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LIVERPOOL AND BURY RAILWAY.
CONTRACT FOR SLEEPERS.
'llle DIRECTORS are READY to RECEIVE TENDERS for the
SUPPLY of RAILWAY SLEEPERS, conformable to Specifications
to be seen at the Company's Offices, 33, Dale-street, Liverpool; or at
the Office of Sir John Macneill and James Thompson, 9, Whitehall-
place, London.
Offers to be forwarded to the Secretary, up to the let Novem-
ber next. By order,

JOHN S. HERON, Secretary.
Liverpool aqd Harp Eallmay Otte°, 33, Dale-street,
Litterpool, GUI September, 1845.

(PROVISIONALLY EGISTERED
SOUTHAMPTON andß
GREATWESTERN
JUNCTION RAILWAY.

Capital, 758,0001., in Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s.
Negotiations now pending with the Great Western and South-
Western Companies have occasioned delay in publishing the names of
the Provisional Committee of this line. These, with an enlarged
prospectus, will appear in a few days. In the meantime, application
for shares may be addressed as before, to the Solicitor, Wm. Bevan,
Esq., 6, Old Jewry, London; and Messrs. Sharp and llarris.n,
Southampton.

RUGBY, DERBY, and MANCHESTER
RA ILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and Sth Vic., o. 110.)
Capital, 1,600,0001., in 60,000 shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 21. 12. 6d. per share.
(In order to insure compliance with the standing orders both of the
Lords and Commons.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.
Lord George Paget, Uxbridge. house, London
Sir William Young, Bart., Westbonrne-terrace, Hyde-park, a Director
of the East India Company
Sir James Carmichael, Bart., 40, Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Di-
rector of the Reading and Reigate Railway Company
Sir William Boothby, Bart., Ashbourne-hall, Ashbourne
Sir Robert Wilmot, Bart., Ormaston-hall, Derbyshire
Sir William Lowthrop, Bart., Alga-house, Scarborough, Chairman of
the Hull and Barnsley Railway Company
Sir John Hensler, Deputy-Lientenant of Essex
The Mayor of Derby
John Parkinson, Esq., R.R.S., 30, Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park,
Director of the Irish Great Western, and the Northampton, Ban-
bury, and Cheltenham Railways
Thomas Stevenson, Esq., F.5.A.,37, Upper Grosvenor-street, Hyde
Park, a Director of the Irish reat Western, and the Reading and
Reigate Railways
Thomas Bent, Esq., M.D., Derby, Director of the Derby, Gains-
borough, and Great Grimsby Junction Railway
James Clifford, Esq., Broughton House, Shardlow, Derbyshire
William Cox, Esq., Brallsford, Derbyshire
David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland Hollow, Derbyshire
James Sutton, Esq., Shardlow Hall, Derbyshire
P. Wilmot, Esq., Welbeck-street, Cavendish-square.
Major Thurston Dale, Ashbourne
Joseph Bridgett, Esq., Aldermanbury, London, Colney Hatch, near
Barnet, and Derby
Cecil Brook Boothby, Fesq., Ashbourne Hall, Ashbourne, and Bolton-
street, Piccadilly
William Holt, Esq., Great Coram-street, and The Elms, Watford
A. G. Greaves, Esq., Derby
John Robinson, Esq., Silcoates Cottage, near Wakefield, Director of
the Bradford, Wakefield, and Midland and Leeds, York and Mid-
land Junction Railway
Edward Mammatt, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zonch
Samuel Simpson, Esq., of the Greaves, Lancaster, a Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Douglas Fox, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby, Gainsiberough,
and Great Grimsby Junction Railway
George Robinson, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley
Junction Railway
Thomas M'Turk, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junc-
tion Railway
Matthew Pierpoint, Esq., Crown East, Worcestershire; Deputy Lieu-
tenant of the county of Worcester
Henry Brigstock, Esq., M.D., Derby, Director of the Derby, Uttoxe-
ter, and Stafford Railway
Joseph Lancelot Davenport4Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby, Ut-
toxeter, and Stafford Railway
Frederick Fox, Esq., Melbourne, agent for Lord Melbourne
James Joseph Dolman, Esq., Melbourne, Derbyshire
John Earp, Esq., Melbourne, Derbyshire
Charles Holbrooke, Esq., Alvaston, near Derby, Director of the
Derby, Uttoxeter and Stafford, and of the Derby, Gainsborough,
Stafford, and Grimsby Railway
Jeremiah Pilcher, Esq., Russell-square, London, Director of the
Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction, and of the Grand
London and Dublin Approximation Railways
William Seymour, Esq., Montague-place, Russell-square, Director of
the Grand London and Dublin Approximation, and of the South-
ampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railways
William Chance, Esq., Spring-grove, Birmingham, Deputy-Chairman
of tile Birmingham and Leicester Railway, Director of the Trent
Valley Midland, and of the Manchester and Southampton Junction
Railway
James Witham, Esq., Eaton-square
A. A. Fry, Esq., Temple
Thomas Geo. Smith, Esq., Doughty-street, Mecklenburgh-square,
Director of the Lynn, Wisbeach. and Peterborough Railway
John Hill, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Staf-
ford Railway
Thomas Halmee, Earls Melbourne, Derbyshire
Thomas Hemsley, Esq., Melbourne, Derbyshire
Henry Orton, Esq., King's Newton, Derbyshire
George Vandeleur, Esq., King's Newton, Derbyshire
Mr. Samuel Robinson, Shaw House, Melbourne, Derbyshire
John Towle, Esq., Borrowash Mills, Derbyshire
George Wooten, Esq., Chasten, Derbyshire
James Hollingworth, Esq. Melbourne and Derby
Wellington Ross Seymour, Esq., Montague-place, Russell-square
James Renshaw, Esq., West Heath House, Erith, Kent, Director of
the South Staffordshire Junction Railway„ and 5, White Hart-
court, Lombard-street
A. Inderwick, Esq., Brompton, Middlesex
John Groom, Esq., Member of the Town Council, Northampton
James J. M'Swiney, Esq., Sandal View, near Wakefield, a Director
of the Wakefield and Herron-gate Junction Railway
Richard Dransfield, Esq., West-place, Dalton, Huddersfield, a Director
of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and of the Keighley,
and Huddersfield Junction Railway
Robert Doeksey Goodwin, Esq., Ashbourne
John Bainbrigge Storey, Esq., Lockington Hall, Leicestershire
Edward Doubleday, Esq., F.L.S., Great Surrey-street, a Director of
the Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railway
William Caldwell, Esq., Ince Hall, Wigan, Alderman of the Borough
of Wigan, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway, the
Staffordshire Potteries Railway, Liverpool and Manchester Direct
Railway
Henry Stock, Esq., Bedggelert, North Wales, Director of the Great
Eastern and Western
John Campbell Dicker, Esq., New Hall, by Neaten, Cheshire, Director
of the Birkenhead and Holyhead Railway
Jahn Curzon, Esq., Derby
James Peet, Esq., Derby
William Taylor, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby, Gainsborough,
and Great Grimsby Junction Railway
Charles Milnes, Esq., Dale-house, Matlock, Derbyshire
Henry George Gascoyne, Esq., Lea-hall, Rugeley, Staffordshire
