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rpHE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT
_IL RAILWAY, via ABINGDON; WASTAGE, 11UNGURVORD,
and LUDGERSUALL.
(Provisionally Registered.)
capital 1,200,0001., in 48,009 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 12s. Cal. per Share.

PROVISIONAL CONNITTRII.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Portarlington
The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Dillon, Ditchley-park, Oxon
The Right Hon. Lord Sutiby, Gunton-park, North Walsh=
The Right Hon. Lord Rossmore, the Dell, 'Windsor
The Right Hon. Lord Duuboyne, Belle Hatch-house, Henley
The Right Hon. George Lionel Dawson Darner, M.P., 6, Tilney-
street, Park-lane, Director of the Brighten and Cheltenham Direct

Railway
The Hon. Robert Gore, R.N., M.P., 21, Wilton-crescent
Lieut.-Col. the Hon. J. C. Westenra, xp., 13, Conduit-street, Di-
rector of the East and West Junction Railway
The Hon. William M. Dawson, Parkstone-lodge, Poole, Director of
the Manchester and Rugby- Direct Railway
The Hon. Edward Stafford Jerningham, Director of the London and
Nottingham Railway
Sir William Drummond Stewart, Bart,
Keythei3art.Manchester and London Railway, Direct King's Arms-yard,
.Alderman of London,
Sir John Director
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Bryanston-square, Director of the Great Western Extension
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~ Southampton, Director of the Worcester,
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Frederick William Seymour, Esq., Carlton-gardens, Director 'of the
Dover and Bristol Railway
Henry D. Erskine, Esq., Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, and Kirby
Dale, Yorkshire, Director of the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway
Major Moore, Queen Anne-street, Director of the Brighton and
Cheltenham Direct Railway
Major Graham, late Scots Greys,l6, Grove,Claphant
G. B. Banbury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire. Director of the
Coventry and Manchester Railway
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Railway
James Gernon, Esq., 13, Conduit-street, Vice-Chairman of the Gal-
way and Ennis Grand Junction Railway
Archibald Douglas Stewart, Esq., Grandtully-castle
Robert Bell, Esq., Manor-house, Chiswick, Director of the Dover
and Bristol Railway
Joseph Bull, Esq., Manchester
Thomas Ferrand Deaden, Esq., Rochdale
Charles llaigh, Esq., Rochdale
Charles Welland, Esq., Liverpool
James Shaw, Esq., Pendleton, Manchester
The Rev. F. K. Hall, D.D.' Rector of Fulborne, Cambridgeshire
Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlborough-place, St.
John's-wood
E. S. Blundell, Esq., Director, of the
18, Lower Seymour-street
Direct Lon-
W. L. Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex don and Exe-
G. W. Evans, Esq., Oldbury-terrace, Regent's-park ter Railway
Walter Shairp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, j
John Allen, Esq. 12, Gloucester-terrace, Kensington
Francis Roose, Esq., Upper Montague-street, Montagne-square
Francis Ewart, Esq., Temple, Director of the Equitable and Law
Life Assurance Companies, and of the Exeter, Dorchester, and
Weymouth Railway
William Gambler, Esq., Sacombe-park, Herts
Benjamin Swan, Esq., Jerinyn-street, St. James's
Nehemiah John Reed, Esq., R.N., Marlborough, Direotor of the

London and South Wales Direct Bolivia,'
Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough
Charles Finch, Esq., Fisherton, Salisbury
F. Walker Botterill,-Esq., Burnley
dames Paxton, Esq. M.D., director of the Rugby and Manchester,
Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Railways
Thomas Ingham Rayner, Esq. Lilac-cottage. Blrstal, near Leeds, di-
rector of the Great Leeds, and London, Midland, and Thirsk, and
other Railways
William Doe Belcher, Esq. Mayor of Abingdon
John Hyde, Esq., jun., Alderman of Abingdon
John Tomkins, Esq.
John Harris, Esq. Mensbera of the Town CauAwll,
Abing-
Thomas Copeland, Esq. too
Edwin James Trendell, Esq ,
John King, Esq., Abingdon
George Cox, Esq., Abingdon
George Jackson, Esq., Abingdon
John Knight, Esq., Abingdon
Mr. Thomas Payne, jun., Abingdon
John Aldworth, Esq., Frilford, Berke
William Caudweil, Esq., Drayton, near Abingdon
William Dewe, Esq., Stonehill, near Abingdon
Isaac Grubb, Esq
John Towle, Esq.
Samuel Steane, Esq.
Johnß e Richard d
Weaving,
ianugn, dEys Esq.
Charles Hickman, Esq. j Members of the City Connell, Oxibrd
R. C. Godfrey, Esq. J
James Morrell, Esq., Deputy--Lieutenant of the county of Oxford,
Director of the Londo 1 and Cheltenham Direct Railway
Captain H. Strong,. Oxford, Director of the Oxford and Worcester

Extension Railway
William Mead Warner, Esq., Oxford
Daniel Hanley, Esq., Oxford
John Looker, Esq., xford
William Seckham, Esq., Kidlington, Oxon
Charles Shillingford, Esq., Somer Town, Oxon
Adin Williams, Esq., Somer Town, Oxon
Mr. Wm. Miller, Oxford
Mr. H. Dormer, Oxford
Mr. Charles Miller, Oxford
Mr. Thomas Hyde, Oxford
Mr. Wm. Thompson, Oxford
James Wickens, E,q., Oxford
John Brightman, Esq , Regency-square, Brighton, Chairman of the

