The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY'

rill:1E WEST MIDLAND, MANCHESTERA
jl., AND SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY, AND SWINDON AND
Br it:HINGHAM JUNCTION,
Being an extension of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,200,0001., in 60,000 shares of 2Gissei. .
Deposit 2d 2s. per share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.
Lord.Gecesge Paget, Uxbridge House
-Magri Beresford, M.P. •
William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid-
land; and Director of tne South and Mellands"Junction Railways
Richard Price, Esq., M.P., Director of the Welsh Midland, and
Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways
David R. Ross, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Belfast, Director of the
London and Manchester, and South and Midlands' Junction Rail-
ways
Sir John E. De Beauvoir, Bart., Chairman of the London and Bir-
mingham Extension, and Director of the South and Midlands'
Junction Railways
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire, Director
of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Herta, Director of
__the Chester and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junc-
tion Railways
Sir William Wynn, Maesynewadd, Chairman of the North Wales,
and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways -
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, Director of the Direct Western
Railway
Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London, Director of the London
and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
Sir William Tws-sden, Bart., Director of the Chepstow and Forest of
Dean Railway
William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., Sec., Alderman of Lon-
don, Chairman of the Manchester mid Birkenhead Continuation,
and London and Greenwich Railways, !cc. &c.
Thomas Sydney, Esq. Alderman and Sheriff of London, Director of
the London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' June-
tion Railways
Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the Lon-
don and Westminster Bank, and Namur and Liege, and South and
Midlands' Juriction Railways
John Kinnersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the
London and Manchester Direct, and South anti Midlands' Junction
Railways
Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South and
Midlands' Junction Railways
Donald Maclean, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Trent Valley Con-
tinuation, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
Major Oliver Lindam, K.H., Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberys-
twine and Central Wales, and Director of the South and Midlands'
Junction Railways
Major-General Pariby, C. 8., Rutland-gate, Director of the Worces-
ter and Crewe, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Captain James Patrick Macdougal, late Bengal Royal G. neral Staff,
Fir-grove, North Brixton, Director of the Chester and Forest of
Dean, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways, Sec.
Captain Alexander Hamilton Carle, Royal Artillery, Reform Club
John James, Esq., Secondary of the City of London, Director of the
Legal and Commercial Insurance Company, the Great Western of
Bengal, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Robert Henry Lyndam, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth
Railway
Major Jelf Sharp, Deputy-Chairman of the Thames Embankment
Railway
Richard William Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Man-
chester, and Derbyshire and South Staffordshire Railways
William Fechney Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Direc-
tor of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
Peter Morrison, Esq., Managing Director of the Britannia Life Insu-
rance Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway - --
James Clay, Esq., Brompton, Director of the Furness and White-
haven, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Col. Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, Director of the London and
Birmingham Extension, and South and Midlands' Junction Rail-
ways
William Shaw, Esq., Director of the Thames. Embankment, Manag-
ing Director of the Farmers' Life Insurance Company, and Di-
rector of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Richard Carpenter, Esq , Magistrate of the County of Middlesex,
Deputy-Chairman of the Loudon and Birmingham Extension, Di-
rector of the Leicester and Bedtord, and South and Midlands'
Junction Railways
G. W. Killett Potter, Esq., Secondary of the City of London
Lieut.-General Sir Lewis Grant, K.C.8., 31, Harley-street
John Jennings, Esq., Elm-grove, Hammersmith
William S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Director of the
Oxford, Witney and Cheltenham, and South and Midlands' Junc-
tion Railways
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., 8, Upper Hyde-park-street
William Singleton, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds,
and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of the Britannia Life Insurance
Company, and Derby and Stafford, and South and Midlands' Junc-
tion Railways
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manchester
• and Birmingham Railway
Daniel Penton Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Munches-
' ter Railway
Richard Parish, Esq., Bank House, Wordsley, Staffordshire
Samuel Parish, Esq., Wordsley, near Stourbr dge, Staffordshire
John Anderson, Esq., E.1.C.5., Director of the Church of England
L fe Insurance, and South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Henry Lewis Smale, Esq., Willoughby House, Tottenham, Director
of the London and Dover, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
Jaires Reeves, Esq , Director of the London and Manchester Direct,
and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
John Cash, Esq.
Henry Wright, Esq.; Brunswick-square, Director of the Warwick
and Wereester,'and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
John Casteulick, Esq., Lewishain
Robert Richards, Esq., Inner Temple, London, Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
George R. Gelman, Esq., Director -of the South and Midlands' Juac-
tion, and Northampton and Banbury Railways
William Paxton; Esq., Langford, near Bicester, Director of the South
anti Midlands' Junction Railway •
William Bardgett, Esq., Winchester House, Broad-street, Director
of the Itallan,and Austrian, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways •
W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Con-
titillation Railway
John Blackburn, Esq , Leeds
Peter Fairbairue, Esq., Leeds, Vice Chairman of the Leeds and York
Railway
J. 1). Hopkins, Esq., Bedford-square, Director of the _London and
Birmingham Extension Railway
Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Old Palace, Richmond
James Ditrness, Esq., Leytonsione, Essex
(I. N. Wright, M.A., Coed Culp), Denbighshire, and LonsJale-square,
Islington
'Stephen Lewis, req., Director of the South Wales Railway
Martin Furness, Esq., Director of the xowark and Sheffield Railway
William Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Lincoln, York and
