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London, England, 1845-10-09 00:00:00

FORM o.l' APPLICATION.

To the Provisional Committee of the Salisbury and Swindon Exten-
sion of the Wilts, Somerset...and Southampton Junction Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me shares in the
above railway, and I agree to accept that or any less number that you
may please to allot me, and I undertake to pay the deposit of 21.125. Gd.
per share on the same, and to sign the Subscribers' Agreement and
the Parlimentary Contract when required
Dated this day
Name in full
Residence .. •
Place of Business (if any)
Trade or Profession .............
Reference ..... ..................
Usual Signature
No. .. ..... Fives Scrip (if any) held by me.—The Wilt
No. .. .. Tens Somerset and Southampton Junctio:
No. .. • • .. Twenties Railway.
H. B. SHERIDAN, Secretary,
London, Aug. 30, 1845. 26, Gresham-street, City,

1845.

1...27AL158UR Y and SWINDON EXTENSION
of the WILTS, SOMERSET, and SOUTHAMPTON JUNG
TION RAILWAY

(On the Broad Gauge),
From Salisbury, by Amesbury, the Vale of Avon, and Marlborough,
to swiudon, forming a direct line of railway through Cheltenham
and Gloucester to Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool.
(Provisionally Registered.)
In consequence of the enormous quantity of Applications for
Shares in this Company, notice is hereby given that the List will be
CLOSED OR FRIDAY NEXT, the lOth instant, for town applicants,
and SATURDAY, for the country.
26, Gresham-street, Oct, 6, 1845,

11. B. SIIERID4N, Secretary

DIRECT SHEFFIELD and MACCLESFIELD
RAILWAY, forming Junctions with all the important Rail-
ways in Great Britain.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and Sth Vic., e. 110.)
Capital 800,0001., in 40,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s.
,per Share.
PROVISIONAt COMOTTEE.
(With power to add to their number.)
Pierce Somerset Butler, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Waterford and
Kilkenny, and of the City of Toronto and Lake Huron Rail-
way Companies
William Chaplln, Esq., Lad-lane, London, and Greenhithe, Kent,
Chairman of the Iron Steam-boat Company
John Chaplin, Esq., Gracechurch-street, and Greenhithe, Kent
Edwin Ward Jackson, Esq., Edgehill, Liverpool, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds, North-Western, Manchester, Liverpool, and
Great North of England, and Staffordshire Potteries Railways
Rowland hill Mackenzie, Esq., Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square,
London, Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and of
the Cheltenham and Oxford Junction Railways
T S. Richards, Esq., Baker street, Portman-square, Director of the
Ipswich and Southampton Railway
Edward Scard, Esq., magistrate for Surrey and Middlesex, Kew-green,
Director of the Toronto and Lake Huron Railway
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Park, Blackheath, Director of the Com-
mercial Bank, and of the Metropolitan Life Office
John Tall, Esq., Hanoverian Consul, merchant and shipowner, Hull,
Director of the Hull Dock Company
Rear-Admiral Ayscough, Prospect-place-house, Southampton
John Francis Bacon, Esq., Austin-friars, London
Captain Crawley, Edgbaston, Birmingham
Thomas Chitty, Esq., Gower-street, Director of the Rugby and War-
wick Railway
Captain F. Chamier, R.N., Halkin-street, Belgrave-square, Director
of the Hazebrouck and Fampoux (French) Railway
C. F. Colman, Esq , Shirley, Southampton
Captain William Cousins, Director of the Goole and Doncaster
Railway
Thomas H. Evans, Esq. Mayor of Carnarvon, Director of the
London and Holyhead Railway
Robert Green, Esq., Birchin-lane, London and Macclesfield
William Holloway, Esq., Lime-street-square, London
William Jenking, Esq., Balsall-heath, Birmingham
Edward Richards, Esq., 16, New Broad street-buildings
Sir William White, Director of the Churck of England Life Insurance
Company
George R. Peppercorn, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex, Director of the Rugby
and Worcester Railway
Thomas Whitaker, Esq., Captain, R.N., Kirk Ella, near Hull,
Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction Railway
Isaac Whitaker, Esq., Hesele, near Hull. Director of the York, Hull,
and East and West Yorkshire Junction Railway
Thomas Ward, Esq., shipowner, Hull, Director of the Dudley,
Madeley, Brosely, and Ironbridge, and of the Hull and Barnsley
Junction Railways
George Robinson, Esq., Hull, Director of the Dudley, Madeley,
Brosely, and Ironbridge, and of the Hull and Barnsley Junction
Railway
John Ostler, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction
Railway
Thomas Digby, Esq., Banker, Hull, Director of the Hull and Barns-

