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EVE N N I, SEPTEMBER i 2, 1845.

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 miles that it will traverse rich and populous agricultural
fut.( manufacturing districts, and receive a large amount of traffic as
well from railways now in course of construction as from ethers 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
moans of this railroad, attract the commeree 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
teethe 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 manliest 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-
teat of midland distri4, 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 the 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 L' pawl through the Trent 'Valley,
ellp t which bore much the .same relao the Birmingham and Grand
Junction that this bears to the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter
Railways, he is reported to have said :—" I consider that the 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 Falmouth
wakillast session rejected, on the ground that it might be supposed
to interfere with that great national object.
The survey of the line has been to a great extent completed, and
em rre .t estimates of the expenditure and returns are in a state of for-
t, I rthm and the whole will be ready for the next session of Par-

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
four pounds per centutn per annum 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 be addressed to
the solicitors to the Company, or to the Secretary, or to any respect-
able broker in town or country
London, September 11, 1545.

FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Direct Western Railway
Company.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 251. each in
the above Company, and I undertake to pay the deposit of 2/.125. 6d.
per sure 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.

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MADRID AND VALENCIA RAILWAY,
authorised by an Ordinance of her Majesty the Queen of

Spatal.

Capital 2,400,000/., in 120,000 Shares of 20/. each, Spanish reals
(Velion) 2,000, fr. 500.
Deposit 21. per Share, reals 200, fr. 50.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Most Noble the Marquis of Winchester, 27, Cavendish-square
The Lord de Isle and Dudley, 16, New Burlington-street
The Right lion. Lord Charles Beauclerk, Chesham-place, Belgrave-
square, a-al the Riding, Northumberland
The lion. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., 27, Regent-street
Sir William Wynn, Chairman of the North Wales Railway
C. Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P., 6, Parliament-street, Chairman of the
Paris and Strasbourg Railway
Benjamin Williams, Esq., banker (Mesas. Cockburn and Co.)
William Coffin', Esq., M.P., Reform Club
Edward Bates, Esq., Managing Director of the Argus. Life Assurance
Company
John Capper, Esq., merchant, 1, Adelaide-place, London-bridge
William Chadwick, Esq., Montagu-square, Chairman of the Rich-
mond Railway
Gideon Colquhoun, Esq., Walmer Lodge, Avenue-road, Regent's-
park, Director of the Worcester and Simtb. Wales Railway
Company
William Cooper, Esq., merchant, 20, Mark-lane, and Kingswood
Lodge, Dulwich
Edmund F. 'Myren, Esq., 15, Old Cavendish-street, and Lillingstone
'Myren, Bucks, High Sheriff of Bucks, Deputy-Lieutenant of the
County, Chairman of the Cheltenham and Gloucester Railway and
Bridgewater and Minehead
W. Eales, Esq., merchant, Mincing-lane, Director of the Direct
71;restern..Railivay
Thomas Farlicomb, Esq., Alderman of the City of London, Director
of the London and Westminster Bank
Richard Forman, Esq , Upper Thames--street
John Joseph Keene, Esq , St. John's-wood, near London, Director
of the National Bank of Ireland
Win, King, Esq., Director of the Freemasons' Life Assurance Com-
pany
James Jehn Kinloch, Esq., 21, Gloucester-road, Hyde-park, Director
cf the North Wales Railway Company
John Knill, Esq., Fresh-wharf, Thames-street, Director of the
Worcester and Crewe Railway
T. Laurence, Esq., St. Mary-axe, Director of the Direct Western
Railway
Major James Oliver Lindam, K.H., 8, New-street, Dorset-square,
Chairman of the. Gloucester and Aberystwith and Central Wales
Railway, and Director of the South Midland Junction Railway
Nicholas Nl‘Cann, Esq., 50, Parliament-street, Director of the Man-
che,ster and Rugby Direst Railway
J. It. Monteflore, Esti , 2, Winchester-buildings
William Nicholson, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester
and Rugby hallway
S. P. Pratt, Esq., 55, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Director of the Kennet and
Avon Canal Company
Colonel Edward Stopforcl, I G, Edward-street, Portman-square, Direc-
tor of the Itarbadoes Railway Company
William Gordon Thompson, Esq., Director of the South Midland
Junction
S. J. 'Maley, Esq., 22, Devonshire-place
William Lechtnere Whitmore, Esq., 19, James-street, Buckingham-
gate, Director of the London Central Railway Terminus.
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Curries and Co., Cornhill ; Messrs. Masterman and
Co., Nicholas-lane; Messrs. Cockburn and Co., Whitehall.
Madrid—llantof Isabella 11.
SomeTroas—aleisrs. Kennel!, llareer; and7lrant,B4,Lime-street.
!Commtaiga ENGINEER—I'. Prichard Baly, Esq.
SRCRETART—F. Kirkham Fowell, Esq.
Offices of the Company, 37, Moorgate-street.

