The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-08 00:00:00

ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning, Noon, and Night, thereby insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION, at ONE CRARGE.

GLASGOW via FLEETWOOD and AR-
DROSS 4N, every MONDAY, TUESDAY, THURSDAY, and
FRIDAY, by the new Iron Steamers, " lIER MAJESTY" and
"ROYAL CONSORT," 700 tons and 350 horsepower.
The above Ships leave Fleetwood, on the arrival of the trains that
leave Euston-square, London, at 7.30., 8.45., or 10. A.M. Passengers
can be booked through to Glasgow in London. Carriages taken by
the 8 45 train only. Daily communication with the Isle of Man.
Further particulars may bo had at 8, St. Swithin's-lane ; or the
Universal-otlize, Regent-circus, London; or of the Agents, Kemp
and Co., Fleetwood, and M'Kean and Lamont. Glasgow.

WEST of SCOTLAND EXCHANGE IN-
VESTMENT COMPANY.
Capital 1,000,0001.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
J. C. Colquhoun, Esq., Sheriff of Dumbartonshire.
James Graham, Esq., of Ferenege.
Thomas Dmidas Spiers, Esq., of Elderslie.
James Merry, Esq., of Motherwell.
Hugh Miller, Dsq., Provost of Ayr.
William Mutrie, Esq., Merchant, Glasgow.
Alexander Alison, Esq., of Blair Iron Works.
The Committee are ready to receive applications for the office of
Manager of this Company.
Although the business of the Company includes almost every kind
of banking, the principal object of the present undertaking is the
lending of money on the security of the stocks of public compan!es.
Parties applying for the office of Manager will therefore require to
combine a knowledge of banking with that of the value of stock.
As it is necessary to secure the services ot a party fully qualified
to fill the responsible situation, the salary will be sufficiently liberal
to render.the office an object of attention. .Of course all applications
will be considered as strictly confidential. Applications, with re-
ferences, either, personally or in writing, may be made to
RORERr MUTRIE, Esq., 93, Watling-street, London, or
GEORGE BOWMAN LEECH, Esq.; 133, St. Vincent-street,
Glasgow, Interim Secretary.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,
26, CORNHILL, LONDON.
Capital Z 500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
This institution offers important aria substantial advan-
tages with respect both to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities.
The assured has,•on all occasions, the power to borr)w, without ex-
pense or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium paid,
(sec table) ; also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion
of his interests to meet other conveniences or necessity. Assurances
for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates.
DIVISION OF PROFITS.
The success and increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled
the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a third
Bonus, varying from 30 to 75 per cent. on the premiums paid on
each Policy effected on the Profit scale.
EXAMPLES.

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£
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60 tow 74 3 4•1838 165 13 0 74 13 10 11 8 6 346 2 3
11839 138 13 6 61 14 3 9 210 296 13 4
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'lB4O, 89 0 0 41 13 4 6 0 0 247 4 5

Tho division of proilts is annual, and the next will be made in De-
eember of the present year.

F. FERGUSON CAMROITX. See.

3IIDLAND AND THIRSK JUNCTION
RAILWAY.

(Provisionally Registered).
Capital 600,0001., in 24,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
William Ellis, Esq. Castle Field, Bingley
Frederick Greenwood, Esq., Ryshwerth Hall, Bingley
Sir John Hare, Langham-place, London
William Gill, Esq., Burly Hall, near Otley
John Appleyard, Esq., Halifax
Edward Hudson, Esq., Roundhay, near Leeds
John Ferrer, Esq., Grove House, Pudsey
John White, Esq., Upper Woodhouse Rawdonn, near Leeds
William Alexander, Esq., M.D., Halifax
Samuel Blakey Clapham, Esq., Aire Villa, Keighley
William Sugden, Esq., Eastwood House, Keighlcy
John Knowles, jun., Esq., Trafford Bank House, Manchester
John Octavius Buller, Esq., Kirkstall Forge, near Leeds
Thomas Beaumont, Esq., Bradford
John 111'borough, Esq., Gildersome
Simon Musgrave, Esq., Klrkstall, near Leeds
Joseph Middleton, Esq., Grove House, near Leeds
Sysithin Anderton, Esq., Bradford
Benjamin Flesher Mariner, Esq., Keighley
Thomas Turney, Esq., Palk Lodge, Halifax
John Greenwood Sugden, Esq., Steetosa Hall, Steeton
James Hepper, Esq., Shipley Hall
John Crossley, Esq., Halifax
Harvey Ambler, Esq., Watkinson Hall, Halifax
James Aked, Esq., Kershaw House, Halifax
Jeremiah Stead, Esq., Leeds
William Peel, Esq., Westbrook House, Bradford
Joseph Richardson, Esq., Park-square, Leeds
John Riley, Esq., Brearly House, near Halifax
Thomas Haigh, Esq., Aire Villa, Newlay, Leeds
Thos. Willett, Esq.. Bradford
William Denison, Esq., Pudsey
John Lister, Esq., West Field House, Bramley

Richard Varley, Esq., Stanningley
Thomas Humble Walker, Esq., Northumberland House, Harrogate
Charles Charlesworth, Esq., High Harrogate
Thomas Stephenson, Esq., Gildersorne
Samuel Bateman, Esq., Croft House, Wibsy
James Middleton, Esq., Vinostrop, near Leeds

Henry Baldwin, Esq., Halifax
James Fawcett, Esq., Green Field, Halifax
James Bilbrough, Esq., Park House, Gildersomo
James Reffit, Esq., Spring-gardens, seeds
Thimas Bariston, Esq., Royd Hill, Sutton
John Atkinson, Esq., Bradford
John Wales Smith, Esq., York-place, Leeds
Thomas Threlfall, Esq., Morton
John Richardson, Esq., Harrogate
Robert Beverley, Esq., Potternewton, Leeds
William Greenwood, jun„ Esq., Oxenhspe, Haworth
James Rennie, Esq., Bradford
John Hodgson' Esq., Sunderland House, Halifax
John Ambler, Esq., Peel House, Warley
John Rhodes, Esq., Shipley
Wm. Varley, Esq., Stanningley
James Taylor, Esq., Hay's Mill, Oxenden
James Hodgson, Esq., Stubbing House, Hebden Bridge
Joseph Craven, Esq., Walk Mill, Keighley
Thomas S. Fison, Esq., Bradford
Thomas Chapman, Esq., Gilstead House, Bbigley
James Sutcliffe, sq., Newlands, Halifax
Joseph Wood, Esq., Halifax
Dan. Hainsworth, Esq., Farsley
Thomas Craven, Esq., Potternewton, nerr Leeds

