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_._/.-T.inle Atftrtion. Lord Dunberns i
* ItarLord Stephan =abater, Changan:44lW% and Ana' and Vavy
-.Club, London . •• • ' - - . .. . -
11.1/ Robert Alexander, Bart., Charles-street, manchester-gcmara •
86• William Twisden, Bart., Dorset-street, Portman-square, Director
.of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and,Oloueester Junction. and
Erewash Valley. Extension Railways , - • the
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Parthenon Club, Director of
Chepstow,-Forast of Dean, and Gloucester Junction, and of the
liontli and Miclia4JunetiOn, and, Wawa Midlands laailwaril
Sir TOVnGsuorzi, Bart., Earl's-court, Bromptora
Sir John Key, Bart., 9, King's Arms-yard, Alderman of London, Di-
Teeter of the Manchester and London. and of the Direst Liverpool
'pnd Leeds Railway
Saptain Frederick Polhill, M.P. for Bedford -
Major ;General Sir Robert Barton, K.C.11., Director of the York and
Lancaster Railway
Major-general Thomas Morgan, Singleton-house, Torquay
Major-General Wright, Royal Engineers, Gloucester-place, Portman-
&pure - .
William Ackroyd, Esq., Westbourne Lodge, Otler, Director of the
East and West York, Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and Leeds and
CarligeßailwayS . . .
Thomas Alexander, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian, and
Trent Valley Continuation Railways.
Francis Simes Alliott, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Amber-
gate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastatn Junction, and one of
the Provisional Committee of the Nottingham and Gainsborough
Itailway. Companies
nailry. Ambler, Esq., worsted spinner and manufacturer, Watkinson-
liall, near Halifax, Director of the West Yorkshire Railway, and
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
C. H. Anderson, Esq., Upper Clapton, Director of the South Midland
Railway
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 Grimsby, and Keighley, Halifax and
Huddersfield Junction Railways
The Rev. Charles Edward Armstrong, M.A., Hemsworth
John Alexander Bicknell, 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
William 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
Henry Weech Burgess, Esq., Temple's-park, Hampstead, Director of
the Goole, Doncaster, and Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Great
Grimsby Railway
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
Railway
Dr. Brig-stock, Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester
Railway
Joseph Browne, Esq., Bedford

Janis Brand, Esq., 9, New Broad-street, Director of the Cambridge
and Lincoln, and G: eat Luxemburg Railway
Joins Illore, Esq., Tutbury, Director of the Tean and Dove Valley,
tlic, Derby and Gainsborough, the Shropshire Mineral Railways, ite.
Job Bullivant, Esq., East Retford
William Butt, Esq., Sandiacre, Derbyshire
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Robert Burton, Esq., merchant, Woodville, Notts
James Butlin, Esq banker, West Field-house, Rugby, Director of
the Rugby and Ifuntingdon 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 Burbidge, Esq., Mayor of Grantham, Director of the
Amber-gate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction
Railway •
Jonathon Burton, Esq., merchant, Carrington, Nottinghamshire
Director of the Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway
William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., magistrate, Hull, Director of the
Rushy, Warwick, and Leamington, and of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railways
Thomas Challis, Esq., Alderman of London '
John Carter, Esq., knottingley
Tininas Carter, Esq., Tanshelf, Magistrate for the Borough of Pon-
tefract
Charles Charnock, Esq., Holmfleld-house, near Ferrybridge
Millis.Coventry, Esq., Director, of the South and Midland Junction,
and. Birmingham Extension Railways
B. Clemento, Esq., Lowndes-square, Director of the Western Ja-
maica Railway
Robett 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 Cutts, Esq., Little Bardfield-hall, near Braintree, Essex
James (lift, 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. Sherrarci Coleman, Esq., Crown-court, Old Broad-street
John Catint, 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., Oakteid, Donegal, and
15, Chesham-place, Belgrave-square' Director of tho Grand Wales
Central, and London and Exeter Direct Railways
William Champion, Esq., Worksop
William Cheetham, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Nathan Cooper, Esq., Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Francis Dacre, Esq., Stratford, Essex
George Dennis, Esq., Director of the Rhondda and Ely Valleys jaw-

tion Railway .
Joseph Dent, Esq., 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 Ailcock 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-
stono, and Wakefield Railways
John 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, sad Great Grimsby Railway
Francis Ewart, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey-
mouth 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
.L:rosdnis FiTster, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Ex-