The present Company has been formed for the construction of a
line of railway from Madrid to the city-and port of Valencia, the m.,st
central seaport on the Mediterranean. It will open out the re-
sources of an extensive district of country, eastward from the capital,
remarkable for the richness and fertility of its soil, the varied abun-
dance of its production% and the commercial spirit of its inhabitants.
This railway is authorised by a special ordinance of her Majesty
the Queen of Spain ; and from its vast importance as a national route
of intercommunication her Majesty has been pleased to accompany
the grant, with all the privileges and immunities which the Crown is
empowered to confer upon a railway company. Amongst these may
be enumerated-
1. A lease of the line and of its branches for 99 years.
2. The gratuitous grant of such Government and corporation lands
aNalaY be required for the railway.
3:.-Tne free use of all timber, the property of the State, that may be
necessary for the works, or for other purposes.
4. The exemption for ten years, to be computed from the com-
mencement of the works, of all import duties on the mach nary,
rails, and other articles requisite for the completion of the railway.
.5. The entire exemption from all national and local taxes that
could otherwise be levied upon the railway, works, or buildings of
any description, and upon the capital represented by the shares.
6. The Government is not to interfere with the Company's tariff
of charges for the space of forty years from the co npletion of the
works ; and no revision thereof is to take place on the expiration of
that period that can sink the profits below 15 per cent.
7. The line Is to be classed, by a special law, under the title of a
" work of public utility," and as such to enjoy the royal patronage
and protection, arid all the peculiar privileges attached to important
national undertakings. • _ _

The proposed line, thus largely endoWed, is about 240 miles in
length, being upwards of 150 miles nearer the capital than the ports
of Cadiz and the north coast of Spain, and genetally nearer than any
other port in the kingdom. Although it has not yet been minutely
surve ed, it is well known that there is no similar district of equal
extent in the kingdom which presents so few engineering difficulties
For upwards of 80 miles the line will traverse the almost level plain
of Valencia ; and emerging from the boundaries of the province, it
will follow as nearly as possible the course of the rivers which flow
east and west from the central plateau in the province of Cuenca,
and approach Madrid by the valley of the Marizanares. The line
will either pass through or accommodate the most important towns
In the two provinces, which will thus be brought into rapid com-
munication with the capital on ths one side, a seaport on the other.
This railway will be the means of supplying Madrid, containing
300,000 inhabitants, entirely dependent for provisions upon the con-
tiguous provinces, at a cheap rate, with the rich products of the pro-
vinces of Valencia, which abounds in most valuable mines, and is
beyond comparison the most fertile district of Spain.
Valencia, brought by this communication within ten hours' dis-
tance of tile chief market of Spain, must necessarily become the
port at which all vessels with supplies for the metropolis will unload,
and the centre of the coasting trade along the whole sea-line from
Barcelona to Gibraltar.

