Eastbourne, Wortaing, and the neigh-
bouring seaports, as well as the eastern and western parts of Sussex.
To the inhabitants of Hastings and St. Leonard's, the advantages
to be derived from the formation of this line will be evident.
Bringing the metropolis within a two hours' journey, it must of ne-
cessity greatly increase the already well-established reputation of
those justly celebrated watering-places, and bring to them an In-
creased number of visitors, who are now deterred from residing
there by reason of the absence of railway accommodation.
To the inhabitants of Lewes and Brighton, the advantages are pro-
portionately great. Passing as the proposed line will do through a
great agricultural district, it will give Increased facilities for the
transport of the produce of those districts.
_ _ _

GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY,
forming a connecting line between the Grand Junction,
And Trent Valley and Midland Counties Railways.
(Registered Provisionally.)
Capital, 1,000,0001., in 500,000 Shares of 201. each
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
CHAIRMAN OF THE PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Sir JOHN E. DE BEAUVOIR, Bart.
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN.
WILLIAM SIMPSON POTTER, Esq.
BANKERS—The Union Bank of London.
ENGINEER--JOhil Urpetk Rastrick, ESQ.
ACTING ENGINEER—Robert Nicholson, Esq.
Solaciross—Met srs. Watts, Galsworthy, and Galsworthy, 19, Ely-
..

In 1806, that eminent engineer, the late Mr. John Rennie, pro-
jected a harbour and dock at Hastings; and, subsequently Mr.
Cubitt, C.E., and Mr. Brooks, C.E., surveyed the coast, and projected
harbours in the same situation ; there can be no doubt a considerable
portion of continental traffic must pass from Hastings to the opposite
ports on the French coast, the direct line between London and Paris
being through Hastings,

The existing trade and fishery of Hastings is ample to pay five per
cent. on the coast of the harbour, pier, and dock, and the natural
result of such accommodation opposite so many ports on the French
coast, must be that of threefold increase.

Strict attention to economy will be given in the expenditure of the
Capital, thereby guaranteeing to the putlic low charges for the con-
veya Kis of pasen;ers and goods ; and there can be no reasonable
doubt, that when the traffic is fairly developed, the full rate of tcn
r cent. will be paid, and a surplus left for branch lines, or a reduc-
tion of fares.

place, Holborn.
This line of railway commences at Ashfordby, on the Syston and
Peterborough Railw4-, and proceeds to Loughborough, on the Mid-
land Counties Railway-, and thence through the Vale of Sheepshead
to Peg's Green Collier-?, near to the terminus of the Leicester
and Swannington Railway,: and thence through the coal-fields of
Swannington and Cole Orton to Ashby-de-la-Zouch. It will then
proceed across to Moira coal field, and through the rich agricultural
districts of Seal, Clifton, Campvillc, And Edingale, to the Birmingham
and Derby Railway, and thence proceed to join the Trent Valley
Railway, thus completing the route to ginfrord. At Alrewas it forms
a junction with the South Staffordshire line, by that means reaching
Lichfield.
By the junction with the Trent Valley, and by means of the
North Staffordshire line, it will afford a direct communication with
the Potteries, Newcastle-under-Lyne, Leek, and Macclesfield.
This railway will supply the link in the great chain of central com-
munication, east and west, and has met with great local support.
By order,

In drawing attent'on to the merits of:this undertaking, it should be
observed, that the formation of a trunk line between the metropolis
and Hastings, one:of the most hea'thy and fashionable watering-
places in the kingdom, which is increasing in estimation the more its
valuable resources are developed, in addition to the formation of a
harbour, pier, and dock—the great improvement in steam naviga-
tion—the establishment of railways between Paris and the ports on
the French coast opposite Hastings, " render this one of the most
toportant, as well as direct lines of communication, between London
and Paris," as reference to the map will clearly point out.
There are no engineering difficulties ; and the lines are under
survey, for the purpose of depositing plans, &c., previous to the en-
suing session of Parliament.
The liability of the shareholders will be limited to the amount of
their subscriptions, and in allotment of shares a preference will be
given to landowners on the respective Fnes ; and power will be se-
cured is the Act to allow four per cent. on paid-up capital previous to
opetivg the lines.
Peocnectuses and plans of the line, with forms of applications for
shares; illaY be had at the solicitors, at the temporary Offices of the
Company, ~.nd at the following Sharebrokers :
London—J. pates and Co., Founders'-hall

J. STANWAY, 3, Adelaide-place.
The surveys, &c., will be completed to enable the Company to pro-
ceed to Parliament in the ensuing session.

Liverpool—T. t': `glair and Sons
Hull—Flint and ; E. Brady and Co.
Exeter—Thomas &Wilford
Plymouth—Hayward eul Palmer
Birmingham—John Wrielt ; J. Collis
Glasgow—Buchanan and AN:in
Edinburgh—Robertson and Co. ; 11PCItlium and CO,
Norwich—Charles S. Gilman _ _ _

Einddeisfiefd— Wilton and Hellawell ; John Gatliff and Co.

Worcester—Thomas Henry Wheeler

Bristol—Wreford, Nicht,Bit, and Co.
Halifax—James Hervey
Bradford, Yorkshire—Knowles, Cooke, and Smith; Thomas Haigh

and Co.
Barnsley—John Tee, jun,

York—William Sotheran

Sheffield—Garton and Wright

Leeds—Smith, Knowles, and Cooke ; C. Bell, Beverley, and Co. ;
Read, Broadbent, and Co. ; John Goodman
Manchester—William Jenkinson ; Cardwell and Sons; Peter
Leicester.

FORM OF APPLICATION,

To the Provisional Committee of the Direct London and Hastings
Railway, Harbour, Pier, and Dock Company.

Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me shares of 201.
each in the above Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the
same, or any less number that may he allotted me, and to pay the
deposit thereon ; and I undertake also to execute the Parliamentary
Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
Name in full ...................... •• .•
Profession or Business (if any),l
and Address of the same j • *****
Residence in full ...... ••.. • ...... .• • ••
Referee.. ..
Address of Referee ....
Signature of App1icant...................

PONTEFRACT, WORKSOP, and MANSr
FIELD JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that no further Applications for Shares its
this Company will be received after SATURDAY, the 18th inst., anti
that no attention can be paid to any which are not accompanied by a
reference to Bankers, members of the Committee, or the Solicitors
to the undertaking

J. N. SPELLER, Hon. Sec.

I, Royal Exchange-buildings, Oct. 13.

JONTEFRACT, DONCASTER, WORKSOP
and MANSFIELD JUNCTION RAILWAY.

TO SURVEYORS,

A liberal remuneration will be given to competent Surveyors will-
ing to be employed on the surveynow proceeding on this line. Imme-
diate application to be made to the Secretary, at the offices, I, Royal
Exchange-buildings, London ; the :Engineers, Sir J. Macneill an 4
Thompson, Whitehall-place; or of Messrs. Unwin and Bickley, Soli
cit ors, Sheffield.

PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT.

MIDLAND JUNCTION
From Nottingham to Syston.

(Provisionally Registered.)

RAILWAY;

A prospectus, n ith‘the names of a most influential Committee, an
other (Mails, will appear in a few days. The line will connect th
Pontefract, Doncaster, Worksop, and Mansfield Junction with th
South Midland Railway.

SOLICITORS.
William Unwin, Esq.
Sheffield.
William Maley, Esq.
LONDON AGENTS—Messrs. Thompson and Debenham, Salters'-halli

St. Swithiii's-lane.

