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THE SUN, LON DON, MONDA/ MORNINGi OCTOBER 13 845.

A ASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY
(Cambridge Line.)
NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER and HOUGHTON MEET-
INGS—CESAREWITCH STAKES and CAMBRIDGE STAKES.
SPECIAL TRAINS, consisting of first-class carriages only, will
start from Shoreditch for Cambridge, at 7 on Tuesday, Oct. 14,
and Monday, Oct. 27, stopping at BroxboUrne, Windon, and Ches-
terford, and returning from Cambridge at Half-past Six, calling at
the same places.
N.B. Day Tickets at a fare and a half will be issued to persons re-
turning on the same day.
Eastern Counties Railway-office, Oct. 3, 1845.

THE DIRECT LONDON AND HASTINGS
RAILWAY, HARBOUR, PIER, AND DOCK COMPANY,
with Branch Railways to the Town and Port of Rye, and from Tun-
bri4e Wells to Lewes.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
Temporary Offices, New Adelphi Chambers, John-street, Adelphi,
London.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.
John Jones, Esq.' Kirkstall, near Lecds, director of the Isle of Ely,
Wisbcach, and Lincolnshire Junction
Henry Collard, Esq., Walsoken, near Wisbeach, director of the Isle of
Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Junction
John Whitwell, Esq., Wisbeach, director of the Huntingdon and
Wisbeach Union Railway
David Wheatcroft, Esq. (German, Wheatcroft, and Sons), Belper
Robert Cook, Esq., Galnsborough, director of the Cambridge and Lin:

coin Extension •
John Robson, Esq., Ireton, Durham, director of the Direct Western

and Isle of Ely Railway Company
Richard D,Emes, jun., Esq., Knaresborough
James Shaw, Esq., Salford, Manchester, director of the Direct Ches-

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ter, and Direct Western Railway
Mathew Benjamin Robson, Es.q.,Sherburn Grange, Durham
Thomas Ferrand Dearden, Esq., Rochdale, director of the Stafford-

shire Potteries and Liverpool Railway Company
Captain C. F. Parkinson, Ardwick, 3lanchester, director of the Man-

chester and Southampton Railway Company
C. J. S. Walker, Esq., J.P., Manchester, director of the Rugby and
Manchester, and Direct Chester and Manchester Railway Company
James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Salford, director of the York and Man-
chester, and Direct Western Railway Companies
Menry Farrington, Esq., York-place, Manchester, director of the
Manchester, Wigan, and Southport Railway Company
James Clarkson, Esq., Cheetham-hill, Manchester
John Helierd, Rusholme Hall, Manchester, director of Re-
mington's London and Manchester Railway
Rev. T. S. Mills, Littleborough, magistrate for the county of Lancaster
Thomas Hamilton, Esq., Rutholme Hall, Manchester, director of the

Leicester and Tamwortk Railway
Edward Norris, Esq., Clairville Manor, Manchester, director of the
Direct London and Manchester Railway Company
Samuel Phillips, Esq., Chester-terrace, Regent's Park, and Levant

. . .
House, St. Helen's-place
John Upham, Esq., Clarges-street, Piccadilly, and Frederick-place,

Clifton, Bristol
Daniel Ebbets, Esq., 16, Mincing-lane, London
James Parsons, Esq., Arwerlinide, Falmouth
George E. Upham, Esq., 3, Cambridge-street, Hyde Park
William Sprott Boyd, Esq., Cleveland-row, director of the Thames
Embankment, and Hull and Swansea Railway
Warren Stormes Hales, Esq., Gresham-street, director of the Oxford

and Worcester Eitcusion
Joscphylowes, Esq., managing director of the British and Foreign

Gas Meter Company
Thomas James Arnold, Esq., Sergeant's Inn, Flvet-street
Frederick Collingridge, Esq., Thurloe-square, Brompton
Charles Robert Collman, Esq., director of the South Midlands Railway
John Brocke Walbancke, Esq., director of the South Midlands
Major-General Brooks Parlby, C. 8., Rutland-gate, Hyde-park
William Slark, Esq., Cricklewood, Middlesex, director of the Guaran-

tee Society
Bobert Richards, Esq., director of the Birmingham and London Ex-

tension Company
Alexander Davis, Esq., director of the Great Welsh Junction Railway
Major David Fitzgerald, Pall-mall, and Valentia, Ireland, director of
the Reading and Reigate, and Grand London and Dublin Approxi-

atien Railways
Frederick William Caldwell, Esq., Boundary-house, St. John's-wpod,
director of the Liverpool, Ormskirk and Preston Railway
Charles C. Mactavish, Esq., 22, Rutland-gate, Kensington
Thomas Roiarts Thelluson, Esq., 16, Hyde-park-street
Richard Clay, Esq., merchant and shipowner, Great Winchester-
street, director of the Barnsley and Goole Railway
John Downes, Esq., Bedford-place, Russell-square
John Stewart, Esq., Portman-square, director of the Thames Em-
bankment Company
William Bremer, Esq., Barnes, Surrey, and Mincing-lane, City,
director of the Northern and Southern, and the Grand Trunk
Railways
Richard Power, Esq., Long Orchard, and Eccleston-square
The O'More, Cloghan Castle, high sheriff of Roscommon, director of
the Grand London and Dublin Approximation Railway
Charles Frederick, Esq., director of the Manchester and Southamp-
ten Railway
John Chancellor, Esq., Hyde-house, Battersea
James- Troup, Esq., Hastings, director of the Direct Western Railway
Company
W. B. Clawley, Esq., Tremailoc, director of the Direct London and
Holyhead, and Porth Dynliaen Railway, and Slate Quarries, Flee-
tinleg
William Pritchard, Esq., Doctors'-commons
Richard Dewes, Esq., Knaresborough.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Major Fitzgerald James Troup, Esq.
William Creme'', Esq. Warren Stonnes Hale, Esq.
Samuel Milllps, Esq. William Slarke, Esq.
Daniel Ebbetts. Esq. William Pritchard, Esq.
• Crith power to add to their number.)
CONSULTING ENGINEER.
ACTING EN. sore—W. Rider, Esq. ; Mr. George Smith.
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BOLICITORS—X'2SSTS. Potter and Collingridge, Basing,hall-street,
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.
31e3 .3. Cameran and Bain, 18, Parliament-street
SECRETARY—Thomas A. Corlett, Esq.
BANKERS—London and Westminster Bank.

The formatisn of this Company has originated with gentlemen
having extensive local interests, for the purpose of effecting direct
railway communication between London and Hastings, using a por-
tion of the existing railways to complete the most direct line, as well
As assist in extending railway accommodation in the south-eastern
district, " and will be the only direct line wider local management
between London and Hastings." The line will be constructed for
working either with atmospheric power or locomotive steam-engines,
as may be proved to be most advantageous previous to the perma-
nent way being laid.
It is also proposed to make aline of railway from Tunbridge Wells
to Lc..ves and Brighton, by a junction with the coast line at Lewes,
and thus open lines of communicntion with the populous towns in
North licit and the southern coast.

It is further contemplated to establish a branch to the town and
port of Eye, or to connect the Direct Hastings line with the Hastings
and Ashford coast line, for which an Act was obtained last session.
To the inhabitants of Tunbridge Wells, Maidstone, Rochester,
Chatham, Sheerness, Gravesend, &e., it will 'afford direct and speedy
arrest to Hastings, Brighton, Eastbourne, Worthing, and the neigh-
bouring seaporte, as well as the eastern and western parts of Sussex.
To tile inhabitants of Hastings and St. Leonard's the advantages
to be derived from the formation of this line will be evident. Bring-
ing the Metropolis within a two hours' journey, It must of necessity
greatly increase the already well-established reputation of those
jaitiy-eelebrated watering-places, and bring to them an increased
number of visitors, who are now deterred from residing there by rea-
son of the absence of railway acconunodation.
To the inhabitants of Lewes and Brighton the advantages are pro-
portionately great. - Pausing, as the proposed line will do, through a
great agricultural district, it will give increased facilities for the
transport of the produce of those dietricts.
In 180 f; that eminent engineer, the late Mr. John Rennie, pro-
jected a harbour and dock, at Hastings; and subsequently, Mr.Cubitt,
C.E., and Mr. Brooks, Cll., surveyed the coast, and projected har-
bour., in the seine situation; there can be no doubt a considerable
portion of continental traffic must pass from Hastings to the opposite
ports on the French coast, the direct line between London and raris
being through Hastings.
The exiitin; trade and fishery of Hastings is ample to pay live per
cent. en the coast of the harbour, pier, and dock, and the natural
result of such accommodation opposite so many ports on the French
coast, must be that of threefold increase.
Strict attention to economy will be given in the expenditure of the
capital, thereby guaranteeing to the public low charges for the con-
veyance of passengers and goods, and there eau be no reasonable
doubt, that allen the traffic is fairly developed, the full rate of 10 per
cent. *ill be paid, and a surplus left for branch lines, or a reduction
of fares.
In drawing attention to the merits of this undertaking it should be
observed that the formation of a trunk line between the metropolis
and Hastings, one of the most healthy and fashionable watering-places
in the kingdom, which Is increasing in estimation the more its valua-
ble re sources are developed, in addition to the formation of a harbour,
pier, and dock—the great improvement in steam navigation—the
establishment of railways between Paris and the ports on the French
coast opposite Hastings, " render this one of the most important, as
well as direct lines of communication between London and Paris," as
reference to the map will clearly point out.
There are no engineering difficulties ; and the lines are under
survey, for the purpose of depositing plans, &c., previous to the en-
suing s ession of Parliament.
The liability of the Shareholders will be limited to the amount of
their subscriptions, and in allotment of shares, a preference will be
given to landowners on the respective lines ; and power will be se-
cured in the Act to allow 4 per cent. on paid-up capital previous to
opening the lines.

Irotpectuses and plans of the line, with forms of application for
allarer, may be had at the solicitors, at the temporary offices of the
company, and at the following sharebrokers

London—J. Bates and Co
I.lvtrpool---T. Coglan and Sods
Manchester—Caldwell and Sons, and Green and Lockwood
Bristol—Wrefotd, Nicholls, and Co.
Leeds—Thos. M. Lee, Harvey 311rflu, and Bell and Ledger
Glasgow—Altken and Bnchannan
Exeter—Thomas Sandford
Plymouth—Hayward and Palmer
Lirmingham—John Wright andJ. Collis
BOinhurgh—ltol-crtson and Co., and I.l.`Cttll= and CO.
Entidcritell—Wilson and llollawell
Won ester—Thomas 11. Wheeler
Halifax—James llervey

FQII3I OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Direct London and Hastings
Rahway, Harbour, Pier, and Dock Company.
Gentlemen,—I request that you will allot me shares of 201.
each in the above Company, and I hereby nndertake to accept the
same, or any less number that may be alloted me, subject to the re-
gulations of the Company, and to pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per share,
and to execute the necessary deeds when required.
Name in full • • • • •••
Profession or business (if any), and address
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HUNTINGDON, WISBEACH, AND ST.
IVES UNION RAILWAY.
Being an extension of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire
Junction Railway, from March to Huntingdon and St. Ives.
Capital 200,0001. in 8,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 12s. Gd. per Share.

