The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-07 00:00:00

TUE SUN, LONDON, TUESDA a MORNI N“ OCTOBER 7 1845.

in OVER and BRISTOL RAILWAY,
_t_ff in continuation of the South-Eastern Railway, from Reigate
to Bristol. Upon the Narrow Gauge.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,500,0001, in 75,000 Shares, of 20/. each.
Deposit, 21.25. per Share.

PEOVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. Lord Rossmore, the Deli, Windsor
The Hon. William M. Dawson, Parkstone Lodge, Poole, Director of
the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
The llon. Edward Stafford Jerningham, Director of the London and

Nottingham Railway
Lieut.-Col. the Hon. J. C. Westenra, 31. P., Director of the East and

West Junction Railway, and of the Brighton and Cheltenham DI.

rect Railway
Sir William B. Johnston, Bart., Director of the Chepstow, Forest of

Dean, and Gloucester Railway
Admiral Ayscough, Prospect-place-house, Southampton, Director of
the Birmingham and Leicester Railway, and South and Midland

Railway
Admiral Sir George Sartorius, Director of the Direct Northern.

Eastern, and Western Junction Railway
Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Director of the York and Lancasior

Railway-
William Collins, Esq., M.P., Warwick
A. K. Baker, Esq., Longford-house, Cheltenham Directors a the
John W. Hughes, Esq., Gloucester Bristol and Bir-
George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, mingham Railway
The Worshipful the Mayor of Dover
The Wor hipful the Mayor of Bath
Henry Butcher, Esq., the Mayor of Devizes

Daniel Nazgr, Esq.
Edward Poole, Esq. Town Connelllors of Dover
WilLatn Henry Payn, Esq.
Edward Seward, Esq., _

The Vey. Just Henry AU, Enford, Wilts, Director of the Manches-
ter, Southampton, and Poole Railway
Charles Dickson Archibald, Esq., Rusland-hall, Lancashire, Director

of the South Staffordshire Railway
J. R. W. Atkinson, Esq., Elmwood house, Leeds, Director of the
Lancashire and North Yorkshire, awl North Eastern Railways
George Addison, Esq., Bradford, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds

Direct Railway
John Anderson, Esq., London, Director of the Tring, Reading, and
Basingstoke Railway
Joseph Acton, Esq., J.P., Wigan, Director of the Manchester and
Wigan Railway
William Ascroft, Esq., the Willows, Bury, Director of the Stafford-
shire Potteries, Liverpool, and Manchester Direct Railway
Joseph Austin, Esq., Beddingley-hill, Leeds, Director of the Leeds

and York Railway
William Ackroyd, Esq., Weatbourne Lodge, Ottley, Yorkshire, Di

rector of the East and West Yorkshire: the Midlands and Thirsk
Junction, and Leeds and York and Midland Junction
James Beech, Esq., Grosvenor-place, and Brandon, Warwickshire,
Director of the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway
Cecil Brook Boothby, Esq., Ashbourne-hail, Derbyshire, Director of

the South Union
William Gabbett Beare, Esq., Porchester-place, Connaught-square,
Director of the Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union Railway
John Boulton, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Birmingham, Lich-

field, and Mimi:ester Railway
Thomas Byrom, Esq., Alderman, Wigan, Director of the Manchester
and Wigan, and the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction
Railways
George Brown, Esq., Twining-park, Worcestershire
Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds

Direct Railway
Robert Bell, Esq., Manor House, Chiswick, Director of the Great
Eastern and Western Junction, and London and Nottingham

Railways
Robert S. Butterfield, Esq., Bradford, Yorkshire, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Luke Butler, Esq., Alderman, Dublin, Director of the Galway and
Kilkenny, and Cork and Waterford Railways
William Clode Braddon, Esq., Regency-square, Brighton

Christopher Bentham, Esq , Birkenhead, Director of the Chester and
Birkenhead Railway, and of the North and South Wales Bank
William Byrom, Esq., Oldham, Director of the Oldham Districts, the
Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction, and the Birken-
head and Holyhead Junction Railways
Thomas Chitty, Esq., Cower-street, Director of the Central Kent

Railway
Joseph Charles Cohen, Esq., merchant, Birmingham
John James Conway, Esq., Liverpool
John Carmichael, Esq., Cork, _Director of the Cork and Waterford

Railway
William Henry Collis, Esq., Handsworth, ttaffordshire, Director of
the Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway
Thomas Cocksey, Esq., Atherton and Bolton, Director of the Man-
chester and Wigan Railway
William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., Hull, Director of the Rugby, War-
wick, and Leamington Railway
William Clifford, Esq , Hull, Director of the Lincolnshire and Eastern
Counties Railway
William Caldwell, Esq., Alderman, Ince-hall, Wigan, Director of the
Staffordshire Potteries, Liverpool, and Manchester Direct Railway
Henry Coe Coape, Esq., Goldhanger, Essex, Director of the Man-
chester, Oxford, and Southampton Junction Railway
John Townshend Compton, Esq., Wedliampton, Wilts, Director of
the Manchester, Southampton, and Poole Railway
Captain F. Chamier, Haikin-street, Belgrave-square, Director of the
Fampoux anti Hazebrouck Railway
Henry Toogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse Bradford, Magistrate for

Wilts and Somerset
John Campbell Dickers, Eq., New Hall, Neston, Cheshire, Director
of the Birkenhead ant Holyhead, and the Rugby, Derby, and Man-
chester Railways
Seignley Thomas Cuthbert, Esq., Clifton

Thomas Davies, Esq., the .lusting, Handsworth, Statronighlre, Di-
rector of the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway
W. T. S. Daniel, Esq , Recorder of Ipswich
Miles Dormer, Esq., London, Director of the Exeter,. Dorchester,
and Weymouth Coast Railway
John Doughill, Esq., Lock% ood, Huddersfield
Joseph Dowson, Esq., merchant, Lambeth
I homas H. Evans, Esq., Mayor ofCarnarvon

Henry D. Erskine, Esq., Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, and Kirby
Dale, Yorkshire, Director of the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway
George Edwards, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Birmingham,
Lichfield, and Mancester Railway
John Edwards, Esq., Chester, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway
William Edwards, Esq., Aston Furnaces, Birmingham, Director of
the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway
Francis Ewart, Esq., Temple, Director of the Great Leeds and Lon-
don Direct, and of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Rail-
ways
Captain Gustavus Evans, R.N., Headly-grove, Reigate
John Fluids, Esq., merchant, Dover

Charles Fitzgerald, Esq., Charles-street, St. James's, Director of the

London and Nottingham Railway
Webster Flockton, Esq., Weybridge, Surrey

Bell Fletcher, Esq., M._ D., Birmingham,Director of the Birmingham,
Lichfield, and Manchester Railway
Thomas Folliott Powell, Esq., Esq., 16th Lancers, Lucan-house,
Ripon, Yorkshire
Benjamin Franklin, Esq., 5, Harley-street, Cavendish-square, Di-
rector of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton
Railway
William Tulloh Fraser, Esq , Gloucester-place, Portman-square,
Director of the Dorking, Brighton, and Arundel Railway
Charles Hay Frewen, Esq., Brickwall, Northiam, Sussex
William Fitzgibbon, Esq., 21, Cambridge-street, Connaught-square,
Director of the Cork ant Passage and Cork and Bandon Itailwa3 s
Major Grubbe, Eastwell-house, magistrate for Wilts
William Gambier, Esq.,Sacombe-park, Herts
Captain Goulde, Charles-street, St. James's

