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OUTH-EA STERN RAILWAY.
3, At the EIGHTEENTH HALF-YEARLY GENERAL and
SPECIAL MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of the SOUTH-
EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY, held in pursuance of the Act
of Incorporation, iu the Large Room over the looking-offices,
London Terminus, en Thursday, the 11th day of September, 1845,
JAMES MAC GREGOR, Chairman, in the chair,

the adwriisement convening the meeting was read, and the follow-
ing resolutions were unanimously passed . . _

1. That the common seal of the Company be affixed to the re-
gister of Proprietors.
[The seal was affixed accordingly in the presence of the meeting.]
2. That the report of the Directors, and statement of accounts
as now read to this meeting be received and adopted, and that the
same he printed and circulated amongst the Proprietors.
3. That a dividend, less the income tax, of 16s. per share, on the
shoes paid up, and of 4s. per share on the shares created on the 19th
of March, 1844, end of 2s. 2d. per share on the shares created on the
7th day of November, 1844, be now declared, and be made payable
on the Ist day of October, 1845.
4. That the Right Hon. Viscount Torrington, who has been elected
a Director of this Company by the other Directors to fill a vacancy
in the Direction on the resignation of Charles Knight Murray, Esq.,
be continued a Director of this Company.
5. That it is expedient, by the creation of new shares in further-
ance of the resolution of the general meeting held on the 6th day of
February last, to provide funds for the formation and completion of
the branch railway from Tunbridge to Tunbridge Wells, the branch
railway from Minster to Deal, and extension of the Canterbury,
Ramsga,e, and Margate Railway, the branch railway from Ashford
to Hastings, and the widening of the London and Greenwich Rail-
way, authorised by the several Acts passed during the last session of
Parliament.
That for such purposes the sum of 630,0001. be raised by calls on
the shares authorised to be created by the resolutions referred to, in
addition to the sum of 311,0031_ already received on them.
That it Is expedient to consolidate and register the scrip shares
issued in pursuance of the same resolutions ; and that for that pur-
pose every holder of four or more of the said scrip shares shall be
entitled, on delivering them up, to ba registered as the proprietor of
one new consolidated share in respect of every four scrip shares held
by him, subject to the payment of 20/. for every such new share in
addition to the snm of 21. 10s. already paid on each scrip share ; such
sum of 20/. to be paid by such instalments, not exceeding 5/. each,
and at such intervals (not being less than two months each), as the
Directors may determine.

That the holders of scrip shares shall not be entitled to the new
shares under the last resolution unless they shall claim the same and
deliver up the scrip shares on or before the 25th day of September,
1845, except in such case as the Directors in their discretion shall
permit the later consolidation and exchange of any such shares.
That every instalment paid on every such new share, as well as
the payments already made on the scrip shares which shall be corn-
ranted for the same, shall be entered in the Company's books as pay-
ments in the proportion that 301. bears to 501., and shall entitle the
helder to dividends accordingly ; but that no dividend shall be pay-
able In respect of any such new share, or of any sueh instalment so
paid, until six months after the day to which a dividend shall have
been declared on the now existing shares of the Company next fol-
lowing the opening for traffic of the latest In point of execution of
the new lines of railway and works referred to in the preceding part
of this resolution, and that all profits accruing from any of the same
new lines, which may have been wholly or partially opened before
such day, shall he divisible among the Proprietors for the time being
of the now existing shares.
6. That it is expexiient to apply to Parliament in the next session
for authority to make, and to provide additional funds by the creation
of new shares for 'making, the following lines of railway, viz. :
A direct line of railway from Hungerford-bridge by North Kent,
to Dover, with branches.

A direct line of railway from Hungerford-bridge to Maidstone, Tun-
bridge, and Ashford, with branches.
A line of railway-continuing the Tunbridge Wells Branch to Hast-
ings, nye, and St. Leonard's.
A line of railway from Maidstone to Rochester.

A line of railway from Beig,ate to Dorking.
With such deviations, extensions, contractions, and variations of
any of the said lines, and such branches and incidental works, as the
Directors shall think expedient, or shall become necessary in the
progress of the Bills through Parliament.

7. That the additional capital required for constructing and opening
for traffic all the last-mentioned lines be raised by the issue of 289,000
new shares, of the nominal amount of 25/. each, to parties who shall
pay for the same 151. per share, by instalments as after mentioned,
and who shall duly execute the subscription contract required by the
Standing Orders of Parliament, and the subscribers' agreement (if
any) settled by the Directors.

That the first instalment of 21. 10s. per share be paid on the Ist day
of October, 1845, and the remaining instalments of such amounts
(not exceeding 2/. 10s. per share, and at such intervals of not less
than two months), as the Directors shall, after the passing of any act
or acts in relation to the before-mentioned new lines, or any of them,
determine to call the same.
That twenty-one days' notice of each such call, and the like notice
also of the times and places at which the subscription contract and
subscribers' agreement, if any, are to be executed, shall be given by
advertisement in the London Gazette and two London daily morn-
ing newspapers, and two newspapers published in Kant.
That upon payment of all such instalments, or upon payment of
such proportion thereof as the Directors shall declare to be required,
and upon condition also of the due execution by the subscribers of
the subscription contract and the subscribers' agreement, if any, the
shares, on account whereof the same payments shall have been made,
shall be forthwith issued and registered ; but that if default shall be
made in the due payment of any instalment upon any share for the
space of thirty days after the same shall have become due, or upon
default of the holders to execute the subscription contract and the
subscribers' agreement, if any, within 'the appointed time, all pre-
♦ious instalments in respect of the same share shall be absolutely
forfeited to the Company; and no party in respect of such pre-
vious instalments shall be entitled to any share, or have any
claim on the Company; and that all instalments paid after the
time when the same shall have become due shall be paid with in-
terest at the rate of 51. per centum per annum, computed from that
time.

That every such instalment paid shall be deemed to he and shall
be entered in the Company's books as a payment in the same pro-
portion to 251. as the instalment so paid actually bears to 151.
That no dividend shall be payable in respect of any such new
share, or of any instalment so paid, until six months after the day
on which a dividend shall have been declared on the now existing
shares of the Company next following the opening for traffic of the
latest in point of execution of the new lines of railway to be con-
structed by means of the additional capital raised by the same new
shares, and that all profits accruing from any of the new lines which
may have been wholly or partially opened before such day shall be
divisible among the proprietors for the time being entitled to share
the profits of the other lines and wcrks of the Company.
8. That every registered proprietor of now existing registered
shares shall he entitled to one such new share in respect of every two
now existing registered shares held by him, provided he shall signify
his acceptance of such new share by payment of the first instalment
of 21. 10s. per share to ere of the bankers of the Company, and
shall execute the subscription contract, and subscribers' agreement,
if any, at such times as shall be appointed for those purposes by the
Directors, by circular letters to be sent by post to the registered ad-
dress of each proprietor from the office of the Company.
That every registered proprietor on the 25th day of September,
1845, of every two shares consolidated under the authority of the
foregoing resolutions, shall be entitled in respect of every two such
consolidated shares to 18 new shares so to be issued as before men-
tioned, provided that he shall signify his acceptance of such new
shares by payment of the first instalment of 21. 10s. per share to one
of the bankers of the Company, and shall execute the subscription
contract and the subscribers' agreement (if any) at such time as
shall be appointed for those purposes by the Directors, by circular let-
ters to be sent by post to the registered address of each proprietor
from the office of the Company.