At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Isle of Ely. W.
beach. and Lincolnshire Junction Railway :

Resolved—That an extension of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and
Lincolnshire Junction Railway from March to Huntingdon, with a
branch to St. Ives, would be profitable as an investment of capital,
and useful to the public. _ _

UM.
'That the Direraors of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire
Junction Railway take measures to carry out the project, under the
name of the Iltuding,dos, St. Ives, and Wisheach Union Railway.
That the capital be two hundred thousand pounds, in eight thou-
sand Shares of twenty-live pounds each.
That Messrs. Spooner, Attwood, and Co. be the bankers in London;
Messrs. Rust and Veasey, at Huntingdon; and the National Pro-
vincial Bank of England, at March, Wisbeach, and Sutton.
The Directors of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire
Junction Railway, having been urgently requested, have upon mature
de:lhenttior, d,tenniticti to add to the value anti to the public utility
of tlle'r much approved hue the railway now announced.
This abort but important line of railway will proceed from the Isle
of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Junction Railway, at March,
through or near Wimhlington, Dochlington, Renwick, Broughton,
King's Ripton, Hartford, Chatteris, Ramsey, Warboys, and Hurst,
to Huntineder.

The placing of Wisbeach, the natural port of this rich and exten-
sive agricultural district, In immediate connexion with Huntingdon,
the focus of six railways, must be a great accommodation, and of
paramount importance to that port ; added to which, it has long been
desired by the mercantile community of both towns.
It also gives Wisheach and its vicinity, and the other populous
places width it will traverse, the choice of two reutes to the metro-
polis on the completion of that portion of the London and York Rpil-
way which joins Huntingdon, giving the railway communication by
St. Ives to Wisbeach, an object which the inhabitants of the town
lave publicly testified their desire to accomplish.
*Power will be applied for in the Act of Parliament to amalgamate
this Company with the Isle of Ely, Wisbeacb, and Lincolnshire J tun.-
Hon Railway under one management.
Holders of shares in the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire
Junction Railway may have shares in the present Company, in the
proportion of one share for every two, by transmitting a letter
stating the fact to the Secretary, or either of the Solicitors, on or
before the lath of October instant. Application for shares may also
be made In the accompanying form. No application can be received
after the 18th of October, and the shares will be allotted without
delay.

FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Prov;sionot Committee of the Huntingdon, St. Ivey, and
Wisbeach Union 'Railway.
Gentlemen,---I request you will allot me shares of 251.
each in the above company, and I undertake to pay the deposit of 2/,
appropriate
12e. 6d. per shire thereon, or any less number, you mu,,y
to me, and to execute the Subscribers Agreement and Parnamen-
Contract when required.
Dated this

day of Octoter, 1845,

Namo .
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Trade or Profession .. •.. ......
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PIP! SoL-Croza--James Coppock, Esq., 3, Cleve!and-row ; John
Bell, Esq., 28, Craven-street.

LCCAL SOLICITORS—Thom; steed Watson, Esq., Wlsbeach
and Esq
WILLIAM WILDE, SecreiFY.
Ofteeg, Greetam-street, London, Oct. 9, 1845.

fIOVER and BRISTOL RAILWAY
in continuation of the Scutti-7.aatern Railway. from Reigate
to Br'stol. Upon the Narrow Gauge.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,500,0001., in 75,000 Shares, of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PEOVISIONAL COSIMITTEE.
The Right lion. the Earl of Warwick, Warwick Castle
The Right Hon. Lord Rossmore, the Dell, Windsor
Pile Right Eon. Lord Charles Beauclorc, Chesham-place, BelgraTe•
square
The Right Hon. Lord Suffield, Gunton-park, Norfolk
The Right. Hon. Lord Sussex Lennox, Piccadilly
The Right Hon. Lord Alfred I'aget, MP., Uxbridge Beats

Count iathyany, Andley-square
The Hon. William M. Dawson, Parkstone Lodge, Poole, Director of
the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway

The Hon. Edward Stafford jerningham, Director of the London and
Nottingham Railway _ . .

Lieut.-Ca the Hou. J. C. Westenra, M.P., Director *f the East and
West Junction Railway, and of the Brighton and Cheltenham Di-
rect Railway

The Right Worshipful the Mayor of Bristol
George Woodruffe Franklyn, Esq. Late Mayors of Bristol
John Kerle Haberfleld, Esq.

Major-General W. Innes, C.D., Bath
Sir William B. Johnston, Bart., Director of the Chepstow, Forest of
Dean, and Gloucester Railway
Admiral Ayscough, Prospect-place-house, Southampton, Director of
the Birmingham and Leicester Railway, and south and Midland
Railway
Admiral Sir George Sartorius, Director of the Direct Northern,
Eastern, and Western Junction Railway
Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Director of the York aid Laicaster

Railway
William Collins, Esq., M.P., Warwick
Colonel Edward Stopford, 9, Manchester-square
A. K. Baker, Esq., Longford-house, Cheltenham t Directors of the
John W. Hughes, Esq., Gloucester Bristol and Bir-
George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, mingham Railway
The Worshipful the Mayor of Dover
The Worshipful the Mayor of Bath
The Worshipfill the Mayor of DON izes
William Kay, Esq M.D., Clifton
Thomas Camplin, Esq. director of the Argus tAldermen of Bristol
Life Assurance Company
John George Mogg, Esq. Manor-house, Farrington, Gurney, near
Bristol, Magistrate far the county of Somerset
William Kingsmill, Esq. Sidmonton, Hants, Magistrate and Deputy-
lieutenant of the county of Southampton
John Bates, Esq. Bristol, director of the West of England Bank
John Hippesley, Esq. Stone Easton, near Bath, Magistrate for the
county of Somerset
James Crang, Esq., Timsbury, near Membet; of the Provisional
Bristol Committee of the Bath,
Robert Francis Wright, Esq, Wells' and Exeter Junction
James Perrin, Esq. Temple Cloud, Rahway
near Bristol
Edmund Fillingham King, Esq., banker, Grantham, Director of the
Vale of Belvoir Railway
Philip Jones, Esq., merchant, Keynsham and Bristol
Lieut.-Colonel William Swinton, Bath
Francis Yerbury, Esq., Bath, and Belcome-house, Bradford, Wilts
J. H. Walham Pigott Smyth Pigott. Esq., Brockley-hall, Som, net-
shire

Daniel Nazer, Esq.
Edward Poole, Esq. Town Councillors of DOTI,
Nllliam llenry Payn, Esq.
Edward Seward, Esq.,
The Rev. Just Henry Alt, Enford, Wilts, Director of the Manches-
ter, Southampton, and Poole Railway
Charles Dickson Archibald, Esq., Rusland-hall, Lancashire, Director
of the South Staffordshire Railway
J. R. W. Atkinson, Esq., Elmwood-house, Leeds, Director of the
Lancashire and North Yorkshire, and North Eastern Railways
George Addison, Esq., Bradford, Director of the Liverpool. and Leeds
Direct Railway
John Anderson, E.g., London, Director of the Tring, Reading, and
Basingstoke Railway
Joseph Acton, Eat., J.P., Wigan, Direeter of the Manchester and
Wigan Railway
William Ascroft, Esq., the Willows, Bury, Director of the Stafford-
shire Potteries, Liverpool, and Manchester Direct Railway
Joseph Austin, Esq., Heddingley-hill, Leeds, Director of the Leeds
and York Railway
William Ickroyd, Esq., Westbourne Lodge, Ottiey, Yorkshire, Di-
rector of the East and West Yorkshire, the Midlands and Thirsk
Junction, and Leeds and York and Midland Junction
James Beech, Esq., Grosvenor-place, and Brandon, Warwickshire,
Director of the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway
Cecil Brook Boothby, Esq., Ashbotume-hall, Derbyshire, Director of
the South Union
William Gabbett Beare, Esq., Porchester-place, Connaught-square,
Director of the Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union Railway
John Boulton, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Birmingham, Lich-
Skid, and Manchester Railway
Thomas Byrom, Esq., Alderman, Wigan, Director of the Manchester
and Wigan, and the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction
It
George Brown, Esq., Twining-park", Worcestershire
Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Liverpool aid Leeds
Direct Railway
Robert Bell, Esq., Manor House, Chiswick, Director of the Great
Eastern and Western Junction, and London and Nottingham
Railways
Robert S. Butterfield, Esq., Bradthri, Yorkshire, Director of the I
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Luke Butler, Esq., Alderman, Dublin, Director if the Galway and
Kilkenny, and Cork and Waterford Railways
William Clode Braddon, Esq., Regency-square, Brighton
Clif stopher Bentham, Esq , Birkenhead, Director of the Chester and
Birkenhead Railway, and of the North and South Wales Bank
William Byrom, Eaq., Oldham, Director of the Oldham Districts, the
Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction, and the Birken-
head and Holyhead Junction Railways
Joseph Charles Cohen, Esq., merchant, Birmingham
John James Conway, Esq., Liverpool
John Carmichael, Esq., Cork, Director of the Cork and Waterford
Railway
William Henry Collis, Esq., Handsworth, Staffordshire, Director of
the Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway
Thomas Cocksey, Eaq.,
Atherton and Bolton, Director of the Man-
chester and Wigan Railway
William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., Hull, Director of the Rugby, War-
wick, and Leamington Railway
William Clifford, Esq , Hull, Director of the Lincolnshire and Eastern
Counties Railway
William Caldwell, Esq., Alderman, Ince-hall, Wigan, Director of the
Staffordshire Potteries, Liverpool, and Manchester Direct Railway
Henry Coe Coape, Esq., Goldhanger, Essex, Director of the Man-
chester, Oxford, and Southampton Junction Railway
John Townshcnd Compton, Esq., Wedhampton, Wilts, Director of
the Manchester, Southampton, and Poole Railway
Captain F. Chamier, Halkin-street, Belgrave-square, Director of the
Fampoux and Hazebrouck Railway
Henry Toogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse Bradford, Magistrate for
Wilts and Somerset
John Campbell Dickers, EM., New Hall, Neston, Cheshire, Director
of the Birkenhead and Holyhead, and the Rugby, Derby, and Man-
chester Railways
Seignley Thomas Cuthbert, Esq., Clifton
Thomas Davies, Esq., the Austin', Ilandsworth, Staffordshire, Di-
rector of the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway
W. T. S. Daniel, Esq., Recorder of Ipswich
Miles Dormer, Esry., London, Director of the Exeter, Dorchester,
and Weymouth Coast Railway
John Doughill, Esq., Lockwood, Huddersfield
Joseph Dowson, Esq., merchant, Lambeth
Thomas H. Evans, Esq., Mayor of Carnarvon
Henry D. Erskine, Esq., Mount street. Grosvenor-square, mill Kirby
Dale, Yorkshire, Director of the Brighton andCheltenharn Railway
George Edwards, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Birmingham,
Lichfield, and Manchester Railway
John Edwards, Esq., Chester, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds

Direct Railway
William Edwarfl.s, Esq., Aston Furnaces, Birmingham, Director of
the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway
Francfs Ewart, Esq., Temple, Director of the Great Leeds and Lon-
don Direct, and of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Rail-
ways
Captain Gustavus Evans, R.N., Ileadly-grove, Reigate
John Finhis, Esq., merchant, Doter
Charles Fitzgerald, Esq., Charles-street, St. James's, Director of the

London and Nottingham Railway
Webster Flockton, Esq., Weybridge, Surrey
Bell Fletcher, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Birmingham,
Llchfield, and Manch( Wl* Railway
'I homas Folliott Lowell, Esq., 16th Lancers, Luc/to-house, Ripon,

Yorkshile
Benjamin Franklin, Esq., 5, Harley-street, Cavendish-square. Di-
rector of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton

Beltway
William Tulloh Fraser, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square,
Director of the Dorking. Brighton, and Arundel Railway
Charles Hay Froven. Esq., Brickwall, Northiam, Sussex
William Fitzgibbon, Esq., 21, Cambridge-street, Connaught-square,
Director of the Cork and Passage and Cork and Bandon Railways
Major Grubbe, Eastwell-house, magistrate for Wilts
William Gambier, Esq.,Sacombe-park, Herta
Captain Gould, Charles-street, St. James's
George Frederick Gregory, Esq., Seacombe, Cheshire, Director of the
Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway
Henry Francis Gisborne, Esq , Derby, Director of the South Stafford-
shire Junction, the Derby and Crelie, the. Macclesfield and Lich-

teld, and the Leicester and Tamworth Railways
John Griffith Filth, Esq., merchant, Austin-friars, Chairman of the

Londonderry and Cofeiaine Railway
.Tames Gernon, Esq., Conduit-street, Bond-street, Director of the
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate, Manchester, Oxford, and South-
ampton, and Cheltenham and Brighton Railways
William. Gatliff, Esq., merchant, Leeds, Director of the West Tork-

sh're Ra'lway
Joseph Gill, Earl , Potter Newton Mount, leeds,Director of the Leeds
and York and Midland Junction Railway
John Hall, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and York Railway
William Holliday, Esq , Chad Valley, Eilgbaston, Director of the
Birmingham, Lichfield. and Manchester Railway
Samuel Haines, Esq , Chad House, Eftbaston, Director of the
Leicester and Tamworth Railway
William Horatio Harrison, Esq., Sunbury, Director of the Leicester
and Tamworth and South Staffordshire Junction Railways
William Wilkes MR, Esq., Beeston Hall, Leeds
Lewis Hoffman, Esq , Temple, Director of the Nottingham and South

Staffordshire Railway
James mots, Esq., M.D., Halifax, Director of the Manchester,
Southampton, and Oxford Junction, and the London, Holyhead, and ,
Porttlynlia en Railways
John Johnson, Esq., R.N., Birmingham
Kenfengtan Lewis, Esq., Worcester-park, Surrey. Director of the
Cheltenham, Oxford and Brighton Junction, and the Lys', Wis-
beach, and reterborouzli and Midland Counties' Railways
John Lowe, Esq., Norfolk Crewcut, Hyde-park
William Phillips Lamb, Esq., Ockham House, Sussex
Edward Augustus Lamb, Esq., Westfield, Battle. Sussex, Director of
the Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway
Darntoa Linton, Esq , Potter Newton 11 all. Mayer of Leeds, Direc-
tor of the Leeds and York, and Wakefield and Bradforol Railways
Sir William Lowthrop, Knt.' Hull, Director of the Leeds, Hudders-
field, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Direct Railway
John Lord, Esq., Standish Hall, Lancashire, Director of the Black-
burn, Chorley, Wigan, and North Union Junction Railway, and of
the Staffordshire Potteries, and Manchester and Liverpool Direct
Railway
James Lamb, Esq., 35, Hyde Park-square, Director of the Tring,
Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
Rowland Mackenzie, Esq, Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square
irector of the Trill:, Reading, and Basingstoke, and Cheltenham,
Dxford, and Brighton Railways
Thomas Gibbon Moneypenny, Esq., Hole-park, Rolvenden, Kent
Major Moore, Queen Anne-street, Director of the Brighten and Cbel.
Sandal View, Wakefield, Director of
tenham Direct Railway
the Wakefield and Har
Tithe Commissioner, Director of the
James Joseph M'Swinc
J. Mee Mathew, Esq., Assistant
Y'roEasgaie Railway
the Read-
Captain Macdougall, Fir-grove, Worcestershire, Derbyshire,
Read-
in„ Guildford, and Belga
• te Railway Bfforirxdtsohnir,eDßairecilwtoaryof
John George Norbnry. Esq., 3.a
South Staffordshire Junction
of the Tean and Dove Valley, and
r ncetter-honse, Jstherstone, Director
aNndorStbta
Railways
Bradford Halifax, and Unionel Railway, and the
Huddersfield,
Jcssph Norton, Esq., Clayton West, Huddersfid, Director of the
Wakefield and Harrogate Railway
wily,
George Parbury, Esq., Mansfield House, Russell-sq
tke Leeds and Carlisle Railway Director of
William Peppercorne, Esq., Bexhill, annex, Director of the West
Midland Railway
Captain Thomas Ross, 58, Porchester.terrace, Director of the Direct
Northern, Eastern, and Western Junction Railway
William Raines, Esq., Temple, Director of the London wed Ifottinv
Alexander Prince, Esq., London, Director of the Cheltenham, Oxs
ford, and Brighton Railway
hats Railway
George Ewing Scott, Esq., Stoke Bishop, sear Bristol
Thomas Stocker, Esq., St. Ives, Director of the Wisbeack, ltt. Ives,
and Cambridge Railway
Frederick William Seymour, Esq., Carlton-terrace, Dinantor of the
Lynn, Wisheach, Peterborough, &c., Railway
William Spooner, Esq., London, Director of the 6outh Staffordshire
Junction Railway, and of the Liverpool, Manchester, and New-
castle-upon-Tyne Junction Railway
Henry Scott, Esq., 17, Pall-mall
S. E. Sichell, Esq., merchant, Bradford, Director of the Leeds, Tork,
and Midland Junction Railway
George Turner, Esq., Hunton Hill, Enlingtei, Director of the South

Staffordshire Junction Railway
henry Taylor, Req., Alderman, Wigan, Director of the Manchester
and Wigan, and the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union

Junction Railways
George Turton, Esq., Bagden Lodge, Clayton West. Huddersfield
William Tinker, Esq., Conock, Wilts, Director of the Manchester,

Southampton, awl Poole Railway
George Thomas Thompson, Esq., Dover, Coroner for the Cinque

Ports - - . -
John Thompson, Esq.. Alderman of Wigan, Director of the Eirkhen-
head and Holyhead Railway, of the Manchester and Wigan Rail-
way, and Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction Railway
John Taylor, Esq., Mull, Director of the Lincolnshire and Eastern

Counties Raillva,
James Upflii, Esq., The Green, Herefordshire, Director of the Star-

(leorge Unett, Esq., The Laurels,
fordshire and Shropshire JunctionH
tothre of the
will Ranadilswrraoyrth, Staffordshire, Dlreo-
d Peterborough Railway
,tunan, Lichfield, • and Manchester Railway,and
imichelnathh
Thomas Bolman Uptill, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Birming-
ham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway
Major White, Pall-mall, Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing-
stoic* Railway
Walter Unett, Esq., Captain Ed Light Dragoons, lfaidstene, Director
of the Nottingham and South !Staffordshire, and the Lynn,
Wisbeach, and Peterborough Railways
William hoyden Watts, Esq., - M.D., Rirminghain, Director of the
Lincoln, Louth, and Great Grimsby Railway
Thomas
South StaffordWakefie shlreltaild, Esq.,
lway London, Director of the -Nottingham and
Smith Whileck, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the ?Staffordshire and
Shropshire Junction Rail7ay
Robert William Watson, Esq., Dover

John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, near Tonbridge, Direeter of

the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Sir William Whit., Director of the Stafford, tittpzetor, and Derby

Railway
J. W. Terbury, Esq., Belcombe-house, Wilts, Capt. Yd. Light Dra-

goons, Director of ilia Direct Western Railway.
Lodge Morris Murray Prior, Esq., 19th Lancers, Coventry, Director

of the Dublin, Tudamore, and i'arson.stown Railway
Edward Knight, Esq., M.D., Stafford, Director of the Grand Junction

and Midlands' Union Railway
William Henry Skelton, Esq., Shadwell, near Leeds
Charles William Reynolds, Esq., Captain 16th Lancers, Maidstone,
Director of the Worcester, Warwick and Rugby Railway
Thomas Bramall, Esq., Mayor of Tamworth, Deputy Chaiman of

the Leicester and Ti;inworth Railway
Richard Hughes, Esq., Stafford, Director of the Staffordshire and

Shropshire Junction Railway
Henry Wenman Newman, Esq., Thornhury-park, near Bristol, De-
puty-Lieutenant of Gleucesterashire, and magistrate of Gloucester-
shire and Bristol.
Charles Eales, Esq., Richmond-court, Clifton
David Bryan, Esq., Northampton, Director of the Liverpool, Man-
chester, and Warrington, and the Worcester and Leominster
Railway
Benjamin Swan, Esq., Weymouth and Jermyn-street
Edmund Francis Dayrell, Esq., Lillingston Dayrell, High Sheriff of
Bucks, and Director of the Minehead and Bridgewater Railway
John James Rippon, Esq., Ealing, Middlesex, Director of the Bir-
mingham, Westbromwicb, Wednesbury, and Walsall Junction
Railway
Stephen Mills, Esq., Elstone-house, Wilts
Major Buttenshaw, Bath
John Ellershaw, Esq., Grove-house, Searcroft, near Leeds
Major W. James, Saltford-house, near Bath, Magistrate for Somer.

setshire
Robert Bell, Esq., Norris Castle, Isle of Wight.
Samuel Perrin*, Esq., Temple Cloud, near Bris:ol
CONSULTING ENGINEER—
ACTING ENGINEER—Edward James Mende, Esq., C.ll.
RANKERS.
Lond•n—Messrs. Rogers, Olcling, and Co.; the Union Bank
Bristol —Stuckey's Banking Company
Bath—West of England and South Wales District Rank
Bradford and Trowbridge—The Wilts and Dorset Banking Company
Dover—Messrs. Latham and Co.

