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de,' •ndent of-any ether line already before the public, and as it
" osse. N.eis national advantages which none can surpass, must,c when
p
earrieu; out, become, without exception, the mist important railway
in Gres t Britain.
°mica' the first objects of this Company will be to obtain a most
central and ar.cessible terminus in London, and FarringdOn-street has
been fixed uport for that purpose.
It is proposed ta make a tunnel from that point to the Great Western
[ station, from wheive the line will be continued in as direct a course as
possible to Holyhead
In its progress it will pass through or near to the following towns :
—Riekmansworth, Chesham, Wendover, and Aylesbury; it will then
proceed to within a short distance of nicester and Deddington, and
from thence to Banbury; it will touch upon Kineton er Kingtown,
thence proceed onward to Stratford-on-Avon, approach within a
shart distance of Warwick, Alcester, and Worcester, where it will
cross the Birmingham and Gloucester Railroad near to Bromsgrove,
and proceeding thence to Kidderminster, Bridgnerth, and Wenluck,
near to Broseley and Coalbrookdale, will enter the Vale of the
Severn, which it will traverse to Shrewsbury; it will thence con-
tinue fts route up the course of the Severn, and passing into the Vale
of the River Vyrnwy, will proceed to Llan-y-mynech, Llanrhaladr,
and Mechnant, accommodating Welchpool, Oswestry, and Llangollen.
At this point there are three passes, which have been inspected, and
it remains for the engineer to select one as an entrance or passage
into the Vale of the River Dee, when the line will proceed round by
Corwen into the Vale of the River Alwen, from whence it will run
nearly parallel with the great Holyhead Mail-coach-road, by Pentre-
voelas to Capel Cerrig, it will then descend the Vale of Nant Francon
to Bangor and Holyhead.
This line will in its progress feed, and be also fed by the most consi-
siderable railroads of the kingdom, particularly those of the Great
Western ; the Birmingham, Gloucester, and Bristol ; the Oxford,
Worcester, and Wolverhampton ; the London and Birmingham ; and
the South Staffordshire Railway. As this last line will connect
Dudley, Bilston, Wednesbury, Walsall, and Lichfield with the
Derby Railway and the Grand Junction Railway, it would
be superfluous to expatiate en the advantages of bring-
ing all those important centres of the coal and iron trade and
other traffic, and the vast coal and iron fields of Shropshire
into close intercourse, and thus establishing the cheapest and
quickest means of transit between the minerals of Shropshire and the
furnaces of Staffordshire, and the markets of Dublin, London, and
Birmingham. The success of the undertaking is secured beyond a
doubt, by the obvious fact that it will net only bring the richest
mineral and manufacturing portions of England much nearer to the
two capitals, but it will open for the carriage of the valuable pro-
duce of these districts the intermediate country not at present pos-
sessed of any direct line of railway communication. On the other
hand, the Grand London and Dublin Approximation Railway will
give to London and the neighbourhood of Birmingham a route to
Dublin shorter by nearly seventy miles than that of any other exist-
ing railroad ; and finally, enable travellers to complete the entire
distance in ten hours.
It will also ensure two mail deliveries in the day.
Up to the point where the line approaches Corwen, no engineering
difficulties are presented. At Corwen a deviation from the straight
line may be requisite to avail tunnelling, after which a straight line
will be resumed te Bangor, where that already in construction will
be adopted for the rest of the route to Holyhead ; or, if found de-
sirable, power will be taken in the Bill to continue an independent
line by Beaumaris to Holyhead.
After a careful investigation ef the traffic arising fun passengers,
the conveyance of mineral and agricultural produce, and the direct
transmission of the mails, the Directors feel warranted in anticipating
a return of at least ten per cent. en the capital invested.
A treaty is in progress with a Steam Navigation Company to run
powerful steamers between the harbours of Holyhead and Kingston
on the arrival of the trains, so that passengers and merchandise may
be booked throughout from London to Dublin, including all the inter-
mediate stations, and be thus enabled to complete the entire distance
in ten hours, without the inconvenience so painfully felt of changing
from the conveyance of one proprietary t• that of another. The
railways new in active progress in Ireland, running from Dublin
north and south throughout the heart of the island, render it self-
evident that the chain of communication between the sister countries
is, by this present undertaking, rendered at once complete
and intimate to the last degree. As the leading aim of
this Company is te save time and distance, every attention of
the Directors, and every advancement in science will be made
available to gain the utmost possible amount of speed, cern-
patible with safety, the lines being formed expressly for this end ;
while, finally, the very lowest rate of fares will he adopted for both
passengers and traffic, and the public will find in the improvement of
the inferior carriages, and some additional comforts fur those of the
first class, that the Grand London and Dublin Approximation Rail-
way will be placed in advance of any other now existing, and in all
its details will be rendered worthy an enterprise se national in its
character.
Application will be made for a Bill to incorporate the Company
early in the next session. The usual power will be taken by the Act
to allow interest at 41. per cent. per annum on the amount of the
subscriptions paid up ; and no subscriber will be answerable for more
than the amount of his deposit until the Act be obtained, and then not
beyond the amount of his subscription.
Applications for Shares may be made, in the subjoined form, to
the following Solicitors, Brokers, and Agents :—Messrs. Cameron
and Bains, 18, Parliament-street, London ; Mr. Roger Mortimer,
Throgmorton-street, London ; B. R. Pemberton, Esq., Atherton-
buildings, Mr. Wm. Keel, and Messrs. Schultz and Carr, Liverpool ;
Mr. J. R. Lane, Birmingham ; James Jamieson, Esq., Leeds ; Messrs.
Cardwell and Sons, Manchester; Mr. James Butchart, Huddersfield;
Messrs. J. and J. Kimpster, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Mr. Hervey,
Halifax; Wm. Lee, Esq., Cheltenham; R. P. Clark, Esq., Bristol;
Messrs. Graystone and Eari,York ; Henry Beaumont, Esq., Exeter;
Messrs. Munro and Co., 44, George-street, Edinburgh ; Charles
Cenper, Esq., 1, Parkside-street, Edinburgh; James Jardine, Esq.,
Glasgow; Wm. Oliphant, Esq., Perth; and Messrs. Labertouche
and Stafford, Dublin.

