The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-20 00:00:00

Dated Sept. 18,1845,

A MBER GATE, NOTTINGHAM and BOS-
TON, and EASTERN JUNCTION P.AILWAY.
(Provisionally. Registered.)
Capital, 1,800,0001., in 72,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 21. 12s. Oct.

PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS.
Wm. Fletcher Norton Norton, Esq., Elton Manor, Nottinghamshire,
man
Tho:lies Bishop, Esq., Standard-hill, Nottingham, Vice-Chairman
:sir Montague John Cholmeley, Bart., Easton Hall, Lincolnshire
Sir Janes Duke, 31. P., Alderman, London
Sir Wm Browne Folkes, Bart., Millington Hall, Norfolk, Chairman
of the Lynn and Ely Railway Company
John Pemberton Plumptre, Esq., M.P., Fredville, Kent
Col. RoEaston, M.P., Watnall, Nottinghamshire
Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P.
The Hon. George H. Cavendish, 31. P., Chairman.of the Manchester,
Buxton, Matlock, and Midland Junction Railway
Henry Tootnl, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Manchester, Buxton,
Matlock, and Midland Junction Railway
Joseph Paxton, Ea q., Chatsworth Directors of the Man-
Henry Newberry, Esq., Ludley Bank, Man- chester,Buxton, Mat-
chaster lock, and Midland
James Durham, Esq., Manchester Junction Railway
Richard Barrow, Esq., Seedier, Derbyshire
James Walkinshaw, Esq., Chairman of the Manchester and South-
ampton Railway •
Henry Charles Lacy, Esq., Kenyon House, Manchester, Chairman of
the Lynn and Dereham Railway Company
The Worshipful the Mayor of Boston
The Worshipful the Mayor of Grantham
Peter Arlawright, Esq., aVillersley Castle, Derbyshire
Charles Alicock, Esq., Bulwell. Nottinghamshire • -
Francis *imes Alliott, Esq., Nottingham
Francis Braithwaite, Esq., Nottingham-park
RiChard Bradley, Esq., Grantham
John Bradley, Esq., Nottingham-park'
Joseph Draithviaite,* Esq., Standard-hill, Nottingham
George Beatimont, Esq., East Bridgford, Nottinghamshire
George Bacon, Esq., .ZsTottingham •
John Burgess; Esq.,'Bor)sughreeve, Manchester
E. T. Coke, Esq., Woodhouse-grave, near Mansfield, Nottingham-
shire
Charles Clarke, Esq., Matlock
William Cartledge, Esq 4 Nottingham
Chaslcs Chouler, Esq., Wollati•n, Nottinghamshire, Steward to the
It lit Hon. I)igby Lord Middleton
William Cantrell, Esq., Wirksworth, Derbyshire
J hn Cruso, Esq„ Leek, Staffordshire
'Robert Cresswell,' Esq., Iditridgehay, Derbyshire, one of the Provi-
sionalCoMmittee of the Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Mid-
land Junction Railway
John Churchill; Esq., Bayswater, London, Director of the Man-
chester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction
Railway Company
Timothy Chouler, • Esq., Nottingham
Nathaniel Cooke, Esq., Sherwood Cottage, Bayswater
John Downing, jun., Esq.;Casthorpe, Lind:1118111re
John Elsam, Esq., magistrate, Boston
Booth Eddison; Esq., _NOW rg!,an • •
John Fox, Esq., Woodthort r, Nottinghamshire
Smith Fowler, Esq., .Nottingham - •
}Yawls Green Goodwill, Egg ; Wigwell Orange, Derbyshire
Thomas Gee, Esq., banker, Boston
Charles Edmund Goodall, Esq., Normanton, Nottinghamshire
John Crucifer, 'Esq., Hucknall Torkard, Nottinghamshire
The Rev. G. J. Girite.ot, Coxeolston, Nottinghamshire
Thomas Foster Gimson, Esq. Nottingham
Francis Hall, Esq., Park Hal, Nottinghamshire
Robert Bolden, Esq., Locke Park' Derbyshire
Francis Hurt, Esq., Alderwasley, Derbyshire
Richard Hurt, Esq., \Virksworth, Derbyshire
