The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAT EVENING, OCTOBER 13, 1845.

inOVER and BRISTOL RAILWAY
_KJ, in continuation of the South-Eastern Railway, from Reigate
fo Bristol. Upon the Narrow Gauge.
(Provisionally Regiqeru:.)
Capital, 1,500,0001., in 75,000 Shares, of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.

John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, near Tunbridge, Director of 1
the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Sir William White, Director of the Stafford, Uttoxeter, and Deity
Railway
t J. W. Yetbury, Eq., P.elcomte-house, Wilts, Capt. 3d. Light Dra-
goons, Director of the Direct Western Railway.
Lodge Morris Murray Prior, Esq., 19th Lancers, Coventry, Director
of the DM)lin, Tullamore, and Parsonstown Railway
Edward Knight, Esq., M.D., Stafford, Director of the Grand Junction
and Midlands' Union Railway
William Henry Skelton, Esq., Shadwell, near Leeds
Charles William Reynolds, Esq., Captain 16th Lancers, Maidstone,
Director of the Worcester, Warwick and Rugby Railway
Thomas Bramall, Esq., Mayor of Tamworth, Deputy Chaiman of
the Leicester and Tamworth Railway
Richard Hughes, Esq., Stafford, Director of the Staffordshire and
Shropshire Junction Railway
Henry Wenman Newman, Esq., Thornbury-park, near Bristol, D'
puty-Lieutenant of Gloucestersshire, and magistrate of Gloucester-
shire and Bristol.
Charles Eales, Esq., Richmond-court, Clifton
David Bryan, Esq., Northampton, Director of the Liverpool, Man-
chester, and Warrington, and the Worcester and Leominster
Railway
Benjamin Swan, Esq., Weymouth and Jermyn-street
Edmund Francis Dayrell, Esq., Lillingston Dayrell, High Sheriff of
Bucks, and Director of the nehead and Bridgewater Railway
John James Rippon, Esq., Ealing, Middlesex, Director of the Bir-
mingham, Westbromwicb, Wednesbury, and Walsall Junction
Railway
Stephen Mills, Esq., Elstone-house, Wilts
Major Buttenshaw, Bath
John Ellershaw, Esq., Grove-house, Searcroft, near Leeds
Major W. James, Saltford-house, near Bath, Magistrate for Somer-
setshire
Robert Bell, Esq., Norris Castle, Isle of Wight.
Samuel Perrins, Esq., Temple Cloud, near BliS:01
CONSULTING ENGINEER—.
ACTING ENGINEER—Edward James Maude, Esq., C.B.
RANKERS.
London—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co. ; the Union lank
Bristol— Stuckey's Banking Company
Bath—West of England and South Wales District Bank
Bradford and Trowbridge—The Wilts and Dorset Banking Compquy
Dover—Messrs. Latham and Co.
JOINT SOLICITORS.
Edwin Smith, Esq., and Messrs, Lawis and Ford, London ; Edwar
Barges, Esq., Bristol

