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London, England, 1845-10-22 00:00:00

`THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY_ E VEINING, OCTOBER 22, 1845.

P`rSTOL ..N4) E„,c Licqi (IT:;:,-; \ J
r. . Ditty
-Xl' JNCTEON RAILWAY; with a Brarirt, t
itcycn,_ . .
ktter "wbe , In Continuation or the North Devon, Bristol and
.34€1 Great Western Railways.
ult,' (Registered Provisionally.)
.--., 1,000,0001, in 40,000 Shares of 251. each.
:ow.
-ger call • . Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
hi isintended to be made il the Act has been ob-
tZtti. Parties' liabilities will be limited to the extent of their

tio_
PROVISI AL COMMITTER.
ttkot:;t WiWilliamDawson,ON
Parkstoue, Dorset
asrGeorge Throckmorton, Bart., Buckland, 1
NJoh,, `logdon, Barks
revs yan ,
stcliet Bart, Nettlecombe Court, near Dirctors of
thee North
~stand ' oonserset, and Wallington, Northum.
st. Devon
Railway
04, feral Sir George Pownell Adams, K.C.11.,
lit, House, near Wiveliscombe J
Iliots,,l°Oel Sir Henry Bayly, K.l-L, Burley-villa, Lyme Regis,
LtkIJL h
Reuben Dawson Darner, Ksq., Milton Abbey, Dorset
to4Yshford Sanford, Esq. Nynehead Court, Somerset, di-
-0 the the North Devon Railway
iihZ, Weld, Eh_.,
q Chidcock House, near Bridport, Commis.
thitt7co. Bridport Harbour
k,„4!'ellY Trevelyan Esq., Nettlecombe Court
i‘Cutat,
dire for
Worcestershire, and Simons-
Iltderttnerset, director of the North Devon Railway
WYno Knight Es M.P. Wolverly.hall, director of
l‘sasenhDevon • q"
Railway
t4tti nder Mitchel, Esq., M.P. for Bridpert
2 Colonel Bragge Sadborrow.house, near Chard
411441)1141 Artuthis°ll, Esq., C'aptain, R.N., Maperton-house, ' near
140.14.112"42eY, Esq., Beaminster, near Bridport
okttiTlitr.:zicaegens, Esq., i 9, Cornhill, London
Montefiore Esq., York-street, Portman-square
, Esq. Si. Mary Axe, London, director of the
char Carlisle Riiilwa
th Esq., Park-villagey East, Regent's-park, director
Nit-7`'°, and Carlisle Railway .
wetherell
IVt74 itud , Esq., Lincoln, Director of the London and
r-ast Lincolnshire Railway
1,)44 , Alderman of London, director of the Liver-
kirn "erbY Railway
1ci11tett1,,,_449., London Bridge-wharf, London, director of the
Nit,:r,Shrewsbury and Crewe Railway
V:4t.
9., M.P. for Lymington, director of the Liver-
`'. and East and West of England Railways
Nh..•era3'
head, Esq., Westbourne- house, Paddington
d
ktc Word, jun., Esq., Hull; director of the Leeds an
and Hull and Barnsley Junction Railway
tiLLanner, Esq 84, Great Surrey-street, director of the
""d Carlisle .Railway
Nkttittlitnere Whitmere, Esq., James.street, Buckingham.
04444011. Z°arr of the Worcester and South Wales Railway
h`_°
onles Pelham Villiers, M.P. for Wolverhampton
ZS 741,, Thompson, Esq.,. 33, Gloucester-road, Hyde.
‘14,4 of the South Midland, and Northampton, Ban_
atut,eineltenham Railway
kktyttle übt!* Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Regent's-park, director
Belfast, and Coleraine, and South Essex Railways
"co Wotton, Eaq„ Fitzroy.squara, London
IA devisee in trust of
14. the late Earl of Egre.
walker, Esq., King's-road, 1 nont, owner of the
-ray's Inn, London 111 Harbour of Watchet,
and ex tensive adj acen t
manors and estates

