The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-22 00:00:00

Sl3

EVENING, OCTOBER 2, 184%

WEDNESDAI
BIRMINGHAM AND BOSTON DIRECT
RAILWAY COMPANY,
Capital, 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21.25. per Share.
(Provisionally Registered.) •
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
The Right Hou. Lord Edward Chichester, Chairman.
Captain J. P. 11 acdougal, Vice-Chairman.
R. Atkyns, Esq. John Lowe, Esq. .
H. Brown; Esq. James Lamb, Esq.-
W. F. Black, Esq. John Rannie, Esq.
John Blunt, Esq. J. Thompson, Esq , Tottenham
Lieutenant-Colonel L. Dickson John Thompson, Esq., Great St.
A. W. Greville, Esq. Helen's
G. G. Hay, Esq:

BANKERS.
London.—Commercial Bank of London, 3, Moorgate-street, and 3,

Henrietta-street, Covent-garden
Messrs Spooner, Attwoods, and Co., 27, Graceehureh-street
Birmingham.—Messrs. J. L. Monet and Sons, Birmingham and

Wariikshire Bank
Boston.—Messrs. Garflt, Claypon, and Co.. and Messrs. Gee and Co.

JOINT SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Hook and Oldershaw, 7, Tokenhouse-yard
Messrs. C. T. and A. Jenkinson, 76, Cannon-street, City
LOCAL AGENTS.
Birmingham.—W. H. Reece, Esq.
Boston—Messrs. Holloway and Harwood.
ENGINEERS.
Sandiforth F. Griffin, Esq. C.E.
A. A. B. Bennet, Esq. C.E.
ARCHITECT AN), SURVEYOR—E. N. Clifton, Esq. Tokenhouse-yard
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—MtSSYS. SLIdIOW and King,don, 6, Nvw
Palace-yard

SEcrtErmtv.--Jamet Elliott, Esq.
Offices of the Company, 26, Moorgate street, London.
PROSPECTUS.
This line is designed to open a direct communication between the
:owns of Birmingham and Boston.
The advantages to be derived by a rich, progressing, and populcue
town, such as Birmingham, the great manufacturing centre of the
kingdom, having a direct communication with a port on the eastern
coast facing the Continent, and that point the nearest to it by geo-
graphical position, used but to be mentioned to be appreciated.
The name of Birmingham speaks for itself; the' capacity and
value of Boston as a commercial port is daily increasing, and re-
quires but little enterprise to enable it to compete with some of our
best ports.
It is proposed that this line should commence at Leicester, where
it will form a continuation of the direct line from Birmingham to
that town, and proceeding by or near Melton Mowbray, Corby,
Folkenham, and Donnington, terminate at Boston ; thus affording a
direct communication between Birmingham and its important manu-
facturing districts—Rugby, the great centre of England, and Boston,
their nearest seaport, which eventually must command the traffic
of the districts with which it is in connexion and the opposite
ports of the Continent.
A glance at the map will show how this line is fed, and the towns
in its neighbourhood supplied by railway accommodation by the in-
tersecting lines ; but in the event of the London and York line not
obtaining its act, it is proposed by this company to construct a
branch to Grantham.
The country is easy, presenting few or no engineering difficulties.
Another advantage held out by this project is the improvement of
the harbour of Boston, whereby it will he restored to that eminent
position it formerly held among the ports and harbours of the
kingdom. •
The usual power will be taken by the Act to allow interest at 4
per cent. per annum after passing the Act, on :he amount of the
subscription paid up. No subscriber shall be answerable for more
than the amount of his deposit until the Act be obtained and then
not beyond the amount of his subscription.
Applications for shares, in the usual form, and prospectuses,
to be made to the solicitors of the Company, 7, Tokenhouse-yard,
and 76, Cannon-street, City; at the offices of the Coinpany,
.26,
Moorgate-street ; and to the following stock and sharebrokers
Londsni—Mr. Edward Newtot, Bryant, 16, Thro,gmorton-street ; Mr.
William Rodwell, 22, Throgmorton-street ; Mr. A. gym, Token-
house-yard ; Mr. J. S. Pidgeon, 10, Warnford-court, Throgmorton-
stn. et.

