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RAILWAY OF

GREAT WESTERN
BENGAL.
The Directors beg to inform the parties to whom letters of allot-
ment have been sent, that the difficulty experienced at Messrs.
Smith, Payne, and Co.'s, arising from the form of the receipt in the
payment of the deposits, has been removed, and that the deposits
will be received as originally announced.
Numerous parties having expressed their disappointment, in con-
sequence of not receiving letters of allotment, the Directors again
take this opportunity of informing those gentlemen- the regret they
feel that, in consequence of the immense number of applications,
they have been compelled to refuse so many respectable parties.
By order,
ROBT. WOLSELEY, Secretary.
147, Loadenhall-street, 19th August, 1845.

HARWICH PIER and DOCKS, and BIR-
MINGHAM and CENTRAL-ENGLAND GRAND JUNC-
TION RAILWAY.

Provisionally Registered, pursuant to Act 7 and 8 Victoria, cap. 110.
PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT.
This Railway is intended to commence at the port of Harwich, and
proceed from thence to a junction with the London and Birmingham
Railway, at or near Blisworth.
The Commissioners appointed by the Crown to inquire into the
most eligible situations for Harbours of Refuge, have reported upon
Harwich, as the finest and only safe Harbour along the East Coast
of England, and from its situation and extent, one of very great im-
portance to the trade of this country. The Commissioners, in their
Report, urged upon the Government the necessity for taking imme-
diate measures for the improvement of Harwich Harbour, as a work
of national importance; and a Parliamentary grant has been made
for that purpose.
This Company is established with a view of carrying out more ex-
tensively the objects of the Government, by the construction of a
Pier and Docks, and by opening up the shortest and most direct com-
munication between the port of Harwich and the port of London, the
Western and Midland Counties, and the manufacturing districts ; and
for the purpose of bringing into more immediate connexion the great
commercial ports of England with the port of Harwich, as the grand
outlet to all parts of Northern and Central Europe, by means of
whose existing and projected Railways an unlimited flow of commer-
cial and passenger-traffic to and from this country will necessarily be
created; whilst the important and populous districts traversed by the
line (as yet unprovided with the means of railway communication)
will derive all the vast advantages of the most speedy internal, as
well as foreign intercourse.
The line is now being surveyed, on the completion of which a de-
tailed prospectus, with the names of the Provisional Committee and
the amount of capital required, will be published; and in the mean-
time applications for further information may be addressed to W.
Scott, Esq., at the Offices of the Company, 63, Moorgate-street.

THE DERBYSHIRE, STAFFORDSHIRE,
and WORCESTERSHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 600,0001., in 30,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Honourable the Earl of Shrewsbury, Alton Towers,
Staffordshire
Sir William Young, Bart., East India Director, Westbourne-street,
Hyde Park-gardens
Allen, Mr. Sergeant, Serjeant's-inn, London
Arnold, Henry, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of Remington's London
and Manchester Railway
Askey, John, Esq., Shelton, Staffordshire Potteries
Blackburn, Rev. F. T., M.A., Cannock
Bladen and Nash, Messrs., Rugeley
Blood, John Thaynes, Esq., High Sheriff of Lichfield
Murton, Robert, Esq., Banker, Smallwood Manor, near Uttoxeter
Croft, Major J. T., Regent-street, London, Deputy Chairman of the
Chester and Manchester Railway
Crossley, John, Esq., Uttoxeter
Cox, George, Esq., Wolverhampton
Cartwright, Talbot, Esq. Wolverhampton
Cheshire, T., Esq., Rugeley
Crockett, T., Esq., Cannock.
Collis, Rev. W. 8., M.A., Cannock
Dimmock and Thompson, Messrs., iron merchants, Bilston, Stafford..
shire
Dixon, John, Esq., Ironworks, Rough Hills, near Wolverhampton
Earp, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter
Fellowes, Isaac, Esq., Wolverhampton
Greensmith, J., Esq., Rugeley
Gulch, John Matthew, Esq., Banker, Worcester
Hadfield Thomas, Esq., Rugeley
Haines, Samuel, Esq., Director of the lelocate! and Birmingham
Railway, Chad House, Edgbaston
Harwood, William, Esq.
