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

DIRECT EAST AND WEST JUNCTION
RAILWAY,
Commencing at Kidderminster, and ending at Hereford.
(Provisionally Registered.)
The survey of this line having been sufficiently completed to enable
the engineer to form a decided opinion upon the requisite expense,
the Acting Committee of Direction have to announce that it will be
necessary to Increase the capital front 800,0001. to 1,000,0001., and the
number of shares from 40,000 to 50,000 shares.
The letters of allotment will be issued in two days, and so nume-
rous have been the applications along the line that the Shares Com-
mittee have been compelled to make large local allotments. Such
applicants as do not receive allotments will take this as an intimation
why it has been impossible to comply with their 'wishes.
JOHN OWENS, Joint Solicitors.
J. A. J. 3IACGREGOR,
Offices of the Company, 38, Moorgate-street, Sept. 29, 1845.

WEST MIDLAND RAILWAY.
Comaecting the Eastern and Western-parts of the kingdom.
(Provisionally Registered).
Capital 1,700,0001., in 68,000 shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 12s, 6d. per share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Sir W. Boothby, Bart., Ashbourne-hall
Sir David Scott, Bart., Porchester-terrace, Hyde Park, London
Jedediah Strutt, Esq., Director of the Derby and Gainsborough
Railway
Edward Hyde Clerke, Esq., Leamington Priors
John Ashton, Esq., Newton Bank, Hyde, and Manchester
William Bayley. Esq., Lark-hill, Ashton-under-Lyne
The Mayor of Carnarvon, Director of the London and Holyhead
Railway
Edward Valentine Pegge Burnell, Esq., Winkburn-hall, Nottingham-
shire, Vice-Chairman of the Boston, Newark, and Sheffield Railway
Henry Kendall, Esq., Austin-friars, London, Director of the Boston,
Newark, and Sheffield Railway
Colonel Thomas Wildman, Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire, Di
rector of the Nottingham, Mansfield, and Midlands Junction Rail-
way
John Calthorp Williams, Esq., M.D., Nottingham
Major Bilble, Nettleworth Hall, Nottinghamshire, Director of the
Derby and Gainsborough Railway
James Salmond, Esq., Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire.
Chairman of the Boston, Newark and Sheffield, and Director of
the Nottingham, Mansfield, and Midlands Junction Railway
Francis Hall, Esq., Chairman of the Nottingham, Mansfield, and
Midlands Janetion Railway
The Mayor of Newark-on-Trent
Henry Boden, Esq., The Field, Earb,,, Director of the Derby and
Gainsborotigh Railway
William Tinker, Esq., Hyde, Manchester
Thomas Horseley, Esq., Pye Bridge, Derbyshire
Major Coke, Woodhouse Grove, Nottinghamshire, Vice-Chairman of
the Derby and Gainsborough Railway
John Ray, Esq., Heanor Hall, Derbyshire
George Johnson, Esq., Mansfield
Charles Allix, Esq., Willoughby Hall, Grantham, Director of the
Boston, Newark, and Sheffield Railway
John Brown, Esq., M.D., Broadfield House, Boston, ditto
John Coke Fowler, Esq.. Duffield Bank, Derby, Director of the Derby
axd Gainsbomugh Railway
John Edward Brodhurst, Esq., Crow Hill, Mansfield, Director of the
Boston, Newark, and Sheffield Railway
Thomas Novae Andrew Burnaby, Esq., Newark-on-Trent
Charles Holden, Esq., Junior United Service Club, London
David Harrison, Esq., Staleybridge
H. D. Dod, Esq., Mansfield, Woodhouse
Lewis Novolli, Esq., Manchester
Thomas Carey Willard Pierce, Esq., Manchester
Thomas Ingram Ford, Esq., Abbey-field, Sandbeach, Cheshire
IL Cave Leahy, St. James's-square, London, a Director of the
Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, and Potteries Railway, the Great Welsh
Central Railway, and the Grand Trunk Railway
The Rev. Dr. Cursham, Vicar of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, Di-
rector of the Derby and Gainsborough Railway
Richard Greenhaigh, Esq,, Car Bank, Mansfield, Director of theflos-
ton, Newark, and Sheffield, and Nottingham, Mansfield, and *Mid-
lands' Junction, and Derby, anC Gainsborough Railways
William Sacheverell Cook, Esq., Langton-hall, Nottinghamshire.
Director of the Derby and Gainsborough Railway
Richard Truswell, Esq., Mandrake-house, Sheffield
Edward Dowland, Esq., Mansfield
P. R. Dearden, Esq., Birkenhead
The Rev. John Peatfield, West Bridgeford
Edmund Sykes, Esq., Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire
William Sabine, Esq., Broomhill-grange, Nottinghamshire
Isaac Heywood, Esq., Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Montagu David Scott, Esq., Porchester-terrace, Hyde-park, Direc-
tor of the Boston, Newark, and Sheffield Railway
William Heywood Paulson, Esq., Mansfield