THE DIRECT WEST-END AND CROYDON
RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 800.0001., its 40,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. • •
The Viscount Ingestre, M.P., Brompton-park, London
Sir James Anderson, M. R. I. A., New Burlington-street ; Director
of the Hereford and Merthr Tydvll Railway
John Byng Banks, Esq., Lansdown-road, Stockwell, Direetor of the
Great Leeds erd London Direct Railway
James Bailey, Esq., Highbury-park, Director of the Sligo, Donegal,
Tyrone, Londonderry, and Belfast Junction, and of the Scar-
borough, WhLby, Stockton-on-Tees, and Newcastle and York
Junction Railways
William Banks, Esq., 4, Honey lane, Director of the Manchester and
Rugby, and great Leeds and London Railways
Lieut.-General Sir R. Barton, K.C.8., 2 Montagu-place, Montagu-
square, Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
Major Beresford, M.P., 77, Pall-mall ; Chairman of the Leeds and
Carlisle, and Director of the Tean and Dove Valley, and West
Midland, Manchester, and Southampton Railways
Charles It. Bigge, Esq., 10, Bryanston-square; Director of the Great
Grimsby, Louth, Horncastle, Lincoln, and Midland Junction Railway
William Bland, Esq., Brixton ; Director of the North Wales, and
Richmond and West-end Junction Railways
William Blanshard, Esq., York; Chairman of the Liberty of Ripon
Quarter Sessions, and Director of the York, Hull, and East and
West Yorkshire Junction Railway
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield ; Chairman of the Isle
of Ely Railway, and Director of the Manchester and Sheffield
Railway
Alfred Brodie, Esq., Upper Montagu-street, Montagu-square Direc-
tor of the Grand Trunk Railway
Isaac Baker Brown, Esq., Oxford-square, Hyde-park, Director of the
Bristol and Dover Direct Junction Railway
Thomas Byrom, Esq. Wigan, director of the Leeds and Liverpool
Direct, and Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction Rail-
ways
William Byrom, Esq., Oldham ; Director of the York and Lancaster,
the Cheltenham, Oxford, and London Railways
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Westbourne House, Sheffield, Director of the
Direct Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
William Caldwell, Esq., Ince Hall, near Wigan, Lancashire ; Direc-
tor of the Manchester, Derby, and Rugby, and Leeds and Liver-
pool Direct Railways
William Carr, Esq., Blackheath-park
John Carter, Esq., F.R.A.S., Park Lodge, Stockwell, Director of the
Grand Trunk Railway
E. Turst Carver, Esq., Forest Lodge, Tulse-hill, Director of the
Direct Birmingham, Oxford, and Brighton Railway
John Castendieck, Esq., Lewisham, Kent
John Chauntler, Esq., Friday-steet, London ; Director of the
Chelmsford and Bury, and York and Lancaster Railways
Thomas Challis, Esq., Alderman of London ; Director of the Direct
Western Railway
Richard Clark, Esq., Farnham, Hants
George Clive, Esq., Sanderstead, rear Croydon, Director of the Chel-
tenham, Oxford, and London Junction Railway
Benjamin Collett, Esq., Manor House, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire;
Director of the London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kiddermin-
ster; and Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railways
Nathaniel Cooke, Esq., Bayswater; Director of the Ambergate,
Nottingham, Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
Millis Coventry, Esq., White Hart-court, Lombard-street ; Director
of the Birmingham ',Extension and Great Leeds and London
Direct Railways •
WilliamCroudson, Esq., Manor Cottage, Wigan, director of the Li-
verpool and Leeds Direct, of the Staffordshire Potteries, of the
Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield, and the Cheltenham, Oxford,
and Louden Railways
John Cronds•ii, Esq. King-street-horse, 'Wigan, director of the Li-
verpool and Leeds Direct, of the Keighley, Halifax, and Hudders-
field, of the Staffordshire Potteries, and of the York and Kenyon
Junction RailwaYs
Lieutenant-Colonel Lothian Dickson,Curzon-street, Mayfair; Direc-
tor of the Reading and Reigate Junction Railway
Charles R. Dodd, Esq., North Brixton, Director of the Great Welsh
Central Railway, of the Bath, Bristol, and Dover Railway, of the
Hull and Holyhead Railway, 8ro•
Miles Dormer, Esq., Hans-place, Sloane-street ; Director of the
Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway
Colonel Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, United Service Club;
Director of the London and Birmingham Extension Railway
Daniel Ebbetts, Esq., Mincing-lane ; Director of the Direct Western
Railway
Colonel Elrington, Scots Fusilier Guards, Wyndham-place, Bryan-
ston-square, Director of the London and Manchester, and Liverpool
and Leeds Direct Railways
Francis Ewart, Esq., Brick-court, Temple ; Director of the Great
Leeds and London Direct, and of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey-
mouth Railways
Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of the City of London ; Director
of the London and Westminster Bank, and Director of the London
Warwick, Leamington, and Kidderminster Railway
Edmund Aldam Fawcett, Esq., London, Derby, and Nottingham
Robert Fisher, Esq., Highbury Park, Director of the Trent Valley
Continuation Railway
The Rev. H. R. Fowler, Manchester-square ; Director of the Direct
Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
George Gamble, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Nottingham and
Gainsborough Railway
Francis Gamble, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Nottingham
and Gainsborough Railway -
Henry Glynn, Esq , Garden-court, Temple
Captain Twistleton Graves, Duke-street, St. James's, director of the
Eastern Counties Junction and Southend and the Midland Grand
Junction Railways
F. W. Hamilton, Esq., 59, Gloucester-Place, Portman-square ; Di-
rector of the York and Lancaster Railway
C. H. Rogers Harrison, Esq., Upper Montagu-street, Montagu-square;
Director of the Grand Trunk Railway
George R. Harrison, Esq., Harlingford-place, Kennington ; Director
of the Grand Trunk Railway
Thomas William rteryt,slEi ,sq., 19E:sceiliffSoirl
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Josiah Ileale, Esq., Gray's Inn-square; Director of the Chelmsford
and Bury Railway
Lawrence Heyworth, Esq., Yew Tree, Liverpool
A. W. Hillary, Esq., 66, Cadogan-place ; Director of the Direct Exe-
ter Railway
John Holford, Esq., Rusholm-hall, Manchester ; Director of the York
and Lancaster Railway
John Holmes, Esq., 88, St. James's-street ; Director of the York and
Lancaster, and xeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railways
William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid-
land, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
W. Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S. , &c., Alderman of London,
Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, and
London and Greenwich Railways
Stephen Hutchinson, Esq.. London Gas-works, Vauxhall, Director of
the Grand Trunk Railway
John Kynnersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London ; Director of
the London and Manchester Direct Railway
Herbert Ingrain, Esq.' 198, Strand, and Swineshead Abbey, Lincoln-
shire • Director of the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, and
Eastern Junction Railway
W. H. Jackson, Esq. 66, Red Lion-street, Clerkenwell
John Jameson, Esq., St. George's-place, Brixton, Director of the
Great Leeds and London Direct, and of the Cumberland Union
Railways
Slegerich C. Kreeft, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and
Weymouth Junction Coast Railway
Richard Kelly, Esq., 6, Cleveland-row; Chairman of the New Ross,
Car'ow, and Kilkenny, and Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln
Extension Railways
Sir J. Key, Bart., Alderman of London ; Director of the London and
Manchester Direct Railway
Valentine Knight, Esq., 3 Cornwall-terrace, Regent's-park, Director
of the Direct Western, Dendre—Talley, and Grand 'Prank Railway
James Lamb, Esq. 25, Hyde-park-square ; director of the Dover and
Bristol Railway
William Lawrence, Egg., Brixton ; Director of the London mil Man-
chester and Direct Western Railways
William Alexander Long, Jun., Esq., Kingswood House, Wootton-
under-Edge ; Director of the Erewash Valley Extension Railway
Captain J, P. Macdougall, Fir-grove, Brixton; Chairman of the Isle
of Man Railway, and director of the Leeds and Fleetwood Railway
William Margetson, Esq., Streatham-hill, Brixton
J. Mee Mathew, Esq., 4, Gray's Inn-square; Director of the Direct
Western Railway
James Macmillan, Esq. London and Southampton ; director of the
Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby Railway,&c.&c.
James Witham, Esq., Grove-hill, Camberwell
Thomas Morris, Esq., Fairhurst Hall, near Wigan ; Director of the
Blackburn, Chorley, and Liverpool, and Leeds and Liverpool
Direct Railways
James Morrison, Esq., Director of the Chepstow and Forest of Dean
and Rhondda and Ely Valleys Junction Railway
Horatio Nelson, Esq.. Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey-
mouth Railway
William Nevill, Esq. West-green, Stamford-hill
G. Parbury, Esq., Russell-square; Director of the Manchester and
Birmingham Railway
W. Simpson Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens ; Director of the Grand
Trunk, the Oxford and Witney, and Reading and Reigate Junction
Railways
Samuel P. Pratt, Esq., F.R.S., Bath, and 55, Lincoln's-inn-fields ;
Director of the Kennet and Avon Canal Company, and York and
Lancaster Railway
George Richard Pye, Esq., Lavenham, Suffolk
Lewis Pocock, Esq., F.S.A., Montagu-square, Director of the South-
ampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction and Brighton and Chel-
tenham Direct Railways
Sir George Rich, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-squara ; Director of the
Metropolitan Railways Junction Company, and of the London,
Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway
John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Bycullah House, Enfield, Middlesex ;
Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
R. A. Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanston-street, Portman-square ; Director
of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and Oxford and Worcester
Extension Railways
James Reid, Esq. Director of the Metropolitan Railways Junction
Company
A. Macdonald Ritchie, Esq. Middle Temple, London; Director of
the Great Western Extension Atmospheric Railway
Richard Rowe, Esq., Beaufoy-terrace, Maida Vale
H. Savage, Esq., Dorset-place, Dorset-square ; Director of the West
Midland, Manchester, and Southampton Railway
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Martin Stately, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of
the Leeds and Carlisle, Direct Western, and Grand Trunk Railways
Timothy Steward, Esq., Heigham Lodge, near Norwich
Edward athrde
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Henry Taylor, Esq , Wigan ; Director of the Leeds a
Union Railways
the Great Leeds and
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James Templer, Esq., Brixton-rise, Director of
Direct, Manchester and Wigan, and Liverpool, Preston, and North
London, and Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford Railways
ol Direct
the Direct London and Manchester, and Leeds and LiverPo
Railways Director of the
Robert Watkins, Esq., Augusta-house, Worthing,
Joseph Underwood, Esq., The Hall, Blackheath Par Director of
Oxford, Southampton, and Gosport, and Liverpool and Derby
Railways
Sir Henry Webb,los,
Bart., Pall-mall, London ; Director of the
York and Lancaster, and Direct Western Railways
David Wheateroft, Esq. director of the Rugby, Derby, and Man-
chester,Woollaston White, Bart., Walling Wells, Nottingham
Sir Thomas
Thomas Williams, e Beigrave-square
Norwich, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle, and
and Nottingham and Gloucester Railways
Marynort, and Car lisle Railways
Sir William Wynn, Maesynewadd, and Suffolk-place, Pall-mall ;
Chairman of the North Wales, and South and Midlands' Junction
W. S. Wilson, Esq.,
Railways

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Direct West-End and Croydon

Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me Shares of 201.
each In the above railway, upon which or unon any less Humber that
may be allotted to me, I hereby agree to pay the deposit, and to
execute the Parliamentary Contract and the Subscribers' Agreement
when required to do so.

Name ••• • • ..... ••••• • • • • .
Residence
Profession or Trade (if any) .......
Place of Business (if any) ........
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(With power to add to their number.)
BANKERS.—The Commercial Bank of London.
CONSULTING ENGINEER.
Sir John Macneil, L.L.D., F.R.S., M.1.C.E.,
ACTING ENGINEERS.
Messrs. R. and T. Hopkins,M.l.C.E.; Messrs.Gough and Roumieu, C.E
Suavaroas.—Messrs. Shuttleworth and Sons.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Chauntler and Westwood, 8, Gray's Intl-square.
SECRETARY—J. L. Cotton, Esq.

