The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDA Y LEVENI_NO, SEPTEMBER 15, 1845.

MANCHESTER, BUXTON, MATLOCK,
and MIDLANDS JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Company's Offices, 27, George-street, Manchester, Sept. 8, 1854.
The Committee of Management give notice that they have this day
resolved, in exercise of the powers vested in them by the subscribers'
agreement, to INCREASE the CAPITAL of this Company by the
!MITI of 600,0001., for the purpose of carrying out certain branches
and extensions of their original undertaking ; and that they haze
further resolved to increase the deposit upon the shares of this Com-
pany to 21. 25., in obedience to the new requirements of the House of
Lords.
New capital, upon which a like deposit of 21. 2s. per share will be
payable, will be allotted fts the proportion of one new for every two
emitting share, to those parties who shall, on or before the 30th
September histfult, deposit at the Company's offices, for registry and
exchange, tire scrip now held by them, with a statement and ap-
plioatiJn in the annexed form, and (in the case of parties not being
ori4inal allottees of shares) a satisfactory reference to some party of
Is own respectability.
The reql/isite order to one of the Company's bankers to receive the
increased deposit, and a letter of allotment of new shares will be
issued, in the case of original allottees within two days after registry
of the scrip, and in the case of other parties so soon as the Committee
shall be satisfled of their sufficiency.
Scrip, in respect of which the holders shall fail to take the neces-
sary steps for payment of the required deposit, within the specified
6eriod, will be forfeited.
Forms of application for registry of scrip may be obtained on appli-
cation to the Seeretary, at the offices cif the Company.
HENRY TOOTAL. Deputy Chairman.
FRED. WRAGGE, Secretary.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR REGISTRY OF SCRIP.
To the Committee of Management of the Manchester, Buxton, Bfat-

lock, and Midlands Junction Railway.
Gentlemen.—Herewith are scrip for shares in tho Man-
chester, Buxton. Matlock, and Midlands Junction Railway Com-
pany. in respect of which I request you to issue me new scrip ; and I
agree to pay such deposit, and to execute such deeds and agreements
as you may require.
I further request you to allot me new shares in the Com-
pany, in respect of which, or of such number as may be allotted to
me, I agree to pay the deposit, and to execute the Parliamentary
iontruot and subscribers' agreement, as and when I may be required.
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INTRY, NUNEATON, BIRMINGHAM,
AND LEICESTER RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 840,0001., in Shares of 251. each.
This Railway will connect Leicester, Birmingham, and Coventry. '
by the nearest practicable route; and was provisionally registered
and capital subscribed long before any other scheme was projected
for supplying railway accommodation to the district.
COMPARATIVE TABLE OF DISTANCES.
Front Proposed Distance
dlstanee. distance. saved.
Leichster to liirmingham•. • • 49 .• • • .... 37 ..
Leicester to Coventry .... al
This line will oommence at or near the Wlgston station
of the Midland Counties Railway, will pass by or near
the manufacturing localities of Narborough, Sapcote, Earl
ithilton, Burbage, and Hinckley, through a district most ntvourable
for engineering purposes, to a junction with the Trent Valley at Nun-
eaton, thence it continues nearly due west to the Whitacre station of
the Birmingham and Derby Railway, and south-west by Bedworth
to the Coventry station of the London and Birmingham Company.
The line will communicate with the Swannington Railway either by
means of the proposed Broughton Astiey branch of the Midlands, or
or a separate branch to be forme.. by this Company ; thereby opening
the entire of the Leicestershire coal-field to the counties south-east
0: Leicester.
The Direclors, for the last fhw months, having used their best
exertions for the interests of the Company, feel it their duty, now
that the surveys, plans, and other arrangements are so far advanced,
to acquaint their shareholders with the position and prospects of the
undertaking.
The Coventry, Bedworth, and Nuneaton line, which received the
favourable report of the Board of Trade, and was before Parliament
last session, forms part of the present projected plan for connecting
Leicester, Coventry, and Birmingham.
The Directors have, by personal inspection, accompanied by their
engineer, satisfied themselves of the remarkable facilities presented
by the district for executing the greater part of the line ; and from
careful investigation the Directors have the pleasure of informing the
shareholders that this undertaking eannot fail to prove a profitable
investment if supported by local traffic only, and with the certainty
that a through traffic from the eastern and western lines, combined
with the great advantages afforded by the junction with the Trent
Valley for the tr•.nsit of goods to and from Liverpool, Scotland, Ire-
land, and the United States, its importance cannot be over estimated.
From the extent of population accommodated by this railway
—fern the convenience afforded to the trade and manufactures of
the Midland Counties—from the vast mineral resources of the dis-
tricts traversed, and from its position in regard to other important,
established, and projected railways, the Directors feel confident that
it will be amply remunerative to the Shareholder, and highly advan-
tageous to the public.
The capital has bean subscribed, and the Parliamentary 4eeds have
been executed, and the preliminary survey completed.
A list of a new and highly influential local direction, and a map of
the line, will be published in a few lays.
By order, H. CASSIN, Secretary pro tem.
Offices, 3, Church-court, Old Jewry, London, Sept. 10, 1845.

RUGBY, DERBY, AND MANCHESTER
RAILWAY.
(Provisionally registered, pursuant to 7th and Bth Vie., e. 110.)
Capital, 1,500,0001. in 60,000 Shares of 251 each.
Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
Is order to insure compliance with the Standing Orders both of the
Lords and Commons.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE:
Right Hon. Lord George Paget, Uxbridge House, London
Sir Wm. Young, Bart., Westbourne-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of
the East India Company
Sir Wm. Hyde Pearson, Bart., 16, Hanover-square
Sir James Carmichael, Bart., 40, Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Direc-
tor of the Reading and Reigate Railway Company
Sir Win. Boothby, Bart., Ashbourne Hall, Ashbourne
Sir John Hensler, Bart., Deputy-Lieutenant of Essex
The Mayor of Derby
Wm. Hughes Hughee, Esq., F.R.S. F.L.S., Alderman of London,
Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, Direc-
tor. of the London and Greenwich, N.irta London Junction, the
Oxford. Southampton, Gosport and Portsmouth and Chepstow,
'Forest of Dean and Gloucester Junction Railways
John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S.. 80, Carabridge-terrace, Hyde Park,
Director of the Irish Great Western, and the Northampton, Ban-
bury and Cheltenham Railways
Thomas Stevenson, Esq., F.S.A., 37, Upper Grosvenor-street, Hyde
Park, Director of the Irish Great Western and the Reading and
Reigeto Railways.
rienry Cane Leaky, Esq., 8, St. James's-square, a Director of the
Great Welch Junction Railway, the Bognor and London and
Brighton Junction Railway, and of the Lincoln, Louth, and Great
Grimsby Railway
Ilsomas Bent, F.sq., M.D., Derby, Director of the Derby, Gainsbo-
rough, and Great Grimsby Junction Railway
James Clifford, Esq., Shardlow Hell, Derbyshire
Willie* • "ox, Esq., Brallsford, Derbyshire
Dav'e W eeteroft, Esq., Bitekland Hollow, Derbyshire
Jaw re S ton, Esq., Shardlow Hall, Derbyshire
Goa w.. Johnson, Esq., magistrate and landowner, Ashbourne
P. Wilmot, Esq., Welbeck.street, Cavendish-squaro
Major Thurston Dale, Ashbourne
Joseph Bridgett, Esq., Aldermanbuu, London ; and Colnoy Hatch,
near Barnet, and Derby
Cecil Brook Boothby, Esq., Ashbourne Hull, Ashbourne, and Bolton-
street, Piccadilly
Henry Brigetock, Esq., M.D., Derby, Director of the Derby, Ut-
toxeter, and Stafford Railway
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toxeter, and Staffordshire Railway
Frederick Fox, Esq:, Melbourne, Agent for Lord Melbourne
.litmes Joseph Dolman, Esq., Melbourne, Derbyshire
Ahn Earp, Esq., Melbourne, Derbyshire
fehiules Holbrooke, Esq., Alvaston, near Derby, Director of the
Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford, and of the Derby, Gainsborough,
Stafford, and Grimsby Railways
Jeremiah Pitcher, Eeq., Russell-square, London, Director of the
Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Railway
William Seyinour, Esq., Montague-place, Russell-square
William Chance, Esq., Spring-grove, Birmingham, Deputy-Chair-
Alan of the Birmingham and Leicester Railway, Director of the
Trent Vailey, Midland, and of the Manchester and Southampton
Junction Railways
James.Wltham, Esq., Eaton-square
A. A. Fry, Esq.' Temple
Thomas George Smith, Esq., Doughty-street, Meeldenburgh-sgaere
John Hill, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford
Bail ray
Thomas Halmei, Esq., Melbourne, Derbyshire
Thomas Helmsley, Ewe, Melbourne, Derbyshire
Henry Orton, Esq., King's Newton, Derbyshire
George Van4eleur, Esq., King's Newton, Derbyshire
Samuel Robinson, Esq., Shaw BOILS', Melbourne, Derbyshire
John Towle, Esq., Borrowash Mills, Derbyshire
George Wooton, Eery., Cheleton, Derbyshire
William Lechmere Whitmore, Esq., Director of the Irish Great
Western Railway
James Hollingworth, Esq., Melbourne and Derby
Wellington Ross Seymour, Esq., Montague-place, Russell-square
James Renshaw, Esq., Westheath House, Erith, Kent, Director of
the South Staffordshire Junction Railway
A. Inderwiek, Esq., Brompton, Middlesex
With power to add to their number.
ENGINEER—CharIes Blunt, Esq., C. E.
Scnierroz—Thomas Gibson Brewer, Esq., 13, Gray's Inn-square
STANDING COUNSEL—WiIIiam 11011, Req., CIARTICSTy-lane.
COUNTRY SOLICITORS.