The traffic in passengers and goods now existing' between Madrid
and Valencia has been correctly ascertained, showing tile following
results :
The annual number of passengers travelling between
Madrid and Valencia, and the intermediate towns, is
upwards of 42,000 ; but taking that number at the
present cost of conveyance by stage coaches, private
carriages, galeras, and waggons, the amount will be £67,800
The annual weight of goods conveyed between the two
, .

cities and the intermediate localities is 4,900,000 cwt.,
from which the return is estimated at .. . • 1,223,400

£1,291,200
Assum!ng that two•flfths only of the existing charges
become a source of revenue to the railway, and that
the tariff be reduced considerably below the State
tariff of Belgium, there will be deducted .. 752,320

Remains • • • • X 538,880
Supposing that the present traffic will only be doubled
by the railway, although experience has proved the
increase to be equal to 300 and 400 per cent., there will
be added .. .. • • • • • • • • 538,840

And add £1,077,760
For the transport of troops, military stores, &c. 4 which
the Government will substitute for the conveyance by
waggons ..
50,000
25 per Cent., at the least, for the Ailcant traffic 215,952

From which deduct nearly 50 per cent. for maintenance £1,343,712
of Way, &c... .. • • • . • . • • 671,856

Leaving a net profit of
Or of nearly 28 per cent upon the capital.
The capital now proposed to be raised has been estimated, by
competent, author ity, to be amply sufficient for the completion of the
railway, Including stations, a double line for rails, and the working
plant.

• • • • 4671,856

The royal ordinance authorises the erection of an electric tele-
graph along the line, which will answer the double purpose of placing
the railway under the special protection of the Government, and
closely uniting it with all the railways that Intersect the kingdom
and have their common termini In Madrid, to which capital maritime
and mercantile information from the Mediterranean can be Instan-
taneously communicated.

One-third of the shares are, by the terms of the concession, con-
ceded to Spain.

The locale of the Company will be in Spain, and it will be framed
on the principle of a compania anonima, agreeably to the commercial
code of that country.
The affairs of the Company will be conducted by a Board of Di-
rectors in London, assisted by a highly influential Committee in
Madrid. The remuneration to the Directors will be made in ae-
eordance with the plan usually adopted in continental railways, and
that to the Concessionaires consists of a mere contingent interest in
two-twentieths of net profits, after five per cent. shall have been se-
cured to the shareholders.
A deposit of 21. per share is payable on allotment, and no fhture
call will exceed 21. per share, of which two months' notice at least
will be given.

Applications for shares, according to the subjoined form, to be ad-
dressed to Messrs. Xeddell, Baker, and Grant, solicitors, 34, Lime-
street, London ; to Messrs. Hutchinson and Son, stockbrokers, Loth-
bury ; Messrs. C4rden and Whitehead, Threadneedle-street ; Messrs.
Johnston, and Co., 3fauchester ; Messrs. Townley and Whitehead,
Liverpool ; Messrs. Wreford, and Co., Bristol ; 51r. Lea, Binning-
ham; Messrs. Watson, and Co. Leeds; Messrs. Wilkinson and Earle,
IIull; Messrs. Buchanan and Altkin. Glasgow; Mr. W. Gordon,
Aberdeen; Messrs. Labertoucbe and Stafford, Dublin; and to the
Secretary, at the office, 37, Moorgate-street, Loudon.
Loudon, Sept. 10, 1845.

FORM OF APPLICATION

To the Directors of the Madrid and Valencia Railway Company.
Gelitletnen,—l request you will allot me shares of 201.
each in the above Company ;. and I hereby undertake to accept the
same, or any lees number which you may appropriate to me, and to
PaY the doposit thereon of 2/. per share.
Dated this day of

1845. .
Nam. ••• • • • •... •r• . • •
Residence
Profession or Trade . • •
• Place of Bu.siness
RettTertet . • • •

I-IROPSHIRE MINERAL RAILWAY.
forming, in conjunction with other existing and projected
lines, a din et communication between Liverpool, -Malicia:stet*, Slid-
flelu, York and Hull, and Swansea and South Wales.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 700,0001., in 35,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.

