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London, England, 1845-10-13 00:00:00

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE,

Lord Stephen Chichester, Ormead, Minim, Ireland, and St. Alban's-
place, Regent's-park
The Hon. Howe Browne, Chairman of the Manchester andi
Birmingham Continuation Railway
John Attwood, Esq., M.P., Park-lane, Hyde Park, Director
of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway 5 ,
John Mastennan, Esq., Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street, banker -4, 2
Sir John Piric,Bart., Alderman of the City of London, Director E
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of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Pocket Company A
William Hughes Hughes, Esq., Alderman of the City of London, .5 g
late M.P. for Oxford, and late High Sheriff for Hants ri
James Henry Attwood, Esq., Seymour-street, Portman-square g
George Adam, Esq., White Lion-court, Conthill "4 2
John Bagshaw, Esq., Director of the Northern and Eastern r

Railway •
Joseph Drown, Esq., Director of the East and West of England

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Junction
William Chadwick, Esq., Chairman of the Richmond Railway
William Langley Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex, Director of the
Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
Captain George Probyn, Bryanston-square
Robert Watkins, Esq., Director of the East and West of Eng-
land Railway
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Director of the Commercial Bank of

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London,
B. W. Ap;in, Esq., solicitor, of Banbury
Barnes Atn. tin, Esq., brewer, of Banbury
Henry Breadwood, Esq., M.P., Whitehall
The Hon. George Browne, Lowndes-square, Belgrave-square
Sir Wm. Wynne, 5, Suffolk-street, Pail-mall, Chairman of the North
Wales Railway, and Director of the Oxford, Southampton, and
Portsmouth Railway -
Capt. Burney, R.N., Gosport
H. C. Burney, LL.D.. Gosport, Director of the Manchester and
Rugby Direct Railway
Louis Buckland; Esq. Avenue-road, Regent's Park
George Bovill, Esq., Esq.,
Poplar
John Barnes, Req., Charley Wood, Bucks
R Berman, Esq., Donnington
James Brand, Esq., Tulse-hill
Joseph Brook., Esq., Greenhead, Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds

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and Dewsbury 'Railway
W. Black, Esq., 19, Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Director of the
Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway, and Italian and Austrian
Railway Company
W. Bland, Esq., Brixton, Director of the North Wales Railway
W. Bevan, Esq.. 48, Conduit-street, Bond-street, Director of the

