The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-17 00:00:00

THE GREAT MANCHESTER, RUGBY,
and SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY.
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With a Direct Line from Derby to Rugby.

Prqvisionally Registered, Pursuant to 7 and 8 Victoria, cap. 110.
Capital 3,000,000/., in 150,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Combermere, G.C.8., G.C.H. See.
The Right Hon. Lord Thomas Pelham Clinton
The Right Hon. George R. Dawson
The Hon. Cecil Lawless
Sir Arthur de Capel Broke, Bart.
Thomas Bateson, Esq., M.P. Albany, and Belvoir Park, county Lon-
donderry
Major-General Pariby, C. 8., Rutland Gate, Hyde Park
Sir Andrew Pellatt Green, R.N., K.C.B.
H. J. Enthoven, 5, Moorgate-street, Director of the Dutch Rhenish
Railway
William Watson, Esq.,l Directors of the Bristol and Exeter and the
William Morgan, Esq.,s North Devon Railways
C. R. Colman, sq., Iron Gate Wharf, London, Director of the South
Midland and Junction Railway
Anthony Dickson, Esq., Edrington House, Berwickshire, late Phi-
sician-General of Bengal
William Shadbolt, Esq., Croom's-hill, Greenwich, Chairman of the
Greenwich Railway, and Director of the Dendre Railway
Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Esq., Twyford Hall, near Derby
Frazer B. Henshaw, Esq., Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square,
Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Railway
William Watson Prole, Esq., Thurloe-square, Brompton, Director of
the Jersey and South Midlands' Junction Railways
John Inglis Jerdein, Esq., 150, Picadilly
David Montague, Esq., Regent's Park
James Beech, Esq., Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, and 15, Grosvenor-
place, Director of the South Midland Railway
Grey Hazlerigg, Esq., West Carlton Hall, Leicestershire, Director of
the South Midland Railway
Benjamin Franklyn, Esq., 5, Harley-street, Cavendish-square
Jonas Wilks, Esq., Watling-street, London
William Morley, Esq., Blackheath, Kent, Director of the Newcastle,
Durham, and Lancashire Junction Railway
Henry R. Downman, Esq., Kidwelly, Carmartheashire, and 47,
Upper Bedford-place
Robert Chapman, Esq., Coomb Lodge, Hants, and Park-place,
Regent's Park
James Reeves, Esq., Cheapside, and Leyton, Essex
Major White, Pall-mall, Director of the Northampton and Chelten-
ham Railway
John Downes, Esq., 6, Bedford-place, Russell-square
George Ashlin, Esq., Mark-lane
Alfred Ricketts, Esq., merchant, Graccchurch-street
William Lee, Esq., Satis House, Rochester
John Hardcastle Mousley, Esq., Derby
John Bowring, LL.D., M.P., Director of the Blackwell Railway
Ambrose Moore, Esq., Milk-street, London, and of Derby, Director
of the Dendre Railway
Henry Wright, Esq., Director of the Warwick and Worcester, and
the South Midlands' Junction Railways
Charles Augustus Tulk, Esq., Totteridge Park, Hertfordshire
Henry Gosse, Esq., Epsom, Surrey
James Russell, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director of
the London and Birmingham Junction Railway and of the Tring,
Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
John Weston, Esq., 28, Woburn-square
Edward Webster Bullock Webster, Esq., Hendon, Middlesex, Director
of the New River Company
James Hunt, Esq., 31, Parliament-street
James Lys Seager, Esq., Director of the Welsh Midland and Shrews-
bury and Hereford Railways
Edward Turst Carver, Esq., Forest Lodge, Tulse-hill, Director of the
North Wales and Namur and Liege Railways
William de Lanuoy, Esq., 42, Guildford-street, Russell-square
Archibald F. Paull, Esq., Leadenhall-street, Director of the South
Wales Railway
William 11. Allen, Esq., Leadenhall-street
J. Mee Mathew, Esq., Mecklenburgh-square, Director of the Derby,
Sheffield, and Worcester Railway
Burton Archer Burton, Esq., Woodlands Hall, Emsworth, Hants
John Rawson, Esq., Stoney Royd, Halifax, Director of the Manches-
chester, Liverpool, and Great North of .England Railway
John 8, Silva, Esq., Crutched-friars
Charles James Heath, Esq., 6, London-street
Frederick Clarkson, Esq., Doctors'-commons, and Hanger-lane,
Tottenham.
James Peard Ley, Esq., Seaton Ironworks, Whitehaven
John Saunders, Esq. Derby, Director of the Derby and Crewe, and
Erewash Valley Railways
Thomas Hackett, Esq., merchant, Derby
Mr. Herbert Holmes, carriage-builder, Derby.

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
The Right Hon. Lord Thomas Robert Chapman, Esq.
Pelham Clinton Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Esq.
The Hon. Cecil Lawless Ambrose Moore, Esq.
Wm. Watson, Esq. Archibald F. Paull, Esq.
Wm. Morgan, Esq. Henry R. Downman, Esq.
Wm. Watson Prole, Esq.

