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

PROSPECTUS.

This undertaking is designed to supply the wants of an exten-
sive mineral and populous district, the clrims of which to railway
accommodation have long bees recognised, and various projects
brought forward to secure the local traffic which is admitted to be
sufficient to support a railway; this line will not only accomplish
that desirable object, but also possess the advantage of foraging a
direct eominunication, by the shortest possible route (in connexion
with existing and projected railways), between two •f the most
important divisions of the kingdom.
It is intended to commence by a junction with the projected
railways that will centre at Uttoxeter, from which town it will
proceed by Rochester to Ashbourne, Wirksworth, Cromford, Mat-
lock (where it will join the Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock
Railway), and thence to or near Chesterfield, forming a junction
with the North Midland Railway, thereby giving to Ashbeurne a
direct communication with London by Uttoxeter, and will confer
similar advantages to Wirksworth and other towns on the lino, by
means of the Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock Railway, via
Derby.

The line will be about thirty-five miles long, and the most direct
communication that can be formed between Sheffield, York, Leeds,
and other populous manufacturing towns of the north and the
north-east of England (by means of the projected railways that will
diverge from Uttoxeter) with the Staffordshire Potteries, Stafford,
Shropshire, the densely-populated districts of South Staffordshire,
Southampton, Bristol, the West of England, and South Wales.
It is quite superfluous to notice that the through traffic, both in
goods and passengers, by the various railways which will concen-
trate
to a focal point at Uttoxeter for Sheffield and the north, will
be immense. The goods traffic between Sheffield and the South
Staffordshire ironworks is very great. The district is destitute
of water communication, with the exception of the Cromford
Canal, which the line will cross at right angles, and it is only
neces►ary to advert to a few of the prominent resources of the
country to show the magnitude of the local traffic.
The price of coals on all parts of the line is very high, being
carted a distance of 10 to 15 miles. The cost of this indispensable
article of consumption will be reduced nearly one-half. The
northern portion of the line will be cheaply supplied from the col.
lieries which abcund on the North Midland Railway, and the
town of Ashbourne and the locality (as to price) will be almost
placed in immediate contiguity with the Cheadle Coal Field, where
extensive mines of the Yard coal are worked, which produces an
Intense heat, and is highly approved of both for domestic and manu.
facturing purposes.

The line will pass several valuable quarries of Derbyshire marble
which Is extensively used in all parts of the kingdom; and also
numerous lead-smelting works and rolling mills, producing large
quantities of pig and sheet lead. It will afford an inexhaustible
supply of lime for the highly cultivated land on the banks of the
Dove and Southward. It will open the Derbyshire mines to the
Zinc Smelting Works in the neighbourhood of Cheadle, and will
afford a direct communication with Sheffield for the articles manu-
factured at those works, which at preseut are carted to Derby, a
distance of more than twenty miles.

Already a large cattle traffic exists with the north, which will
unquestionably be greatly augmented by the facilities of this rail-
way, large importations of Scotch and Yorkshire cattle will be
brought for fattening-on the luxuriant pastures of the Dove, tak-
ing in return to the markets of the manufacturing towns, the corn,
cheese, wool, and other produce of the extensive and fertile agri-
cultural district which surrounds the Staffordshire terminus of
this railway. It will bring the already large cheese and cattle fairs
of Uttoxeter and Ashbourne into greater importance.
The iron furnaces of South Staffordshire consume annually more
than half a million tons of limestone : some estimates make the
quantity exceed a million tons. It is well known that the iron-
masters give a decided preference to the limestone at the south of
the Peak, eves any other that has hitherto been tried; the very
great fusibility of this stone rendering it peculiarly suitable as a
flux for reducing the stubborn iron ores of South Staffordshire, and
were it not for the dilatory and expensive means of transit from
Froghall, it would now be used to the total exclusion of all other
kinds. The proximity of this railway to the iron district, the fact
of its entering the limestone range at the most southern extremity,
and the advantage of excavating the stone immediately on the line
of rails, cannot but ensure to it a very large share of this enormous
traffic, if it do not engross the whole. The cost of the stone and
expenses of delivery by the canal from Froghall to the iron district,
amount to 7s. per ton, and by this railway, after allowing a remu-
nerative toll, would be laid down at less than 4s. per ton.
The visitors to the Peak are already very numerous. Let this
romantic scenery (which may be justly termed the Switzerland
of the centre of England) be opened to the indus rious artisans
who chiefly compose the great hives of population with which this
railway will communicate. Let this beautiful scenery be made
easily accessible to this class of persons at a trifling sacrifice both
of time and money, and the revenue from this source alone
during the summer months will be found to be of no inconsider-
able amount.

The projectors feel convinced that this railway contains the ele-
ments of great prosperity, and that as an investment it offers more
than ordinary security. There can be no doubt of a profitable
return for the capital, and the nature of the country presents in.
superaLle obstacles to the formation of any other line which can
materially compete with it.

Applications for Shares, in the following form, accompanied by
a satisfactory reference, may he addressed to the secretary, and
William le Grand, Esq., Shorter's.court, London.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOIL SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Staffordshire and North
Midland Junction Railway.

Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of
251. each'in this Company, and I undertake to accept the same, and
to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that may be
allotted to me ; and I also undertake to execute the Parliamentary
Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
Name in full
Residence
Trade or Profession
Reference
Address of Referee
Date

GREAT INDIAN PENINSULAR
RAILWAY COMPANY.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
CHAIRMAN—The Hon. John Stuart Wortley, M.P.
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—W. J. Hamilton, Esq., M.P.
Frederick Ayrton, Esq., late of the East India Company's Service
Major General Briggs, many years employed in high political and
civil situations in India
Major Clayton, Bengal Cavalry
The Right Hon. G. R. Dawson
J. G. Frith, Esq. (firm of Frith, Wallace, and Co.), Deputy-Chair-
man of the Enniskillen and Londonderry Railway
Captain Gresley, late in civil employ in the Nizain's country
William Gladstone, Esq , firm of Thomson, Bonar, and Co.
James Briscoe Graham, Esq., late of Bombay
John Harvey, Esq., Commercial Bank of London
Swynfen Jervis, Esq., Director of the London and County Bank,
Lombard-street
John Peirse Kennard, Esq.
Robert W. Kennard, Esq., Deputy. Chairman, Northern and East-
ern Railway Company
John Malleson, Esq., Director of the Armagh and Coleraine
Railway
Major Moore, late Military Secretary, Hyderabad
Richard Paterson, Esq., Chairman of the Northern and Eastern
Railway Company
William Ambrose Shaw, Esq., many years resident in India
Major-General Trewman, Madras Establishment
Melville Wilson, Esq., Director of the Alliance Assurance-effice
T. Williamson, Esq., late Revenue Commissioner of the Deems
Bombay

(With power to add to their number.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE AT BOMBAY.
CHAIRMAN—J. P. Willoughby, Esq., Chief Secretary to Govern-
ment, and Provisional Member of Council.
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—R. W. Crawford, Esq., firm of Remington,
Crawford, and Co.
Colonel Jervis, Chief Engineer, Bombay
Cursetjee Cowasjee, Esq., merchant, Justice of the Peace, aad
large landholder in Bombay and Salsette
S. S. Dickenson, Esq., barrister
Bomanjee liormusjee, Esq., merchant, Justice of the Peace, and
large landholder in Bombay and Salsette
J. Smith, Esq., firm of Messrs. Nicol and Co.
J. H. Jackson, Esq., Civil Service, Commissioner of Sea Customs,
Bombay
Vikcajee Meerjee, Esq., many years farmer of the Government
Revenue, and also of the Hyderabad (Nizam's) Government dis-
tricts
H. H. Glass, Esq., Civil Service, Collector of Customs, Bombay
Jugonathjee Sunkersett, Esq., Justice of the Peace, and Member
of the Boards of Conservancy and Education
Captain Swanson, Paymaster of the Army, Bombay
Cursetjee Jemsetjee, Esq., firm of Sir Jemsetjee Jeejeebhoy, Sons,
and Co., and son of Sir Jemsetjee Jeejeebhoy
R. Spooner, Esq., Civil Service, Deputy Collector of Customs,
Bombay
Dadabhoy Pestonjee, Esq., firm of Dadabhoy and Muneherjee
Pestonjee, Justice of the Peace, and a large landholder in
Bombay
0. Farie, Esq., firm •f M`Vicar, Burn, and Co., Bombay
(With power to add to their number.)
PROVISIONAL SECRETARY, BOMBAY.
Acton S. Ayrton, Esq., of the firm of Messrs Ayrton 'and Walker,
solicitors to the Company in Bombay
TRUSTEES IN 13o:quay—P. W. Legeyt, Esq., Civil Service, Judge
of the Suddur Adawlut ; Jeejeebhoy Dadabhoy, Esq., firm of
Jeejeebhoy, Dadabhoy, Sons, and Co. ; It. Remington, Esq.,
firm of Remington and Company
CONSYLTING ENGINEER—Robert Stephenson, Esq.
MANAGER—John Chapman, Esq.
STANDING COUNSEL—Charles Buller, Esq., M.P.
STANDING COUNSEL IN BOMBAY--W. Howard, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs.srs. NAVyhrittoen and Walker,andßorrett,B4tmLbian;oln's Inn-fields, London
Messrs.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Denison, Heywood, Kennards, and Co., London
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co., London
Heywoods, Sons, and Co., Liverpool
Dank Messrs.
o Arthur,
of
Bombay,
Bombay.
AGENTS IN BOMBAY—Messrs. Nicol and Co.
The Provisional Committee have the pleasure to inform the ap-
plicants for shares in this Company, that they have received by
the last Mail, from their representatives in Bombay, advices of the
cordial co-operation there of the most influential parties, both
European and native, in carrying out the great objects which this
Company proposes to effect.
The prospectus of the Company has been approved and published
in Bombay, and the Committees of the Bombay Great Eastern
Railway, and of the Indian Railway Association of Bombay, both
of local origin (the former established for making a railway from
Bombay to the foot of the Ghauts, and the latter for promoting
railway communication with the interior of the peninsula upon a
snore extended scale) have, with other influential parties,
formed themselves into a Local Provisional Committee, and are
taking active measures for the identification of the interests of
their respective Subscribers with those of the Great Indian Penin-
sular Railway Company.
Copies of portions of the advices from India above referred t
may be seen on application to
The Solicitors and Broker, London
Messrs. Nicol, Duckworth, and Co., 1, Cook-street, Liverpool
J. Nicholson, Esq., 15, St. Ann's-square, Manchester
Messrs. Spurrier and Chaplin, Solicitors, Birmingham
James Watson ,Esq., South Frederick-street. Glasgow
William Williams, Browne and Co., Leeds

GREAT INDIAN PENINSULAR
RAILWAY COMPANY.
The Provisional Committee of Management beg to announce
that they will proceed with the Allotment of the Shares as soon as the
numerous applications they have received will permit them to con_
elude the necessary inquiries as to the respectability of the ap.,
plicants.
By order,
WHITE and BORRETT, Rolicltors.
SS, Lincoln's Inn-fields.