The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-13 00:00:00

PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.
GREAT LEEDS A\D LONDON. DIRECT
RAILWAY.
By a Junction with the Eastern Counties Railway at Bedford.
Distance, 120 miles.
Capital, 2,500.000/., in 100,000 Shares of 25/. each.
Deposit 21. 12s. 60. per Share.
t to the Standing Orders of the House of Commons.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne
The Lord Stephen Chicl'ester, Ormeau, Belfast, and Army and Navy
Club, London
Sir Robert Alexander, Bart., Charles-street, Manchester-square
Ilk- WW' Twisden, Bart., Dorset-street, Portman-square, Director
Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction, and
Erewash Valley Extension Railways
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Parthenon Club, Director of the
Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and GlOucester Junction, and of the
-*loath and Midland Junction, and West 311dlauds Railways
Sir John Osi!orn, Bart., Earl's-court, Brompton
Sir John Key, Bart., Director of the Manchester and London, and of
the Direct Liverpool and Leeds Railway . •
Captain Frederick Polhill, M.P. for Bedford.a.l44,'
Major-General Sir Robert Barton, Filealif-Direbtor of the York and
Lancaster Railway • •
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Major-General 'l'.:44•Millrllkerr. •Olo#Oester-place,Portnian-
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East and o.o.".4l4;:,'ElverpootaiaPteedi'Direetritild
Carlisle Railways
Thomas Alexander, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian, and
Treat Valley Ceatinuation Railways
Franc's Simee Alliott, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Amber-
gate, Nottingham, and Ikaton, and Eastern Junction, and one of
the Provisional Committee of the Nottingham and Gainsborongh
Railway Companies
Henry Ambler, Esq., worsted spinner and manufacturer, Watkinson-
hall, near Halifax, Director of the West Yorkshire Railway, and
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
C. 11. AndersontEsq., Upper Clapton, Director of the South Midland
Hallway
George Ashlin, Esq., Director of the Liverpool and Newcastle-upon-
Tyne Railway
Richard Armitage, Esq., Huddersfield and Great Grimsby, Director
ottlio Manchester and Great Grimsby, and Keighley, Halifax and
Huddersfield Junction Railways
The Rev. Miles Edward Armstrong, M.A.., Memsworth
John Alexander Esq., Brandon-cottage, Bristol, Director of
--the-Oxford and Worcester Extension Railway
'Chitties Dam-ford, jun., Esq., Director of the Hull and Barnsley, and
Leeds and Carlisle Railways
William Bardgett, Esq., Winchester-house, Broad-street, Director of
the Italian and Austrian, and the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford
Railways
William Banks, Esq, Honey-lane-market, Director of the Manches-
ter and Rugby Direct Railway, via Macclesfield
John Byng Banks, Esq., Stockwell, Surrey
Williarh Fechney Black, Esq, Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Direc-
tor of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midland Junction
Railways
Henry Ifeech.Burgess, Eng.' Temple's-park, Hampstead, Director of
the Goole, Doncaster, anal Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Great
Grimsby
Charles Salisbury Butler, Esq.,the Lodge, Upper Clapton
Josiah Burrowes, Esq., Castle-house, Gomersall, near Leeds
Thomas Burnley, Esq., Gomersall, near Leeds, Director of the Leeds
and:West Riding Junction Railway, and of the Liverpool and Leeds

Direct Railway-
Samuel Bateman, Esq., Croft-house, near Bradford, Director of the

Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Selby

Railway
Dr. Brigstock, Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester
Railway
Joseph Browne, Esq., Bedford
James Brand, Esq., 9, New Broad-street, Director of the Cambridge
and Lincoln, and Great Luxemburg Railway
John Blore, Esq., Tittbury, Director of the Tean and Dove Valley,
the Derby and Gainsboreugh, the Shropshire Mineral Railways, &c.
Job Buiivant, Esq., East Bettor('
William Butt, Esq.. Sandiacre, Derbyshire
Robert Burton, Esq., merchant, Woodville, Notts
James Butlin, Esq., banker, West. Field-house, Rugby, Director of
the Rugby and Huntingdon, and one of the Provisional Committee
of the Oxford and Birmingham Junction Railway Companies
Richard Biddle, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Richard Rirkin, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
John Fillingham Bishop, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Thomas Butt, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Richard Bradley, Esq., Grantham, Director of the Amber-gate, Not-
tingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Chairman of the Direct
Western, and Isle of Ely and Lincolnshire Junction Railways
John Fowler Burbidge, Esq., Mayor of Grantham, Director of the
Amber-gate, Nottingham, cud Boston, and Eastern Junction

Railway
Jonathan Burton, Esq., merchant, Carrington, Nottinghamshire
Director of the Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway
William Baldwin Carrick, csq., magistrate, Hull, Director of the
Thatby, Warwick, and Leamington, and of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railways
Thomas Challis, EM., Alderman of London
John Carter, Esq., Knottiry;lcy
Thomas Carter, Esq., Tanshelf, Magistrate for the Borough of Pou-

tefract -
Charles'Cliarneek, Esq., ilelmfield-housc,.near Ferrybritige
Millis Coventry, Esq., Director, of the South and Midland Junction

and Birmingham Extension Railways
B. Clements, Esq., Lowndes-square, Director of the Western Ja.

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maica Railway
Robert Cool:, Esq., Gainsboronah, Director of the Manchester, Mid•
land, and Great Grimsby-, Gainsborough, Goole, and Isle of Ax.
holme, and the Wi.;beach, Lae of Ely, and Lincolnshire Junctior.
Raiways
J. Cottam, Esti., East Rrtford
John cotts, Esq., Little liardlield-hall, near Braintree, Essex
James Clift, Esq., Director of the Paris and Strasburg, Southampton,
Manchester, and Oxford, and the Manchester, Rugby, and Mac-

elesfield Railways
W. S. •Cross, Esq., Director of the London and Birmingham
• Emtension
Hen-y Sherrard Colemen, Esq., Crown-court, Old Broad-street
John Cann t, 1,70 t Cloth=
Thomas Mari: Carter, E;,q., Woodgreaves-house, near Wakefield, Di-
rector of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Direct

Railway
Ccorge Augusta.; Hamilton Chichester, Esq., Oaktleld, Donegal, and
15, Chesham-place, Belgrave-square, Director of the Grand Wales
Central, and London and Exeter Direct Railways
William Champ!.on, Esq., Worksop
Wilii nt ChMliatm, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Nathan Cooper, Esq., Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Francis Dacre,Esq., Stratford, Ess,x
George Dennis, Esq., Director of the Rhondda and Ely Valleys Jtuic-

tion Railway
Jo3eVa 71)eat, Esq., Ribston-hall, Wetherby, Mag:strate for the
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luri,i-west Ilklin; of Yorkshire
d. A. Davenport, Esq., Direcicr of the Oxford and Worcester Exten-
sion, and Worcester Junction Railways
Joseph L. Davvnport, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby,

1111.4 Manchester Railway
John Allcock Dixon, Erl., Burnley, Lancashire, Director of the Li-
verpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Richard Dranstiell, Esi., Dalton, Iluddersfleld, Director of the
Rugby, ra thy, end Manchester, of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct,

and of tha Krighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railways
Edward-Doubleday, Esq., 'EL.'S., . Director of the Itug,by, Warwick,
and Worces'er Railway
Matthew Dawson, Esq., Pontefract
tL Iliam Dawson, Esq., IWakefleld, Director of the Peterborough,
Wisheach, Lynn, and Boston, and the Sheffield, Wortley, Silk-

sttme, and Wakefield Railways
John Campbell Dicker, Esq., New-hall, by _Heston, Director of the
Birkenheai and Holyhead, and the Birmingham, Oxford, and
Reading itailways
Henry Dunn, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Manchester, Hudders-
field, and Great Grimsby Railway
Francis Ewart, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey-
mouth Railway
John Elliott, Esq., Townhqad-house, Rochdale
Lieut.-Col. Fitch, 36, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Managing Direc-
tor of the .York and Lancaster Railway
Erasmus F., rster, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Ex-

