The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-20 00:00:00

INIORTII LONDON JUNCTION RAILWAY
COMPANY, 8, Finsbury-place South.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and Bth Victoria, clap. 110.)
Capital, 1,300,0001., in 65,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
pnovisioNAL commirrim.
John 'Atwood, Esq., M.P., Park-lane, Chairman
James Horne, Esq., F.R.S., Clapham Common, Deputy-Chairman
Sir John Edward De Beauvoir, Bart., London
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NORTHAMPTON, LINCOLN, and HULL
RAILWAY, commencing at Northampton, and proceeding
by way of Kettering, Uppingharo. Oakham, Grantham, and Lincoln,
direct to Hull.

Grantham—Messrs. Hardy, Walkington, and Hardy
incoln, Gainsborough, Market Raisen, Brigg, Caistor, and Grimsby
—Messrs. Smith, Ellison, and Co.
Hall—Messrs. Raikes and Co.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 2,000,0001., in 100.000 Shares of 201. eaCh.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
PIOTISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Admiral Ayscough, Southampton
The Right Hen. R. N. Smith, M.P. for Northampton
J. R. W. Atkinson, Esq., Elmwood-house, Leeds, Director of the Lei-
cester and Bedford Railway Company
Mr. Joseph Adnitt, merchant, Northampton
Francis Simes Alliott, Esq., Nottingham
Thomas J. Arnold, Esq., Revising Barrister for the City of London
John Abbey, Esq. Grange, Wellingborough, Northampton
Sir Arthur de Cape! Broke, Bart., Oakley-hall, near Kettering
Robert M. Bates, Esq., banker, Strand ii4-ran
Charles Holk Bracebridge, Esq., Atherstone-hall, Warwickshire
Robert Bell, Esq., Manor house, Chiswick "
John Richards Burbidge, Esq., Surbiton-hill, Surrey
John Brightman, Esq., Regency-square, Brighton
Mr. Alderman Brooks, Manchester
C. Buschek, Esq., merchant, 133, Fenchurch-street, London
Jonathan Burton, Esq., Nottingham, Director of tke Grand Union
and Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway Companies
William Batcheller Brownlow, Esq., merchant, Hull
Cnarles Holt Bracebridge, Esq. Atherstone-hall, Warwickshire
George Buxton, Esq., Northampton, Director of the Northampton
Union Bank
J. D. Barry, Esq., London and Paris, Director of the Orleans, Tours,
and Bordeaux Railway Company
Charles Britten, Esq., Northampton
Mr. Alderman Bean, Notthigham
John Bradley, Esq., the Park, Nottingham
William Boston, Esq. merchant, Northampton
Charles Bamford, Esq. mere amt, Hull - -
Mr. Sergeant Clarke, ltecerder of Northampton and Lincoln
Thomas Chitty, Esq., Upper Gower-street
Richard Carpenter, Esq., Lonsdale-square, Londoa
Henry Coe Coape, Esq., Goldhanger, Essex
Thomas Mortimer Cleoby, Esq., Acton, Middlesex
N. Ciamberlege, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's-park
Mr. Edward Cotton, merchant, Northampton
J. M. Cottle, Esq., Leamington
Peter Coulston, Jan., Esq., Husbands Bosworth, near Welford
Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
Edward Cook, Esq. merchant, Northampton
John Robert Dolby, Esq., Ashbourne, Derbyshire
The Right Hon. George Lionel Dawson Darner, M.P., 6, Tilaey-
street, Park-lane
Hon. W. Dawson Darner, Parkstonelodge, Poole
Edniund F. Dayrell, Esq., Lillingstone Dayrell, High Sheriff of Bucks
F. S. Doubleday, Esq. Great Surrey-street, London
John Eyston, Esq., Welford and Salford-hall, Warwickshire
Richard Ellison, Esq. Boultham-hall, Lincolnshire
Hon. Percy Evans Freke, 3, Belgrave-square
Benjamin S.Fowler, Esq., Tamworth, Director of the Northampton,
Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway Company
John Freeman, Esq., Director of the Northampton. Banbury, and
Cheltenham Railway Company
John Fardell, Esq. Lincoln
Edward Fowler, Esq. Lincoln
Edward Fisher, Esq. Little Bowden, near Market Barborough, Di-
rector of the Leicester, and Bedford, and Rugby, and Huntingdon
Railway Companies
William Gambier, Esq., Seacombe-park, Hertfordshire
Hon. Robert Gore, M.P., Wilton-crescent
Major-General Greenstreet, Northampton
John Cooper Getch, Esq., banker, Kettering
James Gernon, Esq., Conduit-street, Bond-street
Alexander Greig, Esq., Lowndes-street, Beigrave-Square, London.
Frederick William Green, Esq., shipowner, Cornbill, London
The Rev. George Edward Hanmer, Rector of Loddington and Over-
stone, Northamptonshire
Frederick William Ilamilton, Esq. Gloucester-place, London
Henry Hensman, Esq., Pytchley, Nor hamptonshi
George Harper, Esq., Moss-fields, Salop
William Herbert, Esq., Nottingham
Thomas Bagger, Esq., Northampton, Director of k Northampton.
Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway Company
Thomas Hopkins, Esq., Nottingham
Arthur Haymes, Esq., Metkuen-villa, Leamington
John Halbert Helbert, Esq., Upper Gloucester-place, London
Mr. William Thomas Higgins, merchant, Northampton
