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London, England, 1845-08-21 00:00:00

ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morniik;,r, Noon, and Night, thereby insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY 'CIRCULATION at ONE CHARGE.

OUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.
7 REDUCTION OF FARES.—EXPRESS TRAINS.
On and after the Ist of SEPTEMBER NEXT the fares on this
line will be as follows :
Between the London and the Dover and Folkestone Termini—
Express Trains, 18s. Other Trains—First Class, 15s. ; Second Class,
108. • Third Class, 6s.
The intermediate fares will be in proportion.
From the same date, DAY TICKETS will be granted at the fol-
lowing fares :
London to Dover and Folkestone and back—Express Trains, 275.
Other Trains—First Class, 225. 6d. ; Second Class, 158. ; Third
Class, 9s.
To intermediate stations in proportion,
Tickets issued on Saturday will be returnable on Saturday, Sun-
day, and Monday ; those issued on Sunday will be returnable on
Sunday and Monday.
Periodical Tickets will be charged for as under :-
Ist Class. 2d Class. Ist Class. 2d Class.
One Month .. • .A. 12.. —X 9 Six Months • ..£35.......£25
Two Months .... 20...... 14 Twelve Months 50— ...• 35
Three Months .. 25.... 17
By order of

the Board,
W. O'BRIEN, Secretary

London Terminus, August 18, 18,

QOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY. - PLEA-
-11..Y SURE EXCURSIONS between the Bricklayers' Arms or Dover
termini, and all stations except London-bridge, at one fare there and
back, every Saturday and Monday until further notice. On the
above-named days excursion tickets will be issued by the following
trains :

DOWN TRAINS.
6 45 a.m 3d glass train
10 0 a.m. Ist and 2d do.
4 0 p.m. ad do.
5 30 p.m. lat and 2d do.

Provisionally Registered,

OUTFI-EASTERN and CONTINENTAL
17 STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.—To PARIS and the SOUTH
of FRANCE.—Sea passage in less than two hours.—Shortest route,
via South-Eastern Railway, in conjunction with the Folkestone and
Boulogne steamers. The celebrated new iron steam ships of the
South-Eastern and Continental Steam Packet Company. QUEEN of
the FRENCH, QUEEN of the BELGIANS, and PRINCESS
MAUDE, now leave Folkestone and Boulogne every tide, viz., twice
a day from each port. The departure of the day steamer from
Folkestone is arranged so that passengers may arrive in time by the
morning trains from London. For time and tide bills apply at the
South-Eastern Railway-office, London-bridge; or to Mr. Faulkner,
Folkestone.

Provisionally Registered.
LOUTH-EASTERN AND CONTINENTAL
STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.—BEST ROUTE to BELGIUM
and GERMANY, via DOVER and OSTEND.—The South-Eastern and
Continental Steam-packet Company's splendid fast iron steam-ship
PRINCESS MARY, carrying the English and Belgian malls, and
performing the passage in four hours and a half, leaves Dover for
Ostend every Thursday and Sunday morning early, enabling tra-
vellers to leave Ostend by the early trains, and returns to Duver en
Tuesdays and Fridays.

. .
Departures from Dover :
August 21, at 11h. 15m. A.M. I August 28, at 6h. A.M.
August 24, at 6h. A.M. August 31, at Bh. A.M.
Luggage, parcels, &c., expeditiously forwarded.

For particulars apply at the South-Eastern-Railway-station, Lou -
don-bridge ; and to John Hayward, jun., Dover.

SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.
The Directors think it desirable to state that they sometime
since instructed Mr. Stephenson to prepare for Parliament in the
next session a complete system for supplying railway communi-
cation with the whole of Kent. It is proposed to provide direct lines to
Tunbridge, Maidstone, Gravesend, Rochester, Chatham, Faversham,
Canterbury, and Dover. The surveys have been for some weeks in
progress, and the whole scheme will be very shortly in a complete
state. JOHN KIRKLAND, Chairman.
South-Eastern Railway-office, July 26, 1845.

SURVEYS for NEW LINES.—Ruled Books
with, or without printed headings for taking the levels for
projected lines of railways. Stationary, Travelling Writing Desks,
Dressing-cases, Portfolios, and Blotting-books ; Inkstands, Gold and
Silver Ever-pointed Pencil-cases, Pearl and Ivory Tablets, &c. Name
plate engraved for 2s. 6d. ; 100 best cards, 2s. 6d. ; superfine Letter-
paper from Cs. the ream; Note-paper, from 3s. the ream ; with every
article in Stationery of the best quality and lowest prices.
At LIMBIRD'S. No. 143, Strand, facing Catherine-street. Best
Envelopes, ls. the 100.

•
IVERPOOL and BURY RAILWAY.
NOTICE TO SCRIP-HOLDERS.
The Act for the Incorporation of the Liverpool and Bury
Railway Company having received the Royal Assent, all Per-
sons holding Scrip Certificates for Shares in this Company are
requested to transmit the same to the Secretary, at the Com-
pany"s offices, Liverpool, on or before the 23d day of August
next, with their names, professions, and residences distinctly
written, in order that the same may be correctly entered in the Re-
gister of the Company, in accordance with " The Companies'
Clauses Consolidation Act," 1845. A form of letter claiming to be
registered may be had on application to the Secretary.
The Receipt of the Scrip Certificates will be duly acknowledged,
and on the completion of the Registry they will be exchanged for
Certificates under the Seal of the Company.
Shareholders to whom Scrip has not been issued will be duly Regis-
tered as they now stand In the Books of the Company ; and all Shares in
respect of which no Application for Registry shall be made before the
23d day of August next, by the actual Holders of Scrip Certificates,
will be registered as the property of the persons to whom they were
originally allotted.

An early notice will be given of the First Meeting of the Share.
holders, at which those only who have been registered will be en•
titled to vote.

By order of the Board
JOHN S. HERON, Secretary.
Offices, 33, Dale-street, Liverpool, Aug. 5, 1845.

LEICESTER and TANIWORTII JUNCTION
RAILWAY.

No further Applications for Shares in this Company can he re-
ceived, except from parties locally interested, or Sharekolders in the
Trent Valley Railway, who must apply on or before Monday, the
25th day of August instant.

J. E. RATHBONE, Seeretaar.
4, Coleman-street, London, August 18,1845.

THE WARWICKSHIRE AND LONDON
EXTENSION, and WORCESTER JUNCTION RAILWAY,
from Warwick to Worcester, with a Branch to Droitwitch, uniting
the London and Birmingham, Warwichshire and London, and Buck-
inghamshire and Oxford and Wolverton Junction Railways with the

Welch Midland, and the Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union
Railways. _

Capital 600,0001., in 30,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 10s. per Share.
' Provisionally Registered.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. Lord Dormer, Grove Park, Warwick
Sir Edward Smythe, Bart., Acton Burnell

Sir Robert Thrcigmorton, Bart., Coughton Court, Warwickshire
William Collins, Esq., M.P.
Robert Scott, Esq., M.P., Director of the Welch Midland Railway
Thomas Wise, Esq., M.P.
D. R. Ross, Esq.. M.P.
W. G. Beare, Esq. '

Henry Dann, Esq., Duke-street, St. James, Directors of the
James Grignon, Esq., Charles-street, St. James, Worcester, Shrews-
John Knill, Esq., Thames-street, bury, and Crewe
Major-General Parlby, Rutland-gate, Union Railway
John Caleb Adkins, Esq., Milcote Farm, near Stratford-upon Avon
John Biddle, Esq„ Graf on Courl, Warwickshire
John Bonnerau, Esq., salt manufacturer, Droitwich

John Henry Bradley, Esq., salt manufaclurer, Droitwich
Robert Walter Carden, Esq., Threadneedle-street
Richard Fisher, Esq., Alcester Lodge

Edward Fordham Flower, Esq., common brewer, Stratford-upon
Avon

Thomas Fothergill, Esq., Bedford-square
Richard Francis, Esq., Droitwich

Richard Greaves, Esq., merchant, Stratford-upon-Avon
George Harris, Esq., Carpet Manufacturer, Stourport

Francis Hooper, Eici., Migistrate, Worcester

Charles Lucy, Esq., Merchant, Stratford-upon-Avon
William McMichael, Esq., Carpet Manufacturer, Bridgenorth
William Morley, Esq., Blackheath
Matthew Pierrepoint, Esq., Magistrate, Worcester

Carrington Smythe, Esq., iirootien-Wiwen
Mr. John Stephens, Alcester

Rev. Thoma;Walier, Abbot's Morton, Worcestershire

Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., Clopton House, Stratford-upon-Avon
W. D. Whitehouse, Esq., Studley, Warwickshire
Rev. George Williams, Martin Hussingtree, near Worcester.
(With power to add to their number.)
ENGINEER.—Francis Giles, Esq.
STANDING CouNsEL—William Monteith, Esq., Paper-buildings.

SOLICITORS.
Netlam Giles, Esq., 4, Vernlam-buildings, London
Thomas Collins, Esq., Warwick
Messrs. Hobbes and Slatter, Stratford-upon-Avon.
BANKERS.

Messrs. Glyn, Hallifax, Mills, and Co., London
Messrs. Greenway and Greaves, Warwick
The Warwick and Leamington Banking Company, Stratford-upon.
Avon

Messrs. Berwick, Lechmere, and Co., Worcester,

This railway is promoted for the purpose of connecting the various
railways projected by the London ad Birmingham Railway Com-
pany with the Welsh Midland and the Worcester, Shrewsbury, and
Crewe Union Railways.
It will commence at Warwick, pass by Stratford-upon-Avon and
Alcester, and terminate at Worcester.
It will unite at Warwick with the branch to that town from the
London and Birmingham Railway, the Warwickshire and London,'
and the London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidderminster Rail-
ways ; at Stratford-upon-Avon with the portion of the Warwickshire
and London Railway which connects that town with Banbury and
the Buckinghamshire Railway; and at Worcester with the Welsh
Midland and the Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union Railways.
It will, in connexion with the Warwickshire and London and the
Buckinghamshire Railways, bring Worcester within 110 miles of
London, and thus establish the shortest route, by 7 miles, between
those cities.

