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

THE SUN LONDON TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 7, 1845

ounces of bread dust, and one pound of salt meat a day.
Here we were treated in the most hospitable manner by
the officers. Quarters were allotted to us on short,
and we lived at the garrison mess. By the by, I have not
toll you who were in charge of our boats. They were
Hr r vey and Pym. Other strange things have occurred ;
two or three days after we left Booby Island, two ship-
wrecked orews arrived there within a few hours of each
other, they saw the letters we had left, and one party was
not long in following our example, and you may judge of
our surprise, and that of the other good folks at Port
F.sington. on perceiving a large boat with evidently a
khipw reel( ecl crew in her, come spanking up the h arbour.
They told us a large party were still on Booby Island,
and while I write there is a schooner coming into port
full of people, most likely the very party. The names of
the two vessels wrecked are the Hyderabad aed Coringa,
Packet. The most melancholy event is connected with
the latter vessel; she was wrecked on a reef encircling a
sand bank, some hundred: of miles outside the Barrier
reef, and never before seen. Her boats were not able
to bring all the crew, so 22 (all sepo) s) were left behind
on the sand bank. They have provisions enough left
with them to last six months with proper economy, but
their s'tuation is certainly not an enviable one. Per-
haps it will be a job for the Prince George to pick them
off, but the sandbank is directly in the wind's-eye from
this, and it will be a hard tug to get there. The two
wrecked crews now in Port Essington (;or this schooner
proves to have the remainder from Booby Island on
board) are 76 in nurnbcr. making with our boats' crew
and officers, a total number of 91 British subjects, a cir-
cumstance which of itself shows the value of this esta-
blishment even as a place of refuge alone.
" 11th June.—The Fly has not yet made her appear-
ance—prhaps she will not touch here at all—if so a
report will be made of our loss, and it is for this rea-on

I writ,•, part'cularly at the present moment, to relieve
you from the anxiety such a report would occasion. I
shall wzite you more particulars by the next convey-
ance. If the Fly does not come we shall go to rejoin
her at Sydney by some other conveyance."

TRIAL FOR MURDER IN FRANCE.
On the 27th of March last, Mme. Sauval, a widow in
the 88th year of hi•r age, living at Petit-Montrouge,
was found dead in her apartment, with a severe wound
on the back of her head, and other contusions and
and bruises about her person, which led to a suspicion
that she had been murdered. She resided in an apart-
ment of the house of a married man with two children,
named Saulnier, a clerk in the Marie of the Ist at ron-
dissernent of Paris, who, in consideration of I,ooofr.
paid by her to him, granted her an annuity of 100£ a
year, which was paid by him partly in giving her the
apartment at the rate of 60f. a year, although it was
well worth 2501. per annum, and in regularly handing
to her the remaining 40f. in cash. The Saulnier family,
who were very old friends of the deceased, were her
only attend ants, as she had no servant, and also supplied
her gratuitously with fruit or vegetables from their gar-
den. They, however, bad every reason to believe that
they would be more than remunerated by her will, as she
was known to have at her disposal some little property de-
rived from her savings. This interest in her death and the
other circumstances we are about to relate, first induced
a suspicion that she had been murdered by Madame Saul-
nier, at the instigation, or at least with the knowledge and
connivance, of her husband. They were arrested, exami-
nations were taken, and, finally, they were committed to
take their trial for wilful murder, which commenced on

Friday last before the Court of Assizes, and was con-
tinued till Sunday night. The prosecution was con-
ducted by M. Glandaz, the Advocate-General, and the
prisoners were defended by Messrs. Creanieux and Blot-
Duquesne. The facts and circumstances on which the
accusation was founded and supported were, in addition
to the known interest the prisoners had in the death of
Mme. Sauval, that about ten on the morning of the fatal
day, Mme. Sauval went out of her apartment into the
village, and bought some salad and a bundle of wood,
which latter purchase a lad carried home immediately
afterwards, and sawed into pieces in her presence in her
dining-room, and then left her ; since which time she
was not seen outside of her door, nor was any stranger
'seen to euter her apartment. About half-past two o'clock
Mme. Saulnier sent :her daughter, a girl twelve years
old, up to Mine. Sauval, who lived on the first floor, to
thread ber needle according to custom, and asked whether
she wanted anything, but although the girl knocked
so loud that some of the other tenants came out of
their rooms to inquire what was the matter, no answer
was given by Mme. Sauval, nor did her little dog bark,
as it usually did on such occasions. At five o'clock her
girl, Esther Saulnier was sent up again, made the same
noise, but still without any answer. Soon afterwards,
Mme. Saulnier went down to the porter, and requested
him to come and see what had happened to Mme. Sauval,
as she, Mine. Saulnier, could perceive through a window
that she was lying on the floor of her dining-room.
Having received from Mine. Saulnier a second key of
Mme. Sauval's outer door, which she always kept that
she might enter when she pleased, Lereux the porter
went in and found the poor old woman lying lifeless,
but still warm, on the floor of the dining-room, with
her head against a chest of drawers in a small pool of
blood, which had issued from a wound at the back of
the skull. Mine. Saulnier took no steps whatever on
hearing this report from Lereux, but waited till the
return of her husband, who went to the proper authori-
ties to give the usual notice of the death, preparatory to
the interment, but as he stated the circumstances of the
case, the magistrate caused a regular inquest to be
taken. The medical man called in to make the autopsy of
the body reported that the death must have been caused by
blows with a blunt instrument, for, independent of the
wound in the head, there were other injuries about the per-
son, which not only proved this, but showed that the de-
ceasecle had made some resistance. In various parts of
the apartment were found money, and securities for
money, and also a small quantity of plate, in situations
evidently chosen by the deceased, nor was there the
slightest tokens of any robbery having been committed.
There were no marks of blood on the face, or any other
part of the person or clothes of the deceased, nor even
upon the cap, which was found on her head, and, there-
fore, on the conviction of a murder having been perpe-
trated, it was presumed that the guilty person had
changed the dress of the deceased after the deed was
done, having first washed away all the blood, which
must have been shed on the floor, except the compara-
tively small quantity that was near the bead, and then
laid the body in the position in which it was found, in
order to give the idea that Mine. Sauval had dropped
down in a fit, and killed herself by striking her head
against the drawers. It was reported that the deceased
had shown discontent at being so far from her friends in
Paris, and intimated an intention to remove, and this
was imputed to the Saulniers as an additional motive for
their cruel act, fearing that her Paris friends might
induce her to alter ber will, and thus deprive them of the
benefit they expected from it. It was further declared
that the statement of Mine. Saulnier that she had seen
the deceased lying on the floor of her dining-room was
false, as it was, from the situation of the two apartments,
impossible. n the course of the cross-examination of
the eitnesses much of this presumptive evidence was
completely rebutted, and much rendered at least very
doubtful. On the part of the prisoners it was shown that
none of the clothes of the deceased, supposed to have
been worn by her when killed, had been found, nor could
there be traced the slightest bruise or scratch on the
person of Mme. Saulnier, from the struggle which the
medical men stated must have taken place when the deed
was dente nor the emallest spot of blood upon any of the
garments of Mine. Saulnier which she had on at the
time ; nor was it attempted to be proved by any evi-
dence that she had quitted her own apartment from the
time when Mme. Sauval returned with the wood till the
discovery of her death. Mine. Saulnier accounted for her
not giving her daughter the second key, to go into the
deceased's apartment, by affirming that this key was never
used but when Mine. Sauval was too ill to come and
open the door herself. It was further proved that the de-
ceased was liable to fits, had fallen down in them before,
and had been kindly and attentively nursed by Mme.
Saulnier. A number of witnesses gave most excellent
characters to both the prisoners, and the notary, who
made the deceased's will, distinctly deposed that, whatever
they might have expected, neither the Saulniers nor any
one else knew the dispositions she had made of her pro-
perty, and that wh .t she did give to that family was for
the children, and not to either of the parents. Notwith-
standing the evidence for the prosecution was so much
weakened and shaken, the Advocate-General strenuously
insisted in his requisitory that the case was proved, and
called for the conviction of both prisoners. The counsel
for M. and Mine. Saulnier exerted themselves with great
zeal and judgment in their behalf throughout the arduous
proceedings of three long successive days, and delivered
most eloquent addresses to the jury. The pleadings
and summing up of the President were not concluded
till half-past ten o'clock on Sunday night, when the
jury retired, and after remaining half an hour, returned
and delivered a verdict of Not Guilty in favour of both
prisoners upon every count of the indictment.—
Galignani.