181&

day of
Name In full . • • • • • • • • •
Place of Business or Profession
Residence •••• • • • •
Business or Profession • •
Signature • • •
Name, Residence, • • • • • • • • • •
and Profession • • • • • • • • • •
of Referee .. ••••• • • • • •

THE BIRMINGHAM, NOTTINGHAM,
GAINSBOROUGH, AND HULL RAILWAY.
Capital 1,600,0001., in 80,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21.25. per Share.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Viet., cap. 110.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Combermere
The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Ingestre, M.P.
The Right Hon. Lord Charles Beauclerk, Chesham-placs, Belgrave-
square
The Right Hon. Lord Thomas Pelham Clinton
rise Right Hon. Lord E Chichester
The Right Hon. Lord Stephen Chichester
The Right Hon. George R. Dawson
The Hon. Captain Percy Evans Freke, 3, Belgrave-square
The Hon. Cecil Lawless
Sir James D. H. Hay, Bart., Rose Croft, Surrey
Sir William Lowthorp, Hull
William R. Collett, Esq., M.P.
Thomas Bateson, Esq., M.P.
Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P., Birmingham
George Frederick Muntz, Esq., M.P., Birmingham
The Worshipful the Mayor of Hull
C. S. Foster, Esq., High Sheriff of Staffordshire •
G. B. Thorneycroft, Esq., Shrubbery and Bradley Ironworks, Staf-
fordshire, chairman of the Shrewsbury-, Wolverhampton, and South
Staffordshire Junction Railway
Michael Grazelm ook, Esq., Stourbridge, chairman of the Staffordshire
iron trade
Thomas Bagnall, Esq., Goldshill Ironworks, Staffordshire
W. H. Allen, Esq., Leadenhall-street, London
John Aston, Esq., Birmingham
nederick Pratt Barlow, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway
James Beech, Esq., Brandon-lodge, Warwick
William Broackes, Esq., Cork-street, Burlington-gardens
Major Frederick Brownlow, United Service Club
William Chance, jun., Esq., merchant, Birmingham
Robert Chapman, Esq., Director of the Cambrian and Grand Junc-
tion Railway
George A. Hamilton Chichester, Esq., Chesent-place, Belgrave-
square
Frederick Clarkson, Esq., Doctors'-commons, London
Henry Crane, Esq., Wolverhampton
Anthony Dickson, Esq., Erdington-house, Berwickshire
Henry R. Downinan, Esq., Director of the Cambrian and Grand
Junction Railway
Duncan Dunbar, Esq., East India-road, Director of the London
Dock Company
Henry John Enthoven, Esq., Director of the Dutch Rhenish Railway
James Peard Ley, Esq., Seaton Ironworks, Whitehaven
Samuel Wilfred Lucas, Esq., Sandhill-house, Birmingham, Director
of the Direct Birmingham and Leicester Railway
William Mathews, Esq., Edgbaston, Birmingham, and Corbyns-hall
Ironworks, Director of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhamp-
ton Railway
Thomas Hackett Massey, Esq., Oxford-ware, London
Robert Marsden Massey, Esq., Oxford-square, London
David Montague, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester and South-
ampton Railway
William Morgan, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Gloucester
Railway
P. H. Muntz, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the South Staffordshire
Junction Railway
Francis Parker, Esq., Manchester
Archibald F. Paul, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway
William Watson Prole, Esq., Thurlow-square, Brompton, Director of
the Grand Junqtion and Midlands Union Railway
John Gibson Reeves, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Direct Bir-
mingham and Leicester Railway
Frederick Ricketts, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway
John Shaw, Esq., Wolverhampton a •
Charles Shaw, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Direct Birmingham
and Leicester Railway, and Director of the Bristol and Bir-
mingham Railway
Henry Symonds, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway
Thomas Timmins, Esq., Wolverhampton
Charles Augustus Tulk, Esq., Totteridge-park, pants
Samuel Walker, Esq., Ablow-house, Wolverhampton, Director of
the South Staffordshire Junction Railway
William Watson, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Exeter Railway
John Webster, Esq., 35, Mecklenburgh-square, Director of the
Great Grimsby and Lincoln Railway
Henry Wright, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and
Southampton Railway
John Brearley Payn, Esq., Birmingham
Samuel Kesrick, Esq., Handsworth Hall, Staffordshire
Robert Peasegood Sleight, Esq., Hull, Provisional Director of the
Hull and Holyhead Railway
William Ay-re, sen., Esq., Hull, Provisional Director of the Lynn and
Ely Railway
Joseph Ayre, Esq., Hull
Wakefield Pim, Esq., Hull, Provisional Director of the Hull and Lin-
coln Railway,
Dr. Bell Fletcher, Birmingham
Benjamin Bartleet, Esq., Birmingham
Thomas Clark, Esq., Wolverhampton
James Shaw, Esq., merchant, Birmingham
C. S. Cotterill, Esq., magistrate, Walsall, Director of the South Staf-
fordshire Junction Railway
Benjamin Gibbons, Esq., Shut-end, Dudley, Director of the South
Staffordshire Junction Railway
John Neve, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the South Stafford-
shire Junction Railway
Samuel Underhill, Esq., Wolverhampton
(With power to add to their number).
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Edwards, Mason, and Edwards, 8, Moorgate-street, and De-
