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W. Sloane, Esq. Wimpole-street
John Anderson, Director of the South and Midland Raifway
W. Ley, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square
Robert Power. Esq., M.D., Queen-street, May Fair

John Anderson, Esq., Lothbury
Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Old Palace, Richmond
W. Pastow, Esq., Surrey-place

James Dxiness; Esq., feitonstone, Essex
G. N. Wright, M.A.

(IVl‘h power to add to their number.)

BANKERS.
The Commercial Bank of London
ENCINEER —William Mullingar Higgins, Esq.
SOLICITORS.

Leads .. r
• L Messrs. Watson and Co., and
Messrs. Smith and Perfect
Stratford-on-Avon..Mr. William Bolton.

Exeter ........ Mr. Thomas Sanford.

i;;;;i7:: :: Mr. Thomas Henry Wheeler.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

EAST AND WEST OF ENGLAND JUNC-
TION RAILWAY,
FROM NORTHAMPTON TO CHELTENHAM.
Broad Cauge.
The deeds of this Company will lie for signature each day during
this week at the Offices, 3.5, Charing-cross; and they will lie for sig-
nature at the following towns between the hours of Eleven and Four
o'clock :
MANCHESTER, on SATURDAY, September 13, at Messrs. Stang-
land and Leese's, King-street.
LIVERPOOL, on MONDAY, September 15, at Messr?. John Wills
and Co.'s, Royal Bank-buildings.
LEEDS, on TUESDAY, September 16, at Messrs. Walt:do-0d and
Oastier's.
SHEFFIELD, on WEDNESDAY, September 17, at Me,,:rs. Garton
and Wright's.
BIRMINGHAM, cn TRULSDAY, Septembe: 18, at J. R. Lane's,
Esq., Stockbroker.
BANBURY, on FRIDAY, September 19, at the White Lion Hotel.
35, Charing-cross, Sept. 11, 1845.

THE OXFORD and WORCESTER EXTEN-
SION and CHESTER JUNCTION RAILWAY, with
Branches to Shrewsbury and Northwitch. On the Broad Gauge.
(Provisionally registered.)
Capital 2,250,0001., in 125,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Lord George Paget, Uxbridge House
The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Poultney, 4, Parliament-ttroct, Director
of the Nottingham and Boston Railway
Major Beresford, M.P.
Sir William Bacon Johnson, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire, Director
of the Chester and Forest of Dean Railways
Sir Wm. Wynn, Maesyneward, Chairman of the North Wales Railway
Sir Samuel Brown, Director of the Worcester and Warwick Railway
Sir John Edward de Beauvoir, Chairman of the London and Bir-
mingham Extension
Sir John Hare, Langham-place, Director of the London and Bir-
mirqham Extension
Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London, Director of the London
and Manchester and Leeds and Liverpool Railways
Colonel Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, Director of the London and
Birmingham Railway
Colonel Fitch, 36, York-terrace, Director of the South and Midland
Admiral J. Ayseough, Prospect-place, Southampton, Director of the
South and Midland
Major Croft, In, Regent-street, Deputy Chairman of the Manchester
and Chester Railway
Major Chase, 31, Nottingham-place
Captain S. M. Fisher, jun., Director of the Warwick and Worcester
Railway
Captain Ilitcliens, 1LE.1.C.5., Director of the Birmingham and OY,
ford Railway
Captain F. Chamier, Malkin-street, Belgrave-sqnare, Director of the
Great Paris and Lyons Railway.
Wm. Ilu,ghes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., Alderman of Lon-
don, Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation,
Chairman of the London and Greenwich Railwa7s, &c., &c.
Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South
Midland Railway
John Kinnersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the
London and Manchester Direct Railway, and South Midland
Thos. Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South
midland Hallway
Thos. Challis, Esq., Alderman of London, Wilson-street, Finsbury
Thos. Sidney, Esq., Alderman of London, Sheriff of London and
Middlesex
Captain Jas. Patrick Macdougall, late Bengal Royal General Staff,
Fan-grove, North Brixton, Director of the Chester and Forest of
Dean Hallway, &c.
Captain Alex. Hamilton Carle, Royal Artillery, Reform Club.
John Inglis Jardcin, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby
and Southampton Railway
Wm. Morley, Esq Blackheath

Wm. Lee, Esq., Director of the Gravesend and Rochester, and Essex
and Suffolk Railways
Rd. Carpenter, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Chris. Robt. Colman, Esq., Director of the South and Ntidland Rail-
way.
Henry Wright, Esq., Director of the Warwick and Worcester Rail-
way

