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N MIDLAD RAILWAY.
VEST-.Connecting the Eastern aniiWestern-parts of the kingdom.
' s (Provisionally Registered).
Capital 1,700,000/., in 68,000 shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 12s, ad. per share.
PROVISIONAL coIimITTER.
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Hyde Park, London
Jedediah Strutt, Esq., Director of the Derby and Gainsborough
. Railway" •
Edward Hyde Clerke, Esq., Leftntingtott Priors
John Ashton, Esq., Newton Bank, Hyde, and Manchester
William Bayley. Esq., Lark-hill, Ashton-under•Lyne
Ths Mayor of Carnarvon, Director of , the. London and Holyhead
ItallWay '
Edward'VaPanti art Tegge"Burnell, Esq., Winkburn-hall, Nottingham-
Shire, Vice-Chairman of the Boston, Newark, and Sheffield Railway
.Henry Kendall, Esq., Austin-friars, London, Director of the Boston,
Newark, and Sheffield Railway
Colonel Thomas Wildman, Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire, Di
teeter of the,Nettingiram, Mansfield, and Midlands Junction Rail-
way-
John Calthorp Williams, Esq., M.D., Not tingham
.James
I)erhysaatirmil Gainsboroughond,rsg.,3lllaiust'aidy
Woodhouse,
Major Bilble,- Nettleworth Hall, Nottinghamshire, Director of the
: JunctioNn•ltttailillgwhayainshire,
thairman" of, the Boston, Newark and Sheffield, and Director of
the Nottingham, Mansfield, and Midlands
Fr ntiS Hall, Eiq., Chairman of the Nottingham, Mansfield, and
lidlands(Junction Railway
Th Mayor of Newark-on-Trent
iII try Roden, Esq., The Field, Derby, Director of the Derby and
- Ga4itstroraugh, Ite il way
William Thr4eedisq., Hyde, Manchester
Thi!niktaforseler,,Esq., Dye Bridge, Derbyshire
Major Qoiief WlNATtonse Grove, Nottinghamshire, Vice-Chairman of
the ])drby and Gainsborough Railway
John-Ralitanor Hal!, Derbyshire
George 0-o)friskgraiiiiis Mansfield
Charles Allix, Esq.,'Willoughby Hall, Grantham, Director of the
Boston, lien'iarir,tand Sheffield Railway ,
John Brown, Eaq.,,31,D., Broadfield House, Boston, ditto
John Coke FoWler, Esq., Duffield Rank, Derby, Director of the Derby '
and Gainsborough Railway )
John Erfward Brodin..rst, Esq., Crow Hill, Mansfield, Director of the
Boston, Newark, and Sheffield Railway
Thomas Fowke Andrew Burnaby, Esq., Newark-on-Trent
Cliarle,s lioldeu,•Esq., Junior United Service Club, London
David Harrison, F sq. . St aleyhrtelgt..._ , -•-., , • . ,
IL D.'*.6ll,'Eiso., Maasfield, Woodhatee . •-S. , .
Lewis Novelli, Esq., Manchester
Thomas Carey Willard Pierce, Esq., Manchester
Thomas Ingram Ford, Esq., Abbey-field, Sandbeach, Cheshire
11. Cave Leahy, St. James's-square, London, a Director of the
Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, and Potteries Railway, the Great Welsh
Oentral Railway, and the Grand Trunk Railway
The Rev. Dr. Cursham, Vicar of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, Di-
rector of the Derby and Gainsborough Railway
Richard Greenhalgh, Esq„ Car Bank, Mansfield, Direetor of the:Bos-
ton, Newark, and Sheffield, and Nottingham, Mansfield, and Mid-
lands' Junction, and Derby, ariC Gainsborough Railways
William Sacheverell Cook, Esq., Langton-hall, Nottinghamshire,
Director of the Derby and Gainsborough Railway
Richard Truswell, Esq., Mandrake-house, Sheffield
Edward Dowland, Esq., Mansfield
P: R. Dearden, Esq., Birkenhead
The Rev. John Peatfield, West Bridgeford
Edmund Sykes, Esq., Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire
William Sabine, Esq., Broomhill-grange, Nottinghamshire
Isaac Heywood, Esq , Mansfield. Nottinghamshire
Montagu David. Scott, Esq., Dorchester-terrace, Hyde-park, Direc-
tor of the BoSton, Newark, and Sheffield Railway
William Heywood Paulson, Esq., Mansfield
Thomas SPragging Godfrey, Esq., Balderton-hall, Nottinghamshire,
Director of the Boaters; Newark, and She 1 old Ralway
William Hollins, Esq., Pleasly-vale, Derbyshire
Richard Henry Wright, Esq., Mansfield
William Gething, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Boston, Newark,
and Sheffield, and Derby, and Gainsiborough Railway
