The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-08-05 00:00:00

PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.
NORTH DEVON RAILWAY COMPANY.

Capital, £1.750,000, in 70,000 Shares, of £25 each
Deposit, £1 7s. Gd., Payable on each Share.
Liability limited to amount of Subscription.

PROVISIONAL COSIFITTEE.
The Right [lon. Earl Fortesetie.
The Right. Hon. Lord Clinton.
The Right Hon. Lord Min-tore.
The Right Hon. Lord Palmerston, M.P.
Lord Courtenay, M.P.
Lord Viscount Ebrington, M.P.
Sir Bourchier Palk Wrey, Bart.
Sir Robert George Trockinorton, Bart.
Sir John Trevalvan, Bart.
Sir Thomas Buckler Lethbridge, Bart.
Lieutenant-General Sir George Adams.
Sir Anthony Buller.
Lewis William Buck, Esq., M.P.
Charles Russell, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Great

Western Railway Company.
Montague Gore, E:q., M.P.
Frederick Hodgson' Esq., M.P.
Thomas Gill, Esq., NIX., Chairman of Ihe South Down
Railway Company.
Frederick Wynn Knight, Esq., M.P.
William G.Hayter,Esq., M.P., Director of the Great

Western Railivav 'Conipany.
Charles Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P.
John Heathcoat, Esq., M P.
Edward Ayshford Sandford, Esq., Nynehead-court, So-
merset.
Samuel Trehawke, Kehewich, Esq., Peamore, Devon.
John Knight, Esq., Simonsbath, Devon.
George S. Buck, Esq., Hartland abbey, Devon.
Augustus S. Willett, Esq., Tapley-park, Devon.
William Arundell Yen, Esq., Freinington, Devon.
James Wentworth BuUer, Esq. Downes, Devon.
Frederick Pratt Ballow, Esq., Director of the Great
Western Railway Company.
John Hip?isley, Esq.' Shoebrooke-park, Devon.
John Mackrell, Esq., Barnstaple.
John Beavis Bignell, Esq., M.D., Barnstaple.
James Whyte, Esq. Pilton-house, Barn,taple.
George Bragington, Esq., Bideford.
,Vmes Gibbs, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Bristol
and Exeter Railway Company.
Thomas G. Harding, Esq., Monkleigh, Devon.
William Tardrew, Esq., Annery-house, Devon.
Edward St. Aubyn, Esq., Director of the South Devon
Railway Company.
Christopher Shapland, Esq., Sneed-park, Bristol.
Montague Baker Bere, Esq., Morebath, Somerset.
Henry Badcock, Esq., Taunton, Somerset.
George Elers, Esq. Stogumber, Somerset.
Phillip Broadinead, Esq., Wiveliscombe, Somerset.
John Blommart, Esq., Willett-house, Wiveliscombe,
Somerset.

William Hancock, Esq., Wiveliscombe, Somerset.
henry 11. Harvey, Esq., Wiveliscombe, Somerset.
William Morgan, Esq., Director of the Bristol and

Exeter Railway Company.
William Henry Hawker, Esq., Plymouth.
George Jones. Esq., Her!lland-house, Bristol.
Henry Hooper, Esq., Exeter.
Patrick' Miller, Esq., M.D., Director of the Bristol and

. _
Exeter Railway Company.
J. C. Wileccks, Esq. Exeter.
Charles Bowles Fripp, Esq., Dire tor of the Bristol and

_
Exeter 'Railway Compiny-
Richard Bastard Esq., Exeter.
Edward Davy, Esq., Crediton, Devon.
Philip Davy, Esq. 11orchard Bishop, Devon.
Will,ughby Bryant Stawell, Esq., Rhyll, East Anstey,
Devon.

Henry Simonds, Esq., Director of the Great Western Rail-

way Company.
Henry William Chichester, Esq., Rose-house, Bampton.
William Fox, Esq , Director of the South Devon Rail-

way Company.
John Gribble; Lsq.,_Barnstaple.
Stephen Bencraft, Esq.. Barnstaple.
William Watson, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Exeter
Railway Company.
Abraham Smith, Esq., Traesbeer, Devon.
John Knill Cotton, Esq., Barustaple.
Gilbert Knill Cotton, Esq., Barnstaple.
William Avery, Esq , Barnstaple.
William Binford, Esq., South Molton.
Humphrey John Norris Bawden, Esq., South Molton.
John Rundle, Esq. Director of the South Devon Rail-
way Company.
John Etworthy Cutliffe, Esq., South Molton.
William Gould Smyth, Esq., South Morton.
Francis Maunder Hitchcock, Esq., South Molton.
Gilbert Scott, Esq., Cockram-house' South Molton.
William Tothill, Esq. Director of the Great Western
Railway Company.
Thomas Besley, Esq , Tiverton.
Colonel Harris, Radford. near Plymouth.
John Colwell Roe, Esq., Lynmouth.
Charles Palk Collyns, Esq., Dulverton.
Ralph Cole, Esq., Plymouth.
John Tamlyn, Esq., 44. Chancery-lane, London,
(with power to add to their number.)
ENGINEER.
J. K. Brunel, Esq., F.R.S.
.

