The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-12 00:00:00

In reply to the attacks of a portion of the Metropolitan Press rela-
tive to the financial condition of the new Railway Projects, the Com-
mittee of Management of this undertaking have great pleasure in
submitting the under-mentioned STATEMENT of their ACCOUNTS
to the consideration of the shareholders and the public :
By amount received in respect of deposits, exclusive of the
sum received from members of the Provisional Committee £44,041
By amount received in respect of deposits on shares allotted
to members of the Provisional Committee, no member

being allowed to take more than one hundred shares .... 7,896

£51,937
The Committee beg further to state, that 40,0001. of the above
sum is now at interest in the hands of the Company's Bankers, the
balance remaining to the credit of their account for the necessary
expenses attendant on the working of the Bill. The Committee feel
convinced that the above statement will in itself be sufficient evi-
dence of the soundness of THEIR -financial cont:ition. Should, how-
ever, any doubt still exist, the Committee will have as mach plea-
sure in justifying their assertion as in making it.

By order of 'the Board,
(Signed) FINLAI KNIGHT, Secretary.
Company's Offices, 36, Temple-street,
Birmingham, November 5, 1845.

LEICESTER and BEDFORD RAILWAY,
from LEICE -TER, through Market llarborough, Kettering,
Wellingborough, Bedford, to Hitchin,_to form a Junction with the
London and York Railway.
Capital 1,300,0001., in Shares of 20/. each.
COMMITTEE OF DIRECTION.
Wynn Ellis, Esq. 3f.P. Chairman.
Robert Lindsell, Esq. Vice-Chairman.
William Astell, Esq. M.P.
Henry Stuart, Esq. M.P.
Wil iam Bulkeley Hughes, Bsq. M.P.
Joseph Robert Wilkin Atkinson, Esq.
Samuel Stephens Bankart, Esq.
Frederick Pratt Barlow, Esq.
B. E. Bennett, Esq.
C. R. Bewiche, Esq.
John Biggs, Esq.
John Nathaniel Foster, Esq.
Edward Major Frere, Esq.
Edward Fisher, Esq.
Richard Harris, Esq.
Richard Halfhead, Esq.
H. R. H. Hungerford, Esq.
William Hogg, Esq.
Swynfen Jervis, Esq.
Thomas Marriott, Esq.
W. F. Maunsell, Esq.
John Wheelton, Esq.
James York, Esq.
ENGINEER IN CHlEF—William Cubitt, Esq. F.R.S.
ACTING ENGINEERS.
Joseph Gibbs, Esq. Joseph Cubitt, Esq.
JOINT SOLICITORS.
Baxter, Rose, and Norton, 3, I'ark-street, 'Westminster
J. L. Douglass, Market Harborough
Sharman and Turnley, Bedford.
SECRETARY—B. F. Scott, Esq.
The Committee of Management of the Leicester and Bedford Rail-
way Company have much pleasure in announcing to the shareholders
that they have made arrangements with the London and York Rail-
way Company, by which they will be enabled to carry their traffic
along the London and York Railway, from Hitchin into London, on
the same scale of charge as upon their own line, and will also receive
ample station room and accommodation at the London and York
Railway tenni/ins at King's-cross, and have also made other arrange-
ments which cannot fall to be highly satisfactory to the shareholders.
The Committee of Management have also to state that arrange-
ments have been entered into with lines proceeding northward flrom
Leicester, by which the Leicester and Bedford Railway will form
part of as direct a communication as can be obtained between
London and Manchester.

The Committee have also to announce that the deposit on the
capital of the Company is paid up, and duly invested at interest;
that the surveys of the whole Ens are completed, and that the en-
engraved plans and books of reference will be ready in ample time
for deposit with the clerks of the peace.
They have also the further gratification of stating that they con-
tinue to receive from all the influential landowners on the line ex-
pressions of their approbation, and assurances of their cordial support.
By order of the Board,
B. F. SCOTT, Secretary.
11, 01d Jewry-chambers, Nov. 6, 1845.