Derby—John Moss, Esq.
Manchester—Messrs. Crossley and Sadtow
Ashbourne—John Fox, Esq.
Ashby-de-la-Zouch —Henry Minion Hawkesworth, Esq.
Hinckley—E. Kern Jarvis, Esq.
PArGIASIENTART AGENT—Thomas Baker, Esq., Spring-gardens.
BANKERS.
Messrs. 3fasterman, Paters, Mildred and Co.
Derby—Dorby and Derbyshire Banking Company
AGENTS.
London—Thomas G. Smith, Esq., 2, Warnfbrd-court, Thrognierton-
street

Ashbourne—Thomas Jonec, Esq.
Derby—Augustus G. °reeves, Esq.
Leicester—Messrs. Elgood and Harrison
hull-- m eskers. Flint and Tootal
Liverpool—Messrs. J. B. and D. Neilson.
SECRET ARIES.
William Richard Scott, Req.
Horace Green, Esq.
Temporary Offices, 13, Gray's Inn-square.
The Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway, is a direct line from
London to Manchester, coming from London to Rugby along the
London and Birmingham line, and proceeding from Rugby to
Hinckley, through Market-Bosworth and Ashby-de-la-Zouch, to
Derby, thence to Ashbourne, by Leek, to Macclesfield, and along the
Macclesfield 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
!Lem. possible amount of new railway, and consequently the smallest
eTpenditure 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 direot
communicationbetween Manchester and Derby, and will considerably
shorten the distance between Manchester and Nottingham, and Man-
eiester 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 t, 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 Railways forms a di-
rest Manchester and Southampton line.
THE GREAT ADVANTAGES
of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway over the other pro-
jects into Manchester, among others, are—
First, That there are only seventy-flve miles of railway to be
male, in place of one hundred and eighty-nine.
Secondly, That it is a more direct line from London to Manchester
then even the proposed direct lines.
Thirdly, That it interferes with no existing railway property or
vested interests.
Fourthly, That it passes through a district rich in manufactures,
agricalture, and minerals, bet which—more especially as regards lie
goricaltural produce, and a convenient system of intercommunication
(5r the conveyance of that agricultural produce, to supply the large
manufacturing towns in the vicinity—has been hitherto left totally
without railway communication.
Fifthly, That it passes through the towns in its route, instead of
avoiding them.
Sixthly, That the whole line of railway from Rugby to Manchester
win be completed and in working order within ten months from the
gassing of the Act of Parliament.
Seventhly, 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 onices, on the 10th of November next, being
twenty days within the time required by the regulations of Parlia-
meat.
In the allotment of shares a preference will be given, to the extent
of 10,000 shares, to the holders of stock in the London and Bi n 1 g
barn Railway, also of 2,000 shares to the shareholders in the Oxford,-
Reutitemptort, and Gosport Pailwaylampany, of 1,000 shares to
Oxford and Rugby Railway Companr,"and 2,000 shares to the the
-
elhester and Birmingham Railway Company.
A pplioations for shares may be made to the Solicitor of Ow Com-
pany, or any of the agents or local atlicitora of the Company, but
all such applications must be accompanied by a reference to a mem-
ber of the Provisional Committee, Cr banker, solicitor, or stock-
blear.
!so applications for sharoa will be received after Friday next, the
20th of September instant.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
RUGBY, DERBY, AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY.
Capital, 1,500,0001., in 60,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
PleY'Orksictual Oommitlee of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester
o'- „ •4- ,`" '. s ,Rallway Company.
deja,d24.....freeneSig that you will allot me shares in
'"_the above proposed Railway, and I agree to accept that or any less
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number that yen may please to allot me, and I undertake to pay the
Bd.,poglt of 21. 125. pet` share on the same, and to sign the Perlis-
.o ette.ntetY Contract and ,Subscribers' Agreement, and all other usual
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d aieeeriery deeds .fists.fistsrequired.
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THE OXFORD and WORCESTER EXTEN-
SION and CHESTER JUNCTION RAILWAY, with
Branches to Shrewsbury and Northwitch. On the Broad Gauge.
(Provisionally registered.)
Capital 2,250,0001., in 125,000 Shares of 20/, each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Lord George Paget, Uxbridge House
The Hon. Douglas Klnnaird Pottltney, 4, Parliament-street. Director
of the Nottingham and Boston Railway
Major Beresford, H.P.
Sir William Bacon Johnson, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire, Director

of the Chester and Forest of Denn Railways
Sir Wm. Wynn, Maesyneward, Chairman of the North Wales IRailway
Sir Samuel Brown, Director of the Worcester and Warwick Railway
Sir John Edward de Beauvoir, Chairman of the London and Bir-

mingham Extension
Sir John Hare, Langham-place, Director of the London and Blr-

minOtam Extension
Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London, Director of the London
and Manchester and Leeds and Liverpool Railways
Colonel Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, Director of tho London and

Birmingham Railway
Colonel Fitch, 36, York-terrace, Director of the South and Midland
Admiral J. Ayacough, Prospect-place, Southampton, Director of the

South and Midland
Major Croft, 15, Regent-street, Deputy Chairman of the Manchester

and Chester Railway
Major Chase, 31, Nottingham-place
Captain S. M. Fisher,jun., Director of the Warwick and Worcester

itanway
Captain Hitchens, H.E.LC.S.. Director of the Birmingham and Ox-

ford Railway
Captain F. Chamfer, flalkin-street, Be'grave-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
John Kinnersley Hooper. Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the
London and Manchester Direct Railway, and South Midland
Thos. Farticomb, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South

Midland Railway
Thos. Challis, Esq., Alderman of London, Wilson-street, Finsbury
Thos. Sidney, Esq., Alderman .f London, Sheriff of London and

Middlesex
Captain Jas. Patrick Macdougal, late Bengal Royal General Staff,
Fan-grove, North Brixton, Director of the Chester and Forest of
Dean Railway, &c.
Captain Alex. Hamilton Carle, Royal Artillery, Refbrm Club.
John Inglis Jardein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby

and Southampton Railway
Wm. Morley, Exq„ Blackheath
Wm. Lee, Esq., Director of the Gravesend and Rochester, and Essex

and Suffolk Railways
Rd. Carpenter, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Chu. Robt. Colman, Esq., Director of the South and Midland Rail-

way
Henry Wright, Esq., Director of the Warwick and Worcester Bail-

way
John Wheelton, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedtbrd Railway
Thomas Colllngridge, Highgate, Middlesex
Chas. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
John Brock Walbanck, 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 Counties

Railway
Major Jar Sharp, Deputy Chairman of the Thames Embankment

Railway
Major-General Brooks Parlby, 18, Rutland-place
IV,Slinpson 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

Railway
W. F. Black, Esry., Wilton-place, Be/grave-square, Director of the

Italian and Austrian Railway
W. G. Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway
Robert Henry Lyndam, Esq., Director of tho Exeter and Weymouth

Railway
Robert Andrew Riddell. Esq., 23, Bryanston-street, Portman-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 Jazies Hall, Esq., Torrington-square, Director of the Bide-

ford and Tarlstock Rail Way
Captain C. W. Tyndall, Director of the South-Eastern Railway
Frederick Jones, Esq., Director of the Warwick and Worcester
Railway
Henry Lewis Smale, Esq., Willoughby House, Tottenham, Director

of the Lo-don and Dover Railway -
C. Waite, Esq., Willesden, Middlesex
R. 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
Win. Shaw, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment Railway
Wm. Alfred Hill, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith
Railway
Richard Dutton, Esq., Director of the South and. Midlands Junction

Railway
Slark, EM., Director of the Guarantee Society
James Reeves, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Railway
Frederick Collingridgo, Esq., Tharlow-square, Brompton
Warren S. Halo, Esq., G-eesham• street
Robert Richards, Esq., Temple, Director of th 3 Birmingham and Lon-

don Extension Railway - -
Kingsmill Grove Key, Esq.
The Rev. F. K. Hall, D.D., Rector of Falbourne, Cambridge
Daniel Penton Johnson, Esq., Dire:tor of the London and Manches-

ter Railway _
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Charles Green, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith

Railway -
John Barber, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith

. _ .
Railway
Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Hereford
E. R. Foster, Esq., Director of the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford.

shire Railway
Martin Fends, Esq., Director of the Nottingham, Newark, and
Bosbn Railway
W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the Birmingham and Manchester
Extension Railway
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 Leicicester and Birmingham Railway
Thomas Yates Hunt, Esq., Brades, near Birmingham
William Singleton, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool
Thront T7nllrrew
Win. Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Railway
James Muscroft, Esq., Pontefract
David William Nell, Esq., Leeds, J.P., Director of the Leeds and

Thirek Railway
Joseph Robert Wilkin Atkinson, Esq., Director of the Leicester and
Bedford, and York and Lancaster Railways
John Fagan, Esq., Gloucester-road, Old Bromptou
Charles Holden, Esq., Director of the Great Grimsby and Sheffield
Railway
J. B. 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 the Lincoln, -York and
Leeds Railway
John Blackburn, Esq., Leeds
J. M. Douglas, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth
Railway
W. Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street
John Anderson, Esq., Director of the South and Midland Ralfway
W. Ley, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square
Robert Power, Esq., M.D., Queen-street, May Fair
John Anderson, Esq., E.1.C.5., Lothbury
Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Old Palace, Richmond
W. Pastow, Esq., Surrey-place
James Darnels, Esq., Leytonstone, Essex
G. N. Wright, M.A.
John Alexander Bicknell, Esq., Brandon Cottage, Bristol, Director Of
the South and Midlands' Junction Extension Railway
(Wi•h power to add to their number.)

The names of au Influential Committee formed at Worcester and
Chester will be published In a few days.

BANKERS.
The Commercial Bank of London
ENangziaa—William Mullingar Higgins, Esq.
SOLICITORS.

Potter and Collingridge,
_5, Basinxhall-street ; W. B. James,

5, BasMghall-street.
SEcirreaY—Hilton Thomas Jenkins, Esq.

The geographical position of Worcester has caused its adoption as
the point where the broad gunge trunk lines of the west are to hare a
common terminus. From Oxford the Great Western Company have
decided on constructing a line of rail :—another projea under the pa-
tronage of the same powerfhl direction is now befbre the public,
uniting Worcester with Warwick ; and, that the broad gauge will he
carried from Worcester Into Wales, and to the Irish packet stations
on that coast, is now no longer doubtful. This undertaking will OMII-
- 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 itridgenorth, a town enjoying
an active Inland trade, and possessing woollen manufactures and iron
works, that gives employment to a population of about 15,000. Pass-
ing through or near to Much Wenlock, Broeeley, and Madeley, from
which place there will be a branch to Shrewsbury, the line ascends
Colebrook Dale, and approaching in its course Wellington and Wan,
enters Whltchurch. From this central places branch will be formed
to Norwich via Stoke, forming a junction with the Liverpool and
Crowe Railway. The trunk line will continue from Whitchurch, and
passing through or near 3falpas, have its northern terminus in the
city of Chester.
In estimating the probable am •ant 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 Stonrport 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 or 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.