Perry Dicker., Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
George Clark, Esq., Windham-lodge, Brighton, and Rusholnee Park,
Manchester, a Magistrate
James Consterdine, Esq., Rosinhall, Manchester, a Magistrate
F. R. Hodgson, Esq., Oakey, near Manchester, Merchant
Edward Attolden, Esq., Aston-hall, Derby:
Henry Taylor, Esq., Wigan, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct ; the York and Lancaster ; the Eastern, Western, and
Southern, or Ipswich and Southampton ; Reigate ; the Halifax and
Huddersfield ; the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction ;
the Staffordshire Potteries; the Dover and Bristol; and of the
Cheltenham and Oxford Railways
Captain T. Folliott Powell, Ashbourne
Thomas Byrom, Esq., Wigan, a Director of the Tork and Lancas-
ter and Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and the Keighley, Halifax,
and Huddersfield Junction Railway
Thurston Dale, jun., Esq., Ashbourne
John Douglas Cooper, Esq., Holm College, Ashbourne
C. Kelly Cooper, Esq., Ashbourne
John Witham, sen., Esq., Ashbourne
Thomas J. Mountfort, Esq., Ashbourne
James Osborne, Esq , Ashbourne
Samuel Dawson, jun., Esq., Walton Bank, Ashbourne
John Smith, Esq., Barton House, Ashbourne
Thomas Smith, Esq., Bloro Hall, Staffordshire
John floor, Esq., Tuthury
Samuel Fox, jun., Esq., Derby
John Smith, Esq., Middle Temple, and 2, Bury-street, St. James's,
London, Director of the Leeds, York, and Midland Railway
.Joseph I'eel, Esq., Singleton Brook, Manchester
Edward Lucas, Esq., Member of the Town-Council, Birmingham
John Thomas Haworth, Esq., Leicester, a Director of the Leicester
and Birmingham, and London, Bristol, and South Wales Railway
John Osier, Esq., Hull, Member of the Provisional Committee of the
Hull and Barnsley Junction and Leeds and Carlisle Railway
C. Bamford, jun., Esq., Hull, Member of the Provisional Committee
of' the Hull and Barnsley Junction and Leeds and Carlisle Railway
R. B. Childs, Esq. Swarkenstone Lewes, near Derby
(With power to add to their number).
ACTING COMMITTEE.
Jeremiah Filcher, Esq., Russell-square, London
John Parkinson, Esq., 80. Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park
Thomas Stevenson, Esq., F.S.A., 37, Upper Grosvenor-street, Hyde-, ,
park
The Mayor of Derby
Matthew Pierpoint, Esq., Crown East, Worcestershire, Deputy-Lient
Co. Worcester
Joseph Bridgett, Esq., Aldermanbury, London
William Seymour, Esq., Montague-place, Russell-square
A. A. Fry, Esq., Temple
Thomas George Smith, Esq., Doughty-street, MeeklenbUrgh-square
A. Inderwick, Esq., Brompton, Middlesex
Sir Win. Young, Bart., Weetbourne-terrace, Hyde-park
Sir William Boothby, Bart., Ashbourne-liall, Ashbourne
David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland Hollow, lesrbyshire.
ENGINEER—CharIes Blunt, Esq., C.E.
SOLICITOR—Thomas Gibson Brewer, Esq., 13, Gray's Inn-square.
STANDING COUNSEL—WiIIiam Holt, Esq., Chancery-lane.
COUNTRY SOLICITORS.
Derby—John Moss, Esq.
Manchester—Messrs. Crossley and Sudlow
Ashbourne—John Fox, Esq.
Ashby-de-la-Zouch—Henry Minion Hawkeswortle Esq.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT.—Thomas Baker, Ewe, Spring-gardens.
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Masterman, Peters, Mildred, and Co.
Derby—Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company
Ashbourne—The Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashbourne Union Bank.
AGENT,.
London—Thomas G. Smith, Esq., 2, Warnford-court, Throgtnorton-
street
Ashbourne—Thomas Jones, Esq.
Leicester—Messrs. Elgood and Harrison
Hull—Messrs. Flint and Tootal
Liverpool—Messrs. J. B. and D. Neilson.
SECRETARIES.—WiIIiam Richard Scott, Esq. ; Horace Green, Esq.
Offices of the Company, 33, Gresham-street.
The Rugby, Derby, and 3lanchester Railway is a direct line from
London to Manchester, coming from London to Rugby, along the
London and Birmingham line, and proceeding from Rugby is Hinck-
ley through Market-Bosworth and Ashby-de-la-Zouch, to Derby,
thence to Ashbourne, by Leek to Macclesfield, and along the Mac-
clesfield and Stockport, and Stockport and Manchester Railways, into
Manchester.
A branch to Buxton is in contemplation.
The principle of this railway is to obtain a direct through line be-
tween some of the most important districts in the kingdom with the
least possible amount of new railway, and, consequently, the smallest
expenditure of capital.
It will also establish the shortest direct communication between
Derby and London, Sheffield and London, and between all the towns
on the North Midland Railway and London.
The Manchester, Derby, and Rugby Railway, will open a direct
communication between Manchester and Derby, and will consider-
ably shorten the distance between Manchester and Nottingham and
Manchester and Leicester.
The line from Derby to Rugby will establish the direct communi-
cation from that town to London, which has been so long considered
desirable by the inhabitants.
The same will apply to Sheffield, when the Sheffield and Chester-
field branch of the North Midland Railway is made.
The Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway, In connexion with
the Oxford and Rugby, and Oxford, Southampton, and Gosport Rail-
way, forms a direct Manchester and Southampton line.
THE GREAT ADVANTAGES
Of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway, ever the other pro-
jects into Manchester, among others, are—
First. That there are only seventy-five miles of railway to be made
in place of one hundred and eighty-nine.
Second. That it is a more direct line from London to Manchester
than even the proposed direct linos
Third. That it interferes with no existing railway property or
vested interests.
Fourth. That it passes through a District rich in manufactures,
agriculture, and minerals, but which—more especially as regards its
agricultural produce, and a convenient system of intercommunica-
tion for the conveyance of that agricultural produce, to supply the
large manufacturing towns in the vicinity—has been hitherto left to-
tally without railway communication.
Fifth. That it passes through the towns in its route, instead of
avoiding them.
Sixth. That the whole line of railway from Rugby to Manchester
will be completed and in working order within ten months from the
passing of the Act of Parliament.
Sevenths. That the maps, plans, estimates, and other documents
required by the standing orders of Parliament will be lodged with the
parish clerks, the clerks of the peace for the counties, and the
Parliamentary offices, on the 10th of November next, being twenty
days within the time required by the regulations of Parliament.
In the allotment of shares a preference will he given, to the ex
tent of 10,000 shares, to the holders of stock in time London and Bir-
mingham Railway ; also, of 2,000 shares to the shareholders in the
Oxford, Southampton, and Gosport Railway Company; of 1,000
shares to the Oxford and Rugby Railway Company ; and 2,000
shares to the Manchester and Birmingham Railway Company.