George Frederick Gregory, Es 1., Seacombe, Cheshire, Director of the

Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway
Henry Francis Gisberne, Esq., Derby, Director of the South Stafford.
shire Junction, the Derby and Crewe, the Macclesfield and Lich•

field, and the Leicester and Tamworth Railways
John Griffith Frith, Esq., merchant, Austin-friars, Chairman of the
Londonderry and Coleraine Railway
James Gernon, Esq., Conduit-street, Bond-street, Director of the
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate, Manchester, Oxford, and South-
ampton, and Cheltenham and Brighton Railways
William, Gatliff, Esq., merchant, Leeds, Director of the West York-
shire Railway
Joseph Gill, Esq , Potter Newton Mount, Leeds,Director of the Leeds
and York and Midland Junction Railway
John Hall, Esq., Bull, Director of the Hull and York Railway
William Holliday, Esq., Chad Valley, Edgbastom Director of the
Birmingham, Lichfield. and Manchester Railway
Samuel Haines, Esq , Chad House, Edi,baston, Director of the
Leicester and Tamworth Railway
Williem Horatio Harrison, Esq., Sunbury, Director of the Leicester
and Tamworth and South Staffordshire Junction Railways
William Wilkes Hill, Esq., Beeston Hall, Leeds
Lewis Hoffman, Esq., Temple, Director of the Nottingham and South

Staffordshire Railway
James Inglis, Esq , M.D., Halifax, Director of the Manchester,
Southampton, and Oxford Junction, and the London, Holyhead, and
Portdynllaen Railways
John Johnson, Esq., R.N., Birmingham

Kensington Lewis, Esq., Worcef•ter.park, Surrey. Director of the
Cheltenham, Oxford and Brighton Junction, and the Lynn, Wis-
beach, and Peterborough and lklidland Counties' Railways
rein Lowe, Esq., Norfolk Crescent, Hyde-nark
William Phillips Lamb, Esq., Ockham House, Sussex

Edward Augustus Lamb, Esq., Westfield, Battle, Sussex, Director of
the Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway
Darnton Lurton, Esq , Potter Newton Hall, Mayor of Leeds, Direc-
tor of the Leeds and York, and Wakefield and Bradt*, .rd Railways
Sir William Lowthrop, Knt., Hull, Director of the Leeds, Hudders-
field, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Direct Railway
John Lord, Esq., Standish Hall, Lancashire, Director of the Black-
burn, Chorley, Wigan, and North Union Junction Railway, and of
the Staffordshire Potteries, and Manchester and Liverpool Direct

Railway
James Lamb, Esq., 85, Hyde Park-square, Director of the Tring,
Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
Rowland Mackenzie, Esq., Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square,
Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and Cheltenham,
Oxford, and Brighton Railways
Thomas Gibbon Moneypenny, Esq., Hole-park, Rolvenden, Kent
Major Moore, Queen Anne-street, Director of the Brigluon and Chel-
tenham Direct Railway
James Joseph M‘Swiney, Esq., Sandal View, Wakefield, Director of
the Wakefield and Harrogate Railway
J. Mee Mathew, Esq., Assistant Tithe Commissioner, Director of the
Worcestershire, Derbyshire, and Stailbrdshire Railway
Captain Macdougall, Fir-grove, North Brixton, Director of the Read-
ing, Guildford, and Reigate Railway
rburY'EsqVa' Mancetter-house, Atherstone, Director
Valley, and South Staffordshire Junction
Joohfn
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Railways
Joseph Norton, Esq., Clayton West, Huddersfield, Director of the
Huddersfield, Halifax, and Bradford Union Railway, and the
Wakefield and Harrogate Railway
Captain Thomas Ross, 58, Porchester-terrace, Director of the Di-
Northern, Eastern, and Western Junction Railway
George Parbury, Esq., Mansfield House, Russell-square, Director of
the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
Peppercorne, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex, Director of the West
Midland Railway
William Raines, Esq., Temple, Director of the London and Notting-
Alexander Prince, Esq., London, Director of the Cheltenham, Ox-
ford, and Brighton Railway
ham Railway
George Ewing Scott, Esq., Stoke Bishop, near Bristol
Thomas Stocker, Esq., St. Ives, Director of the Wisbeach, St. Ives,
and Cambridee Railway
Frederick William Seymour, Esq., Carlton-terrace, Director of the
Lynn, Wisbeach, Peterborough, &c., Railway
William Spooner, Esq., London, Director of the South Staffordshire
Junction Railway, and of the Liverpool, Manchester, and New-
castle-upon-Tyne Junction Railway
Henry Scott, Esq., 17, Pall-mall

8. E:Siehel,Es,i;meichant, Bradford, Director of the Leeds, York,
and Midland Junction Railway

George Turner, Esq., Hunton Hill, Erdington, Director of the South
Staffordshire Junction Railway
Henry Taylor, Esq.' Alderman, Wigan, Director of the Manchester
and Wigan, and the Liverpool, Prsston, and North Union
Junction Railways
George Turton, Esq., Bagden Lodge, Clayton West, Huddersfield
William Tinker, Esq., Conock, Wilts, Director of tine Manchester,
Southampton, and Poole Railway
George Thomas Thompson, Esq., Dover, Coroner for the Cinque
Ports
JjowhnayT,haonmdpLsoinve,
rp,E70.1,, Alderman of Wigan, Director of the Birkhen-
ohn Taylor,
jachne,:tusnutaineid:filitil;ws,hinead Railway-, of the Manchester and Wigan Rail-
Esq., Hull Director of the Lincolnshire and Eastern
Preston and North Union Junction Railway
George fords lui i rneeat
to,d Shr'vorroisle; i
l.fe;rjeten)4lHoielrietfloirdisysahvire, Director of the Staf-
the Lynn, Wiabeacb ar'al Pfet'field'
~ The. Laurels, Handsw4;rth, Staffordshire, Three-
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toharrno,f
itlAteehnlielE:ng:
Thomas Dolman Uofill', Esq., itnrotat
Major White, fall-mall, Director of tglitlelTill'rini:l,rietcetaoiriioigf,tahnedßßirmaslititiggi
WsatlotekreUßnent‘tv,aEysq., Captain :ii Light Dragoons, Maidstone, Director
of the Nottingham and South Staffordshire,
;Lilwg'h'dayß3alial,sn,cahyester Railway, and
Director of the Staffordshire and the wisheach, and Peterborough Railways Lynn,
William Boyden Watts, Esq , at
.D., Binnii h
,rai enr cdg t oshhari ofmre
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and
Lincoln,
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Birmingham,llnk, near Tonbride, Director of
Dover
Director of the Stafford, Uttoxeterra,nadnlDneetriobny
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the Leicester a
John
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Watson. Esq.,
Bedford
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bray
Lancers, Railway.
Coventry,
J. W. Yertatry, Esq.. BelcOinbe-house, Wilts, Capt. 3d.
Sir William White,
Light Bra-
GeYrs, Maidstone,
r°rr;hPeriDorir,eEestqW., esl9tetrhn. Director
Lodgogoensiflucryirecittorrn
Edward
aonf thed iiiDcanlualbanlidiinti,
Esq.,'Ll'utnllloa Union
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Charles
ms
WHielnliryamSßkee3ltnoonl,dts..:sqE.s,qB„hacdawpet
Director of the Worcester, Warwick and Rushy Railway
Thomas Braman, Esq., Mayor of Tannvorth, Deputy Chairnan of
the Leicester and Tamworth Railway
Richard Hughes, Esq., Stafford, Director of the Staffordshire and
Shropshire Junction Railway
Henry Wenman Newman, Esq., norabury-park, near Bristol, De-
puty-Lieutenant of Gloucester.ishire, and magistrate of Gloucester-
shire sad Bristol.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—
ACTING Errortana—Edward James Maude, Esq., C.E.
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co.; the Union Bank
BristolStuckey's Banking Company
Bradford and Trowbridge—The Wilts and Dorset Banking Company
Dover—Messrs. Latham and Co.

