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PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS.

1;2'71161 4uders°ll' Esql Directors of the Eastern Counties Rail
F. Palestine Lee, Esq.,
Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Pall-mall, London
Major•Gencral Sir Love Jones Lore Parry, Bart., X.C.8.,
3ladryn-park, Caernarvonshire
William Hughes Hughes, Esq F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., Alderman
of London, Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead

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Continuation Railway Company
Captain William Cousins, Director of the Goole and Doncaster
Railways
James Beach, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place, London, and Bran-
don-lodge, Warwickshire, Director of the South Midland
Railway Company
Robert Rising, Esq., The Shrubbery, Worcestershire
James Morrison, Esq., Raymond-building, Gray's Inn, Pro-
visional Director of the Bridgewater and Minehead Railway
Company
Adniral Ayscough, Southampton
John Br:glitinan, Esq., Regency-square, Brighton
Captain Chewier, Hal kin-street West, Belgraye-square, London
Thomas Clitty, E3q., 8, Upper Gower-street, London
Thomas Henry Evans, Esq., 30, Lothbury, and Mayor of Caer-

nlryon
Alexander GrQig, Esq., Lowndes-street, Be'grave-square,

LOndoll
John ilelbert Helbert, Esq., Upper Gloucester-street, London
James Watts Peppercorne, Esq., Old Broad-street, and Dulwich,
Surrey,
Sir William Boothby, Bart., Ashby-hall, Derbyshire, Director of the
Derby shire, Staflbrdshire, and Worcestershire Junction, and of the
Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railways
William Lowthrop, Hull, and Alga-house, Scarborough, Director
of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire, and
of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction
Railways
I Major, Esq., Director of the Church of England Assurance
Company
Atkinson, J. R. W., Esq., Leeds
Anderson, James, Esq., Bridge street, City
Barry, D., Esq., Paris and London
Grindley, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction, and of the Direct East and
West Junction Railways
Brooks. John, Esq., Alderman of Manchester, Director of Reuling-
ton's Direct London and Manchester Railway
Brown, Thomas, Esq., Silsoe
Brown, Joseph, Esq., Alderman of Bedford
Burgess, John, Esq., Boroughreeve, St. James's-square, Manchester,
Director of Remington's Direct London and Manchester Railway
Burnett. John, Esq., Cheltenham
Burgess, John, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester
Baschek, C., Esq., 133, Fenchurch-street
Cockburn, Sir Francis, Dover
Cutaberiedge, 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
Worozstershire 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 Rail-

way
Croft, Jolla T., Major, 15, Regept-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

Dir:ct 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

Junctioa 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-

center Railway
Dawson Damn', the Right Hon., M.P., Tilney-street, Park-lane
Dawson Darner, the Hon. Win., Parkstone-lodge, Poole
Dalby, John Robert, Esq., Ashbourne, Derbyshire, Director of the
Dee)yshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction, and of
the Leeds, ifuddersfield, 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., Lffingstono Dayrell, Bucks, High Sheriff

for Bucks
Eames, John, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zonch
Ekin, Wm., Esq., Cambridge
Erskine, Henry D., Esq., Mount-street, Grosvenor-square
Freke, the lion. Percy Evans, 3, Belgrave-square
Fitch, Colonel George, 36, York-terrace, London, Director of the
York and Lancaster Railway
Gore, the Hon. Robert, M.P.
C,l,4borne, Henry Francis, Esq., Derby, Director of the Staffordshire,
Leicester and Tamworth, and Derby and Crewe, Macclesfield and

Lichfield Railways
Clutch, 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
Cernon,'"James, Esq., Conduit-street
Hutchinson, The Hon. Colonel, Weston-house, Towcester
Heneage, Charles, Esq., Cadeby-house, Lincolnshire
Hume, Fitzwilliam, Esq., Park-place, St. James's
Haines, Samuel, Zsq., Child-house, Edgbaston, Director of the Di-
rect East and West JuuMion Railways
Hadon, Joseph, Esq., ironmafter, Dudley, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction, and of the Leeds,
Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railways
Moroni, 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

Rail ways
Ramer, S., Esq., General Post-office, and Southampton-row, Ras.
sell-square, Director of Remington's Direct London and Man•

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chaster Railway
Hale, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Potteries
Rail way
Hill, John, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire,
and Worcestershire, and of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and

South Staffordshire Railways
Hurst, George, Esq., Bedford, Director of Remington's Direct London
and Manchester Railway
Hall, the Rev. J. V., Rector of Fulbourne, Cambridge
Howard, John, Esq., Britannia Foundry, Bedford, Director of Ito-
mington's Direct London and Manchester Railway
Jerningham, the Hon. Edward
Jones, Rev. J. P., Alton Vicarage, Cheadle, Staffordshire, Director of
Remington'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-

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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
Lassetter, Richard, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyskire,
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 of Reming-
tai'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
Mibler, Wm., Esq., Tean, 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-square, Director
of the National Loan Assurance Company
Monteflore, Joseph, Esq., Stanhope-street, Mayfair Marshall, G., Esq., Godming, Surrey
Newm.n, Henry W., EM., Clifton, Deputy-Lieutenant of the County

of Gloucester
Nugent, the Hon. M. W. 8., Higham 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, Harts
Price, Thomas, Rev., Llarothel, Herefordshire
Pakington, Henry, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Director of Remington's
Direct London and Manchester Railway
The Lord Rossmore, the Dell, Windsor
Riley, Wm. T., Esq., Pendeford-house, Wolverhampton, and MiWield
Ironworks, B leton, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and
Worcestershire Junction, and of the Shropshire Mineral Railways
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
leymour, Fred., Esq., St. James's-square •
Sanders, John, Esq., Royal Foundry, liedeoni, Director of Reming-
ton's-Direct London and Manchester Railway
Sharpe, George Henry, Esq., Bedford, Director of Remington's Direct
London and Manchester Railway
Skene, George Esq., F.R.31. and C.S., Bedford, Proprietor of the
Bedford Mercury, Director of Remington's Direct London and
Manchester Railway
Skrine, Julian, Esq., Cambridge, Director of the Cambridge and Lin-
colnshire Railway
Sm'th, William, Esq., Clifton, near Ashb3urne, Director of the Tean
and Do le Valley Railway ; of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and
Woretsershire Junction Railway ; of the Leeds, Huddersfield,
Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railway; and of the Direct East
and West Junction Railway
Smith, Thomas, Esq., Blore Hall, AshbOurne, Director of the Leeds,
She:Reid, Huddersfield, and South Staffordshire, and of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railways
Splers, Edmund John, Esq., Carlton Villas, Nelda Vale, Paddington,
Director of th 3 Derbyshire; Staffordshire, and Worcestershire
Junction, and of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Star-

fndshireßailways
Smith, F. Curven, Esq., Frognall Hall
The Sheriff
host York, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield,
and Sou ffordshire, and of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and

Worcestershire Junction Railways
Trapp, Benjamin, Esq., banker, Bedford, Director of Remlngton'e
Direct London and Manchester Railway
Trapp, Thomas S., Esq., banker, Bedford, Director of Remington's
Direct London and 3lanche'ster Railway
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
Tyleeote, 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
Wcstcnra, The kon. J. C., M.P.
Waller, Major, St. James's-square
Willis, George, Esq., Hungerford-Park
Welch, Edward, Esq., Leamington
Walter, James Smith, Esq., Director of the Hayes, aewell, Der-
byshire. Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire

Railways
Wardle, Henry, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of iiemington's Direct
London and Manchester, and Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Wor-

cestershire Junction Railways -
Wheeiton, John, Esq., Meopham Bank, Tunbridge, Director of the
Leicester and Bedford, and Chepstow. Forest of Dean, and Glou-
cester Junction Railways
Williams, Benj., Esq., banker, 4, Whitehall
Williams, William: Esq., Royal Foundry, Bedford, Director of Re-
mington's Direct London and Manchester Railway
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, WIMM. Esq., M.D., Chetwynd-house, Newport, Salop, Di-
rector of the Shropshire Mineral, and of the Leeds, Huddersfield,

Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railways
Wood, Charles, Eq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction, and of the Leeds, Huddersfield,
Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railways
Warde, C. Thomas, Esq., Clopton-house, Stratford-on-Avon,`:and

Luton 1100, Bedfordshire
Tzarn, J. Borwick, Herne-hill, surrey.

ENGINEERS.
Sir John Rennie, F.R.S., and
George Remington, Rag., C.R.
BANKERS.

Pedford—
Cambridge—Messrs. Foster
N-rthampton—The Northamptonshire Banking Company.
Leamington, Warmizk, and Southam—The Leamington Priers and
Warwickshire Banking Company.
SOLICITORS.
Anguntas Walter Arnold, Esq., 31, Golden-squaro
John Owens, E9q., 35, Moorgato-street
'eorge Pell, Esq., jun., Northampton.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Worcoster—Messrs. Gilliam and Sons

Leamington, Warwick, and Southam—Messrs. Patterson, Ilaymes,
Banbury, and Gardner
London—Messrs. Barnard, Dimsdale, and Co., 59, Cornhill ; Messrs,
Cockburn and Co., Whitehall; Messrs. Hopkinson and Co., Ws,
terloo-Oace ,
Offices of the Company, No. 34, Moorgate-street.

