The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-26 00:00:00

THE WEST MIDLAND, MANCHESTER
AND SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY, AND BIRMINGHAM
IWINDON, DEVIZES, AND SALISBURY JUNCTION,
1141114 an extension of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway.
(Provisionally Registered.)
capital, 1,200,0004 in 60,000 shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per share.

PROVISIONAL', COMMITTEE.

The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Dillon, Halkin-street West, Belgrave-
square, and Loughlyn House, Loughlyn, Ireland, and Ditchiey, Oxon
Lord George Paget, Uxbridge House
Bareeford, Esq., 31. P., 77, Pall-mall, Director of the Tean
and Dove Valley Railway
William Rulkeley Hughes, Esq., 3LP., Chairman of the Welsh Mid-
land, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Diehard Price, Esq., M.P., Director of the Welsh Midland, and
Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Weld R. Roes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Belfast, Director of the
London and Manchester, and South and Midlands' Junction Rail-
ways
Stir John E. Be Beauvoir, Bart., Chairman of the London and Bir-
mingham Extension, and Director of the South and Midlands'
Junction Railways
Mr William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire, Director
of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Mt George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Herta, Director of
the Chester and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junc-
tion Railways
lit William Wynn, Maesynewadd, Chairman of the North Wales,
and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, Director of the Direct Western
Railway
Mr Jahn Key, Bart., Alderman of London, Director of the London
and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction
Unsays
Mr William
Railwa Twysden, Bart., Director of the Chepstow and Forest of
Dean
WWI= Hughesy Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., Alderman of Lon-
don, Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation,
and London and Greenwich Railways, &c. &c.
Thomas Yarncomb, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the Lon-
On and Westminster Bank, and Namur and Liege, and South and
Midlands' Junction Railways
John Kinnersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the
London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South r-nd
Midlands' Junction Railways
Donald Maclean, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Trent Valley Con-
tinuation, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
Major Oliver Lindam, K.H., Chairman of The Gloucester, Aberyst-
with, and Central Wales, and Director of the South and Midlands'
Junction Railways
Major-General Parlby, C. 8., Rutland-gate, Director of the Worces-
ter and Crewe, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Captain James Patrick Macdougal, late Bengal Royal General Staff,
Fir-grove, North Brixton, Director of the Chester and Forest of
Dean, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways, Sr.c.
Captain Alexander Hamilton Carle, Royal Artillery, Reform Club
John James, Esq., Secondary of the City of London, Director of the
Legal and Commercial Insurance'Company, the Great Western of
Bengal, and South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Robert Henry Lyadam, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth
Railway
Major Jell Sharp, Deputy-Chairman of the Thames Embankment
Railway
Richard William Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Man-
chester, and Derbyshire and South Staffordshire Railways
William Fechney Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Direc-
tor of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
Peter Morrison, Esq., Managing Director of the Britannia Life Insu-
rance Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
dames Clay, Esq., Brompton, Director of the Furness and White-
haven, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Col. Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, Director of the London and
Birmingham Extension, and South and Midlands' Junction Rail.
ways

