The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-29 00:00:00

MIDLAND RAILWAY.
CONTRACT FOR WORKS.
The Directors of the Midland Railway Company will meet at the
Railway station, Derby, on TUESDAY, the 7th October, to receive
TENDERS for the execution of the railway, to connect the Midland
Railway station, at Sheffield, with the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne,
and Manchester Railway station, being a distance of half a mile or
thereabouts
The contract includes the execution of a tunnel, of 350 yards in
length, or thereabouts.
A plan, section, drawings and specifications, may be seen at the
engineer's office, railway station, Chesterfield, where printed forms of
tenders may be obtained.
All tenders must be delivered to the Secre tary,at the railway sta.
tion, Derby, before 10 o'clock a.m., on Tuesday, the 7th of October,
when all parties tendering are requested to be in attendance.
GEORGE HUDSON, Chairman of the Board of Directors.
JOHN ELLIS, Deputy Chairman.
(By order) J. F. BELL, Secretary.
Derby, 23d Sept., 1845.

T'
HUDDERSFIELD AND EAST AND
WEST COASTS DIRECT RAILWAY,
connecting Liverpool, Manchester, Huddersfield, Barnsley, Goole,
Great Grimsby, and Hull ; with a communication to the Metropolis,
from or near the Cudworth Station of the North Midland Railway.
(Registered Provisionally.)
Capital, 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
In compliance with the Standing Order of the House of Lords.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
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Richard Armitage, Esq., merchant, Fenay Lodge, near Hudders-
field, Director of the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction
Railway
William Alexander, Esq., M.D., Halifax, Director of the Midland
and Thirsk Junction, and other Railways
George Alder, Esq., merchant, Hull)
John Alder, Esq., merchant, Hull, Director of the York, Hull, and
East and West Yorkshire Junction Railway
Edward Brown, Esq., Oldham, Director of the Oldham District Rail-
way, and of the Liverpool, and Manchester District Banking
Company
Francis Shaw Buckley, Esq., banker, Saddlewerth
William Byrom, Esq., Oldham, Director of the Liverpool, Preston,
and North Union, and other Railways
Buckley Bent, Esq., merchant, Saddleworth
William Bailey, Esq.. Staleybridge, Director of the Huddersfield and
Manchester Railway and Canal
Thomas Byrom, Esq., Alderman of Wigan, and Director of the Liver-
pool and Bolton Direct, and other Railways
William Christopher Buck, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and
York Railway
Alexander Brown, Esq., Headingley, near Leeds
George Buckton, Esq., merchant, Hull, Director of the York, Hull,
and East and West Yorkshire Junction Railway.
John Broderick, Esq., merchant and shipowner, Hull
William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., J.P., Hull ; Director of the Hull and
Barnsley, and other Railways
Theophilus Carsick, Esq., merchant, Hull
Edward Hyde Clarke, Esq., Hyde-hall, Stockport, Director of the
Manchester, Southampton, and Poole, and other Railways
William Cardwell, Esq., merchant, Ince Hall, near Wigan ; Director
of the Liverpool, and Leeds Direct, and other Railways
Richard Clay, Esq., merchant, Goole and London
John Dalton, Esq., merchant, Hull
Toinyns Scott Dickins, Esq., J.P., Kirby Malzeard, near Ripon. Di-
rector of the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction
Railway
George Earle, Esq., merchaut, Hull
Ephraim Ellsworth, Esq., Sandford House, Kirkstall, near Leeds
Rev. John Ferrand, the Rector, Cumberworth
Thomas Bell Elcock Fletcher, Esq., M.D., Birmingham and Lich-
field and other railways
Joseph Fletcher, Esq., merchant, Goole
Jaynes Learoyd, Esq., merchant, Grove, near Huddersfield, Direc-
tor of the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railway
William Learoyd, jun., Esq., merchant, Bridgefleid-house, near
Huddersfield, Director of the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield
Junction Railway
