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THE CHESTER AND MANCHESTER
DIRECT RAILWAY.
'Notice is hereby given, that the Parliamentary Contract and Sub-
scribers' Agreement are now lying for execution at the Company's
Office, No. 1, Royal Exchange Buildings, London, between the hours
of Ten and Five o'clock in the day, when, upon signature of the deed,
the Banker's Receipt will be exchanged for Scrip.
By order, A. BARRETT, Secretary.
Sept. 12, 1845.

LONDON, SALISBURY, AND YEOVIL
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
At a Meeting of the inhabitants of the borough of Salisbury, held
at the Council Chamber, on the 9th clay of September, 1845, in pur-
suanes of a requisition to the Mayor;
E. E. P. KELSEY, Esq., Mayor, in the chair;
It was proposed by W. ANDREWS, Esq., seconded by ROBERT
SQVAREY, Esq., and resolved unanimously,
That this meeting pledges itself to support the scheme for extend-
ing the line of communication from the South-Western lino at
Basingstoke, to Salisbury, Yeovil, and Exeter, as proposed by the
South-Western, London, Salisbury, and Yeovil, and Exeter and
Yeovil Companies. E. E. P. KELSEY, Mayor.

THE. GREAT NORTHERN AND SOUTH-
ERN DIRECT RAILWAY FROM HUDDERSFIELD TO

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,3000,0001., in 75,000 Shares of 201.
Deposit, 21. 3s. per Share.
(In compliance with the Standing Orders of Parliament.)
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. 3iastermann and Co.
Huddersfleid—The West Riding Union Banking Company.
ENGINEERS.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—J. U. Rastriek, Esq.
ACTINti ENGINEE:t.

DERBY.

fioitcrrons —Messrs. Battyc and Clap, and Mr. Robt. T. Robinson,

litulders3Zfd

LONDON AGENTO— Ilemrs• Sw•1101v• Sons, and Torr, 20, Chancery-lane.
The object of this railway is, In conjunction with the intended
lines from Iluddersfieki to Halifax and the. North, to connect, in the
meet direct route, the important and increasing manufacturing
towns of Huddersfield, Halifax, Bradford, and Keighley, with the
metropolis and south of England, and at the same time to complete
the intended chain of railway communication from Glasgow and the
north, by the shortest and most direct route, with London, and from
the south to Glasgow, and other parts of Scotland.
It is intended to commence by a junction with the Huddersfield
and Sheffield Railway (for which an Act of Parliament has already
been obtained) at or near Holmfirth. and to proceed from thence
through the last-mentioned place to Woodhead, and across the Man-
chester and Sheffield Railway there, thence to or near Athersage,
Nether Feeney, Froggatt, Bubnell, Bakewell, Matlock, Cromford, and
to follow the course of the River Derwent to its junction with the
North Midland Station near to Ambergate, and from thence to Belper
or Derby.
The present route from Huddersfield to Derby is very circuitous,
being now 81 miles, whilst by the intended line the distance between
ammo places will be reduced to 51 miles ; and will also be the most
direct communication that can be formed between Glasgow, Carlisle,
Settle, Skipton, Coins, Keighley, Halifax, Huddersfield (by means of
the projected railway,) and the counties of Derby, Nottingham,
Leicester, Northampton, Bedford, and London.
It will open the extensive and celebrated stone quarries and coal
salute; of West Yorkshire, and afford an inexhaustible supply of coal
and steno to the Midland and Southern Counties, and at the same
thus open fresh markets for the products of the celebrated Derbyshire
mines,—the cost of which, from the increased facilities of direct
transit to be afforded by this railway, will be materially lessened ;
0;11 at the same time the markets of the manufaCturing towns of
West Yorkshire will be rendered infinitely more accessible for the
morn, wool, cheese, 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.
'here ate no engineering difficulties in any part of the line which
have not been repeatedly surmounted in other cases, whilst by far
the greater porti n 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
4J. per centurn 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 communications relative to the line, as also applications for
shares (in the form below), accompanied by a satisfactory reference.
may be made and addressed to the Solicitors, at whose offices every
necessary information will be given.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Great Northern and Southern
Direct Railway from Huddersfield to Derby.
Gentlemen,—l hereby request that you will alot me shares
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 Referie

