The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-25 00:00:00

BANKERS,

In lAwdon—Messts. Puget, 11-ZillTiges, and Co. St. P2ul'i-chureh,

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In Liverpool—The Commercial Bank of Liverpool
In Brussels—The Societe Generale.

SoLicyroas —Messrs. Lawrance and Flews, Bucklersbury.
ZNOINLER—Sir John Macneill, LL.D. F.R.S. and James Thomson,

Esq. F.K.S.E.
SECRETA.RY —H. C. Hastings, Esq.
Grand Junction Hallway will commence at the several
points of Tirietn,nt and Landen towards the north, and Huy, Namur,
GosselleA, and Chatellneau (Charleroi) on the south, and will directly
connect the provinces of Brabant, Hainault, Liege, Limburg, and
Namur whit each other, and the Government lines of railway, as
al*, with the several lines of Liege and Namur, Landen and 'ruse%
Lonvaln and Jenieppc, Sambre and 3leuse, and the Great Luxem-
bourg.

The pr)vinces which the railway will unite were found by the
census of lal4 to comprise a population of 2,18/4,551, and the dis-
tricts which It will traverse are sitoated in the heart of Belgium, and
comprise an area of 165 square miles. The entire length of the Bel-
gian Grand Junction Railway will be 102 English miles, and the in-
variable rule Of the Belgian Government not to permit any competing
Pnes, must necessarily ens re to this Company the entire traffic of
the country through which this line will pass.
This portion of the country is emphatically termed the Granary of
Belgium, and, In addition t its vast agricultural produce, Is rich in
Irenbtme, lead, marble, stone, awl slate quarries. It has also nume-
rous distilleries, extensive brewerlee, ironworks, and large manufac-
tories of porcelain, glass, paper, beetroot sugar, gunpowder, Ecc-
The great coal-flelds of Charleroi and Liege, which are the most ex-
tensive in Belgium, will, by means of this line, be enabled to supply
all parts of the kingdom at a very reduced rate.
A considerable saving will be effected in the cost of Iron, and of
the locomotive engines and traffic material, which will be manufae
lured at the Couvin works ceded to this Company.
Applications for shares, and for prospectuses and maps, to be made
to the Secretary, at the Company's offices, 64, Old Broad-street; to Messrs. Lawrence and Plews, solicitors, Bucklersbnry ; and to the
following sharebrokers :—Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Thread-
Beale-street, London; Messrs. Bradley, Ford, and Parker, Manches-
ter; Messrs. H. Davies and Co., Liverpool; Messrs. Chantrell and
Noyes, Leeds ; Messrs. Wilkinson and Earle, Hull; Messrs. Ruche-
mut and Aitken, Glasgow; Messrs. Oswald, George, and Co., Aber-
dean ; Messrs. Labertoueheand Stafford,wre Nubileihno;ils, Messrs.ande.
DoowEling
and Rowden, Edinburgh ; Messrs. ford
ta; and to Messrs.. Drury and Richardson, Newcastle-upon-Ti ris.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

REGENT'S CANAL RAILWAY.
BRANCH to the EASTERN COUNTIES and CAM-
BRIDGE RAILWAYS.

Capital 150,0001., in Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 2/. 2s. per Share.
The Company having purchased Sir George Duckett's Canal, in-
tend to form a junction with the Eastern Counties and Cambridge
lines, by a branch of less than a mile across the Lea-marshes.

The advantages of this project are self-evident; it will afford to
the whole of the east of England a direct communication with the
Post-office and the west-end of London at a very trifling outlay of
capital, and without any interference with private property.
Applications for shares to be directed to F. Collier, Esq., Gresham-
rooms, Basinghall-street.

