The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 5, 18-15.

PORTSMOUTH AND LANGSTON RAIL
WAY AND DOCK COMPANY.
Capital, 2,000,0001., in Shares of 2.51. each.
Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
Shareholder to boilable for more than the amount of his shares.
Offices, 46, Moorgato•street.

WEAR VALLEY RAILWAY.
CONTRACT FOR THE EXECUTION OF WORKS.
The Directors are desirous of Letting by Tender the Making and
Completing the entire Works of the above Railway, with the exeeu-
tion of finding Rails and Chairs for the Permanent Way. Length of
line about twelve miles.

SHEFFIELD, WEST RIDING, AND MID-
LANDS JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Prospectuses and plans, with forms of application, are now ready
for delivery at the Offices of the Company, 11, Sereant's Inn, Fleet-
street, London.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne
The Right Hon. Lord Pelham Clinton
The Right Hon. Lord Stephen Chichester
The Right Eton. Lord Edward Chichester
The Hon. G. A. Hamilton Chichester, K.P.
The Hon. Win. Dawson Darner, Parkston-lodge, Poole
Sir John Owen, Bart. M.P. Orielton-house, Lord-Lieutenant of Pem-
brokeshire, Vice-Admiral of the coast, Governor of Milford
Haven, &c.
Sir J. Douglas Hamilton Hay, Bart. Rose Croft, Surrey
Sir Wm. Ogilvie, Bart. Brompton
Sir Samuel Raymond Jarvis, Fair Oak-park, near Winchester, De-
puty-Lieutenant fur Hants
Captain Sir Andrew Pellatt Green, R.N. K.C.H
Captain Sir Wm. Henry Pierson, R.N. West-house, Ernswortk, Hants
Sir George Rich, Lowndea-street, Belgrave-square
Sir James Eyre, 11, Lower Brook-street, Grosvenor-square
Wm. Bulkeley Hughes, Esq. M.P. Play-Coch, Anglesey, Chairman
of the Welsh Midland Railway
Captain C. A. Manning, Portland Castle, Resident Magistrate and
Deputy-Lieutenant for Portland and Dorset
Colonel Henry Dundas Campbell, Northend-house, Portsmouth,
Deputy-Lieutenant for Hants
Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Greive, Green-park, Bath
Major Charles Jasper Selwyn, Royal Engineers, Exeter, director of
the Oxford, Southampton, and Portsmouth Railway
Captain Hulme, Royal Engineers, Exeter
Daniel Tupper, Esq. Queen's Receiver, Guernsey
Edward Woolmer, Esq. mayor of Exeter
William Gordon, Esq. M.D. F.L.S. Hull
George Spry, Esq. Surbiton, Surrey
Henry Vie, Esq. Colchester, Receiver-General of Taxes for Essex and
Suffolk
James Macmillan, Esq. Southsrspton and London, director of the
Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railway
John Boyd, Esq. magistrate, Newry
Benjamin Collett, Esq. Grafton Manor-house, Broomsgrove
William Douglas, Esq. merchant, Liverpool
Captain Edmund Norcott, R.N. Blackheath
Francis Boyle Garty, Esq. director of the Birmingham, Oxford and
Reading Junction, Hull, Great Grimsby, and Southampton Direct
Railways
Rev. George Ingram, Chedburgh Rectory, Suffolk
Edward Ward Jackson, Esq. Edge-hill, Liverpool, director of tie
Staffordshire Potteries, Liverpool and Manchester, and of the Direct
Liverpool and Leeds Railways
James Irvine, Esq. Liverpool, director of the Cheltenham, Oxford,
and London Junction, and Liverpool and Bolton Direct Railways
John B. Bankhead, Esq. director of the Great County Down Railway
Wm. Kirkpatrick, Esq. director of the Newry, Armagh, and Lon-
derry Junction
Henry Keats, Esq. Claremont-hill, Shrewsbury, director of the Di-
rect Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
Robert Medill, Esq. merchant, director of the Direct Birmingham,
Oxford, Reading. and Worcester Railway
R. M'Blain, Esq. director of the Great County Down Railww
Captain Wm. Tringliam. R.N. Solihull, Warwickshire
D. W. Whitehead, Esq. Manchester, director of the pirect Binning-
ham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway '
Wm. S. Sichell, Esq. Manchester, director of the Direct Leeds and
Liverpool Railway
Major John T. Croft, deputy-chairman of the Chester and Manches-
ter Direct Railway
William Bates, Esq. managing director of the Argils Assurance Com-
pany
James Milian Coley, Esq. Bridgenorth, director of the Cambrian and
Grand Junction Railway
Wm. Birmingham Costello, Esq. Wyke-house, Brentford, director of
the Direct London and Exeter Railway
Rob. Baugh Blakemore, Esq. director of the Shrewsbury, Wolver-
hampton, and South Staffordshire Railway
W. H. Cooper, Esq. Shrewsbury, director of the Direct Birmingham,
Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
F. Carvill, Esq. director of the Newry and Enniskillen Railway
Alex. Geo. Gordon, Esq. Linley-hall, West Broseley, director of the
London and Dublin Approximation Railway
Charles Hurst, Esq. Midhurst, Sussex
A. C. Jeffry, Esq. Liverpool, director of the Direct Birmingham, Ox-
ford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
Win. Hunter, Esq. Leamington, director of the Direct Western, and
Rugby and Manchester Railways
George Gordon, Esq. Shrewsbury
John Onions, Esq, Broseley, Salop, iron-master, director of the Dud-
ley, Madeley, and Broseley Railway ; Grand Junction and Cam-
brian ; and London and Dublin Approximation Railway
Isaac Taylor, Esq. Monlunoor, Shropshire, director of the Direct
Birmingham, Oxford, and Reading Railway
John Thorn, Esq. Broseley, director of the Dudley, Madeley, and
Broseley ; the Grand Junction and Cambrian ; and the London
and Dublin Approximation Railway
Richard Thursfield, Esq. Much Wenlock, Salop, magistrate
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq. Bryanston-street, Portman-square,
chairman of the Exeter, Dorchesrer, and Weymouth Railway
John Reginald Riddell, Esq. Bycullah-house, Enfield, managing
director of the Leeds and London Railway
Alexander Bicknell, Esq., Bristol
Richard Lambert, Esq. Leyton Hall, Sudbury
George Henry Thompson, Esq., Greenwood Park, County Down
Eichird ;lay, Esq., of Goole and Winchester-builings, Broad-street,
director of the Huddersfield and East and Weat Coasts Junction
Railway

