The Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette

&OttCC0» HEREFORD AND MERTHYR TIDVIL jmctom miiwn, IN CONNKCTION WITH THE Gloucester, Aberystivith, and Central Wetlet Railway. (PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.) CAPITAL, f400,000, in 20,000 SHARES of jEaO each. DEPOSIT, £2 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE The Hon. A. Capel, Epping The Hon. F. H. F. Berkeley, M.P., 6, Spring Gardens The Hon. A. F. Berkeley, (j, Spring Gardens Sir James Anderson, Bart., M.R.S.A., New Burlington Street Sir James Eyre, 11, Brook Street Sir W. Magnay, Bart, London Sir John Osborne, Bart., Earl's Court, Brompton Sir William Young, Bart., Director of the Honourable E. I. Company Sir Andrew Pellatt Green, Austin Friars Colonel Robert Douglas, C.B., United Service Club Colonel Hanmer, Bear Place, Maidenhead Lieut.-Co!. Elrington, Wyndham Place, Bryanston Square Major J. O. Lindam, K. H., 8, New Street, Dorset Square Major "William Beresford, Pall Mall, Deputy-Chairman of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway Lieut. R. Fowke, R.N., Chatham Lieut. White, R.N., Sheerness Thomas Fuller Maitland, Esq., Garth House, Builth, and Park Place, Henley-on-Thames T. F. Maitland, Jun., Esq., 51, Upper Sfeymour Street W. A. Hill, Esq., 29, Lonsdale Square The Venerable Archdeacon Venables, Llysdinam Hall, Builth Archibald, Charles Dixon, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A., Rosland House, Lancashire, and Reigate Park Atkinson, C. D., Esq., "Wakefield Bagshaw, John, Esq., 17, Gloucester Place, Portman Square Barber, John, Esq., 10, Gray's Inn Place Bardgett, William, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian Railway Bardgett, William, Esq., Bishopsgate Street, Within Beamish Captain, Maes Mawr, Montgomery, and Ken- sington Square Bulkeley, Archibald, Esq., Suffolk Place, Pall Mall Carne, J. Nicholl, Esq., L.L.D., Dimlands House, Cowbridge Castro, H. De, Esq., 14, South Street, Finsbury Coventry, Mills, Esq., Director of the Britannia Life Assurance Company Douglass, Thomas, Esq., Marlborough Place, St. John's Wood Earle, Captain Hamilton, R. A., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension Railway Farncomb, Mr. Alderman Foster, E. R., Esq., Director of the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford Railway Glen, J. P. Esq., Presteign Green, C. E. Esq., Blandford Street, Portman Square Grover, Captain, Ramsgate. Gunter, Richard, Esq., Belgrave Square Gwynne, Marmaduke, Esq., Llanelwyth Hall, Builth Haines, Samuel, Esq., Chad House, Edgbaston Halpin, W. H. Esq., 23, Grafton Street, Fitzroy Square Hancorne, R., Esq., Euston Square and Breconshire, Director of the Metropolitan Junction Railway Heale, Josiah, Esq., Gray's Inn, Square Hopper, John, Esq., Director of the London and Man- chester Direct Railway Hudson, John Bellingham Godfrey, Eeq., Director of the Central Terminus Railway Humphreys, Mr. Alderman Knyvett, Charles, Esq., St. James's Place, London March, William, Esq., Cumberland Terrace, Regent's Park M'Cann, Nicholas, Esq., Parliament Street Montefiore J., Esq., 20, Chester Street, Grosvenor Place Morrison Peter, Esq., Director of the London and Bir- mingham Extension and South and Midland Junction Railways Morley, William, Esq., Blackheath Newton, Thomas Charles, Esq., Lugwardine, Here- fordshire Phillips, R., Esq., Gloster Villa, Gloster Road, Re- gent's Park Phillipson, R. B., Esq., Director of the Rugby, Lea- mington, and Warwick Railway Price, Rees, Esq., Tyne Hall, "Ilford, Essex Prosser, William, Esq., 13, Windsor Terrace, Pimlico Reid, William, Esq., 26, Bury Street, St. James's Rickets, T. B. Esq., Combe House, Presteign Rigby, Joseph Drowne, Esq., Cadogan Place, Belgrave Square Roberts, Thomas Turner, Esq., Llwynderw, Breconshire Robinson, George, Esq., Director of the Hull and Bainsley Junction Railway Roose, Francis, Esq., 33, Upper Montagu Street, Mon- tague Square Rose, Joseph F., Esq., Great Surrey Street Savage, Henry, Esq., 34, Dorset Place, Dorset Square Smith, Samuel, Esq., Southampton Stevenson, Thomas, 37, Upper Grosvenor Street Thomas, Edward David, Esq., Welfield House, Rad. norshire 9 Thomas Thomas, Esq., Penkerrig, Radnorshire Waite, Charles, Esq., Willesden, Middlesex Waite, G. Esq., 2, Old Burlington Street Walker, The Rev. G. A., Ahesthorpe Parsonage, Wakefield. 6 Watkins, Lloyd Vaughan, Esq., Pennoyre Wheelton, John, Esq., Meopham Place, Tonbridge Williams, B. B., Esq., Wyndham Place, Bryanston Square Wood, R. W., Esq., Lodge Place, St. John's Wood With Power to add to their Number. BANKERF. Abergavenny—Branch of Monmouthshire & Glamorgan- shire Banking Company. Aberystwith —North and South Wales Bank. Birmingham—Messrs. Moilliett & Co. Brecon—Messrs. Bromage, Sneed, & Co. Bristol—"West of England and South Wales District Bank. Cheltenham—The County of Gloucester Bank Gloucester—The County of Gloucester Bank Hay—The Herefordshite Banking Company Hereford—The Herefordshire Banking Company London—Messrs. Glynn, Halifax, Mills, and Co., Lom- bard Street Merthyr Tidvil—West of England & South Wales Bank Neath—Glamorganshire Banking Company Newport—Branch of the West of England and South Wales District Bank Ross—J. W. IlalI, Esq. Worcester—Messrs. Farley and Co. ENGINEER.—• amuel Hughes, Esq. SURVEYOR.—George Taylor, Esq. SOLICITORS. Mr. George P. Hill, 21 A, Soho Square Mr. Thomas Lawrence, Brecon SECRETARY.—Mr. Thomas Hawker WHILST providing a grand Trunk Line for Central It' Wales in the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and Central Wales Railway Company, the Directors of that important Undertaking hav« not been unmindful of the various solicitations they have received for the extension of its public usefulness. Amongst the first and most necessary of the contem- plated Extensions is the Line of Railway now proposed the objects of which are to connect, by a direct Line, the teeming and fertile Districts of Herefordshire and the adjoining highly productive Agricultural Counties of Radnor and Cardigan with the great Mineral Districts of Merthyr Tidvil and the Neighbourhood and by means of the Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction, proposed to run from Crewe, vid Llangerrig, (whete that Line meets that of the Glouces- ter, Aberystwith, and Central Wales) to Aberystwith, connect North and South Wales, also Shropshire, Cheshire, fie., with the West of England. It will be hardly necessary to dilate upon the enormous Traffic which must exist between the densely populated Districts of Merthyr Tidvil, the Agricultural Counties before mentioned, with the surrounding country, and the Mines of Cardiganshire. In the latter neighbourhood the want of Coal is much felt. Improvement in Trade, increased Profits to Mining Establishments and Manufac- turers; the more ready interchange of Food for the products of the Mines, and general addition to prosperity must follow from the construction of this Line, which has the merit of clashing with no other project, and of being strongly sought after and recommended by existing interests. This Line will leaVe the Main Line at Glasbury, from whence it will ruh in an almost direct course along the Banks of the Llunvy River through Talgarth by Llangrose Lake, crossing the river Usk at a most favourable point; it will then intersect the populous neighbourhood of Talybont, and, after striking the Valleys of the Glyn and Taffechan, terminate at Merthyr Tidvil. The necessary connection of this Line with the Taff Vale and South Wales Railways will be obvious. A short Branch from the Glyn Valley will connect the Line with the Great Iron Works and Mineral Districts of Sirhowy, Tredegar, and Rhymney; by means of the Tredegar Railway, connect it also with the important TOwn and Port of Newport. v It may be remarked that this Line has long been called for by the Local Wants of the Districts affected by its progress, and was surveyed many years since by an eminent Engineer (the late George Overton, Esq., who planned the first Railway for Locomotive Power in the Kingdom.) The length of the Line will be about Twenty Miles. In the Allotment of Shares (which will take place at the earliest possible moment, on account of the necessity of being prepared for the ensuing Session of Parliament,) preference will be given ta parties locally interested in the Line, and to Scrip Holders in the Glou?