It is proposed to make a branch (three miles in length) from the
main line ner Oddingley to Droitwich, which will place that town,
and the important Salt Works in the neighbourhood, within 110 miles
of London ; a distance 13 miles shorter than the route by the Oxford,
Woreester, and Wolverhampton Railway.
The advantages to be derived from the projected railway are there-
fore evident.

Besides opening a district now entirely destitute of railway ac-
commodation, and bringing the various towns through which the line
will pass into immediate communication with each other ; it will
connect Worcester with Banbury, Buckingham, Aylesbury, North.
ampton, Huntingdon, Canibridge, Leicester, and Coventry on the
one side, and Warwick with Hereford, Monmouth, and Wales on
the other.

The hop districts of Herefordshire and Worcestershire, and the
Droitwich salt works, cannot fhil to be highly benefited by the pro-
jected railway, inasmuch as they will obtain the most direct access
to the great markets of Warwickshire, Buckinghamshire, and the
metropolis.
The numerous railways converging at either end of the projected
line must of necessity establish a traffic amply remunerative upon
the proposed capital.
It is intended to make arrangements with the Warwickshire and
London Railway Company with regard to that portion of the line
which lies between Stratford and Warwick.

The Shareholders in the Warwickshire and London, the Worces-
ter, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union, and the Welsh Midland Rail-
ways, will have a preference in the allotment of the Shares in this
Company.
. . _

Applications for Shares to be addressed to the solicitors, or to the
undermentioned brokers, &c. :—Messrs. Carden and Whitehead,
Threadneedle-street, London ; Mr. James Pearson, Birmingham ;
Messrs. Neilson, Liverpool ; Messrs. Davies and Co., Liverpool ;
Messrs. Brady and Stainforth, 15, Manor-street, Hull ; Messrs.
Wilkinson and Earle, Hull ; Mr. S. Grindrod, Manchester ; Messrs.
Cardwell and Co., Manchester; Messrs. Watson and Co., Leeds;
Messrs. Samuel Hutchinson and Co., Bradford ; Luke Arnold, Bris-
tol; Thomas Sanford, Exeter; Rosert Allan, Edinburgh ; Messrs.
Buchanan-and Aitken, Glasgow; and William Gordon, Aberdeen, of
'Whom plans and prospectuses may be had.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHIRES.

To the Directors of the Warwickshire- and London Extension, and
Worcester Junction Railway. _

Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me shares of 20/. each
in the proposed Warwickshire and London Extension, and Worcester
Junction Railway, and I undertake to pay the deposit, and sign the
necessary deeds.

Dated this

day of

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THE MACCLESFIELD and LICHFIELD, or
CHURNET and BLYTHE JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Being the shortest possible route between London and Manchester,
in connexion with existing Railways.

Provisionally Registered.
Capital, 1,250,0001. in 50,000 shares of 251. each.
Deposit 2/. 12s. 6d. per share.
In compliance with the Standing Order of the House of Lords,
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Right lion. the Earl of Dartmouth, Sandwell Park, Staffordshire
The Right Hon. Lord Bagot, Blithfield Hall, Staffordshire
The Hon. William Bagot, M.P., St. James's-square, London
Sir E. D. Scott, Bart., Great Barr Hall, Staffordshire
H. C. Meynell Ingrain, Esq., Hoarcross Hall, Staffordshire
John Newton Lane, Esq., King's Bromley Manor
William Drury Holden, Esq., Locko Park, Derbyshire
W. C. Townsend, Esq., Recorder of Macclesfield
R. B. Levett, gsq., Milford Hall, Lichfield
Matthew Gaunt, Esq.
.13ighfield House, near Leek
John Sleigh, Esq., Leek
Samuel Phillips, Esq., Leek
Thomas Osborne Bateman, Esq., Chaddesden Moor, Derby, Deputy-
Chairman of the Provisional Committee of the Derby and Crewe
Railway Company
T. Kirkpatrick Hall, Esq., Holly Bush, Staffordshire
Josiah Gaunt, Esq., Horton Hall, near Leek
Thomas George Lomax, Esq., Lichfield
J. L. Warren, Esq., Cvnsall Hall, and the Lodge, Market Drayton
Michael Tumor, Esq., Brereton, Rugeley
Edward Baylis, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park, London.
Charles C. Higgins, Esq., Abbots Bromley
John Towgood, Esq., 64, Chancery-lane, London
James Heygate, Esq., M.D., Derby,. Provisional Director of the
Derby and Crewe Railway Company
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
Robert Ronald, Esq., Provisional Director of the Derby and Crewe
Railway Company
The Rev. James Bostock, Cliffe Park, Staffordshire
Thomas P. Bainbridge, Esq., Provisional Director of the Derby and
Crewe Railway Company
Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Abchurch-lane, London
John Gaunt, Banker, Leek
John Challenor, Gintleman, Overton
Richard Cutting, Gentleman, Leek
Josiah Gaunt, sen.
Hugh Sleigh,
Lilley Ellis„
John Russell,
Samuel Clowes,
Thomas Carr,
John Ward,
James Ridout,
Robert Hammeraley, Silk Dyer, Leek
John Vernon, Cork Manufacturer, Uttoxeter
John Minors, Esq., Parks Cottage, Uttoxeter
Thomas Rowley, Esq., M.D., Lichfield
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 Erttoxeter, 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 direct
line 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•
sand 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
Eastern 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-
mark, that it is even more direct than the Churnet Valley as formerly
projected to Tamworth, and is free from the formidable opposition of
the landed interest, and the engineering difficulties consequent on the
route by Rocester and Marchington. 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 theghurnet
and Blythe Valley districts.

The co-operation of most of the principal landowners, from near
Uttoxeter to near Lichfield, having been obtained, and there being
DO competing lines projected through that district, this portion of the
line may be considered as secure.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—Joseph Locke, Esq., F.R.S.
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co.
_ _

Manchester—The Manchester -and Liverpool District Bank, and

Branches
Lichfield—Messrs. Palmer and Greene
Leek—Messrs. Fowler and Gaunts

Derby—Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company
Uttoxeter—Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashbourne Union Bank
SECRETARY, PEG TEM.—Mr. Challinor, Solicitor, Leek.

Applications for Shares, accompanied by a Banker's or other re-
spectable reference, to be addressed to the Secretary, of whom plans,
prospectuses, and fUrther particulars may be obtained.

N.B. The names of the-Solleitors &e :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.
Gentlemen—l request you to allot me Shares of 251. each,
in the above railway, and I undertake to accept the same or such
less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the regulations
of the Company, and to sign the necessary deeds, and pay the de-
posit thereon of 2/. 12s. 6d. per share when required.
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BUCKINGHAMSHIRE RAILWAY, AND
OXFORD AND WOLVERTON JUNCTION.

Capital 2,250,0001., in Shares of 20/. each.
Deposit 21. 10s. per Share.
Registered Provisionally, pursuant to 7 and 8 Vic., c. 110.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
His Grace the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Y.G.
The Right Hon. Lord Nugent, Lilies, Aylesbuary, Bucks
Sir John Chetwode, Bart., M.P., Chetwode Manor House, Bucks
Sir Thomas Digby Aubrey, Bart., Oving Mouse, Bucks
Sir Harry Verney, Bart., Claydon House, Bucks
Lieutenant-General Sir James Watson, K.C.8., Wendover House,
Bucks
The Hon. Philip Sidney Pierrepont, Evenley Hall, Brackley, North-
amptonshire
Edmund Francis Dayrell, Esq., Lillingstone Dayrell, Bucks, High
Sheriff of Bucks
Charles John Baillie Hamilton, Esq., M.P., Thame Park, Oxfordshire
Rice Richard Clayton, Esq., M.P., Hedgerley Park, Bucks
John Deering, Esq., The Lee, Bucks
George Morgan, Esq„ Biddlesden Park, Bucks
Robert Bullock Marsham, Esq., L.L.D., Caversfield House, Ox-
fordshire
Walter Henry Bracebridge, Esq., Morville House, Warwickshire and
Chetwode Priory, Bucks
John Barnes, Esq., Chorley Wood,-Herts
William Osmond Hammond, Esq., St. Alban's-court, Wingham, Kent
Benjamin Price, Esq., Westbury, Bucks
Colonel John Hall, Life Guards' Barracks, Hyde Park, London
John Newman, Esq., Brand's House, Hughenden, Bucks
Thomas Newland Allen, Esq., The Vache, Chalfont, Bucks
Henry William Beauclerk, Esq., 61, Chester-square, London
Robert Fox, Esq., Wendover Lodge, Bucks
William James Bally, Esq., Shenley House, Bucks
Thomas ?Ands Chapman, Esq., The Park, Aston Clinton, ueks
Robert Marriott Freeman, Esq., Stony Stratford Bucks
George Parrott, Esq., Castle Farm, Buckingham
Captain Edward Dewes, Buckingham
Humphrey Humphreys, Esq., Buckingham
William Stowe, Esq., Buckingham
William Davis, Esq., Bicester, Oxfordshire
Captain William Style, R.N., Bicester, Oxfordshire
John Horwood, Esq., Steane Park, Brackley, Northamptonshire
John Henry Butterfield, Esq., Brackley
William King Malins, Esq., Erackley
Alfred Hoperaft, Esq., Brackley
Charles Tawney, Esq., Oxford
Richard Wootton, jun. Esq., Oxford
Jonathan Samuel Browning, Esq., Oxford
Henry William Tancred, Esq., M.P., London
Timothy Rhodes Cobb, Esq., Banbury, Oxon
Zacharia Daniel Huat, Esq., Aylesbury, Bucks
Joseph Ashby Gillett, Esq., Banbury, Oxon
George Carr Glynn, Esq., London
Joseph Frederick Ledsam, Esq., Birmingham
Edward Cropper, Esq., Liverpool
Thomas Smith, Esq., Reigate Lodge, Surrey
Thomas Young, Esq., Albany, London
Ross Donelly Mangles, Esq., M.P., London
Captain Constantine Richard Moorsom,
Birmingham
Robert Benson, jun., Esq., Fairfield, Manchester
Edw. Wm. Selby Lowndes, EN., Winslow, Bucks
With power to add to their number.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Sir Harry Verney, Bart. G. C. Glyn, Esq
The Hon. P. S. H. Pierrepont J. F. Ledsam, Esq
E. F. Dayrell, Esq. Edward Cropper, Esq
Z. D. Hunt, Esq. Thomas Smith, Esq.
Captain Edward Dewes Captain C. R. Moorsom, R.N.
Humphrey Humphreys, Esq. Robert Benson, jun., Esq.
J. R. Cobb, EN. Thomas Young, EN.
Jon. Samuel Browning, Esq. Ross D. Mangles, Esq., M.P.