Benjamin Holmes, Esq., Park-square, Leeds
Thomas Dean, Esq., Batley
Josiah Wigglesworth, Esq., Halifax
Henry Walker, Esq., Halifax
John Barker, Esq., West Royal House, Bramley
Matthew Stephenson, Esq., Gildersome
Samuel Field, Esq., Bank House, Pudsey
Joshua Appleyard, Req., Halifax
Wm. A ckroyd, Esq., Wheatley, Birkenshaw
Joseph Staley, Esq., Bramley
John Broadley Greenwood, Esq., Morton
John Bairstow, Esq., Keighley
George Manson, Esq., Wilsden
Henry Aked, Esq., Habbel Mills, Halifax
Jeremiah Clough, Esq., Spring Cottage, Bramley
John Burnley, Esq., Batley
Richard Frederick Ferrer, Esq., Pudsey
William Bedford, Esq., Halstead House, Gildersome
James Whitley, Esq., Morton
William Bower, Esq., Drighlington
Joseph Armitage Haigh, Esq., Gildersome Old Hall

Joseph Haley, Esq., Bramley
John Hainsworth. Esq., Farsley
John Burnley, Esq.. Heckmondwicke
Benjamin Senior, Esq., Batley
George G. Tetley, Esq., Bradford
Benjamin Bradshaw, Esq., Bromley
William Murray Wilson, Esq., Horsforth
William Mann, Esq., Spen Cleckheaton
George Wilson Addison, Esq., Bradford
Henry Bower, Esq., Moorland Mills, Drigitlington
Samuel Holliday, Esq., Gildersome
John Haigh, Esq., Wood Roya House, Henley.
(With power to add to their number.)

ENGINEERS.
—, Consulting Engineer.
Hamilton 11. Fulton, Esq., Acting Engineer.
SURVEYOR—Thomas Newsam, Esq.

BANKERS,

Bradford—The Leeds and WesCitiding Banking Company, at Brad-
ford and Leeds ; and their agents, Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and

_ .
Co., London.
Leeds--The Leeds Banking Company ; and their agents, Messrs.
Smith, Payne, and Smith, London.
SOLICITORS.
Dunning and Stawman, Leeds.

Charlcsi lough, Bradford,

The objects of the Midland and iifirsk Junction Railway are three-
fold ; firstly, to open up and fully develop one of the richest fields of
Coal and Ironstone in the kingdom ; secondly, to make a Trunk Line
of communication from South to North, between the Midland and
the Leeds and Thirsk Railways; and, thirdly, in conjunction with
the Midland at Oakenahaw, the Manchester and Leeds and the Wake-
field, Pontefract and Goole at Wakefield, the Leeds and If”nifery at
and the Leeds and Thirsk at or near inarstiolefg,Att sagr-d-tO the densely
populated and important manufacturing district through which the
line is intended to pass, the best facilities for the convey...co of pas-
sengers, merchandise, &c., to all parts of the country.
The intended line runs parallel with none of the projected schemes
of last session, and cannot be said to interfere with any of them; it
is perfectly independent, and imperatively called for.
The quantity of coal procured from different collieres now work-
ing in the Howden Clough and Cockersdale Valleys (which are on
the intended line of railway) is about 6,000 tons per week, and when
the railway now projected is formed, it is believed that the average
supply weekly will be upwards of 20,000 tons, so that from this vast
and inexhaustible field of coal, occupying more than 10,000 acres,
and averaging twenty feet in thickness (of workable coal) an unli-
mited supply of the best and cheapest coal in the kingdom will be
available for the London market (via Goole), as well as the more
neighbouring towns of Wakefield, Leeds, Halifax, Bradford, Dews-
bury, Bingley, Keigbley, Skipton, Otley, Harrogate, Knaresborough,
Ripon, &c., Ecc., where in most cases the reduction will be at least
one-half, and in the more distant places much more than this amount
of reduction, and in all which places an abundant supply of good and
cheap coal is of the highest importance. The revenue to be realised
from this source alone, it is believed, will yield a moat ample return
for the capital required.
• Besides passing through the centre of this immense coal field, the
railway traverses a district affording accommodation to a populat!on
of upwards of 335,000 inhabitants, and whilst affording every accom-
modation to this vast population, whose internal traffic must neces-
sarily be very great, it receives an additional indemnity from the
relative position in which it stands to other lines, so that for inter-
nal resources and external relations its advantages :are almost un-
rivalled.
This :line affords the most direct communication from North to
South, and will be a nearer route fram Huddersfield, Wakefield,
Manchester, South Lancashire Cheshire, and all parts of the South,
to that much frequented waterin-place, Harrogate, and will form a
most eligible line, with appropriate stations at Wakefield, Alver-
thorpe, Batley, Drighlington, Tong, Pudsey, Stanningley, Calverley,
and Horsforth. The length of the main line will be about sixteen
miles, and the branches six miles.
The project is warmly supported by the landed and local interests,
and by a largo body of mercantile and wealthy individuals in the
above districts, who, confident of a successful issue, will use every
means for bringing the project before the Legislature next session.
The Company reserve the power of making an extension from
their line to Bradford, at the most convenient point for the convey-
ance of the minerals, &c., if adequate provision be not made by
another Company.
The liability of each Shareholder will be restricted to the Amount
of his individual subscription, and interest will ho allowed upon all
calls after the rate of 4 per cent. per annum from the time the Act is
obtained.
Further information may bo obtained of the Solicitors at Leeds
or Bradford. and applications for shares may be addressed to them In
the form subjoined.
Prospectuses and fcrms of application may also be had of Mr. R. M.
Seholefield, and any other respectable Stock and Share Agent in
Bradford, Leeds. &c.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Midland and Thirsk Junction

Railway Company.

Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me Shares of 251.
each in this Company, and I hereby agree to accept the same, or
any less number that may be allotted me, and to pay the deposit of
2/. 12s. 6d. per share thereon, and also to execute the Parliamentary
Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
Dated this day of 1845.
Name in ftlli • • . ..... • • • • • • • • •
Trade or profession .... • •
Reference • • . • . • • . • .. •

NOTICE is hereby given that the GUARAN-
TEE TEx SOCIETY has. REMOVED from 28, Poultry, to the
premises lately occupied by the London Assurance Corporation, 19,
Cornhill.

