The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-06 00:00:00

BANKER.

London—Messrs. Bogus, Olding and Co.
Leedi—Messrs. Beckett and Company

Doncaster and Pontefract—The Yorkshire Banking Company.
The object of this railway is to connect, in the most direct
course, the important and increasing manufacturing town of Leeds
with the metropolis, the want of which has long been felt, and is
too universally ackm,wledgod to need any comment, and it is under
this conviction that this important undertaking, after several
minute examinations of the country through which it will pass,
has been brought forward.
The proposed line will commence at the junction of the Man.
chester and Leeds, and York and North Midland Railways, near
Wakefield, and will terminate by means of a junction with the
Eastern Counties Railway at Bedford (to which place it is the in.
tention of that Company to extend their line in the ensuing session
of Parliament), and by thus availing itself, as far as possible, of
the existing railways, will complete the most direct and least ex.
pensive trunk line, from London to Leeds, York, a,.d Hull. It
will pass in its routll within an available distance of Wakefield,
Pontefract, Doncaster, Rotherham, East Redford, Nottingham,
Newark, Grantham, Melton Mowbray, o..kham, and Staintbrd.
The importance of such a line is obvious both from the nature
of its course (embracing, as it does, a most extensive population
within its limits) as also from the absence of any direct communi-
cation for the conveyance of passengers and merchandise.
By the construction of this railway, railway communication to
London will be given to Peterborough and Leicester (by means of
the Syston and Peterborough Railway), to Newark and Nottingham
(by the Nottingham and Lincoln line). and to Sheffield and Gains-
borough (by the Sheffield and Gainstorough line), by a much
shorter route than by any existing railways.
Independently of the advantages offered to the towns in the
several counties through which this line will pass, the line in
itself considered as a direct trunk line between London and Leeds
is sufficient to justify its formation, it being well known that the
existing traffic between these two places would produce such a
return on the capital required, as to admit of a dividend, equal to
that of any railway in operation; but when it is borne in mind
that a company is being formed for the purpose of connecting
Glasgow with Leeds by means of a junction with the York and
Carlisle Railway, no better line can be presented to the public,
as it will not only effect a direct communication from Glasgow and
the western parts of Scotland to London, but would also connect
Edinburgh and the eastern parts of Scotland as well as Durham
and Newcastle (by the York and North Midland, and Great North
of England Railways) with the metropolis, which would be con-
siderably shorter than the accommodation offered by any other
company, and when to t of construction Is considered, there cannot
be a doubt but that preference would be given to the Great Leeds
and London Direct Railway

The fact of the Eastern Counties Railway being connected by a
branch live with the East and West India Ducks on the River
Thames, and the Railway Company having recently leased for 990
years the extensive p riper warehouses belonging to those Docks,
which arccapable of receiving 12,000 tons of goods, together with
wharfs adjoining, where the shipment and trans.shipment of goods
from all parts of the world can take place, is a most important fea-
turo in favour of the direct communication from the manufacturing
towns of Glasgow and Leeds offered by the Great Leeds and Lon-
don Direct Railway, and, by branch railways to the main trunk
line, through which Al goods nom the whole of the manufacturing
districts could be conveyed at once to these warehouses for ship-
ment, thereby avoiding the present delay and expense of cartage,
and in reality establishing an almost direct rnd an invaluable con-
nexion between the rivers Clyde and Thames.

It has been ascertained that there areno engineering difficulties,
that the works will be easy, and the gradients remarkably good,
and that it will not materially interfere with any ornamental pro.
perty.

The subscribers will be held liable only to the extent of their first
deposits, until! an Act of Parliament Is obtained, and afterwards
only to the amount of their subscription.
It is proposed to take power in the Bill to allow interest at 4 per
cent. par annum on all calls until the opening of the line, and also.
to exrend the line to Hertford on the Eastern Counties line, in t/ j 4
event of that Company not prosecuting their line to Bedford.