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Admission, Is. ; Schools, I-aif-price,

NVILTS, SOMERSET, and WEYMOUTH
RAILWAY.
Capital 1,500,0001., In S!eares of 501. each.
The Act for the Incorporation of this Cowan:, leaving received
the Royal-Assent, the HOLDERS of SCRIP CERTIFICATES an,
requested to make immediate applicatioa to he REGISTERED for
their respective Shares in this undertalOng; which application (upon
a printed form provided for the purpose), together wills the • Scrip
Certificates, must be trans Titted to this office on or before the 15th
of September.
An official receipt will be given on the deposit of the Scrip, which
receipt will he afterwards exchanged for the sealed certificates, with
as little delay as the preparation of the same may require ; and due
notice will be given when the sealed certificates will be ready for
delivery.
Shares in respect of which no application for registry shall be
Made on or before the above date will be registered in the name of
the original Subscriber, after which no share can be passed other-
wise than by formal transfermuler the provisions of the Act.
By order of the Board,
C. A. SAUNDERS. -
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway Offices,
449, West Strand, London, August 5, 1'45.
Interest will be allowed at thl rate of 4/. per cent. per annum on
the deposit and calls unt-1 the completion of the tine, when the divi-
dends will be provided fur under the' arrangement with the Great
Western Railway Company, who have guaranteed 41. par cent. per
annum on the pad-up capital, with a proportionate increase, as
stipulated in the terms of the.said guarantee.

RUGBY, DERBY, AND MANCHESTER
RA I LWAY.
(Provisionally registered, pursuant to 7th and Bth Vic., c. 110.)
Capital, 1,50U,0001. in 60,000 Shares of 25/ each.
Lieposit 1/. is. GI. -per Share-
. Rugby, Derby, and Manchester IL ilway is a direct line from
London to. Manchester,. corning from London to Rugby, along the
London and Birmingham line, and prose: ing from Rugby by Hinck-
ley, through Market Bosworth, and Ashby-de-la-Zonch, to Derby,
thence to AshbOurne and Macclesfield, and along the Macclesfield
• and Stockport and Stockport and Manchester Railways, into
• 241ancliesier.

Branches to Leake and Buxton are in contemplation.

The principle of this railway is to obtain a direct through line be-
tween some of the most important districts in the kingdom with tl:e
least possible amount of new railway, and consequently the smallest
expenditure of capital.
It will also establish the shortest direct communication between
Derby and London, Sheffield and London, and between all the towns
en the North Midland Railway and London.
The Manchester, Derby, and Rugby Railway w'll open a direct
communication between Manchester and Derby,
and will consider-
ably shorten the distance between Manchester and Nottingham and
Manchester and Leicester. •
The line from Derby to Rugby will establish the direct communi-
cation from that town to London, which has been so long considered
desirable by. the inhabitants.
The same will apply to Sheffield, when the Sheffield and Chester-
field branch of the North Midland Railway is made.
THE GREAT ADVANTAGES

of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway over the other pro-'
sects into Manchester, among others, are—
First, That there are only seventy-five miles of railway to be
made, in place of one hundred and eighty-nine.
Secondly, That it is a more direct line from London to Manchester
than even the proposed direct lines.
Thirdly, That it interferes with no existing railway property or
vested interests.
Fourthly, That it passes through a district rich in manufactures,
egrkulture, and minerals, but which—more especially as regards its
agricultural produce, and a conve,ient system of intercommunication
for the conveyance that agricultural produce, to supply the large
itianufaCtUring towns in the vicinity—has been hitherto left totally
Without railway communication.
Fifthly, l'htt it passes through the towns in its route, in place of
avoiding them.
Sixthly, That the whole line of railway from Rugby to Manchester
Will be completed and in working order within ten months from the
Passing of the Act of Parliament.
Seventhly, That the maps, plans, estimates, and other documents
required by the standing orders of Parliament, will be lodged with
the Parish Clerks, the Clerks of the Peace for the Counties, and the
Parliamentary offices, on the 10th day of November next, being
twenty days within the time required by the regulations of Parlia-
luent.
The Report of the Engineer of the Company is already completed,
find will be made public in a few days, upon which a further and full
Prospectus, with the names of the Provisional Directory, will be
Published.
In the meantime communications may be addressed to Thomas
George Smith, Esq.,, 2, Warnford-court, Throginorton-street; Edward
Ashworth, Esq., Manchester ; Messrs. J. B. and D. Neilson, Liver-
Pool and to the Company's Solicitor,
THOMAS GIBSON BREWER, Esq., 13, Gray's-inn-square.

