The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-04 00:00:00

LOCAL AGENTS.

J. Cressy Hall, Esq., Alfreton, Derbyshire
George Henry Richardson Cox, Esq., Spondon, Derbyshire
Secarreav—Stillingfleet Locker, Eaq,
Assuming the northern terminus of the Erewash Railway
ss its origin, this line will pass through localities totally mi.
pnruofavidectudrin
line from which it borrohirws thewgithalsrtriairtsay accommodation, into the populous ma-
important
of Lancase. It
prefix of l conitstinue
name,
the
from Alfreton, in Derbyshire, where it will be a recipient of
traffic from the Cromford Canal—communicating with the Codnor
and, obeying the course of the
riverD ironworks—along
we
nt antes
t e ther
e vicinity of Saddleworth.
its course, It will
pass through or near to 10444, Ashbourne, Glos-
sop, 3lottrarn, Hytield, and Duckenileld, in reaching which point; the
Manchester and Sheffield Railway will be intersected, and the Md.
dergield Canal Railway passed, near to the Rochdale station of the
Manchester and Leeds Railway.
14 unnecessary to state here the character of the country from
tale to Blackburn : it will be sufficient to observe, that it is the
.f those manufactures to which England owes her accumulating
The line will proceed thence through. Of near to Whitworth
an.' ltossendale, and fall into the East Lancashire Railway, in the
vici Vof Haslingden.
A i.ranch will be thrown out of the trunk line, from the Junction
will' the East Lancashire line near jjaslingden, by Low-Moor iron-
wor':s and Recap, to Todnnorden.
T:10 Erewash Extension will be the only direct rents from the
cent...! of Derbyshire to the great manufacturing towns and ,thipf
sead.,rts of Lancashire, It will traverse a valley district adorned
wit', the most picturesque scenery, and, at the same time, rich in
mit:oral produce. It will communicate, laterally, with several trunk
fins ofrailway, and will be fed by no less than live working canals—
the r :•omford—the Manchester and Sheffield—the Hudderstield—the
Ma..chester and Leeds—and the Liverpool and Blackburn.
T.: the multiplication of advantages which intersecting railways
an: 'Urea .91'54n-water navigation are compelled to afford, the throw.
lug titl of branches from the line itself in so many directions will add
still further pt WerS of accommodation, and, when the dense popula-
den :.1 the totalities traversed is considered, there is every reason to
conc;Jde that an =pie Fellitilleratte4 for Ve4444 capital will be ob-
taiuud.
L,: following the course of rivers, which, ht this instance, fitu in
wiTh the .e.kact direction of the projected line, highly favourable gra,
dis;:t.s are Obtained for a eollsiderable part of the length; and every
oth section of the country, upon ¢ preliminary survey, has been
reported as more than c0:34413201)1y practicable, While the return for
cap!o•al cannot be questioned, WO the necessities of the district de-
mand accommodation, the expenditure must necessarily fail WIOW
the usual amount for works of equal magnitude.
7,4 Rentify this project with that of the Erewash Valley, fathOngh
not included Wader, or belonging to the same executive, it is pro,
pe,ted to allow tilibecrlbers in that Company shares in the Erewash
Extension the number to he regulated by the interest retained in
the elder project.
Thrs deeds will provide thai no call shalt be made on the Share-
holders beyond the deposit now paid, until the Act of Panimient is
obtained; and power will be taken in the Act to allow 4 per eenf, ia.
terest upon all calls.;
Prospectuses, maps, and forms, may he Arld at the Offices of Hull
Terrell, Esq., solicitor, 30, Basinghall-street. LAndfm ; G. Cressy
Hall, Esq., solicitor. Alfreton ; George Henry Richardson CRa reel.
SPondon, Derbyshire; and the following Sharebrokers :—Me"Ssrs.
Carden and Whitehead, Threadneedle-street; Messrs. Taunton and
Rush, 20, Austin-friar •
Lon-
don ; Messrs.Oastle s , T. 75, Old Broad-street, Lon-
Leese, Manchester
and Wellbeloved, Leeds ; Mews. Hengiflann and
Preston ; Messrs. Flint ;rnActorooris ileYn°lds'
Liverpool ; W. Wren,
M,esarS• Gra•YStone and Earle,Tal, Hun Mr. W. Mason, Bradf9rd ;
IL.tardwoi
and Sons,
; Mr. W. Cronieln,
Mel T. Boardnian?l4444nr., Sheffield ; Mr. S. Eyre, Derby;
Applications for sharee 'naest ace°
fnelnber of the Provisional tapsuled by references to
9414140' 6 the Solicitor a
or Local

