The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-30 00:00:00

r MANCHESTER AND SOU'IMAMPTON
RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that the Parliamentary Contract and sub-
scribers' Agreement will lie for execution by the Subscribers at the
places and during tke period undermentioned :
In Westminster, at the Company's Offices, 19, Great George-street,
on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, October 13, 14, and 15.
In London, at the Offices of the Messrs. Oswyn and Co., 11, Angel-
court, Throgniorton-street,—on Thursday and Friday, October 16th
and 17th.
In Manchester, at the Offices of Mr. James Wheeler, 58, George-
strect,—on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday,
October 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, and 17th.
In Cheltenham, at the Offices of Messrs. Newman, Gwlnett, and
Ticehurst,—cn Monday and Tuesday, October 20th and 21st.
In Cirencester, at the Offices ofMessrs. Sewell and Newmarch,—on
Wednesday and Thursday, October 22d and 234.
In:Marlborough, at the Offices of Me srs. J. B. and W. Merriman,
—on Friday and Saturday, October 24th and 25th.
In Andover, at the Offices of Harry Footner, Msq.,—on Monday,
October 27th.
In Stockbridge, at the Offices of Henry Llntett Footner, Esq.,—on
Tuesday,tOctober 21st.
In Romseyjat the Offices of Messrs. Stead and Tylee,—on Wednes-
day, October 22d.
In Southampton, at the offices of Messrs. Deacon and Long,—on
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, October 2.1 d. 24th. and 2511,
fhe Committee will strictly enforce the execution of these instru-
ments at one or other of the abov-named places. In cases in which,
from sickness or other inevitable circumstances, parties are disabled
from personal attendance, and in such cases only, the necessary exe-
cution may be by power of attorney, in the form prepared, and by a
party approved by the Company's solicitor at Manchester.
September 30,1845. JOHN WHEELER, Secretary.