SOUTH-EASTERN RAIL WAY.
REDUCTION OF FARES.—EXPRESS TRAINS.
On and after the Ist of SEPTEMBER NEXT the fares on this
line will be as follows :
Between the_, London and the Dover and Folkestone Termini—
Express Trains, Its. Other Trains—First Class, 155.; Second Class,
10s. ; Third Class, Gs.
The intermediate fares will bo in proportion.'
' From the same date, DAY TICKETS will be granted at the fol-
lowing fares :
London to Dover and Folkestone and back—Express Trains, 275.
Other Trains—First Class, 225. 6d. ; Second Class, 15s. ; Third
Class, 9s.
To intermediate stations In proportion. •_.
Tickets issued on Saturday will be returnable on Saturday, Sun-
day, and Monday ; those issued on Sunday will be returnable on
Sunday and Monday.
Periodical Tickets will be charge ras under :-
Ist Class. 2d Class. Ist Class. 2d Class
One Month .• • • 412 ...• ••X 9 Six Months .. X 35 • • ..£25
Two Months ...• 20 l4 Twelve Months 50.• .. • • 35
Three Months .. 25 • • 17
By order co
London Terminus, August 18, 1845

the Board,
W. O'BRIEN, Secretary.

QOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY. - PLEA-
►►•.7? SURE EXCURSIONS between the Bricklayers' Arms or Dover
termini, and all stations except London-bridge, at one fare there and
back, continued from Monday, September 1, 1545, awl every Satur-
day and Monday until further notice. On theabove-named days
excursion tickets will be issued for the following trains :

DOWN TRAINS.
6 45 a.m 3d class only, from Bricklayers' Arms
9 0 a.m. Ist and 2d class only, from London Bridge
4 0 p.m. Ist, 2d, and 3d class, from Bricklayers' Arms
6 30 p.m. Ist and 2d class only, from London Bridge
UP TRAINS.
6 0 a.m. 3d class only, to Bricklayers' Arms
6 45 a.m. Ist and 2d class only, to Bricklayers' Arms
4 15 p.m. Ist, 2d, and 3d class, to Bricklayers' Arms
6 30 p.m. Ist and 2d class only, to London Bridge
Fares between London a,,d Dover and back :-
Ist class, 15s. ; 2d class, 10s.; 3d class, 6s.
And between the intermediate stations In proportion.
Excursion tickets are available only to return by the Excursion
trains on the same day they are issued, or on the following Monday,
when issued on the previous Saturday.
N.B. Excursion tickets are not issued to or from one interme-
diate station to another
By order,

W. O'BRIEN, Secretary.

41Q OUT 11-EASTERN and CONTINENTAL
1..7 STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.—To PARIS and the SOUTH
of FRANCE.—Sea passage in less than two hours.—Shortest route,
via south-Eastern Railway, in conjunction with the Folkestone and
Boulogne steamers. The celebrated new iron steam ships of the
South-Eastern and Continental Steam Packet Company, QUEEN of
the FRENCH and QUEEN of the BELGIANS, now leave Folke-
stone and Boulogne every day from each port.
The Departures for the Week will be as follows :-
1845. From Boulogne. From Folkestone.
Sept. n. a. a. a.
9. 1 0 rat. .. • • • • 3 0 p.m.
10. 2 0 • .• • • 3 30
11. 3 20 .• •• •• 5 10
12. 4 40 A.m. .. •• • • • • 6 20
13. 5 40 •• • • • • .. 6 20
14. 6 30 • • •• • • 8 0 A.m.
15. 7 0 • • • • • • • • 8 30—
For time and tide bills apply at the South-Eastern Railway-office,
London-bridge; or to Mr. Faulkner. Folkestone.

SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.
The Directors think it desirable to state that they sometime
since instructed Mr. Stephenson to prepare fir Parliament in the
next session a complete system for supplying railway communi-
cation with the whold of Kent. It is proposed to provide direct lines to
Tunbridge, Maidstone, Gravesend, Rochester, Chatham, Faversham,
Canterbury, and Dover. The surveys have been for some weeks in
progress, and the whole scheme will be very shortly in a complete
state. JOHN KIRKLAND, Chairman.

South-Eastern Railway-office, July 26, 1845,

MIDLAND RAILWAY COMPANY.
NEW 401. SHARES.

The HOLDERS of SCRIP CERTIFICATES for the NEW 401.
SHARES in the additional Capital Stock of this Company, are re-
quired to transmit such certificate to the Secretary at the Company's
Office at Derby, on or before SATURDAY, the 13th day of September
next, with their Names, Professions, and Residences distinctly writ-
ten, in order that the same may be entered in the Share Register of
the Company.

Shareholders to whom Scrip has not been issued will be duly re-
gistered as they now stand in the Books of the Company; and all
Shares not claimed by the actual Holders of Scrip Certificates on or
before the said 13tk day of September, will be registered as the pro-
perty of the persons to whom they were originally allotted.

- Receipts for the Scrip will be liven, and on the completion of the
Registry they will be exchanged for Certificates under the Seal of
the Company. _ _

GEORGE HUDSON, Chairman of the
Board of Directors.
JOHN ELLIS, Deputy Chairman.
By order, J. F. BELL. Secrotary.
Derby, Aug. 19, 1845.

DIRECT BIRMINGHAM, OXFORD,
READING, and BRIGHTON ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY.
(Registered provisionally, pursuant to the 7th and Bth Viet., c. 110).
Capital 2,000,0001., in shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Howard Elphinstone, Esq., 31. P., Lewes, Director of the Windsor,
Staines, Brentford, and London Atmospheric Railway
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Chairman of the Isle
of Ely Railway, Director of the Manchester and Sheffield Railway
James Gadesden, Esq., Ewell Castle, Surrey
H, S. Bright, Esq., null, Director of Isle of Ely Railway
Edwin Cadman, Esq., 'Westbourne House, Sheffield, Director of the

Isle of Ely Railway
John Blunt, Esq., Upper Bedford-place, Director of the London
Docks, and Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway
W. P. Andrew, Esq., Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square, Director
of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway, and Di-
rector of the South Midland Railway
Major J. R. Woraum. H.E.LS.C.S. Leamington
Henry Wright, Esq., Brunswick-square, Director of the London and
Birmingham Extension Railway, and Director of Warwick and

Worcester Railway
John Ward, Esq., Sheffield, Director of Sheffield, Rotherham, and
Chesterfield Fire and Life Insurance Company
Thomas Ridley, M.D., Sheffield
John Armitage, Esq., Chairman of the Huddersfield and Sheffield

Railway
R. Ross, Esq., 312., Rostrevor, Ireland, Director of the London

and Manchester Direct Railway
George Hammond Wholley, Esq., Pall-mall East
Alexander Andrew, Esq., Kensington

John Fawcett, Esq:, Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely Railway
Charles Appleby, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Man-

chesterßailway ,
John M. Cottle, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington, Director of the
Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester Railway
William Hunter, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington, l)irector of
the London, Bristol, and Bridgewater Railway
Captain Tringiam, R.N., Solihull, Warwickshire, Director of the
London, Bristol, and Bridgewater Railway
George Bunbury, Esq., Leamington, Director of the Warwick and
Cheltenham, :and Director of the oventry, Nuneaton, 'Birming-
Ram, and Leicester Railway
The Rev. J. R. Fowler, Esq., Manchester-square
C. R. Bigge, Esq., Bryaustone-square
W. S. Fitzwilliam, Esq., Broad-street, London, Merchant, Director
of the Essex and Sufolk Railway, and Director of the Chepstow,
Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway
And a powerful fecal support. . .