SHBURTON, NEWTON, and SOUTH
1-1„ DEVON JUNCTION RAILWAY.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
RICHARD CAUNTER, Esq. Chairman
THO BIAS GILL, Esq. M.P. Chairman of the South Devon Railway
Company, Vice-Chairman
John Rundle, Esq. Directors of the South Devon
William Fox, Esq. S Railway Company
Charles Belson, Esq.
John Caunter, Esq.
W. R. Whiteway. Esq.
Edward F. Bean, Esq.
Edward White, Esq.
The time for receiving applications for shares having expired,
the Committee of Management will proceed with the allotment at
the earliest possible period.

By order of the Committee,
R. TUCKER } solicitors.
G. CAUNTER

Ashburton. Oct. 11. 1843

T)RIGIITON and CHELTENHAM DIRECT
RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that no further application for shares in
this Company can be received. The Committee are now proceeding
with the allotment, and the letters will be issued as soon as the re-
quisite Inquiries as to the responsibility of the applicants can be com-
pleted.

FREDERICK rtaiNT, Secretary.
Company's Offices, 34, 11•oagate-street,
October 14, 1343.

PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.
GREAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT
RAILWAY.
By a Junction with the Eastern Counties Railway at Bedford.
Distance, 120 miles.
Capital, 2,500,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 1.14. each.
Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per Sbtre.
Pursuant to the Standing Orders of tlr.: House of Commons.
PROVISIONAL CO2IIIITTEE.
The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne
The Lord Stephen Chichester. e;rmeau, Belfast, and Array and Navy
Club, London
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air Robert Alexander, Bart., Charles-street, Manchester-square
Sir William Twisden, Bart., Dorset-street, Portman-square, Director
of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction, and
Erewash Valley Extension Railways
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Parthenon Club, Director of the
Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction, and of the
South and Midland Junction, and West Midlands Railways
Sir John Osborn, Bart., Earl's-court, Brompton
Sir John Key, Bart., 9, King's Arms-yard, Alderman of London, Di-
rector of the Manchester and London, and of the Direct Liverpool
and Leeds Railway
Captain Frederick Polhill, M.P. for Bedford
Major-General Sir Robert Barton, K.C.H., Director of the York and
Lancaster Railway
Major-General Thomas Morgan, Singleton-house, Torquay
Major-General Wright, Royal Engineers, Gloucester-place, Portman-

