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BIRMINGHAM. ANDRAILW AY MANCHESTER DI-
N o ill Ober application fur shares can be received herein, the same
having closed ou the 15th inst.
Ti.e Committee are actively engaged in the consideration of the
appEeetions, but in consequence of their Immense numb-er, some days
mast elapse before the letters. of allotment can be posted,
A. A. FLINT, Secretary.
Dated this 21st day of October, 1845.

THE DIRECT LONDON and EXETER
RAILWAY (with EXTENSION to FALMPUTII and
PENZANCE).
The Committee of Management hereby give Notice that they
nave COMPLETED the ALLOTMENT of SHARES, and that the
usual letters are this day Issued. In the arduous duty of deciding on
Claims unprecedented, it is believed, in their number and respecta-
bility, the Committee have been obliged to give a preference to tip-
plicants locally interested, or likely to bring to bear for the Company
a !we share of legitimate influence. The numerous persons, with
undou:.!'ed claims on the score of wealth and social standing, whose
applicatioO4 have either been passed Over or Cut down, are requested
to accept this reason as the Committee's apology,
The Committee desire to add, that while attestations of public
support are daily Melling them from the most influential quarters,
the engineering preparations, under Mr. Braithwaite, are so far ad-
vanced, that the project cannot fall to be pieced before Parliament in
a manner the most satisfactory to the Shareholders.
R. S. 131.1.1141)ELL. lion, Sea.

rpHE EASTERN COUNTIES EXTENSION
A and CAMBRIDGE and WORCESTER DIRECT RAILWAY,
from sambridge through Bedford, Blisworth,Yenny.Corapton, Strat-
ford-on-Avon, to Worcester, connecting the Eastern and North•
Eastern Counties with North and South Wales, South Staffordshire,
Cheshire, Shropshire, Gloucestershire, Bristol, the West of England,
and t .c Midland Counties.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21.25. per Share.
PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS.

Samuel Anderson, Esq .2 Directors of the Eastern Counties Rail
F. Valentine Lee, Esq.,
Sir Henry Webb, Dart., Pall-mall, London
Major-General Sir Love Jones Love Parry, Bart., K.C.8.,
Madryn-park, Caernarvonshire
William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., Sec., Alderman
of London, Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead
Continuation Railway Company
Captain William Cousins, Director of the Goole and Doncaster

Railways
Robert Rising, Esq., The Shrubbery, Worcestershire
James Morrison, Esq., Raymond-Nrildings, Gray's Inn, Pro-
visional Director of the Bridgewater and MineheaEl Railway
Company
Admiral Ayscough, Southampton
John Brightman, Esq., Regency-square, Brighton
Captain Chamfer, Ilalkin -street West, Beigrave-square, London
Thomas Ctitty, Esq., 8, Upper Gower-street, London
Thomas Henry Evans, Esq., 30, Lothbury, and Mayor of Caer-

Tway.

