The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-01 00:00:00

GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY OF
FRANCE.
(LAFFITE'S COMPANY.)
The holders of English allotments who have not received the
Circular Report of the Directors, dated 17th instant, may receive a
copy of it by applying at the office, No. 62, King William-street,
City. The forms are ready, which require to be signet for the ptir-
pose of receiving the constituted shares, together with the amount of
he surplus of the deposits
18th October, 1845

ED. AIME, Sec.

NORTHER g RAILWAY of FRANCE.
(DECCAN LEBEUF'S COMPANY.)
noteholders are urgently requested to present their Certificates at
this office between the hours of Ten and Three, before the Bth inst., in
order to receive a further return of 2/. per share, and to sign the re-
quired transfer, for the purpose of procuring the shares of the consti-
tuted Company. After the above date, Shareholders may be sub-
jected to unavoidable delay in completing the transfer.
By order,
EDWARD FILDER, Secretary.
7, Tokenhouse-yard, London, Nov.l, 1845.

THE HARWICH RAILWAY AND PIER
COMPANY,
With a Branch to Thorpe-le-Soken , from the Terminus of the
Eastern Counties Railway at Colchester to Harwich, and in conti-
nuation of the Eastern and Northern Counties Junction Railway.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Length of Main Line 17% Miles. Length of Branch Line about 5
Miles.
Capital, 280,0001., in Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
At a meeting of the Provisional Committee, held this day at Rad-
ley's Hotel, New Bridge-street,
It was resolved to reduce the capital of this Company to 280,0001.,
being the estimate for the main and branch lines and the pier, it
having been deemed advisable not to apply for powers for the con-
struction of docks, warehouses, &c., as originally contemplated.
The engineer reported that the whole of the Parliamentary surveys
were completed with respect to the main land, and that the surveys
on the branch line to Thorpe-le-Soken would be concluded within a
week or ten days.
Resolutions were adopted expressive of a determination to proceed
with the application to Parliament in the ensuing session ; but that
the allotment of shares should be deferred until after the deposit of
the plans and sections on or previously to the 30th November nent.
Prospectuses, with full details and forms of application for shares,
can be obtained only of the solicitors in London and Colchester, and
of the following sharebrokers :—London —Messrs. Hitchins and Har-
rison, Threadneedle-street ; and Mr. Pritchett, 74, Old Broad-street.
Birmingham—Mr. Lane, Waterloo-street. Liverpool—Mr. Morris
Reynolds. Manchester—Messrs. Houghland and Leese. Leeds—
Messrs. Whalley and Sons. Newcastle-upon-Tyne—Messrs. Bell
and Co. Bristol—Messrs. Wreford, Nicholls, and Wreford. No
letter will be attended to without a reference to a banker, er person
of known responsibility,

By order,

T. PRICE, secretary.

HARWICH RAILWAY and PIER
COMPANY,
With a Branch to Thorpe-le-Soken.
No further Applications for Shares in this undertaking will be re-
ceived after SATURDAY, the Bth day of November next.
By order, T. PRICE, Secretary.
4, New Bridge-street, Oct. 29, 1845.

THE BIRMINGHAM, NOTTINGHAM
GAINSBOROUGIL AND MULL RAILWAY.
Capital 1,600,000/., is $O,OOO Shares of 20/. each.
Deposit 21.25. per Share.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and Viet., cap. 110.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Combermero
The Right lion. Lord Viscount Ingestre,
The Right Hon. Lord Charles Beauclerk, Cheshaia-place, BelgraTe-

square
The Right Hon. Lord Thomas Pelham Clinton
The Right Hon. Lord E Chichester
The Right Hon. Lord Stephen Chichester
The Right Hon. George R. Dawson
The Hon. Captain Percy Evans Freke, 3, Belgrave-square
The Hon. Cecil Lawless
Sir James D. H. Hay, Bart., Rose Croft, Surrey
Sir William Lowthorp, Hull
William R. Collett, Esq., M.P.
Thomas Bateson, Esq., M.P.
Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P., Birmingham
George Frederick Muntz, Esq., M.P., Birmingham
The Worshipful the Mayor of Hull
C. S. Foster, Esq., High Sheriff of Staffordshire
G. B. Thorneycroft, Esq., Shrubbery end Bradley Ironworks, Staf-
fordshire, chairman of the Shrewsbury,Wolverhanapton, and South

