The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-10-21 00:00:00

THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES UNION AND
BRISTOL, BATH, AND DOVER DIRECT
RAILWAY COMPANY.
[PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.]
CAPITAL, £1,5U0,000, in 60,000 Shares of £25 each.
Deposit £2 12s td.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.
The right hon. the Earl of Uxbridge
Viscount Mandeville
Lord Dunboyne
Lord Albert Denison Cnnyngham, K.C.H.. Director of
the Galway and Ennis Grand Junction railway.
Pierce Somerset Butler. esq., M.P., Queen-square
The hon. Percy/Evans Freke, 3. Belgrave-square, Di-
rector of the Direct Western railway, &c.
The hon. Geoff, ey Browne, D.L., Wilton-crescent, Lon-
don, and Castle M`Garrett, Mayo, Director of the Irish
West Coast railway.
Sir Richard Jenkins. G.C.8., East India House, Director
of the East India Company, and Dendre Valley railway.
Sir John Hare, F.S.A., 11, Laugham-place, Director of
the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, of the Manchester and
Rugby Direct railways, &c.
Sir George Rich, Lowndes-square, Belgrave-square, Di-
rector of the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate, and the
Callao, Lima, and Pacific Coast railways
Sir William Twysden, Dorset-street, Portman-square
Sir James Eye, Brook-street, Grosvenor-square, Di-
rector of the Portsmouth Direct railway
General Bacon, Itusham House, Egham, Director of the

Royal Portuguese railways Company
Lieut. Gen. Lomax, Bristol
The O'Moore, Cloghren Castle, Banagher, Deputy Lieu.
tenant and High Sheriff of the county of Roscommon
William Hughes Hughes, esq., F.S.A., F L.S., &c. Al
derman of London, chairman of the Leek and Mans
fieltl.of the Erewash Valley, of the Great Western
Southern, and Eastern, and of the Birkenhead, Chester,
Mold, Rhuabon, and Vale of Llangollen Railways
The Boroughreeve of Manchester, John Burgess, esq.,
Director of the London and Manchester Direct and
Independent railway
The Mayor of Whitchurch, Hants
William Shadbolt, esq., Crooms Hill, Greenwich, Chair-
man of the London and Greenwich, and Director of
the Dendre Valley railways
Algernon W. B. Greville, es.q., Cambridge-terrace,
Hyde-park, Director of the Manchester and Birken-
head Continuation railway
Thomas Dowglasse, esq., Marlborough.place, St. John's
Wood, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct,
and of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation
railways
F. W. Hamilton, esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square.
Director of the York and Lancaster railway
P. Bennett Lucas, esq., Manchester-street, Manchester-
square, Director of the Leeds and London Direct, the
Sligo and Shannon, the loswich and Southampton, and
the Cerk, Passage, and Kinsale railways
John Mee Mathew, esq.. Mecklenburgh-square, Director
of the East and West Junction, the Derby, Sheffield,
and Worcester, the Great Manchester, Rugby, and
Southampton railways, &c.
Wm. J. M•Guire, esq., damptomcourt, Director of the
Direct Wastern, and of the Direct Birmingham, Ox-
ford, Reading, and Brighton railways
Thomas, Kidley, esq., M.D., Sheffield, Director of the
Direct Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton
railway. &a.
Thomas Shaw, esq., Northampton, Director of the South
Midland, and the Great Western, Southern, and East-
ern Counties railways
Joseph Shaw, Esq., York-ph ;e, Huddersfield, Director
of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, and
the Keigbley, Halifax, and Hucidersfield,railways
Charles klenry 'Rogers Harrison, esq., Upper Montague-
street, Montague-square, Director of the Grand Trunk,
and the Direct West End and Croydon railways
Valentine Knight, esq., Cornwall-terrace, ,Director of the
Great Western, Southern and Eastern Counties, and
the Dendre 'Valley railways
George Harrison, Esq.. Director of the 'Grand Trunk,
and of the Hull and Holyhead railways
C. Preston, esq., Hereford road, Bayswater, and Black-
more, Essex
Colonel Nicolls, Shooter's-hill, Director of the Armagh,
Coleraine, and Portrush, and the Sligo and Shannon
railways
Griffin Curtis Galt, esq., Charles-street, Manchester-
square, Director of the Armagh, Coleraine, and Port-
rash, and the Sligo and Shannon railways
Edwin Gailloan, esq., Merchant, Sheffield, Director of
the Direct Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton
railway.
George Materly, esq., Welbeek-street;Cavendish-square.
John Alcock Dixon, esq., Burnley, Lancashite, Director
of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct railway.
John Ingbs Jerdein, esq., 150, Piccadilly, Director of the
Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton, and the
West Midland, Manchester, and 'Southampton rail-
ways.
Lieut• Col. Fitch, York-terrace, Regent's•park, Director
of the Yorlt and Lancaster, and of the Oxford, 'Wor-
cester, and Chester Junction railways.
James esq., 30, Bloomsbury-square, Director of the
Paris and Strasbut g. the Metropolitan Railways Junc-
tion, the Southamption. Manchester, and Oxford rail-

ways,le.c.
George Lawton, esq., Ditchley's Hall,'Brentwood, Essex,
Director cf the South Midland, and of the Great
Western_ Southern, and Eastern Counties railways.
Will'ain CoFtello, esq.; D.,Wyke House,
Brentford, Director of the Direct London and Exeter

rai way.
Alford Brodie, esq., Director of the Grand Trunk, and

Direct West Enndand Croydon railways.
Richard -1-1 Allnatt, esq., M.D., Parliament-

street. h?'i~iteh ill.
Edward Waley, esq., Portland place.
Majar David Fitgerald, Valentia, Ireland, Director of the
Sheffield, Nuttingliam, and London Direct railway.
Francis Newt-wry, esq., Kiiig.ton
J. sepliGraham, esq., Clapham, Director of the Northern

-
and S.iutliern Con acting railway.
George Augustin; Brown. e,.q.' 20, ,Gower-street, Bed-
ford-snipire, Director of the Callao,'Liina, and Pacific
Crag, railway.