Hounslow Railway
David Bryan, Esq., Northampton, Director of tha Eastorn and

Midland Counties Railway
Capt. James Edward Carnegie, Somerset-street, Portman-square,
and Bower-hall, Inverness, Director of the Reading and Reigate
Railway
Charles Liddiard, Esq., Wantage
Mr. Henry James Palmer, \Vantage
Thomas Brown, Esq. West Loekinge, Berke
William Stone, Esq. Charlton. Berka
Malan, Barnard, Esq. Charlton, Berks
Henry Hayward, Esq. Stirlings, Wantage
James Staley, Esq. \Vantage
Thomas Brown, Esq. Wantage
Mr. Charles Hart, foundry, Wantage
Mr. William Beesley, Wantage
John William Palmer, Esq. Letcombe Regis, Berks
Mr. J. Pottinger Palmer, Letcombe Regis, Berks
John Blunt, Esq., Upper Bedford-place, Director of the London

Docks
William Bastow, Esq., Surrey-place, Kent-road, Director of the
Commercial and General Life Assurance Association
Robert Bastow, Esq., Surrey-place, Director of the Great Eastern
and Western Railway
John King, Esq., St. John's-wood, London, Director of the Soma-
setshire Midland Railway
Henry Stock, Esq., Beddgelert, North Wales, Director of the Great
Eastern and Western Railway
D. T. Johnson, Esq., Aldemary-churchyard, Director of the Direct
Independent London and Manchester Railway
John Bloor, Esq., Tntbury, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Man-

cheater Railway „
T. A. Dale, Esq., Malveru-house, Cheltenham, Director of the Blr•
kenhead and Holyhead Junction, and South Staffordshire and Pot.

teries Railways
Charles Johnston, Esq., Aldersgate-street, Director of the Lynn,
Thetford, and Ipswich Railway
Admiral Ayscough, Southampton, Director of the Birmingham and

Leicester Railway
Frederick Chamfer, Esq., R.N., Malkin-street, Beigravo-square,
Director •f the Northampton and Cambridge Railway
Director of the Rugby George R. rcppercorne, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex,

and Warwick Railway
George Jackson, Esq. Abingdon
George Cox, Esq., Abingdon
John Knight, Esq. Abingdon
Thomas Salkild, Esq. Huddersfield, director of the 3fanchesier,
Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby-, and Huddersfield and Liverpool
Direct Railway
J. Russell,
scseil,oEtts, 3q.1%7 Grove ester-plEacned,-Plondrg,
tinean-square
James st.
John's-wood,
Director
of the Hull and Holyhead. and of the Bristol, Rath, and Poole
Railways
General Wright, Gloucester-place, Portman-square
Major Henry Lyster, 9, Spring-terrace, Wandsworth-road, Drector
of the Lincolnshire:and Eastern Counties Railway
(With power to add to their number).
ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF—SSMUeI Charles Drees, Esq.
Selmmo—Messrs. Ehnslie and Preston, 47, Meorgate-street,
London.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT—Cadwallader F. Waddy, Esq.
BANKERS. •
London—The London and Westminster sank.
Oxford—The London and County Bank.
Salisbury—The Wilts and Dorset County Bank.
Abingdon—Messrs. Henry Knapp and Co. ; and the Cennty
Bank
Wantage—Messrs. Henry Knapp and
Newbury—The Berkshire Union Bank
Hungerford—Messrs. Tanner and Pinckney.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Oxford—Jno. Francis Wilde, Esq.
Salisbury—Stephen Hill, Esq.
Abingdon—Messrs. Graham and Son
Wantage—William Ormond, Esq.
Hungerford and Marlborough—John Holcomb, Beg.
SECRETARY—Z. Hubbersty, Esq.

The imrortance of connecting remote parts of Eiigland by rail-
ways, with the advantages thereby conferred upon intermediate towns
and districts, can scarcely be better exemplified than by the lino
which is now proposed to form a short and direct channel of Inter-
course between Oxford and Salisbury. Numerous projected lines
now before the public will make Oxford at the north, and Salisbury
at the south of the intended railroad, the central points from which
various radii will diverge to the north-west, north, and north-east of
the former, and t• the south and west of the latter ; and the
proposed line from Cambridge to Oxford, continuing to that city the
course •f railway from the north-eastern parts of the island, requires
the appliance now suggested to effect a complete means of transit to
the western and south-western counties.

