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Charles James Stanley Walker, Esq., Longford House, Stretford,
Alderman of Manchester, and Director of the Chester and Man-
chester Railway
Morris Were, Esq., Moorlands, Southampton
John Woodcock, Esq., banker, The Elms, Wigan, Director of the
Liverpool and Bury Railway
John Yorke, Esq., banker, Thrapson, Northamptonshire
George Turner, Esq., Hunton Hill, Director of the South Stafford,
Oxford, and Southampton Railways
William Halliday, Esq., Chad Valley, Edgbaston, Birmingham, Di-
rector of the Birmingham and Lichfield Railway
Captain James Johnston, R.N., Director of the Birmingham and
Lichfield Railway
4; William Jameson, Esq., Shelton, Staffordshire, Director of the Staf-
fordshire PoAerlcs Railway
Char:es Goldsmith, Esq., Friday-street, Diretor of the Great Leeds
g and London Railway
.= Williams Banks, Esq.' Honey-lane Market, Director of the Great
Leeds and London Railway
o Thomas Challis, Esq., Enfield, Alderman of the City of London
Charles Higgins, Esq., Bedford, Director of the Manchester, Bedford,
and Cambridge Railway
e. The Hon. M. W. B. Nugent, Higham Grange, Leicestershire
Ts John Gardner, Esq., Southampton, Provisional Director .of the Bir-
g mingham and Oxford Junction Railway
Edward Waddilove, Esq., Leamington, Director of the Reading,
Ouildtrd, and Reigate Railways
Edward Welch, Esq., Leamington Provisional Directors of
William Hunter, Esq., Leamington the Rugby, Warwick,
Captain George James Hunter, Leamington and Worcester Rail-
J. 31. Cottle, Esq., Leamington way
James Weld, Esq., Archers Lodge, Southampton
Charles Greatrex, Esq., J.P., Walsall
William Halcomb, Esq., Poulton House, Marlborough
Cornelius Randall, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Sheffield
Railway
R. A. Thicknesse, Esq., Beech Hill, Wigan
George Hunt, Esq., Southampton
Pierce Bevan, Esq.., Frickleton Hall, near Wigan
John Lamprey, Esq., Marehwood, Southampton
(With power to add to their number.)
BA/stmts.
Messrs. Mastennan and Co., London.
The Union Bank, Manchester
ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF.
ACTING ENGINEERS.
Messrs. J. B. and E. Birch, Westminster
Brackstone Baker, Esq.. C.E.
SOLICITORS.
John Bathell, Esq., King William-street, London.
Messrs, Joseph and William Heron, and Messrs. Higsoa and Robins;
Manchester

That another and a more direct line of railway is necessary between
the metropolis and the manufacturing districts around Manchester, is
now fully admitted, and the question is, which is the best line to be
adopted ?
The above proposed railway will form the shortest and most

rect route from London to Manchester, and will therefore complete
the direct communication with the metropolis- at a much less expen-
diture of capital than by either of the projected London and Man-
chester lines (Remington's and Ashurst's), the actual distance to be
constructed being only 73, instead of 170 to 180 miles.
A careful preliminary survey has determined the promoters of this
railway to adopt nearly a straight line from Rugby to Macclesfield, as
an increased expenditure of 200,000/. or 300,000/. judiciously appliedin
the present perfected state of civil engineering, and at the reduced cost
of the execution of earth works, will prove in the end a far greater
real economy, both to the Company itself hi the saving effected in
the annual expense of working, and also, what is of more importance,
to the country in general, by accomplishing, at a much 12si cost, the
same and proposed by an entire and distinct line from London to
Afar.chester.
These considerations have not been sufficiently kept in view by
'other parties who have also proposed to make a railway from Rugby
to Macclesfield, but who, by deviating from the direct tract to pursue
valleys and to avoid the irregularities of the face of the country,
obviously lose the advantages proposed by this Company.
The Parliamentary decision on the choice of the London and Brighton
Railway is a parallel case, the direct line, although presenting more
difficulties to overcome, and involving a greater outlay, having been
adopted by Parliament in preference to the many competing projects,
in a more or less sinuous direction, which were at that time supported
in the House by very influential parties.
Should It be found necessary, arrangements have been made by
which additional lines of rails will be laid between Rugby and Lon-
don on the London and Birmingham Railway, whereby the surplus
traffic northwards will be abundantly provided for.
This line also possesses the singular advantage of affording the
shortest and most direct route from Manchester to Southampton,
Gosport, and Portsmouth, a feature presented by no other proposed
railway. By (adopting the Rugby and Oxford branch of the Great
Western as far as Didcot, and thence the proposed Oxford, Southamp-
ton, Gos.pOrt, and Portsmouth line, the distance from Manchester to
Southampton will be twenty-three miles less than by any other route,
and On this account the project has been warmly supported by the
Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway Company.
The deviations from a perfectly straight line between Rugby and
Macclesfield to avoid high ranges of hills, ornamental parks, or
valuable buildings are very slight, and the line in general offers no
engineering difficulties of any magnitude. The towns more directly
interested as a local line are Nuneaton, Hinckley, Atherstone, Market
Bosworth, Burton•upon-Trent, Tuthury, Ashbourne, and Leek.
The Company has made arrangements with the North London
Junction Railway Company, whereby it has secured the use of their
station (of the extent of six acres) In the centre of the City of London,
at the bottom of Moorgate-street, which will prove of the utmost
importance to this line.

Amidst the many railway projects that now occupy the public
'.Hind, and involve a vast outlay of capital, it will readily be conceded
that a line that will attain such important results at so small an
outlay of capital, and the time required for its construction, and
without interfering with any existing vested interests, must meet
with general approbation, and at the same time offer a very excellent
investment for capital.
The shareholders in the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Ports-
mouth, in the London and Birmingham, and in the Manchester and
Birmingham Railways, will have a preference in the allotment of
the shares.

The deeds will provide that no call shall be made on the share-
holders beyond the deposit now paid, until the Act of Parliament is
obtained, and power will bo taken in the Act to allow 4/. per cent.
interest in all calls.

