The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-03 00:00:00

GRE4T WESTERN, 'SOUTHERN, and
EASTERN COUNTIES; or IPSWICH and SOUTHAMP-
TON RAILWAY. •

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This Company is formed for making a railway from Liverpool to
Derby, and will, in conjunction with the Manchester and Rugby
Direct, and London and Birmingham Railways, form the nearest
route from Liverpool to London. It will commence at Liverpool,
thin anda
proceed along the Liverpool and Manchester Railway so wi
short distance of the Whiston Inclined Plane, and thenee branch off,
in a south-easterly direction, through W§Trifieton, Knutsford, and
Congleton to Leek (there joining the Meneheeter and Rugby Rail-
way), and from thence through Ashbourne to DerbY, The whole
length of the proposed line will be about sixty-six miles. It will be
seen by reference to the snap that this importa unlined of railway will
form the shortest route from!Liverpoel to Lond, effect a direct
chain of communication between Liveypeol and Derby, and will
thence, by means of the Midlands and other rallwefs, open an unin-
terrupted route to the more eastern counties, and afford a complete
midland communication between the eastern and western parts of
the kigdom and the important inrmediate manufecturing districts.
Then most important feature in this railway is that it forms the
shortest rased from Liverpool to London. The distance by It, with the
Manchester and Rugby, and London and Birmingham, and only
188 miles, whereas by the present route it is 210 milesy the
Trent Valley Railway 200% miles ► CfreCting a saving of 22 miles la
pees Manes, and 12}4 miles in the other.
And ss sAgsrds Liverpool and Derby. the whsle distance between
Livorpnol cad Peiiir will be reduced by this line to about 14 miles,
thus decreasing the distal** py any present existing railway, at least
46 miles t an advantage which eaallee in Itself the conviction of the
necessity there is for the proposed rilliW{th if, order to connect more
immediately two sm.', Important towns, espe4ieliy when these towns
are but the foci, gt.s it were for other railways from still MAP 41§tant
localities, as before eulyerted to.
The distance also from do Leek (where the proposed
railway will unite with the Manchester arid It ,g Direct Railway)
will be about 30 miles. and from Leelt 4)e4sbY *blitit 26% miles,
making the whole distance from Manch:utter tO P4b7 MY 66%
miles ; and thus diminishing the distance by any present ennimeni-
cation between dime Important towns by about 28 miler, an Abject
iliost desirable to be attained, fled of itself quite sufficient to recom-
mend A line of railway embracing shell beneficial results.
But great as these results most eeetablir Will be, they are far out-
important by the yery important consideraileti t#l4. ppnjunction
with the Mancheetcr and Rugby Direct Railway. will hien 45. the
moot direct route from liierPool to London.
The distance from Liverpool to Leek (the proposed point of jun.-
tion with the Manchester and litighy pirget Railway) is 4714 miles:
from Leek to RitebY, eaeording to the fuse 4s RTgposed by the Man-
chester and Busby Direct Railway, 58 miles, awl ch.wp Rugby to
London 113 miles ; thug making the whole distance from Llobtpiiel to
London 188% miles, instead of 210, by the present route.
With regard to the traffic and other detells ciffinected with the
working of the line, it seems only steeeeserY ;04.1f4 to Ole great
importance of the towns proposed to be brought into coprgenni,cetion
order
with each other, in to convince the minds of all dig op epuece
of revenue thus derived will he Immense.
There are no engineering ditilettilteS VS/fleeted with the forming of
the line.
The deeds will provide that no call shall he Made pp the share-
holders beydnd the deposit now paid until the Act of Pediefnent is
obtained, and power will be taken in the Act to allow 41. Per b sit
interest on all calls.
Applications for detailed prospectuses, maps, and shares, may
be made to the Secretary, at the offices, 28. ifeergate-street,
London ; at Mr. Bethel's Offices, 78, King William-street, City.
and at 22, Cross-street, Manchester, and the following Pere,
brokers :—Messrs. R. Sutton, Gribble, and Sutton, 22, W
illaorth
Side, Royal Exchange, London; George Burnand, Esq.,
Messrs. Balclay, Allsop, and Co., Royal Exchange;
acid Leese,
rs. Mac-
kenzie and Lawrence, 38, Cornhill ; Messrs. Houghland
51, King street, Manchester ; Messrs. Marshall, Town-hell-buildings,
Manchester ; John Wills, Esq., Royal Bank-bulldinge, Liverpool ;
3lessrs. Wellbeloved and Oastier, Leeds ; Messrs. Edwards and 1300,
and W. 11. lAnd, Esq., Bristol; .7. B. Lane, Esq., Birmingham;
Messrs. Garton awl Wright, Sheffield; S. G, Kershaw, Esq., Bud-
dersffeld ; F. C. Spencer, Esq,, Halifax ; Messrs. Hell, Brothers, and
Co., Cheltenham ; Henry Beaumont and Co., Exeter ; P, Lemon,
Esq., Bath t Joseph Clark, Esq., fiotignmpton ; and Messrs. kliet
and Tootal,

FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Liverpool and Derby uHway
Company.
request you will allot to me shares of 20/. each in the
I
capital of the above-named railway, and I will accept the same or
any less number, and pay the deposit of 2/. 2s. per share, and sign
the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when re-
quired.
Dated the

day of ,
Name If ?I •• ••
Address • • „u•' ••••••
Profession ..... „•1
Walger4e4 .1, /1. OS .0 op of

(Provisionally Registerod.)
Capital 1,800,000/., in 90,000 Shares of 20/. each.
Deposit 2/. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
(gist Hon. Lord Dunboyne, Belle Hatch-house, Hellley.
lon. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Whitehall. Director of the

York and Lancaster Railway
Sir John E. De Beauvoir, Bart., Chairman of the London and Bir-
mingham Extension Railway
Sir William Lloyd, Bart., Bryn Estyn, Wrexham
Sir John Hansler, F.R.S., Saffron-Walden, Essex
Sir John Hare, Langham-place, London, Director of the Nottingham
and Boston Railway
Sir William Lowthorp, Knt., Hull, and Alga-house, Scarborough,
Magistrate of the East Riding of the county of York and borough
of Hull, Chairman of the Hull and Barnsley, and Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, Director of the Direct Western
Railway, and the South Midland Junction Railway
Sir R. H. Schomburgk, K.R.G., New Kingston, Surrey, Director of

the Demerara Railway
Sir William Twysden, Bart., 41, Dorset-street, Portman-square
Sir William Young, Bart., Director of the East ludla Company, and

