The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-07 00:00:00

THE LEEDS, HUDDERSFIELD, SHEF-
FIELD, and SOUTH STAFFORDS4IIRE (or LEEDS
WOLVERHAMPTON, and DUDLE i) DIRECT RAILWAY.

(Proellionaily lt,Ceistered.)
Capital, 2,050,t;00/., in 100,000 Shares of 201. each.
- Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.
PR OVISION AL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. the Earl of .-;lirewsbury, Alton Towers, Ftafforcishire
The Right lion. Lord Ingestrie, 31. P.
Sir William Young, Bart., East India Director, Westbourne-street,
de-park Gardens
Sir (14..erge William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Deputy Chairman of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Janc'don
&c.
Sir IVillitun Dowlihy, Bart, Ashbourne-hall, Derbyshire
Sir William Lowthrop, lint., Hull, and Alga-house, Scarborough, Di-
rector of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junc-
tion hallway
Col. the Hon Leicester Stanhope, Ashburnham House, Chairman of
Remington's London and Manchester Direct Railway
The Sheriff of York
Arnold, Henry, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of Remington's London and
Alauchester Railway
Benwell, George, Esq , Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Blurton, Robert, Esq.; banker, Smallwood Manor, Uttoxeter, Direc-
tor of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcustershhe Junction
Railway, &c.
Bright, Sam, Ecq., Buxton
Bradley, Septimus, Esq., Ashbourne, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Buxton, John Harry, Esq., Ashibourne
ke, Jeremiah, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's Loa-
on and Manchester Direct Railway
eleobhry, Thomas :Mortimer, Esq., Askew Villa, Acton, Director of
the Anchor Assurance Company
Cooke, the Rev. J., Uttoxeter, Director of the East and WestJunctien
Railway, &c.
Cooper, John Douglas, jun., Esq., lioline Ccttage, Aslabourne
Cox, Walker, Esq., Breadsall, Derby, Director of the Teats and Dove
Valley Railway
Crockett, T. Esq., Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire,
and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &c.
Croft, Major J. T., 15, Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman of Reming-

ton's London and Manchester Direct Railway
Crossley, John, Esq., Lamberhurst, Sussex, and Uttoxeter, Director
of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction
Railway
Dalby, John, Robert, Esq., Ashbourne, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Dale, Major, Thurston, Ashbourne
Dawson, Samuel, Esq., sen., Ashbourne
Dewhitrt, Richard, E-q., Apsley-house, Huddersfield, Director of the
Leeds and West Junction Railway, &c.
Earp, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxetcr, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Railway
Edensor, Richard, Esq., Road-meadow, Ashbourue
Ellis, John, Esq., late M.P. for Newry
Fidler, Peter Piehott,-Efq., Higgin Grange, Derbyshire
Thomas, Esq., Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct

Railway •
Garbo, Esq., Uttoxter
Garle, William, Esq. Uttoxeter
Gilpin, and Co., Messrs. William, Wedges Mills, Cannock, Director of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Haden, Joseph, Esq., Dudley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
slth e, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Haines, Samuel, Esq., Chad-hoes; Edgbaston, Director of Lei-
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cester and Birmingham Railway -
Hartsll,rne. Robert James, Esq., Ashbourne
Hartshorne, Thomas, Esq., Silkmoor-house, near Staffora
tfield, Thomas, Esq., Rug;ley, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and \Worcestershire Junction Railway, &c.
Hill, John. Esq., Derby
Jones, the Rev. J. P., Vicarage, Alton, Staffordshire, Director of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Johnson, John Goodwin, Esq., Bentley Hall, Ashbourne
Johnson, 1). T., Esq., Aldermary Churchyard, Director of the Ches•
ter and Manchester Railway
Johnson, Richard Wm., Esq., Moorgate, Director of Remington's
London and Manchester Direct Railway
Knight. Edward, Esq., 31. D., Stafford, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railway
Keene, Jo'an Joseph, Esq.; St. John's Wood, Regent's Park, Director
of the National Bank of Ireland, &c.
King, William, Esq., Waterloo-place, Director of the Freemasons'
Life Assurance, &c.
Lawrence, Richard Corbett, Esq., Wandfleld-hall, Uttoieter, Direc-
tor of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction
Rail way
Langley, Henry, Esq., Rakcway House, Cheadle, Director of the Der-

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byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Lassetter, Richard, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
tbrdshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Lassetter, James, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Lea, John Wheeley, Esq., Worcester, Vice-Chairman of the Severn

