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London, England, 1845-09-20 00:00:00

TIIE tUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER LO, 1845.

BOSTON, NEWARK, and SHEFFIELD
RAILWAY.
The allotment to ecripholders of the Newark and Sheffield Rail-
way of the additional shares in this undertaking to which they are
entitled has just taken Nice, and the letters will be issued this week.
The allotment to landholders, &c., who are not scripholders of the
Newark and Sheffield Railway, has been postponed for a fortnight,
to afford the Directors more time for inquiry respecting the numerous
applications they have received from parties who claim a preference
in consequence of their local interest on the line of railway.
By order,
JOHN DENNISTON, Secretary.
Mansfield, September 20, 1845.

LONDON, WARWICK, LEAMIMGTON,
and KIDDERMINSTER RAILWAY COMPANY.
(ProvisionallyKegistered.)
Notice is hereby given, that the Parliamentary Contract and nab-
scribers' Agreement will lie for signature on the days and at the
place-8 under-mentioned, between the hours of Eleven o'clock in the
Forenoon, and Two o'clock in the Afternoon.
At Northampton, at the George Inn, on Monday, the 22d of Sep-
tember instant.
At Daventry, at the office of E. S. Burton, Esq., solicitor, on Tues-
day, the 23d of September instant.
At Warwick, at the office of Messrs. Haynes and Moore, So-
licitors, on Wednesday, the 24th of September instant.
At Birmingham, at the George Inn, Digbeth, on Thursday, the
25th of September Instant.
At Redditeh, at the office of E. Browning, Esq., solicitor, on Fri-
day, the 26th of September instant.
At Cheltenham, at the Fleece Hotel, on Saturday, the 27th of
September instant.
At Kidderminster, at the office of Messrs. Boycot and Lucy, so-
licitors, on Monday, the 29th of September instant.
At Liverpool, at the Albion Hotel, on Tuesday and Wednesday,
the 30th of September instant, and Ist of October next.
At Glasgow, at P. W. Dixon, Esq.'s, office, on Friday, the 3d of
October next.
At Edinburgh, at the Royal Hotel, on Saturday, the 4th of Oc-
tober next

RIXON and SON, Registered Sclicitors to the Company,
20, Jewry-street, London.

Dated September 16, 1845.