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number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the regulations of
the Company, and to sign the necessary deeds, end to pay, when re-
quired, the deposit thereon of 21. 2s. per share.
Dated this day of , 1845.
Name in Hill .. • •
Profession and Professional Residence in
Private Residence in full
Usual Signature
Reference ...... •••. • • ..
Offices, 34, 3foorgato.

BRIGHTON and CHELTENHAM DIRECT
RAILWAY.
The OFFICES of this COMPANY ars REMOVED to 34, Moar
gat—street.
October 6, 1845

FREDERMIC PENNY, Secretary.

BRIGHTON and CHELYKN HAM DIRECI:
RAILWAY.
No further APPLICATIONS for SIIAItEK in this COMPANY can
be RECEIVED after MONDAY NEXT, the 13th instant.
FREDERICK: PENNY, Secretary.
Company's Office, 34, Moorgate-street.

PONTEFRACT, DO. CASTER, WORKSOP,
and MANSFIELD JUNCTION R AILWLY.
(Provisionally Registered.
Capital 900,0001., in 45,000 Shares 0..! 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. Lord Thomas Pelham Clinton
The Hon. Francis Henry Fitzhardinge Berkeley,. M.P.
C. Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the. Paris and Strasburg
Railway
W. Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P.
The lion. A. Capel, Epping
The lion. A. F. Berkeley
E. F. Dayrell, Esq., High Sheriff of Bucks. Lillingstono Dayrell,
Chairman of the Cheltenham and Gloucester Railway
Wynn Ellis, Esq., M.P.
Hon. Robert Gore, M.P.
Charles Mite Bracebridge, Esq., The Hall, Atherstone, Chairman of
the Leicester and Birmingham and Boston, Stamford and Bir-
miagham Railways
Sir Andrew P. Green, K.C.H., Director of the Australasian, lonian,
and Canadian Banks
The Hon. Stafford Jerningham
The lion. Cecil Lawless, Lyons-castle, Kildare, Director of the Great
Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway
William Chance, Esq., Birmingham, Deputy-Chaltanan of the Leices-
ter and Birmingham, and Boston, Stamford Auld Birmingham
Railways
Sir William Drummond Stewart, Bart.
Archibald Douglas Stewart, Esq., Grantelly Castle
Hon. Colonel Westenra, M.P.
Henry Fotheringhay Hunter, Esq., Kilburite-hall, Derbyshire,
Direct,r of the Midland Union, and Great Grimsby, Gainsborough,
and Derby Railways
Frederick Ricketts, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway
Robert Ramsden, Esq., Carlton-hall, Worksop
John Joseph Shuttleworth, Esq., Hodsock-park, Notts
George Calvert Holland, Esq., Director of the Huddersiled and
Manchester, and Great Grimsby and Sheffield Railway, and De-
puty Chairman of the Wakefield and Harrowgato Railway
John Brearly Payn, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Leicester
and Birmingham and Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham
Railways
John Phillips, Esq., Mayor of Pontefract
Major Bilbee, Nettleworth-hall, Mansfield, Magistrate of the City
of Derby, and Director of the Derby and Gainsborough Railways
Samuel Haines, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Leicester and
Birmingham and Boston, Stamford aud B:rmingham Railways
Edward Middleton, Esq., Birmingham, Dinaetor of the Leicester
and Birmingham and Boston, Stamford and Birmingham
Railways
William Freer, Esq., Atherstone, Director of the Leicester and Bir
mingliam, and Boston, Stamford and Birmingham Railways
Frederick Wollaston, Esq., Sheepy, near Atherstone, Director of
the Leicester and Birmingham and Boston, Stamford and Bir-
mingham Railways
Richard Burton Phillipson, Esq., Director of the 13.ugby, Leamington,
and Warwick Railway
Rev. W. S Cunifam, Mansfield
Charles Lindley, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Nottingham and
Mansfield Railway
John George Norbury, Esq., 3lancetter-house, Atherstone, Director
of the Leicester and Birmingham, and Boston, Stamford and Biz,
mingham Railways
Martin Furniss, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Nottingham and
Mansfield Railway
Samuel Watkins, Esq., Forest-hill, Worksop, Director of the Man-
chester and Rugby Railway
I. W. Spurr, Esq., Wigthorp, Worksop
Robert Newbold, Esq. (firm Joseph Rodgers and Sons), Sheffield
R. P. Harwood, Esq., 3f.D., Director of the Wakefield and Harrow-
gate Railway
John Rodgers, jun., Esq. (firm Joseph Rodgers and Sons), Sheffield
John Ward, Esq., Machon Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Great
Grimsby and Sheffield Railway
Sidney Roberts, Esq., Dial-house, Loxley, Sheffield
Robert Mitchell, Esq., merchant, Sheffield
Henry Unwin, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Manchester, Rudders.
field, and Great Grimsby Railway
Frederick Hunt, Esq. (firm Robert Hunt and Co., carriers), Sheffield
Richard Truswell, Esq., brewer, Sheffield
The Hon. Major Napier, Rugby
Samuel Hurt, Esq., Mansfield
William Chambers, Esq., corn-merchant, Doncaster
Dr. James H. Simpson, magistrate for the borough of Pontefract
Edwin Unwin, Esq., Managing Director of the Sheffield Gas Com-
pany
Henry Francis Gisborne, Esq., Derby, Director of the South star
fordshire Junction, Leicester and Tamworth, Tring and Reading,
and Basingstoke, and Derby and Crewe Railways
Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol, Director of the Leeds and
Carlisle Railway
and Horncastle Railways
reeves-house, sandal/
Thomas Mark Carter, Esq., Woolg Magna
A.GBriemttsebr3i,dy,o,uEths,q., 4, Devonshire-terrace, Director of the Great
Pontefract
Joshua Skidmore, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Hull and Holy-

head Railway
Healy May, Esq. (firm Smith and May, brewers), OldcOatS,
Worksop
John Gulley, Esq., Ackworth-park, Pontefract
Joseph Mrley, Esq., Alderman, Doncaster
Abraham Wheatcroft, Esq., Cromford, Derbyshire
Win. Green Armytage, Esq., Lockwood, Huddersfield
Joseph Brooke, jun., Esq., Green-head, Huddersfield
Phincas Franklin, Esq., Shantilla, Galway
Charles Fitzwilliam Hannam, Esq., Cliaby Manor-house, Colston,

Lincolnshire
), Miami%
iJtoohbn.r .itepshmsiotnh,Rozgley,oErmsq.,Sßmoiwtithoanrnde, Mansfield
brewers

Worksop
James Scott, Esq., Worksop
Samuel Sketchley, Esq., merchant, Worksop
John Miller, coal merchant and maltster, Worksop
William Shadbolt, Esq., Chairman of the Greenwich Railway, and
Director of the London Joint-stock Bank
Henry Erskine, Esq., Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, Director of
the Great Manchester Railway
William Rothery, Esq„ 10, Stratford-place, Director of the Leeds and

