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London, England, 1845-09-11 00:00:00

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

To the Managing Directors of the Bridgwater and Minehead Junc-

tion Railway Company,

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Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me Shares of 201.
each in the above undertaking ; and I hereby undertake to accept
the same, or any less number you may allot me, on the terms
of the prospeetthi, and to pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per Share,
and all futui e calla thereon, and to sign the Parliamentary contract.
and au' scribers' agreement, and otii“ deeds, when required so to do.
Dated the of 1645.
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, Names Hosideisees &0., of Worse in fall

William Marshall, Esq., Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire
The Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Herefordshire
Mr. Benjamin Paine, Leicester
James Watts Peppercorne, Esq., Old Broad-street, and Dulwich,,
Surrey
Captain Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, 4, Parliament-street, London

Jaines Whit Church, Esq., Soothelin; Netley Abbey, Hants
William Williams, Esq., Guilsborough, Northamptonshire
Edward Welsh, Esq. Leamington

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Edward Waddilove, Esq., Leamington
Mr. John WooLston, jun., merchant, Wellingborough, Northampton-
shire _

Robert Chapman, Esq., Park-place, Regent's-park, Director' of the
Great Manchester Railway Company
Henry Morgan, Esq., Bristol iDirectors of the.
William Watson, Esq., Burn Grove, Roxbnrgh- Bristol and Exeter
shire Railway Company
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Mr. Sergeant Adams, Stanhope-place, Hyde-park
Captain George James Hunter, Leamington
J. Watson Prole Esq., 31, Thurlow-square, Brompten
(With power to add to their number.)
BANNERS.
London—The London and County Bank, Lombard-street
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Northampton—The Northamptonshire Banking Company
Rugby—Messrs. Butlin and Son

Leim-ington Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Com-
Warwick
pang
Southam

Worcester—Messrs. Farley, Lavender, and Co.

ENGINEER IN Cuiir—John Grpeth Restrict, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
London—Mr. George Weller, 8, Kiug's-read, Bedford-row

Weltbrd—Mr. George Pell, Jim.

• Leamington
,varwiek t Messrs. Patterson, Haymos, Hanbury, and Gardner
Southam
Worcester-7W. R. T. Rea

Birininghain—Mr. T. R. T. Hodgson
SECRETARY-Mr. George H. Weller,
PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS.

The object proposed by thil railway is, as well to supply the wants
of the district through which it passes, as to complete the chain of
railway communication between the eastern and midland counties
and the western district, including the whole of North and South

Wales.
The country embraced by this line is of the richest description, and
thickly populated.
By means of this, .and the existing and protected lines of railway,.
the whole of the ports In the eastern and nurth-eastern counties, In-
cluding the, manufacturing city of Norwich, and towns If Leicester,
Nottingham, Sheffield, Leeds,"and the whole of Yorkshire will be
brought in direct communication with the mineral districts of
North and South Wales, the salt district of Droitwich, and the
river SeVerll.

The promoters of this line submit to the public, as a most import-
ant consideration, the abating of those causes of loss and inconveni-
ence which, along the line of country over which this railway will
pass, arc experienced front water carriage being from necessity at
present a principal mode of transit for heavy goods and merchandise,
and which, in the winter season, is productive of the most evil con-