William Shaw, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment, Manag-
ing Director of the Farmers' Life Insurance Company, and Di-
rector of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Richard Carpenter, Esq , Magistrate of the County of Middlesex,
Deputy-Chairman of the London and Birmingham Extension, Di-
rector of the Leicester and Bedford, and South and Midlands'
Junction Railways
G. W. Killett Potter, Esq., Secondary of the City of London
Lieut.-General Sir Lewis Grant, K.C.8., 31, Harley-street
John Jennings, Eeq., Elm-grove, Hammersmith
William S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Director of the
Oxford, Witney and Cheltenham, and South and Midlands' Junc-
tion Railways
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., 8, Upper Hyde-park-street
Williara Singleton, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds,
and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of the Britannia Life Insurance
Company, and Derby and Stafford, and South and Midlands' Junc-
tion Railways
George Parburya Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manchester
and Birminglifun Railway
Daniel Penton Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Manches-
ter Railway
Richard Parish, Esq., Bank House, Wordsley, Staffordshire
Samuel Parish, Esq., Wordsley, near Stourbridge, Staffordshire
John Anderson, Esq., E.1.C.5., Director of the Church of England
Life Insurance, and South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Henry Lewis Smalsa Esq., Willoughby Ilouse, Tottenham, Director
of the London and Dover, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
tames Reeves, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Direct,
and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
John Cash, Esq.
Henry Wright, Etri., Brunswick-square, Director of the Warwick
and Worcester, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Jean Castendick, Esq., Lewisham
Robert Richards, Esq., Inner Temple, London, Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
George R. Colman, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junc-
tion, and Northampton and Banbury Railways
William Paxton, Esq., Langford, near, Bicester, Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
William Bardgett, Esq., Winchester House, Broad-street, Director
of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Con-
tinuation Railway
John Blackburn, Esq., Leeds
Peter Fairbairne, Esq., Leeds, Vice-Chairman of the Leeds and York
Railway
I. D. Hopkins, Esq., Bedford-square, Director of the London and
Birmingham Extension Railway
nry Cornfoot, Esq., Old Palace, Richmond
P:
mes Dumas, Esq., Leytonstone, Essex
George Willem, Esq., Hungerford Park, Berks
0. N. Wright, M.A., Coed Celyn, Denbighshire, and Lonadale-square,
Islington
Stephen Lewis, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway
Martin Furness., Esq., Director of the Newark and Sheffield Railway
William Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Lincoln, York and
Leeds Railway
Edmund Phillips, Esq., Avon House, Melksham, Wilts, Director of
the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Charles Thomas Ward, Esq., Luton Hoo, Beds, and Clopton House,
Stratford-on-Avon, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
eseph Meek, Esq., Greenhead, Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds,
Dewsbury, and Manchester, and Huddersfield and Sheffield Junc-
tion, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
George Henry Brook, Esq., Edgulin-lodge, Huddersfield, Previsional
Director of the Huddersfield, Halifax and Bradford Union Rail
way, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Captain Hitchins, H.E.1.C.5., Queen Anne-street, Cavendish-square,
Director of the Birmingham and Oxford, and South and Midlands
Junction Railways
John Alleeek Dixon, Esq., Burnley, Lancashire, Director of the Li-
verpool and Leeds Direct, and Keigh/y, Halifax, and Huddersfield
Railways
James Beech, Esq., IS, Grosvenor-place, and Brandon Lodge, near
Coventry, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Rail-
way
William Watson Prole, Esq., Thurloe-square, Brompton, Director of
the Jersey, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Thomas Mortimer Cleobury, Esq., Askew Villa, Acton
Major Waller, K.H., Director of the London and Manchester Direct,
aid South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Frederick James Hall, Esq., Torrington-square, and Alfreton, Derby,
Director of the Trent Valley Continuation, and South and Mid-
lands' Junction Railways
1. R. W. Atkinson, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford, and
Tork and Lancaster Railways
Joseph Underwood, Esq., The Hall, Blackheath, Director of the Me-
tropolitan Life Insurance Company, and Director of the London
and Birmingham Extension Company, and Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
W. A. Hill, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith and
Central Wales, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Chairman
of the Church of England Life Insurance Company, and Director
of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
William Morley, Esq., Blackheath
Richard Dutton, Esq., Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Railway, Director of the Legal and Commercial Life Insurance
Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
Captain C. W. Tyndale, Director of the South-Eastern and South
and Midlands' Junction Railways
Frederick Jones, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Director of the Warwick and
Worcester, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
dean Reels Jerdein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester,
Rugby and Southampton Railway
Colonel Pitch, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
William Lee, Esq., Director of the Gravesend and Rochester, and
Essex and Suffolk Railways
Thomas Gooch, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands'
Junction Railway
J. Harvey, Esq., Rush-hill, Surrey
John Wheelton, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Themes Collingridge, Esq., Highgate, Middlesex
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director ofthe South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
C . Waite, Esq., Willesden, Middlesex
B. W. Wood, Esq., Lodge-place, St. John's-wood, Director of the
:forth Metropolitan Railway
William Stark, Esq., Director of the Guarantee Society
