The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENINCIT,'OCTOI3TR 13, 1845

Thomas North, Esq., Mayor of Nottingham
Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continuation
and Holyhead Junction, and West Midland and South Midland and
Oxford Extension Railways
John Ostler, Esq., Director of the Hall and Barnsley, and Leeds and
Carlisle Railways
Robert Oxley, Esq., M.D., Pontefract
George Osgood, Esq., Raymond-buildings, Gray's Inn
Charles Frederick Palgrave, Esq., Bedford
Bennett Pell, Esq., 12, Finsbury-place North
John Phillips, Esq., Mayor of Pontefract
George Parbury, Esq., Mansfield-house, Russell-square
Willizm Patterson, Esq., Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire
Robert Power, Esq., Director of the Great Britain Life Assurance
Society
Thomas Ingham Raynor, Esq., Birstal, Leeds, Director of the Leeds
and West Biding Junction, and the Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railways
John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Birming-
ham Direct, Leicester, Iron and Dove Valley Railways
Edward Rawlins, Esq., Bedford
Robert Richards, Esq., Director of ths.West Midland Railway
John gsfy.iiild:ltiddell, Esq., By-pi/tali-house, Enfield, Managing
. Dire:dot-Of the-tdrk and Lancaster Railway-" '• - .
Janielltebsitn, Esq., Tanshelf,alitta,glatratefor the Borough of I'on,:
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Frl Redden, -his 7;;TlOdfOrd; 1~ - '
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Ita*t,...(iifiiesv:)tige ir,;Esq., Director- c the seter, DOechester,
4i...stiftF',Weyiteith'.!'J ttien,":-'lhe I.ring, it eading, and' Basiegatoke,' ,
i astAhe'gfrala..resterm Railway. '.,'„„-•. _
Gil- Ro .11sorr7't t?it;'711111I; -Dite6Uoti)k life ittilfxitessd • ' ' '
Junction, and of the Rugby, Derby. and Manchester Railways
John Richardson, Esq., Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate,
the East and West Yorkshire, and the Midland and Thirak Junc-
tion Railways
Thomas Routlidge, Esq., Alderman, Pontefract
James Russell, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director of
the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton, of the Tring,
Reading, and Basingstoke Railsvaya
Edward Sankey, Esq., Canterbury
Henry Savage, Esq., Director of the Irving, Reading, and Basing-
stoke Railway
Benjamin Thaw, Esq., Kilburn Priory, Director of the Churnet
and Blythe Valleys Railways
J. E. Sichel, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and
of the Leeds, York, and Midland Railways
William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Ca .-endish-square, Director
of the South Midland Junction Railway, &c. &c.
.George Walker Smith, Esq., Horbury-hall, Sheffield, Director of
the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Smith, Esq., 31. D., 30, North-street, Leeds,Director of the
Leeds and York, and Liverpool and Leeds Railways
Joseph Smithson, Esq , Klrkless Mills, near Halifax
John Sanders, Esq., Bedford
J. W. Scriven, Esq., Throstlenest, near Otley, Director of the
Leeds, York, and Midland Junction Railway
Richard Shaw, Esq., Tulledge, near Burnley, Director of the Keigh-
ley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railway
James Henry Simpson, Esq., M. 8., Pontefract
Joshua Aunable Skidmore, Esq., St. John's-place. Wakefield
William Starkey, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Sheffield, Wort-
ley, Silkstone, and Wakefield, and the Leeds and York Railways
William Stewart, Esq., Horbury, near Wakefield
George Eaton Stanger, Esq., Nottingham
Samuel Herrick Surplice, Esq., Beeston, Notts
John Streets, Esq., merchant, Spring Field-house, Sandiacre, Derby-
shire
William Surplice, Esq., Nottingham
Samuel James Sykes, Esq., Hull
James Templer, Esq., Brixton-rise, Director of the Derby, Uttoxeter,
and Stafford Railway
Thomas .3. Trapp, Esq., banker, Bedford
John Best Trapp, Esq., Redford
Samuel Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street and Gorbals, Hull, Di-
rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway
Thomas Turney, Esq., Park-lodge, near llalifax
William Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street and Gorbals, Hull
Joseph Francis Tempest, Esq., F.S.A., the Mount, Acktvorth
Charles Vickers, Esq., Pontefract, Director of the Manchester, Hud-
dersfkld, and Great Grimsby Railway
Wm. Watson,Esq , Daybrook, Nottinghamshire, Director of Amber-
gate, Nottingham and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
Samuel Warburton, Esq., Ilunslet, Leeds, Director of the Wakefield
and Harrogate Railway
The Rev. Richard Whitelock, M.A., Saddleworth, Magistrate for
tte West Riding of Yorkshire
Joseph Whitaker, Esq., Ramsartle, Nottingnarushirs
William White, Esq., Bedford
John Williams, Esq., 31. D., Magistrate for Yorkshire, Director of
the York, Hull, and East and West Riding Junction Railway
Atrallani Wood, Esq., Rochdale, F.R.C.S.
Joseph Wyles, Esq., Grantham, Director of the Amber-gate, Net-
tingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland-hollow, Derbyshire, Director of
tke Rugby, Kerby, and Manchester, and Direct Birmingham and
Leicester Railways .
William Williams, Esq., Royal Foundry, Bedford
'''nexand Middlesex, ala l
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John CharleslvliVicaelitteo;
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Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
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The Rev. H. Burdett Worthington, Bedford
Thom Is Willett, Esq., Bradford
G. N. Wright, 31. A., Coed y Celyn, Denbighshire, and Lonsdale-
square, London, Director of the Thames Valley Railway
George Yates, Esq., merchant, Halifax
(With power to add to their number).
ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF—Sir John Macuell, LL.D., and FR.&
Ammo Esoisma—William Mullingar Biggins, Esq., C.E.
LONDON SOLICITORS.
J. R. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-court.
Owen Gray, Esq. 7 .
J. B. Illidge, Esq. j 25, Great Tower-street.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Leeds—Charles Naylor, Esq., and
Pontefract—Henry John Coleman, Esq.
Rotherham—John Oxley. Esq., and John Wright Potter, Esq.
East Retford—Messrs. Mee, Rigsby, and Mee.
Nottingham—Messrs. Fox and Butlin.
Oakham—Henry Hough, Esq.
Kettering—Thomas Marshall, Esq.
Bedford—Ezra Eagles, Esq.
SECRETARY—J. B. Owen, Esq.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT--J. H. Widdicombe, ESCI.
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co.
Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Company
Doncaster i The Yorkshire Banking Company.
. Pontefract
The object of this railway is to connect, in the most direct course,
the important and increasing manufacturing town of Leeds with the
metropolis, the want of which has long been felt, and is too univer-
sally acknowledged to need any comment, and it is under this con-
viction that this important undertaking, a ter several minute exa-
minations of the country through which it will pass, lies been brought
forward.
The proposed line will commence at the junction of the Manchester
and Leeds, and York anti North Midland Railways, near Wakefield,
and will terminate by means of a junction with the Eastern Coun-
ties Railway, at Bedford (to which place it is the intention of that
Company to extend their line in the ensuing session of Parliament),
and by thus availing itself as far as possible of the existing railways,
will complete the most direct and least expensive trunk line, from
London to Leeds, York, and Hull. It will pass in its route within an
available distance of Wakefield, Pontefract. Doricaster, Rotherham.
East Redford, Nottingham, Newark, Grantham, Melton Mowbray,
Oftkliam, and Stamford.
The importance of such a line is obvious, both from the nature of
its con se (embracing, as it does, a most extensive population within
its limits), as also from the absence of any direct communication
for the conveyance of passengers and merchandise.
By the construction of thig railway, railway communication to
London will be given to Peterborough and Leicester (by means of
the Syston and Peterborough Railway), to Newark and Nottingham,
(by the Nottingham and Lincoln line(, and to Sheffield and Gains-
borough, )by the Sheffield and Gainsborough line), by a much shorter
route than by any existing railwa3s.
Inde;:endemly of the advantages offered to the towns in the seve-
ral counties through which this line will pass, the line in itself, con-
sidered :as a direct trunk line between London and Leeds, is sufficient
to justify its formation, it being well known that the existing traffic
between these two places would produce such a retura on the capital
required, as to admit of a dividend equal to that of any railway in
operation ; but when it is borne in maid that a comically is being
formed for the parpose of co:l:vetting Glasgow and Leeds by
means of a junction with the York anti Carlisle Railway, no better
line can be presented to the public, as it will not only effect a direct
communication from Glasgow and the western parts of Scotland to
London, but would also connect Edinburgh and the eastern parts of
Scotland, as well as Durham and Newcastle (by the York and North
Midland, and Great North of England Rail:ye} s) with the metropo-
lis, which would be considerably shorter than the accommodation
offered by any other company ; and when cost of construction is con-
sidered, there cannot be a doubt but that preference would be given
to the threat Leeds and London Direct Railway.
The fact of the Eastern Counties Railway being connected by a
branch line with the East and West India Docks on the river
Theme and the Railway Company having recently leased for 999
years the extensive pepper warehouses belonging- to those docks,
which are capable of receiving 12,000 tons of goods, together with
wharf's adjoining, where the shipment and trans-shipment of goods
from all parts of the world can take place, is a most important fea-
ture in favour of the direct communication from the manufacturing
towns of Glasgow and Leeds offered by the Great Leeds and London
Direct Railway and, by branch railways to the main trunk line,
through which all goods from the manufacturing districts could be
conveyed at once to these warehouses for shipment, thereby avoiding
the present delay and expense of eartage, and in reality establishing
an almost direct and invaluable connexion between the rivers Clyde
and Thames.
It has been ascertained that there are no engineering difficulties,
that the w .rks will be easy, and the gradients remarkably good, and
that it will not materially interfere with any ornamental property.
The subscribers will be held liable only to the extent of thclr first
deposits, until an Act of Parliament is obtained, and afterwards only
to the amount of their subscriptions.
It is proposed to take power in the Dill to allow interest at 4 per
cent. per annum on all calls until the opening of the line, and also
to extend the line to Hertford on the Eastern Counties line, in the
event of that Company not prosecuting their line to Bedford.
BROKERS.
London-3lessrs. Marten and Heseltine, 9, Fineh-lane
Leeds—Messrs. Hoppa and Co.
' Liverpool—Messrs. Joseph King and Son
Hull—Messrs. Flint and Tootal
Manchester—Messrs. Cardwell and Sons
Bradford—Mr. Josiah Seholefield
Edinburgh—Mr. Charles Couper, 30, St. Andrew's- square.