Sibbald Scott, Esq., 62, Gloucester-place, Portman-square
W. F. Handley, Esq., Newark-on-Trent
Robert Ashton, Esq., Hyde and Manchester
Watkin Lees, Esq., Dukinfield
William Sidebottom, Esq., Ethrow House, Hollingworth
Richard Wharton Myddleton,:Esq., Leasingham Hall
John Dodsley, Esq., Skegby Hall, Nottinghamshire, Director of the
Derby and Gainsborough Railway ,
Robert Watson, Esq., Mansfield
Thomas Burroughs, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Gains •
borough Railway
John Hudson, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Gainsborough
Railway
Henry Brodhurst, Esq., Woodhouse-place
Samuel Wright Fearn, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and
Gainsborough Railway
Samuel Walker Cox, Esq., Breedsall, Director of the Derby and
Gainsborough Railway
General Reeve, Leadenham Hall, Director of the Boston, Newark,
and Sheffield Railway
Major Taylor, Radcliffe, Nottingham .
Joseph Gilstrap, Esq., Newark-on-Trent
Douglas Fox, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Gainsborough
Railway
John Johnson, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Gainsborough
Railway
William Foster, Esq., Sleaford, Director of the Boston, Newark,
and Sheffield Railway
Nottingham
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Jonathan Hardcastic, Esq., Blidworth Dais
John Thorpe,. Esq., Newark-on-Trent, Director of the Boston,
Newark, and sheffield Railway ;..
Captain F. Chamier, He,kin-street, ,Belg,rave-square
dEsswq-o"r3thi,DE"sq., Farnsfield
Edward Newbatt, Esq., Old-place, Sleaford
Dr. Bent, Derby, Director of the Derby and Gainsborough Railway
Emanuel Bowen, Esq., Farnsfield
David Bryan, Esq., Northampton, Provisional Director of :,the Mid-
land and Eastern Counties Railways.
It. M. Pruce, Esq., Lothbury, and 24, Park-square, Regent's-park .
William Peppercorns, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex
Admiral J. Ayscough, Southampton
Thomas Chitty, Esq., Gower-street, London
Rowland Mackenzie, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and
Basingtoke, of the Cheltenham, Oxford, and Brighton Junction,
and of the Great Western Extension Railway Companies
Thomas Ingham Rayner, Esq., Lilac Cottage, Bustal, near Leeds,
Director of the West Riding Junction, the Leeds and Liverpool
Direct, and other Railways
Solemon Foster, Esq., Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
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jMoariint_ißniFehuarrnsisoiss,nEfq., ditto
George Boden, Inner Temple, and St. George's-terrace, Kensington
Grothrey IsSlloitttsrEsq.. NI-wax I: -on-relic.7-.
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Samuel Hurt, Esq., Mansfield
Richard N. Phillipson, Esq., Rugby
Rev. Curzon Cursham, M.A., Vicar of Ilartwell, Northamptonshire
THE FOLLOWING GENTLEMEN WILL FORM THE COMMITTEE OF
DIRECTION.
Edward Thomas Coke, Esq.
Francis Hall, Esq.
William Tinker, Esq.
Montagu David Scott, Esq.
James Salmond, Esq.
Richard Greenhalgh, Esq.
Henry Kendall, Esq.
E. V. P. Burnell, Esq.
John Ray, Esq.
John Dodsley, Esq.
LONDON BANKERS—Messrs. Denison, Hey-wood, Kennards, and Co. ;
Messrs. Jones, Leyd, and Co.
John Calthorp Williams, Esq.
COUNTRY BANICHRS.
Manchester—Messrs. Jones, Loyd, and Co.
Liverpool—Messrs. Arthur, Heywood, and Sons
Nantwich—Liverpool and Manchester District Banking Company's
Branch
Newcastle-under-Lyre—Manchester and Liverpool District Banking
Company's Branch
Burslem—Manchester and Liverpool District Banking Compute/3
Branch
Stafford—Messra. Stevenson, Salt, and Co.
Uttoxeter—The Burton Union Bank
Cheadle—Manchester and Liverpool District Banking Company's
Branch
Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Co.
Sheffield— The Sheffield and Rotherham Banking Company
Mansfield and Chesterfield—Messrs. Robinson and Broadhurst
Nottingham-31essrs. J. and J. C. Wright, and Messrs. Moore and
Robinson's Banking Company.
ENGINEER—Joseph Gibbs, Esq.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Parsons, Benn, and Parsons, and Messrs. (Land
T.lValkden, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.

