The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-15 00:00:00

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THE BELGIAN GRAN I) JUNCTION
RAILWAY COMPANY.
Capital, 1,750,0001., in 87,533 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. per Share.
DIRECTOZ.S.
.sir John Nicoll Robert Campbell, K.C.H. Deputy-Chairman of the
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, Chairman
Henry Bainbridge, Esq. banker.
Frederick Francois Clossw.anu, Esq. Chairman 01 the Great Luxem-
bo irg Railway Company
William Sbelrord Fitzwilliam, Esq. Director of the Essex and Suffolk
Railway Company
John Howell, Esq. Director of the Liverpool, Orm.skirk, and Preston
Railway Company

• BANKERS.
In London—Messrs. Puget, Bainbridges and Co., St. Paul's Church-
yard. .
In Liverpool—. The Commercial Bank of Liverpool.
In Brussels--The Societe Generale.
SoLicroits —Messrs. Lawrence and Flews, Bucklersbury.
ENorslEits-4Sir John 3lacniell, L.L.D. F.R.S. and James Thompson
Esq. F.R.S.E. M.R.I.A.
• • BELGIAN ENGOTLER—s-Dion. Desire Joseph Marshal:
SECRETARY—H. C. Hastings, Esq.

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The Directors have for some time past been In direct communica-
tion with the Belgian Government, and they have entered into a
prelirenary arrangement, under date of the 27th of September, 1843,
with tha.Minister of public Works,• by which the Minister grants to
them the preference for the concession •f a a railway, to be called the
"Grand Junction," and, engages to conclude with the Directors a
provisional contract, previously to submitting the " Projet de loi "
for royittapProbation, and 'also to apply for the sanction of the Legis-
lature.

Thvvaluable and important ironworks of Couvin will also, under
the same agreement, be ceded to the Company,
The Belgian Grand Junction Railway will directly connect the
provinces of Brabant, Hainault, Liege, Limbonrg, and Namur, with
each other, and with the Government lines of railway, as also with
the several lines of Liege and ..Namur, Landen and Hassell, Louvain
and Jirnaprie, Sambre and 'Meuse, and the Great Luxembourg .
Mous. Marshal, the eminent Belgian engineer, has carefally sur-
veyed the line, and has deposited the necessary plans, sections, and
estimates with the Belgian Government.
Mr:James Thomson, one of the Company's engineers, has also
gone over the line, and report's most favourably upon the peculiar
facilities for the 'construction of the railway, and the entire absence
of all engineering difficulties.
The. Chairman and two of the Directors have earefidly traversed
the whide of the line, and have received the most positive assur-
ances of support from the local authorities and landed proprietors.
The provinces which the railway will unite were found by the
census of 1844 to comprise a population of 2,188 551, and the dis-
tricts which it will traverse are situated in the heart of Belgium, '
and comprise an area of 16.5 square miles. The entire length of the
Belgian Grand Junction Railway will be 108 English miles.
This portion of the country is emphatically termed the Granary of
Belgium, and, in addition to its vast agricultural produce, is rich in
ironstone, lead, marble, stone, and slate quarries. It has also nume-
rous di,stilleries, extensive breweries, ironworks, and large manufac-
tories of porcelain, glass, paper, Beetroot, sugar, gunpowder, &c.
The great coal-fields of Charleroi and Liege, which are the most ex-
tensive in Belgium, will, by means of this line, be enabled to supply
all parts of the kingdom at a very reduced rate.
The Government lines already completed, as well as the several
private lines now in course of construction, will necessarily be the
feeders to the Grand Junction line, as it will unite with the whole of
them, and will traverse a district destitute of all water communica-
tion, and very imperfectly supplied with roads ; whilst the invariable
rale of the Belgian Government not to permit any competing lines,
must necessarily ensnre to this Company the entire traffic of the
country through which this line will pass.
Tables, calculated with reference to the present amount of traffic, have
been carefully and accurately prepared ; and, upon the improbable as -
sumo ko,n that there will be no increase when the Grand Jusctlon
Ila.lway is constructed, the shareholders would even then receive a
large interest on their capital. But, as in all cases, and more parti-
cularly in Belgium, increased fa:ilities of communication have been
accompanied by a great increase of traffic, there can be no doubt
that the Grand Junction Railway Company w:11 pay a considerable
dividend to the shareholders.

