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London, England, 1845-09-26 00:00:00

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Sir John Edmund De Beauvoir, Bart., Connaught-terrace, Hyde

Park
Francis Valentine Lee, Esq., Chester-place, Regent's Park, Director

of the Eastern Counties Railway
William Simpson Potter, Esq., 7, SusseX-gardens, Hyde Park, Di-
rector of the Oxford, Gosport, and Southampton Railway
Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq., Carlton House-terrace, Chairman of the

Irish north Midland Railway
James Beech, Esq., the Shawe, Staffordshire, and Brandon Hall,

Warwickshire -
Barnet Laurence Phillips. Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park,

Director of the Direct Western Railway
Valentine Knight, Esq., 3, Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, Director

of the Dendie Valley Railway
Henry Garrett Key, Esq., Director of the Newport and Absrgavenny

Railway
Hugh Henshall Williamson, Esq., Greenway Bank, Newcastle-under-

Lyne, Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Stafford
John Robinson, Esq., Silcoats Cottage, Wakefield, Director of the
Bradford, Wakefield, and Midland Railway, and of the Leeds, York,
and %I ldland Junction Railway
Stephen Hutchinson, Esq., London Gas Works, Vauxhall
John Shaw, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the South Stafford-

shire Junction Railway
Daniel M'Malion, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway
Samuel Walker, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the South Sta.-
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fordshire Junction Railway
Thomas Timminp' Esq., Wolverhampton
Thomas Randle Andrews, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the
Shrewsbury and Grand Junction Railway
William Griffiths, Esq., Park House, Wellington, Salop, Director of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway
Herbert Broom, Esq., Kidderminster, and Essex-court, Temple
Caleb Norris, Esq., Lancaster-place, Strand, Director of the Exeter,
Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway
John Hayes, Esq., South-flelds, Leicester
Charles J. Mason, Esq., Fenton, Staffordshire Potteries, Director of
the South Union and Birmingham Junction Railway
Joseph Henry, Esq., South-street, Finsbury, Director of the London,
Hounslow, and Western Railway
Edward Gulson, Esq., Clonmel, Ireland, Director of the Coventry,
Nuneaton, and Leicester Railway
William B. Costello, Esq., Wyke House, Middlesex, Director of the
Direct Loud-it and Exeter Railway
Martin Stutly, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park, Director
of the Direct Western, Dublin and Belfast, and London and South
Essex Railways.
Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brembo Iron Works, Wrexham, North
Wales, and Cannon-street, Director of the Oxford, South-

ampton, Gosport and Portsmouth, and Direct Western Railways.
Thomas Wynne, Esq., Longton, Staffordshire, Director of the South
Union and Birmingham Junction Railway
Henry Dodson, Esq., Suffolk House, Upper Tulse-hill, Director of the
Grand Junction, Great Western, and South-Western Junction

Railways
Joseph Loxdale Warren, Esq., the Lodge, Market Drayton, and Con-
sail Hall, near Cheadle, Director of the Manchester and Liverpool
District Bank, and Director of the Cambrian and Grand Junction

Railway
Alfred Brodie, Esq., Upper Montagu-street, Montagu-square, Direc-
tor of the Hull and Holyhead, and Southern-Counties Railway
Robert Chaplin, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Edward Mammatt, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
John Beavington, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
T. S. Kirkland, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Thomas Cantrell, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
William Mathew, Esq., Staunton Harold, Lessee of the Staunton
Harold Coal, Lead, and Lime Works
Joseph Bostock, Esq., Breedon-on-Hill, Lessee of the Breedon Lime
Works
James Reeves, Esq., 150, Cheapside, Director of the Direct London
and Manchester Railway
Harvey Wyatt, Esq., Acton-hill, Stafford, Director of the Trent
Valley, Midlands and Grand Junction Railways, and of the Dudley,
Madeley, Brossely, and Iron Bridge Railway
Benjamin Payne, Esq., Leicester, Director of the Rugby, Warwick,
and Worcester Railway, and the Leicester and Birmingham Direct
Railway
Thomas Farmer Cooke, Esq., Leicester, Director of the Rugby, War-
wick, and Worcester Railway, and the Leicester and Birmingham
Direct Railway
John Carter, Esq., F.R.A.S., Park Lodge, Stockwell, Director of the
Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Junction Coast Railway
Joseph Carrington Ridgway, Esq., Roehampton Lodge
Edward Tylecote, Esq., Great Heywood, Staffordshire
William Field, Esq., Rugeley, Staffordshire
Samuel Ginders, Esq., Ingestre, Staffordshire, Agent to the Right
Hon. the Earl of Talbot, K.G.
R. S. J. Winterton, Esq., Sketchley Hall, near Hinckley, a Magis-
trate of the County, Director of the Coventry, Nuneaton, and
Leicester Railway
James Lamb, Esq.' Hyde Park-square
James Morrison, Esq., St. Mary-at-hill, Director of the Bridgewater
and Minehead Railway
C. 11. Rogers Harrison, Esq., Upper Montagu .street, Montagu-square,
Director of the Southern-Counties Union Railway
George Augustus 11I'Dermott, Esq., Chesterton Hall, near Newcastle-
under-Lynn
Captain Macdougall, Fir Grove, North Brixton, Director of the Direct
Western Railway
Wm. Tulloch Fraser, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square
Wm. Clode Braddon, Esq, Regency-square, Brighton
George Parbury, Esq., Mansfield House, Russell-square
John Lowe, Esq., Norfolk-crescent, Hyde Park
John Griffith Frith, Esq., Chairman of the Londonderry and Cole-
raine Railway
Major-General Parlby, C. 8., Rutland-gate, Director of the London,
Bristol, and South Wales Railway, and Manchester and Rugby

