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cient to justify the construction of this portion of the Direct Wes-
tern : that it will shorten the distance front London to Tiverton
about 32 miles that it will traverse rich and populous iwricultural
and manufacturing districts, and receive a large amount of traffic as
well from railways now in course of construction as from ethers pro-
jected, with every chance of success.

As to the trade on the lower portion of the line, it is evident that
the vast number of merchant vessels continually detained In the
Channel by adverse winds, would effect an immense saving both in
insurance and time, by discharging their cargoes at Falmouth, and at
once transmitting them to their destination by means of this railway;
and therefore—without speculating on the extent to which the ports
on either side of the great promontory of the Land's End may, by
means of this railroad, attract the commerce respectively of Bristol
and Southampton ; to what extent the Inexhaustible mineral wealth
of Cornwall, and the unrivalled agricultural resources of Devonshire
may be further developed, or the genial climate of Penzance and
Mount's Bay, " the Montpellier of England," attract alarger propor-
tion of winter visitants—it is obvious that this line will command a
traffic both in goods and passengers, from its western terminus, the
amount of which may be said to be without limit. A glance at the
map will make it manifest that no competing trunk line can ever be
established between Tiverton and the Land's End. As between
Taunton and Reading, an inspection of the map will show a vast ex-
tent of midland district, comprising rich and populous parts of So-
mersetshire, Dorsetshire, and Wiltshire, now altogether destitute of
railroad accommodation.

Recurring to the features of this project as a national work, one of
the greatest in point of magnitude, of vital importance i❑ the event of
war, and of almost incalculable advantage to the general and packet
Commerce of the kingdom ; it may not be out of place to quote here
the following expressions of Sir Robert Peel. Speaking of the project
of a direct line from London to Liverpool through the Trent Valley,
which bore much the same relation to the Birmingham and Grand
Junction that this bears to the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter
Railways, he is reported to have said : —"I consider that the com-
munication between the metropolis and the great outports to be not
a question of hours, but a question of minutes." Of the necessity of this
particular line, Parliament has already expressed an opinion ; for in the
report of the Committee on the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth
line, which was promoted by the Great Western Railway Company,
it was stated that that Company had been required to pledge itself
set hereafter to oppeGe a direct line to Falmouth ; and it may be
further observed, that a proposed line from Plymouth to Falmouth
was last session rejected, on the ground that it might be supposed
to interfere with that great national object.
The survey of the line has been to a great extent completed, and
correct estimates of the expenditure and returns are in a state of for-
war Bess, and the whole will be ready (Sr the next session of Par-
Itamat.

It is sufficient, as to these points, hare to state that there are no
engineering difficulties in any part of the line which have not been
repeatedly surmounted in other cases ; that the first portion will be
constructed at an unusually small expense ; that the undertaking
will meet with the cordial support, ooncurrenco, and co-operation of
the landowners, and that the Directors are justified in asserting that
Dais will prove to bo one of the most remunerative railways is tko
kingdom.

Powers will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow interest at
four pounds per centum per annum on the deposits, and preference
M the allotment of shares will be given to the proprietors of the land
through which the line will pass, and to the shareholders in the
Great Western, the Bristol and Exeter, and other railways connected
with the Direct Western district.

Applications for shares, in the form subjoined, to be addressed to
the solicitors to the Company, or to the Secretary, or to any respect-
able broker in town or country
London, September 11, 1845.
FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Direct Western Railway
Company.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 251. each la
the above Company, and I undertake to pay the deposit of 91.123. Gd
per share thereon, or ea any less number you may appropriate to me
and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Con.
tract when required.
Dated

1845.
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