As a link in the railway network of England, or as auxiliary
to existing or projected lines passing In various directions, few
schemes hitherto proposed appear to afford greater inducement
for investment, or a wider range of accommcdation for traffic and
travelling. This project constitutes a lengthened link in the slain
that will connect Liverpool with Bristol, the grand trunk of the
West of England ;—its southern terminus, Worcester, is the half-
way station of the London and Port Dynnliaen broad gauge line :
by projected lines a direct communication will be afforded west-
ward to Swansaa and Aberystwlth, and, eastward, to Warwick and
Northampton, Cambridge, Peterborough. Harwich, Lynn, Lincoln,
an :I Hull.

The line has been repeatedly and carefully examined by the Com-
pany's acting engineer, who reports that the rail for many miles may
be 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 It the interests seated on its proposed
course.
Applications for prospeengett and plans may be made, and tbrms
of application for shares lutd at the offices of Messrs. Potter and
Coiling:ridge, solicitors, 3, Ilasinghall-street ; also of W. B. James,
Esq., etincitor, .5, flasinghall-street ; of the local agents ; and of the
following gentlemen :
Mr. Sqmnel Hanbury, 4, Angel-eortrt,
LOlldori •• • • •••• •• {Mr. Whiston Powell, Copthall-court and
Messrs. Peppercorns, 2, Old Broad-street

Liverpnol .• •••• ..Mesors. AlstOn and Gage.
Messrs. Houghland and Leese, and Mr. NIL
Manehester, •• •• •• Ham Marshall.
TTnll. ...... Collinson and Flint.

r Messrs. Watson and Co., and
Loads
•••••• • • •• • • Messrs. Smith and Perfect
Stratford-on-Avon—Mr. William Bolton.
Exeter •• .. Mr. Thomas Sanford.
Plymouth .... • • • . Mess s. Hayward and Palmer.
Itirinhsghtun ......Mr. Collis and Mr. John Wright.
Glasgow.. ..... Messrs. Tarsie and Co.

r-dinburgh Robertson and co., and Messrs. AtTal-
Iluddersfleld loin and Co.

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Worcester • • •• • • ••11r. Thomas Henry Wheeler.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR RIIARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Worcester and Cheater
Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request that you Will allot to me Shares of
201. each in this Company, and I undertake to accept the same, an
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.

Name (In .
Trade or Profession ................
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EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY
COMPANY.

Yew Shares of 14/. 165., on whieh_4l. 16s. has been paid.

Parties holding bankers' retests for the first instalment of 41. 16s.
are requested to send in such receipts forthwith to the Company's
Office, for the purpose of being exchanged for scrip ; and those par-
ties who have lodged the bankers'receipts at the Office, but who have
not applied for the scrip, are requested to take up the same.
By order of the Board,

A. MILKELEY, Secretary.
Offices, Shoreditch Station, Sept. 12, 1845.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY
EXTENSION STOCK, No. 2.
The Directors of the Eastern Counties Railway Company do, in
pursuance of the powers vested In them by the General Meeting of
the Proprietors held on the 28th August last, and for the purposes
mentioned in the report of the Directors to the Proprietors, CALL
the sum of FGLIR POUNDS per Share on the shares of the Exten-
sion Stock, No. 2, of the Eastern Counties Railway Company, 21.
per Share thereof to •be paid on TUESDAY, the 23d day of September
instant, and the remaining 21. per share thereof on TUESDAY, the
18th day of November next, to any of the under-mentioned bankers
of the Company. Interest will be charged upon these instalments at
the rate of 51. per cent. per annum, if not duly paid at the above-
mentioned dates.
The holders of certificates of Extension Stock, No. 2, must deliver
the same up to the bankers on paying such first instalment of 21. per
share, and the bankers' receipt for the same must be exchanged at
the Company's office for new scrip, representing 21. 13s. 4d. as paid
upon each share.
All outstanding bankers' er office receipts for the instalments of
13s. 4d. per share, formerly paid, and not yet exchanged for scrip,
must be forthwith sent to the Company's office, tp be exchanged for
scrip certificate ; London and Westminster Bank, Lothbury, or any
of its branches ; Liverpool Borough Ilan e, Liverpool ; Manchester
and Liverpool District Bank, Manchester; Wilts and Dorset Banking
Company, Salisbury ; Mee•rs. Lemon and Co., Brentwood ; Messrs.
Mills, Bawtree, and Co., Colchester ; Messrs. Sparrow and Co.,
Chelmsfbrd ; National Provincial Bank, Bath ; National Provincian
Bank, Birmingham ; National Provincial Bank, Boston ; Wester ;
Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh ; Western Rank of Scotland, Glasgow
Royal Bank of Ireland, Dublin; East of England Bank, Great Yar-
' mouth ; Weet of England and South Wales District Bank, Bristol ;
Messrs. Harveys and Ilutisons, Norwich; Messrs. Bacon, Cobbold,
and Co., and Messrs. Alexanders and Co., Ipswich ; Cheltenham and
Gloneestershire Bank, Cheltenham.
By order of the Board,
A. BULKELEY, Secretary,
Offices, Shoreditch Station, Sept. 12, 1815.

IRISH WEST COAST RAILWAY
(Registered Provisionally.)

Capital, 2,500,0601., in 100,000 SharOs of 25/. each.
Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d.
(No Subscriber to he liable beyond the amount of his Shares.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Sir Valentine Blake, Bart., M.P., MenlGugh Castle, Galway
Mark Blake, Esq., M.P., Ballinafad, Mayo
Robert Dillon Browne, Esq.. M.P., Glencorrib, Mayo
John Patrick, Somers, Esq., M.P., Sligo
Sir Thomas Bernard Going Dancer, Bart., Mo4reeny House, Clough-
Jordon, county Tipperary, Director of the Galway and Kilkenny
Railway
The Hon. Geoirry Browne, Wilton-crescent, London, and Castle

M`Garrett, Mayo
The Hon. Douglas Kinniard Pulteney, Parliament-street, Whitehall
Maraee'lt ari"onr'gr.4'irighOn" way
John Netterville Barron, Esq., Resident Magistrate, Sanders Park,

Cork
William Campbell, Esq.. Sackville-street, and Brighton
John Carmichael, Esq., T.C., Rtvertson [louse, Cork, Director of tho

Cork and Killarney Railway
Thomas Coming, Esq., Ballybrit House, Galway
John Dunn, Esq., M.D., M.R.C.S., L. and D., Drumsna, Leitrim
Robert Graham, Esq., J.P., Drurngoon Fermanagh
Henry Griffith, Esq., D.L., J.P., Port Royal, Sligo, Director of the

Sligo and Shannon Hallway
W. A. Hill, Esq., Lonsdale-square, Deputy Chairman of the Gloucester

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and Aberystwith Railway
Robert Hughes, Esq., Ely House, Wexford, Director of the Frovin•

cial Bank of Ireland
William King, Esq., Spring Gardens, and Putney, Surrey
John Knox, Esq., Greenwood Park, Mayo
Capt. Charles Carden Mansergh, Longraigue, Wexford, Director of
the Wexford, Waterford, and Valentia Railway
Capt. Newton, Bruton-street, and Lugwardin, Herts
Charles Ormsby, Esq., D.L., Cummin, Sligo
Michael Perrin, Esq., Galway
Reoc Price, Esq., M.D., Tyne Hall, Great Ilford, Essex
Joseph Richardson, Esq., J.P. Summer-hill House, Clones
Thomas Seymour, Esq., J.P., Billymore Castle, Ballinasloo
James Sexton, Esq., J.P., Limerick
S. W. Simeockes Esq., Galway
John Walsh, Esq , Castiehill. Mayo
Captain George Edward Watts, R.N , Langton Grange, Darlington

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With power to add to their number.
Emuttnsa.—Colonel Landmann, R.E., F.A.S.,
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co.
Ireland—National Bank and Branches
Provincial Bank and Branches.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Langley and Mead, Bedford-row, London.
William Thomas Kelly, Esq., 16, Mountjoy-square, North. Dublin,
and CaStlobar, Mayo.

LOCAL AOHNTS.
Galway.—Captain F. O'Shaughnessy
Castlebar.—Mr. Henry Murphy -
Sligo, Mr. W. C. Tnite.
Swan.).ay.—lienry P. Stuart, Esq.
PROSPECTUS.

The objeet of this line of Railway is to complete the ebairier coast
communication, and form a connexion with lines already estftlished
or projected with reasonable hopes of success.
It will commence at or near the city of Limerick, and taking a nor-
therly direction, proceed through the counties ofClare, Galway, Mayo,
and Sligo, terminating at Sligo, by a junction with the Sligo and Ennis-
killen Railway, and accommodating on its route the important cities and
towns of Limerick, Ennis, Gort, Longhrea, Athenry, Monivea, Tuam,
Balllnrobe, Cast!char, Westport, Foxford, Ballina, Kilnlla, Swineford,
Streamstown, and Sligo, which town being connected with the north,
east, and south, by the different lines through Enniskillen, London-
derry, Coleraine, Belfast, :Armagh, Newry, Dundalk, Drogheda,
Dublin, Wicklow, Wexford, Waterford, Cork, Killarney, Valenti*,
Tralee, and Limerick, the establishment of this line will cause Ire-
land to present a completeness of locomotive communication which
no other country in the world enjoys.
The country through which the proposed line travels is most fertile
in mineral and agricultural products ; it embraces many extensive
coal fields, whose advantages it will extend to all parts of Connaught
and Ulster; and intersecting, as it does, so many metropolitan lines
of railway, it will develope those advantages in an equal degree to
the province of Leinster.
The lead, iron, marble, and slate works on its route, will be
rendered available to the most distant parts of the island, and
perhaps not the least advantage, In a national paint of view, will be
the establishment of an it.tercourse between the population of the
extreme north and that of the extreme south, as well as placing the
trade of, and communisation with, Scotland, within the easy reach
of itll towns of any importance in Ireland. Added to this the cer-
tainty, that en the completion of the projected southern, eastern, and
wasters lines, the noble natural harbours on the Atlantic shore of
Ireland Will become the British depots of American traffic, and most
probably the established packet stations for postal communication
between the two countries; it is impossible to over-rate the value of
this truly national projection.
The counties which this railway traverses abundantly supply the
English markets with cattle, pigs, ti.c. This line, communicating with
so many ports, will afford the greatest facilities for the shipping of
this portion oitrade, some idea of the extent of which may be formed
from the fact of upwards of five hundred fairs being held annually
in its immediate vicinity, among them, the fair of Ballinasloe, ac-
knowledged the greatest for sheep and cattle in the British islands.
It has been ascertained that the country presents great engineering
facilities for the construction of a railway, and in communications
which have been received from the landowners along the line, the
greatest anxiety is manifested for its completion.
The subscribers will be !. eta 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.
Power will be applied for in the Act—and In the meantime Is
hereby given to the Committee—to increase the capital, if necessary;
to alter or abandon any part of the line, to make branch lines, or
enter into arrangements with any other company or companies ; and
also to nominate the first directors of the company.

