The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-09-23 00:00:00

FHB STAFFORDSHIRE euTTERIES, AND
LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER
DIRECT RAILWAY.

PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED

CAPITAL X 2.400,000, in 96,000 SHARES of .£25 each
DEPOSIT £2 12s. 6d. per SHARE.

PROVISIONAL CQ.MUITTER

Wm.Aekerley, E q., Wigs erector of the Liverpool

,
and Leeds Direct-Rail
William Ascroft, Ess ury, Director of the Liverpool

and Leeds Direct,
Jo Ashwell, L q., ',moon, Staffordshire Potteries
John Addis, Esq , Freeman's-wharf and Botherhithe
Joseph 'kites, Esq., Jun., Liverpool, of the Firm of
Messrs. Bates, Willis, and Co
Thomas Langford Brooke, Esq., Mere Hall, Cheshire.
Joseph Blown, Esq., London, Director of the London
and Birmingham Extension. and of the Oxford, South-

aropton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railways
Thon.as Byrom, Esq., Alderman, Wigan, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct, of the Manchester and
Wigan, and of the Liverpool, Preston, and North
Union Junction Railways.
William Lloyd Birkbeek. Esq„ 10, Gloucester-road,
Hyde Park, London, Director of the Liverpool, Man-
chester. and Great North of England Union Railway
Thomas Dixon Burrow, Esq., Settle, Yorkshire.
Joseph Bull, Esq., Iron Master. Manchester, of the firm

of. Horton, Sims, and Bull, Manchester
Jarfies Beech: Esq , Langton, Staffordshire Potteries

C baries Bleaden, Esq., Bouloder-court, Surrey, Chairman

of the Lmilon Liceed Victuallers' Assurance Company
Jame!, fatness, Esq.. of Leyton. Director of the Oxford

and Worcester Extension Railway
John Dudin Brown, Esq., Horsleydown and Sydenham
Richard Moun'ford Baddeley, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn,
Barrister-at-Law' and of the Ivy-house Colliery, near
Hanley, Staffordshire Potteries
Nyilliactsßa ley, Esq.-„Stalyhridge

Henry But ter;rOrth: Esq.,-Heylirook, Rochdale
Christopher Lonsdale Bradley, Eq., Richmond, York-
shire, Director of the Manshester, Liverpool, and
Great North of England Union Railway

William Caldwell, esq., Alderman, Ince flail, Wigan,
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
The Mayor of Congleton

John Croudvon, Eq., Town-Clerk, Wigan, Director of
the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway _ _

William Cxoudson, Esq., Bank Cottage-, Alderman of
Wigan, and Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railway

Richard Carpenter, Esq., J.P. for the County of Middle-
sex, and Depqty Chairman of the Warwick and Wor-
cester Railway

John Cowburn, Esq., Settle, Yorkshire
Ralph Clews, Esq., Marsh-honse, Newcastle-under-
Lvne and Jackfield Milts and Coal and Ironstone
Works, Burslt m, Staffordshire Potteries _ _

John Frederick Couies, Esq., Gloucester, Director of the
Den Forest Railway

Om; les Davenport, Eq., Tunvtall, Staffordshire Potte-

Richard T. Deane, &.q., Knutsford
John Dewhurst, Esq., Preston, Director of the Preston
and Wyre. and Liverpool, Preston, and North Union
Junction Railways

James Duncan, Esq., Liverpool, Director of the Birken-
head and Holyhead Junction and of the Liverpool,
Preston, and North Union Junction Railway

