The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-16 00:00:00

Fr HE AVON and SEVERN VALLEY RAIL-
WAY, from RUGBY to GLOUCESTER,
Connecting Leamington and the whole of the Midland and North
Eastern Counties with Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bristol, and the
South of England.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
No further call will he made until an Act of Parliament is-obtained,
and no party will be liable beyond the amount of his shares..
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Right Hon. the Lord Beauclerc, 8, Chesham-place, Belgrave

square
The lion. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteuey, Parliament-street, London,
Chairman of the York and Lancaster, and Director of the Direct
London and Manchester Railways
The Hon. Captain Evans Freke, Grenadier Guards, 3, Belgrave-
square
The Hon. Captain Evans Freke, Life Guards, 3, Belgrava-square
Sir Montague John Cholmeley, Bart., Easton-hall, Lincolnshire
Sir William Bacon Johnson, Bart., Director of the Chepstow,:yorest
of Dean, and Gloucester, and the South and Midland Junction

Railway
William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., Alderman of Lon-
don, late M.P. for Oxford, Chairman of the Erewash Valley Ex-
tension, the Leek and Macclesfield, the Great Western, Southern
and Eastern Counties, and of the Birkenhead, Chester, Mold,
Rhaubon, and Vale of Llangollen Railways
William Bradley, Esq., Manor-oaks, Sheffield, Director of the Cam-
bridge and Lincoln Extension, and the Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Junction Railways
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., 8, Upper Hyde-park-street, and
Brookes' Club, St. James's, Director of the West Midland, and

Manchester and Southampton Railways
Villiers C. Villiers Surtees, Esq., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Director of
the Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire Railway
William Lloyd Caldecot, Esq., 6, Laura-place, Bath
William Breynton, Esq., Montpellier, Cheltenham, and Temple,
London, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth, and other
Railways
H. H. Dancocks, Esq., the Manor-house, Kempley, Gloucestershire,
Director of the Birmingham, West Bromwich, and Wednesbury,
and Walsall Junction Railways
James Maurice Shipton, Esq., R.N., Walmer-hall, near Tewkesbury,
Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce at Gloucester, and Vice-

Consul of Russia at that port
Richard Hodges Carter, Esq., Gloucester, late Mayor of the City of
Gloucester, and Deputy-Chairman of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean,
and Gloucester Railway
Samuel Hitch, Esq., M.D., Gloucester
Charles F. Thornley, Esq., merchant, Bristol
Cornelius Brady, Esq., Aston-house, Erdington, Warwickshire
Paris Dick, Esq., M.D., Forthampton, Tewkesbury
George Smith, Esq., Prestbury, near Cheltenham
Thomas Avery, Esq., Gloucester
Caleb Trotter, Esq., ditto
Arthur H. Jenkins, Esq., Alderman of Gloucester Directors of the
Edward L. Kendall, Esq., merchant, ditto Worcester, Here-
Robert Heane, Esq., ditto ford,and Glouces-
Charles Walker, Esq., ditto ter Railway
Henry Fox, Esq., ditto
Edward J. Woodhouse, Esq., ditto,
John Ladds, Esq., Abbot's-court, Twyning and Tewkesbury
Aaron Goold Biisome, Esq., Forest of Dean, Director of the East and
Wc st of England, and the Worcester and South Wales Railways
John George Norbury, Esq., Great Cumberland-street, Hyde-park,
and Mancetter-house, Atherstone, Director of the Tean and Dove
Valley, South Staffordshire, and,Dover and Bristol Railways
Kensington Lewis, Esq., Worcester-park, Surrey, and Stratford-
place, Director of the Midland Counties, and the Cheltenham, Ox-

ford, and Brighton Junction Railways
William Horatio Harrison, Esq., Sunbury, Director of the Leicester
and Tamworth, and South Staffordshire Junction Railways
Robert IL Shomburgk, Esq., New Kensington, Surrey, Chairman of
the Barbadoes General Railway
George Fred

