The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER, is, 1845.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.
(Cambridge Line.)

NORFOLK and NORWICH MUSICAL FESTIVAL.

Tickets for First and Second Class Carriages will be issued ,from
London and Cambridge to Norwich and back, at
~ a Fare and a Half;
from Monday the 15th, to Saturday the 20th instant, returnable
without Extra Charge •a the above, or either of the intervening
days.
Eastern Counties Railway Offices, Sept. 8, 1845,

C OVENTRY, NUNEATON, BIRMINGHAM,
AND LEICESTER RAILWAY.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 840,0001., in Shares of 251. each.

This Railway will connect Leicester, Birmingham, and Co'rehtey,
by the nearest practicable route; and was .proiiSionally regiSteked
and capital subscribed long befote Any tithek Scheme was projected
for supplying railway accdtiimOdation to the district.

COMPARATIVE TABLE OP DisTANcks.
Present Pr.ooool Instance
distaper. diiitAnde. saved.
Leicester to Birminghtfii...k 49 ... 37 .• ••• • • • 12
Leicester to Cth'entry ...... 31 .........24 . ..... 7
=This line will commence at or near the Wigstoti station
of the Midland Counties Railway; will Oda& by or near
the manufacturing localities Of Nakborough, Sapcote, Earl
Shilton, Burbage, and :111nekley, through a district most favourable
-for engineering purposes, to a junction with the Trent Valley at Nun-
eaton. thence it continues nearly due west to the Whitacre station of
the Birmingham and Derby Railway, and south-west by Bedworth
to the Coventry station Of the Londoa and Birmingham Company.
The line will communicate with the Swanaington Railway either by
means of the proposed Broughton Astley branch of the Midlands, or
of a separate branch to be formed by this Company ; thereby opening
the entire of the Leicestershire coal-tield to the counties south-east
of Leicester. _ _

The Directors, for the last few months, having used their best
exertions for the interests of the Company, feel it their duty, now
that the surveys, plans, and other arrangements are so far advanced,
to acquaint their shareholders with the position and prospects of the
undertaking.
The Coventry, Bedworth, and Nuneaton line, which received the
favourable report of the Board of Trade, and was before Parliament
last session, forms part of the present projectcd plan for connecting
Leicester, Coventry, and Birmingham.
The Directors have, by personal inspection, accompanied by their
engineer, satisfied themselves of the remarkable facilities presented
by the district for executing the greater part of the line ; and from
careful investigation the Directors have the pleasure of informing the
shareholders that this undertaking cannot fail to prove a profitable
investment if supported by local traffic only, and with the certainty
that a through traffic from the eastern and western lines, combined
with the great advantages afforded by the junction with the Trent
Valley for the transit of goods to and from Liverpool, Scotland, Ire-
land, and the United States, its Importance cannot be over estimated.
From the extent of population accommodated by this railway
—from the convenience afforded to the trade and manufactures of
the Midland Counties—from the vast mineral resources of the dis-
tricts traversed, and from its position in regard to other important,
established, and projected railways, the Directors feel confident that
it will be amply remunerative to the Shareholder, and highly advan-
tageous to the public.

The capital liar been subscribed, and the Parliamentary deeds have
been executed, and the preliminary survey completed.
A. list of a new and highly influential local dlrectioa, and a map of
the line, will be published in a ftw days.
By order, H. CASSIINT, Secretary pro tem.
Offices, 3, Church-court, Old Jewry, London, Sept. 10, 1845.

THE CHESTER AND MANCHESTER
DIRECT RAILWAY.
- Notice is hereby given, that the Parliamentary Contract and Sub-
scribers' Agreement are nOw lying for execution at the Company'S
Otte% No. 1, Royal Exthattge Buildings, London, between the hours
or Ten and Five o'elock in the day, when, upon Signature of the deed;
the Banker's Receipt dill be exChinged Rik Sett
By okcier, A. BARRETT. SecketarY.
SW. 12. 1845, _ -

PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT.
THE BRISTOL,, BATH, andBRIDGWATBR
. aRAt tl JuNcTILIN RAIkWAYI
Chnnecting With the Great Western Railway on the one side, and
bit the other with the Britol and Exeter Railway, the following im-
portant places—Keynsham, Burnet, Markbary, Stanton Priory,
Farnborough, Finsbury, High Littleton, Hallatron, Paulton, Wellon,
• Midsummer, Norton, Radstoke, Kilmersdon, Newberry, Coleford,
Elm, Frome, Leigh-upon-Mendip, Stoke-lane, Downside, Shepton
Mallet, Crosscombe, Dinder, the city of Wells, Coxley, Polsham,
Glastonbury, Street, Walton, Ashcot, Higher and Lower Pedwell,
Greinton, Shipwick, Catcot, Edgington; Moorlinch, Sutton Mallet,
Chedzoy, Dinwear, and Bridgwater.
It is proposed that this Grand Junction line should start from near
the station of the Great Western Railway at Keynsham, and proceed
by Burnet to Markebury and Farnborough. Thence it will pass on
the west side of Finsbury, and go on through the numerous and ex-
tensive coal works by Radford, Camerton, and Clandown, to Rad-
stoke. Thence to Kilmerdown, which it will skirt on the western
side, and thence through Bablagton to the eastern side of Newberry,
from which there will be a branch line to Frome, passing by Elm on
the southern side. The main line will hold its course beside the
Upper and Lower Vobster coal works and Goodeve's coal works,
through Melcombe Wooll to the southern point of Leigh-upon-Mendip.
Thence it will proceed over Long Cross Bottom to the western side
of Bodden, and to the eastern side of Shepton Mallet, and the western
side of Downshire. Its course thence will be along the western sides
of Ham, Crosscombe, and Hinder, to the southern point of the city
of Wells. From this it will hold its way between Coxley and Coxley
Pound to the western side of Southsay and the eastern side of Pol-
sham, and so on to the western side of Glastonbury, where it will
cross the North-road. Thence passing Bickworthy Mill, it will skirt
on the northern side, Street and Walton, pass Ashcot on the southern
side, proceed on the north side of, Higher Pedwell between Shipwick
and Greinton, and so on to the northern side of Moorlinch. Thence
to the northerilside of Sutton Mallet, then over Sutton Moor to
Chedzoy, passing over Fowler's Plot, then through Dimwear to the
southern side of the Bridgwater station on the Bristol and Exeter
Railway, and thence spanning, the railway into the borough if
Bridgwater.
The length of the main line will be about forty-three miles ; that
of the branch from Newberry to Frome, four miles seven furlongs.
The line has been carefully laid down after accurate investiga-
tions, and .it presents no engineering difficulties whatsoever. There
will be no tunnel or viaduct, or other costly work, and there will be
no heavy cuttings or embankments. The line passes through a fer-
tile, rich, and populous district, and serves all the principal towns in
the county of Somerset, and brings them into connexion with all the
.regions traversed by the Great Western and the Bristol and Exeter
Railways, and-with the metropolis. - It is so obvious that this Grand
Junction Railway must command an immense traffic in passengers,
goods, and minerals, that it would be idle to dilate on the subject.
A prospectus containing the list of the Provisional Committee, the
amount of capital required, the number of shares to be issued, and the'
names of the officers, will be published in a few days, accompanied
by a map of the line and the adjacent country, laid down upon the
scale of one inch to a mile.

EDWARD LEWIS, 7, Adam-street, Adelptd.

DIRECT WESTERN RAILWAY,
(Upon the Broad Gauge),
Fruiu London to the Land's-end ; with Diverging Unes to Bath and
Bridgewater t espectively.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 3,000,000/4 in 120,000 shares of 251. each.
DeptoSit, 21. Iss. per Share:
PROVISIONAL COMMITIEti.

The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, .11.1'., Director of the South acid•
land Railway, Brookes' Club, St. James's--street
Sir Francis Dugdale Astley, Batt, Everly House, Pewsey, Wilts
Sir Henry Webbe, Bart., 105, Pall-mall
Frederick Hodgion, Esq., 31. P. fbr Barngtaple, 3, Carlton Gardens
Howard Elphinstone, Esq., M.P., 10, Eaton-place, tondoti
Ralph Neville, Esq M.P. for Windsor, Hill-street, Berkeley-squa4
Charles Barry Baldwin, 31. P. for Totness, 6, Parliament-street
Hon. Percy Evans Freke, 3, Belgrave-square
Thomas Nugent Vaughan, Esq., 32, Grosvenor-place, London
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the
Sheffield and Manchester and Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
Companies.
Sir John Key, Bart , 9, King's Arms-yard, Alderman of the City of
London, Director of the Direct Manchester and London and Direct
Liverpool and Leeds Railway Company
Thomas Fameomb, Esq., Griffin's Wharf, Tooley-street, Alderman
of the City of London, and Director of the. London and Westmin-
ster Bank, and of the London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidder-
minster Railway
Thomas Challis, Esq., 32, Wilson-street, Finsbury, Alderman of the