PROSPECTUS.
Commencing at Cambridge, which has now become the traffic,
centre of the Eastern Counties, by the line of railway intended to be
formed by that Conipany, this llne will proceed to Bedford, there
passing near Olney it will cross at or near the 13,11sworth Station of the

London and Birmingham Railway, where it will commtmicate 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 Alcester, the line will go di-
rect to Worcester, and thus terminate at the great centre of traffic
for the mineral and manufactering 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 hare 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. _

Power will be reserved to the Directors to amalgamate with any
other existing or projecting Companies, or to vary the line.
Application fir shares may be made to the Secretary, and to the
following Sharebrokers, of whom prospectuses, with maps of the
line. may be obtained :—London—Messrs. Peppercorne and Co., 2,
Old Bread-street; Messrs. Preeco and Evans, 39, Lothbury ;
Messrs. Boyd. Birnlingham—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 Pridgle, Esq.,
79, Princes-street ; Messrs. Beaumont and Langworthy.
Glasgow—Messrs.D uncan and Hutchinson. Halifax—Mr.W.Cronhelm.
Huddersfield—Messrs. E rerard and Co. Hull—Mr. Frederick Stamp.
Leeds—Messrs Wellbeloved and Oastler. Leioester—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. Cl•arles O'Neil. Nottingham—Mr. Charles
Spencer. Sheffield—Messrs. T. N. Bardwell and Sons. South-
ampton—Mr. Joseph Clark, jun. Wakefield—Mr. E. H. Armitage.
Worcester—Mr.Miles. York—Messrs. Grayston and Earle.

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. 2s. per share.
Dated Ulla day of 1545,
Name, in full.. • • • • • • • • . •
Profession and Professional Residence in full.
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Offices, 34, Moorgate-street,

FAASTERN COUNTIES EXTENSION and
CAMBRIDGE and WORCESTER DIRECT RAILWAY.
PROSPECTUSES and MAPS will ba ready for deliTery on Tunas-
DAT, the 9th instant.

GREAT EASTERN and WESTERN RAIL-
WAY.
Abergavenny, Sept. 29, 1845.
At a MEETING of the INHABITANTS of this town and neigh-
bourhood, convened by public requisition, and held here this day,
The Rev. WM. POIVELL, Vicar of Abergavenny, in the Chair,
It was-proposed by Mr. DANIEL, seconded by Mr. Isaac, and unant

mously resolved—
That this meeting, being deeply convinced of the necessity and ad-
vantage of direct railway communication between the town of
Abergavenny and the great iron district of Monmouthshire and
Breconshire, and finding that this district is embraced in the grand
scheme of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company, does
most cordially approve of its plans, and is determined to render it
all the aid it can command.

WILLIAM POWELL, Chairman.
It was proposed by Mr. J. H. MORGAIV, seconded by Mr. W. W.
SECRETAN, and unaimously resolved—
That the thanks of this meeting be offered to the Chairman.

SOUTH MIDLAND AND NORTH UNION
RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
This important line of railway is intended to open a direct commu-
nication from Staffordshire and the Midland Counties (passing through
the Potteries) to the extensive manufacturing town of Sheffield, by
means of which it will form the most direct transit for traffic, and
the manufactures of all the principal towns, and the agricultural and
mineral produce of the conntry contained within its range.
The principal object of this railway is, that it will bring the prin-
cipality of Wales into immediate connexion with the Midland Coun-
ties, and will form a continuous trunk line from the north-east to
the south-west parts of the, kingdom.
To the capitalist this undertaking presents a highly beneficial
source of remunerative profit, and to the population of the south-
west midland and northern portions of the kingdom most important
advantages.

The prospectus, with the names of the Provisional Committee, will
be issued in a few days; in the meantime applications for shares in
the usual form may be addressed to the Secretary, at the offices of
the Company, 23, Finsbury-place North ; or to the solicitor, S. Ren-
dall, Esq., Clement's Inn, London.
Oct. 6, 1845.

THE MONMOUTHSHIRE RAILWAY
COMPANY.
Capital 1,000,0001., in 40,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 10s. per Share.

(Under the sanction ofthe Right Honourable the Earl ofAbergavenny,
and other Extensive Mineral Proprietors of the District.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
John Barnes, Esq., Chorley Wood House, Herts
Reginald James Blewitt, Esq., M.P., Llantarnica Abbey, Monmouth-

shire
James Brand, Esq., Yew Broad-street, London
John Brightman, Esq., Cornhlll, London
William Brewer, Esq., Newport, Monmouthshire
Tom Llewellin Brewer, Esq., Coalbrook Vale, Iron Works, alien•

mouthshire
Edmund E. Bockingham, Esq., Manager of the West of England and

South Wales District Batik, Newport, Monmouthshire
The Chishohn, Chapel-street, Grosvenor-place
Charles Conway, Esq., Pontrhydyryn Tin Works, Monmouthshire
John Chapman, Esq., Leadenhall-street
Jeremiah Cairns, Esq., Secretary to the Newport Dock Company,

Newport, Monmouthshire
Edward Dowling, Esq., Mayor of Newport, Monmouthshire

Hon. W. E. Fitigimarice, CLesham-street,.l3elgrave-squar•

Thomas Gratrex, Esq., Banker, Monmouth -
Renn Hampdon, Esq., M.P., Marlow, Bucks
Samuel Ilomfray, Esq., Tredegar Iron Works, Monmouthshire
Thomas Hughes, Esq., King's Hill, Newport, Monmouthshire
Jihn Hellicar, Esq., Merchant, Newport, Monmouthshire
William Jenkins, Esq., Pontheer Tin Works, Monmouthshire

John Jenkins, jun., Esq., Caorleon, Monmouthshire
William Conway James, Esq., Poutnewydd Tin Works, Mosnnut

shire
Henry 'Jarrett Key, Tokenhouse-yard, London
John Lewis, Esq., Tydee Tin Works, Monmouthshire
Joseph Latch, Esq., Newport, Monmouthshire
John Lawrie, Esq., Charles-street, St. James's, London
John Lawrence, Esq., Newport, Monmouthshire
John Masterman, jun., Esq., Banker, London
Morris Brothers, and Morgan, Abercarrne Tin Works, Monmouth.

shire
William Monntford Nurse, Esq., Cavendish-square, London
Edward Harris Phillips, Esq., Pontypool
Thomas Powell, Esq., the Geer, near Newport, Monmouthshire
Sir David Scott, Bart., Porchester-terrace, Ityde Park, London
Thomas Sanders, Esq., merchant, Bristol
Edward Thomas, Esq., merchant, Bristol
Henry Allen Wedgwood, Esq., Woking, Surrey
William Williams, Esq., Banker, .kbergavenny
William Williams, Esq., Proprietor of the Pantwyn and Golynas and

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Tarteg Iron Works, Monmouthshire
Philip Williams Esq., Beaulbrt Iron Works, Monmouthshire.

COMMITTEE OF MANAOSITENT.
Chairman—The Hon. W. E. FITZMAURICE, M.P.
Deputy Chairman—THE CHISHOLM.
John Barnes, Esq. Thomas Gratrex, Esq.
Reginald James Blewitt, Esq., Henry Garrett Key, Esq.
M.P. John Lawrie, Esq.
James Brand, Esq. William M.untford Nurse, Esq.
John Brightman, Esq. Edward Harris Phillips, Esq.
John Chapman, Esq. Sir David Scott, Bart.
Solemons—Messrs. Johnston, Farquhar, and Leech, London
Messrs. Prothero, Toogood, and Fox, Newport
Messrs. Gabb and Secretan, Abergavenny.
MANNERS.
London—Union Bank of London ; Messrs. Masterman and Co.

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Newport—Monmouthshire and Cdamorganshire
AbergaTenny—Messrs. Baileys and Co.

TUE GRAND LONDON AND DUBLIN
APPROXIMATION RAILWAY.

Rastrick's Line.
(Provisionally itegistared pursuant to 7th and Bth Victoria, eap. Ile,

Designed to avoid the present circuitous route, and so effect a very
considerable saving, both of time and distance, between the two
capitals of England and Ireland, running in a direct line from Lon-
don to Bangor and Holyhead, through Shrewsbury, and touching or
accommodating in its route the following towns and places, namely,
Rickmsmsworth, Chesham, Wendover, Aylesbury, Bicester, Dod-
dington, Banbury, Kineton, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick, Alces-
ter, Bromsgrovc, Worcester, Kidderminster, Bridgnorth, Wenlock,
Broseley, Coalbrookdale, t•hrewsbury, Llan-y-mynech, Welchpool,
Oswestry, Llangollen, Llanrahaladr, Mochnant, Corwea, Pentre-
voelas, Capel Cerrig, Bangor, and Holyhead.
Capital 6,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 501. each.
Deposit Si. Sc. per Share.
Temporary offices of the Company, 4, Great Winchester-street,