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NORTH-WESTERN TRUNK RAILWAY,
PROM CREWE DIRECT TO GLOUCESTER, passing
through the Towns of Market-DrayMn, Newport, Shiffnal, Kidder-
minster, Worcester, and Tevvkcsbury, forming the shortest and most
desirable Communication between Liverpool, Nanchesthr, and the
Northern Parts of England and Gloucester and the Bristol Channel.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,250,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 21. His. per Share.
(Being in accordance with the Standing Orders of the House of
Commons.)
PIO VISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The lion, Douglas Kinnalrd Pulteney, 4, Parliament-street, White-

hall, Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway
Sir William Boothby, Bart., .Ashbourn Hall, Derbyshire, Director of
the Rugby, Dcrby, and Manchester R dlway
Jelin Bloor, Esq., Tutbury, Staffordshire, Director of the Stafford-
Mire Potteries and Manchester and Liverpool Railway, and of the
_ _

Derby and Manchester and Shropshire Mineral Railways
John George Norbury, Esq., Mancetter House, Atherstone,
D:rector of the Leicester and Bedford and Shropshire Mineral

Railways
Jeremiah Clarke, Esq., Macclesfield and London, Director of the
Direct London and Manchester and Shropshire Mineral Railways
Clement Tabor, Esq., Cornhill, London, Oirector of the London
and County Bank, and of the National Loan-Fund Assurance

Company
Thomas Reginald temp, Esq., Abchurch-lane, London, Director of
the Chelmsford and Bury Railway
Thomas Bernard Decideley, Esq., Newport, Salop, Director of the
Shropshire 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 Hallway
John Benson, Esq., Park-place Villa, Maida-hill, London
William Shaw, Esq., Managing Director of the Royal Farmers' Fire
and Life Assurance Cotnpany, Director of the London and Bir-
mingham Exten.don, and Warwick aid Worcester Railways
Richard Lambert, Esq., Lyston Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk, Director
of the Cork and Fermoy Direct Railway
Ambrose 'Adler, Esq., Lower Thames-stroet, and Upper Bedford-
place, Russell-square, London, Director of the Oxford, Witney, and
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Cheltenham Railway
Wiliam Millington, Esq., ironmaster, Summerhill Works, Tipton,
Staffordahlre, Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway

William Holmes, Esq., St. George's-terrace, Kensinton, 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
fose2ll Charles Ridge, Esq., merchant, Manchester, Director of the
London, Holyhead, and I'ort I)ynll4en Railway
William Tomkinson Riley, Esq., MlWield Works, Bilston, Director

of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction

Railway
Ico,ph Bull, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Staffordshire Pot-
teries and Manchester and Liverpool Railway
James Stead, Esq., Bradford, Yorkshire, Director of the Liverpool-

and Leeds. and Shropshire Mineral Railways
liantusl Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street and Hull, Director of the
Derby, Uttimeter, and Stafford Railway
William Wood, Esq., M.D., Chetwynd House, Newport, Salop,
Di-
roctor of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and of the Derbyshire
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railways
Edward Edwards, Esq., Ironbridge, Shropslfre, Director of the
Direct London and Holyhead, and of the Dudley, Madeley, and

Broseley Railways
Rev. Matthew Yatman Starkie, Rector of Rtushbury, near Church
Strotton
Charles Merritt 11131, Esq., M.D., York-place, Portman-square,
Director of the Shropshire Mineral R din-ay
itev.Thomas Humphreys, Bishops Cantle, Director of the Shropshire

Mineral Itnilwap
James McMillan, Esq., Manchester-buildings, Westminster
George Young, Esq. Foley House, Longton, Staffordshire Potteries
laampson 111'1dg-wool, Esq., Spratslade House, Longton

