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THE SUN, LONDON, TIIURSDA ir EVENING SEPTEMBER 25 1845,

11/1, ANCIIES TER and It, -GBY DIRECT
LY-11.. RAILWAY, vest MACCLESUELD.
.Proyisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,700,0001., in 85,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 28. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COIINITTES.
The Hon. Howe Browne, Chairman of the Manchester and-
Birmingham Continuation Railway
John Attwood, Esq., M.P., Park-lane, Hyde Parli
John Ilasterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street, banker
Sir John Pirie, Bart., Alderman of the City of London, Di-
rector of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Packet Com-
pany
William Hughes Hughes, Esq., Alderman of Hats City of
London, late M.P. for Oxford, and late High Illieriff for
Hants
James Henry Attwood,.Esq., Seymour-street, Portilasn-square
George Adam, Esq., White Lion-court, Cornhlll
John liagskaw, Esq., Director of the Northern aM Eastern
Railway
Joseph Brown, Esq., Director of the Bait and Wsat of Eng-
land Junction
William Chadwick, Esq., Chairman of the Richrno 'I Railway
William Henry Forman, Esq., Upper Thames-obild
Capt. George Prabyn, Bryanston-equare
Robert Watkins, Esq., Director of the East a
land Railway
Josh. Underwood, Esq., Director of the Coma.
London
William Langley Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex
The Hon. Geo Browne, Lowndes-square, Belgraves, re
Sir Geo. Rick, 43, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square
Sir Henry Richardson, Chessel House, Southampte*
air William Wynne, 5, Suffolk-street, Pall-msikss - ',lnnen of the
North Wales Railway, and Director of *no ft leutitauipten,
and Portsmouth Railway
Sir G. I. Lewin, Upper Harley-street, London
Sir John Hare, Langham-place
The Mayor of Newbury, Director e the Oxford, Southampton, and
Portsmouth Railway
John Addis, Esq., of Rotherhithe, Surrey, Director of the Central
Terminus, and of the Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Office
The Rev. J. Harvey Ist worth, Ne, bury
11. W. C. Alston, Esq., Birmingham
W. C. Alston, Esq., -.6lmdon Hall
Samuel Ashton, Esq., Wood Hill, Prestwich
James Atty, Esq., Rugby
James Bancroft, Esq., Alderman of the Borough of Manchester
Henry BarloW, Esq., Hightleid, Stockport •
Samuel Barton, Esq., Didsbury, Director of .the Cheater sad Man-
chester Direct Railway
Hugh Beaver, Esq., Manchester
William Fechnez Black, Esq., 19, Wilton-place, Beirrave-square,
Director of theltallan and Austrian Railway Company
Joseph Browne, Esq., Bedford •
Captain Burney, R.N., Gosport
William Banigett, Esq., Old Broad-street and Carshalten, Surrey,
Director of the Italian and Ausirian Railway Company
Samuel Swann Britten., Esq., Sheffield
Charles Baker, Esq., Southampton
William Bland, Esq., Brixton, Director of the North Wales Railway
Thomas Brittain, Esq., Manchester
George Burnand, Esq., Sussex-square, Hyde Park
William Bevan, Esq., 48, Conduit-street. Bond-street, Director of the
North Wales Mineral Railway
Jacob Bell, Esq. Langham-place, London
W. E. Boyes, Esq.,
Alkerton, Banbury, Director of the East and
West of England Railway
Henry Brown, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Robert Bramwell, Esq., Upper Thames-street
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the Shef-
field and Manchester Railway, and Chairman of the Direct West-
ern Railway
George Borrett, Esq., Southampton
Lieutenaat-Colonel Bnrslem, North Hantsi
Charles Bailey, Esq., Winchester s . ,
Henry Baker, Esq., 79, Mark-lane, London
H. Burney, Esq., LL.D., Gosport
Joseph Beech, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place
George Bovill; Esq., Mill-walL Poplar •
Louis Buckland, Esq., Lloyd's, and Avenue-road, St. John's-wood
Robert Beman, Esq., Donnington House, Stow-oa-the-Wold, Gloss
cestershire
W. Bailey, Esq., Wolverhampton
Thomas Challis, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the Wor-
cester and Oxford Railway
F. F. Clossman, Esq., Mincing-lane
John Chapman, Esq., Leadenhall-street, Director of the Dove* and
Cornwall Railway
S. J. Capper. Esq., Adelaide-place, London-bridge
Edward Chapman, Esq., Strand, London, Director of the Richmond
Railway -
Sheldon Cradock, Esq., Leicester
Philip Warner Courtenay, Esq., 26, Capel-street, Belgrave-square
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield. Director of the Direct Western
Railway
Francis Carleton, Esq.
James Cliff, Esq., Bloomsbury-square
