The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING OCTOBER 1845.

WREXHAM, NANTWICH, and CREWE
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 450,000/., in 22,500 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. %I. 6d. per Share.
TEMPORARY OFFICES—Henblas-stsc-et, Wrexham.
PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS.
Tewnshend Mainwaring, Esq., Marchwiel Hall, M.P. for the Den-
bighshire Boroughs
Sir Ralph Pendlebury, Knight, Mersey Bank, Heaton Norris,
Stockport, Director of the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire
Junction Railway
The Worshipful the Mayor of Macclesfield
R. Humphreys Jones, Esq., Willow-house, Wrexham, Recorder of
Holt, Denbighshire
Bullock, Joseph, Esq., Congleten, Cheshire
Byrom, William, Esq., Oldham, Director of the Liverpool and
Preston, and North Union Railways
Dicker, J. Campbell, Esq., New Hall, Weston, Cheshire, Director
of the Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction, and the Staffordshire
Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways
D uncan, James, Esq., Liverpool, Director of the Birkenhead and
Holyhead Junction, the Liverpool and Preston, and North
Union Junction, and the Staffordshire Potteries, and Liverpool
and Manchester Direct Railways
Edgworth, Thomas, Esq., Wrexham Fechan, Wrexham
Foulkes, John, Esq., Ashfield, Wrexham, Director of the Trent
Valley Continuation, and the Manchester and Birkenhead Con-
tinuation, and Holyhead Junction Railways
Gillham, Joseph, Esq., Hargreaves house, Oldham, Director of the
Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction, and the Staffordshire Pot-
teries and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways
Rough, Richard, Esq., South Sea Colliery, Wrexham, and
Pepper-street, Chester
Kenrick, Samuel, Esq., banker, Wrexham, Director of the Man.
chester and Birkenhead Continuation, and Mole, Ruabon, and
North Wales Railways
Kyrke, James, Glas-coed, Wrexham
Lewis, George, Esq., Wrexham, Director of the Manchester and
Birkenhead Continuation, and Mold, Ruabon, and North Wales
Railways
McDermott, George Augustus, Esq., Chesterton-hall, Stafford.
shire, Director of the Staffordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and
Manchester Direct Railways
Motte, W. It. Standish, Esq , Lincoln's.lnn-fiAds, London
Overend, J., Esq., Bentham, Lancashire, Director of the Birkenhead
and Holyhead Junction, the Liverpool and Preston, the North
Union Junction, and the Staffordshire Potteries, and Liverpool
and Manchester Direct Railways
Perrott, Samuel, Esq., Liverpool, Director of the Birkenhead and
Holyhead Junction Railways
Poyser, Charles, Esq., Summer-hill, Wrexham
Redish, Joseph, Esq., Liverpool, Director of the Staffordshire Pot-
teries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways
Seed, Joseph, Esq., Lancaster, Director of the Staffordshire Pot.
teries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways
Thompson, John, Esq., Frwd Works, near Wrexham, and Wigan,
Lancashire, Director of the Bolton and Wigan, the Birkenhead
and Holyheai Junction, the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, the
Liverpool and Preston, and the North Union Junction Railways
Thompson, Richard, Esq , Stansty Hall, Wrexham, Director of the
Trent Valley Continuation Railway
Watts, Thomas Itchenor, Esq., Macclesfield, Cheshire, late Di-
rector of the Churnet Valley Railway, and Director of the South
Union or Manchester, Potteries, and London Railway
Williamson, J. S., E,q., Ramsdell-hall, Lawton, Cheshire
(Wi!h power to add to their number.)
Esioreseas--Messra. Gandell and Brunton.
RANKERS.
London—Sir J, W. Lubbock, Bart., and Co.
Liverpool—The North and South Wales Bank.
Manchester--The Manchester and Salford Bank.
Wrexham—Samuel Kenrick, Esq.
JOINT SOLICITORS.
William Jones, Eq.
John Dcvereux Pugh, Esq. Wrexham.
LONDON AGENTS.
Raimondl and Gooday, 14, South-square, Gray's Inn.
11:essrs. Evans, and Barnes, 6, South-square, Gray's Inn.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Messrs. Edleston and Etileston, Nantwich.
SECRETARY, pro tern—John Devereux Pugh, Esq.
This line is intended to be made from Wrexham, through Holt
and Nantwich to Crewe. Its length will be about 23 miles, and it
will be a direct communication between the most populous
district of North Wales, and one of the moat valuable
mineral fields in the kingdom ; and Crewe and the
manufacturing districts of Cheshire, Lancashire, Stafford •
shire, and Yorkshire, being a nearer route than any now
existing or contemplated, by upwards of 12 miles. It is satisfac-
torily proved by the evidence of persons best qualified to give a
correct opinion on the subject, that the district of Wrexham (even
exclusive of what may be called the Ruabon district) possesses in
exhaustible supplies of coal, ironstone, lime, and lead, of the best
quality; the extent of the coal-field is about eight miles long by
two broad, and the limestone is of much greater extent ; the ver-
tical section of coal presents 14 successive strata of coal, of which
10 are workable; these strata give 40 feet 6 inches of solid coal,
supposing there to be 15 cwt. of coal to the cubic yard, and deduct-
ing one.tenth for old workings, and one.third for waste, faults,
Etc., there remains 18,817,920 tons of coal in a square mile.—(See
Evidence given before Parliament on the North %Vales Mineral
Railway Bill.)
The value of the ironstone in the whole area of 16 miles Is esti.
mated at 35,400,994/. The importance of connecting this wealthy
d:strict with the towns before named is too obvious to require a
moment's comment. By means of the cheap and expeditious transit
provided by this line, the coke manufactured in the neighbeurhcod
of Wrexham (which Is proved to be superior to any other, see evi-
dence before mentioned) will be conveyed to Crewe, for the supply
of the numerous railways centering at that place, at one-third the
present price; the revenue to-be derived from this source must be
nnmense. The whole district through which this line will pass is
now supplied with coal, coke, lime, and slates from the mines and
quarries in the neighbourhood of Wrexham at a very high price, in
consequence of the carriage being so expensive. The average
prices (per ton) of coal, coke, and lime, at Nantwlch and Crewe,
exclusive of carriage, are as follows :
At Nantwich, Coal ..

Coke
112 Lime ... l6 0
At Crewe, Coal
„ Coke ... 13 4
„ Lime
This railway will afford the means of supplying coal, lime, and
coke at one-third the above prices.
Among the multifarious railway schemes now before the public,
the most legitimate and also the most likely to yield a fair remu-
nerative return on the outlay, are the traverse railways projected
with the object of supplying the existing want of railway transit
across the conntry.
The line will not interfere with any parks or property of an or-
namental character, and will be constructed at much less than the
average cost.
The Provisional Directors have no reason to expect any effectual
opposition to a measure so obviously beneficial both to the public
and the landed proprietors, and so powerfully supported by those
best qualified to form an opinion of its merits.
With respect to engineering, the line presents no difficulty
whatever, the gradients are very easy, and the earth-work light.
The usual power will be taken in the Act of Parliament to
allow interest, at 41. per cent. per annum, on the deposits as well
as upon all future calls from the date of the passing of the Act
until the opening of the railway, and no shareholder will be liable
beyond the amount of his subscription.
In the allotment of shares preference will be given, to a certain
extent, to the proprietors of land through which the line will pass,
and to shareholders in the Manchester and Birmingham, the Man.
Chester and Birmingham Continuation, the North Wales Mineral,
and the Staffordshire Potteries, Liverpool and Manchester Direct
Railways.
Applications for shares must be made in the annexed form to
the solicitors, or to the following sharebrokers —Mr. Langton, Ex-
change-court, Exchange-street East, Liverpool ; Messrs. Cameron,
Cazenove, and Taunton, Liverpool ; Mr. Thomas Moxon, jun., 69
Old 13road:street, London ; Mr. W. G. Seed, 15, St. Ann's-square,
Manchester ; Mr. Nathaniel Lea, Birmingham ; and Messrs.
Standish and Bleckett, Leeds ; of whom prospectuses and maps et
the line may be. obtained.
Applicants for shares, who are personally known to the Pro-
visional Directors, are requested to refer to one of such Directors;
all other applicants will be required to give a
,refence to some
banker, or other person of known respectability.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Wrexham, Nantwich, and
Crewe Junction Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—l hereby request that you will allot me Shares
of 201. each, in the above proposed railway, and I hereby under-
take to pay the deposit of 21. 2s. 6d. per Share thereon, or any
lesser number of Shares which may be allotted to me; and I also
undertake to execute the Parliamentary Contract, and the Sub-
scribers' Agreement when required.
I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
Name (in full)..
Profession, Trade, or Occupation
Residence (in full)
Place of Business (if any)
Date

