The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-05 00:00:00

THE OXFORD, SOUTHAMPTON, GOS-
PORT, AND 'PORTSMOUTH RAILWAY.
. (Provisionally Registered.)
At a numerous and respectable Meeting of theinhabitants of the
town of Newbury and its neighbourhood, convened by. the Mayor,
for the, purpose of taking into consideration the best means of pro-
moting the construction of the line of railway called THE OXFORD;
SOUTHAMPTON, GOSPORT, and PORTSMOUTH 'RAILWAY,
held. at the Mansion-house, Newbury, on Tuesday, the 2d day of
September, 1845 ;
THOMAS SIMMONS, Esq., Mayor, in the chair;
The following Resolutions were severally carried unanimously :
Moved by the Rev. Dr. BINNET, and seconded by EDMUND SLOCOCK,
Esq.:—
That this line, known as " )3ethell's Line," affording the most
direct means of communication between Southampton and Didcot,
through the town of Newbury, or immediately contiguous to and
parallel therewith, is deserving of our most strenuous support, which
We accordingly undertake to give to' it, as well collectiiely as indivi-
dually, by all legitimate means, and that our representatives in Par-
liament be respectfully requested do further the same accordingly.
Moved by the Rev. J. H. Amiwoirru, and seconded by Colonel
BURSLEM :
That the Northern Division of the county of Hants will acquire by
the proposed line ready access to their county town and episcopal
city, and an advantageous outlet for the productions of their district.
Moved by Joins Tawas WASEY, Esq. ; and seconded by Mr.
HITLBERT
That the contemplated line will, in its northern progress, afford
considerable accommodation to those who frequent the important
sheep markets at Ilsley.
Moved by E. W. Gaza. Esq. ; anittsettolubt by CAAALEs SLocom,
Em. f:--- • "
That the large population of Newbury and its neighbourhood,
which, according to a return made to Parliament, embraces 60,000
inhabitants within an area of ten miles, the abundance of the agri-
cultural produce, and the acknowledged excellence of the markets,
entitle this district to increased commercial facilities.
Moved by EDWARD WEsmAxx, Esq. ; and seconded by EDWARD
Shear, Esq.:—
That the rapidly increasing importance of the town of Southamp-
ton demands the most speedy and, direct communication with the
trading districts of the north.
Moved by ROBERT WATKINS, Esq., of London; and seconded by
SAMUEL BORRETT, Esq., of Southampton :
That the thanks of this Meeting be given to. the Mayor for his able,
attentive, and impartial conduct in the ch
ERair. •
ROBT BAKER, Town Clerk.

SHEFFIELD, BUXTON, LEEK, POTTE-
RIES, and CREWE RAILWAY.
(Registered Provi.ionally under 7 and 6 Victoria, c. 110.)
Capital, 800,000/., in 32,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, I/. 7s. 6d. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
John Burgess, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester, Director of the
, Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction
Railway
John Holford, Esq., Rusholmo House, Manchester
John Gaunt, Esq., Banker, Leek
The Rev. Edward Powys, Rector of Bagnall and Cheddleton
John Challenor, Esq., Overton Hall, near Congleton
Josiah Gaunt, Esq., Freston House, and Leek
Thomas Einchett Maddock, Esq., Chester
Josiah Gaunt, jun., Esq., Horton Hall, near Leek
The Rev. James Bostock, Ciiffe Park
James Wardle, Esq., Leek
John Macfarlane, Esq., Manchester
John Collier, Esq., Manchester
George Edensor Marsden, Esq., Manchester
Penrose Nevins, Esq., Old Trafford, Manchester
Henry WilkindOn, Esq., Enddiffe Hail, Sheffield, Provisional Director
of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland JunetiOn Railway
James Robins, Esq., Blakenills, Rugby, and. Leek
James Challenor, Esq., Blackwood hill
Charles Heaton, jun., Esq., Leek
Robert Younge, Esq., Grey Stoles, Sheffield, Provisional Director of
the Manchester, Sheffield, And Midland Junction Railway
Thomas Carr, Esq., Leek
J. A. West, Esq., Western Lodge; Durham
Robert Micklington, Esq., Ordsall Hall, Retford, Notts
John Squire, Esq., Leek
Henry C. Leahy, Esq:, pt. .Tanies's-,square
William Wood, Esq., M.D., Chetwynd House, Newport, Salop
Thomas Birch, Esq., the Bank , Leek
John Green, Esq., Sheffield, Provisional Director'of the Manchester,
Sheffield, and- Midland Junction Railway
Nathan Davenport, Esq., Leek .
John Newton Mappin, Esq., Sheffield,..Provisfonal Director of the
Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction Railway
William Milner, Esq.;Leek
Thomas Smith, Eki.','De-Hank House, near Leek
Robert Hannmersley, Esq., Bridge-end, Leek
SatnuelSwann Brittain," Esq., Sheffield, Provisional Director of the
Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction Railway
Josiah Brunt, Esq„ Leek
Samuel Young, Esq.? Lym House, near Leek
John Ward, Dig., Leek
John Spence, Esq., Manchester
James Ridout, Esq., Leek
Thomas Heaton, Esq., Endon, near Leek
Samuel Butcher, Esq.l Provisional Directors of the Manchester,
George Dawson, Esq. .S Sheffield, and Midland Junction Railway.
(With power to add to their number.)
ENGINEER—CharIes Vignoles, Esq., A., F.R.A.S.
SOLICITOR—Thomas Redfern, Esq., Leek
LONDON AGENT—Thomas Whalley, Bolton, Esq., 4, Elm-court
Temple
LOCAL PROFESSIONAL AGENT—R. IL Wilson, Esq., Solicitor, Moseley
street, Manchester
BANKERS.
Leek and Congleton—Towler, Gaunt, and Co.
Manchester and Liverpool—The Manchester and Liverpool District
Banking Company
Sheffield and Bakewell—The Sheffield and Rotherham Banking
Company
London—Messrs. Rodgers and Co. ; Messrs. Smith, Payne and Smith
SECRETARY, PRO TEM.-31r. John Minshull