This Company is formed for the purpose of carrying into effect an
agreement which has been concluded with the Monmouthshire Canal
Company for the purchase and transfer of the whole of the important
interest of that extensive and valuable property.
The Monmouthshire Canal Company was first incorporated by an
Act passed in the year 1793. Two subsequent Acts have extended
the sphere of the Company's operations, and their present tram-
roads communicating with most of the great iron and coal works of
the district exceeds fluty miles in length, whilst the extent of their
two branches of canal is twenty-two miles.
During the last forty-five years the concern has continued to be
one of a highly profitable description, the average annual dividend
paid to the shareholders having been during the whole of that period
at the rate of 71. 12s. per cent., and during the last twenty-five years
the average annual dividend has exceeded 10/. per cent., being 101.
per share on the original 1001. shares.
The value of these shares has of course increased with the im-
proved dividends, and the purchase-money now agreel to be paid
for the whole of the canal property is at the rate of 2001. per share.
The purchase will secure to the Monmouthshire Railway Com-
pany the whole of the present profitable trade of the Canal Company,
with the certainty of a very great increase therein, as the consequence
of the intended application of the modern principle of railway loco-
motive power to the present tram-roads of the Caual Company.
Thus, beyond its prospective advantages, this undertaking is distin-
guished from most of the numerous projects now before the public,
in this—that an immediate return will arise to the shareholders from
the present works of the Canal Company new In full operation.
For a long time past large sums have been annually expended by
the Canal Company in solid improvements of their property. The
last projected improvement is the formation of a line of railway
upon the modern construction from Newport to Pontypool, a distance
of ten miles, and to carry out this object an Act of the Legislature
passed during the last session, and which railway forms a part of the
highly valuable purchase made by this Company.
wainllnouo lessen oft°
then
Although by the Newport and Pontypool Railway Act a reduction
thelcmsanobeecnemnpldney,inthisnagaeetuahlitlzrateo
epfaa;habelperetpero tthye,
for it Is undeniable that much of the natural traffic of the Company
has been diverted into other channels solely in consequence of the
high standard of the rates of tonnage. The recent Act confers on
the Company the power which they did not previously possess, of
becoming carriers on their lines, and it is only reasonable to calcu-
late that by the judicious use of this power and the vigorous prose-
cution of the improvements of the existing tram-roads the traffic so
alienated will be recovered, as well as much new traffic created.
Thus, whilst the value of the canal property will he materially en-
hanced, the freighters will at the same time reap all the advantages
designed for them in the recent Parliamentary revision of the
tondhges.
It is further proper to state that the branch lines intended to have
been made and purchased by the Canal Company to the iron, coal,
and other works,
will also be formed, thereby securing a consider-
able increase of trade upon the main lines.
Owing mainly to the obstacles in the way of cheap and quick
of Monmouthshire have as yet been
transit, the endless resources
in the face of these obstacles, the
but very partial developed ; but,
lly exported from Newport is not less
quantity of Iron now annua
than 200,000 tons, and of coal 700,000 tons.
trade in the exporta-
The port of Newport possesses an extensive
from
tion of tin plate and fire-brick, in the importation of iron oresl
Cornwall, Lancashire, and Cumberland, and of the agriculture
per-
duce from from the western counties of England, together with a cons'd -
able and improving trade in foreign and English timber, bark, and
Irish provisions.
rt Dock form part of
Shares to the amount of 20,0001. In the Newpo
the purchase of the canal interest. These extensive docks have
been constructed in the best possible manner, with a lock capable of
admitting vessels of the largest class. In proof of this It may be
stated that vessels of 1,080 tons registered tonnage have with ease
entered and been loaded in the dock.
The Canal Company have not hitherto afforded any accommoda-
tion whatever to passenger traffic, consequently no revenue has been
derived from this usually fertile source of profit, but reference need
only be made to the dense resident population engaged in the iron,
tin, and coal works 'of Monmouthshire to prove that a very great
passenger traffic would be the result of the introduction into these
districts of the modern railway facilities.
The general extension of railway communication contemplated in
the neighbouring districts of Wales and England, will, in connexion
with the lines of this Company, most advantageously open to Mon-
mouthshire uninterrupted intercourse with all other portions of the
kingdom. Thus, whilst facilities hitherto unknown will be created
for the exportation of the mineral wealth of the locality, the freest
admission will be given to the agricultural produce and manufac-
tures of other parts of the kingdom, for both of which a constant de-
mand exists in the mineral districts.
In the allotment of shares, preference will be given to Proprietors
in the Monmouthshire Cana', to Shareholders in the Newport, Aber-
gavenny, and Hereford Railway, and to landowners on the line.
Applications for shares, in the form annexed, to be addressed to
the Provisional Committee, at their temporary offices, No. 23, Moor-
gate-street, London ; Messrs. Gabb and Secrete!), Abergavenny ;
Messrs. Protheroe, Toogood, and Fox, Newport ; or to Mr. Thomas
Cooke, or Mr. Samuel Phillips, Monmouthshire Canal Office,
Newport

GABB and SECRET-4N, Intrim Secretaries,

FOItM OF APPLICATION.

sec. 4.)

To the Provisional Committee of the :Monmouthshire Railway
Company.

London.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.
The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Combermere, G.C.8., G.C.H.
Lord Viscount Mandeville
Lord Claud Hamilton, M.P.
Hon. Captain Fenton Evan Freke, Beigrave-square, Direetor of the
Bandon and Bantry Railway
Hon. Geoffrey Browne, Castle Margaret, County Mayo, Ireland
Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Parliament-street, Chairman of
the York and Lancaster Railway
Sir Robert Murray, Bart., Ardley Bury, Huts, Director of the Oxford
and Cambridge Railway
Sir Henry Winston Barron, Esq., Bart., M.P., Belmont, Ireland
General Sir John F. Fitzgerald, K.C.8., Montague-street, Bryan-
ston-square
Col. Sir Duncan M'Dougal, K.C.8., Eaton-square
Rear-Admiral Sir Salusbury Davenport, C. 8., K.C.H., Bramall-hall,
Cheshire, and Weedon-hall, Bucks
Sir J. Gaspard Le Marchant, K.C.H., Cork
Major-General Sir Love Parry, Madryn Park, Carnarvon, Director
of the North Wales Railway
Col. Sir F. Hankey, G.C.M.G., Director of the Direct London and
Exeter Railway
Sir George Rich, Director of the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and
Portsmouth Railway
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, Clifford-street, Director of the
London and Exeter Railway
Sir James Pitcairn, Cork
Sir James Eyre, Lower Brook-street
Rear-Admiral Ross, C. 8., Mount Wise, Devoiport
Thomas Whitmore, Esq., Apley Park, Deputy-Lieutenant of the
County of Salop
John Meredith, Esq., Hasbora Park, Magistrate for the Counties of
Worcester and Salop
Major-General Henry Dowdier, Sidney-terraee, Cork
Captain Robert Peel Dawson, Upper Grosvenor-street, and Castle-
dawson, Ireland
George Henry Dashwood, Esq., M.P., West Wycomb-park, Bucks
B. B. Williams, Esq., Wyrdham-place, Bryauston-square
Jeremiah Pilcher, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Dublin and