Directors
of the
London
and
Birmingham
Railway

With power to add to their number.
Exomera—Robert Stephenson, Esq.
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Glyn, Hallifax, Mills, and Co., Lombard-street.
Aylesbury—Messrs. Bickford and Hunt ; the London & County Bank
Buckinghana—Messrs. Bartlett, Parrott, and Hearn ; the London and
County Bank
Banbury—Messrs. Cobb and Co. ; Messrs. Gillett and Tawney
Oxford—Messrs. Wootton and Co. ; the London and County Bank
Bicester—Messrs. Tubb.

rpHE MIDLAND and EASTERN COUNTIES
E. RAILWAY, from CAMBRIDGE, by NORTHAMPTON to
WORCESTER.

(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Viet., cap. 110.)
Capital 1,500,000/., in Shares of 25/. each.
Deposit IL 7s. (Id. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Alington, 11ev. John, Little Barford, Bedfordshire, and Letchworth,
Hertfordshire
Booth, Williamson, Esq., Woodbury Hall, Cambridgeshire
Banbury, G. It., Esq., Leamington, a Director of the Warwick and
Cheltenham Railway
Burman, William, Esq., Stratford-upon-Avon
Carrington, John, Esq., St. Neots
Cochrane, Hon. Horatio William Bernardo, Little Stoughton
Cottle, J. M., Esq„ Leamington,7 Directors of the Warwick and
Curtis, J. E. B. Esq., London, j Cheltenham Railway
Esti-, The Newarke, Leicester
Di)tta3hb,sioThhnornalls:AlN,:milli St., Neots
Day, Thomas, Esq., Wornditch, near Khnholton
Eilgood, Thomas, Esq., St. Neots
Falconer, Robert; Esq., Gold ington hall, Bedfordshire
Gee, William, Esq., Bishop Stortford, Hertfordshire
Hewlett, Thomas Bernard, Esq., Northampton, a Director of the
South Midland Railway
Humbley, Captain, Waterloo Cottage, Eynetibury, near St. Neot s
Lauga, T. F. J., Esq., Brighton
Norris, Rev. Frederick, Little Gransden
01:slow, Denzil!, Esq., Staughton House, near St. Neots
Page, Captain, Charlton House, Somerton, a Director of the Warwick
and Cheltenham Railway
Parker, Francis, Esq., Albion-place, Northampton, a Director of the
South Midland Railway
Simpson, Richard 11., Esq., Long Stow Hall, Cambridgeshire
St. John, the Right Hon. Lord, Melchbourne Park, Bedfordshire
SEmey, George Deane, Esq., Offord Cluney, Huntingdonshire
Webb, Dr., Master of Clare Hall, Cambridge
Webb, Theodore Vincent, Esq., Great Gransden, Huntingdonshire
Welstead, Benjamin, Esq., Kimbolton
Welstead, M., Esq., Stoseeley Hall, Kimboiton

(With power to add to their number.)
BANKERS—Messrs. Glyn, Ilallifax, Mills, and Co., London,
SOLICITORS.

John Chinery, Esq., Leamington, and 3, Church-court, Old Jewry,
London.
Messrs. Day, St. Neots
Messrs. Harris and Sumpter, Cambridge
Messrs. Umbers and Sowdon, Stratford-upon-Avon
Charles Jones, Esq., Alcester.
No further Applications for Shares in this Railway will be received
after Tuesday Next, the 26th of August instant, except from Land-
owners, or parties living in the country, or locally interested, who
must apply on or before Saturday, the 30th instant.

.
In the meantime applications for prospectuses and shares may be
made to the Solicitors, or to the following Sharebrokers, viz.:—
Messrs. P. W. Thomas and Son, 50, Threadneedle-street, London ;
Forsyth and Pritchard, or T. Crewdson, Liverpool; Johnstone and
Bradley, or S. W. Graves, Manchester ; E. Wilson, or W. Collis, Bir-
mingham ; White and Son, Leamington ; George Edwards and Son, or
Luke Arnold, Bristol; W. Lee, or Hall Brothers and Co., Chelten-
ham ; Kirk and Co., or Scott and Co., Leeds ; John Doy, or Flint
awl Tootal, Hull ; Eaglestleld, Leicester; Freeman and Son,
Northampton ; John Langworthy, Exeter ; Wm. Bolton, Stratford-
upon-Avon; Wm. Miles, Worcester; Hugh Munro and Co., Edin-
burgh; George Brown, Glasgow; Bruce and Symes, Dublin; Brown
and Clark, Coventry ; and Peet and Son, Nottingham.

THE DERBYSHIRE, STAFFORDSHIRE,
and WORCESTERSHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 600,0001., in 30,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Right Honourable the Earl of Shrewsbury, Alton Towers,
Staffordshire
Sir William Young, Bart., East India Director, Westbourne-street,
Hyde Park-gardens
Allen, Mr. Sergeant, Serjeant's-inn, London
Arnold, Henry, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of Remington's London
and Manchester Railway
Askey, John, Esq.. Shelton, Staffordshire Potteries
Blackburn, Rev. F. T., M.A., Cannock
Bladen and Nash, Messrs., Rugeley
Blood, John Thaynes, Esq., High Sheriff of Lichfield
Blurton, Robert, Esq., Banker, Smallwood Manor, near Uttoxeter
Croft, Major J. T., Regent-street, London, Deputy Chairman of the
Chester and Manchester Railway
Crossley, John; Esq., Uttoxeter
Cox, George, Esq., Wolverhampton
Cartwright, Talbot, Esq., Wolverhampton
Cheshire, T., Esq., Rugeley
Crockett, T., Esq., Cannock.
Collis, Rev. W. 8., M.A., Cannock
Dimmock and Thompson, Messrs., iron merchants, BiMon. Stafford-
shire
Dixon, John, Esq., Ironworks, Rough Hills, near Wolverhampton
Earp, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter
Fellowes, Isaac, Esq., Wolverhampton
Greensrnith, J., Esq., Rugeley

• .
Gutch, John Matthew, Esq., Banker, Worcester
Hadfield Thomas, Esq., Rugeley
Hainek, Samuel, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Pdrmingliam
Railway, Chad House, Edgbaston
Harwood, William, Esq.
HoWont, John, Esq., Manchester, Director of Remington's London
and Manchester Railway
Johnson, D. T., Esq., Director of the Chester and Manchester Rail-
way, Aldennary-churchyard
Johnson, Richard William, Esq., Director of Remington's London
and Manchester Railway, Moo gate, London
Jones, Rev. J. I'., Alton Vicarage, Alton, Staffordshire
Keene. John Joseph, Esq., Director of the National Bank of Ireland,
St. John's-wood, Regent's-park
King, William, Esq., Director of the Freemasons' Life Assnrance,
Waterloo-place
Knight, Edward, Esq., M.D., Stafford
Lawrence, Richard Corbett, Esq., Wandflekl Hall, Uttoxeter
Langley, Henry, Esq., Rakeway House, Cheadle
Lassetter, Richard, Esq., Uttoxeter
Lowe, Richard, Esq., Cheadle
Lea, John Wheeley, Esq., Worcester, Vice-Chairman of the Severn
Commission
Lee, Thomas, Esq., Wolverhampton
Meteyard, Horace Win., Esq., Director of Remington's London and
Manchester Railway, Temple, and Chatham-place
M`Mahon, Daniel, Esq., Wolverhampton
Manors, John, Esq., Rugeley
Mallar, D. James, Esq., Rugeley
Minors, John, Esq., Eaton Dovedale, Derbyshire
Mathew, John Mee, Esq., Assistant Tithe Commissioner
Milner, William, Esq., Tean, Staffordshire
Orton,
jamesEsq., Woodford, near Uttoxeter
I't ilteDouglas Kinnaird, Captain, Director of the Nottingham
and Roston Railway, Parlament-street, London
Phillips, William,'Esq., Springfield House, Uttoxeter
,BR"oteamrti,nE Esq., Wednesbury
Esq., Scropton, Derbyshire
Alton, Staffordshire
Smith, Thomas, T•
Blore Hall, Ashbourn
Smith, William, Esq., Sedsall, Derbyshire
Smith, William,
Charles, 1.
Req., Clifton, Derbyshire, Director of the Tean and
Smyth, John Vere
Round,ssihniviptotlio,ne Valley
Railway
Kensington, Middlesex
Spires, E. J., Esq., Canton Villas, London
Chester and Manchester Railway
S
15, t. James's-square, Tyler, George, Esq., Holloway-place, London
'Waller, Major James, K.ll.
Esq., Uttoxeter -square, Director of the
Woolrich, Thomas,
Esq., Uttoxeter
harolmitsEsq., Tean, Staffordshire
Charles,
Walker, Thomas, Esq., Wolverhampton
Walker, Josh., Esq., Wolverhampton
ZstnCm
,

and Co., Clements's-lane, London
BANKERS.
The Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashbourne Union Bank, Uttoxeter
,
The
Rogers,t ing
heßuron,U tt°oxideter, and Ashbourne Union Bank, Ashbourne
The National Provincial Bank of England, Rugeley
The National Provincial Bank of England, Lichfield

