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QOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.
1.7 At the EIGHTEENTH HALE-YEARLY GENERAL and
SPECIAL :MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of the SOUTH-
EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY, held in pursuance of the Act
of Incorporation, In the Large Room over the booking-offices,
London Terminus, on Thursday, the Ilth day of September, 1845,
JAMES MAC GREGOR, Chairman, in the choir,
the advertisement convening the meeting was read, and the follow-
ing resolutions were unanimously passed :-
1. That the common seal Of the Gompany be affixed to the re-
gister of Proprietors.
[The seed wae affixed accordingly in the presence of the meeting.]
2. That the report of the Directors, and statement of accounts
as vow read to this meeting be received and adopted, and that the
same ix' printed and circulated attiongst the Proprietors.
3. That a dividend, less the income-tax, of 16s. per share, on the
ehaeee paid lip, and of 4s. per share on the shares created on the 19th
of March. 1844, and of 2e. 2d. per share on the shares created on the
7th day el Nevember, 1544, be now declared, and be made payable
on the Ist day of October, 1815.
1. That the Right Hon. Vieconne Torrington, who has been elected
a Director of this Company by the other Directors to fill a vacancy
in the Direction on the resignation of Charles Knight Murray, Esq.,
be continued a Director of the; Company.
5. That it is expedient, by the creation of new shares in further-
ance of the resolutien of the general meeting held on the 6th day of
February last, to provide funds for the formation and completion of
the branch railway front Tunbridge to Tunbridge Wells, the branch
railway from Minster to Deal, and extension of the Canterbury,
Rams„ are, and Margate Railway, the branch railway from Ashford
to Hastings, and the widening of the London and Greenwich Rail-
way, atitherieed by the several Acts passed during the last session of
Parliament.
That for such purposes the sum of 630,0001. be raised by calls on
the shares authorised to be created by the resolutions referred to, in
addition to the sum of 315,0001. already received on them.
That it is expedient to consolidate and register the scrip shares
issued in pursuance of the same resolutions ; and that for that pur-
pose every holder of . four or more of the said scrip shares shall be
entitled, on delivering them up, to be registered as the proprietor of
one hew consolidated share in respect of every four scrip shares held
by him, subject to the payment of 201. for every such new share in
addition to the slim of 21. 10s. already paid on each scrip share ; such
sum of 201. to be paid hyeinch instalments, not exceeding 51. each,
and at such intervals (not being less than two months each), as the
Directors may determine.
That the holders of scrip eeetees shall not he entitled to the new
shares under the last rtgolution unless they shall claim the same and
deliver mettle strip ihares on or before the 25th day of September,
1844; ekeept in such ease as the Directors in their discretion shall
permit the later consolidation and exchange of any such shares.
• That every instalment paid on every such new share, as well as
the payments already made on the scrip share, which shall be com-
muted for the same, shill he entered in the Company's hooks as pay-
ments in the proportion that 301. beats to 50L, and shall entitle the
holder to dividends accordingly ; but that no dividend shall be pay-
able in respect of any such new share, or of any such instalment so
Paid, until six months after the day to which a dividend shall have
•been (teetered on the now existing shares of the Company next fol-
lowing the opening for traffic of the latest in point of execution of
the new lines of railway and works referred to in the preceding part
of this resolution, anti that all profits accruing from-any of the same
pew line', which may have been wholly or partially opened before
"e}l due', shall be invisible among the Proprietors for the time being
of the "how existing shares.
G. That it is expedient to apply to Parliament In the next session
ter authority in make, and to provide additional funds by the creation
of new shares fbr Making, the following lines of railway, viz.
A direct line of railway from Hungerford-bridge by North Kent,
to termer, with branches.
A direct line of railway from Hungerford-bridge to Maidstone, Tun-
bridge, aml"Ashford, with branches.
A line of railway-continuing the Tunbridge Wells Branch to Hast-
ings. Rye, and St. Leonard's.
A line of railway from Maidstone to Rochester.
A line of railway from Reigate to Dorking.
With inch deviations, extensions, contractions, and variations of
any of the said lines, and such branches and incidental works, as the
Directors shall think expedient, or shall become necessary in the
progress of the Rills through Parliament.
7. That the additional capital required for constructing and opening
for traffic all the last-meationed lines he raised by the issue of 289,000
new shares, of the nominal amount of 251. each, to parties who shall
pay for the tune 151. per share, by instalments as after mentioned,
and who shall duly execute the subscription contract required by the
Standing Orders of Parliament, and the subscribers' agreement (if
any) settled by the Directors. •
That the first instalment of 21. 10s. per share be paid on the Ist day
of October, 1845, and the ,remaining instalments of such amounts
(not exceeding 2/. 10s. per share, and at such intermix of not lees
than two tnotiths), as the Directors shall, after the passing of any act
or acts hi relation to the before-mentiened new lines, or any of them,
deter Mine to call the same.
That twenty-one days' notice of each such call, and the like notice
also of the time, and places at which the subscription contract and
snbscribers' agreement, if any, arc to be executed, shall be given by
advertisement in the London Gazette and two London daily morn-
ing newspapers, and two newspapers published in Kent.
That upon payment of all such instalments, or upon payment of
such proportion thereof as the Directors shall declare to he required,
and upon condition also of the due execution by the subscribers of
the subscription contractand the subscribers' agreement, if any, the
shares, on account whereof the same payments shall have been made,
snail he forthwith issued and registered ; but that if default shall be
Made in the due 053 ment of any instalment upon any share for the
space of thirty days after the sanie shall have become due, or upon
default of the holders to execute the subscription contract and the
subscribers' agreement, if any, within the appointed time, all pre-
vious instalments in respect of the same share shall be absolutely
forfeittsl to the Company; and no party in respect of such pre-
vious instalments shall be entitled to any share, or have any
claim on the Company; and that all instalments paid after the
time when'the :same shall have become due shall be paid with in-
terest at the rate of 51. per centum per annum, computed from that
time.

That every such instalment paid shall be deemed to be and shall
be entered in the Company's books as a payment in the same pro-
portion to 25!. as the instalment so paid actually bears to 15/.
That no dividend shall be payable in respect of any such new
share, or of any instalment so paid, until six months after the day
on which a dividend shall have been declared on the now existing
shares of the Company next following the opening for traffic of the
latest in point of execution of the new lines of railway to he con-
structed by means of the additional capital raised by the same new
shares, and that all profits accruing from any of the new lines which
may have been wholly or partially opened before such day shall be
divisible among the proprietors for the time being entitled to share
the profits of the other lines and works of the Company.
8. That every registered proprietor of now existing registered
shares shall be entitled to one such new share in respect of every two
now existing registered shares held by him, provided he shall signify
his acceptance of such new share by payment of the first instalment
of 21. 10s. per share to ens of the bankers of the Company, and
shall execute the subscription contract, and subscribers' agreement,
if any, at such times as shall be appointed for those purposes by the
Directors, by circular letters to be sent by post to the registered ad-
dress of each proprietor from the office of the Company.
That every registered proprietor on the 25th day of September,
1845, of every two shares consolidated under the authority of the
foregoing resolutions, shall be entitled in respect of every two such
consolidated shares to 18 new shares so to be issued as before men-
tioned, provided that he shall signify his acceptance of such new
shares by payment of the first instalment of V. 10s. per share to one
of the bankers of the Company, and shall execute the subscription
contract and the subscribers' agreement (if any) at such time as
shall be appointed for those purposes by the Directors, by circular let-
ters
to be sent by post to the registered address of each proprietor
from the office of the Company.
That the Directors shall be at liberty to issue, upon such terms and
in such manner as they shall think proper, all the said new shares to
which no parties shall become entitled upon the foregoing conditions.
9. That the thanks of the proprietors be given to Sir John Kirk-
land for his valuable services as Chairman of the Company.
JAMES
AC GREGOR, Chairman.
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10. That the thanks of the 'meeting be given to Mr. Mae Gregr,
the present Chairman, accompanied by an assurance of the confidencoe
of the proprietors in the Board of Directors.
London Terminus, Sept. 11, 1845, W. O'BRIEN, Secretary.

