The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-27 00:00:00

LHE WEST MIDLAND, MANCHESTER
AND SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY, AND BIRMINGHAM
SWINDON, DEVIZES, AND SALISBURY JUNCTION,
Being an extension of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,200,0001., in 60,000 shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Dillon, Halkin-street West, Belgrave-
square, and Loughlyn House, Loughlyn, Ireland, and Ditchley, Oxon
Lord George Paget, Uxbridge House
William Beresford, Esq., M.P., 77, Pall-mall, Director of the Teen
and Dove Valley Railway
William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid-
land, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Richard Price, Esq., 3f.P., Director of the Welsh Midland, and
Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways
David R. Ross, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Belfast, Director of the
London and Manchester, and South and Midlands' Junction Rail-
ways
Sir John E. De Beauvoir, Bart., Chairman of the London and Bir-
mingham Extension, and Director of the South and Midlands'
Junction Railways
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire, Director
of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Herts, Director of
the Chester and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junc-
tion Railways
Sir William Wynn, Ifaesynewadd, Chairman of the North Wales,
and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, Director of the Direct Western
Railway
Sir John Key, Bait, Alderman of London, Director of the Londen
and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
Sir William Twysdea, Bart., Director of the Chepstow and Forest of
Dean Railway
William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., Alderman of Lon-
don, Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation,
and London anti Greenwich Railways, &c. Sec.
Thomas Faricomb, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the Lon-
don and Westminster lank, and Namur and Liege, and South and
Midlands' Junction Railways
John Kinnersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the
London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South 'lid
Midlands' Junction Railways
Donald Maclean, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Trent Valley Con-
tinuation, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
Major Oliver Lindam, Chairman of the Gloucester, Iberyst-
with, and Central Wales, and Director of the South and 3lidlaads
Junction Railways
Major-General Parlby, C. 8., Rutland-gate, Director of the Worces-
ter and Crewe, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Captain James Patrick Macdougal, late Bengal Royal General Staff,
Fir-grove, North Brixton, Director of the Chester and Forest of
Dean, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways, &c.
Captain Alexander Hamilton Carlo, Royal Artillery, Reform Club
John James, Esq., Secondary of the City of London, Director of the
Legal and Commercial Insurance Company, the Great Western of
Bengal, and South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Robert Henry Lyndam, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth
Railway
Major Jelf Sharp, Deputy-Chairman of the Thames Embankment
Railway
Richard William Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Man-
chester, and Derbyshire and South Staffordshire Railways
William Fechney Black, Esq. Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Direc-
tor of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
Peter Morrison, Esq., Managing Director of the Britannia Life Insu-
rance Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
James Clay, Esq., Brompton, Director of the Furness and White-
haven, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Col. Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, Director of the London and
Birmingham Extension, and South and Midlands' Junction Rail-
ways
William Shaw, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment, Manag-
ing Director of the Farmers' Life Insurance Company, and Di-
rector of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Richard Carpenter, Esq , Magistrate of the County of Middlesex,
Deputy-Chairman of the London and Birmingham Extension, Di-
rector of the Leicester and Bedford, and South and Midlands'
Junction Railways •
G. W. Killett Potter, Esq., Secondary of the City of London
Lieut.-General Sir Lewis Grant, K.C.8., 31, Harley-street
John Jennings, Esq., Elm-grove, Hammersmith
William S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Director of the
Oxford, Witney and Cheltenham, and South and Midlands' Junc-
tion Railways
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., 8, Upper Hyde-park-street
William Singleton, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds,
and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Director of the Britannia Life Insurance
and Stafford, and South and Midlands' Jnno-
tionForster,Derby and
Railways
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manchester
and Birmingham Railway
Daniel Penton Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Manches-
ter Railway
Richard Parish, Esq., Bank House, Wordsley, Staffordshire
Samuel Parish, Esq., Wordsley, near Stourbridgs, Staffordshire
John Anderson, Esq., E.1.C.5., Director of the Church of England
Life Insurance, and South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Henry Lewis Smale, Esq., Willoughby House, Tottenham, Director
of the London and Dover, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
James Reeves, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Direct,
and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
John Cash, Esq.
