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FORM OF APPLICATION,

To the Provisional Committee of the- Manchester and Birmingham
Continuation and Welsh Junction Railway Company.

request you will allot me

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Shares of 25/. each in the capital of

the above-named Railway, and I will accept the same or any less
number, and pay the deposit of 11. 7s. 6d. per Share, and sign the
Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
Dated the day of , 1845.

Name
Address •• ••• • • •
Profession .... • •
Reference

May 2, 1815.

BOSTON, STAMFORD, AND BIRMING-
HA➢i RAILWAY.
(With a BRANCH from SPALI)ING to LYNN.)
Capital 41,000,000, in 50,000 Shares of £2O each.
Deposit £1 2s. per Share.
Provisionally Registered under 7th and Bth Vic.. c. 110.

PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS.
Charles Mlle Bracebridge, Esq., The Hall,'

Atherst one
John George Norbury, Esq., Mancetter House,

Atherstone
William Freer, Esq., Atherstone
Frederick William Wollaston, Esq., Shenton Hall,
Hinckley
Frederick Wollaston, Esq. Sheeny, Atherstone
James Walkinshaw, Esq., Old Park, Isle of
Wight
Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad House, Edgbaston..
Henry Tootal, Esq., Manchester
Henry Gardner, Esq., Chasely Hall, Manches-
ter

Directors of the
Leicester and Bir-
minghant

Directors of the
• Trent Valley Rail-
way.
Directors of the
Churnet Valley
Railway.

Robert Chapman Sharp, Esq., Brrunhall Hall,

Cheshire
Thomas Critchley, Esq., Manchester
The Mayor of Birmingham
William Chance, Esq., Birmingham
Edward Middleton, Esq., Birmingham.
SoLiciToa—S. S. Baxter, Esq., Atherstone.
BANKERS.
The London and Westminster Bank, London
The Leic.:stershire Banking Company, at Leicester, Atherstone, and

Hinckley - .
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Messrs. Jones, Lloyd a d Company, Manchester
The National Provincial Bank of England, Birmingham
The Stamford and Boston Banking Company, at Stamford, Boston,
and Spalding.

This important undertaking, In connexion with the projected Lei-
cester and Birmingham Line, and the existing Midland. Railways,
will form the most complete and direct line of communication yet
projected between the great corn-producing counties of Norfolk and
Lincoln, and the populous- manufacturing districts of the Midland
Counties, of which Birmingham is the centre.
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It will: in conjunction With the line via East Dereham to Lynn,
and the Norwich and Yarmouth Railway, establish a direct commu-
nication from Yarmouth and Norwich to Birmingham.
By means of its junction with the proposed Cambridge and Lin-
coln or the London and York lines, as the case may be, it will also
bring within the range of Its advantages the whole of the country
between Lincoln and Peterborough.

The part of the line extending from Boston by Spalding to Market
Dee! ing, and the Branch from Spalding to Lynn, will also form the
direct route to London from those towns and the country northward
thereof as far as the 'lumber.

On the other hand, it will bring the whole of this highly cultivated
and populous county into direct and immediate communication with
the great coal-fields of Leicestershire and Warwickshire ; the pro-
posed line of the Leicester and Birmingham Railway passing through
the latter, and a Branch Line from tho Leicester and Swannington
Railway to the Midland Railway, at Broughton, uniting it with
the former.

By these means the price of co:,ls will he reduced one-half at Stam-
ford and the adjacent towns—iui advantage in which this under-
taking will possess a decided superiority over any other that has been
OT can be proposed.
By the junction of this line, at Nuneaton, with the Trent Valley
Railway, it will also form the most direct communication between
Yarmouth, Norwich, Lynn, Boston, Spalding, Stamford, and all the
intermediate towns, and Manchester, Liverpool, and North Wales;
and, by means of the railways centering at Birmingham, with Bris-
tol and the whole of the west of England and South Wales.

A glance at the map will show that no line that can be devised will
so completely effect all the objecti of a grand east and west commu-
nication as the one now proposed.
The line of country traversed by the railway Is n t less favourable
in an engineering point of view. From Lynn and Boston to Stam-
ford, two-thirds of the whole line, the country is one uniform plain;
from thence the line follows the Valley of the Welland to or near to
Market Harborough, and then passes over an easy country.to the
Midland Railway.
The enormous exports of corn and other agricultural produce from
Lynn, Boston, Wisheach, and Scalding, and the corresponding im-
ports of manufactured and other goods to those towns, it is confi-
dently expected will of themselves yield an abundant source of
truffle for this Railway ; but when to this is added the great facili-
ties of Intercommunication which the line will afford, bringing within
a few hours' distance the Eastern and Western Coast- of the Island,
and to this is added the entire supply of inland coals throughout the
country traversed by the Baths ay, there can he no doubt that it
will yield a very ample return far the capital required for its forma-
tion.

Applications may be addressed in the annexed form to the
Solicitor:—

GREAT MEDITERRANEAN AND
ADRIATIC JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.

Capital, 30,000,000 florins convention, or £3,000,000 sterling In

60,000 shares of X. 60 each.
Deposit 10 florins convention,"or £1 per share.

The Provisional Directors having after mature consideration and
with a view to place the Company upon a firmer basis, resolved to
increase the amount of deposit to It. per share,—Notics Is hereby
given that all parties who have applied for shares, will be required to
renew their applications for the same according to the forms now
settled, which may be obtained at the office of the Company, or from
the Solicitors or Agents to the Company. The very large number of
applicants for shares in this Company necessarily precludes the Pro-
visional Directo-s from communicating by means of letter with each
individual, and compels them to adopt the meann of an advertise-
ment.

JOHN RATIIBONE, Secretary,
4, Coleman-street, 25th April, 1845.

A LTO DOURO RAILWAY.
C.X. Capital, 6,000 Contos of Reis (1,310,0001.), in GO,GOO Shares of
100 Mil Reis (221. 10s.) each.
Deposit, 6 Mil Reis (it. 75.) per Share.
This Line, formed under the highest patronage both in Portugal
and this country, will immediately connect the harbour of Oporto
with the entire wine district.
Following the Valley of the Douro, no engineering difficulties pre-
sent themselves—a fact satisfactorily ascertained by preliminary
surveys.
Even from existing satistical returns the traffic of this route will
amply repay investment, and, when co joined with the Increase
which has invariably attended the introduction of railway transit,
will ensure a far greater return than any project of the day.
Prospectuses will shortly be issued. In the meantime, applications
for Shares may be made at the temporary offices of the Company,
95, Gracechurch-street, City.—By order,
April 58, 1845. T. M. RUSSELL, ecretary.