LOCAL AGENTS.
St. G. George Smith, Esq., Derby
Newcastle-under-Lyne
Stafford
Ashbourne
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—MCSSIM. Dorrington, Hayward. Bill-
combe, and Co., 16, Parliament-street

The national object of this undertaking is to create a direct and
united communication between the eastern and western parts of the
kingdom.

On reference to a railway map of England, it will at once be seen
that Stafford and Crewe, on the Grand Junction and Derby, and
Belper, on the Midland Railway, are the centres to which a great
number of lines of railway, either already constructed or projected,
converge ; and between these four points no railway exists.
The West Midland Railway proposes to unite these points in the
following way :—By commencing one of its arms at Crewe station,
on the Grand Junction Railway, which will run through or near
Newcastle-under-Lyne, Bursham, Stoke-epon-Trent, Lane End, and
Cheadle, to Uttoxeter, where its other arm from Stafford will meet it
and proceed thence, by Ashbourne to a point near the Belper station
on the Midland Railway, where it will take advantage of the pro-
posed Derby and Gainsborough, Nottingham and Mansfield, and
Boston, Newark, and Sheffield Railways ; thus opening a direct eom-
munication between Holyhead and other parts of North Wales,
Cheshire, Staffordshire, and Shropshire,!en the one head, and Sheffield,
Retford, Mansfield, Nottingham, Newark, Norwich, and the ports of
Gainsborough, Grimsby, Boston, Spalding, Lynn and Yarmouth, on
the other.
This line will accommodate a very considerable portion of the traffic
proceeding from the west coast of Scotland, Cumberland, and Lanca-
shire, into Lincolnshire and the south-eastern parts of the kingdom,
and by that portion of the line which is proposed to ran between
Belper and Stafford, and the whole of the traffic from the east coast
of Scotland, Northumberland, Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire,
and other populous northern counties Passing to the west and south-
west, together with the opulent mineral districts of South Wales, will
be effectually served. _ _

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elnsive manufacturing district, it must be viewed, even in its local
towns affected by it would suffice to show that the traffic over it
will be immense ; but, in addition to this, when credit is taken for the
thorough traffic passing diagonally over the line from south-east to
north-west, and from north-east to Routh-west, as well u for the
corn and other agricultural produce from the eastern counties to the
manufacturing districts ; and a return carriage of manufactured
goods, slates from North Wales, salt trent Cheshire, earthenware
from Staffordshire, and iron from Shropshire, for the
consumption of
the midland counties as well as for export from the eastern ports
of Hull, Grimsby, Boston, Spalding, &c., some adequate idea lay
be formed of the advantages whieh the comple ion of this
comprehensive scheme will naturally develop, An
these objects
have been deeply and seriously considered, and deemed of such para-
mount importance to lcslal interests, that the fullest and most in-
fluential support and co-operation have been obtained to effectually
carry out and insure the various objects of this undertaking.
Surveys of the district have been made with much care, and the
result is highly favourable in an engineering point of view.
The Committee in the allotment of shares will ei
v-va a Preference to
parties locally interested, and in all cases satisfactory reference
will
be required to some person of known respectability.
Power will be taken in the act to allow interest, at the
character,assi
rate of 41.
per cent. per annum, on the deposits, as well as on all inture
calls,
from the date of each payment, till the opening of the whole line, or
until a dividend be declared ; and the liability of subscribers will' be
limited by the Act of Parliament to the amount of their respective
shares.
The shares and all payments made thereon will be forfeited
with-
out notice, should the holders thereof not sign the Subscribers, Agree-
ment and Parliamentary Contract as soon as required.
Applications for shares in the form annexed may bemade to
the
se-
licitors, or the undermentioned Sharebrokers:—
J. S. Yeates, Esq., Bank Chambers, London
Roger Mortimer, Esq Throgmorton-street, ditto
J. W. Scott, Esq., Bartholomew-lame, ditto
Messrs. Bradley, Ford, snd Parker, Manchester

John Duncuft, Esq., ditto
lacesrs. S. It. Healey, Liverpool

Thomas, Forsyth, Esq., ditto
Messrs. Eyre and Shaw, Derby
Messrs. Flint and Tootai, Hull
Messrs. Brady and Stanifortb, Hull
James Thompson, Esq., ditto.
Francis Wakefield, Esq., Nottingham•

J. IL Lane, Esq., Birmingham.
Messrs. Edwards and son, Bristol.

William Lee, Esq., Cheltenham
Robert Allan, Esq., Edinburgh.
Messrs. Mein and Cunningham, GUMOw.

Messrs. M'Ewen and Auld, ditto.

Henry Carr, Mauna eld

Charles Spencer, Nottingham
G. M. Williams, 54, King-street, Manchester.
FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Committee of Direction of the West Midland ReliWay
Company.
Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
Gentlemen—l request you will allot me Shares of 251.
each in this Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the same, to
pay the deposit thereon. or on any less number that may be allotted
to me, and to execute the Parliamentary contract, and subscribers'
agreement in respect thereof when thereunto requred.
Dated this day of 1846.
Name in • .......... • •
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Trade or Profession • • • .
Address .................. • • . • • • • . • • • • • • • • ••
Name or ........ ......................0 •
Ammo .• •• •s

"FY OLLAN D, PRUSSIA, WESTERN
HANOVER, and BREMEN.

The PROSPECTUS of the connecting RAILWAYS throaghoct the
above countries will be published, under authority, before the Ist of
January, 1846 ; any other proposal to th• public respecting railways
within the above districts is wholly unauthorised by the respective
Governments of Holland, Prussia, Hanover, and Bremen.
18, Austin•fiiars, City, Sept. 29, 184.5.

( REGISTERED.)
4,;,‘OUTHAPROVISIONALLY MPTON and GREAT WESTERN
17 JUNCTION RAILWAY.

Capital, 750,0001., to Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s.
Negotiations now pending with the Great Western and South-
Western Companies have occasioned delay in publishing the names of
the Provisional Committee of this line. These, with an enlarged
prospectus, will appear In a few days. In the meantime, application
for shares may be addressed as before, to the Solicitor, Wm. Bevan,
Esq., 6, Old Jewry, London; and Messrs. Sharp and Ilarris•n,
Southampton.

