The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-30 00:00:00

The Mayor hiving left the chair,
Moved by Mr. CATirrv, seconded by Mr. MI:EBERT, and resolved

unanimously :
That a vote of thanks be given to the Mayor for his patient and
impartial conduct in the chair.

THE CHESTER AND MANCHESTER
DIRECT RAILWAY.
e Shares in this Railway having bees allotted to all Deposits
duly paid, the Committee of Management have much pleasure in in-
forrn:ng their Shareholders that the Parliamentary surveys are pro-
gressing io their entire satisfaction, and that every care is being
taken to insure Compliance with the standing orders on going before
Parliament. By order,
A. BARRETT, Secretary.
1, Royal Exchange-buildings, London, Sept. 27, 1845.

ARNET and NORTH METROPOLITAN
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
roN isionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 110.)
Capital, 400,0001., in 20,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21.25. per Share. _ _ _ .

No Shareholder to be liable beyond the amount of his Subsaription
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Hon. F. 11. F Berkeley, M.P., Chairman, Director of the London,
Hounslow, and Western Railway Company
William Alfred Hill, Esq., Deputy-Chairman, also Deputy-Chairman
'of the Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham Railway Company
Sir John Osborne, Bart., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing-
stoke Railway Company
Sir Henry Richardson, Knight, Chessel, near Southampton Lord cf
the Manors of Chipping Barnet and East Barnet
The Bight Hon. Lord Dunboyne, Belle Hatch House, Henley
William Wilberforce, Esq., James-street, Buckingham-gate, anc
iflghwood House, Highwood Hill, Hendon
Samuel Bendy, Esq., Montague-street, Russell-square, Lord of the
, Manor of Hendon
Lieut.-Colonel Gilliee, Dorchester House, Bayswater
William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Director of the Italian and
Austrian Railway
Josiah ileale, Esq., Gray's Inn
..Major Lind: m, K.H., Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and
Central Wales Railway Company
Henry geekley Richardson, Esq., F.S.A., Directdr Qf the Colchester,
Cambridge, and Harwich Junction Railway
Rowland IEII Mackenzie, Esq., M.D., Mortimer-street, Cavendish-
square
Henry Chaytor, Esq., Clervaux Castle, Darlington, Director of the
Warwick and Worcester Railway
Thomas Priestley, Esq., Principal of Mill 11111 Grammar School,
Ilenlon, Middlesex
The Rev. H. J. Crump, Mill Hill, Hendon, Middlesex
Captain Graver, R.N.
Captain John Lines, H.C.S., Wentworth House, Mill Hill, Hendon,
Middlesex
The Rev. Bartholomew Nicholls, M.A., Incumbent of St. Paul's
Mill Hill, Hendon, Middlesex
Mr. William Ward, Underhill, Barnet
11r. Bruce Johnson, Finchley
'W illian4 Christopher Daniel Deighton, Esq., Fellow of Queen's College
Cambridge, Holloway
Rnlpi ..allea Frogley, Esq., Hounslow, Director of the London,
Ilentagow, and Western Railway
Colonel Taylor White, Hadley-green, Barnet
Abraham Scott, Esq., Hadley Priory, Barnet
'V. J. M`GWirc, Esq., 74, St. James's-street
W. Prosser, Jan., Esq., 36, New Broad-street, City
.1 times Berington, Eaq., East-street, Heaton
fearge Freeman, 'Esq., Grange House, Leeds
Richard. Cowley Polhill, Esq., Director of the London, Hounslow, and
Western Railway Company
Ceara, Godfrey-, Esq., The Elms, Hutton, Essex
',Robert Wright Wood, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and
:Basingstoke Railway Company
Alexander Prince, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing-
stoke Railway
Peter Graham, Esq., Angelo Villa, Gloucester-read, Regent's Park
'William Henry Halpin, Esq., 23, Grafton-street, Fitzroy-square
Thomnas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and
Basingstoke Railway Company
Chance Green, Esq., Director of the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and
Central Wales Railway Company
J. N. Nicholay, B 41. Oxford-street
John Godfrey B. Hudson, Esq., Director of the Central Terminus
Railway Company
The Rev. G. A. Walker, Alvisthorpe Parsonage, Wakefield, Direc
for of the Wakefield and Bradford Railway Company
John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Leicester, Director of the South Union
and Leicester and Birmingham Railway
T:mootas Francis Justice, Esq., Berner's-street, OXfortl-street
George Parbury, Esq., Mansfield-street, Russell-square, Director of
the Grand Trunk Railway
John D. Hopkins, Esq., 25, Bedford-square
J. 11. Lister, Esq., Director of the south and Midland Junction
Railway
J. P. Wright, Esq., Edinburgh
W. Stark, Esq., Rockhalls, Lodge, Cricklewood
Charles Waite, Esq., Willesden
Thomas Cope, Esq., Cricklewood
(With power to add to their number.)
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Time Hon. F. f" Berkeley, 31. P., W. 11. Halpin, Esq.
Chairman
Richard Cowley Polhill, Esq.
Lit aireed 11111, it 4 Deputy- Alexander Prince, Esq.
h.lrm an George Freeman, Esq.
"
K.H. George Godfrey, Esq.
Henry* ...ec
kley Richardson, rag.; Robert Wright Wood, Esq.
FS.A IC!,aries Green, Esq.
CoNsur.tifec ENOLNEER—Francis WhishaZw, Esq., C.E., Brook Lodge,

Hendon, and Adelphi.
AcTiiso EaatmEza—J. Bailey Denton, Esq., 10, Gray's Inn-square.
BAXIEESS—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths,
JOINT SOLICITORS.
Edward Elkins, Esq., 59, Newman-street, Oxford-street
V. P. 11111, Esq., 21a, Soho-square.
LOCAL AGENTS.
ILiffy Hammond, Esq., solicitor, Wentworth Lodge, Finchley
John llughes, Esq., solicitor, Whetstone.
:Messrs. Tatham and Son, solicitors, Highgate
Thom is `{'melts, Esq., solicitor Tottenham
This railway w:11 connect the important and hitherto neglected
town of Barnet with the ;London and Birmingham and the Great
Western Railways, at or near Helsdon-green ; with the Northern
mud Eastern and the Eastern Counties Railway, at or near Totten-
inam; the proposed Direct London and Manchester, and the Lon-
Con and York Railways.
The line, in its course, will unite the town of Barnet with Whet-
4Totterhige, Ilighwood Hill, 31111 Hill, Finchley, Holder's 11111,
urrows, Golder's Hill, Gutterhedge, Kingsbury, Neesdon,
TV;ladon Green, Holsdoo Green, Kensall Green, Westbourne
ma,o4 Kilburn, Hampstead, West End, Highgate, Crouch
End, Ilornsey, 2fuswell Hill, West Green, Tottenham, Edmonton,
Chinford, Stami;_nn Hill, Stoke Newington, Newington Green, Clap-
ton, Ilighbury, Ido”oCraY, Kingsland, Layton, Stratford, West Ham,
how, Bcornley, Beenial Green, Limehouse, Horton, Homerton,
Shacklewell, Dalston, Islington, St. Pancras, Shoreditch,
Blac':ovall, Euston-squard, .raddington, Kensington, Hammersmith,
connecting those places with the
Brouipton, Fulham, Chelsea, ;
various railways named, and all tilose south of the river Thames.
'the distance from the town of lizaruet to the station of the Landon
and Birmingham Railway, at Euston-lnUare,:bY this route, will be

