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

4,:gOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.
>, REDUCTION OF FARES.—EXPRESS TRAINS.
On and after the Ist of SEPTEMBER NEXT the fares on this
line will be as follows :
Between the London and the Dover and Folkestone Termini—
Express Trains, 18s. Other Trains—First Class, 15s. ; Second Class,
108.; Third Class, 6s.
The intermediate fares will be in proportion.'
From the same date, DAY TICKETS will be granted at the fol-
lowing fares :
London to Dover and Folkestone and back—Express Trains, 275.
Other Trains—First Class, 225. Gd. ; Second Class, 15s. ; Third
Class, 9s.
To intermediate stations in proportion.
Tickets issued on Saturday will be returnable on Saturday, Sun-
day, and Monday ; those issued on Sunday will be returnable on
Sunday mid Monday.
Periodical Tickets will be charged for as under:-
Ist Class. 2d Class. let Class. 2d Class
One Month x 12...... 9 I Six Months .. £35 .. • ....f25
Two Months .... 20.. •• .. 14 Twelve Months 35
Three Months .. 25 .. •• .. 17
By order 0
London Terminus, August 18, 1845

if the Board,
W. O'BRIEN, Secretary.

Q OUTH-EASTE RN RAILWAY. - PLEA-
L., SURE EXCURSIONS between the Bricklayers' Arms or Dover
termini, and all stations except London-bridge, at one fare there and
back, every Saturday and Monday until further notice. On the
above-named days excursion tickets will be issued by the following
trains :

DOWN TRAINS. UP TRAINS.
6 45 a.m 3d class train 5 30 a.m. ad class train
0 0 a.m. Ist and 2d do. 6 45 a.m. Ist and 2d do.
4 0 p.m. 3d do. 2 0 p.m. 3d do.
5 30 p.m. Ist and 2d do. 6 30 p.m. let and 2d do.
Fares there and back :-
Ist class, 18s. Gd. ; 2d class, 12s. ; 3d class, 7a. 4d.
Trains calling at the Stations on the Maidstone Branch Line wiL
meet the whole of the above-named Trains at Tunbridge, leaving
Maidstone at 8 a.m. and 7 45 p.m. for first and second class pas-
sengers, and at 7 0 a.m. and 4 0 p.m. for third-class passengers, and
Tunbridge, for Maidstone on the arrival of all the Down Excursion
Trains.
Excursion ticketi are available only to return by the Excursion
trains on the same day they are issued, or on the following Monday,
when issued on the previous Saturday.
N.B. Excuniou tickets are not issued to or from the Lemdon-
bridge Terminus. By order, W. O'BRIEN, Secretary.

Provisionally Registered.
SOUTHOUT H-E ASTE RN and CONTINENTAL
-EASTERN
STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.—To PARIS and the SOUTH
of FRANCE.—Sea passage in less than two hours.—Shortest route,
via South-Eastern Railway, in conjunction with the Folkestone and
Boulogne steamers. The celebrated new iron steam ships of the
South-Eastern and Continental Steam Packet Company. QUEEN of
the FRENCH, QUEEN of the BELGIANS, and PRINCESS
MAUDE, now leave Folkestone and Boulogne every tide, viz., twice
a day from each port. The departure of the day steamer from
Folkestone is arranged so that passengers may arrive in time by the
morning trains from London. For time and tide bills apply at the
South-Eastern Railway-office, London-bridge; or to Mr. Faulkner,
Folkestone.

ProvisionallY Registered

SOUTH-EASTERN -AN-I) CONTINENTAL
STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.—BEST ROUTE to BELGIUM
and GERMANY, via DOVER and OSTEND.—The South-Eastern and
Continental Steam-packet Company's splendid fast iron steam-ship
PRINCESS MARY, carrying the English and Belgian mails, and
performing the passage in four hours and a half, leaves Dover for
Ostend every Thursday and Sunday morning early, enabling tra-
vellers to leave Ostend by the early trains, and returns to Dover en
Tuesdays and Fridays.
Departures from Dover :
August 28, at 6h. A.M. August 31, at Bh. A.M.
Luggage, parcels, &e., expeditiously forwarded.
For particulars apply at the South-Eastern Railway-station. Lon -
don-bridge ; and to John Hayward, jun., Dover.

SOUT H-EASTERN RAILWA Y.
The Directers think it desirable to state that they sometime
since instructed Mr. Stephenson to prepare for Parliament in the
next session a complete system for supplying railway communi-
cation with the whola of Kent. It is proposed to provide direct lines to
Tunbridge. Maidstone, Gravesend, Rochester, Chatham, Faversham,
Canterbury, and Dover. The surveys have been for some weeks in
progress, and the whole scheme will be very shortly in a complete
state. JOHN KIRKLAND, Chairman.
South-Eastern Railway-office, July 26, 1845.