Holford, John, Esq., Manchester, Director of Remington's London
and Manchester Railway
Johnson, D. T., Esq., Director of the Chester and Manchester Rail-
way, Aldermary-churchyard
Johnson, Richard William, Esq., Director of Remington's London
and Manchester Railway, Moorgate, London
Jones, Rev. J. P., Alton Vicarage, Alton, Staffordshire
Keene, John Joseph, Esq., Director of the National Bank of Ireland,
St. John's-wood, Regent's-park
King, William, Esq., Director of the Freemasons' Life Assurance,
Waterloo-place
Knight, Edward, Esq., M.D., Stafford
Lawrence, Richard Corbett, Esq., Wandfield Hall, Uttoxeter
Langley, Henry, Esq., Rakeway House, Cheadle
Lassetter, Richard, Esq., Uttoxeter
Lowe, Richard, Esq., Cheadle
Lea, John Wheeley, Esq., Worcester, Vice-Chairman of the Severn
Commission
Lee, Thomas, Esq., Wolverhampton
Meteyard, Horace Wm., Esq., Director of Remington's London and
Manchester Railway, Middle Temple, and Chatham-place
M`Mahon, Daniel, Esq., Wolverhampton
Manors, John, Esq., Rugeley
Mallar, D. James, Esq., Rugeley
Minors, John, Esq., Eaton Dovedale, Derbyshire
Mathew, John Mee, Esq., Assistant Tithe commissioner
Milner, William, Esq., Tean, Staffordshire
Orton, James, Esq., Woodford, near Uttoxeter
Pulteney, Douglas Kinnaird, Captain, Director of the Nottingham
and litoston Railway, Parlament-street, London
Phillips, William, Esq., Springfield House, Uttoxeter
Round,Benjamin, Esq., Wednesbury
Shipton, Robert, Esq., Scropton, Derbyshire
Smith, Charles, Esq., Alton, Staffordshire
Smith, Thomas, Esq.,- Blore Hall, Ashbourn
Smith, William, Esq., Sedsall, Derbyshire
Smith, William, Esq., Clifton, Derbyshire, Director of the Tean and
Dove Valley Railway
Smyth, John Vere, Esq., Kensington, Middlesex
Spires, E. J., Esq., Carlton Villas, London
Tyler, George, Esq., Holloway-place, London
Waller, Major James, K.H., 15, St. James's-square, Director of the
Chester and Manchester Railway
Woolrich, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter
Wood, Charles, Esq.; Uttoxeter
Weston, Thomas, Esq., Tean, Staffordshire
Walker, Thomas, Esq., Wolverhampton
Walker, Josh., Esq., Wolverhampton
RANKERS.
3fessrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clements's-lane, London
The Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashbourne Union Bank, Uttoxeter
The Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashbourne Union Bank, Ashbourne
The National Provincial Bank of England, Rugeley
Tho National Provincial Bank of England, Lichfield
SOLICITORS.
John Owens, Esq., 35, 3foorgate-street, London
William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttoxeter.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Amishaw, J., Esq., Rugeley
Bolton, Thomas, Esq., Wolverhampton
Bolton, John, Esq., Dudley
Egginton, A , Esq., Lichfield
James J. Green, Esq., Walsall
ENGINEERS.
Sir John Rennie
G. Remington, Esq., C.E.
The line of Railway proposed between Uttoxeter and Dudley has
been undertaken at the suggestion of several influential parties, as
combining (without being a competing line wills any railway at pre-
sent made) all the advantages of several projected lines, with addi-
tions of no ordinary value. The town of Uttoxeter, in the Dove Val-
ley, is itself the centre of a rich agricultural district, supplying al-
ready the markets of Dudley, Tipton, Walsall, Bilston, and Wednes-
bury, with cheese cattle, and agricultural produce, but by a very
expensive and dilatory mode of transit. All the proposed lines
communicating with Manchester, London, and the Potteries,
must necessarily pass to or near Uttoxeter. Already the Chur-
net Valley, Derby and Stafford, Derby and Crewe, Tean,
and Dove Valley, North Staffordshire, Manchester Direct Inde-
pendent, Leicester and Ashby lines of railway, project a station at
Uttoxeter. Assuming either of these former, or some equivalent, to
pass this will be the best route from Manchester, Macclesfield, the
Potteries, Hull, Sheffield, and the north to the mineral districts of
South Staffordshire, and to Kidderminster, Worcester, and South
Wales. By the Leicester and Ashby line, which will communicate
by its branch to Uttoxeter, traffic of great part of the cast of
England will be available for Staffordshire and the west.
