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London, England, 1845-09-25 00:00:00

Tl.[ SUN, .LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING SEPTEMBI-Ut 25 1845.

Charles James Stanley Walker, Esq., Longford Hous,, Stretford,
Alderman of Manchester, and Director of the Chester and Man-
chester Railway
Morris Were, Esq., Moorlands, Southampton
John Woodcock, Esq., banker, The Elms, Wigan, Director of the
Liverpool and Bury Railway
John Yorke, Esq., baker, Thrapson, Northamptonshire
George Turner, Es 1., Hunton Hill, Director of the South Stafford,
Oxford, and Southampton Railways
William Halliday, Esq., Chad Valley, Edgbaston, Birmingham, Di-
rector of the Birmingham and Lichfield Railway
Captain James Johnston, R.N., Director of the Birmingham and
Lichfield Railway
William lamesen, Esq., Shelton, Staffordshire, Director of the Staf-
fordshire Po Aeries hallway
Charles Goldsmith, Esq., Friday-street, Diretor of the Great Leeds
and London Railway
Williams Banks, Esq. Honey-lane Market, Director of the Great
Leeds and London Railway
Thomas Challis, Esq., Enfield, Alderman of the City of London
Charles Higgins, Esq., Bedford, Director of the Manchester, Bedford,
and Cambridge Railway
The Hon. M. W. B. Nugent, Higham Grange, Leicestershire
John Gardner, Esq., SouthanKnon, Provisional Director
_of the Bir-
mingham and Oxford Junction Railway
Edward Waddilove, Esq., Leamington, Director of the Reading,
Guildf.rd, and Reigate Railways
Edward Welch, Esq., Leamington Provisional Directors of
William Hunter, Eeq., Leamington the Rugby, Warwick,
Captain George James Hunter, Leamington and Worcester Rail-
J. M. Cottle, Esq., Leamington way
James Weld, Esq., Archers Lodge, Southampton
Charles Greatrex, Esq., J.P., Walsall
William Halcomb, Esq., Poulton House, Marlborough
Cornelius Randall, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Sheffield
Railway
R. A. Thicknesse, Esq., Beech Hill, Wigan
George Hunt, Esq., Southampton
Pierce Bevan, Esq , Frickleton Hall, near Wigan
John Lamprey, Esq., Marchwood, Southampton
(With power to add to their number.)
BANKERS.
Messrs. Mastennan and Co., London.
The Union Bank, Manchester
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ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF.
ACT.NG ENGINEERS.
Messrs. J. B. and E. Birch, West:lll2*er
Brackstone Baker, Esq.. C.E.
SOLICITORS.
John Bethell, Esq., King William-street, London.
Messrs. Joseph and William Heron, and Messrs. Higson and Robins,
Manchester

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 Hues (Remington's and Ashurst's), the actual distance to be
constructed being only 73, instead of 170 to 180 miles.
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A careful preliinina-ry survey has determined the promoters of this
railway to adopt nearly a straight line from Rugby to Macclesfield, as
an increased expenditure of 200,000/. or 309,000/. judiciously applied in
the present perfected state of civil englneering, and at the reduced cost
of the execution of earth works, will prove in the end a far greater
real economy, both to the Company Itself in the saving effected in
the annual expense of working, and also, what is of more importance,
to the country in general, by accomplishing, at a much lass cost, the
same end proposed by an entire and distinct line from Landon to
Manchester.

These considerations have not been sufficiently kept in view by
other parties who have also proposed to make a railway from Rugby
to Macclesfield, but who, by deviating from the direct 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 'louse uy very influential parties.

Should it be found necessary, arrangernents 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.
This 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 Dideot, and thence the proposed Oxford, Southamn
ton, Gosport, and Portsmouth line, the distance from Manchester to
Southampton will be twenty-three miles less than !)3, any other route,
and on this account the project has been warmly supported by the
Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway Company.

The deviations from a perfectly straight line between Rugby and
Macclesfield to avoid high ranges of hills, ornamental parks, or
valuable buildings are very slight, and the line in general offers no
engineering difficulties of any magnitude. The towns more directly

interested as a local line are Nuneaton, Hinckley, Atherstone, Market
Bosworth, Burton-upon-Trent, Tutbury, 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 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 shareholders in the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Ports-
mouth, in !he London and Birmingham, and in the Manchester and
Birmingham Railways, will have a preference in the allotment of
the shares.

The deeds will provide that no call shall be made on the share-
holders beyond the deposit now paid, until the Act of Parliament is
obtained, and power will be taken in the Act to allow 41. per cent.
Interest in all calls.

Application for detailed prospectus, maps, and shares, may be
made to the Secretary, at the Offices, 78, King William-street, City,
London, and at 22, Cross-street, Manchester; and the following
sharebrokers : Messrs. R. Sutton, G. ibble, and Sutton, 22, Korth-
side Royal Exchange, London ; George Burnand, Esq., Cornhill ;
Messrs. Bare ay, Allsop, and Co., Royal Exchange ; Messrs. Hough.
land and Leese, 51, King-street, Manchester; John Wills, Esq.,
Royal Bank-buildings, Liverpool ; Messrs. Wellbeloved :ma °tuner,
Leeds ; Messrs. Edwards and Son, and W. 11. Land, Esq., Bristol ;
J. It. Lane, Esq., Birmingham ; Messrs. Garton and Wright, Shef-
field ; J. G. Kershaw, Esq., Huddersfield ; F. C. Spencer, Esq.,
Halifax ; Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham ; Henry
Beaumont and Co., Exeter ; IL P. Lemon, Esq., Bath ; Joseph
Clark, Esq., Southampton; and Messrs. Flint and Tootal, Hull.

FORM OF APPLICATION.

To the Provisional Committee of the :Manchester and Rugby Direct

Railway Company, via Macclesfield.
I request you will allot to me shares of 201. each in
the capital o; the above-named tallway, and I will accept the same,
or any less number and pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per Share, and
sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when
required.

Dated the day of 1845.
Name ..• .• .• ..
Address . ........... ..
Profession .............
Reference

Ayr ANC HESIT R. and RUGBY DIRECT
IN IL RAILWAY, vii MACCLESFIELD.
The Provisional Committee beg to announce, that practical Engi-
neers of great experience have gone over the proposed Line, and
have s itisfied the Committee that the country is perfectly practi-
cable for railway purposes. They have likewise the satisfaction to
state, that Contractors of known respectability are willing to execute
the whole of the works within the estimate in eighteen months, thus
putting the matter of time andmoney beyond a doubt.

rrHE MANCHESTER AND RUGBY
DIRECT RAILWAY COMPANY, via MACCLESFIELD.
A certain portion of the shares in this Company will be apportioned
to the Scripholders in the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Ports-
mouth Railway Company, and will be allotted among those gentle-
men who apply, and who produce their scrip between the 3d and 7th
day of October next, to the persons named below, when their names
and the number of their shares will be entered, and a proportionate
number of shares in this Company allotted to them, at 78, King
William-street, City ; or, at 22, Cross-street, Manchester ; Messrs.
Sharp and Harrison, Southampton ; Mr. Godwin, solicitor, New-
bury ; Mr. Godwin, solicitor, Winchester ; Messrs. Willis and Co.,
Liverpool; Messrs. Wellbeloved and Oastler, Leeds; Mr. Land,
Bristol ; Messrs. Garton and Wright, Sheffield ; Mr. Kershaw, Hud-
dersfield; Mr. Spencer, Halifax; Mr. Lemon, Bath ; Messrs. Flint
and Tootal, Manchester.

THE MANCHESTER AND RUGBY
DIRECT RAILWAY COMPANY.
No further applications for Shares in this Company can be re-
ceived after MONDAY, the 29th September instant.

ESSEX AND SUFFOLK RAILWAY.
24, Moorgate-street, Sept. 23, 1845.
The Allotment of Shares in this Railway being now completed,
the Committee of Management desire to express their regret that,
owing to the numerous applications from parties locally interested,
and holders of Shares in the Eastern Counties and Norwich Com-
panies, they have been compelled to disappoint many applicants of
the • ery highest respectability, and of necessity to limit the number
of Shares in each Allotment.

IL MAPLETOFT, Secretary'.

LEICESTER and TAMWORTH JUNCTION
RAILWAY.

EXTENSION TO BIRMINGHAM.
Capital 200,0001., in 10,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21.25. per Share.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
CHAIRMAN—Edmund Peel,Esq.
DEPUTY CustamAN—Thomas Braman, Esq.
Lord Rossmord The Ho.). Capt. Carnegie, M.P.
Sir Win: Magnay, Bart. John Ridgway, Esq
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Chas. Dickson Archibald, Esq. Richard Green, Esq.
The Hon. Capt. Hotham Harvey Wyatt, Esq.
James Grignon, Esq. Thomas Hamilton, Esq.
E. R. Hamel, Esq. James Durham, Esq.
J. D. Harris, Esq.

SECRETARY—J. E. Rathbons, Esq.
SOLICITORS.

