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London, England, 1845-10-25 00:00:00

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WANSEA and DULAIS VALES IRON an
COAL COMPANY.
Colice is hereby given, that Applications for Shares in the above
Ipany will not be received after MONDAY, the 10th of November.
By order of the Committee, •
ROBERT COLES, Secretary pro tom.
'emporary Office, 32, Bucklersbury, Oct. 25, 1845.

BIRMINGHAM AND BOSTON DIRECT
RAILWAY COMPANY, with a Branch to Grantham.
Capital, 1,000,000/., in 50,000 Shares of 20!. each..
Deposit 2/. 2s. per Share.'
(Provisionally Registered.)
(Vide former Advertisements for the names of the hi 1141,441 rt 93,
visional Committee.)
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
The Right lion. Lord Edward Chichester, Chairtio.
Captain J. P. Id acklougal, Vice-Chairman.
R. Atkyns, Esq. G. G. Hay, Esq.
H. Brown, Esq. James Lamb, Esq.
W. F. Black, Esq. John Ramie, Esq.
John Blunt, Esq. J. Thompson, Esq., Totten—has
Lieutenant-Colonel L. Dickson John Thompson, Req., Gait te.p.,
A. W. Greville, Esq. I Helen's.
BANKERS.
London.—Commercial Bank of London, 8, liorgateMilft, OA a,
Henrietta-street, Covent-garden
Messrs Spooner, Attwoods, and Co., 27, Gracechltrch-street
Birmingham.—Messrs. J. L. Moilliet and Bens, Dlnillnillianz Oa"
Warwickshire Bank
Boston—Messrs. Gott, Claypon, and Co., and Meeere. Gee apd Co.
Leicester—The Leicestershire Banking Company
Melton Mowbray—Ditto.

JOINT SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Hook and Oldershaw, 7, Token/louse-yard.
Messrs. C. T. and A. Jonkinson, 76, Cat=Al-ellreett 011.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Binningham--IV. H. Reece, Esq.
• Boston—Messrs. Holloway and n&TVISO.
ENGINEERS.
Sandlforth F. Griffin, Esq. C.E.
A. A. B. Bennet, Esq. C.E.
AECRITECT ANA SCRYEYOR—E. N. Clifton, Esq. Token/Wise-yard%
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—Messrs. Sudlo* and Kin,gden, i„ BFI
Palace-yard.

SECRETARY—James Elliott, Esq.
Offices of the Company, 26, Moorgate street, Loa
PROSPECTUS.
This line is designed to open a direct communication Detwt4f2 tka
towns of Eirmlngham and Boston.

The advantages to be derived by a rich, progressing, and populous
town, such as Birmingham, the great manufacturing centre of the
kingdom, having a direct communication with a port on the eastern
coast facing the Continent, and that port the nearest to It by goo.
graphical position, need but to be mentioned to be appreciated.
The name of Birmingham speaks for itself; the capacity and
value of Boston as a commercial port is daily Increasing, end re.-
quires but little enterprise to enable it to compete with some of our
best ports.
It is proposed that this line should commence at Leicester, where
it will form a continuation of the direct line from Birmingham to
that town, and proceeding by or near Melton Mowbray, Corby,
Folkenham, and Donnington, terminate at BoSion; thus affording a
direct communication between Birmingham and its important manu-
facturing districts—Rugby, the great railway centre of England, and
Boston, their nearest seaport, which eventually must command the
traffic of the districts with which it is in connexion and the oppo
site ports of the Continent.
A glance at the map will show how this line is fed, and the towns
in its neighbourhood supplied with railway accommodation by the in-
tersecting lines ; but in the event of the London and York line not
obtaining its Act, it is proposed by this Company to construct a
branch to Grantham.
The country is easy, presenting few or no engineering difficulties.
Another advantage held out by this project is the improvement of
the harbour of Boston, whereby it will be restored to that eminent
position it formerly held among the ports and harbours of the
kingdom.
The usual power will be taken by the Act to allow interest Ed 4
per cent. per annum after passing the Act, on the amount of the
subscription paid up. No subscriber shall be answerable for more
than the amount of his deposit until the Act be obtained, and then
not beyond the amount of his subscription.
A more detailed Prospectus will be issued in a few days, containing
the names of many influential Gentlemen locally interested in the
proposed line.
Applications for shares and prespectuses,to be made to the solicitors
of the Company, 7, Tokenhouse-yard, and 76, Cannon-street, City;
at the offices of the Company, 26, 3loorgate-street ; andto the follow-
ing stock and sharebrokers
London—Mr. Edward Newton Bryant, 16, Throgartorton-atreet ; Mr.
William Rodwell, 22, Throgmorton-street; Mr. A. Sym, 9, Token-
house-yard ; Mr. J. S. Pidgeon, 10, Wanaford-court, Throgritorton-
street.

BIRMINGHAM AND BOSTON DIRECT
RAILWAY, with a Branch to Grantham.
Notice is hereby given, that no ihrther Application for Shares fn
this Company can be received after the 31st October instant In Lon.
don, or after the 6th November from the country.
By order, JAMES ELLIOTT, Secretary.
26, Moorgate-street.