RUGBY, DERBY, ant MANCHESTER
RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and Mb Vic., c. 110.)
Capital, 1,500,0001., in 60,600 shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 21. 12. Gd. per share.
(In order to insure compliance with the
.standing orders both of the
Lords and Commoni.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Lord George Paget, Uxbridge. house, London
Sir William Young, Bart., Westbounte-terrace, Hyde-park, a Director
of the East India Company
Sir James Carmichael, Bart., 40, Sussex-gardens, Hydc-park. Di-
rector of the Reading and Reigate Railway Company
Sir William Boothby, Bart., Ashbourne-hall, Ashbourne
Sir Robert Wilmot, Bart., Ormaston-hall, Derbyshil e
Sir Willl,en Lowthrnp, Bart., Alga-house, Scsarborotatn, ths Inn an of
the Hull and Barnsley Railway Company
Sir John Howler, Deputy-Lieutenant of Esaox
The Mayor of Derby
John Parkinson, Esq., R.R.S., SO, Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park,
, Director of the Irish Great Western, and the Northampton, Ban-
bury, and Cheltenham Railways
Thomas Stevenson, ESqs, F.S.A., 37, Upper Grosvenor-street, Hyde
Park, a Director of the Irish Great Western, and the Reading and
Reigate Raiives:ys• s •
Thomas Bent, jog- M.D., Tlerby,, Director of the Derby, Gains-
issna.ll,-.lnrcat Grimsby Junction Railway
James Clifford, Esq., Broughton House, Shardlow, Derbyshire
William Col, Esq., Brailsford, Derbyshire
David 11-Nate:oft, Esq., Buckland Hollow, Derbyshire -
James Sutton, Esq., Shardlow Hall, Derbyshire
P. Wilmot, Esq., Welbcck-street, Cavendish-square
Major Thurston Dale, Ashbourne
Joseph Bridgett, Esq., Aldermanbnry, London, Colney Hatch, near
Barnet; and Derby
Cecil Brook Boothby, Esq., Ashbourne Hall, Ashboutne, and Bolton-
street, Piccadilly
William Holt, Esq., Great Coram-street, and The Elms, Watibrd
A. G. Greaves, Esq., Derby
John Robinson, Esq., Silcoates Cottage, near Wakefield, Director of
the Bradford, Waefield, and Midland and Leeds, York and Mhl-
land Junction Rail ay
Edward Mamma, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Samuel Simpson, Esq., of the Greaves, Lancaster, a Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Douglas Fox, Esq., Derby, - Director of the Derby, Gainshorough,
and Great Grimsby Junction Railway
George Robinson, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley
Junction Railway
Thomas lil•Turk, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junc-
tion Railway
Matthew Pierpoint, Tsq., Crown East,Worcestershire, Deputy Lieu-
tenant of the county of Worcester
Henry Brigstock, Esq., M.D., Derby, Director of the Derby, Uttoxe-
ter, and Stafford Railway •
Jos"ph Lancelot Davenport, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby, Ut-
toxeter, and Stafford Railway
Frederick:Fox, Esq., Melbourne, agent for Lord Melbourne
Jamco Joseph Dolman, Esq., Melbourne, Derbyshire
John Earp, Esq., Melbourne, Derbyshire
Charles Holbrooke, Esq., Alvaston, near Derby, Director of the
Detty, Uttoxeter and Stafford, and of the Derby, Gainsborough,
Stafford, and Grimsby Railway
Jeremiah. Pilcher, Esq., Russell-square, London, Director of the
Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction, and of the Grand
London and Dublin Approximation Railways
William Seymour, Esq., Montague-place, Russell-square, Director of
the Grand London and Dublin Approximation, and of the South-
ampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railways
William Chance, Esq., Spring-grove, Birmingham, Deputy-Chairman
of the Birmingham and Leicester Railway, Director of the Trent
Valley Midland, and of the Manchester and Southampton Junction
Railway
James Witham, Esq., Eaton-square
A. A. Fry, Esq., Temple
Thomas Geo. Smith, Esq., Doughty-street, Mecklenburgh-square,
Director of the Lynn, Wisbeach. and Peterborough Railway
John Hill, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Staf-
ford Railway
Thomas Holmes, Esq., Melbourne, Derbyshire
Thomas Hemsley, Esq., Melbourne, Derbyshire
Henry Orton, Esq., King's Newton, Derbyshire
George Vandeleur, Esq., King's Newton, Derbyshire
Mr. Samuel Robinson, Shaw House, Melbourne, Derbyshire
John Towle, Esq., Borrowash Mills, Derbyshire
George Wooton, Esq., Chelston, Derbyshire
James Hollingworth, Esq. Melbourne and Derby
Wellington Ross Seymour, Esq., Montague-place, Russell-square
James Renshaw, Esq., West Heath House, Erith, Kent, Director of
the South Staffordshire Junction Railway,: and 3, White Hart-
court, Lombard-street
A. Inderwick, Esq., Brompton, Middlesex
John Groom, Esq., Member of the Town Council, Northampton
James J. WSwiney, Esq., Sandal View, near Wakefield, a Director
of the Wakefield and Harrowgate Junction Railway
Richard Dransfield, Esq., West-place, Dalton, Huddersfield, a Director
of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and of the Keighley, Halifax,
and Huddersfield Junction Railway
Robert Doeksey Goodwin, Esq., Ashbourne
John Bainbrigge Stbrey, Esq., Lockington Hall, Leicestershire
Edward Doubleday, Esq., F.L.S., Great Surrey-street, a Director of
the Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railway
William Caldwell, Esq., Ince Hall, Wigan, Alderman of the Borough
of Wiga', Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway, the
Staffordshire Potteries Railway, Liverpool and Manchester Direct
Railway
Henry Stock, Esq., Bedggelert, North Wales, Director of the Great
Eastern and Western
John Qampbell Dlck*r, Esq., New Hall.byliaaton,Cheshire,Director
of flit Birkenhead and Holyhead Railway
John Curzon' ' Esq. Derby
James Peet, Esq., Derby
William Taylor, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby, Gainsborougb,
and Great Grimsby Junction Railway
Charles Milnes, Esq., Dale-house, Matlock, Derbyshire
Henry George Gascoyne, Esq., Lea-hall, Rugelcy, Staffordshire
Perry Dickers, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
George Clark, Esq., Windham-lodge, Brighton, and Rusholme Park,
Manchester, a Magistrate
James Consterdine, Esq., Rosinhall, Manchester, a Magistrate
F. R. Hodgson, Esq., Oakey, near Manchester, Merchant
Edward Attolden, Esq., Aston-hall, Derby;
Henry Taylor, Esq., Wigan, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct; the York and Lancaster; the Eastern, Western, and
Jalunifaxctianond;
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Captain T. Folliott Powell, Ashbourne
Thomas Byrom, Esq., Wigan, a Director of the York and Lancas-
ter and Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and the Keighley, Halifax,
and Huddersfield Junction Railway
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Thurston Dale, Jun., Esq., Ashbourne
Cheltenham and Oxford Railways
John Douglas Cooper, Esq., Holm College, Ashbourne
C. Kelly Cooper, Esq., Ashbourne
John Witham, sen., Esq., Ashbourae
Thomas J. Mountfort, Esq., Ashbourne
James Osborne, Esq , Ashbourne
Samuel Dawson, jun., Esq., Walton Bank, Ashbourne
John Smith, Esq. Barton House, Ashbourne
Thomas Smith, Esq.,
Blore Hall, Staffordshire
John Bloor, Esq., Tutbury
Samuel Fox, jun., Esq., Derby
John Smith, Esq., Middle Temple, and 2, Bury-street, St. James's,
London, Director of the Leeds, York, and Midland Railway
Joseph Peel, Esq., Singleton Brook, Manchester
Edward Lucas, Esq., Member of the Town-Council, Birmingham
John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Leicester, a Director of the. Leicester
and Birmingham, and London, Bristol, and South Wales Railway
John Oster, Esq., Hull, Member of the Provisional Committee of the
Hull and Barnsley Junction and Leeds and Carlisle Railway
C. Bamford, jun., Esq., Hull, Member of the Provisional Committee
of the Hull and Barnsley Junction and Leeds and Carlisle Railway
R. B. Childs, Esq., Swarkenstone Loaves, near Derby
(With power to add to their number).

