The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVE NI NG. OCTOBER 14 1845.

D IRECT SHEFFIELD and MACCLESFIELD
RAILWAY.
No further Applications for Shares can be received. The Allot-
ment will take place immediately, and the letters be issued in a few
days. By order,
GEORGE P. ItIRE, Secretary.
Gresham-street (late Lad-lane), Oct. 14, 1845.

QOUTH . MIDLAND, or LEICESTER
NORTHAMPTON, BEDFORD, and II LTNTINGDON
RAILWAY.

(Registered Provisionally.)
Capital, 2,000,0001., in Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.

COMMITTEE OF DIEECTION.

GEORGE HUDSON, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Midland Railway
Company, Chairman
John Ellis, Esq., Beaumont Leys, Leicester
gir Oswald Mosley, Bart., Rolleston Hall, Burton-
upon-Trent
Sir Isaac Morley, Doncaster
John Waddingham, Esq., Leeds
William Evans Hutchinson, Esq., Leicester .
Edmund Peel, Esq., Bone-hill House, Fazeley '
Ralkes Currie, Esq., M.P. for Northampton
The lion. C. P. Villiers, M.P.
Edward Harrison Barwell, Esq., Northampton
William Gordon Thompson, Esq., 33, Glouoeeter-
road, Hyde Park-gardens, London
Josh. Knight, Esq., Leicester.
ENOINZER.—Robert Stephenson, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Berridge and Macaulay, Leicester
Messrs. N. Stevens and Fearon, 1, Gray's Inn-square, Lonilo
T. B. B. Stevens, Esq., Tamworth.
RANKERS.
Messrs. Carrie and Co., London
Fare's Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester
The Union Bank, Northampton
Sicarrasv—George Newton Browne, Esq.
Orncas—The Midland Railway Station, Leicester.

Directors if the
Midland Railway
Company

Directors of the
South Midland
Railway Company

The shareholders of tke South Midland Railway Company are In
formed that arrangements have been ms.de by the Committee of
Management with the Board of Directors of the Midland Railway
Company for carrying out the original South Midland line with the
important additions of a line to Bedford and a branch to Huntingdon,
the whole being consolidated in one undertaking, and placed ender
the management of a joint Board of Direction composed of members
of the Boards of the two Companies.
The objects, therefore, embraced by the present undertaking are-
1. A direct line from Leicester by way of Market Harborough to
Northampton, being :he original South Midland
2. A line diverging therefrom at Market Yarborough, and passing
by way of Kettering to Bedford ; and
3. A branch from the last-mentioned line, at or near Kettering, to
Huntingdon.
The capital at present belonging to the South Midland Company
will form a portion of the consolidated capital (the remainder being
contributed by the Midland Railway Company); and in order to com-
ply with the Standing Orders of the House of Lords, as recently
altered, it is necessary that the deposit of 11. 2s. already paid on the
South Midland shares should be increased to 21. 2s. It is also neces-
sary that the scrip should be called in and re-issued, and new Parlia-
mentary deeds executed.
The shareholders in the South Midland Company are therefore re-
quired to pay, on or before the 25th day of October next, the further
sum of 11. per share on the shares respectively held by them, and for
this purpose to deposit with the Secretary, at the Company's offices,
Leicester, the scrip now held by them, together wittran
for registry and exchange in the annexed form, on or before the 18th
day of October next.
The requisite order to one of the Company's bankers to rece've the
increased deposit will be issued within three days after the registry
of the scrip, and on the production of the bankdrs' receipt and the
execution of the new Parliamentary contract, the iiew scrip' der.
titlcates will be issued.
All scrip in respect of which the shareholders shall fail to take the
necessary steps for payment of the required deposit within the
specified period will be forfeited.
Forms +Nf application for registry and exchange of scrip may he ob-
tained by applying to the Secretary, at the Company's offices.
GEORGE HUDSON, Chairman,
G. N. BROWSE, Secretary.

Leicester, Sept. 30, 1845.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR REGISTRY AND EXCHANGE

OF SCRIP.
Tip the Committee of Direction of the South Midland, or Leisester,

Northampton, Redford, and Huntindon Railway Company.
Gentlemen,---I herewith transmit scrip for shares in the
South Midland, Northampton. and Lerdester Railway Company, in
respect of which I request yen to issue me new scrip in the above
Company, awl I agree to pay the further deposit of 1/. per share on or
before the 25th day of October instant, and to execute the new rar-
lismentary- Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
Dated this day of 1845.
Name in fall ••• • .•

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THE GRANJ LONDON AND DUBLIN
ATIMOXIIII,TI UN RAILWAY.

