The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-16 00:00:00

INT ORTHAMPTON, BANBURY, and CHEL-
TENHAM RAILWAY,
Connecting the Ports of BOSTON, LYNN, and YARMOUTH with
GLOUCESTER and BRISTOL, and opening a Communication be-
tween the EAST and WEST of ENGLAND.
Provisionally Registered.
Capital 1,000,0001., in shares of 201. each.
Deposit 11. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Raikes Currie, Esq., M.P. for Northampton
Henry Tuffnell, Esq., M.P.
Anthony Kington Barker, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Binning-

ham Railway
George Tate, Esq., ditto •
Edward 11. Barwell, Esq., Mayor of Northampton, Provisional Direc-
tor of the South Midland Railway
George Bitzton, Esq., ditto
Richard Davis, Esq., ditto
John Freeman, Esq. ditto
Thomas Bagger, Esc., ditto
Edward Hall, Esq., ditto
Joseph Knight, Esq., ditto
John Lawrie, Esq., ditto
George Osborn, Esq., ditto
Thomas Sharp, Esq., ditto
Joseph Adnett, corn merchant, Northampton
W. P. Andrew, Esq., Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square
Benjamin Aplin, Esq., Chacombe Priory, Banbury
John Aria, Esq., Loye, Weedon
Thomas Atherton, timber merchant, Northampton
James Beech, Esq., Grosvenor-place, London, and Brandon Lodge,
Warwickshire
Cecil Brook Boothby, Esq., Ashburn Hall
George Capron, Esq., Southwick Hall, Northamptonshire, and New
Burlington-street
Samuel Carrington, Esq., Cheltenham
Rev. Francis Clerke, Rector of Eydon, near Banbury
Jos. Dowson, Esq., Lambeth, and Champion Hill, Dulwich
John Elliott, Esq., Queen's Norton
Benjamin Smart Fowler. Esq., Alder House, Staffordshire
Major-General Greenstrcet, Northampton
William Higgins, merchant, Northampton
Samuel Horsey, merchant, Northampton
Captain Hitchins, Queen Anne-street, and ldlleott-house, Shipston-

On-Stour
George Lawton, Esq., Provisional Director of tko Manchester and

Birkenhead Continuation Railway
John Manning, Esq., Harpole, Northamptonshire
Rev. Francis Wykeham Martin, Vicar of Chacomba, near Banbury
S. Oxenham, Esq., Chester-terrace, Regent's-park
Francis Parker, manufacturer, Northampton
John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park
Samuel Perkins, Mircham, Towcester
William Porter, Esq., Alderman of Northampton
John Phipps, Esq., Northampton
W. Phillips Price, Esq., Tibbcrton-court, Gloucestershire
James Maurice Shipton, Esq , Walmer Hall, Tewkesbury
William Simpson, Esq., banker, Peterborough
Henry Spencer, Esq., Green's Park, Blakesley
Patrick Stewart, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's Park
W. Strong Esq., Northampton
H. L. Stockburn, Esq., Magistrate of Northampton
1). Mowbray Walker, Esq., Magistrate, Gloucester
S. Walker, Esq., Alderman of Northampton
Rev. C. F. Watkins, Vicar of Brixworth
W. Williams, Esq., Alderman of Northampton
Marmaduke Wetherell, Esq., Northampton
Major-General Martin White, Bath
Major White, Pall-mall, Provisional Director of Dublin, Belfast, and

Coleraine Railway
William Washbourn, Esq , merchant, Gloucester
Major Young, Maidwell, Northamptonshire
(With power to add to their number.)
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. N. Stevens and Fearon, I, Gray's Inn-square, London
Thomas Brooko Bridges Stevens, Tamworth
Thomas Scriven, Northampton
LocaL SOLICITORS-T. Scriven, Nortampton ; Mess's. Newman,
Givinett, and Ticehurst, Cheltenham; J. M. Cooke, Tamworth.
Barnmas—Messrs. Currie and Co., Cornhill.
PROSPECTUS.