Application for detailed prospectus, maps, and shares, may be
made to the Secretary, at the Officcs, 78, King William-street, City,
London, and at 22, Cross-street, Manchester; and the following
sharebrokers :—Messrs. R. Sutton, Gritlle, and Sutton, 22, North-
side Royal Exchange, London ; George Hartland, Esq., Cornhill;
Messrs. Barc'ay, Allsop, and Co., Royal Exchange ; Messrs. Hough-
land and Leese, 51, King-street, Manchester; John Wills, Esq.,
Royal Rank-buildings, Liverpool ; Messrs. Wellbeloved an..l Oastler,
Leeds ; Messrs. Edwards and Son, and W. H. Land, Esq., Bristol ;
J. R. Lane, Esq., Birmingham ; Messrs. Garton and Wright, Shef-
field ; J. G. Kershaw, Esq., Huddersfield ; F. C. Spencer, Esq.,
Halifax ; Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham ; Henry
Beaumont and Co., Exeter ; It. P. Lemon, Esq.; Bath ; Joseph
Clark, Esq., Southampton; and Messrs. Flint and Toatal, Hull,

FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Manchester and Rngby Direct
Railway Company, via Macclesfield.
I request you will allot to me shares of 201. each in
the capital of the above-named railway, and I will accept the same,
or arty less number and pay the deposit of 2/. 2s. per Share, and
sign. the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when
required.

Dated the

day of

Name ........

Address . ........
Profession .......
Reference•.......

ItTANCHESTE and RUGBY DIRECT
' R A- RAILWAY, via MACCLESFIELD.
The Provisional Committee beg to announce, that practical Engi-
neers of great experience have gone over the proposed Line, and
have satisfied the Committee that the country is perfectly practi-
cable for railway purposes. They have likewise the satisfaction to
state, that Contractors of known respectability are willing to execute
the whole of the works within the estimate in eighteen months, thus
putting the matter of time andmoney beyond a doubt

rHE MANCHESTER. AND RUGBY
DIRECT RAILWAY COMPANY, via MACCLESFIELD.
A certain portion of the shares in this Company will be apportioned
to the Scripholders in the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Ports-
mouth Railway Company, and will be allotted among those gentle-
men who apply, and who produce their scrip between the 3d and 7th.
day of October next, to the persons named below, when their Haines
and the number of their shares will be entered, and a proportionate
number of shares in this Company allotted to them, at 78, King
William-street, City ; or, at 22, Cross-street, Manchester ; Messrs.
Sharp and Harrison, Southampton ; Mr. Godwin, solicitor, New-
bury ; Mr. Godwin, solicitor, Winchester ; Messrs. Willis and Co.,
Liverpool ; Messrs. Wellbelovcd and Oastler, Leeds ; Mr. Land,
Bristol ; Messrs. Garton and Wright, Sheffield ; Mr. Kershaw, Hud-
dersfield; Mr. Spencer, Halifax; Mr. Lemon, Bath ; Messrs. Flint
and Tootal, Manchester.
T

IHE MANCHESTER AND RUGBY

DIRECT RAILWAY COMPANY.
No hirther applications for Shares in this Company can be re-
ceived after MONDAY', the 29th September instant.

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SSEX AND SUFFOLK RAILWAY.
24, 3leorgate-street, Sept. 23, 1845.
The Allotment of Shares in this Railway being now completed,
the Committee of Management desire to express their regret that,
owing to the numerous applications from parties locally interested,
and holders of Shares in the Eastern Counties and Norwich Com-
panies, they have been compelled to disappoint many applicants of
the eery highest respectability, and of necessity to limit the number
of Shares in each Allotment.

R. MAPLETOFT, Secretary.

LEICESTER, and TAMWORTH JUNCTION
__ RAILWAY.

EXTENSION TO BIRMINGHAM.
Capital 200,000/., in 10,000 Shares of 20/. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
CHAIRMAN—Edmund Peel,Esq.
DEPUTY CHAIRMAN—Thomas Braman, Esq.
Lord Rossmore . The Hon. Capt. Carnegie, M.P.
Sir Wm. Magnay, Bart. John Ridgway, Esq.
Chas. Dickson Archibald, Esq. Richard Green, Esq.
The Hon. Capt. Hotham !Harvey Wyatt, Esq.
James Grignon, Esq. Thomas Hamilton, Esq.
E. lit. Hamel, Esq. James Durham, Esq.
J. D. Harris, Esq.

SecErreur—J. E. Rathbono, Esq.
SOLICITORS.

Messrs. Maples, Pearse, Stevens,aaill4apits, Frederick's-place, Old
Jewry, London
Felix John Hamel, Esq., Tamworth
Messrs. Hyatt and Son, Lichfield.

any of the projected lines from the one to the other. The comparative
distances were given as follows :
Leicestn to Liverpool.
Miles
By Rugby.... ••• • • . 147 By Rdgby • •
By T'amvrorth •.• • • • 117 By Tamworth ••• . • •

Leicester to Manchester,
Miles.

Saving ..... 3O
Leicester to Birmingham.
Miles.

5aying.......... 30
Leicester to Birmingham.
Miles
By the proposed Coventry,
Nuneaton, Birmingham,
By Rugby• • • • •
By Leicester and Tarnworth By Leicester and Tamworth
Extension to Birming- Extension to Birming-
ham... •••••• • • • • • ....... 35 ham .. ••••.. 35

Saving..
Tbe general traffic route from Liverpool to Leicester is at present
very circuitous, being not less than 160 miles, and taking four clays
to accomplish, whilst, by means of the Leicester and Tamworth
Railway, the distance will be shortened, and goods conveyed at a
much cheaper rate in the space of a few hours.
The traffic report was equally gratifying—an immense quantity
of heavy goods are daily conveyed to Leicester from Liver-
fields of Staffordshire and Shropshire, all of which must be increaaed
by the greater facilities of conveyance.
It was unanimously resolved that the most energetic measures
should be taken to carry the project into effect, and aided by the
powerful influence of tile Trent Valley Company, with whom the
most beneficial arrangements have been made, the complete success
of tile undertaking is placed beyond all doubt.
The capital for the Leicester and Tamworth Junction has been
sabseribed, the Parliamentary deeds have been executed, and the
snips issued.
Arrangements are now making for the allotment of shares in the
Birmingham Extension, in which due regard will be bad to the
scripholders of the Leicester and Tamworth Junction Company.
The surveys, &c., are in such a state of forwardness wile ensure
r,t only the Leicester and Tamworth line, but the Extension to
Birmingham, coming before Parliament in tile ensuing session.
By order, J. E. RATIIBONE, Secretary.
Coleman-street, Sept. 16, 1845.