THE DIRECT WEST END and CROYDON
RAILWAY.—The Provisional Committee give notice that
no application for Shares in this Company can be received after the
20th instant. By order,

J. L. COTTON, Secretary.
34, Gracechurch-street, Oct. 10th, 1845.

THE GRAND JUNCTION and MIDLANDS
UNION RAILWAY, connecting Stafford and the Pot-
teries, via Burton-upon-Trent, with Derby, Nottingham, and the
Eastern Counties.
Capita, 600,0001., in 30,000 Shares of 20/. each.
- Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
No subscriber to be liable beyond the amount of his subscription, and
no call to be made until the Act is obtained.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Chesterfield
The Right Hon. the Lord Viscount Combermere
The Right Hon. the Lord Viscount Mgestre, M.P.
The Right Hon. Lord Thomas Pelham Clinton
The Right Hon. G. R. Dawson
he Hon. Cecil Lawless
Sir Arthur De Capel Broke, Bart.
Lieutenant-General Sir John Wilson, K.C.B.
Thomas North, Esq., Mayor of Nottingham
Fred. Ricketts, Esq., London, Director of the Great Western
Railway
Thomas Wakefield, Esq., Nottingham, Directors of the Notting-
David Wheatcroft, Esq., Nottingham,
James Sutton, Esq., Shardlow-hall, Derbyshire
John Bloor, Esq., Tutbury, Staffordshire, Director of the Sheffield,
Buxton, Leek, and Potteries Railway ham Gainsborough
William R. Collett, Esq., M.P., St. James's-square
James Cliff ird, Esq., Broughton House, Derbyshire
Francis Hall, Esq., Park Hall, Nottingham, Chairman of the Notting-
ham, Mansfield, and Midlands Junction Railway
Thomas Nugent Vaughan, Esq., Chilton-hall
George Frederick Gregory, Esq., Seacombe, Managing Director of the
Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway
William Eaton Mousley, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, and Derby
H. J. Enthoven, Esq. London.
F. P. Barlow, Esq., I:ondon, Director of the Great Western Railway
Francis Parker, Esq., Manchester, Director of the London and York
Railway
George Emery, Esq., London, Director of the Waterford and Kil-
kenny Railway
William Watson, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Exeter Railway
Archibald F. Paull, Esq., London, Director of the South Wales Rail-

- •
way
William Morgan, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Gloucester Rail-
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James Beech, Esq., Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, Director of the
South Midland Railway
Wm. Watson Prole, Esq.,l Directors of the Great Manchester,
Robert Chapman, Esq., S Rugby, and Southampton Railway
Anthony Dickson, Esq., Edrington House, Berwickshire
Sheldon Cradock, Esq., Leicester
Ambrose Moere, Esq., London and Derby
William Johnson, Esq., Rickerscote, near Stafford
Joseph Ward, Esq., Milford Villa, near Stafford
George Russell Eaton, Esq., Cavendish Bridge, near Derby
James Upfill, Esq., Bromyard, Director of the Staffordshire and
Shropshire Junction Railway
Matthew Gaunt, Esq. J.P. Highfleld-house, Staffordshire, Director of
the South Staffordshire Junction Railway
Thomas Hartshorne, Esq. Silkmore-house, Staffordshire
Edward Knight, Esq. M.D. Stafford, Director of the Staffordshire and
Shropshire Junction Railway
William Charles Woodroffe, Esq. Haywood Abbey, Staffordshire
Charles Dawson, Esq. Stafford and Abbots-Bromley, Director of the
Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
LORD VISCOUNT IXGSESTRE, Chairman.
F. P. Bar'ow, Esq. Archibald F. Paull, Esq,
Lord Thomas Pelham Clinton F. Ricketts, Esq.
W. Morgan, Esq. W. Watson, Esq.
W. W. Prole, Esq.

ENGINEER—E. J. Maude, Esq. C.E.
SOLICITORS.

Messrs. Edwards, Mason, and Edwards, 8, Moorgate-street, and 8,
Delahay-street, Westminster.

LOCAL AGENTS.
Nottingham—Samuel Maples, Esq.
Burton-upon-Trent—John Thornewill, Esq.
Stafford—Messrs. Bennet and Bowen
BANKERS.
London—Messrs Denison, Heywood, Kennard, and Co., •
Lombard-street
Nottingham—Samuel Smith and Co.
Bunten-upon-Trent—Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashboum
Union Bank
Stafford—Messrs. Stevenson, Salt, and Co.
The proposed railway is intended to commence on the Trent
Valley Railway near Stafford, and_Droceedbutthe.nce in *an easterly
direction, to pass through, or near to, Tixall, Haywood, Colwich, and
Abbott's Bromley, to the rapidly-increasing town of Burton-upon-
Trent, where it will run into the Birmingham and Derby Railway,
forming the shortest and best practicable route from Stafford to
Derby. Leaving the Birmingham and Derby Railway at Burton-
upon-Trent, it will proceed along the valley of the Trent by Repton,
Swarkestone, and Shardlow, to the Midland Counties Railway at the
point where that railway forms ajunction with the Derby and Not-
tingham Railway ; and thus, by means of these and other railways
in progress, form a complete line of railway communication between
the central towns of Stafford, Derby, Nottingham, Lincoln, Leices-
ter, Peterborough, and Boston, on the east, and Shrewsbury, Ches-
ter, and Holyhead, North Wales, and Ireland, on the west.
This railway will, therefore, form the only connecting link re-
quired in the great chain of railway communication from east and
west through the heart of . the kingdom, uniting the shofes of the
ienanitsoncotuhreseeasthtewiriethh tahgolleciiolfturthale IrilsishtriScetsa on the
thewe.s
eastern,t, and
mtGreaidriria,sndin,Zd western counties, and accommodating the important, and
populous manufacturing towns of Stafford, Derby, Nottingham, Lei-
cester, and Shrewsbury. But another most important advantage
that will result from the formation of this line will consist in the
fact of its affording, in connexion with the proposed South Union, or
Manchester and Potteries Railway, by far the shortest and best
route between Derby, Nottingham, Newark, Lincoln, Peterborough,
Leicester, and Loughborough, and the extensive and populous dis-
tricts of the Staffordshire Potteries, Macclesfield, Stockport, and
Manchester. By the proposed line the distance between Nottingham
and Derby and Manchester will be at least from 15 to 20 miles less
than by the present circuitous route by Sheffield.
The traffic on this line must necessarily be equal, if not superior,
to that of any line in the district.

The length- of the line will be about 33 miles, through a country
presenting no difficulties of more than an ordinary kind for its con-
struction. _

The capital proposed to be raised is 600,0001., in shares of 201.
each, upon which a deposit of 21. 2s. per share must be paid upon the
allotment. No call will be made until the Act is obtained, and no
subscriber will be liable beyond the amount of his deposit until the
Act is obtained, and then not beyond the amount of his subscription;
and the usual power will be taken to allow interest at four per cent.
from the time of payment upon each eSil until the opening of the
line.

The Subscribers' Agreement and the Parliamentary Contract must
be executed when the bankers' receipts are exchanged for scrip cer-
tificates, of which 14 days' notice will be given;, and the deposits
paid.by any party making default in the execution of those deeds will
be forfeited.

GRAND JUNCTION and MIDLANDS
UNION RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that no farther Applications for Shares will
be received.

By order of the Committee,
I , Royal Exchange
Bnildings, 1 Ith October, 1845.

PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT.
HALIFAX AND HULL DIRECT, AND
HUL, GLE, GRIMSBYD YORK AND NORTH
MIDLAND GLRANDOO JUNCTION (at, or AN
near Methley) RAILWAY,
via, Hipperholme, Lightcliffe, Cleckheaton, Mills-bridge, Gomersal,
Birstal, Batley, Hanging Heaton, Ardsleys, Lofthouse, Stanley to
Methley, with a branch to Wakefield.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 600,0001. in 30,000 shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21.25. per Share, in compliance with the Standing Orders of

Parliament.
The object of this railway is to provide for the above-named
densely Populated and rapidly improving manufacturing towns and
villages, a dirict and convenient outlet towards York, Selby, Hull,
Goole, Grimsby, and the east.
In conjunction with the %Vest Riding Union, Liverpool and Leeds,
and other projected railways passing through or Bear to Halifax, the
undertaking now proposed will form one of the most direct railway
commnnications, as well between the ports of Liverpool and Hull, as
between the great manufacturing districts of the west, and the agri-
cultural districts of the East.

