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tion being familiar with mining operations, will be found better
qualified for the execution of railway works here than in many:other
lodfllities.
As if link in the railway network of England, or as auxiliary
to existfir: or projected lines passing in various directions, fbw
schemes hithe7to proposed appear to afford greater inducement
for investment, or 4 wider range of accemmodation for traffic and
travelling. This pro:4ect constitutes a lengthened link in the chain
that will connect Liver 4
West of England ;ts soui;„,ern terminus, Worcester, is the half-
way station of the London an %—iool with Bristol, the grand trunk of the
Portdynnllaen broad gauge line :
by projected lines a direct comnil'
lineation will be afforded west-
ward to Swansea and Aberystwith, ,:lid, eastward, to Warwick
and
Northampton, Cambridge, Peterborough,
Jiarwich, Lynn,
and Hull.
The line has been repeatedly and carefully ."-c mined by the Com-
pany's acting engineer, whO reports that the rail for many miles may
be laid on the natural level—that the gradients are in every in-
stance favourable—that the geological structure of the di:triets t•
be traversed is equally so, and that the want of such a line of .7'9113;
mumication is acknowledged by the interests seated on Its proposes
course.

Applications for prospectuses and plans may be made, and forms
of application for shares had at the offices of Aiessrs. Potter and
Collingridge, solicitors, 5, Basinghall-street; also of W. B. James,
Esq., solicitor, 5, Basinghall-street ; of the local agents ; and of the
following gentlemen:—
.Ifr. Samuel Banbury, 4. Angel-court
London .. . / Mr. Whiston Powell, 12, Copthall-court ; and
Messrs. Peppercorns, 2, Old Broad-street
Liverposl...... ....Messrs. Alston and Gage.
r Messrs. Houghland and Leese, and 3/fr. WU-
Mancheater •••' • • / Liam Marshall.
rMesers. Colliuson and Flint, ma Mr. James
full• •••""" • • ' • / Bowdon
[Messrs. Smith and Perthet, and
J. Young and Co.
Stratford-on-Avon..Mr. William Bolton.
Exeter —Mr. Thomas Sanford.
Plymouth • • • •Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer.
Birmingham ...• • •Mr. Collis and Mr. John Wright.
Glasgow• • ...• • • • • Messrs. Tassie and Co.
Edinburgh
Messrs. Robertson and nd
[Messrs:Co.,"
M'Callum and Co.
Huddersfield •••• .. Messrs. Wilson and Hellawell;
Worcester • . Mr. Thomas Henry Wheeler.

NOTTINGHAM, BIRMINGHAM, AND
COVENTRY RAILWAY.
Uniting Warwick, Coventry,l and Birmingham, with Nottingham,
Newark, and Lincoln.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Offices—(temporary), 19, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street.
Capital 450,0001., in 25,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Matthew Gisborne, Esq., Walton Hall, Derbyshire •
Sir Edwin Pearson, 5, Gloucester-terrace, Regent Park, Director of
the. Warwick and Cheltenham Railway
Sir John Penniston Milbanke, Bart., Great Portland-street
William Collins, Esq., M.P. far Warwick, Director of the Leicester
and Tamworth Railway
Michael Thomas Bass, Esq., Burton-upon-Trent
Major Croft, 15, Regent-street, Deputy Chairman of the Chester and
Manchester Direct Railway
Fraser B. Henshawe, Esq., Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square,
Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction
Railway
Major Waller, K.H., Deputy Chairman of the Smith and Midlands
Junction Railway
Lieutenant-Colonel Hutchinson, 1.R.5., Hi, Upper Montague-street,
Montague-square, Director of the College of Civil Engineers
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., Hyde Park-place, D.restor of the
Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle Junction Railway
John Lucena Ross Kettle, Esq., Lincoln's Inn
T. E. Biggs, Esq., 19, Bryanstone-square, Director of the Warwick
and Cheltenham Railway
The Hon. W. E. Fitzmaurice, M.P. Chesham-street, Belgrave-square
Henry Dann, Esq., 42, Duke-street, St. James's, Director of the
Shrewsbury, Worcester, and Crewe Railway
Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Harts, Direotor Of
the South and Midland Junction Railway
John Clement Reding, Esq., Director of the National Bank of
Ireland
John Rawson, Esq., Halifax, Deputy Lieutenant for Yorkshire, and
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Hallway
The Hon. Colonel Leicester Stanhope, Ishburaham House, Chairman
of the Chester and Manchester Direst Railway
John Thomas Itsworth, Esq., Leicester
Thomas Hackett, Esq., Derby, Director of the Great Manchester and
Southampton Railway
John Sanders, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Crewe Railway
John Fisher, Esq., Short-hill, Nottingham, and Watling-street,
Londe'
Captain Horatio Thomas Austin, R.N., C.B.
Nathaniel Nadin, Esq., Stapenhill, Zurton-upon-Trent
Capt. Gustavus Evans, R.N., Headley Grove, Surrey
henry Francis Gisborne, Esq., Derby, Director of the Leicester and
rantworth Railway
Edmund Sharpe, Esq., Swandlinoote, Potteries
Sheldon Craddock, Esq., Leicester
John Gretton, Esq., brewer, Burton-upon-Trent
Ambrose Moore, Esq., Milk-street, Cheapside
James Arbouin, Esq., Mark-lane, Director of the London and York
Railway
Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.8., Director of the East India Company
Lieut.-Gen. Taylor, Clareadon-place, Hyde Park
George Ledwell Taylor, Esq., 45, Hyde Park-square
Douglas Fox, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Crewe Railway
Frederick Cayley Woraley, Esq., Imberhorne House, Sussex
John Taylor, Esq., Cross-street, City, Director of the Commercial
Bank of London
Lancelot Llewheilyn Haslope, Esq., Lifford, near Birmingham, Di
rector of the Warwick and Cheltenham Railway
John Eames, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zonch

