The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON; MONDAY EVENING SEPTEMBER 2

TEWRY and ENNISKILLEN RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given to the Holders of Scrip who have not
yet left the same for registration, that it is necessary for them to do
so immediately, with a letter signed by the holders, in the form an-
nexed. Registration is indispensable to entitle parties to the rights
and privileges of shareholders ; and notice is hereby given, that if the
holders of scrip certificates do not forward the same to the offices of
the Company, situate No. 19, 31oorgate-street, London, and In
Newry, on or before the 10th day of October next, the same will be
registered in the name of the original subscribers.

NEWRY and MORNE, Chairmen.
Newry and Enniskillen Railway Offices, 19, Moorgate-
street, London, Sept. 27, 1845.
FORM OF APPLICATION.
Sir,--I request you will insert my name in the register of share-
holders In the Newry and Enniskillen Railway Company as a pro-
prietor of shares, the scrip certificates for which I send
you herewith.

MANCHESTER and hUGBY DIRECT
R 4,ILWAY, rid MACCLESFIELD.
,Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,700,0001., in 85,000 Shares of 20/, each.
Deposit, M. 2s. per Share.

PROYDRIONAL COMMITTEB.
The Hon. Howe Browne, Chairman of the Manchester and
Birmingham Continuation Railway I
John Attwood, Esq., 3LP., Park-lane, Hyde Park
John Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street, banker I
Sir John Pirle, Bart., Alderman of the City of London, Di GAS
-
rector of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Packet Com-
pany
William Hughes Hughes, Eeq., Alderman of the City of
London, late M.P. for Oxford, and late High Sheriff fir
Rants
James Henry Attwood, Esq., Seymour-street, Portman-square
George Adam, Esq., White Lion-court, Cornhill
John Magshaw, Esq., Direetor el the Northern and Batters 'v
Railway
fesepla Brown, Esq., Director of the Beet and West of B
land Junction nel- 0
William Chadwick, Esq., Chairman of the Richmond Railway A :
William Henry Forman, Esq., Upper Tkansee-street
Capt. George Prabyn, Bryanaton-square
Robert Watkins, Esq., Director of the Rant and West of Reg-
land Railway
Josh. Underwood, Esq., Director of the Commercial Bank of P.
London
William Langley Pope, Egg., Woodford, Essex
The Hon. Geo Browne, Lowudes-sqnare, Belgrave-gmare
Sir Geo. Rich, 43, Lovendes-street, Belgrave-square
Sir Henry Richardson, Chessel House. Southampton
3ir William Wynne, 3, Suffolk-greet, Pall-mall, Ch erman of the
'aril, wale. Railway, and Director of the Oxford, Sentlutreptem
and Portsmouth Railway
Sir G. A. Lewin, Upper Harley-street, Loudon
Sir John Hare, Langbam-place
The Mayor of Newbury, Director • the Oxford, Southampton, and
Portsmouth Railway
John Addis. Esq., of Rotkerkithe, Surrey, Director of the Centre,
Terminus, and of the Licensed Victuallers' Fire aid Life Office
'1 he Rev. J. Harvey Agworth, Nes, bury
M. W. C. Alston, Esq., Birmingham
W. C. Alston, Esq., Elindon Hall
famuel A shton, Eeq., Wood UM, Prestwich
Jennie Atty, Esq.. Rugby
James Bancroft, Esq., Alderman of the Borough of Manchester
Fleury Barlow, Esq., Ilighfield, litoekport •
lemma Barton, Esq., Didsbury, Director of *e Ckeeter aid Mail.
cheater Direct Railway •
Hugh Beaver, Esq., Manchester
William Fechnez Black, Esq., le, Wilton-placo, Beigrave-square,
Director of the Italian and Austrian Railway Company
Joseph Browne, Esq., Bedford
Captain Barney, R.N., Gosport
Bardgett, Esq., Old Broad-street aid Carshalten, Surrey,
Director of the Italian and Anglian Railway Company
Samuel Swann Brittair, , Esq., Sheffield
Charles Baker, Esq., Southampton
William Bland, Esq., Brixton, Direetor of the Rath Wales Railway
Thomas Brittain, Esq., Manchester
George Burnand, Esq., Stissex-square, Hyde Park
William Bevan, Esq., 48, Conduit-street, Bond-street, Direothe of the
North Wales Mtneral Railway
Jacob Bell, Eeq., Langham-place, London
W. E. Boyce, Esq., Alkerton, Banbury, Director of the East and
West of England Railway
Henry Brown, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zoach
Robert Bramwell, Eeq., Upper Thames-street
William Bradley, Eye, Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Direetor of the Shef-
field and Manchester Railway, and Chairman of the Direct West-
ern Railway
George Barrett, Eeq., Southampton
Lieutenant-Colonel Burslem, North Hants
Charles Bailey, Esq.' Winchester
Henry Baker, Esq., 79, Mark-lane, London
H. Burney, Esq.' LL.D., Gosport
Joseph Beech, Eeq., 15, Grosvenor-plaeo
George Bovill,,Esq., Mill-wall, Poplar
Louis Buckland, Esq., Lloyd's, and Avenue-read, St. Joha'a-weod
Robert Iteman, Esq., Donnington House, Stow-on-the-Weld, Mon-
costershire