11Pkto to
4t4titif. I."' EIO., Mincing-lane
11.._"illialn Drewe, Esq., Woodlands.house, near Stowey,
NI ..et
L11,2411dr, t....
It-w,c„,,-,,'-is., Hyde-house, near Bridport, merchant and ship.
lys4Lut "allissioner of Bridport Harbour
‘.nkttil, tarn; Esq., Cottesbrooke, Northampton
;la 10,, Fairfield-house, Lyme Regis, Dorset, merchant
utier, Esq., Coryton-park, npelaurekAnxetmt,innsteearr, Crewkerne,
liiNeeser Ins. Esq., Haselbury,
L 4 pox
111't7. boo; ' EN, Beaminster, Dorset, Commissioner of Bridport
5.1.,„ -
t, teerldge, Esq.,
Paradise-lodge, near Chard
k I,4e4erii:overidge, Esq., Crewkerne,rnerohant
,1y 'l',„„ es Gundry, Esq., Bridport,
tee; -,„salYan Cox, Esq., Cheddington-court, near Beaminster
Re ; Col 7, Coombe.head, near Chard
c 0,0.1, q.,s lax.bouse, Bridport, merchant and ship-
ktillii,vcroissietier of Bridport Harbour
411 kgier eetl4lll, Esq., Bridport, merchant and shipowner, Corn.
okliik
B,°. Bridport Harbour
h'4,-*.ei'.. tells. Esq., Bridport, merchant and shipowner, Com.
11s1141„,04-. nridport Harbour
1/114.41C01f,Y; 49, Bridport, merchant
11,t1ti0.14-4,11, Rax-house, Bridport, merchant
IN Nacre, Esq., Wilton-house, Taunton
‘4)ll"„litee°°' P 4.1. Gotton-house, near Taunton
Ny_geope'r,9., Tiaunton, banker
kki'mstf, het ..sq. (late Mayor of Exeter), architect, director of
Chairman of the Exeter
'tett, "en Railway, and Deputy
est, 4 Railway
4417' et' Escl., Taunton, architect, county surveyor for So-
-1%,_, LI 11Sle
thy, ilcoeka, Esq., Exeter, director o. f the North Devon
lily, 441)7 of the Exeter and Crediton Railway
I,'Nlittitli.il4 -.l' Esq., Alphington, Exeter, director of the North
gs Way
~kio.444k' P-'9., Halse, near Taunton
b.-"„q Yi
l Harvey, Esq., Wiveliscombe, director of the
141;1144Z1 Railway
ktsate.,_ ..k,,' F-49., Ford.house, near Wiveliscombe
4tllt Nth: uenedictus Notley, Esq., Coombe, Sydenham.house,
Ltl
ttt4S ill'iti Es
iLy, k, tch: q., Chillington, Somerset
Nut p._-Gek, Esq., The Grove, Taunton
.. 11/.1-71. Taunton
it le iliet,
it.,, , e . Whetham, Esq., Bridport, merchant and ship-
"rkt. rousioner of Bridport Harbour
'IL. Ilk ..te Gu dry Esq., Bridport, banker and merchant
Nt implett Gun
- '
th',..litti. 8, Esq., Woederwell, ear Bridport
Iy4%tssiob'cornbe Esq., East Cottage, near Bridport, brewer,
),110,:nru'er of Bridport Harbour
k'lL' toroll t's. 9.. Allington,. near Bridport, merchant and ship-
tkttl ifs.._utussioner of Bridport Harbour
lc; ell, Esq., Wykes •court, near Bridport, merchant
lik Ng, 41d. Esq., West Chinnock, Somerset, merchant and
:lier
tif!' P 49., Bridport
1,440%4111er Gunn, Esq., Bridport
1N41,10: P-41, 9, Burton, Bradstock, near Bridport
41,714,914,. F 411., Bridport, merchant
lOttltttd 411*-. EN. Bridport, merchant
11114.`" EN' Allin ton-villa, near Bridport
f:4801% P•49.,,Tanntgon, merchant
):!'l,,..`"st ll' P-4,, 9, Taunton, merchant
)Nl'''Ph r 41.50., The Gaer, near Newport,
Ski, 'loth "r; a director of the Taff Vale
iii Ite.:4, Esq. Kingshill, Newport
L.NOttch• -•ert Esq' , Swansea, Glamorganshire, of the firm of
ily Otirk-'4l and F. Meager
Rl"glii -411, &. *c
mbe near Watchet
'} 1? '1111) I. 0•,
StogumberEsq_,
near Watchet
L tl'hy Qat
sing to ''
Stogumber, near Watchet
Lll "'et.
Ssto.g"umer, director of the North Devon Rail-
-117;11 A1i,„411., Buckland, near Farringdon, Berke
i L'Ae, it- 4; Esq., Minehead, Somerset
kqell,-;7.. Alcombe, near Minehead
Woi,7`l•; Stampford Brett, near Watchet
f*:_k if:t_ tile No:1;h
4,N01411,74y, ZRossiter, Esq., Williton,
mbernear Watchet
of the Provisional Corn.
Barnstaple,
b.l4lli'lott, p
. 4ra ii, -'9 Bervooadnlands- lodge, Taunton
'141;of - -mini ' p_, cold, ott, Esq., Taunton
kl4thslles W 1.171.1 Taunton
01,k, N 0,,, eE.T,I., Taunton, brewer
"het ' t 411., Norton, near Taunton, corn-factor stud
Vili:L_llkidletu., ~,
41,4, 170 h h.-..... 49 . Chard, brewer
oshi„e,;-", e.sq Bridport
!St-40 Kahle
Bridport'
)Z4 11,441 ~, 9. ' ) Flax-manufacturers,
Vstit‘sy:'l. etp,' `9. 1 Greenham mills, Crewkerne
1.4,141., Chard
4,1'11 ,410 a lYnLEscl Taunton
illskith.P* 41
'4"1., .Washford .mills and Watchet, merchant
I,?i,litktit gt;etriser_
st, (41t0bie,49.. Watchet-mills, merchant and ship-owner
y,b oie „.., •,
41,' 11* k .8'
Esq merchant and shipowner, Watchet
'Oll4 tia,4l/1, kr-'9, merchant and ship-owner, Watchet
11,1411441. EN' '''9., } Paper-makers, Paper-mills, Watchet
1Q.14 .s
Gef,'nes, E,. and Bristol
1/44, vile tit. -.., Doniford, near Watchet
~4 111 i ins I.,,i_e L'll,, merchant andship-owner, Watchet
NtyLll4l:),..' '''',..9., banker, Williton, near Watchet
"'et ''' e;sq., land aent and surveyor. Williton, near
4. Cik (WI.,
'N 41.7 LT, "`, Power to add to their number.)
ktts ...,t,Q t l'ictti B. Vi noles, Esq., F.R.S.A.
isie",.: C.,.MylEnßea, Es—
qC.., .R.gS., Principal Engineer to the
ke, " River Company; R. W. Mylne, Esq.
ke,,"l' COO, LONDON BANKERS.
MI 's Biddulph and Biddulph, 43, Charing-cross
lt,it 'Curie
and Co., 29, Cornhill.
41'1
111404 -il trile o COUNTRY RANKERS.
VII:` Of pl-1, CeinpaDy at their various branches
".. 111, 4tend and South' Wales' District Bank, at their
ktltitry4:krittZelles
61. a"
y. es
and Co., Bridport, Dorchester, and at their variou
kOth' "4
NV' IL Gundry, 1)4 IL II &ha Bridport, and at their various
kno c'
0-11- I. Badcack, jun., Taunton.
;Li 1‘421."-.A. W. Kinglake, Esq., 24, Old-square,
To Ste Lincoln's Inn. 1
11 il, Lil,ll.44Tant --Mr. Charles P. Meryon.
P.
•,,,,, Mesers. Keddell, Baker, and Grant, 34,
-.4,141„1,r Lime-street.
ART &gloms—Messrs. Sudlow and Kingdon,
14,
Palace-yard. 1. Ed.., Bora
...r, ~ •,.rt 1,1,,,., srroaa IN TUE COUNTRY.
).t, .arlich ::..01eIIII, Bridport
'qrs. Rowe'°ll; Beamister
nee and Son, Stogumber, near Watchet.
kr, ga,_ LOCAL SOLICITORS.
kr, duel Walter, Chard
kr, w°l.dland Taunton
1,4114
ob./14:: EJ: Na
fit' t„? for i'tt of th: "night, Axminster. rti pase is C 0,,,,. ,
14, Dr° enger, ranY is to establish a
hy4,4,1151 Litke bet' tient-
goods, and commercial, mining, and ag . l
direct line of ran-
i me 1 -.(1 th ween the harbour of Watchet on the Bristo L 11,_
11 e harbour of Brid t th En lish Channel, and
11;o7 4I Drea Bof inland tr • Pm on e g . f the pro-
-1,45 t eseor nee_ . ansit for a large proportion o
I:44ePind the r..`narllY sent by the dangerous and uncertain
teo.--,-,1144 rich and End, and at the same time afford
. to the
Vile 4:_Ullicati, PePulous districts ready and convenient rail-
-41e1)„"eel
Tape ;In
t„ IN._ to Ta be 48 miles in length, and will proceed from
o%et to ch 74, and thence by Hatch Beauchamp, and by
417 A brZehn.d by out
and Beaminster to Bridport
ktki4t tot:Watehet wlll proceed out of the line, about mid-way
ft; %en 48
and 111:14 Tuunton, directly to Wiveliscombe. All
llieirY °I th.ni v r neighbourhoods are populous and opulent,
)t4.'t Nv!iehrie„, (._e_r.y.Much so, and the localities are remarkable
.. I*, ieeliL,!""laY, beauty, and numerous resident gentry.
utet ./ to Tau"we this line will avail itself of the North Devon
4 th ttin and
~:coed .ha
station .. also westward; at Taunton it will
~' lt,-"" tn It. " °. the Bristol and Exeter Railway, and thence
pt to
wlelth ,Caerto, four
miles short of Bridport, where it will
to Wilts S
arid `"tern lines . Somerset, and Weymouth, one of the
y4olli yirtirt I,lrboZr Railway, and thence proceed on that line
t two 440 croft th
lkt.theiu "es weat e Proposed line from Yeovil to Exeter
,1.,,,t :notion of
t of Crewkerne.
,'lie„1)/ect. Toe two Channels was long since deemed an im-
N 'gal b. . effect it, surveys were successively made for a
li ' "410 by
late
.000 Mythen Mr Telford and other scientific
of 1, Doi,•,, ' orred
411, 414- or vi,,,,, .
.Importance of such a work in a mt.
, .te,..oent wa. _
elsel design was matured, and in 1E324 an Act
leryhu'l rd and Was
; and it stands recorded as the opinions of
'll2 6 4thse to t'aptain Nichols that the canal would afford a
1.1,' 44 the subscribers Of 16% per cent, on a capital of
ke t,' 411,74
1,„ ..e th. -equlred f .
;on einati_ 'P can,' °r this work, being so much less than that
o,ut on, ,utd
th, the increased demand of a greatly increased
e present vast commercia of the
.41114,1.' 144 e It
‘4,1,-, at f.,. leas Manifest that goods may be ]
conveyed by this
tli'lPt4lll-14.ttan half the charge upon which Mr. Telford
4114 ltiten.. n formed their opinion.
etoas '4,1 line
this h„Lie near " Minehead to BrL4gewater, will meet
rom
WAtchet.