The expense of construction, and the subsequent expenses of work-
ing the line, arc very much less than in Englisk railways ; and it is
an impor.ant feature that the enormous outlay Incident to a Parlia-
mentary contest in England is avoided.

A considerable saving' will also be effected in the cost of iron, and
of the lotomOtive engines and traffic material, which will be manufac-
tured at the Couvin works; and the Company have, therefore, the
peculiar advantage of being independent of a supply from any other
quartet'; and free from the delay and disappointment consequent upon
the liresent increased demand
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grant will be for ninety years, and the Act will provide that
the railway Equal, for the whole term, be exempt from all rates and
eharges.whatgoever, whether local or national.
By the law of Belgium, this Company will be constitnted a
Societe Anonyme, and the liability of each shareholder will be
limited to the amount of his respective shares.
A second payment of 2/. per share will be required one month after
the Conce-ition. shall have been ratified by the Chamber, and the
subsequent calls will be made at such periods as the Directors may
determine.

An accountable receipt will be given to each subscriber on payment
of his deposit, which receipt must be exchanged for certificates for
shares, dt the office of the Company, within twenty-one days after
the first appearance of an advertisement requiring such exchange ;
such advertisement to be inserted once in the London Gazette, and
titre- tim;s in each of two daily Morning London newspapers. The
non-compliance with this condition will entail on the subscriber the
forfeiture of his deposits.
Notice of calls will be given by advertisement in the London Ga-
zette, and two daily Morning London news?apers ; and if any call on
any share shall remain unpaid for twenty-one days after the day
named, the share shall become absolutely forfeited.

Interest. at the fate of 41. per cent. per annum will he paid upon
the amount of capital paid up, such interest to b calculated from the
time ot• 'Obtaining the Act of the Legislature until the opening of
the lice.

All Foints of detail will, under the terms of the Convention and
Act, be. settled between the Belgian Government and the Directors;
end it Is one of the conditions on which tho shares will he appor-
tidned aftl acce=pted, that the subscribers confide to the Directors full
power to make such arrangement with the Belgian Government with
respect to any alterations or modifications of the line, and of the
torsos. of the grant, as ttfey may 'think expedient for the furtherance
of the interests of the Company. '
Applications for shares, in the subjoined form, to be made to the
Seeraary, at the Company's Offices, No. 64, Old Broad-street ; to
Messrs. Lawrance and Plews, Solicitors, Bucklersbury.; and to the
following' Sharebrokers :-3fessrs. 'Carden and Whitehead, Thread-
needle-street, London ; Messrs. Bradley, 'Ford, and Parker, Man-
chester ; Messrs. H. Davies and Co., Liverpool; Messrs. Chantrell
and Boyce, Leeds; Messrs. Wilkinson and Earle, Hall; Messrs.
Buchanan and Aitken, Glasgow ; Messrs. Oswald, George, and Co.,
Aberdeen ; Messrs. , Labertouche and Stafford, Dublin ; and Messrs.
Dowling and Bowden, Edinburgh.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Directors of the Belgian Grand Junction Railway.
Gentlemen,—Lrequest that you-will allot me shares of 201.
each in.the.Belglan Grand Junction Railway Company; and I agree
to accept such shares, or any smaller Dumber you may allot to me,
and to pay the deposit thereon, and to execute the deed of settlement,
and all other neces:ary deeds, when required.
Dated the day of 1845.
Signature, with Christian Name, at full
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Ttesi;euce•.
Profession, Trade, or other Description....
Reference, with Christian and Surname,