TRENT VALLEY RAILWAY.
Company's Offices, 63, George-street, Manchester, August
21. 1845.
CONTRACT FOR SLEEPERS.
The Directors of the Trent Valley Railway Company will meet at
these offices on SAWEDAV, the 13th of September next, at Two
''clock, for the purpose of receiving MINDERS for SLEEPERS, of
the quality and in the quantity following :—The number required
Will be about 200,000. They are to be of good sound Baltic timber,
from either Memel or Dantzie, to be cut diagonally, so as to make
either two or four sleepers, from a square balk. No balk or log to be
less than either 9% :inches or 13% inches square before it is sawn
either into two or four sleepers, and no sleeper to be less than 9 feet
in length. The logs to be straight and square, and the diagonal cut
blade true. Each steeper to be sawn, or otherwise brought to a
hirsliel breadth on its face, of not less than 12 inches, so as to leave
the edges at right angles to the face, as shown by the drawite,e, which
may be seen at the offices of the Company's engineers, GreatGeorge—
street, Westminster. Any sleeper not agreeing with the foregoing
description will not be received. It will be required that the sleepers
be delivered on the banks of the Oxford, Statibrdshire, and Worces-
ter, Birmingham, Coventry, Trent and Mersey, and Oxford and
Worcestershire Canals, or of any of them, in such proportions, and
at such points, as may from time to time be directed. The deliveries
to commence on the Ist of January, 1846, and to be continued utV-
formly at the rate of twenty thousand per month, until the whole
number is delivered. The Directors do not bind themselves to
accept the lowest tender. Security will he required for the due ful-
Mtnent of the contract, the names and address of the proposed
sureties being annexed to the ti mier. Payments will be made by
bankers' draft at two months for eech month's delivery, if approved
by the engineer; any faulty or defective s eepers which may be
found being deducted from the subsequent payments, Parties wish-
ing to offer any other description of sleeper are at liberty to tender,
describing its form and dimensions, the name of the wood, and
Whence it will be Otalned. Tenders must be delivered on or before
the day, and prevlous;7 to the hour, above named, addressed to the
Secretary of the Company, and endorsed " Tender for Sleepa's."
1;:, order,
E. J. CLEATIIER, Secretary.

THE MACCLESFIELD aria LICHFIELD, or
CHURNET and BLYTHE JUNCTIO:: RAILWAY.
leing the shortest possible route between London a,-.'l 3lanehester,
in connexion with existing Railways.
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Provisionally Registered.
Capital, 1,250,0001. In 50,000 shares of 25/. each.
Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per share.
In compliance with the Standing Order of the House of Lords.
PUOVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Dartmouth, Sandwell Park, Staffordshire
The Right Hon. Lord Bagot, Blithfield Hall, Staffordshire
.The Hon. William Begot, M.P., St. James's-square, London
air K. D. Scott, Bart., Great Barr Hall, Staffordshire
11 • C. Mey-nell Ingram, Esq., Hoarcross Hall, Staffordshire
John Newton Lane, Esq., King's Bromley Manor
‘lliam Dry Holden, Esq., Locko Park, Derbyshire
..i ru
C. Townsend, Esq.. Recorder of Macclesfield
B. Levett, Esq., Milford Hall, Lichfield
Matthew Gaunt, Esq., Highfield House, near Leek
John Sleigh, Esq., Leek
Samuel Phillips, Esq., Leek
Thomas Osborne Bateman, Esq., Chaddeeden Moor, Derby
• Kirkpatrick Hall, Esq., Holly Bush, Staffordshire
• Gaunt, Esq., llorton Hall, near Leek
Thomas George Lomax, Esq., Lichfield
L. Warren, Esq., Conseil Hall, and the Lodge, Market Drayton
Michael Tumor, Esq., Brereton, Rugeley
Edward Baylis, Esq., G, Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park, London
Charles C. Higgins, Esq., Abbots Bromley
John Towgoed, Esq., 64, Chancery-lane, London
James Heygate, Esq.. M.D., Derby
James Palmer, Esq., the Close, Lichfield
Thomas Tumor, Esq., Abbots Bromley
Thomas Henry Baylis, Esq., Inner Temple, London
Thomas Finchet Maddock, Esq., Chester
Benjamin Shaw, Esq., Kilburn Priory
Sobert Ronald, Esq., Derby
The Rev. James Bostock, Cliffe Park, Staffordshire
Thomas P. Bainbridge, Esq., Derby
Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Abchurch-lane, London
John Gaunt, Banker, Leek
John
Challenor, Gentleman, Overton
Richard Cutting, Gentleman, Leek
Josiah Gaunt, sea.
Hugh Sleigh,
tilley
John Russell,
Samuel Clowes,
Thomas Carr,
John Ward,
James
Ilidout,
Robert Hammersley, Sllknyer, Leek
4 Olin Vernon, Cork Manufacturer, Uttoxeter
John Minors, Esq., Parks Cottage, Uttoxeter
Thomas Rowley, Esq., M.D., lAchfleld
Randall Bradburne, Esq., Ediall House, Lichfield
Joseph Webb, Esq., Lichfield
'William Butcher, Coach Manufacturer, Lichfield.

