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London, England, 1845-09-30 00:00:00

IRISH GREAT WESTERN (DUBLIN to
GALWAY) RAILWAY.
The deeds of this Company will lie for signature on and after
WEDNESDAY, the let of October, at No. 19, Moorgate-street, London,
where also the new scrip may be had.
The letters of allotment for the exchange of scrip an in course of
issue according as the respectability of the applicants is ascertained.
FITZSTEPHEN FRRNCH, Chairman.
September 25, 1845.

IRECT WESTERN RAILWAY
(Upon the Broad Gauge),
From London to the Land's-end ; with Diverging Lines to Bath and

Bridgewater respectively.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
Offices, 20, Poultry, London.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Camperdown, Sidney-place, Bath
The Viscount Mandeville, Kimbolton-park, Hunts
Lord James O'Bryen, Royal-crescent, Bath
Lord William Powlett, Bath, and Downham-hall„ Brandon, Suffolk
General Sir John Slade, Bart., Muntys Court, Taunton
Colonel Luttrell, Kilve Court, Somerset
The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., Director of the South Mid-
land Railway, Brookes' Club, St. James's-street
Sir Francis Dugdale ♦stley, Bart., Everly House, Pewsey, Wilts
Sir Henry Webbe, Bart., 105, Pall-mall
Frederick Hodgson, Esq., M.P. for Barnstaple, 3, Carlton Gardena
Howard Elphinstone, Esq., M.P., 19, Eaton-place, London
Ralph Neville, Esq., M.P., Hill-street, Berkeley-square
Charles Barry Baldwin, M.P., 6, Parliament-street
Hon. Percy Evans Freks, 3, Belgrave-square
Thomas Nugent Vaughan, Esq., 32, Grosvenor-place, London
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the
Sheffield and Manchester, and Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
Companies
Sir Robert Price, Bart., 31 P Forlay. Herefordshire
Sir John Cave Brown Cave Bart Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Sir William Young, Bart ; Wntbaurna Aro 311, Hyde-park, East India
Director
John Clark, Esq., Benefield Hoes., near Trowbridge, Wilts, Magi's-

trate for the counties of Wilts and Somerset
Alfred Batson, Esq., Ramsbury, Wilts, and Upper Bedford-place
Major Hunt Grubbe, Eastwell House, Devizes
John Sealy, Esq., Bridgwater, banker
John Lovel Sealy, Esq., Bridgwater, banker
William Adair Bruce, Esq., Lansdown-crescent, Bath
►ir John Key, Bart., 9, King's Arms-yard, Alderman of the City of
London, Director of the Direct Manchester and London and Direct
Liverpool and Leeds Railway Company
Thomas Faracomb, Esq., Griffin's Wharf, Tooley-street, Alderman
of the City of London, and Director of the Louden and Westmin-
ster Bank, and of the London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidder-
minster Railway
Thomas Challis, Esq., Enfield, Alderman of the City of London
Edward Harrisson Barwell, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the North-
ampton. Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway, and Director of the
South Midland Railway
Joseph Armitage, Esq., Miln's Bridge House, Huddersfield, Depaty
Lieutenant and a Magistrate for the West Riding of Yorkshire,
Chairman of the Budderstield and Sheffield Railway
William Gordon Thomson, Esq., 33, Gloucester-read. Hyde Park,
Director of the Northampton. Banbury, and Cheltenham, and

South Midland Railways
Donald Maclean, Esq., 37, Brunswick-sqaare, London, Depaty
Chairman of the Trent Talley Continuation ItaihN ay
Thomas Lawrence, Esq., 3, St. Mary Axe
Philip W. Courtnay, Esq. Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, Londoi
Millis Coventry, Esq., Nihitehart-court, Lombard-street
Barnet L. Whilips, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, aid

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George-street, Mansion Mouse
Boswell Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holierness House, near Mull,
Deputy Lieutenant and Magistrate for the East Riding of Yorkshire
Charles Robert Coleman, Irongate Wharf
William Eales, Esq., Mincing.lane, London, late Director of the
Devon and Cornwal Banklag Company
Charles Downes, Esq., Warwick-street, Charing-crow, Director of
the South Midland Railway
Martin Stutely, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terraco, Regent's Park, London,
Director of the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine, aid the South
Essex Railways
Francis Ede, Esq., 34, Great Winchester-street
John Addis, Esq., Rotherhithe and Mark-lane, r4oadon, Director of
the Central Terminus Railway, and of the Licensed Victuallers'

Fire and Life Insurance Company
James Ronshaw, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street, and West
Heath House, Frith, Kent, Director of the south Stafordshiro

Railway
Thomas Drane, Esq., Pall-mall, and St. Mary Chard:, Devon, Direc-
tor of the Bridport and Exeter, and Goole and Doneisster Railways
Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brenabo Ironworks, Wrexham, and Canuou-

street, London
H. G. Atkinson, Esq., Upper Gloucester-place, Regent's Park
George M'lntosh, Esq., 127, Seymour-street, Portman-square
Frederick Solly Flood, Esq., Alpha-road, Regent's Park, London
Major White, 105, Pall-mall, London, Director of the South Midland

Railway
Charles 11leaden, Esq., Coulsden-court, Surrey, Chairman of the Li.
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censed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company
J. G. Hatnmack, Esq., Essex House, Mile-end-road, Director of the

Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company
Patrick Fres. Johnston, Ecq., Great Cumberland-placo
Joseph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, Minories, Director of the Leaden and

Blackwall Railway Company
William• Downing Bruce, Esei., F.S.A., 17, Charles-street, St. James's,

and Ripon
Cuthbert Woodcock, Esq., Grove-road, North Brixton
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanstene-street, Portman-
square, Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth, and
the Great Western Extension Railways
George Hammond Whalley, Esq., 30, Pall-mall, Louden
William Hagan, Esq., 0, Baker-street, Portman-square
William Breynton, Esq., Montpelier, Cheltenham, and Temple, Lon-
don, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth Railway
Richard Harris Purcell, Esq., Cambridge-street, Hyde Park, Lon-
don, Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Railway