William Ottey, Esq., Longton
Pam Ashwell, Esq., Longton, Director of the Nottingham and Gains-
boroueh, and Staffordshire Potteries, Liverpool and Manchester
Railways
Wliiam George, Esq., Weston, near Much-Wenlock
Thom ts Goadard, Esq., Bank House, Longton, Staffordshire Potteries
Thomas Weaver Lewty, Esq., Wilden Iron Works, near Stourport,
Director of the Dudley, Madeley, and Broseley Railway.
Thomas Lamle Murray, Esq., George-street, Hanover-square, Di-
rector of Rosamel's Great Northern hallway, of the National Bank
egif Ireland, and of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
Toeeph Thimpson, Esq., John-strzet, Bedford-row, London, Director
of the London and Brighton, Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire,
and Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation Railways
BANKERS.
yevys. Rogers, Old'ng, and Co., Clement's-lane, London
The London and County Bank, Lombard-street, London
){rears. Adana, Warren, and Co., Shrewsbury and Market Drayton
The Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall
The It'ational Provincial Bar, nk of England, Newport
Messrs. Farley and Turne Kidderminster
Farley, Lavender, and Co., Worcester
The Gloucestershire Banking Company, Worcester and Tewkesbury
SOLICITORS.
Ingleby Thomas Miller, Esq., 3, Abchurch-lane, London
Edmund G'arbett, Esq., Wellington, Salop
- William Brinton, Esq., Kidderminster
Gilbert Brown, Esq., Shiffnal.
LOCAL AGENTS.
William Burdett, Egg., Manchester
Charles G. Brown, Esq., Bilston
Thomas Griffin, Esq., Chelton, Staffordshire Potteries
Thomas Barnard Baddeley, junior, Esq., Newport.
SECRETARY—J. Stevens, Esq.
Temporary Offices, 3, Abchurch-lane, London.
This line of Railway win commence at the junction of the Man-
tester and Birmingham, Chaster and Crewe, and Grand 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-
ferrninster, 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
fareortant ports of Gloucester and Bristol, indeed the most direct
line , from the north of England to the Bristol Channel. It will, also,
ht conjunction wtih the proposed Hereford aed Worcester, and Swan-
sea, Merthyr-Telvil, and Hereford Railways, form the most advan-
tageous route from Swansea and the iron districts of South Wales,
to Tel eerpool, Manchester, and hall.
The line will cross the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway at
Shlffnal, and the Shropshire Mineral Railway and the Trent Valley
Union at the thriving town of Newport. it will forma junction
with the two latter railways at Newport, whereby persons and lug-
gage may be conveyed to S afford, Derby, the Midland Counties,
ettafrordshirc Potteries, Shetliel I, anti Hull ; and, In addition to the
earriage of heavy goods from Bristol, Gloucester, Worcester, and
Kilaennineter. to Manchester, Liverpool, the whole of the north of
Itnetaild, 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 le.t.t 20 miles, an I the journey can be accomplished, at the pre-
sent rapid rate of travelling, in about two hours. This project as a
janetion Use, connects itself with some of the most Important rail-
`Rays in the kingdom. It also skirts the large, extensive, and densely
populated iron districts of Shropshire and Staffordshire, anti in its
eo tine Passes through a rich agricultural country. It must, there-
fore,
. ..be,
. .obvious
rt that there will be a sufficlent arn c to pay a hgh.e7hoeir
areT on the capital required.
the line is inten no Yercering difficulties In the country through which
mferenco
thc, to Pees, the whole being nearly on a level, and
which atetenpaniesmtZr of country, taken from the Ordnance survey,
will at the same time shPorosl'ectus, the line will appear straight, and
it canot b the superior advantages it possesses, and
stir
*au ne.
the same termini. by any existing or projected lines, between
It will not Interfere with any ornamental property, and no tunnel-
ling will be required.
The liabilities of the Shareholders will he limited to the amount of
their subscriptions, and Interest will be allowed on the deposits and
further calls, from the date of the several payments to the opening of
the. line.
ProsPsetuses, with Maps awl Forms of application for Shares, can
be had from the Secretary on application at the temporary omees
from theme...
Lyon,
Solicitors and
of the Company, a, Abehurch-Ltne, London
Loral Agents; also from the following Broke.
2, Birchin -lane, London ; Mr. Andrew. Milligriat; v121.1:L-Ord-street,
konhead ; Mr. E. 11. Collis, Birmingham ;
George, Liverpool; Messrs. Sohnaes and Tripp, Brirt''oll.,l-tiwre' alfessrt,
Turley and Cooper, Leeds ; and Messrs. Green and Oldham,
Man-
olAtter ; to whom Applications for Shares may bo addressed.
It will
be necessary that reference be made to a Banker, gotten() r, or person
ef responsibility.

FORM OF APPLICATION,

To the Provisional Dltectars of the North-Western Trunk Railway,

3, Abchurch-lane, London.

Gentlemen—l request you to allot me Shares in the North-
We tern Trunk Railway; and I undertake to pay the Deposit of
sd. .10s., and all farther calls upon the same, or such lesser number
as you may allot to me, and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement
and the Parliamentary Contract when called upon to do so.
Datel this day of , 1845.
am, Gentlemen, your obedient humble servant,
Christian and Surname in
Re5idence............... .