Leeds Railway
Edmund ?hillips, F.sq., Avon House, Malkshain, Wilts, Director of
the South and Midlands Junction Railway
Charles Thomas Ward, F.sq., Luton Hoo, Beds, and Clopton House,
Stratford-on-Avon, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
Joseph Brook, Esq., Greenhead, Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds,
Dewsbury, and Manchester, and Huddersfield and Sheffield Junc-
tion, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
George Henry Brook, Esq., Edgulin-lodge, Huddersfield, Provisional
Director of the Huddersfield, Halifax and Bradford Union Rail-
way, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Itallwdy
Captain Hitchins, H.E.1.C.5., Queen Anne-street, Cavendish-square,
James Beech, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place, and Brandon Lodge, near
Coventry, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Rail-
way
William Watson Prole, Esq., Thnrloe-square, Brompton, Director of
the Jersey, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Thomas Cleobury, Esq., 39, Sackvtlle-street
Major Walker, K.H., Director of the London and Manchester Direct,
and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Frederick James Hall, Esq , Torrington-square, and A lfreton, Derby,
Director of the Trent Valley Continuation, and South and Mld-
lands'Junction Railways
J. R. W. Atkinson, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford, and
South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Joseph Underwood, Esq., The Hall, Blackheath, Director of the Me-
tropolitan Life Insurance Company, and Director of the London
and Birmingham Extension Company, and Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
W. A. Hill, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith and
Central Wales, and South stead Midlands' Junction Railways
William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Chairman
of the Church of England Life Insurance Company, and Director
of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Colonel Fitch,. York-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
Richard Dutton, Esq., Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Railway, Director of the Legal and Commercial Life Insurance
Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
Captain C. W. Tyndale, Director of the South-Eastern and South
and Midlands' Junction Railways
Frederick Jones, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Director of tho Warwick and
Worcester, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
John Englis Jerdeia, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester,
Rugby and Southampton Railway
William Morley, Esq., Blackheath
William Lee, Esq Director of the Gravesend and Rochester, and
Essex and Suffolk Railways
Thomas Gooch, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands'
Junction Railway
J. Harvey, Esq., Rush-hill, Surrey
John Wheelton, }Seq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
ThMnas Collingridge, Esq., Highgate, Middlesex
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands Junction
• Railway
C. Waite, Esq., Willesden, Middlesex
It. W. Wood, Esq., Lodge-place, St. Jo'in's Wood, Director of the
North Metropolitan Itallwey
William Slark, Esq., I)irecto, of the Guarantee Society-
Frederick Collingridge, Req., Thurlow-square, Brompton
Warren Stormea Hale, Esq. Gresham-street, Director of the Oxford
amid Worcester Extension
Kingsmill Grove Key, Esq. .
Thomas Yates Hunt, Esq., tirades, near Birmingham
Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds, Director of the West Riding Junction, and
South-Midlands' Junction Railways
W. Lee, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square
Robert Power, Esq , M.D., Queen-street, May-fair
Admiral J. Ayscough, Prospect-place House, Southampton, Director
of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Joseph Thompson, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton and
South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Major Grubbe, Eastweli House, I'otterne, Wilts, Magistrate of the
County, and Director of the South and MidlandeJunction Railway
Captain Seth N. Fisher, Director of the Warwick and Worcester, and
South and Midlaeds' Junction Railways
T. G. Norbury, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continua-
tion, and south and Midlands' Junction Railways, and of the Legal
and Commercial Life Insurance Company
William Hallett, Esq., Kemp Town, Brighton, Director of the South
• and Midlands' Junction Railway
John Brock° Walbasicke, Esq., Directo: of the South and Midlands'
Junction Railway
Captain Hamilton Earle, Royal Artillery -
William Lee, Esq., Director of the Read( .g Railway
Henry Savage, Esq , Dorset-place, Dorset-square
William T. Thornton; Esq., Berkeley-street, Portman-square
John Dennis, -Esq., Director of the E rewash Valley Extension Railway
Joseph Crockett, Esq , Alderman of Devizes, and Director of the
North Wilts Banking Company, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
John lielbert Holbert, Esq., Gloucester-place, London, Director of
the Leicester and Birmingham Itailvvay
Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Lianrothel, Herefordshire
Thomas Chitty, Esq., Gower-street, London, Director of the Rugby
and Worcester Railway
William Pepperconie, Esq., London, and Bexhill, Sussex
Captain T. Hodges, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park, Director of the
Leeds and Carlisle Railway
F. Duffield, Esq., Bolton House, near Bradford
Rev. F. R. Hall, D.D., Rector of Fultiourne, Cambridge
John Barnett, Esq., Coroner for the County of Gloucester, Director
of the Oxford and Cheltenham Railway
William Spooner, Esq., . Chapel-street, liclgrave-square, Director of
the Newcastle and Liverpool Railway
Alexander Prince, Esq., 14, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Director of the Bar-
net North Junction Railway
James Lees, Esq., Deiph, Saddleworth, near Manchester, Director of
the Saddleworth Banking Company •
(With power to ad:: to their number).
BANKERS—The Commercial Bank of London.
CONSULTING ENGINEER —Sir John Maenell, LL.D., F.R.S.
Aerrsea ENGINEER—WiIIiams Mullingar Higgins, Esq., C.E.
SoLterroa—Ws B. James, Esq., 5, Ilasinghall-street.
LOCAL AGENTS.
It appears that England will be divided longitudinally by four great
Inee of railway, which will become so many main trunks, intersec-
Mg and intersected by numerous lines, both transverse and oblique,
opening rapid and readyCoinnumication wrth the intermediate dis-
tricts, with packet stations, and with sea-port towns. The more
easterly of these, which is also the longest, originating at Newcastle-
upon- Tyne, and passing through York, Peterborough, and eambridge,
may be said to terminate in London, whence all places are accessible.
The Second line, counting westward, is more tortuous, and has also
a common northern terminus with the preceding, by which its ad-
vantages are materially restricted. This line, descending the Ere-
wash Vale, and passing through Rugby and Oxford, becomes a Soutia-
ampton Rue by falling into the South-Western Railway at Basing-
stoke