It is proposed to commence this line of railway at Birmingham, at
a point contiguous to the railways from the north, and to proceed
thence to or near Henley-in-Arden, Stratford-on-Avon, Shipston,
Chipping Norton, Woodstock, Oxford, Wallingford, and Caversharn,
crossing the Great Western Railway at Reading, thence continuing
in a direct course through or near Oakingham to Farnborough,
where it will cross the South Western Railway, and proceed through
or near Guildford, crossing the London and Portsmouth Atmospheric
Railway, and continuing through or near Godalming, and Horsham,
to Brighton and Shoreham, thus connecting the great manufacturing
or ones., Cheshire. Nottinghamshire, Der-
byshire, and Leicestershire • the
Sr. from PliAn4 6fteril4;;"ticelait-worki of
Droitwich, and the entire north of England and Scotland with the
southern districts ; and perfecting a direct line of communication
between the Irish Sea and the Bristol Channel with the English
Channel, at its most important and convenient point.
By this railway the most direct channel of communication via Di-
eppe or Havre, with Paris, the whole of Central Europe, and the
Mediterranean, will be effected.
By the junction of this line with the Portsmouth Atmospheric Rail-
way at or near Guildford, ,the very important port and arsenal of
Portsmouth will be placed in direct communication with Birming-
ham and the whole*of the manufacturing districts.
The communication between the important districts accommo-
dated by this is now carried on by a very circuitous route, sub-
j,:cting it to great delay, which will be entirely avoided ; and this line
of direct communication between termini of the utmost importance,
without change of carriage between Birmingham and Brighton, and
its consequent expense and loss of time, will also afford great local
accommodation to the fertile, populous, and wealthy districts which
arc traversed by it.
To Berkshire, Surrey, and Sussex, to which sea-borne coal is now
imported at great coast, and with much uncertainty, Staffordshire
and Warwickshire coal may be conveyed by this railway at a great
reduction in price.
The products of the manufacturing districts will, by this line, find
the most direct communication with Paris and central Europe ; and

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the interchange of stone, lime, tiles, cattle, wool, grain, malt, and
hops, and all the produce of the districts traversed by this line, will
be greatly facilitated.
The Intercourse already existing between the proposed termini of
this line is very considerable, notwithstanding the circuitous and
necessarily expensive route ; but considerable as it is, it must be
evident that such intercourse, whether for business or pleasure, will
be greatly promoted by the construction of this direct railway com-
munication.
There can be no doubt, that important as this line will be found as
a channel for the traffic between the termini, it will derive a great
profit from the traffic of the Northern and Midland Counties, and
the Continent, whilst the railways converging at Birmingham, those
lines which this will Intersect, and the new lines now constructing
along the coast, will afford communication with the entire of Eng-
land.
The distance and time that will be saved by this railway are as
follows

Miles.

Distance by the existing railway
from Birmingham to London .. 112% Time occupied
Distance from terminus of Bir-
mingham Railway at Euston-
square to the terminus of Brigh-
ton Railway at London-bridge • • 4
Distance from London to Brighton
by the existing railway • •

. 51

Hours,

• • 41,

THE CHESTER. and MANCHESTER
iL DIRECT RAILWAY, with a BRANCH to BIRKENHEAD,
The Committee of Management of this undertaking are now en-
gaged in an examination of the letters of application, and immedi-
ately after this has been completed the allotment will be proceeded
with. By order,
Sept. 2, 1845.
A. BARRETT, Secretary.

THE CHESTER and MANCHESTER
DIRECT RAILWAY, with a BRANCH to BIRKENHEAD.
Notice is hereby given, that the COMPANY'S OFFICES are RE-
MOVED from 29, 310ORGATE-STREET, to 1, ROYAL EX-
CHANGE-11 UILDI GS.—By order,
A. BARRETT, Secretary.

RUGBY., WARWICK, and WORCESTER
RAILWAY.
• Provisionally Registered.
Capital 900,0001., in 45,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.
Major-General Sir Love Jones Love Parry, Bart., K.C.8., Madryn
Park, Ca ernaryonshire
Sir William Henry Clarke, Bart., Baker-street, Portman-square,
London
'Sir Henry Webbe, Bart., Pall-mall, London
Sir henry Bromley Henrich, Court Garden, Great Marlow, Bucks
T. Hagger, Esq., NorthamplDirectors of the South Midland and
ton Northampton, Banbury, and Chel-
J. Freeman, Esq., Ditto tenham Railway Companies
Arthur Ilaynes, Esq., Methem Villa, Leamington, Provisional Direc-
tor of the South Midland Railway CoMpany
Benjamin Collett, Esq., Manor House, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire,
Provisional Director of the London; Warwick, Leamington, and
Kidderminster Railway Company
John Gardner, Esq., Southall], Provisional Director of the Birming-
ham and Oxford Junction Railway Company
William Frederick Beadon, Esq., John-street; Berkeley-square, Lon-
don, Provisional Director of the Essex and Suffolk Railer'', Company
Captain William Cousins, Director of the Goolo and Doncaster Rail-

way Company
George Buxton, Esq., Northampton, Director of the South Midland
Railway Company
E. W. Morris, Esq., Grovehurat, Pembury,
Provisional Directors of
Kent
the Great North and
Robert Rising, Esq., The Shrubbery, Wor-
South Wales and Wer-
e2ster
ouster Railway
Admiral Ayscongh, Southampton
Mr. Herbert A tterbary, Thornby, Northamptonshire
John Burnett, Esq., Cheltenham, Coroner for the county of Glou-
cester
John Brightman, Esq., Regency-square, Brighton
John Richards Burbidge, Esq., Surbiton Hill, Surrey
James Beach, Esq., of 15, Grosvenor-place and Brandon Lodge, near
Coventry, Director of the South Midland Railway Company
J. M. Cottle Esq., Leamington, Director of the Coventry, Nuneaton,
and Leicester ailway Company
Captain Chamfer, Halkin-street West, Belgrave-square, London
Thomas Chitty, Esq., 8, Upper Gower-street, London
Peter Colston, jun., Esq., Husband's Bosworth, near Market Har-
borough
Thomas Farmer Cooke, Esq., Peaking Hall, Leicestershire
Edward Doubleday, Esq., F.L.S., Great Surrey-street, London
John Eyston, Esq., Welford, Northamptonshire, and Salford Hall,
Warwickshire
Joseph Ellis, Esq., Glenfield and Leicester
Alexander Greig, Esq., Lowndes-street, Beigrave-square, London
John Matthew Gutch, Esq., Banker, Worcester
George Harper, Esq., Moss Fields, Salop
John Helbert Helbert, Esq., Upper Gloucester-street, London
Richard Parry Jones, Esq., Witchwick, Salop
Mr. George Wortley Love, Little Billing, Northamptonshiro
Cornelius Nicholson, Esq., Cowanhead, Kendal, Provisional Director
of the Lancaster and Carlisle, the York and Carlisle, and Manches-
ter and Southampton Railway Companies
The Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Herefordshire
Mr. Benjamin Paine, Leicester
James Watts Peppercorne, Esq., Old Broad-street, and Dulwich,
Kent
Captain Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, 4, Parliament-street, London
James Whitchurch, Esq., Southclift; Nctley Abbey, Hants
William Williams, Esq., Guilsborough, Northamptonshire
John Wheeiton, Esq., Meopham Bank, Tonbridge, Kent
Edward Waddilove, Esq., Leamington
Mr. John Wooiston, jun., merchant, Wellingborough, Northampton-
shire