The plans and specifications may be seen at the office of Mr. John
Dixon, Civil Engineer, Daxlington,on and after Monday, the 20th day
of Oetober next; and Tenders must be sent into Mr. Thomas
31`N ay, the Secretary, at the Company's office in Darlington, on or
before Monday, the 3d of November.
GEORGE H. Will[tgiio.lg, Chairtnaff,
Wear Valley Railway-office, Darlington, Sept. 22, 1842,

BIRMINGHAM AND MANCHESTER DI
RECT RAILWAY.

No further application for shares can be received herein, the same
having closed on the 15th inst.
The Committee are actively engaged in the consideration of the
applications, but in consequence of their immense numb?r, some days
must elapse before the letters, of allotment can be posted.
A. A. FLINT, Secretary.

DIRECT WESTERN RAILWAY.-
In reply to the numerous inquiries made of the Committee of
Management, they beg to announce that, in consequence of the
number of Shares applied for having exceeded one million four hun-
dred thousand, considerable delay has necessarily taken place in
making the allotment, which, however, will be completed in a few
days.

Dated this 21st day of October, 1845.

FLY and BURY r. EDMUNDS RAILWAY.
In consequence of the great number of applications for shares
in this Company which are daily received from all parts of the
country, the Provisional Directors feel it necessary to call the atten-
tion o ithe Public to the following Clause in the Prospectus, to the
terms of which they will, in allotting the shares, be compelled most
strictly to adhere:—

The Committee have the satisfaction of stating that the surveys
and Parliamentary plans are in a very forward state, and that all
will be ready for the next session of Parliament.

By order, T. H. SAUNDERS, Secretary,
20, Poultry, London, Oct. 17, 1845.

AS, under arrangements entered into with the Lynn and Ely,
-Ely and Huntingdon, and Lynn and Dereham Railway Companies,
a large proportion of the capital has been appropriated to the holders
of shares in those Companies, a very limited number of shares only
is at the disposal of the Provisional Directors, and no application for
shares therefore c he attended to, except from parties locally in-
terested and of the highest respectability.
By order,
L. F. EDWARDS, Secretary pro tern.