JOINT SOLICITORS.

Edwin smith, Esq., mad 31es...;;:igitr1;and Ford, Loudon. ; Edwar
Burges, Esq., Bristol.

LIVERPOOL AND BURY RAILWAY
CONTRACT FOR SLEEPERS.
he DIRECTORS are READY to RECEIVE TENDERS for the
SUPPLY of RAILWAY SLEEPERS, conformable to Specifications
to be seen at the Company's Offices, 33, Dale-street, Liverpool; or at
the Office of Sir John Macneill and James Thompson, 9, Whitehall-
place, London.
Offers to be forwarded to the Secretary, up to the let Novem-
ber next. By order,

JOHN S. HERON, Secretary.
Liverpool and Bury Railway Office, 33, Dale-street,
Liverpool, Gth September. 1845.

BRIGHTON AND CIIELTENIIAM DIRECT
RAILWAY.
(Registered Provisionally.)
Capital, 1400,0001., in Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
The Right Hon. Lord Rossmore, Dell, Windsor,
The Right Hon. Georg.) Lionel Dawson Dain,r, M.P., f, Tllney-
street, Park lane
The Hon. Robert Gore, M.P.
Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. J. C. Westenra, M.P., Brook's Club
The Hon. W. Dawson, Parkstone-lodge, Poole
The Hon. T. W. Gage, Westbury-house, Westmeon, Petersfleld
Sir Henry Webb, Bart. Pall-mall
Sir George William Prescott, Bart. Ch-Inman
Sir William Soothby, Bart. Ashbourne-hall, Derbyshire
Arnold, Thomas James, Esq., Sergeants' Inn, Temple, revising bar-
rister for the City of London
Cleobury, Thomas Mortimer, Esq. Askew-villa
Coape Henry Coe, Esq. Goldhanger, 111 aldon
Cumberlege, N,*Esq. York-terrace, Regent's-park
Dalby, John R., Esq. Ashbounie, Derbyshire
Dayrell, E. Francis, Esq. Lilingston Dayrell, tucks, MTh Sheriff of
Bucks, Chairman of the Minehead and Bridgewater Railway
Everitt, Henry Yarburgh, Esq. Brighton
Gernon, James, Esq. 13, Conduit-street
Greig, A., Esq. Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square
Heaviside, Richard, Esq. Brighton
Heneage,Charles, Esq. Cadeby-house,Lincolnshire
Henty, J., Esq. Chichester
Keene, John Joseph, Esq. Chairman, director of the National Bank
Moore,
jHoro,raQcteieWenlllktani:_,:t:rseqe.tCchaavtehna
of Ireland, St. John's-wood, Regent's Park
M`Cann, Nicholas, Esq., 50, Parliament-street
Peninsular Railway
Seymour, Fred-rick, Esq. Cavendish-square, director of die
St. James's-square, director of the Lon-
don and Nottingham Railway
Watkins, Robert, Esq. Augusta-house, Worthing
Wines, George, Esq. Hungerford-park
ENGINEERS.
Sir John Rennie, F.R.S.
Lon4on.
I George Remington, Esq., C.E.
ACTING ENGINEER—Henry Wrigg, Esq.
SOLICITCRS.
Olden-square, London
Clarke and M'Whinnie, Brighton.
LocALiosh Augustusc,ri
Teonus,s Walter_E s
Esq.,
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slrs
.13dAt,
too:
rye
a:
LOCAL AGENTS.
William Mitchell, Esq., Petersfleld
Messrs. Bailey. and Wickham, Winchester.
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Barnard, Dimsdale, and
Cu, SO, Comltill
Union Bank
Brighton—The
London and County Joint-Stock
Branch ofßanking Com-
Messrs. Cockburn, and Co., Whitehall
Com-
pany
Cheltenham—Branch of the National Provincial Bank of England
London and County Joint-Stock Banking
Petersfield—Branch of Len
company.
street.
SECRETARY—Mr. Frederick Penny.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT— Cadwallader F. Waddy, Esq. Fludyer.

BRIGHTON and CHELTENHAM DIRECT
RAILWAY.
No farther APPLICATIONS for SHARES in this COMPANY can
be RECEIVED after this DAY

FREDERICK FENNT, Secretary
34, Moorgate-street, October 13, 1845.

PRELI3IINARY ANNOUNCEMENT.
LONDON to DUNGENESS POINT.
(Provisionally Regis t ered.)
A Company has been formed 'or the purpose of making a harbour
and docks at DUNGENESS POINT and connecting them by means
of a short line with the Tunbridge and Rye Harbour Railway to
London. A view of the map will at once show the great national
advantage of this harbour as a port of refuge, and the certainty of
its becoming the port for the whole of the French and Peninsular
traffic, being a considerable saving in distance both by land and sea,
in comparison with the present routes by Dover and Folkstone.
The merits of this scheme will be best estimated by a reference to
the report of the Government Commissioners on the projected har-
bours of refuge. Prospectuses, with the names of the Committee and 1
details of the plan, will be published in a few days ; meantime all
communications may be addressed to William Best, Esq., solicitor,
35, Lincoln's Inn-folds. Preference in the allotment of shares will
be given to holders of scrip in the Tunbridge and Rye Harbour Rail-
way, and the French Companies in connexion with this line.