Air. Thomas Payne, Jun., Abingdon

John Tomkins, Esq.
John Harris, Esq. Members of the Town Council, Abing-
Thomas Copeland, Esq. don
Edwin James Trendell, Esq ,
John Aldworth, Esq., Frilford, Berks
William Caudwell, Esq., Drayton, near Abingdon

William Dewe, Esq., Sinnehiii, near Abingdon

Isaac Grubb, Esq
John Towle, Esq.
Samuel Steane Esq.
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Richard Chaunily, Esq. embers of the City Council, Oxford
Charles Hickman, Esq.

John Nearing, Esq., J
R. C. Godfrey, Esq. J
James Morrell, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant of the county of Oxford,
Director of the Londo -1 and Cheltenham Direct Railway
Captain M. Strong, Oxford, Director of the Oxford and Worcester

Extension Railway
William Mead Warner, Esq., Oxford
Daniel Hanley, Esq., Oxford

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John Looker, Esq., Oxford
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John Brightman, Esq , Regency-square, Br:01ton, Chairman of the
Hounslow Railway
David Bryan, Esq., Northampton, Director of the. pastern and
Midland Counti.s Railway
F. Walker Botterill, Esq., Burnley

Capt. James Edward Carnegie, Somerset-street, Portman-square,
and Dower-hall, Inverness, Director of the Reading and Reigate
Railway

Charles Lkldiard, Esq., Vantage
Mr. Henry James Palmer, Vantage

John 11ltint, Esq., Upper Bedford-place, Director of the London
Docks

Bastow, Esq., Surrey-place, Kent-road, Director
,of the
Commercial and General Life Assurance Association

Robert Bastow, Esq., Surrey-place, Director of the Great Eastern
and Western Railway

John King, Esq., St. John's-wood, London, Director of the Somer-
setshlre Midland Railway

Henry Stock, Esq., Beddgelert, North Wales, Director of the Great
Eastern and Western Railway