ACTING COMMITTEE.
Jeremiah Pileher, Esq., Russell-square, London
John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., SO. Cambridge-terrace, Hyde -park
Thomas Stevenson, Esq., F.S.A., 37, Upper Gresvonor-street, Hyde.
park
The Mayor of Derby
Matthew Pierpoint, Esq., Crown East, 'Worcestershire, Deputy-Lieut
Co. Worcester
Joseph Briclgett, Esq., Aldermanbury, London
William Seymour, Esq., Montague-place, Russell-square
A. A. Fry, Esq., Temple
Thomas George Smith, Esq., Doughty-street, Meeklenburgli-square
A. Inderwick, Esq., Brompton, Middlesex
Sir Wm. Young, Bart., Westbourne-terrace, Hyde-park
Sir William Boothby, Bart., Ashbournc-hall, Ashbourne
David I'Vleatcro.t, Esq., Buckland Hollow, berbyshire.

ENGINEER—CharIes Blunt, Esq., C.E.
SOLICITOR—Thomas Gibson Brower, Esq., 13, Gray's Inn-wars.
STANDING COUNSEL—WiIIiam HOU, Esq., Chancery-lane.
COUNTRY SOLICITORS.

Derby—John Moss, Esq.
Manchester—Messrs. Crossley and Sudlow
Ashbourne—John Fox, Esq.
Ashby-de-la-Zouch—Henry Minion Hawkesworth, Esq.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT.—Thomas Baker, Esq., Spring-gardens,

BANKERS.
London—Messrs. liasterman, Peters, Mildred, and Co.
Derby--Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company
Ashbourne—The Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashbourne Union Bank.

AGENTS,

London—Thomas G. Smith, Esq., 2, Warnford-court, Throgmorton-

street
Ashbourne—Thomas Jones, Esq.
Leicester—Messrs. Elgood and Harrison

Bull—Messrs. Flint and Tootal

Liverpool—Messrs. J. B. and D. Neilson.
SECRETARIES.—WiIIiam Richard Scott, Esq. ; Horace Green, Esq.