(With power to add to their number.)
BANKERS.
London—The London and County Bank, Lombard-street

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Northampton—The Northamptonshire Banking Company
Rugby—Messre. Butlin and Son

Leani.ingtoni Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Com-
Warwick
Southam patty

Worcester—Messrs. Farley, LaTender, and CO.
ENGINEER IN CIIIES.—.IOhII Urpeth Rastrick, ESQ.
SOLICITORS.
London—Mr. George Weller, 8, King's-read, Bedford-row
Welford—Mr. George Pell, jun.
Leamingtmi Messrs. Patterson, Haynes, and,Hanbury
Warwick
Worcester—Mr. R. T. Rea

Birmingham—Mr. T. R. T. Hodgson
PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS.
_ .

The object proposed by this railway is, as well to supply the wants
of the district through which it passes, as to complete the chain of
railway communicatiox between the eastern and midland counties
and the western district, including the whole of North and South
Wales.

The country through which the line will pass is of the richest
description, and thickly populated.

By means of this, and the existing and projected lines of railway,
the whole of the ports in the eastern and north-eastern counties, in-
cluding the manufacturing city of Norwich, and towns of Leicester,
Nottingham, Sheffield, and Leeds, will bo brought in direct com-
munication with the mineral districts of North and South Wales,
and the salt district of Droitwich.

The promoters of this line submit to the public, as a most import-
ant consideration, the abating of those causes of loss and inconveni-
ence which, along the line of country over which this railway will
pass, are experienced from water carriage being from necessity at
present a principal mode of transit for heavy goods and merchandise,
and which, in the winter season, is productive of the most evil con-
sequences to those engaged in commerce.
A manifest advantage to the Shareholders will be the extent of traftle
which this line will secure and appropriate, in lieu of that which
hitherto has been engrossed by the more dilatory course of water
carriage. _

Asa public advantage to tile inhabitants generally of the country
through which this line will pass, the promoters submit that the
equalisation in prices of the produce and merchandise which the
opening of this line of railway is calculated to produce is of the high-
est importance, and one of the principal benefits which this and other
similar undertakings are alone capable of producing.
The proposed line will commence at Rugby, the terminus of the
Midland Counties Railway, and also of the proposed Rugby and Hunt-
ingdon Junction Railway, and proceed from thence near to the towns
of Leamington, Warwick, Alcester, and end at the City of Worcester.
At Worcester this line will form a junction with the several Welsh
railways, the Shrewsbury, Worcester, and Crewe Union Railway,
and the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway.
At Warwick it will unite with the Birmingham and Oxford Junc-
tion Railway, the Warwick and Cheltenham Railway, and the Lon-
don, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidderminster Railway.
And at Rugby with the London and Birmingham, the Midland
Counties, and the projected Rugby and Huntingdon Junction Railways.
To the inhabitants of Rugby as well as to those of the Midland,
Eastern, and Northern Counties this line will afford a direct com-
munication With the fashionable towns of Leamington and Chelten-
ham, as well as the whole of the Western Counties.
To the inhabitants of Leamington and Warwick it will give a
direct communication with the City of Worcester and North and
South Wales, now so much needed.
_ _

And to the inhabitants of Worcester, in addition to providing the
nearest route to London via Warwick, it will be an outlet to the
Eastern Counties and ports, and afford great facilities for the increase
of the manufactories now carried on in that city.
The whole of the country has during the present month been most
carefully surveyed by the engineers, and they report it to be free from
engineering difficulty, and well adapted for a railway; and the pro-
visional Directors entertain no doubt that the line will be made
under the average rate of expense incident to similar undertakings,
and from the statistics in their possession, that the traffic will
afford an ample return for the capital invested.
The line will not interfere with any ornamental property, and the
landowners are favourable to the undertaking.
The Shareholders in the several Railways proposed to be joined or
intersected will have a preference in the allotment of shares in this
and ertaking.
No person will be liable for more than his deposit till the Act is
obtained, and power wilt be applied for to allow interest at 4/. per
centum on all calls, from the time of their respective payments, and
to limit the liability of the Shareholders to the amount of their sub-
scriptions.
The Directors reserve power to themselves to amalgamate with
any existing or projected line of railway ; to vary the route ; to
make all desirable extensions; and to increase the capital as may be
advisable or necessary.
Prospectuses, with a Plan, will be published in a few days,
and may then be obtained on application to the several solicitors,
and to any of the following share brokers, viz., Messrs. Peppercorne
and Co., 2, Old Broad-street; Messrs. Preece and Evans, 39, Loth-
bury, London ; Messrs. Payne and FreCr, Leicester ; Messrs. Alston
and Gage, Liverpool ; Messrs. Freeman and ilon, Northampton ; Mr.
John Duncaft, Manchester ; Messrs. George Edwards and Son, Bris-
tol; Mr. John Watson, Leeds ; Mr. John Cragg, Shipton ; and
Messrs. Atkinson, Newcastle ; to any of whom applications in the
undermentioned form may be addressed.

FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Directors of the Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester

Railway.
I request you to allot me Shares in this undertaking ; and I
hereby undertake to accept the same or any smaller number that
may be allotted me, and to pay the Deposit thereon, and to execute
the Parliamentary Contract and Subscriber's Agreement when re-
quired.

