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Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continuation]
and Holyhead Junction, and West Midland and South Midland and
Oxford Extension Railways
John Ostler, Esq., Director of the nal and Barnsley, and Leeds and

Carlisle Railways
Robert Oxley, Esq., M.D., Pontefract
George Osgood, Esq., Raymond-buildings, Gray's Inn
Charles Frederick Palgrave, Esq., Bedford
Bennett Pell, Esq., 12, Finsbury-place North
W. Perfect, Esq., Monkhill, near Pontefract
John Phillips, Esq., Mayor of Pontefract
George Parbury, Esq., Mansfield-house, Russell-square
William Patterson, Esq., Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire
Robert Power, Esq., Director of the Great Britain Life Assurance

Society
Thomas Ingham Raynor, Esq., Birstal, Leeds, Director of the Leeds
and West Riding Junction, and the Liverpool and Leeds Direct

Railways
John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Birming-
ham Direct, Leicester, Iron and Dove Valley Railways
Edward Rawlins, Esq., Bedford
Eobert Richards, Esq., Director of the West Midland Railway
John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Bycullah-house, Enfield, Managing

Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
dames Robson, Esq., Tanglelf, Mazistrate for the Borough of Pon-
.

tefract
Fredericl Redden, Esq., Bedford
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester,
and Weymoath Junction, the ring, Reading, and Basinzstoke,

and the Direct Western Railway
Ge.orge Robinson, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Bs; ;ley
Junction, and of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railways
John Richardson, Esq., Director of the Waketeld and Harrogate,
the East and West Yorkshire, and the Midland and Thirsk Junc-
tion Railways _ _ .

Thomas Rontlidge, Esq., Alderman, Pontefract
James Russell, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director of
the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton, of the Tring,
Reading, and Basingstoke Railways
. .

Edward Sankey, Esq., Canterbury
Henry Savaze, Esq., Director of the Irving, Beading, and Basing-
stoke Railway
Benjamin Shaw, Esq., Kilburn Priory, Director of the Churnet

and Blythe Valleys Railways
J. E. Sichel, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Dlroct, and
of the Leeds, York, and Midland Railways
William Sloane, Esq., Wim2olo-street, Cavendish-square, Director
of the South Midland Junction Railway, &c. &c.
George Walker Smith, Esq., Horbury-hall, Sheßixld, Director of
the Liver,)ool and Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Smith, Esq., M.D., 30, North-street, Lecds,Director of the
Leeds and York, and Liverpool and Leeds Railways
Joseph Smithson, Esq , Kir'Gess Mills, near Halifax
John Sanders, Esq., Bedford
J. W. Striven, Esq., Throatleuest, near Otley, Director of the
Leeds, York, and Midland Junction Railway
Richard Shaw, Esq., Tulledge, near Burnley, Director at the Eder-
ley, Halifax, end Huddersfield Junction Italics,*
James Henry Simpson; Esq., M. 8., Pontefract
Joshua Annable Skidmore, Esq., St. John's-place, Wakefield
William Starkey, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Sheffield, Wort-
ley, Silkstone, and Wakefield, and the Lecis and York Railways
Stewart, Esq., Horbury, near Wakefield
George Eaton Stanger, Esq., Nottingham
Samuel Herrick Surplice, Esq., Beeston, Notts
John Streets, Esq., merchant, Spring Field-house, Sandlacre, Derby-
shire
William Surplice, Esq., Nottingham
Samuel James Sykes, Esq., Hull
James Templer, Esq., Brixtoa-rise, Director of the Derby, trttoxcter,

ant Stafford Itailtsay
Thomas S. Trapp, Esq., banker, Bedford
John Best Trapp. Esq., IZolforl
Samuel Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street and Gorbals, Hull, DI-

rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway
Thomas Turney, Esq., Park-lodge, near Halifax
William Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street and Gorbals, Hull
Joseph Francis Tempest, Esq., F.S.A., the Mount, Ackworth
Charles Vickers, Esq., Pontetract, Director of the Manchester, Hud-
dersfield, and Great Grimsby Railway
Wm. Watson,Esq , Daybrook, Nottinghamshire, Director of Amber-
gate, Nottingham and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
Samuel Warburton, Esq., Hunslet, Leeds, Director of the Wakefield
and Harrogate Railway
The Rev. Richard Whitelock, 3f.A.., Saddleworth, Magistrate for
the West hiding of Yorkshire
Joseph Whitaker, Esq., Itamselale, Nottinghamshire
William White, Esq., Bedford
John Williams, Esq., M.D., Magistrate for Yorkshire, Director of
the York, Hull, and East and West Riding Junction Railway
Abraham Wood, Esq., Rochdale, F.R.C.S.
Joseph Wyles, Esq., Graotham, Director of the Amber-gate, Net-
ting,ham, and Boston, anti Eastern Junction Railway
David Wheatcroft, Esq., llueltland-hollow, Derbyshire, Director of
the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, and Direct Birmingham and
Leicester Railways
William Williams, Esq. Royal Foundry, Bedford
Charles Waite, Esq., 3, 'Old Burlington-street, and Willesdon-house,