NORTH DEVON RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that the Allotment of Shares was
completed on the 22d instant, and that the Letters of Allotment have
been posted.
The Committee having received nearly Five Thousand Applica-
tions for more than Four Hundred Thousand Shares, they have been
obliged to exclude numerous parties of acknowledged responsibility,
and to allot even to those whose applications were received within
the appointed time considerably less than the numbers they sought
for. Stich parties as do not receive letters will conclude that no
grant is made to them.
By order of the Committee,
OSBORNE, WARD, and Co., Bristol,
SAVERY, CLARK, and Co., Bristol,
WHITEFORD,* BENNETT, and TUCKER, Solicitors.
Plymouth,
Exeter, 23d August, 1845.

THE MIDLAND and EASTERN COUNTIES
RAILWAY, from CAMBRIDGE, by NORTHAMPTON to
WORCESTER.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Viet., cap. 110.)
No further Applications for Shares in this Railway will be received
except from Landowners, or parties living in the country, or locally
interested, who must apply on or before Saturday, the 30th instant.
In the meantime applications for prospectuses and shares may be
made to the Solicitors, or to the following Sharebrokers, viz. :
Messrs. P. W. Thomas and Son, 50, Threadneedle-street, London ;
Forsyth and Pritchard, or T. Crewdson, Liverpool; Johnstone and
Bradley, or S. W. Graves, Manchester ; E. Wilson, or W. Collis, Bir-
mingham ; White and Son,Leamington i George Edwards and Son, or
Luke Arnold, Bristol; W. Lee, or. Hall Brothers and Co., Chelten-
ham ; Kirk and Co., or Scott and Co., Leeds ; John Doy, or Flint
and Tootal, Hull ; Eaglesfield, Leicester ; Freeman and Son,
Northampton; JohnLangworthy, Exeter; Wm. Bolton, Stratford-
upon-Avon ; Wm. Miles, Worcester ; Hugh Munro and Co., Edin-
burgh; George Brown, Glasgow; Bruce and Symes, Dublin; Brown
and Clark. Coventry ; and Peet and Son, Nottingham.

CHELMSFORD AND BURY RAILWAY.
The Committee are proceeding with the Allotments, and are
making the necessary inquiries as to the responsibility of some of
the Applicants.
In a few days they hope to complete the list, when the allotment
letters will be issued without delay.
By Order, DANIEL BARTIE, Secretary.
Company's Offices, 61, Moorgate-street, Aug. 25, 1845.

p. L Y and BURY ST. EDMUNDS RAIL WA Y.
A Company is in the course of formation for the construction
of a Railway from the city of Ely to the town of Bury St. Edmunds.
The line will c3mmence by a junction at Ely with the Eastern
Counties, Lynn and Ely, and Ely and Huntingdon Railways, and will
terminate at Bury by a junction with the Ipswich and Bury Railway.
Its object is to preserve the mercantile connexion which has for
generations subsisted between the county of Suffolk, the town of Bury,
and the port of Lynn, and to afford Ipswich, Colchester, and Bury,
and all that portion of the kingdom a direct communication with the
manufacturing districts.
The distance from Bury, and consequently from all places eastward
of that town to Peterborough, the point at which so many lines pass-
ing from the south and east to the north and north-west converge,
will by the Ely and Bury line be ten miles shorter than the route to
that city by way of Cambridge.
A detailed Prospectus will be issued immediately.
ROOPER, BIRCH, and INGRAM,
68, Lincoln's Inn-fields.

MIDLAND, BARNSLEY, DEWSBURY,
LEEDS, AND BRADFORD, RAILWAY.