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Alexander Greig, Esq., Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square,
London
John Helbert Delbert, Esq., Upper Gloucester-street, London
James Watts Peppercorne, Esq.,. Old Broad-street, and Du
Surrey
Sir William Boothby, Bart., Ashby-hall, Derbyshire, Director of the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction, and of the
Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railways
Adair Major, Esq., Director of the Church of England Assurance
Company
Atkinson, J. R. W., Esq., Leeds
Anderson, James, Esq., Bridge-street, City
Annesley, Sir fames
Barry, D., Esq., Paris and London
Brindley, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction, and of the Direct East and
West Junctien Railways
Brooks, John, Esq., Alderman of Manchester, Director of Reming-
ton's Direct London and Manchester Railway
Brown, Joseph, Esq., Alderman of Bedford
Burgess, John. Esq., Boroughreeve, St. James's-square, Manchester,
Director of Remington's Direct London and Manehester Railway
Burnett, John, Esq., Cheltenham
Burgess, John, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester
Buschek, C., Esq., '133, Fenchurch-street
Cockburn, Sir Francis, Dover
Curnberledge, N., Esq., York-terrace, Regent's-park
Clarke, Jeremiah, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's Lon-
don and Manchester, and of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and
Worcestershire Junction, and of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield,
and South Staffordshire Railways
Cleobury, Thomas Mortimer, Esq., Acton, Middlesex
Cooper, John Douglas, Esq., Home-cottage, Ashbourne, Director, of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Mill-
way
Croft, John T., Major, 15, Regent-street, Piccadilly, Deputy Chair-
man of the Chester and Manchester Railway, and Director of the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction, of the
Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire, and of the
Direct East and West Junction Railways
Crocket, Thomas, Esq.; Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction, and of the Leeds, Huddersfield,
Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railways
Cooke, Rev. John, Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction, and of the Leeds, Hudders-
field, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Direct East and West
Junction Railways
Cooke, John, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's Direct
London and Manchester Railway
Carpenter, R., Esq.
Coape, Henry Coe, Esq., Goldhangers, Maldon, Essex, Director of the
Oxford, Manchester, and Southampton Junction Railway
Cottle, J. M., Esq., Leamington, Director of the Coventry and Lei-
cester Railway
Dawson Darner, the Right Hon., M.P., Tilney-street, Park-lane
Dawson Darner, the Hon. Wm., Parkstone-lodge, Poole
Dalby, John Robert, Esq., Ashbourne, Derbyshire, Director of the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction, and of
the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Rail-
ways
Dale, Major Thurston, Ashbourne, Director of the Leeds, Hudders-
field, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railway
Dayrell, E. Francis, Esq., Liling,stone Dayrell, Bucks, High Sheriff
for Bucks •
Eames, John, Esq., Ashby-de-la:Zouch
Edinton, Harvey, Esq., Worcester
Erskine, Henry D., Esq., Mount-street, Grosvenor-square
Freke, the Hon. Percy Evans, 3, Belgrave-square
Fitch, Colonel George, 36, York-terrace, Loudon, Director of the
York and Lancaster Railway
Gore, the Hon. Robert, M.P.
Gisborne, Henry Francis, Esq., Derby, Director of the Staffordshire,
Leicester and Tamworth, and Derby and Crewe, Macclesfield and
Lichfield Railways
Gutch, John Matthew, banker, Worcester, Director of Remington's
Direct London and Manchester, of the Direct East and West
Junction, and of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcester
Junction Railways
Gambier, William, Esq., Salcombe-park, Bedfordshire
Gernon, James, Esq., onduit-street
Hutchinson, The Hon. Colonel, Weston-house, Towcester
Hudson. George Bedgough, Esq., Pershore, Worcestershire
Heneage, Charles, Esq., Cadeby-house, Lincolnshire
Hume, Fitzwilliam, Esq., Park-place, St. James's
Haines, Samuel, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbaston, Director of the Di-
rect East and West Junction Railways
Hadon, Joseph, Esq., ironmaster, Dudley, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction, and of the Leeds,
Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railways
Holford, John, Esq., Manchester, Director of Remington's Direct
London and Manchester, of the Direct East and West Junction,
and of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction
Railways
Hamer, S., Esq., General Post-office, and Southampton-row, Rus-
sell-square, Director of Remington's Direct London and Man-
chester Railway
Hale, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Potteries
Railway
Hill, John, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire,
and Worcestershire, and of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and
South Staffordshire Railways
Burst, George, Esq., Bedford, Director of Remington's Direct London
and Manchester Railway
Hooke, Benjamin, Esq., Norton-hall, near Worcester
Jerningham, the Hon. Edward
Jones, Rev. J. P., Alton Vicarage, Cheadle, Staffordshire, Director of
Kensington's Direct London and Manchester, and of the Leeds,
Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire, and of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Direct Junction Railways
King, William, Esq., Waterloo-place, Director of Freemasons' Life As-
surance-office
Keene, John Joseph, Esq., St. John's Wood, Regent's-park, Director
of the National Bank of Ireland, and Chester and Manchester
Direct Railway
Kilpin and Son, Bedford
Knight, Edward, Esq., M.D., Stafford, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction, and of the Leeds, Hud-
dersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railways
Knight, James, Esq., Worcester
Laslett ,William, Esq., Abberton-hall, near Worcester
Lassetter, Richard, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Lees, David, Esq., WednesburY, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Langley, Henry, Esq., Rakeway-house, Cheadle, Director of Reming-
ton's Direct London and Manchester, of the Leeds, Huddersfield,
Sheffield, and South Staffordshire, and of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railways
M'Cann, Nicholas, Esq., 50, Parliament-street
Moore, Major, Queen Ann-street, Cavendish-square, Director of the
Indian Peninsular( Railway
Meteyard, Horace William, Esq., Chatham-place, Director ofßeming-
ton's Direct London and Manchester, of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction, of the Leeds, Huddersfield,
Sheffield, and South Staffordshire, of the Direct East and West
Junction, and of the Chester and Manchester Direct Railways
Milner, Wm., Esq., Teen, Staffordshire, Director of the Leeds, Hud-
dersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire, and of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railways
Murray, Samuel T. Esq., 16, George-street, Hanover-sqaate, Director
of the National Loan Assurance Company
Monteflore, Joseph, Esq., Stanhope-street, May-fair
Marshall, G., Esq., Godalming, Surrey
Newman, Henry W., Esq., Clifton, Deputy-Lieutenant of the Comity
of Gloucester
Nugent, the Hon. M. W. 8., Ingham Grange, Leicestershire
Neracher, Thomas Henry, Esq., Dudley
Norris, Edward, Esq., Clairville, Director of Remington's Direct Lon-
don and Manchester Railway
Prescott, Sir George, Bart., Theobald's, Herts
Price, Thomas, Rev., Llarothel, Herefordshire
Pilkington, Henry, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Director o Remington'
Direct London and Manchester Railway
The Lord Rossmore, the Dell, Windsor
Riley, Wm. T., Esq., Pendeford-house, Wolverhampton, and Mllifield
Ironworks, Hasten, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and
Worcestershire Junction, and of the Shropshire Mineral Railways
Robertson, James, Esq., Worcester, Director of the Worcester and
j eominster, and Bristol, Bath, and Dover Direct Railway
Robinson, John, Esq., Silcoates-cottage, Wakefield, Director of the
Bradford, Wakefield, and Midlands; of the Stockton, North, and
Leeds ; Leeds, York, and Midlands' Junction ; Leeds, Huddersfield,
Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railways
Seymour, Fred., Esq., St. James's-square
Sharpe, George Henry, Esq., Bedford, Director of Remington's Direct
London and Manchester Railway
Sheppard, James Peek, Esq., Worcester
Sheppard, Edgar, Esq., Worcester
Skene, George R., Esq., F.K.M. and C.S., Bedford, Proprietor of the
Bedford Mercury, Director of Remington's Direct London and
Manchester Railway
Shrine, Julian, Esq., Cambridge, Director of the Cambridge and Lin-
colnshire Railway
Smith, William, Esq., Clifton, near Ashbourne, Director of the Tean
and Dove Valley ailway ; of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and
Worcestershire Junction Railway ; of the Leeds, Huddersfield,
Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railway; aid of the Direct East
and West Junction Railway
Smith, Thomas, Esq., Blore Hall, Ashbourne, Director of the Leeds,
Sheffield, Huddersfield, and South Staffordshire, and of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railways
Spiers, Edmund John, Esq., Carlton Villas, Maida Vale, Paddington,
Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire
Junction, and of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staf-
fordshire Railways
Smith, F. Curven, Esq., Frognall Hall
Stephenson, Thomas, Esq., Worcester
The Sheriff of York, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield,
and South Staffordshire, and of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and
Worcestershire Junction Railways
Tyler, George, Esq., Holloway-place, London, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction, of the Leeds,
Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire, and of the Direct
East and West Junction Railways
Tylecote, Edward, Esq., Great Haywood, Staffordshire, Director of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction, and
the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Rail-
ways
Turner, J., Esq., M.P., Truro
Westenra, The Hon. J. C., M.P.
Wailer, Major, St. James's-square
Willis, George, Esq., Hungerford-park
Welch, Edward, Esq., Leamington
Walker, George James Alexander, Esq., Norton Villa, near Worcester
Walsh, John Henry, Esq., Worcester
Walter, James Smith, Esq., Director of the Hayes, Bakesvell, Der-
byshire, Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire
Railways
Wardle, Henry, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's Direct
London and Manchester, and Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Wor-
cestershire Junction Railways
Warde, C. Thomas, Esq., Clopton-house, Stratford-on-Avon, and
Luton Hoe, Bedfordshire
Wheelton, John, Esq., Meopham Bank, Tonbridge, Director of the
Leicester and Bedford, and Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Glou-
cester Junction Railways
Williams, Benj., Esq., banker, 4, Whitehall
Williams, William,
sq., Royal Foundry, Bedford, Director of Re
mington'a Direct Lendon and Manchester Railway

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Wood, John, Esq., Wednesbury, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf
fordshire, and. Worcestershire Junction Railways
Weston, Thomas, Esq., Tean, Staffordshire, Director of the Leeds,
Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire, and of the Der-
byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railways
Wood, William, Esq., M.D., Chetwynd house, Newport, Salop, Di-
rector of the Shropshire Mineral, and of the Leeds, Huddersfield,
Rhetficl4, and south Staffordshire Railways
Wood, Charles, Vag., Uttoxcter, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction, and of the Leeds, Huddersfield,
Sheillelti, and South Stgfomishire Rdilwgye
'Woodward, .John, Esq., Worcester
W. Wynnie Thomas, Esq., Cross, Oswestry
Yzarn, J. l3orivick, Herne-hill, Surrey.

tNOINEERS.
Sir John Rennie, F.R.S., and
George Remington, Esq., C.E.

BANSESB.