GREAT WELSH CENTRAL RAILWAYS
Applicants for Shares are requested to take notice, that all
the Letters of Allotment will be transmitted by post on to-morrow
(Tututsnay, October 16th, 1845), and that TUESDAY, the 21st instant
will be the last day for receiving deposits.
H. HERBERT DOWNMAN, Secretary.
9, Clement's-lane, Oct. 15, 1845.

(PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.) I
PROSPECTUS OF THE
KENT and ESSEX UNION RAILWAY)
connecting the Southern Coast of Essex with Dover and the!
Continent, via Sheerness, Faversham, and Canterbury, with a June.:
tion Line to Herne Bay, Margate, Itamsgate, and Deal.

Capital 550,0001., in 27,500 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s.
FEOVIIIONAL COMMITTEE OP MANAGEMENT.
With power to add to their number.
John Brough, Esq., Herne Bay
George Burge, Esq., Herne hay

John Burgess, Esq., Borough;eeve of Manchester, Director of the
London and Manchester Railway
Thomas Camplin, Esq., Herne Bay, and Alderman of Bristol
Edward B. Davis, Esq., Rochester
Lewis Levy, Esq., Tavistock-square

John Whe;ley Ce;., Esq., Wor-Cester, Vice-Chairman of the Severn

_ . _ . _ ...
Commission
The Hon. Capt. Douglas Kinnard Pulteney, Chairman of the York
and Lancaster Railway
Rev. D. Robinson, Brompton

Edward Sherman, Esq., at. Martin's-le-Grand.
ENOINEER--William Tierney Clark, Esq., M.I.C.E. and Fit.g.
SURVEYOR—J. M. Davey, Esq.

BANKERS—Union Uank of London, Princes:Area and Pall-mall East.

SOLICITORS.
George Smith, Esq., 24, Golden-square
William Rogers, Esq., 1, Moorgate, London
James White, Esq., Canterbury.
Temporary Offices of the Company; 34, Coleman street.

This railway will commence at Sheerness in conjunction with a
short steam-ferry communication from a point at or near to South-
end, on the opposite Essex coast, and will proceed from Sheerness
by Queenborough to Faversham, where it will form a junction with
one of the proposed lines from London by that town to Canterbury
and Dover.

The integral line will be continued from Faversham to or near to
Herne Bay, and from thence to the South-Eastern Extension
Railway (now being made), at a point near Sarr, and will then pro
teed on that line direct to Ramsgate eastwards, and direct to Veal
south-eastwards. From a point between Herne Bay and Sarr the
line will also be carried by a short extension to Margate.
By this project Margee will be placed within 75 miles of the me-
tropolis, instead of more than 100, as at present, and tha', too, by a
direct line through Faversham, at which place it will meet the Lon-
don lines.

The important town of Ramsgate, now so extensively connected
with continental communication, will also be thus afforded a much
nearer overland route to London ; and Deal, Ramsgate, Margate,
Herne Bay, Sheerness, Chatham, Rochester, Gravesend, Woolwich,
Greenwich, and London, will all be placed in immediate or easy con-
nexion upon one continuous line of railway.
By means also of this undertaking, in conjunction with the exist-
ing and projected railways proceeding to the south coast of Essex,
the whole of the passengers and traffic from Liverpool, Manchester,
Leeds, Hull, York, and the Northern, the Midland, and the
Eastern Counties, will be conveyed to Dover and the Conti-
nent via Sheerness, in preference to a lengthened and cir-
cuitous route through the ',metropolis, whereby the journey will be
shortened more than 50 miles, travelling expenses will be curtailed,
and the serious inconvenience and delay of transhipment and con-
veyance from one part of London to another wholly avoided.
A glance at the map also will show the immense advantage which
the metropolis itself will enjoy by its being thus afforded other routes
to the coast of Kent. The millions who annually seek pleasure in
excursions to Gravesend, Sheerness, Southend, Herne Bay, Margate,
llamsgate, Deal, and Dover, will have a choice of different routes.
They may proceed by railway, on the Essex side of the Thames, to
the Thames Haven, Tilbury Fort, or Southend—pass over to Sheer-
ness by water, and thence proceed direct by this railway--or they
may reach Sheerness wholly by water, and then avoid the sea—or,
may pass at once from London, on the Surrey side of the Thames,
to Sheerness, Herne Bay, Margate, and Ramsgate, by railway in a
direct line, consuming only about two hours in the journey, and may
vary their pleasure by going in one direction and returning by
another.

Independently of the vast multitudes who will thus seek health
and recreation, the importance, as a national object, of connecting all
the above-mentioned towns, !and giving a direct line from Sheerness to
Dover, together with the immense existing traffic in the direction of
the undertaking, and the great increase which the improved and
enlarged modes of communication throughout Kent will occasion,
must be too apparent to need fhrther observation; and the Commit-
tee, from careful inquiry, feel confidence in stating that no scheme of
railway has yet been offered to public attention combining greater
public and private advantages.
About thirty-six miles of new railway only will embrace all the
above important objects—viz., from Sheerness to Faversham
about• •• • •• • • .. • • ••• • • • • ..... • •••• .. • • • • • • • ... • 12 miles.

Faversham to Herne Bay ........ —••—
Thence to Sarr .... .•• ..................
The extension to Margate ..

The country has already been preliminary surveyed, and Nund to
be exceedingly favourable. Indeed, it is almost a dead fiat from
Faversham to Margate.
The landed proprietors are not only 'willing but desirous that the
undertaking should be accomplished, and it is at the request of many
of them that the promoters have determined on prosecuting it.
The Committee reserve the power of making branches to Canter-
bury and to Deal, if circumstances shoul I hereafter render It ad-
visable.

The liability of the shareholders will be restricted to the amount
of their subscriptions, and power will be applied for in the Bill t•
allow interest, at 4 per cent. per annum on all calls, from the passing
of the Act until the opening of the line.

Applications for prospectuses, maps, and shares, may be made to
the solicitors or secretary, at the temporary offices, 34, Coleman-
street, or at No. 2, Hercules-passage, City ; and the following share-
brokers :
Mr. Miles, Worcester
Mr. Thomas Henry Wheeler, Worcester
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. Thomas Boardman, Blackburn
Mr. George Clark, Bradford
Mr. Wm. Mason, Bradford
Mr. Wm. Cronhelm, Halifax
Mr. Charles Spencer, Nottingham
Messrs. Eyre arid Shaw, Derby
Messrs. Grayston and Earle, York
Mr. E. H. Armitage, Wakefield
Messrs. Kettering and Marshall, Leeds
Mr. James Stokes, Cheltenham
Mr. Joseph Clark, jun., Southampton
Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol
Messrs. Beaumont and Langworthy, Exeter
Mr. Thomas Sandford, Exeter
Mr. J. S. Holland, Coventry
Messrs. Houghland and Leese, Manchester
Messrs. A. Birchall and Co., Manchester
Messrs. T. N. Bardwell and Sons, Sheffield
Mr. W. H. Collis, Birmingham
Mr. L. Weatherburn' jun., Huddersfield
Messrs. Everard and Co., Huddersfield •
Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester
Mr. Nicholson, Edinburgh
Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Glasgow
Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, College-green, Dublin
31r. James Ross, Perth.
To the Provisional Committee of the Kent and Essex Union Railway.
I request you will allot me shares in the proposed Kent
and Essex Union Railway, and I agree to take all such shares, or so
many as may be alloted to me, and to pay the deposit thereon, and
to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement
when required so to do

Name

Description

Residence•

Date

Reference to

WENTand ESSEX UNION RAILWAY.
No further Applications for Shares will be received •after
FRIDAY NEXT, the 17th of Octrther instant.
C. W. WALLACE, Secretary pro tem.
34 , Co lcman-street, Londcu, Oct. V, 1845.

GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY.
forming a connecting line between the Midland and Grand
Junction Itallways.
Notice is hereby given, that the Letters of Allotment are posted,
and the Committee of Management beg to state that they have been
compelled, in consequence of the immense number of applicants, to
limit the Allotments in all cases, and entirely to pass over many ap-
plications which they would otherwise have been pleased to attend to.
By order,
SAMUEL STANWAY, Secretary.

QOUTH. WALES RAILWAY,
Notice is hereby given, that the FIRST ORDINARY MEET-
ING of the Proprietors of the South Wales Railway Company will
be held at the Great Western Railway Station, Paddington, on
Fatoor, the 31st day of October instant, at One o'clock in the after-
nowt, for the purposes of business required by Acts of Parliament
to be transacted at a General Meeting of the Company, and also for
the purpose of giving authority to the Directors, with respect to any
agreements with other Companies, and applications to Parliament,
which they may think it expedient to make In the ensuing session,
and generally fur other matters.

C. RUSSELL, Chairman.
N. ARMSTRONG, Secretary,
South Wales Railway-office, 449, West Strand, London,
Oct. 14, 1845.

LYONS AND AVIGNON RAILWAY,
with a Branch to Grenoble.
(COMPAGNIE ODIOT.)
Capital 4,400,000/., in 220,000 Shares of 201. each.
The half of which is subscribed for in France.

Deposit, 2/. per Share, to provide the usual caution money required
by the Freii,th Government, beyond which no further call will be
made, unless :ids Company should obtain the concession, in de-
M. Odiot, Paris, (10:'Ismith to the King of the French, and Director
fault of which the 2/. 7011 be returned without deduction.
Dm(Zoas IN FRANCE.

of the Northern Railroad (RoSZ,nel)
Baron Devaux du Cher, Paris, Maitre des Requites au Conseil d'Etat,
and Director of the Northern Railroad (Rommel)
M. Dollfus, Paris, Manufacturer a Mulhouse, Haut Rhone
M. Guerin, Paris, Administrateur de Messageries, and Director of

the Northern Railroad (Rosamel)
M. G. Halphm, Paris, Negotiant
3f,Pilet, Paris, Negociant, Judge of the Tribunal of Commerce, and

Director of the Northern Railroad (Rosarnel)
If,Robillard, Entrepreneur de Roulage, and Director of the Northern

Railroad (Rosamel)
M. Tallaudisr, Banquisr, Paris

IN ENGLAND.
Charles Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P.
The Hon. Captain Carnegie, R.N., M.P.
William Corry, Esq., Director of the London and County Joint-Stock

Bank
James Gerard, Esq., London
William Hawes, Esq., Chairman of the London and County Joint.

Stock Bank
Frederick Hodgson, Esq., M.P.
John Richards, Esq., 5, Devonshire-square, London
John Stewart, Esq., 31. P.

CALAIS, DUNK I RK, AND BRUGES
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that no further applications for shares wlll
be received in this Company after THURSDAY, the 16th instant.
By order,- -
PHILIP N. SCANLAN, Secretary
37, 111-oorgatc-street, Oct. 13, 1845.

r HE BIRMINGHAM, NOTTINGHAM 4
GAINS1191IOLT(III, AND num, RATTIVAt.
Capital 1, ?019:,:0:0000us/
ticil.o62,o:l,sbepOOle.:Sisehlhiviarer
es of /. each.
Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Viet., Cap. 110.)
(Provisionay
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
ant Ingestrie,
'eauclerk, Cheshani-placa, Belgrave-

The Right Hon. Lord v.
The Right Hon. Lord Vise..
The Right lion. Lord Charles
square
'
The Right Hon. Lord Thomas Pelham Chu ~on
The Right lion. Lord E Chichester
The Right Hon. Lord Stephen Chichester
The Right lion. George R. Dawson
Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P., Birmingham
The Hon. Captain Percy Evans Freke, 3, Belgrave-square
The lion. Cecil Lawless
Sir James D. H. Hay, Bart., Rose Croft, Surrey
Sir William Lowthorp, Hull
William R. Collett, Esq., M.P.
Thomas Bateson, Esq., M.P.
George Frederick Muntz, Esq., M.P.
W. H. Allen, Esq., Leadenhall-street
John Aston, Esq., Birmingham
Joseph Ayre, Esq., Hull
nederick Pratt Barlow, Esq., Director of the Great Western it4IIWW
James Beech, Esq., Brandon-lodge, Warwick
John Bloore, Esq., Tutbury, Staffordshire
Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Esq., Beesthorpc-hall, Notts
William Broaks, Esq., Cork-street, Burlington-gardens
Major Frederick Brownlow, United Service Club
William Chance, jun., Esq., merchant, Birmingham
Robert Chapman, Esq., Director of the Cambrian and Grand Junc-
tion Railway
George A. Hamilton Chichester, Esq., Chesent-place, Belgrave-
square

Frederick Clarkson, Esq., Doctors'-commons
Henry Crane, Esq., Wolverhampton
Anthony Dickson, Esq., Edrington-house, Berwickshire
Henry R. I)ownman, Esq., Director of the Cambiran and Grand
Junction Railway
Duncan Dunbar, Esq., East India-road, Director of *be London
Dock Company
Henry John Enthoven, Esq., Director of the Dutch Rhenish Railway
Benjamin Franklin, Esq., Harley-street, Cavendish-square
Thomas Hartshorne, Esq., Silkmoon house, Stafford
Charles James Heath, Esq., London
Frazer B. Henshaw, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester and
Southampton Railway
Samuel Kenrick, Esq., Handsworth-hall, Staffordshire
James Peard Ley, Esq., Seaton Ironworks, Whitehavea
Samuel Wilfred Lucas, Esq., Sandhill-house, Birmingham, Director
of the Birmingham and Leicester Railway
William Mathews, Esq., Edgbaston and Corbyns-hall Ironworks,
Director of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway
Thomas Hackett Massey, Esq., Oxford-sq-:are
Robert Marsden Massey, Esq., Oxford-square
David Montague, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester and South-
' ampton Railway
William Morgan, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Gloucester
Railway
P. H. Muntz, Esq., Director of the South Staffordshire and Oxford,
Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railways
Francis Parker, Esq., Manchester
Archibald F. Paul, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway
John Brearley Payn, Esq., Birmingham
William Watson Prole, Esq., Thurlow-square, Brampton, Director of
the Grand Junction and Midlands Union Railway
John G.bson Reeves, Esq., Birmingham
Theophilns Richards, Esq., Birmingham
Frederick Ricketts, Esq., I arector of the Great Western Railway
John Shaw, Esq., Wolverhampton
Charles Shaw, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Direct Birmingham
and Leicester Railway, and Director of the Oxford, Worcester,
and Wolverhampton Railway
Great Western Railway
James Sutton, Esq., Shardlow-hall, Derbyshire
Wolverhampton, Director of
sriaemn Thomasu'.ye lSymonds,
1v Walker,
er Timmins,
EEE:s ,DAwt °..rector
ootfi
sWolverhamptonteh,e
Charles Augustus ulk, Esq., Totterhlge-park, Hants
the South Staffordshire Junction Railway

William Watson, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Exeter Railway
John Webster, Esq., 35, Meeklenburgh-square, Director of the
Great Grimsby and Lincoln Railway
Henry Wright, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and
Southampton Railw. ty
Thomas Nugent Vaughan, Esq., Chilton-hall, Suffolk, and 32
Grosvenor-place _ _ _

(With power to add to their number).
SOLICITORS.