Knowlton W.lson, esq., M.D., Sheffield.
Dahiel Turton Johnson, esq., Aldermary Churchyard,
Dlr ctor of the Northern ;IA Southern -Connecting, of
Remington's London arid Manchester. of the Chester
and Manchester Direct, and of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordsh•re,-and Worcester railways.
Thomas Wynne, esq., Longton, Staffordshire, Director
of the South Union and liirmingham Junction, of the
Holyhead Direct, and of the Leeds .and Carlisle rail-
ways.
Hush John Smerdon, EQq., Chriatow, Devonshire, Di-
rector of the Dartmouth, Torbay, and'Exeter railway.
Wiliam Eccles, esq., Old Broad-street, Director of the
Great, Grimsby, Louth, Horncast!e, Lincoln, and Mid-
land Junction railway.
Richard Cowley Polhill, esq., North Terrace, Brompton,
Middlesex, Director of the Thames Valley and Houns-
-I,w railway, &c.

Horace William Meteyard , esq., Director of the Northern
and Southern Connecti,,g, of fterningtotk's 'London and
Manchester, the ..3hester and Manchester—Direct, and
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire
railwiys. _ . . . .

John Joseph Keene, eQq., St John's Wood, Chairman
of the Cork and fermoy Direct, and DeputrChairman
of the Leed4 and dddersfield railwass, &c.
Major Adair, Pall Mall, Director of the Central Sardi-
nian and the North. in and Southern Connecting

railways.
Lieut.-Col. Cruttenden. R. A , Director of the Gloucester,
Ahery-twith, and Central Wales railway.
George Jones, esq , M.R.S., F.S.V , 13, George-street,
Hanover square, Director of the London and Windsor
railway.
Abraham Be'tridge, esq„ Devonshire Terrace, Director
of the Great Grimsby, Lon h, Horncastle, Lincoln,
and Midland Junction., and the Metropolitan Railways
Junction railways, &c.
Frederick Ramsden, esq., Seymour House, Old TraTird.
M oichest'r. Director of the Birkenhead and Holyhead
Junction, the Landon and Holyhead Direct, and the
Sheffield and Maecle-field,railways, &c.
James Ogden, e,q., M.D., Salf Ord, Director of the Man-
chester and Chester Dire t railway.
James Atkinson W, sr. esq.. Western Lodge, Durham,
Director of the Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire.
the Manchester Liverpool, and Great North of Eng-
land, the Sheffield. Buxton, Leek, Potteries and Crewe,
and the Wt ar D ck railways, &c.
Samuel -Giles, esq., Mei chant, Manchester, Director of
the Manchester and Rugby Diteet, and Sheffield and
Macclesfield Direct railways, &c.
Robert Passenger, e'q Union-street, Borough, Director
of the Callao, Lima, and Pacific Coast railway, and the
Royal Mines of Cobra Association.
Colonel Cam pbell Dalrymple. Georg--street, Westminster,
Director of the City and West End railway.
William King, esq., Director of the London and Man-
chester Direct Line (Remington 's.)
John Miller, esq., St. John's Wood Grove.
Robert Fynn. esq.,, Temple, Director of the Cheltenham,
Oxford, and Brighton Junction railway, &c.
Stephen Henry Lee, esq„ Dalston, Director of the City
of London Life Assurance Societe, &c.
John King. esq., Grove-road, St. John's Wood, Director
of the Somersetshire Midland railway. &c. •
Captain Trophimus Hodge., Connaght Terrace, Director
of the Manchester and Rugby Direct railway, &c.
Sohn Emmet. esq., Ovenden Grange. Halifax, Director
.of the Halifax Fire and life Insurance Company.
John Hodgson, esq., Sunderland House, Halifax, Di-
rector of the Manchester, Southampton, and Oxford
Junction railway
Joseph Gillham, esq., Hargreaves House, Oldham, Di.
rector of the Staffordshire Potteries, the Birkenhead
and Holyhead Junction. and the Manchester and
Southampton railways.
William Hunter, esq., Clarendon square, Leamington.
Samuel Douglass, esq., Doctors Commons, Director of
the Grand Junction, Great Western, and South
Western railway.
Charles Roger Dodd, esq., North Brixton, Director of
the Great Welsh Central railway.
William Shaw, Director of the Royal Farmers' Insurance
Company, and the Warwick and Worcester railway
Richard Geddes, esq., Newca-tle-upon-Tyne
Captain John Harrison Bowker, R.N., Newcastle-on-
Tyne
Ambrose Moore, esq., Milk-stree, Cheapside
Frederic Hewitt, esq., Clapham. Director of the Erewash
Valley Extension, of the Leek end Mansfield, and of
the Birkenhead, Chester, Mold, lihuabon, and Vale of
Llangollen railways
Lient. Col. Maealister, K.H.. Loupe Cottage, Axminster,
Magistra'e of the county, Director of the Yeovil, Exe-
ter, and Dorchester, aLd the Dartmouth, Torbay, and
Exeter railways
T. S. Richards, esq., Baker-street. Portman-square, Di-
rector of the Great Western, Sonhern and Eastern
Ctunties, and the Leek and Mansfield railways