Middlesex
John Ilrheelton. Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Willett, Esq., Bradford
The ltev. H. Burdett Worthington, Bedford
G. N. Wright, M.A. Coed y Celym, Denbighshire, and Lonsdale-
square. London, M.A.,
of the Thames Valley Railway
George Yates, Esq., merchant, Halifax
George Witt, Esq., 1.R.5., Director of the Bedford, London, and
Birmingham Railway, and Aldermand of Bedford
George Gillett, Esq., 2, Grsovenor-gate, Hyde-park
(With power to add to their number).
ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF—Sir John Macneil, LL.D., and I.R.S.
ACTING Em(amisza—William Mullingar Higgins, Esq., C.E.
LONDON SOLICITORS.
J. R. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-court.
Owen Gray, Esq. 1
J. B. Midge, Esq. 25' Great Tower-street.

LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Leeds—Charles Naylor, Esq., and
Pontefract--Henry John Coleman, Esq.
Rotherham—John Oxlay, Esq., and John Wright Potter, Esq.
East Retford—Messrs. 3lee, Rigsby, and Mee.
Nottingham—Messrs. Fox and Butlin.
Oakham—Henry Hough, Esq.
Kettering—Thomas Marshall, Esq.
Bedford—Ezra Eagles, Esq.
SECRETARY —J. B. Owens, Esq.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT—J. M. Widdicombc, Eaq.
BANKERS.
Londsn—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co.
Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Company
Doncaster The Yorkshire Banking Company.
Pontefract

The object of this railway is to connect, in the most direct course,
the impbrtant and increasing manufacturing town of Leeds with the
metropolis, the want of which has long bean fdt, and is too univer-
sally acknowledged to need any comment, and it is under this con-
viction that this important undertaking, aster several minute exa-
minations of the country through which it will pa=s, has been brought
forward.

Thtproposed line will commence at the jnnetion of the Manchester
and Ueda, and York and North Midland Railways, near Wakefield,
and will terminate by means of a junction with the Eastern Coun-
ties Railway, at Bedford (to which place it is the intention of that
Company to extend their line in the ensuing session of Parliament),
and by thus availing itself as far as possible of the ex sting railways,
will complete the most direct and least expensive trunk line, from
London to Leeds, York, and Ilull. It will pass in its route within an
available distance of Wakefield, Pontefract, Doncaster, Rotherham,
East Redford, Nottingham, Newark, Grantham, Melton Zdowiiray,
o:ahem, and Stamford.
The importance of such a line is obvious, both from the nature of
its course (embracing, as it does, a most extensive population within
its limits), as also from the absence of any direct communication
for the conveyance of passengers and merchtuidise.
By the construction of this railway, railway communication to
London will be given to Peterborough and Leicester (by means of
the Syston and Peterborough Railway), to Newark and Nottingham,
(by the Nottingham and Lincoln line(, and to Sheffield and Gains-
borough, )by the Sheffield and Gainsborough line), by a much shorter
route than by any existing railways. .
_ . . . .

Independently of the advantages offered to the towns in the seve-
ral counties through which this line will pass, the line in Lisle con-
sidered as a direct trunk line between London and Leeds, is sufficient
to justify its formation, it being well known that the existing traffic
between these two places would produce such a rearm on the capital
required, as to admit of a dividend equal to that of any railway in
operation ; but when it is borne in mind that a company is being
formed for the purpose of connecting Glasgow with ;Leeds by
means of a junction with the York and Carlisle Railway, no better
line caw be presented to the public, as it will not only effect a direct
communication from Glasgow and the western parts of :Scotland to
London, but would also connect Edinburgh and the eastern parts of
Scotland, as well as Durham and Newcastle (by the York and North
Midland, and Great North of England Itailwaj a) with the metropo-
lis, which would be considerably shorter than the accommodation
offered by any other company ; and when cost of construction is con-
sidered, there cannot be a doubt but that preference would be given
to the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway.
The fact of the Eastern Counties Railway being connected by a
branch line with the East and West India Docks on the river
Thambs, and the Railway Company having recently leased for 999
years the extensive pepper warehouses belonging to those docks,
which arc capable of receiving 12,000 tons of goods, to4ctlier with
wharlh adjoining, where the shipment and trans-shipment of goods
front all parts of the world can take place, is a most important fea-
ture in favour of the direct communication from the manufacturing
towns of Glasgow and Leeds offered by the Great Leeds and London
Direct Railway and, by branch railways to the main trunk line,
through which all goods from the manufacturing districts could be
conveyed at once to these warehouses for shipment, thereby avoiding
the present delay and expense of cartage, and in reality establishing
an almost direct and invaluable connexion between the rivers Clyde
and Thames.
It has been ascertained that there are no engineering difficulties,'
that the w ,rks will be easy, and the gradients remarkably good, and
t lett it will not materially interfere with any ornamental property.
The subscribers will be held liable only to the extent of their first
deposits, until an Act of raff :uncut is obtained, and afterwards only
to the amount of their subscriptions.
It is ptoposed to take power in the Bill to allow interest at 4 per
cent. per annum on all calls until the opening of the line, and also
to extend the line to Hertford on the Eastern Counties line, in the
event of that Company not prosecuting their line to Bedford.