The population residing upon and along the proposed line between
Halifax and Methley exceeds 200,000 persons, who are chiefly engaged
in manufacturing and mining industry— te such a community a rail-
way passing immediately through it, giving a nearer and more con-
venient access to the Irish Channel and the German Ocean and the
intermediate places, is an object of importance, and promises, when
accomplished, to confer great advantages on the inhabitants, and to
secure to the shareholders an ample return for the capital invested.
By this project the valuable coal fields of Nike, Batley, Soothill,
East and West Ardsley, Lofthouse, and 'Stanley (containing
the well known " Bowling and Low Moor," " High Moor,"
and Stanley Main," beds which re now wrought to a ♦on-
siderable extent), will be furnished, for the first time, with
the means of cheap and convenient railway transit toHalifax
and other large towns westward, and to York, Selby, Hull,
Goole, Grimsby, and various other places eastward. The celebrated
flagstone quarries of Northowram and Southowram, which annually
export from Goole, Selby,. and Hull, to the eastern coast of England
and to the Continent. large quantities of flags, paving stones, and
slates, will supply this line of railway with a considerable amount of
traffic.

The principal objects of the scheme are—lst. To remedy the evils
of delay and inconvenience to which parties are, at the present time,
necessarily subjected in proceeding Prom the west end of the metro-
polis to Croydon, or the most distant places on the South-Eastern
and London and Brighton Railways, as well as the several sea ports
and packet-stations on the coasts of Kent and Sussex; and 2d. To
supply to the numerous and wealthy inhabitants of the district
reath, effect,
through which the intended line will pass (at present wholly with-
out railway accommodation), a greatly improved means fo,r
Btrhiextoinn-
projected
in-
terchange of communication with the metropolis, and with each other.
Commencing at the intended terminus of the South-Western Rail-
way, at Hungerford or Waterloo-bridge, the line will take the most
practicable route to Kennington, from thence it will follow as near as
possible the old turnpike road, passing through or near to the
Tw4elaselth.hynasntdrepoatphualmoussdorwistrioocdts,
BoefuiSahte,caknwdeTllb,
Thornton-heath,
lhinigesafrjouninctihoant
place.
It Croydon with the several existing or
It is also proposed to forma branch or branches from the neigh-
bourhood of Streatham to Mitcham and Tooting, and thus to extend
aormf theofthe
to those places, and their respective neighbourhoods, the advantages
of a direct railway communication with the metropolis,
A great portion of the traffic in passengers andgoods Upon the
Brighton and Dover lines is supplied from the west-end of London
and the Birmingham and Great Western Railways. The necessity
of proceeding to the station at London-bridge, and by the present
promotersr
a 1 o r
circuitous route to Croydon, is a serious and unnecessary inconveni-
ence,f
London to Croydon,
entailing additional expense and delay. The removal of this
g completes a straight
long-felt grietrance is a leading
pre-
sent nndertaking. They deem it right, however, to observe, in lay-
objectthawtitash taheb
ing this scheme before the public, that they have, no desire to inter-
fere with existing railway intereusittism,:trethyebi•etleolannniesetaebds.olutely indis-
pensable, but that on the other hand it will be their object to yield
assistance to, and in return endeavour to secure it, from each com-
paAnygraintlicewaltiitchhetlinlisalpinwie flasybow,
Reigate, and Brighton, and renders the ports of Dover and Folke-
stone, as well as the several
lLinoendoofncaonmdmltrnigimhttoinonßfariolwmayth, this undertaking uenstdeertnadkion
places on the South-Eastern line, more
easily accessible from that part of the metropolis.
The great amount of traffic at the pres
and ent time me
the roads be-
tween Croydon, Mitcham, Tooting, Lc., Londono, proves at once
that the existing railway facilities do not at all meet the exigencies
of the mass of populationto whom this line will be available, 1
The population who reside upon or in the immediate neighbour-
hood of the proposed line, independent of the metropolis, and betweea
the intended termini, exceeds 100,000, whose wants are almost
wholly supplied from the London markets, &c., and who have, at
the present time, no mode of conveyance but upon the turnpike
road. In the transit of building materials, corn, coal, lime, and
other heavy goods, from the warehouses and wharfs on the banks of
tho Thames, and for marketable produce in each direction, this line
must become to them particularly useful and convenient.
Some idea may be formed of the local necessitY of this railway,
when it is known that the number ofpassengers who avail themselves
1 of the accommodation afforded by the several omnibuses and other
' I pub litvehicles, running upon the turnpike-road, have been ascer-
tained to exceed 2,600 daily. An equal nurOber (at least) proceed

By means of the Leeds and Dewsbury Railway, now in course of
construction (which the proposed line will intersect at Batley), the
inhabitants of the clothing districts previously mentioned will have
the readiest access to the Leeds markets and to the country north
of Leeds.

By a junction at Cleckheaton with the Bradford and Dewsbury
branch of the West Riding Union Railway the present scheme will
give to Halifax and its populous neighbourhood the shortest railway
communication with Dewsbury, and in connexion with other pro-
posed lines with Barnsley, &c.
The same junction at Cleckheaton will give to Bradford and the
important iron works at Wibsey, and Low Moor, the nearest ronte to
Selby, Hull, and the east; consequently this railway company may
fairly lay claim to carry a large portion of the raw material and ma-
nufactured productions, used and produced in that densely-peopled
portion of Yorkshire.
From a point on the main line at or near Soothill, it is intended to
make a branch to Wakefield of about five miles down the Alverthorpe
Valley, there to join the Pontefract and Goole, the Wakefield branch
of the London and York,. and the Midland Railways. It is evident,
therefore, that the proposed railway and its intended branch (aided
by the West hiding Union line between Bradford and Cleckheaton)
will provide the shortest rotite hitherto projected from Halifax and
Bradford to Wakefield, Doncaster, and the eastern counties.
From Halifax to the proposed junction at Methley the distance will
be about nineteen miles ; and, although the undulating surface of the
country along a portion of the line will occasion some expensive
works, yet the proposed capital is amply sufficient to complete the
whole of the railway, with its branches and stations. And the pro-
moters are enabled to state most confidently that the through and
local traffic in passengers, goods, and minerals, will be such as to
render this undertaking one of the most profitable in the kingdom.
The gradients are not unfavourable, there are no rivers or canals
to cross, and the project does not interfere with ornamented property
of any kind.
The Parliamentary survey is now in progress and will be ready
for the forthcoming session.
The liability of the shareholders will be limited by the Act of Par-
liament to the amount of their shares, and power will be taken to
allow interest at 4 per cent. on all deposits and calls from
the time of
payment to the opening of the line.
A more enlarged prospectus, together with the names of
the mean-
an influen-
tial Provisional Committee, will shortly be published; in
time, every information may be obtained of the solicitors, to whom
application for shares may be made in the subjoined form. A pre-
ference will be given in the allotment to landowners on the line and
parties locally interested.
By order,
CARR and NETTLETON, Solicitors to the Promoters.
Wakefield, October 8, 1845,