Staffordshire Junction Railway
Michael Grazebrook, Esq., Stourbrldge, chairman of the Staffordshire

Iron trade
Thomas Bagnall, Esq., GkAdshill Ironworks, Staffordshire
W. IL Allen, Esq., Leadenhall-street, London
John Aston, Esq., Birmingham
Frederick Pratt Barlow, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway
William Broackes, Esq., Cork.street, Burlington-gardens
Major Frederick Brownlow, United Service Club
William Chance, jun., Esq., merchant, Birmingham
Robert Chapman, Esq., Director of the Cambrian and Grand Janc-

tion Railway
George A. Hamilton Chichester, Esq., Chesham-place, BeigraTe-
square
Frederick Clarkson, Esq., Doctors'-commons, London
Henry Crane, Esq., Wolverhampton
Anthony Dickson, Esq., Erdington-honse, Berwickshire
Henry R. Downman, Esq., Director of the Cambrian and Grand

Junction Railway
Duncan Dunbar, Esq., East India-road, Director of the London

Dock Company
Ilenry John Enthoven, Esq., Director of the Dutch Rheaiiii Railway
Thomas Hartshorne, Esq., Silkmore-house, Stafford
Joseph Gillott, Esq., Biingham
Charles James Heath, Esq., London
James Beard Ley, Esq., Seaton Ironworks, Whitehaven
Samuel Wilfred Lucas, Esq., Sandhill-house, Birmingham, Director

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of the Direct Birmingham and Leicester Railway
William Mathews, Esq., Edgbaston, Birmingham, and Corbyns-hall
Ironworks, Director of the Oxford, Worcester, and WolYerhamp-

ton Railway
Thomas Davies, Esq., the Austins, Handsworth, Staffordshire, and
Crookhay Ironworks, West Bromwich
Thomas Hackett Massey, Esq., Oxford-square, London
Robert Marsden Massey, Esq., Oxford-square, London
David Montague, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester and South-

ampton Railway
William Morgan, Esq., Director :of the Bristol and Gloucester

Railway
P. IL Moritz, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the South Btafordshire

Junction Railway
Francis Parker, Esq., Manchester
Archibald F. Paull, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway
William Watson Prole, Esq., Thurlow-square, Brompton, Director of
the Grand Junction and Midlands Union Railway
John Gibson Reeves, Esq., Director of the Direct Birmingham and

Leicester Railway
Frederick Ricketts, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway
John Shaw, Esq., Wolverhampton
Charles Shaw, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Direct Birmingham
and Leicester Railway, and Director of the Bristol and Bir-
mingham Railway
Henry Symonds, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway
Thomas Timmins, Esq., Wolverhampton
Charles Augustus Tulk, Esq., Totteridge-park, Berta
Samuel Walker, Esq., Ablow-house, Wolverhampton, Director of
the South Staffordshire Junction Railway
William Watson, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Exeter Railway
John Webster, Esq., 3.5, 3lecklenburgh-square, Director of the
Great Grimsby and Lincoln Railway
Henry Wright, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and
Southampton Railway
ohn Brearley Payn, Esq., Birmingham
iamnel Kearick, Esq., Handsworth-hall, Staffordshire
Robert Peasegood Sleight, Esq., Hull, Provisional Director of the
Hull and Holyhead Railway
William Ayre, sen., Esq., Hull, Provisional Director of the Lynn and

Ely Railway
Joseph Ayre, Esq., Hull
John Wells, Esq., hull
Wakefield Piro, Fag., Hall, ProTisional Director of the Ilull and Lin-

coin Railway
Dr. Bell Fletcher, Birmingham
Benjamin Bartleet, Esq., Birmingham
Thomas Clark, Esq., Wolverhampton
James Shaw, Esq., merchant, Birmingham
C. S. Cotterill, Esq., magistrate, Walsall, Direetor of the South Star-
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fordshire Junction Railway
Benjamin Gibbons, Esq., Shut-end, Dudley, Director of the South
Staffordshire Junction Railway
John Neve, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the South Stafford-
shire Junction Railway
Samuel Underhill, Esq., Wolverhampton
John Barker, Esq., Chillington Ironworks, Wolverhampton, Di-
rector of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway
Christopher Musgrave, Esq., Lord of the Manor of Birmingham
John Dixon, Iron Master, Wolverhampton
Charles Greatrex. Esq., Walsall, director of the South Staffordshire
Junction Railway
(With power to add to their number).
SOLICITORS. . .

