The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-09 00:00:00

ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.-FRENCH PLAYS.

Continuation of Mademoiselle Plessy's performances ; and ilrst ap-
pearance in this country of Monsieur Rcgnier (of the Theatre
Francais), who is engaged for Ten Representations only.
THIS EVENING
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Will be performed Marivaux's admired comedy of LES FAUSSES
QONFIDENCES. Dubois, M. Regnier; Araminte, Mademoiselle
*rimy.
To conclude with LES FORBERIES DE KAPUT. Scapin, M.
Regnier.
'On Monday next, will be produced "Le Mari a la Campagne," in
which Mademoiselle Plessy and Monsieur Regnier will both perform.
Boxes, 65.; Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, 3s. ; Gallery, 2e. Doors
will be opened at Seven o'clock, and the Performances commence
at Half-past.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
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PROPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY.
ToSitively the Last Night of the present splendid Routine of
Attractive Novelties._
Mr. RATTY, ever anxious to retain the patronage that has been
so bountifully bestowed on this Establishment, feels a degree of plFa-
sttre in announcing the greatest combination of Foreign Equestrian
Talent that ever appeared in the Metropolis, he having engaged the
whole of M. Tournaire's Company of French, German, and Italian
Artistes, and the entire Stud of highly-tutored Horses. The Com-
pany embrace the following distinguished Professors :—M. Benoit
Tournaire, M. Ferdinand, M. Francois, ➢I. Ernest ; Signors Angussi
and Rinaldo ; 31. F. Klatt ; Mesdames Louise Klatt, Ilubor, and
Popowitz; M. Popowitz, the French Clown ; Herr Hubor, the Dutch
Grotesque. This talented Corps will make their First Appearance
on Whit Monday. A new Dramatic Spectacle, written expressly for
this Establishment, by Mr. Moncrieff, the plot of which is taken from
the works -of Eugene Sue, will also be produced on the same
•ccOaton,

NEW WORK BY J. FENIMORE COOPER, ESQ.
Just ready, in 3 vols post Bvo,
SI AT A N S T 0 E;
Or, the Family of Little Page.
By J. FENIMORE COOPER, Esq.,
Author of " The Pilot," " The Red Rover," " The Deer-slayer," &e,
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.

STAFFORDSHIRE. AND SHROPSHIRE
JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.
(Provisionally registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Vic., c. 110.)
Capital 350,0001., in 7,000 Shares of 501. each. Deposit 21. 15s. per
Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Mayor of Stafford.
Swyfen Jervis, Esq., Darlaston Hall, Staffordshire, Chairman of the
Dias, Beccies, and Yarmouth Railway, Director of the Trent
Valley Continuation Railway, Sm.
Sir John Key, Baronet and Alderman, London.
James Dickenson, Esq., Stafford, Magistrate for the Borough.-
James Turnock, Esq., Deputy Steward of the Borough of Stafford .
John Wheelton, Esq., Meepham Bank, near Tonbridge, Kent, late
Sheriff of London and Middlesex, Director of the Trent Valley
Continuation Railway, &c.
William Fowke, Esq., Stafford, Alderman.
William Jones, Esq., Stafford, Magistrate for the Borough.
Charles Groom, Esq., Lincoln's Inn.
Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Abehurch-lane, London, and Lewis-
ham, Kent, Director of the West-End and Southern Counties
Railway, &c.
Chistopher Temple, Esq., Q.C., Lansdowne-place, Brunswick-square.
William Webb Ward, Esq., Ceroner for Staffordshire.
Edward Knight, Esq., M.D., Stafford.
J. W. Newcombe, Esq., Langley Fields Iron Works, Shiffnal.
Conway Lucas Rose, Esq., 35, Eaton-place, Belgrave-square.
John T. Hasland, Esq., 3.D., Forebridge, Stafford.
John Marson, Esq., Alderman, Stafford.
Charles Dawson, Esq., Stafford.
Charles Dudley, Esq., Stafford.
John Turner, Esq., Stafford.
William Horatio Harrison, Esq., London.
John Benson, Esq., London, Director of the West-End and Southern
Counties Railway, &c.
William Wogan, Esq., Stafford.
Henry Webb, Esq., Stafford.
Richard Hughes, Esq., Stafford.
Jukes Stirrop, Esq., Stafford.
Richard Carpenter, Esq., London, Magistrate for the County of Mid-
dlesex, Director of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway, &C.
William Cory, Esq., London, Director of the Armagh, Portagh, and
Coleraine Railway, &c.

BANICEIIS.