JOINT SOLICITORS.
Edwin Smith, Esq. and Messrs. Lewis and Ford, London ; Edward
Barges, Esq., Bristol.

LOCAL SOLICITORS.
G. F. Thompson, Esq., Dover ; Henry Gilbert, Esq., Devizes; W.
a. Reece, Esq., BirmiDgiuma.

Messrs.,,Timhrell and Merrick, Bradford and Trowbridge
Messrs. Taylor, Kemp, and Kingston, Bath.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT—Cadwallader F. Waddy,
SECC.ETARY--ellarlCS Martin, Esq.

This Company has been formed for the purpose of -constructing a
line in continuation of the South-Eastern Railway at Reigate,
whereby a direct junction will be effected between the whole of the
south-eastern coast, including the port and harbour of Dover and the
several ports and towns of Southampton, Gosport, Portsmouth, and
Bristol; and, bymeaus of the Bristol and Birmingham Railway, with
Gloucester, Worcester, Birmingham, 31ancliester, Liverpool, and
the north of England.

From its proximity to the Continent, the port of Dover will always
be the most accessible point of the English coast; an expeditious
communication thereflire between that and the other ports, harbours,
and inland:towns of the United Kingdom, must necessarily be regarded
as a great national advantage.

Dover is at present the chief port of embarkation for Calais,
Boulogne, Ostend, and other continental towns, and the vast numbers
already resorting there both on business and pleasure, will be im-
measurably increased when the railways of France, Belgium, Hol-
land, and Gsrmany are fully brought into operation.
In addition to which, the Government Commissioners having
selected Dover as a Barbour of Refuge, and recommended the, outlay
therg. • of 1,500,0001., it cannot fail of becoming a place of the
greatest resort for the shipping and commercial interests of the coun-
try, and perhaps the most hnportant town on tffe southern coast.
In every point of view, therefore, whether for national security-, or
for travelling excursions, or the invaluable interests of our shipping
and commerce, the paramount importance of a cheaper, more conve-
nient, and accelerated intercourse between this great port and all
parts of the kingdom, must he sufficiently obvious. This the pro-
moters fully anticipate will be attained by the proposed railway,
which will form a portion of a grand trunk line, completing the
chain of railway communication t pun the narrow gauge between the
south-eastern coast, and Bristol and the western, northern, and mid-
land counties.

The lime will commence at the terminus of the Sonth-Eastern Rail-
way at Reigate, proceed thence by Dorkiw, Coda!ming, Farnham,
and Odiham to the Basingstoke station, on the South-Western Rail-
way. It will then proceed by Andover towards Devizes, Trow-
bridge, and Bradford, with a branch to Path, and pursuing its course
through the Somersetshire coal-field, throwing off a branch towards
ltadstock into the heart of the collieries, terminate in a junction with
the Bristol and Birmingham Railway at Bristol.
By its course through Dorking, Godahning, Farnham, and Odi-
ham, it will :apply the railway accommodation so much required by
those towns, and connect the rich and fertile hop districts of Surrey,
Kent, and South Hants, and afford the menus of conveyance of their
produce to the great Hop-fair at Weyhill.
By its junction with the contemplated " Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate ," it will afford to the inhabitants of Reading, Oxford,
and to the midland counties generally, the best and shortest route to
the Continent, as well as to Worthing, Hastings, Brighton, and the
other watering-places in Sussex and Kent; and a vast increase of
visitors will undoubtedly be attracted to those places from the interior
of England by the accommodation and facilities for travelling which
will be accomplished by this and the proposed railway from Reading.
By its intersection of the South-Western Railway at Basingstoke,
and of the proposed Manchester and Southampton Railway further
west, the present line will connect Dover towards the south, wills
Southampton (the packet station for the bast and West Indies, &e.),
Gosport, and Fortsmouth, and towards the north, with Cheltenham,
Gloucester, Worcester, Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool, also
with Shrewsbury, Chester, and Holyhead, and la fact with the whole
of North and South Wales.

At Basingstoke, also, tills line wit join the proposed London, Salis-
bury, and YeoTil Railway, anti throw open to Dover and the sou•h-
eastern counties the populous a,A wealthy cities of Salisbury and
Exeter, the rich agricultural counties of Wilts, Dorset, Somerset,
and Devon, the p -rts of Plymouth, Devonport, and Falmouth, and
the mineral regions of Cornwall.

To Devizes, Trowbridge, Bradford, and Bath, and the other towns
in the vicinity of its course, the benefit which this line confer
cloriot be too highly estimated; to the coal districts of Somerset-
shire it will open large and constant markets both is Bristol and to
the south and cast, while to the inhabitants of Bristol especially, con-
necting its climmel with the Straits of Dover and the Downs, pro-
viding a perfect line for telegraphic communication, and securing to
them the whole of the trade between the south-east of England and
the west and south of Ireland, it seems difficult, considering the enor-
mous traffic which must necessarily flow to that city, to conceive a
project more deserving of their cordial support.
In the memorable Parliamentary contest last session between two
great rival companies, the T.egislature for the first time admitted
that principle of coAnpetition with existing interests which was
claimed by the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Company for
the protection and benefit of the public ; and it is with no fear of
the resu't' that the promoters of the present undertaking invite
attention to one distinguishing feature it contains, viz., that by the
construction of the line from Bristol t m Basingstoke, the Box Tunnel
will be avoided, and "a
new and independent communication will be
established between Bristol and London, by a shorter line on the
narrow gauge than by the devious course. of the Great Western, inde-
pendently of all the advantages of the proposed central station at
Hungerford-bridge, and the convenient access to the Thames both
there and at Nine Elms, over the distant and inconvenient station
of the Great Western at Paddington.
In length the proposed line will be nearly 110 miles (assuming this
Company to have the construction of that portion between Reigate
and Dorking, for which plans have been deposited by the South-
Eastern Company)—the country through which it passes does not
present any engineering difficulties of moment, nor will any rest,
dential or ornamental property be interfered with except under an
imperative necessity.
A reserve of shares will be made for landowners on the line, and
the Committee also retain to themselves the power to vary the course
of the line with reference to any arrangements with existing interests
and projected lines that may be considered advantageous to the
shareholders.

The capital proposed to be raised is 1,500,0001., in 75,000 shares of
201. each, with a deposit of 21. 2s. per share, to be NM on allotment.
Power will be taken by the Act to allow interest, at 4/. per cent.
per annum, upon all deposits and subscriptions until the opening of
the line, and no subscriber shall be answerable for more than the
amount of his deposit until the Act has been obtained, and then not
beyond the amount of his subscription.
The Subscribers' Agreement and the Parliamentary Contract will
be ready for execution, and the scrip issued immediately upon pay-
ment of the deposits.

Applications for shares must be addressed to the Secretary, at the
Offices of the Company, No. 12, Gray's Inn-place, only ; but n, app.
catibn will be attended to unless accompanied by a reference to a
member of the Provisional Committee, one of the solicitors to the
Company, or a banker.

_ _-- -
Copies of the prospectus and form of application for shares may be
obtained at the offices of the Company, or of Messrs. Peppercorne, Old
Broad-street ; Mr. Sym, 9, Tokenhouse-yard ; and Mr. B. B. Wil-
liams, Throgmorton-street, stock and sharebrokers, London.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Dover and Bristol Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 201. each
in this Company, and I agree to accept the same, or any smaller
number which may be allotted to me, to pay the deposit thereon,
and execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement
when required.
Dated this

day of
Name In full .......
Occupation or Profession • • .. • •
Re5idence................. ......
Reference ••• • • • • • •••• • • • •

1845.

riPHE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT
RA[LWAY, via ABINGDON, IVANTAGE, HUNGERFORD,
and LUDGERSIIALL.