RUGBY, DERBY, AND MANCHESTER
RAILWAY.
No' ice is hereby given, that the last day for receiving applications
was Friday the 19th, and in consequence of Ape great number re-
mitted far eTceecling that to be allotted, no others call possibly be
fCeilTdp

W ARWICKSHIRE and LONDON
RAILWAY.
TO SORIPHOLDERS.
In consequence of modifications of this line, rendered necessary
the decisions of Parliament in the late session, and of the increase of
the Parliamentary deposit required by the New Standing Orders, the
Provisional Committee find,it necessary to call in the scrip hitherto
issued, for the purpose of replacing it by new scrip, to require an ad-
ditional deposit of 12s. per share, and to cause new deeds to be pre-
pared for the signature of the Proprietors. Parties to whom scrip
has been issued are accordingly requested to send in their scrip, on
or before the first day of October next, to the Secretary. New letters
of allotment will at once he issued to such of the present holders of
scrip so sent in, as were original sebscribers for their shares; but
when, the scrip has changed hands, satisfactory references as to the
responsibility of the holders 'will be required by the Directors before
new letters of allotment can be issued ; on the additional deposit
being paid (in accordance with the new letters of allotment), and the
new deeds being executed, the new scrip will be issued.
On and after the 10th of October next, the present scrip (unless it
shall have been sent in to the Secretary, and received by him pre-
viously to that day) will be considered as cancelled, anti the shares it
represents will be re•allotted. Parties sending scrip are requested to
write their names across each scrip certificate for the sake of security,
and to send by a post letter, at the same time that they seed their
scrip, a list of the number of the scrip they have dispatched, with
their own name, residence, and (if necessary) that of their reference.% attached in full to the end of such list.
By order of the Provisional Committee,
Euston Railway Station, Sept.
HARDING, Secretary..•2o, 1845.