That the Directors shall be at liberty to Issue, upon such terms and
in such manner as thPy shall think proper, all the said new shares to
which no parties shall become entitled upon the foregoing conditions.
9. that the thanks of the proprietors be given to Sir John Kirk-
land for his valuable services as Chairman of the Company.

JAMES MAC GREGOR, Chairman.
10. That the thanks of the meeting be given to Mr. Mac Gregor,
the present Chairman, accompanied by an assurance of the confidence
of the proprietors in the Board of DiNctors.
London Terminus, Sept. 11, 1845. W. O'BRIEN, Secretary.

Registered Provisbnally.
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 Cbelmsford, and thence to the Port of
Malden, with a branch to Cavendish and Clar.
Offices, 24, Moarg.ite-street, London, and Sudbury, Suffolk.
Capital, 1,000,000/. in Shares of 251. each.
_ _

The Provisional Directors beg to inform the Shareholders, that
negotiations arc 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 tho meantime, rpplications for Shares may be made to the
Company's offices, 24, Moorgate-street, or the solicitors, 1, Gray's
Inn-square, or Sudbury ' • and to the following sharebrokers :
Messrs. HiehenS 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. Drary and Richardson,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Messrs. E. M`Callum and. Co., Edinburgh;
Mr. John Wright, Birmingham • Messrs. Collnson and Flint, Hull.
Shareholders in the Eastern dounties, 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
merit. 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.
Offices, 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.
1-4YONS and AVIGNON hAILWAY.
(COMPAGNIE SEBASTIANI.)

REPORT TO THE ENGLISH SUBSCRIBERS.
GENTLEMEN,—We regret our not being able to report that we have
succeeded in our efforts to obtain for you the objects of our Associa-
tion ; our best energies have been devoted to the subject, but from
the altered state of the circumstances which has now arisen, our
Company, as at present constituted, is not in a position to compete
for the Lease.

At the time our Company was formed, it was understood that the
Government would provide the land for the line and stations, and
possibly would undertake the earthworks. The capital we then
proposed (60 millions of !tams), was considered sufficient to provide
all that the Company, under that state of circumstances, would have
required ; but after much doubt and delay, the Government have at
length d.termined that their lessens sheull undertake the purchase of
the land, as well as the entire construction and working of the Rail-
way. The Bill has now passed the Chambers in that form, and has
fixed the Capital at SO millions (irrespective of the Grenoble
Branch).

Having, as we interpret our engagement to the Subscribers,
neither power to undertake on their behalf the purchase of land, nor
adequate funds for that larger purpose, we are under the necessity of
announcing the dissolution of the present Subscription, and we have
accordingly only flirther on this head to inform you, that we now
hold the deposits subject to the order of the several Subscribers, and
ready to be immediately returned in exchange for the letters of allot-
ment and banker's receipts.
We would now invite your attention to the copy of the
statutes, which have been framed and adopted for the regulation of
a new Company for making and working the proposed line. You
will observe, that it is mainly under the same direction, and in many
respects of the same character as that which we originally proposed.
The capital is necessarily larger, and the powers vested in those who
have the conduct of the undertaking of a much more general charnc-
ter. We desire to refer you in particular to articles 4-22-23--
24-28-56.

We arc empowered to offer to each Shareholder in the former
Company who shall, on or before the 20th of September next, and
in the manner we are about to mention, declare his option to accept
them, the same number of Shares in the new Company as he holds
in the original Company, with or without one additional Share in
respect of every five original Shares, and in order to fact itate the
nece,sary arrangements, we have prepared such forms as will enable
the Subscribers to express their wishes with convenience. They are
ready, and may be applied for at 62, King William-street, City, be-
tween Eleven o'clock, A.M. and Three o'clock P.M.
We beg to add, that in the event of receiving at this office no com-
munication respecting any particular allotment of Shares in the
original Company on or before the 20th of September next, the de-
posit thereon will he held subject to the order of the party entitled to
it, and it will be entirely out of our power to extend beyond the
above-mentioned day the option which we have secured for the pre-
sent Proprietors to join the new Company.
It is tight we should express our continued confidence in the
merits of the undertaking, and our recommendation to the Sub-
scribers to renew their Investments in the new Company.
We are, Gentlemen, your very obedient Servants,
• • W. J. CHAPLIN.
•
CHARLES DEVAUX.
J. MOSS.
Lyndon Se J. MA.STERMAN, jun.
, ptember 1, 1:-.;15, M. ITZTEITI.

Mir ANCIIESTER and RUGBY DIRECT,
via MACCLESFIELD.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,700,0001., in 85,000 Shares of 201. 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., Nieholos-lane, Lombard-street, banker
Sir John Pixie, Bart., Alderman of the City of London, Di-
rector of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Packet Com-
pany
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, Portman-square
George Adam, Esq., White Esq.,
Cornhill
John Bagshaw, Esq., Director of the Northern and Eastern

Railway
Joseph Brown, Esq , Director of the East and West of Eng-

land Junction
William Chadwick, Esq., Chairman of the Richmond Railway
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

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London, ,J "
The Hon. Geo Browne, Lowndes-square, Beigrave-square
Sir Geo. Rich, 43, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square
Sir Henry Richardson, Chessel House, Southampton
Sir William Wynne, , Suffolk-street, Pail-mall, Chairman of the
North Wales Railway, and Director of the Oxford, Southampton,
and Port mouth Railway
Sir G. A. Lewin, Upper Harley-street, London
The Mayor of Newbury, Director of the Oxford, Southampton, and

Portsmouth Railway
Charles Anstey, Elq., Rugby
The Rev. J. Harvey, Ashworth, NC% . bury
M. W. C. Alston, Esq., Birmingham
Slmuel Swann Britten', Esq., Sheffield
Charles Baker, Esq., Southampton
William Bland; Eta., -Brixton, Director of the North Wales Railway
George Burnancl, Esq., Sussex square, Hyde Park
William Bevan, Esq., 48, Conduit-street, Bond-street, Director of the
North Wales Mineral Railway
Jacob Bell, Esq., Langham-place, London
W. E. Boyce, 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, and Chairman of the Direct Western
George Borritt, Esq., Southampton
Lieutenant-Colonel Burslam, North Hants
Charles Bailey, Esq., Winchester
Wm. F. Black, Esq.' Wilton-place, Beigrave-square
Henry Baker, Esq., Mark-lane, London
H. Buning, Esq., LL.D., Gosport
John Burgess, Esq., late Boroughreeve, Manchester
Joseph Beech, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place
F. F. Clossinan, Esq., Mincing-lane
John Chnranan, Esq., Leadenhall-street, Director of the Devon and
Cornwall Railway
S. J. Capper, Esq., Adelaide-place, London-bridge
Edward Chapman, Esq., Strand, London, Director of the Richmond
Railway
Philip Warner Courtenay, Esq., 26, Capel-street, Beigrave-square
Francis Carleton, Esq.
,Tames Cleft, Esq., Bloomsbury-square
Robert Cruickshank, Esq., Gosport
John Churchill, Esq., Bayswater, Directorof the Manchester and Bir-
mingham Continuation Railway
William Dredge, Esq., Newbury
George Dawson, Esq., Norfolk-street, Sheffield
Colonel Geo. Disbrow, Chester-place, London
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 Gill, Esq., Leeds
Methuen Paul Gipps, Esq., London
Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad House, Edgsbaston, near Birmingham,
Director of the East and West and Birmingham and South Stafford-
shire Railways
Joseph Ilopgood, Esq., Exeter, Director of the East and West of