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Commission, &c. ,
Meteyard, [borate, Wm., Esq., Director of Remington's London and
Manchester Railway, :Middle Temple, and Chatham-place
WMahon, Daniel, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the Derbyshire
Staffordshire, and Wurcestershire Junction Railway
Manors, John, Esq. Thigeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
3lcliard, Jairt-s, Esq., Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Minors, John, Esq.,: Eaton Dovedale, Derbyshire, Director of the
D,Tl,ysiiire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
\ (Mors, John, Esq., The Parks, Uttoicter, Director of the East

and West Junction Railway
Rt thew, John Mee, Esq., Assistant Tithe Commissioner, Director of

the East and West Junction Railway
Milner, William, Esq., Teats, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Mountford, Thomas John, Esq., Ashbourne
Marton, Joseph, Esq., Walsall, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &c.
Maskery, Thomas, Esq., Norbury, Derbyshire
Orton. James, Esq., Woodford, near Uttoxeter, Director of the Der-
byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Parkinson, John, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge-terrace, Ijyde-park, Di-
Director of the Northampton, Banbury, raid Cheltenham Rail-
way, &c.
I'ultt'ney, Douglas Kinnaird, Captain, Director of the Nottingham
and Boston Railway, Parliament-street, London, Re., Re.
Phillips, William, Esq., Springfield House, Uttoxeter. Director of the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Robinson, John, Esq., Silcoates Cottage, Wakefield
Sant, Edward, Esq. Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Shipton, Robert, Esq., Scroptor, .uerbyshir3, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcest-rshire Junction Railway
Smith, Charles, Esq., Alton, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby-
shire, Stafliirdshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Smith, Thomas, Esq., Blore-hall, Staffordshire, Director of the Der-
byshire, Statronthire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Smith, William, Esq., Sedsall, Derbyshire, Director of the Derby-
shire, and Staffordshire, Railway, &c.
Smith, William, Esq., Clifton, Derbyshire, Director of Team and Dove
Valley Railway
Smith, John, Esq., Barton House, Derbyshire
Smythe, John Vere, Esq., Kensington, Middlesex, Director of the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Spiers, E. J., Esq., Carlton Villas, London, Director of the East and

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West Junction Railway
Stephenson, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Agriculturist Cattle As-
surance Company
Terry, Benjamin, Esq., Mayor of Walsall, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway, Br-e.
ltTomlinson, Thomas, Esq., Bradley Pastures, Ashbourno
Toegood, Rupert, Esq , Ashbourne
Tylecote, Edward, Esq., surgeon, Great Heywood, Staffordshire
Tyler, George, Esq., Holloway-place, Holloway, London, Director of
the East and West Junction Railway, &c.
Wailer, Major, K.H., St. James's-square, Director of the Chester and
Manchester Railway, Sze,
Walter, James Smith, Esq., Bakewell, Derbyshire
Walters, J. T., Esq., Rug ley
Welsh, Robert, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Keighley, Halifax,
and Huddersfield Junction Railway
Weston, Thomas, Esq., Teen, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby-
ffor.fshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Thomas, EFq., Asht,ourne
Witham, John, Esq.; Ashbourno
Woolrich, Thomas, Esq., Uttaxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Wood, Charles, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of tha Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Wood William, Esq., M.D., Chetwynd House, Newport, Salop, Di-
rector of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junc-
tion Railway
Wood, William Hurd, Esq., Ashbourne
Wright, Thomas, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and G ainslao-
rough Railway.

ACTING COMMITTER OF DIRECTORS.

Chairman —The Right Hon. Earl of SHREWSBURY, Altoa Towers,

Staffordshire

Vice-Chairman--Sir GEORGE IV3I PRESCOTT, Bart., Theobahls,

Herta

Right H;n, Lorl Ingestrle, 3l.P.,Brompion-park, and Ingestrie-hall,

Staffordshire
Sir Wm. lioothby, Bart., Ashbourne-hall, Derbyshire
Colonel the Hon. Leicester Stanhope, Ashburnham-house, Chelsea
Hon. Capt. Douglas K. l'ulteney, Parliament-street
Henry Arnold, Esq., Uttoxeter
Jeremiah Clarke, Esq., Macclesfield
John Robert Dalby, Esq., Ashbourne
Samuel Dawson, sell., Esq., Ashbourne
Robert Jas. Hartshorne, Esq., Ashbourae
Richard Wm. Johnson, Esq., Moorgate
John Joseph Keene, Esq., St. John's-wood, Regent's-park
Win. King, Esq., 29, "Moorgate-street
Nathaniel Cumberlege, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's-park
Horace Metcyard, Esq., Chatham-place, Blackfri.irs
Win. Smith, E q., Clifton, Derbyshire
Major Wane'. K.II:ASt. James's-square.
SECItEtA4Y--It. Shelton Mackenzie., D.C.L.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Rogers, °Ulm; and Co., Clement's-lane, Loudon
Messrs. Barnard, Dinisdale, and Co., Cornhill, Louden
sometTous.
John nwens, Esq., 3.5, Moorgate-street, London
William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., lirttoxeter
ENGINEERS.
Sir John Rennie, F.R.S.
George Remington, Esq., C.B.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Armishaw, J., Esq., Rugeley
Bolton, Thomas, Esq., Wolverhampton
Bolton, John, Esq., Dudley
Eggington, A., Esq., Lichfield
Green, Janes J., Esq., Walsall.