Armagh Inland Railway
The O'Gorman Mahon, Mahonberg, County of Clare, Ireland
Charles Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P., Bovine, King's County, Ireland,
Director of the Cork and Waterford Railway
The O'Moore, Choghan Castle, High Sheriff of the County of Ros-
common
Robert Hart, Esq., Dripshill-lodge, Worcester, Director of the Wor-
cester, Ludlow, and Tenbury, and the Great North and South
Wales Railways
W. Hutchins, Esq., Llsaintfried-ceurt, Monmouthshire
Charles William Spicer, Esq., Portman-square, Dizec:or ef the Ar-
magh, Coleraine, and Portrush, Dublin and Armagh Inland,
Shropshire Mineral, and Direct London and Exeter Railways
The Rev. C. Leicester, Whitton-hall, Magistrate for the County of
Salop, Vice-Chairman of the Shropshire Mineral itailw:7
Charles Fox, Esq., D.L., Rutland-square, Dublin, Director of the
Dublin and Armagh Inland Railway
William Johnson Neale, Esq., Temple
Thomas Meyer Carvick, Esq., Highwood, Director of the Dublin and
Armagh Railway
William Lechmere Whitmore, Esq., Director of the Dublin and Gal-
way Railway, &c.
George A. Brown, Esq., Director of the Callao and Lima Railway
William Seymour, Esq, Montague-place. Russell-square
William John Macguire, Esq., Hampton Court, Director ef the Wilts,
Somerset, and Bristol Railway
Rev. Pooley Shuldarn Henry, D.D. Commissioner of the National
Board of Education and Charitable Bequests, Ireland
Christopher Wallis Popham, Esq., Trevarno, Cornwall, Director of
the Strabane Ship Canal Company.
Robert John Lattey, Esq., Claremont-place, Grove End-road, St.
John's Wood.
William Ayscough Wilkinson, Esq., Woodbury Dews, Middlesex,
Director ef the Waveney Valley, Great Yarmouth, and Armagh,
Coleraine, and Portrush Railways
Colonel Edward Nichols, R.M., Shooter's-hill and Coleraine, Direc-
tor of the Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush, and Sligo, and Shan-
non Railways
Griffin Curtis Galt, Esq., Charles-street, Manchester-square, Direc-
tor of the Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush, and Sligo and Shan-
non Railways
Captain James Wood, R.M., Woolwich
William Justin O'Driscoll, Esq., banker, Dublin
Richard Edward Arden, Esq., Bedford-square, Director of the Dub-
lin and Armagh Inland Railway
Captain Rodgers, Clovenedon-house, Loughall, Ireland
John Stewart, Esq., Portman-square, Director of the Marine In-
surance Office
Joseph Crag:, Esq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury
John Anderson, Esq., Director of the South Midland Junction Rail-
way, grc.
J. Freeme, Esq., Old House, Shrewsbury
G. Hazlerigg, Esq., West Carlton-hell, Leicestershire, Director of the
Rugby and Huntingdon Railway, &c.
J. 31•Millan, Esq., Director of the Worcester, Rugby, and Warwick
Railway
J. Bright, Esq., M.D., Cambridge-square, London
Colonel Pereira, Bengal Artillery, Great Coram-street
W. Clement, Esq., Shrewsbury
Richard Harris Purcell, Esq., Cambridge-street, Hyde-park, and
County Cork, Director of the Direct Western, Isle of Ely, and
Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Railways.
Robert Rernmett, Eve, Victoria-square, Grosvenor-place, Director of
the Sovereign Insurance Office, Sze.
Thomas Gresham, Esq., Raheny Park, Dublin, Director of the Dun-
dalk and Enniskillen, and Irish North Midland Railways
F. W. Heath, Esq., Armagh
F. F. Pole, Esq., St. John's Grove-house, County Cork
George Stevens, Esq., Oak Lodge, High Beach, Essex
Edmund Mathew, Esq., Somerset-street, Portman-square
Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlborough-place, St. John's Wood, Di-
rector of the Direct London and Exeter Railway
Major David Fitzgerald, Valentia, Ireland
Wm. Sprott Boyd, Esq., Cleveland-row, St. James's
Thomas Gulliver, Esq., Bloxham, near Banbury, Oxon, Director of
the Northampton and Banbury, and Oxford and Witney Railways
Wm. Gulliver, Esq., Swallcliff, near Banbury, Oxon
Captain Julius Newell, R.N., United Service Club
Captain Bradshaw, R.N., Hatherley-place, Cheltenham
J. Brooks, Esq., Magistrate, Wenlock
Col. Cairnes, C. 8., Coleraine
Edward King, Esq., Blackthorne, Oxfordshire
Wm. H. Spicer, Esq., Portman-square
George Beauclerc, Esq., Grosvenor-street West, Grosvenor-place
Robert A. Riddell, Esq., Bryaneton-street, Portman-square, Director
of the Great Leeds and London Railway
J. A. Bicknell, Esq., Brandon Cottage, Bristol, Director of the Oxford
and Worcester Extension, and Chester Junction Railways
Major Humphreys, Miltown-house, Strabane, Ireland
Capt. Thos. P. Newton, Bruton-street, Berkeley-square, and Lugwar-
dine, Herefordshire,; Director of the Isle of Man, and Irish West
Coast Railways
The Mayor of Bridgnorth
Benjamin Watts, Esq., Alderman of the Borough of Bridgnorth
Thomas Glase, Esq. /Members of the Corporation of Brldg-
Josiah Minton Glase, Esq. north
Edward Richard Pratt, Esq.
Samuel Ridley, Esq., Bridgnorth
Edmund Ridley, Esq., Bridgnorth
Henry Cane Leahy, St. James's-square, Director of the Sheffield,
Buxton, Derby, and Manchester Railway
E. S. Blundell, Esq., Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square, Direc-
tor of the London and Exeter Railway
Richard Fisher, Esq., Alcester Lodge, Warwick, Director of the War-
wickshire and London Extension and Worcester Junction Railway
James Whitehouse, Esq., Ipsley Court, Warwick
Janes Reading, Esq., Redditch, Worcestershire, manufacturer
George Hollyoake, Esq., Redditch, Worcestershire
Christopher Royston, Esq., Redditch, Worcestershire
John Onions, Esq., Broseley, ironmaster, &c., Director of the Stour-
bridge, Madeley, Ironbridge, and Breseley, and the Grand Junc-
tion and Cambrian Railways
John Thorn, Esq., Whitehall, Broseley, Director of the Stourbridge,
Madeley, Ironbridge, and Broseley, and the Grand Junction and
Cambrian Railways
Alexander John Goi don, Esq., Linley Hall near Broseley
Thomas Deighton, Esq., Bridgnorth
Joseph Southwell, Esq. I Bridgnorth, Manufacturers
William Southwell, Esq.
William Cole, Esq., Bicester
Edward Deaking, Esq., Bleeder
Horace Townsend, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant, Woodside, County
Cork
E. D. Freeman, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant, Castle Cor, County Cork
St. John Jeffrey, Esq., J.P., Blarney Castle, County Cork
Pierce Purcell, Esq., Altemira, County Cork
dames Smith Barry, Esq., Lota Lodge, Cork
Edward Dean Freeman, Esq.. Sandfleld, county Cork
J. 11. Baineridge, Esq., Bear Forest, Mallow
St. John Galwey, M.D., Mallow
George Washington Brazier Creagh, Esq., J.P., Creagh-eastle
John Carmichael, Esq., Riverston-house, Cork, Director of the
Cork and Bandon, and Bandon and Bantry Railways
P. Bennett Lucas, Esq., Manchester-street, Manchester-square,
Director of the Ipswich and Southampton, and Sligo and Shannon
Railways
W. H. O'Driscoll, Esq., Clifton, near Bristol
The Rev. William Wilson, 8.D.. Over Worton, near Deddiagton,
Oxon
Charles Faulkner, Esq., F.G.S., Deddington, Oxfordshire
Lieutenant-Colonel Cruttenden, Balineollig
William Coppinger, Esq., Barry's-court
W. Reeves, Esq., J.P., Tramore, Cork
William D. Whitehouse, Esq., Studley, Warwickshire, Director of
the Warwickshire and London Extension, and Worcester Junction
Railways
George Wyman, Esq., Alcester, Warwickshire
William Henry Rough, Esq., Temple, Director ef the Metropolitan
Junction Company
Edward Power, Esq., Eceleston-terrace, Eaton-square, Director of
the Ipswich and Southampton Railway
Colonel Henry Duudas Campbell, North-end-house, Portsmouth,
Deputy-Lieutenant of the Comity of Hants, Director of the Direct
Western Railway
William lorns, Esq., Bloxham
henry Watson, Esq., High Sheriff of the City of Limerick
Robert Bangle Blakemore, Esq., Shrewsbury, Director ef the Shrews-
bury, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire Railway
Henry Keate, Esq., Shrewsbury/ Directors of the Birmingham and
Isaac Taylor, Esq., ditto, Brighton Railway
Major-General Turner, Commander of the Cork District
Lieut-Colonel Westropp, J.P., Cork
Major North Ludlow Beamish, F.R.S., Ballincurrig, sear Duglaa,
Cork
Joseph Leycester, Esq., Cork
Matthew Pierrpoint, Esq., Crow's Nest, Deputy-Lieutenant of the
county of Worcester, and Director of the Rugby, Derby, Man-
chester, and Welsh Midlan 1 Railways
John Rowlands, Esq., Tallyllin, 3lerioneth, Lireotor of the Great
North and South Wales Railway
George Paul, Esq., banker, 217, Strand
Morgan Culhane, Esq., M.D., Worthing, Sussex
Charles Thelluson, Esq., Summer-lodge, Worthing, Sasser
James Thomas Thompson, Esq., 35, Gloacester-read, Hyde Park-
joghanrdGenresen,
Esq., Hales Owen, magistrate for the county ef
3 Joseph.
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Worcester
George Gun Hay, Esq., 127, Sloane-street, Director of the Medical
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W. Wyse, Esq., The Manor, Waterford
the oounty:of Cork, and Di-
rector of the Cork and Passage Railway
Pierce Nagle, Esq., Anakissy, Doneraile, London
George Hall, Esq., Bridgnorth
John Phillips, Esq., Bridgnorth
William Lumley Perrier, EN., Bellaire, Cork
(With power to add to their number).
COUNSEL IN ENGLAND.
Mr. Sergeant Allen, Sergeant's Inn ; Walter MiGri E Lin
col n's-Inn . gor, sq.,

COUNSEL IN IRELAND—Joseph Napier, Esq., Q.C.
ENGINEER IN CHIEF—J. U. Itastrick, Esq.
ACTING ENGINEERS.
W. Mackenzie., Esq., C.E. ; J. W. Bazalgette, Esq., C.E.
SOLICITORS.

In London—Messrs. Ogle and Yoanghusband, 4, Great Winchester.
street, London
In Ireland—John Cumialsg, Esq., 81, North Great George-stree
Dublin

BANKERS.

Messrs. Maatorman, retell, and Co. ; the ;London and Westminster

Bank.
Swim-LA.lm9 ix ENGLAND— H. Newell, Esq., and Henry Cowper, E:q
SECRETARY IN IRELAND—Frederick Francis Pole, Esq., 51, North
Great George-street, Dublin.'
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.
Hugh Tunes Cameron and George Bain, Eggs., 18, Parliament-
street, London.
J. B. L. Walmsley, Esq., North-street, Westminster.

Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me shares of 25/.,
each in the proposed Monmouthshire Railway Company ; and I
hereby undertake to pay the deposit of 2/. 10s. per share thereon,
and. 9 execute the necessary deeds when required.
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deeonfce• •
Business, Profession, or Trade • •••• • • • •
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Reference
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The applicant, if a holder o A holder of ...shar
shares in the Monmouthshire Monmouthshire Canal
Comes pian ny.th e
Canal Company, or the Newport,
Abergavenny. and Hereford Rail- A holder of shares in the
way Company, is requested to Newport, Abergayouny, and Here_
apply the opposite blanks, as th ord hallway.
case may be.
Usual ;signature of Appllcaht.

