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FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SMARM

To the Previsional Committee of the Barnet and Nortk Metropolitan
Junction Railway, 59, Newman-street, Oxford-street, London.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me Shares of
201. each in this Company, and I hereby 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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BARNET AND NORTH METROPOLITAN
JUNCTION RAILWAY.

At a public meeting of the inhabitants of Barnet and its vicinity,
convened by a requisition, numerously signed and duly published,
held at the Victoria Hall, Union-street, Barnet, the 17th day of
September instant,
JOHN THEY PUGET, Esq., of Totteridge, in the Chair ;
It was proposed by J. SPENCER, Esq , seconded by the Rev. J. D.
THOMPsoN, and carried unanimously—
That it is the opinion of this meeting that a direct railway commu-
nication between the northern districts of the Metropolis and the
town of Baraet is of vital importance to its prosperity, and is now
imperatively called for.
It was proposed by BENJAMIN SMITH, Esq., and seconded by
Mr. Joule HOPEWELL, and resolved unanimously-
2. That this meeting having duly considered the prospectus and
snap of the line of the proposed Bamet and North Metropolitan
Junction Railway, and on comparing the same with the other pro-
jected lines, does most unhesitatingly declare that the proposed Barnet
and North Metropolitan Junction Railway will afford to the town
greater advantages than any line of railway hitherto proposed to
come in the vicinity of Barnet, it being the only one which will afford
to the residents of the town the advantage of a station, and that it
deserves the support of the Inhabitants and all others having an in-
terest in Barnet and its vicinity ; and that a petition be presented in
favour of the line immediately upon the assembling of the Houses of
Parliament ; and this meeting pledges itself to further tile views of
the Company, and resolves that a Committee be appcinted to promote
the object and secure the interest of the town of Barnet.

That the Committee consist of
Benjamin Smith Esq.
Mr. John Hopewell
Mr. George Bower
Mr. James Hill
Mr. James Cooper
With power to add to their number

Mr. Brunt
Mr. Spencer
Rev. Alexander Stuart
Rev. John Dawson Thompson

It was proposed by the Rev. ALEXANDER STUART, and se sonded by

J. SPENCER, Esq., and resolved.unanlinously—

3. That the thanks of the meeting be tendered to the Hon. F. H. F.
Berkeley, the Chairman, and the Deputy-Chairman, and the other
members of the deputation from the Barnet and North Metropolitan
Junction Railway Company, for the able manner in which they
have laid before the meeting the project of the Company.
It was proposed by WILLIAM HILL, Esq., and seconded by W. W.
HOLPEN, Esq., and carried unanimously—

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4. That a vote of thanks be tendered to John Hey Puget, Esq., for
his impartial and able conduct in the chair.

BARNET and NORTH METROPOLITAN
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that no further Applications for Shares in
this undertaking will be received after SATURDAY, the 4th October
next.

By order of the Committee of Management,
EDWARD ELKINS, I Joint Solleiton.
G. P. HILL,
59 Newman-street, Sept. 25, 1845.

PORT of WISBECH, PETERBOROUGH,
BIRMINGIIADL and MIDLAND COUNTIES UNION
RAILWAY.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 300,0001.,. in Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. ss. per Share.
No Shareholder to be liable beyond the amount of his subscription.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
John llumphery, Esq., M.P., Alderman of the City of London, Di-

rector of the Central Kent Railway
Thomas Sidney, Esq., Alderman and Sheriff of Londmic Director of

Rastrick's Direct Manchester Railway
D. R. Ross, Esq., M.P., Director of the London and Manchester, and
South Midland Railways
George Danby Palmer, sq.,E magistrate for the county of Norfolk,
and borough of Great irector of the Waveney
and at Yarmouth, and theLinoln, Louth, and Great Grimsby
Railways
Richard Hammond, Esq., magistrate for the borough of Great Yar-
mouth, Director of the Waveney Valley Railway
John King, Esq„ Director of the Lincoln, Louth, and Great Grimsby
Railway.
The Rev. ii. R. Fowler. 7, Manchester-square, Director of the London
and Nottingham Railway
W. A. Campbell, Esq., Director of the Wexford, Waterford, and Va-
lentia Railway
F. l3arretto, Esq., Portland-place, London
Joseph Thompson, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton
Railway
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Norwich, and Blackheath Park, Kent, Di-
rector of the Commercial Bank orLondon, Lothbwy
W. s. Potter, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Ralgay
Ambrose Miller, Esq., Director of the Oxford, Cheltellharn, and
CiVukotellsc 114,way