€$te( and Aberystwith Railway 1 Applications for Shares in the annexed Form, may be made to the respective Solicitors; to the Secretary, at the Offices of the Company, No. 1, New Broad Street; or to the following Local Solicitors :— Birmingham Messrs. Hill and Ererill. Gloucester Henry Evans, Esq. Ross Messrs. Edwards. Hereford J. H. Ravenhill, Esq. Hay .W. Pugh, Esq. Builth Evan Vaughan, Esq. Rhayader Evan Williams, Esq. Aberystwith W. Miller, Esq. FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Provisional Committee of the Hereford and Merthyr Tidvil Junction Railway. Gentlemen,—I request that you will allot me Shares in the above Railway, and I agree to accept that or any less number that you may please to allot me; and I undertake to pay the Deposit of £2 2s. per Share on the same, and to sign the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contract, when required. Name in full Residence Trade or Profession. Place of Business (if any). Date Reference —

PROSPECTUS OF THE RHONDDA AXD ELY VALLEYS GLAMORGANSHIRE. (PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.) Promoted with the sanction and support of the Right Hon. the Earl of Dunraven. Capital, £200,000, in 10,000 Shares of JE20 each. Deposit £2 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Viscount Adare, M.P., Dunraven Castle, Glamorgan Crawshay Bailey, Esq., Nantyglo Iron Works, Sir Robert Price, Bart., M.P., Foxley, Herefordshire Richard Price, Esq., M.P., Radnorshire Sir William Wynn, Maes Eewyeld, Chairman of the North Wales Railway James G. Barrett, Esq., Ross, Herefordshire Henry A. Bruce, Esq., Duffryn House, Cardiff James Brown, Esq., of Ton Ddu, near Bridgend William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway Charles Richard Bigge, Esq., 19, Bryanston-square John Castendick, Esq., Lewisham, Kent Thomas Chitty, Esq., Director of the Rugby and Wor- cester Railway The Rev. James Cozens, Ynys Plwm, Glamorganshire Edward Cotton, Esq., St. James's-square and Kenil- worth, Director of the Commercial Bank Capt. Dawson, R.N., Barnes, Surrey, Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln Extension Railway George Dennis, Esq., Director of the Great Leeds and London Direct 0 Richard Dutton, Esq., Director of the South and Mid- lands Junction Railway William Edmondes, Esq., of Cowbridge, Glamorganshire Thomas H. Evans, Mayor of Carnaiyon, Director of the Rugby and Worcester Railway The Rev. H. R. Fowler, Felton, near Bristol, and No. 7, M anchester-sq uare Captain Hewitt, Tyr Mab Ellis, Glamorganshire Windsor H. Humphreys, Esq., Garth Hall, Glamorgan- shire John J. Harris, Esq., Treverig, Glamorganshire John Hopkins, Esq., Killely, Glamorganshire William Harrison, Esq, Hill House, Upper Tooting John James, Esq., secondary of the City of London, and Director of the South and Midlands Junction Railway John Inglis Jerdein, Esq., Director of the Great Man- chester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway Vero Clarke Kemball, Esq., Hyde Park-gardens, Direc- tor of the South and Midlands Junction Railway Richard Keily, Esq., Director of the York and Lancaster Railway Griffith Llewellyn, Esq., Baglan Hall, Glamorganshire William Lewellin, Esq., Director of the Bridgend Branch of the National Provincial Bank of England James Morrison, Esq., Director of the Chepstowand Forest of Dean Railway Thomas Morris, Esq., Newport, Monmouthshire Leyshon Morgan, Esq., Lower Tremains, Bridgend, Glamorganshire Samuel P. Pratt, Esq., F.R.S., Bath, and No. 55, Lin- coln's Inn-fields, Director of the Kennet and Avon Canal William Simpson Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park George B. Pye, Esq., Lavenham, Suffolk Evan Prichard, Esq., Collenna House, Glamorganshire James Brown, Esq., of Ton Ddu, near Bridgend Richard Fowler Rickards, Esq., Lantrissent House, Glamorganshire James Reeves, Esq., Director of the London and Man- chester Direct, and South and Midlands Junction Railways Edward L. Richards, Esq., Merthyr-Tydvil, Glamorgan- shire John Randall, Esq, Old Castle, Bridgend, Glamorgan- shire Richard Lewis Reece, Esq., county coroner, Cardiff Edward Scard, Esq., of Kew Green, Surrey, and Garth Hall, Glamorganshire Henry James, Esq., Finsbury-square, London Joseph Underwood, Esq., The Hall, Blackheath, Direc- tor of the London and Birmingham Extension Railway Co., and Director of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (With power to add to their number.) Secretary-Mr. John Petherick. Solicitors—^V. B. James, Esq., 5, Basinghall-street, Lon- don; William Morgan, Esq., Bridgend, Glamorgan. Bankers—Commercial Bank of London National Pro. vincial Bank, Bridgend and Cardiff. THIS Railway is projected fcAhe purpose of uniting J_ the Rhondda and Ely Valleys with the South Wales Railway, at a few miles distance from the port of Cardiff; and to open a new mineral district, one of the richest and most important in South Wales, which is at present without the means of transit for its immense and valuable products. It will pass through the central portion of the great coal field of Glamorganshire, where iron-stone also abounds with the coal in immense quantities, and laying, geologically speaking, nearly flat, and obtainable, for the most part, by proper levels. The coal, in addition to its being of excellent quality for iron making, as is proved at Merthyr and Aberdare, is also, like that of those dis- tricts, of the very best description for steam-purposes, being nearly smokeless, although inflammable; indeed so pre-eminently is the superiority of this description of coal established for steam-purposes over any other, that the demand for it far exceeds the supply, and promises, according to the opinion of the most eminent marine engineers, to supersede all others for purposes of steam- navigation. This source of traffic alone will afford a handsome return for the capital invested, as has been demonstrated in every instance where even tramroads or canals have been constructed to open the mineral resources of other less promising vallies in Wales than the Rhondda, which is celebrated for the abundance, quality, and facility of obtaining its production. An inexhaustible supply of limestone (so necessary for the manufacture of iron and for agricultural purposes) may be obtained by means of this Railway, much nearer and cheaper than by any other line. This line will afford to the increasing population of the rich vales of Ely and Rhondda a much desired communi- cation with the great market town and port of Cardiff, from whence, at present, they may be said to be almost excluded. It is intended that the line shall commence at Blaen Rhondda, the head of the Rhondda Valley, and proceed down by a natural pass between the hills of Ffrwd Amws, a distance of eight miles, where it will enter the Ely Valley and proceed down (a further distance of six miles) to Lanelay Bridge, near Lantrissent, and there join the South Wales Railway, thus opening a communication under the most advantageous circumstances, as to dis- tance, with all the ports in the Bristol Channel. A preliminary survey has already been made by com- petent parties, and it is found that the country admits of highly favourable gradients, so much so that it is confi- dently anticipated that the works will be executed very con- siderably under the advertised capital. The Landowners along the line are favourable to this undertaking, and the names of many influential propri tors will be found on the Provisional Committee. Vj No Subscriber will be answerable beyond the amount of his deposit until the Act is obtained, and then not be- yond the amount of his subscription. Until an act of Parliament shall be obtained the affairs of this Company shall be under the control of the man- aging directors, to whom power is given to allot the shares, and to apply the funds of the Company in payment of all the expenses incurred in its formation and in the preparation of the plans and sections to be submitted to Parliament. Power will be applied for in the act (and in the mean time is hereby given to the managing directors as above) to raise any additional capital, to extend or abandon any part of the line, to make branch lines, or enter into any arrangements, by amalgamation or otherwise, with any other company or companies, and also to nominate the first directors of the Company. In the allotment of Shares, a preference will be given to Landowners on the line and other parties locally in- terested. Prospectuses and Maps may be had of, and applications for Shares may be addressed in the form annexed to, W. B. James, Esq.