The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING,_OCTOBER 14,_1845.

the adjacent lines, which fact, with particulars, must be stated to
their applications.
Appl!cal;on for shar::,,F, may be made in the usual form, to the Se-
cretary ; solicit( r,; Messrs. Thompson and D.lamham.
London, and to the local agents, and the follow hlg krokers : --London,
Taunton and Bush. Austin-friars ; Mr. H. Pritae,t, 74, Old Broad-
street ; and Monday, 17, Royal Exchange (eas-mt entr nee) .
Mess, s. Price nod Brown, Change-alley. Sheffield —George Eadon,
jun. Manchester-- Messrs. Hope and Rostrum. Liverp,:ol --Mcs•rs.
Schultz and Carr; Messrs. Stubbs Brothers. Lees—Messrs. Pith-
dale, Myers, and Bidsdale, Teale and Burton. Hull—Mess:-9. Wil-
kinson and Earl. Wakefield—Messrs. Ridsciale and Rogers; Not-
tingham —Mr. Wakefield ; Pontefract—Mr. rrith ; and Edinburgh.
Messrs. John Robertson and Co., and Messrs. Pillans and Horns.

PONTEFRACT, WORKSOP, and MANS-
FIELD JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby giver, that no further Applications for Shares in
this Company will be received after SATURDAY, the 18th inst. ; and
that no attention can be paid to any which are not accompanied by a
reference to Bankers, members of the Committee, or the Solicitors
and Agents to the undertaking
J. N. SPELLEN, Hon. Sec.
1, Royal Exchange-buildings, Oct. 13.

PONTEFRACT, DONCASTER, WORKSOP
and MANSFIELD JUNCTION RAILWAY

TO SURVEYORS,

A liberal remuneration wig be given to competent Surveyors wil
ling to be mph), ed on the surv2y of this line. Immediate applicatioi
to be made to the Secretary, at the offices, 1, Royal Exchange. imiki
ing,, London, or at the offices of Messrs. Unwin and Mickly, Soilci
tors, Sheffield.

PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT

MITIDLAIk.TD JUNCTION RAILWAY.
From Nottinotpr, to Syston

(Provisionally Registered.)

A prospectus, NN nth the names of a most influential Committee, and
other details, will appear in a few days. The line will connect the
Poidefract, Donea,ter, Worksop, and Mausfield Junction with the
South Midland Railway.

SOLICITORS.
William Unwin, Esq. sheß„id
William Maley, Esq.
_S "•s- •
LONDON AGENTS—MCSSTS. Thompson and Debenham, Salters'-hall,

St. Swithin's-lane.

6,7IHEFFIELD, WEST RIDING, AND MID-
LANDS JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Prospectuses and plans, with forms of application, are new ready
for dace' y at the Offices of the Company, 11, Sergeant's Inn, Fleet
street, London.

k 1 BEAT ALUNSTER RAILWAY, direct from
Jr Dublin to Limerick, Tarbert, and Tralee, with a branch to
Rathkeale and Newcastle.
At a public meeting of the landowners and inhabitants of the
town of ltoscrea and its vicinity, convened on a requisition, most re-
speetal,ly signed, by the High Sheriff of the county, to take Imo
consideration the merits of the proposed Great Munster lhdlway,
and held at the Court House, Roscrea, on Saturday, the 11th Octo-
ber, 1845,
The Hon. F. A. PRITTIE, P.L. and C K. in the Chair,
_ .

On the motidn of JAMES F. ROLLESTON, Esq., D.L., of Frankfort
Castle, seconded by GEORGE GARVEY, Esq., of Thornvale :
Resolved—That this meeting contemplates with satisfaction the
well-directed efforts which capitalists are now making to extend to
Ireland the benefits of railway communication.
On the motion of the Very Iler. 'faunas BLARE, Roserea ; seconded
by JOSEPH GRIFFITH, Esq., Ashmear
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Resolved—That a direct railway front Dublin through this town,
and the important town of Nenagh, to Limerick, Tarbert, and Tralee,
is indispensably necessary to the prosperity of the North Riding of
Tipperary and the South-west of Ireland.
On the motion of GEORGE MINCUIN, Esq., J.P. Burcherstoxvn ; se-
conded by GEORGE Bram, Esq., Monalinchla :
Resolved—That inasmuch as the Great Munster Railway will
afford this accommodation in the most complete and efficient man-
ner, and as it has been the first direct line presented to our wtice, it
is entitled t,) our wannest approbation and support.
On the motion of Mr: JOHN CROTTY, Roscrea ; seconded by JACKSON

HONE, Esq., of Old Ca,tle :
Resolved—That a petition be presented to the House of Commons
embodying the fbrego.ng, resolutions.
On the motion lof R. ELY, Esq., Ballaghmore ; seconded by HENRY

Smrrn, Esq., Clareen

Resolved—That the Right llonourable G. L. D. Darner, M.P., be
requested to present the petition, and that the lion. Colonel West-
enra, M.P., be requested to support the same.
(Signed) F. A. PRITTIE, Chairman.
The Hon. F. A. Prittie having quitted the chair, the Hon. Colonel
Wcstenra was called thereto, when,
On the motion of JAMES F. ROLLESTON, Esq. ; seconded by the Right

Hon. Colonel D. DA:win :

Resolved—Tiaat the thanks of this meeting be given to the Chair-
man for his able, gentlemanly, and impartial conduct in the chair.
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THE BIRMINGHAM, NOTTINGHAM
GAINSBOROUGH, AND HULL RAILWAY.
Capital 1,200,0001., in 60,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21.25. per Share.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Viet., Cap. 110.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Combermere
The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Ingestrie,
The Right Hon. Lord Charles Beauclerk, Chesham-plao, Malgrare-

square
The Right Hon. Lord Thomas Pelham Clinton
The Right Hon. Lord E Chichester
The Right Hon. Lord Stephen Chichester
The Right Hon. George R. Dawson
The Hon. Frederick Byron
The Hon. Captain Percy Evans Freke, 3, Belgrave-square
The Hon. Cecil Lawless
Sir James D. 11. Hay, Bart., Rose Croft, Surrey
Sir William Lowthorp, Hull
William R. Collett, Esq., M.P.
Thomas Bateson, Esq., M.P.
George Frederick Muntz, Esq., M.P.
W. H. Allen, Esq., Leadenhall-street
John .Aston, Esq , Birmingham
Joseph Ayre, Esq., Hull
Frederick Pratt Barlow, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway
James Beech, Esq., Brandon-lodge, Warwick
John Bloore, l sq., Tuthury, Staffordshire
Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Esq., Beesthorpe-hall, Notts
William Broaks, Esq., Cork •street, Burlington-gardens
Major Frederick Brownlow, United Service Club
William Chance, jun., Esq., merchant, Birmingham
Robert Chapman, Esq., Director of the Cambrian and Grand Junc-
tion Railway
George A. Hamilton Chichester, Esq., Chesent-Place, Belgrave-

square
Frederick Clarkson, Esq., Doetors'-commons
Henry Crane, F,sq., Wolverhampton
Anthony Dickson, Esq., Edrington-house, Berwickshire
Henry B. Downman, Esq., Director of the Cambiran and Grand

—lCli'iction Railway
Duncan Dunbar, Esq., East India-read, Director of the London
Dock Company
Henry Jelin Enthoven, Esq., Director of the Dutch Rhenish Railway
Benjamht Franklin, Esq., Harley-street, Cavendish-square
Thomas Hartshorne, Esq., Silkmoor•house, Stafford
Charles James Heath, Esq., London
Frazer B. Renshaw, Esq., Director of tke Great Manchester and

Southampton Railway
James Peard Esq., Seaton Ironworks, Whitehaven
Samuel Wilfred Lucas, Esq., Sandhill-hol,se, Birmingham, Director

of the Birmingham and Leicester Railway
William Mathews, Esq., Edgbaston and Corhyns-hall Ironworks,
Director of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway
Thomas Hackett Hassey, Esq., Oxford-sq• are
Robert Marsden Massey, Esq., Oxford-square
David Montague, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester and South-

ampton Railway
William Morgan, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Gloucester

Railway
W. E. Mousley, Esq., Lincoln's Inn and Derby
P. 11. Muniz, Esq., Director of the South Staffordshire and Oxford,
Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railways
Francis Parker, Esq., Manchester
Archibald F. Paull, Esq , Director of the South Wales Railway
William Watson Prole, Req., Thurlow-square, Brompton, Director of
the Grand Junction and Midlands Unien Railway
John Gibson Reeves, Esq., Birmingham
Theophilus Richards, Esq., Birmingham
Frederick Ricketts, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway
John Shaw, ESq., Wolverhampton
Charles Shaw, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Direct Birmingham
and Leicester Railway, and Director of the Oxford, Worcester,
and Wolverhampton Railway
James Sutton, Esq., Shartilow-hall, Derbyshire
Henry Symonds, Esq., D rector of the Great Western Railway
Thomas Timmins, Esq., Wolverhampton
Charles Augustus ulk, Esq., Totteridge-park, Hants
Samuel Walker, Esq., Ablow-house, Wolverhampton, Director of
the South Staffordshire Junction Railway
William Watson, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Exeter Railway
John Webster, Esq., 35, Mecklenburgh-square, Director of the
Great Grimsby and Lincoln Railway
Henry Wright, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and
Southampton Railway
Thomas Nuout Vaughan, Esq., Chilton-hall, Suffolk, and 32
Grosvenor-place
(Wills power to add to their number).
SOLICITORS. _

Messrs. Edwards, Mason, and Edwards, 8, Moorgate-street, and De-
lahay-street, Westminster ; .d
Messrs. Motteram and Knowles, Birmingham.
ENGINEER IN CHIEF—Sir John Rennie, F.R.S.
ACTING ENGINEER—W. IL Purdon, Esq.
BANKERS.
Tch Commercial Bank of London ; and
The Birmingham Banking Company.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Nottingham—Samuel Maples. Esq.
Burton-upon •Trent—
SECRETARY—Mr. Edward Hart Hart.
OFFICES—NO. I, Royal Exchange-buildings, London;
36, Upper Temple street, Birmingham.
It is proposed by this Company to establish a direct line of commu-
nication between Birmingham, Nottingham, Gainsborough, and Hull,
at the smallest outlay of capital, and with the least possible injury to
existing interests. To effect this object, use will be made of existing
or projected lines, as far as practicable, and the chain of communica-
tion will he completed by throwing out new lines, where requisite.
Commencing at Birmingham, it is proposed to use the Birmingham
and Derby Railway as far as Whitacre, whence a new line, about 29
miles in length, will he made, passing through Ashby-de-la-Zouch and
Castle Donnington, to the Long Eaton or Sawley Station on the Mid-
land Counties Railway
'I he communication being thus perfect to Nottingham, it will be
carried forward as far as Gainsborough, either by the proposed Not-
tingham and Gainsborough Railway, or by a line springing out of the
line from Nottingham to Lincoln. for which an Act was obtained by
the Midland Counties Company during the last session of Parliament.
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
Direct line from Birmingham to Nottingham,
Birmingham to Gainsborough,
and from Birmingham to II1111;
and by meaoa of the proposed South Staffordshire Junction Railway,
and the intended extension to Ashby-de-la-Zouch, a direct line from
Wolverhampton to Nottingham, and the other towns already enu-
merated.
The support of several companies will he enlisted in favour of the
lice. 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 progress, the lime required for the completion of this
great national undertaking will be materially shortened.
Independently of the advantages to be derived by a direct eamtriu-
• 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-
burgh, the German States., and the North of Europe ; and from the
conveyance of merchandise, agricultural produce, and cattle from the
Southern, western. and midland counties.
A preference will be given in the allotment 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 flair
per cent. from the time of payment upon each call until the opening.
of the line.
No applications will he attended to without a reference to a
member of tbe Committee, a banker, or the solicitors to this Company.
The Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contract must lie
executed when the hankers' receipts 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 had of the Solicit°. s, and of the following Stock and Sharcbrckers,
viz.:—Messrs. Wells. Westropp, and Prinsep, 75, Old Broad-street ;
Mr. H. Pritchett, 1, Royal Exchange-buildings; Messrs. Ilitchins and
Harrison, 18, Threldneedie-street ; and Messrs. Peppercorns and Son,
2, Old Broad-street, London ; Messrs. Gardiner and Heap, Charles
M. Williams, and Messrs. Bradley, Peril, and Parker, Manchester;
Messrs. Watson and Co., and Mr. Samuel Phillips, Hull ; Messrs.
Davies and Son, Liverpool ;Messrs. Ridsdale, Myers, and Co., Leeds;
Messrs. Earp and Son, Derby; Messrs. Pott and Levick, Notting-
ham ; Messrs. Wreford, Nicholls, and Wreford, Bristol ; Mr. Coils,
and Mr. James Robinson Lane, Birmingham.