Provisionally Registered.
The object of this Line is to make a short and direct communica-
tion between Bradford, Cleckheaton, Heckmondwike, and Dewsbury,
with Barnsley, Sheffield, and all intermediate places to London. By
the present route from London, the Sheffield and Barnsley passengers
and goods are brought by way of Normanton, a distance of 12% miles
from Barnsley, and then either by Leeds to Bradford, a distance of
at least 20 miles, or by the Leeds and Manchester Line to Brighouse,
a distance of at least 20 miles, making the total distance from Barnsley
to Bradford, by Leeds, 32 miles, and by the Manchester line, 42
miles. The distance from Dewsbury to Barnsley, by the present
Railway, is 22 miles. The promoters of this line propose to com-
mence this Railway by a junction with the North Midland line, at a
point below Barnsley, to Barnsley, and from thence in a direct course
to Dewsbury, reserving to themselves the power of making the line
to Bradford through the Cleckheaton Valley, provided the West
Riding Junction and West Yorkshire amalgamated Companies do not
at the next session of Parliament apply to make that part of the line.
The line at Dewsbury will make a junction with the Leeds and Dews-
bury Railway, West Riding Junction, and West Yorkshire
Amalgamated Scheme, and the present Manchester and Leeds Rail-
way, at or near a place called Thornhill Lees, making the distance, as
the crow files, to be as followS :
Barnsley to Bradford
Barnsley to Dewsbury ... .....
This line will, therefore, effect the following saving in distances :
To Derby, London, &c. from Bradford, about 11 miles.
To Barnsley from Bradford •.•.• . • • • •
To Sheffield from Bradford . .
To Barnesley from Dewsbury.. .. 12 „
To Barnsley from Leeds
-The proposed line, in conjunction with the Leeds and Dewsbury,
West Riding Junction and West Yorkshire Railways, will bring, by
the shortest route, to the populous manufacturing districts between
Barnsley, Dewsbury, and Bradford, the traffic from Leicester, Derby,
London, &c.
This Railway will also open one of the richest coal districts in the
kingdom.
If the presentlifull and Barnsley Junctionitailway project should be
obtained, this Railway will be a direct line to Hull. And in conjunc-
tion with other projects now before the public, will be a direct line,
from Sheffield, Barnsley, Dewsbury, &c., to the North.
When the survey is completed a detailed prospectus, with the names
of the Provisional Committee, will be published. The Capital re-
quited for the undertaking to be divided into Shares of 201. each, and
two guineas deposit will then also be announced.
Applications for Shares may be made to Charles Robert Scholes,
Registered Solicitor to the Company, Dewsbury; or to Messrs. Sud-
low, Sons, and Torr, Solicitors, 20, Chancery-lane, London.

19 miles.

CHESTER and MANCHESTER DIRECT
RAILWAY.
With a Branch to Birkenhead.
(Provisionally Registered).
Capital 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Colonel the Hon. LEICESTER STANHOPE, Ashburnham House,
London, Chairman
Major JOHN T. CROFT, Regent-street, London, Deputy Chairman
David Ainsworth, Esq., Manchester
Samuel Barton, Esq., Didsbury, Manchester
Hugh Beaver, Esq., Manchester, and Glyn Garth, Anglesey
John Burgess, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester
James Farish, Esq., Lancaster-place, London
Major Ford, of Bodlondet, Carnarvonshire
Lieut.-Colonel Henry Hanmer, Bear-place, Berks, and 7, Devon-
shire-place, London
Fraser B. Henshaw, Esq., Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square,
London, a Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle
Junction Railway
Captain Sir John R. Hilton, R.N., Isle of Wight
J. Harney Higson, Esq., merchant, Manchester
Lieutenant-Colonel Hutchinson, 8.E.F.R.5., Director of the College
of Civil Engineers
T. D. Johnson, Esq., Aldermary Churchyard, London
John Joseph Keene, Esq., St. John's Wood, London, Director of the
National Provincial Bank of Ireland
W. King, Esq., Director of the Freemasons' Life Assurance Com-
pany
George Peter Livius, Esq., the Grove House, St. Cuthbert's, and
Cauldwell Priory, Bedford
Horace W. Meteyard, Esq.. 8.C.L., Middle Temple, and Chatham-
place
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., Upper Hyde Park-street, London, a
Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction
Railway
James Orrell, Esq., Culcheth Hall, Kenyon
James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Manchester
David Price, Esq., Manchester
Major James Waller, K.H., St. James's-square
C. J. S. Walker, Esq., Longford, near Manchester
Sir George William Prescott, Bart., of Theobalds, Herts.
(With power to add to their number.)
ENGINEERS.
Sir John Rennie, F.R.S.
George Remington, Esq., C.E.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., London
National Provincial Bank of England, Manchester
SOLICITORS.
London—Messrs. Sir George Stephen and Hutchinson, 29, Moorgate-
street.
Manchester—Messrs. Higson and Robinson, Cross-street R. B. B.
Cobbett, Esq., Marsden-street.
LOCAL AGENT—Chester--John Walker, Esq.