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tension Railway
Solomon Foster, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Nottingham, Mans-
and Midland Junction Railway
Martin Farniss, 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 Fothergill, Esq.. merchant, Nottingham
Richard W.Fitzpatrick, Esq., barrister-at-law,Gloncester-road, Hyde-
park-gardens
Geur46 Gr,en, 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
William Gordon. Esq , 31. D., F.L.S., Director of the Liverpool and

Leedsdpirect Rail Way
Henry Evan Graves, Esq., Ely Bank-lodge, Halifax
John Gully, Esq., Ackworth-park, Ackworth
wtiiialb Gibbs, 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, Nottingh imshire, Director of
the Amber-gate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction,
and Nottingham and Gairshorough Railway Companies
Thomas John Green, Esq., Mayor of Bedford
Richard Hall, Esq., arnarvon-hall, Stratford, Director of the Strat-
ford and Thames Junction, and North Woolwich Railways
R. F. Hall, Esq., Wiseton, near Bawtry
S. C. Hall, Esq., F.S.A., Inner Temple, Director of the Erewash
Valley Extension and West Midland Itailvrays
W. H. Halpin, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing-
stoke, and She Meld 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 Railways
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. fbr the
Westltidinx of Yorkshire
Joshua Hepworth, Esq., Rogerthorhall, Badsworth
Thomas
fleelis, Eeq., Skipton Castle, Skipton, Director of the Lance-
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 Holbrooke, Esq. Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and

Manchester
John Howard, Esq., Royal Foundry, Redford
Thomis 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., Springfield-house, near Bedford
Charles Higgins, sen., Esq., St. Cuthbert's, Bedford
Geerge Higgins, Esq., Bedord
The Rev. Charles Walter Hudson, Rectory, Saundby, near Gains-

borough
George Hurst, Esq., Bedford
John Midge, Esq., late Sheriff of London and MlddloSeX. and Di—

rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway
Wm.Empson Jalland, Esq., HoMenaces House, near Hull, Director

of the York and Hull Railway
80, well Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holderness-house, near Hull, Magis-
trate for the East Riding of York and Borough of Hull, and Di-
rector of the 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
Wm. Jones Johnson, Esq., Bedford

Joseph 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 Keighley, Halifax, and
Huddersfield Junction Railways
George Kippax, Esq., Ordsall-villa, near East Retford
Mr. Samuel Knight, Pontefract
George Lawton, Esq:, Ditchley's,Essex, Director of the Chepstow,

Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway
H. C. Leahy, Esq., St. James's-square
Moses Edward Legg, Esq., Watling-street, London
Captain Henry Leech, Bedford
Charles Denton Leech, Esq.,-Bury St. Edmunds
William Ley, Esq., 40, Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Direetor Of
the Reading and Reigate Railway
L. Stephens Lyne, 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
ROI wfty
James Lamb, Ezq., 25, Hyde-park-square, Director of the Scottish
Western, and the Direct Western Railways
John Lart, Esq ,Wood-street, Cheap-side
Jame: teeming, 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
Thomais Ilaikett Massey, Esq., Newark-upon-Trent, and Bedford-
square, Hyda--park
Thomas M`Turk, Esq., Hull
William Mee, Esq., East Retford
W. R. Mesharn, Esq., M.D., Bedford
'Robert- 3lellington, Esq., Ordsall-house, near East Eetford, Director
of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
Willi un Moorhouse, Esq., Knottingley, a Provisional
Director of the Sheffield, Barnsley, and Wakefield Railway
Peter Morrison, Fsq., Director of South and Midlands Junction, and
London and Birmingham Extens'lllo4ll:tariai James Muscroft, Esq., Pontefract, ;7,4 the Borough, a Pro-
visional Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension and
Chester Junction Railway
George 31aekintosh, Esq., Upper Pleymonr-street, P° rt *lan-square.
John Nanwaring, Esq.. Pateley-hridge, Yorkshire
York and Lancaster Railway . Director of the
Ord Massey; Esq., Hawkes-house, 'Burnley, Director of the Liverpool
and Leeds Direct, the Blackburn, Chorley, and Liverpool, an
Keighley; Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railways
'Thomas MicklethwaKe, Esq., Wakefield
'-ibarles Middleton; Esq., Nottingham-park
Joseph Neal, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and
SouthamptOn, and the Leeds and Carlisle Railways
William Joseph Nash, Esq., Bedford
John Norton, Bag., 1, St. George's-square, Westminster, and Moat-
house, Brentwood,
Director of the Great Western Direct Rail-
way, ,&c. •
Robert Newland, Esq., KeMpson-house, BedfOrdahLve -
Thomas North, Egg., Mayor of Nottingham