Name of Referee ..
Address of Referee

THE SHEFFIELD, NVORTMAK:
ETON, AND WAKEFIELD RAILWAY.
(Registered Provisionally.)
Capital 500,0001. in 20,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS.
J. W. R. Atkinson, Esq., Elmwood House, Leeds, Director of the
Leicester and Bedford Railway
William Alexander, Esq., M.D., Halifax, Director of the Liver-
p,ol and Leeds Direct, and the Midland and Thirsk Railways
Joseph Austin, Esq., Headingley Hill, Leeds, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and the Leeds and York Railways
W. P. Bradshaw, Esq., Woodthorpe Hall, Sandal Magna, Wakefield
Charles Bamford, jun, Esq., Hull, Director of the Direct Western
Railway
William Broadhurst, Esq., Westfield-terrace, Sheffield
Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct, and the Leeds and Carlisle Railways
Alexander Brown, Esq., Headingley, Leeds
Isaac Burkill, Esq., Highfield.cottage, Beeston, Leeds
WM. Clifford, Esq., Hull, Director of the Lincolnshire and Eastern
Counties Railway
Rohl. Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York
Railway
Jcseph Clarke, Esq., Sherburn, Ferrybridge
John Priston Cutts, Esq.. Sheffield
John H. Coates, Esq., Wakefield
John Alcock Dixon, Esq., Habergham Eaves, Burnley, Director
of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Wm. Dawson, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Peterborough,
Lynn, Wisbeach, and Boston Railway
John Egginton, Esq., a Magistrate of the Borough of Hull
homas England, Esq., Headingley, Leeds, Director of the West
Junction and the Leeds and York Railways
Ilobcrt John Ellershaw, Esq., Leeds
I phraim Elsworth, Esq., Sandford.house, Kirkstall, near Leeds
eorge Earle, Esq , Hull
.'ohn Fawcett, Esq., Broomhall, Sheffield, Director of the Wake-
field and Harrogate Junction, the Liverpool and Leeds Direot
and the Direct Western Railways
Wm. Gresham, Esq., Alderman of the City of Lincoln
Augustus G. Greaves, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby,
and Manchester Railway
Zr seph Gill, Esq., Potter Newton, near Leeds
Frederick Hattersley, Esq., West House, Bradford
Robe,t Herries, Esq., Leeds
William Wilkes Hill, Esq., Beeston, near Leeds
John Hall, Esq., Hull, Director of the York and Hull, and East
and West Yorkshire Junction Railways
William Hutchinson, Esq., Broomhall, Sheffield, Director of the
Crest Grimsby, Sheffield, the Potteries, and Grand Juncticn
Railway
I-lenry Paul Harwood, Esq., M.D., Sheffield, Director of the Wake-
field and HarrogateJsuqn.cticart,andthe Direct Western Railways
3. Hastings Ingham,
E in-h owe, near Skipton, a Magis-
trate of the West Riding John Heard, Esq , Alderman of Nottingham, Director of the Lon-
don and Nottingham Railway
Thomas Herbert, Esq., Alderman of Nottingham
Thomas Holmes, Esq., Hull
Director of the Direct Wsetern
Ilenry Hubbersty, Esq., Hull,
Railway
John Jackson, Esq., Alderman of Leeds, Director of the Llvsrpooi
and Leeds Direct, and the Leeds and York Railways
Thomas Jessop, Esq., Claremont-place, Sheffield Ya
Sydney Jessop, Esq., Manchester
Charles Locke, Esq., Shapethorpe.house, Wakefield, Director of
the Wakefield and Harrogate Junction Railway
SEILIES Martin, Esq., Wakefield
Jamas Joseph M'Swiney, Esq., Sandal Magna, Wakefield, Director
of the Wakefield and Harrogate Junction, the Rugby, Derby,
and Manshester, and the Leeds, York, and Midland Railways
itunert Mitebell, NAT, the Mount, Sheffield