The promoters of this Railway, encouraged by the favourable sup-
port which has been given to the project, and in compliance with
various recommendations they have received, ha-re determined upon
the addition of a branch to Birkenhead, which, although it will
manifestly tend to the advantage of the Shareholders and the public,
will be attended with comparatively little additional outlay. The
project will still retain its chief characteristic of a direct railway,
and by its connexion, near Warrington, with the Grand Junction
Company, is sufficiently comprehensive, without resorting to a com-
plicated system of branch lines, or materially conflicting with the in-
terests of existing companies.
The line will commence at the city of Chester, and proceed by way
of Trafford, Frodsham, and Preston 'Brook, to Warrington, thence
by Lymm and Stretford direct to Manchester. From a point on the
main line, near Frodeham, a branch will be taken to join the Chester
and Birkenhead Railway, so as to unite Manchester in the most
direct manner possible, with the docks now being formed at Bir-
kenhead.
As Manchester, from its geographical position, is the centre of rail-
way communication between Scotland and the most populous dis-
tricts of England, so Chester, from a like cause, is the great centre of
railway communication between the capitals of Ireland and of Eng-
land. To connect these two points by a direct and independent line
of railway must, therefore, be of the utmost importance, not only in
a local point of view, but to the whole commercial intercourse of the
country.
This line will be the most direct route, by Holyhead, to Ireland,
and will be, in all respects, by far the preferable channel of inter-
course and transit between Ireland and the great manufacturing dis-
tricts of England. By the railways connecting Chester with Wrex-
ham, Oswestry, Shrewsbury, Hereford, Gloucester, and South Wales,
this will be the nearest route from Manchester to the south-
western parts of England, and to the minerals of Monmouth and
Glamorganshire. The communication with Bristol, Gloucester, and
Exeter will be speedy and direct. On reference to the map, it will
be seen that a very considerable distance will be saved by this line,
as compared with the present circuitous routes by Crewe and by
Birkenhead; the former being 52 miles, and the latter 46 miles,
while the proposed line is only 34 miles, saving in the one case 18
miles, and in the other 12 miles, besides the serious inconvenience, loss
of time, and expense of passing through Liverpool, and crossing the
water at that plaee.
It is confidently expected that this line will be the precursor of
another scheme, of no ordinary importance—namely, to render

'hester an efficient port for large vessels.
This subject was entertained by Sir John Rennie in 1835, and sub-
sequently, in the same year, by the late Mr. Chapman, who wrote an
able report upon the capabilities of the river Dee. It was again
nvestigated, in 1837, by Sir John Rennie and Mr. George Remington,
and the practicability of forming a good navigable channel for vessels
of large burden, together with docks at Chester, was then fillly and
clearly established.
The entrance channel would commence at Dawpool, which is easy
of access (and infinitely preferab,e, in point of access and safety, to
the docks at Liverpool or Birkenhead), for vessels of large burden,
during eight hours every tide, both at springs and neaps ; and the
rill of the lock would be sufficiently low to admit vessels drawing 20
feet water to enter at all tides.
This railway, therefore, in connexion with the proposed docks,
will render to Chester and Manchester incalculable advantages. To
the former it will restore the proper position natural to so important
a city ; to the latter it will give another outlet, by sea, to the ma-
nufacturing districts, free of the heavy port charges, dues, and
risks to which the produce is now subject. It has not
been thought
advisable to combine the two objects in one company at pr,
but should it be found requisite, the two may hereafter be amalga-
mated.
Merits of no ordinary degree, therefore, may fairly be claimed tbr
this railway, whether taken in connexion with the proposed docks,
eras standing alone, combining as it does all the advantages of any
other lines, with this great addition, that it will be the high read to
the most convenient outport of Manchester, and will be quite inde-
pendent of any associations or influences that might tend to oppose
the growing desire for a means of direct and independent communi-
cation between Manchester and the port of Chester.
The line has been carefully examined. There are no difficult
earth-works to be encountered ; on the contrary it will be cheap,
and of easy fbrmation. Power is reserved to the Committee to de-
viate from the proposed line in the vicinity of Manchester, should
ulterior arrangements render It expedient.
Applications for shares in the subjoined form, and for maps and
prospectuses to be made to the Solicitors, and to the following Share-
orokers :—Messrs. Shewell and Son, 25,Tokenhouse-yard ; Messrs.
Preece and Evans, 8, Cornhill ; and Messrs. Taunton and Bush, 26,
Austin-friars, London ; Messrs. Houghland and Leese, Mr. Locke,
Messrs. A. fireball and Co., Thomas Leeds and Son, Henry Benton,
J. B. Lock, and Samuel Slater, Manchester ; Messrs. Neilsons,
Messrs. Healey, Mr. Crisp, and Mr. Morris Reynolds, Liver-
pool ; Messrs. T. N. Bardwell and Sons, Sheffield; Messrs.
Wellbeloved and Oastler, Leeds ; Mr. E. A. Armitage, Wake-
field ; Messrs. Grayston and Earle, York ; Mr. Thomas Board-
man, Blackburn ; Mr. W. H. Collis, Birmingham ; Mr. Francis
Stamp, Hull ; Mr. L. Weatherburn, Huddersfield ; Mr. Wm.
Cronheith, Halifax ; Mr. Charles Spencer, Nottingham ; Mr.
Samuel Eyre, Derby ; Mr. James Stokes, Cheltenham ; Mr. Joseph
Clark, jun., Southampton • Mr. John Thema, Holland, Coventry;
Mr. William Mason, Bradford, Yorkshire ; Messrs. Payne and Freer,
Leicester ; Mr. Wm. Tomkinson, Newcastle-under-Lyme ; Mr.
Richard E. Hine, Macclesfield ; Mr. Lea, Cheltenham ; Messrs.
Tate and Nash, Bristol; Mr. William Miles, Worcester ; Messrs.
Read and Nicholson, Edinburgh ; Messrs. Ross, Perth, N. 8.; and
Messrs. H. and W. A. Tassie, Glasgow.
Applications for shares must be accompanied by a reference to the
Solicitors of the Company, the sharebrokers, or some other respon-
sible person.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Chester and Manchester
Direct Railway
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me Shares of 201. each
in the above Railway, and I undertake to accept the same, or such
less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the Regula-
tions of the Company, and to sign the necessary Deeds, and to pay,
when required, the deposit thereon of 2/. 2s. per Share.
Dated this day of 1845.
Name and Residence in Hill . •
Profession and professional residence in full • •