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City of London
Edward Harrisson Barwell, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the North-
ampton. Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway, and Director of the
South Midland Railway
Joseph Armitage, Esq.' Miln's Bridge House,- Huddersfield, Deputy
Lieutenant and a Magistrate for the West Riding of Yorkshire,
Chairman of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
William Gordon Thomson, Esq., 33, Gloucester-road, Hyde nark,
Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham, and
South Midland Railways
Donald Maclean, Esq., 37, Brunswick-square, London, Deputy
Chairman of the Trent Valley Continuation Rah% ay
Thomas Lawrence,- Esq., 3, St. Mary Axe
Philip W. Courtnay, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, London
Millis Coventry, Esq.; Whitehart-court, Lombard-street
Barnet L. gPhilips, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, and

George-street, Mansion House
John IVheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, Tunbridge, Kent, Director of

the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Boswell Middleton Jolland, Esq., Holderness House, near Hull,
Deputy Lieutenant and Mw,lstrate for the East Rising of Yorkshire
Charles Robert Coleman, Esq., Irongate Wharf
William Eales, Esq., Mincing lane, London, late Director of the

Devon and CornW;ill Banking Company
Charles Downes, Esq., Warwick-street, Charing-cross, Director of

the South Midland Railway
Martin Stutely, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park, London,
Director of the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine, and the South
Essex Railways
Francis Ede, Esq., 34, Great Winchester-street
John Griffith Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Director of the Londonderry
and Coleraine and the Londonderry and Enniskillen Railways
.John Addis, Esq., Rotherhithe and Mark-lane, London, Director of
the Central Terminus Railway, and of the Licensed Victuallers'
Fire and Life Insurance Company
James Renshaw, Esq., Whiteluirt-court, Lombard-street, and West
Heath House, Er:th, Kent, Director of the South Staffordshire
Railway
Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brembo Ironworks, Wrexham, and Cannon-
street, London
H. G. Atkinson, Esq., Upper Gloucester-place, Regent's Park
George M`lntosh, Esq., 127, Seymour-street, Portman-sqaare
Frederick Solly Flood, Esq., Alpha-road, Regent's Park, Landon
Major White, 105, Pall-mall, London, Director of the South Midland
Railway
Charles Bleaden, Esq., Coalsden-court, Surrey, Chairman of the Li-
censed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company
J. G. Hammack, Esq., Essex House, Mile-end-road, Director of the
Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company
Patrick Fres. Johnston, Esq., Great Cumberland-place
Joseph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, Minories, Director of the London and
Blackwell Railway Company
W. D. Bruce, Esq., F.S.A., 17, Charles-street, St. James's, and Ripon
Cutchbert Woodstock, Esq., Grove-road, North-road, North Brixton
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryansteae-street, Portman-
square, Director of Tring, Reading, and Basignstoke, the Exe-
ter, Dorchester, and Weymouth, and the Great Western Extension
Railways
George Hammond Whalley, Esq., 30, Pall-mall, London, Assistant

Tithe Commissioner
William Hagan, Esq., 60, Baker-street, Portman-square
William Breynton, Esq., Montpelier, Cheltenham, and Temple, Lon-
don, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth Railway
Richard Harris Purcell, Esq., Cambridge-street, Hyde Park, Lon-
don, Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Railway
Company
Philip Baker, Esq., Euston-square, London, Auditor of the London
and Blackwell Railway Company
Charles James Heath, Esq., 6, London-street, Mark-lane
Captain E. N. Trowbridge, R.N., 11, Eaton-square
Anthony Ridley, Esq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury, a Director of the

St. Katherine's Dock Company
William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square
Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., Clopton House, Warwickshire, and

Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire
George Payne,
_Esq., Baby Hall, Northamptonshire, and Charles-

street, Berkeley-square
James Beech, Esq., Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, and Grosvenor-
place, London
Nicholas Philpot Leader, Esq., Dromagh Castle, county Cork, Union
Club, Trafalgar-square, Director of the Killarney Junction Rail-
way Company
Samuel Baker, Esq., Lyppiat Park, Gloucestershire, and London
William Congreve Russell, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Di-
rector of the Warwickshire and London Railway
Henry Bradley, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire
John William Yerbury, Esq., Belcombe House, Wiltshire, Captain 3d

Light Dragoons .
Robert Main, Esq., Ravensbourne Park, Lewisham, and Trinity-
square, London
Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsall House, Retford, Nottinghamshire
John Gillyatt Booth, Esq., Crouch Hall, Hornsey
Major-Gen. Martin White, Marlborough-buildings, Bath
Rev. T. Harvey Ashworth, Burlyns House, near Newbury, Berke
Col. Burslem, Harwood Lodge, Newbury, Berks
Major Kirwan, Great Pulteney-street, Bath
Rev. Dr. Godfrey, Grosvenor-place, Bath
Edward Cooper, Esq., Stavertoo, Wilts, Magistrate of the County
Henry Toogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse, Wilts, Magistrate of the