-vrowrn AM PTON, LINCOLN, and HULL
RAILWAY, commencing at Northampton, and proceeding
by way of Kettering, Uppingham, Oa ham, Grantham, on to Lin-
cahl, with two extensions from that city—one to the port of Gains-
borough, and the other to Market Raisen and the rising and im-
portant port of Great Grimsby.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 2,000,000/., in 100,000 Shares of 207. each. -
Deposit 2/. 2s. per bare.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Admiral Ayscough, Southampton
J. R. W. Atkinson, Esq., Elmwood-house, Leeds, Director of the Lei-
cester and Bedford Railway Company
Mr. Jcccph Aduitt, merchant, Northampton
Francis :Amesliott, Esq., Nottingham
Thomas J. Arnold, Esq., Revising Barrister for the City of London
Sir Arthur de Capel Broke, Bart., Oakley-hall, near Kettering
Robert M. Bates, Esq., banker, Strand
Charles Bolk Bracebridge, Esq., Atherstone-hall, Warwickshire
Robert Bell, Esq., Manor. house, Chiswick
Samuel Ellis Bri.:towe, Esq., Beesthorpe-hall, Newark
John Richards Burbidge, Esq., Surbiton-hill, Surrey
John Brightman, Esq., Regency-square, Brighton
Mr. Alderman Brooks, Manchester
C. Buschek, Esq., merchant, 133, Fenchurch-street, London
Jonathan Burton, Esq., Nottingham, Director
.ef the Grand Union

and Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway Companies
George Buxton, Esq., Northampton
J. 1). Barry, Esq., London and Paris, Director of the Orleans, Tours,

and Bordeaux Railway Company
Charles Britten, Esq., Northampton
Mr. Alderman Bean, Nottingham
John Bradley, Esq., the Park, Nottingham
Mr. Sergeant Clarke, Recorder of Northampton and Lincoln
Thomas Chitty, Esq., Upper Gower-street
Richard Carpenter, Esq., Lonsdale-square, London
Henry Coe Coale, Esq., Goldhangcr, Essex
Thomas Mortimer Cleoby, Esq., Acton, Middlecex
N. Crmi's Esq., York-terrace, Regent's-park
Mr. Edward Cotton, merchant, Northampton
J. M. Cottle, Esq., Leamington
Peter Coniston, jun., Esq., Husbands Bosworth, near Welford
liaLert Cook, Esq., Gainshorough, Lincolnshire
John Robert Dolby, Esq., 'AShbourne, Derbyshire
The Right Hon. George Lionel Dawson Darner, M.P., 6, Tilney-
stroei, Park lane
Hon. W. Dawson Darner, Parkstone lodge, Poole
Edmund F. Dayreil, Esq., Lillingstone Dayrell, High Sheriff of Bucks
John Eyston, Esq., Welford and Salford-hall, Warwickshire
Hon. Perry Evans Freke, 3, Belgrave-square
Benjamin Fowler, Esq., Tamworth, Director of the Northampton,
Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway Company
John Freeman, Esq., Director of the Northampton. Banbury, and
Cheltenhim Railway Company
William Gambier, Esq., Seacombe-park, Hertfordshire
Hon. Robert Gore, M.P., 21, Wilton-crescent
Major-General Greenstreet, Northampton
John Cooper Gotch, Esq., banker, Kettering
James Genion, E q., Conduit-street, Bond-street
Alexander Greig, Esq., Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square, London
Frederick William Green, Esq., shipowner, Cornhill, London
The Rev. George Edward Hamner, Rentor of Loddington and Over-
stone, Northamptonshire
Frederick William Hamilton, Esq.
Henry Hensman, Esq., Pytchley, Nor.hamptonshire
George Harper, Esq., Moss-dells, Salop
William Herbert, Esq., Nottingham
Thomas Hugger, Esq., Northampton, Director of the Northampton,
Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway CoMpany
Thomas Hopkins' Esq., Nottingham
Arthur Haymes, Esq., Methuen-villa, Leamington
John Hulbert Helbert, Esq., Upper Gloucester-place, London
Mr. William Higgins, merchant, Northampton
Edward Hall, Esq., West Bank-house, Macclesfield, Director of the
Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway Company
John Baron Horse, Esq., Lrthlingborough-grange, Northampton-
shire

Mr. Alderman Hells, Northampton
Richard Hopper, Esq., Upper Claptea, London, Director of the Direct
London and Manchester Railway Company
Hon. Edward Jerningham
Richard Parry Jones, Esq., Whitchurch, Salop
William Laycock, Esq., Fheffield, Director of the Nottingham and
Gainsborough, and rand Union Railway Companies
Sir Gregory A. Lewin, Recorder of Doncaster
F. Valentine Lee, Esq., Chester-terrace, Regent's-park, London,
Director of the Eastern Conties Railway Company
George Wortley Lovell, Esq., Great Billing, Northamptonshire
Charles Leavers, Esq., the Park, Nottin;ham
Major-General Mercer, C. 8., Queen Anne-street, Cavendish-square
Christopher Markham, Esq., Northampton
William Mackenzie, Esq , Liverpool and Paris, Director of the Or-
leans, Tours, and Bordeaux Railway. Company
James Morrison, Esq., St. Mar -at-hill, London
G. Marshall, Esq., Godalming, Surrey
E. W. Morris, Esq., Grovehurst, Pembury, Kent '
Major J. A. Moore, Queen Anne-street, Cavendish-square
George Murray, Esq., Chichester
Samuel Oxenham, Esq., Chester-terrace, Regent's-park, London
Sir George Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Hertz'
Sarawl Percival, Esq., banker, Northampton
Mr. Alderman Porter, Northampton •
The Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Lianrethel, Herefordshire
Edwin Pell, Esq., Sywell-hall, Northamptonshire
George Ryder Peppercorne, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex
Vaughan Prance, Esq., Nether Stowey,Somersetshire
Henry Fywell, Esq., Northampton
John Phipps, Esq., Northampton
Benjamin Payne, Esq., Leicester
The Lord Rossmore, the Dell, Windsor
Mr. George Rands, merchant, Nottingham
The Rev. John Lucas Sutton, Rector of Weekly, Northamptonshire
F. Curwen Smith, Esq., Frognall-hall, Hampstead
Thomas Sharp, Esq., Northampton, Director of the Northampton,
Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway Companies
Frederick Seymour, Esq., St. James's-square
G. W. Smith, Esq., Harbury-hall, Sheffield
William Spooner, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, London
James Robert Spiller, Esq., banker, Northampton
Archibald Douglis Stewart, Esq., Grantley Castle
William Strong, Esq., Northampton
Benjamin Williams, Esq., banker, 4, Whitehall, London
Major James Waller, St. James's-street
Mr. Alderman Williams, Northampton
Mr. Thomas Woodhouse, manufacturer, Nottingham
David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland-hollow, Derbyshire, Director of
filo Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway Company
George Willes, Esq., Hungerford, Bcrks
John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, Tunbridge, Kent, Director of

, .
the Leicester and Bedford Railway Company „
Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., Clopton-house, Stratford-on-Avon, and

Luton 800, Bedfordshire - -
The Rev. C. F. Watkins, Vicar of Brexworth, Northamptonshire
Mr. John Woolston, Jun., merchant, Wellinborough
Mr. Joseph Wykes, merchant, Northampton
Mr. Mannaduke Wetherell, merchant, Northampton
Charles Loxclale Warren, Esq., the Lodge, Market Drayton, and
Consall-hall, Staffordshire
Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. J. C. Westenra, M.P., Brooks's Club
Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Pall-mall, London
Allen Allicocke Young, Esq.. Orlingbury, Northamptonshire
T. Borwick Yzarn, Esq., Herne-bill, Surrey
Chadwick, William, Esq., Montague-square, Chairman of the Rich-

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mond Railway
Carlile, Thomas, Esq., banker, Hull
Digby, Thomas, Esq., banker, Hull
Sleight, Robert P., Esq., Hull
Atkinson, John, Esq., tx erchant, Hull
Bamford, Charles, jun., Esq., merchant, Hull
Bamford, Charles, Esq., merchant, Hull
Casey, William, Esq., merchant, Hull
Grutt, Thomas Charles, Esq., merchant, Hull
Garthorne, John, E q., merchant, Hull
Hammond, Charles, Esq., merchant, Hull
Hammond, Thomas Dowton, Esq., merchant, Hull
Hall, John, Esq., merchant, Hull
Hubbersty, Her•ry, Esq., merchant, Hull
Holmes, George, Esq., merchant, Hull
Norman, WT. V. Esq., merchant, Hull
Ostler, John, Esq., merchant, Hull
Pearson, William Hunt, Esq., merchant, Hull
Petchell, Thomas, Esq., merchant, Hull
Thompson, Thomas, Esq., merchant, Hull
Whittaker, Isaac, Esq., merchant, Hull
George Abbey, Esq., Northampton
Mr. Thomas Atherton, merchant, Northampton
Henry Broadwood, Esq., M.P., 5, Whitehall-yard
Edmond Singer Burton, Esq., Daventry, Northamptonshire
Mr. W. Bunting, wool merchant, Spratton, Northamptonshire
Sir Montague Cholmley, Bart, Easton-hall, Lincolnshire
Sir Francis Cockburn, Dover
John Callis, Esq., Mears Ashby, Northamptonshire, Director of the

NorthanMtonirnion Bank
John Chowns, Esq., Friestoa-house, Claythorpe, near Grantham
The Rev. Thomas Clayton, Rector of Cottinghant-cum-Middleton,

Northamptonshire
The Rev. Thomas Cook, Rector of Grafton Underwood, Stanior, and

Briggstock, Northamp tonshire
Mr. John Groom, manufacturer, Northampton
Fitzwilliam Hume, Esq., Barton-place, St. James's
Hon. Colonel Hutchinson, Weston-house, Worcester
Charles Heneage, Esq., Cadeby-house, Lincolnshire
H. H. H. Hungerford, Esq., Dingley-park, Northamptonshire, Di
rector of the Leicester and Bedford Railway Company
Mr. S. S. Hobson, manufacturer, Leicester
Ambrose Istcd, Esq., Ecton, Northamptonshire
Major 'thomas 'sham, Lamport, Northamptonshire
John Jeffer , Esq., Northampton
Thomas Michael Keyworth, Esq., Lincoln
.fols Lovell, Esq., Toweesler, Northamptonshire
Herbert Langham, Esq., Cottesbrooke -hall, Northamptonshire
Rev. Robert Montgomery, Rector of liolcot, Northamptonshire
John Nethercoat, Esq., Moulton-grange, Northamptonshire
John Percival, Earl , Woodlands, Isle of Wight
Mr. Francis Parker, manufacturer, Northampton
Archibald Robertson, Esq., 31.1)., Northampton
John Redden, Esq., Dallington-hall, Northamptonshire
The Rev. Henry Rokcloy, Rector of Arthingwerth, Northamptonshire
William Itudgard, Esq., Lincoln
Richard Whitton, Esq. Lincoln
Thomas Wood, Esq., Esq.,
Northamptonshire
11. B. Whitworth, Esq., Northampton
Major Maidwell Young, Northamptonshire
The Rev. Humphrey Waldo Sibthorpe, Washlngborough, near Lin-
coln, Director of the London and York Railway Company
George Smith, Esq., Oakham Rutland
Mr. Matthew Sooby, jun., merchant, Gainsborough
The Rev. Thomas Sanders, Vicar of Moulton, Northamptonshire
Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln, Director of the London and York
Railway Company
Rev. Zacharia Shrapnel Warren, Rector of Ancaster, near Grantham.
TilOliMS Adams, Esq., Denton-firs, Nottinghamshire
John Coupland, Esq., Shellingthorpe-hall, near Lincoln
Robert Carr Andrew, Esq., Brixworth, Northamptonshire
George Bacon, Esq., Nottingham
Mr. Alderman Cullen, Nottingham
John Eagleton, Esq., Belton-hall, Rutlandshire
Rev. E. It. Eagle, Rectory, Belton, Rutlandshire
J. F. Edmonds, Esq , Rye-hills, Northamptonshire
Richard Field, Esq. Leigh-house, Lower Tooting, Surrey
Smith Fowler, Esq. Nottingham
John Gladstone, Esq. director of the Direct London and Manchester
Railway Company
Captain Twistleton Graves, director of the Leicester and Teen and
Dove Valley Railway
Thomas C. Higgins, Esq. Turvey-horse, Bedfordshire
John Harrison, Esq. Nottingham
'l'. Richard Tucker Hodgson, Esq. Birmingham
It S. Hutchinson, Esq. M.D. Nottingham
Robert Ilawley, Esq. Oakham
Mr. Alderman H open, director of the Direct London and Manchester
Railway Company
T. 0. Higgins, Esq. Turvey-house, Eels
John Jndkins, Esq. Stewe-hill, Northamptonshire
Godfrey Kemp, Esq. Belton, Rutlandshire
William Lawrence, Esq. director of the Direct London and Manches-
ter Railway Company
John Leavers, Esq. the Park, Nottingham
John Manning, Esq. liarpole, Northamptonshire
James Morley, Esq. Basford-hall, Nottinghamshire
N. M'Cann, Esq. 50, Parliament-street, director of the Brighton and
Cheltenham, and Manchester and Rugby Railroads
Mr. Fletcher Mercer, merchant, Gainsborough
Charles Morris, Esq., the Grange, Oakham
Tt e Rev. J. A. Nash, 27, Walbourne-terrace, Hyde-park-gardens,

London
George Payne, Esq., Sulby-hall, and Pitsford-house, Northampton.

shire
Thomas Pal, Esq., Northampton
Mr. lames Pell, Sywell, Northamptonshire
Robert Rising, Esq., the Shrubbery, Worcester
John Sepperson, Esq., Director of the Direct London and Manchester

Eitilway Company
William White, Esq., Director of the Direct London and Manchester

_
Railway Company
Mr, Alderman Walker, Northampton
William Walker, Esq., Leawood, near Matlock
William Batchellor Brownlow, Esq., merchant, Hull
N.B.— • o addition will be made to the above list, unless any
landed proprietor residing in the neighbourhood of the line, or other
Influential party, shall be desirous, either on his own acconnt, or in
order to represent the locality in which he resides, of having his
name added to the Provisional Committee, and intimate the same to
one of the Solicitors.