John Baron Howse, Esq., Irthlingborough-grange, Northampton-
shire
Mr. Alderman Hellis, Northampton
Richard Hopper, Esq., Upper Clapton, London, Director ef the Direct
London and Manchester Railway Company
Hon. Edward Jerningham
Richard Parry Jones, Esq., Whitchnrch, Salop
William Laycock, Esq.. Sheffield, Director of the Nottinghara and
Gainsborough, and Grand Union Railway Companies
Sir Gregory A. Lewin, Recorder of Doncaster
F. Valentine Lee, Esq., Chester-terrace, Regent's-park, London,
Director of the Eastern Conties Railway Company
George Wortley.Lovell, Esq., Great Billing, Northamptonshire
Charles Leavers, Esq., the Park, Nottingham
Major-General Mercer, C. 8., Queen Anne-street, Cavendish-square
Christopher Markham, Esq., Northampton
William Mackenzie, Esq., Liverpool and Paris, Director of the Or-
leans, Tours, and Bordeaux Railway Company
James Morrison, Esq., St. Mara -at-hill, London
G. Marshall, Esq., Gocialmtng, Surrey
E. W. Morris, Esq., Grovehurst, Pembury, Kent
Major J. A. Moore, Queen Anne-street, Cavendish-square
George Murray, Esq., Chichester
Samuel Oxenham, Esq., Chester-terrace, Regent's-park, London
Sir George Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Herts
Samuel Percival, Esq., baker, Northampton
Mr. Alderman Porter, Northampton
The Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Llsrnrethel„Werefordshire
Edwin Pell, Esq., Sywell-hall, Northamptonshire
George Ryder Peppercorne, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex
Vaughan Prance, Esq., Nether Stowey, Somersetshire
Henry Pywell, Esq., Northampton
John Phipps, Esq., Northampton
Benjamin Payne, Esq., Leicester
The Lord Rossrnore, the Dell, Windsor
Mr. George Rands, merchant, Nottingham
The Rev. John Lucas Sutton, Rector of Weekly, Northamptonshire
F. Curwen Smith, Esq., Frognall-hall, Hampstead
Thomas Sharp, Esq., Northampton, Director of the Northampton,
Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway Companies
Frederick Seymour, Esq., St. James's-square
G. W. Smith, Esq., Harbury-hall, Sheffield
William Spoontr, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, London
James Robert Spiller, Esq., banker, Northampton
Archibald Douglas Stewart, Esq., Grantley Castle
William Strong, Esq., Northampton ,- -
Benjamin Williams, Esq., banker, 4, Whitehall, London
Major James Waller, St. James's-street
Mr. Alderman Williams, Northampton
Mr. Thomas Woodhouse, manufacturer, Nottingham
David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckiand-hollow, Derbyshire, Director of
the Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway Company
George Willes, Esq., Hungerford, Berks
John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, Tunbridge, Kent, Director of
the Leicester and Bedford Railway Company
Charles Thomas Warde; Esq., Clopton-house, Stratford-on-Avon, and
Luton Hon, Bedfordshire
The Rev. C. F. Watkins, Vicar of Brexworth, Northamptonshire
Mr. John Woolston, merchant, Wellinborough
Mr. Joseph Wykes, merchant, Northampton
Mr. Mamuiduke Wetherell, merchant, NorthaMpton
Joseph Loxdale Warren, Esq., the Lodge, Market Drayton, and
Consall-hall, Staffordshire
Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. J. C. Westenra, M.P., Brooks's Club
Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Pall-mall, London
Allen Allleocke Young, Esq.. Orllngbury, Northamptonshire
T. Borwick Yzarn, Esq., Berne-hill, Surrey
Chadwick, William, Esq., Montague-square, Chairman of the Rich-
mond Railway
Carlile, Thomas, Esq., banker, Hull
Digby, Thomas, Esq., banker, Hull
Sleight, Robert P., Esq., Hull
Atkinson, John, Esq., merchant, Hull
Bamford, Charles, jun., Esq., merchant, Hull
Bamford, Charles, Esq., merchant, Hull
Caley, William, Esq:, merchant, Hull
Grutt, Thomas Charles, Esq., merchant, Hull
Garthorne, John, E-q., merchant, Hull
Hammond, Charles, Esq., merchant, Hull
Hammond, Thomas Dowton, Esq., merchant, Hull
Hall, John, Esq., merchant, Hull
Hubbersty, Henry, Esq., merchant, Hull
Holmes, George, Esq., merchant, Hull
Norman, Wm. 0. Esq., merchant, Hull
Ostler, ohn, Esq., merchant, Hull
Pearson, William Hunt, Esq., merchant, Hull
Petchell, Thomas, Esq., merchant, Hull
Thompson, Thomas, Esq., merchant, Hull
Whittaker, Isaac, Esq., merchant, Hull
George Abbey, Esq., orthampton
Mr. Thomas Atherton, merchant, Northampton
Henry Broadwood, Esq.. M.P., 5, Whitehall-yard
Edmond Singer Burton, Esq., Daventry, Northamptonshire
Mr. W. Bunting, wool merchant, Spratton, Northamptonshire
Sir Francis Cockburn, Dover
John Callus, Esq., Mears Ashby, Northamptonshire, Director of the
-house, Claythorpe, near Grantham
Northampton CalonFrißesantok.
Thjohenßeehv7TushOmEassq"Clayton, Rector of Cottingham-cum-Middleton,
Northamptonshire
The Rev. Thomas Cook. Rector of Grafton Underwood, Sttudor, and
