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TON JUNCTION RAILWAY.
COLecting the English with the Bristol Channel, and forming a
Complete counnunication, on the broad gauge, between Southampton,
SC-is:Any, Bath, Bristol, and every other town in the West of Eng-
land and South Wales.
Bankers' Receipts may now be exchanged for Script Certificates, and
the Deeds now lie for Signature at the Company's Office, 26, Gre-
sham-skeet, City.
The Media will shortly be removed into the country, of which du
notice will be given.
London, August 21, 1845

H. R. SHERIDAN, Socretary.

LEICESTER and TA MWORTH JUNCTION
R AILWAY.
No further Applications for Shares in this Company can be re-
ceived, except from parties locally interested, or Shareholders in the
Trent Valley Railway, who must apply on or before Monday, the
25th day of August instant.

_
J. E. RATHBONE, Secretuy.
4, Colman-street, London. August 18,1845.

OUTH WALES RAILWAY.
kJ The royal assent having been given to the South Wales Rail-
way Bill, holders of Scrip in that undertaking are desired to forward
the same to this office on or betore MONDAY, the Bth of SepteMber
next, with a letter requesting to be registered for their respective
Shares, a form of which letter will be furnished on application to
me. The receipt of the Scrip will be duly acknowledged, and sealed
certificates prepared for exchange as soon as possible, of which due
notice will be given.

Shares, in respect of which no application for registry shall be
made on or before the above date, will be registered in the names of
the original Subscribers, after which no Shares can be passed other-
wise than by formal transfer under the Act.—By order,
N. ARMSTRONG, Secretary.
South Walesiftailsvay Office, 449, West Strand,
London, August 8, 1845.

C HESTER and MANCHESTER DIRECT
RAILWAY.
-With a Branca to Birkenhead.
(Provisionally Registered).
Capital 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. sash.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.

COMMITTEE OP MANAGEMENT.
Colonel the Hon. LEICESTER STANHOPE, Ashburnham House,
Lone on, Chairman
Major JOHN T. CROFT, Regent-street, London, Deputy Chatrman
David Ainsworth, Esq., Manchester
Samuel Barton, Esq., Didsbury, Manchester
Hugh Beaver, Esq., Manchester, and Glyn Garth, Anglesey
John Burgess, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester
James Far sh, Esq., i.ancaster-place, London
Major Ford, of Bodlondet, Carnarvonshire
Lieut.-Colonel Henry Hanmer, Bear-place, Boris, and 7, Devon-
shire-place, London
Fraser B. Henshaw, Esq., Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square,
London, a Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle
Junctlm Railway
Captain Sir John R. Hilton, R.N., Isle of Wight
J. Harney Higson, Esq., merchant, Manchester
Lieutenant-Colonel Hutchinson, 8.E.F.R.5., Director of the College
of Civil Engineers
T. D. Johnson, Esq., Aldermary Churchyard, London
John Joseph Keene, Esq., St. John's Wood, London, Director of the
Natlei.il Provincial Bank of Ireland
W. Khri,-, Esq., Director of the Freemasons' Life Assurance Com-
pany
George Peics Livius, Esq., the Grove House, St. Cuthbert's, and
Cauldwell Priory, Bedford
Horace W. Meteyard, Esq., 8.C.L., Middle Temple, and Chatham-
place
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., Upper Hyde Park-street, London, a
Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction
Railway
James Orrell, Esq., Culcheth Hall, Kenyon
James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Manchester
David Price, Esq , Manchester
Major James Waller, K.H. St. James's-square
C. J. S. Walker, Esq., Longford, near Manchester
Sir George William Prescott, Bart., of Theobalds, Herts.
(With power to add their number.)
ENGINEERS.
Sir John Rennie, F.R.S.
George Remington, Esq., C.E.
BANKERS.
_Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., London
National Provincial Bank of England, Manchester
sOLICITORS.
London—Messrs. Sir George Stephen and Hutchinson, 29, Moorgate-
street.
Manchester—Messrs. Higson and Robinson, Cross-street R. B. B.
Cobbett, Esq., Marsden-street. "
Local. AGENT—Chester--John Walker, Esq.
The promoters of tbis Railway, encouraged by the favourable sup-
port which has been given to the project, and in compliance with
various recommendations they have received, ha7e determined upon
the addition of a branch to Birkenhead, which, although it will
mannestly tend to the advantage of the Shareholders and the public,
will be attended with comearatively little additional outlay. The
project w:11 still retain its chief characteristic of a direct railway,
and by its connexion, near Warrington, with the Grand Junction
Company, is sufficiently comprehensive, without resorting to a com-
plicated system of branch lines, or materially conflicting with the in-
terests of existin; companies.
The line will commence at the city of Chester, and proceed by way
of Trafford, Frodsham, and Preston Brook, to Warrington, thence
by Lyrrun and Stretford direct to Manchester. From a point on the
main line, near Frodsham, a branch will be taken to join the Chester
and Birkenhead Railway, so as to unite Manchester in the most
direct mintier p )ssible, with the docks now being formed at Blr-
kem ead.
As Manchester, from its geographical position, is the centre of rail-
way communication between Seotland and the most populous dis-
tricts of England, so Chester, from a like cause, is the great centre of
railway communication between the capitals of Ireland and of Eng-
land. To connect these two points by a direct and independent Une
of raiway must, therefo-e, be of the utmost importance, not only in
a local point of view, but to the whole commercial intercourse of the
country.