sequences to those engaged in commerce.
A manifest advantage to the Shareholders will be the extent of traffic
which will be secured and appropriated by the present undertaking,
in lieu of that which hitherto has been engrossed by the more
dilatory course of water carriage.
As a public advantage to the inhabitants generally of the
above-mentioned districts, the promoters submit that the equa-
lisation in prices of the produce and merchandi.e which the
opening of this line of railway is calculated to produce is of the high-
est importance, and one of the principal benefits which this and other
similar undertakings are alone capable of producing.
The proposed line will commence at Rugby, the terminus of the
Midland Counties and Trent Valley Railways, and also of the pro-
posed Rugby and Huntingdon Junction Railway, and proceed from
thence near to the towns of Leamington, Warwick, and Alcester, and
end at the City of Worcester. At Worcester this line will form a
junction with the several Welsh railways, the Shrewsbury„ Wor-
cester,. and. Crewe Railway, and the Oxford, Worcester, and Wol-
verhampton Railway.
At Warwick it will unite With the Birmingham and Oxford Junc-
tion Railway, the Warwick and Cheltenham Railway, and the Lon-
don, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidderminster Railway.
And at Rugby with the London and Birmingham, the Midland
Counties, and the projected Rugby and Huntingdon Junction Railway.
To the inhabitants of Rugby as well as to those of the Midland,
Eastern, and Northern Counties this line will afford a direct com-
munication with the fashionable towns of Leamington and Chelten-
ham, as well as the whole of the Western Counties.
To the inhabitants of Leamington and Warwick it will give a
direct communication with the City of Worcester and North and
South Wales, now so much needed.
And to the inhabitants of Worcester, in addition to providing the
nearest route to London via Warwick, it will be an outlet to the
Eastern Counties and ports, and afford great facilities for the increase
of the manufactories now carried on in that city.
The whole of the country has during the present month, August,
184 i, been most carefully surveyed by the engineers, and they report
it to be free from engineering difficulty, and well adapted for a rail-
way; and the provisional Directors entertain no doubt that the
line will be made under the average rate of expense incident to
similar undertakings, and, from the statistics in their possession,
that the traffic will afford an ample return for the capital invested.
The line will not interfere with any ornamental property, and the

landowners are favourable to the undertaking.
The Shareholders in t'le several Railways proposed to be joined or
intersected will have a preference in the allotment of shares in this
undertaking.
No person will be liable for more than his deposit till the Act is
obtained, and power wili be applied for to allow interest at 4/. per
centum on all calls, from the time of their respective payments, and
to limit the liability of the Shareholders to the amount of their sub-
rcriptions.
The Directors reserve power to themselves to amalgamate with
any existing or projected line of railway ; to vary the route ; to
make all desirable extensions; and to increase the capital as may be
advisable or necessary.
Prospectuses, with a Plan, will be published In a few days,
and may then be obtained on application to the several solicitors,
and to any of the following share brokers, viz., Messrs. Peppercorne
and Co., 2, Old Broad-street; Messrs. Preece and Evans, 39, Loth-
bury, London ; Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester ; Messrs. Alston
and Gage, Liverpool; Messrs. Freeman and coil, Northampton ; Mr.
John Duncatt, Manchester ; Messrs. George Edylrds and Son, Bris-
tol; Mr. John Watson. Leeds ; Mr. John Cragg, Skipton ; and
Messrs. Atkinson, Newcastle ; Messrs. Grayston and. Earle, York ;
Mr. Collis, Birmingham ; and Messrs. Mite and Son, Leamington ;
to any of whom applications in the undermentioned form may be
addressed.

FORM OF APPLICATION.

To the Provisional Directors of the Rugby, Warwick, and Woroeeter

Railway

I request you to allot me Shares in this undertaking ; and I
hereby undertake to accept the same or any smaller number that
may be allotted me, and to pay the Deposit thereon, and to execute
the Parliamentary Contract and Subscriber's Agreement when re-
quired

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RUGBY, WARWICK. AND WORCESTER
RAILWAY.
In consequence of the immense number of applications already re-
ceived, the Provisional committee give notice that no Applications
for shares will be received after Tuesday the 16th instant, except
/tom parties resident in the country, as to whom the time will be
extended t' Monday, the 22d instant.
GEO. N. WELLER, Secretary.
°lces, pro tarn., 8, King's-road, Bedford-row,
London, Sept. 6, 1845.

C HELMSFORD and BURY RAILWAY
(STOWMARKET BRANCH).