D. T. Johnson, Esq. Aldemary-churchyard, Director of the Direct
Independent London and Manchester Railway
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John moor, Esq., Tutbury, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Man-
chester Railway
T. A. Dale, Esq., Malvern-house, Cheltenham, Director of the Bir-
kenhead and Holyhead Junction, and South Staffordshire and Pot-
teries Railways
Charles Johnston, Esq., Aldersgate-street, Director of the Lynn,
Thetford, and Ipswich Railway
Admiral Ayscouah, Southampton, Director of the Birmingham and
Leicester Railway
Frederick Chamier, Esq., R.N., Halkin-street, Belgrave-square,
Director of the Northampton and Cambridge Railway
George R. Peppercorns, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex, Director of the Rugby
and Warwick Railway
George Jackson, Esq. Abingdon
George Cox, Esq., Abingdon
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Jolui'linight, Esq. Abingdon
Thomas Salkild, Esq. Huddersfield, director of the Manchester,
Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby, and Huddersfield and Liverpool
Direct Railway
James Paxton, Esq. 11. D., director of the Rugby and Manchester,
Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Railways
Thomas Ingham Raynes, Esq. Lilac-cottage, Birstal, near Leeds, di-
rector of the Great Leeds, and London, Midland, and Thirak, and
oth:r Railways
J. Russell, Esq. Gloucester-place, Portman-squaro
General Wright, Gloucester-place, Portman-square
(With power to add to their number).
ENGINEER-IN-CHlEF—Samuel Charles Brecs, Evq.

SoLiciTosl-2Cessrs.Elnislle and Preston, 47, Aloorgate-street,
London.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT—Cadwallader F. Faddy, ESQ.
BANKERS.
London—The London and Westminster Bank.
Oxford—The London and County Bank.
Salisbury—The Wilts and Dorset County Bank.
Abingdon—Messrs. Henry Knapp and Co. ; and the County
Bank
Wantage—Messrs. Henry Knapp and Co.
Newbury—The Berkshire Union Bank
Hungerford—Messrs. Tanner and Pinckney.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Oxford—Jno. Francis Wilde, Esq.
Salisbury—Stephen Hill, Esq.
Abingdon—Messrs. Graham and Son
Wantage—William Ormond, Esq.
Hungerford and Marlborough—John Holcomb, Esq.
SECRETARY—Z. Hubbersty, ES(I.

The imrortalice of connecting remote parts of E.:gland by rail-
ways, with the advantages thereby coiffured upon Intermediate towns
and districts, caa scarcely be better exemplified than by the line
which is Low proposed to form a short and direct channel of inter-
course between Oxford and Salisbury. Numerous projected lines
now before the pnblie will make Oxford at the north, and Salisbury
at the south of tha intended railroad, the central !mints hem which
various radii will diverge to the northwest, north, and north-east of
the former, and I. the south and west of the latter ; and the
proposed line font Cambridge to Oxford, continuing to that city the
mv_irse of railway from the north-eastern parts of the island, requires
the appliance now suggested to effect a complete means of transit to
the western and south-western counties.

The Oxford and Salisbury Direct Railway, in addition to
the benefits which will be conferred upon the nation at
large, by perfecting a direct line of communication be-
tween the north-eastern and western and south-western
parts of England, will afford to the heretical of Abingdon,
the market towns of Wantage, Hungerford, and Ludgershall, and
the adjacent villages, an important railway accommodation, of which
the agricultural districts is 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 population of the
kingdom. The projected line will bring the Cathedral City of Salis-
bury into immediate connexion with the City and University of
Oxford, combining also the advantage of a direct communication
with the sister University of Cambridge ; thus strengthening the
ecclesiastical and academical relations of the Whole, whilst the com-
mercial prosperity of the two terminal cities must of necessity be
essentially enhanced.
The want of railway accommodation has long been felt to prat;
unfairly upon the inhabitants of the important and thriving town of
Abingdon. Their means and opportunities of competing with the more
fortunate traders of those towns which are already provided with di-
rect channels of transit, are thus severey crippled. The same remark
applies in some degree to the market town of Wantage, which, as
well as llungerford and Ludgershall, claims a share of the profits
and advantages produced by railway traffic).
It has therefore been determined to commence the proposed line at
Oxford, and to proceed through Abingdon to the station of the Great
Western Railway at Steventon, thus giving to Abingdon a direct rail-
road to London. By continuing the projected railway to Wantage, the
same facility of transit to London 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, Ilangerford and Ludgers-
hall, to Salisbury, and thence to the south and western ports and dis-
tricts.