L ith e, ni projected. will serve
this important ano favoured line will serve.
The country it will pass through possesses a population exceed-
ing 150,000. It leads to marine watering places of much resort—
Weymouth, Lyme, and Seaton on the English Channel shore, and
Linton, Minehead, and Blue Anchor on the shore of the Bristol
Channel. Taunton, which may now be considered the county
town of Sornersetshire, has always been the market and trading
town of the country north-west of it, including Watchet and its
surrounding district; the route to which, from London and the
north, is through Taunton.
A well remunerating passenger traffic may hence be expected.
The country also contains between SO and 100 mills and fac-
tories, many of which are worked by steam in aid of waterpower,
and many more of the proprietors will avail themselves of steam-
power when coals shall be procurable at a reduced rate by this
railway. The millers are most desirous of having the markets of
South Wales opened to them. Several influential coal proprietors
of South Wales are members of the Provisional Committee.
The country also possesses several extensive lime quarries, for
manure; the lime is burnt with culm brought from Wales;
the conveyance both of the culm and lime is at present attended
with much expense to the agriculturist. The line will also be of
high importance to this agricultural district by opening to it the
markets of Taunton, Tiverton, South Molton, Barnstaple, in the
north of Devon, Exeter, and London. The towns of Taunton,
Ilminster, Chard, Crewkerne, Beaminster, Broadwindsor, arid-
port, Axminster, Charmouth, and Lyme Regis, will be connected
by the line, and derive from it supplies of coals, culm, timber, dry
goods, and other articles of import. The line will afford to those
towns and their populous neighbourhoods, increased facilities of
communication with other lines of railroad.
The usual prevalence of westerly winds during the winter months
is so great as to render the passage round the Land's-end very un-
certain. The facilities offered by the proposed railway will obviate
such uncertainty, save many hundred miles of dangerous sea pas-
sage, and more than compensate for the charges attending re-ship-
ment at Blidport from Watchet, particularly in the article of
Welsh coals, now in great demand in and about London for steam.
engines, steam-boats, and other purposes.
The harbour of Bridport admits vessels at spring-tides of 350
tons burthen; it receives large supplies of coals, culm, flax, hemp,
Baltic and American timber, iron, slate, tallow, staves, mad nu.
merous other articles ; which, in the aggregate, last year, amounted
to nearly 40,000 tons, a large portion of which consisted of flax
and hemp, for the numerous manufactories of yarns, sailcloth,
sacks, nets, lines, twines, and linen goods, which when wrought
would pass along the line to the two ports, for shipment, or to
other railways.
The harbour of Watchet, at spring-tides, admits vessels of 200
tons burthen, and carries on an extensive and important daily trade
with the ports of Tenby, Llanelly, Swansea, Neath, Cardiff, New-
port, and Merthyr Tydvil, in coals, culm, corn, flour, and other
provisions, cattle, sheep, salt, timber, slates, iron, and other articles
of merchandise ; employing twelve vessels belonging to the harbour
regularly and exclusively; one trading with Liverpool. It has
also a considerable corn, malt, flour, and goods trade with Bristol,
and employs therein several vessels regularly
Both the harbours are capable of being much improved, and
belong to proprietors able and willing to improve them to meet the
increased wants of the community.
The port of Watchet, as it is, has the largest and most Important
trade on the English side of the Bristol Channel. This Railway
will increase that trade fourfold, and therewith its own prosperity.
The shore contiguous to Watchet exclusively abounds with lime
of the west celebrated description, both for water-works and ex.
terior building, being the same as the universally known and cele-
brated Aberthaw lime, which also is on the directly opposite coast;
and at and around Watchet are extensive corn and flour mills,
paper mills, and clothing mills.
The foregoing facts show that the line must have a very exten-
sive goods traffic.
It is not intended to put forward Watchet as a packet station
either for Ireland or South Wales; nor does this measure require
such aid. No portion of the coast of the Bristol Channel, east of
Ilfracombe, can have the slightest pretension to be, or be
made, a packet station. In the first place, it is obvious that
the railway in actual progress from the Government Dock-yard
at Pembroke (or Hobbe's Point, 100 miles further down the Bris-
tol Channel) will take all the packet trade from the south of Ireland :
Liverpool takes Dublin;whilst Ilfracombe (50miles west of Watchet),
and Swansea (directly opposite to Ilfracombe), maintain a regular
steam-packet passenger and goods traffic; and in the second place,
all the harbours on the English side east of Ilfracombe are dry, and
for a great length, at low water, the shores being very flat, and to
construct a harbour on them, to admit large class steamers and to
land passengers at all times of the tide, would, if not impracticable,
cost an enormous sum. To hold out expectations that either of
them might be such packet station, would for the above reasons be
delusive.
The extended North Devon line of railways will serve the port

of Ilfracombe and its packets.
A survey has been made by the engineers, who have reported
that the line is easy of construction, and will not interfere with any

park.
It affords great satisfaction to the promoters to be enabled to
announce that the directors of the Bristol and Exeter Railway
Company have promised to give this measure their favourable con-
sideration, and the promoters entertain a sanguine expectation that

it will receive their support.
The neighbouring landowners and gentry are favourahle to the
measure, and all the merchants and traders both at Watchet and
Bridport, as well as the prineipal coal proprietors in South Wales,
and all persons throughout the line, entertain a high opinion of its
merits, and earnestly desire it.
Many extensive landowners on the line, whose names do not
appear on the Provisional Committee, have yet expressed them-
selves as friends to the measure.
The Act wilt be applied for next session, and the liabilities will
be limited to the amount of subscriptions, and interest at four
per cent. will be paid on all calls from the time of payment until
the opening of the line.
An early allotment of the shares will be made, and the usual
Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contract .must be exe-
cuted by the Shareholders when called upon.
Applications for shares to be made, in the form annexed, to
Messrs. Keddell, Baker, and Grant, 34, Lime-street; to either of
the solicitors in the country ; Messrs. George Burnand and Co.,
Cornhill ; John Mocatta, Esq., Copthall.chambers ; H. J. Barker,
Esq., Tokenhouse-yard ; John Brewer, Esq., New Market-hill, Man.
cheater; Messrs. Francis and James Mill, Liverpool; Messrs.
Wreford, Nicholls, and Co., Bristol; or John Bannehr, Esq.,
Exeter.
Taunton, Sept. 29, 1845. --

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
Bristol and English Channels Direct Junction Railway.
I request you will allot to me shares in this under-
taking, and I agree to take the same or such of them as may be
allotted to me upon the terms stated in the prospectus, and to pay
the deposit thereon, and sign the Parliamentary Contract and
Subscribers' Agreement when required.
Dated this day of

, 1845.

Name .
Residence
Profession or Occupation
Name
Reference f ,
I Address
To the Committee of the Bristol and English Channels
Direct Junction Railway Company.

BRIGHTON, LEWES, TUNBRIDGE
WELLS, GRAVESEND, and EASTERN COUNTIES
JUNCTION RAILWAY, with branches to Chatham and Maid.
stone.

Capital 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 2/. 2s. per Share.
Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and S Vic., c. 110,

IVERPOOI, AN t) DERBY DIRECT
H. 4 RAILWAY, AND LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER
GRAND JUNCTION, AND MIDLAND COUNTIES RAIL-
WAYS JUNCTION.
(Provisionally Registered pursuant to 7 and 8 Viet., cap. 110.)

MANAGING COMMITTEE.
James Templer, Esq., Chairman.
Sir James Eglinton Anderson, Vice. Chairman.

Richard Carpenter, Esq. I John Douglas Hopkins, Esq.
Francis Dacre, Esq. Thomas Par 1, Esq.
I'. P. Healy, Esq. Edward Sankey, Esq.
G. P. Hill, Esq. Henry Savage, Esq.
Thomas Hawker, Esq. Samuel Tudor, Esq.
A Prospectus, containing the names of the 160 Noblemen and
Gentlemen forming the Provisional Committee, may be had on ap-
plication at the offices of the Company, No. 10, Old Jewry-chambers.
ENGINEER—SamueI Hughes, Esq., C.E.
ACTING ENGINEERS.
Richard Cromwell Carpenter, Esq.
M. A. Gage, Esq.

