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

Julius Lowenthal, Esq., Huddersfield, 'Director of the Hudders- I
field, Manchester, and Great Grimsby Direct Railway
'Vim. Thomas Jackson, Esq., Tadcaiter, Director of the East and
West Yorkshire, and Liverpool and. Leeds Direct Railways
Job° Ostler, Esq., Hull
w. ; Voane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square
John *Jervis Garrard, Esq., Queen-square, Bristol
Samuel' Garlick, Esq., Park-square, Leeds
Cuthbert Johnson, Esq., Avenue-road, Regent's-park
James Goren, Esq., The Priory, Battersea
Rev. Fransis Thornburgh, Kingswood, Wilts
James Yearsley, Esq., Saville.row, Piccadilly
Alfred Parker, Esq., Park-road, Regent's-park
James Shaw, Erg., Salford, Manchester, Director of the Manches-
ter, Liverpool, and Great North of England ; of the Newcastle,
Durham, and Lancashire; and of the Bolton and Bury Railwayr
Captain James Wood, R.M., Woolwich, Director of the., Dublin
Approximation Atmospheric Railway
Benjamin Canon, Esq., Hull
John Holmes, Esq., Hull
Richard Hands, Esq., Coventry, Director of the Birmingham Wast

Branch, Wednesbury, and Walsall Railway
Tliomas Ferrand Dearden, Esq., Coroner, Rochdale, Lancashire

Ch.:Arles Ralph Broadley, Esq., Rochdale
Jamas Clarkson, Esq., Cheetham Hill, Manchester
Wm. Nicholson, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Rugby and
Manchester, •ia Macclesfield Railway
J. J. Godfrey, Esq , Liverpool
J. H. M`Mahon, Esq., Limerick, Director of the Cheltenham, Ox-
ford, and Brighton Junction, and the Galway and Ennis Grand