^Solicitor, 5, Basinghall.street, Lon- don.; to W. Morgan, Esq., Solicitor, Bridgend, Glamor- ganshire; and to the under-mentioned Brokers but no applications for Shares will receive the attention of the Committee, unless accompanied by a reference to one or more of the Provisional Committee, Solicitors, or the Engineers:— London Messrs. John Shewell & Son, 25, Token- house Yard Messrs. J. Peppercorne and Co., 2, Old Broad Street Liverpool Messrs. Boultt and Co. Manchester ..Messrs, Houghland and Leese Leeds Messrs. John Young and Co. Bristol Luke Arnold, Esq. Messrs. Taite & Nash Birmingham.. Mr. Collis Sheffield u34 £ g§ £ »j f.1I9 §90S> FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the llhondda and Ely Valleys Junction Railway. GENTLEMEN, —I request that you will allot to me —— Shares of £20 each in this Company, and I undertake to accept the same, and to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that may be allotted to me and I also undertake to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Name (in full) Residence Trade or Profession Reference with Address Date of Application

Worcester & Leominster Railway, Via BROM rARD. [REGISTERED PROVISIONALLY.] Capital £600,000, in 30,000 Shares of f20 each. Deposit £2 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Sir Wm. Smith, Bart., Bardiston House, Worcester Henry Getge Ward, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company John Barneby, Esq., M.P. Brockampton, Bromyard Adm!. J. Ayscough, Southampton, director of the Bir- mingham and Leicester Railway George Allies, Esq., Worcester, Alderman of Worcester Director of the Great Eastern and Western, and Wor- cester, Warwick, and Rugby Railway Companies Edward Allies, Esq., Tunbridze Suckley, Worcester Richard Ashton, Esq., White Lion-court, Cornhill William Barneby, Esq., Clayton Park, Bromyard, Magis- trate of Herefordshire 0 W. G. Beare, Esq., 6, Porchester.place, Connaught- square James Best, Esq., Worcester Mr. Edward Bannister, Wool-merchant and Wool-manu- facturer, Leominster William Bastow, Esq., Surrey-place, London Mr. Thomas Benbow, Brockington, farmer and land- owner Mr. Thomas Berriman, Brook House, Bromyard George Brown, Esq., Twining Park, Worcestershire Mr. Charles Bird, of the firm of Messrs. Farmer and Bird, wholesale druggists, Worcester David Bryan, Esq., Northampton, director of the Mid- lands and Eastern Counties, the Eastern and Northern Counties, Chester and Wolverhampton, and Hudders- field and Derby Railway Lewis Buckland, Esq., Avenue Road, St. John's Wood Walter Chamberlain, Esq., Worcester Royal Porcelain Manufactory Frederick Chamier, Esq., RN., Halkin-street, Belgrave- square, director of the Paris and Lyons Railway George BeauchampCole, Esq., Chester-street, Grosvenor- place, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company William Connop, Esq., Westington, Leominster Mr. James Coucher, Wool Merchant, Worcester Henry Cornfoot, Esq Copthall-court, and Old Palace, Richmond, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Mr. George Cox, Glove Manufacturer, Worcester Captain Charles Dutton, Bredenbury House, Bromyard Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlborough-place, St. John's Wood, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company Henry Clarke Duppa, Esq., Quarry House, Boughton Monchelsea, Kent, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company Francis Davies, Esq., Pershore Thomas Davis, Esq., Powick, Worcester James Eckley, Esq., Bromyard William Eckley, gent., Bromyard John Freeman, Esq., Gains, Bromyard, Magistrate of Herefordshire and Worcestershire William Gambier, Esq., Sacombe Park, Herts John Matthew Gutch, Esq., Banker, Worcester, Director of Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby Railway, and a Magistrate of Worcester. Mr. Edwin Gardner, Corn, 'Hop, and Seed Merchant, Worcester Mr. Richard Hadleigh, miller and corn-factor, Leigh and Worcester Frederick Harris, Esq., The Hill, Leominster Richard Hickman, Esq., Oldswinford, Magistrate of Worcestershire E. H. Howey, Esq., Bromyard Richard Hemming, Esq., Swington, near Bromyard, and Kingsland, Leominster James Hemming, Esq., Church House, Bromyard Mr. John Hughes, Wool Merchant, Worcester. Mr. John Hood, Merchant and Carrier, Worcester Mr. George Hill, of the firm of Messrs. Hill and Turley, W orcester John Hall, Esq, Merchant, Worcester Joseph Hall, Esq., Alderman & Magistrate of Worcester Edmund Herbert, Esq., Powick, Worcester Henry James, Esq., Leominster, Mayor of Leominster Mr. William James, Leominster 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 John Lilly, Esq., Alderman of Worcester, Worcester Royal Porcelain Manufactory Edward Lloyd, Esq., Sheriff of 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 Lieutenant Col. Meredith, St. Johns & Suckley, Worcester William Moore, Esq., Elm Bank, Powick, Worcester Mr. F. H. Needham, Merchant, Worcester Henry Newcombe, Esq.,Hardingstone,N orthamptonshire George Parbury, Esq., Russel-square, director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway E. Burnam Pateshall, Esq., Allensmore, Hereford, a magistrate of Herefordshire John Peart, Esq., Cheltenham, Director of the Worces- ter, Warwick, and Rugby, Brighton and Chelten- ham, and the Cheltenham, Oxford, and London Junction Railways George R. Peppercorn, Esq., Box-hill, Sussex, director of the Paris and Strasburg Railway Mr. Powell, AVine Merchant, of the Firm of Messrs. Powell and Sons, Worcester John Pumphrey, Esq., Droitwich, Magistrate of Droit- wich, and director of the Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby Railway Company Robert Biddulph Phillips, Esq., Longworth, Ledbury, and Buckenhill, Bromyard, Magistrate, and Deputy- Lieutenant of Herefordshire Mr. William Phillips, Bromyard, grocer and landowner Mr. James Rea, of the firm of Messrs. Rea and Sons, Maltsters, Worcester Mr. J. P. Rea, of the firm of Messrs. Rea and Sons, Maltsters, Worcester James Reeves, Esq., Cheapside, and Leyton, Director of the Direct London and Manchester, and Great Man- chester & Rugby, & Southampton Railways George Reese, Esq., Ford House, Newport, Monmouth- shire James Robertson, Esq.. Worcester Mr. Thomas Shirley, North Audley-street, London, and Stone House, Bromyard John Francis Smith, Esq., Whitbourne Court, Birming- ham William Southall, Esq., White House, Suckley, Wor- cester Joseph Stinton, Esq., Munderfield House, Bromyard, and Lincoln's-inn, London, Magistrate of Herefordshire Henry Stock, Esq., Be Idgelert, N. W. Philip Taylor, Esq., Bromyard Thomas Timming, Esq., Wucton, Bromyard Mr. John Stone, Worcester John Tolley, Esq., Westford, Droitwich, Magistrate of Droitwich, Director of the Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby Railway Mr. Thomas Tolley, Buckland, Leominster James Upfill, Esq., The Green, Bromyard, Director of the Staffordshire and Shropshire and Dover and Bristol Railways William Vevers, Esq., Dormington Court, Hereford T. P. P. Wight, Esq., Tedstone Court, Bromyard Peter Wrarburton, Gent., High Bailiff of Bromyard John Walker, Esq., Lulsley Court, Bromyard Mr. Wells, Hop Merchant, Worcester Mr. Woodward, Hop Merchant, Worcester John Henry Walsh, Esq., Worcester Mr. James Wall, Merchant and Carrier, Worcester (With power to add to their number.) CHIEF ENGINEER.