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London, England, 1845-10-14 00:00:00

PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.
GREAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT
RAILWAY.
a Junction with the Eastern Counties Railway at Bedford.
Distance, 120 miles.
Capital, 2,300,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 25/. each.
Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
t to the Standing Orders of the House of Commons.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.
aright Hon. Lord Dunboyne
The Lord Stephen Chiel ester, Ormsau, Belfast, and Army and Navy

Club, London
Sir Robert Alexander, Dart., Charles-street, Manchester-square
Sir Wtt"--a Twlsdeu, Dart., Dorset-street, Portman-square, Director
..—..e Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction, and

Erewash Valley Extension Railways
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Parthenon Club, Director of the
Chspstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction, and of the
South and Midland Junetien, and West Midlands Railways
Sir John Os"orn, Bart., Earl's-court, Brompton
Sir John Key, Bart., Director of the Manchester and London, and of
the Direct Liverpool and Leeds Railway
Ouptain Frederick Polhill, M.P. for Bedford
Major-General Sir Robert Barton, K.C.Ii., Director of the York and

Lancaster Railway
Major-General Thomas Morgan, Singleton-house, Torquay
Major-General Wright, Royal Engineers, Gloucester-place, Portman.

square
Ackroyd, Esq., Westbourne Lodge, Otley, Director of the
East and West York, Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and Leeds and

Carlisle Railways
Thomas Alexander, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian, and
Trent Valley Continuation Railways
Francis times Alliott, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Amber-
gate, Nottingham, and t oston, and Eastern Junction, and one of
the Provisional Committee of the Nottingham and Gainsborough
Railway Companies
Henry Ambler, Esq., worsted spinner and manufacturer, Watkinson-
hall, near Halifax, Director of the West Yorkshire Railway, and
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
C. H. Anderson, Esq , Upper Clapton, Director of the South Midland
Railway
George Ashlin, Esq., Director of the Liverpool and Newcastle-upon-
Tyne Railway
Richard Armitage, Esq., Huddersfield and Great Grimsby, Director
of the Manchester and Great Grimsby, and Keighley, Halifax and
Iludderstial Junction Railways
The Rev. Charles Edward Armstrong, M.A., Hemsworth
John Alexander iiicknelL Esq., Brandon-cottage, Bristol, Director of

the Oxford and Worcester Extension Railway
Charles Bamford, jun., Esq., Director of the Hull and Barnsley, and

Leeds and Carlisle Railways
William Bardgett, Esq., Winchester-house, Broad-street, Director of
the Italian and Austrian, and the Derby, Uttozeter, and Stafford

Railways
William Banks, Bsry , Honey-lane-market, Director of the Munches•

ter and Rugby Direct Railway, via Macclesfield
John Byug Banks, Esq., Stockwell, Surrey
William Fechney Black, Esq, Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Direc-
tor of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midland Junction
Railways
Henry Weech Burgess, Esq., Temple's-park, Hampstead, Director of
the Goole, Doncaster, and Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Great
Grimsby
Charles Salisbury Butler, Esq.,the Lodge, Upper Clapton
Josiah Burrowes, Esq., Castle-house, Gomersall, near Leeds
Thomas Burnley, Esq., Gomersall, near Leeds, Director of the Leeds
and West Riding Junction Railway, and of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway
Samuel Bateman, Esq., Croft-house, near Bradford, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Selby
Railway
Dr. Brigstock, Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester
Railway
Joseph Browne, Esq., Bedford
James Brand, Esq., 9, New Broad-street, Director of the Cambridge
and Lincoln, and 0: cat Luxemburg Railway
John More, Esq., Tntbury, Director of the Tean and Dove Valley,
the Derby and Gainsboreugh, the Shropshire Mineral Railways, &e.
Job Bullivant, Esq., East Retford
William Butt, Esq., Sandiacre, Derbyshire
Robert Burton, Esq., merchant, Woodville, Notts
James Butlin, Esq , banker, West. Field-house. Rugby, Director of
the Rigby and Huntingdon, and one of the Provisional Committee
of the Oxford and Birmingham Junction Railway Companies
Rielfard Biddle, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Richard Birkin, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
John Eillingham Bishop, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Thomas Butt, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Richard Bradley, Esq., Grantham, Director of the Amber-gate, Not-
tingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
Villiam Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Chairman of the Direct
Western, and Isle of Ely and Liacolnshire Junction Railways
-Om Fowler Burbidge, Esq., Mayor of Grantham, Director of the
Anther-gate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction
Railway
:•nathan Burton, Esq., merchant, Carrington, Nottinghamshire
Director of the Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway
William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., magistrate, Hull, Director of the
Ruby, Warwick, and Leamington, and of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railways
Thomas Challis, Esq., Alderman of London
John Carter, Esq., Knottingley
Thomas Carter, Esq., Taeshelf, Magistrate for the Borough of Pon-
tefract
Charles Chernock, Esq., Hohnfield-house, near Ferrybridge
Millis Coventry, Esq., Director, of the South and Midland Junction,
and Birmingham Extension Railways
. Clements, Esq., Lowndes-square, Director of the Western Ja-
maica Railway
obert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Manchester, Mid-
land, and Great Grimsby, Gainsborough, Goole, and Isle of Ax-
hot,o,, and the Wiabeach, Isle of Ely, and Lincolnshire Junction
Ralways
.Cottant, Esq., East Retford
±Li Costs, Esq., Little Bardfield-hall, near Braintree, Essex
n c.Clift, Esq., Director of the Paris and Strasburg, Southampton,
Manchester, and Oxford, and the Manchester, Rugby, and Mac-
clesfield Railways
W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the London and Birmingham
Extension
Sherrard Coleman, Esq., Crown-court, Old Broad-street
John Caunt, Esq., Nottingham
Thomas Mark Carter, Esq., Woodgreaves-house, near Wakefield, Di-
rector of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Direct
Railway
eorge Augustus Hamilton Chichester, Esq., Oakfield, Donegal, and
15, Chesham-place, Belgrave-square, Director of the Grand Wales
Central, and London and Exeter Direct Railways
William Champion, Esq., Worksop
IVilli tin Cheethant, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Nathan Cooper, Esq., Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Francis Dacre, Esq., Stratford, Essex
George Dennis, Esq., Director of the Rhondda and Ely Valleys June-
. tion Railway
oseph Dent, Esq., Ribston-hall, Wetherby, Magistrate for the
North-west Riding of Yorkshire
.A. Davenport, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Exten-
sion, and Worcester Junction Railways
Joseph I. Davenport, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby,