Charles Vicars Hunter, Esq., Kilburne, Derbyshire
William Hannay, Esq., Nottingham
John Hardy, jun., Esq , Banker, Grantham
Lawrence Hall, sq., Brameote, Nottinghamshire
Thomas Hopkins, Esq., Nottingham
Lewis Heymann, Esq., Nottingham
Samuel Horn s, Esq., Nottingham
Thomas Harvey, Esq., Nottingham Park
Robert Hand, Esq., Woolsthorpe Lodge, near Grantham, Lincolnshire
John James Herbert, Esq., Grantham
Richard Ilenley,-Esq., Laugton, Lincolnshire
Herbert Ingram, Esq., 198, Strand, London
Daniel Jackson, Esq., Boston.
Edmund Fillingham Ring, Esq., Banker, Grantham
Thomas Keeley, Esq., 's °Hingham
John Lillie, Esq., Derby House, Manchester, Director of the Trent
Valley, Midlands and Grand Junction Railways
William Little, Esq., Eye, near Peterborough
Thomas Marriott, u.sq., Pappilion Hall, Leicestershire
James Nixon, Esq., Beeston, Nottinghamshire
John Noble, Esq., Boston
William:Gstler, Esq., solicitor, Grantham
John Oldrid, Esq., maglstrat, Boston
George Parr, Esq. Cropwell Autler, Nottinghamshire
n illiant Porter, Esq.,
Rochford-tower, Boston
Ffflingliam Parr, Esq., Gotham, Nottinghamshire
Esq , Hansthorpe House, Bootee, Lincolnshire
John Parr, ESq., Boston
Robert Palmer, Esq., Kennington, near London
Edward Radford, Esq., Tansley Wood, Matlock
John Sherwin Sherwin, Esq., Brameote, Nottinghamshire
The Rev. John Smith, Ahlaker Park, Derbyshire
Joint Simpson, Esq., Arnot 11111, Nottinghanishire
The Rev. John Storer, Rector of Hawksworth, Nottinghamshire
Thomas Spalding, Esq., London
William Sills, Esq., Casthorpe, Lincolnshire
John Sturdy, Esq.,' magistrate, Boston
Kirke Se ann, Esq., Nottingham
Samuel Beardsley Slater, Esq., Nottingham
John Swami, Esq.,. Nottingham
William Taylor, Ratcliffe Hall, Nottinghamshire
James Edward Tuxford, Esq., magistrate, Boston
John 31. Thomas Esq., Boston
George Walker, Esq., Eastwood Hall, Nottinghamshire
Colonel Thomas Wildman, Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire
John Charles Williams, Esq., Lynn
Peter Walthall, Esq., barley Dale, Derbyshire
Joseph Wass, Esq., the Villa, Lea, near 3latlock Bath, Derbyshire,
one of the Provisional Committee of the Manchester, Buxton, Mat-
lock, Amber-gate, and Midland Junction Railway
Joseph Wyles, Esq., Grantham
Charles Wright, Esq., alderman, Boston
Charles Wright, jun., Esq., merchant, Boston
Lawrence Wyles, Esq., Grantham
Nathaniel Wedd, Esq., merchant, Boston
William Watson, Esq., Daybrook, Nottinghamshire
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
W. F. N. NORTON, Esq. Chairman
THOMAS BISHOP, Esq., Vice-Chairman
Francis Braithwaite, Esq. Herbert Ingram Esq.
Richard Bradley, Esq. Joseph Paxton, Esq.
John Fowler Murbidge, Esq. John Rawson, Esq.
Charles Clarke, Esq. John Simpson, Esq.
Sir James Duke, M.P. John Swann, Esq.
William Hannay, Esq. Joseph Wyles, Esq.
John Hardy, Esq. John Charles Williams, Esq.
ENGINEER—John lirpeth Rastrick, Esq.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Samuel Smith and Co., Nottingham
Messrs. Arkwright, Worksworth
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith, Lonclon
Messrs. Samuel Smith and Co., Derby
Messrs. Jones, Loyd, and Co., Manchester
Messrs. J. and J. G. Wright and Co. Nottingham
Messrs. Kewney and King, Grantham, Lincolnshire
Messrs. Hardy, Walkington, and hardy, Grantham, Lincolnshire
Messrs. Gartlt, Claypons, and Co., Boston
Messrs. Henry and Thomas Gee and Co., Boston
Messrs. Moore and Robinson, Nottingham

SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Percy, South,- and Percy, Nottingham
PhilipThei-sty, Esq., Wirksworth
John Poore King, Esq., Grantham
Thomas Winter, Esq., tltantham
Messrs. Hopkins and Bice, Boston

LOCAL AGENTS.
Messrs. Bottler and Son, solicitors, Spalding
Messrs. Smith and Wilkinson, solicitors, Horbling,

SECIIETARJES.
Mr. John Gough, Nottingham
Air. Thomas Jackson, Nottingham.

The above Company formed by an amalgamation of the Notting.
ham, Erew..sh Valley, Amber Gate, and Manchester, the Nottingham
Yale of Bclvoir, and Grantham, and the Nottingham and Boston
Railways, is intended to carry out the original object of those Com•
pai,les with an extension to Spalding. The Directors have the satis-
faction to state that by arrangements now made, this Company will
have the powerful all and hearty co-operation of the Manchest r,
Buxton, Matlock, and Midland Junction Railway Company, the
Lynn and Ely Railway Company, and the Lynn and Dereham Rail-
way Com:any. The Committee congratulate the Shareholders upon
this accession, which while it affords a mutually beneficial interchange
of traffic and a facility in carrying out the objects o 1 this undertaking,
insures that unity of interest which is the best guarantee of perma-
nent suttees.
They have also effected an amalgamation of interests with the
canals in the district, upon terms not only beneficial to the share-
holders of this Company in a pecuniary point of view, but upon
such as will secure to this Company the influence of nearly
every nobleman and gentleman through whose property the line
will ptv,s.
The treaty which has been pending with the Midland Railway,
the Dirextors are happy to state, will shortly be satisfactorily
concluded • upon terms, which they feel assured, will receive the
full approbation of the Shareholders of this Company.
The Directors are now in a position to go to Parliament as a
unite i and most influential body, for the purpose of making a
direct and integral line of Railway from the terminus of the Man-
ele..ster, Buxton, Matlock, and Midlands Junction Railway at Amber
thee, by Nottingham and Grantham to Boston and Spalding. At
Spalding it is proposed t 1 form a junction with the line of the Lynn
and Ely Company projected from Wisbeach to Spalding.
Thus the scheme as now developed becomes one of a national cha-
racter—it effects, by:the most desirable practical route, the junction
of Boston, Spalding, Lynn, Wisbeach, Norwich, Great Yarmouth,
and the whole of the easternand south-eastern part of the kingdom
with Liverpool, Manchester, and the great manufacturing districts of
Lancashire and Cheslnre, and the great coal and iron districts of
Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, and Staffordshire.
The town and environs of Nottingham alone contain a population
of upwards of 100,000 persons, extensively employed in the cotton,
silk, and lace manufacture ; and this line, by its connexion with the
proposed Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, anti Midlands Jtmctlon Rail-
way, will reduce the distance upwards of 70 miles from that impor-
tant town to Manchester and Liverpool, as compared with exisdng
routes; and will bring the eastern parts of Lincolnshire and Norfolk
within a few hours journey of those hives of industry and sources of
wealth.
The line will pass through the extensive Nottinghamshire and
Derbyshire Coal-field, and by its junction with the Midlands Railway
at Amber Gate, and its contiguity to the limestone and gritstone
quarries of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, will afford an unlimited
quantity of coal, lime, and building stone to districts hitherto only
partially and expensively supplied with those important articles.
By the cheap and expeditious transit provided by this line, coal
will he reduced to at least one-half the average price at which it is
usually sold in Lincolnshire, and when that traffic is fully developed,
the income to be derived to the Company, and the benfit conferred
on the public, will be immense. Boston and Spalding, and the
immediate country connected with those important towns, are
situated in the richest productive districts in the kingdom. The corn
And cattle are consumed in the large manufacturing towns in the
midland and western counties, and the carriage of these to the con-
-1
suming districts will alone furnish a constant and certain source of
revenue.

A very considerable amount of the vast staple produce of Notting-
ham, Derby, Loughborough, Leicester, and the neighbourhood, which
is exported to Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Germany, and all other
parts of the Baltic, is now conveyed by a circuitous and expensive
route to Hull and London for exportation ; whereas on the com-
pletion of this line it will be transmitted direct to the eastern ports,
and from thence shipped to those countries in much less time and at
much less expense.
The Railway will also provide an easy and cheap access from Not-
tintiham and the eastern parts of England to Matlock, Buxton, Bake-
well, Chatsworth, and !redden, and the romantic scenery of the Peak,
and by opening objects so rich in their attraction, will, beyond doubt,
command a large proportion of that pleasure travelling by which ex-
isting lines have so much benefited.
It will be thus seen that the proposed line contains all the elements
of a profitable rallway;it has a sea coast and seaport towns at its
eastern termini; it unites the richest and most productive agricul-
tural district of England with the great seats of manufacture and
consumption, it provides an outlet for the coal and minerels of Not-
ingharosbtro and Duri,yshire into districts at present oil,. pz:etially
net supplied, and it conels the east with
and wt.:ler.: counties by the shortest i-v.ict:cal>le route.
The line having !,,,en now laid out is reported to be free from en-
gineering-diffieulties, and the cost of formaVon will be much below
tie fiver: Wk. as eanydared with oilier
Direct,,r or halyy If, $l, 1,1*.-.;'•erty iy !n-
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others locally interested. Sept; 20, 180.
Company's Offices, 62, MeorgAte-street,

PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT.
TVORTIIERN COUNTIES (ROSS, SUTHER-
LAND, . A_ND CAITHNESS DIRECT RAILWAY.
To afford the very important division of the Kingdom the benefits
of railway communication, and to promote and stimulate the pro-
gressively increasing pastoral, agricultural, and commercial, improve-
nwnts which of lute years have made such rapid strides in these
counties, it is proposed to form, under the sanction of the most
Influential patronage, a-railway by the most direct practicable route,
to connect these northern and producing districts with the southern
and consuming portions of the empire.
. Adopting the line which may be found the shortest to Dingwall
consistent with a due regard to economy in its execution and work-
ing, and to the rights and interests of private parties, and from Dint-
wall by Novar to Bonar-bridge, the dista, ce of the county of Suther-
land from Inverness would be many miles shorter than by any other
route. From Bonar the line would pass by lairg through the
valleys of the Brora and of the Frie, and by F.trath Hclinsdale to the
Thurso water; thus nearly bisecting the county of Sutherland
through its . length and passing into the most populous parts of
Caithness, diverging to the right and left to Wick and Thurso.
A branch might be formed to connect the coast of Sutherland with
the trunk line. . . .

. . .
In Boss-shire a branch would be formed from the main line to In-
vergordon; and this branch might be extended to the burgh of Tain.
Arrangements are being made for having the lines (the courses of
which arebut generally indicated above) carefully examined by ex-
perienced surveyors and engineers ; and as soon as data which may
be relied on have been matured, a full prospectus, with the names of
the promoters and Provisional Committee and detailed particulars,
will be published. •
Meantime communications from parties interested in theTroposed
undertaking may. up to the Ist of .October next, be addressed to
William Mackenzie, Esq., of Muirton, W.S., by Dingwall ; Hugh
Innes Cameron, Esq., Provost .of Dingwall ; G. S. aylor, Esq.,
Golspie ; Peter Wilson, Esq., W.S., Town Clerk of Wick ; M. Snody,
Esq., Thurso; or to Messrs. Cameron, and Bain, it, Parliament.
street, London.