Briggsteck, Northamptonshire
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Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace, and High Sheriff of the
County of Wicklow
Hon. Colonel Hutchinson, Weston-house, Worcester
Charles Heneage, Esq., Cadeby-house, Lincolnshire
H. H. R. Hungerford, Esq., Dingley-park, Northamptonshire, DI
rector of the Leicester and Bedford Railway Company
Mr. S. J. Hobson, manufacturer, Leicester
Ambrose Istcd, Esq., Ecton, Northamptonshire
Major Thomas Isham, Lamport, Northamptonshire
John Jeffery, Esq., Northampton
Thomas Michael Keyworth, Esq., Lincoln
Jolla Lovell, Esq., Towcester, Northamptonshire
Herbert Langham, Esq., Cottesbrooke-hall, Northamptonshire
Rev. Robert Montgomery, Rector of Holcot, Northamptonshire
John Nethercoat, Esq., Moulton-grange, Northamptonshire
John Percival, Esq , Woodlands, Isle of Wight
Mr. Francis Parker, manufacturer, Northampton
Archibald Robertson, Esq., M.D., Northampton
John Reddall, Esq., Dallington-hall, Northamptonshire
The Rev. Henry R.okeby, Rector of Arthingwerth, Northamptonshire
Richard Whitton, Esq., Lincoln
Thomas Wood, Esq., Arthingworth-hall, Northamptonshire
H. B. Whitworth, Esq., Northampton
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George Smith, Esq., Oakham Rutland
Mr. Matthew Sooby, jun., merchant, Gainsborough
The Rev. Thomas Sanders, Vicar of Moulton, Northamptonshire
Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln, Director of the London and York
Railway Company
Rev. Zacharia Shrapnel Warren, Rector of Ancaster, near Grantham,
Thomas Adams, Esq., Lenton-firs, Nottinghamshire
John Coupland, Esq., Shellingthorpe-hall, near Lincoln
Robert Carr Andrew, Esq., Brixworth, Northamptonshire
Qeorge Bacon, Esq., Nottingham
Mr. -Oderman Cullen, Nottingham
John Eagleton, Esq., Belton-hall, Rutlandshire
Rev. E. R. Eagle, Rectory, Belton, Rutlandshire
J. F. Edmonds, Esq., Rye-hills, Northamptonshire
Richard Field, Esq. Leigh-house, Lower Tooting, Suffer
Smith Fowler, Esq. Nottingham
John Gladstone, Esq. director of the Direct London and Manchester
Railway Company
Captain Twistleton Graves, director if the Leioester_smd Tun and
Dove Valley Railway
Thomas C. Higgins, Esq. Turvey-house, Bedfordshire
John Harrison, Esq. Nottingham
T. Richard Tucker Hodgson, Esq. Birmingham
William
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R. S. Hutchinson, Esq. M.D. Nottingham
Robert Hawley, Esq. Oakham
Mr. Alderman oper, director of the Direct London and Manchester
Stowe-hill,
Mr. J. K. Higgins, wine merchant, Northampton .
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Godfrey Kemp, Esq. Belton, Rutlandshire
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John Leavers, Esq. the Park, Nottingham
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Robert Lee, Esq. Grantham
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James Morley, Esq. nasford-hall, Nottinghamshire
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Mr. Fletcher Mercer, merchant, Gainsborough
Charles Morris, Esq., the Grange, Gotham,
Charles Miller, Esq. Grantham
The Rev. J. A. Nash, 27, Westbourne-terrace, Byde-park-gardens,
London
Sulby-hall and Mit'
George Payne, Ent ---oed-house, Northampton-
shire
Charles Pearson, Esq. Sleaford
orthampton
Thomas Pell, Esq.,
NMr. James Pell, Sywell, Northamptonshire
Frederick Perne
Newcombe, Esq. Grantham
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Mr. Thomas Parsons,-UM All 6
William Perrin, Esq. Northampton
William Wright Pell, Esq. Helest horpe, Leicestershire
William Quinters, Esq. Knuster-hall, Northamptonshire
Robert Rising, Esq., the Shrubbery, Worcester
John Ridgway, Esq. C don•placc, Staffordshire Potteries
John Sepperson, Esq., Director of the Direct London and Manchester
Railway Company
Mr. Thomas Shaw, boach proprietor, Northampton
Travers E. Shipley. Esq. Gill Brook-house, near Nottingham
John Tresham, Esq. Red Lodge, Old and Broughton, Northampton
Robert Turner, Esq. J. P., Grantham
William Turner, Esq. M.D. Grantham
W. Wynnie, Thomas, Esq., Cross, Oswestry
William White, Esq., Director of the Direct London stud Manchester
Railway Company
Mr, Alderman Walker, Northampton
William Walker, Esq., Leawood, near Matlock
William Walkington, Esq. banker, Grantham
The Rev. C. F. Watkins Vicar of Brixw orth NorthaffiptonShire
John Weston, Esq. Har 'ingstone, near Northampton
Mr. John Whiting, Northampton
N.B.—No addition will be made to the above list, unless any
landed proprietor residing in the neighbourhood of the line, or other
influential party, shall be desirous, either on his own account, or in
order to represent the locality in which lie reel des, of having his
name added to the Provisional Committee, end intimate the same to
one of the Solicitors.