HULL and GAINSBOROUGII RAILWAY.
The accounts of this Company having now been settled, the
Shareholders are informed that, atter payment cf all expenses in re-
lation to the Company, a balance of 16s. 2d. per share, on account of
the deposit of 275. 6d. per share, remains to be divided. The Share-
holders are therefore requested to forward their Scrip Certificates,
for examination, to the Secretary, at the Office of the Company, No.
63, Moorgate-street, where they will be exchanged for a Receipt, en-
titling the holder to a return of the above balance on each share spe-
cified in the Scrip Certificates, when ascertained to be genuine, and
duly registered in the Company's books. Parties resident in the
country, who may find it convenient to forward their Scrip by post,
or through a banker or broker, are recommended to write across the
face of the ferip Certificates their names and addresses, adding,
" Forwarded to the Provisional Committee for return on account of
deposit."
63, Moorgate-street, London, August 26, 1845.

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE RAILWAY, AND
OXFORD AND WOLVERTON JUNCTION.
Capital 2,250,0001., in Shares of 20/. each.
Deposit 2/. 10s. per Share.
Registered Provisionally, pursuant to 7 and 8 Vic., 0. 110.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
His Grace the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, K.G.
The Right Hon. Lord Nugent, Lilies, Aylesbuary, Bucks
Sir John Chetwode,art itr
B Chetwode Manor House, Bucks
Sir Thomas Digby Aubrey, Bart., thing Boum Bucks
Sir Harry Verney, Bart., Claydon House, Bucks
Lieutenant-General Sir James Watson, K.C.8., Wendover House,
Bucks
The Hon. Philip Sidney
amptonshire
Edmund Francis Dayrell, Esq.,
Pierrepont, Evettley Hall, Brackley, North-
Sheriff of Bucks
Charles John Ballo Hamilton, Esq, M.P., Thame Park, Oxfordshire
Rice Richard Clayton, Lillingstope Dayrell, Bucks, High
Esq., —.P.. liedgerley Park, Bucks
John Deering, Esq., The Lee, Bucks
George Morgan, Esq„ Biddlesden Park, Bucks
Robert Bullock Marsham, Esq., L.L.D., Caverslield House, Ox-
fordshire
Walter Henry Bracebridge, Esq., Morville House, Warwickshire and
Chetwode Priory, Bucks
John Barnes, Esq., Chorley Wood, Hefts
William Osmond Hammond, Esq., St. Alban's-court, Wingleam, Kent
Benjamin Price, Esq., Westbury, Bucks
Colonel John Hall, Life Guards' Barracks, Hyde Park, London
John Newman, Esq., Brand's House, Hughenden, Bucks
Thomas Newland Allen, Esq., The Vache, Chalfont, Bucks
Henry William Beauclerk, Esq., 61, Chester-square, London
Robert Fox, Esq., Wendover Lodge, Bucks
William James Batty, Esq., Shepley House, Bucks
Thomas Sands Chapman, Esq., The Park, Aston Clinton, ucks
Robert Marriott Freeman, Esq., Stony Stratford Bucks
George Parrott, Esq., Castle Farm, Buckingham
Captain Edward Dewes, Buckingham
Humphrey Humphreys, Esq., Buckingham
William Stowe, Esq., Buckingham
William Davis, Esq., Bicester, Oxfordshire
Captain William Style, R.N., Bicester, Oxfordshire
John Horwood, Esq., Steane Park, Brackley, Northamptonshire
John Henry Butterfield, Esq., Brackley
William King Mans, Esq., Brackley
Alfred Hoperaft, Esq., Brackley
Charles Tawney, Esq., Oxford
Richard Wootton, jun., Esq., Oxford
Jonathan Samuel Browning, Esq., Oxford
Henry William Tancred, Esq., M.P., London
Timothy Rhodes Cobb, Esq., Banbury, Oxon
Zacharia Daniel Hunt, Esq., Aylesbury, Bucks
Joseph Ashby Gillett, Esq., Banbury, Oxon
George Carr Glynn, Esq., London
Joseph Frederick Ledsam, Esq., Birmingham
Edward Cropper, Esq., Liverpool
Thomas Smith, Esq., Reigate Lodge, Surrey
Thomas Young, Esq., Albany, Loudon
Ross Donelly Mangles, Esq., M.P., London
Captain Censtantine Richard Moorsom, R.N.,
Birmingham
Robert Benson, jun., Esq., Fairfield, Manchester
Edw. Wm. Selby Lowndes, Esq., Winslow, Bucks
With power to add to their number.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Sir Harry Verney, Bart. G. C. Glyn, Esq.
The Hon. P. S. H. Pierrepont J. F. Ledsam, Esq
E. F. Dayrell, Esq. Edward Cropper, Esq.
Z. D. Hunt, Esq. Thomas Smith, Esq.
Captain Edward Dewes Captain C. It. Moorsom, R.N.
Humphrey Humphreys, Esq. Robert Benson, jun., Esq.
J. R. Cobb, Esq. Thomas Young, Esq.
Jon. Samuel Browning, Esq. Ross D. Mangles, Esq., M.P.
With power to add to their number.
ENGINEER—Robert Stephenson, Esq.
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Glyn, Hallifax, Mills, and Co., Lombard-street
Aylesbury—Messrs. Bickford and Hunt ; the London & County Bank
Buckingharn—Messrs. Bartlett, Parrott; and Beans ; the London and
. County Bank
Banbury—Messrs. Cobb and Co. ; Messrs. Gillett and Tawney
Oxford—Messrs. Wootton and Co. ; the London and County Bank
Bicester—Messrs. Tubb.