Registered Provisionally.
ESSEX and SUFFOLK RAILWAY COM-
PANY.
From the Norwich and Brandon Railway at Thetford, by Bury St.
Edmund's, Laveuham, Milford, Sudbury, Halstead and Braintree, I.
the Eastern Counties Line at Chelmsford, and thence to the Port of
Mahlon, with a branch to cavendish and Clar.
Offices, 24, Moergste-street, London, and Sudbury, Suffolk.
Capital, 1,000,000/. iu Shares of 25/. each.
The Provisional Directors beg to inform the Shareholders, that
negotiations are in progress for a satisfactory arrangement with the
Eastern Counties and Norwich and Brandon Railway Companies,
the hill particulars of which will shortly be submitted for their con-
sideration.

In the meantime, ppplications for Shares may be made to the
Company's offices, 24, Moorgate-street, or the solicitors, 1, Gray's
Inn-square, or Sudbury ; and to the following sharebrokers :-
3lessrs. Hichens and Harrison, 18, Threadneedle-street, London;
Mr. J. Jameson, Leeds ; Mr. J. Greaves, Liverpool ; Messrs. Card-
well and Sons, Manchester; Messrs. Henry Beaumont and Co.,
Exeter ; Mr. D. Pane, Glasgow ; Messrs. Drury and Richardson,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Messrs. E. 31`Callum and Co., Edinburgh;
Mr. John Wright, Birmingham • Messrs. Cohinson and Flint, Hull.
Shareholders in the Eastern &unties, Northern and Eastern, and
Norwich and Brandon Railways, and original subscribers to the
Norwich Direct Railway, will please to notify the same in their ap-
plications.
A preference will be given to them, as far as possible, in the allot •
ment. By order,

U. MAPLETOFT, Sacrotary.
EASTERN' COUNTIES RAILWAY COMPANY.
The Directors of the Eastern Counties Railway Company, observ-
ing that,. in the Advertisements of the Chelmsford and Bury kailway
Company, it is stated that their particular line is supported and
sanctioned by the Eastern Counties Railway Company, have to an-
nounce that no such support or sanction has been given.
The Company's engineer, Mr. Robert Stephenson, has been in-
structed to examine the entire district, and to advise upon the line
of railway to he constructed through it, which the Eastern Counties
Railway Company must sanction as most conducive to public into-
rest.
By order of the Board,
A BULKELEY, secretary.
Offices, London Terminus, Aug. 12, 1645.

SSEX and SUFFOLK RAILWAY- OFFICE,
24, Moorgate:street, September 5, 1845.
Notice is hereby given that NO APPLICATION for SHARES in
is undertaking can be RECEIVED after TrESDAY, the 16th4j,st.,
d that the Allotment of Shares will take place as soon as possible
reafter. By order,
ROBERT MAPLETOFT, Secretary.

Ir4YONS and AVIGNON RAILWAY
SEBASTIANI.)
REPORT TO (COMPAGNIE
THE ENGLISH SUBSCRIBERS.
GENTLEMEN,—We regret our not being able to report the we have
succeeded in our efforts to obtain for you the objects of our Associa-
tion ; our best energies have been devoted to the subject, but from
the altered state of the circumstances which has now arisen, our
Company, as at present constituted, is not in a position to compete
for the Lease. •
At the time our Company was formed. it was understood that the
Government would provide the land for the line and stations, and
possibly would undertake the earthworks. The capital we then
proposed (60 millions of francs), was considered sufficient to provide
all that the Company, under that state of circumstances, would have
required ; but after much doubt and delay, the Government have at
length di tennined that their lessecs stimuli undertake the purchase of
the Lend, as will as the entire construction and working of the Rail-
way. The Bill has now passed the Chambers in that form, and has
fixed the Capital at 80 millions (irrespective of the Grenoble
Branch).

ailing, as we interpret our engagement to the Subscribers,
neither power to undertake on their behalf the purchase of land, nor
adequate funds for that larger purpose, we are under the necessity of
imouncing the dissolution of the present Subscription, and we have
'Tentingly only further on this head to inform you, that we now
' the deposits subject to the order of the several Subscribers, and
rcaay to be immediately returned in exchange for the letters of allot-
ment and banker's receipts.
We would now invi your atetion to te cop of the
statutes, which have beente framed andtn adopted forh the regulation of
a new Company for making and working the proposed line. You
will observe, that it is mainly under the same direction, and in many
respects of the same character as that which we originally proposed.
The capital is necessarily larger, and the powers vested in those who
have the conduct of the undertaking ofa much more general charac-
ter. We desire to refer you in particular to articles 4-22-23-
24-28-56.
We are empowered to offer to each Shareholder in the former
Company who shall, on or before the 20th of September next, and
in the manner we are about to mention, declare his option to accept
them, the same number of Shares in the new Company as he holds
in the original Company, with or without one additional Share in
respect of every five original Shares, and in order to faclitate the
necessary arrangements, we have prepared such forms as will enable
the Subscribers to express their wishes with cenvenience. They are
ready, and may be applied for at 62, King William-street, City, be-
tween Eleven o'clock, A.m. and Three o'clock P.M.
We beg to add, that in the event of receiving at this office as com-
munication respecting any particular allotment of Shares in the
original Company on or before the 20th of September next, the de-
posit thereon will be held subject to the Order of the party entitled to
it, and it will be entirely out of our power to extend beyond idle
above-mentioned day the option which we have secured for the pre-
sent Proprietors to join the new Company.
It is right we should express our continued -confidence in the
merits of the undertaking, and onr recommendation to the Sub-
scribers to renew their investments in the new Company.
We are, Gentlemen, your very obedient Servants,

