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Colebrook Dale, and approaching in its course Wellington and Wem
enters Whitchurch. From this central places branch will be formed
to Norwich via Stoke, forming a junction with the Liverpool and
Crewe Railway. The trunk line will continue from Whitchurch, and
passing through or -near Malpas, have its northern terminus in the
city of Chester.
In estimating the probable anunnt of revenue which the Worees- S.
ter and Chester Railway may be expected to yield, many sources of . -;,..,
profit present themselves, such are the dense population located along:, ti.-:
the length of the Severn Vale, and the enriching works of industr I'T:ff.
in which they are engaged. Amongst the latter may be mention i.r:
the China manufactories of Worcester, the iron, coal, and earthen •
ware works at Broseley and other places; the agricultural proirre "-,i.
brought to Stourport market ; the inexhaustibl4 fields of coal an& ---,
mines of iron.ore in_tbe :vicinity of ColebrookDale, Ironbridge, and \ '
!
the districts to the east of Shrewsbury generally.
In calculating the cost of construction unusual advantages are also -,
obvious. The line traverses a district affording levels of several
miles in extent, and with a surface peculiarly favourable. The resi-
dent population, 'disappointed by the postponement of promised pro-
jects, have warmly espoused the present, and the labouring popula-
tion being familiar with mining operations, will be found better
qualified for the execution of railway works here than in many other
localities.

As a link in the railway network of England, or as auxiliary
to existing or projected lines passing In various directions, few
schemes hitherto proposed' appear to afford greater inducement
for investment, or a wider rouge of accommodation for traffic and
travelling. This project constitutes a lengthened link in the chain
that will connect Liverpool with Bristol, the grand. trunk of the
West of England ;—its southern terminus, Worcester, Is the half-
way station of the London and rortdymillacri 'broad gauge line:—
by projected lines a direct communication will be afforded west-
ward to Swansea and Abervstwith, and, eaz: ward, to Warwick and
Northampton, Cambridge, I'eterborough, Harwich, Lynn, Lincoln,
and Hull.

The line has been repeatedly and carefully examined by the Com-
pany's acting engineer, who reports that the rail for many miles may
be laid on the natural level—that the gradients are in every is-
stance favourable—that the geological struct•ire of the districts to
be traversed is equally so, and that the want of such a line of com-
munication is acknowledged by the interests seated en its proposed
course.

Applications for prospectuses-.and plans may be made, and forms
of application for shares had at the: offices of Messrs. Potter and
Collingridge, solicitors, 5, Itaslnghall-street ; also of W. 13. James,
Esq., solicitor, 5, IlasinghaU-street ; of the local agents ; and of the
following gentlemen :

Mr. Samuel Hanbury, 4. Angel-court ;
Loadou •• •• /Mr. Whiston Powell, 12, Copthall-court ; and
Messrs. Peppercorne, 2, Old Broad-street
Liverpool . .....3fessrs. Alston and Cage.
Manchester
[Messrs. Houghland and Leese, and Mr. WU-
.. liam Marshall.
se r Messrs. Collinson and Flint, an 4 Mr. James
/ Bowden
Leeds •• • • . [Messrs. Smith and Perfect, and
.... , J. Yoting and Co.,
Strat ford-on-Avon.. r. William Bolton.
Exeter. • • •• Mr. Thomas Sanford.
Plymouth • .
Birminghain • . Mr. Collis and Mr. John Wright.
Glasgow.. .. • • •• • •Messrs. Tassie and Co.
Messrs. Robertson and Co., and
Edinburgh ........ Messrs. M'Callum and Co.
Huddersfield ..... Messrs. Wilson and Hellawell,
Worcester
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
THE OXFORD and WORCESTER EXTENSION and CHESTER
JUNCTION RAILWAY, with BRANCHES to SHREWSBURY
and NORTHWICH.
Capital, 2,250,0007., in 125,000 Shares of 20/. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
To the Provisional Committee of the Worcester and Chester
Railway.
Gentlemen, —I request that you will allot to me Shares of
20/. each is this Company, and I undertake to accept the same, and
to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that may be al-
lotted to me; and I undertake also to execute the Parliamentary
Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
Name(in tu11)......... ................
Trade or Profession ................
Refe.rence...................
Address of Referee . ..........