Thomaß F.rrand Dearden,Esq.,Coroner,Roehdale

Col,,nPl Robert DouglPs4. UiWed Str.ice 'Club, Director

of the Warwick and Worcester Railway
Sir Richard Dob,on, F.R.S.. Direct,)r of the Birkenhead

and Holyhead Junction Railway
John Campbell Dicker, Esq , New-hall, Cheshire, Di.
rector of the Birkenhead and Holyht ad Junction Rail-

way
Henry Hill Eckersley, Esq.. Mobberley, Cheshire
John Edwards, Esq , Chester
Captain Fibber, Junior United Service Club, Director of
the Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and
Welsh Junction, and Liverpool, Preston, and Noah
Union Junction Railways
Robert Fi•her, EQq., Hivbury Park, London, Director
o► the Tr- nt Valley Continuation, and Liverpool, Pres-
ton; and North Union Junction Railways
R. G. FeHowe, Esq., Regent's Park, London, and Hoole,
Pie,ton, Director of tt.e Liverpool, Preston, and North
Ull ',1.1 Junction I;ailway
William Foster, E-q , Settle
James German F,siier, Preston
Junes Giles, E q., The Elms, L nicas•er
Peter Greenall, Esq., M.P.
Jo,eph Gi!ham, E-q., Hargreaves House. Oldham, Di-
rector of the Birk nhead and Holyhead Junction Rail.

.I,,tin Go ew'n, Esq , Lnngton, Staffordshire Potteries
William Gib.}. Esq., Manchester
Richard Edensor Heathc-te, Esq., Longton-hall and
• Apedale Hall, Staffordshire
Lim Holfori, Rusholme Hall, Manchester, Di-
rector of the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union
Junction Rail way

Gorge Holt, Et 44., Willow-hill, CrompEall, Lancashire,
Director of the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union
J‘inetion Rriiw.+y.

Jam Douglas Hopkins. E6q.' Bedford-square, London
Direcior of the London and Birmingham Extension
RAilwav •

Hughes Hughes F.S.A., F.L.S., and Al-
derman of London, Hughes,
of the Manchester and
B.rkerit!earl Continuation, Director of the London and
Greenwich, of ihe Oxtord, Southampton, Gosport, sod
Fortstriou4 h, and of the Chepstow, Forezt of Dean, and

GI .ucester Junction Railway
Joseph Heath, Eiq., Mosul!, Staffordshire
Robert Heane, Esq., Niercfact, Gloucester, Director of
the Worcester, Hereford, and Gicuc:ster Railway
John G. Hamwanch, E,q., of Essex limn, Stratford
John lißry,y, Rush- H,I, Clapham, Director

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of the CoMmercial 13,tr k of London
Earle titttuefsoit. Esq. Ektitinuigi., Deputy Cnairman of
the North British Railway, and Director of the E

burgh and Glasgow Railaqiy, &c.
Themes Inglt-by, Esq., Lawkiand Hall, Settle, York-
shirr, Director of the North Western, of the Clitberoe
3,tut;tion, of the Manchester, Liverpool, and Great
North of England Union, and of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct Railways
Herbert Ingram, Esq., Acton Vale., Middlesex, and
Swiueshead Abbey, Lincolnshire, Director of the Am-
bergaie, Nottingham. and Eastern Junction Railway
•
William Irlam, Esq., Bootle-hall, near Liverpool
E. Ward Jackson, sq . Liverpool
_ .

Joseph Bulk. ley Johnson, Esq., Coleman-street, Lon-
don, and Mortlake. House, Congleton
Frederick L. Jones, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, London, Di-
rector of the London and Birmingham Extension

way
William Jameson, Esq., Shelton, Staffordshire Potteries
Sir John Key, Bart., Aiderman of London
John Lord, Esq., Standish Ball, Wigan, Director Of the
Blackburn, Cliorley, Wigan, and North Union Junc-
tion, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways
John Long, Esq., Brook House, Knutsford
Peter Leg, EN., Booth's-hall, Cheshire
William Leathern, Esq., Thornhill, near Londonderry,
Director of the Londonderry and Coleraine Railway
James Lamb, Esq., merchant, Lothbury, London
J.ihn Learmoth, Esq of Dean, Chairman of the Edin-

burgh and Ghisgow, North British, Edinburgh and
Northern Railway
Dona ,d Maclean, Esq., Brunswick-square, London,
Deputy Chairman of the Trent Valley Continuation
Railway
OliverT. Anderdoti, Esq., Q.C.. Lincoln's Inn, London
Harry Mainwarine, Esq., Peover Hall, Cheshire
Thomas Morris, Esq., Fairhurst Hall, near Wigan, and
Brunswick Villa, S .uthoort. Director of the Blackburn,
Choriec, and North Union Junction, and of the Liver-
pool, Preston, and North Union Junction Railways
Christopher Morris, Esq., Wigan, Director of the Liver-

