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DIRECTORS IN FRANCE,

Due, d'Harcourt, President, pair de France, president du conseil
d'administration do Chemin de Fer de .Troyes a illentereau
Desrousseaux de Medrane, administrateur des Glaces de St. Quinn,
et ancien administrateur du Chemin de Fer du Nord
Petithne, chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur, ancien negotiant en
soieries
Reyna-n(l.de Barbarin, conseller a la Cour des Comptes, et ancien
edit' inistrateur du Chemin de Fer du Nord
Vie. de Itichemont, Depute, membre da Conseil-General de Let et
Garonne, aucien vice-president du Chemin do Fer du Nord
Andre Rocklin, Depute
Andre Rousselle, Jne., ancien chef de la rnaison Rousselle, Oncle
Neveux et Havard, administrateur du Chemin de Fer de Paris a
Strasbourg

Stourin, Depute, anrninistrateur du Chemin de Fer de Troyes a
Montereau
Due de Trevise, pair de France, chevalier d'honneur de S.A.R.
Madame la Duchesse d'Orleans, membre du Conseil-General de is
Seine, andel' administrateur du Chemin de Fer du Nerd
Lipron, Joe., Remoter, Assoc* de la maison Ligeron, Lambert,
Otiroy, et Comp., administrateur du Chemin de Fer de Paris a
Strasbourg

M. d'Arambint, Depute de Boulogne
William Massy Bevan, Esq, director of the Teurs and Nantes Railway
(Lefevre's)

DIRECTORS IN ENGLAND.
Sir Win. Magnay, Bart. Chairman.
Thomas H. Bluck, Esq. P. F. Clossman, Esq.
111;0,13 Hughes, Esq. Hon. Captain Hothain
Joseph Underwood, Esq. Henry Simonds, Esq.
David Wheatcroft, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq.
C. O. Archibald, Esq. John Webster, Esq.
ENGINEER IN CHlEF—Charles Vignoles, Esq.
BANKERS IN PARIS—M. M. Limon, Lambert, Offry, and Co.
BANKERS IN LONDON—The Commercial Bank ; London Joint-Stock
SoticiTOßS—Messrs. Reed and Robinson, 31, Moorgate-street.

This Company has been constituted in Paris by the active pro-
moters •,t' the well-known Decan's Company (for the Great Northern
:md Southern line), for the purpose of tendering for the lease of the
projected railway from Paris to Lyons.
_ _

It is confidently expected that 'the adjudication of the line will be
made in November next, so that, even if the Coirpany shonld not
succeed in obtaining the lease, the delay and loss of interest will
be trifling.

The short time, however, within which all the formalities must be
completed, renders it imperative that the subscription be closed in a
very few days ; therefore an early ap: lication must be made to en-
sure attention.

Applications for shares are to be addressed to the Solicitors, 31,
Moorgate•street, and must be made by tilling up and sending the
following printed form, without detaching It from this prospectus. _
Loudon, October 18, 1845.
To the Directors of the above-named Paris and Lyons Railway Com-

pany.
Gen tlemen,—l hereby subscribe for shares of 201. each in
the capital stock of the above Company, on the terms and conditions
set forth above. I undertake to accept that number of shares, or any
less number which may be apportioned to me, and to pay the deposit
thereon, and the future calls, to the extent of my liability, as above de-
fined ; and I also undertake to sign all necessary documents autho-
rising the execution, in my behalf of the" Acte de Societe," and bind-
mg me to conform to the statutes of the Company.
Christian and Surname In full
Usual Signature • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Profession or Calling... ......... • • Pla-e of Resic'en,e •• •• •• •• •• •• • • • • •.
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- 'tame and Address of 'Lei • • • • • • •

