The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-16 00:00:00

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

IThe Right Hon. Lord Edward Chichester, director of the Hull and
Holyhead Direct and Great Welsh Central Railways
The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne, director of the Harwich Docks, and
Birmingham and Central England Railways
22,e Right lion. Lord Stephen Chichester, Ormean, Antrim, director
or'..he London, Staines, and Ascot. and of the Reading and Reigate
Alin,,pherie Railways, &c.
Hon. Viscount Glamis
Cho Right Hon.
5, Audley-square, director of the Liverpool
.oirect Railway, &c.
:tmln't
and Derby
The Hon. Cecil Lawless, 55, Jermyn-street, director of the Great
Manchester,
Rugby and Southampton Railway.
The Hon. Captaf.'
1 rercy Evans Freke, 3, Belgrave-square, director
of the Birmingham,Nottingham, Gainsborough and Hull Railway
Lieutenant-Colonel LOth!an Dickson, Curzon-street, Mayfair, H. M.
Civil Commissioner s, tke.Cape, director of the Exeter, Dorches-
ter,! '
and Weymouth Jun; ton Coast Railway, &e.
to
Captain J. P. Macdougall, c e drove, North Brixton, Chairman of
the Isle of Man Railway ; direor of the Oxford, Southampton,
Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway, &C.
Colonel Tnomas Fitzgerald, Maperton, ,50merset, Depaty-Lieutenant

, .
of Somerset and West Riding of Yorksblie
The Hon. George Augustus Munilten Chiches!,:er, I, St. Alban's-place,
and Oakfields Donegal, director of the Lonsion and Exeter Direct

Railway, &e. • -
Sir George Sartorius, R.N., Senior United Service Club, director of

the Dover and Bristol Railway, Scc.
Charles Illeaden, Esq. Coulsden-court, Surrey, Chairman of the
Liceused Victuallers' and General Fire an,i Life Insurance Com-
pany, and director of the Direct Western R,ailVaY,
Major O'Doherty, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall
George Dovrniag Bruce, Esq. Deputy-Lieutenant of Yorkshire ;
director of the Oxford, Wemester, and Wolverhampuon Extension

Railway
Major Hawkes, 72, Baker-street, Portman-square, chairma:f of the
Jamaiea North Midland Railway
Atkyns, Esq. Devonshire-street, Portland-place, director of .the
Guezisey-pier and Railway Company, &c.
Fraser, Esq. Gloucester-place,
Wm. Tnllu~
Thos. Ross, Esq. 68, Porchester-terrace, Directors of the Dover
Hyde-park, and Bristol Rail-
John Lowe, Esq. 26, NorfoZz-crescent, Hyde- way, &o.
park,
Kensington, Lewis, Esq. Stratford-place,
W. Augustus Lewis, Esq. B.A. F.G.S. director of the Wolverhamp-
ton, Chester, and Birkenhead Railway, &c.
Challoner Ogle, Esq. 44, Eaton-place
James Lamb, Esq. 25, Hyde-park-square, dlee„ctor of the Grand
Trunk Railway, &c.
John Thorpe, Esq. Bloomsbury-terrace, Lower Bronichton, Man-
chester
Charles Phelps, Esq. Montague-place, Russell-square
Henry Brown, Esq. Harleyford-place, Kennington, director of she
Great Welsh Central Railway
Thomas Rogers, Esq. Laura-place, Bradford, Yorkshire, director of
the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and of the Hull and Holyhead
Direct, and the Liverpool and Derby Railways, &c.
John Thompson, Esq. Tottenham, director of the Southampton,
Petersfleld, and London Railway
James Adair, Esq. director of the Goole and Doncaster Railway, &c.
Algernon W. Greville, Esq. Cambridge-terrace,
Hyde-park, director
of the Great Eastern and Western Railway, &c.
H. Grenville Dewes, Esq. St. James's-square
George Parbury, Esq. Mansfield-house, Russell-squareddirector of
the Port of Wisbeach, Peterborough, Birmingham, idland
Counties Unfelt Railway, &c.
Captain Twisleton Graves, 49, Duke •‘.• •t, St. James's, director o
the Leicester and Tean and Dove, • the Direct Western Rail-
ways, &c.
John Chapman, Esq.Langham-place, director of the Hull and

Holyhead Direct Railway .
G. Gun Hay, Esq. 127, Sloane-street
William Sladden, Esq. Canterbury
John Itannie, Esq. 5, Lower Beigrare-street, Bel-

Directors of the
Reading and
. Reigate At-
mospheric ,
Railway, &C.

grave-square
W. Fechney Black, Esq. 10, Wilton-place, Belgrave-

square
Captain Strutt, Cranford-lodge, Middlesex, J
Edward Sankey, Esq. Canterbury, director of the MetrOPoumn June-