lahay-street, Westminster ; and
Messrs. Motterarn and Knowles, Birmingham.
ENGINEER IN CIIIEF—SIT John Rennie, I.R.S.
ACTING ENGINEER—W. H. Purdon, Esq.
BANKERS.
The Birmingham Banking Company, and AttwOOds, Spooner,
and Co., Birmingham.
LOCAL AGENTS
Hull—Messrs. Frost and Moss
Nottingham.—Sarnuel Maples, Esq.
SECRETARY—Edward Hart Hart, Esq.
OFFICES—No. 1, Royal Exchange-buildings, London ; and
36, Upper Temple street, Birmingham.
It is proposed by this Company to establish a direct line of commu-
nication between Birmingham, Nottingham, Gainsborough, and Hullte
,
at the smallest outlay of capital, and with the least possible injury
existing interests. To effect this object, use will be made of existing
or projected lines, as far as practicable, and the chain of communica-
tion will be completed by throwing out new lines, where requisite.
Commencing at Birmingham, it is proposed to use the Birmingham
and Derby Railway as far as Whitacre, whence a new line, about h
29
9
miles in length, will be made, passing through Ashby-de-la-Zouc a
Castle Donnington, to the Long Eaton or Sawley Station on the Mid-
land Counties Railway
'1 he communication being thus perfect to Nottingham, it will be
carried forward as far as Gainsborough, either by the proposed Not-
tingham and Gainsborough Railway, or by a line springing out of the
line from Nottingham to Lincoln, for which an Act was obtained by
the Midland Counties Company during the last session of Parliament.
From Gainsborough this railway will proceed to Barton-on-the-
Humber, or New Hollaed, in the immediate vicinity of Hull, thereby
rendering complete and entire the chain of communication between
Birmingham and Hull.
By this project the advantages will result to the public of a
Direct line from Birmingham to Nottingham,
Of Birmingham to Gainsborough,
and from Birmingham to Hull;
and by means of the proposed South Staffordshire Junction Railway,
and the intended extension to Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Alrewas, a
direct line from Wolverhampton and Dudley to Nottingham, and
the other towns already enumerated.
The support of several companies will be enlisted in favour of the
lies, which, together with its OWII merits, will ensure its success in
Parliament. .
As a considerable portion of the line of communication is already
made, or in progress, the time required for the completion of this
great national undertaking will be materially shortened.
Independently of the advantages to be derived by a direct commu-
nication between the important seaport of Bull and the mining and
manufacturingtraffic in 11111.1.1.C.t. Corn, InCtals, &T.. may be confidently expected.
The revenue of the Company, in addition, will be derived from the
great thorough traffic from Birmingham and the midland counties to
Nottingham and Gainsborough, and the immense traffic from Bir-
mingham to Hull, the-port at which the exports are shipped to Ham-
burgh, the German States, and the North of Europe ; and from the
conveyance of merchandise, agricultural produce, and cattle from the
southern, western, and midland counties.
A preference will be given in the allotment of shares to landowners
on the line, and other local proprietors, as well as to directors and
shareholders in railways interested in supporting this undertaking.
No subscriber will be liable beyond the amount of the deposit
until the Act is obtained, and then not beyond the amount of his
subscription.
The usual power will be taken to allow interest at the rate of four
per cent. from the time of payment upon each call until the opeaing
of the line.
No applications will be attended to without a reference to a
member of the Committee, a banker, or the solicitors to this Company.
The Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contract must be
executed when the bankers' receipts are exchanged for scrip certifi-
cates, of which due notice will be given ; and the deposits paid by
any party snaking default in the execution of those deeds will be for-
feited.
Plans and prospectuses, with forms of applications for shares,
may be had, of the Solicitors, and of the following Stock and
Sharebrokers, viz. :—/siessrs. Wells, Westropp, and Prinsep, 75,
Old Broad-street ; Messrs. Preece and Evans 39, Lothbury ;
Mr. H. Pritchett, 1, Royal Exchange-buildings; Messrs. liftchins and
Harrison, 18, Threidneedle-street ; and Messrs. Peppercorne and Son,
2, Old Broad-street, London; Messrs. Gardiner and Heap, Charles
Williams, and Messrs. Bradley, Ford, and Parker, Manchester
Messrs. Watson and Co., and Mr. Samuel Phillips, Hull ; Messrs.
Davies and Son, Liverpool ; Messrs. Ridsdale, Myers, and Co., Leeds;
Messrs. Harp and Soo, Derby ; Messrs. l'ott and Levick, Notting-
ham ; Messrs. Wreford, Nicholls, and Wreford, Bristol ; and Mr.
James Robinson Lane, Biringmham.
FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Iltrmingham, Nottingham
Gainsborough, and Hull Railway Camprusy.
I request you will allot me shares of 201.
each in the cart-
tal of the above-named Railway ; and I will accept the same, or
any less number, and pay the the depositshare and
sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement
when
required.
Dated this