J. B. RAYNER, Secretary.
Offices of the Company, 46, 111o3rgate-street, Oct. 22, 1845.

3d. And that this meeting request the Committee to convene
meetings of the proprietors of the Bristol and Exeter Railway Com-
pany as early as possible, at such places and in such manner as The
Committee shall think expedient ; and to take such other measures
as the Committee shall deem advisable for effectuating the purposes
before mentioned. WILLIAM CROSS, Chairman.
The Committee appointed for carrying out the above resolutions
will be happy to receive communications from any shareholder;
and would earnestly impress upon the shareholders generally, who
may be prevented from attending the general meeting convened to
confirm the provisional agreement on the 7th of November, imme-
diately to apply to the Committee for the form of proxy (which will
be forwarded duly stamped), to enable the Chairman of this Com-
mittee to vote in their behalf at such meeting, it being necessary
that the proxy, in order to be effectual, should be lodged with the
Secretary of the Company, five days before the meeting.
The Committee would further urge upon each shareholder the ne-
cessity of his personal attendance at the meeting of the 7th of No-
vember, and that in the interim he should immediately forward to
the Secretary of this Committee a statement of each shareholder's
name and address, and the number of shares, wholes or thirds, of
which he is the proprietor.

By order of the Committee,
HENRY BRITTAN, Secretary, 17, Small-street, Bristol.

