The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-14 00:00:00

THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES UNION. and
BRISTOL, BATH, and DOVER DIRECT RAILWAY
COMPANY.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 1,500,000!, in 60,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21/4125. 6d.
PROVISIONAL co:amens&
The Right Hon. the Earl of Uxbridge
Viscount Mandeville
Lord Dunboyne
Lord Albert Denion Conyngham, E.C. H., Director of the Gal-
way and Ennis Grand Junction Railway
Pierce Somerset Butler, Esq., M P.. Queen square
The Hon. Percy Evans Freke, 3, Belgrave-square, Director of the
Direct Western Railway, &c.
The Hon. Geoffrey Browne, D.L , Wilton-crescent, London, and
Castle M'Garrett, Mayo, Director of the Irish West Coast
Railway
Sir Richard Jenkins, G CB., East India House, Director of the
East India Company, and Dendre Valley Railway
Sir John Hare, F.S. A., 11, Langham-place, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct, of the Manchester and Rugby
Direct Railways, &c.
Sir Geo. Rich, Lowndes-square, Belgrave-square, Director of the
Reading, Guildford and Reigate, and the Callao, Lima, and
Pacific Coast Railways
Sir Wm. I wysden, Dorset-street, Portman-square
Sir James Eyre, Brook-street, Grosvenor-square, Director of the
Portsmouth Direct Railway
General Bacon, Rust-aim-house, Egham, Director of the Royal Por.
tuguese Railways Company
Lieut.-General Lomax, Bristol
The O'Moore, Cloghren Castle, Banagher, Deputy.Lleutenant and
High Sheriff of the county of Roscommon
Wm. Hughes Hughes, Esq., F S.A. F.L S., &c, Alderman of Lon.
don, Chairman of the Leek and Mansfield, ef the Erewash Valley,
of the Great Western, Southern and Eastern, and of the Birken.
head, Chester, Mold, Rhuabon, and Vale of Llangollen Railways
The Boroughrceve of Manchester, John Burgess, Esq., Director of
the London and Manchester Direct and Independent Railway
The Mayor of Whitchurch, Hants
Wm. Shadbolt. Esq., Croom'e-hill, Greenwich, Chairman of the
London and Greenwich, and Director of the Dendre Valley
Railways
Algernon W. B. Greville, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park,
Director of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation
Railway
Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlborough-place, St. John's-wood, Di-
rector of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and of the Manchester
and Birkenhead Continuation Railways
P. W. Hamilton, Esq., Gloucester.place, Portman-square, Director
of the York and Lancaster Railway
P. Bennett Lucas, Esq., Manchester street, Manchester-square,
Director of the Leeds and London Direct, the Sligo and Shannon,
the Ipswich and Southampton, and the Cork, Passage, and Kin..
sale Railways
John Mee Mathew, Esq., Mecklenburg!). square, Director of the
East and West Junction, the Derby, Sheffield and Worcester,
the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railways, &c.
William J. M Guire, Esq., Hampton-court, Director of the Direct
Western, and of the Direct Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and
Brighton Railways
Thomas Kidley, Esq., M.D, Sheffield, Director of the Direct Bir-
mingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway, &c.
Thomas Shaw, Esq., Northampton, Director of the South Mid-
land, and the Great Western, Southern and Eastern Counties
Railways
Joseph Shaw, Esq., York-place, Huddersfield, Director of the
Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, and the Keighley,
Halifax, and Huddersfield Railways
Charles Henry Rogers Harrison, Esq., Upper Montague.street,
Montague square, Director of the Grand Trunk, and the Direct
West-End and Croydon Railways
Valentine Knight, Esq., Cornwall- terrace, Director of the Great
Western, Southern and Eastern Counties, and the Dendre
Valley Railways
Geo. Harrison, Esq., Director of the Grand Trunk, and of the
Hull and Holyhead Railways
C. Preston, Esq., Hereford road, Bayswater, and Blackmore, Essex
Col. Nicolls, Shooter's-hill, Director of the Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush, and the Sligo and Shannon Railways
Griffin Curtis Galt, Esq., Charles-street, Blanchester-square, Di-
rector of the Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush, and the Sligo
and Shannon Railways
Edwin Cadman, Esq., merchant, Sheffield, Director of the Direct
Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
George Maberly, Esq., Welbeck-street, Cavendish-square
John Alcock. Dixon, Esq., Burnley, Lancashire, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
John Inglis Jsrdein, Esq., 15e, Piccadilly, Director of the Great
Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton, and the West Midland,
Manchester and Southampton Railways
Lieut.-Col. Fitch, York-terrace,'-Regent's-park, Director of the
York and Lancaster,' and of the Oxford, Worcester, and Cheater
Junction Railways
James Clift, Esq., 30, Bloomsbury-square, Director of the Paris
and Strasburg, the Metropolitan Railways Junction, the South.
ampton, Manchester, and Oxford Railways, &c.
George Lawton, Esq., Ditchley's.hall, Brentwood, Essex, Director
of the South Midland, and of the Great Western, Southern, and
Eastern Counties Railways
Wm. Birmingham Costello, Esq., M.D., Wyke-house, Brentford
Director of the Direct London and Exeter Railway
Alford Brodie, Esq:, Director of the Grand Trunk and Direct
West-end and Croydon Railways
Richard H. Allnatt, Esq., M.D.,' F. S.A., Parllanzent-street,
Whitehall
Edward Waley, Esq., Portland-place
Major David Fitzgerald, Valentia, Ireland, Director of the Shef-
field, Nottingham, and London Direct Railway
Francis Newbery, Esq., Kingston Villa, Clifton
Joseph Graham, Esq., Clapham, Director of the Northern and

southern Connecting Railway
George Augustus Brown, Esq., 20, Gower-street, Bedford-square,
Director of the Callao, Lima, and Pacific Coast Railway
Knowlton Wilson, Esq., M.D., Sheffield
Daniel Turton Johnson, Esq., Aldermary Churchyard, Director
of the Northern and Southern Connecting, of Remington's Lon-
don and Manchester, of the Chester and Manchester Direct, and
of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railways
Thomas Wynne, Esq., Longton, Staffordshire, Director of the
South Union and Birmingham Junction, of the Holyhead Direct,
and of the Leeds and Carlisle Railways
Hugh John Smerdon, Christow, Devonshire, Director of the
Dartmouth, Torbay, and Exeter Railway
William Eccles, Esq., Old Broad.street, Director of the Great
Grimsby, Louth, Horncastle, Lincoln and Midland Junction
Railway
Richard Conley Polhill, Esq., North terrace, Brompton, Middle-
sex, Director of the Thames Valley and Hounslow Railway, Ac.
Horace William Meteyarti, Esq., Director of the Northern and
Southern Connecting, of Remington's London and Manchester,
the Chester and Manchester Direct, and the Derbyshire, StaL
fordshire, and Worcestershire Railways
John Joseph Keene, Esq., St. John's Wood, Chairman of the Cork
and Fermoy Direct, and Deputy-Chairman of the Leeds and
Iltiddersfield Railways, fic.
Major Adair, Pall-mall, Director of the Central Sardinian, and the
Northern and Southern Connecting Railways
Lieut.- Col.Cruttenden, R. A., Director of the Gloucester, Aberyst.
with and Central Wales Railway
Geo.
Esq., M.R.S., F S.V., 13, George-street, Hanover-
q Director of the London and Windsor Railway,
Abraham Bettridge, ,Esq., Devonshire-terrace, Director of the
Great Grimsby, Louth, Horneastle, Lincoln and Midland Junc-
tion, and the Metropolitan Railways Junction, are.
Fred. Ramsden, Esq., Seymour House, Old Trafford, Manchester,
Threw of the Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction, the Lon-
don and Holyhead Direct, and the Sheffield and Macclesfield
Railways, &C.
James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Salford, Director of the Manchester and
Chester Direct Railway
James Atkinson West, Esq., Western Lodge, Durham, Director of
the Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire; the Manchester, Liver-
pool, and Great North of England; the Sheffield, Buxton, Leek,
Leesamn
Potteries and Crewe ; and the Wear Dock Railways. arc.
Samuel Giles, Esq., merchant, Manchester, Director of the Man-
chester and Rugby Direct, and Sheffield and Macclesfield Direct
Railways, Ac.
Robert Passenger, Esq., Union-street, Borough, Director of the
Callao, Lima, and Pacific Coast Railway, and the Royal Mines
of Cobre Association
Colonel Campbell Dalr3mple, George-street, Westminster, Direc-
tor of the City and West-end Railway
Wm. King, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Direct
Line (Remington's)'
John Miller, Esq., St. John's-wood.grove
Robt. Fynn,
Esq., Temple, Director of the Cheltenham, Ox.
ford, and Brighton Junction Railway, 81c.
Stephen Henry Lee,
Life Ass Society, &c.
John Ring, Bag.,
Esq , Daiston, Director of the City of London
urance
Grove-road, St. John's Wood, Director of the
Somersetshire Midland Railway, drc.
Captain Trophimus Hodges, Connaught-terrace, Director of the
Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway, ae.
John Emmet, Esq.,
Halifax Fire Ovenden Grange, Halifax, Director of the
and Life Insurance Company
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John Hodson, --`"-r., Sunderland-house, Halifax, Director of the
Manchester, Southampton, and Oxford Junction Railway
Joseph Gillham, Egg., Hargreaves-house, Oldham, Director of the
Staffordshire Potteries, the Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction,
and the Manchester and Southampton Railways
Wm. Hunter, &q"
C Western,l aren oa nn -ds qsuo au rt eh South-Western Leamington
Railways
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Sam. Douglass, Esq., Doctor's.commons, Director of the Grand
Junction, Great
Charles Roger Dodd, Esq., North Brixton, Director of the Great
Welsh Central Railway
William Shaw, Director of the Royal Farmers' Insurance Company,
and the Warwick and Worcester Railway
Richard Geddes, Esq., Neweeerie.upon_Tyne
Captain John Harrison Bowker, R.N., Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Ambrose Moore, Esq., Milk-street, Clieripside
Frederick Hewitt, Esq., Clapham, Director of the Erewash Valley
Extension of the Leek and Mansfield, and of the Birkenhead,
Chester, Mold, Rhuabon, and Vale of Llangollen Railways
Llentenant-Colonel Macalister, K.H., Loppe Cottage, Axminster,
Magistrate of the County, and Director of the Yeovil, Exeter,
and Dorchester, and of the Dartmouth, Torbay, and Exeter
Railways
Thomas S. Richards, Esti . Baker-street, Portman.square, Director
of the treat Western, Southern and Eastern Counties, and the
Leek and Mansfield Railways, Ac.
John Kemp Devonshire. Esq„ Riverdale Villa, Hampton, Director
of the London, Bristol, and South Wales Direct Railway
Robert; Chapman, Esq., Park.place, Aegent's.park, Director of the