England
H. H. Hornby, Esq., Blackburn
George Calvert Holand, Esq., Sheffield
John Newington Hughes, Esq. St. Michael's, Winchester
William Hill, Esq., Manchester
John Haddon, 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., Ashfleld House, Newcastle, Staffordshire
Frederick tlewitt, 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, Devon, Director of the East and
West of England Railway
William Knott, Esq., 4, Adelaide-place, Director of the Richmond

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Railway
Edward Lomer, Esq., Sonthampton
William Lechmere Whitmore, Esq., James-street, Buckingham, late
Director of the Worcester and South Wales Railway
Henry Ledgard, Esq., Wood-street
John Dawson Lowden, Esq., Doughty-street, Director of the Rich-

mon El Railway -
James Lees, Esq., Crescent, Salford
Joseph Liggins, Esq., Kensington, Director of the Southampton Dock

Company .
G. 11. 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. MalMs, Esq., Mansion-house-place, London, Director of the
South Staffordshire Railway
George Miller, Esq., Director of the Centre Railway Terminus
Charles Mann, Esq., Leamington
Charles Musgrave, Esq., Melverton-hill, Leamington
F. R. Mushet, Esq., Birchin-lane, and Coleford
John Marshall, Esq., llornforth Hall, near Leeds, lato Mayor of
Norwich
William Nash, Esq., Chairman of the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings
Railway
William Nicholson, Esq., Manchester
George I'arbury, 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. Prlaulx, 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 Rougemont, Esq., 9, Chester-terrace, Regent's Park, Director
of the North London Junction Railway
Major Charles T. Selwyn, of the Royal Engineers, Exeter, Director
of the East and West of England Junction
Charles Slocoek, Esq., Newbury
Edmund Slocock, Esq., Newbury
Christopher Shapland, Esq., Bristol, Director of the Bristol and
Gloucester, South Devon, and Cornwall Railway Companie.
T. Bridge Simpson, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Richmond Railway
W. Shairp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park
John Stewart, sq., M.P. for Lymington, Director of the East and
West of England Railway
Charles B. Frlpp, Esq., Bristol, Director of the Jersey Railway
J. Underwood, Esq., Blackheath Park
Thomas Varley, Esq., Shorsten Hall, Mallon
Edward Westlake, Esq., Southampton
Charles Fenton Whiting, Esq , Beaufort House, Strand, Director of
the Richmond Railway
B. M. Wilcox, Esq., Hantsville, Torquay
George Whitmore, Esq., Austin-friars, Deputy Chairman of the North
Kent Railway
Thomas Woodhaen, 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).
BANKERS—Messrs. Masterman and Co., London. --
ENGINEER IN CHIEF.
ACTING ENGINEERS.
Messrs. J. B. and E. Birch, Westminster
Brackstone Baker, Esq.
SOLICITOR—John Bethel', 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 best line to be
adopted.
The above proposed railway will form the shortest and most di-
rect route from London to Manchester, 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 Ashurst's), the actual distance to be
constructed being only 73 miles.

A careful preliminary survey has determined the promoters of this
railway to adopt nearly a straight line from Rugby to Macclesfield, as
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 less 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, butwho, by deviating from the direct tract to pursue
valleys and to avoid the irregularities of the face of the country,
obviously lose the advantages proposed 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 be 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 Rail way Company.
The deviations from a perfectly straight line between Rugby anti-
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 be 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
investment for capital
The deeds shall 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.

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
shares.

Application tor detailed prospectuses, maps, and shares, may be
made to the Secretary, at the Office, 78, King William-street, City,
London, and the followirg sharebrokers :—Messrs. R. Sutton,
Git:ble, and Sutton, 22, North-Side Royal Exchange, London, and
George Burnand, Esq., Cornhill ; Messrs. lloughlatid and Leese, 51,
King-street, Manchester ; John Wills, Esq., Royal Bank-buildings,
Liverpool ; Messrs. Wellbeloved an 1 Oastler, Leeds ; Messrs. Ed-
wards and Son, and W. U. Land, Esq., Bristol ; J. R. Lane, Esq.,
Birmingham; Messrs. Garton and Wright, Sheills,hl ; J. G. Ker-
shaw, Esq., Huddersfield; F. C. Spencer, ; Messrs.
Hall, Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham ; Henry Beaumont and Co.,
Exeter ; B. P. Lemon, Esq., Bath; and George Dunlop, Esq.,
Southampton.

LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.
The Directors of the. London and Birmingham Railway feel
themselves called upon to give Notice, that that Company has no
connexion whatever with a proposed line, announced as the " Lon-
don and Birmingham Extension Railway." The Directors of the
London and Birmingham Railway have instructed Mr. Robert
Stephenson to make the necessary surveys for a line from North-
ampton to Wooden, to connect their Peterborough Branch with the
proposed London, WarrAck, Leamington, and Kidderminster line;
Acts for both which lines will be applied for in the ensuing Parlia-
mentarysesslon.

The London and Birmingham Railway Company being of opinion
that the proposed London and Kidderminster line is, in connexion
with the London and Birmingham line, best adapted for the accom-
modation of the Public, Will give It their most cordial support and
co-operation. By order,
Office, Euston-slation, R. CREED, Secretary.
Sept. 10th, 1845.

VEIDLAND AND EASTERN COUNTIES
i_VA. • RAILWAY, from CAMBRIDGE, by NORTHAMPTON, to
WORCESTER.

In consequence of important arrangements Just concluded in con-
nexion with this undertaking, an amended prospectus will appear in
a few days ; in the meantime the allotment of shares is necessarily
postponed:

Dited this 9th day of September, 1845.
W. 0. and W. HUNT, 10, Whitehall,
F. T. ELGIE, Worcester, Solicitors.
JOHN CHINERY, Leamington,
Messrs. DAY, St. Nects,

WORCESTER, HEREFORD, AND
GLOUCESTER RAILWAY,
Through Malvern, with a Branch to Ledbury.
(Registered Provisionally.)
Capital 750,000/., in sharmof 20!. each.
Deposit 21. 2a. per share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.
- . -

