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London, England, 1845-10-03 00:00:00

line will open up a cOmmuniestion by railroad between Portsmouth
and Dover.
From an inspection of the map, it will be seen that the Redhill
station, near Reigate, Ilea nearly in a direct line between Ports-
mouth and Chatham, and in pursuing the line of communication to
the last-mentioned naval and military depot, this line will pass
through or near the towns of Bletchingley, Godston, Limps Held,
Westerham, Seven Oaks, Ightham, Town Dialling, Wrotham, Off-
ham, Snodland, Lower Hailing, and Woodham.
The distance between Chatham and Reigate will involve the
making of 31 miles of railroad, and the line of railroad 1 etween
Portsmouth and Chatham 'will extend over 82 miles.
To •the naval and military establishments :of this kingdom the
construction of this projected line will afford the most important fa-
Cilities in the transit of troops, stores, baggage, &c. &c., diminishing
the tardy course of communication which at present necessarily
exists between Portsmouth and Chatham, at present usually extend-
ing over the space of two days, and placing them in that direct com-
munication with each other which, in two hours, or thereabouts,
will enable the journey between them to be made.
The formation of of a direct line of railway between Portsmouth
and Chatham will afford the opportunity of establishing, by the
electric telegraphic, that celerity of communication so important to be
obtained between places of national importance.
The warm support of the principal laadewners on the greater part
of the line is pledged to this undertaking.
The Provisional Committee abstain from making any special re-
ference to the contemplate 1 profit to result from carrying into effect
this undertaking, feeling convinced that the extent of trail,: through
the populous and rich districts over which this line and its branches
are projected to pass is sufficiently known, and is decisive of the
inutility of all comment in that respect.
Applications for the shares, in the form given below, to be made
to the Solicitors and Local Agents, or to any of the following
Brokers :—Messrs. It. Sutton, Gribble, and Sutton, Royal Exchange,
London; Messrs. Peppercome and Co., No. 2, Old Broad•street,
London ; Mr. IL Pritchett, of No. 74, Old Broad-street ; Messrs.
Neilson, sharebrokers, Liverpool ; John Duncuft, Esq., sharebroker,
Manchester ; Mr. R. M`Ewen, 18, St. Ann's-street, Manchester ;
John Watson, Esq., sharebroker, Leeds ; Messrs. Ridsdale, Myers,
and Bailey, brokers, Leeds ; Messrs. Schultz and Carr, brokers, Li-
verpool; Messrs. Hope and Rastrick, brokers, Manchester; Messrs.
Tyeth and Luscombe, stockbrokers, Plymouth ; George Edwards
and Son, Bristol ; Messrs. Watson and Co., Hull ; Messrs. Pott and
Levick, Nottingham ; and Messrs. Collis and Son, Birmingham.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHAREfiI.
To the Provisional Committee of the Direct London, Portsmouth, and
Chichester, and Direct Portsmouth and Chatham Railway

Company.
I request that you will allot to me shares 61201. each in the
above named Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the same,
or any less number that may be allotted to me, and to pay the de-
posit of 21. 2s. on each share, and to execute the Parliamentary Con-
tract and Subscribers' Agreement as may be required of me.
Dated this day of 1845.
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N.B. No application will be attended to except with a reference to
a banker, or from an applicant referring to, and who is known b y
some of the Provisional Committee. or the solicitors, or local agents.

lIIRAIINGHAIII AND MANCHES'I:EIf
DIRECT RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 900,0001., in 45,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
TEO VISIONAL COMMITTEE. _