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 9, 1815

station, from whence tie line will be continued in as direct a course a s
possible to Holyhead
In its progress it will pass through or near to the foPowing towns :
—Rickmansworth, Chesham, Wendover, and Aylesbury; it will then
proceed to within a short distance of Bicester and Deddington, and
from thence to Banbury ; it will touch upon Kineton or Kingtown,
thence proceed onward to Stratford-on-Avon, approach within a
short distance of Warwick, Alcester, and Worcester, where it will
cross the Birmingham aid Gloucester Railroad near to Bromegrove,
and proceeding thence to Kidderminster, Bridgnorth, and Wenlock,
near to Broseley and Coalbrookdale, will enter the Vale of the
Severn, which it will traverse to Shrewsbury ; it will thence con-
tinue its route up the course of the Severn, and passing into the Vale
of the River Vyrnwy, will proceed to Llan-y-mynech, Llaurhaladr,
and MI chnant, accommodating Welchpool, Oswestry, and Llangollex.
At this point there are three passes, which have been inspected, and
it remains for the engineer to select one as an entrance or passage
into the Vale of the River Dee, when the line will proceed round by
Corwen into the Vale of the River Alwen, from whence it will run
nearly parallel with the great Holyhead Mail-coach-road, by Pentre-
voelas to Capel Cerrig, it will then descend the Vale of Nant Francon
to Bangor and Holyhead.
This line will in its progress feed, and be also fed by the most consi-
siderable railroads of the kingdom, particularly those of the Great
Western ; the Birmingham, Gloucester, aad Bristol; the Oxford,
Worcester, and Wolverhampton ; the London and Birmingham ; and
the South Staffordshire Railway. As this last line will connect
Dudley, Bilston, Wednesbury, Walsall, and Lichfield with the
Derby Railway and the Grand Junction Railway, it would
be superfluous to expatiate on the advantages of bring-
ing all those important centres of the coal and iron trade and
other traffic, and the vast coal and iron fields of Shropshire
into close intercourse, and thus establishing the cheapest and
quickest means of transit between the minerals of Shropshire and the
furnaces of Staffordshire, and the markets of Dublin, London, and
Birmingham. The success of the undertaking is secured beyond a
doubt, by the obvious fact that it will net only bring the richest
mineral and manufacturing portions of England much nearer to the
two capitals, but it will open for the carriage of the valuable pro-
duce of these districts the intermediate country not at present pos-
sessed of any direct line of railway commanication. On the other
hand, the Grand London and Dublin Approximation Railway will
give to London and the neighbourhood of Birmingham a route to
Dublin shorter by nearly seventy miles than that of any other exist-

the Committee, unless accompanied by a reference to one or more
of the Provisional Committee, Solicitors, or the Engineers :
London—Messrs. John shewell and Son, 25, Tokenhouse-yard.
" Messrs. J. Peppercorne and Co., 2, Old Broad-street.
Liverpool—Messrs. Boultt and Co.
Manchester—Messrs. Houghland and Leese
Leeds—Messrs. John Young and Co.
Brietol Luke Arnold, Esq. ; Messrs. Taite and Nash
Birmingham—Mr. Collis
Sheffield—Messrs. Bardwell and Sons.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES,

To the Provisional Committee of the Rhondda and Ely Valleys

Junction Railway.

Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to 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 sdlotted
to m 2 ; and I also undertake to execute the Parliamentary Contract
and finbscribers' Agreement when required.

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Date of Application •• . .

RHONDDA AND ELY VALLEYS
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
No fitrther applications for shares In this Company can bo received
after FRIDAY, the 10th instant. By order,
JOHN PETHERICK, georetary.E
5. Basinghall-street, 3d October, 1845.

EXCHANGE OF SCRIP.

LONDON r
AND Y NORWICH DIRECT
RAILWAY,
With WEST ESSEX, LYNN, and YARMOUTH EXTENSION,
through DUNMOW and BURY ST. EDMUNDS, with a
BRANCH to NEWMARKET.

PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS.
Lord-Alfred Hervey, M.P. for Brighton, Ickworth-park
Captain the Hon. E. T. Wodehouse, R.N., Witt=
Sir H. E. Bunbury, Bart., Great Barton Hail
Sir W. Foster, Bart., Mayor of Norwich
W. H. Windham, Esq., Fellbrigg Hall, Cromer
James Bunbury Blake, Esq., Thurston Lodge
B. Y. Benyon, Esq., Denston-park
G. W. Gent, Esq., Moyen's-park
T. Neville Abdy, Esq., Albyn's
Charles Raikes, Esq., Walthamstow
W. Whitaker Maitland, Esq., Loughton Hall.

ing railroad ; and finally, enable travellers to complete, the entire
distance in ten hours.
It will also ensure two mail deliveries in the day.
Up to the point where tke line approaches Corwen, no engineering
difficulties are presented. At Corwen a deviation from the straight
line may be requisite to avoid tunnelling, after which a straight line
will be resumed to Bangor, where that already in construction will
be adopted for the rest of the route to Holyhead ; or, if found de-
sirable, power will be taken in the Bill to continue an independent
line by Beaumaris to Holyhead.
After a careful investigation of the traffic arising from passengers,
the conveyance of mineral and agricultural produce, and the direct
transmission of the mails, the Directors fed warranted in anticipating
a return of at least ten per cent. on the capital invested.
A treaty is in progress with a Steam Navigation Company to run
powerful steamers between the harbours of Holyhead and Kingston
on the arrival of the trains, so that passengers and merchandise may
be booked throughout from London to Dublin, including all the inter-
mediate stations, and be thus enabled to complete the entire distance
in ten hours, without the inconvenience so painfully felt of changing
from the conveyance of one proprietary to that of another. The
railways now in active progress in Ireland, running from Dublin
north and south throughout the heart of the island, render it self-
evident that the chain of communication between the sister countries
is, by this present undertaking, rendered at once complete
and intimate to the last degree. As the leading aim of
this Company is to save time and distance, every attention of
the Directors, and every advancement in science will ho made
available to gain the utmost possible amount of speed, com-
patible with safety, the lines being formed expressly for this end ;
while, finally, the very lowest rate of fares will he adopted for both
, passengers and traffic, and the pnblic will find in the improvement of
the inferior carriages, and some additional comforts for those of the
first class, that the Grand London and Dublin Approximation Rail-
way will be placed in advance of any other now existing, and in all
its details will be rendered worthy an enterprise so national in its
character.
Application will be made for a Bill to incorporate the Company
early in the next session. The usual power will be taken by the Act
to allow interest at 41. per cent. per annum on the amount of the
subscriptions paid up ; and no subscriber will be answerable for more
than the amount of his deposit until the Act be obtained, and then not
beyond the amount of his subscription.
Applications for Shares may be made, in the subjoined form, to
the following Solicitors, Brokers, and Agents:—Messrs. Cameron
and Being, 18, Parliament-street, London ; Mr. Roger Mortimer,
Throgmorton-street, London; B. R. Pembarton, Esq., Atherton-
buildings, Mr. Win. Kerl, and Messrs. Schultz and Carr, Liverpool ;
Mr. J. R. Lane, Birmingham ; James Jamieson, Esq., Leeds ; Messrs.
Cardwell and Sens, Manchester; Mr. James Butchart, Huddersfield;
Messrs. J. and J. Kimpster, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Mr. Hervey,
Halifax ; Wm. Lee, Esq., Cheltenham ; R. 4, Clark, Esq., Bristol ;
Messrs. Graystone and Earl,l'ork ; Henry Beaumont, Esq., Exeter;
Messrs. Munro and Co., 44, George-street, Edinburgh ; Charles
Conner, Esq., 1, Parkside-street, Edin-burgh ; James Jardine, Esq.,
Glasgow ; Wm. Oliphant, Esq., Perth ; and Messrs. Labertouche
and Stafford, Dublin.

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The holders of the Old Scrip Certificates of the London and Nor-
wich Direct Railway may exchange them for New Scrip Certificates
in the above Company, by delivering up such Old Certificates to
Messrs. Currie and Co., 29, Cornhill, the bankers of the Company,
or to the bankers in Bury St. Edmunds, and paying to them
the additional 5 per cent., or 1/. per Share, required by the
recent standing order of Parliament; upon which receipts will
be given for such Certificates delivered up and money paid,
to be exchanged for new Scrip Certificates (in which the sum of
21. on account of each Share will be acknowledged to have been re-
ceived) after execution of the Subscribers' Agreement and Parlia-
mentary Contract by the person named in each receipt, as intending
to execute those Deeds.

For the convenience of Scripholders living at a distance, or
wbo may, from other causes, be unable to attend in London, the Old
Scrip may be delivered up, and the money paid by agents, although
the Deeds must afterwards be executed by the persons named in the
receipts, as proposing to sign.