London and Birmingham, and the lines of railway proposed to con-
verge at that town from Cheltenham, and the west from Worcester
and from Yi'artvick, the line will proceed in a direct course to the
market town of Kettering, by which place all the companies com-
peting for the line of railway between Louden and Manchester pro-
pose to pass. It will then proceed, also, in a direct course to the
market towns of Uppingham, Oakham, and Grantham, to Lincoln.
The -country lying between the towns of Northampton and Gran-
tham is wholly vithout existing or even proposed railway accommo-
dation, not only to the south, but ilso to the north.
At Lincoln the line will fork, and proceed on the one hand in a
northerly direction to the Ow-Irish:no' port of Galesborough, and on
the other by a north-eastern course to the market town of Market
Raiarn, on the rising port of Great Grimsby.
By an Litton with the Sheffield and Great Grimsby Junction Rail-
way at Market Raisen, a d rect and uninterrupted chain of commu-
nication will be established between all the above-mentioned districts
and the town and port of hull.
• The sources of traffic which this line will secure are various and
very considerable; some of them only can be here enumerated,
viz.:—
Starting from Great Grimsby the line will appropriate to itself the
whole of the traffic thence to the metropolis, and also the southern
and western districts of the country, and, in addit'on, it will secure
the important and increasing local traffic between that town and
Market Raisen and Lincoln.
From Gainsberough, the termini of several ralways from the
north and north-west, this line will carry the traffic to Lincoln, its
county town.
The traffic from Hull to the mein-Tells, and also to the west, will
enter upon this line at Market Raisen, and . proceed thereon to
Lincoln.
From Lincoln the whole of the traffic passing to the west and the
intermediate towns must pass over this line.
In tha event of the Cambridge and Lincoln Railway Company not
obtaining the'r Bill, then the traffic from Lincoln to the south and
west, and also the metropolis, will pass along this line of railway;
the former the whole distance, and the latter at any event to Gran-
tham, a distance of about twenty-five miles ; and should the London
and York Company not succeed, such traffic will proceed on to Ket-
tering or Northampton.
The cnti:c district between Grantham and Kettering, a distance of
more than forty miles, and including the market Wens of Oakham
and L'ppingham, is without railway or water-carriage accommoda-
tion, and the whole of its traffic therefore will travel over this line or
railway, which will be in the direct course not only to the west but
also to London.
At Ketteing this line will unite with that one of the now com-
peting schemes passing that town from Manchester and Leicester to
London which shall be successful before Parliament.
The country is free from engineering d'fficulties, with one or two
exceptions only, and those are more than counterbalanced by the very
favourable gradients of by far the greaten portion of the fine ; indeed,
for many miles the line will run upon a water level.
The lire will not interfere With any ornamental property.
The landowners on the line are favourable to the undertaking.
The promoters reserve power to alter and vary the route, and ex-
tend the proposed line of railway, and to increase the amount of
capital, as may be necessary or advisable.
Applications for shares may be made to the Secre-
tary, or to the following Sharebroters, of whom Pros-
pectuses, with Maps of the l:ne, may be obtained:—Len-
don, Messrs. Peppercorne and Co., 2, Old Braad-street ; Bir-
mingham, Mr. W. 11. Collis; Blackburn, - Mr. Thomas Boardman ;
Bradford, Mr. George Clark; Bristol, Messrs. Tate mil Nash; Chel-
tenham, Mr. James Stokes; Coventry, Mr. J. S. Holland ; Dublin,
Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford ; Edinburgh, James Pringle, Esq.,
79, Princes-street ; Exeter, Messrs. Beaumont and Langworthy ;
Glasgow, Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson; Halititx, Mr. William
Cronheim ; Huddersfield, Messrs. Everard and Co. ; Hull, Mr. F.
Stamp ; Leeds, Messrs. Wellbeloved and Oastler ; Leicester, Messrs.
Payne and Freer; Liverpool, Messrs. Townly and Whitehead, Messrs.
Cameron and Co., Mr. Morris Reynolds; Macclesfield, Mr. Richard
E. Woe ; Manchester, 3i essrs.Cardwell and Sous, Messrs. A. Birchall
and Co., Mr Charles O'Neil; Nottinghain, Mr. Charles Spencer;
Sheffield, Messrs. T. N. Bardwell and Sons; SouthaMpton, Mr.
Joseph Clark, jun. ; Wakefield, Mr. E. H. Armitage ; Worcester, Mr.
Miles ; York, Messrs Grayston and Earle. •

THE DIRECT LINCOLN, EAST RETFORD,
and SHEFFIELD JUNCTION RAILWAY,
Forming a direct communication from Yarmouth and Hull to Man-
chester and Liverpool.
(Provisionally Registered under 7 and S Vic., cap. 110.)
Capital, 600,0001., in 24,000 Shares of 25/. each.
Deposit, 2/. 12s. 6d. per Share.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Pierce Somerset Butler, Esq., M.P., Director of the Lancaster and
York, and Great Munster Railways
The Right Hon. and Rev. Lord Edward Chichester, Eaton-place,
Eaton-square, Dean of Raphoe
Hon. Colonel Leicester Stanhope, Ashbuntham-house, Chelsea,
Chairman of Remington's Direct London and Manchester Rail-
way, and Director of the Northern, Eastern, and Western Junc-
tion Railway
The Hon. Henry Gage, Whitehall, and Firle, Lewes, Sussex, Direc-
tor of the Cambridge and Lincoln Extension Railway
The Hon Francis Needham, Fairfield-lodge, Kensington
Lieutenant-Colonel George More'on Eden, Director of the Cam-
bridge and Lincoln Extension Railway
Thomas nagger, Esq., Northampton. Director of the South Midlands,
and Northampton, Lincoln, and Hull Railways
Thomas Sharpe, Esq., Northampton, Director of the South Midlands,
and Northampton, Lincoln, and Hull Railways
John Freeman, Esq., Director of the Cheltenham and Banbury, and
South Midlands Railways, Northamptonshire Banking Company,
and Northampton, Lincoln, and Hull Railway
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Lincoln, and Hull Railways
Francis Parker, Esq., Northampton, Director of the Bedford and
Cambridge Railway
William Cotton, Esq., Northampton, Director of the Northern,
Eastern, and Western Junction Railway
Major Adair, United Service Club, Pall-mall, Director of the Northern
and Southern Connecting Railway, Goote and Doncaster, and
Direct Sheffield and Macclesfield Railways
Jeremiah Clarke, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's Direct
Manchester, and Direct Sheffield and Macclesfield Railways
Joseph Graham, Esq., Clapham, Surrey, Director of the Northern
and Scuthern Connecting Railway
Daniel Turton Johnson, Esq., Albrmary-churchyard, Director
of Remington's London and Manchester Railway
Andtrson, Esq., Lothbury, Director of the Northern and
Southern Connecting Railway, and South Midland Railway
Daniel William Lucas, Esq., Mark-lane. City, and Crescent-lodge,
Stockwell-park, Surrey, -Director of the Northern and Southern

Connecting Railway
John Rawson, Esq., Stoney Rhoyd, Halifax, Deputy-Lieutenant of
Yorkshire
Richard Twiss, Esq., 39, Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park
Mr. Alderman Porter. Northampton, Director of the Northampton,
Lincoln, and Hull Railway
J. B. Shuttleworth, Esq., Harley-place, Cavendish-square, Director
of the Northern and Southern Connecting Railway
George R. Paul, Esq., Strand, and Worthing, Sussex, Director of
the Cambridge and Lincoln Extension Railway
Major William Snow, Old Cavendish-street, Cavendish-square,
Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln Extension Railway
Joseph R. Barrett, Esq., Ross, Hertfrdshire
Frederik Ctiamier, Esq., R.N., llalkin-street, Belgrave-square,
D.rector of the Cambridge and Lincoln Extension Railway
Joseph Wykes, Esq., Northampton, Director of the South Midland,
and Northampton, Lincoln, and Hull Railways
George Evans, Esq., Melbury-terrace, Regent's-park
William Ayrton, Esq., Abbey-square, Chester, Director of the
Northern and Southern Connecting Railway
William Bestow, Esq., Director of Oxford and Doncaster, and
Northern and Southern Connecting Railways
F. 'Valentine Lee, Esq., Chester-terrace, Regent's Park, Director of
the Eastern Counties, and -Northampton, Lincoln, and Hill Railways
Walter Chamberlain, Esq., Worcester, Director of the Northern and
Southern Connecting Railway
J. It. W. Atkin-on, Esq., Elmwood House, Leeds
William Ekin, Esq., Cambridge, Director of the Northampton, Bed-
ford, and Cambridge Railway
William Cremer, Esq., Barnes, Surrey, and Mincing-lane, Director
of the Grand Trunk, and Northern and Southern Connecting Rail-
ways
John King, Esq., Glastonbury, and St. John's Wood, London, Di-
rector of the Somersetshire Midland Railway
John Woolston, Esq., Wellingborough,
Northamptonshire, Director
of the Northampton, Lincoln, and Hull Railway
George Murray, Esq., Magistrate, Chichester, Director of the North-
ampton, Lincoln, and Hull Railway
Thomas Stephens, Esq., 4, Lime-street-square, Director of the
Northern and Southern Connecting Railway
John Soanc, Esq., Waltham Hall, Waltham Abbey
Edward Scard, Esq., Kew, Surrey, Director of the Northern and
Southern Connecting Railway, and the Direct Sheffield and Mac-
clesfield Railways
F. W. Hamill° it, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director
of the York and Lancaster, and Great Munster Railways
John Bishop, Esq., F.R.S., Bernard-street, Russell-square
Captain Challener Ogle, Eaton-place, Eaton-square, Director of the
Northern and Southern Connecting Railway
Thomas Rogers, Esq., Bradford, Director of the Liverpool and Derby,
and Great Northern and Southern Railways
Samuel George Beamish, Esq., Kensington-square
Joseph Brook, Esq., Rusholru-lodge, Lancashire, Director of the
Northern and Southern Connecting Railways
Philadelphus Jeyes, Esq., Northampton.
Admiral Ayscongh, Southampton, Director of the Rugby, Warwick
and Gloucester, and Northampton, Lincoln and Hull Railways
Samuel Adams, jun., Esq., Collett-hall, Ware, Hertfordshire
Jasper Capper, Esq., Watling-street, London, Director of the
Northern and Southern Connecting Company
Edward Cook, Esq., Northampton, Director of the Midland and
East,:rn Counties Railways
Hastings Green, Esq , Sion-house, Kilkenny, Director of the Kil-
kenny and Waterford Railway
Dean John Hoare, Esq., Wiinpole. street, Cavendish-square, Director
of the London and Dublin Direct, and the Oxford, Theme, and
High Wycomb Railways
tEiszaqi.l,,,Dfilyresctor of the Somerset and Midland, and Hull and
JohnHol:sv.lyN.
George Pell, Esq , Welford, Northamptonshire
Pedwell-house, Worcestershire, Director of
the
Jolla Stevenson, Esq., Sheffield and London
learleenrhnilia'ndEsSO"uthern Connecting Railway
M. Wyatt, Esq., Upper Hyde Park-street, Director of the Manches-
ter, Oxford and Southampton Railway
(With Power to add to their number.)