BANKERS.
Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co.
The Commercial Bank, Lothbury.
SOLICITOR—Francis William Mount, Esq., 10, Lawrence Pountney-

lane, London.

LOCAL AGENTS.
Derby—Messrs. Dunnicliff and Severne.
Enutsford—Henry Wright, Esq.
Congleton—John Wilson, Esq.
JOINT SECRETARIES—Messrs. W. T. Hislop and James Oliver.

THE SALISBURY, BLANDFORD, AND
DORCHESTER JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Capital 900,0001., in 36,000/. Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 2/. 12s. 6d. per Share.

PRELIMINARY NOTICE.
The line of railway which is now proposed for adoption is a
material link in the general railroad system, not only as connecting
the city of Salisbury with the county town of Dorsetshire and the
seaport and watering-place of Weymouth, but as an essential com-
pletion of the channel of communication from the whole of the
northern, midland, and north-eastern counties to the coast of
Dorset.
The Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway Company (already
incorporated by Act of Parliament,) the Exeter, Dorchester, and
Weymouth Junction Coast Railway, and the Rugby, Swindon, and
Weymouth Direct Junction Railway (both now in projection), will
supply ample means of transit between Dorchester and Weymouth ;
but the city of Salisbury, in which many lines from the east, north,
and west, are proposed to converge, requires the railway now sug-
gested as a natural extension of " The Oxford and Salisbury Direct
Railway," at present before the public. These two lines would thus
become powerful adjuncts to each other.
Commencing at Salisbury, it is proposed to proceed, in a slightly
curved line by or near to Cranborne, to Blandford, and thence, by or
near to Bere-Regis and Piddletown, to Dorchester, a distance in the
whole of about forty-five miles. A grand trunk line of railway, from
the northern districts of Great Britain to the coast of Dorset, will by
this means be perfected ; and the market-towns of Cranborne,
ford, and Bere-Regis, and the Parliamentary borough of Dorchester,
will also be furnished with railroad accommodation.
The experience of the last few years has abundantly proved that
the railway system must advance as a matter of indispensable neces-
sity. The hitherto partial operation of that system, whilst it has
afforded unparalleled and unexpected facilities to the transactions of
business in all its branches, to domestic and friendly intercourse,
and to the indulgence of rational enjoyment and recreation, by ex-
peditious and economical means of transit, in those directions and lo-
calities in which it prevails, has to a most inconvenient extent pro-
duced difficulties in other districts formerly sufficiently supplied with,
but now deprived of, the means of posting and mail and stage-coach
travelling. The conveyance of goods is obstructed by similar
obstacles ; it having beau found much cheaper to adopt the transit
by the nearest railroad, however circuitous in its route, and though
remote in its most proximate junction, than to resort to the former
means of traffic, which have consequently ceased to exist. It
would perhaps be difficult to point out a district in England to
which these remarks more properly apply than the tract of country
now proposed to be traversed from Salisbury to Blandford and Dor-
chester.
A prospectus, with a map of the line, and the names of a powerful
Provisional Committee, will very shortly be published. In the mean-
time, further information may be obtained trom Messrs. Elmslie and
Prestou, 47, Moorgate-street, London, the solicitors to the under-
taking ; or the Secretary, Z. llubbersty, Esq., at the office of the
Company, No. 37, Gresham-street.

PROSPECTUS OF THE
BOSTON, GRANTHAM, LEICESTER, and
MIDLAND COUNTIES JUNCTION RAILWAY
COMPANY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Offices-5, Guildhall Chambers, Basinghall-street.
Capital, 800,000/., in 40,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Wm. Corbett Smith, Esq., Bitteswell-h5.11, High Sheriff of Leices-

tershire
John Summerscales, Esq., Sheriff of Lincoln
Sir Win. Wynn, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, Chairman of the North

Wales Railway
Sir George Rich, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square, Director of the
Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway
Sir George Wm. Prescott, Bart., Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Major-Gen. Sir Love Parry, Madryn, Carnarvonshire, Director of

the North Wales Railway
Hon. J. C. Westenra, M.P., Sharavogue, Roscrea
Honourable Captain Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Parliament-street,
London, Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway
Rear-Admiral Ayscough, Southampton, Director of the Manchester
and Southampton Railway
Lieutenant-Colonel Einngton, Scotch Fusilier, Guards, 12, Wynd-
ham-place, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Railway
Lieutenant-Colonel Fitch, 36, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Director
of the South and Midland Railway
Adamthwaite, John, Esq., Oakhill, Teen, Staffordshire
Allen, George Charles, Esq., East Shilton, Leicestershire, Director of
the Direct Birmingham and Leicester Railway
Atkinson, J. 8., Esq., Elmwood Ilouse, Leeds, Director of the Lei-
cester and Bedford Railway
Bell, Robert, Esq., Manor House, Chiswick, Director of the Direct
East and West Junction Railway
Bland, William, Esq., 11, Park-terrace, Brixton-road, Director of
the Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and south Staffordshire, and
the North Wales Railways
Betts, William, Esq„ Bevois Mount, Southampton
Browns, Joseph, Esq., Bedford, Director of the East and West of
England Junction Railway
Bard, John, Esq., Alderman, Manchester
Caldecott, William Lloyd, Esq., Laura-place, Bath
Carver, Edward Turst, Esq., Forest-lodge, Tulse-hill, Director of the
North Wales, and the Namur and Liege Railways
Cooke, T. F., Esq., Leicester
Collett, Benjamin, Esq., Matter House, Bromsgrove
Croft, Major J. T., Regent-street, Piccadilly, Deputy-Chairman of
the Chester and Manchester Railway
Cumberlege, Nathaniel, Esq., Director of the Direct East and West
Junction Railway
Dalby, John, Esq., Ashbourne, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield,
Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railway
Eales, William, Esq., Mincing-lane, London, Director of the Direct
Western, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways
Gernon, J., Esq., 12, Conduit-street, Hanover-square, Vice-Chairman
of the Galway and Ennts Railway
Gillham, Joseph, Esq , Hergreaves House, Oldham, Director of the
Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction Railway
Graves, Captain Twisleton, Director of the Leicester, Tean and
Dove Railway
Grey, Hazelrigg, Esq., Carlton-hall, Leicester
Heneage, Charles, Esq., Cadeby-house, Lincolnshire
Holmes, Isaac, Esq., Liverpool
Hung,erford, H. Esq., Dingley-park, Leicestershire
Kebbel, W. It., Esq., Glebe-house, Kilby, Leicester
Knight, Joseph, Esq., Leicester, Director of the Midland Counties,
Leicester, and Bedford Railways
Lambert, Richard, Esq., Lyston-hall, Sudbury, Director of the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Laurie, George, Esq., Manchester
Macmoran, A. M., Esq., 58, Cambridge-street, Hyde-park, Director
of the Direct East and West Junction Railway
Mann, A., Esq., Denver-hall, Norfolk, Director of the Liverpool,
Manchester, and Newcastle Junction Railway
Maunder, Joseph. Esq., Liverpool, Director of the Rugby and Man-
chester Direct Railway
Meteyard, Horace Wm., Esq., 8.C.L., London, Director of Reming-
ton's London and Manchester Railway
Miller, Thomas, jun., Esq., Leicester, Director of the Direct Bir-
mingham and Leicester Railway
Mosse, R., Esq., Princes-street, Great George-street
Parker, Francis, Esq., Northampton, Director of the South Midland
Railway
Parkinson, John, Esq , Cambridge-terrace, Regent's-park, Director
of the South Midland Railway
Payne, Benjamin, Esq., Leicester, Director of the Direct Birming-
ham and Leicester Railway
Ramsey, J., Esq., Bushey Ilouse, Herts
Raworth, J., Esq., Leicester, Director of the Direct Birmingham
and Leicester Railway
Shaw, Joseph, Esq., York-place, Huddersfield, Director of the East
and West of England Junction Railway
Shaw, George, Esq., M.D., Leicester
Spiers, E. 1., Esq., Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and
Worcestershire Junction Railway
Stone, Nathaniel C., Esq., Rawley-fields, near Leicester, Director of
the Direct Birmingham and Leicester Railway
Sager, Hartley, Esq., Ball's Grove, Cole, Director of the Leeds
and Carlisle, and the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railways
Threlfall, Edward, Esq., Regent Road Mills, Manchester, Director of
the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway
Tebbutt, Thomas, Esq., Rusholm, Manchester, Director of the
Rugby and Manchester, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways
Williams, B. 8., Esq., 70, Portland-place, Director of the Leeds
and Liverpool, Leicester and Tamworth Railways.