by private and other conveyances. Of foot passengers, although To the Provisional Committee of the Halifax and Hull Direct
no accurate estimate can be formed of them, it is considered that
Railway Company.
they at least number four times that of passengers who travel by con- Gentlegyen—l request you to allot me shares of 20/.
veyance. The tonnage or gt,ods it i 5 calculated will be in full pro- each in the above proposed railway and I undertaks to accept the
portion to the receipt from passengers. i same, or any less number you may appropriate to me, subject to the
Experience has fully proved, that on however liberal a scale the regulations of the Company, to execute the Parliamentary Contract
probability of future traffic in the transit of goods and passengers has , and the Subscribers' Agreement, and to pay, when required, the
been judged, almost every line of railway has, upon its completion, deposit of 21. 2s. per share. vastly exceeded the calculated amount. There are, however, in this
instance, reasons for supposing that the extended facilities of com- ~r
munication will cause more than an ordinary increase in the con-
Profession, Trade, or Occupation
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veyance of passengers. The country which the line of railway will Residence .... ..
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open is singularly picturesque and beautiful, and in addition to the Name and Address of Rof Business (if anye .feree •.....
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admired districts of Brixton and Streatham, the long-favoured and Date .. ..
much-frequented Beulah and Norwood A ill be placed within easy
access, and become more than ever, objects of interest and delight
to the visitor and resident of the metropolis.
There can therefore be little doubt but that the present line must
become a profitable and eligible scheme for the investment of capital.
The promoters of this undertaking have pleasure in announcing
that it is approved of, and will be generally supported by local in-
fluence. They have caused a partial survey to be made, which will
be completed shortly, and they have the assurance of their engineers
that there are not more than ordinary difficulties to contend with.
The liability of the shareholders will be restricted, by Act of Parlia-
ment, to the amount of their subscriptions; and power will be applied
for in the Bill to allow interest at 41. per cent. per annum on all calls
from the passing of the Act until the opening of the line.
Applications for thrtherr information, prospectuses, and shares (In
he form annexed), may he addressed to the Solicitors; to the Secre-
tary, at the offices of the Company, No. 34, Gracechurch-street; or
to the following Brokers :—viz., Messrs. R. and M. 8,..yd, Princes-
street ; Mr. H. J. Williams, 80, Old Broad-street ; Messrs. Greystone
and Earle, York; Mr. Anthony Laurie, Liverpool; Messrs. Cardwell
and Co., and Mr. Henry Benton, Manchester; Mr. James Pearson,
Birmingham ; Messrs. Watson and Co., Leeds ; Messrs. Mr rdy and
Stainforth, Hull ; Mr. George Edwards, Bristol; Mr. Thomas Sand
ford, Exeter ; Mr. James Pringle, Edinburgh ; Mr. J. W. Carr, Col•
chester,