NORTHAMPTON, LINCOLN, AND HULL
RAILWAY,
commencing at Northampton, and proceeding by way of Ketter-
ing, Uppingham, Oakham, Grantham, on to Lincoln, with two ex-
tensions from that city—one to the port of Gainsborough, and the
other to Maiket Raise" and the rising and important port of Great
Grimsby.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 2,000,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.
The Count Morel, Hereford-street, Hyde-park, London
Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Pall-mall, London
Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobald-street
Sir Henry Bromley, Hinrich Court-garden, Great Marlow, Ductal
Sir Gregory I. Lewin, Recorder of Doncaster
Mr. Sergeant Clarke, Recorder of Northampton and Lincoln
Admiral Ayscough, Southampton
J. R. W. Atkinson, Esq., Elmwood House, Leeds, Director o< the
Leicester and Bedford Railway Company
Mr. Joseph Aduitt, merchant, Northampton
Francis Simes Alliott, Esq., Nottingham
Thomas James Arnold, Esq., Revising Barrister for the City of
London
John Rid:lands Burbidge, Esq., Surbiton Inn, Surrey
John Brightman, Esq., Regency-square, Brighton
Mr. Alderman Brooks, Manchester
C. Buschek, Esq., merchant, 133, Fenchnrch-street, London
W. Ti .on, Esq., John-street, Berkeley-square, London
John Bitrnett, Esq., Cheltenham
Jonathan Burton, Esq.,- -Nottingham, Director of the Grand Union
and Nottingham and Gainsborongh Railway Companies
George Buxton, Esq., Northampton
J. D. Barry, Esq., London and Paris, Director of the Orleans, Tours,
and Bordeaux Railway Company
Charles Britten, Esq.' Northampton
Mr. Alderman Bean, Nottingham
John Bradley, Esq., The Park, Nottingham
Thomas Chitty, Esq., Upper Gower-street
Richard Carpenter, Esq., Lonsdale-square, London
Thos. Mortimer Cleobury, Esq., Acton, Middlesex
Henry Coe Coape, Esq., Goldhanger green
N. Cumberlege, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's-park
Mr. Edward Cotton, merchant, Northampton
J. M. Cottle, Esq., Leamington
Peter Coulaton, jun., Esq., Husbands Bosworth, near Welford
Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
lion. W. Dawson Darner, Parkstone Lodge, Poole
John Robert Dolby, Esq., Ashbourne, Derbyshire
John Eyeton, Esq., Welford and Salford Hall, Warwickshire
Hen. Percy Evans Freke
Benjamin Fowler, Esq. Tamworth, Director of the Northampton,
Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway Company
John Freeman, Esq., Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and
Cheltenham Railway Company
Hon. Robert Gore, M.P., 21, Wilton-crescent
Major-General Greenstreet, Northampton.
John Cooper Gotch, Esq., banker, Kettering
William Gambier, Esq., Sacombe Park, Hertfordshire
James Gernon, Esq., Conduit-street, Bond-street
Alexander Greig, Esq., Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square, London
Frederick William Green, Esq., shipowner, Cornhill, London
The Rev. George Edward Hanmer, Rector of Loddington and Over.
stone, Northampton
Frederick William Hamilton, Esq.
Henry Hensman, Esq., Pytchley, Northamptonshire
George Harper, Esq., Moss-fields, Salop
William tlerbert, E;q , Nottingham
Chaxle/fileneage, Esq., Carleby-house, Lincolnshire
Thomas Hagger, Esq., Northampton, Director of the Northampton,
Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway Company
Thomas Hopkins, Esq., Nottingham
Arthur Haylnos, Esq., Methuen Villa, Leamington
John Helbert Helbert, Esq., Upper Gloucester-place, London
Mr. William Higgins, merchant, Northampton
Edward Hall, Esq.,,West Bank-house, Macclesfield, Director of the
Northamptou,•Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway Company
John Barmillowes, Esq., Irthlingborough-grange, Northamptonshire
Mr. Ahriman Holies, Northampton
Richard Hooper, Esq., Upper Clapton, London, Director of the Direct
London and Manchester Railway Company
lion. Edward Jemlngham
Richard Parry Jones, Esq., Whitchurch, Salop
William Laycock, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Nottingham and
Gainsborough, and Grand Union Railway Companies
F. Valentine Lee, Esq., Chester-terrace, Regent's Park, London,
Director of the Eastern Counties Railway Company
George Wortley Lovell, Esq., Great Billing, Northamptonshire
Charles Leavers, Esq., The Park, Nottingham
Christopher Markham, Esq., Northampton
Major J. A. Moore, Queen Ann-street, Cavendish-square
William Mackenzie, Esq., Liverpool and Paris, Director of the
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H. W. Morris, Esq., Grovehurst, Pembury, Kent
Samuel Oxenham, Esq., Chester-terrace, Regent's Park, London
Samuel Percival. Esq., banker, Northampton
Mr. Alderman Porter, Northampton
The Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Herefordshire
Edwin Pell, Esq., Sywell Hall, Northamptonshire
James Watts Peppercorns, Esq., Old Broad-street, London, end Dul-
wich, Surrey
Vaughan Prause, Esq., Nether Stowey, Somerfsetshire
Henry Pywell, Esq., Northampton
John Phipps, Esq., Northampton
I Benjamin Payne, Esq., Leicester
The Lord Rossmors, The Dell, Windsor
Mr. George Rands, merchant, Nottingham
The Rev. John Lucas Sutton, Rector of Weekly, Northamptonshire
F. Curwen Smith, Esq., Frognall Hall, Hampstead
G. W. Smith, Esq., Harbury Hail, Sheffield
Thomas Sharp, Esq., Northampton, Director of the Northampton.
Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway Companies
Henry Lenton Stockburn, Esq., J.P., Northampton
William Spooner, Esq., Chapel-street, Beig-rave-square, London
Frederick Seymour. Esq., St. James's-square
James Robert Spiller, Esq., banker, Northampton
William Strong, Esq., Northampton
George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury
Lieut.-Colonel Hon. J. C. Westenra, M.P., Brook's Club, St. James's-
street
Archibald Douglas Stewart, Esq., Grantully Castle
Edmund F. Dayrell, Esq., Leingston-Dayrell, High-Merin-of Bucks
Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Esq., Beesthorpe Hall, Newark, Nottingham-
shire
Benjamin Williams. Esq., banker, 4, Whitehall, London
Major James Waller, St. James's-street
Mr. Alderman Williams, Northampton
Mr. Thomas Woodhouse, manufacturer, Nottingham
David Wheatcroft, Esq., Dockland-hollow, Derbyshire, Director of
the Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway Company
George Willes, Esq., Ilungerford, Berke
John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, Tonbridge, Kent, Direetor of
the Leicester and Bed:ord Railway Company
Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., Clopton House, Stratford-en-Avon,
and Luton Hoo, Bedfordshh e
The Rev. C.F. Watkins, Vicar of Rrexworth, Northamptonshire
Mr. John Woolston, inn., merchant, Wellingborough
Mr. J seph Wykes, merchant, Northampton
Mr. Alderman Walker, Northampton
Mr. Marmaduke Wetherell, merchant, Northampton
Charles Loxdale Warren, Esq., the Lodge, Market Drayton, and
Consall Hall, Staffordshire
Allen Allic,ocke Young, Esq., Orlingbury, Northamptonshire
T. Borwick Yzsrn, Esq., Herne Hill, Surrey.