Messrs. Rdwaros, Mason, andidWards, 8, Moorgate-street, and De-
lahay-street, Westminster ; and
Messrs. Motteram and Knowles, Birmingham.
ENGINEER IN CHIEF—Sir John Rennie, F.R.S.
ACTING ENGINEER—W. H. Purdon, Esq.
BANICERS.

Birmingham Banking Company, and Messrs. Attwoods, Spooner,
and Co., Birmingham.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Hull—Messrs. Frost and Moss
Nottingham—Samuel Maples, Esq.
SECRETARY—Edward Hart Hart, Esq.
Orricx.s—No. 1, Royal Exchange-buildings, London; and
36, Upper Temple street, Birmingham.

It is proposed by this Company to establish a direct line of commu-
nication between Birmingham, Nottingham, Gainsborough, and Hull,
at the smallest outlay of capital, and with the least possible injury to
existing interests. To effect this object, use will be made of existing
or projected lines, as far as practicable, and the chain of communica-
tion will be completed by throwing out new lines, where requisite.
Commencing at Birmingham, it Is proposed to use the Birmingham
and Derby Railway as far as Whitacre, whence a new line, about 29
lines, inlength, will be made, passing through Ashby-de-la-Zouch and
Castle Donnington, to the Long Eaton or Sawley Station on the Mid-
land Counties Railway
The communication being thus perfect to Nottingham, it will be
carried forward as far as Gainsborongh, either by the proposed Not-
tingham and Gainsborough Railway, or by a line springing out of the
line from Nottingham to Lincoln, for which an Act was obtained by
the Midland Counties Company during the last session of Parliament.
Front Gainsborough this railway will proceed to Barton-on-the-
Humber, or New Holland, in the immediate vicinity of Hull, thereby
rendering complete and entire the chain of conununication between
Birmingham and Hull.
By this project the advantages will result to the public of a
Direct line from Birmingham to Nottingham,
1,9 Birmingham to Gainsborough,
mid from Birmingham to Hull;
awl by means of the proposed South Staffordshire Junction Railway,
and the intended extension to Ashby-de-la-'touch and Alrewas, a
direct line from Wolverhampton and Dudley to Nottingham, and
the other towns already enunaerated.
The support of several companies will be enlisted in favour of the
o, which, together with its own merits, will ensure its sueeesa in
Parliament.
As a considerable portion of the line of communication is already
made, or in progress, the time required for the completion of this
great national undertaking will be materially shortened.
Independently of the advantages to be derived by a direct commu-
nication between the Important seaport of Hull and the mining and
manufacturing districts of Warwickshire and Staffordshire, a large
tfisflic in timber, corn, metals, &c., may be confidently expected.
ghe revenue of the Company, in addition, will be derived from the
great thorough traffic from Birmingham and the midland counties to
Nottingham and Gainsborough, and the immense traffic from Bir-
mingham to Hull, the port at which the exports are shipped to Nam-
burgh, the German States, and the North of Europe ; and from the
conveyance of merchandise, agricultural produce, and cattle from the
southern, western, and midland counties.
A preference will be given in the allotment of shares to landowners
on the line, and other local proprietors, as well as to directors and
Shareholders in railways interested in supporting this undertaking.
No subscriber will be liable beyond the amount of the deposit
intil the Act is obtained, and then net beyond the amount of his
subscription.
The usual power will be taken to allow interest at the rate of four
per cent. from the time of payment upon each call until the opening
of the lines.
No applications will be attended to without a reference to a
member of the Committee, a banker, or the solicitors to this Company.
The Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contract must be
executed when the bankers' receipts are exchanged for scrip certifi-
cates, of which due notice will be given ; and the deposits paid by
any party making default in the execution of those deeds will befor-
tot fed.
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Plans and prospectuses, with forms of applications for shares, may be
had of the Solicitors, and of the following Stock and gharebrokers,
via.:—Messrs. Wells, Westropp, and Prinsep, 75, Old Broad-street ;
Mr. 11. Pritchett, 1, Reyal Exchange-buildings; Messrs. Hitchins and
Harrison, 19, Thre Idneedle-street ; and Messrs. Peppercorns and Son,
2, Old Broad-street, London; Messrs. Gardiner and Heap, Charles
M. Williams, and Messrs. Bradley, Ford, and Parker, Manchester;
Messrs. Watson and Co., and Mr. Samuel Phillips, Hull ; Messrs.
Davies and Son, Liverpool ; Messrs. Eidadale, Myers, and Ce., Leeds ;
3fkors. Earp and Soo, Derby ; Messrs. Pott and Levick, Notting-
ham ; Messrs. Wreford, Nicholls, alsd Wreford, Bristol ; and Mr.
James Robinson Lane, Birmingham.

