The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-20 00:00:00

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Combermere
The Right lion. Lord Viscount Ingestre, M.P.
The Right Hon. Lord Charles Beauclerk, Chesham-place, BelgrLve.
square
(Right Hon. Lord E Chichester
The Right Hon. Lord Stephen Chichester
The Right Hon. George It. Dawson
The Hon. Captain Percy Evans Freke, 3, Belgrave-square
The Hon. Cecil Lawless
Sir James D. It Hay, Bart., Rose Croft, Surrey
Sir William Lowthorp, Hull
William R. Collett, Esq., m.r.
Thomas Bateson, Esq., M.P.
Richard SpOoner, Esq., M.P., Birmingham
George Frederick Muntz, Esq., M.P., Birmingham
The Worshipful the Mayor of Hull
C. S. Foster, Esq., High Sheriff of Staffordshire
G. B. Thorneycroft, Esq., Shrubbery and Bradley Ironworks, Staf-
fordehire, chairman of the Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South
Staffordshire Junction Railway
Michael Grazebrook, Esq., Stourbridge, chairman of the Staffordshire
iron trade
Thomas Bagnall, Esq., Goldshill Ironworks, Staffordshira
W. H. Allen, Esq., Leadenhall-street, London
John Aston, Esq , Birmingham
Joseph Ayre, Esq., Hull
Fiederick Pratt Barlow, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway
James Beech, Esq., Brandon-lodge, Warwick
William Broakes, Esq., Cork-street, Burlington-gardens
Major Frederick Brownlow, United Service Club
William Chance, jun., Esq., merchant, Birmingham
Robert. Chapman, Esq., Director of the Cambrian and Grand June-

tion Railway
George A. Hamilton Chichester, Esq., Chesent-place, Belgrave-

square
Frederick Clarkson, Esq., Doctors'-commons, London
Henry Crane. Esq., Wolverhampton
Anthony Dickson, Esq., Erdington-house, Berwickshire
Henry R. Downman, Esq., Director of the Cambrian and Grand
Junction Railway
Duncan Dunbar, Esq., East India-road, Director of the London
Dock Company
Henry John Enthoven, Esq., Director of the Dutch Rhenish Railway
Thomas Hartshorne. Esq., Silkmoor- house, Stafford
Charles James Heath, Esq., London
James Peard Ley, Esq., Seaton Ironworks, Whitehaven
Samuel Wilfred Lucas, Esq., Sandhill-house, Birmingham, Director
of the Direct Birmingham and Leicester Railway
William Mathews, Esq., Edgbaston, Birmingham, and Corbyns-hall
Ironworks, Director of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhamp-
ton Railway
Thomas Hackett Massey, Esq., Oxford-square, London
Robert Marsden Massey, Esq., Oxford-square, London
David Montague, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester and South-
ampton Railway
William Morgan, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Gloucester

Railway
Muntz, Esq., Director of the South Staffordshire and Oxford,

Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railways
Francis Parker, Esq., Manchester
Archibald F. Paul, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway
William Watson Prole, Esq., Thurlow-square, Brompton, Director of
the Grand Junction and Midlands Union Railway
John Gibson Reeves, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Direct Bir-
mingham and Leicester Railway
Frederick Ricketts, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway
John Shaw, Esq., Wolverhampton
Charles Shaw, Esq., Deputy-Ckairman of the Direct Birmingham
and Leicester Railway, and Director of the Bristol and Bir-
mingham Railway
Henry Symonds, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway
Thomas Timmins, Esq., Wolverhampton
Charles Augustus fulk, Esq., Totteridge-park, Hants
Samuel Walker, Esq., Ablow-house, Wolverhampton, Director of
the South Staffordshire Junction Railway
William Watson, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Exeter Railway
John Webster, Esq., 35, Mecklenburgh-square, Director of the
Great Grimsby and Lincoln Railway
Henry Wright, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and
Southampton Railway
John Brearley Payn, Esq., Birmingham
Samuel Kearick, Esq., Handsworth Hall, Staffordshire
Robert Peasegood Sleight, Esq., Hull, Provisional Director of the
Hull and Holyhead Railway
William Ayre, sen., Esq., Hull, Provisional Director of the Lynn and
Ely Railway
Joseph Ayre, Esq., Hull
Wakefield Pim, Esq., Hull, Provisional Director of the Hull and Lin-
coln Railway_
Dr. Bell Fletcher, Birmingham
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Benjamn Bartleet, Esq., 'Birmingham
Thomas Clark, Esq., Wolverhampton
James Shaw, Esq., merchant, Birmingham
C. S. Cotterill, Esq., magistrate, Walsall, Director of the South Staf-

fordshire Junction Railway
Benjamin Gibbons, Esq., Shut-ensl, Dudley, Director of the South
Staffordshire Junction Railway
John Nevc, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the South Stafford-
shire Junction Railway
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Samuel Underhill, Esq., Wolverhampton
(With power to add to their =miser).
SOLICITORS.

