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ainpson Bridgwood, Esq. Spratslade-house, Longton, Staffordshi re,
director of the South Union and Birmingham Junction Railway,
and also of the North Western Trunk Railway
John Dehane, 31. D. Wolverhampton, magistrate for the county of
Stafford
James Duncan, Esq. director of the Birkenhead and Holyhead, and
Staffordshire Potteries Railways
Thomas Wynne, Esq. Longton, Staffordshire, director of the Leeds
and Carlisle Railway
Wm. Bland, Esq. Brixton, Surrey, director:of the North Wales and
Richmond Railways
Ambrose Moore, Esq. Milk-street, London
Lord Massey, Esq. Burnley, director of the Liverpool and Ueda Di-
rect Railway
Charles Knyvett, Esq. 9, St. James's-place; London, director of the
Leeds anti Liverpool Railway
William Roberts, Esq, North-parade, Burnley, director of the Leeds
and Liverpool Direct Railway
James Male, Esq. Leamington
James Roberts, Esq. Tarleton-house, Lancashire
F. Gamble, Esq. Gainsborough, director of the Nottingham and
Gainsborough, and Wolverhampton and Birmingham and Notting-
ham Railways
William Holliday, Esq. Chad valley, Edgkaston
ACTING COMMITTEE.
Edmund Turner, Esq. M. P. Truro, Chairman.
Edward Cooper, Esq. Henley-upon-Arden, Deputy-Chairman.
William Shadbolt, Esq.
Ambrose Moore, Esq.
Thomas Hall, Esq. } London.
Joshua Rogers Clarke, Esq. j
Bart.
Sir John Key,
Waller A. Lewis, Esq. F.G.S. Wolverhampton
Matthew Harrison, Esq. Chester
Samuel Banking, Req. Leicester
Jelin Rawson, Esq. Halifax
John Knowles, Esq. Burnley
Edward Middleton, Esq.
Robert Wrightson, Esq.
Samuel Haines, Esq. Birmingham.
Thomas Upflll, Esq.
Thomas Harris, Esq.
(With limited power to add to their number.)
ENGINEERS.
Zdward James Maude, Esq. C.E.
Charles A. Parker, Esq. C.E.
SOLICITORS.
John Smith, Esq. and C. J. Noble, Esq. Birmingham
W. S. Vardy, Esq. IS, Finsbury-place, Finsbury-square, London.
rARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.
Messrs. MacAlougal and Upton, 44, Parliament-street.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Henry Turner, Esq. Wolverhampton
John Hostage, Esq. Chester
Edward Challinor, Esq. Hanley
Messrs. Cotterill and Gwynn, Walsall
Messrs. Alexander, Halifax
William Cowdell, jun. Esq. llinckley
Thomas Harding, Esq. Newcastle-under-Lytle
W. E. Twigg, Esq. Burslem.
BANKERS.
Birmingham—The Midland Banking Company
London—Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., and the Loudon Joint-
Stock Bank
Wolverhampton—Messrs. R. and W. F. Fryer
Chester—Messrs. Dixon, Wardle, and Co.
Liverpool—The Liverpool Banking Company
Manchester—Manchester and Liverpool Banking Company
Halifax—Halifax Joint-Stock Banking Company, and Huddersfield
Union Banking Company

