The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-21 00:00:00

PRELIMINARY NOTICE.
THE EXETER, TIVERTON, AND MINE-
-11 DIRECT RAILWAY, with extension from Minehead
to Ilfracombe.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,000,6001., in 64,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 2/. 12s. 6d. per Share.
This railway will pass from the city of Exeter, through the
rich valley of the Exe, via Silverton and Bickleigh, direct to
Tiverton, one of the chief towns of this important district, and
formerly the principal market and manufacturing town of the west
of England. It will administer largely to the prosperity of this
rich and productive country, and will pass from Tiverton, by Badip-
ton, Dulverton, and Dunster, to the port of Minehead in the Bristol
Channel, opposite Landaff, Swansea, and Cardiff, from whence the
produce of the rich mines and quarries of Merthyr Tydvil, Pout),
pool, and Newport, in Wales, can be transferred by the shortest
route to the English markets.- From Minehead it will pass by
Porlock and Combe-Marten to the much-frequented watering-place
of Ilfracombe, where it unites with the Barnstaple and Ilfracombe
Railway. At Minehead it will also join the Bridgewater and Mine-
head Railway, to which it will servo as an important feeder, connect-
ing the towns on the north coast of Devon directly with the great
western trunierailroads passing from London to the Land's End. It
will also form a very short and direct junction of the Bristol and
English Channels.

A mo►e valuable •and important line to the country which it will
traverse could not be projected. A list of the Provisional Committee
will be published in a few days ; and in the meantime further infor-
mation May be obtained, and applications for shares may be made
to, the Solicitors, Messrs. Elrnslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street,
L7ndon, ter at the Company's Ofildigh No. 37, Gteahami.treoi, C4n

PROSPECTUS OF THE

OSTON, GRANTHAM, LEICESTER, and
MIDLAND COUNTIES JUNCTION RAILWAY

COMPANY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Otilees-5, Guildhall Chambers, Basinghall-street.
Capital, 800,0001., in 40,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
raovistortax. COMMITTEE.

Wm. Corbett Smith, Esq., Bitteswcil-hall,—High Sheriff of Leices-
tershire
John Summerscales, Esq., Sheriff of Lincoln
Sir Wm. Wynn, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, Chairman of the North
Wales Railway
Sir George Rich, Lowndes-strect, Belgrave-square, Director of the
Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway
Sir George Wm. Prescott, Bart., Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Major-Gen. Sir Love Parry, Madryn, Carnarvenshire, Director of
the North Wales Railway
Hon. J. C. Westenra, M.P., Sharavogne, Roscrea
Honourable Captain Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Parliament-street,
London, Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway
Rear-Admiral Ayscough, Southampton, Director of the Manchester
and Southampton Railway
Lieutenant-Colonel Eirington, Scotch Fusilier Guards, 12, Wynd-
ham-place, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Railway
Lieutenant-Colonel Fitch, 36, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Director
of the South and Midland Railway
Adamthwaite, John, Esq., Oakhill, Teen, Staffordshire
Allen, George Charles, Esq., East Shilton, Leicestershire, Director of
the Direct Birmingham and Leicester Railway
Atkinson, J. 8., Esq., Elmwood House, Leeds, Director of the Lei-

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cester and Bedford Railway
Bell, Robert, Esq., Manor House, Chiswick, Director of the Direct
East and West Junction Railway
Bland, William, Esq.., 11, Park-terrace, Brixton-road, Director of
the Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and south Staffordshire, and
the North Wales Railways
Betts, William, Esq,, Bevois Mount, Southampton
Browne, Joseph, Esq., Bedford; Director of the East and West of
England Junction Rail Way -
Bird, John, Esq., Alderman, Manchester
.Caldecott, William Lloyd, Esq., Laura-place, Bath
Carver, Edward Turst, Esq., Forest-lodge, Tulre-hill, Director of the
North Wales, and the Namur and Liege Railways
;Cooke, T. F., Esq., Leicester
Collett, Benjamin, Esq., Manor House, Bromsgrove
Croft, Major J. T., Regent-street, Piccadilly, Deputy-Chairman of
the Chester and Manchester Railway
Cumberlege, Nathaniel, Esq., Director of the Direct East and West
Dalby, John, Esq., AshbourtieTlNlFictor of the Leeds, Huddersfield,

Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railway
Eales, William, Esq., Mincing-lane, London, Director of the Direct

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Western, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways
Gernon, J., Esq., 12,Condult-street,Hanover-square, Vice-Chairman
of the Galway and Ennis Railway
Giliham, Joseph, Esq., Hargreaves House, Oldham, Director of the

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Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction Railway
Graves, Captain Twisleton, Director of the Leicester, Teen and

Dove Railway
Grey, Hazelrigg, Esq., Carlton-hall, Leicester
Heneage, Charles, Esq., Cadeby-house, Lincolnshire
Holmes, Isaac, Esq., Liverpool
Hungerford, H. H., Esq., Dingley-park, Leicestershire
Kebbel, W. H., Esq., Glebe-house, Kiiby, Leicester
Knight, Joseph, Esq. Leicester, Director of the Midland Counties,
Leicester, and Bedford Railways
Lambert, Richard, Esq., Lyston-halL Sudbury, Director of the

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Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Laurie, George, Esq., Manchester
Macmoran, A. M., Esq., 58, Cambridge-street, Hyde-park, Director
of the Direct East and West Junction Railway
Mann, A., Esq., Denver-hall, Norfolk, Director of the Liverpool,
Manchester, and Newcastle Junction Railway
Maunder, Joseph, Esq., Liverpool, Director of the Rugby and Man-
chester Direct Railway
Meteyard, Horace wm., Esq., 8.C.L., London, Director of Reming-
ton's London and Manchester Railway
Miller, Thomas, jun., Esq., Leicester, Director of the Direct Bir-
mingham and Leicester Railway
Mosse, R., Esq., Princes-street, Great George-street
Parker, Francis, Esq., Northampton, Director of the South Midland
Railway
Parkinson, John, Esq , Cambridge-terrace, Regent's-park, Director
of the South Midland Railway
Payne, Benjamin, Esq., Leicester, Director of the Direct Birming-
ham and Leicester Railway
Ramsey, 4., Esq., Bushey House, Herts
Raworth, J., Esq., Leicester, Director of the Direct Birmingham
and Leicester Railway
Shaw, Joseph, Esq., York-place, Ffudderstield, Director of the East
and West of England Junction Railway
ShaW, George, Esq., M.D., Leicester
Spiers, E. 1., Esq., Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and

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Worcegtershire Junction Railway
Stone, Nathaniel C., Esq., Rawley-fields, near Leicester, Director of
the Direct Birmingham and Leicester Railway
Sager, Hartley,. Esq., Ball's Grove, Celne, Director of the Leeds
and Carlisle, and the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railways
Threlfall, Edward, Esq., Regent Road Mills, Manchester, Director of
the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway
Tebbutt, Thomas, E,q., Rusholm, Manchester. Director of the

Rugby and Manchester, and Le 4
Williams, B. 8., Esq., 70, Port
and Liverpool, Leicester and Te

Kis and Carlisle Railways
land-place, Director of the Leeds
tinworth Railways.

MANAGEMENT.
Charles Heneage, Esq.
Joseph Knight, Esq.
Richard Lambert, Esq.
Horace Wm. Meteyard, Esq.
A. M. Macmoran, Esq.
R. Mosse, Esq.
John Parkinson, Esq.
G. Parsons, Esq.
J. Ramsay, Esq.
J. Raworth, Esq.
Major Waller
BANKERS.
Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clement's-lane, London
Messrs. Garflt, Clapon, and Co., Boston
Messrs. Kewney and. King, Grantham
Pare's Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester and Melton
Mowbray.

