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London, England, 1845-09-30 00:00:00

THE OXFORD and WORCESTER EXTEN-
SION and CHESTER JUNCTION RAILWAY, with
Branches to Shrewsbury and Northwich. On the Broad Gauge.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 2,250,0001., in 112,500 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21: 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Lord (leorge Paget, Uxbridge House
The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pulte'Lley, 4, Parliament-street. Chairman

_of the York and Lancaster Railway
William Beresford, Esq., M.P., 77, Pall-mall, Director of the Tean
and Dove Talley Railway
Sir William Bacon Johnson, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire, Director
of the Chester and Forest of Dean Railways
Sir John Edward de Beauvoir, Chairman of the London and Bir-
mingham Extension
Sir Samuel Brown, Director of the Warwick and Worcester Railway
Sir John Hare, Langham-place, Director of the London and Bir-

mingham Extension
Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London, Director of the London
and Manchester and Leeds and Liverpool Railways
Colonel Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, Director of the London and

Birmingham Railway _ -
Colonel Fitch, 36, York-terrace,Regent's-park, Director of the South
and Midlands' Railway
Sir John Rangier, Deputy Lieutenant of the county of Essex, Wal-
ton, near Saffron Walden, Essex
Admiral J. Ayscough, Prospect-place, Southampton, Director of the
South and Midland Railway
Major Croft, 15, Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman of the Manchester
and Chester Railway
Major Chase, 31, Nottingham-place
Captain S. M. Fisher,jun., Director of the Warwick aid Worcester
Railway
Captain Hitchens, H.E.1.C.5., Director of the Birmingham and Ox-
ford Railway
Samuel Kenrick, Esq., banker, Wrexham
Captain F. Chamfer, Halkin-street, Beigrave-square, Director of the
Great Paris and Lyons Railway
Wm. Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., See., Alderman if Lon-
don, Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation,
Chairman of the London and Greenwich Railways, &c., &c.
Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South
Midland Railway
Matthew Harrison, Esq., Chester, Director of the North and South
Wales Bank
John Kinnersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the
London and Manchester Direct Railway, and South Midland
Thos. Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the Smith
Midland Railway
Thos. Challis, Esq., Alderman of London, Wilson-stieet, Finsbury
Thos. Sidney, Esq., Alderman of London, Sheriff of London aid
Middlesex
Captain Alex. Hamilton Earle, Royal Artillery, Reform Club.
John Inglis Jardein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby
and Southampton Railway
Wm. Morley, Esq„ Blackheath
Wm. Lee, Esq., Director of the Gravesend and Rochester, and Essex
and Suffolk Railways
Rd. Carpenter, Esq., Director of the Leieester and Bedford Railway
Henry Wright, Esq., Director of the South aid Midlands' Junction
Railway
John Wheelton, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Thomas Collingridge, Esq., Highgate, Middlesex
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
John Brocke Walbancke, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
Rd. Wm. Johnson, Esq., Director if the London and Manchester and
Derbyshire and South Staffordshire Railways
Francis Valentine Lee, Esq., Temple, Director of the Eastern Counties
Railway
Major Jelf Sharp, Deputy-Chairman of the Thames Embankment
Railway
Major-General Brooks Parlby, C. 8., 18, Rutland-place
W. Simpson Potter, Esq., Director of the Oxford, Witney, and
Cheltenham Railway
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester
Direct and Liverpool and Leeds Railways
Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of the London and Birmingham
Extension Railway
W. F. Black, Esq., Wilten-place, Belgram-square, Director of the
Italian and Austrian Railway
W. G. Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Talley Continuation Railway
John James, Esq., Secondary of London
Robert Henry Lyndam, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth
Railway
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanston-street, Portman-square,
Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
J. B. Richardson, Esq., Director of the Colchester and Cambridge
Railway
Julian Skreene, Esq., Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln
Railway
Frederick James Hall, Esq., Terrington-square, Director of the Bide-
ford and Tavistock Railway
Captain C. W. Tyndale, Director'a the South-Eastern Railway
Henry Lewis Smale, Esq., Willoughby House, Tottenham, Director
of the London and Dover Railway
Frederick Jones, Esq., Director of the Warwick and Worcester
Railway
C. Waite, Esq., Willesden, Middlesex
R. W. Wood, Esq., Lodge-place, St. John's Wood, Director of the
North Metropolitan Railway
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manchester
and Birmingham Railway
Wm. Shaw, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment Railway
Wm. Alfred Hill, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith
Railway
Richard Dutton Esq., Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Railway
Wm. Stark, Esq., Director of the Guarantee Society
James Reeves, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Railway
Frederick Collingridge, Esq., Thurlow-square, Bromptoi
Warren Stormes Hale, Esq., Gresham-street
Robert Richards, Esq., Temple, Director of the Birmingham and Lon-
don Extension Railway
Kingsmill Grove Key, Esq., Wandsworth-common
The Rev. F. K. Hall, D.D., Rector of Falbourne, Cambridge
Daniel Penton Johnson, Esq., Director of the London aid Manches-
ter Railway
Charles Green, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and A.berystwith

