The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-01 00:00:00

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Tha Hon. Captain William Gore, Director of the Great Western of

Bengal Railway.
William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P., ChainPa Of the Welsh Mid-
land Railway
Richard Price, Esq., M.P., Director of the Web& Midland Rallwa?
David R. Ross, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Belfast, and Director of
London and Manchester Railway
.James Duke, 31. P. Alderman of London,Director of th• Chel-
tenham-and Oxford Railway
Sir Robert Wolesley, But, Cheltenham
Sir John E. de IteauVol2. Mtn., Chairman of the London and Bir-
mingham Extension
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire
Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Ilerts, Director of the
Chester and Manchester Direct Railway
Sir 'William Hyde Pearson, Hanover-square
Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London, Director of the London
and Manchester Direct Railway
Sir William Wynn, Maesynewadd, Chairman of the North Wales
Railway-
Sir John Hare, Bart., Latigham-place, Director of the London and
Birmingham Extension
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, Bart., Director of the Direst
Western Railway

Admiral J. Ayscough, Prospect-place Flota,e, Southampton
Edmund Francis Day-rell, Esq., Liliingstone, Dayreil, Bucks, High
Sheriff of the County, and Director of the Bucks and Oxford and
Wolverton Junction Railway
Thomas Sidney, Esq., Alderman and Sheriff of London, Director of
the London and Manchester Direct Railway
Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the Lon-
don and Westminster Bank,:and Namur and Liege Railway
John Kinnersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of
the Manchester and London Direct Railway
The Mayor of Buckingham
Donald Maclean, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Trent Valley Con-
tinuation
Major Oliver Lindam, K.H.. Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberyst-
with and Central Wales Railway
Richard Hartley Kennedy, Esq., Chairman of the Coventry and
Leicester and Warwick and Cheltenham Railways
Archibald Spens, Esq., Manor House, Invereske, Director of the
Warwick and Cheltenham Junction Railway, and of the Great
Western of Bengal
James Braucher, Esq., Chairman of the Liverpool and Bury and
Manchester and Bolton Railways
Major Morse Cooper, Director of the Great Western of Bengal Railway
Captain James Patrick M`Doug,hall, late Bengal Royal General Staff,
Fir-grove, North Brixton, Director of the Chester and Forest of
Dean, &c., Railway
Stephen Lewis, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the Waverney Valley and Great
Yarmouth Railway
George Lawton, Esq„ Ditchley, Essex, Director of the Manchester
and Birkenhead Contivation, and South Midlands Railway
William James Bailey, Esq., Shenley HOUsts, Bucks, Director of the
Bucks Railway
Joseph Brown, Esq., Director of the MancheatliT NW Birmingham
Continuation
Peter Morrison, Esq., Managing Director of the Britannia Life Insu-
rance Company
Richard Heaviside, Esq., Director of the Great Luxemburg Railway
Joseph Gill, Esq., Chapel Town, Leeds, Director of the Lincoln,
York, and Leeds Railway
James Clay, Esq., Brompton, Director of the Furness and White-
haven Railway
Joseph Thompson, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton
Railway
William Fechney Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Direc-
tor of the Italian and Austrian Railway
William Cole, Esq., Bicester, Oxon, Director of the Wilts and Berks
Canal
William Shaw, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment, and Ma-
nagin 4 Director of the Farmers' Life Insurance Company
Richard Carpenter, Esq., Magistrate of the county of Middlesex, De-
puty Chairman of the London and Birmingham Extension, and
Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
John Stewart, Esq., Portman-square, Director of the Fast Indian
Railway
Colonel Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, Director of the London and
Birmingham Extension
Major Grubbe, Eastwell House, Potterne, Wilts, Magistrate of the
county
Edmund Phillips, Esq., Avon House, Mclksham, Wilts
Captain Edward Dewes, Buckingham, Director of the Bucks and Ox-
ford and Wolverton Junction Railway
Charles Thomas Ward, Esq., Luton Hoo, Beds, and Clopton House,
Stratford-on-Avon
Vero Clarke Kemball, Esq., Chester-place, Hyde Park-gardens
John Helbert Helbert, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square
Edward Deakins, Esq., Bicester, Director of the Wilts and Berks
Canal
Frederick James Hall, Esq., Torrington-square, and _Ufreton, Derby,
Director of the Trent Valley Continuation
Major Waller, K.H., Director of the London and Manchester Direct
Railway
Captain Seth N. Fisher, Director of the Warwick and Worcester
Railway
Joseph Cra ckett, Esq., Alderman of Devizes, and Director of the
North Wilts Banking Company
Colonel Fitch, York-terrace, Regent's Park
Joseph Underwood, Esq., the Hall, Blackheath, Director of the Me-
tropolitan Life Insurance Company, and Director of the London
and Birmingham Extension Company
W. A. Hill, Esq., Director of the Caoucester and Aberystwith and
Central Wales Railway
Robert Marriott Freeman, Esq., Stoney Stratford, Bucks, Director
of the Bucks Railway
William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Chairman
of the Chugs % of England Life Ins trance Company
Richard Duffels, Esq., Director of -the Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Railway, Slid Director of the Legal and Commercial Life Insurance
Company
Captain C. W. Tyndale, Director of the South-Easter► Railway
Frederick Jones, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Director of the Warwick and
Worcester Railway
Colonel Olivier, the Manor House, Potterne, Wilts, Magistrate of the
County, and Director of the "Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth
Railway
William Turner, Esq., Shipton-on-Churwell, Oxon
T. C. Norbury, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
James Reeves, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Direct
Railway
Thomas Gooch, Esq., Director of the Fidelity Guarantee Society
Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continua-
tion Railway, and of the Legal and Commercial Life Insurance