COMMITTEE OF
iir George Wm. Prescott, Bart.
Sir George Rich
Sir William Wynn
Lieut.-Colonel Elringten
Grey, llazlerigg, Esq.
Thos. Mortimer Cleobury, Esq.
Robert Bell, Esq.
B. Collett, Esq.
Major Croft
Nathaniel Camberlege, Esq.
J. Dalby, Esq.

ENGINEER—C. Nixon, Esti

SOLICITOR—J. A. J. Macgregor. Esq., 26: Buffolk-street, Pall-mall,

London.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Manners and Sou, Grantham, and
Messrs. Millington and Kenrick, Boston.
SECRETORY—George Farrel*, Esq.
PartuantENTAßy AGENT--Cadwaller F. Waddy, ESQ.

The object of this line of railway is to connect, by a direct route,
the important town and seaport of Bostoa with the centre of Eng-
land, by way of Grantham and Melton Mowbray, where it will join
the Syston and Peterborough branch of the Midland Counties Railway.
By this railway, which will be about forty-four miles in length,
and laid through a country nearly level, it is intended to pass by or
near Swinlshead, Donington, Folkingham, Grantham, Stoke, Roch-
ford, and Melton Mowbray. It is evident that this line will be of
great convenience and utility, by affording to a part of the country
at present deprived of it the advantage of railway communication
with the counties of Rutlandshire, Leicestershire, Northampton-
shire, Warwickshire, &c., and thus connecting the agricultural
districts of Lincolnshire with the manufacturing parts of England,
affording to the latter an easy and accessible means of export for
their manufactures.

It is unnecessary to enlarge upon the advantages which will arise
from this railway, which passes through ono of the richest and
most fertile parts of England. The population is dense, and a
glance at the map will show that this line is well laid out, not
only for the direct traffic from Leicester and the intermediate
places to Boston, but also for the general traffic which will tie
brought to this line by the several railways which will be counseled
with it.

In the allotment of shares, holders in the Midland Counties Rail-
way will receive a preference, and reservation will be made for the
landed interests along the line, whose concurrence and assistance is
fully relied on.by the promoters, by whom most of the influential
landholders have been canvassed ; and, in order to prevent unneces-
sary trouble, no other applications will be received except those
wherein reference is made to•a member of the Provisional Commit-
tee, to the Solicitors or Bankers, or the following Sharebrokers,
from whom prospectuses and plans may be obtained :
Messrs Sutton, Gribble, and Sutton, Royal Exchange
Messrs. Preece and Evans, 39, Lothbury, London
Messrs. Townley and Whitehead, Liverpool
Mr. Kerl, 20, Atherton-bu.ldings, Liverpool
Messrs. Wellneloved and Oastler, Leeds
Mr. Frederick :Stamp, Hull
Mr. Geo. Clark, Bradford
Mr. Wm. Cronhelm, Italifax
Mr. Charles Spencer, Nottingham
Messrs. Eyre and Shaw, Derby
Messrs. Grayston and Erle, York
Mr. E. H. Armitage, Wakefield
Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol
Messrs. Houghland and Leese, Manchester
Messrs. T. N. Banivrell and Sons, Sheffield
Mr. W. It. Collis, Birminglitm
Mr. L. Wetherbuni, jun., Huddersfield
Mr. R. Rozzell, Leicester
Messrs. Payne and Freer. Leicester
Mr. James Pringle, 79, Princes-street, Edinburgh
Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Glasgow
Messrs. Laberiouche and Stafford, College-green Dublin.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Boston, Grantham, Leicester,
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and Midland Counties Junction Railway Company. -
Gentlemen,--4 request that you will allot me • shares of
201. each in the above proposed railway ; and I undertake to pay the
deposit of 21, 2s. per share thereon, or any less number you may ap-
propriate to me, and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Par•
lialmntsry Contract when required.
Dated this day of 1845.
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