W. Bailey, Esq., Wolverhampton
Thomas Challis, Beg., Alderman of London, Direetor of the Wm,.
nester and Oxford Railway
F. F. Clossman, Eeq., Mincing-lane
John Chapman, Esq., Leadenhall-street, Direetor Of the Devon and
Cornwall Railway
S. J. Capper, Esq., Adelaide-place, London-bridge
Edward Chapman, Esq., Strand, London, Direetor of the Itickmend
Railway
Sheldon Cradock, Esq., Leicester
Philip Warner Courtenay, Esq., 16, Capel-street, Beigrave-square
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Direct Regent
Railway
Francis Carleton, Esq.
James Clift, Eeq., Bloomsbury-square
John Churchill, Esq., Bayswater, Directors( the Mantibeater and Dir.
mingham Continuation Railway
Robert Charles, Esq., 23, Endsleigh-street, Tavistoek-square
G. Colquhoun, Esq., Widmer Lodge, Avenue-road, Regent's-park,
Director of the Woreester and Soatk Wales Railway
James Consterdine, Esq., Manchester
Joseph Cragg, Esq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury
Colonel George Disbrowe, Chester-square, London
William Dredge, Esq., Newbury
lames Denis Devitre, Esq., 7, Grosvenor-street, GrogreitOr-sqnare,
Director of the North-Western Railway
George Dunlop, Esq., Southampton
George Dawson, Esq., Sheffield
Richard Dyott, Esq., Freeford
John Adcock Darnley, Direetor of the Liverpool mid
Leeds Direct Railway
Capt. Farrington, R.N., West Cowee, Isle of Wight
E. S. Farrow, Esq., Newbury
W. S. Fitzwilliarn, Esq., Old Broad-street, Direoter of the Benz and
Suffolk Railway
F. B. Freer, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon
William Tulloch Fraser, Eeq., 3, Manchester-square
John Fawcett, Esq., Broom Hall, Sheffield, Director of the Great
Western Railway
. P. Firmstone, Esq., of Mighfields, Wolverhaniptea
George Firmstone, Esq.' Lays Iron, Works, Stourbridge
W. R. Gray, Esq., Newbury
Samuel Giles, Esq., Manchester
Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds
H. P. Gipps, Esq., Montague-place, Bryanstone -square
William Gibb, Esq. Manchester
John Gould, Esq., Esq.,
Manchester
Captain Augustus Heyman, Cadogan-square
Thomas Charles Iliggias, Esq., Turvey House, Bodforiskire
Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad House, Edgbaston, near Birmingham,
Director of the East and West and Birmingham and South Stafford-
shire Railways
Joseph Hopgood, Ewa., Exeter, Direetor of ties Bait and West of
England Railway
W. 11. Hanby, Esq.,Blaekbarri
George Calvert Holland, Esq., M.D., Sheffield
John Newington llughes, Esq. St. Michael's, Winchester
William Hill, Esq., Manchester
Jolla Haddon, Esq., Director of the East aid West of England Hail-
way Company
Joseph Haden, Esq., iron master, Dudley
David Harrison, Esq., Staley-bridge, Director of the Manehester and
Birmingham and Cheshire Junction Railway
T. Hodges, Eeq., Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park, Director of the Leeds
and Carlisle Railway
James Horne, Esq., Clapham Common, Director of the North Lou-
den Railway Company
John Hemming, Esq., North Bank, Regent's Park, Director of the
Worcester and South Wales Railway
T. A. Hall, Esq., Ashfield House, Newcastle, Staffordshire
Frederick llewitt, Esq., Clapham, Surrey
J. H. Iligson, Esq., Maneheater, Director of the Chester and Man-
chester Railway
George Calvert Holland, Esq., M.D., Sheffield
John Hyde, Esq., Manchester
William Jacomb, Eeq., Huddersfield, Direetor of the East and West
of England Railway
William Jenkinson, Esq., Marlborough-square, Salford
George Jones, Esq., Rediand, Bristol
V. Clarke Kemball, Esq., 6, Chester-place, Myde-park
1. Kinloch, FAQ., Gioueester-read, Hyde-park, Direetor of the North
Wales Railway
John Knit], Esq., Thames-street, Director of the Worcester and
South Wales Junetion Railway
Charles Kelson, Esq., Teignmouth, Devon, Director of the East and
West of England Railway
William Knott, Esq., 4, Adelaide-playa, Director of tA. Richmond
Railway
M. W. King, Esq., Amblieoto Hall, Stearbridge
Edward Lomer, Esq., Southampton
William Lochmere Whitmore, Esq., James-street, !Malaita/a-gate,
Director of the Worcester and South Wales Railway
Henry Ledgard, Esq., Wood-street
John Dawson Lowden, Esq., Donghty-street, Director of the Rich-
mond Railway
James Lees, Req., Brookville, near Manchester
Joseph Liggins, Eeq., Kensington, Director of the lenthampton Doek
Company
Captain*J. H Leckie, Richmond, Surrey
Stephen Lewis, Esq., Director of the South Wake Railway
James Lamb, Esq., 25, Hyde Park-square, Diregor of the Trkig,
Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
Samuel Lovell, Esq., Bedford
F. Valentine Lee, Esq., Chester-place, Regent's-park
William Mills, Esq., Newbury
Joseph Maunder, Esq., Ashford-house, Statues
John Malleson, Esq., Wimbledon, Director of the cheat Indian
Peninsular Railway