NORFOLK RAILWAY.
The Directors of this Company take the earliest opportunit
of acquainting their Proprietors that, acting under the advice of theiry engineers, Mr. Robert Stephenson and Mr. Bidder, they have de-
termined upon applying to Parliament in the next session for powers
to make the following extensions and branches from the main line
of this railway from Wymondham to Diss, and from thence
through Eye to Stowmarket, to join the Bury and Ipswich line.
2.1. From Reedham along the Waveney Valley through Beccles,
Bungay, Harlestone, and Dim to Thetford, to join the proposed Essex
and Suffolk line.
3(1. From East Dereham to Fakenham and Wells.
It is proposed to appropriate to the Shareholders in the Dim and
Colchester and Wells and Dereham Companies part of the extension
capital according to the resolutions of the last general meeting, and
the remainder will be offered to the Proprietors of this Company
rateably in proportion to the numbers of their shares.
Due notice will be given to each Proprietor of the number of shares
allotted to him, and of the time and place appointed for payment of
the deposit. By order,

RIC TILL,
Office, Guildhall-buildings, London, 24thH SepAßDtember, 1845 Secretary,.

NORFOLK RAILWAY.
NORWICH and BRANDON NEW SHARES.
Tne holders of Scrip Certificates of the Norwich and Brandon
Newor ,Shares,
tahree7required toosend b
October
emx
tto this office
on
Proper forms far the registration of the Shares may be had on ap-
plication at the office, Guildhall-buildings, London. .
By order, RICHARD TILL, Se?retary.
BARNET and NORTH METROPOLITAN
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 110.)
Capital, 400,000/., in 20,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 2/. as. per Share.
No Shareholder to be liable beyond the amount of his Subscription
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Hon. F. H. F. Berkeley, M.P., Chairman, Director of the London,
Hounslow, and Western Railway Company
William Alfred Hill, Esq., Deputy-Chairman, also Deputy-Chairman
of the Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham Railway Company
Sir John Osborne, Bart., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing-
stoke Railway Company
Sir Henry Richardson, Knight, Chessel, near Southampton Lord of
the Manors of Chipping Barnet and East Barnet
The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne, Belle Hatch House, Henley
William Wilberforce, Esq., James-street, Buckingham-gate, and
Highwood House, Highwood Hill, Hendon
Samuel Dendy, Esq., Montague-street, Russell-square, Lord of the
Manor of Hendon
Lieut.-Colonel Gillies, Porchester House, Bayswater
William F. Black, Esq., Wiltou-place, Director of the Italian and
Austrian Railway
Josiah Heale, Esq., Gray's Inn
Major Lindam, K.H., Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and
Central Wales Railway Company
Henry Ileckley Richardson, Esq., F.S.A., Director of the Colchester,
Cambridge, and Harwich Junction Railway
Rowland Hill Mackenzie, Esq., 3f.D., Mortimer-street, Cavendish-
square
Henry Chaytor, Esq., Clervaux Castle, Darlington, Director of the
Warwick and Worcester Railway
Thomas Hemming Johnson, Esq., Older's Hall, Hendon, Middlesex
Thomas Priestley, Esq., Principal of Mill IllllGranmi:arnSecnhdooonl,
Hendon, Middlesex
The Rev. 11. J. Crump, Mill Hill, Hendon, Middlesex
Captain Grover, R.N.
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ham:
evJs.oehna
eWhoeung, M.A., Incumbent of St. Wentworth House, till
Mill Hill, Hendon, Middlesex
Mr. William Ward, Underhill, Barnet
Mr. Bruce Johnson, Finchlsy
William Christopher Daniel Delghton,
Rag"reliowofof Collegesn d
Queen's
Cambridge, Holloway
Ralph Allen Frogley, Esq., Hounslow, Director
Hounslow, and Western Railway
Colonel Taylor White, Hadley-green, Barnet
Abraham Scott, Esq., Hadley Priory, Barnet
W. J. M'Gwire, Esq., 74, St. James's-street
W. Prosser, jun., Esq., 36, New Broad-street, City
James Berington, Esq., East-street, Hoxton
George Freeman, Esq., Grange House, Leeds
Richard Cowley Polhill, Esq., Director of the London, Hounslow, and
Western Railway Company
George Godfrey, Esq., The Elms, Hutton, Essex
Robert Wright Wood, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and
Basingstoke Railway Company
Alexander Prince, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing-
stoke Railway
Peter Graham, Esq., Angelo Villa, Gloucester-read, Regent's Park
William Henry Halpin, Esq., 23, Grafton-street, Fitzroy-square
Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and
Basingstoke Railway Company
Charles Green, Esq., Director of the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and
Central Wales Railway Comyany
J. N. Nicholay, Esq., Oxford-street
John Godfrey B. Hudson, Esq., Director of the Central Terminus
Railway Company
The Rey. G. A. Walker, Alvisthorpe Parsonage, Wakefield, Dirac •
tor of the Wakefield and Bradford Railway Company
(With power to add to their number.)
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
The Hon. F. H. F. Berkeley, M.P., W. IL Halpin, Esq.
Chairman Richard Cowley Polhill, Esq.
William Alfred Hill, Esq., Deputy. Alexander Prince, Esq.
Chairman George Freeman, Esq.
Major Lindam, K.H. George Godfrey, Esq.
Henry Beckley Richardson, Esq., Robert Wright Wood, Esq.
F.S.A. Charles Green, Esq.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—Francis Whishaw, Esq., C.E., Brook Lodge,
Hendon.
ACTING ENGINEER—J. Bailey Denton, Esq., 10, Gray's Inn-square.
Ilsunzas-3fessm. Smith, Payne, and Smiths,
JOINT SOLICITORS.
Edward Elkins, Esq., 59, Newman-street, Oxford-street
G. P. Hill, Esq., 21s, Soho-square.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Henry Hammond, Esq., solicitor, Wentworth Lodge, Finchley
John Hughes, Esq., solicitor, Whetstone.
SECRETARY (pro tem.)--A. Doull, Egg

This railway will connect the important and hitherto neglected
town of Barnet with the London and Birmingham and the Great
Western Railways, at or near Hoisdon-green ; with the Northern
and Eastern and the Eastern Counties Railway, at or near Totten-
ham ; and the proposed Direct London and Manchester, and the Lon-
don and York Railways.