(The Deposit is in accordance with the Standing Order of the House

of Commons.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTER. '
Adams, Mr. Sergeant, Stanhope-place, Hyde-park
Baddeley, Thomas Bernard, Esq., Newport, Salop
Barker, Joseo, Esq., Macclesfield
Batson, James, Esq., Ironmaster, Director of the South Staffordshire

Railway
Bellitoes, Thomas, Esq., Cheney Longueville, near Church Stretton
Beamish, Captain, Kensington-square
Blanford, Win., Esq., Chairman of the Thames Plate Glass Company
Bloor, John, Esq., Merchant, Tuthury, Staffiardshire
Boothby, Sir Bart ' Ashbourne Hall, Derbyshire, Director
of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction, and
Brighton and Cheltenham Direct Railways
Bull, Joseph, Esq. Snedshill Iron Works, Shropshire and Manchester
Burroughs, Captain, Davies-street, Berkeley-square
Clarke, Jeremiah, Esq., Macclesfield and Loudon, Director of the
Direct London and Manchester Railway
Clemson, John, Esq., Red Bank, Manchester
Cochrane, T. Esq., Ironmaster, Woodside' Works, Wolverhampton
Cox, George, Esq., Wolverhampton
Davies, Thomas, Esq., Ironmaster, Goldshill, New Ironwoods
Deakin, Addison, Esq., Eccleshall
Downes, Thomas R. C., Esq., Munslow, near Ludlow
Edwards, Edward, Esq., Iron-bridge, Shropshire
Evans, Thome-, Esq., Clun, Shropshire
Ewbank, Captain, Junior United Service Club
Eykc, William, Esq., Stanton, Shiffnall, Shropshire
Firmstone, John Parsons, Esq., Ironmaster, Ilighfields Works, Bil-
ston, Director of the South Staffordshire, Worcester, and Shrews-
bury Junction
Fisher, James, Esq., Ironmaster, Bilston, Staffordshire
Fourdrinier, George 11., Esq., Hanley, Staffordshire Potteries
Frith, John Griffith, Esq., Chairman of the Coleraine and London-
derry Railway
George, William, Esq., Weston, near Much Wenlock
Griffiths, Samuel, Esq.. Wolverhampton
Gregory, T. Esq., Ironmaster, West Bromwich. Staffordshire
Hall, Joseph, Esq., Ironmaster, Bloomfield, Tipton, Staffordshire
Hodgson, Lieutenant-Colonel, Studholme, Welbeck-street, Caven-
dish-square
Holcombe, Charles T., Esq., 'Valentines, Ilford, Essex, Director of
the Anglo-Belgian Railway
Humphreys, William, Esq., the Rectory, Berriew, Welsh Pool, Mont-
gomeryshire
Humphreys, John, Esq., Berriew, Welsh Pool, Montgomeryshire
Humphreys, Rev. Thos., Bishop's Castle
Johnson, John, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Gains-
borough Railway
Jones, Robert, Esq., Strefford, near Church Stretton
Lambert, Richard, Esq., Lyston Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk
Law, William, Esq., Woburn-place, Russell-square
Leicester, Rev. Charles, J.P., Whitton Hall, Salop
Loveridge, Henry, Esq., Wolverhampton
Luckock, the Rev. T. G. M., Parsonage, Great Barr, Staffordshire
Marston, Francis, J.P., Aston, Hopesay, Salop
M`Dennott, George A., Esq., Director of the Staffordshire Potteries
and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railway
Miller, Ambrose, Esq., Lower Thames-street, I) rector of the Oxford,
Witney, and Cheltenham Railway
Millington. William, Esq., Ironmaster, Summerhill Works, Tipton,

Staffordshire _
Minton, John, Esq., Cleohury North, Shropshire
Minton, J., Esq., Clifton, Bristol, Director of the Goole and Doncas-
ter Railway
Newe )uabe, J. W., Esq., Upper Gloucester-place, and Langley-fields

Ironworks, Dawley, Salop
Plowden, William,Esq., Plowden-hall, near Bishop's Castle, and

