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Lenry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Contirnatlonl
and Holyhead Junction, and West Midland and South Midland and
Oxford Extension Railways
John Ostler, Esq., Director of the Hall and Barnsley, and Lee& and

and Earle, bull; Messrs. Au and Aitken, Giaagow ;
and Mo.,.•srs. Grayaton and Earle, York, of wh•m prospectueee may !
be obtained.
ICu applications for Shares in this Company will be received which •

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CIiATIIAM RAILWAY COMPANY.
The Committee of Management beg to inform the public that after
SATURDAY, the 18th day of October instant, no farther applications
for shares in this Company will be received, except from applicants
locally interested ; and that after WEDNESDAY, the 21,1 day of
October instant, no fttrther applications for shares from applicants
locally Interebted iu the undertaking, will be received.
PONT IFR and MOGINIE.
St. A w'3-court, Holborn. Solicitors to

do not contain a reference to one of the Provisional Committee, the
Sharebrokers, °dicers of the Company, or a Banker.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOE YMARES.
To the Provisional Directors of the Great Western, Brentford, an
Central Terminus Junction Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 201. each
in the above Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the same,
or any lesaer number thatmay he allotted to me, to pay the deposit of
21. 28. per share thereon, and to sign the Subscribers' Agreement and
Parliamentary Contraet wken required.
Name in full • • • • .• •• .
Residence
'Dude or Pr4ession • • • • • • •. • • • • • • •
Reference in fu11...............

Carlisle Railways
Robert Oxley, Esq., M.D., Pontefract
Raymond-buildings, Gray's Inn
George Osgood, Esq.,
Charles Frederick Palgrave, Esq., BethOrd
Bennett Pell, Esq., 12, Finsbury-place North
W. Perfect, Esq., Monkhill, near Pontefract
John Phillips, Esq., Mayor of Pontefract
George Parbtry, Esq., Mansfield-house, Russell-square
William Patterson, Esq., Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire
Robert Power, Esq., Director of the Great Britain Life Assurance
Society
Thomas Ingham Raynor, Esq., Birstal, Leeds, Director of the Leeds
and West Riding Junction, and the Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railways
John Thomas Rawortb, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Birming-
ham Direct, Leicester, Iron and Dove Valley Railways
Edward Rawlins, Esq., Bedford
Robert Richards, Esq., Director of the West Midland Railway
John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Bycullah-house, Enfield, Managing
Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
James Robson, Esq., Tausheif, Magistrate for the Borough of Pon-
tefract
Frederick Redden, Esq., Bedford
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester,
and Weymoath Junction, the ring, Reading, and Basingstoke,
and the Direct Western Railway
George Robinson, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Bean :ley
Junction, and of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railways
John Richardson, Esq., Director of the Wakefield and Harroote,
the East and West Yorkshire, and the Midland and Thirsk Junc-
tion Railways
Thomas Rout lidge, Esq., Alderman, Pontefract
James Russell, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director of
the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton, ef the Tring,
Reading, and Basingstoke Railways
Edward Sankey, Esq., Canterbury
Henry Savage, Esq., Director of the Irving, Reading, and Basin:-
stoke Railway
Benjamin Shaw, 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., Wimpule-street, Ca .-endlsh-square, Director
of the South Midland Junction Railway, Irc. &c.
George Walker Smith, Esq., Horbury-hall, Sheffield, Director of
the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Smith, Esq., 30, North-street, Leeds,Director of the
Leeds and York, and Liverpool and Leeds Railways
Joseph Smithson, Esq., Kirkless Mills, near Halifax
John Sanders, Esq., Bedford
J. W. Scriven, Esq., Throstlenest, near Otley, Director of the
Leeds, York, and Midland J unction Railway
Richard Shaw, Esq., Tulledge, near Burnley, Director ef the Keigh-
ley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railway
James Henry Simpson, Esq., Mai., Pontefract
Joshua Amiable Skidmore, Esq., St. John's-mace. Wakefield
William starkey, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Sheffield, Wort-
ley, Silkstone, and Wakefield, and the Lees and York Railways
William etewart, Esq., ilorbury, near Wakefield
George Eaton Stanger, Esq., tiottiugham
Samuel Herrick Surplice, Esq., Beeston, Notts
John Sheets, Esq., merchant, Spring Field-house, Sandiaere, Derby-
shire
William surplice, Esq., Nottingham
Samuel James Sykes, Esq., Hull
James 'fenipler, Esq., Brixton-rise, Director of the Derby, ITttometer,
and Stafford Railway
Thomas 6. 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 Halifax
William Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street and Gorbals, Hull
Joseph Francis Tempest, r.sq., F.S.A., the Mount, Ackworth
Charles Vickers, Esq., Pontefract, Director of the ALuichestdr, Had-
dersfield, and Great Grimsby Railway
Win. Watsou,Esq , Daybrook, Nottinghamshire, Director of Amber-
gate, Nottingham and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
Samuel Warburton, Esq., Runlet, Leeds, Director of the Wakefield
and Harrogate Railway
The Rev. Richard Whitelock, M.A., Saddleworth, Magistrate for
tie West Riding of Yorkshire
Joseph Whitaker, Esq., Itains,lale, Nottinghamshire
William White, Esq., Bedford
John Williams, Esq., M.D., Magistrate for Yorkshire, Director of
the York, Hull, and East and West Riding Junction Railway
Abraham Wood, Esq., Rochdale F.R.C.S.
JosephPyles, Esq., Grantham, 'Director of the Amber-gate, Net-
tingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
Director of
David Wheatcroft, Esq., Backland-hollow, Derbyshire,
the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, and Direct ISirminglium and
I.eicester Railways
William Williams, Esq., Royal Foundry, Bedford
Charles Waite, Esq., 3, Old Burlington-street, and Willesden-house,
Middlesex
John Wheelton Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Willett, Esq., Bradford
The Rev. H. Burdett Worthington, Bedford
G. N. Wright, M.A., Coed y Celyn, Denbighshire, and Lonadale-
square. London, Director of the Thames Valley Railway
George Yates, Esq., merchant, Halifax
George Witt, Esq., F.It.S., Direetor of the Bedford, Loudon, and
Birmingham Railway, and Aldermand of Bedford
George Gillett, Esq., 2, Grsovenor-gate, Hyde-park
(With power to add to their number).
ENGINEEB-IN-CIIIEF—Sir John Macneil, LL.D., and F.R.S.
ACTING ENGINRSR—WiIIiAM 31011ingar Higgins, Esq., C.E.
LONDON SOLICITORS.
J. R. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-court.
Owen Gray, Esq.
J. B. Midge, Esq. 2a, Great Tower-Street.

MIDLAND GRAND JUNCTION RAIL-
WAY COMPANY.
NOTlCE.—Applications for Shares WILL NOT ,be reeeiyad after
TUESDAY NEXT, the 21st instant.
By order,
NICHOLAS J. KEMPE, Secretary.
Palace-chambers, St. James's, Oct. 14, 1845.

GREA T W.ESTE RN, BRENT'? ORD, and
CENTRAL TERMINUS JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Offices, 53, Charing .cross.
CRAutmAN—Tha EARL of EON.
Notice is hereby given that no further Applications for Slimes in
this Company will be received alter SATURDAY, October 18.
By ord,a,

r HE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT
JL. RAILWAY, via ABINGDON, WANTAGE, lIONGERFORD,
and LUDGERSIIALL.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 1,200,0001• in 46,008 Shares of 25/. each.
Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.

HEN4y,„-MOREING, Secrotary.

PEOVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Portarlington
The Right lion. Lori Viscount Dillon, Ditchler park, Oxon
The Right lion. Lord inffiel Gunton-park, North Walsham
The Right lion. Lord ROSSMOTC, the Dell, Windsor
The Right lion. Lord Dunborne, Belle Hatch-house, Henley
The Right Hon. George Lionel Dawson Darner, 31. P., 6, Tileer.
street, Park-lane, Director of the Brighton and Cheltenham D.recl

THE AVON and SEVERN VALLEY RAIL-
WAY, from RUGBY to GLOUCESTER,
Connecting Leamington and the whole of the Midland and North
Eastern Counties with Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bristol, and the
South of England.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
No Ibrther call will be made until an Act of Parliament Is obtained,
and no party will be liable beyond the amount of his shares.
PROVIMONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. the Lord Beauclerc, 8, Chesham-place, Belgrave-
square
The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Parliament-street, London,
Chairman of the York and Lancaster, and Director of the Direct
London and Manchester Railways
The Hon. Captain Evans Freke, Grenadier Guards, 3, Belgrave-
square
The Hon. Captain Evans Freke, Life Guards, 3, Belgrava-square
Sir Montague John Ctolmeley, Bart., Easton-hall, Lincolnshire
Sir William Bacon Johnson, Bart., Director of the Chepstow,yorest
of Dean, and Gloucester, and the South and Midland Junction
Railway
William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., Alderman of Lon-
don, late M.P. for Oxford, Chairman of the Erewash Valley Ex-
tension, the Leek and Macclesfield, the Great Western, southern
and Eastern Counties, and of the Birkenhead, Chester, Mold,
Rhaubon, and Vale of Llangollen Railways
W 111 am Bradley, Esq., Manor-oaks, Sheffield, Director of the Cam-
bridge and Lincoln Extension, and the Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Junction Railways
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., 8, Upper Hyde park-street, and
Brookes' Club, St. James's, Director of tke West Midland, end
Manchester and Southampton Railways
Villiers C. Vil'iers Surtees, Esq., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Director of
the Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire Railway
William Lloyd Caldceot, Esq., 6, Laura-place, Bath
William Breynton, Esq., Montpellier, Cheltenham, and Temple,
London, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth, and other
Railways
H. H. Dancocks, Esq., the Manor-house, Kempley, Gloucestershire,
Director of the Birmingham, West Bromwich, and Wednesbury,
and Walsall Junction Railways
James Maurice Shipton, Esq., lt.N'., Walmer-hall, near Tewkesbury,
Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce at Gloucester, and Vice-