(Registered Provisionally.)
The Committee of Management beg to inform the Shareholders
that they have determined, under powers existing in the Deed of
Settlement, upon adding to their project a branch from Lavenham to
Stowmarket, there to effect a junction with the Eastern Union Ex-
tension line, thus forming not only the most direct route to Norwich
hitherto projected, betas may be seen by an inspection of the map, the
shortest within the limits of practicability. The Chelmsford and Bury
Railway, by means of its Thetford Extension, secures the traffic of the
northern and western districts of the counties of Suffolk and -
Norfolk, 'together with a large portion of that of Norwich, and
by mean
of its Stowmarket branch, and the connexion thus
formed IN th the Eastern Union Extension and the Waveney
Valley lin .s (to both of which it is a most valuable coadjutor),
it secures aver forty miles of its length not only the remaining
traffic of Norwich, but the whole of that of the important
port of Yarmouth, to which must be added the towns of
Beccles, Bungay, Ilarleston, Dias, and Stowmarket, with all the
northern and eastern districts of the above-mentioned counties.
The great increase of traffic secured beyond the reach of
competition by this branch would amply compensate for even
an extravagant outlay In its formation. The committee,
however, have great pleasure in stating, that after
a pre-
liminary survey the engineer has reported the locality to be
so unusually favourable for railway purposes as to justify them in
entertaining a confident hope that no add,tional capital, beyond that
mentioned in their prospectus, will be required for its construction.
A more detailed survey, however, is in course of completion, the re-
sult of which will be s6hl73lytoosrgubamtßeiy_tstedtrobrdeAeteotry:tslhDeeptßS.hAßla,rieTBhi4o;: Shareholders.
Secretary.
-Company's Offices, •
N.B.—The extension from Bury to Thetford, aqd that now an.
flounced from Lavenham to Stowmarket, will he integral parts of the-
original Chelmsford and Bray scheme, and the new Shareholder.
stand-on the same faotinir se the.miglnal Stzlicriberth

