The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-29 00:00:00

PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.
GREAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT.'
RAILWAY,
By a Junction with the Eastern Counties Railway at Bedforl.
Distance, 120 miles.
Capital 2,500,0001., in 100,000 Sharee of fa each.
Deposit 21. 12e. 6d. per Share.
(Poignant to the Standing Orders of the Rouse of Connoolto. ,
VIOTISIONAL COMMITTZB.

The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne
Sir William Twysden, Bart., Dorset-street, Portman
of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gi once stelgJuunarection, Dir,eciand.
Erewash Valley Extension Railways
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Parthenon Club, Director of the
Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway, s.nd
of the South and Midland Junction, and West .Midland Railways
Major-General Sir Robert Barton, K.C.H., Director of the York and
Lancaster Railway
Thomas Alexander, Esq., Director Of the Italian and Austrian, and
Trent Valley Continuation Railways
Henry Ambler, Esq., worsted spinner and manufacturer, Watkinson
Hall, near Halifax, Director of the West Yorkshire Railway, and
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
C. H. Anderson, Esq., Upper Clapton, Director of the Smith Midland
Railway
John Alexander Bicknell, Esq., Brandon Cottage, Bristol, Director of
the Oxford and Worcester Extension Railway
William Bardgett, Esq., Winchester-street, Broad-street, Director of
the Italian and Austrian, and the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford,
Railways
William Banks, Esq., Honey-lane Markel
John Byng Banks, Esq., Stockwell, Surrey
William Fechney Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-Square, Di-
rector of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midland Junction
Railways
Henry Weech Burgess, Esq., Temple's Park, Hampstead, Director of
the Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, Potteries, and Crewe Railway
Charles Salisbury Butler, Esq., the Lodge, Upper Clapton
Josiah Burrowes, Esq., Castle House, Gomersall, near Leeds
Thomas Burnley, Esq., Gomersall, near Leeds, Director of the Leeds
and West Riding Junction Railway, and of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway
Samuel Bateman, Esq., Croft House, 'ear Bradford, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Nall and Selby
Railway
Joseph Browne, Esq., Bedford
Dr. 13rigstock, Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester
Railway
James Brand, Esq., 9, New Broad-street, Director of the Cambridge
and Lincoln, and Great Luxembourg Railway
Job Bullinart, Esq., East Redford
William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., J.P., Hull, Director of the Rugby
Warwick, and Leamington, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railways
John Carter, Esq., Knottingley
Thomas Carter, Esq., Tanshelf, J.P.Jor the Borough of Pontefract
Charles Charnock, Esq., Holmfield House, near Ferrybridge
Millis Coventry, Esq., Director of the South and Midland Junction,
and Birmingham Extension Railways
B. Clements, Esq., Lowndes-equare, Director of the Westerndiusiaisa
Railway
J. Cottam, Esq., East Redford
Robert Cook. Esq., Gainsboreugh, Director of the Manchester, Mid-
land, and Great Grimsby, Gainsborough, Goole, and Isle of Axholme,
and the Wisbeach, Isle of Ely, and Lincolnshire Junctionitailways
John Cutts, Esq., Little Barfield Hall, near Braintree, Essex
James Clift, Esq., director of the Parts and Strasbourg, Southampton
Manchester, and Oxford, and the Manchester, Rugby, and Maccles-
field Railways
W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the Loudon and Birmingham Eaten.