Railway
The Hon. Robert Gore, R.N., M.P., 21, Wilton-crescent
Lieut.-Col. the Hon. J. C. Westenra, M.P., 13, Conduit-street, Di-
rector of the East and West Junction Railway
The Hon. William N. Dawson, Parketono-lodge, Poole, Director of
the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
The Hon. Edwald Stafford Jerningham, Director of the London and
Nottingham Railway
Sir William Drum nand Stewart, Bart.
Sir John Key, Bart., King's Arms-yard, Alderman of London,
Director of the Direct Manchester and London Railway
E. F. Dayrell, Esq., Lillingston Dayrell, High Sheriff of Buckingham-
shire, Chairman of the Mitiehead and Bridgewater Railway
Lieut.-Colonel Elrington, Scots Fusilier Guards, Wyndham-place,
Bryanston-square, Director of the Great Western Extension
Atmospheric Railway
B. 11. Williams Esq., Wyndham-place, Bryanston-square, Director
of the Central Kent RAilWay
James Macmillan, Esq., Southampton, Director of the Worcester,
Warwick, and Rugby Railway
Frederick William Seymour, Esq., Carlton-gardens, Director 'of the
Dover and Bristol Railway
Henry D. Erskine, Esq., Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, and Kirby
Dale, Yorkshire, Director of the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway
Major Moore, 'Queen Anna-street, Director of the Brighton and
Cheltenham Direct Railway
Major Graham, late Scots Greys,l6, Greve, Clapham
G. B. Banbury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the
Coventry and Manchester Railway
The Rev. H. It. Fowler, Felton, near Bristol, and 7, Manchester-
square, Director of the Rhondda and Ely Valleys Junction
Railway
James Gernon, Esq., 13, Conduit-street, Vice-Chairman of the Gal-
way and Ennis Grand Junction Railway
Archibald Douglas Stewart, Esq., Grandtully-castle
Robert Bell, Esq., Manor-house, Chiswick, Director of the Dover
and Bristol Railway
Joseph Bull, Esq., Manchester
Thomas Ferrar d Daadcn, Esq., Rochdale
Charles Haigh, Esq., Rochdale
Charles Welland, Esq., Liverpool
James Shaw, Esq., Pendleton, Manchester
The Rev. F. K. Hall, D.D., Rector of Fulborne, Cambridgeahire
Thomas Dowglasa:.e, Esq., Marlborough-place, St.l
John's-wood I Directors of the
E. S. Blundell, Esq., IS, Lower Seymour-street IDirect Lon-
W. L. Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex 1 don and Exe-
G. W. Evans, Esq., Milbury-terrace, Regent's-park ter Railway
Walter Shairp, Esq. Sussex-gardens, Ilyde-park,
John Allen, Esq. 12;Glouester-terr ace, Kensington
Francis loose, Esq., Upper Montague-street, Montague-square
Francis Ewart, Esq., Temple, Director of the Equitable and Law
Life Assurance Companies, and of the Exeter, Dorchester, and
Weymouth Railway
William Gambier, Esq., Sacombe-park, Herts
Benjamin Swan, Esq., Jermyn-street. St. James's
Nehemiah John Reed, Esq., R.N., Marlborough, Direotor of the
London and South Wales Direct Railway
Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough
Charles Finch, Esq., Fisherton, Salisbury
F. Walker Botterill, Esq., Burnley
James Paxton, Esq. I‘l.l a, director of the Rugby and Manchester,
sstal, near Leeds, di-
Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Railway
lair
Thomas Ingham Rayner, Esq. Lilac-cottage.
rector of the Great Leeds, and London, Midland, and Thirsk, and
other Railways
William Doe Belcher, Esq. Mayor of Abingdon
John Hyde, Esq., jun., Alderman of Abingdon
John Tomkins, Esq.
John Harris, Esq. Members of the Town Connell, Alaing-
Thomas Copeland, Esq. don
Edwin James Trendell, Esq.,
John Ring, Esq., Ahingden
George Cox, Esq., Abingdon
George Jackson, Esq., Abingdon
John Knight, Esq., Atangdon
Mr. Thomas Payne, jun., Abingdon
John Aldvvorth, Esq., Frilford, Berke
William Caudwell, Esq., Drayton, near Abingdon
William Dewe, Esq., Stonehill, near Abingdon
Isaac Grubb, Esq
John Towle, Esq.
Samuel Steam, Esq.
Richard Chaundy, Esq.
Charles Hickman, Esq.
John Weaving, Esq.,
R. C. Godfrey, Esq. J
James Morrell, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant of the county of Oxford,
Director of the Londoa and Cheltenham Direct Railway
Captain H. Strong, Oxford, Director of the Oxford and Worcester
Extension Railway
William Mead Warner, Esq., Oxford
Daniel Hanley, Esq., Oxford
John Locker, Esq., Oxford
William Seckham, Esq., Kidlington, Oxon
Charles Shilliagford, Esq., Somer Town, Oxon
Adin Williams, Esq., Sourer Town, Oxen
Mr. Win. Miller, Oxford
Mr. H. Dormer, Oxford
Mr. Charles Miller, Oxford
Mr. Thomas Hyde, Oxford
Mr. Wir. Thompson, Oxford
James Wickens, E'q., Oxford
John Brightman. Esq , Regency-square, Brighton, Chairman of the
Hounslow Railway
David Bryan, Esq., Northampton, Director of the Eastern and
Midland Counties Railway
Capt. James Edward Carnegie, Somerset-street, Portman-square,
and Bea er-hall, Inverness, Director of the Reading and Reigate
Railway
Charles Liddiard, Esq., Wantage
Mr. Henry James Palmer, Wantage
Thomas Brown, Esq. West Lockinge, Berke
William Stone, Esq. Charlton, Berke
Richar Barnard, Esq. Charlton, Berke
Henry llayward, Esq. Stirlings, \Vantage
James St:: ley. Esq. Wantage
Thomas Brown, Esq. Vantage
Mr. Charles Hart, foundry. Wantage
Mr. William Beesley, Wantage
1 Regis,ace
Mr. J. Pottinger Palmer, Letcombe Regis, Berks
John William Palmeur,pEpesrq.
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William Bartow, Esq., Surrey-place, Kent-road, Director of the
Commercial and General Life Assurance Association
Jolh)nockßslunt, Esq.,
Robert Bestow, Esq., Surrey-place, Director of the Great Eastern
and Western Railway
John King, Esq., St. John's-wood, London, Director of the Somer-
setshire Midland Railway
Henry Stock, Esq., Beddgelert, North Wales, Director of the Great
1~. astern and Western Railway
D. T. Johnson, Esq., Aldemary-churchyard, Director of the Direct
~
Tutbury, Director of the
es
Independent London and Manchester Railway Ma-
n
chlttelor or
Railway Esq
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., Alders at Director of the Lynn,
Thetford, and Ipswich Railway
Admiral Ayscouela Southampton, Director of the Birmingham and
Leicester Railway
Frederick Charnier, Esq., R.N., Halkia-street, Belgrave-square,
Director •f the Northampton and Cambridge Railway
George R. Peppercorne, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex, Director of the Rugby
and Warwick Railway
George Jackson, Esq. Abingdon
George Cox, Esq., Abingdon
John Knight, Esq. Abingdon
Thomas Salkild, Req. Huddersfield, director of the Manchester,
Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby, and Huddersfield and Liverpool
Direct Rail waiY
Portman-square
J. Russell, Esq. Gloncester-place, Portman-square
James Scott, M.D., Grove End-lodge, St. John's-wood, Director
of the Hail and Holyhead, and of the Bristol, Bath, and Poole
Railways
Lyster, 9, Spring-terrace, Wandsworth-road, Drector
of the Lincolnahire:and Eastern Counties Railway
(With power to add to their number).
Generalmaor Gloucaster-place,
ENGINEER-IN-CHlEF—Samuel Charles Brees, Esq.
SOLICITouS—MessrS. Eluislie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street,
London.
BANKERS.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT—CidWaIIadST F. Waddy, Esq.

Consul of Russia at that port
Richard Hodges Carter, Esq., Gloucester, late Mayor of the City of
Gloucester, and Deputy-Chairman of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean,
and Gloucester Railway
Samuel Hitch, Esq., M.D., Gloucester
Charles F. Thornley, Esq., merchant, Bristol
Cornelius Brady, Esq., Aston-house, Erdington, Warwickshire
Paris Dick, Esq., M.D., Forthampton, Tewkesbury
George Smith, Esq., Prestbury, near Cheltenham
Thomas Avery, Esq., Gloucester
Caleb Trotter, Esq., ditto
Arthur H. Jenkins, Esq., Alderman of Gloucester Directors of the
Edward L. Kendall, Esq., merchant, ditto Worcester, Here-
Robert Heane, Esq., ditto ford,and Giouces-
Charles Walker, Esq., ditto I ter Railway
Henry Fox, Esq., ditto Ji
Edward J. Woodhouse, Esq., ditto,
John !Adds, Esq., Abbot's-court, Twyning and Tewkesbury
Aaron Goold Bilsome, Esq., Forest of Dean, Director of the East and
Wc st of England, and the Worcester and South Wales Railways
John George Norbury, Esq., Great Cumberland-street, Hyde-park,
and Mancetter-house, Atherstone, Director of the Tean and Dove
Valley, South Staffordshire, and Dover and Bristol Railways
Kensington Lewis, Esq., Worcester-park, Surrey, and Stratford-
place, Itirector of the Midland Counties, and the Cheltenham, Ox-
ford, and Brighton Junction Railways
William Horatio Harrison, Esq., Sunbury, Director of the Leicester
and Tamworth, and South Staffordshire Junction Railways
Robert H. Shomburgk, Esq., New Kensington, Surrey, Chairman of
the Barbadoes General Railway
George Frederic Gregory, Esq., Seacombe, Cheshire, Director of the
Staffordshire and Shropshire, the Grand Junction and Midlands
Union, and Dever and Bristol Railways
John Campbell Dickers, Esq., Newhall, Cheshire, Director of the
Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction, and the Cheltenham, Oxford,
and London Junction Railways
George Unett, Esq., the Laurels, Handsworth, Staffordshire,
Director of the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester, and
Dover and Bristol Railways
Walter Llnett, Esq., Captain 3d Light Dragoons, Director of the
Dover and Bristol, and Grand Trunk Railways
Major White, Pall-mall, London, Director of the Northampton,
Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway
Lewis Hoffmann, Esq., Reading, Berkshire, and Inner Temple,
London, Director of the Nottingham and South Staffordshire, and
the Dover and Bristol Railways
•
Thomas Wakefield, Esq., London, Director of the Dover and Bristol
Railway
Edward Augustus Lamb, Esq., Westfield, Battle, Sussex, Director of
the Staffordshire, and Shropshire, and Dover and Bristol Railways
William Byrom, Esq., Oldham, Director of the Oldham Districts, the
London Bristol and South Wales rirect, the Cheltenham, Oxford,
and London, the Birkenhearl and Holyhead, and the Liverpool,
Preston, and North Union Railways
William Caldwell, Esq., Incc-hall, Wigan, Director of the Liverpool
and Leeds Direct, the Lancaster and York, and the Staftbrdshire
Potteries Railways
Henry Taylor, Esq., Alderman of Wigan, Director of the Leeds and
Liverpool Direct, and the York and Lancaster, and other Railways
Charles Collins, Esq., Caldwell-hall, Worcestershire, and Adelaide-
place, London-bridge, Director of the houthern and Eastern, and
Northern Jamaica, and the Irish West Coast Railways
John Bird, Esq., Dines Mowddy, North Wales
W. 11. Watts, Esq., M.D., Birmingham, Director of the Lincoln and
Great Grimsby, the Dover and Bristol, and the Birmingham, West
Bromwich, Wednesbury, and Walsall Junction Railways
Edward Shilton, Esq., Until-cottage, Handsworth, Staffordshire
George Edwards, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Birmingham,
Lichfield, and Manchestef, and the Birmingham, Westbromwich,
Wednesbury, awl Walsall Railways
Thomas Byrom, Esq., Wigan, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct, the York and Lancaster, the Liverpool and Bolton Direct,
and the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railways
Henry Spicer, Esq., 28, Portman-square, Director of the London and
Exeter, and other Railways
W. Drury Hoiden, Esq., 10, Green-street, Grosvenor-square. anti
Locko-park, Derbyshire, Director of the Lichfield and Macclesfield
Railway
Capt. Gould, Charles• street, St. James's
Samuel Kenmson, Esq., Little Sutton, near Birmingham, Director of
the Birmingham, Westbromwich, lednesbury, and Walsall Railway
Edwin Smith, Esq., 51, Great Ormond-street, London, Director of the
Lynn, Wisbcach, and Peterborough Railway
Robert Grove, Esq., Edgbaston, Birmingham, Director o' the Bir-
mingham, Westbromwich, Wednesbury, and Walsall Junction
Railway.

LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Leeds—Charles Naylor, Esq., and
Pontefract—Henry John Colem.tn, Esq.
Rotherham—John Oxley. Esq., and John Wright Potter, Esq,
East Retford—Messrs. Mee, Rigsby, and Moe.
liottingham—Messrs. Fox and Butlin.
Witham—Henry Hough, Esq.
Kettering—Thomas Marshall, Esq.
Bedford—Ezra Eagles, Esq.
SECRETARY —J. B. Owens, Esq.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT -J. M. WiddicoMbe, Esq.
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. P.ogers, Olding, and Co.
Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Company
Doncaster The Yorkshire Banking Company.
Pontefract

Members of the City Cotmeil, Oxford

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 pea, has been brought I
forward.
The proposed line will commence at the junction of the Manchester
and Leeds, and York and North Midland Railways, near Wakefield,
and will terminate by means of a junction with the Eastern Coun-
ties Railway, at Bedford (to which place it is the intention of that
Company to extend their line in the ensuing session of Parliament),
and by thus availing itself as far as possible of the existing railways,
will complete the most direct and least expensive trunk line, item
London to Leeds, York, and Hull. It will pass in its route within an
available distance of Wakefield, Pontefract, Doncaster, Rotherham,
East Redford, Nottingham, Newark, Grantham, Melton Mowbray,
Oakham, and Stamford.
The importance of such a line is obvious, both from the nature of
its cou: 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.
Ily the construction of this railway, railway communication to
London will be given to Peteraorough and Leicester (by means of
the Syston and Peterborough Railway), to Newark and Nottingham,
(by the Nottingham and Lincoln line(, and to Sheffield and Gains-
borough, )by the Sheffield and Gainsborough line), by a much shorter
route than by any existing railways.
Independorly 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
bettyeen these two places would produce such a retire on the capital
required, as to admit of a dividend equal to that of any railway in
°aeration ; but when it is borne in mind that a company is being
formed for the purpose of connecting Glasgow with ;Leeds by
meens of a junction with the York and Carlisle Railway, no better
line cats be presented to the public, as it will not only effect a direct
communication from Glasgow and the western parts of ecotlaud to
London, but would also connect Edinburgh aed the eastern parts of
Scotland, as well as Durham and Newcastle (by the York and North
Midland, and Great North of England Rallwa) 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 Great Leeds and London Direct Railway.
The fact of the Eastern Counties Railway being connected by a
branch line with the East and West India Docks on the river
Thames, and the Railway Company having recently leased for 999
years the extensive pepper warehouses belonging, to those docks,
which are capable of receiving 12,000 tons of goods, together with
wharfs adjoining, where the shipment and trans-ship gut
o Important
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 alt goods from the manufacturing districts could be
conveyed at once to these warehouses for shipment, thereby avoiding
the present delay and expense of cartage, and in reality establishing
an almost direct and invaluable connexion between the rivers Clyde
and Thames.
It has been ascertained that there are no engineering difficulties,
that the w irks will be easy, and the gradients remarkably goad, and
that it will not materially interfere with any ornamental property.
The subscribers will be held liable only to the extent of tht it first
deposits, until an Act of Parliament is obtained, and afterwards only
to the amount of their subscriptions.
It is proposed to take power in the Bill to allow interest at 4 per
cent. per annum on all calls until the opening of the line, and
to extend the line to Itertford on the Eastern Counties line, in the
event of that Company not prosecuting their line to Bedford.
BROKERS.
London—Messrs. Marten and Ileseititte, 9, Fineh-lane
Leeds—Messrs. Hopps and Co.
Liverpool—Messrs. Joseph King and Son
Hull—Messrs. Flint and Tootal
Manchester—Messrs. Cardwell and Sons
Bradford—Mr. Josiah Scholefield
Edinburgh—Mr. Charles Couper, 30, St. Andrew's-square.

ENGINEER.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Lewis and Ford, 28, Essex-street, Strand, London
W. H. Reece, Esq., Birmingham.;
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Tenn, Rugby
William Tibbits, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon
Anthony Sproule, Esq., Tewkesbury.
BANK tits—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clem: lit.'s-lane, London,
SECRETARY—Henry Brookes, Esq. •

The proposed railway will commence at Itu..zby, on the London
and Birmingham Railway, the terminus of the Midland Counties
and Trent Valley Railways, and the point to which several other
projected radways converge, and will proceed through or near to
Leamington, Warwick, Stratford-on-Avon, Evesham, Tewkesbury,
and Chelten,am, to Gloucester. The length of the line will bt
about 5G miles.
The advantages that will result from the construction of this Hilo
are numerous and highly important, and such as cannot fail to secure
a very large amount of local and through traffic, and a highly-re-
munerative return upon the capital invested. By means of existing
and proposed railwaj s, it will form a complete chain ‘,l railway com-
munication betwt en the whole of the midland and north-eastern
counties of England, the populous cities and towns bet Ore-named, and
the southern and western districts, and thus bring Leicester, Not-
tingham, Newark-, Lincoln, Gainsborough, Great Grimsby, and Hull,
into direct communication with the favourite and fashionable spas of
Leamington and Cheltenham, the richly-productive and far-famed
Vale of Evesham, and the seaports of Gloucester, Bristol, Plymouth,
and Falmouth, and those of South Wales.

The inhabitants and visitors of the much-frequented watering-
dacea of Leamington and Cheltenham, will thus obtain a direct line
.ietween those reiorts, instead of the present circuitous r•ute through
Birmingham, affording that facility of intercommunication which
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has long been ardently desired; and it will also afford the utmost fa-
cility of access to the innumerable visitors who, attracted as well by
the beauty of the scenery as the memory of bhakspears, annually
res ,rt to Stratford-on-Avon.
To those passengers from the east and north-east, direct to Glou-
Gloucester, the line from Tewkesbury, cutting off the angle of the
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway to Cheltenham, will afford a
great accommodation, and a saving in distance of at least eight miles,
besides the delay of the stoppage at Cheltenham.
At Tewkesbury it will also form a junction with the proposed line
front that place to Malvern, affording the most direct connnunication
to the numerous visitors to the magnificent scenery and invigorating
atmosphere of the celebrated Malvern-hills.
To the inhabitants of the ancient and populous borough of Tewkes •
bury, this portion of the proposed line will prove immensely advan-
tageous ; al:tutted within ten miles of the important city and port of
Gloucester, they have nevertheless to travel by the present railway
route nearly twice that distance, an Inconvenience which has
already materially affected the trade, awl prejudiced the intereqs of
the town. The prop,- sed line, ntnning close to the town, win remove
this great Meow. enimee, and restore its trade to its former state of
prosperity.
The value of this line to the city and port of Gloucester cannot

London—The London and Westminster Bank.
Oxford—The London and County Bank.
—The Wilts and Dorset County Bank.
Y Knapp and Co. ; and the Coun'y
Bank
Wantage—Messrs. Henry Knapp and Co.
AS
oryn
3lessrs. henry
Newbury—The Berkshire Union Bank
Hungerford—Messrs. Tanner and Pinckney.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Oxford—Juo. Francis E.
Salisbury—,ztephen Hill, Esq.
Abingdon-31essrs. Graham and Son
Vantage—William Ormond, Esq.
Hungerford and Marlborough—John Halcomb, Esq.
SECRETARY—Z. Hubbersty, Esq.

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

I. B. OWEN, Secretary.

Temporary Offices, Adelaide•place,
London-bridge.

be too highly estimated, as it not only open to it immen, e
sources of traffic from the whole of the eastern and north-eastern
counties, but will very materially lessen the distance between it
and Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and South Staff.rdshire, making
Gloucester still more securely the nearest and most acce,sible outlet
for the whole of that immensely productive manufacturing t egion ,
and it is impossible to conceive any project better calculated to
advance the interests of Gloucester, than one capable of effecting
that object.
This line will also form an Important junction between the London
and Birmingham and Midlands Railways, and the Bristol and
Gloucester Railway, and constitute the highway for the traffic of the
former, and (Wall the north-eastern railways. to the proposed Man-
chester and Southampton Railway at Cheltenham ; and tile through
traffic front the latter source alone is expected to be very great.
It will thus have the effect of. connecting the ports of the Eastern
and nortk-eastern with those of the western and southern coasts ;
of affording the most direct and convenient access front the north
and east to the vast mineral regions of South Wales, and of opening
new markets for the rich products of the fertile valleys of the Avon
and Severs, and the agi icultural districts of Warwickshire and Wor•
cestershire, in the manufacturing towns and ports of the north.
The line will be easy of construction, traversing, as it does, through
nearly its whole length, the valleys of the Avon and Severn. The
towns through .hith it will run arc very populous, and the country
of the richest desct iption ; and the local traffic will consequently be
very great in addition to the through traffic, which on such a line
most necessarily he very extensive.
The Provisional Ctralmittee reserve to themselves the ptwer to
amalgamate with any other company as to the whole or any part of
the line, and te vary or extend the line, and to increase or diminish
the capital accordingly, if deemed expedient.
The capital proposed to be raised is 1,090,900/., is shares of 201.,
upon which a deposit of V. 2s. per stare must be paid upon allot-