Joseph Ogelin March, Esq., Beech-grove, Leeds
George Peel, Esq., Horbury, near Wakefield, Director of the
Wakefield and Harrogate Junction, and the Bradford, Wake-
field, and Midland Railways
Sidney Roberts, Esq., Sheffield
John Robinson, Esq., Silcoates Cottage, near Wakefild, Director of
the Bradford, Wakefield, and -Midland, and the Leeds, York,
and Midland Railways
E. NV. Rudgard, Esq., Lincoln
Edward Rook, Esq., King-street, Leeds
James Reffit, Esq., Leeds
Edward Spence, Req., Tilworth, near Hull, Director of the York-
shire and Glasgow and the Rugby, Leatnington, and Warwick
Rail ways
Thomas Sidney, Esq., Sheriff and Alderman of London
Edw. Sidebottom, Esq., Piedwick-hall, Sandal Magna, Wakefield
Benjamin Smith, Esq., Duckmanton• lodge, near Chesterfield, Di-
rector of the North Derbyshire Union, and the Sheffield, Bux.
ton, Leek, and Potteries Railway
Richard Sully, Esq , Sandon-?lace, Sheffield
William Starkey, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Leeds, York,
and Midland Railways
Thomas Burdett Turton, Esq., Alderman of Sheffield
John Tall, Esq., Hull
John Taylor, Esq., Belle Vuelerrace, Hull, Director of the Direct
Western Railway
George Turtoe, Esq., Baeden-lodge, Clayton West, near Hudders.
field, Director of the Bristol and Dove Railway
Joseph Turton, Esq., Brook-hill, Sheffield
Edward Vickers, Esq., Firs-hill, Sheffield
Benjamin Vickers, Esq., West Clare, Sheffield
James Wall, Esq , Osgathorpe-hills, Sheffield, a Director of the
Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway
Joseph Wood, Esq., Sandal, near Wakefield, a Director of the
IVakefield and Harrogate Junction Railway
George Walker, Esq., Osgathorpe Cottage, Sheffield
George Well, Fey., Woodside, Sheffield
Rev. George Atkinson Walker, Alverthorpe, near Wakefield, Di-
rector s the Bradford, Wakefield, and Midland, the Leeds, York,
and Midland, and the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and Central Wales
Railways
John Ward, Esq., Machon Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Direct
Western Railway
ENGINEER-IS- CillEF.—John Urpeth Rastrick, Esq., E.R.S.,
London.
e•LICITORB.
Messrs. Upton and Clapham, Leeds
➢Messrs. Smith and Wightman, Sheffield
BANKERS.
London : Sir Richard Carr Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Co.
Leeds : Messrs. Beckett and Co.
Sheffield : The Sheffield and liallamshire Banking Company
Wakefield : Messrs. Leatham, Tew, and Co.
Barnsley : The Wakefield and Barnsley Union Banking Company.
SECRETARY.—Henry Jubb, Esq.
The main line of this railway will be about fifteen miles in
length. Commencing at the Wortley Station, on the Sheffield and
Manchester Railway, it will pass through the town of Silkstoe, and
near to Dodworth, accommodating the whole of that valuable
mining district with the most ready outlet for its celebrated coal to
all parts of the kingdom. It proceeds by Darton, Chapeittiorpe,
and Sandal, to Wakefield, where It will join the Leeds and Man-
chester, and the newly projected railways to Leeds and Harrogate,
and to Pontefract and Goole.
The inhabitants of Barnsley will also be accommodated by a
branch to that town, from the main line, giving them direct and
easy communication with the north and south.
The distance from Leeds to Seeffield by this line, and its con-
nexions northwards, will be only thirty.two miles ; by the present
touts it is thirty-eight miles. The distance from Wakefield to
Sheffield by this line will be only twenty-three miles ; it is now, by
way of Normanton, thirty-one miles ; and by way of Oakenshaw,
twenty-eight miles, between two and three of which are by omni-
bus. Besides this saving of actual distance, the tedious stoppages
at Masborough and Normanton, the delays of which are often equal
to twenty miles of travelling, will be avoided,
A careful survey has been made, by an experienced surveyor,
who reports that the line from Wakefield to Silkston will
run with easy gradients nearly on the surface of the ground for
the greater part of the way ; and that the only work of any mag-
nitude will be a tunnel, about six hundred yards long, at Woolley_
common, which will occasion in the approach to it from Wake-
field an ascending gradient of 1 in 105. The works between
Silkston and Wortley are of a heavier character, but in no
part will the gradient be more than lin 112. The ruling
gradient will be about 1 in 180.
This undertaking, in connexion with other railways, is in-
tended to accomplish the following very important objects :—First,
a direct line of communication between London and Leeds, the
Northern Counties and Scotland. Secondly, the opening of the
extensive and valuable coal-fields of Silkston, Dodworth, Barns.
ley, and the adjacent districts, to the manufacturing and other
towns of Yorkshire, the ports or Hell, Selby, Goole, Great
Grimsby, and Boston, and also to the Metropolis, and the Mid-
land, and Western counties. Thirdly, the accommodation of the
inhabitants of the places through which this railway will pass,
With those facilities of conveyance for passengers, ef
which, from the almost entire absence of good roads,
as well as railways, they have hitherto been destitute.
An examination of the Map will show how well these objects
will be attained by means of this railway. At its northern termi-
nus, Wakefield, it will be connected with the Leeds and Manches-
ter Railway, continued to the Midland and the lines extending
from it to the north and east, with the projected Wakefield and
Harrogate and Wakefield and Leeds lines (the latter a branch of
the Leeds and Dewsbury from Churwell), and through it with
the Leeds and Thirsk, the Leeds and Bradford, and other railways,
to the north-west and Scotland. And at Wortley, its southern
terminus, it will be connected with the Sheffield and Manchester
Railway, the projected Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby,
and the Sheffield and Lincolnshire lines, the Sheffield and Great
Grimsby Railway, the projected Sheffield and Chesterfield Railway,
and the various new projects from Sheffield to the northern parts of
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and the west.
The quantity of coal which this railway will make directly
accessible to all parts of the kingdom may be estimated from the
following statements given in evidence before a Committees of the
House of Commons :—The township of Barnsley contains 2,010
acres of coal bed, Barughs 5,080 acres, Dodworth, 6,219 acres,
Silkston, 4,040 acres. The quantity of coal in the Silkston main
alone is thirty.seven millions three hundred and fourteen thou-
sand tons, and the quantity likely to be raised from the entire dis-
trict through which the railway will pass, is not less than seventy-
eight millions of tons.
Pits may be sunk close by the railway, and will require only
an engine to lift the coals perpendicularly, and pour them into the
trucks.
In addition to this, an opportunity will be afforded of turning
to better account a bed of iron-stone underlying a space of 5,080
acres.

The construction of this railway would so cheapen the transit
of coal to York, Hull, and all intermediate towns to the north
and east, and westward to Glossop, Ashton, Manchester, Stork.
port, and other towns in Cheshire, that the owners of this valu-
able mineral would be able successfully to compete with those 61:.
Durham and Lancashire.
The inexhaustible mineral traffic which will thus be developed
—the means which this railway will afford of improved transit be.
tween Leeds and Sheffield, so long a desideratum is the inhabitants
of these, the two largest towns in Yorkshire—the opening of direct
railway communication with Barnsley, from which that important
manufacturing town has hitherto been excluded—its con-
nexion with the line projected to Harrogate, whither
so many thousands of visitors annually resort in pur-
suit of health and pleasure, constitute a summary of
advantages which cannot fail to recommend this project to
public favour and support. It is calculated that the traffic in
minerals alone will yield a lucrative return to the Shareholders ;
while the extraordinary increase of travelling which every ad-
ditional facility creates, and the surprising influx of trade which
every new railway brings to the district through which it passes,
adding largely to the profits of the undertaking, render it pro-
bable that the advantages which will actually be realised by this
project will exceed the most sanguine expectations of its pro-
moters.
Applications for Shares may be made, in the subjoined form,
to the Solicitors ; and also to Messrs, Ridsdale, Myers, and Bailey,
Messrs, Smith and Perfect, Messrs. John Everard Upton, Share.
brokers, Leeds; Messrs. Ridsdale and Rogers, Sharebrokers,
Wakefield; Messrs. Garton and Wright, Mr. George Eadon, jun.,
and Mr. John May, Sharebrokers, Sheffield; Messrs. C. Wilkin-
son and Earle, Sharebrokers, Hull; and Messrs. Peet and Son,
Sharebrokers, Nottingham.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Sheffield, Wortley, Silkston,
and Wakefield Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot to me shares of
23/. each in the above.narned Company, and I undertake to accept
the same, or such less number as you may appropriate to me, sub-
ject to the regulations of the Company, to execute the Parlia-
mentary Contract and the Subscribers' Agreement, and to pay,
when required, the deposit of 21. 12s. fid. per share.
I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
Name (in full)
Profession, trade, or occupation
Residence (in full)
Place of business (if any)
Name and address of Referee
Date

THE SHEFFIELD, WORTLEY, SILKSTON,
and WAKEFIELD RAILWAY.

Notice is hereby given, that no further APPLICATIONS for
SHARES in this COMPANY can be received after Tituresovr,
the 9th day of October instant, immediately after which the al-
lotment will take place.

By Order,

HENRY JUBB, Secretary.

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JUNCTION' RAILWAY.
Sharesal )nf 251. each.
Capital 2,00(0R,
Deposit 21. Its. 6d. per Share.
No Shareholder to be liable beyond the amount of his Subscription.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
(With power to add to their number.)
The Right Hon. John Ladaveze Arabin, Lord Mayor of Dublin
The Most Noble the Marquis of Ormonde
The Right Hon. the Earl of Orkney
The Right Hon. the Earl of Limerick
The Right Hon. the Earl of Gosford
ore Lord-Lieutenant of the minty of
The Right Hon. Lord ItossM ,
Monaghan
The Right Hon. Lord Dunalley
Colonel the Right Hon. G. L. Dawson Damer, M.P.
The Hon. Henry Walker
The Hon. F. A. Prittie
The Hon. George Handcock, Chairman of the Belfaf.t and Bally.
mena Railway
Sir Thomas Barret Leonard, Bark
Sir Anthony Weldon, Bart.
Sir Edward H. Walslie, Bart.
Sir George Forster, Bart,
Sir Edmund Waller, Bart.
Thomas Gill, Esq., M.P., Buckland Abbey, Plymouth, Chairman
of the South Devon Railway
Charles Barry Bald win, Esq., M.P., D.L., and J.P. King's Oninty,
Vice-Chairman of the Cork and Waterford, and Director of the
Midland Great Western Railway
Fitestephen French, Esq., M P., French Park, Roscommon,
Chairman of the Irish Great Western Railway
Sir James Murray, Merrion-square, Dublin
The Very Rev. ti e Dran of Ardfert
The Very Rev, the Dean of Ross, Director of the Ulster Railway
Cornelius O'Brien, Esq., M.P.
Peter Kirk, Esq., M.P.
J. Goddard, Esq., Chairman of the Ulster Railway
William Graham, Esq., Lisburn, Director of the Ul.ter Railway
John M`Neile, Esq., J.P.,f,and D.L., Parkmount, Belfast, Director
of the Northern Banking Company, and of the Belfast and Bal.
lymena Railway
John Thomson, Esq., Lowwood, Belfast, Director of the Belfast
Banking Company, and of the Belfast and Ballymena Railway
John Harrison, Esq., Belfast, Director of the Belfast and Bally.
mena Railway
James Hartley, Esq., Director of the Peninsular and Oriental
Stsa.n Company, London
William Humphreys, Esq., D.E., and J.P., Ballyhaise-house,
Cavan
Thomas Harkness, Esq., Stranraer, Member of the Provisional
Committee of the British and Irish Union Railway
Abram Campbell, Stranraer, Director of the Provisional Commit-
tee of the British and Irish Union Railway
Hugh Barton, Esq., Straffan, Kildare
William T. Osborne, Esq., Beechwood, Tipperary
Charles Granby Burke‘Esq , Dublin
John ROBS Mahon, Esq., Dublin.
Robert IL Kinahan. Esq J.P., Alde
Luke White, ..T.P Ratheline, forri,inan, Dublin
Isaac M. D'ollier, E u in bl'i D
Eq., D g
land , rector of the Bank of Ire-