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square .
William Ackroyd, Esq., Westboume Lodge, Otley, Director of the
East and West York, Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and Leeds and
Carlisle Railways
Thomas Alexander, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian, and
Trent Valley Continuation Railways
Francis Slmes Alllott, Esq., Nottingham,. Director of the Amber-
gate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction, and one of
the Provisional Committee of the Nottingham and Gainsborough
Railway Companies '
Henry Ambler, Esq., worsted spinner and manufacturer, Watkinson-
hall, near Halifax, Director of the West Yorkshire Railway, and
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
C. H. Anderson, Esq., Upper Clapton, Director of the South Midland
Railway
George Ashlin, Esq., Director of the Liverpool and Newcastle-npon-
Tyne Railway
Richard Armitage, Esq., Huddersfield and Great Grimsby, Director
of the Manchester and Great Grimsby, and Keighley, Halifax and
Huddersfield Junction Railways
The Rev. Charles Edward Armstrong, M.A., Hemsworth
John Alexander Bicknell, Esq., Brandon-cottage, Bristol, Director of
the Oxford and Worcester Extension,Railway
Charles Bamford, jun., Esq., Director of the Hull and Barnsley, and
Leeds and Carlisle Railways
William Bardgett, Esq., Winchester-house, Broad-street, Director of
the Italian and Austrian, and the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford
Railways
William Banks, Esq., Honey-lane-market, Director of the Manches-
ter and Rugby Direct Railway, via Macclesfield
John Byng Banks, Esq., Stockwell, Surrey
Esq,William Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Direc-
tor of and South and Midland Junction
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Railw
Henry Weeeh Burgess, Esq., Temple's-park, Hampstead, Director of
the Goole, Doncaster, and Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Great
Grimsby Railway
Charles Salisbury Butler, Esq.,the Lodge, Upper Clapton
Josiah Burrowes, Esq., Castle house, Gomersall, near Leeds
Thomas Burnley, Esq., Gomersall, near Leeds, Director of the Leeds
and West Riding Junction Railway, and of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway
Samuel Bateman, Esq., Croft-house, near Bradford, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Selby
Railway
Dr. Brigstock, Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester
Railway
Joseph Browne, Esq., Bedford
James Brand, Esq., 9, New Broad-street, Director of the Cambridge
and Lincoln, and Great Luxemburg Railway
John Blore, Esq., Tutbury, Director of the Tean and Dove Valley,
the Derby and Gainsborough, the Shropshire Mineral Railways, &c.
Job Bullivant, Esq., East Retford
William Butt, Esq., Sandiacre, Derbyshire
Robert Burton, Esq., merchant, Woodville, Notts
James Butlin, Esq., banker, West Field-house. Rugby, Director of
the Rugby and Huntingdon, and one of the Provisional Committee
of the Oxford and Birmingham Junction Railway Companies
Richard Biddle, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Richard Birkin, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
John Fillingham Bishop, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Thomas Butt, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Richard Bradley, Esq., Grantham, Director of the Amber-gate, Not-
tingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Chairman of the Direct
Western, and Isle of Ely and Lincolnshire Junction Railways
John Fowler Burbidge, Esq., Mayor of Grantham, Director of the
Amber-gate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction
Railway
Jonathan Burton, Esq., merchant, Carrington, Nottinghamshire
Director of the Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway
William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., magistrate, Hull, Director of the
Rugby, Warwick, and Leamington, and of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railways
Thomas Challis, Esq., Alderman of London
John Carter, Esq., Kottingley
Thomas Carter, Esq., Tanshelf, Magistrate for the Borough of Pon-
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tefract
Charles Charnoek, Esq., Holmfleld-house, near Ferrybridge
Millis Coventry; Esq., Director, of the South and Midland Junction,

and Birmingham Extension Railways
B. Clements, Esq., Lowndes-square, Director of the Western Ja-

malca Railway
Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsbnrough, Director of the Manchester, Mid-
land, and Great Grimsby, Gainsborough, Goole, and Isle of Ax-
holme, and the Wisbeach, Isle of Ely, and Lincolnshire Junction
Raiways
J. Cottam, Esq., East Retford
John Cutts, Esq., Little Bardileld-hall, near Braintree, Essex
James Clift, Esq., Director of the Paris and Strasburg, Southampton,
Manchester, and Oxford, and the Manchester, Rugby, and Mac-

clesfield Railways
W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the London and Birmingham
Extension
Henry Sherrard Coleman, Esq., Crown-court, Old Broad-street
John Caunt, Eaq., Nottingham
Thomas Mark Carter, Esq., Woodgreaves-house, near Wakefield, Di-
rector of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Direct

Railway
George Augustus Hamilton Chichester, Esq., Oakfleld, Donegal, and
15, Chesham-place, Belgrave-square, Director of the Grand Wales
Central, and London and Exeter Direct Railways
William Champion, Esq., Worksop
William Cheatham, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Nathan Cooper, Esq., Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Francis Dacre, Esq., Stratford, Essex
George Dennis, Esq., Director of the Rhondda and Ely Valleys June-