15 miles.
The length of the main line, from the point of junction at Totten-
ham to the London and Birmingham Railway, will be 11 miles ; and
She length of the branch line to Barnet, will be 4% miles. From the
junction with the Birmingham Railway to Chipping Barnet, 9%
olles ; from the Decoy (near Brent-street, Hendon), on the proposed
Its t and North Metropolitan Junction Railway, to the Northern
amid _Ma,,tern Counties Railway, by Stamford-hill, 6% miles.
There .are no engineering difficulties throughout the entire distance.
The Hue will proceed beyond the range of the Highgate and Ramp-
stead Hills, and the branch from the main line to Barnet will follow
the valley of the river Brent to the intended station at Barnet ; thus
the expense of construction will be less than any other metropolitan
line of raGms ay, for the above reason, and because it will pass through
an agricultural aftrict, avoiding all ornamental property and large
cuilectiuns of houses and buildings.

Upon the completion of this rail way, a large and daily- increasing
population, resident beyond the limits of the metropolitan omnibuses,
will be largely benefited, and land and agricultural produce, hitherto
affording an inadequate return to their cultivators, will be quad-
rupled in value. .

:file ancient, populous, and once-flourishing town of Earnot, too,
will now have a railway communication of its own, without depend-
ing upon the caprice or uncertain goodnature of any company who
may
,hold out a prospect of a branch, in future times, from some of
the think lines now contemplated.

,An ample return of profit to the investments of shareholders may
be ,safely anticipated, and will arise from the following sources,
aniew,:st others :-
1. Fr->m the conveyance of passengers.
2. F':•fna the carriage of goods and merchandise Aram the City and
Docks, ;kg., to the several railways which are intersected by this
line, avoiding the delay and excessive cost of conveyance through
London ; also' from Or conveyance of cattle, &c., more particularly
during the peri.od of the large Barnet fairs.
3d. From the con veyance of coal, both inland and seaborne fuel,
and other commodltleo of general consumption, the great expease
of which has long heou i-elt by all classes as a most grievCno evo.

_ The Committee of ltailagement reserve to themselves the power
of adopting, upon this line, locomotive power, or Presser's Railway
guide and safety wheels, as Inay be deemed expedient.
Applications for Shares in the form annexed (and communi-
cations from persons desirous of promoting the objects of the Com-
Panr), may be addressed to the Secretary, at the Provisional Ottices
-of tho Company, 59, Newman-street, Oxford-street ; to the Joint
Solicitors, Edward Elkins, Esq.. 59, Newman-street, and O. P
Mill, Esq., 21A, Soho-square; or to Messrs. Sparks and Clark,
3, Bartholomew-lane ; Messrs. W. and IL I:. Cox, Share-brokers,
It;,, Throgmorton-street ; I. R. Lane, Esq., Birmingham; Charles
0. _Neil, Esq., 15, St. Ann's-square, Manchester ; Mr. Landford,
Exeter; John Wells, Esq., Royal Bank-buildings, Liverpool; and
Messrs. Wellbeloved and Outer, Leeds.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Barnet and North Metropolitan
Junction Nailway, 59, Newman-street, Oxford-street, London.
Gentlemen,--1 request that you will allot to me 20/. each in this ,(!om Shares of
Pally, and I hereby undertake to accept the
same, and to pay tile deposit thereon, or upon any _leas number that
may be allotted to me. ; and I undertake also t he Parlia-
mentary Contract and •Ntibscribers' Agreement ?heetecue the Parlia-
mentary Contract and 'CibsCrib' Agree
Name in full When requir
v.
Name in full , • ........ ..
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Residence ....• • • .....: • . ''''''''' • • • • • • • • • •
Trade or Professiao ........ ..........
:::
o: f: :R.* e: fe :r
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Name, Residence, and Profession or Trade
Date...... .... • • • • ........... _

-14 ARNET and NORTEI
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
No, ice Is hereby given, that no further Applications for Shares in
this liadertaking will be received after SATURDAY, the 4th October

By order of the Committee of Management,
EDWARD ELKINS,
/Joint socitorc
G. P. HILL,
59, Newnian-stree Sept. 25, 1845.

YORK and LANCASTER RAILWAY.
It Is hereby notified to the public that, the Shares in the
above Company being appropriated, the Letters of Allotment were
issued this evening, and the Provisional Directors regret, from the
multiplicity of applications (nearly 400,000 Shares being appplied for,
while tke total number of the Company amounts to but 64,000) very
many persons of known respectability have been necessarily dis-
appointed, by not receiving Allotments. Duo notice will be given,
when the Scrip is ready fer issuing in exchange for the bankers'
receipts. By order of the Board,
DOUGLAS KINNAIRD PULTENEY, Chairman.
S. HOLDSWORTH, Secretary.
Palace Chambers, St. James's-street, Sept. 27, 1845.

THE WEST MIDLAND, MANCHESTER,
AND SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY, AND SWINDON,
AND BIRMINGHAM JUNCTION.
Notice is hereby given that a certain number of shares in this
Company will be reserved for holders of shares in the South and
Midlands' Junction Railway Company. Parties entitled to this pre-
ference are requested to send in their applications on or before the
3d day of October, 1845, in the following form :
To the Provisional Committee of the West Midland, Manchester, and
Southampton Railway, and Swindon and Birmingham Junction.
Gentlemen,—Being a holder of shares in the South and Mid-
lands Junction Railway Company, I beg you will allot me shares
in the above undertaking, and I agree to pay the deposit of 2/. 2s.
thereon, and also to sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers'
Agreement when required.
Dated this day of
Name in full
Residence
Place of business ............
Trade or Profession (if any)
Nos. of Scrip held by me in the South and Mit:Bands' Junction
Railway Company.
No. Fives.
No. Tens.
No. Twenties.
By order,
W. B. JAMES, 5, Basinghall-street.
1, Guildhall Chambers, Basinghall-street, 29th Sept., 1845.

1845.