Julius Lowenthal, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Hudders-
field, Manchester, and Great Grimsby Direct Railway
Win, Thomas Jackson, Esq., Tadeaster, Director of the East and
West Yorkshire, ana Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways
hail Ostler, Esq., Hull
W. S'oane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square
John Jervis Garrard, Esq., Queen-square, Bristol
Samuel Garlick, Esq., Park-square, Leeds
Cuthbert Johnson, Esq., Avenue-road, Regent's-park
James Goren, Esq., The Priory, Battersea
Rev. Franc's Thornburgh, Ringwood,
Wilts
James Yearsley, Esq., Saville-row, Piccadilly
Alfred Parker, Esq., Park-road, Regent's-park
James Shaw, Esq , Salford, Manchester, Director of the Manches-
ter, Liverpool, and Great North of England ; of the Newcastle,
Durham, and Lancashire; and of the Bolton and Bury Railways
Captain James Wood, R.M., Woolwich, Director of the. Dublin
Approximation Atmospheric Railway
Benjamin Casson, Esq., Hull
John Holmes, Esq., Hull
C Esq., Rochdale
heetliarn Hill,
Richard Hands, Esq., Coventry, Director of the Birmingham West
Branch, Wednesbury, and Walsall Railway
Thomas Ferrand Dearden. Fag , Coroner, Rochdale, Lancashire
Charter Jam n
Clarkson,ai hßroadley,Esq.,
Manchester
Wm. Nicholson, Esq , Manchester, Director of the Rugby and
Manchester, via Macclesfield Railway
J.J.
Godfrey,
Limerick, Director of the Cheltenham, J. H
H.
qE , Liverpool
,q:
l,
Mahon,
Ox-
ford, and Brighton Junction, and the Galway and Ennis Grand
Junction Railways
Henry Chaytor, E q , Clairvaux Castle, Darlington, Director of
the Warwick and Worcester, and the Hull and Holyhead Rail-
ways
Robert Bourne, Esq., Parliament street, Whitehall
Alfred Parker, Esq., Park-road. Regent's-park
Direetor of the Grand Trunk ;
Esq , merchant, Fenchureheitrest
Railways
WailnlidamNoCrrtelrnierenr,aEsndq..Mutiin,ecrinng-eeeting
loainien,
William Bousfield, Esq., Colebrook-terrace
Director of the Worcester, Warwick and
John
James RYearsley,obertson,
rt
Rugby, and Leominster Railways
John Batley Wrigley, Esq , Croft house, near Huddersfield, Director
of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Direst
Railways
Samuel Deshayes Saunders, Esq., Ivy.cottage, Syncombe-hill, Bath
Esq., Settle, Yorkshire
George Barons Northcote, Esq., Somerset-court, Soinersetshire,
Director of the Somersetehire Midland Railway
fount Radford, Exeter. Director of the
Exeter and Exmouth, the Great Western Extension, and the
Thomas George Watts,Direct Exeter, Plymouth, arid Devonport Railways
William Henry Samwell George, En, Exmouth
BEgurgro,w;
Edward Greaves, Esq., Leeds
John Bowes, Esq., Hull, Director of the Rugby, Leamington, and
Warwick Railway
Thomas Frederick Hewitt, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and
Holyhead Railway
William Priest, Esq., Hull, Director of the York and Hull, and
the East and West Yorkshire Junction Railways
Thomas Holmes, Esq., Hull
Benjamin Willeher, Esq., Waterloo-place, Pall-mall
Richard Power, Esq., Euston-square, and Long Orchard, Tipperary
William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place
Arthur names, Esq, Methuen Villa, Leamington, Director of
the South Midland and Lincolnshire and Eastern Counties
Matthew Pierpoint, Esq., Worcester, Director of the Rugby
Derby, and Manchester Railway
Joseph Brook, jun., Esq., IlutieLrstield
Julian Skrine, Esq., Linsfleld-house, Cambridge, Director of the
Cambridge and Lincoln, and the Northern a:rd Southern Con-
necting Railways
Rev. G. M. D'Arcy Irvine, LL.D., Redcliffe-parade, Bristol
John Blom', Esq., Tutbury, Director of the Great Manchester,
Rugby, and Southampton, the Shropshire Mineral, the London
and Holyhead Direct, the Liverpool arid Derby Direct, the
London and Liverpool Direct, and the Derby and Gainsiserough
Railways, &c.
Edward Gaubert, Esq., Park-villa, Richmond, Director if the
Rugby, Swindon, and Weymouth Railway.
William James Ire, Esq., Northampton-square, Diroetor of the
Rugby, Swindon, and Weymouth Railway
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., Upper Hyde-park-street, Director et the
Liverpool. Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, the Chesttr and
Manchester Direct, and the West Midland, Manchester, and
Southampton Railways
Abraham Alexander, Esq., Lullington- house, Leamington, Dirt c-