Company
Philip Baker, Esq., Euston-square, London, Auditor of the London

and Blackwall Railway Company
Charles James Heath, Esq., 6, London-street, Mark-lane
Captain E. N. Trowbridge, lt.N., 11, Eaton-square
Anthony Ridley, Esq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury, a Director of the
St. Katherine Docks Company, and of the General Shipowners'
Society
William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgra've-square
Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., Clopton House, Warwickshire, and

Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire -
George Payne, Esq., Sulby Hall, Northamptonshire, and Charles.
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street, Berkeley-square
James Beech, Esq., Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, and Grosvenor-
place, London
Nicholas Philpot Leader, Esq., Dromagh Castle, county Cork, Union
Club, Trafalgar-square, Director of the Killarney Junction Rail-
way Company
Sabnuel Baker, Esq., Lyppiat Park, Gloucestershire, and London
William Congreve Russell, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Di-
rector of the Warwickshire and London Railway
Henry Bradley, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire
John William Yerbury, Esq., Belcombe Howe, Wiltshire, Captain 3d

g REAT KENT ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY.
Promoted in conjunction with the London and Croydon
Railway Company.

Light Dragoons - - -
Robert Main,Esq., RaTensbourna Park, Lewisham, and Trinity.

William Ruston, Esq., Catherine-court, Trinity-square
G. Whigrove Cooke, Exeteremple, London
C. I. Selwyn, Esq.,
Joseph Hopwood, Esq., Exeter, Director of the Exeter and Falmouth

Railway
Richard Compton, Esq., Eddington House, Hungerford, Berks, a
Magistrate for the counties of Wilts and Berks
Henry Coa Coape, Esq., Goldhanger, Malden, Essex
The Constable of Hungerford
Richard Davis, Esq., St. Helen's-place, Director of the South Midland
Railway
Edward Hyde Clarke, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of
the Warwickshire and London Railway
Captain William Lionel Lampert, The Highlands, Oxfordshire, and
Leamington, War wickshice
R.N. Leamington, Warwickshire
Esq.. Chad-house, Edgbaston, Birmingham, Director
sFrancisaaoipnfta
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eis,Burton,aoiuiiets
South
Esq., Milverton House, Warwickshire
CStewart,E
Staffordshire Railway
William Northage, Esq., Upper Gower-street, Bedford-square
John Wodley Hughes, Req., Gloucester, Director of the Birmingham
and Bristol Railway
Lewis Bruce Knight Bruce, Esq., The Priory, Roehampton, Surrey
Francis Cole Humbert, Esq., Oxford-street, Hyde:Park
Algenion Greville, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park
John Parkinson, Req., F.R.S., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park
James Lamb, Esq., Hyde-park-square'
Richard Groucoek, Esq.,l Bow-churchyard, and Dulwich, Director
of the Direst Manchester Railway
J. B. Simpson,
Esq., Rutland-lodge, Brixton
Henry Bollerby, Esq., Sheriff of York
Henry Ledgard, Esq., 39, Wood-street, Cheapside, Director of the
Rugby and Macclesfield Direct Railway
John Williams, Esq., Eaton-square.
Thomas Grimsditch, Esq , M.P., Macclesfield, Cheshire
Samuel Griffiths, Esq., Penn-fields, Wolverhampton, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Railway
William Miller, jun., Esq., Leicester
Edward Westlake, Esq., Southampton
Erasmus R. Foster, Esq., Birchin-lane
William Bargett, Esq., Broad-street
Peter R. Morrison, Esq., Princes-street, Bank
Thomas Miller, jun., Esq., Leicester
John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Enfield, Director of the York and Lan-
caster Railway
Thomas Kidley, Esq., M.D., Sheffield
James Sheppard, Esq., jun.. White Hart-court, Lombard-street
Valentine Knight, Esq., Cernwall-terrace, Regent's Park, Magistrate
for Middlesex
Esq., Exeter
William Pearce, Esq., Liverpool
J(lochonrgCeltrwpitinSbeer'eombe, Esq., Exeter
W. Holliday, Esq., Chad Valley, Edgbaston, Birmingham
Robert Henry Hurst, Esq., jun., Temple
Witham Nash, Esq., Capham Common
Grey Hazlerigg, Esq., West Carlton Hall, Leicester
Captain Twisieton Graves, Duke-street, St. James's,
Director of the
Leicester and 'Tan and Dove Valley Railway
(With power to add to their number).
ENGINEERS IN CHIEF.
Sir John Macula, LL.D., F.R.S.
James Thomson, Esq., F.R.S.E., M.R.I.A.
BANKBAs—Messrs. Curries and Co., Coruhill, London.
.I9INT SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Bell, Brodrick, an Bell, Bow Churehyard, Londe.
Messrs. Rickards and Walker. 29, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London
Messrs. Haynes and Moore, Warwick and London
Messrs. J. V. and J. T. Harting, 24, Lincoln's lon-fields, Loutou.
SECRETARY—Thomas Hosier Saunders, Esq.
ASSISTANT-SECRETARY—Chutes J. Whalley, Req.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
At Newbury—Messrs. Godwin and Gray, and B. Pinniger, Esq.

(Provisionally Registered).
Capital 2,500,0001. in 100,000 Shares of 251. each.