Rotherwas, near Hereford, J.P., Shropshire
Potter, William Simpson. Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, an
Lower Thames-street, Director of the Oxford, Witney, and Chel

tenhatn, and of the South and Midlands Junction Railways
Price. Francis Lysons, Esq., William-street, Blackfriars, Director of
the Chartered Gas Light and Cok Company
Pulteney, Captain Doutlas Kinnaird, Parliament-street, Director of
the Direct London and Manchester Railway
Rawson, John, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant of Yorkshire, Director of the
Manchester, Liverpool and Great North of Englaill Railway, and
of the Liverpool and Leeds Railway
Ridge, Joseph Charles, Esq., merchant, Manchester
Rigg, Charles M., Esq., York-place, Portman-square
Riley, W. T., Esq., Ironmaster, Mil Meld Works, Bilston, Director of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire J unction Railway
Ryton, William, Esq., Wolverhampton
Shaw, William, Esq., Managing Director of the Royal Farmers' Fire
and Life Assurance Company; Director of the London and Bir-
mingham Extension, and Warwick and Worcester Railways
Simms, William, Esq., Snedshill Ironworks, Shiffnal
Silvester and Jackson, Messrs., Ironmasters, Westbromwlch
Smaiman, John, Esq., J.P., Quatford Castle, Brldgnorth, Director
of the Worcester and Crewe Railway
Spicer, Charles W., Esq , Portman-square, Director of the Armagh,
Coleraine, and Portrush, and Grand London and Dublin Approxi-
mation Railways
Stead, James, Esq , Bradford, Yorkshire, Provisional Director of the
_ .

Liverpool and Leeds Railway
Summers, Thomas, Esq., Much Wenlock
Swift, Henry, Esq., Eccleshall and Wootton
Swift, George, Esq., Elford-hill, Eccleshall
Thacker, Robert. Esq., Wolverhampton
Tildesley, James, Esq., Merchant, Willenhall, Staffordshire
Tudor, Samuel, Esq., Upper Thames-street, and Hull, Director of
the Derby, Stafford, and Uttoxeter Railway
Turner, Henry, Esq., Brewood Hall, Staffordshire
Underhill, George Lees, Esq., Ironmaster, Wolverhampton
Wainwright, Richard, Esq., Stanway Court, Church Stratton
Webster, Frank D. Bullock, Esq., Director of the New River Com-
pany, Brentbridge House, Hendon, Middlesex
Wells, Thos., Esq., Ironmaster, Moxley Steel Works
Weyman, Thomas, Esq , Purslow Hall, near Clan, Shropshire
Williams, Messrs. James and Co., Ironmasters, Whittington Iron
Works, near Stourbridge
Wilson, Lieut.-General Sir John, K.C.8., Bolton-street, Piccadilly
and Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire
Wood, Peter, Esq., merchant, Manchester
Wood, William, Esq., Chetwynd House, Newport, Salop, Director of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Rail Way
Wolryche, Stephen, Esq., J.P., Quatford Villa, near Itridgnorth, Salop
Wynne, Thomas, Esq., Langton, Staffordshire Potteries, Director of
the South Un on and Birmingham Junction Railway
(With power to add to their number).
. . _

Applications for shares in this Company will not be received after
Monday, the 29th instant. All applications must be made upon printed
forms, which, together with copies of the prospectus and maps of the
line, may be obtained from the secretary ; also the solicitors, Messrs.
Yarborough and Adams, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London, and Edmund
Garbett, Esq., Wellington, Salop; from the local agents—Messrs. G.
and R. Anderson; Ludlow; Thomas Weyman, Esq., Ludlow; John
William Butterton, Esq., Eceleshall ; Thomas Bernard Baddeley,jun.,
Esq., Newport ; Edward Edwards, Esq., Church Stretton ' • Gilbert
Brown, Esq., Shiffnal ; Charles G. Brown, Esq., Wigton, Stafford-
shire ; Philip Octavius Jervis, Esq., Bishop's Castle; Thomas Griffiths,
Esq., Chun and Bishop's Castle ; Thomas Walker, Esq., Wolverhamp-
ton ; T. It T. Hodgson, Esq., Birmingham ; William Harding, Esq.,
iturslem, Staffordshire Potteries ; and front the brokers—Messrs
Mieville and Co., Angel-court, Throgmorton-street, Londoo. ; Messrr.
Cameron, Cazenove, and Taunton, Liverpool ; Messrs. Green and Old-
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Royal Exchange-buildings, London, Sept.Oß 22, 1845. D, Secretary.
BARNET and NORTH MET ROYOL I t'AN
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 110.)
Capital, 400,0001., in 20,000 Shares of 201. each.
No Shareholder to be liable beyond the amount of his Subscription