XEITER, DORCHESTER, AND WEY-
MOUTH JUNCTION COAST RAIL WAY.
. (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Viet., cap. 110.)
Capital, 1,250,0001., is 62,500 Shares Of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per SZatn.'
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Sir John Key, Bart., Alderm ,n of London, Director of the London
and Manchester Direct Railway
Lieut.-General Sir Robert Barton,: x.c.n., 2, Montague-place, Mon-
tague-square
Jacob Bell, Esq., Langham-place •
John Carter, Esq., F.R.A.S., Park Lodge, Stockwell
John Carter, Esq., 23, Dorset-place, Portman-square
John Chauntler, Esq., Friday-street, Director of the York and Lan-
caster Railway
Wiliam Colf x, Esq., Ram House, Bridport
W. S. Cross. Esq., 1, New-court, Temple, Director of the London
and Birmingham Extension Railway .
Newton Crouch, Esq., Southampton-place, London, Director of the
York and Lancaster Railway
The lion. Miles Dormer, 51, Hafts-place, Sloane-street.
Colonel Lothian Sheffield Dickson, 44; Curzon-street, May-fair
Colonel Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, C. 8., Director of the Bide-
ford and Tavistock Railway '
Peter Henry Edlin, Esq., Director of the. Warwick and Worcester
Railway-
Francis Ewart, Esq., Brick-court, Temple, Director of the Equity and
Law Life Assurance Companies
The Rev. IL Fellowes, Vicar of Stotbury
Captain S. N. Fisher." Junior United Service Club, Director of the
Manchester and Birmingham Continuation Railway
Major Fitzgerald, Mount Edgar, Sidmonth
John Foster. Esq., Barge-yard, Bucklersbury
Theophilus M. Gunn, Esq., Bridport
Captain Sir Andrew S. Green, R.N.,'K.C.H., James-street, Buciring-
hatn-,gate, Director of the Bank of Australasia
Frederick James Hall, Esq., Torrington-square, Director of the Trent
Valley Continuation Railway
W. Newton Harriott, Esq., Cellham, Hants
Josiah Beale, Esq., Gray's Inn-square, Director of the Chelmsford
and Bury Railway
George Price. Hill, Esq., Gawanbro House, Hampstead
F. B. Hoare, Esq., Lincoln's Inn
John Holmes, Esq., Liverpool, and St. James's-street, Westminster,
Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
Swynfen Jervis, Esq., 3, Whitehall-place, and Darlaston Hall, Staf-
fordshire, Director of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway, and
of the Bideford and Tavistock Railway
Frederick Jones, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Director of the Warwick and
Worcester Railway
Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, and Director of the Wor-
cester and South Wales Junction Railway, and of the London and
Birmingham Extension Railway
Richard Kelly, Esq., 6, Cleveland-row, St. James's, Chairman of the
New Ross, Carlow, and Kilkenny Railways •
Siegerich C. Kreeft, Esq., 9, Billlter-square •
L. Llewellyn, Esq., Ynis Penilwch, and Graig-Avon, Glamorgan-
shire
Robert Henry Lindharn, Esq., 8, New-street, Dorset-square, Director
of the London and Birmingham Extension Railway •
C. W. Lovesy, Jun.. Esq., Charlton Kings, Cheltenham
William Alexander Long, jun., Esq., Wootton under-Edge
J. Mee Matthew, Esq., Gray's. Inn-square, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway
Captain Mathews, R.N., Sidmouth Lodge, Sidmouth
Peter Morrison, Esq., Managing Director of the Britannia Life In-
surance Company, and Director of the South and Midland Junc-
tion Railway
Caleb Norris, Esq., Lancaster-place
George Parbury, Esq., 37, Russell-square, and' Director of the Trent
Valley Continuation
William S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Director of the
Oxforl,•Witney, and Cheltenham Railway
Robert Rea, Esq., Exeter, and Cromwell Rock, Waterford
John Rawson, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant of the West Riding of York-
shire, and J.P., Stoney Royd, Halifax, Director of Rosamel's Great
Northern of France Railway, of the Manchester, Liverpool, and
Great North of England Union Railway, and of the National Bank
of Ireland
Robert Richard, Esq., Inner Temple, London. Director of the South
itA Midland Junction Railway
J. Reginald Riddel!, Esq., Bycullah House, Enfield, Director of the
Yol k and Lancaster Railway
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq.. 23, Bryanston-street, Portman-square,
Director of the Galway awl Belfast Railway . •
J. Carrington Ridgway, Esq., Itoehampton Lodge, Surrey
W Digby Seymour, Esq., 11, Doughty-street, Mecklenburgh- square
William Sloane Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Chairman
of the Church of England Life Assurance Company.
Henry Lewis Simile, Esq., Willoughby House, Tottenham. Director
of the South-Eastern Railway
Andrew Spottiswootte, Esq.. Deputy Governor of the Union Bank of
London, and Chairman of the Irish North Midland Railway
Henry Savage, Esq., M. 8., F.R.C.S., Dorset-place, Dorset-square,
Director of the Tring. Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
John Wheelton, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, Director
of the Leicester and Bedford Railway, and of the Taw Vale
Railway
Henry Wright, Esq., Brunswick-square, Director of the Warwick
and Worcester Railway
(With power to add to their number.)
CONSULTING ENGINEER—Sir John Macneil, LL D., F.R.S., M.I.C.E.
ENGINEERS.
Messrs. Rice and Thomas Hopkins, M.I.C.E.
Messrs. Gough and Roumieu.
SURVEYORS—Messrs Shuttleworth and Sons
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Chauntler and Westwood, 8, Gray's Inn-Square
Edward Strick, Esq., 10, Doughty-street
SzcaRTART—D. Partie, Esq.
BANER.
London—Messrs. Martin, Ston Kes sand Martin, Lombard-street
The London and County Bank, Lombard-street
Southampton—Messrs. Atherley, Fall. and Atherley
WeymOuth—liessrs. Eliott and Pearce
LOCAL AGENTS. •
Weymouth—George Arden, Esq.
Bripport—E. Nioholetts, Esq.
Sidmouth—Edwin Church Everitt, Esq.
Exeter—George William Turner, Esq.
This railway is intended to commence at the east part of the-city
of Exeter, neat St. Sidwells, and after passing through Topsham,
with a fork at Woodbury by Lympstone to Exmouth, will proceed, in
an easterly direction, towards Sidmouth, and thence, near Colyton,
Beer, Seaton, Axmouth, Lyme Regis, and Charmouth, to Bridport.
At Bridport the line will divide, taking one course direct to Dor-
chester, to join the Southampton and Dorchester Railway, and the
