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

PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT.

NORTHERN COUNTIES (ROSS, SUTHER-
LAND, AND CAITHNESS DIRECT RAILWAY.
To afford the very important division of the Kingdom the benefits
of railway communication, and to promote and stimulate the pro-
gressively increasing pastoral, agricultural, and commercial, improve-
ments, which of late years have made such rapid strides in these
counties, it is proposed to form, under the sanCtion of the most
influential patronage, a railway by the most direct practicable route,
to connect these northern and, producing districts with the southern
and eonsuming,portions of the empire.
Adopting the line which maybe found the shortest to Dingwall
consistent with a due regard to economy in its execution and work-
ing, and to the rights and interests of private parties, and from Ding-
wall by Novar to Bonar-bridge, the dicta. ce of the county of Suther-
land from Inverness would be many miles shorter than by any other
route. From Bonar the line would pass by Lairg, through the
valleys of the Brora and of the Erie, and. by Strath Helmsdale to the
Thurso water; thus nearly bisecting the county of Sutherland
through its length and passing into the most populous' parts of
Caithness, diverging to the right and left to Wick and Thurso.
A branch might be formed to connect the coast of Sutherland with
the trunk line. . . -

In Ross-shire-a branch would be formed from the main line to In-
vergordon, and-this branch might be extended to the burgh of Tait.
Arrangements are being made for having the lines (the courses of
which are but generally indicated above) carefully examined by ex-
perienced surveyors and engineers ; and as soon as data which may
be relied on have been matured, a full prospectus, with the names of
the promoters and Provisional Committee and detailed particulars,
will be published.
Meantime communications from parties interested in the proposed
undertaking may, up to the Ist of October next, be addressed to
William Matkenzie; Esq., of 15Inirton, W.S., by Dingwall ; Hugh
Innes Cameron, Esq., Provost of Dingwall ; G. S. Taylor, Esq.,
Golspie • Peter Wilson, Esq., W.S., Town Clerk of Wick ; M. Snody,
Esq., Thurso ; or to Messrs. Cameron and Bain, 18, Parliament-
street, London.

SHEFFIELD, 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, 1/. 7s. 6d. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

John Burgess, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester, Director of the
Manchester and Birmingham. Continuation and Welsh Junction
Railway
John Holford, Esq., Rush°ima House, Manchester
John Gaunt, Esq., Banker, Leek
The Rev. Edward Powys, Rector of Bagnall and Cheddletsm
John Challenor, Esq., Oral-ton Hail, near Congleton
Josiah Gaunt, Esq.,. Ilea on House,'and Leek
Thomas Finchett Maddock, Esq., Chester
Josiah Gaunt, Jun., Esq., Horton Hall, near Leek
The Rev. James Bostock, CliffePark
James Wardle, 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, Shef-
field, and 311dituia 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-hill
Charles Heaton, jun.,.Esq„ Leek
Robert Younge, Esq., Grey Stones, Sheffield, Provisional Director

the Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction Railway
Thomas Ridley, Esq., Sheffield
Thomas Carr, Esq., Leek,
J. A. West, Esq., Western Lodge, Durham
Benjamin Smith, Esq., Duckmanten Lodge, Chesterfield
William Newton, Esq., Bakewell
Robert Micklington, 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 Hammersley, 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.l j
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., F.R.A.S.
SOLICITOR—Thomas Redfern, Esq., Leek

LONDON AGENT—Tholas Whalley BoltOn, Esq., 4, Elm-court,
Temple
LOCAL PROFESSIONAL AGENT—R. 11. 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 Mins ul

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
Gainsborough, 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. It. 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 1/. 75. 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
ffirther amount of 1/. ss. will be called for after the Bill kas been
read a second time in the Commons, of which due notice will ba
given to the shareholders..
FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Conunittee- 6f 'the Sheffield, Buxton, Leek; Pot

teries, and Crewe Railway.
Gentlemea,—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.
Name in full • • • • .. •• •
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Nanle and residence of a Referee of respectability.