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LYONS and AVIGNON RAILWAY.
(COMP.AGNIE SEBASTIANI.)
REPORT TO THE ENGLISH SUBSCRIBERS.
GENTLEMEN,—We regret our not being able to report that we have
succeeded in our efforts to obtain for you the objects of our Associa-
tion ; our best energies have been devoted to the subject, but from
the altered state of the lircumstances which has now arisen, oar
Company, as at present constituted, is not in a position to compete
for the Lease.
At the time our Company was farmed, it was understood that the
Government would provide the land for the line and stations, and
possibly would undertake the earthworks. The capital we then
proposed (60 millions of francs), was considered sufficient to provide
all that the Company, under that state of circumstances, would have
required ; but after much doubt and delay, the Government have at
length thtermined that their lessees shoull undertake thepurchase of
the land, as well as the entire construction and working of the Rail-
way.theinform
several The Bill has now passed the Chambers in that form, and has
fixed the Capital at BO millions ( pective of the Grenoble
Branch).
Having, as we interpret cur engagement to the Subscribers,
Subscribers, and
neither power to undertake on their behalf the purchase of land, nor
adequate funds for that larger purpose, we are under the necessity of
announcing the dissolution of the present Subscription, and we have
hold accordinglyth the
depoogsy a furtherub j
ect
to
the thison o
ready to be immediately returned in exchange for the letters of allot-
ment and banker's receipts.
We would now invite your attention to the copy of the
rdebreaidf
statutes, which have been framed and adopted for the regulation of
a new Company for making and working the proposed line. You
will observe, that It is mainly under the same direction, and in many
respects of the same character as that which tve originally proposed.
The capital is necessarily larger, and the powers vested in those who
have the conduct of the undertaking of a much more general charac-
ter. We desire to refer yo, in particular to articles 4-22-23-
24-28-56.
We aro empowered to offer to each Shareholder in the former
Company who shall, on or before the 20th of September next, and
in the manner we are about to mention, declare his option to accept
them, the same number of Shares in the new Company as he holds
in the original Company,
with or without one additional Share In
respect of every five original Shares, and In order to faci'llate the
necessary arrangements, we have prepared such forms as will enable
the Subscribers to express their wishes with convenience. They are
ready, and may be applied for at 62, King William-street, City, be-
tween Eleven o'clock, A.M. and Three o'clock P.M.
We beg to add, that in the event of receiving at this office
no
com-
munication respecting any particular allotment of Shares in the
original Company on or before the 20th of September next, the de-
posit thereon will be held subject to the order of the party entitled to
it, and it will be entirely out of our power to extend beyond the
above-mentioned day the option which we have secured for the pre-
sent Proprietors to join the n
It is right we should express our continued -confidence in the
merits of the undertaking, and our recommendation to the Sub-
scribers to renew their investments in the new Company.
We are, Gentlemen, your very obedient Servants,
W. J. CHAPLIN.
CHARLES DEVAUX.
J. MOSS.
J. MASTERMAN, Jun.
M. UZIELLI.

London, September 1, 1845

THE LEEDS, HUDDERSFIELD, SHEF-
FIELD, and SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE or LEEDS,
WOLVERHAMPTON and DUDLE ir DIRECT RAILWAY.

(Provisionally Registered).
Capital 1,700,0001., in 85,000 Shares of 201. each,
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Right Hon. the Earl of Shrewsbury, Alton Towers, Staffordshire
Sir William Young, Bart., East India Director, Westbourne-street,
Hyde-park Gardens
Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Deputy Chairman of
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Sir William Boothby, Bart, Ashbourne-hall Derbyshire
Sir William Lowthorp; lint. Hull and Alga-house Scarborough, Di-
rector .f the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire June.
tion Railway.
Col. the lion Leicester Stanhope, Ashburham House, Chairman of
Remington's London and Manchester Direct Railway
The Sheriff of York
Arnold, Henry, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of Remington's London and
Manchester. Railway
Bright, selim, Esq., Buxton
Blurton, Robert, Esq., banker, Smallwood Manor, Uttoxeter Direc-
tor of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction
Railway
Bradley, Septitnus, Esq., Ashbourne, Director of the Derby. hire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Benwell, George, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Buxton, John Harry, Esq., Ashbourne
Croft, Major J. T., 15, Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman of Reming-
ton's London and Manchester Direct Railway
Clarke, Jeremiah, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's Lon-
don and Manchester Railway
• -Cooper; John Douglas, Esq., Bodine Cottage, Ashbourne
Crockett, T. Esq., Cannock, of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire,
and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Crossley, John, Esq., Lamberhurst, Sussex, and Uttoxeter, Director
of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction
Railway
Dalby, John, Robert, Esq., Ashbourne, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Dale, Major, Thurston, Ashbourne
Dawson, Samuel, Esq., sell., Ashbourne
Earp, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, anp Worcestershire Railway
Edensor, Richard, Esq., Road-meadow, Ashbourne
Fidler, Peter Pichott, Esq., lliggin Grange, Derbyshire
Fisher, Thomas, Esq.,, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Raifway
Garde, Samuel, Esq., Uttoxeter
Gilpin, William, Esq., Wedges Mills, Cannock, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Haden, Joseph, Esq., Dudley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Hatfield, Thomas, Esq., Rugeley
Haines, Samuel, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbaston, Director of the Lei-
cester and Birmingham Railway
Hartshorne, Robert James, Esq., Ashbourne
Johnson, John Goodwin, Esq., Bentley Hall Ashbourne
Johnson, D. T., Esq., Alderraary Churchyard, Director of the Ches-
ter and Manchester Railway
Johnson, Richard Wm., Esq., M.orgate, Director of Remington's
London and Manchester Direct Railway
Jones, the Rev. J. P., Vicarage, Alton, Staffordshire
Knight, Edward, Esq., M.D., Stafford
Keene, John Joseph, Esq.„ St. John's Wood, Regen'ts Park, Director
of the National Bank of Ireland, &c.
King, William, Esq., Waterloo-place, Director of the Freemason's
Life Assurance, &c.
Lea, John Whoeley, Esq., Worcester, Tice-Chairman of the Severn
Commission, &c.
Lawrence, Richard Corbett, Esq., Wandfleld-hall, Uttoxeter
Langley, Henry, Esq., Rakeway House, Cheadle
Lassetter, James, Esq., Uttoxeter
Lassetter, Richard, Esq., Uttoxeter
Moteyard, Horace, Wm., Esq., Director of Remington's London and
Manchester Railway, Middle Temple, and Chathamc-place
M`Mahon, Daniel, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the Derbyshire
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Manors, John, Esq. Rugeley
51ellard, James, Esq., Rugeley
Minors, John, Esq., Eaton Dovedale, Derbyshire, Director of the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Minors, John, Esq., The Parks, Uttoxeter, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
3iontford, Thomas Joha, Esq., Ashbourne
Mathew, John Mee, Esq., Assistant Tithe Commissioner, Director of
the East and West Junction Railway, Sec.
Milner, William, Esq., 'lean, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Marton, Joseph, Esq., Walsall, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Maskery, Thomas, Esq., Norbury, Derbyshire
Orton, James, Esq., Woodford, near Uttoxeter, Director of the Der-
byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Parkinson, John, Esq., 1.R.5., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park, Di-
rector of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Rail-
way, &o.
Puitoney, Douglas, Kinnaird, Capt., Parliament-street, London, Di-
rector of the Nottingham and Boston Railway
Phillips, William, Esq., Springfield Rouse, Uttoxeter, Director of the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, aid Worcestershire Junction Railway
Robinson, John, Esq., Silcoates Cottage, Wakefield
Sant, Edward, Esq., Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford
shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Shipton, Robert, Esq., Scropton, Derbyshire, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway
Smith, Charles, Esq., Alton, Staffordshire
Smith, Thomas, Esq., Blore-hall, Staffordshire, Director of the Der-
byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Smith, William, Esq., Sedsall, Derbyshire, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire Railway, &c.
Smith, William, Esq., Clifton, Derbyshire, Director of Tean and Dove
Talley Railway
Smith, John, Esq., EartOn House, Derbyshire
Smythe, John Vere, Esq., Kensington, Middlesex, Director of the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Spires, E. J., Fsq., CaritonTillas, London, Director of the East and
West Junction Railway
Stevenson, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Agriculturist Cattle As-
Nuance Company
Terry, Benjamin, Esq., Mayor of Walsall, Director of the Derby-
shire Railway, &c.
Tomlinson, Thomas, Esq., Bradley Pastures, Ashbourne
Tomlinson and Jones, Messrs., Brokers, Ashbourne
Toogood, Rupert, Esq., Ashbourne
Tylecote, Edward, Esq., Great Heywood, Staffordshire
Tyler, George, Esq., Holloway-place, Holloway, London, Director of
the East and West Junction Railway, &c.
Waller, Major, K.H., St. James's-square, Director of the Chester and
Manchester Railway, &c,
Walter, James Smith, Esq., Bakewell, Derbyshire
Walters, J. T, Esq., Rugeley
Weston, Thomas, Esq., Teats, Staffordshire
Wise, Thomas, Esq., Ashbourne
Witham, John, Esq., Ashbourne
Woolrich, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter
Wood, Charles, Esq., Uttoxeter
Wood William, Esq., M.D., Chetwynd Hope, Newport, Director of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway
Wood, William Hurd, Esq , Ashboume
Wright, Thomas, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Gainsbo-
rough Railway.