DIRECTRAILWAY (by a Junction from Chester to Wolverhampton),
LONDON AND LIVERPOOL
through Newport and Whitchurch.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and Bth Vic., c. 110).
Capitall 000,8001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
PROYISIONAL COMMITTEE
The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne, Bell Hatcle house, Henley-on.
Thames
Sir John P. Milbanke, Bart., Haldane Hall, Yorkshire
Sir Wm. Young, Bart. Westbourne-terrace, Hye e-park, a director of
the East India Company, and of the Rugby, Derby, and Manches-
ter Railway Company
Sir William Boothby, Bart. Ashbourne Hall, Ashbourne, a director
of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway
Sir William Twysden, Bart. a director of the Chepstow, Forest of
Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway
Sir John J. Hensley, Saffron Walden, Essex, Deputy-Lieutenant of
Essex, and a director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Rail-
way
Sir James Eyre, 11, Lower Brook-street, Grosvenor-square
Sir Robert Shomburgh, New Kingston, Surrey
George Frederick Muntz, Esq. M.P. Ley-hall, Staffordshire
W 3 uue Ellis, Esq. M.P. Chainnan of the Leicester and Bedford, and
a director of the Grand Union and several other railways
Thomas North, Esq. Mayor of Nottingham
John Parkinson, Esq. F.R.S. 80, Cambridge-terrace. Hyde-park, a
director of the Irish Great Western, the Northampton, Banbury,
and Cheltenham, and Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railways
Thomas Stevenson, Esq. F.S.A. 37, Upper Grosvenor-street, Hyde-
park, a director of the Irish Great Western, the Reading and Rei-
gate, and Rugby, Derby and Manchester Railways
Matthew Pierpoint, Esq., Crown East, Worcestershire, Deputy-
Lieutenant of the County of Worcester, and a direetor of the Rugby,
Derby, and Manchester Railway
Cecil Brook Boothy, Esq. Ashbourne-hall, Ashbourne and Bolton-
sßailwatreet, Piccadilly, a director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester
Lieut.-Col Gillies, Porchester-house, Bayswater
Rear-Admiral John Wight, Teignmouth, Devon
James Russell, Esq. Gloucester-place, Portman-square, London, and
of Windsor, director of the Great Leeds and London Approxima-
tion
Major-General Wright, R.E. Gloucester-place, Portman-square, di-
rector of the Great Leeds and London Approximation
William Chance, Esq. Spring-grove, Birmingham, Deputy-Chairman
of the Birmingham and Leicester Railway, director of the Trent
Valley Midlands, the Manchester and Southampton Junction, and
Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railways
Rowland Hill Mackenzie, Esq. M.D., a director of the Huddersfield,
and East and West Coast Direct, and of the Thames Valley Rail-
ways
William Shaw, Esq. director of the London and Birmingham Exten-
sion, and Worcester and Warwick Railways
Alexander Prince, Esq. 14, Lincoln's Inn-fields, a director of the
T • ing, Reading, Basingstoke and Barnet, and, North Metropolitan
Railways, and one of the Provisional Committee of the West Mid-
land Manchester and Southampton Railway
Dr. William Wilson, R.N., Cob Croft, Dartford
Francis Ewart, Esq. 4, Brick-court, Temple, a director of the Great
Leeds and London Railway
James Witham, Esq. Eaton-square, a director of the Rugby, Derby
and Manchester Railway
David Wheatcroft, Esq. Buckland-hollow, Derbyshire, a director of
the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway
Joseph W. Moore, Esq., Sandon-lodge, Avenue-road, Regent's Park
William Pople, Esq., Stauhope-street, Regent's-park
Captain Seth Fisher, Junior United Service Club
David Bryan, Esq. Northampton, a member of the Provisional Com-
mittee of the Midland and Eastern Counties Railway
Josiah Heale, Esq. 3, Gray's Inn-square, a director of the Exeter,
Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway
Joseph Alexander Bicknell, Esq. Brandon-cottage, Bristol, a director
of the Oxford and Worcester Extension, and Chester Junction
Railway
William Holt, Esq. Great Coram-street, and the Elms, Watford, a
director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, and Lynn, Wis-
beach, and Peterborough Railways
George Wilson, Esq. director of the Great Western Extension
Railway
James Ellis, Esq. Ravenswood-house, Bromley, Kent
George Worgan, Esq. a director of the Goole and Doncaster Railway
W. Stuart Farquharson, Esq. D.C.L. Spring-field-house, Honiton,
Devon, on the Provisional Committee of the Great Western Ex-
tension Railway
Captain W. Cousens, R.N. a director of the Goole and Doncaster
Railway
George Lawton, Esq. Diteldey-hall, Essex, a director of the Chep-
stow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway
John Hervey, Esq. Elliott-house, Blackheath
Francis Ingram, Esq. St. John's-wood-terrace
Samuel Smith, Esq. Southampton-buildings, a director of the Chel-
tenham, Oxford, and Brighton Junction Railway
Thomas George Smith, Esq. Doughty-street, Meeklenburgh-square,
a director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, and of the Lynn,
Wisbeach, and Peterborough Railway
Stanhope Dawson, Esq. Cookham, Berks
William Henry Halpin, Esq. Grafton-street, Fitzroy-square, a director
of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
John Harrison, Esq Eastbourne, Kent, a director of theCheltenham,
Oxford, and Brighton Junction Railway
—Wight, Esq., Marylebone-street, London, a director of the Chel-
tenham, Oxford; and Brighton Junction Railway
Nicholas llf`Caim, Esq. Parliament-street
Henry Chaytor, Esq. Clervaux Castle, Darlington
Major Adair, United Service Club, a director of the Goole and Don-
caster Railway
Thomas Hackett Massey, Esq, a director of the Great Leeds and
London, Dudley, Madeley, and Ironbrldge, Hull and Lincoln, Not-
tingham and Birmingham, and Lincolnshire, and Eastern Counties
Junction Railways
Thomas Hemsley, Esq. Melbourne, Derbyshire, a director of the
Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway
John Robinson, Esq., Silcoates-cottage, near Wakefield, a director of
the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, Bradford, Wakefield and Mid-
land, and Leeds and York, and Midland Junction Railway •
John 1.41 )or, Esq. Tutbury, a director of the Rugby, Derby, and Man-
chester Bailway
James J. M`Swlney, Esq. Sandal-view, near Wakefield, a director
of the Rugby, Derby and Manchester, the Sheffield, Barnsley aid
Wakefield, Wakefield and Harrowgate, and Whitby, Pickering,
Thirsk, and Great North of England Railways
Samuel eimpson, Esq. the Greaves, Lancaster, a director of the,
Manchester and Leeds Direct, and of the Rugby, Derby and Man-
chester Railways
Edward Lucas, Esq. Mount-street, Birmingham, a director of, the
Rugby, Derby and Manchester Railway
James Consterdine, Esq. Rosin-hall, Manchester, a magistrate, and
a director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway
John Groom, Esq. member of the Town Council, Northampton, and
a director of the Rugby, Derby and Manchester Railway
James Osborne, Esq. Ashbourne, Derbyshire, a director of the
Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway
T. S. Richards, Esq. 51, Baker-street, Portman-square, a director of
Orcat -
John Campbell Dicker, Esq. Newhall, by Neston, Cheshire, a di-
rector of the Birkenhead and Holyhead, and of the Rugby, Derby,
and Manchester Railways
John Grant Morris, Esq. merchant, Liverpool
Henry Or+on, Esq. King's Newton, Derbyshire, a director of the
Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway
Brigetock, Esq., M.D., Derby, a director of the Derby, Utoxeter,
and Stafford, and of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway
Charles Milnes, Esq. Dalehouse, Matlock, Derbyshire, a director of
the Rugby, Derby and Manchester Railway
Thomas Byrom, Esq. Wigan, a director of York and Lancaster,
Liverpool and Leeds Direct, the Keighley, Halifax, and Hudders-
field Junction, and of the Rugby, and Manchester Railways
William Byrom, Esq. Oldham, director of the Oldham District and
other Railways
Henry George Gascoyne, Esq. Lee Hall, Rugely, Staffordshire, a
director of the Rugby. Derby and Manchester Railway
John Thomas Raworth, Esq. Leicester, a director of tile Leicester
and Birmingham, the London, Bristol, and South Wales, and the
Rugby, Derby and Manchester Railways.
William Atkinson Gardner, Esq. Vice-Chairman of the Midland
Union, director ofthe Preston, Fleetwood, and Wyre, Leicester and
Birmingham, and Great Northern and Southern Railways
Perry Dicken, Esq. Ashby-de-la-Zouch, a director of the Rugby,
Derby, and Manchester Railway
Samuel Dawson, jun., Esq. Walton Bank, Ashbourne, a director of
the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway
F. R. Hodgson, Esq. Gainey, near Manchester, a director of the
Rugby, Derby, and Mancnester Railway
William Caidwell, Esq. Ince-hall, Wigan, Alderman of the borough
of Wigan, and director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, the
Staffordshire Potteries, Liverpool and Manchester Direct, and
Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railways
Henry Taylor, Esq. Wigan, a director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct, the York and Lancaster, the Eastern, Western, and
Southern, or Ipswich and Southampton, Reigate, the Halifax and
Huddersfield, Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction,
Staffordshire Potteries, and Rugby, Derby, and Manchester
Railways
A. Inderwick, Esq. Brompton, Middlesex, a director of the Rugby,
Derby, and Manchester Railway
Richard Dransfield, Esq. West-place, Dalton, Huddersfield, a
director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, the Keighley, Halifax,
and Huddersfield Junction, and Rugby, Derby, and Manchester
Railway
John Bond, Esq. Nuneaton, Warwickshire, and Howland-street,
London
James Cockell, Esq. Bernard-street, Russell-square
Arthur Davenport, Esq. Eastwood, Nottinghamshire
T. Folliott Powell, Esq. Hastings, a director of the Rugby, Derby,
and Manchester Railway
George Clarke, Esq. Rusholme-park, near Manchester, and Wyndham-
house, Brighton, a director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester
Railway
Samuel Griffiths, Esq. Pen-fields, Wolverhampton, a director of the
Leeds and Liverpool Railway
Thomas Charles Harrison, Esq. 31, York-terrace, Regentlepark
C. Kelly Cooper, Esq. Ashbourne, a director of the Rugby, Derby, and
Manchester Railway
Jolm Oster, Esq. a director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester
Railway
Joseph Lancelot Devonport, Esq. Derby, a ,director of the Rugby,
Derby, and Manchester Railway
Edward Maminatt, Esq. Ashby-de-la-Zouch, a director of the Rugby,
Derby and Manchester Railway
T. Hastings Ingham, Esq. Marton-house, near Skipton, a Magistrate
for the West Riding of Yorkshire, and a director of the Lancashire
and North Yorkshire Railway
John Rainbriggetory,Esq.Lockingtonn-hall, Leicestersk ire, a direc-
tor of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway
George Robinson, Esq. Hull, a director of the Rugby, Derby, and
Manchester, and other railways '
R. D. Goodwin, Esq. Ashbourne, a director of the Rugby, Derby, and
Manchester and other Railways
John Vaughan, Esq. merchant, 26, Austin Friars, London
George Croft, Esq. Hastings, alderman and magistrate of the Parlia-
mentary borough of Richmond, County of York
Samuel Palmer, Esq. Great Yarniouth, late Mayor of Yarmouth, a
director of the Great Grimsby, Louth, Horncastle, Lincoln, and
Midland Junction, Waveney Valley, and Great Yarmouth Railway
John Towle, Esq. Borrowash Mills, Derbyshire, a director of the
Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railways
Henry J. Meakin, Esq. Shebnall Grange, and Burton-on-Trent, la
director of the Tean and Dove Valley, and Leicester and Teen and
Dove Junction Railways
John Burgess, Esq. Boroughreeve of Manchester, a director
Direct,
ftlt
Chester and Manchester Direct, London and Manchester rec
and Independent Liverpool and Bolton Direct and other Joseph Peel, Esq. Singleton Brook, near Manchester,
adirr,,acilt‘Lay
of
s
Committee of the
Chteleßsagby, Bamford,Derby,
ivan. nd Manchester
u memßailberw
Hull and Barnsley Junction, the Leeds and Carlisle, and Rugby,
oafy the
Paul IVillmott, Esq. Welbeck-street, Cavendish-sinters,a director of
Derby and Manchester Railways
Lake Heap, Esc!
the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railways
Edward
Huddersfield, solicitor to the Leeds, Pews-
bury and Manchester Railway Company, and one of the Pro-
visional Committee of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great
Grimsby Railway Company
James Renshaw, Esq., White Hart-court, Lombard-street, London-
and West-heath-house, Erith, Kent, a director of the Direct
Western, and Rugby, Derby and Manchester Railways
Francis Alfred Hawker, Esq. Westbourne-grove
James Reid Esq., Beulah-wood, near Croydon '
John Campion, Esq. 14, James's-place, Hyde-park
Dr. Broakes, 1, Cork-street, Bond-street
Lewis Pocock, Esq. Mentague-street-Russell-square
Thomas Maskay, Esq. Norbury-hall, Ashbourne, a director of the
Birmingham and Manchester Direct Railway
(With power to add to their number.)
ENGINEER—CharIes Blunt, Esq., C.E.
SußvEvoß—Charles F. Blunt, Esq.
Ancrargers—Frederick C. J. Parkinson, Esq. ; William Wilkinson
Wardell, Esq. Gray's
TO THE COMPANY—Thomas Gibson Brewer, Esq..l3,
Inn-square.
STANDING CouNsEL—Williarn Holt, Esq.
COUNTRY SOLICITORS.
ssley
S
Liverpool—Messrs. Littledale and Bardswellw
Manchester—Messrs. Cro union Birmingham—Messrs. Spurner and Chaplin
a Baker, Esq., Spring-gardens.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT—TB/1,7s .i
n,s.
Wolverhampton—Thomas Bolton, Esq.
London—Messrs...
Royal Bank.
ham Banking Company
Birmingham—The Birming,
Peters, Mildred and Co.
Liverpool—TheMasterman,
AGENTS.
• It • Lane, Esq. Waterloo-street
London—Thomas George Smith, Esq. 2, Warnford-court
Birmingham—J
Edinburgh—Messrs. Stewart anMurray
Leicester—Messrs. Ellgood and Harrison.
Hull—Messrs. Flint and Tootal d
Temporary Offices, 13, Gray's Inn-square, London.
PROSPECTUS.
The Direct London and Liverpool Railway is also a Direct Liver-
pool and Birmingham Railway
It uses the London and Birmingham Railway the whole distance
to Birmingham—from thence it proceeds to Wolverhampton, either
on the Grand Junction, or on the Wolverhampton, Nadley, and Bir-
mingham
Wolverhampton
ainßailway
commences the new portion of railway,
•
miFnrgoh
consisting of 55 miles only, and passing through Newport and
Whitchurch on to Chester.
At Chester the Direct London and Liverpool Railway proceeds on
the Chester and Birkenhead Railway to Birkenhead.
' It is proposed to establish at Birkenhead a steam ferry, gratis, to
Liverpool across the Mersey so as to unite both towns into one.

