The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-14 00:00:00

GRAND JUNO LION, GREAT' Wi.~li4l ii,
and SOUTH WES rliitx RAILWAY JUNCTION.
Completing the Line from London to Birmingham and Liverpool by
the shortest route.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 1,200,000/., in 60,000 shares of 20/. emit.
Deposit 21. 2s. per share.
raovistoNAL COMMITTEE.

Sir W. Young, Bart., Director of the Honourable East Company
Major-General Parlby, Rutland-gate, Director of the Worcester and

South Wales Railway
Mr. John Ayres, Princes Risborough
Congreve Banwell, Esq., Chilton-park, Brill
Rev. John Samuel Barron, Parsonage, Brill, Justice of the Peace for

Bucks
W. Bean, Esq., Tulse-hill, Director of the Emmet ♦alley Continua-

tiozi Railway
Charles Richard Bigge, Esq., 19, Bryanston•square, Director of the
Reading, Guildford, and Rldgate Railway, and Isle of Ely, Wis-
beach, and Lincolnshire Railway
Joseph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, Minories, Director of the Black-

wall Railway
Wm. Borton, Esq., Blackthorne
William W. 13otterill, Esq. Swallow Hons.., Burnley
David Boyan, Esq., Northampton
William Edward Byes, Esq., Alkerton, near Banbury, Director of
the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway
James Brand, Esq., 9, New Broad-street, Director of the Cambridge

Liand
an 4 neon, Great Luxemburg Railway
James Burness, Esq., Leyton, Essex, Director of the Staffordshire
Potteries, and Oxford and Worcester Extension and Chester Junc-

Bon Railways
Messrs. Butler and Son, Wycombe
Rev. George Chetwode, Chilton-house, Vicar of Chilton, and Justice

of the Peace for Bucks and Oxon
Thomas Camplin, Esq., ilearne-bay, Director of the Argus Mos
Edward Turst Carver. Esq., Forest Lodge, Tulse-hill, Director of
the North Wales and Namur and Liege Railways
R. Chapman, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby and

Southampton Railways
Edward Chapman, Esq., Gibson-square, Director of the Hull, Great
Grimsby, and Southampton Direct Railway.
Rev. W. Cleobury, Parsonage, Piddington, Justice of the Peace for

Bucks
Frederick Coling,ridge, Esq., Tharlow-square, Bromptoa
William Delf, Esq., St. Mary's, Beccies
Henry Dodson, Esoj., Suffolk House, Tulse-hill, Direeter of tke Grand

Trunk Railway
Mr. Wm. Dossett, Princes Risborough
Samuel Douglass, Esq., Doctors'-commons, Director of the Hull,
Great Grimsby, and Southampton Direct Railway
Rev. Gre4ory Lempster Dryden, Vicarage, Ambrosden
John Edmonds, Esq., Princes Risborough
Captain Gustavus Evans, R.N., Headly Grove, near Dorking, Di-
rector of the Reading and Reigate Railway
Henry Farrar, Esq., Princes Risborough
Joseph Forster, Esq., Blunt's Hall, Witham, Essex. Director of the

Mallon and Braintree Railway
Rev H. It. Fowler, 7, Manchester-square, London, Director of the
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway, and Deputy-Chairman
of the London and Nottingham Railway
James Furness, Esq., Newland-cottage, Wycombe
John George, Esq., Bicester
Charles Goodwin, Esq., Battersea, Director of UN London and Win&

_
sor Railway
Rev. C. E. Gray, Rectory, Princes Risborough
Edmund Tertius Grundy, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Cam-
bridge and Lincoln, and Oxford, Newbury, Andover, Manchester,

and Southampton Railways
John !redden, Esq., Leamington, Director of the Birmingham and

Oxford Junction Railway
Warren Stormes Hale, Esq., Gresham-street
J. G. Hammock, Esq., Essex House, Chairman of the Ratcliffe Gas
Company, and Director of the Direct Western Railway
George Harman, Esq., Alderman of Wycombe
Joseph Bunt, Esq., Mayor of Wycombe
Wm. Jackson, Esq., Justice of the Peace for Wycombe
John Inglis Jcrdein, Esq., 150, Piccadilly, Director of eta great
Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway
Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of the City of London, Farago',

Streatham
Hwy Garrett Key, Esq., Tulse-hill, Director of the Nereford, New-
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port, and Abergavenny Railway
Edward King, Esq., Blackthorns
Wm. King, Esq., Ambrosden
Thomas Knight, Esq., Brill
Captain A. L. Kuper, R.N., Plymstock, Devon
W. Kuper, Esq., Camberwell, Director of Leeds, York, and Midlands'

Junction Railway
Alfred Laiw, Esq., Alderman of Wycombe
Joseph Littlehales, Esq., Shaulston
William Freeman Lord,Esq., Greve-house, Brill
Rowland M'Kenzie, Esq., Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square, Direc-
tor of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, of the Cheltenham,
Oxford, and Brighton, and the Great Western Exteasion Railway