The line, in its course, will unite the town of Barnet with Whet-
stone, Totteridge, Highwood Hill, Mill llill, Finchley, Holder's Hill,
Hendon, Burrows, Golder's Hill, Outterhedge, Kingsbury, Neesdon,
Wilsdon, Wilsdon Green, Hoisdon Green, Kensall Green, Westbourne
Green, Maida 11111, Kilburn, Hampstead, West End, Highgate, Crouch
End, Hornsey, Muswell Hill, West Green, Tottenham, Edmonton,
Chinford, Stamford Hlll, Stoke Newington, Newington Green, Clap-
ton, Highbury, Holloway, Kingsland, Layton, Stratford, West Ham,
Bow, Bromley, Bethnal Green, Limehouse, Hoxton, Homerton,
Hackney, Shacklewell, Dalston, Islington, St. Pancras, Shoreditch,
,sqCuhaerlese Chelsea, Paddington,
it;l get: 11' ecti Kensington,
ng tlfo those places with Hammersmith,
e
various railways named, and all those south of the river Thames.
FEnuisht
ao Euston-square,
distance from the town of Barnet to the station of the Loudon
and Birmingham Railway, at Eustou-square, by this route, will be
1131riaconkipwg;
15 miles.

The length of the main line, from the point of junction at Totten-
ham to the London and Birmingham Railway, Will be 11 miles ; and
the length of the branch line to Barnet, will be 4% miles. From the
junction with the Birmingham Railway to Chipping Barnet, 9%
miles; from the Decoy (near Brent -street, Hondon), on the proposed
Barnet and North Metropolitan Junction Railway, to the Northern
and Eastern Counties Railway, by Stamford-hill, 6% miles.
There are no engineering difficulties throughout the entire distance.
The line will proceed beyond the range of the Highgate and Hamp-
stead Hills, and the branch from the main line to Barnet will follow
the valley of the river Brent to the intended station at Barnet ; thus
the expense of construction will be less than any other metropolitan
line of railway, for the above reason, and because it will pass through
an agricultural district, avoiding all ornamental property and large
collections of houses and buildings.
Upon the completion of this railway, a large and daily-increasing
population, resident beyond the limits of the metropolitan omnibuses,
'avifilolrbdeinlgarganel be uad-
rupled in value.
yinbaedneeqflutaedte, arnetduntlandteantnd aeirgrlcuuniltturalivatopruro,dwuicue, hitherto

The ancient, populous, and once-flourishing town of Bailie, too,
will now have a railway communication of its own, without depend-
ing upon the caprice or uncertain goodnature of any company WilD
may hold out a prospect of a branch, in future times, from some of
the trunk linos now contemplated.
An ample return of profit to the investments of shareholders may
be safely anticipated, and will arise from the following sources,
amongst others :-
1. From the conveyance of passengers.

2. From the carriage of goods and merchandise from the City and
Docks, &c., to the several railways which are intersected by this
line, avoiding the delay and excessive cost of conveyance through
London ; also from the conveyance of cattle, &c., more particularly
during the period of the large Barnet fairs.
3d. From the conveyance of coal, both inland and seaborne fuel,
and other commodities of general consumption, the great expense
of which has long been felt byall classes as a most grievci. ow,

The Committee of Management reserve to themselves the power
of adopting, upon this line, locomotive power, or Presser's Railway
guide and safety wheels, as may be deemed expedient.
Applications for Shares In the form annexed (and communi-
cations from persons desirous of promoting the objects of the Com-
pany), may bo addressed to the Secretary, at the Provisional Offices
of the Company, It 9, Newman-street, Oxford-street; to the Joint
Solicitors, Edward Elkins, Esq., 59, Newman-street, and G. P
Hill, Esq., 21x, Soho-square.

PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.
GREAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT
RAILWAY,
By a Junction with the Eastern Counties Railway at Bedford.
Distance, 120 miles.
Capital 2,500,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 123. 6d. per Share.
(Pursuant to the Standing Orders of the House of Commons,)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne
Sir William Twysden, Bart., Dorset-street, Portman-square, Director
of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction and
Erewash Valley Extension Railways ,
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Parthenon Club, Director of the
ChepstoweForest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway, and
of the South and Midland Junction, and West Midland Railways
Major-General Sir Robert Barton, K.C.11., Director of the Y ork end
Lancaster Railway
Thomas Alexander, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian, and
Trent Valley Continuation Railways
Henry Ambler, Esq., worsted spinner and manufacturer, Watkinson
' Hall, near Halifax, Director of the West Yorkshire Railway, and
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
C. H. Anderson, Esq., Upper Clapton, Director of the South Midland
Railway
John Alexander Bicknell, Esq., Brandon Cottage, Bristol, Director of
the Oxford and Worcester Extension Railway
William Bardgett, Esq., Winchester-street, Broad-street, Director of
the Halide and Austrian, and the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford,
Railways '
William Banks, Esq., Honey-lame Market
John Byng Banks, Esq., Stockwell, Surrey
William Fechney Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Di-
rector of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midland Junction
Railways
Henry Weech Burgess, Esq., Temple's Park, Hampstead, Director of
the Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, Potteries, and Crewe Railway
Charles Salisbury Butler, Esq., the Lodge, Upper Clapton
Josiah Burrowes, Esq., Castle House, Gomersall, near Leeds
Thomas( Burnley, Esq., Gomersall, near Leeds, Director of the Leeds
and Wesi Riding Junction Railway, and of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway
Samuel Bateman, Esq., Croft House, near Bradford, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Selby
Railway
Joseph Browne, Esq., Bedford
Dr. Brigstock, Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester
Railway
James Brand, Esql, 9, New Broad-street, Director of the Cambridge
and Lincoln, and Great Luxembourg Railway
Job liullinart, Esq., East Redford
William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., J.P.; Hull, Director of the Rugby,
Warwick, and Leamington, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railways
John Carter, Esq. Knottingley
Thomas Carter, Age Tanshelf, J.P. for the Borough of Pontefract
Charles Charnock, Esq.' Holmfield House, near Ferry-hridge
Millis Coventry, Esq., Director of the South and Midland Junction,
and Birmingham Extension Railways
B. Clements, Esq., Lowniles-square, Director of the WestemJamalca
Railway
J. Cottam, Esq., East Redford
Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborengh, Director of the Manchester, Mid-
land, and Great Grimsby, Gainsborough, Goole, and Isle of Axholme,
and Ate Wisbeach, Isle of Ely, and Lincolnshire Junction Railways
John Cutts, Esq., Little Barfield Hall, near Braintree, Essex
James Clift, Esq., Director of the Paris and Strasbourg, Southampton
Manchester, and-Oxford, and the Manchester, Rugby, and Maccles-
field Railways
W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the London and Birmingham Exten-
sion
Henry Sherard Coleman, Esq., Crown-court, Old Broad-street
Francis Deere, Esq., Stratford, Essex
J. Dawson, Esq., Pontefract
John Dennis, Esq., Director of the West Midland, and Thames Val-
Icy Railways
Joseph Dent, Esq., Aibston Hall, near Leeds, Magistrate for the
North West Riding of Yorkshire
A. A. Davenport, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Exten-
sion, and Worcester Junction Railways
Joseph L. Davenport, Esq.,Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby,
and Manchester Railway
John Alcock Dixon, Esq., Burnley, near Leeds, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct. Railway
Richard Dransfield, Esq., Dalton, Huddersfield, Director of the
Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, of the Liverpool and Leeds Di-
rect, and of the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction
Railways
Edward Doubleday, Esq , F.L.S., Director of the Rugby, Warwick
and Worcester Railway
Francis En-art, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey
mouth Railway
Lieut.-Col. Fitch, 3G, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Managing Direc-
tor of the York and Lancaster Railway
Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Exten-
sion Railway
Solomon Foster, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Nottingham, Mans-
field, and Midland Junction Railway
Martin Furniss, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Erewash and Shef-
field Railway
John Griffiths Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Chairman of the London-
derry and Coleraine, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways
George Green, Esq., Pontefract
Charles Gibson, Esq., Holland-place, Clapham
James Gilbertson, Esq., Hertford
William Olsson, Esq., Glasgow
H. P. Gipps, Esq., Director of the Coventry and Nuneaton Railway
Charles Goldsmith, Esq., Friday-street, Cheitpside
William Gordon, Esq., M.D., F.L.S., Director of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct Railway
Henry Swan Graves, Esq., Ely Bank Lodge, Halifax
John Gully, Esq., Ackworth Park, Ackworth
Richard Hall, Esq.,-Camarvon Hall, Stratford, Director of the Strat-
ford and Thames Junction, and North Woonvich Railways
John Charles Hall, Esq., New Grove-street, East Redford
R. F. Hall, Esq., Wiseton, near Bawtry
S. C. Hall, Esq., F.S.A., Inner Temple, Director of the Erewash Tal-
ley Extension and West Midland Railways
Samuel Hammond, Esq., Leeds
John George Hammack, Esq., Director of the Direct Western and
the Metropolitan Junction Railways
William Hepworth, Esq., Pontefract, a Deputy-Lieut. and J.P. for the
West Riding of Yorkshire
John Mason Hepworth, Esq , Eden-place, Ackworth, J.P. for the
West Riding of Yorkshire
Joshua Hepworth, Esq., Rogerthorpe Hall, Bedsworth
Thomas Heelis, Esq., Skipton Castle, Skipton, Director of the Lan-
cashire and North Yorkshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire North-
Eastern, and of the Liverp sot and Leeds Direct Railways
Robert Ilerries, Esq., East-street, Leeds, Director of the Liverpool
and Leeds Direct Railway
Charles Holbrooke, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and
Manchester
John Holmes, Esq., East Redford
John Midge, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and Direc-
tor of the Derby and Stafford Railway
William Empson Jalland, Esq., Holderness House, near Hull, Di-
rector of the York and Hull Railway
Barwell Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holderness House, near Hull, Ma-
gistrate for the East Riding of York and Borough of Hull, and
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds, and Hull and Barnsley
Railways
John Jameson, Esq., Honey-lane Market
William Jameson, Esq., Shelton, Staffordshire, Director of the Staf-
fordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways
Joseph Jones, Esq., Mayor of Hull, and Director of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Director of the Blythe and Churnet
Valleys, or Macclesfield and Lichfield Railways
George Lawton, Esq., Ditchleys, Essex, Director of the Chepstow,
Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway
Leahy, Esq., St.. James's-square
Moses Edward Legg, Esq., Watling-street, London
Captain Henry Leech, Bedford
William Ley, Esq., 40, Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director of
the Reading and Reigate Railway
L. Stephens Lyne,:Esq., Broad-street, Director of the Western Ja-
maica Railway
P. Bennett Lucas, Esq., Director of the Sligo and Shannon, the
Ipswich and Southampton, and the Cork Passage and Kinsale
Railways
John B. Mann, Esq., Leeds
Thomas Hackett Massey, Esq , Newark-upon-Trent, and Bedford-
square, Hyde Park
W. It. Mesham, Esq., M.D., Bedford
Robert Mellington, Esq., Ordshall House, near East Redford, Director
Redford
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William Moorhouse, Esq., Marine Villa, Knottingley, Provisional
Director of the Sheffield, Barnsley, and Wakefield Railway
Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of South and Midlands' Juncteen, and
London and Birmingham Extension Railways
James Muscroft, Esq., Pontefract, J. P. for the Borough, a Provi-
sional Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension and Chester
Junction, Railway
Joseph Nadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and
Southampton, and the Leeds and Carlisle Railways
William Joseph Nash, Esq. Bedford
John Norton, Esq., 1, St. George's-square, Westminster, and Moat
House, Brentwood, Director of the Great Western Direct Railway
Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley and Con-
tinuation and Holyhead Junction and West Midland and South
Midland and Oxford Extension Railways -
Robert Oxley, Esq., M.D., Pontefract
Bennett Pell, Esq., 12, Finsbury-place North
William Perfect, Esq., Monkhill, near Pontefract
John Phillips, Esq. Mayor of Pontefract
Thomas Ingham Raynor, Esq., Birstal, Leeds, Director of the Leeds
and West Riding Junction, and the Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railways
John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Birming-
ham Direct, Leicester, Iron, and Dove Valley Railways
Robert Richards, Esq., Director of the West Midland Railway
John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Bycullah House, Enfield, Managing
Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester,
and Weymouth Junction, the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke,
and the Direct Western Railways
James Robson, Esq., Tanshelf, J. P. for the Borough of Pontefract
George Robinson, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junc-
tion, and of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railways
John Richardson, Esq., Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate,
the East and West Yorkshire, and the Midland and Thirsk Junc-
tion Railway
Thomas Rontlidge, Esq., Alderman, Pontefract
James Russell, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director of
the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton, of the Tring,
Reading, and Basingstoke Railways
Henry Savage, Esq., Director of the Irving, Reading, and Basing-
stoke Railway
Benjamin Shaw, Esq., Kilburn Peery, Director of the Churnet and
Blythe Valleys Railways
J. E. Sichel, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and
of the Leeds and York, and Midland Railways
William Sloane, Esq., Whnpole-street, Cavendish-square, Director of
the South Midland Junction Railway, &c., &c.
George Walker Smith, Esq., Horbury Hall, Sheffield, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Smith, Esq., M.D., 30, North-street, Leeds, Director of the
Leeds and York, and Liverpool and Leeds Railways
Joseph Smithson, Esq., Kirklees Mills, near Halifax
James Templer, Esq., Brixton-rise, Director of the Derby, Uttoxeter,
and Stafford Railway.
Thomas S. Trapp, Esq., Banker, Bedford
Samuel Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street, and Gorbals, Hull, Di-
rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway
William Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street, and Gorbals, Hull
Thomas Turney, Esq., Park Lodge, near Halifax
David Wheateroft, Esq., Buckland Hollow, Derbyshire, Director of
the Rugby, Derby, ad Manchester, and Direct Birmingham and
Leicester Railways
Major-General Wright, Royal Engineers, Gloucester-place, Portman-
square