—William Gravatt, Esq., F.R.S. ASSISTANT ENGINEER.—S. F. Griffin, Esq. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Elmslie & Preston, 47, Moorgate-street, London ifcleury Foley, Esq., Worcester Messrs. W. & T. Deveroux, Bromyard BANKERS. London. The London and Westminster Bank, Loth- bury. tlie Commercial Bank of London. Worcester.. Messrs. Farley, Lavendar, and Co. LOCAL AGENT. John Bedford, Esq., Leominster THIS line will diverge from the line of the Grelt JL Eastern and Western Railway near Worcester, and proceeding by Bromyard will end at Leominster, at which point it will unite with the proposed lines connecting Hereford and Shrewsbury with North Wales. The communication by railway between these impor- tant towns and the contiguous hop and cider districts has been entirely left unprovided for by existing arrange- ments, and this line is brought forward under the auspices of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company, on the strong representations and request of a large and most influential body of the landed gentry of the neigh- bourhood. The object proposed is to make a direct communication between Leominster, Bromyard, and Worcester, which latter town has always been the natural market for the produce of these districts, and to afford the inhabitants the most direct communication with London, as compared with other lines, by upwards of 30 miles. No person will be liable for more than his deposit till the act is obtained, and power will be applied for to allow interest at £4 per cent. on all calls from the time of their respective payments, as well as 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, Greshara-street, London, or to Messrs. John Shewell and Son, Sharebroker3, Tokenhouse-yard Messrs. B. and M. Boyd, 4, Bank-buildings, and Mr. John Smith, 3, Shorter's-court, London; Mr. John Duncuft, Share- broker, Manchester; Mr. John O'Neil, Sharebroker, Manchester; Messrs. Schultz and Carr, Sharebrokers, Mr. Thomas Lee, juu., and Messrs. Reynolds and Son, Liverpool; Messrs. H. and C. Beardshaw, Sharebrokers, Leeds; Messrs. Tate and Nash, Sharebrokers, Bristol; Mr. James Peaison, Sharebroker, Birmingham Messrs. Samuel II utchmson and Co., Sharebrokers, Bradford Mr. William Miles, Sharebroker,, Worcester; Mr. Balme, Gloucester; Mr. Robert Allan, Sharebroker, Edinburgh Mr. William Gordon, Sharebroker, Aberdeen Messrs. Black and Co., Sharebrokers, Buchan-street. Glasgow and Messrs. Buchauan Aitkeif, Sharebrokers, Glasgow and Messrs. Bruce and Symes, Sharebrokers, Dublin of whom prospectuses may be had. FOIm OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Worcester and Leominster Railway- Gentlemen,—I request that you will allot to me shares of £20 each in the above Railway, and I hereby undertake to accept the same, or any less number you may allot me, and to pay the deposit of £2 2s. per share thereon, and to sign the parliamentary contract and sub- scribers' agreement when required. Dated this day of 1845. Name in full Place of business or profession Residence Business or Profession Signature Name, Residence, & Profes- £ sion of Referee.) Witness Residence

GREAT WELSH CENTRAL RAILWAY Connecting the whole of the Principality of Wales including the great iron districts of Meithyr Tydvil, and the ports of Cardiff and Newport, with Liverpool, Manchester, and the Northern and Midland Counties, by a direct line from the Ports of Swansea, Neath, and Llanelly, via Llandovery to Oswestry, and con- tinuing to Runcorn; with a branch line to Brecon (in conjunction with other railways,) connecting Merthyr Tydvil, Cardiff, and Newport. (PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.) CAPITAL, JE2,500,000, in 125,000 SHARES of JE20 each, DEPOSIT, JE3 2s. per Share. Los DOS PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Ths Lord Rossmore, The Dell Windsor Lord Stephen Chichester, Ormean The Right Hon. George Lionel Dawson Darner, M.P., chairman of the Great Munster Railway The Honourable Cecil Lawless, Lyons Castle, Kildarp, and 63, St. James's-street. Wynn Ellis, Esq., M.P., Cadogan-place, chairman of the Leicester and Bedford Railway Edmund Turner, Esq., M.P., Victoria-square, Gros- venor-place, and Truro Thomas Colpitts Granger, Esq., M.P., director of the Sovereign Insurance Company, King's Bench- walk, Temple Lieut. Col. the Hon. J. C. Westenra, M.P. George Augustus Hamilton Chichester, Esq., Chesham Place, Belgrave Square, and Oakfield, Donegal William Thomas David Lhoyd, Esq., Lhoydiarth, An- glesea, Director of the Direct London and Exeter Railway John Rawson, Esq., Stoney Rhoyd, Halifax, one of Her Majesty's deputy lieutenants, and justice of the peace for the West Riding, county of York John Barnes, Esq., Chorley Wood House, late high- sheriff of the county of Bucks, and director of the Louvain, Jemeppe, and of the Cork, Mallow, and Killarney Railways Frederick Clarkson, Esq., Doctors' Commons, and Hanger-lane, Tottenham, director of t.,he Great Man- chester Railway The Rev. J. H. Ashworth, Burlyns, near Newbury, magistrate for Hants Lieut.-Col. Burslem, Harwood Lodge, Newbury, Magis- trate for Hants Henry Jones, Esq., Heathfield House, Swansea, Direc- tor of the Vale of Neath Railway Frederick Ximenes Gwynne, Esq., Glanbrin Park, Carmarthenshire David Pritchard, Esq., Glanwrafon, Breconshire Sankey Gardner, Esq., Eagle's Bush, Neath George Willes, Esq., Hungerford Park, Berks J. Nicholl Carne, Esq., LL.D., Dimlands House, Gla- morganshire Henry Wright, Esq., director of the Warwick and Wor- cester, and South Midland Junction Railways James Reeves, Esq.. Leyton, Essex, director of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway E. F. Dayrell, Esq., Lillingstone Dayrell, high sheriff of Buckinghamshire, chairman of the Minehead and Bridgewater Railway The Hon. Henry Alexander Savile, Methley Park, Leeds Sir William Young, Bart., Westboume-street, Hyde Park, Director of the East India Company The Rev. Edwin Byron, vicar, Lympne, Hythe, Kent Charles Fitzgerald, Esq., Jermyn-street, director of the Oxford and Southampton Railway John Inglis Jerdein, Esq., 150, Piccadilly, director of the Great Manchester Railway Henry Cane Leahy, Esq., St. James's-square, director of the Direct Birmingham, and Brighton, and Great Welsh Junction, the Bognor, and London, and Brighton Junction Railways Miles Dormer, Esq., 51, Hans-place, Chelsea John James Cavan, Esq., Charles-street, St. James's- square, Director of the Eastern Counties Junction, and South end Railway Henry Brown, Esq., Harleford-place, Kennington E. Howard. Esq., HI, Edward-street, Portman-square Gilbert Scott, Esq., Cockram House, South Molton, di- rector of the North Devon Railway Frederick William Billings, Esq., Broad-street-buildings William Morley, Esq., d eputy chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation Railway Charles Roger Dodd, Esq., North Brixton John Wright, Esq., Argyle-street John Anderson, Esq., Eust*>n-place, director of the South Midlands Junction Railway William Lee, Esq., Satts House, Rochester, director of the Essex and Suffolk Railway John Matthew Mason. Esq., Canonbury Park Walter Shairpe, Esq. Sussex Gardens, Hyde Park, di- rector of the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth, Manchester and Rugby Direct, and London and Exeter Direct Railways, and Cobre Mining Company Thomas