John Churchill, Esq., Bayswater, Director of the Manchester and Bir-
mingham Continuation Railway
Robert Charles, Esq., 23, Endsleigh-street, Tavistock-square
G. Colquhoun, Esq., Weimer Lodge, Avenue-road, Regent's-park,
Director-of the Woreester and South Wales Railway
James Consterdine, Esq., Manchester
Joseph Cragg, Esq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury
Colonel George Disbrowe, Chester-square, London
William Dredge, Esq., Newbury
James Denis Devitre, Esq., 7, Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square,
Director of the North-Western Railway
George Dunlop, Esq., Southampton
George Dawson, Esq., Sheffield
Richard Dyott, Esq., Freeford
John -Alcock Dixon, Esq., Burnley, Director of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct Railway
Capt. Farrington, R.N., West Cowes, Isle of Wight
E. S. Farrow, Esq., Newbury
W. S. Fitzwilliatn, Esq., Old Broad-street, Director of the Essex and
Suffolk Railway
F. B. Freer, Esq., Stratford-on-lvon
William Tulloch Fraser, Esq., 5, Manchester-square
John Faweett, Esq., Broom Hall, Sheffield, Director of the Great
Western Railway
J . P. Firmstone, Esq., of Highfields, Wolverhampton
George Firmstone, Esq., Lays Iron Works, Stourbridge
W. E. Gray, Esq,, Newbury
Samuel Giles, Esq., Manchester
Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds
H. P. Gipps. Esq., Montague-place, Bryan.stone•square
William Gibb, Esq. Manchester
John Gould, Esq., Esq.,
Manchester
Captain Augustus Heyman, Cadogan-square
Thomas Charles Higgins, Esq., Turyey House, Bedfordshire
Sabn4eeeltoliraoinf Haines, Esq.,
EEsasq;aCndhadWelistoauesecißEirmdCbirgth7M anteularSoßuitir iurilamStafford-
shire Railways
Esq., Exeter, Director of the Relit and West of
Joseph Hopgood,
England .Railway
W. H.Mornby, Esqßlackburn
Gee,EEs
St D. iSe th
effil'els,dWinchester
William Hill, Esq., Manchester
a.ohTri,Tewri Calvertngto n alHoluglanhdes,
John Haddon. Esq., Director of the Bast and West of England Rail-
way Company
Joseph Haden, Esq., iron master, Dudley
David Harrison, Esq., Staley-bridge, Director of the Manchester and
Birmingham and Cheshire Junction Railway
T. Hodges, Esq., Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park,Director of the Leeds
and Carlisle Railway
James Home, Esq., Clapham Common, Director of the North Lon •
den Railway Company
John Hemming, Esq., North Bank, Regent's Park, Directer of the
Worcester and South Wales Railway
T. A. Hall, Esq., Ashfield House, Newcastle, Staffordshire
Frederick Hewitt, Esq., Clapham, Surrey
J. H. Higson, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Chester and Man-
chester Railway
George Calvert Holland, Esq., M.D., Sheffield
John Hyde, Esq., Manchester
William Jacomb, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the East and West
of England Railway
William Jenkinson, Esq., Marlborough-square, Salford
George Jones, Esq., Redland, Bristol
V. Clarke Kemball, Esq., 6, Chesterlilace, Hyde-park
J. Kinloch, Esq., Gloucester-read, Hyde-park, Director of the North
Wales Railway
John Kull", Esq., Thames-street. Director of the Worcester and
South Wales Junction Railway
Charles Kelson, Esq., Teignmouth, Devon, Director of the East and
West of England Railway
William Knott, Esq., 4, Adelaide-place, Director of the Richmond
Railway
M. W. King, Esq., Amblieote Hall, Stourbricige
Edward Lomer, Esq., Southampton ,
William Lechmere Whitmore, Esq., James-street, Buckingham-gate,
Director of the Worcester and South Wales Railway
Henry Ledgers', Esq.; Wood-street
John Dawson Lowden; Esq., Doughty-street, Director of the Rich-
mond Railway
James Lees, Esq., Brockville, near Manchester
Joseph Liggins, Esq., Kensington, Director of the Southampton Dock
Company
Captains'. H Leckie, Richmond, Surrey
Stephen Lewis, Esq., Director Ofthe South Wales Railway
James Lamb, Esq., 25, Hyde Park-square, Director of the Tring,
Reading, and Basinstoke Railway
Samuel Lovell, Esq., Bedford
F. Valentine Lee, Esq., Chester-place, Regent's-park
William Mills, Esq., Newbury
Joseph Maunder, Esq., Ashford-house, Staines
John Malleson, Esq., Wimbledon, Director of the Shoat Indian
Peninsular Railway
W: Matins, Esq., Mansion-house-place, London, Director of the
South Staffordshire Railway
William Robert Meshatn, Esq., M.D., Redford
George Miller, Esq., Director of the Central Railway Terminus
Charles Mann, Esq., Leamington
Charles Musgrave, Esq., Meiverton-hill, Leamington
R. F. Mushet, Esq., Birchin-lane, and Coleford
John Marshall, Esq., Hornforth Hall, near Leeds, late Mayor of
Norwich
