The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-17 00:00:00

GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAIL-
WAY COMPANY.
Nctice is hereby given that the DIRECTORS of this COM.
N
PAY are READY to RECEIVE TENDERS far LOANS of
11`)ICEY, in sums of not less than FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS,
Dd for terms of not less than FIVE YEARS, on Security of
De benture Bonds, under the common Seal of the Company, with
Interest 'Warrants attached, bearing Interest at the rate of Three.
arld•a-Half per Cent. per Annum, payable half-yearly.
s Tenders, expressing the sum, the term of years, and the rcsi.
tletite of the lender, to be addressed to the Secretary.
By order of the Board of Directors,
JOHN M. SPARKS, Secretary pro tern.
Great North of England Railway Office,
Darlington, Oct. I, 1844.

OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVER.
Capita!, HAMPTON RAILWAY.
1,500,000/. Shares, 501. each. Deposit, 21. 10s.

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Frederick Pratt Barlow, Esq., Londonl
Directors of the Great
Thomas Richard Guppy, Esq, Bristol,
Henry Simonds, Esq., Reading, f Western Railway
William Tothill, Esq., Bristol, J 1 Company.
John Rogers, Esq., Chester.
Mr. George B. Thorneycroft, iron master, Wolverhampton.
Mr. John Barker, iron master, Wolverhampton.
Mr. Joseph Walker, merchant, Wolverhampton.
Mr. John Perks, edgetool-manufacturer, Wolverhampton.
Edward Terry, Esq., Mayor of Dudley.
Thomas Badger, Esq., Dudley.
Mr. J. Joseph Bramah, iron master, Dudley.
Mr. William Mathews, iron master, Corbyn's Hall, Kingswinford.
Mr. Benjamin Gibbons, iron master, Shut.cnd House, Kingswinford.
James Foster, Esq., iron master, Stourton Castle, Stourbridge.
Michael Grazebrook, Esq., iron master, Audnam, Stourbridge.
Richard Hickman, Esq., Clay Works, Stourbridge.
Joseph King, Esq.,
Stourbridge.
Mr. Francis Ruffbrd, banker, Stourbridge.
Thomas Simcox Lea, Esq., Astley Hall, Kidderminster.
Mr. George Hooman, carpet manufacturer, Kidderminster.
4rthur Skey, Esq., Spring grove Bewdley.
Mr. Enoch Baldwin, ironfounder, Stourport.
William Lewis, Esq., Mayor of Worcester.
John Lilly, Esq., High Alderman of Worcester,
John Parker, Esq., Worcester.
Mr. William Stallard, jun., wine-merchant, Worcester.
George B. Hudson, Esq., Wick, near Pershore.
Mr. Thomas N. Foster, merchant, Evesham.
Mr. H. G. Busby, merchant, Moreton-in-the-Marsh.
Mr. Robert Beaman, merchant, Stow-on-the- Wold.
With power to add to their number.
ENGINEER—I. K. Brunel, Esq.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Spooner, Attwoods, and Co., London.
Messrs. Ruffords and Wragge, Stourbridge.

SOLICITORS.
Messrs. W. 0. and W. Hunt, Whitehall, London.
Mr. Robert Rising,
Mr. Fred. Thomas Elgie, Worcester.
The COMMITTEE of MANAGEMENT of this COMPANY,
sbaring,.o determined to take the DIRECT LINE from Oxford to
7 cester (being the line upon which the Government Commis-
iriers favourably reported in the year 1840), in preference to the
inlne round by Banbury, by which there will be a saving of eleven
ea in distance; an arrangement has been this day entered into
with the Great Western Company, by which that Company have
agreed to lease the line in perpetuity, at a rent equal to 33 per
fcent. on the above capita!, with half surplus profits, and with a
urther arrangement for pavmeat of the interest on any capital
a'beoand such sum borrowed under the powers usually contained in
ilway Act of Parliament, not exceeding 250,0001.
taAn 11 applications for Shares must contain a reference to some
cati,k,..r, Broker, or other party of respectability, unless the appli.
laceai.,ntueerepsetrroonn ally known to some member of the Committee of
eent.
the Deposits will be allowed at the rate of 41. per
1111-" annum, from the time of payment into the Bankers' hands.
Pan 3,7oeetkuseg, With Plan, may be had of the Solicitors to the Corn-
"
whom applications for Shares may be addressed.