Great Itanchester and Southampton Railway
Henry Farkes# F.sq., Ferriby, near Hull
N. M'Cann, Esq., Parliament-street, Director of the Liverpool and
Derby, the Direct Manchester and Rugby, the She Meld and
Nottingham, the Brighton and Cheltenham, and the Burton.on.
Trent Railways
James OW Griffits, Esq., Temple and Aylesbury
Martin Stutely, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Regent's-park, Direster
of the Direct Western and Grand Trunk Railways
John Levitt, Esq., Hull
Geo. Robinson, Esq., Hull
Robt. Middleton, Esq , Manchester
Wm. Middleton, F..sq., Manchester
Henry Smyth, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Grand Union

Railway
Sam. Cavan, Esq., Liverpool
Edmund Gwyer, Esq., Bristol
Richard Dransfield, Esq., Dalton, Huddersfield, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct, of the Manchester, Huddersfield,
and Great Grimsby, the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, the
Great Northern and Southern Direct, the Keighly, Halifax,
and Huddersfield Railways
Jere Key, Esq , Huddersfield, Director c f the Great Northern and
Southern Direct and the Blanchester, Huddersfield, and Great
Grimsby Railways
Joseph Brooke, jun., Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Great
Northern and Southern Direct Railway
G. Hazlerigg, Esq , West Carlton Hall, Leicestershire
Henry Newcombe, Esq., Hardingston, Northampton
John Grant, Eqq., Northampton
(1. Holmes, Esq., Hull
Swynfen Jervis, Esq., Whitehall.place
George Laishley, Esq., Southampton
Charles Shaw, Esq., Birmingham, Deputy_Chairmatt of the Direct
Birmingham and Leicester, and Director of the Bristol and Bir.
mingham Railways
George Simpson, Esq., Bedford•square, Director of the Slims,
Donegal, Tyrone, and Belfast Junction, and Middlesex and
Surrey Junction Railways
John Anderson, Esq., Lothbury, Director of the Northern and
Southern Connecting, and the South Midland Birmingham and
Lichfield Railways
Jeremiah Clarke, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of the Northern and
Southern Connecting, of Remington's London and Manchester,
and the Derbyshire, Satrordshire, and Worcester Railways
Edward Scard, Esq., Kew, Magistrate of Middlesex, and Director
of the Northern and Southern Connecting Railway
Captain M. Gambier, Upper Seyrnourstreet, Portman square
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Liliu, Lowenthal, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Hudders-
field, Manchester, and Great Grimsby Direct Railway
Wm. Thomas Jackson, Esq., Tadcaster, Director of the East and
West York-hire, ana Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways
Ostler, Esq , Hull
W. S'oarie, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square
John Jervis Garrard, Esq., Queen-square, Bristol
Samuel Garlick, Esq., Park.square, Leeds
Cuthbert Johnson, Esq., Avenue-road, Regent's-park
James Goren, Esq., The Priory, Battersea
Rev. Francis Thornburgh, Kingswood, Wilts
James Yearsley, Esq., Savele.row, Piccadilly
Alfred Parker, Esq., Park.road, Regent's-park
James Shaw, Esq , Salford, Manchester, Director of the Manches-
ter, Liverpool, and Great North of England ; of the Newcastle,
Durham, and Lancashire; and of the Bolton and Bury Railway'
Captain James Wood, R.M., Woolwich, Director of the Dublin
Approximation Atmospheric Railway
Benjamin Casson, Esq., Hull
robe Holmes, Esq., Hull
Richard Hands, Eel , Coventry, Director of the Birmingham Well
Branch, Wednesbury, and Walsall Railway
Thomas Ferrand Dearden, Esq , Coroner, Rochdale, Lancashire
Charles Ralph Broadley, Esq , Rochdale
James Clarkson, Esq., Cheetham Hill, Manchester
Wm. Nicholson, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Rugby and
Manchester, via Macclesfield Railway
J. J. Godfrey, Esq , Liverpool
J. ET. al`Malion, Esq., Limerick, Director of the Cheltenham, Ox-
ford, and Brighton Junction, and the Galway and Ennis Grand
Junction Railways
Henry Chaytor, Esq , Clairvaux Castle, Darlington, Director ef
the Warwick and Worcester, and the Hull and Holyhead Rail-
ways
Robert Bourne, Esq., Parliament-street, 'Whitehall
Alfred Parker, Esq., Park-road. Regent's-park
William Cremcr, Esq.. Alincing.lane, Director of the Grand Trunk ;
and Northern and Southern Connecting Railways
William Bousfield, Esq., Colebrook-terrace
John Yearsiey, E'q , merchant, Fenchurch.street
James Robertson, Esq., Director of the Worcester, Warwick and
Rugby, and Leominster Railways
John Batley Wrigley, Esq , Croft-house, near Huddersfield, Director
of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Direct
Railways
Samuel Deshayes Saunders, Esq., Ivy-cottage, Syncombe-bill, Bath
George Barons Northcote, Esq., Somerset-court, Somersetshire,
Director of the Somersetshire Midland Railway
Thomas Dixon Burrow, Esq., Settle, Yorkshire
George Watts, Esq., Mount Radford, Exeter, Director of the
Exeter and Exmouth, the Great Western Extension, and the
D rect Exeter. Plymouth, and Devonport Railways
William Henry Samwell George, Esq., Exmouth
Edward Greaves, Esq., Leeds
John Bowes, Esq., Hull, Director of the Rugby, Leamington, and
Warwick Railway
Thomas Frederick Hewitt, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and
Holyhead Railway
William Priest, Esq., Hull, Director of the York and Hull, and
the East and West Yorkshire Junction Railways
Thomas Holmes, Esq., Hull
Benjamin Willsher, Esq., Waterloo-place, Pall-mall
Richard Power, Esq., Euston-square, and Long Orchard, Tipperary
William F. Black, Esq., 'Wilton-place
Arthur Haymes, Esq., Methuen Villa, Leamington, Director of
the South Midland and Lincolnshire and Eastern Counties
Matthew Pierpoint, Esq., NVorcester, Director of the Rugby
Derby, and Manchester Railway
Joseph Brook, jun., Esq., Huddersfield
Julian Skrine, Esq., Linsfield-house, Cambridge, Director of the
Cambridge and Lincoln, and the Northern and Southern Con-
necting Railways
Rev. G. M. D'Arcy Irvine, LL.D., Redcliffe-parade, Bristol
John Bloor, Esq., Tutbury, Director of the Great Manchester,
Rugby, and Southampton, the Shropshire Mineral, the London
and Holyhead Direct, the Liverpool and Derby Direct, the
London and Liverpool Direct, and the Derby and Gainsborough
Railways, &c.
Edward Gaubert, Esq., Park-villa, Richmond, Director of the
Rugby, Swindon, and Weymouth Railway.
William James Ire, Esq., Northampton-square, Director of the
Rugby, Swindon, and Weymouth Railway
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., Upper Hyde-park-street, Director of the
Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, the Chester and
Manchester Direct, and the West Midland, Manchester, and
Southampton Railways
Abraham Alexander, Esq., Lullington-house, Leamington, Direc-
tor of the Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton, the
Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby, and the Lincolnshire and
Eastern Counties Railways
Joel Edens, Esq., Northampton, Director of the Sheffield, Notting-
ham, and London Direct, the Liverpool and Derby Direct, the
Direct Northern, Eastern; and Western Junction, and the Mid.
land and Eastern Counties Railways, Sec.
F. Valentine Lee. Esq.
P. Taylor, Esq , Knaresborough
Joseph Lambert, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York, and
the Direct Liverpool and Leeds Railways
G. I. Branton, Esq., Finsbury-square, Director of the Direct
Manchester, Leeds, and York; and the Grand Trunk Railways
William Driffield, Esq., Bond-house, Knaresborough, Director of
the Liverpool and Leeds Direct; the East and West Yorkshire,
and the Leeds and Thirsk Railways
Wm. A. Long, jun., Esq., Kingswood, Wotton.under.Edge
Rev. Stephen Isaacson, M.A., Berners-street, Director of the
Cheltenham, Oxford, and Brighton; the Cambridge and Lin-
coln Extension ; the Hull and Holyhead; and the Leeds, Fleet-
wood, and Liverpool Railways
Thomas Dreton, Esq., Blackburn, Director of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct, and of the Blackburn, Chorley, and Liverpool
Railways
John Joseph Allnatt, Esq., Wallingford, Berko
Edmund Alderson Fawcett, Esq., Huggin-lane and Nottingham,
&c., Director of the Direct Liverpool and Derby, the Direct
West End and Croydon, and the Middlesex and Surrey Junction
Railways
Capt. T. C. Newton, Luguardlne, Herefordshire, Director of the
Leeds, Fleetwood, and Liverpool, the Hereford and Merthyr
Tydvil, the Hull and Holyhead Direct, and the Grand London
and Dublin Approximation Railways
Wm. Fitzwilliam Hume, Esq., Hume. wood, Wicklow, Deputy
Lieutenant, J.P., and High Sheriff of the County of Wicklow
Edward Irwin, Esq., Ratlibide.house, Kildare
Christopher Carter, Esq., Belmont-house, Knaresboreugh
Walter Watson, Esq., Leamington
James Peard Lye, Esq., Seaton ironworks, Whitehaven, Director
of the Hull and Holyhead Railway
Arthur Ley, Esq., Bideford, Devonshire, Director of the Hull and
Holyhead Railway
John Albutt, Esq , Leeds
William Musehamp, Esq., Sunderland
Joseph Henry Oates, Jun., Esq., Meanwood, near Leeds
George Mitchell. Esq., Sandbed-house, Ossett, near Wakefield,
Director of the Wakefield, Ossett and Dewsbury Railway, also
of the Midland, Barnsley, Sheffield, and Leeds Railway
William Mien, Esq., Chappletown, near Leeds
William Standidge, Jun., Esq., Barkston Ash, near Ferrybridge
Samuel Warburton, Esq„ Hunslet, near Leeds, Director of the
Warwick and Worcester Railway, and ef the Wakefield and
Harrowgate Railway, /sc. Ac. &c.
Eleorge William Oates, Face, Carr House, Meanwood, near Leeds
George Newsome, Esq., Cross Banks, Batley, near Dewesbury
James Kitchen, Esq., Burrnanstofts, Leeds
William Fieldhouse, Esq., St. Mark's-place, Leeds
William Beaumont, Esq., Crawshaw House, Pudsey, Director of
the West Yorkshire, Midland and Thirsk Junction, &c. &c. &c.
John Pawscn, Esq., Chappleton, near Leeds
John Lawson, Esq., Town Knawl Cottage, Ossett, near Wakefield
John Sheard, Esq , Bonfire-cottage, near Dewsbury
Joseph Thompson Fenton, Esq., Chesterfield
John Haley, Esq., Stanningley
David Gommersall, Esq., Stanningley Mills
William Dixon, Esq., Howley mills, Morley, near Leeds
Joe Dransfield, Esq., Rookery-mills, near Huddersfield
Joseph Jubb, ten., Esq., Batley.mills, near Dewsbury, Director of
the Midland, Barnsley, Sheffield and Leeds Railway, &c,
Henry Lodge, Esq., Sheffield
Josiah Burrows, Esq., Castle.heuse, Gommersall, Director of the
Great Leeds and London Direct, and the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct
Robert Bell, Esq., Elmwood-house, Leeds
George A. Hauston, Esq., Paisley
Frank Mitchell, Esq., Ilyecroft.cottage, near Ossett
Alexander Majoribanks, Esq., of Majoribanks, NB.
Major-General White, Bath, Director of the Direct Western
Railway
Andrew Clarke, Esq., Adelaide-place, London.bridge, sad Cam.
berwell, Surrey
John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, Tonbr:dge, Kent
Stephen Hartley Knowles, Esq., merchant, Ten Lands, Gomeriall,
Dear Leeds
Lionel William Knowles, Esq., merchant, West-house, Gomersall,
near Leeds
James Sutcliffe, Esq., Nowland-hall, near Halifax, Director of the
Leeds and Thirsk Railway
George Fearnley, Esq., M.D., Grove-house, Dewsbury
Thomas Hadfield Gloyne, Esq., Prospect-house, Dewsbury
Samuel Burnley, Esq., merchant and manufacturer, Havercroft-
house. Batley, near Dewsbury
Thomas Dean, Esq., Healey. house, Dewsbury
Thomas Henry Starr, Esq., M.D., Leamington
James Braham, Esq , Torquay, Devon
Christopher Carter, Esq., Belmont-house, Rnaresborough
Frederick Goddard, Esq., Bath
Thomas Emsley, Esq., Dodley, near Leeds, Director of the North.
East Riding Junction Railway
Wm. Shaw, E'q.Director of the Farmer's Life Assurance Company
Wm. Watson,:lisq., Leamington
Thomas Rogers, Esq,, Bradford
John Lloyd, Esq. Newington
Edward Clarke, Esq., Temple, and Dover-street, Piccadilly
Samuel Geo. Beamish, Esq. Kennington-square
(With power to add to their number.)
BANKERS—The London Joint-Stock Bank, 5, Princes-street, Bank,
and 09, Pall-mall.
ACTING ENGINEER—Henry Renton, Esq C.E.
A ReRITECT AND SURVEVOR.—CharIes Lee, Esq., Golden-square.
SOLICITOR—J. D. Wells, Esq., No. 13, George-street, Mansion.
house.
SECRETART—R. H. Gadesden, Esq.
OFFICES—No. 70, King William-street, Mansion-house, London
The object of the promoters of this Company is to form a direct
ent
line of railway, from Bristol and Bath to Dover; and thus, in
e
unite, connect, or reciprocate with, all the existing and protected
lines of railway In the south and south-west and west ofEng teland, as
well also as form a complete communication with Ireland and all
the western and Welsh railways, and most of those in the northern
and great manufacturing districts, by which passengers and goods
to and from Folkestone and Dover, France and Belgium, may
be conveyed without the necessity of passing through the me-
tropolis.
The main line to be laid down by the Company will be censiderably
less than 100 miles, throughout which the strongest encouragement
and support hive been manifestedtowards this railway by the landed
proprietors, many of whom have determined to invest capital in the
undertaking; and the engineer's report precludes any apprehen-
sion of engineering difficulties. The great public utility and com.
mercial advantages of railway communication between the important
places and ports which it is now contemplated to unite must be at
once appreciated by reference to a map of the country, and they
will be forcibly illustrated by the objects to be attained by this
Company.
This line is Intended to begin at Bristol by means of the Great
Western Railway, and passing through Bath to Bath Hampton
it will skirt the valley of the Avon, to Bradford, and thence to
Trowbridge. It will then take as straight a direction as can
nbe
obtained to Devises, All Cannings, Petesey, Burbage, Sh'itc'torkee'
West Wocdhay, High Clere, and Overton, on to Basingstoke,
where it will unite with the South Western Railwsaeyv,„..d
from the western counties the distance wixllisttianeg
tine.
It milesill
shorter to the metropolis than by any
then, by means of the South Western th
Railway,miles)
il
ee)proceed on to near
whence, leaving
Farnborough (a distance of
piourteoen ward to Ashe, Guildford,
Farnham to the south, will
it
sat': where it wlll unite with the
Carnahan, anti Dorking to est3.f.y_.(the latter, eighteen miles
South Eastern and Dover it
from Guildford to Reigate will le all probability be constructed by
another Company.)
In its course it will thread its way through the lines of really of
h railways already constructed or projected—the junction of
the ra-
which will
not only be estimated as a great public convenience, but
prove highly advantageous to the several Companies interested,pro-
;ieaing an immense traffic, that must stream from Ireland—from
our great manufacturing districts in the north—the CiOtil and Corn
markets of the west of England—the mineral and coal fields of
Wales, and the hop districts in Kent—all of which point to the
formation of this railway as a great desideratum, as well also as to
forma direct communication with France, Belgium, and the con-
tinent generally. The distance to be saved by this railway will
exceed thirty miles from Bath (and all the towns north-west) to
Dover ; while to many of the towns southwest of Bristol sixty
miles or more will be saved by this railway in union with some of
the other lines and the eften dilasreeable and costly necessity (at
pvent uitting) cf puling through I,ndr_li, to cr from Dover,

