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LETTERS of CE.F4DIT on INDIA.—The
UNION BANK of LONDON, as Agents for the Oriental
Bank, are authorised to ISSUE LETTERS of CREDIT for any
Moneys paid to them, to be re-paid in rupees at the current rate of
exchange on the day of presentation at the offices of the Oriental
Bank, in Bombay, Calcutta, and Colombo. Similar Letters of Credit
may be obtained at any of the branches of the National Bank of
Sc. Hand, and of the Provincial Bank of Ireland.
By Order of the Directors,
W. W. SCRI3IGEOUR, Manager.
Union of London, No. 2, Princes-street, Mansion House.

Edinburgh—Messrs.M'Culluin and Co., and Messrs. Robertson and Co.
Glitsgow—Messrs. Tasste and Co.
Hull—Messrs. Collins4nson and Flint, and Mr. Henry Corlass
Wakefield—Mr. Nightingale, and Mr. Charles Clapham
Halifax—Messrs. Crowther and Brooke, and Mr. Hartley
Bradford—Mr. Mason
Gloucester—Mr. J.lf. Balms
Blackburn—Mr. Booth
Birmingham—Mr. Collis, and Mr. John Wright
Bristol—

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional pirectors.of the Cambridge and Lincoln Exten-
sion, anti Lincoln, York, and Leeds Junction Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me Shares of
201. each in the capital of this Company, and I undertake to accept
the same, and pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that
may be allotted to me ; and I also undertake to execute the Sub-
scribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contract wheu required.
Residence.....• • • • .
Profession or Ceiling • •• • • • ..... • • • • • • • • • • •
Address of Referee................................
Date• .. • • • •

PRELIMINARY NOTICE.
RAILWAY BANKING COMPANY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 2,50),0001., in Shares of 5001. each.
. Deposit, 21. 10s.
The, promoters of the above Company have the satisfaction of in-
forming the numerous inquirers that preparation is now being made
to carry out their wishes.

The object of the promoters is to open a Deposit and Discount
Bank, to assist shareholders in making good their calls, and to afford
general information on every subject relating to railways.
Application for shares may be made, and every information ob-
tained, by applying t, F. W. Pike, Esq., solicitor, 26, Bedford-row.

CA'SIBRIDGE and LINCOLN EXTENSION,
and LINCOLN, YORK, and LEEDS JUNCTION RAIL-
WAY, with a Branch to DONCASTER.

CA.MBRIDGE aid 'LINCOLN EXTENSION,
and LINCOLN, YORK, and LEEDS JUNCTION RAIL-
WAY, with a BRANCH tor DONCASTER.
Parties having applied for Shares in the Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Railway, will be considered ,as continuing them. In the above Com-
pany unless their applications are ,WITHDRAWN on or before the
30th instant. By order,
JOHN BLACKBURN, Leeds.
C. B. JAMES, 5, Basinghall-street, London.'

