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London, England, 1845-08-20 00:00:00

ISLE OF ELY, WISBECH, AND LINCOLN-
SHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 200,0001., in 8,000 shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 15s, per share.
PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS.
William Bradley, Esq., (Chairman), Director of the Sheffield and
Manchester, and Huddersfield and Sheffield, and Halifax, Hud-
dersfield, and Bradford Union Railway Companies, Manor Oaks,
Sheffield
H. S. Bright, Esq., Director of the Hull and Selby Railway Com-
pany, Hull
W. I). Christie, Etq., M.P., tecleston-street, Be'grave-square
C. Appleby, Esq., Director of the Sheffield and Manchester and Lan-
cashire and North Yorkshire Railway Companies, Broom-hill,
Sheffield
William Thompson, Esq., Director of the Huddersfield and Sheffield
Railway Company, Sheffield
D. R. Rosa Esq., M.P., Great Ryder-street, St. James's
S. S. Briton, Esq., Director of the East and West of England, and
Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Railway Company, Sheffield
John Rob,3on, Esq., Director of the Newcastle, Durham, and Lan-
cashire Railway Company, Hetton-le-hole, Durham
Wm. Pinney, Esq., late M.P. for Lyme Regis, 30, Berkeley-square
George C. Molland, Esq., MD., Director of the Huddersfield and
Manchester, Huddersfield and Sheffield, and Great Grimsby and
Sheffield Railway Companies, Sheffield
Thomas Hedley, Esq., Director of the Lancashire and North York-
shire Raiiway Company, Newcastle-on-Tyne
John Faucett, E.N., Sheffield
John Newton Ilitp:,111, Esq., Director of the Manchester, Sheffield,
awl 31illand Railway Company, Sheffield
William Marriott, Esq., Attercfiffe-terrace, Sheffield
Richard K edy, Esq., Chairman of the New Ross, Carlow, and Kil-
kenny Radways, 6, Cleveland-row
Chat les R. Bigge, Esq., 19, Bryanstone-square
Captain I'a;. e, Director of the Coventry and Leicester, South Ste&
ford3liire Junction, Warwick and Cheltenham, and Midland and
Eastern Counties Railway Companies, Charlton House, Somerton
(With power to add to their number.)
BANKERS.
Messrs. Spooner, Attwood, and Co., Gracechurch-street, London
National Provincial Bank of England, March, Wisbecli, and Long
Sutton

SOLICITORS.
Jame; Coppock, 3, Cleveland-row, St. James's
John Bell, 28, Craven-street, Strand
Thomas Steed Watson, Wisbech _ .

The object of this Company is to afford to the town and port of
Wisbech, the centre of the rich agricultural district of the Isle of Ely,
the benefit of that communication by railway of which it is now en-
tirely destitute. . _

Tlys will be effected by the construction of a railway to commence
at or near the March station of the Ely and Peterborough Deviation
pioceedm,4- thence to Wisbech, and thence to Sutton St. Mary,
t!tere forming a junction with either the East Coast or Grand Union
Railway, or any other railway completing the communication to Lin-
colnshire, which may obtain the sanction of the Legislature. A
direct communication will thus be formed betvieen the Metropolis,
the Midland, the Eastern, and the Manufacturing Counties.
The districts embraced by this undertaking are populous, and have
a very considerable local traffic, the population of Wisbech, St. Peter
alone, excet,ding 10,000. The quantity of wheat sold in the market at
nt,kly averages 5,000 quarters, and the arrivals of wheat
from tit, or.rt of Wisbech have in many instances been known very
materially to affect the market in Mark-lane ; in addition to which
there are extensive sales of other grain, flour, seed, wool, cattle, fruit,
and potatoes, the whole of which is exported to the consuming
markets ; the imports consisting of coals, timber, oilcakes, bale goods,
si.ttef, sand, lime, and general merchandise. The return of the Port
clues fur 1544 exhibits 1.:5,395 tons, and these dues are rapidly In-
creasing in amount. A great portion of the merchandise must pass
along this line, and cannot fail of yielding a productive revenue.
The lenzth of line is about twenty miles, and passes through a
country Om% iug an even and solid surface; thus, with all the advan-
nges of water and land carriage of materials, affording facilities
which will render the works inexpensive, and insure their early com-
pletion. Added to these advantages, the line will form an. integral
portion of the main trunk line with the shortest and most thret route
between Hull and London. By its connexion with the Ely and
Peterborough Railway at March, a transit will be afforded through
the Peterborough branch of the London and Birmingham to Bristol,
and the south west of England, and through the Syston branch of the
midlands, the north west of England, with Liverpool, Wales, and Ire-
land. will also be placed in immediate connexion with Wisbech and
its locality.
Ap.,,ther important feature in this undertaking is, that the serious
inconvenience felt by every class during severe winters, from the
river _Nene being blocked with ice at Wisbech (causing a total stag-
n ttion of the usual commerce, whilst the warehouses may be over-
loaded with corn,' and the price of coals increased threefold, to the
great distress and misery of the poorer classes), will, by this railway,
be entirely oh,iated.

