The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-23 00:00:00

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Wynn Ellis, Esq. M.P. for Leicester, director of the Brandon and
Spalding Railway
William Corbet Smith, Esq. Bittleswell-hall, High Sheriff of Leices-
tershire
The Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P. Chairman of the Northampton, Ban-
bury, and Cheltenham Railway
The Hon. Major C. Napier, Rugby, director of the Peterborough sad
Nottingham Railway
General Johnson, M.P.
Wiliam Collins, Esq. M.P.
Ralph Etwall, Esq. M.P.
Thomas Wakefield, Esq. Nottingham, director of the Brandon and
Spalding Railway
Matthew Gisborne, Esq. Walton-hall, Derbyshire
Joseph Ellis, Esq. Glenfield-lodge, Leicester
Sir Richard J nkims, G.C.B. director of the East India Company
Sir Edwin Pearson, F.R.S. Gloucester-terrace, Regent's-park
Ambrose Moore, Esq. Milk-street, Cheapside
Josiah Wilson, Esq. Stamford-hill
George Meek, Esq. Russell-square
John Clement Ruding, Esq. director of the National Bank of Ireland
Francis Valentine Lee, Esq. director of the Eastern Counties Railway
Richard Heaviside, Esq. Brighton
William Ettwall, Esq. Longstock-down, near Stockbridge, director
of the Southampton and Manchester Railway
William Shadbolt, Esq. chairman of the Greenwich Railway Com-

pa ny
T. E. Bigge, Esq. Bryanstone-square
Captain Gustavus Evans, R.N. Headley-grove, Surrey, director of the
Nottingham, Birmingham, and Coventry Railway
Valentine Knight, Esq. Cornwall-terrace, Regent's-park
Samuel Kempson, Esq. Little Sutton, Sutton Coldfleld, Warwick-
shire

Frederick Pearson, 'Esq. Piccadilly
Fraser B. Henshaw, Esq. Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square,
director of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Manchester
Railway
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq. Woodberry Down, Stoke Newington, director
of the Erewash Vallee Railway
Herbert Ingram; Esq. Swinshead-abbey, Lincolnshire
John Tathan Banks, Esq. warden and magis-
trate of Louth, Lincolnshire
William Gresham, Esq. Aderman of Lin- Provisional Directors
coln
of the Great Grime-
Samuel Trought, Esq. Louth, Lincolnshire
William Ward, Esq. M.D. Horncastle by, Louth, and Lin-
Edwin Cadman, Esq. Westbourne-house, coin Railway.
Sheffield, director of the Isle of Ely, Wis-
beach, and Lincoln Railway
The Rev. J. B. Hildebrand, rector of Saxby, near Melton-Mowbray,
Leicestershire
John Thomas Raworth, Esq. Leicester, provisional director of the
South Union Railway
Nathaniel C. Stone, Esq. Rowley-fields, near Leicester
John Eames, Esq. Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire
Frederick Cayley Worsley, Esq. Imberhorne-house, Sussex, director
of the Nottingham, Birmingham, and Coventry Railway
John Smith Mansfield, Esq. Essex-court, Temple
Charles Hance, Esq. Alexander-square, Brompton
Thomas Bridges, Esq. Marwood-hill, Devonshire
Thomas Bent, Esq. M.D. Derby
Douglas Fox, Esq. Derby
John D. Cooper, Esq. Ashbourne, Derbyshire, director of the Derby-
shin, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway
Henry F. Gisborne, Esq. Derby, director of the Tamworth and Lei-
cester, Coventry and Nuneaton Railway
John Hamp, Esq. Catton, Derbyshire
Joshua Harding, Esq. Rosiisten, Derbyshire
Nathaniel Nadin, Esq. Stapenhill, Derbyshire
J. Nadin, coal proprietor, Newhall and Swadlincote Collieries, Derby-
shire,.
R Sherratt Tomlinson, Esq. Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire
Charles James Mason, Esq. Fenton, Staffordshire
Jove& Nunneley, Esq Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire
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. Gainsborough, director of the Derby and
Great Grimsby, and of the Cambridge and Lincoln Extension
Railway.

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Chaim an—Wynn Ellis, Esq., M.P.
Deputy-Chairman—Josiah Wilson, Esq

John Smith Mansfield, Esq.
George Meek, Esq.
Capt. Gnstavus Evans, R.N.

Thomas Wakefield, Esq
Ambrose Moore, Esq.
Francis Valentine Lee, Esq
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., IN rby

The Burton Union Banking 'ompany, Burton-upon-Trent.
Soitcrroits—ales.rs. Lacy and Bridges, 19, King's Arms-yard, Cole-
man-street ; Abraham Bass, Esq Burton-upon-Trent.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—Messrs. Dyson, Hall, Parkes, and Coates,
Parliament-street.
SECRETARY—WiIIiam Banyard, Esq.

The first object of this line is to connect the town of Birmingham,
Coventry, and Leicester, with the eastern roast 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, Dereham,
Lynn, and Holbeach Railways, the line will proceed by Bourn,
Witham, Castle Bytham, South Wytham, 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 be-
te 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
eiberystwith, 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 high rates; and, in return traffic, the midland dis-
tricts.will otain 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 easterneoast 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 cern, 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.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Leicester, Melton Mowbray,
and Spalding Junction Railway.
shares of 201.
undertake'me to accept the same, or
each nitnl etmn
ee nI
above requestrailway y; on
and
tdo I allot
such less number as you may appropriate to me subject to the e-
gulations of the Company, and to sign the necessary deeds, and to
pay when required the deposit thereon of 2/. 2s. per share.
Dated this day of , 1845.
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Profession and Professional Residence
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