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Hon. F. H. F Berkeley, M.P., Chairman, Director of the London,
Hounslow, and Western Railway Company
William Alfred 11111, Esq., Deputy-Chairman, also Deputy-Chairman
of the Oxford, 'Walley, and Cheltenham Railway Company
Sir John Osborne, Bart., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing-
stoke Railway Company
The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne, Belle Hatch House, Henley
William Wilberforce, Esq., James-street, Buckingham-gate, and
Ilighwood House, Highwood 11111, Hendon
Lieut.-Colonel Gillies, Porchester [louse, Bayswater
William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Director of the Italian and
Austrian Railway
Josiah Heale, Esq., Gray's inn
Major Lindam, ICH., Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and
Central Wales Railway Company
Henry Beckley Richardson, Esq., F.S.A., Director of the Celchester,
Cambridge, and Harwich Junction Railway
Rowland Hill Mackenzie, Esq., M.D., Mortimer-street, Cavendish-
square
Henry Chaytor, Esq., Clervaux Castle, Darlington, Director of the
Warwick and Worcester Railway
Thomas Hemming Jclmson, Esq., Older's Hall, Hendon, Middlesex
Thomas Priestley, Esq., Principal of Mill Hill Grammar School,
Hmlon, Middlesex
The Rev. H. J. Crump, Mill Hill, Hendon, Middlesex
Captain Grover, R.N.
Captain John Dines, H.C.S., WentworthsHouse, Mill Hill, Hendon,'
Middlesex
The Rev. Bartholomew Nicholls, M.A., Incumbent of St. Paul's,
Mill Hill, Hendon, Middlesex
Mr. William Ward, Underhill, Barnet
Mr. Bruce Johnson, Finchlsy •
William Christopher Daniel Deighton, Esq., Fellow of Queen's College,
Cambridge, Holloway f
Ralph Allen Frogley, Esq., Hounslow, Director of the London,
Hounslow, and Western Railway
Colonel Taylor White, Hadley-green, Barnet
Abraham Scott, Esq., Hadley Priory, Barnet
W. J. 3PGwire, Esq., 74, St. James's-street
W. Prosser, jun., Esq., 3f,, New Broad-street, City
James Berington, Esq., East-street, Hoxton
George Freeman, Esq., Grange House, Leeds
Richard Cowley Polhill, Esq., Director of the London, Hounslow, and
Western Railway Company
George Godfrey, Esq., The Elms, Hutton, Essex
Robert Wright WoOd, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and
Basingstoke Railway Company
Alexander Prince, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing-

stoke Railway „,
Peter Graham, Esq., Angelo Villa, Gloucester-road, Regent's Park
William Henry Halpin, Esq., 23, Grafton-street, Fitzroy•square
Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and
Basingstoke Railway Company
Charles Green, Esq., Director of the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and
Central Wales Railway Company
J. N. Mellolay, Esq., Oxford-street
John Godfrey B. Hudson, Esq., Director of the Central Terminus
Railway Company
Tha Rev. G. A. Walker, Alvisthorpe Parsonage, Wakefield, Direc-
tor of the Wakefield and Bradford Railway Company
(With power to add to their number.)
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.