Ben Railway Company
William Thomas Symonds, Esq. Thornton-heath, Croydon
C.sq- 311
r!e tors of
Mineral
in Shrop
nigg, Esq. York-place, Portman- Rail-
a
Maier Newcombe, way
Colonel Cannon, Oriental Club, director of the St. George's Point ati.4
Calcutta Railway 31
B. W. Doyle, Esq. director of the Sheffield and acclesfleld Railway
Charles Owen Snow, Esq. Lecke-hall, Cheshire
iDisrehicrem-
Lumsden Mackeson, Esq. Old-square, Lincoln's Inn, director of the
Leeds and Carlisle Railway, &c.
Alfred G. Harris, Esq. 38, Alsop-terrace, New-road
William limey Burke, Esq. Tottenham
Edward F. Finden, Esq. Southampton-place, Euston-square
George Fowler, Esq. Newington-place
Peter Paterson, Esq. Leyton, Essex
George Evans, Esq. 3lelbury- terrace, Regent's- park, director of the
London and Exeter Direct Railway, &c.
John Thompson, Esq. Great Saint Melee's, director of the Grand

Trunk Railway
6ir John Key, Bart. Alderman of London, Chairman of the Mauri-
tius Railway, and director of the York and Lancaster Railway, &c.
Captain Newton, R.N., director of the Hull and Holyhead Railway, &c.
James Tracy, Esq., director of the Harwich Docks, and 13inninghara
and Central England Railway, &c.
John Blunt, Esq. director of the London Docks, and Reading and
Reigat, Atmospheric Railway, &c.
John Bloor, Esq. Tutbury, Staffordshire, director of the Derby, Gains-
borough, and Great Grimsby Railway
Jeremiah Clark, Esq.
an
d
John Wri. Johnson, Esq. ` Directors of the London
John Holford, Esq. Rushohne-hall, Manchester Direct
Manchester, Company
rect
Manchester, pany
John Burgess, Esq. Manchester, late.] (Remington's)
Boroughreeve,
Lewis Buckland, Esq. Avenue-road, Regent's-park
Capt. E. H. Scott, R.N. director of the St. Alban's and Hertford
Extension Railway Company
Clayton
A. W. Hillary, Esq. 66, Cadogan.place, Belgrave_square, director of
the London and Exeter, and of the Direct West-end and Croydon
Railways, &c. &c.
Edward Paterson, Esq. Clap
William James Ivie, ESq. 21, Northampten-square, director of the
Southern Counties, and Bristol, Bath, and Dover Direct Railways
James Vickers, Esq. Mark-lano, director of the Jersey Pier and
Railway Company
Charles Smith Rayner, E. KeW-green
(With power to add to their number.)
BANKERS.
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London.—Commercial Bank of London, 3, Moorgate-street, and 3,
lienrletta-street, Covent-garden
Messrs Spooner, Attwoods, and Co., 27, G raceehureh-street
Biwrmarini ue
gekshham.— Blaiensisrs. J. L. 3loilltet and Sons, Birmingham and
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JOINT 60LICITORS.
W. W. Oldershavr, Esq. 7, Tolienhouse-yard
Messrs. C. T. and A. Jeainsom. n, 76, Ca nnon-street, City
LOCAL H. Pea
JNOINEEaS. Oe, Esq..
INOINEENS.
SMldifOrth F. Griffin, Esq. C.E.
A. A. B. Bennet, Esq. C.E.
Aacnurnev AND StntvEroa—E. N. Clifton, Esry. Tokenhouse-yard
rAItLIAMENTARY AGENTS—Messrs• Sudlow and Kingdon, 6, New
Palace-yard
Smarr Ames Elliott, Esq.
Mee of the Company,
26, 3foorgate street, London.
PROSPECTUS.
This line is designed to open* direct communication between the
towns of Birmingham and Boston.
The advantages to be derived by a rich, pro,,.^A-essing, and populous
town, such as Birmingham, the great manufacturing centre of the
kingdom, having a direct communication with a port on the eastern
toast facing the Continent, and that point the nearest to it by geo-
graphical position, mei but to be mentioned to he appreciated.
The name of itirmynghans speaks for itself; the capacity and
value of Roston as
,t,emmercial port is daily increasing, and re-
quires but little enterpr Ise to enable it to compete with some of our
best ports.
Proposed that th' a line should commence at Leicester, where
It will fc;rm a centiatiati on of the direct line from Birmingham to
that town, and procee, ling by or nearte at Boston ; thus affording a Melton Mowbray, Corby,
Folkenham, and Donn!) sgfon, terminate
direct communication b etween Birmingham and its important manu-
facturing districts—Rug by, the great centre of England, and Boston,
-which eventually must command the traffics
their nearest seaport.
of the distlies with which it is in connexion and the opposite
ports of the Coi ttinent :an also, without at all interfering with its
direct route, a b,rattch will be formed to the large and influential town
of Grantham.
pt esenting few or no engineering dificulties.
The country 1 easy.,
ntage ;'old Another adva;'old out by this project Is the improvement of
whereby it will be restored to that eminent
the harbour of Boston,
position it form [may hel,d among the ports and harbours of the
kingdom.
The uivai po-f,er w tie taken by the Act to alkiw intereet at