Offices of the Company, 33, Gresham-street.

The Rugby, Derby, end Manchester Railway is a direct line from
London to Manchester, coming from London to Rugby, along the
London and Birmingham line, and proceeding from Rugby to Hinck-
ley through Market-Bosworth and Ashby-de-la-Zouch, to Derby,
thence to Ashbourne, by Leek to Macclesfield, and along the Mae-
clestield and Stockport, and Stockport and Manchester Railways, into
Manchester.
A brai.2ll to Buxton Is in contemplation.
_

The principle of this railway is to obtain a direct through line be-
tween some of the most important districts in the kingdom with the
least possible amount of new railway, and, consequently, the smallest
expenditure of capital.
It will also establish the shortest direct communication between
Derby and London, Sheffield and London, and between all the towns
on the North Midland Railway and London.
The Manchester, Derby, and Rugby Railway, will open a direct
communication between Manchester and Derby, and will consider-
ably shorten the distance between Manchester and Nottingham and
Manchester and Leicester.
The line from Derby to Rugby will establish the direct communi-
cation from that town to London, which has been so long considered
desirable by the inhabitants.
The same will apply to Sheffield, when the Sheffield and Chester-
field branch of the North Midland Railway is made.

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The Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway, in connexion with
the Oxford and Rugby, and Oxford, Southampton, and Gosport Rail-
way, forms a direct Manchester and Southampton line.

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THE GREAT ADVANTAGES
Of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway, over the other pro-
jects into Manchester, among others, are—
First. That there are only seventy-five miles of railway to he made
in place of one hundred and eighty-nine.
Second. That it is a more direct line from London to Manchester
than even the proposed direct lines.
Third. That it interferes with no existing railway property or
vested interests.

Fourth. That it passes through a District rich in manufactures,
agriculture, and minerals, but which—more especially as regards its
agricultural produce, and a convenient system of intercommunica-
tion for the conveyance of that agricultural produce, to supply the
large manufacturing towns in the vicinity—has been hitherto left to-
tally without railway communication.
Fifth. That it passes through the towns In its route, instead of
avoiding them.
Sixth. That the whole line of railway from Rugby to Manchester
will be completed and in working order within ten months from the
passing of the Act of Parliament.
Seventh. That the maps, plans, estimates, and other documents
required by the standing orders of Parliament will be lodged with the
parish clerks, the clerks of the peace for the counties, and the
Parliamentary offices, on the 10th of November next, being twenty
days within the time required by the regulations of Parliament.
In the allotment of shares a preference will be given, to the ex
tent of 10,000 shares, to the holders of stock in the London and Bir-
mingham Railway ; also, of 2,000 shares to the shareholders in the
Oxford, Southampton, and Gosport Railway Company ; of 1,000
shares to the Oxford and Rugby Railway Company ; and 2,000
shares to the Manchester and Birmingham Railway Company.

RUGBY, DERBY, AND MANCHESTER
RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that the last day for receiving applications
was Friday the 19th, and in consequence of t4m great number re-
mitted far erceedieg that to be allotted, others can possibly be
Odin

PitICE) SD.

PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.
DOVER, HASTINGS, AND BRIGHTON
JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.
Completing, with Existing and Proposed Lines of Railway, ono
entire Line of Coast Railway from Dover to ICxeter.
Capi.al 360,0001, in 15,000 Shares of 201. each.
Depos.t 2/. 2s. per Share.
The public is respectfully informed that a most influential and
powerful Company, of local and commercial ,nfluenee, has been formed
tbr the purpose offurnishing railway accommodation to the important
agricultural district of Romney Marsh, including the towns of Sand-
gate, Hythe, New Romney, Lydd, and Rye; and also completing one
entire and unbroken line of coast railway from Dover to Poole, and
then on to Exeter.
Full particulars will be published in a few days ; and, in the mean-
time, all applications for shares or otherwise can be made to the Com-
pany's Solicitors, Messrs. A'Beckett, Son, and Sympson, and Mr.
Vaughan Prance, 3, Alderman's-walk, Old Bread-street, London.

To the Provisional Committee or Managing Directors of the Dover,

Hastings, and Brighton Junction Railway.
I request that you will:allot me shares, of 201. each, hi
the atxife undertaking; and I do hereby undertake to accept the
same, or any less number you may allot me, on the terms of the pro-
spectus, and to pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per share, and all future calls
thereon, and to sign the Parliamentary contract and subscribers'
agreement, and other deeds, when required so to do.
Dated this day of 1145.
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Residence
Profession or Business
Usual Signature • • .•••• • • • • • • • • • .......

Name, kesidenee, and Profession]
of Referee in full ......
WitnesT • •
Witness' Address and Description • • •• . • .