W. G. Hayter, Esq., ALP. l Directors Of the Great Western
R. F. Gower, Fsq. and
F. P. Barlow, Esq. • South Wales Railway
L. Vigers, Esq.' Deputy Chairman of the South Wales Railway
Francis Raiford, Esq., Chairman of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wol-
verhampton Railway
T. N. Foster, Esq., Director of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver-
hampton Railway
J. Crossthwaite, Esl., Liverpool
Lawrence Hayworth, Esq., Liverpool
John Roskell, Esq., Bath
John Rogers, Esq., Chester; Director of the Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton Railway -
William Lewis, Esq., mayor of Worcester, and Lirector of the Ox-
ford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway
Edward Evans, Esq., Worcester, alderman and banker
Richard Tapp, Esq., Worcester, magistrate of the city, and Director
of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway
Thomas Chalk, Esq., alderman of Worcester
Charles Augustus Helm, Esq., alderman of Worcester
John Parker, Esq., Lark Hill, Worcester
Mr. Williath Stallard, jun., merchant, Worcester
Mr. Edward Wheeler, hop-merchant, Worcester
Mr. Henry Southan, merchant, Worcester
Mr. Edward Giles, hop-merchant, Worcester
Mr. Henry Webb, merchant, Worcester
Mr. George Anderson, Worcester
Mr. John Turley, Worcester
Gabriel Goodman, Esq., Upton-On-Severn
Sir Hunxerford Hoskyns, Bart., Hardwood Herefordshire
Sir Robert Price, Bart., ALP., Foxley, Herefordshire
Kedgwin Hoskins, Esq., M.P., Birch House, Herefordshire
Robert Pulsford, Esq., M.P. for Hereford
John William Miles, Esq., Bristol and Ledbury, Herefordshire, a
Director of the Great Western Railway Company
Edmund Broman Pateshall, Esq., Allensmore, Herefordshire
Colonel Thomas Powell, Hardwick, Herefordshire
W. George Beamish, Esq., Kensington-square, London, and West-
hide, Herefordshire
John Johnstone, Esq., 'Maidstone, Herefordshire
William James, Esq., Wilcroft, Herefordshire
Francis Hemp, Esq., Becton, Herefordshire
Henry Horn, Esq., 5, Upper Bedford-place, Russell-square, and
Hare-court, Temple
John Gardiner Freeman, Esq., Rock&ld, Herefordshire
Marcellus Newton, Esq., IVarham, Herefordshire
W. S. Vale, Esq., Mathon, Worcestershire
Joseph Bird, Esq., Hampton, Herefordshire
George Crosse, Esq., Burcott House, Herefordshire
Thomas Jennings, sq., Highland-grove, Fownhope, Herefordshire
John Hollings Esq., Versons, near Ledbury, Herefordshire
William Webb, Esq., Mayor of Hereford
Thomas Davis, Esq., Magistrate of Hereford
Richard Thomas Barra, Esq., Magistrate of Hereford
John
WilliaßmogLe.mGll
islqa
n. ,
dA,Aldermani
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Hereford
Edward Morris, Esq., M.D., Hereford
G. E. Terry, Esq., Hereford
W. Pulling, Esq., merchant, Hereford
John Kerr Hastings, Esq., General Manager of the Herefordshire
Banking Company, Hereford
Charles Bulmer, Esq., Hereford
Mr. George Bonner, Hereford
Mr. Charles Anthony, Hereford
John Dowling, Esq., Mayor of Gloucester
David Mowbray Walker, Esq., Alderman of Gloucester
Thomas Jenkins, Esq., Gloucester
Arthur Hammond Jenkins, Esq., Alderman of Gloucester
Richard Hodges Carter, Esq., Gloucester
George Jones, Esq., merchant, Gloucester :
Samuel Hitch, Esq., M.D., Glouceser
Samuel Baker, Esq., Lypiatt Park, Gloucestershire
William Philip Price, Esq., Tibberten-court, Gloucestershire
Charles Barton, Esq., Wellclose House, Gloucestershire
A. 11. Phillpotts, Esq., merchant, Gloucester
Charles Walker, Esq., merchant, Gloucester
Robert Mane, Esq., merchant, Gloucester
John Forster, Esq., merchant, Gloucester
Edward L. Kendall, Esq., merchant, Gloucester
George Davison Moffatt, Esq., banker, Gloucester
Charles r. Cliffe, Esq., Gloucester
Thomas C. Avery, Esq., Gloucester
W. H. Evans, Esq., merchant, Gloucester
ENGINEER—I. K. Brunel, Esq.
RANKERS.
City and County Bank, Worcester
National Provincial Bank, Worcester
Messrs. Hoskins, Morgan, and Hemp, Hereford
Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford
Messrs. Matthews, Phillips, and Company, Hereford
Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester
County of Gloucester Bank, Gloucester
National Provincial Bank, Gloucester.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. W. 0. and W. Hunt, 10, Whitehall
Mr. F. T. Elgie, Worcester
Mr. F. L. Botlenham and Mr. T. Evans, Hereford
Messrs. Whitcombe, Helps, and Co., Gloucester.

It is proposed that the course of this line shall be. from the Worces-
ter station of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway,
to a point near Malvern, where the line will be divided into two
branches, the one branch proceeding through or near the parish of
Bosbury (whence there will be a branch to Ledbury) to Hereford,
where it will run Into the station of the Great Western Company's
Monmouth and Hereford Railway, and the projected Hereford and
Shrewsbury Railway; the other branch will proceed from the point
of division near Malvern, straight to Gloucester, and will join the
Gloucester and Dean Forest Railway near that city.
This line will pass rather more than half a mile below Great 11tal-
vern, and not far distant from the town of Upton-on-Severn, both of
which places are at present entirely shut out from the benefits of
railway communication.

The country has already been inspected under the direction of the
engineer, and it is found that there is no engineering difficulties of a
serious eharccter to he overcome ; and indeed the greater portion of
the line presents a course extremely favourable for a railway, the
gradients being very easy.
Near the point of division at Malvern the Hereford line will cross
a portion of the Malvern range by one or more tunnels, but the whole
length of the tunnelling will not much exceed one mile. From the
other side of Malvern to Hereford the surface of the country is as
favourable as could be desired.

The Gloucester line, from the point of division to its terminus, will
pass through a country peculiarly favourable, the surface being
throughout nearly one continuous level.
With regard to the Immediate local advantages offered by the
proposed railway, it will effect the most direct communication be-
tween the cities of Worcester and Hereford and Gloucester and Wor-
cester, and between those cities and the delightful watering place
and favourite summer residence of Great Malvern, to which it will
also give an easy and expeditious access from other
populous but
more remote districts.

The important market town of Ledbury, with the rich corn, fruit,
and hop district around it, will also be brought into closer and more
profitable connexion with the three cities ; and it cannot fall to make
a considerable addition to the traffic between Worcester and the port
of Gloucester.