The imvortance of connecting remote parts of England by rail-
ways, with the advantages thereby conferred upon intermediate towns
and districts, can scarcely be better exempfied than by the line
which is t,ow proposed to form a short and direct channel of inter-
course between Oxford and Salisbury. Numerous projected lines
now before the public will mate Oxford at the north, and Salisbury
at the south of the intended railroad, the central points from which
various radii will diverge to the north-west, north, and north-cast of
the former, and to the south and west of the latter ; and the
proposed line from Cambridge to Oxrord, continuing to that city tine
eoure of railway from the north-eastern parts of the island. requires
the appliance now suggested to effect a complete means of transit to
tile western and south-western counties.
The Oxford and ,alisbury Direct Railway, in addition to
the benefits which will he conferred upon the nation at
large, by perfecting a direct line of commutt cation b,
tweet' the north-eastern and western and south-western
parts of England, will afford to the boroir.:ll of Abingdon,
the market towns of Windage, Hungerford, and Ludgershall, and
the adjacent villages, an important railway' accommodation, of which
the agriculteral districts in which they arc seated stand in much
need, and will provide a facility for the interchange of produce be.
tween the rural, maituthcturing, 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 or
Oxford, combining also the advantage of ail direct communication
with the sister University of Cambridge ; us strengthening the
ecclesiastical and academical relations of the whole, whilst the corn-
inerchil prosperity of the two terminal cities must of necessity be
essentially enhanced.
The want of railway accommodation has long been felt to press
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 willeh are already provided with di-
rect channels of transit, arc thus se rer&v crippled. The same remark
topr
oc
joemicitmoe nr
acieht,haey pt
or olpvoasne
en,et
in,
et
applies in some degree to the market town of Wautage, which, m
well as Hungerford and LudgersthhaalsLaci:ainhgntsoaAsih)inagredoonf
at:rep:to:a:el-
and advantages produced by railway traffic.
It has therefore been determintei:
Oxford, and to proceed through Abingdon to the station of the Great
Western Railway at Steventon,
road to London. By continuing
same thcility of transit to London will be ftforded to that }dace; 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,
throgh the town which have been named. Hungerford and Lodgers-
hall,u to Salisbury,s and thence to the south and western ports and dis-
tricts.
ospectUses to be made to Messrs.
Applications for shares and pr
Elnislie and Preston, '47, Moorgate-street, and to the following
Brakers :—Messrs. l'eppercorne, 2, Old Broad-street, and Messrs.
Preece and Evans, Lothbury, London ; Messrs. Alston and Gage, and
Messrs. Reynolds and Son, Liverpool ; Mr. John Duncuft, and Mr.
John O'Neil, Manchester ; Messrs. A. and C. Bradshaw, and Messrs.
Wellbeloved and Co., Leeds ; Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol ; Mr.
James Pearson, Birmingham ; Messrs. Samuel Hutchinson and Co.,
Bradford ; Mr. Win. Worcester ; Messrs. Ball, Brothers, and
Co., Cheltenham ; Mr. Thomas SandfOrd, ewer; Messrs. Easty
and
Sons, Southampton; Mr. Robert Afl
n, n, Edinburgh Messrs Black
and Co., and Messrs. Buchanan and Aitken, Glasgow; Mr. Wm.
Gordon, Aberdeen ; and Messrs. BrucaSymes, Dublin.

GREAT WbSIERN, BRIsIN and
CENTRAL TERMINUS JUNCTION RAILWAY, from
the vicinity of West Drayton, through Hounslow, Brentfoni, Ham-
mersmith, Kensingten, Chelsea, and Westminster, to a Central
Terminus, 'Lear Charing-Cross.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Offices, 53, Charing-cross.
Capital, 850,e001., in 42,500 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per ;,hare.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.

The Earl of Devon
Vernon Abbott, Esq., 70, Gower-street
Philip Anstruther, Esq., Director of the MM
AE* Embankment
Railway Junction Company
hEnsgAr,mssoterloilig,
John BenjaminA
ldjto, house,Egi Magistrate for Middlesex
Esq.,
John
Henry Pratt Barlow, Esq., '24, Kensington-square
Edward Oliver Benson, Esq., Hounslow Ament
William Sprott Boyd, Esq., Director of the Thames Dubai
Railway Junction Company
Thomas Bramall, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Leicester and Tam-
worth Railway
Sir John Macpherson Brackenbury
air Archer Denman Crott, Bart., Director of the Thames Eyabank-
meat Railway Junction Company
Major John T. Croft, Deputy Chairman of the Chester and Manches-
ter Railway
John Chevalier Cebbeld,:Esq., Chairman of the Bastorn Union Rail
way
Wllam Cumming, Esq., North Bank, Regent's Park
George Cooper, Esq., Brentford
George James Stredwick Camden, Esq., Hounslow
Charles Downes, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
J. Fisher, Esq., Isleworth
Major David Fitzgerald, Yalentia, county of Kerry
Captain Forbes, R N., Forest, Windser
Sir Andrew Pellatt Green, R.N., K.C.H.
James Montgomery, Esq., Brentford
.79tin Bowyer Nichols, Esq., Hammersmitlt
The Hon. Colonel Phipps, Norwood-grem
William Simpson Potter, Esq., Director of the South and Midi and
Railway
Henry Pownall, Esq., Spring-grove, Hounslow, Magistrate for
Middlesex
John F. Pownall, Esq., Spring-grove, Hounslow
Colonel Reid (2d Life Guards), Bulstrode Park
Thomas Berry Rowe, Esq., Brentford
John Coysgarne Sim, Esq., No. 9, Cllfton-place, Hyde Park-gatlens
Major Jelf Sharp, Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for Middlesex,
Deputy-Chairman of the Thames Embankment Railway Juaetion
Company
Henry Webb Smith, Esq., Hounslow
William Spooner, Esq., Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and
Newcastle Railway
Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq., Chairman of the Irish North Midland
Railway
John Stewart, Esq., M.P.
Frederick Thompson, Esq., 20, Kensington-square
Robert Richard Tighe, Esq., Bank, Windsor
Henry Tuffnell, Esq., M.P.
(With power to add to their number.)
lwreassuras,.. IVe,iiiniki,nEsscln.,aan,dmConr,s,a,i,, 7,
ENGINEER-111011MS Page, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Lincoln's Inn-flails
u Temple.
11.1SZERS.
Messrs. Hugh InnseEseCitastnr.e,raoyn_ainieepeiryozifiarß:itTgin,l!l,Parltament-strect.
EARLIAMENTAAI AGE
•

Int:Ple tt. liability of tll3 subscribers will be limited by the Act to the
amount of their respective subscriptions to the capital stoek, and
power will be applied for in the Act to allow interest tit the rate of
4/. per cent.per annum on the amount of the depo,,it, and upon the re-
spective cane, from the date of each payment until the opening of the
The Subscribers' Agreement and the Parliamentary Contract will
be required to be duly executed whon the hankers' receipts are ex
changed for certificates or scrip, of which due notice will be given ;
and Vie deposits paid by persons making default in due execution of
the. Subscribers' A:,reement and Parliamentary Contract within the
time to be limited by such notice, will be absolutely f. rfeited.
Forms of application for shares, piospeetuses, and a map of the
line, may be obtained froua the Solicitors, or the F•ecretary, the
Offices of the Company, 28, Egscx-street, Strand, London, or from
any of the undermentioned Sharebrokers ; but no application will be
attended to unless accompanied by a reference to one of the Provl-
atonal Committee, the Solicitors, or a Backer.
London-Mr. A. Sym, Tokenhouse-yard
Birmingham—Mr. W. 11. Collis, New-street
Leamington—Mr. Ellezer Edwatils, Bedford-street
Bath—Mr. T. E. Mitioai
Gloucester--
Bristol—
Stratford-on-Avon—Mr. William Bolton
Liverpool—Messrs. Pownal and Worthington, and Mr. William Kerl
Manchaster— Mr. John Barlow; Messrs. Cardwell and Son
Leeds—Messrs. Robinson and Fit rley
Leicester-3lessrs. Elgood and Harrison.
THE AVON AND SEVERN VALLEY RAILWAY.
FORM OF APPLECATION FOR SHARES
To the Prods:emu Committee of the Mon and Severn Val!ey
Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me shares
of 200. each in the above Company; and I hereby undertake to ac-
cept 11l same, or any smaller number, alai to pay the deposit of
21..25. per share thereon, and to execute the Parliamentary Con-
- tract. and the Subscribers' Agreement when required
•• • • - Dated this day or
Naio.• in full ••• • .. ••• • •
Itc~i'en n:t ••• - • ..... ••.. • •
Place of .. • • • • • • • •
Trade or Pi.41!,551.11 ..... • • .. • •
:Name Ad,tress of Itefurce • • •

FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the OxfortL.attl %alisbury Direct
request you to allot me shares in the
above undertaking ; and I hereby agree to accept the same, or any
less number which may be allotted to me, and also to pay the de-
posits thereon, and to execute the Subscribers' Aire, ment, Parlia-
mentary Contract, and all other necessary hutrumnits, when re-
quired so to do.

I am, Gentlemen, your obedient Servan.
Name in flub
Reihlenee • • • • • .
Poo, Town • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Ofvnpatlon . • • • • • • • .
Refer Nice.. ..... .
Use !I Signature .............
Dated •••• • • • •
Altualle and Preston, 47, Moorgat4.:-Strioet, London.

Applications for shares, in the subjoined form , may he made, •
addressed to the Provisional Committee, at the °Mm eel
pang, 53, Charing-cross, to the Solleitursaucl l'arliatnentart3b% Cm
' '"
and to the following agents and sharebrokers Cl.mena7,l
Whitehead, 61],‘, Threadneedle-street; Mr. li. WOliams, 80, Otd
Broad-street, London; :Messrs. Bradley and Co., Manchester; Mr. 1,.
It. Pemberton, and Messrs. It. Davis and Co., Liverpool ; Mr. Lime
-Arnold, Bristol; Messrs. Chantrell and Boyes, Leek's; Messrs. Wll-

1845.

TTIE, SITN, LONDoN, WEDNI4ISDAY MORNING, OC-Tif)-9Til,r), 15 me)

IRECT ORTHE .N I;,.liL\ AY.
LON DON TO YORK.
The D!recZors beg to annonace that the Allotment of-new Shares
has 1-e,m completed, and that Letters of All: tment will be posted
with( ut delay. me day for payment of dewslt has been fixed for the
24th instant,

By order of the Board,
W. H. CLARK, Secretary.
Direct Northern Railway Oakes, 64, Moorgate-street,
14th Oct., 1815.

iiiIRMINGHAM AND MANCHESTER
DIRECT RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 901,000/., in 45,000 Shares of M. each.
Deposit, 21.25. per Share.
•
ntovistoickt. coltattrrEs.
Sir George Prescott, Bart.
The Bon. Cecil Lawless, Lynbarth, Kildare, and St. James's-street
Sir Love Parry Jones Parry, Major-General, K. 11., Madryn, Car-
narvonslaire, Director of the Leicester, Bedford, and of the Direct