Directors
of the
London
and
Birmingham
RallwaY

NEWARK AND SHEFFIELD RAILWAY.
Shareholders are reminded that MONDAY NEXT, the Ist
of September, is the last day on which they can claim shares in the
Boston, Newark, and Sheffield Railway, in exchange for their Scrip,
or Bankers' Receipts, in this Company, or its Extension Scheme.
JOHN DENNISTON, Secretary.
Mansfield, Notts., Aug. 26, 1845.

BOSTON, NEWARK, AND SHEFFIELD
RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given that no application for Shares in this under-
taking can be received after MONDAY, the Ist of September, next,
and that the allotment of shares will take place as soon as possible
thereafter. JOHN DENNISTON, Secretary.
Mansfield, Notts., Aug. 2G, 1845.

NEWSY and ENNISKILLEN RAILWAY
COMPANY.

At the FIRST GENERAL MEETING of this COMPANY, held
in pursuance of the Act of Incorporation, at the Company's Office in
Newry, on Wednesday, the 20th August, 1845,

THOMAS o: HENRY, in the Chair,
the Secretary read the notice of the let instant, published in the pre-
scribed newspapers, calling this meeting.
The Secretary also read the following report of the Provisional.
Committee
REPORT TO THE FIRST ORDINARY MEETING.

" The Provisional Committee, in submitting to the proprietors the
following statement, have to congratulate them on the success which
has attended the efforts made for the formation of the Company, and
obtaining the Act of Incorporation, which received the royal assent
on the 21st of July last.
" The Committee, when Appointed in October last, had much diffi-
culty to contend with, in consequence of the shortness of the period
within which the Company, then only projected, had to be formed—
the capital to be subscribed for---the surveys to be made—and the
other steps to be taken, so as to bring the undertaking before the
Board of Trade, and properly prepared tor the opposition which
there was every reason to expect in Parliament from other com-
panies, whose preparations were then far advanced. _