THE LEICESTER, MELTON MOWBRAY,
and SPALDING JUNCTION RAILWAY, giving, with other
formed and projected lines, the nearest route from Birmingham,
iovcntry, and Leicester to the Eastern Coast, and a communication
from Birmingham, via Nuneaton, Leicester, and Melton Mowbray,
to Spalding.

- - (Provisionally Registered.)
offices, 4, Trafalgar-square, Charing-cross.
Capital 500,0001., in 25,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Wynn Ellis, Esq. M.P. for Leicester, director of the Brandon and
Spalding Railway
William Corbet Smith, Esq. Bittleswelhall, High Sheriff of Leices-
tershire ,
The Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P. Chairman of the Northampton, Ban-
bury, and Cheltenham Railway
The Hon. Major C. Napier, Rugby, director of the Poterbor:mgh and
Nottingham Railway
General Johnson, M.P.
Wiliam Collins, Esq. M.P.
Ralph Etwail, Esq. M.P.
Thomas Wakefield, Esq. Nottingham, director of the Brandon and
Spalding Railway
Matthew Gisborne, Esq. Walton-hall, Derbyshire
Joseph Ellis, ESq. Glenfield-lodge, Leicester
Sir Richard J. nkins, G.C.B. director of the East India Company
Sir Edwin Pearson, F.R.S. Gloucester-terrace, Regent's-park
Ambrose Moore, Esq. Milk-street, Cheapside
Josiah Wilson, Esq. Stamford-hill
George Meek,-Esq. Russell-square
Jobn Clement Ruding, Esq. directer of the National Bank of Ireland
Francis Valentine Lee, Esq. director of the Eastern Counties Railway
Richard Heaviside, Esq. Brighton
William Ettwall, Esq. Longstock-down, near Stockbridge, director
of the Southampton and Manchester Railway
William Shadbolt, Esq. chairman of the Greenwich Railway Com-
pany
T. E. Bigge, Esq. Bryanstone-square
Captain Gustavus Evans, R.N. Headley-grove, Surrey, director of the
Nottingham, Birmingham, and Coventry Railway
Valentine Knight, Esq. Cornwall-terrace, Regent's-park
Samuel Kempson, Esq. Little Sutton, Sutton Coldfleld, Warwick-
shire

41,Z OUTII AND MIDLANDS JUNCTION
RAILWAY.

Notice is hereby even, that the Parliamentary Contract and Sub-
scribers' Agreement of this Company will be sent into the country
for signature, and will lie at the undermentioned places :

Glasgow, on the 30th day of October, 1845, at the Star Hotel ;
Edinburgh, on the lit day of November, 1845, at the Waterloo

hlotel •
Woodstock, on the ith day of November, 1845, at the Office of B,

Holloway, Esq. ;
Devizes, on the dth day of Nov., at the Office of J. W. Wall, Esq. ;
Salisbury, on the 7th day of November, at the Office of Mossrs,

Foot and Radcliffe—between the hours of 11 and 2.
After which, the same will remain at the Solicitor's Office an
further notice.

By order,
5, Basinghall-street, Oct. 23, 1845

W. B. JAMES, Solicitor.

LARNE, BELFAST, and BALLYMANA
RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
With Extension to Portgienone.
The Managing Committee of this Company are gratified in stat-
ing to their shareholders that the whole of their original capital
having been subscribed, they will he enabled to gb to Parliament at
the commencement of the ensubig session, with every prospect of
success. By order,

J. KNIGHT, Secretary

4, Coleman-street, Oet. 20, 1845.

DIRECT INDEPENDENT KENT,S (LURE Y,
AND SUSSEX UNION RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,500,0001., of 75,000 Shares, of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.