The Hon. Cecil Lawless, Lynbarth, Kildare, and at. James's-street
Sir William Twisden, Bart., Dorset-square, Director of the Chepstow
and Forest of Dean Railway
Sir Wm. Young, Bart., East India Director, Westbourne-street,
Hyde Park-gardens, Director of the Sheffield, Nottingham, and
London Direct Railway
The Sheriff of York, Director of the Sheffield, Nottingham, and
London Direct Railway
Ayscough, Rear-Admiral, Prospect-place, Southampton, Director of
the Sheffield, Nottingham, and London Direct Railway
Adair, Major, Director of the Church of England Assurance Society,
and of the Burton-upon-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Now-
town, and Indian Peninsular Railways
Arnold, Henry, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of Remington's Direct
London and Manchester Railway
Booth, John, Esq., Park-cottage, Macclesfield, Director of the Leeds,
Huddersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct, and Sheffield, Notting-
ham, and London Direct Railways
Brown, Henry, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zonch, Director of Remington's
Direct London and Manchester Railway
Buck, W. C., Esq.
Cambridge, John, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of the
Burton-on-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and 'Newtown Railway
Chambers, Wm., Esq., Cocks Bench, Derby, Director of Remington's
Direct London and Manchester Railway
Clarke, Jeremiah, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Cleobary, Thomas Mortimer, Esq., Acton, Middlesex, Director of the
Sheffield, Nottiagharo, and London Direct Railway
Cook, John, the Rev., Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, Director of the Shef-
field, Nottingham, and London Direct Railway
Croft, Major J. T. Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman, Director of
Remington's Direct Loud ,n and Manchester Railway
Crossley, John, Esq., Lumberhurst, Sussex, Director of the Sheffield,
Nottingham, and London Direct Railway.
Ctunberlege, N . Esq., York-terrace, Regent's Park, Director of the
Burton-upon-Trent, Stafford,- Shrewsbury, and Newtown, and
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railways
Dale, Major Thurston, Ashbourne, Director of the Burton-on-Trent.
Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newton, and Leeds, Huddersfield, and
Wolverhampton Direct Railways
Daniel, IL, Esq , Oakhill, Stoke. upon-Trent, Director of the Leeds,
Huddersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct RallsVay
Darlington, Johu, Esq., Shipley Hall, Bradibrd, Director of the Liver-
pool and Leeds Direct Railway
Dewhurst, Richard, Esq., Apsley House, Huddersfield, Director of
the West Riding Union Banking Company, and Director of the
West Riding Junction Railway
Dent, Edward, Esq., Director of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and
Great Grimsby Direct Railway
Dent, John, Esq., Direotor of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and
Great Grimsby Direct Railway
Eastwood, Abraham, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds, Hud-
dersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway
Eastwood, Edmund, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds, Hud
derseeld, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway
Ewart, Francis, of 4, Brick-court, Temple, Director of the Great
Leeds and Loudon Direct, Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Me-
tropolitan Junction Railways
Fisher, Thomas, Esq., Ripon, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway
Franklin, Benjamin, Harley-street, London
Gisborne, Henry Francis, Esq., Derby, Director of the Burton-on-
Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newton Re 'way
Hammond, George, Esq., Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railway
Harrison, John, Esq., banker, Ripon, Director of the Leeds. Hudders-
field, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway
Herries, Robert, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway
Hind, Abraham, Ewe, Director of the Manchester, Huddersfield and
Great Grimsby Direct Railway
Holdforth, J. D., Esq., Burley, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway
Hughes, Hughes W., Esq., Alderman of the City of London
Ingleby, Joseph, Esq., Cheadle, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield,
and Wolverhampton Direct Railway
Johnsoft, Richard William, Eel., lfoorgate, Director of the Brighton
and Cheltenham and Remington's Direct London and Manchester
Railway
Jones, Edt', Esq., Camberwell, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield,
and Wolverhampton Direct Railway
Jones, Edward, Esiq., Windmill-place, Ca nberwell, Director of the
Leeds, Huddersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway
Jones, the Rev. J. P., Vicarage, Alton, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Keen; John Joseph, Esq., St. John's Wood, Regent's Park, Di-
rector of the Burton-on-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, land New-
town Railways
King, William, Esq , Stepney, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction, and Brighton and Cheltenham
Railways
Knight, Ed erard, M.D., Stafford, Director of the Burton-on-Trent,
Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newtown Railway
Lambert, Richard, Esq., Lyston-hall, Sudbury
M'Mahon, Daniel, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
3fainwaring, John, Esq., Eagle-Hall, Pateley-bridge, Director of the
York and Lancaster Railway
Mann, T., Esq., Chapel-cottage, Holloway
Ilaskery, Thos., Esq., Norbury-hall, Director of the Brighton and
Cheltenham Railway
Meteyard, Horace W., Esq., Director of Remington's Direct London
and Manchester Railway
Moore, Major, Anne-street, Cavendish-square, Director of the Burton-
on-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newtown Railway
Musgrave, S., Ewe
Norton, Joseph, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Nottingham and
Dondon Direct Railway
Ogle, Nathaniel, Esq., Heath-lane Lodge, Twickenham, Director of
the Burton-on-Trent Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newtown Rail-
way
Pulteney, Captain Douglas Kinnaird, 4, Parliament-street, Chairman
of the York and Lancaster Railway, and Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Richardson, Joseph, Esq.
Robinson, John, Msg., Sllcoates-cottage, Wakefield, Director of the
Leeds, Huddersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct, and Sheffield,
Nottingham, and London Direct Railways
Roden, T. C., Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Leeds, Huddders-
field, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway. •
Shipton, Robert, Esq., Scupton, Derbyshire, Director of Remington's
Direct London and Manchester Railway
Smith, John, Esq., Barton-house, Ashborne, Derbyshire
Smith, Thomas, Esq., M.D., Leeds, Director of the Leeds, Hudders-
field, and Wolverhampton Direct, and Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railways
Smith, Wm., Esq., Clifton, Derbyshire, Director rf the Brighton and
Cheltenham Railway
Sneyd, Thomas, Esq., Belmont
Stetnhose, Lieutenant-Colonel Leicester, Chairman of Remington's
Direct London and Manchester Railway
Tyler, George, Esq., Holloway-place, London, Director of the
Brighton and Cheltenham Railway
Waller, Major James, K. 11., St. James's-square, Director of the
Leeds, Huddersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct, and Brighton
and Cheltenham Railways
Walters, James, Esq., Bakewell, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield,
and Wolverhampton Direct Railway
Watts, W. R., Esq., Birmingham, Directorof the Leeds, Huddersfield,
.and Wolverhampton Direct Railway
wash, Robert, Esq., Director of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and
Gre.'t Grimsby Direct Railway Company
Wilkinson, J., Esq.
Wright, Thomas, Esq., merchant, Derby, Director of the Derbyshire,
eliezestieftie—George Statrordstiro, and Worcestershire Junction Railway.
explains.
the object
The title of thisE
of the undertaking.
The Birmingham terminus will be placed in communication with
all the :other railways having a station in that town, and
will
brought as near as practicable to its centre. Proceeding thence in be
northerly direction, and on the west side of the Lichfield road, it
will a
pass within a short distance of Sutton Coldfield, and to Lichfield, at
the latter of which places there will be a station in communication
with the projected Walsall lined.
Thence crossing the Trent Valley, near King's Bromley, it will
pursue the course of the Blythe Valley, or by or near to Abbots
Bromley to Leigh, where It will leave the Blythe Valley, and by a
short cutting reach the Teen station on Remington's London and.
Manchester line at the junction of the Crewe branele or by a June-
goo with whichever of the projected lines to Manchester may be
adepSed by Parliament.
The Antlre length of the new line to be made will not exceed
Unity-
sbor miles, and the whole will be carried over a most favour-
able esemes:v—two-thirds being a water-level.
Sections otSs great portion of the line have been made, and the en-
tire P.uliament.ArY survey will be completed by the 9th of October.
This railway 1411 alr°rd'.a route from Birmingham to 3lanchester
eleven miles short,' than by any existing or projected line. It will
also give the best ett, d nearest line between Hudderefield, and Bir-
mingham.
It will also furnish a ISearer and more direct route from Birming-
ham to the Potteries than any line made or projected by several
assuming any of the laottery lines to have their termini at Col-
with, on the Trent Valley, of at Stafford, on the Grand Junction
hallway ; thus giving to Ifanciester, and also the Potteries, the
shortest, easiest, and most direct route to Birmingham. It will
also give the nearest line between Ileuldersficid and Birmingham and
Southampton