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GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY,
Forming a connecting line between the Midland and Grand
Junction Ra!lwaya, with a Branch from Derby to Ashby-do-1a-
Zouch. _

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 1.009,0001., In 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
reposlt, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Sir John Edmund Do Beauvoir, Bart., Connaught-terrace, Hyde

Park
Francis Valentine Lee, Esq., Chester-place, Regent's Park, Director

of the Eastern Counties Hallway
William Simpson Potter, Esq., 7, Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Di-
rector of the Oxford, Gosport, and Southampton Railway
Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq., Carlton House-terrace, Chairman of the
Irish North Midland Railway
James Beech, Esq., the Shawe, Staffordshire, and Brandon Hall,

Warwickshire
Barnet Laurence Phillips. Esq., Cornwall•terrace, Regent's Park,

Director of the Direct Western Railway
Valentine Knight, Esq., 3, Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park. Director

of the Dendre Valley Railway
Henry Garrett Key, Esq., Director of the Newport and Ab6rgavenny

Railway
Hugh Henshall Williamson, Esq., Greenway Bank, Newcastle-under-
Lyne, Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Stafford
John Robinson, Esq., Silcoats Cottage, Wakefield, Director of the
Bradford, Wakefield, and Midland Railway, and of the Leeds, York,
and Midland Junction Railway
Stephen Hutchinson, Esq., London Gas Works, Vauxhall
Henry Cave Leahy, Esq. 5, St. James's-square, Director a the
Great Welch Junction Railway
John Shaw, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the South Stafford-

shire Junction Railway
Daniel 31‘31Eahon, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the Derbyshire,
_ .

Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway
Samuol Walker, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the South Staf-
._

fordshire Junction Railway
Thomas Timmins, Esq., Wolverhampton
Thomas Randle Andrews, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the
Shrewsbury and Grand Junction Railway
William Griffiths, Esq., Park House, Wellington, Salop, Director of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway
Herbert Broom, Esq., Kidderminster, and Essex-court, Temple
_ .

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Caleb Norris, Esq., Lancaster-place, Strand, Director of the Exeter,
Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway
John Hayes, Esq., South-fields, Leicester
Charles J. 31ason, Esq., Fenton, Staffordshire Potteries, Director of

the South Union and Birmingham Junction Railway
Joseph Henry, Esq., South-street, Finsbury, Director of the London,

Ri;unslow:nd Western Railway
Edmund Gulson, Esq., Clonmel, Ireland, Director of the Coventry,

Nuneaton, and Leicester Railway
William B. Costello, Esq., Wyke House, Middlesex, Director of the

_
Direct Lond,,n and Exeter Railway
Martin Stutly, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park, Director
of the Direct Western, Dublin and Belfast, and London and South

Essex Railways.
Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brembo Iron Works, Wrexham, North
Wales, and Cannon-street, Director of the Oxford, South-
ampton, Gosport and Portsmouth, and Direct Western Railways.
Thomas Wynne, Esq., Longton, Staffordshire, Director of the South
Union and Birmingham Junction Railway
Henry Dodson, Esq., Suffolk House, Upper Tulse-hill, Director of the
Grand Junction, Great Western, and South-Western Junction

Railways
Joseph Loxdale Warren, Esq., the Lodge, Market Drayton, and Con-
sail Hall, near Cheadle, Director of the Manchester and Liverpool
District Bank, and Director of the Cambrian and Grand Junction
Railway
Alfred 'Brodie, Esq., Upper Montagu-street, 3fontagu-square
Robert Chaplin, Esq., Ashby-de-la•Zouch
Edward Mammatt, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch

John Beavington, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zonch
T. S. Kirkland, Esq., Ashby-de•la-Zouch
Thomas Cantrell, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch

William Mathew, Esq., Stiunton Harold, Lessee of the Staunto*

Harold Coal, Lead, and Lime Works
Joseph Bostock, Esq., Breeden-on-Hill, Lessee of the Breeden Lime

. .
Works
James Reeves, Esq., 150, Cheapside, Director of the Direst London

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and Manchester Railway
Harvey Wyatt, Esq., Acton-hill, Stafford, Director of the Trent
Valley, Midlands ad Grand Junction Railways, and of the Dudley,
Madeley, Brossely, and Iron litidge Railway
Benjamin Payne, Esq., Leicester, Director of the Rugby, Warwick,
and Worcester Railway, and the Leicester and Birmingham Direct

Railway
Thomas Farmer Cooke, Esq., Leicester, Director of the Rugby, War
wick, ar..d Worcester Railway, and the Leicester and Birmingham

Direct Railway
John Carter, Esq., F.R.A.S., Park Lodge, Stockwell, Director of the
Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Junction Coast Railway
Joseph Carrington Ridgway, Esq., Roehampton Lodge
Edward Tylee)te, Esq., Great Heywood, Staffordshire
William Field, Esq., Rugeley, Staffordshire
Samuel Ginders, Esq., Ingestre, Staffordshire, Agent to the Right

Hon. the Earl of Talbot, K.G.
R. S. J. Winterton, Esq., Sketchley Hall, near Hinckley, a Magis-
trate of the County, Director of the Coventry, Nuneaton, and

Leicester Railway
Captain Macdougall, Fir Grove, North Brixton, Director of the Direct