COMMITTEE OF
Sir George Wm. Prescott, Bart.
Sir George Rich
Sir William Wynn
Lieut.-Colonel Elrington
Grey, Ilazlerigg, Esq.
Thos. Mortimer Cleobury, Esq.
Robert Bell, Esq.
B. Collett, Esq.
Major Croft
Nathaniel Cumberlege, Esq.
J. Dalby, Esq.

MANAGEMENT.
Charles Heneage, Esq.
Joseph Knight, Esq.
Richard Lambert, Esq.
Horace Wm. Meteyard, Esq
A. M. Macmoran, Esq.
R. Mosse, Esq.
John Parkinson, Esq.
G. Parsons, Esq.
J. Ramsay, Esq.
J. Raworth, Esq.
Major Waller

BANKERS.
Messrs. Rogers, °Ming, and Co., Clement's-lane, London
Messrs. Garfit, Clapon, and Co., Boston
Messrs. Kewney and King, Grantham
Pare's Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester and Melton
Mowbray.

ENGINEER—C. Nixon, Esq.
SOLICITOR-J. A. J. Macgregor. Esq., 26, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall
London.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
and gun. Grltilthilln, and
Messrs. Millington and kenrick, Boston.
SECRETARY—George Farrer, Esq.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT--Cadwaller F. Waddy, Esq.

The object of this line of railway is to connect, by a direct route,
the important town and seaport of Boston with the centre of Eng-
land, by way of Grantham and Melton Mowbray, where it will join
the Syston and Peterborough branch of the Midland Counties Railway.
By this railway, which will be about forty-four miles in length,
and laid through a country nearly level, it is intended to pass by or
near Swinlshead,Donington, Folkingham, Grantham, Stoke, Rock-
ford, and Melton Mowbray. It is evident that this line will be of
great convenience and utility, by affording to a part of the county
at present deprived of it the advantage of railway communication
with the counties of Rutlandshire, Leicestershire, Northampton-
shire, Warwickshire, &c., and thus connecting the agricultural
districts of Lincolnshire with the manufacturing parts of England,
affording to the latter an easy and accessible means of export for
their manufactures.
It is unnecessary to enlarge upon the advantages which will arise
from this railway, which passes through one of the richest and
most fertile parts of England. The population is dense, and a
glance at the map will show that this line is well laid out, net
only for the direct traffic from Leicester and the intermediate
places to Boston, but also for the general traffic which will be
brought to this line by the several railways which will be connected
with it.
In the allotment of shares, holders in the Midland Counties Rail-
way will receive a preference, and reservation will be made for the
landed interests along the line, whose concurrence and assistance is
fully relied on by the promoters, by whom most of the influential
landholders have been canvassed ; and, in order to prevent unneces-
sary trouble, no other applications will be received except those
wherein reference is made to a member of the Provisional Commit•
tee, to the Solicitors or Bankers, or the following Sharebrekers,
from whom prospectuses and plans may be obtained :-
1 Messrs Sutton, Gribble, and Sutton, Royal Exchange
Messrs. Preece and Evans, 39, Lothbury, London
Messrs. Townley and Whitehead, Liverpool
Mr. Keil, 20, Atherton-bu,hPng,s, Liverpool
Messrs. Weilbeloved and Oastler, Leeds
Mr. Frederick stamp, Hull
Mr. Geo. Clark, Bradford
Mr. Win. Cronhelm, Halifax
Mr. Charles Spencer, Nottingham
Messrs. Eyre and Shaw, Derby
Messrs. Grayston and Erle, York
Mr. E. H. Armitage, Wakefield
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Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester
Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, College-green Dublin.

BIRMINGHAM AND BOSTON DIRECT
RAIL WAY COM TANI',
Capital, 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. eack.
Deposit 21.25. per Share.
(Provisionally Registered.)
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
The Eight lion. Lord Edward Chichester, Chairman.
Captain J. I'. Ji acdougal, Vice-Chairman.
R. Atkyns, Esq. I John Lowe, Esq
11. Brown, Esq.
W. I'. Black, Esq.
John Blunt, Esq.
Lieutenan!-Colonel L. Dickson
A. W. Greville, Esq
G. G. Hay, Esq.

James Lamb, Esq.
John Rannie, Esq.
J. Thompson, Esq., Tottenham
John Thompson, Esq., Great St.
Helen's

ASTERN COUNTIES, BARKING, AND
j THAMES JUNCTION RAILWAY, AND COAL AND
COASTING DOCK.

Notice is hereby given, that no further Applications for Shares in
this Company can be received after SATURDAY NEXT, the 25th inst.,
except from parties in the country, which will be admitted until
MONDAY, the 27th instant.

REED and ROBINSON.

31, Afoorgate-street, Oct. 20, 1845.

L Y and BURY ST. EDMUNDS RAILWAY.
,A In consequence of the great number of applications for shares

in this Company which are daily received froin all parts of the
country, the Provisional Directors feel it necessary to call the atten-
tion o I the Public to the following Clause in the Prospectus, to the
terms of which they will, in allotting the shares, be compelled most
strictly to adhere :-
-" As, under arrangements entered into with the Lynn and Ely,
Ely and Huntingdon, and Lynn and Dereham Railway Companies,
a large proportion of the capital has been appropriated to the holders
of shares in those Companies, a very limited number of shares only
Is at the disposal of the Provisional Directors, and no application for
shares therefore c All be attended to, except front parties locally in-
terested and of the highest respectability.
By order,
L. F. EDWARDS, Secretary pro tem.

EWRY and CARLINGFORD RAILWAY.
MEETING IN LIVERPOOL.

At a meeting held this day, at the Wellington Hotel, Dale-street,
of Merchants, Traders, and other Inhabitants of Liverpool, interested
in the promotion of commercial intercourse between Liverpool and
the North-West and North-East of Ireland,
AUGUSTUS RADCLIFFE, Esq., in the Chair,

the following Resolutions, being duly moved and seconded, were
unanimously adopted ;
That Francis Carlin, Esq., a Director of the Newry and Ennis-
killen Railway, and of the Newry Navigation Company, having ex-
plained the merits of the Newry and Carlingford Railway, and the
accuracy of his statements having been corroborated by the personal
examination of the proposed line by three of our body now present,
we regard the said line as essential and indispensable to the full de-
velopment of the advautager likely to accrue to both countries front
a continuous and uninterrupted railway communication being opened
from Carlingford Bay to the Irish Western Csast ; and we hereby
pledge ourselves accordingly to give our best support to the Newry
and Carlingford Railway.
It appearing from the statement of the London Secretary, that ap-
plications for shares having already far exceeded the total number of
shares at the disposal of the Company—Resolved, that, no further
applications whatever be received after FRIDAY next, October the 24th
instant.