Due notice will e given of the time for *losing this offer, which
will be as soon as a fair degree of publicity can have been given to it.
Applications for shares, in the usual form, may be forwarded to
me, at Bury St. Edmund's, or to Messrs. trade and Pennington,
Frederick's-place, Old Jewry ; T. Bisgood, Esq., 36, Carey-street,
Lincoln's Ina-fields; W. T. Wade, Esq., Great Dunmow ; H. Sams,
Esq., Clare ; H. W. Jackson, Esq., Haverhill ; I. H. Holmes, Esq.,
Bury St. Edmund's ; and C. S. Gilman, Esq., Norwich. _ .

F. K. EAGLE, Secretary.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

I request that you will allot to me shares of 201. each
in the West Essex and Yarmouth and Lynn Extensions of the London
and Norwich Direct Railway Company, and I hereby undertake to
accept tke same, or any less number that may be allotted to me, to
pay the deposit of 21. per share thereon, and to execute the Subscri-
bers' Agreemeit and Parliamentary Contract.

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*** The Company reserve the right of carrying the lines entirely
through upon the atmosheric principle, if found expedient.

G REAT NORTHERN RAILWAY OF
FRANCE.
(LAFFITTE'S COMPANY.)
YRENCII ALLOTMENT.
The HOLDERS of FRENCH CERTIFICATES issued by tl.c
above Company, are invited to deposit them forthwith, at the offices
of Messrs. C. Latfitte, Blount, and Co., 4, Castle-court, Birchin-
lane, London, in order that the same may be arranged and ex•
changed for the definitive shares.
The amount of the deposit to be returned (In consequence of .the
reduction in the original allotment), will be paid here so soon as the
certificates have been examined.
Particulars, &c., may be obtained on application as above, between
the hours of 11 and 3.
Notice.—As the last day for depositing shares in Paris expires nu
the 15th instant, none can possibly be received after that day in
London.
London. October Ist, 1845.

B- IRMINGIIAM and BOSTON DIRECT
RAILWAY COMPANY.
Capital, 1,000,000/., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 27. 2s. per Share.
(Provisionally Registered, _

PROVISIONAL COMMITTIM
The Right Hon. Lord Edward Chichester, Director of the Hull and
Holyhead Direct and Great Welsh Central Rahways
Lord Dunboyne, Director of the Harwich Decks, and Birmingham
and Central of England Railways
Lord Albert Conyngham, 5, Hamilton-place
Lord Stephen Chichester, Ormean. Antrim, Director of the London,
Staines, and Ascot, and of the Readtrg and Risgate Atmospheric
Railways, &c.
Lieut.-Colonel Lothian Dickson, Coraen street, May-fair, her Ma-
jesty's Civil Commissioner at the Cape, Director of the Exeter,
Dorchester, and Weymouth Junctic n Coast Railway. &c.
Captain J. P. M`Dougal, Fir-grove, North Brixton, Chairman of the
Isle of Man Railway, Director of the Oxford, Southampton, Gos-
port, and Portsmouth Railway, &c.
Colonel Thos. Fitzgerald, Maperton, Someisst, Deputy-Lieutenant el
Somerset and West Riding of Yorkshire
The Hon. George Augustus Hamilton Chichester, 1. St. Alban's-
place, and Oakflelds, Donegal, Director et the London and Exeter
Direct Railway, &c.
Sir George Sartorius, R.N., Senior United Service Club, Director of
the Dover and Bristol Railway, &c.
Major O'Doherty, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall
George Downing Bruce, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant of Yorkshire, Di-
rector of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Extension
Railway
George Mackintosh, Esq., 27, Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square,
Director of the North Wales Mineral Railway
William Tulloh Fraser, Esq., Gloucester-place, Directors
Portman-square of the
Thos. Ross, Esq., 58, Dorchester-terrace,Hyde-park Dover & Bristol
Jolm Lowe, Esq., 26, Norfolk-crescent, Hyde-park Railway, &c.
James Lamb, Esq., 25, Hyde Park-square, Director of the Grand
Trunk Railway, &c.
John Thorpe, Esq., Eloomsbury-terrace, Lower Broughton, Man-
chester
John Belford, Esq., Rusholm-hall, Manchester, Director of the Man-
chester Direct Railway
John Burgess, Esq., Manchester, late boroughreeve, Director of the
London and Manchester Railway, &c.
Charles Phelps, Esq., Montague-place, Russell-square
Henry Brown, Esq., Harleyford-place, Kennington, Directors of the
Great Welsh Central Railway
Charles Smith Rayner, Esq., Kew-green
Algernon W. Greville, Esq., Cambridge-terrace; Hyde-park, Director
of the Great Eastern and Western Railway, &c.
John Chapman, Esq., Langham-place, Director of the Hull and
Holyhead Direct Railway
G. Gun Hay, Esq., 127, Sloane-street, Director of the Reading and
Riegate Atmospheric Railway
R. Atkyns, Esq., Devonshire-street, Portland-place, Director of the
Guernsey Pier and Railway Company, &c.
William Sladden, Esq., Canterbury, Director of the Reading and Rei-
gate Atmospheric Railway
John Rannie, Esq., 5, Lower Belgrave-place, Belgrave-square, Direc-
tor of the Dorking, Brighton, and Arundel Atmospheric Rail-
way, &c.
Edward Sankey, Esq., Canterbury, Director of the Metropolitan
Junction Railway Company
Wm. Thomas Symonds, Esq., Thornton-heath, Croydon
C. Y. Rigg, Esq.' York place, Portman-square, Director of the
Shropshire Mineral Railway
Lumsden Mackeson, Esq., Old-square, Lincoln's Inn, Director of the
Leeds and Carlisle Railway, &c.
Alfred G. Harris, Esq., 38, Alsop-terrace, New-road
William Henry Burke, Esq., Tottenham
Edward F. Finden, Esq., Southampton-place, Euston-square
Geo. Fowler, Esq., Newington-place.
Peter Paterson, Esq., Leyton, Essex
George Evans, Esq., Melbury-terrace, Regent's Park, Director of the
London and Exeter Direct Railway, &c.
John Thompson, Esq., Great St. Helen's, Director of the Grand
Trunk Railway
Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London, Chairman of the Mauri-
tius Railway, and Director of the York and Lancaster Railway, &c.
Captain Strutt, Cranford-lodge, 3lidcilesex, Director of the Reading
and Reigate Atmospheric Railway, &c.
Capt. Newton, R.N., Director of the Hull and Holyhead Railway, &c.
James Tracy, Esq., Director of the Harwich Docks, and Birmingham
and Central England Railway, &c.
John Blunt, Esq., Director of the London Docks, and Reading and
Reigate Atmospheric Railway, Ssc.
John Bloor, Esq., Tutbury, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby,
Gainsborough, and Great Grimsby Railway
Jeremiah Clark, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Direct
Railway Company (Remington's)
Rich. Wm. Johnson, Esq., Director of ditto
George Parker, Esq., Mansfield-house, Russell-square
Lewis Buckland, Esq., Avenue-road, Regent's Park
Major Ilawkes, 72, Baker-street, Portman-square, Chairman of the
Jamaica North Midland Railway
Capt. E. H. Scott, R.N., Director of the St. .Alban's and Hertford En-
tension Railway Company
Edward Patterson, Esq., Clapton
Kensington Lewis, Esq., Worcester Park, Surrey, Director of the
Cheltenham, Oxford, and Brighton Junction, and the Lynn, Wis-
beach, and Peterborough, and Midland Counties Railways
Charles Bleaden, Esq., Coulsden-court, Surrey, Chairman of the Li-
censed Victualers and General Pare and Life Insurance Company,
and Director of the Direct Western Railway, &c.
William James Ive, Esq., 21, Northampton-square, Director of the
Southern Counties and Bristol, 13 ath, and Dover Direct Railway
(With power to add to their munber.)
RANKERS.
London—Commercial Bank of London, 3, Moorgate-street, and 3,
Henrietta-street, Covent-garden
Messrs. Spooner and Attwoods and Co., 27, Gracechursh- street.
JOINT SOLICITORS.
W. W. Oldershaw, Esq„ 7, Tokienhouse-yard
Messrs. C. T. and A. Jenkineon., 76, Cannon-street, City.
ENGINE IRS.
Sandiforth F. Grif dn, Esq., C.E.
A. A. B. Bennet, Esq., C.E.
ARCHITECT AND SURVEYOR.
E. N. Clifton, Esq., Tokenhouse-yard.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.
Messrs. Sudlow and Kini;:don, 6, New Palace-yard.
PROSPECTUS.
This line is designed to open a direct communication between the
towns of Birmingham and Boston.
The advantages to be derived by a rich, progressing, and populous
town, 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
geographical position, need but be mentioned to be appreciated.
The name of Birmingham speaks kir itself ; the capacity and value
of Boston, as a commercial port, is Sadly increasing, and requires 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 line fr om Birmingham to that town,
and proceeding by, or near Melton Ma wbray, Corby, Folkingham, and
Donnington, terminate at Boston, Vtin s affording a direct communi-
cation between Birmingham and its important manufacturing dis-
tricts, Rugby, the great railway cents e 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.
The country is easy, presenting few or no engineering difficulties.
The usual power will be taken by the Act to allow interest at
four per cent. per aisnum, after pa: ;stag the Act, on the amount of
the subscription paid up. No subscriber shall be answerable for
more than the amount of his deposit until the Act be obtained, and
then not beyond the amount of his sulescription.
A. more detailed prospectus will be is isued in a few days, containing
the names of many influential gentle men locally interested in the
proposed line.
A more detailed prospectus will be tea ued in a few days, containing
the names of many influential gentlemen locally interested in the pro-
posed line.
Applications for shares, in the enacted form, and prospectuses,
to be made to the Solicitors of the Can many, 7, Tokenhouse-yard,
and 76, Cannon-street, City; and to the following stock and share-
brokers :—London—Mr. Edward Newton Bryant, 16, Throginorton-
street ; Mr. Win. Rodwell, 22, Throgm orhon-street ; and Mr. A. Sym,
Tekenhouse-yard. Edinburgh—M.sss rs. Dowling and Bowden,
South St. Andrew-street, and Mr. Prim- le. Liverpool—Mr. Laurie.
Perth—Mr. J. A. Gloag. York—Mr. 'W .H. Cowling. Wakefield—
Mr. Thomas Nightingale. Manchester— -Messrs. Johnston, Bradley,
and Walker. Exeter—Mr. Thomas &tali nd. Sheffield—Mr. Richard
3funcaster. Hull—Messrs. Alsop and F. on, and Messrs. Wilkinson
and Earle. Leeds—Messrs. J. and T. Rhodes, and Messrs. Charles
Bell, Beverley, and Co. Blackbum-IVm. U. Mortice. Birming-
ham—F. H. West, 48, New-street. Mitigow—Messrs. Black and
Lorimer, Buchanan-street.