The Oxford and Salisbury Direct Railway, in addition to
the benefits which will be conferred upon the nation at
large, by perfecting a direct line of commun!catio, be-
tween the north-eastern and western and south-western
parts of England, will afford to the borough of Abingdon,
the market towns of Wantage, Hungerford, and Ludgershall, and
the adjacent villages, an important railway accommodation, of which
the agricultural districts hi which they are seated stand in much
need, and will provide a facility far the iuterchange of produce be-
tween the rural, manufacturing, and commercial population of the
kingdom. The projected line will bring the Cathedral City of Salis-
bury into immediate connexion with the City and University of
Oxford, combining also the advantage of a direct communication
with the sister University of Cambridge ; thus strengthening the
ecclesiastical and academical relations of the whole, whilst the com-
mercial prosperity of the two terminal cities must of necessity be
essentially enhanced.
The want of railway accommodation has long been felt to press
unfairly upon the inhabitants of the important and thriving town of
Abingdon. Their means and opportunities of competing with the more
fortunate traders of those towns which are already provided with di-
rect channels of transit, are thus severoly crippled. The same remark
applies in some degree to the market town of Wantage, which, as
well as liungerford and Ludgershall, claims a share of the profits
and advantages produced by railway traffic.
giving to Abingdon a direct It has therefore been determined to commence the proposed line at
,poarntds anmdessrs.
Oxford, and to proceed through Abingdon to the station of the Great
Western Railway at Steventon, than
rail-
road to London. By continuing the projected railway to Wantage, the
same facility of transit to London will be afforded to that place; and
a perfect line of road from the north-eastern counties will, by a Jane-
t;
Gage, Messrs.an d
than with the projection from Cambridge to Oxford, be produced,
through the towns which have been named, Hungerford and Ludgers-
hall, to Salisbury, and thence to the south
dis-
tricts.
Applications for shares and prospec3tnsieeLst!Abeimomnadaned
Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street, and to the following
Preeceitroker Brokers:—Messrs. 31
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Messrs. Reynolds and Son, Liverpool ; Mr. John Duncuft, and Mr.
John O'Neil, Manchester; Messrs. A. and C. Bradshaw, and Messrs.
Broad-esstterernet
Wellbeloved and Co., Leeds ; Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol ; Mr.
James Pearson, Birmingham ; Messrs. Samuel Hutchinson and Co.,
Bradford; Sir. Wm. Miles, Worcester; Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and
Co., Cheltenham ; Sir. Thomas Sandford, Exeter ; Messrs. Easty and
Sons, Southampton; Mr. Robert Allan, Edinburgh; Messrs Black
and Co., and Messrs. Buchanan and Aitken, Glasgow; Mr. Win.
Gordon, Aberdeen ; and Messrs. Bruce and Symes, Dublin.

FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Oxford and Salisbury Direct

• Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares in the
above undertaking ; and I hereby agree to accept the same, or any
less number which may be allotted to me, and also to pay the de-
posits thereon, and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement, Parlia-
mentary Contract, and all other necessary instruments, when re-
quired so to do.
I am, Gentlemen, your obedient Servant,
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ReAdence • • • • • • • • • • • ' •
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Occupation • • • • • • • • • • • ••• " ' • ........
Usual Signature • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • .......
Dated
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Almelo and Preston, 47, MoorgaW-street, Lendcni.

B IRMINGH AM AND MANCHESTER
DIRECT RAILWAY COMPANY.
Company's Offices, 1, Moorgate-street, London, Oct. 13, 1845.
Notice is hereby given that no further Applications for Shares can
received after WEDuzsDAY, the 15th instant.
By order,
• ♦ ♦. FLINT, Secretary. •

MIDLAND GRAND JUNCTION
RAILWAY.
Connecting the Great Western, London and Birmingham, awl Direct
Manchester. From Reading via Henley-on-Thames, Aylesbury,
Buckingham, and Northampton.
• (Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 1,250,000/. in 50,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 2/. 12s. 6d. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
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Jahn Anderson, Esq., Princes-park, Liverpool, Director of the East-
ern Counties and Southend Railway
William Ashcroft, Esq., Bury, Director of the Lancashire, Cheshire,
and Staffordshire Railway
George Alfred Beardmore, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Hull
and Lincoln Direct Railway, and .Nottingaam and Peterborough
Railway

Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Barton, K.C.11., Montague-place,
Montague-squa-e

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Charles R. lligge' Esq., 19, Bryanston-square, Director of the York
and Lanclste,Railway
Charles Ilicaden, Esq., Coulsden-court, Surrey, Chairman of the
Licensed Victuallers' Assurance Company
John Blunt, Esq., Upper Bedford-place, Director of the London
Docks

William Bradley, Esq., Manor. Oaks, Sheffield, Chairman of the
Direct Western Railway, and Director of the Sheffield and Man-
chester Railway

James Brand, Esq., 9, New Broal-street, Director of the Now It ,ss,
Carlow, and Kilkenny Railway

G. A. Urown, Esq., Broad-street, Director of the Callao and Lima
Railway

Jos'ph Bull, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Staffordshire Potteries

Railway
Byrom, Big., Oldham, Director of the Oldham District, the Bir-
kenhead and ll,dyhead, York and Lancaster, and Cheltenham,
Oxford, and London Railways

Thomas Byrom, Esq., Wigan, Director of the York and Lancaster,
Rugby, Derby and Manchester, Staffordshire Potteries, and Man-
chester, Wigan, and Southport Railways

John Channtler, Esq., Friday-street, Director of the York and Lan-
caster Railway

Richard Clay, Esq., 1, Winchester-buildings, London, Director of the
Huddersfield and Eastern Coast Railway

Ephraim Cocker, Esq., White Coppice, Choriey, Director of the Black-
burn Chorley, and Liverpool Railway

Nathaniel Cooke, Esq., -Bayswater, Director of the Eastern Counties
Junction and Southend Railway

Nathaniel Cumherledge, Esq., 3, 'York-terr tee. Regent's-park, Three-
of the Leeds and lluddeNfleld Railway, &c. &e.