Messrs. Edwards, Mason, and Edwards, 8, Moorgate-street, and De.
Ishay-street, Westminster ; and.
Messrs. Motteram and Knowles, Birmingham.
ENGINEER IN CIIIEF—SIT John Rennie, F.R.S.
ACTING ENGINEER—N. H. Purdon, Esq.
BANKERS.
The Commercial Bank of London ; and
The Birmingham Banking Company.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Nottingham—Samuel Maples, Esq.
Burton-upon-Trent—
SECRETARY—Edward Hart Hart, Esq.
OFFICES—NO. 1, Royal Exchange-buildings, London; and
36, Upper Temple street, Birmingham.
It is proposed by this Company to establish a direct line of commu-
nication between Birmingham, Nottingham, Gainsborough, and Hull,
at the smallest outlay of capital, and with the least possible injury to
existing interests. To effect this object, use will be made of existing
or projected lines, as far as practicable, and the chain of communica-
tion will be completed by throwing out new lines, where requisite.
Commencing at Birmingham, it is proposed to use the Birmingham
and Derby Railway as far as Whitacre, whence a new line, about 29
miles in length, will be made, passing through Ashby-de-la-Zouch and
Castle Donnington, to the Long Eaton or Sawley Station on the Mid-
land Counties Railway

The communication being thus perfect to Nottingham, it will be
carried forward as far as Gainsborough, either by the proposed Not-
tingham and Gainsborough Railway, or by a line springing out of the
line from Nottingham to Lincoln, for which an Act was obtained by
the Midland Counties Company during the last session of Parliament.
From Gainsborough this railway will proceed to Barton-on-the-

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Humber, or New Holland, in the Immediate vicinity of Hull, thereby
rendering complete and entire the chain of communication between
Birmingham and Hull.
By this project the advantages will result to the public of a
Direct line from Birmingham to Nottingham,
Birmingham to Gainsborough,
and from Birmingham to Hull;
and by means of the proposed South Staffordshire Junction Railway,
and the intended extension to Ashby-de-la-Zouch, a direct line from
Wolverhampton to Nottingham, and the other towns already enu-
merated.
The support of several companies will be enlisted in favour of the
Hue, which, together with its own merits, will ensure its success in
Parliament.

As a considerable portion of the line of communication is already
made, or in progress, the time required for the completion of this
great national undertaking will be materially shortened.
Independently of the advantages to be derived by a direct commu-
nication between the important seaport of Hull and the misting and
manufacturing districts of Warwickshire and Staffordshire, a large
traffic in timber, corn, metals, &c., may be confidently expected.
The revenue of the Company, in addition, will be derived from the
great thorough traffic from Birmingham and the midland counties to
Nottingham and Gainsborough, and the immense traffic from Bir-
mingham to Hull, the'port at which the exports are shipped to "bun-
burgh, the German States, and the North of Europe ; and from the
conveyance of merchandise, agricultural produce, and cattle from the
Southern, western, and midland counties.

A preference will be given in the allotment of shares to landowners
on the line, and other local proprietors, as well as to directors and
shareholders in railways interested in supporting this undertaking.
No subscriber will be liable beyond the amount of the deposit
until the Act is obtained, and then not beyond the amount of his
subscription.
The usual power will be taken to allow interest at the rate of four
per cent. from the time of payment upon each call until the opening
of the line.

No applications will be attended to without a reference to a
member of the Committee, a banker, or the solicitors to this Company.
The Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contract must be
executed when the bankers' receipts are exchanged for scrip certifi-
cates, cf which due notice will be given ; and the deposits paid by
any party making default in the execution of those deeds will be for-
feited.

C
Sir George Wm. Prescott
SIMITTZE OF
Mr George Rich
SIP IVlii4ol Wynn
Lieut.:Colonel Elrington
Lleut.-Celonel Fitch
E, T, Carver, Esq.
R. Collett, Esq,
Major Croft
Nathaniel Cumberlege, Esq.
J. Dalby, Esq.
Charles Heneage, Esq.
Joseph Knight,. '

NANAGEktpa,
Itlo4l Lambert. Esq.
A. DPI, Maernoran, Ear
floraee Wm. Mete;
ark, Esq.
It. Mosso, Esq.
John Parlda%),..
S. Parsor,: Es(7:
J. rtar rari.
xsay,
J. i.talvorth, Esq.
Nr:tior 'Waller
jlll4s. ltf_Zaimer Cleobury, Esq.
itobert Bell, Esq.

BANKEss.
.131744r5. Rogers, biding, and Co., ClemenVg-lane, London
Messrs. Gardt, Clapon, and Co., Boston
Messrs. Kenney and King, Grantham
Pare's Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester and Melton
Mowbray.

ENGINExa,—C. Esq. SOLICITOR—J. A. J. Macgregor, Nixon. Esq., 26, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall,
London.
LOCAL SOLICITOUS.
Messrs. Manners and Son, Grantham
Messrs. 3lillington and Kenrick,h Boston.
SECRETARY—George Farrer, Esq.
The 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 Railway.
It is unnecessary to enlarge upon the advantages which will arise
from this railway, which passes through one of the richest and
most fertile parts of England. The population is dense, and a
glance at the snap will show that this line is well laid out, net
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.
By this railway, which will be about forty-four miles in length,
and laid through a country nearly level, it is intended to pass by or
near Swineshead, Donington, Folkingham, Grantham, Stoke, Roch-
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 the advantage of railway communication
with the counties e( Rutlandshire, Leicestershire, Northampton-
shire, Warwiekshire, &c., and thus connecting the agrkulturai districts of Lincolnshire with the manufacturing parts of England,
affording to the latter an easy and accessible means of export for
their manufactures.
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 unnes-
sary trouble, no other applications will be received except those
NI, herein reference is made to a slumber of the Provisional Commit-
tee, to the Solicitors or Bankers, or the following Sharebrokers,
from whom prospectuses and plans may be obtained:—
Messrs Sutton, Gribble, and Sutton, Royal Exchange
Messrs. Preece and Evans, 39, Lothbury, London
Messrs. Townley and Whitehead, Liverpool
Mr. Keel, 20, Atherton-buildings, Liverpool
Messrs. Wellbeloved and Oastler, Leeds
Mr. Frederick stamp, Hull
Mr. Geo. Clark, Bradford
Mr. Wm. Cronhelin, Halifax
Mr. Charles Spencer, Nottingham
Messrs. Eyre and Slsaw, Derby
•
Messrs. Graystou and Erie, York
Mr. E. H. Armitage, Wakefield
Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol
Messrs. Houghland and Leese, Manchester
Messrs. T. N. Bardwell and Sons, Sheffield
Mr. W. 11. Collis, Birmingham
Mr. L. Wetherburn, jun., Huddersfield
Mr. R. Rozzell, Leicester

Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester
Mr. James Pringle, 79, Princes-street, Edinburgh
Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Glasgow
Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, College-green, Dublin
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Boston, Grantham, Leicester,
and Midland Counties Junction Railway Company.
Gentlemen —I request that you will allot me shares of
M. each in the above proposed railway ; and I undertake to pay the
deposit of 21. 2s. per share thereon, or any less number you may ap-
propriate to me, and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Par-
liamentary Contract when required.
Dated this day of 1845.
Name .• ...... •••• • • • ....... .......... ... ......
Residence...... ...• .. • • ..... Trade or Profession .•• • • ••......
• • • • ..
Reference..