PHIS Company. is formed wiih a view of establishing
1. a comprehanstve system of Railways for the county
of Devon in connexion with the existing lines, embracing
all the principal towns, and giving to each the advantages
of communication in different directions to the greatest
possible extent consistent with a general plan.
Taking Barnstaple and Bideford as the principal and
most important pints in North Devon, and as represent-
ing a district, it is proposed to form a direct communica-
tion eastward, towards Taunton and Tiverton ; and south-
ward, with Exeter on the one hand and Plymouth on the
other. _ .

To effect this in the most complete manner, embracing
the largest amount of population, and giving, also, the

towns, it is proposed to carry a Line from Bideford, to
Barnstaple, and thence by South Molton to Tiverton,

Railway,) with a line diverging eastw,
few miles east of South Ilolton, and c

, from a point
ied by Wivelis

f the district thus traversed a very
lirect communication with the north and east, via Taun-
ton, and with Exeter, via Tiverton. _ _

giving the whole

ne would be take

hbourhcod of that place proceed on

the one hand to Plyinouth, and on theotherto Exeter,
Crediton, Okehampton being either close to what may
be called the main line of this system, or having a branch

mtnunicat

with it

By these

ans Barnsta

would have a second road to*Exeter, and, with Bidefu'rd,
would have a direct railway communication with all the
principal places of South Devonshire, and Exeter would
have the great advantages of railway communication with

these parts

The ground has been sufficiently surveyed to enable the
Engineer to report upon the practicability of constructing
lines in the general directions above mentioned, the total
length of which will be about 120 miles, but the precise
course of such lines must be dependant upon the results
of more detailed surveys, the object of the promoters
being, to construct the mos' perfect and complete system
that the country admits of, weighing equally and fairly the
advantages to the respective interests and to the public

l'he Company is formed by an

ary, including the proniote
(hum and Barnstaple) Rail
es who have interested thew

or the North Devon
,t Company, and the
es in the formation of
tnited with the Great
I South Devon Rail-
that the three latter
If of the Capital and
the Company.

a line from Barnstaple to Tiverton, I
Western, the Bristol and Exeter alp
way Companies, it being proposed,
Companies should contribute one•b
join in the direction of the aff►irs of

The important interests which these Railwtiys will sub-
serve and benefit may be estimated from a statement of the
fact, that the creater part of the entire population of

Devonshire, which exceeded at the last census
et......nn:tiena r‘r thnen i;n

district tr,

'erred by them, the

er including

The traffic To the interior from the seaport towns, both
on the English and Bristol Channels, and the supplies of
corn, wool, cattle, and other produce which flow to the
latter in return, are already very considerable, and may
confidently be expected to be augmen►ed to a great extent
by the increased facilities and diminished cost of transport
afforded by railway conveyance, the advantages of which,
especially in the articles of coal, lime, and minerals, are
manifest.

The opening of a direct and speedy communication
between the north and south coasts, which the Railway
will effect, is a feature in the present undertaking of much
importance in a public point of view; and with reference
to local advantage, and a profitable source of income to
the Proprietary, a line of Railway to a port in the Bristol
Channel is of considerable moment.
The number of visitors attracted annually to the Water-
ing Places and Romantic Scenery of the North of Devon
is also very great, and_will, doubtless, be much increased.

Arrangements are in progress for obtaining exact ac-
counts by actual observation of the traffic on the lines;
but. the promoters are already possessed of sufficient evi-
dence to justify the confident expectation of a remunera-
tive income on the proposed capital, which they are
assured is fully adequate to accomplish all the objects pro-

posed.
The numerous promises of support already received
from the landowners leave no doubt of the successful
issue of the application which will be made to Parliament
for an Act of Incorporation in the next session. Powers
will be sought in such act to allow interest at £4 per cep!.
per annum on the deposit and on all paid-up Calls during
the progress of the work; and no subscriber will incur lia-
bility beyond the amount of his subscription.
Application for Shares (accompanied by satisfactory
reference when the parties are not pers,nally known to
members of the Provisional Committee) may be address-
to Messrs. W. 0. and W. llowr, 10, Whitehall, London;

Messrs. OSBORNE, WARD arid Co., and Messrs. SAVERY;
CLARK, and Co., Bristol; Messrs. WIIITEFORD, BEN-
NET, and TUCKER, Plymouth; and also to Messrs. LIT-
TLEDALE and BARDSWELL, SAicitors, Liverpool, of whom
Prospectuses and Forms of Application may be obtained.