John Macfarlane, Esq., Director of the Sheffield Railway
Thomas Markland, Esq., Ma rtel& Manchester
James Marshall, Esq., Brinnuigton Mount, Stockport
Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsall House, Retford, Nottinghamshire
G. Moore, Esq., St. John's Priory, Banbury
Nicholas 111`Cann, Esq., 50, Parliament-street
William Nash, Esq., Chairman of the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings
Railway
Cornelius Nicholson, Esq., Cowan Head, Kendal, Deputy-Chairman
of the York and Carlisle Railway
Captain Alexander Nainie, Director of the Peninsular and Oriental
. Steam Company
Joseph Naden, Esq., Dudley
Edward Norris, Esq. Manchester
Robert Ogden, Esq., The Oaks, Manchester
James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Salford, Director of the Chester and Man-
chester Direct Railway
P. Oldfield, Esq., Manchester, Director. of the Manchester and Livir-
pool Railway
Illeorge Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the East and
West of England Railway
Apsley Peilatt, Esq., Director of the Staines and Richmond Railway
Thomas. Parker, Esq., Spring-gardens, London
John Clarke Prescott, Esq., Manchester
William- Simpson Potter, Esq., of Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Di-
rector of the Oxford, 'Whitney, and Cheltenham Independent
Railway
Charles Potter, Esq., Darwen, Director of the Blackburn, Darwen,
and Bolton Railway -
James Paxton, Esq., Rugby
Richard N. Philipps, Esq.; Sheffield
John Perks, Esq., Wolverhampton
Richard Burton Phillipson, Esq., Rugby
N. M. Prise's, Esq., South Western Steam-packet Company,
Southampton
Stephen Phillips, Esq., Director of the Whitehaven and Furness
Railway •
Charles Phillips, Esq., Camberwell, Surrey
John Thomas Price, Esq., Heald Grove, Manchester
William Raines, Esq., Temple, Director of the Manchester and Car-
lisle Railway
Richard Ricketts, Esq., Bristol
George Rougemont, Esq., 9, Chester-terrace, Regent's Park, Director
of the North London Junction Railway
Thomas Rolls, Esq., Bank, Chipping Norton
Thomas Robinson, Esq. 'Charles-street, Middlesex Hospital
David Roxburgh, Esq.:Bloomfield-road, 3faida Hill
Hartley Sager, Esq.. Ball Grove, Colne, Yorkshire
Samuel Sangster, Esq., Brixton-hill, Director of the City Gas Com-
pany
Major Charles T. Selwyn, of the Royal Engineers, Exeter, Director
of the East and West of England Junction
James Shaw, Esq., Salford
John Sidebottom, Esq., Harewood Lodge, Cheshire
William Sidebottom, Esq., Etheron-house, Cheshire
David Siltzer, Esq., Rhodes, near Manchester
Charles Slocock, Esq., Newbury
Edmund Slocock, Esq., Newbury
Christopher -Shapland, Esq., Bristol, Director of the Bristol and
Gleucester, South. Devon, and Cornwall Railway Companies
Joseph Stocks, Esq., Shibden Hull, near Halifax; Director of the Li-
verpool and Leeds Direct Railway
W. Senhouse, Esq., Daventry
T. Bridge Simpson, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Richmond Railway
Walter Shairp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park
John Stewart, Esq., M.P. for Lymington, Director of the East and
West of England Railway
T: H. Sheppard, Esq., Towcester
Joseph Shaw, Esq., Huddersfield
Horatio Smith, Esq., Strangeways Hall, Manchester
W. Tebbutt, Esq., Manchester
Joseph Thompson, Esq., John-street, Bedford-row, Director of the
London and Brighton Railway
Thomas Thomson, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon
W. Tinker, Esq., Manchester, and Hyde, Cheshire
Matthew listen!, Esq., 62, King William-street, Director of the Lon-
don and South Western Railway
Charles B. Tripp, Esq.' Bristol, Director of the Jersey Railway
Thomas Varley, Esq., Shorsten Hall, Melton
.award Westlake, Esq., Southampton
Charles Fenton Whiting, Esq., Beaufort House, Strand, Director of
the Richmond Railway
Benjamin Williams, Esq., banker, 4, Whitehall
B. M. Wilcox, Esq., Hartsville, Torquay
John Ward, Xsq., Machin Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield
Fire and Life Insurance Company
George Whitmore, Esq., Austin-friars, Deputy Chairman of the North.
Kent Railway
Thomas Woodham, Esq., Winchester
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the Yarmouth and Waverley
Valley Railway
Daniel Watney, Esq., distiller, Wandsworth, Surrey
W. F. Wermington, Esq., Walsall
Smith Willock, Esq., Birmingham
W.• 13. Wills, Esq., Bristol
A. H. Wylie, Esq., Liverpool
Edmund If. Wavell, Esq., Halifax
S. Watkins, Esq., Forrest Hill, near Worksop
Paul Ferdinand Willert, Esq., Alderman of the Borough of Mall-
chow