Silk Manufacturers, Leek

This line will commence at the terminus of the Manchester and
Birmingham Railway at Macclesfield, and passing by the Rudyard
reservoir to Leek, will proceed by the Churnet Valley to Conseil,
thence close to Cheadle, and Teen, and by Uttoxeter, Bagots Woods
and Abbots Bromley down the Blythe, to a point on the Trent Valley
Railway, near Lichfield, communicating there with one of the pro-
Posed lines from Dudley and Walsall.
A glance at the map will show that this will be the most direst
tile for the London and Manchester traffic; uniting those two great
termini by the shortest practicable route in connexion with existing
railways. It will also completely accommodate the local traffic and
manufactures, and open several extensive coal fields and some thou
,and acres of wood land for the supply of Manchester, the Potteries,
and other great marts of the kingdom. Together, too, with the pro-
Posed line from Derby to Crewe, it will afford a transit from the
-tiastern Counties and Derby to Manchester, and give every accom-
modation to the Potteries.
This line is, in its principal features, much the same asthat already
aPproved of by the Board of Trade, and partially abandoned by the
Churnet Valley Company—will be scarcely 47 miles in length, and
Passing through the centre of the district, does not interfere with the
Grand Junction, or any other existing railway. It is material to re-
-that it is even more direct than the Churnet Valley as formerly
Projected to Tamworth, and is free front the formidable opposition of
The landed interest, and the engineering difficulties consequent on the
roate by Rocester and 31archington. It must be observed also that
it is the only railway which has been brought forward by, and is
Under the control of, the landowners and manufacturers of the Churnct
44.:1 Blythe Valley districts.
_The co-operation of most of the principal landowners, from near
Uttoxeter to near Lichfield, having been obtained, and there being
;10 competing lines projected through that district, this portion of the
4411 e may be cans:dered as secure.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—JOSeph Locke, Esq., F.R.S.
BA NKEM.

London— ,psars. Eogers, Obling, and Co.
lanchester—The Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, and
Branches
Lichfield—Messrs. Pa:mcr and Greene
Peek—Mcssrs. Fowler and Gamuts
-... uttemeter—Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashbourne Union Bank
herby—Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company
SECRETARY, PRO TEM.—Mr. Challinor, Solicitor, Leek.
Applications for Shares, accompanied by a Banker's or other re-
!Dtetable reference, to be addressed to the Secretary. and the Share-
brokers, of whom plans, prospectuses, and further particulars may be
obtained.
Shareholders in the Manchester and Birmingham, Trent Valley, or
'London and Birmingham Railway Companies, applying for Shares,
Will be good enough to state they are such Shareholders.
N.B. The names of the Solicitors See ,will shortly be published.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Macclesfield and Lich-
field, or Churnet and Blythe Junction Railway Company.
Pentlen.ien—l request you to allot me Shares of 25/. each,
P.the abovw railway, and I undertake to accept the same or such
less number as you may appropriate to ice, subject to the regulations
°f the Company, and to sign the necessary deeds, and pay the de-
Dosit thereon of 21. 12s. Cd. per share when required.
:Name. in cull .
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Dom.