GREAT WESTERN, BRENTFORD, and
CENTRAL TERMINUS JUNCTION RAILWAY, from
the vicinity of West Drayton, through Hounslow, Brantford, Ham-
mersmith, Kensington, Chelsea, and Westminster, to aCentral
Terminus, near Charing-Cross.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Offices, 53, Chariag-cross,
Capital, 850,0001., in 42,500 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COIdNITTRIL

The Earl of Devon
Vernon Abbott, Esq., 70, Gower-street
Philip Anstrather, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment and
Railway Junction Company
Benjamin John Armstrong, Esq., Southall, Magistrate for Middlesex
John Auldjo, Esq., Noel House, Kensington
Henry Pratt Barlow, Esq., 24, Kensington-square
Edward Oliver Benson, Esq., Hounslow
William Sprott Boyd, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment
Railway Junction Company
Thomas Bramall, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Leicester and Tam-
worth Railway
Sir John Macpherson Brackenbnry
Sir Archer Denraan Croft, Batt., Director of the Thames Embank-
ment Railway Junction Company.
Major John T. Croft, Deputy Chairman of the Chester and Manchee,
ter Railway
Jelin Chevalier Cobbold, Esq., Chairman of the Eastern Union Rail-
way
Wr_liam Cumming, Esq., North Bank, Regent's Park
George Cooper, Esq., Brentford
George James Stredwick Camden, Esq., Hounslow.
Charles Downes, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
J. Fisher, Esq., Isleworth
Major David Fitzgerald, Valentia, county of Kerry
Captain Forbes, RN., Forest, Windsor
Sir Andrew Peilatt Green, R.N., K.C.H.
Francis Lloyd, Esq., Beaufort lodge, Chelsea
James Montgomery, Esq., Brentford
John Bowyer Nichols, Esq., Hammersmith
The Hon. Colonel Phipps, Norwood-grem
Willis Simpson Potter, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands
Railway
Uenry Pownall, Esq., Spring-grove, Hounslow, Magistrates for
Middlesex
john F. Pownall, Esq., Spring-grove, Hounslow
• 'olonel Reid (2d Life Guards), Bulstrode Park
Ammas Berry Rowe, Esq., Brentford
Cohn Coysgarne Sim, Esq., No. 9, Clifton-place, Hyde Park-gardens
dajor Jelf Sharp, Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for Middlesex,
Deputy-Chairman of the Thames Embankment Railway Junction
Company
henry Webb Smith, Esq., Hounslow
Yilliam Spooner, Esq., Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and
Newcastle Railway
tndrew Spottiswoode, Esq., Chairman of the Irish North Midland
Railway
john Stewart, Esq., M.P.
Frederick Thompson, Esq., 20, Kensington-square
tobert Richard Tighe, Esq., Bank, Windsor

(Withhpownei to Ada to their number.)
ENoirrzsz—Thomas Page, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Wilkinson and Cobboid, 7, Lincoln's Inn-fields
William Sim, Esq., 8, King's Bench-walk, Temple.
BANKERS.

PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.
Messrs. Hugh Lines Cameron and George Bain,lB, Parliament-street.
SECRETARY—Henry Moreing, Esq.
Applications for shares, in the subjoined form, may, be made,
addressed to the Provisional Committee, at the Offices of the Com-
pany, 53, Charing-cross, to the Solicitors and Parliamentary Agents,
and to the following agents and sharebrokers :—Messrs. Carden and
Whitehead, 6114, Threadneedle-street; Mr. H. J. Williams, 80, Old
Broad-street, London ; Messrs. Bradley and Co., Manchester ; Mr. B.
R. Pemberton, and Messrs. H. Davis and Co., Liverpool ; Mr. Luke
Arnold, Bristol; Messrs. Chantrell and Boyes, Leeds ; Messrs. Wil-
kinson and Earle, Hull; Messrs. Buchanan and Aitken, Glasgow;
and 3fed,srs. Grayston and Earle, York, of whom prospectuses may
be obtained.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Directors of the Great Western, Brentford, and
Central Terminus Junction Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 201. each
In the above Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the same,
or any lesser number that may be allotted to me, to pay the deposit of
21. 2s. per share thereon, and to sign the Subscribers' Agreement and
Parliamentary Contract when required.
Name in ibil ...........
Trade or Profession •••• • • • . ••• • • •
Date •
Reference in fhll. ••••• • •

GREAT KENT ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY.
Promoted in conjunction with the London and Croydon
Railway Company.

(Provisionally Registered).
Capital 2,500,0001. In 100,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 10s. per Share ; of which, under a guarantee from the
London and Croydon Railway Company as to the expenses, at least
21. will be returned if no Act be obtained in the next session.
The line has the approval ofthe following Noblemen anti Gentlemen
of the county:—
The Right Hon. Earl Stanhope, Chevening Park
The Right lion. Earl Amherst, Knole
The Right Hon. John Charles 'Terries, St. Julien's
Sir Richard Henry Charles Rycroft, Hart., Everlands
Sir John William Lubbock, Bart., High Elms
J. P. Atkins, Esq., Halstead-place
Robert Gordon, Esq., R.N., Sevenoaks
Henry Hughes, Esq.' Bradbourn
Isaac Hayton, Esq., Asbridge House, Tonbridge
W. Lambard, Esq., Beechmont
George Warde Norman, Esq., Bromley-common
Evan Nepean, Esq., R.N., Sevenoaks
Charles Robert Carter Petley, Esq., River Head House
William Pott, Esq., Bromley
Rev. James Sutcliffe, Knockholt
Rev. John Thomas Wilgress, River Head
John Ward, Esq., Holwood
Samuel N. Ward, Esq., Heston
John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, Tonbridge.
COMMITTER OF MANAGEMENT.
Six Directors of the London and Croydon Railway Company
Six Gentlemen to be selected from the County.
ENGINEER IN CHlEF—William Cubitt, Esq., F.R.S.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Burchell, Kilgour, and Parson, 47, Parliament-
street, Westminster
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
John Monkton, Maidstone
Austen and Hobson, Sevenoaks
Jeffries and Bathurst, Faversham
Sankey and Sladden, Canterbury
Latter, Bromley.
P.ANLEIts—Sir John W. Lubbock, Bart., and Co. ; the Commercial

Bank of London,

The lines promoted by the London and Croydon Railway COM-
pany have been modified, improved, and extended, as further ac-
quaintance with the requirements of the districts, and the capabili-
ties and advantages of the atmospheric system have rendered ex-
pedient. They were originally designed with a view to shorten and
improve the railway communication between the metropolis and
Dover, and, at the same time, to afford the greatest amount of rail-
way accommodation to the county of Kent, and those two important
objects have been steadily kept in view.
As now remodelled, the lines will give direct and independent
railway communication from London to Gravesend, Rochester, Chat-
ham, Faversham, Sevenoaks,,Tonbridge, Maidstone, Ashford, Canter-
bury, Dever, and Deal. Tho distance to these towns respectively
will sc,rcely exceed that by the present turnpike roads.