•-------, -
TIM BIRMIN GRAM, NOTTINGHAM,
GAINSBOROUGII,
.AND DULL DAT LWAY.
No•Applidatfon PSI* Shares in this -Company can be received after
MONDAY, the 27th instant. -'
EDWARDS, MASON, and EDWARDS, 8, Moorgate-street
MOTTEBAM and ICITOWLES, Binninghtun,
Oat.lol IS4 •

WI ASTERN COUNTIES, BARKING, AND
IL/ THAMES JUNCTION RAILWAY, AND COAL AND
COASTING DOCK.
Notice is hereby given, that no further Applications for Shares in
this Ccmpany can be received after SATURDAY NEXT, the 25th inst..
except from parties in the country, which will be admitted until
MONDAY, the 27th instant.
31, Moorgate-street, Oct. 20, 1845.

REED and ROBINSON.

ELY and BURY ST. EDMUNDS RAILWAY.
In consequence of the great number of applications for shares
in this Company which. are daily. received from 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 shales, be compelled most
strictly to adhere :
" As, under arrangements, entered into with the Lynn and Ely,
Ely and Huntingdon, and Lynn and Dercham 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 can be attended tci, except from 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. f 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 Carvill, Esq., a Director of the Newry and Ennis-
killen Railway, and of the Newry Navigation Company, having ex-
pleined the merits of the Newry and -Carlingford Railway, and the
accuracy of his statements having been corroborated by the personal
examination of the eroposed line by three of our body now present,
we regard the said line as essential and indispensable to the full de-
velopment of the advautaget likely to accrue to both countries from
a continuous and uninterrupted railway communication being opened
from Carliugford Bay to the Irish Western Cease ; and we hereby
pledge ourselves accordingly .to give our best support to the Newry
and Carlingfortl 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-
I ment