Companies
Charles Mann, Esq., Leamington, Director of the Birmingham and

Oxford Junction Railway
Rev. Thomas Martyn, Rector of Ludgershall, Justice of the Peace for

Bucks
John Mead, Esq., Brill
Rev. Charles Palmer,Lighthorne, near Kineton, Director of the

Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway
The Rev. W. E. Partridge, Horsendon-house, Risborough, Rector of
Horsendon, Vicar of Illmire, and Magistrate for the county of
Bucks
Wm. Paxton, Esq.. Lanford Farm
Jonas Paxton, Esq., Bicester
James Parsons, Esq., Brill
William Parsons, Esq., Brill
Lewis Pocock, Esq., F.S.A., Montague-street, Rnssell-square, Di,
rector of the Argus Insurance Company, and the Southampton,
Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railway
G. W. K. Potter, Esq., Secondary of the City of Leaden.
Alexander Prince, Esq., Lincoln's Inn-fields
John Prestage, Esq., Wycombe
W. W. ?role, Esq., Thurlow-square, Brompten, Direetev of the
Jersey Railway
S. H. Powell, Esq., Brixton, Director of the Leeds, York, and Mid-

lands' Junction Railway
Thomas Ragg, Esq., Boarstall
Wm. Reynolds, Esq., Ambrosden
Charles Shaw, Esq., Birmingham, Director of Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction Railway
Robert Shedden, Esq., Torr Abbey, Devon, Director of the South-
Western Railway, and Deputy-Lieutenant for the county of
Hampshire
E. It. Simmonds, Esq., Gloucester Lodge, Croydon
William Slack, Esq., Crickelwood, Director of the Guarantee Society
William flatter, Esq., Brill
Thomas Smith, Esq., Brill
John Southgate, Esq., Pebble Coombe, Dorking, Director of the
Reading and Reigate Railway
John Southgate, jun., Esq., Old Change, London, Director of Hull,
Great Grimsby, and Southampton Direct Railway
Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq., Broom Hall, near Dorking, Deputy
Governor of the Union Bank of London, Chairman of the Irish
North Midland Railway
Mr. James Stratton, Princes Risborough
William 11. Terrell, Esq., Lincoln's Inn-flag
Edward Hughes Thorpe, Esq., Bicester
Wm. Tredwell, Esq., Piddington
C. F. Thornley, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Carlisle, and Man-
chester, Burnley, Settle, and Carlisle Railways
John Timms, Esq., Manor house, Brill
Thomas Umfrey, Esq., Ilrill
William Walker, Esq., Eldon-terrace, Leeds
Captain F. Bayly Wardroper, H.C.S., Director of the Birmingham

Extension Railway
William Mead Warner, Esq., Oxford and Thornley-hall, Bucks
Walter White, Esq., Fitzroy-square, Director of the Londoi and

Winds r Railway
Wat. White, Esq., Blackheath, Director of the Central Kent County
Railway
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Woodbury Down, Director of the WaTotey

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Valley and Great Yarmouth Railway
Robert Winslow, Esq., Princes Risborough
Robert Winslow, Jun., Esq., Princes Risborough

(With power to add to their number.)

MANAGING COMMITTEE.
James Brand, Esq. H. Garrett Key, Esq.
E. Chapman, Esq. W. Kuper, Esq.
Henry Dodson, Esq. S. H. Powell, Esq.
Samuel Douglas, Esq. Lewis Pocock, Esq., F.S.A.
E. T. Grundy, Esq. John Southgate, Esq.
John Inglis Jerdein, Esq. Walter White, Esq.
(With limited power to add to their number.)
ENGINEERS.
Sir John Macneill, LL.D., F.R.S.
James Thomson, Esq., F.R.S.E.,
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Roy, Blunt, and Johnstone, Lotkbnry
George Ssaith, Esq., 24, Golden-square.
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith, Lombard-street
Tile Union Bank of London
Messrs. Cock burn and Co., Whitehall
Maidenhead— Messrs. Stephens, Blandy and Co.
Wycombe—Messrs. Wheeler and Sons
Bicester —Messrs. Tubb
Thame—Thomas Stone, Esq.
Leamington—Leamington, Priors, and Warwickshire Banking
Company.

LOCAL AGENTS.
Maidenhead—James Smith, Esq.
High Wycombe and Princes Risborough—Charles Harman, Esq.
Bicester—Richard Maley, Esq.
Oxford and Brill—John Looker, Esq.
Windsor—C. S. Voules, Esq.
Banbury—Thomas Guliver Judge, Esq.
HONORARY SECRETARY, pro. tem.—John Southgate, jun., Esq.
Offices of the Company-2, Charlotte-row, Mansion House.
The great importance of the above line of railway, sot exceeding
64 miles in length, will be immediately seen by referring to the ma►.
It commences at the Farnborough station of the South-Western Rail-
way, crossinv the Great Western line between Slough and Maiden-
head, and terminates on the Oxford and Rugby line of railway at
Ileyford, beyond Oxford, on the route to Birmingham, accommo-
dating in its course. Bracknell, Sunning-hill,Bagshot, Ascot, Windsor,
Great Marlow, High Wycombe, Princes Risborough, Thame,
Biccster, and many other places at present without railway com-
munication.
It will form the most direct rote from London to Banbury, War-
wick, and Birmingham, and by the Grand Junction Railway to Man-
chester, Liverpool, Lancaster, and Carlisle,. and by the Caledonia'
Railway to Glasgow and Edinburgh ; also from Crewe to Chester,
Birkenhead, and Holyhead, thus opening the most direct coMmUnida--
tion with Dublin.
It will also by the branch to Oxforti,--in connexion with the
Cheltenham and Oxford line, form the most direct route to South
Wales, Waterford, and the south of Ireland, as well as by the Ox-
ford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton line to Worcester, and conse-
quently to all the central portion of Wales, thus forming the shortest
route to all Wales and Ireland. _