Xastrick's Line,

Provisionally Registered pur•ua:tt to 7th and litla Victoria, eitp. 110,

sec. 4.)

Designed to avoid the present circultons route, and so effect a very
considerable saving, both of time and distance, between the two
capitals of England and Ireland, running in a direct lino from Len-
don to Bangor and Holyhead, through Shrewsbury, and touching or
accommodating in its route the tbllowing towns and places, namely,
Rickinansworth, Chesham, Wendover, Aylesbury, Bicester, Dod-
.irgton, Banbury, Kineton, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick, Alces-
:er, Broms,grove, Worcester, Kidderminster, Bridgnorth. Wonlock,
hroseley, Coalbrookdale, >hrewsbury, Llan-y-mynech, Welchpool,
mwestry, Llangollen, Llanrahaladr, ➢lochnant, Corwea. Pentre-
voelas, Capel Cerrig, Bangor, and Holyhead.
Capital 6,000,0001., in 120,000 ihares of $Ol, each,
Deposit 5/. ss. per Share.

Temporary offices of the Company, 4, Groat Winchester-street

London.
niovisioNAL COMMITTAL .
The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Conabanaere, Q.C.8., G.Q.M.
Lord Viscount Mandeville
Lord Claud Hamilton, M.P.
Hon. Captain Fenton Evan Freke, 13elgraye-sqnare, Director of the

Bandon and Bantry Railway
Hon. Geoffrey Browne, Castle Margaret, County Mayo, Ireland
Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Parliament-street, Chairman of

the York and Lancaster Railway
Sir Robert Hurray, Bart., Ardley Bury, Herts, Diroctor of the Oxford

and Cambridge Ra►ilwa►y
Sir Henry Winston Marron, Esq., Bart., M.P., Belmont, Ireland
General Sir John F. Fitzgerald, K.C.11., Montague-street, Bryan.

ston-square
Col. Sir Duncan Af'Dougal, X.C.8., Eaton-square
Roar-Admiral Sir Sainsbury Davenwt, K.C.11., Braman-hall

Cheshire, and Weedon-luill, Bucks
Sir J. Gaspard Le 3farchant, K.C.H., Cork
Major-General Sir Lore Parry, Madryn Park, Carnarvon, Director
of the North Wales Railway
Col. Sir F. Hankey, Diroctor of Ile Direct London and

Exeter Railway
Sir George Rieh, Director of the Oxford. Southampton, Gosport, and
Portsmouth Railway
Brigadier-General (Or Henry Pynu. Clifford-street, Director of the
London and Exeter Railway
Sir James Pitcairn, Cork
Sir James Eyre, Lower Brook-street
Rear-Admiral Ross, C. 8., Mount Wise, Devoapert
Thomas Whitmore, Esq., Apley Park, Deputy-Lieutenant of the

County of Salop _
John Meredith, Esq., Hasbori Park. Magistrate for the Counties of
Worcester and Salop
Major-General Henry Rowdier, Sidney-terraee, Cork
Captain Robert Peel Dawson, Upper rosvenor-street, and Castle-

dawson, Ireland
George Henry Dashwoocl, Esq., M.P., Wok. Wycomb-park, Bucks
E. B. Williams, Esq., Wyndham-place, Bryanston-square
Jeremiah Filcher, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Dublin and
Armagh Inland Railway
the O'Gorman Mahon, Makonberg, County of Clare, Ireland
Charles Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P., Bovine, King's County, Ireland,
Director of the Cork and Waterford Railway
The O'Mooro, Choghan Castle, High sheriff of this County of Ros-

csammon
Robert Hart, Esq., Dripehill-lodge, Worcester, Director of the Wor-
cester, Ludlow, and Tenbury, and the Great North and Soutk
Wales Railways
W. Hutchins, Esq., Llsaintfried-court, Monmouthshire
Ckarles William Spicer, Esq., Portman-square, Director of the Ir-
.