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will be entire'y obviated, and manufacturers and merchantein mos'
parts of the country, west and north, or south, win be thus en..
aided to forward and receivegoods direct from and to Dever an i
Folkstone, avoiding the present inconvenient mode and expense of
transference from railway to railway across London.
i Any attempt to distinguish the number of passengers proceed-
ing to or from London, or the provinces and the continent by the
South Eastern and Dover Railway, would be abortive; but the
published statements of that Company show that the traffic ex.
ceeds 8,0001. weekly, and the accounts of arrivals at, and departures
from Calais, Boulogne, and Ostend, exhibit an astonishing number
of persons as passengers to and from England weekly, by Dover
and Folkenstone, throughout the whole of the year. Yielding to
the metropolis one.half of the number as a large proportion, the
remaining half will belong to the provinces and Ireland, who will
probably prefer to be conveyed from or to their localities without
the annoyance of being compelled to pass through London, es.
pecially as the saving of distance alone will considerably diminish
expenses.
The construction of this line of railway can hardly fail to meet
the full approvol of the Government; as, besides its great com-
mercial utility, the convenience it will afford for the speedy tran.
sport of troops from Ireland, or the north. south, or west of Eng-
land to Dover, in a direct manner, avoiding the present necessity of
marching them across London or ether towns, after they are once
placed iii railway carriages, must begreatly appreciated ; arid where
it is expedient that expedition and secrecy should be observed in
the removal of troops, the means offered by this Company will
greatly assist the authorities in facilitating their objects.
The railways already constructed or projected with which this
line of railway will effect a union or communication, and recipro-
cate, advantages exceed fifty in number (as will be seen by examin.
ing any railway map), and all of them must be in direct commu-
nication with, and will feed, or be fed by The Southern Counties
Union, and Bristol, Bath, and Dover Direct Railway ; the most
important junctions being those leading to this line from the north
and the manufacturing districts by Oxford to Dovor and Brighton,
those from Ireland, North Vales by Cheltenham or Oxford arid
this railway to Dover or Brighton, and those from the south and
west of England' by Salisbury to Dover; thus effecting a con-
tinuance and direct intercourse with nearly every part of Eng-
land, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and the continent.
The census returns show that this railway will pass through a
country containing a population of upwards of one million, and this
number, though large, may be fairly multiplied several times, if all
the other parts of the kingdom which will benefit by it be can-
sidered.

With there facts before them, the promoters have not deemed it
necessary to put forth estimates of traffic; the soundness of the
project being guaranteed by the truths already given in this brief
exposition, and the great objects intended to be compassed by this
Company.