This railway has the advantage of passing through the towns on
route without materially increasing the distance.
The principle of the Direct London and Liverpool Railway, as in
the case of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway, is to obtain
a direct through line between some of the most populous districts in
the kingdom with the least possible amount of new railway, and
eonsequently the smallest expenditure of capital.
The Direct London and Liverpool Railway opens up an entirely
new district. at the same time that it interferes but slightly with
existing railway interests.

The Maps, plans, estimates, and other documents, required by the
standing orders of Parliament, will be lodged with the parish clerks,
clerks of the peace for the counties, and the Parliamentary offices, on
the 24th day of November, being six days within the time required
by the regulations of Parliament.

.A
preference in the allotment of Shares will be given to the extent
of 15,000, to the original Shareholders in the Rugby, Derby, and
Manchester Railway Company, on their sending in applications for
the same.

A proper reservation of Shares will be made for the London and
Birmingham, Chester and Birkenhead, and Warwickshire Railways,
being the railways by means of which the project now submitted to
the public is the most Direct London and Liverpool Railway that
can be made.

As the aPPlications are exceedingly numerous, an early day will
be named fur closing the lists.
In the mealtime application for shares may be addressed to the
solicitors or any of the agents of the company in the following
form :

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
Direct London and Liverpool Railway.
Capital 1,000,0001. in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
To the Provisional Committee of the Direct London and Liverpool
Railway Company.
Gentlemen—l request that you will allot to me shares in the
above proposed Railway, and I agree to accept that or any less num-
ber that you may please to allot me, and I undertake to pay the
deposit of 21. 2s. per share on the same, and to sign the Parliamentary
contract and subscribers' agreement, and all the usual and necessary
deeds when required.
Dated this

day of , 1845.
Name in full ............
Residence .. .. • •
Trade or Profession .. ....
Place of Business ........
Reference in full.. ...... ..

DIRECT LONDON AND LIVERPOOL
RAILWAY.

NOTICE.

In consequence of the numerous Applications for Shares in the
above railway already received, no further applications can be re-
ceived after FRIDAY NEXT, the 10th inst., when the lists will be
finally closed for allotment.

T. G. BREWER, Solicitor.
13, Gray's-inn-square, 3rd October, 1845.

DIRECT LONDON and LIVERPOOL RAIL--
WAY.

NOTICE.

The Shareholders in the Rugby,' Derby, and Manchester Railway,
who wish to avail themselves of the preference granted to them in
the allotment of Shares in the Direct London and Liverpool Railway
mast send in their applications on or before Tuesday next, the 14th
instant.

They will be entitled to one Share in the Direct London and
Liverpool for every four in the Rugby, Derby, and:Manchester.

- T. G. BREWER,
Solicitor to the Direct London and Liverpool Railway Company
October 9. 1845.

THE THAMES EMBANKMENT AND
RAILWAY JUNCTION COMPANY-.
CHAIRMAN—The Earl of DEVON.
The amount of the Shares applied for in the above Company
having greatly exceeded the required capital ; Notice is hereby given,
that no further applications can be received.
After the uecessary inquiries, the Provisional Directors will lame]
diately proceed with the allotment.
E. W. WILLIAMS, Sec. pre tern.
Offices, 32, Charing-cross, Sept. 27, 1845.

THE MIDDLESEX and SURREY JUNC-
TION RAILWAY, connecting Uxbridge, Southall, Brentford,
Hounslow, Twickenham, Kingston-upon-Thames, Croydon, and
Epsom.