ENGINEER—Joseph Urpeth Rested*" -1,
JOINT SOLICITOR.
London—Augustus Walter Arnold, Esq., 31, Golden-square
Kettering—Messrs. Lamb and Nettleship
Northampton and Welford—George Pell, Jun. Esq.
SECRETARY—Thomas James Searle, Esq.
LOCAL SOLICITOR.
Uppinghana—W. Gilson, Esq.
Oakbam—Messrs. Ades and Adam
Grantham—Fred. Malim, Esq.
Lincoln —Richard Carlin, Esq.
Nottingham—Arthur Wells, Esq.
Hull—Messrs. England and Shackells
Offices of the Company, 34, Moorgate-street.
PROSPECTUS.

James Henry Attwood, Esq., Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square
John Bagskaw, Esq., bleucester-place, Portman-square
Richard Bethell, Esq., Queen's Counsel, Lauderdale House, Highgate
George Bishop, EM., South Villa, Inner Circle, Regent's Park •
Augustus Bosanquet, Esq., Osidge, Southgate
Joseph Brown, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continuation
Railway
George Woodreffe Franklyn, Esq , Clifton, Bristol
W. Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., Alderman of the City of
London
Henry Morton, Esq., Biddick, Durham
George Parbary, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manehester
and Birmingham Continuation Railway
Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P., 39, St. James's-place
George Reugemont, Esq., 14, Broad-street-buildings
Nicholas Woed, Esq., Kellhigwerth, Newcastle-on-Tyne.

The objects intended to be accomplished by tbis undertaking arc-
h The formation of a direct line of railway between Hull and the
metropolis.

2. The supply of local railway accommodation to the importai
districts embraced by the line.

RANKERS.
Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills and Co., London
Bank of Liverpool
The Union Bank, Manchester.
ENGINEER—George Parker Bidder, Esq., E.I.C.E.
incurrzcx—RobertAbraham, Esq., Torrington-street, Russell-square.
&Limon—John Bethell, Esq., 78, King William-street, City.

3. The benefit of railway communication with the metropolis ex-
tended to a district of country, west of Grantham, upwards of 504111%;
in length at present unprovided with that accommodation-.
4. The completion of the chain of railway communication between
Bristol, Gloucester, the river Severn, and the southern and western
counties, and the north-eastern districts of the kingdom and the river
Humber, and its ports, including that of Hull.
5. The connecting of the two important ports of Hull and South-
ampton by one continuous chain of railways.
Commencing at the town of Northampton, in conjunction With the
London and Birmingham, the Northampton, Banbury, and Chelten-
ham, and the other lines of railway proposed to converge at that
town from the west, from Worcester and from • Warwick, the
line will proceed in a direct course to the market town of Kettering,
by which place all the companies competing for the line of railway
between London and Manchester propose to pass. It will then pro-
ceed, also, in a direct course by the market towns of Uppingham,
Oakham, and Grantham, to Lincoln.
The country lying between the towns of Northampton and Gran-
tham is wholly without existing or even proposed railway accommo-
dation, not only to the south, but also to the north.
From Lincoln the line will proceed byithe shortest and best practi-
cable course to Hull.__

SEcarreitY—Harry Burrard Farnall, Esq.
The Provisional Committee of the North London Junction Rail-
way Company have great satisfaction In informing their subscribers
that negotiations are now pending between the Provisional Commit-
tee of this Company and the Directors of the Railways north of the
Thames of such a character as to assure them that the City terminus
of this Company will form the Grand Terminus of all the City tragic
north of London.

To effect this important object, an area of 10 acres of ground (the
southern boundary of which is within 500 yards of the Bank of
England) has been most carefully surveyed and valued, and the re-
port of the architect and engineer is of so favourable a character as to
have induced the Provisional Committee to determine en purchasing
the entire site, and it has, therefore, been resolved by them to in-
crease the capital of this Company to 1,300,0001.
The Provisional Committee consider it of paramount importance
to secure within the limits of their City terminus, the amplest and
most complete accommodation for the traffic of each of the railway
companies who may co-operate with them, an object which will be
effected by opening the very extensive and valuable space of ground
alluded to, within the centre of the City of London.
In conjunction with this enlarged plan, it is intended to embrace
that of a branch line to the present station of the Eastern C•unties
Railway in Shoreditch, which will effect an entire junction between
the eastern and western parts of the metropolis ; and at the same
time afford a direct communication between the whole of the rail-
ways, which reach London tothe north of the Thames, and give
full development to each of their schemes by creating fir them a
common centre within the heart of the metropolis.
Independently, therefore, of the almost incalculable local traffic
which the position of their City terminus will ensure to this Com-
pany, will be added that of those companies also who will eventually
co-operate with the North London Junction Railway Company, and
the perfection of a project of no ordinary magnitude and importance
will be realised throughout the whole of this short but very valuable
line of railway.

The sources of traffic which this line will secure are various and
very considerable ; some of them only can be here enumerated.
They are,—

Slatting from Hull the line will appropriate to itself the whole of
the traffic thence to the Metropolis, Bristol, Southampton, Glouces-
ter, Oxford, Cheltenham, and the whole of the Southet n and Western
districts of the kingdom, and, in addition, it will secure the very im-
portant and increasing local traffic between Hull and Lincoln and
the intermediate towns.

In the event of the Cambridge and Lincoln Railway Company not
obtaining their Act of Parliament, then the traffic from the before-
mentioned places and Lincoln to the south and west, also to the me-
tropolis, will pass along this line of railway ; the former the whole
distance, and the latter in any event to Grantham, a distance of about
twenty-five miles ; and should the London and York Company not
succeed, such traffic will proceed ffirther toKettering or Northampton.
The entire district between Grantham and Kettering, a distance of
more than forty miles, and including the market towns of Oakham
and Uppingham, is without railway or water-carriage accommoda-
tion, and the whole of its traffic therefore will travel over this line of
`railway, which will be in the direct course not only t. the west but
also to London.