TiHE OXFORD and WORCESTER EXTEN-
SION and CHESTER JUNCTION RAILWAY, with
Branches to Shrewsbury and Northwieh. On the Broad Gauge.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 2,250,0004, in 112.500 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
PROTISIONA.T. COMMITTEE.
Lord George Paget, Uxbridge House
The lion. Douglas Kinnard Pulteney, 4, Parliament-street. Chairman
$ ;of the York and Lancaster Railway
William Beresford, Esq., M.p., 77, Pall-mall, Director of the Tean
and Dove Talley Railway
Sir William Bacon Johnson, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire, Director
of the Chester and Forest of Dean Railways
Sir John Edward de Beauvoir, Chairman of the London and Bir-
mingham Extension
Sir Samuel Brown, Director of the Warwick and Worcester Railway
Sir John Hare, Langhatn-place, Director of the London wad Bir-
mingham Extension
Sir John Key, Burt., Alderman of London, Director of the London
and Manchester and Leeds and Liverpool Railways
Colonel Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, Director of the Londe* and
Birmingham Railway
Colonel Fitch, 36, York-terrace,Regent's-park, Director of the South
and Midlands' Railway
Sir John Hensler, Deputy Lieutenant of the county of Essex, Wal-
ton, near Saffron Walden, Essex
Admiral J. Ayscough, Prospect-place, Southampton, Director of the
South and Midland Railway
Major Croft, 18, Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman of the Manchester
and Chester Railway
Major Chase, 31, Nottingham-place
Captain S. M. Fisher, Jun., Director of the Warwick aid Worcester
Railway
Captain Hitchens, H.E.1.C.5., Director of the Birmingham and Ox-
ford Railway
Samuel Kent ick, Esq., banker, Wrexham
Captain F. Chamier, Halkin-street, Belgrave-square, Director of the
Great Paris and Lyons Railway
Wm. Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., Alderman of Lon-
don, Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation,
Chairman of the London and Greenwich Railways, &c., &c.
Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South
Midland Railway
Matthew Harrison, Esq., Chester, Director of the North and South
Wales Bank
John Kinnersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the
London and Manchester Direct Railway, and South Midland
Thos. Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South
Midland Railway
Thos. Challis, Esq., Alderman of London, Wilson-street, Finsbury
Thos. Sidney, Esq., Alderman of London, Sheriff of London and
Middlesex
Captain Alex. Hamieton Earle, Royal Artillery, Reform Club.
John Inglis Jardein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby
and Southampton Railway
Win. Morley, Esq„ Blackheath
Win. Lee, Esq., Director of the Gravesend and Rochester, and Essex
and Suffolk Railways
Rd. Carpenter, Esq., Director of the Leieester and Bedford Railway
Henry Wright, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
John Wheelton, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Thomas Collingridge, Esq., Highgate, Middlesex
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
John Brocke Walbancke, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
Rd. Wm. Johnson, Esq.. Director of the London and Manchester and
Derbyshire and South Staffordshire Railways
Francis Valentine Lee, Esq., Temple, Director of the Eastern Countlea
Railway
Major Jelf Sharp, Deputy-Chairman of the Thames Embankment
Railway
Major-General Brooks Parlby, C. 8., 18, Rutland-place
W. Simpson Potter, Esq., Director of the Oxford, Witney, and
Cheltenham Railway
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester
Direct and Liverpool and Leeds Railways
Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of the London and Birmingham
Extension Railway
W. F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Beigrave-square, Director of the
Italian and Austrian Railway
W. G. Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway
John James, Esq., Secondary of London
Robert Henry Lyndatn, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weynienth
Railway
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanston-street, Portraan-square,
Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
J. B. Richardson, Esq., Director of the Colchester and Cambridge
Railway
Julian Skreene, Esq., Director of the Cambridge • and Lincoln
Railway
Frederick James Hall, Esq., Torrington-square, Director of the Bide-
ford and Tavistock Railway
Captain C. W. Tyndale, Director'of the South-Eastern Railway
Henry Lewis Smale, Esq., Willoughby House, Tottenham, Director
of the London and )over Railway
Frederick Jones, Esq., Director of the Warwick and Worcester
Railway
C. Waite, Esq., Willesden, Middlesex
It. W. Wood, Esq., Lodge-place, St. John's Wood, Director of the
North Metropolitan Railway
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manchester
and Birmingham Railway
Wm. Shaw, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment Railway
Win. Alfred Hill, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith
Railway
Richard Dutton Esq., Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Railway
Wm. Stark, Esq., Director of the Guarantee Society
James Reeves, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Railway
Frederick Collingridge, Esq., Thurlow-square, Brompton
Warren Stormes Hale, Esq., Gresham-street
Robert Richards, Esq., Temple, Director of the Birminghant and Lon-
don Extension Railway
Kingsmill Grove Key, Esq., Wandsworth-common
The Rev. F. K. Hall, D.D., Rector of Falbourne, Cambridge
Daniel Penton Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Manches-
ter Railway
Charles Green, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Abarystvritk
Railway
John Barber, Esq., Director of the Glencester and Aberystvritk
Railway
Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Hereford
E. R. Foster, Esq., Director of the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford-
shire Railway
Martin Funds, Esq., Director of the Nottingham, Newark, and
Boston Railway
Richard Groucock, Esq. Dulwich, Director of the Direct Manchester
Railway
W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the Birmingham and Manchester
Extension
W. Bardgett, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian Railway
Richard Parish, Esq., Bank House, Wordsley, Staffordshire
Samuel Parish, Esq., Wordsley, near Stourbridge, Staffordshire
Alexander Greig, Esq., Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square, Director of
the Leicester and Birmingham Railway
Thomas Yates Hunt, Esq., Braden, near Birminghant
William Singleton, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool
Direct Railway
Wm. Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Lincoln, York, anal Leeds
Railway
James 3luscroft, Esq., Pontefraet
David William Nell, Esq., Leeds, J.P., Director of the Leeds and
Thirsk Railway
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Charles Holden, Esq., Director of the Great Grimsby and Sheffield
Railway
J. D. Hopkins, Esq., Bedford-square, Director of the London and
Birmingham Extension Railway
Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds. Director of the West Riding Junction
Railway
Peter Fairbairne, Esq., Leeds, Chairman of he Lineoha, York, and
Leeds Railway
John Blackburn, Esq., Leeds
J. M. Douglas, Esq., Director of the Bxeter and Weymouth
Railway
W. Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street
JoßhnailAwnadyerson, Esq., Lothbury, Director of; he South and Midland
W. Ley, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square
Robert Power. Esq., Director of the Great Britain Life Assurance-
office, Queen-street, May Fair,
Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Old Palace, Richmond
W. Bestow, Esq., Surrey-place
James Burners, ESQ., Leyton, Essex
G. N. Wright, M.A.
John Alexander Bicknell, Esq., Brandon Cottage, Bristol, Dlreetor of
the South and Midlands' Junction Extension Railway
James Lees, Esq., Delph, Saddleworth, near Manchester, Director of
the Saddleworth Banking Company
Arthur Agent Davenport, Esq., Eastwood, Notts, Director of the
Great Leeds and London Direct Railway
Joseph Lancelot Davenport, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby,
Derby, and Manchester Railway
Henry Savage, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment Company
David Wheatcroft, Esq., of Buckland Hollow, Derbyshire
William Gambier, Esq., Succombe Park, Herts
George l'eppercorne, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex, Director of the Paris
and Strasburgh Railway
C. Norburry, Esq., Mancella House, Atherstono, Director of the
Than and Dove Valley Railway.
(With power to add to their number).
The names of ax influential Committee formed at Worcester and
Chester will be published in a few days.

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Tho Commercial Bank of London
liirmlNEXl—William Mullingar Biggins, ligi.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.
Messrs. Parrott and Walmosley, Palace-yard, Westminster.
SOLICITORS.
Potter and Collingridge, 5, Basinghall-street ; Mr. B. James,
ER,
5, Basinghall-street. _

Sum:Tsar—Tinton T. Jenkins, Esq.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Worcester—Charles Creswell, Esq. ; C. G. 11. R. Patrick, Esq
Chester—John F. Maddock, Esq. ; S. Brittain, Esq. .
Whitchurch—James Bromfield, Esq.
Shrewsbury—W. Cooper, Esq.
Welliugton—George Marcy, Esq.
Bridgenorth—Edward William Ilaslewood, Esq.

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uniting Worcester with Warwick ; and, that the broad gauge will be
carried from Worcester into Wales, and to the Irish packet stations
on that coast, is now no longer doubtful. This undertaking will com-
plete a series of great avenues of iron-road, whose ramification
from Worcester will render every part of the kingdom directly
accessible from that city. Passing up the Severn Vale, where
it will disclose a succession of picturesque scenes, it reaches
Stourport, and proceeding thence through Kidderminster, arrives at
Bewdley. This district is one of the chief seats of our carpet manu-
factures, and in the towns here named, exclusive of the intervening
districts, upwards of 30,000 persons are located. Leaving Stourbridge
a little to the east, the line is taken to Rriclgenorth, a town enjoying
an active inland trade, and possessing woollen manufactures and iron
works, that give employment to a population of about 15,000. Pass-
ing through or near to Much Wenlock, Broseley, and Madeley, from
which place there will be a branch to Shrewsbury, the line ascends
Colebrook Dale, and approaching in its course Wellington and Wein
enters Whitchurch. Front this central place a branch will be formed
to Norwich via Stoke, forming a junction with the Liverpool and
Crewe Railway. The trunk line will continue from Whitchurch, and
passing through or near Malpas, have its northern terminus in the
city of Chester. . _

in estimating the probable amount of revenue which the Worces-
ter and Chester Railway may be expected to yield, many sources of
profit present themselves, such are the dense population located along
the length of the Severn Vale, and the enriching works of industry
in which they are engaged. Amongst the latter may be mentioned
the china manufactories of Worcester, the iron, coal, and earthen-
ware works at Broseley and other places; the agricultural produce
brought to Stourport market ; the inexhaustible fields of coal and
mines of iron ore in the vicinity of Colebrook Dale, Ironbridge, and
the districts to the east of Shrewsbury generally.
In calculating the cost of construction unusual advantages are also
obvious. The line traverses a district affording levels of several
miles in extent, and with a surface peculiarly favourable. The resi-
dent population, disappointed by the postponement of promised pro-
jects, have warmly espoused the present, and the labouring popula-
tion being familiar with mining operations, will be found better
qualified for the execution of railway works here than in many.other
localities.