Messrs. Maples, Pearse, Stevens, and Maples, Frederick's•place, Old
Jewry, London
Felix John Hamel, Esq., Tamworth
Messrs. Dyott and Son, Lichfield.

BANKERS.

London—Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Co., Lombard-street
" Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clement's-lane
Leicester—The National Provincial Bank of England
Tamworth—The National Provincial Bank of England
Lichfield—Messrs. Palmer and Greene
Manch,ster—fhe Manchester and Salford Bank

Liverpool—The Manchester and Liverpool District Bank.

The Managing Committee of the Leicester and Tamworth Junction
Railway Company have determined upon making an extension from
their line, commencing at or near Market Bosworth or Twycross, and
runniag from thence by or near Atherstone and the Whitacre Junc-
tion of the Midlands (late Birmingham and Derby) Railway to Bir-
mingham. In the allotment of shares, due regard will be had to the
Interests of the scrip holders in the Leicester and Tamworth Junction
Railway Company. The surveys are in progress, and the line is re-
ported as easy of construction, and tree from engineering difficulties.
The twofold advantages offered by this project give it a manifest
superiority over every other scheme which has yet been devised for
traversing this rich and extensive, hut hitherto unintersected portion
of the Midland Counties. The Leicester and Tamworth Junction, as
originally projected, brings, by means of the Trent Valley Railway,
the important manufacturing town of Leicester and the Midland and
Eastern Counties into immediate communication with the mining
districts and wool markets of Staffordshire and Shropshire, the great
towns of Liverpool and Manchester, and the intervening localities ;
whilst the projected extension affords the shortest practicable railway
route from Leicester to Birmingham, and the western and south-
western counties of England. The saving in distance between Lei-
cester and Birmingham will be seen by the following scale :
By Rugby By Tamworth Saving
Leicester to Liverpool

Leicester to Manchester .. • • 134 .• • • •.• . • 104
Leicester to Birmingham •• • • 49 •••••• • • • • 35 •••• " • • 14
The construction of the Birmingham extension in conjunction with
the Leicester and Tamworth Railway gives this project an evident
advantage in point of expense over any independent line from Lei-
cester to Birmingham ; and, taking the Inequalities of the country
into consideration, a more direct line does not appear desirable or
practicable, and the saving which which will be effected of more than
half the expense which must attach to the construction of an inde-
pendent line from Leicester to Birmingham is a most important
consideration.

- Application for Shares may be addressed to the Secretary at the
Company's offices, 4, Coleman-street, London ; to the solicitors ; to
Messrs. Aston and Scott, Throgworton-street, and to Messrs. Oswin
and Co., Angel-court, London.

No applications will be attended to unless accompanied by a re.
ference to a member of the Managing Committee, or to one of the
solicitors.

FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Managing Commitee of the Leicester and Tamworth Junction

Railway Company's Extension to Birmingham.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot to me Shares of 201.
each in the above Company, and I undertake to accept the same
or any less number that may be allotted to me, to pay the deposit
thereon, and also to execute the Parliamentary contract and sub-
scribers' agreement when required.
Dated this day of 1845.
I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,

Name • • .. ••• • • • • • ..... •• • ••• • • •
Profession or business .... •............
Residence...... • . • • ......
Reference •• • • • • •••• •• • • ........ .....
Numbers of Scrip Certificates in the
Leicester and Tamworth Junction Railway

LEICESTER AND TAMWORTH
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
A meeting of the Committee of Management was held on Monday,
the 15th instant, at the offices of J. Hemel, Esq., in Tamworth, at
which Edmund Peel, Esq., Chairman of the Leicester and Tamworth
and the Trent Valley Railway presided.
engineerin;4• I,p-et to the nv.,.2tlmr. was highly Patis-
ftv.-y, both as [0 gra'llentA ntl i tHstac',s. Showing that the line Is
wastruction, and somas the. ne.4".6t I,o,sMe route from
Leicester to Liverpool, Holyhead, the whole of North Wale?, an the
counties of Chester, Stafford, and Salop, whilst the extension of only
10 miles running from Bosworth or Twycross, by the manufacturing
town ofAtherstone, will bring Leicester +u war to Dirraiughara as

any of the projected lines from the one to the other. The comparative
distances were given as follows :
Leicester to Liverpool. Leicester to Manchester.
Miles Miles.
By Rugby• ••••• • • • • 147 By Rugby ..... ..... 134
By Tamworth ••. • • • 117 By Tamworth ••• . . . 104

Saving . 3O
Leicester to Birmingham.

Miles,

5ating.......... 30
Leicester to Birmingham.
Miles.

By the proposed Coventry,—.
Nuneaton, Birmingham,
By Rughy ••••••••• • • • • • • • • • 49 and Leicester Railway •• • 37
By Leicester and Tamworth By Leicester and Tamworth
Extension to Binning- Extension to Birming-
ham

Saving • l4 Saving •••• • • • • 2
The general traffic route from Liverpool to Leicester is at present
very circuitous, being not less than 160 miles, and taking four days
to accomplish, whist, by means of the Leicester and Tamworth
Railway, the distance will be shortened, and goods conveyed at a
much cheaper rate in the space of a few hours.
The traffic report was equally gratifying—an immense quantity
of heavy goods are daily conveyed to Leicester from Liver-
Pool, the salt works of Cheshire, the Potteries, and the coal and iron
fields of Staffordshire and Shropshire, all of which must be increased
by the greater facilities of conveyance.
It was unanimously resolved that the most energetic measures
should be taken to carry the project into effect, and aided by the
powerful influence of the Trent Valley Company, with whom the
most beneficial arrangements have been made, the complete success
of the undertaking is placed beyond all doubt.
The capital for the Leicester and Tamworth Junction has been
subscribed, the Parliamentary deeds have been executed, and the
scrips issued.

Arrangements are now making for the allotment of shares in the
Birmingham Extension, in which due regard will be had to the
scripholdera of the Leicester and Tamworth Junction Company.
The surveys, &c., are in such a state of forwardness as to ensure
not only the Leicester and Tamworth line, but the Extension to
Birmingham, coming before Parliament in the ensuing session.
By order, J. E. RATHBONE, Secretary.
Coleman-street, Sept. 16, 1845.

NORFOLK RAILWAY.
The Directors of this Company take the earliest opportunity
of acquainting their Proprietors that, acting under the advice of their
engineers, Mr. Robert Stephenson and Mr. Bidder, they have de•
termined upon applying to Parliament in the next sessi 11 for powers
to make the following extensions and branches from the main line
of this railway :-Ist. from Wymondham to Diss, and from thence
through Eye to Stowmarket, to join the Bury and Ipswich line.
2d. From Reedham along the Waveney Valley through Beccles,
Bungay, Harlestone, and Diss to Thetford, to join the proposed Essex
and Suffolk line.

3d. From East Dereham to Fakenham and Wells.
It is proposed to appropriate to the Shareholders in the Dias and
Colchester and Wells and Dereham Companies part of the extension
capital according to the resolutions of the last general meeting, and
the remainder will be offered to the Proprietors of this Company
rateably in proportion to the numbers of their shares.
Due notice win be given to each Proprietor of the number of shares
allotted to him, and of the time and place appointed for payment of
the deposit. 13y order,

RICHARD TILL, Secretary.
Office, Guildhall-buildings, London, 24th September, 1845.

NORFOLK RAILWAY.
NORWICH and BRANDON NEW SHARES.
Tne holders of Scrip Certificates of the Norwich and Brandon
New Shares, are required to send them to this office for Registration
on or before the 7th day of October next.
Proper forms for the registration of the Shares may be had on ap-
plication at the office, Guildhall-buildings, London.
By order, RICHARD TILL, Secretary.