.
A. lithographic sketch now publishing will accurately define the
entire district through which this Company proposes to run this line;
by this means the most casual observer will be enabled to ascertain
that the environs of London, north of the Thames, will be placed ia
immediate communication with the City ; while the dense popu-
lation of the City will enjoy a factity of connexion with its suburban
localities, necessarily affording it the greatest accommodation.
With such important local resources, therefore, together with the
vast traffic on which the shareholders of this Company have a right
to rely for profit, a large amount of revenue may be fairly and justly
anticipated, fully commensurate with the outlay of the proposed
capital. That revenae will be derived thus :
The daily passenger traffic on the Great Western amounts to
3,345, one-half of which reaches the City. The London and Bir-
mingham amounts to 4,322 daily, two-thirds of which reach the
City. The Eastern Counties amounts to 2,400 persons daily, half
of whom pass to the West-end of London. The omnibus traffic daily
is 30,894 passengers, two-thirds of which may be given to the City.
Passengers from the suburban districts reaching the City, now un-
accommodated by any railway, are estimated at 4,000 daily.
From these sources the following products are derived:—

At Kettering this line will unite with that •ne of the now com-
peting schemes passing that town from Manchester and Leicester to
London which shall be successful before Parliament.
From the singularly important advantages which this undertaking
presents to the capitalist, as well as to the public at large, the Pro-
visional Directors do not think it necessary, with reference :to the
supposed traffic or otherwise, to say more than that they fully be-
lieve that the return will be, upon the capital required, highly re-
munerative.

The country is free from engineering difficulties, with one or two
exceptions only, and those are more than counterbalanced by the very
favourable gradients of by far the greater portion of the line ; indeed,
for many miles the line will run upon a water level.
The lice will not interfere with any ornamental property.
The promoters have made every necessary arrangement for the
active prosecution of the undertaking, and for applying to Parlia-
ment in the ensuing session.
No call will be made, with the exception of the deposit, till the Act
is obtained, and power will be applied for in the Act of Parliament,
to allow interest at the rate of 4/. per cent. per annum on all calls from
the date of their payment, and to limit the liability of each share-
holder to the amount of his subscription.
The landowners on the line are favourable to the undertaking.
The promoters reserve power to alter and vary the route, to ex-
tend the proposed line of railway to Great Vrimsby or elsewhere,
and to increase the amount of capital, as may be necessary or ad-
visable.

Per Aim
Passengers from the Great Western and Birmingham Rail-
way, at 6d. each................
Passengers from the Eastern Counties to the City terminus
of this Company, at 3d. each • • •• • • • •
Omnibus passengers' traffic, at 6d. each, as taken at
present.. ..... ....................................... 187,929

42,204 tons of goods and parcels pass annually from the

Great Western and thelondon-and Birmingham Rail-
ways into the City, at an average cost of carriage of 3s.
6d. per ton throughout. For the carriage of these goods
and parcels, therefore, at the reduced cost of 2s. 6d. per
ton, a revenue may be derived of • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 17,776
From the carriage of goods, parcels, and mails, bringing la
to the Eastern Counties Railway Company a revenue of
40,0001. a year, may be derived the suns of ... lO,OOO

Prospectuses and Plans may be obtained on application to any of
the several Solicitors or Local Agents, the Secretary, or to the fol-
lowing Brokers, viz. ;—Messrs. Peppercorne and Co., 2, Old Broad-
street ; Messrs. Preece and Evans, 39, Lothbury ; or Messrs.
Edward Ellis and Co. 33, Threadneedle-street, London; Messrs,
Freeman and Son, or Mr. Cornfield, Northampton ; Messrs. Flint
and Tootal, Messrs. Tarbottom and Whiting, or Mr. Simpson, Hull ;
Messrs. Grayston and Earle, York; Mr. John Watson or Mr. James
Jamieson, Leeds ; Messrs Tempest and Butchart, Huddersfield ; Mr.
Charles Spencer, Nottingham ; Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester ;
Messrs. Alston and Gage, Liverpool ; Messrs. George Edwards and
Son, or Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol ; Mr. John Duncuft, or Mr.
Joseph Fernykough, Manchester ; Mr. James Scott, Birmingham ;
Messrs. Tassie and Co., Glasgow; Messrs. Robertson and Co., Edin-
burgh ; Messrs. Themas Atkinson and Co., 'c ewcastle ; Mr. John Cragg,
Skipton ; Mr. Bamforth, Rotherham ; Mr. William Fawcett, Salis-
bury; or Mr. Andrew Milligan, 2, Lord-street, Birkenhead; to any
of wnom applications for Shares in the under-mentioned form may be
addressed. FORM OF APPLICATION.

The total of their calculations amounts t 0.... £280,289
Deduct 40 per cent. for workers' expenses _ . . 112,115

To the Provisional Committee of the Northampton, Lincoln, and Hull
Railway Company.

Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me - shares of 207.
each in the above Company, and I undertake to pay the deposit
of 27. 2s. on each allotted share, and to sign the necessary deeds when
required.

bated this day of 1845.
Usual Signature .... ........, ......
Name in full ..
Residence •••• • • • • •••. • . • • ............
Business or Profession ....
Place of Business • • • • .. • • • ..... „ •,
Name, Residence, and Business or
Profession (if any) of Referee .. ......
Offices of the Company, 34, Moorgate-street.

BANKERS.
Northampton—The Union Bank, and the Yorthstmptonshire Banking
Company
Yettering—Messrg. Gotch and Sons
Wppingiun—The Stamford, Spalding, and klootoo Beaking Company
9dtharct—ftence, Eaton and Cayley

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 20. 1845.

MIDLAND GRAND JUNCTION
RAILWAY.