RANKERS.
Messrs. Alasterrnan and Co.
Messrs. Barnett, lleare, and CO.
ENGINEER—JOSCIaI Lockwood, Esq.
LOCAL SOLICITOR—WiIIiam Burgoyne Fernell, Esq., Sheffield,
SOLICITOBS—Mcscrs. Miller and Carr, 47, Easteheap, Louden,
SECRETARY—CharIes William Bevan.

ei swilllel e willoft
hbee
'This line has for its object a direct communication between the
saving a distance of
city of Lincoln and the populous and flourishing town of Sheffield,
and will also be the means of forming a complete line from Yarmouth
through Norwich to Manchester and Liverpool, thereby uniting tho
two great ports of Yarmouth and Liverpool, whosese commerce Is
somewhat dissimilar, and, consequently', a reciprocal nfit must be
the result.
manu-
facturing forty
The distance from Lincoln totogSlcienfliwerld
miles only, whereas the nearest route by any projected line at pre-
sent
twenty miles, as well as an enormous unnecessary expense.
The immediate connexion between Yarmouth and' orwich, and all
cannot be less than sixty miles, thereby
intermediate towns and cities,
districts of Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Nottingham, and Lan-
cashire, will be highly beneficial. ibt yl
i tth
The line will commence at Lincoln, at thejunetkin of the projected
ra lway from Lynn Regis to Lincoln, and proceed from thence
across the country through East Retford to feiheflield, and there
join the Sheffield and Manchester Railway. . Should the projected
line from Macclesfield to Sheffield be carried into effect, it W.ll
then add another important commercial town to those already ad-
verted to, and increase the traffic to a vast extent.
A reference to the map will readily show the great importance
and utility of such a line.
A more than usual revenue may be calculated I.loon in the goods
traffic from those great emporiums of commerce above alluded to,
without taking into consideration the immense 1-..ssen .er traffic
which must necessarily arise upon so important a line of railway.
Every regard will be paid to local accommodation, and a close.
scrutiny will convince those who are aware of the exigencies of the
towns and districts embraced within the scope of the intended line
of the advantages which must accrue from it.
Preference in the allotment of shares well
be given to the land-
owners and others locally interested, as well as to the connecting
lines.
Subscribers will be only liable to the extent of their deposits.
Applications for shares to be made to Messrs. Miller and
Carr, 47, Eastcheap, London ; W. Burgoyne remelt. Esd
Sheffield ; also to Messrs. PepPercorne and Co., 2, Old Broad:
street, London; Mr. John Wright, Birmingham ; Messrs. Holloway
and' Martin, Bradford ; Messrs. Tate mid ,Nash, mid Messrs. Ed-
wards and Son, Bristol ; Messrs. James Nicolson, and Co., Edin-
burgh ; Mr. J. Bowden, Hull ; Messrs. John Gateliff and Co., Hud-
dersfield; Messrs. Watson, Tootal and B arff, and Messrs. Charles
Bell, Beverley, and co., Leeds; Mr. Thomas
‘Crewdson, and Mr.
John Dorinv, Livrepool ; Messrs. Green and Loc,:wood, Manchester •
Messi4s F. Belfand Co., Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; and Messrs. Graystca;
and Earle, York.
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FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Direct Lincoln, East Retford,
and She ffield Junction Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares in the
above undertaking; and I hereby undertake to pay the deposit upon
them, or any smaller number that may be allotted to me, and to
exe en; e the Parliamentary contract and subscribers' agreement,
s lien required so to do.—l am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
Name in full. .....
Rosiness or Profinsion • • • ..
Residence.• •
Date of Application
Temporary Offices, 47. Eastelleap, London.

-Julius Lowenthal, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Hudders-
field,. Manchester, and T=reat Grimsby Direct Railway
Wm. Thomas Jackson, Et q., Titsleaster, Director of the East and
Weer Yorkshire, and Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways
Jel.e. Ostler, Esq., Hull
W. S'oane, Esq., Wanpolc-street, Cavendish-;quaro
John Jervis Garrard, Esq.. Queen•square, Bristol
Samuel Garlick, Esq., Park-equare, Leeds
Cuthbert Johnson, Esq., Avenue-road, Reecnt's-park
James Goren, Esq., The Priory, Battersea
Rev. Francis Tkornburgh, Kingswood, Wilts
James Yearsley, Esq., Saville.row, Piccadilly
Alfred Parker, Esq., Park road, Regent's-park
James Shaw, Esq , Salford, Manchester, Director of the Manches-
ter, Liverpool, and Great North of England; of the Newcastle,
Durham, and Lancashire; and of the Bolton and Bury Railwayr
Captain James Wood, R. H., Woolwich, Director of the Dublin
Approximation Atmospheric Railway
Benjamin Casson, Esq., Hull
John Holmes, Esq., Hull
Richard Hanits, Esq , Coventry. Director of the Birmingham West
Branch, Wednesbury, and sa i'sall Railway
Thomas Ferrand Darden. E enroner, Rochdale, Lancashire
Charles Ralph 13readley, Eaq , Leetsdale
James Clarkson, Esq., Cliect ham Hilt, Manchester
Wm. Nicl-ealson, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Rugby and
Manchester, via Macclesfi. Id Railway
J. J Godfrey, Etq , Lilarrool
J. 11. M' Mahon, Esq , Limerick, Director of the Cheltenham, Ox-
ford, and Brighton Junction, and the Galway and Ennis Grand
Junction Railways
Henry Chaytor, , Clairvaux Castle, Darlington, Director of
the Warwick and Worcester, and the Hull and Holyhead Rail-
ways
Robert Bourne, Esq., Parliament street, Whitehall
Alfred Parker, ISeq , Park-road Regent's-park
Williem Cremer, Esq.. Mincing lane, Director of the Grand Trunk ;
and Northern and Southern Connecting Railways
William Bousfield, Esq., Colebrook-terraco
John Years'ey, E-q , merchant, Fenchurclastreet
James Robertson, Esq., Director of the Worcester, Warwick and
Rugby, and Leominster Railways
John Batley Wrigley. Esq., Croft-house, near Huddersfield, Director
of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Direct
Railways
Samuel Deshayes Saunders, Esq., Ivy. cottage, Syncombeshill, Bath
George 13.:Tons Northcote, Esq., Somerset-court, Sornersetshire,
Director of the Somersetshire Midland Railway
Thomas Dixon Burrow, Esq., Settle, Yorkshire
George Watts, Esq , Mount Radford, Exeter, Director of the
Exeter and Exmouth, the Great Western Extension, and the
I) rect Exeter, Plymouth, and Devonport Railways
William Henry Samwell George, Esq., Exmouth
Edward G reeves, Esq., Leeds
John Bowes, Esq., hull, Director of the Rugby, Leamington, and
Warwick Railway
Themes Frederick Hewitt, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and
Holyhead Raila ay
William Priest, Esq., Hull, Director of the York and Hull, and
the East and West Yorkshire Junction Railways
Thomas Holmes, Esq., Hull
Benjamin Willsher, Esq Waterloo-place, Pall-mall
Richard Power, Esq., Euston-square, and Long Orchard, Tipperary
William F. Black, Esq., Wiltoraplace
Arthur Haymes, Esq., Methuen Villa, Leamington, Director of
the South Midland and Lincolnshire and Eastern Counties
Matthew Pierpoint, Esq., Worcester, Director of the Rugby
Derby, and Manchester Railway
Joseph Brook, jun., Esq., Hurl& rstield
Julian Skrine, Esq., Linsfield-house, Cambridge, Director of the
Cambridge and Lincoln, and the Northern and Southern Con-
necting Railways
Rev. G. M. D'Arcy Irvine, LL.D., Redeliffe-parade, Bristol
John Bloor, Esq., Tutbury, Director of the Great Manchester,
Rugby, and Southampton, the Shropshire Mineral, the London
and Holyhead Direct, the Liverpool and Derby Direct, the
London and Liverpool Direct, and the Derby and Gainaborough
Railways. &c.
Edward Gaubert, Esq., Park-villa, Richmond, Director of the
Rugby. Swindon, and Weymouth Railway.
William James Ire, Esq., Northampton-square, Director of the
Rugby, Swindon, and Weymouth Railway
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., Upper Hyde-park-street, Director of the
Liverpool. Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, the Chester and
Manchester Direct, and the West Midland, Manchester, and
Southampton Railways
Abraham Alexander, Esq., Lullington-house, Leamington, Direc-
tor of the Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighten, the
Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby, and the Lincolnshire and
Eastern Counties Railways
Joel Edens, Esq., Northampton, Director of the Sheffield, Notting-
ham, and London Direct, the Liverpool and Derby Direct, the
Direct Northern, Eastern, and Western Junctiem, and the Mid-
land and Eastern Counties Railways, &c.
F. Valentine Lee. Esq.
P. Taylor, Esq , Knaresborough
Joseph Lambert, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York, and
the Direct Liverpool and Leeds Railways
G. I. Brandon, Esq., Finsbury-square, Director of the Direct
Manchester, Leeds, and York; and the Grand Trunk Railways
William Driffield, F.sq., Bond-house, Knaresborough, Director of
the Liverpool and Leeds Direct; the East and West Yorkshire,
and the Leeds and Thirsk Railways
Wm. A. Long, jun., Esq., Kingswood, Wottcn.under.Edge
Rev. Stephen Isaacson, M.A., Berners-street, Director of the
Cheltenham, Oxford, and Brighton; the Cambridge and Lin-
coln Extension ; the Hull and Holyhead; and the Leeds, Fleet-
wood, and Liverpool Railways
Thomas Du ton, Esq., Blackburn, Director of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct, and of the Blackburn, Chorley, and Liverpool
Railways
John Joseph Allnatt, Esq., Wallingford, Berks
Edmund Alderson Fawcett, Esq., Huggin-lane and Nottingham,
&c., Director of the Direct Liverpool and Derby, the Direct
West End and Croydon, and the Middlesex and Surrey Junction
Railways
Capt. T. C. Newton, Luguardine, Herefordshire, Director of the
Leeds, Fleetwood, and Liverpool, the Hereford and Merthyr
Tydvil, the Hull and Holyhead Direct, and the Grand London -
and Dublin Approximation Railways
Wm. Fitzwilliam Hume, Esq., Hume. wood, Wicklow, Deputy
Lieutenant, J.P., and High Sheriff of the County of Wicklow
Edward Irwin, Esq., Rathbide-house, Kildare
Christopher Carter, Esq., Belmont-house, Knaresboreugh
Walter Watsnn, Esq., Leamington
James Peard Lye, Esq., Seaton Ironworks, Whitehaven, Director
of the Hull and Holyhead Railway
Arthur Ley, Esq., Bideford, Devonshire, Director of the Hull and
Holyhead Railway
John Albutt, Esq , Leeds
William Muschamp, Esq., Sunderland
Joseph Henry Oates, Jun., Esq., Meanwood, near Leeds
George Mitchell, Esq., Sandbed-house, Ossett, near Wakefield,
Director of the Wakefield, Ossett and Dewsbury- Railway, also
of the Midland, Barnsley, Sheffield, and Leeds Railway
William Mien, Esq.. Chappletown, near Leeds
William Standidge, Jun., Esq., Barkston Ash, near Ferrybridge
Samuel Warburton, Esq„ Hunslet, near Leeds, Director of the
Warwick and Worcester Railway, and of the Wakefield and
Harrowgate Railway, .te. &c.
eleorge William Oates, Esq., Carr House, Meanwood, near Leeds
George Newsome, Esq , Cross Banks, Batley, near Dewesbury
James Kitchen, Esq., Burmanstofts, Leeds
William Fieldhouse, Esq., St. Mal k's- p lace, Leeds
William Beaumont, Esq., Crawshaw House, Pudsey, Director of
the West Yorkshire, Midland and Thirsk Junction, &c. &c. &c.
John Pawson, Esq., Chappleton, near Leeds
John Lawson, Esq., Town Knawl Cottage, Ossett, near Wakefield
John Sheard, Esq Bonfire.cottage, near Dewabury
Joseph Thompson Fenton, Esq., Chesterfield
John Haley, Esq., Stanningley
David Gummersall, Esq., Stanningley Mills
William Dixon, Esq., Howley mills, Morley, near Leeds
Joe Dransfield, Esq., Rookery-mills, near Huddersfield
Joseph Jubb, sen., Esq., Batley-mills, near Dewsbury, Director of
the Midland, Barnsley, Sheffield and Leeds Railway, &c.
Henry Lodge, Esq., Sheffield
Josiah Burrows, Esq., Castle-house, Gommersall, Director of the
Great Leeds and London Direct, and the Liverpool and Leeds