W. Matins, Esq., Mansion-house-place, London, Director of the
South Staffordshire Railway
William Robert Mesham, Esq., M.D., Redford
George Miller, Esq., Director of the Central Railway Terminus
Charles Mann, Esq., Leamington
Charles Musgrave, Eeq., Meiverton-hill, Leamington
It. F. Mushet, Esq., Birchin -lane, and Coleford
John Marshall, Esq., Hornforth Hall, near Leeds, late Mayor of
Norwich
John Macfarlane, Esq., Direetor of the Sheffield Railway
Thomas Markland, Esq., Malfield, Manchester
James Marshall, Esq., Brinnulgton Mount, Stockport
Robert Millington, Eeq., Ordsall House, Retford,Nottiugharasklre
G. Moore, Esq., St. John's Priory, Banbury
Nicholas 11`Cann, Esq., 30, Parliament-street
William Nash, Esq., Chairman of the jirighton, Lewes, mid Hastings
Railway
Cornelius Nicholson, Req., Cowan Head, Kendal, Deputy-Chairman
of the York aid Carlisle Railway
Captain Alexander Nairne, Director of the Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Company
Joseph Naden, Esq., Dudley
Edward Norris, Esq. Manchester
Robert Ogden, Esq., The Oaks, Manchester •
James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Salford, Director of the Chester and Man.
cheater Direct Railway
P. Oldneld, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Liver-
pool Railway
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Bast and
West of England Railway
Ipsley Pellatt, Req., Director of the Staines and Richmond Railway
Thomas Parker, Esq., Spring-gardens, London
balm Clarke Prescott, Esq., Manchester
William Simpson Potter,
Esq., of Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park Di-
rector of the Oxford, Whitney, and Cheltenham Indepedent,
Railway
Charles Potter, Esq., Darwen, Direetor of Nye Blackburn, Darwen,
and Bolton Railway
James Paxton, Esq., Rugby
Richard N. Philipps, Esq., Sheffield
John Perks, Esq., Wolverhampton
Richard Burton Phillipson, Esq., Rugby
N. M. Prlaulx, Esq., South Western steam-packet Company,
Southampton
Stephen Phillips, Noq., Director of the Whitellaven and Furness
Railway
Charles Phillips, Esq., Camberwell, Surrey
John Thomas Price, Esq., Heald Grove, Manchester
William Raines, Eeq., Temple, Director of the Manchester and Car-
lisle Railway
Richard Ricketts, Esq., Bristol
George Rougemont, Esq., 9, Chester-terrace, Regent's Park, Director
of the North London Junction Railway
Thomas Rolls, Esq., Bank, Chipping Norton
Thomas Robinson, Eeq., Charles-street, Middlesex Hospital
David Roxburgh, Esq., Bloomfield-road, Maida 11111
Hartley Sager, Esq.. Ball Grove, Colne, Yorkshire
Samuel Sangster, Egl., Brixten-hill, Director of the City Gas Com-
pany
Mkjor Charles T. Selwyn, of the Royal Engineers, Exeter, Director
of the East and Weet of England Junction
James Shaw, teq., Salibrd
John Sidebottom, Esq., Harewood Lodge, Cheshire
Willlath Sidebottom, Esq., Etheron-house, Cheshire
David Slitzer, Esq., Rhodes, near Manchester
Charles Slocock, Eeq., Newbury
Edmund Slecock, raga N. 031111
Christopher Shapland, Eeq., Wiens], Director of the Bristol and
Glotteester. South Devon, and Cornwall Railway Companies
Joseph Stocks, Esq., Shibden Hull, near Halifax, Director of the Li-
verpool and Leeds Direct Railway
W. Senhouse, Eeq., Daventry
T. Bridge Simpson, Esq., Deputy Chairman ef the Richmond Railway
Walter Shairp, Esq., Sumex-gardens, Hyde Park
John Stewart, Esq., M.P. for Lymingion, Director of the East and
West Of England Railway
T, U, Sheppard, Esq., Towcester
Joseph Shaw, Esq., Huddersfield
Horatio Smith, Esq., Strangeways Hari, Manchester
W. Tebbutt, Esq., Manchester
Joseph Thompson, Esq., John-street, Bedford-row, Director of the
London and Brighton Railway
Thomas Thomson, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon
W. Tinker, Esq., Manchester, and Hyde, Cheahlre
Matthew Uzielli, Esq., 62, King William-street, Direetor of the Lon-
don and South Western Railway
Charles B. Tripp, Esq., Bristol, Director of the Jersey Railway
Thomas Yarley, Esq., Shorsten Hall, Melton
Edward Westlake, Esq., Southampton
Charles Fenton Whiting, Esq., Beaufort House, Strand, Director of
the Richmond Railway
Benjamin Williams, Esq., banker, 4, Whitehall
B. M. Wilcox, Esq., Hantsville, Torquay
John Ward, Esq., Machin Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield
Fire and Life Insurance Company
George Whitmore, Esq., Austin-friars, Depnly Chairman of the North
Kent Railway
Thomas Woodham, Esq., Winchester
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the ;Yarmouth and WaVerley
Valley Railway
Daniel Watney, Esq., distiller, Wandsworth, Surrey
W. F. Wenningtoa, Esq., Walsall
Smith Willoek, Esq., Birmingham
W. D. Wills, Esq., Bristol
A. H. Wylie, Esq., Liverpool
Edmund M. WavAl, Esq., Halifax
Watkins, ESI., Forrest 11.111, near Workeop