CORNWALL RAILWAY.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE
(All of whom are Shareholders.)
JOSEPH THOMAS TREFFRY, Place, Chairman.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Falmouth
The Right Hon. the Earl of St. Germans
The Right lion. the Earl of Morley
The Right Hon. Lord Clinton
The Right Hon. Lord Wodehouse
The Hon. George Matthew Fortescue, Tioconnoc, Cornwall
Sir Charles Lemon, Bart., M.P., Carclew, Cornwall
Sir Anthony Buller, Pound, Devon, Member of the Provisional Com•
mittee of the North Devon Railway Company
William Tyringham Praed, Esq., M.P., Trevethow, Cornwall
Charles Russell, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Great Western Railway
Company
Thomas Gill, Esq., M.P., !Chairman of the South Devon Railway
Company
William G. Hayter, Esq., M.P., Director of the Great Western
Railway Company
Allen, John, Esq., Liskeard
Avery, William, Esq., Member of the Provisional Committee of the
North Devon Railway Company
Barlow, Frederick Pratt, Esq., Director of the Great Western Rail-
way Company
Bere, Montagu 8., Esq., Member of the Provisional Committee of
the North Devon Rail! ray Company
Boger, Deeble, Esq., Plympton
Brown, John, Esq., Director of the* Bristol and Exeter Railway
Company
Batten, John, Esq., Penzance
Browne, William, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Exeter Railway
Company
Braginton, George, Esq., Member of the Provisional Committee of
the North D won Railway Company
Broad, Robert Richards, Esq., Falmouth
Bastard, Richard, Esq. Member of the Provisional Committee of
the North Devon Railway Company
Broad, William Richards, Esq.; Mayor of Falmouth
Brokenshir, Joseph, Esq., Mayor of Penryn
Carlyon. Clement, M.D., Mayor of Truro
Carne, William, Esq., Rosemundy, Cornwall
Cole, Ralph, Esq, Director of the South Devon Railway Company
Ching, John, Esq., Launceston
Cotesworth, Robert, Esq., St. Helen's-place, London, Director of the
Royal West India Mail Steam-packet Company
Daubuz, William, Esq., Killion, Cornwall
Dingley, Richard, Esq., Launceston
Fripp, Charles 8., Esq., Director of the Bristol and Exeter Railway
Company
Fox, Robert Were, Esq., Falmouth
Fox, Alfred, Esq., Falmouth
Fox, Charles, Esq., Perranarworthall, Cornwall
Fox, Robert Barclay. Esq., Perranarworthall, Cornwall
Fox, Thomas Were, Esq , Plymouth
Fox, William, Esq., Director of the Smith Devon Railway Company
Gray, Robert Alexander, Esq., St. Swithin's -lane. London
Gibbs, James, Esq., Chairman of the Bristol and Exeter Railway
Company
Gully, Major, Trevenen, Cornwall
Gwatkin, John, Esq , Parc-Behan, Cot awall
Hawker, William Henry, Esq., Director of the South Devon Railway
Company
Hooper, Henry, Esq., Member of the Provisional Committee of the
North Pevon Railway Company
Jope, William, Esq., Tremeddon, Cornwall
Kekewich, Samuel Trehawke, Esq., Peamore, Devon ..
Morgan, William, Esq, Director of the Bristol and Exeter way
Company .
Michell, William, Eel., Truro
Miller, Patrick, M.D., Director of the Bristol and Exete - lway,
Company
Nelson, John, Esq , Doctors'-commons
Paynter, John, Esq., Boskenna, Cornwall
Pethick, Henry, )1.D., Launceston
Robartes, Thomas James Agar, Esq., Lanhydrock, Cornwall
Roberts, John Coryton, Esq., Trevol, Cornwall
Robinson, Philip Vyvyan, Esq.• Rectory, Redruth
Rogers, The Rev. Canon, Penrose, Cornwall
Rogers, Captain Frederick, R.N., Mawnan, Cornwall
Rundle, Robert, Esq., Mayor of Devonport
Rundle, John, Esq.. Member of the Provisional Committee of the
North Devon Railway Company
St. Auhyn, The Rev. Hender Molesworth, Clowance, Cornwall
St. Auhyn, Edward, Esq., Member of the Provisional Committee of
the North Devon Railway Company •
Smith, George, Esq., Camb-erne
Shapland, Christopher, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Gloucester
Railway Company
Tothill, Wm., Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway Company
Tremenbeere, Seymour, Esq., Pall-mall, London
Tweedy, William, Esq., Truro Veen, Cornwall
Tweedy, William Manse% Esq., Alverton. Cornwall
Vivian, John, Esq., Pencaleniek, Cornwall
Williams, Michael, Esq., Trevinee, Cornwall
Williams, William, Esq., Tregollow, Cornwall
Williams, John Memel, Esq., Scorner House, Cornwall
Woollcombe, Thomas, Esq., Director of the South Devon Railway
Company
Wills, William D., Esq., Director of the Bristol and Exeter Railway
Company
Willeocks, James C.. Esq., Member of the Provisional Committee of
the North Devon Railway Company
(With power to add to their number).
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Treffry, Joseph Thomas Esq., Chairman
Barlow, Frederick Pratt, Esq.
Carlyon, Clement, M.D.
Came, William, Esq.
Cole, Ralph, Esq.
Fox, Robert Were,'Esq.
Fox, William, Esq.
Gill, Thomas, Esq., M.P.
Owatkin, John, Esq.
Gibbs, James, Esq.
Miller Patrick, M.D.
Robartes, Thomas James Agar, Esq.
Shapland, Christopher, Esq.
Smith, George, Esq. . .
. .
Tweedy, William Mansell, Esq.
Vivian, John, ESQ.
Williams, Michael, Esq.
Woollcombe, Thomas, Esq.
ENGIN-exit—l. K. Brunel, Esq , F.R.S.
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Glynn, llallifax, and Co.
Messrs. Praed and Co.
Truro and Falmouth—Messrs. Tweedy, Williams, and Co.
DISTRICT BANKERS.
Falmouth and Truro—Messrs. Ricketts, Enthoven, and Co.
St. Austell, Bodmin, 1 Mesam. Robins, roster, and Co.
Liskeard, and Launceston 3 Devon and Cornwall Banking Co.
Lannceston —Messrs. Gill and Rundle
Plymouth—Messrs. Harris and Co.
SOLICITORS TO THE COMPANY.
Messrs. Smith and Roberts, Truro
Messrs. W. 0. and W. Hunt, 10, Whitehall, London
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Messrs. render, Genn, and Genn, Falmouth
John Williams, Esq., Penryn
Mess.-s. Commins, and Son, Bodmin
Messrs. Syr9onA and Luxmore, Wadebridge
Christopher Childs, Esn., Liskeard •
Messrs. Gurney and Lethbridze Cowlard, LanCeStOla
SECRETARY (pro tem).—P. P. Smith, Esq., Truro

