The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-06 00:00:00

BANKERS.

London—Messrs. Rogers, Olding and Co.
Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Company
Doncaster and Pontefract—The Yorkshire Banking Company.

The object of this railway is to connect, in the most direct
coune, the important and increasing manufacturing town of Leeds
with the metropolis, the want of which has long been felt, and is
too universally acknowledged to need any comment, and it is under
this conviction that this important undertaking, after several
tumour examinations of the country through which it will pass,
has been brought forward.
The proposed lints will commence at the junction of the Man.
Chester and Leeds, and York and North Midland Railways, near
Wakefield, and will terminate by means of a junction with the
to extend their line in the ensuing session
Eastern Counties Railway at Bedford (to which place it is the in-
thus availing itself, as far as possible, of
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The importance of such Newark, Granthmo,
of its course (embracing, as it doss, a 41014 statendsiive population
within its limits) as also from the absence Of any. , communi-
d merchandise.
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By the construction of this Rai wa , ; y railway communication to
for the conveyance of passengers an
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the Syston and Peterborough Rai ,
London will be given to Peterborough and Leicester (by Mean r
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(by the Nottingham and Lincoln line), and to Sheffield Anti pains-
shorter route than by any misting railways.
ass, the line in
several counties through which this line will p
Independently of the advantages offered to the towns in the
itself considered as a direct trunk line between London and Leeds
is sufficient to justify its formation, it being well known that the
existing traffic between these two places would produce such a
return on the capital required, as to admit of a dividend, equal to
that of any railway in operation ; but when it is borne in mind
that a company Is being formed for the purpose of connecting
Glasgow with Leeds by means of a junction with the York and
cipilisle Railway, no better ibis can be presented to the public,
II will not only effect edited communication from Glasgow and
lbe western parts of Scotland to London, but would also connect
Edinburgh and the eastern parts of Scotland as well as OtirhaM
and Newcastle (by the York and Worth Midland. and Great Worth
of England Railways) with the metropolis, which would be con.
siderably shorter than the accommodation offered by any other
company. and when cost of construction is considered, there cannot
be a doubt but that preference would be given to the Great Leads
and London Direct Railway
The fact of the Eastern Counties Railway being connected by a
branch line with the East and West India Docks on the River
Thames, and the Railway Company having recently leased fur 990
years the extensive pi pcer warehouses belonging to these Docks,
which arecapable of receiving 12,000 tons of goods, together with
wharfs adjoining, where the shipment and trans.shipment of goods
from all parts of the world can take place, is a most important fea.
ture in favour of the direct communieation from the manufacturing
towns of Glasgow and Leeds offered by the Great Leeds and Lon-
don Direct Railway, and, by branch railways to the main trunk
line. through which all goods firm the whole of the manufacturing
districts could be conveyed at once to then warehouses for ship-
ment, thereby aro:ding the present delay and mann of cartage,
and in reality establishing an almost direct end an intaltitthlS
flexion between the rivers Clyde and Thames.
It has been ascertained that there are no engineering difficulties,
that
thatand it will not materially interfere with any ornamental pro.
perty.

The subscribers will be held liable only to the extent of their first
deposits. until) an Act of Parliament is obtained, and afterwards
only to the amount of their subscription
It is proposed to take power In the Bill to allow interest at 4 per
cent. per annum on all calls until the opening of the line, and alio
to extend the line to Hertford on the Eastern Counties line. in the
event of that Company not prosecuting their line to Redford.
BROKERS.
London Messrs. Marten and Heseltine, 9, Finch lane
Leeds—Messrs. Hoppe and Co.