Francis Lister, Esq., banker, Goole
John Mason, Esq., merchant, Newhouse, Huddersfield, Director of
the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railway
Luke Marsden, Esq., Aspley-place, Huddersfield
William Moore, Esq., Seedhill, Huddersfield
William Morley, Esq., Blackheath-park, near London, Director of
the Northumberland and Lancashire Junction and other Railways
John Matthewman, Esq., linen-manufacturer, Oakhouse, Barnsley
Robert Makie, Esq., merchant, Watling-street, London
Rowland H. Mackenzie, Esq., Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square,
London, Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and
other Railways
Thomas Hackett Massey, Esq., Newark-upon-Trent, and Oxford-
square, Hyde-park, London
Thomas Newmarch, Esq., J.P., Hull, Director of the Grimsby
Dock Company
John Newhouse, Esq., Newhouse, Huddersfield
John Nowell, Esq., manufacturer, Farnley Wood, near Huddersfield
William Nash, Esq., Clapham Common, Surrey, Chairman of the
Board of the Brighton, Lewis, and Hastings, and Director of other
Railways
Pearson, Esq., merchant, and shipowner, Hull, Dl-
w.Joilhlinarmeticihuenitl, Esq., J.P., merchant, Hull
Dl-
rector of the York, Hull, and East and West Yorkshire Junction
Railway
John Pig,gersgill, Esq., Tavistock-square, London, Director of the
Yorkshire and Glasgow Union, and other Railways
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, London, Director of the Man-
chester and Birmingham, and other Railways
Charles Pitchforth, Esq., Rastrick, near Hnddersfield
Jonas Tillotson Patchet, Esq., banker, Huddersfield
George Pearson, Es-1., Itipponden
John Rawson, Esq., Deputy Lieutenant of the West Riding of York-
shire, and J.P., Stoney Royd, Halifax, Director of the Manchester,
Liverpool, and Great North of England Union, and other Railways
William France, Esq., Potternew ton, near Leeds
William Tulloh Frazer, Esq., Manchester-square, London, Director
of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
Joseph Field, Esq., manufacturer, Skelmanthorpe, near Huddersfield
Joseph Gee, Esq., merchant, Hull
Joseph Gillham, Esq., Hargreaves-house, Oldham, Director of the
Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction, and other Railways
Sir John Hare, F.S.A., Langham-place, London; Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and other Railways
William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.L.S., Chairman of the Manchester
and Birkenhead Continuation, and Director of the London and
Greenwich, and other Railways
Robert Iferries, Esq., flax spinner, Leads ; Director of the Keighley,
Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction, and other Railways
William B. Holdsworth, Esq., flax spinner, Larchfield-house, near
Leeds
John Hudson, Esq., merchant, Hull, Director of the York, Hull,
and East and West Yorkshire Junction Railway
James T. Hill, Esq., merchant, Hull
Henry Jackson, Esq., linen-manufacturer, Barnsley, (Director of
the Bradford, Wakefield, and Midland, and other Railways
William Thomas Jackson, Esq.. Tadcaster, Director of the East
and West Yorkshire Junction, and other Railways
William Empson Jalland, Esq., Holderness-house, near Hull, Direc-
tor of the Lincolnshire and Eastern Counties, and other Railways
Joseph Ibbotson, Esq., shipowner, Hull
Jere Kaye, Esq., York-place, Huddersfield, Director of the Keighley,
Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railway
John Knowles, jun., Esq., Trafford Bank-house, Manchester, Di-
rector of the Liverpool and Leeds and other Railways
Josiah Goodwin Kershaw, Esq., Huddersfield
Joshua Lockwood, Esq., merchant, Huddersfield
John Robinson, Esq., worsted spinner, Silcoates, Wakefield, Director
of the Bradford, Wakefield, and Midland, and other Railways
Samuel Routledge, Esq., dyer and printer, Seedhill, and Ashbrow,
Huddersfield
J. Russell, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, London, Direc-
tor of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton, and other
Railways