Capital 400,0001., in 16,000 Skares of 251. each.
Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
TEMPORARY OFFICES-19, Ely-place, Holborn.
(Provisionally Registered.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Anderson, John, Esq., 5, Lothbury, Director of the Tring, Reading,
and Basingstoke Railway
Armit, John Lees, Esq., Ashe-lodge, Farnham, Surrey
Ayscough, Admiral John, Prospect-place-house, Southampton, Di-
rector of the Birmingham and Leicester Railway
Barnes, Robert Edward, Esq., 11, Mincing-lane, Director of the
Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, and Essex Junction Railway
Beare, William Gabbett, Esq., 6, Porchester-place, Connaught-square,
Deputy-Chairman of the Great Munster Railway, Director of the
Shrewsbury, Worcester, and Crewe, the Leeds and Carlisle, and
Hull and Holyhead Railways
Bedborough, James Thomas, Esq., Upton-park, Bucks, Director of
the Windsor, Slough, and Staines Railway
Bettridge, Abraham, Esq., 4, Devonshire-terrace, Camden-road,
Director of the Great Grimsby, Louth, Homcastle, Lincoln, Mid-
land, mad Junction Railway
Carter, John, Esq., Park-lodge, Stockwell, Director of the Grand
Trunk Railway
Clowes, Joseph, Esq., Director of the British and Foreign Gas Light
and Meter Company
Costello, William Bermingham, Esq., Wyke-house, Isleworth, Direc-
tor of the Direct London and Exeter Railway
Cox, Edw. William, Esq., I, Torrington-square, and Temple, Director
of the Great Western, and Falmouth Junction Railway
Cremer, William, Esq., Barnes, Surrey, Director of the Grand Trunk
Railway.
Elringtan, Col., Scots Fusilier Guards, 12, Wyndham-place, Bryan-
ston-square, Director of the Direct Leeds and London Railway
Evans, George, Esq., 14, Melbury-terrace, Blandford-square
Ewart, Francis, Esq., 4, Brick-court, Temple, Director of the Equity
and Law Life Assurance Company
Fawcett, Edmund Alderson, Esq., I, Pfuggin-lane, Wood-street, and
Derby and Nottingham, silk manufacturer, Director of the Direct
West-end and Croydon Railway
Gerson, James, Esq., 13, Conduit-street, Bond-street, Director of the
Brighton and Cheltenham Direct Railway, Vice-Chairman of tk•
Galway. and Ennis Railway
Hemming, John, Esq., 8, North-bank, Regent's-park, Director of the
Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
Henry, Joseph, Esq., 13, Seuth-street, Finsbury, Director of the Lon-
don, Hounslow. and Direct Western Railway
Howlett, Henry, Esq., 18, Cambridge-terrace, Director of the Amman
Vale Iron and Coal Company
Hutchison, Stepken, Esq., Landoll Gas Works, Vauxhall, Director of
the Grand Trunk, Railway
Innis, Thomas, Esq., 29, Fitzroy-square
Key, Sir John, Rad., 9, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street, Alder-
man of London, and a Director of the York and Lancaster, and
Liverpool and Leeds Railways.
King, John, Esq., of Norhiten, Kingston-upon-Thames
Knight, Valentine, Esq., 3, Cornwall-terrace, Regent's-park, a Magi-
strate for the Cunty of Middlesex, and a Director of the Dendre
Valley Railway
Lamb, James, Esq., 25, Hyde-park-square, Director of the Direct
Western Railway
Lawson, J. 11., Esq., South-street, Rye-lane, Peckham, and Lana-
_ down-cottage, Brighton
Lewis, Kensington, Esq., 18, Stratford-plan, and Worcester-park,
Ewell, Director of the Cheltenham, Oxford, and Brighton Railway
Lindham, Henry Robert, Esq., 8, New-street, Dorset-square, Director
of the Dorchester, Exeter, and Weymouth Railway
Macdougal, J. P., Esq. (late Bengal Staff), Firgrove, Brixton,
Director of the Direct London and Holyhead and Portdynllaen
Railway
Macguire, W. J.. Esq., Hampton Court, Middlesex, Director of the
Reading and Reigate Atmospheric Railway
Macintosh, George, Esq„ 27, Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square
Mansell, W. W., Esq., Dorchester-place, Blandford-square, Director
of the Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railway
Margetson, William, Esq., Streatham-hill, Brixton, Surrey
Mercer, William, Esq., Kingston-upon-Thames
Norris, Caleb, Esq., 10, Lancaster-place, Strand, Director of the Dor-
chester, Exeter, and Weymouth Railway, and Windsor, Slough,
and Staines Railway
Parkinson, John, Esq., F.L.S., F.R.S., 80, Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-
park, Director of the Brighton and Cheltenham Direct Railway
Phillips, B. Laurence, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's-park, Director
of the Direct Western Railway
Potter, Wm. Simpson, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Director of
Pownall, Henry, Esq., Spring-grove, Hounslow, a magistrate for
Middlesex, and Director of the Great Western, Brentford, and
Central Terminus Junction Railway
Pynn, Sir Henry, United Service Club, Pall-mall, Director of
the County Fire-office, and of the Direct Western Railway
the Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham Railway
Rayner, Charles S., Esq., Kew, Director of the British and Foreign
Gas Light and Meter Company
Raphael, Alexander, Esq. of Ditton Lodge, Thames Ditton, Surrey
Reeves, James, Esq., Leyton, Essex, Director of the Direct London
Rich, Sir George, 43, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square, Director of
the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
and Manchester Railway
Ridgway, Joseph Carrington, Esq., Roehampton-lodge, Surrey, Di-
rector of the Grand Trunk Railway
Robinson, John, Esq., 27, Charles-street, Middlesex Hospital, Direc-
tor of the London, Hounslow, and Western Railway
Spry, George, Esq., Surbiton, Kingston-upon-Thames
Westbrook, Edward, Esq., Heston, Middlesex
Westmacott, Charles M., Esq., Kingston, Surrey
Whiskin, James, Esq., 10, Upper Bedford-place, Russell-square, a
Magistrate for the County of Middlesex, and a Director of the
Croydon Railway
Wilkinson, W. A., Esq., Woodberrydown, and Ludgate-hill, Director
of the Waveney Valley Railway
(With power to add to their number.)
BANKERS—The Commercial Bank of London.
- ENGINEER—HamiIton H. Fulton, Esq,
SURVEYOR—Andrew Trimen, Esq.
SouciToss—Messrs. Watts, Galsworthy, and Galsworthy, 19, Ely-
place.
SECRETARY (pro tem)—W. Harrs, Esq.
This railway is proposed to commence at Uxbridge, proceeding
thence to the Southall station of the Great Western Railway, and
then through Heston to Hounslow, there meeting one of the proposed
lines to Hounslow from London. Leaving Hounslow the line pro-
ceeds through Whitton, Twickenham, Teddington, and Hampton,
to Kingston, and, crossing the Thames, joins the Kingston station of
the South-Western Railway, whence it will proceed to, and terminate
at ,Epsom.
The towns and places through which the line passes, or most imme-
diately affects, contain an aggregate mulation of about 200,000
persons.
thepresents
ounte t
hinehmabniettandtisreouft
communicationthe
through
thn/present
West Drayton, and
don,
Heytels7
Southall, &c.,
ate
utA,kcennntrbyuetthinegeoafainmes,bvEto.wi,
cir-
cuitous route to London, by coach or omnibus
imPnrt with the thofe mtrexutrobri_podgelia,tids adopt-
ingline
railway accommodation, the corn returns of Uxbridge show an In_
thence by the Great Western Railway. With the present limited
s second in importance to Smith-
The weeklypentr
ecreknett.
aupt the average eirage of the last two years.
neighbouring country and the metropolis.
ficreeldas,ealoldf it attended by the graziers and butchers from all parts of
theemeans of this line, and one of the proposed lines from London
to Hounslow, which this will intersect, Brentford, the county-town
of Middlesex, and the Thames, will be brought into immediate con-
nexion with Uxbridge ; the traffic between the last-named towns has
hitherto materially helped to produce the large dividends of the Grand
Junction
also of this line, and the Croydon and Epsom line (now
u u
construction), all the before-mentioned towns and places
I coy
meansrs e Canal.of
are likewise connected with Croydon.
The importance of connecting two such towns as Uxbridge and
Brentford with Kingston, Croydon, and Epsom, three of the largest
market-towns in Surrey, between .which the present agricultural traffic
is extensive, is too obvious to require comment. A glance at the map
will at once show that the communication now proposed is not only
judicious, but, in order to satisfy the requirements of the important
aid populous district involved, is actually imperative. It will afford
to Uxbridge and the towns in Hertfordshire north of it, with which
it will be connected by proposed new lines, direct transit to the Greate
Western, Southampton, and Portsmouth Railways, and
blLvther,
established lines, southward, to Shoreham, Brighton,. of the
Ramsgate, and all the south and south-eastern p
round by the metropolis. So also as to Brentford,
th Great Western,
ccess to e
kingdom, avoiding the loss of time and greatln Hounslow,
ston, and Epsom—it will afford to them a
d Eastern lines ; and by
enniunenecuewo,ficgoilligig.
this line, in connexion with onepropose
proposedand established lines north and south
me-
tropolis, and the other
London and Birmingham,
afforded to Hampton-court, Epsom, and
of it, easy access will be
resort.
and
Narthernd ta:Hounsiew from the
lt be sufficient to pay a very large
There can be no doubt, therefore,
Persons visiting Hampton-court in the
The average number
amounts to about 18,000 per week.
summer months
unty
of Kent and western division of Middle-
sex The supply by the county
of d north-western markets with fruit during the
traffic alone will
dividendtolthat
aoia' etor the
tfhawloo passenger
nul rdtri:ttilbeeyanf outlay.e placesi
s1Inoe: ,f b e immensely increased, and form another
presents the additional and important advantage
of competing with no line at present established ; on the contrary,
it will be the means of connecting and feeding the several lines ounf income to the Company.
enu-
merated,souTriciies and several others that are projected ; and the engineer
reports that it passes over a particularly easy country, and will be
capable of construction at about 16,0001. per mile ; and the land-
owners on the line who have been seen, are favourable to the un-
dertaking.
The length of the line will be about 18 miles.
Application for shares must be made in the annexed form, to the
solicitors of the Company, Messrs. Watts:Galsworthy, and Galsworthy,
to whom also all communications from parties locally interested
should be addressed, at their offices, No. 19, Ely-place, Holborn ;
also to the following local solicitors, Henry Norton, Esq., Uxbridge ;
C. E. Jemmett, Esq., Kingston-upon-Thames ; F. J. Kent., Esq..
Hampton ; Thomas Richings, Esq., Staines ; Mr. reesley,Honslow,
and of the following brokers:—Messrs. Harris and Sons, Change-
alley, Cornhill ; Mr. A. Sym, Tokenhouse-yard, London; Messrs.
Townley and Whitehead, Liverpool ; Mr. Allan, Manchester ;*Messrs.
Tate and Nash, Bristol; Messrs. Graystone and Earle, York ; Mr.
Collis, Birmingham ; and Messrs. Borthwick, Campbell and Co.,
I
Glasgow ; from any of whom prospectuses and plans of the line
may be obtained.
No application will be attended to unless accompanied by
a reference to one of the Committee, to the solicitors, or to some
banker or other person of known standing.

MIPDLESEX AND SURREY JUNCTION
RAILWAY COMPANY.
Notice is hereby given, that the time fbr closing the List of Appli-
cations for Shares in this Company is fixed for the 20th October
instant for London, and the 22d instant for the country.
By order,
WATTS, GALSWORTHY, and GALSWORTHY,
19, Ely-place, Holborn, October 10th, 1845.