Eng-

ak of

Charles James Stanley Walker,* Esq.; Longford' Howse, ,Strc f.,rd„
Alderman of Manchester, and Director at the Chester and an-
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., Minton Hill, I)irector 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
William Jameson, Esq., Shelton, Staffordshire,• Director of the Staf-
fordshire Potteries itailwaY
Chafes Goldsmith, Esq., Friday-street, Dlretor of the Great Leeds
and London Railway -
Williams Banks, Esq., Honey-lane Market, Director of the Great
Leeds and Louden Railway
Thomas Challis,. Esq., Enfield, Alderman of the City of London
Charles Higgins, Esq., Bedford, Director of the Manchester, Bedford,
and Cambridge Railway
The Hon. M. W. B. Nugent, Higham Grange, Leicestershire
John Gardner, Esq., Southampton, Provisional Director of the Bir-
mingham and Oxford Junction Railway
Edward Waddilove, Esq , Leamington, Director of the Reading,
Guildford, 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 Holcomb, 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., Marchwood, Southampton
(With power to add to their number.)
BANKERS.
M usrsn.iMonaSt Bank,
Cllllal;ianliestdhCeo.e,rLondon.
The
• ACTING ENGINEERS.
Messrs. J. B. and E. Birch.. Westminster
Brackstone Baker, Esq.. C.E.
SOLICITORS. •
John Ilethell, 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
adepted ? •
The above proposed railway will form the shortest and most di-
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 straightline from Rugby to Macclesfield, as
an increased expenditure of 200,000/. or 300,000/. judiciously applied in
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 in the saving effected in
the annual expense of working, and also, what is of snore importance,
to the country in general, by accomplishing, at a much less cost, the
same end proposed by an entire and distinct line from London to
Manchester.
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 he found necessary, arrangements have been made by
which additionaLlines 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, Gosport, 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, Tutbury, Ashlmurne, and Leek,
The Company has made arrangements with Use 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
mind, 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 be 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 Offices, 78, King William-street, City,
sifianrcleohnro,
kearsnd:_a3t
tetrsCroßss.
Sutton-street,
Manchester;
Ibble, and saundltotnh,e22f,olltio.writih,g_
side Royal Exchange, London ; George Buruand, Esq., Cornhill;
Messrs. Barc'ay, Allsop, and Co., Royal Exchange ; Messrs. Hough-
land and Leese, 51, King-street, Manchester; John Wills, Esq.,
Royal Bank-buildings, Liverpool; Messrs. Wellbeloved and Comfier,
Leeds ; Messrs. Edwards and Son, and W. H. Land, Esq., Bristol ;
J. R. Lane, Esq., Birmingham ; Messrs. Garton and Wright, She
field ; J. G. Kershaw, Esq., Huddersfield ; F. C. Spencer, Esq.,
Halifax ; Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham ; Henry
Beaumont and Co., Exeter ; R. P. Lemon, Esq., Bath ; Joseph
Clark, Esq., Southampton ; and Messrs. Flint and Toetal, Hull.

FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Manchester and Rugby Direct
Railway Company, via Macclesfield.
I request you will allot to me shares of 201. each in
the capital of the above-named tallway, and I will accept the same,
or any less number and pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per Share, and
sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when
required

Dated the day of 1845.
Name ..... • ..• • • • • • • • •
Address . ........... •
Profession .• • ..........
Beference• .....

cue ANCHESTER and RUGBY DIRECT
.I.lfi RAILWAY, via MACCLESFIELD.
The Provisional Committee beg to announce, that practical Engi-
neers of great experience have gone over the proposed Line, and
have aatisfled 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 and money beyond a doubt.

r rHE MANCHESTER AND RUGBY
JL 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 names
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. Wellbeloved 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.

THE MANCHESTER AND RUGBY
DIRECT RAILWAY COMPANY.
No further applications for Shares in this Company can be re-
ceived after MONDAY, the 29th September instant.