North \Vales 31ineral Railway
John Bloor, Esq., Tetbury, Director of the Derby, Gainsborough,
and Great Grimsby Junction, and other Railways
Wm. Edward Boyes, Esq., Alkerton, Banbury
Samuel Swann Brittain, Esq., Sheffield
Henry Broadwood, Esq., M.P., Whitehall
Josiah Brunt, Esq., Leek
William Edward Boyes, Esq., Alkerton, Blanbury
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Direct Western
Railway
Thomas Chadwick, Esq., Bedford-lodge, Harlington
Thomas Challis, Esq., Alderman of the City of London
E. Chapman, Esq., Strand, Director of the Richmond Railway
J. Chapman, Esq., Leadenhall-street, Director of the Devon and
Cornwall Railway
Robert Charles, Esq., 23, Endslcigh-street, Tavistock-square, Direc-
tor of the Manchester and Rugby I)irect Railway
John Churchill, Esq., Bayswater, Director of the Manchester and
• Birmingham Continuation Railway
John Naylor Clayton, Esq., Kippax, near Pomfret, Yorkshire
G. Colquhoun, Esq., Director et the Worcester aad South Wales
Railway
Robert Cook, Esq., 31. D., Gainsborough
J. D. Cooper, jun., Ashbourne, De:byshire, Director ofthe Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction, and the Nottingham, Bir-
mingham and County Junctions
James Constantine, Esq., Manchester
P. W. Courtenay, Esq., Temple
Francis Critchlon, Esq., of Mayfield, Stafford
J. A. Dixon, Esq., Baruley
William Dredge, EsQ., Newbury
John Davenport, Esq., Westwood Hall. near Leek
James D. De Vitre, Esq., Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square
Samuel Davie.a, Esq., Exeter, Director of the Exeter, Yeovil and
Dorchester, Exeter and Exmouth, and the Taw Vale Railways
Geo. Dunsons, Esq., near Sheffield
Colonel George Disbrow e, Chester-square, London
J. B. East, 99, Eaton-square, Pimlico
Sir James Eyre, Brook-street. Grosvenor-square
Edmund Alderson Fawcett, Esq., 1, Huggin-lane, Wood-street, and
of Derby
James Fearnley, Esq., Longsight Abbey, near Manchester
J: P. Firnestone, Esq.
H. V. Firnestone, Esq., Lass ironworks, Stourbridge
Colonel Fitch, Managing Director of the York and Lancashire
Frederick Solly Floor, Esq., St . John's-lodge, Alpha-road, Regent's-
park
William Tulloch Fraser, Esq., Manchester-square, Director of the
Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
Samuel Haines, Esq., Ched House, Edgbaston, near Birmingham,
Director of the East and West of England, and Birmingham and
South Staffordshire Railways
William Halliday, Esq., merchant, Chad-valley, Edgbasten, Director
of the Lichfield and Birmingham Railway
John Smith Hamp, Esq., near Burton
John Ramp, Esq , Calton Farm, near Burton
William Harrington, Esq., Woodvale House, West owes
Richard Heaviside, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton
Railway
Trophimus Hodges, Esq., 65, Connaught-terrace, yde-park, Direc-
tor of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
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
John Madland, Esq., Banbury
J. Hudson, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester Railway
John Newhegton Hughes, Esq., Wiechester.
John Humpli:ey, Ese., M.P., Alderman of the City of London
William Jacomb, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the East and West
of England Railway
Jerdine, Esq., Piccadilly
Henry Judson, Esq., Richmond villa
Charles Kelson, Esq., Teigivaouth, Devon, Director of the East and
West of Englanti Railway
T. Knill, Esq., Thames-street, Director of the Worcester and South
'Wales Railway
W. Knott, Esq., 4, Adelaide-place, Director of the Richmond Railway
Thomas Ridley, Esq., M.D., Sheffield, Director of the Great Western
Railway Company
John Kinlock, Esq., 21, Gloucester-road, Hyde Park-gardens, Director
of the Newry and Enniskillen Railway, and the Great Britain Life
Assurance Company
Sir Gregory A. Lewin, 32, Upper Harley-street
Captain J. 11. Leckie, Richmond, Surrey
J. D. Lowden, Esq., Doughty-street, Director of the Richmond
Railway
Captain. J. P.3lacdomial, late of Bengal Staff
Sir Wm. Magnay, Bart., Alderman of London
William Morley, Esq., Bl:okhead-park, Deputy Chairman of the
Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation Railway
Robert Mutrie, Esq., merchant, 93, Watling-street,
John Malleson, Esq., Wimbledon, Surrey
G. Miller, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct
Railway
N. 31.`Cann, Esq., 50, Parliament-street, Director of the Manchester
and Rugby Direct Railway
Wm. Nash, Esq., Chairman of the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings
Railway
Wm. Nicholson, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct
Railway
James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Salford, Director of the Chester and Man-
chester Direct Railway
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the East and West
of England Railway
Apsley Peilatt, Esq., Director of the Staines and Richmond Railway
S. Phillips, Esq., Director of the Whitchaven and Fumes" Railway
Perks, solicitor, Burton-on-Trent
W. S. Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex
W, S. Pother, Esq., Gresham Club
Frederick Ramsdell, Esq., Seymore House, Manchester, Director
of the Birkenhcai and Holyhead Junction Railway
W. H. Richardson, Esq., Chapel, Southampton
Captain Louis Augustus Robinson, Rolleson-villa, near Burton
da,
eojr Leeds Direct
'a Selwyn,and wyclit of England Junction
Geo. Rougemont, Esq., 9, Chester-terrace, Regent's-park, Director
of the North London Junction Railway
Laura-place, Bradford, Director of the Liver-
Thpool Railway, and the Keighley, Huddersfield and
sioEnsclß.'ail way
Engineers,kfa
Exeter, Direc-
tor the Royal
Major Charles T. Selwyn, of the Royal Engineers, Exeter, Director
of the East and West of England Railway
H. R. Seymour, Esq. 19, Montagu-place
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Christopher Shapland,' Esq., Bristol, Director of the Bristol and
Gloucester, South Devon and Cornwall Railway
Walter Shairp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Director of the
Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
Sydney, Esq., Alderman of the city of London
T. Bridge Simpson, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the :mo
Railway
The Rev. John Sneyd, itasford Hall. near Leek
Join Squire, Esq., Leek
Sara; el Sangster, Esq., Brixton-hill, Director of the City Gas Corn-
paay, and the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
Sir William Massey Stanley, Bart., Hooton• hall, Cheshire
John Stewart, Esq., M.P. for Lymington, Director of the East and
West of England Railway
Joseph Shrw, Esq., Huddersfield
Joseph Thompson, Esq., John-street, Bedford-row, Director of the
London and Brighton Railway
Thomas Tomlinson, of Bradley Pastures, near Ashborne
Caleb Trotter, Esq., College-green, Gloucester
Thomas Varley, Esq., Shorsttn Hall, Mallon
John Vaughan, 26, Austin-friars
Rev. Richard Ward, Calton, near Leeds
Daniel Watney, Esq., Wands orth,
William Walker, Esq., Lea Wood Mattock, Derbyshire
S. Watkins, Esq., Forrest NM. near Worksop
C. D. W, Westlake, Esq., Southampton
James Atkinson West, Esq., Western-lodge, Durham, Director of
the Northumberland and Lancashire Junction
Railway •
Charles Fenton Whiting, Esq., Beaufort-house, Strand, Director of
the Richmond Railway
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the Erewesh Valley Railway
11 Williams, Esq., banker, 4, Whitehall, Director of the Manchester
and Rugby Direct Railway
Andiew Jukes Worthington, Esq., Leek
Edward Woolmer, Esq., Mayor of Exeter
(With power to add to their number).