Railway
John Anderson, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway, and Trlng, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
Samuel Griffiths, Esq., Penn Fields, Wolverhampton
Henry Turner, Esq., Brewood Hall, Brewood, Staffordshire, Director
of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
Henry Scott, Esq., Banker, Waterford, and 17, Pall-mall
Lewis Adam's, Esq., B asford Hall, Stoke-upon-Trent
Thomas Miller, jun., Esq., Banker, Leicester.
George Harrison, Esq., F.S.A., Director of the Hull and Holyhead
Railway
Shirley Palmer, Esq., Tamworth, Director of the Leicester and Tam-
worth Railway
Etiernne Bruno Hamel, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Tam-
worth Railway
John Thompson, Esq., Great St. Helen's
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John Dove Harris, Esq., Leicester
Richard Gray, Esq., Adam-street, Broad-street
BANKERS—The Union Bank of London.
STANDING COUNSEL.
Charles Howard Whitehurr.t, Esq., Q.C.
J. Mee Mathew, Esq., F.S.A.
ENGINEER—J. U. Rastrick, Esq.
ACTING ENGINEER—Robert Nicholson, Esq.
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SOLICITORS—Messrs. Watts, Galsworthy, and Galswoithy, 19, Ely-

place, Holborn
SECRETARY—SamueI Stanway, Esq.

The Brot line of the Grand Trunk Railway will commence at the
Loughborough station on the Midland Counties line, and pro-
ceed through the Vale of Sheepshead, to Pegs Green Colliery,
near to the terminus of the Leicestor and nwanuington Rail-
way, and from thence through the coal-fields of Swannington
and Cole-Orton to .Ashby-de-la-Zouch. It will thence proceed across
the Moira Coal-field and through the rich agricultural districts of
Seal, Clifton Campville, and Edingale, to the Birmingham and Derby
Railway, which it will cross gear to Elford Park Farm, and thence
traverse the Valley of the Tame until it reaches Alrewas, where it
will form a junction with the branch of the Trent Valley line now in
progress of making. At this point it also meets the proposed South
Staffordshire line, by which means it reaches Lichfield, and by means
of one of the proposed lines it will afford communication with Bir-
mingham.
From Loughborough the line will be further continued to A sfordby
on the Syston and Peterborough Railway, now in progress, and by
means of this latter line, a direct intercourse will be opened with
Melton Mowbray and the various towns through which that route
passes to Peterborough.

By its junction with !the Trent Valley line at; Alrewas, the
Grand Trunk reaches Colwich, and there meets the proposed North
Staffordshire line, which proceeds through the heart of the Potteries
to Newcastle-under-Lyne, Leek, and Macclesfield. By means also
of the same Trent Valley line at Alrewas the Grand Trunk pro-
ceeds through Rugeley to Stafford, thus completing its route, and
forming a connecting line between the Midland and Grand Junction
Railways. This branch of the line was formerly surveyed by Mr.
Rastrick, and approved of by him as a canal communication, so that
no engineering difficulties exist.

The second line of the Grand Trunk Railway will commence at the
Derby station, and taking the course of the Derby Canal proceed to
Chellaston, where there are extensive plaster-works, and thence
by Swarkestone to the river Trent, which it will cross near to
the ferry at Weston Cliffe, and so proceed to Kings Newton
and Melbourne. From the latter place it will pass by the
village of Wilson to Breedon-on-the-Hill, where there are extensive