W. J. CHAPLIN.
=ARLES DEVAUX.
J. 31085.
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ANCHES TER and RUGBY DIRECT,
viA MACCLESFIELD.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,700,0001., in 85,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The lion. Howe Browne, Chairman of the Manchester andi
Birmingham Continuation Railway
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eorinod,a, EnsEq.a,g3l;Nri.c,h Park--ilatinnee:L.Hymd
Sir John Pirie, Bart., Alderman of the City of London, Di-
rector of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Packet Com- El
Lombard-street, R„
ktreet, banker
pang
William Hughes Hughes, Esq., Alderman of the City of g
London, late M.P. for Oxford, and late High Sheriff for
Hants
James Henry Attwood, Esq., Seymour-street, Portman-square to
George Xdam, Esq., White Lion-court, Conthill
John Bagshaw, Esq., Director of the Northern and Eastern :§:
Railway
Joseph Brown, Lag , Director of the East and West of Eng- 0
land Junction
William Chadwick, Esq., Chairman of the Richmond Railway
iyillitun Henry Forman, Esq., Upper Thames-street
Capt. George Probyn, Bryanston -square
Robert Watkins, Esq., Director of the East and West of Eng-
land Railway
Josh. Underwood, Esq., Director of the Commercial Bank off
London,
The Hon. Geo Browne, Lowndes-square, Belgrave-square
Sir Geo. Rich, 43, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square
Sir Henry Richardson, Chessel House, Southampton
Sir William Wynne, 5, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, Chairman of the
North Wales Railway, and Director of the Oxford, Southampton,
and Portsmouth Railway
Sir G. A. Lewin, Upper Barley-street, London
The Mayor of Newbury, Director of the Oxford, Southampton, and
Portsmouth Railway
Charles Anstey, Esq., Rugby
The Rev. J. Harvey, Ast worth, Nay bury
M. W. C. Alston, Esq., Birmingham
Samuel Swann Brittair, Esq., Sheffield
Charles Baker, Esq.,
.Southampton
William Bland, Esq., Brixton, Director of the North Wales Railway
George Burnand, Esq., Sussex-square, Hyde Park
William Bevan, Esq., 48, Conduit-street, Bond-street, Director of the
North Wales Mineral Railway
Jacob Bell, Esq., Langham-place, London
W. E. Boyes, Esq., Alkerton, Banbury, Director of the East and
'West of England Railway
Henry Brown, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
William Bradley, Esq., Director of the Sheffield and Manchester
Railway, si,td Chairman of the Direct Western
George Borritt, Esq., Southampton
Lieutenant-Colonel Burslam, North Hants
Charles Bailey, Esq., 'Winchester
Wm. F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrav:-square
'
Henry Baker, Esq. Mark-lane, London
H. Bulling, Esq., LL.D., Gosport
John Burgess, Esq:, late Boroughreeve, Manchester
Joseph Beech, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place
F. F. Clossman, Esq., Mincing-lane
John Chapman, Esq., Leadenhall-street, Director of the Devon and
Cornwall Railway
S. J. Capper, Esq., Adelaide-place, London-bridge
Edward Chapman, Esq., Strand, London, Director of the Richmond
Railway
Philip Warner Courtenay, Esq., 26, Capel-street, Belgrave-square
Francis Carleton, Esq.
James Cleft, Esq., Bloomsbury-square
Robert Cruickshank, Esq., Gosport
John Churchill, Esq., Bayswater, Directorof the Manchester and Bir-
mingham Continuation Railway
William Dredge, Esq., Newbury
George Dawson, Esq., Norfolk-street, Sheffield
Colonel Geo. Disbrow, Chester-place, London
Capt. Farrington, R.N., West Cowes, Isle of Wight
E. S. Farrow, Esq., Newbury
W. S. Fitzwilliam, Esq., Old Broad-street, Director of the Essex and
Suffolk Railway
F. B. Freer, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon
W. E. Gray, Esq., Newbury
Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds
Methuen Paul Gipps, Esq., London
Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad Mouse, Edgsbaston, near Birmingham,
Director of the East and West and Birmingham and South Stafford-
shire Railways
Joseph Hopgood, Esq., Exeter, Director of the East and West of
England
H. 11. Hornby, Esq. Blackburn
George Calvert Holland, Esq., Sheffield
John Newington Hughes, Esq. St. Michael's, Winchester
William Hill, Esq., Manchester
John Haddon, Esq.; Director of the East and West of England Rail-
way Company
James Home, Esq., Clapham Common, Director of the North Lon-
don Railway Company
John Hemming, Esq., North Bank, Regent's Park, Director of the
Worcester and South Wales Railway
T. A. Hall, Esq., Ashdeld House, Newcastle, Staffordshire
Frederick Hewitt, Esq.' Clapham, Surrey
William Jacomb, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the East and West
of England
J. Kinloch, Esq., Gloucester-road, Hyde-park, Director of the North
Wales
John Knill, Esq., Thames-street, Director of the Worcester and
South Wales Junction Railway
Charles Kelson, Esq. Teignmouth, Devon, Director of the East and
West of England Railwayl
William Knott, Esq., 4, Adelaide-place, Director of the Richmond
Railway
Edward Lomer, Esq., Southampton
William Lechmere Whitmore, Esq., James-street, Buckingham, late
Director of the Worcester and South Wales Railway
Henry Ledgard, Esq., Wood-street
John Dawson Lowden, Esq., Doughty-street, Director of the Rich-
mond Railway
James Lees, Esq. Crescent, Salford
Joseph Liggins, Esq., Kensington, Director of the ,Southampton Dock
Company
G. H. Leckie, Esq., Richmond
Stephen Lewis, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway
William Mills, Esq.' Newbury
Joseph Maunder, Esq., Ashford
Joh-

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n Malleson, Esq.,' Wimbledon, Director of the Great Indian
'eninsular Railway •
IV. Mathis, Esq., Mansion-house-place, London, Director of the
South Staffordshire Railway
George Miller, Esq., Director of the Centre Railway Terminus
Charles Mann, Esq.,• Leamington
Charles Musgrave, Esq., Meiverton-hill, Leamington
F. R. Musheti Esq., Birchin-lane, and Coleford
John Marshall, Esq., Hornforth Hall, near Leeds, late Mayor of
Norwich

Liam Nash, Esq., Chairman of the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings
railway
William Nicholson, Esq., Manchester
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the East and
West of England Railway
Ansley Pellatt, Esq., Director of the Staines and Richmond Railway
Thomas Parker, Esq., Spring-gardens, London
John Clarke Prescott, Esq., Manchester
William Simpson Potter, Esq., :of Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Di-
rector of the Oxford, Whitney, and Cheltenham Independent
Railway
B. Price, Esq., Rugby
James Paxton, Esq., Rugby
Richard Burton Phillipson, Esq., Rugby
N. M. • Priaulx, Esq., South Western Steam-packet Company,
Southampton
Stephen Philips, Esq., Director of the Whitehaven and Furness
Rainyay

William Raines, Esq., Temple, Director of the Manchester and Car-
lisle Railway
Richard Rickctt, Esq.
George Rougemont, Esq., 9, Chester-terrace, Regent's Park, Director
of the North London unction Railway
Major Charles T. Selwyn, of the Royal Engineers, Exeter, Director
of the East and West of England Junction
Charles Slocock, Esq., Newbury
Edmund Slocoek, Esq., Newbury
Christopher Shapland, Esq., Bristol, Director of the Pristol and
Gloucester, South Devon, and Cornwall Railway Companie.
T. Bridge Simpson, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Richmond Railway
W. Shairp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park
John Stewart, Esq., M.P. for Lymington, Director of the East and
West of England Railway
Charles B. Fripp, Esq., Bristol, Director of the Jersey Railway
J. Underwood. Esq., Blackheath Park
Thomas Varlet', Esq., Shorsten Hall, Malton
Edward Westlake. Esq., Southampton
Charles Fenton Whiting, Esq., Beaufort House, Strand, Director of
the Richmond IL, ilway
B. M. Wilcox, Esq., Hantsville, Torquay
George Whitmore, Esq., Austin-friars, Deputy Chairman of the North
Kent Railway
Thomas Woodham, Esq., Winchester
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the Yarmouth and Waveney
Valley,Rallway
George Young, Esq., Denmark-hill, Surrey
(With power to add to their number).
BANKERs-L-Messrs. Masterman and Co., London.
ANGINEER IN CHIEF.
ACTING ENGINEERS.
Messrs. J. B. and E. Birch, Westminster
Brackstone Baker, Esq.
Somerrea—John Bethell, Esq., 78, King William-street, London.

That another and a more direct line of railway is necessary between
he metropolis and the manufacturing districts around Manchester, is
now fully admitted, and the question is, which is the best line to be
adopted.
The above proposed railway will form the shortest and most di-
rect route from London to Manchester, and will therefore complete
the direct communication with the metropolis at a much less expen-
diture of capital than by either of the projected London and Man-
chester lines (Remington's and Ashurst's), the actual distance to be
constructed being only 73 miles.
A careful preliminary survey has determined the promoters of this
railway to adoptnearly a straight line from Rugby toMacclesfleld, as
an increased expenditure of 200,000/. or 3110,000/. judicially applied in
the present perfected- state of civil engineering, and at the reduced cost
of the execution of earth works, will prove in the end a far greater
real economy, both to the Company-itself in the saving effected in
the annual expense of working, and also, what is of snore importance,
to the country in general, by accomplishing, at a much less cost, the
same end proposed by an entire and distinct line from London to
Manchester.
These considerations have not been sufficiently kept in view by
other parties who have also proposed to make a railway Mtn Rugby
to Macclesfield, but who, by deviating from the direct tract to pursue
valleys and to avoid the irregularities of the face of the country,
obviously lose the advantages proposed by this Company.
The Parliamentary decision on the choice of the London and Brighton
Railway is a parallel case, the direct line, although presenting more
difficulties to overcome, and involving a greater outlay, having been
adopted by Parliament in preference to the many competing projects,
in a more or less sinuous direction, which were at that time supported
in the House by very influential parties.
Should it be found necessary, arrangements have been made by
which additional lines of rails will be laid between Rugby and Lon•
don on the London and Birmingham Railway, whereby the surplus
traffic northwards will be abundantly provided for.
The line also possesses the singular advantage of affording the
shortest and most direct route from Manchester to Southampton,
Gosport, and Portsmouth, a feature presented by no other proposed
railway. By adopting the Rugby and Oxford branch of the Great
Western as far as Didcot, and thence the proposed Oxford, Southamp-
ton, Gosport, and Portsmouth line, the distance from Manchester to
Southampton will be twenty-three miles less than by any other route,
and on this account the project has been warmly supported by the
Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway Company. •
The deviations from a perfectly straight line between Rugby and
Macclesfield to avoid high ranges of hills, ornamental parks, or
valuable buildings are very slight, and the line in general offers no
engineering difficulties of any magnitude. The towns more directly
interested as a local line are Nuneaton, Hinckley, Atherstone, Market
Bosworth, Burton-upon-Trent, Sutbury, Ashbourne, and Leek.
The Company has made arrangements with the North London
Junction Railway Company, whereby it has secured the use of their
station (of the extent of six acres) in the centre of the City of,Londom.
at the bottonl of Moorgate-street, which will prove of the utmost
importance to this line.
Amidst the many railway projects that now occupy the public
mind, and involve a vast outlay of capital, it will readily be conceded
that a line that will attain such important results at so small an
outlay of capital, and of the time required for its construction, and
without interfering with any existing vested interests, must meet
with general approbation, and at the same time offer a very excellent
investment for capital
The deeds shall provide that no call shall be made on the share-
holders beyond the deposit now paid, until the Act of Parliament is
obtained, and power will be taken in the let to allow 41. per cent.
interest on all calls.