ley Junction Rail Way
Thomas Newte, Esq., Director of the Barbadoes Railway
Fitzherbert Macqueen, Esq., Great Winchester-street
Sir .Tames Anderson, Bart., Buttevant Castle, Director of the Cork

and Fermoy Direct Railway
John Collield, Esq., Southwick-street, Hyde Park-gardens
James Adair, Esq., Director of the Church of England Life Assurance
Company, and of the Northern and Southern Railway
John G. Barrett, Esq., Ross, Herefordshire
William Ditmas, Esq., Beverley
Colonel W. M. Sloane, Director of the Bristol and Dover Railway
Lawrence Kortwright, Esq., Director of the Barbadoes Railway
John Upham, Esq., Clarges-street, Director of the Guernsey and
_ .

Mauritius Railways
John Grey Nilsen, Esq., Director of the Western Gas Company, and
of the Direct Western Railway
William Henry Halpin, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and
. .

Basingstoke Railway
Matthew William Stainer, Esq.,- 64, Conduit-street, Hanover-square
Samuel Pocock, Esq., Bloomsbury-square
Bentiuck W. Doyle, Esq., Director of the North Jamaica Railway
E. D. Warrington, Esq., merchant, New City Clambers, Bishops-
gate-street
John Chandler, Esq., Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park
Edward Power, Esq., Middle Temple
Simeon Musgrove, Esq., Kirkstall, near Leeds
Sir William Lowthrop, Hull,. and Algoa House, Scarborough, Chair-
man of the Hull and Barnsley Junction, and Director of the Liver-
pool and Leeds Railways
Captain J. P. Macdougall, Director of the Cambrian Grand Junction
Railway
G. B. Foster, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension,
and Chester Junction Railways
Miles Coventry, Esq., Director of the Direct Western Railway
William Gordon, Esq., M.D., Hull, Director of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct, and Hull and Barnsley Junction Railways
Col. Robert Douglas, C. 8., United Service Club
Samuel Palmer, Esq., Great Yarmouth, Director of the Great Grimsby,
Louth, Horncastle, Lincoln, and Midland Junction Railway
Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of the Britannia Insurance Company
John Haigh, Esq., Leeds
Richard Keily, Esq., Cleveland-row, Chairman of the New Ross,
Railways, and Managing Director of the
York
Henry Beilerby, Esq., Sheriff of York
Carlow,
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Frederick Ramsden, Esq., Seymour House, Old Trafford, Manchester,
Director of the Birkenhead, Holyhead, and Mold Extension ; the
Liverpool, Preston, and North Union; the Staffordshire Potteries;
and the London and Holyhead Railways
Samuel Giles, Esq., Bowden, near Manchester, Director of the Man-
chester and Birmingham Continuation, and Welsh Junction, and
the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railways
P. Bennett Lucas, Esq., Manchester-street, Manchester-square,
Director of the Great Leeds and London, Direct Ipswich and
Southampton, Sligo and Shannon Railways
Charles Tottenham, Esq., Magistrate of the county of Wexford,
Chairman of the Exeter and Dorchester Railway
Robert Blssett Richmond, Esq., M.D., 40, Great Castle-street,
Cavendish-square, London
Thomas W. George, Esq., Leeds, Director of the West Yorkshire

Railway
J. Helbert Helbert, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director
of the Birmingham and Leicester Railway
William Hawtry, Esq., Fulham
John Samuel Whitchurch, Esq., Weymouth

Richard Rowe, Esq., Beaufoy-terrace, Maida Yale
James Carroll Wilcocks, Esq., Exeter, Director of the Exeter,
Yeovil, and Dorchester, Exeter and Crediton, and North Devon

-
Railways
Dar Mon Lupton, Esq., the Worshipthl the Mayor of Leeds, Director
of the Leeds and York, and York and Hull,
and Nottingham and

