The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-08 00:00:00

MIDLAND GRAND JUNCTION
RAILWAY.
Connecting the Great Weatent, London and Birmingham, !tad Direct
Manchester. From Reading via Henley-on-Thames, Aylesbury,
Buckingham, and Northampton.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 1,250,0001. in 5e,000 Shares of 25/. each.
Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Barton, K.C.H., Montague-place,
Montague-square
John Anderson, Esq., Princes-park, Liverpool, Director of the East-
ern Counties and Southend Railway
Charles R. Itigge, Esq., 19, Bryanston-square, Director of the York
and Lancaster Railway
Charles Bleaden, Esq., Coulsklen-court, Surrey, Chairman of the
Licensed retuallers' Assurance Company
John Blunt, Esq., Upper Bedford-place, Director of the London
Docks
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Chairman of the
Direct Western Railway, and Director of the Sheffield and Man-
chester Railway
James Brand, Esq., 9, New Broad-street, Director of the New 11.)ss,
Carlow, and Kilkenny Railway
G. A. Brown, Esq., Broad-street, Director of the Callao and Lima
Railway
Joseph Bull, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Staffordshire Potteries
Railway
Captain James Edward Carnegie, Somerset street, Portman-square,
and Bower-hall, Inverness, Director of the Reading and Reigate
Railway
John Chauntler, Esq., Friday-street, Director of the York and Lan-
caster Railway
Richard Clay, Esq., 1, Winchester-buildings, London, Director of the
Iludde afield and Eastern Coast Railway
Ephraim Cocker, Esq., White Coppice,Chorley, Director of the Black-
burn, Chorley, and Liverpool Railway
Newton Crouch, Esq., 13, Southampton-place, Euston-square, Di-
rector of the Mauritius, and the York and Lancaster Railways
Thomas Ferrand Dearden, Esq., Rochdale, Director of the Stafford-
shire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railway
Peregrine Royds Dearden, Esq., Birkenhead, Liverpool
Miles Dormer, Esq., Hans-place, Sloane-street, Director of the
Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway
Richard Davis, Esq., Knaresborough, Director of the Wilts, Somerset,
and Southampton Railway
Colonel Lothian Sheffield Dickson, Curzon-street, May-fair, Director
of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway
John Edwards, Esq., Chester, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway, the York and Lancaster, Staffordshire Potteries,
and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways
Benjamin Smart Fowler, Esq., Alder House, near Tamworth, Direc-
tor of the Leicester and Northampton Railway.
The Rev. 11. R. Fowler, 7, Manchester-square, Director of the South
Midland Railway
The Hoti. Percy Evans Freke, Belgrave-square, Director of the
Bandon and Bantry Railway
William Garrow, Esq., Great George's-square, Liverpool, Director of
the Eastern Counties and Southend Junction Railway
William Gibb, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Staffordshire
Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railway
Joseph Gillham, Esq., Hargreaves-house, Oldham, Director of the
Staffordshire Potteries, and Huddersfield, and East and West
Coasts Railways
Captain Twisleton Graves, Director of the Leicester and Teen and
Dos_, Valley Railway
Charles Haigh, Esq., Broadley Wood, Rochdale and Manchester,
Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
F. W. Hamilton, Esq., 59, Gloucester-place, Director of the Brighton
and Cheltenham Railway
John Lawrence Harris. Esq., 4, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry,
Director of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway
John Hawkins, Esq., St. James's-place, New-cross
Theophilus Hodges, Esq., Connaught-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of
the London, Hounslow, and Western Railway
John Holford, Esq., Rusholm-ball, Manchester, Director of Renslug-
ton's Direct London and Manchester Railway
Charles Holland, Esq., of Liscard Vale, Cheshire, and Liverpool
John Holmes, Esq., St. James's-street, Westminster, Director of the
Eastern Counties Junction and Southend, and the Direct Western
Railways
George Holt, Esq , Willow-hili, Crumpsall, Director of the Stafford-
shire Potteries, and Livernool and Manchester Direct Railways
William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid-
land Railway
John Charles Jack, Esq., Liverpool
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart.
Richard Kelly, Esq., Cleveland-row, St. James's, Chairman of the
New Ross, Carlow, and Kilkenny Railway
Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South and
Midlands Junction Railway
Charles Kelson, Esq., J.P., banker, Teignmouth, Director of the Dart-
mouth and Exeter, and Ashburton and Newton Railways
William Ketnpe, Esq., Teign Villa, Teignmouth, Director of the
Eastern Counties Junction Railway, and the Leeds, Fleetwood,
and Liverpool Railway
Peter Thomas Legh, Esq., Ridge-hall, county Dublin, Firector of the
Isle of Man Railway.