•
BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY.
At a meeting of proprietors of the Bristol and Exeter
T-
way Company, held at the offices of Mr. Henry Britten, No. 17,
Small-street, Bristol, on the 21st of October, 1845, convened toe the
purpose of taking into consideration the provisional agreement en-
tered into between the Directors of the 'above Coiapany end the
Directors of the Great Western Railway Company, for the sale to
the latter of the Bristol and Exeter Railway, and adoptl.l4 6uC4 reigS•
lutions thereupon as might be deemed advisable,
Mr. WILLIAM CROSS in the Chair,
It was Resolved,—lst. That this meeting, looking at the pat 1111 f,
yearly reports, especially the last two, made by the Directors of tike
Bristol and Exeter Railway Company to the proprietors of thatCetwe
pany—at the present receipts—and the gradually increasing truffle
upon the Bristol and Exeter Railway, with the prespect of * still
much greater traffic from its various branches and the already
formed South Devon and projected North Devon and Cornwall lint%
and also at the value of the shares which the Bristol end Exeter
Company possesses in the former two lines—and at the sante limo
making every allowance for the disadvantage of a possible compettng
line direct from London to Exeter (estimated by the Great Western
Company itself at 4 per cent.)—cannot but consider the provisional
agreement made by the directors of the Bristol and Exeter Railway
Company, for the sale of their railway and effects to the Great
Western Railway Company, as a most improvident bargain, highly
detrimental to the interests of the shareholders in the former tinder
taking, and involving an unjustifiable sacrifice if the property of the
Bristol and Exeter Railway Company, to which the proprietors ot
that company ought not to submit or assent ; and that measures be
forthwith adopted to ascertain the sense of the proprietors in general
upon the matter, and if they shall concur in opinion with this meet-
ing, to ensure their co-operation in preventing the confirmatiou of
that agreement.
2d. That for these purposes a Committee be formed, cousiguna
the following gentlemen ;
M
Mr. C. F. Dan&
Mr. J. S. Tripp
Mr. C. F. Thornley Mr. J. Prowse
Mr. Thomas Lucas
With power to add to their number; and that Mr. Henry Bfittall b 3
requested to act as the secretary and legal adviser of the Com.-
mittee.
3d. And that this meeting request the Committee to convene
meetings of the proprietors of the Bristol and Exeter Railway Com-
panl as early as possible, at such places and in such manner as the
Committee shall think expedient ; and to take such other measures
as the Committee shall deem advisable for effectuating the purposes
before mentioned. WILLIAM CROSS, Chairman.
. _

The Committee appointed for carrying out the above resolutions
will be happy to receive communications from any shareholder ;
and would earnestly impress upon the shareholders generally, who
may be prevented from attending the general meeting convened to
confirm the provisional agreement on the 7th of November, imme-
diately to apply to the Committee for the form of proxy (which will
be forwarded duly stamped), to enable the Chairman of this Com-
mittee to vote In their behalf at such meeting, It being necessary
that the proxy, in order to be effectual, should be lodged with the
Secretary of the Company, five days before the meeting.
The Committee would further urge upon each shareholder the no,
cessity of his personal attendance at the meeting of the 7th of No-
vember, and that in the interim he should immediately forward to
the Secretary of this Committee a statement of each shareholder's
name and address, and the number of shares, wholes or thirds, of
which he is the proprietor.
By order of the Committee,
HENRY BRITTAN, Secretary, 17, Small-street, Bristol.

THE NEWCASTLE and LEEDS DIRECT
RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered).
Capital. 800,0001., in 32,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE
Saville C. IL Ogle, Esq., M.P. for Northumberland
T. C. Grainger, Esq. M.P. for Durham
Wm. Collins, Esq. M.P.
Thos. Cookson, Esq. Swinburno Castle
Richard Pierce Butler, Esq. Swinburne Castle, Northambeiland
Captain John Harrison Bowker, R.N. Newcastle-on-Tyne
Edward Bilton, Esq. Newcastle-on-Tyne
Henry Sleekly, Esq. Newcastle-on-Tyne
Andrew White, Esq, Tunstal-lodge, Sunderland
Matthew Hutton Chaytor, Esq. Sunderland
Joseph Hunter, Esq. Beech-grove, Chester.le-street
Robert Hawthorn, Esq. Newcastle-on-Tyne
Samuel Sharp, Esq. Quarry-house, Harperly-park, Durham
Johi Morley, Esq. Eastoft-hall, Goole, Yorkshire
John Rawson, Esq. Stoney Boyd, Halifax
John Cresswell Jobling, Esq. Newton-hall, Northumberland, eitorr.
man of the Quarter sessions for the county of NorthtlrOftrialtd
Gerard Salvin, Esq. Croxdale-hall, Durham
James Atkinson West, EsEq.W. Western-lodge,
Jelin BUrrell, Esq. Durham
John Featherston Aytou, Esq.
John Henderson, Esq. Leazes-house, Durham
William Green, Esq. Durham
John llarrison, Esq. Bell-wood, Ripon
Thomas Fisher, Esq. Ripon
George Smith, jun. Esq. Leeds
Thomas Nunneley, Esq. Leeds
Peter Fairbairn, Esq. Leeds
Richard Hutchinson, ER. Leeds
The Mayor of Leeds
John Darnton Luccock, Esq. Leeds
John Haigh, Esq. Leeds
C. G. Maclea, Esq. Leeds
Thomas Drone, Esq. West-hill, Devon, and Pall-labli
The Hon. Captain Hotham, R.N. chairman of • ths NorthlanberiPtd7
and Lancashire Junction Railway Company
William Morley, Esq. deputy-chairman of the ZiTottlguaDSXl4ll4
L ancashire Junction Railway Company
John Barnes, Esq. Chorley-wood-house
Joha Bagshaw, Esq. Gloucester-place, Portmaa.mtara
Captain Ommanney, R.N. Upper Wimpole-street
Captain W. G. Beare, Porchester-place, Connaught-square
William Fitzgibbon, Esq. 21, Ctimbridge-street, Cotuta4l3t4llll4l*-
Simeon Musgrave, Esq., Kirkstall, near Leeds
Joseph Batcson, Esq. Leeds
Win. Gill, Esq. Richmond
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nthisehiropnulmurkir).
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JOINT SOLICITORS TO THE COMPANY.
Messrs. Dickson and Overbtuy, 4, Frederick's-place, 014 sowzr.
London
Edward John Teale, Esq. Loeds.
narrszas.

