The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-04 00:00:00

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE,

The Hon. Captain William Gen, Director ofthe Great Western of
Bengal Railway.
• William Bulkeley linghes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid-
land Railway
Richard Frio-, Esq., H.P., Director of the Welsh Midland Railway
Davis R. Roes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Belfast, and Director of
London and Manchester Railway
James Duke, M.P., Alderman of London, Director of the Chel-
tenham and Oxford Railway
Sir John E. de Beauvoir, Bart., Chairman of the London and Bir-
minghtun Extension
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire
Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theohalds, Hens, Director of the
Chester and Mauchester,Direct Railway
Sir William Hyde Pearson, Hanover-square
Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London, Director of the London
and Manchester Direct Railway
Sir William Wynn, Maesynewadd, Chairman of the North Yrales
Railway
Sir John Hafe, Bart., Langham-place, Director of the London and
Birmingham Extemion . .
Brigadier-General Sir Henry rynnf Bart., Director of the Direct
Western Railway . .
Admiral J. Ayscough, Prospect-place House, Southampton
Edmund Francis Dayrell, Esq., Lillingatone Dayrell, Bucks, High
Sheriff of the County, and Director of the Bucks and Oxford and
Wolverton. Junction Railway
Thomas Sidney, Esq., Alderman and Sheriff of London, Director of
the London and Manchester Direct Railway
Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the Lon-
don and Westminster llank,:and Namur and Liege Railway
John Kinnersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of
the London and Manchester Direct Railway
Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London
The Mayor of Buckingham
Donald Maclean, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Trent Valley Con-
tinuation
Major Oliver Lindam, Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberys-
twith and Central Wales Railway
Richard Hartley Kennedy, Esq.,. Chairman of the Coventry and
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Leicester and Warwick and Cheltenham Railways
Archibald Steens, Esq., Manor House, Invereske, Director of the
Warwick and Cheltenham Junction Railway, and of' the Great

Western of Bengal
Tames Brancher, Esq., Chairman of the Liverpool and Bury and
Manchester and Bolton Railways
Major Morse Cooper, Director of the Great Western of Bengal Railway
Captain James Patrick WDoughall, late Bengal Royal General Stan,
Fir-grove, North Brixton; Director of the Chester and Forest o:
Dean, &c., Railway
Stephen Lewis, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the Waveney Valley and Great
Yarmouth Railway
George Lan-ton, Esq„ Ditchley, Essex, Director of the Manchester
and Birkenhead Contluation, and South Midlands Railway
William James Bailey, Esq., aheuley House, Bucks, Director of the
Bucks Railway
Joseph Brown, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Birmingham

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Continuation
Peter Morrison, Esq,, Manning Director of the Britannia Life Insu-
rance Company
Richard Heaviside, Esq., Director of the Great Luxemburg Railway
Joseph Gill, Esq., Chapel Town, Leeds, Director of the Lincoln,
York, and Leeds Railway
James Clay, Esq., Brompton, Director of the Furness and White-
haven Railway
Joseph Thompson; Esq., Director of the London and Brighton
Railway •
William Fechney Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Direc-
tor of the Italian and Austrian Railway
William Cole, Esq., Bicester, Oxon, Director of the Wilts and Berks

Canal -
William Shaw, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment, and Ma-

nagin4 Director of the Farmers' Life Insurance Company
Major-General Parlby, C.B.,Rutiand-gate, Director of the Worcester,
Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union Railway
Richard Carpenter, Esq., Magistrate of the county of Middlesex, De-
puty Chairman of the London and Birmingham Extension, and
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iMrecfor of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
John Stewart, Esq., Portman-square, Director of the Nest Indian
Railway
Colonel Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, Director of the London and
Birmingham Extension
Major Grubbe, Eastwell House, Potterne, Wilts, Magistrate of the

county
Edmund Phillips, Esq., Avon House, Melkshain, Wilts
Captain Edward Dawes, Buckingham, Director of the Bucks and Ox-
ford and Wolverton Junction Railway -
Charles Thomas Ward, Esq., Luton Hoo, Beds, and Clapton House,