TUNBRIDGE and RYE HARBOUR, DIKECI
RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Frederick Lawrence, Esq. Registered Projector.
Capital, 500,000/., in Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 2/. 2s. per Share
Temporary Offices, 94, Cheapside.
raovistostaL COMMITTEE.
Field-Marshal Lord Viscount Beresford, G.C.B. P.C. Bedgbury-
park, Kent
The Hon. James William King, Capt. R.N. Angley, Cranbrook
Thomas Law Hodges, Esq. Hemstead-park, Benenden, Kent
Alexander Beres-ord Hope, Esq. M.P. Bedgbury-park, Kent
Thomas Walton Roberts, Esq. Glastonbury, Kent
Capt. Michael Tweedie, Rolvenden, Kent
Edward Poynder, Esq., Oakfield-lodge, Hawkburst
George French, Esq , Rixden, Hawkhurst, Kent
Sackville Hhcips, Esq. Tongs-wo&I, Hawkhurst
Major Curteis, Lcasham-house, Rye
Thomas Twisden Ho ,gee, Esq. Saudgate, Kent
Admiral J. Ayscough, Southampton
George Ballard, Esq. Sandhurst
John Bishop, Esq. Bodiain, Sussex
Henry Coe Coape, Esq. Goldhanger, Essex, director of the Man-
chester, Oxford, and Southampton Railway, &c.
IV. H. Collis, Esq. Handsworth, Staffordshire, director of the Stafford
and Shropshire Junction Railway
John James Conway, Esq. Liverpool, director of the Dover and Bris-
tol Railway
Robert Cook, Esq. Gainsborough •
John Mercer Durrant, Esq. Theobald's, Hawkhurst, Kent
Thomas Mercer Durrant, Esq. Attwalers, Hawkhurst
Thomas 11. Evans, Esq. Mayor of Carnarvon, director ofthe London
and Holyhead Railway
John Hilder, Esq. Old-place, Sandhurst
Sir Wm. Bacon Johnston, Bart. Hilton, Aberdeenshire, director of
the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Railway
William Phillips Lamb, Esq. Ockham-house, Sussex, director of the
Dover and Bristol, and Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction
Railway
Rev. G. A. Lamb, D.D., Iden, Sussex
James Macmillan, Esq. Southampton, director of the Southampton,
Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railway
Thomas Gybbon Monypenny, Esq. Hole-park, Rolvenden, Kent,
director of the Dover and Bristol Railway
E. W. Morris, Esq. Pembnry, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, director of the
Great North and South Wales Railway
Francis Reeves, Esq. Delmonden, Hawkhurst
George Smith, Esq. the Lambs, Staffordshire
Robert Tooth, Esq. Swift's-place, Cranbrook, Kent
Wm. Bestow Esq. 20, Surrey-place, London, director of the Com-
mercial Life Assurance Company, and Worcester, Warwick, and
Rugby Railway
Robert Bestow, Esq. Surrey-place, London, director of the Com-
mercial Life Assurance Company, and Worcester, Warwick, and
Rugby Railway
J. Benson, Esq. Park-place-villas, Maida-hill West, director of the
Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway
Thomas Ferrand Dearden, Esq„ Rochdale
John Blunt, Esq. director of the Lond n Docks Company, and Great
Eastern and Western Railway
Alfred Bush, Esq. Queen-square, Bath, director of the Great North
and South Wales and Worcester Rahway
Captain F. Chamier, Malkin-street Belgrave-square, director of the
Hazebronk and Fampoux Railway
M. Clements, Esq. 69, Lowndes-square, director of the Great Leeds
and Loudon Direct Railway
Henry Cornfoot, Esq. 6, Copthall-court, director of the Commercial
Bank of London
Miles Dormer, Esq. 51, Ham-place, Sloane-street, director of the
Great Welsh Central, Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth, South-
end and Eastern Counties Junction
Edward Evans, Esq. Stones-end, Borough, director of the Commer-
cial Life Assurance Company
D. T. Johnson, Esq. Aidermary-churchyard, director of Remington's
Direct Manchester Railway
A. M'Moran, Esq., Cambridge-street, Hyde-park, director of the
Grantham, Nottingham, Leicester, and Soth Midlands Junction
Major-General Parlby, C.D., Rutland -gate, Hyde-park, director of the
London and Manchester Railway
James W. Peppercorn, Esq. Old Broad-street, director of the Haze-
brouk and Fampoux Railway
R. M. Preece, Esq. Lothbury, and 24, Park-square
James Reeves, Esq.Leyton, director of the South Midlands Junction,
and Direct London and Manchester Railway
Francis noose, Esq. Upper Montagu-street, Montagu-square
James Russell, Esq. Gloucester-place, Portman-square, director of
the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton and Tring,
Reading, and Basingstoke Railways
James Saying, Esq. Great Dover-street, Borough
Edwin Smith, Esq. 51, Great Ormond-street, director of the Avon and
Severn Railway
John Taylor, Esq. Hoxton, director of the West-End and Southern
Counties Railway
Thomas Wakefield, Esq. director of the Dover and Bristol Railway
(With power to add to their number).
BANKER—Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury.
ENGINEERS—Francis Giles, Esq. and Alfred Giles, Esq.
STANDING COUNSEL.—FrariCIS Barrow, Esq.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street,
London.
LOCAL AGENTS.
•
Messrs. Willis and Neve, Cranbrook
Mr. John Elliot Wilson, Cranbrook
Messrs. Beecham and Upperton, Hawkhurst
SECRETAET—E. A. Lamb, Esq.
PROSPECTUS.
This line will pass in a direct course from Tunbridge, via Paddock-
wood (dins connecting itself with Maidstone), through the parishes
of Brenchley, Horsmonden, Goudhurst, Cranbrook, Benenden
Hawkhurst, Sandhurst, Rolvenden, Newenden, Northiam, Peas: marsh, Beckley, Iden, and Playden, to the town and harbour of
Rye, and it will embrace a large extent of adjacent country, at pre-
sent impr y
ovi
transit. tled with, and much requiring the admitted advantages
railwa
The length of the line will be about twenty-five miles, a great
portion of it will pass through a level country, and the remaining
part is free from any material engineering difficulty, or works likely
to require any serious outlay, and it is not expected to be necessary
to Interfere with any re -idences or ornamental property.
The sav,ng of distance to Rye, and all the other places embraced
by this line, will be considerable.