Temporary Offices, Queen-street Chambers, Queen-street, Cheapside,
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Frederick Pearson, ;Esq. Piccadilly
Fraser B. Henshaw, Esq. Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square,
director of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Manchester
Railway
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq. Woodberry Down, Stoke Newington, director
of the Erewash Valley Railway
Herbert Ingram: Esq. Swinshead-abbey, Lincolnshire
John Tathan Banks, Esq. warden and magis-
trate of Louth, Lincolnshire
William Gresham, Esq. Aderman of Lin-
coin
Samuel Trought, Esq. Louth, Lincolnshire
William Ward, Esq. M.D. Horncastle
Edwin Cadman, Esq. Westbourne-house,
Sheffield, director of the Isle of Ely, Wis-
beach, and Lincoln Railway •
The Rev. J. B. Hildebrand, rector of Saxby, r
Leicestershire
John Thomas Raworth, Esq. Leicester, prov
South Union Railway
Nathaniel C. Stone, Esq. Rowley-fields, near Leicester
John Eames, Esq. Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire
Frederick Cayley Worsley, Esq. Imberhorne-house, Sussex, director
of the Nottingham, Birmingham, and Coventry Railway
John Smith Mansfield, Esq. Essex-court, Temple
Charles Hance, Esq. Alexander-square, Brompton
Thomas Bridges, Esq. 3larwood-hill, Devonshire
Thomas Bent, Esq. M.D. Derby
Douglas fox, Esq. Derby
John D. Cooper, Esq. Ashbourne, Derbyshire, director of the Derby.
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway
Henry F. Gisborne, Esq. Derby, director of the Tamworth and Lei-
cester, Coventry and Nuneaton Railway
John Hemp, Esq. Cotton, Derbyshire
Joshua Harding, Esq. Rosiiston, Derbyshire
Nathaniel Nadin, Esq. Stapenhill, Derbyshire
J. Nadin, coal proprietor, Newhall and Swadlincote Collieries, Derby-
shire
R. Sherratt Tomlinson, Esq. Burton-on-Trent. Staffordshire
Charles James Mason, Esq. Fenton, Staffordshire
Joseph Nunneley, Esq Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire
William Little, Esq. Peterborough, director of the Peterborough and
Nottingham Railway
I. P. Bainbrigge, Esq. Derby, director of the Derby and Crewe
Railway
J. C. Williams, Esq. M.D. Nottingham
Henry Smith, Esq. Gainshorough
William Lister Sharp, Esq. Gainsborough, director of the Derby and
Great Grimsby, and of the Cambridge and Lincoln Extension
Railway.

Provisional Directors
of the Great Grims-
by, Louth, and Lin-
coln Railway.

tear Melton-Mowbray,

isional director of the

(With power to add to their number).
SOLICITOES—_Messrs. Coverdale and Lee, 4, Bedford-row, London.
Eros axi:a—Messrs.Rennie.
SECRETIAr—George N. White, Esq.
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Company
Liverpool—The Rank of Liverpool
Manchester—The Bank of Manchester
Birmingham—Messrs. Attwood, Spooner, and Company
Leeds—The Leeds Banking Company
Portsmouth —Messrs. Grant and Company.
Copies of the yrospectus and forme of application for shares to be
had of Messrs. Coverdaic and Lee, solicitors, 4, Bedford-row, London ;
Messrs. Johnson, Longden, and Co., 22, Tokenhouse-yard ; Messrs.
Lynel and Berlyn, and Mr. J. -Fernyhough, Manchester; Mr.
Hampson, Messrs. Powell and Lowndes, and Messrs. Neilson,
Liverpool ; Mr. John Watson, Messrs. Wheatley, Kirk and Co.,
Leeds ; Nathaniel Lee, Birmingham ; Messrs. Tugg and Hodg-
son, Hull; Mr. Peter Dixon, Glasgow; Mr. James Nicholson
and Mr. Charles Couper, Edinburgh ; Messrs. Camplin, Dublin ; Mr.
T. R. Evans, (South Mall) Cork; Messrs. Edwards and Son, Bristol;
Mr. W. Bolton, Stratford-on-Avon; Mr. B. Cowderoy, Reading;
Messrs. Warburton and Crossland, and Messrs. Bardwell and Son,
Sheffield ; Messrs. Hall (Brothers) and Co., Cheltenham ; Messrs.
Wilktngson, and Mr. T. Sandford, Exeter ; Messrs. H. li. Easty and
Co., Southampton.; Messrs. Cape and Son. Derby ; Mr. Charles
Wlkens, Northampton; Mr. Samuel Collinson, and Messrs. Potts
and Levick, Nottingham ; Mr. Mason, Bradford, Yorkshire ; Mr.
311114, Worcester ; Messrs. Hopwood and Palm r, Plymouth ; Mr.
Richard Hine, 3facklesfleld ; Mr. W. Crowell, Halifax; Mr. E.
Armitage, Wakefield : Mr. J. S. Holland, Coventry ; Mr. S. Wea-
therburn, Huddersfield ; Messrs. Payne and Freer, and Messrs.
Windram and Son, Leicester ; and at tke Company's Offices, 46,
Moorgate-street, London.