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MANCHESTER, MIDLAND, AND GREAT
GRIMSBY JUNCTION RAILWAY," via ROTHERHAM.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 800,000/., in 32,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 11. 7s. 6d. per Sharo.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Captain Laws, R.N., Crumpsall-hall, Manchester
Joseph Hogan, Esq., Liverpool
(Directors of the London and York Railway)
George Crosland, Esq., Huddersfield
Joseph Kaye, Esq., Huddersfield
( birectors of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction Railway)
Robert Buchannan, Esq., M.D., Pontefract, Chairman
William Moxon, Esrl , Pontefract
James Audus, Esq., Headingly, near Leeds
(Directors of the Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway)
William Butcher, Esq., the Master Cutler ofgheffield
E. B. Beaumont, Esq., Finningley-park
(Directors of the Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Hud
dersfleld, and Goole Railway)
John Burgess, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester
John Hoiford, Esq., Rusholme-house, Manchester
Lott Gardiner, Esq., merchant, Manchester
Edward Connell, Esq., Leaf-square, Manchester
Mr. Alderman Burd, merchant, Manchester
James Con,terdinP, EM., merchant, Manchester
Cephas Howard, Esq., J.P., Brinnington-hall, Stockport
William Bayley, EM., Larkhill, Staleybridge, Cheshire
P. England, Esq., Huddersfield
John Smith, EM., Welton Garth, near Hull
John Wood, Esq., Glossop, Derbyshire
Vincent Corbett, Esq., Outhwaite-hall, Wortley
Thomas Chambers, Esq., Chapeltown
J. B. Greaves, EM., Ecclestleld
William Hall, Esq., Royds-moor, near Penistone
Wilson Overend, EM., J.P., Sheffield
Henry Walker, Esq., J.P., Clifton-house, Rotherham
Robert Bentley, Esq., Rotherham
Robert Younge, EM., Sheffield
G. W. Chambers, Esq., Clough-house, near Rotherham
J. G. Clarke, Esq., Masbro'-hall
George Knowles, Esq., Ironmaster, Rotherham
Henry IVilklason, EM., Endcliffe-hall, Sheffield
C. S. R. Sandford, Esq., North Field-house, Rotherham
James Yates, EM., Effingham Works, Masborough
John Aldred, Esq., Rotherham
Thomas Wheatley, EM., corn merchant, South-grove, Rotherham
Samuel S. Drittain, Esq., Sheffield
James llodgson, EM., Rotherham Mills
John Brown, Esq., ironmaister, Rotherham
William Owen, Esq. Phoenix ironworks, Rotherham
Benjamin Badger, Esq.,
barrister-at-law, Rotherham
Henry Thomas, Esq., Sheffield
John Nightingale, EM., Greave of the Feoffee3 of Rotherham
Charles Sandford, Esq., Phoenix ironworks, Rotherham
Robert John Bentley, EM., Eastwood-house, Rotherham
George Dawson, Esq., Sheffield
Alexander Grant, Esq., steel refiner, Rotherham
E. J. Heseltine, Esq., Rotherham
E. L. Sidebotham, EM., J.P., Aston-hall
Rev. Geo. Chandler, J.P., Treeton Rectory
John Green, EM., Sheffield
John Hall, Esq., Kiveton-park, near Rotherham
R. C. Hoyle, Esq., Aughton-hall, near Rotherham
Robert Fisher, Esq., Maltby
George Ridge, Esq., Sheffield
Thomas Dyson, Esq., Braithwell Manor-house
William Broughton, Esq., Batry
John Bradley, Esq., Blyth
Joseph Taylor, Esq., Newington
James Cross, Esq., Gringley
Charles Cross, Esq., Glentworth-heath, near Gainsborough
William Wells, Esq., West Stockwith, near Gainsborough
Henry Smith, Esq., Gainsborough
Henry Etherington Smith, Esq., J.P., Gainsborough
William Lister Sharp, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough
Rev. Robert Duckle, Gainsborough
Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough
Francis A. Lowe, Esq.' Gainsborough
John William Pashley,Esq., merchant, Gainsborough
Frederick W. Fleck, Esq., wharfinger Gainsborough
Thomas Adwick Farmer, EM., iron merchant, Gainsborough
henry hall, Esq., wharfinger, Gainsborough
R. D. Fretwell, EM., merchant, Gainsborough
Robert Pinder Moxon, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough
H. Robinson, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough
John Hughes, EM., merchant, Gainsborough.
Edward Watson, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough.
ENGINEER—John Braithwaite, Esq.
SECRETARY—Mr. Francis Parker, Rotherham.
BANKERS—Sheffield and Rotherham Banking Company, Rotherham