THE MIDLAND, BARNSLEY, SHEFFIELD,
DEWSBURY, LEEDS, AND BRADFORD RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 700,0001., in 35,000 Shares of 101. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Sir William Lowthrop, Hull, and Alga-house, Scarborough, Managing
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, Director of the Direct
Western, J.P. for the Esist Riding, and Borough of Hull
John Brondhurst Tootal, Esq., the Cliffe, Wakefield
Paiewell Midilie!on,Jalland, Esq:, Holderness-house, near null, De-
, yaty Lieutenant, and J.P. for the East Riding, and for the Bo-
rough of Hull, Provisional Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway, &c.
Joseph Jones, Esq., Mayor of Hull, Provisional Director of the Leeds
and Liverpool Direct Railway William
Gordon, Esq., M.D., Hull, Provisional Director of the Leeds
and Liverpool-Direct Railway
George Wilson Addison, Esq., Bradford, Provisional Director of the
West Yorkshire, and the Leeds, York, and Midland Junction Rail-
ways, Re. Re.
George Addison, jun., Esq., Provisional Director of the Leeds Direct
Railway
J. E. Sicird, Esq., merchant, Bradford, Provisional Director of the
Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and the Leeds, York, and Midland
Railways
John Dougell, Esq., Lockwood, near Huddersfield
Edmund Eastwood, Esq., dyer, Rashcliffe, near Huddersfield
Richard Dransfield, Esq., Dalton, near Huddersfield, Provisional Di-
rector of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
John Allison, Esq., Huddersfield
Joseph Dransfield, Esq., Mold Green, Huddersfield, Provisional Di-
rector of the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction ; and
the Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Direct Railways
Albert Pilling, Esq., merchant, Huddersfield
Joseph Norton, Esq., merchant, Re., Clayton West, near Hudders-
fhld, Provisional Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate;
Hnd-
d:rstield, Halifax, and Bradford; Bristol and Dover; Keighley,
Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction; and Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railways
Abraham Eastwood, Esq., Rasheliffe House, Huddersfield, Auditor
and one of the Executive Committee of the Huddersfield and Shef-
field Junction Railway Company
John Richardson, Esq., Harrogate, Provisional Director of the Wake-
field and Harrogate ; and the East and West Yorkshire Rail-
ways, Re. •
George Feamley, Esq., M.D., Grove-house, Dewsbury
Henry Hemingway, sen., Esq., M.D., Dewsbury
Henry Hemingway, jen., Esq., M.D., Dewsbury
Peal Fletcher, Esq., Dewsbury
'I Hadfield Gloyne, Esq., Dewsbury
George Hall, Esq., merchant, Aidam's-house, Dewsbury
Thomas Newsome, Esq., merchant, Dewsbury
Mark llirst, Esq., manufacturer, Dewsbury
J. J. Mailinson, Esq., Dewsbury
Joseph Acton, Esq., J.P., Wigan, Lancaster, Provisional Director of
the Manchester and Wigan, Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and Leeds,
York, and Midland Junction Railways
William Mann, Esq., Spen Mills, Cleckheaton, Provisional Director
of the Midland !tad Thirsk Railway ; the Leeds, York, and Mid-
land Junction ; and the Leeds and West Riding Junction Railways
James Smith, Esq., M.D., Ossett
William Wood Wiseman, Esq., M.D., Ossett
George Mitchell, manufacturer, Ossett
Thomas Mitchell, Esq., manufacturer, Ossett
Fronde Sykes, Esq., Liversedge, near Dewsbury, Provisional Direc-
tor of the Leeds and West Riding Junction, and the Leeds, York,
and Midland Railways
John Mitchell, senior, Esq., Ossett
Abraham Burnley, Esq., merchant, Batley, late Provisional Director
of the Leeds and Dewsbury Railway
Joseph Jubb, senior, Esq., merchant, Batley
George Sheard, Esq., merchant, Batley, late Provisional Director of
the Leeds and Dewsbury Railway
Joseph Jubb, junior, Esq., manufacturer, Batley
Charles Day, Esq., Hirst House, Batley
John Burnley, Esq., manufacturer, Batley, Provisional Director of the
Midland and Thirsk Railway
Jacob Burnley, Esq., manufacturer, Batley, and Manchester
Samuel Burnley, Esq., manufacturer, Batley
Benjamin Senior, Esq., merchant, Batley, Provisional Director of
the West Riding Junction, and Midland and Thirsk Railways
Joseph Rowley', Esq., worsted spinner, Ossett-cum-Gawthorp, near
Dewsbury
William Rowley, Esq., Ossett
Thomas Hirst, Esq., Batley
James Geo. Atkinson, Esq., M.D., Wakefield, Provisional Director
of the Stockton, Northallerton, and Leeds Railw,ay
Rev. G. A. Walker, Alverthorpe, near Wakefield' Provisional Di-
rector of the Bradford, Wakefield, and Midland Railway
Frederick Stokes, Esq., Wakefield
Foster Shaw, Esq., merchant, Huddersfield
Lewis Alexander Shepherd, Esq., ironfotmder, Dewsbury
IVilliam Cardwell, F,sq., ironfounder, Dewsbury
Mark Day, Esq., manufacturer, Batley Carr
John Lister, Esq., Thornhill
Henry James Smith, Esq., merchant, Dewsbury
James Hemingway, Esq., merchant, Dewsbury
George Blakeley, Esq., merchant and manufacturer, Dewsbury
Robert Blakeley, Esq., merchant and manufacturer, Dewsbury
(With power to add to their number).
N.B. The names of other Provisional Directors will be added
from Barnsley and Sheffield, &c., &c.
RANKERS.
The Huddersfield Banking Company, Dewsbury and Huddersfield.
The West-Riding Union Banking Company, Dewsbury, Hudders-
field, and Wakefield.
The Leeds and West-Riding Banking Company, Leeds and Bradford.
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith, London.
Messrs. Masterman, and Co. London.
ENGINEER—Henry Emanuel Scott, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Charles Robert Scholes, Dewsbury
ienry Brodribb, 6, Child's-place, Temple, London.
LocAL AGENT—W. C. Mence, Esq., solicitor, Barnsley.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—Messrs. Sudlow and Kingdon, 6, New
Palace-yard, Westminster.