Applications for shares and prospectuses t• he made to Messrs.
Elmslte and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street, and to the following
Brokers :—Messrs. Peppercorne, 2, Old Broad-street, and Messrs.
Priece and Evans, Lothbury, London ; Messrs. Alston and Gage, and
Messrs. Reynolds and Son, Liverpool ; Mr. John Duneuft, and Mr.
John O'Neil, Manchester; Messrs. A. and C. Bradshaw, and Messrs.
Webeloved and Co., Leeds ; Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol ; Mr.
James Pearson, Birmingham ; Messrs. Samuel Hutchinson and Co.,
Bradford ; Mr. Wm. Miles, Worcester ; Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and
Co., Cheltenham; Mr. Thomas Sandford, Exeter; Messrs. Easty and
Sons, Southampton; Mr. Robert Allan, Edinburgh; Messrs Black
and Co., and Messrs. Buchanan and Aitken, Glasgow; Mr. Wm.
Gordon, Aberdeen ; and Messrs. Bruce and Symes,

From Gainsborough this railway will proceed to Barton-on-the- '
Humber, or New Holland, in the immediate vicinity of Hull, thereby
rendering complete and entire the chain of communication between
Birmingham and Hull.
By this project the advantages will result to the public of a
Directline from Birmingham to Nottingham,
Birmingham to Gainsborough,
and from Birmingham to Hull;
and by means of the proposed South Stalibrdshire Junction Railway,
and the intended extension to Ashby-de-la-'touch, a direct line front
Wolverhampton to Nottingham, and the other towns already enu-
merated.
The support of several companies will be enlisted in favour of the
Ilse, which, together with its own merits, will ensure its success in
Parliament.
As a considerable portion of the line of communication is already
made, or in progrev, the time required for the completion of this
great national w
id
e
ng will be materially shortened.
Independently of the advantages to be derived by a direct commu-
nication between the important seaport of Hull and the mining and
manufacturing districts of Warwickshire and Staffordshire, a large
traffic in timber, corn, metals, &c., may be confidently expected.
The revenue of the Company, in addition, will be derived from the
great thorough traffic from Birmingham and the midland counties to
Nottingham and Gainsborough, and the immense traffic from Bir-
mingham to Hull, the port at which the exports are shipped to Ham-
burglOtie German Stales, and the North of Europe ; and from the
Conteyance of merchandise, agticultnral produce, and cattle from the
Southern,-western. and, midland. counties. -
A preference will be given in the allament of shares to landowners
on the line, and other local proprietors, as well as to directors and
shareholders In railways interested in supporting this undertaking.
No subscriber will be liable beyond the amount of the deposit
until the Act is obtained, and then not beyond the amount of his
subscription.
The usual power will be taken to allow interest at the rate of four
per cent. from the time of payment upon each call until the opening
of the line.
No applications will be attended to without a reference to, a
member of the Committee, a banker, or the solicitors to this Company.
The Subscribers As] eement and Parliamentary Contract must be
executed when the bankers reoelp:s are exchanged for scrip certifi-
cates, of which due notice will be given ; and the deposits paid by
any party making default in the execution of those deeds will be for-
feited.
Plans and prospectuses, with forms of applications for shares, may
be bad of the Solicito: s, and of the following Stock and Sharebrokers,
viz.:—Messrs. Wells, Westropp, and Prinsep, 75, Old Broad-street ;
Mr. 11. Pritchett, 1, Royal Exchange-buildings ; Messrs. Bacillus and
Harrison, la, Thre..dneedie-Weet ; and Messrs. Peppercorne and Son,
2, Old Broad-street, London; Messrs. Gardiner and Heap, Charles
31. Williams, and Messrs. Bradley, Ford, and Parker, Manchester;
Messrs. Watson and Co., and Mr. Samuel Phillips, Ha ; Messrs.
y
Davies and Son, Liverpool ;Messrs. Ridsdale, Myers, and Co., Lewis;
Minandet'r'd,
'Deri; Messrs. Pott and Levick, Notting-
ham
; Meters. Nicholls,
and Wreford, Bristol ; Mr. Collis,
sßhitairhesvaoyfC2aolll.lpeaaenhy:
FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Birmingham, Nottingham,
canioceough, and Hull an73ris. r.EJaarnPl Nlrres Robinson Lane, Birmingham.
I request you will allot me
in the capi-
tal of the above-named Railway ; and I will accept the same, Os
pay the tile deposit of 2/. 2s. per share, and
Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when
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pated this day of 1845.
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TIIE BIRM IN GH AM, NOTTINGHAM,
GAINSBOROUGH, AND HULL RAILWAY.
No Application for Shares in this Company can be received after
MONDAY, the 20th instant.
EDWARDS, MASON, and EDWARDS, 8, Moorgate-street.
MOTTERASI and KNOWLES, Birmingham.
Oct. 10, 1845.

further advertisement, whose support has been promised to the mt.
dertaking.