Date............

OXFORD and WORCESTER EXTENSION-
and CHESTER JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that no further application, for Shares in
this Company will, be received after Tuesday, the 30th instant.
By order, HILTON THOMAS JENKINS, Secretary,
5, Basinghall-street, September 23, 1845,

JAMAICA SOUTHERN, EASTERN, AND
NORTHERN RAILWAY, FROM KINGSTON TO MON-
TEGO BAY. •

Office, No. 43, Ifoorgate-street.
Capital 1,500,000/., in 30,000 Shares of 501. each.
Deposit 2/. per Share.
_ _ _ _

A Reservation of Shares for the Proprietary, and others interested is
the Island.
PROVISIONAL olatlarrTEE.
Major-Gen. Sir Love Parry, K.C.H.' Madryn Park, Caernarveashire
Sir John Key, Bart, Alderman of London, King's Arms-yard
Sir John J. Ilansier, F.R.S , Upper Bedford-place
Sir George Rich, 43, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square
P. S. Butler, Esq., M.P., Queen-square, Westminster
Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of London
Major Adair, U.& Club, Pall-mall, Director of the Church Of Eng-
land Insurance Company
Joseph Bishop, Esq., Director of the Blackmail Railway
John Blunt, Esq., Upper Bedford-place, Director of the London Docks
Charles Collins, Esq., Caldwell Hall, Worcestershire
Henry Comfoot, Esq„ Copthall-court, Director of the Commercia 1
Bank, London

Captain Edwards, Baker-street, Portman-square
Thomas Edwards, Esq., Bethel-plate, Camberwell
Lieutenant-Colonel Gillies, Cambrldge-terrace
F. W. Hamilton, Esq., (410nm:ter-place, Portman-square
Klein Grant, 11D.,_ 73, Pt. James's-street, Pall-mall
D. J. Hoare, Beg., Percy-street, Bedford-square
D. T. Johnson, Esq., Aldermary Churchyard, Director of the London
and 'Manchester Railway
John Francis Lambert, Esq , 6, Kensington Gardens-terrace
Francis Lloyd, Eag., 10, Crown Office-row, Temple
James Macmillan, Esq., Southampton, Director of the Southampton,
Manchester, and Oxford Junction Hallway
Thomas Newts, Esq., Harley-street, Director of the litarbadoea Rail-

_
way
Jame,' Reeves, Esq., Cheapside and Leyton, Director of the London
and Manchester Direct Railway
Edward Scard, Esq., Kew, Director of the Toronto aid Lake Huron
Railway
B. M. Senior, Esq., Compton Lodge, Jamaica, Magistrate of St.
Elizabeth's
J. G. Senior, Esq., Leonard-place, Kensington, and Jamaica
Algernon W. B. Greville, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park, Di-
rector of the Barbadocs, and Great Eastern and Western Railway!'
W. G. Beare, Esq., Porchester-place, Director of the Worcester.
Shrewsbury, and Crewe itailway
William Fitzgibbon, Esq., Director of the Cork and Bandon, and
Cork and Kilkenny Railways
John Joseph Keene, Esq., St. foha 's
-wood, Direolor of the National
Bank of Ireland

William King, Esq., Waterloo-place, Director of the Freemasons? In-
surance Company

Matthew Richard Scott, F.sq., Devonshire-place, Portman-square,
and Jamaica

John 11111111th Frith, Esq., Austin-friars
Charles Bleaden, Esq., Adelaide-place, London-bridge, and Coulsden
Court, Surrey, Chairman of the Licensed Victuallers' General
Fire and Life Assurance Company
Henry Stock, Esq., Iteddgelert, North Wales _ _

Mkjor Croft, 15, Regent-street, Deputy Chairman of the Cheater and
Manchester Railway Company _ . _

.
John Klng,Esq., St. John's-wood, London, and Glastonbury, Somer.
setshire

Jelin Lilley, Esq., Worcester, Director of the Sornersetshire litidland
Radway
_ __ .