Junction Railways
Henry Chaytor, Esq., Clairvaux Castle, Darlington, Director of
the Warwick and Worcester, and the Hull and Holyhead Rail-
ways
Robert Bourne, Esq., Parliament-street, Whitehall
Alfred Parker, Esq., Park-road, Regent's-park
William Cremer, Esq., Mincing.lane, Director of the Grand Trunk ;
and Northern and Southern Connecting Railways
William Bousfield, Esq., Colebrook-terrace
John Yearsley, Esq., merchant, Fenchureh-street
James Robertson, Esq., Director of the Worcester, Warwick and
Rugby, and Leominster Railways
John Batley Wrigley, Esq., Croft-house, near Huddersfield, Director
of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Direct
Railways
Samuel Deshayes Saunders, Esq., Ivy-cottage, Syncornbe-hill, Bath
George Barons Northcote, Esq., Somerset-court, Somersetshire,
Director of the Somersetshire Midland Railway
Thomas Dixon Burrow, Esq., Settle, Yorkshire
George Watts, Esq., Mount Radford, Exeter, Director of the
Exeter and Exmouth, the Great Western Extension, and the
Direct Exeter, Plymouth, and Devonport Railways
William Henry Samwell George, Esq., Exmouth
Edward Greaves, Esq., Leeds
John Bowes, Esq., Hull, Director of the Rugby, Leamington, and
Warwick Railway
Thomas Frederick Hewitt, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and
Holyhead Railway
William Priest, Esq., Hull, Director of the York and Hull, and
the East and West Yorkshire Junction Railways
Thomas Holmes, Esq., Hull
Benjamin Willsher, Esq., Waterloo-place, Pall-mall
Richard Power, Esq., Euston.square, and Long Orchard, Tipperary
William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place
Arthur Names, Esq., Methuen Villa, Leamington, Director of
the South Midland and Lincolnshire and Eastern Counties
Matthew Pierpoint, Esq., Worcester, Director of the Rugby
Derby, and Manchester Railway
Joseph Brook, jun., Esq., Huddersfield
Julian Skrine, Esq., Linsfield-house, Cambridge, Director of the
Cambridge and Lincoln, and the Northern and Southern Con-
necting Railways
Rev. G. M. D'Arcy Irvine, LL.D., Redcliffe-parade, Bristol
John Bloor, Esq., Tutbury, Director of the Great Manchester,
Rugby; and Southampton, the Shropshire Mineral, the London
and Holyhead Direct, the Liverpool and Derby Direct, the
London and Liverpool Direct, and the Derby and Gainaborough
Railways, &c.
Edward Gaubert, Esq., Park-villa, Richmond, Director of the
Rugby, Swindon, and Weymouth Railway.
William James Ive, Esq., Northampton-square, Director •f the
Rugby, Swindon, and Weymouth Railway
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., Upper Hyde-park-street, Director cf the
Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, the Chester and
Manchester Direct, and the West Midland, Manchester, and
Southampton Railways
Abraham Alexander, Esq., Lullington-house, Leamington, Direc-
tor of the Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton, the
Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby, and the Lincolnshire and
Eastern Counties Railways
Joel Edens, Esq,, Northampton, Director of the Sheffield, Notting-
ham, and London Direct, the Liverpool and Derby Direct, the
Direct Northern, Eastern; and Western Junction, and the Mid-
land and Eastern Counties Railways, Sze.
F. Valentine Lee, Esq.
P. Taylor, Esq , Knaresborough
Joseph Lambert, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York, and
the Direct Liverpool and Leeds Railways
G. I. Brandon, Esq., Finsbury.square, Director of the Direct
Manchester, Leeds, and York; and the Grand Trunk Railways
William Driffield, Esq., Bond-house, Knaresborough, Director of
the Liverpool and Leeds Direct; the East and West Yorkshire,
and the Leeds and Thirsk Railways
Wm. A. Long, jun., Esq., Kingswood, Wotton.under.Edge
Rev. Stephen Isaacson, M.A., Berners-street, Director of the
Cheltenham, Oxford, and Brighton; the Cambridge and Lin-
coln Extension ; the Hull and Holyhead ; and the Leeds, Fleet-
wood, and Liverpool Railways
Thomas Du!ton, Esq., Blackburn, Director of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct, and of the Blackburn, Chorley, and Liverpool
Railways
John Joseph Allnatt, Esq., Wallingford, Berks
Edmund Alderson Fawcett, Esq., Huggin-lane and Nottingham,
&e., Director of the Direct Liverpool and Derby, the Direct
West End and Croydon, and the Middlesex and Surrey Junction
Railways
Capt. T. C. Newton, Luguardine, Herefordshire, Director of the
Leeds, Fleetwood, and Liverpool, the Hereford and Merthyr
Tydvil, the Hull and Holyhead Direct, and the Grand London
and Dublin Approximation Railways
Wm. Fitzwilliam Hume, Esq., Hume- wood, Wicklow, Deputy
Lieutenant, J.P., and High Sheriff of the County of Wicklow
Edward Irwin, Esq., Rathbide-house, Kildare
Christopher Carter, Esq., Belmont-house, Knaresborough
Walter Watson, Esq., Leamington
James Peard Lye, Esq., Seaton Ironworks, Whitebaven, Director
of the Mull and Holyhead Railway
Arthur Ley, Esq., Bideford, Devonshire, Director of the Hull and
Holyhead Railway
John Albutt, Esq., Leeds
William Muschamp, Esq., Sunderland
Joseph Henry Oates, Jun., Esq., Meanwood, near Leeds
George Mitchell, Esq., Sandbed-house, Ossett, near Wakefield,
Director of the Wakefield, Ossett and Dewsbury Railway, also
of the Midland, Barnsley, Sheffield, and Leeds Railway
William Mien, Esq.. Chappletown, near Leeds
William Standidge, Jun., Esq., Barkston Ash, near Ferrybridge
Samuel Warburton, Esq„ Hunslet, near Leeds, Director of the
Warwick and Worcester Railway, and of the Wakefield and
Harrowgate Railway, &c. &c. &c.
George William Oates, Esq., Carr House, Meanwood, near Leeds
George Newsome, Esq., Cross Banks, Batley, near Dewesbury
James Kitchen, Esq., Burmanstofts, Leeds
William Fieldhouse, Esq., St. Mark's-place, Leeds
William Beaumont, Esq.' Crawshaw House, Pudsey, Director of
the West Yorkshire, Midland and Thirsk Junction, &c. &c. &c.
John Pawson, Esq., Chappleton, near Leeds
John Lawson, Esq., Town Knawl Cottage, Ossett, near Wakefield
John Shears!, Esq., Bonfire-cottage, near Dewsbury
Joseph Thompson Fenton, Esq., Chesterfield
John Haley, Esq., Stanningley
David Gummersall, Esq., Stanningley Mills
William Dixon, Esq., Howley mills, Morley, near Leeds'
Joe Dransfield, Esq., Rookery-mills, near Huddersfield
Joseph Jubb, sen., Esq., Batley-mills, near Dewsbury, Director of
the Midland, Barnsley, Sheffield and Leeds Railway, &c.
Henry Lodge, Esq., Sheffield
Josiah Burrows, Esq., Castle-house, Gommersall, Director of the
Great Leeds and London Direct, and the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct
Robert Bell, Esq., Elmwood-house, Leeds
George A. Hauston, Esq., Paisley
Frank Mitchell, Esq., Ryecroft-cottage, near Ossett
Alexander Majoribanks, Esq., of Majoribanks, NB.
Major. General White, Bath, Director of the Direct Western
Railway
Andrew Clarke, Esq., Adelaide-place, London-bridge. sad Cam-
berwell, Surrey
John Wheelton, Esq., Meophara Bank, Tonbridge, Kent
Stephen Hartley Knowles, Esq., merchant, Ten Lands, Gomersall,
near Leeds
Lionel William Knowles, Esq., merchant, West-house, Gomersall,
near Leeds
James Sutcliffe, Esq., Nowland-hall, near Halifax, Director of the
Leeds and Thirsk Railway
George Fearnley, Esq., M.D., Grove-house, Dewsbury
Thomas Hadfield Gloyne, Esq., Prospect-house, Dewsbury
Samuel Burnley, Esq., merchant and manufacturer, Havercroft-
house, Batley, near Dewsbury
Thomas Dean, Esq., Healey. house, Dewsbury
Thomas Henry Starr, Esq., M.D., Leamington
James Braham, Esq., Torquay, Devon
Christopher Carter, Esq., Belmont-house, Knaresborough
Frederick Goddard, Esq., Bath
Thomas Emsley, Esq., Dodley, near Leeds, Director of the North-
East Riding Junction Railway
Wm. Shaw, Eqq.Director of the Farmer's Life Assurance Company
Wm. Watson,:Es' q., Leamington
Thomas Rogers, Esq,, Bradford
John Lloyd, Esq. Newington
Edward Elarke, Esq., Temple, and Dover-street, Piccadilly
Samuel Geo. Boamish, Esq. Kennington-square
( With power to add to their number.)

