The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-09 00:00:00

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

I request that you will allot to me shares of 201. each
in the West Essex and Yarmouth and Lynn Extensions of the London
and Norwich Direct Railway Company, and I hereby andertake to
accept the same, or any less number that may be allotted to me, to
pay the deposit of 21. per share thereon, and to execute the Subscri-
bers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contract.
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*.* The Company reserve the right of carrying the lines entirely
through upon the atmosheric principle, if found expedient.

G REAT NORTHERN RAILWAY OF
FRANCE.
(LAFFITTE'S COMPANY.)
FRENCH ALLOTMENT.
The HOLDERS of FRENCH CERTIFICATES issued by ti.e
above Company, are invited to deposit them forthwith, at the offices
of Messrs. C. Laffitte, Blount, and Co., 4, Castle-court, Birchin-
lane, London, in order that the same stay be arranged and ex-
changed for the definitive shares.
The amount of the deposit to be returned (in consequence of -the
reduction in the original allotment), will be paid here so soon as the
certificates have been examined.
Particulars, Sse., may be obtained on application as above, between
the hours of 11 and 3.
Notice.—As the last day for depositing shares in Paris expires on
the 15th instant, none can possibly be received after that day in
London.
London, October Ist, 1845.

BIRMINGHAM and BOSTON DIRECT
RAILWAY COMPANY.
Capital, 1,000,000/., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
(Provisionally Registered. •