Liverpool Railway
James Reeves, Esq., Cheapside, and Layton, Essex, Director of' the
Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway
William Morley, Esq., Director of the Goole and Doncaster Railway
Rev. G. A. Walker, Huddersfield, Director of the Goole and Don-
caster Railway
W. Wood, Esq., Director of the Goole and Doncaster Railway
C. James Heath, Esq., London-street, Fenchurch-street, Director of
the Great Manchester Railway
Charles Robert Coleman, Esq., Irongate-wharf, London, Director of
the Goole and Doncaster Railway.
David Mountague, Esq., Regent's-park, Director of the Great Man-
chester Railway
Benjamin Franklin, Esq., Harley-street, Director of the Great Man-
chester Railway
Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Esq., Beesthope-hall, Newark, Director of the
Grand Junction and Midland Union Railway
Herbert Ingram, Esq., Director of the Ambergate, Nottingham, and
Boston Amalgamated Railway
John Burgess, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester, and Director of
the Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston Amalgamated Railway
Nathaniel Cooke, Esq., Director of the Ambergate, Nottingham, and
Ilßerlgarnays:
Boston Amalgamated Railway
JLaiecuobt.-3Crooln.teEfil:irn:tEosnq,.:Vtecynhesdthear_mte-rpriaacece:
James Gernan, Esq., Vice-Chairman of the Galway and Ennis
Grand Junction Railway
of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park, Di-
rector of the South Midland and Northampton and Banbury
Railway
Edward Baxter, Esq., merchant, Worksop _nsq-suciaruaere, Director
Henry Hase, Esq., merchant, Worksop
Robert Carr, Esq., Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Ranking Com-
pany, Worksop
James Drabble, timber-merchant and builder, Carlton, Worksop
William Hepworth, Esq., Pontefract, Deputy-Lieutenant and Ma-
gistrate of the West
Riding of Yorkshire
William Moorhouse, Esq., Knottingley, Pontefract, Director of th e
Sheffield, Barnsley, and Wakefield Railway
John Carter, Esq., Knottingley, Pontefract
Thomas Routledge, Esq., Alderman, Pontefract
George Green, Esq., Pontefract
Thomas Carter, Esq., J.P. of the Borough of Pontefract
James Robson, Esq., J.P. of the Borough of Pontefract
Adam Jessop, Esq., Castle Ford, Pontefract
William Clarke, Esq., Ackworth, Pontefract
major-General Wright, R.E., Director of the Great London and
Dublin Railway
James Russell, Esq., 57, Gloucester-place, Portman-square' Director
of the Great London and Dublin Railway
Francis Ewart, Esq., Temple
Anthony Dickson, sq., Edrington-house, Berwickshire, Director of
'
the Grand Junction and Midland Juion Railway
John Weston, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester and South-
ampton Railway
Frederick Clarkson, Esq., Doctors' Commons, Director of the Greed
Junction and Midland Union Railway
W. W. Prole, Esq., Director of the Grand Junction and Midland Union
Railway d
Robert Chapman, Esq., Director of the Grand Junction and Midland
Union Railway
d Midland
William Watson, Esq., Director of the Grand Junction an
Union Railway and Oxford
James Macmillan, Esq., Director of the Southampton
Junction Railway ---Ick and Wor-
Peter Henry Min, Esq., Temple, Director of the Wt. e.
caster Railway th Rall'cßY
Thomas Hawker, Esq., Gloucester and Aberystivi . ..,
.. .I,y Di-
NV W. Tulloch Frazer, Esq., Director of the Manchester an .0.5
rect Railway Director of the Grand
John Inglis Jerdein, Esq., 150, Piccadilly,
ction
H. Railway
JRidoutunction, GDownman, Esq., reat Western, aDirSecto thr
ofnd ou-Wethe Cambstern Jun
rian
and Grand
Junction Railway Director of the
Samuel Barwick Bruce, Esq., M.D., Ripon, Yorkshire,
Barbadoes General Railway
T. R. Thelluson, Esq., Hyde Park-street
William Hughes Hughes, Esq., Alderman of London
Director of the
James Simpson, Esq., Foxliiil Bank, Accrinton, late
Manchester and Leeds Railway
ettagea, Regent's
Joseph nowe, Esq.,
- Barrister-at-law, Hanover Co
Park
Esq., Simeon Musgrove,
Eel Kirkstall, near Leeds, Dlrector of the Mid-
arid hirsk Railway
Benjamin
ardwieke Teaie, Esq., Leeds, Director of the anchestcer
l
If T M
Southampton, and Poole Railway
Christopher Rumbold Meltzer, Esq., Leeds
George Johnson, Esq., Mansfield
William Gallen, Esq., Mansfield
Nottingham
'
Joint Calthorpe Williams, Esq., M.D., No
John Jessop, Esq., Lockwood, Huddersfield.
MANAGING coxerrreg_._
N, Ch
Lord THOMAS PELHAM CLINT airman
airman
W. Bulkeley Hughes, Esq•e_m ..1*
we ey. yroie, Esq.
Hon. Cecil Lawless Benjamin Franklin, Eso
G. Calvert Holland, Esq., M.D.
Joseph e , sq.
Robert Newbold, Esq. Jacob Montefiore, Esq.
Henry Unwin, Esq. T. R. Thelluson, Esq.
R. P. Harwood, Esq., M.D. J. Jerdein, Esq.
Samuel Ellis Bristowe, De 4•
Frederick Rick
len
etts, Esq• Honorary' Secretary.
J. N. Esq,
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Rogers, Olding and Co.
Leathern, Tew, and Co.
Pontefract and Doncaster-31°5"i' am—The Notti Sham and ng lam and Worksop, Mansfield, and Notting i
Not-
tinghamshire Banking Com Pan? Banking Company
Sheffield—The Sheffield and Rotherham
James - *
John Macneill and Thompson, Esq. '
ENGINEERS—Sir
SOLICITORS.
William Unwin, Esq 1 Sheffield.
Bickley Esq.
William masses. Deans, Dunlop, and
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—
Westtninster. Hope,
Fludyer-street, d Debenha
Thomson an en, Salters' Hall.
LONDON AGENTS—IfeSSTS. .....
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W. E. Carter, Esq., caster
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William
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John 'Weal', Esq*, - E q Mansfield.
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Arthur John Curs
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Royal Exchange Buildings.
Temporary Offices, No• I,
influential local
This undertaking is projected by
in distract; and a interestsrefet° en
pply
the requirements of the above importanti
0 complete the cornmunicartelonteebeto
the map will show that it will al
diate towns in the 1 --
the interme most direct
tween York, Leeds, and have been made by sir j
ohn
course with with London. The surveysue . and time country is found to be f.
neill and Janice Thompson, Es q•+lway, and to requir - -".. e neither tun-
vourable to the construction of akin
there is, perhaps, no line ouch
nets nor heavy embankments ;
td at coniparativen, of ---'1
importance which could be construe e e so small am
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expense as the sum named b estimate i the es
thirty-nine
but about miles , •
and by
b
The length of the line will e
e3del with existing projects
means of this short link, in mul
between Leeds d h from
an t e metro-
Nottingham, a saving will be effected
pelts exceeding thirty miles.
projected terminus of the Wakefield, P
It will commence a the
pontefact, and from thence proceedon-
tefract, and Goole Railway,
at
and Worksop, to the terminus of the
through Doncaster, Tickhill,
nd Counties Railway at M ;
Nottiegharn, 3
fonsfield, and Miala
ns of the York and North Midland Rail-
thereby completing, by mea tO Nottingham and London. It
York
way, the shortest route from . line of the Wakefield, Pontefract
extension
will also, by the proposed
and North 31Idland, near Methley, iorm
and Goole, from the York
allottingham, the Midland and South-
the nearest line between Leeds.and Doncaster line, an uninterrupted
ern Counties, and by the Goole
the shipping ports of the Humber.
communication with Goole and
It will also form a means of communication with the several p ro-
Jected lines, to the rising port of Great Grimsby.
line that there is no competing
It is a remarkable feature in this . ,
interfere with any ornamental or residen-
scheme, nor does it at all inter •
residen-
tial property. enter into the details of traffic ;the
It is not considered essential to
value of the lines in the district, in that respect, is a sufficient test of
railway will become the recipient
its extent, in addition towhich, the

of much of the northern traffic, arising from the numerous branches
with which it is connected.
A preference will be given in the allotment to the shareholders in
the adjacent lines.
Application for shares may be made in the usual form, to the Se-
cretary ; solicitors ; Messrs. Thompson and Debenham, Salters'-hall,
London, and to the local agents, and the following brokers : —London,
Taunton and Bush, Austin friars ; Mr. 11. Pritchett, 74, Old Broad-
street ; and Mr.T.C. 3funday, 17,:ltoyal Exchange (eastern entrance),
Messrs.: Price and Brown, Change-aPey. Sheffield—George Eadon,
jun. Manchester—Messrs. Hope and Rostrum. Liverpool—Messrs.
Schultz and Carr. Leeds—Messrs. Ridsdale, Myers, and Ridsdale.
Hull—Messrs Wilkinson and Earl. Wakefield—Messrs. Ridsdale
and Rogers; Nottingham —Mr. Wakefield ; and Pontefract—Mr.
Frith.