A. M. M`Moran, Esq., Cambridge-street, Hyde-park-square,
London, Director of the East and West Junction Railway

John W. Fitzpatrick, Esq., J.P., Lisduff, Queen'e County
Charles Doyne, Esq., Newton Park, Dublin
Michael Furnell, Esq., D.L., and J P., Caber Elly Castle

Limerick
Thomas Lloyd, Esq., D.L., and J.P., Beechmountn Limerick
W. Cope Cooper, Esq., D.L., J.P., Cooper Hill, Queen's

County
Samuel Garnett, Esq., J.P., Arch-hall, Meath
Henry Thompson, Esq., Dublin
Robert H. Stubber, Esq., D.L. and J.P., Moyne, (Neen's County
Major Wm. Thompson, J.P., Hollywood Roth, I ►ublin
Edward Wilmot Chetwode, Esq , J.P., Woe/site/00k, Queen's

County
Fulk Greville, Esq., Granard, Longford
Richard Greville, Esq., Granard, Longford
J. West, Esq., Capel-street, Dublin
The r,as Gresham, Esq., Rahmy Park, Dublin, Director of the
Drogheda and Belfast Junction Railways
Michael Andrews, Esq., Ardoyne, Belfast
8. Robert B. Evatt, Esq., Mount Louise, Monagan,. D.L. and J. P.
Edward Galwey, Esq., Limerick
Henry Ryan, E•q., J P., Kilfera, Kilkenny
Henry Lloyd, E•q., J Y., Butler-house, Kilkenny
Timothy O'Brien, Esq., Crescent, Limerick
George Garvey, Esq , J.P., Thornvale, King's County
Isaac English, Esq , Dub'in
Leonard Tlornhill, Esq., Morikstown, Dublin
Alexander M`Donnall, Esq., J. P., Stranraer, Agent for the Union
Bank of Scotland
George L'Estrange, Esq., Dublin Castle
Michael Head Drought, Esq.. J P., Harristown, Q ueen's County
Thos. Birmingham, Esq., J.P., Carromana, Galw;
ry
Robert White, Esq., J.P., Old-park, Queen's County
Edward \Vatter, Esq., J.P., Finoe-house, Tipperary
Thomas G. Stoney, Esq„ J.P., Kyle-park, Tipper ary
Henry White, Esq., J. P., Charleville, Queen's County
Philip Read, Esq , J. P., the Wood Parks, tialw
ay
J. R. Price, Esq., J P., Westfield Farm, Queen's County
Benjamin L. Lefroy, Esq., J P., Cardenton •house„ Limerick
D. M. Maunsell, Esq., J.P., Ballymullen-house, I..imerick
Henry Srnith,Esq., Kilmartin, Queen's County
Charles Cambie, Esq., J. P., Castletown, Tipperary'
Christopher Hark ness, Esq., Craigs Cottage, Dum fries
John Wetherell, Esq., Parsonstown, King's County
James Killinger, Esq Dublia
William Moore, aq., Dublin
Daniel Henry Ferrall, Esq., Beechwood, Roscommon
Robert William Law, J.P., Johnstonmore, Dublin
Richard Bourne, Esq., Terremroe, Dublin.

KNGINEERS.
Thomas Rhodes, Esq, C.E , M.1.C.E., and Samuel
Esq., C.E.
PROVISION iL SECRETARY.
William Hamilton, Esq., itoundwood, .Queen's. County, and 42,
Upper Sackville•street, Dublin.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Robert Hamilton and Co., Upper Sackvillc-street, Dublin
and Messrs. Maltby, Becchctoft, and Robinson, 34, Old Broad•
street, London.

PARLIAMENTARY AGENT.
William Bryden, Esq , 4 New Palace yard, Westminster.
London Offices of the Company, 19, Moorgate-street,
It is proposed to form a railway from the south to the north of
Ireland, commencing at Limerick and ending at Clones, a distance
of 129 miles, with a branch from Parsonstown. through Rosetta,
to Tr. mplemore, of 18 miles This railway will proceed north-
wards by Killaloe, Nenagh, Cloughjorcian, Shin one, Parsonstown,
Banagher, Shannon Harbour, Athlone, Ballymahon, Kenagh, Long.
ford, Granard, Arvagh, Cavan, and Ballyhaise, to Cones, at which
point it will meet the traffic supplied by the Bo Vast and Bally_
mena, the Ulster, the Newry and Enniskillen, the Dundalk and
Enniskillen, and the Coleraine, Londonderry and Enniskillen Rail.
ways, thus concentrating, in its northern terminus, the intercourse
of all the lines in that important portion of the country; and on
the south, being in direct communication with the various existing
and projected lines to Cork, Waterford, Limerick, Tralee, &c.,
it will bring the two extremes of the kingdom into immediate con.
nexior , effectually open up the interior of the country, and neces-
sarily tend to develop its almost hidden resources, while the fact
of the line crossing the direction of all the channels of communi.
cation from cast to west of the country, without competing with
any of them, forms a singular and strikingly advantageous feature
in the undertaking. _

Detailed prospectuses, with a plan, arid forms of applications
for Shares, may be obtained on application to the Secretary, to the
Solicitors, or any of the principal Stock and Sharebrokers in the
kingdom, through any of whom applications may be transmitted,
and at the London Offices of the Company.

THE STAFFORDSHIRE AND NORTH
MIDLAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.

(Provisionally Registered )
Capital 700,0001., in 28,000 Shares of 25/.. each.
Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

the Hon. and Rev. Augustus Duncombe, Calwich Abbey, Ash.

bourne, Derbyshire
Thcrnas Bishop, Esq., Standard-hill, Nottingham, Deputy-Chair-
man of the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, and Eastern
Junction Railway
John Fowler Burbidge, Esq., Mayor of Grantham
John Bloor, Esq., Tutbury, Staffordshire, Director of Derby,
Gainsborough and Great Grimsby, and Tean and Dove Railways
W. Gabbett Beare, Esq., 6, Porchester-place, Connaught-square,

Director of the Direct London and Manchester Railway
William Cantrell, Esq., Wirksworth
John Chambers, Esq., the Hirst, Alfreton, Derbyshire, Director of

the Derby and Crewe Railway
Charles Kelly Cooper. Esq., Ashbourne
Robert Cresswell, Esq., Idridgehay, Wiasworth
John Earp, Esq., Uttroteter
Lieutenant-Colonel Elrington, Wyndham-place, Bryanston-square,
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
David Evans, Esq., B•lper
Henry Plumptre Gipps, Esq., 9, Montagu-place, Bryanston-square,
Director of the Direct London and Manchester Railway
William Harding, Esq., Lea-hall, Ashbourne
Thomas Holmes, Esq., The Elms, Cheadle
Sir John Key, Bart., alderman, King's Arms-yard, London, Direc.