(active In design than the preceding ; employing the steep and narrow
railway called the Birmingham and
Gloucester as its first link, It
Tlie third longitudinal line, er the most westerly,
la still more de-
traverses nearly In a right line the least populous and most undulating
. _ ~..
_,
parts ot Gloucester, Berks, Wilts, and Haute; atul,properlY sPealtmg
has no Independent terminus.
A large longitudinal section of the kingdom—the West Midland
district—,a district inviting a similar species of accommodation Crum
concentrated local advantages, still remains unprovided with a chief
trunk. line ; and It is contemplated to remedy this deficiency by the
present undertaking, or a fourth longitudinal line.
Adopting Birmingham as a northeni terminus of the 'West Mid-
land, Manchester, and Southampton Railway, it is proposed to carry
a line through or near to Stratford-on-Aron, thence between Moreton,
merge in the Soot qtthheapirepe..MiddiaiihiMs'
W.iitihnehteloantelteaitlfrixat;.'inile.
stow, Northieach, Fairford, Crieklade, and Swindon where it will
and the
district traversed by it is gently undulating and densely 'pled. At
its southern terminus, Swindon, it becomes identical with the South
and Midlands, by means of which it opens a moot direct communica-
tion hitherto suggested with the harbours of Weymouth, Christ-
Poole, and Siuthampton. At its northern terminus,
Bir-
It communicates with a series of lines, projected, in pro_
church,mihsh m
a,
pro-
gress, or completed, which will form the most direct line that can
ever be constructed between the southern ports of England and the
• •
great Man*acturing distries. - - r •
In..thit .4111411. 5.1.11 M A,,h4. e West