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The Parliamentary contract and subscribers' agreement will be
ready for signature on payment of the deposits.
Subjoined will be found, in the form of an appendix :
First. The population of the counties and principal towns through
wiiich the line will pass, showing that accommodation will be
afforded to more than one million and a half of inhabitants.
•

Secondly. Extracts from the Railway Commissioners' Report en
Ireland, giving accounts of the exports and imports at the different
harbours on the line, in 1835, but the vast increase in trade which
has taken place since that period, must very much enlarge any esti-
mate to be made on their data.

Thirdly, An account of thenineral products before referred to.
A perusal of these differen tables, it is presumed, will afford con-
clusive evidence of the profitable nature of this undertaking.
It will be seen, from the accompanying plan, that the railway in-
tersects many main lines, and will thus contribute to, and receive
from them a eonsiderable amount in passenger and merchandise
traffic.

From the estimates that have been made, a return of at least 10
per cent. must he realised on the capital.
Application for shares to be made to the Solicitors in London and
Dublin ; to the Local Agents ; to the Secretary, at the office of the
Company, 10, Old Jewry Chambers ; and to the undermentioned
brokers :—Mr. D. B. Major, Change-alley, Cornhill ; Mr. Anthony
Laurie, Liverpool; Messrs. Brady and Staniforth, Manor-street,
hull ; Mr. S. Grit-tiro 1, Manchester ; Messrs. Watson and Co.,
Leeds ; Mr. George Edwards, Bristol ; Messrs. Tyeth and Wills,
Plymouth ; Mr. Robert Allan, Edinburgh; Messrs. 3PEvren and
Auld, Glasgow ; Mr. William Gordon, Aberdeen ; Messrs. Curtis and
Power, Dame-street. Dublin ; Mr. James Morgan, Cork ; of whom
Prospectuses may be had.
FORM OF APPLIC ANION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Irish West-Coast Railway

Company.
frentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me Shares of
25/. each in the above undertaking; and I agree to accept such
shares as may be allotted to me, and to pay the Deposit of 2/.
12s. 6d. each thereon; and. also to sign the Parliamentary Contract
and the Subscribers' Agreement, when required.
Dated the day of 1245.
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Description

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D IRE CT WESTERN RAILWAY,
(Upon the Broad Gauge),
From London to the Land's-end ; with Diverging Lines to Bath and

Bridgewater: espectively.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 3,000,000/., in 120,000 Shares of 25/. each.
Deposit, 21. 15s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., Director of the South Mid-
land Railway, Brookes' Club, St. James's-street
Sir Francis Dugdale Astley, Bart., Everly House, PCWSey, Wilts
Sir Henry Webbe, Bart., 105, Pllll-mall
Frederick Hodgson, Esq., M.P. for Barnstaple, 3, Carlton Gardens
Howard Elphinstone, Esq., M.P., 10, Eaton-place, London
kilph Neville, Esq , M.P. for Wind For, Hill-street, Berkeley-square
Charles Barry Baldwin, 31. P. tbr Totness, 6, Parliament-street
Hon. Percy Evans Freke, 3, Belgrave-square
Thomas Nugent Vaughan, Esq., 32, Grosvenor-place, London
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the
Sheffield and Manchester and Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
Companies.
Sir John Key, Bart , 9, King's Arms-yard, Alderman of the City of
London, Director of the Direct Manchester and London and Direct
Liverpool and Leeds Railway Company
Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Griffin's Wharf, Tonley-street, Alderman
of the City of London, and Director of the London and Westmin-
ster Bank, and of the London, Warwick, Leatnington, and Kidder-
minster Railway
Thomas Challis, Esq., 32, Wilson-street, Finsbury, Alderman of the
City of London
Edward Harrisson Banvell, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the North-
ampton. Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway, and Director of the
youth Midland Railway
Joseph Armitage, Esq., Milli's Bridge House, Huddersfield, Deputy
Lieutenant and a Magistrate for the West hiding of Yorkshire,
Chairman of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
William Gordon Thomson, Esq., 33, Gloucester-road, Hyde Park,
Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham, and
South Midland Railways
Donald Maclean, Esq., 37, Brunswick-square, London, Deputy
Chairman of the Trent Valley Continuation Rally, ay
Thomas Lawrence, Esq., 3, St. Mary Axe
Philip W. Courtnay, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, London
Millis Coventry, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street
Barnet L. IPhilips, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, and
George-street, Mansion House
John Wheelton, Esq.' 3feopham Bank, Tunbridge, Kent, Director of
the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Boswell Middleton Jolland, Esq., Holdeniess House, near Hull,
Deputy Lieutenant and Magistrate for the East Riding of Yorkshire
Charles Robert Coleman, Esq., Irongate Wharf
hales, Esq., Mincing lane, London, late Director of the
Devon and Cornwall Banking Company
Charles Downes, Esq., Warwick-street, Charing-cross, Director of
the South Midland Railway
Martin Stately, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park, London,
Director of the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine, and the South
Essex Railways
Francis Ede, Esq., 34, Great Winchester-street
John Griffith Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Director of the Londonderry
and Coleraine and the Londonderry and Enniskillen Railways
John Addis; Esq., Rotherhithe and Mark-lane, London, Director of
the Central Terminus Railway, and of the Licensed Victuallers'

Fire and Life Insurance Company
James Renshaw, Esq., Whitchart-court, Lombard-street, and West
Heath House, Erith, Kent, Director of the South Staffordshire

Railway
Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brembo Ironworks, Wrexham, and Cannon-
.

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Ptreet, London
11. G. Atkinson, Esq., Upper Gloucester-place, Regent's Park
George M'lntosh, Esq., 127, Seymour-street, Portman-square
Frederick SoHy Flood, Esq., Alpha-road, Regent's Park, London
Major White, 105, Pall-mall, Loudon, Director of the South Midland

Railway
Charles Bleaden, Esq., Conladen-court, Surrey, Chairman of the Li-

censed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company
J. G. Hammack, Esq., Essex House, Mile-end-road, Director of the

Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company
Patrick Frets. Johnston, Esq., Great Cumberland-place
Joseph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, Ifinories, Director of the London and

Blackwell ifailviCitY Company
W. D. Bruce, Esq., F.S.A., 17, Charles-street, St. James's, and Ripon
Cutchbert Woodstock, Esq., Grove-road, North-road, North Brixton
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanstone-streot, Portman-
square, Director of Tring, Reading, and Basignstoke, the Exe-
ter, Dorchester, and Weymouth, and the Great Western Extension

Railways-
George Hammond Whalley, Esq., 30, Pall-mall, London, Assistant

Tithe Commissioner
William Hagan, Esq., GO, Baker-street, Portman-square
William Brcynton, Esq., Montpelier, Cheltenham, and Temple, Lon-
don, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth Railway
Richard Harris Purcell, Esq., Cambridge-street, Hyde Park, Lon-
don, Director of the Wilts, Eomerset, and Southampton Railway

Company • _
Philip Baker, Esq., Euston-square, London, Auditor of the London

and Blackwall Railway CoinpanY
Charles James Heath, Esq., 6, London-street, Mark-lane
Captain E. N. Trowbridge, R.N., 11, Eaton-square
Anthony Ridley, Esq., Queen-square,-Bloomsbury, a Director of the

St. Katherine's Dock Company
William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square
Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., Clopton House, Warwickshire, and

Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire -
George Payne, Esq., Sttlby Hall, Northamptonshire, and Charles.

street, Berkeley-square
James Beech, Esq., Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, and Grosvenor.

place, London
Nicholas Philpot Leader, Esq., Dromagh Castle, county Cork, Union
Club, Trafalgar-square, Director of the Killarney Junction Rail-
way Company
Samuel Baker, Esq., Lyppiat Park, Gloucestershire, and London
William Congrere Russell, Esq., .Le imington, Warwicks!iire, Di-
rector of the Warwickshire and London Railway
Henry Bradley, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire
John William Yerbury, Esq., Holcombe House, Wiltshire, Captain 3d

Light Dragoons
Robert Main, Esq., Ravensboume Park, Lewisham, and Trinity-

square, London
Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsall House, Retford, Nottinghamshire
John Gillyatt Booth, Esq., Crouch Hall, Hornsey
Major-Gen. Martin White, Marlborough-buildings, Bath
Rev. T. Harvey Ashworth, Burlyns House, near Newbury, Berka
Col. Burslem, Harwood Lodge, Newbury, Berks
Major Kirwan, Greit Pulteney-street, Bath
Rev. Dr. Godfrey, Grosvenor-place, Bath
Edward Cooper, Esq., Stavertoo, Wilts, Magistrate of the County
Henry Toogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse, Wilts, Magistrate of the

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County
Rev. Chas. Fras. Bamfylde, Rector of Dunkerton, near Bath
Richard Mortimore, Esq., Chippenham, Wilts
George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, Director of the Bristol and Birming•

ham Railway Company
R. Wootten, jun., Esq., Banker, Oxford, Director of the Buckingham.

shin Railway and Wolverton Junction
Richard Mortimore, Esq., Kingsmill, Collumpton
Rev. John Sydenham, Collumpton
Rev. R. A. Roberts, Rector of Kentisbere, Collumpton
Charles Justice, Esq., Collumpton, Devon
Richard Marker, Esq., Ufculm Cottage, Tiverton
Colonel Henry Dundas Campbell, North End House, Portsmouth
George Pearce, Esq., Bradninch Muse, near Collumpton
Wm. It. Malcomb, Esq., Chilton, llungerford, Chairman of the Berks

Union Banking Company '
William Ilitle.omb, Esq., Marlborough, Manager of the Wilts and

Dorset Bank
Captain W. G. Maclean, R.N., Taunton
Robert Parsons, Esq., Taunton
John Dalzell, Esq., Wallingford, Berks
Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
John Kerle Ilaberfleld, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
Troup, Esq., Hastings
John Robson, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
John Morford Cottle, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington, Director
of Coventry and Leicester Ballwin-
tiosepn &night, Esq., Leicester, Director of South Midland and North-
ampton, Banbury and Cheltenham Railways
John Newton Mappin, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Manchester,