Newton Crouch, Esq., 13, SouthamptOit-place, Easton-square, Di-
rector of the Mauritius, and the York and Lancaster Railways

Thomas Ferrand Dearden, Esq., Rochdale, Director of the Stafford-
shire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railway
Peregrine Royds Dearden, Esq., Birkenhead, Liverpool

J. W. De Wolf, Esq., Liverpool
Miles Dormer, Esq., Hans-place, gloanc-street, Director of the
Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway
Richard Davis, Esq., Knaresborough., Director of the Wilts, Somerset,
and Southampton Railway
Colonel Lothian Sheffield Dickson, Curzon-street, May-fair, Director
of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway
John Edwards, Esq., Chester, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway, the York and Lancaster, Staffordshire Potteries,
and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways
J. D. Ewes. Esq., Knaresborongh

Benjamin Smart Fowler, Esq., Alder House, near Tamworth, Direc-
tor of the Leicester and Northampton Railway.
The Rev. H. R. Fowler, 7, Manchester•square, Director of the South
Midland Railway
The lion. Percy Evans Freitc, Bel,gravd-square, Director of the

Bandon and Bantry Railway .
William Garrow, Esq., Great George's-square, Liverpool, Director of
the Eastern Counties and Southend Junction Railway
William Gibb, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Staffordshire
P.Vteries and Liverpool and Manehegter Direct Railway
Joseph Giliham, Esq., Hargreaves-house, Oldham, Director of the
Staffordshire Potteries, and Huddersfield, and East and West

Coasts Railways
Cantain Twisltton Grave; Director of the Le7ce >ter and Tean and
Dove Valley Railway
Charles Haigh, Esq., Broadley Wood, Rochdale and Manchester,
Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
F. W. Hamilton, Esq., 59,.Gloueester-place, Portman-square, Director
of the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway
John Lawrence Harr;s. Esq., 4, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry.
Director of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway
John George Hammock, Esq., Essex-house, Bow-road, Director of
the Direct Western Railway
John Hawkins. Esq., St. James's-place. New-cross

Theophilus Hodges. Esq., Connaught-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of

the London, Hounslow, and Western Raili'vay-
John Holford, Esq., Rushohn-ball, Manchester, Director of Reming-
ton's Direct London and Manchester Railway
Charles Holland, Esq., of Liscard Yak, Cheshire, and Liverpool
John Holmes, Esq., St. James's-street, Westminster, Director of the
Eastern Counties Junction and Seuthend, and the Direct Western
Railways

George Bolt, Esq , Willow-hill, Crumpsall, Director of the Stafford-
shire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railway
Joseph Hnpgood, Esq., Exeter, Director of the East and West of
England Junction, Direct Western, and Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate _Railways
Adderly Howard, Esq., Long Sutton, Wisbeach, Director of the East
Coast, and Direct Western Railways
William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., .M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid-
land Railway
Herbert Ingram, Esq., Director of the Eastern Counties Junction
and Southend Railway
John Charles Jack, Esq., Liverpool •
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart.
Charles Justice, Esq., Collumpton, Devon, Director of the Direct
Western Railway
Richard Kelly, Esq., Cleveland-row, St. James's, Chairman of the
New Ross, Carlow, and Kilkenny Railway
Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South ard
Midlands Junction Railway
William Kempe, Esq., Teign Villa, Teignmouth, Director of tie

Eastern Co ,nties Junction Railway, and the Leeds, Fleetwood,
and Liverpool Railway
Thomas Kidley, Esq. M.D. Sheffield, director of the Eastern COW:-
tics and Southend Junction and Direct Western Railways
George Lawrie, Esq. Manchester, director of the Eastern Counties
Junction and Southend Railway
Peter Thomas Letth, Esq., Ridge-hall, county Dublin, Ilrector of the
Isle of Man Railway

William Melville Lomas, Esq. Liverpool, director of the Lancashire,
Cheshire and Staffordshire Junction Railway.
John Lord, Esq. Standish Hall, Lancashire, director of the Stafford-
shire Potteries, the Liverpool and Manchester Direct, and Lanca-
shire, Cheshira and Stafford Junction Hallways.
James Macmillan, Esq.; Southampton, Director of the Worcester,
Warwick, and Rugby Railway
A. M. Macmoram. Esl., Cambridge-street, Hyde-park, Director of the
East and West Junction Railway

Major:General Sir Love Parry, Mardyn, Carnarvonshire Director of

the North Wales Railway.
Thomas Miller, jun., Esq., Leicester, Director of the Direct Western
Railway
Edward Norris, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Direct Western
Railway
James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Marlborough-square, Manchester, director
of the Chester and Manchester Direct, and Direct Western Rail-
ways

Nathaniel Ogle, Esq., Heath-lane-lodge, Twickenham, Director of
the York and Lancaster Railway
John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge Terrace, Hyde Park, Di-
rector of the Direc, 'Western R-.31,,vay

Richard William Perry, Esq., Barham Wood, near Elstree, Herts
William S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Director of the
Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham Rahway '
Frederick Ramsden, Esq., Seymour House, Old Strofford, Manches-
ter, Director of the Staffordshire Potteries, and the Liverpool,
Preston, and North Union Railways
Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester, Chairman of the Birkenhead
and Holyhead Junction, and Director of the Sheffield and Man-
chester Railway, &c.
J. Reginald Riddell, Esq., Bycullah-house, Enfield, Director of the
. .

Direct Western Railway
James Renshaw, Esq., West Heath House, Rent, Director of the
Direct Western, and South Staffordshire Junction Railways
R. A. Riddell, Esq., Director of the Great Western Extension Railway
A. Macdonald Ritchie, Esq., Middle Temple, London, Director of the
Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway
Richard Rowe, Esq., Beauvoir-terrace, Maida Vale

Hartley Sagar, Esq., Ball Grove, Colne, Director of the East Lan-

cashire and Andale Junction Railway.
William Sidebotham, Esq., Glossop, J.P. for Derbyshire, Director of
the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
James Shaw, Esq., Salford, Director of the Manchester and Rugby
Direct Railway
Edward Smith, Esq., Barnsbury Park, Director of the Great Eastern
and Western Railway
William -tudley, Esq., North Brixton, Director of the Leeds and
Carlisle Railway

Henry Taylo-, Esq , Wigan, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct, the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union and Oxford, Chel-
tenham and London Railways
Joseph
.Ta 3 lor, Esq., Clements lane

_
Jolin Thompson, Esq., Wigan, Director of the Birkenhead and Ho-
lyhead, Manchester and Wigan, and Liverpool, Preston, and North
Union Railways
Joseph Thompson, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton Railway
Charles F. Thornley, Esq., Eastfield House, Westbury, near Bristol,
Director of the Leeds and Carlisle, and Manchester, Sett:e, and
Car isle Railways

Thom9s Tehbutt, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
Edward Trelfall, Manchester, Director of the Eastern Counties Junc-
tion and Southend Railway

Sir William Twisden, Bart., Cavendish-street, Cavendish-square
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Leeds and Carlisle
Railway, and Director of the Commercial Bank of London.

