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

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Hon. F. I'. Berkeley, M.P., Chairman, Director of the London,
Hounslow, and Western Railway Company
William Alfred Hill, Esq., Deputy-Chairman, also Deputy-Chairman
of the Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham Railway Company
Sir John Osborne, Bart., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing-
stoke Railway Company
Sir Henry Richardson, Knight, Chessel, near Southampton Lord of
the Manors of Chipping Barnet and East Barnet
The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne, Belle Hatch House, Henley
William Wilberforce, Esq., James-street, Buckingham-gate, and
Highwood House, Highwood Hill, Hendon
Samuel Dendy, Esq., Montague-street, Russell-square, Lord of the
Manor of Hendon.
Lieut.-Colonel Willa', Porchester House, Bayswater
William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Director of the Italia' and
Austrian Railway
Josiah Heale, Esq., Gray's Inn
Major Lindam, K.H., Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and

Central Wales Railway Company
Henry Beckley Richardson, Esq., F.S.A., Director of the Colchester,

Cambridge, and Harwich Junction Railway
Rowland Hill Mackenzie, Esq., M.D., Mortimer-street, Cavendish•

square
Henry Chaytor, Esq., Clervaux Castle, Darlington, Dirsetor of the
Warwick and Worcester Railway
Thomas Priestley, Esq., Principal of 11111 Hill Grammar School,

Hendon, Middlesex
The Rev. H. J. Crump, Mill Hill, Hendon, Middlesex
Captain Grover, R.N.
Captain John Innes, H.C.S., Wentworth House, Mill Hill, Hendon

Middlesex
The Rsv. Bartholomew Nicholls, HA., Incumbent of St. Pairs
Mill Hill, Hendon, Middlesex
Mr. William Ward, Underhill, Barnet
Mr. Bruce Johnsen, Finchley
William Christopher Daniel Deighton,Esq., Fellow of Queen's College

Cambridge, Holloway
Ralph Allen Frogley, Esq., Hounslow, Director of the London,
Hounslow, and Western Railway
Colonel Taylor White, Hadley-green, Barnet
Abraham Scott, Esq., Hadley Priory, Barnet
W. J. M'Gwire, Esq., 74, St. James's-street
W. Presser, jun., Esq., 36, New Broad-street, City
James Berington, Esq., East-street, Hoxton
George Freeman, Esq., Grange House, Leeds
Richard Cowley Polhill, Esq., Director of the London, Hounslow, and
Western Railway Company
George Godfrey, Esq. The Elms, Hutton, Essex
Robert Wright Wood, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and
Basingstoke Railway Company
Alexander Prince, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing-
stoke Railway
Peter Graham, Esq., Angelo Villa, Gloucester-read, Regent's Park
William Henry Halpin, Esq., 23, Grafton-street, Fitzroy-square
Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and

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Basingstoke Railway Company
Charles Green, Esq., Director of the Gloucester, Aberyatwith, and
Central Wales Railway Company
J. N. Nicholay, Esq. Oxford-street
John Godfrey B. Hudson, Esq., Director of the Central Terminus
Railway Company
The Rev. G. A. Walker, APristhorpe Parsonage. Wakefield, Direc-
tor of the Wakefield and Bradford Railway Company
John Thomas Raworth, Esq„ Leicester, Director of the South Union
and Leicester:and Birmingham Railway
Thomas Francis Justice, Esq., Bsrner's-street, Oxford-street
George Parbury, Esq., Mansfield-street, Ruseeil-square, Director of
the Grand Trunk Railway
John D. Hopkins, Esq., 25, Bedford-square
J. H. Lister, Esq., Director of the South and Midland Junction ,
Railway
J. P. 'Wright, Esq., Edinburgh
W. 81ark, Esq., Rockhalls, Lodge, Cricklewood
Charles Waite, Esq., Willesden
Thomas Cope, Esq., Cricklewood
(With power to add to their number.)

COMMITTER OF MANAGEMENT.
The Hon. F. H. F. Berkeley, M.P., W. H. Halpin, Esq.
Chairman Richard Cowley Polhill, Esq.
William Alfred Hlll, Esq., Deputy. Alexander Prince, Esq.
Chairman George Freeman, Esq.
Major Lindam, K.H. George Godfrey, Esq.
Henry Beckley Richardson, Esq., Robert Wright Wood, Esq.
F.S.A. Charles Green, Esq.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—Francis Whishaw, Esq., C.E., Brook Lodge,
Hendon, and Adelphi.

ACTING ENGINEER—J. Bailey Denton, Esq., 10, Gray's Inn-square,
EANBERS—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths,
JOINT SOLICITORS.
Edward Elkins, Esq., 59, Newman-street, Oxibrd-street
G. P. Hill, Esq., 21A, Soho-square.
LOCAL AGENTS.