The object of this undertaking is to effect the most direct and"corn.
prehensive line of communication, by means of existing and projected
railways—the Manchester, Buxton, and Ainbergate, the. North Der-
byshire Union, and the Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction
Lines, between the Potteries, the iron districts of Staffordshire and
Shropshire, Cheshire, North Wales, Holyhead, Sheffield, the Ports of
Gainsborough, Grimsby and Hull, North Derbyshire, and the whole
of the West Riding of the County of York.
Independent of the•thorough traffic, which will necessarily be Call'
siderable, the local traffic is . alone sufficient to justify the construc-
tion of this line, and the promoters feel themselves warranted in
stating, that from a careful estimate of traffic on data accurately
taken, a profit of at least ten per cent, will be realised, after deduct-
ing forty per cent: for working expenses.
By this line of railway, the great quarries of limestone at Buxton
and the neighbourhood (which have been proved to be the best for
all purposes), will, be thrown open to the Staffordshire and Shrop-
shire iron works (where 2,000,000 tons are consumed annually in the
fluxion of iron), as well as to other parts, and no doubt will form a
great source of profit to the Company.
It will also open the shortest and best line for the conveyance of
salt from the Cheshire salt works, and also of the Staffordshire and
Shropshire pig iron,.and pottery ware, to the ports of Gainsborough,
Grimsby and Mull, and to Sheffield, and the manufacturing districts
of Yorkshire. It also throws open the great lead, copper, iron, and
slate mines in North and South Wales. The extensive coal fields of
Norton-in-the-Moors (about six miles from Leek), through which
the line passes, and will thereby afford to Buxton and other places in
Derbyshire, a cheap and abundant supply of excellent coal at a
greatly reduced cost.
In addition to the large mineral traffic which this line will possess.
the conveyance of merchandise will form a source of considerable
profit. Besides the general passenger traffic, there must in the sum-
mer months be a great accession of visitors from Ireland, North and
South Wales, Chester, and the Staffordshire Potteries to Buxton,
Bakewell, Chatsworth, Matlock, Dovedale, gcc., to which places it
has been proved that 90,000. persons annually resort for the benefit
of their health, and on pleasure excursions.
Companies have been formed to make a line of railway from Shef-
field to Buxton, and Stoke-upon-Trent to Crewe, andlcorton-bridge, to
join the Grand Junction Railway, with each of which Companies the
Committee are in communication, and arrangements will 'be made
with them so that the proposed Company will only have to
xto ate
e
the connecting link between the two places, namely, from Bu
Stoke-upon-Trent, to complete the entire line.
The distance to be made by this Company is nearly 22 miles; and
the engineering character is such as to justify the promoters in de-
claring the proposed capital amply sufficient for its construction, and
for sudh mineral branches as the district may require.
Power will be taken in the Act to allow interest at 41.
per cent
per annum upon all deposits and calls until the opening of the line.
The liability of Subscribers will of course be limited by the Act of
Parliament to the amount of their respective shares.
In the allotment of Shares a preference will be given to parties
locally interested ; and such applicants as have shares in the Man-
chester, Buxton, and Amber Gate, Manchester, Sheffield, and Mid-
land Junction, and Derby and Crewe Companies, arc requested to
state that circumstance in their applications, but none can be re-
ceived unless accompanied by a reference to some
may
epatary
be madeyofkvoiti
to
respectability.
Applications for shares in the following
Thomas Redfern, Esq., Solicitor, Leek ; Thomas Whalley Bolton,-
Esq., Solicitor, 4, Elm-court, Temple, Condos; Messrs. Wilton,
Younge, and Pierson, Solicitors, Sheffield ; t tbe.Offices of the Com-
pany, Leek; and No. 7, Surrey-street, Sheffield ;orto fl the following
Sharebrokers, from whom Prospectuses may be 'obtain :
London—Messrs. F. and W. Atkinson, Threadneedle-street
York—Mr. Thomas Johnson
Leeds—Messrs. R. B. Watson and Co.
Hull—Messrs. /lint and Tootal •
Liverpool—Mr. Thomas Forsyth
Manchester—Mr. Joseph Ferny'hollgb
.Iluddersfield—Mr. Burchart
having been provisionally Derby—Messrs. Eyre and Shaw
ILnicoohfinesledg—ueMnco. J. W. W. Pozffianytt.
regis-
tered previotis to the 29th of July last, the deposit of 1/. 7s. 6d. is
sufficient to comply With the Standing Orders of the House of Com-
mons ; but, in order to comply with thoSe of the House of Lords, a
further amount of 1/. 55. will be called for after the Bill has been
read a second time in the Commons, of which due notice trill ba
given to the shareholders. •

FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional doiiiiiiittaedndocfrtel,itet Silgara
eldi Buxton, Leek, Pot-
teries, .
Gentlemen,—l request you will'allot me 'hares, of 251.
each in the above undertaking, and I hereby agree fel atietpt the
same, or such less number as you.may appropriate to me subject to
the regulations of the Company, and to pay the deposit, and sign the
Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement, when required.
Dated the day of 1845.
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Name and residence of a itefBtet of respectability.

September E;1845.

YORK, HULL, and EAST and WEST YORK-
- SHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY..
•• (ProvisionaUY Registered.) •
The importance of a direct line of railway from the City of York
to tile pert Of 111114 which shall, at the same thne, give the greatest
eitent titectlinitriciclatiee to the intermediate district, now wholly de-
prived of the triettnS ttf tail'esl transit, is so apparent, that a com-
pany has been formed for the cOnStrUction of a line, eommencing by a
junction with the London and York, and Leeds and York Railways; at
or near York, to the towns of rockltngton, Market Weighton, Bever-
ley, and terminating at the iextensive East Docks, now in course
of construction at Hull, with a branch from the main line, com-
mencing at or near Market Weighton, to Selby, thus affording
the shortest and most direct communication from Newcastle and the •
whole of the north of England, Its well as from Skipton, Colne, Otly,
and the northern part of Lancashire, by the proposed Lancashire ae nd
Yorkshire North-Eas ern RallwaY, to the imp rtant port of Hull, and
at the same time terming a complete connexion between the several
towns of York, Hull, ileverley, Driilleld, Bridlington, Market Weigh-
ton, Pocklington, and Selby.
The advantages which will be thus secured to the whole of the
East Riding, will appear by-a reference to the map ; and negotiations
are now perdiug by which this line will be promoted in friendly
conjunction with other important railways in the west of Yorkshire
and Lancashire.
The proposed branch !tone Market Weighton to Selby will give to
a rich 'and very highly cultivated portion of the East Riding the
shortest line for the transmission ,of its agriculural produce, to the
markets of Leeds, Wakefield, and the consuming districtS, and secure
the return of coals, lime, and manures, at a greatly reduced cost ;
'while the terminus of the main line
wat the East Docka et Hullof this will
save the large expenditure which, without the construction
line, must be incurred in the carriage of merchandise across the

The works will be of very easy coalstruction. A survey is now
being made, and a detailed prospectus, with the names of a highly in-
fluential Provisional Committee, together with the amount of capital,
'and further particulars, will he antionnced in dfew days.
Communications may, in the meatitime, be addressed to the Com-
pany's solicitors,' . .
LEE AN and CLARK, York and lywerley...
EtIQI,A,ZID and SIIAC4LkB, Han.