John Starkey, Esq., merchant, Thornton Lodge, near Huddersfield
Joseph Shaw, Esq., York-place, Huddersfield. Director of the East
and West of England Junction, and other Railways
Samuel Siddons, Esq., West Bank, Mansfield, Director of the Derby
and Gainsborough, and other Railways
Joseph Stocks, Esq., Shibden Hall, near Halifax, Director of the
Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction, and other Railways
James Spratt, Esq., merchant, Hull
Edward Pearson Tee, Esq., linen manufacturer, Barnsley, Director
of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and other Railways
Thomas Thompson, Esq., J.P., merchant and shipowner, Hull, Di-
rector of the Hull and Barnsley Junction Railway
Henry Taylor, Esq., Alderman of Wigan, and Director of the Liver-
pool, Preston, and North Union, and other Railways
Thomas Varley, Esq., corn merchant, Egerton House, near Hudders-
field, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
John Kenworthy Walker, Esq., M.D., Huddersfield
Thomas Wilson, Esq., brewer, Birkby, near Huddersfield, Director
of the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railway
William Ward. Esq., merchant and shipowner, Hull
Smith Wonnald, Esq., Ticktons Grange, near Beverley, Director of
the York and Leeds Railway
Major General Wright, of the Royal Engineers, London
John Wells, Esq., Armyn, near Goole
Thomas Waller, Esq., the Rookery, Eyke, Woodbridge, Suffolk
(With power to add to their number).
ENGINEER
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Masterman, Peters, and Co.
Liverpool and Manchester—Manchester and Liverpool District
Bank.
Huddersfield--The West Riding Union Banking Company.
Leeds—Messrs. William Williams, Brown, and Co.
Barnsley—Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank.
Goole—York City and County Banking Company.
Great Grimsby and Hull—The Hull Banking Company.
STANDING Con:cm—W. Hughes Hughes, jun , Esq., M.A., Inner
Temple, London.
SOLICITOR—WiIIiam Jacomb, Esq., Huddersfield.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Hull—Messrs. Galloway and Bell.
Howden—Robert B. Porter, Esq.
Pontefract—William Clough, Esq.
Goole—John Wilson, Esq.
Grimsby—William Brooks, Esq.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—MCSSTS. G. and T. Webster, 26, Great
George-street, Westminster.
SECRETARY (pro tem.)—James Sykes Dobson, Esq.
PROSPECTUS.
The objects of this undertaking are—first, to establish one con-
I 'mous, add a more direct and shorter line of railway communica-
len between Liverpool, Manchester, Huddersfield, Barnsley, Goole,
treat Grimsby, and Hall, than at present exists, or is proposed by
any other scheme now before the public ; secondly, to give the be-
nefit of railways to several populous and important intermediate
places now unprovided therewith ; thirdly, to afford increased fa-
cilities of transit to the whole intervening district ; and fourthly, to
*Pen a communication from Huddersfield, southward, with the me-
tropolis.

The Legislature having, during the recent session, sanctioned the
making of a railway from Manchester to Huddersfield, by the Sad-
dleavorth and Marsden Valleys, a communication is thereby secured
betwixt the port of Liverpool and Huddersfield ; a similar communi-
cation is now called for with the Eastern Coast, and in order to ac-
:emplish the same, it is therefore propossd to make a line, com-
mencing at, or near, the station in Huddersfield, of the Huddersfield
and Manchester Railway, passing through the Kirkheaton and Kirk-
berton Valleys, by way of, or near Barnsley, to or near the Cud-
tworth station of the North Midland Railway, there forming a junc-
pion with that railway (by which a communication with the metro-
polis will be obtained), and thence proceeding to Goole, Great
Grimsby, and Hull, by the nearest pray.icable routes. In order to
effect the required objects, at as little 'expense, andiessen the dis-
tance as much as possible, liberty is reserved to form junctions with
any other existing or projected railways.