COMMITTBE OF MANAGEMENT.
Samuel Brown, Esq. Edward Parratt, Esq.
Frederick Clarkson, Esq. Wm. B. linghts, Esq., 31. P,
Robert Chapman, Esq. B. lt. Downinan, Esq.
David Montague, Esq.
Thomas Stevenson, Esq.
djooksenpi P 1 arSekline:o' n E,l.
Esq.

BANKERS.
London—The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury
Chichester—Mcssrs. Dendy, Ccruper and Co., and
The London and County Banking Company
Rochester—Messrs. Day and Nicholson
Riegate —Messrs. Nash and Neale
Portsmouth acd Portsea—National and Provincial Rank of
England, and
Messrs. Grants, Gilman and Long.
ENCINELTS—Messrs. Drayson, of 2, Palace-yard, Westminster.
SOLICITORS TO THE COMPANY—Messrs. roliticeN Sint MOginie, 5. St.
Andrew's-court, Holborn-hill, London.
LOCAL AGENTS.

Messrs. Rhoades and Greene, solicitors, Chichester
Thomas Hart, Esq., solicitor, Reigate
Wiliam 31inehin, Esq., solicitor, Portsea and Portsmouth
Thomas Hill, Esq., solicitor, Chatham
Daniel Smart, Esq., solicitor, Emsworth
Edwin Albery, Esq., solicitor, Midhurst
Thomas Holmes Bosworth, Esq., solloitor, Westerham.
William King, Esq , Godalming
Arthur Daintry, Esq., Petworth
SECRETARY-31r. John C. SOMPICTS.

In submitting this undertaking to the public, the promoters are
rtitil/4
influenced no less by a conviction of its impo ce as a direct con-
necting line between the important towns of C heater and Ports-
mouth and the metropolis, than by Its grand natio Al importance in
affording a direct communication between the twogreat naval and
military arsenals of Great B itain—Portsmouth and Witham.
The projected undertaking, by proceeding to th two termini at
Chichester and Portsmouth, win extend the facilities of eommunica•
tion with the coast branches of railways along the south of England,
connecting itself with Brighton to the eastward, and Southampton
towards the west. By the main line falling into the Brighton Rail-
way the advantage of two termini in London will he kecured—the
one at the Bricklayers' Arms, and the other at London•bridge—the
latter of which, front its proximity to the Custom House, and the
several docks on the Thames, is acknowledged to be the best position
for a London terminus for merchandise of all descriptions.

The line of railway intended t• be constructed by this Company will
commence at or near the Redhill station near Reigate, on the Lon-
don and Brighton Railway, a distance of 21 miles from London-
bridge.

In its course to Portsmouth it will pass through or near Reigate,
Newdigate, Capel, Ockley, Ewhurst, Rudgwick, Cranky, Alfold,
Billinghurst, Wisborough-green, Plaistow, Ilaslemere, Chiddingtold,
North Chapel, Kirdford, Petworth, Ididhurst, Chilgrove, Stoughton,
Racton, Westbourac, and Emsworth, at or near which last•mentioned
place this projected line will join the Chichester and Portsmouth Rail-
way to Portsmouth. •
At the earnest recommendation of some of the principal land-
owners, branches are proposed to be made to Godalming and Peters-
field. The branch to Godalming will be from a point in the train
line between Plaistow and North Chapel; and the branch from
Peterstleld will join the main pie at a point between Nidhurst and
Itepton. These extensions of this undertaking have rendered an In-
crease necessary in the amount of the capital originally flied on ;
Mit from the increased accommodation which these branches will
afford, the promoters of the undertaking feel confident that a com-
mensurate profit will result to the shareholder.

A branch is proposed to be made from Dorking to join the main
lino rir or near Capel.

fly this course the entire distance to travel betwc en London and
Portsmouth will be abridged to 73 miles, a distance considerably
shorter than 'that by which any line hitherto projected bAmeer
London'and Portsmouth has proposed te, pass, and also pursuing
axoute more populous and productive than any hitherto presented
to public notice. It will involve the construction of only 45 miles of
railway,to complete the course between the Itedhill station (near
iteigate),and Emsworth.