THE DIRECT WEST-END AND CROYDON
RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 800,0001., is 4 ,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Viscount Ingestre, M.P., Brompton-park, London
Sir James Anderson, M. It. I. A., New Burlington-street ; Director
of the Hereford and Mediu- Tydvil Railway
John Byng Banks, Esq., Lansdown-road, Stockwell, Director of the
Great Leeds and London Direct Railway
James Bailey, Esq., Highbury-park. Director of the Sligo, Donegal,
Tyrone, Londonderry, and Belfast Junction, and of the Scar-
borough, Whitby, Stockton-on-Tees, and Newcastle and York
Junction Railways
William Banks, Esq., 4, Honey lane, Director of the Manchester and
Rugby, and great Leeds and London Railways
Lieut.-General Sir It Barton, K.C.8., 2 Montagu-place, Montagu-
square, Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
Major Beresford, M.P., 77, l'all-mall ; Chairman of the Leeds and
Carlisle, and Director of the Teen and Dove Valley. and West
Midland, Manchester, and Southampton Railways
Charles R. lagge, Esq., 10, Bryanstou-square; Director of the Great
Grimsby, Louth. Herneastle, Lincoln, and Midland Junction Railway
William Bland, Esq., Brixton; Director of the North Wales, and
Richmond and West-cad Junction Railways
William Blanshard, Esq., York; Chairmen of the Liberty of Ripon
Quarter Sessions, and Director of the York. Hull, and East and
West Yorkshire Junction Railway
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield ; Chairman of the Isle
of Ely Railway, and Director of the Manchester and Iheffield
Railway
Alfred Brodie, Esq , Upper Montagu-street, Montagu-square Direc-
tor of the Grand Trunk Railway
Isaac Baker Brown, Est , Oxford-square, Hyde-park, Director of the
Bristol and Dover Direc- Junction Railway
Thomas Byrom, Esq. Wigan, director of the Leeds and Liverpool
Direct, and Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction Rail-
ways
William Byrom, Esq., Oldham ; Director of the York and Lancaster,
the Cheltenham, Oxford, and London Railways
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Westbourne House, Sbettleld, Director of the
Direct Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
William Caldwell. Esq., Ince Hall, near Wigan, Lancashire ; Direc-
tor of tile Manchester, Derby, and Rugby, and Leeds and Liver-
pool Direct Railways
William Carr, Esq., Blackheath-park
John Carter, Esq., F. Park Lodge, Stockwell, Director of the
Grand Trunk Railway
E. Turst Carver, Esq., Forest Lodge. Tulse-hill, Director of the
Direct Birmingham, Oxford, and Brighton Railway
John Castendieck, Esq., Lewisham, Kent
John Channtler, Esq., Friday-steet, London ; Director of the
Chelmsford and Bury, and York and Lancaster Railways
Thomas Challis, Esq., Alderman of London; Director of the Direct
Western Railway
Richard Clark, Esq.. Farnham, Hants
George Clive, Esq., Sanderstead, near Croydon, Director of the Chel-
tenham, Oxford, and London Junction Railway
Benjamin Collett, Esq., Manor House, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire;
Director of the London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kiddermiu-
ster ; and Rugby, Warwicl:, and Worcester Railways
Nathaniel Cooke, Esq., Bayswater; Director of the Ambergate,
Nottingham, Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
Minis Coventry, Esq., White Hart-court, Lombard-street ; Director
of the Birmingham Extension and Great Leeds and London
Direct Railways
William Croudson, Esq., Manor Cottage, Wigan, director of the L'-
verpool and Leeds Direct, of the Staffordshire Potteries, of the
Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield, and the Cheltenham, Oxford,
and London Railways
John Crow'. on, Esq. King-street-house, Wigan, director of the Li-
verpool and Leeds Direct, of the Keighley, Halifitx, and Hudders-
field, of the Staffordshire Potteries, and of the York and Kenyou
Junction Railways
Lieutenant-Colonel Lothian Dickson, Curzon-street, Mayfair; Direc-
tor of the Reading tied Reigate Junction Railway
Charles R. Dodd, Esq., North Brixton, Director of the Great Welsh
Central Railway, of the Bath, Bristol, and Dover Railway, of the
Hull and Holyhead Railway, &c.
Miles Dormer, Esq., Hans-place, Sloane-street ; Director of the
Exeter, Dorchester, anti Weymouth Railway
Colonel Robert Douglas, Roval Artillery, United Service Club;
Director of the London and Birmingham Extension Railway
Daniel Ebbetts, Esq., Mincing-lane ; Director of the Direct Western
Railway
Colonel Elrington, Scots Fusilier Guards, Wyndham-place, Bryan-
ston-square. Director of the London and Manchester, and Liverpool
and Leeds Direct Railways
Francis Ewart, Esq.. Brick-court, Temple; Director of the Great
Leeds and London Direct, and of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Rey-
month Railways
Thomas Farneomb, Esq., Alderman of the City of London ; Director
of the London and Westminster Bank, and Director et the London
Warwick, Leamington, and Kidderminster Railway
Edmund Aidam Fawcett, Esq., London, Derby, and Nottingham
Robert Fisher, Esq: Ilighbury Park, Director of the Trent Valley
Continuation Railway
The Rev. 11. R. Fowler, Manchester-square ; Director of the Direct
Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
George Gamble, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Nottingham and
Gainsborough Railway
Francis Gamble, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Nottingham
and Gainsborough Railway
Henry Glynn, Esq , Garden-court, Temple
Captain Twistleton Graves, I)uke-street, St. James's, director of the
Eastern Counties Junction and Southend and the Midland Grand
Junction Railways
F. W. Ilemilton, Esq., 59, Gloucester-place, Portman-square; Di-
rector of the York fuel Lancaster Railway
C. 11. Rogers Harrison, Esq., Upper afontagu-street,Montsgu-squari;
Director of the Grand Trunk Railway
George R. Harrison, Esq., Ilarlingfbrd-place, Kennington ; Director
of the (*rand Trunk Railway
Thomas Hartshorne, Esq., Silkmore-house, Stafford
William Hay, Esq., 19, Clifford-Street, Bond-street.
Josiah Beale, Esq., Gray's Inu-square ; Director of the Chelmsford
and Bury Railway
Lawrence Heyworth, Esq., Yew Tree, Liverpool
A. IV. Hillary, Esq., 66, Cadogan-place ; Director of the Direct Exe-
ter Railway
John Holford, Esq., Rusholm-hall, Manchester ; Director of the York
and Lancaster Railway
John Holmes, Esq., 88, St. James's-street ; Director of the York and
Lancaster, and Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railways
William Bui keley Hughes, Esq., M.l'., Chairman oe the Welsh Mid-
land, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
W. Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., Alderman of London,
Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, and
London and Greenwich Railways
Stephen Hutchinson, Esq.. London Gas-works, Vauxhall,Director of
the Grand Trunk Railway
John Kynnersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of Linden ; Director of
the London and Manchester Direct Railway
Herbert Ingrain, Esq.' 198, Strand, and Swineshead Abbey, Lincoln-
shire ; Director of the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, and
Eastern Junction Railway
W. H. Jackson, Esq. 66, Red Lion-street, Clerkenwell
John Jameson, Esq., St. George's-place, Brixton, Director of the
Great Leeds and London Direct, and of the Cumberland Union
Railways
Slegerich C. Kreert, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and
Weymouth Junction Coast Railway
Richard Kelly. Esq., 6, Cleveland-row; Chairman of the New Ross,
Carlow, and Kilkenny, and Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln
Extension Railways
Sir J. Key, Bart., Alderman of London ; Director of the London and
Manchester 'Direct Railway
Valentine 'Knight, 'Esq., 3, Co-nwall-terrace, Regent's-park, Director
of the Direct Western, Derdre Valley, and Grand Trunk Railway
James Lamb, Esq. 25, Hyde-park-square ; director of the Dover and
Bristol Railway
William Lawrence. Esq., Brixton ; Director of the London and Man-
chester and Direct Western Railways
William Alexander Long, jun., Esq., Kingswood House, Wootton-
under-Edge ; Director of the Erewash Valley Extension Railway
Captain J, I'. Macdougall, Fir-grove, Brixton; Chairman of time Isle
of Man Railway, and director of th e Leeds and Fleetwood Railway
S
William Margetson, Esq.,treatham-hill, Brixton
J. Mee Mathew, Esq., 4, Gray's Inn-square; Director of the Direct
Western Railway
James Macmillan, Esq. London and Southampton • director of the
Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby Railway, &c.
James Meaburn, Esq.' Grove-hill, Camberwell
Thomas Morris, Esq.- Fairhurst Hall, near Wigan ; Director of the
Blackburn, Cherley, and Liverpool, and Leeds and Liverpool
Direct Railways
James Morrison, Esq., Director of the ChepstoW and Forest of Dean
and Rhondda and Ely Valleys Junction Railway
Horatio Nelson, !esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey-
mouth Railway
William Nevin, Esq. West-green, Stamford-hill
G. Parbury, Esq., Russell-square; Director of the Manchester and
Birmingham Railway
W. Simpson Potter, Esq , Sussex-gardens ; Director of the Grand
Trunk, the Oxford and Witney, and Reading and Reigate Junction
Railways
Samuel P. Pratt, Esq., F.R.S., Bath, and 55, Lincoln's-inn-fields ;
Director of ibe Kennet and Avon Canal Company, and York and
Lancaster Railway
Esq., Lavenham, Suffolk
George Richard Pye,
Lewis Pocock, Esq.. F.S.A., Montagu-square, Director of the South-
amptoa, Manchester, and Oxford Junction and Brighton and Chel-
tenham Direct Railways
Sir George Rich, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square ; Director of the
Metropolitan Railways Junction Company, and of the London,
Southampton. Gosport, and Ports Mouth Railway
John Reginald Riddell, Earn, Ilycullali House, Enfield, Middlesex ;
Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
R. A. Riddell, Esq., 23, b'ryanston-street, Portman-square ; Director
of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and Oxford amid Worcester
Extension Railways
James Reid, Esq. Director of the Metropolitan Railways Junction
Cempacy Middle Temple, Loudon; Director of
A. Macdonald Ritchie, Esq..
the Great Western Extension Atmospheric Railway
Richard Rowe, Esq.. Beanfoy-terrace, Maida Vale
H. Savage, Esq., Dorset-place, Dorset-square ; Director of the West
Midland, anchester, and Southampton Railway
William Stud cy, Eso.. Alfred-place, Brixton ; Director of the Great
Grimsby, Louth, Ilorneastle, Lincoln, and Midland Junction
Railways
Martin Stately, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of
the Leeds and Carlisle, Direct Western, and Grand Trunk Railways
Timothy Steward, Esq., Heigham Lodge, near Norwich
Edward H. 0. Scott, Esq., Hoe Garden House, Ern mth ; Director
of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway
Henry Taylor, Esq , Wigan ; Director of the Leeds and Liverpool
Direct, Manchester and Wigan, and Liverpool, Preston, and North
Union Railways
James Templer. Esq., Brixton-rise, Director of the Great Leeds and
London, and Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford Railways
Joseph Underwood. Esq., The Hall, Blackheath Park ; Director of
the Direct London and Manchester, and Leeds and Liverpool Direct
Railways
Robert Watkins, Esq., Augusta-house, Worthing, Director of the
Oxford, Southampton, and Gosport, and Liverpool and Derby
Railways
Sir Henry Webb, Bart., 105, Pall-Mall, London ; Director of the
York and Lancaster, and Direct Western Railways
David Wheatcroft, Esq. director of the Rugby, Derby, and Man-
chester, and Nottingham and Gloucester Railways
Sir Thomas Woollaston White, Bart., Wailing Wells, Nottingham
Thomas Williams, Esq., Belgrave-street, Belgrave-square
W. S. Wilson, Esq., Norwich, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle, and
afarynort and Carlisle Railways
Sir William Wynn, afaesynewadd, and Suffolk-place, Pall-mall ;
Chairman of the North Wales, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways

(With power to add to their number.)
BANKERS.—The Commercial Bank of London.
coNsurrt NG ENG N EKE.
Sir John Macneil, F.R.S.,
ACTING ENGINEERS.
Messrs. R, and T. Ilopkitie,M.l.C.E.; Messrs.Gough and lloumieti,
SCAVELORS.—Messrs. Shuttieworth and Sons.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Channtier and Westwood, 8, Gray's Inn-square.
SECRETARY—J. L. Cotton, Esq.

The principal objects of the scheme are-Ist. To remedy the evils
of delay anti Inconvenience to which parties are, at the present time,
necessarily subjected in proceeding from the west end of the metro-
polis to Croydon, or the most distant places on the South-Eastern
and London and Brighton Railways, as well as the several sea ports
and packet-stations on the coasts of Kent and Sussex; and ad. To
supply to the numerous and wealthy inhabitants of the district
through which the intended line will pass (at present wholly with-
out railway accommodation), a greatly improved means for the in-
terchange of communication with the metropolis, and with each other.
Commencing at the intended terminus of the South-Western
Rail-
ett Iltmgerford or Waterloo-bridge, the line will take the most
h or
practicable route to Kennington, from thence it will follow
near to as near a
st
s
possible the old turnpike road, passing throug
wealthy and populous districts of Stockwell, Clapham, Brixton,
Tulse-hill, Streatham, Norwood, Beulah, and Thornton-heath, effect-
ing a junction at Croydon with the several existing or projected
lines from that place.
It is also proposed to form a branch or branches from the neigh-
bourhood of Streatham to Mitcham and Tooting, and thus to extend
to those places, and their respt.ctive neighbourhoods, the advantages
of a direct railway communication with the metropolis.
A great portion of the traffic in passengers and goods upon the
Brighton and Dover lines is supplied from the west-end of London
and the Birmingham and Great Western Railways. The necessity
of ptoceeding to the station at London-bridge, and by the present
circuitous route to Croydon, is a serious and unnecessary inconveni-
ence, entailing additional expense and delay. The removal of this
long-felt grievance is a leading object with the promoters of the pre-
sent nndertaking. They deem it right, however, to observe, in lay-
ing this scheme before the public, that they have no desire to inter-
fere with existing railway interests, further than is absolutely inch,_
pensable, but that on the other hand it will be their object to yield
assistance to, and in return endeavour to secure it, from each com-
pany with which this line may ultimately be connected.
' A glance at the map will show, that as a branch or arm of the
London and Brighton Railway, this undertaking completes a straight
line of communication from the west end of London to Croydon,
Reigate, and Brighton, and renders the ports of Dover and Folke-
stone, as well as the several places on the South-Eastern line, more
easily accessible from that part of the metropolis.
The great amoant of traffic at the present time upon the roads be-
tween Croydon, Mitcham, Tooting, Lc., and London.' proves at once
that the existing railway facilities do not at all meet the exigencies
of the mass of population to whom this line will be available.
The population who reside upon or in the immediate neighbour-
hood of the proposed line, independent of the metropolis, and between
the intended termini, exceeds 100,000, whose wants arc almost
wholly supplied from the London markets, &c., and who have, at
the present time, no mode of conveyance but upon the turnpike
road. In the transit of building materials, corn, coal, lime, and
other heavy goods, from the warehouses and wharfs on the banks of
the Thames, and for marketable produce in each direction, this line
must become to them particularly useful and convenient.
Some idea may be formed of the local necessity of this railway,
when it is known that the number ofpassengers who avail themselves
of the accommodation afforded by the several omnibuses and other
public vehicles, running upon the turnpike-road, have been ascer-
tained to exceed 2,609 daily, An equal number (at least) proceed

