The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-08 00:00:00

ISLE OF ELY, WISBECH, AND LINCOLN-
SHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 200,0001., in 8,000 shareS of 251. each.
Deposit 21. lbs, per share.
PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS.
William Bradley, Esq.. (Chairman), Director of the Sheffield and
Manchester, Huddersfield and Sheffield, and Direct Western
Railway Companies, Manor Oaks, Sheffield
W. P. Christie, Esq., M.P., Deputy Chairman of the Shrewsbury,
Hereford, and North Wales Railway Company, Iceleston-street,
Belgrave-square, London
D. R. Roes Req., M.P., Great Ryder-street, St. James's, London
Wm. Pinney, Esq., late M.P. for Lyme Regis, 30, Berkeley-square,
London
T. Charles Harrison, Esq., 1.R.5., York-terrace, Regent's-park
H. S. Bright, Esq. (firm of Taylor, Clifford, and Bright), Director of
the Direct Western Railway Company, Hull
William Breynton, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Tamworth
Railway Company, Montpelier House, Cheltenham, and Sergeants'
Inn, London
C. Appleby, Esq., Director of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway
Company, Sheffield
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Director of the Direct Western Railway Com-
pany, Westbounae House, Sheffield
John Holford, Esq., Rusholme Hall, Manchester
William Marriott, Esq., Director of the Direct Western Railway
Cotimany, Attercliffe-terrace, Sheffield
C. R. Bigge, Esq., 19, Bryanstone-square, London
William Thompson, Esq., Director of the Huddersfield and Sheffield
Railway Company, Sheffield
Richard Kelly, Esq., Chairman of the New Ross, Carlow, and Kil-
kenny Railways, 6, Cleveland-row, St. James's, London
John Fawcett, Esq., Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate Rail-
way Company, Sheffield
John Robson, Esq., Director of the Newcastle, Durham, and Lan-
cashire Railway Company, Hetton-le-hole, Durham
Samuel Swan Brittain, Esq., Director of the East and West of Eng-
land, and Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Railway Companies,
Sheffield
Thomas Hedley, Esq., Director of the Lancashire and North York-
shire Railway Company, Newcastle-on-Tyne
Isaac Holmes, Esq., Great George's-square, Liverpool
John Newton Mappin, Esq., Director of the Manchester, Sheffield.
and Midland Railway Company, Sheffield
Captain Page, Director of the Coventry and Leicester, South Staf-
fordshire Junction, Warwick and Cheltenham, and Midland and
Eastern Counties Railway Companies, Charlton House, Somerton
Richard Harris Purcell, Esq., Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and
Southampton Railway Company, Cambridge-street, Hyde-park,
London
John Ward, Esq., Director of Sheffield, Rotherham, and Chesterfield
Fire and Life Insurance Company, Highfield, Sheffield
(With power to add to their number.)
BANKBAS.
Messrs. Spooner, Attwood, and Co., Gracechurch-street, London
National Provincial Bank of England, March, Wisbech, and Long
Sutton

SOLICITORS.
James Coppock, 3, Cleveland-row, St. James's
John Bell, 28, Craven-street, Strand
Thomas Steed Watson, Wisbech _

The Provisional Directors beg to announce that they are proceed-
ing with the allotment, but that in consequence of the great number
of applications for Shares and their determination to pursue the
strictest investigation into the responsibility of the applicants, the
Letters of Allotment will not be issued for a few days.
WILLIAM WILDE, Secretary.
September 6, 1845.

RUGBY, DERBY, AND MANCHESTER
RAILWAY, THROUGH LEEK.
(Provisionally registered, pursuant to 7th and Bth Vic., c. 110.)
Capital, 1,500,000/. in 60,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 11. 7s. 6d. per Share.
In deference to the representations of a deputation from Leek, it
has been decided that the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway
shall pass through Leek, in place of a branch, as originally designed
and advertised.
The Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway is a direct line from
London to Manchester, coming from London to Rugby, along the
London and Birmingham line, and proceeding from Rugby by Hinck-
ley, through Market Bosworth, and Ashby-de-la-Zouch, to Derby,
thence to Ashboume, by Leek, to Macclesfield, and along the Mac-
clesfield and Stockport, and Stockport and Manchester Railways
into Manchester.

A branch to Buxton is in contemplation.
The principle of this railway is to obtain a direct through line be-
tween some of the most important districts in the kingdom with the
least possible amount of new railway, and consequently the smallest
expenditure of capital.
It will also establish the shortest direct communication between
Derby and London, Sheffield and London, and between all the towns
on the North Midland Railway and London.
The Manchester, Derby, and Rugby Railway will open a direct
communication between Manchester and Derby, and will consider-
ably shorten the distance between Manchester and Nottingham and
Manchester and Leicester.

The line from Derby to Rugby will establish the direct communi-
cation from that town to London, which has been so long considered
desirable by the inhabitants.
The same will apply to Sheffield, when the Sheffield and Chester-
field branch of the North Midland Railway is made.
THE GREAT ADVANTAGES

of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway through Leek over
the other projects into Manchester, among others, are—
First, That there are only seventy-five miles of railway to be
made, in place of one hundred and eighty-nine.
Secondly, That it is a more direct line from London to Manchester
than even the proposed direct lines.
Thirdly, That it interferes with no existing railway property or
vested interests.
Fourthly, That it passes through a district rich in manufactures,
agriculture, and minerals, but which—more especially as regards its
agricultural produce, and a convenient system of intercommunication
for the conveyance of that agricultural produce, to supply the large
manufacturing towns in the vicinity—has been hitherto left totally
without railway communication.
Fifthly, That it passes through the towns in its route, in place of
avoiding them.
Sixthly, That the whole line of railway from Rugby to Manchester
will be completed and in working order within ten months from the
passing of the Act of Parliament.
Seventhly, That the maps, plans, estimates, and other documents
required by the standing orders of Parliament, will be lodged with
the Parish Clerks, the Clerks of the Peace for the Counties, and the
Parliamentary offices, on the 10th day of November next, being,
twenty days within the time required by the regulations of Parlia-
ment.
The Report of the Engineer of the Company is already completed,
and will be made public in a few days, upon which a further and full
prospectus, with the names of the Provisional Directors, will be
published.
In the meantime, communications may be addressed to Thomas
George Smith, Esq., 2, Warnford-court, Throgmorton-street; Edward
Ashworth, Esq., Manchester; Messrs. J. B. and D. Neilson, Liver-
pool ; John Fox, Esq., Solicitor, Thomas Jones, Esq., the Company's
Agent, Ashboarne ; E. Kern Jervis, Esq., Solicitor, Hinckley; G.
Greaves, Esq., and John Moss, Esq., Solicitor, Derby ; Messrs.
Crossley and Sudlow, Manchester ; and to the Company's Solicitor,
Thomas Gibson Brewer, Esq., 13, Gray's-inn-square.
WILLIAM R. SCOTT, Scretary.