The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-10-07 00:00:00

James Joseph M'Swiney, Esq., Sandal View, Wakefield,
Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate Railway
J. Mee Mathew, FN., Assistant Tithe Commissioner,
Director of the Woaesterahire, Derbyshire, and Staf-
fordshire Railway
Captain Macdougall, Fir aroeef North Buxton, Director
of the Reading, Guildford, and lic;,..:ate Railway
John George Norbury, Esq.,
Maneetter Ather-
stone, Director of the Tean and Dove Valley and South
Staffordshire Junction Railways
Joseph Norton, Esq., Claytcn West, Huddersfield, Di-
rector of the Huddersfield, Halifax, and Bradford
Union Railway, and the Wakefield and Harrogate
Railway
George Parbury, Esq., Mansfield House, Russell-square,
Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
William Peppercorne, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex, Director of
the West Midland Railway
Captain Thomas Ross, 58, Porchester-terrace, Director
of the Direct Northern, Eastern, and Western Junc-
tion Railway
William Raines, Esq., Temple, Director of the London
and Nottingham Railway
Frederick William Seymour, Esq., Carlton-terrace, Di-
rector of the Lynn, Wisbeach, Peterborough, &c.
Railway
William Spooner, Esq., London, Director of the South
Staffordshire Junction Railway, and of the Liverpool,
Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction Rail-
way
Henry Scott, Esq., 17, Pall-mall
S. E. Sichel, Esq., merchant, Bradford, Director of the
Leeds, York, and Midland Junction Railway
George Turner, Esq., Hunton-hill, Erdington, Director
of the South Staffordshire Junction Railway
Henry Taylor, Esq., Alderman, Wigan, Director of the
Manchester and Wigan, and the Liverpool, Preston,
and North Union Junction Railways
George Turton, Esq., Bagden Lodge, Clayton West,
Huddersfield
William Tinker, Esq., Conock, Wilts, Director of the
Manchester, Southampton, and Poole Railway
George Thomas Thompson, Esq., Dover, Coroner for the
Cinque Ports
John Thompson, Esq., Alderman of Wigan, Director of
the Birkenhead and Holyhead Railway, of the Man-
chester and Wigan Railway, and Liverpool, Preston,
and North Union Junction Railway
John Taylor, Esq., Hull, Director of the Lincolnshire
and Eastern Counties Railway
James Upfill, Esq., The Green, llerefordshire, Director
of the Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway
George Unett, Esq., The Laurels, Handswortb, Stafford-
shire, Director of the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Man-
chester Railway, and the Lyn, Wisbeach, and Peter-
borough Railway.
Thomas Bolinan Upfill, Esq., Birmingham, Director of
the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway.
Major White, Pall Mall, Director of the Tring, Reading,
and Basingstoke Railway.
Walter Unett, Esq., Captain 3rd Light Dragoons, Maid-
. stone, Director of the Nottingham and South Stafford-
shire, and the Lynn, Wisbeach, and Peterborough Rail-
ways.
William Royden Watts, Esq., M.D., Birmingham, Di-
rector of the Lincoln, Louth, and Great Grimsby Rail-
way.
Thomas Wakefield, Esq., London, Director of the Not-
tingham and South Staffordshire Railway.
Smith Whilock, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Staf-
fordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway.
Robert William Watson. Esq., Dover.
John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, near Tonbridge,
Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway.
Sir William White, Director of the Stafford, Uttoxeter,
and Derby Railway.
J. W. Yerbury, Esq., Belcombe House, Wilts, Captain
3rd Light Dragoons, Director of the Direct Western
Railway.
Lodge Murry Murry Prier, Esq , 12th Lancers, Coven-
' try, Director of the Dublin, Tullamore, and Parsons-
town Railway.
Edward Knight, Esq., M.D., Stafford, Director of the
Grand Junction and Midlands Union Railway.
-William Henry Skelton, Esq., Shadwell, near Leeds.
Charles William Reynolds, Esq.. Captain 16th Lancers,
Maidstone, Director of the Worcester, Warwick, and
Rugby Railway.
Thomas Braman, E'q., Mayor of Tamworth, Deputy
Chairman of the Leicester and Tamworth Railway.
Richard Hrghes, Esq., Stafford, Director of the Stafford-
shire and Shropshire Junction Railway.
Henry Wenman Newman, Esq., Thornbury Park, near
Bristol, Deputy Lieutenant of Gloucestershire, and
Magistrate of Gloucester and Bristol.
CONSULTING ENGINEER.

ACTING ENGINEER.
Edward James Maude, Esq., C.E.
BANKERS.

London—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co. ; The Union

Bank
Brietol—Stuckey's Banking Company
Bradford and Trowbridge—The Wilts and Dorset Bank-

ing Company
Doter—Messrs. Latham and Co

JOINT SOLICITORS.
Edwin Smith. Esq., and Messrs. Lewis & Ford, London ;
Edward Barges, Esq., Bristol.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.

G. F. Thomn.on,—Es4., Dover; Henry Gilbert, Esq.,
Devizes ; W. H. Reece, Esq., Birmingham ; Messrs.
Timbrell and Merrick, Bradford and Trowbridge ;
Messrs. Taylor, Kemp, and Kingston, Bath.