magh, Coleraine, and Portrush, Dublin and Armagh Inland,
• Shropshire Mineral, and Direct London and Exeter Railways
The Rev. C. Leicester, Whitton-hall, Magistrate for the County of
Salop, Vice-Chairman of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
Charles Fox, Esq., D.L., Rutland-square, Dublin. Director of the
Dublin and Armagh Inland Railway
William Johnson Neale, Esq., Temple
Thomas Meyer Carvick. Esq., Highwood, Director of the Dublin and
Armagh Railway
William Lechmere Whitmore, Esq., Director of the Dublikaid Gal-
way Railway, &c.
George A. Brown, Esq., Director of the Calla* and Lima Railway
William Seymour, Esq, Montague-place, Russell-square
William John Macguire, Esq., Hampton Court, Director of the Wilts,

Somerset, and Bristol Railway
Pooley Shuldam Henry, D.D., C•inmissiener of the National
Board of Education and Charitable Bequests, Ireland
Christopher Wallis Popham, Esq., Trevarno, Cornwall, Mester of

the Strabane Ship Canal Company.
Robert John Lattey, Esq., Claremont-place, Grow. End-road, St

John's Wood.
William Ayscough Wilkinson, Esq., Woodbury Down, Middlesex,
Director of the Wayeney Valley, Great Yarmouth, and Armagh,
Coleraine, and Portrush Railways
Colonel Edward Nichols, R.M., Shooter's-kill and Coleraine, Direc-
tor of the Armagh, Coleraine, and Pertrush. and Sligo, and Shan-
non Railways
Griffin Curter Galt, Esq., Charles-street, Manchester-square, Direc-
tor of the Armagh, Coleraine, and Portruch. and Sligo and Shan-
non Railways
Captain James Wood, R.M. Woolwich
William Justin O'Driscoll, Esq., banker, Dublin
Richard Edward Arden, Esq., Bedford-square, Director if the Dub-
_ . _ _

lin and Armagh Inland Railway
Captain Rodgers, Cloyenedon-house, Loughs% Ireland
John Stewart, Esq., Portman-square, Director of the Marine In-
surance Office
Joseph Crag:, Esq., Queen -square, Bloomsbury
John Andersen, Esq., Director of the South Midland Junction Rail-
way, &c.
J. Freese, Esq., Old House, Shrewsbury
G. Hazlerigg, Esq., West Carlton-hall, Leicestershire, Director of the
Rugby and Huntingdon Railway, &c.
J. M`Millas, Esq., Director of the Worcester, Rugby, and Warwick

Railway - -
J. Bright, Esq., M.D., Cambridge-square, London
Colonel Pereira, Bengal Artillery, Great Coram-street
W. Clement, Esq., Shrewsbury
Richard Harris Purcell, Esq., Cambridge-street, Hyde-park, and
County Cork, Director of the Direct Western, Isle of Ely, and

Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Railways.
Robert Remmett, Esq., Victoria-square, Grosvenor-place, Direotor of
the Sovereign Insurance Office, &a.
Thomas Gresham, Esq., Raheny Park, Dublin, Director of the Dun-
dalk and Enniskillen, and Irish North Midland Railways
F. W. Heath, Esq., Armagh
P. F. Pole, Esq., St. John's Grove-house, County Cork
George Stevens, Esq., Oak Lodge, High Beach, Essex
Edmund Mathew, Esq., Somerset-street, Forbinlt-square
Thomas Dowglasse, -Esq., Marlbereugh-place, St. John's Weed, Di-
_ _

rector of the Direct London and Exeter Railway
Major David Fitzgerald, Valentia, Ireland
Wm. Sprott Boyd, Esq., Cleveland-row, St. James's
Thomas Gulliver, Esq., Bloxham, near Banbury, Oxon, Director of
the Northampton and Banbury, and Oxford and Witney Railways
Wm. Gulliver, Esq., Swallcliff, near Banbury, Oxon
Captain Julius Newell, R.N., United Service Club
Captain Bradshaw, R.N., Hatherley-place, Cheltenham's
Col. Cairnes, C. 8., Coleraine
Edward King, Esq., Blackthorne, Oxfordshire
Wra. H. Spicer, Esq., Portman-square
George Beauclerc, Esq., Grosvenor-street West, Grosvenor-place
Robert A. Riddell, Esq., Bryanston-street, Portman-square, Director
of the Great Leeds and London Railway
J. A. Bicknell, Esq., Brandon Cottage, Bristol, Director of the Oxford