THE GRAND LONDON AND DUBLIN
APPROXIMATION RAILWAY.

Rastrick's Line.

(Provisionally Registered pursuant to 7th and o.th Victoria, cap. 110,
sec. 4.)
Designed to avoid the present circuitous route, and so effect a very
considerable saving, both of time and distance, between the two
capitals of England and /reload, running in a direct line from Lon-
don to Bangor and Holyhead, through Shrewsbury, and touching or
accommodating in its route the following towns and places, namely,
Rickmansworth, Chesham, Wendover, Ay7esbury, Bicester, Dod-
dington, Banbury, Kineton, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick, Alces-
ter, Bromsgrove, Worcester, Kidderminster, Bridgnorth, Wenlock,
Broseley, Coalbmokdale, Shrewsbury, Llon-y-mynech, Welchpool,
Oswestry, Llangollen, Llanrahaladr, Mochnant, Corwen, Pentre-
vocias, Copel Cerrig, Bangor, and Holyhead.
Capital 6,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 50/. each.
Deposit 5/. ss. per Share.
Temporary offices of the Company, 4, Great Winchester-street,

London:
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Combermere, G.C.8., G.C.H.
Lord Viscount Mandeville
Lord Claud Hamilton, M.P.
Hon. Captain Fenton Evan Freke, Belgrave-square, Director of the
Bandon and Bantry Railway
lion. Geoffrey Browne, Castle Margaret, County Mello, Ireland
Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Parliament-street, Chairman of
the York and Lancaster Railway
Sir Robert Murray, Bart., Ardley Bury, Hertz, Director ef the Oxford
and Cambridge Railway
General Sir John F. Fitzgerald, K.C.8., Montague-street, Bryan-
ston-square
Col. Sir Duncan M`Dougal, K.C.8., Eaton-square
Rear-Admiral Sir Salusbury Davenport, C. 8., K.C.H., Braman-hall,
Cheshire, and Wcedon-hall, Bucks
Sir J. Gaspard Le Merchant, K.C.H., Cork
Major-General Sir Love Parry, Madryn Park, Carnarvon, Director
of the North Wales Railway
Col. Sir F. Hankey, G.C.M.G., Director of the Direct London and
Exeter Railway
Sir George Rich, Director of the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and
Portsmouth Railway
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, Clifford-street, Director of the
London and Exeter Railway
Sir James Pitcairn, Cork
Sir Janes Eyre, Lower Brook-street

-Rear-Admiral Ross, C. 8., Mount Wise, Devoaport
Thomas Whitmore, Esq., Apley Park, Deputy-Lieutenant of the
County of Salon
John Meredith, Esq., Hasborn Park, Magistrate for the Counties of
Worcester and Salop
Major-Gemral Henry Dowdier; Sidney-terrace, Cork
Captain Robert Peel Dawson, Upper G rosvenor-street, and Castle-
dawson, Ireland
B. B. Williams, Esq., Wyndham-place, Bryanston-square
Jeremiah Pilcher, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Dublin and
Armagh Inland Railway
The O'Gorman Mahon, ltfahonbSrg, County of Clare, Ireland
Charles Barry Baldwin, Esq., 3f.P., Bovine, King's County, Ireland,
Director of the Cork and Waterford Railway
The O'Moore, Choghan Castle, High Sheriff of the County of Ros-
common
Robert Hart, Esq., Dripshlll-lodge,Worcester, Director of the Wor-

tester, Ludlow, and Tenbury Railway
W. Hutchins, Esq. Llsaintfried-court, Monmouthshire
Charles William Spicer, Esq., Portman-square, Director of tho Ar-
magh, Coleraine, and Portrush—Dublin and .Armagh Inland—
Shropshire Mineral—and Direct London and Exeter Railways
The Rev. C. Leicester, Whitton-hall, Magistrate for the County of
Salop, Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
Charles Fox, Esq , D.L., Rutland-square, Dublin, Director of the

Dublin and Arirmgh Inland Railway
William Johnson Neale, Esq., Temple
Thomas Meyer Carviek, Esq., Highwood, Director of the Dublin and
Armagh Railway
William Lechmere Whitmore, Esq., Director of the Dublin and Gal-
way Railway, &c.
George A. Brown, Esq., Director of the Callao and Lima Railway
William Seymonr, Esq, Montague-place, Russell-square
William John Macguire, Esq., Hampton Court, Director of the Wilts,
Somerset, and Bristol Railway
Rev. Pooley Shuldam Henry, D.D. Commissioner of the National
Board of Education and Charitable Bequests, Ireland
Christopher Wallis Popham, Esq., Trevarno, Cornwall, Director of
the Strabane Ship Canal Company.
Robert John Lattey, Esq., Claremont-place, Grove End-road, St.
John's Wood.
William Ayscough Wilkinson, Esq., Woodbury Down, Middlesex,
Director of the Waveney Valley, Great Yarmouth, and Armagh,
Coleraine, and Portrush Railways
Colonel Edward Nichols, R.M., Shooter's-hill and Coleraine, Direc-
tor of the Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush, and Sligo, and Shan-
non Railways
Griffin CurVs Galt, Esq., Charles-street, Manchester-square, Direc-
tor of the Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush, and Sligo and Shan-
non Railways
Captain James Wood, R.M., Woolwich
William Justin O'Driseoll, Esq., banker, Dublin
Richard Edward Arden, Esq., Bedford-square, Director of the Dub-
lin and Armagh Inland Railway
Captain Rodgers, Clovenedon-house, Loughall, Ireland
John Stewart, Esq., Portman-square, Director of the Marine In-
surance Office
Jost.pli Cragg, Esq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury
John Anderson, Esq., Director of the South Midland Junction Rail-
way, &c.
W. Freeme, Esq., Old House, Shrewsbury
G. Hazlerigg, Esq., West Carlton-hall, Leicestershire, Director of the
Rugby and Huntingdon Railway, &c.
J. M•Millan, Esq., Director of the Worcester, Rugby, and Warwick
Railway
J. Bright, Esq., M.D., Cambridge-square, London
Colonel Pereira, Bengal Artillery, Great Coram-street
George Hammond Whalley, Esq., Pall-mall, Director of the Direct
Western Railway
W. Clement, Esq., Shrewsbury
Richard Harris rumen, Esq., Cambridge-street, Hyde-park, and
County Cork, Director of the Direct Western, Isle of Ely, and
Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Railways.
Robert Remmett, Esq., Victoria-square, Grosvenor-place, Director of

. .
the Sovereign Insurance Office, &e.
Thomas Gresham, Esq., Raheny Park, Dublin
F. W. Heath, Esq., Armagh
F. F. Pole, Esq., St. John's Grove-house, County Cork
George Stevens, Esq., Oak Lodge, High Beach, Essex
Edmund Matthew, Esq., Somerset•strect, Portman-square
Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlborough-place, St. John's Wood, DI-
.