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Chaim an—Wynn Ellis, Esq., M.P.
Deputy-Chairman—Josiah Wilson, Esq.
Thomas Wakefield. Esq. John Smith Mansfield, Esq.
Ambrose Moore, Esq. George Meek, Esq.
Francis Valentine Lee, Esq. Capt. Gnstavus Evans, R.N.
John D. Cooper, man., Eszt.
CONSULTING Esfumaa--Charles Fox, Esq.
ENGINEER—John Hughes, Esq.
BANKERS.
The London Joint-Stock Bank, Princes-street
Messrs. Pagets and Kirby, Leicester
Pare's Leicestershire Banking Company, Melton-Mowbray
The Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Company, Spalding
Messrs. Evans and Co., Derby
The Burton Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent.
Smacuoas-31essrs. Lacy and Bridges, 19, King's Arms-yard, Cole-
man-street ; Abraham Bass, Esq Burton-upon-Trent.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—Messrs. Dyson, Hall, Parka, and Coates,
Parliament-street.

SECItZTAILT—WiIIiam Ranyard, Esq

NEW HISTORICAT, ROMANCE.
Just ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo.,
JJUNSTER C A S T L E
AN

HISTORICAL ROMANCE of the GREAT REBELLION
By T. J. HEWLETT, M.A.
(Late of Worcester College, Oxford.)
Henry Colbura, Publisher, 13, Great Malborough-street.

EXPRESS,

'THE RAILWAY
PRICE SIMPENCE,
Contains original Paris Correspondenco--The Money Marke..—
Captain D. K. Pulteney—Engineering Miracles—The Hudson Alms
houses—Mammoth Newspapers—" Provisional" Esquires—Subma
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roads in India—Home, Foreign, and Colonial Railway News—Hw.i.
soniana, &c.

Office for advertisements, 11, Wellington-street North,

H E WATERLOO HE ROE S.
The Subscribers and the Public are respectfully informed that
the splendid Engraving of the " WATERLOO HEROES " is now
completed.

This most interesting and grand Historical Record of Waterloo,
painted by G. P. KNIGHT, Esq., R.A., has been in progress by the
celebrated Engraver, Mr. CIIALES G. LEWIS, for nearly three
years, and is now brought to a most successfni termination. The
engraving represents " Field-Marrhal the Duke of Wellington, K.G.,
receiving his illustrious guests at Ansley-house, on the anniversary
of the glorious Eighteenth of June," and included is the Plato are
most of the great " Soldiers of the age," to whom tile nation owed
its crowning victory at Waterloo.
Henry Graves and Co., Publishers in Ordinary to her Majesty and
H.R.H. Prince Albert, 6, Pall-mall.

BANK OF ENGLAND

(From last Night's Gazelle.)
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Yictoria
cap. 32, for the Week ending on Saturday, the 18th day of
October, 1845.

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.

Notes issued ...... 27,778,955

Government debt 11,015,100
Other securities... 2,984,900
Gold coin and bul
lion

£27,778.955

Dated the 23d day of ()deb

BANKING Dl
£.
Proprietors' capita 1,14,553,0043
Rest
Public deposits (in•.
eluding Exche-
quer, Savings-
banks, Commis-
sioners ofNational
Debt, and divi-

dend accounts) 4,488,419
Other deposits 9,835,604
seven day and other
bills

£33,189,507

• .M. .141A1
Dated the 23d day of Octobe:

2,018

Silverbullion...

£27,778,955
EARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
;r, 1845.
:PARTMEN T.

Government seen-
rities (including
Dead Weight
Annuity)
Other securities 14,049,529
Notes
Gold and silver
coin

411,330

1 £33,189,507
RSHALL, Chief Cashier.
!r,1845.

PROMISSORY NOTES

TT
(From last :Night s Gazette.)
An account of the Average Aggregate Amount of Promis-
sory Notes payable to bearer on demand, which have been
in circulation by the Banks in Scotland, by the Bank of Ire-
land, and by all other Banks in Ireland, during the four
weeks ending the 11th day of October, 1845, pursuant to
the Act of 4th and sth Victoria, cap. 50 :

SCOTLAND.
Chartered, Private, and Joint-Stock Banks £3,428,074
IRELAND.

Bank of Ireland
Private and Joint-stock Banks