LOCAL AGENTS.
Basingstoke and Odiharn—Messrs. Cole, Lamb, and Brooks
Bath—Messrs. Mant and Harvey
Bristol—Matthew Perkins, Esq.
Devizes—John Raikes Bayly, Esq.
Farnham—B. Nichols, Esq.
Hawkhurst— Messrs. Beecham and Upperton
Ifungerford and Marlborough—John Halcomb, Esq.
Ayeik,tham—Messrs. Motile and Gore
Newbury—Robert Baker, Esq. and Messrs Bunny and Son
Reading—Rupert Clarke, Esq.
Reigate— William Burt, Esq.
Trowbridge—John Brent, Esq.
Whitchurch, Hants—Thomas Pain, Esq.
Applications for shares (which must be necessarily restricted in
consequence of the immense number that have already been
applied for under guarantee of persons of the highest respectability)
with prospectuses and plans, to be made to the secretary, at the
offices of the Company, 70, King William-street, City; to
J D. Wells, Esq., 13, George-street, Mansion-house, and
to the following sharebrokers :—Lotidon, S. H. Ellis, Esq.,
17, Throgmorton-street ; Messrs. Price and Brown, Change-
alley ; L. 11. Hazlewood, Esq., Angel-court, Throgmor-
ton-street ; and T. C. Mundey, Esq., 17, Royal Exchange,
Bath, R. P. Lemon, Esq., Thomas Evans, Esq , and J. B. Mundy,
Esq. ; Birmingham, J. R. Lane, Esq., W. H. Collis, Esq. ;
Blackburn, Thomas Boardman, Esq., James Senior, EN ; Bridge-
water, Edward Lilly, Esq. ; Bristol, Messrs. Tat, and Nash, Messrs.
George Edwards and Son, and W. H. Land, Esq. ; Burton-on-
Trent, W. Wisby, Esq. ; Cheltenham, Messrs. Hall Brothers, and
Co. Coventry, Messrs. Browne and Clarke, and John T. Holland,
Esq. ; Dewsbury, John Brooke, Esq. ; Dublin, Messrs. Bruce and
Syint.s ; Edinburgh, Charles Couper, Esq.; Exeter, Messrs. H.
Beaumont and Co. ; Halifax, F. C. Spencer, Esq , and James
Hurry, Esq.; Huddersfield, Messrs. John Gatliff and Co , and John
Butchart, Esq. ; Hull, Messrs. Flint and 'Total, Messrs. Charles
Wikinson and Earle; Leamington, T. W. Powell, Esq.; Leeds,
Chantrell and Boyes ; Messrs. Wellbeloved, Barwick and Co.,
Messrs. J. and G. Rhodes, Messrs. Read, Broadbent and Co., and
James Jamieson, Esq.; Leicester, Messrs. Payne and Freer ; Liver.
pool, Messrs. Schultz and Carr, Messrs. Davies and Co., H. W.
Lucas, Esq., and John Wiils, Esq ; Manchester, Messrs. Hough-
land and Leese, Messrs. Lynil and Berlyn, Messrs. Johnsen, Brad.
ley, and Walker, Messrs. O'Neil and Nosworthy, Messrs. Ner,
Gardiner, and Heap, John Dunmit, Esq.; Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
Messrs. Kimpster; Plymouth. Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer;
Sheffield, Messrs. Garton and Wright ; Southampton,Joseph Clarke,
jun., Esq. ; Stratford-on-Avon, W. Bolton, Esq.; Taunton, Rickard
Ball, Esq. ; Worcester, William Miles. Esq. ; York, Messrs. Gray.
stop and Earle.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Southern Counties Unit■
and Bristol, Bath, and Dover Direct Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me Shares est
251. each, in this Railway, and I undertake to accept the same, or
any less number you may appropriate to me, to pay the deposit
af f2l. Its. 6d. per Share, and all future calls thereon, and to execute
the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contract whet*
equired.

Dated this day of 1 8415.
I am Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
Usual mode of Eignature
Name in full
Profession, Trade, or Occupation .
Residence and Place of Business
Name and Address of Referee in full..

STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES, AND
LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER DIRECT RAILWAY.
In consequence of the immense number of applications for shares
that have beenreceived, the allotment is delayed tor a few days, to
enable the Committee to make a careful and judicious selection. It
18 p rticulariy requested that no further applications may he made,
as none can possibly be entertained.
All communications on the business of the Company must be ad-
dressed to the Secretary, at the Company's Office, 1, Hope-street,
rlceadilly, Manchester.

J. C. KEMP, Secretary (pro tent.)
1, Hope-street, Manchester, 9th Oct., 1845.

THE TUNBRIDGE WELLS. 1311,1G11 FON,
and HASTINGS JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.
From Tunbridge Wells direct to Hastings, with a Braila) Line
`rom the same place to join the Brighton Line at Lewes.
(Blunt's Line.)
(Pro►isionally Registered.)
Capital, 750,0001., in 30,000 Shares •f 251. each.
Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.

John Wheelton, Esq., late Sheriff of London, Meopharn Bank,
Tunbridge, Director of the London and County Joint-Stock
Bank, and of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Major James Oliver Lindam, K. 11., New-street, Dorset.square
Chairman of the Gloucester and A berystwith and central Wales
Railway, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
William Cory, Esq., Commercial-road, Lambeth, Director of the
London and County Joint-Stock Bank
The Mayor of Hastings
Francis Smith, Esq., banker, Hastings
Henry Weston, Esq., Novick, Sussex
Lieutenant- Colonel Coffin, Landlord, Wilts
P. Bennett Lucas, Esq., Manchester-street, Manchester-square,
Director of the Leeds and London Direct, and Ipswich and
Southampton Railways
Frederick Harrison, Esq., Beaufoy.terrace, Maida Tale, Director
of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Life Assurance Company
Joseph Barker, Esq., Macclesfield, Cheshire
Alexander Prince, Esq., Lincoln's Inn-fields, Director of the
Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
Samuel Griffith,, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the Shrop-
shire Mineral, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direst Railways
William Case, Esq., Brook-street, Grosvenor-square
W. Bulkeley Wasse, Esq., 10, New-square, Lincoln's Inn, and
South-crescent, Bedford-square
The Rev. Lewis Evans, Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford,
Southwood. terrace, Highgate
Stephen Hutchison, Esq., Bromley, Kent, sole Proprietor of the
Bromley Gas Works
The Rev. George Kenrick, Battle, Sussex, and Regent's-square,
London
Captain George Lind, Waterloo-place, Brighton
R. Ladell, Esq., Director of the Chelmsford and Bury Railway
Henry Wardle, Esq., London and Macclesfield, Director of Re-
mington's Direct London and Manchester Railway
Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Director of the Direct Western, and the
Leeds and Carlisle Direct Railways, Waterloo Villa, Clifton,
Bristol, and 6, Hyde Park.place, West, London
George Clement, Esq., Hastings.
Jeremiah Clarke, Esq., Union-court, Broad-street, and Maccles-
field, Cheshire, Director of Remington's Direct London and
Manchester Railway
Thomas Robinson Williams, Esq., Director of the Patent 'Woollen
Cloth Company
Reginald Read, Esq., M.D., St. John's-square, London
The Rev. Samuel Andrew, Lincoln College, Oxford,
and Highgate
John Kerschner, Esq., Middle-temple
Augustus L. Lobach, Esq., Brook-street, Grosvenor-square, end
Sidmouth, Devon
William Eccles, Esq., Old Broad-street, London
Lewis name, Esq., Bury-St.-Edmund's, Suffolk.
William Downing Bruce, Eul., In, Charles-street, St. James's.
square, Director of the Leeds, Fleetwood, and Liverpot,l, and
Direct 'Western Railways
Abraham Betteridge, Esq., Devonshire-terrace, Camden-villas,
Director of the Great Grimsby, Lincoln, and Midland Junction
Railway
Edward Whitfield, Esq., M.D., Marine-parade, Brighton
George Simpson, Esq., Bedford. street, Bedford-sqtlare, Director of
the Sligo, Donegal, Tyrone, Londonderry, and Belfast Junction
Railway.
Captain C. H. Whitfield, Arundel-greet, London, Director of the
South London Suburban Railway
James Renshaw, F.sq., Erith, Kent, Merchant, 3, White Hart
Court, Lombard-street, Director of the South Stafford Railway.
John Britten, Esq., Basinghall-street, Member of the Corporation
of London.
Dr. William Wilson, 3, Devonpert-street, Sussex-square.
Rees Price, Esq., Tyne Hall, Great Ilford, Essex, Director
.f
the
Cheltenham, Oxford, and Brighton Junction Railway.
Robert Hancorne, Esq., 4, Euston-square, Director of the Hereford
and Myrther Tydvil Railway.
Henry Kirk, Esq , Gloucester-place, Dorset-square.
Henry James Meller, Esq., Clifford's Inn.itu
itsoll., qo are.
James Cockell, Esq., Bernard.street quare.
Aldboreugh Henniker,
Sussex Esq., Gray''s Inn and Copthorne Bank,
Canterbury,
Dover and Canterbury, Director of the
an and Dver Railways
Willoughby Marshallr Smithson,mreagistrEsag°.1
of the City of Canterbury
Edward Wootton,
Nathaniel
Jonas Maynard, Esq., Magistrate of the City of Canter-

bury
John Pont, Esq., Canterbury. Director of the Bristol and Doter

Railway
David Wheatcrott, Esq., Buckland-hollow, Derbyshire
Captain Charles M, M. Wright, R.N.
COMMITTER OF MANAGEMCNT.
CHAIRMAN—Thomas Carlisle, Esq.
DEPUTY-CHAlRMAN—Frederick Harrison, Esq.
A. Betteritlge, Esq. P. Bennett Lucas, esq.
William Case, Esq. Alexander Prince, Esq.
Stephen Hutchinson, Esq. Reginald Read, Esq.
R. Ladell, Esq. Francis Smith, Esq.
Major James 0. Lindham, K.U. Henry Wardle, Esq.
ENGINI ER—Charles Blunt, Esq.. C.E.
STANDING COUNSEL—John WOubrey, Esq.
?kiricrroa—G. J. Lloyd, Esq., 49, Douglity.street, Bedford-row,
London.
LOCAL IiOLICITISRS.
Messrs. Setivens and Young, Hastints
Messrs. Martin and Sons, Battle
Messrs, Barclay and King, Mayfield
W. D. Cooper, Esq., Lewes
Robert Walker, Esq., Canterbury ,111:4,117-„)
Messrs. Carvell and Gorham, Tonbrldge.
PARLIAMENTARY AGlNTS—.Messrs. Jones and Walrnsley.
ec.Of
Jp
SECRETARY (pro tem.)—Henry L. Freund, Esq. • :.•
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BANKERS IN LONDON. .i* '‘. .J
The London and County Joint.Stook Bark is:. •
fir John William Lubbock, Bart., and Co. •
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DISTRICT RANZILIIII. ;*
The Branches of the London and County .Tolnt peck Boaft4
Tunbridge, Tunbridge Wells, Lewes, ud Brighton,
ott.Haitings—)Leens,SMithi ander, andejt 4I

PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.
GREAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT
RAILWAY.
By a Junction Nvith the Eastern Countie Railway at Bedford.
Distance, 120 miles.s
Capital, 2,500,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
t to the Standing Orders of the House of Commons.
PROVISIONAL coltimrsz.
Eight Hon. Lord Dunboyne
The Lord Stephen Chi' ester, Ormeau, Belfast. and Army and Nary

Club, London
Sir Robert Alexander, Bart., Charles-street, Manchester-square
Sir Twisdem, Bart., Dorset-street, Permian-square, Director
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, and of the
South and Midland Junetien, and West Midlands Railways
Sir John o.',orn, Bart., Earl's-court, Brompton
Sir John Key, Bart., Director of the Manchester and London, and of
the Direct Liverpool and Leeds Railway
Claptain Frederick Polhill, M.P. for Bedford
Major-General Sir Robert Barton, K.C.H., Director of the York and
Lancaster Railway
Major-General Thomas Morgan, Singleton-house, Torquay
Major-General Wright, Royal Engineers, Gloucester-place, Portman-
square
William Ackroyd, Esq., Weetbourne Lodge, Otley, Director of the
East and West York, Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and Leeds and
Carlisle Railways
Thomas Alexander, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian, and
Trent Valley Continuation Railways
Francis Simes .Alllott, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Amber-
gate, Nottingham, and Boston, and E4stetn Junction, and one of
the Provisional Committee of the .Nottingham and Gainsborough
Railway Companies
Henry Ambler, Esq., worsted spinner and manufacturer, Watkinson-
hall, near Halifax, Director of the West Yorkshire Railway, and
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
C. H. Anderson, Esq., Upper Clapton, Director of the South Midland
Railway
George Ashlin, Fig., Director of the Liverpool and Newcastle-upon-

Tyne Railway
Richard Armitage, Esq., Hudderefield and Great Grimsby, Director
of the Manchester and Great Grimsby, and Keighley, Halifax and
Huddersfield Junction Railways
The Rev. Charles Edward Armstrong, M.A., Hemsworth
John Alexander Bicknell, Esq., Brandon-cottage, Bristol, Direetor of
the Oxford and Worcester Extension Railway
Charles Bamford, jun., Esq., Director of the Hull and Barnsley, and
Leeds and Carlisle Railways
iWilliam Bardgett, Esq., Winchester-house, Broad-street, Director of
the Italian and Austrian, and the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford
Rail ways
William Banks, EM , Honey-lane-market, Director of the Manches-
ter and Rugby Direct Railway, via Macclesfield
John Byng Banks, Esq., Stockwell, Surrey
Fechney Black, Esq, Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Direc-
tor of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midland Junction
Railways
Henry Weeds Burgess, Esq., Temple's-park, Hampstead, Director of
the Goole, Doncaster, and Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Great
Grimsby
Charles Salisbury Butler, Esq.,thc Lodge, tipper Clapton
Josiah Iturrowes, Esq., Castle-house, Gomersall, near Leeds
Thomas Burnley, Esq., Gomersall, near Leeds, Director of 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
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Selby

Railway
Dr. Brigstock, Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester

Railwny
Joseph Browne, Esq., Bedford
James Brand, Esq., 9, New Broad-sweet, Director of the Cambridge

and Lincoln, and G; eat Luxemburg Railway
John More, Esq., Tutbury, Director of the Tean and Dove Valley,
the Derby and Gainsborough, the Shropshire Mineral Railways, &c.
:rob Bullivant, Esq., East Retford
William Butt, Esq., Sandiacre, Derbyshire
Robert Burton, Esq., merchant, Woodville, Notts
James Butlin, Esq , hanker, West Field-house. Rugby, Director of
the Rugby and Huntingdon, and one of the Provisional Committee
of the oxford and Birmingham Junction Railway Companies
Richard Biddle, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Richard Birkin, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
John Fillingham Bishop, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Thomas Butt, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Richard Bradley, Esq., Grantham, Director of the Amber-gate, Not-
tingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
Villiain Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Chairman of the Direct
Western, and Isle of Ely and Lixeolnshire Junction Railways
Fowler Burbidg,e, Esq., Mayor of Grantham, Director of the
Anther-gate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction
Railway
:.nathan Barton, Esq., merchant, Carrington, Nottinghamshire
Director of the Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway
William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., magistrate, Hull, Director of the
W Amick, and Leamington, and of the Liverpool and Leeds

Direct Railways
Thomas Challis, Esq., Alderman of London
John Carter, Esq., Knottingley
Thomas Carter, Esq., Taushelf, Magistrate for the Borough of Pon.

tefract
Charles Chernock, Esq., Holmtield-house, near Ferry
bridge
Millis Coventry, Esq., Director, of the South and Midland Junction,
and Birmingham Extension Railways
. Clements, Esq., Lowndes-square, Director of the Western Ja-
maica Railway
()Lea Cook, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Manchester, Mid-
land, and Greet Grimsby, Gainsborough, Goole, and Isle of Ax-
hohno, and the Wiabeach, Isle of Ely, and Lincolnshire Junction
Raiways
.Cottam, Esq., East Retford
tl rCotts, Esq., Little Barclileld-hall, near Braintree, Essex
an c sClift, Esq., Director of the Paris and Strasburg, Southampton,
Manchester, and Oxford, and the Manchester, Rugby, and Mac-

clesfield Railways
W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the London and Birmingham
Extension
Henry Sberrard Coleman, Esq., Crown-court, Old Broad-street
.John Caunt, Esq., Nottingham
Thomas Mark Carter, Esq., Woodgreaves•house, near Wakefield, Di-
rector of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Direct

Railway
eorge Augustus Hamilton Chichester, Esq., Oakfleld, Donegal, and
15, Chesil:Am-place, Belgrave-square, Director of the Grand Wales
Central, and London and Exeter Direct Railways
William Champion, Esq., Worksop
William Cheethain, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Nathan Cooper, Esq., Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Francis Deere, Esq., Stratford, Essex
George Dennis, Esq., Director of the Rhondda and Ely Valleys June-
... tion Railway
oseph Dent, Esq., Ribston-hall, Wetherby, Magistrate for the
North-west Riding of Yorkshire
.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 Allcock Dixon, Esq., Burnley, Lancashire, Director of the Li-
verpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Richard Dransfleld, Esq., Dalton, Huddersfield, Director of the
Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct,
and of the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railways
Edward Doubleday, Esq., F.L.S., Director of the Rugby, Warwick,

and Worcester Railway
Matthew Dawson, Esq., Pontefract
William Dawson, Esq., !Wakefield, Director of the Peterborough,
Wisbeach, Lynn, and lloston, and the Sheffield, Wortley, Silk-
stone, and Wakefield Railways
John Campbell Dicker, Esq., New-hall, by Neston, Director of the
Eirkenhead and Holyhead, and the Birmingham, Oxford, and

Revling* Railways
Henry Minn, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Manchester, Hudders-
field, mid Great Grimsby Railway
Francis Ewart, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Foy-

mouth Railway
John Elliott. Esq., Townhead-house, Rochdale
Lleut.-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 Ex-
tension 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•
(terry and Coleraine, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways
Fisher, Esq., Amcotts-house, near East Retford
Tames Fothergill, Esq., merchant, ,Nottingham
Richard W.Fitzpatrick, Esq., barristOr-at-law,Gloncester-road, Hyde.

park-gardens
Geor4e Green, Esq., Pontefract
James Gilbertson, Esq , Alderman, and Magistrate for 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
William Gibbs, Esq., Camberwell, Director of the South Metropolitan

Cemetery Company
William Gill, Esq., Richmond, Yorkshire, Director of the Leeds and
Carlisle, and Northumberland and Lancashire Railways
John Godhcr, Esq., Hucknall Torkard, Nottinghamshire. Director of
the Amber-gate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction,
and Nottingham and Gaii.sborough Railway Companies
Thomas John Green, Esq., Mayor of Bedford
Richard Hall, Esq., Carnarvon-hall, Stratford, Director of the Strat-
ford and Thames Junction, and North Woolwich Railways
it. F. Hall, Esq., Wiseton, near Bawtry
S. C. Hall, Esq., F.S.A.. Inner Temple, Director of the Erewash
Valley Extension and West Midland Railways
W. H. Halpin, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing-
stoke. and Sheffield and Macclesfield Railways
Robert Hull, Est., M.D., Norwich
Samuel Hammond, Esq., Leeds
John Georg. Hammack, Esq., Director of the Direct Western, and
the Metropolitan Junction allways
William Hepworth, Esq., Pontefract, a Deputy-Lieutenant 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, Badsworth
Thomas Ileclis, Esq., Skipton Castle, Skipton, Director of the Lanca-
shire and North Yorkshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire North
Eastern, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways
John Holmes, Esq., East Retford
Robert Herries, Esq., East-street, Leeds, Director of the Liverpool
and Leeds Direct Railway
Charles Ifolhrooke, Esq. Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and
Manchester
John Howard, ELq., Royal Foundry, Bedford
Thomas Haigh, gsq., Wakefield, late nigh Constable of Wakefield
John Thinly, jun., Esq., banker, Grantham, Director of the Amber-
gate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction
Railway
John Harris, Esq., Springtleld-house, near Bedford
Charles Higgins, sen., Esq., St. Cuthbert's, Bedford
Geerge Illggins, Esq., Bedford
The Rev. Charles Walter Madsen, Rectory, Saundby, near Gains-

borough
George Hurst, Esq., Bedford
John Midge, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and Di—
rector of tho Derby and Stafford Railway
Empson Jalland, Esq., Holdernesa House, near Hull, Director