Direct
Robert Bell, Esq , Elmwood-house, Leeds
George A. Hauston, Esq., Paisley
Frank Mitchell, Esq., Rvecroft-cottage, near Ossett
Alexander Majoribanks, Esq., of Majoribanks, NB.
slajor.Grneral White, Bath, Director of the Direct Western
Railway
Andrew Clarke, Esq., Adelaide-place, London-bridge, aid Cam-
berwell, Surrey
John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, Tonbr:dge, Kent
Stephen Hartley Knowles, Esq., merchant, Ten Lands, Gomersall,
near Leeds
Lionel William Knowles, Esq., merchant, West-house, Gomersall,
near Leeds
James Sutcliffe. Esq., Nowland-hall, neir Halifax, Director of the
Leeds and Thirsk Railway
George Fcarnley, Esq., M.D., Grove-house, Dewsbury
Thomas Hadfield Gloyne, Esq., Prospect-house, Dewsbury
Samuel Burnley, Esq., merchant and manufacturer, Havercroft-
house, Batley, near Dewsbury
Thomas Dean, Esq., Healey house, Dewsbury
Thomas Henry Starr, Esq., M.D., Leamington
James Bt ahem, Esq , Torquay, Devon
Christ:pher Carter, Esq., Belmont-house, Knaresborough
Frederick Goddard, Esq., Bath
Thomas Emsley, Esq , Dodley, near Leeds, Director of the North-
East Riding Junction Railway
Wm Shaw, El.Thrector of the Farmer's Life Assurance Company
Wm. Watson, Iraq,, Leamington
Thomas Rogers, Esq,, Bradford
John Lloyd, Esq. Newington
Edward Elarke, Esq., Temple, and Dover-street, Piccadilly
Samuel Geo. Beamish, Esq. Kennington-square
(With power to add to their number.)
BANKURS—The London Joint-Stock Bank, 5, Priores.street, Bank,
and 69, Pall-mall.
ACTING ENGINEER—Henry Renton, Esq., C.E.
ARCHITECT &ND SURVEYOR.—CharIes Lee, Esq., Golden-square.
SOLICITOR—J. D. Wells, Esq., No. 13, George-street, Mansion.
house.
SECRETARY-11 H. Gadesden, Esq.
OFFICES—No. 70, King W.l':am-street, 51ansion-house, London
The object of the promoi, ts of this Company is to form a direct
line of railway, from Bristol aid Bath to Dover; and thus, in effect,
unite, connect, or reciprocate with, all the existing and projected
lines of railway in the south and south-west and west of England, as
well also as form a complete communication with Ireland and all
the western and Welsh railways, and most of those in the northern
and great manufacturing districts, by which passengers and goods
to and from Folkestone and Dover, France and Belgium, may
be conveyed without the necessity of passing through the me-
tropolis.
The main line to be laid down by the Company will be considerably
less than 100 miles, throughout which the strongest encouragemert
and support have been manifested towards this railway by the landed
proprietors, many of whom have determined to invest capital in the
undertaking ; and the engineer's report precludes any apprelien.
sion of engineering difficulties. The great public utility and com_
mercial advantages of railway communication between the important
places and ports which it is now contemplated to unite must be at
once appreciated by'reference to a map of the country, and they
will be forcibly illustrated by the ohjects to be attained by this
Company.
This line is Intended to begin at Bristol by means of the Great
Western Railway, and passing through Bath to Bath Hampton
it will skirt the valley of the Avon, to Bradford, and thence to
Trowbridge. It will then take as straight a direction as can be
obtained to Devises, All Cannings, Pewsey, Burbage, Shaltorne,
West Woodhay, High Clere, and Overton, on to Basingstoke,
ere it will unite with the South Western Railway, and thus
from the western counties the distance will be several miles
shorter to the metropolis than by any other existing line. It will
near
Farnborough by means of the South Western Railway, proceed on
to e
Farnborough (a distance of fourteen miles) whence,leaving
Farnham to the south, it will pass onward to Ache, Guildford,
Gornshall, and Dorking to Riegate, where it will unite with the
South Eastern and Dover Railway—(the latter, eighteen miles
from Guildford to Reigate will in all probability be constructed by
another Company.)
In i:s course it will thread its way through the lines of Many of
the railways already constructed or projected—the junction of
which will not only be estimated as a great public convenience, but
prove highly advantageous to the several Companies interested,pro-
ducing an immense traffic, that must stream from Ireland—fron
our great manufacturing districts in the north—the cloth and corn
markets of the west of England—the mineral and coal fields of
I Wales, and the hop districts in Kent-- all of which point to the
formation of this railway as a great desideratum, as well also as to
form a direct communication with France, Belgium, and the CGII-
- generally. The distance to be saved by this railway will
exceed thirty miles from Bath (and all the towns north-west) to
I Dover ; while to many of the towns south west of Bristol sixty
miles or more will be saved by this railway in union with some of
the other lines ; and the often disagreeable and costly necessity (at
present existing) of passing through London, to or from Dover,

will be entirely obviated, and manufacturers and merchantaln met
parts of the country, west and north, or sauth, will be thus en-
abled to forward and receivegoods direct fruit and to Dover and
Folkstona, avo;ding the preset:t inconvenient mode and expense of
transtlrence from ralway to railway across London.
Ar:y attempt to distinguish the number of passengers proceed-
ing to or from London, or the provinces and the continent by the
South Eastern and Dover Railway, would be abortive; but the
published statements of that Company show that the traTc ex.
coeds 8,0001. weekly, and the accounts of arrivals at, and departures
from Calais, Boulogne, and Ostend, exhibit an astonishing number
of persons as passengers to and from England weekly, by Dover
and Folkemtone, throughout the whole of the year. Yielding to
the metropolis one-half of the number as a large proportion, :he
remaining half will belong to the provinces and Ireland, who will
probably prefer to be conveyed from or to their localities without
the annoyance of being compelled to pass through London, es.
pecially as the saving of distance alone will considerably diminish
expenses.

The construction of this line of railway can hardly fail to meet
the full approvol of the Government ; as, besides its great com-
mercial utility, the convenience it will afford fir the speedy tran.
sport of troops from Ireland, or the north, south, or west of Eng-
land to Dover, in a direct manner, avoiding the present necessity of
marching them across London or other towns, after they arc once
placid in railway carriage's, must be greatly z.•ppreciated ; and whirs
it i 3 expedient that Expedition and secrecy should he observed in
the removal of troops, the means offered by this Company will
great!, assist the authorities in facilitating their objects.
The railways already constructed or projected with which this
hoe cf railway will effect a union or communication, and recip,o-
cate, advantages exceed fifty in number (as will be seen by examin-
ing any railway map), and all of them must be in direct commu-
nication with, and will feed, or be fed by The Southern Counties
Union, and Bristol, Bath, and Dover Direct Railway ; the most
important junctions being those leading to this line from the north
and the manufacturing districts by Oxford to Dovor and Brighton,
those from Ireland, North Wales by Cheltenham or Oxforsl and
this railway to Dover or Brighton, and those from the south and
west.of England by Salisbury to Dover; thus effecting a con-
tinuance and direct intercourse with nearly every pa, tof Eng-
land, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and the continent.

The census returns show that this railway will pass through a
country containing a population of upwards of one million, and this
number, though large, may be fairly multiplied several times, if all
the other parts of the kingdom which will benefit by it be con-
bidcred.

With these facts before them, the promoters have not deemed it
necessary to put forth estimates of traffic; the soundness of the
project being guaranteed by the truths alread' given in this brief
exposition, and the great objects intended to be compassed by this
Company.

LOCAL. AGENTS.
Basingstoke and Odiham—Messrs. Cole, Lamb, and Brooks
Bath—Messrs. Mant and Harvey
Bristol—Matthew Perkins, Esq.
Devizes—John ltaikes Bayly, Esq.
Farnham—B. Nichols, E,q.
Hawkhurst —Messrs. Beecham and Upperton
Hungerford aryl Marlborough—John Halcomb, Esq.
Melksham—Messrs. Moule and Gore
Newbury—Robert Baker, Esq. and Messrs Bunny and Son
Reading—Rupert Clarke, Esq.
Reigate— William Burt, Esq.
Trowbridge—John Brent, Esq.
Whitchurch, Hants—Thomas Pain, Esq.

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Applications for shares (which must be necessarily restricted in
consequence of the immense number that have already been
applied for under guarantee of persons of the highest respectability)
with prospectuses and plans, to be made to the secretary, at the
offices of the Company, 70, King William-street, City; to
J D. Wells, Esq., 13, George-street, Mansion-house, and
to the following sharebrokers :--London, S. H. Ellis, Esq.,
17, Throgrnorton-street ; Messrs. Price and Brown, Change-
alley; L. H. Hazlewood, Esq., Angel-court, Throginor-
ton.street ; and T. C. Mundey, Efq., 17, Royal Exchange,
Bath, R. P. Lemon, Esq., Thomas Evans, Esq , and J. B. Mundy,
Esq. ; Birmingham, J. R. Lane, Esq., \V. H. Collis, Esq. ;
Blackburn, Thomas Boardman, Esq., James Senior, Esq ; Bridge-
water, Edward Lilly, Esq.; Bristol, Messrs. Tat, and Nash, Messrs.
George Edwards and Son, and W. H. Land, Esq. ; Burton-on-
Trent, W. Wisby, Esq. ; Cheltenham, Messrs. Hall Brothers, and
Co. ; Coventry, Messrs. Browne and Clarke, and John T. Holland,
Esq.; Dewsbury, John Brooke, Esq. ; Dublin, Messrs. Bruce and
Syms,s ; Edinburgh, Charles Couper, Esq. ; Exeter, Messrs. H.
Beaumont and Co. ; Halifax, F. C. Spencer, Esq , and James
Hurry, Esq. ; Huddersfield, Messrs. John Gatliff and Co , and John
Butchart, Esq. ; Hull: Messrs. Flint and Tootal, Messrs. Charles
Wikinson and Earle; Leamington, T. W. Powell, Esq ; Leeds,
Chantrell and Boyes ; Messrs. Vgellbeloved, Barwick and Co.,
Messrs. J. and G. Rhodes, Messrs. Read, Broadbent and Co., and
James Jamieson, Esq.; Leicester, Messrs. Payne and Freer ; Liver-
pool, Messrs. Schultz and Carr, Messrs. Davies and Co., H. \V.
Lucas, Esq., and John Wills, Esq ; Manchester, Messrs. Hough_
land and Leese, Messrs. Lynil and Berlyn, Messrs. Johnsen, Brad.
ley, and Walker, Messrs. O'Neil and Nosworthy, Messrs. Ner,
Gardiner, and Heap, John Dunmit, Esq.; Newcastle.upon-Tyne,
Messrs. Kimpster; Plymouth, Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer;
Sheffield, Messrs. Garton and Wright; Southampton,Joseph Clarke,
jun., Esq.; Stratford-on- Avon, W. Bolton, Esq.; Tauns on, Richard
Ball, Esq. ; Worcester, William Miles, Esq. ; York, Messrs. Gray-
atom and Earle.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

To the Provisional Committee of the Southern Counties Union

and Bristol, Bath, and Dover Direct Railway.

Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me Shares of
254 each, in this Railway, and I undertake to accept the same, or
any less number you may appropriate to me, to pay the deposit
31'21. 12s. 6d. per Share, and all future calls thereon, and to execute
the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contract when
equired.
Dated this day of , 1845.
I am Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
Usual mode of Signature
Name in full
Profession, Trade, or Occupation
Residence and Place of Business
Name and Address of Referee in full

QTAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES, AND
k 3 LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER DIRECT RAILWAY.

In consequence of the immense number of applications for shares
that have beenreceived, the allotment is delayed for a few days, to
enable the Committee to make a careful and judicious selection. It
is p •rticularly requested that no further applications may be made,
as none can possibly be entertained.

All communications on the business of the Company must be ad-
dressed to the Secretary, at the Company's Office, 1, Hope-street,
ItTadilly, Manchester.

J. C. KEMP, Secretary (pro tem.)
1, Mope-street, Manchester, 9th Oct., 1845.

TH H E TUNBRIDGE WELLS, BRIGTON,
and HASTINGS JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.
From Tunbridge Wells direct to Hastings, with a Branch Line
from the same place to join the Brighton Line at Lewes.
(Blunt's Line.)
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 750,0001., in 30,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 2/. 12s. Gd per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.
John Wheolton, Esq., late Sheriff of London, Meopham sank,
Tunbridge, Director of the London and County Joint-Stock
Bank, and of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Major James Oliver Lindam, New-street, Dorset-square
Chairman of the Gloucester and Aberystwith and central Wales
Railway, and Director of tho South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
William Cory, Esq., Commercial-road, Lambeth, Director of the
London and County Joint-Stock Bank
The Mayor of Hastings
Francis Smith, Esq., banker, Hastings
Henry Weston, Esq., Newick, Sussex
Lieutenant. Colonel Cofin, Landford, Wilts
P. Bennett Lucas, Esq., Manchester.street, Manchester•square,
Director of the Leeds and London Direct, and Ipswich and

I.,outhampton Railways
Frederick Harrison, Esq., Beaufoy-terrace, Maida Vale, Director
of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Life Assurance Company
Joseph Barker, Esq., Macclesfield, Cheshire
Alexander Prince, Esq., Lincoln's Inn-fields, Director of th•

Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
Samuel Griffiths, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the Slim?.
shire Mineral, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railwa)s
William Case, Esq., Brook-street, Grosvenor-square
W. Bulkeley Glasse, Esq., 10, New-square, Lincoln's Inn, and

South-crescent, Bedford-square
The Rev. Lewis Evans, Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford,

Southwood terrace, Highgate
Stephen Hutchison, Esq., Bromley, Kent, sole Proprietor of the
Bromley Gas Works
The Rev. George Kenrick, Battle, Sussex, and Regent's-square,

London
Captain George Lind, Waterloo-place, Brighton
R. Laden, Esq., Director of the Chelmsford and Bury Railway
Henry Wardle, Esq., London and Macclesfield, Director of Re-
mington's Direct London and Manchester Railway
Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Director of the Direct Western, and the
Leeds and Carlisle Direct Railways, Waterloo Villa, Clifton,
Bristol, and 6, Hyde Park-place, \Vest, London
George Clement, Esq., Hastings.
Jeremiah Clarke, Esq., Union.court, Broad-street, and Maccles-
field, Cheshire, Director of Remington's Direct London and
Manchester Railway
Thomas Robinson Williams, Esq., Director of the Patent Woellim

Cloth Company
Reginald Read, Esq., AL D., St. John's-square, London
The Rev. Samuel Andrew, Lincoln College. Oxford, and Highgate
John Kerschner, Esq., Middle- temple
Auguitus L. Lobach, Esq., Brook.strect, Grosvenor-square, and
Sidmouth, Devon
William Eccles, Esq., Old Broad-street, London
Lewis ?tame, Esq., Bury-St.-Edmund's, Suffolk
William Downing Bruce, E,q., lg. Charles-street, St. James's.
square, Director of the Leeds, Fleetwood, and Liverpool, and
Direct Western Railways
Abraham Beitcri.ige, Esq., Devonshire-terrace, Camden-villas,
Director of tl.c Great Grimsby, Lincoln, and Midland Junction
Railway
Edward Whitfield, Esq., M.D., Marine-parade, Brighton
18,
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Railway.
Captain C. H. Whitfield, Arundel-street, London, Director of the
South London Suburban Railway
James Renshaw, Esq., Frith, Kent, Merchant, 3, White Hart
Court, Lombard street, Director of the South Stafford Railway.
John Britten, Esq.; Basinghall-street, Member of the Corporation
of London.
Dr. William Wilson, 9, Devonport-street, Sussex-square.
Rees Price, Esq., Tyne Hall, Great Ilford, Essex, Director of the
Cheltenham, Oxford, and Brighton Junction Railway.
Robert Hancorne, Esq., 4, Euston.squarc, Director of the Hereford
and Myrther 'lydvil Railway.
Henry Kirk, Esq , Gloucester-place, Dorset-square.
Henry James Metier, Esq., Clifford's Inn.
James Cockell, Esq., Bernard-stree, Itussell.square.
Aldborough Henniker, Esq., Gray's Inn and Copthorne Bank,
Sussex
Willoughby Marshall Smithson, Esq., Canterbury, Director of the
Dover and Canterbury, and Bristol and Dover Railways
Edward Wootton, Esq., Magistrate of the City of Canterbury
Nathaniel Jonas Maynard, Esq., Magistrate of the City of Canter.
bury
John Pont, Esq., Canterbury, Director of the Bristol and Dover
Railway
David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland-hollow, Derbyshire
Cal.tain Charles M, M. Wright, R.N.
CO)1?11TTEM OF NI•NAGEMZNT.