BANNZILS.
Northampton—The Union Bank
The Northamptonshire Banking Company
Kettering—Messrs Gotch and Sons
Stamford—The Northamptonshire Banking Company.
ENGINTAII—John Urpeth Itastrick, Esq.
BOLICITOES.

London—Augustus Walter Arnold, Esq., 31, Golden-square
Kettering—Messrs. Lamb and Nettloship
Nortlummton and Welford—Mr. George Pell, Jun.
LOCILL AGDNT —Arthur Wells, Esq., Nottingham.
"PROSPECTUS.

The objects intended to be accomplished by this undertaking are—
Firstly—The supply of local railway accommodation to the impor-
tant districts embraced by the line.
secondly—The benefit of railway communication with the metro-
polis to a district of country upwards of fifty miles in length at pre-
sent unprovided with that accommodation.
Thirdly—The completion of the chain of railway communication
between the river Severn and the southern and western counties, and
the north-eastern district of the kingdom and the river Humber and
its ports, including that of Hull.
Commencing at the town of Northampton, in conjunction with the
London and Birmingham, and the lines of railway proposed to con-
verge at that town from Cheltenham, and the west from Worcester
and from Warwick, the line will proceed in a direct course to the
market town of Kettering, by which place all the companies compet-
ing for the line of railway between London and Manchester propose
to pass. It will then proceed also in a direct course to the market
towns of Uppingham, Oakham, and Grantham, on to Lincoln.
The country lying between the towns of Northampton and Grant-
ham is wholly without existing er even proposed railway accommo-
dation, not only to the south but aim to the north.

At Lincoln the line will fork, and proceed, on the one hand, in a
northerly direction to the flourishing port of Gainsborough, and, on
the other, by a north-eastern course to the market town and Market
Rasen, on to the rising port of Great Grimsby.
lily an union with the Sheffield and Great Grimsby Junction Rail-
way at Market Rasen, a direct and uninterrupted chain of communi-
cation will be established between all the above-mentioned districts
and the town and port of Hull.
The sources of traffic which this line will secure are various and
very considerable ; some of them only can be here enumerated,vis.:—
Starting from Great Grimsby, the line will appropriate to itself the
whole of the traffic from thence to the metropolis, and also the
southern and western districts of the kingdom, and, in addition, it
will secure the important and increasing local traffic between that
town and Market Rasen and Lincoln. _

From Gainaberough, the termini of several railways from the
Korth and north-west, this line will carry the trails to Lincoln, its
county town.
The traffic from Hull to the metropolis, and also to the west, will
enter upon this line at Market Resell and proceed thereon to Lincoln.
From Lincoln the whole of the traffic passing to the west and the
intermediate towns must pass over the lines.
In tte event of the Cambridge and Lincoln Railway Company not
obtaining their Bill, then the traffic from Lincoln to the south and
west, and also the metropolis, will pass along this line of railway ; the
former the whole distance, and the latter in any event to Grantham,
a distance of about twenty-five miles ; and should the London and
York Company not succeed, such traffic will proceed on to Kettering i
OiNorthampton.
The entire district between Grantham and Kettering, a distance
of more than forty miles, and including the market towns of
Oakingliam and Uppingham, is without a railway or water carriage
accommodation, and the whole of its traffic therefore will travel over
this line of railway, whiclrwill be in the direct course not only to
the west but also to London.
At Kettering this line will unite with that one of now com-
peting schemes passing that town from Manchester andthe Leicester to
London, which shall be successful before Parliament.
The country is free from engineering difficulties, with 0114 or two
exceptions only, and those are more than counterbalanced by the
very favourable gradients of by far the greater portion of the line ;
indeed for many Miles the line will run upon a water level.
The line will not interfere with att3 ornauiental property.
The landowners on the line are favourable to the undertaking.
The' promoters reserve power to alter and vary the route, to ex-
tend the proposed line of railway, and to increase the =mut of ca-
pital as may be necessary or advisable.
prospect** and plans will be ready for distribution in Blbw dap,