John Owens, Esq., 35,
SOLICITORS.
William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttoxeter.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Bolton, Thomas, Esq.,
Amishaw, J. Esq., Rugeley
Moorgate-street, London
James J. Green, Esq.,
Bolton, John, Esq., Dudley
Egginton, A ,
"Sq., Lichfield
Wolverhampton
Walsall
ENGINEERS.
Sir John Rennie -
G. Remington, Esq., C.E.
The line of Railway proposed between Uttoxeter and Dudley has
been undertaken at the suggestion of several influential parties, as
combining (without being a competing line with any railway at pre-
sent made) all the advantages of several projected lines, with addi-
tions of no ordinary value. The town of Uttoxeter, in the Dove Val-
ley, is itself the centre of a rich agricultural district, supplying al-
ready the markets of Dudley, Tipton, Walsall, Bilstm, and Wednes-
bury, with cheese, cattle, and agricultural produce, but by a very
expensive and dilatory mode of transit. All the proposed lines
communicating with Manchester, London, and the Potteries,
must necessarily pass to or near Uttoxeter. Already the Chur-
net Valley, Derby and Stafford, Derby and Crewe, Tean,
and Dove Valley, North Staffordshire, Manchester Direct Inde-
pendent, Leicester and Ashby lines of railway, project a station at
Uttoxeter. Assuming either of these former, or some equivalent, to
pass this will be the best route from Manchester, Macclesfield, the
Potteries, Htill, Sheffield, and the north to the mineral districts of
South Staffordshire, and to Kidderminster, Worcester, and South
Wales. By the Leicester and Ashby line, which will communicate
by its branch to Uttoxeter, traffic of great part of the east of
England will be available for Staffordshire and the west.
Commencing at Uttoxeter, the line will be carried over
favourable ground to Abbott's Bromley, thence to Rugeley, where
it will fall into the Trent Valley Railway Station, by Channock
Chase, along the Rising Brok Valley, to Hednesford, and thence by
Walsall across the Grand Junction Railway, through Wednesbury
and the mineral districts of South Staffordshire to Dudley ; there it
will join all those railways that will connect the Staffordshire coal-
field with Worcester, Ludlow, and Porthdynllaen on the south-west,
Aberystwith, Merthyr Tydfil, Swansea, Hereford, on the west and
south. In fact, it will unite by the nearest route the east and west
of England.

The line will fall into and cross the Trent Valley, Midlands, and
Grand Junction Railway at Walsall, and.from Cannock afford direct
communication with Wolverhampton (where it will run into the
broad gauge railway) from. Leeds, and Huddersfield, and the north
and east of England.
The population on the line exceeds 300,000, and the ordinary traffic
arising from internal sources alone is sufficient to maintain the rail-
way, and afford more than ample remuneration to the shareholders.
passenger traffic, but it must necessarily be very great.
As a junction line (with the present immensely increasing public
favour to railway travelling) it is scarcely possible to compute the
amsionuenet
thiso line
was registered, a company has been formed for ex-
tending it by a junction at Uttoxeter, to Huddersfield, Leeds, and
Sheffield, by way of Ashbourn, and by this means immense mines of
lead, iron, stone, and coal of Derbyshire, the products of the paint
manufactories and barytes works at Ashbourne, Cromford, &c., will
be opened, and with those already in work, find a ready transit to
Walsall
attracted by ready means of conveyance to the
romantic country of Dovedale, and the High Peak, will be necessarily
very great.
The copper, ore, lime,
cofapnasdse Birmingham,nge rs, Dudley, and Wolverhampton. The in-
re
and coal, abounding in the Caldon and the
Ribden mines, will be transmitted by this line to the manufacturing
districts of Staffordshire, Warwickshire, and South Wales, and it will
afford a direct communication between Leeds, Huddersfield, and
Southampton, and it will also be the nearest route to Southampton
from Manchester, via Uttoxter,
by the London and Manchester
Direct Independent Line, or whatever railway should ultimately
pass between Manchester and London, as forming the shortest route
to the metropolis, a line which, it is now admitted on all hands, must
be carried.
This Company reserves the right to raise additional capital to com-
plete the line from Dudley to pr near the Droitwich station, on the
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway.
Applications for shares and every information to be made to
William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttoxeter ; and John Owens,
Esq., 35, Moorgate-street, London ; and of the following share-
brokers :—Messrs. Preece and Evans, 39, Lothbury ; Mr. Miles,
Worcester ; Mr. Thomas henry Wheeler, Worcester ; Messrs.
Townley and Whitehead, Liverpool ; Messrs. Cameron and Com-
pany, Liverpool ; Mr. Morris Reynolds, Liverpool ; Mr. Richard
E. Hine, Macclesfield; Mr. James Jamieson, Leeds; Messrs. Well-
beloved and Oastler, Leeds ; Mr. Frederick Stamp, Hull ;
Mr. Thomas Boardman, Blackburn ; Mr. George Clark, Brad-
ford ; Mr. William 'Mason, Bradford ; Mr. William Cronheim,
Halifax ; Mr. Charles Spencer, Nottingham ; Messrs. Eyre and
Joseph Clark,
Mr. James Stokes, Cheltenham; Mr.
Wakefield;yk; Messrs. Grayston and Erie, York; Mr. E. H.
jun., Southampton ; Messrs. Tate and Nash,
Bristol; Messrs. Beaumont and Langworthy, Exeter; Mr.
Thomas Sanford, Exeter ; Mr. J. S. Holland, Coventry ;
Messrs. Houghland and Leese, Manchester; Messrs. Cardwell and
Sons, Manchester; Messrs. A. Birchall and Co., Manchester;
Messrs. T. N. Bardwell and Sons, Sheffield ; Mr. W. 11. Collis, Bir-
mingham; Mr. L. Wetherburn, jun., Huddersfield; Messrs. Everard
and Co., Huddersfield ; Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester; Mr.
Nicolson, Edinburgh ; Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Glasgow ;
Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, College-green, Dublin.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire,
Oxfordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway.
Gentlemen,-1 requeat you to allot me Shares, of 20/. each
in the above railway, and I undertake to accept the same, or such
less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the regulations
of the Company; and to sign the necessary deeds, and to pay, when
required, the deposit thereon of 2/. 2s. per share.
Dated this day of . 184
Name in full
Profession and professional residence in full
Residence in fu11........
Reference ..........

WF AKEIELD, PONTEFRACT, and GOOLE

• FURTHER. EXTENSION.
The Directors of this Railway beg to announce that in addition to
the proposed junction with the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Railway
already advertised, they have determined, in accordance with the
directions of Parliament, to apply, in the next session, Mr powers to
construct a branch from their main line at Pontefract, to join the
York and North Midland and Midland Railways, near Altolls, or
Methley, so as to give the shortest and most direct line of Rail-
way from Goole and Pontefract to Leeds, as well as Wake-
field, and the whole of the West Riding, and also to continue such
branch In a southerly direction from their main line, at or near Pon-
ta' act, to join the main trunk of the London alai York Railway near
Askern, and thus form the shortest line of communication from
Leeds to London, as well as the ports of Grimsby, Gainsborough, and
Boston, and the whole of the eastern counties of England.
The Intended Branch will pass through the extensive and valuable
Lime-fields of Womersley, and has the cordial support .of the land-
owners and locally interested parties.
LEEMAN and CLARK, York }
' MICHAEL MITTON, Pontefract, Solicitors.

CHESTER and MANCHESTER DIRECT
RAILWAY.
With a Branch to Birkenhead.
(Provisionally Registered).
Capital 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. cash.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.

Colonel the Hon. LEICESTER STANHOPE, Ashburnharn House,
London, Chairman
Major JOHN T. CROFT, Regent-street, London, Deputy Chairman
David Ainsworth, Esq., Manchester
Samuel Barton, Esq., Didsbury, Manchester
Hugh Beaver, Esq., Manchester, and Glyn Garth, Anglesey
John Burgess, Esq., Boroughreeve vf Maxchester
James Farish, Esq., Lancaster-place, London
Major Ford, of Bodlondet, Carnarvonshire
Lieut.-Colonel Henry Ilanmer, Bear-place, Berks, and 7, Devon-
shire-place, London '
Fraser B. Henshaw, Esq., Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square,
London, a Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle
Junction Railway
Captain Sir John R. 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., Aldermary Churchyard, London
John Joseph Keene, Esq., 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 Living, 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
Railway
James Orrell, Esq., Culcheth Hall, Kenyon
James Ogden, Esq.' M.D., Manchester
David Price, Esq., Manchester

Major James Wilier, K.H. St. James's-square
C. J. S. Walker, Esq., Longford, near Manchester
Sir George William Prescott, Bart., of Theobalds, Herts.
(With power to add to their number.)
ENGINEERS.
Sir John Rennie, F.R.S.
George Remington, Esq., C.E.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., London
National Provincial Bank of England, Manchester
SOLICITORS. _ _
__

London—Messrs. Sir George Stephen and Hutchinson, 29, Moorgate-
street.
Manchester—Messrs. Higson and Robinson, Cross-street R. B. B.
Cobbett, Esq., Marsden-street.
LOCAL AGENT.
Chester—John Walker, Esq.

The promoters 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, have 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 conflicting 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 Lymm and Stretford direct to Manchester. From a point on the
main line, near Frodsham, 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 route, by Holyhead, to Ireland,
and will be, in all respects, by far the preferable channel of inter-
course and transit between Ireland and the great manufactwing dis-
tricts of England. ily 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 willbe 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 34 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 be the precursor of
another scheme, of no ordi►ary importance—namely, to render
Chester an efficient port for large vessels.