Western Railway
James Lamb, Esq., Hyde Park-square
James Morrison, Esq., St. Mary-at-hill, Director of the Bridgewater

and Minehead Railway
C. 11. Rogers llarrison, Esq., Upper Montagu•street, Montagu-square
George Augustus M`Dermott, Esq., Chesterton Hall, near Newcastle-

ander-Lyne
Wm. 'Dillon Fraser, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square
_ _

Wm. Clode Braildon, Eaq, Regeney-sixare, Brighton

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George Parbury, Esq., Mansfield House, Russell-square
,Tobn Lowe, Esq., liorfolk-crescent, Hyde Park

John Griffith Frith, Esq., Chairman of the Londonderry and Cole-
raine Railway
Major-General Parlby, C. 8., Rutland-gate, Director of the Loudon,
Bristol, and South Wales Railway, and Manchester and Rugby
Railway
John Anderson, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway, and Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
Samuel Griffiths, Esq., Penn Fields, Wolverhampton
Henry Turner, Esq., Brewood Hall, Brewood, Staffordshire, Director
of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
Henry Scott, Esq., Banker Waterford, and 17, Pall-mall
Lewis Adam's, Esq., Basford Hall, Stoke-upon-Trent
Thomas Miller, jun., Esq., Banker, Leicester.

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BANKERS —The Union Bank of London.
STANDING COUNSEL.
Charles Howard Whitehurq, Esq., Q.C.
J. Mee Mathew, Esq., F.S.A.
ENGINEER—J. U. RaStriek, Esq.
AcTING Excitant—Robert Nicholson, Esq.

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So'ammo—Messrs. Watts, Galsworthy, and Galsworthy, 19, Ely-
place, Holborn
SECRETARY--Samuel Stanway, Esq. . _

The first line of the Grand Trunk Railway will commence at the
Loughborough station on the Midland Counties line, and pro-
ceed through thq Vale of Sheepshend, to Pegs G Aren Colliery,
near to the terminus of the Leicester and Swannington Rail-
was, and from thence through the coal-fields of Swanuington
and Cole-Orton to Ashby-de-la-'touch. It will thence proceed across
the Moira Coal-field and through the rich agricultural districts of
Seal,CliftonCampville, and Edingale, to the Birmingham and Derby
Railway, which it will cross Rear to Elford Park Farm, and thence
traverse the Valley of the Tame until it reaches Alrewas, where it
will form a junction with the branch of the Trent Valley line now in
Progress of making. At this point it also meets the proposed South
Staffordshire line, by which means it reaches Lichfield, and by means
of one of the proposed lines it will afford communication with Bir-
mingham. _ _ .

From Loughborough the line will be further continued to A sfordby
on the Syston and Peterborough Railway, now in progress, and by
means of this latter line, a direct intercourse will be opened with
Melton Mowbray and the various towns through which that route
passes to Peterborough.
By means of its junction with the Trent Valley line at Alrewas the
Grand Trunk reaches Colwich, and there meets the proposed North
Staffordshire line, which proceeds through the heart of the Potteries
to Newcastle-under-Lyre, Leek, and Macclesfield. By means also
cf the same Trent Valley line at Alrewas the Grand Trunk pro-
ceeds through Rugeley to Stafford, thus completing its route, and
forming a connecting line between the Midland and Grand Junction
Railways. This branch of the line was formerly surveyed by Mr.
Itastrick, and approved of by him as a canal communication, so that
no engineering difficulties exist.
The second line of the Grand Trunk Railway will commence at the
Derby station, and taking the course of the Derby Canal proceed to
Chellaston, where there are extensive plaster-works, and thence
by Swarkestone to the river Trent, which it will cross near to
the ferry at Weston Cliffs, and so proce. d to Kings Newton
and Melbourne. From the latter place it will pass by the
village of Wilson to Breedon-on-the-Hill, where there arc extensive
lime-works, and thence proceed by Staunton Harold, communicat-
lhg by a branch line with the lead, lime, and coal works there ;
thence by the Lount Colliery to Worthington Rough, where it will
follow the line of the Cole-Orton and Swannington Railway until its
junction with the first lino of the Grand Trunk at or near the Pegs
Green Colliery, and so proceed from thence to Asliby-de-la-Zouch.
At Ashby-de-la-Zouch the Grand Trunk forms a junction with the
T.roposed Nottingham and Birmingham, and with the proposed Great
Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railways. Its importance as
a line for Passengers is too obvious for comment, forming as it does a
completa junction between those two great thoroughfares, the Mid-
hind and Grand Junction Railways, and by its branch from Derby to
Ashby-ds-la-touch another complete junction between the Great
Northern and Southern lines now in progress, thus opening a direct
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Ireland to Scotland, and all parts of the north, and to the eastern,
southern, and western parts of tile empire. It will also be the
nearest and most direct communication from the east to the north-
western manufacturing districts, as well as become the great route
from all parts of the kingdom to the midland counties of England
The mineral resources are of the very highest order. The
coal-field is inexhaustible, whilst the coal-beds at Staunton Harold
alone comprise 1110 finest quality of Kennel to D. depth of seven3fTheitd,
with a super stratum of main coal to a depth of six feet. The sub-
stratum is yet to ho worked. There are beds of Kennel and main
coal at Cole Orton of equal quality, though net of equal depth with
those of Staunton llarold, whilst the snails coal at Swannington is un-
rivalled, being, in fact, the bowl of the Leicestershire and Derbyshire
coal strata. It is needless to describe the beneficial results which
must arise from this opening of the midland coal district to the Lon-
don and southern markets.
At Staunton Ilarold and Calke exist rich veins of lead ere, now in
full course of working.
The properties of the Breedon, Staunton Harold, and Ticknail lime
are so Weil known to agriculturists anti others, that an extension of
traffic for so valuable a commodity into m Ire remote districts must
be of the utmost Importance to the practical fanner.
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giableav purposes,
market would he found along the line. The country also abounds
gypsum, of which immense quantities are used in Birming-
ham and elsewhere: these markets will thus become ope .ed for the
quarries at Cliellaston.
A new awl extensive outlet will also be opened for the earthenware
of Wooden Box and Griesley Potteries.
Until the Act of Parliament be obtained, the affairs will be under
the control of the Committee of Management, to whom power is
given to allot the shares and apply the funds of the Company in
payment of all proper expenses In the formation of the Company and
otherwise.