other, passing near Bridport harbour and Abbotsbury to Weymouth.
At Exeter, junctions will be formed with the Bristol and, Exeter and
North Devon railways, and at Exmouth with the South Devon, by
means of their steam ferry, thus making the most direct route to
Plymouth from London. Also at Dorchester and Weymouth it will
be connected with the Wilts, Somerset,
and Weymouth, as well as
with the Dorchester and Southampton at Dorchester.
It will be seen, on reference to the map, that by forming a junc-
tion with the lines of coast railway that have already been con-
structed or commenced from Exeter westward, and from Dorchester
eastward, and by following the coast as nearly as is practicable be-
tween its termini, this line will effectually complete a railway com-
munication from Dover to the Land's End, an undertaking in Itself
of great national importance, and likely to meet with the cordial sup-
port of the Government.
In fixing the course which this Railway will take, it has been the
careful consideration of the Promoters to project only such a Line as
will afford the greatest facilities of communication to the populous and
important towns and fashionable watering places which are situated
on and neat that part of the Coast which this Railway is particu-
larly meant to accommodate ; whilst, at the same time, the Agri-
cultural, Manufacturing, and Commercial Interests of this part of
the Kingdom have been equally studied.
This Line will also open such additional means of communication
to the Port of Weymouth, the large Manufacturing' own and Har-
bour of Bridport, and the Harbour of Lyme Regis, as must even-
tually replace them in that high position, when compared with the
other Ports of the Kingdom, which they formerly held. The Water-
ing Places of Exmouth. Budieigh-Salterton, Sidmouth, Charrnouth,
Lynne-Regis, Weymouth, Sec., will be thus thrown open to every part
of England and Wales, and accommodated with that facility of ac-
cess which they alone require to place them on an equal position
with other favourite places of resort, for which the picturesque In-
land and bold Coast-Scenery of Devonshire and Dorsetshire is pre-
eminently proverbial, and justly entitles them to hold.
The following extract from the Report of the Select Committee of
the House of Lords on the " Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Rail-
way," made on the 18th of June, 1845, will show the sense enter-
tained by that body of the importance of a line of railway in the di.
rection proposed by the present Company :—" In making their re-
port, the Committee feel it their duty to state that the great diffi-
culty with them, in deciding on the Bill referred to them, had arisen
from the fear they entertained whether, in allowing the Great
Western Railway to come dowfl to the sea at Weymouth, or even be-
low Yeovil, they might not be creating a difficulty as to making a
railway in the most desirable manner to Falmouth, the most westerly
port in the Channel."
The great importance of this railway may be further estimated,
from a consideration of the fact that the local population which would
be benefited by its construction exceeds two hundred thousand
persons.
And also that Weymouth, which will be one of the termini of the
line, is about to become a great National Harbour of Refuge and
Packet-station, ky the construction of a breakwater in Portland
Roads, In accordance with the recommendation of the Government
Commissioners, for which purpose a grant was made during the last
session of Parliament for commencing the works. The additional
population and traffic, which will be
,thus attracted to this port, will
be very considerable.
A preliminary survey has been made, and there are no peculiar
engineering difficulties. The length of the main line, from Exeter to
Dorchester, will be about fifty-two miles; and of the Forks, or exten-
sions. to Weymouth, and Exmouth, about sixteen mllea ; making, in
She whole, sixty-eight miles of railway.
The sentiments of the landowners are favourable to the construc-
tion of a railway calculated., as this is, very greatly to benefit their
properties, and in the allotment of the shares a preference will be
given to the applications of persons locally interested.
Estimates of the traffic have been carefully prepared by the pro-
moters of the line, from which they are satisfied that an ample re-
turn will be obtained for the investment of capital in the undertak-
ing. More detailed traffic tables will, however, be forthwith pre-
pared, as required by the Committees of both Houses of Parliament.
The usual power will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow
interest at 41. per cent. on the amount of deposit and calls from the
passing of the Act until the completion of the line, and the liability
of Shareholders will be limited to the amount of their subscriptions.
Applications for copies of the prospectus, and for shares, may be
made at the offices of the solicitors and local agents : also to the fol-
lowing sharebrokers :—Messrs. B. and M. Boyd, 4, New Bank-
buildings, and Messrs. Taunton and Bush, 26, Austin-friar., Lon-
Esq., and John Langworthy, Esq.,
Lon-
don ; Henry Vatchcr, Exeter ;
Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer, Plymouth ; Messrs. Tate and Nash,
Bristol ; Thomas Forsyth, Esq., ;Liverpool ; Henry Benton, Esq.
Manchester; Messrs. Rhodes, Leeds; W. H. Collis, Esq., Birming-
ham;
Messrs, Graystonc and Earle, York; William Mason, Esq.,
Bradford, Yorkshire; F. 'Stamp, Esq., Hull; Messrs. Newburn and
Biackle, Halifax; homas Boardman, Esq., Blackburn ; Messrs.
John Robertson and Co., Edinburgh; and Messrs. Duncan and
Hutchinson, Glasgovr.
To the rovisional Committee of the Exeter, Dorchester, and
Weymouth Junction Coast Railway Company.
I request that you will apportion me - Shares of 201. each, in
the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway Company ; and I
do hereby undertake to accept the same, or any less number you may
allot to me, and to pay the deposit of 21.25. per share and all fhture
calls thereon, and to sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscri-
bers' Agreement when required.
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1845.