On reference to a map, it will be seen that the construction of
the proposed line, with the existing and projected railways, will
attain not only the several objects before stated, but also that it will
pass through, or near, several of the most extensive and celebrated
coal-fields, beds of stone, end limestone, and other mineral districts,
in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
It is impossible, in the limits of a prospectus, to enumerate or
estimate the benefits to be derived from this undertaking ; making
liaddersfleld the centre of communication between the two seas,
uniting it by means of the Huddersfield and Manchester Railway to
Liverpool on the west ; and by the proposed line, to the three ports
of Goole, Great Grimsby, and Hall, on the east ; and the line passing
through a densely-populated commercial and manufacturing part of
the kingdom, as well as a highly-cultivated agricultural district, will
afford a ready transport to the natural productions of each locality ;
added to which, it is well known that considerable portions of such
manufacturing districts have hitheito been very inadequately sup-
plied with coal, and also that there is a daily increasing demand by
the outports of that article for exportation ; whilst on the other hand
the superabundant produce of the rich agricultural districts of York-
shire and Lincolnshire, bordering upon the line, are in equal demand
fey the manufacturing population.
The immense traffic, both through and lecti, which must pass upon
the line, will afford ample remuneration to the capitalist.
1 great part of the line will pass through a country favourable for
the construction of a railway, and the remainder presents no difficul-
ties of a serious character. In the construction of the line, every en-
deavour will be made to cause the least possible infringement on the
rights or claims of existing railways, or 'Wary is private property.
.41. portion of the shares will be reserved, at the discretion of the
Committee, for such railway companies as this line may form Jane-
lions, or be connected with.
The liability of each shareholder will be restricted by Act of Par-
liament to the amount of lips, subscription ; and power will be taken
by the Act to allow interest, at the rate of 41. per centum per an-
num, npoa the paid-up capital, from the date of each payment until
the completion of the railway.
Applications for shares may be addressed, in the annexed form, to
either of the Solicitors ; the Secretary, at the temporary offices
of the Company, No. 41, New-street, Huddersfield, or to
any of the undermentioned sharebrokers, viz. :—Messrs. Bally
and Hammond, Angel-court, Throgmorton-street, and Mr. John
Dobson, Commercial Hall, London ; Messrs. Cameron, Cazenove, and
Taunton, Liverpool ; Messrs. Johnston, Bradley, and Walker, Man-
chester; Mr. William Moore, Mr. John Gatliffe, Mr. Frederick Tur-
ner, and Messrs. John Wilson and Co., Huddersfield; Mr. James
Hervey, Halifax; Mr. Walter Smith, Halifax and Elland ; Messrs.
Smith and Perfect, Leeds ; Mr. William Hodget,s, Barnsley ; Mr.
John Dells, and Mr. David Foster, Goole ; Messrs. Flint and Tootal,
Mr. Samuel Phillips, and Messrs. William, Caley, jun., and Co.,
Hull ; Mr. J. P. Loft, Great Grimsby ; Mr. Thomas Firth, Ponte-
fract ; Mr. Joseph Nelson, Settle ; Mr. J. W. Haythorn, Notting-
ham ; Messrs. Williams and Sandeziand, Leicester ; Mr. J. N. Balme,
Gloucester ; Messrs. Thomas F. Dickinson and Co., Newcastle-
urrDavidop APPLICATIONK ear
tlpon-Tyne ; Mr. Peter Watt, Glasgow ; and Messrs. Stuart and
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EdinbuFrgohß SHARES.
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To the Provisional Committee of the Huddersfield and East and West
Coasts Direct Railwa P
Gentlemen,—l request that -Y -ompany.
each in this undertaking, andyri will allot me shares of 201.
less number that you m engage to accept the same, or any
21.25. allot to me d • y
21.25. per share, and to sige the Par ,an to pay tko deposit of
Scribers' Agreement when required. 114alentar7 Contract and Sub-

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