OLVER HAMPTON, CHESTER, AND
BIRKENHEAD JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.
(Provlkionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Victoria, c. 110.)
Capital, 1,000,0001.. in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. Lord Suffield, Gunton-park, Norfolk
it Richardjenkins, 0.C.8. London, director of the East India Com-
pany
Edmund Turner,.Esq. M.P. Truro
Sir John E. De Beauvoir, Bart. 6, Connaught-place, Hyde-park
John Rawson, Esq. J.P. Stoney Royd, Halifax, director of the Leeds
and Liverpool Direct Railway
Thomas A. Dale, Esq. Birkenhead, and Malvern-house, Cheltenham
Sir John Key, Bart chairman of the Mauritius, and director of the
Direct Western and York and Lancaster Railways
Matthew Harrison, Esq. Chester, director of the North and South
Wales Bank
Jelin Kinnersley Hooper, Esq. Alderman of the City of London
Iknry Arnold Homer, Esq. Leamington
Edward f"ooper. Esq. Henley in Arden, IS'arwickshire, director of
the South- staffOrdshire Railway
Thomas HarrisiEsq. Highfleld House. Edgbaston
John Knowles, Esq. Burnley; director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct 4tailwey
Admiral J. Ayscough, Southampton, director of the Portsmouth and
Chatham Railway
Joseph Rogers Clarke, Esq. Stoke Newington, London
Thomas Hal, Esq. Tulse Hill, Surrey, director of the Blackwell
Railway
William Si-When, Esq. Croome's-hill, Greenwich, chairman of the
London a:id Greenwich Railway Company, and director of the
London Joint. Stock Bank
Emanuel Cooper, Esq banker, 29, Lombard-street, director of the
Wavcuey Valley, and Great Yarmouth Railways
George Denby, Esq. magistrate for the county of Norfolk and borough
of Great Yarmouth, director of the Waveney Valley and Great
Yarmouth, Great Grimsby, Lincoln, Louth, Liorneastle, and Midland
Junction Railways
Thomas G. Davies, Esq. Bellefleld-house, Staffordshire, director of
the South Staffordshire Railway
Robert Fisher, Esi. Highbury-park
Charles Bleaden, Esq. Coulsden-court, Chairman of the 'Accused
Victuallers' Insurance Society, and director of the Direct Western
Railway
Peter Bruce Tamer, Esq. London
Hugh Fragds Burman, Esq. M.D. Henley in Arden, Warwickshire
Robert Wrightson, Esq. Highgate, near Birmingham
Samuel Palmer, Esq. late Mayer of Great Yarmouth, aeting director
of the Great Grimsby, Louth, Horneastle, Lincoln, and Midland
Junction Railway Company
Thom is Pemberton, Esq. trent/lamer, Wolverhampton
Waller Augustus Lewis, Esq. Wolverhampton
Edward Nelson Alexander, Esq. Halifax
Holden Ilasnl,lerton, Esq. Halifax
J. Reginald Riddell, Esq. Pyeullah•lsouse, Enfield
Samuel Haines, Esq. Birmingham
W. Lawrence, Esq Brixton, Surrey
Daniel Watney, Esq. Wandsworth, Surrey
Thomas Reginald Kemp. Esq. Abchurch-laue
Thomas Head/Esq. M.D. Hanley
Thomas Hackett Massey, Esq. 3, Oxford. square, London
Francis Parker, Esq. Great Yarmouth
William Bradley, Esq. Manor Oaks, Sheffield
Robert Frederick Welchman, Esq. Southern
Rich ird Spra7gett, Esq. Soutlitun
Henry Ztyley, Esq. Birmingham
Robert Jones Hughes, Esq. Plas ',Tangoed, high sheriff of Anglesey
Samuel Baukart, Esq. Leicester
Thomas Bailey Rose, Esq. stipendiary magistrate for the Stafford-
shire Poperics, and director of the Staffordshire Potteries and
Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways
Thcophilus Hodges, Esq. Connaught-terrace, Hyde park, London
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq. Bryanston-street, foreman-square,
London •