(Provisionally registered.)
Capital 1,200,0001., in 48.003 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 15s. per Share.
PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT.
The imrortance of connecting remote parts of E gland by Rail-
ways, with the advantages thereby conferred upon intermediate towns
and districts, can scarcely be beter cxemylified than by the Line
which is I,ovr proposed to form a short and direct channel of inter-
course between Oxford and Salisbury. Numerous projected lines
now before the public will make Oxford at the north, and Salk,bary
at the south of the intended Railroad the central points from which
various radii will diverge to the north-west, north, and north-east of
the former, and to the east, south, and west of the latter; and the
proposed Line from Cambridge to Ox'ord, continuing to that city the
course of Railway from the north-eastern parts of the island, requires
the appliance now suggested to effect a corsp:ete means of transit to
the western and south-western counties.

The Oxford and salisbury Direct Railway, in addition to
the benefits which will he conferred upon the nation at
large, by preferring a direct line of commun'cation be-
tween the north-eastern and western and south-western
parts of England, will afford to the borough of Abingdon,
the market towns of Wantage, Dungerford, and Ludgershall, and
the adjacent villages, en important railway accommodation, of which
the agricultural districts in which they are seated stand In much
need, and will provide a facility for the interchange of produce be-
tween the rural, manufacturing, and commercial popnlation of the
kingdom.

accommodation has long been felt to press
the important and thriving town of
Abingdon. Their maims and opportitmties of competing with the more
fortunate traders of those towns which are already provided with di-
uriflaii;ly".'iLt7rto;ol fthrearlilaybitants of
di-
rect channels of transit, are thus seveiov crippled. The same remark
applies in some degree to the market town of Wantage, which, as
w(
, claims a share of 'the profits
and prodanduced
IT;greathviayi
traffic.
It has therefore been determined to commence the proposedil ne at
Oxford, and to proceed through Abingdon to the station of the Great
Western Railway at Steventon, thus giving to AbingdAbingdona direct rail-
roadll advantagesas iiunge rf
orl
to London. By continuing the projected railway to %Vantage, the
same facility of transit te.Londen will be afforded to that place; and
a perfect line of road from the north-eastern counties will, by a junc-
tion with the projection from Cambridge to Oxford, be produced,
through the towns which have been named, Hungeriord and Lodgers-
hall to Salisbury, and thence to the south and western ports and dis-
tricts.
A map of the line, and a statistical report of the whole conntry
intended to be traversed, is in course of preparation, and with the
names of an influential provisional Committee, will very shortly
be published. In the meantime, further information may be ob-
tained from Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street,
London, solicitors to the undertaking, to whom, at present, applica
Bon for shares may be made.

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE RAILWAY, AND
OXFORD AND RETCHLEY JUNCTION.
(Registered Provisionally.)
Capital, 2,250,0001., in Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 2/. 2s. per share.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
His Grace the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, K.G.
The Right Hon. Lord Nugent, the Lilies, Aylesbury, Bucks
Sir John Chetwode, Biccarij,3wl-I...,aCohveetrwode Manor-house, Bucks
Sir Thomas Digby Aubrey. Bart., Oving-house, Bucks
Sir Harry Verney, Bart., Claydon-house, Bucks
The Hon. Philip Sidney Plerfepont, Evenley-hall, Brackley, North-
amptonshire
CSilriajrlae JohnWattolnite Hamilton, Esq., M.P., Theme-park, Oxfordshire
Rice Richard Clayton, Esq., M.P., Hedgerley-park, Bucks
John Deering, Esq., the Lee, Bucks
RobertGcorge BMuolrlocgakn,3Easqrs.,hßanaid,dlEesdne,n-Lprit,r.pk,., cßucaltsversfleid
-house, Oxford-
shire
Walter Henry Bracebridge, Esq., Morville-house, Warwickshire, and
Chetwode Priory, Bucks
E. W. S. Lowndes, Esq., Winslow
G. Cooke, Esq., Winslow
John Barnes, Esq., Chorley-wood, Harts
William Osmond Hammond, Esq., St. Alban's-conrt, Wingham,
Kent
Benjamin Price, Esq., Westbury, Bucks
Col. John Hall, Life Guards-barracks, Hyde-park, London
John Newman, Esq., Brand's-house, Hughenden, Bucks
Thomas Newland Allen, Esq., The Vache, Chalfont, Bucks
Henry William Beauclerk, Esq., 61, Chester-square, London
Robert Fox, Esq., Wendo er-lodge, Bucks
William James Bailey, Esq., Shenley-house, Bucks
Thomas Sands Chapman, Esq., The Park, Aston Clinton, Bucks
Robert Marriott Freeman, Esq., Stoney Stratford, Bucks •
George Parrott, Esq., Castle-farm, Buckinghana
Captain Edward Hewes, Buckingham
Humphrey Humphreys, Esq., Buckingham
William Stowe, Esq., Buckingl444l
William Davis, Esq., Biccster' Oxfordshire
Captain William Style, R.N., Bicester, Oxfordshire
John Norwood, Esq., Steane-park, Brackley, Northamptonshire
John Henry Butterfield, Esq., Brackley
William Henry Malins, Esq., Brackley
Alfred Hoperaft, Esq., Brackley
Charles Tawney, Esq., Oxford
Richard Wootton, jun., Esq., Oxford
Jonathan Samuel Browning, Esq., Oxford
Henry William Tancred, Esq., M.P., London
Timothy Rhodes Cobb, Esq., Banbury, Oxen
Zacharias Daniel Hunt, Esq., Aylesbury, Bucks
Joseph Ashby Gillett, Esq., Banbury, Oxon
George- Carr Glynn, Esq., London, Director of the London and Bir-
minghatn Railway
Joseph Frederick Ledsam, Esq., Birmingham, ditto
Edward Cropper, Esq., Liverpool ditto
Thomas Smith, Esq., Reigate lodge, Surrey, ditto
Themes Yeung' Esq., Albany, London, ditto
Roes Donnelly Mangles, Esq , .M.P., London, ditto
Captain Constantine Richard Moorsom, R.N., Birmingham, ditto
Robert Benson, jun., Esq., Fairfield, Manchester, ditto
(With power to add to their number).
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMLNT.
Sir Harry Verney, Bart. J. E. Ledsam, Esq.
The Hon. I'. S. Pierrepont Edward Cropper, Esq.
Z. 1). Hunt, Esq. Thomas Smith, Esq.
Captain Edward Dewes Captain C. R. Moorsom, R.N.
ilumphrey Humphreys, Esq. ltol)ert Benson, juu., Esq.
J. R. Cobb, Esq. Thomas Yonet;e, Esq.
J. Samuel Browning, Esq. Ross D. Mangles, Esq.
G. C. Glynn, Esq.
(With limited power to add to their number).
ENGINEER—Robert Stephenson,
sowerroas.

Messrs. Parker, Hayes Barnwell, and Turlsden,
London ; Mr. Samuel Carter, Birmingham, and 37, Great Geor4e-
ktrcet, Westminster; Mr. William Meyriek, 2, Furniyars-Inn,
London; Messrs. Rose and Messrs. Tindal, Aylesbury; Messrs.
Hearn and Nelson, and Mr. Henry Smith, Buekbighana.

SECRETARY—Wyndham Harding, Esq.
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Glynn, Halifax, Mills, and Co., Lombard-street
Aylesbury—Messrs. Riekford and Hunt,
The London and County- Bank
Buckingham—Messrs. Bartlett, Parrott, and Hearn
The London and County Bank
Banbury—Messrs. Cobb and Co.

Mr.ssrs. Gillett 1,1 Tawney
Oxford—Messrs. Wootton and Co.
The London and County Bank.
Bleester— Messrs. Tubb.