, .
Sheffield, and Midland Railway Company
John Ridgeway, Esq., Cauldon -place, the Potteries, Staffordshire,
Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway
James Burt, jun., Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and
Southampton Railway
Edward Norris, Esq., Clalrville, Manchester, Director of the Direct
London and Manchester, and North Cheshire Railway Companies
Joseph Nadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and
Wigan, and Manchester and Southampton Railways
James Ogden, M.D., Salford
Sir William Lowthrop, Hull, Magistrate for the East Riding of York
and for the borough of Hull, Chairman of the " Hull and Barnsley"
Committee, and Member of the acting Committee of the "Liver-
pool and Leeds Direct Railway Companies"
John Holford, Esq:, Rusholm Hall, Manchester
C. H. Jones, Esq., Huddersfield, Deputy Chairman of the Hudders-
field and Sheffield, and Director of the. Halifax and Bradford

Union Railway
Charles Bamford, jun, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley

Junction
John Lillie, Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and South.

ampton Railway
John Robson, Esq., Hetton-le-Hole, Durham
Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Sheffield and
Manchester, and Chairman of the Manchester, Birkenhead, and
Midland Railway Companies
Isaac Holmes, Esq., Liverpool
Wm. B. Newbery, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Dudley and

Iron Bridge Railway Company
C. Appleby, Esq., Broomhill, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and
Manchester Railway Company"
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach,
and Lincolnshire Railway, and Salisbury and Swindon Railways
John Ward, Esq., Machin Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield,
Rotherham, and Chcsterfield Life Assurance-office
Win. Thompson, Esq., Upperthorpe, near Sheffield, Director of the
Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
Adderley Howard, Esq., Sutton Wisbech, Director of the East Coast

Railway- Company
Captain Bowker, R.N., Devon Port
H. S. Bright, Esq., Hull
Samuel Swann Britt ain, Esq., Sheffield
Samuel of the East and Wee
of England Railway Company
John Fawcett, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Wakefield and liar.

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rowgate Railway Company
William Marriott, Esq., Attercliff-terrace, Sheffield, Director of the
Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Junction Railway.
Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln, Director of the London and York
and East Lincolnshire Railways
John Johnstone Hamilton,. Esq., Liverpool
David Price, Esq., Manchester
William Hunter, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington
Rev. Charles Cottle, Rector of Walton, Northamptonshire
Major Wornum, Clarence-square, Cheltenham
Edward Hall, Esq., Westbank House, Macclesfield, Director of the
South Midland and the Northampton and Cheltenham Railways
Henry Hubbersty, Esq., Hull
John Ostler, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction
Henry Shaw, Esq., Fetter-lane
Henry Sayer, Esq., Commercial-road, Limehouse, merchant
John Mee Mathew, Esq., Gray's Inn-square, Assistant Tithe Com-

missioner
John Norton, Esq., Moat House, Brentwood, Essex
William John M'Guire,
Esq. Hampton Court
John Gray Wilson, Esq., Oxford-terrace Capt. J. P. Macdougall, Grove, North Brixton, Surrey
W. J. Lefevre, Esq., Alderman and Magistrate of Southampton
Thomas Chas. Harrison, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's Park
G. B. Bunbury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the

Coventry and Leicester Railway
Captain Tringhant, R.N., Solylull!, Warwiekehire .
William Jonson Neale, Esq., King's Bench-walk, Temple
James Whitney, Esq., Shretvsbury
Henry Paul Harwood, Esq.; M.D., Sheffield
(With power to add to their number).
BANKERS—Messrs. Curries and Co., Corohill, London.
JOINT SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Bell, Brodrick, and Bell, Bow Churchyard, London
Messrs. Rickards and Walker. 29, Linco!n's Inn-fields, London
Messrs. Haynes and Moore, Warwick and London
Messrs. J. V. and J. T. Harting, 24, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London.
SECRETARY—Thomas nosier Saunders, Esq.
ASSISTANT-SECRETART—CIIRTICS J. Whalley, Esq.
LOCAL SOLICITORS ALREADY APPOINTED.
At Devizes, Henry Gilbert, Esq.
At Troubridge and Bradford, Messrs. Stone and Rodway
At Bath, Messrs. Batehellor, Harford, and Staunton
At Bridgewater, Messrs. G. S. and J.Jt. Poole
At Tiverton
At Truro
At Penzance
At Falmouth
The object of this line is to effect a direct cOmmnnication between
London and the Laud's End.
In a national point of view such a line is indispensable. With
the advantage of a direct railroad, Falmouth, from it' position at the
western extremity of the kingdom, would undoubtedly long since
have been the principal port on that coast. With the advantage of
at least 280 miles of heavy road, that place has attained its high po-
sition as a Packet Station. Southampton, with far less natural ad-
vantages, has, since the opening of the South-Western Railway, in-
creased its imports from 203,000/. to 3,000,0001. per annum. At Bris-
tol, before the opening of the Great Western Railway, the imports
were declining ; since then they have very considerably increased.
The merits of a line to the'Land's End as an investment for ca-
pital, it was not left to the present Company to discover. The Great
Western and Bristol and Exeter Railways having already reached
Exeter, it has been in contemplation to extend that line to Fal-
mouth by way of Plymouth; and various other projects have been
set on foot on the conviction that Falmouth must be reached by
railway.
The object of this prospectus is to show that no other line than the
present can ultimately satisfy the exigencies of the country in regard
to this, its most important outport—" the natural Packet Station of
the empire."
The present project is distinguished by this—that it is direct. It is
as nearly as possible a straight line from London to the Land's End.
The London, !Seth, and Bridgewater Company having amalga-
mated with this Company, the immense local influence commanded
by them will now contribute to the great national object of a direct
line ; while means have been taken for securing the traffic and afford-
ing all the. accommodation contemplated by that Company.
The Difect Western availing itself of the Great Western Railway
so far as Reading, pursues its course by or near Newbury, Hunger-
ford, Great Bedwin, Marlborough, Devizes, the manufacturing dis-
trict of Trowbridge (from which a diverging line will be carried by
Bradford direct to Bath), Westbury, Frome, Shepton Mallet, Wells
(from which another diverging line will be taken to Bridgewater),
Glastonbury to Taunton, being shorter by about thirty-two miles than
any existing or projected railways between these points, and without
a tunnel. From Taunton the Bristol and Exeter Railway (now
leased to the Great Western) is traversed to Tiverton, whence it is
proposed to carry this line direct to the Land's End, Falmouth, St..
Ives, and Penzance; being shorter by about sixty miles than the
lately proposed line by way of Plymouth, and effecting, in the whole
distance frorn London to Falmonth, a saving of about ninety miles.
With respect to the traffic between London and Tiverton, it is
needless to say more than that there Is alteady thorough traffic suffi-
cient to justify the construction of this portion of- the Direct Wes-
tern ; that it will shorten the distance from London to Tiverton
about 32 milea that it will triverife rich and populouS aCricultural

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

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

Applications for shares, in the form subjoined, to bo addressed to
the solicitors to the Company or to the Secretary.
London, September 11, 1843.

FORM OF APPLICATION.
To tho Provisional. ommittee of the Direct Western Railway
Company.

Gentlemen,—l request you:willalkh me shares of 251. each
In the above Company, and I undertake to pay the deposit of 21. 15s.
per share thereon, or on any less number you may appropriate to me,
and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Con-
tract when required.
Dated

1845.

Name In full • • • • •• • • .• • • .• ...• .. •
Residence• • • • • •
Trade or Profession • • • • .• • • •
Place of Business (if any) .. .
Reference.. • • • ... • • ...... • • ..
Signature.... • ..• • •

MANCHESTER •and RUGBY DIRECT
RAILWAY, via MACCLESFIELD.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,700,0001., in 85,000 Shares of 20/. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The lion. Howe Browne, Chairman of the Manchester and'
Birmingham Continuation Railway
John Attwood, Esq., M.P., Park-lane, Hyde Park
John Masterman, Esq., Nieholob-lane, Lombard-street, banker
Sir John Pirie, Bart., Alderman of the City of London, Di-
rector of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Packet Com-

parry
William Hughes Hughes, Esq., Alderman of the City of
London, late M.P. for Oxford, and late High Sheriff for
Hants
James Henry Attwood,-Esq., Seymour-street, rortman-square
George Adam, Esq., White Lion-court, Cornhill
Jolinliagshaw, Esq., Director of the Northern and Eastern

Joseph Brown, Esq , Director of the Eait and West of Eng-
-

land Junction
William Chadwick, Esq., Chairman of the Richmond Rail Way
William Henry Forman, Esq., Upper Thames-street
Capt. George Probyn, Bryanston-square
Robert Watkins, Esq., Director of the East and West of Eng-

. ,
land Railway
Josh. Underwood, Esq., Director of the Commercial Bank of

London, J
The Hon. Geo Browne, Lowndes-square, BOgrave-square
Sir Geo. Rich, 43, Lowndes-street, Belgrave- square
Sir Henry Richardson, Chessel House, Southampton
Sir William Wynne, 5, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, Chairman of the
North Wales Railway, and Director of the Oxford, Southampton,
and Portsmouth Railway
Sir G. A. Lewin, Upper Harley-street, London
The Mayor of Newbury, Director of tho Oaf, rd, Southampton, and

Portsmouth Railway
John Addis, Esq., of Rotherhithe, Surrey, Director of the Contra
Terminus, and of the Licensed Victuallers' Firo and Life Mice
Charles Anstey, Esq., Rugby
The Rev. J. Harvey, As' worth, Nes bury
M. W. C. Alston, Esq., Birmingham
W. C. Alston, Esq., Elmdon Hall
Hugh Beaver, Esq., Manchester
William Fechnez Black, Esq., 19, Wilton-place, Belgrave-square,
Director of the Italian and Austrian Railway Company
Joseph Browne, Esq., Bedford
Captain Burney, R.N., Gosport
William Bardgett, Esq., Old Broad-street and Carshalten, Surrey,
. .