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Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continuationl
and Holyhead Junction, and West Midland and South 'Midland and
Oxford Extension Railways
John Ostler, Esq., Director of the Hull and Barnsley, and Leeds and

Carlisle Railwitys
Robert Oxley, Esq., N.V, Pontefract
George Osgood, Esq., Rayniond-buildings, Gray's Inn
Charles Frederick Palgrave, Esq., Bedford
Bennett Pell, Esq., 12, Finsbury-place North
W. Perfect, Esq., Monkhill, near Pontefract
John Phillips, Esq., 'Mayor of Pontefract
George Parbury, Esq., Manstiald-house, RuSsell-Squaze
William Patterson, Req., Burton Joyce, lottinghnmshire
Robert Power, Tsq.; Director of the Great Britain Life Assurance

Society
Thomas Ingham Raynor, Esq., Birstal, Leeds, Director of the Leeds
and 'Vest Riding Junction, and the Liverpool and Leeds Direct

Railways
John Thomas Raworth, Fag., Director of the Leicester and Birming-
ham Direct, Leicester, Iron and DoYe Valley Bailways
Rdward Rawlins, Esq., Bedford
Robert Richards, Esq., Director of the West Midland Railway
John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Bycullah-house, Ballsid, Managing
Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
James Robson, Esq., Tansheif, MagLitrate for the Borough of Pon-
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tefract •
Frederick Redden, Esq., Bedford
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester,
and Weymoith Janette's, the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke,

and the Direct Western Railway
George Robinson, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Bain4loy
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 Shaw, Esq., Kilburn Priory, Director of the Churnet

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and Blythe Valleys Railways
J. E. Sichel, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and

of the Leeds, York, and Midland Railways
William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Director
of the South Midland Junction Railway, &c. &c.
George Walker Smith, Esq., Horbury-hall, Sheffield, Director of

th; Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Smith, Esq., M.D., 30, North-street, 'Leeds,Diractor of the

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

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

Leeds, York, and Midland Junction Railway
Richard Shaw, Esq., Tulledge, near Burnley, Director et' the Keigh-
ley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railway
James Henry Simpson, Esq., M. 8., Pontefract
Joshua Annable 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-

attire
William Surplice, Esq., Nottingham
Samuel James Sykes, Esq., Hull

James Tempter, Esq., BriZton-rise, Director of the Derby, Uttoseter,

and Stafford Railway
Thomas S. Trapp, Esq., banker, Bedford

John Best Trapp, Esq., Bedford
Samuel Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street and Gorbals, Hull, Dl

rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway
Thomas Turuey, Esq., Park-lodge, near Halifax
William Tudor, Esq., tipper Thames-street and Gorbals, Hull

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

dersfield, and Great Grimsby Railway
Wm. Watson,Esq , Daybrook, Nottinghamshire, Director of Amber-
gate, Nottingham and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
Samuel Warburton, Esq., Hunslet, Leeds, Director of the Wakefield

and Harrogate. Railway
The Rev. Richard Whitelock, M.A., Saddieworth, Magistrate for

the West Riding of Yorkshire
Joseph Whitaker, Esq., Ratusetale, Nottinghamshire

William White, Esq., Bedford
John Williams, Esq., M.D., Magistrate for Yorkshire, Director of
the York, Hull, and East and West Riding Janction 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 Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland-hollow, Derbyshire, Director of
the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, and Direct Birmingham and
Leicester Railways
William Williams, Esq., Royal Foundry, Bedford
Charles Waite, Esq., 3, Old Burlington-street, and Willesdon-house,