County
Rev. Chas. Frits. Bamfylde, Rector of Dunkerton, near Bath
Richard Morthnore, Esq., Chippenham, Wilts
George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, Director of the Bristol and Birming-

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ham Railway Company
R. Wootten, jun., Esq., Banker, Oxford, Director of the Buckingham-
shire Railway and Wolverton Junction
Richard Mortimore, Esq., Kingsmill, Collumpton
Rev. John Sydenham, Collumpton
Rev, It. A. Roberts, Rectorof Kentisbere, Collumpton
Charles Justice, Esq., Collumpton, Devon
Richard Marker, Esq., Ufculm Cottage, Tiverton
Colonel Henry Dundas Campbell, North End House, Portsmouth
George Pearce, Esq., Bradninch House, near Collumpton
Wm. H. Macomb, Esq., Chilton, Ilungerford, Chairman of the Berke

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Union Banking Company
William Haicomb, Esq., Marlborough, Manager of the Wilts and

Dorset Bank
Captain W. G. Maclean, R.N., Taunton.
Robert Parsons, Esq., Taunton
John Daizell, Esq., Wallingford, Tierks
Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
John Kerle Haberfleld, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
Troup, Esq., Hastings
John Robson, sq., Clifton, Bristol
John Morford Cottle, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington, Director
of Coventry and Leicester Railway
Joseph Knight, Esq., Leicester, Director of South Midland and North-
ampton, Banbury and Cheltenham Railways
John Newton Mappin, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Manchester,

Sheffield, and Midland Railway Company
John Ridgeway, Esq., Cauldon-place, the Potteries, Staffordshire,

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Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway
James Burt, jun., Esq., Mancheater, Director of Manchester and

Southampton Railway
Edward Norris, Esq., Clairyille, Manchester, Director of the Direct
London and Manchester, and North Cheshire Railway Companies
Joseph Nadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and

Wigan, and Manchester and Southampton Railways
James Ogden, M.D., Salford
Sir William Lowthrop, Hull, Magistrate for the East Riding of York
and for the borough of Hull, Chairman of the "Hull and Barnsley"
Committee, and Member of the acting Committee of the "Liver-
pool and Leeds Direct Railway Companies"
John Holford, Esq., Rusholm Hall, Manchester
C. H. Jones, Esq., Huddersfield, Deputy Chairman of the Hudders-
field and Sheffield, and Director of the Halifax and Bradford

Union Railway
Charles Bamford, jun., Esq., Hall, Director of the Hull and Barnsley

Junction
John Lillie, Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and South-
ampton Railway
John Robson, Esq., Hetton-le-Hole, Durham
Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Sheffield and
Manchester, and Chairman of the Manchester, Birkenhead, and
Midland Railway Companies
Isaac Holmes, Esq., Liverpool
Win. B. Newbery, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Dudley and
- Iron Bridge Railway Company
C. Appleby, Esq., Broomhill, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and
Manchester Railway Company
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach,
and Lincolnshire Railway, and Salisbury and Swindon Railways
John Ward, Esq., Machin Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield,
Rotherham, and Chesterfield Life Assurance-office
Wm. Thompson, Esq., Upperthorpe, near Sheffield, Director of the

Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
Adderley Howard, Esq.; Sutton Wisbech, Director of the East Coast

Railway Company
Captain Bowker, R.N., Deronport
H. S. Bright, Esq., Hull
Samuel Swann Britain, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the East and West

of England Railway Company
John Fawcett, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Wakefield and Har-

mvagate Railway Company
Irilliam Marriott, Esq., Attercliff-terrace, Sheffield, Director of the
Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Junction Railway.
lomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln, Director of the London and York
and East Lincolnshire Railways
John Johnstone Hamilton, Esq., Liverpool
David Price, Esq., Manchester
William Hunter, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington
Rev. Charles Cottle, Rector of Walton, Northamptonshire
Major Wonnun, Clarence-square, Cheltenham
Edward Hall, Esq., Wegtbank House, Macclesfield, Director of the
South Midland and the Northampton and Cheltenham Railways
Henry Hubbersty, Esq., Hull
John Ostler, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Earneley Junction
Henry Shaw, Esq., Fetter-lane
Henry Sayer, Esq., Commercial-road, Limehouse, merchant
John Mee Mathew, Esq., Gray's Inn-square, Assistant Tithe Com-