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tension Ita'lway
Solomon Foster, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Nottingham, Mans-
field, and Midland Jrnetion-Railway
Ma:-tin Furniss, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Erewash and Shef-

field Railway -
John Griffiths Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Chairman of the London-
derry 'and Collraine, and Leeds lull Carlisle Railways
William Fisher, Esq., Amcotts-house, near East Retford
James Fothergill, Esq.. merchant, Nottingham
Richard W.Fitzpatriek, Esq., barrister-at-law,Gloacester-road, Hyde-
park-gardens
George Green, Esq., Pontefract
James Gilbertson, Esq , Alderman, and Magistrate for Hertford
William Gibson, Esq., Glasgo7r
H. P. Gips s, Esq.. Director of the Coventry and Nuneaton Railway
Cludga Goldsmith, Esq., Friday-street, Cheapside
WrilliTin Gordon, Esq , M.D., F.L.S., Director of the Liverpool and

Leeds Dirac
Henry Swan Craves, Esq., Ely hank-lodge, Halifax
John Gully, Esq., Ackwarth-park, Ackworth
G i bb.;, Em.,Camberwol, Director of the South 3fetropolltan

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William Gill, Esq., Richmond, Yorkshire, Director of the Leeds and
Carlisle, and '.!:ortiminberland aul Lancashire Railways
John Godher, Hucknall Torkard, Nottingh •inshire. Director of
the Amber-gate. Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction,
an.l N,t..:nahant and Gairst,oreugh Railway Companies
Thomas .7ohn Green, Es 4., Mayor of Bedford
Richard Hall, Esq., Camarvon-hall, Stratford, Director of the Strat-
ford anti Thames Junction, and North Woolwich Railways
R. F. Hall, Esq., Wiseton, near Bawtry
S.. C. Hall, Esq., P.S.A., Inner Temple, Director of the Erewash
Valley. Extansion and West Midland Railways
W. H. Halpin, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing-
stoke, and Sheffield and Macclesfield Railways
Robert Hull, Esq., M.D., Norwich
Samuel Hammond, Esq., Leeds
John George Hammack, Esq., Director of the Direct Western, and
the Metropolitan Junction ltnilway3
William Hepworth, Esq., Pontefract, a Deputy-Lieutenant and J.P.
for the West Riding or Yorkshire
John Illason Hepworth, Esq., Eden-place, Ackworth, J.P. for the
West Riding of Yorkshire
Joshua Hepworth, Esq., Rogerraorpe-hall, Badsworth
Thomas Heel's. Eeq., Skipton Castle, Skipton, Director of the Lanca-
shire and 'North York.bbire, Lancashire and 'Yorkshire North
Eastern, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways
John Holmes, Esq., Fast Iletf.;rd
Robert -1-nrries, Esc.., East-street, Leeds, Director of the Liverpool

and Leeds Dire'".,•, Railway
Charles I-lolbrooke, pg. Derby, Director of the Rugby, Darby, and

Manchester
John Howard, Esq., Royal Foundry, Bedford
Thomas Haigh, Esq., Wakefield, late High Constable of Wakefield
John Hardy, jun., Esq., hanker, Grantham, Director of the Amber.
gate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
John Harris, Esq., Springfield-house, near Bedford
CharleS Higgins, sen., Esq., St. Cuthbert's, Bedford
Geerge Higgins, Esq., Bedford
The Rev. Charles Walter Hudson, 'Rectory, Saundby, near Gains-
borough
George Hurst, Esq., Bedford
John Iliidte, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and Dl.-

rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway
Wm. Emp:,on Jalland, Erq., liolderneis House, near Hull, Director
of the York and Hull Railway
Bo well Middleton Jallrafd, Esq., Helderness-house, near Hull; Magis-
trate for the East Riding of York and Borough of Hull, and Di-
rector of the Liverpool and Lees, and Hull and Barnsley Railways
John Jameson, Esq.,Honey lane-market
Whitson Jameson, Esq., Shelton, Staffordshire, Director of the
Staffordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct
Railways
Wm. Jones Johnson, Esq., Bedford
Joseph Jones, Esq., Mayer of Hull, and Director of the Liverpool and
Leeds D:rect Railway
Thomas Reginald yomp, Esq., Director of the Blythe and Churnet
Valleys, or 3lacclesfield and Lichfield Railways
Jeremiah Kaye, Esq., Huddersfield and Great Grimsby, Director
of the Manchester and Great.Grimsby, and Keighley, Halifax, and
Hudd ersfiela Junction Railways
George K'ppax, Esq.. Ordsall-villa, near East Retford
Mr. Samuel Kni;;ht, Pontefract
George Lawton, Esq., Ditchley's, Essex, Director of the Chepstow,
forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway
11. C. Leahy, Esd, St. James's-square
Moses Edward Legg, Esq., Watling-street, London
Captain Henry Leech, Bedford
Charles Denton Leech, Esq., Bury St. Edmunds
William Ley, Esq.;4o, Gloucester-place, Pcrtman-square, Director of
the Reading and Reigate Railway
L. Stephens Dyne, Eaq., Broad-street, Director of the Western
Jamaica Railway
P. Bennett Lucas. Esq., Director of the Sligo ant Shannon, the Ips-
wich and SCrathampton, and the Cork Passage and Kinsale
Railway •
James Lamb, Esq., 25, Hyde-park-square, Director of the Scottish
Western, and the Direct Western Railways
John Lart, Esq., Wood-street, Cheapside
James Deeming, Esq., Bradford, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct, and Keighley, Halifax and Huddersfield Junction Railway
Samuel Lovell. Esq., merchant, Bedford
Captain J. P. Macdougall, fir-grove, North Brixton, Director of the
Leeds, Fleetwood, and Liverpool, and Isle of Man Railways
John B. Mann, Esq., Leeds
Thomas Hackett Massey, Esq., Newark-upon-Trent, End redrord-
- square, Hyde-park
Thomas St'Turk, Esq., Hull
William Mee, Esq., East Retford
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be Me sham, Ezoaq., 51. D., Bedford
rt Mellingten
Esq., (WWI-house near East Retford, Director
of the Leads and Carlisle Railway
Extension Mocrhouse Esq. Mariue-villa, Knottingley, a Provisional
Director of the Sheffield' 13
Dire'ettrosleY' and Wakefield Railway
Peter Morrison, F}3q., rSouth and Midlands Juuctlon, and
London and Isinninehara Rallways
James Mnseroft, Esq., Pontefract,Magistrate for the Borough, a Pro-
visional Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension and
Chester Junction Railway
George Mackintosh, Esq., Upper Seymour-street Pt. or man-square.
John Manwaring, Esq.. rateley-bridge,
Toe& and Lancaster Railway Yorkshire, Director of the
Ord Massey, Rag., Hawkes-house, Burnley, Director of the Liv
arpal
and Leeds Direct, the Blackburn, Chorley, and Liverpool, and
Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railways
Thomas Micklethwaite, Esq., Wakefield
Charles Middleton, Esq., Nottingham-park
Joseph Nadin, Esq., Manchester, Director a" the Mancic ster and
Southampton, and the Leeds and Carlisle Railways
William Joseph Nash, Eaq., Bedford
John Norton, Zsq., St. George's-sqaare, Westminiter, and Moat-
house, Brentwood, Director of the Great Western Direct Rail-
way, &C.
Robert Newland, Esq., Kemp Son-house, Bedfordshire