That in the allotment of shares a preference be given to holders of
scrip in the Newry and Enniskillen Railway, in conformity with the
terms of the prospectus of this Company.
That a list of names of a highly influential Provisional Committee
having been read, the position of the Company is considered such as
not to require their publication in the newspapers.
That the following gentlemen constitute the Committee of Manage-
ment :

Augustus Radcliffe, Esq. Birkenhead, Chairman
Francis Carvell, Esq. Vice Chairman
Richard Taylor, Esq. Birkenhead
Alexander Fostley, Esq. Newsy
George Guy, Esq., Newry
John Bennie, Esq. Newry
James N. Holmes, Esq. Liverpool
(With power to add to their number.)
(Signed) A. RADCLIFFE, Chairman.
Liverpool, Friday, October 17, 1845.

rrHE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT
A. RAILWAY, via ABINGDON, WANTAGE, HUNGERFORD,
and LUDGERSHALL.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 1,200,000/., in 48,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 12s. Gd. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Dillon, Ditchley-park, Oxon
The Right Hon. Lord Suffield, Gunton•park, North Waisham
The Right Hon. Lord Rossmore, the Dell, Windsor
The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne, Belle Hatch-house, Henley
The Hos. Robert Gore, R.N., M.P., 21, Wilton-cresceut
The Hon. William M. Dawson, Parkstone-lodge, Poole, Director of

the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
The Hon. Edward Stafford Jerninghana, Director of the London and

Nottingham Railway
Sir William Drummond Stewart, Bart.
Sir John Key, Bart., King's Arms-yard, Alderman of' London;
. _ _ . _ _ . _

_ .
Director of the Direct Manchester and London Railway
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, United Service Club
E. F. Dayrell, Esq., Lillingston Dayrell, High Sheriff of Buckingham-
shire, Chairman of the Minchead and Bridgewater Railway
James Macmillan, Esq., Southampton, Director of the Worcester,

Warwick, and Rugby Railway
Frederick William Seymour, Esq., Carlten-gardens, Director of the
Dover and Bristol Railway
Henry D. Erskine, Esq., Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, and Kirby
Dale, Yorkshire, Director of the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway
Major Moore, Queen Anne-street, Director of the Brighton and
_ . _

Cheltenham Direct Railway
Major Graham, late Scots Greys,l6, Grove, Clapham
G. B. Banbury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the
Coventry and Manchester Railway
The Rev. 11. R. Fowler, Felton, near Bristol, and 7, Manchester-
square, Director of the Rhondda and Ely Valleys Junction
Railway
James Gernon, Esq., 13, Conduit-street, Vice-Chairman of the Gal-
way and Ennis Grand Junction Railway
Archibald Douglas Stewart, Esq., Grandtully Castle
Robert Bell, Esq., Manor-house, Chiswick, Director of the Dover
and Bristol Railway
Joseph Bull, Esq., Manchester
Thomas Ferrand I)eaden, Esq., Rochdale
Charles Haigh, Esq., Rochdale
Charles Welland, Esq., Liverpool
James Shaw, Esq., Pendleton, Manchester
The Rev. F. . Hall, D.D., Rector of Fulborne, Cambridgeshire
Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlborough-place, St.
Directors of the
E. S. Blundell, Esq., 18, Lower Seymour-street Direct Lon-
W. L. Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex don and Exe-
G. W. Evans, Esq., Milbury-terrace, Regent's-park] ter Railway
Walter Shairp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park,
John Allen, Esq. 12, Gloucester-terrace, Kensington
Francis Roose, Esq., Upper Montague-street, Montague-square
Francis Ewart, Esq., Temple, Director of the Equity and Law
Life Assurance Company, and of the Exeter, Dorchester, and
Weymouth Railway
William Gambier, Esq., Sacombe-park, llerts
Benjamin Swan, Esq., Jermyn-street, St. James's
_Nehemiah John Reed, Esq., R.N., Marlborough, Director of the
London and South Wales Direct Railway
Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough
F. Walker Botterill, Esq., Burnley
James Paxton, Esq., M.D., Director of the Rugby and Manchester,
Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Railways
Thomas Ingham Rayner, Esq., Lilac-cottage, Birstal, near Leeds, Di-
rector of the Great Leeds, and London, Midland, and Thirsk, and
other Railways
Major Henry Lyster, 9, Spring-terrace, Wandsworth-road, Director
of the Lincolnshire and Eastern Counties Railway
J. Russell, Esq. Gloucester-place, Portman-square
James Scott, M.D., Grove End-lodge, St. John's-wood, Director
of the hull and Holyhead, and of the Bristol, Bath, and Poole
Railways
William Doe Belcher, Esq., Mayor of Abingdon
John Hyde, Esq., jun., Alderman of Abingdon
John Tomkins, Esq.
John Harris, Esq. Members of the Town Council, Abing-
Thomas Copeland, Esq. don
Edwin James Trendell, Esq ,
John King, Esq., A)4ngdon
George Cox, Esq., Abingdon
George Jackson, Esq., Abingdon
John Knight, Esq., Abingdon
Mr. Thomas Payne, jun., Abingdon
John Aldworth, Esq., Frilford, Berks
William Caudwell, Esq., Drayton, near Abingdon
William Dewe, Esq., Stonehill, near Abingdon
John Towle, Esq. Members of the City Council, Oxford
R. C. Godfrey, Esq.. •
James Morrell, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant of the county of Oxford
Director of the Londoa and Cheltenham Direct Railway
Santuary, Esq., Kidlington, Oxon
Captain H. Strong, Oxford, Director of the Oxford and Worcester
Extension Railway
Rowland Mackenzie, Esq., 68, Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square,
Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and of the Chel-
tenham and Oxford Railways
Abraham Bauer, Esq., 9, Arthur-street West, King William-street
Daniel Hanley, Esq., Oxford
William Seckham, Esq., Kidlington, Oxon
Charles Shillingford, Esq., Somer Town, Oxon
Adin Williams, Esq., Somer Town, Oxon
Mr. Thomas Hyde, Oxford
Mr. Wm. Thompson, Oxford
John Brightman, Esq., Regency-square, Brighton, Chairman of the
Hounslow Railway
David Bryan, Esq., Northampton, Director of tha Eastern and
Midland Counties Railway
Charles Liddiard, Esq., Wantage
Mr. Henry James Palmer, Wantage
Thomas Brown, Esq. West Lockinge, Berke
William Stone, Esq. Charlton, Berks
Richard Barnard, Esq. Charlton, Barks
henry Hayward, Esq. Stirlings, Wantage
James Staley, Esq. Wantage
Thomas Brown, Esq. Wantage
Mr. Charles Hart, foundry, Wantage
Mr. William Beesley, \Vantage
John William Palmer, Esq. Letcombe Regis, Berke
Mr. J. Pottinger Palmer, Letcombe Regis, Barks
John Blunt, Esq., Upper Bedford-place, Director of the London
Docks
William Bastow, Esq., Surrey-place, Kent-road, Director of the
Commercial and General Life Assurance Association
Robert Bestow, Esq., Surrey-place, Director of the Great Eastern
and Western Railway
John King, Esq., St. John's-wood, London, Director of the Somer-
setshire Midland Railway
Plenry Stock, Esq., Beddgelert, North Wales, Director of the Great
Eastern and Western Railway
D. T. Johnson, Esq., Aldemary-churchyard, Director of the Direct
Independent London and Manchester Railway
John Bloor, Esq., Tutbury, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Man-
chester Railway
T. A. Dale, Esq., Malvern-house, Cheltenham, Director of the Bir-
kenhead and Holyhead Junction, and South Staffordshire and Pot-
teries Railways
Charles 7Johnston, Esq., Aldersgate-street, Director of the Lynn,
Thetford, and Ipswich Railway
Admiral Ayscough, Southampton, Director of the Birmingham and
Leicester Railway
Frederick Chamfer, Esq., R.N., Halkin-street, Belgraye-square,
Director of the Northampton and Cambridge Railway
George R. Peppercorne, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex, Director of the Rugby
and Warwick Railway
Thomas Salkeld, Esq. Huddersfield, Director of the Manchester,
Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby, and Huddersfield and Liverpool
Direct Railway
CWarles Finch, Esq., Fisherton, Salisbury
General Wright, Gloucester-place, Portman-square
(With power to add to their lumber).
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Chairman.
William Bestow, Esq. W. L. Pope, Esq.
-criu,a.. i. 5 12.1.1.. r, Esq. I Brigadier-General Sir Henry
Robert Bell, Esq. If x-yrm
E. S. Blundell, Esq. M.D. , Francis Roose, Esq.
Francis Ewart, Esq. I Waiter Shairp, Esq.
Charles Liddiard, Esq. Henry Stock, Esq.
James Macmillan, Esq.
(With limited power to add to their number).
ENGINEER-IN-ClllEF—Samuel Charles Brees, Esq.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street,
London.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT—Cadwallader F. Waddy,
BANKERS.
London—The Commercial Bank of London
Oxford—The London and County Bank
Salisbury—Tics Wilts and Dorset County Bauk
Abingdon—Messrs. Henry Knapp and Co. ; and the County
Bank
Wantage—Messrs. Henry Knapp and Co.
Newbury—The Berkshire Union Bank
Hungerford—Messrs. Tanner and Piuckney.
LOCAL, AGENTS.
Oxford—John Francis Wilde, Esq.
Salisbury—Stephen Hill, Esq.
Abingdon—Messrs. Graham and Sole
Wantage—William Ormond, Esq.
Hungerford and Marlborough—John Halcomb, Esq.
SECRETARY—Z. Ilubbersty, Esq.
The importance of connecting remote parts of England by rail-
ways, with the advantages thereby conferred upon intermediate towns
and districts, can scarcely be better exemplified than by the line
which is now proposed to form a short and direct channel of inter-
course between Oxford and Salisbury. Numerous projected lines
now before the public will make Oxford at the north, and Salisbury
at the south of thee intended railroad, the central points from which
various radii will diverge to the north-west, north, and north-east of
the former, and to the south and west of the latter ; and the
proposed line from Cambridge to Oxford, continuing to that city the
course of railway from the north-eastern parts of the island, requires
the appliance now suggested to effect a complete means of transit to
the western and south-western counties.
Tile Oxford . and Salisbury Direct Railway, in addition to
the benefits which will he conferred upon the nation at
large, by perfecting a direct line of commun,cation be-
tween the north-eastern and western and south-western
parts of England, will afford to the borough of Abingdon,
the market towns of Wantage, Hungerford, and Lndgershall, and
the adjacent villages, an important railway accommodation, of which
the agricultural districts in which they are seated stand in much
need, and will provide a facility for the interchange of produce be-
tween the rural, manufacturing, and commercial population of the
kingdom. The projected line will bring the Cathedral City of Salis-
bury into immediate connexion with the City and University of
Oxford, combining also the advantage of a direct communication
with the sister University of Cambridge ; thus strengthening the
ecclesiastical and academical relations of the whole, whilst the com-
mercial prosperity of the two terminal cities must of necessity be
essentially enhanced.
The want of railway accommodation has long been felt to press
unfairly upon tine inhabitants of the important and thriving town of
Abingdon. Their means and opportunities of competing wills the more
fortunate traders of those towns which are already provided with di-
rect channels of transit, are thus seYerely crippled. The same remark
applies in some degree to the market town of Wantage, which, as
It has therefore been determined to commence the proposed
Abingdon to the station of the Great
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through the towns which have been named, Ilungerford and Ludgers-
hall, to Salisbury, and thence to the south and western ports and dis-
tricts. _ ...