to Southampton Railway project, a combination of advantages pre-
sents itself—the result of a design, to a great extent, but of contin-
gencies also. If it be desirab;e that the terminus of every railway
shoulll be situated'ar some commercial or populous place, in this re-
spect the present project is peculiarly fortunate. If Government be
resolved on countenancing the shortest and most direct lines, it
will be seen, by laying a rule on the map of England from Salisbury
to Manchester, that a course due north and south between these
places will pass very nearly through the towns mentioned in this
prospectus, as being on the proposed line ; and actual measurement
has shown this line to be the shortest between Southampton and
Manchester by 26 miles.
By the construction, therefore, of little more than 60 miles of
rail, as here proposed, the shortest, most direct, and convenient
communication between Manchester and Southampton will be es-
tablished —a line, also, however superior in position to others pro-
mising similar advantages, may yet be considered as competing
with none, but as an independent work, originating at Birmingham
and terminating in the seaports of Weymouth, Christchurch, Poole,
and Southampton.
In the allotment of shares in this Company the Directors propose
to give a pri farsace to the original shareholders of thu South and
Midlands' Jui di at Railway Company.
Applications I): prospectuses and plans may be made, and forms
of application tor shares had, at the Office of W. B. James, Esq.,
Solicitor, 5, Ilasinghail-street ; and of the following gentlemen :
London—Messrs. J. Peppercorn and Co., 9, Old Broad-street; Mr.
J. B. Harrison, 8, Bank Chambers ; Mr. Thomas Hanbury, 4,
Angel-court.
Liverpool—Messrs. Mills and Co., and Messrs. Neilson.
Manchester—Messrs. Houghland and Leese, and Mr. William

Marshall.
Hull—Messrs Collinson and Flint.
Leeds—Messrs. Watson and Co

Stratford-on•Avon—Mr. William Bolton. .
gxeter—Mr. Thomas Sanford.
Plymouth—Messrs. Heyward and Pulmer.
Birmingham— Mr. Collis, and Mr. John Wright.

Glasgot;—Messrs Tassie and Co.
Edinburgh—Messrs. Robertson and Co., and Mn.e&s M'Callum
and Co.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

To the Provisional Committee of the West Midland, Manchester,
and Southampton Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me
Shires of 201. each in this Company, and I undertake to accept the
same, and to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that
may be allotted to me ; and I undertake also to execute the Parlia-
mentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
Name (in full) .• • .. • • •
Residence ••••••••••••••••
Trade or Profession • • • • .• • • • • • • • • • •
Address of Referee • • • • - • • • • • • • • • • .
Date

PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT.

NORTHERN COUN'FIES (ROSS, SUTHER.
.1.,1 LAND, AND CAITHNESS DIRECT RAILWAY.

To afford the very important division of the Kingdom the benefits
of railway communication, and to promote and stimulate the pro-
gressively increasing pastoral, agricultural, and commercial, improve-
ments, which of late years have made such rapid strides in these
counties, it is proposed to form, under the sanction of the most
influential patronage, a railway by the most direct practicable route,
to connect these northern and producing districts with the southern
and consuming portions of the empire.
Adopting the line which may be found the shortest to Dingwall
consistent with a due regard to economy in its execution and work-
ing, and to the rights and interests of private parties, and from Ding-
wall by Novar to Bonar-bridge, the distaz ce of the county of Suther-
land from Inverness would be many miles shorter than by any other
route. From Bonar the line would pass by Lairg, through the
valleys of the Brora and of the Erie, and by Strath ilelmsdale to the
Thurso water; thus nearly bisecting the county of Sutherland
through its length and passing into the most populous parts of
Caithness, diverging to the right and left to Wiek and Thurso.
A branch might be formed to connect the coast of Sutherland with
the trunk line.