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tion Railway
Joseph Dent, Esq., Ribston-hall, Wetherby, Magistrate for the
North-west Riding of Yorkshire
A. A. Davenport, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Exten-
sion, and Worcester Junction Railways
Joseph L. Davenport, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby,
and Manchester Railway
John Ailcock Dixon, Esq., Burnley, Lancashire, Director of the Li-
verpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Richard Dransfield, Esq., Dalton, Huddersfield, Director of the
Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct,
and of the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railways
Edward Doubleday, Esq., F.L.S., Director of the Rugby. Warvzi,sv-
___ancl_l2lThreeater Railway
Matthew Dawson, ESQ., Pontefract
William Dairson, Esq., tWakelleld, Director of the Peterborough,
Wisbeach, Lynn, and Boston, and the Sheffield, Wortley, Silk-

stone, and Wakefield Railways
John Campbell Dicker, Esq., New-hall, by Neston, Director of the

Birkenhead and Holyhead, and the Birmingham, Oxford, aid

Reading Railways
Henry Dunn, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Manchester, Madera-
field, and Great Grimsby Railway
Francis Ewart, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Rey-

mouth Railway
John Elliott, Esq., Townhoad-house, Rochdale
Lieut.-Col. Fitch, 36, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Ma',laging Direc-
tor of the York and Lancaster Railway
Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Ex-
tension Railway
Solomon Foster, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the NcAtingham, Mans-
field, and Midland Junction Railway
Martin Furniss, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the .Erewash and Shef-

field Railway
John Griffiths Frith, Esq., .Austin-friars, Chairrnaa of the London.
derry and Coleraine, and, Leeds and Carlisle hallways
William Fisher, Esq., Amcot ta-house, near East Retford
James Fothergill, Esq.. merchant, Nottingham
Richard W.Fltzpatrick, F;sq., barrister-at-law,Gloacester-road, Yyde

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park-gardens
George Green, Esq., Prant,,frut
James Gilbertson, Esq., A lderman, and Magistrate for Hertfur,l
William Gibson, Esq., 0 asgow
H. P. Gipps, Esq., DiTerAor of the Coventry and Nuneatoi Railway
Charles Goldsmith, Eis, 4., Friday-street, Cheapside
William Gordon, Esq., F.L.S., Director of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct Railway
Henry Swan Graven, Esq., Ely flank-lodge, Halifax
John Gully, Esq., ftv ckwerth-park, Ackworth
William Gibbs, Esq. , Camberwell, Director of the .South Metropolitan

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William Gill, Esq., Richmond, Yorkshire, Director of the Leeds and
Carlisle, and Northumberland and Lancashire Railways
John Godber, Hucknall Torkard, NOttinghamshire. Director of
the Amber-g at e, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction,
and Nottinghe m and Gainsborough Railway Companies
Thomas John G reen, Esq., Mayor of /..tedford
Richard Hall, Esq., Carnarvon-hall, Watford, Director of the Strat-
ford and Tic, tmes Junction, and North Woolwich Railways
R. F. Hall, Wiseton, near Ibcwtry
S. C. Hall, Ei,q., F.S.A., Inner Temple, Director of the Erewash
Valley E. ctension and West Mieiland Railways
W. H. HalpiM, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing-
stoke, andl Sheffield and Macclesfield Railways
Robert Hull., Esq.. M.b., Norwich
Samuel Ha mmond, Esq., Leei
John Georg. Hammack, Esq.., Director of the Direct Western, and
the Metropolitan Junctioni!tailways
William Hepworth, Esq., J'r,ntefract, a Deputy-Lieutenant and J.P.
for the West Riding of V.torkshire
John Mastal Hepworth. :Esq., Eden-place. Ackworth, J.P. for the
West Riding of Yorkshire
Joshua Hepworth, Esq..-Rogerthorpe-hall, Badsworth
Thomas Heel's, Esq., Se ipton Castle, Skipton, Director of the Lanca-
shire and North Yf ,rk shire, Lancashire and Yorkshire North
Eastern, and of the.:',Overpool and Leeds Direct Railways
John Holmes, Esq.,-EvAt Retford
Robert Herries, Esq., • East-street, Leeds, Director of the Liverpool

and Leeds Direct adway
Charles Iliolbrooke,„ 7r:sq. Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and

- Manchester
John Howard, Esri.,, Royal Foundry, Bedford
Thomas Haigh, Esq Wakefield, late High Constable of Wakefield
John Hardy, Jun., banker, Grantham, Director of the Amber.
gate, Nottingh and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
John Harris, Esi , Springfield-house, near Bedford
Charles Higgins„ sen., Esq., St. Cuthbert's, Bedford
Geerge Higgins Bedord
The Rev. Chin :brs Walter Hudson, Rectory, Saundby, near Gains.

