The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-06 00:00:00

G RENT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT
RNILWAY.
By a Junction with the Eastern Counties Railway at Bedford;
Distance, 120 miles.
Capital, 2,500,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 2/. 12s. 6d. per Share.
Pursuant to the Standing Orders of the House of Commons.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Right Honourable Lord Dunboyne
The Lord Stephen Chichester, Ormeau, Belfast, and Army and
Navy Club, London
Sir Robert Alexander, Bart., Charles-street, Manchester-square
.sir William Twysden, Bart., Dorset. street, Portman-square, Di-
rector of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction
and Erewash Valley Extension Railways
.r William Bacon Johnston Bart., Parthenon Club, Director of the
Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloueester Junction, and of the
South and Midland Junction and West Midland Railways
Tohn Osborn, Bart., Earl's-court, Brompton
)hn Key, Bart., 9, King's Arms Yard, Alderman of London,
.)irector of the Direct Manchester and London, and of the
Direct Liverpool and Leeds Railway.
Captain Frederick Polhill, M.P. for Bedford
'ajor-General Rir Robert Barton, K. C. H., Director of the York
tad Lancaster Railway
.;or-Gencral Thomas Morgan, Singleton-house, Torquay
sr_General Wright, Royal Engineers, Gloucester-plane, Port-
,..an square
"iliiam Ackroyd, Esq., Westbottrne Lodge, Otley, Director of
he East and West York, Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and Leeds
and Carlisle Railways
Thomas Alexander, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian, and
Trent Valley Continuation Railways
Francis Shires Alliott, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Amber-
gate, Nottingham, Sand Boston, and Eastern Junction, and one
of the Provisional Committee of the Nottingham and Gains.
borough Railway Companies
Henry Ambler, Esq., worsted spinner and manufacturer, Watkin.
son-hall, near Halifax, Director of the West Yorkshire Railway,
and Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
C. H. Anderson, Esq., Upper Clapton, Director of the South Mid-
land Railway
Thomas Ansell, Esq.. M.D., Mile-End-road
George Ashlin, Esq., Director of the Liverpool and Newcastle-
upon.Tyne Railway
Richard Armitage, Esq., Huddersfield and Great Grimsby, Di-
rector of the Manchester and Great Grimsby, and Keighley,
Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railways
The Rev. Charles Edward Armstrong, ALA., Hemsworth
John Alexander Bicknell, Esq., Brandon Cottage, Bristol, Di-
rector of the Oxford and Worcester Extension Railway
Charles Bamford, „jun., Esq., Director of the Hull and Barnsley
and Leeds and Carlisle Railways
William Bardgett, Esq., Winchester-house, Broad-street, Di-
rector of the Italian and Austrian, and the Derby, Uttoxeter,
and Stafford Railways
William Banks, Esq., Honey-lane-market, Director of the Man-
chester and Rugby Direct Railway, via Macclesfield
John Byng Banks, Esq., Stockwell, Surrey
William Fechney Black, Esq., Wilton.place, Belgrave-square,
Director of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midland
Junction Railways
Henry Weech Burgess, Esq., Temple's-park, Hampstead, Director
of the Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, Potteries, and Crewe Railway
Charles Salisbury Butler, Esq., the Lodge, Upper Clapton
Josiah Burrowes, Esq., Castle.heuse, Gomersall, near Leeds
Thomas Burnley, Esq., Gomersall, near Leeds, Director of the
Leeds and West Riding Junction Railway, and of the Liverpool
and Leeds Direct Railway
Samuel Bateman Esq., Croft-house, near Bradford, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Selby
Railway
Dr. Brigstock, Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby and Man-
chester Railway
Joseph Browne, Esq., Bedford
James Brand, Esq., 9, New Broad-street, Director of the Cam-
bridge and Lincoln, and Great Luxembourg Railway
John Blore, Esq., Tutbury, Director of the Term and Dove Valley,
the Derby and Gainsborough, the Shropshire Mineral Rail-
ways, &c.