BARNET and NORTH METROPOLITAN
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 110.)
Capital, 400,0001., In 20,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21.25. per Share.
No Shareholder to be liable beyond the amount of his Subscription

PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.
GREAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT
RAILWAY,
By a Junction with the Eastern Counties Railway at Bedford.
Distance, 120 miles.
Capital 2,500,0007., in 100,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 2/. 12s. 6d. per thare.
(Pursuant to the Standing Orders of the House of Commons.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne
Sir William Twysden, Bart., Dorset-street, Portman-square, Director
of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction, and
Erewash Valley Extension Railways
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Parthenon Club, Director of the
Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway, and
of the South and Midland Junction, and West Midland Railways
Major-General Sir Robert Barton, K.C.11 , Director of the York and
Lancaster Railway
Thomas Alexander, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian, and
Trent Valley Continuation Railways
Henry Ambler, Esq., worsted spinner and manufacturer, Watkinson
Hall, near Halifax, Director of the West Yorkshire Railway, and
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
C. 11. Anderson, Esq., Upper Clapton, Director of the South Midland
Railway
John Alexander Bicknell, Esq., Brandon Cottage, Bristol, Director of
the Oxford and Worcester Extension Railway
William llardgett, Esq., Winchester-street, Broad-street, Director of
the Italian and Austrian, and the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford,
Railways
William Banks, Esq., Honey-lane Market
By
John ng Banks, 41., Stockwell, Surrey
Wiliam Fechney Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Di-
rector of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midland Junction
Railways
Henry Weech Burgess, Esq., Temple's Park, Hampstead, Director of
the Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, Potteries, and Crewe Railway
Charles Salisbury Butler, Esq., the Lodge, Upper Clapton
Josiah Burrowes, Esq., Castle House, Gomersall, near Leeds
Thomas Burnley, Esq., Gomersall, near Leeds, Director or the Leeds
and West Riding Junction Railway, and of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway
Samuel Bateman, Esq.' Croft House, near Bradford,. Director of the
Liverpoo' and Leeds Direct Railway
Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Selby
Railway
Joseph Browne, Esq., Bedford
Dr. Brigstock, Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester
Railway
James Brand, Esq., 9, New Broad-street, Director of the Cambridge
and Lincoln, and Great Luxembourg Railway
Job Bullinart, Esq., East Redford
William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., J.P., Hull, Director of the Rugby,
Warwick, and Leamington, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railways
John Carter, Esq., Knottingley
Thomas Carter, Esq., Tanshelf, J.P. for the Borough of Pontefract
Charles Charnock, Esq., Holmfield House, near Ferrybridge
Millis Coventry, Esq., Director of the South and Midland Junction,
and Birmingham Extension Railways
B. Clements, Esq., Lowndes-square, Director of the Western Jamaica
Railway
J. Cottam, Esq., East Redford
Robert Cook; Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Manchester, Mid-
land, and Great Grimsby, Gainsborough, Goole, and Isle of Axholme,
and she Wisbeach, Isle of Ely, and Lincolnshire Junction Railways
John Cutts, Esq., Little Barfield Hall, near Braintree, Essex
James Clift, Esq., Director of the Paris and Strasbourg, Southampton
Manchester, and.„Oxford, and the Manchester, Rugby, and Maccles-
field Railways
W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the London and Birmingham Exten-
sion
Henry Sherard Coleman, Esq., Crown-court, Old Bread-street
Francis Deere, Esq., Stratord, Essex
J. Dawson, Esq., Pontefract
John Dennis, Esq., Director of the West Midland, and Thames Val-
ley Railways
Joseph Dent, Esq., Aibston Hall, near Leeds, Magistrate for the
North West Riding of Yorkshire
A. A. Davenport, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Exten-
sion, and Worcester Junction Railways
Joseph L. Davenport, Esq.,Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby,
and Manchester Railway
John Alcock Dixon, Esq., Burnley, near Leeds, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Richard Dransfield, Esq., Dalton, Huddersfield, Director of the
Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, of the Liverpool and Leeds Di-
rect, and of the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction
Railways
Edward Doubleday, Esq , F.L.S., Director of the Rugby, Warwick,
and Worcester Railway
Francis Ewart, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey-
mouth Railway
Lieut.-Col. Fitch, 36, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Managing Direc-
tor of the York and Lancaster Railway
Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Exten-
sion Railway
Solomon Foster, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Nottingham, Mans-
field, and Midland Junction Railway
Martin Furniss, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Erewash and Shef-
field Railway
John Griffiths Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Chairman of the London-
derry and Coleraine, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways
George Green, Esq., Pontefract
Charles Gibson, Esq., Holland-place, Clapham
James Gilbertson, Esq., Hertford
William Gibson, Esq., Glasgow
H. P. Gipps, Esq., Director of the Coventry and Nuneaton Railway
Charles Goldsmith, Esq., Friday-street, Cheapside
William Gordon, Esq., M.D., F.L.S., Director of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct Railway
Henry Swan Graves, Esq., Ely Bank Lodge, Halifax
John Gully, Esq., Ackworth Park, Ackworth
Richard Hall, Esq., Carnarvon Hall, Stratford, Director of the Strat-
ford and Thames Junction, and North Woolwich Railways
John Charles Hall, Esq., New Grove-street, East Redford
R. F. Hall, Esq., Wiseton, near Bawtry
S. C. Hall, Esq., F.S.A., Inner Temple Director of the Erewash Val-
ley Extension and West Midland Railways
Samuel Hammond, Esq., Leeds
John George Hammack, Esq., Director of the Direct Western and
the Metropolitan Junction Railways
William Hepworth, Esq., Pontefract, a Deputy-Lieut. and J.P. for the
West Riding of Yorkshire
John Mason Hepworth, Esq., Eden-place, Ackworth, J.P. for the
West Riding of Yorkshire
Joshua Hepworth, Esq., Rogerthorpe Hall, Bedsworth
Thomas Heelis, Esq., Skipton Castle, Skipton, Director of the Lan-
cashire and North Yorkshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire North-
Eastern, and of the Liverp col and Leeds Direct Railways
Robert Herries, Esq., East-street, Leeds, Director of the Liverpool
and Leeds Direct Railway
Charles Holbrooke, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and
Manchester
John llolmes, Esq., East Redford
John Illidge, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and Dino-

tor of the Derby and Stafford Railway
William Empson Jalland, Esq., Holdernese House, near Hull, Di-
rector of the York and Hull Railway
Barwell Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holderriess House, near Hull, Ma-
gistrate for the East Riding of York and Borough of Hull, and
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds, and Hull and Barnsley
Railways
John Jameson, Esq., Honey-lane Market
William Jameson, Esq., Sh2iton, Staffordshire, Director of the Staf-
fordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways
Joseph Jones, Esq., Mayor of Hull, and Director of the Liverpool. and

Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Director of the Blythe and Churnet
Valleys, or Macclesfield and Lichfield Railways
George Lawton, Esq., Ditchleys, Essex, Director of the Chepstow.
Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway
Leahy, Esq., St. James's-square
Moses Edward Legg, Esq., Watling-street, London
Captain Henry Leech, Bedford
William Ley, Esq., 40, Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director of
the Reading and Reigate Railway
L. StephensLyne,;Esq., Broad-street, Director of the Western Ja-

maim Railway
P. Bennett Lucas, Esq., Director of the Sligo and Shannon, the
Joßil:pnasiwlßwi.e la33lilann.d, SEosugt.h, aLmeepdston, and the Cork Passage and Kinsale
TThlisooqmmu.
aaaress
ili,trycLdirkeekiit,E.3rsukgig Hull
Massey,
ll
,ed Erosrqd, Newark-upon-Trent, and Bedford-
William Mee, Esq.,
W. R. Mesham, Esq., M.D., Bedford
Robert Mellington, Esq., Ordffiall House, near Eastßedford,Director
of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
William 3loorhouse, Esq., Marine Villa, Knottingley, Provisional
Director of the Sheffield, Barnsley, and Wakefield Railway.
Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of Soath and Midlands' Junction, and
London and Birmingham Extension Railways
James Muscroft, Esq., Pontefract, J. P. for the Borough, a Provi-
sional Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension and Chester
Junction, Railway
Joseph Nadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and
Southampton, and the Leeds and Carlisle Railways
William Joseph Nash, Esq. Bedford
lohn Norton, Esq., 1, St. George's-square, Westminster, and Moat
House, Brentwood, Director of the Great Western Direct Railway
Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley and Con-
tinuation and Holyhead Junction, and West Midland and South
Midland and Oxford Extension Railways
Robert Oxley, Esq., M.D., Pontefract
Bennett Pell, Esq., 12, Finsbury-place North
William Perfect, Esq., Monkhill, near Pontefract
John Phillips, Esq. Mayor of Pontefract
Thomas Ingham Raynor, Esq., Birstal, Leeds, Director of the Leeds
and West Riding Junction, and the Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railways
John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Birming-
ham Direct, Leicester, Iron, and Dove Valley Railways
Robert Richards, Esq., Director of the West Midland Railway
John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Bycullah House, Enfield, Managing
Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester,
and Weymouth Junction, the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke,
and the Direct Western Railways
James Robson, Esq., Tanshelf, J. P. for the Borough of Pontefract
George Robinson, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junc-
tion, and of the Rugby, Derby. and Manchester Railways
John Richardson, Esq., Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate,
the East and West Yorkshire, and the Midland and Thirsk Junc-
tion Railway
Thomas Rontlidge, Esq., Alderman, Pontefract
James Russell, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director of
the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton, of the Tring,
Reading, and Basingstoke Railways
Henry Savage, Esq., Director of the Irving, Reading, and Basing-
stoke Railway
Benjamin Shaw, Esq., Kilburn Priory, Director of the Churnet and
Blythe Valleys Railways
J. E. Sichel, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and
of the Leeds and York, and Midland Railways
William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Director of
the South Midland Junction Railway, Sec., Sec.
George Walker Smith, Esq., Horbury Hall, Sheffield, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Smith, Esq., M.D., 30, North-street, Leeds, Director of the
Leeds and York, and Liverpool and Leeds Railways
Joseph Smithson, Esq., Kirklees Mills, near Halifax
James Templer, Esq., Brixton-rise, Director of the Derby, Uttoxeter,
and Stafford Railway.
Thomas S. Trapp, Esq., Banker, Bedford
Samuel Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street, and Gorbals, Hull, Di-
rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway
William Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street, and Gorbals, Hull
Thomas Turley, Esq., Park Lodge, near Halifax
David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland Hollow, Derbyshire, Director of
the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, and Direct Birmingham and
Leicester Railways
Major-General Wright, Royal Engineers, Gloucester-place, Portman-

square
William Williams, Esq., Royal Foundery, Bedford
Charles Waite, Esq., Willesden House, Middlesex
John Wheelton, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Willett, Esq., Bradford
George Yates, Esq., merchant, Halifax
(With power to add to their number.)
ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF—Sir John M'Neil, L.L.D., and F.R.B.
ACTING ENGINEER—WiIIiam Mullingar Higgins, Esq.
LONDON SOLICITORS.
J. R. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-court
Owen Gray, Esq.,
J. B. Illidge, Esq., J. Great Tower-street.

BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Rogers, Biding, and Co.
Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Co.

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

The proposed line will commence at the junction of the Manches-
ter and Leeds, and York and North Midland Railways, near Wake-
field, and will terminate by means of a junction with the Eastern
Counties Railway at• Bedford (to which place it is the intention of
that Company to extend their line in the ensuing session of Parlia-
ment), and by thus availing itself as far as possible of the existing
railways, will complete the most direct and least expensive trunk
line, from London to Leeds, York, and Hull. It will pass in its route
within au available distance of Wakefield, Pontefract, Doncaster,
Rotherham, East Redford, Nottingham, Newark, Grantham, Melton
Mowbray, Oakham, and Stamford.
The importance of such a line is obvious, both from the nature of
its course (embracing, as it does, a most extensive population within
its limits) as also from the absence of any direct communication for
the conveyance of passengers and merchandise.
By the construction of this railway, railway communication to
London will be given to Peterborough and Leicester (by means of
the Syston and Peterborough Railway), to Newark and Nottingham
(by the Nottingham and Lincoln line), and to Sheffield and Gainsbo-
rough (by the Sheffield and Gainsborough line), by A much shorter
route than by any existing Railways.
Independently of the advantages offered to the towns in the several
counties through which this Lino will pass, the Line in itself consi-
dered as a direct trunk line between London and Leeds, is sufficient
to justify its formation, it being well known that the existing traffic
between these two places would produce such a return on the capital
required, as to admit of a dividend, equal to that of any railway in
operation : but when it is borne in mind, that a Company is being
formed for the purpose of conne,ting Glasgow with Leeds by means of
a junction with the York and Carlisle Railway, no better line can be
presented to the public, as it will not only effect a direct commtinica-
tion from Glasgow and the Western parts of Scotland to London, but
would also connect Edinburgh and the Eastern parts of Scotland as
well as Durham and Newcastle (V the York and North Midland, and
Great North of England Railways), with the Metropolis, which would
be considerably shorter than the accommodation offered by any
other Company, and when cost of construction is considered, there
cannot be a doubt but that preference would be given to the Great
Leeds and London Direct Railway.
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The fact of the Ealtottt Vciantles Itallyro bob* connected h 7-4

•
branch line with the East and West India Docks on the Ter
Thames, and the Railway Company having recently leased for 999
years the extrusive •hpper Warehouses belonging to those docks,
which are capable ef receiving 12 000 tons of goods, together with
wharfs adjoining, where the shipment and trans-shipment of goods
from all parts of the world can take place, is a most Important fea-
ture in favour of the direct communication from the manufacturing
towns of Glasgow and Leeds offered by the Great Leeds and London
Direct Railway, and by branch railways to the main trunk lines
through which all goe Is from the whole of the manufacturing dis-
tricts could be conveyed at: once to these warehouses for shipment,
thereby avoiding the preeent delay and expense of ca: :age, and in
rearty establishing an almost direct and an invaluable connexion
between the rivers Clyde and'Thames.
It has been ascertained that there are no engineering difficulties,
that the works will be easy, and the gradients remarkably good, and
that it will not materially interfere wial any ornamental property.
The Subscribers will be bell lialo,e only to the extent of their first
deposits until an Ae:, of rsl.'amen.; Is obtained, and afterwards only
to the amount of their sub. !,:ip.-ons.
It is propo-ed to take power in the Bill to allow interest at 4 per
cent. per annum on all calls until the opening of the line, and also to
extend the line to Hertford on the Eastern Counties line, in the event
of that Company not prosecuting their line to Bedford.
Applications for Shares (in the form annexed) may be made to J.
R. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-court, and Messrs. Owen Gray and
Midge, 25, Great Tower-street, the joint solicitors to the Company,
at the Company's temporary offices, 9, Copthall-court, London ; or
to the following sharebrokers :
London—Messrs. Marten and Heseltine, 9, Finch-lane
Leeds—Messrs. Hopps and Co.
Liverpool—Messrs. Joseph King and Son
Hull—Messrs. Flint and 'Footal
Manchester—Messrs. Cardwell and Sons
Bradford—Mr. Josiah Scholefield
Edinburgh—Mr. Charles Couper, 30, St. Andrew's-square
No application will be attended to unless accompanied by a satis-
factory reference.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisi•nal Committee of the Great Leeds and London Direct

Railway,

Gentlemen,—l request yon will allot me Shares, of 251.
each, in the above undertaking, and I undertake to pay the deposit
thereon, or upon any less number that may be allotted to me, and
also to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agree-
ment when required. Name in Still ..• • ..... • . . • ..
Address in full .......... .......
Occupation ...... • .............
Date ..

GREAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT
RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management of this Railway hereby give no-
tice, that in consequence of the unprecedented number of applications
already made for shares in this important undertaking, they have
determined upon rejecting all further applications made after the
29th September instant. Immediately after that day they will
proceed -to make the allotment of the shares and procure the execu-
tion of the Parliamentary contract and subscription deeds.
Signed by order of the Committee,
J. It. GIBSON,
OWEN GRAY, /Registered Solicitors.
J. B. ILLIDGE,
29th September, 1845.

(REGISTERED PROVISIONALLY.)
PRELIMINARY NOTICE.
TIM SOUTHAMPTON and PETERSFIELD
RAILWAY.
This line, by communicating with the intended railways from
London to Portsmouth, will effect a saving of about eight miles be-
tween London and Southampton.
The promoters of this undertaking take this means of informing
the public that, in a few days, they will issue a prospectus, with an
influential Committee.

In the meantime, applications for shares, and other information
may be obtained of Wm. Rodwell, Esq., Stockbroker, 22, Throg-
morton-street ; of Messrs. Tilson and Squance, 29, Coleman-street,
London ; or of Richard Randall, Esq., Solicitor, Southampton.

