The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-23 00:00:00

LOCAL 6OLICITOR6.

Bromyard—William West, Esq.
Kidderminster—Messrs. Bird, Saunders, and Bird
Bridgnorth—M. Haywood Williams, Esq.
Nantwich—E. D. Broughton, Esq.
Broseley—Messrs. Pritchard, Potts, and Nichols
Wellington—F. Buckle, E►q.
Market Drayton—George Bird, Esq.
Swansea—Richard White Beor, Eeq.
Cardiff—John Bird, Esq.

BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Masterman, Peters, Mildred, and Co., Nicholas-
lane; Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., 43, Charing-Cross.
Hereford—Herefordshire Banking Company.
Liverpool—Messrs. Moss and Sons.
Kidderminster—Messrs. Farley and Turner.

Bridgenorth-1 Messrs. Pritchard and Boycott.
Broseley—
Market Drayton—Messrs. Adams, Adams, Warren, and Co,
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Manchester:--The Manchester and Liverpool Diarist Banking Com-
pany.
ENGINEER IN Cnisr—WilliamGravatt, Esq., E.R.S.

SECRETAIT—II. Ihrbert Downularli!q., Hon. Seciotary, pro tom.

PROSPETU-.

This Important lino, the only one having for its object the direct
communication between South Wales, Birmingham, the Midland
Counties, Liverpool, Manchester, and the North, will commence at
Hereford, and passing to the Vale of the Severn, viA Bewdley,
Broseley, Iron Bridge, and Colebrooke Dale, take a direct
route through or near Wellington and Market Drayton to Crewe, or
to Runcorn, whence the existing lines will continue the traffic to
Liverpool, Manchester, and the North. At Bewdley there will be a
Branch Line through Kidderminster to Birmingham mid the Mid-
land Counties.
Reference to the map will allow that three projected Railways
converge at Hereford, viz :—The South Wales line from the coast, at
Newport, viA Monmouth the Bristol lines from Bristol, over the
Severn • and the Great Eastern and Western from Swansea, by way
of Merthyr aad Abergavenny. This grand trunk will, therefore,
connect with the North and Central portions of the kingdom, by the
nearest practicable route, Bristol, the West of England, and the
whole of South Wales, containing a vast population and extensive
iron, copper, tin-plate, and coal works, numerous and important
Ports, including Milford Haven, and the Government Dock-yard,
and concentrate to itself the great Passenger and Goods traffic now
conveyed by various circuitous routes to and fro.
This line, too, will unite the Iron districts of South Wales with
those of Staffordshire and Shropshire.
Apart from the ordinary incentives to travelling, the hcaututa
scenery of South Wales and the various watering-places will add
considerably to the passenger traffic on this line,
A more than usual revenue rimy be calculated upon in the goods
traffic, arising from the extensive connexion existing between South
Wales and the important termini, conveying, as this communication
will, the various productions of iron, copper, emu, tin plates, Sec. to
the north, and woollens, cottons, salt. hardware, pottery ware,
cattle, and agricultural produce, required for the several counties,
districts, and towns, accommodated by this line, westward; with the
advantage of delivery in a few hours, free from the risks and delays
of a sea voyage, and at one-third the distance.
The conveyance of coals to the counties through which these lines
run will also be a means of considerable and increasing revenue ;
whilst the supplies to the barren districts of the iron-works of agri-
cultural produce will add to the profit, as well as unite by ties of
:nutual interest the agiicultural and commercial community.
By means of this projection, portions of the kingdom not so
pro-
vided by any other scheme, will participate in the advantages of
railway communication ; and it will also form hereafter, with other
railways about to be commenced, the nearest route to London for a
very extensive portion of the country.
• Founded on the principle of
.direct and comprehensive communica-
tion with distant parts of the kingdom, this line will be the Mt at
complete in the empire, and, carried as it can and will be, in almost a
straight line, must thus secure itself for the future against the com-
petition of any rival projection.
At the same time every regard has been had to local accommoda-
tion, and the closest scrutiny will convince these who know the
wants and requirements of the towns and districts embraced within
its scope, that this has been most amply provided for.
Until an Act of Parliament shall be obtained, the affairs of the
Company shall be under the management and control of the Com-
mittee of Management, who are hereby empowered to enter into
such arrangements as shall best serve the interests of this Company
and the public, with existing or projected companies i and to raise
additional capital, if required, to extend this line ; and also. to nomi-
nate the first Directors of the Company.
Should the Commission
now sitting not disturb the gauge of the:.
-south-WalOsiftailway Bill passed this session, it is intended to .adopt
theetvide gauge, tknoid the inconvenience of different gauges.
Vtifier will be taken under the Act to limit the responsibility of