Bedford—
Cambridge—Messrs. Foster _
rthampton—The Northamptonshire Banking Company.
Leamington, Warwick, and Sontham7The Leamington Priors and

Warwickshire Banking Company.
SOLICITOUS.
Augustus Walter Arnold, Esq., 31, Golden-square
John Owens, Esq., 35, Mom•gate-street
3eorg,e Pell, Esq., jun., Northampton.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Worcester—Messrs Gilham and Sons
Alcester—Cbarles James, Esq.
Cambridge—Stephen Adcock, Esq.
Leamington, Warwick, and Southam—Messrs. Patterson, Haymes,
Hanbury, and Gardner
London—Messrs. Barnard, Dimsdale, and Co., 50, Cornhill ; Messrs.
Cockburn and Co., Whitehall; Messrs. Hopkinson and Co., Wa-
terloo-place

SEcnETAAY—D. C. Higgs, Esq.
Offices of the Company, No. 34. Moorgate-street.

PROSPECTUS.

Commencing at Cambridge, which has now become the• traftle-
centre of the Eastern Counties, by the line of railway intended to be
formed by that Company, this line will proceed to Bedford, there
passing near Olney it will cross at or near the Blisworth Station of the
London and Birmingham Railway, where It will communicate with
the Northampton and Peterborough line; it will then proceed west-
ward, crossing the Oxford and Rugby line at or near Fenny-Compton
to Stratford-on-Avon, there joining the proposed line from Warwick
and Leamington to Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bristol, and the West of
England; continuing its course through Aleester, the line will go di-
rect to Worcester, and thus terminate at the great centre of traffic
fur the mineral and manufacturing districts of South Staffordshire,
Shropshire, and North and South Wales. This proposed line does
not interfere with any existing railways, and presenting, as it does,
an unbroken line between two great centres of traffic, the importance
of the undertaking needs no further comment.
Negotiations have been entered into with the Eastern Coun-
ties Railway Company, by which their support and co-operation will
be ensured for obtaining the line now proposed. •
An arrangement has also been made with the proposed Rugby,
Warwick, and Worcester Company, which this line will join at Al-
cester, and by means of which the Eastern Counties' traffic will pro-
ceed to Worcester. ti .
Power will be reserved to the Directors to amalgamate with any
other existing or projecting Companies, or to vary the line.
Application for shares may be made to the Secretary, and to tke fol-
lowing Sharebrokers, of whom prospectuses, with maps of the line.
may be obtained :—London—Messrs. Peppercorne and Co., 2, Old
Broad-street ; Messrs. Preece and Evans, 39, Lothbury ; Messrs.
Boyd. Birmingham—Mr. W. H. Collis. Blackburn—Mr. Thomas
Boardman. Bradford Mr. G. Clark ; Messrs. Tate and
Nash. Cheltenham—Mr. James Stokes. Coventry—Mr. J. S.
Holland. Derby—Messrs. Eyre and Shaw. Dublin—Messrs.
Labertouche and Stafford. Edinburgh—James Pringle, Esq.,
79, Princes-street ; Messrs. Beaumont and Langworthy.
Glasgow—Messrs.Duncan and Hutchinson. Halifax—Mr.W.Cronhelm.
Huddersfield—Messrs. E'verard and Co. Hull—Mr. Frederick stamp.
Leeds—Messrs Weilbeloved and Oastler. • Leicester—Messrs. Payne
and Freer. Liverpool—Messrs. Townley and Whitehead ; Messrs.
Cameron and Co. ; Mr. Morris Reynolds. Macclesfield—Mr. Richard
E. Hine. Manchester—Messrs. Cardwell and Sons ; Messrs. A.
Birchall and Co. ; Mr. Charles O'Neil. Nottingham—Mr. Charles
Spencer. Sheffield—Messrs. T. N. Bardwell and Sons. South-
ampton—Mr. Joseph Clark, jun. Wakefield—Mr. E. H. Armitage.
Wercester—Mr.Miles. York—Messrs. Grayston and Earle.—Salts-
bury—air. William Fawcett. Birkenhead—Mr. Andrew Milligan, 2,
Lord-street.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Eastern Counties Extension,

and Cambridge and Worcester Direct Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me , shares, of 201.
each in the above railway ; and I undertake to accept the same, or
such less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the regu-
lations of the Company, and to sign the necessary deeds, and to pay
when required the deposit thereon of 21.25. per share.
Dated this day of , 1845,
Name, In full .. • . • . • . • • • •
Profession and Professional Residence in M.
Private Residence in full .. • . • • • • • •
Usual Signature • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Residence . • • .. • • • • • • • • • •
And Profession of Referee .. • • • • • •
• Offices, 34, Moorgate-street,

EASTERN COUNTIES EXTENSION.
Oct. 21, 1845.
No Application for Shares in this Company can be received after
four o'clock on FRIDAY, the 24th inst.
By order,
D. C. HIGGS, Secretary.

BIRAIINGIIA M. AND ABERYSTWITH
RAILWAY,
Connecting the Sea-coast of Wales with the Midland Counties.
(Provisionally Registered).
A Prospectus, with an influential Provisional Committee, will be
published in a few days. In the meantime, any information may be
obtained at the temporary Offices of the Company, No. 163, Fen-
church-street, London, where applications for Shares, in the usual
form, may be addressed.
CHARLES J. lIOLMES,
EDWARD GARRETT, point Solicitors.
WILLIAM BRINTON,

LEICESTER, MELTON MOWBRAY, and
BOSTON DIRECT UNION RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 400,0001., in 20,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Thomas Bent, Esq. M.D. Derby, director of the Rugby, Derby, and
Manchester Railway
John Blyth, Esq. Alderegate-street, London, director of the Lime-
rick and Belfast Union Railway
Samuel Buxton, Esq. Bangley-house, near Tamwerth, director of the
Walsall, Wolverhampton, and Direct Norwich Railway
Richard Carpenter, Esq. London, Deputy-Lieutenant for the county
of Middlesex, Vice-Chairman of the London and Birmingham Ex-
tension, director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway, &c.
Sir James Duke, M.P. director of the Ambergate, Nottingham, and
Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
Peter henry Edlin, Esq. London, director of the Nottingham and
Peterborough Railway
Thomas Ekin, Esq. Grantham
Robert Forman, Esq. Abbott's-hill, Derby, director of the Tean and
Dove Valley Railway, &c. &c.
Francis Gamble, Esq. Gainsborough, director of the Grand Unien
Railway, London and Nottingham Railway, &c.
George Gamble, Esq. Gainsborough, director of the Grand Union
Railway, London and Nottingham Railway, &c.
Warren Stormes• Hale, Esq. Gresham street, director of the Oxford
and Worcester Extension Railway
1 S. Harwood, Esq. Bradley-hall, Derbyshire
Stephen James Hobson, Esq. Leicester, director of the Walsall, Wol-
verhampton, and Direct Norwich Railway
Captain Hulme, Exeter, director of the Taw Vale Extension Rail-
way, &c.
John Inglis Jerdein, Esq. Piccadilly, London, director of the Great
Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway
Jas. Macmillan, Esq., Southampton. vice-chairman of the South-
ampton,
Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railway
Charles Millar, Esq. Grantham
E. Monk, Esq. the Park, Nottingham, director of the Nottingham,
Mansfield, and Midlands Railway, &c.
Peter Morrison, Esq. London, director of the Birmingham Extension
Railway, &c.
Thomas North, Esq. the mayor of Nottingham
Major-General Parlby, C.B. 18, Rutland-gate, Hyde-park
Alfred Pickwoad, Esq. Brldport, Dorset, director of the Leeds and
Carlisle Railway
William Pritchard, Esq. Doctors'-commons, director of the Direct
London and Hastings Railway
James Reeves, Esq. Leyton, Essex, director of the Oxford and Wor-
cester Extension Railway
William Jubbins Spurrier, Esq. Regent-street, London, director of the
Lincoln and Grantham Railway
William Walkington, Esq. Alderman, Grantham
David Wheatcroft, Esq. Buckland Hollow, near Aifreton, director
of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway
James Whiskin, Esq. London, director of the Croydon Railway
(With power to add to their number).

