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

BANSIMI.

Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clement's-lane ; Messrs. Cocks

Biddulph, and Co., Charing-cross.

CoNatn.rm ExcirrExtis—Sir John Macneil and James Thom.
son, Esq.
ENGINEERS--B. Albano, Esq., M.LC.E., and Wm. Laxton,
Esq., C.E.

SOLICITOR IN LONDON—George Smith, Esq., 24, Golden-square,
and No. 2, Guildhall chambers, Basinghall•street.
LOCkL SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Coombe and Sharland, Tewn.hall, Gravesend
Messrs. J. and E. Blaker, Lewes.
Temporary Offices, No. 2, Guildhall chambers, Basingball-street.

The object of this undertaking is to open a direct line of rail-
way to connect the Northern, Eastern, and South Essex Railways,
by means of a steam ferry from Tilbury Fort to Gravesend, with
Tunbridge Wells, Lewes, and Brighton.
It is contemplated to proceed from the Eastern Counties Rail-
way at or near Harlow station to Tilbury, crossing the river
by a steam floating.bridge to Gravesend, passing by Cobham,
Snodland, Mailing, and Hadlow to Tunbridge, thence by the South.
Eastern Railway to Tunbridge Wells, passing Uckfield to Lewes,
and thence joining the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway to
Brighton.

An inspection of the map will clearly show the great import.
ante of this railway, whether considered in a local or national
point of view, forming as it will a most useful chain of local com-
munication for the fertile and populous tracts through which it
passes.
It will bring the Northern and Eastern Counties, the mouth of
the Thames, and North Kent, into direct communiCation, by
way of Brighton, with Dieppe and Havre, and thus form, in con.
junction with the railways now in progress on the Continent, the
shortest possible route to Paris and the Mediterranean.
By this railway the large population of the North Eastern Coun-
ties, numbering nearly two millions, will have a direct and easy
communication with the whole el the populous and important
counties of Kent and Sussex, without going round to London, and
thereby avoiding the inconvenience arising from the Unconnected
lines north and south of the metropolis. _ _

The utility of this line to the naval and military service, both in
times of peace and war, for the conveyance of troops and stores, is
evident.

With the existing railways, and those now in progress in Kent
and Sussex, a most complete system of local communication will be
effected ; and as such, the projeet has been received with the meat
distinguished approbation and pledges of support from the principal
proprietors along the line, and the Corporation of Gravesend have
promised their entire sanction to, and will cordially support it.
The ground has been carefully surveyed, and found tv present
no difficulties to the formation of a good working line.
The existing local traffic has been ascertained to be amply suf.
ficient to fulfil, the requirements of the undertaking; but a large
accession of valuable traffic cannot fail to be the result of the
increased accommodotion thus afforded to the public, and rendering
the undertaking one of the most important as well as productive
lines of railway in that part of the country.
The Committee reserve power to themselves to form branches
from Snodland to Chatham. _

The liability of the shareholders will be restricted by Act of
Parliament to the amount of their subscriptions, and power will be
applied for in the Bill to allow interest at 4 per cent. per annum en
all calls, from the passing of the Act until the opening of the line.
Applications for prospectuses and also for shares may be
addressed in the usual form to George Smith, Esq. Solicitor, 24,
Golden-square, and No. 2, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall.street ;
Messrs. Coombe and Sharland, Gravesend , Messrs. J, and E.
Blaker, Lewes; to Messrs. Field, Son, and Bayley, sharebrokers,
Warneford-court, Throgrnorton-street, and to Messrs Harris and
Sons, sharebrokers, Change-alley

PRELIMINARY NOTICE.
rrHE 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 ►narket 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 Bainp-
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 arid quarries of Merthyr Tydvii, Ponty-
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 Ilil•acom4
Railway. At Minehead it will also join the Bridgewater and Mine-
head Railway, to which it will serve as an important feeder► connect-
ing the towns on the north coast of Devon directly with the great
western trunk railroads 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,
London, Qr at tbA corapaurs Offices, No. 87, GreeliAM-Iftfeet, Cal'.