in compliance with the suggestion of the Committee of the Abuse
of Lords (the measure having previously received the sanction of the
Board of Trade, and the approval of the House of Commons), a fur-
ther and most accurate survey of the whole line of country traversed
between Plymouth and Falmouth has been determined upon, and
Mr. Brunel has been instructed to carry out their Lordships' recom-
mendation. -

The construction of a line from or near Launceston, by way of ere-
Jliton to Exeter, forming a part of the North Devon scheme, by which
it is proposed to give railway accommodation to the northern and
central parts of that county, has rendered it most desirable that a
Junction should he effected between the Cornwall Railway and North
Devon line; Mr. Brunel has therefore been instructed to extend his
survey with a view to effect this junction, and to afford direct com-
munication with Exeter and the North of Devon.
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By the nroposed plan the following objects will he obtained—a
continuous line of railway from Penzance and Falmonnth to Ply-
mouth, and thence by the South Devon line to Exeter. A direct
line by way of Launceston and Crediton to Exeter. From Launces-
ton a line through Tavistock to Plymouth, and hy7the North Devon
Railway a line through Barnstaple and South 3folton to join the
Bristol anl Exeter line at Tiverton and Taunton.
By the connexion which will thus be formed between the Cornwall
Railway and the South Devon, North Devon, and West Cornwall
Railways, the most complete and comprehensive system of railway
communication will h • provided for the West of England, giving the
utmost amount of accommodation to all the principal towns and
places in the counties of Cornwall and Devon.
In the county of Cornwall the towns of Penzance, St. Ives, Mara-
zion, Hayle, Camhorne, Beth-nth. Falmouth, Penryn, Truro, St.
Austell. Lostwithiel, Bodmin, Wadebridye, Liskeard, Launceston,
and Torpoint, and the great mining, commercial. trading, and agri-
cultural parishes a d districts of the county will have the benefit of
railway communication ; while the ports of St. Ives, Portreath, New
Quay, and Padstow on the north coast. and Mount's Bay. Falmouth,

Mevagissey, Pentuan, Charlestown, Par, Fowey. and Looe on the
south coast, will he connected with or brought within very moderate
distances of the main line.
In the laving ont of the. Cornwall Railway advantage' will also he
taken of the several local railways already formed or now in course
of construction.

In carrying these ohjects Into effect the Company will have the
most cordial co-operation and support of its associated Companies.
nlmely, the Great Western, the Bristol and Exeter, Bristol and
Gloucester, the South Devon, the North Devon, and West Cornwall
Railways.

Considerable progress has already been made in the survey.
INCREASF. OF CAPITAL.

In order to effect the suzgested improvements and extension the
capital will he increased by a stun of 600,0001., by the creation of
half-shares of 25f. each, upon which a deposit of 2/. 10s. will be pay-
able on allotment.