d. Haines, Egg:, Edgbaston, Birmingham

John litirgess,'Esq., the Borought;eve of Manchester, Director of
tke Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junc-
tion Railway
Captain D. X. Pultenev, Parliament-street

Jeremiah Clark, Esq., Macclesfield
(With lower to add to their number.)
Esarrimpas—Williain Gravatt, Esq., F.R.S. ; James PillorOw,
C.E. ; Frederick Braithwaite, Esq., M.I.C.E.
Souctross—Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street
Andrew Graham Dignum, Esq., Jamaica.
ZANYERS —Sir Claude Scott, Bart., and Co., 1, Cavendish-square;
Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., 29, Clement's-laue, London;
The Planters' Bank, Jamaica.

The great difficulty, delay, and expense attending the transit of
passengers and goods from Kingston to Montego Bay and the inter-
mediate ports, either by sea or land, is well known to all persona
conversant with the islan I of Jamaica.
The average passage by steamer between Montego Bay and King-
ston, occupies forty-four hours ; and the costs, including expenses on
the route, amount to nearly si. each passenger, while the quickest
journey by land occupies three days, and the expenses, including
horse hire, reach nearly 201. By the railway the whole line will be
traversed in eight hours, at an expense not exceeding an average of
30s. per passenger.
The difference in the freights between the northern and southern
sides of the island and England is such, that independently of thu
saving of time, this railway will enable proprietors on the northern
side, after payment of the costa of transit, to ship their produce at
much less expense than at present, and will afford them the advan-
tage of shipping at all times from the very excellent harbour of King-
ston, instead of being confined, as they now are, to the exposed porte
of the east and north of the island.

The line will commence at a spacious quay, to be constructed at
Kingston Harbour, with a depth of water sufficient for vessels of the
largest tonnage employed in the export trade of the Island ; at or
near to which point it is proposed to form a junction with the King-
ston and Spanish Town Railway, and proceed thence by or near Rock
Fort, Yallahs, Morant Town, Port Morant, Plantain Garden, Man-
chioneal Harbour, Port Antonio, Buff Bay, Annotto Bay, Port Maria,
St. Ann's, Duncan, Martha Brae, and terminate at or near Montego
Bay. By these means a line of intercommunication will he formed
between the most important and populous places, and facility offered
for carriage of the produce of the most productive portion of the
island. _ . _ -

Through the southern portion of the line, the physical features are
gentle elevations, almost parallel to the principal range of moun-
tains which run east and west, nearly the length of the island ; the
eastern portion, from Port Morant to Plantain Garden, is almost
level ; while the northern runs through an exceedingly rich country,
rising into hills separate from each other by spacious vales. The
whole of the country traversed by the line abounds in the staple ar-
ticles of sugar, coffee, rum, molasses, ginger, pimento, and other
spices, dye wood, drugs, &c. ; and as more than one-third of the
land is still uncultivated, the production of these articles will, by

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the increased facility for traffic, be greatly increased ; and cotton,
indigo, cocoa, Stc.; and dry stuffs, at present unimported, will again
be brought into extensive cultivation. Timber of great variety
abounds along the line ; besides the pimento tree, which flourishes
spontaneously, there are mahogany, lignum vitte, ebony, Spanish
elm, fine cedar, and other trees of enormous bulk. The line will
also bring largely into use the valuable palmetto , and various other
woods fbr agricultural and household purposes, aad cabinet works.
The mineral wealth of the country on the line is very considerable ;
lead ere is extremely rich and heavily impregnated with silver;
whilst every variety of copper ore is found in abundance. Carbonate
of lime, valuable as manure, Ste., of which Long Mountain is com-
posed, will form a considerable item in the tables of traffic.
The peculiarly favourable circumstances attending the construction
of this Railway render it highly probable that a considerable portion
of the capital demanded will not be required, as every material*
necessary for its formation is to be found on the line, and should the
atmospheric principle of propulsion be adopted, the necessity fur cat-
tings and embankments will be generally superseded.
A gratuitous grant of the unappropriated land required for the line
and the free use of all the timber, stone, Ste., necessary for its con.
struction, will, it is expected, be ceded by the Legislative Assembly g
—the mineral wealth, which may be developed by the construettew
of the line, will accompany the grants of the land, and may be /es.".,ed
to capitalists for the benefit of the Shareholders.