Middlesex
John Wheelton. Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Willett, Esq., Bradford.
The Rev. H. Burdett Worthington, Bedford
G. N. Wright, M.A., Coed y Celva, Denbighshire, and Lonsdale-
square. London, Director of the Thames Valley Railway
George Yates, Esq., merchant, Halifax
George Witt, Esq., F.R.S., Direetor of the Bedford, London, and
Birmingham Railway, and Aldermand of Bedford
George Gillett, Esq., 2, Grsovenor-gate, Hyde-park
(With power to add to their number).
ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF—Sir John Macneil, LL.D., and F.R.S.
ACTING ENGINEER—WiIIiam Mullingar Higgins, Esq., C.E.
LONDON SOLICITORS.
J. R. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-court.
Owen Gray, Esq.
25, Great Tower-street.
J. B. Midge, 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, Rigsby, and Mee.
Nottingham—Messrs. Fox and Butlin.
Oakham—Henry Hough, Esq.
Kettering—Thomas Marshall, Esq.
Bedford—Ezra Eagles, Esq.
SECRETARY —J. B. Owens, Esq.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT-+J. M. Widdicorabe, 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 which has long been felt, and is too univer-
sally acknowledged to need any comment, and it is under this con-
viction that this important undertaking, alter several minute exa-
minations of the country through which it will pass, has been brought
forward.

The proposed line will commence at the junction of the Manchester
and Leeds, and York and North Midland Railways, near Wakefield,
and will terminate by means of a junction with the Eastern Coun-
ties Railway, at Bedford (to which place it is the intention of that
Company to extend their line in the ensuing session of Parliament),
and by thus availing itself as far as possible of the existing railways,
will cemplete the most direct and least expensive trunk line, from
London to Leeds, York, and Hun. 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 course (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 Peterborough
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 Gains-
borough, )by the Sheffield and Gainsberough 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 Leeds, Is sufficient
to justify its formation, it being well known that the existing traffic
between these two places would produce such a return on the capital
required, as to admit of a dividend equal to that of any railway in
operation; but when it is borne in mind that a company is being
formed for the purpose of connecting Glasgow with ;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 North of England Railways) with the metropo-
lis, which would be considerably shorter than the accommodation
offered by any other company ; and when cost of construction is con-
sidered, there cannot be a doubt but that preference would be given
to the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway.
The fact of the Eastern Counties Railway being connected by a
branch line with the East and West India Docks on the river
Thames, and the Railway Company having recently leased for 999
years the extensive pepper warehouses belonging to those docks,
which are capable of receiving 12,000 tons of goods, together with
wharfs adjoining, where the shipment and trans-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 'fits will be easy, and the gradients remarkably goad, and
that it will not materially interfere with any ornamental property.
The subscribers will be held liable only to the extent of their first
deposits, until an Act of Parliament is obtained, and afterwards only
to the amount of their subscriptions.
It is proposed to take power in the Bill to allow interest at 4 per
cent. per annum on all calls until the opening of the line, and 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. Marton aad Hesenine, 9, Finch-lane
Leeds—Messrs. Hoppa and Co.
Liverpool—Messrs. Joseph King and Son
Hull—Messrs. Flint and Tootal
Manchester—Messrs. Cardwell and Sons
Bradford—Mr. Josiah Scholefleld
Edinburgh—Mr. Charles Couper, 30, St. Andrew's-square.

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

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

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GREAT WESTERN, l3ktis',Nll'oltD, and
CENTRAL TERMINUS JUNCTION RAILWAY, from
the vicinity of West Drayton, through Hounslow' Brentford, Ham-
mersmith, Ken.sington, Chelsea, and Westminster, to a Central
Terminus, near Charing-Cross.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Offices, 53, Charing-cross.
Capital, 850,000/., in 42,500 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 28. per Share.
PBOVISIONAL COMMITTSB.