The capital required is eatiatated not to exceed 500,000/.
During the last session of Parliament application Wfts made for
a similar line, pfirtiaLy embracing the same country, when it
was shown in detail, by evidence produced before the
Committee,
that the 'contemplated traffic, afterdeducting 401. per cent. for work-
log expenses, wculd leave a large per tentage upon the invested
capital. That line was rejected en the ground that the best direc-
tion had not been selected, but with an intimation that the port of
Rye was e .titled to a direct railway communication with the inte-
rior of the country, in the best direction towards London. The pre-
sent scheme has been based upon this intimation, taking advantage
of the merits and defects which appeared upon that investigation,
and as it embraces a more populous and productive country, anti
passes in a more direct line to London, ang will have the benefit 01
better access to other and more numerous lines, the sources of traffic
are considerably increased, and there Is every reason to believe, front
what passed during the last session; that the present plan will be
favourably entertained by the Legislature.
railway
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itooo,,,:,dmeoii:ottooh e port of Rye to the full benefit
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of Rye,
and contemplated
particularly
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productiveitcadnisatrivactli
coals, with lime and other
manures, are of great importance to the Country through•which the
line will pass, and a cheaper and better mode of transit will much
increase the demand for them, and give the
oorortunity of great im-
provement veramirvat
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through
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at its terminus with a
Romney Marsh, must be a public advantage.
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The port a Rye is admitted
arts of the to be time best outlet
and quickest
to Paris and to other p Continent, and there can be
no doubt if a direct railway should be made to ltye, with moderate
improvement in the harbour, that it wo.dd be much adopted, as particti-
a national and commercial communication with F
cularl
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,
and byy
persons travelling on business.
Applications for shares and prospectuses to be addressed to the
Secretary, at
the offices, Messrs.
94, Cheapside ; essrs. Willis and
Nave, so •
lcitors, Cranbrook ; Mr. John Elliot Wilson, solicitor, Cranbrook ; or
toi Messrs. Beecham and Upperton, solicitors. Hawkhurst ; to the anti
following Brokers :—London Messrs. Peppercorns and
Messrs. Preece and Evans, Lothbury •
Co., 2, Old Broad-street;
1 Birchin-lane. Liverpool—lfessrs. Alston'
Messrs. Fryer and Co., ,
and Son; Mr. Joseph Brice, Mar,
and Gage; Messrs. Reynolds
John O'NI 1 Man_ ; Mr. - e .Leeds—Messrs
cheater—Mr. John
ear A. and C. 11 dshaws ; Messrs. Wellbeloved and Co. Bristol -
Messrs. Tate and Nash. Birmingham—Mr. James Pearson. Brad
a fOrd—Messrs. Samuel
William
Miles. Hutchinson and Co. W o —r. Villiant
Hall Brothers, and Co. Exeter—Mr.
Miles. Cheltenham—Messrs. ,
Easty and Sons. Edin
Thomas Sanford. Southampton—Messrs. _
e burgh—Mr. J. W. Lyon, 89, Georg-street ; Mr Robert Allen. Gies-
and Aitki
Messrs. Black and Co. ; 31essis. Buchanan s n.
gAlv—
erdeen —Mr. W. Gordon. Dublin—Messrs. Bruce and ymes,
T

UNBRIDGE and RYE HARBOUR DIRECT
RAILWAY. _

At an adjourned Meeting of landed proprietors and others locally
irterested in the above line, held at the Bull Inn, Cranbrook, Oc-
_.

toler 20,

T. L. 110DGES, Esq., in the Chair ;
was moved by the a n. Captain KING, and seconded by T. G

MONYPENNY, Esq., and carried unanimously;
" That a railway from Tunbridge, via Paddock-wood, to the town
and port of Rye, passing to or near the parishes of Brenchley, Hors-
monden, Goudhurst, Cranbrook, Bennenden, Hawkhurst, Sand-
hurst, Itolvenden, Yewenden, Northeain, Beckley, Peasemarsh,,lden,
"layden, and Guildford, is desirable."
was moved by A.J. B. HopE, Esq. M.P. and seconded by R.