BROKERS.
London—Messrs. Marten and Heseltitia, 9, Finch-lane
Leeds—Messrs. Hoppe and Co.
Liverpool—Messrs. Joseph King and Son
Hull—Messrs. Flint and Tootal
Manchester—Messrs. Cardwell and Sons
Bradford—fir. Josiah Seholefleld
Edinburgh-111r. Charles Couper, 30, St. Andrew's-square

GREAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT
RAILWAY.
The Managing Committee of this Railway hereby give notice that
they are now Proceeding in the Allotment of the Shares in the above
undertaking, and that all the Letters of Allotment will be issued in
the ensuing week.

11.
Temporary Offices, Adelaide-place, J. OWEN, Secretary.
London-bridge.

WE
EAT WESTERN, BRN i'kuitt), and
CENTRAL TERMINUS JUNCTION RAILWAY, from
the vicinity of West Drayton, through Hounslow, Brentford, Ham-
mersmith, Kensington, Chelsea, and Westminster, to a Central
Terminus, near Charing-Cross.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Offices, 53, Charing-cross.
Capital,
in 42,500 Shares of 201. each.
Share.
85DO,I1e0pOolsytt
21. 2s. per
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Earl of Devon
Vernon Abbott, Esq., 70, Gower-street
I RI I
yn slur un tctl
forn,
CEomsqp.,anDyirector of the Thames Embankment
Benjamin Johu Armstrong. Esq.. Southall, Magistrate for 311dcllosek,
John Auldjo, Esq., Noel House, Kensington
Henry Pratt Barlow, Esq., 24, Kensington-square
Edward Oliver Benson, Esq., Hounslow
William Sprott Boyd, Esq., Director of the That-nos Embankment
Railway Junction Company
Thomas Braman, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Ireicester and Tam-
worth Railway
Sir John Macpherson Brackenbury
Sir Archer Denman Crott, Bart., Director of the Thames Ev.tbank-
ment Railway Junction 'Zompany
Major John T. Croft,
ter Railway Deputy Chairman of the Chester and Mancha-
John Chevalier
—bbold,:Esq., Chairman of the Bastern trlaioll Bu ll
way
WI:111m Cumming, Esq., Worth Bank, Regent's Park
Gcerge Cooper, Esq. Brentford
' George James Stred4ick Camden, Esq., Hounslow
Charles Downes, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
J. Fisher, Esq. Isleworth
Major David Fitzgerald, Valentin, county of Kerry
Captain Forbes, R.N., Forest, Windsor
Sir Andrew Peliatt Green, 1C..C.11.
James Montgo-aer,y, Esq., Bret:ll'4rd
John BONVY'*2 Nichols, Esq., Hamuncrsinitle
The Hon, Qtdonel Phipps, Norwood-„roan
William Simpson Fitter, Esq., Director of the South and Midi wed
Railway
He:ary Pownall, Esq., Spring-grove, Hounslow, Magistrate for
Middlesex
John F. Pecnall,Es/., Spring-grove, Hounslow
Colonel Reid (qd Life Guards), Bulstrode Park
Thomas Be.ry Rowe, Esq., Brentford
John C'Jysgarne Sim, Esq., No. 9, Clifton-place, Hyde Park-gardens
M.aj•-.r Jelf Sharp, .Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for Middlesex,
Deouty-Chairman of the Thames Embankment Raillyay Junction
Company
Henry Webb Smith, Esq. Hounslow
William Spooner, Es.q., Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and
Newcastle Railway
int!nw Spottiswoode, Esq., Chairman of the Irish North Midland
Railway
John Stewart, Esq.,
Frederick Thompson, Esq., 20, Kensington-square
RoPort Richard Tighe, Esq., Bank, Windsor
lisktry Tuffnell,Esq., M.P.

(With power to add to their number.)
ENOINMER—Thomas Page, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Wilkinson and Cobbold, 7, Lincoln's Inn-fieldB
William Sim, Esq., 8, Kind's Bench-walk, Temp:to.
RANKERS.

PARLIASIENT-A-71:- "AG ENT3.
Messrs. Hugh Inns Cameron and Gell
orge rialu,lB, Parliament-street.
Szca-res.if—licitry Moreing, Esq.
Applications for shares, la ths subjoined form, may be made,
addressed to the Provisional Committee, at the Offices of the Coln-
pang, 53, -Charing-cross, to the Solicitors and Parliamentary Agents,
and to the following agents and sharebrokcrs :--Measz s. Carter and
Whitehead, 61,A, Threadneedle-street; Mr. 11. J. Willtanix, 80, Old
..I;roact-street, London; Messrs. Bradley and Co., Manchester; Mr. IS.
R. Pemberton, and Messrs. H. Davis and Co., Lieverpo.
Messrs. ;3r., Lune
LIMN, BAItQl; 240§10. Cilantrtil and Doyes, Leeds;