William Williams, Esq , Royal Foundery, Bedford
Charles Waite, Esq., Willesden House, Middlesex
John Wheelton, Esq., late Sheriff of London -and Middlesex, and
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Willett, Esq., Bradford
George Yates, Esq., merchant, Halifax

(With power to add to their number.)
ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF—Sir Jelin 31`Neil, L.L.D., and F.R.S.
ACTING ENGINEER—WiIIiam Mußinger Higgins, Esq.
LONDON SOLICITOUS.
J. R. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-court
Owen Gray, Esq., 125, Great Tower-street,
J. B. Midge, Esq.,

BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Rogers, Oldtnt, and Ce.
Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Co.

The object of this railway is to connect, in the most direct coarse,
the important and increasing manufacturing town of Leeds with the
Metropolis, the want of which has long been felt, and is too univer-
sally acknowledged to need any comment, and it is under this con-
viction that this important undertaking, after several minute exa-
minations of the country through which it will pass, has bee' brouzht
forward.

The proposed line will commence at the junction Of the Manches-
ter and Leeds, and York and North Midland Railways, near Wake-
field, and will terminate by means of a junction with the Eastern
Counties Railway at Bedford (to which place it is the intention of
that Company to extend their line in the ensuing session of Parlia-
ment), and by thus availing itself as far as possible of the existing
railways, will complete the most direct and least expensive trunk
I line, from London to Leeds, York, and Hull. It will pass in its route
within an available distance of Wakefield, Pontefract, Doncaster,
Rotherham, East Redford, Nottingham, Newark, Granthurt, Melton
Mowbray, Oakham, and Stamford.
The importance of such a line is obvious, both from the nature of
its course (embracing, as it does, a most extensive population within
its limits) as also from the absence of any direct communication for
the conveyance of passengers and merchandise.
By the construction of this railway, railway communication to
London will be given to Peterborough and Leicester (by means of
the Syston and PeterborOugh Railway), to Newark and Nottingham
(by the Nottingham and Lincoln line), and to Sheffield and Gainsbo-
rough (by the Sheffield and Gainsborough line), by a much shorter
route than by any existing Railways.
Independently of the advantages offered to the towns In the several
counties through which this Line will pass, the Line in itself consi-
dered as a direct trunk line between London and Leeds, is sufficient
to justify its formation, it being well known that the existing traffic
between these two places would produce such a return on the capital
required, as to admit of a dividend, equal to that of any railway in
operation : but when it is borne in mind, that a Company is being
formed for the purpose of connecting Glasgow with Leeds by means of
a junction with the York and Carlisle Railway, no better line can be
presented to the public, as it will not only effect a direct communica-
tion from Glasgow and the Western parts of Scotland to London, but
would also connect Edinburgh and the Eastern parts of Scotland as
well as Durham and Newcastle (by the York and North Midland, and
Great North of England Railways), with the Metropolis, which would
be considerably shorter than the accommodation offered by any
other Company, and when cost of construction Is considered, there
cannot be a doubt but that preference would be given to the Great
Leeds and London Direct Railway.