Plans and prospectuses, with forms of applications for shares, may
be had of the Solicitors, and of the following Stock and Sharebrokers,
viz. :—Messrs. Wells, Wcstropp, and Prinsep, 75, Old Broad-street ;
Mr. H. Pritchett, I, Royal Exchange-buildings; Messrs. Hitchins and
Harrison, IS, Threldneedle-street ; and Messrs. Peppercorne and Son,
2, Old Broad-street, London ; Messrs. Gardiner and Heap, Charles
M. Williams, and Messrs. Bradley, Ford, and Parker, Manchester;
Messrs. Watson and Co., and Mr. Samuel Phillips, Hull ; Messrs.
Davies and Son, Liverpool ;Messrs. Ridsdale, Myers, and Co., Leeds;
Messrs. Earp and Son, Derby ; Messrs. Pott and Levick, Notting-
ham ; Messrs. Wreford, Nicholls, and WretOrd, Bristol ; Mr. Collis,
and Mr. James Robinson Lane, Birmingham.

NOTICE.
AIIDLAND GRAND JUNCTION RAIL-
WAY COMPANY.
Applications for Shares will not be received after TUESDAY next,
the 21st instant.

By order,
NICHOLAS J. KEMPE, Secretary.
Palace Chambers, st. James's, Oct. 14, 1845.

THE EXETER, DORCHESTER, and WEY-
H JUNCTION COAST RAI
The CommitteeMOUT
of Management inform the AppIiLWAY. cants for Shares
In this line that the letters of allotment have been issued, and that
the number of applicants has been go great as to prevent their
complying with the wishes of many most respectable parties. The
Committee, therefore, trust that this will be deemed a sufficient
excuse to all applicants who have not received allotments.
ROBERT ANDREW RIDDELL, Chairman.
By order of the Board,
FRANCIS CREW, Secretary.
Company s Offices, 62, Moorgate-street, Oct. 10, 1545.

EXETER, DORCHESTER, AND WEY-
MOUTH JUNCTION COAST RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that the Parliamentary Contract and Sub-
scribers' Agreement will be ready for signature on and after FRIDAY,
the 17th instant, at the Company's Offices, 62, 3loorgate-street ; and
that Scrip Certificates will be granted at the same time hi ex-
changefo: th 3 B ukers' receipts.
By order of the Board,
Oct. FRANCIS CREW, Secretary.

EXETER, DORCHESTER, and WEYMOUTH
JUNCTION COAST RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management have much pleasure in apprisin
the shareholders that the surveys, which are in very active progress,g will soon be completed, and that every other necessary step is being
taken to ensure the application to Parliament for a Bill in the
ensuing session. _

ROBERT ANDREW RIDDELL, Chairman.
FRANCIS CREW, Secretary.
Offices of the Company, 62, lloorgate-sired,
15th Oct., 1845.

PROVISIONALLY irtrorsTnnED.
ATHLONE AND SLIGO JUNCTION
RAILWAY
(Being an Extension of the Dublin and Galway Railway).
FIRST DIVISION—ATHLONE TO ROSCOMMON.
Capital 200,0001., in 10,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. per Share.
No shareholder to be liable beyond the amount of his Shares.
MANAGING COMMITTEE.
Fitzstephen French, Esq. M.P., Chairman
Right Hon. Lord De Freyne
William Ormsby Gore. Esq. M.P.
The Dean of Elphin

Hugh Barten, Esq. Straffen, county Kildare
Sir Joseph Burke, Bart. Fairfield
John Vance, Esq. Merrion-square, Dublin
Robert Henry French, Esq. Rutland :square, Dublin
Hamilton Gorges, Esq. Leeson-street
_ _

Henry Maunsell; Esq. Landsend, county Dublin
Richard Burton, Esq. county Dublin
John Parkinson, Esq. F.R.S. 80, Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park
Wm. Lechmere Whitmore, Esq. the Grove, Stanmorc, Middlesex
Patrick Alexander Reynolds, Esq. 23, Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park,
and 16, Conditil
John Campbell, Esq. Danestleld,
county Du rd in
Directors of the Irish Great
Daniel H. Ferrell, Esq. Beechwood
R. Pennefather Lloyd, Esq. Her-
Western, Dublin to Galway
bert-place, Dublin, _ _

ENGINEER—Sir John Macneill, LL.D. F.R.S.
BANKERS.
The London Joint Stock Bank, Princess-street, London
Messrs. Barned and Co. Liverpool
The Bank of Irelaad, and the National Bank of Ireland, and their
Branches.

SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Barrington, Son and Co., 10, Ely-place, Dublin
Mr. Peter M`Keogh, 5, Belvidere-place, Dublin
Messrs. Fladgate, Young, and Jackson 12, Essez-street, Strand,
London.

PARLIAMENTARY AGENT.
William Bryden, Esq. 4, New Palace-yard, Westminster.
SECRETARY—Robert Plunkett, 48, Dame-street, Dublin.
LONDON AGENT—James Bryden, Esq. 19, Moorgate-street, London

The many and important commercial advantages presented by a
junction line of railway between the north and south of Ireland, give
the promoters of the projected line from Athlone to Sligo, with a
branch to Ballina, the most unqualified confidence in its success.
The proposed line, as regards both public interest and private
speculation, will very much surpass any other that has been pro-
jected from Sligo to Dublin—first uniting with the Dublin and Galway
at Athlone, it will pass in a direct line to Sligo, having a branch to
Ballina, thereby affording runway communication to the great fair and
market towns in the counties of Roscommon, Mayo, and Sligo, aed ter-
minating at the important seaport and garrison town of Sligo, where
it will also unite with the line to Enniskillen, and thus form a junc-
tion between the northern, southern, and western lines, opening a
continuous and the most direct railway communication bttween
the great commercial and manufacturing towns of the pro-
vince of Ulster, and the cities of Cork, Limerick, Waterford, and
Kilkenny, and with Galway, and the other large towns and seaports
In the south-east and west of Ireland, and also giving to the coun-
ties of Sligo, Mayo, and Roscommon, a line of railway to the me-
tropolis.

The Athlone and Sligo Junction will receive the full support of the
Directors of the Great Southern and Western, and the Dublin and
Galway Railway Companies. Forty miles of the Great Souihern
and Western Railway from Dublin to Portarlington are nearly com-
pleted, and will be opened to the public in June next.
At this advanced period of the year the difficulty of complying
strictly with the standing orders of Parliament renders it advisable to
undertake, in the first instance, but one division of the line, viz., that
from Athlone to Roscommon, being a distance of twenty English
miles; for which purpose a capital of no more than 200,0001. will be
required.

The line from Athlone to Sligo is but seventy-two miles in length.
It will pass through or near the towns of Knockcroghery (at a hich
the second largest sheep fair in Ireland is held), Atlileague, Mount
Talbot, Rafter, Roscommon (one of the largest inland markets in
Ireland), Lanestiorough, Elphin, Croatian (celebrated fair town),
Frenchpark, Boyle. Castlerea, Ballaghadereen, Ballyinote, Tubber-
corry, Colooney, liallisodare, to Sligo. Tke preliminary surveys have
been made, and the engineer, Sir John Macneill, reports very fa-
vourably upon the gradients and facilities of construction.
Advantages so important as those referred to cannot fall of giving
the greatest encouragement to a line of railway which must, from
passenger-traffic alone, return an ample per centage on the outlay of
capital.
It should also be borne in wind that the proposed junction line
will not only give to the north of Ireland direct and immediate rail-
way communication with the south, east, and west, but will like-
wise open to the great manufacturing towns of Scotland similar ac-
commodation.