and Worcester Extension, and Chester Janction Railways
Major Humphreys, Miltown-house, Strabane, Ireland
Capt. Thos. P. Newton, Bruton-street, Berkeley .square, and Lugwar-
dine, Herefordvhire,; Director of the Isle of Man, and Irish West
Coast Railways
The Mayor of Bridgnorth
Benjamin Watts, Esq., Alderman of the Bormegh of Bridgnerth
Thomas Glass, Esq.
t Members of the Corporation of Bridg-
Josiah Minton Giese, Esq. north
Edward Richard Pratt, Esq.
Samuel Ridley, Esq., Rridgnorth
Edmund Riley,i Esq., Bridgnorth
Henry Cane Leahy, St. James's-square, Direeter of the Sheffield,
Buxton, Derby, and Manchester Railway
E. S. Blundell, Esq., Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square, Direc-
tor of the London and Exeter Railway
Richard Fisher, Esq., Alcester Lodge, Warwick, Director of the War-
wickshire and London Extension and Worcester Junction Railway
James Whitehouse, Esq., Ipsley Court, Warwick
James Reading, Esq., Redditch, Worcestershire, manufacttrer
George Hollyoake, Esq., Redditch. Worcestershire
Christopher Royston, Esq., Redditch, Worcestershire
John Onions, Esq., Broseley, ironmaster, &c., Director of the Stour-
kridge,Madeley, Ironbridge, and Broseley, and the Grand June-
ion and Cambrian Railways
n Thorn, Esq., Whitehall, Broseley, Director of the Stearbridge,
Madeley, Ironbridge, and Broseley, and the Grand Junction and
Cambrian Railways
Alexander John Gordon, Esq., Linley Hall neer Bromley
Thomas Deighton, Esq., Bridgaorth
Joseph Southwell, Esq. Bridgnorth, Manufacturers
Willlain Southwell, Esq.
William Cele, Esq., Bicester
Edward Deaking, Esq., Bicester
Horace Townsend, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant, Woodside, Coanty
Cork
W D. Freeman, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant, Castle Cor, County Cerk
St. John Jeffrey, Esq., J.P., Blarney Castle, County Cork
Pierce Purcell, Esq., Altemira, County Cork
James Smith Barry, Esq., Lota Lodge, Cork
Edward Dean Freeman, Esq.. Sandfleld, county Cork
J. H. Bainbridge, Esq., Bear Forest, Mallow
St. John Galway, M.D., Mallow
George Washington Brazier Crearb, Esq., J.P. Creagh-castle
John Carmichael, Esq., Rieerston-house, Ctek, Director of the
Cork and Bandon, and Bandon and Bantry Railways
P. Bennett Lucas, Esq., Manchester-street, Manchester-square,
Director of the Ipswich and Southampton, and Sligo and Shannon

Railways
W. O'Driscoll, Esq., Cliften, near Bristol
The Rev. William Wilson, 8.D., Over Worton, near Deddhigton,
Oxon
Charles Faulkner, Esq., F.G.S., Deddington, Oxfordshire
Lieutenant-Colonel Cruttenden, Balincollig
William Coppiager, Esq., Barry's-tour/
W. Items, Esq., J.P., Tiamore, Cork
William D. Whitehouse, Esq., Studley, Warwickshire, Director of
the Warwickshire and London Extension, and Worcester Junction
Railways
George Wyman, Esq., Aleester, Warwickshire
William Henry Rough, Eaq., Temple, Director of the Metropolitan
Junction Company
Edward Power, Esq., Eccleston-terrace, Eaton-square, Director of
the Ipswich and Southampton Railway
Colonel Henry Duadas Campbell, North-end-house, Portsmouth,
Deputy-Lieutenant of the Comity of Hants, Director of the Direct
Western Railway
William lorns, Esq., Bloxham
Henry Watsos, Esq., High Sheriff of the City of Limerick
Robert Baugh Blakemore, Esq., Shrewsbury, Director of the Shrews-
bury, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire Railway. • •
Henry Keats, Esq., liihrewsbury 1 Directors of the Birmingham aid
Isaac Taylor, Esq., ditto, Brighton Railway
Major-General Turner, Commander of the Cork District
Lieut-Colonel Westropp, J.T., Cork
Major North Ludlow Beamish, 1.R.5., Ballincurrig, 'ear Dtiglas,