Union Bank of London
Leeds and West Riding Bank, Leeds
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Joint Stock Bank, NeWcastlO
The Yorkshire Banking Company, York, null, Aradtbrd,
der:if:told
SECRETARY—E. C. Stevan, Esq.
Onus) or TILE Comm—No. 4, Fredertgr i-plao, 014 Jewry.

TCi ReLSIIPUdpEI6Cete nTU
a direst.
.3orandaktion
St.-
This railway is intended to o
nwLmeedsand
commenceN cian junction Newcastle.
It with the Leeds and Thlrsk Rail-
way at Wath, near Ripon, and following the route, as near as ma,
be, of the Old Leeming-lane coach road, will proceed to a point near
Masham, thence by way of Bedale, Catterick, Richmond, Middleton,
Tyas, Barton, and Manfleld, to Bishop Auckland, where it. will join
the Northumberland and Lancashire Junction Railway
The length of the projected line will be about forty milaS, which.
will render the distance between the important towns of Leeds and
Newcastle thirty miles shorter than by any existing, and allow, miles
shorter than by any proposed, line of railway.
It will traverse districts abounding with coal, ironstone. lime, and
agricultural produce, hitherto shut out from the advaatages of raltr
way communication with the markets of the populous and manti*...
turing districts of Yorkshire and Lancashire.
As this line will join the Yorkshire and Glasgow Union Railway
near Bedale, the Lancashire and North Yorkshire Railway near to
Richmond, and the Leeds and Think Railway at Wath, it will afford
the means of conveying coal, at moderate charges, to the extensive
agricultural districts through which these several railways are pro-
posed to pass.
The coke produced in the Auckland district alrea4y commands an
universal preference over that supplied from anylralser part of the
kingdom, and is accordingly in great request on all the principal
lines, and the proposed railway will afford the most direct and con-
venient outlet for it to the midland districts, where the demand will
be unlimited.
From the most careful and diligent inquiry it has been ascertained
that the coal and coke are alone sufficient to yield an ample return
for the capital employed in the construction of the line, independently
of the present, and continually increasing traffic, in passengers and
merebandize, which experience has hitherto found to resnit, wherever
the facilities of railway communication has been provided,
The attempts now making to constitute Leeds the great centre of
railway communication between the northern and southern parts of
the kingdom, for which its geographical position and commercial
importance offer ao many facilities, must necessarily render the New-
castle and Leeds Direct Railway an important trunk line.
The surreys are already made, and the line has been found to present
, no engineering difficulties, and to be okrfhaelivaaestnyiieaknnetwd:lsneexbpeoessin
taken
et;
ostbrrupctrniiotihne:.
tions for Shares to be made at the offices of the &littera:
AActllinotithieerenrsrelluinmgisn:SrYsionB teefP Ig'
to the Company, to the Secretary, and to the following agents an):
stock, and share-brokers:—London—fir. Simon, Warnford-court;
Mr. C. J. Coates, 4, Tokenhouse-yard. Newcastle-on-Tyne--T. F.
Dickinson and Co. Leeds—Smith, Knowles, and Cooke ; end Well-
beleved and Barwick. Manchester—llaynes and Co. Liverpool.,
A. Laurie. Hull—F. Stamp. Ripon—Mr. Asquith ; Mr. Farrar.
Applications for Shares will be received until the 29lai, Of Weber
after which day no applications can be attended to.

NEWCASTLE AND LEEDS- DIRECT'
RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that no fhrther Application!' for Shares' At)
this Company can be received after ;WEDNESDAY next, the Ob

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October instant.