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Stratford -on.Aven
Joseph Brook, Esq., Greenhead, Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds,
Dewsbury, and Manchester, and Huddersfield and Sheffield June-

tion Railway
George Henry Brook, Esq., Edgulin Lodge, Huddersfield, Provisional
Director of the Huddersfield, Halifax, and Bradford Union Railway
Vero Clarke liemba3l, Esq.. Chester-place. Hyde Park-gardens
John lielbert He]!Jeri, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square
James Beech, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place, and Brandon Lodge, near
Coventry, Director of the South Midland Railway
Win. Watson Prole, Esq., Thurloe-sqUare, Brompton, Director of the
Jersey Railway
Edward Deakins, Esq., Blaster, Director of the Wilts and Berke

Canal
rroderick James Hall, Esq., Torrington-square, and Alfreton, Derby,
Director of the Trent Valley Continuation
Major Waller, K. 11., Director of the London and Manchester Direct

Railway •
Captain Seth N. Fisher, Director of the Warwick and Worcester
Railway
Joseph Cri ckett, Esq., Alderman of Devizes, and Director of the
North Wilts Banking CoMpany
Colonel Fitch, York-terrace, Regent's Park
Joseph Undervrood, Esq., the Hall, Blackheath, Director of the Me-
tropolitan Life Insurance Company, and Director of the London
and Birmingham Extension Company
W. A. Hill, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith and

Central Wales Railway
William Marriott Freeman, Esq., Stoney Stratford, Bucks; Director

of the Bucks Railway
William Sloane, Esq. Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Chairman
of the Church of England Life Insurance Company
Richard Dutton, Esq., Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Railway, and Director of the Legal and Commercial Life Insurance
Company.
Captain C. W. Tyndale, Director of the South-Eastern Railway
Frederick Jones, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Director of the Warwick and
Worcester Railway
Colonel Olivier, the Manor House, Potterne, Wilts, Magistrate of the
Oounty, and Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth
Railway
William Turner, Esq., Shipton-on-Churwell, Oxon
T. C. Norbnry, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
James Reaves, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Direct
Railway _
Henry Lewis Smale, Esq., Willoughby House, Tottenham, Director
of the London and Dover Railway
Thomas Gooch, Esq., Director of the Fidelity Guarantee Society
Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continua-
tion Railway, and of the Legal and Commercial Life Insurance
Company
John Anderson, Esq., E.1.C.5., Director of the Chukch of England
Lite Insurance
The Rev. Henry John Possand, rector of Shepton, rector of Charwell
W. P. Courtenay, Esq., Temple, Director of the Legal and Commercial
Life Insurance Company
John James, Esq. Secondary of the City 'of London, and Director of
the Legal and Esq.,
Insurance Company
William S. Potter, Esq., Sussex Gardens, Hyde Park, Director of the
Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham Railway
William Hallett, Esq., Kemp Town, Brighten
William Singleton, Esq., Chapel Town, Leeds, Director of the Lin-
coln,Nork, and Ifzeds Railway
Robert Richards, Esq., Inner Temple, London
George Robert Colman, EN , Director of the South Midland, and
Northampton and Banbury Railways
John ttrocke Walbanke. Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
Henry Wright, Esq., Brunswick-square, Director of the Warwick
and Worcester Railway
John Fagan, Esq., Gloucester-road, Old Brompton
Erasmus R. Forster, Esq. Director of the Britannia Life Insurance
Company, and Derby and Stafford Railway
William Bardgett, Esq., Winchester House, Broad-street, Director of
the Italian and Austrian Railway
(With power to add to their number.)