borough
George Hurst, Msq., Bedford
John Midge, I :set., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and Di—
rector of the% 'Derby and Stafford Railway
Arm. Empson Jialland, Esq., Holderneas House, near Hull, Director
of the York: and Hull Railway
Boswell Midi fleatenJalland, Esq., Holderness-house, near Hull, Magis-
trate for tb el East Riding of York and Borough of Hull, and Di-
rector ofthelliverpool and Leeds, and Hull and Barnsley Railways
John Jameso a, Esq., Honey lane-market
William Jaine son, Esq., Shelton, Staffordshire, Director of the
Staffordshi re Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct
Railways
Win. Jones Jo •hnson, Esq., Bedford
Joseph Jones„ Esq., Mayor of Hull, and Director of the Liverpool and

Leeds Din to t Railway
Thomas Re; .iald Kemp, Esq., Director of the Blythe and Churnet
Valleys, or Macclesfield and Lichfleld Railways
Jeremiah K:e ye, Esq., Huddersfield and Great Grimsby, Director
of the Ma nt :heater and Great Grimsby, and Keighley, Halifax, and
IluddersE ell Junction Railways
George Kip: tax, Esq., Ordsall-villa, near East Retford
Mr. Samuel Knight, Pontefract
George Law 'ton, Esq., Ditchley's, Essex, Director of the Chepstow,
Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway
H. C. Leahy„ :Esq., St. James's-square
Moses Edwe .rtl Legg, Esq., Watling-street, London
Captain Hen ry" Leech, Bedford
Charles Den tint Leech, Esq., Bury St. Edmunds
William Ley„ Esq., 40, Gloucester-place, Portman,-square, Director of
the Readit tf; and Reigate Railway
L. Stephens Lyne, Esq., Broad-street, Ilireetor of the Western
Jamaica R al Tway
P. Bennett L Its, Esq., Director of the 'ago and Shannon, the Ips-
wich and Southampton, and tha Cork Passage and Kinsale
Railway
James Lamb, 3Elq., 25, Hyde-parkquare, Director of the Scottish
Western, altcl the Direct Western. Railways
John Lart, Ef iq ~ Wood-street, Clic aside
James Leemit Esq., Bradford. .director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct, and 3 Zeighley, Halifax. and Huddersfield Junction Railway
Samuel Lovell., Esq., merchant, I ..ledford
Captain J. P. :Macdougall, Fir-f :rove, North Brixton, Director of the
Leeds, Fle et wood, and Livevioel, and Isle of Man Railways
John B. Mace , Esq., Leeds
Thomas Hat:Vitt Massey, E 1., Newark-upon-Trent, and Bedford-
square, 113eda-park
Thomas MiTtak, Esq., Hull.
William Meer, Esq., East itet `'3rd
W. R. Mesha in, Esq., M.!). , Bedford
Robert Meliington, Esq., 4) ,-dean_house, near East Retfbrd, Director
of the Leeds and Carlis'm Railway
William Moorhouse, Es 4., Marine-villa, Knottingley, a Provisional
Director of the Sheltie' Barnsley, and Wakefield Railway
Peter Morrison, Esq., Di re etor of South and Midlands Junction, and
London and Binnlngh ar a Extension Railways
James Muscroft,Esq., tefract, Magistrate for the Borough, a Pro-
visional Director of V ;lo Oxford and Worcester Extensioa and
Chester Junction Rai'-'1 aly
George Mackintosh, Er ci Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square.
John Manwaring, Ec q. , Pateley-bridge, Yorkshire, Director of the
York and Lancaster B ailway
Ord Massey, Esq., Ha' le acs-house, Burnley, Director of the Liverpool
and Leeds Direct, the Blackburn, Chorley, and Liverpool, and
Keighley, Halifax, a ad Huddersfield Junction Railways
Thomas Micklethwal to Esq., Wakefield
Jitarles Middleton, is q., Nottingham-pink
Joseph Nadin, Esq.„ Manchester, Director of the Manchester and
Southampton, and 'the Leeds and Carlisle Railways
William Joseph Nee h. , Esq., Bedford
John Norton, Esq., .1, St. George's-square, Westminster, and Moat-
house, Brentwoc d , Director of the Great Western Direct Rail-
way, &c.
Robert Newland, F
Kempson-house, Bedfordshire
Thomas North, Es. Ile, Mayor of Nottingham

Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continuation
and Holyhead Junction, and West Midland and South Midland and
Oxford Extension Railways
John Ostler, Esq., Director of the Hull and Barnsley, and Leeds and
Carlisle Railways
Robert Oxley, Esq., M.D., Pontefract
George Osgood, Esq., Raymond-buildings, Gray's Inn
Charles Frederick Pa'grave, Esq., Bedford
Bennett Pell, Esq., 12, Finsbury-place North
W. Perfect, Esq., Monkbill, near Pontefract
John Phillips, Esq., Mayor of Pontefract
George Parbury, Esq., Mansfield-house, Russell-square
William Patterson, Esq., Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire
Robert Power, Esq., Director of the Great Britain Life Assurance