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 1,200,0001., in 60,000 Shares of 201. each,
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Lord Viscount Dillon, Belgrave-square, London, and Ditchley, Oxon
Lord George Paget, 'Uxbridge House
Sir William Henry Clarke, Bart., Baker-street, Portman-square,
Director of the Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railway
Sir'Henry Webbe, Bart., Pall-mall, Director of the Rugby, Warwick,
and Worces'er Railway -
Major-General l'arlby, C. 8., 18, Rutland-gate, Director of the Wor-
cester and Crewe, and Shropshire Union Railways
Major Beiesford, M.P., 77, Pall-mall
Admiral Aysc ugh, Southampton, Director of the South and Mid.
lands' Junction Railway
Hugo Charlesi Meynell Ingram, Esq., Temple, Newsam, Leeds
J. E. Atkirron, E,q., J. P., Leeds
James Holdforth, Esq., J.P.. Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Liver-
pool Direct, and Leeds, York and Midland Railways
Richard Holocon,,Eaq., M.D., Leeds
Joseph Robert SVllkin Atkinson, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leices-
ter and Bedford, and Rugby and Huntingdon Railways
John Ellershaw, Esq., Roundhay, Leeds
Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds, York and Midland,
and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
William Singleton, Esq., Leeds, Director of the South and Midlands'
Junction, and Leeds and Liverpool Direct Railways
Charles Hives, Esq., Chapel Allerton, Leeds
John Wilkinson, Esq., Gledhow Mount, Leeds, Director of the Leeds
and Liverpool Direct Railway
Thomas Heatherington Baker, Esq., Leeds
George Young, Esq., Ridge House, Leeds
William Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Oxford and Worcester
Extension, and West Midland Railways
Joseph Austin, Esq, Leeds
John Hillary Hebblethwaite, Esq., Thorp Arch, near Leeds
Richard Harrison, Esq., Woodlesford, Leeds
Charles Reynard, Esq., Hob-green, Ripley
The Worshipful the Mayor of Ripon
S. Pencoffs, Esq., Manchester
Joseph Clarke, Esq., Sherburn, near Ferrybrldge
The Worshipful the Mayor of Doncaster
Sir Gregory allnut Lewin, Recorder of Doncaster
Josept. Bliley, Esq , Alderman, Doncaster, late Mayor of Doncaster
Frederick Fisher, Esq., Westfield House, Doncaster, Member of the
Corporation
William Cooper, Esq., Doncaster
Frederick, William Flack, Esq., Gainsborough
William Lister Sharpe, Esq., Gainsborough
Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsboraugh
Henry Hall, Esq., Gainsborough
John Hepworth Hill, Esq., Leeds, Recorder of Pontefract
Francis Valentine Lee, Esq., Temple, Director of the Eastern Coun-
ties Railway
Richard Dutton, Esq., London, Director of the South and Midlands'
Junction, and West Midland Railways
Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., Clopton House, Warwickshire, Director
of the Warwickshire and London Railway
Thomas Chitty, Esq., 8, Upper Gower-street, Director of the Rugby
and Worcester Railway
Cap•ain T. Hodges, 65, Connaught-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of
the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
W. F. Beadon, Req., John-street, Berkeley-square, Director of the
Essex and Suffolk Railway
Thomas H. Evans, Esq., Lothbnry, Mayor okCaniarvon, Director of
the Rugby and Worcester Railway
Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the
London and Westminster Bank, and of the Namur and Liege, and
South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Captain T. Chamfer, Halken-street, Belgrave-square, Director of the
Great Paris and Lyons Railway
Joseph Bishop, Esq.; Director of the Blackwall Railway
Robert Jas. Culverwell, Esq., M.D., 5, New Bread-street
Alexander Greig, Esq., Lownde's-street, Belgrave-square, Director
of the Leicester and Birmingham Railway
William Shaw, Esq., London, Managing Director of the Farmer's
Life Insurance Company
John Anderson, Esq., Director of the Church of England Life In-
surance, and South and Midlands' Junction Railway
John James, Esq., Secondary of the City of London
James Beech, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place, and Brandon Lodge, Co-
ventry, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Joseph Underwood, Esq., The Hall, Blackheath, Director of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and Director of the London
and Birmingham Extension Railway Company
G. Norbury, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
. P. Courtenay, Esq., Temple, Director of the Legal and Commer-
cial Life Insurance Company
Clarkson Stanfield, Esq., R-A., Mornington-place, Hampstead-road
John Helhert Holbert, Esq., Gloucester-place, London, Director of the
Leicester and Birmingham Railway
Rev. F. R. Hall, D.D., Rector of Fulbourne, Cambridge
William Spooner, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, Director of
the Newcastle and Liverpool Railway
J. M. Cottle, Esq., Leamington, Director of the Coventry, Nuneaton,
and Leicester Railway
Captain William Cousins, Director of the Goole and Doncaster
Railway
George Parhury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Leeds and
Carlisle Railway
Gemee STtltam I.:lllicit Potter, Earl., Ideooria...,— sCttae Only afLnadeq
JOhn catramen rytmer, t
tor of the Birkenhead and Holyhead Railway
Charles Robert Colman, Esq., Irongate Wharf, London
William Shaw, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment Company,
and Managing Director of the Farmers' Life Insurance Company
W. F. Fraser, Esq., Manchester-square, Director of the Manchester
and Rugby Railway
John Brocke Walbanke, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands'

Sept. 22, 1845,

LONDON, HOUNSLOW, AND WESTERN
RAILWAY.

The PARLIAMENTARY and SUBSCRIBERS DEEDS are
LYING for EXECUTION at the Offices of the Company, and the
scrip is ready for delivery In exchange for the bankers' receipts.
Due notice will be given of the Hines and places at which the deeds
Will lie for execution in the country.
The deposit of 10 per cent. has been paid, being one of the first in-
stances of a compliance with the recent standing order of the House
of Lords requiring a deposit of 10 per cent.
The surveys are in a forward state, and the Committee are pro-
ceeding to enter into conditional contracts for the purchase of the
property on the line.
JOHN MASSON, Secretary.
Lund n, Hounslow, arstiVisterit Railway Offices, "rt

7, Wa!brook.