Leicester and Tamworth Railway
W. Hughes Hughes, Esq„ F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., Alderman of Lon-
don, Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, and
Director of the London and Greenwich, the North London Junc-
tion, the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth, and the
Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Juuction Railway
J,Alexander,
A onisey, Directegof the Malden
h amn
b ae' ird Braintree Railway
l I , H
WatkinsOn Hall, Lancashire, Director of the
West Yorkshire Railway
C. D, F.IL S., F.S.A., Deputy-Lieutenant of Lan-
eesilirp, Director of the Tean and Dove Valley, Leicester and
Tamwortb, Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle, Leeds, and
Liverpool Direct Railways
Joseph Bates, jun., Esq., Liverpool
S. S. Baxter, Esq., Atherstone, Warwickshire
George Beatunont, Esq., Prospect-place, Halifax, Director of the
East and West of England Junction Railway
Hugh Beaver, Esq., Glyn Garth, Anglesea, and Manchester
G, S. Beeeroft, Esq., Abbey-house, Kirketall, near Leeds.
WCir:L erpßivell,oo, Esq.,l Melling-hall, Lancaster, Director of the Manches-
ter, and Groat North of England Union Railway
William Fectinee' Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Di-
rector of the Italian and Austrian Railway
Charles Bradley, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Manchester and
Birmingham Continuation Railway
Wm, Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield
and Manchester, and Huddersfield and Sheffield Railways
Christopher Briggs, Esq., Bolton, Lancashire
Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool
Direct Railway
John Burgess, Esq., Manchester, Director of the London and Man-
chester Direct Railway
Thomas Byrom, Esq., Wigan, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway, and of the Manchester and Wigan Railway, and
of the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Railway
William Byrom, Esq., Oldham, Director of the Oldham District
Railway, the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction Rail-
way, and of the Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction Railway
William Caldwell, Esq., Ince-hall, near Wigan, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Richard Carpenter, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Lenders and sir-
iningham Extension Railway
William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., Hull, J.P., Managing Director of
the York and Hull, and Director of the Rugby, Leamington, and
Warwick, the Hull and Barnsley, and the Liverpool and Leeds
Railways
William Chance, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Leicester and
Birmingham Railway
Major Chase, Nottingham-place, London, Director of the Madras
Railwayhe J. W. C sthyre, Esq., Chadwell, near Hertford
William Henry Collis, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Leioester
and Bedford Railway
Samuel Courtauld, Esq., Foley-house, Bocking, Director of the
Maldon, Witham, and Braintree, and Chelmsford and Bury
Railways
H. C. Coupe, Esq., Goldhanger, Mahlon, Essex, Director of the
London and Nottingham Railway
W. T. S. Daniel, Esq., Recorder of Ipswich
E. D. De Vitre, Esq., Lancaster, Director of the North Western,
Birkenhead and Holyhead, and Mold Junction, and the Leeds and
Liverpool Direct Railways
J. A. Dixon, Esq., Burnley, Lancashire
Peter Henry Edlin, Esq., Temple, London, Director of the London
and Birmingham Extension Railway
W. Elliott, Esq., Cowper-house, Old Brompton
Rev. J. R. Fowler, 7, Manchester-square, London, Director of the
Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railway
Captain Mark Gambier, Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square,
London, Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
John Grant, Esq., Northampton, Director of the Warwick and Wor-
cester Railway
Samuel Haines, Esq., Birmingha:n, Director of the Leicester and
Birmingham Railway, and Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and South
Staffordshire Railways
S. W. Haynes, Esq., London
F. J. Hall, Esq., Torrington-square, London
F. W. Hamilton, Esq., 59, Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Lon-
don, Director of the Lancaster and York Railway
George Sunn Hay, Esq., 127, Sloane-street, London
James Headly, Esq., Market-hill, Cambridge
Frederick Hewitt, Esq., Clapham, Surrey
William Higgins, Esq., Northampton, Director if the South Midland
Railway
J. H. Higson, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Chester and Man-
chester Direct Railway •
Roger Holinsworth, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Trent Valley
Continuation Railway
Wm. Hollyday, Esq., Chad Valley, Edgbaston, Birmingham
Joseph Hopgood, Esq., Exeter, Director of the East and West of
England, Exeter, Topsham, and Exmouth, Liverpool, Birming-
ham, Bristol, and Dover Direct Railways
A. Howe, Esq., Broadfield-house, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield
and Lincoln and Great Grimsby and Sheffield Railways
Jonathan Hopkinson, Esq., Director of the Liverpool and Ormskirk
Railway
John Jackson, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York and
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways
William Jacomb, Esq.' Huddersfield, Director of the East and West
of England Junction Railway
C. IL Jagger, Esq., Handsworth, Staffordshire
Wm. E. Jalland, Esq., Holdern-house, near Hull, Provisional
Director of the York and Huell,ss and Lincolnshire and Easteen
Counties Railways
B. Middleton Julians], Esq., magistrate of Hull, and Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Frederick Jones, Esq., 5, Old-square, Lincoln's Inn
Valentine Knight, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's-park, Director
of the Dendre Valley Railway
J. Knowles, jun., Esq., Manchester, Director of the East and West
Yorkshire Junction Railway
James Lamb, Esq., 25, Hyde-park-square, Director of the Tring,
Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
J. Lawrie, Esq., Charles-street, St. James's-square, London
George Lawton, Esq., Ditchley's Hall, Essex, Direetor of the South
Midland Railway
John Lilly, Esq., Alderman of Worcester
Major Lindam, Esq., Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and
Central Wales Railway
Robert bleary Lindham, Esq., London
John Lockwood, sen., Esq. Neely, near Sheffield
John Lord, Esq., Standish-hill, Wigan
P. Bennett Lucas, Esq , 8, Manchester-street, Manchester-square,
Director of the Sligo and Shannon Railway
Captain Macdougall, Fir-grove, North Brixton
R. H. Mackenzie, Esq., M.D., Mortlmer-street, Cavendish-square,
Director of the Thames Valley, the Cheltenham and Oxford, the
Huddersfield Direct, and the Great London and Liverpool Direct
Railways
George Mallinson, Esq., Huddersfield
