The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-01 00:00:00

, 1845.

John Rawson, Esq., Halifax, Deputy Lieutenant for Yorkshire, ar.d
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Railway
The Hon. Colonel Leicester Stanhope, Ashburnham House, Chairman
of the Chester and Manchester Direct Railway
John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Leicester
Thomas Hackett, Esq., Derby, Director of the Great Manchester and
Southampton Railway
John Sandars, Esi., Derby, Director of the Derby and Crewe Railway
John Fisher, Esq., Short-hill, Nottingham, and Watling-street,
London
Captain Horatio Thomas Austin, R.N., C.B.
Nalhaaiel Nadin, Esq., Stapenhill, Burton-upon-Trent
Capt. Gustavus Evans, R.N., Headley Grove, Surrey
Henry Francis Gisborne, Esq., Derby, Director of the Leicester and
Tamworth Railway
Edmund Sharpe, Esq., Swandlincote, Potteries
Sheldon Craddock, Esq., Leicester
John Gretton, Esq., brewer, Burton-upon-Trent
Ainbrose Moore, Esq., 3111 k-street, Cheapside
James Arbouin, Esq., Mark-lane, Director of the London and York
Railway
Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.8., Director of the East India Company
Lieut.-Gen. Taylor, Clarendon-place, Hyde Park
George Ledwell Taylor, Esq., 45, Hyde Park-square
Douglas Fox, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Crewe Railway
Frederick Cayley Worsley, Esq., Imberhornc House, Sussex
John Taylor, Esq., Cross-street, City, Director of the Commercial
Bank of. London
Lancelot Llewhellyn Haslope, Esq., Lifiord, near Birmingham, Di-
rector of the Warwick and Cheltenham Railway
John Eames, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Captain Beare, Director of the Worcestershire, Shrewsbury, and
Crewe lia;lway
W. Fitzgibbon, Esq., Director of the Cork and Bandon Railway
Matthew Wyatt, Esq., 1, Upper Hyde Park-street, Director of the
Manchester, Oxford, and Southampton Railway 1
John Douglas Cooper, Esq., Holme Cottage, Ashbourne
John B. Story, Esq., Lockington Hall, Leicester
Captain Holden, Locko Park, Derbyshire
The Mayor of Nottingham
George Bacon, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
William Charles Boden, Esq., Apsley Hall, Nottingham
Thomas Wakefield, Esq., magistrate, Nottingham
Thomas Fisher, Esq., Short Hill, Nottingham
henry Attenborotigh, Esq., Nottingham
William Hannay, Esq., magistrate, Nottingham
William Cartledge, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Lewis Heyman, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland Hollow, Alfreton
Joshua Harding, Esq., Rosliston, Derbyshire
Morris Piddocke, Esq., Stanton, near Burton-upon-Trent
Rtbert Collings Gilbertson, Esq., Burton-upon-Trent
David Melville, Esq., 13, Wood-street, Cheapside, and Nottingham
(With power to add to their number.)
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Bass and Sweeting, Burton-upon-Trent.
Messrs. Lacy and Bridges, 19, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street.
Messrs. Sir George Stephen and Hutchinson, I, Exchange-baildinge.
BANKERS.
The London Joint-Stock Bank, Princes-street.
The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury, and 6, Henrietta-street,
Covent-garden.
The Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashbourne Union Banking Company,
Burton-upon-Trent, and Ashbourne.
Messrs. Evans and Co., Derby.
ENGINEER—EIijah Galloway, ESQ.
This line will commence at the Long Eaton station of the Midland
Counties Railway, and will proceed in a direct line to or near Castle
Donington, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, ateasham, and Market Bosworth to
Nuneaton ; joining, at Market Bosworth, the Birmingham branch,
projected by the Tamworth and Leicester Company, and at Nuneaton,
the projected Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester
Railway, at the point where that line crosses the Trent Valley line.
Thus a direct communication will be formed between the important
towns of Nottingham, Newark, and Lincoln on the one side, and
Birmingham, Coventry, and Warwick on the other side, at the same
time a rich mineral and agricultural district will be supplied with ,
railway advantages.
A reference to the map will show that this railway will also aom-
mand other collateral advantages.
There is no doubt that the proposed railway communication be-
tween Cheltenham and Warwick will be effected, in which case the
proposed line will fill up the railway chasm at present existing bee
tween the counties of Gloucester and Worcester, and Nottingham
and Lincoln. and thus form a direct line from the Severn at Glouces-
ter to the Humber at Great Grimsby. An amalgamation of the Great
Grimsby and Sheffield Junction with the Grimsby Dock Company
being now determined on, a large amount of capital will be expended
in rendering Great Grimsby a port of the first importance ; and It
must be obvious that the traffic to that port, from the district south-
west of Warwick, will be very great.
The distance saved by the proposed line between Leamington,
Warwick, Coventry, and Nottingham will be about twenty miles ;
and between Birmingham and Nottingham, the saving will be about
six miles. Being the shortest :route from Birmingham to Not-
tingham and Lincoln, it must secure the traffic from Birmingham to
Nottingham, Newark, Lincoln, and the port of Great Grimsby ; and
by joining with the Erewash Valley Railway at Long Eaton, it must
command the traffic from Coventry, Warwick, and the district south
of those towns to Sheffield, Leeds, York, and the north of England
generally. It will also afford a direct communication between Not-
tingham and the district between Warwick and Worcester, by means
of the projected Worcester, Warwick; and Rugby, and the Warwick
and Worcester Railways.
The entire length of the line will be about 28 miles. The Com-
pany's Engineer has completed his preliminary survey, and has
made his report, that the character of the country througk which
the line is intended to pass is unusually favourable for engineering
purposes.
It passes directly through a very productive mineral district, it.
tersecting the Leicestershire coal-fields and lime-works, and will
afford communication north and south, to the Derbyshire Potteries.
With such an assured immediate and prospective amount of traffic,
the profits on the small capital required cannot fail to be highly re-
munerative.
Powers for allowance of interest at four per cent. on the paid-up
capital will be taken, and the liability of shareholders limited to the
amount of their subscriptions.
TABLE OF DISTANCES.
Present Distances. 1 Mlles IBy proposed I Saving
Route, about

Warwick to Nottingham, by
Hampton and Derby .. about 71
Warwick to Nottingham, by,
ltuzby and Leicester •• • do. I 65
Warwick to Lincoln .... •• • • do. 97
Coventry to Nottingham ....do. 62
Coventry to Lincoln .. do .........
Birmingham to Nottingham.. do.( 55
Birmingham to Lincoln
Cheltenham to Nottingham, by
Birmingham and Derby.... do.l 100

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Prospectuses may be had at the Temporary Offices of the Company,
i 9, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street, London; where also applica-
tions for sliares, addressed to the Provisional Committee, will be
attended to.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Nottingham, Birmingham, and