The thct of the Eastern Counties Railwiy being connected by a

branch line with the East and West In lia Docks on the ver
Thames, and the Rai:e ay Company having recently leased for 9:9
years the exte is ve repper warehouses belonging to those doas,
which are etpable of receiving 12,000 tons of goods, together with
wharfs adjoining, where the shipment and trans-shipment of goods
from all parts of the world can take place, is a most Important fea-
ture in favour of the direct communication from the manufacturing
towns of Glasgow and Leeds offered by the Great Leeds and London
Direct Railway, and by branch railways to the main trunk line,
through which all goods from the whole of the manufacturing dis-
tricts could be conveyed at once to these warehouses for shipment,
thereby avoiding the present delay and expense of cartage, and in
reality establishing an almost direct and an invaluable connexion
between the rivers Clyde and Themes.
It has been ascertained that there are no engineering difficulties,
that the works will be easy, and the gradients remarkably good, and
that it will not materially Interfere with any ornamental property.
The Subscribers will be held liable only to the extent of their first
deposits until an Act of Parliarneni: is obtained, and afterwards orey
to the amount of their subscriptions.
It is proposed to take power in the Bill to allow interest at 4 per
cent. per annum on all calls until the opening of the line, and also to
extend the line to Hertford on the Eastern Counties line, In the event
of that Company not prosecuting their line to Bedford.
Applications for Shares (in the form annexed) may be made to J.
B. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-court, and Messrs. Owen Gray and
Midge, 25, Great Tower-street, the joint solicitors to the Company,
at the Company's temporary offices, 9, Copthall-court, London ' or
to the following sharebrokers
London—Messrs. Marten and Ileseltine, 9, Finch-lane
Leeds—Messrs. Hoppe and Co.
Liverpool—Messrs. Joseph King and Son
Hull—Messrs. Flint and Tootal
3fanchester—Messrs. Cardwell and Sons
Bradford—Mr. Josiah Scholefield
Edinburgh—Mr. Charles Copper, 30, St. Andrew's :square
No application will be attended to unless accompanied by a satis-
factory reference.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Great Leeds and Londoa Direct
Railway.
Gentlemen,--I request you will allot me shares, of 251.
each, in the above undertaking, and I undertake to pay the deposit
thereon, or upon any less number that may be allotted' to me, and
also to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agree-
ment when required. Name in full .
Address in full ......
Occupation ...... ........
Date. ......
Reference...

GREAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT
RAILWAY.
The Committee of 3lanagement of this Railway hereby give no-
tice, that in consequence of the unprecedented number of applications
already made for shares in this important undertaking, they have
determined upon rejecting all further applications made after. the
29th September instant. Immediately after that day they will
proceed to make the allotment of the shares and procure the execu-
tion of the Parliamentary contract and subscription deeds.
Signed by order of the Committee,
J. R. GIBSON,
OPEN GRAY, tßeglstered Solicitors.
29th September, 1845. J. B. ILLIDGE,

(REGISTERED PROVISIONALLY.)
PRELIM INARY NOTIC E.
THE SOUTHAMPTON and PETERSFIELD
RAILWAY.
This line, by communicating with the intended railways from
London to Portsmouth, will effect a saving of about eight miles be-
tween London and Southampton.
The promoters of this undertaking take this means of Informing
the public that, in a few days, they will issue a prospectus, with an
influential Committee.
In the meantime, applications for shares, and other information
may be obtained of Wm. Rodwell, Esq., Stockbroker, 22, Throg-
morton-street ; of Messrs. Tilson and Squanc.a, 29, Coleman-street,
London ; or of Richard Randall, Esq., Solicitor, Southampton.

THE OXFORD and WORCESTER EXTEN-
SION and JN RAILWAY,
Branches to ShrewsburyCHESTEß and Northwich.UNCTl On the Broad Gauge. with
( Provision ally Registered.)
Capital 2,250,0001., in 112,500 Shares of 201. tack.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
POOVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Lord George Paget, Uxbridge House
The Hon. Douglas lUnnaird Pulteney, 4, Parliament-street. Chairman
!of the York and Lancaster Railway
William Beresford, Esq. M.P., 77, Pall-mall, Director of the Tean
and Dove Talley Railway
Sir William Bacon Johnson, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire, Director
of the Chester and Forest of Dean Railways
Sir John Edward de Beauvoir, Chairman of the London and Bir-
mingham Extension
Sir Samuel Brown, Director of the Warwick and Worcester Railway
Sir John Hare, Langham-place, Director of the London and Bir-
mingham Extension
Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London, Director of the London
and Manchester and Leeds and Liverpool Railways
Colonel Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, Director of the London and
Birmingham Railway
Colonel Fitch, 36, York-terrace,Regent's-park, Director of the South
and Midlands Railway
Sir John Hansler, Deputy Lieutenant of the **linty of Essex, Wal-
ton, near Saffron Walden, Essex
Admiral J. Ayscough, Prospect-place, Southampton, Director of the
South and Midland Railway
Major Croft, 15, Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman of the Manchester
and Chester Railway
Major Chase, 31, Nottingham-place
Captain S. M. Fisher, jun., Director of the Warwick and Worcester
Railway
Captain Hitcher's, H.E.LC.S., Director of the Birmingham and Ox-
ford Railway
Samuel Kenrick, Esq., banker, 'Wrexham
Captain F. Chamfer, Malkin-street, Belgrave-square, Director of the
Great Paris and Lyons Railway
Wm. Hughes Hughes, Esq., &c., Alderman of Lon-
don, Chairman of the Manchester and litirkenlicad Continuation,
Chairman of the London and Greenwich Railways, Sec., Sac.
Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South
Midland Railway
Matthew Harrison, Esq., Chester, Director of the North and South
Wales Bank
John Kinnersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the
London and Manchester Direct Railway, and South Midland
Thos. Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South
Midland Railway
Thos. Challis, Esq., Alderman of London, Wilson-street, Finsbury
Thos. Sidney, Esq., Alderman of London, Sheriff of London and
Middlesex
Captain Alex. Hamilton Earle, Royal Artillery, Reform Club.
John Inglis Jardein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby
and Southampton Railway
Wm. Morley, Esq„ Blackheath
Wm. Lee, Esq., Director of the Gravesend and Rochester, and Essex
and Suffolk Railways
Rd. Carpenter, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Henry Wright, Esq., Director of the South aid Midland's Junction
Railway
John Wheelton, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Thomas Collingridge, Esq., Highgate, Middlesex
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
John Urocke Walbancke, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
Rd. Wm. Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester and
Derbyshire and South Staffordshire Railways
Francis Valentine Lee, Esq., Temple, Director of the Eastern Counties
Railway
Major Jelf Sharp, Dspnty-Chairman of the Thames Embankment
Railway
Major-General Brooks Parlby, C.E., 18, Rutland-place
W. Simpson Potter, Esq., Director of the Oxford, Witney, and
Cheltenham Railway
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester
Direct and Liverpool and Leeds Railways
Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of the London and Birmingham
Railway
W. F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Director of the
Italian and Austrian Railway
_ _ _

