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tern : that it will shorten the distance from London to Tiverton
about 32 miles that it will traverse rich and populous agricultural
and manufacturing districts, and receive a large amount of tratlic as
well from railways now in course of construction as from kothers pro-
jected, with every chance of success.
As to the traffic on the lower portion of the line, it is evident that

the vast number of merchant vessels continually detained in the
Channel by adverse winds, would effect an immense saving both in
insurance and time, by discharging their cargoes at Falmouth, and at
once transmitting them to their destination by means of this railt-cis;
and therefore—,-without speculating on the extent to which the ports
on either side of the great promontory of the Land's End may, by
means of this railroad, attract the commerce respectively of Bristol
and Southampton ; to what extent the haexhaustiblemineral wealth
of Cornwall, and the unrivalled agriculturar resources of Devonshire
may be thither developed, or the genial climate of Penzance and
Mount's Bay, " the Montpellier of England," attract a larger propor-
tion of winter visitants—it is obvious that this line will command a
traffic both in goods and passengers, from its western terminus, the
amount of which may be said to be without limit. A glance at the
snap will make it manifest that no competing trunk line can ever be
established between Tiverton and the Land's End. As between
Taunton and Reading, an inspection of the map will show a vast ex-
tent of midland distrist, comprising rich and populous parts of So-
mersetshire, Dorsetshire, and Wiltshire, now altogether destitute of
railroad accommodation.
Recurring to the features of this project as a national work, one of
the greatest in point of magnitude, of vital importance In the event of
war, and of almost incalculable advantage to the general and packet
commerce of the kingdom ; it !may not be out of place to quote here
the following expressions of Sir Robert Peel. Speaking of the project
of a direct line from London to Liverpool through the Trent Valley,
which bore much the same relation to the Birmingham and Grand
Junction that this bears to the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter
Railways, he is reported to have said :—"I consider that the com-
munication between the metropolis and the great outports to be not
a question of hours, but a question of minutes." Of the necessity of this
particular line, Parliament has already expressed an opinion ; for in the
report of the Committee on the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth
line, which was promoted by the Great Western Railway Company,
it was stated that that Company had been required to pledge itself
not hereafter to oppose a direct line to Falmouth ; and it may be
further observed, that a proposed line from Plymouth to Falmouth
was last session rejected, on the ground that it might be supposed
to interfere will that great national object.
The survey of the line has been to a great extent completed, and
correct estimates of the expenditure and returns are In a state of for-
wardness, and Ike whole will be ready for the next session ef Par-
liament.

It is sufficient, as to these points, here to state that there are no
engineering difficulties in any part of the line which have not been
repeatedly surmounted in other cases ; that the first portion will be
constructed at an unusually small expense ; that the undertaking
will meet with the cordial support, concurrence, and co-operation of
the landowners, and that the Directors are Justified in asserting that
this will prove to be one of the most remunerative railways in the
kingdom.
Powers will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow interest at
four pounds per centum per annum on the deposits, and preference
in the allotment of shares will be given to the proprietors of the land
through which the line will pass, and to the shareholders In the
Great Western, the Bristol and Exeter, and other railways connected
with the Direct Western district.

♦pplications for shares, in the form subjoined, to be addressed to
the solicitors to the Company, or to the Secretary, or to any respect-
able broker in town or country
London, September 11, 1845.

FORM OF APPLICATION.

To the Provisional Committee of the Direct Western Railway

Company
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 251. each in
the above Company, and I undertake to pay the deposit of 2/. 12s. 6d.
per skare thereon, or ou any less number you may appropriate to me,
and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Con-
tract when required.
Dated 1845.

!Caine in full
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DIRECT LONDON AND EXETER RAIL-
WAY COMPANY,
With Extension to Falmouth and Penzance.
Capital, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 25/. each.
Deposit, 11. 7s. 6d. per Share.
With power to raise 1,000,0001. more, if necessary.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Vic., c. 110.)
OFFICES, No. 52, REGENT-STREET, WATERLOO-PLACE,
Adjoining the County Fire Office.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
E.
D
S. Blundell,owg.Ere. Esq., Marlborough-place,.,lB,LowerSour-ste
Seymour-street
e
Thomas St.
John's-wood,
Direc-
tor of the Great Eastern and Western, and Manchester and Bir-
kenhead Continuation Railways
George Evans, Esq., Milbury-terrace, Regent's Park, Director of the
London and Holyhead Railway
Colonel Sir Frederick Hankey, G.C.M.G., Queen Ann-street, Caven-
dish-square, Director of the lonian and Ceylon Banks, and Bor-
deaux, Toulouse, and Cette Railway
T. Piers Healey, Esq., Elm-court, Temple
A. W. Hillary, Esq., 66,-Cadogan-place
H. H. Hungerford, Esq., Dingley Park, Market Harborough, and
Dover-street, Piccadilly, Director of the Leicester and Bedford
Railway
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, 19, Clifford-street, Director of
the County Fire-office, and Director of the South and Midlands
Railways
W. L. Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex, Director of the Oxford, South-
ampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway
Walter Shairp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Director of the
Oxford, Southampton, and Portsmouth Railway
Charles William Spicer, Esq., 28, Portman-square, and of Exeter,
Director of the Manchester, Southampton, and Oxford Junction,
Warwick and Worcester, Shropshire Mineral, and Grand London
and Dublin Approximation Railways
(With limited power to add to their number).
Exatissza..--John Brathwaite, Esq., C.E., 4, Trafalgar-square.
BANKERS.—Messrs. Curries and Co., 29, Cornhill ; London and West-
minster Bank, St. James's square.
SOLICITOL—D. E. Colombine, Esq., 8, Carlton Chambers,
Regent-street.
Prospectuses and plans may be had at the Company's office, 52,
Regent-street, and of all the local Solicitors and Agents.