Of the York and Hull Railway
Boswell Middleton JaHand, Esq., Holderness-house, near Hull, Magis-
trate for the Eatt Rlding of York and Borough of Hull, and Di-
rector of the Liverpool and Leeds, and Hull and Barnsley Railways
John Jameson, Esq., Honey lane-market
'Milani Jameson, Esq., Shelton, Staffordshire, Director of the
Staffordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct
Railways
Wm. Jones Johnson, Esq., Bedford
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
Jeremiah Kaye, Esq., Huddersfield and Great Grimsby, Director
of the Manchester and Great Grimsby, and Keighley, Halifax, and
Huddersfield Junction Railways
George K'ppax, Esq., Ordsall-villa, RUIZ East Retford
31r. Samuel Knight, Pontefract
George Lawton, Esq., Ditchley's, Essex, Director of the Chepstow,
Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway
H. C. Leahy, Esq., St. James's-square
Moses Edward Legg, Esq., Watling-street, London
Captain Henry Leech, Bedford
Charles Denton Leech, Esq., Bury St. Edmunds
William Ley, Esq., 40, Gloucester-place, Portman-Square, Director of
the Reading and Reigate Railway
L. Steplafeks Lyne, Esq., Broad-street, Director of the Western

Jamaica Railway
P. Bennett Lucas, Esq., Director of the Sligo and Shannon, the Ips-
wich and Southampton, and the Cork Passage and Kinsale

Rail way
James Lamb, Esq., 25, Ilyde-park-square, Director of the Scottish
Western, and the Direct Western Railways
John Lart, Esq., Wood-street, Cheapside
James Leeming, Esq., Bradford, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct, and Keighisy, Halifax and Huddersfield Junction Railway
Samuel Lovell, Esq., merchant, Bedford
Captain J. P. Macdougall, Fir-grove, North Brixton, Director of the
Leeds, Fleetwood, and Liverpool, and Isle of Man Railways
John B. Mann, Esq., Leeds
Thomas Hackett Massey, Esq., Newark-upon• Treat, :and Bedford-
ir square, Hyde-park
Thomas M'Turk, Esq., Hull
William Mee, Req., East Retford
B. Mesham, Esq., M.D., Bedford
Robert Mellingten, Esq. Ordsall-house, near East Retford, Director
of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
Wtilisun Moorhouse Esq., Marlue-villa, Knottingley, a Provisional
Director of the Sheffield, Barnsley, and Wakefield Railway
Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of South and Midlands Junction, and
London and Birmingham Extension Railways
James Muscroft,Esq., Pontefract, Magistrate for the Borough, a Pro-
visional Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension and
Chester Junction Railway
George Mackintosh, Req., Upper &mow...tree" Portman-square.
John Manwaring, Esq., Patelay-bridge, Yorkshire, Director of the
York and Lancaster Railway
Ord Massey, Esq., Hawkes-house, Burnley, Director of the Liverpool
and Leeds Direct, the Blackburn, Chorley, and Liverpool, ma
Keighley, Haßfax, and Huddersfield Junction Railways
Thomas Micklethwaite, Esq., Wakefield
Jbarles Middleton, Esq., Nottingham park
j„ pb Esq., Manchester, Director 45` the Manchester and
and he Leeds and Carlisle Railways
Imam Joseph Nubt.
Esq., Bedford
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Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continuation
and Holyhead Junction, and West Midland and South Midland and
Oxford Extension Railways
John Ostler, EQq., Director of the Hall and Barnsley, and Leda and

Carlisle Railways
Robert Oxley, Esq., M Pontefract
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George Osgood, Esq., Raymond-buildinp, Gray's Inn
Charles Frederick Palgrave, Esq., Bedtord
Bennett Pell, Esq., 12, Finsbury-place North
John Phillips, Esq., Mayor of Pontefract
George Parbury, Esq., Mansfield-house, Russell-square
William Patterson, Esq., Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire
Robert Power, Esq., Director of the Great Britain Life Assurance
Society
Thomas Ingham Raynor, Esq., Birstal, Leeds, Director of the Leeds
and West Riding Junction, and the LlYerpool and Leeds Direct

Railways
John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Dinning-

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ham Direct, Leicester, Iron and Dove Valley Railways
Edward Rawlins, Esq., Radford
Robert Richards, Esq., Director of the West Midland Railway
John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Ilycullah-house, Enfield, Managing

Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
James Robson, Esq., Tanshelf, Magistrate for the Borough of Pon-

tefract -
Frederick Redden, Esq., Bedford
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester,
and Weymouth Junction, the Iring, Reading, and Basingstoke,
and the Direct Western Railway
George Robinson, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barailay
Junction, 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 Thirst Junc-
tion Railways
Thomas Routlidge, 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
Edward Sankey, Esq., Canterbury
Henry Savage, Esq., Director of the Irving, Reading, and Basing-
stoke Railway
Benjamin Thaw, 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, York, and Midland Railways
William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Director
of the South Midland Junction Railway, kc. &c.
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 , Kirkless Mills, near Halifax
John Sanders, Esq., Bedford
J. W. Striven, Esq., Throstlenest, near Otley, Director of the
Leeds, York, and Midland Junction Railway
Richard Shaw, Esq., Tulledge, near Burnley, Director of the Keigh-
ley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railwa3
James Henry Simpson, Esq., M. 8., Pontefract
Joshua Annable Skidmore, Esq., St. John's-place, Wakefield
William Starkey, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Sheffield, Wort-
ley, Silkstone, and Wakefield, and the Leeds and York Railways
William Stewart, Esq., Horbury, near Wakefield
George Eaton Stanger, Esq., Nottingham
Samuel Herrick Surplice, Esq., Beeston, Notts
John Streets, Esq., merchant, Spring Field-house, Sandiscre, Derby-

shim
William Surplice, Esq., Nottingham
Samuel James Sykes, Esq., Hull
James Templer, Esq., Brixton-rise, Director of the Derby, I.Tttoxeter,

and Stafford Railway
Thomas S. Trapp, Esq., banker, Bedford .
John Best Trapp, Esq., Bedford
Samuel Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street and Gorbals, Hull, Di-
rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway
Thomas Turnsy, Esq., Park-lodge, near Halifax
William Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street and Gorbals, Hull
Joseph Francis Tempest, Esq., F.S.A., the Mount, lckworth
Charles Vickers, Esq., Pontefract, Director of the Manchester, Ilud-
dersfirld, and Great Grimsby Railway
Wm. Watson,Esq , Daybrook, Nottinghamshire, Director of Amber-
gate, Nottingham and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
Samuel Warburton, Esq., Hunslet, Leeds, Director of the Wakefield

and Harrogate Railway
The Rev. Richard Whitelock, MA., Saddleworth, Magistrate for

the West Riding of Yorkshire
Joseph Whitaker, Esq., Ramsdale, Nottingnamshire
William White, Esq., Bedford
John Williams, Esq., M.D., Magistrate for Yorkshire, Director of
the York, Hull, and East and West Riding Junction Railway
Abraham Wood, Esq., Rochdale, F.R.C.S.
Joseph IVyles, Esq., Grantham, Director of the Amber-gate, Nit-
tingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland-hollow, Derbyshire, Director of
tke Rugby, Kerby, and Manchester, and Direct Birmingham and
Leicester Railways
William Williams, Esq., Royal Foundry, Bedford
Charles Waite, Esq., Willesdon-house, Middlesex
John Wheelton, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Willett, Esq., Bradford
The Rev. H. Burdett Worthington, Bedford
G. N. Wright, M.A., Coed y Celyn, Denbighshire, And Lonedale-
square, London, Director of the Thames Valley Railway
George Yates, Esq., merchant, Halifax
(With power to add to their number).
ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF—Sir John Macneil, LL.D., and F.R.3.
ACTING ENGINEER—WiIIiam Mu'linger Higgins, Esq., C.E.
LONDON SOLICITORS.
J. R. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-court.
Owen Gray, Esq.
J. B. midge, Esq. } 25, Great Tower-street.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Leeds—Charles Naylor, Esq., and
Pontefract—Henry John Coleman, Esq.
Rotherham—JohnOxley. Esq.,.and John Wright Potter, Esq.
East Retford—Messrs. Mee, Rigsby, and Mee.
Nottingham—Messrs. Fox and Butlin.
Oakham—Henry Hough, Esq.
Kettering—Thomas Marshall, Esq.
Bedford—Ezra Eagles, Esq.
SECRETARY—J. B. Owen, Esq.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT—J. M. Widdicombe, ESQ.
BANKERS.
Londen—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co.
Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Company
PDoonntceafsrtaecrt The Yorkshire Banking Company.

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, a•ter several minute exa-
minations of the country through which it will pass, has been brought
forward. .
_ . .

The proposed line will commence at the jnnction of the Manchester
and Leeds, and York and North Midland Railways, near Wakefield,
and will terminate by means of a junction with the Eastern Coun-
ties Railway, at Bedford (to which place it is the intention of that
Company to extend their line in the ensuing session of Parliament),
and by thus availing itself as far as possible of the existing railways,
will complete the most direct and least expensive trunk lime, from
London to Leeds, York, and Hull. It will pass in its route within an
available distance of Wakefield, Pontefract, Doncaster, Rotherham,
East Redford, Nottingham, Newark, Grantham, Melton Mowbray,
Oakhiun, and Stamford.
The importance of such a line is obvious, both front 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 Gains-
borough, )by the Sheffield and Gainsborough line), by a much shorter
route than by any existing railways.
Independently of the advantages offered to the tons in the seve-
ral counties through which this line will pass, the line in itself, con-
sidered 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 connecting Glasgow and 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
communication 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 (by the York and North
Midland, and Great North of England Railways) with the metropo-
lis, which would be considerably shorter than the accommodation
offered by any other company ; and when cost of construction is con-
sidered, there cannot be a doubt but that preference would be given
to the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway.
The fact of the Eastern Counties Railway being connected by a
branch line with the East and West India Docks on the river
Thames, and the Railway Company having recently leased for 999
years the extensive pepper warehouses belonging to those docks,
which are capable of 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 line,
through which all goods from the manufacturing districts could be
conveyed at once to these warehouses for shipment, thereby avoiding
the present delay and expense of cartage, and in reality establishing
an almost direct and invaluable connexion between the rivers Clyde
and Thames.
It has been ascertained that there are no engineering difficulties,
that the w irks will be easy, and the gradients remarkably good, and
that it will not materially interfere with any ornamental property.
The subscribers will be held liable only to the extent of their first
deposits, until an Act of Parliament is obtained, and afterwards only
to the amount of their subscriptions.
It is proposed 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.

