The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-20 00:00:00

PRESENT PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
(The names of a further Provisional Committee will be published in

a few days.)

The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne
Sir William Twysden, Bart., Dorset-street, Portman-square, Director
of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction, and
Erewash Valley Extension Railways
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Parthenon Club, Director of the
Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway, of
the South and Midland Junction, and West Midland Railways
Major-General Sir Robert Barton, K.C.H., Director of the York and
Lancaster Railway
Thomas Alexander, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian, and
Trent Valley Continuation Railways
C. H. Anderson, Esq., Upper Clapton. Director of the South Midland
Railway
John Byng Banks, Esq., Stockwell, Surrey
William Bardgett, Esq., Winchester-street, Broad-street, Director of
the Italian and Austrian, and the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford,
Railways
William Fechney Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Di-
rector of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midland Junction
Railways
Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Exten-
sion Railway
John Griffiths Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Chairman of the London-
derry and Coleraine, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways
Henry Weech Burgess, Esq., Temple's Park, Hampstead, Director of
the Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, Potteries, and Crewe Railway
Charles Salisbury Butler, Esq., the Lodge, Upper Clapton
Josiah Burrowes, Esq., Castle House, Gemersall, near Leeds
James Bateman, Esq., Park House. near Bradford
William Banks, Esq., Honey-lane Market
Thomas Burnley-, Esq., Gomersall, near Leeds, Director of the Leeds
and West Junction Railway, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railway
Henry Sherard Coleman, Esq., Crown-court, Old Broad-street
W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the London and Birmingham Exten-
sion
Francis Dacre, Esq., Strat'oni, Essex
Samuel Bateman, Esq„ Croft House. near Bradford, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
John Alcock Dixon, Esq., Burnley, near Leeds, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
R. Davenport, Esq., Alversten, near Derby, Director of the Rugby,
Derby, and Manchester Railway
A. A. Davenport, Esq., Eastwood, Notts
Solomon Foster, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Nottingham, Mans-
field, and Midland Junction Railway
Martin Furniss, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Erewash and Shef-
field Railway
H. P. Gipps, Esq., Director of the Coventry and Nuneaton Railway
Peter Morrison, sq., Director of the Trent Valley Continuation, and
of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railways
Francis Bennett Goldney, Esq., Manor House, Brixton. Director of
the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford, and Direct Manchester (Ras-
trick's line) Railways
Charles Goldsmith, Esq., Friday-street, Cheapside
William Gatliff, Esq., 12, Park-place, Leeds, Director of the West
Yorkshire and Direct Liverpool and Leeds Railways
William Gordon, Esq., M.D., F.L.S., Director of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct Railway
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Charles Gibson, Esq., Holland-place, Clapham
Robert Herries, Esq., East-street, Leeds, Director of the Liverpool
and Leeds Direct Railway
Samuel Hammond, Esq., Leeds
Richard Hargrave, Esq., York-place, Leeds
g. C. Hall, Esq., F.S.A., Inner Temple, Director of the Erewash Val-
ley Extension and West Midland Railways
Thomas Heelis, Esq., Skipton Castle, Skipton, Director of the Lan-
cashire and North Yorkshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire North-
Eastern, and of the Liverp3ol and Leeds Direct Railways
John !Ridge, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and Direc-
tor of the Derby and Stafford Railway
William Empson Jalland, Esq., Holderuess House, near Hull, Di-
rector of the York and Hull Railway
Barwell Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holderness House, near Hull, Ma-
gistrate for the East !tiding of York and Borough of Hull, and
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds, and Hull and Barnsley
Railways
Joseph Jones, Esq., Mayor of Hull, and Director of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct Railway
Henry Jennings, Esq., Park-place, Leeds, Director of the Manches-
ter, Southampton, and Poole, and Bradford and Wakefield
Railways
Moses Edward Legg, Esq., Watling-street, London
Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley and Con-
tinuation and Holyhead Junction, and West Midland and South
Midland and Oxford Extension Railways
Thomas Ingham Raynor, Esq., Birstal, Leeds, Director of the Leeds
and West Riding Junction, and the Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railways
William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., J.P., Hull, Director of the Rugby,
Warwick, and Leamington, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railways
Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Selby
Railway
Thomas Rogers, Esq., Laura-place, Bradford, Director of the Liver-
pool and Leeds Direct Railway
John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Bycullah House, Enfield, Managing
Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
Robert Richards, Esq., Director of the West Midland Railway
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester,
and Weymouth Junction, the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke,
and the Direct Western Railways
George Walker Smith, Esq., Horbury Hall, Sheffield, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Samuel Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street. and Gorbals, Hull, Di-
rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway
William Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street, and Gorbals, Hull
Thomas Smith, Esq., M.D., 30, North-street, Leeds, Director of the
Leeds and York, and Liverpool and Leeds Railways
James Templer, Esq., Brixton-rise, Director of the Derby, Uttoxeter,
and Stafford Railway.
James Robinson, Esq., Bradford, Yorkshire
Benjamin Shaw, Esq., Kilburn Priory, Director of the Churnet and
Blythe Valleys Railways
George Turner, Esq., Hunton-hill, near Birmingham, Director of the
South Staffordshire, and Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford
Junction Railways.
ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF—Sir John M'Neil, L.L.D., and F.R.S.
ACTING ENGINEER—WiIIiam Mullingar Higgins, Esq.
LONDON SOLICITORS.
J. H. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-court
Owen Gray, Esq., 25, Great Tower-street,
J. B. Midge, Esq.,

