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could not but acknowledge that a line which would con-
nect them with the manufacturing districts of the north
would also be most beneficial to their trade.—(Hear.)
There was another railway proposed, which would unite
with this line, and would give them an opportunity of
travelling and conveying goods between that town and
Newbury, Ilsley, and Oxford, and so northwards. This
conflux of railways must be beneficial to their local
trade.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Member expressed his
hope that they would make common cause with the pro-
jectors of the line, and do all in their power to secure
the success of that desirable undertaking.
Other gentlemen addressed the meeting at some length,
and the motion having been carried with three cheers,
The CHAIRMAN said the unanimity of the meeting was
a source of great satisfaction to him. He was most
anxious to promote the undertaking by every means in
his power. He would represent to the Earl of Clarendon
the feelings of the meeting, and he felt assured that in
as far as the property of the Noble Earl was concerned,
every facility would be offered to the undertaking.
The petitions then received numerous signatures, and
the meeting broke up.—Hampshire Advertiser.
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SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock.
THE GREAT MANCHESTER, RUGBY,
and SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY.
With a Direct Line from Derby to Rugby.
Provisionally Registered, Pursuant to 7 and 8 Victorire, cap. 110.
Capital 3,000,0001., In 150,000 Shares of 201, each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. Lord Thomas Pelham Clinton, 16, Carlton Villas,
Heide Vale
The Right Hon. George R. Dawson, Director of the Jersey Railway
The Hon. Cecil Lawless, Lyons Castle, Kildare ; and 63, St. James's-
street
Major-General Parlby, C. 8., Rutland Gate, Hyde Park
Sir Andrew Pellatt Green, R.N., K.C.B.
H. J. Enthoven, 8, Moorgate-street, Director of the Dutch Rhenish
Railway
William Watson, Esq.,l Directors of the Bristol and Exeter and the
William Morgan, Esq., North Devon Railway
C. It. Colman, Esq., Iron Gate Wharf, London, Director of the South
Midland and Junction Railway
Anthony Dickson, Esq., Edrington House, Berwickshire, late Phy-
sician-General of Bengal
William Shadbolt, Esq., Croom's-hill, Greenwich, Chairman of the
Greenwich Railway
Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Esq., Twyford Hall, near Derby, Director cf
the Tean and Dove Valley Railway
Frazer B. Henshaw, Esq., Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square,
Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Railway
William Watson Prole. Esq., Thurloe-square, Brompton, Director of
the Jersey and South Midlands Junction Railways
John Inglis Jerdein, Esq., 150, Picadilly
David Montague, Esq., Regent's Park
James Beech, Esq., Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, and 15, Grosvenor-
place, Director of the South Midland Railway
Benjamin Franklyn, Esq., 5, Harley-street, Cavendish-square
Jonas Wilke, Esq.. Watling-street, London
William Morley, Esq., Blackheath, Kelt, Director of the Newcastle,
Durham, and Lancashire Junction Railway
Henry R. Downman, Esq., Kidwelly, Carmartheashire, and 47,
Upper Bedford-place
Robert Chapman, Esq., Coomb Lodge, Hants, and Park-place,
Regent's Park
James Reeves, Esq., Chesteside, and Leyton, Essex
Major White, Pall-mall, Director of the Northampton and Chelten-
ham Railway
John Downes, Esq., 6, Bedford -place, Russell-square
Capt. Middleton Biddulph, Ist Life Guards, Hyde-park
William Lee, Esq., Satis House, Rochester
John Hardcastle Mousley, Esq., Derby
Dr. Bowring, M.P., Director of the Blackwell Railway
Noses Cartwright, Esq , Stanton House, near Burton-on-Trent.