Connecting the Great Western, London and Birmingham, and Direct
Manchester. From Reading via Henley-on-Thames, Aylesbury,
Buckingham, and Northampton.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 1,250,0001. in 5n,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 2/. 12s. 6d. per Share. ,
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

John Anderson, Esq., Princes-park, Liverpool, Director of the East-

em Counties and S.outhend Railway
William Ashcroft, Esq., Bury, Director of the Lancashire, Cheshire,
and Staffordshire Railway

Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Barton, K.C.H., Montague-place,
Montague-square
George Alfred Beardmore, iEsq., Nottingham, Director of the Hull
and Lincoln Direct Railway, and Nottingham and Peterborough
Railway
Charles R. Bigge, Esq., 19, Bryanston-square, Director of the York
and Lancaster Railway
Charles Bleaden, Esq., Coulsden-court, Surrey,- Chairman of the
Licensed Victuallers' Assurance Company_

John Blunt, Esq., Upper Bedford-place, Director of the London

Docks
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Chairman of the
Direct Western Railway, and Director of the Sheffield and Man-
chester Railway
James Brand, Esq., 9, New Broad-street, Director of the New Ross,

Carlow, and Kilkenny Railway
Henry S. Bright, Esq , Hull, Director of the Durham and Sunderland

and Direct Western Railway
G. A. Brown, Esq., Broad-street, Director of the Callao and Lima

Railway
Joseph Bull, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Staffordshire Potteries

Railway
Pierce Somerset Butler, Esq., M.P., Director of the York and Lan

caster Railway
Wm. Byrom, Egq., Oldham, Director of the Oldham District, the Bir.
kenhead and Holyhead, York and Lancaster, and Cheltenham
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Oxford, and London Railways
Thomas Byrom, Esq., Wigan, Director of the York and Lancaster,
Rugby, Derby and anchester, Staffordshire Potteries Railways
John Chauntler, Esq., Friday-street, Director of the York and Lan-
caster Railway
Richard Clay, Esq., 1, Winchester-buildings, London, Director of the

Huddersfield anifEistern Coast hallway
John Clampitt, Esq., Sercombe, Exeter, Director of the Exeter and

Creditors hallway
Ephraim Cocker, Esq., White Coppice, Chorley, Director of the Black.

burn, Chorley, and Liverpool Railway
W. H. Collis, Esq., Handsworth, Staffordshire, Director of the South
Staffordshire Junction Railway
Nathaniel Cooke, Esq., Bayswater, Director of the Eastern Counties
Junction and Southend Railway
Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Direct Western
Railway
Nathaniel Cumberledge, Esq., 3, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Direc-
ef the Leeds and Huddersfield Railway, &c. &C.
Newton Crouch, Esq., 13, Southampton-place, Euston-square, Di-
rector of the Mauritius, and the York aid Lancaster Railways
Thomas Ferrand Dearden, Esq., Rochdale, Director of the Stafford-
shire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railway
Peregrine Royds Dearden, Esq., Birkenhead, Liverpool

J. W. De Wolf, Esq., Liverpool
Miles Dormer, Esq., Hans-place, Sloane-street, Director of the

Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway
Richard Davis, Esq., Knaresborough, Director of the Wilts, Somerset,
and Southampton Railway
Colonel LOthian Sheffield Dickson, Curzon-street, May-fair, Director
of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway
John Edwards, Esq., Chester, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway, the York and Lancaster, Staffordshire Potteries,
and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways
J. a Ewes, Esq., Knaresborough
Benjamin Smart Fowler, Esq., Alder House, near Tamworth, Direc-
tor of the Leicester and Northampton Railway.
The Rev. H. R. Fowler, 7, Manchester-square, Director of the South
Midland Railway
The Hon. Percy Evans Freke, Belgrave-square, Director of the

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Bandon and Bantry Railway
William Garrow, Esq., Great George's-square, Liverpool, Director of
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the Eastern Counties and Southend Junction ltallitay
William Gibb, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Staffordshire
Poiteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railway
Joseph Gillham, Esq., Hargreaves-house, Oldham, Director of the
Staffordshire Potteries, and Huddersfield, and East and West
Coasts Railways
James Glover, Esq., Longton, Director of the South Union and Bir-
mingham Junction Railway
Captain Twisleton Graves, Director of the Leicester and Tean and
Dove Valley Railway
Charles Haigh, Esq., Broadley Wood, Rochdale and Manchester,

Director of the 111-inichester and Rugby Direct Railway
F. W. Hamilton, Esq., 59, Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director
of the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway
John Lawrence Harris. Esq., 4, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry,
Director of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway
John George Hammock, Esq., Essea-house, Bow-road, Director of
the Direct Western Railway
Chas. Harrisson, Esq., 31, York-terrace, Regent's-park

John Hawkins, Esq., St. James's-place, New-cross
Theophilus Hodges, Esq., Connaught-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of
the London, Hounslow, and Western Railway
John Holford, Esq., Rusholm-hall, Manchester, Director of Reming.

ton's Direct London and Manchester Railway
William Holiday, Esq., Chad-valley, Edgbaston, Director of the Direct

Western Railway
Charles Holland, Esq., of Liscard Vale, Cheshire, and Liverpool •
John Holmes, Esq., St. James's-street, Westminster, Director of the
Eastern Counties Junction and Southend, and the Direct Western
Railways
George Holt, Esq , Willow-hill, Crumpsall, Director of the Stafford-
shire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railway
Joseph Hopgood, Esq., Exeter, Director of the East and West of
England Junction, Direct Western, and Reading, Guildford, and

Reigate Railways
Adderly Howard, Esq., Long Sutton, Wisbeach, Direetor of the Easi