London—The London andZ'OantYßank, 71, Lombard-Street.
Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clement's-lane.
Stafford—The Manchester and Liverpool District Bank.
ENGINEER.
Sir John Macneill, LL.D., F.R.S., 3f.R.1.A.
STANDING COUNSEL.
Horace William Meteyard, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Lewis and Ford, 28, Essex-street, Strand, and 41, Moorgate-
street ; Edwin Smith, Esq., Gray's Inn.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Messrs. Bennet and Bowen, Stafford.
The main line of Railway proposed by this Company will hare its
terminus or departure at or near Wellington, in the county of Salop,
uniting there with the contemplated Birmingham and Shrewsbury
line, and passing by or near Hadley, Trench-lane, Donnington, and
Lslleshall, to the town of Newport, proceed from thence to, and
have its terminus of arrival at, Stafford, where it will unite with the
Grand Junction and the Trent Valley Lines, and effect a junction, by
railway, between the important counties of Salop and Stafford: and
by a branch of about six miles, from Newport to the town of Shiffnal,
afford great facilities of inter-communication with Broody, Madeley,
and Coalbrooke Dale, thus bringing these important mineral districts
into immediate connexion with the Staffordshire Potteries, and the
several districts named, with the north and east of England.
The country traversed is peculiarly favourable to the formation of
a line of railway, presenting a nearly continuous level between the
termini, thus affording facilities which will render the construclice
of the Werlr Irt..e,r...mi-erav
The districts embraced by the undertaking are highly populous,
and have a very considerable local traffic, and the portion of the line
from Wellington to Newport will pass through arich mineral country
forming part of the Great Shropshire coal and iron district, thereby
augmenting the general traffic of the line which will constitute, by
its junction with the Trent Valley and the Grand Junction Railways,
the highway from the north and north-eastern parts of England to
Shropshire and the Welsh coast, and yield a highly remunerative
return on the comparatively small capital required to be embarked.
The Grand Junction Company deposited plans for a line having
many features in common with the one now proposed, as a portion
of a Shrewsbury and Stafford Railway, with the intention of obtain-
ing an Act, in the present Session, to authorise its construction, which
they abandoned in consequence of the Board of Trade having re-
ported in favour of Birmingham as a terminus for a Shrewsbury lino.
The present line Is now brought under public consideration as one.
demanded for the promotion of the interests of the localities with
which it is immediately connected, under a conviction that, based
upon an independent Company, a desideratum which appe rs
to have here been required by the Board of Trade ; It will
be employed as an encouragement to a legitimate development of
the traffic of the districts it will embrace, and not be merely used by
existing lines as a protection against competition—will form an im-
portant link in the general chain of railway communication—
will be highly beneficial to the public at large, and will present an in-
vestment for capital of more than ordinary excellence.
The capital intended to be raised is 3.50,0001., divided into 7,000
shares of 501. each.

1 deposit of 21. 15s. per share will be required to be paid upon
allotment to the credit of the Directors la account with .the Bankers
of the Company, and no call will be made until an Act of Parliament
shall be obtained authorising the construction of the work.
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
further calls from the date of each payment until the opening of the
line.

The Subscribers' agreement and the Parliamentary contract will
be required to be duly executed when tho bankers' receipts are ex-
changed for certificates of scrip, of which due notice will be given,
and the deposits paid by persons making default in the due execution
of the Subscribers' agreement and Parliamentary contract within the
time to be limited by such notice, will be absolutely forfeited.
A preference will be given in the allotment of the Shares to par-
ties locally interested in the line ; and no Shares will be appropriated
except to persons whe shall give satisfactory reference.
Application for Shares must be made in the form appended hereto,
to the Offices of the Company, 41, Moorgate-street ; to the Solicitors ;
add the following brokers :—Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Thread-
needle-street, London ; Messrs. Parsons and Townley, and Mr.
Thomas Crewdson, Liverpool ; Messrs. Cardwell and Sons, Manches-
ter; Mr. W. IL Collis, and Mr. James Pearson, RirminOiam; Messrs.
Ridsdale and Co., Messrs. Standish, Blacken, and Co., and Mr. James
Jamieson, Leeds; Mr. Francis Stamp, Hull; Mr. L. Weatherburn, jun.,
Huddersfield ; Mr. Thomas Boardman Blackburn ; Mr. George
Dark, and Mr. Samuel Hutchinson, Bradford ; Mr. William Cron-
helm, Halifax; Mr. Charles Spencer, Nottingham; Mr. Samuel
Eyre, Derby ; Messrs. Grayston and Earle, York ; Mr. A. Stark,
Gainsborough ; Messrs. Alsop and Co., Hull ; Mr. William Farrer,
Ripon ; Mr. E. H. Armitage, Wakefield ; Messrs. Joseph Carr and
Son, Whitehaven ; Mr. Jonathan Drewry, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ;
Mr. James Stokes, Cheltenham ; Mr. Joseph Clarke, jun., Southamp-
ton; Messrs. Tate and Nash, and Mr. W. H. Land, Bristol; Messrs.
Beaumont and Langworthy, Exeter ; Mr. John Thomas Holland,
Coventry ; Messrs. Eaglefleld and Co., Leicester ; Messrs. Reid and
Nicholson, Messrs. Thomas Farquharson and Co., and Mr. Andrew
Moffat, Edinburgh ; Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Glasgow ;
Messrs. Oswald, George, and Co., Aberdeen ; and Messrs. Boyle,
Plm, and Co., Dublin.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Shropshire and Staffordshire

Junction Railway,

Gentlemen.
I request you will allot me shares of 501. each in this
Railway, and I undertake to accept the same, or any less number
that you may appropriate to me, to pay the deposit of 21. 15s. per
share thereon ; and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Par-
liamentary Contract when required.
Name in full
Profession
Residence
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