The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-04 00:00:00

SEEntETani--Samuel uel Stan way, Esq.

The first line of the Grand Trunk Railway will commence at the
Loughborough station en the Midland Counties line, and pro-
ceed through the Vale of Sheepshead, to Pegs Green Colliery,
near to the terminus of the Leicester and Swannington Rail-
waf, and from thence through the coal-fields of gwanaington
and Cole-Orton to Ashby-de-la-Zouch. It will thence proceed across
the Moira Coal-field and through the rich agricultural districts of
Seal, Clifton Campvilie, and Edingale, to the Birmingham and Derby
Railway, which it will cross near to Elford Park Farm, and thence
traverse the Valley of the Tame until it reaches Alrewas, where it
will form a junction with the branch of the Trent Valley line new in
progress of making. At this point it also meets the proposed South
Staffordshire line, by which means it reaches Lichfieleiond by means
of one of the proposed lines it will afford communication with Bir-
mingham.
From Loughborough the line will be further continued to Asfordby,
on the Syston and Peterborough Railway, now in progress, and by
means of this latter line a direct intercourse will be opened with
Melton Mowbray and the various towns through which that route
passes to Peterborough.
By means of its junction with the Trent Valley line at Alrewas, the
Grand Trunk reaches Colwich, and there meets the proposed North
Staffordshire line, which proceeds through the heart of the Potteries
to _Newcastle-under-Lyne, Leek, and Macclesfield. By means also
of the same Trent Valley line at Alrewas the Grand Trunk pro-
ceeds through Rugeley to Stafford, thus completing its route, and
forming a connecting line between the Midland and Grand Junction
Railways. This branch of the Hoe was formerly surveyed by Mr.
Rastrtck, and approved of by him as a canal communication, so that
no engineering difficulties exist.
The second line of the Grand Trunk Railway will commence at the
Derby station, and taking the course of the Derby Canal proceed to
Chellaston, where there are extensive plaster-works, and thence
by Swarkestone to the river Trent, which it will cross near to
the ferry at Weston Cliffe, and so proceed to Kings Newton
and Melbourne. From the latter place it will pass by the
village of Wilson to Breedon-on-the-Hill, where there are extensive
lime-works, and thence proceed by Staunton Harold, communicat-
ing by a branch line with the lead, lime, and coal works there;
,hence by the Lount Colliery to Worthington Rough, where it will

junction with the first line of the Grand Trunk at or near the Pegs
follow the line of the Cole-Orton and Swannington Railway until its
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Green Colliery, and so proceed from thence to Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
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Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railways. Its importance as
a line for passengers is too obvious for comment, forming as it does a
complete junction between those two great thoroughfares, the Mid-
land and Grand Junction Railways, and by its branch from Derby to
Ashby-de-la-Zouch another complete junction between the Great
Northern and Southern lines now in progress, thus opening a direct
line of communication to all parts of the kingdom.
As a line for traffic, the Grand Trunk will form the most direct tsansit to the Leicestershire, Staffordshire, and Shropehire iron and
coal fields, to the Burton breweries, to North and South Wales, and
Ireland to Scotland, and all parts of the north, and to the eastern,
southern, and western parts of the empire. It will also be the
nearest and most direct communication from the east to the north-
western manufacturing districts, as well as become the great route
from all parts of the kingdom to the midland counties of England.
The mineral resources are of the very highest order. The Moira
coal-field is inexhaustible, whilst the coal-beds at Staunton Ilarold
alone comprise the finest quality of Kennel to a depth of seven feet,
with a super stratum of main coal to a depth of six feet. The sub-
stratum is yet to be worked. There are beds of Kennel and main
coal at Cole Orton of equal quality, though net of equal depth with
those of Staunton Harold, whilst the main coal at Swannington is un-
rivalled, being, in fact, the bowl of the Leicestershire and Derbyshire
coal strata. It is needless to describe the beneficial results which
must arise from this opening of the midland coal district to the Lon-
don and southern markets.