. •
rector of the Direct London and Exeter Railway
Major David Fitzgerald, Valentia, Ireland
Win. Sprott Boyd, Esq., Cleveland-row, St. James's
d e Oxon,Dyilleaciltowrayosf
Win. Gulliver, Esq., Swalicliff, near Banbury, Oxon the
Thomassorth Northampton
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Captain Julius Newell, R.N., United Service Club
Captain Bradshaw, R.N., Hatherley-place, Cheltenham
J. Brooks, Esq., Magistrate, Nrenlock
Col. Gaines, C. 8., Colcrainc
Edward King, Esq., Blackthorne, Oxfordshire
Wm. 11. Spicer, Esq., Portman-square
George Beauclerc, Esq., Grosvenor-street West, Grosvenor-place
Robert A. Riddell, Esq., Bryanston-street, Portman-square, Director
of the Great Leeds and London Railway
J. A. Bicknell, Esq., Brandon Cottage, Bristol, Director of the Oxford
Major Humphreys, Miltown-house, Strabane, Ireland
Capt. Thos. P. Newton, Bruton-street, Berkeley-square, and Lngwar-
dine,lsle of Man, and Irish West
and Worcester Extension, and Chester Junction Railways
Coast Railways
The May or - of Bridgnorth
Watts, Esq. Alderman of the Borough
of Bridgnorth
Benjamin
Thomas Glase, Esq.
,f Members of the Corporation of Bridg-
Hereforchhire,; Director of the
Josiah Minton Glase, Esq.
north
Edward Richard Pratt, Esq.
Samuel Ridley, Esq., Bridgnorth
Edmund Ridley, Esq., Bridgnorth
Leahy, St. a J Ines's-square, Director of the Sheffield,
Buxton, Derby, and Manchester Railway
E. S. S Blundell, Esq., Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square, Direc-
tor of the London and Exeter Railway
Richard Fisher, Esq., Alcester Lodge, Warwick, Director of the War-
wickshire and London Extension and Worcester Junction Railway
Henry Cane
James Whitehouse, Esq., Ipsley Court, Warwick
James Reading, Esq., Redditch, Worcestershire, manufacturer
George Hollyoake, Esq., Redditch, Worcestershire
Christopher Royston, Esq., Redditch, Worcestershire
John Onions, Esq., Broseley, ironmaater, &c., Director of the Stour-
bridge, Madeley, Ironbridge, and Breseley, and the Grand Junc-
tion and Cambrian Railways
John Thorn, Esq., Whitehall, Broseley, Director of the Stourbridge,
Madeley, Ironbridge, and Broseley, and the Grand Junction and
Cambrian Railways
Alexander John Got don, Esq., Linley Hall near Broady
Thomas Deighton, Esq., Bridgnorth
W
Joseph Southwell, Esq.
Southwell, Esq.
Bridgnorth, Manufacturers
William Cole, Esq., Bicester
Edward Deaking, Esq., Bicester
Horace Townsend, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant, Woodside, County
Cork
E. D. Freeman, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant, Castle Cor, County Cork
St. John Jeffrey, Esq., J.P., Blarney Castle, County Cork
Pierce Purcell, Esq., Altetnira, County Cork
James Smith Barry, Esq., Lota Lodge, Cork
Edward Dean Freeman, Esq.. Sandfteld, county Cork
J. H. Bainbridge, Esq., Bear Forest, Mallow
St. John Galwey, M.D., Mallow
George Washington Brazier C.:eagh, Esq., J.P., Creagh-castle
John Carmichael, Esq., Riverston-house, Cork, Director of the
Cork and Bandon, and Bandon and Bantry Railways
P. Bennett Lucas, Esq., Manchester-street, Manchester-square,
Director of the Ipswich and Southampton, and Sligo and Shannon
Railways
W. H. O'Driscoll, Esq Clifton, near Bristol
The Rev. William Wilson, 8.D., Over Worton, near Deddiugton,
Oxon
Charles Faulkner, Esq., F.G.S., Deddington, Oxfordshire
William loms, Esq., Bloxham
Lieutenant-Colonel Cruttenden, Balincolllg
William Coppinger, Esq., Barry's-court
W. Reeves, Esq., J.P., Tramore, Cork
William D. Whitehouse, Esq., Studley, Warwickshire, Director of
the Warwickshire and London Extension, and Worcester Junction
Railways
George Wyman, Esq., Alcester, Warwickshire
William Henry Rough, Esq., Temple, Director of the Metropolitan
Junction Company
Edward Power, Esq., Eccleston-terrace, Eaton-square, Director of
the Ipswich and Southampton Railway
Colonel Henry Dundas Campbell, North-end-house, Portsmouth,
Deputy-Lieutenant of the County of Hants, Director of the Direct
Western Itailway
Henry Watson, Esq., High Sheriff of the City of Limerick
Robert Baugh Blakemore, Esq., Shrewsbury, Director of the Shrews-
bury, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire Railway
Henry Keats, Esq., Shrewsbury/ Directors of the Birmingham and
Isaac Taylor, Esq., ditto." Brighton Railway
Major-General Turner, Commander of the Cork District
Lieut-Colonel Westropp, J.P., Cork
Major North Ludlow Beamish, F.R.S., Ballincurrig, near Douglas,
Cork
Joseph Leycester, Esq., Cork
Matthew Pierrpoint, Esq., Crow's Nest, Worcester
John Rowlands, Esq., Tallyllin, Merioneth
George Paul, Esq., banker, Worthing, and 217, strand
Morgan Culhane, Esq., M.D., Worthing, Sussex
Charles Thelluson, Esq., Summer-lodge, Worthing
John Green, Esq., Hales Owen, magistrate for the county of
Worcester
James Thomas Thompson, Esq., 35, Gloucester-road, Hyde-park-
gardens
George Gun Hay, Esq., 127, Sloane-street, Director of the Medical
Invalid Insurance Office
Win. John O'Connell, Esq., 32, Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square
Joseph Turner, Esq., Mayor of Bewdley
John Bedoc, Esq., merchant, Bewdley
Sir Henry Winston Barron, Bart., M.P., Belmont, Ireland
Wyse, Esq., The Manor, Waterford
W. K. Rodgers, Esq.' late High Sheriff of the county of Cork, and Di-
rector of the Cork and Passage Railway
(With power to add to their number).
COUNSEL IN ENGLAND.
Mr. Sergeant Allen, Sergeant's Inn ; Walter M'Grigor, Esq., Lin-
coln's-Inn.
COUNSEL IN IRELAND--Joseph Napier, Esq., Q.C.
ENGINEER IN CHIEF—J. U. Rastrick, Esq.
ACTING ENGINEERS.
W. Mackenzie, Esq., C.E. ; J. W. Bazalgette, Esq.
SOLICITORS.

[n London—Messrs. Ogle and iounghus band, 4, Great Winchester-
street, London
[n Ireland—John Cummixg, Esq., 51, North Great George-street,
Dublin.

BANKERS,

Messrs. Alasterman, Peters, iia(3...7the London and Westminster
SECRETARIES IN ENGLAND— H. Ncwell, Esq., and Henry Cowper, E: q.
SECRETARY IN IRELAND—Frederick Francis Pole, Esq., 51, Forth
Great George-street, Dublin.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.
Hugh Innes Cameron and George Bain, Esqrs., 18, Parliament-

street, London.
J. R. L. Walingley, Esq., North-street, Westminster.
PROSPECTUS.
The imperative necessity, alike in a social, commercial, or political
point of view, for drawing as closely together as possible the capitals
of England and Ireland, has suggested the tbrmation of the Grand
London and Dublin Approximation Railway,--a line, the value of
which it is difficult to over estimate, since it will be found to take a
nearly direct course from the English metropolis to Holyhead. It
will pass through or near the populous and noble county town of
Shropshire (as yet unprovided with railway communication), and
will traverse along its whole extent districts second in wealth, re-
sources, trade, and commerce, to none in the empire ; bring them
more nearly and immediately in contact with London and Dublin,
than has hitherto been thought possible. This project is wholly in-
dependent of any other line already before the public, and as it
possesses national advantages which none can surpass, must, when
carried out, become, without exception, the most important railway
in Great Britain.