Gainsborough Railways
Thomas Nunneley, Esq., Leeds
Joseph Richardson, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York, the
Midland and Think Junction, and the London, Hounslow, and
Western Railways
John Brightman Esq., Cornhill, London, and Regency-square, Brigh-
ton, Chairman of the London'and Hounslow Railway
John Barnett, Esq., Cheltenham, Coroner for the County of Glouces-
ter, and Director of the Oxford and Whitney Railway
Matthew Pierpoint, Esq., Worcester, Chairman of the Rugby, Derby,
and Manchester, and Director of the Welsh ;Midland. and Dudley,
Madeley, and Broseley and Ironbridge Railways
F. Duffield, Esq., Bolton-house, Bradford, Director of the Cambridge
and Lincoln Extension Railway
F. B. Hamilton, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester and Bandon
Railways
James Hamilton, Esq., Balsall-heath, Birmingham
Daniel T. Johnson, Esq., Aldermary-churchyard, Watling-street,
London, Director of Benington's Direct London and Manchester
Railway
Richd. Clay, Esq., Winchester-street, London, and Lloyd's
Klein Grant, Esq., St. James's-street, London, Director of the
Direct Western Railway.
William Pritchard, Esq., Doctors'-zomraons, London, High Bailiff of
Southwark

RANKERS.
Commercial Bank, Lothbury, London
The Leeds and West Riding Bank, Leeds.
National and Provincial Bank, Birmingham.
Messrs. Pease and Liddells, Hull.
Messrs. Moore and Co., Nottingham.
The Sheffield and Retferd Banking Company, Sheffield
ExcnixExas—Sandiforth F. G
rliriffiamenn, Es
strq., and J. H. Taunton, Esq
2, Pat-eet.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Cattarns and Fry, 62, Mark-lane, London.
G. A. Colman, Esq., 2, New Inn, Strand, London.
LOCAL SOLICITOR.
Win. Bennett, Esq., Chapel-en-le-Frith.
SECRETARY.—George F. Hire,Esq.
This important line, commencing at the terminus of the Manches-
ter and Sheffield Railway, in the populous manufacturing town of
Sheffield, will proceed, in a direct course, by or through Hope,
Hathersage, Castleton, Chapel-en-le-Frith, and Whaley (the great
canal-port of the Potteries), to the terminus of the Manchester and
Macclesfield Railway, at Macclesfield, the total length of the line
being nearly thirty miles.
The importance of connecting these termini would, alone, be suffi-
cient to ensure ildl support to the present undertaking, from the
dense population, manufacturing influence, and general traffic of the
etrhe advantages are too
towns in question ; but when it is considered that this connexion, or
Liverpool and Birkenhead,
Junction, stands in the very centre of the entire railway system of
artheedfouckesiyoLifeitLdiv,
England, and that it will complete the chain of railway communi-
cation and transit between the river Humber, the towns of Saeffield
and Macclesfield, the Staffordshire Potteries, the Salt Wiches of
manifest to be for a moment questioned. .
The surveys are How in progress, and will be completed without
delay, in order to go to:Parliament at the ensuing seaman.
In the allotment of shares, the applications from parties resident
on the line will be preferred.
CBlaniesgheirreF,etrhrye e,lantydofthCekehsatreber,
Applications for Prospectuses and shares to be madeat the offices of
Messrs. Cattaru
the Company's Solicitors, _ _ New Inn,
B and Fry, 62, Mark-lane,
London, and G. A. Colman,"Es.q!2. il lnn, Strand ; and of the under-
mentioned Sharebrokers:
W.
H
Foote,azewe°d, Angel•court, Thregmor-
ton-street, London; W. 1 •I
IP Sheffield; R. E. Hine, Maccles-
field ; Schofield and West, I u , John Walkington and Co., Leeds ;
Ilebden and Parkinson, Leecl! Smith,_ Knowles, and Cooke,
Leeds ;
Cuff and Fox, Derby ;
William Miles, Worcester ; C. H. Birkbec,
Worcester ; John Smith, Birmin.glham ; W. H. Collis, Birmingham ;
Messrs. Cook and Co., Bradford; m. Wood, Manchester, J. an i
D. Wilson, Manchester ; 3A. • Edinburgh; Henry Vatcher,
Exeter; Hall, Brothers and Co.,oflaV Cheltenham ; Black and Lorimer,
B
Gla.gow ; . Baylirre, Liverpool
;George Edwards and Son, Bristol;
R. P. Clarke, Bristol ; and J. Bamforth, Rotherham.
In consequence of the numberof
attended already applied for, no fur-
ther town applica,tions will be to after the 15th day of Octo-
ber inst , and from the country after the 18th inst.
• FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES,
of the Direct To the Provisional Committee Sheffield and Maecles-
field Railway Company.
Gentlemen,-1 request you will allot me shares of 201. each
Company, and I hereby in the above-named
C°nlP that may be undertake to accept the
same, or any less numberherad allotted to me, to pay the onde-
posit of 21.25. per share thereon, to sign the Subscribers' Agree-
ment and Parliamentary when required.
of 1845.
day
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