tor of the Direct London and Manchester Railway
John Keys, Esq., Whiston, Cheadle, Staffordshire
Wm. Lawrence, Esq., Brixton, Director of the Direct London and
Manchester Railway
Daniel Oakden, Esq., Bentley-hall, Ashbourne
Wiliam Orpe, E,q., Birchwood-moor, Ashbourne
Benjamin Oliveira, E.q., F. R.S., Upper Hyde-park-street, Di-
rector of the Direct London and Manchester Railway
Kenyon Stevens Pa.l,r, E.q., Q.C., 40, Gower-street, London,
Director of the Direct London and Manchester Railway
Thomas Richard,,on, Esq., Derby
John skevi:,gtob, E.q., Ashbourne
W. B. Spurgeon, Esq , Derby
John Swan, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Arebergate, Not.
tingham, Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
Thomas Walker, Esq., Belper
Charles Walker, Esq., Ellaston, Staffordshire
George Walker, Esq., Wootton-park, Ashbourne
Joseph Loxdale Warren, Esq., The Lodge, Market Draytcn, and
Con,all Hall, Cheadle, Director of the Macclesfield and Lich-
fild Railway
Joseph Wass, Esq., Lea, near Matlock, Director of the Manches-
ter, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland Junction Railway
James Dyer Williams, Esq., Milton-street, Dorset.square, London,

Director of the Taw Vale Railway Extension and Dock Company
Frederick Williams, Esq., Hampstead
William Wright, Esq., Wirkworth
B. B. Williams, Esq., Wyndham.place, Bryanston. square, Director
of the Direct London and Manchester Railway
Thomas Wyse, Esq., Ashbourne
illiam Hurd Wood, Esq., Ashbourne
Josepn Wyles, Esq., Grantham, Director of the Ambergate, Not-
tingham, Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway.
(With power to add to their number.)
ACTING ENGINEER—WiIIiam M. Higgins, Esq.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Robarts, Curtis, and Co., Lombard-street, London
The Uttoxeter, Burton and Ashbourne Union Banking Company,
Uttoxeter and Ashbourne
The Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Belper
The Manchester and Liverpool District Banking Company,
Stafford.

traffic, if it do not engross the whole. The cost of the stone and
expenses of delivery by the canal from Froghall to the iron district,
amount to 7s. per ton, and by this railway, after allowing a remu-
nerative toll, would be laid down at less than 4s. per ton.
The visitors to the Peak are already very numerous. Let this
romantic scenery (which may be justly termed the Switzerland
of the centre of England) be opened to the indus rious artisans
who chiefly compose the great hives of population with which this
railway will communicate. Let this beautiful scenery be made
easily accessible to this class of persons at a trifling sacrifice both
of time and money, and the revenue from this source alone
during the summer months will be found to be of no inconsider-
able amount.

The projectors feel convinced that this railway contains the ele-
ments of great prosperity, and that as an investment it offers more
than ordinaty security. There can be no doubt of a profitable
return for the capital, and the nature of the country presents in.
superal le obstacles to the formation of any other line which can
materially compete with it.
Applications for shares, in the following form, accompanied by
a satisfactory reference, may be addressed to the secretary, and
William le Grand, Esq., Shorter's.court, London.

TIIE CENTRAL SUSSEX ; or, SOUTH-
AMPTON, PORTSMOUTH, ATH AM, and
SHEERNESS DIRECT RAILWAY.
Capital, 1,500,000/, in 60,000 Shares of 25/. each.
Deposit, 2/. 12s. 6d. per Share.
(Provisionally Registered.)
SOLICITORS.
W. B. James, Esq., 5, BaAinghall.street, City.
Henry Padwick, Esq., Horsham.

The object of this line is to establish a direct and rapid commu-
nication between the great naval and military depots at Ports-
mouth, Chatham, and Sheerness, as well as to affind to the Cen-
tral districts of Sussex increased facilities of intercourse with the
adjoining counties to the eastward and westward.
Commencing at the Bishops stoke station of the South-Western
Railway, this line will proceed in an easterly direction to Bishops
Waltham, Petersfield, Midhurst and Petworth, at which place it
will unite with a branch from Portsmouth. The main trunk
then continue by Petworth to Horsham, where it will fall into the
Crawley and Horsham branch of the London and Brighton Rail.
way. Making use of that branch, it will proceed from Crawley to
East Orinstvad, and thcntx in a nortli•vaaturly direction till it
meets the South-Eastern Railway at the rot bridge station, at
which point the Brighton. Lewes, and Tonbridge.wells Railway
will join, so That this proje.•t will also be an extension of that
scheme to Rochester, Chatham, New Brempton, Sheeerness, and
Gravesend ; then continuing in the same direction it will fall
into the Maidstone and Rochester line, at Lower Mailing, which
takes a direct course to Rochester and Chatham. The Ports.
mouth branch will leave the trunk line at Billingshurst, and pass
through Pulborough direct to Chichester, and reach Portsmouth
by the Chichester and Portsmouth Railway.

The following towns will receive railway accommodation by this
line:—Chatham, Rochester, Caxton, Lower :galling, Addington,
Plaxtall, Tunbridge, Penshurst, Camden, East Grinstead, Cor-
hampton, Horsham, Itchingfield, Billinghurst, Wisborough Green,
Tillington, Petw3rth, Midhurst, Petersfield, East Meon, Meon
Stoke, Bishops Waltham.

And by the Portsmouth branch !—Pulborough, Chichester,
Emsworth, Havant, Portsea, and Portsmouth.
A. reference to the map will show that this line, if carried into
effect, besides affording to the rich and extensive district of central
Sussex a lateral railway communication, with which it is at pre-
sent wholly unprovided, will establish the most direct means of in-
tercourse between the whole of the south of England, from the Isle
of Wight, westward, including the great cities and ports of Ports-
mouth, Southampton, Salisbury, Poole, Weymouth, Dorchester,
Exeter, Plymouth, amt Fal nouth, which will be connected by
various projected lines, and the rich and populous county of Kent,
with its important towns of Maidstone, llochever, Chatham, Sheer.
ness, Canterbury, and Dover,—being even more direct by thirty-
one miles that the coast line between Dover and Southampton ;
uniting, also, the much-frequented watering-places of the Kentish
coast, from Herne Bay round to Folkstone, with those of the Isle
of Wight, and the coasts of Dorsetshire and Devonshire; and,
above all, bringing the great arsenals of the kingdom, Plymouth
included, into direct intercommunication and close approximation.
It should be observed, that this railway will also prove a far
more direct means of communication than any existing line be-
tween the Arsenals of Woolwich and Deptford on the one hand,
and Portsmouth an the other. By means of the Brighton Railway,
as far as Horsham, and thence by the proposed line to Portsmouth,
troops, seamen and naval and military stores, may be conveyed be-
tween these great arsenals with a saving of 21 miles above any
existing railway, especially affording immense convenience to the
troops constantly passing out to the East Indies and other colonies,
by the avoidance of the circuitous and tedious navigation from
etravesend. In this point of view, this line will prove of essential
value to the Government, and must be regarded in the light of a
great national undertaking; and, moreover, cannot fail of proving
highly remunerative to the shareholders.

The opportunity will be afforded, by means of this railroad, of
establishing the electric telegraph between the most important
naval and military depots of the kingdom.

As regards local traffic, this line will not compete with any
existing railroad, but rather prove beneficial to all; and by means
of the various lines already projected from London, Dorking,
Guilford, and other parts north, to the coast of Sussex, which will
cross the proposed line, this latter will afford a direct access from
the central district of Sussex to all parts of the kingdom.
The merits of this line, already set forth, are greatly enhanced
by its peculiarly direct character—by its remarkab!e facilities of
construction, and by its very slight interference with ornamental
property.