One of the first objects of this Company will be to obtain a most
central and accessible terminus in London, and Farringdon-street has
been fixed upon for that purpose. _

It is proposed to makes, tunnel from that point to the Great Western

; I station, from whence the line will be continued in as direct a course as
possible to liolyhead
In its progress it will pass through or near to the following towns:
—Riclunans..vorth, Chesham, Wonderer, and Aylesbury; it will then
proceed to within a short distance of Bicester and Deddington, and
from thence to Banbury ; it will touch upon Kineton or Kingtown,
thence proceed onward to Strarord-on-Avon, approach within a
short distance of Warwick, Alcester, and Worcester, where it will
cross the Birmingham and Gloucester Railroad near to Bromsgrove,
and proceeding thence to Kidderminster, Bridgnorth, and Wenlock,
near to Broseley and Coalbrookdale, will enter the Vale of the
Severn, which It will traverse to Shrewsbury; It will thence con-
tinue its route up the course of the Severn, and passing into the Vale
of the River Vyruwy, will proceed to Lian-y-mynech, Llandrhaladr,
and Mochnant, accommodating Welchpool, Oswestry, and Llangollen.
At this point there are three passes, which have been inspected, and
it remains for the engineer to select one as an entrance or passage
into the Vale of the River Dee, when the line will proceed round by
Corwen into the Vale of the River Aiwen, from whence it will ran
nearly parallel with the great Holyhead hail-coach-road, by Pentre-
voclas to Capel Cerrig, it will then descend the Vale of Kant Francon
o Bangor and Holyhead.
This line will in its progress feed, and be also fed by the most consi-
siderable railroads of the kingdom, particularly those of the Great
Western ; the Birmingham, Gloucester, and Bistol ; te Oxrd,
Worcester, and Wolverhampton ; the London anti Birminghamh
;and
the South Staffordshire Railway. As this last line will connect
Dudley, Bilston, Wednesbury, Walsall, and Lichfield with the
Derby Railway and the Grand Junction Railway, it would
be superfluous to expatiate on the advantages of bring-
ing all these important centres of the coal and iron trade and
other traffic, and the vast coal and iron fields of Shropshire
into close intercourse, and thus establishing the cheapest and
quickest means of transit between the minerals of Shropshire and the
furnages of Staffordshire, and the markets of Dublin, London, and
Birmingham. The• success of the undertaking is secured beyond a
doubt, by the obvious fact that it will not only bring the richest
mineral and manufacturing portions of England much nearer to the
two capitals, but it will open for the carriage of the valuable pro-
duce of these districts the intermediate country not at present pos-
sessed of any direct line of railway communication. On the other
hand, the Grand London and Dublin Approximation Railway rirl
give to London ant the neighbourhood of Birmingham a route to
Dublin shorter by nearly seventy miles than that of any other exist-
ing railroad ; and finally, enable travellers to complete the entire
distance in ten hours.

It will also ensure two mail deliveries in the day.
Up to the point where the line approaches Corwen, no engineering
difficulties are presented. At Corwen a deviation from the straight
line may be requisite to avoid tunnelling, after which a straight line
will be resumed to Bangor, where that already in construction will
be adopted for the rest of the route to Holyhead ; or, if found de-
sirable, power will be taken in the Bill to continue an independent
line by Beaumaris to Holyhead,
After a careful investigation of the traffic arising from passengers,
the conveyance of mineral and agricultural produce, and the direct
transmission of the mails, the Directors le,' warranted in anticipating
a return of at least ten per cent. on the capital invested.
A treaty is in progress with a Steam Navigation Company to run
powerful steamers between the harbours of Holyhead and Kingston
on the arrival of the trains, so that passengers and merchandise may
be booked throughout from London to Dublin, including all the inter-
mediate stations, and be thus enabled to complete the entire distance
in ten hours, without the inconvenience so painfully felt of changing
from the conveyance of ens proprieta-y to that of another. The
railways now in active pr. gress in Ireland, running from Dublin
north and south throughout the heart of the island, render it self-
evident that the chain of communLation between the sister countries
is, by this present undertaking, rendered at once complete
and intimate to the last degree. As the leading aim of
this Company is to save time and distance, every attention of
the Directors, and every advancement in science will be made
available to gain the utmost possitqle amount of speed, com-
patible with safety, the lines being formed expressly for this end ;
while, finally, the very lowest rate of fares will be adopted fur both
passengers and traffic, and the public will tied in the improvement of
the Inferior carriages, and some additional comforts for those of the
first (lass, that the Grand London and Dublin Approximation Rail-
way will be placed in advance of any other now existing, and in all
its details will be rendered worthy an enterprise ao national in its
character.

Application will be made for a Bill to incorporate the Company
early in the next session. The usual power will be taken by the Act
to allow interest at 4/. per cent. per annum on the amount of the
subscriptions paid up ; and no subscriber will be answerable for more
than the amount of his deposit until the Act be obtained, and then not
beyond the amount of his subscription.
Applications for Shares may be made, in the subjoined form, to the
following Solicitors, Brokers, and Agents : —Mr. Roger Mortimer,
Throgmorton-street, London; B. R. Pemberton, Esq., Atherton-
buildings, Mr. Wm. Kerl, and Messrs. Schultz and Carr, Liverpool;
Mr. J. R. Lane, Birmingham ; James Jamieson, Esq., Leeds ; Messrs.
Cardwell and Sens, Manchester; Mr. James Butchart, Huddersfield;
Messrs. J. and J. Kimpater, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Mr. Hervey,
Halifax ; Wm. Lee, Esq., Cheltenham ; R. P. Clark, Esq., Bristol;
W. H. Cooper, Esq., Shrewsbury; Messrs. Graystone and Earl, York;
Henry Beaumont, Esq., Exeter; Messrs. Munro and Co., 44, George
street, Edinburgh ; Charles Couper, Esq.;l, Parkside-street, Edin-
burgh; James Jardine, Esq., Glasgow; Wm. Oliphat, Perth; and
Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, Dublin. •

FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Directors of the Grand London and Dublin
Approximation Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 50/.
each in this undertaking, and I hereby agree to accept the same, or
any less number that may be allotted to me, and to pay the deposit
thereon, and sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers'
Agreement when required.

Name in full
Residence
Profession or Busidess

Date

Reference (two or more)
Witness
And his Address

MIDLAND GRAND JUNCTION
RAILWAY.
Connecting the Great Western, London and Birmingham, and Direct
Manchester. From Reading Ida Henley-on-Thames, Aylesbury,
Buckingham, and Northampton.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 1,250,0001. in 150,000 Shares of 251. each
Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Lieutenant-General iiritobel4—BartOT,l.Clll., Montague-place,
Montague-square

John Anderson, Esq., Princes-park-, Liverpool, Director of the East-
ern Counties and Southend Railway
Robert Bastow, Esq., Surrey-place, London, Director of the Great
Eastern and Western Rallw.iy
William Bastow, Esq., Surrey-place, London, Director of the Wor-
cester, Warwick, and Rugby Railway
Charles R. Bigge, Esq., 19, Bryanston-square, Director of the York

and Lancaster hallway
Charles Bleaden, Esq., Coulsden-court, Surrey, Chairman of the
Licensed Pctuallers' Assurance Company
John Blunt, Esq., Upper Bedford-place, Director of the London
Docks
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Chairman of the
Direct Western Railway, and Director of the Sheffield and Man-
_ chester Railway

James Brand, Esq., 9, New Broad-street, Director of the New Ross,
Carlow, and Kilkenny Railway

G. A. Urown, Esq., Bioad-street, Director of the Callao and Lima
Railway
Joseph Bull, Esq., 31auchester, Director of the Staffordshire rotteries