G RAND UNION RAILWAY,
COMMITTEE OF DIRECTION.
Sir George G. IL Larpent, Bart., Chairman
Wynn Ellis, Esq., M.P.
William Hutt, Esq., M.P.
The Mayor of Nottngham
Thomas Calvert Braseley, Esq., Hurston, near Grantham
Jonathan Burton, Esq., Nottingham
Frederick Cooke, Esq., Boston
William Gibson, Esq., Nottingham
Mr. Thomas Gee, Nottingham
Frederick Plant, Esq., Nottingham
Frederick Fowler Robertson, Esq., Grantham
Henry Smyth, Esq., Nottingham
Thomas Wakefield, Esq., Nottingham.
ENGINEER IN Chap—Charles Vigil°les, Esq., F.R.A.S., M.R.I.A.
ACTING ENGINEER—George Thompson, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Capes and Stuart, Gray's Inn, London.
Messrs. W, and S. Parsons, jun., Nottingham.
M. Staniland, Esq., Boston.
Messrs. White, Kewney, and White, Grantham.
PAntLimENTaxy Autorrs--Messrs. Dorrington, Hayward, and Co.,
Parliament-street
The Directors have the satisfaction to inform their Shareholders
that arrangements have been concluded with the Norfolk Company
for an extension of the line from Wisbeach, via Downbam Market,
to Brandon, thus completing an independent line of communication
from Yarmouth and Norwich to Nottingham and the manufacturing
districts, and securing by the alliance the passing of the traffic over
the entire portion of the Grand Union and Extension Line referred
to. The distance between Nottingham and Yarmouth by the pro-
pssed extension will be as short as by the Lynn and Dereham and
Lynn and Ely lines, while the traffic to and from the north, from the
central, west, and south parts of Norfolk, the north of Cambridge-
shire, and the counties of Suffolk and Essex, will be secured for the
united undertaking.
The Extension Line will be made by the two Companies jointly,
and the shares will be apportioned amongst the respective share-
holders of each.
It is intended that the Norfolk and Grand Union Companies should
guarantee four per cent dividend, with a division of profits to the
shareholders of the new line.
The direction will consist of an equal number of gentlemen from
the Norfolk and Grand Union boards, and Mr. Robert Stephenson
will co-operate with Mr. Vignoles as engineer of the line.
Further particulars will be shortly advertised.
By order, ALFRED BEESTON, Secreary.

11) RIDGWATER and MINEHEAD JUNC-
-1 TION RAILWAY COMPANY, uniting the Bristol and Eng-
lish Channels, and forming a direct communication between the
South of Ireland and Wales, with Bristol and Lor don. and also with
the South-Eastern and Western Coasts of England, Paris, and the
Channel Islands.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 500,000/. in 25,000 shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
Liability expressly limited to the amount of subscription ; and it
is intended to make no further call until the Act of Parliament is
obtained.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. the Lord Sherborne, Sherborne, Gloucestershire
Sir Henry Seale, Bart., Mount Boone, Dartmouth
Sir John Rangier, F.R.S., Walton, near Saffron Waldron, Deputy-
Lieutenant of the county of Essex
Colonel Luttrell, Kilve Court, near Minehead
Edward Aysfurd Sandford, Esq., Nynchead-court, near Taunton
George William Blvtliwalte, Esq., Dyrham Park, Gloucestershire
John Halliday, Esq., Chapel Cleeve, near Minehead,Magistrate of the
county of Somerset
John Cridland, Esq., Spring-grove Park, near Wiveliscombe, Magis-
trate for the county of Somerset
Henry William Chichester, Esq., Rose House, Bampton, Devon
Charles Bailey, Esq., 5, Stratford-place, London
R. Beaden Buller, Eq., Nether Stowey, Somerset
Edwin Ley, Est Penzance, Cornwall
naaplal IUWIL ..,
111,1taitl Mum', 1133 q., szapowner,
E. F. Dayrell, Esq., of Lillingstone Dayrell, and 15, Old Cavendish-
street, London, High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire
W. S. Fitzwilllam, Esq., Pinner's Hall, Broad-street, merchant
W. Revell Vigers, Esq., 50, Russell-square, and Alderman's-walk,
raerchant
W. S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park
James Morrison, Esq., 28, St. Mary-at-hill, merchant
James Calhoun, Esq., 5, Half-moon-street, Piccadilly, and St. Peter's
chambers, Cornhill, merchant
Samuel Pocock, Esq., Bloomsbury-square, and St. Bride's-wharf
Anthony Mervyn Storey Maskclyne, Esq., Gianusk House, Brecon-
shire
F. W. Green, Esq., shipewner, Cornhill
W. F. Beadon, Esq., 11, John-street, Berkeley-square
W. Strahan, Esq., Banker, Strand.
Office-3, Alderman's-walk, New Broad-street.
SOLICITORS.
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Junction Railway
Major Morse Cooper, Director of the South and Midland? Junction
Railway, Wargrave, Henley-on-Thames
James Burners. Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Exten-

. ,
sion, and of the Staffor,ishlre Potteries line, and London and Liver-
pool Direct R dlway, 64, Cornhill, London
Vero Clarke Kemball, Esq., Chester-plaee, Hyde Park-gardens,
I)irector of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Samu.l Griffith, Esq., Pense-fields, Wolverhampton, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Railway
Charles R. Court, Esq., Leamington, Director of the Coventry and

Birmingham Railway
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield
Richard Kelly, Esq.. Chairman of the Ross, Carlow, and Kilkenny
Junction Railway, and Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
James Reeves, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junction