The Earl of Devon
Vernon Abbott, Esq., 70, Gower-street
Philip Anstruther, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment
Railway Junction Company
Benjamin John Armstrong, Esq., Southall, Magistrate for Middlesex
John Auldio, Esq., Noel House, Kensington
Henry Pratt Barlow, Esq., 24, Kensington-squario
Edward Oliver Benson, Esq., Hounslow
William Sprott Boyd, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment
Railway Junction Company
Thomas Braman, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Leicester aid Tam-
worth Railway
Sir John Macpherson Brackenbury
Sir Archer Denman Croft, Bart., Director of the Thames Embank-
ment Railway Junction Company
Major John T. Croft, Deputy Chairman a the Cheater and Manches-
ter Railway
John Chevalier Cobb*ld,:Esq., Chairman of the Eastern 'futon Rail
way
Cooper,JDeamu w n le
s Esq.,
t' de Eqw :BgeDit'exiirNcetainocfrotothrddreoßnitank, Regent's Park
thEe:ennso.,tyliuthoocuminKslediorrywand
Railway
George Charles he George
n
J. Fisher, Esq., Isieworth
Major David Fitzgerald, 'Valenti%
Captain Forbes, R.N., Forest, Windsor
Sir Andrew Pellatt Green, R.N., K.C.R.
James Montgomery, Esq., Brentford
John Bowyer Nichols, Esq., Hammersmith
The Hon. Colonel. Phipps, Norwood-groan
William Simpson Potter, Esq., Director of the South an& Midi and
Railway
Henry Pownall, Esq., Spring-grove, Hounslow, Magistrate for
Middlesex
John F. Pownall, Esq., Spring-grove, Hounslow
Colonel Reid (2d Life Guards), Bulstrode Park
Thomas Berry Rowe, Esq., Brentford
John Coysgarne Sim, Esq., No. 9, Clifton-place, Hyde Park-gardens
Major Jelf Sharp, Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for Middlesex,
Deputy-Chairman of the Thames Embankment Railway Juaction
Company
Henry Webb Smith, Esq. Hounslow
William Spooner, Esq., Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and
Newcastle Railway
Andrew Spottiswoede, Esq., Chairman of the Irish North Midland

Glouceeter—
Bristol—

Railway
John Stewart, Esq., M.P.
Frederick Thompson, Esq., 20, Kensington-square
Robert Richard Tighe, Esq., Bank, Windsor
Henry Tuffuell, Esq., M.P.
(With power to add to their number.)
ENGINEER—Thomas Page, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs.
sinio Req., 8,
Wilkinsonandicheoig,s bbo
Bench
-walk, incolnT'semlnpe.
nilleldS
William
BANKERS.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.
Messrs. Hugh Innes Cameron and George Bain, 18.Parllatnent-street.
SECRETARY—Henry Moreing, Esq.
Applications for shares, is the subjoined form, may be made,
addressed to the Provisional Committee, at tke Offices of the Com.
pany, 53, Charing-cross, to the Solicitors and Parliamentary Agents,
and to the following agents and sharebrokers :—Messrs. Carden and
Whitehead, Glib, Threadneedle-street; Mr. 11. J. Williams, 80, Old
Broad-street, London ; _Messrs. Bradley and Co., Manchester ; Mr. IC R. Pemberton, and Messrs. H. Davis and Co., Liverpool ; Mr. Luke
Arnold, Bristol; Messrs. Chantrell and Reyes, Leeds; Mesas. WU-

THE AVON and SEVERN VALLEY RAIL-
WAY, from RUGBY to GLOUCESTER,
Connecting Leamington and the whole of the Midland and North
Eastern Counties with Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bristol, and the
South of England.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
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. .
No further call will be made until an Act of Parliament Is obtained,
and no party will be liable beyond the amount of his shares.
noVisiONAL COMMITTEE.

The Right Hon. the Lord Beauelerc, 8, Chesham-place, Belgrave-

square
The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird • Pulteney, Parliament-street, London,
Chairman of the York and Lancaster, and Director of the Direct
London and Manchester Railways
The Hon. Captain Evans Freke, Grenadier Guards, 3, Belgrave-

square
The Hon. Captain Evans Freke, Life Guards, 3, Belgravt-square
Sir Montague John Ctiolmeley, Bart., Easton-hall, Lincolnshire
Sir William Bacon Johnson, Bart., Director of the Chepstow,:Forest
of Dean, and Gloucester, and the South arid Midland Junction

Railway
William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., Alderman of Lon-
don, late M.P. for Oxford, Chairman of the Erewash Valley Ex-
tension, the Leek and Macclesfield, the Great Western, Southern
and Eastern Counties, and of the Birkenhead, Chester, Mold,
Rhaubon, and Vale of Llangollen Railways

