The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-11 00:00:00

PROVISIONAL COMMITTER,

The Right Hon. the Earl of Craven
Edmund Peel, Esq., Chairman of the Trent Valley
Railway

The Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P., Chairman of the Directors of the
Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway South Midland
C. H. Barwell, Esq., mayor of Northampton, Deputy- Railway
Chairman of the Northampton, ilanbury, azd
Cheltenham Railway
Joseph Knight, Esq.
. _

_ . .
The Right Mon. Lord Rossrnore Directors of the
Robert Gardner, Esq. Trent Valley
John Ridgway, Esq. Railway
James Hibbert Wanklyn, Esq.
James Walkinshaw, Esq., Depu.y-Clialrmart of the Manchester and

Southampton Railway
The Right Hon. Lord Duncannon, 31.1?
The Hon. Captain Carnegie, M.P.
Captain Parkinson
James Durham, Esq.,
Thomas Barge, jun., Esq.,
Joseph Nadin, Esq.,
The Lord Alfred Paget, M.P.
Harvey Wyatt, Esq.
Robert A. Kennedy, Esq.
Richard Greene, Esq.l
M. T. Bass, Esq.
Donald Maclean, Esq., M.P., Director of the Liverpool, Manchester,

1 Directors of the
Manchester and
Southampton
Railway

Directors of the Trent
Valley, Midlands,
and Grand Junction
Railway

•
and Newcastle-on-Tyne Railway
Wynne Ellis, Esq., M.P. for Leicester
William Collins, Esq., M.P. for Warwick
The Hon. Captain Hotham, Chairman of the Brighten and Chichi*.

ter Railway
Sir William Magnay, Bart., Alderman of London
Sir William Young, Bart., Director of the East India Company
Sir E. Pearson, Bart.
Charles Dickson Archibald, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A., Director of the Leeds

and Liverpool Railway -
The Mayor of Leicester
The High Bailiff of Leicester
The Mayor of Tamworth
The Mayor of Coventry
The Mayor of Lichfield
Richard Harris, Esq.
John Biggs, Esq. Magistrates for Leicester
George Shaw, Esq., M.D.
William Parsons, Esq.,
W. W. Arnold, Esq., M.D., Leicester
Joseph Biggs, Esq., Leicester
Thomas Wood, Esq., Leicester
John Dove Harris, Esq., Leicester
W. Bates, Esq., Leicester •
Joseph Fielding, Esq., Leicester
L. L. Haslope, Esq., Coventry
R. H. Kennedy, Esq., Chairman of the Warwick and Cheltenham
Railway
Captain Lindsay I Directors of the Warwick and Cheltenham
Captain Bigge Railway
Captain R. Page,
G. B. Bunbuy, Esq.
J. E. B. Curtis, Esq.
Alfred Burgess, Esq. 1 Directors of the Warwick and Cheltenham
H. P. Gipps, Esq., Railway
Richard Birley, Esq., Directors of the Oxford, Newbury, An-
Deputy Chairman
Thomas Hamilton, Esq., 1 clover, Manchester, and Southampton
Thomas Critchley, Esq., Director of the North Staffordshire Railway
James Grignon, Esq., Director of the Worcester, Shrewsbury, and

Crewe Inion'Raile-vay
John Shaw Manley, Esq., Manley Hall, Staffordshire
Charles H. Frewen, Esq., Northam, Sussex
John Barn', Esq., York
Thomas Mills, Esq., Director of the Eastern Counties Railway
James Beech, Esq. IDirectors of the Northampton, Banbury, and
Major White Cheltenham Railway
B. S. Fowler, Esq.,
John Mott, Esq.' Lichfield
Thomas George Lomax, Esq., Lichfield
Joseph Bond, Esq., Polesworth, near Tamworth
Major Bamford, Wilnecote Hall, near Tamworth
Shirley Palmer, Esq., M.D., Tamworth
Robert Hanbury, Esq., Bole Hall, Tamworth
E. B. Hamel, Esq., Tamworth
Samuel Roby, Esq., Alvecote Priory, Tamworth
John Francis Woody, Esq., Moat-house, Tainworth
S. Pole Shaw, Esq., Hints Hall, Tamworth
James Atherton, Esq., Swinton-park, near Eccles
William Law, Esq., Hinckley
John Barker, Esq., Seedley Bank, near Manchester
William Atkinson Gardner, Esq., London
J. M. Cottle, Esq., Leamington
John Haddon, Esq., Leamington
T. H. Thorne, Esq., Leamington
T. S. Wright, Esq., Leamington
William Middleton, Esq., Leamington
E. H. Chapman, Esq., Hungary House, Middlesex
Benjamin Collett, Esq., Grafton manor-house, Bromsgron
Wm. H. Harrison, Esq./ Directors of the Birmingham, Lichfield, sued
B. B. Williams, Esq., 3 Manchester Railway
James Renshaw, Esq., Lombard-street, London
H. F. Gisborne, Esq., Derby
William Cox, Esq., Derby
John Perks, Esq., ironmaster, Wolverhampton
Henry Crane, Esq., Wolverhampton
Joseph Walker, Esq., merchant, Wolverhampton
Benjamin Shaw, Esq., Kilburn Priory, Middlesex
W. Pinney, Esq., Berkeley-square
A. Spells, Esq., Manor-house, Invereske.