THE OXFORD and WORCESTER EXTEN-
SION and CHESTER JUNCTION RAILWAY, with
Brunches to Shrewsbury and Northwich. On the Broad Gauge.
"( Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 2,250,0001., in 112,500 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 2/. 2s. per Share. -
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Lord George Paget, Uxbridge House
The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney,4, Parliament-street, Chairman
fof the York and Lancaster Railway
William Beresford, Esq., M.P., 77, Pall-mall, Director of the Teen
and Dove Talley Raiway
Sir William Bacon Johnson, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire, Director
of the Chester and Forest of Dean Railways
Sir John Edward de Beauvoir, Chairman of the Landon and Bir-
mingham Extension
Sir Samuel Brown, Director of the Warwick and Worcester Railway
Sir John Hare, Langham-place, Director of the London and Bir-
mingham Extension
Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London, Director of the London
and Manchester and Leeds and Liverpool Railways
Colonel Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, Director of the London and
Birmingham Railway
Colonel Fitch, 36, York-terrace,Regent's-park, Director of the South
and Midlands Railway
Sir John Hensler, Deputy Lieutenant of the eounty of Essex, Wel.
ton, near Saffron Walden, Essex
Admiral J. Ayscough, Prospect-place, Southampton, Director of the
South and Midland Railway
Major Croft, 15, Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman of the Manehester
and Chester Railway
Major Chase, 31, Nottingham-place
Captain S. M. Fisher, jun., Director of the Warwick and Worcester
Railway
Captain Hitchens, H.E.1.C.5., Director of the Birmingham and Ox-
ford Railway
Samuel Kenrick, Esq., banker, Wrexham
Captain F. Chamier, Halkin-street, Belgrave-square, Director of the
Great Paris and Lyons Railway
Wm. Hughes liug,bes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., Alderman of Lon.
don, Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation,
Chairman of the London and Greenwich Railways, &c., dec.
Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South
Midland Railway
Matthew Harrison, Esq., Chester, Director of the North and South
Wales Bank
John Kinnersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the
London and Manchester Direct Railway, and South Midland
Thos. Farnoomb, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South
Midland Railway
Thos. Challis, Esq., Alderman of London, Wilson-street, Finsbury
Thos. Sidney, Esq., Alderman ef Louden, Sheriff of London and
Middlesex
Captain Alex. Hamilton Earle, Royal Artillery, Reform Club.
John Inglis Jardein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby
and Southampton Railway
Win. Morley, Esq„ Blackheath
Wm. Lee, Esq., Director of the Gravesend and Rochester, and Essex
and Suffolk Railways
Rd. Carpenter, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Henry Wright, Esq., Director of the South and Midland's Junction
Railway
John Wheelton, Ell., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Thomas Collingridge, Esq., Highgate, Middlesex
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
John Brocke Walbancke, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
Rd. Win. Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester and
Derbyshire and South Staffordshire Railways
Francis Valentine Lee, Esq., Temple, Director of the Eastern Counties
Railway
Major Jelf Sharp, Deputy-Chairman of the Thames Embankment
Railway
Major-General Brooks Parlby, C. 8., 18, Rutland-place
W. Simpson Potter, Esq., Director of the Oxford, Witney. and
Cheltenham Railway
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester
Direct and Liverpool and Leeds Railways
Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of the London and Birmingham
Railway
W. F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Director of the
Italian and Austrian Railway
W. G. Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway
John James, Esq., Secondary of London
Robert Henry Lyndam, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth
Railway
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanston-street, Portman-square,
Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
J. B. Richardson, Esq., Director of the Colchester and Cambridge
Railway
Julian Simene, Esq., Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln
Railway
Frederick James Hall, Esq., Torrington-square, Director of the Bide-
ford and Tavistock Railway
Captain C. W. Tyndale, Director-of the South-Eastern Railway
Henry Lewis Smale, Esq., Willoughby House, Tottenham, Director
of th 3 London and Dover Railway
Frederick Jones, Esq., Director of the Warwick and Worcester
Railway
C. Waite, Esq., Willesden, Middlesex
R. W. Wood, Esq., Lodge-place, St. John's Wood, Director of the
North Metropolitan Railway
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manchester
and Birmingham Railway
Wm. Shaw, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment Railway
Win. Alfred Hill, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith
Railway
Richard Dutton Esq., Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Railway
Wm. Slark, Esq., Director of the Guarantee Society
James Reeves, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Railway.
If re lerick Collingridge, Esq., Thurlow-square, Brompton
Warren Stormes Hale, Esq., Gresham. street
Robert Richards, Esq., Temple, Director of the Birmingham and Lon-
don Extension Railway
Kingsrnill Grove Key, Esq., Wandsworth-common
The Rev. F. K. Hall, D.D., Rector of Falbourne, Cambridge
Daniel Penton Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Manches-
ter Railway
Charles Green, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and lberystwith
Railway •
John Barber, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith
Railway
Rev. Thomas Price, Rector if Llanrothel, Hereford
E. R. Foster, Esq., Director of the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford-
shire Railway
Martin Furnis, Esq., Director of the Nottingham, Newark, and
Boston Railway
Richard Groucock, Esq. Dulwich, Director of the Direct Manchester
Railway
W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the Birmingham and Manehester
Eitension
W. Bardgett, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian Railway
Richard Parish, Esq., Bank House, Wordsley, Staffordshire
Samuel Parish, Esq., Wordsley, near Stourbridge, Staffordshire
Alexander Greig, Esq., Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square, Director of
the Leicester and Birmingham Railway
Thomas Yates Hunt, Esq., Braden, near Birmingham
William Singleton, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool
Direct Railway
Win. Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Railway
James Muscroft, Esq., Pontefract
David William Nell, Esq., Leeds, J.P., Director of the Leeds and
Thirsk Railway
Joseph Robert Wilkin Atkinson, Esq., Director of the Leleester and
Bedford, and York and Lancaster Railways
John Fagan, Esq., Gloucester-road, Old Brompton
Charles Holden, Esq., Director of the Great Grimsby and Sheffield
Railway
J. D. Hopkins, Esq., Bedford-square, Director of the London and
Birmingham Extension Railway
Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds, Director of the West Riding Junction
Railway
Peter Fairbairne, Esq., Leeds, Chairman of the Lincoln, York and
Leeds Railway
John Blackburn, Esq., Leeds
J. M. Douglas, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth
Railway
W. Sloane, Esq.' Wimpole-street
John Anderson, Esq., Lothbury, Director of the South and Midland
Railway
W. Ley, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square
Robert Power, Esq., Director of the Great Britain Life Assurance-
eMce, Queen-street, May Fair,
Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Old Palace, Richmond
W. Bestow, Esq., Surrey-place
James Muness, Esq., Leyton, Essex
G. N. Wright, M.A.
John Alexander Bicknell, Esq., Brandon Cottage, Bristol, Director of
the South and Midlands' Junction Extension Railway
James Lees, Esq., Delph, Saddleworth, near Manchester, Director of
the Saddleworth Banking Company
Arthur Agard Davenport, Esq., Eastwood, Notts, Director of the
Great Leeds and London Direct Railway
Joseph Lancelot Davenport, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby,
Derby, and Manchester Railway
(With power to add to their number.)
The names of an influential Committee formed at Worcester and
Chester will be published in a few days.

RANIERs.
The Commercial
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Messrs. Parrott and II
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SECRETARY—Hilton T. Jenkins,
Potter and Cellingridge,
LOCAL AczNrs.
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C. G 11. St. Patrick, Esq.
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W"Terileliliggbteu°onrgTa gaCleoopiearr positioncEy ogEfBWq .orcester has caused its adoption as
the point where the broad gauge trunk-lines of the west are to have a
common terminus. From Oxford the Great Western Company have
decided on constructing a line of rail :--another project Under the pa-
tronage or the same powerful direction is now before the public,
uniting Worcester with Warwick ; and, that the broad gauge will be
carried from Worcester into Wales, and to the Irish packet stations
on that coast, is now no longer doubtful. This undertaking will com-
plete a series of great avenues of iron-road, whose ramification
from Worcester will render every part of the kingdom directly
accessible from that city. Passing up the Severn Vale, where
it will disclose a succession of picturesque scenes, -it reaches
Stourport, and proceeding thence through Kidderminster, arrives at
Bewdley. This district is one of the chief seats of our carpet manu-
factures, and In the towns here named, exclusive of the intervening
districts, upwards of 30,000 persons are located. Leaving Stourbridge
a little to the east, the line is taken to gridgenorth, a town enjoying
an active inland trade, an.l possessing woollen manufactures and iron
works, that give employment to a population of about 15,000. Pass-
ing through or near to Much Wenlock, Bromley, and Madeley, from
Which place there will be a branch bo Shrewsbury, the line ascends

- • -a
COlebrook Ddig and approgehing in its course Wellington and fiiS;k
enters Whitchureb, From this central place a branchtill be form,
to Norwich via Stoke, forming a junction with thetiverp&ol an
Crewe Railway. The trunk line will continue from ilil.t2ehilrelb and
passing through or near Ma'pas, have
,its northernirri4ei f
city of Chester. .
In estimating the probable ammint orrievAltnny4 • aWyf,.
ter and Chester Railway may be expecte. toVliaj-0-; f
profit present themselves, such are the deno,sNy. itged aldng.
the length of the Severn Va.!e, and the c • niiiTifirtlfsW4ifdlEtrY
In which they are engaged. Amongst the latter may bementioned
the Chinn manufactories of Worcester, the iron, coal, and earthen-
ware works at Broseley and other places ; the agricultural produce
brought to Stourport market; the inexhaustible fields of coal and
mines of iron ore in the vicinity of Colebreck Dale, Ironbridge, and
the districts to the east of Shrewsbury generally.
In calculating the cost of construction unusual advantages are also
obvious. The line traverses a district affording levels of several
miles in extent, and with a surface peculiarly favourable. The resi-
dent population, disappointed by the postponement of promised pro-
jects, have warmly espoused the present, and the labouring popula-
tion being familiar with mining operations, will be found better
qualified for the execution of railway works here than in many_other
localities.

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

The line has been repeatedly and carefully examined by the Com-
pany's acting engineer, who reports that the rail for many miles may
be laid on the natural level—that the gradients are in every in-
stance favourable—that the geological structwe of the districts to
be traversed is equally so, and that the want of such a line of com-
munication is acknowledged by the interests seated on its proposed
Course.
.Applications for prospectuses and plane may be made, and forms
of application for shares had at the: offices of Messrs. Potter and
Collingridge, solicitors, 5, Ilasingliall-street ; also of W. B. James,
Esq., solicitor, 5, Basinghall-street ; of the local agents ; and of the
following gentlemen:—

Mr. Samuel Banbury, 4. Angel-court ;
London ..... Mr. Whiston Powell, 12, Copthall-court ; and
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Messrs. Peppercorne, 2, Old Broad-street
Liverpool •••••• .• ..Messrs. Alston and Gage.
Manchester
r Messrs. Houghland and Leese, and Mr. Wll-
j Liam Marshall.
r Messrs. Collinson and Flint, and Mr. James
11u'1.........
t Bowden
[Messrs. Smith sad Perfect, and
J. Young and Co.,
Stratford-on-Avon 11r. William Bolton.
Exeter . Mr. Thomas Sanford.