and Manchester Railway
John Allcock Dixon, Esq., Burnley, Lancashlro, Director of the Li-
verpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Richard Dransfleld, Esq., Dalton, Huddersfield, Director of the
Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct,

and of the Keighley, Halifax. and Huddersfield Junction Railways
Edward Doubleday, Esq., F.L.S., Director of the 'Rugby, Warwick,
and Worcester Railway
Matthew Dawson, Esq , Pontefract
William Dawson, Esq., i.,Wakefleld, Director of the Peterborough,
Wisl,eaeh, Lynn, and Boston, and the Sheffield, Wortley, Silk.

St. ne, ztml Wakefield Railways
John t'inaphell Dicker, Esq., New-hall, by •Neston, Director of the
ilirkenlica l and Ilolyhead, and the Birmingham, Oxford, and

Reading Railways
Henry Dunn, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Manchester, Hudders-
field, and Great Grimsby Railway
Francis Ewart, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey-

month Railway
John Elliott, Esq., Townhead-house, Rochdale
Lieut.-Cul. Fitch, 36, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Managing Direc-
tor of the York and Lancaster Railway
17.rasmus Forster, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Ex-

tension Railway
Solomon Foster, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Nottingham, Mans-
field, and Midland Junction Railway
Martin Furnias, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Erewash and Shef-
field Railway
John Griffiths Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Chairman of the London-
derry and Coleraine, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways
;William Fisher, Esq., Amcotts-house, near East Retford
lames Fothergill, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Richard W. Fitzpatrick, Esq., barrister-at-law,Gloncester-road, Hyde-

park-gardens
Geor Green, Esq., Pontefract
James Gilbertson, Esq , Alderman, and Magistrate for Hertford
William Gibson, Esq., Glasgow
H. P..Gipps, Esq., Director of the Coventry and Nuneaton Railway
Cliailes Goldsmith, Esq., Friday-street, Cheapside
William Gordon. Esq , M.D., F.L.S., Director of the Livorpoel and

Leeds Direct Railway
Henry Swan Graves, Esq., Ely Bank-lodge, Halifax
John Gully, Esq., Ackworth-park, Ackworth
William Gibbs, Esq., Camberwell, Director of the South Metropolitan
Cemetery Company
William Gill, Esq., Richmond, Yorkshire, Director of the Leeds and
Carlisle, and Northumberland and Lancashire Railways
John Godber, Esq., Hucknall Torkard, Nottingh imshire. Director of
the Amber-gate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction,
and Nottingham and Gait sborough Railway Companies
Thomas John Green, Esq., Mayor of Bedford
Richard Hall, Esq., Garnarvon,hall, Stratford, Director of the Strat-
ford and Thames Junction, and North Woolwich Railways
R. F. Hall, Esq., Wiseton, near Bawtry
S. C. Hall, Esq., V.5.A..„ Inner Temple, Dire'etor of the Erewash
Valley Extension and West Midland Railways
W. 11. Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing-
stoke, and Sheffield and Macclesfield Railways
Robert Hull, Est., M.D., Norwich
Samuel Hammond, Esq., Leeds
John George Hammack, Esq. Director of the Direct Western, and
the Metropolitan Junction Railways
Williant Hepworth, Esq., Pontefract, a Deputy-Lieutenant and J.P.
for the West Riding of Yorkshire
joie' Mason Hepworth, Esq., Eden-place. Ackworth. J.P. for the
West Iliditr; of Yorkshire
Joshua Hepworth, Esq., htogerthorpe-hall, Badsworth
Thomas Heelis, Eel.,
skipton Castle, Skipton, Director of the Lance-
shire and North Yorkshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire North
Eastern, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways
John Holmes, Esq., East Reif ‘rd
Robert !ferries, Esq., East-street, Leeds, Director of the Liverpool
and Leeds Direct Railway
Charles ifolbrooke, Esq. Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and