Vol and L..etis Direct Railway
Peter Morrison, Esq., Princes-street Bank, London, Di-
rector of the Britannia Life Insurance Company
William F. M'lntire, Esq., Londonderry, Director of the
Londonderry and Enni-killen Hallway
George Augustus M`Dermott, Esq., Chesterton Hall,
Staffordshire
John Mee Mathew, Esq., Inner Temple, London, Assis-
tant Tithe Commisimer, and Director of the East and
West Junction Railway
Robert Main, Esq., Ravensham Park, and Trinity-sq.,
London
John O. Morris, E-q..Liyerecol. Director of the Liver-

poet, Preston. and North Union Junction Railway
James Neville. Esq., Broadwood:house, Blackburn

John Overend, Bentham, Yorkshire

Esq

P01377..nn, Manchester

James B. Pender, Esq., Direcor of the Birkenhead and
Holyhead Junction, and Edinburgh and Peebles Rail-

ways
Samuel Perrott, Esq., Liverpool, Director of the Birken-
. . . _

. .
head and Holyhead Junction and of the Liverpool
Preston, end North Union Junction Railways

Cornelius Randal, Esq.. Director of the Sheffield and
Manchester, and of the Manchester South Junction

and Altrineliam Railways, and Chairmanof the Birken-
head and Holyhead Junction Railway
Thomas Bailey Rose, Esq., Grove-House, Penkball,
Staffordshire Potteries
Fredeticlr Ramsden, Esq., Seymour House, Old Trafford,
Director of the Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction,

and of the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junc-
tion Railways

Thomas Redmayne. Esq., Trit'inds, near Settle, a Di-
rector of the North Wes*ertt, Clitheroe Junction, Man-
chester and Liverpool and Great North of England
Union, and Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways
Henry Regz, Giggleswtck, near Settle, Yorkshire
John Rawson, Esq., Stonev-rovd, Halifax, Deputy-
Lieutenant of the county of York, Director of the
arect London and Holyhead and Port Dynllaen Rail-
way, and are:ltor of the National Bank of Ireland
James Russvll. Esq., of the Oaklands, Handswerth, Di-
rtctor of the South Staffordshire Junction Railway
Joseph Swinburne, Esq., Knutsford
William Sloane, Esq., Great Wimpole-street, London,
Director of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway
John Spittle, Esq., Weslb omwich, coal and iron master
Lee Porcher Townshend, Esq., Wincham Hall, Cheshire
Henry Taylor, Esq., Alderman, Wigan, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct, of the Manchester and
Wigan, and of the Liverpool, Preston, and North
Union Junction Railways
John Thompson, Esq., Wigan, Director of the Liverpool,
Preston, and North Union Junction, and Birkenhead
and Holyhead Junction Railways
Caleb Trotter, Esq., College-green, Gloucester, Director
of the Dean Forest ltailway
James Upton, Esq,, Akey Lodge, Sedburgb, Director
of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
William Henry Walker, Blurton House, near Longton,
Staffordshire Potteries

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Dated this

day of

Name in full

Residence

Reference

Thomas Waring, Esq., Sedburgh. Director of the Liver-
pool and Leeds Direct Railway
Sir William Wynn, Chairrn:in of the North Wales Rail-
way, and Director of the Oxford, Southampton, Gos•
port, and Portsmouth Railway
W. Vood. Esq., M.D., Chetwynd House, Newport, Sa-
lop, D;rector of the Shr.•pshire Mineral, of the Derby-
shire,- Staffordshire, and Worcestershire, of the Hud-
dersfield and Sheffield, and the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railways
Henry Wrieat, Esq., Brunswick-square, London, Direc-
tor of the Great Manchester, -Rugby, and Southampton,
and of the Birmingham and Brighton Direct, South
and Midland Junction Railways
Joseph Loxdale Warren, Esq., The Lodge, near Ma,4-.0.t
Drayton and Corral, and Tittensnr Mills, Staffords,:ire
H. B. Whiieheuse, Esq , Priorfield Colliery and Furnar...
Director of the South Staffordshire Railway
(With power to add to their number.)