FORM OF A PPM. CATION.

To the Provisional Committee of the Birmingham and Bostcn Direct

Railway.

I request you will apportion me shares of 201. each In the
Birmingham and Boston Direct Railway Company ; and Ido hereby
undertake to accept the same, or any less number you may al:ot
to me, and to pay the deposit of V. 2s. Tor share, and all future calls
thereon, and to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers'
Agreement when required.

Dated this

day of 1845.
Name La MU •• • • .......
Usual Signature .. •
Residenmee.....
Business- or :Profession ..... ••
Name ofßeferee • .
ResidencC ,Axed Profession of Referee. p

A OVER and BRISTOL RAILWAY,
Ar in continuation of the South-Eastern Railway, from Reigate
to Bristol. Upon the Narrow Gauge.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,500,0001., in 75,000 Shares, of 207. each.

Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.
PEOVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. Lord Rossmore, the Dell, Windsor
The Right Hon. Lord Charles Beauclerc, Cheshan-place, Be*rave-
square
The Right. lion. Lord Sussex Lennox, Piccadilly
ord Alfred Paget, M.P., Uxbridge House
Count Bathyany, Audley-square
The Hon. William M. Dawson, Parkstone Lodge, Poo'.e, Director of
the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
The lion. Edward Stafford Jerningham, Director of the London and
Nottingham Railway
Lieut.-Col. the Hon. J. C. Westenra, M.P., Director of the East and
West Janctioa Railway, and of the Brighton and Cheltenham Di-
rect Railway
Sir William B. Johnston, Bart., Director of the Chepstow, Forest of
Dean, and Gloucester Railway
Admiral Ayscough, Prospect-place-house, Southampton, Director of
the Birmingham and Leicester Railway, and South and Midland
Railway
Admiral Sir George Sartorlus, Director of the Direct Northern,
Eastern, and Western Junction Railway
Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Director of the York aid Lancaster
Railway
William Collins, Esq., M.P., Warwick
Colonel Edward Stopford, 9, Manchester-square
A. K. Baker, Esq., Longford-house, Cheltenham t Directors of the
John W. Hughes, Esq., Gloucester Bristol and Bir-
George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, mlngham Railway
The Worshipful the Mayor of Dover
The Worshipful the Mayor of Bath
Henry Butcher, Esq., the Mayor of Devizes
Daniel Nazer, Esq.
Edward Poole, Esq.
Town Councillors of Dover
William Henry Payn, Esq.
Edward Seward, Esq.,
The Rev. Just Henry Alt, Enford, Wilts, Director of the Manches-
ter, Southampton, and Poole Railway
Charles Dickson Archibald, Esq., Ruslaud-hail, Lancashire, Direct or
of the South Staffordshire Railway
J. R. W. Atkinson, Esq., Elmwood-house, Leeds, Director of the
Lancashire and North Yorkshire, and North Eastern Railways
George Addison, Esq., Bradford, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway
John Anderson, Esq., London, Director of the Tring, Reading, and
Basingstoke Railway
Joseph Acton, Esq., J.P., Wigan, Director of the Manchester and
Wigan Railway
William Ascroft, Esq., the Willows, Bury, Director of the Stafford-
shire Potteries, Liverpool, and Manchester Direct Railway
Joseph Austin, Esq., Heddingley-hill, Leeds, Director of the Leeds
and York Railway
William Ackroyd, Esq., Westbourne Lodge, Ottley, Yorkshire, Di-
rector of the East and West Yorkshire, the Midlands and Thirsk
Junction, and Leeds and York and Midland Junction
James Beech, Esq., Grosvenor-place, and Brandon, Warwickshire,

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Director of the heading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway
Cecil, Brook Boothby, Esq., Ashbourne-hall, Derbyshire, Director of

the South Union
Killian Gabbett Beare, Esq., Porchester-place, Connaught-square,
Director of the Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Cs ewe Union Railway
John Boulton, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Birmingham, Lich-
ileld, and Manchester Railway
Thomas Byrom, Esq., Alderman, Wigan, Direc tor of the Manchester
and Wigan, and the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction
Railways
George Brown, Esq., Twining-park, Worcestershire
Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds

Direct Railway
Robert Bell, Esq., Manor House, Chiswick:, Director of the Great
Easter• and Westera Junction, and. London and Nottingham

Railways
Robert S. Butterfield, Esq., Bradford, Y.( urkshire, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Luke Butler, Esq., Alderman, Dublin, Director of the Galway and
Kilkenny, and Cork and Waterford Railv“ay-s
William Clode Braddon, Esq., Regency-squ are, Brighton
Christopher Bentham, Esq., Birkenhead, D intctor of the Chester and
Birkenhead Railway, and of the North ai td. South Wales Bank
William Byrom, Esq., Oldham, Dkector of Vile Oldham Districts, the
Liverpool, Preston, and North Union J unction, and the Birken-
head and Holyhead Junction Railways
Thomas Chitty, Esq., Gower-street, Dire, :tow of the Central Kent
Railway
Joseph Charles Cohen, Esq., merchant, Bin It-Ingham
John James Conway, Esq., Liverpool
John Carmichael, Esq., Cork, Director of the Cork and Waterford

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Railway
William Henry Collis, Esq., Handsworth, .ffordshire, Director of
the Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction R ailway
Thomas Cocksey, Esq., Atherton and 80l to, 1, Director of the Man-
chester and Wigan Railway
William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., Hull, Dire 0 or of the Rugby, War-
wick, and LeamingtOn Railway
William Clifford, Esq . Hull, Director of the fAincohishiro and Eastern
Counties Railway
William Caldwell, Esq., Alderman, Ince-halls Wigan, Director of the

Staffordshire Potteries, Liverpool, and M m %ester Direct Railway
Henry Coe Coape, Esq., Goldhanger, Essex;. Director of the Man-

chester, Oxford, and Southampton Junction • Railway
John Townshend Compton, Esq., Wedham; 31 on, Wilts, Director of
the Manchester, Southampton, and Poole ailway
Captain F. Chamfer, Halkin-street; Belgrav I—square, Director of the
Fampoux and Hazebrouck Railway
Henry Toogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse r Tudford, Magistrate for

Wilts and Somerset -
Sohn Campbell Dickers, Esq., New Hall, Nc st on, Cheshire, Director
of the Birkenhead and Holyhead, and the :( 3a agby, Derby, and Man-
chester Railways
Soignley Thomas Cuthbert, Esq., Clifton
Thomas Davies, Esq., the Austins, Handsw Tr, rth, Staffordshire, DI:
rector of the Birmingham, Lichfield, and I% Is.nchester Railway •
W. T. S. Daniel, Esq., Recorder of Ipswich
Miles Dormer, Esq., London, Director of t 3 Exeter, 'Dorehester;
and Weymouth Coast Railway
•
John Doughill, Esq., Lockwood, Huddersfield.:
Joseph Dowson, Esq., merchant, Lambeth
Thomas H. Evans, Esq., Mayor of Camarvon
Henry D. Erskine, Esq., Mount-street, Gron 'Ol tor-square, and Kirby
Dale, Yorkshire, Director of the Brighton a 0 (Cheltenham Railway
George Edwards, Esq., Birmingham, Direct( fr of the Birmingham,
Lichfield, and Manchester Railway
John Edwards, Esq., Chester, Director of the, Liverpool and Leeds

_
Direct Railway
William Edwards, Esq., Aston Furnaces, Bi rn tingham, Director of
the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester• 1 railway
Francis Ewart, Esq., Temple, Director of the C Treat Leeds and Lon-
don Direct, and of the Exeter, Dorchester, a nd Weymouth Rail-
ways
Captain Gustavus Evans, R.N., Headly-grower Reigate
JohnTinnis, Esq., merchant, Dover
Charles Fitzgerald, Esq., Charles-street, St. JAM aes's, Director of the

London and Nottingham Railway
Webster Flockton, Esq., Weybridge, Surrey
Bell Fletcher, Esq., M.D., Birmingham, Direct ;I ir of the Birmingham,