♦s a link in the railway network of England, or as auxiliary
to elillting or protlectoci lines passing In 1741101/4 directigns, flew

schemes hitherto proposed appear to afford greater inducement
for investment, or a wider range of accommodation for trait and
travelling. This project constitutes a lengthened link in the chain
that will connect Liverpool with Bristol, the grand trunk of the
West of England ;—its southern terminus, Worcester, Is the kali-
way station of the London and Portdynnllaen broad gauge line :
by projected lines a direct communication will be afforded west-
ward to Swansea and Aberystwith, and, eastward, to Warwick and
Northampton, Cambridge, Peterborough, Harwich, Lynn, Lincoln,
and Hull.

The line has been repeatedly and careildly examined by the Com-
pany's acting engineer, who reports that the rail for many miles may
ho laid on the natural level—that the gradients are in every in-
stance favourable—that the geological structure of the districts to
be traversed Is equally so, and that the want of such a line of com-
munication is acknowledged by the interests seated on its proposed
course.

Applications for prospectuses:and plans may be made, and forms
of application for shares had at the offices of Messrs. Potter and
Collingridge, solicitors, 5, liasinghall-street ; also of W. B. James,
Esq., solicitor, 5, Basinghall-street ; of the local agents ; and of the
following gentlemen :

Mr. Samuel Banbury, 4. Angel-court;
London ...... •• •• /Mr. Whiston Powell, 12,'Copthall-court ; and
Manchester "Messrs. Peppercorns, 2, Old Broad-street
Liverpoel..........Messrs. Alston and Gage.
f Messrs. Houghland and Leese, and Mr. Wil-
t Ham Marshall.
[Messrs. Collinson and Flint, and Mr. James
Bowden
Messrs. Smith and Perfect, and
J. Young and Co.
Stratford-oa-Ayon Mr. William Bolton.
Exeter Mr. Thomas Sanford.
Plymouth Messrs. Hopwood end Palmer.
Birmingham Mr. Collis and Mr. John Wright.
Glasgow.. Messrs. Tassie and Co.

Edinburgh ........ Messrs. Robertson and Co., and
[Messrs. 3PCallum and Co.
Huddersfield • Messrs. Wilson and Hellawell.
Worcester • • • • • • • • Mr. Thomas Henry Wheeler.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
THE OXFORD and WORCESTER EXTENSION and CHESTER
JUNCTION RAILWAY, with BRANCHES to SHREWSBURY
and NORTlrwrcii.

Capital, 2,250,0001., in 112,500 Shares of 20/. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
To the Previsional Committee of the Worcester and Chester
Railway.
Gentlemen, —I request that you will Mutt to me Shares of
201. each in this Company, and I undertake to accept the same, and
to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that may be al-
lotted to me; and I undertake also to execute the Parliamentary
Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
Residence..... ..... •••• • • • • • • ...... •• •
Trade er Profession ......
♦ddress of Referee ...... • . ...........

Date.............:

OXFORD and WORCESTER EXTENSION
and CHESTER JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that ao further applications for Shares in
this Company will be received after Tuesday, the 30th instant.
By order, HILTON THOMAS JENKINS, Secretary.
5, Basinghall-street, September 23, 1845.

PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.
D OVER, HASTINGS, AND BRIGHTON
JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.
Completing, with Existing and Proposed Lines of Railway, one
entire Line of Coast Railway from Dover to Exeter.
Capital 360,0001, in 18,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
The public is respectfully informed that a most influential and
powerful Company, of local and commercial influence, has been formed
fur the purpose offuraishing railway accommodation to the important
agricultural district of Romney Marsh, including the towns of Sand-
gate, Hythe, New Romney, Lydd, and Rye ; and also completing one
entire and unbroken line of coast railway from Dover to Poole, and
then on to Exeter.

Full particulars will be published In a few days ; and, in the mean-
time, all applications for shares or otherwise can be made to the Com-
pany's Solicitors, Messrs. A'Beckett, San; and Sympson, and Mr.
Vaughan Prance, 3, Alderman's-walk, Old Broad-street, London.
To the Provisional Committee or Managing Directors of the Dover,
Hastings, and Brighton Junction Railway.
I request that you will !allot me shares, of 201. each, in
the above undertaking ; and I do hereby undertake to wept the
same, or any less number you may allot me, on the terms of the pro-
spectus, and to pay the deposit of 2/. 2s. per share, and all fsturo calls
thereon, and to sign the Parliamentary contract and subscribers'
agreement, and other deeds, when required so to do.
Dated this day of 1645.
Name in full
Place of Business....
Residence .• . ..... .•.• .• •
Profession or Business ...
Usual Signature .
Name, Residence, and Profession
of Referee in full 5 • • • • •
Witness ......... .....................
Witness' Address and Description ••• • • • _

PROSPECTUS OF TEE
RHONDDA and ELY VALLIES JUNCTION
RAILWAY, GLAMORGANSIIIRE.