Railways having the advantage of foreign traffic as an auxiliary,
are always the most profitable—no projected line could be more op-
portunely circumstanced in that respect than the proposed Grand
Junction, forming, as it will, a link between the northern and
southern railways, it must, independently of local resources, have a
constant stream of passenger-traffic from the parent lines at either
end, and eventually be found one of the most profitable, as well as
the most useful, undertakings in Ireland.
Few lines of railway are possessed of greater local advantages.
Sligo, a considerable and rising seaport town on the N. W. coast
at the one extreme, supplies the whole of the interior, as far as
Athlone, with the products of the Western World. Its fisheries
and that of the neighbouring coast are among the best in Ireland.
The salmon fishery at &Una, and the deep sea-fishing of Sligo
and Inver Bays would alone yield considerable revenue. Athlone,
at the other terminus, is a garrison-town of the greatest import-
ance, in the very centre of Ireland, from whence it must be an ob-
ject to have railway communication with the garrisons of Boyle
and Sligo; there cannot therefore be a doubt of the line obtaining
the entire support of the Government.
Roscommon is one of the most fertile counties in Ireland ; it
abounds in agricultural and mineral produce, and has a population of
253,591 inhabitants, Its great fairs are well known—their staple,
the finest horses, horned cattle, sheep, and pigs, in the United King-
dom, will be conveyed by this line to the Dublin and k glish
markets ; and while the farmer will thus have a ready and cheap
means of transport for his stock to the best markets, he will, in
like manner, be enabled to supply liiinTelf with young stock from the
fairs of the south, east, and west. Large quantities of bacon are
cured annually in the towns of Roscommon, Ca.stlerea, Boyle, &c.,
and it only requires the advantage of railway communication to
develop the many industrial resources of the county.
Application for shares to be made to the secretary, 48, DRUM-
street, Dublin ; and Messrs. Laurence, Cazenove and Pearce, Auction
Mart, London.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
ATHLONE AND r-LIGO JUNCTION RAILWAY.
First Division—Athlone to Rosconunon.
Capital, 200,0001., in Shams of 20/. each.
Pint Deposit, 2/. per Share.
_ _ .

No shareholder to be liable bey;md the amount of his shares.

... _ _
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot to me shares in this
undertaking ; and I agree to take the same, or such of them as may be
allotted to me, and to pay the deposit of 2/. per share thereon, and
sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when
required.
• Dated this day of 1545.
Name• .
Residence • ......... • . • ..... , . .......
Profession or Occupation..
Refrence t Yams ** " •"'•• ' • ' •
Address
" " • • • • •• • • • • • • • •

To the Provisional Committee,
48, Dame-street, Dublin.

I 4

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the........___,..
Stone, Nathaniel C. Evi., Rawlay-Acids, near Leicester, Director a:
'F' -tiND
Dlrect Birmingham and Leicester Railway
xr• _ ',
UN'TIES JUNCTION RAILM TAY COM.
Sagar, Hartley', Esq., 110,1.0 Grove, Coble, Director of the Leeds A--'9 - pAsy, -"LAND CO ...
111 D °Sl'°. '. ------""GRANT7IIII.I, LER, ,z, Cr.: i.,
and Carlisle, ani the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railways
Threliall, Edward, Esq., Regent Road 31ills, Manchester, Director of
the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway
Tebbutt, Thomas, Esq., Rushohn, 3fanchester, Director of the
Rugby and Manchester, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways
Williams, B. 8., Esq., 70, Portland-place, Director of NO Lee&
and Liverpool, Leicester and Tamworth Railways,

rovisionally Registered.)
Offlees--5, (P
Guildhall-chambers,:Basinghall-street.
Capital, 800.0001., in 40,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.
In Consequence of the numerous Applications for Shares in the
above railway, no further application can be received after WEDNES-
DAY, -the 225 of October instant, when the lists will be finally closed
for al/ atment.
D. 9.1 .ed the 14th October, 1845.
A. J. MACGREGOR, Solicitor to the Company.
5, Guildhall-chambes, BaAiglill-ctrect.

THE HUDDERSFIELD AND FAST AND
WEST COASTS DIRECT RAILWA.
NOTlCE.—Appliaations for Shares in this Company continuing to
be nmde, notwithstanding the previous notice that the time for re-
cePving the same would expire on the 9th instant ; the public is
relpectfully informed, that such subsequent applications cannot be
ern ertalned.
the allotment of the shares, the landowners on the line, and
par ties locally interested, will have the preference, and great care
will: be taken to distlbute the remainder to persons most likely to
ben alit the undertaking.
Ite Committee will allot the shares with all practicable dispatch,
but from the very great number of applications (exceeding twenty
tiu es the required amount), the requisite inquiries will necessarily
cau sea short delay.

By
J. S. DOB ON eSec,rd
Secretary pro tern.
BZuddersfield, October 13, 1845.

IRISH GREAT WESTERN RALLWAY
DUBLIN TO GALWAY.
Branch to Tuam, Castlebar, and Westport.
(Registered Provisionally.)
Capital, 660,000/., in 33,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 2/. per Share.
*** No Subscriber to be liable beyond his Shares.
FitZstephen French, Es MANAGING COMMITTEE.
q. M.P.
Sir John Burke, Marble-hill
Dennis Kirwan, Esq. Castie-Hackett, Tuam
Daniel H. Farrell, Esq. Beechwood, Roscommon
Henry Ilaunsell, Esq. Landsend, County Dublin I Directors of the
Richard Burton, Esq. } Dublin and Gal-
James Apjohn, Esq. M.D. Professor in the Engi- way I alPs av
neering School, T.C.D.
Morgan Delvin Nugent, Esq. 4, Grove-hill, Cam-
berwell, London,
J
John Parkinson, Esq. F.R.S. 80, Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park
Wm. Lechmere Whitmore, the Grove, Staumorc, Middlesex
Patrick Alexander Reynolds, Esq. 23, Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park,
and 16, Cornhill
Sir Joseph Burke, Glinsk, Bart.
Sir Samuel O'Malley, Kilboyne-house, Bart. D.L.
Mattin S. Kirwan, Esq. Blindwell, Tuam, D L.
Charles Henry Cromie, Esq. Annefield, Hollymount.
PaovisrobrAL SEcitErsar—Thomas Kirwan, Esq.
LOICDON AGENT—James Bryden, Esq. 19, Meorgate-street.
BANKERS.