The lines will likewise materially shorten and improve the railway
communication to Margate, Ramsgate, and the Isle of Thanet gene-
rally, and place the assize town of Maidstone and the city of Can-
terbury on the main road between London and the Continent, and in
direct railway communication with each other, and with every im-
portant town in the county.
The main line will pass through the centre of the county by Lewis-
ham, Bromley, the Mailings, Maidstone, Faversham, and Canter-
bury to Dover and Deal, joining the South-Eastern line by branches
to Seveneakes, Tonbridge, and Ashford.
The northern loop will proceed by Eltham, Dartford, Gravesend,
Rocheger, Chatham, and thence up the valley of the Medway to
Maidstone, where it will fall in with the main line.
The entire scheme of railway communication thus dessribed has
been carefully examined in detail, and is found to be most favourable
both as regards-the nature of the gradients and the character of the
work's, there being no gradient on the main line steeper than that
now daily worked over by the trains of the Brighten, Croydon, and
Dover Railway Companies. _

By the connexion with the Croydon Railway Company, access
will be obtained upon favourable terms to the best imtropolitan
stations, and facilities will be secured for the application of the atmos-
pheric system of traetton throughout.
The recent demonstration of the capabilities of this principle on the
Croydon Railway justifies the assertion, that by these lines all the
principal towns of Kent will be brought within a short journey of
London by the ordinary trains; and as the atmospheric principle
involves the expediency et frequent trains, and frequent trains that of
low fares, it follows that the public will derive the benefit of great
speed, increased accommodation, and low charges, in addition to the
safety which is inherent in the system.
The advantages which will result to the public from the adoption
of these lines may be reduced to the following tabular form :

Name of
Town.

I Bromley .
Sevenoaks
Tonbridge
Maidstone
Charing .
Ashford .
Dartford
Gravesend
Rochester
Chatham ..
Faversham
Canterbury

Time Distance 'in occupied
jou ney
from by
London, ordinary
trains.*

81-1 miles

IFares by ordinary
train..

Minimum
number of

let
Class,

2d
Class.

3d
Class.

h. In.
about 20
0 40
O 50
1 0
1 21
1 27
O 25
O 40
O N
O 50
1 25
1 30
2 0
2 0

59% ..
75% ..

Dover

ordinary
trAing
daily.

19 each
Way; and
second
and third-
class car-
riaues with

at least
two-thirds
of that
number.

* Note.—By special and fast trains the time oecupied will be
considerably shorter.
Under these circumstances, it is reasonable to anticipate that this
comprehensive scheme will unite all interests of the county of Kent
in its favour.

With a view to afford the fullest assurance of the entire lines being
carried out, gentlemen locally interested have been associated with
the Directors of the Croydon Railway Company as members of the
Provisional Committee; and, in order more completely to Identify
the scheme with the interests of the county. the necessary capital
will be raised by a separate fund, which will be apportioned princi-
pally between the proprietors of the Croydon Railway Company and
the landowners and other parties connected with the district.
The Croydon Company have guaranteed that in the event of au
Act not being obtained in the next session, the subscribers shall not
be liable to more than 10s. per share for the expenses, and are pre-
pared to enter rota an arrangement to construct a portion of the
Hue, and for the traits beinv worked by them, and passed over their
railway upon reasonable terms, so as to secure the utmost econ my
and the best prospect-of a large divisible pron.
The Committee of Management will vary or extend the line or
any branch or branches, and Increase the capital, and generally per-
form any act which they may deem necessary to insure the success
of the undertaking.

Applications for shares must be made to the solicitors (of whom
also prospectuses may be had), and should be Made in the annexed
form, accompanied by a reference to some member of the Provi-
sional Committee, one of the solicitors, or a banker. Applications
from proprietors of the London and Croydon Railway Company and
from persons locally interested will have a preference.
FORM OF APPLICATION' FOR SILA.RES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Great Kent Atmospheric

Railway Company.
I request you to allot to me shares of 25/. each In the above
undertaking ; and I hereby engage to accept the same, or any less
number which maybe allotted to me, and to pay the deposit thereon,
and to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agree-
ment when required.
Dated the day of 1845.
Name in full .4, . • • • ...... • • ..... • • • • • •
Business or Profession (If any) .. • • • • • • • •
No applications for shares
unless the same in this railway will bo entertained
o be delivered to the Solicitors on or before the 30th
Parliament-street, London, Sept 22, 1i14.5.
INSeop. t4er inst.

IRISH GREAT WESTERN' (DUBLIN to
GALWAY) RAILWAY.
The deeds of this Company wTI lie for signature on and after
WEDNESDAY, the Ist of Octotert, at No. 19, Moorgate-street, London,
where also the new scrip ;nay be had.
The letters of allntnent for the exchange of scrip are in course of
issue according af, the respectability of the applicants is ascertained.
FITZSTEPHE.N FRENCH, Chairman.