Messrs. Edwards, Mason, and Edwards, 8, Moorgate-street, and De.
lahay-street, Westminster ; and
Messrs. Motteram and Knowles, Birmingham.
ENGINEER IN CHIEF—Sir John Rennie, F.R.S.
ACTING ENGINEER—W. H. Purdon, Esq.
BANKERS.

Hull—Messrs. Frost and Moss •
Birmingham—The Birmingham Banking Company, and Messrs.
Atwoods, Spooner, and Co.
LOCAL AGENT.—Samuel Maples, Esq., Nottingham.
SECRETARY—Edward Hart Hart, Esq.
OFFICES—No. 1, Royal Exchange-buildings, London ; ant
36, Upper Temple street, Birmingham.
it is proposed by this Company to establish a direct line of commu-
nication between Birmingham, Nottingham, Gainsborough, and Hull,
at the smallest outlay of capital, and with the least possible injury to
existing interests. To effect this object, use will be made of existing
or projected lines, as far as practicable, and the chain of communica-
tion will be completed by throwing out new lines, where requisite.
Commencing at Birmingham, it is proposed to use the Birmingham
and Derby Railway as far its Whitacre, whence a new line, about 29
tulles in length, will be made, passing through Ashby-de-la-Zouch and
Castle Donnington, to the Long Eaton or Sawley Station on the Mid-
land Counties Iteilway
The connnunication being thus perfect to Nottingham, it will be
carried forward as far as Gainsborough, either by the proposed Not-
tingham and Gainsborough Railway, or by a line springing out of the
line from Nottingham to Lincoln, for which an Act was obtained by
the Midland Comities Company during the last session of Parliament.
From Gainsborough this railway will proceed to Barton-on-the-
Humber, or New Holland, in the immediate vicinity of hull, thereby
rendering complete and entire the chain of communication between
Birmingham and Hull.
By this project the advantages will result to the public of a
Direct line from Birmingham to Nottingham,
Birmingham to Gainsborough,
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and from Birmingham to Hull;
and by means of the proposed South Staffordshire Junction Railway,
and the intended extension to Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Airewas, a
direct line from Wolverhampton and Dudley to Nottingham, and
the other towns already enumerated.
The support of several companies will be enlisted in favour of the
line, which, together with its own merits, will ensure its success in
Parliament.

As a considerable portion of the line of communication is already
made, or iu progress, the time required for the completion of this
great national undertaking will be materially shortened.
Independently of the advantages to be derived by a direct commu-
nication between the important seaport of Hull and the mining and
manufacturing districts of Warwickshire and Staffordshire, a largo
traffic in timber, corn, metals, &c., may be confidently expected.
The revenue of the Company, in addition, will be derived from the
great thorough traffic from Birmingham and the midland counties to
Nottingham and Gainsborough, and the immense traffic from Bir-
mingham to Hull, theport at which the exports are shipped to Ham-
burgh, the German States, and the North of Europe ; and from the
conveyance of merchandise, agricultnrai produce, and cattle from the
southern,. western, and midland counties.
A preference will be given in the allotment of shares to landowners
on the line, and other local proprietors, as well as to directors and
shareholders in railways interested in supporting this undertaking.
No subscriber will be liable beyond the amount of the deposit
until the Act Is obtained, and then not beyond the amount of his
subscription. . . .

The usual power will be taken to allow interest at the rate of four
per cent. from the time of payment upon each call until the opening
of the line.

No applications will be attended to without a reference to a
member of the Committee, a banker, or the solicitors to this Company.
The Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contract must be
executed when the bankers' receipts are exchanged fbr scrip certifi-
cates, of which clue notice will be given ; and the deposits paid by
any party making default in the execution of those deeds will be for-
fel ted.

Plans and prospectuses, with forms of applications for shares, may
be had of the Solicitors, and of the following Stock and Sharebrokers,
viz.:—Messrs. Wells, Wcstropp, and Prinsep, 75, Old Broad-street ;
Mr. H. Pritchett, 1, Royal Exchange-buildings ; Messrs. Hitchins and
Harrison, 18, Thre idneedle-street ; and Messrs. Peppercorne and Son,
2, Old Broad-street, London; Messrs. Gardiner and Heap, Charles
M. Williams, and Messrs. Bradley, Ford, and Parker, Manchester;
Messrs. Watson and Co., and Mr. Samuel rhillips, Hull ; Messrs.
Davies and Son, Liverpool ;Messrs. Ridsdale, Myers, and Co., Leeds;
Messrs. Earp and Soo, Derby ; Messrs. I'ott and Levick, Notting-
ham ; Messrs. Wreford, Nicholls, and Wreford, Bristol ; and Mr.
James Robinson Lane, Birmingham.
FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Birmingham, Nottingham,
Gainshorough, and Hull Railway Campany.
I request jou will allot me shares of 201. each, in the capi-
tal of the above-named Railway ; and I will accept the same, or
any less number, and pay the the deposit of 21. 2s. per share, and
sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when
required.
Dated this

day of 1815.
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