The facilities presented by the proposed railway for increasing and
developing traffic in a more general and national point of view are
of a very extended character. Joining the Forest ef DCall and Mon-
mouth Railways, it will afford a ready means of transit to South
Wales, and by its junction with the Oxford, Worcester, and Wol-
verhampton line, and with the projected line to Perth Dynllaen,
it will give railway communication with the manufacturing and
mining districts of the North of England,
especially of South Staf-
fordshire and Worcestershire, and also with North Wales and Ire-
land ; and by means of the Great Western Railway, which it joins
at Gloucester, it will complete an unbroken broad gauge line from
Wolverhampton to Exeter in the one direction, and from Pembroke
to Wolverhampton •in the other. It will effect a considerable
saving in distance between the port of Gloucester and Wolverhamp-
ton, and all parts of the north ; it will be the nearest possible route
from the extreme west of England, and from South Wales to all
places north of Wolverhampton.
The enumeration of the places and districts to he traversed by the
proposed lne, and a description of its course, sufficiently indicate a
remunerating amount of traffic.
It will supply to the Port of Gloucester important and bulky
articles of export, drawn from the mining and manufacturing dis-
tricts of South Staffordshire and Worcestershire ; and will still further
develon the resources of these districts by increased facility of com-
munication with their natural port. The Importance of this branch
of the traffic can scarcely be over-estimated ; in one portion of the
district alone, viz., between Wolverhampton and Stourbridge, there
are about 100 blast furnaces in work, producing nearly 500,000 tons
of pig iron annually, and it is admitted that the want of railway
facilities has hitherto greatly hindered the development of an im-
portant export trade from this district. The works at Droitwich and
Stoke Prior can furnish any quantity of salt. The carpet manufac-
tories of Kidderminster, the iron and glass works at Stourbridge,
Dudley, and their populous neighbourhood, will also supply an im-
portant amount of traffic, certainly far beyond that now carried on
with the present insufficient means of transit between those places
and the district to be affected by tile proposed line.
The Hereford branch of the line offers to the agriculturists of the
counties of Hereford, Radnor, and Brecon the advantages of cheap
and ready means of access to their principal markets. It will be an
important advantage to them to have their cattle, corn, hops, fruit,
wool, and other produce speedily and cheaply conveyed to the great
markets of Worcester and BirminghtuTh and the towns in the centre
of the great manufacturing population of Staffordshire and Worces-
tershire ; the advantages, too, will be mutual, as the line will afford
equal facilities for the conveyance of the mineral and manufacturing
produce of the north to the rural districts.
The population of the districts affected by the proposed line, rec-
koning from Wolverhampton to Gloucester on the one hand, and
from the same place to Hereford on the other, is not less than
400,000; and from the position of the country traversed, the line
must be fed by all the railways constructed, or to be formed,
on either side. There can, therefore, be no reasonable doubt of the
Worcester, Hereford, and Gloucester line commanding a traffic so
considerable as to yield an ample remuneration for the requisite
capital.
Tho usual power will he taken in the Act of Parliament to allow
interest at 4 per cent. per annum on the deposits, and no subscriber
will be answerable for more than thane ount of his deposit of 21. 2s.
per share until the Act is obtained, then not beyond the amount
of his subscription.
In the allotment of the shares of the Company, a preference will
be given to parties locally interested, and to the proprietors of shares
in those railways with which the present is connected and intended
to communicate.
Prospectuses may be had, and applications for shares may be ad-
dressed to the respective solicitors, or at the London offices of the
Company, 449, West Strand, London.
Infirmary-walk, Worcester, August 28, 1845.

FORM OF APPLICATION. FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Worcester, Hereford, and Glou-
cester Rahway.
I request you will allot to me Shares in the above un-
dertaking, and I agree to take all such sharers, or so many thereof as
you may allot to me, and to pay the deposit, and to sign the Par-
liamentary contract and the Subscribers' Agreement when required.
Name ...... ...... .
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Residence .... .......
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Trade or profession ... : • •
Reference . • ..... ........ .......
Date• • • • • ..... ..... •.
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WORCESTER, HEREFORD, AND GLOU-
CESTER RAILWAY.
irotice Is hereby given, that no application for Shares will be re-
ceived after THURSDAY, the 18th day of September instant.
W. 0. and W. HUNT, 10, Whitehall,
F. T. ELGIE, Worcester,
F. L. BODENN IM, Solicitors.
T. EVAN S,
} Hereford,
IVILITCOMBE, HELPS, and TVENYSS, Gloucester,
London =coo of the Company. 449, West Strand,
Sept. 12, PM.

OSTON, NEWARK, and SHEFFIELD
RAILWAY, NOTTINGHAM, MANSFIELD, and MID
LANDS JUNCTION RAILWAY.

The Directors of the Boston, Newark, and Sheffield Railway, and
the Nottingham, Mansfield, and Midlands Junction Railway, are
happy to inform the shareholders and the public, that an amalga-
mation of interests ha been effected between the two Companies
upon equal terms. The Directors can only view tho important ad-
vantages which will arise from this union as a subject of mutual
congratulation. The Nottingham, Mansfield, and Midlands Junction
Railway will, by its Clay Cross extension, open up the vast and ex-
haustless coal fields of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire for the con-
sumpton of Norfolk, Lincolnshire, and the adjoining counties, and
through the medium of their seaports create a new and extensive export
and import trade. It will also pour an immense passenger and other
traffic into the Boston, Newark, and Sheffield line, from Notting-
ham, Mansficdd, and the it populous districts to Sheffield, Hudders-
field, Manchester, Bradford, and other large manufacturing towns
In the counties of Lancaster and Yorkshire, by means of an amicable
understanding with the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, which
the amalgamated lines are intended to join. The Boston, Newark,
and Sheffield Railway will confer an equal benefit upon the Notting-
ham, Mansfield and Midlands Junction Railway, in affording not
only the most direct and the shortest mode of communication with
Sheffield and the North, but in consequence of the amalgamation, it
will decrease the expense of transit, and ensure an extensive market
in Lincolnshire and Norfolk for the valuable minerals and othe re-
sources which the Nottingham, Mansfield, and Midlands Junction
Railway will, in its progress, necessarily develope.
By order, JOHN DENNISTON, Secretary.
T. H. RIGBYE, Secretary.
3fansfield, September 10, 1845.