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square, London
Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsall House, Retford, Nottinghamshire
John GiHyatt Booth, Esq., Crouch Hall, Herrisey
Major-Gen. Martin White, Marlborough-buildings, Bath
Rev. T. Harvey Ashworth, Burlyns House, Rear Newbury, Marks
Col. Burelem, Harwood Lodge, Nerbury, Barks
Major Kirwan, Great Pulteney-street, Bath
Rev. Dr. Godfrey, Grosvenor-place, Bath
Edward Cooper, Esq., Staverton, Wilts, Magistrate of the County
Henry Toogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse, Wilts, Magistrate of the

Deposit 2/. 103. per Share ; of which, under a guarantee from the
London and Croydon Railway Company as to the expenses, at least
21. will be returned if no Act be obtained in the next session.
The line has the approval of the following Noblemen and Gentlemen
of the county:—
The Right lion. Earl Stanhope, Chevening Park
The Right Hon. Earl Amherst, Knole
The Right Hon. John Charles Herries, St. Julien 's
Gir Richard Henry Charles Rycroft, Bart., Everlands
Sir John William Lubbock, Bart., High Elms
J. P. Atkins, Esq., Halstead-place
Robert Gordon, Esq., R.N., Sevenoaks
Henry Hughes, Esq., Bradbourn
Isaac Hayton, Esq., Asbridge House, Tonbridge
W. Lambard, Esq., Beechmont
George Warde Norman, Esq., Bromley-common
Evan Nepean, Esq. R.N., Sevenoaks
Charles Robert Carter Petley, Esq., River Head House
William Pott, Esq., Bromley
Rev. James Sutcliffe, Knockholt
Rev. John Thomas Wilgress, River Head
John Ward, Esq., Holwood
Samuel N. Ward, Esq., Baston
John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, Tonbrldge.

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County
Rev Chas. Fras. Ramifylde, Rector of Dunkorten, near Bath, Magis-

At Ramsbury—William Rowland, Esq.
At Devizes, Henry Gilbert, Esq., and John Edwards Hayward, Esq.
At Troubridge and Bradford, Messrs. Stone and lt.dway
At Bath, Messrs. Batehellor, Harford, and Staunton
At Sheptonllett—Francis Isaac Nalder, Esq.
At Bridgewater, Messrs. 0.2!1. and J. R. roolo

At Eicier—William Denis Moore, Esq.
At Tiverton, T. L. T. Kendall, Esq , anal S. A. Tom 3, Faq.
At Lanncelton—Messrs. Lawrence and PattJon

trate for Somerset
Richard Mortintore, Esq., Chippenham, Wilts
George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, Director of the Bristol and Birraing•

hart Railway Company _
R. Wootten, jun., Esq., Banker, Oxford, Director .f the Baakiagham.

shire Railway and Wolverton Junctiou
Richard Mortimore; Esq., Klngsmill, Collampton
Rev. John Sydenham, Collumpton
Rev. R. A. Roberts, Reetor of Kentishere, Collamipton
Charles Justice, Esq., Collumpton, Devon
Richard Marker, Esq., Ufeulm Cottage, Tiverton
Colonel Henry Dundas Campbell, Noith End House, Portsmouth
George Pearce, Esq., Rradninch House, near Collumpton
Wm. H. Halcomb, Esq., Chilton, Hungerford, Chairman of the Barks

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
SIX Directors of the London and Croydon Railway Company
Six Gentlemen to be selected from the County.
ENGINEER IN CHlEF—William Cubitt, Esq., F.R.S.

SoticiToas--Messrs. Burehell, Kilgour, and Parson, 47, Parliament

At Bodmin
At Truro
At Penzance

At Falmouth—Messrs. Tresidder and Son
The object of this line is to effect a direct communication between
London and the Land's End.
In a national point of view such a line is indispensable. With
the advantage of a direct railroad, Falmouth, from it., situation at the
western extremity of the kingdom, would undoubtedly long since
have been the principal port on that coast. With the advantage of
at least 280 miles of heavy road, that place has attained its high po-
sition as a Packet Station. Southampton, with far less natural ad-
vantages, has, since the opening of the South-Western Railway, in-
creased its imports from 200,0001. to 3,000,8001. per annum. At Bris-
tol, before the opening of the Great Western Railway, the imports
were declining,; since then they have very considerably increased.
The merits of a line to the Land's End as au investment for ca-
pital, it was not left to the present Company to discover. The Great
Western and Bristol and Exeter Railway having already reached.
Exeter, it has been in contemplation to extend that line to Fal-
mouth by way of Plymouth ; and various other projects have been
set on foot on the conviction that Falmouth must be reached by
rallw ay.
The object of thii prospectus is to show that no ether line than the
resent can ultimately satisfy the exigencies of the country in regard
to this, its most important outport—" the natural Packet Station of
the empire."
The prosent project is distinguished by this—that it is direct. It is
as nearly as possible a straight line from London to the Land's End.
The London, Bath, and Bridgewater Company having amaiga-
Mated with this Company, the immense local influence commandskl
by them will now contribute to the great national object of a direct
line.; while means have been taken for securing the traffic and afford-
ing all the accommodation contemplated by that Company.
Tbe Direct Western availing itself of the Great Western Railway
so far as Reading, pursues Its course by or near Newbury, Hunger-
ford, Great Bedwin, Marlborough, Devizes, the manufacturing dis-
trict of Trowbridge (frora which a diverging line will be carried ,by
Bradford direct to Bath), Westbury, Frome, Shepton Mallet, Wells
(from which another diverging line will be taken to Bridgewater);
Glastontury to Taunton, being shorter by about thirty-two
miles than any existing railways between these points, and without
a tunnel. From Taunton the Bristol and Exeter Railway (now
leased to the Great Western) is traversed to Tiverton, whence it is
pro:)osecl to,can-y this line direct to the Land's End, Falmouth, St.
Ives, and Penzance, being shorter by about sixty miles than. the
lately proposed line by way of Plymouth, and effecting, in the whole
Ilatance from Loudon to Falmouth, a saving of about ninety miles.
With red"_ eot to the traffic on the upper portion of the line it is
naediess to saylniore than that there is already thorough traffic surd-
°lent to justify the construction of this portion of the Direct Wes-
tern : that it will shorten the distance from London to Tiverton
about 32 miles, tb it will traverse rich and populous agricultural
and manufacturingijastricts, and receive a large amount of traffic as
well from railways bow in course of construction as from ethers pro-
jected, with every chance of success.
is to the traffic on the lower portion of the line, it Is evident that
the vast numbar of merchant vessels continually detained in the
Channel by adverse winds, would effect an Immense saving both in
insurance and time, by discharging their cargoes at Falmouth, and at
once transmitting them to their destination by means of this railway;
and therefore—without speculating on the extent to which the ports
on either side of the great promontory of the Land's End may, by
means of this railroad, attract the commerce respectively of Bristol
and Southampton ; t • what extent the inexhaustible mineral wealth
of Cornwall, and the unrivalled agricultural resources of Devonshire
Islay be further developed, •r the genial climate of Penzance and
Mount's Bay, " the Montpellier of England," attract a larger propor-
tion of winter visitants—it is obvious that this line will command a
traffic both in goods and passengers, from its western terminus, the
amount of which may be said to be without limit. A glance at the
sup will make it manliest that no competing trunk line can over be
established between Tiverton and the Land's End. As between
Taunton and Reading, an inspection of the map will show a vast ex-
tent of midland district, comprising rich and populous parts of So-
mersetshire, Dorsetshire, and Wiltshire, now altogether destitute of
railroad accommodation.

