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John Cleandler,-Esq....Comaaught -terrace, Hyde-park _
Edward Power, Esq., 3liddle Temple
Simeon Musgrove, Esq., Kirkstall, near Leeds
Sir William Lowthrop, Hull, and Algoa House, Scarborough, Chair-
man of the Hull and Barnsley Junction, and Director of the Liver-
pool and Leeds Railways
Captain J. P. Macdougall, Director of the Cambrian Grand Junction
Railway
G. H. Foster, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension,
and Chester Junction Railways
Miles Coventry, Esq., Director of the Direct Western Railway
William Gordon,. Esq., M.D , Hull, Director of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct, and Hull and Barnsley Junction Railways
Col. Robert Douglas, C. 13., United Service Club
Samuel Palmer, Esq., Great Yarmouth, Director of the Great Grimsby,
Louth, Ilortica.stle, Lincoln, and 3lidland Junction Railway
Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of the Britannia Insurance Company
John Haigh, Esq., Leeds
Richard Kelly, Esq., Cleveland-row, Chairman of the New Ross,
Carlow, and Kilkenny Railways, and Managing Director of the
York and Lancaster Railway
Henry Bellerby, Esq., Sheriff of York
Frederick Ramsden, Esq., Seymour House, Old Trafford, Manchester,
Director of the Birkenhead, Holyhead, and Mold Extension ; the
Liverpool, Preston, and North Union ; the Staffordshire Potteries ;
and the London and Holyhead Railways
Samuel Gales, Esq., BOwden, near Manchester, Director of the Man-
• chesier and Birmingham Continuation, and Welsh Junction,
and
the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railways
P. Bennett Lucas, Esq., Manchester-street, Manchester-square,
Director of the Great Leeds and London, Direct Ipswich and
Southampton, Sligo and Shannon Railways
Charles Tottcnbam, Esq., Magistrate of the county of Wexford,
Chairman of the Exeter and Dorchester Railway
Robert Bissett Richmond, Esq., M.D., 40, Great Castle-street,
Cavendish-square, London
Thomas W. George, Esq., Leeds, Director of the West Yorkshire

Railway
J. Hebert Hebert, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director
of the Birmingham and Leicester Railway
John Samuel Whitchurch, Esq., Weymouth
William Hawtry, Esq., Fulham
Richard Rowe, Et,q., Beaufoy-terrace, Malda Tale
James Carroll Wilcocks, Esq., Exeter, Director of the Exeter,
Yeovil, and Dorchester, Exeter and Crediton, and North Devon
llailways
13kruton Lupton, Esq., the Worshipful the Mayor of Leeds, Director
of the Leeds and York, and York and Hull, and Nottingham and
Gainsborough Railways
Thomas Nutmeley, Esq., Leeds
Joseph RiCharaon, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Tork, the
-Midland and Thirsk Junction, and the London, Hounslow, and
Western Railways
John Brightman Esq., Cornhill, London, and Regency-square, Brigh-
ton, Chairman of the London and Hounslow Railway
John Barnett, Esq., Cheltenham, Coroner for the County of Glouces-
ter, and Director of the Oxford and Whitney Railway
' Matthew Picrpoint, Esq., Worcester,
Chairman of the Rugby, Derby,
and Manchester, and Director of the Welsh ,Midland. and Dudley,
Madeley, and Broseley and Ironhridge Railways
F. Duffiekl, Esq., Bolton-house, Bradford, Director of the Cambridge

and Lincoln Extension Railway •
F. B. Hamilton, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester and Bandon
Railways
James Hamilton, Esq., Balsall-heath, Birmingham
Daniel T. Johnson, Esq., Aldermary-churchyard, Watling-street,
London, Director of Remington's Direct London and Manchester
Railway
Richd. Clay, Esq., Winclie.ter-street, London,.and. Lloyd's
Klein Grant, Esq., St. James's-street, London, Director of the
• Direct Western Railway.
William Pritchard, ESq., Doctors'-commons, London, High Bailiff of
Southwark

