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tagsiC,aa,pvi,tal, 350,0001., in 14,0110 Shares of 251. each.
and Eastern C
John Deposit, I/. 7s. 6d. per Share.
COMMITTEE OF DIRECTION.
ECILISqn
Wm. Bardgett, Esq., London, Director of the Italian and Austrian
I,ieLsoinidaoili,i,,,aDyirceocintopraonfitehse Northern and Eastern
Railway Company
Wm. Braoloy, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield
and Manchester, and Huddersfield and Sheffield, Railway Compa-
nies
Geo. Hunt, Esq., Southampton
W: J. Lefevre, Esq., Septhampton
Edward Lomer, Esq., SOuthampton •
W. J. 31`Guire, Esq., Loudon •
R. H. Purcell, Esq., London
Geo. Rougemont, Esq„ London, Director of the Paris and Caen Rail-
way Company
J. Stewart,-Esq., M.P.,Director of the Paris and Caen, and Northern
of France Railway ompanies
BANKERS.
Messrs. Robarts, Curtis and Co., London
The Hampshire Bank, Southampton
JOINT SOLICITORS. •
John Bell, Esq., Craven street, London
W. H. Moberley, Esq., Southampton
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT.JaMeS Coppock, Esq., 3, Cleveland-row
ENGINEER IN CHIEF—
ACTING ENGINEERS—Messrs. Birch, Cannon-row, London
The Act for the formation of the Wilts and Somerset Railway
having passed the Legislature, the Directors of "the present under-
taking propose to take up that line at Salisbury, and join it by a direct
Railway communication of twenty-one miles on the broad gauge,
with the Important town and port of Southampton. The line has
been carefully surveyed by experienced parties, and as it presents
no engineering or other difficulties (the chief landowners being most
favourably disposed towards it) the Directors have the fullest con-
fide ce that t .e estimates for its construction, &c., will not be ex-
ceeded, while the statistics of traffic are so abundant, both through
and local, (a detailed statement of which may be seen at the office),
as to leave no doubt on the minds of the Directors that a most sa-
tisfactory dividend will be realised, to arise from the large number of
passengers that must embark and disembark at Southampton, to and
from the East and West Indies, the Mediterranean, France, the
Southern States of Europe, the Channel Islands, Isle of Wight, &c.,
as well as the large supplies of iron, coal, slate, stone for building,
flour, grain, and merchandise, constantly required to be transported
to, and received at Southampton, either for use there, for exporta-
tion, or for the consumption in that part of the interior of the country
traversal by the number of railways in connexion with, or springing
from, the present line.
The route of the proposed line will pass through commons and
lands of little value ; it will proceed from the stnton of the Wilts,
Somerset, and Weymouth Railway, at Fisherton Anger, and proceed
by or near to Downton, Plaitford, over Hampworth and East Willow
Commons, by Bramshaw to Redbridge, taking the line of the old
Canal at Millbrook, and crossing the Mudlands to the Royal Pier.
Southampto-i, contiguous to which, and on the present waste shore.
it is proposed to erect a spacious Terminus, the cost of which is in-
cluded in the estimate.
It is also proposed to place the Railway in communication with the
Royal Pier and Town Quays, so that the convenience of loading and
unloading on tile line may be secured.
A certain number of Shares will be reserved for the Proprietors
of the Wilts and Somerset Railway.
Appl,cations for Shares, according to the annexed form, may be
addressed to the respective Solicitors, or to the Secretary, at the
Offices of the Company, No 26, Gresham-street.
H. B. SHERIDAN, Secretary.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Wilts, Somerset, and
Southampton Junction Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot to me Shares in the
proposed Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Junction Railway, and
I agree to accept that or any less number that you may please
to allot me, and I undertake to pay the deposit of 11. 7s. 6d. per
Share on the same, and to sign the Subscribers' Agreement and
the- Parliamentary Contract when required.
Dated this day of
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SHREWSBURY,
DUDLEY, and BIRM

W. ORMSBY GORE,
The lion. R. H. CLIVE,
John Benbow, Esq., M.P.
W. R. Collett, Esq., M P.
William F. Black, Esq.

WOLVERHAMPTON;
:INGHAM RAILWAY.
Esq., M.P., Chairman
31. P., Deputy-Chairman
S. Phillips Esq.
Richard Smith, Esq.
R. A. Slanev, Esq.
Sir William Young, Bart.

