The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-22 00:00:00

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. Gainsborough
William Lister Sharp, Esq. Gainsborongh, director of the 1.)( rby and
Great Grimsby, and of the Cambridge and Lincoln Extension
Railway.

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Chains 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, jun., Esq.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—CharIes 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.
SOLICITORS-TMessrs..Lacy and Bridges, 19, King's Arms-yard, Cole.

man-street ; Abraham Bass, Esq.Bt;rtor;-upo-n-Trent.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—MUM. Dyson, Hall, Parkes, and Coates,
Parliament-street.
SECRETARY—WiIIiam Ranyard, Esq.

The first object of this line is to connect the town of Birmingham,
Coventry, and Leicester, with the eastern coast by the nearest route,
and to supply an important link of communication between the town
of Spalding and the eastern coast with the Western and Midland
districts.

Commencing at the Spalding station of the Norwich, Dereluun,
Lynn, and Holbeach Railways, the line will proceed by Bourn,
Witham, Castle Bythtun, South NVytham, and Wymondham, to a
point on the Syston and Peterborough line of railway near Melton-
Mowbray, thus forming, by the Syston and Peterborough and Mid-
land Counties Railway, an almost direct route to Leicester, and
thence to Coventry and Birmingham by the proposed Coventry,
Nuneaton, Leicester, and Birmingham Railway.
The projected line will form the most direct communication he-
tireen the eastern and midland districts of the kingdom, and will, by
means of the proposed lines across the county of Leicester, via Bur-
ton-upon-Trent, to Stafford, bring the markets of Lincoln, Norfolk,
Shropshire, and North Wales, nearer to each other by many miles
than any other line of railway.
It will form, with other projected railways, an almost direct line
across the kingdom, from Yarmouth, via Norwich, on the east, to
Aberystwith, via Newton and Shrewsbury, on the west.
The entire length will not exceed thirty miles. There is no tunnel-
ling, cutting, or embanking of any importance necessary; the line
from Bourn to Spalding, a distance of about twelve miles, is very
level, and may be constructed at a small cost.
It will secure the advantages of railway communication to a tract
of country at present destitute of this accommodation, besides open-
ing out sources of trade undeveloped for want of the means of transit.
The central midland districts have felt greatly: the want of direct
communication with the coast; and this line will at once supply the
deficiency to the greater part of Staffordshire and Leicestershire.
It will afford a transit for the Staffordshire, Derbyshire, and Lei-
cestershire coal into districts heretofore entirely dependent upon
supply from the north at high prices: it will also secure the advan-
tages of an unlimited supply of lime from the Leicestershire works,
to the agricultural districts of Lincoln, which are at present only
supplied at very hi4ll rates ; and, in return traffic, the midland dis-
tricts will obtain the advantage of a direct transit for the stock and
agricultural produce of Lincolnshire and Norfolk.

Several proposed lines of railway converge at Spalding, which is
the nearest point on the eastern coast for the midland counties, and
connected by the River Welland with the German Ocean.
The proposed capital will be sufficient for the construction of the
necessary works and every subsequent expense ; and the income
derivable from the traffic in passengers between Birmingham, Co-
ventry, Leicester, Derby, Melton, Spalding, and Boston, the trans-
port of corn, cattle, and other produce of the great agricultural
districts through which the line passes to the principal consuming
districts, and of coals, lime, and staple commodities for the inland
districts, will be sufficiently ample to warrant the outlay.
The Parliamentary surveys have been commenced, and are now
in active progress, and contracts have been entered into which en-
sure sufficient time for compliance with the standing orders.
Forms of application for shares, plans, and prospectuses may be
had of the Solicitors ; also at the offices of the Company, 4, Tra-
falgar-square, Charing-cross, where applications for shares, accom-
panied by respectable references, may be addressed to the Provi-
sional Committee.