William Bradley, Esq., Manor-oaks, Shetdcld, Director of the Cam-
bridge and Lincoln Extension, and the Lincoln, York, and Leeds

Junction Railways
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., 8, Upper Hyde-park-street, and
Brookes' Club, St. James's, Director of the West Midland, and

Manchester and Southampton Railways
Villiers C. Villiers Surtees, Esq., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Director of

the Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire Railway
William Lloyd Caldecot, Esq., 6, Laura-place, Bath
William Breynton, Esq., Montpellier, Cheltenham, and Temple,
London, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth, and other
Railways
H. H. Daucocks, Esq., the Manor-house, Kempley, Gloucestershire,
Director of the Binningham, West Bromwich, and Wednesbury,
and Walsall Junction Railways
James Maurice Shipton, Esq., R.N., Wahnor-hall, near Tewkesbury,
Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce at Gloucester, and Vice-
Consul of Russia at that port
niclutrd Hodges Carter, Esq., Gloucester, late Mayor of the City of
Gloucester, and Deputy-Cairman of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean,
and Gloucester Railway
Samuel Hitch, Esq., M.D., Gloucester

Charles F. Thornley, Esq., merchant, Bristol
Cornelius Brady, Esq., Aston-house, Erciington, Warwickshiro
Paris Dick, Esq., M.D., Forthampton, Tewkesbury

George Smith, Esq., Prestbury, near Cheltenham
Thomas Avery, Esq., Gloucester

Caleb Trotter, Esq., ditto
Arthur 11. Jenkins, Esq., Alderman of Gloucester Directors of the
Edward L. Kendall, Esq., merchant, ditto Worcester, Here-
Robert Heane, Esq., ditto ford,and Glouces-
Charles Walker, Esq., ditto ter Railway
Henry Fox, Esq., ditto
Edward J. Woodhouse, Esq., ditto,

John Ladds, Esq., AbbOt's-court, Twyning and Tewkesbury
Aaron Goold Bilsome, Esq., Forest of Dean, Director of the East and
We at of England, and the Worcester and South Wales Railways
John George Norbury, Esq., Great Cumberland-street, Hyde-park,
and Mancetter-house, Atherstone, Director of the Tean and Dove

Valley, South Staifoidshlre, and boyar and Bristol Railways
Kensington Lewis, Esq., Worcester-park, Surrey, and Stratford.

-place, Itirector of the Midland Counties, and the Cheltenham, Ox-
ford, and Brighton Junction Railways
William Horatio Harrison, Esq., Sunbury, Director of the Leicester
and Tamwortb, and South Staffordshire Junction Railways
Robert H. Shomburgk, Esq., New Kensington, Surrey, Chairman of
the Barbadoes General Railway
George Frederic Gregory, Esq., beacombe, Cheshire, Director of the
Staffordshire and Shropshire, the Grand Junction and Midlands

Union, and D•ver and Bristol Railways
John Campbell Dickers, Esq., Newhall, Cheshire, Director of the

Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction, and the Cheltenham, Oxford,
and London Junction Railways •
George Unett, Esq., the Laurels, Handsworth, Staffordshire,
Director of the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester, and
Dover and Bristol Railways
Walter Unett, Esq., Captain 3d Light Dragoons, Director of the
Dover and Bristol, and Grand Trunk Railways
Major White, Pall-mall, London, Director of the Northampton,
Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway
Lewis Hoffmann, Esq., Reading, Berkshire, and Inner Temple,
London, Director of the Nottingham and South Staffordshire, and
the Dover and Bristol Railways
Thomas Wakefield, Esq., London, Director of the Dover and Bristol
Railway
Edward Augustus Lamb, Esq., Westfield, Battle, Sussex, Director *1
the Staffordshire, and Shropshire, and Dover and Bristol Railways
William Byrom, Esq., Oldham, Director of the Oldham Districts, the
London Bristol and South Wales Direct, the Cheltenham, Oxford,
and London, the Birkenhead and Holyhead, and the Liverpool,
Preston, and North Union Railways
William Caldwell, Esq., Ince-hall, Wigan, Directorof the Liverpool
_ • .