The object of this line Is to make a short and direct communication
between the populous manufacturing and iron and coal districts of
Bradforl, Cleckheaton, Heckmoudwike, Batley, Dewsbury, Barns-
ley, and Sheffield, with the wool and agricultural districts of Lei-
cestershire, Derbyshire, Doncaster, Galasborough, Lincoln, &c., and
the port of Boston.

The line will form a junction with the West Yorkshire, the Leeds
and Dewsbury, and the Manchester and Leeds Railways, at or
near Dewsbury; and thence proceed by Darton to Barnsley, and
Wombwell, to or near to Wath-upon-Dearne, near Swinton ; where
it will join the North Midland Railway, and also meet the proposed
line to Doncaster, Bawtry, Gainsborough, and Lincoln ; and form a
communication by the existing lines with the port of Boston and the
south ; and by the projected Hull and Barnsley Junction Railway ;
it will also form a direct line to Hull, and by the Leeds and Thirsk
Railway, a direct line to the nortk.

The line will also be continued from Barnsley by Tankersley and
Chapeltown to Sheffield.

A branch will run to the 'various Ironworks and Colliery Rail-
ways, near Wentworth ; and another branch will run to the Silk-
stone Colliery Railways.

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A direct line of communication will thus be formed between the
important manufacturing places of Bradford, Bierley, Cleckheaton,
Goinersall, Heckmondwike, Liversedge, Batley, Dewsbury, Ossett,
Thornhill, Darton, Barnsley, Ardsley, and Wombwell, to Wath-
upon-Dearne, Doncaster, Lincolnshire, the port of Boston, and the
south, and also to Sheffield; affording the best possible accommoda-
tion to the rich iron and coal districts of Silkstone, Worsborough,
Tankersley, Chapeltown, and Sheffield ; whilst the wools and raw
materials used in the manufactures at Bradford, Pudsey, Earlsheaton,
•leckheaton, Batley, Heckmondwike, Dewsbury, and Barnsley, as
well as corn and cattle, will be received by the shortest and most di-
rect line of transit from Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire,
and the southern parts which supply these commodities, in exchange
for the manufactures, coals, and minerals of those districts.

It must be evident to every one, on looking at the map, that this
line is imperatively called for, as up to this period the only rail-
way communication for the supply of wool and other goods, and the
conveyance of passengers to Dewsbury, Heckmondwike, Batley,
Cleckheaton, Bradford, and the intermediate places (each containing
a numerous manufacturing population), has been the North Midland
line by Normanton—a very circuitous route, as appears by the fol-
lowing statement of distances of those places :
Relative distances from Bradford and Dewsbury to Barnsley and
Sheffield, by the present route, and the proposed line :

3diles.
From Bradford to Barnsley by Brighouse, and thence by
the Leeds and Manchester line, about .. .. • • • . 35
By the proposed line from liradford, via Cleckheaton and
Dewsbury, to Barnsley .. .. • • .. 20

Being a saving of .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
From Dewsbury, Batley, &c., by the present route to Barnsley
about
By the proposed line .. .. .. .. ..

Being a saying on 23 miles of no less than .. .. 12
The present distance to Sheffield from Bradford is about 51 miles;
by the proposed lino it will be 31,—0r a saving of 20 miles.
From Dewsbury by the present route Sheffield is distant 40 miles ;
by the proposed line it will be 21,—0r a saving of 19 miles.
The same observations, as to saving of distance, apply to London
and all intermediate places ; and it is important to observe that either
by the present North Midland line, or by the projected London and
York Railway, this proposed line will be the shortest and most direct
route from Bradford, Dewsbury, &c., to London.
It may also be noticed, that from Swinton to Leeds by this project
and the Leeds and Dewsbury line, the distance is much less than by
way of Norrnanton.
The following table, taken from the Parliamentary Census of 1841,
will give some idea of the populous Districts through which the line
passes :

POPULATION OF PLACE! (IN 1841), ON THE LINE OF IOAD.
Bradford parish ..... ... 105,257 Earlsheaton Soothill • 4,453
Bradford 34,560 Ossett .. • 6.0.18
Bierlay .... •••••• • • • • • • 9,512 Thornhill parish 7,301
rudsey „ „„••.. • . . • 10,002 Darton parish •.• . • • 3,583
Cleeklieaton •• • ..... 4,299 Silkstone parish .
Gsmersall • .• • • 8,030 Barnsley .......... 12,310
Ifeekmondwlke
Liyersedge „
Batley .... •.. • • 7,07 G ,Wath-upon-Dearne pa-
Dewsbury parish
Dewsbury ••• ,• • 10,600, Sheffield ..... 68,166