uußr, WARWICK, and WORCESTER
RAILWAY.
Provisionally Registered.
Capaal 900,0001., in 45,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 2/. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Major-General Sir Love Jones Love Perry, Bart., K.C.8., Madryn
Park, Caernarvonshiro
Sir William Henry Clarke, Bart., Baker-street, Portman-square,
London
Sir Henry Webbe, Bart., Pall-mall, London
Sir Henry Bromley ]]enrich, Court Garden, Great Marlow, Bucks
William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &s., Alderman of
London, Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation,
and a Director of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloycester
Junction, the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth, the
North London Juncton, and the London and Greenwich Railway
Companies
T. nagger, Esq., Northampton Directors of the South Midland and
-
J. Freeman, Esq., Ditto Northampton, Banbury, and Chel-
Thomas Sharp, Esq., Ditto tenham Railway Companies
Arthur Haymes, Esq., Methem Villa, Provisional Directors of the
Leamington, South Midland Railway
Mr. Alderman Porter, Northampton, Company
Jonathan Dunn, Esq., Ryelands, Lancaster, Director of the Lancas-
ter and Preston Junction and North Western Railway Companies
J. M. Cottle Esq., Leamington, Director of the Coventry, Nuneaton,
and Leicester Railway Company
John Gardner, Esq., Southam, Provisional Director of the Birming-
ham and Oxford Junction Railway Company
William Frederick leaden, Esq., John-street, Berkeley-square, Lan-
don, Provisional Director of the Essex and Suffolk Railway Company
John Wheelton, Esq., Mcopham Bank, Tunbridge, Kent, Director of
the Leicester and Bedford Railway Company
Captain William Cousins, Director of the Goole and Doncaster Rail-
way Company
Cornelius Nicholson, Esq., Cowanhead, Kendal, Provisional Directoi
of the Lancaster and Carlisle, the York and Carlisle, and Manches-
ter and Southampton Railway Companies
James Beach, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place, Lon- Directors of the South
don, and Brandon Lodge, Warwickshire Midland Railway
George Buxton, Esq., Northampton Company
George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, Director of the Bristol and Bir-
mingham and Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway
Companies
E. W. Morris, Esq., Grovehurst, Pembury,
Kent of
Provisional Directors
The Rev. D. Robinson, Brompton
the South Great
ivale Ns
andorth an
W. W. Mansell, Esq., Dorchester-place,
Blandford square, LondonWor
Robert Rising, Esq., The Shrubbery, Wor-
tester Railway
cester
John Haddon, Esq., Director of the Birmingham and Oxford Junc-
tion Railway Company
John Satchel], Esq., Warwick, Deputy Chairman of the Leamington
Board of Commissioners
Robert Chapman, Esq., Park-place, Regent's-park, Director of the
Great Manchester Railway Company
Henry Morgan, Esq., Bristol Directors of the
William Watson, Esq., Burn Grove, Roxburgh--Bristol and Exeter
shire Railway Company
James Morrison, Esq., Raymond-buildings, Gray's Inn, Provisional
Director of the Bridgewater and afinelicad Railway Company
Admiral Ayscough, Southampton
Mr. Sergeant Adams, Stanhope-place, Hyde-park
Mr. Herbert Atterbttry, Thonthy, Northamptonshire
John Burnett, Esq., Cheltenham, Coroner for the county of Glou-
cester
John Brightman, Esq., Regency-square, Brighton
John Richards Burbidge, Esq., Surbiton Hill, Surrey
Charles Brandt, Esq., Leamington
Captain Chamier, Malkin-street West, Belgrave-square, London
Thomas Chitty, Esq., 8, Upper Gower-street, London
Peter Colston, jun., Esq., Husband's Bosworth, near Market liar-
borough
Thomas Farmer Cooke, Esq., Peatling Hall, Leicestershire
Edward Doubleday, Esq., F.L.S., Great Surrey•street, London
Thomas Henry Evans, Esq., 39, Lothbnry, and Mayor of Carnarvon
John Eyston, Esq., Welford, Northamptonshire, and Salford Hall,
Warwickshire
Joseph Ellis, Esq., Glenfleld and Leicester
Alexander Greig, Esq , Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square, London
George Harper, Esq., Moss Fields, Salop
John Helhert Heibert, Esq., Upper Gloucester-street, London
William Hunter, Esq., Leamington
Captain George James Hunter, Leamington
Richard Jones, Eaq., Whitchurch, Salop
Mr. George Wortley Lovell, Great Billing, Northamptonshire
William Laslctt, Esq., Worcester
William Marshall, Esq., Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire
The Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothei, Herefordshire
Mr. Benjamin Paine, Leicester
James Watts Peppercorn, Esq., Old Broad-street, and Dulwich,
Surrey
Captain Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, 4, Parliament-street, London
i. Wataoa Prole, Esq , 31, Thurlow-square, Brompton
James Whitchurch, Esq., Southeliff, Netley Abbey, Hants
William Williams, Esq., Gullsborough, Northamptonshire
Edward Welsh, Esq , Leamington
Edward Waddilove, Esq., Leamington
Mr. John Woolston, jun., merchant, Wellingborough, Northampton-
shire . . .

(With power to add to their number.)
BANKERS.
London—The London and County Bank, Lombard-street
Northampton—The Northamptonshire Banking Company
Rugby—Messrs. Butlin and Son
LeamingtoniLeamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Cora-
Warwick
Southam pang
Woreester—Mossrs. Farley, Lavender, and Co.

ENGINEER IN CIIIIiF--John Ifrpeth Rastrick, ESQ.
SOLICITORS.
London—Mr. George Weller, 8, King's-road, Bedford-row
Welford—Mr. George Pell, jun.
Leamington
Warwick .Itiessrs. Patterson, Ilaymes, Banbury, and Gardner
Southam
Worcester—Mr. R. T. Rea
Birmingham—Mr. T. R. T. Hodgson
SECILETART--31r. George B. Weller.

PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS.
The object proposed by this railway is, as well to supply the wants
of the district through which it passes, as to complete the chain of
railway•commanieatioa between the eastern and midland counties
and the western district, including the whole of North and South
Wales.

The country embraced by this line is of the richest description, and
thickly populated.
ity means of this, and the existing and projected lines of railway,
the whole of the ports in the eastern and north-eastern counties, in-
cluding the manufacturing city of Norwich, and towns of Leicester,
Nottingham, Sheffield, Leeds, and the whole of Yorkshire will be
brought in direct communication with the mineral districts of
North and South Wales, the salt district of Droitwich, and the
river Severn.

The promoters of this line submit to the public, as a most import-
ant consideration, the abating of those causes of loss and inconveni-
ence which, along the line of country over which this railway will
pass, are experienced from water carriage being from necessity at
present a principal mode of transit for heavy goods and merchandise,
and which, in the winter season, is productive of the most evil con-
sequences to those engaged in commerce.
A manifest advantage to the Shareholders will be the extent of traffic
which will be secured and appropriated by the present undertaking,
in lieu of that which hitherto has been engrossed by the more
dilatory course of water carriage.
As a public advantage to the inhabitants generally of the
above-mentioned districts, the promoters submit that the equa-
lisation in prices of the produce and merchandise which the
opening of this line of railway is calculated to produce is of the high-
est importance, and one of the principal benefits which this and other
similar undertakings are alone capable of producing.
The proposed line will commence at Rugby, the terminus of the
Midland Counties and Trent Valley Radways, and also of the pro-
posed Rugby end Huntingdon Junction Railway, and proceed from
thence near to the towns of Leamington, Warwick, and Alcester, and
end at the City of Worcester. At Worcester this line will form a
junction with the several Welsh railways, the Shrewsbury, Wor-
cester, and Crewe Railway, and the Oxford, Worcester, and Wol-
verhampton Railway.
At Warwick it will unite with the Birmingham and Oxford Junc-
tion Railway, the Warwick and Cheltenham Railway, and the Len-
don, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidderminster Railway.
And at Rugby with the London and Birmingham, the Midland
Counties, and the projected Rugby and Huntingdon Junction Railway.
To the inhabitants of Rugby as well as to those of the Midland,
Eastern, and Northern Counties this line will afford a direct com-
munication with the fashionable towns of Leamington and Chelten-
ham, as well as the whole of the Western Counties.

To the inhabitants of Leamington and Warwick it will give a
direct communication with the City of Worcester and North and
South Wales, now so much needed.

And to the inhabitants of Worcester, in addition to providing the
nearest route to London via Warwick, it will be an outlet to the
Eastern Counties and ports, and afford great facilities for the increase
of the manufactories now carried on in that city.
The whole of the country has during the present month, August,
1841, been most carefully surveyed by the engineers, and they report
it to be free from engineering alinculty, and well adapted for a rail-
way; and the provisional Directors entertain no doubt that the
line will be made under the average rate of expense incident to
similar undertakings, and, from the statistics in their possession,
that the traffic will afford an ample return for the capital invested.
The line will Rot interfere with any ornamental property, and the
landowners are favourable to the undertaking.
The Shareholders in the several Railways proposed to be Joined or
intersected will have a preference in the allotment of shares in this
undertaking.

No person will be liable for more than his deposit till the Act is
obtained, and power will be applied far to allow interest at 41. per
cent= on all calls, from the time of their respective payments, and
to limit the liability of the Shareholders to the amount of their sub-
scriptions.

