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London, England, 1845-09-25 00:00:00

MANCHESTER and RUGBY DIRECT
114ILWAY, vitt MACCLESFIELD.

Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,700,0001., In 85,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Hon. Howe Browne, Chairman of the Manchester andi
Birmingham Continuation Railway r:
John Attwood, Esq., Park-lane, Hyde Park
John Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street, banker 8
Sir John Pine, Bart. Alderman of the City of London, DI- Ca
rector of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Packet Corn-
patty
William Hughes Hughes, Esq„ Alderman of the City of t"'
London, late M.P. for Oxford, and late High Sheriff for 2=
Hants .0 et
James Henry Attwood, Esq., Seymour-street, Portman-square a
George Adam, Esq., White Lion-court, Cornhlll
John Bagshaw, Esq., Director of the Northern and Eastern "ci o
Railway
Joseph Brown, Esq., Director of the East and West of Eng- P.
land Junction 0
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William Chadwick, Esq., Chairman of the Richmond Railway .111
William Henry Forman, Esq., Upper Thames-street -...
Capt. George Probyn, Bryanston-square
Robert Watkins, Esq., Director of the East and West of Eng- 4
y
land Railwa
Josh. Underwood, Esq., Director of the Commercial Bank of 8
London J A
William Langley Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex
The Hon. Geo Browne, Lowndes-square, Belgrave-square.
dir Geo. Rica', 43, Lowndes-street, Belgrave- square
Sir Henry Richardson, Chessel House, Southampton
air William Wynne, 5, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, Chairman of the
North Wales Railway, and Director of the Oxford, Southampton,
and Portsmouth Railway
Sir G. A. Lewin, Upper Harley-street, London
Sir John Hare, Langham-place
The Mayor of Newbury, Director of the Oxford, Southampton, and
Portsmouth Railway
John Addis. Esq., of Rotherhithe, Surrey, Director of the Central
Terminus, and of the Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Office
The Rev. J. Harvey As' worth, Nor bury
M. W. C. Alston, Esq., Birmingham
W. C. Alston, Esq., Elmdon Hall
Samuel Ashton, Esq., Wood Hill, Preatwich
James Atty, Esq.. Rugby
James Bancroft, Esq., Alderman of the Borough of Manchester
Henry Barlow, Esq., Highfleld, Stockport
Samuel Barton, Esq., Dldsbury, Director of the Chester and Man-
chester Direct Railway
Hugh Beaver, Esq., Manchester
William Fechnez Black, Esq., 19, Wilton-place, Belgrave-square,
Director of the Italian and Austrian Railway Company
Joseph Browne, Esq., Bedford
Captain Burney, R.N., Gosport
William Bardgott, Esq., Old Broad-street and Carehalten, Surrey,
Director of the Italian and Ausirlan Railway Company
Samuel Swann Brittair, , Esq., Sheffield
Charles Baker, Esq., Southampton
William Bland, Esq., Brixton, Director tithe North Wales Railway
Thomas Brittain, Esq., Manchester
George Duman& Esq., Sussex-square, Hyde Park
William Bevan, Esq., 48, Conduit-street. Bond-street, Director of the
North Wales Mineral Railway
Jacob Bell, Esq. Langham-place, London
W. E. Boyes, Esq., Alketton, Banbury, Director of the East and
West of England Railway
Henry Brown, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Robert Bramwell, Esq., Upper Thames-street
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the Shef-
field and Manchester Railway, and Chairman of the Direct West.
em Railway
George Borrett, Esq., Southampton
Lieutenant-Colonel Burslem, North Hants
Charles Bailey, Esq. Winchester
Henry Baker, Esq., Mark-lane, London
H. Burney, Esq., LL.D., Gosport
Joseph Beech, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place
George Bovill, Esq., Mill-wall, Poplar
Louis Buckland, Esq., Lloyd's, and Avenue-road, St. John's-wood
Robert Beman, Esq., Dounington House, Stow-on-the-Hold, Glou
eestershire
W. Bailey, Esq., Wolverhampton
Thomas Challis, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the Wor-
cester and Oxford Railway
P. F. Clossman, Esq., Mincing-lane
John Chapman, Esq., Lcadenhall-street, Director of the Devoe and
Cornwall Railway
S. J. Capper. Esq., Adelaide-plaee, London-bridge
Edward Chapman, Esq., Strand, London, Director of the Richmond
Railway
Sheldon Cradock, Esq., Leicester
Philip Warner Courtenay, Eeq., 28, Capel-eireet, Belgrave-square
Edwin Cadman,. Esq., Sheffield. Director of the Direct Western
Railway
Francis Carleton, Esq.
James Clift, Esq., Bloomsbury-square
John Churchill, Esq., Bayswater, Director of the Manchester and Bir-