DIREcT NORTHERN RAILWAY

The COMPANY.
)vcia,rti__.DVISIONAL COMMITTEE of the DIRECT
.3toilir-4L, RN RAILWAY COMPANY from LONDON to
Ii
.9 LINCOLN, having before them an advertisement pub-
-41)7(' 1 in the Morning Papers of this day, headed " LONDON
thi..,,Y,°llK RAILWAY," and signed " J. R. Mowatt, Secre-
it and observing the very discourteous spirit which pervades
. fel!' that
they might have contented themselves by simply giving
;°;1111)torY denial to the statements contained therein, so far as
of w'vifPugn the prospectus and line put forth by this Committee,
pr "ch they are prepared fully to establish the integrity at the
th-t`i_Ver time and before the proper tribunal; yet the Committee,
the ing that it is due to the public to furnish a specific reply to
aforesaid statements, now proceed to do so as follows
41 VERTISEMENT. ANSWER. PROOF.
jecti• That the pro- 1. Thu was not a The Parliamentary
ro r a new railwaydirect line from Lon- notices in the " Lon-
.forrned by
:IA 'London to 'York:don to York, buedon Gazette" and the
°lhba 1 sq Mr.iwent by Cambridge, Records of Porno-
Mot -`4. and iniwith a London termi- meet.
.3,ear carried into nus at Whitechapel.
'"hattl carried
ie.. 'That in 1840
trot, Gibbs again
bef gilt his . scheme
I (ire she Parliamen-
atl., Commissioners,
thnd
.
I' „ 1,841 it is detailed by
In their Report

2. This scheme was
still by Cambridge.

Report of Commis.
sioners in 1841.

/3. That such!, 3. Admitted that
lehterne was never' Mr. Gibbs never aban-
-44,_ odoned by hinadoned his scheme by
lag r. Gibbs). - 'Cambridge.
'4. That on the 16thl 4. Denied that this, The., Cityarticpleesto,f,
'lt April, 1844, " the advertisement related, the Morning .
project" was announc.ito the above project ofiof the 12th
eeofnAtapinrsrl:
1844,
etl,, by advertisement Mr. Whs.
•aith ~, • ~
ek e Dares, under The promoters ofiarnozsgsetn
the
eher subject,re-
-....e a__
vorth me of the Great theil
followingDair,,ecethNtohrteh4ertnhimthaer
:
' seit:ee_ ;3' acinvaielrwtiasey, on.fah April,)
bit-1:11:1, Sir John Ren.ilis e a
I
leBx4t Cinsipvtclbly.' a dirTecilterfairlwmaayti°fnromof
Lincoln, for
aPPeared. circulated the prospec.London to York, by
tus and plan of theiriway of
present line, having its, the purpose of con-
London terminus at' necting the North of
..,
... ,
King's cross,and goingl England and Scotland
direct to York; midi with the metropolis,
as a subject of public has been decided on.
importance and into. Prospectuses have
Posed line '
dor
I with maps explana.
rest, it was noticed by, been issued, together
y oft he inthe press.
It appears that the lodepro_
of Proceeding intended. .
oad, and,
hndenen,i. ',B, commence near Kineb.cross, in the New.r
Hert
Itorts...."'n(lY of any other line, to take its course through -
"..edford
'thew . , Runtingeon, Peterborough, Stamford, Sleaford, and
zee
Abe ,10'eftioimPortant towns, to Lincoln and York; the distance by
it can
be travelled4 . till' line being less by nearly 40 miles than
smetiptthinotf line being 180
by anY existing railway. The capital required for the
'e, Ution of the work is estimated at or under 4,000,0001., the
Ci il..endenee of Sir John Rennie and Mr. William Gravatt,
Miles. The work will be placed under the
°-
"gineers."-_
And the fl' • APril 15 IB°4'.°Wlng is extracted from the "Times" city article,
" A Direct N.
Lavin
lan,,,F In view the connexion of the North of England and Scot-
Ti.o"ii:tY York and Lincoln, with the metropolis,
ern, "canny started. The line is to commence from King
ts-
is also another
liwitinP_ass throUgh Chipping Barnet, Biggleswade, St. Neo s,
boron..,_'`Z, and Peterborough, to Lincoln, and thence by Gams. is . -611' Ifiorne, Snaith, and Selby to York. The capital re it
treids
',AI% 00/. •
'stated t,._ 'ln 100/. shares. Among the advantages which
L0n-
.4,4
and lls route will possess, are—that the distance between
tae.
I,YOrk will be 39 miles less than by the existing railways;
4,;,`: it; ill reduce the distance between London and Edinburgh 39.
a...x"ea,
traarvethat it will be the nearest way to Leeds, Selby, Hull, Hal
5. ~ t rd, Huddersfield, Wakefield, Pontefract, and Sheffield.
ruent 4.ee advertise_ i 5. There have been Publication of the
dire,l'arve, ' the most I many schemes for con.' Plan and Prospectusie
toot,ad,
do qualified London with;oftheDirect Nort re4rth
assertioc,lon" to the' York by railway; butlltailway, on the
seheal"o_ that the',T, John Rennie and,of April, 1844. See
way
t:
cr a neva rail- the. Committeedo cer..above.
don b.„°e_noct Lon- tainly claim to have]
ginakTn.,. ork, ori. originated and first;
firat , kith
and waslprojected the con nec-1
johlitleletetcted by, Sirltion with these cities,l
•IE nie and Co. las well as the Northi
of England and Scot-
land with London, by
a Direct Main Trunk
Railway.
Further, the Messrs.
Rennie, in 1827,
about the time they
were engaged in car-
rying the Liverpool
and Manchester Rail-
way Bill through Par-,
liament, laid down r
plan of a direct line
from London to York'
by Lincoln, and have
never abandoned that