worth Railway -
E Bruno Hamel, Esq., Director of the Leicester ant Taraworth
Railway y,John Thompson, Esq., Great St. Helen's
John Dove Harris, Esq., Leicester
Richard Gray, Esq., Adam•street, Broad-street

Bawl'Eas—Tho Union Bank of London.

STANDING COUNSEL.
Charles Howard Whitehur?t, Esq., Q.C.
J. Mee Mathew, Esq., F.S.A.

Excalmina—J. U. Eastrick, Esq.
Acurisi Enatreann—Robert Nicholson, Esq.
SOLItITORS—Meir.y. Watts, Galsworthy, and Galsworthy, 19, Bly.
place, Holborn
Sae &WARY --Samuel Stanway, Esq.

The first line of the Grand Trunk Railway will commence at the
Loughborough station on the Midland Counties line, and pro-
ceed through the Vale of Sheepshead, to Pegs Green CollierY,
near to the terminus of the Leicester and Swannington Rail-
Waf, and from thence through the coal-fields of Swannington
and Cole-Orton to Ashby-de-la-Zouch. It will thence proceed aeross
the Ifoira Coal-field and through the rich agricultural districts of
Seal, Clifton Campville, and Edingale, to the Birmingham and Derby
Railway, which it will cross near to Elford Park lam, and thence
traverse the Valley of the Tame until It reaches Alrewas, where It
will form a junction with the branch of the Trent Valley line now in
progress of making. At this point it also meets the proposed South
Staffordshire line, by which means it reaches Lichdeld, and by means
of one of the proposed lines it will afford coramanleatioa with Bir-
mingham.

From Loughborough the line will be further continued to A stbrdby
on the Syston and Peterborough Railway, now in progress, aid by
means of this latter line, a direct intercourse will be opened with
Melton Mowbray and the various towns
to Peterborough,
througses
h pinch that route
pas

Captain Beare, Director of the Worcestershire, Shrewsbury, and
Crewe Railway
W. Fitzgibbon, Esq., Director of the Cork and Bandon Railway
Matthew Wyatt, Esq., 1, Upper Hyde Park-street, Director of the
Manchester, Oxford, and Southampton Railway
John Douglas Cooper, Esq., Holme Cottage, Ashbourno
John B. Story, Esq., Lockington Hall, Leicester