(Provisionally Registered.) --
Promoted with the unction and support of the Right Hen. the Earl
of Dunraven.
Capital. 200,0001., in 10,000 Shares of 20/. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2a. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTAL
(iscount Adare, M.P., Dunraven Castle, Glamorgan
Crawshaw Bailey, Esq., Iron-works, Nant y Glo
Sir Robert Price, Bart., M.P., Foxley, Herefordshire
Richard Price, Esq., M.P., Radnorshire
Sir William Wynn, Mass Eewyeld, Chairman of the North Wales
Railway
lames G. Barrett, Esq., Ross, Herefordshire
lenry A. Bruce, Esq., Duffryn Mouse, Cardiff
Yilliam Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the Shef-
field and Manchester Railway
;tunics Richard Bigge, Esq., 19, Bryanstone-square
lohn Castendick, Esq., Lewisham, Kent
Thomas Chitty, Esq., Director of the Rugby and Worcester
Railway
The Rev. James Cozens, Tnys Plwm, Glamorganshire
Edward Cotton, Esq., St. James's-square and Kenilworth, Director
of the Commercial Bank
George Dennis, Esq.. Director of the Great:Leeds and London Direct
Railway
Captain Dawson, R.N., Barnes, Surrey, Director of Cambridge and
Lincoln Extension Railway
Richard Dutton, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
William Edmondes, Esq., if Cowbridge, Glamorganshire
Thomas H. Evans, Mayor of Carnarvon, Director of the Rugby and
Worcester Railway
The ROT. H. R. Fowler, Felton, near Bristol, and No. 7, Manchester-
square
Captain Hewitt, Tyr Mab Ellis, Glarmorganehire
Windsor H. Humphreys Esq., Garth Hall, Glamorganshire
Jelin J. Harris, Esq., Treverig, Glamorganshire
John Hopkins, Esq., Killely, Glamorganshire
William Harrison, Esq., Hill House, Upper Tooting
John James, Esq., Secondary of the City of London, and Direetor of
the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
John Ingles Jerdein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby,
and Southampton Railway
Vero Clarke Kemball, Esq., Hyde-park-gardens, Director of the
South and 3idlands' Junction Railway
Richard Kelly, Esq., Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
Griffith Llewellyn, Esq., Raglan Hall, Glamorganshire
William Llewellyn, Esq., Director of the Bridgend Branch of the
National Provincial Bank of England
James Morrison, Esq., Director of the Chepstow and Forest of Dean
Railway
Thomas Morris, Esq., of Newport, Monmouthshire
Leyshon Morgan, Esq., Lower Tremaine, Bridgend, Glamorganshire
Samuel P. Pratt, Esq., F.R.S., Bath, and No. 55, Lincoln's Inn-
fields, Director of the Rennet and Avon Canal
William Simpson Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park
George B. Pye, Esq., Lavenham, Suffolk
Evan Prichard, F.sq., Collenna House, Glamorganshire
James Brown, Esq., of Ton Dhu, near Bridgend
Richard Fowler Rickards, Esq., Lantrissent Hones, Glamorganshire
James
lnd Henry m
s lotajeuetvhees,as,n Ed smq.i,dtinrdecst,ojrunofcttiohne London and Manchester Direct,
a
Edward L. Richards, Esq., Merthyr Tydvil, Glamorganshire
John Randall, Esq., Old Castle, Bridgend, Glamorganshire
Richard Lewis Recce, Esq., County Coroner, Cardiff
Edward Scard, Esq., of Kew Green, Surrey, and Garth Hall. amor-
ganshire
Joseph Esq.'
Finsbury-square, London
Underwood, Esq., The Hall. Director of the London and
Birmingham Extension Railway Company, and Director of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
(With power to add to their number.)
SOLICITORS.
W. R. James, Esq., 5, Basinghall-street, London
William Morgan, Esq., Bridgend, Glamorgan.
BANKERS.
Commercial Bank of London
National Provincial Bank, Bridgend and Cardiff.
ENGINEER.

This Railway is projected for the purpose of uniting the Rhondda
and Ely Vaßies. with the South Wales Railway, at a few miles dis-
tance from the Port of Cardiff; and to open a new mineral district,
one of the richest and most important In South Wales, winch to at
present without the means of transit for its immense and Yaluable
products.

_
It will pass through the central portion of the great coal-field of
Glamorganshire, where iron-stone also abounds with the, coal in im-
mense quantities, and laying, geologically speaking, noUly fiat, and,
obtainable, for the most part, by proper levels. Th.s coal in addition
to its being of excellent quality for iron making, rs is proved at Mer-
thyr and Aberdeen, is also, like that of those districts, of the very
best deseription for steam purposes, being ne:trly smokeless, although
inflammable, indeed so pre-eminently is the superiority of this de-
scription of coal established for steam purposes over any other,
that the demand for it far exceeds the supply, and promises, accord-
ing to the opinion of the most eminent marine engineers, to super-
sede all others for purposes of steam navigation. This source of
traffic alone will afford a handsome return for the capital invested,
as has been demonstrated in every instance where even train-roads or
canals have been constructed to open the mineral resources of other
less promising vallies in Wales than the Rhondda, which is cele-
brated for the abundance, quality, and facility of •btaining its pro-
ductions.

An inexhaustible supply of limestone (so necessary for the mann-
faetnre of iron and for agricultural purposes) may bo obtained by
means of this Railway, much nearer and cheaper than by any other
Una.

This line will afford to the increasing population of the rich vales
of Ely and Rhondda a much desired communication with the great
market town and port of Cardiff, from whence, at present, they may
be said to be almost excluded.
It is intended that the line shall commence at Bitten Rhondda, the
head of the Rhondda Valley, and proceed down to a natural pass
between the hills at Ffrwd Amws, a distance of eight miles, where it
will enter the Ely Valley and proceed down (a further distance of
six miles) to Lanelay-bridge, near Lantrissent, and there join the
Sough Wales Railway, thus opening a communication under the most
advamtageous circumstances as to distance, with all the ports in the
British channel.

A preliminary survey has already been made by competent par-
ties, and it is found that the country admits of highly fiwourable
gradl rents, so ranch so that it is confidently anticipated that the
work s will be executed very considerably under the ad-tertised ca-
pital.
Th landowners along the line are favourable to tbil undertaking,
and t he names of many influential proprietors will be found on the
Provit tonal Committee.

Not subscriber will be answerable beyond the 'Amount of his de-
posit u rail the Act is obtained, and then not beyond the amount of
his subs cription.

Until an Act of Parliament shall be obtained, the affairs of this
v shall be under the control of the Managing Directors, to
over is given to allot the Shares, and to apply the fluids
ow,t7hre p
o mpany in payment of all the expenses incurred in its forma-
tion, and in the preparation of the plans and sections to be submitted
to Pa tlisznent.

Po wer•will be applied for in the Act (and in the meantime is
keret given to the Managing Directors as above), to raise any addi-
tion:l'f capital, to extend or abandon any part of the line, to make
bran eli Ines, or enter into any arrangements, by amalgamation or
othe !wise, with any other company or companies, and also to nomi-
nate the first Directors of the Company.