Plymouth . • • • Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer.
Birmingham ...• • • Mr. Collis and Mr. John Wright.
Glaszow.

Edinbu h ........ Messrs. Robertson and Co., and
rg
Messrs.
M'Callum and Co.

Iluddersffild • • • • ..3lessrs. Wilson and Hellawell

Worcester • • • • • • • • Mr. Thomas Henry Wheeler.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

THE OXFORD and WORCESTER EXTENSION and CHESTER
JUNCTION RAILWAY, with BRANCHES to SHREWSBURY
and NORTMVICH.

Capital, 2,250,000/., in 125,000 Shares of 20!. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.
To the Provisional Committee of the Worcester and Chester

Railway. •
Gentlemen, —I request that you will allot to me Shares of
20/. each in this Company, and I undertake to accept the same, and
to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any '_ess number that maybe al-
lotted to me; and I undertake also to execute the Parliamentary
Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.

Date • ......... • • .•

Name (In fu11)... ...... ............
Residence.... • • • . • .....
Trude or Profession • • • • • . • ..•
Reference.......... • • • ....... ......
Address of Referee • • ...... .......

OXFORD and WORCESTER EXTENSION
and CHESTER JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that no fUrther applications for Shares in
this Company will be received after Tuesday, the 30th instant.
By order, HILTON THOMAS JENKINS, Secretary.
5, Basinghall-street, September 23, 1845.

T A MAICA SOUTHERN, EASTERN, AND
UP NORTHERN RAILWAY, FROM KINGSTON TO MON-
TEGO BAY.

Office, No. 43, Moorgate-street.
Capital 1,500,000/., in 30,000 Shares of 501. each.
Deposit 21. per Share.
A Reservation of Shares for the Proprietary, and others interested ilk
the Island.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTML

Major-Gen. Sir Love Parry, K.C.8., Madryn Park, Caernarvoishire
Sir John Key, Bart, Alderman of London, King's Arms-yard
Sir John J. Hansler, F.R.S., Upper Bedford-place
Sir George Rich, 43, Lowndes-street, Belgvave-square
P. S. Butler, Esq., kf.P., Queen-square, Westminster
Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of London
Major Adair, U.S. Club, Pall-mall, Director of the Church of Eng-
land Insurance Company
_

Joseph Bishop, Esq., Director of the Blackwall Railway
John Blunt, Esq., Upper Bedford-place. Director of the London Decks
Charles Collins, Esq., Caldwell Hall, Worcestershire
Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Copthall-court, Director of the Conunercla 1
Bank, London
Captain Edwards, Baker-street, Portman-square
Thomas Edwards, Esq. Bethel-place, Camberwell
Lieutenant-Colonel Gillies, Cambridge-terrace
F. W. Hamilton, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square
Klein Grant, M.D., 73, St. James's-street, Pall-mall
D. J. Hoare, Esq., Percy-street, Bedford-square
D. T. Johnson, Esq., Aldennary Churchyard, Director of the London

_
and Manchester Railway
John Francis Lambert, Esq , 6, Kensington Gardens-terrace
Francis Lloyd, Esq., 10, Crown Office-row, Temple

James 111acinillan, Esq., Southampton, Director of the Southampton,
3ianchcster, and Oxford Junction Railway
Thomas Newte, Esq., Harley-street, Director of the Barbadoes Rail-

way
James Reeves, Esq., Cheapside and Layton, Director of the London
and Manchester Direct Railway
Edward Scard, Esq., Kew, Director of the Toronto and Lake Huron
Railway
B. M. Senior, Esq., Compton Lodge, Jamaica, Magistrate of St.
Elizabeth's
J. G. Senior, Esq., Leonard-place, Kensington, and Jamaica
Algernon W. B. Greville, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park, D:-
rector of the Barbadoes, and Great Eastern and Western Railwa3 a
W. G. Beare, Esq., Dorchester-place, Director of the Worcester,
Shrewsbury-, and Crewe Railway
William Fitzgibbon, Esq., Director of the Cork and Bandon, and

Cork and Kilkenny Railways
John Joseph Keene, Esq., St. foha 's
-wood, Director of the National

Bank of Ireland
William King, Esq., Waterloo-place, Director of the Freemasons' In-

surance Company
Matthew Richard Scott, Esq., Devonshire-place, Portman-square,
and Jamaica
John Griffith Frith, Esq., Anstin-friars

Charles Bleaden, Esq., Adelaide place, London-bridge, and Conlsden
Court, Surrey, Chairman of the Licensed Victuallers' General
Fire and Life Assurance Company
Henry Stock, Esq Beddgelert, North Wales

Major Croft, 15, Regent-street, Deputy Chairman of the Chester and
Manchester Railway Company
John King.Eaq., St. John's-wood, London, and Glastonbury, Somer.

setshire
John Tilley, Esq., Worcester, Director of the Somersetshiro Midland
Railway
J. Haines, Esq., Edgbaston, Birmingham
John Burgess, Esq., the Boroughrceve of Manchester, Director of
the Manchester and Birmingham Continuation ani Welsh Jur.c-
tion Railway
Captain I). K. Pulteney, Parliament-street
Jeremiah Clark, Esq., Macclesfield

(With power to add to their number.)
ENGINEERS—WiIIiam Gravatt, Esq., F.R.S. ; James Pllbrow, Eiq.,
C.E. ; Frederick Braithwaito, Esq.,
SOLlclTOas—Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, idoorgate-stre2t ;
Andrew Graham Dignum, Esq., Jamaica.

BANKSIS—Sir Claude Scott, Bart., and Co., 1, Cavendish-square;
Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., 29, Clement's-lane, Londor;
The Planters' Bank, Jamaica.
The great difficulty, delay, and expense attending the trausit of
passengers and goods from Kingston to Montego Bay and the inter-
mediate ports, either by sea or land, is well known to all persons
conversant with the Islan 1 of Jamaica.
The average passage by steamer between Montego Bay and King-
ston, occupies forty-four hours ; and the costs, including expenses on
the route, amount to nearly 51. each passenger, while the quickest
journey by land occupies three days, and the expenses, including
horse hire, reach nearly 201. By the railway the whole line will be
traversed in eight hours, at an expense not exceeding an average of
30s. per passenger.
The difference in the freights between the northern and southern
sides of the island and England is such, that independently of the
saving of time, this railway will enable proprietors on the northern
aide, after payment of the costs of transit, to ship their produce at
much less expense than at present, and will afford them the advan-
tage of shipping at all times from the very excellent harbour of King-
ston, instead of being confined, as they now are, to the exposed ports
of the east and north of the island.

The line will commence at a spacious quay, to be constructed at
Kingston Harbour, with a depth of water sufficient for vessels of the
largest tonnage employed in the export trade of the Island ; at or
near to which point it is proposed to form a junction with the King-
ston and Spanish Town Railway, and proceed thence by or near Rock
Fort, Yallahs, Morant Town, Port Morant, Plantain Garden, Man-
chioneal Harbour, Port Antonio, Buff Bay, Annotto Bay, Port Maria,
St, Ann's, Duncan, Martha Brae, and terminate at or near Montego
Bay, By these means a line of interoommunication will be formed
between the most important and populous places, and facility offered
for carriage of the produce of the most prodactive portion of the
island.