Company
John Anderson, Esq., E.I.C.S. Dinctor of the Church of England

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Life Insurance
The Rev. Henry John Passand, rector of Shepton, rector of Charwell
W. P. Courtenay, Esq., Temple, Director of the Legal and Commercial
Life Insurance Company
John James, Esq., Secondary of the City of London, and Director of
the Legal and Commercial Insurance Company
William S. Potter, Esq., Sussex Gardens, Hyde Park, Director of the
Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham Railway
William Hallett, Esq., Kemp Town, Brighten
William Singleton, Esq., Chapel Town, Leeds, Director of the Lin-
coln, York, and Leeds Railway
Robert Richards, Esq., Inner Temple, London
George Robert Colman, Esq , Director of the South Midland, and
Northampton and Banbury Railways
John Brocke Walbanke. Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
Henry Wright, Esq., Brunswick-square, Director of the Warwick
and Worcester Railway
John Fagan, Esq., Gloucester-road, Old Brompten
William Bardgett, Esq., Winchester House, Broad-street, Director of

the Italian and Austrian Railway
Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of the Britannia Life Insurance
Company, and Derby and Stafford Railway
William Paxton, Esq., Langford, near Bicester

BANKERS.
London—The Connnercial Bank, Lothbury
Bicester —Messrs. 'nbb and Co.
Woodstock—Messrs. Gillett and Tawney
Witney—The London and County Bank

CONSULTING ENGINEERS.
Sir John Macneill, LL.D. and F.R.S.
James Thomson, Esq.. F.R.S.E. and M.R.I.A.
ACTING ENGINEER.—WiIIiam Mullingar Higgins, Esq.
SOLICITOR.—W. B. James, Esq., 5, Basinghall-street, London.
LOCAL AGENTS.—Devizes, J. W. Wall, Esq. ; Bicester, W. C. TUX-
ner, Esq. ; Woodstock, Benjamin Holloway, Esq.; Salisbury,
Messrs. Foot and Radcliffe.
Originating at Bicester, by a junction with the Oxford and Cam-
bridge line through Wolverton, in connexion with the Eastern Coun-
ties, the South and Midlands Jransetion will afford facility of inter-
eoiarse with the metropalis in one direction, with Stafford, the Pot-
teries, Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester in the other; near
Woodstock, close to which the projected line will pass, the Oxford
i and Ragby and Oxford and Woroester Railways cross, presenting
opportunities of entering the two great railway arteries of the king-
Ziom—the Great Western and the London and Birmingham, the for-
mer at Duckett, the latter at R vgby.
Proceeding to the manufacta, wing town of Witney, a line is crossed
communicating with the Strouf.!.water district of manufactures by the
Oxford and Cheltenham Railwr ty, thence the projected line trends di-
rectly .8,137., leaving Banipton t o the east, until it reaches Lechlade,
a town seated at the efflux of the Thames and Severn navigation
with the River Thames, and wb 'ere a considerable entrepot for mer-
chandise is established.
Keeping within easy distances at Farringdoa, Cricklade, and High-
worth, it reaches Swindon, a r apidly improving vicinity. At this
I,rincipal station, where the bro of gauge Is crossed, the Gloucester
and Cheltenham line falls Into lb I Great Western.
The intersectional the South an el Midland Junction with the Great
Western at Swindon opens a RIGS': extensive and valuable communi-
cation with London eastwatd; 11 Alto], Bath, Gloucester, Chelten-
ham, Stroud, westward ; and, 14 • the Gloucester and Aberystwith
projected liDe, with the whole of 21 orth and South Wales.
Railway.
Applications I:'r prospectuses, plans, and forms of application for
shams may be se,:te at the dries of W. B. James, Esq., solicitor,
.5, Ba.ingball-street ; also of Aerie! ' Smith, Esq., solicitor, Backing-
hart ; and of the Tolleww.g ger Alcreten :
London—Messrs. J. Pepper:, rue And Co., 9, Old Broad-street ; Mr.
W. B. Harrison, 8, Bank-eh anirs Mr. Thos. Hanbury, 4, Angel-
court.