George Walker, Esq., Manchester
S. I'. Ward, Esq., Birketv,ead, Director of the Eastern Counties
Junction and Southend Railway

Ayscough Wilkinson, Esq., Woodbury Downs, Director of
the Waveney Valley Railway

Robert Wynne Williains, Esq., 29, Bedford-place, Russell-square
Thomas Wynne, Esq., Longton, Staffordshire. Director of the Leeds
and Carlisle, and South Union and Birmingham Junction Railways
Sir William Wynne, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, Chairman of the North
Wales Railway

Pierce Somerset Butler, Esq., M.P., Director of the York and Lan

caster Railway
Edward Scard, Esq , liew•green

Sampson Bridgwooll, Esq.,loughton

Charles James Mason, E. 44.

Fenton

James Glover, Esq., Loughton, Director of the Sonth union and Bir-
mingham Junction Railway

John Pratt, jun., Esq., Fenton

William Marriott, Esq., Ottercliffe•terrace, Director of the Direct
Western and the Isle of Ely, and Wisbeach and Lincolnshire
Junction Railway

W. H. Colles, Esq., Handsworth, Staffordshire, Director of the South
Staffordshire Junction Railway

William Holiday, Esq., Chad-valley, Edgbaston, Director of the Direct
Western Railway

Thomas Uptill, Esq., Edgbaston, Director of the Wolverhampton,
Birkenhead and Chester Railway
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Thomas Boilman Upflll, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Bristol
and Dover Railway

C. 11. Jagger, Esq., llandsworth, Director of Vie Great Western,
Southern and astern Counties, and Ipswich and Southampton
Railway

Richard if ortimore, Esq., Callumpton, Director of the Direct Western
Railway

Edward Westlake, Esq., Southampton, Director ofthe Direct Western
Railway

John Robson, Esq., Stetton•le-Hole, Durham, Director of the Direct
Western Railway

Henry S. Bright, Esq , Hull, Director of the Durham and Sunderland
and Direct Western Railway

Robert Cook, Esq., Guisborough, Director of the Direct Western
Railway

C. J. Selwyn, Major Royal Engineers, Director of the Direct Western
Railway
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George Sercombe, Esq., Exeter, Director of the Direct Western
Railway

(With power to add to their number).
COMMITTEE OP MANAGEMENT.
Benjamin Smart Fowler, Esq. William Kempe, Esq.
The Rev. H. it Fowler, R. A. Riddell, Esq.
William Jarron, Esq. Henry Taylor, Esq.
Capt. Twirsleton Groves J. Underwood, Esq.
John Holmes, Esq. M. A. Wilkinson, Esq.
Richard Kelly, Esq. Thomas Wynne, Esq.
(With power 'to add to their number.)
CONSULTING ENGINEER—T. Urpeth Restrict, ESQ.
ACTING ENGINEER.—OIiver Byrne, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, Moorgate-street
J. E. Beaks, Esq., 7, John-street, Adelphi
William Burdett, Esq., Manchester.
LOCAL AGENTs.—Messrs. Christian and Jones, Liverpool.
RANKERS.
London—The Commercial Bank of London
Manchester—The National Provincial Bank of England.
SECRETARY— Nichs. Kempe, Esq.
Company's Offices, Palace-chambers, St. James's.

This railway will form, as nearly as may be practicable, a direct
line from Reading, in Berkshire—one of the ost important and
rapidly improving towns in the kingdom—to the large and populous
town of Northampton, where it will form a junction with the
Northampton and Peterborough Railway
The line will proceed frorm.the Reading station of the Great Western
Railway, and by the way of Henley-on-Thames, Great Mariow,
West Wycombe, Aylesbury, and Buckingham, through some of the
richest and most fertile districts of England, from whence vast
supplies of live stock and agricultural produce are constantly fur-
nished to the metropolis ; and from Buckingham it will be continued
direct to Blisworth and Northampton.
From Blisworth a line proceeds to Wellingborough, and forms a
Junction with the Direct Manchester Railway; and it Is intended
that a branch shall be formed from West Wycotnbe to the station at
Slough, on the Great Western Railway
The proposed line with the branch will be about seventy-dye miles
In length, and, it has been ascertained that it may be constructed
with unusual facility, whilst, by means of the intended junctions with
the Great Western Railway at Slough and Reading, with the London
and Birmingham Railway at Blisworth, and the Direct Manchester
Railway at Wellingborough, an uninterrupted and most desirable
railway communication will be opened between Portsmouth, dos-
port, the Isle of Wight, Southampton, Bedford, Huntingdon, the
Staffordshire Potteries, Birmingham, Derby, Leicester, Manchester,
Liverpool, Leeds, Newcastle and Berwick, and with the great manu-
facturing and mining districts of the north of England.
The numerous parishes and districts which will be traversed by the
line comprise a population of nearly 1,500,000 persons, and passing,
as It will, a portion of the counties of Berke and Oxford, the whole

