The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-01 00:00:00

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Ckairn an—Wynn Ellis, Esq., Y.P.
Deputy-Chairman--Josiah Wilson, Est
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Thomas Wakefield, Esq.
Ambrose Moore, Esq.
Yrancis Valentine Lee, Msg.
John D. Cooper, jun., Esii. 1
CONSELTINO ENGINEER—CharIes Fox, ltsq.
ENGINEnn—John Hughes, Esq.
BANKERS.

John danik Mansfield, Esq.
George Meek, Esq.
Capt. Gustavus Evans, R.N.

The Leiden Joint-Steck Eank, Princes-street
Messrs. ragets and Kirby, Leicester
Pare's Leicestershire Banking Company, Meßei-Ifevrioray
The Stamford, Spalding, and Beaten banking Ceinpzuly, Spalding
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Messrs Evans and Co., Derby

The Burton Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Lacy and Bridges, 11, King's Arms-yard, Cole-
man-street ; Abraham Bass, Esq. Burtei-upeu-Treat.
LOCAL AGENTS.
William ]lardy Tatam, Esq. Spalding
William David Bell, Esq. Bourn.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—Messrs. Dysoi, Hall, Parkes, and Coates,
Parllamest-street.
SECRLTARY-IVilllana Kanyard, Msg.
The first object of this line is to connect the town of Birmingham
Coventry, and Leicester, with the eastern coast by the nearest route
and to supply as important link of communication between the tows
of Spalding aid the eastern coast, and the western aid midland
districts.

Commencing at the Spalding station of the Nonvick, Dereham,
Lynn, and llolboack Railways, the lime will proceed by Bourn,
Witham, Castle Bythana, South Wytham, and Wymendham, to a
point on the Syston and Peterborough line of railway near Melton-
Mowbray, thus forming, by the Syaton and Peterborough and Mid-
land Counties Railway, an almost direct route to Leicester, and
thence to Coventry and Birmingham' by the proposed Coventry,
Naneaton, Leicester, and Birmingham Railway.
The projected line will form tke most direct ecrintanicatien be-
tween the eastern and midland districts of the kingdom, and will, by
means of the proposed lines across the county of Leicester, via Bar-
ton-upon-Trent, to Stafford, bring the markets of Lineeln, Norfolk.,
Shropshire, and North Wales, nearer to each otker by many miles
than any other line of railway_

It will form, with other projected railways, an almost direct line
soros the kingdom, from Yarmouth, via Norwich, on the east, t•
Aberystwith, via Newton and Shrewsbury, oa the west.
The entire length will not exceed thirty miles. There is no tunnel-
ling, cutting, or embanking of any importance necessary; the line
from Bourn to Spalding, a distance of about twelve wiles, is very
level, and may be constructed at a small cost.

It will secure the advantages of railway communication t• a tract
•f country at present destitute of this accommodation, besides open-
ing out sources of trade undeveloped for want of the atean• of transit.
The central midland districts have felt greatly the want of direct
communication with the coast; and this line will at once supply the
deficiency to the greater part of Staffordshire and Leicestershire.
It will afford a tran•lt for the Staffordshire, Derbyshire, and Lei-
cestershire coal into districts heretofore entirely dependent upon
supply from the north at higk prices: it will also secure the advan-
tages •f an unlimited supply of lime from the Leicestershire works,
to the agricultural districts •f Lincoln, which are at present only
supplied at very high rates; and, in return traffic, tko midland dis-
tricts will olltain the advantage of a direct transit for tke stock and
agricultural produce •f Lincolnshire and Norfolk.

-Several proposed lines of railway converge at Spalding, which is
the nearest point ea the eastern coast for the midland mantles, and
connected by the River Welland with the German Ocean.
The proposed capital will be sufficient for the construction of the
necessary works and every sabsegnent expense ; and the income
derivable from the traffic in passengers between Birmingham, Co-
ventry, Leicester, Derby, Melton, Spalding, and Boston, the trans-
port of corn, cattle, and other produce of the great agricultural
districts through which the line passes to the principal consuming
districts, and of coals, lime, and staple commodities for the inland
districts, will be sufficiently ample to warrant the ontlay.
The Parliamentary surveys have been commenced, and are new
in active progress, and contracts have been entered into which en-
sure sufficient time for compliance with the standing orders.

Forms of application for shares, plans, and prospectuses may be
had of the Solicitors ; also at the offices of the Company, 4, Tra-
falgar-square, Charing• cross, where applications for shares, accom-
panied by respectable references, may be addressed to the Provi-
sional Committee.