The length of this line will not exceed 64 miles, and it willsaVe an
average distance of 14 miles to each of the before-mentioned places,
as compared with the route now traversed by the Great Western
Railway. It is satisfactory to state that there are no engineering
difficulties, and that the land is the least valuable of any la the coun-
ties through which this line is intended to pass, avoiding, as it does,
parks and ornamental property.
To the advantages offered to the above places, by saving about
fourteen miles In the transits to London, must be added that of con-
necting them with the South-Western and the Reading and Reigate
lines, affording passengers an opportunity of proceeding to South-
ampton, Portsmouth, Isle of Wight, Dover, Brighten, and all adja-
cent places, without the necessity of passing through the metropolis,

thereby saving much time and iaconvenience.
It will be seen from the foregoing facts that the formation of Ihis
line will afford very great advantages to nearly all parts of England,
Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, as it will materially facilitate the de-
livery of their many marketable products by opening another and
more direct 'lliac to London. It is not, therefor*, too much to ex-
pect that, kidependently of a great local traffic, there will be also an
immense, through traffic brought on this line, which must pay at
least lb per cent. on the capital required. This is manifest, as the
construction of the line will not cost 20,0001. per mile, while the
London and Birmingham Railway cost 53,0001. per mile, upon which
entomous outlay it continues to pay 15 per cent.
Shanholders in the Grand Junction, Great Western, lloutb
Western, Oxford and Rugby, Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhamp-
ton, and Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railways will have a pre-
ference in the allotment of shares after parties locally interested.
The deeds will provide that no call shall be made on the share-
holders beyond the deposit now paid, until the Act of Parliament
shall be obtained ; and power will be taken in the Act to allow four
per cent. interest on all calls until the line be completed, which,
from the nature of the ground to be gone over, is not expected to
exceed two years.
The Committee have decided, in compliance with the suggestions
of landowners of great influence, to form branches from the Thame
station on the proposed main line to Oxford and Aylesbury, thereby
establishing a direct communication between those importmit
places.
Application for shares may be made, in the annexed form, to the
following sharebrokers :—London : Mr. W. West, Capel-court ;
Mr. Benjamin Rankin, Tokenhouse-yard ; Mr. M. L. Pritchard,

and Mr. Branckncr, Liverpool ; Messrs. Cardwell and Sons, Messrs.
Green and Oldham, and Messrs. Gardiner and Heap, Manchester 1
'Messrs. Potter and Smith, Leeds ; Mr. Andrew Moffat, Edinburgh :
Mr. A. Brand, Glasgow ; Messrs. Bruce and Sy met, Dublin ; Messrs,

Graysione and Earle, Yoik.; Messrs. Sohmes and'Tripp, Bristol; Messrs.
Hopwood and Palmer, Plymouth ; Mr. T. Sandford, Exeter ; Mr.
J. Wright, Birmingham ; Messrs. Sibary and Simpson, Hull ; Mr.
Isaac Ironside, Sheffield ; Messrs. Mann and Son, Norwich ; Mr.

Joseph Ivey Baker, Cheltenham ; to the Secretary, at the offices of
the Company ; Messrs. Roy, Blunt, and Johnstone, Lothbury ;
George Smith, Esq., solicitor, No. 24, Golden-square.
To the Provisional Committee of the Grand Junction, Great Western,

and South-Western Railway Junctien Company.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me shares in
the above Company, and I agree to take all such shares, or so many
as may be allotted to me, and to pay the deposit thereon, and to exc.
oute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when
required so to do.

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Reference to

GRAND JUNCTION, GREAT WESTERN,
and SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY JUNCTION.—At a
Public Meeting of the Inhabitants of Biceater, held Oct. 3, 1845,
the following Resolutions were passed :
" That a line of Railway through Bieester, connecting that town
with the Great Western line at Slough, and the Oxford and Rugby
line at Hayford, is. in the opinion of this meeting, highly desirable,
and would tend greatly to benefit the tow' and its *vicinity."

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" That theelino of railway to be called the Grand Junction, Gnat
Western, and South-Western Hallway Junction, appears to this
meeting the most comprehensive scjieme, and as affording to the
town of Bicester and its nelghbourhitod every facility required. This
raxtiag ;:ordiar7 cc-operates with the 1--rfryisioual CoramitteS Urthe
above BaaA-sy."
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