Messrs. A'Beckett, Son, i:_4lPson, 7, Golden-square.
Mr. Vaughan Prance, Nether Stowey and Bridgwater.
MANAGING DIRECTORS.
E. F. DAYRELL, Esq., Chairman.
Charles Bailey, Esq. James Colhoun, Esq.
W. S. Fitzwilliam, Esq. W. S. Potter, Esq.
W. F. Beadon, Esq. Samuel Pocock, Esq.
F. W. Green, Esq. James Morrison, Esq.
W. R. VIGERS, Esq., Deputy Chairman
SEcairreror—Mr. Edward Parratt.
BANKERS.
_

Railway
Warren Stormes Hale, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester
Extension Railway
Colonel Fitch, Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension
Railway
John Inglis Jerdein, Esq., Director of the Manchester, Rugby, and
Southampton Railway
Wiliam Hallett, Esq., Kemp Town, Brighton, Director of the South

Messrs. Strahan and Co.; and Messrs. Robarts and Co., London.
Messrs. Stuckey and Co., Bristol, Bridgwater, and Taunton.
In consequence of the favourable reception of this measure by
many important landowners and others locally interested, a number
of whom have become Members of the Provisional Committee, and
the additional evidence of the great traffic, the Managing Directors
have resolved upon adopting a Double, instead of a Single Line, and
increasing the capital to 500,000/., in 25,000 Shares, of 201. each, and
all applications for Sha-es received up to the present time will be
treated in the allotment as made upon the present capital, unless
recalled before the 27th instant.

and Mlcilands' Junction Ralway
John Dennis, Esq., Director of the Erewash Valley Extension

Railway
G. Oitrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley, and South and

Midland Junction Railways _
William Peppercorne, Esq., London, and Bexhill, Sussex
Thomas Calllngrldge, Esq., Highgate, Middlesex
J. Rennet Lucas, Esq., Manchester-street, Manchester-square
Willis Coventry, Esq., Director of the Britannia Life Assurance

Office
J. M. Douglas, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth Railway
Colonel Robert Douglas, C. 8., United Service Club, Director of Lon-
don and Birmingham Extension, and South Midlands' Junction
Railway
Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of South and Midland Junction
Railway
William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Chairman
of Church of England Life Insurance Company
John Andrews, Esq., E.1.C.5., Director of Church of England Life
Insurance and South Midlands' Junction Railway
John Moor, Esq., Tuthnry, Director of Teen anal Dove Valley, and
Buxton, Leek, and Staffordshire Potteries Railway
George Henry Brook, Esq., Edgulin LoJge, Huddersfield, Director of
the Hndderstield, liallfax and Bradford Railway
John Wheclton, Esq., Bath-street, Newgate-street, Director of
Leicester and Bedford Railway
R. S. Wilson, Esq., Olson Hall, Warwickshire
Major White, Pall-mall
Sir William Twisden, 41, Dorset-street, Portman-square
Captain Wm. Dawson, R.N., Barnes, Surrey, Director of the Rhondda
and Ely Valleys Junction Railway
William S. Potter, Esq., 37, Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Director of
the Leeds and Carlisle, and the Great Grimsby, Louth and Lincoln
Railways
William G. Harrison, Esq., Hill House, Surrey, Director of the W'ls-
beach, Peterborough, and Birmingham Railway
George R. Pye, Esq., Lavenham, Suffolk
Henry Chaytor, Esq., Chevereux Castle, Darlington, Director of the
Wisheach, Peterborough and Birmingham Railway
R. cray, Esq., 5, Adam-court, Broad-street, Director of the Oxford,
Wltney, and Cheltenham Extension Railway
Samuel Pocock, Esq., Bloomsbury-square, Director of the Bridge-
water and Minehead Railway

Applications for Shares, plans, prospectuses, and detailed informa-
tion, may be made at the Offices of the Company, No. 3, Alderman's-
walk, City, London; at the Offices of the Company's Solicitors,
Messrs. A'Beckett, Son, and Sympson, 7, Golden-square, London ;
Mr. Vaughan Prance, Nether Stowey and Bridgwater ; and of the
Local Agents—Mr. William Woodland, solicitor, Taunton ; Mr. N.
Pearce, solicitor, Wiveliscombe ; Mr. James Parsons, solicitor, Lang-
port; Messrs. Stone and Symonds, solicitors, Dorchester; Mr.
Thomas Phippard, solicitor, Wareham ; Mr. M. K. Welch, solicitor,
Poole ; Mr. Henry Poole, solicitor, Bristol ; and of the following
Stock and Share-brokers—Messrs. Tucker, Barnett, and Ellis, 11,
Birchln-lane ; and Messrs. Muggings and Lang, London; Messrs.
Hall, Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham ; Mr. John Morcom, Bristol;
Mr. Thomas Evans, Bath; Mr. Charles O'Neil, Manchester; Messrs.
H. Davies and Co., Liverpool ; Messrs. Chantrell and Boys, Leeds;
Messrs. Wilkinson and Earle, Hull ; Messrs. Labertouche and Staf-
ford, Dublin; Mr. Lilly, Bridgwater; Mr. R. Ball, Taunton; and Mr.
Richard Neville Parker, solicitor, Cork
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

To the Managing Directors of the Bridgwater and Minehead
Junction Railway Company.

Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of X2O
each in the above undertaking ; and I hereby undertake to accept the
same, or any less number you may allot to me, on the terms of the
prospectus, and to pay the deposit of 2/. 2s. per share, and all future
calls thereon, and to sign the Parliamentary contract and subscribers.
agreement, and other deeds, when required so to do.
Dated this day of , 1846.
Name in full.. .
Place of business..
Residence ..................
Profession or business ........ ....
Usual signature
Name, residence, toe., of referee in full..

Essex and Suffolk Railways
Thomas Gooch, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands'

(A further list will be published in a few days.)
BANKERS.

BRIDGWATER and MINEHEAD JUNC-
TION RAILWAY.

London—
Doncaster—Yorkahlre Banking Company
Leeds—Beckett and Co., and Leeda and Commercial Banking Com-
pany.
ENGINES/LS

Notice is hereby given, that no Application for Shares will be en-
tertained, unless the same be made in the form prescribed by the
Managing Directors ; and the applicants must also refer either to one
of the Provisional Committee, or to some person of known respecta-
bility.—Dated September 12, 1845. By order,

, and Messrs. George Leather and Son
SOLICITORS.
Leeds—John Blackburn, Esq.
London—W. B. James, Esq., 5, Bashighall-street.

Mes‘rs. A'BECKETT, SON: and SYMPSON ; and
VAUGHAN PRANCE, Solicitors to the Company.
Offices, 3, Alderman's-walk, Old Broad-street.

South and Midlands' Junction Railway's
W. Lee, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square
Robert Power, Esq., Queen-stmet, May-fair, Director of the Great

PAELIAMENTAIIT AGENT.—Messrs. Parratt and Walmsley, Palace-

Britain Life Assuiaiice Society
Admiral J. Ayscough, Prospect-place House, Southampton, Director
of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Joseph Thompson, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton. and
South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Major Grubbe, Eastweli House, Potterne, Wilts, Magistrate of the
County, and Director of the outh and Midiands'Junction Railway
Captain Seth N. Fisher, Director of the Warwick and Worcester, and
South and Midlands' Junction Railways
T. G. Norbury, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continua-
tion, and t,outh and Midlands' Junction Railways, and of the Legal
and Commercial Life Insurance Company
William Hallett, Esq., Kemp Town, Brighton, Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
John Brocke Walbancke, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands'

yard, Westminster

BRIDGWATER and MINE READ JUNC-
TION RAILW iY COMPANY.
Notice is hereby given, that no further Application for Shares in
this Company can be received after SATURDAY, the 27th inst.
By order, EDWARD PARRATT, Secretary.
Offices, 3, Alderman's-walk, Old Broad-street,
September 20, 1845.

While two gigantic projects are struggling for victory, which, if
obtained, would inevitably prove fruitless, the dense and wealthy
population between Lincoln and York, and between Lincoln and
Leeds, are left unsupplied with railway accommodation. Not less
ambitious cf accomplishing a great public benefit, the projectors of
the Lincoln, York, and Leeds Junction Railway have adopted Lin-
coln (with 30,000 inhabitants), York (with 40,000), and Leeds (with
152,000), as the termini of their line; and, calculating upon the ulti-
mate success of the Cambridge and Lincoln Bill la the ensuing ses-
sion of Parliament, propose to complete the whole line of rail from
London to York and Leeds by the execution of this design.
Leaving Lincoln, the proposed line will be taken by Saxelby and
Lea to Gainsborough, where it will cross the Trent, and thence to
Haxey-gate, whence a branch will issue to Doncaster. At this lat-
ter place a communication will be formed with projected lines from
Manchester and Sheffield to the port of Goole ; and by this arrange-
ment a communication will be opened with the inexhaustible coal
fields of Elsecar and Silkstone—a spe,des not inferior to that of Dur-
ham and Sunderland—as well as with the limestone quarries at
Warmsworth, so valuable for building purposes.
Proceeding to Thorne, the line reaches Snaith, and, continuing its
direct course westward to Selby, near to which it is crossed by the
Hull and Selby Railway, will have its northern terminus at the city
of York.

r HE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT
JL RAILWAY, via ABINGDON, WANTAGE, LIUNGERFORD,
and LUDGERSIIALL.