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Union, and Dover and Bristol Railways
John Campbell Dickers, Esq., Newhall, Cheshire, Director of the
Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction, and the Cheltenham, Oxford,
and London Junction Railways
George Unett, Esq., the Laurels, Handsworth, Staffordshire,
Director of the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester, and

Dover and Bristol Railways
Walter Unett, Esq., Captain 3d Light Dragoons, Director of the
Dover and Bristol, and Grand Trunk Railways
Major White, Pall•mall, London, Director of the Northampton,
Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway
Lewis Hoffmann, Esq., Reading, Berkshire, and Inner Temple,
London, Director of the Nottingham and South Staffordshire, and

the Dover and Bristol Railways
Thomas Wakefield, Esq., London, Director of the Dover and Bristol
Railway
Edward Augustus Lamb, Esq., Westfield, Battle, Sussex, Director of
the Staffordshire, and Shropshire, and Dover and Bristol Railways
William Byrom, Esq., Oldham, Director of the Oldham Districts, the
London Bristol and South Wales I irect, the Cheltenham, Oxford,
and London, the Birkenhead and Holyhead, and the Liverpool,
Preston, and North Union Railways
William Caldwell, Esq., Ince-hall, Wizen, Director of the Liverpool
and Leeds Direct, the Lancaster and York, and the Staffordshire
Potteries Railways
Henry Taylor, Esq., Alderman of Wigan, Director of the Leeds and

Liverpool Direct, and the York and Lancaster, and other Railways
Charles Collins, Esq., Caldwell hall, Worcestershire, and Adelaide-
place, London-bridge, Director of the southern and Eastern, and
Northern Jamaica, and the Irish West Coast Railways
John Bird, Esq., Divas Mowddy, North Wales
W. H. Watts, Esq., M.D., Birmingham, Director of the Lincoln and
Great Grimsby, the Dover and Bristol, and the Birmingham, West
Bromwich, Wednesbury, and Walsall Junction Railways
Edward Shilton, Esq., Bath-cottage, Handsworth, Staffordshire
George Edwards, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Birmingham,
Lichfield, and Manchester, and the Birmingham, Westbromwich,
Wednesbury, and Walsall Railways
Thomas Byrom, Esq., Wigan, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct, the York and Lancaster, the Liverpool and Bolton Direct,
and the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railways
Henry Spicer, Esq., 28, Portman -square, Director of the London and
Exeter, and other Railways
W. Drury Holden, Esq., 10, Green-street, Grosvenor-square, and
Locko-park, Derbyshire, Director of the Lichfield and Macclesfield
Railway
Capt. Gould, Charles-street, St. James's _ _

Samuel Kempson, Esq., Littla Sutton, near Birmingham, Director of
the Birmingham, Westbromwich, Wednesbury, and Walsall Railway
Edwin Smith, Esq., 51, Great Ormond-street, London, Director of the
Lynn, Wisbeach, and Peterborough Railway
Robert Grove, Esq., Edgbaston, Birmingham, Director of the Bir-
mingham, Westbromwich, Wednesbury, and Walsall Junction
Railway.

ENGINEER.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Lewis and Ford, 28, Essex-street, Strand, London
W. B. Reece, Esq., Birmingham..
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Messrs. 'Senn, Rugby
William Tibbits, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon
Anthony Sproule, Esq., Tewkesbury.
BANKERS—Messrs. Rogers, OldMg, and Co., Clement's-lane, London.
SECRETARY—Henry Brookes, Esq.

The proposed railway will commence at Rugby, on the London
and Birmingham Railway, the terminus of the Midland Counties
and Trent Valley Railways, and the point to which several other
projected railways converge, and will proceed through or near to
Leamington, Warwick, Stratford-on-Avon, Evesham, Tewkesbury,
and Cheltenham, to Gloucester. The length of the line will 13::
about 56 miles.