In Ross-shire a branch would be formed from the main line to In-
vergordon, and this brunch might be extended to the burgh of Tain.
Arrangements are being made for having the lines (the courses of
which are but generally indicated above) carefully examined by ex-
perienced surveyors and engineers ; and as soon as data which may
be relied on have been matured, a full prospectus, with the names of
the promoters and Provisional Committee and detailed particulars,
will be published. .

Meantime communications from parties interested in the proposed
undertaking may: up to the Ist of October next, be addressed to
William Mackenzie, £sq., of Muirton, W.S., by Dingwall ; Hugh
limes Cameron, Esq., Provost of Dingwall ; G. S. Taylor, Esq.,
Golspie • Peter Wilson, Esq., W.S., Town Clerk of Wick ; M. Snody,
Esq., litirk ; or to Messrs. Cameron and Bain, 18, Parliament-
street, London.

FRENCH and SWISS JUNO fIUN
RAIL-
WAY, from MACON to GENEVA.
Capital, 60,000,000 f. (2,400,0001.) in Shares of 500 f. (201.) each.
Of which 25,000,000 fr. (1,000,000) are reserved for England.
Deposit 2!. per Share.
F2EI4ICII ADMINISTRATION.
Lieut.-Gen. Comte Colbert, Pair de France, Aid-de-Camp de S.A.R.
le Duc de Nemours, President
M. le Marquis de Boissy, Pair de France, Vice-President
M. James lazy, Meraibre du Grand Council Municipal de la Re-
publique de Geneve
31. Ernest Basset, Chevalier dela-Legion XHonneur, Chef du Secre-
tariat du Domain Prive du Rol.
M. Petry and 3.i. Desvoyes, .Adnainistrateurs des Chemins-de-Fer de
Tours i Nantes, and de Crell i St. Quentin
-M. Gilbert Coubayon, Chevalier de la Legion de Honneur, Admistra-
tenr du Chcmin-de-Fer de Paris a Lyons
31. T. Pernot, 4%.dminlstrateur du Chemin de-For de Creil it St.
Quentin.