RANKERS.
London—Messrs. Masterman and Co.
Leicester and Melton : Mowbray—Pare's Leicestershire Banking
Company
Boston—
Nottingham—Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Banking Com-
pany
Grantham—Messrs. Hardy, Walkingham, and Hardy.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Potter and Collingridge, 5, Basinghall-street, London.
John Edward Lawton, Esq. Leicester
LOCAL AGENTS.

Nottingham—
Grantham—Robert Henry Johnson, Esq. ; and Henry Thompson, Esq,
Boston—B. S. Simpson, Esq.

ENGINEER.

ACTING ENGINEER—Richard C. Carpenter, Esq,
SECRETARY—E. Jones, Esq.

The port of Boston affords the readiest outlet for exports from the
manufacturing districts to the north of Europe, and the importance
of direct communication from the midland counties to a place so ad-
vantageously situate cannot be over-estimated.
Leiceler has, or shortly will have, direct communication with
Birmingham, and all the other important towns in the midland
district.
The Midland Railway Company is extending the communication
to Melton Mowbray, by means of its branch from Syston to Peter-
borough, which passes through that place. There is also a complete
line of railway about to be established from Nottingham, through
Grantham and Folkingham, to Boston, as well as to Spalding, Wis-
beach, Lynn, Yarmouth, and other important towns in the eastern
counties.
The Leicester, Melton Mowbray, and Boston Direct Union Rail-
way, by forming a line from Melton Mowbray to Folkingham, will
supply the only link wanting to complete a direct through comthuni-
cation from Birmingham, Warwick, Worcester, Coventry, and the
manufacturing districts generally, to Boston, as well as by means of
existing and projected railways from Wales and the Bristol Channel,
to that seaport.
The length of the proposed line will not exceed twenty-six miles ;
and as it will pass through a country very favourable for engineer-
ing purposes, the expense of construction will, it is expected, be less
than the usual average. The admirable position of this railway can-
not fail, it is confidently expected, to command a large return, both
in passengers and in goads traffic.
The Company will be in a situation to deposit the Parliamentary
plans and sections in ample time for complying with the standing
orders, and enabling them to apply for their Act in the ensuing
session.
Applications for shares to be addressed to the solicitors, Messrs.
Potter and Collingridge, No. 5, Basinghall-street London; to the
Local Agents ; and the following sharebrokers :
Leicester—Messrs. Williams and Sunderland
London—Messrs. Taunton and Bush, Austin-friars
Derby—Messrs. Forman, jun. and Williams
Nottingham—Messrs. Peet„;•Son, and Potter
Birmingham—Mr. J. R. Lane
Liverpool—Messrs. Samuel Woods and Co.
Manchester—Messrs Bradley, Johnson, and Walker
Leeds—Messrs. R. B. Watson, Tootal, and Barff ; and Mr. J. Smith,
57, Albion-street
Hull—Messrs. Wilkinson and Earl.
Bristol—Messrs. Selnnes and Tripp
Leamingtonl Messrs.
Warwick White and Son
Hanky—Mr. William Albert
Huddersfield—Messrs. Dyson and Jones
Bradford—Messrs Smith and Minton
Blackburn—Mr. Thos. Boardman
Worcester—Mr. Wm. Miles
, Colchester—Mr. Henry Carr
Cheltenham—Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and Co.
Gloucester—Dir. J. N. Balme
Diacciesfiehl—Mr. R. E. Hine
Bath—Mr. R. P. Lemon
Norwich—Mr. C. S. Gill.nan
Edinburgh—Messrs. Robertson and Co.
Glasgow—Messrs. Tassie and Co.
Exeter—Dir. J. Sanford
Plymouth—Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Leicester, Melton Mowbray,
and Boston Direct Union Railway.
Gentlemen,—I request that you will allot to me shares of
20/. each in the capital of this Coinpany ; and I undertake to acce t
the same, and pay thee;psit thereon, or upon any less number eat
may bo allotted to m and I also undertake to execute the Sub-
scriber? Agreement and Parliamentary Contract when required.
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(PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED).
PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT.
CAMBRIDGE and COLCHESTER,
- RAI LWAY.
Capital, 800,000/., in 40,000 Sim, es of 20/. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.
Ths Company has been formed for snaking the above line of rail-
way, and a list of the Provisional Committee, containing moat in-
fluential names, will appear in a few days.
This railway will commence at the Univemity town of Cambridget
and proceed from thence to Coldwater, passing through or near that
towns of Linton, Haverhill, Great Yeldham, Ileclingham, and
stead, proceeding by Thorp and Weeley to Walton-on-the-a,:jl
On retiarenee to the map, it wid be seen that this line will pass
through a part of the country at present unpreAdded 'with railway
accommodation, and bring the town of Call-dotage ir.l close connexion
with Colchester, and the fast improving reasr:rt town of Harwich,
and by means of the railways tilrealyfn-coed and
proposed to be
formed, will open a ccuunsunication Yorkshire and alt parts of
the north, with Leicester, Nottiham,
Derby, Manchester, Liver-
poouand other large mantacturlng towns, and the rich mineral
districts of Staffordshlre, the important tow.is of Birmingham and
Worcester, north and south Wales, and by the Northampton, Ban-
bury and Cheltenham Railway, with all parts of the west of England,
as well as opening a direct communication to the important seaport
towns on the eastern coast.

A considerable Parliamentary grant having been made to improve
the harbour of Harwich, a Company has, been formed to make large
and commodious docks at that place, and from the fact of Harwich
being directly opposite the ports of Holland (thus bringing it in
commUnioation with the railways In Germany) there is no doubt
bUt that Harwich will become a first-rate sea-fort town for exten-
sive commercial and passenger traffic, and will be a powerful
feeder to this line.