ESSEX AND SUFFOLK RAILWAY.
24, Moorgate-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 very 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 200,0001., in 10,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21.25. per Share.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
• C
DEPUTYY
Lord Rossmore nett
Art
Thomasin u d r
The Hon. Capt. Carnegie, M.P.
eeßir'aEmsqa.ll, Esq.
Sir Win. Magnay, Bart. John Ridgway, Esq,
Chas. Manion Archibald, Esq. Richard Green, Esq.
The Hon. Capt. Hotham ?Harvey Wyatt, Esq.
James Grignon, Esq. ?Thomas Hamilton, Esq.
E. B. Hamel, Esq. kTames Durham, Esq.
J. D. Harris, Esq.
SECRETARY—J. E. Rathbono, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Maples, Pearse, Stevens, and Maples, Frederick's-place, Old
Jewry, Londen '
Felix John Hamel, Esq., Tamworth
Messrs. Dyott and Son, Lichfield.
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Glyn, Hallifax, Mills, and Co., Lombard-street
" Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clement's-lane
Leicester-;-The National Provincial Bank of England
Tamworth—The National Provincial Bank of England .
Lichfield—Messrs. Palmer and Greene
ManeliesterThe Mauchester and Salford Bank ,•
Liverpool—The Manchester and Liverpool District Bank.
The Mano.ging Committee of the Leicester and Tamworth Junction
Railway Company have determined upon making an•extension from
their line, commencing at or near Market Bosworth or Twyeross, and
running from thence by or near Atherstone and the Whitacre Junc-
tion of the Midlands (late Birmingham and,Derhy) Railway to Ilif-
mingham. In the allotment of shares, due regard will be had to the
interests of the, scrip holders in the Leicester and Tamworth Junction
Railway Company. The surveys are in progress, and the line is re-
ported as easy of construction, and free from engineering difficulties.
The twofold advantages offered by this project give. it a manifest
superiority over every other scheme which has yet been devised for
traversing this rich and extensive, but hitherto unintersected portion
of the Midland Counties. The Leicester and Tamworth Junction, as
originally projected, brings, by means of the Trent Valley Railway,
the important, manufacturing town of Leicester and the Midland and
Eastern Counties into Immediate communication with the mining
districts and wool markets of Staffordshire and Shropshire, the great
towns of Liverpool and Manchester, and the intervening localities ;
whilst the projected extension affords the shortest practicable railway
route from Leicester to Birmingham, and the western and south-
western counties Of England. The saving in distanoe between Lei-
cester and Birmingham will be seen by the following scale :
By Rugby By Tamworth Saving
Leicester to Liverpool
Leicester to Manchester • 134 ...• .. 104 30
Leicester to Birmingham •• .. 49 ....... 35 .. • •• • 14
The construction of the Birmingham extension in conjunction with
the Leicester and Tamworth Railway gives this project an evident
advantage in point of expense over any independent line from Lei-
cester to Birmingham; and, taking the inequallLes of the country
into consideration, a more direct line does not appear desirable or
practicable, and tile saving which which will be effected of more than
half the expense which must attach to the construction of an Inde-
pendent line from Leicester to Birmingham is a most important
consideration.
Application for Shares may be addressed to the Secretary at the
Company's offices, 4, Coleman-street, London ; to the solicitors ; to
Messrs. Aston and Scott, Throgmortdu-street, and to Messrs. Oswin
and Co., Angel-court, London,
No applications will bo attended to unless accompanied by a re-
ference to a member of the Managing Committee, or to one of the
solicitors.

Any of the project lines from the one to thr: other. The comparative
• d
distances were given-as Potion's:
Leicester toLiverpool

By Rugby• • • •
By Tamworth

Miles
147
117

Leicester to Manchester.
Miles.
134
101

By Rugby .
By Tamwerth

Saving • • 30
Leicester to Birmingham.

Sating... .
Leicester to Birmingham.

Miles.

By the proposed Coventry,
Nuneaton, Birmingham,
49 and Leicester Itailway• •• •
By Leicester and Tamworth
Extension to Birming-
-35 ham ....

By Rugby• • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
By Leicester and Tainworth
Extension to Binning-
ham. . .

35

Saving.
The general traffic route from Liverpool to Leicester is at present
very circuitous, being not less than IGO miles, and taking four days
to . accomplish, whi'st, 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 river-
Pool, the salt works of Cheshire,' the Potteries, and the coal and iron
fields of Staffordshire and Shropshire, all of which must be increased
by the (Treater facilities of conveyance.

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It was unanimously resolved that the most energetic measures
should be taken to carry the project into effrct, and aided by the
powert'ul influence of the Trent Valley Company, with whom the
mo,t beneficial atrangeMents have been made, the complete success
of the undertaking is placed beyond all doubt.
The capital for the Leicester and Tamworth Junction has been
subscribed, the Parliamentary deeds have been executed, and the
scrips issued.
Arrangements are now making for the allotment of shares in the
Birmingham Extension, in which due regard will be bad to the
scriphoiders of the Leicester and Tamworth Junction Company.
The surveys, &c., are in such a state of forwardness as to ensure
not only the Leicester and Tamworth line, but the Extension to
Birmingham, coming before Parliament in the ensuing session.

By order,
Coleman-street, Sept. 16, 1845

J. E. RATIIBONE, Secretary.

NORFO-LK RAILWAY.
The Directors of this Company take the earliest opportunity
of acquainting their Proprietors that, acting under the advice of their
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 :-Ist. from Wymondham to Disc, and from thence
through Eye to Stowmarket, to join the Bury and Ipswich line.
2d. From Reedham along the Waveney Valley through Beccles,
Bungay, Ilarlestone, and Di4l3 to Thetford, to join the proposed Essex
and Suffolk line.