Major White, Pall-mall, Director of the Northamptom, Banbury, and
Cheltenham Railway
Frederick White, Esq., R.N., Sheerness, Director of the Metropolitan
Junction Railway
George Parbury, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
Samuel Pocock, Esq., Bloomsbury-square, London
John Inglis Jerdein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby,
and Southampton Railway
Capt. Heathorn, Director of the South Metropolitan Gas Company
It. Gray, Esq., 5, Adam's-court, Old Broad-street, London
R. C. Colman, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct
Railway
Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
Henry Chator, Esq., Clervaux Castle, Darlington
James Morrison, Esq., Director of the Bridgewater and Minehead
Railway
W. C. Duppa, Esq., Director of the Canterbury and Dovor Railway
William G. Harrison, Esq., Hill House, Upper Tooting, Surrey
George R. Pye, Esq., Lavenham, Suffolk
William Tuiloch Fraser, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Rugby
Direct Railway
(With power to add to their number.)
BANKERS.
London—The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury
Wisbech—Messrs. Gurney, Peckover, and Co.
Lynn —Messrs. Gurney, Cresswell, and Co.
ENGINEERS.
B. Albano, Esq., M Inst. C.E., and Wm. Lawton, Esq., C.E.
SOLICITOR—IngIeby Thomas Miller, Esq., 3, Abehurch-laue, Lom-
bard-street, London.
SECRETARY PRO TEM.—W. 0. J. Wollaston, Esq.
This line is intended to commence at the Port of Wisbech, by a
junction with the line of railway now forming from Lynn, and pro-
ceed by Thorney to Peterborough, there uniting with the branch of
the London and Birmingham Railway to Northampton, and the
Peterborough and Syston branch of the Midland Counties Railway,
forming a through line from Yarmouth, Norwich, Dereham, Swan'.
ham, Lynn, and Wisbech, to Northampton, Birmingham, Derby,
Nottingham, and the whole of the northern and western parts of
England. The entire distance being completed in about 15 miles.
The importance of this railway, though only 18 miles in length,
will be at once seen by an inspection of the map, when the following
points will be self-evident.
1. That the port of Wisbech is the nearest sea-port for Birming-
ham, Staffordshire, and the Midland districts of England.
2. That this line will open the whole of the manufacturing and
mineral districts, of the Midland Counties and the Potteries to Wis-
bech, the nearest port for Belgium, Holland, Germany, and the nor-
thern States of Europe.
3. That by the formation of this line a direct railway ommunica-
lion will be opened between the port of Wisbech, and the ports of
Southampton, Bristol, Gloucester, and Liverpool.
4. That this line will unite the Birmingham and Midland Counties
system of railway with those of Norfolk, communicating with Nor-
wich and Yarmouth.
Application for shares (which must in all cases be in the usual form,
and accompanied by a reference to a banker or to a member of the
Provisional Committee) or prospectuses, may be made to the Pro-
visional Committee, at theoffices of Mr. I. T. Miller, solicitor to
the Company, or the following Sharebrokers :—Messrs. Shewell and
Son, Tokenhouse-yard ; Messrs. Lyon, 2, Birchin-lane, London;
Messrs. Mann and Son, Norwich ; Messrs. Cruso and Son, L 3 nn ;
Messrs. Peet, Son, and Potter, Nottingham ; Mr. Collis, Birmingham;
Mr. F. C. Spencer, Halifax ; and Mr. Carr, Culver-street, Colchester.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Port of Wished], Peterborough,

Birmingham, and Midland Counties Union Railway.
I request you will allow shares In this undertaking,
and I agree to take the same er such less number as may be al-
lotted to me, and to pay the deposit thereon, and sign the Parlia-
mentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement, when required.
Dated this day of , 1845.
Name in full
Residence
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MADRID AND VALENCIA RAILWAY,
authorised by an Ordinance of her Majesty the Queen of

Spain
Capital 2,400,000!., in 120,000 Shares of 201. each, Spanish reals
(Vellon) 2,000 500 fr., of which 80,000 will be allotted in this
country.

