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London, England, 1845-10-27 00:00:00

JOINT SOLICITORS.

BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY.
At a meeting of proprietors of the Bristol and Exeter Rail-
way Company, held at the offices of Mr. Henry Britten, No. 17,
Small-street, Bristol, on the 21st of October, 1845, convened for the
purpose of taking into consideration the provisional agreement en-
tered into between the Directors of the above Company and the
Directors of the Great Western Railway Company, for the sale to
the latter of the Bristol and Exeter Railway, and adopting such reso-
lutions thereupon as might be deemed advisable,
Mr. WILLIAM CROSS in the Chair

It was Resolved,—lst. That this meeting, looking at the past half-
yearly reporls, especially the last two, made by the Directors of the
Bristol and Exeter Railway Company to the proprietors of that Com-
pany—at the present receipts—and the gradually increasing traffic
upon the Bristol and Exeter Railway, with the prospect of a still
much greater traffic from its various branches and the already
formed South Devon and projected North Devon and Cornwall lines,
and also at the value of the shares which the Bristol and Exeter
Company possesses in the former two lines—and at the same time
making every allowance for the disadvantage of a possible competing
line direct from London to Exeter (estimated by the Great Western
Compan, itself at lA per cent.)—cannot but consider the provisional
agreement made by the directors of the Bristol and Exeter Railway
Company, for the sale of their railway and effects to the Great
Western Railway Company, as a most improvident bargain, highly
detrimental to the interests of the shareholders in the former under-
taking, and involving an unjustifiable sacrifice of the property of the
Brist:7l and Exeter Railway Company, to which the proprietors of
that company ought not to submit or assent ; and that measures be
forthwith adopted to ascertain the sense of the proprietors in genes al
upon the matter, and if they shall concur in opinion with this meet-
ing, to ensure their co-operation in preventing the confirmation of
that agreement.
2;1. That for these purposes a Committee be formed, eousisting of
the following gentlemen
Mr. J. S. Tripp
Mr. C. F. Dando
Mr. C. F. Thomley Mr. J. Prowse
Mr. Thomas Lucas
With power to add to their number; and that Mr. Henry Britten be
requested to act as the secretary and legal adviser of sthe Com-
mittee.

3d. And that this meeting request the Committee to convene
meetings of the proprietors of the Bristol and Exeter Railway Com-
pany as early as possible, at such places and in such manner as the
Committee shall think expedient; and to take such other measures
as the co-samittee shall deem advisable for effectuating the purposes
before mentioned. WILLIAM CROSS, Chairman.
The Committee appointed for carrying out the above resolutions
will be happy to receive communications from any shareholder ;
and would earnestly impress upon the shareholders generally, who
may be prevented from attending the general meeting convened to
con brat the provisional agreement on the 7th of November, imme-
diately to apply to the Committee for the form of proly (which will
be forwarded duly stamped), to enable the Chairmafi of this Com-
mittee to vote in their behalf at such meeting, it being necessary
that the proxy, in order to be effectual, should be lodged with the
Secretary of the Company, five days before thee meeting.
The Committee would further urge upon each shareholder the ne-
cessity of his personal attendance at the meeting of the 7th of No-
vember, and that in the interim he should immediately forward to
the Secretary of this Committee a statement of each shareholder's
name and address, and the number of shares, wholes or thirds, of
which he Is the proprietor,
By order of the Committee,
HENRY BRITTAN, Secretary, 17, Small-street, Bristol.