Director of the Italian and Ausirlan Railway Company
Samuel Swann Britian', Esq., Sh,flield
Charles Baker, Esq., Southampton
William Bland, Esq., Brixton, Director of the North Wales Railway
George Burnand, Esq., Sussex-square, Hyde Park
William Bevan, Esq., 48, Conduit-street, Bond-street, Director of the

North Wales Mineral Railway
Jacob Bell, Esq., Lanaham-place, London
W. E. Boyes, Esq., Alkerton, Banbury, Director of the East and

West of England Railway
Henry Brown, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
William Bradley, Esq., Director of the Sheffield and Manchester
Railway, a^d Chairman of the Direct Western Railway
George Borrett, Esq., Southampton
Lieutenant-Colonel Burslam, North Hants
Charles Bailey, Esq., Winchester
Henry Baker, Esq.' Mark-lane, London
11. Buning, Esq., LL.D., Gosport
John Burgess, Esq., late Boroughreeve, Manchester
Joseph Beech, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place
F. F. Clossman, Esq., Mincing-lane
John Chapman, Esq., Leadenhall-street, Director of the Devon and
Cornwall Railway
e. J. Capper, Esq., Adelaide-place, London-bridge
Edward Chapman, Esq., Strand, London, Director of the Richmond
Railway
Sheldon Cradock, Esq., Manchester
Philip Warner Courtenay, Esq., 25, Capel-street, Belgravc-square
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Direct Western
Railway
Francis Carleton, Esq.
James Cliff, Esq., Bloomsbury-square
Robert Cruickshank, Esq., Gosport
John Churchill, Esq., Bayswater, Directorof the Manchesteland Bir-
mingham Continuation Railway
William Dredge, Esq., Newbury
George Dawson, Esq., Norfolk-street, Sheffield
Colonel Geo. Disbrow, Chester-place, London
John Fawcett, Esq., Broom Hall, Sheffield, Director of the Great
Western Railway
Capt. Farrington, R.N., West Cowes, Isle of Wight
E. S. Farrow, Esq.. Newbury
W. S. Fitzwilliam, Esq., Old Broad-street, Director of the Essex and
Suffolk Railway
F. B. Freer, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon
W. E. Gray, Esq., Newbury
Joseph Glll, Esq., Leeds
H. P. Gipps, Esq., Montague-place, Bryanstone-square
Captain Augustin Heyman, Cadogan-square
Thomas Charles Higgins, Esq., Turvey House, Bedfordshire
Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad ouse, Edgsbaston, near Birmingham,
Director of the East and West ar.d Birmingham and South Stafford-
shire Railways
Joseph Hopgood, Esq., Exeter, Director of the East and West of
England
H. H. Hornby, Esq , Blackburn
George Calvert Rolland, Esq., Sheffield
John Newington Hughes, Esq. St. Michael's, Winchester
William Hill, Esq., Manchester
John Iladdon, Esq., Director of the East and West of England Rail-
way Company
James Horne, Esq., Clapham Common, Director of the North Lon-
don Railway Company
John Hemming, Esq., North Bank, Regent's Park, Director of the
Worcester and South Wales Railway
T. A. Hall, Esq., Ashfield House, Newcastle, Staffordshire
Frederick Hewitt, Esq., Clapham, Surrey
William Jacomb, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the East and West
of England
J. Kinloch, Esq., Gloucester-road, Hyde-park, Director of the North
Wales
John Knill, Esq., Thames-street, Director of the Worcester and
South Wales Junction Railway
Charles Kelson, Esq., Teignmouth, Davon, Director of the East and
West of England Railway
William Knott, Esq., 4, Adelaide-place, Director of the Richmond
Railway
Edward Lomer, Esq., Southampton
William Lechmere Whitmore,. Esq., James-street, Buzkingham, late
Director of the Worcester and South Wales Railway
Henry Ledgard, Esq., Wood-street
John Dawson Lowden, Esq., Doughty-street, Director of the Rich-
mond Railway
James Lees, Esq., Crescent, Salford
Joseph Liggins, Esq., Kensington, Director of the Southampton Dock
Company
G. H. Leckie, Esq., Richmond
Stephen Lewis, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway
William Mills, Esq., Newbury
Joseph Maunder, Esq., Ashford
John Malleson, Esq., Wimbledon, Director of the Great Indian
Peninsular Railway
W. Matins, Esq., Mansion-house-place, London, Director of the
South Staffordshire Railway
George Miller, Esq., Director of tha Centre Railway Terminus
Charles Mann, Esq., Leamington
Charles Musgrave, Esq., Melverton-hill, Leamington
R. F. Mushet, Esq., Birchin-lane, and Coleford
John Marshall, Esq., Hornforth Hall, near Leeds, late Mayor of
Norwich
William Nash, Esq., Chairman of the Brighton, Leaves, and Hastings
Railway
William Nicholson, Esq., Manchester
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the East and
West of England Railway
Apsley Pellatt, Esq., Director of the Staines and Richmond Railway
Thomas Parker, Esq., Spring-gardens, London
John Clarke Prescott, Esq., Manchester
William Simpson Potter, Esq., of Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Di-
rector of the Oxford, Whitney, and Cheltenham Independent
Railway
B. Price, Esq., Rugby
James Paxton, Esq., Rugby
Richard Burton Phillipson, Esq., Rugby
N. M. Priauls, Esq., South Western Steam-packet Company,
Southampton
Stephen Philips, Esq., Director of the Whitehaven and Furness
Railway
William Raines, Esq., Temple, Director of the Manchester and Car-

_
lisle Railway
Richard Rickett, Esq.
George Itougemont, Esq., 9, Chester-terrace, Regent's Park, Director
of the North London Junction Railway
Msjor Charles T. Selwyn, of the Royal Engineers, Exeter, Director
of the East and West of England Junction
Charles Slocock, Esq., Newbury
Edmund Slocock, Esq., Newbury
Christopher Shapland, Esq., Bristol, Director of the Bristol and
Gloucester, South D'on, and Cornwall Railway Companie,
T. Bridge Simpson, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Richmond Railway
W. Shairp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park
John Stewart, Esq., M.P. for Lymington, Director of the East and

West of England Railway
Joseph Thompson, Esq., John-street, Bedford-row, Director of the
London and Birmingham Railway
Thomas Thomson, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon
Charles E. Esq., Bristol, Director of the Jersey Railway
J. Underwood, Esq., Blackheath Park
Thomas Farley, Esq., Shorsten Hall, Malton
Edward Westlake, Esq., Southampton
Charles Fenton Whiting, Esq , Beaufort House, Strand, Director of

the Richmond R -
B. M. Wilcox, Esq., Hantsville, Torquay
John Ward, Esq., Machin Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield

Fire and Life Insurance Company
doorge Whitmore, Esq., Austin-friars, Deputy Chairman of the North

_
Kent Railway
Thomas Woodham, Esq., Winchester
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the Yarmouth and Waveney

Valley Railway
George Young, Esq., Denmark-hill, Surrey
(With power to add to their number).
BANszaa—Messrs. Masterman and Co., London.
ENGINEER IN CHIEF.
ACTING ENGINEERS.
Messrs. J. B. and E. Birch, Westminster
Brackstone Baker, Esq.
SOLICITOR—John Bethell, Esq., 78, King William-street, London.
That another and a more direct line of railway Is necessary between
the metropolis and the manufacturing districts around Manchester, is
now fully admitted, and the question is, which is the beat line to be
adopted.
The above proposed railway will form the shortest and most di-
rect route from London to Manchestef, and will therefore complete
the direct communication with the metropolis at a much-less expen-
diture of capital than by either of the projected London and Man-
chester lines (Remington,'s and AshupsCs). the actual distance to be
construbtB4 bens'l3, UMW of 170 to ISO Wit.

A careful preliminary survey has determined the promoters of this
railway to adopt nearly a straightline from Rugby to3lacclestleld,
an increased expenditure of 200,0001. or 300,0001. judicially applied in
the present perfected state of civil engineering, and at the reduced cost
of the execution of earth works, will prove in the end a far greater
real economy, both to the Company Itself in the saving effected in
the annual expense of working, and also, what is of more importance,
to the country in general; by accomplishing, at a much lass cost, the
same end proposed by an entire and distinct line from London to
Manchester. _ _
" ' '

These considerations have not been sufficiently kept in view by
other parties who have also proposed to make a railway from Rugby
to Macclesfield, but who, by deviating from the direct traot to pursue
valleys and to avoid the irregularities of the face of the country,
obviously lose the advantages propos-ed by this Company.
The Parliamentary decision on the choice of the London and Brighton
Railway Is a parallel case, the direct line, although presenting more
difficulties to overcome, and involving a greater outlay, having been
adopted by Parliament in preference to the many competing projects,
in a more or less sinuous direction, which were at that time supported
in the House by very influential parties.
Should it be found necessary, arrangements have been made by
which additional lines of rails will be laid between Rugby and Lon-
don on the London and Birmingham Railway, whereby the surplus
traffic northwards will he abundantly provided for.
The line also possesses the singular advantage of affording the
shortest and most direct route from Manchester to Southampton,
Gosport, and Portsmouth, a feature presented by no other proposed
railway. By adopting the Rugby and Oxford branch of the Great
Western as far as Didcot, and thence the proposed Oxford, Southamp-
ton, Gosport, and Portsmouth line, the distance from Manchester to
Southampton will be twenty-three miles less than by any other route,
and on this account the project has been warmly supported by the
Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway Company.
The deviations from a perfectly straight line between Rugby and
Macclesfield to avoid high ranges of hills, ornamental parks, or
valuable buildings are very slight, and the line in general offers no
engineering difficulties of any magnitude. The towns more directly
interested as a local line are Nuneaton, Hinckley, Atherstone, Market
Bosworth, Burton-upon-Trent, Sutbury, Ashbourne, and Leek.
The Company has made arrangements with the North London
Junction Railway Company, whereby it has secured the use of their
station (of the extent of six acres) in the centre of the City of London,
at the bottom of Moorgate-street, which will prove of the utmost
importance to this line.
Amidst the many railway projects that now • occupy the public
mind, and involve a vast outlay of capital, it will readily he conceded
that a line that will attain such important results at so small an
outlay of capital, and of the time required for its construction, and
without interfering with any existing vested interests, must meet
with general approbation, and at the same time offer a very excellent

nvestment for Capital
The shareholders in the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Ports-
mouth, in the London and Birmingham, and in the Manchester and
Birmingham Railways, will have a preference in the allotment of
the shares.
The deeds will provide that no call shall be made on the share-
holders beyond the deposit now paid, until the Act of Parliament is
obtained, and power will be taken in the Act to allow 41. per cent.

interest on all calls.
Application Ow detailed prospectuses, maps, and shares, may be
made to the Secretary, at the Office, 78, King William-street, City,
London, and the following sharebrokers :—Messrs. R. Sutton,
G Male, and Sutton, 22, Liorth-side Royal Exchange, London, and
George Burnand, Esq., Cornhill ; Messrs. Houghland and Leese, 51,
King-street, Manchester; John Wills, Esq., Royal Bank-buildings,
Liverpool ; Messrs. IVellbeloved ant Oastler, Leeds ; Massrs. Ed-
wards and Son, and W. H. Land, Esq., Bristol ; J. R. Lane, Esq.,
Birmingham ; acre. Garton and Wright, Sheffield ;J. G. Ker-
shaw, Esq., Huddersfield ; F. C. Spencer, Esq., Halifax ; Messrs.
Hall, Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham ; Henry Beaumont and Co..
Exeter ; R. P. Lemon, Esq., Bath ; and Joseph Clark, Eeq.,
Sontba-npton.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
. .