The Directors resers'e power to themselves to amalgamate with
any existing or projected line of railway ; to vary the route ; to
make all desirable extensions; and to increase the capital as may be
advisable or necessary.
Prospectuses, with a Plan, will be published in a few days,
and may then be obtained on application to the several solicitors,
and to any of the following share brokers, viz., Messrs. Peppercorne
and Co., 2, Old Broad-street ; Messrs. Preece and Evans, 39, Loth-
bury, London ; Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester ; Messrs. Alston
and Gage, Liverpool ; Messrs. Freeman and Son, Northampton ; Mr.
John Duneaft, Manchester ; Messrs. George Edwards and Son, Bris-
tol ; Mr. John Watson, Leeds ; Mr. John Cragg, Skipton ; and
Messrs. Atkinson, Newcastle ; Messrs. Grayston and Earlo, York ;
Mr. Collis, Birmingham ; Messrs. White and Son, Leamington ;
Messrs. Flint and Toots], Hull ; Messrs. Tempest and Brite.hart, Hud-
dersfield; Messrs. Robertson and Co., Edinburgh; and Messrs.
Tassie, Glasgow ; to any of whom applications In the undermen-
tioned form may be addressed.

FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Directors of the Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester

I request you to allot me Shares in this undertaking; and I
hereby undertake to accept the same or any smaller number that
may be allotted me, and to pay the Deposit thereon, and to execute
the Parliamentary Contract and Subscriber's Agreement when re-
quired•
Christian and Surnames in full .• • •
Business or profession . • .. • • • • • •
Place of Business • • • • • • . •
Name and Address of Referee..............
Date • • • • • •

RUGBY, WARWICK, AND WORCESTER
RAILWAY.
In consequence of the immense number of applications already re-
ceived, the Provisional Committee give notice that no Applications
for Shares be received after Tuesday the Nth Instant, except
from parties resident in the country, as to whom the time will be
extended to Monday, the 22d instant.

GEO. H. WELLER, Secretary.
Offices, pro tom., 8, ples.toad Bedford-row,
Undo, Sept, 6, 184.

SCOTTISH MIDLAND JUNCTION RAIL

WAY.
Parties holding Scrip Certificates for Shrres in this Company arc
requested to transmit the same to Mr. Christopher Kerr, 26, Castle-
street, Dundee, on or before WEDNESDAY, the 24th current, with
their Names, Professions, and Residences, distinctly written, in order
that the same may be correctly vitered in the Resister, as required
by law. By order,CHRIS. KERR, Int. Sec.
Dundee, Sept. 10, 1845.

CORK AND FERMOY DIRECT RAILWAY
COM PAN Y.

(Provisionally registered.)
Capital 2511,C00/., in 12,500 Shares of 201. each.
Depcsit 21.25. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Kingston
The Hon. James King
The Very Rev. ,Edward Gustavus Hudson, Dean of Armagh, Glenville
Adams, Thomas Travers, Esq., J.P., Annagarra
Brown, Joseph, Esq., Bedford
Beamish, S. G., Esq., Kensington-square, London
Clarke, Jeremiah,•Esq , London
Champion, Richard Gifford, Esq., Bushy Park, Cork
Crawford, Cooper, Esq., Mitchelstown
Dennehy, Thomas, Esq., Bellevw, Fermoy
Disney, Iff.v. :Tarry, Mitchelstown
Fitzgibbon, Michael, Esq., Solicitor, Mitchelstown
Forrest. the Rev. Thomas, Mitchelstown
Geron, Daniel, Esq., Coroner, Rushmount
Green, Thomas, Esq., Airlift'
IL.mer, Samuel, Esq., London
Johnson, Noble, Esq., Cork
Johnson, D. T., Esq., London
Johnson, It. W., Esq., London
Keene, John Joseph, Esq., London
King, William, Esq., London
3fassy, John, Esq , I ipperary
Livins, G. P., Esq.; London
M'Carthy, Rev. Charles, P.C., Vicar, Mitchelstown
hfeteyard, H. W., Esq. London
M'Carthy, W., Esq.' Kfiglass Mills
Mitchell, Henry Brazier, Esq., D.L. and J.P., Mitchelsf, rt, Water-

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Montgomery, Rev. William Quinn, Killee Castle
Montgomery, Arthur C., Esq., KIM° Castle
Morgan, Edward, Esq., Bridestown
Morrogh, James, Esq., Kilworth, Manager of the National Bank
Fermoy
O'Brien, Michael, Esq., Ballyboy
O'Brien, Edward, Esq., Mounteagle, Manager of the National Bank,

Mitchelstown
O'Brien, Richard, Esq., Solicitor, Miteheistown
O'Brien, Rev. Morgan, P.P., Mitchelstown
Phelan, James, Esq., M.R.C.S., Mitchelstown
Reeves, Edward Hoare, Esq., Ballyglissane
Roche, J. W., Esq., Rochemount
• Sadler, Nicholas, Esq., Ballanvillen
Smyth, Henry Mitchell, Esq., J.P., Castle Widnam and Bishop's

Island •
Stevenson, Thomas, Esq., London
Smyth, Henry, Esq., J.P., Richmond, and Renny, Fermoy
Spiers, E. J., Esq., London
Toulon, Major Peter, Glenwood, Kilworth
Wardle, Henry, Esq., London •
(With power to add to their number).
A considerable addition of influential local names will appear
shortly.

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
CHAIRMAN.

John Joseph Keene, Esq., Director of the National Bank of Ireland,
St. John's-wood, Regent's Park, London

Brown, Joseph, Esq., Alderman, Bcdford
Beamish, S. G., Esq., Kensington square

Clarke, Jeremiah, Esq., Union-court, Old Broad-street
Hamer, Samuel, Esq., G. P. 0., and Southampton-row, Russell.

square
Johnson, D. T., Esq., Director of the Chester and Manchester Rail.

way, Aldermanbury Churchyard, London
Johnson. IL IV., Esq., Director of the Chester and Manchester Rail,
way, Moorgate-street

King, William, Esq., Director of the Freemasons' Assurance Com•

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pany, Waterloo place
Livius, G. P., Esq., Director of Remington's London and Manchester
Railway, '29, Moorgate-street

Meteyard,'Holace William, Esq., 8.C.L., Director of Remington's
London and Manchester Railway, Middle Temple and Chatham-
place
Spiers, E. J., Esq., Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and
Worcestershire Railway, Carlton-villas, Paddington
Stevenson, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Medical, Invalid, and Ge-
neral Assurance Company, 37, Upper Grosvenor-street
Wardle, Henry, Esq., Aldersgate-strect and Macclesfield.

BANKERS.
The National Bank of Ireland and its Branches
Messrs. Barnet, llosre, and Co., G 2, Lombard-street.
SOLICITORS.
Ireland—Messrs. Jonathan Wigmore, Sherlock, and Sons, Cork and
Fermoy ; and Lower Pembroke-street, llubPit
London—William Tatham, Esq., 22, Throgmorton-street.