At Staunton Harold and Calke exist rich veins of lead ore, now in
full course of working.
The properties of the Breedon, Staunton Harold, and Ticknall lime
are so well known to agriculturists and others, that an extension of
traffic for so valuable a commodity into mare remote districts must
be of the utmost importance to the practical fanner.
In approaching the Trent, on leaving the lime district, the Grand
Trunk will fall in with most valuable quarries of millstone grit, ser-
viceable for paving and building purposes, and for which a ready
market would be found along the line. The country also abounds
in gypsum, of which Immense quantities arc used in Birming-
ham and elsewhere : these markets will thus become opened for the
quarries at Chellaston.

A new and extensive outlet will also be opened for the earthenware
of Wooden Box and Griesley Potteries.

Until the Act of Parliament be obtained, the affairs will be under
the control of the Committee of Management, to whom power is
given to allot the shares and apply the funds of the Company in
payment of all proper expenses in the formation of the Company and
otherwise.

Power will be applied for in the Act, and in the meantime the
Committee of Management take power, to alter or extend the lines,
to make branch lines, to abandon any part of the line, to raise addi-
tional capital, and to enter into arrangements with any other Com-
pany or empanici.

Applioation for shares must be made in the form annexedito the soli-
citors to the Company, Messrs. Watts, Galsworthy, and Galsworthy,
19, Ely-place, Holborn, London ; to the Secretary, at the Offices of
the Company, 3, Adelaide-place, London-bridge ; and to the fol-
lowing

SOCA!, BOLIOITOBB.
Messrs, Keen and Hand, Stafford
Thomas Bolton, Esq., Wolverhampton
E. Kern Jarvis, Esq., Hinckley
Messrs. Keary and Sheppard, Stoke-upon-Trent
Thomas Piddock, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
F. J. Hamel, Esq., Tamworth
John Perks, Esq,, Burton-upon-Trent
Beauvoir Brock, Esq., Loughborough
Charles 2rlesley, Esq., Lichfield
Messrs. Moore and Gregory, Leicester.