The survey has been completed, and application will be made for
an :I_,A in the ensuing session of Parliament. A large reserve of
shares having been made for existing companies with which the pro-
posed lire will be united, a limited number only are at the disposal of
the Directors. .

Applications for shares in the usual form, accompanied by a refer-
ence to a Banker or one of the Provisional Committee, may be made
to the respective Solicitors,

JAMES COPPOCK, 3, Cleveland-row.
JOHN BELL, 28, Craven-street.

BELFAST AND COUNTY DOWN RAIL-
WAY COMPANY, AND NEWRY, BANBRIDGE, AND
BELFIST JUNCTION COMPANY.
At a :meeting of the Provisional Committees of the above Compa-
nies, Held u, Relfasto3n Monday, the 18th instant, a Protest against
the pfoeeedings of these Committees, with reference to an attialgartta='
lion of these Companies with the Great County Down Railway Com-
pany, signed by several influential Shareholders, having been read,
Resolved, ". That inasmuch as the members of these CommitteeS
now pros rut having been advised that they have not power in point
of law to bind the proprietary bodies which they severally represent,
ihey feel compelled to decline proceeding farther towards carrying
out the amalgamation proposed by the Great County Down Railway
Company in opposition to the Resolutions and Protest of several
members of the Registered Provisional Committees and of extensive
'Shareholders in their respective Companies, until they have taken
the opinion of a General Meeting of the Shareholders upon the sub-
lect, and that a meeting be accordingly called for that purpose with
as little delay as possible." . .

JOHN HARRISON, Chairman,

Belfast, 18th August, 1845.
BELFAST ANDZ COUNTY DOWN RAIL-
WAY COMPANY, AND NEWRY, BANBRIDGE, AND
musAs r JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.

Notice is hereby given, that in consequence of a Protest by several
of the Provisional Directors of, and other large Shareholders in, the
above Companies, against the proceedings of the Committees respect-
big a proposition made to them by the Provisional Committee of the
Great County Down Railway Company for the amalgamation of
their several projects, a MEETING of the several parties who have
signed the Subscription Contract of the Belfast and County Down
Railway Company, and of those who have paid the Deposit upon the
Shares allotted to them in that Company, or in the Newry, Ban-
bAdge, and Belfast Junction Railway Company, will be held at the
Orlce, 24, Fountain-street, Belfast, on SATURDAY, the 30th instant,
at Twelve o'Clock Noon precisely, to take into consideration the
iti-iove-mentioned Protest, and to adopt such measures in reference
thereto as may be deemed expedient.
The votes of the Proprietors will be taken according to the number
of shares held by each.
Proxies will be allowed.
THOMAS WARD, Secretary of the Belfast and County
Down Railway Company.
THOMAS M'CLELLAND, Secretary of the Newry,
Banbridge, and Belfast Junction Railway Company.
Belfast, 18th August, 1845.

BRADBURY, GREATOREX, and BEALL,
beg to inform their friends, that in consequence of their pre-
mises being entirely consumed by Fire on the evening of the 18th
inst., their Business will be conducted for the present at the GRES-
HAM-ROOMS, No. 18 A, BASINGHALL-STREET, to which
Owe they respectftilly request all communications may be addressed.
8., G.. and Co., beg to avail themselves of this opportunity to re-
turn their grateful thanks to their friends and neighbours, for the
availa le a6';istance afforded them on this melancholy occasion.
10nC,..1, August 19, 1845.