Paul Ferdinand IVlllert, Leg.. Alderman of the Borough of Mar.
ch
Charles James Stanley Walker, Esq., Longford House, Stretford'
Alderman of Manchester, and Director of the Chester and Man-
chester Railway
••• •
*Morris Were, Esq., Moorlands, Southampton •
Johq.Woodeock, Esq., banker, The Elms, Wigan, Director of the
LiVerpool and Bury Railway •
John Yorke, Esq., banker, Thrapson, Northamptonshire
George Turner, Esq., Bunton Hill, Director of the South Stafford,
Oxford, and Southampton Railways
William Halliday,
tsq., Chad Valley, Edgbacton, Birmingham, Di-
rector of the Birmingham and Lichfield Railway
Captain James Johnston, R.X., Director of the Birmingham and
Lichfield Railway .
William Jameson, Esq., Shelton, Staffordshire, Director of the Staf-
fordshlre Potteries Railway
g Charles Goldsmith, Esq., Friday-street, Dlretor of the Great Leeds

and London Railway
Williams Banks, Esq., Honey-lane Market, Director of the' Great
Leeds and Londe!' Railway
Thomas Challis, Esq., Enfield. Alderman of the City of London
Charles Higgins, Esq., Bedford, Director of the Manchester, Bedford,
and Cambridge Railway
The Hon. M. W. B. Nugent, Ingham Grange, Leieesterchire
John Gardner, Esq., Southampton, Provisional Director of the Bir-
mingham and Oxford Junction Railway
Edward Waddilove, Esq., Leamington, Director of the Reading,
Guildford, and Reigate Railways
Edward Welch, Esq., Leamington Provisional Directors of
William Hunter, Esq., Leamington the Rugby, Warwick,
Captain George James Hunter, Leamington and Worcester Rail-
J. M. Cottle, Esq., Leamington way
James Weld, Esq., Archers Lodge, Southampton
Charles Greatrex, Esq., J.P., Walsall
William Macomb, Esq., Poulton House, Marlborough
Cornelius Randall, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Sheffield
Railway
R. A. Thickness', Esq., Beech Hill, Wigan
George Hunt, Esq., Southampton
Pierce Bevan, Esq , Frickieton Hall, near Wigan
John Lamprey, Esq., Marchwood, Sonthampten
Major-General Smith, Rugby
James Fearnley, Esq., Longsight-abbey, near Manchester
Joseph Brook Esq., Greenhead, Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds
and Newbury Railway
Reece Bevan, Esq., Freckleton Hall, near Wigan, Director of the
HOrth Union Railway
George Boyle Chappell, Esq., Alderman of the Borough of Manehet-
ter, and Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway
Thomas Cress Esq., Medfield, near Bolton
E. R. Langworthy, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Liverpool, Man-
chester. and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Railway.
Edmund Peel Thomson, Esq., Leigh Lodge, near Manchester, Di-
rector of the Clitheroe Junction Railway
Edward Shawcross, Esq., Meortield House, near Manchester
- Simpson. Esq., Belgaum Villa, Bristol
Joseph Rake, Esq., Bristol
(With power to add to their number.)

BANICIIB.
Messrs. Masterrnan and Co., London.
The Union Bank, Manchester

ENGINEER. IN-CEIET.
ACTING. ENGINEERS.
Molars. J. B. and E. Birch, Westminster
Brackatone Baker, Esq.. C.E.