Henry Wright, Esq., Brunswick-square, Director of the Warwick
and Worcester, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
John Castendick, Esq., Lewisham
Robert Richards, Esq. Inner Temple, London, Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
George It. Colman, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Julio-
lion, and Northampton and Banbury Railways
William Paxton, Esq., Langford, near, Bicester, Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
William Bardgett, Esq., Winchester House, Broad-street, Director
of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Con-
tinuation Railway
John Blackburn, Esq., Leeds
Peter Fairbairno, Esq., Leeds, Vice-Chairman of the Leeds and York
Railway
J. D. Hopkins, Esq., Bedford-square, Director of the London and
Birmingham Extension Railway
Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Old Palace, Richmond
James Durness, Esq., Leytonstone, Essex
George Willes, Eaq., Hungerford Park, Berke
G. N. Wright, M.A., Coed Celyn, Denbighshire, and tonsdale-square,
Islington
Stephen Lewis, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway
Martin Furness, Esq., Director of the Newark and Sheffield Railway
William Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Lincoln, York and
Leeds Railway
Edmund Phillips, Esq., Avon House, Melksham, Wilts, Director of
the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Cherles Thomas Ward, Esq., Luton Hoo, Beds, and Clepton House,
Stratford-on-Avon, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
oseph Brook, Esq., Greenhead, Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds,
Dewsbury, and Manchester, and Huddersfield and Sheffield Junc-
tion, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
George Henry Brook, Esq., Edgulin-lodge, Huddersfield, Previsional
Director of the Huddersfield, Halifax and Bradford Union Rail-
way, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Captain Hitching, H.E.1.C.5., Queen Anne-street, Cavendish-square,
Director of the Birmingham and Oxford, and South and Midlands'
Junction Railways
John Allcock Dixon, Esq., Burnley, Lancashire, Director of the Li-
verpool and Leeds Direct, and Keighly, Halifax, and Huddersfield
Railways
James Beech, ssq., 15, Grosvenor-place, anti Brandon Lodge, near
Coventry, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Rail-
way
William Watson Prole, Esq., Thurloe-square, Brompton, Director of
the Jersey, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Thomas Mortimer Cleobury, Esq., Askew Villa, Acton
Major Waller, K. 11., Director of the London and Manchester Direct,
and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Frederick James Hall, Esq , Torrington-square, and Alfreton, Derby,
Director of the Trent Valley Continuation, and South and Mid-
lands' Junction Railways
I. R. W. Atkinson, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford, and
York and Lancaster Railways
Joseph Underwood, Esq., The Hall, Blackheath, Director of the Me-
tropolitan Life Insurance Company, and Director of the London
and Birmingham Extension Company, and Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
W. A. JIM, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwitk and
Central Wales, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Chairman
of the Church of England Life Insurance Company, and Director
of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
William Morley, Esq., Blackheath
Richard Dutton, Esq., Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Railway, Director of the Legal and Commercial Life Insurance
Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
Captain C. W. Tyndale, Director of the South-Eastern and South
and Midlands' Junction Railways
Frederick Jones, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Director of the Warwick and
Worcester, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
John Inglis Jerdein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester,
Rugby and Southampton Railway
Colonel Fitch, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of the Sou th
and Midlands' Junction Railway
William Lee, Esq., Director of the Gravesend and Rochester, and
Essex and Suffolk Railways
Thomas Gooch, Esq., Director of the South. and Midlands'
Junction Railway
J. Harvey, Esq., Rush-hill, Surrey
John Wheelton Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Thomas Collingaidge, Esq., Highgate, Middlesex
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director ofthe South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
C .Waite, Esq., Willesden, Middlesex
R. W. Wood, Esq., Lodge-place, St. John's-wood, Director of the
North Metropolitan Railway
William Slark, Esq., Director of the Guarantee Society
Frederick Collingridge, Esq., Thurlow-square, Brompton
Warren Stormes Hale, Esq. Gresham-street, Director of the Oxford
and Worcester Extension
Klngsmill Grove Key, Esq., Wandsworth
rhomas Yates Hunt, Esq., Braden, near Birmingham
Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds, Director of the West Riding Junction, and
South and Midlands' Junction Railways
27.-hr e,Enl, Gloucester-place, Portman-square
Robert Power, Esq , Queen-street, May-fair, Director of the Great
Britain Life Assurance Society
Admiral J. yscough, Prospect-place House,
Southampton, Director
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Jesoph Thompson, Req., Director of the London and Brighton and
South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Major Grtibbe, Eastwell House, Potterne, Wilts, Magistrate of the
County, and Director of the South and Midlands' Ra
ilway
Captain Railw y
Captain Seth N. Fisher, Director of the Warwick and Worcester, and
South and Midlands' Junction Railways
T. G. Norbury, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continua-
Lion, and Pouth and Midlands' Junction Railways, and of the Legal
and Commercial Life Insurance Company
William Hallett, Esq., Kemp Town, Brighton, Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
John Brecke Walbancke, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands'
Junction Railway
elaptain Hamilton Earle, Royal Artillery
William Lee, Esq., Director of the Reading Railway
Henry Savage, Esq., Dorset-place, Dorset-square
William T. Thornton, Esq., Berkeley-street, Portman-square
John Dennis, Esq., Director of the Enmesh Valley Extension Railway
Joseph Crockett, Esq Alderman of Devizes, and Director of the.