missioner
John Norton, Esq., Moat House, Brentwood, Essex
William John M'Guire, Esq., lismpton Court
John Gray Wilson, Esq., Oxford-terrace
Capt. J. P. Macdougall, Fir Grove, North Brixton, Surrey
W. J. Lefevre, Esq., Alderman and Magistrate of Southampton
Thomas Chas. llarrison, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's Park
G. B. Bunbury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the
Coventry and Leicester Railway
Captain Tringham, R.N., Solyhull, IVarwicksbire
William Jonson Neale, Esq., King's Bench-walk, Temple
James Whitney, Esq., Shrewsbury
Henry Paul Harwood, Esq., M.D., Sheffield
(With power to add to their number).
Basutut—Messrs. Curries and Co., Cornhill, London.
JOINT SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Bell, Brodrick, and Bell, Bow Churchyard, London
Messrs. Rickards and Walker, 29, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London
Messrs. Haynes and Moore, Warwick and London
Messrs. J. V. and J. T. Harting, 24, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London.
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SECRETART—Thomas Hosier Saunders, Esq.
Assismsr-SEcamtay —Charles J. Whalley, Esq.
LOCAL SOLICITORS ALREADY APPOINTED.
At Devizes, Henry Gilbert, Esq.
At Troubridge and Bradford, Messrs. Stone and Rodway
At Bath, Mes.•rs. Batehellor, Harford, and Staunton
At Bridgewater, Messrs. G. S. and J. R. Poole
At Tiverton
At Truro
At Penzance s
At Falmouth .

The object of this line is to effect a direct communication between
London and the Land's End. _ .

In a national point of view such a line is indispensable. With
the advantage of a direct railroad, Falmouth, from it, position at the
western extremity of the kingdom, would undoubtedly long since
have been the principal port on that coast. With the advantage of
at least 280 miles of heavy road, that place has attained its high po-
sition as a Packet Station. Southampton, with far less natural ad-
vantages, has, since the opening of the South-Western Railway, in-
creased ita imports from 200,0001. to 3,000,0001. per annum. At Bris-
tol, before the opening of the Great Western Railway, the imports
were deClining ; since then they have very considerably increased.
The merits of a line to the Land's End as an investment for ca-
pital, it was not left to the present Company to discover. The Great
Western and Bristol and Exeter Railways having already reached
Exeter, it has been in contemplation to extend that line to Fal-
mouth by way of Plymouth ; and various other projects have been
set on foot on the conviction that Fahnouth must be reached by
railway.
The object Of this prospectus is to show that no other line than the
present can ultimately satisfy the exigencies of the country i❑ regard
to this, its most important outport—" the natural Packet Station of
the empire."
The present project is distinguished by this—that it is direct. It is
as nearly as possible a straight line from London to the Land's End.
The London, I;ath, and Bridgewater Company having amalga-
mated with this Company, the immense local influence commanded
by them will now contribute to the great national object of a direct
line ; while means have been taken for securing the traffic and afford-
ing all the accommodation contemplated by that Company.
The Direct Western availing itself of the Great Western Railway
so far as Reading, pursues its course by or near Newbury, Hunger-
ford, Great Bedwin, Marlborough, Devizes, the manufacturing dis.
trust of Trowbridge (from which a diverging line will be carried by
Bradford direct to Bath), Westbury, Frome, Shepton Mallet, Wells
(from which another diverging line will be taken to Bridgewater),
Glastonbury to Taunton, being shorter by about thirty-two miles than
any existing or projected railways between these points, and without
a tunnel. From Taunton the Bristol and Exeter Railway (new
leased to the Great Western) is traversed to Tiverton, whence it is
proposed to carry this line direct to the Land's End, Falmouth, St.
lye.% and Penzance, being shorter by about sixty miles than the,
lately proposed !Me by way of Plymouth, and effecting, in the whole
distance from London to Falmouth, a saving of about ninety miles.
With respect to the traffic between London and Tiverton, it is
needless to say more than that there is already thorough traffic suffi-
cient to justify the construction of this portion of the Direct Wes-
tern ; that it will shorten the distance from London to Tiverton
about 32 miles; that it will traverse rich and popttious agricuatttroa

and manufactnring districts, and receive a large amount of traffic as
well from railways now hi course of construction as from others pro-
jected
with every chance of success.
As to the traffic on the lower portion of the line. it is evident that
the vast 'number of merchant vessels continually detained in the
Channel by:adverse winds, would effect an immense saving both in
insurance and time, by discharging their cargoes at Falmouth, and at
once transmitting them to their destination by means of this railway;
and thereibre—without speculating on the extent to which the ports
on either Side of the great promontory of the LancYs End may, by
means of this railroad, attract the commerce respectiVely of Bristol
and Southampton ; to what extent the Inexhaustible mineral wealth
of Cornwall, and the unrivalled agricultural resources of Devonshire
may be further developed, or the genial climate of Penzance and
kotint'S Bay, " the Montpellier of England," attract a larger propos',
tion of Whiter 'Visitants—At Is obvious that this lino will command a
traffic both in goods and pitSSetigers, from Its western terminus, the
amount of which may be said to be -Without limit. A glance at the
snap will make it manifest that no competing trunk line can ever be
established between Tiverton and the Land's End. As between
Taunton and Reading, an inspection of the map will show a vast ex-
' tent of midland district, comprising rich and populous parts of So-
, mersetshire, Dorsetshire, and Wiltshire, now altogether destitute of
railroad Accommodation.