Power will be applied for in the Act, and in the meantime the
Committee of Management take power, to alter or extend the lines,
to make branch lines, to abandon any part of the line, to raise addi-
tional capital, and to enter into arrangements with any other Com-
pany or C:mpanies.
Application for shares must be made to the solicitors to the Com-
pany, Messrs. Watts, Galsworthy, and Galswortily, 19, Ely-place,
Holborn, London ; to the Secretary. at the Offices of the Company,
3, Adelaide-place, London-bridge ; and to the following

LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Messrs, Keen and Hand, Stafford
Thomas Bolton, Esq., Wolverhampton
E. Kem Jarvis, Esq., Hinckley
Messrs. Koary and Sheppard, Stoke-upon-Trent
Thomas Piddock, Esq., Ashby-do-la-Zouch
F. J. Hansel, Esq., Tamworth
John Perks, Esq., Burton-upon-Trent
Beauvoir Brock, Esq., Loughborough
Charles 2riesley, Esq., Lichfield
Messrs. Moore and Gregory, Leicester.
Also to the following :

811AREBILOKERS.
London—Messrs. 11111, Fawcett, and 11111, Threadueedle-street
Messrs. Harris and Sons, 'Change-allay
Mr. A. Sym, Tokenhouse-yard
Ll,Trool—llessts. Townley and Whitehead
Bristol—Messrs. Tate and Nash
liierew:l:l—nag.sitlrecrtnsJr7s:l.verwse.
aJj.ta.tjvimuer.i.ebLpsouairinnikieaainn:dao Mr. W.
Jennings
Bradford—Mr. 'William Mea Shettleld—Messrs. Bardwellsoand Sons
Hull—Mr. Francis Stamp
Wakefield —Mr. u. 11. Armitage
Nottingham—Mr. C. Spencer
Worcester—Mr. W. Miles
York—Messrs. Grayston and Erie
Blackburn-31r. Thomas Boardman
Southampton—Mr. Joseph Clark, jun.
Exeter--Messrs. H. Beaumont and Co.
Edinburgh—Mr. Charles Couper, 30, St. Andrew's-square
Cheltenham—Mr. James Stokes
Leicester—MesarS. Williams and Sunderland Messrs, Esidisttobi
11114 CO.

PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.