The entire length of the line will he 111 miles, of which 19
miles are either already made, or about to be constructed by other
companies, leaving 92 miles to be laid down by the " Central
Sussex, or Southampton, Portsmouth, Chatham, and Sheerness
Direct Railway Company."
The usual power will be taken in the Act of Parliament to
allow interest at 4 per cent. on all paid-up calls from the passing
of the Act until the completion of the line, an the liability of the
shareholders will be limited to the amount of the subscription.
Until an Act of Parliament shall be obtained, the affairs of this
Company will be under the control of the Committee of Manag,
ment for the time being, to whom power will be given to allot the
shares, and to apply the funds of the Company in payment of all
the expenses incurred in its formation, and in the preparation of
the plans and sections to be submitted to Parliament.
Power will be applied for in the Act. and in the meantime is
hereby given to the Committee of Management, as above, to raise
any additional capital, to abandon any part of the line, or make
branch lines, to enter into any arrangements with any other
company or companies, and also nominate the first Directors of the
Company.

All communications with reference to this line, may be addressed
to W. B. James. Esq., solicitor, 5, Basinghall-street, London; or
to Henry Padwick, Esq., solicitor, Horsham.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Central Sussex, or South.
ampton, Portsrnsuth, Chatham, and Sheerness Direct Railway.
Gentlemen,-1 request that you will allot to me shares
of 204 each in this Company, and I undertake to accept the same,
and pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that may
bealo lotted to me; and I undertake also to execute the Parliamen-
tary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.

Date,

Name (in full)
Residence
Trade or Profession ..
Reference
Address of Referee

FRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS.
1
r capital,
750(,101e0g4.teitneci3P7,r5o0vo t
ir,iaarlely. )
AND MIDLAND
iL)iiiit'EcTSHRAELINCIALyi:vDia, GOOLE, THORNE, DON.
CASTER, ROTHERHAM, AND MASBRO'.
of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per share.

naNttEas.
Messrs. Pease and Liddells, Hull.
Messrs. Leatham, Tew, and Co., Wakefield.

CONSULTING ENGINEER.
ACTING EN Billington, Esq., C E.

SOLICITORS.
John ThorneY, Esq., Edward Sidebottom, Esq., Hull.
wiiii*m R. Bakewell, Esq., G. D. Barker, Esq., Wakefield.
SECHETAIM—WiIIiam Tease, Esq „ Wakefield.

Sons, and Torr, 20, Chancery.
LONDON AGENTS—Alessrs. Sudilaonwe,.

PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—Mcsors. Sudlow and Kingdon, 6, New
Palace-yard, London.

The object of this line is to form the nearest possible route from
Hull to Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley,
and other places, in connexion with the Midland Railway and its
Extensions.

The line ii intended to commence at a junction with the Hull
and Selby Railway at or near Gilberdyke, and from thence con.
tinue in a direct HNC through or near Linton, Bellasize, Laxton,
Skelton, Goole, Thorne, Fishlake, Bramwith, Hatfield, Armthorp,
Doncaster, Sprotboro', (and its extensive Limestone Fields) Co.
nisbro', Hooton, Rotherham, and to join the Midland Railway at
Masbro'.

The following are some of the advantages this line possesses
It will, by a junction with the proposed Manchester, Iluddersheid,
and Great Grimsby Railway, at Doncaster, effect a saving between
Hull and Manchester, and between Hull and Liverpool, of about
forty miles, over any existing route.
It will form a junction upon a level with the proposed London
and York at Doncaster, and thus open the shortest route horn the
termini of these projected lines to London and Edinburgh, and
also the most direct route to Chesterfield, Nottingham, Derby,
and Birmingham.

It will form a direct route from Hull to Sheffield through
Goole, Thorne, and Doncaster. _

It will form a direct line from Hull to Barnsley, and the kex-
haustible coalfields of Silkstone, Worsbro' Cawthorne, Bretton,
Billingley, Barugh, and also to the limestone fie ds in the neigh-
bourhood of Doncaster, which will be of great benefit to the agri-
cultural districts of Lincolnshire and the East and North Ridings
of Yorkshire,

It will, by the saving of distance and of stoppage, accelerate the
mails between Hull and Sheffield, and Hull and Manchester, at
least two hours.

The whole of the country has been carefully surveyed, and the
report of the engineer is exceedingly satisfactory.
No engineering difficulties exist, nor will any ornamental or re-
sidential property be interfered with, and the line is comparatively
a straight one.
The cost of construction is very much below the average, owing
to its being a surface line nearly the whole distance, and the im-
mense traffic that will pass over it mu►t render it highly remune.
rative to the shareholders.

An influential provisional committee is now forming, and the
names of the gentlemen comprising it will be shortly announced.
In the meantime, further information may be obtained from the
solicitors ; and applivation for shares, in the form given below, ac.
companied with satisfactory references, may also be addressed to the
solicitors, the Secretary, or the following brokers:—Hull—Messrs.
Flint and Tootal ; Mr. George Bowlby. Leeds—Mr. It. Binney ;
Messrs. Watson, Tootal, and Barfr; and Meters. J. France and
Co. Wakefield—Mr. Thomas Nightingale, and Mr. Charles Clap-
ham.

LIVERPOOL AND DERBY DIRECT
RAILWAY, and LIVERPOOL and MANCHESTER,
GRAND JUNCTION, and MIDLAND COUNTIES RAIL-
WAYS JUNCTION.

(provisionally Registered pursuant to 7 and S Viet., cap. 110.)
Capital 1,400,0001., in 56,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. Its. 6d. per Share.
Lord George Lennox, 33, St. James's-street

The Count Bathyany, 5, Audley-square
The Hon. F. H. F. Berkeley, M.P., 6, Spring.gardens
The Hon. A. F. Berkeley, 6, Spring-gardens
The Hon. A. Capel, Epping.

Wynn Ellis, Esq., M.P., 30, Cadogan-place, and Ponsbourne-
park, Hertfordshire
Major. General Wright, &c., &c., Gloucester-place, Portman-
square
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, 19, Cli (ford street, Director of
the County Fire-office
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire, Di-
rector of the Chepstow and Forest of Demo Railway
Sir James Eglintcn Anderson, M.R.1.A., 11, New Burlington-
street
Admiral Ayscough, Prospect-house, Southampton, Director of the
South and Midlands Junction, awl Cambridge and Lino;ln Ex-
tension Itai!ways
Colonel Wm. M_liriwaring Sloane, Air-street, Piccadilly

Major Oliver Lyndliarn, K. 11., 8, New-street, Dorset-square,
Chairman of the G oucester and Aberystwith, and Director of
the Thames Valley Railways
Major Taylor, Italcliff,! Hall, near Nottingham, Director of the

