The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-02 00:00:00

MANCHESTER AND' SOUTHAMPTON
RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that the Parliamentary Contract and Sub-
scribers' Agreement will lie for execution by the Subscribers at the
places and during tin period undermentioned :
In Westminster, at the Company's Offices, 19, Great George-street,
on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, October 13, 14, and 15.
In London, at the Offices of the Messrs. Oswyn and C0.,11, Angel-
court, Throgmorton-street,—on Thursday and Friday, ctober 16th
and 17th.
In Manchester, at the Offices of Mr. James Wheeler, 52, George-
street,—on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday,
October 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, and 17th.
In Cheltenham, at the °daces of Messrs. Newman, Gwlnett, and
Ticehurst, —cn Monday and Tuesday, October 20th and 21st.
In Cirencester, at the Offices ofMessrs. Sewell and Newmarch,—on
Wednesday and Thursday, October 22d and 23d.
Inr,Marlborough, at the Offices of Messrs. J. B. and W. Merriman,
—on Friday and Saturday, o,:tober 24th and 25th.

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Lin Andover, at the Offices of Harry Footner, Esq.,—on Monday,
actober 27th.
In Stockbridge, at the Offloes of Henry Lintott Footner, Esq.,—on
Tuesday, October 21st.

In ROinsey,Tat the Offices of Messrs. Stead and Tylee,—on Wednes-
day, October 22d.

ni Southampton, at the offices of Messrs. Deacon and Long,—on
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, October 23d, 24th, and 25th.
The Committee will strictly enforce the execution of these instru-
ments at ono or other of the abov-named places. In cases in which,
from sickness or other inevitable circumstances, parties are disabled
from personal attendance, and in such cases only, the necessary exe-
cution may be by power of attorney, in the form prepared, and by a
party approved by the Company's solicitor at Manchester.
September 30,1845. JOHN WHEELER, Secretary.

DIRECT SHEFFIELD and MACCLESFIELD
. RAILWAY, forming Junctions with all the important Rail-
ways in Great Britain.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and Sth Vic., c. 110.)
CapitalBoo,ooo/., in 40,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
(With power to add to their number.)
Pierce Somerset Butler, Esq., 31.1%, Chairman of the Waterford and
Kilkenny, and of the City of Toronto and Lake Huron Rail-
way Companies
William Chaplin, Esq., Lad-lane, London, and Greenhithe, Kant,
Chairman of the Iron Steam-boat Company
John Chaplin, Esq., Gracechurch-street, and Greenhithe, Kent
Edwin Ward Jackson, Esq.,- Edgehill, Liverpool, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds, North-Western, Manchester, Liverpool, and
Great North of England, and Staffordshire Potteries Railways
Rowland 11111 Mackenzie, Esq., Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square,
London, Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and of
the Cheltenham and Oxford Junction Railways
T. S. Richards, Esq., Baker street, Portman-square, Director of the
Ipswich and Southampton Railway
;dward Scant, Esq., magistrate for Surrey and Middlesex, Kew-green,
Director of the Toronto and Lake Huron Railway
oseph Underwood, F:sq., Park, Blackheath, Director of the Com-
mercial Bank, and of the Metropolitan Life Office
John Tall, Esq., Hanoverian Consul, merchant and shipowner, Hull,
Director of the Hull Dock Company
Rear-Admiral Ayscough, Prospect-placse.house, Southampton
John Francis Bacon, Esq., Austln-friars, London
Captain Crawley, Edgbaston, Birmingham
Thomas Chitty, Esq., Gower-street, Director of the Rugby and War-
wick Railway
Captain F. Chamfer, R.N., Halkin-street, Belgrave -square, Director
of the Hazebrouck and Fampoux (French) Railway
C. F. Colman, Esq , Shirley, Southampton
Captain William Cousins, Director of the Goole and Doncaster
Railway
Thomas H. Evans, Esq., Mayor of Camarvon, Director of the
London and Holyhead Railway
Robert Green, Esq., Birchin-lane, London and Macclesfield
William Holloway, Esq., Limo-street-square, London
William Jenking, Esq., Balsall-heath, Birmingham
Edward Richards, Esq., 16, New Broad. street-buildings
Sir William White, Director of the Church of England Life Insurance
Company •
George R. Peppercorn, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex, Director of the Rugby
and Worcester Railway
Thomas Whitaker, Esq., Captain, R.N., Kirk Ella, near Hull,
Director of the Hull (Ind Barns:ey Junction Railway
Isaac Whitaker, Esq., Hessle, near Hull, Director of the York, Hall,
anti East and West Yorkshire Junction Railway
Thomas Ward, Esq., shipowner, Hull, Director of the Dudley,
Madeley, Brosely, and Ironbridge, and of the Hull and Barnsley
Junction Railways
George Robinson, Esq., Hull, Director of the Dudley, Madeley,
Brosely, and Ironbridge, and of the Hull and Barnsley Junction
Railway
John Ostler, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction
Rail way
Thomas Digby, Esq., Banker, Hull, Director of the Hull and Barns-
ley Junction Railway
George Newte, Esq., Director of the Barbadoes Railway
Fitzherbert Macqueen, Esq., Great Winchester-street
Sir James Anderson, Bart., Ruttovant Castle, Director of the Cork
and Fernley Direct Railway
John Corneld, Esq., Southwick-street, Hyde Park-gardens
James Adair, Esq., Director of the Church of Englar.d Life Assurance
Company, and of the Northern and Southern Railway
John G. Barrett, Esq., Ross, Herefordshire
William Ditmas, Esq., Beverley
Colonel W. 31. Sloane. Director of the Bristol and Dover Railway
Lawrence Kortwright, Esq., Director of the Barbadoes Railway
John Upham, Esq., Clarges-street, Director of the Guernsey and
Mauritius Railways
John Grey Wilson, Esq., Director of the Western Gas Company, and
of the Direct Western Railway
William Henry Halpin, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and
Basingstoke Railway
Matthew William Staines, Esq., 64, Conduit-street, Hanover-square
Samuel Poetick, Esq., Bloomsbury-square
Bentinck W. Doyle, sq., Director of the North Jamaica Railway
E. D. Warrington, Esq., merchant, New City Chambers, Bishops-
gate-street
John Chandler, Esq., Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park
Edward Power, Esq., Middle Temple
Simeon Musgrove, Esq., Kirkstall, near Leeds
Sir William Lowthrop, Hull, and Algoa House, Scarborough, Chair-
man of the Hull anti Barnsley Junction, and Director of the Liver-
pool and Leeds Railways
Captain J. P. Macdougall, Director of the Cambrian Grand Junction
Railway
W. F. Black,-Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Deputy Chairman
of the Ipswich and Brighton Railway
G. H. Foster, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Weicester Extension,
and Chester Junction Railways
Miles Coventry, Esq., Director of the Direct Western Railway
William Gordon, Fag., M.D., Hull, Director of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct, and Hull and Barnsley Junction Railways
Col. Robert Douglas, C. 8., United Service Club
Samuel Palmer, Esq., GreatYarmouth, Director of the Great Grimsby,
Louth, Horncastle, Lincoln, and Midland Junction Railway
Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of the Britannia Insurance Company
John Haigh, Esq., Leds
Richard Kelly, Esq., Cleveland-row, Chairman of the New Ross,
Carlow, and-Kilkenny Railways, and Managing Director of the
York and Lancaster Railway