W. G. Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway
John James, Esq., Secondary of London
Robert Henry Lyndam, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth
Railway
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanston-street, Portman-square,
Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
J. B. Richardson, Esq., Director if the Colchester and Cambridge
Railway
Julian Skreene, Esq., Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln
Railway
Frederick James Hall, Esq., Torrington-square, Director of the Bide-
ford and Tavistock Railway
Captain C. W. Tyndale, Directoeef the South-Eastern Railway
Henry Lewis Smale, Esq., Willoughby House, Tottenham, Director
of the London and Dover Railway
Frederick Jones, Esq., Director of the Warwick and Worcester
Railway
C. Waite, Esq., Willesden, Middlesex
R. W. Wood, Esq., Lodge-place, St. John's Wood, Director of the
North Metropolitan Railway
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manchester
and Birmingham Railway
Win. Shaw, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment Railway
Win. Alfred Hill, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Alserystwith
Railway
Richard Dutton Esq., Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Railway
Win. Shark, Esq., Director of the Guarantee Society
James Reeves, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Railway
Frederick Collingrge, Esq., Thurlow-square, Brompton
Warren Stormes Hale, Esq., Gresham-street
Robert Richards, Esq., Temple, Director of the Birmingham and Lon-
don Extension Railway
Kingsmill Grove Key, Esq., Wandsworth-common
The Rev. F. K. Hall, D.D., Rector of Falbourne, Cambridge
Daniel Penton Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Mulches-
ter Railway
Charles Green, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith
Railway
John Barber, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Iberystwith
Railway
Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Hereford
E. R. Foster, Esq., Director of the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford-.
shire Railway
Martin Furnis, Esq., Director of the Nettingliam, Newark, and
Bostm Railway
Richard Groucock, Esq. Dulwich, Director of the Direst Manchester
Railway
W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the Birmingham and Manchester
Extension
W. Bardgett, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian Railway
Richard Parish, Esq., Bank House, Wordsley, Staffordshire
Samuel Parish, Esq., Wordsley, near Stourbrldge, Staffordshire
Alexander Greig, Esq., Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square, Director of
the Leicester and Birmingham Railway
Thomas Yates Hunt, Esq., Brades, near Birmingham
William Singleton, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool
Direct Railway
Wm. Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Lincoln, Yerk, and Leeds
Railway
James Muscroft, Esq., Pontefract
David William Nell, Esq., Leeds, J.P., Director if the Leeds and
Thirsk Railway
Joseph Robert Wilkin Atkinson, Esq., Director of the Leicester and
Bedford, and York and Lancaster Railways
John Fagan, Esq., Gloucester-road, Old Brompton
Charles Holden, Esq., Director of the Great Grimsby and She Held
Railway
J. D. Hopkins, Esq., Bedford-square, Director of the London and
Birmingham Extension Railway
Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds, Director of the West Riding Junction
Railway
Peter Fairbairne, Esq., Leeds, Chairman of the Lineoln, York and
Leeds Railway
John Blackburn, Esq., Leeds
J. M. Douglas, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth
Railway
W. Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street
John Anderson, Esq., Lothbury, Director of the South and Midland
Railway
W. Ley, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square
Robert Power, Esq., Director of the Great Britalu Life Assurance-
office, Queen-stret, May Fair,
Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Old Palace, Richmond
W. Bestow, Esq., Surrey-place
James Burness, Esq., Leyton, Essex
G. N. Wright, M.A.
John Alexander Bicknell, Esq., Brandon Cottage, Bristol, Direstor of
the South and Midlands' Junction Extension Railway
James Lees, Esq., Deiph, Saddleworth, near Manchester, Director of
the Saddleworth Banking Company
Arthur Agent Davenport, Esq., Eastwood, Notts, Director c f tho
Great Leeds and London Direct Railway
Joseph Lancelot Davenport, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby,
Derby, and Manchester Railway

(With power to add to their number.)
The names of an influential Committee formed at Worcester and
Chester will be publlshed In a few days.

BANKERS.
The Commercial Bank of London
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LOCAL AGENTS.
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sCilhlri:e.ilesvittee:rbu—Jurrcyloiljim Fm.:ll‘e
Wellington—George
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the point where the broad gauge trunk:lines of the west are to have a
common terminus. From Oxford the Great Western Company have
decided on constructing a line of rail :—another project under the pa-
tronage of the same Powerful direction is now before the public,
uniting Worcester with Warwick ; and, that the broad gauge will be
carried from Worcester Into Wales, and to the Irish packet stations
on that coast, is now no longer doubtful. This undertaking will com-
plete a series of great avenues of iron-road, whose ramification
from Worcester will render every part of the kingdom directly
accessible from that city. Passing up the Severn Vale, where
it will disclose a succession of picturesque scenes, it reaches
Stourport, and proceeding thence through Kidderminster, arrives at
Bewdley. This district is one of the chief seats of our carpet manu-
factures, and in the towns here named, exclusive of the intervening
districts, upwards of 30,000 persons are located. Leaving Stourbridge
a little to the east, the line is taken to Bridgenorth, a town enjoying
an active inland trade, and possessing woollen manufactures and iron
works, that give employment to a population of about 15,000. Pass-
ing through or near to Much Wenlock, Broseley, and Madeley, from
Which place there will be a branch to Shrewsbury, the line ascends