ENGINFERS.
Messrs. Gariddl and Brunton
_ _ SOLICITORS.

Messrs. J. and T. Roscoe, Knutsiord, and John Adams
Stephenson, Esq., Stoke-upon-Trent.
LOCAL SOLICITOR.
Manchester.—William Burdett, Esq.
BANKERS.
London—Commercial Bank of London

Birmingham—Mesr.. Taylor and I.l)yd.
Liverpool—The Union Bank of Liverpool.
Manchester—The Union Bank of Manchester

Stafford—The Manchester and Liverpool District Bank.
Staffordshire Potteries and Newcastle—The Manchester
and Liverpool District Bank.
Northwieh—Norhwich Bank.

Wigan—Messrs. Thomas .iVoocle!.Tk and Sons, Wigan
Bank
Birkenhead—North and South Wales Bank.

IS line of railway will commence at a point on the
Grand Junction Railway, at Stafford, and passing
from thence by Stone, Lane End. Fenton, Stoke-upon-
Trent; Shelton, Hanley, Burslem, and Tunstall, to Con-
gleton, it will proceed by Knutsford to Altrincham, where
it will join the South Junction Railvny to Manchester,
an act for which has been obtained ; and from Congleton
by Northwich to Preston-Brook, where it will communi-
cate with the Grand Junction Railway, and proceed
thence to Liverpool. A branch from Stoke•upon-Trent,
by Newcastle to Crewe, affording accommodaiton to the
Silverdale and Apedale Ironworks, will connect the main
line with the important railways meeting at that point,
and give the shortest possible route from the Potteries to
Chester. Holyhead and Birkenhead. A branch will con-
nect the towns of Congleton and Macclesfield. A com-
munication will be opened from those places, and
from the salt district of Cheshire, on the one hand to
Liverpool ; and on the other to Manchester, the ports on
the Hnmber, and the eastern coast of England, and will
thus afford a great additional market for the produce of
the district, and facilitate the foreign trade from those
coasts.

An inspection of the map will show the importance of
the line of country proposed to be accomodate() by means
of this railway and some of the advantages attending it
will be as follow :

The Pottery district alone contains an immense popula-
tion, and the whole of that district is at present without
railway accommodation. The importance of the Pottery
trade is too manifest to require a moment's comment ;
and the principal part of that trade being connected with
Liverpool, it is highly important, in a national point of
view, that every facility should be given to the communi-
cation betwixt those parts. In no line of railway at pre-
sent formed or projected has the interest of the Pottery
district, as a whole been duly considered ; but by the pre-
sent line it is intended to afferd accommodation to every
town in the district, and to give the hest and most direct
communication betwixt the Potteries and Chester, Birken-
head and Liverpool, and also through Manchester,with the
ports on the Humber and the east coast of Enaland, thus
affording facilities fora revival of the trade with Holland,
Belgium, and Germany, which, it is b lieved, will be at-.
tended with important results to the future trade of the
Potteries.
The important manufacturing towns of Congleton and
Macclesfield, with their districts. containing also a very
large popuktion, have likewise been, in a great measure.
overlooked in the railway arrangements hitherto carried
nut; and it is proposed by this railway to afford e.ommu•
niration from those pla es by existing and projected
routes to the South of England, and to Liverpool, Man-
chester, Chester, Birkenhead, North Wales, end the
whole of the Nnteh and east of England and Scotland.

The proposfql line of railway will afford facilities to the
coal districts of Stafford;hire, Cheshire. and South Lan-
cashire' esPecially accommodating the large coal field
at BiJdulph ; and will tend materially to reduce the cost
of that article in the country through which,the line is in-
tended to pass.