The shareholders in the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Ports-
mouth, in the London and Birmingham, and in the Manchester and
Birmingham Railways, Will ban a preference in the allotment of
shares.

Application fin' detailed prospectuses, Maps, And shares, may be
made to the Secretary, at the Office, 78, King William-street, City,
London, and the following sharebrokers :—Messrs. R. Sutton,
ibble, and Sutton, 22, North-side Royal Exchange, London, and
George Burnand, ESq., Conffiill ; Messrs. Houghlaud and Leese, 51,
King-street, Manchester; John Wills, Esq., Royal Bank-buildings,
Liverpool ; Messrs. Wellbeloved an 1 Oastler, Leeds ; Massrs. Ed-
wards and Son, and W. H. Land, Esq., Bristol ; J. R. Lane, Esq.,
Birmingham ; Mown's. Garton and Wright, Shed ; J. G. Ker-
IHhaalwl Brothers,El.CheltenhamFSpen;
cliere,urEysclierreumalioraxnt 'attMdesCsors.,
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ItArIDLAND AND EASTERN COUNTIES
L RAILWAY, from CAMBRIDGE, by NORTHAMPTON, to
WORCESTER.
In consequence of important arrangements just concluded in con-
nexion with this undertaking, an amended prospectus will appear in
a few days ; in the meantime the allotment of shares is necessarily
postponed.
Dated this 9th day of September, 1845.
W. 0. and W. HUNT, 10, Whitehall,
F. T. ELGIE, Worcester, JOHN CHINERY, Leamington, Solicitors.
Messrs. DAY, St. Neots,

WORCESTER, HEREFORD, AND
GLOUCESTER RAILWAY,
Through Malvern, with a Branch to Ledbury.
(Registered Provisionally.)
Capital 750,000/, in shares of 201. each.
• Deposit 21. 2s. per share.
PitovistoNAL colovirrxE.
GalaYteX, Esq., M.P. Directors of the Great Western
R. F, Gower, Esq. ~ - and
F. P. Barlow, Esq.• • South Wales Railwa
L. Vigers, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the South Wales Railwayy Francis Rufford, Esq., Chairman of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wol-
verhampton Railway
T. N. Foster, Esq., Director of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver-
hampton Railway • •
J. Crossthwaitt Esq., Liverpool
Lawrence Hafworth, Esq., Liverpool
John Roskell, Esq., Bath
John Rogers, Esq,, Chester, Director of the Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton Railway -
William Lewis, Esq., mayor of Worcester, and birector of the Ox-
ford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway'
Edward Evans, Esq., Worcester, alderman and. banker
Richard Yapp, Esq., Worcester, magistrate of the city, and Director
of the Oxford, Worcester, and WolVerharnpton Railway
Thomas Chalk, -Esq., alderman of Worcester ••
Charles Augustus Helm, Esq., alderman of 'Worcester
John Parker, Esq., Lark Hill, Worceiter
Mr. William Stallard, jun., merchant, Worcester
Mr. Edward Wheeler,' hop-merchant, Worcester
Mr. Henry Southan, merchant, Worcester
3fr. Edward Giles, hop-merchant, Worcester
Mr. Henry Webb, merchant, Worcester
Mr. George Anderson, Worcester
Mr. John Turley, Worcester
Gabriel Goodman, Esq., 'Upton-on-Severn
Sir Hungerford Hoskyns, Bart., Harewood Herefordshire
Sir-Robert Price, Bart., M.P., Foxley, Herefordshire
Kedgwin Hoskins, Esq., M.P., Birch House, Herefordshire Robert Pulstbrd, Esq., M.P. for Hereford
John William Miles, Esq., Bristol and Ledhury, Herefordshire, a
Director of the Great Western Railivay Company
Edmund Broman Pateshall, Esq., Allensmore, Herefordshire
Colonel Thomas Powell, Hardwick, Herefordshire
W. George Beamish, Esq., Kensington-square, London. and West-
hide, Herefordshire
John Johnstone, Esq., Maidstone, Herefordshire
William James, Esq., Wilcroft, Herefordshire
Francis Ramp, Esq., Bacton, Herefordshire
Henry Horn, Esq., 5, Upper Bedford-place, Hussell-square, and
Hare-court, Temple
John Gardiner Freeman, Esq., Rockfleld, Herefordshire
3farcellus Newton, Esq., Warham, Herefordshire
W. S. Vale, Esq., 3fathon, Worcestershire
Joseph Bird, Esq., Hampton, Herefordshire
George Crosse, Esq., Burcott House, Herefordshire
Thomas Jennings, sq., Highland-grove, Fovrnhope, Herefordshire
John Hollings, Esq., Verson, near Ledbury, Herefordshire
William Webb, Esq., Mayor of Hereford
Thomas Davis,.Esq., Magistrate of-Hereford
Richard Thomas Barra, Esq., Magistrate of Hereford
John Rogers, Esq., Alderman of Hereford
William L. Gilliland, Esq., 3f.D., Hereford
Edward Morris, Esq., M.D., Hereford
G. E. Terry, Esq., Hereford
W. Pulling, Esq., merchant, Hereford -
John Kerr Hastings, Esq., General Manager of the Herefordshire
Banking Company, Hereford
Charles Bulmer, Esq., Hereford •
Mr. George Bonner, Hereford
Mr. Charles Anthony, Hereford
John Dowling, Esq., Mayor of Gloucester
David Mowbray Walker, Esq., Alderman of Gloucester
Thomas Jenkins, Esq., Gloucester
Arthur Hammond Jenkins, Esq., Alderman of Gloucester
Richard Hodges Carter, Esq., Gloucester
George Jones, Esq., merchant, Gloucester
Samuel Hitch, Esq., M.D., Glouceser
Samuel Baker, Esq., Lypiatt Park, Gloucestershire
William Philip Price, Esq., Tibberten-court, Gloucestershire
Charles Barton, Esq., Weliciose House, Gloucestershire
A. H. Phillpotts, Esq., merchant, Gloucester
Charles Walker, Esq., merchant, Gloucester
Robert Deane, Esq., merchant, Gloucester
John Forster, Esq., merchant, Gloucester
Edward L. Kendall, Esq., merchant, Gloucester
George Davison Moffatt, Esq., banker, Gloucester •
Charles F. Cliffe, Esq., Gloucester -
Thomas C. Avery, Esq., Gloucester
W. 11. Evans, Esq.' merchant, Gloucester
ENGINEER—I. K. Brunel, ESQ.
• RS
BANKE. •
City and County Bank, Worcester
National Provincial Bank, Worcester
Messrs. Hoskins, Morgan, and Hamp, Hereford
Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford
Messrs. Matthews, Phillips, and Company.' Hereford
Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester
County of Gloucester Bank, Gloucester
National Provincial Bank; Gloubester,

SOLI.
3fessrs. W. 0. and W. Hunt, alO, 10, 'Whitehall
Mr. F. T. Elgie, Worcester
Mr. F. L. Bodenham and Mr. T. Evans, Hereford
Messrs. Whitcombe, Helps, and Co., Gloucester.