(Provisionally registered.)
Capital 1,200,0001., in 48,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 15s. per Share.
PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT.
The importance of connecting remote parts of England by Rail-
ways, with the advantages thereby conferred upon intermediate towns
and districts, can scarcely be better exemplified than by the Line
which is now proposed to form a short and direct channel of inter-
course between Oxford and Salisbury. Numerous projected lines
now before the pui,lic 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 to the east, south, and west of the latter; and the
proposed Line from Cambridge to Oxford, continuing to that city the
co'lrse of 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 wiil be conferred upon the nation at
large, by preferring a direct line of commun'cation be-
tween the north-eastern and western and south-western
parts of England, will afford to the borow:h of Abingdon,
the market towns of Wantage, Hungerford, and Ludgershall, and
the adjacent villages, an important railway accommodation, of which
the agricultural districts in which they are seated stand in much
need, and will provide a facility for the interchange of produce be-
tween the rural, manufacturing, and commercial population of the
kingdom.
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 trader* of those towns which are already provided with di-
rect channels of transit, aro thus severely crippled. The same remark
applies in some degree to the market town of Wantage, which, as
well as Hungerford and Ludgershall, claims a share of the profits
and advantages produced by railway traffic.
It has therefore been determined to commence the proposedli ne at
Oxford, and to proceed through Abingdon to the station of the Great
Western Railway at Steventon, thus giving to Abingclm, a direct 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 junc-
tion 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 and western ports and dis-
tricts.

Junction Railway.
Captain Hamilton Earle, Royal Artillery
William Lee, Esq., Director of the Reading Railway
Henry Savage, Esq., Dorset-place, Dorset-square
William T. Thornton, Esq., Berkeley-street, Portman-square
John Dennis, Esq., Director of tlie Erewash Valley Extension Railway
Joseph Crockett, Esq , Alderman of Devizes, and Director of the
North Wilts Banking Company, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
John fielbert Ilelbert, Esq., Gloucester-plase, London, Director of

the Leicester and Birmingham Railway
Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Herefordshire
Thomas Chitty, Esq., Gower-street, London, Director of the BugbY

At Thorne, or some convenient point near to it, an auxiliary line
will emanate from the main trunk to Askern, and either by means
of the proposed branch to the Wakefield, Pontefract and Goole line
to that place, or by an independent course, as may hereafter be deter-
mined upon, will run through Pontefract direct to Leeds. By this
means the whole of the manufacturing districts of the West Riding
of Yorkshire and Lancashire will be rendered easily accessible.
This line will be the shortest between Lincoln and York ; Lincoln
and Leeds ; Lincoln and Selby ; York and Selby ; and York and
Hull.

•
and Worcester Railway
Director of ho
II de-paa, Captain T. Bodges, Connaught-terrace, Y
William Peppercorne, Esq., London, and Bexhill, Sussex
Leeds and Carlisle Railway
ulbourne Cambridge
Rector of
. f Gloucester, Director
Rev. I'. It. Hall, D.D.,
for the County •
John Barnett, Esq., Coroner
Railway
F. Duffield, Esq., Bolton House, near Bradford
Director of
H Igrave-Einare,
Chapel-street, 0
William Spooner, Esq., _
Railway
and Liverpi Lincoln's
fields Director of the Bar-
the Newcastle ,
. 14, ln- ,
of the Oxford and Cheltenham
Alexander Prince, —ffie_.•,a__way
net North Junction, Hallway
James Saddlevrorth. near Manchester, Director of
James Lees,
(With power to
add to their number).
The Commercial Bank of London.
Req., C.E.
I;scanking Company
CONSULTING .
the SaddlßewElONSqr.fh:as
EVGINEEH—Sir John Macnell, LL.D., F.R.S.
-street.
SOLICITOR—W. B. James,
ACTING ENGINEER—WiIIiam .711Iti,g11.1,n5g,flur Biggins,
LOCAL AGENTS.
It appears that England will be divided longitudinally by four great
lines of railway, which will become so many main trunks, intersec-
tug and intersected by numerous lines, both transverse and oblique,
opening rapid and ready communication with the intermediate dis-
tricts, with packet stations, and with seaport towns. The more
easterly of these, which is also the longest, originating at Newcastle-
upon. Tyne, and passing through York, Peterborough, and Gambridge,
may be said to terminate in London, whence all places are accessible.
The second line, counting westward, is more tortuous, and has also
a common northern terminus with the preceding, by which its ad-
vantages are materially restricted. This line, descending the Ere-
wash Yale, and passing through. Rugby and Oxford, becomes a South-
amlfton line by falling into the South-Western Railway at Basing-
stoke.

The gradients throughout the line are so favourable, that none exceed
1534 feet in the mile, an instance unparalleled, if the length of it be
taken into consideration. There will be no tunnels ; the works will
everywhere bs light ; no invasion of ornamental property is neces-
sary; and the local interests have expressed themselves favourable to
the project.

From the combination of advantages, facilities, and patronage
from the great breadth of new country to be supplied with railway
accommodation—moderate cost of labour on the line—enormous
supply of materials, and encouraging traffic returns—an interest of
ten per cent. on vested capital Is confidently expected, exclusive of a
fair allowance for working expenses.