;:he allotttnent of Shares, a preference will be given to
land," 'tiers on the line and other parties locally interested.
Prosoectuses and Maps may be had of, and applications for
Shai es, may be addressed in the fob m annexed to, W. B. James,
Esq. , Solicitor, 5, Bashighall-street, London; to W. liorgan, Esq.,
Soli, itor, Bridgend, filamorganshire ; and to the undermentioned
Bro; ters ; but no application for Shares will receive the attention of
the I :;ommittee, unless accompanied by a reference to one or more
of tl to Provisional Committee, Solicitors, or the Engineers:—

La radon—Messrs. John Shr•well and Sou, 25, Tokanhouse-yard.
" Messrs. J. Peppercorn° and Co.. 2, Old Broad-street.
lAA 'erpool—Messrs. Paula and Co.

Ma nehester—Messrs. Honghland and Leese

Li.* ds-21eRsrs John Young and Co,

Brix -1;1 Luke Arnold, Esq.; Messrs. Taito and _Nash

lilt ;1-ingliain—Mr. Collis
Sht /field—Messrs. Bardwell and Sons.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR BRAKES.
T th I Provisional Committee of the Rhondda and Ely `allies
Junction Railway.

Gent] temen,—l request that you will allot me shares of 20/.
each in this Company, and I undertake to accept the same, and to
pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that may be allotted
to me ; and I also undertake to execute the Parliamentary Contract
and Sub scribers' Agreement when required.
Name in Mil •• „ „ „
Residence
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Trade or Prokssion ..................
Reference with Addre55..............
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WELLS AND DEREHAM RAILWAY.
The Shareholders In the Wells and Dereham Railway are re-
svectfttlly informed that by resolution of the Board of Directors of the
Norfolk Railway Company, confirmed by a meeting of Shareholders,
they ha►e the option of subscribing the Scrip Certificates in that under-
taking at the rate of two Wells and Dereham Railway Shares, upon
which 1/. 7s. 6d. each has been paid, for ono twenty pound Share in
the Extension Stock of the Norfolk Railway Company, upon which
an interest at the rate of five per cent. per annum will be guaranteed,
provided the Act for auth,rising the Extension Is obtained.
The Extension Stock is created for the purpose of providing the
capital for the Wells and Dereham Railway, and other Extensions of
the Norfolk Railway.
Forms for claiming the Extension Shares may be had at the Office
of the Norfolk Railway Company, Guildhall-buildings, London, which
mu.t be filled up and deposited at the Office, together with the Scrip
Certificate of the Wells and Dereham Railway, on or before the 6th
October next, and a repayment of seven shillings and sixpence per
share will be made at the same time.
By order of the Board,
It. TILL, Secretary.

r HE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT
RAILWAY, via ABINGDON, WANTAGR, lIIINGERFORD,
and LUDGERSHILL.

(Provisionally- registered.)
Capital 1,200,0001., in 48,000 Shares of 25/.
Deposit 21. 15s. per share.
PRELIMINARY AN NOUN CE 31 BIT.
The itavortance of connecting remote parts of England by Rail-
ways, with the advantages thereby conferred upon intermediate towns
and districts, can scarcely be better exemplified than by the Line
which is now proposed to form a short and direct channel of inter-
course between Oxtbrd and Salisbury. Numerous projected lines
now before the public will make Oxford at the north, and Salisbury
at the south of the intended Railroad the central points from which
various radii will diverge to the north-west, north, and north-east of
the former, and to the east, south, and west of the latter; and the
proposed Line from Cambridge to Oxford, continuing to that city the
course of Railway from the north-eastern parts of the island, requires
the appliance now suggested to effect a complete means of transit to
the western and south-western counties.
The Oxford and Salisbury Direst Railway, in addition to
the benefits which will be conferred apou the nation at
large, by preferring a direct line of coraninnication be-
tween the north-eastern and western and south-western
parts of Englund, will afford to the borough of Abingdon,
the market towns of Wantage, Ilungerford, mid Ludgershall, and
the adjacent villages, an important railway accommodation, of which
the agricultural districts in which they are seated stand in much
need, and will provide a futility for The Interchange of produce be-
tween the rural, manufacturing, and commercial population of the
kingdom.

The want of railway accommodation has long been felt to press
unfairly upon the inhabitants of the important and thriving town of
Abingdon. Their means and opportunities of competing with the more
fortunate traders of those towns which are already provided with di-
rect channels of transit, are thus severely crippled. The same remark
applies in some degree to the market town of Wantage, which, as
well as Hungerford and Ludgershall, claims a share of the profits
and advantages produced by railway traftle.
It has therefore been determined to commence the propeoeill ne at
Oxford, and to proceed through Abingdon to the station of the Great
Western Railway at Steventon, thus giving to Abingdon a direct rail-
road to London. By continuing the projected railway to Wantage, the
sane facility of transit to London will be afforded to that place ; and
a perfect line of road from the north-eastern counties will, by a junc-
tion with the projection Irons Cambridge to Oxford, be produced,
through the towns which have been named, Htmgerlord and Ludgers-
hall to Salisbury, and thence to the south and western porta and dis-
tricts.

A map of the line, and a statistical report of the whole country
intended to be traversed, is in course of preparation, and with the
names of an influential provisional Committee, will very shortly
be published. In the meantime, further information may be ob-
tained from Messrs. Elmslio and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street,
London, solicitors to the undertaking, to whom, at prenent applica
lion fur shares may be made.