John'Wheelton, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Thomas Collingridge, Highgate, Middlesex

Chas. Wilkinscin, Esq., Directot: of the South Midland Railway
John Breck Walbanck, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
Rd. Wm. Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester and
Derbyshire and South Staffordshire Railways
Francis Valentine Lee, Esq., Temple, Director of the Eastern Counties
Railway
Major Jelf Sharp, Deputy Chairman of the Thames Embankment
Railway
Major-General Brooks Parlby, 18, Rutland-place
W. Simpson Potter, Esq., Director of the Oxford, Witney, and

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Cheltenham Railway
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester
Direct and Liverpool and Leeds Railways
Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of the London and Birmingham
Railway
W. F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Director of the
Italian and Austrian Railway
W. G. Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway
Robert Henry Lyndam, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth
Railway

Robert Andrew Riddell, E5q.,.23, Bryanston-street, Portman-square.

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Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
J. B. Richardson, Esq., Director of the Colchester and Cambridge
Railway
Jonathan Hopkinson, Esq., Director of the Norwich and Worcester
Railway
Julian Skreene, Esq., Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln
Railway
Frederick James Hall, Esq., Torrington-square, Director of the Bide-
ford and Tavistock Railway
Captain C. W. Tyndall, Director of the South-Eastern Railway
J. P. Gipp, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway
Frederick Jones, Esq., Director of the Warwick and Worcester
Railway
Henry Lewis Smale, Esq., Willoughby House, Tottenham, Director
of the London and over Railway •
C. Waite, Esq., Willesden, Middlesex
It. W. Wood, Esq., Lodge-place, St. John's Wood, Director of the
North Metropolitan Railway
George rarbnry, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manchester
and Birmingham Railway
Wm. Shaw, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment Railway

Win. Alfred Hill; Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberyawith
Railway
Richard Dutton, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands Junction
Railway
Win. Slack, Esq., Director of the Guarantee Society
James Reeves, sq., Director of the London and Manchester Railway
Frederick Collingridge, Esq., Tharlow-square, Brompton
Warren S.. Halo, Esq., Greesham-street

Robert Richards, Esq., Temple, Director of the Birmingham and Lon-
don Extension Railway
Kingsmill Grove Key, Esq.
The Rev. F. K. Hall, D.D., Rector of Falbourne, Cambridge
Daniel Penton Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Blanches-

ter Railway
Charles Green, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith
Railway
John Farber, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberyatwith

Railway -
Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Ilanrothel, Hereford
E. R'. Foster, Esq., Director of the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford-
shire Railway
Martin Furnis, Esq., Director of the Nottingham, Newark, and
Ilostm Railway
W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the Birmingham and Manchester
Extension Railway
W. Bardgett, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian Railway
Richard Parish, Esq., Bank House, Wordslcy, Staffordshire
Samuel Parish, Esq., Wordsley, near Stourbridge, Staffordshire
Alexander Greig, Esq., Lowndcs-street, Belgrave-square, Director of
the Leicicester and Birmingham Railway
Thomas Yates limit, Esq., Brades, near Birmingham
William Singleton, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool
Direct Railway

Wm. Cadman, gsq., LeetlF, Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Railway

James 3luscroft, Esq., Pontefract
David William Nell, Esq., Leeds, J.P., Director of the Leeds and
Thirsk Railway
Joseph Robert Wilkin Atkinson, Esq., Director of the Leicester and
Bedford, and York and Lancaster Railways
John Fagan, Esq., Gloucester-road, Old Brompton

Charles Holden, Esq., Director of the Great Grimsby and Sheffield
Rail way •
J. D. Hopkins, Esq., Bedford-square, Director of the London and
Birmingham Extension Railway
Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds, Director of the West Riding Junction

Ritilway -
Peter Pairbairne, Esq., Leeds, Chairman of the Lincoln, York and

Leeds Railway
John Blackburn, Esq., Leeds
J. 11. Douglas, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth
Railway
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John Alexander Bicknell, Esq., Brandon Cottage, Bristol, Director of
the South and Midlands' Junction Extension Railway

Thetnames of an influential Committee formed at Worcester and
Chester will be published lu a few days.

Potter and Colllngridge, 5, Basing,hall-street ; W. B. James, Esq.,
5, Basinghall-street.
SEcaNTAßY—Hilton Thomas Jenkins, Esq.