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ENGINEER--Edgar Clements, Esq.
SEcitvrAny—William Bridges, Esq.
The projected line of railway, to connect Cork, the first seaport and
second city of Ireland, with the central agricultural district from
which it is extensively supplied with produce in exchange for im-
ported commodities, has the entire and cordial approbation of a large
body of landholders and residents between the two termini, as
carrying out the principle of direct communication for which the in-
habitants of Fermoy and its vicinity have always contended.
The line will be 19% English miles in length, being 234 miles
Shorter than the mail-coach road, and 14 miles shorter than any line
which may be constructed as a branch via Middleton.
The entire line of country has been surveyed by competent engi-
neers, and reported on as extremely favourable as to the gradients,
and entirely free from engineering difficulties. It will therefore be
easy of construction, and all the works may be completed in a com-
paratively short time from the obtaining of the Act.
It is intended to adapt the line in its construction to the most im-
proved principle of motive power.
The present traffic in passengers and goods between Cork and
Fennoy is considered equal, if not superior, to that existing between
any two towns in Ireland equally distant from each other. As every
economy will be used in its formation, and as the landowners on the
line arc entirely favourable, the railway will be constructed for a
very reasonable sum, and thus ensure ample remuneration to the
Shareholders.

Prospectus and forms of application for shares may be obtained of
the solicitors; or or the Secretary, at the offices of the Company,
No. 38, Moorgate-street, London.
11th September, 1845.

THE OXFORD, SOUTHAMPTON, GOS-
PORT, AND PORTSMOUTH RAILWAY.
(Provisionally registered.)
Capital, 600,0001., in 30,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
rnovistoarar. COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. Lord Ingestre, M.P.
The Hon. Howe Browne, Chairman of the Manchester and Blaming-
ham Continuation Railway
John Attwood, Esq., M.P., Park-lane, Hyde Park
John Mastennan, Esq., Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street, Banker
Sir John Campbell,
Sir John Pine, Bart ,Alderman, Directors of the Peninsular and
Pedro de Zulueta, Esq., Oriental Steam Packet Company
B. H. Wilcox, Esq.,
Joseph Liggins, Esq., Southampton, Director of the Southampton
Dock Company
Sir William Wynne, Chairman of the North Wales Railway
Sir George Rich, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square
Sir Henry Richardson, Chassel-house, Southampton
Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of the City of London
William Hughes Hughes, Esq., Alderman of the City of London, late
M.P. for Oxford, and late High Sheriff for Hants
John Humphrey, Esq., Alderman of the City of London, and H.P.
for the Borough of Southwark
The Mayor of Newbury
George Adam, Esq., White Lion-court, Cornhill
James Henry Attwood, Esq., Seymour-street, Portman-square
John Bagehaw, Esq , Director of the Northern and Eastern Railway
Joseph Brown, Esq., Director of the East and West of England
Junction Railway
Charles Baker, Esq., Southampton
James Beech, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place
Samuel Boy'll, Esq., Southampton
Samuel Swann Brittain, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Midland Junction, and ,East and West of England
Junction and Crewe Railways
W. E. Boyce, Esq., Banbury, Director of the Birmingham and Oxford
Railway
Robert Barbour, Esq., Manchester
George Barrett, Esq., Southampton
John Churchill, Esq., Bayswater, Director of the Manchester and
Birmingham Continuation Railway
C. R. Colman, Esq., Irongate Wharf, and General Steam Navigation
Company, Director of the South Midland Railway
William Chadwick, Esq., Chairman of the Richmond Railway
Samuel James Capper, Esq., Adelaide-place, London-bridge
F. F. Clossmann, Esq., Mincing-lane
George Dawson, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Mid.
land Junction Railway
, William Dredge, Esq., Newbury, Berks, Alderman
Captain Farrington, R.N., West Cowes, Isle of Wight
William Henry Forman, Esq., Upper Thames-street
W. S. Fitzwilliam, Esq., Old Broad-street, Director of the Essex and
Suffolk Railways
Edward Farrow, Esq., Newbury, Director of Union Bank
Samuel Ilaines, Esq., Chad House, Edgbaston, Director of the Man-
chester and Birmingham Continuation Railway
William Hill, Esq., Manchester
John Newington Hughes, Esq., Winchester
William Jaeomb, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the East and West
of England Railway
J. Kinloch, Esq., Gloucester-road, Hyde Park, Director of the North
Wales and the Newry and Enniskillen Railway
Edward Lomer, Esq., Southampton
James Lees, Esq., Deputy Chairman of Union Bank, Manchester
Captain James Patrick Macdougal, Brixton, Surrey, late Bengal
' General Staff
Lewin Moseley, Esq., Banker, Liverpool
Captain George Probyn, Bryanston-square
John Clark Prescott, E:q., Manchester
David Price, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Leeds and Bolton
Railway
N. M. Priaulx, Esq., of the South-Western Steam Packet Company,
Southampton
G. Parbury, Esq., Director of the East and West of England Rail-
way
William Watson Prole, Esq., Director of the Jersey Railway
William Langley Pope, Esq., Birehin-lane, and Woodford, Director
11 of the Falmouth and Exeter Railway
Clement Royds, Esq., Rochdale, Chairman of the Preston and Wynn
Railway
Major Selwyn, Royal Engineers, Director of the East and West of
England Junction Railway
Walter Shairp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, and Austin-friars,
Director of the Cobra Mining Company
Benjamin Shaw, Esq., Kilburn Priory, Director of the Dublin and
Kilkenny Railway
T. Bridge Simpson, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Richmond Railway
Edmund Slocock, Esq., Newbury
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Director of the Commercial Bank of London
Robert Watkins, Esq., Director of the East and West of England
Railway
Edward Westlake, Esq., Southampton.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
The Honourable Howe Brown, Chairman
James Henry Attwood, Esq., Deputy-Chairman
John Attwood, Esq., M.P.
John Masterman, Esq.
Sir John Pine, Bart.
W. Hughes Hughes, Esq., Alderman
George Adam, Esq.
John nagshaw, Esq.
Joseph Brown, Esq.
William Chadwick, Esq.
William Henry Forman, Esq.
Captain George Probyn
Robert Watkins, Esq.
Joseph Underwood, Esq.,
William Langley Pope, Lsq.
BANsetts —Messrs. Masterman and Co., London
ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF—Joseph Locke, Esq.
ACTING ENG INEERS—Messrs. J. B. and E. Birch
SoLicaoss--John Bethell, Esq., 7s, King William-street, London;
at Southampton, Messrs. Sharp and Harrison
SECRETARY—John Dunlop, Esq.
The Deeds will lie for signature at the Company's Offices, No. 19,
13irchin-land, from Twelve till Four o'clock, every day until flirt
notice ; and duplicate Deeds will lie forsignature between the hours
of Eleven and Five o'clock, at the following places :
Manchester—On Saturday, September 13, at Messrs. Houghland and
Leese's, King-street
Liverpool—OnMonday, September 15, at Messrs. John Well sand Co.'s,
Royal Bank Buildings
Leeds—On Tuesday, September 16, at Messrs. Wellbeloved and
Oastler's
Shenlold—On Wednesday, September 17, at Messrs. Garton and
Writhes
Birmingham—On Thursday, September 18, at Mr. Lane's, share-
broker.
On the execution of the Deeds the Scrip will be delivered.
By order, JOHN DUNLOP, Secretary.
19, Birchin•lane. Cornhill, Sept. 12, 1845.

THE OXFORD, SOUTHAMPTC,N, GOS-
PORT, AND PORTSMOUTH RAILWAY.
In answer to the numerous applications still being made for Shares
in this Railway, notice is hereby given that the allotment was closed
on the 6th instant, and no further applications can possibly be received.
By order JOHN DUNLOP, secretary.
19, Birctin-lane, C9611114.5ept, 10, 1845,