John Marshall, Esq., Northampton, Director of the South Midland
Railway
T. H. Massey, Esq., Newark-upon-Trent, aid Oxford-square, Hyde-
park, London
Edward Middleton, Esq. Edgbtudon, Birmingham, Director of the
South Staffordshire Railway
J. Mollady, Esq., Marble-house, Warwick, Director of the London
and Birmingham Extension Railway
Edward Mom's, Esq., Chorley, Director of the Blackburn, Chorley,
and Liverpool Railway, and the Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railway
Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continuation
Railway
William Nash, Esq., Chairman of the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings
Railway
D. W. Nell, Esq., J.P., Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., 8, Upper Hyde Park-street, London,
Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction
Railway
Francis Parker, Esq., Northampton •
J. B. Payne, Esq., Edgbaston, Birmingham
William Peel, Esq., Westbrook-house, Bradford, Yorkshire, Pro-
visional Director of the West Yorkshire Railway
John Petshell, Esq., Hull, J.P.
Matthew Pierpoint, Esq., Crown East, near Worcester, Director of
the Welsh Midland Railway
L. Pocock, Esq., F.S.A., 29, Montague-street, Russell-square
Edward Power, Esq., Temple, London
T. S. Richards, Esq., 59, Baker-street, Portman-square
William Robinson, Esq., Lancaster, Director of the North Western,
Birkenhead and Holyhead, and Mold Junction, and the Leeds and
Liverpool Direct Railways
Clement Royds, Esq., Rochdale, Chairman of the Preston and Wyre
Railway
Charles Russell, Esq., Leamington, Director of the Erewash Valley
Extension Railway
William Shadbolt, Esq., Crosims-hill, Greenwich, Chairman of the
London and Greenwich, and Director of the Dendre Valley Railway
Charles Shaw, Esq., Greenfield, Edgbaston, Birmingham, Director
of the Bristol and Birmingham, and the Birmingham and Oxford
Junction Railways
Joseph Shaw, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Eastern Union
Railway
Thomas Shaw, Esq., Northampton, Director of the South Midland
Railway
William Shaw, Esq., Director of the London and Birmingham Ex-
tension Railway
J. 11. Sheppard, Este, Towcester
G. W. Smith, Esq., Horbury Hall, Shelleld, of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Smith, Esq., M.D., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Tork,
and Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways
Edwin Smith, Esq., Great Ormond street, London
Jeremiah Stead, Esq., Leeds
John Stevenson, Esq., Northampton , •
Newcastle-tmonTyne, Director
Vllliers Charles Villiers Surtees, Esq ,
of the Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire Railway . •
Henry Taylor, Esq., Alderman of Wigan, Director of the Liverpool
and Prest, and North Union Junction, of the Liverpool and Leeds
Diree,t, find of the Manchester and Wigan Railways
John TIMM, EFfe, Sheffield
John Thompson, Esq., Director of the Birkenhead and Holyhead
Junction Railway, and Manchester and Wigan Railways
Joseph Thompson, Esq., John-street, Bedford-row, London, Director
of the London and Brighton Railway
George Turner, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the South Stafford-
shire IlailW4W
William Tinker, Egg., Hyde, Cheshire
James Upffil, Esq., The Green, Bromyard, Director of the Stafford-
shire and Shropshire Railway
T. B.
mingh Uptill, Fag. The Crescent, Birmingham, Director of the Bir-
am, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway
George Utica, Esq., The Laurels, Handsworth, Staffordshire, Direc-
tor of the Birmingham and Lichfield Railway
Captain Walter Unett, 3rd Light Dragoons, Maidstone
Richard U 1140141111, Ewe, Birmingham, Director of the Lichfield and
Birmingham Railway
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Blackheath-park, and Norwich
Charles Waite, Esq., 3, Old Burlington-street, London
S. Warburton, Esq., Hunslet, Leeds
Captalp Wardroper, Brompton, Director of the London ;and
Windsor hlatiwaY
Robert Watkins, Esq., Direetor of the Brighten and Chichester
Railway
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Company.at enrk.
Thomas Welch, Esq., Birmingham
John Wheaton, Esq., Moepham Bank, Tunbridge, Kent, Director of
the `Pale Vale Railway
B. 13, Williams, Esq„ Wyndham-Place, Director of the London and
Manchester, Leicester and Tamworth, Leeds and Liverpool Direct,
and Great North and South of France Itailwaye
W. Wood, Esq., Chetwynd House, Newport, Director of the Derby-
ship and Shropshire Mineral Railway
Titillog. Gorge Ipiewenham Wright, M.A., Coed Coble Denbighshire,
and Lonsdaleiamptre, Lendou
Henry Wright, Esq., Brenswielt,:equare, London, Director of the
Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Jerietion Railway
(With power to add to their number).
COMMITTEE OF DIRECTION.
Militia Haghes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., Alderman, Chairman
Witham eptmey Elack, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
Sir John Edward de Beauvoir, Roger Holinsworth, Esq.
11411- George Lawton, Elite
Sir lTere, F.S.A. John Mollady, Esq.
The VP% peere sewenham T. S. Richards, Esq.
Wright, M-A, Thomas Shaw, Esq.
John Burgess, Esq. Jusoph Thompson, Esq.
Richard Carpenter, Esq. Utlbeet Watkins, Esq.
John Grant, Esq. John Wheeiton, Esq.
Sell/11-ei 1101Kot Esq.
BANKERS.
LOndoll—BilThat? 40IIICS; anti Co., 62, Lombard-street ; the Com-
mercial Bank of LolidOn, 6, Lntilbtlry ; and the Union Bank of
London
Rochdale—Messrs. Clement Royds and Son
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Manchester—The
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Northampton—The
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hampton—The Northampton Beattie' Company and its branches
Birmingham—The
CONSULTING ENGINEERS.
Sir John M'Neil, LL.D , F.R.S., M.R.I.A.
James Thomson, Esq., V.R.S.E., M.R.I.A.
ENGINEERS.
William B. Prichard, Esq., C.E.
William Thomsen, Esq., C.E.
JOINT SOLICITORS.
John Bothell, Esq., it, King William-street, City, London.
Peter A, Bperell, Esq., 1, White-hart-court, Lombard-street, London
Archer Graham, Esq.
The object of this railway is to connect the whole of
the principal
railways in the western, southern, iind eastern counties, and at the
Harwich, gOlchester and Southampton, Gosport and Portsuat uth. same time open a direct communication between Yarmouth, Ipswich,
It will be seen, on reference to the map of England, that all the
traffic of Norwich, yermontn, Te3Weetoft, Ipswich, Harwich, Col-
chester, Chelmsford, Malden, eupery, Bry St. Etilitinids, Cam-
bridge, Newport, Bishop-Stortfork Ware, rtford,fit. *NUS, andWatford on the one hand, and Windsor, Slough, V4heillge, Tung,Aylesbury, Buckingham,
Oxford, High Wycomoe, Great Marlow,
Reading, Newbury, Bath, Bristol, Salisbury, Southampton, Gosport,
and Portsmouth on the other, must past over this propeeed Railway