The Hon. F. 11. F. Berkeley, M.P., W. H. Halpin, Esq.
Chairman Richard Cowley Polhill, Esq.
William Alfred Hill, Esq., Deputy- Alexander Prince, Esq.
Chairman George Freeman, Esq.
Major Lindam, R.H. George Godfrey, Esq.
Henry Beckley Richardson, Esq. Robert Wright Wood, Esq.
F.S.A. Esq.,
Green, Esq.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—Francis Wishaw, Esq., C.E., Brook Lodge,

Hendon.
ACTING ENGINEER—J. Bailey Denton, Esq., 10, Gray's Inn-square,

BANKERS—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths,
JOINT SOLICITORS.
Edward Elkins, Esq., 59, Newman-street, Oxford-street
G. P. Hill, Esq., 21A, Soho-square.
LOCAL AGENTS.

Henry Hammond, Esq., solicitor, Wentworth Lodge, Finchley
John Hughes, Esq., solicitor, Whetstone.
SECRETARY (pro tem.)—A. Doull, Esq.

This railway will connect the important and hitherto neglected
town of Barnet with the London and Birmingham and the Great
Western Railways, at or near Holsdon-green ; with the Northern
and Eastern and the Eastern Counties Railway, at or near Totten-
ham ; and the proposed Direct London and Manchester, and the Lon-
don and York Railways.

—The line, in its course, will unite the town of Barnet with Whet-
stone, Totteridge, Highwood Hill, Mill Bill, Finchley, Holder's Hill,
Hendon, Burrows, Golder's Hill, Gutterhedge, Kingsbury, Neesdon,
Wilsdon, Wilsdon Green. Holsdon Green, Kensall Green, Westbourne
Green, Maida Hill, Kilburn, Hampstead, West End, Highgate, Crouch
End, Hornsey, Muswell Hill, West Green, Tottenham, Edmonton,
Chinford, Stratford Hill, Stoke Newington, Newington Green, Clap-
ton, Highbury, Holloway, Kingsland, Layton, Stratford, West Ham,
Bow, Bro:nley, Bethnal Green, Limehouse, Buxton, Homerton,
Hackney, Shacklewell, Daiston, Islington, St. Pancras, Shoreditch,
Blackwall, Euston-square, Paddington, Kensington, Hammersmith,
Brompton, Fulham, Chelsea, &c. ; connecting those places with the
various railways named, and all those south of the river Thames.
The distance from the town of Barnet to the station of the London
and Birmingham Railway, at Euston-square, by this route, will be
15 miles.
The length of the main line, from the point of junction at Totten-
ham to the London and Birmingham Railway, will be 11 miles ; and
the length of the branch line to Barnet, will be 4% miles. From the
Junction wills the Birmingham Railway to Chipping B trnet, 9%
miles ; from the Decoy (near Brent-street, Hendon), on the proposed
Barnet and North Metropolitan Juktion Railway, to the Northern
and Eastern Counties Railway, by Stamford-hill, 6% miles
There are no engineering difficulties throughout the entire distance.
The line will proceed beyond the range of the Highgate and Hamp-
stead Hills, and the branch from the main line to Barnet will follow
the valley of the river Brent to the intended station at Barnet ; thus

the expense of construction will be less than any other metropolitan
line of railway, for the above reason, and because it will pass through
an agricultural-district, avoiding all ornamental property and large
collections of houses and buildings.
Upon the completion of this railway, a large and daily-increasing
population, resident beyond the limits of the metropolitan omnibuses,
will be largely benefited, and land and agricultural produce, hitherto
affording an inadequate return to their cultivators, will be quad-
rupled in value.

The ancient, populous, and once-flourishing town of Barnet, too,
will now have a railway communication of its own, without depend-
ing upon the caprice or uncertain goodnature of any company who
may hold out a prospect of a branch, in future times, from some of
the trunk lines now contemplated.

An ample return of profit to the Investments of shareholders. may
be safely anticipated, and will arise lion the following sources,
amongst others :

1. From the conveyance of passengert

2. From the carriage of goods and merchandise from the City and
Docks, &c., to the several railways which are intersected by this
line, avoiding the delay and excessive cost of conveyance through
Londonyalso.from the conveyance of cattle, &e.,. more particularly
during the period of the large Barnet fairs •
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