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

John Lawrence, esq , Town Knawl Cottage, Ossett, near
Wakefield.
John Sheard, esq., Bonfire Cottage, near Dewsbury.
J -.seph Thompson Fenton, esq., Chesterfield.
John Haley, esq., Stanuingley.
David Gummersall, esq., Stanningley Mills.
William Dixon, esq., Howley Mills. Morley, near Leeds.
Joe Dransfield, esq., Rookery Mills, near Huddersfield.
Joseph Jubb, Sen.. esq , Batley Mills, near Dewsbury
Director of the Midland, Barnsley, Sheffield and Leeds
railway, &c. &c. &c.
Henry Lodge, esq., Sheffield.
Josiah Burrows, esq., Castle House, Gommersall, Direc-
tor of the Great Leeds and London Direct, and the Li-
verpool and Leeds Direct.
Robert Bell, esq.. Elmwood House, Leeds.
George A. Hauston, esq., Paisley.
Frank Mitchell, esq., Ryecroft Cottage, near Ossett.
Alexander Majoritanks, esq., of Majoribanks, N.B.
Major Gen. White, With, Director of the Direct Western
railway.
Andrew Clarke, esq., Adelaide Place, London Bridge,
and Camberwell, Surrey.
John Wheelton, esq., Meopham Bank, Tonbridge, Kent.
Stephen Hartley Knowles, esq., Merchant, Ten Lands,
Gomersall, near Leeds.
Lionel William Knowles, esq., Merchant, West House,
Gomersall, near Leeds.
James Sutcliffe., e-q.. Nowland Hall, near Halifax,
Director of the Leeds and Thirsk railway.
George Fearnley. esq., M.D., Grove House. Dewsbury.
Thomas Hadfield Gloyne, Esq., Prospect House, Dews-
bury.
Samuel Burnley, esq., Merchant and Manufacturer,
Haverct oft House, Batley, near Dewsbury.
Thomas Dean, esq„ Healey House, Dewsbury.
Thomas Henry S►arr, esq., M.D., Leamington.
James Brabant, esq., Torquay, Devon.
Christopher Carter, esq., Belmont House,Knaresborough.
Frederick Goddard, esq., Bath.
Thomas Emaley, esq., Bodley, near Leeds, Director of
the North and East aiding Junction Railway.
William Shaw, esq., Director of the Farmers' Life As-
surance Company.
William Watson, esq., Leamington.
Thomas Rogers, esq., Bradford.
John Lloyd, esq., Newington.
Edward Clarke, esq., Te nple and Dover-street,Piccadilly.
Samuel George Beamish, esq., Kensington-square.
(With power to add to their number.)
BANKERS.
The London Joint Stock Bank. 5, Princes-street, and
£9, P-11 Mall.
ACTING ENGINEER.
Henry Renton, Esq., C.E.
ARCHITECT AND SURVEYOR.
Charles Lee, Esq., Golden Square.
SOLICITOR.
J. D. Wells, Esq., No. 13, George-street. Mansion-house.
SECRETARY.
R. H. Gadesden, Esq.
OFFICES.
No. 70, King William-street, Mansion-house, London

The object of the promoter. of this company is to form
a direct line of railway from Bristol and Bath to Dover;
and thus in effect unite. connect, or reciprocate with all
the existing and projected lines of railway in the South
and South West and West of England, as well also as
form a complete communication with Ireland and all the
Western and Welsh railways, and most of these in the
Northern and great manufacturing districts, by which
p issengers and goods to and from Folkestone and Dover,
France, and Belgium may be conveyed without the
necessity of passing through the Metropolis.
The main line to be laididown by the company will be
considerably less than one hundred miles, throughout
which the strongest encouragement and support have
been manifested towards phis railway by the landed pro-
prietors, many of whom have determined to invest capital
in the undertaking, and the engineer's report precludes
the apprehension of .ekaineeriny difficulties. The great
public utility and corn mere al advantages of railway com-
munication between the important places and ports which
it is now contemplated to unite, will beat once appreciated
by reference to a map of the country, and they will be
forcibly illustrated by the objects to be attained by this
company.
This line is intended to begin at Bristol by means of
the Great Western railway. and passing through Bath to
Bath Hamptonit will skirt the valley of the Avon, to
Bradford. and thence to Trowbridge. It will then take
as strait a direction as can be obtained to Devizes, Ad
Canuingi, Pewsy, Burbage, Shalborne, West Woodhay,
High Clere, and Overton, on to Basinsgtoke, aihere it
will unite with the South Western railway, and thus from
the Western counties the distance will be several miles
shorter to the Metropolis the . by any other existing line.
It will then, by -means of the South Western railway,
proceed on to near Farnborough (a distance of fourteen
miles) whence. leaving Farnham to the South, it will pass
onward to Ashe, Guildford, Gomshall, and Dorking to
Reigate, where it will unite with the South Eastern and
Dover-railway—(The latter, eighteen miles from Guildford
to Reigate will in all probability be constructed by
another company).
In its course it will thread its way through the lines of
many of the railways already constructed or projected—
the junction of which will not only be estimated as a great
public convenience, but prove highly advantageous to the
several companies interested, producing an immense
traffic, that must stream from Ireland—from our great
manufacturing districts in the North—the cloth and corn
markets of the West of England—the mineral and coal
fields of Wales, and the hop districts in Kent—all of
which point to the formation of this railway as a great
desideratum, as well also as form a direct communication
with France, Belgium, and the Con inert generally.
The distance to be saved by this railway will exceed thirty
miles from Bath (and all the towns North West) to
Dover; while to many of the towns South West of
Bristol sixty,miles or more will be saved by this railway
in union with some of the other lines; and the often dis-
agreeable and costly necessity (at present existing) of
passing through London, to or from Dover, will be
entirely obviated, and manufacturers and merchants in
most parts of the country, West and North, or South,
will be thus enabled to forward and rece:ve goods direct
from and to`Dover and Folkestone, avoiding the present
inconvenient mode and expense of transference from
railway to railway across London.
Any at'empt to distinguish the number of passengers
proceeding to or from London, or the Provinces and the
Continent by the South Eastern and Dover Railway,
would be abortive; but the published staiements of that
Company show that the traffic exceeds 1:8000 weekly, and
the accounts of arrivals at, and departures from Calais,
Boulogne, and Ostend. exhibit an astonishing number of
persons as passengers to and from England weekly, by
Dover and Folkstone, throughout the whole of the year.
Yielding to the metropolis one half of the number as a
large proportion, the remaining half will belong to the
provinces and Ireland, who will probably prefer to be
conveyed from or to their localities without the annoyance
of being compelled to pass through London, especially as
the saving of distance lone will considerably diminish