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LOCAL SOLICITORS.
John Monkton, Maidstone
Austen and Hobson, Sevenoaks
Jeffries and Bathurst, Faversham
Sankey and Sladden, Canterbury
Latter, Bromley.
Bkt/rim—Sir John W. Lubbock, Bart., and Co. ; the Commercial

Union Banking Company
William Haimmb, Esq., Marlborough, Manager •r the Wilts and

Recurring to the features of this project as a national work, one of
the greatest in point of magnitude, of vital importance lu the event of
war, and of almost incalculable advantage to the general and packet
commerce of the kingdom; It may net be out of place to quote here
the following expressions of Sir Robert Peel. speaking of the project
of a direct line from London to Liverpool through the Trout Valley,
which bore much the same relation to the Birmingham and Grand
Junction that this bears to the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter
Railways, he is reported -to have said :—"I consider that the com-
munication between the metropolis and the great outperts to be not
a question of hours, but a question of minutes." Of the necessity of this
particular line, Parliament has already expressed an opinion ; forin the
report of the Committee on the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth
line, which was promoted by the Great Western Railway Company,
it was stated that that Company had been required to pledge itself
net hereafter to oppose a direct line to Falmouth ; and it may be
farther observed, that a proposed line from Plymouth to Falmouth
was last session rejected, en the ground that it might be supposed
to interfere with that great national object.
The survey of the line has bees to a great extent completed, and
correct estimates of the expenditure and returns are in a state of for-
wanuass, and the whole will be ready for the next session of Par-
liament.
It is sufficient, as to these points, here to state that there aro no
Y Part of the lino which have not been
reenpgeinateeedrilyngsudrn iinfcioittintties in a
surmounted other cases ; that the first portion will be
constructed at an unusually small expense ; that the undertaking
l
concurrence, and co-operation of
01: enb
ed cordialotini rt of i ye
to are justified in asserting that
theplecoirrtmost
Director
remunerative railways in the
kingdom.
Powers will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow interest at
four pounds per centum per annum on the deposits, and preference
in the allotment of shares will be given to the proprietors of the land
thishil e landowners,
will'n twith
prove
through which the lino will pass, and to the shareholders in the
Great Western, the Bristol and Exeter, aid other railways coandeted
with the Direct Western district.
Applicationa for shares, in the form subjoined, to be addressed to
the solicitors to the Company, or to the secretary, at the Company's
Offices, 20, Poultry, London, or to the local solicitors, or to any re-
spectable broker in town or count,/
20, Poultry, London, September, 1845.
TORSI OF APPLICATION.

Dorset Bank
Captain WACI. Maclean, R.N., Taunts*
Robert Parsons, Esq., Taunton
John Daizell, Esq., Wallingford, Berks
Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
John Kerte Haberfteld, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
James Troup, Esq., Hastings
John Robson, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
John Morford Cottle, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington, Director
of Coventry and Leicester Railway
Joseph Knight, Esq., Leicester, Director of South Midland and North-
ampton, Banbury and Cheltenham Railways
John Newton Mappin, Esq., Shofffeld, Director of the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Midland Railway Company
John Ridgeway, Esq., Cauldon-place, the Potteries, Staffordshire,
Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway
James Burt, jun. Esq., Manchester, Director of the Chester and
Birkenhead, and Manchester and Southampton Railways
Edward Norris, Esq., Clairville, Manchester, Director of the Direst

London and Manchester, and North Cheshire Railway Companies
Joseph Nadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and
Wigan, and Manchester and Southampton Railways
James Ogden, Esq.,'M.D., Salford
Sir William Lowthrop, Hull, Magistrate for the East Riding of York
and for the borough of Hull, Chairman of the " Hull and Barnsley"
Committee, and Member of the acting Committee of the "Liver-
pool and Leeds Direct Railway Companies"
John Holford, Esq., Rueholm Hall, Manchester
C. H. Jones, Esq., Huddersfield, Deputy Chairman of the Hudders-
field and Sheffield, and Director of the Halifax and Bradford
Union Railway
Charles Bamford, jun., Esq., Hall, Director of the Hull and Barnsley

Junction
John Lillie, Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and South-
ampton Railway
John Robson, Esq., Hetton-le-Hole, Darhala
Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Sheffield and
Manchester, and Chairman of the Manchester, Birkenhead, and
Midland Railway Companies
Isaac Holmes, Bsq., Liverpoo
Wm. B. Newbery, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Dudley and
Iron Bridge Railway Company
C. Appleby, Esq., Broomhill, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and
Manchester Railway Company
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach,
and Lincolnshire Railway, and Salisbury and Swindon Railways
John Ward, Esq., Machin Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield,

Itotherhani, and Chesterfield Life Assurance-office
Win. Thompson, Esq., Upperthorpe, near Sheffield, Director of the
Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
Adderley Howard, Esq., Sutton Wisbech, Director of the East Coast

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Railway Company
Captain Bowker, R.N., Devonport
H. S. Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Di-
rect Railway
Samuel Swann Brittain, Esq., Sheffield Director of the East andWe.st
of England Railway Company
John Fawcett, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Wakefield and liar-

To the Provisional Committee of the Direct Western Railway

Company.