East and West Junction Lailways
Sir William Twisden, Bart., Dorset-square, Director of the Chepstow
and Forest of Dean Railway
r Wm. Young, Bart., East India Director, Westbourne-street,
Hyde Park-gardens, Director of the Sheffield, Nottingham, and
London Direct Railway
Sir William Wynn, K.C.8., Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, Chairman of
the N'ortli Wales Railway
Sir Henry Weob, Bart., 105, Pall-mall, Director of the York and
Lancaster Hallway
The Sheriff of York, Director of the Sheffield, Nottingham, and
London Direct Railway
lyscoieli, Rear-Admiral, Prospect-place, Southampton, Director of
tll2 Sheffield, Nottingham, and London Direct Railway
Adair, Major, Director of the Charch of England ASSIMITIC3 Society,
and of the Burton-upon-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, anti New-
town, and Indian Peninsular Railways
Arnold, Henry, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of Remington's Direct
London and Manchester Railway
Booth, John, Esq., Park- toltaee, Mecclesfl Id, Director of the Leeds,
ld, and Wolverhampton Direct, and Sheffield, Notting-
ham, and London Direct Railways
Brookes; John, Esq., Alderman of Manchester, Director of Reming-
ton's Direct London and, Manchester Railway
Brown, Henry. Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Director of Remington's
Direct London and Manchester Railway
Brown, haze Baker, 27, Oxford-square, Hyde-park
Buck, W. C., Esq.
Cambridge, John, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of the
Burton-on-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newtown Railway
Chambers, Win., Esq., Cocks Bench, Derby, Director of Remington'e
Direct London and Manchester Railway
Clarke, Jeremiah, iesq., Macclesfield, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Cleobury, Thomas Mortimer, Esq., Acton, Middlesex, Director of the
Sfieffield, Nottingham, and London Direct Railway
Cook, John, the Rev., Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, Director of the Shef-
field, Nottingh em, and London Direct Railway
Croft, Major j. T. Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman, Director of
Remington's Direct Loud ii and Manchester Railway
Crossley, John, Esq.. Lumberhurst, Sussex, Director of the Sheffield,
Nottingham, and London Direct Railway.
Cumberlego, N , Esq., York-terrace, Regent's Park, Director of the
Burton-upon-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newtown, and
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railways
Dalby. J. R., Esq., Ashby-de-a-Zouch
Dale, alajor Thurston, Ashbounie, Director of the Burton-on-Trent,
Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newton, and Leeds, Huddersfield, and
Wolverhampton Direct Railways
Daniel, R , Esq , Oakhill, Stoke-upon-Trent, Director of the Leeds,
Huddersfield, and.Walverhampton Direct Railway
Darlington, John, Esq., Shipley Hall, Bradford, Director of the Liver-
pool and Leeds Direct Railway
Dewhuret, Richard, Esq., Apsley House, Huddersfield, Director of
the West Riding Union Banking Company, and Director of the
West Riding Junction Railway
Dent, Edward, Esq., Director of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and
Great Grimsby Direct Railway
Dent, John, Esq., Director of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and
Great Grimsby Direct Railway
Eastwood, Abraham, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds, Hud-
derstield, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway
Eastwood; Edmund, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds, Had
dersaeld, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway
Ellis, John, Esq., Temple
Ewa-t, Francis, of 4, Brick-court, Temple, Director of the Great
Leeds and London Direct, Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Me-
tropolitan Junction Railways
Fitche, George, Lieutenant-Colonel, 36, York-terrace, London, Di-
rector of the London and Lancaster Railway
Franklin. Benjamin, Harley-street, London
Garde, Richard, Esq., 16, Steven's-green, Dublin
Gisborne, Henry Francis, Esq., Derby, Director of the Burton-on-
Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newtown Railway
Grant, Daniel, Esq., Manchester, Director of Remington's Direct
London find Manchester Hallway
Hammond, George, Esq., Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railway
Heneage, C., Esq., Pall-mall, Catleley Place, Lincolnshire, Director
of the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway
Berries, Robert, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway
Hind, Abraham, Esq., Director of the Manchester; Huddersfield and
Great Grimsby Direct Railway
Holdfortli, .J. 1)., Esq., Burley, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway
Hughes, Hughes W., Esq., Alderman of the City of London
Ingleby, Joseph, Esq., Cheadle, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield,
and Wolverhampton Direct Railway
Johnson, Richard William, Esq., Moorgate, Director of the Brighton
nevi Cheltenham, and Remington's Direct London and Manchester
Railways
Jones, Edward, Esq., IVinlmill-olace, Ca eberwell, Director of the
Leeds, Huddersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway
Jones, the Rev. J. P., Vicarage, Alton, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Keene, John Joseph, Esq., St. John's Wood, Regent's Park, Di-
rector of the Burton-on-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and New-
town Railways
King, William, Esq., Stepney, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction, and Brighton and Cheltenham
Railways
Knight, Ed yard, M.D., Stafford, Director of the Burton-on-Trent,
Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newtown Railway
Lambert, RichardeEvq., Lyston-hall, Sudbury
Lea, John Wheeley, Esq., Worcester
Mackenzie, T., Esq., Duke-street, Liverpool
Macmillan, James, Esq., 17. Manchester-buildings, Westminster, Di-
rector of the Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Railway
M‘Cann, Nicholas, Esq., 50, Parliament-street
SP-Station, Daniel, Esq., Wolvertn-notion, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Mainwaring, John, Esq., Eagle-Hall, Pateley-bridge, Director a the
York and Lancaster Railway
M vin, T., Esq., Chapel-cottage, Holloway
Maskery, Thos., Esq., Norbury- hall, Director of the Brighton and
Cheltenham Railway
Meteyard, Horace W., Esq., Director of Remington's Direct Loudon
and Manchester Railway
Moore, Major, Anne-street, Cavendish .square, Director of the Burton -
on-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newtown Railway
Murray, James T., Esq., George-street, Hanover-square, Director of
the Burton-upon-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newton Railway
Mesgraye, S., Esq.
Nadia, Joseph, Esq., Stapenhill, Director of Remington's Direct Lon-
don and Itlaticliester Railway
Nadia, Nathaniel, E q., Sfaitenhill, Derbyshire, Director of Reming-
ton's Direct London and Manchester Railway
Norton, Joseph, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Nottingham and
London Direct Railway
Ogle, Nathaniel, Esq., Heath-lane Lodge, Twickenham, Director of
the Burton-on-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newtown Rail-
way
Pulteney, Captain Douglas Kinnaird, 4, Parliament-street, Chairman
of the York and Lancaster Railway, and Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Richardson, Joseph, Esq.
Riddle, Robert Andrew, Esq., 23, Bryanston-street, Portman-square,
Director of the Tring, Reaeing, and Basingstoke, and of the Ox-
ford and Worcester Extension Railway
Robinson, John, Esq., Silcoates-cottage, Wakefield, Director of the
Leede, Huddersfield, and Wolverh onpton Direct, and Sheffield,
Nottingham. and London Direct Railways
Roden, T. C.. Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Leeds, Huddders-
field, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway.
Shipton, Robert, Esq., Scropton, Derbyshire, Director of Remington's
Direct London and Manchester Railway
Skithnore, J. A., Esq , St. John's, Wakefield, Director of the Great
Leeds and London Direct, and Hull and Holyhead Direct Railways
Smith, John, Esq., Barton-house, Ashhorne, Derbyshire
Smith, Thorne's Esq., M.D., Leeds, Director of the 1 esde, Hudders-
field, and Wolverhampton Direct, and Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railways
Smith, Win., Esq., Clifton, Derbyshire, Director of the Brighton and
Cheltenham Railway
Sneyd, Thomas, Esq., Belmont
Spiere, Edward John, Esq., Carlton-villa, Maida-vale, Director of the
Staffordshire, Derbyshire, and Worcestershire Railway
Stenho e, Lieutenant-Colonel Leicester, Chairman of Remington's
Direct London and Manchester Railway
Trapp, Benjamin, Esq., banker, Bedford, Director of Remington's
Direct London and Manchester Railway
Tyler, George, Esq., Holloway-place, London, Director of the
Brighton and Cheltenham Railway
Walker, Charles, Esq., Ellastone
Walker, George, Esq., Wootton-park, Ashborne
Waller, Major James, K.H., St. James's-square, Director of the
Leeds, Huddersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct, and Brighton
and Cheltenham Railways
Walters, James, Esq., Bakewell, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield
and Wolverhampton Dire et Railway
Warren, Jos. Loxiiale, Esq., the Lodge, Market Drayton, Salop
Wardle. Henry, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's London
and Manchester Direct Railway
Welsh, Robert, Esq., Director of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and
Great Grimsby Direct Railway Company
Weston, Thomas, Esq., Tt an, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield,
Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railway
Wilkinson, J., Esq.
Wright. 'Thomas, Esq., merchant, Derby, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffer Ist ire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway.
SOLICITOR—W. Arnold liainbrigge, Esq.
ENGINEER—George Remington, Esq.
SECRETARY—A. A. Flint, Esq.
13axiterts—efessrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co.
LOCAL AGENT —lt. H. Tarleton, Esq., -Birmingham.

The title of this line sufficiently and correctly explains the object
of the undertaking.
.The -Birmingham terminus will be placed in communication with
all the other railways having a station in that town, and will be
nrought as'near as practicable to its centre. Proceeding thence in a
northerly direction, and on the west side of the Lichfield road, it will
past within a short distance of Sutton Coldfield, and to Lichfield, at
rite tatter of which places there will be a; tation in communication
with the projected Walsall lines.
Thence crossing the Trent Valley, near King's Bromley, It will
pursue the course of the Blythe Valley, or by or near to Abbots
Bromley to Leigh, where it will leave the Blythe Valley, and by a
short cutting reach the Tean station on Renting on's London and
Manchester line at the junction of the Crewe brant.h, or by a junc-
tion with whichever of the projected lines to Manchester may be
adopted by Parliament.
The entire length of the new line to be made will not exceed
thirty-four miles, and the whole will be carried over a most favour- •
able country—two-thirds being a water-level.
Sections ofa great portion of the line have beets made, and the en-
tire Paniamentary survey will be completed by the 9th ofOctober.
This railway will afford a route from Birmingham to Manchester
eleven miles shorter titan by any existing or projected line. It will
also give the best and nearest line between liudderzfield, and Bir-
mingham.
It will also furnish a nearer and more direct route frotn Birming-
ham to the Potteries than any line made or projected by several
mile;, assuming any of the projected Pottery lines to have their ter-
mini at Colwicb, on the Trent Valley, or at Stafford, on the Grand
Junction Railway ; thus giving to Manchester, and a.so the Pot-
teries, the shortest, easiest, and most direct route to Birmingham.
I, will also give the nearest line between Huddersfield and Birming-
ham and Southampton.
This railway cros,es the projected Leeds and Huddersfield and
Wolverhampton Direct Railway. In the Blyti?e Valley a station will
be placed, and communication effected, so as to afford to Birmingham
the shortest route by many miles, with Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield,
and the northern parts of England. In allotting shares every legi-
t mate preference will be given to the landholders on the Inc.'
It is 013ViOlis that the projected line will afford an ample return to
the shareholders.
For prospectuses, shares, and every information, apply to the
solicitors, W. Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Httoxeter ; or at the Offices
of the Company, No. 1, Moorgate, London.
BROKERS.

Messrs. B. and M. Boyd, New Bank-buildings
.11..ssrs. Townley and Whitehead, Liverpool
Messrs. Cameron and Co., Liverpool
Mr. Morris ILynolds, Liverpool
Mr. Richard E. Hine, Macclesileld
Mr. James Jamieson, Leeds
74,,ssrs. \Tenholoved and Oastler, Leeds
Mr. Frederick Stamp, Hull
Mr. Richard Baines, Blackburn
Mr. George Clark, Bradford
Mr. William Mason, Bradford
Mr. William Cronhelm, Halifax
Mr. J. W. PAbley, Gainsborough
Messrs. Freeman and Son, Noilhampton
Messrs. Grayston and Earle, York
Messrs. Kettering and Marshall, lioeds
Mt. Joseph Clam;, jun., Southampton
Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol
Messrs Houghland anl Leese, Manchester
Messrs. A. Itirchail add Co., Manchester
•
Mr. W. H. Collis, Birmingham
Mr. L. Weatherburn, jun., Hialderstiold
Messrs. Everard and Co., Huddersfield
Messrs. Payne and Leleesttr
J. N. Balme, Gloucester
Mr. C Uttoxeter
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES,

To the Directors of the " Birmingham and Manchester Direct
Railway."