25, September

IRECT WESTERN RAILWAY
(Upon the Broad Gauge), -
From London to the Land's-end ; with Diverging Lines to Bath and
Bridgewater respectively.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
Offices, 20, Poultry, Loudon.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Camperdown, Sidney-place, Bath
The Viscount Mandeville, Kimbolton-park, Hunts
Lord James O'Bryen, Royal-crescent, Bath
Lord William Fowled, Bath, and Downham-hall, Brandon, Suffolk
General Sir John Slade, Bart., Muntys Court, Taunton
Colonel Luttrell, Kilve Court, Somerset
The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., Director of the South Mid-
land Railway, Brookes' Club, St. James's-street
Sir-Francis Dugdale Astley, Bart., Everly House, Pewsey, Wilts
Sir Henry Webbe, Bart., 10.5, Pall-mall
Frederick Hodgson, Esq., M.P. for Barnstaple, 3, Carlton Gardens
Howard Elphinstone, Esq., M.P., 19, Eaton-place, London
Ralph Neville, Esq., M.P., Hill-street, Berkeley-square
Charles Barry Baldwin, M.P., 6, Parliament-street
Hon. Percy Evans Freke, 3, Belgrave-square
Thomas Nugent Vaughan, Esq., 32, Grosvenor-place, London
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the
Sheffield and Manchester, and Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
Companies
Sir Robert Price, Bart., M.P., Foxley, Herefordshire
Sir John Cave Brown Cave, Bart , Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Sir William Young, Bart., Westbourne-green, Hyde-park, East India
Director
John Clark, Esq., Benefield House, near Trowbridge, Wilts, Magis-
trate for the counties of Wilts and Somerset
Alfred Batson, Esq., Ramsbury, Wilts, and Upper Bedford-place
Major Hunt Grubbe, Eastwell House, Devizes
John Sealy, Esq., Bridgwater, banker
John Lovel Sealy, Esq., Bridgwater, banker
William Adair Bruce, Esq., Lansdown-crescent, Bath
Sir John Key, Bart., 9, King's Arms-yard, Alderman of the City of
London, Director of the Direct Manchester and London and Direct
Liverpool and Leeds Railway Company
Thomas Fame-orals, Esq., Griffin's Wharf, Tooley-street, Alderman
of the City of London, and Director of the London and Westmin-
ster Bank, and of the London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidder-
minster Railway
Thomas Challis, Esq., Enfield, Alderman of the City of London
Edward liarrisson Barwell, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the North-
ampton. Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway, and Director of the
South Midland Railway
Joseph Armitage, Esq., Mile's Bridge House, Huddersfield, Deputy
Lieutenant and a Magistrate for the West Riding of Yorkshire,
Chairman of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
William Gordon Thomson, Esq., 33, Gloucester-road, Hyde Park,
Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham, and
South Midland Railways
Donald Maclean, Esq., 37, Brunswick-square, Loudon, Deputy
Chairman of the Trout Valley Continuation Rails% ay
Thomas Lawrence, Esq., 3, St. Mary Axe
Philip W. Courtney, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, London
Millis Coventry, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street
Barnet L. iPhilips, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, sad
George-street, Mansion Mouse
Boswell Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holderness House, near Hull,
Deputy Lieutenant and ;Magistrate for the East Riding of Yorkshire
Charles Robert Coleman, Erq., irongate Wharf
William Eales, Esq., Mincing.lane, London, late Director of the
.Devon and Cornwall Banking Company
- Charles Downes, Esq., Warwick-street, Charing-cress, Director of
the South Midlaud Railway
Martin Stutely, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park, London,
Director of the üblin, Belfast, and Coleraine, and the South
Essex Railways
Francis Ede, Esq., 34, Great Winchester-street
John Addis, Esq., Rotherhithe and Mark-lane, London, Director of
the Central Terminus Railway, and of the Licensed Victuallers'
Fire and Life Insurance Company
James Renshaw, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street, and West
Heath House, Erith, Kent, Director of the South Staffordshire
Railway
Thomas Dram, Esq., Pall-mall, and St. Mary Church, Devon, Direc-
tor of the Bridport and Exeter, and Goole and Doncaster Railways
Robert Briunwell, Esq., Brerabo Ironworks, Wrexham, and Cannon-
street, London
H. G.- Atkinson, Esq., Upper Gloucester-place, Regent's Park
George M'lntosh, Esq., 127, Seymour-street, Portman-square
Frederick Sully Flood, Esq., Alpha-road, Regent's Park, London
Major White, 105, Pall-mall, London, Director of the South Midland
Railway
Charles Bieaden, Esq., Coulsden-court, Surrey, Chairman of the Li-
censed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company
J. G. Hammack, Esq., Essex House, Mile-end-road, Director of the
Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company
Patrick Fres. Johnston, Esq., Great Cumberland-place
Joseph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, Minorles, Director of the London and
Blackwall Railway Company
William Downing Bruce, Esq., F.5.A.., 17, Charles-street, St. James's,
and Ripon
Cuthbert Woodcock, Esq., Grove-road, North Brixton
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanstene-street, Portman-
square, Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth, and
the Great Western Extension Railways
George Hammond Whalley, Esq., 30, Pall-mall, London
William Hagan, Esq., GO, Baker-street, Portman-square
William Breynton, Esq., Montpelier, Cheltenham, and Temple, Lon-
don, Director of the Leicester and •Tamworth Railway
Richard Harris Purcell, Esq., Cambridge-street, Hyde Park, Lon-
don, Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Railway
Company
Philip Baker, Esq., Euston-square, London, Auditor of the London
and Blackwell Railway Company
Charles James Heath, Esq., 6, Loudon-street, Mark-lane
Captain E. N. Trowbridge, R.N., 11, Eaton-square
Anthony Ridley, Esq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury, a Director of the
St. Katherine Docks Company, and of the General Shipowners'
Society
William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square
Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., Clopton House, Warwickshire, and
Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire
George Payne, Esq., Sulby Hall, Northamptonshire, and Charles-
street, Berkeley-square
James Beech, Esq., Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, and Grosvenor-
place, London
.Nicholas Philpot Leader, Esq., Dromagh Castle, county Cork, Union
Club, Trafalgar-square, Director of the Killarney Junction Rail-
way Company
Samuel Baker, Esq., Lyppiat Park, Gloucestershire, and London
William Congreve Russell, Esq. Leamington, Warwickshire, Di-
rector of the Warwickshire and London Railway
Henry Bradley, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire
John William Yerbury, Esq., Belcombe House, Wiltshire, Captain 3d
Light Dragoons
Robert Main, Esq., Ravensbourne Park, Lewisham, and Trinity-
square, London
Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsall House, Retford, Nottinghamshire
John Gillyatt Booth, Esq., Crouch Hall, Homsey
Major-Gen. Martin White, Marlborough-buildings, Bath
Rev. T. Harvey Ashworth, Burlyns House, near Newbury, Befits
Col. Burslem, Harwood Lodge, Newbury, Berks
Major Kirwan, Great Pulteney-street, Bath
Rev. Dr. Godfrey, Grosvenor-place, Bath
Edward Cooper, Esq., Staverton, Wilts, Magistrate of the County
Henry Toogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse, Wilts, Magistrate of the
Cotrity
Rev Chas. Fras. Bamffylde, Rector of Dunkertou, near Bath, Magis-
• trate for Somerset
Richard Mortimore, Esq., Chippenham, Wilts
George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, Director of the Bristol and Birming-
ham Railway Company
R. Wootten, jun., Esq., Banker, Oxford, Director of the Buckingham-
shire Railway anal Wolverton Junction
Richard Mortimore, Esq., Kingsmill, Collumpton
11ev. John Sydenham, Collumpton
Rev. R. A. Roberts, Rector of Kentisbere, Collampton
Charles Justice, Esq., Collumpton, Devon
Richard Marker, Esq., Ufculm Cottage, Tiverton
Colonel Henry Dundas Campbell, North End House, Portsmouth
George Pearce, Esq., Bradninch House, near Collumpton
Wm. H. Halcomb, Esq., Chilton, Hangerford, Chairman of the Desks
Union Banking Company
William Halcomb, Esq., Marlborough, Manager of the Wilts and
Dorset Bank
Captain W. G. Maclean, R.N., Taunton
Robert Parsons, Esq., Taunton
John Dalzell, Esq., Wallingford, Barks
Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
John Kerle Haberfleld, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
James Troup, ES(I., Hastings
John Robson, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
John Morford Cottle, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington, Director
of Coventry and Leicester Railway
Joseph Knight, Req., Leicester, Director of South Midland and North-
ampton, Banbury and Cheltenham Railways
John Newton Malvin, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Midland Railway Company
John Ridgeway, Esq., Cauldon-place, the Potteries, Staffordshire,
Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway
James - Burt, jun., Esq., Manchester, Director of the Chester and
Birkenhead, and Manchester and Southampton Railways
Edward Norris, Esq., Clairville, Manchester, Director of the Direct
London and Manchester, and North Cheshire Railway Companies
Joseph Nadirs, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and
Wigan, and Manchester and Southampton Railways
James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Salford
Sir Willi:tin Lowthrop, Hull, Magistrate for the East Riding of York
and for the borough of Hull, Chairman of the " Hull and Barnsley"
Committee, and Member of. the acting Committee of the "Liver-
pool and Leeds Direct Railway Companies"
John Holffird, Esq., Rushohn Hall, Manchester
C. H. Jones, Esq., Huddersfield, Deputy Chairman of the Rudders-
neld and Sheffield, and Director of the Halifax and Bradford
Union Railway
Charles Bamford, jun., Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley
Junction
John Lillie, Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and South-
- ampton Railway
John Robson, Esq., Hetton-le-Hole, Durham
Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester,- Director of the -Sheffield and
Manchester, and Chairman of the Manchester, Birkenhead, and
, Midland Railway Companies
Isaac Holmes, Esq., Liverpoo
Win. B. Newbery, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Dudley and
Iron Bridge Railway Company
C. Appleby, Esq., Broomhill, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and
Manchester Railway Company
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach,
and Lincolnshire Railway, and Salisbury and Swindon Railways
John Ward, Esq., Machin Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield,
Rotherham, and Chesterfield Life Assurance-office
Wm. Thompson, Esq. Upperthorpe, near Sheffield, Director of the
Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
Adderley Howard, Esq., Sutton Wiebech, Director of the East Coast
Railway Company
Captain Bowker, R.N., Devonport
H. S. Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Di-
rect Railway
Samuel Swann Brittain, Esq., Sheffield Director of the East and West
of England Railway Company
John Fawcett, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Wakefield and liar-
rowgate Railway Company
William Marriott, Esq., Attercliff-terrace, Sheffield, Director of the
Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Junction Railway.
Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln, Director of the London and York
and East Lincolnshire Railways
John Johnstone Hamilton, Esq., Liverpool
David Price, Esq., Manchester
William Hunter, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington
Rcv. H. vV. Cottle, Vicar of Watford, Northamptonshire
Major Wornum, Clarence-square, Cheltenham
Edward Hall, Esq., Westbank House, Maeclesfield, Director of the
South Midland and the Northampton and Cheltenham Railways
Henry liubbersty, Esq., Hull •
John Ostler, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction
Mary Shaw, Esq., Fetter-lane
Henry Sayer, Esq., Commercial-road, Limehonse, merchant
John Mee Mathew, Esq., Gray's Inn-square
John Norton, Esq., Moat House, Brentwood, Essex
NiSllliam John M'Guire, Esq., Hampton Court
John Gray 'Wilson, Eeq.,
Oxford-terrace
Capt. J. P. 'Macdougall, Fir Grove, North Brixton, Surrey
W. J. Lefeuvre,
Esq., Alderman and Magistrate ofSouthanapton
Thomas Chas. Ilan' son, Esq.,
G. B. Sunbury, Req. York-terrace, Regent's Park
Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the
Coventry and Leicester Railway
Captain Tringhani, lt.N., Solyhull, Warwickshire
WilliaraJonaon Neale, Esq., King's Bench-walk, Temple
Jams Whitney, Esq., Shrewsbury
Henry Paul IlEarW°C'd,Req.31,13 Sheffield
The lion. F. Byron, 21, Eaton-piece
William Higgins, Esq., Turves', High Sheriff of Bedfordshire
Sec liaymoud Fair Oak-park, near Winchester Deputy-Lieu-
tenaut, and for the county of Hants
Jackson, Esq , Birkenhead, Chairman of the Chester and
Irkenheail Railway
tearnd Sheriff of London and Mid-
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Nathaniel Gould, EN., Barge-yard, Bucklersbury, and Tavlstock-
square