sion
Henry Sherard Coleman, Esq., Crown-court, Old Broad-street
Francis Dacre, Esq., Stratford, Essex
J. Dawson, Esq., Pontefract
John Dennis, Esq., Director of the West Midland, and Thames Val-
ley Railways
Joseph Dent, Esq., A.lbston Hall, near Leeds, Magistrate for the
North West Riding of Yorkshire
A. A. Davenport, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Exten-
sion, and Worcester Junction Railways
Joseph L. Davenport, Esq.,Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby,
and Manchester Railway
John Alcock Dixon, Esq., Burnley, near Leeds, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Richard Dransteld, Esq., Dalton, l!uddersfleld, Director of the
Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, of the Liverpool and Leeds Di-
rect, and of the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction
Railways
Edward Doubleday, Esq., F.L.S., Director of the Rugby, Warwick,
and Worcester Railway
Francis Ewart, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey-
mouth Railway
Lieut.-Col. Fitch, 36, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Managing Direc-
tor of the York and Lancaster Railway
Bram:nue Forster, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Exten-
sion Railway
Solomon Foster, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Nottingham, Mans-
field, and Midland Junction Railway
Martin Ferules, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Erewash and Shot
field Railway
John Griffiths Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Chairman of the London-
derry and Coleraine, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways
George Green, Esq., Pontefract
Charles Gibson, Esq., Holland-place, Clapham
James Gilbertson, Esq., Hertford
William Gibson, Esq., Glasgow
H. P. Gipps, Esq., Director of the Coventry and Nuneaton Railway
Charles Goldsmith, Esq., Friday-street, Cheapside
William Gordon, Esq., M.D., F.L.S., Director of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct Railway
Henry Swan Graves, Esq., Ely Bank Lodge, Halifax
Joha Gully, Esq., Ackworth Park, Ackworth
Richard Hall, Esq.,',Carnarron Hall, Stratford, Director of the Strat-
ford and Thames Junction, and North Woolwich Railways "
John Charles Hall, Esq., New Grove-street, East Redford
R. F. Hall, Esq., Wiseton, near Bawtry
S. C. Hall, Esq., Y.S.A.. Inner Temple, Director et the Erewash Tal-
ley Extension, and West Midland Railways
Samuel Hammond. Esq., Leeds
Joha George Hammack, Esq., Director of the Direct Western and
the Metropolitan Junction Railways
William Hepworth, Esq., Pontefract, a Deputy-Lieut. and J.P. fbr the
West Riding of Yorkshire
John Mason Hepworth, Esq., Edea-place, Ackworth, J.P. for the
West Riding of Yorkshire
Joshua Hepworth, Esq., Rogerthorpe Hall, Bedsworth
Thomas Heells, ' Esq. Skipton Castle, Skipton, Director of the Lan-
cashire and North Yorkshire, Lancashire sad Yorkshire North-
Eastern, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways
Robert Berries, Esq., East-street, Leeds, Director of the Liverpool
and Leeds Direct Railway
Charles Holbrooke, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and
Manchester
John Holmes, Esq., Mast Redford
John Illldge, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and Direc-
tor of the Derby and Stafford Railway
William Empson Jalland, Esq., Holderness House, user Hull, Di-
rector of the York and Hull Railway
Barwell Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holderness Home, near Hull, Ma-
gistrate for the East Riding of York and Borough of Hull, and
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds, and Hull and Barnsley
Railways
John Jameson, Esq., Honey-lane Market
William Jameson, Esq., Shelton, Staffordshire, Director of the Staf-
fbrdshire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways
Joseph Jones, Esq., Mayor of Hull, and Director of the I erpool and
Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Director of the Blythe and Churnet
Valleys, or Macclesfield and Lichfield Railways
George Lawton, Esq., Ditchleys, Essex, Director of Una Chepstow,
Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway
Leahy, Esq., St. James's-square
Moses Edward Legg, Esq.. Watling-street, London
Captain Henry Leech, -Bedford
William Ley, Esq.' 40, Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director of
the Reading and Reigate Railway
L. Stephens Lyne, Esq., Broad-street, Director of the Western Ja-
maica Railway
P. Bennett Lucas, Esq., Director of the Sligo and Shannon, the
Ipswich and Southampton, and the Cork Passage and Kinsale
Railways
John B. Mann, Esq., Leeds
Thomas Hackett Massey, Req., Newark-upon-Trent, gial Bedford-
square, Hyde Park
Thomas 'Murk, Esq., Hull
William Mee, Esq., East Redford
W. R. Mesham, Esq., M.D., Bedford
Robert Mellington, Fiq., Ordshall House, near East Redford, Director
of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
William Sfoorho'ose, Esq., Marine Villa, Knottingley, Provisional
Director of the Sheffield, Barnsley, and Wakefield Railway
Peter Morrieon, Esq., Director of South and Midlands' Junction, and
London and Birmingham Extension Railways
James ›auscroft, Esq., Pontefract, J. P. for the Borough, a Previ-
sional Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension and Chester
.I,anctioii, Railway
Joseph Nadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and
Southampton, and the Leeds and Carlisle Railways
William Joseph Nash, Esq. Bedford
John Norton, Esq. 1, St. George's-square, Westminster, and Moat

House, Brentwood, Director otths Great Western Direct Railway
Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley and Con-
tinuation and Holyhead Junction, and West Midland and South
Midland and Oxford Extension Railways
Robert Oxley, Esq., M.D., Ponteftact
Bennett Pell, Esq., 12, Finsbury-place North
William Perfect, Esq., Monkbill, near Pontefract
John Phillips, Esq. Mayor of Pontefract
Thomas Ingham Raynor, Esq., "Bridal, Leeds, Director of the Leeds
and West Riding Junction, and the Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railways
John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Birming-
ham Direct, Leicester, Iron, and DOTS Valley Railways
Robert Richards, Esq., Director of the West Midland Railway
John Reginald Riddll, Esq., Bycullah House, Enfield, Managing
Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester,
and Weymouth Junction, the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke,
and the Direct Western Railways
James Itobson, Esq., Tanshelf, J. P. for the Borough of Pontefract
George Robinson, Esq., Ilull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junc-
tion, and of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railways
John Richardson, Esq., Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate,
the East and West Yorkshire, and the Midland and Think Junc-
tion Railway
Thomas itontlidge, Esq., Alderman, Pontefract
James Russell, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director o.
