The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-03 00:00:00

BOSTON, STAMFORI), AND BIRMING-
HAM RAILWAY.
(With a BRANCH from SPALDING to LYNN.)
Capital £1,000,000, in 50,000 Shares of £2O each.
Deposit £1 2s. per Share.
Provisionally Registered under 7th and Sth Vic., c. 110.
PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS.
Charles Holte Bracebridge, Esq., The Hall,'
Atherstone
John George Norbury, Esq., Mancetter House,
Atherstone
William Freer, Esq., Atherstone
Frederick William Wollaston, Esq., Shenton Hall,
Hinckley
Frederick Wollaston, Esq. Sheepy, Atherstone
James Walklnshaw, Esq., Old Park, Isle of
Wight
Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad House, Edgbaston..
Henry Tootal, Esq., Manchester
Henry Gardner, sq., Chasely Hall, Manches-
ter
Robert Chapman Sharp, Esq., Bramhall Hall,
Cheshire
Thomas Critchley, Esq., Manchester
The Mayor of Birmingham
William Chance, Esq., Birmingham
Edward Middleton, Esq., Birmingham.
SOLICITOR—S. S. Baxter, Esq., Atherstone
BANKERS.
The London and Westminster Bank, London
The Leic..stershire Banking Company, at Leicester, Atherstone, and
Hinckley
Messrs. Jones, Lloyd a d Company, Manchester
The National Provincial Bank of England, Birmingham
The Stamford and Boston Banking Company, at Stanford, Boston.
and Spalding.

Directors of the
Leicester and Bir-
mingham Rail-
way.

Directors of the
Trent Valley Rail-
way.
Directors of the
.Churnet Valley
Railway.

This important undertaking, in connexion with the projected Lei-
cester and Birmingham Line, and the existing Midland Railways,
will form the most complete and direct line of communication yet
projected between the great corn-producing counties of Norfolk and
Lincoln, and the populous manufacturing districts of the Midland
Counties, of which Birmingham is the centre.
It will, in conjunction with the line via East Dereham to Lynn,
and the Norwich and Yarmouth Railway, establish a direct commu-
nication from Yarmouth and Norwich to Birmingham.
By means of its junction with the proposed Cambridge and Lin-
coln or the London and York lines, as the case may be, it will also
bring within the range of its advantages the whole of the country
between Lincoln and Peterborough.
The part of the line extending from Boston by Spalding to Market
Deeuing, and the Branch from Spalding to Lynn, will also form the
direct route to London from those towns and the country northward
thereof as far as the Humber.

On the other band, it will bring the whole of this highly cultivated
and populous county into direct and immediate communication with
the great coal-fields of Leicestershire and Warwickshire ; the pro-
posed line of the Leicester and Birmingham Railway passing through
the latter, and a Branch Liao from the Leicester and Swannington
Railway to the Midland Railway, at Broughton, uniting it with
the former.

By these means the price of coals will be reduced one-half at Stam-
ford and the adjacent towns—an advantage in which this under-
taking will possess a decided superiority over any other that has been
or can be proposed.
By the junction of this line, at Nuneaton, with the Trent Valley
Railway, it will also form the most direct communication between
Yarmouth, Norwich, Lynn, Boston, Spalding, Stamford, and all the
intermediate towns, and Manchester, Liverpool, and North Wales ;
and, by means of the railways centering at Birmingham, with Bris-
tol and the whole of the west of England and South Wales.
A glance at the map will show that no line that can be devised will
so completely effect all the objects of a grand east and west commu-
nication as the one now proposed.
The line of country traversed by the railway is not less favourable
In an engineering point of view. From Lynn and Boston to Stam-
ford, two-thirds of the whole line, the country is one uniform plain;
from thence the line follows the Valley of the Welland to or near to
Market Harborough, and then passes over an easy country to the
Midland Railway.
The enormous exports of corn and other agricultural produce from
Lynn, Boston, Wisbeach, and Spalding, and the corresponding im-
ports of manufactured and other goods to those towns, it is contl-
dently expected will of themselves yield an abundant source of
traffic for this Railway ; but when to this is added the great facili-
ties of intercommunication which the line will afford, bringing within
a few hours' distance the Eastern and Western Coasts of the Island,
and to this is added the entire supply of inland coals throughout the
country traversed by the Railway, there can be no doubt that it
will yield a very ample return for the capital required for its forma-
tion.

Applications may be addressed in the annexed form to the