Thomas Spragging Godfrey, Esq.' Balderton-hall, Nottinghamshire,
Director of the Boston, Newark, and Sheffield Railway
William Hollins, Esq., Pleasly-vale, Derbyshire
Richard Remy Wright, Esq., Mansfield
William Gething, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Boston, Newark,
and Sheffield, and Derby, and Gainsborough Railway
Sibbald Scott, Esq., 62, Gloucester-place, Portman-square
W. F. Handley, Esq., Newark-on-Trent
Robert Ashton, Esq., Hyde and Manchester
Watkin Lees, Esq., Dukinfleld
William Sidebottom, Esq., Ethrow House, Hollingworth
Richard Wharton 3dydclleton,:sq., Leasingham Hall
John Dodsley, Esq., Skegby Hall, Nottinghamshire, Director of the
Derby and Gainsborough Railway
Robert Watson, Esq., Mansfield
Thomas Burroughs, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Gains-
borough Railway
John Hudson, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Gainsborough
Railway
Henry Brodhurst, Esq., Woodhouse-place •
Samuel Wright Fearn, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and
Gainsborough Railway
Samuel Walker Cox, Esq., Breadsall, Director of the Derby and
Gainsborough Railway
General Reeve, Leadenham Nall, Director of the Boston, Newark,
and Sheffield Railway
Major Taylor, Radcliffe, Nottingham
Joseph Gilstrap, Esq., Newark-on-Trent
Douglas Fox, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Gainsborough
Railway
John Johnson, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Gainsborough
Railway
William Foster, Esq., Sleaford, Director of the Boston, Newark,
and Sheffield Railway
William Gill, Esq., M.D.,Nottingham
William Houldsworth, sq., Farnsfleld
Jonathan Hardeastle, Esq., Illidworth Dale
John Thorpe, Esq., Newark-on-Trent, Director of the Boston,
Newark, and Sheffield Railway
Captain F. Chamier, Helkin-street, Belgrave-square
Edward Newbatt, Esq., Old-place, Sleafotd..
Dr. Bent, Derby, Director of the Derby and Gainsborough Railway
Emanuel Howett, Esq., Farnsfield
David Bryan, Esq., Northampton, Provisional Director of :the Mid-
land and Eastern Counties Railways.
R. M. Pruce, Esq., Lothblry, and 24, Park-square, Regent's-park
William Peppercorne, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex
Admiral J. Ayscough, Southampton
Thomas Chitty, Esq., Gower-street, London
Rowland Mackenzie, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and
Basingtoke, of the Cheltenham, Oxford, and Brighton Junction,
and of the Great Western Extension Railway Companies
Thomas Ingham Rapier, Esq., Lilac Cottage, Bustal, near Leeds,
Director of the West Riding Junction, the Leeds and Liverpool
Direct, and other Railways
Solomon Foster, Esq., Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Martin Furniss, Esq., ditto
George Boden, Inner Temple, and St. George's-terrace, Kensington
John Richardson, Esq., Mansfield
Godfrey Tollents, Esq., Newark-on-Trent
Samuel Hurt, Esq., Mansfield
Richard N. Phlllipson, Esq., Rugby
TOP FOLLOWING GENTLEMEN WILL FORM THY COMMITTEE OP
DIRECTION.
Edward Thomas Coke, Esq.
Francis Hall, Esq.
William Tinker, Esq.
Montagu David Scott, Esq.
James Salmond, Esq.
Richard Greenhaigh, Esq.
Henry Kendall, Esq.
E. V. P. Burnell, F,sci,
John Ray, Esq.
John Dodeley, Esq.
LONDON BANlESas—Messrs. Denison, Heywood, Kennards, and Co. ;
Messrs. Jones, Loyd, and Co.
COUNTRY BANKERS.
Manchester—Messrs. Jones, Loyd, and Co.
Liverpool—Messrs. Arthur, Heywood, and Sons
Nantwich—Liverpool and Manchester District Banking Company's
Branch
Newcastle-under-Lyne—Manchester and Liverpool District Banking
Company's Branch
Burslem—Manchester and Liverpool District Banking Company's
Branch
Stafford—Messrs. Stevenson, Salt, and Co.
Uttoxeter—The Burton Union Bank
Cheadle—Manchester and Liverpool District Banking Company's
Branch
Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Co.
Sheffield—The Sheffield and Rotherham Banking Company
Mansfield and Chesterfield—Messrs. Robinson and Broadhurst
Nottingham—Messrs. J. and J. C. Wright, and Messrs. Moore and
Robinson's Banking Company.
ENGINEER—Joseph Gibbs, Esq.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Parsons, Benn, and Parsons, and Messrs. (Land
T. Walkden, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
LOCAL AGENTS.
St. G. George Smith, Esq., Derby
Newcastle-tuider-Lyne
Stafford
Ashboume
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—Messrs. Dorrington, Hayward, Eli-
combe, and Co., 16, Parliament-street

The national object of this undertaking is to create a direct and
united communication between the eastern and western parts of the
kingdom.

