The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-24 00:00:00

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Major Adair, United Service Club, Pall-mail, Director of the Goole
and Doncaster Railway
John Anderson, Esq., Lothbury, Director of the South Midland, and
Birmingham arid Lichfield Railways
Whliam Ayrton, Esq., Abbey-square, Chester
William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttoxeter, Staffordshire
John Barnes, Esq., Director of the Union Bank. Choricy Wood
House, Hertfordshire
William Bastow, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Railway
George A. Brown, Esq., 20, Gower-street
Pierce Somerset Butler, Esl., M.P., Director of the Lancaster and
York, Waterford and Kilkenny, and Great Munster Rally,' iy
Jasper Capper, Esq , Watling-street
John Castendeick, Esq., 37, Mincing-lane
Walter Chamberlain, Esq., Worcester
Jeremiah Clarke, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Retnington's
London, Manchester, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Wor-
cester Railways
Major John T. Croft, Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman of the
Chester and Manchester Railway, &c.
William Croft, Esq., Chertse3-, Surrey
Thomas Cluttcrbuck, Esq., Rot Hall, Watford
Charles John Dimsdale, Esq., Essention-place, Hertfordshire
Thomas Edward Dyson, Esq., Tollpits, Hertfordshire
Joseph Graham, Esq., Clapham, Surrey
Hastings Green, Esq., Sion house, Kilkenny, Director of the Water-
ford and Kilkenny Railway
Captain Hodges, 65, Connaught-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of the
Mauritius Railway, &c. &c.
llenry Junin's, Esq., Leeds
Swinfen Jervis, Esq., Whitehall-place, and Darlaston Hall, Stafford-
shire
Daniel Turton Johnson, Esq , Aidennary Churchyard, Director of
Rennin ton's London awl Manchester, the Chester and Manchester
Direct, and the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire
Railways
John Joseph Keene, Esl., St. John's-wood, Director of the National
Bank 01 Ire:and
John King, Esq., Glastonbin7,. and St. John's wood, London, Diree-

tor of the Somersetshire Midland Railway
William King, Esq., lVaterloo-place, Pall mall, London, Director of
the Freemasons Life Assurance Company
George L 'L.-Ailey, Esq., Clarence Lodge, Shirley, Southampton, Direc-
tor of the Isle of Wight, and of the Oxford, Newbury, Andover,
Manchester, and South:unpton Junction Railways
Daniel William Lucas, Esq., Mark-lane, and Crescent Lodge, Stock-
well Park
Horace William Meteyard, Esq., Director of Remington's London and
Manchester, the Chester and Manchester Direct, and the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railways
Joseph Bostick Massey, Esq., Cottered, Hertfordshire, and 50, Cam-
bridge-terrace, ityde Park.
captain Ogle, 44, Eaton-place, Eaton-square, London.
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., Upper Hyde Park-street, Director
of the Manchester, Liverpool, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, aad
Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railways, &c.
Hillebrant Meredith Parratt, Esq., Magistrate, Effingham House,
Surrey
William John Palmer, Esq., Molewood-hill, Bengeo, Hertfbrdshire
Rev. G. B. P. Pollen, Magistrate, Little Bookham Rectory, SW. H. Ravenhill, Esq., Pedwell House, Worcestershire turey
John Rawson, Esq.. Deputy Lieutenant of the West Riding of York-
shire, and J.P., Stoney Royd, Halifax, Director of Itosaind's Great
North of France Railway, of the Manchester, Liverpool, and
Great North of England Union Railway, and the National
Bank
of Ireland
J. B. Shuttleworth, Esq., Eluitcheap
Edward Scard, Esq., Kew, Surrey, Magistrate, Director of the
Toronto awl Lake Huron, and Jamaica Railways
Julian Skrine, Esq., Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln Railway
William 11. S xinton, Esq., 49, Moorgate-street, and sa,_
v., gardens,
Hyde Park
Thomas Stephens, Esq., 4, Lime-street-square
William Tozer, Esq , Bishopsgiste-street, Director of the South Staf-
fordshire Junction Railway
James
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(With power to add to their number.)
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commtrrsE OF MANAGEMENT.
John King, Esq.
George Laishley, Esq.
D. W. Lucas, Esq.
H. W. Meteyard, Esq.
George Scard, Esq.

Major Adair
John Anderson, E. 541.
Jasper Capper, Esq.
Jeremiah Clarke, Esq.
Joseph Graham, E.
D. T. Johnson, Esq.

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BANKERS.
Messrs. Rogers, °Ming, and Co., 29, Clement's-lane, London
The London and County Bank
Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, Manchester.
ENOINEER—Joseph Gibbs, Esq.
LAND AGENT—Layton Cooke, Esq.
LAND SURVEYORS.
W. T. Buckland, Esq.
Messrs. Sanderson awl Rydo.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Rt. Alban's, Herts—ltichard Grove Lowe, Esq.
Chertsey, Surrey—Richard Johh Cole, Esq.
Dorking, Surrey— Messrs. Hart and Hart.
Hertford—Edward Robert Spence, Esq.
Uxbridge, Middlesex—Messrs. Riches and Woodbridge.

Watforri and Rickmansyk:orth—John Seilpvick,Esq.

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The object of this undertaking is to form an unbroken link or
communication with all the existing railways, by which means
more particularly the Western, Southern, Eastern, South-Eastern,
and South-Western parts of the kingdom may be traversed from the
Northern Districts, without the necessity of making the metropolis
arting-pl
expenseacteither
andfo grpassengerseettoss
eofrthhgoode.s: and that. obviating
considerable
The length of the main line will be 62 stiles, commencing at Hert-
ford, (which has already a branch to the North-Eastern Railway),
canitin Ing its coarse by Hatfield, St. Alban's, to Watford, where it
will cross the London and Birmingham Railway, from thence to
Riekmansviorth, Uxbridge, and West Drayton, where it will pass
under the (treat Western Railway, proceeding by Colebrook, (having
a braneh to Windsor from the main line at Horton), cross the Thames
at Staines, to f:gham, Chertsey, passing into the South Western
Railway at the Weybridge Station, approaching Cobham, Leather-
head, Dorking, and terminating at Reigate, where it will form a
junction with the South-Eastern and London and Brighton Railways.
The great distance from each other of the various termini of rail- '
ways in London, has for a length of time occupied the attention of
tehiltiegislatrtre and of the interested Companies ; but the great value
ro pe_retyeh,,as been an insuperable obstacle to effecting any improve-
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