BANKERS.
Messrs. Rogers, Oldink, and Co., Clement's-lane, London
Messrs. Barnard, Dimadale, and Co., Cornhill, London

SOLICITORS.
John Owens, Esq., 35, Moorgate-street, London
William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttoxeter
ENGINEERS.
Sir John Rennie, F.R.S.
George Remington, Esq., C.B.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Armishaw, J., Esq., Rugeley
Bolton, Thomas, Esq., Wolverhampton
Bolton, John, Esq., Dudley
Eggiugton, A. Esq., Lichfield
Green, James J., Esq., Walsall.
This line of railway, which is about sixty-five miles in length, is
intended to commence at Uttoxeter (the terminus of the proposed
Derbyshire, Staffonishire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway) and
to proceed to Sheffield and -Huddersfield. It will form a direct com-
munication between two of the most important manufacturing and
mining districts in England, viz., South Staffordshire and Sheffield,
and Rotherham in Yorkshire ; the South Staffordshire portion in-
cluding Dudley, Tipton, Walsall, Bilston, Wednesbury, and Wolver-
hampton.
This line will also open a direct railway communication between
Leeds, Huddersfield, and the West Riding of Yorkshire and Kidder-
minster, IVorcestershire, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bristol, Taunton,
and Exeter, and with Ludlow, Leominster, Ilercford, Brecon, Car-
diff, Neath, Swansea, Llanelly, Caermarthen, Milford Haven, Fish-
guard, Aberystwith, and with Porthdynilaen, the future outport for
Ireland. And also the most direct communication between Leeds
and Southampton.
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The line will pass nearly along the irttoxeter and Caldon Canal to a
point near Prcstwood, in case the canal be purchased by the pro-
moters of this undertaking. It will proceed through Ellaston and
Mayfield to Ashbourn. thence nearDovedale, Buxton, and Chapel-
en-la Frith, and Holmfirth to Huddersfield, where it will
join tae Huddersfield and Leeds Railway, and so to Thirsk. It will
open new mines, in addition to those already in work, of lead, coal,
iron ore, barytes, and carboniferous and magnesian limestone on the
route, in addition to forming a direct, speedy, and cheap communica-
tion between the important towns above mentioned.
Arrangements have been made with other companies to run into

this line- from Sheffield. This company reserves the right to raise
additional capital to extend the line to Leeds.
Many of the above-mentioned mineral productions are essential to
the milling districts of South Staffordshire and Sheffield. The North
Staffordshire and Derbyshire Limestone is much superior to that of
South Staffordshire in the fluxion of iron (15 cwt. of the former being
equal to a ton of the latter), and producing a better quality of ma-
terial. At present, the mode of transit is very circuitous and expen-
sive, the line from the Caldon Mines having to go by canal round
by Etruria, Leek, and the Potteries, to the Dudley and surrounding
furnaces, when, by this railway, it would be taken in a straight line
to them ; and the Aihbottnie, Cromford, Worksworth, and Bakewell