expenses.
The construction of this line of railway can hardly fail
to meet the approval of the government ; as, besides its
great commercial utility, the convenience it will afford for
the speedy transport of troops from Ireland. or the North,
Sou, h, or West of England to Dover, in a direA manner.
avoiding the present necessity of marching them across
London or other towns, after they are once placed in rail-
way carriages, must be greatly appreciated; and where it
is expedient that ,expedition and secrecy should be
observed in the removal of troops, the means offered
by this company will greatly assist the authorities in faci-
litating their objects.
The railways a!r atly constructed or projected with
which this line of railway will effect a union or cornmunic t-
tion. and reciproc.we advantages exceed fifty in number
(as will be seen by examitig any railway map), and all of
them must be in direct communication with, a d will feed,
or b- fed by THE SOUTH ERN COUNTIES UNION,
AND, BRISTOL. BATH, AND DOVER DIRECT
RAILWAY ; the most important junctions being those
le +ding to this line from the North and the Manufacturing
Districts by Oxf ird to Dover and Brighton, those from
Ireland, North \Vales by Cheltenham or Oxford and this
railway to Dover or Brighton, and th ,se from the south
and West of England uy Salisbury to Dryer ; thus effect-
ing a con'inuous and direct intercourse with nearly every
part of England,Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and the Conti-
nent
Toe census returns show that this railway will pass
through a country containing a population of upwards of
one million, and this number, though large, may be fairly
multiplied several time if all the other parts or the king-
dom which will benefit by it, he considered.
Wi la these facts before them, the promoters have not
deemed it necessary to put forth estimates of traffic ; the
sow dness of the project being guaranteed by the truths
already given in this brief exposition. and the great objects
intended to be compassed by this company.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Basingstoke and Odihatn—Messrs. Cole, Lamb, and
Brooks.
Bath—Messrs. Mant and Harvey.
Bristal—Mathew Perkins, esq.
Devizes—John Raikes Bayly, esq.
Farnhatn—B. Nichols.
llawkhurst—Messrs. Beecham and Upperton.
Hungyrford and Marlborough—John Halcomb, esq.
Melksbarn—Messrs. Moule and Gore.
Newbury—Robert Baker, esq., and Messrs. Bunny
and Son.
Reading—Rupert Clarke, Esq.
Trowbridge—John Brent, esq.
Whitchurch, Hants—Thomas Pain, esq.
Applications for shares ( which must necessarily be
restricted in consequence of the immense number applied
for under guarantee of persons of the highest respecta-
bility) with Prospectuses and Plans, to be made to the
Secretary, at the Offices of the Company, No. 70, King
William-street, City ; to J. D. WELLS, eel., 13, George-
street, Mansion House ; and to the following
SHARE BROKERS.
London—S. H. Ellis, esq., 17, Throgmorton-street ;
Messrs. Price and Brown, Change Alley
wood, e. 9•. eFq., Angel Court, Throemorton-street, and
T. C. Mundey, rsq., 17, Royal Exchange.
Bath—R. P. Lemon, esq.; Thomas Evans, esq., and
J. B. Mandy. esq.
Birmingham—J. R. Lane, esq. ;W. H. Collis, esq,
Blackburn—Thomas Boardman, esq. ; James Senior, esq.
Bridgewater—Edward Lilly, esq.
Bris.ol—Messrs. Tate and Nash; Messrs. George
Edwards and Son, and W. H. Land, esq.
Button-on-Trent—W. Wi-by, esq
Cheltenham—Messrs. Hall Brothers and Co.
Coventry—Messrs Brown and Clark, and John T.
Holland. esq.
Dewsbury—John Brooke, esq.
Dublin—Messrs. Brute and Symes.
Edinburgh—Charles Cooper, esq.
Exeter—Messrs. Beaumont and Co.
Halifax—F. C. Spencer, esq., and James Hurry, erg.