Commencing at Uttoxeter, the line will be carried over
favourable ground to Abbott's Bromley, thence to Rugeley, where
it will fall into the Trent Valley Railway Station, by Channock
Chase, along the Rising Brok Valley, to Hednesford, and thence by
Walsall across the Grand Junction Railway, through Wednesbury
and the mineral districts of South Staffordshire to Dudley ; there it
will join all those railways that will connect the Staffordshire coal-
field with Worcester, Ludlow and Porthdynllaen on the south-west,
Aberystwith, Merthyr Tydvil, Swansea, Hereford, on the west and
south. In fact, it will unite by the nearest route the east and west
of England.
The line will fall into and cross the Trent Valley, Midlands, and
Grand Junction Railway at Walsall, and from Cannock afford direct
communication with Wolverhampton (where it will run into the
broad gauge railway) from Leeds, and Huddersfield, and the north
and east of England.
The population on the line exceeds 300,000, and the ordinary traffic
arising from internal sources alone is sufficient to maintain the rail-
way, and afford more than ample remuneration to the shareholders.
As a junction line (with the present immensely increasing public
favour to railway travelling) it is scarcely possible to compute Use
amount of passenger traffic, but it must necessarily be very great.
Since this line was registered, a company has been formed for ex-
tending it by a junction at Uttoxeter, to Huddersfield, Leeds, and
Sheffield, by way of Ashbourn, and by this means immense mines of
lead, iron, stone, and coal of Derbyshire, the products of the paint
manufactories and barytes works at Ashbourne, Cromford, &c., will
be opened, and with those already in work, find a ready transit to
Walsall and Birmingham, Dudley, and Wolverhampton. The in-
crease of passengers, attracted by ready means of conveyance to the
romantic country of Dovedale, and the High Peak, will be necessarily
very great.
The copper, ore, lime, and coal, abounding in the Caldon and the
Ribden mines, will be transmitted by this line to the manufacturing
districts of Staffordshire, Warwickshire, and South Wales, and it will
afford a direct communication between Leeds, Huddersfield, and
Southampton, and it will also be the nearest route to Southampton
from Manchester, via Uttoxter, by the London and Manchester
Direct Independent Line, or whatever railway should ultimately
pass between Manchester and London, as forming the shortest route
to the metropolis, a line which, it is now admitted on all hands, must
be carried.
This Company reserves the right to raise additional capital to com-
plete the line from Dudley to or near the Droitwich station, on the
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway.
Applications for shares and every information to be made to
William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttoxeter ; and John Owens,
Esq., 35, Moorgate-street, London ; and of the following share-
brokers :—Messrs. Preece and Evans, 39, Lothbury ; Mr. Miles,
Worcester ; Mr. Thomas Henry Wheeler, 'Worcester ; Messrs.
Townley and Whitehead, Liverpool ; Messrs. Cameron and Com-
pany, Liverpool ; Mr. Morris Reynolds, Liverpool ; Mr. Richard
E. Hine, Macclesfield; Mr. James Jamieson, Leeds; Messrs. Well-
beloved and Oastler, Leeds ; Mr. Frederick Stamp, Hull ;
Mr. Thomas Boardman, Blackburn ; Mr. George Clark, Brad-
ford ; Mr. William :Mason, Bradford • Mr. William Cronheim,
Halifax; Mr. Charles Spencer, Nottingham; Messrs. Eyre and
Shaw, Derby ; Messrs. Grayston and Erie, York ; Mr. E. H.
Armitage, Wakefield; Mr. James Stokes, Cheltenham; Mr.
Joseph Clark, jun., Southampton; Messrs. Tate and Nash,
Bristol ; Messrs. Beaumont and Langworthy, Exeter ; Mr.
Thomas Sanford, Exeter ; Mr. J. S. Holland, Coventry ;
Messrs. Houghland and Leese, Manchester; Messrs. Cantwell and
Sons, Manchester; Messrs. A. Birchall and Co., Manchester ;
Messrs. T. N. Bardwell and Sons, Sheffield ; Mr. W. 11. Collis, Bir-
mingham; Mr. L. Wetherburn, jun., Huddersfield ; Messrs. Everard
and Co., Huddersfield; Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester; Mr.
Nicolson, Edinburgh; Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Glasgow;
Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, College-green, Dublin.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Como4ttee of the Derbythire, Staffordshire,
Oxfordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway.
Gentlenmen,—l request you to allot me Shares, of 201. each
in the above railway, and I .undertake to accept the same, or such
less number as you may appropriate to me, snhject to the regulations
of the Company ; and to sign the necessary deeds, and to pay, when
required, the deposit thereon of 21. 2s. per share.
Dated this day of . 184
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