... .., ....,
Railway
Captain James Edward Carnegie, Somerset•street, Portman-square,
and Bower-hall, Inverness, Director of the Reading and Reigate
Railway

John Chauntler, Esq., Friday-street, Director of the York and Lan-
caster Railway
Richard Clay, Esq., 1, Winchester-buildings, London, Director of the
Huddersfield and Eastern Coast Railway
Ephraim Cocker, Esq., White Coppice, Chorley, Director of the Black-
burn, Chorley, and Liverpool Railway
Newton Crouch, Esq., 13, Southampton-place, Easton-square, Di-
rector of the Mauritius, and the York and Lancaster Railways
Thomas Ferrand Dearden, Esq., Rochdale, Director of the Stafford-
shire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railway
Peregrine Royds Dearden, Esq., Birkenhead, Liverpool
Miles Dormer, Esq., Hans-place, Sloane-street, Director of the
Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway
Colonel Lothian Sheffield Dickson, Curzon-street, May-fair, Director
of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway

-
. .
John Edwards, Esq., Chester, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway, the York and Lancaster, Staffordshire Potteries,
and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways

The Rev. H: R. Fowler, 7, Manchester•squarc, Director of the South
Midland Railway
The Hon. Percy Evans Freke, Beigrave-square, Director of the
Bandon and Bantry Railway
William Garrow, Esq., Great George's-square, Liverpool, Director of
the Eastern Counties and Southend Junction Railway
William Gibb, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Staffordshire
Po'teries and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railway

Joseph Gillham, Esq., Hargreaves-house, Oldham, Director of the
Staffordshire Potteries, and Huddersfield, and East and West
Coasts Railways

Captain TwisletOn Graves, Director of the Leicester and Teen and
Dov 3 Valley Railway
Charles Haigh, Esq., Broadley Wood, Rochdale and Manchester,
Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
F. W. Hamilton, Esq. 59, Gloucester-place, Director of the Brighton
and Cheltenham Railway
John Lawrence Harris, Esq., 4, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry,
Director of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway
Theophilus Hodges, Esq., Connaught-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of
the London, Hounslow, and Western Railway
John Hoiford, Esq., Rusholm-hall, Manchester, Director of Reming-
ton's Direct London and Manchester Railway
Charles Holland, Esq., of.Liscard Vale, Cheshire, and Liverpool
John Holmes, Esq., St. James's-street, Westminster, Director of the
Eastern Counties Junction and Southend, and the Direct Western
Railways
George Holt, Esq , Willow-hill, Crumpsall, Director of the Stafford-
shire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways
William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid-
land Railways
John Charles Jack, Esq., Liverpool
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart.
Richard Kelly, Esq., Cleveland-row, St. James's, Chairman of the

New Ross:darlo-W, and Kilkenny Railway --
Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South and
Midlands Junction Railway

William Kempe, Esq., Te!gn Villa, Teigumouth, Director of the
Eastern Connties Junction Railway, and the Leeds, Fleetwood,
and Liverpool Railway
_ .

Peter Thomas Legh, Esq., Ridge-hall, county Dublin, tirector of the
Isle of Man Railway

James Macmillan, Esq., Southampton, Director of the Worcester,
Warwick, and Rugby Railway

Edward Norris, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Direct Western
Railway

Nathaniel Ogle, Esq., Heath-lane-lodge, Twickenham, Director of
the York and Lancaster Railway

Richard William Perry, Esq., Barham Wood, near Elstree, Herts
William S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Director of the
Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham Rai.way
Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester, Chairman of the Birkenhead
and Holyhead Junction, and Director of the Sheffield and Man-
chester Railway, &c.

J. Reginald Riddell, Esq., Bycullah-house, Enfield, Director of the
Direct Western Railway
R. A. Riddell, Esq., Director of the Great Western Extension Railway
A. Macdonald Ritchie, Esq., Middle Temple, London, Director of the
Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway
Richard Rowe, Esq., Beauvoir-terrace, 3laida Vale
William Sidebotham, Esq., Glossop, J.P. for Derbyshire, Director of
the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
James Shaw, Egg., Salford, Director of the Manchester and Rugby '
Direct Railway
Benjamin Smart Fowler, Esq., Alder House, near Tamworth, Direc-
tor of the Leicester and Northampton Railway.
Edward Smith, Esq., Barnsbury Park, Director of the Great Eastern
and Western Railway
Joseph Thompson, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton Railway
Thomas Tebbutt, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Leeds and Car-
lisle Railway
William Studley, Esq., North Brixton, Director of the Leeds and
Carlisle Railway
Charles F. Thornlcy, Esq., Eastfield House, Westbury, near Bristol,
Director of the Leeds and Carlisle, and Manchester, Settle, and
Car isle Railways
Sir William Tvrisden, Bart., Cavendish-street, Cavendish-square
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Leeds and Carlisle
Railway, and Director of the Commercial Bank of London.
Charles Waite, Esq.,Willesden, Director of the Great Western, East-
ern Counties, and Ipswich and Southampton Railways
Major White, 105, Pall-mail, Director of the South Midland Railway
William Ayscough Wilkinson, Esq., Woodbury Downs, Director of
the Waveney Valley Railway
Robert Wynne Wiliams, Esq., 29, Bedford-place, Russell-square
Thomas Wynne, Esq., Longton, Staffordshire, Director of the Leeds
and Carlisle, and South Union and'Birminghtun Junction Railways
Sir William Wynne, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, Chairman of the North

Wales Ital Way
George Walker, Esq., Manchester
(With power to add to their number).
CONSULTING ENGINEER—T. Urpeth Rastriek, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, Moorgate-street
J. E. Beales, Esq., 7, John-street, Adolph'
William Burdett, Esq., Manchester.
BANKERS.
London—The Commercial Bank of London
Manchester—The National Provincial Bank of England.
SECRETAItt—Niche. J. Kempe, Esq.
Company's Offices, Palnce-cliambers, St. James's.
This railway will fora], as nearly as may be practicable, a direct
line from Reading, in Berkshire—one of the i. ost important and
rapidly improving towns in the kingdom—to the large and populous
town of Northampton, where it will form a Junction with the
Northampton and Peterborough Railway
The line will proceed from the Reading station of the Great Western
Railway, and by the way of Ilenley-on-Thanles, Great Marlow,
and Buckingham, through some of the
West Wycombe, Aylesbury,
richest and most fertile districts of England, from whence vast
supplies of live stock and agricultural produce are constantly fur-
nished to the metropolis ; and from Buckingham it will be continued
direct to Bltsworth and Northampton.
From Bliswortb a line proceeds to Wellingborough, and forms
junction with the Direct Manchester Railway; and it is intended
that that a branch shall be formed from West Wycombe to the station at
Slough, on the Great Western Railway

The proposed line with the branch will be about seventy-five miles I
in length, and it has been ascertained that it may be constructed
with unusual facility, whilst, by means of the intended junctions with
the Great Westera Railway at Slough and Reading, with the London
and Birmingham Railway at Blisworth, and the Direct Manchester
Railway at Wellingborough, an uninterrupted and most desirable
railway communication will be opened between Portsmouth, Gos-
port, the Isle of Wight, Southampton, Bedford, Huntingdon, the
Staffordshire Potteries, Birmingham, Derby, Leicester, Manchester,
Liverpool, Leeds, Newcastle and Berwick, and with the great manu-
facturing and mining districts of the north of England.
The numerous parishes and districts which will be traversed by the
he comprise a population of nearly 1,500,000 persons, and passing,

as it will, a p:rtion of the counties of Borks and Oxford, the whole
of Buckinghamshire, and by the celebrated Yale of .Aylesbury, and
uniting with the sever it completed or projected railways under-
mentioned, viz.:—