The object of this undertaking is to connect the Sheffield and Man-
chester—Huddersfield arid Sheffield—Midland and Great Grimsby
Railways—the ports of Liverpool and Birkenhead on the western,
and Great Grimsby on the eastern coast, affording accommodation
to all the important intervening manufacturing and agricultural dis-
tricts—in fact, to open the shortest and most direst communication
between the eastern and western counties of England. It is pro-
posed to commence at Wortley and run to the Midland at or near
Masbrough, affording an outlet north and south, and thence for-
ward to Gainsborough.
There are abutting on the west end of the line the West Riding of
Yorkshire and Lancashire, with a population of 2,221,988—and on
the east end Nottinghamshire and North Lincolnshire, with a popu-
lation of 431,485.
Under any circumstances, the intercourse between two such
masses of population must be great; but in this case It is much
beyond the average from the different character of the country, and
the pursuits of the inhabitants at the two termini—Lancashire and
Yorkshire having redundant supplies of coal, ironstone, lime, and
m nufactured goods of every description, while Nottinghamshire and
Lincolnshire and the east are dependent on the former counties for
these productions—and send their large supplies of corn and cattle to
the Yorkshire and Lancashire markets. The traffic in goods and
passengers between such important and mutually dependent districts
must be unusually great.
A glance at the snap of England will show that the proposed line
will be, as nearly as may be, a straight one.
.A circuitous line is an
de-
tainedevil,
a and
loopnvie
time—by
mtoe e public—by
travelling
el illelyn.g
aTiho
gperudb
ish a
u esuffere— a
nbdy
bybe ingpayinga larger fare than is necessary—and the proprietors suffer by being
exposed to the risk, or rather to the certainty of their property being
destroyed at some future period by the competition of a shorter and
more direct line. Sir Robert Peel, in his place in Parliament, on the
15th of March, 1845, upon this point said—" Me would make no re-
ference to any lndiviaual railway schemes, but he thought they ought
to look forward to the result of mechanical improvements as applied
to those schemes, and they might depend upon It (speaking of ulti-
mate results) that the shortest lines would be preferred.—(Hear,
hear.) The tendency of the improvements which were almost daily
Introduced, was decidedly in favour of the shortest lines."
It may also be observed that the Board of Trade, in their detailed
rGeapionrstb,
rionu
grhe fe(rwehniceeht ow
at hs
ftohrecolinnseidefrraTionßoatshaerheaismtinctot
subpmarittted"
scheme), state it to be " decidedly preferable to the Sheffield and
Lincolnshire or the Sheffield branch of the London, and York ;"
and that " It affords a better connexion also with the important
market town of Rotherham, and with the North Midland Railway,
and gives as direct a communication as could be desired with Gains-
borough and Lincoln."