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

r EIHE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT
RAILWAY, via ABINGDON, WANTAGE, HUNGERFORD,
and LUDGERSHALL.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 1,200,0001., in 48,008 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Dillon, Ditchley-park, Oxon
The Right Hon. Lord Suffieli, Gunton-park, North Waisham
The Right Hon. Lord Rosemore, the Dell, Windsor
The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne, Belle Hatch-house, Henley
The Hex. Robert Gore, R.N., M.P., 21, Wilton-crescent
Tile lion. William M. Dawson, Parkstone-lodge, Poole, Director of
the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
The Hon. Edward Stafford Jerningham, Director of the London and
Nottingham Railway
Sir William l)rummond 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 Minehead and Bridgewater Railway
James Macmillan, Esq., Southampton, Director of the Worcester,
Warwick, and Rugby Railway
Frederick William Seymour, Esq., Carlton-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 Gres-5,16, Grove, Clapham
G. B. Bunbury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the
Coventry and Manchester Railway
The 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 Deaden, Esq., Rochdale
Charles Haigh, Esq., Rochdale •
Charles Welland, Esq., Liverpool
James Shaw, Esq., Pendleton, Manchester
The Rev. F. K. Hall, D.D., Rector of Fulborne, Cambridgeshire
Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlborough-place, St.
Directors of the
John's-wood
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, Herts
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 Rayuer, Esq., Lilac-cottage, Birstal, near Leeds,Dl-
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,
of 31. D., Grove End-lodge, St. John's-wood, Director
the Hull and Holyhead, and of the Bristol, Bath, and Poole
Railways
William Doe Belcher,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 Ring, Esq., Abingdon
George Cox, Esq., Abingdon
George Jackson, Esq., Abingdon
John Knight, Esq., Abingdon
Mr.-Thomas Payne, jun., Abingdon
Joists 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
C. Godfrey, Esq..
James Morrell, Esq., Deputy-Lieutonant of the county of Oxford,
Director of the London and Cheltenham Direct Railway
Santuary, Esq., Kidlington, Oxon
Captain W. Strong, Oxford, Director of the Oxford and Worcester
Extension Railway
Rowland Mackenzie, Esq. 68, Mertimer-street, Cavendish-square,
Director of the Tring, Re:ading, 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 Beckham, Esq., Kidlington, Oxon
Charles Shillingford, Esq., Sonter Town. Oxen
Min Williams, Esq., Somer Town, Oxen
Mr. Thomas Hyde, Oxford
Mr. Wm. Thompspn, Oxford
John Brightman, Esq., Regency-square, Brighten, Chairman of the
Hounslow Railway
David Bryan, Esq., Northampton, Director of the 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, Berks
Henry Hayward, Esq. Stirlings, Wantage
James Staley, Esq. Wantage
Thomas Brown, Esq. Wantage
Mr. Charles Hart, foundry, Wantage
Mr. William Beesley, Wantage
John William Palmer, EseLetcombe Regis, Berks
Mr. J. Pottinger Palmer, Letcombe Regis, Berks
John Blunt, Esq., Upper Bedford-place, Director of the London
Docks
William Bestow, Esq., gdreey-place, Kent-road, Director of the
Commercial and General Life .essurance 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.
setsbire Midland Railway
Henry 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 -Johnston, Esq., Alders.gate-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, Beigrave-square,
Director of the Northampton and Cambridge Railway
George R. Peppercorne, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex, Director of the Rugby
and Warwick Railway -
Thomas Salked, Esq. Huddersfield, Director of the Manchester,
Huddersfieldl, and Great Grimsby, and Huddersfield and Liverpool
Direct Railway .
Charles Finch, Esq., Fisherton, Salisbury
General Wright, Gloucester-place, Portman-square
(Wills power to add to their number).
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Chairman.
William Bestow, Esq. - W. L. Pope, Esq.
William 1)oe Belcher, Esq. Brigadier-General Sir Henry
Robert Bell, Esq. Pynn
E. S. Blundell, Esq. M.D. Francis Roose, Esq.
Francis Ewart, Esq. Walter Shairp, Esq.
Charles Liddiard, Esq. Henry Stock, Esq.
James Macmillan, Esq.
(With limited power to add to their number).
ENGINEER-IN-CHlEF—Samuel Charles Brees, Esq.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street,
London.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT—Cadwallader F. Waddy, Esq.
BANKERS.
London—The Commercial Bank of Landon „. _
Oxford—The London and County Bank
Salisbury—The Wilts and Dorset County Bank
Abingdon—Messrs. Henry Knapp and Co. ; and the County
Bank
Wautage—Messrs. Henry Knapp en: Co.
Newbury—The Berkshire Union Bank
Ilungerford—Messrs. Tanner and inuckuey.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Oxford—John Francis Wilde, Esq.
Salisbury—Stephen Hill, Esq.
Abingdon—Messrs: Graham and Son
Wantage—William Ormond, Esq.
Hungerford and Marlborough _John Haleomb, Esq.
SECRETARY—Z. Ilubbersty, Esq.
The importance ot connecting remote parts of E..gland by rail-
ways, with the advantages-thereby conferred upon intermediatethe towns
and districts, can scarcely be beter exemplified than by 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 Saliebary
at the south of the intended railroad, the central points from which
various radii will divee to the northavest, 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
ce-arse 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 eouth-western counties.
The Oxfisrd and Fallsbury 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-eastem and western and south-western
parts of England, will afford to the borough of Abingdon,
the market towns of Wantage, Hungerford, and laidgershall, 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 at direct
strengthening communicatitheon
with the sister University of Cambridge s
eeclesiastical 'and academical lel:Won* or 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 pr,e,oss
unfairly upon the Inhabitants of the important and towi f
Abingdon. The4r means and opportunities of competing with the more
fortunate traders of those towns which arc already p
Trhe ov
sameided wremark
ith di-
rect channels of transit, are thus seyerely crippled.
applies In some degree to the market town of Wantage, which, as
well as Hungerford and Ludgershall, claims a share of the profits,
and advantages produced by railway traffic.
It has therefore been determined to commence the proposed line at
Oxford, and to proceed through, Abingdon to the station of the Great
Western Railway at Steventon, thus giving to Abingdon a direct rail-
-road to London. By continuing the prajected railway.
t°•Wantage, the
same facility of transit to London will be aforded to that plaee ; and
a perfect line of road from the north-eastern counties will, by a junc-
tion with the projectioh from Cambridge to Oxfbrd, be produced,