BANKERS.
Mesrrs. Masterman and Co, London
The Union Bank, Manchester
Sommos--Jobn Bethel", Esq., 78, King Wlll'am•street, London

• CONSULTING ENGINEER.
ENGINEERS.
Messrs. Rice and 1 homas Hopkins, M.1.C.E.;
and John Belcher, Esq.

SECRETARY.

This Company is formed for making a railway from Liverpool to
Derby, and will, in conjunction with the Manchester and Rugby
Direct, and London and Birmingham Railways, form the nearest
route from Liverpool to London. It will commence at Liverpool, and
proceed along the Liverpool and Manchester Railway to within a
short distance of the Whiston Inclined Plane, and thence branch off,
in a south-easterly direction, through Warrington, Knutsford, and
Congleton to Leek (there joining the Manchester and Rugby Rail-
way), and from thence through Ashbourne to Derby. The whole
length of the proposed line will be about sixty-=lx miles. It will be
seen by reference to the map that this important line of railway will
form the shortest route from Liverpool to London, and effect a direct
chain of communication bets: eels Liverpool and Derby, and will
thence, by means of the Midlands and other railways, open an unin-
terrupted route to the more eastern counties, and afford a complete
midland communication between the eastern and western parts of
the kingdom and the important intermediate manufacturing districts.
The most important feature in this railway is that it forms the
shortest road from Liverpool to London. The distance by it, with the
Manchester and Rugby, and London and Birmingham, will he only
188 miles, whereas by the present route it is 210 miles, and by the
Trent Valley Railway 2001/i miles ; effecting a saving of 22 miles ii
one instance, and 121 h miles in the other.
And as regards Liverpool and Derby, the whole distance between
Liverpool and Derby will be reduced by this line to about 74 miles,
thus decreasing the distance by any present existing railway, at least
46 miles; an advantage which carries in itself the conviction of the
necessity there is for the proposed railway, in order to connect more
immediately two such important towns, especially when these towns
ale but the foci, as it were, for other railways from still more distant
localities, as before adverted to.
The distance also ;rem Manchester to Leek (where the proposed
railway will unite with the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway)
will be about 30 miles, and from Leek to Derby about 261
snaking the whole distance from Manchester to Derby only 5614
miles ; and thus diminishing the distance by any present communi-
cation between those important towns by about 28 miles, an object
most desirable to be attained, and of itself quite sufficient to recom-
mend a line of railway embracing such beneficial results.
But great as these results most certainly will be, they are far out-
weighed by the very important consideration that, in conjunction
with the Manchester and Rugby Direct Rails% ay, it will also be the

most direct route from Liverpool to Lor.don.
The distance from Liverpool to Leek (the proposed point of junc-
tion with the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway) is 4714 mike;
from Leek to Rugby, according to the line as proposed by the Man-
chester and Rugby Direct Railway, 58 miles, and from Rugby to
London 83 miles; thus'making the whole distance from Liverpool to
London 188% miles, instead of 210, by the present route.
With regard to the traffic and other details connected with the
working of the line, it seems only necessary to revert to the great
importance of the towns proposed to be brought into communication
with each other, in orderto convince the minds of all that the source
of revenue thus derived will be immense.
There are no engineering difficulties connected with the forming of
the line.
The deeds will 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 Act to allow 41. per cent]
interest on all calls.
Applications for, detailed prospectuses, maps, and shares, may
be made to tha Secretary, at the offices, 28, Moorgate-street,
at Mr. Bethel's Offices, 78, King William-street, City, London;
and at 22, Cross-street, Manchester, and the following Share-
brokers:--Messrs. R. Sutton, Gribble, and Sutton, 22, North
Side, Royal Exchange, London; George Burnand, Esq., C., osrnll%.iiallct
Messrs. Balclay, Allsop, and Co., Royal Exchange; 3 i-
-siteinjcileilagnsdtrLee.ta7Nelnacjiee,h3esB;.erC;ollisi,ilrs;. 33117rsrish.,1111,0To
Manchester;abland and Lease,
John Wills, Esq., Royal Bank- builEddingwars, Liverpool ;
Messrs. Wcllbeloved Oastler, Leeds;
3lessrs. ds ad
and W. H. Land, Esq., Bristol; J. It. Lane, Esq.. Birmingham;
messrs. Garton and Wright, Halifax; .T. G. Kershaw, Esq., Hud.
derslield; F. C. Speneer, Esq..
' co., Cheltenham ; Henry Beaumont and Co., Esetei ; R. P. Lemon,