The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-15 00:00:00

iff. BELGIAN GRAND JUNCTION
- RAILWAY COMPANY.
Capltal, 1,750,0,4 W., in 87,530 Shares of 201. each.
Dtposit 27. per -hare.
DIRECTORS.
Sir\jalea Itobort. Deputy-Chairman of the
Periiiistani-and-Oriental Steam Navigation Company, Chairman
Henry Bainbridge, Esq. banker.
Frederick Francois Clr,ssrnann, Esq. Chairman of the Great Luzern-
r; NY ay Company
Shelthrd Fitzwilliam, Esq. Director of the Essex and Suffolk
Railway Company
John [towel, Esq. Director of the Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston
Railway Company

DANKER 9.
In London—Messrs. Puget, I3ainbridges and Co., St. Paul's Ckurch-
yard.
In Liverpool—The Commercial Bank of Liverpool.
In Bruz-'s Is—The Societe" Generale.
SoL:CTOßS—lies<rs. Lawrence and Flews, Bucldersbury.
ENGINE-ERB—Sir John Macniell, L.I. D. F.R.S. and James Thompson

Esq. F.R.S.E. M.R.I.A.
DE/41.N ENGINEER—Mons. Desire Joseph Marchal.
SEcaETARY—H. C. Hastings, Esq.
The Directors have for some time past been in direct communica-
tion with the Belgian Government, and they have entered into a
preliminary arrangement. under date of the 27th of September, 1845,
with tile Minister of pt.blic Works, by which the Minister grants to
the preference for the concession of a a railway, to be called the
" Grant Junction," and en,sages to conclude with the Directors a
provisional contract, previously to submitting the " Projet de loi "
for royal approbation, and also to apply for the sanction of the Legis-
lature.

The valuable and important ironworks of Couvin will also, under
the same agreement, be ceded to the Company
Tha Belgian Grand Junction Railway swill directly connect the
provinces of Brabant, Hairiaalt, Liege, Limbonrg, and Namur, with
each other, and with the Government lines of railway, as also with
the several lines of Liege and Namur, Linden and liasselt, Louvain
and Jemeppe, Sambre and Meuse, and the Great Luxembourg
Mons. 3larchal, the eminent Belgian engineer, has carefally sur-
veyed the line, and has deposited the necessary plans, sections, and
estimates with the Belgian Government.
31r. Jamas Thomson, one of the Company's engineers, has also
gone over the line, and reports most favourably upon the peculiar
facilities tier the construction of the railway, and the entire absence
of all enziwering, difficulties.
The Chairman and two of the Directors have carefully traversed
the whole of the line, and have received the most positive assur-
arces
of support from the local authorities and landed proprietors.
The provinces which the railway will unite were found by the
census of 1844 to comprise a population of 2,188 551, and the dis-
tricts which it will traverse are situated in the heart of Belgium,
and comprise an area of 165 square miles. The entire length of she
Belgian Grand Junction Railway will be 108 English miles.
This portion of the country is emphatically termed the Granary of
Bilgiin-a, and, in adkition to its vast agricultural produce, is rich in
ironstone, lead, marble, stone, and slate quarries. It has also nume-
reas distilleries, extensive breweries, ironworks, and large manufac-
tories of porcelain, glass, paper, Beetroot, sugar, gunpowder, &c.
The great ceal-dells of Charleroi and Liege, which are the most ex-
tensive lii Belgium, will, by means of this line, be enabled to supply
all parts of the kingdom at a verb reduced rate.
The Government lines already completed, as well as the several
private lines now in course of construction, will necessarily be the
feeders to the Grand Junction line, as it will unite with the whole of
them, and will traverse a di-trict destitute of all water communica-
tt 41, and very imperfectly supplied with roads ; whilst the invariable
Tale of the Belgian Government not to permit any competing lines,
must necessarily ensure to this Company the entire traffic of the
country through which this line will pass.
ealculated with reference to the present amount oftraffic,have
hacn carefidly and accurately prepared ; and, upon the improbable as-
sumption that there will be no increase when the Grand Junction
_Midway is constructed, the shareholders would even then receive a
large interest on their capital. But, as in all cases, and more parti-
cularly in Belgium, increased fit-ilities of communication have been
ac companied by a great increase of traffic, there can be no doubt
that Ilia Grand Junction Railway Company pay a considerable
dividend io the shareholders.