Liverpool—Messrs. Mile and ( 10., and Messrs. Neilson.
Manchester—Messrs. floughlai Id and Leese, and Mr. Wm. Marshall
Null--Messrs. Collinson and Ft lot
Leeds—Messrs. Watson and Co. •
Stratford-on-Avon—Mr. 'Milieu 21 1301 ton
Exeter—Mr. Thomas Sanford
Plymouth —Messrs. Heyward a •ut Palmer
Birminzham-31r. Collis, and 34 r. John Wright.
Glugow—Messrs. Tassio and G. ).
Zlitiburgh—Messrs. Robertson a t 2 .!C Co., and 3lessril.McCullutn and Co.
FORM OF APPLIC h 1 TION FOR BIAItES.
To be Provisional Commit-0o r•-,' the South and Midlands Junction
Etal way.
Gentleaten.—l request that you will allot to au. Shares of 201.
each in this Company, and I t Lucia-take to accept the same, and to
pay the deposit thereon, or up Du any less number that may be allotted
to ale; and I undertake alas I -a execute the Parliamentary contract
and Sublierkberit agreeaaent w. ben required.
Name in full .... . • •
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Trade or profession
Mare: la of Referee .. • ••••

Date

A DIFFERENT SUBJECT EACH SEASON.
SECOND WEEK OF THE COMET.

The Brilliancy of the Pyrotechnic Finale exceeds all imagination!
The Day-light View of the Colossal Pictorial Representation, suggested
By HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT,
Is hailed with Universal Approbation.
ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
ON MONDAYS, TUESDAYS. WEDNESDAYS, and THURSDAYS,
Will be presented a Magnificeat
MODELLE 1) REPRESENTATION OF EDINBURGH,
The Cri,te of Scotland and of Scotchmen.
The Ilne, walled Menagerie—Giraffe and Chimpanzee.

TFIE 31-AGNIFICEN I` MODEL OF VENICE,
Sh,Wilig {with the greatest accuracy every portion of that far-famed
City; this wonderful Work of Art occupied seven years in
completion, and cost 2,0001.
THE PROMENADE CONCERTS,
Ev I he um ri walled itaihrof the Establishment, conducted by Mr. Godfrey.

t t Dusk will take place the most extraordinary
L\DII It IT lON OF FIREWORKS EVER ATTEMPTED,

Introkin.ilig a Representation of the COMET, which takes its Arial
Flight from the extreme height of the Gigantic Model;
And, as a Finale, u Grand, Royal, and Patriotic
AQUATIC TABLEAU,
Fifty-two feet in height. will be exhibited in the Centre of the Lake ;
The PORTRAITS of HER MAJESTY and PRINCE ALBERT,
Surmounted by Fame, and surrounded by Emblems and
Other Devices will be introduced.

This, combined with the Feux D'irtilice, the Salute and Discharge of
Rockets from the Castle and surrounding Heights will form the most
BRILLIANT PYROTECHNIC DISPLAY EVER WITNESSED.
The Tableau designed and executed by Mr. Danson.
Pyrotechnist, Mr. Southby.
Admission, One Shilling.
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Feeding the Caraivora at Half-past Four ;Pelicans, &c., at Five ;
Concert at Half-past Five ; and Pyrolechnic Display at Half-
p ast Eight.

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