THE NEWCASTLE and LEEDS DIRECT
RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered).
Capital. 800,0001., in 32,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE
Saville C. H. Ogle, Esq., M.P. for Northumberland
T. C. Grainger, Esq. M.P. for Durham
Win. Collins, Esq. M.P.
Thos. Cookson, Esq. Swinburne Castle
Riehard Pierce Butler, Esq. Swinbume Castle. Northumberland
Captain John Harrison Bowker, R.N. Newcastle-on-Tyne
Edward Bilton, Esq. Newcastle-on-Tyne
Henry Bleckley, Esq. Newcastle-on-Tyne
Andrew White, Esq, Tunstal-lodge, Sunderland
Matthew Hutton Chaytor, Esq. Sunderland
Joseph Hunter, Esq. Beech-grove, Chester le-street
Robert Hawthorn, Esq. Newcastle-on-Tyne
Samuel Sharp, Esq. Quarry-house, Harperly-park, Durham
John Morley, Esq. Eastoft-hall, Goole, Yorkshire
John Rawson, Esq. Stoney Royd, Halifax
John Cresswell Jobling, Esq. Newton-hall, Northumberland, chair.
man of the Quarter sessions for the county of Northumberland
Gerard Salvin, Esq. Croxdale-hall, Durham
James Atkinson West, Esq. Western-lodge, Durham
John Burrell, Esq. Durham
John Featherston Ayton, Esq. Sheriff of Newcastle-on-Tyne
John Henderson, Esq. Leazes-house, Durham
William Green, Esq. Durham
John Harrison, Esq. Bell-wood, Ripon
Thomas Fisher, Esq. Ripon
George Smith, jun. Esq. Leeds
Thomas Nunneley, Esq. Leeds
Peter Fairbairn, Esq. Leeds
Richard Hutchinson, Esq. Leeds
The Mayor of Leeds
John Darnton Luccock, Esq. Leeds
John Haigh, Esq. Leeds
C. G. Maclea, Esq. Leeds
Thomas Drane, Esq. West-hill, Devon, and Pall-mall
The Hon. Captain Hotham, R.Y. chairman of the Northumberland
and Lancashire Junction Railway Company
William Morley, Esq. deputy. chairthan of the Northumberland and
Lancashire Junction Railway Company
John Barnes, Esq. Chorley-wood-house
John llagshaw, Esq. Gloucester-place, Portman-square
Captain Ommanney, R.N. Upper Wimpole-street
Capt G. Beare, Porchester-place, Connaught-square
William Fitzgibbon, Esq. 21, Cambridge-street, Connaught-square
Simeon Musgrave, Esq., Kirkstall, near Leeds
Joseph Isateson, Esq. Leeds
Wm. Gill, Esq. Richmond
(With power to add to their number).
ENGINEER—MOHIRS Storey, Esq. Bishop Auckland, Durham
JOINT SOLICITORS TO THE COMPANY.
Messrs. Dickson and Overbury, 4, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry,
London
Edward John Teale, Esq. Leeds.

BANKERS.

Union Bank of London
Leeds and West Riding Bank, Leeds
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Joint Stock Bank, Newcastle
The Yorkshire Banking Company, York, Hull, Bradford, and Ilud
dersfield

SECRETARY—E. C. Stevens, Esq.
OFFICES OF THE COMPANY—NO. 4, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry,
London.
PROSPECTUS.
This railway is intended to complete a direct communication be-
tween Leeds and Newcastle.
It will commence in junction with the Leeds and Think Rail-
way at Wath, near Ripon, and following the route, as near as may
be, of the Old Leerning-lane coach road, will proceed to a point near
Maskam, thence by way of Bedale, Catterick, Richmond, Middleton
Tyas, Barton, and Mantleld, to Bishop Auckland, where it will join
the Northumberland and Lancashire Junction Railway
The length of the projected line will be about forty miles, which
will render tile distance between the important towns of Leeds and
Newcastle thirty miles shorter than by any existing, and flfteea miles
shorter than by any proposed, line of railway.
It will traverse districts abounding with coal, ironstone, lime, and
agricultural produce, hitherto shut out from the advantages of rail-
way communication with the markets' of the populous and manufac-
turing districts of Yorkshire and Lancashire.

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As this line will join the Yorkshire and Glasgow Union Railway
near Bedale, the Lancashire and North Yorkshire Railway near to
Richmond, and the Leeds and Thirsk Railway at Wath, it will afford
the means of conveying coal, at moderate charges, to the extensive
agricultural districts through which these several railways are pro •
posed to pass.

The coke produced in the Auckland district already eommands an
universal preference over that supplied from any other part of the
kingdom, and is accordingly in great request on all the principal
lines, and the proposed railway will afford the most direct and con-
venient outlet far it to the midland districts, where the demand will
be unlim ted.

