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London, England, 1845-11-08 00:00:00

•THE LEICESTER, MELTON MOWBRAY,
and SPALDING JUNCTION RAILWAI , givistg, with other
formed and projected lines, the nearest route from Birmingham,
Coventry, and Leicester to the Eastern Coast, and a communication
from Birmingham, via Nuneaton, Leicester, and Melton Mowbray,
to Spalding.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Offices, 4, Trafalgar-square, Charing-eras.
Capital 500,0001., in 25,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Wynn Ellis, Esq. M.P. -tin:leices--te-r-,—(11-r-eit-cTi of the Brandon aid

Spalding Railway
William Corbet Smith, Esq. Bittleswell-hall, High Sheriff of Leioes

tershire
The Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P. Chairman of the Northampton, Ban.

bury, and Cheltenham Railway
The Hon. Major C. Napier, Rugby, director of the Peterborough

Nottingham Railway -
Gen. Johnson, M.P. Witham-on-the Hill, near Bourn, Lincolnshire
William Collins, Esq. M.P.
Ralph Etwall, Esq. M.P.
Thomas Wakefield, Esq. Nottingham, director Of the Brandon and
Spalding Railway
Matthew Gisborne, Esq. Walton-hall, Derbyshire
Joseph Ellis, Esq. Gletifield-lodge, Leicester
Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.B. director of the East India Company
Sir Edwin Pearson, F.R.S. Gloucester-terrace, Regent's-park
Sir W Boothby, Bart.
Ambrose Moore, Esq. Milk-street, Cheapside
Josiah Wilson, Esq. Stamford-hill
George Meek, Esq. Russell-square
John Clement Ruding, Esq. director of the National Bank of Ireland
Francis Valentine Lee, Esq. director of the Eastern Counties Railway
Richard Heaviside, Esq. Brighton
William Ettwall, Esq. Longstock-down, near Stockbridge, director
of the. Southampton and Manchester Railway
William Shadbolt, Esq. chairman of the Greenwich Railway Cora-

pany
T. E. Bigge, Esq. Bryanstone-square
Captain Gustavus Evans, R.N. Headley-grove, Surrey. director of tho
Nottingham, Birmingham, and Coventry Railway
Valentine Knight, Esq. Cornwall-terrace, Regent's-park
Samuel Kompson, Esq. Little Sutton, Sutton C,olcifield, Warwick-

shire
Frederick Pearson, 'Esq. Piccadilly
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq. Woodberry Down, Stoke Newington, director
of the Erewash Valley Railway
Herbert Ingram, Esq. Swinshead-abboy, Lincolnshire
John Tatham Banks, Esq. warden and magis-
trate of Louth, Lincolnshire
William Gresham, Esq. Aderman of Lin- Provisional Directors
coin of the Great Grime-
Samuel Trought, Esq. Louth, Lincolnshire by, Louth, and Lin-
William Ward. Esq. M.D. Horneastle .
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coin onway.
uadman, Esc!. nouse,
Sheffield, dli.etor of the Isle of Ely, Wls-

beach, and Lincoln Railway J
The Rev. J. B. Hildebrand, rector of Saxby, near Meltoi-Mowbray,

Leicestershire
John Thomas Raworth, Esq. Leicester, provisional direotor of th►e
South Union Railway
Nathaniel C. Stone, Esq. Rowley-fields, near Leicester
John Eames, Esq. Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire
Frederick Cayley Worsley, Esq. Imberhorne-house, Susses, director
of the Nottingham, Birmingham, and Coventry Railway
John Smith Mansfield, Esq. Essex-court, Temple
Charles Hance, Esq. Alexander-square, liromptou
Thomas Bridges, Esq. Marwood-hill, Devonshire
Thomas Bent, Esq. M.D. Derby
Douglas Fox, Esq. Derby
John D. Cooper, Esq. Ashboume, Derbyshire, director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway
Henry F. Gisborne, Esq. Derby, director of the Tautworth and Lei-
caster, Coventry and Nuneaton Railway
John Hamp, Esq. Cotton, Derbyshire
Joshua Harding, Esq. Rosliston, Derbyshire
Nathaniel Nadin, Esq. Stapenhill, Derbyshire
J. Nadin, coal proprietor, Newhall and Swadlineete Collieries, Derby-

shire
Sherratt Tomlinson, Esq. Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire
Charles James Mason, Esq. Fenton, Staffordshire
Joseph Itunneley, Esq Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire
William Little, Esq. Peterborough, director of the Peterborough and