by private and other conveyances. Of foot passengers, although
no accurate estimate can be formed of them, it is considered that
they at least number four times that of passengers who travel by con-
veyance. The tonnage of goods it is calculated will be in full pro-
portion to the receipt from passengers.
Experience has fully proved, that an however liberal a scale the
probability of future traffic in the transit of goods and passengers has
been judged, almost every line of railway has, upon its completion,
vastly exceeded the calculated amount. The- e are, however, in this
instance, reasons for supposing that the extended facilities of com-
munication will cause more than an ordinary increase in the con-
veyance of passengers. The country which the line of railway will
open is singularly picturesque and beautiful, and in addition to the
admired districts of Brixton and Streatham, the long-favoured and
much-frequented Beulah and Norwood will be placed within easy
access, and become more than ever, objects of interest and delight
to the visitor and resident of the metropolis.
There can thereibre be little doubt but that the present line must
become a profitable and eligible scheme for the investment of capital.
The promoters of this undertaking have pleasure in announcing
that it is approved of, an I will be generally supported by local in-
fluence. They have caused a partial survey to be made, which will
be completed shortly, and they have the assurance of their engineers
that there are not more than ordinary difficulties to contend with.
The liability of the shareholders will be restricted, by Act of Parlia-
ment, to the amount of their subscriptions; and power will be applied
for in the Bill to allow interest at 4/. per cent. per annum oa all calls
from the passing of the Act until the opening of the line.
Applications for further information, prospectuses, and shares (in
be ibrm annexed), may he addressed to the Solicitors; to the Secre-
tary, at the offices of the Company, No. 34, Gracechureh-street ; or
to the following Brokers :—viz., Messrs. 14. and M. yd, Primes-

street ; Mr. 11. J. Williams, 80, Old Broad-street; Messrs. Greystone
and Earle, York; Mr. Anthony Laurie, Liverpool; Messrs. Cardwell
and Co., and Mr. Henry Benton, Manchester ; Mr. James Pearson,
Birmingham ; Yessrs. Watson and Co., Leeds ; Messrs. 14.1 my and
Stainforth, Hull ; Mr. George Edwards,, Bristol ; Mr. Thomas gaud.
ford, Exeter ; Mr. James Pringle, Edinburgh ; Mr. J. W. Carr, Col-
chester.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

To the Provisional Committee of the Direct West-End and Croydon

Railway.

ecntlemen,—l request you will allot me Shares of 201.
each in the above railway, upoin which or noon any less number that
may be allotted to me, I hereby agree to pay the deposit, and to
execute the Parliamentary Contract and the Subscribers' Agreement
when required to do so.

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Residence • . • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • . • • • • • •
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THE DIRECT WEST END and CROYDON.
RAILIVAY.—The Provisional Committee give notice that
no application for Shares in this C. mpany can be received alter tke
20th instant. By order,
J. L. COTTON, Secretary.
31, Gracechurch-street, Oct. 10th, 1845.

THE GRAND JUNCTION and MIDLANDS
UNION RAILWAY, connecting Stafford and the Pot-
teries, via .Burton-upon-Trent, with Derby, Nottingham, and the
Eastern Counties.
Capital, 600,0001., in 30,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.

No subscriber to be liable beyond the .itrionn t of his subscription, and

no call to be made until the Act is obtained.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Chesterfield
The Right lion. the Lord Viscount Core.ermere
The Right Hon. the Lord Viscount Ingestre,
The Right Hon. Lord Thomas Pelham Clinton
I.'he Right Hon. G. It. Dawson
The Hon. Cecil Lawless
Sir Arthur De Capel Broke, Bart.
Lieutenant-General Sir John Wilson, K.C.B.
Thomas North, Esq., Mayor of Nottingham
Fred. Ricketts, Esq., London, Director of the Great Western
Railway
Thomas Wakefield, Esq., Nottingham, Directors of the Notting-
am and Gainsborough
David Wheatcroft, EA., Nottingham, Railway
James Sutton, Esq., Shardlow-hall, Derbyshire
John Bloor, Esq., Tutbury, Staffordshire, Director of the Sheffield,
Buxton, Leek, and Potteries Railway
WiMom It. C llett, Esq., M.P., St. James's-square
James Cliff rd, Esq., Broughton Hous, Derbyshire
Francis Hall, Esq., Park Hall, Nottinglun, Chairman of the Notting-
ham, Maasfteld, and Midlands Junction Railway
Thomas Nugent Volution, Esq., Chilton-hall
George Frederick Gregory, Esq., Seacombe, Managing Director of the
Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway
William Eaton Mousley, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, and Derby
IL J. Enthoven, Esq., London
F. P. Barlow, Esq., London, Director of the Great Western Railway
Francis Parker, Esq., Manchester, Director of the London and York
Railway
George Emery, Esq., London, Director of the Waterford and Kil-
kenny Railway
William Watson, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Exeter Railway
Archibald F. Paull, Esq., London, Director of the South Wales Rail-
way
William Morgan, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Gloucester Rail-
way
James Beech, Esq., Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, Director of the
South Midland Railway
Wm. Watson Prole, E:_q., S
Directors of the Great Manchester,
Robert Chapman, Esq., Rugby, and Southampton Railway
Anthony Dickson, Esq., Edrington House, Berwickshire
Sheldon Cradsck, Esq., Leicest. r
Ambrose Moore, Esq., London and Derby
William Johnson, Esq., Rickerscote, near Stafford
Joseph Ward, Esq., Milford Villa, near Stafford
George Russell Eaton, Esq., Cavendish Bridge, near Derby
James Upfill, Esq., Bromyard, Director of the Staffordshire and
Shropshire Junction Railway
Matthew Gaunt, Esq. J.P. Highfleld-house, Staffordshire, Director of
the South Staffordshire Junction Railway
Thomas Hartshorne, Esq. Stkinore-house, Staffordshire
Edward Knight, Esq. 31. D. Stafford, Director of the Staffordshire and
Shropshire Junction Railway
William Charles Woodroffe, Esq. Haywood Abbey, Staffordshire
Charles Dawson, Esq. Stafford and Abbots-Bromley, Director of the
Staffordshire and Shropshire Juncti in Railway

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
LORD VISCOUNT INGSESTRE, Chairman.
F. P. Ba:low, Esq. Archibald F. Paull, Esq,
Lord Thomas Pelham Clinton F. Ricketts, Esq.
W. Morgan, Esq. W. Watson, Esq.
W. W. Prole, Esq.

ENGINEER—E. J. lkiwide, Esq. C.E.
SOLICITORS.

Messrs. Edwards, Mason, and Edwards, 8, Moorgate-street, and 8,
Delahay-street, Westminster:

LOCAL AGENTS.
Nottingham—Samuel Maples, Esq.
Burton-upon-Trent—John Thornewill, Esq.
Stafferd—Messrs. Bennet and Bowen
BANKERS.
London—Messrs Denison, Heywood, Kennard, and Co.,
Lombard-street
Nottingham—Samuel Smith and Co.
Burten-upon-Trent —Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashbourn
Union Batik
Stafford—Messrs. Stevenson, Salt, and Co.

The proposed railway is intended to commence on the Trent
Valley Railway near Stafford, and proceeding thence in an easterly
direction, to pass through, or near to, Tixall, Haywood, Colwich, and
Abbott's Bromley, to the rapidly-increasing town of Burton•upon-
Trent, where it will run into the Birmingham and Derby Railway,
funning the shortest and best practicable route from Stafford to
Derby. Leaving the Birmingham and Derby Railway at Burton-
upon-Trent, it will proceed along the valley of the Trent by Rcpton,
Swarkestone, and Shardlow, to the Midland Counties Railway at the
point where that railway forms a junction with the Derby and Not-
tingham Railway; and thus, by means of these and other railways
in progress, form a complete line of railway communication between
the central towns of Stafford, Derby, NottinOiam, Lincoln, Leices-
ter, Peterborough, and Boston, on the east, and Shrewsbury, Ches-
ter, and Holyhead, North Wales, and Ireland, on the west.

This railway will, therefore, forni the only connecting link re-
quired in the great chain of railway communication from east and
west through the heart of the kingdom, uniting the shores of the
German Ocean on the east with those of the Irish Sea on the west, and
traversing in its course the rich agricultural districts of the eastera,
midland, and western counties, and accommodating the important, and
populous mantraicturing towns of Stafford, Derby, Nottingham, Lei-
cester, and Shrewsbury. But another most important advantage
that will result from the formation•of this line will consist In the
fact of its affording, in connexion with the proposed South Union, or
Manchester and Potteries Railway, by far the shortest and best
route between Derby, Nottingham, Newark, Lincoln, Peterborough,
Leicester, and Loughborough, and the extensive and populous dis-
tricts of the Staffordshire Potteries, Macclesfield, Stockport, and
Manchester. By the proposed line the distance between Nottingham
and Derby and Manchester will be at least from 15 to 20 miles less
than by the present circuitous route by Sheffield.
The traffic on this line must necessarily be equal, if not superior,
to that of any line in the district.
The length of the line will be about 33 miles, through a country
presenting no difficulties of more than an ordinary kind for its con-
struction.

The capital proposed to be raised is 600,000 t., in share of 201.
each, upon which a deposit of 21. 2s. per share must be paid upon the
allotment. No call will be made until the Act is obtained, and no
subscriber will he liable beyond the amount of his deposit until the
Act is obtained, and then not beyond the amount of his subscription ;
and the usual power will be taken to allow interest at four per cent.
from the time of payment upon each call until the opening of the
line.

The Subscribers' Agreement and the Parliamentary Contract must
be executed when the bankers' receipts are exchanged for scrip cer-
tificates, of which 14 days' notice will be given ; and the deposits
paid by any party making default in the execution of those deeds will
be forfeited.