CHAIRMAN—Thomas Carlisle, Esq.
DEPurr-CratamaN—Frederick Harrison, Esq.
A. Betteridge, Esq. I P. Bennett Lucas, LK.
William Case, Esq. Alexander Prince, Esq.
Stephen Hutchinson, Esq. Reginald Read, Esq.
R. Laden, Esq. Francis Smith, Eq.
Major James 0. Ltndham, K.H. Henry Wardle, Esq.
ENGIN, ER—Charles Blunt, Esq.. C.E.
STANDING COUNSEL—Jan M`Oubrey, Esq.
SOLICITOR—G. J. Lloyd, Esq., 49, Doughty-street, Bedford-row,

London.
LOCAL SOLICITOIV.i.
Messrs. SCriVCDS and Young, Hastings
Messrs. Martin and Sons, Battle
Messrs. Barclay and King, Mayfield
W. 1). Cooper, Esq , Lewes
Robert Walker, Esq., Canterbury
Messrs. Carnell and Gorham, Tonbridr.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—Messrs. Jones and Nalmiley.
SECRETAILY (pro terr.)—Henry L. Freund, EA.
BANKERS IN LONDON.
The London and County Joint-Stock Balk
Sir John William Lubkcck, Bart., and Co.
Dismicr RANKERS.
The Branches of the London and County Joint Stock Bank at
Tunbridge, Tunbridge Wclls, Lewes, and Brighton.
At Hastings- -Messrs. Smith, Hiller, an IC'.

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GiSimvi.o,AAREGISTERED.
REAT LEEDS 4.,a LONDON DIRECT
, R-41 f.WAY.
By a Juloll with-the Eaft4 Counties Railway at Bedford.
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411-811ra , 120 miles.
Cat avi,Egg4,„e • ! -ill 4 00 Shares of 251. each.
..,...4.i• —ti ck_ir . . 6d. per Share.
r . :. -Za..F.F" g ders of the House of Commons.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne
The Lord Stephen Chi& ester. Orman, Be:fast, and Army and Navy

Club, London
Sir Robert Alexander, Bart., Charles-street, Manchester-square
Twisden, Bart., Dorset-street, Portman-square, Director
Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction, and

_ .
Erewash Valley Extension Railways
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Parthenon Club, Director of the
Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction, and of the
Louth and Midland Junction, and West Midlands Railways
Ph John Osborn, Bart., Earl's-court, Brompton
Bin John Key, Bart., Director of the Manchester and London, and of

the Direct, Liverpool and Leeds Railway
Captain Frederick Polhill, M.P. for Redford
Major-General Sir Robert Barton, K.C.H., Director of the York and

Lancaster Railway
Major-General Thomas Morgan, Singleton-house, Torquay
Major-General Wright, Royal Engineers, Gloucester-place, Portman-
square
William Ackroyd, Esq., Westbourne- Lodge, Otley, Director of the
East and West York, Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and Leeds and

Carlisle Railways
Thomas Alexander, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian, and
Trent Valley Continuation Railways
Francis Simes Alliott, Fsq., .Nottingham Director of the Amber-
gate, 'Nottingham, and Zoston, and Easter Junction, and one of
the Provisional Committee of the Nottingham and Gainsborough

Railway Companies
Henry Ambler, Esq., worsted spinner and manufacturer, Watkinson-
hall, near Halifax, Director of the West Yorkshire Railway, and
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
C. 11. Anderson, Esq., Upper Clapton, Direetor of the South Midland

Hallway
George Ashlin, Esq., Director of the Liverpool and Newcastle-upon-
Tyne Railway
Richard Armitage, Esq., Huddersfield and Great Grimsby, Director

of the Manchester and Great Grimsb7:and Keighley, and
Huddersfield Junction Railways -
The Rev. Charles Edward Armstrong, M. 1., Hemsworth
John'Alexander Ricknell, Esq., Brandon-cottage, Bristol, Director of
the Oxford and Worcester Extension Railway
Charles Bamford, jun., Esq., Director of the Hull and Barnsley, and
Leeds and Carlisle Railways
IVO= Bardgett, Esq., Winchester-house, Broad-street, Director of
the Italian and Austrian, and the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford

Railways
William Banks, Esq., Honey-lane-market, Director of the Manches-
ter and Rugby Direct Railway, via Macclesfield
John Byng Banks, Esq., Stockwell, Surrey
William Fechney Black, Esq, Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Direc-
tor of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midland Junction

Railways
rlenry Weech Burgess, Esq., Temple's-park, Hampstead, Director of
the Goole, Doncaster, and Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Great
Grimsby
Charles Salisbury Butler, Esq.,the Lodge, Upper Clapton
Josiah Burrowes, Esq., Castle-house, Gomersall, near Leeds
Thomas Burnley, Esq., Gomersall, near Leeds, Director of the Leeds
and West Riding Junction Railway, and of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway
Samuel Bateman, Esq., Croft-house, near Bradford, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Selby
R tilway
Dr. Brigstock, Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester
Railway
Joseph Browne, Esq., Bedford

James Brand, Esq., 9, New Broad-street, Director of the Cambridge
and lincoln, and Great Luxemburg Railway
John Blore, Esq., Tutbury, Director of the Tean and Dove ValleT,
the Derby and Gainsborough, the Shropshire Mineral Railways, &c.
Job Bullivant, Esq., East Retford
William Butt, Esq., Sandiacre, Derbyshire
Robert Burton, Esq., merchant. Woodville, Notts
James tutlin, Esq., banker, West Field-house. Rugby, Director of
the Rugby and Huntingdon, and one of the Provisional Committee
of the Oxford and Birmingham Junction Railway Companies
Richard Biddle, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Richard Birkin, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
John Fillingham Bishop, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Thomas Butt, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Richard Bradley, Esq., Grantham, Director of the Amber-gate, Not-
tingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Chairman of the Direct
Western, and Isle of Ely and Lincolnshire Junction Railways
John Fowler Burbicige, Esq., Mayor of Grantham, Director o f the
Amber-gate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction
Railway
Jonathan Burton, Esq., merchant, Carrington, Nottinghamshire
Director of the Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway
William Baldwin Carsick, Esq., magistrate, Hull, Director of the
Ruby, Warwick, and Leamington, and of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railways
Thomas Challis, Esq., Alderman of London
John Carter, Esq., Knottingley
Thomas Carter, Esq., Tanshelf, Magistrate for the Borough of Pon-
tefract
Charles Charnock, Esq., Holmfleld-home, near Ferrybridge
Millis Coventry,'Esq., Director, of the South and Midland Junction,
and Birmingham Extension Railways
B. Clements, Esq., Lowndes-square, Director of the Western Ja-
maica Railway
Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Manchester, Mid-
land, and Great Grimsby, Gainsborough, Goole, and Isle of Ax-
holme, and the Wisbeach, Isle of Ely, and Lincolnshire Junction
Raiways
J. Cottam, Esq., East Retford
John Cotts, Esq., Little Bardfield-hall, near Braintree, Essex
James Clift, Esq., Director of the Paris and Strasburg, Southampton,
Manchester, and Oxford, and the Manchester, Rugby, and Mac-
clesfield Railways
W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the London and Birmingham
Extension
Henry Sherrard Coleman, Esq., Crown-court, Old Broad-street
John Cellist, Esq., Nottingham
Thomas Mark Carter, Esq., Woodgreaves-house, near Wakefield, Di-
rector of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Direct
Railway
George Augustus Hamilton Chichester, Esq., Oaklield, Donegal, and
15, Chesham-place, Belgrave-square, Director of the Grand Wales
Central, and London and Exeter Direct Railways
William Champion, Esq., Worksop
"William Cheetham, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Nathan Cooper, Esq., Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Francis Deere, Esq., Stratford, Essex
George Dennis, Esq., Director of the Rhondda and Ely Valleys Junc-
tion Railway
Joseph 'Dent, Earl., Ribston-hall, Wetherby, Magistrate for the
North-west Riding of Yorkshire
A. A. Davenport, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Exten-
sion, and Worcester Junction Railways
Joseph L. Davenport, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby,
and Manchester Railway
John Allcock Dixon, Esq., Burnley, Lancashire, Director of the Li-
verpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Richard Dransfield, Esq., Dalton, Huddersfield, Director of the
Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, of the Liverpool and Le-ds Direct,
and of the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railways
Edward Doubleday, Esq., F.L.S., Director of the Rugby, Warwick,
and Worcester Railway
Matthew Dawson, Esq., Pontefract
William Dawson, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Peterborough,
Wisbeach, Lynn, and Boston, and the Sheffield, Wortley, Silk-
stone, and Wakefield Railways
Joists Campbell Dicker, Esq., New-hall, by Neston, Director of the
Birkenhead and Holyhead, and the Birmingham, Oxford, and
Reading Railways
Henry Dunn, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Manchester, Hudders-
field, and Great Grimsby Railway
Prsncis Ewart, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey-
nionth Railway
John Elliott. Esq., Townhead-house, Rochdale
Lieut.-Col. Fitch, 36, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Managing Direc-
tor of the York and Lancaster Railway
Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Ex-
tension Railway
Solomon Foster, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Nottingham, Mans-
field, and Midland Junction Railway
Martin Furniss, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Erewash and Shef-
field Railway
John Griffiths Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Chairman of the London-
derry and Coleraine, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways
William Fisher, Esq., Amcotts-house, near East Retford
James Fothersill, Esq.. merchant, Nottingham
Richard W.Fitzpatrick, Esq., barrister-at-law,Gloncester-road, Hyde -
park-gardens
George Green, Esq., Pontefract

James Gilbertson, Esq., Alderman, and Magistrate for Hertford
William Gibson, Esq., Glasgow
H. P. Gipps, Esq., Director of the Coventry and Nuneaton Railway
Charles Goldsmith, Esq., Friday-street, Cheapside
Willlnm Gordon, Esq , M.D., F.L.S., Director of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct Railway
Henry Swan Graves, Esq., Ely Bank-lodge, Halifax
John Gully, Esq., Ackwerth-park, Ackworth
William Gibba, Esq., Camberwell, Director of the South Metropolitan
Cemetery Company
William Gill, Esq., Richmond, Yorkshire, Director of the Leeds and
Carlisle; and Northumberland and Lancashire Railways
John Godber, Esq., Hucknall Torkard, Nottinghamshire. Director of
the Amber-gate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction,
and Nottingham and Gairsborough Railway Companies
Thomas John Green, Esq., Mayor of Bedford
Richard Hall, Esq., Carnarvon-ball, Stratford, Director of the Strat-
ford and Thames Junction, and North Woolwich Railways
R. F. Hall, Esq., Wisetou, near Bawtry
S. C. Hall, Esq., F.S.A., Inner Temple, Director of the Erewash
Valley Extension and West Midland Railways
W. H. Halpin, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing-
stoke, and Sheffield and Macclesfield Railways
'Robert Hull, Esq., M.D., Norwich
Samuel Hammond, Esq., Leeds
John George Hammack, Esq. Director of the Direct Western, and
the Metropolitan Junction hallways
William Hepworth, Esq., Pontefract, a Deputy-Lieutenant and J.P.
for the West Riding of Yorkshire
John Mason Hepworth, Esq., Eden-place. Ackworth, J.P. for the
West Riding of Yorkshire
Joshua Hepworth, Esq., Rogerthorpe-hall, Badsworth
Thomas Heelis, Esq., Skipton Castle, Skinton; Director of the Lanca-
shire and North Yorkshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire North
Eastern, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways
John Holmes, Esq., East Retford
Robert Herries, Esq., East-street, Leeds, Director of the Liverpool
and Leeds Direct Railway
Charles Hoibrooke, Esq. Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and

