The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-20 00:00:00

S HEFFIELD, BUXTON, LEEK, POTTE-
RIES, and CREWE RAILWAY.
(Registered Provisionally under 7 and 8 Victoria, c. 110.)
Capital, 800,0001., in 32,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 11. 7s. 6d. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
John Burgess, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester, Director of the
Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junctien
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., Heaton House, and Leek
Thomas Finchett Maddock, Esq., Chester
Josiah Gaunt, jun., Esq., Horton Hall, near Leek
The Rev. James Bostock, Cliffe Park
James IVardie,Esq., Leek
John Macfarlane, Esq., Manchester
John Collier, Esq., Manchester
George Edensor Marsden, Esq., Manchester
Penrose Nevins, Esq., Old Trafford, Manchester
Wilson Overend, Esq., Sheffield, Chairman of the Manchester, Shot,
field, and Midland Junction Railway
Henry Wilkinson, Esq., Endcliffe Hall, Sheffield, Provisional Director
of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction Railway
James Robins, Esq., Blakenills, Rugby, and Leek
James Challenor, Esq., Blackwood-bill
Charles Heaton, jun., Esq., Leek
Robert Younge, Esq., Grey Stones, Sheffield, Provisional Director
the Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction Railway
Thomas Kidley, Esq., Sheffield "
Thomas Carr, Esq., Leek
J. A. West, Esq., Western Lodge, Durham
Benjamin Smith, Esq., Duckmanton Lodge, Chesterfield
William Newton, Esq., Bakewell
Robert Micklington, Esq., Ordsall Hall, Retford, Notts
John Squire, Esq., Leek
Henry C. Leahy, Esq., St. James'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, Provisional Director of the
Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction Railway
William Milner, Esq., Leek
Thomas Smith, Esq., De-Bank House, near Leek
Robert Ifirmmersley, Esq., Bridge-end, Leek
Samuel Swann 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, Esq., Leek
John Spence, Esq., Manchester
James Ridout, Esq., Leek
Thomas Heaton, Esq., Endon, near Leek
Samuel Butcher, Esq./ Provisional Directors of the Manchester,
George Dawson, Esq..% Sheffield, and Midland Junction Railway.
James Barker, Esq., the Hall, Bakewell, Director of the Manchester,
Buxton, Matlock, and Midlands, and of the North Derbyshire
Union Railways
John Bloor, Esq., Tutbury, Director of the Derby, Gainsborough, and
Great Grimsby Railway
(With power to add to their number.)
ENGINEER—CharIes Vignoles, Esq., M.R.I. A., F.R.A.S.
SOLICITOR—Thomas Redfern, Esq., Leek
LoNnort AGENT—Thomas Whalley Bolton, Esq., 4, Elm-court,
Temple
LOCAL PROFESSIONAL AGENT—R. IL Wilson, Esq., Solicitor, Moseley-
street, Manchester
BANKERS.
Leek and Congleton—Fowler, Gaunt, and Co.
Manchester and Liverpool—The Manchester and Liverpool District
Banking Company
Sheffield and Bakewell—The Sheffield and Rotherham Banking
Company
London—Messrs. Rogers and Co. ; Messrs. Smith, Payne and Smith
SECRETARY PRO TEM.—Mr. John Minshull.
The object of this undertaking is to effect the most direct and com-
prehensive line of communication, by means of existing and projected
railways—the Manchester, Buxton, and Ambergate, 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
Gainsboreugh, Grimsby and Hull, North Derbyshire, and the whole
of the West Riding of the County of York.
Applications for shares in the following form may be made to
Thomas Redfern, Esq., Solicitor, Leek; Thomas Whalley Bolton,
Esq., Solicitor, 4, Elm-court, Temple, London ; Messrs. Wilson,
Younge, and Pierson, Solicitors, Sheffield ; at the Offices of the Com-
pany, Leek ; and No. 7, Surrey-street, Sheffield ; or to the following
Sharebrokers,from whom Prospectuses may be obtained : -
London—Messrs. F. and W. Atkinson, Threadneedle-street
York—Mr. Thomas Johnson
Leeds—Messrs. R. B. Watson and Co.
Hull—Messrs. Flint and Tootal
Liverpool—Mr. Thomas Forsyth
Manchester—Mr. Joseph Fernyhough
Huddersfield—Mr. Burchart
Derby—Messrs. Eyre and Shaw
Lichfield—Mr. J. W. W. Proffitt.
In consequence of this Company having been provisionally regis-
tered previous to the 29th of July last, the deposit of 11. 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
thrther amount of I/. ss. will be called for after the Bill has been
read a second time in the Commons, of which due notice will ba
given to the shareholders.
FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, Pot •
terics, and Crewe Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares, of 251.
each in the above undertaking, and I hereby agree to accept 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 this day of 1845.
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Name and residence of a Referee of respectability.