I request you to allot me shar..!s in the above undertaking;
•nid I agree to pay up the deposit of 2?. 23. per share, and sign the
11,cess.try deeds when required thereto.-
Dated this day of , 1845.
Name In full .
Profession or Rusincss • • . • • • • •
•
Nate of itesideil,!;! . .....
P:ace of 11u,1nc33 • • •• •
Nantes of Refere,s • • • • •

kt HIM INGTT M AN 111 A NCIII4.:STER
kJ" DIRECT It *,tt,N kl" COMPANY.
I:ompany's.Oftl,cs. I..Xloorgau.stri.qq,,t..orElott, Oct. 13,,1.845.
Stalc.? is hereby given that no farther Applications fOr shares can
received after WzDszsDAy, the 15111 instant.
By order,
A A. FLINT, Secretary.

(ii>.FOLK RAII,WAY.—Diss and Coletieste;',
and Wells and Denham Scrip Certificates.
fife P :filamentary Deed is now re.ady for Signia!ure at this Office,
and will remain until the 3d of November, before which :lay scri!)
hitiers are requestedf to:sign the dried, and exchange the receipts for
scrip certificates in the North Pt Extension 5t0.....k.
flours of Attendance front Ten till Four.
ty order,
RICH Mt 1) TILL, Secretary.
London, Oct. 14, 1815.

f ittickinglumsli re, and by the celebrated Vale of Aylesbury,
wiling with the 'several completed or projected railiraYl Wid"

112atiunee, viz.:—
The 1 nation end Birmingha
The Great Western
The gout! ampton Union
The South Midland
The Midland Counties
The Northampton and Leicester
Ti e Northampton and Peterborough, and thus
pitk
The Direct Manchester
it cs.nnot be that it must prove extremelconvenient and
it
beneficial to thedoubted rublic, and highly advantageous to the prOPriety.
The liability of the shareholders will be restricted by Act of
.•
ailment to the amount of their subscriptions, and power be
sa
plied for in the Bill to allow interest at 4 per cent. per anti 11 0.•
^ails, from the pessing of the Act until the opening of the line.
Arrangements have been made that the survey shall be coMPleir,
Ind the plans and sections deposited in time for obtaining 04
during the ensu ng session of .
Applications for shares may beParliament addressed, in the form anrexeast°,
the underment:oned brokers, viz. :—Messrs. B. and M. Boyd, 11.1
street, John Shewell, Esq., Threadneedle-street, and Measly- selt%
Westropp, and Prinsep, 75, Old Broad-street, Mr. John
vr
:horter's-cent, London; Messrs. Grtsystone and Earle, w.
Thackiay, Harrogate; Mr. Joseph Nelson, Settle; 31.'
Welch, Lancaster; Messrs. Geddes and Drinkwater, ;
Henry Waterton, Batik-buildings, Castle-street, Li ers.zo.
4r. Peter Leicester, Messrs. Green and Oldham, Mt ing.
ikeen and Lockwood, Manchester; Mr. James Pearson, DI od
ham ; Mes rs. Joshua Wood and Son, Messrs. Watson and
Messrs. E. Ring and Co., Leeds ; Messrs. Bratty anld Stand {r,
frail ; Mr. J. A. Butchart, Huddersfield; Mr. Hervey,
1-i.rlitingalc, Wakefield ; Messrs. Samuel Hutchinson and Co.
ford ; Mr. Luke Arnold, and Mr. George Edwards, Bristol; 3110,
.1. Gliddon, and Mr. Thomas Sandford, Exeter ; Mess rly-
'lrothers, and Co., Cheltenham ; Messrs. Hopwood and Fain."' oi4
nouth ; Mr. Robert Allan, Messrs. Hugh Munro and CO., 311.1; ringieo
Ctimear, and Mr. James Pringle, Edinburgh ; Mr. W• Gape,
; and Auld, Glasow ; Mr. WM.
therdeenMessrs. ; Mr. S. A.Wl:wen Gloag, Perth ; of whogM prospectuses la,
had ; or to the Provisional Committee, at the offices of the COWn
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. {ion-
+
To the Provisional Committee of the Midland Grand tittn°
Railway. Of 251.
Genemen,—l reou will allot to me he.—
inch in the Midlandquest Grand Junction Railway, and I hereby lin „nd to
to accept that, or any lass number that may be allotted to 1ne,,4;
the
pay the deposit of 2/. 12s. d. per share thereon, and to exreact.,t,
Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement
wiicn
Name in full
Profession or Trade
Place of
Reference -

MIDLAND GRAND JUNCTION
R AILWAY.
Connecting the Great Western, London and Birmingham, awl Direct
Maacheiter. From Reading via Henley-on-Thames, Aylesbury,
Buckingham, and Northampton.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 1,250,0001. in 50,000 Shares of 25/. each.
Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
ntovisioNlL COMMITTEE. . _