James Clay, Esq.
R. Norman, Esq.
The Committee of Management, in acquainting their Shareholders
that the necessary preparations are being made to prosecute this un-
dertaking in the next session of Parliament, have also the satisfaction
of stating, that while considerable engineering improvements will be
made in the line, the main features which obtained for it the favour-
able report of the Board of Trade, will be preserved. The Committee
are in negotiation with the London and Birmingham Railway Com-
pany and the Birmingham Canal Company, for the construction of
the portion of the main Pile from Birmingham to Wolverhampton, on
the banks of the Canal, the result of which will be advantageous to
the Shareholders in the saving of cost and distance on this portion of
the line ; the whole line will also be constructed with the additional
assistance and superintendence of Mr. R. Stephenson.
The Committee have also determined upon the construction of a
branch from the main line to the mining district of Coalbrook Dale,
in connexion with other projected railways, and also in extending the
main line from Shrewsbury to join a railway which has been pro-
jected by the Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Company, to Welsh-
pool and Newtown. Full powers will be taken in the new Parlia-
mentary contract and subscribers' agreement for these purposes, and
to undertake other branches and extensions, which the Committee
have In contemplation, with a view to ensure a profitable return to
the proprietors.
The subscribers' agreement and contract, requisite for complying
with the Standing Orders of Parliament in the next session, will lie
for signature at the Company's office, from Monday, the 7th of July,
until Saturday, the 19th, after which they will be transmitted to the
Company's agents in the country.
The Committee are happy to be able to state that the local interest
in favour of this railway continues unabated ; and, as far as they can
at present form a judgment, they are satisfied that no further de-
posit will be required for prosecuting the Bill in the next session of
Parliament..

By order, GEORGE KNOX, Secretary.
Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Offices,
3, Moorgate-street, 27th June, 1845.

HRE W SBURY WOLVERHAMPTON,
DUDLEY, and BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.
The Shareholders in this Company must lodge their Scrip Certifi-
cates at least One clear Day before calling to sign the Subscribers'
Agreement and Parliamentary Contract, when they will receive new
scrip certificates in exchange.
By order, GEORGE KNOX, Secretary.
Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Offices,
3, Moorgate-street, June 27,1845.

Sii REWS BU R Y WOLVERHAMPTON,
DUDLEY, and BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.
Shareholders in this Company who have inadvertently had their
scrip certificates stamped by a company called the " Birmingham
and Shrewsbury Amalgamated Company," are hereby informed that
such CERTIFICATES can be EXCHANGED for the new scrip,
notwithstanding their having been so defaced.
By order, •- GEORGE KNOX, Secretary.
Offices of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway,
3, Moorgate-street, July 3, 1845.

BIRMINGHAM DUDLEY, and WOL -
VERHAMPTON RAlLWAY.—Extension from Smethwick,
through Cradloy to Stourbridge, there to join the London, Worces-
ter, and South Staffordshire Railway.—The object of this extension
is to connect the large mineral and manufacturing district of the
Valley of the Stour with Birmingham, and the lines of railway cen-
tering there.

This scheme, in conjunction with the London and Worcester and
South Staffordshire Railway, will afford the greatest facility of com-
munication to the lowas and manufactories along the whole Valley
of the Stour, with Birmingham asd the principal markets In the Mid.
land districts.

Application will be made to Parliament in the next aession, for a
Bill to authorise the construction of this extension.—Dated 13th
June, 1845.

INGLEBY, WRAGGE, and COPE ,1 Solicitors to the Birmingham.
S. CARTER, Dudley, and Wolverhamp•
- ton Railway.