The expe.:se of construction, and the subsequent expenses of work-
ing the line, arc very much Icss than in English railways ; and it is
an impor ant feature that the enormous outlay incident to a Parlia-
mentary contest in England is avoided.
A considerable saving will also be effected In the cost of iron, and
of the locomotive engines and traffic material, which will be manufac-
tured at the Couvin works; and the Company have, therefore, the
peculiar advantage of being independent of a supply from any other
quarter, and free from the delay and disappointment consequent upon
the present increased demand.
The grant will he for ninety years, and the Act will provide that
the railway shall, for the whole term, he exempt from all rates and
ehargcs whatsoever, whether local or national.
fly the law of Ile.ginni, this Company will be constituted a
44-0461.12. Am,nyme, and the liability of each shareholder will be
limited to the amount of his respective shares.

A 4ecomi payment of 21. per share will be required one month after
el shall Pave been ratified by the Chamber, and the
.1,!..-,•rinent calls will be made at such periods as the Directors may

termino

An accountable receipt will he given to each subscriber on payment
of hie deposit, which receipt must be exchanged for certificates for
shares, at the office of the Company, within twenty-one days after
the first appearance of an advertisement requiring such exchange ;
such advertisement to be inserted once in the London Gazette, and
thre times in each of two daily Morning London newspapers. The
na:a•compliance with this condition will entail on the subscriber the
forfeiture of his deposits.
Notice of calls will be given by advertisement in the London Ga-
zette, and tWa ',ally Morning London newslapers; and if any call on
any share shall remain unpaid for twenty-one days after the day
named, the share shall become absolutely forfeited.
interest at the rate of 4/. per cent. per annum will be paid upon
the amount of capital paid up, such i"terest to b calculated from the
time of obtaining the Act of the LegislaAtre until th, opening of
the line.
All points of detail will, under the terms of the Convention and
Act, he settle•l between the Belgian Government and the Directors;
,:nd It is one of the conditions on which the shares will appor-
ti ned and accepted, that the subscribers confids to the Directors hill
pl,--* to make such arrangement with the Belgian Government with
respect to any alterations or modifications of the line, and of the
Nereus of the grant, as they may think expedient for the furtherance
or time interests of the Company.

pplications for shares, in the subjoined form, to be made to the
Secretary, at the Company's Offices, No. 64, Old Broad-street ; to
Mc-arc. Lowrance and Hews, Solicitors, Bucklersbury ; and to the
f:Powing, Sharebrokers :—Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Thread-
needie-strect, London ; Messrs. Bradley, Ford, and Parker, Man-
ebest,r ; Messrs. It. Davies and Co., Liverpool ; Messrs. Chantrell
and Boyea, 1..!C:!3 Mess-s. Wilkinson and Earle, Hull; Messrs.
intehanan and Aitken, Glasgow ; Messrs. Oswald, George, and Co.,
Aberdeen ; Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, Dublin ; and Messrs.
Dov.-ling and Howden, Edinburgh.
FoRM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Dirsctors of the Belgian Grand Junction Railway.

Gentlemen,—l request that yet will ailot me shares of 201.
each in the Belgian Grand Junction Railway Company ; and I agree
to accept such shares, or any smaller Lumber you may allot to me,
ant to pay the deposit thereon, and to execute the deed of settlement,
and all other necessary deeds, when requ!red.
Dated the day of 1845.
Signature, with Christian Nam, at full
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Profession, Trade, or other Description....
Reference, with Christian and Surname,
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\IT WATER H AAIP I'ON, CHESTER, AND
r.IRKENHEAD JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.
(erovi,tionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Victoria, c. 110.)
Cz,pital, 1,003,0001.. In 50,000 Sharvs of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
lion. Lord Suffield, Gunton-park, Norfolk
Richard Jenkins, G.C.11. London, director of the East India Com-
pany