Recurring to the features of this project as a national work, one of
the greatest in point of magnitude, of vital importance in the event of
war, and of almost incalculable advantage to the general and packet
commerce of the kingdom ; it Inlay not be out of place to quote here
the following expressions of Sir Robert Peel. Speaking of the project
of a direct line from London to Liverpool through the Trent Valley,
which bore much the same relation to the Birmingham and Grand
Junction that this bears to the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter
Railways, he is reported to have said :—" I consider that the com-
munication between the metropolis and the great outports to be not
a question of hours, but a question of minutw4.7 Of the necessity of this
particular line, Parliament has already expressed an opinion ; for in the
report of the Committee on the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth
line, which was promoted by the Great Western Railway Company,
it was stated that that Company had been required to pledge itself
not hereafter to oppose a direct line to Falmouth ; and it may be
further observed, that a proposed line from Plymouth to Falmouth
was last session rejected, on the ground that it might be supposed
to interfere with that great national object.
The survey of the line has been to a great extent completed, and
correct estimates of the expenditure and returns are in a state of for-
wardness, and the whole will be ready for the next session of Par-
liament.

It is sufficient, as to these points, here to state that there are no
engineering difficulties in any part of the line which have not been
repeatedly surmounted in other cases ; that the first portion will be
constructed at an unusually small expense ; that the undertaking
will meet with the cordial support, concurrence, and co-operation of
the landowners, and that the Directors are justified in asserting that
this will prove to be one of the most remunerative railways in the
kingdom.
Powers will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow interest at
our pounds per centum per annum on the deposits, and preference
in the allotment of shares will be given to the proprietors of the land
through which the line will pass, and to the shareholders in the
Great Western, the Bristol and Exeter, and other railways connected
with the Direct Wekern district.

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Applications for shares, in the form subjoined, to be addressed to
the solicitors to the Company or to the Secretary.
London, September 11, 1845.

FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Direct Western Railway
Company.
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Gentlemen,—l request you:willallOt me shares of 25/. each
in the above Company, and I undertake to pay the deposit of 2/. 15s.
per share thereon, or on any less number you may appropriate to me,
and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Con-
tract when required.
Dated 1845.

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MANCHESTER, SOUTHAMPTON AND
POOLE RAILWAY, via CHELTENHAM, CIRENCESTER,
MARLBOROUGH, and SALISBURY.
Iltegistered Provisionally.)
Capital 1,600,0001. in 64,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
CHAIRMAN.
Henry Charles Lacy, Esq., Kenyon House, near Manchester
John Ashton, Esq., Hyde, Manchester
Robert Ashton, Esq., Hyde and Manchester
Thomas Neville Abdy,Esq., Albyus, Essex
Edward Ackroyd, Esq., Halifax
Cowling Ackroyd, Esq., Bradford, Yorkshire
George-Anderton, Esq., Clackheaton, Yorkshire
William Bayley, Esq., Lark Hill, Ashton-under-Lyne and Man-