Nottingham Railway
I. P. Bainbrigge, Esq. Derby, director of the Derby and Crewe

Railway
J. C. Williams, Esq. M.D. Nottingham
Henry Smith, Esq. Gainsborough
William Lister Sharp, Esq. Gainsboreugh, director of the Derby and
Great Grimsby, and of the Cambridge and Lincoln Extension
Railway
William Bullivant, Esq. Ashwell, Rutlandehlre
Fdwin Morris, Esq. M.D. Spalding
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Mr. Charles Roberts, merchant, Bourn
William Pate, Esq. merchant, Spalding
Henry Hardy Tatillß, Esq. Moulton, near Fosdyke. LinColnshire
Isaac Dods, Esq. merchant, Spalding
William Parker, Esq. Hanthorpe-house, Bourn.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Chairman—Wynn Ellis, Esq., M.P.
Deputy-Chairman—Josiah Wilson, Esq.
Thordas Wakefield, Esq. John Smith Mansfield, Esq.
Ambrose Moore, Esq. George Meek, Esq.
Francis Valentixe Lee, Esq. Capt. Gustavus Evans, R.N.
John D. Cooper, jun., Esq.
CONSULTING Eisoixxxx--Charles Fox, Esq.
Erwinus—John Hughes, Esq.
BANKERS.

The London Joiut-Stack Bank, Princes-street
Messrs. Pagets and Kirby, Leicester
Pare's Leicestershire Banking Company, Meltoi-Mowbray
The Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Company; Spalding
Messrs. Evans and Co., Derby
The Burton Union Banking -Company, Burton-ipon-Trent.
Somcrrous—Messrs. Lacy and Bridges, 19, King's Arms-yard, Cole.
man-greet ; Abraham Bass, Esq. Burton-upon-Trent.
LOCAL AONNTI. •
William Hardy Tatam, Esq. Spalding
William David Bell, Esq. Bourn.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS--Messrs. Dyson, Hall, Parkes, and Coates,
Parliament-street.
SECRETARY—William 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 towx
of Spalding and the eastern coast, and 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 PeterberOugh line of railway near Melton-
Mowbray, thus forming, by' the Syston and Peterborough and Mid-
roe“i- floenties Railway, an almost direct route to Leicester, and
thence to Coventry min im.,..foebam 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, via Bur-
ton-upon-Trent, to Stafford, bring the markets of Lincela, Norfolk,
Shropshire, and North Wales, nearer to each other by many miles
than any other line of railway.
It will form, with other projected railways, an almost direct line
across the kingdom, from Yarmouth, via Norwich, on the east, 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
or country at present destitute of this accommodation, besides open-
ing out sources of trade undeveloped for want of the means 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 transit for the Staffordshire, Derbyshire, and Lei-
cestershire coal into districts heretofore entirely dependent upon
supply from the north at high prices: it will also secure the advan-
tages of an unlimited supply of lime from the Leicestershire works,
to the agricultural districts of Lincoln, which are at present only
supplied at very high rates ; and, in return traffic, the midiend dis-
tricts will obtain the advantage of a direct transit for the stock and
agricultural produce of Lincolnshire and Norfolk.
Several proposed lines of railway converge at Spalding, which is
the nearest point on the eastern coast for the midland counties, and
connected by the River Welland with the German Ocean.
The proposed capital will be sufficient for the construction of the
necessary works and every subsequent expense ; and the income
derivable from the traffic in passengers between Birmingham, Co-
ventry, Leicester, Derby, Melton, Spalding, and Boston, the trans-
port of corn, cattle, and other produce of the great agricultural
districts through which the line passes to the principal consuming
districts, and of coals, lime, and staple commodities for the inland
districts, will be sufficiently ample to warrant the outlay.
The Parliamentary surveys have been commenced, and are now
in active progress, and contracts have been entered into which en-
sure sufficient time for compliance with the standing orders.
Forms of application for shares, pans, and prospectuses may be
be addressed to the had of the Solicitors ; also at the offices of the Company, 4, Tra-
falgar-square, Charing• cross,. where applications for shares, accom-
panied by. respectable references, may
Provi-
sional Committee.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Leicester, Melton Mowbray
and Spalding Junction Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares of 201.
each in the above railway ; and I undertake to accept the same, or
such less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the re-
gulations of the Company, and to sign the necessary deeds, and
ray when required the- deposit thereon of 21. 25. per share.
Dated this day of , 1845.
Name in full
Profession and Professional Residence
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