LEEK and MANSFIELD Y RAILWAY,
forming a Junction between Boston and Holyhead, and
uniting, by a direct Bile, Lincolnshire, Derbyshire, and Nottingham-
shire, with the Counties of Chester, Lancaster, and Stafford.
Capital 600,0001., in 30,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
_

The Right Hon. Lord Ross:lmre, Lord-Lieutenant of the county of
Monaghan
The lion, Francis Curzon, Barrow, Derbyshire
Sir William Magnay, Bat t., Alderman, and late Lord Mayor of Lon-
don ; a Director of the Great Luxembourg, and of the Direct
London and Holyhead, and Port Dynllaen Railway Companies
W. Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., Alderman of London,
Chairman of the Birkenhead, Chester, Meld, Rhttabon, and Vale of
Llangollen ; and of the Great Western, Southern, and Eastern
Counties Railway Companies
Charles Dickson Archibald, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A., Rushland Hall,
Lancashire, and Regent's Park, London ; Director of the South
Staffordshire, and of the Teals and Dove Valley Railway Compa-
nies ; and on the Committee of Management of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct Railway Company
J. B. W. Atkinson, Esq., Elmswood House, Leeds, Director of the
Leicester and Redford Railway Company
James Bowns, Esq., merchant, Mansfield
Richard Broomhead, Esq.. Mansfield
Joseph Brown, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Erewash Valley Ex-
tension, and a Director of the East and West of England Junction
Railway Companies
William Chadwick, Esq., a Director of the Erewash Valley, and of
the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport,and Portsmouth Railway Com-
panies
John Chambers, Esq., the Hurst, Alfreton
John Churchill, Esq., a Director of the Manchester and Birming-
ham Continuation, and of the Oxford, Southampton, and Gosport
Railway Companies
Nathan Cooper, Esq., Mansfield
The Rev. T. L. Cursham, D.C.L. the Vicarage, Mansfield
The Rev. William Cursham, Mansfield
John Dodsley, Esq., Skegby Hall, Skegby
Thomas Dowglasse, Esq , St. John's Wood, a Director of the Great
Eastern and Western Railway Company
Robert Forman, Esq., Abbot's Hill, Derby
Solomon Foster, Esq., Mansfield
Smith Fowler, Esq., Nottingham
Martin Furniss, Esq., Mansfield
Frederick Hewitt, Esq., Clapham, Surrey, a Director of the Erewash
Valley Extension Railway Company
Thomas Kirkland, Esq., Mansfield
George Lawton, Esq , Ditchleys, Essex, a Director ofthe South Mid-
land Railway Company
Stephen Lewis, Esq., a Director of the South Wales, and of the Man-
chester and Rugby Railway Companies
The Rev. William Linwood, M.A , Mansfield
C. Lowden, Esq., Director of the Richmond Railway Company
George Miller Esq., Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, a Director of the
Manchestet and Rugby Railway Company, and of the Central Rail-
way Terminus Company
Thomas Minnett, Esq., merchant, Mansfield
Ambrose Moore, Esq., a Director of the Dendre Valley Railway
Company
The Worshipful the Mayor of Nottingham
John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S.,
Rze., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park ;
a Director of the Irish Great Western, and of the Northampton,
John Geo r George
cPkeerriTgiy,Mansfieldo k
Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway Companies
11, Rag.,
square ; a Director of the Birken-
head, Chester, Mold, Ithnabon, and Vale of Llangollen, and of the
Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire Junction Railway Companies
The Rev. John Poole, M.A., Mansfield
J.
01 eysd, Esq.,Esq Leicester Leicester
the M.
Chairman of the Preston and Wyre
Railway Company
Joseph Shaw, Esq., Huddersfield ; a Director of the Manchester and
Birmingham Continuation, and of the Huddersfield Railway
Clement
Companies
Thomas Wakefield, Esq., Nottingham
Robert Watkins, Eel., Lower Brook-street, Grosvenor-square ; a Di-
rector of the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth
Railway Company
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., a Director of the Erewash Valley Extension
and South Midlands Junction Railway Companies
B. B. Williams, Esq., Wyndham-place, Bryanstone-square ; a Di-
rector of the London and Manchester Direct Railway Company
(With power to add to their number).
COMMITTEE OF DIRECTION.
WILLIAM HUGHES HUGHES, Esq., Alderman, Chairman.
CHARLES DICKSON ARCHIBALD, Esq.,
Deputy-Chairman.
The Right Hon. Lord Roesmore Thomas Dowglasse, Esq.
Sir William Ma,gnay, Bart. Frederic Hewett, Esq.
J. R. Atkinson, Esq. John Parkinson, Esq.
Joseph Brown, Esq. I John Pickersgill, Esq.
William Chadwick, Esq. Robert Watkins, Esq.
The Rev. T. L. Cursham, D.C.L.

BANKERS.
The London Joint-stock Bank ; the Union Bank of London
Th• Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Notting.
ham and Mansfield
North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool
Messrs. Clement Royds and Son, Rochdale
Messrs. Fowler, Gannt, and Co., Leek and Congleton
The Ashbourn Union Bank, ekshbourn and Uttoxetor.
ENGINEERS—Messrs. J. B. and E. Birch.
SOLICITORS.
John Bethell, Esq., 73, King William• street
I'. A. Burrell, Esq., 1, White 'but-court, Lombard-street.
Szcarre.ay—Ernest Charles Jones, Esq.
P ~OSPECT US.