Jain. Anlerson, Esq..'lC-in;;;Tar-kcii,,,eip-o-oi, Director of the East-

ern Counties and Southend Railway
William Ashcroft, Esq., Bury, Director of the Lancashire, Cheshire,
and Stelordshire Railway
George Alfred Beardmore, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Hull
and Lincoln Direct Railway, and Nottingaam and Peterborough
Railway
Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Barton, K.C.H., Montague-place,
Montague-squate
Charles R. Maze, Esq., 19, Bryanston-square, Director of the York
and Lancaster Railway
Charles Bleaden, Esq., Coulsden-court, Surrey, Chairman of the
Licensed Victuallers' Assurance Company
John Blunt, Esq., Upper Bedford-place, Director of the London
Docks
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Chairman of the
Direct Western Railway, and Director of the Sheffield and Man-
chester Railway
James Brand, Esq., 9, New Broad-street, Director of the New R rss,
Carlow, and Kilkenny Railway
G. A. Brown, Esq., Broad-street, Director of the Callao and Lima
Railway
Josmh Bull, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Staffordshire Potteries
Railway
Win. Byrozi,E sq., Oldham, Director of the Oldham District, the Bir-
kenhead and Holyhead, York and Lancaster, and Cheltenham,
Oxford, and London Railways
Thomas Byrom, Esq., Wigan, Director of the York and Lancaster,
Ruby, Derby and Manchester, Staffordshire Potteries, and Man-
chester, Wigan, and Southport Railways
John Channtler, Esq., Friday-street, Director of the York and Lan-
caster Railway
Richard Clay, Esq., 1, Winchester-buildings, London, Director of the
Huddersfield anEastern Coast Railway
Ephraim Cocker, Esq., White Coppice, Chorley, Director of the Black-
burn, Chorley, and Liverpool Railway
Nathaniel Cooke, Esq., Bayswater, Di. ector of the Eastern Counties
Junction and Southend Railway
Nathaniel Cumberledge, Esq., 3, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Direc-
of the Leeds and Huddersfield Railway, &c. &c.
Newton Crouch, Esq., 13, Southampton-place, Euston-square, Di-
rector of the 3larritius, and the York and Lancaster Railways
Thomas Fer.and Deer-den, Esq., Rochdale, Director of the Stafford-
shire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railway
Peregrine Royds Dearden, Esq., Birkenhead, Liverpool
J. W. De Wolf, Esq., Liverpool
Miles Dormer, Esq., Hans-place, Sloane-street, Director of the
Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway
Richard Davis, Esq., Knaresborough, Director of the Wilts, Somerset,
and Southampton Railway
Colonel Lothian Sheffield Dickson, Curzon-street, May-fair, Director
of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway
John Edwards, Esq., Chester, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway, the York and Lancaster, Staffordshire Potteries,
and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways
J. D. Ewes, Esq., Knareshorough
Benjamin Smart Fowler, Esq., Airier House, near Tamworth, Diree
tor of the Leicester and Northampton Railway.
The llev. H. H. Fowler, 7, Manchester-square, Director of the Soutl
Midland Railway
The lion. Percy Evans Freke, Belgrave-square, Director of the.
Bandon and Bantry Railway
William Garrow, Esq., Great George's-square, Liverpool, Director of
the Eastern Counties and Southend Junction Railway
William Gibb, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Staffordshire
Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railway
Joseph Gillham, Esq., Hargreaves-house, Oldham, Director of the
Staffordshire Potteries, and Huddersfield, and East and West
Coasts Railways
Captain Twisleton Graves, Director of the Leicester and Teals anti
Dov 3 Valley Railway
Charles Haigh, Esq., Broadley Wood, Rochdale and Manchester,
Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
F. W. Hamilton Esq., 59, Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director
of the Brighton anti Cheltenham Railway
John Lawrence Hares, Esq., 4, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry,
Director of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway
John George Hammock, Esq., Essex-house, pow-road, Director to
the Direct Western Railway
john Ilawkins. Esq., St. James's-place, New-cross
Theophilus Hodges, Esq., Connaught-terrace, Hyde Park, Director o:
the London, Hounslow, and Western Railway
John Milord, Esq., Rusholm-hall, Manchester, Director of Reming•
ton's Direct London and Manchester Railway
Charles Holland, Esq., of Liscard Vale, Cheshire, ani Liverpool
John Holmes, Esq., St. James's-street, Westminster, Director uf tle
Eastern Counties Junction and Southend, and the Direct Western
Railways
George Belt, Esq , Willow-hill, Crumnsall, Director of the Stafford,
shire Potteries, and Livernool and Manchester Direct Railway
Joseph Hopeood, Esq., Exeter, Director of the East and Wcst e
England Junction, Direct 'Western, and Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate Itailweys
Ariderly Howard, Esq., Long Sutton, Wisbeach, Director of the East
Coast, and Direct 'Western Railways
William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid-
land Railway
Herbert Ingram, Esq., Director of the Eastern Counties Junctior
and Southend Railway
John Charles Jack, Esq., Liverpool
Sir William Bacon Johnston. Part.
Charles Justice, Esq., Collumpton, Devon, Director of the Direct
Western Railway
Richard Keily, Esq., Cleveland-row, St. James's, Chairman of es,
New Voss, Carlow, end Kilkenny Railway
Thome; Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South and
Midlands Junction Railway
William Kempe, Esq., Teign Villa, Teignmouth, Director of tie
Eastern Co .nties .Junction Railway, and the Leeds, Fleetwood,
and Liverpool Railway
Thomas Kidley, Esq. M.D. Sheffield, director of the Eastern COW:-
ties and Southend Junction and Direct Western Railways
George Lawrie, Esq. Manchester, director of the Eastern Counties
Junction and Southend Railway
Peter Thomas Legh, Esq., Ridge-hall, county Dublin, T,irector of the
isle of Men Railway
William Melville Lomas. Fsq. Liverpool, director of the Lancashire,
Cheshire and Staffordshire Junction Railway.
John Lord, Esq. Standish Hall, Lancashire, director of the Stafford-
shire Potteries, the Liverpool and Manchester Direct, and Lance-
shire, Cheshire and Stafford Junction Railways.
.James Macmillan, Esq., Southampton, Director of the 'Worcester,
Warwick, and Rugby Railway
A. M. Macmorem, Esq., Cambridge-street, Hyde-park, Director of the
East and \Vest Junction Railway
Major-General Sir Love Parry, Marlyn, Carnarvonshire Director of
the North Wales Railway.
Thomas Maier, jun , Esq., Leicester, Director of the Direct Western
Railway
Edward Norris, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Direct Western
Railway
James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Marlborough-square, Manchester,-director
of the Chester and Manchester Direct, and Direct Westereeßail-
ways
Nathaniel Ogle, Esq., Heath-lane-lodge, Twickenham, Director of
the York and Lancaster Railway
John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge Terrace, Hyde Park, Di-
rector of the Direc' Western W ilevay
Richard William Perry, Esq., Barham Wood, near Elstree, alerts
William S. Potter, Esq., Susses-ga-dens, Hyde-park, Director of the
Oxford, Witnev, and Cheltenham Ratway
Frederick Ramsdell, Esq., Seymour House, .Old Strofford, Manches
ter, Director of the Staffordshire Potterlss, and the Liverpool.
Preston, and North Union Railways
Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester, Chairman of the Birkenlien,7
and Holyhead Junction, and Director of the Sheffield and Man-
chester Railway, &c.
J. Reeinald Riddell, Esq., Bycullah-house, Enfield, Director of the
Direct Western Railway
James Renshaw, Esq., West Heath House, Kent, Director of the
Direct Western, and South Staffordshire Junction Railways
R. A. Riddell, Esq., Director of tile Great Western Extensioilltailway
A. Macdonald Ritchie, Esq., `diddle Temple, London, Director of the
Eastern Counties Janction and Southend Railway
Richard Rowe, Esq., Beauvoir-terrace, Maids Vale
Hertley Sager, Esq., Ball Grove,- Colne, Director of the East Lan-
e 'shire and Ai dale Junction Railway.
William Sidebotham, Esq-, Glossop, :LP. for Derbyshire, Director of
the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
James Shaw, Esq., Salford, Director of the Manchester and Rugby
Direct Railway
Edward Smith, Esq., Bernsbury Park, Director of the Great Eastern
and Western Railway
William atiniley, Esq., North Brixton, Director of the Leeds anal
Carlisle Railway
Henry Taylor, Esq, Wigan, Director of the Liverpool cud Leed,
Direct, the Liverpool. Preston, and North Union aed Oxford, Chet.
tenhana and London Railways
Joseph Taylor, Esq., Clernents-lane
John Thompson, Esq., Wigan, Director of the Birkenhead and Ho-
lyhead, Manchester and Wigan, and Liverpool, Preston, and Nortl
Union Railways
Joseph Thompson, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton Rages-a,
Charles F. Thornley, Req., Eastfield House, Westbury, near Bristol
Director of the Leeds and Carlisle, and Manchester, Settle, ant
Car isle Railways
Thomas Tebleitt, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
Edward Trelfall, Manchester, Director of the Eastern Counties June
than and Southend Railway
Sir William Twisden, Part., Cavendish-street, Cavendish-square
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Leeds and Carlisle
Railway, 'nd Director of the Commercial Bank of London.
George Walker, Esq., Manchester
S. P. Ward, Esq., Itirken cad, Director of the Eastern Counties
Junction and Southend Railway
William Ayscough Wilkinson, Esq., Woodbury DOWILS, DL-ector of
the Wavency Valley Railway
Robert Wynne Williams, Esq., 29, Bedford-place, Russell-square
Thomas Wynne, Esq., Lorton, Staffordshire, Director of the Leeds
and Carlisle, and South Union and Birmingham Junction Railways
Sir William Wynne, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, Chairman of the North
Wales Rit'lway,
Pierce Somerset Butler, Esq., M.P., Director of the York and Lan
caster Railway
Edward Scud, Esq, Kew-green
Sampson Bridgwood, Esq., Loughton
Charles James Mason Esq.. Fenton
James Glover, Esq., Loughton, Director of the South Union and Bir-
mingham Junction Railway
John Pratt, jun., Esq., Fenton
William Marriott, Esq., Ottercliffe- terrace, Director of the Direct
Western and the Isle of Ely, and Wisbeach and Lincolnshire
Junction Railway
W. H. Colles, Esq., Handsworth, Staffordshire, Director of the South
Staffordshire Junction Railway
William Holiday, Esq., Chad-Valley, Edgbaston, Director of the Direct
Western Railway
Thomas Upfill, Esq., Edgbaston, Director of the Wolverhampton,
Birkenhead and Chester Railway
Thomas laoliman Upfill, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Bristol
and Dover Railway
C. 11. Jaeger, Esq., Handsworth, Director of the Great Western,
Southern and Eastern Counties, and Ipswich and Southampton
Railway
Richard Mortimore, Esq., Callumpton, Director of the Direct Western
Railway
Edward Westlake, Esq., Southampton, Director ofthe Direct Wester)]
Railway
John Robson, Esq., Stettonle-Hole, Durham, Director of the Direct
Western Railway
Henry S. Bright, Esq , Hull, Director of the Durham and Sunderland
and Direct Western Railway
Robert Cook, Esq., Gulsborough, Director of the Direct Western
Railway
C. J. Selwyn, Major Royal Engineers, Directorof the Direct Western
Railway
George Sercombe, Esq., Exeter, Director of the Direct Western
Railway
(With power to add to their number).
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.

AID 4
'
,EICESTER and BIRMINGHAM Otero
LA WAY, with a Branch from Nuneaton to CorentrY•

Aae )
(Provisionally Registered, 10th April, I$45J „hotel*
;11.111LES HOLTE BRACEBRIDGE, Esq., The Hal ••°""
Chairman.
W. CHANCE, Esq., Birmingham, Deputy Challino•
ter
Che Mayor of Birmingham worcei
itichard Spooner, Esq., M.P. for Birmingham, Briclitield
l'homas Macaulay, Esq., Leicester r
Air W. Hyde Pearson, Knight, F.R.S., Hanover-square, oti 0n
tleori • Attwood, Esq., The Laurels, Edgbaston, Blriningbnoio
. Pearson, Esq., 5, Gloucester-terrace, Regent's Fat'
J. G. Norbury, Esq., Mancetter House, Atherstone
4. li sines, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbaston, Birmingham
T. T rearly Payn, Esq., Birmingham • bllO
ward Middleton, Esq., Chad-road; Edgbaston, Birm
illiam Freer, Esq., Atherstone
. W. Wollaston, Esq., Shelton-hall, Hinckley
F. Wollaston, Esq., Sheepy, Atherstone
B. North Arnold, Esq., M.D., Atherstone
W. Chance, jun., Esq., Birmingham
J. Wilkes Unett, Esq., Birmingham
George Turner, Esq., Birmingham Cire4l
Thomas Davies, Birmingham
HF. Hunter, Esq., Kilburn-hall, Derbyshire, diractOr of 'he
Grimsby, Gainsborough, and Derby Railways
William Lucy, Esq., Birmingham Tre"t
John Davis, Esq., M.D., Coleshill Cie
K. Gardner, Esq., Cha.sley-hall, Manchester, director of
Valley Railway pily
Henry Tootal, Esq., Manchester, director of the Trent V3llcairect°r
K. C. Sharp, Esq., Brainshallhall, Stockport, Chesbire, ved•
the North
Thomas CritchleyStaffo, rdsre Railcheyter, director of the Sorwa 01 Si°
Esq ki
~ Mans
shire Railway f Ch
Tames Walkinshaw, Esq., Old Park, Isle of Wight, Mut
of the Manchester and Southampton Railway
The Hon. M. W. Nugent, Higham Grange, near Hines
Kirkley Fenton, Esq., Caldecote-hall, near Nuneaton
_no.
Wm. Atkinson Gardner, Esq., 4, Cecil-street, Strand, I••°

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
C. Ilolte Bracebridge, Esq., Chairman
W. Chance, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. „.
~itoW. H. Pearson, Knt., F.R.S. Samuel Haines.,
J. G. Norbury, Esq. Edward Middleton,
Thos. Macaulay, Esq. W. A. Gardner, V 41•01.
F. Wollaston, Esq. John Brearly
Tas. Walkinshaw, Esq. W. W. Pearson,
.1. Tootal, Esq.
ENGINEER—CharIes Esq., -•-• •
SOLICITOR—S. S. Baxter, ESQ.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Leicester—Messrs. Toiler
Hinckley—Messrs. Smith and Pilgrlnt
Nuneaton—Messrs. John and George Cr°
,14
Coventry Dwes and Son
Birmingham —Messrs.
—Messrs. e
Spencer and Rollins_:. otiP;;A
The Committee of Management have the pleasure conlf',lo;
to the shareholders that the surveys are on the 00;°r, VW"
that the line, as chosen by the!r eminent engineer, one
reported by him to be the best and shortest practicable eer:
Leicester a Birmingham. Pr':;r6
The wholend scheme will be perfected in 11111 time v-e
with on the meeting of Parliament ; and the ine„iitte'
ments now being made aro such as warrant the Colu'itiere
lidently stating that the expectations of the shareh°
fully realised in the success of the line. wetle.
By order, rV.L,
EDWARD DAN.-
41, Chancery-lane, Oct. 10, 1_845

IALLIIS, DUNKIRK, and BRIIGIA,;psor 4
X.} 'NON BAILWIY, connecting the lines sires....
betv een Bruges, Ghent, Brussels, Malines, and Antrl3o, Sir
tal 18,750,000 francs, or 750,0001. sterling, II 3'
201. each.
Deposit 21. per share.

DIRECTORS. (11
FRENCH AND BELGIAN. i
tiel
o'oo
M. Comte Friant, General et Aide-de-Camp du 1.10. stge
11. le Baron de Clarac, Proprietaire, Ancien Otlic'ede Fsr dr
Cavalerie, Secretaire et Administrateur du Chemin 6co
A Nantes tS fel
.1,00
M. Cordier, Depute. Inspecteur Divisionnaire des on de
sees, President du Conseil d'Administration du cm
00
Cherbourg cir„r
M. Antonio de Serradilla, Colonel d'Etat-Major Stn-, Cdp
31. N. T. Micard, Administrateur du Chemin de re „opti
M. CoMn Lefebre, Ingeneur Civil, Entrepeneur des ,010
sees du Gouvernement w „ DP'
M. P. J. Wayez, Governeur do la Province de Ilailla"
M. Femmennan, Brussels
31. J. B. Thibon, Brussels.