so
Wtheiltunele,
irmafayvaloviiibelefaairnlyopgirnaionntedis
teoxtphrese
esedxteunpsoionntfhriosinpoßrtolothneor.f
ham to Wortley, By the Sheffield and Manchester, and the
Sheffield and Rotherham Railways, the distance from Wortley
miles, which by blynpoErttnliiogenlanpodrfo. pwotivheduenxe
to Rotherham is 1414
out one onreedoefee thie bteesf c9o.
will
lsiaolnso
owneilnl
inex-
haustible
quarries
4 il supplies i ibpl :it;
(si
ai otti fg Park-gate rpoukrrleayste,es i_inwdhS containingi il lek s taotn evnervery
coals—besides
n cuffesuperior
an greendtshtoecni,ea pffor
TP3aroaDvwinirig, there are already most extensive ironworks in active ope-
ration. At Rotherham and Masborough--and in the immediate
neighbourhood—there are large iron and steel works, and other
Manufactories, requiring qualities of coal and ironstone, from which
at preont they are almost excluded, on accountofsotuhgeht heavy
carriage.
carriage.
Rotherham is the great cattle market of Yorkshire, and likewise
an important corn market, and one of the objects
attained by the promoters of this undertaking is the shortest route
from the manufacturinglt
wtoillthaeccagrionncioildtaur adlisostritchtse—tarnadmcfroomf
the
iciiiiiiral to the gnat markets of Yorkshire, and the consuming
VT .
which it passes, and possesses the peculiar feature
possible, the old route in which the stream of
.passengers, has hitherto been accustomed to
traffic, and especially
pikbee!rwoeaedn.
flow.
The district between Rotherham and Gainsborough is destitute of
o localities
districtsfollowing, Wthroughes
taWs4i. near a s
Seal, and there is no canal or railway from which it can be supplied,
ted fact,alo n g Thee supplyturnpike-road.
n
i kereley, with an immense quantity
The celebrated grindstones at W•P •
of the finest freestone, from the far-famed Roche Abbey Quarries,
netcteolietritill4gmb:o4
Byearwytryis entirely circuitous
might also be sent—the former to Sheffield, Manchester, and Bir-
mingham—and the latter to every part of the kingdom, were an easier
Pld cheaper mode of transit established.
ft it needless to remark' that any line of railway commanding
Yorkshire, with tbe Trent and the IfunMer, must prove a very
the existing
the advantages referred to, and connecting Lancashire and West
ample investment for capital; indeed, the rptffqs At'
traffic are highly satisfactory.
Surveys have been taken, and the landowners generally are
favourable to the project. The length of the line is about thirty-five
. ...

.;u3 c, half miles. - -
There' will be a claps !4 in the Act of Parliament, limiting the liabi •
!fly of each shareholder to the ahmunt for which pe may subscribe,
and power will be taken to allow interest at the rate Or 4 'tier cent.
per annum upon the paid•up capital, from the obtaining of the Act
sotil the cOnlPletion of the railway.
By t e Subscrthero 4p:cement, authority will be given to the Pro-
visonal Directors to Vaty or Alter the hue, or to enter into any
arrangement which they may Oa expedient, ire` -ious'to applying

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rfuliament in the ensuing session.
wpie.JiMt.Or; Collif3tttlat the shareholders upon their very satis-
fuctOrii idp.ooor tuyy tegiired"the va,hiable co-operation and
assistanda of several fitteritita tOilyttiVfk•

W`. F. HOYLE, 1 Solicitors.
C. L. COWARD,

oth erham 845.