THE GRAND JUNCTION and MIDLANDS
UNION RAILWAY, connecting Stafford and the Pot-
teries, ria Burton-upon-Trent, with Derby, Nottingham, and the
Eastern Counties.

Capital, 600,0001., in 30,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
No subscriber to be liable beyond the amount of his subscription, and
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no call to be made until the Act is obtained.
PROVIBIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Combermere
The Right Hon. Lord Thomas Pelham Clinton
The Right llon. G. R. Dawson
The Hon. Cecil Lawless
Sir Arthur De Capel Broke, Bart.
Lieutenant-General Sir John Wilson, K.C.B. .
Thomas North, Esq., Mayor of Nottingham
Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Esq., Twyford Hail, Rev Derby
Fred.- Rickettst Esq., -Lyndon, Director of the Great Western
Railway - •
J. C. Williams, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Boston, Sheffield,
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and Newark Railway.
William Ilannay, Esq., Nottingham, Directors of the Ambergate,
George Bacon, Esq., Nottingham, Nottingham and Boston
{ Railways ,
Thomas Wakefield, Esq., Nottingham,
-Directors of the Notting-
Dai'id Wheatcrott, Esq., Nottingham, ham and Galneborough
William Boden, Esq., Nottingham, Railway
James Sutton, Esq. Shardlow-hall, Derbyshire
John Bloor, Esq., Esq.,
Staffordshire, Director of the Shenleld,
Buxton, Leek, and Potteries Railway.
Will'lun R. Collett; Esq., M.P., St. James's-square
James Cliff,,rd, Esq., Broughton House, Derbyshire
William Eaton Mousley, Esq., Derby, Under-Sheriff for Cheshire
William Felkin, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Nottingham,
Mansfield, and Midlands Junction Railway
H. J. Enthoven, Esq., London
F. P. Barlow, Esq., London, Director of the Great Western Railway
Thomas Adams, Esq., Nottingham
Francis Parker, Esq., Manchester, Director of the London and York
Railway
George Emery, Esq., London, Director of the Waterford and Kil-
kenny Railway
William Watson, Esq.. Director of the Bristol and Exeter Railway
Archibald F. Paull, Esq., London, Director of the South Wales Rail-

way
William Morgan, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Gloubester Ball•

way
James Beech, Esq. Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, Director of the
South Midland Railway
Wm. Watson Prole, Esq.,lDirectors of the Great Manchester,
Robert Chapman, Esq., 3 Rugby, and Southampton Railway
Anthony Dickson, Esq., Edrington House, Berwickshire
Sheldon Cradeck, Esq., Leicester
Ambrose Moore, Esq., London and Derby
Francis Hall, Esq., Park Hall, Nottingham.

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
SAMUEL ELLIS BRISTOWE, Esq., Chairman.
F. P. Barlow, Esq. Archibald F. Paull, Esq.
Lord Thomas Pelham Clinton F. Ricketts, Esq.
W. Morgan, Esq. W. Watson, Esq.
W. W. Prole, Esq.

SOLICIToss.

Messrs. Edwards, Mason, ariciEdwants, 8, Moorgate-street, and 8,
Delahay-street, Westminster.
Messrs. Freeth and Rawson, Nottingham.

LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Burton-upon-Trent—John Thornewill, Esq.
Stafford—Messrs. Bennet and Bowen
BANKERS.
London—Messrs Denison, Heywood, Kennard, and Co.,
Lombard-street
Nottingham—Samuel Smith and Co.
Stafford—Messrs. Stevenson, Salt, and Co.
The proposed railway is intended' to commence on the Trent
Valley Railway near Stafford, and "proCeeding thence in "an easterly
direction, to pass through, or near to, Tixall, Haywood, Coiwich, and
Abbott's Bromley, to the rapidly-increasing town of Burton-upon-
Trentwhere it will run into the Birmingham and Derby Railway,
forming the shortest and best practicable route from Stafford to
Derby. • Leaving the Birmingham and Derby Railway at Burton-
upon-Trent, it Will proceed along the valley of the Trent by Repton,
Swarkestone and; Shardlow, to the Midland Counties Railway at the
pointwhere that railwaT forms ajunction with the Derby and Not-
tingham Railway; Stßithus, by means of these and other railways
in progress, form a cormilate line of railway communication between
the central towns of Stafford, Derby, Nottingham, Lincoln, Leices-
ter, Peterborough, and Boston, on the east, and Shrewsbury, Ches-
ter, and Holyhead, North Wales, and Ireland, on the west.
This railway will, therefore, form the only connecting link re-
quired In the great chain of railway communication from east and
west through the heart of the kingdom, uniting the shores of the
German Ocean on the east with those of the Irish Sea on the west, and
traversing in its course the rich agricultural districts of the eastern,
midland, and western counties, and accommodating the important, and
populous manufacturing towns of Stafford, Derby, Nottingham, Lei-
cester, and Shrewsbury. But another most important advantage
that will result from the formation of this line will consist in the
fact of its affording, in connexion with the proposed South Union, or
Manchester and Potteries Railway, by far the shortest and best
route between Derby, Nottingham, Newark, Lincoln, Peterborough,
Leicester, and Loughborough, and the extensive find populous dis-
tricts of the Staffordshiro Potteries, -Mticelettfield, Stockport, and
Manchester. By the proposed line the distanetfbetvveen Nottingham
and Derby and Manchester will be at least from li to 20 miles less
than by the present circuitous route by Sheffield.
The tragic on this line must necessarily be equal, if not superior,
to that of any line in the district.

The length of the line will be about U miles, through a country
➢resenting no difficulties of more than an ordinary kind for its con-
struction.

The capital proposed to be raised is 600,0001., in shares of 201.
each, upon which a deposit of 21. 2s. per share must be paid upon the
allotment. No call will- be made until the Act is obtained, and no
subscriber will be liable beyond the amount of his deposit until the
Act is obtained, and then not beyond the amount of his subscription ;
ant the usual power will be taken to allow interest at four per cent.
from the time of payment upon each call until the opening of the

The Subscribers' Agreement and the Parliamentary Contract must
be executed when the bankers' receipts are exchanged for scrip cer-
tificates, of which 14 days' notice will be given ; and the deposits
paid by any party making default in the execution of thobe deeds will
be forfeited.

Plans and prospectuses, with forms of application for shares, may
N had of the solicitors, and of the following Stock and Share-brokers,
viz.:—Messrs. Wells, Westrop, and Princeps, 75, Old Broad-street,
and Mr. H. Pritchett, 17, Royal Exchange, Loudon ; Messrs. Gardi-
ner and Heap, Mr. Chas. M. Williams, and Messrs. Bradley-, Ford,
and Parker, Manchester; Messrs. Watson and Co., Hull; Messrs.
Davies and Son, Liverpool; Messrs. Itidsdale; Myers, and Co.,
Leeds ; Messrs. Earp and SKr, •DerbYLVltt. ndel dollimon, and
Messrs. Pott and Levick, Noftingharir; 31%srs. Bitttiter% Chel-
tenham ; and Messrs. Wreford, Nichols, and Wrefotd, Nristik. • •
Sept. 20, 1845.