.
" Having prepared and issued the prospectus of the Company, your
Committee immediately proceeded to look for the necessary profes-
sional assistance, and were fortunately able, after some little delay,
to secure the services of gentlemen of experience, well qualified
for the duties to be performed ; and your Committee feel it due to
them to state that they devoted themselves zealously to the business,
and their exertions have conduced, in a great degree, to the
success of the undertaking.
" A deputation from the Committee proceeded to London, and
with the assistance of the solicitors there, established a highly In-
fluential London Committee, who cordially co-operated with the de-
putation; and, by their continued attention, have most effectually
promoted the interests of the Company.
" The Committee, in many communications with the Board of
Trade, strongly urged the merits of their case, but were disap-
pointed in their expectations, on finding that Board dttermined
to report, as they afterwards did, against the construction of
that part of the line between Newry and Armagh, under the erro-
neous impression that the Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway
(then also under their consideration) would afford stiffielent
accommodation to the town of Newry. Your Committee, however,
being convinced that adequate accommodation could not be so af-
forded, and that the interests, not only of the town of Newry, but of
the public in general, required a direct Railway from Newry to
Armagh, considered it their duty to proceed in Parliament for the
entire line, according to the original prospectus ; and, notwithstand-
ing the report of the Board of Trade and the powerful opposition of
rival companies, the propriety of the course taken has been fully
established by the result of the contest, in the progress of which it
was distinctly proved, to the satisfaction of the Committee of the
House of Commons, that a due regard to the public convenience de-
manded the entire railway projected by the Newry and Enniskillen
Railway Company, and that the undertaking would be remunerative
to the proprietors, taking into account only the existing traffic be-
tween the termini, and without giving credit for the increase which
might fairly be expected from the construction of other lines of rail-
way, and for some of which Acts have since been obtained.
" Your Committee feel bound to state, that, at great personal
inconvenience, a deputation from their body, consisting of Mr. John
Boyd, Mr. Lyle, Mr. Jennings, and Mr. Irvine, proceeded to London,
where the three last-mentioned gentlemen remained from their
homes and business, actively engaged for the advantage of the
Company, during a period of several months, and until the success
of the measure was secured. In mentioning the services by indivi-
duals the kind assistance and untiring exertions of that lamented
Nobleman,lhe late Marquis of Downsbire, must be especially noticed,
as well as the great advantages the Company have derived from the
support and personal attendance of the present Marquis, and the in-
defatigable exertions, both in and out of Parliament, made by the
Viscount Newry and Morne. The Committee regret, that from the
short interval allowed by Parliament to elapse between the passing
of the Act, and the first general meeting of the Company, they have
been unable to get in all the accounts, so as to be in a situation to
present a detailed statement of the funds, and that they can, at pre-
sent, only state, that after discharging such accounts as have been
rendered, and making paying to the engineers, solicitors, and Par-
liamentary agent, on account of their claims, they have a balance
in hands of over 24,0001. ; and recommend to the incoming
Directors that they immediately proceed to ascertain and settle
the outstanding liabilities, and, with as little delay as possible, pre-
pare and submit to the Proprietors their detailed account.
"Your Committee have felt the necessity of maintaining a cordial
intercourse between the English and Irish Shareholders, who are
mutually interested in the success of this important work, and ar-
rangements have been accordingly entered into for continuing a
London Committee, which cannot fail to have the effect of securing,
by an interchange of advice and co-operation, the best interests of the
Shareholders at large.

"Your Committee have, itirther, to report that the necessary
investigations are being actively proceeded with, under the directions
of the engineer, for the construction of the line; and that, having
regard to the present state of the funds of the Company, the Com-
mittee do not think that it will be necessary to make an early call
upon the Proprietors.
" The election of thirteen Directors and two Auditors, for the en-
suing year, is the business for which the first ordinary meeting has
been called, pursuant to the Act of Parliament."
Resolved—On the motion of Mr. JOHN HANCOCK, seconded by Mr.

P. MURPHY:-

That the report now read be adopted and printed, and circulated
among the Shareholders.
The following noblemen and gentlemen were then elected Directors
for the year :
The Viscount Newry and Morne, Lord Edwin Hill, the Hon. John

Henry Knox, David It. Ross, M.P., William Morley, James John
Kinloch, Henry Thomson, Charles Jennings. James Lyle, Hugh Dal-
zell, Francis Carvil, Thomas G. Henry, and Hill Irvine, Esqrs.
Mr. George Scott and Mr. James M'George were elected Auditors.
Resolved—On the motion of Mr. JAMES SAVAGE, seconded by Mr.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.
EXCURSION TRAIN TO CAMBRIDGE.
A Train, consisting of open Second-class and of Third-class Car-
riages will leave the Shoreditch Station, on Moxo&y, September 1,
at Nine o'clock, a.m., returning from Cambridge at Seven o'clock, p.m.
Fare to Cambridge and back, ss.
Eastern Comities Railway Office, Aug. 25, 1845.

LONDON, HOUNSLOW, and WESTERN
RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that NO APPLICATIONS for SHARES in
this Company will be received after MONDAY, Ist September.
By order of the Committee,
T. S. BROWN, Sec. pro, tern.
7, Walbrook.

Provisionally Registered.
WILTS, SOMERSET, AND SOUTHAMP-
TON JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Connecting the English with the Bristol Channel, and forming a
omplote communication, on the broad gsuge, between Southampton,
Salisbury, 'lath, Bristol, and every other town in the West of Eng-
land and South Wales.
Bankers' Receipts may now be exchanged for Script Certificates, and
the Deeds now lie for Signature at the Company's Office, 26, Gre-
sham-street, City.
The Deeds will shortly be removed into the country, of which du
notice will be given.

London, August 21, 1845.