RANKERS.
London—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co.
Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Co.
The object of this railway is to connect, in the most direct course,
the important and increasing manufacturing town of Leeds with the
Metropolis, the want of which has long been felt, and is too univer-
sally acknowledged to need any comment, and it is under this con-
viction that this important undertaking, after several minute exa-
minations of the country through which it will pass, has been brought
forward.

The proposed line will commence at the junction of the Manche -
ier and Leeds, and York and North Midland Railways, near Wake-
field, and will terminate by means of a junction with the Eastern
Counties Railway at Bedford (to which place it is the intention of
that CoMpany to extend their line in the ensuing cession of Parlia-
ment), and by thus availing itself as far as possible of the existing
railways, will complete the most direct and least expensive trunk
line, from London to Leeds, York, and Hull. It will pass in its route
within an available distance of Wakefield, Pontefract, Doncaster,
Rotherham, East Redford, Nottingham, Newark, Grantham, Melton
Mowbray, Oakham, and Stamford.
The importance of such a line is obvious, both from the nature of
its course (embracing; as it does, a most extensive population within
its lirnits).as aiso from the absence of any direct communication for
the convekance of passengers and merchandise.
By the construction of this railway, railway communication to
London will be given to Peterborough and Leicester (by means of
the Syston and Peterborough Railway), to Newark and Nottingham
(by the Nottingham and Lincoln line), and to Sheffield and Gainsbo-
rough (by the Sheffield and Gainsborough line), by a much shorter
route than by any existing Railways.
Independently of the advantages offered to the towns in the several
counties through which this Line will pass, the Line in itself consi-
dered as a direct trunk line between London and Leeds, is sufficient
to justify its formation, it being well known that the existing traffic
between these two places would produce such a return on the capital
required, as to admit of a dividend, equal to that of any railway in
operation : but when it is borne in mind, that a Company is being
formed for the purpose of connecting Glasgow with Leeds by means of
a junction with the York and Carlisle Railway, no better line can be
presented to the public, as It will not only effect a direct communica-
tion from Glasgow and the Western parts of Scotland to London, but
would also connect Edinburgh and the Eastern parts of Scotland as
well as Durham and Newcastle Or the York and North Midland, and
Great North of England Railways), with the Metropolis, which would
be considerably shorter than the accommodation offered by any
other Company, and when cost of construction is considered, there
cannot be a doubt but that preference would be given to the Great
Leeds amid London Direct Railway..
The fact of the Eastern Counties Railway being connected by a
branch line with the East. and West India Docks on the river
Thames, and the Railway Company having recently leased for 999
years the extensive pepper warehouses belonging to those docks,
which are capable of receiving 12,000 tons of goods, together with
wharfs adjoining, where the shipment and trans-shipment of goods
from all parts of the world can take' place, is a most important fea-
ture in favour of the direct communication from the manufacturing
towns of Glasgow and Leeds offerel by the Great Leeds and London
Direct Railway, and by branch railways to time main trunk line,
through which all goods front-the *hole of the manufacturing dis-
tricts could be conveyed at once tmi these warehouses for shipment,
thereby avoiding the present delay and expense of cartage, and in
reality establishing an almost direct and an invaluable connexion
between the rivers Clyde and Thames.
It has been ascertained that there are no engineering difficulties,
that the works will be easy, and the gradients remarkably good, and
that it will not materially interfere with any ornamental property.
The Subscribers will be held liable only to the extent of their first
deposits until an Act of Parliament Is obtained, and afterwards only
to the amount of their subscriptions.
It is proposed to take power in the Bill to allow interest at 4 per
cent. per annum on all calls until-the opening of the line, and a'so to
extend the line to Hertford on the Eastern Counties line, in the event
of that Company not prosecuting their line to Bedford.
Applications for Shares (in the form annexed) may be made to J.
R. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-court, and Messrs. Owen Gray and
Illidge, 25, Great Tower-street, the joint solicitors to the Company,
at the Company's temporary offices,'9, Copthall-oogrti London,
No application will be attended to unless accompanied by a satis-
factory reference.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Great Leeds and London Direct

Rilway:
Gentleinen,—l request you will allot me Shares, of 251.
each, in the above undertaking, and I undertake to pay the deposit
thereon, or upon any less number that may be allotted to me, and
also to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Kubscribers' Agree-
ment when required.

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