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John Hebert lielbert, Esq., Gloucester-place, London, Director of
the Leicester and Birmingham Railway
Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Herefordshire
Thomas Chitty, Esq., Gower-street, London, Director of the Rugby
and Worcester Railway
William Peppercorne, Esq., Loladon, and Bexhill, Sussex
Captain T. Hodges, Connawnt-terrace, Hyde-park, Director of the
Leeds and Carlisle Railway
F. Duffield, Esq., Boltno, House, near Bradford
Rev. F. R. Hall, D. 1.1., Rector of Fulbourne, Cambridge
John Barnett, Eaq„ Coroner for the County of Gloucester, Director
of the Oxford and Cheltenham Railway
William Spooner, Esq. Chapel-street,Belgrave-square, Director of
the Ne7fewitle and Liverpool Railway
Alexan :ter Prince, Esq., 14, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Director of the Bar-
net North Junction Railway
Jalnes Lees, Esq., Delph, Saddleworth, near Manchester, Director of
the Saddleworth Banking Company

(With power to add to their number).
BArrxEas—The Commercial Bank of London.
CONSULTING Excirraza—Sir John 3laonell, LL.D., F.R.S.
ACTING Kullingar Higgins, Esq., C.B.
SOLICITOR—W. B. James, Esq., 5, Basinghall-street.
It appears that England will be divided longitudinally by four great
lines of railway, which will become so many main trunks, intersec-
ing and intersected by numerous lines, both transverse and oklique,
opening rapid and ready communication with the intermediate dis-
tricts, with packet stations, and with seaport towns. The more
easterly of these, which is also the longest, originating at Newcastle-
upon- Tyne, and passing through York, Peterborough, and Gambridge,
may be said to terminate in London, whence all places are accessible.
The second line, counting westward, is more tortuous, and has also
a common northern terminus with the preceding, by which its ad-
vintages are materially restricted. This line, descending the Ere-
wash Vale, and passing through Rugby and Oxford, becomes a South-
Ptoe.n line by falling into the South-Western Railway at Basing-
stok

The third longitudinal line, or the most westerly, is still more de-
fective in design than the preceding ; employing the steep and narrow
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railway called the Birmingham and Gloucester as its first link, it
in a right line the least populous and most undulating
parts of Gloucester, Iterks, Wilts, and Banta ;and, properly speaking
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present undertaking, or a fourth longitudinal line.
Adopting Birmingham as a northern terminus of the West Mid-
land, Manchester, and Southampton Railway, it is proposed to carry
a line through or near to Stratford-on -Avon, thence between Moreton,
Stow, Northleach, Fairford, Cricklade, and Swindon, where it will
merge in the South and Midlands' Junction Railway.
The length of the proposed line will be about sixty miles, and the
district traversed by it is gently undulating and densely peopled. At
its southern terminus, Swindon, it becomes identical with the South
and Midlands, by means of which it opens a most direct communica-
tion hitherto suggested with the harbours of We pa& outh, Christ-