This subject was entertained by Sir John Rennie in 1835, and sub-
sequently, in the same year, by the late Mr. Chapman, who wrote an
able report upon the capabilities of the river Dee. It was again
investigated, 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 Chestsr, 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 eight hours every tide, both at springs and neaps; and the
cill 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 combine the two objects in one 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 for
this railway, whether taken in connexion with the proposed docks,
or as standing alone, combining as it does all the advantages of any
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 careffilly examined. There are no difficult
earth-works to be encountered ; on the contrary it will be cheap,
and of easy formation. Power is reserved to the Committee to de.
viate from the proposed line in the vicinity of Manchester, 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-
brokers:—Messrs. Shewell and Son, 25,Tokenhouse-yard ; Messrs.
Preece and Evans, 8, Cornhill ; and Messrs. Taunton and Bush, 26,
Austin-friars. London; Messrs. Houghland and Leese, Mr. Locke,
Messrs. A. Birchall and Co., Thomas Leeds and Son, Henry Benton,
J. B. Lock, and Samuel Slater, Manchester ; Messrs. Neilsons,
Messrs. Healey, Mr. Crisp, and Mr. Morris Reynolds, Liver-
pool ; Messrs. T. N. Bardwell and Sons, Sheffield; Messrs.
Weilbeloved and Oastler, Leeds ; Mr. E, A. Armitage, Wake-
field ; Messrs. Grayston and Earle, York ; Mr. Thomas Board-
man, Blackburn ; Mr. W. H. Collis, Birmingham ; Mr. Francis
Stamp, Hull ; Mr. L. Weatherburn, Huddersfield ; Mr. Wm.
Cronheins, Halifax ; Mr. Charles Spencer, Nottingham ; Mr.
Samuel Eyre, Derby ; Mr. James Stokes, Cheltenham ; Mr. Joseph
Clark, jun., Southampton ; Mr. John Thomas Holland, Coventry;
Mr. William Mason, Bradford, Yorkshire ; Messrs. Payne and Freer,
Leicester ; Mr. Wm. Tomkinson, Newcastle-under-Lyne ; Mr.
Richard E. Hine, Macclesfield ; Mr. Lea, Cheltenham ; Messrs.
Tate and Nash, Bristol ; Mr. William Miles, Worcester ; Messrs.
Read and Nicholson, Edinburgh; Messrs. Ross, Perth, N. 8.; and
Messrs. H. and W. A. Tassie, Glasgow.
Applications for shares must be accompanied by a reference to the
Solicitors of the Company, the sharebrokers, or some other respon-
sib!e person.

C HESTER and MANCHESTER DIRECT
RAILWAY.
At a meeting of the Committee of Management of this under-
taking, held this day, it was resolved that, in order to comply with
the standing orders of the House of Lords, as recently altered, it is
expedient to reduce the amount of each share to 201., and to extend
the number to 50,000, and that the deposit required be 21. 2s. 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 be extended to the 28th instant for the
London applications, and to the 30th instant for country applications.
By order,
29, Moorgate-street, August 14, 1845.

A. BARRETT, Seeretary.

O
NTARIO and HURON JUNCTION
RAILWAY.
The applications for Shares in this Company have been transferred
to the City of Toronto and Lake Huron Railroad Company. A selec-
tion will be made from the applicants to the former Company, who
will receive a communication, giving them the opportunity of be-
coming subscribers in the latter, upon the terms of its prospectus.
NV. T. SMITH, Secretary.

PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED

CITY of TORONTO and LAKE HURON
RAILWAY, WESTERN CANADA.
Length 120 miles.

Capital 500,0001., in 10,000 Shares of 501. each, a reserve of which,
not exceeding 2,060 Shares, will be made for the Colony.
Deposit 58. per Share, as limited by the Registration Act, 7th and Bth
Vic., ch. 110.
DIRECTORS.

Charles Franks, Esq., Governor of the Canada Company, Chairman,

73, Lombard-street
Pierce Somerset Butler, Esq., M.P., Director of the Waterford and
Ki.kenny Railway Company, Queen's-square, Westminster
H. H. Berens, Esq., of the Hudson's Bay Company
John Easthepe, Esq., Lothbury
Frederick Charles (Janssen, Esq., Harcourt:buildings, Temple
Francis Lloyd, Esq., Crown Office-row, Temple
Francis H. Mitchell, Esq., Director of the Canada Company, Mine-

. ,
ing-lane
Edward Scard, Esq., Kew Green
Alexander Stewart, Esq., Director of the Canada Company, Winches-
ter House, Broad-street
W. Wilson, Esq., Director of the Canada Company, Mincing-lane

TRUSTEES.
Robert Biddulph, Esq., Charing-cross
Charles Franks, Esq., Lombard-street
TZEABURIR—James Whatman. Bosanquet, Esq., 73, Lombard-street.

AUDITORS.
Richard Swede Cummins, Esq , Abchurch--lane.
Richard Lloyd, Esq., GO, Lombard-street.
Alexander Sim, Esq., Great St. Helens.
SOLICITOR IN ENGLAND—WiIIiam Sim, Esq., 8, King's-bench Walk,
Temple.
COUNSEL AND SOLICITOR IN CANADA—JOIM W. Gwynn, Esq.,
Toronto.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Bosanquet, Franks, and Co., Lombard-street.
Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., Charing-cross.
SEcnrrAay—William Thomas Smith, Esq.
_

This undertaking is for the purpose of uniting the Lakes Ontario
and Huron, thereby making a saving of upwards of 300 miles on the
route to the western parts of North America; for securing the traf-
fic to which, the proposed line offers great advantages for the in-
vestment of capital, and from which a large return may he confi-
dently expected. _

Prospectuses, giving 11111 particulars of the proposed railway, can
be obtained by applying to the Secretary, at No. 13, St. Wien's-
place, Bishopsgate-street, and to whom all applications for shares
must be addressed until the 20th instant, after which the allotment
wtll be immediately proceeded with.

W. T. SMITH, Secretary.

Provisionally Registered.
WILTS, SOMERSET, ANDASOUTHAMP-
Connecting the English with the Bristol Channel, and forming a
complete communication, on the broad gauge, between Southampton,
Salisbury, bath, Bristol, and every other town in the West of Eng-
land and South Wales.

Bankers' Receipts may now be exchanged for Script Certificate, and
the Deed now lies for Signature at the Company's Office.
H. B. !SHERIDAN, secretary.
26, Gresham-street, London, Aug. 20, 1845.

THE THAN AND DOVE VALLEY AND
EASTERN AND WESTERN JUNCTION RAILWAY.
The Committee beg to announce that the LETTERS of ALLOT-
3IENT have been this day POSTED. They beg also to express
their regret at having been compelled to reject the claims of thou-
sands of Applicants of undoubted respectability, and to curtail, in
almost every Instance, the claims of thoSe parties whew applications
were entertained. This course of proceeding was rendered unavoid-
able by the unprecedented number of applications which had been
received. Ity order,
JOSEPII RICHARDSON, Secretary pro tern.
°Mee of the Company, High-street, Burton-on-Trent,
• 19th August, 1845.

LONDON, HOUNSLOW, and WESTERN
RAILWAY.
Capital X 700,000 in 28,000 Shares of £25 each.
Deposit Li 7s. 641. per Share.
No Shareholder will be liable beyond the amount of the Shares •Thi,
scribed for by 1 im.
(Provisionally Registered.]
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
John Brightman, Esq., Regency-square, Brighton
Captain W. G. Beare, Perchester place
Charles Buswell, Esq., Clewer, Windsor
Captain J. E. Carnegie, Somerset-street, Portman-square, and Bower
Hall, near Inverness
A. W. Clarke, Esq., Queen-street, Cheapside
W. 11. Cooke, Esq., Temple
Francis Chambers, Esq., St. Dunstan's-hill
Henry Chaytor, Esq., Clervaux Castle, Yorkshire
Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Copthall-court, and Old Kew Palace
11. C. Duppa, Esq., Quarry House, Boughton, Kent
George Faith, Esq., Mincing-lime
R. A. Frogley, Esq., Hounslow
Henry Plumptre Gipps, Esq., Montague-place, Bryanston-square
Captain Hodges, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park
F. J. Hall, Esq., Torrington-square
Joseph Henry, Esq., South-street, Finsbury
• George Lewis Hollingsworth, Esq., Winchester House, Broad-street,
and Reigate
William Iloseason, Esq., Brompton
Frederick Jones, Esq., Old-square, Lincoln's Jim
Joseph Knight, Esq., Leicester
John Maclean Lee, Esq., Esher, Surrey
Arthur Mann, Esq., Woburn square
R. C. Polhill, Esq., lifompton
Henry Penny, Esq., 111, Piccadilly
The Rev. D. Robinson, Brompton-row
Thomas Robinson, Esq., Charles-street, Middlesex Hospital
Thomas Stephenson, Esq., Upper Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-
square
George Thomas, Esq., Winchester House, Broad-street
Joseph Thompson, Esq , John-street, Bedford-row
With power to add to their number.
CHIEF ENGINEER—Captain W. S. Moorsom, R.E. and C.E.
ACTING ENGINEER —Sandlibrth F. Griffin, Esq., C.E.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Harrison, 5, Walbrook
S. I'. Hook, Esq., 11, Tokenhouse-yard, Lothhury.
BANKERS—The Commercial Bank of London.
Detailed Prospectuses with statement of Traffic, (which is esti-
mated on the lowest calculation to yield upwards of 12 per cent. on
the capital), Maps of the Line, and Forms of Application for Shares,
may be obtained at the Company's Offices, 7, Walbrook, of the
Solicitors, Messrs. T. and D. Harrison, and S. P. Hook, Esq. ; or
of the Sharebrokers, J. H. Golding, Esq., 10, Warnford-court ;
Messrs. Taunton and Bush, 20, Austin-friars ; and Messrs. Shewell,
Tokenhouse-yard, London ; Mr. John Duneuft, and Mr. John O'Neil,
Manchester ; Messrs. W. Reynolds and Son, Liverpool ; Messrs. Col-
lett and Brown, Leeds ; Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol ; Mr. James
Pearson, Birmingham ; Messrs. Elgood mid Harris, Leicester ;
Messrs. Samuel Hutchinson and Co., Bradford ; Mr. William Miles,
Worcester; Mr. Pringle, Edinburgh; Mr. William Gordon,
Aberdeen ; Mr. Andrew Brand, Glasgow ; and :Messrs. Bruce and
.Symes, Dublin.