The survey is in a state of great forwardness, and will be com-
pleted in sufficient time to enable the Company to apply to Parlia-
ment in the next session ; and the promoters having received general
and most satisfactory assurances of support from the local gentry,
landowners, traders, and influential inhabitants, have reasonable
ground to anticipate the unobstructed passing of the necessary Act
for the formation of the Oxford and Salisbury Direct Railway during
the ensuing session. _ _ _

Applications for shares and prospectuses to be made to Messrs.
Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street ; to the Secretary', at the
offices of the Company, 37, Gresham-street ; and to the following
Brokers :—Messrs. Peppercorne, 2, Old Broad-street, Messrs. W
and D. Ewart, 13, Finch-lane, and Messrs. Preece and Evans,
Lothbury, London ; Messrs. Alston and Gage, and Messrs.
Reynolds and Son, Liverpool ; Mr. John Duncuft, and Mr.
John O'Neil, Manchester; Messrs. A. and C. Bradshaw, and Messrs.
Wellbeloved and Co., Leeds ; Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol ; Mr.
James Pearson, Birmingham ; Messrs. Samuel Hutchinson and Co.,
Bradford ; Mr. Wm. Miles, Worcester ; Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and
Co., Cheltenham ; Mr. Thomas Sandford, Exeter ; Messrs. Easty and
Sous, Southampton; Mr. Robert Allan, Edinburgh; Messrs. Black
and Co., and Messrs. Buchanan and Aitken, Glasgow ; Mr. Wm.
Gordon, Aberdeen ; and Messrs. Bruce and Symes,

FORM OF APPLICATION.

To the Provisional Committee of the Oxford and Salisbury Direct

Railway:

Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares in the
above undertaking; and I hereby agree to accept the same, or any
less number which may be allotted to me, and also to pay the de-
posits thereon, and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement, Parlia-
mentary Contract, and all other necessary instruments, when re-
quired so to do.

I am, Gentlemen, your obedient Servant,
Namebi .. • . • •
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Elinslie and Preston 47, Moorgata-street, London

91.111 E OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT
RAILWAY.
No Application for Shares can be received after THURSDAY NEXT,
the 23rd instant.
The following letter has been received from Samuel Charles Brees
Esq., the engineer to this Company, viz.:
"Stoke Newington, 18th October, 1845.
" have the honour to report, for the information of the
Board of Directors, my return from Oxford. Agreeable to theft com-
mands I made further examinations of the line of country, and have
engaged and given instructions to a large and efficient staff of sur-
veyors and assistants to pdrform the survey. I have much satisfac-
tion in adding that my last visit has been such as to warrant the
statements made by me at the meeting of the Provisional Committee
concerning the elegibility of the line, and have no hesitation in saying
that the survey will be completed, and the Parliamentary plans de-
posited, by the 30th November.
"I have the honour to be, Sir,
" Your obedient servant,
" SAMUEL CHARLES liIRERS,
"Engineer in Chief, Oxford and Salisbury Direct Railway
" To Z. Hubbersty, Esq.
Secretary, Oxford and Salisbury Direct Railway."
By order of the Committee of Management,
Z. HUBBERSTY, Secretary.

BRIGHTON, LEWES, AND TONBRIDGE
WELLS DIRECT RAILWAY (RALLETT'S LINE).
Capital 350,0001., in 17,500 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Shareholders not to be liable beyond the amount of their Shares.