scarce, and great quantities are introduced from Scotland; the same
scarcity exists in South Staffordshire ; and the route of this line
would furnish a good supply, at present not worked, and without a
market, both north and south. In addition to these great advan-
tages, a good local market would be opened along the agricultural
and other parts of the district at present very badly supplied with
lime and coal, and that of an inferior quality, and by expensive car-
riage. It is, therefire, next to impossible to calculate the immense
traffic which would pour down this line and the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, aed Worcestershire Junction Railway.
The calculations which have been made show a very large profit.
There arc large lead and slate quarries on the line which only want
an outlet like the one now contemplated to bring them into fall work.
The coal is of a superior quality.
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There are also extensive barytes and paint-works at Ashbourne,
Cromford, and other places on the line. The scenery of Derbyshire
is the resort of vast numbers of tourists ; and particular care -will be
taken, in passing of the line near Dovedale, not to interfere with or
change its beautiful and romantic character. The convenience,
therefore, which this line will afford must necessarily cause a great
influx of passengers, both on business and pleasure.
Ironstone is not so abundant in the South as in North Staffordshire,
and vast quantities aro sent by the tardy, circuitous, and expensive
canal company, which this and other lines of railway meeting at
Uttoxeter will remedy.
The gypsum formation runs from Staffordshire to the Humber, and
the demand for this article for building, agricultural, and manufac-
turing purposes along this line will be great.
The timber from the neighbourhood of the Needwood Forest
Banks, liagots Woods, and Kingston Woods, upwards of 4,000
acres, chiefly finds its way to the Manchester market by a
like objectionable route of tardy and circuitous canal convey-
ance ; whereas this line would open a direct, easy, and cheap
communication to new markets. The line has been viewed prior to
a detailed survey, and there are not more than ordinary engineering
difficulties. In consequence of the late Parliamentary decisions, it is
intended to make this line on the broad gauge principle, but the pro-
moters do not pledge themselves absolutely to do so.
Applications for Shares to be made to John Owens, Esq., 35,
Moorgate-street, London; and William Arnold Bainbrigge, Eq.,
Uttoxeter ; and to the following Sharebrokers :—Messrs. Preece and
Evans, 39, Lothbury ; Mr. Miles, Worcester; Mr. Thomas Henry
Wheeler, Worcester; Messrs. Townley and Whitehead, Liver-
pool ; Messrs. Cameron and Co., Liverpool ; Mr. Morris
nolds, Liverpool ; Mr. Richard E. Hine, 31acciestield ;
James Jamieson, Leeds ; Messrs. Wellheloved and Oastkr,
Levis ; Mr. Frederick Stamp, Hull ; Mr. Thomas Boardman, 1)1y:-
burn ; Mr. George Clark. Bradford ; Mr. William Mason, Bradford ;
Mr. William Cronhelm, Halifax ; Mr. Charles Spenser, Nottingham
Messrs. Eyre and Shaw, Derby ; Messrs. Grayston and ~
York; Mr. E. H. Armitage, Wakefield; Mr, James Stokes, Chelten.
ham ; Mr. Joseph Clark, jun., Southampton ; Messrs, Tate and Nash,
Bristol ; Messrs. Beaumont and Langworthy, Exeter ; Mr. Thomas
Sandford, Exeter; Sir. J. S. Holland, Coventry; Messrs, Horighlaml
and Leese, Manchester ; Messrs. Cardwell and Sons, Manchester ;
Messrs. A. Birchall and Co., Manchester; Messrs. T. N. Bardwcil
and Sons, Sheffield; Mr. W.ll. Collis,Birmingham ; Mr.L. Weather-
burn, jun., Huddersfield ; Messrs. Everard and Co., Huddersfield ;
Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester ; Mr. Ilii6hotsohi Edinburgh ;
Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Glasgow ; Messrs.3i I.a Milligan,
tertiorukcelnie
and Stafford, College-green, Dublin; Mr. Andrew mg
head

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

To the Provisional Committee of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffiel

and SouthStatrcillshire Direct Railway.

•
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me . T Shares of 50/. eaeh
in the above Railway, and I undertake to aceept the same or such
less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the regulations

of the Company, and to sign the necessary Deeds, and to pay, when
required, the Deposit thereon of 2/. 2s. per Share.
Dated this day cf , 184 .
Name In full.. ..
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VRECT EAST AND WEST JUNCTION
RAILWAY,
COMMENCING AT KIDDERMINSTER AND ENDING AT
HEREFORD.
' (Provisionally Registered.)
- Capital 800,000/., in 32,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
PROVISION/4 COMMITTEE.
Rossmore, the Right Hon. Lord, like Dell, Windsor

Sir William Wynn, Suffolk street, Pall-mall, Chairman of the North
Wales Railway

Prescott, Sir George William, Bart., Theobalds,-Director of the Derby.
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &c.
Westenra, the Hon. Lieutenanant-Colonel J. C., 3LP., Sharavogue,
Roscrea

The Sheriff of York
Parry, Major-General Sir Love Parry Jones, Madryn, Carnamn-
shire, Director of the North Wales Railway
Hamilton, the Hon. G. F., Burwater, Salop
Hare, Sir John, Langham-place, Director of the Nottingham and
Boston Railway Company
Arnold, Henry, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Barker, Captain, Regent-street
Bell, Robert, Esq., Manor-house, Chiswick
Clarke, Jeremiah, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's Lon-
don and Manchester Railway
Croft, Major J. T., Regent-street, Piccadilly, Deputy Chairman of the
Chester and Manchester Railway Company
Dalby, John Robert, Esq., of Ashbeurne, Director of the Leeds, Hud-
dersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Junction Railway
Elrington, Lieut.-Colonel, Fusileer Guards, 12, Wyndham-place,
Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Railway
Fitzgerald, Charles, Esq., Charles-street, St. James's
Gernon, James, Esq., 13, Conduit-street, Director of the Southamp-
ton, Oxford, and Manchester Railway
Griffiths, Win., Esq., Park House, Wellington, Salop, Director of the
Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Direct
Railway, &c. &e.
Gutch, John Matthew, Esq., banker, Worcester, Director of Reming-
ton's London and Manchester Railway, &c.
Haines, Samuel, Esq., Chad House, Edgbaston, Director of the
Leicester and Birmingham Railway
Hellen', John, Esq., Manchester, Director of Remington's London
and Manchester Railway Company
Johnson, D. T., Esq., Aldermary-churchyard, London, Director of
Remington's London and Manchester Railway Company
Johnson, Richard William, Esq., Moorgate, Director of Remington's
London and Manchester Railway Company
Keene, John Joseph, Esq., St. John's Wood, London, Director of the.
National Bank of Ireland
King, William, Esq.. Director of the Freemasons' Life Assurance
Company
Marston, Francis, Esq., Director of the Worcester and Ludlow Railway
Aleteyard, Horace William Esq., 8.C.L., London, Director of Re-
mington's London and Manchester Railway
Matthew, John Mee, Assistant Tithe Commissioner, and Director of
of the Agriculturist Cattle Assurance Company, &c.
Macmoran, A.M., Esq., 51, Cambridge-street, Hyde-park
Newcombe, James William, Esq., Langley-fields, Salop, ironmaster,
Director of the Shrewesbury, Hereford, and North Wales Railway.
and the Shropshire Mineral Railway, &c.
Parkinson, John, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Director of' the Paris and
Rennes Railway, &c.
Pierpoint, J. M., Esq., Worcester, Director of the Welsh Midland
Railway
Pulteney, Captain Douglas Rinnaird, Parliament-street, London, Di-
rector of the Nottingham and Boston Railway
Reade, James, Esq., Lower Berkeley-street, London, Director of
Remington's London and Manchester Railway
Stevenson, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Medical Assurance Qom-
_ pany, and Irish Great Western Railway

Smith, William, Esq., Clifton, Derbyshire, Director of the Tean and
Dove Railway

Spiers, E. J., Esq., Carlton Villas, London, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &c.
Stevenson, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Agriculturist Cattle As-
surance Company

Tyler, George, Esq., Rollaway-place, London, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &c.
Waller, Major James, St. Jamcs's-square, Director of Remington'a
London and Manchester Railway Company
Wardle, Henry, Esq., Macclesfield