. .
Railway _
John Barber, Esq., Director of the Gloucester aid Aberystwitk
Railway
Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Hereford
E. R. Foster, Esq., Director of the Derby, Uttozeter, end Stafford-
shire Railway
Martin Furnis, Esq., Directsr of tke Nettingkam, Newark, and
Boston Railway
Richard Groucock, Esq. Dulwich, Director of the Direct Manchester

Railway
W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the Birmingham and Manchester

Extension
W. Bardgett, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian Railway
Richard Parish, Esq., Bank House, Wordsley, Staffordshiro
Samuel Parish, Esq., Wordsley, Rear Stourbridge, Staffordshire
Alexander Greig, Esq., Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square, Director of

the Leicester and Birmingham Railway
Thomas Yates Hunt, Esq., Brades, near Birmingham
William Singleton, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool
Direct Railway
Wm. Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Railway
James Muscroft, Esq., Pontefract
David William Nell, Esq., Leeds, J.P., Director of the Leeds and
Thirsk Railway
Joseph Robert Wilkie Atkinson, Esq., Director of the Leicester and
Bedford, and York and Lancaster Railways
John Fagan, Esq., Gloucester-road, Old Brompton
Charles Holden, Esq., Director of the Great Grimsby and Sheffield

Railway
J. D. Hopkins, Esq., Bedford-square, Director of the London and
Birmingham Extension Railway
Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds, Director of the West Riding Junction.

Railway
Peter Fairbairne, Esq., Leeds, Chairrcan of he Lincoln, York, and
Leeds Railway
John Blackburn, Esq., Leeds
J. M. Douglas, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth

Railway
W. Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street
John Anderson, Esq., Lothbury, Director of he South and Midland

Railway
W. Ley, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square
Robert Power. Esq., Director of the Great Britain Life Assurance-
office, Queen-street, May Fair,
Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Old Palace, Richmond
W. Bestow, Esq., Surrey-place
James Borness, Esq., Leyton, Essex
G. N. Wright, M.A.
John Alexander Bicknell, Esq., Brandon Cottage, Bristol, Director of
the South and Midlands' Junction Extension Railway
James Lees, Esq., Delph, Saddleworth, near Manchester, Director of

the Saddleworth Banking Company
Arthur Agard Davenport, Esq., Eastwood, Notts, Director of the
Great Leeds and London Direct Railway
Joseph Lancelot Davenport, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby,
Derby, and Manchester Railway
henry Savage, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment Company
David Wheatcroft, Esq., of Buckland Hollow, Derbyshire
William Gambier, Esq., Succombe Park, Herts
George Peppercorne, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex, Director of the Paris
and Strasburgh Railway
C. Norburry, Esq., Mancella House, Atherstone, Director of the
Tean and Dove Valley Railway
(With power to add to their number).

The names of an influential Committee formed at Worcester and
Chester will be published in a few days.

BANKERS.
The Commercial Bank of London
ENGINEER—WiIIiam Mullingar Higgins, Esq.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.
Messrs. Parrott and Walmesley, Palace-yard, Westminster.
SOLICITORS.

Potter and Cellingridge,
_5, Basinghall-street; W. B. James, Esq.,

—5, Basinghall-street.
SECRETARY—HiIton T. Jenkins, Esq.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Worcester—Charles Creswell, Esq. ; C. G. 11. St. Patriak, Esq.
Chester—John F. Maddock, Esq. ; S. Brittain, Eeq.
Whitchurch—James Bromfield, Esq.
Shrewsbury—W. Cooper, Esq.
Wellington—George Marcy, Esq.
Bridgenorth—Edward William Ilaslewood, Eeq.

The geographical position of Worcester has caused its adoption as
the point where the broad gauge trunk:lines of the west are to have a
common terminus. From Oxford the Great Western Company have
decided on constructing a line of rail :—another project under tke pa-
tronage of the same powerful direction is now before the public,
uniting Worcester with Warwick ; and, that the broad gauge will be
carried from Worcester into Wales, and to the Irish packet stations
on that coast, is now no longer doubtful. This undertaking will com-
plete a series of great avenues of iron-road, whose ramification
from Worcester will render every part of the kingdom directly
accessible from that city. Passing up the Severn Vale, where
it will disclose a succession of picturesque scenes, it reaches
Stourport, and proceeding thence through Kidderminster, arrives at
Bewdley. This district is one of the chief seats of our carpet manu-
factures, and in the towns here named, exclusive of the intervening
districts, upwards of 30,000 persons are located. Leaving Stourbridge
a little to the east, the line is taken to ilridgenorth, a town enjoying
an active inland trade, and possessing woollen manufactures and iron
works, that give employment to a population of about 15,000. Pass-
ing through or near to Much Wenlock, Broseley, and Madeley, from
which place there will be a branch to Shrewsbury, the line ascends
Colebrook Dale, and approaching in its course Wellington and Worn
enters Whitchurch. From this central place a 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 amiunt of revenue which the Worces-
ter and Chester Railway may be expected to yield, many sources of
profit present themselves, such arc the dense populat ion located along
the length of the Severn Vale, and the enriching works of industry
in which they are engaged. Amongst the latter may be mentioned
the china manufactories of Wercester, , the iron, coal, and earthen-
ware works at Broseley and other places ; the agricultural produce
►rought to Stourport market ; the inexhaustible fields of coal and
mines of iron ore in the vicinity of Colebrook Dale, 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.