By means of its junction with the Trent Valley line at Alrewas, the
Grand Trunk reaches Colwich, and there meets the proposed North
through Rugeley to Stafford, thus completing
Staffordshire line,
to Newcastle-under-Lne. Leek, and Macclesfield. By means also
of the same Trent Valley line at Alrewas the Grand Trunk pro-
ceedswhich proceeds through the heart of the Potteries
forming a connecting line between the Midland and Grand Junction
Railways. This branch of the line was formerly surveyed by Mr.
Rastrick, and approved of by him as a canal communication, so that
no engineering difficulties exist.
Derby station, and Ulan its route, and
Canal proceed to
The second lino of the Grand Trunk Railway will commence at the
g the course of the Derby
Chellaston, where there are extensive plaster-works, and thence
by Swarkestone to the river Trent, which it will cross near to
the ferry at Weston Cliffe, and so proceed to Kings Newton
and Melbourne. From the latter place it will pass by the
village of Wilson to Breedon-on-the-11111, where there are extensive
lime-works, and thence proceed by Staunton Harold, communicat-
ing by a branch line with the lead, lime, and coal works there ;
thence by the Lount Colliery to Worthington Rough, where it will
follow the line of the Cole-Orton and Swannington Railway until its
junction with the first line of the Grand Trunk at or near the Pegs
Green Colliery, and so proceed from thence to Ashby-de-la-Zouck.
At Ashby-de-la-Zouch the Grand Trunk forms a junction with the
proposed Nottingham and Birmingham, and with the proposed Great
Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railways. Its importance as
a line for passengers is too obvious for comment, forming as it does a
complete junction between those two great thoroughfares, the Mid-
land and Grand Junction Railways, and by its branch from Derby to
Ashby-de-la-Zouch another complete junction between the Great
Northern and Southern lines now in progress, thus opening a direct
line of communication to all parts of the kingdom.
As a line for traffic, the Grand Trunk will form the most direct
transit to the Leicestershire, Staffordshire, and Shropshire iron and
coal fields, to the Burton breweries, to North and South Wales, and
Ireland to Scotland, and all parts of the north, and to the eastern,
southern, and western parts of the empire. It will also be the
nearest and most direct communication from the east to the north-
western manufacturing districts, as well as become the great route
from all parts of the kingdom to the midland counties of England.
The mineral resources are of the very highest order. The Moira
coal-field is inexhaustible, whilst the coal-beds at Staunton Harold
alone comprise the finest quality of Kennel to a depth of seven feet,
with a super stratum of main coal to a depth of six feet. The sub-
stratum is yet to be worked. There are beds of Kennel and plain
coal at Cole Orton of equal quality, though net of equal depth with
those of Staunton Harold, whilst the main coal at Swanningten is un-
rivalled, being, in fact, the bowl of the Leicestershire and Derbyshire
coal strata. It is needless to describe the beneficial results which
must arise from this opening of the midland coal district to the Lon-
don and southern markets.

Captain Holden, Locko Park, Derbyslitre
The ➢layor of Nottingham
George Bacon, Esq., merchant, Nottingham

William Charles Boden, Esq., Apsiey Hail, Nottingham
Thomas Wakefield, Esq., magistrate, Nottingham
Thomas Fisher, Esq., Short Hill, Nottingham

Henry Attenborough, Esq., Nottingham
William Hannay, Esq., magistrate, Nottingham
William Cartledge, Esq., merchant, Nottingham

Lewi• Heyman,i.sq., Merchant, Nottingham

David Wliaatcriift. E. ;q., Dockland Hollow, Alfreton

Joshua Harding, Esq., Bosliston, Derbyshire
Morris Piddocke, Esq., Stanton, near Burton-upon-Trent
Robert Collings iiilbertsoa, Esq., Burton-upon-Trent
David Melville, Esq., 13, Wood-street, Cheapside, and Nottingham
(With power to add to their number.)
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Bass and Sweating, Burtoa-upon-Trent.
Messrs. Lacy and Bridges, 19, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street.
Messrs. Sir George Stephen and Hutchinson, 1, /Exchange-Windings.

DANIEL'S.
The London Joint-Stock Bank, rrinees-street.

The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbuiy, and 6, Henrietta-street
Covent-garden.

The Burton, Uttoseter, and Ashb-ounte Union Banking Company,
Burton-upon-Trent, and Ashbourne.
Messrs. Evans and Co., Derby.
Ertomagg—Elijah Galloway, Esq.

This line will commence at the Long Eaton station of the Midland
Counties Railway, and will proceed in a direst line to or near Castle
Donington, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Measham, and Market Bosworth to
Nuneaton; joining, at Market Bosworth, the Birmingham branch,
projected by the Tamworth and Leicester Company, and at Nuneaton,
the projected Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester
Railway, at the point where that line crosses the Trent Valley Use.
Thus a direct communication will be formed between the important
towns of Nottingham, Newark, and Lincoln on the one side, and
Birmingham, Coventry, and Warwick on the other side, at the same
time a rich mineral and agricultural district will be supplied with
railway advantages.
A reference to the map will show that this railway will also com-
mand other collateral advantages.
There is no doubt that the proposed railway communication be-
tween Cheltenham and Warwick will be effected, in which case the
proposed line will All up the railway ehasm at present existing be-
tween the counties of Gloucester and Worcester, and Nottingham
and Lincoln. and thus form a direct line from the Severn at Glouces-
ter to the Humber at Great Grimsby. An amalgamation of the Great
Grimsby and Sheffield Junction with the Grimsby look Company
being now determined on, a large amount of capital will be expended
in rendering Oreat Grimsby a port of the first importance ; and M
must be obvious that the traffic to that port, from the district south.'
west of Warwick, will be very great.
The distance saved by the proposed line between Leamington,
Warwick, Coventry, and Nottingham will be about twenty miles;
and between Birmingham and Nottingham, the saving will be about
. .

