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

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Chairn an—Wynn Ellis, Esq., M.P.
Deputy-Chairman—Josiah Wilson, Esq.

John Smith Mansfield, Esq.
George Meek, Esq.
Capt. Gnstavus Evans, R.N.

Thomas Wakefield, Esq
Ambrose Moore, Esq.
Francis Valentine Lee, Esq.
John D. Cooper, Jun., Esq.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—eIIaTIES Fox, Esq,
ENGINEER—JOIIII Hughes, Esq.
BANKERS.

The London Joint-Stock Bank, Princes-street
Messrs. Pagets and Kirby, Leicester
Pare's Leicestershire Banking Company, Melton-Mowbray
The Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Company, Spalding
Messrs. Evans and Co., Derby

The Burton Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Lacy and Bridges, 19, King's Arms-yard, Cole-
man-street ; Abraham Bass, Esq. Burton-upon-Trent.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—MeSSI'S. Dyson, Hall, Parkes, and Coates,
Parliament-street.
SECRETARY—WiIIiam Ranyard, Esq.

The first object of this line is to connect the town of Birmingham,
Coventry, and Leicester, with the eastern coast by the nearest route,
and to supply an important link of communication between the town
of Spalding and the eastern coast with the Western and Midland
districts.

Commencing at the Spalding station of ,the Norwich, Dereham,
Lynn, and Holbeach Railways, the line will proceed by Bourn,
Witham, Castle Bytham, South Wytham, and Wymondham, to a
point on the Syston and Peterborough line of railway near Melton-
Mowbray, thus forming, by the Syston and Peterborough and Mid-
land Counties Railway, an almost direct route to Leicester, and
thence to Coventry and Birmingham by the proposed Coventry,
Nuneaton, Leicester, and Birmingham Railway.
The projected line will form the most direct communication be-
tween the eastern and midland districts of the kingdom, and will, by
means of the proposed lines across the county of Leicester, ,is-la Ilu
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ton-upon-Trent, to Stafford, bring the markets of Lincoln, o folk,
Shropshire, and North Wales, nearer to each other by many ms
than any other line of railway.
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It will form, with other projected rail,
across the kingdom, from Yarmouth, via Norwich, onos the ireast, to
Aberystwith, via Newton and Shrewsbury, on the west.
The entire length will not exceed thirty miles. There is no tunnel-
ling, cutting, or embanking of any importance necessary; the line
from Bourn to Spalding, a distance of about twelve miles, is very
level, and may be constructed at a small cost.
It will secure the advantages of railway communication to a tract
of country at present destitute of this accommodation, besides open
ing out sources of trade undeveloped for want of the ineans of transit.
The central midland districts have felt greatly. the want of direct
communication with the coast ; .and this line will at once supply the
deficiency to the greater part of Staffordshire and Leicestershire.
It will afford a traucit forthe Staffordshire, Derbyshire, and Lei-
cestershire coal into districts heretofore entirely dependent upon

supply front the north at high prices: it will also secure the advs
tages of an unlimited supply of lime from the Leicestershire wor'es.
to the agricultural districts of Lincoln, which are at present ot.y
supplied at very high rates; and, in return traffic, the midland d:,-
trlets will okain the advantage of a direct transit for the stock and
agricultural produce of Lincolnshire and Norfolk.

Several proposed lines of railway converge at Spalding, whiell 4
the nearest point on the eastern coast for the midland counties, a:,
connected by the River Welland with the German Ocean.
The proposed capital will be sufficient for the construction o;
necessary works and every subsequent expense ; and the _Iwo: ,e
derivable from the traffic in passengers between Birmingham, t•,-
ventry, Leicester, Derby, Melton, Spalding, and Boston,
the tra: ;-
port of cent, cattle, and other produce of the great agricultur.d
districts through which the line passes to the principal consum:..g
districts, and of coals, lime, and staple commodities for the 1
districts, will be sufficiently ample to warrant the outlay.
The Parliamentary surveys have been commenced, and are
in active progress, and contracts have been entered into which
sure sufficient time for compliance with the standing orders.

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Forms of application for shares, plans, and prospectuses ma,
had of the Solicitors ; also at the offices of the Company, 4,
falgar-square, Charing-cross, where applications for shares,
pained by respectable references, may be addressed to the
sional Committee.