This line of railway, which is about sixty-flve miles in length, is
intended to commence at Uttoxeter (the terminus of the proposed
Derbyshire, Staftbrdshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway) and
to proceed to Sheffield and Huddersfield. It will form a direct com-
munication between two of the most import int manufacturing and
mining districts in England, viz., South Staffordshire, Huddersfleld,
and Sheffield, and Rotherham in Yorkshire ; the South Staffordshire
portion including Dadley, Tipton,Walsall, Bileton, Wednesbury, and
Wolverhampton.

This line will also open a direct railway communication between
Leeds, Huddersfield, and the WestOing of Yorkshire and Kidder-
minster, Worcestershire, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bristol, Taunton,
and Exeter, and with Ludlow, Leominster, Hereford, Brecon, Car-
diff, heath, Swansea, Llanelly, Caermarthen, Milford Haven, Fish-
guard, Aberystwith, and with Port Dynnlleen, the future outport for
Ireland. And also the most direct communication betwees Leeds
and Southampton.
The line will pass nearly along the Uttoxeter and Caldon Canal to a
point near Prestwood, in case the canal be purchased by the pro-
tnoters of this undertaking. It will proceed through Ehlaston and
Mayfield to Ashbourne, thence near Dovedale, Buxton, and Chapel-
en-la-Frith IN'oodhead anti Hohnfirth to Huddersfield, where it will
join the Huddersfield and Leeds Railway, and so to Thirsk. It will
open new mines, in widltion to those already in work, of lead, coal,
iron ore, barytes, and carboniferous and magnesian limestone on the
route, in addition to forfning a direct, speedy, and cheap communica-
tion between the important towns abore mentioned.
Arrangements have been made with other companies to run into
this line from Sheffield. This company reserves the right to raise
additional capital to extend the line to Leeds.
Many of the above-mentioned mineral productions are essential to
the mining districts of South Staffordshire and Sheffield. The North
Staffordshire anti Derbyshire Limestone is much superior to that of
South Staffordshire in the fluxion of iron (15 cwt. of the former being
equal to a ton of the latter), and producing a bettor quality of ma-
terial. At present, the mode of transit is very circuitous and expen-
sive, the line from the Caldon Mines leaving to go by canal round
by Etruria, Leek, and the Potteries, to the Dudley and surrounding
furnaces, when, by this railway, it would be taken in a straight line
to them ; and the Ashbourne, Cromford, Worksworth, and Bakewell
country wouldhave an entirely new trade opened to them. The iron-
stone in the neighbourhood of Sheffield is also becoming very scarce,
and great quantities are introduced from Scotland; the same scarcity
exists in South Staffordshire ; and the route of this line would fur-
nish a cheap and good supply, at present not worked, and without a
market, both north and south. In addition to these great advan-
tages, a good local market would be opened along the agricultural
and other parts of the district at present very badly supplied with
lime and coal, and that of an inferior quality, and b3e
expensive car-
nage. It is, therefore, next to impossible to calculate tile immense
traffic which' would pour down this line and the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, aed Worcestershire Junction Ilaniay
The calculations which leave been made show very large profit.
There are large lead and slate quarries on the line which only want
an outlet like the one now contemplated to bring them into full work.
The coal is of a superior quality.
riryasnibiree'
There are also extensive barytesand paint-worksy atf Apse)
Cranford, and other places on the ne.
rs of tourists;i, ictu.nl letrttoicular care wlll
is the resort of vast numbe
of the line near )oN et . not interfere with or
taken, in passing
change its beautiful and romantic character. The convenience,
therefore, which this line will afford must necessarily cause a great
;nth, or passengers, both on business and pleasure.
Ironstone is not so abundant in the Smith as in North Staffordshire,
aial vast quantities are sent by the tardy, circuitous, anti expensive
canal company, which this and other lines of railway meeting at
Uttoxeter will remedy.

The gypsum formation runs from Staffordshire to the Humber, and
the demand for this article for building, agricultural, and manufac-
turing purpose.; along this line will be great.
The timber from the neighbourhood of the Needwood Forest,
Banks, liagots Woods, and Kingston Woods, upwards of 4,000
acres, chiefly finds its way to the Manchester market by a
like objectionable route of tardy and circuitous canal convey-
ance ; whereas this Jim would open a direct, easy, and cheap
communication to new Markets. The line has been viewed prior to
a detailed survey,.and there are not snore than ordinary engineering
'ditlictiliks. In consequence of the lute Parliamentary decisions, it Is
intended to ntakt! this line on the broad itazi7e principle, but the pro-
moters do not pledge tlit-osselves absolutely to do so.
At the urgent suggestion of some of the most induentiat mhabl-
tants of Ashbourne, the Committee have ordered a survey of a junt
tion to connect that town with Derby, and with the Derby and
Gainsborough and Midland Railways
Applications for Shares to be made to John Owens, Esq., 35,
Moorgate-street, London, and Willi= Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq.,