KILKENNY, CARLOW, and WICKLOW
RAILWAY COMPANY.

Offices, 449, West Strand, London.

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The Committee of Management of the above Company have the
satisfaction of stating that the Clonmel and Kilkenny Railway Com-
pany has been united with this Company, and it is now intended to
make application to Parliament, in the ensuing session, for powers
to construct a line of railway from Clonmel to Kilkenny, Carlow,
and Wicklow, whereby the former important cities will be brought
into direct railway communication with the metropolis of Ireland by
the nearest route.

Negotiations are also in progress with the Waterford and Kilkenny
Company, who obtained their Act of Parliament last session, for
securing the support and co-operation of that Company to the
undertaking, which It la confidently anticipated will terminate satis-
factorily.
A reference to the official trains map of the railway Commis-
sioners will show the great extent of the traffic between the several
towns on the line, and the prospect of its proving highly remunera-
tive to the shareholders.
The requisite capital having been already subscribed for, the allot-
ment of shares will be proceeded with forthwith ; and as the project
has received the unqualified approbation of the landed proprietors
along the line, and is warmly supported by the English Great
Western, the Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Railway
Companies, and the other Irish Companies in connexion with that in-
terest, a portion uf the Directors of the Great Western Company
forming part of the Committee of Management, the sanction of Par-
liament to the measure may be most confidently anticipated.
Applicants for shares in either Company, before their amalgama-
tion are at liberty to withdraw the same, if they desire to do so, before
Monday, the 15th of September, until which time applications for
shares in the Cionmel, Kilkenny, Carlow, and Wicklow Company,
will be received, addressed to the Secretary, at the Company's offices,
449, West Strand, London.
The capital of the Company will be augmented to 1,500,0001., in
75,000 shares of 201. each, upon which a deposit of 21. will be re-
quired, to meet the new standing orders of Parliament.
The designation of the Company will be changed to the " Clolunel,
Kilkenny, Carlow. and Wicklow Railway Company."
By order,
Sept. SOM. NICILLBD M. IILUGGERIDGE.

Its connexion with London has become of such paramount im-
portance as to demand the most direct and perfect communication
that can possibly be established- This is the main object of the pro-
posed undertaking.
This Railway will proceed from London to Hungerford by the
Great Western Railway, there leaving that railway and running
almost in a straight-line by Marlborough, Caine, and Chippenham,
where it will again join the Great Western Railway : thus giving to
the towns of Marlborough and Caine (which at present have no
railway) a direct communication with London ; and also with Bath,
Bristol, the South Western Counties of England and South Wales.
From Chippenham the line will pass near Chipping Sodbury,
and proceed to the. Bristol and Gloucester Railway at Westerleigh
(about eight miles from Bristol), and by a junction with that rail-
way the direct line ft om London 'to Bristol will be completed.
From Westerleigh the line will be continued to the river Severn at
Aust, and be carried across that river by means of the fixed bridge of
the Bristol and Liverpool Junction Railway. On the Monmouth-
shire side of the river it will proceed fur another half mile over the
river Wye, direct to, and terminate at, the South Wales Railway,
near to Hunger Pill. This last half mile will of itself effect a saving
in distance between London and South Wales of about four miles.
By taking advantage, as far as possible, of existing railways, this
project will complete at once the most direct and best trunk-line
from London to Bath, Bristol, and the South-Western Counties of
England ; but more especially to Chepstow, Newport, Cardiff, Swan-
sea, Milford Haven, the whole of South Wales, and Ireland.
The following are the savings in distance effected by the proposed
line:—