To the Provisional Committee of the Manchester and Rugby Direc

Railway Company.
Gentlemen—l request that you will allot to me Shates
of 201. each in this Company, and I hereby agree to accept the same,
or any less number that may be alioted to me, and to pay the deposit
of 21. 2s. per Share thereon, and also to execute the Parliamentary
Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
Dated this day of 1845.
Name in full .• •••••• • • • • • •
Residence .• .•
Trade or Profession •• • .
Reference • ..... • - • •• • • ••• • • • •

Registered Provisionally.
ESSEX and SUFFOLK RAILWAY COM-
PANY.
From the Norwich and Brandon Railway at Thetford, by Bury St.
Edmund's, Lavenham, Milford, Sudbury, Halstead and Braintree, to
the Eastern Counties Line at Chelmsford, and thence to the Port of
Maldon, with a branch to Cavendish and Clar.
Offices, 24, Moergate-street, London, and Sudbury, Suffolk.

- Capital, 1,000,0001. in Shares of 251. each.
The Provisional Directors beg to Inform the Shareholders, that
negotiations are in progress for a satisfactory arrangement with the
Eastern Counties and Norwich and Brandon Railway Companies,
the full particulars of which will shortly be submitted for their con-
sideration.
In the meantime, ppplications for Shares may be made to the
Company's offices, 24, Moorgatc-street, or the solicitors, 1, Gray's
Inn-square, or Sudbury ; and to the following sharebrokers :
Messrs. lichens and Harrison, 18, Threadneedle-street, London;
Mr. J. Jameson, Leeds ; Mr. J. Greaves, Liverpool ; Messrs. Card-
well and Sons, Manchester; Messrs. Henry Beaumont and Co.,
Exeter ; Mr. D. Pane, Glasgow ; Messrs. Drury and Richardson,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Messrs. E. M`Callum and Co., Edinburgh ;
Mr. John Wright, Birmingham ; Messrs. Coliinson and Flint, Hull.
Shareholders in the Eastern Counties, Northern and Eastern, and
Norwich and Brandon Railways, and original subscribers to the
Norwich Direct Railway, will please to notify the same in their ap-
plications.
A preference will be given to them, as far as possible, in the allot •
ment. By order,

R. MAPLETOFT, Secretary,
EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY COMPANY.

The Directors of the Eastern Counties Railway Company, observ-
ing that, in the Advertisements of the Chelmsford and Bury Railway
Company, it is stated that their particular line is supported and
sanctioned by the Eastern Counties Railway Company, have to an-
nounce that no such support or sanction has been giver.
The Company's engineer, Mr. Robert Stephenson, has been In-
structed to examine the entire district, and to advise upon the line
of railway to be constructed through it, which the Eastern Counties
Railway Company must sanction as most conducive to public inte-
rest. By order of the Board,

A BULKELEY, Secretary.
Oftlces, London Terminus, Aug. 12, 1845.

ESSEX and SUFFOLK RAILWAY OFFICE,
24, Moorgate-street, September 5, 1845.
Notice is hereby given that NO APPLICATION for SHARES in
this undertaking can be RECEIVED after TUESDAY, the 16th inst.,
and-that the Allotment of Shares will take place as soon as possible
thereafter. By order,
ROBERT MAPLETOFT, Secretary.

BIRMINGHAM AND LICHFIELD
RAILWAY.

.• _
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 300,0001., in 15,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per share, in accordance with the 'standing orders of

the Houses of Lords and Commons.
No call to be made until the Act is obtained —and no Subscriber to be

..... . ......
answerable beyond the Amount of his Subscription.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P. for Birmingham
Geo. Frederick Muntz, Esq., M.P. for Birmingham
The Right Worshipful the Mayor of Birmingham
Tolle Wilks Unett, Esq., The Woodlands, Smethwick, Staffordshire
George Unett, Esq., The Laurels, Handsworth, Staffordshire

Jacot, Esq., New Hall, Sutton Colfleld
C. D. Archibald, Esq., F.R.S., Rusland Hall, Lancashiro, and Re•

gent's Park, London
John Godfrey Hudson, Esq., St. George's-terrace, Hyde-park, Direc•

tor of the London Central Terminus Company
George Turner, Esq., llunton 11111, Erdington, Warwiekshire, Direc-
tor of the South Staffordshire and the Southampton and Oxford
Railways
Thomas Welch, Esq., Birmingham
Charles Machin, Esq., Blythe house, Erdington, Warwickshire
R. Fowler, Esq., Manchester-square, London, and Filton-park,

Bristol
Samuel Phillips, Esq., Chester-terrace, Regent's-park, London, and
Levant House, St. Helen's-place, London, merchant
. .

W. L. Whitmore, Esq., Director of the Great Western (Irish), and

the Worcester and South Wales Railways
Thos. Davies, Esq., The Austens, Handsworth, Staffordshire
David Barnett, Esq., merchant, Birmingham

Samuel Haines, Esq Chad House, Edgbaston, Birmingham
Smith Whilock, Esq., Birmingham
John Boulton, Esq., Birmingham

Bell Eleock Fletcher, Esq., M.D., Birmingham
Thomas Bollman Upill, Esq. Birmingham
Edward Rabone, Esq., Smethwlek Hall, Staffordshire

Major Moore, Direefoi of the Great Indian R.tilway

Henry Coe Cope, Esq., Hungerford Park, Wilts, Military Secretary
at Hyderabad _

William Boyden Watts, Esq., Birmingham
J. 31ee Mathews, Esq., Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and

31 anthester Railway
Theophilus Richards, Esq., Edgbaston, near Birmingham
Thomas Pemberton,Esq.,Wharstone House, near Birmingham

Capt. 3l'Dougal, Fir Grove, North Brixton
John Anderson, Esq., Honourable East India Company's Service,
Euston-place, Euston-square, London
Sir William White, Director of the Church of England Insurance

Company
Griffith Frith, Esq., Director of the Londonderry and Coleraine
Railway-, &c. &c.

John Johnson, Captain, R.N. Edgbaston, Birmingham
George Edwards, Esq., Birmingham

Hercules Hailes nune'oe ks, Esq., Manor House, Kempsey, Gloms.
tershire

William Edwards, Esq., Aston, near Birmingham
John George Norbury, Esq., Manchester House, Atheretone, Direc-
tor of the Tern and Dove Valley and South Staffordshire Railways
Geo. Frederick Gregory, Esq., Seacombe, Cheshire
James Russell, Esq., Endwood Court, Handsworth, Staffordshire
Thomas E. Davies, Esq., Benefield House, near Birmingham

John Russell, Esq., Plainuisworth, Staffordshire
Lieutenant-Colonel Elrington, Scots Fusilier Guards, Director of the
Manchester, Southampton, and Oxford Junction, and Leeds and
Liverpool Railway

Joshua horton, Esq., "Etna Iron-works, Smethwick, Staffordshire
Richard Underhill, Esq.. Birmingham
R. B. Williams, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Di-
rect, the Leicester and Tamworth Junction, and the Leeds and
Liverpool Railway. Companies
(With power to add to their number.)
ACTING ENGINEER.—E. J. Maude, Esq., C.E.
JOINT SOLICITORS.
J. Graham, Esq., 60, Moorgate-street, London.
Richard Ford, Esq., 28, Essex-street, Strand, London.
LOCAL AGENTS.

Birmingham—W. H. Reece, Esq., New-street ; and C. IL Jagger,
Esq., New-street.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Spooner, Attwood, and Co., London.
Messrs. Atwood, Spooner, and Co., Birmingham.

This short but very important Line of Railway will commence at
the nearest point on the Trent Valley Railway to the City of Lich-
field, and proceed through a rich and populous country, by Shenstone,
Sutton Coldfleld, and Erdington, to the town of Binningham.
The length of the Line will be only about sixteen miles, and a
glance at the map will suffice to show the very numerous advan-
tages which this Railway offers. The projected " South Union Rail-
way," from Manchester, joins or falls into the Trent Valley Railway
lust below Lichfield, and, proceeding along the Trent Valley Line,
via Tamworth and Rugby, will form the shortest and most direct
route from Manchester to Loudon, but will leave Birmingham on the
west, which can only be reached by the circuitous route through
Tamworth, a distance of twenty-five miles.

The proposed Birmingham and Lichfield Railway will effect an ex-
tension of the south Union, North Staffordshire, and other projected
Railways, from Lichfield in a direct Line to Birmingham, and thus
save no less than nine miles in the twenty-five, and constitute the
shortest and best line between Manchester and Birmingham yet de-
vised. . . . . . .

As to the returns to be expected for the capital embarked, it is
sufficient to mention, that in addition to the very large income aris-
ing from the local passenger and goods traffic (the latter of which is
very- great, as most of the agricultural supplies of Birmingham, the
emporium of the Midland Counties, and its densely populated ne;gh-
bourhood, are derived from the vicinities of, and must pass along this
Line), every passenger direct from Manchester to Birmingham must
necessarily proceed along the projected Railway, should either of the
lines from Manchester to Lichfield be made.
This line will also form the nearest route from Derby and the
North to Birmingham.
The Capital proposed to he raised is 300,0001., in 15,000 Shares of
20./. each. A deposit of 21. 2s. per Share will be required to be paid
upon the allotment, to the credit of the Directors with the Bankers
of the Company.
No call will be made until the Act of Parliament shall be obtained,
and power will be taken in the Act to allow Interest at 41. per cent.
per annum, upon the amount of each call, from the date of payment
until the opening of the line, and Subscribers will not be answerable
beyond the amount of their Shares.
The Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contract, which
shall contain a clause empowering the Directors to amalgamate with
any other Railway now formed, or to be formed, to extend or make
Branch Lines, or transfer, mortgage, or dispose of the present un-
dertaking for the benefit of the Company, as they may deem proper,
will be ready on the day fixed for the payment of deposit, and will
be required to be executed when the bankers' receipts are exchanged
for certificates of Scrip ; and the shares of any Subscribers making
default in the execution of those deeds within the time limited,. of
which fourteen days' notice will be given, will be absolutely forfeited.
No application for shares can be attended to, unless accompanied
by a reference to a member of the Provisional Committee, one of the
Solicitors, Agents, or a Banker.