the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton, of the Tring,
Reading, and Basingstoke Railways
Henry Savage, Esq., Director of the Irving, Reading, and Basing-
stoke Railway
Benjamin Shaw, Esq., Kilburn Priory, Director of the Churnet and
Blythe Valleys Railways
J. E. Sichel, Esq., Director of tho Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and
of the Leeds and York, and Midland Railways
William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Director of
the South Midland Junction Railway, &c., &C.
George Walker Smith, Esq., Horbury Hall, Sheffield, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Smith, Esq., M.D., $O, North-street, Leeds, Director of the
Leeds and York, and Liverpool and Leeds Railways
Joseph Smithson, Esq., Kirklees Mills, near Halifax
James Templer, Esq., Brixton-rise, Director of the Derby, Uttaxster.
and Stafford Railway.
Thomas S. Trapp, Eaq., Banker, Bedford
Samuel Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street, and Gorbais, Hall, Di-
rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway
William Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street, and GOrbals. Hull
Thomas Turney, Esq., Park Lodge, near Halifax
David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckiand Hollow, Derbyshire, Director of
the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, and Direct Birmingham and
Leicester Railways
Major-General Wright, Royal Engineers, Gloucester-plaCo, Portman-
square
William Williams, Esq., Royal Poandery, Bedford
Charles Waite, Esq., Willesden House, MiddleseX
John Wheelton, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex. an
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Willett, Esq., Bradford
George Yates, Esq., merchant, Halifax
(With power to add to their number.)
ENGINZIIII-is.CNIRF—SIr John M'Nell, L.L.D., and P.R.S.
ACTING Emu/gm—William Mallingar Higgins,
L•NDON SOLICITORS.
J. R. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-coitrt
Owen Gray. Esq.,
za Great Tower-street.
J. B. Illidgs, Esq., }
RANKERS.
London—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co.
Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Co.

The object of this railway is to connect, in the moat direct coarse,
The important and increasing manufacturing town of Leeds with the
Metropolis, the want of which has long been felt, and is too univer-
o_fllY acknowledged to need any comment, and it is under this con-
7,etion that this important undertaking, after several minute exit-
12kin dons of the country through which it will pass, has beta brought
IQrwa excl.
Th
• proposed line will commence at the junction of the Manches-
ter and Leede
field, and win, and York and North Midland Railways, near Wake-
Coents Railway inate by means of a junction with the Eastern
that Company te at Bedford to which place it is the intention of
),
and
by
th_extent their line in the ensuing session of Parlia-
ment
railways, win ,ritiitiv itself as far as possible of the existing
Unto, from London to Dee e most direct and leant expetialve trunk
hin an available diet ante
York, and Hull. It will pass in Its route '
wi
1.11,0 et. of Wakefield, Pontefract, Doncaster,
Rotherham, East Redford
Mowbray, Oat Stamford
tingham, Newark, Grantham, Melton
The importance of such a lire .
is obvious, both from the nature of
its course (embracing, as I able most extensive population within
its limits) as also from thecae of any direct communication for
the conveyance of passenger, and merchandise
By the construction of this railway
-aes—and(bYNotaatianganahamof
London will be given to Peterborough. 'se
the syston and Peterborough Railway), to New
(by the Nottingham and Lincoln line), and to ShareffikOld and (3i ham
rough (by the Sheffield and Gainsborough 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 Lino will pass, the Line In itself consi-
dered 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
lbrmed 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 communica-
tion 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 considerably shorter than the accommodation offered by any
ether Company, And when cost of construction Ls considered there