SOLICITORS.
John Nethell, Esq., Xing WHlLam.strest, Landon.
Messrs. Joseph and William Heron, and Messrs. Memos and Itsbins,
Manchester

That another and a more direct line of railway is necessary between
the metropolis and the manufacturing districts around Manchester, Is
new. hilly admitted, and the question is, whisk lithehest line to be
adoPted?
recTht:ouatb: vfrOmproroisidedonatollwlaiyanwchiliestfogrni, roarendcommoeptledtle-
the direct communication with the metropolis at a much lees expen-
anthdewgillllotrre
diture of capital than by either of the projected London and Man-
chester lines (Remington's and Ashurst's), the actual distance to be
constructed being only 73, instead of 170 to 180 mike. •
A careful preliminary survey has determined the promoters of this
, railway to adopt nearly a straightline from Rugby toMacchafleld, as
an increased expenditure of 200,000/. or 300,0001. jafficionsiy applied in
the present perfected state of civil engineering, and at the reduced cost
ef the execution ofaarth works, will prove in the encla far greater
real economy, both to the Company itself in the saving elitcted In
the annual expense of working, and also, what is of more importance,
to the country in general, by accomplishing, at a much less cost, the
same end proposed by an entire and distinct line- from London to
Manchester.
These considerations have not bean sufficiently kept in view: by
other parties who have also Proposed is make a railway from Rugby
to Macclesfield, but who, by deviating from the direct tract 'to pursue
valleys And to avoid the irregularities of the face: of. the. country,
obviously lose the advantages proposed by this Company.
The Parliamentary decision on the choice of the London and Brighton
Railway is a parallel case, the• direct line, although presenting more
difficulties to overcome, and involving a greater outlay,-having been
adopted by Parliament in preference to the many cdinpetitig projects,
in a more or less sinuous direction, which were at that tiros supported
in the House by very influential parties.
Shoup it be found necessary, arrangements have been made by
which additional lines of rails will be laid between, Rugby and Lon-
don on the London and Birmingham Railway, whereby the surplus
traffic northwards will be abundantly provided for. . • ,
This line 'also possesses the singular advantage ef affording the
shorteit and most di:reet route from Manchester to Southampton,
Gosport, -and Portsmouth, a • feature presented by no oilier. preNsed
railway. •By adopting the Rugby and Oxford branch of the Great
Western as far as Didcot,' and thence the proposed Oxford, Southamp-
ton, Gosport, and Portsniouth line, the distance from Manchester is
Southampton will be twenty-three miles lees than by any other route,
and on this account the project has been warmly supported by the
Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway Company.

The deviations from a perfectly straight line between Rugby and
Macclesfield to avoid high, ranges of hills, ornamental. parka, or
valuable buildings are very slight, and the line in general offers no
engineering difficulties of any magnitude. The towns more directly
interested as a local line are Netneaten, Hinckley, Atherstone, Market
Bosworth, Burton-upon-Trent, Tutbury, Ashbonme, and Leek.
The Company has made arrangements with tke North London
Junction Railway Company, whereby it has 'secured the use of their
station (of the extent of 'Six acres) in the centre of the City of London,
at the bottom of Moorgate-atreet, whick will prove of the utmost
mportance to this line.
Amidst the many railway projects that now occupy. the public
mind, and involve a vast outlay of capital, it will readily be conceded
that a line that will attain suck important results at so small an
outlay. of capital, and the time required for its construction, and
without interfering with any existing vested intern.% must meet
with general approbation, and at the same time offer a ♦ery excellent
investmentfor capital.

The shareholders in the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Ports-
mouth, in the London and Birmingham, and in the Manchester and
Binning': am Railways, will have a preference in the allotment of
the shares.

The deeds will provide that no call shall be made on the Aare-
holden beyond the deposit now paid, until the Act of Parliament is
obtained, and power will be taken in the let to allow 41. per cent?,
interest. in all calls.

'Application for detailed prospectus, maps, and shares, may be
mad* to the Secretary, at the Offices, 7s, King William-street, City,
London, and at 22, Cross-stroot, Manchester; and the followiti
sharebrokers :—Messrs. It. Sutton, Gi ihble, and Sutton, 22, North-
side Royal Exchange, London ; George Burnand, Esq., Cortihill ;
Messrs, Mackenzie and Laurence, 3S, Cornhill ; Messrs. Barciay,
Alleop, and Co., Royal Exchange ; Mr. William Marshall ; Messrs.
Ifoughland and Leese, 51, King-street, Manchester ; John Wills, Esq.,
Royal Bank-buildings, Liverpool; Messrs. Wellbeloved an I Owner,
Leeds ; Messrs. Edwards and Son, and W. 11. Land, Esq., Bristol ;
J. R. Lane, Esq., Birmingham ; Messrs. Garton and Wright, Shef-
field ; J. G. Kershaw, Esq., Huddersfield ; F. C. Spencer,
Halifax ; Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and Co., Cheltenhana ; Henry
Beaumont and Co., Exeter ; R. F. Lemon, Esq„ Bath ; Joieph
Clark, Esq., Southampton; and Messrs. Flint and Tootal, Hull.

1845.