Society
Thomas Ingham Raynor, Esq., Birstal, Leeds, Director of the Leeds
and West Riding Junction, an the Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railways
John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Birming-
ham Direct, Leicester, Iron and Dove Valley Railways
Edward Rawlina,-Ea4.o.lledford
Robert Richards, Esq., Director of the West Midland Railway
John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Bycullah-house, Eulleld, Managing
Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
James Robson, Esq., Tansheif, Magistrate for the Borough of Pon-
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tefract
Frederick Redden, Esq., Bedford
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester,
and Weymoath Junction, the '1 ring, Reading, and Basingstoke,

and the Direct Western Railway
George Robinson, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barniley

Junction, and of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railways
John Richardson, Esq., Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate,
the East and West Yorkshire, and the Midland and Thirsk Junc-
tion Railways
Thomas Routlidge, Esq., Alderman, Pontefract
James Russell, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director of
the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton, of the Tring,
Reading, and Basingstoke Railways
Edward Sankey, Esq., Canterbury
Henry Savage, Esq., Director of the Irving, Reading, and Basing-
stoke Railway
Benjamin Shaw, Esq., Kilburn Priory, Director of the Churnet
and Blythe Valleys Railways
J. E. Sichel, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and
of the Leeds, York, and Midland Railways
William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Director
of the South Midland Junction Railway, &c. &c.
George Walker Smith, Esq., Horbury-hall, Sheffield, Director of
the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Smith, Esq., M.D., 30, North-street, Leeds,Director of the
Leeds and York, and Liverpool and Leeds Railways
Joseph Smithson, Esq., Kirkless Mills, near Halifax
John Sanders, Esq., Bedford
J. W. Striven, Esq., Throstlenest, near Otley, Director of the
Leeds, York, and Midland Junction Railway
Richard Shaw, Esq., Tulledge, near Burnley, Director of the Kelgh-
ley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railway
James Henry Simpson, Esq., M. 8., Pontefract
Joshua Annable Skidmore, Esq., St. John's-place, Wakefield
William Starkey, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Sheffield, Wort-
ley, Silkstone, and Wakefield, and the Leeis and York Railways
William Stewart, Esq.; Horbury, near Wakefield
George Eaton Stanger, Esq., Nottingham
Samuel Herrick Surplice, Esq., Beeston, Notts
John Streets, Esq., merchant, Spring Field-house, Sandiacre, Derby-

shire _
William Surplice, Esq., _; ttingham
Samuel James Sykes, Esq., Hull
James Tempter, Esq., Brixton-rise, Director of the Derby, Vttoxeter,
and Stafford Railway
Thomas S. Trapp, Esq., banker, Bedford
John Best Trapp, Esq., Redford
Samuel Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street and Gorbals, Hull, Di-
rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway
Thomas Turney, Esq., Park-lodge, near Halifax
William Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street and Gorbals, Hull
Joseph Francis Tempest, Esq., F.S.A., the Mount, Ackworth
Cbarles Vickers, Esq., Pontefract, Director of the Manchester, Hud-
dersfield, and Great Grimsby Railway
Wm. Watson,Esq , Daybrook, Nottinghamshire, Director of Amber-
gate, Nottingham and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
Samuel Warburton, Esq., Hunslet, Leeds, Director of the Wakefield
and Harrogate Railway
The Rev. Richard Whitelock, M.A., Saddleworth, Magistrate for
the West Riding of Yorkshire
Joseph Whitaker, Esq., Ramsdale, Nottinghamshire
William White, Esq., Bedford
John Williams, Esq., M.D., Magistrate for Yorkshire, Director of

the York, Hull, and East and West Riding Junction Railway
Abraham Wood, Esq., Rochdale, F.R.C.S.
Joseph Wyles, Esq., Grantham, Director of the Amber-gate, Not-
tingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
David Wheatcroft, Esq., Bucklaud-hollow, Derbyshire, Director of
tke Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, ar.d Direct Birmingham and
Leicester Railways
William Williams, Esq., Royal Foundry, Bedford
Charles Waite, Esq., 3, Old Burlington-street, and Willesdon-house,

Jol‘ihnidd Middlesex
Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Willett, Esq., Bradford
The Rev. H. Burdett Worthington, Bedford
G. N. Wright, M.A., Coed y Celym, Denbighshire, and L
square. London, Director of the Thames Valley Railway
George Yates, Esq., merchant, Halifax
George Witt, Esq., F.R.S., Direetor of the Bedford, London, and
Birmingham Railway, and Aidermand of Bedford
George Gillett, Esq., 2, Grsovenor-gate, Hyde-park
(With power to add to their number).
ENGINEER-IN-CUIEF—Sir John Macnell, LL.D., and F.R.S.