T. S. BROWN, Secretary pro. tern.
London, Hounslow, and Western Railway Offices, 7, Walbrook.
FORM OF A PPLIcATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the London, Hounslow, and
Western Railway. -
Gentlemen—l request you will allot to me Shares of 25/. each
in this Company, and I undertake to accept the same and to pay the
deposit thereon, or upon any lesser number that may be allotted to
me, such payment to be made within the time limited and prescribed
by you, and I undertake to execute the agree nent and Parliamentary
contract when required.

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THE- OXFORD, SOUTHAMPTON, GOS-
PORT, AND PORTSMOUTH RAILWAY.
Carital 500,0001., in 25,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The lion. Howe Browne, Chairman of the Manchester and Bir-
mingham Continuation Railway
Sir John Campbell,
Sir John Pirie, Alderman, • Directors of the Peninsular and
Pedro de Zulueta, Esq., Oriental Steam Packet Company
B. M. Wilcox, Esq.,
' Sir William Wynn, Chairman of the North Wales Railway
William Hughes Hughes, Esq., Alderman of the City of London, lat e
M.P. for Oxford, and late High Sher ff of Hants
Joins Humphery, Esq., Alderman of the City of London, and M.P. for
the Borough of Southwark
George Adam, Esq., White Lion-court, Cornhill
W. P. Andrew, Esq., Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square, Director
of the South 31:diand Railway
James Henry Attwood, Esq., Seymour-street, Portland-square
Charles Baker, Esq., Southampton
Samuel Bovin, Esq., Southampton
James Beech, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place
James Bramwell, Esq., Upper Thames. street
W. C. lioyes, Esq., Banbury, Director of the Birmin,Viain and Oxford
Railway
William Bland, Esq., Director of the North Wales Ra.lwav
Robert Bramwell, Esq.. Bryinbo iron works, North Wales
C. It. Colman, Esq., Irongate-wharf and General Steam Navigation
Company, Director of maith Midland Railway 4
Robert Chapman, Esq., Drury-lane
William Chadwick, Esq., Chairman of the Richmond Railway
John Churchill. Esq., Bayswater, Director of the Manchester and
Birmingham Continuation Railway
George Dawson, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Midland
Junction Railway
Captain Farrington, R.N., West'Cowes, Isle of Wight
William Henry Forman, Esq., Upper Thames-street
W. S. Fitzwilliam, Esq., Old Broad-street, Director of the Essex and
Suffolk and South Midland Railways
Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds
James Haines, Esq. Chad House, Edgbaston, Director of the Man-
chester and Birmingham Continuation Railway
William Jacomb, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the East and West
of England Railway
J. Kinloch, Esq., Gloucester-road, Hyde-park, Director of the North
Edward Lomer, Esq., Southampton
Wales and Newry and Enniskillen Railway
George Parbury, Esq., Director of the East and West of England
Railway
William Watson Poole, Esq., Director of the Jersey Railway
William Lanley Pope, Esq., Birchin-lane and Woodford, Director of
the Falmouth and Exeter Railway
William Simpson Potter, Esq.' Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park
James Renshaw, Esq., White Hart-court, Lombard-street, and West
Heath House, Erith, Kent, Director of the South Staffordshire
and Leicester Railway
Clement Royds, Esq., Rochdale
Major Selwyn, Director of the East and West of England Junction
Railway
Walter Shairp, Esq., • Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, and Austin-friars,
Director of the Cobra Mining Company
Benjamin Shaw, Esq., Kilburn Priory, Director of the Dublin and
Kilkenny Railway
T. Bridge Simpson, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Richmond Railway
Samuel Swami Brittain, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Midland Junction, and East and West of England
Junction Railways
Joseph Thompson, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton Railway
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Director of the Commercial Bank of London
Thomas Varley, Esq., Edgerton House, near Huddersfield
Robert Watkins, Esq-, Director of the East and West of England
Railway
Edward Westlake, Esq., Southampton
With power to add to their number.
LoCAL Aortas AT SOUTHAMPTON—Messrs. Sharp and Harrison.
SECRETARY—John Dunlop, ESQ.
The daily increasing export trade of the port of Southampton, and
the great facilities afforded to the shipping interest by the completion
of the docks, requires that a more direct communication should be
made to it from the manufacturing districts, and from the north of
England and Scotland.
The passing of the Oxford and Rugby, and Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton Acts this session, has afforded the facilities of effect-
ing the communication at very little cost.
By making the railway now proposed to be constructed by this
Company, from Dideot, on the Great Western Railway, where
the Oxford Line terminates, through Newbury, to the Southamp-
ton and Gosport Railway, near to the Winchtield station, a distance
of only thirty miles, the most direct and the shortest commu-
nication will be formed from Southampton, by the Oxford and Rugby
Railway to Rugby, and thence by the Midland to York and Scotland;
and also from Rugby by the Trent Valley Railway to Manchester,
and by the Oxford and Birmingham Line to Birmingham and Liver-
pool, and by the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, to Chelten-
ham, Worcester, Wolverhampton, North Wales, and Birkenhead.
An examination of the map will show that it is only necessary to
make this very short line to effect a direct railway communication
from Scotland, York, Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham, to
Southampton, Gosport, Portsmouth, and the Isle of Wight.
The evidence lately given before Parliament proves the very large
trade that there now is from Southampton. All the steamers from
England to Jersey and the Channel Islands, to Portugal, Gibraltar,
the Mediterranean, Malta, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, and the
East Indies, depart from and arrive at Southampton. Also, it is the
most direct and shortest course to Paris, through Havre. Large
quantities of fruit, from Greece, Turkey, the Azore Islands, Portugal,
the East and West Indies and Mexico, are brought to Southampton,
which would be carried into the centre of England by this railway,
and also the fish from Devonshire and Cornwall, all of which would,
by this railway, have a quick and easy transit to Oxford, Birming-
ham, and the manufacturing districts.
The local traffic now existing from these districts, and Birming-
ham, Worcester, Cheltenham, and Oxford to Southampton, Ports.
mouth, and the Isle of Wight, is very groat, and is daily increasing.
Applications for detailed prospectus, maps, and shares, may be
made to the Secretary, at the office, 78, Ring William-street, City,
London; and the following Sharebrokers :—Messrs. It. Sutton,
Gribble and Sutton, 22, north side Royal Exchange ; Messrs.
Houghland and Leese, No. 51, King-street, Manchester; John
Wills, Esq., Royal Bank-buildings, Liverpool ; Messrs. Weilbeloved
and Oastler ;Leeds ; Messrs. Edwards and Son, and W. H. Land,
Esq., Bristol ; J. R. Lane, Esq., Birmingham ; Messrs. Garton and
Wright, Sheffield ; J. G. Kershaw, Esq., Huddersfield ; F. C. Spen-
cer, Esq., Halifax ; Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham :
Henry Beaumont and Co.. Exeter ; R. P. Lemon, Esq.. Bath and
and George Dunlop, Esq., Southampton.

CALLAO and LIMA and PACIFIC COAST
RAILWAY COMPANY.
Capiral 250,0001., in 25,000 Shares of 101. each.
Deposit 11. to be returned in full if the objects of the Company, which
are detailed in the Prospectus, be not carried out.
DIRECTORS.
Sir William De Bathe, 29, Portman-square
Sir George Riches, 43, Lowndes-strcet
Thomas Claude Hamilton, Esq., 20, Chester-square
William Richardson, Eaq., 6, Charlotte-street, Bedford-square
Robert Passenger, Esq., Union-street, Southwark
jeorge Augustus Brown, Esq., 20, Gower-street, Redford-square
With power to add to their number.
RANKERS.
The London Joint Stock Bank, London
the Liverpool Borough Bank, Liverpool
SoLicrroa —W. Bevan, Esq., Old Jewry,
SECRETARY (pro tern.)—Mr. George Upton.
It is proposed, in the first instance, to make a railway from Callao,
the chief port, to Lima, the capital of Peru, the great marts of trade,
and general resort of the whole Peruvian nation ; and afterwards to
lay down such lines on the coast of the Pacific as may be approved
of by the Shareholders at a general meeting-
The distance from Callao to Lima is about seven English miles.
There is open ground all the way suited to receive the rails, the gra •
dient uniform, and no curves, wills au abundant supply of water-
power. It is estimated that the cost of this line will not exceed
50,000/. ; and, when it is considered that it will command the whole
traffic of passengers, and the conveyance of goods between the chief
port and the capital of Peru,' it may fairly be assumed that the un-
dertaking will be one of unusual profit.
Should the operations of the Company be confined to the line be-
tween Callao and Lima, no frirther portion of the capital will be called
for than may be sufficient to construct that line ; and if the objects
of the Company be not carried out, the whole of the deposit-money
will be returned.
Applications for Shares with reference to be made to the Secretary,
at the Orrice of the Company, No. 6, Old Jewry, where prospectus
may be had.