Manchester
John Howard, Eto., Royal Foundry, Bedford
Thomas Haigh, E-sq., Wakefield, late High Constable of Wakefield
John Innis, jun., Esq., hanker, Grantham, Director of the Amber-
Railway
John Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction
John Harris, Esq., Springfield-house, near Bedford
Charles Higgins, sen., Esq., St. Cuthbert's, Bedford
Geerge Higgins, Esq., Bedfi,rd
The Rev. Charles Walter Hudeon, Rectory, Satmdby, near Gains-
borough
George Hurst, Esq., Bedford
John Midge, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and Di—
rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway
Wm. Empson Jalland, Egq., Holderness House, near Hull, Director
of the York and Hull Railway
Bo well Middleton dalland, Esq., Holderness-house, near Hull, Magis-
trate for the East lt:ding of York and Borough of Hull, and Di-
rector of the Liverpool and Leeds, and Hull and Barnsley Railways
John Jameson, Esq., Honey lane-market
Wiliam Jameson, Esq., Shelton, Staffordshire, Director of the
Staffordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct
Railways
Win. Jones Johnson, Esq., Bedford
Joseph Jones, Esq„ Ilayor of Hull, and Director of the Liverpool and

Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Reglnal,l Kemp, Esq., Director of tke Blythe anti Chuniet
Valleys, or 'Macclesfield and Lichfield Railways
Jeremiah Kave, Esq., Huddersfield and Great Grimsby, Director
of the Manchester and Great Grimsby, and Keighley, Halifax, and
Huddersfield Junction Railways
George ICpita x, Esq., Ordsall- villa, near East Retford
Mr. Samuel Knight, Pontefract
George Lawton, Esq., Ditchley's, Essex, Director of the Chepstow,
Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway
H. C. Leahy, Esq., St. James's•equare
Moses Edward Legg, Esq., Watling-street, London
Captain Henry Leech, Bedford
Charles Denton Leech, Esq., Bury St. Edmunds
William Ley, Esq., 40, Gloucester-place, Portman-square, DLreetor of
the Reading and Reigate Railway
L. Stephens Lyne, Esq., Broad-street, Director of the Western
Jamaica -Railway
P. Bennett Lucas, Esq., Director of the Sligo and Shannon, the Ips-
wich and Southampton, and the Cork Passage and Kinsale
Rail way
James Lamb, Esq., 25, Hyde-park-square, Director of the Scottish
Western, and the Direct Western Railways
John Lart, Esq , Wood-street, Cheapside
James Leeming, Esq., Bradford, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct, and Keighley, Halifax and Huddersfield Junction Railway
Samuel Lovell, Esq., merchant, Bedford
Captain J. P. Macdougall, Fir-grove, North Brixton, Director of the
Leeds, Fleetwood, and Liverpool, and Isle of Man Railways
John B. Mann, Esq., Leeds
Thomas Hackett Massey, Esq., Newark-upon• Trent, nd Becrord-
"Y square, Hyde-park
Thomas MlTurk, Esq., Hull
William Mee, E
Moev, sq., East Retford
Esq., M.D., Bedford
Robert Mellingten, Esq., Ordsall-house, near East Retford, Director
of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
William Moorhonse, Esq., Marine-villa Knott'n le Pr • tonal
Director of the Sheffilde,eltioarruotty, and Wakefield'g Yiaailway".l
Peter Morrison, Esq., D and Midlands Junction, and
London and Birmingham Extenst'ounthßa
James Muscroft, Esq., Pontefract, Magistrate for the Borough, a Pro-
visional Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension and
Chester Junction Railway
George Mackintosh, Esq., Upper Seymour-street, Portman-sqoare,
John Manwaring, Esq., Pateley-bridge, Yorkshire, Director of the
York and Lancaster Railway
Ord Massey, Esq., ilawkes-house, Burnley, Director of the Liverpo°
and Leeds Direct, the Blackburn, Chorley, and Liverpool, and
Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railways
Thomas Micklethwaite, Esq., Wakefield
;buries Middleton, Esq., Nottingham park'
To (ph Nadln, Esq., Manchester, Director a' the Manchester and
c uthampton, and the Leeds Boor Carlisle Railways
tv 1 am Joseph Nash, Esq., Bedford d
John Norton, Esq., St. George's-sqsare, Westminster, and Moat.
Brentwood, Director of the Great edam Direct hen-
house,
way, ice.
Robert Newland. En. ramPFALn426l3l4ll3i4trlllir`l
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