The shortest and most direct route will he afforded by
existing and projected routes from Southampton. Bir-
mingham, and the whole of South Staffordshire, through
the Potteries to the salt districts and the North of Eng-
land ; and the facilities of communication from the coun-
try intersected by this line tr, Liverpool, Birkenhead,
Manchester, Cheater, North Wales, and all parts of the
North and East of England, and to London, Southamp-
ton, Birmingham, and South Staffordshire, and all parts
of the South and West. of England, and South Wales,
will be as ample as can be desired, whilst the traffic both
of goods and passengers that is manifestly attendant on
the line of country will be sneh as to insure the most am-
ple return on the capital inveF,ted.

The line has been properly inspected, and has been
found free from material engineering difficulties, and the
landowners are mainly favourable to its course. The ca-
pital proposed to he raised has been estimated to be more
than sufficient for the completion of the works.
The Provisional Committee being aware that it is of the
greatest importance to carry with them the right feeling
of the land-owners, manufacturers. and others interested
in the line, respectfully invite all such to take a personal
interest in the undertaking ; and they declare it to be their
wish to be materially guided in the allotment of Shares by
the opinions of gentlemen immediately interested in the
line.
The liahility of each Shareholder will be restricted by
Act of Parliament to the amount of subscription, and
power will be applied for in the bill to allow interest at 4
per cent. per annum, on all calls, from the passing of the
act until the opening of the line.
Prospectuses, with maps of the line, may be obtained
on application to the Solicitors, or to the following Share-
brokers :—London. Messrs. FIELDS' and Co.' Warn.
ford-er-wt. Throgmorton-street ; Liverpool, Mr. G.
A. BROWN. Druid-court, Dale-street; Mr. ROBERT
GREET HAM, 9, Mersey-chambers; and Mr. C.
POWNyLL, Sweeting-stteet ; Manchester, Mr. W.
G. SEED, 15, St.!Ann-square ; Mr. CHARLES ALLEN,
Ducie-place; and Messrs.BRADLEY. FORD, and PARKER;
Leeds, Messrs. STA P.:rust' and BLACK ETT, and Messrs. J.
and T.RHODES; Hell. Mr. JAMES Bowngsi ; Lancaster,
Mr. W.WELsx ; Halifax. Mr. J. NEWBURN • York,
Messrs. GREYSTONF and Fitts.; Skipton, Mr. J. bRAGo ;
Nottingham. Mr. FRANK WAKEFIELD, jun. ; Settle,
Ntr. GIBBINS and Mr. JOSEPH NELSON ; Bristol, Messrs.
WREFORD, NICHOLLS, and WREFORD ; Coventry, Mr
J. I'. HOLLAND; ' Bradford, Messrs. F. E. and C. C.
CROSSLEY ; Huddersfield. Mr. J. H. TAYLOR; Derby,
Messrs. EYRE and SHAW. 5, Queen-street; Newcastle-
under-Lyne, Mr. W. T.+MKINSON ; Birmingham. Mr.
W. H. COLLIS, 104, New-street ; Preston. Mr. WREN ;
Edinburgh, Mr. DAVID K INNEAR, 46, Hanover-street;
Gloucester, Mr. J. N. BALME, King-street; to any of
whom applications for Shares, in the annexed form,
(accompanied by a banker's or other satisfactory re-
ference) may be addressed.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES

To the Provisional Committee of the Staffordshire Pot-
teries,and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railway.
GENTLEMEN,-1 request you to allot me Shares,
of each, in the above undertaking ; and I hereby
engage to accept the same, or any less number that may
be allotted to me. and to pay the depo:it thereon, and to
sign the Subscrihers' Agreement and Parliamentary Con-
tract when required. _ _

Business or Profession (if any)

STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES & LIVERPOOL
& MANCHESTER DIRECT RAILWAY.

N 0 APPLICATION for SHARES in this COM-
PANY can be receis:ejit,3lfjer-To-moitnow, (Wed-
nesday,) the 24th instant, er which day the Allotm, tit
will b- proceeded withi...a speedily as passible.
J. and T. ROSCOE, Solicitors to the Company.
September, 1845.