On reference to a railway map of England, it will at once be seen
that Stafford and Crewe, on the Grand Junction and Derby, and
Belper, en the Midland Railway, are the centres to which a great
number of lines of railway, either already constructed or projected,
converge ; and between these four points no railway exists.
The West Midland Railway proposes to unite these points in the
following way :—By commencing one of its arms at Crewe station,
on the Grand Junction Railway, which will run through or near
Newcastle-under-Lyne, Bursham, Stoke-ipon-Trent, Lane End, and
Cheadle, to Uttoxeter, where its other arm from Stafford will meet it
and proceed thence, by Ashbourne to a point near the Belper station
on the Midland Railway, where it will take advantage of the pro-
posed Derby and Gainsborough, Nottingham and Mansfield, and
Boston, Newark, and Sheffield Railways ; thus opening a direct com-
munication between Holyhead and other:parts of North Wales,
Cheshire, Staffordshire, and Shropshire,:en the one hand, and Sheffield,
Retford, Mansfield, Nottingham, Newark, Norwich, and the ports of
Gaineborough, Grimsby, Boston, Spalding, Lynn and Yarmouth, on
the other. _ _ _

This line will accommodate a very considerable portion of the traffic
proceeding from the west coast of Scotland, Cumberland, and Lanca-
shire, into Lincolnshire and the south-eastern parts of the kingdom,
and by that portion if the line which is proposed to run between
Beiper and Stafford, and the whole of the traffic from the east coast
of Scotland, Northumberland, Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire,
and other populous northern counties passing to the west and south-
west, together with the opulent mineral districts of South Wales, will
be effectually served.
Passing as this line will do, through a densely-populated and ex-
tensive manufacturing district, it must be viewed, even in its local
character, as one of vast importance. The mere enumeration of the
towns affected by it would suffice to show that the traffic over it
will be immense ; but, in addition to this, when credit is taken for the
thorough traffic passing diagonally over the line from south-east
north-west, and from north-east to south-west, as wellthe
se
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to the
corn and other agricultural produce from the eastern o
manufacturing districts ; and a return carriage of manufacturedcuithen,,a,re
goods, slates from North Wales, salt front Cheshire, ear
the midland counties as well as for exportike some adequate idea may
from Staffordshire, and iron from Shropshire, foinr tthheocoenassutemrnptipo=
of Hull, Grimsby, Boston, Spalding, •
All these ob'o ts
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The Committee in the allotment of shares will give a preference to
parties locally interested, and in all cases satisfactory reference will
carry out
Surveys aonfd t
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Ire required to some person of known respectability,
Power will be taken in the act to allow interest, at the rate of 41,
per cent. per annum, on the deposits, as well as on all fifture calls,
from the date of each payment, till the opening of the whole line, or
until a dividend be declared ; and the liability of subscribers will be limited by the Act of Parliament to the amount of their respective
shares.
The shares and all payments made thereon will be forfeited with-
out notice, should the holders thereof not sign the Subscribers' Agree-
ment and Parliamentary Contract as soon as required.
Applications for shares in the fonn annexed may be made to the So-
licitors, or the undermentioned Sharebrokers :
J. S. Yeatea, Esq., Bank Chambers, London
Roger Mortimer, Esq Throgmorton-street, ditto
J. W. Scott, Esq., Bartholomew-lane, ditto
Messrs. Bradley, Ford, and Parker, Manchester
John Duncuft, Esq., ditto
Messrs. S. It. Healey, Liverpool
Thomas, Forsyth, Esq., ditto
Messrs. Eyre and Shaw, Derby
Messrs. Flint and Tootal, Hull

Messrs. Brady and Staniforth, Hun

James Thompson, Esq., ditto,

Francis Wakefield, Esq., Nottingham,
J. R. Lane, Esq., Birmingham.
Messrs. Edwards and Son, Bristol.

WiMane Lee, Esq., Cheltenham

Robert Allan, Esii:, Edinburgh.

Messrs. Mein and Cunningham, Glasgow.
Messrs. M'Ewen and Auld, ditto.
Henry Carr, Mansfield

Charles Spencer, Nottingham

FORM OF APPLICATION.

To the Committee of Direction of the West Midland Railway
Company.

Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
Gentlemen—l request you will allot me Shares of 25/.
each in this Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the same, to
pay the deposit thereon. or on any less number that may be allotted
to me, and to execute the Parliamentary contract and subscribers'
agreement in respect thereof when thereunto required.
Dated this day of 1845.
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