illi.tund Lionel We r
—sq., —adogan-phtee, and West Moulsey,
Surrey

Duncan Dunbar, Esq., East India-road, and Limehouse, Director of
the London Dock Company, the Marine Assurance Company, and
the General Shipowner's Society
William Jackson, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Goole and Doncaster
Rail way
George
Ctephen Knowles, Esq., Exeter
W.
John e Lawrence,'a'r Tn. Eor :ill' 4E1,1 7sqß:,rihxltuolni
3Cih:guaenlo,ifacteh e, u
3 Edinburghnu.uaarneil,
Glasgow, and North British Railway Companies
Wellingtonllrector of the RStr;mbyo,uDrerbEysq, ;lid Manchester Railway
William Tanner, Esq., Great Surrey-street, Blackfriars
John Booth, Esq., Sherburn Grange, Durham
Matthew Benjamin Robson, Esq., Whitwoll Grange, Durham
John Holmes, Esq., St. Jame,'s-street, Director of the Dorchester and
Weymouth Railway, and York and Lancaster Railway
William 0. Pernard, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
Thomas Smalwood Richards, Esq., 59, Baker-street, Portman-square
Jamei Shaw, Esq., Salford, Manchester
N. 111`Cann, Esq., Parliament-street
Hs nry Wenman Newman, Esq., Bristol, Magistrate forthat City, and
Deputy-Lieutenant and Magistrate for the county of Gloucester
IVilliara Horatio Harrison, Esq., Sunbury
William Empson Jallend, Esq., Holderness House, near Hull
Thomas nacket Massey, Esq., Newark-upon-Trent:
Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Gain sborough,
• Goole, and Isle of Axholme, and of the Wisbeach, Ely and Lin-
colnshire Railway.