Of the various imports, and the internal traffic, a satisftetory esti-
mate can scarcely be given—it will be sufficient to state, that Coals.
Fish, Lime and Salt, empty Puncheons, Shingles, Bricks, Hoops.
Lead, Timber, Provisions, Cattle, Flour, Tobacco, Hardwares, and
Manufactures generally, form important sources of profit.
The working expenses of the raily; ay will require but a moderate
per centage, and from all the circumstances already stated, and care-
ful inquiries into tho traffic, there can be no doubt that this line rof
railway will yield a very remunerative return upon rho
al Mall Steam racket
island and Great Britain, by means of the Roy
quired, and the speedy eammunication estahlished b e capital
w. e n t hen
rs in this country to exercise ass
Company, will Mild
nt°lerovision in the Local Act f r
nt of the affairs of the island.
effiTclileenet
the amountpaid ° 'l'
ut interest upon
shares of 4% per ee •
r the Bill until the openingof u ,• ,
to .ine.
caeoulmlte"litteeeperro ept hotselei *mt.
to make
ja,rikee, . p
shares froru the passitill o- ,
for shares let t
usual form may hilt made to the
Applications
at the offices of the ,
Provisional Committee, E . e Company, 4.
moorgate-street ; to Messrs. 1 be and Preston, solicitors.
47, ainorgate-strect, London ; and tlte following Sharebrokan
Mr. S. 11, Ellis, 17, Throgmorton-street ; Messrs. Freeand
39, Lothbury; Mr. D. Ti. Major, 27, 'Chan all
Preece Evans.
Messrs. Schroeder and Ashlin, Mr. w. A. Brown,ge- 'Change-alley, London;
Alston and Gage, Liverpool; Mr. John Clegg, and Messrs.
Oldham, Manchester ; Messrs. R. R. Watsongg, and Messrs. Greet, and
Tate and Nash, Bristol; Mr. Win. llil and Co. Leeds ; Messrs.
Hull; Mr. James Pearson, tumin ._ 8.31 Worcester; Mr. F. Stamp,
Bradford ; Messrs. Ha% limber guanl ; Mr. Samuel Hutchinson.
Cheltenham; Messrs. Eyre and 8, and Co., and Mr. William Lee.
enson, l'Teweastle-on-Tvn Shaw, Derby; Mr. Thomas F. Dick-
Thomas May and C et I.ll`. F. C. Spewed, Halifax ; Messrs,
oor.X, %ler ; Mr
Mr. Samuel Clerk, Usim.Urgli; Mr. h . Joseph Clark, jun., Southamptots ;in
Black andLexim Glasgow W. Gordon, Aberdeen; Messy,
Dublth 1 and lir. C er, ' 1 Mr. Percy Bolger, Garden-Kreet.
C. Forster
to had. , Cork; and of whom prospeottses may
To the Provisional Committee
_of the Jamaica o SOltPiera, Eastern.

and Northern

Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot tq me shares of
bOl. each in this undertaking, and I engairP, to pay the deposit of 21.
per share upon the number allotted to and to sign such deeds as
may be necessary, in furtheranco thereof, when required.—l am,
CieAtiomen, your obedient servant,
/Came is full
Trade or Profession ....................
Residence..
Place of business (if any) ......
Reference .....
*Wood is prepared nearly as hard as iron, and in that climate Is
more durable.

JAMAICA SOUTHERN, EASTERN, AND
NORTHERN RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that no further application for sharer /a
this undertaking, can be received from parties resident in London
after TnIIBADAY, the 25th day of September instant ; and from parties
resident 111 the country after SATURDAY, the 27th day of September
instant. By order,
EIZISUE ittid PRESTON, 501141t95 t.
47. bitlorgate•str Sept. IS, 1845.