Manchester
John Howard, Esq., Royal Foundry, Bedford
Thomas Haigh, Esq., Wakefield, late High Constable of Wakefield
John Hardy, jun., Esq., banker, Grantham, Director of the Amber-
gate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
John Harris, Esq., Springfleld-house, near Bedford
Charles Higgins, sen., Esq., St. Cuthbert's, Bedford
Geerge Higgins, Esq., Bedford
The Rev: Charles Walter Hudson, Rectory, Saundby, near Gains-

borough
George Hurst, Esq., Bedford
John Illidge, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and Di—

rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway
Wm. Empson Jalland, Esq., Holdemess House, near Hull, Director
of the York and Hull Railway
80, well Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holderness-house, near Hull, Magis-
trate for the Emit Riding of York and Borough of Hull, and Di-
rector ofthe Liverpool and Leeds, and Hull and Barnsley Railways
John Jameson, Esq., Honey lane-market
William Jameson, Esq., Shelton, Staffordshire, Director of the
Staffordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct
Railways
Win. Jones Johnson, Esq., Bedford
ji,s,ph Jones, Esq., Mayor of Hull, and Director of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Director of the Blythe and Churnet
Valleys, or Macclesfield and Lichfield Railways
Jeremiah Kaye, Esq., Huddersfield and Great Grimsby, Director
of the Manchester and Great Grimsby, and Keig,hley, Halifax, and
HiaLlersfield Junction Railways
fleofge Icppax, Esq., Ordsall-villa, near East Retford
M. Samuel Knight, Pontefract
Cleui,o Lawton, Esq., Ditchley's, Essex, Director of the Chepstow,

Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway
IT. C. Leahy, Esq., St. James's-square
"hoses Edward Legg, Esq., Watling-street, London
Captain Henry Leech, Bedford
Charles Denton Leech, Esq., Bury St. Edmunds
William Ley, Esq., 40, Gloncester-place, Portman-Square, Director of
the Readily"' and Reigate Railway
L. Stephens Lytle, Esq., Broad-street, Director of the Western
Jamaica Railway
P. Bennett Lucas, Esq., Director of the Sligo and Shannon, the Ips-
wich and Southampton, and the Cork Passage and Kinsale
Rail way
James Lamb, Esq., 25, Hyde-park-square, Director of the Scottish
i7estern, and the Direct Western Railways
Jon Lart, Esq., Wood-street, Cheapside
James Leeming, Esq., Bradford, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct, and Keighley, Halifax and Huddersfield Junction Railway
'Samuel Lovell, Esq., merchant, Bedford
Captain J. P. Macdougall, Fir-grove, North Brixton, Director of the
• Leeds, Fleetwood, and Liverpool, and Isle of Man Railways
John B. Mann, Esq., Leeds
Thomas Hackett Massey, Esq., Newark. upon-Trent, and Bedford-
square, Hyda-park
Thomas M'Turk, Esq., Hull
"William Mee, Esq., East Retford
R. Mesham, Esq., M.D., Bedford
Robert Mellington, Esq., Ordsall-house near East Retford, Director
of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
William Moorhouse, Esq., Marine-villa Knottingley, a Provisional
Director of the Sheffield, Barusley, and' W iketield Railway
Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of South and Midlands Junction, and
London and Birmingham Extension Railways
James Mtiseroft,Esq.,Pontefract, Magistrate for the Borough, a Pro-
visional Director of' the Oxford and Worcester Extenlilo 11 and
Chester Junction Railway
'George Mackintosh, Esq., Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square.
John Manwaring, Esq., Pateley-bridge, Yorkshire, Director of the
York and Lancaster Railway
Ord Massey, Esq., Hawkes-house, Burnley, Director of the Liverpool
and Leeds Direct, the Blackburn, Chorley, and Liverpool, and
Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railways
'Thomas Micklethwaite, Esq., Wakefield
lliarles Middleton, Esq., Nottingham park
Joseph Nadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and
Southampton, and the Leeds ani Carlisle Railways
William Joseph Nash, Esq., Bedford
John Norton, Esq., St. George's-square, Westmin,ter, and Moat-
hcu3e, Brentwood, Director of the Great West-Jrn Direct Rail-
way, &c.
Bobert Newland, Esq., Kempson-house, Bedfordshire
Thomas North, Esq., Mayor of Nottingham

Henry Gerard Ohrly, Fag., Director of the Trent Valley Continuation
and Holyhead Junction, and West Midland and South Alidland and
Oxford Extension Railways
John Ostler, Dn., 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 Palgravef Esq., Bedford
Bennett Pell, Esq., 12, Finsbury-Place North
John Phillips, Esq., Mayor of Pontefract
George Parbcry, Esq., Mansfield-house, Russell-square
William Patterson, E, Direct Joyce, Nottinghamshire
Robert Power, Esq.,r of the Great Britain Life Assurance

Society
Thomas Ingham Raynor, Esq., Blrstal, Leeds, Director of the Leeds
and West Riding Junction, and the Liverpool and Leeds Direct

Itailwltys
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 the West Midland Railway

John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Bycullah-house, Enfield, ➢lanaging
Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
James Robson, Esq., Tanshelf, Magistrate for the Borough of l'on-
.

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 Barnsley
Junction, and of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railways
John Richardson, Esq., Director of the Wakefield and Ilarrogate,
the East and West Yorkshire, and the Midland and Thirsk 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 Railways
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, awl Midland Railway-3
William Sloane, Esq., Wimp°le-strect, Ca endish-square, Director
of the South Midland Junction Railway, &c. &c.
George Walker Smith, Esq., Horbury-hs.ll, Sheffield, Director of
the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Smith, Esq., M.D., 30, North-street, Leeds,Director of the
_ .

Leeds and York, and Liverpool and Leeds Railways
Joseph Smithson, Keck, Kirkiess Mills, near Halifax

John Sanders, Esq., Bedford
J. W. Striven, Esq., Throstlenest, near Otley, Director of the

Leeds, York, andlidland Junction Railway
Richard Shaw, Esq., Tulledge, near Burnley, Director of the Keigh-

ley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railway
James Henry Simpson, Esq., M.lt., Pontefract
Joshua Amiable 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 S. Trapp, Esq., banker, Bedford

John Best Trapp. Esq., Uedford.
Samuel Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street and Gorbals, Di.

, -
rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway
Thomas Turney, Esq., Park-lodge, near Balifax

William Tudor, Esq.:tipper Thailles-street juld Gorbals, llull

Joseph Francis Tempest,„ Esq., F.S.A., the Mount, Ackworth
Charles Vickers, Esq., Pontefract, Director of the Manchester, liud-

den* ld, and Great Grimsby Railway
Wm. Watson,Esq , Daybrook, Nottinghamshire, Director of Amber-
gate, Nottingham and Boston, awl Eastern Junction Railway
Samuel Warburton, Esq., Hunsiet, Leeds, Director of the Wakefield

and Harrogate Railway
The Rev. Richard Whitelock, Saddleworth, Magistrate for

the West Riding of Yorkshire
Joseph Whitaker, Esq., Ramadale, Nottingnarushiro
William White, Esq., Bedford
John William., 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.
Joseph Wyles, Esq., Grantham, Director of the Amber-gate, Not-
tingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
David Wheateroft, Esq., Buckland-hollow, Derbyshire, Director of
the Rugby, Kerby, and Manchester, and Direct Birmingham and
Leicester Railways
William Williams, Esq., Royal Foundry, Bedford
Charles Waite, Esq., Willcsdon-house, Middlesex
John Wheelton. Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Tomas Willett, Esq., Bradford
The Rev. 11. Burdett Worthington, Bedford
G. N. Wright, M.A., Coed y Celyn, Denbighshire, and Lonsdale-
square, London, Director of the 'I harries Valley Railway
George Yates, Esq., merchant, Halifax
(With power to add to their number).
ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF—Sir John Macneil, LL.D., and F.R.g.
ACTING ENGINEER—WiIIiam Mullingar Higgins, Esq., C.E.
LONDON SOLICITORS.
J. R. Gibson, Essqq..,39,2Co,opGtrlemalt -street.
-Tcootiwretr .
.
Owen Gray, Esq. 7
J. B. Illidge, Esq.
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, Bigsby, and Mee.
Nottingham—Messrs. Fox and Butlin.
Oakham—Henry Hough, Esq.
Kettering—Thomas Marshall, Esq.
Bedford—Ezra Eagles, Esq.
SECRETARY—J. B. Owen, Esq.
PAELIAMENTARY AGENT —J. M. Widdicombe, Esq.
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co.
Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Company
Doncaster 1 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 whin 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 pats, has been brought
forward.

The proposed line will commence at the jnnction 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, from
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 coin 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 this 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 (.ains-
borough, )by the Sheffield and Gainsborough line), by a much shorter
route than by any existing railways. • . . • ''

Independently 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 Lends, 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 mend that a company is being
formed for the purpose of connecting Glasgow and Leeds by
means of a junction with the York and 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 No, th of England Railwa,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
wharti3 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 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 .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 their first
deposits, until an Act of Part' ament 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 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—Messrs. Marten and Heseltihe, 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.

GREAT LEEDS AND LOA DON DIRECT
RAILWAY.

The Managing Committee of this Railway hereby give notice that
they are now p:o,eeding in the Allotment of the Shares in the above
undertaking, and that all the Letters of Allotment will be issued in
the ensuing work.

J. B. OWEN, Secretary.
Temporary Offices, Adelaide-place,
Loudon-bridge.

HULL AND HOLYHEAD DIR.EUT
RAILWAY.

NOTICE.
o Application for Shares in this Company will be received in
London after To-Ntontlow, WEDNESDAY, the 15th instant, and front
the country after SATURDAY, the loth Instant,

By order,

WM. TYLER, Secretary.
2, Winchester-bußdings, Great Winchester-street, 10th Oct; , 1845.

BRIGHTON AND CHELTENHAM DIItECT
RAILWAY.
(Registered Provisionally.)
Capital, 1,100,000/., in Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
The Right Hon. Lord Rossi-Imre, Dell, Windsor,
The Right Hon. Georg/ Lionel Dawson Darner, M.P., f, Tilney-
street, Park•lane
The lion. Robert Gore, 3f.P.
Lieutenant-Colonel the lion. J. C. Westenra, M.P., Brook's Club
The Hon. W. Dawson, Parkstone-lodge, t oole
The Hon. T. W. Gage, Westbury-house, Westmeen, Peterseleld
Sir Henry Webb, Bart. Pall-mall
Sir George William Prescott, Bart. Clrtirman
Sir William Boothby, Bart. Ashbourne-11811, Derbyshire
Arnold, Thomas James, Esq., Sergeants' Inn, Temple, revising bar-
rister for the City of London
Cleobury, Thomas :Mortimer, Esq. Askew-villa
Coape Henry Coe, Esq. Goldhanger, Slaldon
Curnberlege, N, Esq. York-terrace, Regent's-park
Dalby, John 8., Esq. Ashbourne, Derbyshire
Dayrell, E. Francis, Esq. Lilingston Dayrell, Bucks, Ilirlt Sheriff If
Bucks, Chairman of the Minehead and Bridgewater Railway
Everitt, Henry Yarburgh, Esq. Brighton
Gernon, James, Esq. 13, Conduit-street
Greig, A., Esq. Lowndes-street, Itelgrave-square
Heaviside, Richard, Esq. Brighton
Heneage,Charles, Esq. Cadeby-house, Lincolnshire
Meaty, J., Esq. Chichester
Keene, John Joseph, Esq. Chairman, director of the National Bank
of Ireland, St. John's-wood, Regent's Park
M'Crum, Nicholas, Esq., 50, Parliament-street
Meteyard, Horace William, Esq. Chatham-place
Moore, Major, Queen Ann-street, Cavendish-square, director of the
Indian Peninsular Railway
Seymour, Frederick, Esq. St. James's-square, director of the Lon-
don and Nottingham Railway
Watkins, Robert, Esq. Augusta-house, Worthing
Willes, George, Esq. Hungerford-park
ENGINEERS.
Sir John Rennie, F.R.S. I George Remington, Esq , C.E.
Amiga ENGINEER—Henry Wrigg, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Augustus Walter Arnold, Esq., 31, Cr lden-square, London
John. Owens, Esq., 35, Moorgaie-street, Loiplon.
Locat SOLICITORS—Messrs. Attree,Clarke, and M`Whiiinie, Brighton.
LOCAL AGENTS.
William Mitchell, Esq., l'etersfleld
Messrs. Bailey and Wickham, Winchester.
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Barnard, Dirnsdale, and Co., 50, Cornhill
Messrs. Cockburn, and Co., Whitehall
Brighton—The Union Bank
Branch of London and County Joint-Stock Banking Com-
pany
Cheltenlmm—Branch of the National Provincial Bank of England
Petersfield—Branch of London and County Joint-Stock Banking
C om pony .
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT— Cadwalla4ar F. Waddy, Esq. Fludyer-
street.
Frederick Penny.

RIGILFON and CIIELTENHAM DIRECT
711.' RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that :no further application for shares in
this Company, can be received. The Committee are now proceeding
with the allotment, and the letters will be issued as seen as the re-
quisite inquiries, as to the responsibility of the appUcans, can be com-
pleted.
FREDERICK PINNY, Secretary.
34, Moorgate-street,pctober 14, 1845.

PRELIMINARY AN.I.cOIitiCEMEST.

LONDON AND HARR° W•ON-THE-HILL
DIRECT RAILWAY COMPANY.

(Provisionally Registered.)

A Company is now forming for the purpose of opening a direct rail-
way communication between Harm -on-the-Hill and London. A de-
tailed prospectus, with a most efficient Committee, will be shortly
published: In the interim, applications for shares and other inf,rair,
Bon may be obtained by application to Benjamin Wallington, Esq.
(Solicitor to the Company), at his offices, No. 3, Crown-court,
Threadneedle-street, in the City of London.
9th October, 1845.