It is proposed that the course of this line shall be from the Worces-
ter station of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway,
to a point near Malvern, where tie line will be divided into two
branches, the one branch proceeding through or near the parish of
Bosbury (whence there will be a branch to Ledbury)
to Hereford,
where it will run Into the station of the Great Western Company's
Monmouth and Hereford Railway, and the projected Hereford and
Shrewsbury Railway ;` the other branch will proceed from the point
of division near Malvern, straight to Gloucester, and will join the
Gloucester and Dean Forest Railway near that city.
This line will pass rather more than half a mile
below Great Mal-
vern, and not far distant from the town of Tipton-on-Severn, both of
which places are at present entirely shut out from the ben•fits of
railway communication. •
The country has already been inspected under the direction of the
engineer, and it is found that there is no engineering difficulties of a
serious charceter to be overcome ; and indeed the greater portion of
the line presents a course extremely favourable for a railway, the
gradients being very easy.
Near the point of division at Malvern-the Hereford line will cross
a portion of the Malvern range by one or more tunnels, but the whole
length of the tunnelling will not much exceed one mile. From the
other side of Malvern to Hereford the surface of the country is as
favourable as could be desired.

The Gloucester line, from the point of division to its terminus, wh
pass through a country peculiarly favourable, the surface being
throughout nearly one continuous level.
With regard to the immediate local advantages offered by the
proposed railway, it will effect the most direct communication be-
tween the cities of Worcester and Hereford and Gloucester and Wor-
cester, and between those cities and the delightffil watering place
and favourite summer residence of Great Malvern, to which it will
also give an easy and expeditious access from other populous but
more remote districts.
The important market town of Ledbury, with the rich corn, fruit,
and hop district around it, will also be brought into closer and more
profitable connexion with the three cities ; and it cannot fail to make
a considerable addition to the traffic between Worcester and the port
of Gloucester.
The facilities preiented by the proposed railway for increasing and
developing traffic in a more general and national point of view are
of a very extended character. Joining the Forest of Dean and Mon-
mouth Railways, it will afford a ready means of transit to South
Wales, and by its junction with the Oxford, Worcester, and Wol-
verhampton line, and with the projected line to Forth Dynllaen,
it will give railway communication with the manufacturing and
mining districts of the North of England, especially of South Staf-
fordshire and Worcestershire, and also with North Wales and Ire-
land ; and by means of the Great Western Railway, which it joins
at Gloucester, it will complete an unbroken broad gauge line from
Wolverhampton to Exeter in the one direction, and from Pembroke
to Wolverhampton in the other. It will effect a considerable
saving in distance between the port.of Gloucester and Wolverhamp-
ton, and all parts of the north ; it will be the nearest possible route
from the extreme west of England, and Rom South Wales to all
places north of Wolverhampton.
The enumeration of the places and districts to be traversed by the
proposed line, and a description of its course, sufficiently indicate a
remunerating amount of traffic.
It will supply to the Port of Gloucester important and bulky
articles of export, drawn from the mining and manufacturing dis-
tricts of South Staffordshire and Worcestershire ; and will still further
develon the resources of these districts by increased facility of com-
munication with their natural port. The importance of this branch
of the traffic can scarcely be over- estimated ; in one portion of the
district elone,•viz., between Wolverhampton and Stourbridge, there
are abdut 100 blast furnaces in work, producing nearly 500,000 tons
of pig iron annually, and it is admitted that the want of railway
facilities has hitherto greatly hindered the development of an im-
portant export trade from this district. The works at Droitwich and
Stoke Prior can furnish any quantity of salt. The carpet manufac-
tories of Kidderminster, the iron and glass works at Stourbridge,
Dudley, and their populous neighbourhood, will also supply an im-
portant amount of traffic, certainly far beyond that now carried on
with the present insufficient means of transit between those places
and the district to be affected by the proposed line.

The Hereford branch of the line offers to the agriculturists of the
counties of Hereford, Radnor, and Brecon the advantages of cheap
and ready means of access to their principal markets. It will be an
important advantage to thenito have their cattle, corn, hops, fruit,
wool, and other produce speedily and cheaply conveyed to the great
markets of Worcester and Birmingham, and the towns in the centre
of the great manufacturing population of Staffordshire and Worces-
tershire ; the advantages, too, will be mutual, as the line will afford
equal facilities for the conveyance of the mineral and manufacturing
produce of the north to the rural districts.
The population of the districts affected by the proposed line, rec-
koning from Wolverhampton to Gloucester on the one hand, and
from the same place to Hereford on the other, is not less than
400,000 ; and from the position of the country traversed, the line
must be fed by all the railways constructed, or to be formed,
on either side. There can, therefore, be no reasonable doubt of the
Worcester, Hereford, and Gloucester line commanding a traffic so
considerable as to yield an ample remuneration for the requisite
capital.
The usual power will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow
interest at 4 per cent. per annum on the deposits, and no subscriber
will be answerable for more than the amount of his deposit of 2/. 2s.
per share until the Act is obtained, and then not beyond the amount
of his subscription.
In the allotment of the shares of the Company, a preference win
be given to parties locally interested, and to the proprietors of shares
in those railways with which the present is connected mid intended
to communicate.

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Prospectuses may be had, and applications for shares may be ad-
dressed to the respective solicitors, or at the London offices of the
Company, 449, West Strand, London.
Infirmary-walk, Worcester, August 28, 1845.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Worcester, Hereford, and Glou-
cester Railway.
I request you will allot to me Share's in the above un-
dertaking, and I agree to take all such share* or so many thereof as
you may allot to me, and to
pay the deposit, and to sign the Par-
liamentary contract and the Subscribers' Agreement when required.
ame .
Resideuee ..........
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Date
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lIEREFORD, AND GLOU-
W ORCESTER,
CESTER RAILWAY.
Se
Notice is hereby given, that no application for Shares will be re-
ceived after THURSDAY, the 18th day ptember instant.
W. 0. and W. HUNT, 10, Whitehall,
1.
F. T. ELGIE, Worcester, ' '
F. L. BODENHAY' Ijoreford, Solicitors.
T. EVANS,
warrcomßE, HELPs.P4 WZ:kfTSS. Gloneeetev,
Lonaen oak* of the Comptiz 441,4 /NM Stunt
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BOSTON, NEWARK, and SHEFFIELD
RAILWAY, NOTTINGHAM, ➢iANSFIELD, and MID-
LANDS JUNCTION RAILWAY.

The Directors ,of the Boston, Newark, and Sheffield Railway, and
the Nottingham, Mansfield, and Midlands Junction Railway, are
happy to inform the shareholders and the public, that an amalga-
mation of interests has been effected between the two Companies
upon equal terms. The Directors can only view the important ad-
vantiqes which will arise from this union as a subject of mutual
congratulation. The Nottingham, Mansfield, and Midlands Junction
Railway will, by its Clay Cross extension, open up the vast and ex-
haustless coal fields of .Nottingliamshire and Derbyshire for the con-
sun.pton of Norfolk, Lincolnshire, and the adjoining counties, and
through the medium of their seaports create a new and extensive export
and import trade. It will also pour an immense passenger and other
traffic into the Boston, Newark, and Sheffield line, from Notting-
ham, Mansfield, and their populous districts to Sheffield, Hudders-
field, Manchester, Bradford, and other large manufacturing towns
in the counties of Lancaster and Yorkshire, by means of an amicable
understanding with the Sheffield and Lincolnshire. Railway, which
the amalgamated lines are intended to join. The Boston, Newark,
and Sheffield Railway will confer an equal benefit upon the Notting-
ham, Mansfield and Midlands Junction Railway, in affording not
only the most direct and tke shortest mode of. communication with
Sheffield and the North, but in consequence of the amalgamation, it
will decrease the expense of transit, and ensure an extensive market
in Lincolnshire and Norfolk for the valuable minerals and othe re-
sources which the Nottingham, Mansfield, and Midlands Junction
Railway will, in its progress, necessarily develope.
By order, JOHN DENNISTON, Secretary.
T. Mansfield, September 10, 1845. 11. RIGBYE, Secretary.