PROSPECTUS OF THE

BOSTON, GRANTHAM, LEICESTER, and
MIDLAND. COUNTIES JUNCTION RAILWAY

COMPANY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Offices —.5, Guildhall Chambers, Bashighall-street.
Capital, 800,0001., in 40,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Wm. Corbett Smith, Esq., Bitteswell-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-street, 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, Carnarvonshire, 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 Elnngton, 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, Leicestershir‘Direetor of
the Direct Birmingham and Leicester Railway
Atkinson, .T. 8., Esq., Elmwood House, Leeds, Director of the Lei-
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 Railway
Burd, John, Esq., Alderman, Manchester
Caldecott, William Lloyd, Esq., Laura-place, Bath
Carver, Edward Turst, Esq., Forest-lodge, Ttilse-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
Junction Railway
Dalby, John, Esq., Ashbourne, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield,
Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railway
Eales, William, Esq., Mincing-lane, London, Director of the Direct
Western, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways
Gernon, J., Esq., 12, Conduit-street, Hanover-square, Vice-Chairman
of the Galway and Ennis Railway
Gillham, Joseph, Esq., Hargreaves House, Oldham, Director of the
Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction Railway
Graves, Captain Twisleton, Director of the Leicester, Tean and
Dove Railway
Grey, Hazelrigg, Esq., Carlton-hall, Leicester
Heneage, Charles, Esq., Cadeby-heuse, Lincolnshire
Holmes, Isaac, Esq., Liverpool
Hungerford, H. H., Esq., Dingley-park, Leicestershire
Kebbel, W. IL, Esq., Glbe-house, Kilby, Leicester
Knight, Joseph, Esq., Leicester, Director of the Midland Counties,
Leicester, and Bedford Railways
Lambert, Richard, Esq., Lyston-hall, Sudbury, Director of the
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, J., Esq., Bushey House, Herts
Raworth, J., Esq., Leicester, Director of the Direct Birmingham
and Leicester Railway
Sbaw, Joseph, Esq., York-place, Huddersfield, 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
Worcestershire Junction Railway
Stone, Nathaniel C., Esq., Rawley-fields, near Leicester, Director of
the Direct Birmingham and Leicester Railway
Sagar, Hartley, Esq., Ball's Grove, Colne, 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, Esq., Rusholm, Manchester, Director of the
Rugby and Manchester, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways
Williams, B. 8., Esq., 70, Portland-place, Director of the Leeds
and Liverpool, Leicester and Tamworth Railways.

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

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.
I. Ramsay, Esq.
J. Raworth, Esq.
Major Waller

sAiikEus.
Messrs. Rogers, Olding, an 4 Co., Clement's-lane, London
Messrs. Garflt, Ciapoa, and Co., Boston
Messrs. Kewney and Ring, Grantham
Pare's Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester and Melton
Mowbray.

ENGINEER—C. Nixon, Esq

SOLICITOR—J. A. J. Macgregor. Esq., 26; Suffolk-street, Pall-mall

London.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Manners and Son, Grantham, and
Messrs. Millington and Kenrick, Boston.
SEcarmy—George Farrer, Esq.
PARLIAMENTARY 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 Boston with the centre of Eng-
land, by way of Grantham and Melton Mowbray, where it will join
the Syaton 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, Folkingharn, 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 uanecessary to enlarge upon the advantages which will arise
from this railway, which passes through one 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, net
only for the direct traffic from Leicester and the intermediate
places to Boston, but also for the general traffic which will ne
brought to this line by tli,e several railways which will be connected
with it.

VW 1••• ..•
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 Sharebrekers,
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. Kell, 20, Atherton-buildings, Liverpool
Messrs. Wellbeloved and Oastler, Leeds
Mr. Frederick Stamp, Hull
Mr. Geo. Clark, Bradford
Mr. Wm. Cronhelm, Halifax
Mr. Charles Spencer, Nottingham
Messrs. Eyre and Shaw, Derby
Messrs. Grayston and Erie, York
Mr. E. H. Armitage, Wakefield
Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol
Messrs. Houghland and Leese, Manchester
Messrs. T. N. Bardwell and Sons, Sheffield
Mr. W. H. Collis, Birmingham
Mr. L. Wetherburn, j►n., Huddersfield
Mr. R. Wawa!, Leicester
Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester
Mr. James Pringle, 79, Princes-street, Edinburgh
Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Glasgow
Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, College-green Dublin.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Boston, Grantham, Leicester,
and Midland Counties Junction Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me shares of
201. each in the above proposed railway ; and I undertake to pay the
deposit of 21. 28. per share thereon, or any less number you may ap-
propriate to me, and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Par-
liamentary Contract when required.
Dated this - day of

1845.

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