MANCH ESTER. LIVERPOOL, AND GREAT
NORTH OF ENGLAND UNION RAILWAY.

THE Applicants for Shares in this Railway are in. formed that arrangements of a highly advantageous
nature have 'wen entered into with the Newcastle, Dur-
ham, and Lancashire Junction Railway Company, by
which the two Companies have become amalgamated under
the name of " The Northumberland and Lancashire
Junction Railway Company," by whieh course the Pro-
visional Committee of this Company have satisfied them-
selves that the best practicable-line will be attained for
connecting Newcastle-on-Tyne and the Durham coal-
fields with Liverpool, Manchester, and the manufacturing
districts of Lancashire."'
All Applications tit. Shares in the Manchester, Liver-
pool, and Great North of England Union Railway will
therefore be treated as Applications for Shares in the
Northumberland and Lancashire Junction Railway Com-
pany, and Letters of Allotment in the new company will
be issued immediately, and due notice given to the Sub-
scribers when and where the Parliamentary Contract and
Subscribers' Agreement will lie for signature.
By order of the Executive Committee,
HENRY RUGG, Secretary.
Railway Offices, Settle, Sept. 15, 1845.

WORCESTER, WARWICK, AND RUGBY

RAI LWAY.
PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED

CAPITAL, £9 0,000, in 45,000 SHARES of £2O each
DEPOSIT, £2 2s. per SHARE.

OFFICES, NO. 5, GRESEIAM=g-TREET, 13,1NK

PROVISIONAL
Henry George Ward, E ~ M.P., Chairman of the
Great Eastern and stern Railway Company
Sir William Smith, rt., Eardiston House, Worcester
George Allies, E ~ Alderman of Worcester, Cwm Celyn
Iron Works
Richard Ashton, Esq., White Lion-court, Cornhill
William Bastow, Esq., Surrey-place, London
Robert Bastow, Esq , Member of the Provisional Com-
mittee of the Great Eastern and Western Railway
James Barker, Esq., Severn's Stoke, Worcester
Charles Bleaden, Esq., Adelaide-place, London Bridge,
and Coulsden Court, Surrey
John Blunt, Esq., Upper Bedford-place, Director of the
Great Eastern and Western Railway Company
Walter Chamberlain, Esq , Worcester Royal Porcelain

Manufactory, Director of the Great Eastern—and
Western Railway Company
George Beauchamp Cole, Esq., Chester-street, Grosvenor-
place, ,Dir7ctor of the Great Eastern and Western
Railway Company
Mr. William Clay
Mr. James Coacher, wool merchant, Worcester
Henry Cornfont, Esq., Copthall Court, and Old Palace,
Richmond, Dire: for of the G. eat Eastern and Western
Railway Company
Mr. George Cox, glove manufacturer, Worcester
Edward Henry Cole, Esq., Monasterevin, Kildare
Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlbro'-place, St. John's
Wood, Director of the Great Eastern and Western

Railway Company
Henry Clarke Duppa, Esq., Quarry House, Boughton
Winchelsea, Kent, Director of the Great Eastern and
Western Railway Company
Francis Davis, Esq., Pershore
Thomas Davies, Esq., Powick, Worcester
George Ellins, Esq„ salt manufacturer, Droitwich
George English, Esq., needle manufacturer, Feckenham,