F. Valentine Lee, Esq., Cheater-terrace, Regent's Park, London.
Direttor of the Eastern Counties Railway Company
George Wortley Lovell, Esq., Great Billing, Northamptonshire
Charles Leavers, Esq., The Park, Nottingham
Christopher Markham, Esq., Northampton
William Mackenzie, Esq., Liverpool and Paris, Director of the Or.
leans, Tours, and Bordeaux Railway Company
James Morrison, Esq., St. Mary-at-Hill, London
G. Marshall, Esq., Godalining, Surrey
E. W. Morris, Esq., Grovehurst, Pembury, Kent
Samuel Oxenham, Esq., Chester-terrace, Regent's Park, London
Samuel Percival. Esq., hanker, Northampton
Mr. Alderman Porter, Northampton
The Rev. Thomas Price, It .ctor of Lianrothel, Herefordshire
Edwin Pell, Esq., Sywell Hall, Northamptonshire
James Watts Peppercorne, Esq., Old Broad-street, London, and Dul
wich, Surrey
Vaughan Prause, Esq., Nether StOwey, Somereetshire
Henry Pywoll, Esq., Northampton
John Phipps, Esq., Northampton
Benjamin Payne, Esq., Leicester
Mr. George Rands, merchant, Nottingham
The Rev. John Lucas Sutton, Rector of Weekly, Northamptonshire
F. Curwen Smith, Esq., Frognall Hall, Hampstead
Thomas Sharp, Esq., Northampton, Director of the Northampton,
Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway Companies
Henry Lenton Stockburn, Esq., J.P., Northampton
William Spooner, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, London
James Robert Spiller, Esq., banker, Northampton
William Strong, Esq., Northampton
George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury
Benjamin Williams. Esq., banker, 4, Whitehall, London
Major James Wailer, St. James's street
Mr. Alderman Williams, Northampton
Mr. Thomas Woodhouse, manufacturer, Nottingham
David Wheatcroft, Esq , Buckhutd-hollow, Derbyshire, Director of
the Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway Company
George Willis, Esq., Hungerford, Berks
John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, Tonbridge, Kent, Director of
the Leicester and Bedaard Lailway Company
Charles Thomas Warde, Req., Clopton House, Stratftrd-on-Avon,
and Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire
The Rev. C. F. Watkins, Vicar of Brexworth, Northamptonshire
Mr. John Woolston, jun., merchant, Wellingborough
Mr. J seph Wykes, merchant, Northampton
Mr. Alderman Walker, Northampton
Mr. Marmaduke Wetherell, merchant, Northampton
Char'es Loxda'e Warren, Esq., the Lodge, Market Drayton, and
Consall Hall, Staffordshire
Allen Allicocke Young, Esq., Orlingbury, Northamptonshire
T. Berwick Yearn, Esq., Herne Hill, Surrey.
BANKERS.
Northampton—The Union Bank
t The Northamptonshire Banking Company
Kettering—Messrs Gotch and Sons
Stamford—The Northamptonshire Banking Company.
Emu:sum—John Urpeth Rastrick, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
London --Augustus Walter Arnold, Esq., 31, Golden-square
Kettering—Messrs. Lamb and Nettleship
Northampton and Welford—Mr. George Pell, jun.
LOCAL AGENT—Arthur Wells, Esq., Nottingham.
PROSPECTUS.
The objects intended to be accomplished by this undertaking are—
Firstly—The supply of local railway accommodation to the impor-
tant districts embraced by the line.
Secondly—The benefit of railway communication with the metro-
polis to a district of country upwards of fifty miles in length at pre-
sent unprovided with that accommodation.
Thirdly—The completion of the chain of railway communication
between the river Severn and the southern and western counties, and
the north-eastern district of the kingdom and the river Humber and
its ports, Including that of Hull.
Commencing at the town of Northampton, In conjunction with the
London and Birmingham, and the lines of railway proposed to con-
verge at that town from Cheltenham, and the west from Worcester
and from Warwick, the line will proceed in a direct course to the
market town of Kettering, by which place all the companies compet-
ing for the line of railway between London and Manchester propose
to pass. It will then proceed also in a direct course to the market
townsof Uppingham, Oakham, and Grantham, on to Lincoln.
The country lying between the towns of Northampton and Grant-
ham is wholly without existing or even proposed railway accommo-
dation, not only to the south but also to the north.
At Lincoln the line will fork, and proceed, on the one hand, in a
northerly direction to the flourishing port of Gainsborough, and, on
the other, by a north-eastern course to the market town and Market
Rosen, on to the rising port of Great Grimsby.
By an union with the Sheffield and Great Grimsby Junction Rail-
way at Market Basen, a direct and uninterrupted attain of communi-
cation will be established between all the above-mentioned districts
and the town and port of Hull.
The sources of traffic which this line will secure are various and
very considerable ; some of them only can be here enumerated, viz.:—
Starting from Great Grimsby, the line will appropriate to itself the
while' of the traffic from thence to the metropolis, and also the
southern and western districts of the kingdom, and, in addition, it
will secure the important and !tweezing local traffic between that
town and Market Rosen and Lincoln.
From Gainsborough, the termini of several railways from the
north and north-west, this Has will carry the traffic to Lincoln, its
county Nolen.
The traffic from Hull to the metropolis, and also to the west, will
enter upon this liae at Market Rosen and proceed thereon to Lincoln.
From Lincoln the whole of the traffic passing to the west and the
intermediate towns must pass over this line.
In the event of the Cambridge and Lincoln Railway Company not
obtaining their Bill, then the traffic from Lincoln to the south and
west, and else the metropolis, will pees along this line of railway ; the
former the whole distance, and the latter in any event to Grantham,
a distance of about twenty-five miles ; and should the London and
York Company not succeed, such traffic will proceed on to Kettering
or Northampton.
The entire district between Grantham and Kettering, a distance
of "more than forty miles, and including :the market towns of
Oakingham and Uppingham, is without a railway or water-carriage
accommodation, and the whole of its traffic therefore will travel over
this line of railway, which will be in the direct course not only to
the west but also to London.
At Kettering this line will unite with that one of the now com-
peting schemes passing that town from Manchester and Leicester to
London, which shall be successful before Parliament.
The country is free fern engineering difficulties, with one or two
exceptions only, and those are more than counterbalanced by the
very favourable gradients of by far the greater portion of the line;
Indeed for many miles the line will run upon a water level.
The line will not interfere with any ornamental property.
The landowners on the line are favourable to the undertaking.'
The promoters reserve power to alter and vary tke route, to ex-
tend the proposed line of railway, and to increase the amount of ca-
pital as may be necessary or advisable.
Prospectuses and plans will be ready for distribution in a few days.
In the meantime, applications for shares, in the undermentioned
form, may be addressed ti either of the solicitors :
FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Northampton, Lincoln, and
Hull Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares
of 201. each in the above Company, and I undertake to pay the depo-
sit of 21. 2s. on each allotted share, and to sign the necessary deeds
when required.