tor of the Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton, the
Worcester, Warwick. and Rugby, and the Lincolnshire and
Eastern Counties Railways
Joel Edens, Esq., Northampton, Director of the Sheffield, Notting.
ham, and London Direct, the Liverpool and Derby Direct, the
Direct Northern, Eastern, and Western Junction, and the Mid.
land and Eastern Counties Railways, &c.
F. Valentine Lee. Esq.
P. Taylor, Esq , Knareaborough
Joseph Lambert, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York, and
the Direct Liverpool and Leeds Railways
G. I. Bran ion, Esq., Finsbury.square, Direetor of the Direct
Manchester, Leeds, and York; and the Greed Trunk Railways
William Driffield, Esq., Bond-house, Knaresborough, Director of
the Liverpool and Leeds Direct; the East and West Yorkshire,
and the Leeds and Think Railways
Wm. A. Long, jun., Esq., Kingswood, Wotton.under.Edgo
Rev. Stephen Isaacson, M.A., Berners-street, Director of the
Cheltenham, Oxford, and Brighton; the Cambridge and Lin-
coln Extension ; the Hull and Holyhead; and the Leeds, Fleet..
wood, and Liverpool Railways
Thomas Dorton, Esq., Blackburn, Director of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct, and of the Blackburn, Chorley, and Liverpool
Railways
John Joseph Allnatt, Esq., Wallingford, Berks
Edmund Alderson Fawcett, Esq., Huggin-lane and Nottingham,
&c., Director of the Direct Liverpool and Derby, the Direct
West End and Croydon, and the Middlesex and Surrey Junction
Railways
Capt. T. C. Newton, Luguardine, Hereordshire, Director of the
Leeds, Fleetwood, and Liverpool, the Hereford and Merthyr
Tydvil, the Hull and Holyhead Direct, and the Grand London
and Dublin Approximation Railways
Wm. Fitzwilliam Hume, Esq., Hume wood, Wicklow, Deputy
Lieutenant, J. P., and High Sheriff of the County of Wicklow
Edward Irwin, Esq., Rathbide.house, Kildare
Christopher Carter, Esq., Belmont-house, Knaresborougla
Walter Watson, Esq., Leamington
James Peard Lye, Esq., Seaton Ironworks, Whitehaven, Director
of the Hull and Holyhead Railway
Arthur Ley, Esq., Bideford, Devonshire, Director of the Hull and
Holyhead Railway
John Albutt, Esq, Leeds
William hfuschamp, Esq., Sunderland
Joseph Henry Oates, Jun., Esq., Meanwood, near Leeds
George Mitchell, Eq., Sandbed-house, Garrett, near Wakefield,
Director of the Wakefield, Ossett and Dewsbury Railway, also
of the Midland, Barnsley, Sheffield, and Leeds Railway
William Mien, Esq.. Chappletown, near Leeds
William Standidge, Jun., Form, Barkston Ash, near Ferrybridge
Samuel Warburton, Dq„ Hunslet, near Leeds, Director of the
Warwick and Worcester Railway, and of the Wakefield and
Harrowgate Railway, ke. &c. &e,
•eorge William Oates, Esq., Carr House, Meanwood, near Leeds
George Newsome, Esq., Cross Banks, Batley. near Dewesbury
James Kitchen, Esq., Burmanstofts, Leeds
William Fieldhouse, Esq., St. Mark's-place, Leeds
William Beaumont, Esq., Crawshaw House, Pudsey, Director of
the West Yorkshire, Midland and Thirsk Junction, Ste. &c. &c.
John Pawson, Esq., Chappleton, near Leeds
John Lawson, Esq., Town Knawl Cottage, Ossett, near Wakefield
John Shoard, Esq , Bonfire-cottage, near Dewsbury
Joseph Thom; son Fenton, Esq., Chesterfield
John Haley, Esq., Stanningley
David Gummersail, Esq., Stanningley Mills
William Dixon, Esq., Howley mills, Morley, near Leeds.
Joe Dransfield, Esq., Rookery-mills, near Hudder-field
Joseph Jubb, sen., Esq., Batley-mills, near Dewsbury, Director of
the Midland, Barnsley, Sheffield and Leeds Railway, &c.
Henry Lodge, Esq., Sheffield
Josiah Burrows, Esq., Castle-house, Gommersall, Director of the
Great Leeds and London Direct, and the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct
Robert Bell, Esq., Elmwood-house, Leeds
George A. Hauston, Esq., Paisley
Frank Mitchell, Esq., Ryeeroft.cottage, near Ossett
Alexander Majoribanks, Esq., of Majoribanks, NB.
Major-General White, Bath, Director of the Direct Western
Railway
Andrew Clarke, Eaq., Adelaide-place, London.brldge, and Cam-
berwell, Surrey
John Wheelton, Esq., ?Umbers Bank, Tonbr'dge, Rent
Stephen Hartley Knowles, Esq., merchant, Teu Lands, Gomersall,
near Leeds
Lionel William Knowles, FA., merchant, West-house. Gomereall,
near Leeds
James Sutcliffe, Esq., Nowland-hall, near Halifax, Director of the
Leeds and Thirsk Railway
George Fearnley, Esq., M.D., Grove-house, Dewsbury