3d. From East DCreham to Fakenham and Wells.
It is proposed to appropriate to the Shareholders in the Diss and
Colchester and Wells and Dereham Companies part of the extension
capital according to the resolutions of the last general meeti►g, 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,

RICHARD TILL, Secretary.
Office, Guildhall-buildings, London, 24th September, 1845.

BARNET and NORTH METROPOLITAN
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and Sth Victoria, cap. 110.)
Capital, 400,0001., in 20,000 Shares of 201. oach.
Deposit, 21.25. per Share.
. . .

No Shareholder to be liable beyond the amount of his Subscription

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Hon. F. 11. 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 lion. 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 Ifendon
Lieut.-Colonel Gullies, Porchester louse, Bayswater
WiyiainF. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Director of the Italian and

Austrian Railway
Josiah Heale, Esq., Gray's Tnn
Major Lindam, K. 11., Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and
Central Wales Railway Company
Henry Beckley Richardson, Esq., F.S.A.,.Director of the Colchester,
Cambridge, and Harwich Junction Railway
Rowland Hill Mackenzie, Esq., M.D., Mortimer-street, Cavendish-

square
floury Chaytor, Esq., Cleryaux Castle, Darlington, Director of tke

Wtirwici and Worcester Railway
Thomas Hemming Johnson, Esq., Older's Hall, Hendon, Middlesex
Thomas Priestley, Esq., Principal of Mill Hill Grammar School,

Hendon, Middlesex -
The Rev. 11. J. Crump, Mill Hill, Hendon, Middlesex
Captain Grover, R.N.
Captain John Tunes, 11.C.5., IVentworth House, Mill 11111, Ilendom,

Middlesex
The Rev. Bartholomew Nicholls, M.A., Incumbent of St. Paul's,

Mill Hill, Hendon, Middlesex
Mr. William Ward, Underhill, Barnet
Mr. Bruce Johnson, Flnchley
William Christopher Daniel Deighton, Esq., Fellow of Queen's College

Cambridge, Holloway
Ralph Allen Frogley, Esq., Hounslow, Director of the London,
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 Wo.od, Esq., 'Director of the Tring, Reading, and
Basingstoke Railway Company
Alexander Prince, Esq., Director of the Ling, 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

Basingstcle Railway Company
Charles Green, Esq., Director of the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and
Central Vales Railway Company
J. N. Nicholay, Esq.,-Oxford-street
John Godfrey B. Hudson, Esq., Director of the Central Terminus
Railway Company
The Rev. G. A. Walker, Alvisthorpt Parsonage. Wakefield, Dino-
tor of the Wakefield and Bradford Railway Company

(With power to add to their number.)
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
The Hon. F. IL F. Berkeley, M.P., W. H. Halpin, Esq.
Chairman Richard Cowley Polhill, XVI.
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—FraIIeiS Whishaw, Esq., C.E., Brook T...odge,
Hendon. 2
ACTING ENGINEER—J. Bailey Dent4sn„ Esq., 10, Gray's Inn-square.
BANKERS—Messrs. Smith, Payii!, and Smiths,
JOINT SOLICITORS.
Edward Elkins, Esq., 59, Newman-street, Oxford-street
G. P. Hill, Esq., 21A, Soho-square.
LOCAL AGENTS.

Henry Hammond, Esq., solicitor, Wentworth Lodge, Finchley
John Hughes, Esq., solicitor, Whetstone.
SEcarraar (pro tem.)—A. Douli, Esq.

This railway will connect the Important and hitherto neglected
town of Barnet with the London and Birmingham and the Groat
Western Railways, at or near Holsdon-green ; with the Northern
and Eastern and the Eastern Counties Railway, at or near Totten-
ham ; and the proposed Direct Loudon and Manchester, and the Lon-
don and York Railways.
The line, in its course, will unite the town of Barnet with Whet-
stone, Totterldge, -1----w1 leh am Hill, Mill Hill, Flnchley, Holder's Hill,
Hendon, Burrows, Golder's Hill, Gutterhedge, Kingsbury, Neesdon,
iStoke
Wilsdon, Wilsdon Green, Holsdon Green, Kemal]. Green, Westbourne
Grheii
End, Hornsey, Muswell Hill, West Green, Tottenham, Edmonton,
C
Clap-
ton, Highbury, Holloway, Kingaland, Layton, Stratford, West Ham,
Bow, Bromley, Bethnal Green, Limehouse, Horton, Homerton,
Hackney, Shacklewell, Dalston, Islington, St: Pancras, Shoreditch,
le fne' rd M,
ahls
Stamford ii ill,
n Kilburn,ll,
Hampstead, West End, Highgate, Crouch
Newington, Newington Green, Clan-
Blackvvall, Euston-square, Paddington, Kensington, Hammersmith,
Brompton, Fulham, Chelsea, Re. ; connecting those places with the
various railways named, and all those south of the river Thames.
The distance from the town of Barnet to the station of the London
and Birmingham Railway, at Euston-square, by this route, will be
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, Hendon), en 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,
ga enl y
inadequatebenetit e d andre tulrann d
to and
theft
eir agriculturalcultivators
p r produce
be hitherto
quad-
rupled
waffilolrbdnl largely
value.
The ancient, populous, and once-flourishing town of Barnet, too,
will now have a railway communication of its own, without depend-
ing upon the caprice or uncertain goodnaturc of any comPallY who
tmhaeytrhuonidt. oliuntesa
nporwospeoecntteomf
pia
abtreadn.ch, hi future times,
An ample return of profit to the investments of shareholders may
rrinsomeof
amongst
emosnafgeslr others anticipated,:_ and will arise from the following sources,