RANKERS.
Commercial Bank, Lothbury, London.
The Leeds and. West Riding Bank, Leeds.
i National and Provincial Bank, Birmingham.
Messrs. Pease and Liddells, Hull.
31essrs. Moore and Co., Nottingham.
The Sheffield and Retford Banking Company, Sheffield.
. ENGINEERS—SandIforth F. Griffin, Esq , and J. H. Taunton, Esq.,
2, Parliamext-street.
SOLICITORS.
• Messrs. Cattarns and Fry, 62, Mark-lane, London.
G. A. Colman, Esq., 2, New Inn, Strand, London.
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LOCAL SOLICITOR. .
Win. Bennett, Esq., Chapel-en-le-Frith.
. SECRETARY.—George F. Ilire,Esq.
This important line, commencing at the terminus of the Manches-
ter and Sheffield Railway, in the populous manufacturing town of
Sheffieldl
la
Chapel-en-le-Frith, and Whaley
Manchesteraley
great
Macclesfield Rail Way, at Macclesfield, the total length of the line
being nearly thirty miles.
The importance of connecting these termini would, Mane, be suffi-
cient a
nt a, hl
e-pr soar, gt
eo ' will
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the;'Ps proceed,
I°Potteries), 'Hope,
Ch ain a direct course, by or through Ho
to ensure full support to ii le present undertaking, from the
dense population, manufacturing Influence, and general traffic of the
towns in question ; but when it is considered that this connexion, or
Junction, stands in the very centre of the entire railway system of
England,' and that it will complete the chain of railway communi-
cation and transit between the river Humber, the towns of Sheffield
and Macclesfield, the Staffordshire Potteries, the Salt Wielles of
Cheshire, the city of Chester, the docks of Liverpool and Birkenhead,
Bangor Ferry, and the harbour of Holyhead, the advantages are too
manifest to be for a moment questioned.
The surveys are ROW in progress, and will be completed without
delay, in order to go to. Parliament at the ensuing session.
In the allotment of shares, the applications from parties resident
on the line will be preferred.
Applications for prospectuses and_
a.. :tares to be made at the offices of
the Company's Solicitors, Messrs. (1..',T, erns and Fry, 62, Mark-lane,
London, and G. A. Colman, Esq., 'iw Inn, Strand ; and of the under-
mentioned Sharebrokers:—L. IL Hazewood, Angel. court, Throgmor-
ton-street, London; W. N. Foote,i Sheffield; R. E. Thee, Iliac:cies-
field ; Schofield and West, Bell; Jo in liValkineton and Co., Leeds ;
Hebden and Parkinson, Leeds ; Smith, Knowles, anti Cooke, Leeds •
Cuff and Fox, Derby; William Miles, Worcester; C. it. Birkbec,'
Worcester ; John Smith, Binningihainna ; W. H. Collis, Birmingham
v
'Messrs. Cook and Co., Bradford; . Wood, Manchester, J. an t
A Moffatt, Edinburgh.
Exeter; Wilsen, Manchester ; •
Cheltenham Henry 'Vatelier
Hall, Brothers and Co., ; Black and Lorimer'
- r p eylitte Liverpool ; George Edwards and Son B • 1'
Gla gOW ; .. ... I , Bristol ;
1" P Clarke, Bristol • and J. Bainforth, Rotherham
L. P. a. ,
number of shares already
In consequence of the
thef4Oivn•applications will be attendedto after the kith day of Octo-
ber Inst., and from the country after the 18th inst.
FORM OF At'PLICATION FOR SII I.RES.
To the Provisional Comm: ttce of the Direct S Leffield and Maccles-
field Railway Company.
•
G e ntlemen,—l reqaes 't you will allot me shares of 201. each
in the above-named Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the
b
same, or any less number that may be allotted te pay me, to the de-
posit of 2/, is. per share thereon, atm to sign the Subscribers' Agree-
ment and Parliamentary Contrac when required.
Dated this day of 1845.
Name In full.. . ..
Profession or Business •• *****
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Residence, Private and Prof ncference....
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'Usual Signature of A': ph cant.. :: •••• -• . •••••

IRECTSHEFFIERAILWAY.LD and MACCLESFIELD
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LtiCS fa herebpgiven, that no farther Applications for Shares can
b 3 rc ceived in town after Siananalr next, the Ilth instant, nor from
the tottntry after IliorIDAI next, the IWI instant.
GEORGE F. HIRE, Secretary.
London, Ott. 6, ISO.