Gentlemen,—I request you will allot irae shares of 251. each in
the above Company, and I undertake to pay the deposit of 21.125. 6d
per share thereon, or on any less number you may appropriate to me
and to execute the Sub3cribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Co-
tract when required.
Dated

1845.
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rowgate Railway Company
William Marriott, Esq., Attercliff-terrace, Sheffield, Director of the
Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Junction Railway.
Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln, Director of the London and York
• and East Lincolnshire Railways
John Johnstone Hamilton, Esq., Liverpool
David Price, Esq., Manchester
William Hunter, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington
Rev. li. W. Cottle, Vicar of Watford, Northamptonshire
Major Wornum, Clarence-square, Cheltenham
Edward Hall, Esq., Westbank House, Macclesfield, Director of the
South Midland and the Northampton and Cheltenham Railways
Henry Hubbersty, Esq., Hull
John Ostler, Esq., Hall, Director of the Hall and Barnsley Janstion
Henry Shaw, Esq., Fetter-lane
Henry Sayer, Esq., commercial-road, Liniehonso, merchant
John Mee Mathew, Esq., Gray's Inn-square
John Norton, Esq., Moat Home, Brentwood, Essex
William John M`Guire, Esq., Hampton Court
John Gray Wilson, Esq., Oxford-terrace
Capt. J. P. Macdougall, Fir Grove, North Brixton, Surrey
W. J. Lefenvre, Esq., Alderman and Magistrate ofSouthai pion
Thomas Chas. Harrton, Esq., F R.S., York-terrace, Regent's Park
ißnuirnul r Ygn a Leicester
William Jonson Neale, Esq., Ring's Bench-walk, Temple
Warwickshire
icit.e'!„NtLBe.larsontneawillynlawhgtb:uorrtny,, Warwickshire, Director of the
James Henry WlPauliltneyEsl Harwood, Esq., M.D., Sheffield
CG Coventrypßt a.
The Hon. F. Byron, 21, Eaton-place
William Higgins, Esq., Turvey, High Sheriff of Bedfordshire
Sir Raymond Jarvis, Fair Oak-park, near Winchester, Deputy-Lieu-
tenant, and magistrate for the county of Hants
William Jackson, Esq , Birkenhead, Chairman of the Chester and
Birkenhead Railway
Thomas Elle E.rild lerramtwahne, and
ster
Sheriff of London and Mid-
Nathaniel Gould, Esq., Barge-yard, Bucklersbury, and Tavistock-
square
Mid-
dlesex
s eLxigdwn°eyrt,h isq'
Edmund Lionel Welles, Esq., Cadogan-plate, and West Moulsoy,
Surrey
Duncan Dunbar, Esq., East India-road, and Limehonse, Director of
the London Dock Company, the Marine Assurance Company, and
the General Shipowner's Society
William Jackson, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Goole and Doncaster

THE LEEDS, HUDDEttsFIELD, stitV.
FIELD, and SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE (or LEEDS
WOLYERIIA.SIPTON, and DUDLEY) DIRECT RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,700,Q00/., in 85,000 shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Shrewsbury, Alton Towers, Staffordshire
Sir William Young, Bart., East India Director, Westbourne-street,
Hyde-park Gardens
Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Deputy Chairman of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Rail-
way, &c.
Sir William Boothby, Bart, Ashbourne-hall, Derbyshire
Sir William Lowthrop, Knt., Hull, and Alga-house, Scarborough, Di-
rector of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junc-
tion Railway
Col. the Hon Leicester Stanhope, Ashburham House, Chairman of
Remington's London and Manchester Direct Railway
Hon. Captain Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Chairman of the Tork and
Lancaster Railway, and Director of the Nottingham arid Boston
Railway, Parliament-street. London, &0., &c.
The Sheriff of York
Arnold, Henry, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of Reaaiagtoa's London and
Manchester Railway
Bright. Selim, Esq., Buxton
Barrett, H., Leeds, Director of the Keighley, Halifax, and Hudders-
field Union Rail Way
Buck, W. C., Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York Railway
Blurton, Robert, Esq., banker, Smallwood' Manor, Uttoxeter, Direc-
tor of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction
Railway
Booth, John, Esq., Macclesfield
Bright, Sam, Esq., Buxton
Bradley, Septimus, Esq., Ashbourne, DiEO4MOl* of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Xallway
Burgess, John, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester
Buxton, John Harry, Esq., Ashboume
Clarke, Jeremiah, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's Lon-
don and Manchester Direct Railway
Cleobury, Thomas, Esq., Askew Villa, Acton
Cooke, tho Rev. J., Uttoxeter, Director of the East and West Junction
Railway, &c.
Cooke, John, Esq., Macclesfield
Cooper, John Douglas, Esq., Hohne Cottage, Ashbourne
Cox, Walker, Esq., Breadsall, Derby, Director of the Teau and Dove
Valley Railway
Crockett, T. Esq., Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire,
and Worcestershire Junction RallwaY, &C.
Croft, Major J. T., 15, Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman of Reming-
ton's London and Manchester Direct Railway
Crossley, John, Esq., L:unberhurst, Sussex, and Uttoxeter, Director
of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction
Railway
Cumberlege, Nathaniel, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's Park
Balky, John," Robert. Esq., Ishbourne, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Dale, Major, Thurston, Ashbourne
Daniel, Richard, Esq., Oak Hill, Stoke-upon-Trent
Dawson, Samnel, Esq., sen., Ashbourne
Dent, Edward, Esq., Westfield, Huddersfield
Dent, John, Esq., Northgate, Huddersfield
Darlington, J., Esq., Bradford
Dyson, Thomas, Esq., Well-house, Holmflrth
Earp, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Railway
Eastwood, Edmund, Esq., Huddersfield
Eastwood, Abraham, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Hudders-
field, Sheffield, and Halifax Railway
Edensor, Richard, Esq., Road-meadow, Ashbourne
Elershaw, John, Esq., Leeds
Fidler, Peter Pichott, Esq., Higgin Grange, Derbyshire
Fisher, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct

Railway
George F. Earle, Esq., Hull
Stephen Knowles, Esq., Exeter
W. Lawrence, Esq., Brixton
John Learmonth, Esq.' Edinburgh, Chairman of the Edinburgh and
Glasgow, and North British Railway Companies
Wellington Ross Seymour, Esq., Montague-place, Russell-square,
Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway
William Tanner, Esq., Great Surrey-street, Blackfriars
John Booth, Esq., Sherburn Grange, Durham
Matthew Benjamin Robson, Esq., Whitwell Grange, Durham
John Holmes, Esq., St. James's-street, Director of the Dorchester and
Weymouth Railway, and York and Lancaster Railway
William G. Bernard, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
Thomas Smalwood Richards, Esq., 59, Baker-street, Portman-square
James Shaw, Esq., Salford, Manchester
N. M'Cann, Esq., Parliament-street
ury Wenman Newman, Esq., Bristol, Magistrate for that City, and

e,
Deputy-Lieutenant and Magistrate for the county of Gloucester
William Horatio Harrison, Esq., Sunbury
William Empson Jailand, Esq., Holderness House, near Hull
Thomas Racket Massey, Esq., Newark-upon-Trent;
Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Gainsborough,
Goole, and Isle of Ash°ime, and of the Wisbeaeh, Ely and Lin-
colnshire liallwityi

Railway
Frost, Meadows, Esq., Chester
Genie, Samuel, Esq., Uttoxeter
Garle, William, Esi. Uttoxeter
Gilpin, and Co., Messrs. William, Wedges Mills, Cannock, Director of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Gishorne, Henry Francis, Esq., Derby, Director of the Staffordshire,
Leicester, and Tainworth Railway, Ike.
Goddard, Thomas, Esq., Bank-house, Longton, Staffordshire
Haden, Joseph, Esq., Dndley,.Director ef the Derbyshire, Sta ord.;
shb e, and Worcestershire Junction Railway

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SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING SEPTEMBER 30, 1845.

Haines, Samuel, Esq., Chad-hones, Edgbaston, Director of the Lei-
cester and Birmingham Railway
Harpin, John, Esq., Birk's-house, Holmfirth
Hatfield, Thomas, Esq., Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &c.
Hammond, :G.. Esq., Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway
Harrison, John, Esq., Banker, Ripon, Director of the Liverpool
and Leeds Direct Railway
Hartshorne, Robert James, Esq., Ashbeurne
Haywood, Richard Howard, Esq., Staffordshire Potteries!
Holdforth, Joseph Dempsey, Esq., of Burley, Leeds, Director of the
Leeds and Liverpool Railway
Herries, Robert, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool
Direct Railway
Hill, John, Esq., Derby
Hirst, Abraham, Esq., York-house, Huddersfield
Ingleby, Joseph, Esq., Cheadle, Staftbrdshire
Johnson, John Goodwin, Esq., Bentley Hall, Ashbourne
Johnson, D. T., Esq., Aidermary Churchyard, Director of the Ches-
ter and Manchester Railway
Johnson, Richard Wm., Esq., Meorgate, Director of Remington's
London and Manchester Direct Railway
Jones, the Rev. J. P., Vicarage, Alton, Staffordshire, Director of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Jones, Edward, Esq., Windmill-place, Camberwell
Knight, Edward, Esq., M.D., Stafford, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and orcester Junction Railway
Kingdom, Wm. Esq. Westbourne-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of
the Birmingham and Manchester Direct Railway
Keene, John Joseph, Esq., St. John's Wood, Regent's Park, Director
of the National Bank of Ireland, Scs.
King, William, Esq. Waterloo-place, Director of the Freemasons'
Life Assurance, Sjc,
Lambert, Richard, Esq., Lyston Hall, Sudbury
Laughton, Richard, Esq., Barrow-hill, Uttoxeter
Langley, Henry, Esq., Rakeway House, Cheadle, Director of the Der-
byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Lassetter, Richard, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Lassetter, James, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Lea, John Whceley, Esq., Worcester, Vice-Chairman of the Severn
Commission, &c.
Marlow, Joseph, Esq., Walsall
Mason, Charles James, Esq., Staffordshire Potteries
Mason, George Miles, Esq., Wetley Abbey, Ftaffordshire
Meteyard, Horace, Wm., Esq., Director of Remington's London and
Manchester Railway, Middle Temple, and Chatham-place
Wilahon, Daniel, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the Derbyshire
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Manors, John, Esq. Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Mellard, James, Esq., Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Musgrave, Simeon, Esq., Kirketall, near Leeds, Director of the Thirst
and Midland Junction
Minors, John, Esq., Eaton Dovedale, Derbyshire, Director of the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junetion Railway
Minors,
.wfoirst,o-rred,oshilh,uonEmcstasqlo., litTheii,Parks, Uttoxeter, Director of the East
and
Ashbourne
aloorhouse, Joshua, Esq., Holmfirth
idaskety, Thomas, Esq., Norbury, Derbyshire
North, Joseph, Esq., Clayton West, Huddersfield
Norton, George, Esq.. Clayton West, Huddersnerd,Dlrector cf the Li-
verpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Orton, James, Esq., Woodford, near Uttoxeter, Director of the Der-
byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Parkinson, John, Esq., F.R.S.' Cambridge-terrace, Ilyde-park, Di.
Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Rail
way, &or.
Phillips, William, Esq., Springfield House, Uttoxeter, Director of the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junetion Railway
Roberts, Thomas, Esq., Manchester
Robinson, John, Esq., Sllcoates, Cottage, Wakefield
Roden, Thomas Clarke, Esq., Birmingham
Richardson, Joseph, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York
Railway
Sant, Edward, Esq., Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Shipton, Robert, Esq., Scropro., iserbyshire, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Smith, Charles, Esq., Alton, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Smith, Thomas, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York
Railway
Smith, Thomas, Esq., Blore-hall, Staffordshire, Director of the Der-
byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Smith, William, Esq., Sedge'', Derbyshire, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Smith, William, Esq., Clifton, Derbyshire, Director of Teau and Dove
Valley Railway
Smith, John, Esq., Barton House, Derbyshire
Smythe, John Vere, Esq., Kensington, Middlesex, Director of the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Sidney, Thomas, Esq., Alderman and Sheriff, City of London, Direc-
tor of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct Railways
Spiers, E. J., Esq., Carlton Villas, London, Director of the East and
West Junction Railway
Stephenson, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Agriculturist Cattle As-
surance Company
Terry, Benjamin, Esq., Mayor of Walsall, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway, &e.
Tibbits, Thomas, Esq., Norton Manor-house, Leicester
Tomlinson, Thomas, Esq.' Bradley Pastures, Ashbourne
Toogood, Rupert, Esq , Ashbourne
Tylecote, Edward, Esq., surgeon, Great Heywood, Staffordshire
Tyler, George, Esq., Holloway-place, Holloway, London, Director of
the East and West Junction Railway, &c.
Waller, Major, K.H., St. James's-square, Director of the Chester and
Manchester Railway, &e,
Walter, James Smith, Esq., Bakewell, Derbyshire
Walters, J. T., Esq., Rugeley
Watts, William Royde, Esq., Birmingham
Weston, Samuel, Esq., Leeds
Weston, Thomas, Esq., Tean, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Willes, George, Esq., Thagerford-park, Berkshire
Williamson, Hugh Henshall, Esq., Greenway Bank, Staffordshire
Potteries
Williamson, Robert, Esq., Ramsdell-hall, Staffordshire Potteries
Wise, Thomas, Esq., Ashbourne
Witham, John, Esq., Ashbourne
Wooirich, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Wood, Charles, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Wood William, Esq., M.D., Chetwynd House, Newport, Salop, Di-
rector of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junc-
tion Railway
Wood, William Hurd, Esq., Ashbourne
Wilkinson Jo'm, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool
Direct Railway
Wright, Thomas. Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Gainsho-
rough Railway.