William Ruston, Esq., Catherinestourt, Trinity-square s s s
Wingrove Cooke, Esq.; Temple, London.:;_,,..
C. I. Selwyn, Esq., Exeter
Joseph Hopwood, Esq., Exeter, Director of the Exeter and Falmouth
Railway
Richard Compton, Esq., Eddington House, Hungerford, Berko, a
Magistrate for the counties of Wilts and Berks
Henry Coa Coape, Esq., Goldhanger, Malden, Essex
The Constable of Hungerford
Richard Davie, Esq., St. Helen's-place, Director of the South Midland
Railway
Edward Hyde Clarke, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of
the Warwickshire and London Railway
Captain William Lionel Lampert, The Highlands, Oxfordshire, and
Leamington, Warwickshire
Francis Burton, Esq., Milverton House, Warwickshire
Captain Stewart, R.N., Leamington, Warwickshire
Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbaston, Birmingham, Director
of the South Staffordshire Railway
William Northage, Esq., Upper Gower-street, Bedford. square
John Walley Hughes, Esq., Gloucester, Director of the Birmingham
and Bristol Railway
Lewis Bruce Knight Bruce, Esq., The Priory, Roehampton, Surrey
Francis Cole Humbert, Esq., Oxford-street, Hydeark
Algernon Groville, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park
Joint Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park
James Lamb, Esq., Hyde-park-square
Richard Groucock, Esq., Bow-churchyard, and Dulwich, Director
of the Direct Manchester Railway
J. B. Simpson, Esq., Rutland-lodge, Brixton
Henry Bellerby, Esq., Sheriff of York
Henry Ledgard, Esq., 39, Wood-street, Cheapside, Director of the
Rugby and Macclesfield Direct Railway
John Williams, Esq., Eaton-square.
Thomas Grimsditch, Esq , M.l'., Macclesfield, Cheshire
hi caems tpe
tro
Samuel Griffiths, Esq., Penn-fields, Wolverhampton, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Railway
William Burgett, Esq., Broad-street
EEdMr9aslvlim:rnitilsl3lVitie.lslilroa'sk-itY,E.E'sgEs:'.,S°"BLuirtechin-lane
Peter It. Morrison, Esq., Princes-street, Bank
Thomas Miller, jun. Esq., Leicester
John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Enfield, Director of the York and Lan-
caster Railway
Thomas Ridley, Esq., M.D., Sheffield
James Sheppard, Esq., jun.. White Hart-court, Lombard-street
Valentine Knight, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, Magistrate
for Middlesex
George Sercombe, Esq., Exeter
John Clampit Sercombe, Esq., Exeter
William l'earce, Esq., Liverpool
W. Holliday, Esq., Chad Valley, Edgbaston, Birmingham -
Robert Henry Hurst, Esq., jun. Temple
William Nash, Esq., Capham jun.,
Grey Harsierigg, Esq., West Cannon
Hall. Leicester
Captain Twisieton Graves, Duke-street, St. James's, Director of the
Leicester and Tears and Dove Valley Railway
(With power to add to their number).
ENGINEERS IN CHIEF.
Sir John Macniell, LL.D., I.R.S.
James Thomson, Esq., F.R.S.E., 31.R.1.A.
Bassamts—Messrs. Curries and Co., Coruhill, London.
JOINT SOLICITORS.
mes„s. Bell, Brodrick, and Bell, Bow Churchyard, London
Messrs. Rickards and Walker, 29,.Lincoin's Inn-fields, London
Messrs. Haynes and Moore, Warwick and London
Messrs. J. as. and J. T. Harting, 24, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London.
Swim-Ist:sr—Thomas Hosier Saunders, Esq.
Assmarer-SEcarrair —Charles J. Whalley, Esq.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
At Newbury—Messrs. Godwin and Gray, and B. Pinniger, Esq.
At Ramsbury—William Rowland, Esq.
At Devizes, Henry Gilbert, Esq., and John Edwards Hayward, Esq.
At Troubridge and Bradford, Messrs. Stone and Itedway
At Bath, Messrs. Batehellor, Harford, and Staunton
At Shepton Mallett—Francis Isaac Nalder, Esq.
At Bridgewater, Messrs. G. S. and J. R. Poole
At Exeter—William Denis Moore, Esq.
At Tiverton, T. L. T. Rendell, Esq., and J. A. Toms, Esq.
At Launceston—Messrs. Lawrence and Pattison
At Bodmin
At Truro
At Penzance
At Falmouth—Messrs. Trecidder and Son
The object of this line is to effect a direct eommuulcalion between
London and the Land's End.
Iu a national point of view such a lino is indispensable. With
the advantage of a direct railroad, Falmouth, from its situation at the
western extremity of the kingdom, would undoubtedly long since
have been the principal port on that coast. With the advantage of
at least 230 miles of heavy road, that place has attained its high po-
sition as a Packet Station. Southampton, with far less natural ad-
vantages, has, since the opening of the South-Western Railway, in-
creased its imports from 200,0001. to 3,000,0001. per annum. At Bris-
tol, before the opening of the Great Western Railway, the imports
were declining‘; since then they have very considerably increased.
The merits of a line to the Land's End as ate investment for ca-
pital, it was not left to the present Company to discover. The Great
Western and Bristol and Exeter Railway having already reached
Exeter, it has been in contemplation to extend that line to Fal-
mouth by way of Plymouth; and various other projects have been
set on foot on the conviction that Falmouth must be reached by
railway.
The object of this prospectus is to show that no other line than the
resent can ultimately satisfy the exigencies of the country in regard
to this, Its most important outport—" the natural Packet Station of
the empire."
The present project is distinguished by this—that it is direct. It is
as nearly as possible a straight line from London to the Land's End.
The London, Bath, and Bridgewater Company having amalga-
mated with this Company, the immense local influence commanded
by them will now contribute to the great national object of a direct
line ; while means have been taken for securing the traffic and afford-
ing all the accommodation contemplated by that Company.
The Direct Western availing itself of the Great Western Railway
so far as Reading, pursues its course by or near Newbury, Hunger-
ford, Great Bedwin, Marlborough, Devizes, the manufacturing dis-
trict of Trowbridge (from which a diverging lino will be carried by
Bradford direct to Bath), Westbury, Frome, Shepton Mallet, Wells
(from which another diverging line will be taken to Bridgewater),
Glastonbury to Taunton, being shorter by about thirty-two
miles than any existing railways between these points, and without
a tunnel. From Taunton the Bristol and Exeter Railway (now
leased to the Great Western) is traversed to Tiverton, whence it is
proposed to carry this lino direct to the Land's End, Falmouth, St.
Ives, and Penzance, being shorter by about sixty miles titre the
lately proposed line by way of Plymouth, and effecting, in the whole
Sistanee from London to Falmouth, a saving of about ninety miles.
With reared to the traffic on the upper portion of the line it is
needless to sayjmore than that there is already thorough traffic suffi-
cient to justify the construction of this portion of the Direct Wes-
tern that it will shorten the distance from London to Tiverton
about 32 miles, that it will traverse rich and populous agricultural
and manufacturing districts, and receive a large amount of traffic as
well ftom railways now in course of construction as from ethers pro-
jected, with every chance of success.
As to the traffic on the lower portion of the line, it is evident that
the vast number of merchant vessels continually detained in the
Channel by adverse winds, would effect an immense saving both in
insurance and time, by discharging their cargoes at Falmouth, and at
once transmitting them to their destination by means of this railway;
and therefore—without speculating on the extent to which the ports
on either side of the great promontory of the Land's End may, by
means of this railroad, attract the commerce respectively of Bristol
and Southampton ; t o what extent the inexhaustible mineral wealth
of Cornwall, and the unrivalled agricultural resources of Devonshire
may be further developed, or the genial climate of Penzance and
Mount's Bay, " the Montpellier of England," attract a larger propor-
tion of winter visitants—it is obvious that this line will command a
traffic both in goods and passengers, from its western terminus, tho
amount of which may be said to be without limit. A glance at the
map will make it manliest that no competing trunk lisle can ever be
establibhol between Tiverton and the Land's End. As between
Taunton and Reading, an inspection of the map will show a vast ex-
tent of midland district, comprising rich and populous parts of Bo-
mersetshire, Dorsetshire, and Wiltshire, now altogether destitute of
railroad accommodation.
Recurring to the features of this project as a national work, one of
the greatest in point of magnitude, of vital importance in the event of
war, and of almost incalculable advantage to the general and packet
commerce of the kingdom; it may not be out of place to quote here
the following expressions of Sir Robert Peel. Speaking of the project
of a direct lino from London to Liverpool through the Trent Valley,
which bore much the same relation to the Birmingham and Grand
Junction that this bears to the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter
Railways, he is reported to have said :—" I consider that the com-
munication between the metropolis and the great outports to be not
a question of hours, but a question of minutes." Of the necessity of this
particular line, Parliament has already expressed an opinion ; for in the
report of the Committee on the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth
line, which was promoted by the Great Western Railway Company,
it was stated that that Company had been required to pledge itself
not hereafter to oppose a direct line to Falmouth ; and it may be
fisrther observed, that a proposed line from Plymouth to Falmouth
was last session rejected, on the ground that it might be supposed
to interfere with that great national object.
The survey of the line less been to a great extent completed, and
Correct estimates of the expenditure and returns are in a state of for-
wasicess, and the whole will be ready for the next session of Par-
liament.
It is sufficient, as to these points, here to state that there are no
engineering difficulties in any Part of the line which have not been
repeatedly surmounted in other cases ; that the first portion will be
constructed at an unusually small expense; that the undertaking
will meet with the cordial support, concurrence, and co-operation of
the landowners, and that the Directors are justified in asserting that
this will prove to be one or the most remunerative railways ins the
kingdom