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Chairman, Lord Alfred Hervey, M.P.
Howard Elphinstone, Esq. M.P. Stephen Lowden, Esq.
John Villiers Shelby, Esq. Edward Beard, Esq.
Sir George Prescott, Bart. Richard Dutton, Esq.
Edwin James, Esq. William H. Lidbetter, Esq.
Valentine Lee, Esq. Alexander Donavan, jun. Esq.
George Rennie, Esq. George Donavan, Esq.
W. S. Potter, Esq. Jno. Langford, Esq.
James Reeves, Esq. Nelson Kenward, Esq.
George Molineux, Esq. Thomas Radford, Esq.
Frederick Seymour, Esq. Jno. Taylor Hallett, Esq.
John Kenward, Esq. William Kenward, Esq.
Thomas Wisden, Esq. William Nash, Esq.
Edward Churchill, Esq. J. Underwood, Esq.
Alexander Wright, Esq.
ENGINEER—Sir John Rennie, F.R.S.
ACTING ENGINEER—WiIIiam Hallett, ESQ. C.E.
SOLICITOR—W. B. James, Esq.
SECRETARY—F. H. Nalder, Esq.
BANKERS.
The Commercial Bank, Lothbury
Messrs. Melyneaux and Co. Lewes, and Tonbridge Wells.
LOCAL AGENTS.
William Polhill Kell, Esq. Lewes
Robert Foreman, Esq. solicitor, Tonbridge Wells
Benjamin Hall, Esq. Isuxsted Lodge, near Uckfield.
The Committee of Management beg to state that the Allotment
being proceeded with, and the letters will be issued without delay.
By order, FREDERICK H. NALDER, Secretary.
83, Basinghall-street, 15th Oct. 1845.

J ORTH LONDON JUNCTION RAILWAY
COMPANY, 8, Finsbury-place South.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and Bth Victoria., cap. 110.)
Capital, 1,300,000/., in 65,000 Shares of 20/. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
John Attwood, Esq., M.P., Park-lane, Chairman
James Horne, Esq., F.R.S., Clapham Common, Deputy-Chairman
Sir John Edward De Beauvoir, Bart., London
James Henry Attwood, Esq., Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square
John Bagshaw, Esq., tdoucester-place, Portman-square
Richard Bethell, Esq., Queen's Counsel, Lauderdale House, Highgate
George Bishop, Esq., South Villa, Inner Circle, Regent's Park
Augustus Bosanquet, Esq., Osidge, Southgate
Joseph Brown, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continuation
Railway
George Woodreffe Franklyn, Esq , Clifton, Bristol
W. Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.'.A., F.L.S., Alderman of the City of
London
Henry Morton, Esq., Biddick, Durham
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manchester
and Birmingham Continuation Railway
Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P., 39, St. James's-place
Georwa Rougemont, Esq., 14, Broad-street-buildings
N icholas Wood, Esq., Kellingwerth, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills and Co., Loudon
Bank of Liverpool
The Union Bank, Manchester.
ENGINEER—George Parker Bidder, Esq., E.I.C.E.
ARCUITECT—Robert Abraham, Esq., Torrington-street, Russell-Square,
SOLICITOR—John Bethell, Esq., 78, King William-street, City.
SECRETARY—Harry Burrard Fenian, Esq.

The Provisional Committee of the North London Junction Rail-
way Company have great satisfaction in informing their subscribers
that negotiations are now pending between the Provisional Commit-
tee of this Company and the Directors of the Railways north of the
Thames of such a character as to assure them that the City terminus
of this Company will form the Grand Terminus of all the City traffic
north of London.
To effect this important object, an area of 10 acres of groued (the
southern boundary of which is within 500 yards of the Bank of
England) has been meet carefully surveyed and valued, and the re-
port of the architect and engineer is of so favourable a character as to
have induced the Provisional Committee to determine en purchasing
the entire site, and it has, therefore, been resolved by them to in-
crease the capital of this Company to 1,300,0001.
The Provisional Committee consider it of paramount importance
to secure within the limits of their City terminus, the amplest and
most complete accommodation for the traffic of each of the railway
companies who may co-operate with them, an object which will be
effected by opening the very extensive and valuable space of ground
alluded to, within the centre of the City of London.
In conjunction with this enlarged plan, it is intended t• embrace
that of a branch line to the present station of the Eastern Counties
Railway in ghoreditch, which will effect an entire junction between
the eastern and western parts of the metropolis ; and at the same
time afford a direct communication between the whole of the rail-
ways, which reach London tothe north of the Thames, and give
full development to each of their schemes by creating for them a
common centre within the heart of the metropolis.
Independently, therefore, of the almost incalculable local traffic
which the position of their City terminus will ensure to this Com-
pany, will be added that of those companies also who will eventually
co-operate with the North London Junction Railway Company, and
the perfection of a project of no ordinary magnitude and importance
will be realised throughout the whole of this short bat very valuable
line of railway.
A lithographic sketch now publishing will accurately define the
entire district through which this Company proposes to run this Nne ;
by this means the most casual observer will be enabled to ascertain
that the environs of London, north of the Thames, will be placed ti
immediate communication with the City ; while the dense popu-
lation of the City will enjoy a facrity of connexion with its suburban
localities, necessarily affording it the :greatest accommodation.
With such important local resources, therefore, together with the
vast traffic on which the shareholders of this Company have a right
to rely for profit, a large amount of revenue may be fairly and justly
anticipated, fully commensurate with the outlay of the proposed
capital. That revenue will be derived thus :
The daily passenger traffic on the Great Western amounts to
3,345, one-half of which reaches the City. The London and Bir-
mingham amounts to 4,322 daily, two-thirds of which reach the
City. The Eastern Counties amounts to 2,400 persons daily, half
of whom pass to the West-end of London. The omnibus traffic daily
is 30,894 passengers, two-thirds of which may be given to the City.
Passengers from the suburban districts reaching the City, new cm-
accommodated by any railway, are estimated at 4,000 daily.
From these sources the following products arc derived
Per Ana.

Passengers from the Great Western and liirmingham Rail-
way, at 6d. each .•• • • •
Passengers from the Eastern Counties to the City terminus
of this Company, at 3d. each .. • ...... .....
Omnibus passengers' traffic, at Gd. each, as takea at
present.. ...... •........ ................. ........
142,208 tons of goods and parcebs pass annually from the
Great Western and the London and Birmingham Rail-
ways into the City, at an average cost of carriage of 3s.
Gd. per ton throughout. For the carriage of these goods
and parcels, therefore, at the reduced cost of 2s. 6d. per
ton, a revenue may be derived of ..
From the carriage of goods, parcels, and mails, bringing in
to the Eastern Counties Railway Company a revenue of
40,0001. a year, may be derived the MIN of .. ••• . • •

The total of their calculations amounts t 0.... £280,289
Deduct 40 per cent. for workers' expenses ... •

IREAT WESTERN, BRENTFORD, and
CENTRAL TERMINUS, JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY .
Offices, 53, Charing-cross, Oct. 20, 1845.
PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS.
Chairman—The Earl of Devon.
Deputy-Chairmen—Henry Pownall, Esq. ; Major Jelf Sharp
Benjamin John Armstrong, Esq. 1 Geo. Jas. Stredwick Camden, Esq.
William Sprott Boyd, Esq. Charles Downes, Esq.
Tbomas Bramall, Esq. James Montgomery, Esq.
John Chevallier Cobbold, Esq. The Hen. Colonel Phipps
George Cooper, Esq. Frederick Thompson, Esq.
Notice is hereby given, that the lists are closed, and that no further
applications for shares in this Company can be received. The al-
lotment is being proceeded with, and the letters will be issued as
early as possible.
By order,

EIENRY MOREING. Secretary.

EREWASII VALLEY EXTENSION, AND
ROCHDALE, BLACKBURN, AND EAST LANCASHIRE
JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.

In reply to numerous inquiries made of the Committee of Direc
tion, they beg to announce that, in consequence of the number of
shares applied for having exceeded 500,000, considerable delay mast
necessarily take place in making inquiries and arranging the allot-
ment, which, however, will be completed at the earliest perio,l
possible.
The Committee of Direction have the satisfaction of stating that
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they are assured by their engineer that the surveys and
mentary plans are in a forward state, and that all will he ready
the next session of Parliament.

By order,
STILLINGFLEET LOCKER, Secretary.
44, Finsbury-circus, Oct. 21, 1843.

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