. _
and Leeds Direct, the Lancaster and York, and the Staffordshire
Potteries Railways
Henry Taylor, Esq., Alderman of Wigan, Director of the Leeds and
Liverpool Direct, and the York and Lancaster, and other Railways
Charles Collins, Esq., Caldwell-hall, Worcesterehire, and Adelaide-
place, London-bridge, Director of the southern and Eastern, and
Northern Jamaica, and the Irish West Coast Railways
John Bird, Esq., Dluas Mowddy, North Wales
W. H. Watts, Esq., M.D., Birmingham, Director of the Lincoln and
Great Grimsby, the Dover and Bristol, and the Birmingham, West
Bromwich, Wednesbury, and Walsall Junction Railways
Edward Shilton, Esq., Bath-cottage, Handsworth, Staffordshire

George Edwards, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Birmingham,
Lichfield, and Manchester, and the Birmingham, Westbromwich,

Wednesbury, and Walsall Railways _
Thomas Byrom, Esq., Wigan, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct, the York and Lancaster, the Liverpool and Bolton Direct,
. _

and the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railways
Henry Spicer, Esq., 28, rortrnan-square, Director of the London and
Exeter, and other Railways
W. Drury Holden, Esq., 10, Green-street, Grosvenor-square, and
Locko-park, Derbyshire, Director of the Lichfield and Macclesfield
Railway
Capt. Could Charles-street, St. James's
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Samuel Kempson, Esq., lath.. Sutton, near Birmingham, Director of
the Binningharn, Westbromwich, Wednesbury, and Walsall Railway
Edwin Smith, Esq., 51, Great Ormond-street, London; Director of the
Lynn, Wisbeach, and Peterborough Railway
Robert Grove, Esq., Edgbaston, Birmingham, Director of the Bir-
.mingham, Westbromwich, Wednesbury, and Walsall Junction
Railway.

ENGINEER.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Lewis and Ford, 28, Essex-street, Strand, London
W. IL Reece, Esq., Birmingham.;
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Beim, Rugby
William Tibbits, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon
Anthony Sproule,Esq., Tewkesbury.
HANKEA6—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clement's-lane, London.
SECRETARY—Henry Brookes, Esq.

The proposed railway will commence at Rugby, on the London
and Birmingham Railway, the terminus of the Alidland Counties
and Trent Valley Railways, and the paint to which several other
projected railways converge, and will proceed through or near to
Leamington, Warwick, Stratford-on-Avon, Evesham, Tewkesbury,
and Cheltenham, to Gloucester. The length of the line will be
about 56 miles.

The advantages that will result from the construction of this line
are numerous and highly important, and such as cannot fall to secure
a very large amount of local and through traffic, and a highly-re-
munerative return upon the capital invested. By means of existing
and proposed railways, it will form a complete chain of railway com-
munication between the whole of the midland and north-eastern
counties ofEngland, the populous cities and towns before-named, and
the southern and western districts, and thus bring Leicester, Not-
tingham, Newark, Lincoln, Gainsborough, Great Grimsby, and Hull,
into direct communication with the favourite and fashionable spas of
Leamington and Cheltenham, the richly-productive and far-famed
Vale of Evesham, and the seaports of Gloucester, Bristol, Plymouth,
and Falmouth, and those of South Wales.

The inhabitants and visitors of the much-frequented watering-
places of Leamington and Cheltenham, will thus obtain a direct line
between those resorts, instead of the present circuitous mute through
Birmingham, affording that facility of intercommunication which
has long been ardently desired ; and it will also afford the utmost fa-
cility of access to the innumerable visitors who, attracted as well by
the beauty of the scenery as the memory of Shakspeare, annually
resort to Stratford-on-Avon.