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of Bue•&ingllamsli're, and by the e...lehiabe•l Vaie !„,'
U"or.
unitnij with the several completed er projected TiiiheflYS

mentioned, viz.:—
The London and Birmingham
The Greet Western
The Southampton Union
The South 3Pdland
The Midland Counties
The Northampton and Leicester
The Northampton and Peterborough, and thus witk
The Direct Manchester
it cannot be doubted that it must prove extremely convenient Oar,.
beneficial to the public, and highly advantageous to the proP'lo.-
The liability of the shareholders will be restricted by Act 1
liament to the amount of their subecriptioi.s, and ixr,i er will be t'a
plied for in the Bill to allow interest at 4 per cent. per annum
calls, from the passing of the Act until the opening of the line.
Arrangements have been made that the survey shall be comP7',l
and the plans and sections deposited in time for obtaining 01
during the ensuing session of Parliament.
Applications for shares may be addressed, in the form anrexed,
the undermentioned brokers, viz. :—Messrs. B. and 31. Boyd, l'oal,t;
street, John Shewell, Esq., Threadneedle-Street, and Messrs.
s7i'tit,
Westropp, and Prlnsep, 75, Old Broad-Street, Mr. JO" ''y„ric;
.4liorter's•court, London; Messrs. Graystone and Earle, w.
Mr. Thackray, HArrogate ; 31r. Joseph Nelson, Settle; Ml' 3w.
Weloh, Lancaster ; Messrs. Geddes and Drinkwater,
Henry Waterton, Bank-buildings, Castle-street, L'i:eLF;ro.
Mr. Peter Leicester, Messrs. Green and Oldham, ing•
Green and Lockwood, Manchester; Mr. James Pearson, ril-01
ham; Messrs. Joshua Wood and Son, Messrs. Watson alidtC.oi?,ortti,
Messrs. E. King and Co., Leeds ; Messrs. Brady and F
Hull ; Mr. J. A. Butchart, Huddersfield ; Mr. nerve!, lialifax.;4'3i,
NiLitingak, Wakefield ; Messrs. Samuel Hutchinson andCO. G,
ford ; Mr. Luke Arnold, and Mr. George Edwards, Bristol,
It. Gliddon, and Mr. Thomas Sandford, Exeter; 3ressile.r, Fly"
Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham ; Messrs. Hopwood and P3alm poo
mouth ; Mr. Robert Altan, Messrs. Hugh 3lunro and Co., I;,ri
dngle,
Kinnear, and Mr. James Pringle, Edinburgh ; Mr. W. Ger 0.
Leith ; Messrs. M'Eweu and Auld, Glasgow ;. Mr. Wm' ,ay Do
Aberdeen ; Mr. S. A. Gloag, Perth ; of whom prospectuses
had ; or to the Previsional Committee, at the offices of the Cowl'.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. on
To the Provisional Committee of the Midland Grand Jun'
Railway. 45i•
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot to me
ts:caleicinotthtehlka shares,ritoke
lt,idloranadnyGrleasnsdnJuumnbeteironthßaatiltayy, and I hereby unesad
pay the deposit of 21. 12s. Id. per share thereon, and oatnteddtotoe;ec."l'eli°
Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement
Name in full
Profession or Tracle----/.
Residence
Place of business----1„----.
Reference
Date

EICESTER and BIRMINGHAM -
(iirat
LWAY, with a Branch from Nuneaton to CoventrY.
Line )

(Provisionally Registered, 10th April, 1646.) itiotoo
CHARLES HOLTE BRACEBRIDGE, Esq., The Hall,
Chairman.
W. CHANCE, Esq., Birmingham, Deputy
The Mayor of Birmingham
Richard Spooner, 'Esq.,M.P. for Birmingham, Brlcktielde, Wrner-
Thomas Macaulay, Esq., Leicester
Sir W. Hyde Pearson, Knight, F.R.S., Hanover-square, London
Geor, e Attwood, Esq., The Laurels, Edgbaston, BirininghSodo
W. W. Pearson, Esq., 5, Gloucester-terrace, Regent's Part'
J. G. Norbury, Esq., Mancetter House, Atherstone
S. Paines, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbiston, Birmingham
J. ready Payn, Esq., Birmingham
E ,ward Middleton, Esq., Chad-road, Edgbastou, BfrOhiglia°
illiam Freer, Esq., Atherstone
V. W. Wollaston, Esq., Sheldon-hall, Hinckley
F. Wollaston, Esq., Sheepy, Atherstona
B. North Arnold, Esq., M.D., Atherstone
W. Chance, jun., Esq., Birmingham
J. Wilkes Unett, Esq., Birmingham

George Turner, Esq., Birmingham 4i
Thomas Davies, Esq., Birmingham
of the 6
H. F. Hunter, Esq., Kilburn-hall, Derbyshire, director

Grimsby, Gainsborough, and Derby hallways
William Lucy, Esq., Birmingham Tre't
John Davis, Esq., M.D., Coleshill a go
R. Gardner, Esq., Chasley-hall, Manchester, director . ,f
Valley Railway JielD'7of
Vogel so,
Henry Tootal, Esq., Manchester, director of the Trent Alter
R. C. Sharp, Esq., Brainshall.halt, Stockport, Cheshire, ij
V.
the North Staffordshire Railway Os°
0
Thomas Critchley, Esq., Manchester, director of the —0 OO
shire Railway +.• CIO
James Walkinshaw, Esq., Old Park, Isle of Wight, DePo',.