The town of Colchester is also a sea-port, from which coals and
goods in large quantities are supplied to Halstead and the adjacent
uvillages, and goods, flour, malt, &c., in large
quantitiess townsashippede and
upp
led from the district through which this
line is proposed to pass) to London and other places.
Therefore this line will open a communication much needed, and
there 041inat be any doubt but that the undertaking is one of great
importance, as affording railway accommodation to a large and po-
pulous district of country through which it will pass, and that it
will pay a good rate of interest on the capital invested
From Colchester the line will proceed to the fast-improving and
much admired watering.place, Walton-on. the-Naze, passing through
Thorp and Wesley, and thereby affording railway accommodation
from the Midland Counties to that place of summer resort for sea
bathing.
rower will be applied for to allow 41, per cent. on deposits an
all calls until the line is opened. l "

Prospectuses awl plans forthwlgt issued, and,_ in the
meantime applications for Shares may be, mtiaereittle solicitors,
George Weller, Esq. S, King's-rood, Bedfori-row, London; George
Pell, jun., Esq. Welford,Northaraptonshire ; and George Cooke, Esq.
Northampton.

PRELIMP;ARY NOTICE.
—L HEAD DIRECT
EXETER. TIVERTON, AND MINE-
to Ilfracombe. 'RAILWAY, with extension from Minehead

(Provisionally Registered.)
CaPv.al, 1,600,0001., in 64,000 Shares of 25/. each.

This • Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
railway will pass from the city of Exeter, through the
rich valley of the Exe, via Silverton and Bickleigh, direct to
•
r.verton, one of the chief towns of this important district, and
formerly the principal market and manufacturing town of the west
of England. It will administer largely to the prosperity of this
rich and productive country, and will pass from Tiverton, by Bainp-
ton, Dulverton, and Dunster, to the port of Minehead in the Bristol
Channel, opposite Landaff, Swansea, and Cardiff, from whence the
produce of the rich mines and quarries of Merthyr Tydvil, Ponty-
pool, and Newport, in Wales, can be transferred by the shortest
route to the English markets. From Diinehead it will pass by
Porlock and Comhe-3larten to the much-frequented watering-place
of Ilfracombe, where it unites with the Barnstaple and Ilfracombe
Railway. At Minehead it will also join the Bridgewater and Mine-
head Railway, to which it will serve as an important feeder, connect-
ing the towns on the north coast of Devon directly with the great
western trunk railroads passing from London to the Land's End. I t
will also form a very short and direct junction of the Bristol and
English Channels.

A mole valuable and important line: o the country which it will
traverse could not be projected. A list of the Provisional Committee
will be published in a few days ; and in the meantime farther infor-
mation may be obtained, and applications for shares may be made
to, the solicitors, Messrs. Ehnslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street,
London, or at the Company's Ofilcz-6, No. 37, Gresham-street, City.

THE STAFFORDSHIRE AND NORTH
MIDLAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 700,0001., in 35,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Ingestre, M.P. Brompton-park,
Middlesex
The Hon. and Rev. Augustus Duncombe, Calwich Abbey, Ash-
bourne, Derbyshire
Sir J. E. Anderson, Bart. New Burlington-street, London
Sir John Cave Brown Cave, Bait chairman of the Derby and
Crewe Railway
Sir John Key, Bart. Alderman, King's-Arms-yard, London, director
of the Direct London and Manchester Railway
Francis Simes Alliott, Esq. Nottingham
Thomas Bishop, Esq. Standard-hill, Nottingham, deputy-chairman
of the Ambergate, Nottingliano, Boston, and Eastern Junction
Railway
John. Fowler Burbidge, Esq. Mayor of Grantham
John Moor, Esq. Tutbury, Staffordshire, director of the Cambridge
and Lincoln Extension Railway
W. Gabbett Beare, Esq. 6, Porchester-place, Connaught-square,
director of the Direct London and Manchester Railway
John Bradley, Esq. Nottingham-park
Joseph Bridgett, Esq. Aldermanbury, London
William Cantrell, Esq. Wirksworth
John Chambers, Esq. The Hurst, Alfreton, Derbyshire, director of
the Derby and Crewe Railway
Charles Kelly Cooper, Esq. Ashbourne
Robert Cresswell, Esq. Idridgehay, Wirksworth, director of the
Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock Midland Railway
Henry Cox, Esq. deputy-chairman of the Derby and Crewe Railway
Charles Clarke, 'Esq. Matlock, deputy-chairman of the Quarter Ses-
sions of the county of Derby
Francis Critchlow, jun. Esq. Mayfield, Ashbourne
Philip Dawson, Esq. Walton-bank, Ashbourne
John Earp, Esq., Uttoketer
Lieut.-colonel Elrington, Wyndham-place, Bryanston-square, 'direc-
tor of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
David Evans, Esq. Belper
Robert Forman, Esq. Derby
Henry Plumptre Gipps, Esq. 9, Montagu-place, BryanSton-square,
director of the Direct London and Manchester Railway
Francis Green Goodwin, Esq. Wigwall Grange, Derbyshire
William Greaves, Esq. The Hermitage, Mayfield, Ashbourne -
Thomas Hartshorne, Esq. Silkmore-house, Stafford
William Harding, Esq. Lea-halt, Ashbourne
Thomas Holmes, Esq. The Elrns, Cheadle
Robert James Hartshorne, Esq. Ashbourne
Richard Hurt, Esq. Wirksworth, Derbyshire
Edward Anthony Holden, Esq. Aston-lodge, Derbyshire
Thomas Hackett, Esq. Derby
William Harding' Esq. Ladbroke Villa, Notting-hill, London
John Jackson, Esq. Eccleston-place, Euston-square, London
John Keys, Esq. Whiston, Cheadle, Staffordshire
Wm. Lawrence, Esq. Brixton, director of the Direct London and
Manchester Railway
James Milnes, Esq. Alten-manor, Wirksworth
Charles Milnes, Esq. Torr-house, Matlock
James Mills, Esq. Wood-end, Matlock
Charles John Mold, Esq. 3lakeney-house, Belper
Daniel Oakden, Esq. Bentley-hall, Ashboume
William Orpe, Esq. Birchwood-moor, Ashbourne
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq. F.R.S. Upper Hyde-park-street, director of
the Direct London and Manchester Railway
Kenyon Stevens Parker, Esq. Q.C. Gower-street, London, director of
the Direct London and Manchester Railway
Edmund Percy, Esq. Nottingham
James Peate, Esq. Alderman, Derby
Thomas Richardson, Esq. Derby, director of the Liverpool and Derby
Railway
John Skevington, Esq. Asbbourne
W. B. Spurgeon, Esq. Derby
John Swan, Esq. Nottingham, director of the Amber Gate, Notting-
ham, Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
John B. Storey, Esq. Lockington, Derbyshire
John Smedley, Esq. Lea, Matlock
Francis Edward Shipley, Esq. Giltbrook-house, Nottinghamshire
Walter Shairp, Esq. Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, London
Joseph Shipley, Esq. Uttoxeter
John Smedley, Esq. Lea-bridge, Matlock
William Taylor, Esq. Derby
Charles Walker, Esq. Ellastone, Staffordshire
Joseph Loxdale Warren, Esq. The Lodge, Market Drayton. and Con-
sail hall, Cheadle, director of the Macclesfield and Lichfield Rail-
way
George Walker, Esq., Wootton Park, Ashbourne
Joseph Wass, Esq., Lea, near Matlock, director of the Manchester,
Buxton, Matlock, and Midland Junction Railway
Thomas Walker, Esq., Belper
James Dyer Williams, Esq. Milton-street, Dorset-square. London,
director of the Taw Vale Railway Extension and Dock Company.
Frederick Williams, Esq. Hampstead
William Wright, Esq. Wirksworth
B. B. Williams, Esq. Wyndham-place, Bryanston-square, director
of the Direct London and Manchester Railway
Thomas Wise, Esq. Ashboume
William Hurd Wood, Esq. Ashbourne
Joseph Wyles, Esq. Grantham, director of the Amber Gate, Not-
tinAhani, Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
John Wright, Esq. Derby
Nathaniel Wheatcroft, Esq. Wiftersly, Cromford.
(With power to add to their number.)
CONSULTING ENGINEER—Joseph Locke, Esq. C.E.
RESIDENT ENGLNEEII—Stourges Meeke, Esq. C.E.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Robarts, Curtis, and Co., Lombard-street, London
Sir Benjamin Heywood, Bart. and Co., Manchester
The Uttoxeter, Burton, and Ashbounie Union Banking Company
Uttoxeter and Ashbourne
The Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby
The Manchester and Liverpool District Banking Company, Stafford
Messrs. Samuel Smith and Co., Nottingham.
SOLICITORS.
Thomas Richardson, Esq. Uttexeter
Philip Hubbersty, Esq. Wirksworth.
LOCAL SOLICITOR.
John J. Wise, Esq. Ashbourne.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—Messrs. Sudlow and Kingdon, 6, New
Palace=yard, Westminster.
SECRETARY, (pro tem)—Thomas Richardson, Esq.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
The Honourable and Rev. Augustus John Bloor, Esq.
Duncombe William Cantrell, Esq.
John Chambers, Esq. Charles Walker, Esq.
Thomas Bishop, Esq. William Hurd Wood, Esq.
Joseph Wyles, Esq. T. Richardson, Esq.
John Keys, Esq. Thomas Walker, Esq.
Joseph Wass, Esq. John Earp, Esq.
Charles Clarke, Esq. James Milnes, Esq.