Colchester and Ipswich have become Most important ports, and
aced no remark; and Government has made a grant for the construc-
tion of a Refuge Harbour at Harwich, and a great Packet Station is
to bh established there, which by this line will command the whole of
the passengers and merchandise traffic from the Midland,lSouth, anti
the Western Districts, for the north of Europe.
At the other termini of this line are Gosport, Portsmouth, and
Southampton, the latter of which is rapidly becoming one of the most
important ports in England. The line will open the only direct com-
munication from Southampton, and Portsmouth Dockyard, to the
whole of the Midland and Eastern Counties ; and communicate with
five of the principal established railways hi Eagland, viz., South-
Western, Groat Western, London and Birmingham, Northern and
Eastern, and Eastern Counties, and will not be in opposition to either
of them, but contribute to augment their respective traffic.
The whole lint has been examined by the Company's Engineers,
and presents no eugineering difficulty.
Powers will be applied for in the 8111, to allow interest at the rate
of 41. per cent. per annum, on all calls made from the passing of the
Act until the opening of the line. The greatest portion of the capital
is already subscribed for.

Applications for plans, prospectuses, and shares, may be made to
the Company's Solicitors, Local Agents, and the following Share-
brokers :—Messrs. Barclay, Alisop, sad Mercier, gxchange-buildings,
London; Messrs. Houghlaed and Leese. 51, King-street, Manchester;
Morris Reynolds, Esq., Barnard-buildings, Liverpool ; Messrs. Hicks
and Co., Alfred-street, and Messrs. Oastier and Wellbeloved, Leeds ;
Messrs. Wilkinson and Earle, Hull ; d. It. Lane, Esq., Birmingham ;
and T. W. Powell, Esq., 2, Wellington-street, Leamington.
N.A. All persons not affixing their place of abode, as well as their
place of business if any, to their applications for shares, will be un-
attended to, the Act of Parliament requiring both addresses.