Dated this

1845.

day of
Usual Signature
Niune in full • • • • • • • • . •
Business or Profession .. ........
Place of Business ..
Name, Residence, and 'Business or
Profession (if any) of Referee • •

HDLAND, or CHEP-
DEAN, AND GLOUCESTER
.WAY.
Provisionally.)
,000 Shares of 201. each.
s. per Share.
rond the amount of his Shwa.
serallelTTEE.
William Hughes "Nalco, Alder-
man of London
Col. Hugh Caldwell
George Lawton, Esq.
W. P. Andrew, Esq.
C. It. Colman, Esq.
Joseph Davies, Esq.
John Wheelton, Esq.
Edward Mall, Esq.
Major White
Captain J. P. Macdougall
William Shelford FitzwiWam, Esq.
, William Frederick Beadon, Esq.
Richard Hartley Kennedy, Esq.
James Beech, Esq.
James Morrison, Esq.
(With power to add to their number.)
COMMITTEE OF MAWAGEMENT.
Edward Francis Dayrell, Esq., Chairman
Edward Hall, Esq., Deputy-Chairman
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart. W. P. Andrew, Esq.
Sir William Twyeden, Bart. C. I. Colman, Esq.
Major Whits IT. S. FitzTrillian, Esq.
Wm. Hughes Hughes, Esq. W. F. Beadon, Esq.,
George Lawton, Esq. Agues Morrison, Esq.

WELSH SOUTH
RTOW, FOREST 0,
JUNCTION RITENSION BAIL
(Registered
Capital 900,000/., in 45,
Deposit, 21. Sle
No Shareholder to be liable bey,
P&OVISIONAL
The Right Roe. Lord Rossmore
The Right Hoe. Col. Dawson
Darner, N.P.
The Hon. C. Pelham Villiers, M.P.
The Hon. Robert Gore, M.T.
The lon. Col. Westenrs, XX.
Sir Henry Haaloke, Bart.
91r Henry Webb, Bart.
Sir William Twysden, Bart.
Sir William Bacon Johnson, Bart.
Sir Henry Seals, Bart _

William bellins, Esq., M.?.
Edmund Francis Dayrell, Esq.,
nigh Sheriff of Buckinghamshire
William fitrahan, Esq.

INGINBER.
William Gravatt, Esq., F.R.S.
LONDON BANKERS.

Messrs. Glynn and Ca.; and Messrs. Strahan, Paul, and Co., Strand,

PROVINCIAL BANKERS. .
Messrs. Bromage and Co., Chepstow
Messrs. Bailey, Greatrex, and Co., Menmoutit
Messrs. Williams and Sons, Newport
The West of England Banking Company and Branches
The Monmouth and Glamorgan Banking Company and Branches
The National Provincial Banking Company and Branches
The Gloucestershire Banking Company and Branches
Tke Coanty of Gloucester Banking Company and Broaches.
SOLICITORS.
Mr. W. T. B. Phelps, Newport. Monnumthshlro
Messrs. A'Beckett and Sympson, 7, Golden-square, London
LOCAL AGENTS.
Chepstow—Messrs. Baldwin and Morgan, Solicitors
Gloucester—Messrs. Ellis, Elliott, and Co., Solicitors
SECRETARY.
Mr. William Prothero, 10, Old Jewry Chambers, London.