through the towns which have been named, Tiungerford 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 Secrete] y, at the
offices of the Company, 37, Gresham-street; and to the following
Brokers:—Messrs. Peppercorne, 2, Old Broad-street, Messrs. W
and D. Ewalt, 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. Win. Miles, Worcester; Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and
Co., Cheltenham ; Mr. Thomas Sandford, Exeter; Messrs. Easty and
Sons, Southampton; Mr. Robert Allan, Edinburgh; Messrs. Black
and Co., and Messrs. Buchanan and Aitken, Glasgow; Mr. Win.
Gordon, Aberdeen ; and Messrs. Bruce and Symes, Dublin.

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,
Name in full ••••• • • • . •
Residence • • • • • •
Post Town • •• • • • • • .
Occupation
Reference
Usual Signature . • • • • •
Dated• • • ........
Elmslia and Preston 47, Moorgatu-street, London.

THE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT
RAILWAY.
No Application for Shares can be received after TRORSDAY 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.
" Sir,—l have the honour to report, for the information of the
Board of Directors, my return from Oxford. Agreeable to their 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 perform the survey. I have much satisfac-
tion in atlding 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 he completed, and the Parliamentary plans de-
posited, by the 30th November.
"I have the honour to be, Sir,
" Your obedient servant,
" SAMUEL CHARLES BREES,
"Engineer in Chief, Oxford and Salisbury Direct Railway
" To Z. Hubbersty, Esq.
Secretary, Oxford and Salisbury Direct Railway."
By order of the Committee of 3limagement.
Z. HUBBERSTY, Secretary.