PI,"
ENGLISH. Ilijr ',"
ate, Ar,',l
Major-General Brooks Parbley, C. 8., Hi, Rutland-g otob As
William Ormsby Gore, M.P., Chairman of the Stir, 66, ' on
verhampton, Dudley, and Birmingham Raißea), ter.l.
place, and Portlington-hall, Oswestry, Salop stow ar 40 ci
William Bradley, Esq., Director of the Sheffield, As" fie jc,
and Manchester Railway Alcift °
William Hughes Hughes, Esq.,;',J, sn ~,
London, Chairman of the Manchester and Birkea-. d IT
~
and Greenwich Railways, Brunswick-square ~ silt' 0
, 4, c te
Thomas Sidney-, Esq., Alderman of London, aue - rof
and Middlesex, Leyto, Essex Asset, sof
Captain Thornhill Warrinngton, 66, Upper BerkeleY ' 0'
square Log°l ..1
James Reeves, Esq., Layton, Essex, Director of the V
chester Railway Y.
OP ,
William Petrie, Esq , King-street, Portman-square t ir, P''
John Inglis Jerdien, Esq., Director of the Mancllste;yo
Southampton Railway, No. 2, Adams-court,
lola '
Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of tile Birminglutiu es
way, 1, Princes-street, Bank he )• Ct
(With power to add to their mini- r cot/
BANEER3 IN ERANCE• cpito L
Rent .- Pt,
BANKERS IN BELGIUM—Messrs. Prosper et Rea pill," al,
BANKERS IN ENGLAND---The London Joint Stott, oil or
CONSULTING ENGINEER—Sir John Alacneil, LL.P• tot
ENGINEER—WiIIiam Sluilingar Higgins, Esq. , 13,
SsoEr..,ateEtTgAo:sr—_Messrs. CEoslgliygridgea , ,aer 4
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COMPANY'S OFFICES-37, Meorgate -street t.
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This Company hai heels fo.med for the purpose pe-,all cr to
railway cominte,icat'o. between Calais and Bruge:', 31 ti,,,,et
Important districts o. France and Be Isiutu contaia'l; e!recte:ter
sbove 600,000 inhabitants, and forming a illaetWot di otr
Railway at Bruges, which has now become the ll'ote e° iit,lll
the interior of Belgium, Germany, Prussia, an posSi 001
of the Irsnell frontier. r ibis Vl.' Sant lido'
In laying be:ore the public the prospectus 0.
~
..,,,,seso, V-cift ,
may be mentioned as one of its principal ad,•l". 00,sele 4lO
restuce the passage from London to Itrusseravorieg,esed
twenty-four or twenty-six hours, under the ire el.; rsoo',,, to ;or(
stances, and often thirty or forty, to twelve hoar;' :ii ,•See of/
tleable to make the journey with ease in one da)',erta'o,cl,,4
of the present expense. The long, tedious, one 11.° , te,,sis ii,l
will also be avoided from Dover to Ostend, w!de!",,, e>o. 4 le
rally, awl particulally to ladies and invallti!':floce rs',4o.n,
agreeable, and often attended wf h serious c as`',tooe'ri Ord,,,e' i'
It can hardly admit of a question, that tile Le ye. ~f,,,t,e._so
passenger traffic between the two capitals, Loo°;s' eitie: ~,se't ,11;1,
gether with the passenger traffic of tile polni.l;;e4,pls ' 001,01!,Ire
and Ghent, the latter being the Manchester 01 ....,,il Pe1,,,,r0) 040
portant towns of St. Nicholar and Tierlaiond. :00,srlo'-‘lol,ltrece,„l,
circumstances, drawn into this channel ; and :mile C°lAdooo,lce
vantage to the public, and source of revenue t,,,1,Aih_,,,4 t,,,,0 ,ies
found in the transmission of the Belgie.n. c.roe 0 lwroaot,l49
mails, which are now conveyed
and
stetuneres' less cti- call ..:i
at a very considerable exsense, and with Moeeas o
vir
peffition than if traesmitted to Calais, a sea Pas . A9l
and usuallY made in two hours. s e“ fr
. stilt-
,t _tit ~
The traffic and expenditure may be fairly `,,. tte`el', o„
From 50,000 passengers who, according' to :„.it tile.,e r,:S•.
turns from Ostend and Antwerp, annually N. 1,, oe a
~:; Ifos
milt and return by this route, say, from e n .• ••00 e11,',7
rage, 10s. each way •/... • • • • .• • • • • • • • • ~ °over ...• .Aea
For the transport of mails from the respecti,
.... 009,
Local traffic in goods and passengers • • • • • • • . •
Atii,
ea At ' poio,
eulet e I
Deduct the expenses of working tile line, cal ro, °
~,,e, so co
rets oleo
the 'lilt 11''„dler .i
Thus leaving a profit of 10% per csnt. to,
~,,,j). t eve
.00,1
every p-ospect of a considerable increase a1_14"0,, all ieSe.,ol,
has been by experience proved topah,,es.tiltie roeo7,ptrisce.,se.:oten'iio;lo',,:::
in operation in Belgium, as well as otherr eu,,,01 3 penitiaooooli,
The projected railroad would
of country rich in agricultural produstion!,,
requa,, tintt, e r
.„
impediments to its construction, and Woa_rlai wouldu7steteo,vole:,,
nor viaducts ; and the only bridges neeessa.o
_,ii be , 0
..,0,,.1
of a few dykes. Thus the construction Is
)',..ite,), 02001o:10 *;o'
e°m2..4sn tl2, II `.., to' -I.
heavy expense, and its working, when
nomical character; for, as experience has -I,',`,' of co,_`;,, sr) ,eoi,:t
able item iu working a railway is the sitTi'rlf,, ~,,elw
~,atg,7,,,,,')
tiresproximity to the port of I), ,1,„ _ sa Poilito'v?
the Belgian cual fields, obviate this diffic.o,lyinedlo?e eir4,10140,.,
This line, which has been already t55.,.',.„,,0, o‘._, bre„..o, 417,4
neer, will be about sixty miles in extent
_7,f" cal 001;:t40;a0
other; will connect in its route the te,Y1.15
,ort, 6". la Pi to, r 001
Dunkirk. in France, with Furness, I-1_131,001,,,,,rjet ~,,i,,,,
glum thus securing a very importairitire` „owe .'• ripeldil,re;
seng•rs, inepeudent of the foreign t m
the
Arrangements possibilityi of
areits phrt,yp- i
progress
rheesysoan
the highest influence both in Belgitun an 3,.0.,,,,tent5,.„00cf,,1, iee'ref eel.)
consent of the Belgian and Freach Gt_ to 001;4 et"sse soft „toi
:li ; „lePePt°,l°' ttr led! (I ts;;C:ocil 1001
and as it is so obviously advantagoo b"ri„ging i` digoro.ert9
to encourage the formation of a
iu hoe'
line,• ten 'De f 0 &lel
capitals as Brussels and London wit 141) ,
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other, and the intention of the latter teoslitc, e
Woo,l.'oo' odpi
idiZenti_loo,iii
continuous line of railway raund the . , ral al tr, e
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France, and ...• cal, .Da if
by the Directors in Belgium, Fre eoce se) se,
proving successful. . , te is,tlrese ca e•
~ to ~,
, 004
will be returned, with the excee . tio'i '
.4
nitea • off.
exceeding five shillings. , s of tiP. licit or
In the event of the applicationstpieruoveira
Application for prospectuses ,
0 of t tii
fir•
at the Company's offices, and th . ruu
brokers :--- Of r:.
London
; and to the folloveingrod.strect god g
and font, cl:, so
London—Messrs. Peppercornesß
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Manchester—Messrs. Cardwell an.
Lockwood
Mien
Bristol—Messrs. Edit-2..1'4s and :
Soria $.4,
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Liverpool—Messrs. T. Coglan And
starve'
Leeds —Thomas M. Lee, Esq.,
Bell and Ledger
Hull—Mes rs. Flint and Vote'
Exeter—Thomas Sandford, Esq.
sa d rall'ier. a 01
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Plymouth—Mee rs• —a FOR
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To V..e Directors of the loilway.
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will allotsale wept e de e ph
Gentlemen—I request you u ,er -
t'a IC'to 01 itligrCe°
FOlOl OF API'LICATuiVri, 0113
each in th's Company, and 00
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less number that may he allo .. _ stiescreio .4.0 r
and I undertake also to execuitee t:sear, wn t-
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Benjamin Smart Fowler, Esq. William Kempe, Esq.
The Rev. 11. It Fowler, It. A. Esq.
William Jan on, Esq. Henry Taylor, Esq.
Capt. Twirsleton Groves J. Underwood, Esq.
John Holmes, Esq. II . A. Wilkinson, Esq.
Richard Kelly, Esq. Thomas Wynne, Esq.
(With power to add to their number.)
CONSULTING ENGINEER—T. Urpeth Rastrick, Esq.
ACTING ENGINEER.—OIiver Byrne, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Elmslie anti Preston, Moorgate-street
J. E. Beaks, Esq., 7, John-street, Adelphi
William Burdett, Esq., Manchester.
Loam. AGENTS.—Messrs. Christian and Jones, Liverpool.
BANKERS.
London—The Commercial Bank of London
Manchester—The National Provincial Bank of England.
SECRETARY— netts. J. Kempe, Esq.
Company's Offices, Palace-chambers, St. James's.
This railway will Minn, as nearly as may he practicable, a direct
line from Reading, in Berkshire—one of the ost Important and
raaidly improving towns in the king,tom—to the large and populous
town of Northampton, where it will form a junction with the
Northampton and Peterborough Railway
The line will proceed fromathe Reading station of the Great Western
Railway, and by the way of Henleyon-Thames, Great Mar ow,
West Wycombe, Aylesbury, and Buckinaham, through some of the
'richest and most fertile districts of England, from whence vast
supplies of liv3 stock and agricultnral produce are constantly fur-
nished to the metropolis ; and from Buckingham it will be continued
direct to Blisworth and Northampton.
From Blisworth a line proceeds to Wellingborough, and forms a
junction with 'he Direct Manchester Italway ; and it is intended
that a branch shall he f)rmeti from West Wycombe to the station at
Shaigh, on the Great Western Railway
The proposed line with the branch will be about seventy-five miles
in length, and it has cu ascertained that it may be censtruated
with unusual facility, whilst, by mean, of the intended junctions with
the Great Western Railway at Slough and Reading, ith the London
and Birmingham Railway. at Blisworth, and the Direct Manchester
Railway at Wellingborough, au 'minter:noted a:al moat desira'.le
railway communication will be opened between Portsmouth, tins-
port, the Isle of Wight. Southampton, •Bedford, Huntingdon, the
StatlordAh,re Pottaties, Birmingltain, Derlay,..Leicesaar, Manchester,
Liverpool, Leads, Newcastle and Berwlek, Anil-with the great manu-
facturing and minima districts of the north of England.
The numerous parishes and districts which will be traversed by the
line comprise a population of nearly 1,500,000 persons, and passing,
as it will, a portion of the couutios of Berle and Oxford, the whole

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