Deposit V. per Share, reals 200, fr. SO.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Most Noble the Marquis of Winchester, 27, Cavendish-square
Lord Charles Beauclerk, Chesham-place, Belgrave-square, and the
Riding, Northumberland '
The Lord de l'lsle and Dudley, 16, New Burlington-street
The Lord Rossmore, the Dell, Windsor
The Right Hon. George Lionel Dawson Darner, M.P., 6, Tilney-street
The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., 27, Regent-street
Sir William Wynn, Chairman of the North Wales Railway
C. Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P., 6, Parliament-street, Chairman of the
Paris /tad Strasbourg Railway
William Collins, Esq., M.P.; Reform Club
Benjamin Williams, Esq., banker (Mesas. Cockburn and Co.)
Edward Bates, Esq., Managing Director of the Argus Life Assurance
Company
Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Esq., Beesthorpe Hall, Newark, Notts, and 8,
Great Ryder-street, St. James's
John Capper, Esq., merchant, 1, Adelaide-place, Londen-bridge
William Chadwick, Esq., Montagu-square, Chairman of the Rich-
mond Railway
• John Charretie, Esq., Park Village East
Gideon Colquhoun, Esq., Walmer: Lodge, Avenue-road, Regent's-
park, Director of the Worcester and South Wales Railway
Company
William Cooper, Esq., merchant, 20, Mark-lane, and Kingswood
Lodge, Dulwich
Edmund F. Dayrell, Esq., 15, Old Cavendish-street, and Lillingstone
Dayrell, Bucks, High Sheriff of Bucks, Deputy-Lieutenant of the
County, Chairman of the Cheltenham and Gloucester Railway and
Bridgewater and Minehead
W. Eales, Esq., merchant, Mincing-lane, Director of the Direct
Western Railway
Count Eyre, 7, Hinde-street, Manchester-square
Vincent Eyre, Esq., 16, Lower Berkeley-street, Director of the
South-Western Railway
Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of the City of London, Director

of the London and Westminster Bank
Richard Forman, Esq , Upper Thames-street
James Gernon, Esq., 13, Conduit-street
Major Graham, 16, Grove, Clapham
John Joseph Keene, Esq., St. Jokn's-wood, near London, Director
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of the National Bank of Ireland
Wm. King, Esq., Director of the Freemasons' Life Assurance Com-

patty
James John Kinloch, Esq., 21, Gloucester-road, Hyde-park, Director
of the North Wales Railway Company
John Knill, Esq., Fresh-wharf, Thames-street, Director of the
Worcester and Crewe Railway
T. Laurence, Esq., St. Mary-axe, Director of the Direct Western
Railway
Major James Oliver 'Lindam, K.H., 8, New-street, Dorset-square,
Chairman of the Gloucester and Aberyatwith and Central Wales
Railway, and Director of the South Midland Junction Railway
Nicholas lii`Cann, Esq., 50, Parliament-street, Director of the Man-
chester and Rugby Direct Railway
Charles Carroll Mactavish, Esq., 22, Rutland-gate
J. 13. 3fontedore, Esq., 2, Winchester-buildings, Director of the
Australian Mining Company
William Nicholson, Esq., Manchester, Director of the 211a...h0ei0,
Railway
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Colonel Edward Stogord, 9, Manchester-square, Director of the
Barbadoes Railway Company
William Gordon Thompson, Esq., Director of the South midland
Junction Railway
S. J. Waley, Esq., 22, De'ronshire-place
William Lechmere Whitmore, Esq., 19, James-street, Buckingham-
gate, Director of the London Central Railway Tenninus.

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
William Chadwick, Esq., Chairman.
Gideon Colquhoun, Esq., -Deputy-Chairman.
Wm. Lechmere Whitmore, Esq.
James John Kinloch, Esq.
Nicholas M'Cann. Esq.
Count Eyre
John Capper, Esq.

John Knill, Esq.
J. B. Montefiore, Esq.
John Charretle, Esq.
S. J. Waley, Esq.
Colonel Edward Stopford
The Hon. C. relhaniVillers,M.P.

BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Curries and Co., Comhill ; Messrs. Masterman and
Co., Nicholas-lane; Messrs. Cockburn and Co., Whitehall.
Madrid—Bank of Isabella 11.
STANDING CO UNSEE—Jackb Waley, Esq., Lincoln's Inn
Soucrroas—Messrs. Keddell, Baker, and Grant, 34, Lime-street.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—P. Prichard Baly, Esq.
SECRETARY—F. Kirkham Fowell, Esq.
Offices of the Company, 37, Moorgate-street.
The present Company has been formed for the construction of a
line of railway from Madrid to the city and port of Valencia, the moat
central seaport on the Mediterranean. It will open out the re-
sources of an extensive district of country, eastward fl'om the capital,
remarkable for the richness and fertility of its soil, the varied abun-
dance of its productions, and the commercial spirit of its inhabitants.
The Committee of Management beg to announce that they have
concluded arrangements forthe immediate survey of the line ; and
that competent engineers have been dispatched to Valencia with the
view of obtaining a correct section of the country, in order that the
works may be put out to contract with as little delay as possible.
F. KIRKIIAM FOWELL, Secretary.
37, Moorgate-street. Oct. 2, 1845.