The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-17 00:00:00

lIE DIRECT WEST-END AND CROYDON
RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 800,0001.,i5t 4n,000 Shares of 20/. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
• PROVISIONAL COIIMITTEE.
The Viscount Ingestre, Brompton-park, London
Sir James Anderson, 111. R. I. A., New Burlington-street ; Director
of the Hereford alld Merthr Tydvil Railway
John Byng Banke,- Esq., Lansdown-road, Stockwell, Director of the
Great Leeds and London Direct Railway
James Bailey, Esq , flighbury- park, Director of the Sligo, Donegal,
Tyrone, Londonderry, and Belfast Junction, and of the Scar-
borough, Whitby, Stockton-on-Tees, and Newcastle and York
Junction Railways
William Banks, Esq., 4, Honey lane, Director of the Manchester and
Rugby, and great Leeds and London Railways
Lieut.-General Sir It Barton, K.C.8., 2 Montagu-place, Montagu-
square, Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
Major Beresford, M.P., 77, Pall-mall ; Chairman of the Leeds and
Carlisle, and Director of the Tean and Dove Valley, and West
Midland, Manchester, and Southampton Railways
Charles R. Bigge, Esq., 10, Bryanston-square; Director of the Great
Grimsl,y, Ir nth, Horneasi le, Lincoln, and Midland Junction Railway
William Bland. Esq., Brixton ; Director of the North Wales, and
Richmond and West-end Junction Railways
William Blansherd, Esq., York ; Chairman of the Liberty of Ripon
Quarter Sessions, and Director of the York, Hull, and East and.
West Yottshire Junction Railway
'William Bradley, Esq.. Manor Oaks, Sheffield ; Chairman of the Isle
of Ely Railway, and Director-of the Manchester and Sheffield
Railway
Alfred Brodie, Esq , Upper Montagu-street, Montagu-square Direc-
tor of the Grand Trunk Railway
Isaac Baker Brown, Esq , Oxford-square, Hyde-park, Directcr of the
Bristol and Dover Diree- Junction Railway
Thomas Byrom, Esq. Wigan, director of the Leeds and Liverpool
Direct, and Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction Rail!:
ways
William Byrom, Esq., Oldham ; Director of the York and Lancaster,
the Cheltenham, Oxford, and London Railways
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Westbourne House, Sheffield, Director of the
Directiltirmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
William Caldwell, Esq., Ince Hall, near Wigan, Lancashire ; Direc-
tor of the Manchester, Derby, and Rugby, and Leeds and Liver-
pool Direct Railways
William Carr, Esq., Blackheath-park
John Carter, Esq , F.It.A.S., Park Lodge, Stockwell, Director of the
Grand Trunk Railway
E. Turst Carver, Esq., Forest Lodge. Tulse-hill, Director of the
Direct Birmingham, Oxford, and Brighton Railway
John Castemlieck, Esq., Lewisham, Kent
John Chauntler, Esq., Friday-steet, London; Director of the
Chelmsford and Bury, and York and Lancaster Railways
Thomas Challis, Esq., Alderman of Loudon ; Director of the. Direct
Western Railway
Richard Clark, Esq., Farnham, Hants
George Clive, Esq., Sanderstead, near Croydon, Director of the Chel-
tenham, Oxford, and London Junction Railway
Benjamin Collett, Esq., Manor House, 13romsgrove, Worcestershire;
Director of the London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kiddermin-
ster; and Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railways
Nathaniel Cooke, Esq., Bayswater; Director of the Ambergate,
Nottingham, Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
Millis Coventry, Esq., White Hart-court, Lombard-street ; Director
of the Birmingham Extension and Great Leeds and London
Direct Railways
William Croudson Esq., Manor Cottage, Wigan, director of the Li-
verpool and Leeds Direct, of the Staffordshire Potteries, of the
Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield, and the Cheltenham, Oxford,
and London Railways
John Croudson, Esq. King-street-house, Wigan, director of the Li-
verpool and Leeds Direct, of the Keighley, Halifax, and Hudders-
field, of the Staffordshire Potteries, and of the York and Kenyon
Junction Railways
Lieutenant-Colonel Lothian Dickson,Curzon-street,Marfair; Direc-