These shares will be issued to the Shareholders in the proportion of
one half share for each share now held by them, provided application
be made by them in the form and manner and within the time
hereinafter specified. Tn eases where the shares were not originally
allotted to them the parties must he approved of by the Committer,.
A portion of the shares will be reserved to meet the requirements of
the various local Interests.

THE WEST MIDLAND, MANCHESTER,
AND SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY, AND SWINDON AND
BIRMINGHAM JUNCTION,
Being an extension c' the South and Midlands' Junction Railway.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,200,0001., in 60,000 shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per share.
PROVISIONAL COMMIIPTEE.
Lord George Paget, Uxbridge House
Major Beresford, M.P.
William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of t' Welsh Mid-
land, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Richard Price, Esq., M.P., Director of the Welsh Midland, and
Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways
David R. Ross, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Belfast, Director of the
London and Manchester, and South and Midlands' Junction Rail-
ways
Sir John E. De Beauvoir, Bart., Chairman of the London and Bir-
mingham Extension, and Director of the South and Midlands'
Junction Railways
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire, Director
of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Sir George William Prescott, Bart, Theobalds, Herta, Director of
the Chester and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' June-.
tion Railways
Sir William Wynn, Maesynewadd, Chairman of the North Wales,
and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Brigad!ei -General Sir Henry Pynn, Director of the Direct Western
Railway
gir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London, Director of the London
and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
Sir William Twysden, Bart., Director of the Chepstow and Forest of