Coast, and Direct Western Railways
William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid•

land Railway -
William Hunter, Esq., Leamington, Director of the Avon and Severn
Valley, and the Great Western Direct Railways
Herbert Ingram, Esq., Director of the Eastern Counties Junction
and Southend Railway
John Charles Jack, Esq., Liverpool
C. H. Jagger, Esq., Handsworth, Director of the Great Western,
Southern and Eastern Counties, and Ipswich, and Ipswiah and
Southampton Railways
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart.
Charles Justice, Esq., Collumpton, Devon, Director of the Direct
Western Railway
Richard Kelly, Esq., Cleveland-row, St. James's, Chairman of the
New Ross, Carlow, and Kilkenny Railway
Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South and
Midlands Junction Railway
William Kempe, Esq., Teign Villa, Teigamouth, Director of the
Eastern Co nties Junction Railway, and the Leeds, Fleetwood,
and Liverpool Railway
Thomas Kidley, Esq. M.D. Sheffield, director of the Eastern Coun-
ties and Southend Junction and Direct Western Railways
George Lawrie, Esq. Manchester, director of the Eastern Counties
Junction and Southend Railway
Peter Thomas Legh, Esq., Ridge-hall, county Dublin, Lirector of the
Isle of Man Railway
Job Lockyer Seale, Esq., M.D., Director of the Direct London, Haat-
ings, and Rye Railway, and Great Northern and Southern Direct
Railway from Huddersfield to Derby
William Melville Lomas, Esq. Liverpool, director of the Lancashire,
Cheshire and Staffordshire Junction Railway.
John Lord, Esq. Standish Hall, Lancashire, director of the Stafford-
shire Potteries, the Liverpool and Manchester Direct, and Lanca-
shire, Cheshire and Stafford Junction Railways.
Jas M'Dougall, Esq., Fir-grove, North Brixton
James Macmillan, Esq., Southampton, Director of the Worcester,
Warwick, and Rugby Railway
A. M. Macmoran, Esq., Cambridge-street, Hyde-park, Director of the
East and West Junction Railway
Major-General Sir Love Parry, Mardyn, Carnarvonshire Director of
the North Wales Railway.
William Marriott, Esq., Ottercliffe- terrace, Director of the Direct
Western and the Isle of Ely, and Wisbeach and Lincolnshire
Junction Railway
Charles James Mason, Esq.. Fenton
Thomas Miller, jun., Esq., Leicester, Director of the Direct Western
Railway
Richard 3lortimore, Esq., Collnmpton, Director of the Direct Western
Railway
Edward Norris, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Direct Western
Railway
M. Norton, Esq., Mont-house, Brentwood
James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Marlborough-square, Manchester; director
of the Chester and Manchester Direct, and Direct Westera Rail-
ways
Nathaniel Ogle, Esq., Heath-lane-lodge, Twickenham, Director of
the York and Lancaster Railway
John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge Terrace, Hyde Park, Di-
rector of the Direc• Western R ,ilway
Richard William Perry, Esq., Barham Wood, near Eistree, Hefts
William S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Director of the
Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham Raimay
John Pratt, jun., Esq., Fenton
Frederick Ramsden, Esq., Seymour House, Old Strofford, Manchu;
ter, Director of the Staffordshire Potteries, and the Liverpool,
Preston, and North Union Railways-
Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester, Chairman of the Birkenhead
and Holyhead Junction, and Director of the Sheffield and Man-
chester Railway, &c.
James. Renshaw, Esq.' West Heath House, Kent, Director of the
Direct Western, and South Staffordshire Junction Railways
J. Reginald Riddell, Esq., Bycullah-house, Enfield, Director of the
Direct Western Railway
It. A. Riddell, Esq., Director of the Great Western Extension Railway
A. Macdonald Ritchie, Esq., Middle Temple, London, Director of the
Eastern Counties J•inction and Southend Railway
John Robson, Esq., Hitton-in-Hole, Durham, Director of the Direct
Western Railway
Richard Rowe, Esq., Beauvoir-terrace, Maida Vale
Hartley Sagar, Esq., Ball Grove, Colne, Director of the East Lan-
cashire and Andale Junction Railway.
Edward Scard, Esq., Kew-green
C .J. Selwyn, Major Royal Engineers, Director of the Direct Western
Railway
William Sidebotham, Esq., Glossop, J.P. for Derbyshire, Director of
the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
James Shaw, Esq., Salford, Director of the Manchester and Rugby
Direct Railway
Edward Smith, Esq., Barnsbury Park, Director of the Great Eastern
and Western Railway
William tudiey, Esq., North Brixton, Director of the Leeds and
Carlisle Railway
Henry Taylor, Esq , Wigan, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct, the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union and Oxforc, Chel-
tenham and London Railways
Joseph Taylor, Esq., Clements-lane

Jolla Thompson, Esq., Wigan, Director of the Birkenhead and Ho-
lyhead, Manchester and Wigan, and Liverpool, Preston, and North
Union Railways
Joseph Thompson, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton Railway
Charles F. Thornley, Esq., Eastfleld House, Westbury, near Bristol,
Director of the Leeds and Carlisle, and Manchester, Settle, and
Car,isle Railways
Thomas Tebbutt, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
Edward Trelfall, Manchester, Director of the Eastern Counties Junc-
tion did Southend Railway
James Troup, Esq., Hastings, Director of the Direct Western and
Direct Hastings
Jas. Trucy, Esq., Great Winchester-street, City, London
Sir William Twisden, Bart., Cavendish-street, Cavendish-square
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Leeds and Carlisle
Railway, and Director of the Commercial Bank of London.
George Walker, Esq., Manchester
Thomas Upffil, Esq., Edgbaston, Director of the Wolverhampton,
Birkenhead and Chester Railway
S. P. Ward, Esq., Birkenhead, Director of the Eastern Counties

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Junction and Southend Railway
Edward Westlake, N:sq., Southampton, Director ofthe Direct Western
Railway
William Ayscough Wilkinson, Esq., Woodbury Downs, Director of

the Wa;eney Valley Railway
Robert Wynne Williams, Esq., 29, Bedford-place,Russell-square

Thomas Wynne, Esq., Longton, Staffordshire. Director of the Leeds

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and Carlisle, and South Union and*Rirminghant Junction Railways
Sir William W'ynne, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, Chairman of the worth

Wales Railway
Sampson Bridgwood, Esq., Loughton
Thomas Bollman tYpfill, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Bristol

and Dover Railway
George Sercombe, Esq., Exeter, Director of the Direct Western

Railway
John Wm. Yerbury, Esq., Bellomb-house, Bredford
(With power to add to their number).
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.