Power will be taken in the Bill to allow interest at the rate of four
per cent. on all deposits.
The plans and sections of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds Company,
being now in the possession of the promoters of this Company, au
Immense saving of expense will thereby be gained.
Applications for prospectuses and plans, and forms of applications
for shares, accompanied by a respectable reference, may be had at
the offices of the solicitors; and of the following brokerse---
London—Messrs. Pepperc,,rne and Co., 2, Old Broad-street
Leels—Messrs Myers, and Barley ; Messrs, John Young

; and Mr. T. SV. Powell
Derby—San:lM Eyre, Esq., anti Messrs. Cuff and Fox
Liverpool—Mr. James Pratt ; Messrs. Ridsdale and Chauncy; and

A map of the line, and a statistical report of the whole eountry
int,oth,i to h,, traversed, is In course of preparation, asst with the
names of an induential provisional Committee, will very shortly
be published. In the meantime, further information may be ob-
tained from Messrs. Elrnslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street,
London, solicitors to the undertaking, to whom, at present, applica-
tion ;IF alma may ba Ma 44.

Mr. J. 0. Binger
Manchester—Mare. Cardwell and Son, and Messrs. gonghland and
Lease

The third longitudinal line, or the most westerly, is still more de-
fective in design than the preceding ; employing the steep and narrow
railway called the Birmingham and Gloucester as its Ant link, it
tregati.nverly Ina Apt the least populous and tent undtatirg

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SEPTEMBER
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Nus 16 571. LONDON, THURSDAY
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'THE WEST MIDLAND, MANCHESTER
-R.- AND SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY, AND BIRMINGHAM,
SWINDON, DEVIZES, AND SALISBURY JUNCTION,
Being an extension of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,200,000/., in 60,000 shares of 201. each.
Deposit Si. 2s. per share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Dillon, Balkln-street West, Belgrave-
square, and Loughlyn House, Loughlyn, Ireland, and Ditchley, Oxon
Lord George Paget, Uxbridge House
William Beresford, Esq., M.P., 77. Pall-mall, Director of the Te.
and Dove Valley Radway
Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid-
land, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Richard Price, Esq., M.P., Director of the Welsh Midland, and
Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways
David R. Ross, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Belfast, Director of the
London and Manchester, and South and Midlands' Junction Rail-
ways
Sir John E. De Beauvoir, Bart., Chairman of the London and Bir-
mingham Extension, an-1 Director of the South and Midlands'
Junction Railways
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire, Director
of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobaids, Harts, Director of
the Chester and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junc-
tion Railways
Sir William Wynn, Maeaynewadd, Chairman of the North Wales,
and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, Director of the Direct Western
Rail way
Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London, Director of the London
and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
Sir William Twysden, Bart., Director of the Chepstow and Forest of
Dean Railway
William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c. Alderman of Lon-
don, Chairman of the Manchester aad Birkenhead Continuation,
and London and Greenwich Railways, Ste. &c.
Thomas Farncomb, F,.sq , Alderman of London, Director of the Lon-
don and Westminster Bank, and Namur and Liege, and South and
Midlands' Junction Railways
John Kinuersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the
London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South and
Midlands' Junction Railways
Donald Maclean, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Trent Valley Con-
tinuation, and Director of the Soutk and Midlands' Junction
Railways
Major Oliver Lindam, K.H., Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberyst-
with, and Central Wales, and Director of the South and Midlands'
Junction Railways
Major-General Parihy, C. 8., Rutland-gate, Director of the Worces-
ter and Crewe, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Captain James Patrick Macdougal, late Bengal Royal G. neral Staff,
Fir-grove, North Brixton, Director of the Chester and Forest of
Dean, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways, &c.
Captain Alexander Hamilton Carle, Royal Artillery, Reform Club
John James, Esq., Secondary of the City of London, Director of the
Legal and Commercial Insurance Company, the Great Western of
Bengal, and South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Robert Henry Lyndam, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth
Railway
Major Jelf Sharp, Deputy-Chairman of the Thames Embankment
Railway •
Richard William Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Man-
chester, and Derbyshire and South Staffordshire Railways
William Fechney Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Direc-
tor of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
Peter Morrison, Esq., Managing Director of the Britannia Life Insu-
rance Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
James Clay, Esq., Brompton, Director of the Furness and White-
haven, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Col. Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, Director of the London and
Birmingham Extension, and South and Midlands' Junction Rail-
ways
William Shaw, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment, Manag-
ing Director of the Farmers' Life Insurance Company, and Di-
rector of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Richard Carpenter, Esq , Magistrate of the County of Middlesex,
Deputy-Chairman of the London and Birmingham Extension, Di-
rector of the Leicester and Bedford, and South and Midlands'
Junction Railways
G. W. Killett Potter, Esq., Secondary of the City of London
Lieut.-General Sir Lewis Grant, K.C.8., 31, Harley-street
John Jennings, Esq., Elm-grove, Hammersmith
William S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Director of the
Oxford, Witney and Cheltenham, and South and Midlands' Junc-
tion Railways
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., 8, Upper Hyde-park-street
William Singleton, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds,
and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Erasmus Forster, Elm., Director of the Britannia Life Insurance
Company, and Derby and Stafford, and South and Midlands' Junc-
tion Railways
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manchester
and Birmingham Railway
Daniel Penton Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Manches-
ter Railway
Richard Parish, Esq., Bank House, Wordsley, Staffordshire
Samuel Parish, Esq., Wordsley, near Stourbrodge, Staffordshire
John Anderson, Esq., E.1.C.5., Director of the Church of England
Life Insurance, and South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Henry Lewis Smale, Esq., Willoughby House, Tottenham, Director
of the London and Dover, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
James Reeves, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Direct,
and gout] and Midlands' Junction Railways
John Cash, Esq.
Henry Wright, Esq., Brunswick-square, Director of the Warwick
and Worcester, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
John Castendick, Esq., Lewisham
Robert Richards, Esq., Inner Temple, London, Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
George It. Colman, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Juie-
tion, and Northampton and Banbury Railways
William Paxton, Esq., Langford, near Bicester, Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
William Bardgett, Esq., Winchester House, Broad-street, Director
of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Con-
tinuation Railway
John Blackburn, Esq., Leeds
Peter Fairbairne, Esq., Leeds, Vice-Chairman of the Leeds and York
Railway