THE LIVERPOOL and DERBY RAILWAY
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Victoria, cap. 110.,
Capital 1,500,0001., in 75,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
Offices of the Company, 28, Meorgate-street.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.
The Hon. Howe Browne, Chairman of the Manchester and
Birmingham Continuation Railway
John Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street, banker it's
Sir John Pirie,Bart., Alderman of the City of London, Director
of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Packet Company Z,
William Hughes Hughes, Esq., Alderman of the City of London,
late M.P. for Oxford, and late High Sheriff for Slants o
James Henry Attwood, Esq., Seymour-street, Portman-square - g
George Adam, Esq., White Lion-court, Cornhill
John Bagshaw, Esq., Director of the Northern and Eastern } ;-`), 13_
Railway
Joseph Brown, Esq., Director of the East and West of England C;) 4
Junction
William Chadwick, Esq., Chairman of the Richmond Railway o
Captain George Probyn, Bryanston-square e Robert Watkins, Esq., Director of the East and West of Eng- .2 g.
land Railway
o
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Director of the Commercial Bank of
London,
The lion. George Browne, Lowndes-square, Belgrave-square
Sir Wm. Wynne, 5, Suftblk-street, Pall-mall, Chairman of the North
Wales Railway, and Director of the Oxibrd, Southampton, and
Portsmouth Railway
Thomas Challis, Esq., Alderman of the City of London
Sir James Eyre, Brook-street, Grosvenor-square
Louis Buckland, Esq., Avenue-road, Regent's Park, Director of the
Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
Colonel George Disbrowe, Chester-square, London
Capt. Burney, R.N., Gosport
George Bovill, Esq., Millwall, Poplar
John Barnes, Earl., Charley Wood, Bucks
Joseph Brook, Esq., Greenhead, Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds
and Dewsbury Railway
W. Black, Esq., 19, Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Director of the
Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway, and Italian and Austrian
Railway Company
W. Bland, Esq., Buxton, Director of the North Wales Railway
Samuel Swann Itrittain, Esq., Sheffield
John Churchill, Esq., Bayswater, Director of the Manchester and
Birmingham Continuation Railway
Robert Charles, Eat., 24, Endley-street, Tavistock-square, Director
of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
G. Colquhoun, Esq., Director of the Worcester and Wales Railway
E. Chapman, Esq., Strand, Director of the Richmond Railway
James D. De Vitre, Esq., Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square
James Fearnley, Esq., Longsight Abbey, near Manchester
William Tulloch Fraser, Esq., Manchester-square, Director :of the
Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad House, Edgbaston, near Birmingham,
Director of the East and West and Birmingham South Stafford-
shire Railways
James Horne, Esq., Clapham-common, Director of the North Lon-
don Railway Company
William Halliday, Esq., merchant, Chad-valley, Edgbaston, Director
of the Leekfleld and Birmingliain Railway
Riehard Heaviside, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton
Railway
William Jac,ohib, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the East and Weld
of England Railway
Jerdine, Esq., Piccadilly
Charles Kelson, Esq., Teignmouth, Devon, Director of the East and
West of England Railway
T. Knill, Esq., Thames-street, Director of the Worcester and South
Wales Railway
W. Knott, Esq., 4, Adelaide-place, Director of the Richmond Railway
Captain J. H. Leckie, Richmond, Surrey
J. D. Lowden, Esq., Doughty-street, Director of the Richmond
Railway
William Morley, Esq., Blackheath-park, Deputy Chairman of the
Manchester and Birkenhsad Continuation Railway
G. Miller, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct
Railway
N. M‘Cann, Esq., MI, Parliament-street, Director of the Manchester
and Rugby Direct Railway
Win. Nash, Esq., Chairman of the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings
Railway
Wm. Nicholson, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct
Railway
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the East and West
of England Railway
Apsley Pellatt, Esq., Director of the Staines and Richmond Railway
S. Phillips, Esq., Director of the Whitehaven and Furness Railway
Geo. Rougemont, Esq., 9, Chester-terrace, Regent's-park, Director
of the North London Junction Railway
Christopher Shaplaud, Esq., Bristol, Director of the Bristol and
Gloucester, South Devon and Cornwall Railway
T. Bridge Simpson, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Richmond
Railway
John Stewart, Esq., M.P. for Lymington, Director of the East and
West of England Railway
Joseph Shaw, Esq., Huddersfield
Joseph Thompson, Esq., John-street, Bedford-row, Director of th
London and Brighton Rallw,.iy
Thomas Variey, Esq., Shorst'm Hall, Mahon
Daciel Walley, Esq., 'Wan.7ss worth, Surrey, Distiller
S. Watkins, Esq., Forrest 11111. near Worksop
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., :Director of the Erewash Valley Railway
(WWI power to add to their number).
BANKERS.
Mescrs. Masterman and Co., London
The Union Bank, Manchester
SOLlorroa—John Bethell, Esq., 78, King William-street, London.
CONSULTING ENGINEER.
ENGINEERS.
Messrs. Rice and Thomas Hopkins, M.1.C.E.;
and John Belcher, Esq.
SECRETARY.

This Company is formed for making a railway from Liverpool to
Derby, and will, in conjunction with the Manchester and Rugby
Direct, and London and Birmingham Railways, form the nearest
route from Liverpool to London. It will commence at Llverpool, and
proceed along the Liverpool and Manchester Railway to within a
importance of the Winston Inclined Plane, and thence branch off,
in a south-easterly direction, through Warrington, Knuteford, and
Congleton to Leek (there joining the Manchester and Rugby Rail-
way), and from thence through Ashbourne to Derby. The whole
length of the proposed line will be about sixty-six miles. It will be
seen by reference to the map that this important line of railway will
form the shortest route from Liverpool to London and effect a direct
chain of communication between Liverpool and Derby, and will
thence, by means of the Midlands and otherrailways, open an unin-
terrupted route to the more eastern counties, and afford a complete
midland communication between the eastern and western parts of
the kingdom and the importantintennediate manufacturing districts.
The most important feature in this railway is that it forms the
shortest road from Liverpool to Londolt. The distance by it, with the
Manchester awl Rugby, and London and Birmingham, will be only
188 miles, whereas by the prusen.t route it is 210 miles, and by the
Trent Valley Railway 200% miles ; effecting a saving of 22 miles in
one Instance, and 12% miles in the other.
And as regards Liverpool and Derby, the whole distance between
Liverpool and Derby will be reduced by this line to about 74 miles,
thus decreasing the distance by any present existing railway, at least
46 miles ; an advantage which carries in itself the conviction of the
necessity there is for the proposed railway, in order to connect more
immediately two such important towns, especially when those towns
The distance also from Manchester to Leek (where the proposed
localities, as
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railway will unite with the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway)
will be about 30 miles, and from Leek to Derby about 26% miles,
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But great as these results most certainly will be, they are far out-
weighed by the very important consideration that, in conjunction
with the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway, it will also be the
most direct route from Liverpool to London.
The distance from Liverpool to Leek (the proposed point of junc-
tion with the Manchester and. Rugby Direct Railway) is 47% miles:
from Leek to Rugby, according to the line as proposed by the Man-
chester and Rugby Direct Railway, 58 miles, and from Rugby to
London 83 miles; thus making the whole distance from Liverpool to
London 188% miles, instead of 210, by the present route.
With regard to the traffic and other details connected with the
working of the line, It seems only necessary to revert to the great
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FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Providonal Committee of the Liverpool and Derby Railway
I request you will allot to meCompany. shares of 201. each in the capital of the above-namerl railway, and I will accept the same or
any less number, and pay the deposit of 2/. 2s. per share, and sign
the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' A
quired. greement when re-
Dated the

day of

, 184.5

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