six miles. Being the shortest route from Birmingham to Not-
tingham and Lincoln, it must secure the traffic from Birmingham to
Nottingham, Newark, Lincoln, and the port of Great Grimsby ; and
by Joining with the Erewash Valley Railway at Long Eaton, it must
command the traffic from Coventry, Warwick, and the district south
of those towns to Sheffield, Leeds, York, and the north of England
generally. It will also afford a direct communication between Not-
tingham and the district between Warwick and Worcester, by maims
of the projected Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby, and the Warwick
and Worcester Railways.

Tlie entire length of -the line will be about 21 miles. The Com-
pany's Engineer has completed his preliminary survey, and has
made his report, that the character of the country through which
the line is intended to pass is unusually favourable for engineering
purposes.
It passes directly through a very productive mineral listrict, In-
tersecting the Leicestershire coal-fields and lime-works, and will
afford communication north and south, to the Derbyshire Potteries.
With such an assured immediate and prospective amount of trams,
the profits on the small capital required cannot fail to be highly re-
munerative.

Powers for allowance of interest at four per cent. on tho paid-up
capital will be taken, and the liability of shareholders limited to the
amount of their subscriptioni.

TABLE OF

Present Distances. 1 Miles

CES.

By proposed saving
Route, about

Warwick to Nottingham, byt
Hampton and Derby • . about 71
Warwick to Nottingham, by
Busby and Leicester .. do. 65
Warwick to Lincoln
Coventry to Nottingham .• ..do. 62
Coventry to Lincoln ........ do.
Birmingham t 3 Nottingham..do.l 55
Birmingham to Lincoln . .do.
Cheltenham to Nottingham, by
Birmingham and Derby ....do. 100

20
14
14
20
20
6
6

Prospectuses may be had at the Temporary Offices of the Company,
i 9, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street, London ; where also applica-
tions for shares, addressed to the Provisional Committee, will be
attended to.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SIIAKES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Nottingham, Birmingham, and

Coventry Rnllvay,

_ ......___
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares of 201.
each, in the above railway ; and I undertake to accept the same,
or such loss number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the
ro4ulations of the Company, and to sign the necessary deeds, and to
pay when required the deposit thereon of 21. 2s. per share.
Dated this day of 1845.
Profession and professional residence in full
Residence in full • • • • • • • • • • • ..... ........
Zaferences ••.• •• •• •• .. ..

At Staunton Harold and Calke exist rich veins of lead ore, new in
hill course of working.

The properties of the llreedon, Staunton Harold, and Ticknall lime
are so well knowk to agriculturists and others, that an extension of
traffic for so valuable a commodity i►to mare remote districts must
be of the utmost importance to the practical farmer.

In approaching the Trent, on leaving the lime distrist, the Grand
Trunk will fall in with most valuable quarries of millstone grit, ser-
viceable for paving and building purposes, and for which a ready
market would be found along the line. The eountry also abounds
In gypsum, of which immense quantities are used in Birming-
ham and elsewhere : these markets will thus become opened for the
quarries at Chells,ston.
I new and extensive outlet will also be opened for the
earthenware
of Wooden Box and Griesley Potteries.
• • • • •

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Until the Act of Parliament be obtained, the affairs will be under
the control of the Committee of Management, to whom. power is
given to allot the shares and apply the funds of the Company in
payment of all proper expenses in the formation of the Company and
otherwise.
Power will be applied for in the Act, and in the meantime the
Committee of anagement take power, to alter or extend the lines,
to make branch lines, to abandon any part of the line, to raise addi-
tional sapital, and to enter into arrangements
with any other Com-
pany or Companies.
Application for shares mast be made in the usual form to the soli-
citors to the Company, Messrs. Watts, Galsworthy, sworthy, and Galsworthy,
GI
19, Ely-place, Holborn, London ; to the Secretary, at the Offices of
the Company, 3, Adelaide-place, Loudon-bridge ; and to the fol-
lowing