CHEPSTOW, FOREST OF DEAN, AND
GLOUCESTER JUNCTION RAILWAY,
Through the Forest Of Dean (with Branches to the Collieries, Iron
Works, and River • Severn). to join the Gloucester end Birmingham,
Gloucester and Bristol, intended Cheltenham, Oxford, and London
. direct, and Gloucester and Aberystwith Railways.
(Registered Provisionally, according to the Act of 7 and 8 Victoria,
Chap. 110.)
Capital 600,0001., in 30.600 shares, of 201. each.
Deposit 2/.2s per Share.
Sbareholder to be liable beyond the amount of his Shares.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. •

W. P. Andrew, Esq., Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square, Director
of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway
Joseph Bailey, Esq., M.P., Glanusk Park, Breconshire
W. F. &adult, Esq., Director of the Essex and Suffolk Railway
James Beech, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place, London, Director of the

Leicester and Tfirnworth Railway -
C. R. Coleman, Esq., irongate Wharf, Director of the South Mid-

land Railway
William Crawshay, Esq., Carfartla, Glamorganshire, and Caver-
-8:-.,un Park, Berkshire
Edmuin! Francis Dayrell, Esq., of Lillinotone Dayrell, High Sheriff
of Buckinnamshire, and Director of the. Buckinghamshii e
Railway
Joseph Davis, Esq., Chepstow, merchant
W. S. Fitzwilliam, Esq„ Broad-street, London, merchant, Director
of the South Midland Railway
Edward Hall; Esq., Director of the South Midland and Northampton
and Cheltenham Railways
Will!am Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., Alderman, Chairman of the
Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, Director of the London
and Greenwich Railway Company
Sir W. B. Johnston, Bart, Hilton, Aberdeenshire
George Lawton, Esq., Dltchleys, Essex, Director of the South Mid-

land Railway
William Strahan, Esq., Banker, Fleet-street, London
Sir William Twysden, Rart.
Major White, 105, Pall Mall, Director of the Northampton, Banbury,
and Cheltenham Railway
John Wheelton, Esq., N eopham Bank, Tunbridge, Kent, Director of

Leicester and Bedford ltiiilway
Sir William Bacon Johnson, 'hut., Hilton, Aberdeenshire
Captain James P. Macdouhall, Fir Grove, North Brixton
With power to add to their number
ENGINEER—William Gravatt Esq , F.R.S.
LONDON BANKERS.

Messrs. Strahan, Paul, and Co., Strand ; and Messrs. Glyn and Co.

PROVINCIAL BANKERS.
Messrs. Bailey, Greatrex, and Co., Monmouth and Abergavenny
The West of England and South Wales Banking Company and
Pranches
Messrs. Bromage and Snead, Chepstow
The Monmouth and Glamorgan Banking Company and Branches
Messrs. Williams and Sons, Newport
The Gloucestershire Bankin,, Company and Branches
The County of GlOucester Banking Company and Branches
'Me National Provincial Banking Company and Branches
STANDING COUNSEL— \\ llllam Hughes Hughes, Esq., Temple, London
SOLICITOR—Mr. W. T. 11. Phelps, Newport, Monmouthshire
LONDON AGENTS—Messrs: a Beckett, Son, and Sympson, 7, Golden-

"pare
LOCAL AGENTS..
Chepstow—Messrs. Baldwin and Morgan
Gloucoster—Messrs. Ellis, Elliott, and Swann, solicitors
SECRETARY—WM: Protheroe, Esq., 10, Old Jcwry-chambers,London