West Midland, the Nottingham and Mansfield, and Hereford

and Merther Tydvil Junction Railway
Major T. F. Croft, 15, Regent-street, Chairman of the Metro-
politan Grand Junction, and Director of the Direct Manchester
Railway
Major William Snow, Old Cavendish-street, Cavendish square
Major Waller, Deputy-Chairman of the South and Midlands, and
Director of the Thames Valley Railways
Richard Carpenter, Esq., Deputy. Lieutenant of the County of
Middlesex
Captain Seth N. Fisher, Director of the South and Midlands, the
London and Birmingham Extension, and Erewash Valley Rail-
ways
Captain Farrington, East Cowes, Isle of Wight
Captain Thomas Gou!d, Junior United Service Club
John Anderson, Esq , E.I. C.S., Director of the Oxford and Wor.
ccster Extension and Chester Junction Railways
Atk.nson, Esq., M.D., Director of the Midland, Barnsley, Shef.
field, Leeds, and Bradford Railways
John Bather, EA., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith
Railway
Wm. Bardgett, Esq., Winchester-house, Broad street, Director of
the Italian and Austrian, and the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford
Railways
Joseph Issisley, E,q , Stanhope-street, Park place
Henry Weeeh Burgess, Esq., Temple-park, Hampstead, Director
of the Sheilisld, Buxton, Leek Potteries, and Crewe Railways
J. Benson, Esq., Park.place Villa, Male a- hill, Director of the
Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway
Thomas Bent, Esq.. M.D., Magistrate of the County and Borough
of Derby. Director of the Derby, Gainsborough, and Great
Grimsby Junction Railway
John Blore, Esq., Tuliniry, Director of the Cambridge and Lin-
coln Extension Railway
John Filii.gliarn Bishop, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Wol-
verhampton, Birmingham, and 'Nottingham Railway
JosephWi liamu
sphroopt
t EBsogy Crescent,
I,E‘q'
Minories, Director of the Black wall
Railway
J. B. Brown, Esq., Oxford- square, Hyde-park
Samuel Bryan, Esq., Northampton
William Cantrell, Esq., Workworth, Director of the Ambergatc
and Nottingham Railway
John Castendick, Esq.
homas Mortitner Cleobury, eq., Acton, Middlesex, Director of
the Thames Valley Railway
James Chit, E-q., Bloomsbury-square, Director of the Manchester
and Rugby Railway
William Cramotid, Esq., Derby
Dunbar T. Cother, Esq., Temple, Director of the Welch Midland
Railway
Millis Coventry, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands Junc-
tion, Birmingham Extension, and Great Leeds and London
Direct Railways
Robert Chadwick, Esq , Derby, Director of the Derby, Gains.
borough, and Great Grimsby Junction Railway
Arthur Agard Davenport, Esq., Director of the Thames Valley,
Great Leeds and London, Oxford and Worcester Extension,
and Worcester Junction Railways
Francis Dacre, Esq., Stratford, Essex, Director of the Great
Leeds and London Railway
The Rev. John Dobie, M.A., Magistrate of the County of Lan-
caster

Edward Doubleday, Esq., F.L.S , Great Surrey-street, London,
Director of the Thames Valley Railway
John Dennis, Esq., Director of the West Midlands, the Thames
Valley, and the Erewash Valley Railways
Joel Edens, E,q., Northampton, Director of the Sheffield, Not.
tingham, and London, and the Midland and Eastern Counties
Railways
Richard Edensor, E.q., Road-Meadow, Ashbourne
Francis Ewart, Esq., Temple, Director of the Great Leeds and
London Direct Railway
George Evans, Esq., Milbury-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of
the Direct London and Exeter Railway
John Charles Fernihough, Rodney-street, Liverpool, Director of
the Sheili Id and Potteries, and the Grand Junction Railways
Samuel Wright Fearne, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby, Gains-
borough, and Great Grimsby Junction, and the West Midland
Railways
Samuel Fox, Esq., Magistrate of the borough of Derby, Director of
the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway
Benjamin Franklin, Esq., 5, Harley-street, Cavendish -square, Di-
rector of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Rail-
way
Thomas Gee, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Grand Union
Railway
John Grant, Esq, Northampton, Director of the Warwick and
Worcester Railway
Henry Glynn, Esq., Garden-coutt, Temple
Henry Francis Gisborne, Erik, Derby, Director of the South Stat.
fordshire Junction; the Ijeicester and Tastworth, and the Tring
Reading, and Basings:oke Railways
Richard Greenhalgh, Esq., far Bank, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Robert Hancorne, Esq., Euston-square, Director of the Metro-
politan Junction Railway
James Heygate, Esq., M.D. and F.R.S., Derby, Director of the
Derby, Gainsborough, and Great Grimsby Junction, and Mac-
clesfield and Lichfield Railways
F. J. Hall, Esq., Torrington.square, London, and the Grange, Al.
freton, Director of the Bideford and Tavistock and the Erewash
Valley Railways
Thomas Hackett, Esq , Derby, Director of the Great Manchester
and Southampton, and the Warwick, Coventry, and Nottingham
Railways
J. G. Hammack, Esq.- Essex-house, Mile-end-road, Director of
the Great Leeds and London and Blackwell Railways
James Holl.ngworth, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby,
and Manchester Railway
W. H. Halpin, Esq., 23, Grafton-street, Fitsroy-rquare, Director
of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
T. Piers Healy, Esq , Temple, Managing Director of the Direct
London and Exeter, and the Cheltenham and Brighton Rail.
ways
George Price Hill, Esq., Gowanbrw-house, Hampstead, Director
of the Thames Valley and Ercwash Valley Extension Railways
Isaac Holmes, Esq., Liverpool
James Hopkins, Esq., Bedford-square, Deputy-Chairman of the
Exeter and Weymouth, and Director of the Warwick and Wor-
cester Railway
Samuel Hurst, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the West Midland
Railway
Richard Edleston Hyde, Esq., Liverpool
Francis Jeesop, Esq., Alderman of Derby, Director of the Derby,
Gainstiorough, and Great Grimsby Junction Railway
Mr. Alderman Kelly, Director of the London and Birmingham
Extension, the West Midland, and the Erewash Valley Exten-
sion Railways
James Lamb, Esq., 25, Hyde-park square
James Lassetter, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railway
Richard Lassetter, Esq , Uttoxeter, Director of the Derb; shire,
Staffordshire, and Wore, ster Junction Railway
W. Margetson, Esq., Streatham
John Molladay, Esq.. Marble-hall, Warwick, Director of the
Lendon and Birmingham Extension, the Exe:er and Weymouth,
and Erewash Valley Railways
Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands, the
London and Birmingham Extension, and the Great Leeds and
London Direct Railways
William Eaton Mousley, Esq., Derby, Director of the Tean and
Dove Valley Railway
T. C. Newton. Esq., Bruton• street, Berkeley-square, Director of
the Isle of Man Railway
B. Oliveira, Esq., F. R.S , Upper Hyde-park-gardens, Director of
the Thames Valley and Erewash Valley Extension Railways
Thomas Paul, Esq., Director of the Direct London and Exeter
Railway
Samuel Parsons,Esq., Sackville-street, Piccadilly
W. Pastow, Esq., Surrey-place, Director of the Oxford and Wor-
cester Extension and Chester Junction Railway
R. Joseph Parsons, Esq. Highfield-house, Mansfield
Lawrence John Parsons, Esq., St. John's College, Cambridge
James Peet, Esq Alderman of Derby, Director of Rugby,
Derby, and Manchester Railway
George R. Peppercorns, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex, Director of the
Chatham and Portsmouth Railway
R. B. Phillipson, Esq., Director of the Rugby, Leamington, and
Warwick Railway
R. Cowley Polhill, Esq., Brompten, Director of the Warwick and
Worcester and Thames Valley Railways
Samuel Pocock, Esq., Bloomsbury square, Director of the Shef-
field and Macclesfield Railway
Rees Price, Esq., Tyne tall, Ilford, Essex, Director of the
Eastern and Northern Counties Junction Railways, &c.
R. A. Riddell, Esq., Director of the Metropolitan Junction
Railway
Robert Rom❑ey Rea, Esq., Waterford, Director of the Weymouth
and Dorchester Railway
Robert Richards, Esq., Temple, Director of the South and Mid-
lands Railway
John Rennie, Esq.