FredericlLCollingridge, Esq., Thurlow-square, Brompton
Warr.' .7rmss Hale, Esq. Gresham-street, Director of the Oxford
and Worcester Extension
Ringemill Grove Key, Esq., Wandsworth
Thomas Yates Hunt, Esq., Brades, near Birmingham
Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds, Director of the West Riding Junction, and
South and Midlands' Junction Railways
W. Lee, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square
Zobert rower, Esq., Queen-street, May-fair, Director of the Great
Britain Life Assurance Society
Admiral J. Ayscough, Prospect-place House, Southampton, Director
of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Joseph Thompson, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton and
South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Major Grubb', Eastwell House, Potterne, Wilts, Magistrate of the
County, and Director of the South and Midlands'Junction Railway
Captain Seth N. Fisher, Director of the Warwick and Worcester, and
South and Midlands' Junction Railways
T. G. Norbury, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Merry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continua-
tion, and Routh and Midlands' Junction Railways, and of the Legal
and Commercial Life Insurance Company
William Hallett, Esq., Kemp Town, Brighton, Director Of the South 1
and Midlands' Junction Railway
John Brock. Walbarieke, Esq., Director of the South sad Midlands'
Junction Railway
Captain Hamilton Earle, Royal Artillery
William Lee, Esq., Director of the Reading Railway
Henry Savage, Esq., Dorset-place, Dorset-square
William T. Thornton, Esq., Berkeley-street, Portman-square
John Dennis, Esq.,Director of the Erewash Valley Extension Railway
Joseph Crockett, Esq , Alderman of Devizes, and Director of the
North Wilts Banking Company, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
dohs ifelbert Helbert, Esq., Gloucester-puce, London, Director of
the Leicester and Birmingham Railway
Bev. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Herefordshire
Thomas Chitty, Esq., Gower-street, London, Director of the Rugby
and Worcester Railway
William Peppercorne, Eeq., London, and Bexhill, Sussex
Captain T. Hodges, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park, Director of the
Leeds and Carlisle Railway
F. Duffield, Esq., Bolton House, near Bradford
Roy. P. R. Hall, D.D., Rector of Fulbourne, Cambridge
John Barnett, Esq., Coroner for the County of Gloucester, Director
of the Oxford and Cheltenham Railway
William Spooner, Esq. Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, Director of
the Newcastle and Liverpool Railway
Alexander Prince, Esq., 14, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Director of the Bar-
net North Junction Railway
James Lees, Esq., Delph, Saddleworth, near Manchester, Director of
the Saddleworth Backing Company
(With power to add to their number),
BANIESNS—The Commercial Bank of London.
CONSULTING Earomaza—Sir John Maeuell, LL.D., F.R.S.
Aeruso ZNOINEEIN—WiIIiam Mullingar Higgins, Esq C E Romeivoi—W. B. James, Esq., 5, Basinghall-street.
It appears that, becomewill
b divided longitudinally by four great
lines of rallwagill y
. so many main trunks, intersec-
opeNphag and intersected by numerouslines, both transverse and o'.llque,
z rapid and ready communication with the intermediate dis-
trie .
with pack,e,t
hsitcahtiois so thensalan with seaport towns. The more
easterly of these
longest, originating at Newcastle-
pavane throw h
upon-Tyne, and
onrkleterborough, and Cambridge,
may be said to terminate in andowhence all places are accessible.
The second line, counting westwnr7, is more tortuous, and has also
a common northern terminus with the
iiasPnriln7ifidnges,cbeyndwinhgichtheitsEadre--
ord, becomes a South-
wash Vale, and passing through
ampton line by falling into the South-Western Railway at Basing-
The. third longitudinal line, or the most westerly, is still more de-
iroottincadleledslvtihtehßani thiengphreaceradial eapuloyirthaesstiegpfland narrow
tyavlink
nearly in a right line the least populous and most
untdulatinigt
• • lonceater, Berks. Wilts, and Hants and, properly speaking
:77: • • pendent terminus.
Ae ongitudinal section of the kingdom—the West Midland
district inviting a similar species of accommodation from
an eentrated local advantages, still remains unprovided with a chief
trunk and it is contemplated to remedy this deficiency by the
present Undertaking, or a fourth longitudinal line.
Adopting Birmingham as a northern terminus of the West Mid-
land, Manchester, and Southampton Railway, it is proposed to carry
a line through or near to Stratford-on-Avon, thence between Moreton,
Stew, Northleach, Fairford, Cricklade, and Swindon, where it will
serge in the South and Midlands' Junction Railway.
The length of the proposed line will be about sixty miles, and the
district traversed by it is gently undulating and densely peopled. At
Its Southern terminus, Swindon, it becomes identical with the South
mil Midlands, by means of which it opens a most direct comnaunica-
glop hitherto suggested with the harbours of Weymouth, Christ-

church, Poole, and Sunthampton. At its northern Iftuninus, Bir-
ingham, it communicates with a series of lines, projtattled, in pro-
gress, or completed, which will form the most direct line that can
ever probably be constructed between the southern ports of England
and the great manufacturing districts.
In the alliance of lines forming the West Midland, Manchester
and Southampton Railway project, a combination of advantages pre-
sents itself—the result of a design, to a great extent, but of contin-
gencies also. If it be desirable that the terminus of every railway
should be situated at some commercial or populous place, in this re-
spect the present project is peculiarly fortunate. If Government be
resolved on countenancing the shortest and most direct lines, it
will be seen, by laying a rule on the map of England from Salisbury
to Manchester, that a course due north and south between these
places will pass very nearly through the towns mentioned in this
prospectus, as being on the proposed line ; and actual measurement
has shown this line to be the shortest between Southampton and
Manchester by 26 miles. •

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By a Junction with the Eastern Counties Railway at Bedfoni
Distance, 120 miles. •
Capital 2,500,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per E hare.
(Pursuant to the Standing Orders of the House of Commons.