West soLiciroas.
Messrs, Keen and Band, Stafford
Thomas Bolton, Esq., Wolverhampton
E. Kern Jarvis, Esq., Hinckley
Messrs. Keary and Sheppard, Stoke-upon-Trent
Thomas Pidilock, Esq.. Ashby-de-la-?.ouch
F. J. Hamel, Esq., TAIIIWOrth
John Perks, Esq., Barton-upon-Trent
Beauvoir Brock, Esq., Loughrough
Z
Charles riesley, Esq., Lichfibeold
Messrs. Moore and Gregory, LeiceSter.
Also to the following :

'
London—Messrs. Hill, FAWscßeAttß,Eannir Threadneedle-street
Messrs. Harris and Sons, 'Change-fey
Mr. A. Sym, Tokenhouse-yard
Liverpool—Messrs. Townley and Whitehead
Bristol—Messrs. Tate and Nash
Leeds—Mr. James Jamieson and Mr. W. ermileim
3lessrs. Weatherburn and Jennings
Birmingham—Mr. J. H. Lane
Newcastle--Mr. W. W. Dickinson
Bradford—Mr. William Mason
Sheffield—Messrs. Bardwell and Sens
Hull—Mr. Francis Stamp
Wakefield—Mr. S. 11. Armitage
Nottingham—Hr. C. Spencer
Worcester—Mr. W. Miles
York—Messrs. Grayston and Erle
Blackburn—Mr. Thomas Boardman
Southampton—Mr. Joseph Clark, km
Exeter—Messrs. 11. Beaumont and Co.
Edinburgh—Mr. Charles Cooper, 30, St. Andrew's-square
Cheltenham—Mr. James Stokes
Leicester—Messrs. Williams and Sunderland Messrs. Eagiefleki
and Co
Nevecastle-uudor-Lyne--3.1.r. Tomkinson

GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY,'
Forming a connecting line between the Midland n 1 Grand OTTINGTIA
i N ' MANSFIELD
LAND JUNCTION RAILWAY
'..a7,ouch to NotiCe.—The Applicants for Shares in this RAlL`i'dy,
and ' -
bletianiglwattbyisarteo requestedp
Junction Railways, with a Branch (rem Ashby-dela
1 to receive the regret of the Directors at not
Derby
there any. The few remaining Shares will be allotted to those wily
who are locally interested in the undertaking.
By order,

