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London, England, 1845-10-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDA. Y EVEN ING, OCTOBER 6 18t

GREAT WESTERN, BRE NTFO RD, and
CENTRAL TERMINUS JUNCTION RAILWAY, from
the vicinity of West Drayton, through Hounslow, Brentford, Ham-
mersmith, Kensington, Chelsea, and Westminster, to a Central
Terminus, near Charing-Cross.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Offices, 53, Charing-cross.
Capital, 850,000/., i❑ 42,500 Shares of 20/. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Earl of Devon
Vernon Abbott, Esq., 70, Gower-street
Philip Anstruther, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment
Railway Junction Company
Benjamin John Armstrong, Esq., Southall, Magistrate for Middlesex
John Auldjo, Esq., Noel House, Kensington
Henry i'ratt Barlow, Esq., 24, Kensington-square
Edward Oliver Benson' Esq., Hounslow
William Sprott Boyd, Esq., Director of this Thames Embankment
Railway Junction Company
Thomas Bramall, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Luhcester and Tam-.

worth Railway
Sir John Macpbersos Brackenbury
Sir Archer Denman Croft, Bart., Director of the Thames Embank-
ment Railway Junction Company
Major John T. Croft, Deputy Chairman of the Chester and Manches.

ter Railway
John Chevalier Cobbold, Esq., Chairman of the Eastern Union Rail.

way.
Wl:liam Cumming, Esq., North Bank, Regent's Park
George Cooper, Esq., Brantford
George Jaynes Stredwick Camden, Esq., Hounslow
Charles Downes, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
J. Fisher, Esq., Isleworth
Major David Fitzgerald, Valentia, ootmty of Kerry
Captain Forbes, IC.N., Forest, Windsor
Sir Andrew PoHatt Green, R.N., K.C.H.
Francis Lloyd, Esq., Beaufort-lodge, Chelsea
James Montgomery, Esq., Brantford
John Bowyer Nichols, Esq., Hammersmith
The Hon. Colonel Phipps, Norwood-gram
William Simpson Potter, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands

Railway
Henry Pownall, Esq., Spring-Vova Hounslow, Magistrates for
Middlesex
John F. Pownall, Esq., Spring-grove, Hounslow
Colonel Reid (2,1 Life Guards), Bulstrode Park
Thomas Berry Rowe, Esq., Brentford
John Coysgarne Sim, Esq., No. 9, Clifton-place, Hyde Park-grardens
Major Jelf Sharp, Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for Middlesex,
Deputy-Chairman of the Thames Embankment Railway Junction
Company
Henry Webb Smith, Esq., Hounslow
William Spooner, Esq., Director of the Liverpool, 3lanchaster, and
Newcastle Railway
Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq., Chairman of tho Irish North Midland

Railway
John Stewart, Esq., M.P.
Frederick Thompson, Esq., 20, Kensington-sqaare
Robert Richard Tighe, Esq., Bank, Windsor
henry Tuffnell, Esq., M.P.
(With power to add to their number.)
ENGINEER—Thomas Page, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
MVssri. Wilkinson and Cobbold, 7, Lincoln's Inn-flelds
William him,Epsq.mA,
~B,KtEhNigT'As.ll:nAcGli-EINN-rsalk., Temple.
RANKERS.
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Messrs. Hugh Dines Cameron and' George Hain,lB,Parliament-stroe'

SECRETARY—Henry Moreing, Esq.
Applications for shares, In the subjoined form, may be made,
KW-K. 4 teAgil'AVOY,"g .”,,,,fri,,,rsaaParlianaentary Agents,
and to the following agents and sharebrokers :--Messrs. Carden and
Whitehead, 611,6, Threadneedle-street ; Mr. H. J. Williams, 80, 01(1
Broad-street, London ; Messrs. Bradley and Co., Manchester ; Mr. B.
It. Pemberton, and Messrs. 11. Davis and Co., Liverpool; Mr. Luke
Arnold, Bristol; Messrs. Chantrell and Boyes, Leeds ; Messrs. Wil-
kinson and Earle, Hull; Messrs. Buchanan and Aitken, Glasgow;
and Messrs. Graystou and Earle, York, of whom prospectuses may
be obtained.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the rrovisional Directors of the Great Western, Brentford, and

Central Terminus Junction Railway.

Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 201. each
In the above Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the same,
or any lesser number that may he allotted to me, to pay the deposit of
21. 2s. per share thereon, and to sign the Subscribers' Agreement and
Parliamentary Contract when required.
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GREAT WESTERN, BRENTFORD, and
CENTR TERMINUS JUNCTION RAILWAY.
No applications for Shares iu this Company will be received which
do not contain a reference to one of the Provisional Committee, the
Sharebrokers, Officers of the Company, or a Banker.
By order, HENRY 310REING, Secretary.
53, Charing-cross, Sept. 30,1845.

MANCHESTER, MIDLAND, AND GREAT
GRIMSBY JUNCTION RAILWAY,' via ROTHERHAM.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 800,0001., in 32,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, I/. 7s. 6d. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Captain Laws, R.N., Crumpsall-hall, Manchester
Joseph Hegan, Esq., Liverpool
(Directors of the London and York Railway)
George Crosland, Esq., Huddersfield
Joseph Kaye, Esq., Huddersfield
( Directors of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction Railway)
Robert Bucliannan, Esq., M.D., Pontefract, Chairman
William Moxon, Esi , Pontefract
James Audus, Esq., Headingly, near Leeds
(Directors of the Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway)
William Butcher, Esq., the Master Cutler of Sheffield
E. B. Beaumont, Esq., Finningley-park
(Directors of the Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Hud.
dersfield, and Goole Railway)
John Burgess, Esq., Itoroughreeve of Manchester
John Holtbrd, Esq., Rusholme-house, Manchester
Lott Gardiner, Esq., merchant, Manchester
Edward Connell, Esq., Leaf-square, Manchester
Mr. Alderman Burd, merchant, Manchester
James Consterdin,,, Esq., merchant, Manchester
Cephas Howard, Esq., J.P., Brinnlngton-hall, Stockport
William Bayley, Esq., Larkinll, Staleybridge, Cheshire
P. England, Esq., Huddersfield
John Smith, Esq., Welton Garth, near Hull
John Wood, Esq., Glossop, Derbyshire
Vincent Corbett, Esq., Outhwaite-hall, Wottley
Thomas Chambers, Esq., Chapeltown
,J. B. Greaves, Esq., Ecelesfleld
William Hall, Esq., Royds-moor, near Penistone
Wilson Overend, Esq., J.P., Sheffield
Henry Walker, Esq., J.P., Clifton-house, Rotherham
Robert Bentley, Esq., Rotherham
Robert Youuge, Esq., Sheffield
G. W. Chambers, Esq., Clough-house, near Rotherham -
J. G. Clarke, Esq., Masbro'-hall
George Knowles, Esq., ironmaster, Rotherham
Henry Wilkinson, Esq., Endeliffe-hall, Sheffield
C. S. R. :Sandford, Esq., North Field-house, Rotherham
James Yates, Esq., Effingham Works, Masborough
John Aldred, Esq., Rotherham
Thomas Wheatley, Esq., corn merchant, South-grove, Rotherham
Samuel S. lirittain, Esq., Sheffield
James Hodgson, Esq., Rotherham Mills
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Benjamin Badger, Esq., barrister-at-law, Rotherham
Henry Thomas, Esq., Sheffield
John Nightingale, Esq., Grcave of the Feoffees of Rotherham
Charles Sandford, Esq., Plicenix ironworks, Rotherham
Robert John Bentley, Esq., Eastwood-house, Rotherham
George Dawson, Esq., Sheffield
Alexander Grant, Esq., steel rofiner, Rotherham
E. J. Heseltine, Esq., Rotherham
E. L. Sidebotham, Esq., J.P., Aston-hall
Rev. Geo. Chandler, J.P., Treeton Rectory
John Green, Esq., Sheffield
John Hall, Esq., Kiveton-park, near Rotherham
R. C. Hoyle, Esq., Aughton-hall, near Rotherham
Robert Fisher, Esq., Maltby
George Ridge, Esq., Sheffield
Thomas Dyson, Esq., Braithwell Manor-holm
William Broughton, Esq., Dairy
John Bradley, Esq., Blyth
Joseph Taylor, Esq., Newington
James Cross, Esq., Gringley
Charles Cross, Esq., Glentworth-heath, 'ear Gainsborough
William Wells, Esq., West Stockwith, near Gainsborougk
Henry Smith, Esq., Gainsborough
Henry Ethcrington Smith, Esq., J.P., Gainsborough
William Lister Sharp, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough
Rev. Robert Hackle, Gainsborough
Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough
Francis A. I.owe, Esq., Gainsborough
John William Pashley, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough
Frederick W. Fleck, .Esq., wharfinger Gainsborough
Thomas Adwick Farmer, Esq., iron merchant, Gainsborough
Henry Halt, Esq., wharfinger, Gainsborough
R. D. Fretwell, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough
Robert Pinder Moxon, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough
H. Robinson, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough
John Hughes, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough.
Edward Watson, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough.
ENGINEEW—John Braithwaite, Esq.
SECRETARY—Mr. Francis Parker, Rotherham.

BANKEAS—Sheffieldfil eld and Rotherham Banking Company, Rotherham,
The object of this undertaking is to connect the Sheffield and Man-
chester—Huddersfield and Sheffield—Midland and Great Grimsby
Railways —the porta of Liverpool and Birkenhead on the western,
and Great Grimsby on the eastern coast, affording accommodation
to all the important intervening manufacturing and agricultural dis-
tricts—in fact, to open the shortest and most direst communication
between the eastern and western counties of England. It is pro-
posed to commence at Wortley and run to the Midland at or near
Masbrough, affording all outlet north and south, and thence for-
ward to Gain.sbormigh.
There are abutting on the west end of the line the West Riding of
Yorkshire and Lancashire, with a Population of 2,221,988—and on
the east end Nottlughanashire and North Lincolnshire, with a popu-
lation of 431,485.
Under any circumstances, the intercourse between two such
masses of population must be great; but in this case It is much
beyond the average from the different character of the country, and
the pursuits of the inhabitants at the two termini—Lancashire and
Yorkshire having redundant supplies of
while Nottinghamshire and
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passengers between such important and mutually dependent districts
must be unusually great.
A glance at the map of England will show that the proposed line
will be, as nearly as may be, a straight one. A circuitous line is an
evil, and opposed to public policy. The public suffer by being de-
tained a longer time—by travelling a longer distance—and by paying
a larger fare than is necessary—and the proprietors suffer by being
exposed to the risk, or rather to the certainty of their property being
destroyed at some future period by the competition ora shorterand
more direct line. Sir Robert Peel, is his place in Parliamerit, on the
15th of March, 1845, upon this point said—" Tole would make no re-
ference to any indiviaual railway schemes, but he thought they ought
to look forward to the result of mechanical improvements as applied
to those schemes, and they might depend upon It (speaking of ulti-
mate results) that the shortest lines would be preferred.—(Hear,
hear.) The tendency of the improvements which were almost daily
introduced, was decidedly in favourof the shortest lines."
It may also be observed that the Board of Trade, is their detailed
report, in reference to that part of the line from Rotherham to
Gainsbrough (which was submitted for consideration as a distinct
scheme), state it to be " decidedly preferable to the Sheffield and
Lincolnshire or the Sheffield branch of the London and York ;"
and that " it affords a better connexion also with the important
market town of Rotherham, and avith the North Midland Railway,
and gives as direct a communication as could be desired with Gales-
borough and Lincoln."
While so favourable an opinion is expressed upon this portion of
the line, it may also be fairly granted to the extension from Rother-
ham to Wortley. By the Sheffield and Manchester, and the
Sheffield and Rotherham Railways, the distance from Wortley
to Rotherham is 1434 miles, which by the proposed ex-
tension will be reduced to 9. That portion of the line
will also open out one of the best coal-fields in England, with inex-
haustible supplies of Park-gate and Silkstone coals—besides the green
Moor Quarries at Wortley, containing very superior stone far
paving and building purposes—while at Thorncliffe and Chapel
Town, there are already most extensive ironworks in active ope-
ration. At Rotherham and Masborough—and in the immediate
neighbourhood—there are large iron and steel works, and other
manufactories, requiring qualities of coal and ironstone, from which
at present they are almost excluded, on account of the heavy
carriage.
Rotherham is the great cattle market of Yorkshire, and likewise
an important corn market, and one of the objects sought to be
attained by the promoters of this undertaking is the shortest route
from the manufacturing to the agricultural districts—and from the
agricultural to the great markets of Yorkshire, and the consuming
districts westward. It will accommodate also the traffic of the
localities through which it passes, and possesses the peculiar feature
of following, as near as possible, the old route in which the stream of
traffic, and especially passengers, has hithorto been accustomed to
flow.
The district between Rotherham and Gainsborough is destitute of
coal, and there is no canal or railway from which it can be supplied,
excepting by a very circuitous route—ill fact, the supply between
Rotherham and 13aw try is entirely carted along the turnpike-road.
The celebrated grindstones at Wiekersley, with an immense quantity
of the finest freestone, from. the far-famed Roche Abbey Quarries,
might also be sent—the former to Sheffield. Manchester, and Bir-
mingham—and the latter to every part of the kingdom, were an easier
and cheaper mode of transit established.
It is needless to remark' that any line of railway commanding
the advantages referred to, and connecting Lancashire and West
Yorkshire, with the Trent and the Humber, must prove a very
ample investment for capital; indeed, the returns of the existing
traffic are highly satisfactory.
Surveys have been taken, and the landowners generally are
favourable to the project. The length of the line is about thirty-five
and a half miles.
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There will he a clause in the Act of Parliament, limiting the liabi •
lity of each shareholder to the amount for which he may subscribe,
and power will be taken to allow interest at the rate of 4 per cent.
per an
the obtaining of the Act
until the completion of the railway.
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paid-up e
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authoritytalencat,pifrom
will be given to the Pro-
visonai Directors to vary or alter the line, or to enter into any
arrangement which they may think expedient, previous to applying
to Parliament in the ensuing session.
The Directors congratulate the shareholders upon their very satis-
factory position, having secured the valuable co-operation and
assistance of several influential companies.
W. F. HOYLE.
C. 14, COWARD,

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