Through the southern portion of the line, the physical features are
gentle elevations, altnost parallel to the principal range Of moun-
tains which run east and west, nearly the length of the island ; the
eastern portion, from Port Morant to Plantain Garden, is almost
level ; while the northern runs through an exceedingly rich country,
rising into hills separate from each other by spacious vales. The
whole of the country traversed by the line abounds in the staple ar-
tcles of sugar, coffee, rum, molasses, ginger, pimento, and other
spices, dye wood, drugs, &c. ; and as more than one-third of the
land is still uncultivated, the production of these articles will, by
the increased facility for traffic, be greatly increased ; and cotton,
indigo, cocoa, &c., and dry stuffs, at present unimported, will again
be brought into extensive cultivation. Timber of great variety
abounds along the line ; besides the pimento tree, which flourishes
spontaneously, there are mahogany, lignum vita, ebony, Spanish
considerable
silver e
;;
elm, fine cedar, and other trees of enormous bulk. The line will
walsooodbring
t.
agricultural largely
householdva l u ab valuable
purposes,palm e ft.li ,andacabinet various
works.other
leaTaheormeinies rael.wtteealmtehlyofritellite country on
impregnatednilt.heline is N-ery
whilst every variety of copper ore is found in abundance. Carbonate
of lime, valuable as manure, &c., of which Long Mountain is com-
posed, will form a considerable item in the tables of traffic.
The peculiarly favourable circumstances attending the construction
of this Railway render it highly probable that a considerable portion
of the capital demanded will not be required, as every material*
necessary for its formation is to be found on the line, and should the
atmospheric principle of propulsion be adopted, the necessity for cut-
tings and embankments will be generally superseded.
A gratuitous grant of the unappropriated land required for the line,
and the free use of all the timber, stone, &c., necessary for its con-
struction, will, it is expected, be ceded by the Legislative Assembly ;
—the mineral wealth, which may be developed by the construction
of the line, will accompany the grants of the land, and may be leased
to capitalists for the benefit of the Shareholders.
Of the various imports, and the internal traffic, a satisfactory esti-
Hoops.
mate can scarcely be given—it will be safficient to state, that Coals.
Fish, Lime and Salt, empty Puncheons, Shingles, Bricto.,
..a
Lead, Timber, Provisions, Cattle, Flour, Tobacco, Hardwares,
Manufactures generally, form important lettuces of rod
The working expenses of
s already stated, and care-
per tentage, and from all the cireumstanece
no doubt that this line of
ful inquiries into the traffic, there etanveh
i return upon the capital
railway will yield a very remunerative
established between the
re-
quired, and the speedy communication
of
the
Roy
al Mail Steam Packet
the railway will requirpe bet a moderate
island and Great Britain, by
Company, will enable the ,
ainagement of the affairs of the island.
efficient control over the m
to make provision in the Local Act for the
Directors in this country to exercise an
i t rest upon the amount paid upon the
The Comlite.epeptrroorn:tre.essiri
payment of 4
of the Bill until the opening of the line.
Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, solicitors,
shares from the passing
the
Applications for shares in the usual form may be made to the
1347 ,r
.Thpro.gmßo.rtolinaTisotrre, et
2;7
,M,eeshs Messrs.
'Change-alley,
Preece.a lley st,n d
LoudonEl,ans;
Provisional Committee, at offices of the Company, 43,
Sharebrokers t
Moorgate-street ,
47, moorgate-street, London; and the following
33Mstre:ssSii°s.tIhISb.eih1;:rrlYiloesder and Ashlin, Mr. W. A. Brown, and Messrs.
Alston and Gage, Liverpool; Mr. John Clegg, and Messrs. Green and
Oldham, Manchester; Messrs. R. B. Watson and Co., Leeds; Messrs.
Tate and Nash, Bristol; Mr. Wm. Miles, Worcester; Mr. F. Stamp,
Hull; Mr. James Pearson, Birmingham; Mr. Samuel Hutchinson,
Bradford ; Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and Co., and Mr. William Lee,
Cheltenham; Messrs. Eyre and Shaw, Derby; Mr. Thomas F. Dick-
enson, Newcastle-on-Tyne; Mr. F. C. Spenser, Halifax ; Messrs.
Thomas May and Co., Exeter ; Mr. Joseph Clark, jun., Southampton ;
Mr. Samuel Clerk, Edinburgh; Mr. Wm. Gordon, Aberdeen; Messrs.
Black and Lorimer, Glasgow ; Mr. Percy Bolger, Garden-street,
Dublin ; and Mr. C. Forster, Cork ; and of whom prospectuses may
be had.

To the Provisional Committee of the Jamaica Southern, Eastern,

and Northern Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me shares of
50/. each in this undertaking, and I engage to pay the deposit of 21.
per share upon the number allotted to me, and to sign such deeds es
may be necessary, in furtherance thereof, when required.-4 mn,
Gentlemen, your obedient servant,

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Residence..
Place of business (if any)
Date....
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*Wood Is prepared nearly as hard as iron, and in that climate is
more durable.

JAMAICA SOUTHERN, EASTERN, AND
NORTHERN RAILWAY.

Notice is hereby given, that no further application for shares in
this undertaking, can be received from parties resident in London
after THMISIDAY, the 25th day of September instant; and from parties
resident in the country after SATVADAT, the 27th day of September
instant. • • By order,
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SII REWSBU RY, WOLVERHAMPTON,
DUDLEY, and BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.
WM. ORMSBY GORE, M.P.. Chairman.
The Hon. ROBT. H. CLIVE, M.P., Deputy-Chairman.
John Benbow, Esq., 31P.
W. Richford Collett, Esq., M.P.
W. Fechney Black, Esq.
James Clay, Esq.
Richard Norman, Esq.
Stephen Phillips, Esq.
Richard Smith, Esq.
R. A. Slanoy, Esq.
Sir W. Young, Bart.
In consequence of the repetition of Advertisements signed "Thomas
11. Smith," and an " Original Shareholder," the Committee of Ma-
nagement think it their duty to publish the names of that Commit-
tee, as the best answer to the latter anonymous writer, and to caution
the Shareholders against being misled by any statements which
might be made at any meeting called by Thomas H. Smith, of whom
the Committee of Management know nothing.
The Committee of Afanagemer.t take this opportunity to state, that
the surveys thorn Shrewsbury to Wolverhampton are nearly completed,
and that the surveys from Wolverhampton to Birmingham are being
made under the direction of a joint Committee representing this
Company, the London and Birmingham Railway Company, and the
Birmingham Canal Company, the whole under the immediate super-
otendence of Mr. Robert St;phenson
By order,
3, Moorgate-street, Sept. 22, 1545

GEO, KNOX, Secretary.

TGREAT NORTHERN AND SOUTH-
Ens DIRECT RAILWAY F1.03L HUDDERSFIELD TO

DERBY.

.
(Provisions`ly Registered.)
Capital, 1,5000,0001., in 75,000 Shares of 201.
Deposit, 2/. 2a. per Sh ire.
(In compliance with the Standing Orders of Parliament.)
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Mast -rmann and Co.
Iluddsrefield—The West Riding Union Banking Company.
ENGINEERS.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—J. U. Rastrick, Esq.
ACTIN° EN WEER.
_ _ _

SOLICITORS —Messrs. Battyc aiiZ,l;;:anel Mr. Robt. T. Robinson,
Haddersleld.

LONDON AGENTS—.IIeSSIS. Sudlow, Sons, and Torr, 20, Chancery-lane.
The object of this railway Is, in conjunction with the intended
lines from Huddersfield to Halifax and the North, to connect, in the
most direct route, the Important and increasing manufacturing
towns of Huddersfield, Halifax, Bradford, and Keighley, with the
metropolis and soltth of England, and at the same time to complete
the Intended chain of railway communication from Glasgow and the
ror4h, by the shortest and most direct route, with London, and from
the south to Glasgow, and other parts of Scotland.
It is intended to continence by a junction with the Huddersfield
and Sheffield Railway (for which an Act of Parliament has already
been obtained) at or near Hohnfirth, and to proceed from thence
through the last-mentioned place to Woodhead, and across the Man-
chester and Sheffield Itallway there, thence to or near Athersage,
Nether Padley, Iroggatt, Bubnell, Bakewell, Matlock, Cromfor4. and
to follow the course of the River Derwent to its junction with the
North Midland Station near to Ambergate, and from thence to Helper
or Derby.

The present route from rinddersflell to Derby is very circuitous,
being nlw Si miles, whilst by the intended line the distance between
those places will be reduced to 51 miles ; and will also be the most
direct communication that can be formed tetween Glasgow, Carlisle,
Settle, SlOpton, Caine, Keighley, Halifax, Huddersfield (by means of
the projected railway,) and the counties of Derby, Nottingham,
Leicester, Northampton, ficdfind, and London.

It will open the extensive anti celebrated stone quarries and coal
mines of West Yorkshire, and afford an inexhaustible supply of coal
and stone to the Midland and Southern Counties, and at the same
tine open fresh markets for the products of the celebrated Derbyshire
mlnes,—the cost of which, from the increased facilities of direct
transit to be affdrsed by this railway, will be materially lessened ;
an I at the same time the markets of the manufacturing towns, of
West Yorkshire will be rendered infinitely more accessible for the
corn, wool, chase, and other productions of the extensive and fertile
agricultural districts of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, and the south.
The survey of the line has been to a great extent completed, and
correct estimates of the expenditure and return are in preparation.
There are no engineering difficultles in any part of the line which
have not been repeatedly surmounted in other cases, whilst by far
the greater porti at of the southern part of the line will be constructed
at an unusually small expense.
Powers will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow interest at
4/. per centum per annum on the deposits, and preference in the al-
lotment of shares will be given to the proprietors of the land through
which the line will pass, and to the shareholders in the Huddersfield
and Sheffield, and Huddersfield, Halifax, and Keighley lines.
The names of a large and influential Committee, with a detailed
prospectus, will shortly be published.
All comm•niications relative to the line, as also applications for
shares (in the form below). accompanied by a satisfactory reference,
may be made and aldr3ssed to the Solicitors, at whose offices every
necessary information will be given.
FORA OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

To the Provision d Committee of the Great Northern and Southern
Direst Railway from Huddersfield to Derby.
Ccntlemen,—l hereby request that you will a'lot me share.
of 201. each In the above proposed railway ; and I hereby undertake
to pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per share thereon, or any lesser number
of shares which may be allotted to me ; and I also undertake to
execute the Parliamentary Contract and the Subscribers' Agreement
when required.—l am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,

Name in full. ........ •• •••••••••
Profession, Trade, or Occupation ......
Residence in full • • • • • • • . - ............
Place of Business (if any)
Name of Referee . ........ .............
Address of Referee
Date •--• • • . ...... ...