Thomas Hadfield Gloyne, Esq., Prospect.house, Dewsbury
Samuel Burnley, Esq., merchant and manufacturer, Haver-croft-
house, Batley, near Dewsbury
Thomas Dean, Esq., Healey house, Dewsbury
Thomas Henry Starr, Esq., M.D., Leamington
James Brehm, Esq., Torquay, Devon
Christopher Carter, Esq., Belmont-house, Knaresborough
Frederick Goddard, Esq., Bath
Thomas Emsley, Esq , Dodley, near Leeds, Director of the North.
East Riding Junction Railway
Wm. Shaw, E,marector of the Farmer's Life Assurance Company
Wm. Watson,:Faq., Leamington
Thomas Rogers, Esq„ Bradford
John Lloyd, Esq. Newington
Edward Elarke, Esq., Temple, and Dover-street, Piccadilly
Samuel Geo. Beamish, Esq. Kennington-square
(With power to add to their number.)
Bierxees—The London Joint-Stock Bank, 5, Princes-street, Bank,
and 69, Pall-mall.
ACTING ENGINERE—Henry Renton, Esq, C.E.
A RCAITECT AND SURVEYOR.—CharIes Lee, Esq., Golden-square.
SOLICITOR—J. D. Wells, Esq., No. 18, George-street, Mansion.
house.
SECRETARY—R. H. Gadesden, Esq.
OFFICES—No. 70, King William-street, Mansion-house, London
The object of the promoters of this Company is to form a direct
line of railway, from Bristol and Bath to Dover; and thus, in effect,
unite, connect, or reciprocate with, all the existing and projected
lines of railway in the south and south-west and west of England, as
well also as form a complete communication with Ireland and all
the western and Welsh railways, and most ef those in the northern
and great manufacturing districts, by which passengers and goods
to and from Folkestone and Dover, RAMC* and Belgium, may
be conveyed without the necessity of pasting through the me-
tropolis.
The main line to be laid down by the Company will be considerably
less than 100 miles, throughout which the strongest enceuragemer t
and support hey, been manifested towards this railway by the landed
proprietors, many of whom have determined to invest capital in the
undertaking; and the engineer's report Precludes any apprehen.
lion of engineering difficulties. The great public utility and com-
mercial advantages of-railway communication between the important
places and ports which it is now contemplated to unite must be at
once appreciated by reference to a map of the country, and they
will be forcibly illustrated by the objects to be attained by this
Company.
This line is Intended to begin at Bristol by means of the Great
Western Railway, and passing through Bath to Bath Hampton
it will skirt the valley of the Avon, to Bradford, and thence to
Trowbridge. It will then take as straight a direction as can be
obtained to Devises, All Canning., reWßej, Burbage, Shallorne,
West Woodhay, High Clete, and Overton, on to Basingstoke,
where it will unite wills the 93uth Western Railway, and thus
from the western counties the distance will be several miles
shorter to the metropolis than by any other existing line. It will
then, by means of the South Western Railway, proceed on to near
Farnborough (a distance of fourteen miles) whence, leaving
Farnham to the south, it will pass onward to Ashe, Guildford,
Gomshall, and Dorking to Riegate, where it will unite with the
South Eastern and Dover Railway—(the latter, eighteen miles
from Guildford to Reigate will in all probability be constructed by
another Company.)
In its course it will thread its way through the lines of many of
the railways already constructed or projected—the junction of
which will not only be estimated as a great public convenience, but
prove highly advantageous to the several Companies interested,pro-
clueing an immense traffic, that must stream from Ireland—from
our great manufacturing districts in the north—the cloth and corn
markets of the west of England—the mineral and coal fields of
Wales, and the hop districts in Kent—all of which point to the
formation of this railway as a great desideratum, as well also as to
form a direct eommunication with France, Belgium, and the con-
tinent generally. The distance to be saved by this railway will
exceed thirty miles from Bath (and all the towns north-west) to
Dover; while to many of the towns southwest of Bristol sixty
miles or more will be saved by this railway in union with some of
the other lines ; and the often disagreeable and costly necessity (at
present existing) of passing through London, to or from Dover,