The proposed line (which originally formed part of the scheme of
the South Midland Railway) will commence at or near the Ellsworth
Station of the London and Birmingham line, at a point of junction
with the Northampton mid Peterborough branch, and will proceed by
Towcester and Banbury to Moreton-in-the-Marsh (where it will effect
a junction with the Moreton and Stratford-on-Avon, and also with
the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton lines), and whence it
will be continued to Cheltenham, where it will unite with the Bir-
mingham and Gloucester Railway, thereby (by a continuation of not
more than fifty-six miles, and in connexion with existing or projected
railways) connecting. a grand line of communication from the German
Ocean to the Bristol Channel, and opening the most direct route from
the eastern and ccntral districts of the kingdom to the ports of Glou-
cester and Bristol, and to the whole of the western and south-western
districts, as well as to South Wales and the south of Ireland.
Reference to the map of England will at once suggest the Impor-
tance of this project, which will connect the eastern and western
coasts at their nearest points of opposite approximation, and save a
most circuitous and dangerous coasting voyage of many days or even
weeks' duration. Indeed, so obvious are the advantages, and so vast
the anticipated traffic, that a project was formerly entertained of
forming a ship canal across the kingdom in the course now con-
templated.
This railway will connect, by the shortest route, the following im-
portant towns, viz.:—
Boston, Ely, Bedford
Lynn, Cambridge, and
Yarmouth, Huntingdon, Northampton,
Norwich, Peterborough, with
Tenbury, Evesham, Worcester, &c. ; and with
Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth, Weymouth, &C.,
also, with Hereford, Swansea, Milford Haven, Fishguard, and the
whole of the south of Ireland ; and will also connect Coventry, War-
wick, and Stratford-on-Avon, with the whole of the before-mentioned
places, thereby in effect accommodating a population of several
millions.

It is obvious that with these advantages the traffic must neces-
sarily at once be unusually large, and susceptible of great further
increase. A considerable quantity of barley and other corn Is an-
totally shipped from the port of Lynn to the west of England and
Gloucester, which would hereafter be transported by the present line,
afferding great advantages to the farmer by enabling him to avail
himself promptly of the most favourable market, the importance of
which is noticed by the Board of Trade in one of their recent re-
ports. The manufactures of Norwich would also secure a new and
profitable outlet, both for home and foreign consumption, by the
ready communication afforded with the west of England and Bristol.
Between Northampton and Banbury a large truffle already exists,
and amongst other great and obvious sources of profit and local
benefit, may be classed the opening of a new and extensive field for
• the consumption of coal and iron, brought from the Leicester and
Swannington Railway by the South Midland Railway, and the deve-
lopment of the resources of the Warwickshire district by the junction
effected with the Moreton-in-the-Marsh Railway, thus bringing the
Leicestershire and Staffordshire coal into competition in the same
markets.
The line presents no engineering difficulties. The landholders
generally are considered favourable to the project, and the promoters
have every reason to calculate upon a most highly remunerative re-
turn on the outlay.
One-third of the shares will be reeeved for the shareholders In the
South Midland Railway Company.
Applications for prospectuses and shares (in the annexed form)
may be made to the solicitors or local agents, and Messrs. Carden
and Whitehead, Threadneedle-stret, London ; James Pearson, Bir-
mingham; Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol; William Lee, Chelten-
ham; Collinsen and Flint, Hull; J. Greaves, Liverpool; James
Jameson, Leeds ; and Joseph Fernyhough, St. Anne's-square, Blan-
chester.

FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Northampton, Banbury, and

Cheltenham Railway Company.
Gentlemen—l am desirous of subscribing for shares
in this undertaking, and I hereby agree to pay the deposit on so many
of such shares as may be allotted to me, and to sign the Parliamen-
tary contract and subscribers' agreement when required.
I am, gentlemen, your moat obedient servant.
Profession or trade..
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