The object of this undertaking is to supply railway communication
to the towns and districts lying between the London and Birmingham
and the Great Western Railways, giving them the best means of ac-
cess to the metropolis, stud connecting them also with Birmingham

and the north-wet,t of England, with the e•3stern lines of railway.
with Oxford and the south, and with Worcester and Wales. •
The main line will communicate from the London and firming
ham Railway, near Harrow, and, passing to the north of Uxbridge4
will proceed up the. Valley by CM .Inuit, near Amersham and Chesham ,
to Missenden and Wendover, and thence to Aylesbury, from which
place it will extend to Buckingham, and, approaching Brackley, wil!
terminate by a junction with the proposed Warwickshire and London
Railway, near Banbury. In connexion with this part of the line, it
is proposed to Improve the communication between Aylesbury an '
London by taking a direct line from Aylesbury to Tring.

In addition to the line above described, it is intended also to con
struct a railway from the station of the London and Birmingham.
Railway, at Bletebley, through Bicester, to Oxfoi d. From Bletchles
to Bedford a railway is in course of construction by the Bedford ank!
London and Birmingham Company, and from Bedford communica
tions eastward are proposed.

The proposed Buckingham and London and Birmingham Railway
Company is amalgamated with this Company.
Accurate surveys of the country have been taken by Mr. Robert
Stephenson, and it has been ascertained that no engineering difticu ty
of importance presents itself.

The undertaking has already received the sanction and support
a very large proportion of the nobility, gentry, and proprietors
land, through or near whose property it is intended to pass.
It is proposed that these lines should be made wits the co-opera-
tion and under the direction and superintendence of the London and
Birmingham Railway Company, under a lease in perpetuity, at four
per cent. per annum on the outlay, with an equal division of the sur-
plus profits.
It is intended to allot the shares to the holders of scrip in the
London, Worcester, and South S'afforshire Railway Company in
certain proportions, subject to the approbation of the Committe2,
Management, such shares as may be required for parties having locyl
interest being excepted.
further applications for Shares can be received. . _ _ _

Oct. 1, 1545

EXETER, DORCHESTER, AND WEY-
MOUTH JUNCTION COAST RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management beg to inform the pubic that the
shares in this Company are now in course of allotment, and that they
(the Committee) intend issuing the Letters and Allotments vs soon as
the requisite examination has taken place into the application for
By order,
Oct. 2, 1845. FRANCIS GREW, Secretary.

BARNET and NORTH METROPOL [TAN
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 110.)
Capital, 400,0001., in 20,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.

No Shareholder to be liable beyond the amount of his Subscription

PROVISIONAL OOMMITTEE.

The Hen. F. IT. F. Berkeley, M.P., Chairman, Director of the London,
Hounslow, and Western Railway Company

William Alfred Hill, Esq., Deputy-Chairman, also Deputy-Chairman
of the Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham Railway Company
_ . _ _

,
Sir John Osborne, Bart., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing-
stoke Railway Company
_ _ _

Sir Henry Richardson, Knight, Chessel, near Southampton Lord of
the Manors of Chipping Barnet and East Barnet

The Right Hon. Lord btinboyne, Belle Hatch House, Henley
William Wilberforce, Esq., James-street, Buckingham•gate, and
Highwood House, Highwood Hill, Hendon

Samuel Dendy, Esq., Montague-street, Russell-square, Lord of the
Manor of Hendon

Lieut.-Colonel Gillies, Porchester [louse, Bayswater
William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Director of the Italian and
Austrian Railway

Josiah Healo, Esq.,- Gray's Inn

Major Lindmn, Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and
Central Wales Railway Company
Henry lieckley Richardson, Esq., F.S.A., Director of the Colchester,
Cambridge, and Harwich Junction Railway

Rowland Hill Mackenzie, Esq., M.D., Mortimer-street, Cavendish
square

llenry Chaytor, Esq., Clervaux Castle, Darlington, Direetor of the
Warwick and Worcester Railway

Thomas Priestley, Esq., Principal of Mill Ilill Grammar School,
llendon, Middlesex

The Rev. H. J. Crump, Mill Hill, Hendon, Middlesex
Captain Grover, R.N.

Captain John Lines, H.C.S., Wentworth House, Mill Hill, Hendon,
Middlesex
The Rev. Bartholomew Nicholls, M.A., Incumbent of St. Paul's
Mill Hill, Hendon, Middlesex

Mr. William Ward, Underhill, Barnet
lir.Bruce Johnson, Finchloy

William Christopher Daniel Deighton, Esq., Fellow of Queen's College
Cambridge, Holloway

Ralph Allen Frogley, Esq., Hounslow, Director of the London,
Hounslow, and Western Railway

Colonel Taylor White, Hadley-green, Barnet
Abraham Scott, Esq., Hadley Priory, Barnet
W. J. 11I`Gwire, Esq , 74, St. Jamey street
W. Prosser, jun., Esq., 36, New Broad-street, City
. .

James Berington, Esq., East-street, Hoxton
George Freeman, Esq., Grange House, Leeds

. _
Richard Cowley Polhill, Esq., Director of the London, Hounslow, and
Western Railway Company
George Godfrey, Esq., The Elms, Hutton, Essex
Robert Wright Wood, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and
Basingstoke Railway Company
Alexander Prince, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing-
stoke Railway
Peter Graham, Esq., Angelo Villa, Gloucester-road, Regent's Park
William Henry Halpin, Esq., 23, Grafton-street, Fitzroy-square
Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and
Basingstoke Railway Company
Charles Green, Esq., Director of the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and
Central Wales Railway Company

J. N. Nicholay, Esq., Oxford-street
John Godfrey B. Hudson, Esq., Director of the Central Terminus
Railway Company
The Rev. G. A. Walker, Alvisthorpt Parsonage. Wakefield, Direc
tor of the Wakefield and Bradford Railway- Company

John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Leicester, Director of the South Union
and Leicester and Birmingham Itt; way

Thomas Francis Justice, Esq., Berner's-street, Oxford-street
George Parbury, Esq., Mansfield-street, Russell-square, Dlreetfir of
the Grand Trunk Railway

John 1). Hopkin,, Esq., 25:Bedford-square
J. H. Lister, Esq., Director of the South and Midland Junction
Railway
.J. P. Wright, Esq., Edinburgh
W. 81ark, Esq., lb:damns Lodge, Cricklewood
Charles Waite, Esq., Willesden
_ •

Thomas Cope, Esq., Cricklewood
Captain F. N. Fisher, United Service Club, Whitehall

George Howell, Esq., Finchley:common

George Hayes, EN., Vincent-villa, Finchley-common
Robert Henry Lindham, Esq., 8, New-street, Dorset-square

Alexander James Geddes, Esq., Parade, Thames Bank.
(With power to add to their number.)
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
The Hon. F. ii. F. Berkeley, M.P., W. H. Halpin, Esq.
Chairman Richard Cowley Polhill Esq.

William Alfred Hill, Esq., Deputy- Alexander Prince, Esq.
Chairman George Freeman, Esq.
__. _ . _

Major Lindam, K.H. George Godfrey, Esq.
Henry Beckley Richardson, Esq., Robert Wright Wood, Esq.
F.S.A. 'Charles Green, Esq.

CONSULTING ENorNErm—Francis IVhishavr, Esq., C.E:, Brook T,odge

Hendon, and Adelphi.

ACTING ENGINEER—J. Bailey Denton, Esq., 10, Gray's Inn-square.,
BANKERS—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths,
JOINT SOLICITORS.
Edward Elkins, Esq., 59, Newman-street, Oxford-street
G. P. 11111, Esq., 21A, Soho-square.
LOCAL AGENTS.