THE DIRECT LONDON AND MAN-
CHESTER RAILWAY.
offices, 48, Moorgate-strect, London.
Provisionally registered.
Capital, 5,000,000/., in 100,000 Shares of SSI. each.
Deposit 21. 15s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Earl of Mexborough, Methley Park Yorkshire
, The Lord Rossmore, the Dell, Windsor •
Colonel the Right Ilon. George Lionel Dawson flamer, M.P., 6
Tilney-street, Park-lane
Lieut.-Colonel the lion. John Craven Westenra, M.P., Sharavogus
Cas le, Roscrea, Ireland
The Hon. Robert Gore, 'M.P., 21, Wilton-crescent
David Robert Ross, Esq., M.P., itosatrever, Ireland
John Humphery, Esq., .P., and Alderman, Hayes'-wharf, Tooley-
street
Win. Williams, Esq., M.l'., Park-square West, Regent's Park
John Dillon, Esq., Fore-street, ('ripplegate
Andrew Caldecott, Esq., 20, Cheapside
Jam Khmersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman, Queenhithe
Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman, 17, Paterno-ter-row
Thomas Sidney, Esq., Alderman and Sheriff, Leyton House, Esser
Benjamin Oliveira,.Esq., Elt.S., 8, Upper Hyde Park-street
Rigby Wrier, Esq., Corwar Ilouse, near Girvan, Ayrshire
Richard Woodhouse, Esq., 56, 'Torrington-square
Kenyon Stevens Parker, Esq., Q.C., 40, Gower-street
Thomas Shepperson, Esq., 27, Cheapside
William White, Esq., 108, Cheapside
T 110111.16 Townend, Esq., Manehester
James Kershaw, Esq., Alderman, Manchester
Robert. Barbour, Esq., Manchester
Charles Warwick, Esq., 137, •Clicapside
Richard hopper, Esq, Upper Clapton
William Lawrence, Esq., Brixton
John Boni, Esq, Alderman, Manchester
Thomas Longworth, Esq., Manchester
Thomas Price, Esq., Manchester
J. W. Deacon, Eeq., Gresham-street, end Manchestaa
Jonah Smith Wells, Esq., 75, 011 Broad-street
John Bradbury, Esq., 6, Aldermanbory
Thomas Devas, Esq.; 24, Lawrence-lane
William Conk, Esq., St. l'aurs-hurchyard •
John Gladstone, Esq., Stockwell Lodge, Surrey
Charles Townend, Esq., Manche-ter
J. p. Gassiet, Esq., 77, Mark-lane
J. Reeves, Esq., 150, Cheapside, and Leyton, Esee,x
Richard Groticozk, Esq., Bow-churchyard
'l'. B. Simpson, Esq„ Rutland Lodge, E ixton. Director of the)
mond and North Wales Railways
Thomas Vyse, Esq., 3, Cripplegate-buddinge
William Itatlibene, Esq., Temple
Thomas Winkworth, Esq., 54, Gutler-lane
11. It. Williams, Esq., Wyndham-place, Esianatone-square
James Procter, Esq., Manchester
Henry Farington, Esq., Manchester •
Sir John Key, Alderman, London
Henry Minim Gippi, Esq., 9, Montagu-14mo, Erclustono-teuare
William cash, Esq., 39, Wood-street, Cheapsisle
Richard Vyse, Esq., Luton, Bedfordshire
Thomas Stokes, Esq., Leicester
Joseph Cripps, Esq., Eastfield House, Leicester
William Bates, Esq., Leicester
Joseph Fielding, Esq., Leicester
Thomas Wood, Esq., Leicester
E John Taylor, sq., Leicester
John Dove Harris, Esq., Leicester
William Biggs, Esq., Leicester
Richard Warner Wood, Esq., Knighton, near Leicester
Alfred Burgess, Esq., Brookfield, near Leicester
P. A. Taylor, Esq., Maiden-lane, Cheapside
John Welch, Esq., A Idermanbury.
11. 11. Whitworth, Esq., Northampton
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Commercial Bank
Edward Gabbett Beard, Porchester-place
(With power to add to their number.)
COMMITTEE OF MANAURMENT.
.1 dun Dill ii, Esq., Chairman pro tem.
Andrew Caldecott, Esq., Deputy-Chairman pro tem.
Mr. Alderman Hooper
Thomas Shepperson, Esq.
William White, Esq.
William Lawrence, Esq.
Richard hopper, Esq.
William Cash, Esq,
.1. W. Delman, Esq.
John Gladstone, Esq.
Mr. Alderman Sidney.
ENCIINEER.---John Urpeth Ristriek, ESQ.
BANKERS.
London --Messrs. Jones Loyd and Co., Lothbury
Manchester—Messrs. Jones Loyd and Co.
Bedford—Thomas Barnard, Esq.
Stockport—The Bank of Stockport
Lelcester—Pares Leicestershire Banking Company
Northampton—The Northamptonshire Union &i,
Wellingborough--The Northamptonshire Union Beek
Dublin=Messrs. Boyle, Low, Pim, and Co.

• JOINT SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Ashurst and Son, 137, Cheapside
Messrs. Sudlow, Sons, and Torr, 20, Chancery-lane
LOCAL AGENTS.
Messrs. Stone and Paget, Leicester
Messrs. Tatham and Son, liiglig,r,te
E. L. Brickwood, Esq., Dunstable
Edward C. Williamson, Esq., Litton
C. L. Brett, Esq., Bedford
Ceorge Burnham, Esq., Wellingborough
Messrs. Lamb and Nettleship, Kettering
Beauvoir Brock, Esq., Loughborough
Thomas Richardson, Esq., littoxeter
George Sawklns, Esq., Leek
Richard Wormald, Esq., Macclesfield
John Boothroyd, Esq., Stockport
William J. Little Esq., Devenport
Messrs. Stanley and Washrough, Bristel
Charles Naylor, Esq., Leeds

SECRETARY PRO TEM.—Edward L. Ogle, ESQ.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.—MCSSIE. Finites and Preston, 21, Great
George-street, Westminster

The London prornoters of this line, in their ordinary commercial
operations, now pay for the carriage of goods, Sac., a sum equal to
four per cent, upon the whole capital ; ad amount of traffic which
will pass upon the direct line when completed.
Iu its course, the line will approach to and accommodate the fo'-
lowing towns—viz., Barnet, St. Albans, Dunstable, Luton, Ampthill,
Bedford, Wellingborough, Kettering, 'Market Barborough, Leicester,
Loughborough, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Burton-on-Trent, Uttoxeter,
Cheadle, Leek, Macclesfield, Stockport, and Manchester, terminating
in the station of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway.
ApplicatiOns fo: Shares may be made, addressed to the Provisional
Committee, or to. the Solicitors, at the Company's Offices, 48, Moor-
gate-street, London, of whom farther particidara may be obtained.
July, 1845.

FORM OF APPLICATION' FOR SIIARES..
To the Provisional Committee of the I)ir►slt London and Plancbeetor

Railway, 48, Moorgate-street, London.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me St area of
501. each, in this Company, and I midertaLe to swept the same, an .1
to pay the Deposit thereon, or upon any lees number that may Le
allotted to me; and I undertake, also. to execute the Parliamentary
contract and subscribers' agreement when required.
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Addroas of Refer.3e •

This Company is established pursuant to the tiAlowitig request and
authority :

" We, the undersigned, being interested in the trade, of Manchester.
and in the shortest and quickest Intercourse between Louden and
Manchester, hereby express our conviction that a direct line of rail•
way between those places will give the public thegreatest cheapness,
convenience, and speed.

"That it is of paramount Importance to the trade, and to the
public, that they should not continue dependent for communication
with Lancashire upon one, and that a circuitous line of railway.
" That the immediate formation of a direct line is essential.
because, if delayed, it will become more and more difficult, in con-
sequence of the branch railways which local necessity will originate.
" That an independent trunk line is necessary, to guard the trade
and commerce of the metropolis and Lancashire against exoensive
charges. and the many evils of a rapidly-extending monopoly.
" We therefore authorise and request Messrs. Ashurst and Sou,
Solicitors, and Messrs. Sudlow, Sons, and Torr, Solicitors, to taint
the necessary steps for the formation of a Committee, with • rimy
to the adoption of such a line.
Allan and Smith, London
William Allen and Brothers, Manchester
11. Bannerman and Sons, Manehestef
Robert Bentley and Co., London
John Burd and Sons, Manchester
Robert Barbour and Co., Manchester
George Brettle and Co., London
J. T. Basset, London
Buds and Gladstones, London
J. B. Banks, London
John Buds, London
James Bradbury, Manchester
Bradbury, Greatorex, and Co., Londe,
Bowman and May, London
Blair and Burton, Manchester
S. A, Butterworth and Co., Manchester
John Biggs and Sons, Leicester
Caldecott, Powell, and Wilcox, London
Cook, Sons, and Co. London
J. and F. Cowper and Co., London
courtauld, Taylor, and Co., London
capper, Morley, and Co., London
Francis W. Coates, London
William Cash, London
Cheeper, Watson, and Jackson, London
James Carlton, Walker, and Lewis, Manama.'
Richard Cobden and Co., Manchester
Thomas Crompton, Manchester
Darby and Garland, London
James Deacon and Sons, London and Manobartat
W. and T. Devas, 3linchener, and Routledge, London
Davies, Freeman, and Co., Manchester
John Dugdale and Brothers, Manchester
Ellis, Everington, and Co. London
David Evans and Co., London
Samuel Fletcher, Son, and Co., Manchester
George Fraser, Son, and Co., Manchester
A. Grant and Brother, London
John and Edward Grundy, Manchester
Edward Granville and Co., London
Gillett, Porter, and Co., London
Gates,Coates, Bartlett, and co., London
Lot Gardiner and Brothers, Manchester
Hood, Ward, and Hood, London
Henry Ilittoii, Manchester
Hobday and Chectliam, Manchester
Hoyle and Hansen, London
Richard Harris and Sons, Leicester
Johnson, Balmer, and Co., London
Jameson and Banks
Kershaw, Leese, and Co., Manchester
Leaf, Coles, Smith, and Co., London
Luck, Castle, and Co., London
Lycett and Davies. London
Luck, Bunch, and Coath, London
John Lart and Son, London
Le Gros, Thompson, and Bird, London
Thomas Lomas and Co., Manchester
Lewis and James, London
Liddiard and Co., London
Lewellin, Truman, and Hitchcock, London
William Lawrence, London
Morrison, Dillon, and Co., London
J. and R. Morley, London
al`Clure and Hastani, Manchester
James Martin, London
Robert Mutrie, London
John Munn and Co.' Manchester
James and William Morley, London
Nicholls, Lucas, and Co., Manchester
Ovington, Warwick, and Co., London
Oldroyd, gJ. F. Pawsou asonnd Co.,
,ad C 0.,.
Potters and Norris, Manchester
John and Nathaniel Phillips and Co., Dianc.lestar
London
I'nzey and
ers, allot,
Co., Manchester
London
Reddish anti Bickham, Manchester
R. H. Robertson and Co., London
Rhoades and Williams, London •
John Read, London
Samuel Ridley, Son, and Ellington, tondos
Rowlandson and Atkinson, London
Sadler, Fenton, and Co., London
B. Salomons and Co., London
Sturt and Sharp, London
George and James Smith, Manchester
Thomas James Smith, London
W. S. and T. Storar and Co, London
Thomas Shepperson, Loudon •
*trachan and Roan, London
Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, London
Townentl anti Hickson, Manchester
Thompson, Brothers, and Son, Manchester
Joseph Travers and Son, London
Todd, Coston, and Co., Manchester
Tattersall and Mellor, Manchester
Tarsey and Mitigate, London
George Virtue, London
White and Grcenwell, London
Ward anti Co., London
Winckworth and Proctors, Maneliester
Thomas Worthington, Manchester
John Wreford and Co., London
Wilson, Keith, and Co., London
S7eßstr. I'an' ttspaignntlaCm. o.,alltit o
Manchester
Wilson,
W'reford and Pugh, London
welch and Margetson, London.