Dean Railway
William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c. Alderman of Lon-
don, Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation,
and London and Greenwich Railways, &c. &c.
Thomas Sydney, Esq., Alderman and Sheriff of London, Director of
the London and 31aneaester Direct, and South. and Midlands' Junc-
tion Railways
Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the Lon-
don and Westminster Bank, and Namur and Liege, and South and
Midlands' Junction Railways
John Kinnersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the
London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South and
Midlands' Junction Railways
Donald Maclean, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Trent Valley Con-
tinuation, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
Major Oliver Lindam, K.H., Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberys-
twith, and Central Wales, and Director of the South and Midlands'
Junction Railways
Major-General I'arlby, C. 8., Rutland-gate, Director of the Worcae-
ter and Crewe, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Captain James Patrick Macdougal, late Bengal Royal General Staff,
Fir-grove, North Brixton, Director of the Chester and Forest of
Dean, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways, &c.
Captain Alexander Hamilton Carle, Royal Artillery, Reform Club
John James, Esq., Secondary of the City of London, Director of the
Legal and Commercial Insurance Company, the Great Western of
Bengal, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Robert Henry Lyndam, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth
Railway
Major Jelf Sharp, Deputy-Chairman of the Thames Embankment
Railway
Richard William Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Man-
chester, and Derbyshire and South Staffordshire Railways
William Fechney Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Direc-
tor of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
Peter Morrison, Esq., Managing Director of the Britannia Life Insu-
rance Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
James Clay, Esq., Brompton, Director of the Furness and White-
haven, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Col. Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, Director of the London and
Birmingham Extension, and South and Midlands' Junction Rail-
ways
William Shaw, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment, Manag-
ing Director of the Farmers' Life Insurance Company, and Di-
rector of tile South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Richard Carpenter, Esq , Magistrate of the County of Middlesex,
Deputy-Chairman of the London and Birmingham Extension, Di-
rector of the Leicester and Bedford, and South and Midlands'
Junction Railways
G. W. Killett Potter, Esq., Secondary of the City of London
Lieut.-General Sir Lewis Grant, K.C.8., 31, Harley-street
John Jennings, Esq., Elm-grove, Hammersmith
William S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Director of the
Oxford, Witney and Cheltenham, and South and Midlands' Junc-
tion Railways
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., 8, Upper Hyde-park-street
William Singleton, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds,
and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of the Britannia Life Insurance
Company, and Derby and Stafford, and South and Midlands' Junc-
tion Railways
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Diiector of the Manahestet
and Birmingham Railway
Daniel Penton Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Manches-
ter Railway
Richard Parish, Esq., Bank House, Wordsley, Staffordshire
Samuel Parish, Esq., Wordsley, near Stourbr dge, Stafterdshire
John Anderson, Esq., E.1.C.5., Director of the Church of England
L'fe Insurance, and South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Henry Lewis Smale, Esq., Willoughby House, Tottenham, Director
of the London and Dover, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
Ja•res Reeves, Esq , Director of the London and Manchester Direct,
and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
John Cash, Esq.
Henry Wright, Esq., Brunswick-square, Director of the Warwick
and Worcester, and Soath and Midlands' Junction Railways
John Castendick, Esq., Lewisham
Robert Richards, Esq., Inner Temple, London, Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
George R. Colman, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junc-
tion, and Northampton and Banbury Railways
William Paxton, Esq., Langford, near Bicester, Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
William Bardgett, Esq., Winchester House, Broad-street, Director
of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Con-
tinuation vailway
John Blackburn, Esq., Leeds
Peter Fairbairne, Esq., Leeds, Vice Chairman of the Lees and York
Railway
J. 1). Hopkins, Esq., Bedford-square, Director of the London and
Birmingham Extension Railway
Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Old Palace, Richmond
James Durness, Esq., Leytonstone, Essex
G. N. Wright, M.A., Coed Celyn, Denbighshire, and Lonsdale-square,
Islington
Stephen Lewis, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway
Martin Furness, Esq., Director of the Newark and Sheffield Railway
William Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Lincoln, York and
Leeds Railway
Edmund Phillips, Esq., Avon House, Molksham, Wilts, Director of
the South and Midlands Junction Railway
Charles Thomas Ward, Esq., Luton lion, Beds, and Clopton 'House,
Stratford-on-Avon, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
Joseph Brook, Esq., Greenhead, Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds,
Dewsbury, and Manchester, and Huddersfield and Sheffield Junc-
tion, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
George Henry Brook, Esq., Edgulin-lodge, Huddersfield, Provisional
Director of the Huddersfield, Halifax and Bradford Union Rail-
way, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Captain Hitchins, H.E.1.C.5., Queen Anne-street, Cavendish-square,
Director of the Birmingham and Oxford, and South Midlands'
Junction Railways
James Beech, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place, and Brandon Lodge, near
Esq., Thurloe-square, Brompton, Director of
Coventry, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Rail-
way
h and Midlands' Junction Railways
Esq., 30, Sackyille-street
Thomas Cleobury,
Major Walker, K.H., Director of the London and Manchester Direct,
and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
William
e Jersey, rlsle'ayt,soanndPsrooluet,
Frederick James Esq , Torrington-sauare, and Alfreton, Derby,
Director of the Trent Valley Continuation, and South and Mid-
lands' Junction Railways
g. R. W. Atkinson, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford, and
n tion Railways
The Hall Black
Joseph Underwood, Esq., , heath, Director of the Me-
tropolitan Life Insurance Company, and Director of the London
and Birmingham Extension Company, and Director of the South
Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Chairman
idiands' Junction Railway
Director of the Gloucester 'gland Life Insurance Company, and Director
sod Aberystwith and
Central Wales, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
South
noAud.thmHai
InLdEasql 11 a udis;
of the South
Colonel Fitch, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of the South
moEielfsEqMidlands' Junction Railway
Richard Dutton, Esq., Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds
r of the Legal and Commercial Life Insurance
Railway, Director Williamoa fnthe Church
iSdlloaailiidc 81,
the
Company, and Director of South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
dale, Director of the South-[;astern
Captain C. W. Junction Railway
astern and South
Esq., Linco s Inn, Director of the Warwick and
Frederick Jones,
Worcester, and South and Midlands' Junction Manchester,
Jolla Englis Jerdein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester,
mon Railway
Rugby and Southa
Blackheath
William Morley, Esq.,
, Director of the Gravesend and Rochester, and
and Midlands'Trunction •
William Lee, Esq
Essex and Suffolk Railways
Thomas Gooch, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands'
Junction Railway
hill, Surrey
J. Harvey, Esq., Rush .
E. Highgate, Middlesex
Thomas Collingri
John Wheelton, Esq., Director of tne Leicester and Bedford Railwa
„, ,sqirector oft
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Dhe South and Nlidlar. 0.: Junction
Railway
R. H. Wood, Esq., Lodge-place, St. John's Wood, Director of the
C. Waite,
North Metropolitan Railway
Director of the Guarantee Society
William Shark, Esq., Esq., Thurlow-square, Brompton
Frederick Collingridge,
Gresham-street, Director of the Oxford
Warren Stormes Hale, Esq.
Thomassou Esq., Willesden; Middlesex
and Worcester Extension
Kingsmill Grove Key, Esq.
Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds, Director of the West Riding Junction, and
Brades, near Birmingham
ter-plae, Portman-square
W. Lee, Esq., Glouces
Queen-street, Mal-fair
Robert Power, Esq. M.D.,
Prospect-place House, Southampton, Director
Admiral J. Ay-scoug'h,
lidlands' Junction Railway
of the South and 3
Joseph Thompson, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton. and
th YMaitedlsanidius'nJt:scqt.lo'n Railways
South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Major Grubbe, Eastwell House, Potterne, Wilts, Magistrate of the
County, and Director of the South and Midlands'Junction Railway
Captain Seth N. Fisher, Director of the Warwick and Worcester, and
South and Midlands' Junction Railways
T. G. Norbury, Esq., Director of
the Leicester an Bedford Railway
Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent d Valley Continua-
tion, and s oath and Midlands Junction Railways, and of the Legal
and Commercial Life Insurance Company
William Hallett, Esq., Kemp Town, Brighton, Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
John Brocke Wallvicke, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands'
Junction Railway
Captain Hamilton Earle, Royal Artillery
William Lee,Esq.„ Director of the Readirg Railway
Henry Savage, Esq., Dorset-place, Dorset-square
William T. Thornton, Esq., Berkeley-street, Portman-square
John Dennis, Esq., Director of the Erewash Valley Extension Railway
Joseph Crockett, Esq , Alderman of Deyizes, and Director of the
North Wilts Banking Company, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
John Halbert Halbert, F.sq., Gloucester-Place, London, Director of
the Leicester and Birmingham Railway
Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Herefordshire
Thomas Chitty, Esq., Gower-street, London, Director of the Rugby
and Worcester Railway
William Peppercorne, Esq., London, and Bexhill, Sussex
Captain T. Hodges, Connaught-terrace, Ilyde-park, Director of the
John Barnett, Esq., Coroner for the County
Leeds and Carlisle Railway
F. Duffield, Esq., Bolton House, near Bradford
Rev- F. R. Ilall,-D.D., Rector of Fulbourne, Cambridge
of tile Oxford and Cheltenham Railway
William Spooner, Esq Chapel-street, Belg,rave-square, Director of
the Newcastle and Esq.,
Railway of Gloucester, Director
Alexander prince, Esq., 14, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Director of the Bar-
CONSULIITAILKEERS—NGIIINE
net North Junction ailway
James Lees, Esq., Dolph, —elPh, Saddleworth, near Manchester, Director of
the Saddleworth Banking Company
(With power to ad:: to their number).
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Commercialeza__sir
joi,n
ACTING ENGINEER—WiIIiam Mullingar Higgins, Esq., C..••
SOLICITOR—W. B. James, Esq., 5, Basinghall-street.
i.sß.a2seitneof, Lon.don;