H. B. !SHERIDAN, Secretary.

ESSEX and SUFFOLK RAILWAY COM-
PANY.
Registered Provisionally.
From the Norwich and Brandon Railway at Thetford, by Bury St.
Edmund's, Lavenham, Milford, Sudbury, Halstead and Braintree, to
the Eastern Counties Line at Chelmsford, and thence to the Port of
Maldon, with a branch to Cavendish and Clar.
Offices, 24, Moorgate-street, London, and Sudbury, Suffolk.
Capital, 1,000,0001. in Shares of 251. each.
The Provisional Directors beg to inform the Shareholders, that
negotiations are in progress for a satisfactory arrangement with the
Eastern Counties and Norwich and Brandon Railway Companies,
the full particulars of which will shortly be submitted for their con-
sideration.
In the meantime, ppplications for Shares may be made to the
Company's offices, ¶;,4, Moorgate-street, or the solicitors, 1, Gray's
Inn-square, or Sudbury ; and to the following sharebrokers :
Messrs. Hichens and Harrison, 18, Threadneedle-street, London;
Mr. J. Jameson, Leeds ; Mr. J. Greaves, Liverpool ; Messrs. Card-
well and Sons, Manchester; Messrs. Henry Beaumont and Co.,
Exeter ; Mr. D. Pane, Glasgow ; Messrs. Drury and Richardson,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Messrs. E. M`Callum:and Co., Edinburgh;
Mr. John Wright, Birmingham • Messrs. Collinson and Flint, Hull.
Shareholders in the Eastern &unties, Northern and Eastern, and
Norwich and Brandon Railways, and original subscribers to the
Norwich Direct Railway, will please to notify the same in their ap-
plications.
A preference will be given to them, as far as possible, in the allot-
ment. By order,
R. MAPLETOFT, Secretary.
EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY COMPANY.
The Directors of the Eastern Counties Railway Company, observ-
ing that, in the Advertisements of the Chelmsford and Bury Railway
Company, it is stated that their particular line is supported and
sanctioned by the Eastern Counties Railway Company, have to an-
nounce that no such support or sanction has been given.
The Company's engineer, Mr. Robert Stephenson, has been in-
structed to examine the entire district, and to advise upon the line
of railway to be constructed through it, which the Eastern Counties
Railway Company must sanction as most conducive to public inte-
rest. By order of the Board,
A BULKELEY, Seeretary.
Offices, London Terminus, Aug. 12, 1845.

THE DIRECT LONDON AND HOLYHEAD
AIdD PORT DYNaAEN RAILWAY.

(Provisionally Registered).
The public is respectfully informed that a Company is in course of
formation for establishing a direct communication between London
an Holyhead and London and Port Dynllaen, thereby effecting
theshortest possible communication between London, Birmingham,
and the centre of England, and Dublin and the whole of Ireland.
On reference to the Railway Map of Ireland it will be seen that
most of the lines in that country converge either at Dublin or Wick-
low, the former being nearly in a direct line with Holyhead and the
latter with Port Dynllaen. This undertaking will therefore unite in
one main line the whole of the Irish traffic to this country; and when
the system of railway communication in Ireland is complete, will
doubtless obtain a very large proportion of the American passenger
traffic which will then pass by Port Dynllaen and Wicklow to Va-
lentia Bay as the nearest point to the United States and our North
American colonies.

The present line is in effect nearly identical with that recom-
mended by the Government Commissioners in their reports on the
communication between London and Dublin, and whicb was then
surveyed with much care ; making allowances, however, for the al-
tered circumstances that have since occurred by the increase of
railways in this country, and availing itself as far as possible of ex-
isting or contemplated lines. _

It is intendedio proceed by the London and Birmingham Railway
to Birmingham, and thence by one of the now projected lines to
Shrewsbury, or another course will be by the London and Birming-
ham, Trent Valley, Trent Valley and Shrewsbury Railways to the
same point, where this railway commences, and proceeds in the
most direct practicable course to a point near Balla, where the line
forks ; one branch proceeding to Bangor, where it unites with the
Chester and Holyhead and North Wales Railways, employing the
former line to Holyhead, and thus avoiding the enormous expense
entailed by crossing the Menai Stalls ; the other branch proceeding
through a district rich in slate, stone, minerals, &c., by Tremadoc to
Port Dynllaen, where it will also unite with the North Wales
Railway, which will prove a valuable adjunct to the present
ptojcct.
The importance of the undertaking, not only to the great com-
panies to which it will prove so important a feeder, but also in a
national point of view, as effecting a most considerable saving of
time and expense on the route to Dublin and the coast of Ireland,
are too great to be overrated, and too obvious to be required to be
insisted upon. It is clear that the traffic must be unusually large,
and from the surveys made there appears no doubt that the line can
be constructed at an average cost.
Full particulars, with the names of a moat influential Provisional
Committee, will be published as soon as a correct estimate of the
requisite capital is obtained, and in the meantime no applications for
shares can be received.

N. STEVENS and FEARON, Solicitors
1, Gray's Inn-square, Aug. 26, 1845,

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