BARNET and NORTH METROPOLITAN
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and fitly Victoria, cap. 110.)
Capital, 400,0001., in 20,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21.25. per Share.
No Shareholder to be liable beyond the amount of his Subscription
PROVISIONAL. COMMITTEE.
The Hon. F. H. F Berkeley, M.P., Chairman, Director of the London,
Hounslow, and Western Railway Company
William Alfred Hill, Esq., Deputy-Chairman, also Deputy-Chairman
of the Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham Railway Company
Sir John Osborne, Bart., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing-
stoke Railway Company
The Right lion. Lord Dunboyne, Belle Hatch House, Henley
William Wilberforce, Esq., James-street, Buckingham-gate, and
Highwood House, Highwod Hill, Hendon
Lieut.-Colonel Glides, Porchester House, Bayswater
William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Director of the Italian and
Austrian Railway
Josiah Heale, Esq., Gray's Inn
Major Lindam, K. 11., Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and
Central Wales Railway Company
Henry Beckley Richardson, Esq., F.S.A., Director of the Colchester,
Cambridge, and Harwich Junction Railway
Rowland Hill Mackenzie, Esq., M.D., Mortimer-street, Cavendish-
square
Henry Chaytor, Esq., Clervaux Castle, Darlington, Director of the
Warwick and Worcester Railway
Thomas Hemming Johnson, Esq., Older's Hall, Hendon, Middlesex
Thomas Priestley, Esq., Principal of Mill lIW Grammar School,
Hendon, Middlesex
The Rev. H. J. Crump, Mill Hill, !Tendon, Middlesex
Captain Grover, R.N.
Captain John Inns, H.C.S., Wentworth House, Mill Hill, Hendon,
Middlesex
The Rev. Bartholomew Nicholls, M.A., Incumbent of St. Paul's,

Mill Hill, Hendon, Middlesex
Mr. William Ward, Underhill, Barnet
Mr. Bruce Johnson, Finchley
William Christopher Daniel Deighton, Esq., Fellow of Queen's College,
Cambridge, Holloway
Ralph Allen Frogley, Esq., Hounslow, Director of the London,
Hounslow, and Western Railway
Colonel Taylor White, Hadley-green, Barnet
Abraham Scott, Esq., Hadley Priory, Barnet
W. J. M'Gwire, Esq., 74, St. James's-street
W. Prosser, jun., Esq., 36, New Broad-street, City -
James Berington, Esq., East-street, Hoxton
George Freeman, Esq., Grange House, Leeds
Richard Cowley Polhill, Esq., Director of the London, Hounslow, and
Western Railway Company
George Godfrey, Esq., The Elms, Hutton, Essex
Robert Wright Wood, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and
Basingstoke Railway Company
Alexander Prince, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing-
stoke Railway
Peter Graham, Esq., Angelo Villa, Gloucester-read, Regent's Park
William Henry Halpin, Esq., 23, Grafton-street, Fitzroy•square
Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and
Basingstoke Railway Company.
Charles Green, Esq., Director of the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and
Central Wales Railway Company
J. N. Nicholay, Esq., Oxford-street
John Godfrey B. Hudson, Esq., Director of the Central Terminus
Railway Company
The Rev. G. A. Walker, Alvisthorpe Parsonage, Wakefield, Direc-
tor of the, Wakefield and. Bradford Railway Company
(With power to add to their number.)
COMMITTEE OP MANAGEMENT.
The Hon. F. H. F. Berkeley, M.P., W. H. Halpin, Esq.
Chairman Richard Cowley Polhill, Esq.
William Alfred Hill, Esq., Deputy- Alexander Prince, Esq.
Chairman George Freeman, Esq.
Major Lindam, K.H. George Godfrey, Esq.
Henry Beckley Richardson, Esq., Robert Wright Wood, Esq.
F.S.A. Charles Green, Esq.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—Francis Wishaw, ESq., C.E., Brook Lodge,
Hendon.
ACTING ENGINEER—J. Bailey Denton, Esq., 10, Gray's Inn-square.
BANKERS----MCSSYS. Smith, Payne, and Smiths,
JOINT SOLICITORS.
Edward Elkins, Esq., 59, Newman-street, Oxford-street
G. P. Hill, Esq., 21a, Soho-square.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Henry Hammond, Esq., solicitor, Wentworth Lodge, Finchley
John Hughes, Esq., solicitor, Whetstone.
SECRETARY (pro tem.)—A. Doull, Esq.