BROKERS.
London—Messrs. Marten and Heseltitie, 9, Fineh-lane
Leeds—Messrs. Hopps and Co.
Liverpool—Messrs. Joseph King And Son
Hull—Messrs. Flint and Tootal
Manchester—Messrs. Cardwell and Sons
Bradford—Mr. Josiah Scholetield
Edinburgh—Mr. Charles Couper, 30, St. Andrew's-vinare.

GREAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT
RAILWAY.
The Managing Committee of this Railway hereby give notice that
they are now proceeding in the Allotment of the Shares in the above
undertaking, and that all the Letters of Allotment will be issued in
the ensuing week.

J. B. OWEN, Secretary.
Temporary Offices, Adelaide place,
London-bridge.

HULL AND HOLYHEAD DIRECT
RAILWAY.

NOTICE,

No Applicatlen for Sharesintgeompany will be received In
London after TO-MORROW, WEl:was-DKr, the 15th instant, and from
the country after SATURDAY, the 18th instant.

By order,
WM. TYLER, Secretary,
2, Winchester-buildings, Great Winchester-street, 10th Oct., 1845.

BRIGHTON AND CHELTENIiA.MD
RAILWAY.
(Registered Provisionally.)
Capital, 1,100,0001., in Shares of 201. sash.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.
COMMITTEE OP MANAGEMENT.
The Right Hon. Lord Rossmore, Dell, Windsor,
The Right Hon. George Lionel Dawson Darner, M.P., 0, Timey.,
street, Park-lane
The Hon. Robert Gore, M.P.
nproao,l3l. .P., Brook's Club
LTiheeutieinoanntivCoploanvrelsothne,
The Hon. T. W. Gage, house, Westmems, Peterstleld
RPamrlisjto. nCe.-IWodegset!
Westbury-
sir Henry Webb, Bart. Pall-mall
Sir George William Prescott, Bart. Chairman
Sir William Boothby, Bart. Ashbourne hall, Derb ys
le revisiig bar-
Arnold, Thomas James, Esq., Sergeants' Inn, Temhp ,
rister for the City of London
ire
Cleobury, Thomas Mortimer, Esq. Askew-villa
Coupe Henry Coe, Esq. Goldhanger, Maidon
Cumberlege, N, Esq. York-terrace, Regent's-park
Dalby, John R., Esq. Ashbourne, Derbyshire
Dayrell, E. Francis, Esq. Lilingston Dayrell, Bucks, High Sheriff of
Bucks, Chairman of the 31inehead and Bridgewater Railway
Everitt, Henry Yarburgh, Esq. Brighton
Gernon, James, Esq. 13, Conduit-street
Greig, A., Esq. Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square
Heaviside, Richard, Esq. Brighton
Ileneage, Charles, Esq. Cadeby-house, Lincolnshire
Henty, J., Esq. Chichester
Keene, John Joseph, Esq. Chairman, director of the National Bank
of Ireland, St. John's-wood, Regent's Park
31`Cann, Nicholas, Esq., 50, Parliament-street
Meteyard, llorace William, Esq. Chatham-place
Moore, Major, Queen Ann-street, Cavendish-square, director of tse
Indian Peninsular Railway
Seymour, Frederick, Esq. St. James's-square, director of the Lon-
don and Nottingham Railway
Watkins, Robert, Esq. Augusta-house, Worthing
Wines, George, Esq. Hungerford-park
ENGINEERS.
Sir John Rennie, F.R.S. 1 George Remington, /Esq., C.L.
ACTING ENGINEER—Henry Wrigg, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Augustus Walter Arnold, Esq., 31, Golden-square, London
JohnlOwens, Esq., 35, Moorgate-street, London.
Local, Soucaolts—Messrs.Attree, Clarke, and M`Whin.nie, Brighten,
• LOCAL AGENTS.
William Mitchell, Esq., Petersfield
Messrs. Bailey and Wickham, Winchester.
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Barnard, Dimsdale, and Co., iO, Cornhill
Messrs. Cockburn, and Co., Whitehall
Brighton—The Union Bank
Branch of London and County Joint-Stock Banking Com-
pany
Cheltenham—Branch of the National Provincial Bank of England
Peterstield—Branch of London and County Joint-Stock Banking
man.
PARLIAmENTAKCoY AGENT— Cadwallailar F. Waddy, Esq. Fladyer-
street.
Frederick Penny.

BRIGHTON and CHELTENHAM DIRECT
RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that 1110 further application for shares in
this Company, can be received. The Committee are now proceeding
with the allotment, and the letters will be issued as soon AS the re-
pleted.
quisite inquiries, as to the raspoAsibuity of the applicane, can be com-
-I,lt.tt. Oita Mr!.Secceta
nk Z 4 3forgat4-itriO4:o4tobat 1541,

PRELIMINAUT ANNOUNCEMENT.
LONDON AND HARROIV-ON-THE-HILL
DIRECT RAILWAY COMPANY.

(Provisionally Registered.)

A Company is now forming for the purpose of opening a direct rail-
way communication between Ilarro -on-the-Bill and London. A de-
tailed prospectus, with] a most efficient Committee, will ha shortly
published. In the interim, applications for shares and other informa-
tion may be obtained by application to Benjamin Wallington, Esq.
(Solicitor to the Company), at his office.s, No. 3, Crown-court,
Threadneedle-street, in the City of London.
9th October, 1845.

THE DIRECT LONDON AND HASTINGS
RAILWAY, HARBOUR, PIER, AND DOCK COMPANY,
with Branch Railways to the Town and Port of Rye, and from Tun-
bridge Wells to Lewes.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
Temporary Odlees, New Adelphi Chambers, John-street, Adelphi,
Loudon.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTY.E.
John Jones, Esq., Rirkstali, near Leeds, director of the- Isle of Ely,
Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Junction
Henry 011ard, Esq., Walsoken, near Wisbeach, director of the Isle of
Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Junction
John Whitwell, Esq., Wisbeach, director of the Huntingdon and

Wisbeach Union. Railway
David Wheatcroft, Esq. (German, Wheatcroft, and Sons), Belper
Robert Cook, Esq., Gainshorough, director of the Cambridge and Lin:

coin Extension
John Robson, Esq., lietton, Durham, director of the Direct Western

and Isle of Ely hallway Company
Richard D, Ernes, jun., Esq., Knaresborough
James Shaw, Esq., Salford, Manchester, direct•r of the Direct Ches-

ter, and Direct Western Railway
Mathew Benjamin Robson, Esq., Sherburn Grange, Durham
Thomas Ferrand Dearden, Esq., Rochdale, director of the Stafford-

shire Potteries and Liverpool Railway Company
Captain C. F. Parkinson, Ardwick, Manchester, director of the Man-

- .
chester and Southampton Railway Company
C. J. S. Walker, Esq., J.P., Manchester, director of the Rugby and
Manchester, and Direct Chaster and Manchester Railway Company
James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Salford, director of the York and Man-
chester, and Direct Western Railway Companies
Menry Farrington, Esq., York-place, Manchester, director of tke
Manchester, Wigan, and Southport Railway Company
James Clarkson, Esq., Cheethiun-hill, Manchester
Jahn HeHord, Esq.,: Rusholme Ilall, Manchester, director of Re-
mington's London and Manchester Railway
Rev. T. S. Mills, Littleborough, magistrate for the county of Lancaster
Thomas Hamilton, Esq., Rusholme Hall, Manchester, director of the
_ _

Leicester and Tamworth Railway
Edward Norris, Esq., Clairville Manor, Manchester, director of the
Direct London and Manchester Railway Company
Samuel Phillips, Esq., Chester-terrace, Regent's Park, aad Levant

House, St. Helen's-place
John Upham, Esq., Clarges-street, Piccadilly, and Frederick-place,
Clifton, Bristol
Daniel Ebbets, Esq., 16, Mincing-lane, London
James Parsons, Esq., Arwerlinide, Falmouth
George E. Upham, Esq., 3, Cambridge-etrest, Hyde Park
William Sprott Boyd, Esq., Cleveland-row, director of the Thames
Embankment, and Hull and Swansea Railway
Warren Stormes Hales, Esq., Gresham-street, director of the Oxford

and Worcester Extemsion
Joseph Clowes, Esq., managing director of the British and Foreign

Gas Meter Company
Thomas James Arnold, Esq., Sergeant's Inn, Fleet-street
Frederick Collingridge, Esq., Thurloe-square, Brompton
Charles Robert Coltman, Esq., director of the South Midlands Railway
John Brocke Walbancke, Esq., director of the South 31 idlands
Major-General Brooks Parlby, C. 8., Rutland-gate, Ilyde-park
William Shirk, Esq., Cricklewood, Middlesex, director of the Guaran-

tee Society
Robert Richards, Esq., director of the Birmingham and London Ex•

tension Company
Alexander Davis, Esq., director of the Great Weleh Junction Railway
Major David Fitzgerald, Pall-mall, and Valentia, Irelaid, director of
the Reading and Reigate, and Grand London and Dublin Approxi-

mation Railways
Frederick William Caldwell, Esq., Eoundary-house, St. John's-wood,
directior of the Liverpool, Ormskirk and Preston Railway
Charles C. Mactavish, Esq., 22, Rutland-gate, Kensington
Thomas Robarts Thelluson, Esq., 16, Hyde-park-street
Richard Clay, Esq., merchant and shipowner, Great Winchester•

street, direet•r of the Barnsley and Goole Railway
John Downes, Esq., Bedford-place, Russell-square
John Stewart, Esq., Portman-square, director of the Thames Em-
bankment Company
William Cremer, Esq., Barnes, Surrey, and Mincing-lane, City,
director of the Northern and Southern, and the Grand Trunk
Railways
Richard Power, Esq., Long Orchard, and Eccleston-square
The O'More, Cloghan Castle, high sheriff of Roscoirtmon, director of
the Grand London and Dublin Approximation Railway
Charles Frederick, Esq., director of the Manchester and Southamp-
ton Railway
John Chancellor, Esq., Hyde-house, Battersea
James Troup, Esq., Hastings, director of the Direct Western Railway

Company
W. B. Chorley, Esq., Tremadoc, director of the Direct London and
Holyhead, and forth Dyidhien Railway, and Slate Quarries, lies-
tiniog
William Pritchard, Esq., Doctors'-commons
Richard Hewes, Esq., Knaresborough.