Director of the Derby and Gainsborough Railway
Henry Wright, Esq., Director of the Warwick and Worcester, and
the South Midland Junction Railways
James Hitchins, Esq., Coroner of Lincoln, Director of the Warwick
and Worcester Railway
James Russell, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director of
the London and Birmingham Junction Railway and of the Tries',
Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
John Weston, Esq., 28, Woburn-square
Edward Webster Bullock Webster, Esq., Hendon, Middlesex, Director
of the New River Company
James Hunt, Esq., 31, Parliament-street
James Lys Seeger, Esq., Director of the Welsh, Midland, and Shrews-
bury and Hereford Railway
Edward Turst Carver, Eel., Forest Lodge, Mtge-hill, Director of the
North Wales and Namur and Liege Railways
William de Lannoy, Esq., 42, Guildford-street, Russell-square
Archibald F. Paull, Esq., Leadenhall-street, Director of the South
Wales Railway
William H. Allen, Esq., Leadenhall-street
J. Mee Mathew, Esq., Mecklenburgh-square, Director of the Derby,
Sheffield, and Worcester Railway
Burton Archer Burton, Esq., Woodlands Hall, Emsworth, Hants
John Rawson, Esq., Stoney Royd, Halifax, a Deputy-Lieutenant of
the county of York
John S. Silva, Esq., Crutched-friars
Charles James Ileath, Esq., 6, London-street
Frederick Clarkson, Esq., Doctors'-commons, and Hanger-lane,
Tottenham.
BANKERS IN LONDON—Messrs. Glyn, Hallifax, Mills, and Co.
The commercial advantages and great facilities which the port of
Southampton offers to the merchant and the manufacturer, clearly
point out a demand for a more direct communication with it from
Manchester and York, and the various manufactories of the north
and of Staffordshire, than is at present afforded, either by the
circuitous mine on the eastern side, through London by the Bir-
mingham and the South-Western Railways, or on the western side,
by the Birmingham and Cheltenham Railways. Numerous influen-
tial and monied parties, interested ix improving this communication,
have projected a direct line, proceeding from Manchester via Stock-
port, Macclesfield, Leek, Cheadle, Uttoxeter, Tutbury, Burton,
Market Bosworth, and Hinckley, to Rugby, and then using the Rug-
by and Oxford Railway to Didcote (on the Great Western Railway),
to form a railway thence to Southampton by way of Newbury, An-
dover, and Stockbridge.
The distance between Manchester and Rugby by the existing rail-
way route is at present about 116 miles, and by the proposed
line from Macclesfield to Rugby it will be only 92, so
that the projected Railway wililessen the distance by 24 miles, which,
as well in time as charge, will effect a most important improvement
in the traffic both of passengers and goods between those places, and
will afford an accommodation which is imperatively required in regard
to the large population of the intermediate towns now without any
convenience from railway conveyance.
It is needless to remark how greatmust be the advantage which the
whole manufacturing districts round such an emporium of manufae-
tares as Manchester will derive, from having direct access to such a
port as Southampton, which has now become the chief medium of
transit to all the Islands and Ports in the Mediterranean, and to India
also, by mea'is of the packets of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam
Navigation Company, as also to the Colonies and Ports of the
Western Hemisphere by the mail packets established for that
purpose.
As the scheme embraces the important feature of a direct line from
Derby to Rugby, by joining the Great Manchester, Rugby, and
Southampton Railway, near Market Bosworth, thereby saving one-
fifth of the distance, it will be at once apparent that- York and the
whole northern district will, by means of the Northern Midland
Railway to Derby, obtain the same direct communication with ,
Southampton ; and, in fact, the project will contribute a grand trunk ;
communication from north to south through the centre of the king-
dom, and not only will the northern commercial and manufacturing
towns benefit by this great undertaking, but the important coal
and iron districts of Derbyshire and Staffordshire, which the line
intersects, will derive Immense advantages from the convenient and
extensive new mart which will be opened for their valuable produc-
tions, whilst Southampton and the intermediatelocalities will greatly
benefit by the ready and cheap manner in which coals and other
necessary productions, not only of the soil, but of northern manu-
factories, will be supplied, whether for consumption or merchandise.
It is proposed that the Southampton terminus snail be a convenient
spot in the vicinity of the new docks, independently of the South-
Western Railway. The lines of the 'proposed railways have been
carefully surveyed, and levels taken by skilful engineers and sur-
veyors, and in no part present any unusual difficulties. The gradients
will be unusually good, and the general line of country may be re-
garded as offering engineering facilities for the important work pro-
posed.
A more direct communication from Manchester and from York,
through Derby and Rugby to Southampton, is professedly the main
object of the proposed scheme ; but it will be obvious to all who study
the geography of the respective places, not only that the line to
Rugby, both from Manchester and from Derby, forms a more direct .
communication between those places and London, by means of the
Birmingham Railway from Rugby, than any other route now in use,
but that it will challenge the skill of the engineer and the ingenuity
of the speculator to devise a better line.