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AMINO ENGINEER—WiIIiam Mußinger Higgins, Esq., C.B.
LONDON SOLICITORS.
J. R. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthaß-court.
Owen Gray, Esq. 125, Great Tower-street.
J. B. Illidge, Esq.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Leeds—Charles Naylor, Esq., and
nvntefract—Henry John Coleman, Esq.
Rotherham—John Oxley, Esq., and John Wright Potter, W>q.
Rest Retford—Messrs. Mee, Bigsby, and Mee.
N ottingham—Messrs. Fox and Butlin.
k)alcham—Henry Hough, Esq.
Kettering—Thomas Marshall, Esq.
Bedford—Ezra Eagles, Esq.
SECRETARY —J. B. Owens, Esq.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT—J. M. Widdicombe, Esq.
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co.
Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Company
Doncaster The Yorkshire Banking Company.
Pontefract

The object of this railway is to connect, in the most direct course,
the important and increasing manufacturing town of Leeds with the
metropolis, the want of which has long been felt, and is too univer-
sally acknowledged to need any comment, and it is under this con-
viction that this important undertaking, alter several minute exa-
minations of the country through which it will pass, has been brought
forward.

The proposed line will commence at the jnnction of the 3fanchester
and Leeds, and York and North Midland Railways, near Wakefield,
and will terminate by means of a junction with the Eastern Coun-
ties Railway, at Bedford (to which place it is the intention of that
Company to extend their line in the ensuing session of Parliament),
and by thins availing itself as far as possible of the existing railways,
will complete the most direct and least expensive trunk line, from
London to Leeds, York, and Hull. It will pass in its route within an

available distallatßifaifientWiivf.arm MiiiaiglV;
Vallr.m, and Stamford.
Tb e importance of such a line is obvious, both from the nature of
its COW se (embracing, as it does, a most extensive population within
its limits), as also from the absence of any direct communication
for the conveyance of passengers and merchandise.
By the construction of this railway, railway communication to
London will be given to Peterborough and Leicester (by means of
the Syston and Peterborough Railway), to Newark and Nottingham,
(by the Nottingham and Lincoln line(, and to Sheffield and Gains-
borough, )by the Sheffield and Gainsberough line), by a much shorter
route than by any existing railways.
Independently of the advantages offered to the towns in the seve-
ral counties through which this line will pass, the line in itself, con-
sidered us a direct trunk line between London and Leeds, is sufficient
to justify its formation, it being well known that the existing traffic
between these two places would produce such a retura on the capital
required, as to admit of a dividend equal to that of any railway in
operation; but when it is borne in mind that a company is being
formed for the purpose of connecting Glasgow with ,Leeds by
means of a junction with the York and Carlisle Railway, no better
line can be presented to the public, as it will not only effect a direct
communication from Glasgow and the western .parts of Scotland to
London, but would also connect Edinburgh and the eastern parts of
Scotland, as well as Durham and Newcastle (by the York and North
Midland, and Great North of England Railway a) with the metropo-
lis, which would be considerably shorter than the accommodation
offered by any other company ; and when cost of construction is con-
sidered, there cannot be a doabt but that preference would be given
to the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway.
The fact of the Eastern Counties Railway being connected by a
branch line with the East and West India Docks on the river
Thames, and the Railway Company having recently leased for 999
years the extensive pepper warehouses belonging to those docks,
'which are capable of receiving 12,000 tons of goods, together with
uharfh adjoining, where the shipment and trans-shipment of goods
from all parts of the world can take place, is a most important fea-
ture in favour of the direct communication from the manufacturing
'towns of Glasgow and Leeds offered by the Great Leeds and London
Direct Railway and, by branch railways to the main trunk line,
through which all goods from the manufacturing districts could be
eonveyed at once to these warehouses for shipment, thereby avoiding
the present delay and expense of cartage, and in reality establishing
an almost direct and invaluable connexion between the rivers Clyde
and Thames.

It has been ascertained that there are no engineering difficulties,
that the w irks will be easy, and the gradients remarkably good, and
that it will not materially interfere with any ornamental property.
The subscribers will be held liable only to the extent of their first
deposits, until an Act of Parliament is obtained, and afterwards only
to the amount of their subscriptions.
It is proposed to take power in the Bill to allow interest at 4 per
cent. pet annum on all calls until the opening of the line, and also
to extend the line to Hertford on the Eastern Counties line, in the
event of that Company not prosecuting their line to Bedford.