Forms or application for shares, copies of the prospectus, and a
map of the line, may be obtained at the temporary offices of the
Company, 60, Moorgate-street, London; from the Solicitors; from
Local Agents ; from Mr. B. B. Williams, 17, Throgmorton-street,
London ; Mr. A. Sym, 9, Tokenhouse•yard, Lothbury, London ;
from Mr. W. 11. Collis, 104, New-street, Birmingham ; Messrs.
Ludlow, Brothers ; and Messrs. Pownall and Worthington, Liver-
pool ; Mr. John Barlow, Manthester ; Messrs. Robinson and Furlay,
Leeds ; Mr. Thomas Evans, Milsom-street, Bath ; Messrs. Ellgood
and Harrison, Leicester.
BIRMINGHAM AND LICHFIELD RAILWAY.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR MARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Birmingham and Lichfield

Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me Shares of 207.
each in the above Company ; and I undertake to accept the same, or
such smaller number as may be allotted to me, and to pay the de-
posit of 'AI. 2s. per share thereon, and to execute the Subscribers'
agreement and Parliamentary contract when required.
'rated this day of 1845. • .
. liame in full .• .• •••• • • • • ..., • , •••• • • .
Residence ....
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• Profession or Business • •• • • • • •• • ••:... •••• ..
Beferencls, .. . ~., ... .. t
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JAMAICA, SOUTHERN, EAST
NORTHERN RAILWAY, FROM KINGSr6I-
'T
TEGO BAY.
Office, No. 43, 3loorgatc-street•
„, each-
Capital 1,500,0001., in 30,000 Shares of 50,* to°'
Deposit 2/. per Share. ni Ores
A Reservation of Shares for the Proprietary and others
the Island.
Or
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Major-Gen. Sir Love Parry, K.C.8., Madryn Park, CU.-0
Sir John Key, Bart, Alderman of London, King's Arms-P
Sir John J. Hensler, Bart., E. 11.5., Upper Bedford-place
Sir George Rich, Bart., Lownies-street, Belgrave-square
P. S. Butler, Esq., M.P., Queen square, Westminster
Thomasßishop, Esq., Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of London ot,A_A4
Joseph Director of the Blackwall RailwaY Acau- ope
John Blunt, Esq., Upper Bedford-place, Director of the VT,L,OI'
W. G. Beare, Esq , Director of the Worcester, Shre°'
Crewe Junction Railway
Charles Collins, Esq., Caldwell Hall, Worcestershire eft
Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Copthall-court, Director of ,„
Bank, London : 4,
Captain Edwards, Baker-street, Portman-square
Thomas Edwards, Esq., Bethel-place, Camberwell
Lieutenant-Colonel Gillies, Cambridge-terrace
F. W. Hamilton, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-Ware
Klein Grant, M.D., 73, St. James's-street, Pall-mall
D. J. Hoare, Esq., Percy-street, Bedford-square
D. T.;Johnson, Esq., Aldermary Churchyard
Fronds John Lambert, Esq , 6, Kensington Gardens-terra.
Francis Lloyd, Esq., 10, Crown Office-row, Temple „,,,01
James Macmillan, Esq., Southampton, Director of the r-,v
Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railway
James Reeves, Esq., Che'apside and Leyton, Director of tlie
and, Manchester Direct Railway A LAl'e
Edward Scard, Esq., Kew, D:rector of the Toronto on- of
Raiwa
B. M. l
Senior,
Esq., Compton Lodge, Jamaica, Mag.i-strati)
.4
Elizabeth's MO 0,
J. G. Senior, Esq., Leonard place, Kensington, and Jain
William Fitzgibbon, Esq., Director of the Cork and
Cork and Killarney Railways
(With power to add to their number.). .Ibroft'
ENGlNEEits—William Gravatt, Esq., F.R.S. ; James r'
C.E. ; Frederick Braithwaite, Esq., M.1.C.1-7-
SoLtmoas—Messrs. Elmslio and Preston; 47,:Moorgn:iowecl" •
Betranas—Sir Claude Scott, Bart. and Co., I, Caven,une.
Messrs. Rogers, Oldiug, and Co., 29, Clement's-La ante
Applications for shares in the usual form may be 1:1,11O/G;
Provisional Committee, at the offices . of the C° 'OlO
Moorgatc-street ; to Messrs. Elmslie and Presion,,,i,,e,,c,
47, Moorgate-street, London ; and tho following Sinn' 3(0;0,
Mr. J. 11. Ellis, 17, Throgmorton-street ; Mr. D.
'Change-alley; Messrs. Preece and Evans, 39, Lothhu"4
Messrs. Schroeder and Ashlin, Mr. W. A. Brown, all creV
Alston and Gage, Liverpool ; Mr. John Clegg, and Mcssio;jo; +l4OlO
Oldham, Manchester ; Messrs. R. B. Watson and Co., Lee..
Tate and Nash, Bristol; Mr. Wm. Miles, Worcester; 3"inte",„; tr.
Hull; Mr. James Pearson, Birmingham ; Mr. Samuel ,:joisil'ploo
Bradford ; Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and Co., and Mr. -„„ re
Cheltenham; Messrs. Eyre and Shaw, Derby; Mr. Thonl,L.
enson, Newcastle-on-Tyne; Mr. F. C. Spenser, lintlf74o.°:l,
Thomas May and Co., Exeter ; Mr. Joseph Clark, jun., .",,,0; Pt.
Mr. Samuel Clerk, Edinburgh; Mr. Wnt. Gordon, Attainder',
Black and Lorimer, Glasgow ; Mr. Percy Bolger, ,-*_„ft
Dublin ; and Mr. C. Forster, Cork ; and of whom PrOOrs'
be had.

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BALLOON by MOONLIGHT—CIaM 16,1; Pi
GARDENS, King's-road, Chelsea.—TtrEsDAT, SCPt "Stoi't'
Mr. H. GREEN will make an ASCENT at Ten o'Clock
the Coronation Balloon, from a circle of purple light, aw
blushes of scarlet tire. He will irradiate the multitude 1)1, ea!,
charging from the car convulsive Roman candles, e!Pfity,
wheels, and hysterical sky-rockets. Fete, Fun, tal,f_prie A
Concert, Ballet, and Ball. Admission, Is. ; children, Ita"
; tOrlpt4r
WE, the u ndeninged b
, eing Prorarrfa
Shares in the REGENT'S CANAL, of a 0,0.,
than one hundred Shares collectively, do hereby call a cosir,,
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PROPRIETORS, at tholopPgol
Office, City-road ',lasi% in the county of Middlesex, 00
S
29th day of SEPTEMBER instant, at One o'clock precie •coly
into consideration a proposal wills has been made to the cos
for the purchase of the canal property, with a view to
th
tion of a railway on the line of the Regent's Canal.
Wm. PARKER, Jos. IVILS°K,'
F. BAILDON, P. B. RAO' 100
SC
JAMES W. LYON, GEO. RICH.
JOHN MORLAND, WM. DIRON,,
JOHN SHEWELL, RICH. 1,1°1“;j
,nof'
Thos. DOBSON, 11. D.
THOS..BURNET, HY. SPENC
THOMAS RAW,
London, llth September, 1845.

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SERIOUS ACCIDENTS.—During SaturdAir Ofj/si
terday the following serious accidents occurred, selne,°,4 o,„0,0
expected to terminate fatally. The first case was
Carter, aged forty years, a gardener in the service of a rang
Greenwich, who, it appears, proceeded on Saturday trier 00.0104
in gathering some pears from a very high tree. iie,3scoad 0,.tel
der, and, when near the top, he overbalanced himsem oto 'tliVf
great violence to the ground. He wash fted up and carrLto 4eotio
of a surgeon at Greenwich, where it was found that ile;'„, 04`,.1
both his anus, and sustained serious injuries to his la'tiocr poior
parts of his person. The wounds were dressed, an,a,, St.
time he was placed in a carriage, and conveyed `"„did'igrit
Hospital, where he now lies in a very deplorable 0-0
second case was that of an elderly Irishwoman, 11,31'9'001,1re " ,119
Walsh, residing in Glasshouse-yard, Mint-street,
StOrrs that on Sunday morning, between. one and 01'10'
quarrel ensued between several Irishmen about ire'7,l,lo"A ti? Age
interfered, and in the scuffle she received a sever;oic)‘!„-0 r:491
bludgeon, which felled her to the ground. She w3"'
sensible, and bleeding from a large wound on the I)",.A"'st•
came up, and removed her to the accident ward c" f tli`„,o9„ite
Hospital, where she was placed under the care ford `401)39
surgeon, and Is now going on favourably. The f )4f.. 09,
curred to James Phillimore, a carman, in the service 0., tlie'd 09,0 J
head, of Winchester-street, Bermondsey. He vols,'ocl,o,
~,P
cleaning the harness, when the horse, a vicious:anliza';oral 11601
him and knocked him down, causing fracture of se` ej ia,.0111 09
serious injuries externally, whereby his life is considerwo p'ettio,
He was taken to Guy's Hospital in a cab, where 110 dnlTo),,,o'
attended to by the surgeon in attendance. On Satu,' Jona
accident of a shocking nature occurred to a lad naine".2, I;ear'o4lo,9
sen, aged ten years, whose parents reside at Se"..,ija 1.i019,09:1
street, Walworth. lie was amusing hims, it
1)y in"'-v0t,400,e
and whilst mixing up a quantity' of the combustible
rind 01;4
small mort r, the whole exploded In his face, burning ,01;09
him in a dreadful manner. Ile was removed in a 'ente' 4'
suffering to the hospital, where very faint hopes are 4/11,4,
his recovery. ./41)
DISCOVERY OF A MONASTIC WELL, Idrh'ioi!'o'
CULOUS ESCAPE.—Saturday afternoon as the green' ..‘„ 0f,'"9,09
pianoforte manufacturer, Ludgate-hill,
ter's horses by a halter from the stable at the tee
.0
street, Salisbury-square, the foot-pavement over vid'ii'dero,
was lefulingteto", orseD4'
liar ole
walking suddenly fell in, followed by the head, eh('
of the animal, to the infinite horror of the stablenlOgiergeoorgei ,
escaped being drawn into the aperture also. Pelice;itn °or 01,)
No. 204, assisted by some of his men and others, P trot,' if,
difficulty, at length succeeded with ropes in rescuing_ tot,
it•whose bulk alone prevented him from sinking rescuing_
07,1,4,
examining the apperthre, which thus so suddenly; foil
_roil
was as,rtnltlrrt that it the month of an old l'e',oaldv,,4•4:o).
which bid been arched over, but th ,t the well ha 'deltdow
from extretne'age, and at length fell in as abnett, dolo go
well, which is between fAity anl fifty feet In dep_.turi
longed to the priory of White Friars, which some cw-
11the elt‘ Of this Wally/.