Chester
William Bird Brodie, Esq., The Close, Salisbury
GEorge Watson Buck, Esq., C.E., Ardwick, Manchester
John Henry Campbell, Esq., M.P., Exton, Hampshire
William Dougal Christie, Esq., M.P., Ecclestou-street, Chester-
square, Loudon •
ltobert Cadman, Esq., Sheepscar, Leeds
John Chapman, Esq., Blackheath
Sir Henry Calder, Bart. Sussex-place, Regent's-park
Sir Edward Doughty, Bart., Upton House, Dorset
John Davis, Esq., Fisherton, Delamere, 'Wilts.
John Davis. Esq., jun., Saiterton, Wilts.
Sir Augustus Forster, Bart. Brownsea Castle, Dorsetshire
Charles Ingram Ford, Esq., Field, Sandbach, Cheshire
Lot Gardiner, Esq., Manchester
Ambrose Hussey, Esq, M.P., Salisbury
John Haigh, Esq., Leeds
Henry Iletley. Esq., Bulbridge House, Wilts.
Richard Hetley, Esq., The Close, Salisbury
Josepn Hornby, Esq., Liverpool
James Hatton, Esq., Broughton and Manchester
Richard Hargrave, Esq., York-place, Leeds _
David Harrison, Esq., Manchester
Charles Hardy, Esq., Low Moor, Yorkshire
John Henry Jacob, Esq., The Close, Salisbury
Henry Jennins, Esq , York-place, Leeds
Henry Garrett Key,. Esq., Tulse Hill
Captain John Milllgen Laws, R.N., Crtimpsall Hall, near Manchester
George Ledgard, Esq., Bournemouth and Poole
Richard Ledgard, Esq.. Poole
John Leech, Esq., Staleybridge and Manchester
Edward Lacy, Esq., Surgeon, Poole
John Laurie, Esq , Charles-street, St. James's-square
Stephen Mills, Esq., Elston House, Wiltshire
W. J. Pike, Clay Merchant, Wareham, Dorsetshire
George Pain, Esq., Salisbury
Thomas Carey Willard Pierce, Esq., Manchester
Lieut.-Col. Pollard, Stannary Hall, Yorkshire
Edward Dyke Poore, Esq., Figheldean, Wilts
Lieut.-Col. Philip Warren Petiler, Nutley House, Devonshire
The Hon. Charles F. A. Ponsonby, M.P., Canford House, Doreetshire
Alexander Powell, Esq., Hurdcott House, Wilts
J. Rickman, Esq , Poole
T. T. Rogers, Esq., Longfleet, Dorsetshire
Samuel Salter, Esq., Pool,•
Henry James Stevens, Esq., Poole
Isaac Steele, Esq., Poole
Robert Slade, Esq., Poole
James Slade, Esq., Parkstone, Dorsetshire
John Si Lek, Esq., Manor House, Abbotts Langley, Hertfordshire
Henry Seymour, Req., Hanford House, Dorsetshire
Charles Squarey, Esq., Salisbury
John Sldebotaam, Esq., Kingston Hyde, and Manchester
Charles Townenii, Esq., Moss-side and Manchester
Benjamin Hardwicke Teals, Esq., Leeds
William Tinker, Esq , Hyde and Manchester
John Teather, Esq., Alstonby, Cumberland
Charles Baring Wall, Esq., M.P., Norman Court, Willtsbire
Henry Wickham Wickham, Esq., Kirklees Hall, Yorkshire
Lamberyn Wickham Wickham, Esq , Kirklees Hall, Yorkshire
Samuel Waterhouse, Pin., Esq., Halifax,
William Walker, Esq., Bradford, Yorkshire

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Henry Charles Lacy, Esq, 'John Leech, Esq.
Robert Ashum, Esq. George Pain, Esq.
Ambrose Hussey, Esq. T. C. W. Pierce, Esq.
Richard Hetley, Esq. Charles Squarey. Esq.
David Harrison, Esq. William Tinker, Esq.
John Henry Jacob, Esq.
ENGINEER—Joseph Locke, Esq., C.E., I.R.S.
SOLICITORS
Messrs. Hoddiug, Nodding and Townsend, Salisbury.
Edmund Taverner, Esq., 9, New Broad-street, London.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Cirencester—Richard Mullins, Esq.
Devizes—Henry Gilbert, Esq., and
John Hayward, jun., Esq.
Poole—Messrs. Parr and Co., and
John Durant, Esq.
SEcarreaT—CaDtain Jehn Rooper.
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith
Manchester and Manchester and Liverpool District
Liverpool 3 Banking company
Leeds—Ceeds,Batiking Company
. Salisbury—Messrs. Hetley and Co.,
Messrs. Brodie and Co., and
The Wilts and Dorset Banking Company
Poole—Messrs. Ledgard and Co.

The great and important object of this undertaking is to connect
by a Railway in the most direct route, and of the least expensive
character, the mail and shipping port of Southampton and the port
and harbour of Poole, with Manchester, Liverpool, and the counties
of Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Staffordshire, and Warwick-
shire ; in fact, with the whole of the cotton, woollen, salt, pottery,
and iron manufacturing and producing districts.
It is not necessary in this case to enter into the question of ex-
pediency or inexpediency of rail Way communication, the necessity
and advantage of such a measure being obvious and fully admitted.
This line commencing at Cheltenham, to which point railway com-
munication from the north already exists, proceeds to Cirencester
and Marlborough, and then 'passing down the peopled and fertile
valley of the Avon to Salisbury, meets with the railway now con-
structing by way of Romsey to Southampton ; thus making the dis-
tance to Southampton as short as by any other practicable route,
and saving the construction of twenty-three miles of railway.
From Salisbury it IS intended, still pursuing the valley of the Avon,
to sontinue the line eighteen miles to a point about three miles west
of Ringwood, where, meeting the Southampton and Dorchester Line,
It communicates with Poole and the country below as far as Dor-
chester and Weymouth. It is also intended to carry the line from a
point on the Southampton and Dorchester Railway, about two miles
south of Wimborne, by the shortest route, Ito the town and quay of
Poole, entering the town on its northern side.