To those passengers from the east and north-east, direct to Glou-
Gloucester, the line from Tewkesbury, cutting off the angle of the
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway to Cheltenham, will afford a
great accommodation, and a saving in distance of at least eight miles,
besides the delay of the stoppage at Cheltenham.
At Tewkesbury it will also form a junction with the proposed line
from that place to
.Malvern, affording the most direct communication
to the numerous visitors to the magnificent scenery and invigorating
atmosphere of the celebrated Malvern-hills.
To the inhabitants of the ancient and populous borough of Tewkes-
bury,
this portion of th proposed line will prove immensely advan-
tageous ; situated within tea miles of the important city and port of
Gloucester, they have nevertheless to travel by the present railway
route nearly ,twice that distance, an Inconvenience which has
already materially affected the trade, and prejudiced the interests of
the town. The proposed line, running, close to the town, will remove
this great incon". enhance, and restore its trade to its former state of
prosperity.
The value of this line to the city and port of Gloucester cannot
be too highly estimated, as lt will not only open to it immcnz e
sources of traffic from the whole of the eastern and north-eastern
counties, but will very materially lessen the distance between it
and Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire, making
Gloucester still more securely the nearest and most accessible outlet
for the whole of that immensely productive manufacturing region ,
and it is impossible to conceive any project better calculated to
advance the interests of Gloucester, than ono capable of effecting
that object.

This line will also form an important junction betweca the London
and Birmingham ;and Midlands Railways, and the Bristol and
Gloucester Railway, and constitute the highway for the traffic of the
former, and of all tile north-eastern railways, to • the proposed Man-
chester and Southampton Railway at Cheltenham; and the through
traffic from the latter source alone is expected to be very great.:
It will thus have the effect of connecting the ports of the eastern
and north-eastern with those of the western and southern coasts;
of affording the most direct and convenient access from the north
anTdhSvlien n
' will and
the
and east to the vast mineral regions of South Wales, and of opening
new markets for the rich products of the fertile valleys of the Avon
cestershire, in the manufacturing towns and ports of the north.
agi icultural districts of Warwickshire and Wor •
nearly its whole length, the valleys of the Avon and Severn. The
be easy of construction, traversing, as it does, through
towns through which it will run are very populous, and the country
of the richest description ; and the local traffic will consequently be
very great in addition to the through traffic, which ou such a line
must necessarily be very extensive.
The Provisional Co•rimittee reserve to themselves the pcwer to
any other company as to the whole or any part of
the line, andate with
rt to or extend the line, and to increase or diminish
the capital accordingly, if deemed expedient.
The capital proposed to be raised is 1,000,0001., is shares of 201.,
upon which a deposit of 21. 2s. per share must be paid upon allot-
ment.
The liability of the subscribers will be limited by the Act to the
amount of their respective subscriptions to the capital stock, and
power will be applied for in the Act to allow interest at the rate of
Payment until the opening of the
41. per cent.per annum on tile amount of the deposit, and upon the re-
lino.
Agreement and the Parliamentary The Subscribers' _
to be duly executed when
the bankers' receipts are ex-
be required..
flcates of scrip, of which due notice will be given •
re-
spective calls, from the date of each
changed for cetti
persons making default in due '
execution of
Agreement and Parliamentary
Contract within the
the Subscribers'
notice, will be absolutely forfeited.
time to be limited by such
shares, prospectuses, and a map ofthe
Fonns of application for
Soliciters, or time Secretary, at
from thery, at the
line, may be obtained fro2B
Essex-street, Strand, London, or from
Offices of the Company,
by reference to one of the Provi-
ded a
attended to unless accompanied
or a Banker.
sional Committee, the Solicitors, _
any of the undennentionedSliarehrokers ; but no application will be
New-street
Birmingham—Mr. W. 11. Collis,
Leamington—Mr. Eliezer Edwards, Bedford-street
London—Mr. A. Sym, Tokenhouse-yard
Bath—Mr. T. E. Milsom

Stratford-on-Avon—Mr. William Bolton
Liverpool—Messrs. Pownal and Worthington, and Mr. William Red
Manchester— Mr. John Barlow; Messrs. Cardwell and Son

Leeds—Messrs. Robinson and Furley

Leicester—Messrs. Elgood and Harrison.
THE AVON AND SEVERN VALLEY RAILWAY.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

To the Provisional Committod of the Avon -and Severn Valley
Railway Company.

Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me shares
of 201. each in the above Company; and I hereby undertake to ac-
cept the same, or any smaller number, and to pay the deposit of
2/. 2s. per share thereon, and to execute the Parliamentary Con-
tract and the Subscribers' Agreement when required.
Dated this day of , 1845. •
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