tor of the Reading and Reigate Junction Railway
Charles R. Dodd, Esq., North Brixton, Director of the Great Welsh
Central Railway, of the Bath, Bristol, and Dover Railway, of the
Hull and Holyhead Railway, &c.
Miles Dormer, Esq., Hans-place, Sloane-street; Director of the
Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway
Colonel Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, United Service Club;
.Director of the London and Birmingham Extension Railway
Daniel Ebbetts, Esq., Mincing-lane; Director of the Direct Western
Railway
Colonel Elrington, Scots Fusilier Guards, Wyndham-place, Bryan-
stoll-square, Director of the London and Manchester, and Liverpool
and Leeds Direct Railways
Francis Ewart, Esq., Brick-court, Temple; Director of the Great
Leeds and London Direct, and of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey-
mouth Railways
Thomas Farnecinb, Esti., Alderman of the City of London ; Director
of the London and Westminster Bank, and Director of the London
Warwick-, Leamington, and Kidderminster Railway
Edmund Aldam Fawcett, Esq., London, Derby, and Nottingham
Robert Fisher, Esq., Ilighbury Park, Director of the Trent Valley
Continuation Railway
The Rev. 11. R. Fowler, Manchester-square ; Director of the Direct
Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
George Gamble, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Nottingham and
Gainsborough Railway
Francis Gamble, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Nottingham
and Gainsborough Railway
Henry Glynn, Esq , Garden-court, Temple
Captain Twistleton Graves, Duke-street, St. James's, director of the
Eastern Counties Junction and Southend and the Midland Grand
Junction Railways
F. W. Hamilton, Esq., 59, Gloucester-place, Portman-square; Di-
rector of the York and Lancaster Railway
C. 11. Rogers Harrison, Esq., Up per Montagu-street, Montagu-square;
Director of the Grand Trunk Railway
George it. Harrison, Esq., Harliugford-place, Kennington ; Director
of the Grand Trunk Railway
Thomas Hartshorne, Esq.. Silkmore-house,Stal'ord
William Hay, Esq., 19, Clifford-street, Bond-street.
Josiah Beale, Esq., Gray's Inn-square; Director of the Chelmsford
and Bury Railway
Lawrence Heyworth, Esq., Yew Tree, Liverpool
A. W. Hillary, Esq., 68, Cadogan-place ; Director of the Direct Exe-
ter, Auxerre, and La Roche Railways
G. E. Hodgkinson, Esq., 7, York-terrace, Revnt's-park
Jelin Holford, Esq., Rushohn-hall, Manchester ; Director of the York
and Lancaster Railway
John Holmes, Esq., 89, St. James's-street ; Director of the York and
Lancaster, ant Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railways
William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid-
land, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
W. Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., Alderman of London,
Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, and
London and Greenwich Railways
Stephen Hutchinson, Esq.. London Gas-works, Vauxhall, Director of

the Grand Trunk Railway
John Kynnersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London; Director of
the London and Manchester Direct Railway
Herbert Ingram, Esq., 198, Strand, and Swinesbead Abbey, Lincoln-
shire; Director of the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, and
Eastern Junction Railway
W. 11. Jackson, Esi. 66, Red Lion-street, Clerkenwell
John Jameson, Esq., St. George's-place, Brixton, Director of the
Great Leeds and London Direct, and of the Cumberland Union
Railways
Slegerich C. Kreeft, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and

I'Veymouth Junction Coast Railway
Richard Kelly, Esq., 6, Cleveland-row; Chairman of the New Rose,
Carlow, and Kilkenny, and Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln
Extension Railways
Sir J. Key, Bart., Alderman of London ; Director of the London and

Manchester Direct Railway
Valentine 'Knight, Esq., 3, Cornwall-terrace, Regent's-park, Director
of the Direct Western, Dendre Valley, anti Grand Trunk Railway
James Lamb, Esq. 25, Hyde-park-square ; director of the Dover and