It appears that England will
lines of r abe
AdchEiNdeTds.ion
a.lway, which will become so many main trunks, intersec-
ing and itlongitudinally by four great
inters by numerous lines, both transverse and oblique,
opening
rapid and ready communication with the intermediate dis-
tricts, with packet stations, and sv
with sea-port tons. The more
easterly
of these, which is also the longest, originating at Newcastle-
upon. Tyne, and passing through York, Peterborough, and Cambridge,
may be said to terminate in London, whence all places are accessible.
The second line, counting westward, is more tortuous, and has also
a common northern terminus with the preceding, by which its ad-
vantages are materially restricted. This line, descending the Ere-
wash Vale, and passing through Rugby and Oxford, becomes a South-
ampton line by falling into the South-Western Railway at Basing-
stoke.
The third longitudinal line, or the most westerly, is still more de-
fective
In design than the preceding ; employing the steep and narrow
railway called the Birmingham and Gloucester as its first link, it
traverses nearly Ina right line the least populous and most undulating
parts of Gloucester, Berks, Wilts, and Hants ; and, properly speaking,
has no independent terminus.
A large longitudinal section of the kingdorn—the West Midland
district—a district inviting a similar species of accommodatin from
concentrated local advantages, still remains unProvided witho a chief
trunk line ; and it is contemplated to remedy this deficiency by the
present undertaking, or a fourth longitudinal line.
Adopting Birmingham as a northern terminus of the West Mid-
land, Manchester, and Southampton Railway,.it is proposed carry
a line through or near to Stratford-on-Avon, thence between Moreton,
Stow, liorthlcach, Fairford, Cricklade, and Swindon, where it will
merge in the South and Midlands' Junction Rsilway.
The len n
gth of the proposed line will be about sixty miles, and the
district traversed by it is gently undulating, and desely At
its southern terminus, Swindon, it becomes identical with ih^ South
and Midlands, by means of which it opens a most direct connnunihrist ca-
tion hitherto suggested with the harbours of Weymnath, C-
church, Poole, and S.asthampton. At its northern terminus, Bir-
mingham, it communicates with a series of lines, projected, in pro-
gress, or completed, which will form the most direct line that
and the
can
ever be constructed between the southern ports ol
great manufacturing districts. •
lie alum gi Dog gamin the wouttglod, Manclinter