BRIGHTON, LEWES, AND TONBRIDGI
WELLS DIRECT RAILWAY (lIALLETT'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. Longford, Esq.
James Reeves, Esq. Nelson Kenward, Esq.
George Molibeux, 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—WiIIi:MG Hallett, Esq. C.E.
SOLICITOR—W. B. James, Esq.
SECRETARY—F. IL "Calder, 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. Buxsted Lodge, near Uckfield.
The Committee of Management beg to state that the Allotment is
being proceeded with, and the letters will be issued without delay.
By order, FREDERICK H. NALDER, Secretary.
83, Basinghall-street, 15th Oct. 1845.

N ORTH LONDON JUNCTION RAILWAY
COMPANY, 8, Finsbury-place South.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 110.)
Capital, 1,300,0001., in 65,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
John %ttwood, Esq., M.P., Park-lane, Chairman
James Horne, Esq., F.R.S., Clapham Common, Deputy-Chairman
Sir John Edward De Beauvoir, Bart., London
James Jtenry Attwood, Esq., Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square
John Bagshaw, Esq., k doucester-place, Portman-square
Richard Bothell, 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 Centinuation

_
Railway
George Woodreffe Franklyn, Esq , Clifton, Bristol
W. Hughes Hughcs, Esq., F.L.S., Alderman of the City of

London
Henry Morton, Esq., Biddick, Durham
George Barbary, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manchester
and Birmingham Continuation Railway
Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P., 39, St. James's-place
Georg,: Rougemont, Esq., 14, Broad-street-buildings
Nicholas Wood, Esq., Kellingwerth, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills and Co., London

Bank of Liverpool
The Union Bank, Manchester.
ENGINEER—George Parker Bidder, Esq., E.I.C.E.
AttcurrEcT—Robert Abraham, Esq., Torrington-street, Russell-square,
Soucrrox—John Bethell, Esq., 78, King William-street, City.
SEcarrear—llarry Burrard Famall, 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 truffle

north of London.
To effect this Important object, an area of 10 acres of ground (the
southern boundary of which is within 500 yards of the Bank of
England) has been most carefully surveyed and valued, and the re-
port of the architect and engineer is of so favourable a character as i o
have induced the Provisional Committee to determine-on purchasing '
the entire site, and it has, therefore, been resolved by them to in-
crease the capital of this Company to 1,300,000/.
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 to embrace
that of a branch line to the present station of the Eastern Counties
Railway in Shoreditch, which will effect an entire junction between
the eastern and western parts of the metropolis; and at the same
time anon' a direct communication between the whole of the rail-
ways, which reach London lathe 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 Loudon Junction Railway Company, and
the perfection of a project of no ordinary magnitude and importance
will be realised throughout the whole of this short but very valuable
line of railway.
A. lithographic sketch now publishing will accurately define the
entire district through which this Company proposes to run this line;
by this means the most casual observer will be enabled to ascertain
that the environs of London, north of the Thames, will be placed is
immediate commtnication with the City ; while the dense popu-
lation of the City will enjoy a fad ity 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,t45, one-half of which reaches the City. The London and Bir-
raingham 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 omnibusto traffic daCity.ly
i
is 30,894 passengers, two-thirds of which may
be given the
Passengers from the suburban districts reach d
ing the Cit
dailyy. , now =-
accommodated by any railway, are estimate at 4,000
From these sources the following products are derived:—
Per Ann.

Passengers from the Great Western and Birmingham Rail-
way, at 6d. each •••••••• • • • • .• "
Passengers from the Eastern Counties to the City terminus
of this Company, at 3d. each .. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Omnibus passengers' traffic, at 6d. each, as taken at
142,208 tons of goods and parcels 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 revenna 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 sun of •••• • • • • 10,000

187,929

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