PROSPECTUS.
This undertaking is designed to supply the wants of an extensive
mineral and populous district, the local traffic of which alone is ad-
mitted to be sufficient to support a railway and amply remunerate the
shareholders ; the line will not only accomplish so desirable an ob-
ject, but it also possesses the advantage of forming a direct commu-
nication, by the shortest practicable route, (in connexion with exist-
ing and projected railways) between two of the most important
divisions of the kingdom.
It is intended to commence by joining the Grand Junction
Railway at Stafford, and proceed by Uttoxeter, Rocester and
Ashbourne, to a junction with the Midland Railway, the
Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland Railway, and the
Amber Gate, Nottingham, Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway,
at the general terminus at Amber Gate ; a short branch from Wirks-
worth will connect the line with that town, and the important lime-
stone and mineral district connected with it. The line will be about
forty miles long, and by its connection with the Midland Railway at
Amber Gate, and the Derby and Crewe Railway at Uttoxeter, will
be the nearest practicable route from Sheffield, York, Leeds, Hull,
the populous mannfacturing districts of Yorkshire and the north and
north-eastern parts of England, to the salt districts of Cheshire, the
Potteries, Liverpool and North Wales, and by its junction at Stafford
with the Shropshire Union Railway, will be the nearest route from
those important districts to Shrewsbury and South Wales, and by the
Grand Junction Railway to the densely populated districts of South
Staffordshire.

The district is destitute of water communication, and it is only
necessary to advert to a few of the prominent resources of the coun-
try to shew the magnitude of the local traffic.
The price of coals on all parts of the line is very high, being carted
a distance of 10 to 15 miles. The cost of this indispensible article of
consumption will be reduced nearly one half, as this line will imme-
diatel3 communicate with the Derbyshire and Staffordshire coal fields.
The line will pass several valuable quarries of Derbyshire marble
which is extensively used in all parts of the kingdom, and also nu-
merous lead smelting works and rolling mills, producing large
quantities of pig and sheet lead. It will afford an inexhaustible
supply of lime for the highly cultivated land on the banks of the
Dove and Southward. It will open the Derbyshire mines to the
copper and zinc smelting works in the neighbourhood of Cheadle,
and will afford a direct communication with Sheffield for the articles
manufactured at those works, which at present are carted to Derby,
a distance of more than twenty mike.
Already a large cattle traffic exists with the north, which will unques-
, tionably be greatly augmented by the facilities of this railway ; large
importaotniotthtseolf.S.cdotacihit
panasdtulrrecisrkosfhticiee cpaottvlee,
takingl3 in return brought fort o fat-
teningth the
consuming districts, the corn, cheese, wool, and other produce of the
extensive and fertile agricultural district which is intersected by this
Irailway. It will bring the already large 'cheese and cattle fairs of
Uttoxeter and Ashbourne into greater importance.
The iron furnaces of South Staffordshire consume annually nearly
a million tons of limestone. It is well known that the ironmasters
give a decided preference to the limestone of the South Peak, over
any other that has hitherto been tried ; the very great thsibility of
this stone rendering it peculiarly suitable as a flux for reducing the
stubborn iron ores of South Staffordshire, and were it not for the di-
latory and expensive means of transit, it would now be used to the
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found to be of no inconsiderable am( mit.
The projectors feel convinced that this railway contains the ele-
ments of great prosperity, and that as an investment it offers more
1,
than ordinary security.
The landowners on the line are favourable to this undertaking,
and the names of many influential proprietors will be found on the
Provisional Committee.
Arrangements have' been made with the Derby and Crewe Rail-
way Company, who take a portion of the capital, and give the line
their support and co-operation.
The Committee of Management are fortunate in having secured
the valuable s rvices of Mr. Locke, as consulting engineer, and of
Mr. Meeke, as resident engineer, who have assured the Committee
that the plans and surveyc will be ready for application to Parlia-
ment the next session.
Applications for shares to be addressed to the Secretary or Solid
tors. Plans and prospectuses may be obtained from the Solicitors,
or from the following Brokers :—William Le Grand, Esq. Shorter's-
court, London ; Messrs. Cuff and Fox, Derby ; Mr. John Bakeu ell,
Uttoxeter; Mr. Samuel Grindrod, and Mr. C. I'. Allen, Manchester;
Mr. Slater, Bradford ; Mr. Wesley, Burton-upon-Trent ; Mr. Dean,
Stoke-upon-Trent ; Messrs. West and Tennant, Leeds ; Mr. Eve-
rard, Huddersfield ; and Mr. Jones, Ashbourne. this
ia
Midland

FORM OF APPLICATIO NT FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Staffordshire and North Mid•

land Junction Railway.

Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 201.
each. in this Company, and I undertake to accept the same, and to
pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that may be allotted
to me ; and I also undertake to execute the Parliamentary Contract
and Subscribers' Agreement when req
fulluired.
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STAFFORDSHIRE and NORTH MIDLAND
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Sec. pro. tern.
Notice is hereby given, that NO APPLICATIONS for SHARES in
this undertaking can be rece
liN,
By order, 'IVO Sa f.
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Vttoxeter, October 16, 1845.

THE DEAL and DOVER JUNCTION
RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
The Prospectus of this Company will be issued in a few days ; and,
in the meantime, Applications for Shares to be made to the Secre-
tary, it the Temporary Offices, 46, Bucklersbury, Mansion-house,
London. •

By order of the Provisional Committee,
FRANCIS HOBLEEt Solicitor.
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October 22, 1845.

LEEDS, HUDDERSFIELD, SHEFFIELD,
and SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE (or Leeds and Huddersfield
to Wolverhampton and Dudley) DIRECT RAILWAY.
The Acting Committee of !rectors have the pleasure of inform-
ing the public that their engineers report the completion of the scr-
v cy, and that the plans are now in the hands of the engravers.
Everything will be completed iu thne tor an early application to
Parliament next session. _ _

The investigation of applications for shares is now proceeding, and
nearly finished. The Letters of Allotment will be posted in a few
days. By order,

B. SHELTON MACKENZIE, Secretary.
1. Moorgate-street, Oct. 23, 1845.

EGENT'S CANAL RAILWAY COM-
A?*
PAM'.
The promoters of this undertaking are anxious to confer and nego-
tiate with the parties who are locally interested along the line. For
this purpose a Public Meeting will be held as soon as the necessary
Parliamentary surveys are completed, and the Committee of Ma-
nagement in a position to detail the exact course which it is their in-
tention to pursue. Due notice of the time and place will be publicly
advertised, and all persons possessing property on the canal, as well
as those whose interests will be affected by the extension to the Post-
office, and on the line of Sir G. Duckett's Canal, will be requested
to attend. By order of the Board,
F. COLLIER, Secretary.
Greshfun-rooms. Basinghall-street,

Oct. 22, 1845,

REGENT'S CANAL RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given that no Applications for Shares
will be received atter SATURDAY next, the 25th inst.
By order of the Board,
FREDERICK COLLIER, Secretary.
Gresham Rooms, Basingliall-street, 21st Oct., 1845.

BIRMINGHAM AND BOSTON DIRECT
RAILWAY COMPANY, with a Branch to Grantham.
Capital, 1,000.000/., in 50,000 Shares of 20/. each.
Deposit 21.25. per Share.
(Provisionally Registered.)
•
(Vide former Advertisements for the influential Provisional Com-
mittee.)
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
The Right Hon. Lord Edward Chichester, Chairman.
Captain J. P. Macdougal, Vice-Chairman.
R. Atkyns, Esq. G. G. Hay, Esq.
H. Brown, Esq. James Lamb, Esq.
W. F. Black, Esq. John Rannie, Esq.
John Blunt, Esq. J. Thompson, Esq., Tottenham
Lieutenant-Colonel L. Dickson I John Thompson, Esq., Great St.
A. W. Grevilic, Esq. Helen's.
BANKERS.
Landon.—Commercial Bank of London, 3, Moorg,ate-street, and 3,
Henrietta-street, Covent-garden
Messrs Spooner, Attwoods, and Co., 27, Gracechurch-street
Birmingham.—Messrs. J. L. Moilliet and Sons, Birmingham and
Warwickshire Bank
Boston—Messrs. Gartit, Claypon, and Co., and Messrs. Gee and Co.
Leicester—The Leicestershire Banking Company
Melton Mowbray—Ditto.

JOINT SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Hook and Oldershaw, 7, Tokenhouse-yard
Messrs. C. T. and A. Jenkinson, 76, Cannon-street, City.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Birmingham—W. H. Reece, Esq.
Boston-- Messrs. Holloway and Harwood.
ENGINEERS.
Sandiforth F. Griffin, Esq. C.E.
A. A. B. Bennet, Esq. C.E.
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TAAN:y SAuGREvNET r
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PSudlow and Kingdon, 6, New
Palace-yard, —E.
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SECRETARY—James Elliott, Esq.
Offices of the Company, 26, Moorgate street, London.
PROSPECTUS.
This line is designed to open a direct communication between the
:owns of Birmingham and Boston.
The advantages to be derived by a rich, progressing, and populene
.:own, such as Birmingham, the great manufacturing centre of the
kingdom, having a direct communication with a port on the eastern
coast facing the Continent, and that port the nearest to it by geo-
graphical position, need but to be mentioned to be appreciated.
The name of Birmingham speaks for itself; the capacity and
value of Boston as a commercial port is daily increasing, and re-
quires but little enterprise to enable it to compete with some of our
best ports.
It is proposed that this line should commence at Leicester, where
it will form a continuation of the direct line from Birmingham to
that town, and proceeding by or near Melton Mowbray, Corby,
Folkenham, and Donnington, terminate at Boston ; thus affording a
direct communication between Birmingham and its important manu-
facturing districts—Rugby, the gre at centre of England, and Boston,
their nearest seaport, which eventually must command the traffic
of the districts with which it is in connexion and the opposite
ports of the Continent.
A glance at the map will show how this line is fed, and the towns
in its neighbourhood supplied by railway accommodation by the in-
tersecting lines ; but in the event of the London and York line not
obtaining its Act, it is proposed by this Company to construct a
branch to Grantham.
The country is easy, presenting few or no engineering difficulties.
Another advantage held out by this project is the improvement of
the harbour of Boston, whereby it will be restored to that eminent
position it formerly held among the ports and harbours of the
kingdom.
The usual power will be taken by the Act to allow interest at 4
per cent. per annum after passing the Act, on the amount of the
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Applications for shares, in the usual form, and prospectuses,
to be made to the solicitors of the Company, 7, Tokenhouse-yard,
and 76, Cannon-street, City; at the offices of the Company, 26,
Moorgate-street ; and to the following stock and sharcbrokers :
Lond,m—Mr. Edward Newton Bryant, 16, Throgmorton-street ; Mr.
William Rodwell, 22, Throgmorton-street; Mr. A. Synt, Token-
house-yard; Mr. J. S. Pidgeon, 10, Waraord-court, Throgmorton-
strc et.

BIRMINGIIAM AND BOSTON DIRECT
RAILWAY, with a Branch to Grantham.
Notice is hereby given; that no further Application for Shares in
this Company can be received after the 31st October instant in Lon-
don, or after the 6th November from the country.
By order, JAMES ELLIOTT, Secretary.
26, Moorgate-street.