Henry Rellerby, Esq., Sheriff of York
Frederick Ramsden, Esq., Seymour House, Old Trafford, Manchester,
Director of the Rirkenhead, Holyhead, and Mold Extension ; the
Liverpool, Preston, and North Union ; the Staffordshire Potteries ;
and the London and Holyhead Railways
Samuel Giles, Esq., Bowden, near Manchester, Director of the Man-
chester and Birmingham Continuation, and Welsh Junction, and
the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railways
P. Bennett Lucaa, Esq., Manchester-street, Manchester-square,
Director of the Great Leeds and Loudon, Direct Ipswich and
Southampton, Sligo and Shannon Railways
Charles Tottenham, Esq., Magistrate of the county of Wexford,
Chairman of the Exeter and Dorchester Railway
Robert Bissett Richmond, Esq., M.D., 40, Great Castle-street,
Cavendish-square, London
Thomas W. George, Esq., Leeds, Director of the West Yorkshire
Railway
J. Helbert Ilelbert, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director
of the Birmingham and Leicester Railway
John Samuel Whitchurch, Esq., Weymouth
William llawtry, Esq., Fulham

Richard Rowe, Esq., ifeaufoy-terrace, Malta Vale
James Carroll Wileocks, Esq., Exeter, Director of the Exeter,
Yeovil, and Dorchester, Exeter and Crediton, and North Devon
Railways
Darnton Lupton, Esq., the Worshipfhl the Mayor of Leeds, Director
of the Leeds and York, and York and Hull, and Nottingham and
Hainsborough Railways
Thomas Minnely, Esq., Leeds
Joseph Richardson, Esq., Leads, Director of the Leeds and York, the
Midland and Thirsk Junction, and the Londern, Hounslow, ttncl
Western Railways
John Brightman Esq., Cornhill, London, and Regency-square, Brigh-

ton, Chairman of the London and Hounslow Railway
John Barnett, Esq.. Cheltenham, Coroner for the County of Glouces-
ter, and Director of the Oxford and Whitney Railway
Mathew i'ierpoint, Esq., Worcester, Chairman of the Rugby, Derby,
and Manchester, and Director of the Welsh Midland. and Dudley,
Madeley, and Broseley and Ironbridge Railways
F. Duffield, Esq., Bolton-house, Bradford, Director of the Cambridge
and Lineoln Extension Railway
James Hamilton, Esq., Balsall-heath, Birmingham
Daniel T. Johnson, Esq., Aldermary-churchyard, Watling-street,
London, Director of Romlngton's Direct London and Manchester
Railway
Richd. Clay, Esti., Winchester-street, London, and Lloyd's
Klein Grant, Esq., St. James's-street, London, Director of the
Direct Western Railway.

BANKERS.
Commercial Bank, Lothbury, London.
The Leeds and West Riding Bank, Leeds.
National and Provincial Bank, Birmingham.
Messrs. Pease and Liddells, Hull.
Messrs. Moore and Co., Nottingham.
• The Sheffield and Belford Banking Company, Sheffield.
ENGlNEERS—Sandiforth K. Griffin, Esq , and J. li. Taunton.

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