DERBY, UTTOXETER, AND STAFFORD
RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 500,000/., in 20,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 1/. 7s. 6d. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Worshipful the Mayor of Stafford
William Barber, Esq., St. Paul'. Churchyard, and Kensington
Wiliam Bardgett, Esq., Winchester-house,Droad street
William F. Black, Esq., wilt° -
William F. Brown, n-place, Belgrave-square
Esq., Leytonstone, Essex
Hairy Weech Burgess, Esq., Temple Park, Hampstead
Millis Coventry, Esq., Lombard-street, Director of the Britannia
Life Assurance Company
James Cook, Esq., Stafford
Colonel Robert Douglas, C. 8,, Senior United Service Club
John Earp, Esq., Uttoxeter
Francis Ede, Esq., Director of the Direct Northern Rail Way
E. R. Foster, Esq., Clement's-lane, Lombard-street, Director of the
Britannia Life Assurance Company
William Fowke, Esq., Alderman, Stafford
Francis Bennett Goldney, Esq., St. Paul's Churchyard, and Manor
House, Brixton
Edward Harvey, Esq., alltspur-street, London, and Raleigh House,
Brixton
John Illidge, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, Bethel
House, Brixton
Edward Knight, Esq., M.D., Stafford
Richard Corbett Lawrence, Esq., Lees-hill, Uttoxeter
John Litbgoe, Esq., Stafford
Edward Lloyd, Esq., Alderman, Stafford
John Masfen, Esq., F.R.C.S., Stafford
Peter Morrison, Esq., 1, Prince's-street, Bank, London
William Nash, Esq., Chairman of the Brighton, Lewes and Hastings,
Railway Company, and late Vice-Chairman of the London and
Brighton
John Painter, Esq., Dean's-hill, Stafford
The Rev. J. Pinfold, Rectory, Broomshall, Uttoxeter
and Ely Railway
Foster Reynolds, Esq., Director of the Lynn
Captain G. Smith, Park-street, Regent's Park
Henry L.
L Smale, Esq , Director of the South-Eastern Railway
Herbert Taylor, Esq., .• M •D. Uttoxeter
i-rise
James Templer, Esq., Brix oi
Samuel Tudor, Esq., 166 and 167, Upper Thames-street, and Hull
Sir William White, Director of the Church of England Life Assur.
ance Company
With power to add to their number.
ENGINEER—W. M. Higgins, Esq., C.E.
SOLICITORS.
Owen Gray, Esq., and John B. Illidge, Esq.,
25, Great Tower-streel
London.

LOCAL AGENTS. .
C. Flint, Esq., Town Clerk, Stafford ; Thomas Richardson, Esq., So-
licitor, Uttoxeter.
vett and Fowler,•
has been projected to complete the chain of
-street, London.
13Ammus—Messrs. Dre't princes
This line of railway
communication between the Eastern and Midland Counties of
parts En-
gland of the Island. 13
land and the Western Y this important scheme
a direct communication will be opened from the Eastern Counties,
through Derby and Stafford, to Chester and Liverpool, by the Grand'
Junction Railway—to North Wales and Holyhead, by the projected
Trent Valley Continuation--and to Central Wales, by the Manchester
and Birmingham Continuation. It may, therefore, be certainly an-
ticipated that all, or nearly all the through traffic from Norfolk,
Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, and the Southern parts of Yorkshire,
to Liverpool, Shropshire, Cheshire, North and Midland Wales,
Ire-
land, and the West of Scotland, must pass over this line.
On reference to the map, it will be seen that the most important of
the existing and projected railways in the East of England centre at
Derby, and those on the Western coast at Stafford. The proposed
railway will supply the important desideratum of a direct line of com-
munication between these two great railway centres.
Independent, however, of the through traffic, which is sufficient
of itself not only to justify but to compel the formation of a railway
from Derby to Stafford, the projected line will supply a much-wanted
means of communication between large commercial and manufac-
turing t•twns, and accommodate the Inhabitants of an exceedingly
populous district. The local traffic alone will be sufficient to afford
an ample return upon the capital invested; and as this railway must,
from its important position, command, in addition, a great amount of
through traffic, there is no doubt it will prove a most desirable in•
vestment.
The country has been carefully surveyed, and the line can be con-
structed at an exceedingly moderate cost, not only without inter-
ference with, but greatly assisting the existing and projected lines
with which it will be connected.
The usual clause will be inserted to limit the responsibility of the
shareholders to the amount of their respective subscriptions.
In consequence of several influential gentlemen in Stafford and
Uttoxeter having recently been added to the Provisional Committee,
it has been thought proper to extend the time of application for
shares from parties locally interested to the 15th instant, when the
list vtill be finally closed. The Committee beg to intimate that the
to allot to the public will number of shares they will be able
neces-
sarily be very limited.
Londou, July 3, 1845.