Henry Hammond, Esq., solicitor, Wentworth Lodge, Finchley
John Hughes, Esq., solicitor, Whetstone.
Messrs. Tatham and Son, solicitors, Highgate
Thomas Weeks, Esq., solicitor Tottenham
This railway will connect the important and hitherto neglected
town of BWestern Ra
ar itile‘Lt t3v.si
,t
att hoer London Hon
otauddmlrreneiiiiir
withmatande eo
rGt
hrecra,t,
and Eastern and the Eastern Counties Railway, at or near Totten-
ham ; and the proposed Direct London and Manchester, and the Lon-
don and York Railways.
The line, in its course, will unite the town of Barnet with Whet-
stone, Tetteridge, Highwood Hill, Mill Hill, Finchley, Holder's Hill,
Hendon, Burrows, Golder's Hill, Gutterhedge, Kingsbury, Neesdon,
Wilsdon Green. Holsdon Green, Keretall Green, Westbourne
Green, Maida Hill, Kilburn, Hampstead, West End, Highgate, Crouch
End, Hornsey, Muswell Hill, West Green, Tottenham, Edmonton.
Chinford, Stamford Hill, Stoke Newington, Newington Green, Clap-
ton; Highbury, Holloway, Kingsland, Layton, Stratford, West Ham,
Bow, Bromley, Bethnal Green, Limehouse, Hoxton, Homerton,
Hackney, Shacklewell, Dalston, Islington, St. Pancras, Shoreditch,
Blackwall, Enston-square, Paddington, Kensington, Hammersmith,
Brompton, Fulham, Chelsea, &e. ; connecting those places with the
various railways named, and all those south of the river Thames.
The distance front the town of Barnet to the station of the London
and Birmingham Railway, at Euston-square, by this route, will be
13 miles.

The length of the main line, from the point of junction at Totten-
ham to the London and Birmingham Railway, will be 11 miles ; and
the length of the branch line to Barnet, will be 41/5. miles. From the
junction with the Birmingham Railway to Chipping Barnet, 9%
miles ; from the Decoy (near Brent•street, Hendon), on the proposed
Barnet and North Metropolitan Junction Railway, to the Northern
and Eastern Counties Railway, by Stamtbrd.hill, 6.74 mi'es
There are no engineering difficulties throughout the entire distance.
The line will proceed beyond the range of the Highgate and Hamp-
stead Hill:, and the branch from the main line to Barnet will follow
the valley- of tjie river Brent to the intended station at Barnet ; thus
the expense of, construction will be less than any other metropolitan
line of railway, for the above reason, and because it will pats through
an agricultural district, avoiding all ornamental property and large
collections of houses and buildings.

Upon the completion of this railway, a large and daily increasing
population, resident beyond the limits of the metropolitan omnibuses,
will be largely benefited, and land and agricultural produce, hitherto
affording an inadequate return to their cultivators, will be quad-
rupled in value.

;fhe ancient, populous, and once-flourishing town of Barnet, too,
will now have a railway communication of its own, without depend-
ing upon the caprice or uncertain goodnature of any company who
may hold out a prospect of a branch, in future times, from some of
the trunk lims-now contemplated.

An ample return of profit to the investments of shareholders may
be safely anticipated, and will arise from the following sources,
amongst others :-
1. From the conveyance of passengers.

2. From the carriage of goods and-merchandise front the City and
Docks, &c., to the several railways which are intersected by this
line, avoiding the delay and excessive cost of conveyance through
London ; also from th.a conveyance of cattle, &c., more particularly
during the period of the large Barnet fairs

_
3d. From the conveyance of coal, both inland and seaborne fuel,
and other commodities of general consumption, the great expense
of which has long been felt byall e2usses as a most grievcib cr...
The Committee c f Management s came to themselves the power
of adopting, upon t his line, locomotive pen tr, or Presser's Railway
guide and safety wheels, as may be deemed expellent.
Applications for Shares in the form annexed oromuni-
cations from persons desirous of promoting the objects of the U gar
pony), may be addressed to the Secretary, at the Provisional Offices
of the Company, 59, Newman-street, Oxford-street; to the Joint
Solicitors, Edward Elkins, Esq.. 59, Newman-street, and G. P
Bill, Esq., 21a, Soho-square; or to Messrs. Sparks and Clark,
3, Bartholomew-lane ; Messrs. W. and H. R. Cox, Share-brokers,
16, Thrognaorton-street; 1. R. Lane, Esq., Birmingham; Charles
0. Net F,sq., 15, St. Ann's-square, Manchester ; Mr. Landford,
Exeter; John Wells, Esq., Royal Bank-buildings, Liverpool; and
Messrs. Wellbeloved and Oaster, Leeds.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
•• • • - - - - -

To the Provisional Committee of the Barnet and Nortlt Metropolitan
Junction Railway, 59, Newman-street, Oxford-street, London.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me Shares of
201. each in this Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the
samr, and to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that
may be allotted to me ; and I undertake also to execute the Puha-
mentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
Name in full ......... ..... ..............
Re5idence............
Trade or Profession
Name, Residence, and Profession cr Trade of Referee..

BARNET AND NORTH METROPOLITAN
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
At a public meeting of the inhabitants of Barnet and its vicinity,
convened by a requisition, numerously signed and duly published,
held at the Victoria Hall, Union-street, Barnet, the lith day of
September instant,
JOHN HEY PUGET, Esq., of Totteridge, in the Chair ;
It was proposed by J. SPENCER, Esq , seconded by the Rev. J. D.
Tnompsoer, and carried unanimously—
That ft is the opinion of this meeting that a direct Pails, ay commu-
nication between the northern districts of the Metropolis and the
town of Barnet is of vital importance to its prosperity, and is now
imperatively called for.
It was proposed by BENJAMIN SMITH, Esq., and seconded by
• Mr. Joins HOPEWELL, and resolved unanimously-
2. That this meeting having duly considered the prospectus and
map of the line of the proposed Barnet and North Metropolitan
Junction Railway, and on comparing the same with the oilier pro-
jected lines, does most unhesitatingly declare that the proposed Barnet
and North Metropolitan Junction Railway will afford to the town
greater advantages than any line of railway hitherto proposed to
coma in the vicinity of Barnet, it being the only one which will afford
to the residents of the town the advantage of a station. and that it
deserves the support of the inhabitants and all others having an in-
terest in Barnet and its vicinity ; awl that a petition be presented in
favour of the line immediately upon the assembling of the. Houses of
Parliament ; and this meeting pledges itself to further the views of
the Company, and resolves that a Committee be appc listed to promote
the object and secure the interest of the town of Barnet.
That the Committee consist of
Benjamin Smith Esq.
Mr. John Hopewell
Mr. George Bower
Mr. James Hill
Mr. James Cooper
With power to add to Vier number.
It wa3 proposed by the Rev. ALEXANDER STLTART, and semnded by
J. SPENCER, Esq., and resolved unanimously-
3. That the thanks of the meeting be tendered to the Hon. F. H. F.
Berkeley, the Chairman, and the Deputy-Chairman, and the other
members of the deputation from the Barnet and North Metropolitan
Junction Railway Company, for the able manner in which they
have laid before the meeting the project of the Company.
It was proposed by WILLIAM HILL, Esq., and seconded by W. W.
HoLrEts, Esq., and carried unanimously-
4. That a vote of thanks be tendered to John Hey Puget, Esq., for
his impartial and able conductin the chair.

Mr. Brunt
:Or. Spencer
Rev. Alexander Stuart
Rev. John Dawson Thompson

ARNET and NORTH METROPOLITAN
to.
JUNCTION RAILWAY.

Notice is hereby given, that no trather Applications for Shares in
this undertaking will be received after SATURDAY, the 4th October
next.