This railway is intended to connect the South Wales Railway at
Chepstow with Gloucester, Cheltenham, and Birmingham, with the
projected Cheltenham, Oxford (and London direct), Gloucester, ant
Aberystwith, Northampton and Cheltenham, and Manchester and
Southampton Railways ; thus forming an unlnterrupted line of com-
munication from the South of Ireland, through Fishgard and Milford
in 1 embrokeshire, .to Gloucester, Cheltenham, Oxford, and London
direct, Southampton, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, and the
North of England, by a less circuitous route than can be effected by
any of the projected plans for crossing the Severn below G:oucester,
thereby avoiding the difficulties Which must necessarily be encoun-
tered in such an undertaking, and affording the important towns and
districts upon the intended lhtes that accommodation which their im-
portance entitles them to.
The whole of the traffic upon the South Wales line passing to the
Eastward of Chepstow will be carried on this line ; added to which
the coal and mineral traffic from the Forest of Dean (which, front
till Eastern side to Gloucester, has been estimated upon authentic
documents and Information, at upwards of 30c,000 tons ; and from
the Western or Lydney and Chepstow side the same amount of traffic
may safely be calculated upon), amounting to 600,000 tons per an-
num (the produce of the Forest alone), must be carried upon the line,
independent of the local passenger traffic and an extended trade in
the produce of the Forest, which will necessarily follow the facilities
offered by the proposed railroad.
The revenue from this source alone will give e very handsome di-
vidend upon the capital to be expended, which is expected will not
exceed three-fourths of the intended capital.
It is proposed to make branches to tly, Collieries and Iron Works
in the Forest, to the present or any new Ports which may suggest
themselves on the Severn ; and to make the Sliver Wye, at Chep-
stow, the port of foreign export, where vessels of any size can enter
free front the dangers and difficulties attendant upon the navigation
of the Severn, consequent upon the rocks and shifting sandy In that
river.
It is intended to build a bridge across the Severn at Gloucester,
which will in no way obstruct the navigation; and the proposed
Gloucester and Abcrystwith Company will no doubt be ready to join
Ors Company in the expense, If they obtain their Act. The cost of
the intended line from Chepstow to Gloucester, including the bridge
at Gloucester, and the one over the River Wye, at Chepstow, to join
the South Wales, with branches to the Collieries, Iron Works,l and
the Severn, is not expected to exceed 450,0001., but it is intended to
provide a capital of 600,0001. to meet any contingencies which may
arise,
A reference to the map will show the self-evident importance of
this line as essential to the perfecting the great project of the South
Railway Company (wlin hare obtained their Act of Parlia-
ment for a ad from Flshguard and MiliOra Beyen to Chepstow)
n ith the principal railways of the 101114dori,
connecting
Gloucester, and making it direct road to London, via Cheltenham
and Oxford, for effecting which projeCta are now before the public
with most influential support.' The line is twenty-six miles in
length, has no engineering difficulties; the gradients and curves are
extremely good, and works light.
It may with very great confidence he ilaaPlUd, that there is
scarcely a short line of railroad in the kingdom which Biers
greater advantages to the Shareholders titan the present. ygo,
vis on will be made in the Act of Parliament which will by ppilo
for in the next Session to limit the liability of tine 'Sh4renol4.er
to the amount of his Shares, and to allow tour per cent, on ilke
calls.
Applications for Shares to be made to the Solicitors, or to
Messrs.. Carden and Whitehead, Threadneedle street, and Messrs.
Deckhouse and Co., No. 4, Angel Court, Throgmorton-street, Lon-
don ; 3lessrs. Han, Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham ; Messrs. Tate
and Nash, Bristol ; Mr.
Thomas Evans, Pall) ; Messrs. Bradley,
I Ford, and Parker, Manchester ; Messrs. I. Davies and Co, Pale-
street, Liverpool ; Messrs. Chantrell and Boys, LAO ; nil: }S• W 4:
kinson and Earle, Hull; and Mesre. Labertouche and Stafford,

CHESTER and MANCHESTER DIRECT
RAILWAY.
With a Branch to Birkenhead.
(Provisionally Registered).
Capital 1,000,000/., in 50,000 Shares of 201. eaeh.
Deposit 2/. 25. per Share.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Colonel the Hon. LEICESTER STANHOPE, Ashburnham House,
London, Chairman
Major JOHN T. CROFT, Regent-street, London, Deputy Chairman
David Ainsworth, Esq., Manchester
Samuel Barton, Esq., Didshury, Manchester
Hugh Beaver, Esq., Manchester, and Glyn Garth, Anglesey
John Burgess, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester
James Far:sh, Esq., Lancaster-place, London
Major Ford, of Bodlondet, Carnarvonshire
Lieut.-Colonel Henry HautLer, Bear-place, Berks, and 7, Devon-
shire-place, London •
Fraser B. Ilenshaw, Esq., Lower Seymour-Street, Portman-square,
London, a Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle
Junction Railway
Captain Sir John It. Hilton, R.N., Isle of Wight
J. Harney Higson, Esq., merchant, Manchester
Lieutenant-Colonel Hutchinson, 8.E.F.R.5., Director of the College
of Civil Engineers
T. D. Johnson, Esq., Aldcrmary Churchyard, London
John Joseph Keene, St. John's Wood, London, Director of the
National Provincial Bank of Ireland
W. King, Esq., Director of the Freemasons' Life Assurance Com-
pany
George Peter Livius, Esq., the Grove House, St. Cuthbert's, and
Cauldwell Priory, Bedford
Horace W. Meteyard, Esq., 8.C.L., Middle Temple, and Chatham-
place
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., Upper Hyde Park-street, London, a
Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction
Raiiw ,y
James Orrell, Esq., Culcheth Hall, Kenyon
James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Manchester
David Price, Esq , Manchester
Major James Waller, KAI., St. James's-square
C. J. S. Walker, Esq., Longford, near Manchester
Sir George William Prescott, Dart , of Theohalds,
(With power to add to their number.)
ENGINEERS.
Sir John Rennie, F.R.S.
George Remington, Esq., C.E.
MANNERS.
Messrs. Rogers, Olding,, and Co., London
National Provincial Bank of England, Manchester
SOLICITORS.
London—Messrs. Sir George Stephen and Hutchinson, 29, Moorgate-
s t rect
Manchester—Messrs. Iligson and Robinson, Cross-street R. B. B.
Cobbett, Esq., Marsden-street.
LOCAL AGENT—Chester—John Walker, Esq.