mingham Continuation Railway
Robert Charles, Esq., 23, Endsleigh-street, Tavistock-square
G. Colquhoun, Esq., Weimer Lodge, Avenue-road, Regent's-park,
Director of the Worcester and South Wales Railway
James Consterdine, Esq., Manchester
Joseph Cragg, Esq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury
Colonel George Disbrowe, Chester-square, London
William Dredge, Esq., Newbury
James Denis Devitre, Esq., 7, Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square,
Director of the North-Westeru Railway
George Dunlop, Esq., Southampton
George Dawson, Esq., Sheffield
Richard Dyott, Esq., Freeford
John Alcock Dixon, Esq., Burnley, Director of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct Railway
Capt. Farrington, R.N., West Cowes, Isle of Wight
E. S. Farrow, Esq., Newbury
W. S. Fitzwilliam, Esq., Old Broad-street, Director of the Baez and
Suffolk Railway
P. B. Freer, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon
William Tulloch Fraser, Esq., 5, Manchester-square
John Fawcett, Esq., Broom Hall, Sheffield, Director of the Great
Western Railway
J . P. Firmstone, Esq., of Highflelds, Wolverhampton
_George Firmstnne, Esq., Lays Iron Works, Itourbridgs
B. Gray, Esq,, Newbury
.anmel Giles, Esq., Manchester
J"ePh 0111, Esq., Leeds
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—,Pes, Esq., Mootague-place, Bryanstone.square
33'hnana Gibb, Esq., Manchester
John Gould, Esq., Ardwick, Manchester
Birmingham,
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nßedfordshire
Director of the East and West ar.d Birmingham and South Stafford-
shire Railways
"senh HoDgooa, Esq., Exeter, Director of the Eaat and West of
England Railway
W. H. Homby, Esq.,Blackburn
George Calvert Holland, Esq., M.D., Sheffield
John Newington Hughes, Esq. St. Michael's, Winchester
William Hill, Esq., Manchester
John Haddon. Esq., Director of the East and West of England Rail-
way Company
Joseph Haden, Esq., iron master, Dudley
David Harrison, Esq., Staley-bridge, Director of the Manchester and
Birmingham and Cheshire Junction Railway
1. Hodges, Esq., Connaught-terrace, Hyde-parkrDirector of the Leeds
and Carlisle Railway
James Home, Esq., Clapham Common, Director of the North Lon •
don Railway Company
John Hemming, Esq., North Bank, Regent's Park, Director of the
Worcester and South Wales Railway
T. A. Hall, Esq., Ashfleld House, Newcastle, Staffordshire
Frederick Hewitt, Esq., Clapham, Surrey
J. H. Higson, Esq.. Manchester, Director of the Chester and Man-
chester Railway
Gecrge Calvert Holland, Esq., M.D., Sheffield
John Hyde, Esq., Manchester
William .lacomb, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the East and West
of England Railway-
William Jenkinson, Esq., Marlborough-square, Salford
George Jones, Esq., Redland, Bristol
V. Clarke Kemball, Esq., 6, Chester-place, Hyde-park
J. Kinloch, Esq.. Gloucester-read, Hyde-park, Director of the North
Wales Railway
John Kalil', Esq., Thames-street, Director of the Worcester and
South Wales Junction Railway
Charles Kelson, Esq., Teignmouth, Devon, Director of the East and
West of England Railway
William Knott, Esq., 4, Adelaide-place, Director of the Richmond
Railway
M. W. King, Esq., Amblioote Hail, Stourbridge
Edward Lomer, Esq., Southampton
William Lechmere Whitmore, Esq., James-street, Buckingham-gate,
Director of the Worcester and South Wales Railway
Henry Ledgard, Esq., Wood-street
John Dawson Lowden, Esq., Doughty-street, Director of the Rich-
mond Railway
James Lees, Esq., Broekvire, near Manchester
Joseph Liggins, Esq., Kensington, Director of the Southampton Dock
Company
Captain J. H Leckie, Richmond, Surrey
Stephen Lewis, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway
James Lamb, Esq.. 25, Hyde Park-square, Director of the Triag,
Reading, and Basinstoke Railway
Samuel Lovell, Esq., Bedford
F. Valentine Lee, Esq., Chester-place, Regent's-park
William Mills, Esq., Newbury
Joseph Maunder, sq., Ashford-hous-, Staines
John Matteson, Esq., Wimbledon, Director of the Gwent Indian
Peninsular Railway
W. Maims, Esq., Mansion-house-place, London, Director of the
South Staffordshire Railway
William Robert Mesham, Esq., M.D., Redford
George Miller, Esq., Director of the Central Railway Terminus
Charles Mann, Esq., Leamington
Charles Musgrave, Esq., Melverton-hill, Leamington
R. F. Mushet, Esq., Birchin -lane, and Coleford
John Marshall, Esq., Homforth Hall, near Leeds, late Mayor of
Norwich
John Macfarlane, Esq., Director of the Sheffield Railway
Thomas Markland, Esq., alaltield, Manchester