This Line will join the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester
Junction Railway at Chepstow, and extend westward near to
Piercitield, the far-famed Windcliff, and Tiutern Abbey, to the towns
if Usk and Pontypool, and over the centre of the great iron and coal
Held of South Wales. passing near to and through the midst of the
extensive iron works and collieries of Monmouthshire and Glamor-
gaushire, to join the Aberdare branch of the Taff Yale Railway,
which connects Merthyr Tydvil and Aberdare with Cardiff—thus
Conning a much more direct and almost straight Line—by means of
the railways already made and projected between those immensely
populous districts, and the centre of the kingdom and London, by
means of which the journey by land will be shortened between the
metropolis and this great seat of industry to four and a half, and
between Newport and Cardiff to lye hours, which at present, even by
the aid of existing railways, cannot be performed in less than from
ten to twelve hours.
It will be found by reference to the official census of 1331 and
1641, that the average increase of population of the county of Mon-
mouth exceeded that of any other county in England or Wales ; .tkis
tact is referred to as illustrative of the rising importance of the
country through which this railway is intended to pass, and of
the very large passenger tram. which may reasonably be calculated
non.

The town of Usk, with Ragland, and the rich agricultural district
for many miles around, are supplied by carts from the vicinity of
Pontypool with coal and lime, which are there obtained at a cheap
rate, and in return cattle and provisions of all kinds, hay, corn, and
pit timber to rai enormous extent, are scut to the iron works and
collieries, where the consumption is immense. This traffic alone
must necessarily ensure a considerable revenue to the Company, in-
dependent of the great traffic from the manufactured iron, fire
bricks, and paving stone, which is of superior quality, and in great
abundance. The present cost of conveying and delivering iron and
tin plates from the works to London, Including transit to the port,
shipping charges, freight. and insurance, amounts to little leer; than
20s. per ton, whilst by this railway, and those it is intended to join,
the average cost at the rate usually charged fbr such goods on rail-
ways will effect a saving of at least 25 per cent., and be conveyed
withia twenty-four hours, instead of the average voyage roend the
Land's End of three, and not unfrequently six weeks, and with the
very Important advantage of delivering the iron free from rust,
which is unavoidable on a sea voyage, in small bars more particu-
larly, causing a deterioration of from 15s. to 20s. per ton at least.
This railway, by means of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and
Gloucester Junction, and the Birmingham and Gloucester Railways,
will open Birmingham as a market for the manufactured iron of
south Wales, from which it has been in a measure excluded, from
the difficult and expensive transit by the River Severn and Canals.

Largo quantities of iron ore, known " Hsematete ore," is imported
Into Wales, from Lancashire, Cumberland, Devon, and Cornwall; whilst
ore of a Similar quality, and equal productiveness for iron waking,
exists In abundance in the Forest of Dean, and may be raised and
delivered from thence by means of this and the Chepstow, Forest of
Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway to the different iron works
In Monmouthshire and Glamorgatishlre at an average of from 2s to Si)
per cent. lees than it costs at present, and at the .010 time leave a
handsome remuneration to the Hallway Companies.
The Committee of Management have gone very earethlly into
eetimates of the goods traffic especially, and they feel justitleil in
expressing a decided opinion that the revenue from
the this source a one
will yield a per cent. on the proposed capital of Company, in
addition to the revenue to be derived from the other traffic.
This Railway will pass doge to, and within a few miles of, all the
iron and tin works of Monmouthshire, and the principal part of
tho.se in atamorganshire ; and the following short statistic of the
extent of those stupendous undertakings will give an Idea of the vast
project. The Iron and tin works corn-
importance of the present
mence at Pontypool, and are-
1. The Pontymeile Tin and Iron Works
2. The Blaendare Iron and Coal Works
3. The extensive Tin Works at Ponthir and CaerleOn
4. The Pentwyn, Golonos, and Varteg Iron Works and Rolling
Mills
5. The British Iron Company
6. The Blaenavon Iron Company
7. The Nautylylo
8. The Coalhrooke Vale
9. The Cwn Celyn and Blaina Company
10. The Beaufort
11. The Bbbw Vale
12. The Victoria Company •
13. Thu Abbercarne, Pontymister, and Tydee:Tln Works,
14. The Tredegar Iron Company
15. The Shirhowey
16. The Rhymney and Bute Company
17. The Dowlais Iron Works
18. Carfartha.

Added to which, in the vicinity, are the extensive works and
collieries in the Aberdare Valley, and on either side of the intended
railway are collieries raising and vending about one million mid a
half tons of coal per annum, which it is not unreasonable to ex-
pect will be greatly extended, by the facilities offered through the
intended railway.
In the districts of Merthyr, Aberdare, and westward, there exists
an inexhaustible abundance of a peculiar description of coal, which,
though inflammable, is nearly smokeless, and is found to be superior
iA cptality for steam purposes to any yet known. In the London