Between London and path, via Hungerford, the pro-
posed line as far as Chippenham, and the Great
Western Railway ...... ............... about 7 miles.
Between London and Bristol, via Hungerford, the
proposed line as far as Westerleigh, and the Bristol
and Gloucester Railway. •••• • • • • .... •••• • • • about 8 miles.
Between London and the whole of South Wales. via
the Great Western Railway, the proposed tunnel
under the Severn at Hock Crib, and the South
Wales Railway to Hunger Pi 11.......... ... • about 16 miles.
Between London and the whole of South Wales, via
the Great Western, and the Bristol and Liverpool
Junction Railways ...
These great savings in distance are by no means the principal
features of the undertaking. By this direct communication between
London and Bristol the Box tunnel will be entirely avoided, an im-
portant fact which will no doubt have a most powerful effect with
passengers.
Moreover passengers to and from South Wales will be enabled to
travel at all times by means of the fixed bridge over the Severn at
the .dust or Old Passage; thus avoiding on the one hand the well-
known dangers, inconveniences, delays, and difficulties of the open
ferry of two miles and a half, at the New Passage, proposed by the
Bristol and South Wales Junction Railway Company; and, on the
other hand, the tunnel of about a mile under the Severn, proposed by
the :.'outh Wales Railway Company, which (even if capable of con-
struction) must ever leave the public apprehensive of accident.
Reference to a Map will clearl3 demonstrate that the great stream
of passengers and traffic between London, Bristol, the South-Western
Counties and Ireland will flow through the proposed line and South
Wales to Milford Haven and Flshguard Harbour. The establishment
of Valentia, as the chief out-port to the Canada, and the United
States, will moreover create a traffic, via South Wales, never hitherto
contemplated. But supposing Valentia should not become that out-
port, there can be no doubt that Milford Haven, from its extreme
western position and natural advantages, must.
Independently of the passenger traffic above referred to, the faci-
lities which the line will afford to the unequalled iron works of
South Wales, and the extensive copper and tin works of Swanseaand
Neath must induce the manufacturer to transmit his goods with
safety, economy, and rapidity by rail, rather than with hazard and
delay by sea.
A new and most important market will be opened to the owners
of collieries in South Wales. Newport will be brought within 129
miles of London ; and it may be confidently asserted that the Metro-
polis will draw an immense supply of coal from that neighbourhood,
inasmuch as coal of most excellent quality can be delivered in Lon-
don from the Welsh collieries at about 15s. per ton.
The principal advantages of direct railway communication between
important termini are now too universally admitted both by Parlia-
ment and the public to need argument. Many important direct lines
have been already favourably received; but when the savings in distance
—the avoidance of a ferry and tunnels—the new channels for traffic—
the giviog of railway accommodation to a large district—and the
establishment of the most direct and complete communication be-
tween London and Bath, Bristol, and South Wales are recollected—
and especially that these important benefits can be obtained by the
formation of a line fifty-two miles only in length—it is confidently as-
serted that the proposed railway holds out advantages superior to
any hitherto projected, and will at the same time prove, if not the
most, one of the most profitable investments ever offered to the
public.
The subscribers will he held liable only to the extent of their first
deposits, until an Act of Parliament is obtained, and afterwards only
to the amoun, of their subscriptions.
Until an Act of Parliament shall be obtained, the affairs of this
Company shall be under the management and control of the Com-
mittee of Management, as appointed.
Power will be applied for in the Act—and in the meantime is
hereby given to the Committee of Management—to increase the
capital, if necessary ; to alter or abandon any part of the line, to
make branch lines, or enter into arrangements with any other com-
pany or companies ; and also to nominate the first Directors of the
Company.
The Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement will be
ready for signature on payment of the deposits.
Applications for prospectuses and shares may be made to the soli-
citor ; or to Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Threadneedle-street ;
Mr. James Pearson, Birmingham : Mr. S. Grindrod, and Messrs.
Cardwell and Co., Manchester ; Messrs. H. Davies and Co., and
Messrs. Haselden and Son, Liverpool; Messrs. Watson and Co.,
Leeds ; Messrs. Wilkinson an dEarle, Hull ; Mr. Butchard, Hud.
dersfield ; Messrs. Buchanan, Aitken and Co., Glasgow ; Mr. Luke
Arnold, Bristol; Mr. William Gordon, Aberdeen ; and Mr. James
Pringle, Edinburgh.
No application for Shares can be received after the 20th inst., nor
will any be attended to, unless reference be made to one of the Pro-
visional Committee, the solicitor, bankers, or brokers of the Company.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Directors of the London, Bristol, and South Wales Direct
Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me Shares of
' 201. each in the above Railway Company ; and I undertake to pay
the deposit, and sign the necessary deeds when called on.
Name in full • .....
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LYONS and AVIGNON RAILWAY.
(coxrAa,NIE SESASTIANI.)