GRAND JUNCTION and MIDLANDS
UNION RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that no further Applications for Shares win
be received.

By order of the Committee,
W. A. ROSS, Secretary.
1, Royal Exchange Bnildings, Ilth October, 1845.

PRELIMINARY ANNOUN EMENT.

HALIFAX AND fIULL DIREt;T, AND
lIULL, GOOLE, GRIMSBY, AND YORK AND NORTH
MIDLAND GRAND JUNCTION (at or near Methley) RAILWAY,
via, Ilipperholme, Lighteliffe, Cleckheaton, Mills-bridge; Gomersal,
Birstal, Batley, Hanging Heaton, Ardsleys, Lathouse, Stanley to
Methley, with a branch to Wakefield.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 600,0001. in 30,000 shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21.25. per Share, in compliance with the Standing Orders of

Parliament,

The Object of this railway is to provide for the above-named
densely populated and rapidly improving manufacturing, towns and
villages, a dirict and convenient outlet towards York, Selby, Hull,
Goole, Grimsby, and the east.
In conjunction with the West Riding Union, Liverpool and Leeds,
and other projected railways passing through or near to Ilalith7c, the
Undertaking now proposed will form one of the most direct railway
communications, as well between the ports of Liverpool and HO, as
between the great manufacturing districts of the west, and the agri-
cultural districts of the East.
The population residing upon and along the proposed line between
?Willa and Metbley exceeds 200,000 persons, who are chiefly engaged
in manufacturing and mining industry—to such a community a rail-
way passing immediately through it, giving a nearer and snore con-
venient access to the Irish Channel and the Gelman Ocean and the
intermediate places, Is an object of importance, and promises. when
accomplished, to confer great advantages on the inhalaants, and to
secure to the shareholders an ample return for the capital invested.

.„ ..... _
By this project the valuable coal fields of W.ke, Batley, Soothill,
Ealt and West Ardeley, Lofthouse, and Stanley (containing
the well known " Bowling and Low Moor," " High Moor,"
and Stanley Main," beds which re now wrought to a von-
siderable extent), will be furnished, for the first time, with
the means of cheap and convenient railway transit toHalifax
and other large towns westward, and to York, Selby, Hull,
Goole, Grimsby, and various other places eastward. The celebrated
flagstone quarries of Northowram and Southowram, which annually
export from Goole, Selby, and Hull, to the eastern coast of England
and to the Continent, large quantities of flags, paving stones, and
slates, will supply this line of railway with a considerable amount of
traffic.
By means of the Leeds and Dewsbury Railway, now in course of
construction (which the proposed line will intersect at Batley), the
inhabitants of the clothing districts previously mentioned will have
the readiest access to the Leeds markets and to the country north
of Leeds.
By a junction at Cleckheaton with the Bradford and Dewsbury
branch of the West Riding Union Railway the present scheme will
give to Halifax and its populous neighbourhood the shortest railway
communication with Dewsbury, and in connexion with other pro-
posed lines with Barnsley, &c.
The same junction at Cleckheaton will give to Bradford and the
important iron works at Wibsey, and Low Moor. the nearest route to
Selby, Hull, and the east ; consequently this railway company may
fairly lay claim to carry a large portion of the raw material and ma-
nufactured productions, used and produced in that densely-peopled
portion of Yorkshire.
From a point on the main line at or near Soothill, it is intended to
make a branch to Wakefield of about five miles down the Alverth, rpe
Valley, there to join the Pontefract and Goole, the Wakefield branch
of the London and York, and the Midland Railways. It is evident,
therefore, that the proposed railway and its intended branch (aided
by the West Riding Union line between Bradford and Cleckheaton)
will provide the shortest route hitherto projected from Halifax and
Bradford to Wakefield, Doncaster, and the eastern counties.
From Halifax to the proposed junet on at Methley the distance will
he about nineteen miles ; and, although the ndulating surface of the
country along a portion of the line will occasion some expensive
works, yet the proposed capital is amply sufficient to complete the
whole of the railway, with its branches and stations. And the pro-
moters are enabled to state most confidently that the through and
local traffic in passengers, goods, and minerals, will be such as to
render this undertaking one of the most profitable in the kingdom.
The gradients arc not unfavourable, there are no rivers or canals
to cross, and tile project does not interfere with ornamented property
of any kind.
The Parliamentary survey is now in progress and will be ready
for the forthcoming session.
The liability of the shareholders will be limited by the Act of Par-
'lament to the amount of their shares, And power will be taken to
allow interest at 4 per cent. on all deposits and calls from the time of
payment to the opening of the line.
A more enlarged prospectus, togett,er with the names of an infinen-
tial Provisional Committee, will slrjrtly be published; in the mean-
time, every information may be ' btained of the solicitors, to whom
application for shares may be Iratde in the subjoined form. A pre-
ference will be given in the alb ,tment to landowners on the line and
parties locally interested.
By order, _ _ .

CARR and
TTLETON, Solicitors to the Promoters
Wakefield, October 1,,

To the PrAvisional Committee of the Halifax and hull Direct

Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares of 201.
each in the above proposed r.iihyay, and I nndertaks to accept the
same, or any less numb ,r you may appropriate to me, stshject to the
regulations of the Company, to execute the Parliamentary Contract
and the Stakaaibers' Agreement, and to pay, when required, the
deposit of 21. 2s. pet share.
Name in full .. •••• .. •
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Residence ••••• • • • .. • •
Place of Business (if any) •••••• • • • • • •
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Date .. • • •

DIRECT LONDON AND LIVERPOOL
RAILWAY (by a Junction from Chester to Wolverhampton),
through Newport and Whitchurch.
(Provisionaily Registered,- pursuant to 7th and Sth Vic., c. 110).
Capital! 000,0001, in 50,000 Sh res of 201. each.
Deposit 2/. 2s per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE
The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyue, Bell Hatch honk, Henley-on.
Thames
Sir .1,,1t P. Milbanke, Bart., Halidane Hall, Yorkshire
Sir Wm. Young, Bart. Westbourne-terrace, HyC c-park, a director of
the East India Company, and of the Rugby, Derby, and Manches-
ter Railway Company
Sir William Boothby, Bart. Ashbourne Hall, Ashbourne, a director
of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway
Sir William Twysden, Bart. a director of the Chepstow, Forest of
Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway
Sir Joint J. Hansley, Saffron Walden, Essex, Deputy-Lieutenant of
Essex, and a director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Rail-
way.
Sir James Eyre, 11, Lower Brook-street, Grosvenor-square
Sir Robot t Shomburgh, New Kingston, Surrey
George Frederick 31untz, Esq. 31.1'. Ley-hall, Staffordshire
W., lane Ellis, Esq. M.P. Chairman of the Leicester and Bedford, and
a director of the Grand Union and several other railways
Thomas North, Esq. Mayor of Nottingham
John Parkins,m, Esq. F.R.S. 80, Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park, a
director of the Irish Great Western, the Northampton, Banbury,
and Cheltenham, and Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railways
Thomas Stevenson, Esq. F.S.A. 37, Upper Grosvenor-street, Hyde-
park, a director of the Irish Great Western, the Reading and Rei-
gate, and Rugby, Derby an i Manchester Railways
Matthew Pierpoint, Esq., Crown East, Worcestershire, Deputy-
Lieutenant of Vie County of Worcester, and a director of the Rugby,
Derby, and Manchester Railway
Cecil Brook Beothy, Esq. Ashbourne-hall, Ashbourne and Bolton-
street, Piccadilly, a director of the Ru.sby, Derby, aml Manchester
Railway
Lieut.-Col. Dillies, Porchester-house, Bayswater
Rear-Admiral John Wight, Teignmouth, Devon
James Russcll, Esq. G 1 mcester-place, Portatan-square, London, and
of Windsor, director of the Great Leeds and London Approxima-
tion