DIRECT WESTERN RAILWAY
(Upon the Broad Gauge),
From Lonedaopintalti,t37oo(l;37oooodv'isls-.i,elinindalll;2yow,ReowithgistiDtellivarreeerdsg.in)of-;2Lsll.neaescato. Bath and
Bridgewater respectiTely.
Deposit, 2/. 12s. 6d. per Share.
.PHOVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., Director of the South Mid-
land Railway, Brookes' Club, St. James's-street
Sir Francis Dugdale Astley, Ban., Everly House, Pewsey, Wilts
Sir Henry Webbe, Bart., 105, Pall-mall
Frederick Hodgson, Esq., M.P. fir Barnstaple, 3, Carlton Gardens
!toward Elphinstone, Esq., M.P., 19, Eaton-place, London
Ralph Neville, Esq , M.P. for Windsor, Hill-street, Berkeley-square
Charles Barry Ballwin, M.P. for Totness, 6, Parliament-street
Hon. Percy Evans Freke, 3, Beigrave-square
jr
:Tn' Vaughan, Esq., 32, Grosvenor-place, London
, Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the
Sheffield and Manchester and Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
Companies
Williamh°mas NBurgaednites V:ig
Sir John Key, Bart 9, King's Arms-yard, Alderman of the City of
London, Director of the Direct Manchester and London and Direct
Liverpool and Leeds Railway Company
Thomas Earncomb, Esq., Griffin's Wharf, Tooley-street, Alderman
of the City of London, and Director of the London and Westmin-
ster Rank, and of the London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidder-
minster Railway
Thomas Challis, Esq., 32, Wilson-street, Finsbury, Alderman of the
City of Loudon
Edward Harrisson Barwell, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the North-
ampton, Banbury, and •Cheltenham Railway, and Director of the
South Midland Railway
Joseph Armitage, Esq., Min's Bridge House, Huddersfield, Deputy
Lieutenant and a Magistrate for the West Riding of Yorkshire,
Chairman of the 'Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
William Gordon Thomson, Esq., 33, Gloucester-road, Hyde Park,
Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham, and
South Midland Railways
Donald Maclean, Esq., 37, Brunswick-square, London, Deputy
Chairman of the Trent Valley Continuation Rally, ay
Thomas Lawrence, Esq., 3, Si. Mary Axe
Philip W. Courtney, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, London
Millis Coventry, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street
Barnet L. Philips, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, and
George-street, Mansion House
John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, Tunbridge, Kent, Director of
the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Boswell Middleton Jolland, Esq., Holderness House, near null,
Deputy Lieutenant and Magistrate for the East Riding of Yorkshire
Charles Robert Coleman, Esq., Irongate Wharf
William Eales, Esq., Mincing lane, London, late Director if the
Devon and Cornwall Banking Company
Charles Downes, Esq., Warwick-street, Charing-cross, Director of
the South Midland Railway
Martin Stutely, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park, London,
Director of the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine, and the South
Essex Railways
Francis Ede, Esq., 34; Great Winchester-street
John Griffith Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Director of the Londonderry
and Coleraine and the Londonderry and Enniskillen Railways
John Addis, Esq., Rotherhithe and Mark-lane, London, Director of
the Central Terminus Railway, and of the Licensed Victuallers'
Fire and Life Insurance Company
James Renshaw, Esq., Whitchart-court, Lombard-street, and West
Heath House, Er.th, Kent, Director of the South Staffordshire
Railway
Thomas Drane, Esq., Pall-mall, and St. Mary Church, Devon, Direc
tor of the Bridport and Exeter, and aoole and Doncaster Railways
nohort nramwell, Esa., Brembo Ironworks, Wrexham, and Cannon-
street, London .
H. G. Atkinson, Esq., Upoer Gloucester-place, Regent's Park
George 3Pliinish, Esq., 127, Seymour-street, Portman-square
Frederick Solly Flood, Esq., Alpha-road, Regent's Park, London
Major White, 105, Pall-mall, London, Director of the South Midland
Railway
Charles Bleaden, Esq., Coulsden-court, Surrey, Chairman of the Li-
censed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company
J. G. Hammack, Esq., Essex House, Mile-end-road, Director of the
Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company
Patrick Free. Johnston, Esq., Great Cumberland-place
Joseph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, Minories, Director of the London and
Blackwell Railway Company
W. D. Bruce, Esq., E.S.A., 17, Charles-street, St. James's, and Ripon
Cuthbert Woodstock, Esq.' Grove-road, North Brixton
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryansteae-street, Portman-
square, Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth, and
the Great Western Extension Railways
George Hammond Whalley, Esq., 30, Pall-mall, London, Assistant
Tithe Commissioner
William Hagan, Esq., 60, Baker-street, Portman-square
William Breynton, Esq., Montpelier, Cheltenham, and Temple, Len-
don, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth Railway
Richard Harris Purcell, Esq.,-" Cambridge-street, Hyde Park, Lon-
don, Director of the Wilts, omerset, and Southampton Railway
Company •
Philip Baker, Esq., Easton-square, London, Auditor of the London
and Blackwell Railway Company "
Charles James Heath, Esq., 6, London-street, Mark-lane
Captain E. N. Trowbridge, R N., 11, Eaton-square
Anthony Ridley, Eeq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury, a Director of the
St. Katherine's Dock Company
William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square
Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., Clopton House, Warwickshire, and
Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire
George Payne, Esq., Sulby Han, Northamptonshire, and Charles-
street, erkeley-square
James BeechrEsq., Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, and Grosvenor-
place, London
Nicholas Philpot Leader, Esq., Dromagh Castle, county Cork, Union
Club, Tratitigar-square,' Director of the Killarney Junction Rail-
way Company . .
Samuel Baker, Esq., Lyppiat Park, Gloucestershire, and London
William Congreve Russell, Esq.' Leamington, Warwicksuire, Dl-
rector of the Warwickshire and London Railway
henry Bradley, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire • -
John William Yerbury, Esq., Belcombe House, Wiltshire, Captain 3d
Light Dragoons
Robert Mau, Esq., Ravensbourne Park, Lewisham, and Trinity-
Square, London
Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsall House, Retford, Nottinghamshire
John Gillyatt Booth, Esq., Crouch Hall, Hornsey
Major-Gen. Martin White, Marlborough-buildings, Bath
Rev. T. Harvey Ashworth, Burlyns House, near Newbury, Berk*
Col. Burslem, Harwood Lodge, Newbury, Berks
Major Kirwan, Great Pulteney-street, Bath
Rev. Dr. Godfrey, Grosvenor-place, Bath
Edward Cooper, Esq., Staverton, Wilts, Magistrate of the County
Henry Toogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse, Wilts, Magistrate of the
County
Rev. Chas. Fres. Bamfylde, Rector of Dunkerton, near Bath
Richard Morthnore, Esq., Chippenham, Wilts
George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, Director of the Bristol and Birming-
ham Railway Company
R. Wootten, Jun., Esq., Ranker, Oxford, Director if the Buckingham-
shire Railway and Wolverton Junction
Richard Mortirnore, Esq., Kingsmill, Collumpton
Rev. John Sydenham, Collumpton
Rev. R. A. Roberts, Rector of Kentisbere, Collumpton
Ch vies Justice, Esq., Collumpton, Devon
Richard Marker, Esq., Ufeulm Cottage, Tiverton
Colonel Henry Dundas Campbell, North End House, Portsmouth
George Pearce, Esq., Braditinch 'Luise, near Collutnptou
Wm. 11. Halcouth, Esq., Chilton, Ilungeribrd, Chairman of the Berks
Union Banking Company
William Ilal,oinb, Esq., Marlborough, Manager of the Wilts and
Dorset Bank
Captain W. G. Maclean, R.N., Taunton
Robert Parsons, Esq., Taunton
John Dalzell, Esq., Wallingford, Berks •
Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
John Kerle Haberfield, Esq., Clifton, Bristol