James Marshall, Esq., Brinnuigton Mount, Stockport
Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsall House, ttetford,Nottlaghamshift
G. Moore, Esq., St. John's Priory, Banbury
Nicholas M'Cann, Esq., 50, Parliament-street
William Nash, Esq., Chairman of the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings
Railway
Cornelius Nicholson, Esq., Cowan Head, Kendal, Deputy-Chairman
of the York and Carlisle Railway
Captain Alexander Nelms, Director of the Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Company
Joseph Haden, Esq., Dudley
Edward Norris, Esq. Manchester
Robert Ogden, Esq., The Oaks. Manchester
James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Salford, Director of the Chester and Man-
chester Direct Railway
P. Oldtleid, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Liver-
pool Railway
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the East and
West of England Railway
Apsiey Pellatt, Esq., Director of the Staines and Richmond Railway
Thomas Parker, Esq., Spring-gardens, London
John Clarke Prescott, Esq., Manchester
William Simpson Potter, Esq., of Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Di-
rector of the Oxford, Whitney, and Cheltenham Independent
Railway
Charles Potter, Esq., Darwen, Director of the Blaekburn, Darwen,
and Bolton Railway
James Paxton, Esq., Rugby
Richard N. Philipps, Esq., Sheffield
John Perks, Esq., Wolverhampton
Richard Burton Phillipson, Esq., Rugby
N. M. Priaulx, Esq., South Western Steam-packet Company,
Southampton
Stephen Phillips, Esq., Director of the Whitehaven and Farness
Railway
Charles Phillips, Esq., Camberwell, Surrey
John Thomas Price, Esq., Heald Grove, Manchester
William Raines, Esq., Temple, Director of the Manchester and Car-
lisle Railway
Richard Ricketts, Esq., Bristol
George Rougemont, Esq. 9, Chester-terrace, Regent's Park, Director
of the North London Junction Railway
Thomas Rolls, Esq., Bank, Chipping Norton
Thomas Robinson, Esq. Charles-street, Middlesex Hospital
David Roxburgh, Esq.:Bloomfield-road, Maida Hill
Hartley Sager, Esq.. Ball Grove, Colne, Yorkshire
Samuel Sangster, Esq., Brixton-hill, Director of the City Gas Com-
pany
Major Char:es T. Selwyn, of the Royal Engineers, Exeter, Director
of the East and West of England Junction
James Shaw, Eeq., Salford
John Sidebottom, Esq., Harewood Lodge, Cheshire
William Sidebottom, sq., Etheron-house, Cheshire
David Siltzer, Esq., Rhodes, near Manchester
Manes Slocock, Esq., Newbury
Edmund Slocock, Esq., Newbury
Christopher Shapland, Esq., Bristol, Director of the Bristol and
Gloucester, South Devon, and Cornwall Railway Companies
Joseph Stocks, Esq.' Shibden Hull, near Halifax, Director of the Li-
verpool and Leeds Direct Railway
W. Senhouse, Esq., Daventry
T. Bridge Simpson, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Richmond Railway
Walter Shairp, Esq. Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park
John Stewart, Esq., for Lymington, Director of the Eait and
West of England Railway
T. H. Sheppard, Esq., Towcester
Joseph Shaw, Esq., Huddersfield
Horatio Smith, Esq., Strangeways Hall, Manchester
W. Tebbutt, Esq., Manchester
Joseph Thompson, Esq., John-street, Bedford-row, Director of the
London and Brighton Railway
Thomas Thomson, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon
W. Tinker, Esq., Manchester, and Hyde, Cheshire
Matthew Uzielli, Esq., 62, King William-street, Director of the Lon-
don and South Western Railway
Charles B. Tripp, Esq., Bristol, Director of the Jersey Railway
Thomas Varley, Esq., Shorsten Hall, Mahon
Edward Westlake, Esq., Southampton
Charles Fenton Whiting, Esq., Beaufort House, Strand, Director of

the Richmond R.alway
Benjamin Williams, Esq., banker, 4, Whitehall
B. M. Wilcox, Esq., Hantsyille, Torquay
John Ward, Esq., Machin Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield

Fire and Life Insurance Company
George Whitmore, Esq., Austiu•friars, Deputy Chairman of the North

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Kent Railway
Thomas Woodham, Esq., Winchester
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the Yarmouth and Waverloy

Valley Railway'
Daniel Watney, Esq., distiller, Wandsworth, Surrey
W. F. Vi'citiiilo,3li, k s !., Wzisan
Sinitit illock,
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A. H. Wylie. Esr,., Liverpool
Edmund M. Wavell, Esq., Halifax
S. Watitins, Esrz., Forrest Hill, near Worksop
Paul •Ferdinvid wort, Esq-,..Alderman of .tho Borough of Xitz!
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