TooTu, Esq., and carried ;
" That the line, as explained by Mr. Giles, passing to the north-
east side of the town of Cranbrook, is the best line to be adopted."
Moved by T. G. MONTPENNY, Esq.; and seconded by W. P. Lamb,

Esq.
" That the following gentlemen be added to the Provisional Com-
mittee :—The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Beresford, the Hon. Capt.
J. W. King. R.N. ; Thomas Law Hodges, Esq. ; Alexander James
Beresford Hope, Esq , M.P, ; Thomas Walton Roberts, Esq. ; Major
Curteis ; Captain Michael Twedle ; Sackville Phelps, Esq. ; George
French, jun., Esq.: Edward Poynder, Esq. ;'and Thomas Twisden
Hodge, Esq.

Lord Beresford having been called temporarily to the chair, the
thanks of the meeting were given to the Chairman, Thomas Law
Hodges, Esq. G. A. 14.318, Secretary.

CORNWALL AND DEVON CENTRAL
RAILWAY.
Notice Is hereby given, that the PARLIAMENTARY CONTRACT
and SUBSCRIBERS' AGREEMENT will LIE for EXECUTION,
between the hours of Ten and Four, on the days and at the places
following :
Torquay, TUESDAY, October 28th, at the Royal Hotel.
Plymouth, THURSDAY, October 30, at the Royal Hotel.
Oakhamptou, SATURDAY, November 1, at the White Hart.
Great Torrington, MONDAY, November 3, at the Globe Inn.
Barnstaple, TUESDAY, November 4, at the Golden Lion.
Soathmol:on, WEDNESDAY, November 5, at the George Inn.
By order,

L. CROMBIE, Interim Secretary.
63, Moorgate-street, London, Oct. 22, 1845.
D IRECT BIRMINGHAM, OXFORD, READ-
ING, AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY.
A meeting of the Committee of Management was held this day,
at which the acting engineers reported that the plans, surveys, and
sections are in such a state of forwardness as to leave no doubt
whatever that all the requirements of the standing orders will be
complied with in ample time for the ensuing session of Parliament ,
and also, that the line will he strongly supported by the landed
interest. By order,

BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY.
At a meeting of proprietors of the Bristol and Exeter Rail-
way Company, held at the offices of Mr. Henry Britton, No. 17,
Small-stre,t, Bristol, on the 21st of October, 1845, convened for the
purpose of taking into consideration the provisional agreement en-
tered into between the Directors of the above Company and the
Directors of the Great Western Railway Company, for the sale to
the latter of the Bristol and Exeter Railway, and adopting such reso-
lations thereupon as might be deemed advisable,
Mr. WILLIAM CROSS in the Chair,
It was Resolved,—lst. That this meeting, looking at the past half-
yearly reports, especially the last two, made by the Directors of the
Bristol and Exeter Railway Company to the proprietors of that Com-
pany—at the present receipts--and the gradually increasing traffie
upon the Bristol and Exeter Railway, with the proQpect of a still
, much greater traffic from its various branches and the already
I formed Sonth Devon and projected North Devon and Cornwall lines,
and also at the value of the shares which the Bristol and Exeter
Company possesses in the former two lines—and at the same time
making every allowance for the disadvantage of a possible competing
line direct from London to Exeter (estimated by the Great Western
Company itself at I.i per cent.)—cannot but consider the provisional
agreement made by the directors of the Bristol and Exeter Railway
Company, for the sale of their railway and effects to the Great
Western Railway Company, as a most improvident bargain, highly
detrimental to the interests of the shareholders in the former under-
taking, and involving an unjustifiable sacrifice of the property of the
Bristol and Exeter Railway Company, to which the proprietors of
that company ought not to submit or assent ; and that measures be
forthwith adopted to ascertain the sense of the proprietors in general
upon the matter, and if they shall concur in opinion with this meet-
ing, to ensure their co-operation in preventing the confirmation of
that agreement.
2d. That for these purposes a Committee be formed, consisting of
the following gentlemen :
Mr. J. S. Tripp
Mr. C. F. Dando
Mr. C. F. Thornley Mr. J. Prowse
Mr. Thomas Lucas Mr. Thos. Seccombe.
With power to add to their number; and that Mr. Henry Britten be
requested to act as the secretary and legal adviser of the Com-
mittee.