PORTSMOUTH AND LANGSTON RAIL-
WAY AND DOCK COMPANY.
Capital, 2,000,0001., in Shares of 231. each.
Deposit 21. Its. 6d. per Share.
No Shareholder to be liable for more than the amount aids shares.
Offices, 4t, Moorgate -street.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne
The Right Hon. Lord Pelham Clinton
The Right Hon. Lord Stephen Chichester
The Right Hon. Lord Edward Chichester
The Hon. G. A. Hamilton Chichester, K.P.
The Hon. Wm. Dawson Darner, Parkston-lodge, Poole
Sir John Owen, Bart. 31.1'. Orielton-house, Lord-Lieutenant of Pem-
brokeshire, Vice-Admiral of the coast, Governor of Milford
Haven, &c.
Sir J. Douglas Hamilton Hay, Bart. Rose Croft, Surrey
Sir Wm. Ogilvie, Bart. Brompton
Sir Samuel Raymond Jarvis, Fair Oak-park, near Winchester, De-
puty-Lieutenant fur Hants
Captain Sir Andrew Pellatt Green, R.N. K.C.H
Captain Sir Wm. Henry Pierson, R.N. West-house, Emsworth, Hants
Sir George Rich, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square
Sir James Eyre, 11, Lower Brook-street, Grosvenor-square
Wm. Bulkeley Hughes, Esq. M.P. Plas-Coch, Anglesey, Chairman
of the Welsh Midland Railway
Captain C. A. Manning, Portland Castle, Resident Magistrate and
Deputy-Lieutenant for Portland and Dorset
Colonel Henry Dundas Campbell, Northend-house, Portsmouth,
Deputy-Lieutenant for Hants
Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Greive, Green-park, Bath
Major Charles Jasper Selwyn, Royal Engineers, Exeter, director of
the Oxford, Southampton, and Portsmouth Railway
Captain Hulme, Royal Engineers, Exeter
Daniel Tupper, Esq, Queen's Receiver, Guernsey
Edward Woolmer, Esq. mayor of Exeter
William Gordon, Esq. M.D. F.L.S. Hull
George Spry, Esq. Surbiton, Surrey
Henry Vie, Esq. Colchester, Receiver-General of Taxes for Essex and
Suffolk
James Macmillan, Esq. Southampton and London, director of the
Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railway
John Boyd, Esq. magistrate, Newry •
Benjamin Collett, Esq. Grafton Manor-house, Broomsgrove
William Douglas, Esq. merchant, Liverpool
Captain Edmund Norcott, R.N. Blackheath
Francis Boyle Garty, Esq. director of the Birmingham, Oxford and
Reading Junction, Hull, Great Grimsby, and Southampton Direct
Railways
Rev. George Ingram, Chedburgh Rectory, Suffolk
Edward Ward Jackson, Esq. Edge-hill, Liverpool, director of the
Staffordshire Potteries, Liverpool and Manchester, and of the Direct
Liverpool and Leeds Railways
James Irvine, Esq. Liverpool, director of the Cheltenham, Oxford,
and London Junction, and Liverpool and Bolton Direct Railways
John B. Bankhead, Esq. director of the Great County Down Railway
Wm. Kirkpatrick, Esq. director of the Newry, Armagh, and Lon-
derry Junction
Henry Keate, Esq. Claremont-hill, Shrewsbury, director of the Di-
rect Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
Robert Medill, Esq. merchant, director of the Direct Birmingham,
Oxford, Reading. and Worcester Railway
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Manchester, and Brighton
director Railway
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31`131ais, Esq. director of the Great County Down Railway
Captain Wm. Tringham. R.N. Solihull, WarwickshireD.
D. W. Whitehead, Esq. Manchester, director of the Direct Birming-
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Wm.
the Direct Leeds and
Liverpool Railway
Major John T. Croft, deputy-chairman of the Chester and Manches-
ter Direct Railway
William Bates, Esq. managing director of the Argus Assurance Com-

pang
James Milman Coley, Esq. Bridgenorth, director of the Cambrian and
Grand Junction Railway
Wm. Birmingham Costello, Esq. Wyke-house, Brentford, directot of
the Direct London and Exeter Railway
Rob. Baugh Blakemore, Esq. director of the Shrewsbury, Wolver-
hampton. and South Staffordshire Railway
W. H. Cooper, Esq. Shrewsbury, director a the Direct Birmingham,
Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
Alex. Geo. Gordon, Esq. Linley-hall, West Broseley, rec
PC.hCarairvies
London and Dublin Approximation Railway of the
Birmingham,Ox-
ford,A. C. Jeffry, Esq. Liverpool, director of the Direct
Reading, and Brighton Railway
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dRi ailltvostry
Rugby and Manchester Railways
George Gordon, Esq. Shrewsbury
Wm. Hunter, Esq. Leamington, director of the Direct Western, and
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brian ; and London and Dublin Approximation Railway
Isaac Taylor, Esq. Monkmoor, Shropshire, director of the Direct
Birmingham, Oxford, and Reading Railway
John Thorn, Esq. Broseley, director of the Dudley, Bladeley, and
Broseley; the Grand Junction and Cambrian; and the London
and Dublin Approximation Railway
Richard Thursfield, Esq. Much Wenlock, Salop, magistrate
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq. Bryanston-street, .Portman-square,
chairman of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway
Jou Reginald Riddell, Esq. Bycullah-house, Enfield, manatling
director of the Leeds and London Railway
Alexander Bicknell, Esq., Bristol
Richard Lambert, Esq. Leyton Hall, Sudbury
George Henry Thompson, Esq., Greenwood Park, County Down
Eichard ;lay, Esq., of Goole and Winchester-builings, Broad-street,
director of the Huddersfield and East and West Coasts Junctio-
Railway

(With power to add to their number).
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Coverdale and Lee, 4, Bedford-row, Loudon

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ENGINEERS—Messrs. Rennie.
SECRETARY—George N. White, Esq.
BASHERS.
London—Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Company
Liverpool—The Bank of Liverpool
Manchester—The Bank of Manchester
Birmingham--Messrs. Attwood, Spooner, and Company
Leeds—The Leeds Banking Company
Portsmouth—Messrs. Grant and Company.
Copies of the yrospectus and forms of application for shares "to be
lia.dof Messrs. Covert'sle and Lee, solicitors, 4, Bedford-row, London ;
Messrs. Johnson, Longden, and Co., 22, Tokenhouse-yard ; Me•ssrs.
Lynel and Berlyn, and Mr. J. Fernyhough, Manchester;
Hampson, Messrs. Powell and Lowndcs, and Messrs. 'Neilson,
Liverpool; Mr. John Watson, Messrs. Wheatley, Kirk andHodg-
Co.,
-Leeds ; Nathaniel Lee, Birmingham ; Messrs. Tuggand
son, Hull; Mr. Peter Dixon, Glasgow ; Mr. James Nichol son
and Mr. Charles Cooper, Edinburgh ; Messrs. Camplin, Dublin ; Mr.
T. R. Evans, (South Mall) Cork ; Messrs. Edwards and Son, Bristol ;
Messrs. Warburton and Crossland, and Messrs. Bardwell and e3on,
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and Co.,
Co., Southampton Messrs. Cape and Messrs.ny ; Mr. Charles
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therburn, Huddersfield ;
Windrain and Son, Leicester ; and at the Company's
oorgate-street, London. Offices, 46,
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