PUwers will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow interest at
four pounds per cent= per annum on the deposits, and preference
in the allotment of shares will be given to the proprietors of the land
through which the line will pass, and to the shareholders in the
Great Western, the Bristol and Exeter, and other railways connected
with. the Direct Western district.
Applications for shares, in the form subjoined, to be addressed to
the solicitors to the Company, or to the secretary, at the Company's
Offices, 20, Poultry, London, or to the local solicitors, or to any re-
spectable broker in town or counts,
20, Poultry, London, September, 1845.
FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Direct Western Railway
Company.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 251. each in
the above Company, and I undertake to pay the deposit of 21.125. 6d
per share thereon, or on any less number you may appropriate to me;
and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Con-
tract when required.
Dated

1845.
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THE LEEDS, HUDDERSFIELD, sHEN -
FIELD, and SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE (or LEEDS
WOLVERHA3II'TON, and DUDLE 1') DIRECT RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,700,000/., in 85,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21.25. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
. .

The Right Hon. the Earl of Shrewsbury, Alton Towers, Staffordshire
Sir William Young, Bart., East India Director, Westbourne-street,
Hyde-park Gardens
• Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Deputy Chairman of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Rail-
way, &c.
Sir William Boetliby, Bart, Ashbourne-hall, Derbyshire
Sir William Lowthrop, Knt., Hull, and Alga-house, Scarborough, Di-
rector of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire June-
tion Railway
Col. the Hon Leicester Stanhope, Ashburham House, Chairman of
Remington's London and Manchester Direct Railway
Hon. Captain Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Chairman of the York and
Lancaster Railway, and Director of the Nottingham and Boston
Railway, Parlittment-street, London, &c., &c.
The Sheriff of York
Arnold, Henry, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of Remington's London and
Manchester Railway
Bright, Sellin, Esq., Buxton
Barrett, H., Leeds, Director of the Kcighley, Halifax, and Rudders-
field Union Railway
Buck, W. C., Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York Railway
Murton, Robert, Esq., banker, Smallwood Manor, Uttoxeter, Direc-
tor of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershke Junction
Railway
Booth, John, Esq., Macclesfield
Bright, Selim, Esq., Buxton
Bradley, Septlmus, Esq., Ashbourne, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Burgess, John, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester
Buxton, John Harry, Esq., Ashbourne
Clarke, Jeremiah, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's Lon-
don and Manchester Direct Railway
Cleobnry, Thomas, Esq., Askew Villa, Acton
Cooke, the Rev. J., Uttoxeter, Director of the East and West Junction
Railway, &c.

Cooke, John, Esq., 3facclesfield
Cooper, John Douglas, Esq., Holme Cottage, Ashbourne
Cox, Walker, Esq., Breadsall, Derby, Director of the Tean and Dive
Valley Railway
Crockett, T. Esq., Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire,
and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &c.
Croft, Major J. T., 15, Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman of Reming-
ton's London and Manchester Direct Railway
Crossley, John, Esq., Lamberhurst, Sussex, and Uttoxeter, Director
of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction
Rahway

Cumberiege, Nathaniel, Esq. York-terrace, Regent's Park
Dalby, John, Robert, Esq., Esq.,
Director of the Derbyshire
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Dale, Major, Thurston, Ashbourne
Daniel, Richard, F,sq., Oak Hill, Stoke-upon-Trent
Dawson, Samuel, Esq., sen., Ashbourne
Dent, Edward, Esq., Westfield, Huddersfield
Dent, John, Esq., Nortligate, Huddersfield
Darlington, J., Esq., Bradford
Dyson, Thomas, Esq., Well-house, Holmfirth
Earp, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Railway
Eastwood, Edmund, Esq., Huddersfield
Eastwood, Abraham, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Hudders-
field, Sheffield, and Halifax Railway
Eflcnsor, Richard, Esq., Road-meadow, Ashbourne
Elershaw, John, Esq., Leeds
Fidler, Peter Pichott, Esq., Higgln Grange, Derbyshire
Fisher, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct

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Frost. Meadows, Esq., Chester
Garle, Sanmq, Esq., Uttoxeter
Garbo, William, Esq. Uttoxeter
Gilpin, aud Co., Messrs. William, Wedges Mills, Cannock, Director of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Gl3borne, Henry Francis, Esq., Derby, Director or the Staffordshire,
Leicester, And Tamworth Railway, Sec.
Goddard, Thomas, Esq., Bank-house, Longton, Staffordshire
Haden, Joseph, Esq., Dudley. Director of the Derbyshire, sta ord-
shb e, and Worcestershire Junction Railway