The Royal Bank
The London and Dublin Bank
The National Bank of Ireland, and Branches
Messrs. Glynn and Company, London
The Royal Bank of Scotland.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Barrington, Son, and co., 10, Ely-place, Dublin
• ' Messrs. E. and.P..Nolan, No. 3, Inn's-quay, Dublin.
ENGINEER.
Sir John Macneill, No. 27, Rutland-square North, Dublin.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT.
1 W. Bryden, Esq. No. 4, New Palace-yard, Westminster.
Office of the Company, No. 48, Dame-street, Dublin.
This line is undertaken by the promoters of the Irish Great
Western Railway, in consequence of the very generally-expressed
wish of the nobility, gentry, and inhabitants of the county of Mayo,
a id of the northern division of the county of Galway, districts as yet
untouched by railway projects. It is proposed that it shalt leave the,
trunk line at Loughrea, a point which will facilitate cornmuniiii-
tion equally from the North of Connaught to the port of Gal Way, on
the west; and to Balllnasloe, Athlone, and Dublin, on. the east.
From Loughrea the lino will be carried by Tuam to Castlebar,, and
Westport, and will afford accommodation to the towns utf Athenry.
Monivea, Castle-Blakeney, Mount Bellew, Moylough, Dunmore,
Tuam, Hollymount, Ballinrobe, Claremorris, the assize town of
Castlebar, and Westport. The two counties, Mayo and. Galway,
more immediately interested in the formation of this railway, contain
a population, amounting (according to the census of 1841) to
811,810 persons. The counties comprise a district, with respect to
which Sir John Burgoyne, the Chief Commissioner of Public Works
in Ireland, on his examination before a Committee of the House of
Commons, stated it as his opinion that he " did not know any county
where traffic would be more likely to be created." This mast is pro-
vided with convenient harbours, and abounds with the most valu-
able Ilsh.
It is intended next year to take steps to extend this line to Balling
and Sligo.
With respect to the construction of the line, the engineer, Sir John
Macneill, thus writes :
" TUAM AND CASTLEBAIVRAILWAY, WITIPA BRANCH TO
WESTPORT.
" This line leaves the Irish Great Western Railway near Loughrea,
at a distance of 112 miles from Dublin, and 20 from Galway. It
runs thence in a north-westerly direction, passing at the Bth mile,
near Athenry, and at the 12th, near Monivca, and at the 24th mile,
it arrives at the town of Tuam. It reaches Hollymount at the dis-
tance of 39 miles from Loughrea, and passing Ballyglass, accom-
plishes the distance to Castlebar by a line of 56 miles in length. From
near this town it is proposed to carry a branch 10 miles long, to the
rising town of Westport, situated on Crew Bay, which contains a
series of most excellent harbours.
" This line will pass through a country which presents no engi-
neering difficulties, and where the levels are most favourable, and
by means of the Irish . Great Western Railway, and the Great
Southern and Western Railway and its Branches, will afford a direct
communication from the cast, south, and south-east of Ireland, to
the north-west. "JOHN MACNEILL."
A separate Bill will, of course, be sought for this branch, but the
Provisional Management will be placed in the hands of a section of
the Provisional Committee of the Irish Great Western Company,
with the addition of some gentlemen of local influence and station,
whereby the expense will be considerably reduced, and unity of
action secured in the conduct of the two undertakings.
The capital required will be 660,0007., to be divided into 33,000
shares of 201. each, with a deposit of 21. per share. A portion of
these have already been placed at the disposal of the shareholders
in the Irish Great Western Railway ; and applications for the re-
mainder, made according to the subjoined form, will be received until
the 25th of October instant.

Applications for shares to be made to the Solicitor, Secretary, or to
James Hayden, Esq., 19, Moorgate-street, London.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Irish Great Western Railway,
Branch to Tuam, Castlebar, and Westport.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot to me shares, at 201.
each, in the Branch to Tuam, Castlebar, and Westport ; and I under-
trite to act as)t the sane, or auy lesser number you may allot me, pay
the deposit thereon, and execute the Parliamentary Contract and
Subscribers' Agreement when required.
I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant,
Name and Surname in full . .
Residence in full . • • • • • • • • ..
Occupation• • • ......... ..... ...........
Name, Residence, and Profeselon of a Referee
Date••••• ..• ••••

THE BELGIAN GRAND juNc
RAILWAY COMPANY.
Capital, 1,750,0001., in 87,500 Shares of 20/. each.
Deposit, 2/. per Share.
DIRECTORS.
Sir John Nicoll Robert Campbell, K.C.11. Deputy-Chairman of the
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, Chairman
Henry Bainbridge, Esq. banker.
Frederick Francois Clossmann, Esq. Chairman or the Great Luxem-
bourg Railway Company
William Shelford Fitzwilliam, Esq. Director of the Essex and Suffolk
Railway Company
John Howell, Esq. Director of the Liverpool, Ormsklrk. and Preston
Railway Company

BA NEERS.
In London—Messrs. Puget, Bainbridges and Co., St. Paul's Church-
yard.
In Liverpool—The Commercial Bank of Liverpool.
In Brussels—The Societe Generale.

SoucTOßS—Messrs. Lawrence and Plews, Bucklersbury.
ENGINEEtts—Sir John Macniell, L.L.D. F.R.S. and James Thompson
Esq. F.It.S.E.
BELGIAN ENGINEER—Mons. Desire Joseph Marchal.
SECEETART—H. C. Hastings, Esq.
The Directors have for some time past been in direct communica-
tien with the Belgian Government, and they have entered into a
preliminary arrangement, under date of the 27th of September, 1845,
with the Minister of public Works, by which the Minister grants to
them the preference for the concession of a railway, to be called the
"Grand Junction," and engages to conclude with the Directors a
provisional contract, previously to submitting the " Projet de loi "
for royal approbation, and also to apply for the sanction of the Legis-
lature.

The valuable and important ironworks of Couvin will also, under
the same agreement, be ceded to the Company.
The Belgian Grand Junction Railway will directly connect the
provinces of Brabant, Hainault, Liege, Limbourg, aad Namur, with
each other, and with the Government lines of railway, as also with
the several lines of Liege and Namur, Landen and Hasselt, Louvain
and Jetheppe, Sambre and Meuse, and the Great Luxembourg
Mons. Marchal, the eminent Belgian engineer, has carefally sur-
veyed the line, and has deposited the necessary plans, sections, and
estimates with the Belgian Government.

Mr. James Thomson, one of the Company's engineers, has also
gone over the line, and reports most favourably upon the peculiar
facilities for the construction of the railway, and the entire absence
of all engineering difficulties.

The Citairma; and two of the Directors have carefully traversed
the whole of the line, and have received the most positive assur-
ances of support from the local authorities and landed proprietors.
The provinces which the railway will unite were found by the
census of 1844 to comprise a population of 2,188,551, and the dis-
tricts which it will traverse are situated in the heart of Belgium,
and comprise an area of 165 square miles. The entire length of the
Belgian Grand Junction Railway will be 102 English miles.
This portion of the country is emphatically termed the Granary of
Belgium, and, in addition to its vast agricultural produce, is rich in
ironstone, lead, marble, stone, and slate quarries. It has also nume-
rous distilleries, extensive breweries, ironworks, and large manufac-
tories of porcelain, glass, paper, Beetroot, sugar, gunpowder, &c.
The great coal-fields of Charleroi and Liege, which are the most ex-
tensive in Belgium, will, by means of this line, be enabled to supply
all parts of the kingdom at a very reduced rate.
The Government lines already completed, as well as the several
private lines now in course of construction, will necessarily be the
feeders to the Grand Junction line, as it will unite with the whole of
them, and will traverse a district destitute of all water communica-
tion, and very imperfectly supplied with roads ; whilst the invariable
rule of the Belgian Government not to permit any competing lines,
must necessarily ensure to this Company the entire traffic of the
country through which this line will pass.
Tables, calculat: I with reference to the pre sent amount of traffic, have
been carefully and accurately prepared ; and, upon the improbable as-
sumption that there will be no increase when the Grand Junction
Railway is constructed, the shareholders would even then receive a
large interest on their capital. But, as in all cases, and more parti-
cularly in Belgium, increased facilities of communication have been
accompanied by a great increase of traffic, there can be no doubt
that the Grand Junction Railway Company will pay a considerable
dividend to the shareholders.

The expanse of construction, and the subsequent expenses of work-
ing the line, are very much less than in English railways ; and it is
an Important feature that the enormous outlay incidents to a Parlia-
mentary contest in England is avoided.
A considerable saving will also be effected in the cost of iron, and
of the locomotive engines and traffic material, which will be manufac-
tured at the Couvin works; and the Company have, therefore, the
peculiar advantage of being independent of a supply from any other
quarter, and free from the delay and disappointment consequent upon
the present increased demand.
The grant will be for ninety years, and the Act will provide that
the railway shall, for the whole term, be exempt from all rates and
charges whatsoever, whether local or national.
By the law of Belgium, this Company will be constituted a
Societe Anonyme, and the liability of each shareholder will be
limited to the amount of his respective shares.
A second payment of 2/. per share will be required one month after
the Concession shall have been ratified by the Directors, and the
subsequent calls will be made at such periods as the Directors may
determine.