Job Bullivant, Esq., East Retford
William Butt, Esq., Sandlacre, Derbyshire
Robert Burton, Esq., merchant, Woodville, Notts
James Butlin, Esq., banker, West-field House, Rugby, Director of
the Rugby and Huntingdon, and one of the Provisional Commit-
tee of the Oxford and Birmingham Junction Railway Companies
Richard Biddle, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Richard Birkin, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Tohn Fillingham Bishop, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Thomas Butt, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Richard Bradley. Esq., Grantham, Director of the Ambergate,
Nottingham and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks. Sheffield, Chairman of the
Direct Western, and Isle of Ely and Lincolnshire Junction
Railways Director of the
...a Fowler Burbidge, Esq., Mayor of Grantham,
‘mbergate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction
Railway
.2anathan Burton, Esq., merchant, Carrington, Nottinghamshire,
Director of the Nottingham and G iinsborough Railway
AMU= Bsldwin Carrick, Esq., Magistrate, Hull, Director of the
Rugby, Warwick, and Leamington, and of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct Railways
,mss Challis, Esq., Alderman of London
e Carter, Esq., Knottingley
somas Carter, Esq., Tanshelf, Magistrate for the borough of
Pontefract
Charles Charnock, Esq., Holmfield.house, near Ferry-bridge
.Millis Coventry, Esq, Director of the South and Midland Junc-
tion, and Birmingham Extension Railways
B. Clements, Esq., Lowndes-square, Director of the Western
Jamaica Railway
Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Manchester,
Midland, and Great Grimsby, Gainsborough, Goole, and Isle of
Axholme, and the Wisbeach, Isle of Ely, and Lincolnshire
Junction Railways
J. Cottam, Esq., East Retford
John Cutts, Esq., Little Bardfield-hall, near Braintree, Essex
James Chit, Esq., Director of the Paris and Strasburg, South-
ampton, Manchester, and Oxford, and the Manchester, Rugby.
and Macclesfield Railways
W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the London and Birmingham Ex.
tension
Henry Sherard Coleman, Esq., Crown-court, Old Broad-street
John C milt, Esq., Nottingham
Thomas Mark Carter, Esq., Woodgreaves House, near Wakefield,
Director of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby
Direct Railway
George Augustus Hamilton Chichester, Esq., Oakfield, Donegal,
and 15, Chesham-place, Belgrave-square, Director of the Grand
Wales Central, and London and Exeter Direct Railways
William Champion, Esq., Worksop
George Chipman, Esq., Welham Villa, near East Retford
William Cheetham, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Nathan Cooper, Esq., Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Francis Dacre, Req., Stratford, Essex
George Dennis, Esq., Director of the Rhondda and Ely Vallies
Juuction Railway
Joseph Dent, Esq., Ribston-hall, VS etherby, Magistrate for the
North West Riding of Yorkshire
A. A. Davenport, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester
Extension, and Worcester Junction Railways
Joseph L. Davenport, Esq , Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby,
and Manchester Railway
John Allcock Dixon, Esq., Burnley, near Leeds, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Richard Dransfield, Esq., Dalton, Huddersfield, Director of the
Rugby, Derby and Manchester, of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct, and of the Keighley, Halifax and Huddersfield Junction
Railways
Edward Doubleday, Esq., F.L.S., Director of the Rugby, War-
wick, and Worcester Railway
Matthew Dawson, Esq., Pontefract
William Dawson, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Peterborough,
Wisbeach, Lynn, and Boston, and the Sheffield, Wortley, Silk-
stone, and Wakefield Railways
John Campbell Dicker, Esq., New.hall, by Neston, Director of the
Birkenhead, Holyhead, and the Birmingham, Oxford, and Read.
ing Railways
Henry Dunn, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Manchester, Hud.
dersfield, and Great Grimsby Railway
irancis Ewart, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester and Wey-
mouth Railway
John ETott, Esq., Townhead-house, Rochdale
Lieutenant-Colonel Fitch, 36, York-terrace, Regent's Park, Man.
aging Direcior of the York and Lancaster Railway
Erasmus Foster, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Ex.
tension Railway
snlomon Foster, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Nottingham,
Mansfield, and Midland Junction Railway
;lartin Furniss, Esq.. Mansfield, Director of the Erewash and
Sheffield Railway
Griffithsl Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Chairman of the Lon.