The promottrs of this Railway, encouraged by the favourable sup-
port which has been given to the project, and In compliance with
various recommendations they have received, ha-e determined upon
the addition of a branch to Birkenhead, which, although it will
manifestly tend to the advantage of the Shareholders and the public,
will be attended with comparatively little additional outlay. The
project will still retain its chief characteristic of a direct railway,
and by its connexion, near Warrington, with the Grand Junction
Company, is sufficiently comprehensive, without resorting to a com-
plicated system of branch lines, or materially couflicting with the in-
terests of existing companies.
The line will commence at the city of Chester, and proceed by way
of Trafford, Frodsham, and Preston Brook, to Warrington, thence
by Lymin and Stretford direct to Manchester. From a point on the
main line, near Frodsliam, a branch will be taken to join the Chester
and Birkenhead Railway, so as to unite Manchester in the most
direct manner possible, with the docks now being formed at Bir-
kenhead.
As Manchester, from its geographical position, is the centre of rail-
way communication between Scotland and the most populous dis-
tricts of England, so Chester, from a like cause, is the great centre of
railway communication between the capitals of Ireland and of Eng-
land. To connect these two points by a direct and independent line
of railway must, therefore, be of the utmost importance, not only in
a local point of view, but to the whole commercial intercourse of the
country: •
This line will be the most direct rottte, by Holyhead, to Ireland,
and will be, in all respects, by fa' the preferable channel of inter-
course and transit between Ireland and the great manufactui lug dis-
tricts of Eng,lind. By the railways connecting Chester with Wrex-
ham, Oswestry, Shrewsbury, Hereford, Gloucester, and South Wales,
this will be the nearest route from Manchester to the south-
western parts of England, and to the minerals of Monmouth and
Glamorganshire The communication with Bristol, Gloucester, and
Exeter will be speedy and direct. On reference to the map, it will
be seen that a very considerable distance will be saved by this line,
as compared with the present circuitous routes by Crewe and by
Birkenhead ; the former being 52 miles, and the latter 46 miles,
while the proposed line is only 31 miles, saving in the one case 18
miles, and in the other 12 miles, besides the serious inconvenience, loss
of time, and expense of passing through Liverpool, and crossing the
water at that place.
It is confidently expected that this line will he the precursor of
another scheme, of no ordinary importance—namely, to render
'hester an efficient port for large vessels.
This subject was entertained by Sir John Rennie in 1835, and sub-
sequc ntly, in the same year, by the late Mr. Chapman, who wrote au
able report upon the capabilities of the river Dee. It was again
nvestigated, In 1837, by Sir John Rennie and Mr. George Remington,
and the practicability of forming a good navigable channel for vessels
of large burden, together with docks at Chester, was then fully and
clearly established.
The entrance channel would commence at Dawpool. which is easy
of access (and infinitely preferab e, in point of access and safety, to
the docks at Liverpool or Birkenhead), for vessels of large burden,
during eighours ever tide, both at springs and neaps ; and the
sill of the lock would be sufficiently low to admit vessels drawing 20
feet water to enter at all tides,
This railway, therefore, in connexion with the proposed docks, •
will render to Chester and Manchester incalculable advantages. To
the former it will restore the proper position natural to so important
a city; to the latter it will give another outlet, by sea, to the ma-
nufacturing districts, free of the heavy port charges, dues, and