',dinned Turner, Esq. M.P. Truro
Sir Jelin E. De Beauvoir, Bart. 6, Connaught-place, Hyde-park
,trim Rawson, Esq. J.P. Stoney Boyd, Halifax, director of the Leeds
.1,1 Liverpool Direct Railway
Thomas A. Dale, Esq. Birkenhead, and Malvern-house, Cheltenham
Sir John lioy, Bart. chairman of the Mauritius, and director of the
Direct W.,stern and York and Lancaster Railways
Matthew Harrison, Esq. Chester, director of the North and South
Wales Bank
Jel:n Kinnersley Hooper, Esq. Alderman of the City of London
Henry Arnold Homer, Esq. Leamington
Edward Cooper. Esq. Henley in Arden, Warwickshire, director of
the South Staffordshire Railway
Thomas Harris, Esq. Highfield House. Fdgbaston
John Krowles, Esq. Burnley, director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railwoy-
Admiral J. Ayscough, Southampton, director of the Portsmouth and
Chatham Railway
Joseph Rogers Clarke, Esq. Stoke Newingtsn, London
Thomas Hai, Esq. Tulle Hill, Surrey, director of the Blackwell
Railway
Will am Shadbolt, Esq. Croome's-hill, Greenwich, chairman of the
London a:id Greenwich Railway Company, and director of the
London Jona- Stock Bank
Emanuel C( Esq banker, 29, Lombard-street, director of the
War: %li-y Valley, and Great Yarmouth Railways
DaoLy, Esq. magistrate for the county of Norfolk and borough
of Great Yarmouth, director of the Waveney Valley and Great
Yarmouth, Great Grimsby, Lincoln, Louth, Horncastle, and Midland
.lini.nion Railways
Th, ;nag G. Init,cs, Esq. Bellefleld-house, Staffordshire, director of
the Soutn Staffordshire Railway
P,i,hert Fisher, Esq. Ilighbury-park
Char:es Bleaden, Esq. Coulsden-court, Chairman of the Licensed
'Victuallers' Insurance Society, and director of the Direct Western
Railway
Peter Bruce Turner, Esq. London
Hugh Francis Burman, Esq. M.D. Henley in Arden, Warwickshire
Robert WrielMson,-Esq. Highgate, near Birmingham
Fannon Palmer, Esq. late Mayor of Great Yarmouth, acting director
'of the Great Grimsby, Louth, Horncastle, Lincoln, and Midland
.Junction Railway Company
Thorrt:s Pemberton, Esq. Ironmaster, Wolverhampton
Waller Augustus Lewis, Esq. WAverhampton
Edward Nelson Alexander, Esq. Halifax
Holden Hamcerlon, Esq. Halifax
J. Ree.inalit Riddell, Esq. Pycullah.house, Enfield
S annul Haines, Esq. Birmingham
W. Lawrence, Esq Brixton, Surrey
Thuile: Watney, Esq. Wandsworth, Surrey
Thom is Regina'd Kemp, Esq. Abehurch-lane
Thomas !lead, Esq. M.D. Hanley
Thomas Hackett MaSsey, F.Sq. ?, Oxford- square, London
-Francis Packer, Esq. Great Yarmouth
William Bradley, Esq. Manor Oaks, Sheffield
Robert Freder eh: Welchman, Esq. Southern
Rich ird Spra:gett, Esq. Southern
Henry :;Hey, Esq. Birmingham
tin an't Jones Hughes, Esq. Plus Llangoed, high sheriff of Anglesey
Samuel Bankart, Esq. Leicester
Thomas Bailey Rose, Esq stipendiary magistrate for the Stafford-
:shire Potteries, and director of the Staffordshire Potteries and
Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways
Theophilus Hodges, Esq. Connaught-terrace, Hyde park, London
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq,. llryanston-street, Portman-squaro,
'London
William Simpson Potter, Esq. Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, London
Gearge Peppercorrld; Esq. London, and Bexhill, Surrey
Jtis;alt Clndlinor, Esq. Nonnanton, near Derby
E. Hyde Clarke. Esq. Hyde Hall, Cheshire, and Tickford-park Beds,
director of the South Midland Railway