FrorwLondon to Reigate by the London and rrighton

Railroad is
The junction to be made by this Company is ............ 4b „
From the point near Emsworth to Portsmouth by the
Chichester and Portsmouth Railway is ..... • . • . • ... • .

7 „

Total distance from London to P0rt5m0uth.......... 73 miles.

From Chilgrove a line of seven miles will be constructed, and
which%will place Chichester in direct communication with London.
The distance between Chichester and London by this route will be
62. miles.

Trains will run direct between London and Chichester, without
stopping at Chilgrove.

Inasmuch as the existing line of railway to Dover branches off
from the London and Brighton Railroad at Reigate, this projected
lice will open up a communication by railroad between Portsmouth
and Dover.

From an inspection of the map, it will be seen that the Redhill
station, near Reigate, lies nearly in a direct line between Ports-
mouth and Chatham, and in pursuing the line of communicatlea
to the last-mentioned naval and military depot, this line will pass
through or near to the towns of Bietchingley, Godston, Limpsfield,
Westerham, Seven Oaks, Ightbam, Town Malting, Wrotham, Off-
ham, Snodland, Lower flailing, and Wouldham.
The distance between Chatham and Reigate will involve the
making of 31 miles of railroad, and the line of railroad between
Portsmouth and Chatham will extend over R 2 miles.
To the naval and military establishments of this kingdom the
construction of this projected line will afford the most important fa-
cilities in the transit of troops, stores, baggage, &c. &c., diminishing
the tardy course of communication which at present necessarily
exists between Portsmouth and Chatham, at present usually extend-
ing over the space of two days, and placing them in that direct com-
munication with each other which, in two hours, or thereabout,
will enable the journey between them to be made.
The formation of a direct line of railway between Portsmouth
and Chatham will afford the opportunity of establishing, by the
electric telegraph, that celerity of communication so important to be
obtained between places of national importance.
The warm support of the principal landowners en the seater part
of the line is pledged to this undertaking.
The Provisional Committee abstain from making any special re-
ference to the contemplated protlt to result from carrying into effect
this undertaking, feeling convinced that the extent of traffic through
the populous and rich districts over which this line and its branches
are projected to pass Is sufficiently known, and is decisive of the
Inutility of all comment In that respect.
Applications for the shares, in the form given below, to be made
to the Solicitors and Local Agents, or to any of the following
Brokers :—Messrs. R. Sutton, Gabble, and Sutton, Royal Exchange,
London ; Mr. IL Pritchett, of No. 74, Old Broad-street ; Messrs.
Neilson, sharebrokers, Liverpool ; John Duncuft, Esq., sharebroker,
Manchester ; Mr. It. M'Ewen, 18, St. Ann's-street, Manchester ;
John Watson, Esq., sharebroker, Leeds ; Messrs. Ridsdale, Myers,
and Bailey, brokers, Leeds ; Messrs. Schultz and Carr, brokers, Li-
verpool ; Messrs. Hope and ltastrick, brokers, Manchester ; Messrs.
Tyeth and Luscombe, stockbrokers, Plymouth; Messrs. George Ed•
wards and Son, Bristol ; Messrs. Watson and Co., Hull ; Messrs. Pott
and Levick, Nottingham ; and Messrs. Collis and Son, Birmingham.

GREAT EASTERN and WESTERN RAIL
WAY.

Abergavenny, Sept. 29,
_1845

At a MEETING of the INIIABITANTg of this town and neigt
bourhood, convened by public requisition, and held here this day,
The Bev. WM. POWELL, Vicar of Abergavenny, in the Chair,

It was proposed by Mr. DANIEL, seconded by Mr. ISAAC, and unard

mously resolved—

That this meeting, being deeply convinced of the necessity and ad-
vantage of direct railway communication between the town of
Abergavenny and the great iron district of Monmouthshire and
Breconshire, and finding that this district is embraced in the grand
scheme of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company, does
most cordially approve of its plans, and Is determined to render it
all the aid it can command.

WILLIAM POWET,L, Chairman.
It was proposed by Mr. T. 11. Monamr, seconded by Mr. W. W.
SECRETAN, and unaimously resolved—
That the thanks of this meeting be offered to the Chairman.

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