INORTH-WESTERN TRUNK RAILWAY,
FROM CREWE DIRECT TO GLOUCESTER, passing
through the Towns of Market-Drayton, Newport, Shiffnal, Kidder-
minster, Worcester, and Tewkesbury, forming the shortest and most
dpsirable Communication between Liverpool, Manchester, and the
°ilium Parts of England and Gloucester and the Bristol Channel.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,250,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 2!. 10s. per Share.
(Being In accordance with the Standing Orders of the House of
Commons.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.

The lion, Douglas Kinnaird Pultency, 4, Parliament-street, White-
hall, Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway
Sir William Boothby, Bart, Ashbourn Hall, Derbyshire, Director of
the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester it ,ilway
Jelin Boor, Esq., Tuthury, Staffordshire, Director of the Stafford-
shire Potteries and Manchester and Liverpool Railway, and of the
Derby and Manchester and Shropshire Mineral Railways
John George Norbnry, Esq., Mancetter House, Atherstone,
Director of the Leicester and Bedford and Shropshire Mineral
Rail ways
Jeremiah Clarke, Esq., 'Macclesfield and London, Director of the
Direct London ar.d Manchester and Shropshire Mineral Railways
Clement Tabor, Esq., Cornhill, London, Director of the London
and County Bank, and of tile National Loan-Fund Assurance
Company
Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq. Abchurch-lane, London, Director of
the Chelmsford and Bury Railway
Thomas Bernard Baddeley, Esq., Newport, Salop, Director of the
bihropsiiire Mineral Railway
Alexander Brodie Cochrane, jun., Esq-, ironmaster, Holly Hall,
near Dudley, Director of the Dudley, Madeley, and Broseley
Railway
George H. Fourdrinier, Esq., Hanley, Staffordshire Potteries, Direc-
tor of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
John Benson, Esq., Park-place Villa, Maida-hill, London
William Shaw, 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
Richard Lambert, Esq., Lyston Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk, Director
of the Cork and Fermoy Direct Railway
Ambrose Miller, Esq., Lower Thames-street, and Upper Bedford-
place, Russell-square, London, Director of the Oxford, Wltney, and
Cheltenham Railway
William Millington, Esq., Ironmester, Summerhill Works, Tipton,
Staffordshire, Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
William Holmes, Esq., St. George's-terrace, Kensington, and Kentish-
town
William Simpson Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, and
Lower Thames-street, Director of the South and Midlands Junc-
tion Railway
John Rawson, Esq., Stoney Royd, near Halifax, magistrate, and
Deputy-Chairman of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and Director
of the Manchester, Liverpool, and great North of England
Union Railway, of the Shropshire Mineral Railway, and of the
National Bank of Ireland
Joseph Charles Ridge, Esq., merchant, Manchester, Director of the
London, Holyhead, and Port Dynllaen Railway
William Tomkinson Riley, Esq., Milifield Works, Bilston, Director
of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction
Railway
Joseph Bull, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Staffordshire Pot-
teries and Manchester and Liverpool Railway

James Stead, Esq., Bradford, Yorkshire, Director of the Liverpool
and Leels. and Shropshire ➢fineral Railways
_

Samuel Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street and Hull, Director of the
Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford Railway
William Wood, Esq., M.D., Chetwynd House, Newport, Salop, Di-
rector of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and of the Derbyshire
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire, Railways
Edward Edwards, Esq., Ironbridge, Shropshire, Director of the
Direct Lond.sn and Holyhead, and of the Dudley, Madeley, and
Bro"eley Railways
Rev. Matthew Yatrnan Starkie, Rector of Rushbury, near Church
Stretton
Charles Merritt Rigg, Esq., M.D., York-place, Portman-square,
Director of the Shropshire Mineral H rilway
Rer. Thomas Iluinphreys, Bishops Castle, Director of the Shropshire
Mineral Railway
James McMillan, Esq., Manchester-bnildings, Westminster
George Yonng, Esq., Foley House, Longton, Staffordshire Potteries
Sampson Bridgwood, Esq., Spratslade House, Longton
William Ottey, Esq., Longton

John Ashwell, Est., Longton, Director of the Nottingham and Gains-
borough, and Statnrdshire Potteries, Liverpool and Manchester
Railways
William George, Esq., Weston, near Mach-Wenlock
Thomas Goddard, Esq., Bank House, Longton, Staffordshire Potteries
Thomas Weaver Lewty, Esq., Wilden Iron Works, near Stoure rt
Director of the Dudley, Madelcy, and Broseley Railway. ° '
BANKERS.
Messrs. ftogerd, Oldliz, and Co., Clement's-lane, London
The London and County Bank, Lombard-street, London
Messrs. Adams, Warren, and Co., Shrewsbury and Market Drayton
The Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall
The National Provincial Bank of England. Newport
3frfeirs. Farley and Turner, Kidderminster
Messrs. Farley, Lavender, and Co., Worcester
The Gloucestershire Banking Company, Worcester and Tewkesbury
SOLICITORS.
Ingleby Thomas Miller, Esq., 3, Abchurch-lane, London
Ed nund Garbett, Esq., Wellington, Salop
William Milton, Esq., Kidderminster
(Silbert Brows, Esq., Shiffnal.
LOCAL AGENTS.
William Burdett, Esq., Manchester
Charles G. Brown, Esq., Bilston
Thomas Griffin, Esq., Chelton, Staffordshire Potteries
Thomas Bernard Baddeley, junior, Esq., Newport.
Sscarraar—J. Stevens, Esq.
Temporary Offices, 3, Abehurch-lane, London.

This line of Railway will commence at the junction of the Man-
chester an•:d Birmingham, Chester and Crewe, and Grind Junction
Railways, at Crewe, in the county of Chester, and proceed from
thence through or near the towns of Market Drayton, Newport, and
Shiffnal, in Shropshire,. thence through the flourishing town of Kid-
d,trminster, to Worcester and Tewkesbury, and to the Bristol Rail-
way at Gloucester. By this means it will form the most direct
route from Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Hull, and Chester to the
Important ports of Gloucester and Bristol, indeed the most direct
line from the north of England to the Bristol Channel. It will, also,
in conjunction wtih the proposed Hereford and Worcester, and Swan-
sea, Merthyr-Tydril, and Herz ford Railways, form the mast advan-
tageous route from Swansea aryl the iron districts of South Wales,
to Liverpool, Manchester, and Hull.

The line will cross the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway at
Shiffnal, and the Shropshire Mineral Railway and the Trent Valley
Union at the thriving town of Newport. It will form a junction
with the two latter railways at Newport, whereby persons and lug-
gaga may be convoyel to Safford, Derby, the Midland Counties,
Staffordehlre Potteries, Sheffiel 1, and Hull; and, in addition to the
carr:age of heavy goods from Bristol, Gloucester, Worcester, and
Kid lerminster, to Manchester, Liverpool, the whole of the north of
Eng:and, and Scotland—will secure a large passenger traffic In the
district through which it passes.
The proposed railway will be about 87 miles in length, and be-
tween the two termini of Crewe and Gloucester, will save in distance
at least 20 miles, and the Journey can be accomplished, at the pre-
sent rapid rate of travelling, in about two hours. This project as a
junction line, connects Itself with some of the most Important rail-
ways in the kingdom. It also skirts the large, extensive, and densely
r ,pulated iron districts of Shropshire and Staffordshire, and in its
course Passes through a rich agricultural country. It must, there-
fore, be obvious that there will be a sufficient traffic to pay a high
rate of interest on the capital required.
There are no enginee
to ;tang' difficulties in the country through
the line is intended the whole being which
on reference to the map 01, nearly on a level, and
which accompanies the prospectus, the line will appear straight, and
that it cannot be surpassed he superior advantages it possesses, and
the same termini. by any existing or projected lines, between
It will not interfere with any o
ling will be required. ratunental Property, and no tunnel-
The liabilities of the Shareholders', II
1 he limited to the amount of
their subscriptions, an I Interest will b
v
further calls, tYom the date of the sevte.raalllowed on the deposits and
the line. payments to the opening of
Prospectuses, with Maps and Forms of Application
13.- had from the Secretary on application for Shares, Call
of the Company, 3, A,lch irch-lane, London;
ftrioie temporary offices
Local Agents; also front the following Brokers. villz.
the Solicitors and
2, Birchin-lane. London ; Mr. Andrew Milligan, 2, •Coltessrs. LY"' kenhead ; Mr. R. H. Collis, Birmingham ; Mr. W. trt.rih-liittreet, Bir-
George, Liverpool; Messrs. Solnnes and Tripp, lir motie, St.
Turley and Cooper, Leeds ; awl Messrs. Green andOldham, Tara'.
chester ; to whom Applications for Shares may be addressed. It will
be necessary that reference be made t, a Banker, aiolicitor, or petsoa
of responsibility.