Williain..GamZ;ier, Esq. Sacombc-park, Hertfordshire, director of the
• Portsmouth and Chatham Railway
George Robinsen, Esq. director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction,
and the (treat Leeds Railways
Thomas L`pfill, Esq. Edgbaston, Warwickshire, director of the
:-outh Staffordshire Railway
Edward Middleton, Esq. Edgbaston director of the South Stafford•
shire Railway
Captain Walter Unett, 3rd Light Dragoons, director of the Dover and
Brighton Rai way.
Benjamin Smart Fowler, Esq, Alder-house, near Tamworth, director
el the Northampton, Banbury and Chester, and Leicester and Tam-
woeth Railways
Geor.re Gamble, Esq. Gainsborough, director of the Nottingham and
Gainsborxigh, and Wolverhampton and Birmingham and Notting-
ham Railways
F. B. Garty, Esq. 9, Chepstow .place, Camberwell-new-road, Surrey,
director of the Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton and
Coventry, Banbury, and Oxford Junction Railways
James Fisher, Esq. iron Easter, Bileton, director of the Shropshire
Mineral Railway Company
Henry Homer, Esq. M.D. Leamington
I. M. Cottle, Esq. Leamington, director of Coventry and other
Railways
John Haddon, Esq. Leamington, director of Coventry, Nuneaton,
and Leicester Railway
David Dugdale, Esq. Burnley
Jeremiah Sharp Browne, Es.j. Carlton-place, Halifax, director of the
Leeds and Liverpool Direct Railway
A. Alexander, Esq. Wellsford-house, director of the Worcester and
Warwick, and Eastern Counties Railways
John Ashwell, Esq. Longton, Staffordshire, director of the Peter-
borough and Nottingham Railway
GeTge Young, Esq. Foley-house, Longton, Staffordshire, director of
the Shropshire Mineral Railway
Thomas Goddard, Esq. Bank-house, Longton, director of the North
Western Trunk Railway
Henry Mayhew, Esq. Shrubberies, King's-road, Pa-son's-green,
raft=
James Glover, Esq. Longton, Staffordshire, director of the South
Union and Birmingham Junction Railway
Ilo',ert Foreman, Esq. Hanley, director of the Tean and Dove Valley,
and Derby, Gainsborough, and Great Grimsby Railways
Joseph Stocks, Esq. S.libdoll hall, director of the East and West
Yorkshire,
and Leeds and Carlisle, and Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railways
P.. W. Spurgeon, Esq. Derby-
John Aler.ck Dickson Es Burnley
MaVho•lopa,d,,ens:E Wurl!,i.npoe-street, Cavendish-square, London
vl_q.maili of Wigan. director of the Birken-
head and Holyhead,
t Leeds Direct Railways anc tester and Wigan, and Liverpool and
John Lord, Esq. standisii Hall. W''gan director of the Blackburn,
Cheney, and Liverpoll, the Manchester and Wigan, the Leeds and
Liverpool, and the Wi;aa and North Union Railways
Joe' Edens, E,o. Northampton, director of the
Sheffietd, Nottingham,
nd London Direct Railway
William Deakin Whitehouse, Esq. Studley, Warwickshire, director of
the Warwickshire and London Extension, and Worcester Junction
Railways
Abrah m Jubb, Esq. Halifax, Yorkshire, direetor of the Kei,ghley,
Halifax. and Huddersfield Railway
Thomas It4gite Preston, Esq. Shipton, director of the Leeds and Li-
verpool Direct, and the Keighley, Halifax, attd Huddersfield Rail-
ways

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Theo Henr,Per, Esq. Murton-house,near Longton, Stafford-
dir,?otor o;. the South Union and Birmingham Junction
Rallis' iy
Lewis Adams, Esc{ Wathantic nearNeweastle-under-Lyne, Stafford-
shire, director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway