The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-10 00:00:00

T4EICESTER and BEDFORD RAILWAY
a Provisionally Registered.
Capital 1,000,000/.. in 50,000 Shares of 20/. each.
Deposit 11. ss. per Share.
PROVISIONAL CON3IITTEE.
Jo•eph Robert Wilkin Atkinson, Esq., Elmwood !louse, Leeds.
John Brightman, Esq., Regency-square, Brighton. •
Richard Carpenter, sq., 24, Lonsdale-square, Islington.
William Cory, Esq.. Commerelal-road, Lambeth.
Peter Colston, jun., Esq., Husbands Bosworth, near Market liar-
borough.
Capta n Mark Gambier, Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square.
William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., . •
Swyntin Jervis, Esq., Whitehall-plane, Chair Man of the Diss, Becdea,
and Yarmouth Railway
Major-General Sir Love P. J. Parry, ~Madryn Park, Caeruar,
vonshire
Sir Win. Wynn, Suffolk-place
John Wheeltan, Esp., Meopham Itank,,,Tunbridge, Kent
John Woolston, Esq., Weffingborongh
With power to add tottheir number.
BOLICITORSit •
George Pell, jun., Esq., Northampton aid Welford
George Weller, Eq., 8, King's-road, gAlford-row, London
Augustus Walter Arnold, Esq., 31, neaen-square

nAxicEas.
The London and County Banking Company, Lombard-street
The Northamptonshire Banking Company, Wellingborough, North,
ampton.

This line, which will commence at Leicester, and proceed from
thence by or near to Market Harborougb, Bothwell, Kettering, Wel-
lingborough, to Ledford, is intended to supply the wants of a very
rioh and thickly populated district of country lying between Leicester
and Bedtbrd, and to afford a much shorter and more direct eemmu-
ideation between the first mentioned place and London.
The existing and projected limas of railway form the most direct
route from Manchester, Leeds, Derby, Sheffield, Nottingham, and the
North of England to London, by way, of Leicester, and the present
line will be the nearest one from that place to the metropolis which
exists or can he projected..
win- pact thionEfh M"o richest- grazing land in the kingdom,
and will thrive a considerable traffic in the conveyance of cattle from
thence to the Londoa markets. \
The coal-fields of Leicestershire and Derbyshire will supply, by
Ilium of this railway, the wants of the counties of Bedford, Hunt-
ingdon, Hertford, Essx, and Cambridge, in this most necessary
article of consumption, which will be reduced in price at least 501.
per cent:

Se soon as the surveys are completes!, a detailed Prospectus with
the names of the gentlemen forming the highly influential local
Committees, will be published. In the meantime, the promoters:are
justified In stating that the railway will be made at an average ex-
pense, and that the traffic will insure an ample return upon the
capital required.
The Subscribers will not be liable to any further call until the Act
is obtained, and power will be applied for to allow interest at 4 per
oeut. upon the amount paid up until the opening of the line.
The Directors reserve liberty to themselves to alter the proposed
route, or to extend the railway as they may think expedient.
The numerous parties who have applied for Shares having done so
prematurely, are requested to renew their applications in the under-
mentioned terms.

Applications for Shares, in the form annexed, may be made to the
Provisional Committee, under cover, to the several solicitors, or to
Messrs. Peppercorn and Co., eharebrokers, 2, Old Broad-street,
London,

FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Leicester and Bedford Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot to me Shares of 201.
each in the proposed Leicester and Bedford Railway ; and I hereby
undertake to accept the same, or such smaller number, as may be
allotted to me, and to pay the deposit, and sign the Parliamentary
contract and Subscribers' agreement when required.
Dated this d ty of May, 1845.
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