REPORT TO THE ENGLISH SUBSCRIBERS.
GenermmEN,—We regret our not being able to report that we have
succeeded in our efforts to obtain for you the objects of our Associa-
tion ; our best energies have been devoted to the subject, but from
the altered state of the circumstances which has now arisen, oar
Company, as at present constituted, is not in a position to compete
for the Lease.
At the time our Company was formed, it was tinders•ood that the
Government would provide the land ibr the line and stations, and
possibly would undertake' the earthworks.' The capital we then
proposed (60 millions of francs), was considered sufficient to provide
all that the Company, under that state of circumstances, would have
required ; but after much doubt and delay, the Government have at
length determined that their lessees sheull undertake the purchase of
the land, as well as the entire construction and working of the Rail-
way. The Bill has now passed the Chambers in that form, and has
fixed the Capital at 80 millions (irrespective of the Grenoble
Branch).
Having, as we interpret our engagement to the Subscribers,
neither power to undertake on their behalf the purchase of land, nor
adequate funds for that larger purposeove arc under the necessity of
announcing the dissolution of the present Subscription, and we have
accordingly only further on• this head to inform you, that we nx!
hold the deposits subject to the order .f the several subscrishoersilnot.d
ready to be immediately returned in exchange for the letter f
ment and banker's receipts.
We would now invite your attention
adopted for
of the
statutes, which have been framed and r adogeslic p cgruylation of
a line. Toe
a new Company for making andcrwo tin
the same direction, and in many
will observe, that it is mainly
t roosle) ows ehdo.
respects of the same characte.rur:sdatatthwelioc,,h.ewneyo,rsigiuindail
The capital is necessarily larhetaikin;
of a much more general charac-
have the conduct of the under
ter. We desire to refer you In particular to articles 4-22-23-
24 —2B-SG.
We are empawerLd to offer to each Shareholder in the former
Company who shall, on or before the 20th of September nel t, and
in the manlier we are about to mention, declare his option to accept
them, the same number of Shares in the new Company as he holds
in the original Company, with or without one additional Share in
respect of every five original Shares, and in order to factitate the
neee-sary arrangements, we have prepared such forms as will enable
the Subscribers to express their wishes with convenience. They are
ready, and may be applied for at 62, King William-street City, be-
tween Eleven o'clock, A.M. and Three o'clock P.M. 9
We beg to ad.l, that in the event of receiving at this office ne com-
munication respecting any particular allotment of Shares in the
original Company on or before the 20th of September next, the de-
posit thereon will be held subject to the order of the party entitled to
it, and it will be entirely out of our power, to extend beyond the
above-mentioned day the option which we have secured for the pre-
sent Proprietors to join the new Company.
It is tight ,we should express our continued confidence in the
merits of the undertaking, and our recommendation to the Sub-
scribers to renew their investments in the new Company.
We are, Gentlemen, your very obedient Servants,
W. J. CHAPLIN.
CHARLES-DEVA.UX.
J. MOSS.
J. MASTERMAN. Jun.
M. UZIELLI..

Loadon.iSetember 1,1845.