By order of the Committee of Management,
EDWARD ELKINS,
1 Joint SolieltorL
G. r. HILL,
69, Ferman-greet, Sept, 25, 1545,

INHE DIRECT WEST END AND CROYDON
RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 800,0001., in 40,000 Shares of 20/. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Sir James Anderson, M. R. I. A., New Burlington-street ; Director
of the Hereford and Merthr Tytlvil Railway
Lieut.-General Sir R Barton, K.C.8., 2 Montagu-place, Montagu-
square, Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
Major Beresford, M.P., 77, Pail-mall ; Chairman of the Leeds and
Carlisle, and Director of the Teen and Dove Valley, and West
Midland, Manchester, and Southampton Railways
Charles R. itigge, Esq., 10, Bryanston-square; Director of the Great
GI busby, L nth, Honicastie, Lincoln, and Midland Junction Hallway
William Bland, Esq., Braxton ; Director of the North Wales, and
Richmond and West-end Junction Railways
William Blanchard, Esq., York ; Chairman of the Liberty of Ripon
Quarter Sessions, and Director of the York, Hull, and East and
West Yorkshire Junction Railway
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield ; Chairman of the Isle
of Ely Rilway, and Dire for of the Manchester and Sheffield
Railway
Alfred Brodie, Esq , Upper Montagu-street, Montagu-square Direc-
tor of the Grand Trunk Railway
Thomas Byrom, Esq., Wigan ; Director of the Leeds and Liverpool
Direct, and Liverpool, Preston. and North Union Junction Railways
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Westbourne House, Sheffield, Director of the
Direct Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
William Caldwell, Esq., Ince Hall, near Wigan, Lancashire ; Direc-
• for of the Manchester, Derby, and Rugby, and Leeds and Liver-
pool Direct Railways
John Castendieck, Esq., Lewisham, Kent
John Chauntler, Esq., Friday-steet, London ; Director of the
Chelmsford and Bury, and York and Lancaster Railways
Thomas Challis, Esq., Alderman of London ; Director of the Direct
Western Railway
Richard Clark, Esq., Farnham, Hants
George Clive, Esq., Sanderstead, near Croydon
Benjamin Collett, Esc'', Manor House, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire;
Director of the London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kiddermin-
ster; and Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railways
Nathaniel Cooke, Esq., Bayswater; Director of the Ambergate,
Nottingham, Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
Millis Coventry, Esq., White Hart-court, Lombard-street ; Director
of the Birmingham Extension and Great Leeds and London
Direct Railways
Charles R. Dodd, Esq., North Brixton
Lieutenant-Colonel Lothian Dickson,Curzon-street, May-fair; Direc-
tor of the Reading and Reigate Junction Railway
Miles Dormer, Esq., Hans-place, Sloane-street; Director of the
Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway
Colonel Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, United Service Club;
Director of the London and Birmingham Extension Railway
Daniel Ebbetts, Esq., Mincing-lane ; Director of the Direct Western
Railway
Francis Ewart, Esq., Brick-court, Temple; Director of the Great
Leeds and London Direct, and of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey-
mouth Railway
Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of the City of London ; Ditector
of the London and Westminster Bank, and Director of the London
Warwick, Leamington, and Kidderminster Railway
Edmund Aldam Fawcett, Esq., London, Derby, and Nottingham
Robert Fisher, Esq., Ilighbury Park, Director of the Trent Valley
Continuation Railway
The Rev. 11. R. Fowler, Manchester-square ; Director of the Direct
Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
Henry Glynn, Esq , Temple
F. W. Hamilton, Esq., 59, Gloucester-place, Portman-square; Di-
rector of the York and Lancaster Railway
C. J. Rogers Harrison, Esq., Upper Montagu-street, Montagu-square;
Director of the Grand Trunk Railway
George R. Harrison, Esq., Harlingford-place, Kennington ; Director
of the Grand Trunk Railway
William Hay, Esq., 19, Clifford-street, Bond-street.
Josiah Heale, Esq., Gray's Inn-square ; Director of the Chelmsford
and Bury Railway
Lawrence Heyworth, Esq., Yew Tree, Liverpool
A. W. Hillary, Esq., 66, Cadogan-place ; Director of the Direct Exe-
ter Railway
Jehn Holford, Esq., Rusholm-hall, Manchester ; Director of the York
and Lancaster Railway
John Holmes, Esq., 88, St. James's-street ; Director of the York and
Lancaster, and Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railways
William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., 31. P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid-
land, and Director of the South awl Midlands' Junction Railway
W. Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., Alderman of London,
Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, and
London and Greenwich Railways
John Kynnersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London ; Director of
tile London and Manchester Direct Railway
Herbert Ingram, Esq., 128, Strand, and Swineshead Abbey, Lincoln-
shire; Director of the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, and
Eastern Junction Railway
Slegerich C. Kreeft, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and
IVeymouth Junction Coast Railway
Richard Kelly, Esq., 6, Cleveland-row; Chairman of the New Ross,
Carlow, and Kilkenny, and Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln
Extension Railways
Sir J. Key, Bart., Alderman of London ; Director of the London and
Manchester Direct Railway
William Lawrence, Esq., Brixton ; Director of the London and Man-
chester and Direct Western Railways
William Alexander Long, jun., Esq., Kingswood House, Wootton-
under-Edge ; Director of the Erewash Valley Extension Railway
William 3largetson, Esq., Streatham-hill, Brixton
J. Mee Mathew, Esq., 4, Gray's Inn-square; Director of the Direct
Western Railway
Thomas Morris, Esq., Fairhurst Hall, near Wigan ; Director of the
Blackburn, Chorley, and Liverpool, and Leeds and Liverpool
Direct Railways
James Morrison, Esq., Director of the Chepstow awl Forest of Dean
and Rhondda and Ely Valleys Junction Hallway
Horatio Nelson, Esq.. Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey-
mouth Railway
G. Parbury, Esq.,- Russell-square; Director of the Manchester and
Birmingham Railway
W. Simpson Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens ; Director of the Grand
Trunk, the Oxford and Witney, and Reaching and Reigate Junction
Railways
Samuel P. Pratt, Esq., F.R.S., Bath, and 55, Lincoln's-inn-fields ;
Director of Ihe Kennet and Avon Canal Company, and York and
Lancaster Railway
George Richard Pye, Esq., Lavenham, Suffolk
Sir George Rich, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square ; Director of the
Metropolitan Railways Junction Company, and of the London,
Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway
John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Byculiah House, Enfield, Middlesex ;
Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
R. A. Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanston-street, Portman-square ; Director
of the Triug, Rattling, and Basingstoke, and Oxford and Worcester
Extension Railways
James Reid, Esq. Director of the Metropolitan Railways Junction
Company
A. Macdonald Ritchie, Esq. Middle Temple, London; Director of
the Great Western Extension Atmospheric Railway
Richard Rowe, Esq., Beaufoy-terrace, Halite Vale
H. Savage, Esq., Dorset-place, Dorset-square ; Director of the West
Midland, Manchester, and Southampton Railway
William Studiey, Esq., Alfred-place, Brixton ; Director of the Great
Grimsby, Louth, Horneastie, Lincoln, and Midland Junction
Railways
Timothy Steward, Esq., Heigham Lodge, near Norwich
Edward H. 0. Scott, Esq., Hoe Garden House, Plymouth; Director
of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouill Railway
Henry Taylor, Esq , Wigan ; Director of the Leeds and Liverpool
Direct, Manchester awl Wigan, and Liverpool, Preston, and North
Union Railways
James Templer, Esq., Brixton-rise, Director of the Great Leeds and
London, and Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford Railways
Joseph Underwood, Esq., The Hall, Blackheath Park; Director of
the Direct London and Manchester, and Leeds and Liverpool Direct
Railways
Robert Watkins, Esq., 45, Lower Brook-street, Grosvenor-square ;
Director of the Oxford, Southampton, and Gosport, and Liverpool
and Derby Railways
Sir Henry Webb, Bart., 105, Pall-mall, London ; Director of the
York and Lancaster, and Direct 'Nester's Railways
Sir Thomas Woollaston White, Bart., Walling Wells, Nottingham
Thomas Williams, Eaq., Belgrave-street. Beigrave-square
Sir William Wynn, Maosynewadd, and Suffolk-place, Pall-mall ;
Chairman of the North Wales, and South and Midlant's' Junction
Railways
James 31`31iller, Esq., Southampton
Lewis Pocock, Esq., F.S.A., Montagu-square, Director of the South-
ampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction and Brighton and Chel-
tenham Direct Railways
James 31eabuni, Esq., Grove-hill, Camberwell
John Byng Banks, Esq., Lansdown-road, Stockwell, Director of the
Great Leeds and London Direct Railway
Sir William Magnay, Bart., Alderman of London, Director of the
Great Grimsby, Louth, Horncastle, Lincoln and Midland Junction,
and Leicester and Tamworth Railways
W. S. Wilson, Esq., Norwich, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle, and
Marylort and Carlisle Railways
William Cnrr, Esq., Blackheath-park
George Gamble, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Nottingham and
Gainsborough Railway
Francis Gamble, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Nottingham
and Gainsborough Railway
Colonel Elrington, Scots Fusilier Guards, Wyndham-place, Bryan-
ston-square, Director of the London and Manchester, and Liverpool
and Leeds Direct Railway
John Jameson, Esq., St. George's-road, Brixton, Director of the
Great Leeds and London Direct, and of the Cumberland Union
Railways . _ .