Jones, Esq., Vanog, Breconshire 'William Eitzgibbon, Esq.. director of the Cork and Bandon, Great Munster, and Bantry Railways Captain William Gabbett Beare, Porchester place, Con- naught-scluare, director of the Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Railways Frederick Seymour, Esq., St. James's-square Henry D. Erskine, Esq., Mount.street, Grosvenor-square James Gernon, Esq., Conduit-street, director of the London and Nottingham ]f|jlway The Rev* pronow, Court Herbert,^Wieath, director of the Vale of Neath Railway Thomas Haughton Hardinge, Esq., 23, Park-lane, direc- tor of the Birmingham and Brighton Railways John Campbell Dicker, Esq., New Hall, near Neston, Cheshire> director of the Birkenhead and Holyhead also of the. Rugby, Derby and Manchester; also of the Staffordshire Pottery Li ne, and of the Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton also of the Chelten- ham and Oxford Railways Henry Peach Buckler, Esq., Camberwell and Basinghall- street Thomas Stevens, Esq., Highbury Park, director of the "Western Gas Company Edward Swan, Esq., St. Paul's Churchyard Wm Richardson, Esq., Director of the Wexford, Water- ford, and Valentia Railway Alexander Prince, Esq., Lincoln's Inn Fields Mark Beresford Whyte, Esq., Temple Francis Ewart, Esq., Temple, Director of the Great Leeds, and London Direct Railway Ed.vard Hoare, Esq., Percy-street, Bedford-square, Director of the Cork and Fermoy Railway Broome Pinniger, Esq., Newbury James Burness, Esq., Stratford Grove, Essex, and Corn- hill, London J. Hughes Rees, Esq., Killymanllwyd, Llanelly, magis- trate for Carmarthenshire The list of the influential Local Committee will be given in future advertisements as also that of the local bankers Engineer—John A. Galloway, Esq. Suneyors—Messrs. Hadden and Browne Bankers—-Messrs. Masterman, Peters, Mildred and Co., Nicholas-lane> Lombard-street; Union Bank of Lon- don, Princess-street, Pall-mall East, and Argyle-place Agents-Messrs. Harns.Whyting, and Co., 29, Lombard- street Joint Solicitors to the Company—Thomas Parker, Esq., 18, St. I>a.u'| s Churchyard, and 25. Spring-gardens Messrs. Dickson and Overberry, Fredeiick's-place, Old Jewry Local Solidtors-O,liver Lloyd, Esquire, Cardigan; Edward E. D. Grove, Esq., Llanelly; David Lloyd Harries, Esq., Llandovery; Robert Lanning, Esq., Pembroke; John Gwyn Jeffreys, Esq., Swansea; John Budden Jefiues, Esq., Carmarthen. Parliamentary Agent T. H. Baker, Esq., 29, Spring- gardens Secretary—H. Herbert Downman, Esq. Offices-9, Clement's Lane, Lombard-street. PROSPECTUS. 'PHIS line of Railway will form the shortest possible route 1_ to Liverpool, Manchester, and the northern counties, from the populous and important portion of South Wales included in counties of Glamorgan, Carmarthen, and Pembroke, in which are situated several important sea- ports, and extensive copper, iron, tin plate, chemical, and other works, also potteries, collieries, &c. and the Go- vernment Dock-jard of Pembroke and will afford nearly the same advantage to the whole Principality. It will pass through the centre of an extensive country famous for the breeding of cattle for the supply ef the English markets, and thtough districts containing many lead, copper and other mines, which, owing to the want of an outlet, have hitherto been neglected and it will afford to the whole country great convenience and facility of com- munication, well calculated to increase its importance. The easy and direct communication by this route with the south of Ireland will be evident, and prove the means of considerable traffic for goods, cattle, corn, and passengers. Whether taken as an expeditious mode of conveying the valuable manufactures of South Wales, and its large supjfces of cattle and corn, as well as those from the south of Ireland, to Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, and the central and northern parts, of England and Scot- laud, or as the ready means of supplying the various manufactures of the north, foreign imports, jtRtl shop goods to the various towns and districts partaking of the advantages of the line, or as an easy and agreeable transit for the tourist to the far famed beauties of North and South Wales and the new field open to the trading com- munity, it must, in a commercial, agricultural, and national point of view, be considered as one of the most important railways in the kingdom, and compared with which all other railway schemes for Wales, however useful they may be in their several localities, are but of secondary importance. The line will be taken in a direct course, with scarcely any deviation. The country presents few engineering difficulties. The importance of the undertaking, would, however, justify a more than average expenditure if it were necessary and, when the great saving of distance is considered which will be effected from the towns of Swansea, Neath, Llanelly, Tenby, Pembroke, Haverford- west, Carmarthen, Newport, Cardigan, Aberystwith, and the whole of these districts, and the important manufac- turing locality of Merthyr Tydvil, in the journey to Liverpool, to Birmingham, and the midland counties, it will be obvious that no narrow views as to expenditure ought to stand in the way of making this railroad as direct and efficient as possible. As the line will traverse a part of the country not hitherto possessing the same facilities of commerce as other portions of the kingdom, a continually increasing trade far beyond the usual multiplication of traffic shown ordinarily to be the effect of railway communication may be calculated upou. The committee rely on the strenuous aid and cooperation of those railway companies whose line of rail forms part of this undertaking but to avoid all uncertainty on this head, it is intended to take ample powers for the completion of the whole line by the pre- sent as an independent company. It is proposed to construct a branch to Brecon and the several towns in the vicinity of the line, where required, and to take power to increase the capital sufficient for that purpose. Looking at the magnitude and importance of the line, and the benefits it will confer to the whole country, but to the principality of Wales in particular, it is expected that the nobility, gentry, and trading community will, by their cordial cooperation, enable the Company to make this railway one of the best, the most prosperous, and useful in the kingdom. The late successful demonstration of the atmospheric principle on the Croydon Railway have led the Committee to have the line surveyed, with a view to the adoption of either system of traction, when it shall have been fully ascertained which is the best adapted to this line. Until an act of Parliament shall be obtained, the affairs of the company shall be under the control of the Com- mittee of Management, who are empowered to enter into such arrangements as shall best serve the interests of this company. Power will be taken under the act to limit the respon- sibility of shareholders to the amount of their subscription, and to allow interest at 4 per cent. upon the calls. Preference in the allotment of shares will be given to those locally interested and to the shareholders of con. necting lines. The Parliamentary contract and subscribers' agreement will be ready for signature on payment of the deposits. Applications for shares in the usual form to be made at the office of the company, or to the solicitors, at 18, St. Paul's Church-yaid, or to the following agents and stock and share brokers, viz., London Agents—Messrs. Harris, Whyting, and Co., 29, Lombard-street. Brokers—Messrs. B. and M Boyd, 4, New Bank-buildings; and Mr. John Bone, 5, Bank-chambers, Liverpool; Messrs. T. Coghlen, and Son. Birmingham Messrs. Collis and Son. Man- chester Messrs. Cardwell and Sons. Leeds Messrs. John Young and Co. Cheltenham: Mr. Wm. Lee. Bristol Messrs. Edwards and Son Mr. W. H. Land. Glasgow Mr. James Gourlay.