John Morford Cottle, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington, Director
otCoventry and Leicester Railway
Joseph Knight, Esq., Leicester, Director of South Midland and North-
ampton, Banbury and Cheltenham Railways
John Newton Mappin, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Midland Railway Company
John Ridgeway, Esq., Cauldon-place, the Potteries, Staffordshire,
Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway
James Burt, jun., Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and
Southampton Railway
Edward Norris, Esq., Clairville, Manchester, Director of the Direct
London and Manchester, and North Cheshire Railway Companies
Joseph Nadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and
Wigan, and Manchester and Southampton Railways
James Ogden, 31. D., Salford
Sir William Lowthrop, Hull, Magistrate for the East Riding of York
and for the borough of Hull, Chairman of the " Hull and Barnsley'
Committee, and Member of the acting Committee of the "Liver-
pool and Leeds Direct Railway Companies"
Chairman of the Hudders-
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field and Sheffield, and Director of the Halifax and Bradford
Union Railway
Charles Bamford., jun., Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley
Junction
John Lillie, Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and South-
ampton Railway
John Robson, Esq., Hetton-le-Hole, Durham
Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Sheffield and
Manchester, and Chairman of the Manchester, Birkenhead, and
Midland Railway Com Liverpool
panies
Wm. B. Newbery, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Dudley and
Iron Bridge Railway Company
C. Appleby, Esq., Broomhill, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and
Manchester Railway Company
Isaac Holmes, Esq.,
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach,
and Lincolnshire Railway, and Salisbury and Swindon Railways
John Ward, Esq., Machin Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield,
Rotherham, and Chesterfield Life Assurance-office
Win. Thompson, Esq., Upperthorpe, near Sheffield, Director of the
Haddersfield and Sheffield Railway
Adderley Howard, Esq., Sutton Wisbech, Director of the East Coast
Railway Company
Cantain Bowker, It. Devonport
H. S. Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Liverpool and Lce is Di-
rect Hallway
Samuel Swann Brittain, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the East and West
of England Railway Company
Attercliff-terrace, Sheffield, Director of the
John Fawcett, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Wakefield and Bar-
rowgate Railway Company
and Lincolnshire Junction Railway.
Lincoln, Director of the London and Yerk
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John Johnstone Hamilton, Esq., Liverpool
David Price, Req., Manchester
William Hunter, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington
Rev. 11. VV. Cottle, Vicar of Watford, Northamptonshire
Major Wornum, Clarence-square, Cheltenham
Edward Hall, Esq., Westbank House, Macclesfield, Director of 'the
South Midland and the Northampton and Cheltenham Railways
Henry Hubbersty, Esq., Hull
Joint Cosner, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Jaactiffn
Henry Shaw, Esq., Fetter-lane
Henry Sayer, Esq., Commercial-road, Limehouse, merchant
John Mee Mathew, Esq., Gray's Inn-square, Assistant Tithe Com-
missioner
John Norton, Esq., Moat Honse,'Brentwood, Essex
William John M‘Guire, Esq., Hampton Court
John Gray Wilson, Esq. Oxford-terrace
Capt. J. P. Macdougall, Grove, North Brixton, Surrey
W. J. Lefeuvre,Esq., F R.S.,Alderman and Magistrate of Southampton
Thomas Chas. Harrison, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's• Park
G. B. Bunbary, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the
Coventry and Leicester Railway
Captain.Tringham, R.N., Solyhull, Warwickshire
William Jonson Neale, Esq., King's Bench-walk, Temple
James Whitney, Esq., Shrewsbury
Henry Paul Harwood, Esq., M.D., Sheffield'
( With power to add to their number).
A further list of influential names will shortly appear.
BANKERS-31essrs. Curries and Co., Cornhill, London.
JOINT SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Bell, Brodrick, and Bell, Bove Churchyard, London
Messrs. Rickards and Walker, 29, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Loudon
Messrs. Haynes and Moore, Warwick and London
Messrs, J. V. and J. T. Harting, 24, Lincoln's Inn-flelds, London.
SECRETARY—Thomas Hosier Saunders, Esq.
ASSISTANT-SECRETART—CINITICS J. Whalley, Esq.
LOCAL AGENTS.
At Devizes, Henry Gilbert, Esq.
At Trottbridge and Bradford, Messrs. Stone and Rodway
At Bath, 'Messrs. Batehellor, Harford, and Staunton
At Bridgewater, Messrs. G. S. and J. R. Poole
At Tiverton, T. L. T. Iteridell, Esq , and J. A. Toms, Esq
At Truro
At Penzance
At Falmouth