RANKERS.
Loudon—The Commercial Bank, Lothbury
Bicester —Means. Tubb and Co.
Woodstock—Messrs Gillett and Tawney
Wltney—The London and County Bank
CONSULTING ENGTNEERS.
Sir John Macneill, LL.D. and F.R.S.
James Thomson, Esq., F.ILS E. aid M.R.I A.
ACTING ENQINEER—WiIIiam Mullingar Higgins, Esq.
SOLICITOR—W. B. James, Esq., 5, Bashighall-street, London.
LOCAL AGENTS—Devizes, J. W. Wall, Esq ; Bicester, W. C. Tur-
ner. Esq.; Woodstock, Benjamin Hollow; Salisbury, Messrs,
Foot and Radcliffe.

Originating at Bicester, by a junction with the Oxford and Cam-
bridge line through Wolverton, in connexion with the Eastern Coun-
ties, the South and Midlands Junction will afford facility of inter-
coarse with the metropolis in one direction, with Stafford, the Pot-
teries' Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester in the other ; near
Woodstock, olose to which the projected line will pass, the o],crord
and Rugby and Oxford and Worcester Railways cross, presenting
opportunities of entering the two great railway arteries of the. king-
dom—the Great Western and the London and Birmingham, the for:
mer at Dudcot, the latter at Rugby.
Proceeding to the Manufacturing town of Witney, a line is crossed
communicating with the Stroudwater district of manufactures by the
Oxford and Cheltenham Railway, thence the projected line trimds di-
rectly S.W., leaving Bampton to the east, until it roaches Lechlade,
a town seated at the afflux of the Timmer, and Severn navigation
with the River Thames, and where a considerable entrepot for mer-
chandise is established.

Keeping within easy distances of rarringdon, Cricklade, and Bfgh-
worth, it waches Swindon, a rapidly improving vicinity, At this
principal station, where the broad gauge is crossed, the Gloucester
and Cheltenham line falls into the Great Welton.
The intersection of the South and Midland Junction with the Great
Western at Swindon opens a mast extensive and valuable communi-
cation with Loudon eastwafd; Bristol, Bath, Gloucester, Chelten-
liam, Stroud, westwapd ; and, by the Gloucester and Aberystwith
projected line, with the whole of North and South Wales.
APPliCations for Prospectuses, plans, may be made, and forms of ap-
plication for Shares-had, at the office of W. B. James, Esq., solicitor,
5, Basiughall-street ; also of Henry Smith, Esq., solicitor, Backing-
ham ; and of the following gentlemen :

London—Messrs. J. Pepp-eicorie and Co., 9, OJ.c Btoad.street ; Mr.
W. B. Harrison, 8, Bank-cluunbers 11r, 'nos. Hanbuty, 4, Angel-
court.
Liverpool—Mem:4. Mills and Co:, and Messrs. Neilson.
11q11,11c44T--Messts. Houghland and Leese, and Mr. Wm. Marshall
Collinson and Flint
Lseds—Messrs. Watson and Co.
Stratford-on-Avon--Mr. William BoTton

Exeter-31r. Thomas Sanford

Plymouth —Messrs. Heywivd s.md runner
Birmingham—Mr. Collis„ ;‘td Mr. John Wright.
Glasgow—Meskai. I.Vuune and Co._ _

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ViglAhltritli —Messrs. Robertson and Co., and Messrs. McCullum and Co.
FORM OF APPLICATION" FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the South and Midlands Junction
Railway,
Gentlemen,—l request thg ye.ti Will allot to me Shares of 201.
each in this COMIAIITI ggcj I undertake to accept the same, and to
pay tile (4poOt Ae.r:eon, or upon any lees number that may bo allotted
tg R. tin d I undertake also to execute the Parliamentary, contract
and Subscribers' agreement when required.

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Address of Referee . .. ........

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CONSTITUTIONNEL, and SIECLE, being upwards of 130,000,
presents a m9st Important channel for all classes of advertisers to
give extnnsive publicity to their announcements throughout every
Part of Europe.

The Contractors leave reduced their scale of charges, and appointed
Mr. WILLIAM THOMAS, 21, Catherine-street, Strand, their Agent
for England, from whom 1111 particulars can be obtained.