Benjamin Smart Fowler, Esq. William Kempe, Esq.
The Rev. H. R Fowler, R. A. Riddell, Esq.
William Garrow, Esq. Henry Taylor, Esq.
Capt. Twisleton Graves J. Underwood, Esq.
John Holmes, Esq. M. A. Wilkinson, Esq.
ma.—Oliver Byrne, Esq.
Richard Kelly, Esq. Thomas Wynne, Esq.
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LOCAL AGENTS.
Messrs. Christian and Jones, Liverpool.
Saunders Nash, Esq., High Wycombe
Messrs. Prickett and Watson, Aylesbury
Messrs. King and Son, Buckingham
BANKERS.
London—The Commercial Bank of London
Manchester—The National Provincial Bank of England.
SECRETARY— Nichs. J. Kempe, Esq.
Company's Offices, Palace-chambers, St. James's.
This railway will form, as nearly as may be practicable, a direct
line from Reading, in Berkshire—one of the ost Important and
rapidly improving towns in the kingdom—to the large and populous
town of Northampton, where it will form a junction with the
Northampton and Peterborough Railway
The line will proceed from.the Reading station of the Great Western
Railway, and by the way of Henley-on-Thames, Great Marlow,
West Wycombe, Aylesbury, and Buckingham, through some of the
richest and most fertile districts of England, from whence vast
supplies of live stock and agricultural produce are constantly fur-
nished to the metropolis ; and from Buckingham it will be continued
direct to Blisworth and Northampton.
From Blisworth a line proceeds to Wellingborough, and forms a
junction with the Direct Manchester Railway ; and it is intended
that a branch shall be formed from West Wycombe to the station at
slough, on the Great Western Railway

The proposed line with the blanch will be about seventy-five miles
in length, and it has been ascertained that it may be constructed
with unusual facility, whilst, by means of the intended junctions with
the Great Western Railway at Slough and Reading, with the London
and Birmingham Railway at Blisworth, and the Direct Manchester
Railway at Wellingborough, an uninterrupted and most desirable
railway communication will be opened between Portsmouth, dos-
port, 04 Isle of Wight► outhempton,. Bedford, Ihuithieclon, the

Staffordshire Potteries, Birmingham, Derby, Leicester, Manchester,
Liverpool, Leeds, Newcast`e end Berwick, and wjth the great manu-
facturing and mining districts of the north of England.

The numerous parishes and districts which will b traversed by the
line comprise a population of nearly 1,500,000 persons, and passim,
as it will, a portion of the counties of Eefifs and Oxford, the whole
of Buckinghamshire, and by the celebrated Vale of Aylesbury, ::en
uniting with the several completed or projected railways under-
mentioned, viz.:—
The London and Birmingham
The Great Western
The Southampton Union
The South M:dland
The Midland Counties
The Northampton raid Leicester
The Northampton and Peterborough, and thus with
The Direct Manchester
it cannot be doubted that it must prove extremely convenient and
beneficial to the public, and highly advantageous to the proprietors.

The liability of the shareholders will he restricted by Act of Par-
liament to the amount of their subscriptio,s, and power will be ap-
plied for in the Bill to allow interest at 4 per cent. per annum on all
calls; from the passing of the Act until the opening of the line.
Arrangements have been made that the survey shall be completed,
and the plans and sections deposited in time for obtaining an Act
during the ensuing ses.,lon of Parliament.
Applications for shares may be addressed, in the form annexed, to
the undermentioned brokers, viz. :—Messrs. B. and M. Boyd, Princes-
street, John Shewell, Esq., Threadneedle-street, and Messrs. Wells,
Weetropp, and Prinsep, 75, Old Broad-street, Mr. John Smith.
Shorter's-court, Throgmorton-street, London; Messrs. Graystone and
Earle, York; Mr. Thackray, Harrogate; Mr. Joseph Nelson, Settle;
Mr. W. Welch, Lancaster ; Messrs. Geddes and Drinkwater, and Mr.
Henry Waterton, Bank-buildings, Castle-street, Liverpool ;
Mr. Peter Leicester, Messrs. Green and Oldham, Messrs.
Green and Lockwood, Manchester ; Mr. James Pearson, Birming-
ham ; Messrs. Joshua Wood and Son, Messrs. Watson and Co., and
Messrs. E. King and Co. Leeds ; Messrs. Brady and Ftaniforth,
Hull ; Mr. J. A. Butchart;Hudderstield ; Mr. Hervey, Halifax ; Mr.
Nightingale, Wakefield; Messrs. Samuel Hutchinson and Co., Brad-
ford ; Mr. Luke Arnold, and Mr. George Edwards, Bristol ; Mr. G.
R. Glidden, and Mr. Thomas Sandford, Exeter ; Messrs. Hall,
Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham ; Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer,..Ply-
mouth ; Mr. Robert Alien, Messrs. llugh Munro and Co., Mr. David
Kinnear, and Mr. James Pringle, Edinburgh ; Mr. W. Pringle,
Leith ; Messrs. M'Ewen and Auld, Glasgow ; Mr. Wm. Gordon,
Aberdeen ; Mr. S. A. Gloag, Perth ; of whom prospectuses may be
had ; or to the Provisional Committee, at the offices of the Company.