About four-miles below Marlborough it is intended to make a
branch in the same course as the Kennet and Avon Canal, about
eight miles long, to Devizes.
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It has already been stated, that it is not necessary to enter upon
the question of expediency of railway communication with South-
ampton; but it is proper to state why the line here laid down is pre-
ferable to that from Marlborough by way of Ludgerslutll and An-
dover to that place. The latter is hilly, comparatively barren, and
uninhabited, and consequently expensive, with very little local
traffic ; and would have to depend in a commensurate degree on
the through traffic for support; it would also be necessary to make
a line the whole distance, there being no existing line with which
it could unite between Marlborough and Southampton. It is also
open to the objection that it runs from Andover to Southampton
parallel with and at a short distance from the South-Western line of
hallway, which must necessarily leave it a very limited amount of
traffic as respects that distance, even if it shoultlnot expose it to the
powerffi opposition of that company. On the other hand, this line
passing as it does from north to south, through the heart of the
county of Writs, a distance of fifty miles, unites the whole of that
county, obtains the traffic now existing between its towns, which is
considerable, and affords with the aid of the branch to Devizes and
the existing and projected ralitys, easy access from all parts of
Wiltshire to the county town of Salisbury, and also to Devizes, the
alternate assize town.

Thus far, the greater advantages of this route as regards the line
to Southampton only have been spoken of, and important as they
,ate with reference to the interest of the shareholders, and the accom-
modation of the country traversed, a further advantage, not only to
the shareholders but to the public attained by this project, has yet to
be stated.

By the formation of eighteen miles of railway between Salisbury
and Ringwood, passing by the towns of Downton and Fordingbridge,
the port and harbour and the town and county of the town
of Poole are brought within the operation of this comprehensive
salient°. The harbour of Poole admits vessels up to 400 tons
burden ; and it has been confidently asserted by practical men, that
by a small' outlay improvements might be made to admit ships of
the largest size. 'there are safe and quiet moorings for vessels, with
ample quays and warehouses, and the dues and charges are about
one-twelfth of the ordinary charges at other ports in England. The
existing local traffic alone would, it is calculated, be sufficient to pay
the Shareholders £l. remunerating dividend on the outlay required for
making the line from Salisbury to Ringwood. In the item of Potter's
Clay alone there are annually shipped for the Potteries upwards
of fifty thousand tow, which, after reaching Liverpool, have
to be transmitted by inland navigation about sixty miles to reach
their destination, at a total cost for carriage of 20s. per ton—every
ton of which would unquestionably be forwarded from Poole by this
railway. The stone of the Isle of Purbeck, vast quantities of which
arc used for flagging and building purposes, would find a much more
extensive and ready market in the interior of the couutry, if there
were cheaper and more ready and convenient means of trans-
porting it.
Tite announcement of this project has been hailed with the utmost
satisfaction both in the north and throughout every district over
which the line passes, as well as by every interest identified with it,
or affectdd by it.

Forms of application for Shares, Copies of the Prospectus, and a
Map exact y according as to local position with the Index to the
Ordnance Survey, and showing the line of Railway, may be obtainoel
from the Secretary at the temporary Offices of the Company,
No. IC, Great George-street, Westminster, and 29, Princess-street,
Manchester, from the respective Solicitors of the Company, and
from McAsr4. Sutton and Griiible, London: Messrs. Bradley, Ford,
and Parker, Manchester; Messrs. Scholes and Horst:4l, and Richard
Dawson, Esq., Liverpool; and Messrs. Ridsetale Myers and Co.,
Leeds.

No application for Shares will be entertained unless accompanie(
a reference to one of the ProvisiOnal Committee or to a party per
isonally known to a member thereof, or to a Banker.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

To tile ProvisfoTiaiCommitte,t. of the Manchester, Southampton and

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l'oole BaßtVay Comp,m4lB, Great George-street, Westminster.
Gentlemen;--I request p.O to allot me shares in this
uniertiking, and I wee to accept the same or any part thereof, sub-
ject to tha Provisions of the Subscribers' Agreement, and to execute
su,l Agreement, or any other Agreement, and any Deed or Deeds,
and to pay the Deposit when required.
Dated this . day of September, 1545.
• Residence ...
Profession or Business .
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