The geographical position of Worcester has caused its adoption as
the point where the broad guage trunk lines of the west are to have a
common terminus. From Oxford the Great Western Company have
decided on constructing a line of rail :—another project under the pa-
tronage of the same powerful direction is now before the public,
Uniting Worcester with Warwick ; and, that the broad gauge will be
carried from Worcester Into Wales, and to the Irish packet stations
On that coast, is now no longer doubtful. This undertaking will com-
plete a series of great avenues of iron-road, whose ramification
from Worcester will render every part of the kingdom directly
accessible from that city. Passing up the Severn Vale, where
it will disclose a succession of picturesque scenes, it reaches
Stourport, and proceeding thence through Kidderminster, arrives at
Bewdley. This district is one of the chief seats of our carpet manu-
factures, and in the towns here named, exclusive of the intervening
districts, upwards of 30,000 persons are located. Leaving Stourhridge
a little to the east, the line is taken to Bridgenorth, a town enjoying
an active inland trade, and possessing woollen manufactures and iron
works, that gives employment to a population of about 15,000. Pass-
iug through or near to Much Wenlock, Broseley, and Madeley, from
which place there will be a branch to Shrewsbury, the line ascends
Colebrook Dale, and approaching in its course Wellington and Wem,
enters Whitchurch. From this central place a branch will be formed
to Norwich via Stoke, forming a junction with the Liverpool and
Crewe Railway. The trunk line will continue from Whitehurch, and
h
passing through or near Malpas,ave its northern terminus in the
city of Chester.
In estimating the probabaleyabem)euxnpet
cotfedretioen3uleel, which the
sourcesWorces-
terth.eof
and Chester Railway may
profit present themselves, such arc the dense population located along
the length of the Severn Vale, and the enriching works of industry
In Rhich they are engaged. Amongst the latter may be mentioned
the China manufactories of Worcester ; the iron, coal, and earthen-
ware wet ks at Broseley and other places ; the agricultural produce
brought to Stourport market; the inexhaustible fields of coal and
mines of iron ore in the vicinity of Colebrook Dale, Ironbridge, and
the districts to the east of Shrewsbury generally.
In calculating the cost of construction unusual advantages are also
Obvious. The line traverses a district affording levels of several
miles in extent, and with a surface peculiarly favourable. The resi-
dent population, disappointed by the postponement of proninis,eodppro-
jects, have warmly espoused the present, and the labouring
better
tion being familiar with mining operations, will
lqocualialifitieeds.fey the execution of railway works here than in many other
As a link in the railway network of England, or as auxiliary
various directions, few
to - existing or projected lines passingt
afford greater inducement
schemes hitherto proposed appear
travelling. This
project constitutes
Bristol,
the grand trunk of the
for investment, or a wider range of
aaeleciowntrimieendelditiolniiikfoien traffic
chain
chaaindu
that will connect Livers
lith:r.
terminus, Worcester, Is the half-
wayrot renya,dnt,inoelialias broadetw,n,llalr
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and
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West of England ;
by projected lines a
Ito Swansea and c 3
station of the London
Lynn, Lincoln,
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tr and
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and Hull.
Northampton, Cambridge, Peterborough, Harwich,
The line has been repeatedly and carefullyexamined by the Com-
pany's acting engineer, who reports that the rail for many miles may
be laid on the natural level—that the gradients are In every in-
stance favourable—that the geological structure of the districts to
be traversed is equally so, and that the want of such a line of com-
munication is acknowledged by the interests seated en Its proposed
course.

Applications for prospectuses and plans may be made, and forms
of application for shares had at the offices of Messrs. Potter and
Collingridge, solicitors, 5, Basinghall-street ; also of W. B. James,
Esq., solicitor, 5, Basinghall-street ; of the local agents ; and of the
following gentlemen :
London
/ lir. Samuel Hanbury, 4, Angel-court,
...... ...• Mr. Whiston Powell, Copthall-court : and
Messrs. Peppercorne, 2, Old Broad-street
Liverpool— • • • • • Messrs. Alston and Gage.
Manchester .. .. liessrs. Houghland and Leese, and Mr. Wil-
tliam Marshall.
Hull—. ... .. • ..• • • Messrs. Collinson and Flint.

Plymouth
Birmingham Mr. Collis and Mr. John Wright.
Glasgow.. Messrs. Tassio and Co.
Edinburgh • • • • • • • •
Messrs. Robertson and Co., and Messrs. M‘Cal.
lum and Co.
Huddersfield • . • • .

To the Provisional Committee of the Worcester and Chester
Railway.

Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me Shares of
20/. each in this Company, and I undertake to accept the same, an
to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that may be al-
lotted to me; and I undertake also to execute the Parliamentary
Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
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