Liclifleld, and Manchester Railway
Thomas Folliott Powell, Esq., Esq., 16th
Ripon, Yorkshire
Benjamin Franklin, Esq., 5, Harley-street, 'Cavendish-square, Di
rector of the Great Manchester, Rug' ►y, and Southampton
Railway
William Tulloh Fraser, Esq., Gloucester-] >la ce, Portman-square,
Director of the Dorking, Brighton, and Ar usa del Railway
Charles Hay Frewcn, Esq., Brickwall, Nora dam, Sussex
William Fitzgibbon, Esq., 21, Cambridge-sti 'es t, Connaught-square,
Director of the Cork and Passage and Cork : ; and Bandon Railways
Major Grubbe, Eastwell-house, magistrate fo r Wilts
William Gambier, EAq.,Sacombe-park, Harts
Captain Goulde, Charles-street, St. James's
Georgp Frederick Gregory, Esq., Seacombe, C lb eshire, Director of the
Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Rail iv: ay
Henry Francis Gisborne, Esq., Derby, Direct, fr of the South Stafford-
shire Junction, the Derby and Crewe, the : Macclesfield acid Lich-
field, and the Leicester and Tamworth Rai. I‘‘ "ays
John Griffith Frith, Esq., merchant, Austin• 47f.lars, Chairman of the

'Lancers, Lucan-house,

Londonderry and Coleraine Railway
James Gernon, Esq., Conduit-street, Bond 1-iitreet, Director of the
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate, Manches t 0 r, Oxford, and South-
ampton, and Cheltenham and Brighton Ra DV vays
William, Gatliff, Esq., merchant, Leeds, Dir ec tor of the West Tork-

shire Rail way
Joseph Gill, Esq , Potter Newton Mount, Lee, is, Director of the Leeds
and York and Midland Junction Railway
John Hall, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull ar 4 York Railway
William Holliday, Esq., Chad Valley, Edgt as ton, Director Of the
Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Ra lie ray
Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad House, Edgbelaton, Director of the
Leicester and Tamworth Railway
William Horatio Harrison, Esq., Sunbury, VIP ector of the Leicester
and Tamworth and South Staffordshire Jun el ion Railways
William Wilkes Hill, Esq., Beesten Hall, Lees' ls
Lewis Hoffman, Esq., Temple, Director of the '_Nottingham and South
Staffordshire Railway
James Inglis, Esq., M.D., Halifax, Direct( of the Manchester,
Southampton, and Oxford Junction, and the To =don, Holyhead, and
Portdynllaen Railways
John Johnson, Esq., R.N., Birmingham
Kensington Lewis, Esq., Worcester-park, riur rey, Director of the
Cheltenham, Oxford and Brighten Junctic n. and the Lynn, Wis-
beach, and Peterborough and Midland COW till s' Railways
John Lowe, Esq., Norfolk Crescent, Hyde-pas
William Phillips Lamb, Esq., Ockham House, ST issex
Edward Augustus Lamb, Esq., Westfield, Ba the Sussex, Director of
the Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Ra ilway
Darnton Lurton, Esq., Potter Newton Hall, M ayer of Leeds, Direc-
tor of the Leeds and York, and Wakefield .d Bradford Railways
Sir William Lowthrop, Kilt., Hull, Director o f the Leeds, Hudders-
field, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Dir cc 1 Railway
John Lord, Esq., Standish Hall, Lancashire, D irector of the Black-
burn, Chorley, Wigan, and North Union .11u talon Railway, and of
the Staffordshire Potteries, and Manchesi :or and Liverpool Direct
Railway
James Lamb, Esq., 35, Hyde Park-square, latirector of the Trine.
Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
Rowland Mackenzie, Esq., Mortimer-st met, Cavendish-square,
Director Of the Tring, Reading, and Basint •••tetke, and Cheltenham,
Oxford, and Brighton Railways
Thomas Gibbon Moneypenny, Esq., Hole-par)(, Rolvenden, Kent
Major Moore, Queen Anne-street, Director of -e Brighton and Chel-
tenham Direct Railway
James Joseph 11'Swiney, Esq., Sandal View, Wakefield, Director of
the Wakefield and Harrogate Railway
J. Mee Mathew, Esq., Assistant Tithe Commiiiii 'oner, Director of tke
Worcestershire, Derbyshire, and Staffordshire Railway
Captain Macdougall, Fir-grove, North Brixtovi, Director of the Read-
ing, Guildford, and Reigate Railway
John George Norbury, Esq., Mancetter-house, ..A.therstone, Director
of the Teen and Dove Valley, and South St affordshire Junction
Railways
Joseph Norton, Esq., Clayton West, Rudder leld, Director of the
Huddersfield, llalifax, and Bradford Unitas s Railway, and the
Wakefield and Harrogate Railway
Captain Thomas Ross, 58, Porchester-terrace Director of the Di-
Northern, Eastern, and Western Junction 1 tafi'way
George Parbury, Esq., Mansfield House, RUE se/:l-square, Director of
the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
William Peppercorns, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex, 3) ireetor of the West
Midland Railway
William Raines, Esq., Temple, Director of the L ondon and Notting-
Alexander Prince, Esq., London, Director oft le Cheltenham, Ox-
ford, and Brighton Railway
hans Railway
George Ewing Scott, Esq., Stoke Bishop, near .111 •Istol
Thomas Stocker, Esq., St. Ives, Director of the Wisbeack, St. Ives,
and Cambridge Railway
Frederick William Seymour, Esq., Carlton-to re ace, Director of the
Lynn, Wisbeach, Peterborough, &c., Railway'
William Spooner, Esq., London, Director of the South Staffordshire
Junction Railway, and of the Liverpool, M Rn chester, and New-
castle-upon-Tyne Junction Railway
Henry Scott, Esq., 17, Pall-mall
S. E. Sichell, Esq., merchant, Bradford, Direct, sr of the Leeds, 'Fork,
and Midland Junction Railway
George Turner, Esq., Hunton Hill, Erdington, Director of the South
Staffordshire Junction Railway
Henry Taylor, Esq., Alderman, Wigan, Direct, ,r of the Manchester
and Wigan, an the Liverpool, Preston,. and North Union
Junction Railways
George Turton, Esq., Bagden Lodge, Clayton W cs t, Huddersfield
William Tinker, Esq., Conock, Wilts, Director' of the Manchester,
Southampton, and Poole Railway
George Thomas Thompson, Esq., Dover, CorOnt 3r for the Cinque
Ports
ohn Thompson, Esq., Alderman of Wigan, Dire set or of the Birkhen-
head and Holyhead Railway, of the Manches to and Wigan Rail-
way, and Liverpool, Preston, and North Union . Junction Railway
John Taylor, Esq., Hull, Director of the Line& Pt 'hire and Eastern
Counties Railway
James Upfill, Esq., The Green, Herefordshire, ) ); rector of the Staf-
fordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway
George Unett, Esq., The Laurels, Handsworth, c its :ffordshire, Diree.
for of the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Mane] see ter Railway, and
the Lynn, Wisbeach, and Peterborough Railway •
Thomas Bolman Upfill, Esq., Birmingham, Direct Or of the Birming-
ham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway
Major White, Pall-mall, Director of the Tring, Re id big, and Basing-
stoke Railway
Walter Unett, Esq., Captain 2d Light Dragoons, A is idstene, Director
of the Nottingham and South Staffordshire,. and the Lynn,
Wisbeach, and Peterborough Railways
William Royden Watts, Esq., M.D., Birminghi in 1, Director of the
Lincoln, Louth, and Great Grimsby Railway
Thomas Wakefield, Esq., London, Director of this Nottingham and
South Staffordshire Railway
Smith Whilock, Esq., Birmingham, Director oftlne :Staffordshire and
Shropshire Junction Railway
Robert William Watson, Esq., Dover
John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, near Tonl a% age, Director of
the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Sir William White. Director of the Stafford, Ude nr, ater, and Derby
Railway
J. W. Yerbury, Esq., Beleombe-house, Wilts, Cal It. 3d. Light Dra-
goons, Director of the Direct Western Railway.
Lodge Morris Murray Prior, Esq., 19th Lancers, C 101 entry, Director
of the Dublin, Tullamore, and Parsonstown
Edward Knight, Esq.,"M.D., Stafford, Director of ti le Grand Junetion
and Midlands' Union Railway
William Henry Skelton, Esq., Shadwell, near Lee( le
Charles William Reynolds, Esq., Captain 16th Lt :no irs, Maidstone,
Director of the Worcester, Warwielc and Rugby lie ilway
Thomas Bramall, Esq., Mayor of Tamworth, D ep uty Chaiman of
the Leicester and Tamworth Railway
Richard Hughes, Esq., Stafford, Director of the ISI affordshire and
Shropshire Junction Railway
Henry Wenman Newman, Esq., Thornbury-park, n. ear Bristol, De-
puty-Lieutenant of Gloucestersshire, and magist cat e of Gloucester-
shire and Bristol.
J. Davis, Esq., Loxley, Warwickshire
John Kerle Haterfield, Esq., Clifton, late Mayor of BA Zstol
Charles Eales, Esq., Richmond-court, Clifton
CONSULTING ENGINEER—
AcTura Exament—l*ward James Alinde, Es q.,
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co,; the Uniort: Bank
riotclEPStaciterit Banking Ccopany