of the Mancli3ster and Southampton Railway
The Hon. M. W. Nugent, Ingham Grange, near Bina
Kirkley Fenton, Esq., Caldecote-hall, near Nuneaton
Wm. Atkinson Gardner, Esq., 4, Cecil-street, Strand, LOP.'
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
C. Holte Bracebridge, Esq., Chairman
W. Chance, Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
sir W. H. Pearson, KM., F.R.S. Samuel Haines, F-441,
-I. G. Norbury, Esq. Edward Middleton,
rhos Macaulay, Esq. W. A. Gardner, EiTO4.
F. Wollaston, Esq. John Brearly
las. Walkinshaw, Esq. W. W. Pearson.
11. Tootal, Esq.
ENGINEER—CharIes Vignoles, Esq., F.R.S•A'
SOLICITOR—S. S. Baxter, Esq.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Leicester—Messrs. Toiler
Hinckley—Messrs. Smith and Pilgrim
Nuneaton—Messrs. John and George Crud."-
Coventry—Messrs. Dewes and Son
Birmingham—Messrs. Spencer and Rollins.
ann4
The Committee of Management have the pleasure °Lai1.1,60,0
to the shareholders that the surveys arc on the point 0.
that the line, as chosen by their eminent engineer, 31..'„,e ,
reported by him to be the best and shortest practicable "
Leicester and Birmingham. tax
The whole scheme will be perfected in full time to '",t"
with on the meeting of Parliament ; and the itnporttee 011 D.
ments now being made are such as warrant the CoMlo,,ess
fidently stating that the expectations of the shareholu
fully realised in the success of the line.
By order, coact°.
EDWARD DANIEL.
41, Chancery-lane, Oct. 10, 1845. - .101
OPtiO
CiALAIS, DUNKIRK, and BRUGES Jo~,h
TION RAILWAY, connecting the lines alrenw
bets' een Bruges, Ghent, Brussels, 3/alines, and Antwerl2.;„ 511P-
CAp tal 18,750,000 francs, or 750,0001. sterling, ix i7,'
201. each.
Deposit 21. per share.

DIRECTORS.
FRENCH AND BELGIAN.
M. le Comte Friant, General et Aide-de-Camp du 1101 coperi6,lfoo
M. le Baron de Clarac, Proprietaire, Ancien Otllcier e
...verde
Nantes CD
Cavalerie, Secretaire et Administrateur Chemin de or
pi
M. Cordier, Depute. Inspecteur Divislonnaire des:Fonte,,
sees, President du Conseil d'Administration du Cheell-
Cherbourg
10,it „
M. Antonio de Serradilla, Colonel d'Etat-Major .I)°,liev
M. N. T. Micard, Administrateur du Chemin de For et
M. Collin Lefebre, Ingeneur Civil, Entrepeneur des roe
sees du Gouvernement
M. r. J. wo.ye., ow rcrneur do la pr0w1.... de Ilaiaault. --
M. Femmerman, Brussels
M. J. B. Thibon, Brussels.

ENGLISH. gde4lo
Major-General Brooks Parbley, C. 8., HI, Rutland-gate, ,---but!'f.,,,
William Ormsby Gore, M.l'., Chairman of the Silre°eel l'01"
verhampion, Dudley, and Birmingham Railway, ""' ri,
1.1
place, and Portlington-hall, Oswestry, Salop ~,,ler" j
William Bradley, Esq., Director of the Sheffield, Ashton* - 0 ,
and Manchester Railway
&c Ah i' William Hughes Hughes, Esq., • FlerY
London, Chairman of the Manchester hiestAr a"ndlerienlie.a'd, g'i old
and Greenwich Raways, Bruswck-square ler l',
Thomas Sidney, Esq., Alderman ofi London, and shell „or
and Middlesex, Leyton, Essex . l',v-
Captain Thornhill Warrington, 66, Upper Berkeley .street' $9
square n 04
James Reeves, Esq., Leyton, Essex, Director of the Lot d°
chester Railway 191
William Petrie, EKI , King-street, Portman-square suOl'
John Inglis Jerdien, Esq., Director of the Manchester' et JO'
Southampton Railway, No. 2, Adams-court, Broad-st•TocloP..
Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of the Birmingham end

~,
way, 1, Princes-street, Bank
(With power to add to their number).
SiCo'
BANKER 4 IN FRANCE.
1015
BANKERS IN BELGIUM—MCSSrS. Prosper et Ben sp
—.
..1 x, ,
BANKERS IN ENGLAND--The London Joint Stock J 4- 1.11"
•
CONSULTING ENGINEER—Sir John Maimed, LL.D. And
ENGINEER—WiIIiain Mullingar Higgins, Esq. RgAiOg
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Potter and Collingridge, 5, .--
SECRETARY—PhiIip N. Scanlan, Esq. , sije/. i
COXPANY'S OFFlcss-37, Moorgate -street (Eo' . e
.1119.,A

This Company has been foimed for the purpose of oPeaii tsti-opo;
railway communication between Calais and Bruges, Pes,',upalt4oto
important districts of France and Belgium containing ht,
above GOO,OOO inhabitants, and forming a junction lirect
Railway at Bruges, which has now become the roostntri
the interior of Belgium, Germany, Prussia, and the con 110 A
of the French frontier.
Pro. {
In laying before the public the prospectus of this Pre. ;at "s,
may he mentioned as o.le of its principal advantaget, gc,..toP„'
reduce the passage from London to Brussels, I,.ji
twenty-four or twenty-siX hours, under the must favo",:eagitirr.
a stances, and often thirty orforty, to twelve hours, re!' , tepet,
ticable to make the journey with ease in one day, aila geS
of the present expense. The long, tedious, and uncerta di/
will also be avoided from Dover to Ostend, which, to tlrAedir.gu
,
rally, and particularly to ladies and invalids, is e „„.
pe
agreeable, and often attended wi h serious c itsequeutt-i ps`,;;lo
It can hardly admit of a question, that the priuCi,i
passenger traffic between the two capitals, London -;'tpe
gather with the passenger traffic of the populous c"'', and 064,
and Ghent, the latter being the Manchester of Belgi'll"' outi'oit 'De
portant towns of St. Nicholar and Tiermond, will beltaPer
circumstances, drawn into this channel; and another psnPresil
CoM r
vantage t • the public, and source of revenue to the and 05V.r
found in the transmission .of the Belgian, GoluaToyer to o`o,
mails, which are now conveyed by steamers from lertaintiVota
at a very considerable expense, and with nitwit less enfonli ;,•
pedition than if transmitted to Calais, a sea Passage - rjalo.
and usually made in two hours. to
The traffic and expenditure may be fairly estimateunt
From 50,000 passengers, who, according to the iee.eu,„,ootp,
turns from Ostend and Antwerp, annually visit tiu,nsvo• /Ara
nent and return by this route, say, from each, on ••
rage, 10s. each way •• • • Lin. ents • 50,5
For the transport of mails from the respective GuYe'-
Local traffic in goods and passengers • • • • • • • • "
..•
Deduct the expenses of working the line, calculated $' sso,7to
,errt,
1, rebel" stll'?
Thus leaving a profit of 10% per cent. to the •••.., the tiro-
every prospect of a considerable increase annuallY_,, the ot. A
has been by experience proved to be the resu on u. trr
ye. 0.
In operation in Belgium, as well as other countyics.,ty le tttt,
The projected railroad would pass through a p.enrting near talpg
of country rich in agricultural productions, Pre. neita 400_0
impeditnents to its construction,
nor viaducts ; and the only bridges necessary won" ootteaaote 7er,
of a few dykes. Thus the construction would be_f the
.8(.00_4,
and would reo". lb, the pd
heavy expense, and its working, when completed,
the og_ tocu'to
nomical character; for, as experience has shown,__laut for tii.raereos
able Item in working a railway is the supply of ;"the etts)
•
lives ; the proximity to the port of Dunkirk, and ent
the Belgian coal fields, obviate this difficulty. sit enible toot
This line, which has been already examined u__3_
neer, will be about sixty miles in extent from nu., Graf!. P.,,
other ; will connect in Its route the towns of Ca.a' 0,140%0 174
Dunkirk, in France, with Furness,
gium ; thus securing a very important local tram to, of
sengrrs, independent of the foreign traffic before au" both/
the possibility of its paying beyond all doubt.
support I)3' roil' line
Arrangements are in progress and stronglY "PP for ebtft ef
the highest inflitence both in Belgium and Franceto the ter;ortionot
consent of the Belgian and French Governments
rme,. t'e,toportsclt
and as it is so obviously advantageous to thelo,o soh e f
Nieupurt, god, 00,
to encourage the formation of a line, bringiV (IWO-40'0i
capitals as Brussels and London within tell I u
elite feri.oterl7ll
other, and the intention of the latter to encourag is
_itett
continuous line of railway raund the coast, little_.,iouf"soch
,its
by the Directors in Belgium, France, and Engler" deeoff
P roving successful. tu- „re,
plo
will n
bteli eve
returned,ntof the,vi
tapplications
exception
porno volfn ga ucobisourcgeee: Loh °L.
tit
tilaY uies'"6-
exceeding ve shi.
Applicatifion forllings prospectuses and forms of Applicati"n 5,
hall
-street
yd'sto.ffi thecegfo. srscfth°
so anS
ecn
London—Messrs. Peppereorne, Broad-street geors.
Manchester—Messrs. Cardwell and Sons ; and
Lockwood following
theiw borfflokcee
id PO'
Liverpool—Messrs. T. Ceglan and Sorts 09 ..'"‘
Bristol—Messrs. Edwards and Co.
Leeds—Thomas M. Lee, Esq., llarvey mu.

Dell and Ledger
Hall•—Messrs. Flint and Tootal

Exeter—Thomas Sandford, Esq.
Plymouth—Mes,rs. Hayward and Palmer.
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R SIO-Rrg'Jane
,
FORM OF .APPLICATION FOR 0
To the Directors of the Calais, Dunkirk, and Drug opp
Railway. Share
°lf
Gentlemen—l request you will allot me t the 9a-iediero
each in this Company, and I undertake to aceep 00, ,
less number that may be aPotted me, and to
and I undertake also to execute the Subscribers' Ag.,,,1'
pay the
_elent, or
other document that may be necessary, when requir"'
~.'s
I am, Gentlen.en, .•••• ~.
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Date • • • ..... • • • • ....•
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Christian and Surname • • • .
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Profession or Calling • .. : .
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Black; of Residence • • •"
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Reference •• • • ........ : . ... • • stack
Usual Signature... • • • •
ttcrlded t° e'per
X.R.—To save trouble, no application will be a _ boor,
accompanied with areference to one of the directors, .
broker, or mercantile house of known respectability.
130°A.
ee is hereby giv,
CALms, DUNKIRK, ASP _Air-
N,ti thrther applications ~,
I6tb
the
be rceeived in this Company after TnuasDAT,
By order, SOWS'
JUNCTIONti,atno RAILIVAY. __ 4.4, our"
PHILIP N. SCA-VaAll'
37, 310Orgate-street, ( et. 13,1345.