From the most careful and diligent inquiry it has been ascertained
that tile coal and coke are alone sufficient to yield an ample return
for the capital employed in the construction of the line, independently
of the present, and continually increasing traffic, in passengers and
merchandize, which experience has hitherto found to result, wherever
the facilities of railway communication has been provided.
The attempts now making to constitute Leeds the great centre of
railway communication between the 'northern and southern parts of
the kingdom, for which its geographical position and commercial
importance offer so many facilities, must necessarily render the New-
castle and Leeds Direct Railway an important trunk line.
The surveys are already made, and the line has been found to present
no engineering difficulties, and to be of easy and inexpensive con-
struction. All other preliminary steps have likewise been taken to
obtain the Act in the ensuing session of Parliament.
Applications for Shares to be made at the offices of the Solicitors
to the Company, to the Secretary, and to the following agents and
stock, and stare-brokers :—London—Mr. Simon, Warnford-court ;
Mr. C. J. Coates, 4, Tokenhouse-yard. Newcastle-on-Tyne--T. F.
Dickinson and Co. Leeds—Smith, Knowles, and Cooke ; and Well-
beleved and Barwick. Manchester—Haynes and Co. Liverpool—
A. Laurie. Hull—F. Stamp. Ripon—Mr. Asquith; Mr. Farrar.
Applications for Shares will be received until the 2Jth of October,
after which day no applications can be attended to.

NEWCASTLE AND LEEDS DIRECT
RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that no further Applications for Shares n
this Company can be received after WEDNESDAY next, the 29th
October instant.

E. C. STEVENS, Secretary.
4, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry, Oct. 21, 1845.

Messrs. hook and Oldershaw, 7, Tokenhouse-yard
Messrs. C. T. and A. Jenkinsou, 76, Caunou-street, City.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Birmingham—W. H. Reece, Esq.
Boston—Messrs. Holloway and Harwood.
ENGINEERS.
Sandiforth F. Griffin, Esq. C.E.
A. A. B. Bennet, Esq. C.E.
ARCHITECT AND SURVEYOR—E. N. Clifton, Esq. Tokenhouse-yard.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—MeSSTS. Sudlow and Ringdon,
Palace-yard.

SEnaErsav--James Elliott, ESQ.
Offices of the Company, 26, Moorgate street, London.
PROSPECTUS.
This line is designed to open a direct communication between the
towns of Birmingham and Boston.
The advantages t) be derived by a rich, progressing, and populous
town, such as Birmingham, the great manufacturing centre of the
kingdom, having a direct communication with a port on the eastern
coast facing the Continent, and that port the nearest to it by geo-
graphical position, need but to be mentioned to be appreciated.
Tir.) name of Birmingham speaks for itself; the capacity and
value of Boston as a commercial port is daily increasing, and re-
quires but little enterprise to enable it to compete with soma of our
best pores.

It is proposed that this line should commence at Leicester, where
it will form a continuation of the direct line from Birmingham to
that town, and proceeding by or near Melton Mowbray, Corby,
Folkenham, and Donnington, terminate at Boston ; thus affording a
direct communication between Birmingham and its important manu-
facturing districts—Rugby, the great railway centre of England, and
Boston, their nearest seaport, which eventually must command the
traffic of the districts with which it is in connexion and the oppo
site ports of the Continent.
A glance at the map will show how this line is fed, and the towns
in its neighbourhood supplied with railway accommodation by the in-
tersecting lines ; but in the event of the London and York line not
obtaining its Act, it is proposed by this Company to construct a
branch to Grantham.
The country is easy, presenting few or no engineering difficulties.
Another advantage held out by this project is the improvement of
the harbour of Boston, whereby it will be restored to that eminent
position it formerly held among the ports and harbours of the
kingdom.

'file usual power will be taken by the Act to allow interest at 4
per cent. per annum after passing the Act, on the amount of the
sub cription paid up. No subscriber shall be answerable ior more
than the amount of his deposit until the Act be obtained, and then
not beyond the amount of his subscription.
A n.ore detailed Prospectus will be issued In a few days, containing
the names of many influential Gentlemen locally interested in the
proposed line.

Applications for shares and prospectuses, to be made to the solicitors
of the Company, 7, Tokenhouse-yard, and 76, Cannon-street, City;
at the offices of the Company, 26, Moorgate-street ; andto the follow-
ing stock and sharebrokers :
Lond.ni—Mr. Edward Newton Bryant, 16, Throgmorton-street ; Mr.
William Itodwell, 22, Throgmorton-street; Mr. A. Sym, 9, Token-
house-yard; Mr. J. S. Pidgeon, 10, Warnford-court, Throgmorton-
stre et.

BIRMINGHAM AND BOSTON DIRECT
RAILWAY, with a Branch to Grantham.
Notice is hereby given, that no further Application for Shares in
this Company can be received after the 31st October instant in Lon-
don, or after the 6th November from the country.
By order, JAMES ELLIOTT, Secretary.
26, Moorgate-street.