(Provisionally Registerel.
Capital 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 2e/ each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.
PAQVISIONAL COIITEE.
Sir John Edmund De Beauvoir, BartMlT
Connaught-terrace, H,
Park
,*Carlton"7,
Francis Valentine Lee, Esq., Chester-place, Regent's Park, Director
of the Eastern Counties Railw..y
William
SHusoseusexigtaerrdraecens:
ellhyadirie
nPaarnke,f Dthl,2-
e E. Eci
rector of the Oxford, Gosport, and Southampton Railway
Andrew
GarrettSt
Irish North Midland Railway
Barnet Laurence Phillips,, Ettq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park,
Director of the Direct Western Railway
SimpsonP°ti Putter,'
-
Valentine Knight, Esq.. 3, Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, Director
of the Dendre Valley Railway
henry
Esq,. Director of the Newport and Abergayenny
Ra::way
Hugh Henel'all Williamson, Esq., Greenway Bank, Newea.stle-under-
Lyme. Deputy .Lieutenant for the county of Stafford
John Robinson, Esq., Silcoats Cottage, Wakefield, Director of the
Bradford, Wakefield, and Midland Railway, and of the Leeds, York,
and PI idland Junction lieilway
Stephen Hutchison, Feq., 1-0114011 Gas Works, Vauxhall
John Shaw, Req., Wolverhampton, Director of the South Stafford-
shire Junction Railway
Daniel *Mahon, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway
Samuel Walker, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the South Staf-
fordshire Junction Railway
Thomas Timmiee, Esq., Wolverhampton
Thomas Randle Andrews, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of She
Shrewsbury and Grand Junction Railway
William Griffiths, Esq., Park House, Wellington, Salop, Director of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Woreeetershire Railway
Herbert Broom, Req., Kidderminster, and Essex-court, Temple
Caleb Norris, Req., Leneaster-place, Strand, Director of the Exeter,
Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway
John Hayes, Esq., South-fields, Leicester
Charles J. 3Jason, Esq., Fenton, Staffordshire Potteries, Director of
the South I.7ltion and Birmingham Junction Railway
Joseph Henr*Esry., South-street, Finsbury, Director of the London,
Hounelow, end 'Western Railway
Edward Chilton. er4q., Clorestel, Ireland, Director of the Coventry,
Nuneaton, and Leicester way
William It. Costello, Esq.. NV; llouse, Middlesex, Director of the
Direct Londen and Exeter Railway
Martin Stutly, Ese., 6, Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park, Director
of the Direet Western, Dublin and Belfast, and London and South
Essex Railways.
Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brembo Iran Works, Wrexham, North
Wales, and Cannon-street, Director of the Oxford, South-
ampton, Gosport and Portsmouth, and Direct Western Railways.
Thomas Wynne, Esq., Longton, Staffordshire, Director of the South
Union and Birmingham Junction Railway
Henry Dedson,Esq., Suffolk House, Upper Tulsa-hill, Director of the
Grand Junction, Great Western, and South-Western Junction
Railways
Joseph Loxdale Warren, Esq., the Lodge, Market Drayton, and Con-
call Hall, nearCheadle, Director of the Manchester and Liverpool
District Bank, and Director of the Cambrian and Grand Junction
Railway
Alfred Brodie, Eigle Upper Montagu-street, Montagu-square
Robert Chaplin, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Edward Mammatt, Esq.. Ashby-de-la-Zouch
John Beavington, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
T. S. Kirkland, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Thomas Cantrell, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
William Mathew, Esq., Staunton Harold, Lessee of the Staunton
Harold Coal, Lead, and Lime Works
Joseph Rostock, Esq., Breedon-on-11111, Lessee of the Breeden Lime
Works
James Reeves, Esq., 150, Cheapeide, Director of the Direct London
and Manchester Railway
Harvey Wyatt, %Esq., Acton-hill, Stafford, Director of the Trent
Valley, Midlands and Grand Junction Railways, and of the Dudley,
Madeley, Brossely, and Iron Bridge Railway
Benjamin Payne, Esq., Leicester, Director of the Rugby, Warwick,
and Worcester Railway, and the Leicester and Birmingham Direct
Railway
Thomas Farmer Cooke, Esq., Leicester, Director of the Rugby, War-
wick, and Worcester Railway, and the Leiceeter and Birmingham
Direct Railway
John Carter, Esq., F.R.A.S., Park Lodge, Stockwell, Director of the
Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Junction Coast Railway
Joseph Carrington Ridgway, Esq., Roehampton Lodge
Edward Tylecote, Esq., Great Heywood, Staffordshire
William Field, Esq., Rugeley, Staffiardshire
Samuel Gindere, Esq., Ingestre, Staffordshire, Agent to the Right
Hon. the Earl of Talbot, K.G.
R. S. J. Winterton, Esq., Sketchley Hall, near Hinckley, a Magis-
trate of the County, Director of the Coventry, Naneaton, and
Leicester Railway
James Morrison, Esq., St. Mary-at-hill, Director of the Bridgewater
and Minehead Railway
C. H. Rogers Harrison, Esq., Upper Montagu.street, Montagu-square
George Augustus M`Dermott, Esq., Chesterton Hall, near Newcastle-
under-Lyne
Captain Macdougall, Fir Grove, North Brixton
James Lamb, Esq., Hyde Park-square
Wm. Tulloch Fraser, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square
Wm. Clode Bradiloll, Esq, Regency-square, Brighton
John Lowe, Esq., Norfolk-crescent, Hyde Park
John Griffith Frith, Esq.. Chairman of the Londonderry and Cole-
raine Railway
Major-General Parlby, C.E., Rutland-gate, Director of the London,
Bristol, and South Wales Railway, and Manchester and Rugby
Railway
George Parbury, Esq., Mansfield House, Russell-square
John Anderson, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway, and Tring. Reading, and Basingstoke Railway -
Samuel Griffiths, Esq., Penn Fields, Wolverhampton
Henry Turner, Esq., Brewood Hall, Brewood, Staffordshire, Director
of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
Henry Scott, Esq., Banker, Waterford, and 17, Pall-mall
Lewis Adanils, Esq., Raeford Hall, Stoke-upon-Trent
Thomas Miller, jun., Esq., Banker, Leicester.
George Harrison, Esq.. F.S.A., Director of the Hull and Holyhead
Railway
Shirley Palmer, Esq., Tamworth, Director of the Leicester and Tam

Mansfield, Sept. 26, 1845.

T. H. RIGBY', Secretary,