COMMITTER OF MANAGEMENT.
Major Fitzgerald James Troup, Esq.
William Cremer, Esq. Warren Stonnes Hale, Esq.
Samuel Phillips, Esq. William Slarke, Esq.
Daniel Ebbetts, Esq. • William Pritchard, Esq.
(With power to add to their number.)
CONSULTING ENGINEER.
ACTING ENGINEERS—W. Rider, Esq. ; Mr. George Smith.
floticrrons—Messrs. Potter and Cullingridge, Basinghall-street.
PARLIAMENTARY- AGENTS.
Messrs. Cameran and Bain, 18, Parliament-street
SECRETARY—Thomas A. Corlett, Esq.
BANKERS—London and Westminster Bank.

The formation of this Company inta originated with gentlemen
having extensive local interests, for the purpose of effecting direct
railway communication between London and Hastings, using a por-
tion of the existing railways to complete the most direct line, as well
As assist in extending railway accommodation in the south-eastern
district, " and will be the only direct line under local management
between London and Hastings." The line will be constructed for
working either with atmospheric power or locomotive steam-engines,
as may be proved to be most advantageous previous to the perma-
nent way being laid.
It is also proposed to make a line of railway from Tunbridge Wells
to Lewes and Brighton, by a junction with the coast line at Lewes,
and thus open lines of communication with the populous towns in
North Kent and the southern coast.
It is further contemplated to establish a branch to the town and
port of Rye, or to connect the Direct Hastings line with the Hastings
and Ashford coast line, for which an Act was obtained last session.
To the inhabitants of Tunbridge Wells, Maidstone, Rochester,
Chatham, Sheerness, Gravesend, &c., it will afford direct and speedy
access to Hastings, Brighton, Eastbourne, Worthing, and the neigh-
bouring seaports, as well as the eastern and western parts of Sussex.
To the inhabitants of Hastings and St. Leonard's the advantages
to be derived from the formation of this line will be evident. Bring-
ing the Metropolis within a two hours' _lent-my, it must of necessity
greatly increase the already well-established reputation of those
ustly-celebrated watering-places, and bring to them an increased
number of visitors, who are now deterred from residing there by rea-
son of the absence of railway accommodation.
To the inhabitants of J.ewes and Brighton the advantages are pro-
portionately great. Passing, as the proposed line will do, through a
great agricultural district, it will give increased facilities for the
transport of the produce of those districts.
In 180 G that eminent engineer, the late Mr. John Rennie, pro-
jected a harbour and dock, at Hastings; and subsequently, Mr.Cubitt,
C.E., and Mr. Brooks, C.E., surveyed the coast, and projected har-
bours in the same situation ; there can be no doubt a considerable
portion of continental traffic must pass from Hastings to the opposite
ports on the French coast, the direct line between London and Faris
being through Hastings.
The existing trade and fishery of Hastings is ample to pay five per
cent. on the coast of the harbour, pier, and dock, and the natural
result of such accommodation opposite so many ports on the French
coast, must be that of threefold increase.
Strict attention to economy will be given in the expenditure of the
capital, thereby guaranteeing to the public low charges for the con-
veyance of passengers and goods, and there cad be no reasinable
doubt, that when the traffic is fairly developed, the full rate of 10 per
cent. will be paid, and a surplus left for branch ilaes, or a reduction
of fares. . . . . .

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In drawing attention to the merits of this undertaking it should be
ebserved that the formation of a trunk line between the metropolis
and Hastings, one of the most healthy and fashionable watering-places
in the kingdom, which is increasing in estimation the more its valua-
ble resources are developed, in addition to the formation of a harbour,
pier, and dock—the great improvement in steam navigation—the
establishment of railways between Paris and the ports on the Freneh
coast opposite Hastings, " render this one of the most important, as
well as direct lines of communication between London and Paris," as
reference to the map will clearly point out.
There are no engineering difficulties ; and the lines are under
sarvey, for the purpose of depositing plans, &C., previous to the en-
suing session of Parliament.
The liability of the Shareholders will be limited to the amount of
their subscriptions, and in allotment of shares, a preference will be
given to landowners on the respective lines ; and power will be se-
cured in the Oct to allow 4 per cent. on paid-up capital previous to
opening the lines.

Protpectuses and plans of the line, with forms of application for
shares, may be had at the solicitors, at the temporary offices of the
company, and at the following sharebrokers :
London—J. Bates and Co
Liverpool—T. Coglan and gods
Manchester—Cardwell and Sens, and Green and Lockwood
Bristol—Wreford, Nicholls, and Co.
Leeds—Thos. M. Lee, Harvey Mirfin, and Bell and Ledger
Glasgow—Aitken and Buchannan
Exeter—Thomas Sandford
Hull—Flint an i Tootal
Plymouth—Hayward and Palmer
Birmingham—John Wright andJ. Collis
Edinburgh—Rohertson and Co., and M'Cullnra and Co.
Haddersfield—Wilson and liollawell
Worcester—Thomas H. Wheeler
lialifax—James Hervey

FORM OF APPLICATION.
Ti the Provisional Committee of the Direct London and Hastings

Railway, Harbour, Pier, and Dock Company.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me shares of 201.
each in the above Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the
came, or any less number that may be alloted me, subject to the re-
gulations Company, and to pay the deposit of 21.25. per share,
andtoeeoefuttehe the necessary deeds when required.
Name in full • • .
Profossion or business (if any), and address
of the same ...... ..........
Residence in full • • • • • • .. • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Referee....
Address of referee
Date• • • • • • • .. • • •
Signature of applicant .

HUNTINGDON, WISBEACH, AND ST.
IVES UNION RAILWAY.

Being an extension of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Liacolnahire
Junction Railway, froui March to Huntingdon and St. Ives.

Capital 200,0001. in 8,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 31. 12s. 6d. per Share.

brialecwhitvoedS—t.
b It a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Isle of Ely, Wis
anTdhuatefuthlet
each, and Lincolnshire Junction Railway :
Directorsthe put b 1:1 cr .
Twheast,awnoeuxltdenbseionronoftatbhiee
mlsleanofinEyeslyt,mleVnistbeaaccha,piatanld,
Lincolnshire Junction Railway from March to Huntingdon, with a
the IsleP of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire
Junction Railway
name of the ae measures to carry out the project, under the
That the capital Huntingdon,be St. Ives, and Wisbeach Union Railway.
Shares of twenty-flue two
_ hundred thousand pounds, in eight then-
sandThat Messrs. spezr, 7 pounds each.
Messrs. Rust and Yew
, ttwood, and Co. be the hankers in London;
vincial Bank of England, Yai atHuntingdon ; and the National Pro-
The Directors of the Isle March,
Wisbeach, and Sutton.
Junction Railway, having been
of
Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire
deliberation, determined to add tur:ently requested, kayo upon nature
of their much approved line the rail
tie value and to the public utility
This short but important line of railwayway now announced.
of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire will
proceed from the Isle
through or near Wtmblingtoo, Doddiunnction Railway, at March,
King's Ripton, Hartford, Chatteris, gton, Benwick, Broughton,
to Huntingdon. Ramsey, Warboys, and Hurst,
The placing of Wisbeach, the natural port of
this rich and eaten-
sive agricultural district, in immediate connexion with Huntingdon,
the focus of six railways, must be a great accommodation,
paramount importance to that port ; added to whi and of
e,
desired by the mercantile community of both towns. it has long been
It also gives Wisbeach and its vicinity, and the other
places which it will traverse, the chelee of two re u t es populous
to the metro-
polio en the completion of that portion of the London and York Rail-
wayon which joins Huntingdon, giving the railway communieati by
St. Ives to Wisbeach, an object which the inhabitants of the town
have publicly testified their desire to accomplish.
'Power will be applied for In the Act if Parliament to emsiganrate
this Company with the Isle of Ely, Wlsbeacb, and Lincolnshire Junc-
tion Railway under one management.
Holders of shares in the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, arid Lincolnshire
Junction Railway may have shares In the present Company, in the
proportion of one share for every two, by transmitting a letter
stating the fact to the Secretary, or either of the Solicitors, on or
before the 15th of October instant. Application for shares may also
be made in the accompanying form. No application can be received
after the 18th of October, and the shares will he allotted without
delay.

FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Iluntingdou, St. Ives, and
_ _ _

Wlsbeach Linton Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 251.
each in the above company, and I undertake to pay the depoeit of 21.
12s. 6d. per share thereon, or any less number yen may appropriate
to me, and to execute the Subscribers' AgTeeillent and Parliamen-
tary Contract when required.
Dated this

day of October, 1845.

Name
Residence ..
Trade or Profession • • • • • •
Place of Business (if any) ..
Reference • • • • • • • • • • • ...... • •• • • • • • • • • • • •
Jolla SoLierrolts-Tames Coppock, Esq., 3, Clevelaad•row ; John

Bell. Esq., 28, Craven-street.
LOCAL Souorroza—Thomas Stead Watson, Esq.. Wisb•ach;
and Esq
WILLIAM WILDr, Secretary%
Ofacat, is, Ordll=4f:tett, Lchato, Oct. 9, 1845.