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Edmund Peel, Esq., Chairman
The Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P., Deputy-Chairman
R. Hartley Kennedy, Esq. Thomas Bramall, Esq.
Captain Bigge Richard Green, Esq.
Joseph Knight, Esq. Captain Lindsay
John Ridgway, Esq. John Biggs, Esq.
John Dove Harris, Esq. C. D. Archibald, Esq.
E. H. Barwell, Esq. E. B. Hamel, Esq.
Thomas Hamilton, Esq. Alfred Burgess, Esq.
ENowsza-m-Cntar—George Stephenson, Esq.
ENGINEER —J. Addison, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Maples, Pearse, Stevens, and Maples, Frederick's-place, Old

Jewry, LOndc;n
Messrs. Bridges and Mason, Red Lion-square, Loadon
Messrs.• Stone and Paget, Leicester

P. J. Hamel, Esq., Tamworth

John Chinery, Esq., Leamington
Messrs. P. Dyott and Son, Lichfield.
BANKERS—Messrs. Glyn, Hallifax, Mills, and Co., London.
The Directors have to congratulate the shareholders of the Lei-
cester and Tamworth Junction, and of the Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir-
mingham, and Leicester Railway Companies, on the union of inte-
rests which has been effected by the amalgamation of the two Com-
panies under the title of " The Leicester, Tamworth, Coventry,
Birmingham, and Trent Valley Junction Railway Company," whereby
such an accession of strength has been obtained as to ensure a
successful issue to their application to Parliament during the next
session.
By this arrangement the shareholders in each Company are en-
Wed to exchange the shares they now hold in the separate Com-
panies for a like number in the united Company, or at their option to
receive back the full amount of their deposits.
One branch of this railway will commence at or near the Wigton
station, near Leicester, on the Midlands Railway, where it will unite
with the proposed South Midland Railway, thereby opening a com-
munication with Market Harborough, Northamptonshire, Bedford-
shire, and the south, and will proceed through Hinckley and Nun-
eaton to Coventry, forming a junction with the Trent Valley Rail-
way at Nuneaton,
Another branch will proceed from the Midlands Railway at
Leicester, by Market Bosworth to Atherstone, where it will unite
with the Trent Valley Railway.
Surveys for the proposed extension to Birmingham are in a state of
great forwardness.
The objects embraced by the Company as now constituted are

threefold:—
First—To effect a direct communication between Leicester and
Liverpool, by means of the junction with the Trent Valley Railway
at or near Atherstoue, thereby effecting a saving in distance of 30
miles.
Secondly—To afford the most direct communication between
Leicester, Birmingham, and the iron districts of Staftbrdshire, by
means of a junction with the Birmingham and Derby Railway at the
Whiteacre station, thereby reducing the distance between Birming-
ham and Leicester from 49 to 35 miles.
Thirdly—To connect the important towns of Coventry, Bosworth,
Nuneaton, Hinckley, and Leicester by the nearest practicable line,
thereby reducing the distance between Coventry and Leicester seven
miles, and affording railway accommodation to the important mann-
fatturing and mineral districts of South Leicestershire and North
Warwickshire, and also communicating, by means of the Coventry
branch of the London and Birmingham Railway, with Leamington,
and by means of the projected Warwick and Cheltenham Railway
with Cheltenham.
The proposed line will afford an outlet, by means of a branch to
the Leicester and Swannington Railway, for the coal, lime, and other
mineral productions of Leicestershire, to the districts south and
west of Leicester.
The four important towns of Leicester, Coventry, Tamworth, and
Birmingham, containing a population of upwards of 300,000, will
be brought by this railway into immediate connexion.
The country has been carefully surveyed, and the Parliamentary
plans and sections are nearly perfected.
By order,
J. E. RATHBONE, Sec. pro tem.
Offices of the Company, 4, Colomaa-street, London,
2d October, 1845.