Great Welsh Central Railway. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, THAT in consequence of the very numerous and highly respectable applications for Shares in this Company none can be received after MONDAY, the (jth OCTOBER. The allotment of Shares will take place im- mediately after that date. By order of the Committee, H. HERBERT DOWNMAN, Secretary. Offices, 9 Clements Lane, Lombard Street,) London, September 27th, 184.5 ) HULL, BIRMINGHAM, & SWANSEA Forming, in connection with existing and projected lines of Railway, THE DIRECT line of com- munication between THE HUMBER AND THE BRISTOL CHANNEL. [REGISTERED PROVISIONALLY.] Capital £ 1,GOO,000, in 64,000 Shares of jM5 each. Deposit, E2 12s. 6d. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.B., Director of the East India Com- pany. Lieut.-Col. Nathaniel Cameron, Dan-y-Graig, near Swansea, Glamorganshire. Sir James Eyre, M.D., Lower Brook Street. Sir Andrew Pellet Green, R.N., K.C.H., Director of the Swansea and Loughor Railway. Sir James lIay, Bart., llosecroft, near Chertsey. Sir Henry Webb, Bart., 10 ), Pall Mall, and Haxthorpe, Glouces- tershire, Deputy Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway. Sir John Key, Bart., King's Arms Yard, Director of the Direct Western Railw;t}. Joseph Jones, Esq., Mayor of Hull. John Anderson, Esq., Director of the Northern and Southern, and Warwick and Worcester Railways. Charles Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P., Director of the North Devon Railway. Mr. Robert tn/rnes, Land Surveyor, Swansea. William Spt-ott Boyd, Esq., Cleveland Row, Director of the Thames Embankment and Railway Junction Company. Nathaniel Pryce Cameron, Esq., Broad Oak Cottage, Loughor, Glamorganshire. Henry Dingley Cockburn, Esq., Woolwich, Kent. William Cumming, Esq., North Bank, Regent's Park. W. B. J. P. Cameron, Esq., Dan-y-Graig, near Swansea. Capt. William Holt, R.N., United Service Club Jacob Montefiore, Esq., Chester Street, Belgrave Square. Capt. Edmunl Norcott, R.N., Blackheath, Director of the Glou- cester, Aberystwith, and Central Wales Railway. Captain Samuel Price, R.N., Director of the Gloucester, Aber- ystwith and Central Wales. Robert Andrew lliddell, Esq., 2:3, Bryanstone Street, Portman Square, director of the Great Leeds and London, aud the London, Bristol, and South Wales Railway. Samuel Symonds, Esq., Poultry, London. C. A. De Valmer, Esq., York Street, St. James's Square, and Killnialloo, County Waterford. Edward G. Winthrop, Esq., St. John's Wood, director of the Aberystwith and Central Wales Railway Company. (Provisional Directors of the Cameron Coalbrook Steam Coal, and Swansea and Loughor Railway Company.) Benjamin Wm. Aplin, Esq., Banbury Barnes, Austin, Esq., Banbury George Buckton, Sen., Esq., Hull, Director of the York and Hull, and East and West Yorkshire Junction James Johnsan Bourne, Esq., 18, Addington Square, Camber- well George Augustus Brown, Esq., Gower Street, Bedford Square, Director of the Isle of Man Railway Wm. Bettison, Esq., Town Councillor, Hull John Alexander Bicknell, Esq., Brandon Cottage, Bristol, Di- rector of the Great Leeds ani London Direct Railway Capt. Bellew, Sunbary, Middlesex, Director of the New Granada Steam Navigation Company William Edward Boyes, Esq., Alkertjh, Banbury, Director of the East and West of England Railway John Bolton, Esq., Birmingham Willoughby Marshall Burslem, Esq., M.D., 38, Chester Place, Chester S^are Edwin CadnBh, Esq., Westbourne House, Sheffield, Director of the Direct Western Railway Chirles Fox Campbell. Esq., Brompton William Chambers, Esq., Coxheach, Derby, Director of Reming- ton's Direct Manchester, Sheffield, Nottingham, and London Direct and other Railways Major Croft, Regent Street, Deputy Chairman of the Chester and Manchester Direct Railway John Alcock Dixon, Esq., Burnley, Lancashire, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and Huddersfield, Halifax, and *?Ceighley Railways Thurlow, Dowling, Esq., Stafford Place, Buckingham Gate A. Hamilton Earle, Esq., Royal Artillery, Director of the West Midland, Manchester and Southampton, and Swansea and Birmingham Junction Railways Major David Fitzgerald, Travellers' Club, London, and Valentia, Ireland Lieut.-Col. Fitch, 36, York Terrace, Regent's Park, Director of the York and Lancaster Railway Bell, Fletcher, Esq., M.D., Birmingham James GarrafJ, Esq., Pinner, Middlesex William Green, Esq., Hull, Director of the York and Hull, and East and West Yorkshire Junction Robert Hancorne, Esq., Euston Square, Director of the Bristo and Dover Railway Joseph Ifalford, Esq., the Hollies, Great Bar, near Birmingham G. Helines, Esq., Hull, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle" and Hull and York Railways Joshua llorton, Esq., Aetna Iron Works, Smithwick, near Bir- mingham, Director of the Birmingham and Lichtield, and Birmingham and Stour Railways Thomas lIorncastlc, Esq., Sutton, near Hull John Jackson, Esq., 12, Upper Belgrave-place, Director of the Reading and Reig:1.te Railway Benjamin Jackson, Esq., Brixton, Surrey, Director of the Church of England Life and Fire Insurance Company John Jennings, Esq., Elm Grove, Hammersmith, Director of the Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Railway Thomas Kidley, Eiq., M.D., Sheffield, director of the Direct Western and Lincoln, Louth, Great Grimsby and Midland Junction Ambrose Moore. Esq., Milk-street George Moore, Esq., St. John's Priory, Banbury James Morley, Esq., Stanton Hall, near Ilkeston, Derbyshire Valentine Morris. Esq., Retreat, Battersea Capt. Thomas Charles Newton, Burton-street, Berkeley-square, and Luguardine, Hertfordshire, director of the Isle of Man and Irish West Coast Railway Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.lt.S., 8, Upper Hyde Park-street. and Brooker's Club, St. James's Street, director of the Liver- pool, Manchester, & Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction Railway Rees Price, Esq., M.D., Tyne Hall, Great llford, Essex John Reginald Riddell, Esq.. Bycullab House, Enfield, director of the York and Lancaster Railway Joseph Rigby, Esq., 15, Cadogan-place Henry Savage, Esq., 31, Dorset-place, Dorset-square, director of the East Midland Junction Railway Julius Le Souef, Esq., Upper Charlotte-street, fitzroy-square, director of the St. Albans aud Hatfield, and Huntingdon and Wisbeach Railways William Spooner, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Railway Joseph Storr, Esq., Owstwick, near ltouss, Ilolderaess John Tall, Esq., Hull*, director of the York and Hull, and Bact and West Yorkshire Junction Benjamin Amley Tapp, Esq., Town Councillor. Hull Thomas Ilenry Thome, Esq., Banker, Leamington, director of the Birmingham and Oxford Railway James Upfi'l, Esq., The Green, near Bromyard, Birmingham director of the Dover and Bristol, Staffordshire aud Shropshire Railways Thomas Iiollman Upfill, Esq., Birmingham Benjamin Williams, E«sq., Banker. 4, Whitehall, London William Roydon Watts, Esq M.D., Birmingham, director of the Lichfield aiid Birmingham Lincoln, Louth, and Great Grimsby and Bristol and Dover Hail way (With power to add to their number.) BANKERS. City Bankers. The London Joint Stock Bank. West End Bankers Messrs. Cockburn and Co., 4, Whitehall SOLICITOR. Edward Merrick Elderton, Esq., 3, Lothbury. Iè;TEI1DI SECitETAitY—Johu Hhaw, Esq. LOCAL AUKNTS. Hull John SMctbyc. Esq. Swansea John Jackson Price, Esq. 1> A N LI V M E N T A R V AGENTS. Messrs. Hugh Innes Cameron and George Bain, Parliament Street. THE object of this Railway is to open a direct line of communication between the seaport and town of Hull (the third port in point of commercial importance in England) and the thriving seaport and town of Swan- sea (thereby connecting the Humber and the Bristol channel) by passing through the great central manufac- turing emporium of Birmingham, and the rich manufac- turing, mining, and agricultural districts intervening. This line of Railway will have its Western Terminus at the port of Swansea, and will either adopt the pro- jected line from that port to and beyond Loughor Mill, called Swansea and Loughor Railway," when formed, and then extend itself to Pontardulais and Llandilo- Vawr, and on to Brecon, or else it will avail itself of the 35th sect. of the South Wales Railway Act, which enacts "That nothing in the said recited Acts, or in this Act contained, shall be construed, or taken to prevent or im- pede Nathaniel