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a commercial advantages and great facilities which the port of
Southampton offers to the merchant and the manufacturer, clearly
point out a demand for a more direct communication with it from
Manchester and York, and the various manufactories of the north
and of Staffordshire, than is at present afforded, either by the
circuitous route on the eastern side, through London by the Bir-
mingham and the South-Western Railways, or on the western side,
by the Birmingham and Cheltenham Railways. Numerous influen-
tial and monied parties, interested in improving this communication,
have projected a direct line, proceeding from Manchester via Stock-
port, Macclesfield, Leek, Cheadle, Uttoxeter, Tutbury, Burton,
Market Bosworth, and Hinckley, to Rugby, and then using the Rug-
by and Oxford Railway to Didcote (on the Great Western Railway),
to form a railway thence to Southampton by way of Newbury, An-
dover, and Stockbridge.
The distance between Manchester and Rugby by the existing rail-
way route is at present about 116 miles, and by the proposed
line from Macclesfield to Rugby it will be only 92, so
that the projected Railway willlessen the distance by 24 miles, which,
as well in time as charge, will effect a most important improvement
in the traffic both of passengers and goods between those places, and
will afford an accommodation which is imperatively requiredin regard
to the large population of the intermediate towns now without any
convenience from railway conveyance.
It is needless to remark how great must be the advantage which the
whole manufacturing districts round such an emporium of manufac-
tures as Manchester will derive, from having direct access to such a
port as Southampton, which has now become the chief medium of
transit to all the islands and ports in the Mediterranean, and to India
also, by means of the packets of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam
Navigation Company, as also to the colonies and ports of the Western
Hemisphere by the mall established for that purpose.
As the scheme embraces the important feature of a direct line from
Derby to Rugby, by joining the Great Manchester, Rugby, and
Southampton Railway, near Market Bosworth, thereby saving one-
fifth of the distance, it will be at once apparent that York and the
whole northern district will, by means of the Northern Midland
Railway to* Derby, obtain the same direct communication with
Southampton ; and, in fact, the project will contribute a grand trunk
commtm'eation from north to south through the centre of the king-
dom, and not only win the northern commercial and manufacturing
towns benefit by this great undertaking, but the important coal
and iron districts of Derbyshire and Staffordshire, which the line
intersects, will derive immense advantages from the convenient and
extensive new mart which will be opened for their valuable produc-
tions, whilst Southampton and the internaediatelocallties will greatly
benefit by the ready and cheap manner in which coals and other
necessary productions, not only of the soil, but of northern manu-
factories, will be supplied, whether for consumption or merchandise.
It is proposed that the Southampton terminus shall be a convenient
spot in the vicinity of the new docks, independently of the South-
Western Railway. The lines of the proposed railways have been
carefully surveyed, and levels taken by skilful engineers and sur-
veyors, and in no part present any unusual difficulties. The gradients
will be unusually good, and the general line of country may be re-
garded as offering engineering facilities for the important work pro-
posed.

A more direct communication from Manchester and from York,
through Derby and Rugby to Southampton, is professedly the main
object of the proposed scheme ; but it will be obvious to all who study
the geography of the respective places, not only that the line to
Rugby, both from Manchester and from Derby, forms a more direct
communication between those places and London, by means of the
Birmingham Railway from Rugby, than any other route now in use,
but that it will challenge the skill of the engineer and the ingenuity
of the speculator to devise a better line.
It is no slight advantage in this scheme that the interference it
offers to any of the existing railways is not considerable, whilst the
increased traffic which it is certain to cause on the North Midland
Railway, and the traffic which it is calculated to retail to the Lon-
don and Birmingham Railway, notwithstanding the threatened
rivalry of two distinct Manchester and London direct lines ; as also
the immense traffic both of passengers and goods which it must
necessarily pour along the Rugby and Oxford line, now under the
management of the Great Western Railway Company, appear not
only to neutralize the opposition, but to entitle this project to the
support of each of those formidable bodies.

It appears unnecessary In regard to a line of railway like that pro-
posed to go into those details of passenger and goods traffic, which
may be necessary where the amount is questionable ; but as the main
feature of this scheme, is the improvement of communication between,
and near places, the traffic of which is known to be immense, it
would be idle to swell the prospectus with any such particulars. It
is sufficient to state that it will be equal to that of any line in the
kingdom.

The Subscribers will be only liable to the extent of their deposits ;
and power will be taken to allow the Shareholders 4 per cent. on the
deposit and calls until the opening of the line.
Plans of the line and copies of the prospectus and forms of appli-
cation for shares my be had by applying to the Company's Solicitors,
or to the following :—Messrs. Pritchett and Monday, Stock Brokers,
No. 74, Old Broad-street, and 17, Royal Exchange (eastern en-
trance); Messrs. Wells, Westrop, and Princeps, 75, Old Broad-street,
London ; Messrs. Bradley, Ford, and Parker, Mr. J. Faringhaugh,
Mr. W. B. Newberry, and-Mr. John Beethon, Manchester ; Messrs.
Earp and Son, Derby ; Messrs. John Haselden and Son, Mr. S. Sum-
merfield, and Messrs. Davies and Son, Liverpool ; Messrs. George
Edwards and Son, and Messrs. Wreford, Nichols, and Wreford,
Bristol ; Mr. Charles Wickens, Northampton; Messrs. Watson arid
Co., Hull ; Mr. Samuel Cullinson, and Messrs. Pott and Lerick, Not-
tingham ; Messrs. Wilkinson and Sons, Exeter ; Messrs. King and
Co., and Messrs. Ridsdale, Myers, and Bailey, Lee Is ; Mr. Samuel
Clerke, Edinburgh; Messrs. Collis and Son, Mr. Edward Wilson,
and Mr. J. Wrighton, Birmingham.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Gr,at Manchester, Rugby, and
Southampton Railway, with a-direct line from Derby to Rugby:
dentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me Shares-of
201. each, in the above Railway, and I hereby undertake to accept
the same, or any less number you may allot me, and to pay the
deposit of 2/. 2s. per Share thereon, and to sign the Parliamentary
Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
Dated this day of September, 1545.
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