Redditch„
John English, Esq., needle manufacturer, Feckenham,
Redditch
George Farley. Esq., Henwick House, and Crowle, Wor-
cestershire. banker, Worcester
Mr. Joseph Firkins, of the firm of Firkins and Co., glove
manufacturers and hop merchants
Henry Gr?sett, Esq., Chesham-street. Belgraye- square
John Matthew Gutch, Esq., banker, Worcester
Mr. Edwin Gardner, corn, hop, and seed merchant,
Worcester
Mr. John Hughes, wool merchant, Cloprate, Worcester
Mr. John Hood, merchant and carrier, Worcester
John Hall, Esq., merchant, Worcester
Joseph Hall, Esq., alderman and magistrate of Worcester
Edmund Herbert, Esq., Powick, Worcester
Henry Herbert, Esq., Powick, Worcester
Mr. George Hill, of the firm of Messrs. Hill and Turley,
Worcester
James James, Esq., Swansea
William Laurence, Esq., Brixton, Director of the London
and Manchester Direct Railway
William Lionel Lampet, Esq., The Highlands, Oxford-
shire, (Deputy Lieutenant of that County,) and War-
wick-place, Leamington
John Wheeley Lea, Esq., Vice-Chairman of the Severn
Navigation Company, Managing Director of the Droit-
wich Patent Salt Company, and a Director of the Great
Eastern and Western Railway Company
John Lilly, Esq., Alderman of Worcester, Worcester
Royal Icorcelain Manufactory
Mr. Lloyd
Mr. Thomas Lucy, Albion Steam Flour Mills. Worcester
James Macmillan, Esq., Southampton, Director of the
Southampton ,Manchester.and Oxford Junction Railway
Arthur Mann, Esq.. Woburn-square, Director of the
Great Eastern and Western Railway Company
Amos Middleton, Esq., M.D., Leamington
William Middleton, Esq., Lansdowne-place, Leamington
Henry Moss, Evq., Severn Bank, Worcester
William Moore, Esq., Elm Bank, Powick, Worcester
John Morton, Esq., Wick, Worcester
J. B. Morgan, Esq., The Terrace, Powick, Worcester
S. H. Steel, Esq., Ahereavenny
Samuel Tombs, jun., Esq., Town Clerk of Droitwich
James Unfil!, Esq., The Green. Bromyard, a Director of
th,. Staffordshire and Shropshire, and Dover and Bristol
Railways
C. B. Morgan, Esq., Upper Bedford-place, Russell-
square, London
Robert Nuttall, Esq., Kempsey House, Worcester
J. C. Notts Esq.. Hallow, Worcester
Mr. F. H. Needham, merchant. Worcester
Richard Pope, Esq., Camberwell
Mr. Powell, wine-merchant, Worcester
John Pumphrey, Esq., Magistrate of Droitwich
Mr. James Rea, of the firm of Messrs. Rea and Sons,
maltsiers. Worcester
Mr. J. P. Rea. of the firm of Messrs. Rea and Son,
maltsters. Worcester
James Reeves. Esq., Cheapside, and Leyton, Director of
the Direct London and Manchester, and Great Man-
chester and Rugby, and Southampton Railway Com-
panies
Messrs. James Smith and Sons, needle-manufacturers,
Astwood Bank, Redditch
James Robertson, Esq., Worcester
Joseph Rusher, Esq., Glyn Leiros, Neath
Messrs. Smith, banes, & Co., Ironfonedry, Leamington
B. J. Spedding, Esq., Mines Royal Copper Company,
London and Neath
Timothy Steward, Esq., Heigham Lodge, Norwich
Henry Stock, Esq.. Beddgelert, Carnarvonshire
Mr. John Stone, Worcester
Thomas 'Mould, Esq., Impney Lodge, Magistrates
Droitwich of
Thomas Tompkins, Esq., Droitwich Droitwich
William Trentham, Esq.' Leamington
John Twaraley, Esq.' Warwick
George S. Trower, Esq., St. Mary at Hill, and St.
James's-place, St. James's
John Tolley, Esq., Westford, Magistrate of Droitwich
Mr. Wells, hop-merchant, Worcester
John Hunt Wi!son, Esq., Pershore
Mr. Woodward, hop-merchant, Worcester
John Henry Walsh, Esq., Worcester
Mr. James Wall, merchant and carrier, Worcester
Mr. John Webb, Worcester
John Webb, Esq., needle-manufacturer, Feckenham,
Redditch
Thomas Webb, Esq., needle-manufacturer, Feckenham,
Redditch
Benjamin B. Williams, Esq., 37, Throgmorton-street,
and Bryanston-square, London
J. C. Hill, 14:sq., Pwllddw Colliery, Blaenavon
Captain Stewart, R.N., Berti,-terrace, Leamington
Mr. Jeremiah Clarke, of Macclesfield, merchant, Dire
tor of the London and Manchester Direct
T. G. Smith. Esq., Mayor of Droitwich
With power to add to their number.
CHIEF ENGINEER.
William Grsvatt, Esq., F.R.S.
ASSISTANT ENGINEER.
S. F. Griffin, Esq , C.E.
SOI ICITORS.
Messrs. Elmslie and Presto,,, 47, Moorgate-st., London
Henry Foley, Esq., Worcester