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Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Old Palace, Richmond
James Durness, Esq., Leytonstone, Essex
George Whiles, Esq., Hungerford Park, Berks
G. N. Wright, M.A., Coed Celyn, Denbighshire, and Lonsdale-sqnare,
Islington
Stephen Lewis, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway
Martin Furness, Esq., Director of the Newark and Sheffield Railway
William Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Lincoln, York and
Leeds Railway
Edmund ?hillips, Esq., Avon House, Melksham, Wilts, Director of
the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Charles Thomas Ward, Esq., Luton Hoo, Beds, and Clopton llouse,
Stratford-on-Avon, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway.
oseph Brook, Esq., Greenhead, Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds,
Dewsbury, and Manchester, and Huddersfield and Sheffield Junc-
tion, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
George Henry Brook, Esq., Edguiin-lodge, Huddersfield, Provisional
Director of the Huddersfield, Halifax and Bradford Union Rail-
way, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Captain Ilitchins, 11.E.1.C.5., Queen Anne-street, Cavendish-square,
Director of the Birmingham and Oxford, and South and Midlands'
Junction Railways
John Alleock Dixon, Esq., Burnley, Lancashire, Director of the Li-
verpool and Leeds Direct, and Kcighly, Halifax, and Huddersfield
Railways
James Beech, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place, and Brandon Lodge, near
Coventry, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Rail-
way
William Watson Prole, Esq., Thurloe-square, Brompton, Director of
the Jersey, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Thomas Mortimer Cleobury, Esq., Askew Villa, Acton
Major Waller, K.II. Director of the London and Manchester Direct,
and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Frederick James Hall, Esq , Torrington-square, and Alfreton, Derby,
Director of the Trent Valley Continuation, and South and Mid-
lands' Junction Railways
J. It. W. Atkinson, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford, and
York and Lancaster Railways
Joseph Underwood, Esq., The Hall, BlaCkheath, Director of the Me-
tropolitan Life Insurance Company, and Director of the London
and Birmingham Extension Company, and Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
V. A. Hill, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith and
Central Wales, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Chairman
of the Church of England Life Insurance Company, and Director
of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
William Morley, Esq., Blackheath
Richard Dutton, Esq., Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Railway, Director of the Legal and Commercial Life Insurance
Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
Captain C. W. Tyndale, Director of the South-Eastern and South
and Midlands' Junction Railways
Frederick Jones, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Director of the Warwick and
Worcester, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
John Englis Jerdein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester,
Rugby and Southampton Railway
Colonel Fitch, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of the South

and Midlands' Junction Railway
William Lee, Esq , Director of the Grayescnd and Rochester, and

Junction Railway
J. Harvey, Esq., Rush-hill, Surrey
John Wheelton, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Thomas Collingridge, Esq., Highgate, Middlesex
W.A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junction

Railway
C. Waite, Esq., Willesden, Middlesex
R. W. Wood, Esq., Lodge-place, St. John's-wood, Director of the
North Metropolitan Railway
William Slark, Esq., Director of the Guarantee Society
Frederick Collingridge, Esq., Thurlow-square, Brompton
Warren Stonnes Hale, Esq. Gresham-street, Director of the Oxford
and Worcester Extension
Zingsmill Grove Key, Esq., Wandsworth
Thomas Yates Hunt, Esq., Brades, near Birmingham
JosephGill,Esq.,Leeds, Director of the West Riding Junction, and