THE DIRECT LONDON AND HASTINGS
RAILWAY, HARBOUR, I'IER, AND DOCK COMPANY,
with Branch Railways to the Town and Port of Rye, and from Tun-
bridge Wells to Lewes.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
Temporary Offices, New Adelphi Chambers, John-street, Adelphi,
London.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
John Jones, Esq., Kirkstall, near Leeds, director of the Isle of Ely,
_ . .

Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Junction
Henry 011ard, Esq., Walsoken,near Wisbeach, director of the Isle of

Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Junction
John Whitwell, Esq., Wisbeach, director of the Huntingdon and

Wisbeach Union Railway
David Wheatcroft, Esq. (German, Wheatcroft, and Sons), Belper
Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough, director of the Cambridge and Lin:

coin Extension
John Robson, Esq., Hetton, Durham, director of the Direct Western

and Isle of Ely Railway Company
Richard D,Emcs, jun., Esq., Knaresborough
James Shaw, Esq., Saltbrd, Manchester, director of the Direct Ches-

ter, and Direct 17e,stern Railway
Mathew Benjamin Robson, Esq., Sherburn Grange, Durham
Thomas Ferrand Dearden, Esq., Rochdale, director of the Stafford-

shire Potteries and Liverpool Railway Company
Captain C. F. Parkinson, Ard«•ick, Manchester, director of the Man-

chester and Southampton Railway Company
C. J. S. Walker, Esq., J.l'., Manchester, director of the Rugby and
Manchester, and Direct Chester and Manchester Railway Company
James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Salford, director of the York and Man-
cheater, and Direct Western Railway Companies
Remy Farrington, Esq., York place, Manchester, director of the
Manchester, Wigan, and Southport Railway Company
James Clarkson, Esq., Cheetham-hill, Manchester
John Heliord, Rusholme Hall, Manchester, director of Re-
mington's London and Manchester Railway
Rev. T. S. Mills, Littleborough, magistrate for the county of Lancaster
Thomas Ilamilton, Esq., Rusholme Hall, Manchester, director of the

Leicester and Tamworth Railway
Edward Norris, Esq.,Clairville Manor, Manchester, director of the

Direct London and Manchester Railway Company
Samuel Phillips, Esq., Chester-terrace, Regent's Park, and Levant

House, St. lielen's-place
John Upham, Esq., Clarges-street, Piccadilly, and Frederick-place,

Clifton, Bristol
Daniel Ebbets, Earl., 16, Mincing-lane, London
James Parsons, Esq., Arwerlinide, Falmouth
George E. Upham, Esq., 3, Cambridge-street, Hyde Park
William Sprott Boyd, Esq., Cleveland-row, director of the Thames
Embankment, and Hull and Swansea Railway
Warren Stormes Hales, Esq., Gresham-street, director of the Oxford
and Worcester Extension
Joseph Clowes, Esq., managing director of the British and Foreign
Gas Meter Company
Thomas James Arnold, Esq., Sergeant's Inn, Fleet-street
Frederick Collingridge, Esq., Thurloe-square, Brompton
Charles Robert Coltman, Esq., director of the South Midlands Railway
John Brocke Walbancke, Esq., director of the South Midlands
Major-General Brooks Parlby, C. 8., Rutland-gate, Hyde-park
William Shirk, Esq., Cricklewood, Middlesex, director of the Guaran-
tee Society
Robert Richards, Esq., director of the Itirmingham and London Ex-
tension Company
Alexander Davis, Esq., director of the Great Welsh Junction Railway
Major David Fitzgerald, Pall-mall, and Valentia, Ireland, director of
the Reading and Reigate, and Grand London and Dublin Approxi-
mation Railways
Frederick William Caldwell, Esq., Boundary-house, St. John's-wood,
director or the Liverpool, Ormskirk and Preston Railway
Charles C. Mactavish, Esq., 22, Rutland-gate, Kensington
Thomas Robarts Thelluson, Esq., 16, Hyde-park-street
Richard Clay, Esq., merchant and shipowner, Great Winchester-
street, director of the Barnsley and Goole Railway
John Downes, Esq., Bedford-place, Russell-square
John Stewart, Esq., Portman-square, director of the Thames Em-
bankment Company
William s"..!renier, Esq., Barnes, Surrey, and Mincing-lane, City,
director of the Northern and Southern, and the Grand Trunk
Railways
Richard Power, Esq., Long Orchard, and Eccleston-square
The O'More, Cloghan Castle, high sheriff of Roscommon, director of
the Grand London and Dublin Approximation Railway
Charles Frederick, Esq., director of the Manchester and Southamp-
ton Railway
John Chancellor, Esq., Hyde-house, Battersea
James Troup, Esq., Hastings, director of the Direct Western Railway
Company
W. B. Chorley, Esq., Tremadoc, director of the Direct London and
Holyhead, and forth Dynhlaen Railway, and Slate Quarries, Iles-
tlniog
William Pritchard, Esq., Doctors'-commons
Richard Dewes, Esq., Knaresborough.

COMMITTER OF MANAGEMENT.
Major Fitzgeralt James Troup, Esq.
William Cremer, Esq. Warren Stonnes Hale, Esq.
Samuel Phillips, Esq. William Slarke, Esq.
Daniel Ebbetts, Esq. William Pritchard, Esq.
(With power to add to their number.)
CONSULTING ENGINEER.
ACTING ENGINEERS—W. Rider, Esq. ; Mr. Gaorge Smith.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Potter and Collingridge, Basinghall-street,

PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.
Messrs. Cameran and Bain, 18, Parliament-street
SECRETARY—Thomas A. Corlett, Esq.
BANKERS—London and Westminster Bank.

The formation of this Company has originated with gentlemen
having extensive local interests, for the purpose of effecting direct
railway communication between London and Hastings, using a por-
tion of the existing railways to complete the most direct line, as well
as assist in extending railway accommodation in the south-eastern
district, " and will be the only direct line under local management
between London and Hastings." file line will be constructed for
working either with atmospheric power or locomotive steam-engines,
as may be proved to be most advantageous previous to tile perma-
nent way being laid.
It is also proposed to make aline of railway from Tunbridge Wells
to Lewes and Brighton, by a junction with the coast line at Lewes,
and thus open lines of communication with the populous towns in
North Kent and the southern coast.

It is further contemplated to establish a branch to the town and
port of Rye, or to connect the Direct Hastings line with the Hastings
and Ashford coast line, for which an Act was obtained last session.
To the inhabitants of Tunbridge Wells, Maidstone, Rochester,
Chatham, Sheerness, Gravesend, &c., it will afford direct and speedy
access to Hastings, Brighton, Eastbourne, Worthing, and the neigh-
bouring seaports, as well as the eastern and western parts of Suss x.
To the inhabitants of Hastings and St. Leonard's the advantages
to be derived from the formation of this lino will he evident. Bring-
ing the Metropolis within a two hours' journey, it must of necessity
greatly increase the already well-established reputation of those
'ustly-celebrated watering-places, and bring to them an increased
number of visitors, who are now deterred from residing there by rea-
son of the absence of railway accommodation.
To the inhabitants of Lewes and Brighton the advantages are pro-
portionately great. Pa!sing, as the proposed line will do, through a
great agricultural district, it will give increased facilities for the
transport of the produce of those districts.
In 1806 that eminent engineer, the late Mr. John Ronnie, pro-
jected a harbour and dock, at Hastings; and subsequently, Nr.Cubitt,
C.E., and Mr. Brooks, C.E., surveyed the coast, and projected har-
bours in the same situation ; there can be no doubt a considerable
portion of continental traffic must pass from Hastings to the opposite
ports on the French coast, the direct line between London and Paris
being through Hastings.
The existing trade and fishery of Hastings is ample to pay five per
cent. on the coast of the harbour, pier, and dock, and the natural
result of such accommodation opposite so many ports on the French
coast, must be that of threefold increase.
Strict attention to economy will be given in the expenditure of the
capital, thereby guaranteeing to the public low charges for the con-
veyance of passengers and goods, and there can be no reasonable
doubt, that when the traffic is fairly developed, the full rate of 10 per
cent. will be paid, and a surplus left for branch lines, or a reduction
of fires.

In drawing attention to the merits of this undertaking it should be
observed that the formation of a trunk line between the metropolis
and Hastings, one of the most healthy and fashionable watering-places
in the kingdom, which is increasing in estimation the more its valua-
ble resources are developed, in addition to the formation of a harbour,
pier, and dock—the great improvement in steam navigation—the
establishment of railways between Paris and the ports on the French
coast opposite Hastings, " render this one of the most important, as
well as direct lines of communication between London and Paris," as
reference to the map will clearly point out.
There are no engineering difficulties ; and the lines are under
sarvey, for the purpose of depositing plans, &c., previous to the en-
suing session of Parliament.
The liability of the Shareholders will be limited to the amount of
their subscriptions, and in allotment of shares, a preference will be
given to landowners on the respective lines ; and power will be se-
cured in the Act to allow 4 per cent. on paid-up capital previous to
opening the lines.

Protpectuses and plans of the line, with forms of application for
shares, may be had at the solicitors, at the temporary offices of the
company, and at the following sharebrokers :
London—J. Bates and Co
Liverpool--T. Coglan and Sods
Manchester—Cardwell and Sons, and Green and Lockwood
Briatol--Wreford, Nicholls, and Co.
Leeds—Thos. M. Lee, Harvey Mirtin, and Bell and Ledger
Glasgow—Aitken and Buchannan
Exeter—Thomas Sandford
Hull—Flint and Tootal
Plymouth—Hayward and Palmer
Birmingham—John Wright andJ. Collis
Edinburgh—Robertson and Co., and M`Cullum and Co.
Iluddersfield—Wilson and Hollawell
Worcester—Thomas H. Wheeler
llalifax—James Hervey

FORM OF APPLICATION.

To the Provisional Committee of the Direct London and Hastings

Railway, Ilarbour, Pier, and Dock Company.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will al:ot me shares of 201.
each in the above Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the
same, or any less number that may be alloted me, subject t• the re-
gulations of the Company, and to pay the deposit of 21.25. per share,
and to execute the necessary deeds when required.
Name in full ..........
Prof -ssion or business (if any), and address
of the same „ „
Residence in full ......., .
Address of referee
Date .
Signature of applicant ......

HUNTINGDON, WISBEACII, AND ST.
IVES, UNION RAILWAY.

Being an extension of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire
Junction Railway, from March to Huntingdon and St. Ives.

Capital 200.0001. in 8,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 12s. fsl. per Share.

At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Isle of Ely, Wis
beach, and Lincolnshire Junction Railway :
Resolved—That an extension of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and
Lincolnshire Junction Railway from March to Huntingdon, with a
Junctiona and
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iSßipoNo,elears,e3A,,ttawt• Co. be the bankers in London;
and Sutton.
The Bank of England, at March, Wisbeach, and the National Pro-
and Lincolnshire
The Directors of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, .
Junction Railway, having been urgently requested, have upon mature
deliberation, determined to add to the value and to the public utility
of their much approved line the railway now announced.
This short but important line of railway will proceed from the Isle
of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Junction Railway, at March,
through or near Wimblington, Doddington, Benwick, Broughton,
King's Itipton, Hartford, Chatteris, Ramsey, warbey ....
and Hurst,
to Huntingdon.
The placing of Wisbeach, the natural port of this rich and exten-
sive agricultural district, in immediate connexion with Huntingdon,
the focus of six railways, most be a great accommodation, and of
paramount importance to that port ; added to which, it lies long been
desired by the mercantile community of both towns.
It also gives Wisbeach and its vicinity, and the other populous
the completion of that portion of the London and York Rail-
places which it will traverse, the choice of two routes to the metro-
polis on
way which hich the inhabitants of tke town
St. Ives to Wisbew.h, an object w 1i,.,,
joins Huntingdon, giving the railway communication by
-wiled for in the Act of . l
ircament to amalgamate
this Company with the Isle of Ely, Wisbeacb, and Lincolnshire June-
giPower twill be . ..
tion Railway under one managemcnt. _
have publicly testified their desire to acconit,p .
Holders of shares in the Isle of Ely, 11 isbeach, and Lincolnshire
Junction Railway may have shares in the present Company, in thd
proportion of share for every two, by transmitting a letter
or .e ,
can be received
stating the tact to the Secretary, or either of the Solicitors, on or
before the 15th of October instant. Application for shares may also
be made in the accompanying form. No application
delay.
after the kith of October, and the shares will be allotted without

FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Huntingdon, St. Pres, and

Wisbeach Union Railway.
Gentlomcn,—l request you 11,111 allot me shares of 25/.
each in the above company, and I undertake to pay the deposit of 21.
i 2s. Gd. per share thereon, or any less number you 'nay appropriate
to me, and to malts the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamen-
tary Contract when required
Dated this

day of October, 1845.

Residence .... • • ....
Trade or Profession . . .
Place cf Business (if any) . ...
Reference ..... ................... .
Jour SoLicrrons—James Coppock, Esq., 3, Clcvelaud.row ; John
Bell, Esq., 28, Craven-street.
LOCAL SOLICITOUS—Thomas Steed Watson, Esq., Wisbeach ;
and Esq
WILLIAM WILDE, Secretary.
Offices, 76, Gresluun-street, London, Oct. 9, 1845.