Also to the following

3. Adolaide-place, London-bridge.

S. STANWAY, Secretary,

H. W. MATTHEWS, Secretary,

NOTTINGHAM, BIRMINGHAM, AND
COVENTRY JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Uniting Warwick, Coventry, and Birmingham, with Nottingham,
Newark, and Lincoln.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Offices—(temporary), 19, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street.
Capital 450,0001., in 22,500 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Viscount Lifford, Astley Castle, Coventry
Matthew Gisborne, Esq., Walton Hall, Derbyshire
Sir Edwin Pearson, F.R.S., 5, Gloucester-terrace, Regent Park
Sir John Penniston Milbanke, Bart., Great Portland. street
William Collins, Esq., M.P. for Warwick, Director of the Leioester
and Tamworth Railway
Michael Thomas Bass, Esq., Burton-upon-Trent
Major Croft, 15, Regent-street, Deputy Chairman of the Chester and
Manchester Direct Railway
Fraser B. Henshawe, Esq., Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square,
Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction
Railway
Major Waller, X. 11., Deputy Chairman of the South and Midlands
Junction Railway
Lieutenant-Colonel Hutchinson, 1.R.5., 15, Upper Montagne-street,
Montague-square, Director of the College of Civil Engineers
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., Hyde Park-place, D rector of the
Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle Junction Railway
T. E. Iligge, Esq., 19, Bryanstone-square, Director of the Warwick
and Cheltenham Railway
The Hou.W. E. Fltzmaurice, M.P., Cheshara-street, Belgrave-sqnare
Henry Dann, Esq., 42, Duke-street, St. James's, Director of the
Shrewsbury, Worcester, and Crewe Railway
Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Herta, Director of
the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
John Clement Ruling, Esq., Director of the National Bank of
Ireland
John Rawson, Esq., Halifax, Deputy Lieutenant for Yorkshire, and
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Railway
The Hon. Colonel Leicester Stanhope, Aehburnham House, Chairman
of the Chester and Manchester Direct Railway
John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Leicester
Thomas Hackett, Esq., Derby, Director of the Great Manchester and
Southampton Railway
John Sanders, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Crewe Railway
John Fisher, Esq., Short-hill, Nottingham, and Watling-street,
London
Nathaniel Nadin, Esq., Stapenhill, Burton-upon-Trent
Capt. Gustavus Evans, R.N., Headley Grove, Surrey
Henry Francis Gisborne, Esq., Derby, Director of the Leicester and
Tamworth Railway
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Edmund Sharpe, Esq., Swandlincote, Potteries
Sheldon Craddock, Esq., Leicester
John Gretton, Esq., brewer, Burton-upon-Trent
Ambrose Moore, Esq., Milk-street, Cheapside
James Arbouin, Esq., Mark-lane, Director of the London and York
Railway
Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.8., Director of the East India Company
Lieut.-Gen. Taylor, Clarendon-place, Hyde Park
George Ledwell Taylor, Esq., 45, Hyde Park-square
Douglas Fox, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Crewe Railway
Frederick Cayley Worsley, Esq., Imberhorne House, Sussex
John Taylor, Esq., Cross-street, City, Director of the Commercial
Bank of London
Lancelot Llewhellyn Haslope, Esq., Lifford, near Birmingham, Di-
rector of the Warwick and Cheltenham Railway
John Eames, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Captain Beare, Director of the Worcestershire, Shrewsbury, and
Crewe Railway
W. Fitzgibbon, Esq., Director of the Cork and Bandon Railway
Matthew Wyatt, Esq., 1, Upper Hyde Park-street, Director of the
Manchester, Oxford, and Southampton Railway
John Douglas Cooper, Esq., liolrne Cottage, Ashbourne
John B. story, Esq., Lockington Hall, Leicester
Captain Holden, Locko Park, Derbyshire
The Mayor of Nottingham
George Bacon, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
William Charles Boden, Esq., Apsley Hall, Nottingham
Thomas Wakefield, Esq., magistrate, Nottingham
Thomas Fisher, Esq., Short Hill, Nottingham
Henry Attenburrow, Esq., Nottingham
Esq., merchant, Nottingham
William Hannay, Esq., magistrate, Nottingham
Esq., Stanton, near Burton-upon-Trent
William Cartledge, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Lewis Heyman,
David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland Hollow, Alfreton
13, Wood-street, Joshua Harding, Esq., Rosliston, Derbyshire
Morris Piddocke,
Leicestershire
Robert Collings Gilbertson, Esq., Burton-upon-Trent
,DNerobt:isnhighream
David Melville, Esq.,
William Clark, Esq., the Mayor of Coventry
Alderman Dunn, Coventry
Francis Wyley, Esq., Coventry
(With power to add to their number.)
SOLICITORS.
CharlesCa p t al n
Noel, Frederic
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Kirby
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Mallory,o n,
Abraham Bass, Esq., Burton-upon-Trent.
Messrs. Lacy and Bridges, 19, King's irros-yard, Coleman-street.
Messrs. Sir George Stephen and Hutchinson, 1, Exchange-bllndingl
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.
Messrs. Dyscn, Hall, Parkes, and Coates.

BANKERS.
The London Joint-Stoet Bank, Princes-street.
The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury, and 6, Henrietta-street,
Covent-garden.
The Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashbourne Union Banking Company,
Burton-upon-Trent, and Ashbourne.
Messrs. Evans and Co., Derby.
I. and John Charles Wright and Co., NottinghaUl
CONSULTING ENGINREB—CharIes Fox, Esq.
gNGINEER—EIijah Galloway, Esq.

This line will commence at the Long Eaton station of the Midland
Counties Railway, and will proceed in a direct line to or near Castle
Donington, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Measham, and Market Bosworth to
Nuneaton; joining, at Market Bosworth, the Birmingham branch,
projected by the Tamworth and Leicester Company, and at Nuneaton,
the projected Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester
peyorltianielt.
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towns of Nottingham, Newark, and Lincoln on the one side, and
Birmingham, Coventry, and Warwick on the other side, at the same
time a rich mineral and agricultural district will be supplied with
railway advantages.
A reference to the map will show that this railway will also eom-
mend other collateral advantages.
There is no doubt that the proposed railway communication be-
tween Cheltenham and Warwick will be effected, in which case the
proposed line will fill up the railway chasm at present existing be-
tween the counties of Gloucester and Worcester, and Nottingham
and Lincoln. and thus form a direct line from the Severn at Glouces-
ter to the Ilumber at Great Grimsby. An amalgamation of the Great
Grimsby and Sheffield Junction with the Grimsby Dock Company
being now determined on, a large amount of capital will be expended
in rendering Great Grimsby a port of the first importance ; and it
must be obvious that the traffic to that port, from the district south-
west of Warwick, will be very great.
The distance saved by the proposed line between Leamington,
Warwick, Coventry, and Nottingham, will be about twenty miles ;
and between Birmingham and Nottingham, the saving will be about six miles. Being the shortest route from Birmingham to Not-
tingham and Lincoln, it must secure the traffic from Birmingham to
Nottingham, Newark, Lincoln, and the port of Great Grimsby ; and
by joining with the Erewash Valley Railway at Long Eaton, it must
command the traffic from Coventry, Warwick, and the district south
of those towns to Sheffield, Leeds, York, and the north of England
generally. It will also afford a direct communication between Not-
tingham Worcester and the district beta eon Warwick and Worcester, by means
of the projected Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby, and the Warwick
completed. his
The entire length of the line will be about 2tl miles. The Com-
ymade his report, that the character ofprtehleimciontaurlytrysutrlvireoytighanwdhhicash
the line is intended to pass is unusually favourable for engineering
Purposes.
It passes directly through a very productive mineral district, in-
tersecting the Leicestershire coal-fields and lime-works, and will
afford communication north and south, to the Derbyshire Potteries.
With such an assured immediate and prospective amount of traffic,
the profits en the small capital required cannot fail t• be highly re-
munerative.
Powers for allowance of interest at four per cent. en the paid-up
capital will be taken, and the liability of shareholders limited to the
amount of their subscriptions.
TABLE OF DISTANCES.
Present Distances. I Miles IBy proposed Savingßoute.

Warwick to Nottingham, by
Hampton and Derby • • about 71 c 20 Warwick to Nottingham, by 51
Rugby and Leicester ... •• . do. 65
Z 14
Warwick to Lincoln ........ do. 97 83 14
Coventry to Nottingham ....do.l 62 42 20
Coventry to Lincoln .... • .do ........ ••—•••• • ' ' • • ' 2(6)
Birmingham to Nottingham .. do.( 55 49
6
Birmingham to Lincoln .... do ...... • • .• • • • • • • " "
Cheltenham to Nottingham by
Birmingham and Derby.... do. 100 86 14

Prospectuses may be had at the Temporary Offices of the Company,
19, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street, London ; where also applica-
tions for shares, addressed to the Provisional Committee, will be
attended to.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Nottingham,
Birmingham, and
Coventry Junction Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares of 201.
each, in the above railway ; and I undertake to accept the same,
or such less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the
reuulations of the Company, and to sign the necessary deeds, and to
pay when required the deposit thereon of 2/. 2s. per share.
Dated this day of 1845.
Name in fbll .• • ...... •••• • ** ..
Profession and professional residence in Hill
Residence in fall • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ' • • • • • • • • • I
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SHAREBEORERS.
London-3ff ssr . hill, Fawcett, and Hill, Threadneedle-street
.m.mrs. Harris and Sons, 'Change-alley
INF .A. Sym, Tokenhouse-yard
Liverpool—Messrs. Townley and Whitehead
Bristol—Messrs. Tate and Nash
Leeds—Mr. James Jamieson and Mr. W. Cronhehn
Messrs. Weatherburn and Jennings
Birmingham —Mr. J. R. Lane
Newcastle—Mr. W. W. Dickinson
Bradford—Mr. William Mason
Sheffield—Messrs. Bardwell and Sons
Hull—Mr. Francis Stamp
Wakefield—Mr. S. 11. Armitage
Nottingham—Mr. C. Spencer
Worcester—Mr. W. Miles
York—Messrs. Grayston and Erie
Blackburn—Mr. Thomas Boardman
Southampton—Mr. Joseph Clark, jun.
Exeter—Messrs. 11. Beaumont and Co..
Edinisurgh—Mr. Charles Couper, 30, St. Andrew's-square
Cheltenham—Mr. James Stokes
Leicester—Messrs. Williams and Sunderland ; Messrs. Eaglefleld
and Co
Newcastle-under-Lyne--Mr. Tomkinson.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Grand Trunk Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me
the above named railway, and I undertake to accept
less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the regulations
sharesthe os f
same
201. each
r ssuch
hn
of the Company, and to sign the necessary deeds, and to pay when
required the deposit thereon of 2/. 2s. per share.
Dated this day of , 1845.
Name in full ••• ........ ....••••••••
Residence in fu11....
Profession and Professional Residence in full • •• • •
Reference .. __ _

GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that the List for receiving Shares
will be closed on the following days, viz. :—for London, SATURDAY,
October 4th, for the Country, MONDAY, October 6th.
By order,

REMINGTON'S LEA x,
THE LONDON AND iIIANCHESTER
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CONTRACThereby giveandnotice
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LEININEAATMNEAWNGiII LIE for EXECUTION, and
DIRECT INDEPENDENT RAILWAY.
SoSicCrerßiipllepi(aCeErrOtßt3i;oLl'ltiteTiGsiTeßNEvEPiElElt.3oßblfe issued to the Subscribers in exchange for
the Bankers' Receipts, at the places and times mentioned below :
Bath—At the York Hotel, on Tuesday, the 23,d day of September
instant.
Bristol—At the Bush Hotel, on Wednesday, the 24th day of Sep-
tember instant.
Wber instant. orcester—At the Star Hotel, on Friday, the 26th day of Septem-
Birminghberam—A instat Dee's Royal Hotel, on Saturday, the 27th day of
Septemnt.
Lichfield—At the Swan Inn, on Monday, the 29th day of September
instant.
Leicester—Ateptember ins the Three Crowns Inn, oa Tuesday, the 30th day of
Stant.
Bedterd—At the Company's Office in the High-street, on Thursday,
the 2d day of October next.
Uttoxeter—At the Offices of William Arnold Bainbridge, Esq., Soli-
citor, en Tuesday, the 23d day of September Instant.
Burton-upon-Trent—At the Offices of Messrs. Bass and Sweting,
Solicitors, en Wednesday, the 24th day of September Instant.
Ashby-de-la-Zouch—At the Offices of Edward M. Green, Esq., So-
licitor, on Thursday, the 25th day of September instant.
Cheadle—At the Offices of Richard Lowe. Esq., Solicitor, on Satur-
day, the 27th day of September instant.
Leek—At the Offices of Thomas Redfern, Esq., Solicitor, on Monday,
the 291 th day of September instant.
Macclesfield—At the Offices of Messrs. Parrett, Colville, and May,
Solicitors, on Tuesday, the 30th day of September instant, alai
Wednesday, the Ist day of October next.
Manchester—At the Offices of the Company, St. Ann's-square, on
Thursday and Friday, the 24 and 3d days of October next.
Derby—At the Offices of Henry Mosley, Esq., Solicitor, on Tuesday,
the 234 day of September instant.
Leeds—At the Royal Hotel, on Wednesday, the 24th day of Septem-
ber instant.
Hull—At the Victoria Hotel, on Friday, the 26th day of September
inseant.
Edinburgh—At the London Hotel, oa Tuesday, the 30th day of Sep-
tember instant.
Glasgow—At the London Hotel, en Thursday, tke 24 day of Oc-
tober next.
Liverpool—At the Adelphi Hotel, on Monday, the 6th day of October
next. By order,