risks to which the produce is now subject: It has not been thought
advisable to tombine the two objects in sue company at present,
but should it be found requisite, the two may hereafter be amalga-
mated.
Merits of no ordinary degree, therefore, may fairly be claimed fbr
this railway, whether taken In 001411eXien with the proposed docks,
eras standing alone, combining as it sloes All the advantages of may
other lines, with this great addition, that it will be the high road to
the most convenient outport of Manchester, and will be quite inde-
pendent of any associations or influences that might tend to oppose
the growing desire for a means of direct and independent communi-
cation between Manchester and the port of Chester.
The line has been carefully essaininen. There are no difficult
earth-works to be encountered ; on the contrary it will be cheap,
and of easy formation. I'ower Is reserved to the Committee to de;
viate from the proposed line in the vicinity of Alitlielleater, should
ulterior arrangements render it expedient.
Applications for shares in the subjoined form, and for maps and
prospectuses to be made to the Solicitors, and to the following Share,
orokers :—Messrs. Sheweil and San' 25,Tokenhouse-yard ; Messrs.
Preece and Evans, 8, Cornhill ; and Messrs. Taunton mid Push,
Austin-fllars. London; Messrs. Houghland and Leese, Mr. Locke,
Messrs. st. Birchen and Co., Thomas Leeds and Son, Henry Benton,
J. B. LoA, and Samuel Stater, Manchester ; Messrs. Neilsons,
Messrs. Healey, Mr. Crisp, And Mr, Norris Reynolds, Liver-
pool ; Messrs. T. N. Barnwell and Sons, Sheffield; Illebsrs,
Wellbeloved and Oastler, Leeds ; Mr. E. A. Armitage, Wake,
field; Messrs. Grayston and Earle, York; Mr. Thomas Board-
man, Blackburn t Mr. W. lit Collis, Birmingham ,• Mr. Francis
Stamp, Hull ; Mr. L. Weatherbnril, Ilutldcrstitlsl ; Mr. Win,
Cronheire, Halifax ; Mr. Chsrles Speuar, Nottingham
Samuel Eyre, Derby ; Mr. James Stoic's, Cheltenham ; Mr. Joseph
Clark, jun., Southampton ; Mr. ,Tolat Thomas Hol'and, Coventry;
Mr. William M stem, Bradford, Yorkshire; Messrs. Payne and Freer,
Leicester; Mr. Wm, Tninkinsoo, NeWeafitle-under-Lyne ; Mr.
Richard E. Hine, Maecle4lein ; Mr. Lea, Cheltenham I Misers,
Tate and Nast., Bristol; Mr, William Miles, Worcester ; Messrs.
head and Nicholson, Edinburgh ; Meisrs. Wag, Perth, N. 8.; and
Messrs. H. and W. A. 'lassie, Glasgow.
Ap, lications for shares must be accompanit d by a reference to the
Solicitors of the Company, the sharebrokers, or some other respon-
s pt:rson.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR suaurs.
To the Provisional Committee of the Chester and Manchester
Direct Railway
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me Shares of 201. each
in the above Railway, and I undertake to accept the same, or each
less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the Regula-
toni of the Company, and to sign the necessary Deeds, and to pay,
when rertywea;.thP dcpDf t Plpppri of 2/. 2s: per Share.
Dated this day of
1644.
Rime and Residence in full
Profession and professional residenze in full..
Reference .... •• • • „ ••• • ,• •• • •

CHESTER and MANCHESTER DIRECT
RAILWAY.
a Meeting PC 11,e ;Cot}? of Management of this-under-
taLing, held this day, It was resbi7ved that, in order to comply with
the standing orders pf the 'pope Of Lords, as reedntly oftep34, 4 1
expedient to reduce the amonnt pf eMlsPare to 201., and to Wend
the number to 50,000, and that the deposit required be 21. 25. on each
share, and that, in consequence of this alteration in the amount and
number of shares and the deposit required, the period within which
shares must be applied for he extended to the 28th instant for the
London applications, and to the 30th instant for country applications.
By order,
A. BARRETT, Secretary.
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