Great
This railway will connect the important and hitherto
thene
gI ct ed
town of Barnet with the London and Birmingham d
Western Railways, Sit or near Holsdon-green ; with the Northern
and Eastern and the Eastern Counties Railway, at or nearTotten-
ham ; and the proposed Direct London and Manchester, and the Lon-
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Wilsdon. Wilsdon Green, Holsdon Green, Kensall Green, westpoe urne ,
Green, Maida Hill, Kilburn, Hampstead, West End, Highgate, Crouch
End, Hornsey, Muswell Hill, West Green, Tottenham, Edmonton,
Ciinford, Statnibrd Hill, Stoke Newington, Newington Green, Clap-
ton, HighburY, Holloway, Kingsland, Layton, Stratford, West
Bow, Bromley, Bethnal Green, Limehouse, Hoxton, 'Somerton,
Ihickney, Shacklewell, Dalston, Isiington, St. Pancras, Shoretlitch,
Blackwall, Euston-square, Pat4dington, Kensington, litunmerscaith.
Brompton, Fulham, Chelsea, &e. ; connecting those places with the
and all those south of tie river Thames.
varrihoeusdirsatallnwcaeyfrs
onammtedhetown of Barnet to the station of the London
and Birmingham Railway, at Euston-square, by this route, will be
I S miles.
The length Of the main line, from the point of junction at Totten-
ham to the London and Birmingham Railway, will be 11 miles ; and
the length of the branch line to Barnet, will be 4% miles. From the
junction with the Birmingham Railway to Chipping Barnet, 9%
miles ; from the Decoy (near Brent-street, Hendon), on the proposed
Barnet and North Metropolitan Junction Railway, to the Northern
and Eastern Counties Railway, by Stamford-hill, 644 miles.
There are no engineering difficulties throughout the entire distance.
The line will proceed beyond the range of the Highgate and Hamp-
stead Hills, and the branch from the main line to Barnet will follow
the valley of the river Brent to the Intended station at Barnet ; thus
the expense of construction will be less than any other metropolitan
line of railway, for the above reason, and because it will pass through
au agricultural district, avoiding all ornamental property and large
collections of houses anti buildings.
Upon the completion of this railway, a large and daily-increasing
;copulation, resident beyond the limits or the metropolitan oninibuses,
will be largely benefited, and land and agricultural produce, hitherto
atibraling an inadequate return to their cultivators, will be quad-
rupled in value.
The ancient, populous, and once-flourishing town of Barnet, too,
'will now have a railway communication of its own, without depend-
ing upon the caprice or uncertain goodnature of any company who
may hold out a prospect of a branch, in future times, from some of
the trunk lines now contemplated.
An ample return of profit to tile investments of shareholders may
he safely anticipated, and will arise from the following sources,
amongst others :-
1. the convevande of passengers.
2. Front the carriage of goods and merchandise frein the City anti
Docks, &e., to the several railways which are intersected by this
line, avoiding -the-delay and excessive cost of conveyance through
London ; also from the conveyance of cattle, &e., more particularly
during the period of the large Burnet fairs:-
3d. From the conveyance of coal, both inland and seaborne, fuel,
and other commodities of general consumption, the great expanse
of which has long been felt by all classes as a most grievous evil.
The
Committee of Management reserve to themselves-the power
eels, as may
of adopting, upon this line,
e,locomotive power, or Presser's Railway
guide and safety WI, be deemed expedient.
Aavlications-
Solicitors
cano__ ham
persons
rnsStutres in the form annexed (and communi-
desirous of promoting the objects of the Com-
p tnyl' may be
Oxford-street; to the Joint
addressed the to the Secretary, at the Provisional OffiCes
E(l,4(l6l.9AtiNtnesw
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_. FORM OF
FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Barnet and North Metropolitan
Junction Railway, a 9, Newman-street Oxford-street, London.
Gentlemen,—l request that yen will allot to rne Shares of
201. each in this Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the
same, and to pay the deposit thereon, or upon /my less number that
may be allotted to me ; and I undertake also to exectite the Parlia-
mentary Contract and Subset-lbws' Agreement when required.
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