Cameron, Esq., of Dan-y-Graig, in the County of Glamorgan, his heirs, executors, administra- tors, or assigns, fiom making and maintaining any Railway, or Branch Railway, from certain Collieries, now belonging to the said Nathaniel Cameron, situate in the parishes of Loughor and* Llandilo-tal-y-bont, in the county of Glamorgan, to the Railway, or to the port of Swansea, or to the Port of Penyclawdd, or from making such Railway, or Branch Railway, along the side of, or parallel to the Railway, or from carrying the same across the Railway on the level thereof" And, making arrangements with that proprietor, carry this line across the South Wales Railway and that pro- prietor's coal-field, and proceed direct up the above route to Brecon. Arriving from Swansea at Brecon, and availing itself either of the proposed Welsh Midland line, or the Great Eastern and Western lines, if constructed, so far as those or other lines may appear applicable, this Railway will proceed to Hereford aud Worcester, and will there form a junction with the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway, taking advantage of that line as far as Birmingham, and will then join the Birmingham and Derby Railway, and proceed as far as Belper, or as near thereto as convenient, on the North Midland Railway, from whence it will be extended by Alflcton and Mansfield, to East Retford and Gainsborough, where it will form a junction with the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Railway, and proceed to New Holland Point opposite to Hull, which most impor- tant seaport forms its eastern terminus. The object of this company will be attained by the construction of about 80 miles only of Rail, and the use of other lines to the extent of about 140 miles. It is important to observe, and a glance at the map will show, that the proposed Line is the most direct line that can be formed between the sea ports of Hull and Swansea. In the allotment of the Shares of this Company, the proprietors on the different Lines, in connection here- with, as well as neighbouring land-owners, will be entitled to a preference. The directors reserve power to amalgamate, purchase, or otherwise unite with any other line of Railway, also to vary the route or m.^e any extensions that may appear to them desirable, and to increase the capital, if necessary, for the attainment of any such objects. The usual powers will be taken in the act of parlia- ment to allow each shareholder interest at the rate of E4 per cent. upon all deposits and calls until the Line be opened, and the amount of the liability of the share- holders will be limited to the amount of their subscriptions. Applications for Shares, in the usual form, may be made, addressed to the Provisional Directors, at the Offices of the Company's Solicitor, No. 3, Lothbury, London, and to the following Sharebrokers, from whom copies of the Prospectus, Map, &e. may be obtained Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Threadneedle Street, London E. Wilsen, Esq., Birmingham Messrs. Brad- ley, Ford and Parker, Manchester; Messrs. Dobson and gllerkamp j H. Davies and Co., Liverpool Messrs. Chantrell and Boyes, Leeds; Messrs. Wilkinson and Earle, Messrs. Schofield and West, Messrs. Horncastle and Hibberd, Messrs. Tarbottom and Whiting, and Messrs. Doy and Co., Hull; Messrs. Buchanan and Aitken, Glasgow; Messrs. Wreford, Nicholls, and Wreford, Bristol; and Messrs. Dowling and Howden, Edinburgh.

TAFF VALE RAILWAY. Contract for Works on Rbondda Branch. fTlIIE DIRECTORS are desirous of receiving Tenders JL for the formation of about ONE MILE of RAIL- WAY, commencing at or near the present Terminus of the Rhondda Branch, and extending to Penrhiwgwynt. Plans and Specifications may be seen at the Office of the Company's Engineer, at the Cardiff Terminus, on and after WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15th instant. Sealed Tenders, endorsed, Tender for Work on Rhondda Branch," to be delivered to the Secretary on or before THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23rd instant. By Order, A. F. MORCOM, Secretary. Taff Va.le Railway, Cardiff, October 1st, 1845.)

Gloucester, Aberystwith and Central mass THE Directors have the satisfaction of informing the Shareholders that they have concluded an arrange- ment on mutually advantageous terms with the Directors of the Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction Company, the effect of N-, hic'i will be that the two lines will JOIN at LLANGURIG, from which point the Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction Company are to lay down rails to Aber- ystwith, for the accommodation of the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and Central Wales Railway Company, on theguacre adopted by the latter. o JO. LINDAM, Chairman. By order, T. HAWKER, Sec. Offices, 1, New Broad-street, Sept. 25, 1845.

h, GLAMORGAN CENTRAL MINERAL RAILWAY. r R E L I M X N A R Y ANNOUNCEMENT. Capital, £ 300.000 in 25,000 Shares, of £ 20 e:,ch. Deposit, £ 2 per Share. THIS Line of Raihvay (which is proposed by the Duffryn Llynvi and Porth Cawl Raihvay Company), will embrace the richest Mineral Field in the Principality, lying chieny in the Hundreds of Newcastle and Ogmorc, and comprising a district of about 10 miles square, abounding with Coal of the best quality, also with Argil- aceous and Black Band Iron Ore. It is proposed to construct this Railway in the most efficient manner, to carry a branch line up each of the Mineral Valleys into which, the district is divided, to connect them into one Trunk line near Bridgend and to enlarge the present Harbour of Porth Cawl (which is about midway between Cardiff and Swansea), into a commodious Port adapted to the extensive traffic con- templated. It is intended, for the convenience of Passengers, to connect the main line with the South Wales Railway at ttvo different points towards Cardiff and Neath; which will also afford facilities of Shipment at the^various Ports, accessible by the South Wales line. A detailed Prospectus, with the names of an influen- tial Committee, will be shortly submitted to the public, when it will be seen that no line of Railway 3 et projected offers greater advantages in the way of Investment, or opens such an inexhaustible field of Mineral Wealth. Further information may in the mean time be obtained of Mr. WILLIAM LEWIS, Solicitor, Bridgend; and Messrs. ROWLAND, HACON & ROWLAND, Solicitors, Threadneedle Street, London. By order of the Duffryn Llynvi and Porth Cawl Rail- way Company, W. S. BRADLEY, Clerk. Port'} Cawl, near Bridgend, G'am.orgnn. t shire, Sept, 20th, ISI5, j

CAMEROA S COALBROOK STEAM (Oil AND Swansea d Xioughor Railway Company' Registered Provisionally, pursuant to the Ttli & 8th Vic. c. 110. Yic. c. 110. CAPITAL £200,000 IN20,000 SHARES OF £10 EACC- DEPOSIT £2 PER SUARE, (With two Calls of £ 2 each per Share, beyond which no furthet Call will be required.) TR CSTEES. George Barry Baldwin, Esq.. M.P. John Anderson, Esq.. Lothbury Benjamin Williams, Esq., Whitehall PROVISIONAL DIItE(;TORS. Sir Andrew Pellatt Green, R.N K.C.LI. Charles Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P., Director of the North Det'O" i Railway Thomas Kelly, Esq.. Alderman of London, Director of tile: iJireet London and Manchester Railway Ilenry Dingly Cockburn, Esq., Woolwich, Kent W illiam Cumming, Esq., North Bank. Regent's Park j1 Jaco1) Montefiore, Esq.. 20, Chester Street. Belgrave Square Nathaniel Pryce Cameron, Esq., Broad Oak Cottage," Lougho'' I Glamorganshire Capt. Samuel Price, R.N., United Service Club, Director of Gloucester, Aberystwith and Central Wales ltailwav John Anderson, Esq., II.E., J.C.S., Director of the Birmingh»i« and Lichfield Railway Capt. Edmund Norcott, R.N, Blackheath, Director of the. Gloucester, Aberystwith and Central Wales Itailway Capt. B. M. Kelly, U.N., Director of the London and Brighton Railway and Thames Embankment and Railway Junctio", Company Sir George Rich, Director of the Oxford, Southampton, and J ortsmouth Railway, and of the Rugby and Manchester, fl' Macclesfield and Chairman of the Patent Fuel Company Edward G. Winthorp, Esq., St. John's Wood W B. J. P. Cameron, Esq., Dan-y-Graig, near Swansea Capt. Wm. Holt, R.N., Senior United Service Club Bamucl Symonds, Esq Poultry, London Mr. Robert Barnes, Land Surveyor, Swansea William Sprott Boyd, Esq., Cleveland Row, Director of the Thames Embankment and Railway Junetion Company C. A De Vaimer, Esq York Street, St. James's Square, a"1" Kilmalloo, County of Waterford R. A. Riddell, Esq Bryanstone Street, Portman Square, D'' rector of the Bristol and South Wales Railway WITH POWER TO ADD TO TIIEIR NUMBER. BANKERS. The London and Westminster Bank. Lothbury' Messrs. Cockburn and Co., Whitehal). SOLICITOR.