lime-works, and thence proceed by Staunton Harold, communicat-
ing by a branch line with the lead, lime, and coal works there ;
thence by the Lount Colliery to Worthington Rough, where it will
follow the line of the Cole-Orton and Swannington Railway until its
junction with the first line of the Grand Trunk at or near the Pegs
Green Colliery, and so proceed from thence to Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
At Ashby-de-la-Zouch the Grand Trunk forms a junction with the
proposed Nottingham and Birmingham, and with the proposed Great
Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railways. Its importance as
a line for passengers is too obvious for comment, forming as it does a
complete junction between those two great thoroughfares, the Mid-
land and Grand Junction Railways, and by its branch from Derby to
Ashby-de-la-Zouch another complete junction between the Great
Northern and Southern lines now in progress, thus opening a direct
line of communication to all parts of the kingdom.
As a line for traffic, the Grand Trunk will form the most direct
transit to the Leicestershire, Staffordshire, and Shropshire iron and
coal fields, to the Burton breweries, to North and South Wales, and
Ireland to Scotland, and all parts of the north, and to the eastern,
southern, and western parts of the empire. It will also be the
nearest and most direct communication from the cast to the north-
western manufacturing districts, as well as become the great route
from all parts of the kingdom to the midland counties of England.
The mineral resources are of the very highest order. The Moira
coal-field is inexhaustible, whilst the coal-beds at Staunton Harold
alone comprise the finest quality of Kennel to a depth of seven feet,
with a super stratum of main coal to a depth of six feet. The sub-
stratum is yet to be worked. There are beds of Kennel and main
coal at Cole Orton of equal quality, though not of equal depth with
those of Staunton Harold, whilst the main coal at Swannington is un-
rivalled, being, in fact, the bowl of the Leicestershire and Derbyshire
coal strata. It is needless to describe the beneficial results which
must arise from this opening of the midland coal district to the Lon-
don and southern markets.

At Staunton Harold and Calke exist rich veins of lead ore, now in
full course of working. _ _

The nroperties of the Breedon, Staunton Harold, and Ticknall lime
are so well known to agriculturists and others, that an extension of
traffic for so valuable a commodity into mare remote districts must
be of the utmost importance to the practical farmer.
In approaching the Trent, on leaving the lime district, the Grand
Trunk will fall in with most valuable quarries of millstone grit, ser-
♦iceable for paving and building purposes, and for which a ready
market would be found along the line. The country also abounds
in gypsum, of which immense quantities are used in Birming-
ham and elsewhere : these markets will thus become opened for the
quarries at Chellaston.
A new and extensive outlet will also be opened for the earthenware
of Wooden Box and Griesley Potteries.
Until the Act of Parliament be obtained, the affairs will be under
the control of the Committee of Management, to whom power is
given to allot the shares and apply the funds of the Company in
payment of all proper expenses in the formation of the Company and
otherwise.

Power will be applied for in the Act, and in the meantime the

Committee of Management take power, to alter or extend the lines,
to make branch lines, to abandon any part of the line, to raise addi-
tional capital, and to enter into arrangements with any other Com-
pany or C'nupanies.
Application for shares must be made to the solicitors to the Com-
pany, Messrs. Watts, Galeworthy, and Galsworthy, 19, Ely-place,
Holborn, London ; to the Secretary, at the Offices of the Company,
3, Adelaide-place, London-bridge ; and to the following

LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Messrs, Keen and Hand, Stafford
Thomas Bolton, Esq., Wolverhampton
E. Kern Jarvis, Esq., Hinckley
Messrs. hoary and Sheppard, Stoke-upon-Trent
Thomas Piddock, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
F. J. Hamel, Esq., Ta►nworth
John Perks, Esq., Burton-upon-Trent
Beauvoir Brock, Esq., Loughborough
Charles Nriesley, Esq., Lichfield
Messrs. Moore and Gregory, Leicester.
Also to the following :

SIIAREBROXERS.
London—Messrs. Hill, Fawcett, and Hill, Threadneedle-street

Messrs. Barris and St;ns, 'Change-alley
Mr. A. Sym, Tokenhouse-yard
Liverpool—Messrs. Townley and Whitehead
Bristol—Messrs. Tate and Nash
Leeds—Mr. James Jamieson and Mr. W. Cronhelm
Messrs. Weatherhurn and Jennings
Birmingham—Mr. J. R. Lane
Newcastle—• Mr. W. W. Dickinson
Bradford—Mr. 'William Mason
Sheffield—Messrs. Bardwell and Sons
Hull—Mr. Francis Stamp
Wakefield—Mr. S. 11. Armitage
Nottingham—Mr. C. Spencer
Worcester—Mr. W. Miles
York—Messrs. Grayston and Erie
Blackburn—Mr. Thomas Boardman
Southampton-3lr. Joseph Clark, Jun.
Exeter—Messrs. 11. Beaumcnt and Co.
Edinburgh—Mr. Charles Cowper, 30, St. Andrew's-square
Cheltenham—Mr. James Stokes
Leicester—Messrs, Williams and Sunderland Messrs. Eaglefleld
And Co