Tnisline will be the most direct route, by Holyhead, to Ireland,
and will be, in all respects, by far the preferable channel of inter-
course and transit between Ireland and the great manufacturing dis-
tricts of England. sty the railways connecting Chester with Wrex-
ham, Oswestry, Shrewsbury. Hereford, Gloucester, and South Wales,
th's will be the nearest route from Manchester to the south-
western parts of England, and to the minerals of Monmouth and
Glamorganshire The communication with Bristol, Gloucester, and
Exeter will be speedy and direct. On reference to the map, it will
be seen that a very considerable distance will be saved by this line,
as compared with the present circuitous routes by Crewe and by
Birkenhead; the former being 52 miles, and the latter 46 miles,
while the proposed line is only 34 miles, saving in the one case la
miles, and in the other 12 miles, besides the serious inconvenienoe, loss
of time, and expense of passing through Liverpool, and crossing the
water at that place.
It is confidently expected that this line will be the precursor of
another scheme, of no ordinary importance—namely, to render
Chester an efficient port for large vessels.
This subject was entertained by Sir John Rennie in 1835, and sub-
sequ-ntly, in the same year, by the late Mr. Chapman, who wrote an
able report upon the capabilities of the rver Dee. It was again
investigated, in 1837, by Sir John Rennie and Mr. George Remington,
and the practic, hility of forming a good navigable channel for vessels
of large burden, together with docks at Chester, was then fully and
clearly established.
The entrance channel would commence at Dawpool. which is
of access (and infinitely preferab e, in point of access and safety,
the (dicks at Liverpool or Birkenhead), for vessels of large burden,
during eight hours every tide, both at springs and neaps ; and the
cill of the lock wceild be sufficiently low to admit vessels drawing 20
feet water to enter at all tides.
Tills railway, therefore, in connexion with the proposed docks,
will render to Chcster and Manchester incalculable advantages. To
the former it will restore the proper position natural to so important
a city ; to the latter it will give anotlier outlet, by sea, to the ma-
rinfac' uring districts, free of the heavy port charges, dues, and
risks to which the produce is now subject. It has not been thought
advisable to combine the two objects in one company at present,
but should it be fou..d requisite, the two may hereafter be amalga-
mated.

Iler:ts of no ordinary degree, therefore, may fairly be claimed for
this railway, whether taken in connexion with the proposed docks,
or as standing alone, combining as it does all the advantages of any
other lines, with this great addition, that it will be the high road to
the molt eoavenient outport of Manchester, and will be quite inde-
pendent of any associations or influences that might tend to oppose
the growing desire for a means of direct and independent communi-
cation between Manchester and the port of Chester.
The line has been carefully examined. There are no difficult
earth-works to be encountered ; on the contrary it will be cheap,
and of ea-3y formation. Power is reserved to the Committee to de•
vitae from the proposed line in the vicinity of Manchester, should
ulterior arrangements render it expedient.
Application. for shares in the subjoined form, and for maps and
pro-pectuses to be made to the Solicitors, and to the following Share-
brokers :—Messrs. Shewell and Son, 25,Tokenhouse-yard ; Messrs.
Preece and Evans, it, Cornhill ; and Messrs. Taunton and Bush, 26,
Austin•friars. London; Messrs. Houghland and Leese, Mr. Locke,
Messrs. A. Birehall and Co., Thomas Leeds and Son, Henry Benton,
J. B. Lo k, and Samuel Slater, Manchester ; Messrs. Neilsons,
Messrs. Healey, Mr. Crisp, and Mr. Morris Reynolds, Liver-
pool ; Messrs. T. N. Bardwell and Sons, Sheffield; Messrs.
Wellbeloved and Oastler, Leeds ; Mr. E. A. Armitage, Wake-
field; Messrs. Grayston and Earle, York; Mr. Thomas Board-
man, Blackburn ; Mr. W. H. Collis, Birmingham ; Mr. Francis
Stamp, Hull ; Mr. L. Weatherburn, Huddersfield ; Mr. Wm.
Cronheins, Halifax ; Mr. Charles Spencer, Nottingham; Mr.
Samuel Eyre, Derby ; Mr. James Stokes, Cheltenham; Mr. Joseph
Clark, jun., Southampton ; Mr. John Thomas Holland, Coventry;
Mr. William Mason. Bradford, Yorkshire ; Messrs. Payne and Freer,
Leicester ; Mr. Wm. Tomkinson, Newcastle-under-Lyne ; Mr.
Richard E. Hine, Macclesfield ; Mr. Lea, Cheltenham ; Messrs.
Tate and Sash, Bristol ; Mr. William Miles, Worcester ; Messrs.
Read and Nicholson, Edinburgh ; Messrs. Ross, Perth, N. 8.; and
Messrs. H. and W. A. Tassie, Glasgow.
Applications for shares must be accompanied by a reference to the
Solicitors of the Company, the sharebrokers, or some other respon.
sib* person.