James Macmillan, Esq., Southampton, Director of the Worcester,
Warwick, and Rugby Railway
Edward Norris, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Direct Western
Railway
Nathaniel Ogle, Esq., Heath-lane-lodge, Twickenham, Director of
the York and Lancaster Railway
Richard William l'erry, Esq., Barham Wood, near Elstree, Berta
William S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Director of the
Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenhamn Rai way
Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester, Chairman of the Birkenhead
and Holyhead Jtinction, and Director of the Sheffield and Man-
chester Railway, &c.
J. Reginald Riddell, Esq., Byeullah-house, Enfield, Director of the
Direct Western Railway
It. A. Riddell, Esq., Director of the Great Western Extension Railway
A. Macdonald Ritchie, Esq., Middle Temple, London, Director of the
Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway
Richard Rowe, Esq., Beauvoir-terrace, Maida Vale
William Sidebotham, Esq., Glossop, J.P. for Derbyshire, Director of
the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
James Shaw, k:sq., Salford, Director of the Manchester and Rugby
• Direct Railway
Edward Smith, Esq., Barnsbury Park, Director of the Great Eastern
and Western Railway
William - tudley, Esq., North Brixton, Director of the Leeds and
Carlisle Railway
Joseph Thompson, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton Rallwav
Charles F. Thornley, Esq., Eastfield House, Westbury, near Bristol,
Director of the Leeds and Carlisle, and Manchester, Settle, and
Car isle Railways
Sir Warwick Bele Tonkin, J.P., Teignmouth, Director of the London
Salisbury, Yeovil, and Exeter, the Dartmouth and Exeter, and
Ashburton and Newton Railways.
thoinas Tibbutt, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
Sir William Twisden, Bart., Cavendish-street, Cavendish-square
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Deputy Chr,rman of the Leeds and Carlisle
Railway, and Director of the Commercial Bank of London.
Charles Waite, Esq.,Willesden, Director of the Great Western, East-
ern Counties, and Ipswich and Southampton Railways
George Walker, Esq., Manchester
Major White, 105, Pall-mall, Director of the South Midland Railway
Mathew Wyatt, Esq., Upper Hyde-park-street, Director of the.
London, Salisbury, Yeovil, and Exeter, and Ashburton and Newton
Railways
William Ayscongh Wilkinson, Esq., Woodbury Downs, Director of
the Waveney Valley Railway
Robert Wynne Williams, Esq., 29, Bedford-place,Rassell-square
Thomas Wynne, Esq., Longton, Staffordshire, Director of the Leeds
and Carlisle, and South Union andllirminghant Junction Railways
Sir William Wynne, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, Chairman of the North
Wales Ralway
Oldham, Director of the Oldham District, the
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Director of the York and Lancaster,
Rugby, Derby and Manchester, Staffordshire Potteries, and Man-
chester, Wigan, and
amid Southport Railways
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Thomas Byrom,
John Lord, Esq., Standish-halt, Lancashire, Director of the Staf-
fordshire Potteries, Liverpool and Manchester Direct, and Lan-
cashire, and Leeds
Derby, and
Henry sDirlet
Taylor,r et Cheshire,Liverpool,sq Preston.and
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Liverpool Hallways
Manchester and Oxford, Cheltenham and London Railways
John Thompson, Esq., Frood Ironworks, near Wrexham, and
Wigan, Director of the Birkenhead and Holyhead, Manchester
and Wigan, Liverpool, Preston, and North Union, and Dover and
Bristol Railways
Nathaniel Cooke, Esq., Bayswater, Director of the Eastern Counties
Junction and Southend Railway
Herbert Ingram, Esq., Director of the Eastern Counties Junction
and Southend Railway
George Laurie, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Eastern Counties
Junction and Southend Railway
(With power to add to their number).
CONSULTING ENGINEER—T. Urpeth Rastrick, ESQ.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, Moorgate-street
J. E. Beales, Esq., 7, John-street, Adelphi
William Burdett, Esq., Manchester.
RANIERI.
London—The Commercial Bank of London
Manchester—The National Provincial Bsuik of England.
SECRETARY—I:Whs. J. Kempe, Esq.
Company's Offices, Palace-chambers, St. James's.