It is no slight advantage in this scheme that the interference it
offers to any of the existing railways is not considerable, whilst the
increased traffic which it is certain to cause on the North Midland
Railway, and the traffic which it is calculated to retain to the Lon-
don and Birmingham Railway, notwithstanding the threatened
rivalry of two distinct Manchester and London direct lines ;as also '
the immense traffic both of passengers and goods which it must !
necessarily pour along the Rugby and Oxford line, now under the
management of the Great Western Railway Company, appear not
only to neutralize the opposition, but to entitle this project to the `
support of each of those formidable bodies.
It appears unnecessary in regard to a line of railway like that pro- -
posed to go into those details of passenger and goods traffic, which
may be necessary where the amouet is questionable ; but as the main -
feature of this scheme is the improvement of communication between,
and near places, the traffic of which is known to bo immense, it
would be Idle to swell the prospectus with any such particulars. It
Is sufficient to state that it will be equal to that of any line in the
kingdom.
The Subscribers will be only liable to the extent of their deposits ;
and power will be taken to allow the Shareholders 4 per cent. on the
deposit and calls until the opening of the line.
The names of the Committee of Management and Officers of the
Company will be published in a few days ; and in the meantime any 1
further particulars may be obtained from, and all communications (
addressed to, the Company's Solicitors, Messrs. Thompson and De- C
benham, Salters' Hall, St. Swithin's-lane, London, and Blesses. Ed-
wards,
Mason, and Edwards, 8, Moorgate-street ; to whom, and also
Mr. 11. Pritchett, Stock Broker, No. 74, Old Broad-street, London. li
applications for shares, in the form annexed, may be made.
FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and I
Southampton Railway, with a direct line from Derby to Rugby.
Gentlemen,--I request that you will allot to me Shares of F
201. each, in the above Railway, and I hereby undertake to accept
the same, or any less number you may allot me, and to pay the
deposit of 2/. 2s. per Share thereon, and to sign the Parliamentary 11
Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Ii
Dated this day of September, 11145. II
Name in full ... ...... L
Place of Business or Profession .
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-MIDLAND AND EASTERN COUNTIES N
RAILWAY, from CAMBRIDGE, by NORTHAMPTON, to r
WORCESTER.
In consequence of important arrangements just concluded in eon- r
flexion with this undertaking, an amended prospectus will appear in r
a few days ;in the meantime the allotment of shares is necessarily it
postponed.
s,
Dated this 9th day of September, 1845.
W. 0. and W. HUNT, 10, Whitehall,
F. T. ELGIE, Worcester, Solicitors.
JOHN CHINERY, Leamington,
Messrs. DAY, St. Neots,
LATEST PRICES OF SHARES
IN RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND
OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK.
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From the Official List,
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PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENLYG W
LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9.
LIST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. par of Paid. Price thi
Annum. Share. S:1
.t 5. d. s. d Se
Bank of Scotland • • ... 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 178
100 0 0 170
Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent.
British Linen Company Si' par cent.
--0
228
100 0 0
Commercial Bank .... 61. per Cent.
100 0 172 ha
National Bank 6l. per cent. 10 0 0 17
sP<
Union Bunk of Scotland 7% /. pr cent.
50 0 0 99 %
of I
Western Bank
North of Scotland Bang '6l. per cent. 50 0 7% gre
Clydesdale Rank... •
Eastern Bank.. •• • 3/. per cent. 15 0 0 11% the
Caledonian Bank
Edinb.& Glasgow litank 5/. per cent. 50 0 7% the
City of Glasgow Bank . 5/. per cent. 815 0 15%
Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 1% m°l
Hercules Insureace Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14% vent
/near. Co. 'orSeNincl• • 51. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 9% The
north Brittsll-insur. 91. per cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 28% are
Caledonian Fire llesur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24 g
%
Edinburgh Life Inept*. G. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 19% prot
Zdin. Glasg. Raeletyny 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 e 0 88 to as
Ditto, Shilvo•O• 51. percent. 12 10 0 All paid. 21% sion,
Edin., Leith, in Orlfn4n 20 0() 20 0 0 26 whit
Gimpy& Ayrshir . 51. percent. 50 0 0 All paid. 89
Gimpy& G 1. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 21 not ;
Cilser&Glarnkfx 1. 5/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 41
plusdee&Arbrotptall. 51. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 37% to (
Steadard Lift ce.l §l, per cent. 150001 2 10 0 B the