Maps in Messrs.
Rennie's office, pro.
duced to this Corn.
mittcc.

t The
anent states
41 advertise.
het difference ie etween
I
n the
A et ed linesthe two pro.
ion to Lou.t v.
o xork, instead
t"being 20 Miles, is
o. t More than
s'ii
~'l4" On favour of
i"'r . :On Rennie's
t."e). and also that
16ae hne of the London
4 York Company is
reality upon the
sine
_, 1 as finally laid
n3wn,1854 imloB.
1 `l.The. trunk line was, in round numbers, 200 miles, and. its
kannfications would be still more extensive." This report is sii.l3-
:fluent in date to an advertisement of the London and York Rad-
•,,,,Z3: CetePany, those Railway Times" of the 27th of July, 1844,
sit interests
interests,
beech contains words :—" The precise line throughout has
t determined on in a manlier satisfactory to the landed and
and in a few days the Proprietors will receive a
1., hof the, line with particulars, from the Engineer's (Mr.
—"eke's) Reprt" '
APPIy to the above a common process in arithmetic :
Mil
Length of line, as stated by Mr. Mowatt 2oes.
0
Length of Sir John Rennie's line
180

projcct.

6. This can only
have been accom-
plished, as this Com
tnittee are advised, by
a further appropria-
tion of Sir John Ren.
nie's line. and a fur-,
ther abandonment of
Mr. Gibbs's line o
1836,1840, and 1841.

In the " Stamford
Mercury" of the 30th
of August, 1844, is a
report of a public
!meeting held at Stam-
ford, containing the
following as part of a
'speech by Mr. Francis
Mowatt, Tice-Chair-
man of the London
and York Railway :

„,, • The result in favour of the latter i 5.......,,,,, 20
tone. The Committee wish to assert their confident belief, that from the
of ibe t 6 a . advertisement under comment, it cannot have receievesdo
v a notion of the noblemen and gentlemen whose names ar
"tehtatiously pa
°f notori t Paraded in connexion with it, and who, it is a matter
Lond eY. do not now form the Provisional Committee of the
11% en and York Railway Company. In conclusion, this Corn-
ed° ee "'Mt but call attention to the announced fact, that the bile
thalttd is. with modifications, that of Mr. Gibbs, thus conveying
as r_! London and York Company are not indebted for their line.,
1/4;raa.ooy aid down, either to Mr. Walker, the distinguished.Engli.
Rail: t. he first line, viz., the Cambridge and York via Lincoln
kr,
cway
tor to Mr. Locke, who has jug resigned
.his
.office; orf
to
the coluLt , who is at present advertised as the Engineer..m.Cli c
ail), r rnt'anY; but to Mr. Gibbs whose name has not
Rada.” 43 Professionally conneCted with the Londonpreviously and York
WaY Company
..
• --By order of the Committee,
.....„...
WILLIAM AMSINCK, Secretary.
s
e
t
North
stree ern Railway office, 64, oorgate.
t. London, O ct. 3, 1844.
M
.I[4k and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE
Pre
SAUCE.
c, Dared from the recipe of a Nobleman in the county.
(;:,,,, ,reat 'Western Steam-ship June 6, 1844.—The cabin of the
lv,7_4et Western has been regularly supplied with 'Lea and Perrins'
Irart; Zeutralshire
Sauce,' which is adapted for every variety of dish,
1114),..,.14e to beef—frorn salmon to steaks—to all of which it gives
tellt
~ .3 relish. I have great Pleasure in recommending this excel
bit captains
to captains and
13 f r its capital flavour, and as
e't accompaniment' of itsa'sandgeforrs aovoyage..
" JAMES HOSKEN."
'4l'teirti‘‘,.'hoi,saie
b(ysipheedp/roprietors, Messrs. Lea and Prins, Wor-
OPai i;ti'4essrs. Ilarclay and Sons, Farringdon-street ; prin-
biial y-e,":l_ It'llian sauces iii London ;
"La Of sauces, and retails by the