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London, England, 1845-11-10 00:00:00

PROVISIONAL COMAIITTRE.

Wyatt Ellis, Esq. 311. P. for Leicester, director of the Brandon and

Apalding Railway
William Corbet Smith, Esq. Bittleewell-hall, High Sheriff or Lelees-

terehire
The Hon. C. P. ♦illiere, M.P. Chairman of the Northampton, Ban-
bury, and Cheltenham Railway
The Hon. Major C. Napier, Rugby, director of the Peterborough aad

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Nottingham Railway
Gen. Johnson, M.P. Witham-on-the 11111, 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. Glenneld-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 Wiliam Boothb,y, Bart.
Ambrose Moore, Esq. Milk-street, aseapsille
Josiah Wilson, Esq. Stamford-hill
George Meek, Esq. Russell-square
John Clement Ending, Esq. director of the National Rank of Ireland
Francis Valentine Lee, Esq. director of the Eastern Comities Railway
Richard Heaviside, Esq. Brighton
William Ettwall, Esq. Lcngstock-down, near Stockbridge, director
of the Southampton and Manchester Railway
William Shadbolt, Esq. chairman of the Greenwich Railway Cons-

pany
T. E. Bigge, Esq. Bryanstone-square
Captain Gustavus ETAHS, R.N. Headley-grove, Surrey, director of the
Nottingham, Birmingham, and Coventry Railway
Valentine Knight, Esqi Cornwall-terrace, Regent's-park '
Samuel Kempeon, Esq. .Little Sutton, Sutton Coldfield, Warwick-

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shire
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Frederick Pearson, 'Esq. Piccadilly • •
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq. Woodberry Down, Stoke Newington, director

of the Erewash Valley Railway
Herbert Ingram, Esq. Swinshead-abbey, Lincolnshire
John Tatham Banks, Esq. warden and magic-1
trate of Louth, Lincolnshire
William Gresham, Esq. Aderman of Lin- Provisional Directors
coin of the Great Grime-
Samuel Troaght, Esq. Louth, Lincolnshire by, Loath, and Lia-
William Ward, Esq. M.D. llorncastle cola Railway.
Edwin Cadman, Esq. Westbourne-horse,
Sheffield, director of the Isle of Ely, Wis-
beach, and Lincoln Railway
The Rev. I. B. Hildebrand, rector of Saxby, near Melton-Mowbray,

Leicestershire
John Thomas Raworth, Esq. Leicestex, prolisloaal director of the

South Union Railway
Nathaniel C. Stone, Esq. Rowley-fields, near Leicester
John Eames, Esq. Ashby-de-la-Zoich, Leicestershire
Frederick Cayley Worsley, Esq. Imberhome-house, Sussex, director
of the Nottingham, Birmingham, and Coventry Railway
John Smith Mansfield, Esq. Essex-court, Temple
Charles Hance, Esq. Alexander-square, Etrompton
Thomas Bridges, Esq. Marwood-hill, Devonshire
Thomas Bent, Esq. M.D. Derby
Douglas Fox, Esq. Derby
John D. Cooper, Esq. Ashbourne, Derbyshire, direetor of tale Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway
Menry F. Gisborne, Esq. Derby, director of the Tamworth and Lei-
cester, Coventry and Nuneaton Railway
John Ilamp, Esq. Catton, Derbyshire
Joshua Harding, Esq. Roslisten, Derbyshire
Nathaniel Nadin, Esq. Stapenhill, Derbyshire
J. Nadin, coal proprietor, Newhall and Swadlincote Collieries, Derby-
shire
R. Sherratt Tomlinson, Esq. Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire
Charles James Mason, Esq. Fenton, Staffordshire
Joseph Nunneley, 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 Crowe
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 Rullivaut, Esq. Ashwell, Rutlandshire
Fdwin Morris, Esq. M.D. Spalding.
Robe- t Nicholls, Esq. Thurlby-grange, near Bourn
R,bert Mawby, Esq. merchant, Bourn
Mr. Charles Roberts, merchant, Bourn
William Pate, Esq. merchant, Spalding
Henry Hardy Tatam, Esq. Moulton, near Fosdyke, Lincolnshire
Isaac Dods, Esq. merchant, Spalding
William Parker, Esq. Hanthorpe-house, Bourn.

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Chaim an—Wynn Ellis, Esq., M.P.
Deputy-Chairman—Josiah Wilson, Esq
Thomas 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., Esc.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—CharIes Fox, Esq.
ENGINEER—John Hughes, Esq.
BANKERS.
The London Joint-Stock Bank, Princes-street
Messrs. Pagets and Kirby, Leicester
Pare's Leicestershire Banking Company, Melten-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.
LOCAL AGENTS.
William Hardy Tatam, Esq. Spalding
William David Bell, Esq. Bourn.
PARLIAMENTARY Aozsrrs—Messrs. 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, and the western and midland
districts.
Commencing at the Spalding station of the Norwich, Dereham,
Lynn, and Holbeach Railways, the line will proceed by Mourn,
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 aid 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, 'via liar-
ton-upon-Trent, to Stafford, bring the markets of Lineela, 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 aid Shrewsbury, on the west.
The entire length will not exceed thirty miles. There to 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 coed.
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 tbe 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,
teethe agricultural districts of "Lincoln, which are at present only
supplied at very high rates ; and, in return traffic, the midland 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 mitered into which en-
sure sufficient time for compliance with the standing orders.
Forms of application for shares, plans, and prospectuses may be
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 be addressed to the provi-
sional Committee.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
I To the Provisional Committee of the Leicester, Melton Mowbray
and Spalding 3tinetion Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares of 201.
each in the above railway ; rand 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
lay when required the dose if thereon of 21.25. per share.
Datial this " , 1845.
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