RUGIa, WARWICK, and WORCESTER
RAILWAY.
'Provisionally Registered.
Capital 900,000/., in 45,000 Shares of 201. eaoh.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.
Major-General Sir Love Jones Love Parry, Bart, K.C.8., Madryn
Park; Caernarvonshire
Sir William Henry Clarke. Bart., Baker-street, Porbittul-sqttire,
London
Sir. Henry, Webbe, Bart., Pall-mall, London • -
Sir Henry Bromley Henrich, Court Garden, Great Marlow, Bucks
' William Hughes Hughes, !Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., Sce., Alderman of
• London, Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuatioa,
and a Director of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester
Junction, the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth, the
North London Junction, and the London and Greenwich Railway
Companies
T. Hagger,..Esq., Northampton
~Directors of the South Midland and
Freeman, Esq., Ditto . Northampton, Banbury, and Choi-
Thomas Sharp, Esq., Ditto tenham Railway Companies
Arthur Haymes, Esq., Methem Villa, Provisional Directors of the
Leamington, South Midland Railway
Mr. Alderman Porter, Northampton, Company
Jonathan Dunn, Esq., Ryelands, Lancaster, Director of the Lancas-
ter and Preston Junction and North Western Railway Companies
J. M. Cottle Esq., Leamington, Director of the Covehtry, Nuneaton,
and Leicester Railway Company
John Gardner, Esq., Southam, Provisional Director if the Birming-
ham and Oxford Junction Railway Company
William Frederick Beadon, Esq., John-street, Berkeley-square, Lon-
don; Provisional Director of the Essex and Suffolk Railway Company
John IVheeltou, Esq., Meopham Bank, Tunbridge, Kent, Director of
the Leicester and Bedford Railway Company
Capfain William Cousins, Director of the Goole and Doncaster Rail-
way Company •
Cornelius Nicholson, Esq., Cowanhead, Kendal, Provisional Director
of the Lancaster and Carlisle, the York and Carlisle, and Manches-
ter and Southampton Railway Companies
James Beach, Esq., 154 Grosvenor-place, Lou-)Directors of the South
don, and Brandon Lodge, Warwickshire Midland Railway
George Buxton, Esq., Northampton Company
George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, Director of the Bristol and Bir-
mingham and Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway
Companies
E. W. Morris, Esq.,'Grovehurst, Pembury,
Kent

The Rev. D. Robinson, Bronspton Provisional Directors of
W. W. Mansell, Esq., Dorchester-place, the Great Nerth and
Blandford-square, London
cester Railway
South Wales and Wor
Robert Rising, Esq., The Shrubbery, Wor-
cestcr
John Haddon, Esq., Director of the Birmingham and Oxford Junc-
tion Railway Company.
John Satchell, Esq., Warwick, Deputy Chairman of the Leamington
Board of Commissioners
Robert Chapman, Esq., Park-place, Regent's-park, Director of the
Great Manchester Railway Company
Henry Morgan, Esq., Bristol Directors of the
William Watson, Esq., Burn Grove, Roxburgh-lßristol and Exeter
shire
Railway Company
James Morrison, Esq., Raymond-buildings, Gray's Inn, Provisional
Director of the Bridgewater and Minehead Railway Company
Admiral Ayscough, Southampton
Mr. Sergeant Adams, Stanhope-place, Hyde-park
Mr. Herbert Atterbury, Thornby, Northamptonshire
John Burnett, Esq., Cheltenham, Coroner for the county of Glou-
cester
John Brightman, Esq., Regency-square, Brighton
John Richards Burbidge, Esq., Surbiton Hill, Surrey
Charles Brandt, Esq., Leamington
Captain Chamfer, Halkin-street West, Belgrave-square, London
Thomas Chitty, Esq., 8, Upper Gower-street, London
Peter Colston, jun., Esq., Husband's Bosworth, near Market liar-
borough
Thomas Farmer Cooke, Esq., Pestling Hall, Leicestershire
Edward Doubleday, Esq.; P:L.S., Great Surrey-street, London
Thomas Henry Evans, Esq., 39, Lothbnry, and Mayor of Carnarron
John Eyston, Esq., Welfor, Northamptonshire, and Salford Hall,
Warwickshire
Joseph Ellis, Esq., Glenfleld and Leicester
Alexander Greig, Esq., Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square, London
George Harper, Esq., Moss Fields; Salop
John Helbert Helbert, Esq., Upper Gleucester-street, London
William Hunter, Esq., Leamington
Captain George James Hunter, Leamington
Richard Parry Jones, Esq., Whitchurch, Salop
Mr. George Wortley Lovell, Great Billing, Northamptonshire
William Laslett, Esq., Worcester
William-Marshall, Esq., Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire
The Rev.-Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Herefordshire
Mr. Benjamin Paine, Leicester
James Watts Peppercorne, Esq., Old Broad-street, and Dulwich,
Surrey

Captain Douglas Kinnaird Pultency, 4, Parliament-street, London
J. Watsoit Prole, Esq., 31, Thurlow-square, Brompton
James Whitchurch, Esq., Southcliff, Nettcy Abbey, Hants
William Williams, Esq., Guilsborough, Northamptonshire
Edward Welsh, Esq., Leamington
Edward Waddilove, Esq., Leamington
Mr. John Woolston, jun., merchant, Wellingborough, Northampton.
shire

(With power to add to their number.)
' • BANKERS.
London—The London and County Bank, Lombard-street
Northampton—The Northamptonshire Banking Company
Rugby—Messrs. Butlin and Son
Lealnington /Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Corn.
Warwick
Southern pany
Worcester—Messrs. Farley, Lavender, and CS.
ENGINEER IN CHIEF—John Urpeth Rastrick, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
London—Mr. George Weller, 8, King's-reed, Bedford-row •
Weltbrd—Mr. 'George Pell, Jun.
Leamington
Warwick
..Messrs. Patterson, Haymes, llanbuty, and Gardner
Southern
Worcester—Mr. It. T. Rea
Birmingham—Big. T. It. T. Hodgson
SEcRETAity—Mr. George li. Weller.

PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS.
The object proposed by this railway as well to supply the wants
of the district through which it passes, as to complete the chain of
railway communication between the eastern and midland counties
and the western district, including the whole of North and South
Wales.
The country embraced by this line is of the richest description, and
thickly populated.
By means of this, and the existing and projected lines of railway,
the whole of the ports in the eastern and north-eastern counties, in-
cluding the manufactuoing city of Norwich, and towns of Leicester,
Nottingham, Sheffield, Leeds, and the whole of Yorkshire will be
brought in direct communication with the mineral districts of
North and South Wales, the salt district of Droitwich, and the
river Severn.
The promoters of this line submit to the public, as a most import-
ant consideration, the abating of those causes of loss and inconveni-
ence which, along the line of country over which this railway will
pass, are experienced from water carriage being from necessity at
present a principal mode of transit for heavy goods and merchandise, and which, in the winter season, is productive of the most evil con-
sequences to those engaged in commerce.
A manifest advantage to the Shareholders will be the extent of traffic
which will be secured and appropriated by the present undertaking,
in lieu of that which hitherto has been engrossed by the more
dilatory course of water carriage.
As a public advantage to the inhabitants generally 'of the
above-mentioned districts, the promoters submit that the equa-
lisation in prices of the produce and merchandise which the
opening of this line of railway is calculated.to produce is of the high-
est importance, and one of the principal bent fits which this and other
similar undertakings are alone capable of producing.
The proposed line will commence at Rugby, the terminus of the
Midland Counties and Trent Valley Railways, and also of the pro-
posed Rugby and Huntingdon Junction Railway, and proceed from
thence near to the towns of Leamington, Warwick, and Alcester, and
end at the City of Worcester. At Worcester this line will form a
junction with the several Welsh railways, the Shrewsbury, Wor-
oester, and Crewe Railway, and the Oxford, Worcester, and Wol-
verhampton Railway.
At Warwick it will unite with the Birmingham and Oxford Junc-
tion Railway, the Warwick and Cheltenham Railway, and the Lon-
don, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidderminster Railway.
And at Rugby wins the London and Birmingham, the Midland
Counties, and the projected Rugby and Hantingdon Junction Railway.
To the inhabitants of Rugby as well as to those of the Midland,
Eastern, and Northern Counties this line will afford a direct com-
munication with the fashionable towns of Leamington and Chelten-
ham, as well as the whole of the Western Counties.
To the inhabitants of Leamington and Warwick it will give a
direct communication with the City of Worcester and North and
South Wales, now so much needed.
And to the inhabitants of Worcester, in addition to providing the
nearest route to London via Warwick, it will be an outlet to the
Eastern Counties and ports, and afford great facilities for the increase
of the manufactories now carried on in that city.
The whole of the country has during the present month, August,
1845, been most carefully~ surveyed by the engineers, and they report it to be free from engineering difficulty, and well adapted for a rail-
way; and the provisional Directors entertain no doubt that the
line will be made under the average rate of expense incident to
similar undertakings, and, from the statistics in their possession,
that the traffic will afford an ample return for the capital invested.
The line will aot interfere with any ornamental property, and the
landowners are favourable to the undertaking.
The -hareholders in the several Railways proposed to be joined or
intirsected will have a preference in the allotment of shares in this
isudertaking.