—Edward M. Elderton, Esq., 3, Lothbury. LOCAL AGENT.—John Jackson Price, Esq. STANDING COUNSEL.—William Monteitli, Esq. Temple. PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.—Hugh Innes Cameron, and George Bain, Esqrs., 18, Parliament Street. THAT the Company have the power of carrying their JL line across the line of the South Wales Rail^ Company, appears from the following clause of tl'at Company's Act ,— And be it enacted, that nothing in the said recited Acts, or in this Act contained, shall be construed, °1. taken to prevent or impede Nathaniel Cameron, Esq., 0 Dan-y-Graig, in the County of Glamorgan, his heir' executors, administrators or assigns, from making ØO maintaining any Railway, or Branch Railway, from cer* tain Collieries, now belonging to the said Nathai>ie Cameron, situate in the parishes of Loughor and Ll»0' dilo-tal-y-bont, in the county of Glamorgan, to Railway, or to the Port of Swansea, or the Port Penyclawdd, or from making such Railway, or BraHcfl Railway, along the side of, or parallel to the Railway, 0<. from carrying the same across the Railway, on the le*e thereof." ) It is the intention of the Company to carry out powers reserved by the above clause, in the South Railway Act of Parliament; and it will be apparent tbjt. this Line of Railway, when so formed, in pursuance 0 the above clause in that Act, across that line, will for e the trunk line of communication from all parts of tb kingdom to the Port of Swansea. 8 The property is also situated about five miles from tbf harbour of Llanelly, from which Port there is a RaiHv^ already laid down, which passes within half a mile of t Coal-field. e4 On the southern side, also, the proposed South Wal Railway will pass within one mile of the colliery, necting it with the copper works at Swansea, and much facilitate the transport of the Coal thereto, and the several Ports of Swansea, Penclawdd, Llanel'V Pembrey, Kidwelly, and Caermarthen. The readi^ means, therefore, for the transit and shipping Company's Coal to Ireland and various parts of Wales* f. well as the Continent, the Colonies, and elsewhere, \fJ thus be open to the Company. This mineral property (especially the Coal) has be*' surveyed and reported upon W. W. Taylor, Esq., gineer, of Swansea. That Gentleman, in his Rep^ divides the Coal into two separate quantities and quality and they are thus classified, viz About 900 acres 0 very superior Steam Coal, and about 400 acres of stro1 bituminous Coking Coal. Both of these kinds of Co*, have been proved in three veins, viz:—the Steam CoaV vein, 4 feet, and 2 of 3 feet each the bituminous 1 vein of 6 feet, and 2 of 2 feet each in thickness, > lying under a strong stone roof. In consequence of I excellent roof, the stalls or boards may be worked a gre J width with little timbering, and the Steam Coals very large. There are also many other veins not °Pe°jj The veins lying at an inclination of one in 6, and due eastern rise in 900 acres, and southern rise in acres. The flatness of the veins is very favourable ™ working much of the Coal by level. I It is impossible to prescribe a limit to the quantity Coal which may be extracted from this Coal-field. known quantity contained in the mines that have opened cannot be less than 20 millions of tons. LTP^ the crop of these veins a winning has already been effect^ from which the Coal can be readily and immedv worked to the extent of from three to four hundred ac< at something like 6,000 tons per acre. A steam-eng^ is already erected of sufficient power to draw off rd water, and to bring the Coal to the surface by an inch'1? plane. Other plans and arrangements are also be' ? adopted for working the coal to an almost extent. i At present, a short Railway has been laid down, screens erected for loading waggons, near the leading to the Port of Swansea, for the purpose of veying the Coal and Ores to that Port. Horses, y gons, and the necessary material for conveying 100 tons per day by the road, are already Pr0.vi<if belonging to the Company, who have also acquis £ convenient wharf and shipping place at the Swansea, held on a lease for a term of years, with some alterations, of loading three vessels at time. a The quality, also, of the Coal has been tested in ways, and the correctness of the analysis made by drew Ure, Esq., M.D., F.R.S., (see a copy of J certificate and report appended), has been the subsequent trial of the coal at H. M. Dockr Woolwich. ,(t Several trials have also been made on board in the Bristol Channel, in the presence of Mr. A comparative trial has also been made, in his at Her Majesty's Dock Yard, Woolwich. A copy report of this trial is appended, together with an ey from the results of various trials of other Coals, at wich, showing the mechanical value of each Coah d (Cgf which it is easy to deduce a commercial value, M prove that the Cameron Coalbrook Steam Coal steain purposes, not only superior to any other JF Coal, but also to any other description of fuel wh*' j whether patent or otherwise. ^(1 Mr. Taylor having directed his attention chi £ *vf Coal, did not specially report or any other he has nevertheless since stated, and is prep»re^| prove that there is a considerable quantity of Iro» u»i some of the Brown Carbonate quality and not less 20 veins of various descriptions of Iron Ore, in ij ance very rich and easy to work. Parties have already offered to contract for 9 considerable quantity of the Coal in the London alone, and at highly remunerative prices; and it is j # tained, that a very large quantity, may be shipP^c even a better price to the Ports of France, as well 7 the Colonies and other Foreign Ports. o Independently of the quantity shipped, the ac^M ledged strength of the Coal as a smelting Coai»jj[ always command a large share of the trade of the UØr bourhood of Swansea, for Copper, Zinc, and other øl The Lease acquired by the Company is for the tef t 99 years from 11th October, 1841, and include whole Coal and Mineral Ores in the Property'$ Company will be enabled to discharge the p^V money by periodical payments, during a course of years. In proof of his confidence in the val0?, resources of the Coal and other Minerals, the takes a large portion of the purchase-money in 9 w By this arrangement, so favorable to the necessity of a large call on the Shareholders is at 3 avoided, while on the expiration of the above of seven years, (or sooner, if convenient to the Co>f?im the whole purchase-money will haue been paid,, entire future benefit of the coal-field, with all its vast$| cumulating profits, will becomc the exclusive propt the Company for the remainder of the terw. f. JK Deducting from the market price of the Coat tb2 of production of the coal, the Royalty, the e of carriage, wharfage, freight, expense of maPage^fjl per cent. to the Shareholders on th« paid i:.p cap* every other charge, stated on the highest complJjB and drawn from facts of acknowledged accuracy, t left a clear profit of more than 3s. -per ton (and W profit will be increased by, at least, Is. Gd. per too.. the Company shall have made their own RaiUvajil assuming the annual vend of Coal to be only J tons, there is shewn a present available annual pr upwards of £ Itl,OllO, exclusive of the additional Qr equal to not less than jE:9,000 more per annum, the Railway would coffer by saving in the e^P^sl transport alone. Large as this may appear, it is tonly shown, and can admit of no doubt. The coal alone will yield a dividend of upwards of JL cent., and the additional revenue to be derived Raihvay, would largely increase the value of th? 'jj lhe extension of the Company's operations will M* higher rate of profit, as the cost of production Jtf compared with the increase of the produce. uec diminish. 1 Notice is hereby given, that in vast number of applications for shares \yhich h»*' H'4 made to the committee, no further applicati0^Vr London will be received after Monda- ,-f the 6th instant, nor from the country after ^/e'dnesday, 1 I instant. I By order. j EDWARD M. F.LDERTOX, J)' Registered. Solicitor to the If r 3> Lothbury, London, 1st Oc'.ober, 1«45. Jl 1 •