iderry and Coleraine, Leeds and Carlisle Railways
Fisher, Esq., Ameotts-house, near East Retford
j,,aes Fothergill, Esq., merchant, Notting ham
ilschard W. Fitzpatrick, barrister-ss_law, Gloucester-road, Hyde.
hark-gardens
enrge Green, Esq., Pontefract
-'-,,tea Gilbertson, Esq., alderman, and magistrate for Hertford
ham Gibson, Esq., Glasgow
Gipps, Esq., Director of the Coventry and Nuneaton Railway
ales Goldsmith, Esq., Friday-street, Cheapside
M.D., F.L.S., Director of the Liverpool
Wiiliam Gordon, Esq.,
and Leeds Direct Railway
henry Swats Graves Esq., Ely Bank-lodge, Halifax
John Gully, Esq., Ackworth Park, Ackworth
William Gibbs, Esq., Camberwell, Director of the South Metro.
pontan Cemetery Company
William Gill, Esq., Richmond, Yorkshire, Director of the Leeds
and Carlisle, and Northumberland and Lancashire Railways
John Godber, Esq., Hucknall Torkard, Nottinghamshire, Director
of the Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern
Junction, and Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway Companies
Thomas John Green, Esq., Mayor of Bedford.
Richard Hall, Esq., Carnarvon.hall, Stratford, Director of the Strat-
lord and Thames Junction, and North Woolwich Rai'way
B. F. Hall, Esq., Wiseton, near Bawtry
S. C. Hall, Esq., F.S.A.. Inner Temple, Director of the Erewash
Valley Extension and West Midland Railways
W. H. Halpin, Esq , Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing-
stoke, and Sheffield and Macclesfield Railways
Robert Hull, Esq., M.D., Norwich
Samuel Hammond, Esq., Leeds

John George Hammack, Esq., Director of the Direct Western and
the Metropolitan Junction Railways
William Hepworth, Esq., Pontefract, a Deputy. Lieutenant and
J.P. for the West Riding of Yorkshire
John Mason Hepworth, Esq., Eden.place, Ackworth, J.P. for the
West Riding of Yorkshire
Joshua Hepworth, Esq, Rogerthope•hall, Badsworth
Thomas Heclis, E.q., Skipton.eastle, Skipton, Director of the
Lancashire and North Yorkshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire,
North Eastern, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
John Holmes, Esq., East Retford
Robert llerries, Esq., East-street, Leeds, Director of the Liverpool
and Leeds Direct Railway
Charles Holbrooke, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby,
and Manchester
John Howard, Esq., Royal Foundry, Bedford
Thomas Haigh, Esq., Wakefield, late High Constable of Wakefield
John Hardy, jun., Esq., banker, Grantham, Director of the Amber.
gate, Nottingham, and Boston and Eastern Junction Railway
John Harris, Esq., Springfield-house, near Bedford
Charles Higgins, sen., Esq., St. Cuthbert's, Bedford
George Higgins, Esq., Bedford
The Rev. Charles Walter Hudson, Rectory, Saundby, near Gains-
borough
George Hurst, Esq , Bedford
John Midge, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and
Director of the Derby and Stafford Railway
William Empson Jalland, Esq., Holderness.house, near Hull, Di-
rector of the York and Hull Railway
Boswell Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holderness.house, near'Hull, Ma-
gistrate for the East Riding of York and boroughi of Hull, and
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds, and Hull and Barnsley
Railways
John Jameson, Esq., Honey-lane-market
William Jameson, Esq., Shelton, Staffordshire, Director of the
Staffordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct
Railways
William Jones Johnson, Esq., Bedford
,7,,seph Jones, Esq., Mayor of Hull, and Director of the Liverpool
and Leeds Direct Railways
Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Director of the Blythe and Churnet
valleys, or Macclesfield ant Lichfield Railways
Jo .'miah Kaye, Esq., Huddersfield and Great Grimsby, Director of
-se Manchester and Great Grimsby, and Keighley, Halifax, and
-‘iddersfleld Junction Railways
Kippax, Esq., Ordsall Villa, near East Retford
noel Knight, Pontefract
:4esby, Eq., St, Jametrpoquare