The advantages that will result from the construction of this hue
are numerous and highly important, and such as cannot fail to secure
a very large amount of local and through traffic, and a highly-re-
munerative return upon the capital invested. By means of existing
and proposed railways, it will form a complete chain of railway com-
munication between the whole of the midland and north-eastern
counties of England, the populous cities and towns before-named, and
the southern and Western districts, and thus bring Leicester, Not-
tingham, Newark, Lincoln, Gainsborough, Great Grimsby, and Hull,
into direct communication with the favourite and fashionable spas of
Leamington and Cheltenham, the richly-productive and far-famed
Vale of Evesham, and the seaports of Gloucester, Bristol, Plymouth,
and Falmouth, and those of South Wales.

The inhabitants and visitors of the much-frequented watering-
Places of Leamington and Cheltenham, will thus obtain a direct line
between those resorts, instead of the present circuitous route through
Birmingham, affording that facility of intercommunication which
has long been ardently desired ; and it will also afford the utmost fa-
cility of access to the innumerable visitors who, attracted as well by
the beauty of the scenery as the memory of Shakspeara, annually
resort to Stratford-on-Avon.

To those passengers from the east and north-cast, direct to Glou-
Gloucester, the line from Tewkesbury, cutting off the angle of the
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway to Cheltenham, will afford a
great accommodation, and a saving in distance of at least eight miles,
besides the delay of the stoppage at Cheltenham.
At Tewkesbury it will also form a junction with the proposed line
from that place to Malvern. affording the most direct communication
to the numerous visitors to the magnificent scenery and invigorating
atmosphere of the celebrated Malvern-hills.
To the inhabitants of the ancient and populous borough of Tewkes-
bury, this portion of the proposed line will prove immensely advan-
tageous ; situated within ten miles of the important city and port of
Gloucester, they have nevertheless to travel by the present railway
route nearly twice that distance, an inconvenience which has
already materially affected the trade, and prejudiced the interests of
the town. The proposed line, running close to the town, will remove
this great inconvenience, and restore its trade to its former state of
prosperity.
The value of this line to the city and port of Gloucester cannot
be too highly estimated, as it will not only open to it immense
sources of traffic from the whole of the eastern and north-eastern
counties, but will very materially lessen the distance between it
and Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire, making
Gloucester still more securely the nearest and most accessible outlet
for the whole of that immensely productive manufacturing region
and it ;s impossible to conceive any project better calculated to
advance the interests of Gloucester, than ono capable of effecting
that object.
This line will also form an important junction between the London
and Birmingham :and Midlands Railways, and the Bristol and
Gloucester Railway, and constitute the highway for the traffic of the
former, and of all the north-eastern railways, to the proposed Man-
chester and Southampton Railway at Cheltenham ; and the through
traffic from the latter source alone is expected to be very great;
It will thus have the effect of connecting the ports of the eastern
and north-eastern with •those of the western and southern coasts;
of affording the most direct and convenient access from the north
and east to the vast mineral regions of South Wales, and of opening
ne* markets for the rich products of the fertile valleys of the Avon
and Severs, and the agricultural districts of Warwickshire and Wor-
cestershire, in the manufacturing towns and ports of the north.
The line will be easy of construction, traversing, as it does, through
nearly its whole length, the valleys of the Avon and Severn. The
towns through which it will run are very populous, and the country
of the richest description ' • and the local traffic will consequently be
very great in addition to the through traffic, which on such a line
must necessarily be very extensive.
The Provisional Cownnittee reserve to themselves the power to
amalgamate with any other company as to the whole or any part of
the line, and to vary or extend the line, arid to increase or diminish
the capital accordingly, if deemed expedient.
The capital proposed to be raised is 1,000,900/., in shares of 201.,
upon which a deposit of 21. 2s. per share must be paid upon allot-
ment.
The liability of the subscribers will be limited by the Act to the
amount of their respective subscriptions to the capital stock, and
power will be applied for in the Act to allow interest at the rate of
41. per cent.per annum on the amount of the deposit, and upon the re-