BANKERS.
Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clement's-bum, London

Messrs. Barnard, Dini-sdale, and Co., Cornhill, London
The Burton, Uttozeter, and Ashboume. Union Bank, Uttozeter
Ditto Ditto, Ashbourne
Dudley and West Bunwich Banking Co., Dudley
Derbyshire Banking Co., Derby
Ripen—Messrs. Terry, Harrison and Co.
Bradford—The Leeds and West Riding Bank
Messrs. I. and Hamilton Richardson, solicitors, Leeds

SOLICITORS.
Jolt■ Owens, Esq., $5, ➢ioorgate-street, London
William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttoxetor
INGINZERS.
Sir John Rennie, F.R.S.
George Remington, Esq., C.E.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Armishaw, J., Esq., Rugeley
Bolton, Thomas, Esq., WolTerhamptoa
Bolton, John, Esq., Dudley
F.ggington, A., Esq., Lichfield
Green, James J., Esq., Walsall.
Lowe, Richard, Esq., Cheadle
Floyd and Booth, Huddersfield and Holmfirth

BROKERS.
Messrs. ]itching and Marshall, Leeds
Messrs. Turley and Cooper, Leeds
Mr. Thomas Oskwith, Ripon

This line of railway, which is about sixty-five miles is length, is
intended to commence at Uttoxeter (the terminus of the proposed
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway) and
to proceed to Sheffield and Huddersfield. It will ferns a direct com-
munication between two of the most important manufacturing and
mining districts in England, viz., South Staffordshire, Huddersfield,
and Sheffield, and Rotherham in Yorkshire ; the South Staffordshire
portion including Dudley, Tipton,Walsall, Bllston, Wedneebury, and
Wolverhampton.
This line will also open a direot railway communication between
Leeds, Huddersfield, and the Weet Riding of Yorkshire and Kidder-
minster, Worcestershire, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bristol, Taunton,
and Exeter, and with Ludlow, Leominster, Hereford, Brecon, Car-
diff, Neath, Swansea, Llanelly, Caermarthen, Milford Haven, Fish-
guard, Aberystwith, and with Port Dynnllaen, the future outport for
Ireland. And also the most direct communication between Leeds
and Southampton.
The line will pass nearly along the Uttoxeter and Caldon Canal to a
point near Prestwood, in cue the canal be purchased by the pro-
moters of this undertaking. It will proceed through Ellaston and
Mayfield to Ashbourne. thence near Dovedaig, Buxton, and Chapel-
en-la-Frith, Woodhead and Holmfirth to Huddersfield, where it will
join the Huddersfield and Leeds Railway, and so to Thirek. It will
open new mines, in addition to those already in work, of lead, coal,
iron ore, barytes, and carboniferous and ma,gnesian limestone on the
route, in addition to forming a direct, speedy. and cheap communica-
tion between the important towns above mentioned.
Arrangements have been made with other companies to run into
this line from Sheffield. This company reserves the right to raise
additional capital to extend the line to Leeds.
Many of the above-mentioned mineral productions are essential to
the mining districts of South Staffordshire and Sheffield. The North
Staffordshire and Derbyshire Limestone is much superior to that of
South Staffordshire in the fluxion of iron (15 cwt. of the former being
equal to a ton of the latter), and producing a better quality of ma-
terial. At present, the mode of transit is very circuitous and expen-
sive, the line from the Caldon Mines having to go by canal round
by Etruria, Leek, and the Potteries, to the Dudley and surrounding
furnaces, when, by this railway, it would be taken in a straight line
to them ; and the Ashbourne, Cromford, Worksworth, and Bakewell
country would have an entirely new trade opened to them. The iron-
stone in the neighbourhood of Sheffield is also becoming very scarce,
and great quantities are introduced from Scotland; the same scarcity
exists in South Staffordshire; and the route of this line would fur-
nish a cheap and good supply, at present not worked, and without a
market, both north and south. In addition to these great advan-
tages, a good local market would be opened along the agricultural
and other parts of the district at present very badly supplied with
lime and coal, and that of an inferior quality, and by expensive car-
riage. It is, therefore, next to impossible to calculate the immense
traffic which would pour down this line and the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, aed Worcestershire Junction Railway.
The calculations which have been made show a very large prolt.
There are large lead and slate quarries on the line which only want