An accountable receipt will be given to each subscriber on payment
of his deposit, which receipt must be exchanged for certificates for
shares, at the office of the Company, within twenty-one days after
the first appearance of an advertisement requiring such exchange ;
such advertisement to be inserted once in the London Gazette, and
three times in each of two daily Morning London newspapers. The
non-compliance with this condition will entail on the subscriber the
forfeiture of his deposits.

Notice of calls will be given by advertisement in the London Ga-
zette, and two daily Morning i.ondon newspapers; and if ally call on
any share shall remain unpaid for twenty-one days after the day
named, the share shall become absolutely- forfeited.
Interest at the rate of 41. per cent. per annum will be paid upon
the amount of capital paid up, such it-terest to b calculated from the
time of obtaining the Act of the Legislature until th 4 opening of
the line.
All points of detail will, under the terms of the Convention and
Act, he settled between the Belgian Government and the Directors;
and it is one of the conditions on which the shares will he appor-
tioned and accepted, that the subscribers confide to the Directors full
power to make such arrangement with the Belgian Government with
respect to any alterations or modifications of the line, and of the
terms of the grant, as they may think expedient for the furtherance
of the interests of the Company.
Applications for shares, in the subjoined form, to be made to the
Secretary, at the Company's Offices, No. 64, Old Broad-street ; to
Messrs. Lawrance and l'lews, Solicitors, Bucklershury ; and to the
following Sharebrokers :—Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Thread-
needle-street, London ; Messrs. Bradley, Ford, and Parker, Man-
chester ; Messrs. 11. Davies and Co., Liverpool ; Messrs.
Wreford, Nicholls, and Co , Bristol ; Messrs. Chantrell and Boles,
Leeds ; Messrs. Wilkinson and Earle, mull ;
and
Aberdeen; Buchanan
and Aitken, Glasgow ; Messrs. Oswald, George, d Co.,
Messrs. babertonehe and Stafford, Dublin; and Messrs. Dowling
and Bowden, Edinburgh.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Directors of the Belgian Grand Junction Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me shares of 201.
each In the Belgian Grand Junction Railway Company; and I agree
to accept such shares, or any smaller humber you may allot to me,
and to pay the deposit thereon, and to execute the deed of settlement,
and all other necessary deeds, when required.
Dated the day of 1845.
Signature, with Christian Name, at full
length . • ... • • • • • • •
Profession, Trade, or other Description....
Reference, with Christian and Surname,
and Address ... .............

DUTCH HANOVERIAN R L WAY
COMPANY.
Capital 1,100,000/.. in 60,000 Shares of 201. each, or'francs 500, or
florins p. b. 240.
(By Royal Concession, dated 13th August, 1845. A portion tf tl
Shares will be reserved for distribution abroad.)
D
The Right Hon. the Earl of Essex
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Chairman of the Direct
Western Railway Company, director of the Sheffield, Manchester,
York, and Lancashire, &c. &c.
Joseph Bishop, of the Minories, London, merchant, director of the
London and Blackwall Railway, Direct Western Railway, Smiler-
s.tshire and North Devon, &c. &c.
Charles Collins, Esq. Caldwell Castle, Worcestershire, director of the
Louden and Dublin, Direct London and Gravesend, &c. &c.
Thomas Edwards. Esq. of Bethel-place, Camberwell, director of the
London and DubEn Direct Railway, London and Gravesend, &c. &e.
Frederick William Hamilton, 50, Gloucester-place, Portman-square,
Esq.. director of the York and Lancaster, Sheffield, Nottingham,
and London Direct, &c. &c.
George Lee, Crutched-friars, London, merchant, director Qf the
London and Blackwall Railway, Bridgwater and North Devon,
&e. &e.
Nathaniel Ogle, Esq. of Heath-lane-lodge, Twickenham, director of
the York and Lancaster, Sheffield, Nottingham, and London, Bir
mingham, Manchester Direct, &c. &c.
RANKERS.
Messrs. 3fasterrnan and Co. Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street
Messrs. Ransom and Co. Pall-mall.
SOLICITORS.
11. Richards, Esq. 7, Chandos-street, Cavendish-square, Solicitor
for the Founders and Foreign Directors.
F. T. Gell, Esq. Carlton Chambers, 8, Regent-street, Solicitor for the
Company.
This Company will be established for the construction of the rail -
way and canals specified in the concession from Zwoll, the capital of
the province of Overyssell, as far as Gronengue, crossing the province
of Drenthe, from Gronengue. There will be one branch, in the di-
rection of the Ems, to the port of Dellzyl, and another to the fron-
tiers of Hanover.
The whole of the line will be completed in two years, and the cost
will not exceed 6,0001. per mile.
Applications for shares to be made to the solicitors ; to J. H. Ellis,
stockbroker, 17, Throgmorton-street ; or at the Offices, 6, King Wil.
liam-street, City.

SARACEN'S
_HEAD TAVERN AND HOTEL, SNOW- HILL,
LONDON,
JOSEPH NEEDHAM, late of Teigh Rutland,
begs to inform Families, Commercial Gentlemen, and other:4
visiting town, that he has taken and enteret upon the above Old• E-
stablished Hotel and Tavern, late in the occupation of Mrs. Caro Duo
Mayo.
In soliciting the patronage of his friends and the public generally,
J. N. assures them that no attention shall be wanting on his part t
render the house worthy the high character it has always sustaint
it
for choice 'Wines and Spirits of the first quality. Particular care wu'
ut use lied-rooms, which.
have undergone a thorough repair; and J. N. feels assured that ona
trial only will be sufficientto afford satisfaction and ensure support.

_ .
TO SADDLE AND HARNESS MAKERS,
AYOUNG MAN, who has served his appren-
ticeship to the above business, and who can command 500/.,
wishes to enter a respectable house as junior partner or foreman.
The advertiser is willing to undertake an active part in the business,
having worked several years at it since the expiration of his ap-
prenticeship.
Respectable references will be given and required. For Butlict•
particulars, apply to E. Barron, Esq., Solicitor, Bloomsbury square.
_ _

I OFFICE OF THE GAS LIGHT AND COKE
COMPANY, New Bridge-street, Blackfrlars, London, Oct .
11, 1845.
Notice is hereby given, that a HALF-YEARLY GENERAT,
COURT of the PROPRIETORS of this COMPANY will be held on
TUESDAY, the 4th day of November next, at Eleven o'clock in ti
Forenoon, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand, in the county
of Middlesex; and that for seven days previously the Half-yearly
Accounts of the Company will be open to the inspection of the Pro-
prietors, oo an order signed by three of the Directors.
Notice is hereby also given, that at the same meeting the annual
election of auditors will take place, and should a ballot be required, it
will continue open for four hours from its commencement.
Ry order,
CHARLES BURLS, Secretary.
N.B. The Chair will he taken at Twelve o'clock precisely, and
none but Proprietors admitted.

CLARK'S ROYAL WAX CANDLE.
IMMENSE SALE.

Only One Shilling per lORtneli-1ei;1roal Candles, and their IN,-
sitive superiority is established. Thousands consume ttern, and not a
dissenting voice ! They snuff themselves, are bard as alabaste-,
pure as wax, and cheap as common tallow candles, is their true cha-
racter. " Their equal is unknown." " Their superiors will never
come.* Composite, and all such inferior candles, aro defied. None
but Palace;Wax bear a semblance of equality.
To prevent imposition, C. and Co. attach a Gold Label to every
packet, without which none are genuine, at Clark's General Oil
and Candle Lamp Depot, 447, West Strand. Please write down
address. The new light always burning for inspection. Licenses
granted to Country Agents.