This railway crosses the projected Leads and Huddersfield and
Wolverhampton Direct Railway. In the Blythe Valley agitation will
be plated, And communication effected, so as to afford to HiristiZigharn
the shortest route by many miles, with Leeds, Huddersfield, Shell:cid,
and the norther. 4 parts of England. In allotting shares every legi-
timate preference be given to landholders on the line.
It is obvious that the projected line will afford an ample return to
the shareholders.
For prospectuses, shares, ind every information, apply to the
solicitors, W. Arnold Bainbrigge, Uttoxeter ; or at tho Offices
of the Company, No. 1, Moorgate, Londe' t.

BROKERS.
Messrs. B. and M. Boyd, New Bank-buildings
Messrs. Cameron
eTamowenrineny
aanndd
ClVol.l,itLeilvienairpLoalLiverpool
Mr. Morris Reynolds, Liverpool
Mr. Richard E. Hine, MacelesSeld
N r. James Jamieson, Leeds
Messrs. Welibeloved and Oastler, Leeds
Mr. Frederick Stamp, Hull
Mr. Richard Baines, Blackburn
Mr. George Clark, Bradford
Mr. William Mason, Bradford
Mr. William Cronhelm, Halifax
Messrs. Graysten and Earle, York
Messrs. Kettering and Marshall, Leeds
Mr. Joseph Clark, Jun., Southampton
Messrs. Tato and Nash, Bristol
Messrs. 13oughlan4 and Leese, Manchester
Messrs. A. Fireball and 'o., :Manchester
Mr. W. H. Collis, Birmingham
N r. L. Weatherburn, jun., Huddersfiell
Messrs. Everard and Co., Huddersfield
essrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester
3. N. Bairn°, Gloucester.
FORM. OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES,
To the Directors of the Birmingham and Manchester Direct
Railwasyli:res in the above undertaking •
I request you to allot me
and I ir;r, a to pay up the deposit of 2 . 2s. per share, and sign the'
necessary Oce Is when required thereto.
Dated th s day of , 1845.
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