This railway, not exceeding thirty-three miles in length, is pro-
jected for the purpose of forming a junction between Boston and
Holyhead, and uniting by a direct line Lincolnshire, Derbyshire,
and Nottinghamshire, with the counties of Chester, Lancaster, and
Statibrd.
. It will enter into competition with no one of the lines at present

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L W INTELLIGENCE.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Sept. 24.

IN RE W. HORN.

In this case an application was made to appoint assignees under
a vesting order made on a creditor's petition. The party had been
in Whitecross street prison since November, when he was arrested
on a judge's order. He was related to a noble family, ar.d on the
death of his father, Mr. W. More, would become entitled to con.
siderable property. The abject was to raise money to pay the ere.
ditors on property situate at Wexford, Ireland.
Mr. Nichols supported, and Mr. Dowse opposed, the application
to appoint one of the creditors mentioned as assignee.
Mr. Commissions r POLLOCK thought the creditors would be paid
in full, and made an order as prayed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-ROUSE.

The Lord Mayor received, on Wednesday, the following letter
from Mr. Reel; of theExcisc-office in Broad-street, relative to the
person who was committed as a rogue and vagabond on Tuesday,
for having fraudulently obtained alms of the Rev. Michael Gibbs,
Vicar of Christ Church :

" May it please your Lordship,—A case is reported in the Times
of this morning relative to one George Stratford, calling himself
the legitimate sen of the present Earl of Aldborough.
" I beg leave most respectfully to state to your Lordship, that
I have had some deaings with the above person calling himself
George Stratford. Some years since he was introduced to my no-
tice by a highly respectable family residing in the north of Ireland.
The fellow had found out the friends and connexions of the pre-
sent and rightful Countess of Aldborough, whom I have had the
honour of knowing for twenty years and upwards. On telling his
tale, he passed himself off as the son of the Earl of Aldborough,
and stated that he had been discarded by his father, and after
wandering about in Belgium for some time, he had shortly before
arrived in England, for the purpose of finding employment.
" Upon his representation, and knowing a little of the reputed
father's history, I then clothed him, raised a subscription, and
lastly procured a situation in the London Docks for him; but his
habits of idleness and lying had become so notorious, that I lost all
sight of the fellow for two or three years, until a few months back,
when he entered my office and informed me of the Earl of Aldbo-
rough's decease at Carlsbad. He then named the executors, who
were residing in Dublin, and told me that he was left 501. per
annum by his father, finally requesting the loan of a sovereign, as
he was about to leave London by the packet that day for Antwerp,
toj oin his family.

" Having before made up my mind that the fellow was nothing
short of a thorough rogue and vagabond, subsisting by his plausible
tales upon the charitably disposed in London, I desired him to leave
my office, and I then addressed letters to the Countess of Aldbo.
rough and others living in Dublin, stating the information I had
that day received, and by return of post their answers exposed the
lying device, and showed that the whole of his story from begin-
ning to end was false ; and the present Earl of Aldborough, to the
best of my information and belief, is now alive and residing at Flo-
rence.-1 have the honour to remain, your Lordship's most ohs.
client servant, " G. REELS.
" Broad street, City, Sept. 24,"
Mr. Thennts /it/Monti and Mr. lAomas leincile, two gentlemen
who, in the neigh'•ourhood of the Stock Exchange, after the closing
of the inner market, had addressed each other in irritating lan
page, and from words proceeded to blows, were brought before
the Lord Mayor by a policeman, charged with having obstructed
the pavement.
City policeman George White (24), an active officer stationed in
the vicinity of Cape:l-court, on account of the frequent obstructions
caused by the dealings between jobbers and " stags" and " ducks,"
and other "such small de:r," observing that there was rather an
extraordinary bustle about Ctpel-court, went up to the spot and
saw the two gentlemen fighting. Mr. Buckland was bleeding upon
the ground, although neither of the combatants appeared to have
any other arms than those with which nature had provided them,
and the affair occasioned very great impediment to the public,
The defendants said that there had been a misunderstanding
between them of a private nature, and that their dolerenees had
been completely accommodated.

The Loan MAYOR observed, that She priva,e nicstmoerstantlings
of gentlemen must not be allowed to interfere with the conve-
nience of the public, and fined each of them 20s.
Mr. George IVetenhall, the printer of " Wetenhall's Stock and
Sharebrokers' List," was charged with having spat several times
in the face and upon the bat and ORithes of Mr. F. R. stre4 11.
praria4 eo the Wok Eiald*O.