BROKERS.
London—Messrs. Marten and Heseßine, 9, Finch-lane
Leeds—Messrs. lloppe and Co.
Liverpool—Messrs. Joseph King and Son
Hull—Messrs. Flint and Tootal
Blanchester—Messrs. Cardwell and Sons
Bradford—Mr. Josiah Seholefleld
Edinburgh—Mr. Charles Couper, 30, St. Andrew's-square.

GREAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT
RAILWAY.

The Managing Committee of this Railway hereby give notice that
they are now proceeding in the Allotment of the Shares in the above
undertaking, and that all the Letters of Allotment will be issued in
the ensuing week.

Temporary Offices, Adelaide-place,

London-bridge.

J. B. OWEN, Secretary.

GREAT WESTERN, BItEN TFUItD, and
CENTRAL TERMINUS JUNCTION RAILWAY, from
the vicinity of West Drayton, through Hounslow' Brentford, Ham-
mersmith, Kensingten, Chelsea, and Westminster, to a Central
Terminus, near Charing-Cross.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Offices, 53, Charing-cross.
Capital, 850,C00/., in 42,500 Shares of 20!. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Earl of Devon
Vernon Abbott, Esq., 70, Gower-street
Philip Anstruther, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment
Railway Junction Company
Benjamin John Armstrong, Esq., Southall, Magistrate for Middlesex
John Auldjo, Esq., Noel House, Kensington
Henry Pratt Barlow, Esq., 24, Kensington-square
Edward Oliver Benson, Esq., Hounslow
William Sprott Boyd, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment
Railway Junction Company
Thomas Braman, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Leicester and Tam-
worth Railway
Sir John Macpherson Brackenbury
Sir Archer Denman Croit, Bart., Director of the Thames Embank-
ment Railway Junction Company
Major John T. Croft, Deputy Chairman of the Chester and Manches-
ter Railway
John Chevalier Cebbold,;Esq., Chairman of the Eastern 'Union Rail
way
W::liam Cumming, Esq., North Bank, Regent's Park
George Cooper, Esq., Brentford
George James Stredwick Camden, Esq., Hounslow
Charles Downes, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
J. Fisher, Esq., Isleworth
Major David Fitzgerald, Yalentia, connty of Kerry
Captain Forbes, R.N., Forest, Windsor
Sir Andrew Pellatt Green, R.N., K.C.H.
James Montgomery, Esq., Brentford
John ;Bowyer Nichols, Esq., Hammersmith
The Hon. Colonel Phipps, Norwood-groan
William Simpson Potter, Esq., Director of the South and Midi and
Railway
Henry Pownall, Esq., Spring-grove, Hounslow, Magistrate for
Middlesex
John F. Pownall, Esq., Spring-grove, Hounslow
Colonel Reid (2d Life Guards), Buistrode Park
Thomas Berry Rowe, Esq., Brentford
John Coysgarne Sim, Esq., No. 9, Clifton-place, Hyde Park-galilens
Major Jelf Sharp, Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for Middlesex,
Deputy-Chairman of the Thames Embankment Railway Junction

Company
Henry Webb Smith, Esq., Hounslow
William Spooner, Esq., Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and
Newcastle Railway
Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq., Chairman of the Irish North Midland
Railway
John Stewart, Esq., M.P.
Frederick Thompson, Esq., 20, Kensington-square
Robert Richard Tighe, Esq., Bank, Windsor
Henry Tuffnell, Esq., M.P.
(With power to add to their number.)
ENGINEER—Thomas Page, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Wilkinson and Cobbold, 7, Lincoln's Inn-tlelds
William Sim, Esq., 8, King's Bench-walk, Temple.
• BANKERS.
• • PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.

Messrs. Hugh Innes Cameron and George Ilain, 18,Parliament-street.

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SECRETARY—Henry Moreing, Esq,

Applications for shares, 1u the subjoined form, may be made,
addressed to the Provisional Committee, at the Offices of the Corn.
puny, 53, Charing-cross, to the Solicitors and Parliamentary Agents,
and to the following agents and sharebrokers :—Messrs. Carden and
Whitehead, 61%, Threadneedle-street; Mr. H. J. Williams, 80, Old
Ihroad-street, London Messrs. Bradley and Co., Manchester ; Mr. B.
R. Pemberton, and Messrs. H. Davis and Co., Liverpool; Mr. Lucre
Arnold, Bristol; Messrs. Chantrell and Boyce, Leeds; Messrs.