BANKERS.
London—The London and Westminster Bank, Lothbury
„ The Commercial Bank of London.
Worcester—Messrs. Parley, Lavender, and Co.

LOCAL AGENTS.
DrOittdiCh—Messrs. Curtler and Holynake.
Warwick and Learnington —A. S. Field, Esq
Rugby—W. F. Wratishw, EN,
SECRETARY.
John Hughes, Esq.

PHIS Line, which, subject to the decision of the
Guage Commissioners, will he constructed on the
Broad Gnage principle, will commence at the Worcester
Station of the Great Eastern and 'Western Railway, and,
proceeding by Redditch and Henley in Arden, will touch
Warwick and Leamington. and end at Rugby, the ter-
minus of the Midland Counties Railway and the pro-
posed Rugby and Huntingdon Junction Railway. It
will communicate with Droitwich, Studley, Alcester, and
Stratford-on-Avon.

At Warwick, it will unite with the Birmingham and
Oxford Junction Railway, the Warwick and Cheltenham
Railway, and the London, Warwick, Leamington, and
Kidderminster Railway ; and at Rugby, with the London
and Birmingham, the Midland Counties, and the pro-
jected Rugby ai,cl Huntingdon Junction Railways.
The country through which it will pass is thickly po-
pulated, and of the richest description. It presents no
engineering difficulties, and from its population, its ma-
nufactures, and agricultural produce, it possesses sources
of such abundant traffic as to tender it highly remune-
rative to thc, capitalists.

The object proposed is to complete the line of railway
communication between the Western, Midland, and
Eas!ern portions of the Kingdom, and a glance at the
Map of England will shew teat this will be effected in the
most direct manner by the present line ; touching, as it
will at one of its termini, a railway running direct from
Swansea to 'Worcester, and at the other, the projected
line from Rugby to Huntingdon,—from which point a
railway communication has been already provided.
By means of this Railway, the manufactures of all the
towns, and the agricultural produce of the country con:
tained within its range, as well as the Ports on the Eastern
and North-Eastern Coast, will have opened to them a
direct and unbroken communication with the great and
densely populated mineral fields of South Wales, as well
as the Markets of the Northern portion of the principality.
To the population along the line as well as to the Mid-
hied and Northern portions of the Kingdom, this under-
taking will present the most direct communication with
hose towns of fashionable rts in—Leamington and
Chel!enham. To the inhabitants of Leamington and
Warwick, it will open the most di►ect communication
with the city of Worcester and South Wales, whilst to
the inhabitants of Worcester, it will open the markets of
the Eastern portions of the country.
The Shareholders in the several Railways proposed to
be joined or intersected will have a preference in the
allotment of Shares in this undertaking.
No person will be liable for more than his deposit till
the Act is obtained, and power will be applied for to altow
interest at £4 per centum on all calls Irom the time of
their respective payments, and to limit the liability of
the Shareholders to the amount of their Subscriptions.
Applications for Shares in the annexed form to be made
to the Provisional Committee, at the Office. 5, Gresham-
street, London, or Messrs. John Shewell and Son, Share-
brokers, Tokenhouse-yard ; Messrs. B. and M. Boyd,
4, Bank-buildings, and Mr. John Smith, 3, Shorter's-
court, London ; Mr. John Duncuft, Sharebroker, Man-
chester; Mr. John O'Neil, Sharebroker, Manchester;
Messrs. SCHULTZ and CAR R, Sharebrokers, and
Messrs. REYNOLDS and SON, Liverpool ; Messrs.
11. and C. Beardshaw, Sharebrokors, Leeds ; Messrs.