William Simpson Patter, F.sq. Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, London
George Peppercorne, Esq. London, and Bexhill, Surrey
Josiah Clrillinor, Esq. Normanton, near Derby
E. Hyde Clarke. Eat. Hyde Hall, Cheshire, and Tickford-park Beds,
director or the Smith Midland Railway
William Guniaer, Esq. Sacombe-park, Hertfordshire, director of the
Portsmouth and Chatham Railway
George Rohinscii, Esq. director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction,
and the Great Leeds Railways •
Thomas Upilli, Esq. Edgbaston, Warwickshire, director of the
South Staffordshire Railway
Edward .Middleton, Esq. Edgbaston director of the South Stafford-
shire Railway
Captain Walter Unett, Brd Light Dragoons, director of the Dover and
Brighton Railway
Benjamin Smart Fowler, Esq, Alder-house, near Tamworth; director
of the Northampton, Banbury and Cheater, and Leiceeter and Tam-
worth Railways '
George Gamble, Esq. Gainsborough, director of the Nottingham and
Gainsborough, and Wolverhampton and Birmingham and Notting-
ham Railways -
F. B. Garty,, Esq. 9, Chepstow-place, Camberwell-new-road, Surrey,
director of the Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton and
Coventry, Banbury, and Oxford Junction Railways
James Fiehdr, irons aster, Bilston, director of the Shropshire
Mineral Railway Cempany
Henry Homer,Esq. M.D. Leamington
1. N. Cottle, Esq. Leamington, director of Coventry and other
Railways
John Haddon, Esq. Leamington, director of Coventry, Nuneaton,
and Leicester Railway
David Dugdale, Esq. Burnley
Jeremiah Sharp Browne, Esq. Carlton-place, Halifax, director of the
Leeds and:Liverpool Direct Railway
A. Alexander, Esq. Welisford-house, director of the Worcester and
Warwick, and Eastern Counties Railways
John Ashwcll, Esq. Longton, Staffordshire, director of the Peter-
borough-add Nottingham Railway
George Youdg, Esq. Foley-house, Longton, Staffordshire, director of
the Shropshire Mineral Railway
Thomas Goddard, Esq. Bank-house, Longton, director of the North
Westeirn Tank Railway
Henry Mayhew, Esq. Shrubberies, King's-road, Parson's-green,
Fulham
James Glo+er, Esq. Longton, Staffordshire, director of the South
Unioitaridl•Birminghain Junction Railway
Robert Foreman, Esq. Hanley, director of the Tean and Dove Valley,
and Degby, Gainsborough, and Great Grimsby Railways
SOck.s, Esq.. Shibden-hall, director of the East and West
York-thire, and Leeds and Carlisle, and Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railways
W. Spurgeon; Esq. Derby
J, hn alenek Dickson, Esq.
Thompson,Rioams, KE.sq,. liiroulerna-nsitcrY
hn eet, Cavendish-square, London
ie
Nanch.otrearvaignadnivdigiraeuc.tor of the Birken-
bead and Holyheadq, t'
and Liverpool and
Leeds Direct Railways
Jol n Lord, Esq. Standish Hall, Wigan, director of the Blackburn,
( horley, and Liverpool, the Manchester and Wigan, the Leeds and
I iverpool, and the Wigan and North Union R
J 0( I Edens, Esq. Northampton, director of the Shefllw:lYd: Nottingham,
end London Direct Railway •
W ilialn Deakin Whitehouse, Esq. Studley, Warwickshire, director of
the Warwiekshire and London Extension, and Worcester Junction
I f
allways •
ahem Jubb, Esq.
Ab Halifax,
Yorkshire, director of the Ke
ighley,
I Wax, and Huddersfield Railway
Th mas Bague Breston, Esq. Shipton, director of the Leeds and Li-
, orpool Direct, and the Ke ghley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Rail-
v aye •
Inas Hour • Waler, Esq. Horton-house, near Longton, Stafford-
s' ire, direo or of the Bout. Union and Birmingham Junction
It Ilway
em s Adana.,
Esq. w elands, near'Cev caitle-under-Lyne, Stafford-
eh re, dlnetor of tie shropeiltv litez al Railway