UTUCT LONDON and MANCHESTER
RAILWAY.
Office, 48, Illoorgate-street, Ti Men.
NO fluffier APPLICATIONS for SITAR} ?' s in this Company caa
be received after WEDNESDAY, the 27th it .staut.
EDWARY L. OGLE, Secretary.

Monday, August 18, 1845.

ISLE OF ELY, WISBECH, AND LINCOLN-
SiiinE JUNCTION RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Reg,stered.)
Capital 200,001., in 8,000 snares of 251. each.
Deposit 21., 15s, per share.
PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS.
William Bradley, Esq., (Chairman), Director of the Sheffield and
Manchester, and Huddersfield and Sheffield, and Halifax, Hud-
dersfield, and Bradford Union Railway Companies, Manor Oaks,
Sheffield
H. S. Bright, Esq., Director of the Hull and Selby Railway Com-
pany, Hull
W. O. Christie, Etq., M.P., Eccleston-street, Belgrave-square
C. Appleby, Esq., Director of the Sheffield and Manchester and Lan-
egabire and North Yorkshire Railway Companies, Broom-hill,
Sheffield
William Thompson, Esq., Director of the Huddersfield and Sheffield
Railway Company, Sheffield
D. R. Ross Esq., M.P., Great Rydcr-street, St. Jam.ss's
S. S. Bncton, Esq., Director °tribe East and West of England, and
Manchester, Sheffield, and midland Railway Company, Sheffield
John Robson, Esq., Director of the Newcastle, Durham, and Lan-
cashire Railway Company, Hetton-le-hole, Durham
Wm. Pinney, Esq., late M.P. for Lyme Regis, 30, Berkeley-square
beorge C. Holland, Esq., M.D. Director of the Huddersfield and
Manchester, Huddersfild and Sheffield, and Great Grimsby and
Sheffield Railway Companies, Sheffield
Thomas Medley, Esq., Director of the Lancashire and North York-
shire Railway Company, Newcastle-on-Tyne
John Fa:Acett, Esq., Sheffield
John N.-2.1..-Lon Map, in, Es 4., Director of t'az Manchester, Sheffield,
anti Midland Railway Company, Sheffield
Wiliiam Marriott, Esq., Attercliffe-terrace, Sir 15.
Richard Kelly, Esq., Chairman of the New C.alow, and Kil-
kenny Railways, 6, Cleveland-row
Charles R. Bigge, Esq., 19, Bryanstone-square
Captain Page, Director of the-Coventry and Leie3ster, South Staf-
fordshire Junction, Warwick and Cheltenham, and Midland and
Eastern Counties Railway Companies, Charlton House, Somerton
(With power to add,to their number.)
BANKERS.
Messrs. Spooner, Attwood, and Co., Gracechnrch-street, London
National Provincial Bank of England, March, Wisbech, and Long
Sutton

SOLICITORS.
James Coppock, 3, Cleveland-row, St. JarllOS'S
John Bell, 28, Craven-street, Strand
Thomas steed Watson, Wisbech

The object of this Company is to afford to the town and port of
Wisbech, the centre of the rich agricultural district of the Isle of Ely,
the benefit of that communication by railway of which it is now en-
tirely destitute.

This will be effected by the construction of a railway to commence
at or near the March station of the Ely and Peterborough Deviation
line, proceeding thence to Wisbech, and thence to Sutton St. Mary,
there forming a junction with either the East Coast or Grand Union
Railway, or any other railway completing the communication to Lin-
colnshire, which may obtain the sanction of the Legislature. A
direct communication will thus be formed between the Metropolis,
the Midland, the Eastern, and the Manufacturing Counties.
The districts embraced by this undertaking are populous, and have
a very considerable local traffic, the population of Wisbech, St. Peter
alone, exceeding 10,000. The quantity of wheat sold in the market at
Wisbech weekly averages 5,000 quarters, and the arrivals of wheat
from the port of Wisbech have in many instances been known very
materially to affect the market in Mark-lane ; in addition to which
there are extensive sales of other grain, flour, seed, wool, cattle, fruit,
and potatoes, the whole of which is exported to the consuming
markets ; the imports consisting of coals, timber, oilcakes, bale goods,
slates, sand, lime, and general merchandise. The return of the Port
dues for 1844 exhibits 125,395 tons, and these dues are rapidly in-
creasing in amount. A great portion of the merchandise must pass
along this line, and cannot fail of yielding a productive revenue.
The length of line is about twenty miles, and passes through a
country having an even and solid surface ; thus, with all the advan-
tages of water and land carriage of materials, affording facilities
which will render the works inexpensive, and insure their early com-
pletion. Added to these advantages, the line will form an integral
portion of the main trunk line with the shortest and most diret route
between' Hull and London. By its connexion with the Ely and
Peterborough Railway at March, a transit will be afforded through
the Peterborough branch of the London and Birmingham to Bristol,
and the south west of England, and through the Syston branch of the
midlands, the north west of England, with Liverpool, Wales, and Ire-
land. n-. 11 also be placed in immediate connexion with Wisbech and
its locality.
Ano.tr.r important feature in this undertaking is, that the serious
Inco:ltctueac,.: telt by every class during severe winters, from the
river Nene Ling blocked with ice at Wisbech (causing a total stag-
nation of the usual com vce, whilst the warehouses may be over-
loaded with corn, and the price of coals increased threefold, to the
grca, .I:stress atti misery of thP poorer classes), will, by this railway,
be entirely obviated.

The survey has been completed, and applicntiuli will be made for
an Act in the ensuing session of Parliament. A taro•: reserve of
shares having been made for existing companies with which the pro-
posed line will be united, a limited number only are at the disposal of
the Directors.

Applications for shares in the usual form, accompanied by a refer-
ence to a Banker or one of the Provisional Committee, may be made
to the respective Solicitors.

JAMES COPPOCK, 3, Cleveland-row.
JOBS BELL, 28, Craven-street.

BELFAST AND COUNTY 1)u e 1 RAIL-
WAY COMPANY, AND NEWRT, bANBRIDGE, AND
JUNCTIuN COMPANY.
.2it .1 meeting of the Provisional Committees of the above Compa-

nies, held in delfast, on Monday, the 18th instant, a Protest against
the proceedings of these Committees, with reference to an amalgama-
tion of these Companies with the Great County Down Railway Com-
pany, signed by several influential Shareholders, having' been read,
Resolved, " That inasmuch as the members of these Committees
stow present having been advised that they have nut power in point
of law to bind tne proprietary bodies which they severally represent,
they feel compelled to decline proceeding farther towards carrying
out the amalgamation proposed by the Great County Down Railway
Company in opposition to the Resolutions and Protest of several
members of the Registered Provisional Committees and of extensive
Shareholder/3 in their respective Companies, until they have taken
the opinion of a General Meeting of the Shareholders upon the sub-
/ea, and that a meeting be accordingly called for that purpose with
little delay as possible."

JOHN RARRISOIT, Chairman.

Belfast, 18th August, 1845.
ELFAST AND COUNTY DOWN RAlL-
_k_l.l WAY COMPANY, AND NEWRY, BANRRIDGE, AND
BE. lASI' JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.

Notice is hereby given, that in consequence of x Protest by several
of the Provisional Directors of, and other large Shareholders in, the
above Companies, against the proceedings of the Committees respect-
ing a proposition made to them by the Provisional Committee of the
Great County Down Railway Company for the amalgamation of
their several projects, a MEETING of the several parties who have
signed the Subscription Contract of the Belfast and County Down
Railway Company, and of those who have paid the Deposit upon the
shares allotted to them in that Company, or in the Newry, Ban-
br:l;*e, and Belfast Junction Railway Company, will be held at the
Office, 24, Fountain-street, Belfast, on SATURDAY, the 30th instant,
at Twelve o'Clock Noon precisely, to take into consideration the
above-meutioned Protest, and to adopt such measures in reference
thereto as may be deemed expedient.
The votes of the Proprietors will be taken according to the number
Of shares held by each.
Proxies will be allowed.
THOMAS WARD, Secretary of the Belfast and County
Down Railway Company.
THOMAS M`CLELLAND, Secretary of the Newry,
Banbridge, and Belfast Junction Railway Company.
Belfast, 18th August, 1845.