This railway will form, as nearly as may be practicable, a direct
line from Reading, in Berkshire—one of the ost important and
rapidly improving towns in the kingdom—to the large and populous
town of Northampton, where it will form a junction with the
Northampton and leterborough Railway
The line will proceed from the Reading station of the Great Western
Railway, and by the way of Henley-on-Thames, Great Marlow,
West Wycombe, Aylesbury, and Buckingham, through some of the
richest and most fertile districts of England, from whence vast
supplies of live stock and agricultural produce are constantly fur-
nished to the metropolis ; and from Buckingham it will be continued
direct to Blisworth and Northampton.
From Ellsworth a line proceeds to Wellingborough, and forms a
function with the Direct Manchester Railway; and it is intended
that a branch shall be formed from West Wycombe to the station at
Slough, on the Great Western Railway
The proposed line with the branch will be about seventy-five miles
in length, and it has been ascertained that it may be constructed I
with unusual facility, whilst, by means of the intended junctions with
the Groat Western Railway at Slough and Reading, with the London '
and Birmingham Railway et Blisworth, and the Direct Manchester
Railway at Wellingborough, an uninterrupted and most desirable
railway communication will be opened between Portsmouth, Gos-
port, the Isle of Wight, Southampton, Bedford, Huntingdon, the
Staffordshire Potteries, Birmingham, Derby, Leicester, Manchester,
Liverpool, Leeds, Newcastle and Berwick, and with the great manu-
facturing and mining districts of the north of England.
The numerous parishes and districts which will be traversed by the
line comprise a population of nearly 1,500,000 persons, and passing,
as it wig, a p.irtion of the counties of Berks and Oxford, the whole
of Buckinghamshire, and by the celebrated Vale of Aylesbury, and
uniting with the several completed or projected railways under-
mentioned, viz.:—
The London and Birmingham
The Great Western
The Southampton Union
The South Midland
The Midland Counties
The Northampton and Leicester
The Northampton and Peterborough, and that with
The Direct Manchester
it cannot be doubted that it must prove extremely convenient and
beneficial to the public, and highly advantageous to the proprietors.
The liability of the shareholders will be restricted by Act of Par-
liament to the amount of their subscriptions, and power will be ap-
plied for in the Bill to allow interest at 4 per cent. per annum on all
calls, from the passing of the Act until the opening of the line.
Arrangements have been made that the survey shall be completed,
and the plans and sections deposited in time for obtaining an Act
during the ensuing session of Parliament.
Applications for shares may be addressed, in the form annexed, to
thp undermentioned brokers, viz. :—Messrs. B. and M. Boyd., Princes-
street, John Shewell, Esq., Threadneedle-street, and Messrs. Wells,
Westropp, end Prinsep, 75, Old Broad-street, London ;• Messrs. Gray-
gone and Earle, York i Mr. Thackray, Harrogate ; Mr. Joseph Nel-
son, settle; 34, NV. Welch, Lancaster; Messrs.. Geddes and Drink-
water, and Mr, Henry Waterton, Bank-buildings, Castle-street,
Messrs. Christian and Tomes, Harrington--street, Liverpool ;
Mr. Peter Leicester, Messrs. Green and Oldham, Messrs.
Green and Lockwood, Manchester; Mr. James Pearson, Birming-
ham ; Messrs. Joshua Wood and Son, Messrs. Watson and Co., and
Messrs. E. King 44,1 Co., Leeds ; Messrs. Brady and Ftaniforth,
Hull ; Mr. J. A. linteliart, litidderstield ; Mr. Hervey, Halifax ; Mr.
Nightingale, Wakefield I 3fesses, Samuel Hutchinson and Brad-
ford Pl-
ymouth i 31r. Luke Arnold, and Mr. George Edwards, Bristol ; Co.,'Mr. G.
R. Glidden, and Mr. Thomas Sandford, Exeter ; Messrs. Hall,
4nd Mr. James Pringle, Edinburgh ; Mr. W. Pringle,
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;Houfgwhom prospectuses may be
Leith; momfg, 3pEwen and J 1.1114. Glasgow; Mr. Wm. Gordon,
Aberdeen ;
had ; or to the Provisional Committee, at the Offices of the Company.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the PloviAiOnal Committee of the Midland Grand Junction
Railway.
Gentlemen,--1 request you will allot to me shares of 25/.
rach in the Midland Orarid Railway, and hereby undertake
to accept that, or any less rinmber that may be allotted to me. and to
pay the deposit of 2/. 12s. d. per share thereon, and to execute the
Perliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Mreement when required.
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