Henry Hammond, Esq., solicitor, Wentworth Lodge, Finchley
John Hughes, Esq., solicitor, Whetstone.
Messrs. Tatham and Son, solicitors, Highgate
Thomas Weeks, Esq., solicitor. Tottenham

This railway will connect the important and hitherto neglected

town of Barnet with the London and Birmingham and the Great
Western Railways, at or near Holsdon-green ; with the Northern
and Eastern and the Eastern Counties Railway, at or near Totten-
ham ; and the proposed Direct London and Manchester, and the Lon-
don and York Railways.
The line, in its course, will unite the town of Barnet with Whet-
stone, Totteridge, Highwood Hill, Mill Hill, Flnchley, Holder's Hill,
Hendon, Burrows, Golder's Hill, Gutterhedge, Kingsbury, Neesdon,
Wilsdon, Wilsdon Green. Holsdon Green, Kensall Green, Westbourne
Green, Maida Hill, Kilburn, Hampstead, West End, Highgate, Crouch
End, Hornsey, Muswell Hill, West Green, Tottenham, Edmonton,
Chintbrd, Stamford 11111, Stoke Newington, Newington Green, Clap-
ton, Highbury, Holloway, Kingsland, Layton, Stratford, West Ham,
Bow, Bromley, Bethnal Green, Limehouse, Horton, Homerton,
Hackney, Shacklewell, Dalston, Islington, St. Pancras, Shoredltch,
EtiAton-square, Paddington, Kensington, Hammersmith,

lirompton, Fulham, Chelsea, &c. ; connecting those places with the
various railways named, and all those south of the river Thames.

Tho distance from the town of Barnet to the station of the London
and Birmingham Railway, at Euston-square,.by this route, will be

.5 miles,

The length of the main line, from the point of junction at Totten-
ham to the London and Birmingham Railway, will be 11 miles ; and
the length of the branch line to Barnet, will be 4% miles. From the
junction with the Birmingham Railway to Chipping Barnet, 9%
miles ; from the Decoy (near Brent-street, Hendon), on the proposed
Barnet and North Metropolitan Junction Railway, to the Northern
and Eastern Counties Railway, by Stamford-hill, tmiles.
There aro no engineering difficulties throughout the entire distance.
The line will proceed beyond the range of the Highgate and Hamp-
stead Hills, and the branch from the main line to Barnet will follow
the valley of the river Brent to the intended station at Barnet ; thus
the expense of construction will be less than any other metropolitan
line of railway, for the above reason, and because it will pass through
an agricultural district, avoiding all ornamental property and large
collections of houses and buildings.
Upon the completion of this railway, a large and daily-increasing
population, resident beyond the limits of the metropolitan omnibuses,
will be largely benefited, and land and agricultural produce, hitherto
affording an inadequate return to their cultivators, will be quad-
rupled in value.
The ancient, populous, and once-flourishing town of Barnet, too,
will now have a railway communication of its own, without depend-
ing upon the caprice or uncertain goodnature of any company who
may hold out a prospect of a branch, in future times, from some of
the trunk Mica now contemplated.

An ample return of profit to the investments of shareholders may
be safely anticipated, and will arise from the following betimes,
amongst others :

From the conveyance of passengers

2. From the carriage of goods and merchandise from the City and
Docks, &a., to the several railways which aro intersected by this

line, avoiding the delay and excessive cost of conveyance through
London ; also from the conveyance of cattle, &c., mere particularly
during the period of the large Barnet fairs.
3d. From the conveyance of coal, both inland and seaborne fuel,
and other commodities of general consumption, the great expense
of which has long been felt by all classes as a most griercio
The Committee of Management reserve to themselves the power
of adopting, upon this line, locomotive power, or Presser's Railway
guide and safety wheels, as may be deemed expedient.
Applications for Shares in the form annexed (and communi-
cations from persons desirous of promoting the objects of the Com-
pany), may be addressed to the Secretary, at the Provisional Offices
of the Company, 59, Newman-street, Oxford-street; to the Joint
Solicitors, Edward Elkins, Esq., 59, Newman-street, and G. P
Hill, Esq., 21A, goho-square ; or to Messrs. Sparks and Clark,
9, Bartholomew-lane ; Messrs. W. and H. R. Cox, Share-brokers,
16, Throgmorton-street ; 1. R. Lane, Esq., Birmingham; Charles
0. Neil, Esq., 15, St. Ann's-square, Manchester ; Mr. Landford,
Exeter ; John Wells, Esq., Royal Bank-buildings, Liverpool ; and
Messrs. Wellbeloved and Oaster, Leeds.