Cork
Joseph Leycester, Esq., Cork
Matthew I'ierrpoint, Esq., Crow's Nest, Deputy-Lieutenant of the
county of Worcester, and Director of the Rugby, Derby, Man-
chester, and Welsh Midlas,l Railways
John Rowlands, Esq., Tallyyin, Aterienetb. Director of tke Great

-North and South Wales Railway
George Paul, Esq., banker, 217, Strand
Morgan Culhane, Esq., M.D., Worthing, Sussex
Charles Thelluson, Esq., Sommer-lodge, Worthing, Sussex
James Thomas Thompson, Esq., 33, Gloacester-road, Hyde Park-
gardens
John Green, Esq., Hales Owen. magistrate for the county of

Worcester
George Gun Hay, Esq., 127, Sloane-street, Director of the Medical
Invalid Insurance Office
J. M. Mathew, Esq., Gray's Inn, Director of the Derbyshire, .
cester, and Stafford, and Direct Western Railway
Joseph FarmerlEsq., Mayor of Bewdley
John Bedoe, Esq., merchant, Bewdley
Tames F. Sugrue, Esq., merchant, Cork
Wm. John O'Connell, Esq., 32, Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square
John Mathew, Esq.. Gray's Inn-sqaare, London
Colonel G. Fitch, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester,
and the Tork and Lancaster Railways
W. Wyse, Esq., The Manor, Waterford
W. K. Rodgers, Esq., late High Sherif of the batty of Cork, and Di-
rector of the Cork and Passage Railway
Pierce Nagle, Esq., Anakissy, Doneralle, London
George Hall, Esq., Bridgnorth
John Phillips, Esq., Bridgnorth
William Lumley Perrier, Esq., Bellaire, Cork
Joel Smith, Esq., -, Walsal, Staffordshire
Edward Canning, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon
Thomas Ashmead Perry, Esq., Stratford_on_Avem
Samuel Hayward, Esq., New Town Cottage, Stratford-on-Avon
(With power to add to their number).
COUNSEL IN IINGLAND.

Mr. Sergeant Allen, Sergeant's Inn ; W alter M'Griger, Esq., Lin-
coln's-Inn.
COUNSEL IN IRELAND—Joseph Napier, Esq., Q.C.
ENGINEER IN CHIEF—J. U. BASITICk, Bg.
ACTING ENGINEERS.
W. Maekenele, Esq., C.E. ; J. W. Baealgette, Beg., C.E.

SOLICITORS.
In London—Messrs. Ogle and Tennghusband, 4, Great Winchester-
street, London
In Ireland—John Canning, Bssi., el, Nor* (treat Geerje•street,
Dublin.

RANYINDI.
Messrs. Masterman, ?eters, and Co. the ;Landon and Westminster
Bank.
SECRETARIES IN Etc:adorn —H. Newell, Esq., and Henry Cowper, E:q.
SECRETARY IN IRELAND—Frederick Frauds Pole, En., SI, North
Great George-street, Dublin.

PARLIAMINTAIT AtliNTg.
liugh Innes Cameron and George Bain. Bagre., Is, Parliament-
street, London.
I. It. L. Walt=ley, Esq., North-street, Westminster.

PROSPECTUS.

The imperative necessity, alike in a social, commercial, or political
point of view, for drawing as closely together as possible the capitals
•f England and Ireland, has suggested the formation of the Grand
London and Dublin Approximation Railway,—a line, the value of
which it is difficult te ever estimate, since it will be found t• take a
nearly direct course from tha English 'metropolis to Holyhead. It
will pass through or near the populous and noble county town of
Shropshire (as ye tunprovided with railway communication), and
will traverse along its whole extent districts second in wealth, re-
sources, trade, and commerce, to none in the empire ; bringing them
mom nearly and Immediately is contact with London and Dublin,
than has hitherto Teen tiv,r,ght possible. This project is wholly in-
dependent of any other line already before the public, and as it
possesses national advantages wh!ch nose can surpass, must, when
Carried gait, become, wr.:43ov texcapticm the most important railway
eireankitaln.
012 h of the Int objects fettle Cetavfaly wil; lto tb obt4 a ifoit