SIIEFFIELD, BUXTON, LEEK, PO T'I'E-
RIES, and CREWE RAILWAY.
(Registered Provisionally under 7 and 8 'Victoria. c. 110.)
, ~. Capital, 800,0001., in 32,000 Shares of 231. each.
, .
Deposit, Ti. 7s. 6d. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
JOllll Burgess, Esq., Bcroughreeve of Manchester, Director of the
Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction
Railway
John Holford, Esq., Rusholrne House, Manchester
John Gannt, Esq., Banker, Leek
The Rev. Edward Powys, Rector Of Eagnall and Cheddlel at
John Challenor, Esq., Overton Hall, near Congleton
Josiah Gaunt, Esq., Heaton House, and Leek
Thomas Flnehett Maddock, Esq.; Chester
Josiah Gaunt, jun., Esq., Horton Hall, near Leek
The Rev. James Bostock, Cliffe Park
James Wardle, Esq., Leek
John Macfarlane, Esq., Manchester
John Collier, Esq., Manchester
George Edensor Marsden, Esq., Manchester
Penrose Nevins, Est, Old Trafford, Manchester
Wilson Overend, Esq., Sheffield, Chairman of the Manchester, Shef-
field, and Midland Junction Railway
Henry Wilkinson, Esq., Endeliffe Hall, Sheffield, Provisional Director
of the Manchester, Sheffield; and Midland Junction Railway
James Robins, Esq., Illakenills, Rugby, and Leek
James Challenor, Esq., Blackwood-hill
Charles Heaton, jun., Esq., Leek
Robert Younge, Esq., Grey Stones, Sheffield, Provisional Director
the Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction Railway
Thomas KtelleY, Esq., Sheffield '
Thomas Carr, Esq., Leek
J. A. West, Esq., Western Lodge, Durham
Benjamin Smith, Esq., Duckinanton Lodge, Chesterfield
William Newton, Esq., Bakewefi
Robert 3licklington, Earl., Ordsall Hall, Retford, Notts
John Squire, Esq., Leek
Henry C. Leahy, Esq., St. James's-square .
William Wood, Esq., M.D , Chetwynd House, Newport, Salop
Thomas Birch, Esq., the Bank, Leek
John Green, E•q., Sheffield, Provisional Director of the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Midland Junction Railway •
Nathan Davenport, Esq., Leek -
John Newton Mappin, Esq., Sheffield, Provis'onal Director of the
Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction Railway
William Milner, Esq., Leek
Thomas Smit q., De-Bank House, near Leek •
Vert Hamn ley, Esq., Bridge-end, Leek
muel Swat ittain, Esq., Sheffield, Provisional Director of the
it
• 'Manchest •ffield, and Midland Junction Railway
Josiah Brunt Leek
Samuel Tom ~ Lym House, near Leek .
John Ward, E ek
John Spence, Esq., Manchester
James Ridout, Esq., Leek
Thomas Heaton, Esq., Endon, near Leek
Samuel Butcher, Esq./ Provisional Directors of the Manchester,
George Dawson, Esq.S Sheffield, and Midland Junction Railway.
James Barker, Esq., the Hall, llakewell, Director of the 31ancliester,
Buxton, Matlock, and Midlands, and of the North Derbyshire
Union Railways
John Bloor, Esq., Tutbury, Director of the Derby, Gairsborough, and
Great Grimsby Railway
(With power to add to their number.)
ENGINEER—CharIes Vignoics, Esq., M.R.I. A., F.R.A.S.
SOLICITOR—Thomas Redfern, Esq., Leek
LONDON AGENT—Thomas Whalley Bolton, Esq., 4, Elm-court,
Temple
LOCAL PROFESSIONAL AGENT—R. 11. Wilson, Esq., SOLICHOF, Moseley-
street, ' Manchester
BANKEP.S.
Leek and Congleton—Fowler, Gaunt, and Co.
Manchester and Liverpool—The Manchester and Liverpool District
Banking Company
Sheffield and liakewell-;:lhe Sheffield and Rotherham Banking
Company
London—Messrs. Rogers and Co. ; Messrs. Smith, Payne and Smith
SECRETARY PRO TEX.—MT. JOllllll.llllShllll. .
The object of this undertaking is to effect the most direct.und com-
prehensive Rue of communication, by means of existing and projected
railways—the Manchester, Buxton, end Ambergate, the North Der-
byshire Union, and the Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction
Lines—between the Potteries, the iron districts of Staffordshire and
Shropshire, Cheshire, North Wales, Holyhead. Sheffield, the Ports of
Galnshorough, Grimsby and Hull, North Derbyshire, and the whole
of the West Riding of the County of York.
Applications for shares in the following form may be made to
Thomas Redfern, Esq., Solicitor, Leek; Thomas Whalley Bolton,
Esq., Solicitor, 4, Elm-court, Temple, London ; Messrs. Wilson,
Younge, ant Pierson, Solicitors, Sheffield ; at the Offices of the Com-
pany, Leek; and No. 7, Surrey-street, Sheffield; or to the following
Sharebrokers, from whom Prospectuses may be obtained :
London—Messrs. F. and W. Atkinson, Threadneedle-street
York—Mr. Thomas Johnson
Leeds—Messrs. R. B. Watson and Co.
Hull—Messrs. Flint and Tootal
Liverpool—Mr. Thomas Forsyth
Manchester—Mr. Joseph Fernyhongh
Iluddersfield—Mr. Burehart
In conseque,ce of this Company having been provisionally regis-
lvi.dprSehitaiwtt.
terLDeideciipbifiryee—lvdi3o—lue3ssisftj'heWy2r9.e and
of July last, the deposit of 11. 7s. 6d. is
sufficientntells;hetto, cinotreirp,liyerssit
to comply
the
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those fthoef thhieetlleouesfe
Lords,o C o nt
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of
further amount of 11. ss. will be called for after the Bill kas been
read a second time in the Commons, of which due notice wiil ha
given to the shareholders. -
FOll3l OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, Pot
teries, and Crewe Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares, of 251.
each in the above undertaking, and I hereby agree to accept the
same, or such less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to
the regulations of the Company, and to pay the deposit, and sign the
Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement, when required.
Dated this day of 1845.
Namein full -. •• .. ••• • • • •• • • •••• • • • •
Residence —•••••••••• • • • • • • • • **
Business or profession • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ...... •
Name and residence of a Referee of respectability.

HEFFIELD, BUXTON, LEEK, POTTE-
RIES, AND CREWE RAILWAY.
Leek, 11th September, 1845.
Notice is hereby glven, that no further applications for Shares in
thii Company will be received after MONDAY, the 22d day of Sep-
tember instant, except from parties locally interested, from whom
Applications will be received until THURSDAY, the 23th instant.
By order of the Committee,
JOHN MINSHULL, Secretary pro tern.