The London and Birmingham
The Great Western
The Southampton. Union
The South APdland
The Midland Counties
The Northampton and Leicester
The Northampton and Peterborough, and thus with
The Direct Manchester
it cannot be doubted that it must prove extremely convenient and
beneficial to the public-, and highly aurrant.ageous to the proprietors.
The liability of the shareholders will be restricted by Act of Par-
liament to the amount of their subscriptiot.s, and power will be ap-
plied for in the Bill to allow interest at 4 per cent. per annum on all
calls, from the passing of the Act until the opening of the line.
Arrangements have been made that the survey shall be completed,
and the plans and sections deposited in time for obtaining an Act
during the ensuing session of Parliament.
Applications for shares may be addressed, in the form anrexed, to
the undermentioned brokers, viz. :—Messrs. B. and M. Boyd, Princes-
street, John Shewell, Esq., Threadneedle-street, and Messrs. Wells,
Westropp, and Prinsep, 75, Old Broad-street, London; Messrs. Gray-
stone and Earle, York; Mr. Thackray, Harrogate; Mr. Joseph Nel-
son, Settle; Mr. W. Welch, Lancaster; Messrs. Geddes and Drink-
water, and Mr. Henry Waterton, Bank-buildings, Castle-street,
Liverpool ; Mr. Peter Leicester, Messrs. Green and Oldham, Messrs.
Green and Lockwood, Manchester; Mr. James Pearson, Birming-
ham ; Messrs. Joshua Wood and Son, Messrs. Watson and Co., and
Messrs. E. King and Co., Leeds ; Messrs. Brady and Ftaniforth,
Ilull ; Mr. J. A. Butchart, Huddersfield • Mr. Hervey, llalifax ; Mr.
Nightingale, Wakefield; Messrs. Samuel Hutchinson and Co., Brad-
ford ; Mr. Luke Arnold, and Mr. George Edwards, Bristol ; Mr. G.
R. Gliddon, and Mr. Thomas Sandford, Exeter; Messrs. Hall,
Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham ; Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer, Ply-
mouth ; Mr. Robert Alian, Messrs. Hugh Munro and Co., Mr. David
Kinnear, and Mr. James Pringle, Edinburgh ; Mr. W. Pringle,
Leith; Messrs. MlEvren and Auld, Glasgow; Mr. Wm. Gordon,
Aberdeen ; Mr. S. A. Gloag, Perth ; of whom prospectuses may be
had; or to the Provisional Committee, at the offices of the Company.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Grand Junction Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot to me shares of 2.5/.
each in the Midland Grand Junction Railway, and I hereby undertake
to accept that, or any less number that may be allotted to me, and to
pay the deposit of 2/. 12s. td. per share thereon, and to execute tho
Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
Name in ftill
Profession or Trade
Residence
Place of business
Reference

PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.
AI.ISBURY and SWINDON EXTENSION
10 of the WILTS, SOMERSET, and SOUTHAMPTON JUNC.
TION RAILWAY.

On the Broad Gauge.
From Salisbury, by Amesbury, the Vale of Avon, and Marlborough,
to Swindon, forming a direct line of railway through Chelteuham
and Gloucester, to Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool.
Capital 700,0001., in 28,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
_ . _

John Bagshaw, Esq., Chairman of the-iiilts, Somerset, and
Southampton Junction Railway-, and Director of the Northern and
Eastern, and Eastern Counties Railway Compauiea, London
William Bradley, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Wilts, Somerset,
and Southampton Junction Railway, and Director of the Sheffield
and Manchester, and linddersfleld and Sheffield Railway Compa-
nies, Manor Oaks, Sheffield

William Bardgett, Esq., Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and South-
ampton Junction Railway, and the Italian and Austrian Railway
Companies, London.
George Hunt, Esq., Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Soathamp-
ton Junction Railway Company, banker, Southampton
William James Le Feuvre, Esl., Director of the Wilts, Somerset,
and Southampton Junction Railway Company, Alderman and
Magistrate, Southampton
Edward Lomer, Esq., Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and South-
ampton Railway Company, merchant, Southampton
William John lil`Gwire, Esq., Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and
Southampton Junction Railway Company, Hampton Court.
London
Richard Harris Purcell, Esq., Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and
Southampton Junction Railway Company, London
Richard Harris Purcell, Esq., Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and
Southampton Junction Railway Company, London
George Rougemont, Esq., Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and
Southampton Junction Railway, and of the Paris and Caen
Railway Companies, London
J. Stewart, Esq., M.P., Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and South-
ampton Junction Railway, and of the Paris and Caen and Northern
of France Railway Companies, London
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and South..
ampton Junction Railway Company, Westbourne-house, Shemaid
Augustus Bosanquet, Esq., Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and
Southampton Junction Railway Company, Fenchurch-street,
London.

BANNERS.
Messrs. Robarts, Curtis, and Co., London
The Hampshire Bank, Southampton.
JOINT SOLICITORS.
James Coppock, Esq., 3, Cleveland-row, St. James's
John Bell, Esq., Craven-street, London
W. H. ➢foberley, Esq., Southampton.
ACTING ENGINEERS—Messrs. Birch, Cannon-row. 15saclon.
COUNTRY AGENTS.
C. W. Squarey, Esq., Salisbury
John Pyke, Esq., Marlborough
Messrs. Crowdy, Swindon.
The Directors of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Junction
Railway Company, having completed the whole of their arrange-
ments, and having been compelled to refuse at least three-fourths of
the applications for shares in their line, have had their attention
forcibly and repeatedly called to the necessity of a direct communi-
cation between Salisbury and Swindon, the station on the Great
Western Railway, by which the most direct and remunerative con-
nexion will be formed between Southampton and Manchester.
The advantages, in point of speed, to be derived from the broad
gauge, as also tile superiority of the gradients obtained by the route
of the Valey of the Avon, together with the importance of placing the
city of Salisbury on the main trunk line Rom the north to South-
ampton, must insure to this undertaking the sanction of the Legis-
lature and the local support of tile towns and districts through which
the line will pass.

Besides for-ming a direct communication with the great manufac-
turing towns in the north, the Salisbury and Swindon Extension will
make a complete line of railway between Southampton, Salisbury,
and all parts of North and South Wales.

After most mature deliberation, the Directors have resolved to re-
commend to their shareholders and the public the immediate carry-
ing out of a railway to effect the above object, which will be most
desirable as a completion to their own line, and highly advantageous
in a pecuniary sense and on public grounds. They have directed all
the necessary saryeys to be made, so as to apply to Parliament in
the ensuing maim, at the same time as the Wilts, Somerset, and
Southampton Junction Railway, with a view to the ultimate amal-
gamation of both lines under one management.
In the allotment of shares, preference will be given to the holders
of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Junction Railway shares,
as also to parties locally interested, due regard being at the same
time had to public interest ; and every original shareholder in that
line. may, on production of his scrip certificate, receive an allotment
of a similar number of Salisbury and Swindon Extension shares.
. The holders of Great Western, and of Wilts, Somerset, and Wey-
mouth shares, will also have a preference.
Applications may be made, in the following form, to the Previsions;
Committee, at the Offices of the Company, 26, Gresham-street, the
Solicitors, the local agents, or to the principal brokers is town and
country.

FORM OF APPLICkTION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Salisbury and Swindon Exten-
sion of the Wilts, Somerset, and Sout;tampton Junction Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request that 3ou will allot me shares in the
above railway, and I agree to accept that or any less number that you
may please to allot me, and I undertake to pay the deposit of 21. l 2s. (id.
per share on the same, and to sign the Subscribers' Agreement and
the Parlimentary Contract when required.
Dated this day

1845.

Name in full . ....
Place of Business (if any) • .....
Trade or Profession • .
Reference....... ••••••••••••••••
Usual signature ....................
.... • • .. Fives Slip (if any) held by me.—The Wilts,
No. ........ Tens Somerset and Sonthampton Junction
No. • • • . Twenties Railway.
H. B. SHERIDAN, Secretary,
London, Aug. 30, 1845. 26, Gresham-street, City.

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