The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-09 00:00:00

PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS.
THE MIDLAND and EASTERN COUNTIES
RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Viet., cap. 110.)
Capital 1,500,0001., in Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 11. 7s. 6d. per Share.
271 g Company having been registered on the 25th day of Ju1y,1845.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Alington, Rev. John, Little Barford, Bedfordshire, and Letchworth,

Hertfordshire
Booth, Wllliamson, Esq., Woodbury Hall, Cambridgeshire
ilmsott; Win., Esq., Nether Hall, near Bury St. Edmunds
Buubury, sa. 8., Esq., Leamington, a Director of the Warwick and

Cheltenham itallWay
Burman, William, Esq., Stratford-upon-Avon

Carrington, John, Esq., St. Neots
Cheere, William Henry, Esq., Papworth Hall, Cambridgeshire
Cochrane, lion. Horatio William Bernardo, Little Staughton
Cottle, J. M., Esq„ Leamirigton,lDirectors of the Warwick and
Curtis, J, E. 8., Esq., Loudon, j Cheltenham Railway
Day, John Hill, , St. Neots
Envoi!, Thomas, Esq., St. Neots
Humbley; Captain, Waterloo Cottage, Eynesbury, near St. Neot's

Lauga, T. F. J., Esq., Brighton
Norris, Rev. Frederick, Little Gransden
Onsloyr, Manzill, flp.q., Stan4hton House, near St. Neots
Page, Capi ain, Charlt.v House, Somerton, a Director of the Warwick

and Cheltenham Railway
Simpson, Richard ii., Esq., Stow Lodge
St. John, the Right Hon. Lord, Melehbourne
J'ark, Bedfordshire
Sismey, Geer2P Ilsq , Offora Cluney, luntingdonshire

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Webb,.llt., Itiaster (,1 Ciare Hill,
Wehb, Thee,lore \ incent, Great t;ransden., liuntingdoirshir,

W,lstkad, peuj,unin, Esq., Kmtnolton
WelstMl.t:l; XV, Esq., 3tonoQy'llail, Kimboitott
The Immet of the otter mmilbers of the Provisional Committee
will be published in a few days.
(With power to add to their number.)
llANKk.ita—Mesars. Glyn, Malibu., Mills, and Co., London.
• SOLICITORS.

John Chluery, E4q., Leamingtoo, and 3, Church-court, Old Jewry-,

London.
Messrs, Day, St. Neots
Messrs. Harris and Sumpter, Cambridge
Messrs. -Umbers and Sowdon, Stratford-upon-Avon
Charles Jones, Esq., Alcester.
This railway is proposed to commence at ettr!:;bridge, to proceed
in a direct line to Northampton, and take ;is course, via Fenny
Compton, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Alcester to Worcester.
By its junction with the Northern e:nd Eastern Railway at Cam-
bridge, the London and York Rails; ay near St. Neots, the Leices-
ter and Bedford or South Winn; and Birmingham Railways, near
Northampton, the Oxford au', -Rugby and the proposed Oxford and
Birmingham, or Warwickshire and London Railways, at Fenny
Compton, the Warwict and Cheltenham Railway at Stratford-upon-
Avon, and the Oxfc,rd, Worcester, and Wolverhampton near Wor-
cester, and the pr' posed lines Into Wales from that city, this rail-
way will conw,ct Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, and the impor-
tant tow:-.8 Q Yarmouth, Harwich, Norwich, Ipswich, Bury St. Ed-
mund's, Lynn, and Cambridge, with the towns and counties of Bed-
ford, Northampton, Rugby, Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, Banbury,
Oxford, Southampton, Coventry, Leamington, Warwick, Birming-
ham, Worcester, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Tewkesbury, Kiddermin-
ster, Wolverhampton, Liverpool, Manchester, Bristol, Hereford,
Somerset, South Wales, and the South of Ireland. In short this
railway will complete tbl3 chain of communication from the east to
all parts of England, It will also be the most direct route from
London to Warwict, Leamington, Worcester, Ilereford, Kiddermin-
ster, Stourbridge, Itromsgrove, Droltwien, and Wales. Connecting
a very populous district entirely destitute of railway accommodation,
opening, too, a direct communication between extensive manufactur-
ing, mineral, and agricultural districts, and the best and largest coal
fields in the kingdom, thereby considerably reducing the present high
price of coals, particularly in the eastern counties. This line must not
only be of great public and local advantage, but also insure traffic
and passengers, and goods amply remunerative as an investment.
The survey made proves the line to be easy of construction, and
free from engineering difficulties.
The usual power will be taken In the Act of Parliament to allow
interest at 41. per cent. per annum on the deposits, as well as on all
future calls, front the date of the passing of the Act till the opening
of the railway.
Applications for prospectuses and shares may be made to the Soli-
citors, or to the following Sharebrokers, viz. :—Messrs. P. W. Tho-
mas and Son, 50, Threadneedle-street, London ; Forsyth and Prit-
thard, or T. Crewdson, Liverpool; Johnstone and Bradley, or S. W.
ewraves, Manchester ; E. Wilson, or W. Collis, Birmingham ; White and
a,on, Leamington ; George Edwards and Son, or Luke Arnold, Bristol ;
W. Lee, or Hall Brothers and Co., Cheltenham ; Kirk and Co., or
Scott and Co., Leeds ; John Doy, or Filet and Tootal, Hull ;
Eaglesfleld, Leicester ; Freeman and Son, Northampton ; John Lang-
worthy; Exeter ; Wm. Bolton, Stratford-upon-Avon ; Wm. Miles,
Worcester ; Hugh Munro and Co., Edinburgh ; George Brown, Glas-
gow ; Bruce and Symes, Dublin; and Brown and Clark, Coventry.