BANKERS—The London Joint-Stock Bank, 5, Princes-street, Bank,
and 69, Pall-mall.
ACTINO Dmiteeea—Henry Renton, Esq., C.E.
ARCHITECT AND SURVEYOR.— Charles Lee, Esq., Golden-square.
SOLICITOR—J. D. Wells, Esq., No. Is, George-street, Mansion.
house.
SECRETARY—R. H. Gadesden, Esq.
OFFICES—NO. 70, King William-street, Mansion-house, London
The object of the promoters of this Company is to form a direct
line of railway, from Bristol and Bath to Dover; and thus, in effect,
unite, connect, or reciprocate with, all the existing and projected
lines of railway in the south and southwest and west of England, as
well also as form a complete communication with Ireland and all
the western and Welsh railways, and most of those in the northern
and great manufacturing districts, by whicb passengers and goods
to and from Folkestone and Dover, France and Belgium, may
be conveyed without the necessity of passing through the me-
tropolis.
The main line to be laid down by the Company will be considerably
less than 100 miles, throughout which the strongest encouragement
and support have been manifested towards this railway by the landed
proprietors, many of whom have determined to invest capital in the
undertaking; and the engineer's report precludes any apprehen-
sion of engineering difficulties. The great public utility and com-
mercial advantages of railway communication between the important
places and ports which it is ROW contemplated to unite must be at
once appreciated by reference to a map of the country, and they
will be forcibly illustrated by the objects to be attained by this
Company.
This line is Intended to begin at Bristol by means of the Great
Western Railway, and passing through Bath to Bath Hampton
it will skirt the valley of the Avon, to Bradford, and thence to
Trowbridge. It will then take as straight a direction as can be
obtained to Devises, All Cannings, Feeney, Burbage, Shaltorne,
West Woodhay, High Clere, and Overton, on to Basingstoke,
where it will unite with the South Western Railway, and thus
from the western counties the distance will be several miles
shorter to the metropolis than by any other existing line. It will
then, by means of the South Western Railway, proceed on to near
Farnborough (a distance of fourteen miles) whence, leaving
Farnham to the south, it will pass onward to Ashe, Guildford,
Gomshall, and Dorking to Riegate, where it will unite with the
South Eastern and Dover Railway—(the latter, eighteen miles
from Guildford to Reigate will in all probability be constructed by
another Company.)
In its course it will thread its way through the lines of many of
the railways already constructed or projected—the junction of
which will not only be estimated as a great public convenience, but
prove highly advantageous to the several Companies interested, pro-
ducing an immense traffic, that must stream from Ireland—from
our great manufacturing districts in the north—the cloth and corn
markets of the west of England—the mineral and coal fields of
Wales, and the hop districts in Kent—all of which point to the
formation
forniadi, of this railway as a great desideratum, as well also as to
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tinentwill
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thirty miles from Bath
Dover ; while to many of the towns
all the towns north-west) to
miles or more will be saved by thin:
railway
of Bristol sixty
T and
nnetunion with some of
the other lines ; and the often disagreeable necessity (at
of passing through London,Cotogolry from Dover,
present existing)