Major-General Wright, R.E. Gloucester-place, Portman-square, di-
rector of the Great Leeds and London Approximation
William Chance, Esq. Spring-grove, Birmingham, Deputy-( hairman
of the Birmingham and Leicester Railway, director of the Trent
Valley Midlands, the Manchester and Southampton Junction, and
Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railways
Rowland Hill Mackenzie, Esq. M.D., a director of the Hrddersllcld,
and East and West Coast Direct, and or the Thames Valley Rail-
ways
William Shaw, Esq. director of the London and Birmingham Exten-
sion, and Worcester and Warwick Railways
Alexander Prince, Esq. 14, Lincoln's lua-flelds. a director of the
Tying, Reading, Basingstoke anti Barnet, and, North Metropolitau
Railways, and one of the Provisional Committee of the West Mid-
letel Manchester and Southampton Ralway
Dr. William Wilson, R.N., Cob Croft, Dartford
Francis Ewart, Esq. 4, Brick-court, Temple, a director of the Great
Leeds and London Railway
James Wit am, Esq. Eaton-square, a director of the Rugby, Derby
and Manchester Railway
David Wheaterott, Esq. Buckland-hollows Derbyshire, a director of
the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway
Joseph W. Moore, Esq., Sandon-lodge, Avenue-road, Regent's Park
Wiliianl Tonle, Esq., Stauhope-street, Regent's-i ark
Captain Sigh Fieher, Junior United Service Club
David Bryan, Esq. Northampton, a member of the Provisional Com-
mittee of the tiidland and Eastern Counties Ralway
Josiah Heale, Esq. 3, Gray's Inn-square, it director of the Exeter,
Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway
Joseph Alexander Bicknell, Esq. Brandon-cottage, Bristol, a director
of the Oxford and Worcester Extension, and Chester Juactiou
Railway
William Holt, Esq. Great Coram-street, and the Elms, Watford, a
director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, and Lynn, Wis-
beach, and Peterborough Railways
George Wilion, Etq. director of the Great Western Extension
Railway •
James Ellis, Esq. Ravenswood-house, Bromley, Kent
George Worgan, Esq. a director of the Goole and Doncaster Railway
W. Stuart Farquharson, Esq. D.C.L. Spring-field-house, lioniton,
Devon, on the Provisional Committee of the Great Western Ex-
tension Italway
Captain W. Cousens, R.N. a director of the Goole and Doncaster
Railway
George Lawton, Esq. Ditchley-hall, Essex, a director of the Chep-
stow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway
John Hervey, Esq. Elliott-house, Blackheath
Francis Ingram, Esq. St. Joint's-wood-terrace
Samuel Smith, Esq. Southampton-buildings, a director of the Chel-
tenham, Oxford, and Brighton Junction Railway
Thomas George Smith, Esq. Doughty street, Mecklenburgh-square,
a director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, and of the Lynn,
Wisbeach, and Peterborough Railway
Stanhope Dawson, Esq. Cookharn, Barks
William Henry Halpin, Esq. Grafton-street, Fitzroy-square, a direetor
of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
John Harrison, Esq Eastbourne, Kent, a director of the Cheltenham,
Oxford, and Brighton Junction Railway
—Wight, Esq., Maryiebone-street, London, a director of the Chel-
tenham, Oxford, and Brighton Junction Railway
Nicholas al`Cann, Esq. Parliament-street
Henry Chaytor, Esq Clervaux Castle, Darlington
Major Adair, United Service Club, a director of the Goole and Don-
caster Railway
Thomas Hackett Massey, Esq, a director of the Great Leeds and
London, Dudley, Madeley, and Iroabridge, Hull and Lincoln, Not-
tingham and Birmingham, and Lincolnshire, and Eastern Counties
Junction Railways
Thomas Hemsley, Esq. Melbourne, Derbyshire, a director of the
Rugby, Derby, .and Manchester Railway
John Robinson, Esq., Silcoates-cottage, near Wakefield. a director of
the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, Bradford, Wakefield and Mid-
land, and Leeds and York, and Midland Junction Railway
John lil tor, Esq. Tutbury, a director of the Rugby, Derby, and Man-
chester Beltway
James J. 111'Swiney, Esq. Sandal-view, near Wakefield, a director
of the Ruby, Derby and Manches er, the Sheffield, Barnsley red
Wakefield, Wakefield and Harrowgate, and Whitby, Pickering,
Thirsk, and Great North of England Railways
Samuel impson, Esq. the Greaves, Lancaster, a director of the
Manchester and Leeds Direct, and of the Rugby, Derby and Man-
chester Railways
Edward Lucas, Esq. Mou' t-street, Birmingham, a director of the
Rugby, Derby and Manchester Railway
James Consterdine, Esq. Rosin-hall, Manchester, a magistrate, and
a director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway
John Groom, Esq. member of the Town Council, Northampton, and
a director of the Rugby, Derby and Manchester Railway
James Osborne Esq. Ashbourne, Derbyshire, a director of the
Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway
T. S. Richards, Esq. 51, Baker-street, Portman-square, a director of
the Great Western, Southern and Eastern Counties Railway
John Campbell Dicker, Esq. New hall, by Neston, Cheshire, a di-
rector ofthe Birkenhead and Holyhead, a dof the Rugby, Derby,
and Manchester Railways
John Grant Morris, Esq. merchant, Liverpeol
Henry Orson, Esq. King's Newton, Derbyshire, a director of the
Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway
U tock, Esq., M.D., Derby, a director of the Derby, Utoxeter,
and Stafford, and of the Rugby, Derby, dill Manchester Railway
Charles Milnes, Esq. Dalehonee, Matlock, Derbyshire, a director of
the 'Rugby, Derby and Manchester Railway • .
Thomas Byrom, Esq. Wigan. a director of York and Lancaster,
Liverpool and Leeds Direct, the Ke:ghley, Halifax, and Hudders
neat Junction, and of the Rugby, and ei anches.er Railways
William Byrom, Esq. Oldham, director of the Oldham District and
other Railways
Henry George Cascoyne, Eeq. Lee Hall, Hugely, Staffordshire, a
director of the Rugby, Derby and Manchester Railway . •
John Thomas Rawerth. Esq. Leicester, a director of the Leicester
and Birmingham, the London, Bristol, and South Wales, and the
Rugby, Derby and Manche -ter Railways.
William Atkinson Gardner, Esq. Vice-Chairman of the Midland
Union, director of the Preston, Fleetwood, and Wyre, Leicester and
Birminglnim, and Great Northern and Southern Railways
Perry Dicken, Esq. Ashby-de-la-Zouch, a director of the Rugby,
Derby, and Manchester Railway
Samuel Dawson, jun., Esq. Walton Bank, Ashbourne, a director of
the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway
F. R. Hodgson, Esq. Gainey, near Manchester, a director of the
Rugby Derby, and Mencnester Railway
William Caldwell, Esq. Ince-hall, Wigan, Alderman of the borough
of Wigan, and director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, the
Staffordshire Potteries, Liverpool and Manchester Direct, and
Rugby, Derby, ant Manchester Railways
Henry Taylor, Esq. Wigan, a director of the Liverpeol and Leeds
Direct, the York and Lancaster, the Eastern, Western, and
Southern, or Ipswich and Southampton, Reigate, the Halifax and
Huddersfield, Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Japetion,
Staffordshire Potteries, and Rugby, Derby, and Manchester
Railways
A. Inderwick, Esq. Brompton, Middlesex, a director of the Rugby,
Derby, and Manchester Railway
Richer.l Dransfield, Esq. West place, Dalton, Huddersfield, a
director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, the Keighley, Halifax.
and Huddersfield Junction, and Rugby, Derby, and Manchester
Railway
John Bond, Esq. Nuneaton, Warwickshire, and Howland-street,
London
James Cockell, Esq. Bernard-street, Russell-square
Arthur Das enport, Esq. t astn ()eel, Nottinghamshire
T. Folliott Powell, Esq. Hastinge, a director of the Rugby, Derby,
and Manchester Railway .
George Clarke, Esq. Rusholttie-park, pear Manchester, and Wyndham-
house, Brighton, a director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester
Railway
Samuel Griffiths, 'Esq. Pen-fields, Wolverhampton, a director of the
Leeds and Liverpool Railway
Thomas Charles Harrison, Esq. 31, York-terrace, Regent's•park
C. Kelly Cooper, Esq. Ashbourne, a director of the Rugby, Derby, and
Manchester Railway
John Oster, Esq. a director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester
Railway
Joseph Lancelot Devonport, Esq. Derby, a director of the Rugby,
Derby, and Manchester Railway
Edward Mammatt, Esq. Ashby-de-la-Zouch, a director of the Rugby,
Derby and Manchester Railway
T. Hastings Ingham Et q. Marton-house, near Skipton, a Magistrate
for the West Riding of Yorkshire, and a director of the Lancashire
and North Yorkshire Railway
John Rainbrigge:Story,Esq. Lockingtonn-hall, Leicesterth Ire, a direc-
tor of the Rugby, Derby, and Manehester Railway
George Robinson, Esq. Hull, a director of the Rugby, Derby, and
Manchester, and other railways
R. D. Goodwin, Esq. Ashbourne, a director of the Rugby, Derby, and
Manchester and other Railways
John Vaughan, Esq. merchant, 26, Austin Friars, London
George Croft, Esq. Hastings, alderman and magistrate of the Parlia-
mentary borough of Richmond, County of York
Samuel Pahner, Esq. Great Yarmouth, late Mayor of Yarmouth, a
director of the Great Grimsby, Louth, Horncastie. Lincoln, and
Midland Junction, Waveney Valley, and Great Yarmouth Railway
John Towle, Esq. Ben rowash 31111 s, Derbyshire, a director of the
Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railways
Henry J. Meakin, Esq. Shebnall Grange, and Burton-on-Trent, a
director of the Teen and Dove Valley, and Leicester and Tean and
Dove Junction Railways
Jobn Burgess, Esq. Ilorougheeeve of Manchester, a director of the
Chester and Manchester Direct, London and Manchester Direct,
and Independent Liverpool and Bolton Di set aiid other railways
Joseph Peel, Esq. Singleton Brook, near Manchester, a director of
the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester railway
Charles Bamford, jun. Esq. llull,a Member of the Committee of the
Hull and Barnsley Junction, the Leeds and Carlisle, and Rugby,
Derby and Manchester Railways -
Paul Wilhnott, Esq. Welbeck-street, Cavendish-sbuare. a director of
the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railways
Edward Lake Hesp, Esq. Huddersfield, solicitor to the Leeds, Pews-
bury and Manchester Railway Company, and one of the Pro-
visional Committee of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great
Grimsby Railway Company
James Renshaw, Esq., White Hart-court Lombard-street, London-
and West-heath-house, Erith, Kent, a director f the Direct
Western, and Rugby, Derby ai:d Manchester Railways
Francis Alfred Hawker, Esq. Westbourne-grove
James Reid Esq., Beulah-woad, pear Cree don
John Campion, Esq. 14, James's-place, Hs de-park
Dr. Broakes, 1, Cork-street, Fond-street
Lewis Pocock, Esq. Montague-street-Russell-square
Thomas Mackay, Esq. Norbury-hall, Ashbourne, a director of the
Birmingham and Manchester Direct Railway
(With power to add to their number.)
(limit, Esq., C.E.
SURVEYOS—CharIe F. Blunt Esq.
AILCIIITECTS—Frederick C. J. Parkinson, Esq. ; William Wilkinson
Wardell, Esq.
SOLICITOR To THE COMPANY—Thomas Gibson Brewer, Esq., 13, Gray's
Inn-square. .
STANDING COUNSEL—WiIIiam Holt, Esq.
COUNTRY SOLIC MORS.
Liverpool—Messrs. Littledalc and Bardswell
Manchester—Meesrs. Crossb y ant :sallow
Birmitigham—Messrs. Spurrier and Chaplin
Wolverhampton—Thomas Bolton, Esq
rAALIAIIENTAIIY AGENT—ThOMAS Baker, Esq., Spring-gardens.
see ICEP.S.
London—Messrs. 'Neste: mon. Peters, Mildred and Co.
Birmlngbam—The Birmingham Banking Company
Liverpool—The Royal Bank.

AGENTS.
Loneon—Thomas George Smith, Esq. 2, Warn'ord-court
Birmingham—T. It. Lane, Esq. Waterloo-street
Ilitil—Mess:s. Flint and Tootal
Edinburgh—Meg rs. Stewart and Murray
Leicester—llicksrs. Eligood and Harrison.
Temporary Wilms, 13, Gray's Inn-square, I ondon.
PROSPECTUS.
The Direct London and Liverpool Railway is also a Direct Liver-
pool and Birmingham Railway
It uses the London and Birmingham Railway the whole distance
to Birmingham)—lrorn thence It proceeds to Wolverhampton, either
on the Grand Junction, or on the Wolverhampton, Hadley, and Bir-
mingham Railway
From Wolvothampton commences the new portion of railway,
consisting of 55 miles only, and passing through Newport and
Whitchurch on to Chester.
At Chester the Direct London and Liverpool Railway proceeds on
the Chester and Birkenhead Railway to Birkenhead.
It is proposed to establish at Birkenhead a steam ferry, gratis, to
T,iverpool across the Mersey so as to unite both towns into one,