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will be entire'y obviated, and manufacturers and merchants in mos:
Parts of the country, west and north, or south, will be thus en-
abled to forward and receive goods direct frr m and to Dover and
Folkstonc, avoiding the present inconvenient mode and expense of
transference from radway to railway across London.

Any attempt to distinguish the number of passengers proceed-
ing to or from London, or the provinces and the continent by the
South Eastern and Dover Railway, would be abortive; but the
published statements of that Company show that the traffic ex.
cceds 8,0001. weekly, and the accounts of arrivals at, and departures
from Calais, Boulogne, and Ostend, exhibit an astonishing number
of persons as passengers to and from England weekly, by Dover
and Folkenstone, throughout the whole of the year. Yielding to
the metropolis one.half of the number as a large proportion, the
remaining half will belong to the provinces and Ireland, who will
probably prefer to be conveyed from or to their localities without
tire annoyance of being compelled to pass through London, es-
pecially as the saving of distance alone will considerably diminish
expenses.

The construction of this line of railway can hardly fail to meet
the full approvol of the Government ; as, besides its great com-
mercial utility, the convenience it will afford for the speedy tran.
sport of troops from Ireland, or the north, south, or west of Eng-
land to Dover, in a direct manner, avoiding the present necessity of
marching them across London or ether towns, after they are once
placed iii railway carriages, must begreatly appreciated ; and where
it is expedient that expedition and secrecy should be observed In
the removal of troops, the means offered by this Company will
greatly assist the authorities in facilitating their objects.
The railways already constructed or projected with which this
line of railway will effect a union or communication, and recipro-
cate, advantages exceed fifty in number (as will be seen by examin.
ing any railway map), and all of them must be in direct commu-
nication with, and will feed, or be fed by The Southern Counties
Union, and Bristol, and Dover Direct Railway ; the most
important junctions being those leading to this line from the north
and the manufacturing districts by Oxford to Dovor and Brighton,
those from Ireland, North Wales by Cheltenham or Oxford and
this railway to Dover or Brighton, and those from the south and
west of Englam). by Salisbury to Dover; thus effecting a con-
tinuance and direct intercourse with nearly every part of Eng-
land, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and the continent.
The census returns show that this railway will pass through a
country containing a population of upwards of one million, and this
number, though large, may be fairly multiplied several times, if all
the other parts of the kingdom which will benefit by it be esn-
bidered.

cost which could be accompli,hed by no Gther means than by the
conversion of the Rpgent',3 Canal.
There are no engineering difficulties of importance to overcome,
the approaches to, and the communications across the line, are
alre.:ty established, and a coral aratively small extent only of pri.
vate property will'a3 t.:' 1 with or require to be purchased,
and the completion of t ho opening of tho line may
be confident:), expecteri r r months after the sanction of
the Legislature has been YJtai net,.
Applications for prospectuses and shares to be made to the se-
cretary, Frederick Collier, Esq., at the offices of the Company,
Gresham-rooms, Basinghall street,
•Parties who are registered proprietors In the Regent's Canal and
in the existing railways and docks connected with this undertaking
are requested testate the fact in their application.

FORM OF APPLICATION.

To the Provisional Committee of the Regent's Canal Railway

Company.

I request you will allot to me Shares of 2C.1. each in
the capital of the above-mmed Railway, and I agree to accept the
same, or any less number, to pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per Share,
and to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agree-
ment when required.
Dated the day of October, 1845.
Name in full
Address ...
Profession or Business

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