No person will be liable for more than his deposit till the Act is
obtained, and power will be applied fer to allow interest at 4/. per
centum on all calls, from the time of their respective payments, and
to limit the liability of the Shareholders to the amount of their sub-
rcriptions.
The Directors reserve power to themselves to amalgamate with
any existing or projected- line of railway ; to vary the route ; to
make all desirable extensions; and to increase the capital as may be
advisable or necessary.
Prospectuses, with a Plan, twill be published in a few days,
and may then be obtained on application to the several solicitors,
and to any of the following share brokers, viz., Messrs. Peppercorn.
and Co., 2, Old Broad-street ; Messrs. Preece and Evans, 39, Loth-
bury, London ; Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester ; Messrs. Alston
and Gage, Liverpool ; Messrs. Freeman and Son, Northampton ; Mr.
John Duncaft, Manchester ; Messrs. George Edwards and Son, Bris-
tol; Mr. John Watson, Leeds; Mr. John Cragg, Skipton ; and
Mes.rs. Atkinson, Newcastle ; Messrs. Grayston and Earle, York ;
Mr. Collis, Birmingham; Messrs. White' and Son, Leamington ;
Messrs. Flint and Tootal, Hull ; Messrs. Tempest and Britehart, Hud-
dersfield;
_Messrs. Robertson and Co., Edinburgh; and Messrs.
Tassie, Glasgow; to any of whom applications in the undermen-
Betted form may be addressed.

FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Directors of the Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester

Railway.

I request you to allot mo Shares in this undertaking; and I
hereby undertake to accept the same or any smaller number that
may be allotted me, and to pay the Deposit thereon, and to execute
the Parliamentary Contract and Subscriber's Agreement when re-
quired. •

Christian and Sarnatnes In full ............
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RUGBY,- WARWICK, AND WORCESTER
_._ • RAILWAY. _

In consequence of the immense number of applications already re-
ceived, the Provisional Cominittee give notice that no Application,
for Shares will' be received after Tuesday the 16th instant, except
from parties resident the country, as to Whom the time will be
oxtcuded to Monday, the 22d Instant.
GEO. H. 114,1t,d1, beirfkirr.
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SCOTTISH MIDLAND JUNCTION RAIL-
WAY.
l'arties holding Scrip Certificates for Shares in this Company are
requested to transmit the same to Mr. Christopher Kerr, 26, Castle-
street, Dundee, on or before WEDNESDAY, the 24th current, with
their Names, Professions, and Residences, distinctly written, in order
that the same may be correctly entered in the Register, as required
by law. By order,

Dundee, Sept. 10, 1845.

CHRIS. KERR, Int. Sec.

CORK AND FERMOY DIRECT RAIL WAY
COMPANY.
(Provisionally registered.)
Capital 259,0001., in 12,500 Shares of 20/. each.
• Deposit 2/. Is. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Kingston
The Hon. James Ring
The ;Very Rev. Edward Gustavus Hudson, Dean of Armagh, Glenville.
Adams, Thomas Travers, Esq., J.P., Annagarra
Brown, Joseph, Esq., Bedford
Beamish, S. G., Esq., Kensington-square, London
Clarke, Jeremiah, Esq., London t:
Champion, Richard Gifford, Esq., Bushy Park, Cork
Crawford, Cooper, Esq., Mitchelstown
Dennehy, Thomas, Esq., Bellevue, Fermoy
Disney, Rev. Harry, Mitchelstown
Fitzgibbon, Michael, Esq., Solicitor, Mitchelstown
Forrest, the Rev. Thomas, Mitchelstown
Geron, Daniel, Esq., Coroner, Rushmount
Green, Thomas, Esq., Airhill •
Hamer, Samuel, Esq., London
Johnson, Noble, Esq., Cork
Johnson, D. T., Esq.,' London
Johnson, R. W., Esq., London .
Keetfe, John Joseph, Esq., London
King, William, Esq.; London
Massy, John, Esq., Tipperary
Livius, G. P.vEsq., London
M`Carthy, Rev. Charles, R.C., Vicar, Mitchelstown -
Meteyard, H. W., Esq., London
M'Carthy, W., Esq., Kilglass Mills
Mitchell, Henry Brazier, Esq., D.L. and J.P., Mitchelsfert, Water-
grass-hill
Montgomery, Rev. William Quinn, Killee Castle
Montgomery, Arthur C., Esq., Killee Castle
Morgan, Edward, Esq., Bridestown
3forrogh, :James, Esq., Kilworth, Manager of the National Bank,
Fennoy
O'Brien, Michael, Esq., Ballyboy
O'Brien, Edward, Esq., Mounteagle, Manager of the National Bank,
Mitchelstown
O'Brien, Richard, Esq., Solicitor, Mitchelstown
O'Brien, Rev. Morgan, P.P., Mitehelstown
Phelan, James, Esq., M.R.C.S., Mitchelstown
Reeves, Edward Hoare, Esq., Ballyglissane
Roche, J. W., Esq., Rochemount
Sadler, Nicholas, Esq., Ballanvillen
Smyth, Henry. Mitchell, Esq., J.P., Castle Widnam and Bishop's
Island
Stevenson, Thomas, Esq., London
Smyth, Henry, Esq., J.P., Richmond, and Benny, Fermoy
Spiers,-E. J., Esq., London
Teulon, Major Peter, Glenwood, Kilworth
Wardle, Henry, Esq., London

(With power to add to their number).
A considerable addition of influential local names will appear
shortly.

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
CHAIRMAN.
John Joseph Keene, Esq., Director of the National Bank of Ireland,
St. John's-wood, Regent's Park, London
Brown, Joseph, Esq., Alderman, Bedford
Beamish, S. G., Esq., Kensington-square
Clarke, Jeremiah, Esq., Union-court, Old Broad-street
Earner, Samuel, Esq., G. P. 0., and Southampton-row, Russell-
square
Johnson, D. T., Esq., Director of the Chester and Manchester Rail-
way, Aldermanbury Churchyard, London
Johnson, R. W., Esq., Director of the Chester and Manchester Rail-
way, Moorgate-street
King, William, Esq., Director of the Freemasons' Assurance Com-
pany, Waterloo place
Livius, G. P., Esq., Director of Remington's London and Manchester
Railway, '29, Moorgate-street
Meteyard, Horace William, Esq., 8.C.L., Director of Remington's
London and Manchester Railway, Middle Temple and Chatham-
place
Spiers, E. J., Esq., Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and
Worcestershire Railway, Carlton-villas, Paddington
Stevenson, Thomas, Esq., :Director, of the Medical, Invalid, and Ge-
neral Assurance Company, 37, Upper Grosvenor-street
Wardle, Henry, Esq., Aidersgate-street and Macclesfield.