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
London;
line, avoiding the-delay and excessive cost of conveyance through
also front the conveyance of cattle, &c. ,
during the period of the large Barnet fairs more particularly
3d. From the conveyance of coal, both inland and seaborne fuel,
and ether commodities of general consumption, the great expense
of which has long been felt by all classes as a most grievcib
The Committee of Management reserve to themselves the power
of adopting, upon this line, locomotive power, or Prosser'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 be addressed to the Secretary, at the Provisional Offices
of the Company, 59, Newman-street, Oxford-street ; to the Joint
Solicitors, Edward Elkins, Esq., 59, Newman-street, and G. P
Hill, Esq., 21A, Soho-square.

rolt3r OF APPLICATION FOR MARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Barnet.and North Metropolitan
Junction Railway, 59, Newman-street, Oxford-street, London.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me Shares of
201. each in this Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the
same, and to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that
may be allotted to met- and I undertake also to execute the Parlia-
mentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
Name In full ..............................
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17th
J.
D
BARNET and NORTH METROPOLITAN
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
At a public meeting of the inhabitants of Barnet and its vicinity,
convened by a requisition, numerously signed and duly published,
held at the Victoria Hall, Union-street, Barnet, the
Sep-
tember instant,
JON HEY PUGET, Esq., of TotteriJOANge, in the Chair;
It was proposed by J. SPENCER,ESQ.; seconded by the day
Rev. of s
TuomrsoN, and carried unanimously
1. That it is the opinion of this meeting that a direct railway
communication between the Northern districts of the metropolis and
the, town of Barnet is of. vital importance to its prosperity, and is now
imperatively called for.
It was proposed by BENJAMIN Smrru, Esq. ; secondedbyMr.ioannsd
HoPEWELL, and resolved unanimously--
2. That this meeting having duly considered the prospectus
map of the line of the proposed Barnet and North Metropolitan
Junction Railway, and on conwaring the same withotnheewothhicehr pro-
jected lines, does most
tußillieahrnetsoci;:ntiticlelyaddveacnlatre that the proposed
age of a station, and
and all others having
Barnet and North Metropolitan Junction Railway will afford to the
town greater advantages than any
iltinbeeionforathilewaoynllylitherto proposed
the inhabitants
taoffecradinteolnuitehreaysii4elennitityooff
that it deserves tile support of
an interest in Barnet and is vicinity; and that a petition be pre-
sented in faveor of the line imelediately upon the assembling of the
Hewett of Parliament. And this meeting pledges itself to further the
views of the Company, and resolves that a Committee be appointed
o promote the object and saeure the interest of the town of .i, Arnet.
That the Committee consist of
Benjamin Smith, Esq. Mr. Brunt.
Mr. John Hopewell Mr. Spencer
Mr. George BOWOr The Rev.. Mr. Stewart
Mr. Janice Hill The Rev. John Dawson
Mr. James Cooper Thompson
With power to add to their number.
aninede ttion gobee
nteeni)luetr3ed.,Cthoati
rhme a
T 1 Hon. a
n dT .
tih le.
It was proposed by the Rev. ALEitANDEq STVAIIT, and seconded by
J. spErips., Esq., awl carried unanimously—
:Bon from the Barnet and North Metro-
tillg tlp project of the Company.
,r,,t.h3
e.
rTmh
Berkeley,ae n
it tuor thet h
oacfnutkhaset
romdf
cap:rluil:te
politanJnnetion Railway Comeny, for the able manner in which
they have Raid heWe the
It was proposed by W. MU, sti.,'and seconded by W. H.
HAtviii, Esq., and carried unanimously-
4. That a vote of thanks be tendered to Jdhti Hey Puget, Esq., for
Me impartial and able coquet in the chair.

PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.