Ind Southampton Railway project, a combination of advantages prc-
sents itself—the result of a design, to a great extent, but of contin-
gencies also. If ii, be desirable that the terminus of every railway
should be situated at some commercial or populous place, in this re-
spect the present project Is peculiarly fortunate. If Government be
resolved on countenancing the shortest and most direct lines, it
will be seen, by laying a rule on the map of Engl nd from Salisbury
to Manchester, that a course due north and south between these
places will pass very nearly through the towns mentioned in this
prospectus, as being on the proposed line ; and actual measurement
has shown this line to be the shortest between Southampton and
Manchester by 26 miles.
By the construction, therefore, of little more than GO miles of
rail, as here proposed, the shortest, most direct, and convenient
communication between Manchester and Southampton will be es-
tablished--a line, also, however superior in. position to others pro-
mising similar advantages, may yet be considered as competing
with none, but as an independent work, originating at Birmingham
find terminating in the seaports of Weymouth, Christchurch, Poole,
and Southampton.
In the allotniOnt of shares in this Company the Directors propose
to give a preference .to the original shareholders of the South and
Midlands' Junction Railway Company.
Applications for prospectuses anti plans may bo made, and forms
of application for shares had, at the Office of W. B. James, Esq.,
Solicitor, 5, Basin.4hall-street ; and of the following gentlemen :
Londoa—Alessrs. J. Peppercorne and Co., 9, Old Broad-street; Mr.
J. B. Harrison, 8, Bank Chambers ; Mr. Thomas Hanbury, 4,
Angel-court.
Liverpool—Messrs. Mills and Co., and Messrs. Neilson.
Manchester—Messrs. Houghland and Leese, and Mr. William

Marshall.
Hull—Messrs CoHinson and Flint.
Leeds—Messrs: Watson and Co.

Stratford-on.Avon—Mr. William Bolton.
Exeter—Mr. Thomas Sanford.
Plymouth—Messrs. Heyward and Puliner
Birmingham— Mr. Collis, and Mr. John Wright.
Glasgow—Meters Tassie and Co.
Edinburgh—Messrs. Robertson and Co., and Messrs. M'Callum
and Co.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

To the Provisional Committee of the West Midland, Manchester,

and Southampton Railway.
Gentlemen,--I request that you will allot to me
Shares of 20/. each in this Company, and I undertake to accept the
same, and to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that
may be allotted to me ; and I undertake also to execute the Parlia-
mentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
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Date

PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.

GREAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT
RAI [MAY,
By a Junction with the Eastern Counties Railway at Bedford.
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Distance, 120 miles.
Capital 2,500,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
(Pursuant to the Standing Orders of phe House of Commons.)

LIVERPOOL AND BURY RAILWAY.
CONTRACT FOR s LEEPEPF.
he DIRECTORS rte READY ts) RECEIVE TENDERS for the
SUPPLY of RAILWAY SLEEPERS, conformab'e Specifications
to be seen at the Company's Offices, 33, Dale-sire::, Liverpool ; or at
the Office of Sir John Macneill and James Thompson, 9, Wh!Zeln 'l-
place, London.
Offers to be forwarded to the Secretary, up to the Ist Novem-
ber next. By order,
JOHN S. lIERON, Secretary.
Liverpool and Bury Railway Office, 33, Dale-stmet,
Liverpool, Gth September, 1845.

311DLAND ANDILTIIIRSK JUNCTION
ILA(Provisionally Registered.)
Notice is hereby given, that no further Application for Shares in
this undertaking can be received after TUESDAY, the 23d day of
September instant,

By order,
DUNNING and STAWMAN,}Solicitort
CHARLES CLOUGH,

REMINGTON'S LINE,

THE LONDON AND MANCHESTER
DIRECT INDEPENDENT RAILWAY.

The COMMITTEE of MANAGEMENT hereby give notice that
one part of the PARLIAMENTARY CONTRACT and SUB-
SCRIBERV AGREEMENT will LIE for EXECUTION, and
Scrip Certificates will be Issued to the Subscribers In exchange for
the Bankers' Receipts, at the places and times mentioned below :
Bath—At the York Hotel, on Tuesday, the 23d day of September
instant.
Bristol—At the Bush Hotel, on Wednesday, the 24th day of Sep-

tember instant.
Worcester—At the Star Hotel, on Friday, the 2GL'a day of Septem•

ber instant.
Blrmin,gham—At Dee's Royal Hotel, on Saturday, the 27th day of
September instant.
Lichfield—At the Swan Inn, on Monday, the 29th day of September

instant.
Leicester—At the Three Crowns Inn, on Tuesday, the 30th day of 1
September instant.
Bedford—At the Company's Office in the High-street, on Thursday,
the 24 day of October next.
Uttoxeter—At the Offices of William Arnold Bainbridge, Esq., Soli-
citor, en Tuesday, the 234 day of September instant.
Burto.i-upon-Trent--At the Offices of Messrs. Bass and Sweting,
Solicitors, on Wednesday, the 24th day of September instant.
Ashby-de-la-Zouch—At the Offices of Edward M. Green, Esq., So-
licitor, on Thursday, the 25th day of September instant.
Cheadle—At the Offices of Richard Lowe, Esq., Solicitor, on Satur-
day, the 27th day of September instant.
Leek—At the Offices of Thomas Redfern, Esq., Solicitor, on Monday,
the 29th day of September instaist.
Macclesfield—At the Offices of Messrs. Parrott, Colville, and May,
Solicitors, on Tuesday, the 30th day of September instant, and
Wednesday, the Ist day of October next.
Manchester—At the Offices of the Company, St. Ann's-square, on
Thursday and Friday, the 24 and 3d days of October next.
Derby—At the Offices of Henry Mosley, Esq., Solicitor, on Tuesday,
the 23d clay of September instant.
Leeds—At the Royal Hotel, on Wednesday, the 24th day of Septem-
ber instant.
Hull—At the Victoria Hotel, on Friday, the 26th day of September
instant.
Edinburgh—At the London Hotel, on Tuesday, the 30th day of Sep-

tember instant.
Glasgow—At the London Hotel, on Thursday, the 2d day of Oc-
tober next.
Liverpool—At the Adelphi Hotel, on Monday, the 6th day of October
next. By order,

H. W. MATTHEWS, secretary,