PARLIAMENARY AGENT.
Cadwrillader F. Wadily, Etti

SECRETARY.
Charles Martin, Esq

PHIS Company has been formed for the purpose of
constructing a Line in continuation of the South-
Eastern Railway at Reigate, whereby a direct junction
will be effected between the whole of the south-eastern
coast, including the port and harbour of Dover and the
several ports and towns of Southampton, Gosport, Ports-
mouth, and Bristol ; and, by means of the Bristol and
Birmingham Railway, with Gloucester, Worcester, Bir-
mingham, Manchester, Liverpool, and the North of
England.
From its proximity to the Continent, the port of Dover
will always ho the most accessible point of the English
coast; an expeditious communication therefore between
that and the other ports, harbours, and inland towns of
the United Kingdom must necessarily be regarded as a
great national advantage.
Dover is at present the chief port of embarkation for
Calais, Boulogne, Ostend, and other continental towns,
and tie vast numbers already resorting there both on
business and pleasure will be immeasurably incrusted when
the Railways of France, Bel4iurn, Holland, and Germany
are fully brought into operation.
In addition to which, the Government Commissioners
having selected Dover as a Harbour of Refuge, and re-
commended the outlay thereon of £1,500,000, it cannot
fail of becoming a place of the greatest resort for the
shipping and commercial interests of the country, and
perhaps the most important town on the southern coast.
In every point of view, therefore, whether for national
security, or for travelling excursions, or the invaluable
interests of our shipping and commerce, the naramount
importance of a cheaper, more convenient, and accelerated
intercourse between this great port and all parts of the
kingdom, must be sufficiently obvious. This the promo-
ters fully anticipate will be attained by the proposed
Railway, which will form a portion of a Grand Trunk
Line, completing the chain of railway communication
upon the narrow guage between the south-eastern coast,
and Bristol and the western, northern, and midland
counties _ _

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The line will commence at the terminus of the South-
Eastern Railway at Reigate, proceed thence by Dorking,
Godalming, Farnham, and Odiham, to the Basingstoke
Station, on the South-Western Railway. It will then
proceed by Andover towards Devizes, Trowbridge, and
Brad ford, with a branch to Bath, and pursuing its course
through the Somertetshire Coal-field, throwing off a
branch towards Radstcck into the heart of the Collieries,
terminate in a junction with the Bristol and Birmingham
Railway at Bristol.

By its course through Dorking, Godalming, Farnham,
and Odiham, it will supply the ltailuay accommodation
so much required by those towns, and connect the rich
and fertile hop districts of Surrey, Kent, and South
Hants, and afford the means of conveyance of their pro-
duce to the great hop fair at Weybill.
By its junction with the contemplated 4. Reading,
Guildford, and Reigate Railway," it will afford to the in-
habitants of Reading, Oxford, and to the midland coun-
ties generally, the best and shortest route to the Conti-
nent, as well as to Worthing. Hastings, and Brighton,
and the other watering-places in Sussex and Kent ; and a
vast increase of visitors will undoubtedly be attracted to
those places from the interior of England by the accom-
modation and facilities for travelling which will be accom-
plished by this and the proposed Railway from Reading.
By its intersection of the South-Western Railway at
Basingstoke, and of the proposed Manchester and South-
ampton Railway further west, the present Line will con-
nect Dover towards the south, with Southampton (the
packet-station for the East and West Indies, &c.) to Gos-
port, and Portsmouth, and towards the north, with Chel-
tenham, Gloucester, Worcester, Birmingham, Manches-
ter, and Liverpool, also with Shrewsbury, Chester, and
Holyhead, and, in fact, with the whole of North and South
Wales.
At Basingstoke also this line will join the proposed
London, Salisbury, and Yeovil Railway, and throw open
to Dover and the south-eastern counties the populous and
wealthy cities of Salisbury and Exeter, the rich agricul-
tural counties of Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, and Devon,
the ports of Plymouth, Devonport, and Falmouth, and
the mineral regions of Cornwall.
To Devizes, Trowbridge, Bradford, and Bath, and the
other towns in the vicinity of its course, the benefits
which this line will confer cannot be too highly estimated ;
to the coal district sof Somersetahire it will open large
and con-tant markets both in Bristol and to the south and
east, while to the inhabitants of Bristol especially, con-
necting its channel with the Straits of Dover and the
Downs, providing a perfect line for telegraphic communi-
cation, and securing to them the whole of the trade be-
tween the south-east of England and the west and south
of D eland, it seems difficult, considering the enormous
traffic which must necessarily flow to that city, to con-
ceive a project more deserving of their cordial support.
In the memorable parliamentary contest last session
between two great rival companies, the legislature for the
first time admitted that principle of competition with ex-
isting interests which was claimed by the Oxford, Wor-
cester, and Wolverhainpton Company for the protection
and benefit of the public ; arid it is with no fear of the
result that the promoters of the present undertaking in-
vite attention to one distinguishing feature it contains,
viz., that by the construction of the line from Bristol to
Basingstoke, the Box Tunnel will be avoided, and a new
and independent communication will be established be-
, tween Bristol and London, by a shorter line on the nar-
row gunge than by the devious. course of the Great West-