GREAT-LhEbriiNi6TOYET DIRECT

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. 12s. 6d. per S. hare.
(Pursuant to the Standing Orders of the House of Commons.)
PROVISIONAL COMM/TTEE.
The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne
Sir William Twysden, Bart., Dorset-street, Portman-square, Director
of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction, and
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Erewash Valley Extension Railways
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Piirthenon Club, Director of the
Chepstow, Forest 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 York and
Lancaster Railway
Thomas Alexander, Esq., Director of filo 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 IVor tester Extension Miway
William Bardgett, Esq., Winchester-street, Broad-street, Director of
the Italian and Austrian, and the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford,
Railways
William Banks, Esq., Honey-lane Market
John Byng Banks, Esq., Stockwell, Sumy
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 ot the Leeds
and West 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, Esq., 9, New Broad.street, Director of the Cambedge
and Lincoln, and Great Luxembourg Railway
Job Bullinart, 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, Esq., Tanshelf, J.P. for the Borough of Pontefract
Charles Charnock, Esq., Holmfield House, near Ferrybridge
Millis Coventry, Esq., Director of the South and Midland Junction,
and BirminghaM Extension Railways
B. Clements, Esq., Lowndes-square, Director of the Western Jamaica

Railway - -
J. Cottam, Esq., East Redford
Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Manchester, Mid-
land, and Great Grimsby, Gainsborough, Goole, and Isle of Alholme,
and the 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 Dacre, Esq., StraVord, Essex
J. Dawson, Esq., Pontefract
John Dennis, Esq., Director of the West Midland, and Thames Val-
ley 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 Eaten-
_

sion, and Worcester Junction Railways
Joseph L. Davenport, Esq.,Derby, DiPector of the Rugby, Derby,

and Manchester
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 Ewart, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey-

mouth Railway
Lieut.-Col. Fitch, 36, 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 Midlang 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 Gibson, Esq., Glasgow
H. P. Gipps, Esq., Director of the Coventry and Nuueaton Railway
Charles Goldsmith, Esq., Friday-street, Cheapside
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.,'Carnarvon Hall, Stratford, Director of the Strat-
ford and Thames Junction, and Nerth Woolwich 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 Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways
Robert Herries, 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 Illidge, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and Direc-
tor of the Derby and Stafford Railway
William Empson Jalland, Esq.,
d Holderness House, near Hull, Di-
rector of the York and Hull Railway
Harwell 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, EM., 40, Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director of

- -
the Reading and Reigate Railway
L. StephensLyneZEsq., Broad-street, Director of the Western Ja-

make Rail,kay
P. Bennett 'Lucas, Esq., Director of the Sligo and Shannon, the
Ipswich ank.l 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
Thomas M.Turk, Esq., Hull
William Moe, Esq., East Redford
W. R. Mesham, Esq., M.D., Bedford
Robert Mellington, Esq., Ordshall House, near Eastßedford, Director
of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
William Moorhouse, Esq., Marine Villa, Knottingley, Provisional
Director of the Sheffield, Barnsley, and Wakefield Railway
Peter Morrison, Esq.; Director of South and Midlands' Junction, 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 Cheater
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 junctiiii, and West Midland and South
Midland and Oxford titensiOn Railways
Robert Oxley, Esq., M.D., Pontefract

_ .
Bennett Pell, Esq., 12, Finsbury-place North
William Perfect, Esq., Moukhill, 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 Riddll, 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 Boroagh 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 Thirak 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 Priory, 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., Wimpole-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 Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland Hollow, Derbyshire, Director of
the Rugby, Derby, and 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 John L.L.D., and F.R.S.
ACTING Excartzaa—William Mullingar Higgins, Esq.
LONDON SOLICITORS.
J. It. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-court
Owen Gray, Esq., /25, Great Tower-street,
J. B. Midge, Esq.,

RANKERS.
London—Messrs. Rogers, Ming, and C..
Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Co.

The object of this railway is to connect, in the most direct course,
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 been brought
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
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, Grantham, 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 anti merchandise.
By the construction of this railway, railway communication to
London will be given to Peterborough and Leicester (by arieans 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 tbe 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
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branch line with the East and West India Docks on the ver
Thames, and the Rai,way Company having recently leased for 9L9
years tile extel,ive pepper warehouses belonging to those docks,
which are ca:)a4ble of reMjvin,,,,,* 12=000 tons of goods, together with
wharfs adjoining, where The shipment and trans-shipment of goods
from all parts of the worldean 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 puce 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 Parliamel:: is obtained, and afterwards only
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, iu the event
of that Company not prosecuting their line to Bedford.
Applications, for Shares (in the form annexed) may be made to J.
It. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-court, and Messrs. Owen Gray and
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 Heseltine, 9, Finch-lane
Leeds—Messrs. Hopps and Co.
Liverpool—Messrs. Joseph King and Son
Hull—Messrs. Flint and Motel
Manchester—Messrs. Cardwell and Sons
Bradford—Mr. Josiah Scholefield .
Edinburgh—Mr. Charles Cooper, 30, St. Andrew's-square
Ne application will be attended to unless accompanied by a satis-
factory reference.