CAMBRIDGE AND LINCOLN EXTEN-
SION, and LINCOLN, YORK, and LEEDS JUNCTION

RAILWAY, with a Branch to Doncaster.
Notice is hereby given, that the Allotment of Shares in this under-
taking is now completed, and the Directors of the Company regret
that it has not been in their power to meet the wishes of all the ap-
plicants for shares, but they have endeavoured to make the allot-
ment with due impartiality and discrimination out of the numerous
body who applied.
The Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement, will Lie
for Signature at the offices of the Company, both in London and in
Leeds, on Wednesday, the sth of November nest, and the three fol-
lowing days, between the hours of Ten and Four, when and where
the Scrip will be delivered to the shareholders.
Due notice will be given of the other places and times the deeds
will lie f•Ksignature

By order,
GEORGE S. DYER, Secretary.
I, Guildhall Chambers, Basinghall-street, London.

DIRECT LONDON AND EXETER RAIL-
WAY COMPANY,
With Extension to Falmouth.
MANAGING COMMITTEE.
Chairman—Sir John Palmer Bruce Chichester, Bart.,
Arlington-court, Devon, and 1, Eaton-square, London.
Vice-Chairman—Sir H. Pynn, 19, Clifford-street.
E. S. Blundell. Esq. 18, Lower Seymour-street
George Evans, Esq. 14, Milbury-terrace, Regent's-park
Sir F. Hankey, G.C.M.G. Queen Ann-street, Cavendish-square
Lieut.-Colonel S. Hodgson, 63, Welbeck-street
H. H. Hungerford, Esq. Dingley-park, Market Harborough, and
Dover-street, Piccadilly
A. W. Hilliary, Esq. 66, Cadogan-place, Chelsea
W. L. Pope, Esq. Woodford, Es ex
Walter Shairp, Esq. Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park
T. Piers Healey, Esq. Elm-court, Temple
C. W. Spicer, Esq. 28, Portman-square.
Notice is hereby given, that the Parliamentary Deeds of this rail-
way Lie for the Signature of the Shareholders, at the offices of the
Company, No. 6, Great Winchester-street, Bread-street, between the
hours of Twelve and Four.
The bankers' receipts for deposit must be prxluced, to be exchanged
for scrip. By order,
Oct. 31, 1845

H. HALL, Semeary.

LEEDS AND CARLISLE RAILWAY
COMPANY.
The Committee of Management of this Company have much plea-
sure in laying before tho Shareholders the following brief Report
from the Company's Engineer on the progress of the survey of the
line :

" Leeds and Carlisle Railway, London, Oct. 29, 1845.
" 81r,—In reply to your letter of this day, I have to request tbat
you will inform the Committee that I have just returned from a tour
over the line, and beg to report that the surveys for Parliament are
proceeding very favourably ; the whole of the ground survey will, I
fully expect, be completed this week or early in next ; and about one
half of the line is now being engraved, and the remainder will be in
the engraver's hands next week. The solicitors are proceeding with
the reference, and the finished levels for the Parliamentary sections
are in progress, so that we fully expect that the whole will be ready
about the third week of next month, in good time for the deposit.
The gradients, also, for the most part, will be favourable, although
there will necessarily be some heavy work at the summit. The line
is laid out with a view to avoid the ornamental property ; and, upon
the whole, we have been very successful, and the landowners, I
learn, are generally favourable.
" I am, Sir, your most humble servant,
(Signed) " JOHN RENNIE.
"C. Locock Webb, Esq.,

" Gresham-rooms, Basinghall-street."
The Committee may trust that the friendly negotiations which
they have entered into with other Companies will result to the mutual
advantage of all parties.
The Committee have great satisfaction in being enabled to state
that this Company, from its financial position, as well as the pro-
gress of the survey and notices, will be prepared to comply with the
standing orders of Parliament, and proceed with the Bill this en-
suing session.

(Signed) WI!. BERESFORD, Chairman.
Gresham-rooms, Basinghall-street, London, Oct. 30.