1 BANKERS.
The National Bank of Ireland and its Branches
Messrs. Barnet, Hoare, and Co., 62, Lombard-street. *
SOLICITORS.
Ireland—Messrs. Jonathan Wigmore, Sherlock, and Sons, Cork and
Fermoy; and Lower Pembroke-street, Dublin
London—William Tatham, Esq., 22, Throgmorton-street.
ENGINEER —Edgar Clements, Esq.
SECRETALRT—WiIIiam Bridges, Esq.
The projected line of railway, to connect Cork, the first seaport and
second city of Ireland, with the central agricultural district from
which it is extensively supplied with produce in exchange for im-
ported commodities, has the entire and cordial approbation of a large
body of landholders and residents between the two termini, as
carrying out the principle of direct communication for which the in-
habitants of Fermoy and its vicinity have always contended.
The line will be 19% English miles in length, being 2% miles
shorter than the mail-coach road, and 14 miles shorter than any line
which may be constructed as a branch via Middleton.
The entire line of country has been surveyed by competent engi-
neers, and reported on as extremely favourable as to the gradients,
and entirely free from engineering difficulties. It will therefore be
easy of construction, and all the works may be completed in a com-
paratively short time from the obtaining of the Act.
It is intended to adapt the line in its construction to the most im-
proved principle of motive power.
The present traffic in passengers and goods between Cork and
Fermoy is considered equal, if not superior, to that existing between
any two towns in Ireland equally distant from each other. As every
economy will be used in its formation, and as the landowners on the
line are entirely favourable, the railway will be constructed for a
very reasonable sum, and thus ensure ample remuneration to the
Shareholders.
Prospectus and forms of application for shares may be obtained of
tile solicitors; or of the Secretary, at tile offices of the Company,
No. 38, Moorgate-street, London.
11th September, 1845.

THE OXFORD, SOUTHAMPTON, GOS-
PORT, AND PORTSMOUTH RAILWAY.
(Provisionally registered.)
Capital, 600,0001., in 30,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.
The Right Hen. Lord Ingestre, M.P.
The Hon. Howe Browne, Chairman of the Manchester and Blaming-
ham Continuation Railway
John Attwood, Esq., M.P., Park-Ite, Hyde Park
John Masterman, Esq., Nicholas.lane, Lombard-street, Banker
Sir John Campbell,
Irr John Pixie, Bart ,Alderman, Directors of the Peninsular and
Pedro de Zulueta, Esq., Oriental Steam Packet Company
B. M. Wilcox, Esq.,
Joseph Liggins, Esq., Southampton, Director of the Southampton
Dock Company
Sir William Wynne, Chairman of the North Wales Railway
Sir George Rich, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-squaro
Sir Henry Richardson, Chassel-house, Southampton
Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of the City of London
William Hughes Hughes, Esq., Alderman of the City of London, late
M.P. for Oxford, and late High Sheriff for Hants
John Humphrey, Esq., Alderman of the City of London, and M.P.
for the Borough of Southwark
The Mayor of Newbury
George Adam, Esq., White Lion-court, Cornhill
James Henry Attwood, Esq., Seymour-street, Portman-square
John Bagshaw, Esq , Director of the Northern and Eastern Railway
Joseph Brown, Esq., Director of the East and West of England
Junction Railway
Charles Baker, Esq., Southampton
James Beech, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place
Samuel Bova], Esq., Southampton
Samuel Swann Brittain, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Midland Junction, and East and West of England
Junction and Crewe Railways
W. E. Boyes, Esq., Banbury, Director of the Birmingham and Oxford
Railway
Robert Barbour, Esq., Manchester
George Barrett, Esq., Southampton
John Churchill, Esq., Bayswater, Director of the Manchester and
Birmingham Continuation Railway
C. R. Colman, Esq., Irongate Where; and General Steam Navigation
Company, Director of the South Midland Railway
William Chadwick, Esq., Chairman of the Richmond Railway
Samuel James Capper, Esq., Adelaide-place, London-bridge
F. F. Clossmann, Esq., Mincing-lane
George Dawson, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Mid-
land Junction Railway
William Dredge, Esq., Newbury, Berks, Alderman
Captain Farrington, R.N., West Cowes, Isle of Wight
William Henry Forman, Esq., Upper Thames-street
W. S. Fitzwilliam, Esq., Old Broad-street, Director of the Essex and
Suffolk Railways
Edward Farrow, Esq., Newbury, Director of Union Bank
Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad House,. Edgbaston, Director of the Man-
chester and Birmingham Continuation Railway
William Hill, Esq., Manchester
John Newington Hughes, Esq., Winchester
William Jaeomb, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the East and West
of England Railway
J. Kinloch, Esq., Gloucester-road, Hyde Park, Director of the North
Wales and the Newry and Enniskillen Railway
Edward Lomer, Esq., Southampton
James Lees, Esq., Deputy Chairman of Union Bank, Manchester
Captain James Patrick Macdougal, Brixton, Surrey, late Bengal
General Staff
Lewin Moseley, Esq., Banker, Liverpool
Captain George Probyn, Bryanston-square
John Clark Prescott, Esq., Manchester
David Price, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Leeds and Belton
Railway
N. M. Priaulx, Esq., of the South-Western Steam Packet Company,
Southampton
G. Parbury, Esq., Director of the East and West of England Rail-
way
William Watson Prole, Esq., Director of the Jersey Railway
William Langley Pope, Esq., Birchin-lane, and Woodford, Director
of the Falmouth and Exeter Railway
Clement Royds, Esq., Rochdale, Chairman of the Preston and Wyre
Railway
Major Selwyn, Royal Engineers, Director of the East and West of
England Junction Railway
Walter Shairp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, and Austin-friars,
Director of the Cobra Mining Company
Benjamin Shaw, Esq., Kilburn Priory, Director of the Dublin and
Kilkenny Railway
T. Bridge Simpson, Esq., Depuly Chairman of the Richmond Railway
Edmund Slocock, Esq., Newbury
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Director of the Commercial Bank of London
Robert Watkins, Esq., Director of the East and West of England
Railway
Edward Westlake, Esq., Southampton.

COMMITTER OF MANAGEMENT.
The Honourable Howe Brown, Chairman
James Henry Attwood, Esq., Deputy-Chairman
John Attwood, Esq., M.P,
John Masterman, Esq.
Sir John Pixie, Bart.
W. Hughes Hughes, Esq., Alderman
George Adam, Esq.
John Bageaw, Esq.
Joseph Brown, Esq. •
William Chadwick, Esq.
William Henry Forman, Esq.
Captain George l'robyn
Robert Watkins, Esq.
Joseph Underwood, Esq.
William Langley Pope, Esq.
BANKERS —Messrs. Masterman and Co., London
ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF—Joseph Locke, Esq.
ACTING ENGINEERS—Messrs. J. B. and E. Birch
SOLICITORS—John Bethel], Esq., 78, King William-street, London ;
at Southampton, Messrs. Sharp and Harrison
SECRETARY—John Dunlop, Esq.

The Deeds will lie for signature at the Company's Offices, No. 19,
uirrhin , ti•om Twelve till Four o'clock, every day until thrther
notice ;-laann; duplicate Deeds will lie tot-signature between the hours
of Eleven and Five o'clock, at the following Places :-
3tanchester,---00 Saturday, September 13, at Messrs. Houghland and
Leese's, King-street
Liverpool—On Monday, September 15, at Messrs. John Well sand Co.'s,
Royal Bank Buildings
reeds—On Tuesday, September 16, at Messrs.
Nirellbeloved and
Oastler's
Sheffield—On Wednesday, September 17, at Messrs. Garton and
Wright's
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Birm
broker.ingham—On Thursday, September 18, at Mr. Lute's, share.
On the execution of the Deeds the Scrip will be delivered.
By order, JOHN DUNLOP, Secretary.
19, "Urchin-lane, Cornhill, Sept. 12, 1845.

THE ------------------
OXFORD, SOUTHAAIPTCN, GOS-
PORT, AND PORTSMOUTH RAILWAY.
In answer to the mimerous applications still being made for Shares
in this Railway, notice is hereby given that the allotment was closed
OD ill* 6tll instant, and no further applications can possibly be received.
order, .1047 DrICLOP, pecav ar7.
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