Thomas Richardson, Esq., Derby, Director of the Staffordshire and
North Midland Junction Railway, &c.
John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Bycullah-park, Enfield, Middlesex,
Managing Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
William Robinson, Esq , Manchester
James Russell, Esq , 37, Gloucester-place, Portman-square
Francis Rouse, Esq., Upper Montague-street, Montague-square
John Saunders, Esq., Magistrate for the borough of Derby, Direc-
tor of the Great MancheEer, Rugby, and Southampton Rail-
way
Henry Savage, Esq., 34, Dorset-place, Dorset-square, Director of
the Oxford and ‘Vorcester Extension and the Erewash Valley
Ext. nsion Railways
W. stiaw, Esq., Director of the W.,rwick and Worcester and Ere-
wash Valley Railways
George Thomas Smith, Etq., Oakhain, Director of the Peterbo.
rough, Wisbeach, and Lynn Railway
William Smith, Esq., Upton, near Ashbourne, Director of the
Derby, Stafford, and Worcester Railway
Thomas Kemp Story, aq., Ditchley-park, Oxfordshire
W. Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-,quare, Director of
the South and Midland, and Erewash Valley, and Belfast,
Larne, and Ballymena Railways
Wm. Henry Swinton, Esq., 49,: Moorgate.street, and Sussex-
gardens, Dyoe_park, Director of the Northern and Southern
Connecting Railway
T. Taylor, Esq., Director of the Leeds, York, and Midland Rail.
way
Wit:Lint Taylor, Esq., Derby, Director of the Darby, Gainsbo-
rough, and Great Grimsby Junction Railway
Gilliam Taylor, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Wok erhamp-
ton, Bilminghatn, and Nottingham Railway
James Templar, Esq., Brixton, Surrey, Director of the Great Leeds
and London Direct, and the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford
Railways
James Thompson, Esq., Wray, Lancaster, Director of the Liver-
pool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, and the Leeds and
Liverpool Direct Railways
Samuel Tudor, Esq., Ul per Thames-street, and Gotbals, Hull,
Director of the Derby and Start:Ad, and Groat Leeds and Lon-
don Railways
Edward Starkie Tuton, Esq., Liverpool, Director of the Wolver-
hampton, Birmingham, and Nottingham Railway

Charles Waite, Esq., M.D., Willesden, Director of the Welsh
Midland Railway

James Smith Walters, Esq., the Hayes, Bakewell, Director of the
Birmingham and Manchester Direct Railway
John Williams, Esq., 4, lurniv..i's lon, DirccLz of the Rho: (I:.'a
Valley Railway
Thomas Wright, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby, Gainsbo-
rough, and Great Grimsby Junction Railway

Henry Wright, Esq , 22, Brunswick-square, Director of the
Staffordshire Potteries and Liverpool and Manchester Direct
Railways
Rrbert Wright, Esq., Lonrclale-square, Director of the Rhondda
and Ely Valleys, and Scuth Wales Railways
George Waite, Esq, 2, Old Burlington-street, Director of the
Erewash Valley Extension and of the Worcester and Warwick
Rai Iwk s _ .

(With power to add to their number.)
asrtaEas.
Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co.
The Commercial Bank, Lothbury.
SOLICITOR—Francis William Mount, Esq., 10, Lawrence Pountney-
lane, London.
SECRETARY (pro tem.) Mr James Oliver.
ENGINEER—SamueI Hughes, Esq., C.E.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Knutsford—Henry Wright, Esq.
Congleton—John Wilson, Esq.
Derby—Messrs. Dunnicliffs and Severne.

This Company has been formed for the purpose of constructing
and maintaining a direct line of railway between the towns of
Liverpool and Derby, by proceeding from an independent terminus
at Liverpool, or on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, diverg-
ing in a direct course to Warrington, Knut,ford, thence to Congle-
ton, Leek, Ashbourne, by Brailsford and Langley, to Derby, thus
aftbrding railway accommodation (the want of which has for some
considerable time been most seriously felt) to four large interme-
diate manufacturing towns, and completing a direct communica-
tion to Ireland, Liverpool, and the North-west of England, from
Nottingham, Grantham, and the Eastern ports of Boston, Lynn,
and Yarmouth ; as also (in conjunction with the Midland Conn.
ties Railway) from Leicester, Melton Mowbray, Oakham, Stam.
ford, Peterborough, Ely, and Cambridge; and forming, by the
intended Churnet and Blythe Valley Railway, the most direct line
of communication betwt en Liverpool and London.
The importance of the different towns through which this rail-
way will pass, is sufficient to convince all parties that on public
grounds alone it is absolutely necessary; and that the immense local
traffic not only justifies but demands its formation, independently uf
the great accession which must necessarily follow, from the advan.
tages wt.ich will be given to the several towns and ports above-
enumerated, and to the various ports south-east of Derby, in opening
to them the grand commercial depot and port of Liverpool.
The necessity of establishing the most direct railway communi-
cation between the towns of Liverpool and Derby is self-evident,
from the fact of the enormous traffic which at present exists under
the most disadvantageous circumstances ; the nearest communica-
tion by railway being 120 miles, whilst, by the construction of the
prop-sed line, the entire distance will be reduced to about 73 miles,
opening at the same time the shortest practicable route between
Liverpool, Manchester, and London.

It would be superfluous, in reference to a line presenting so many
extraordinary advantages, to encumber the prospectus with details
of estimated traffic; for, independent of its possessing the great
desideratum of directness, the present local train, it is well known,
will produce a return that evidently must surpass that of any other
scheme which has hitherto been projected.
It may further be mentioned, as worthy of consideration, that
the proposed line, which must necessarily form a " Great Trunk
line," interferes with no existing railway, presents no engineering
difficulties, and requires no works to cause any delay in its corn -
pletion.

Power will be taken by the Act of Parliament to allow in-
terest at the rate of 4/. per cent, per annum on all calls until
the opening of the line, and no subscriber will be answerable for
more than the amount of his deposit until the Act is obtained, and
then not beyond his subscription.
Until an Act of Parliament be obtained, the affairs of the Com-
pany will be under the direction and control of the Committee of
Management. Power will be applied for in the Act—and, in the
mean time, is hereby given to the Committee of Management—to
increase the proposed capital, if necessary ; to abandon any part of
the line; to make branch lines, or enter into arrangements with
any other company or companies; and to nominate the first Direc-
tors of the Company. In the allotment of shares a preference will
be given to all parties locally interested, and shareholders in the
different railways communicating with the line.

Application for shares, in the form subjoined, may be made to
the solici,or, the local agents, and the following stock and share-
brokers (and must be accompanied by a reference of known re-
spectability.) London—Messrs. Peppercorne and Co., Old Broad..
street; Messrs. Lynd and Rickard, Bank Chambers. Liverpool—
Messrs. Joseph King and Son, and Messrs. Cameron, Cazenove,
and Taunton. Leeds—Messrs. Hopps and Co. Manchester—
Messrs. Thomas Cardwell and Sons. Birmingham—Mr. W. H.
Col:is, New-street. Bradford—Messrs. R. and M. Scholetleld and
Co. Derby—Messrs. Eyre and Shasv. Hull—Mr. Edward Simp-
son. York—Messrs. Grayston and Earle. Edinburgh—William
Cleland, Esq.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

To the Provisional Committee of the Liverpool and Derby Direct

Railway, &c., &c.
10, Lawrence Poultney -lane, London.

Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me Shares in this
undertaking, and I agree to accept the same, or any portion thereof,
subject to the provisions of the Subscribers' agreement ; and I
further: agree to execute the same, and any ether agreement or
deeds, and to pay the deposit when required.
Usual Signature
Name in full
Residence
Description.
Date

Referee

THE GREAT 11 ESTERN RAIL WAY OF
CANADA.
(Chartered by Act of Legislature.)
Capital 1,500 0001. currency-1,350,0001. sterling.
In 60,000 Shares of 251 currency-221. 10s. sterling.
Deposit 31. 51. per Share, on account of the three first instalments
provided by the Act.
DIRECTION IN CANADA.
Sir ALLAN NAPIER MACNAB, Speaker of the House of
Assembly, President.
William M. Shaw, Esq. 1 James B. Ewart, Esq.
John 0. Hatt, Esq. Peter Carroll, Esq.
L. Lawrasen, Esq. George S. Tiffany, Esq.
CORRESPONDING COMMITTEE OF ENGLISH SHAREHOLDERS.
William James Chaplin, Esq. John Masterman, jun., Esq.
Charles Devaux, Esq. John Moss, Ebq.
Henry John Enthoven, Esq. Thomas Smith, Esq.
Abel Lewes Gower, Esq. Matthew Uzielli, Esq.
George Hudson, Esq., M.P. Gregory Seale Walters, Esq.
Samuel Laing, Esq.
SOLICITORS IN LONDON—Messrs. Bircham and Dalrymple,
15, Bedford-row.