an outlet like the one now contemplated to bring them into full work.
The coal is of a superior quality.
There are also extensive barytes and paint-works at Ashbourne,
Cromford, and other places on the line. The scenery of Derbyshire
is the resort of vast numbers of tourists ; and particular care will be
taken, in passing of the line near Dovedale, not to interfere with or
change its beautiful and romantic character. The convenience,
therefore, which this line will afford nanst necessarily cause a great
influx of passengers, both on business and pleasure.
Ironstone is not se abundant in the South as in North Staffordshire,
and vast quantities are sent by the tardy, circuitous, and expensive
canal company, which this and other hats of railway meeting at
Uttoxeter will remedy.
The gypsum formation runs from Staffordshire to the Humber, and
the demand for this article for building, agricultural, and manufac-
turing purposes along this line will be great.
The timber from the neighbourhood of the Needwood Forest.
Banks, ]fagots Woods, and Kingston Woods, upwards of 4,001
acres, chiefly finds its way to the Manchester market by a
like objectionable route of tardy and circuitous serial convey-
ance ; whereas this line would open a direct, easy, and cheap
communication to new markets. The line has been viewed prior to
A detailed survey, and there are not more than ordinary engineering
difficulties. In consequence of the late Parliamentary decisions, it is
intended to make this line on the broad gauge principle, but the pro-
moters do not pledge themselves absolutely to do so.
At the urgent suggestion of some of the most influential inhabi-
tants of Ashbourne, the Committee have ordered a survey ef al env-
tion line to connect that town with the Derby, and with the Derby
and Gainsborough and Midland Railways
Applications for Shares to be made to John Owens, Neg., 35,
Moorgate-street, London, and William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq.,
Uttoxeter; and to the following Sharebrokers :—Messrs. Preece and
Evans, 39, Lothbury ; Mr. Miles, Worcester; Mr. Thomas Henry
Wheeler, Worcester ; Messrs. Townley and Whitehead, Liver
pool ; Messrs. Cameron and Co., Liverpool ; Mr. Morris Rey-
nolds, Liverpool ; Mr. Richard E. Hine, Maeclesfield ; Mr.
James Jamieson, Leeds ; Messrs. Wellbeloved and Oastler
Leeds ; Mr. Frederick Stamp, Hull ; Mr. Thomas Boardman, Black-
burn ; Mr. George Clark, Bradford ; Mr. William Mason, Bfadford ;
Mr. William Cronhelm, Halifax; Mr. Charles Spencer, Nottingham;
Messrs. Eyre and Shaw, Derby ; Messrs. Grayston and Earle,
Tork ; Mr. E. 11. Armitage, Wakefield; Messrs. Kettering
and Marshall, Leeds ; Mr. James Stokes, Cheltenham ; Mr.
Joseph, Clark, jun., Southampton; Messrs, Tate and Nash, Bris-
tol • Messrs. Beaumont and Langworthy, Exeter ; Mr. Thomas
Sandford, Exeter; Mr. J. S. Holland, Coventry; Messrs, Houghland
and Leese, Manchester; Messrs. Cardwell and Sons, Manchester;
Messrs. A. Birchall and Co.' Manchester ; Messrs. T. N. Bardwell
and Sons, Sheffield; Mr. W. H. Collis, Birmingham ; Mr.L. Weather-
DIM], jun, Huddersfield; Messrs. Everard and Co., liuddersfl:ld ;
Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester; Mr. Nicholson, Edinburgh;
Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Glasgow ; Messrs. Labertouche
and Stafford, College-green, Dublin ; Mr. James Rose, Perth.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield,

.....
and South Staffordshire Direct Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me Shares of 241. each
in the above Railway, and I undertake to accept the same or such
less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the regulations
of the Company, and to sign the necessary Deeds, and to pay, when
required, the Deposit thereon of 21. 2s. per Share•
Dated this day cf , 184 .
Name In full
Profession and professional residence •
Residence in fu11....................

LEEDS, HUDDERSFIELD, SHEFFIELD,
and SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, or LEEDS, WOLVER-
HAMPTON, and DUDLEY DIRECT RAILWAY.
Capital, 2,000,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
The Acting Committee of Direction have agreed: " that a Branch
Line from Ashbourne to Derby be adopted by this Company, and
that the capital of the Company be increased from 1,700,0001. to
2,000,0001. for that purpose."
JOHN OWENS, I Joint
•-• WM. ARNOLD BAINBRIGGE , Solicitors.
Offices of the Company, 1, Moorgate, Sept. 26, 1845.