The object of this line is to effect a direct communication between
London and the Land's End.
In a national point of view such a line is Indispensable. With
the advantage of a direct railroad, Falmouth, from it, situatioa at the
western extremity of the kingdom, would undoubtedly long since
have been the principal port on that coast. With the advantage of
at least 280 miles of heavy road, that place has attained Its high po-
sition as a Packet Station. Southampton, with far less natural ad-
vantages, has, since the, opening of the South-Western Railway, in-
creased its imports from 200,000/. to 3,000,0001.
per annum. At Bris-
tol, before the opening of the Great Western Railway, the imports
were declining ; since then they have very considerably increased.
The merits of a line to the Land's End as an investment for ca-
pital, it was not left to the present Company to discover. The Great
Western and Bristol and Exeter Railway
having already reached
Exeter, It has been in contemplation to extend that line to Fal-
mouth by way of Plymouth ; and various other projects have been
set on foot on the conviction that Falmouth must be reached by
railway.
The object of this prospectus is to show that no other line than the
resent can ultimately satisfy the exigencies of the country in regard
to this, its most important isutport—" the natural Packet Station of
the empire."
The present project is distinguished by this—that it is direct. It is
as nearly as possible a straight line from Landon to the Land's End.
The London, Bath, and Bridgewater Company having Amalga-
mated with this Company, the immense local influence commanded
by them will now contribute to the great national object of a direct
line ; while means have been taken for securing the traffic and afford-
ing all the accommodation contemplated by that Company.
The Direct 'Western availing itself of the Great Western Railway
SO far as Reading, pursues Its course by or near Newbury, Hunger-
ford. Great Redwln, Marlborough, Devizes, the manufacturing dis-
trict or. Trowbridge (from which a diverging line will be carried by
Bradford direct to Bath), Westbury, FrOlrie, Shepton Mallet, Wells
(from which another diverging lino will bo taken to Bridgewater),
Glastonbury to Taunton, being shorter by about thirty-two
Mlles than any existing railways between these points, and without
a tunnel. From Taunton. the Bristol and Exeter Railway (now
leased to the Great Western) is traversed to Tiverton, whence it is
proDos&l to carry this line direct to the Land's End, Falmouth, St.
Ives, and Penzance, being shorter by about sixty miles than the
lately proposed line by way of Plymouth, and effecting, in the whole
Ilistance from London to Falmouth, a saving of about ninety miles.
Wigt_titsrect to the traffic on the upper portion of:the line it is
needless to sly tnote than that there is already