PROVISIONAL COMMITTBA
The Right Hon. Lord Edward Chichester, Director of the Hull and
Holyhead Direct and Great Welsh Central Railways
Lord Dunboyne, Director of the Harwich Decks, and Birmingham
and Central of England Railways
Lord Albert Conyngham, 5, Hamilton-place
Lord Stephen Chichester, Ormean, Antrim, Director of the London,
Staines, and Ascot, and of the Rester g and Riegate Atmospheric
Railways, &c.
Lieut.-Colestel Lothian Dickson, Curaen street, May-fair, her Ma-
jesty's Civil Commissioner at the Cape, Director of the Exeter,
Dorchester, and Weymonth Junctic n Coast Railway, &c.
Captain J. P. M`Dougal, Fir-grove, North Brixton, Chairman of the
Isle of Man Railway, Director of the Oxford. Southampton, Gos-
port, and Portsmouth Railway, &c.
Colonel Thos. Fitzgerald, Maperton, Somerset, Deputy•Lieatenant ol
Somerset and West Riding of Yorkshire
The Hon. George Augustus Hamilton Chichester, 1. St. Alban's-
place, and Oakfields, Donegal, Director et the London and Exeter
Direct Railway, &c.
Sir George Sartorius, R.N., Senior United Service Club, Director of
the Dover and Bristol Railway, &c.
Major O'Doherty, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall
George Downing Bruce, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant of Yorkshire, Di-
rector of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Extension
Railway
George Mackintosh, Esq., 27, Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square,
Director of the North Wales Mineral Railway
Tulloh Fraser, Esq., Gloucester-place, Directors
Portman-square of the
Thos. Ross, Esq., 58, Porchester-terrace,Hyde-park Dover & Bristol
John Lowe, Esq., 26, Norfolk-crescent, Hyde-park Railway, &c.
James Lamb, Esq., 95, Hyde Park-square, Director of the Grand
Trunk Railway, &e.
John Thorpe, Esq., Bloomsbury-terrace, Lower Broughton, Man-
chester
John Holford, Esq., Rusholm-hall, Manchester, Director of the Man-
chester Direct Railway
John Burgess, Esq., Manchester, late boroughreeve, Director of the
London and Manchester Railway, &c.
Charles Phelps, Esq., Montague-place, Russell-square
Henry Brown, Esq., Harleyford-place, Kennington, Directors of the
Great Welsh Central Railway
Charles Smith Rayner, Esq., Kew-green
Algernon W. Greville, Esq., Cambridge-terrace,'Hyde-park, Director
of the Great Eastern and Western Railway, &c.
John Chapman, Esq., Langham-place, Director of the Hull and
Holyhead Direct Railway
G. Gun Hay, Esq., 127, Sloane-street, Director of the Reading and
Riogate Atmospheric Railway
R. Atkyns, Esq., Devonshire-street, Portland-place, Director of the
Guernsey Pier and Railway Company, &c.
William Sladden, Esq., Canterbury, Director of the Reading and Rei-
gate Atmospheric Railway
John Rannie, Esq., 5, Lower Belgrave-place, Belgrave-square, Direc-
tor of the Dorking, Brighton, and Arundel Atmospheric Rail-
way, &c.
Edward Sankey, Esq., Canterbury, Director of the Metropolitan
Junction Railway Company
Wm. Thomas Symonds, Esq., Thornton-heath, Croydon
C. M. ;tigg, Esq., York place, Portman-square, Director of the
Shropshire Mineral Railway
Lumsden Mackeson, Esq., Old-square, Lincoln's Inn, Director of the
Leeds and Carlisle Railway, &c.
Alfred G. Harris, Esq., 38, Alsop-terrace, New-road
William Henry Burke, Esq., Tottenham
Edward F. Finden, Esq., Southampton-place, Euston-square
Geo. Fowler, Esq., Newington-place.
Peter Paterson, Esq., Leyton, Essex
George Evans, Esq., Melbury-terrace, Regent's Park, Director of the
London and Exeter Direct Railway, &c.
John Thompson, Esq., Great St. Helen's, Director of the Grand
Trunk Railway
Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London, Chairman of the Mauri-
tius Railway, and Director of the York and Lancaster Railway, &c.
Captain Strutt, Cranford-lodge, Middlesex, Director of the Reading
and Reigate Atmospheric Railway, &c.
Capt. Newton, R.N., Director of the Hull and Holyhead Railway, &c.
James Tracy, Esq., Director of the Harwich Docks, and Birmingham
and Central England Railway, &c.
John Blunt, Esq., Director of the London Docks, and Reading and
Reigate Atmospheric Railway, &c.
Joha Bloor, Esq., Tutbury, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby,
Gainsborough, and Great Grimsby Railway
Jeremiah Clark, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Direct
Railway Company (Remington's)
Rich. Wm. Johnson, Esq., Director of ditto
George Parker, Esq., Mansfield-house, Russell-square
Lewis Buckland, Esq., Avenue-road, Regent's Park
Major Hawkes, 72, Baker-street, Portman-square, Chairman of the
Jamaica North Midland Railway
Capt. E. 11. Scott, R.N., Director of the St. Alban's and Hertford Ex-
tension Railway Company
Edward Patterson, Esq., Clapton
Kensington Lewis, Esq., Worcester Park, Surrey, Director of the
Cheltenham, Oxford, and Brighton Junction, and the Lynn, Wit-
beach, and Peterborough, and Midland Counties Railways
Charles Bleaden, Esq., Coulsden-court, Surrey, Chairman of the Li-
censed Victuallers and General Fire and Life Insurance Company,
and Director of the Direct Western Railway, &c.
William James lye, Esq., 21, Northampton-square, Director of the
Southern Counties and Bristol, Bath, and Dover Direct Railway
(With power to add to their nnmber.)
BANKERS.
London—Commercial Bank of London, 3, Moorgate-street, and 3,
Henrietta-street, Covent-garden
Messrs. Spooner and Attwoods and Co., 27, Gracechureli- street.
JOINT SOLICITORS.
W. W. Oldershaw, Esq„ 7, Tokenhouse-yard
Messrs. C. T. and A. Jenkinson, 76, Cannon-street, City.
ENGINEERS.
Sandiforth F. Griffin, Esq., C.E.
I. A. B. Bennet, Esq., C.E.
ARCHITECT AND SURVEYOR.
E. N. Clifton, Esq., Tokenhouse-yard.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.
Messrs. Sudlow and Kingdon, 6, New Palace-yard.
PROSPECTUS.
This line is designed to open a direct communication between the
towns of Birmingham and Boston.
The advantages to be derived by a rich, progressing, and populous
town, such as Birmingham, the great manufacturing centre et
the kingdom, having a direct communication with a port on the
eastern coast facing the Continent, and that port the nearest to it by
geographical position, need but be mentioned to be appreciated.
The name of Birmingham speaks for itself ; the capacity and value
of Boston, as a commercial port, is daily increasing, and requires but
little enterprise to enable it to compete with some of our best ports.
It is proposed that this line should commence at Leicester, where it
will form a continuation of the line from Birmingham to that town,
and proceeding by, or near Melton Mowbray, Corby, Folkinglutm, anti
Donnington, terminate at Boston, thus affording a ,direct communi-
cation between Birmingham and its important manufacturing dis-
tricts, Rugby, the great railway centre of England, and Boston, their
nearest seaport, which eventually must command the traffic of the
districts with which it is in connexion, and the opposite ports of the
Continent.
The country is easy, presenting few or no engineering difficulties.
The usual power will be taken by the Act to allow interest at
foar per cent. per aanurn, after passing the Act, on the amount of
the subscription paid up. No subscriber shall be answerable for
more than the amount of his deposit until the Act be obtained, and
then not beyond the amount of his subscription.
A more detailed prospectus will be issued in a few days, containing
the names of many influential gentlemen locally interested is the
proposed line.
A more detailed prospectus will be issued in a few days, containing
the names of many influential gentlemen locally interested in the pro-
posed line.
Applications for shares, in the annexed form, and prospectuses,
to be made to the Solicitors of the Company, 7, Tokenhouse-yard,
and 76, Cannon-street, City ; and to the following stock and share-
brokers :—London—Mr. Edward Newton Bryant, 16, Throgmorton-
street ; Mr. Wm. Rodwell, 22, Throgtnorton-street ; and Mr. A. Sym,
9, Tekenhouse-yard. Edinburgh—Messrs. Dowling and -Bowden,
South St. Andrew,street, and Mr. Pringle. Liverpool—Mr. Laurie.
Perth—Mr. J. A. Gloag. York—Mr. W. IL Cowling. Wakefield—
Mr. Thomas Nightingale. Manchester—Messrs. Johnston, Bradley,
and Walker. Exeter—Mr. Thomas Sanford. Sheffield—Mr. Richard
Muncaster. Hull—Messrs. Alsop and Son, and Mess's. Wilkinson
and Earle, Leeds—Messrs. J. and T. Rhodes, and Menu. Charles
Bell, Beverley, and Co. Blackburn—Wm. H. 3lorrice. 1111'1111,1g-
ham—F. H. West, 48, New-street. Glasgow—Messrs. Black and
Lorimer, Buchanan-street.

FORM OF APPLICATION.
Ts the Provisional Committee of the Birmingham and Boston Direct
Railway. _ .

I request you will apportion me shares of 201. each in the
Birmingham and Boston Direct Railway Company ; and Ido hereby
undertake to accept the same, or any less number you may arot
to me, and to pay the deposit of 21.25. per share, and all future calls
thereon, and to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribes a'
Agreement when required.
Dated this day of
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1845.