(With power to add to their number.)
BANffERS.—The Commercial Bank of London.
CONSULTING ENGINEER.
Sir John Macneil, L.L.D., F.R.S., M.E.C.E.,
ACTING ENGINEERS.
Messrs. R. and T. Hopkins,M.l.C.E.; Messrs.(ough and Roumieu, ('

SURVEYORS.—Messrs. Shuttleworth and Sons.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Chauntler and Westwood, 8, Gray's Inn-square,
SECRETARY—J. L. Cotton, Esq.

The principal objects of the scheme are —lst. To rasiedy the evils
of delay and inconvenience to which parties are, at the present time,
necessarily subjected in proceeding from the west end of the metro-
polis to Croydon, or the most distant places on the South-Eastern
and London and Brighton Railways, as well as the several sea ports
and packet-stations on the coasts of Kent and Sussex; and 2d. To
supply to the numerous and wealthy Inhabitants of the district
through which the intended line will pass (at present wholly with-
out railway accommodation), a greatly improved means for the in-
terchange of communicatioa with the metropolis, and with each other.
Commencing at the intended terminus of the South-Western Rail-
way, at Hungerford or Waterloo-bridge, the line will take the most
practicable route to Kennington, from thence it will follow as near as
possible the old turnpike road, passing through or near to the
wealthy and populous districts of Stockwell, Clapham, Brixton,
Tulse•hill, Streatham, Norwood, Beulah, and Thornton-heath, effect-
ing a junction at Croydon with the several existing or projected
lines from that place.
It is also proposed to form a branch or branches from the neigh-
bourhood of Streatham to Mitcham and Tooting, and thus to extend
to those places, and their respective neighbourhoods, the advantages
of a direct railway communication with the metropolis.

A great portion of the traffic in passengers and goods upon the
Brighton and Dover lines is supplied from the west-end of London
and the Birmingham and Great Western Railways. The necessity
of proceeding to the station at London-bridge, and by the present
circuitous route to Croydon, is a serious and unnecessary inconveni-
ence, entailing additional expense and delay. The removal of this
long-felt grievance is a leading object with the promoters of the pre-
' sent undertaking. They deem it right, however, to observe, in lay-
ing this scheme before the public, that they have no desire to inter-
fere with existing railway interests, further than is absolutely indis-
pensable, but that on the other hand it will be their object to yield
assistance to, and in return endeavour to secure it, from each com-
pany with which this line may ultimately be connected.
A glance at the map will show, that as a branch or arm of the
London and Brighton Railway, this undertaking completes a stra'ght
line of comm•mication from the west end of London to Croydon,
Raigate, and Brighton, and renders the ports of Dover and Folke-
stone, as well as the several places on the South-Eastern line, more
easily accessible from that part of the metropolis.
The great amount of traffic at the present time upon the roads be-
tween Croydon, Mitcham, Tootiag. &c., and London. proves at once
that the existing railway facilities do not at all meet the exigencies
of the mass of population to whom this line will be available.
The population who reside upon or in the immediate neighbour-
hood of the proposed line, independent of the metropolis, anti between
the intended termini, exceeds 100,000, whose wants are almost
wholly supplied from the London markets, 8.7. c., and who have, at
the present time, no mode of conveyance but upon the turnpike
road. In the transit of buildbig materials, corn, coal, lime, and
other heavy goods, from the warehouses and wharfs on the banks of
the Thames, and for marketable produce in each direction, this line
must become to them particularly useful and convenient.

Some idea may be formed of the local necessity of this railway
when it is known that the number ofpassengers who avail themselves
of the accommodation afforded by the several omnibuses and other
public vehicles, running upon the turnpike-road, have been ascer-
tained to exceed 2,600 daily. An equal number (at least) proceed
by private and other conveyances. Of foot passengers, although
no accurate estimate can be formed of them, it is considered that
they at least number four times that of passengers who travel by con-
veyance. The tonnage of goods it is calculated will be In full pro-
portion to the receipt from passengers.
Experience has fully proved, that en however liberal a scale the
probability of future traffic in the transit of goods and passengers has
been judged, almost every line of railway has, upon its completion,
vastly exceeded the calculated amount. There are, however, In this
instance, reasons for supposing that the extended facilities of com-
munication will cause more than an ordinary increase in the con-
veyance of passengers. The country which the line of railway will
open is singularly picturesque and beautiful, and in addition to the
admired districts of Brixton and Streatham, the long-Ilivoured and
much-frequented Beulah and Norwood IN hl be placed within easy
access, and become more than ever, objects of interest and delight
to the visitor and resident of the metropolis.
There can therefore be little doubt but that the present line must
become a profitable and eligible scheme for the investment of capital.
The promoters of this undertaking have pleasure in announcing
that it is approved of, an I will be generally supported by local in-
fluence. They have caused a partial survey to be made, which will
be completed shortly, and they have the assurance of their engineers
that there are not more than ordinary difficulties to contend with.
The liability of the shareholders will be restricted, by Act of Parlia-
ment, to the amount of their subscriptions; and power will be appled
for in the Bill to allow interest at 4/. per cent. per annum on all calls
from the passing of the Act until the opening of the line.
Applications for further information, prospectuses, and shares (in
the form annexed), may be addressed to the Solicitors; to the Secre-
tary, at the offices of the Company, No. 34, Gracechurch-street ; or
to the following Brokers :—viz., Messrs. B. and M. Boyd, Princes-
street; Mr. H. J. Williams, 80, Old Broad-street; Messrs. Greystone
and Earle, York ; Mr. Anthony Laurie, Liverpool ; Mess: s. Cardwell
and Co., and Mr. Henry Benton, Manchester ; Mr. James Pearson,
Birmingham ; laessrs. Watson and Co., Leeds ; Messrs. !irady and
Stainforth, Hull ; Mr. George Edwards, Bristol ; Mr. Thomas Saud-
ford, Exeter ;,,31r. James Pringle, Edinburgh.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

To the Provisional Committee of the Direct West-End and Croydon

Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me Shares of 20/.
east► In the Abele railway, upon which or upon au lees number that