WORCESTER and LEOMINSTER RAIL-
WAY, via BROIFYARD, communicating with the Great
Eastern and Western Railway.
At a public meeting held at the Falcon Hotel, in the town of
Bromyard, on Thursday, the 23d day of October instant,
JOHN BARNEBY, Esq. M.P. in the Chair ;
Moved by WILLIAM BARNEBY, Esq. Clater-park ; seconded by Prrks
WeitiscaTox, Esq. High Bailiff of Bromyard, and carried unani-

mously-
-Ist. That this meeting highly appreciates the liberal spirit in
which the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company has re-
sponded to the appeal addressed to them, in a memorial signed by
the most influential landed proprietors and others interested in this
locality, by affording their prompt and zealous aid in forming and
supporting a line of railway from Leominster by this town to unite
with the Great Eastern and Western Railway near the city of Wor-
cester, but for which prompt response and aid this locality would
have been deprived of all direct railway communication, the Welsh
Midland Company having, though memorialised, abandoned it, and
the Great Western Company having declined to include it in any of
their schemes ; and that the warmest thanks of this meeting be con-
veyed, through the Chairman, to the Great Eastern and Western
Railway Company for the valuable accommodation which the pro-
posed Worcester and Leominster Railway is calculated to afford to
the town and district of Bromyard.
Proposed by Join; KmasoN, Esq. ; Seconded by WILLIAM ECYLEY,

Esq., and carried unanimously,
2d—That this meeting comprising as it does a large body of the
landowners and residents upon the intended line of the Worcester
and Leominster Railway, is resolved to give its strenuous aid to the
Directors of that Company in carrying the Bill through Parliament
in the ensuing session, and that a Local Committee be formed for
that purpose, and that these resolutions be published in the Hereford
and Worcester papers.
Moved by JOSEPH STINTON, Esq., and seconded by HENRY JAMES,
Esq., Mayor of Leominster,
3d—That the thanks of this meeting be given to the Chairman for
his able conduct in the chair.
Brornyard, Oct. 23, 124 h.

JOHN BAIINEBY, Chairman,

THE BIRMINGHAM, NOTTINGHAM
GAINSBOROUGH, AND HULL RAILWAY.
Capital 1,600,000/., in 80,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21.25. per Share.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 6 Viet., cap. 110.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Combermere
The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Ingestre, M.P.
The Right Hon. Lord Charles Beauclerk, Chesham-place, Belgrave-
square
The Right Hon. Lord Thomas Pelham Clinton
Me Right lion. Lord E Chichester
The Right Hon. Lord Stephen Chichester
The Right Hon. George R. Dawson
The Hon. Captain Percy Evans Freke, 3, BelgTave-square
The Hon. Cecil Lawless
Sir James D. H. Hay, Bart., Rose Croft, Surrey
Sir William Lowthorp, Hull
William R. Collett, Esq., M.P.
Thomas Bateson, Esq., M.P.
Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P., Birmingham
George Frederick Muntz, Esq., M.P.
The Worshipful the Mayor of Hull
C. S. Foster, Esq., High Sheriff of Staffordshire
G. B. Thorneycroft, Esq., Shrubbery and Bradley Ironworks, Staf-
fordshire, chairman of the Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South
Staffordshire Junction Railway
Michael Grazebrook, Esq., Stourbridge, chairman of the Staffordshire
iron trade
Thomas Bagnall, Esq., Goldshill Ironworks, Staffordshire
W. H. Allen, Esq., Leadenhall-street, London
John Aston, Esq., Birmingham
F. ederick Pratt Barlow, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway
James Beech, Esq., Brandon-lodge, Warwick
William Broackes, Esq., Cork-street, Burlington-gardens
Major Frederick Brownlow, United Service Club
William Chance, jun., Esq., merchant, Birmingham
Robert Chapman, Esq., Director of the Cambrian and Grand Junc-
tion Railway
George A. Hamilton Chichester, Esq., Chesham-place, Beigrave-
square
Frederick Clarkson, Esq., Doctors'-commons, London
Henry Crane, Esq., Wolverhampton
Anthony Dickson, Esq., Erdington-house, Berwickshire
Henry R. Downman, Esq., Director of the Cambrian and Grand
Junction Railway
Duncan Dunbar, Esq., East India-road, Director of the London
Dock Company
Henry John Enthoven, Esq., Director of the Dutch Rhenish Railway
Joseph Gillott, Esq., Birmingham
James Peard Ley, Esq., Seaton Ironworks, Whitehaven
Samuel Wilfred Lucas, Esq., Sandhill-house, Birmingham, Director
of the Direct Birmingham and Leicester Railway
William Mathews, Esq., Edgbaston, Birmingham, and Corbyns-hall
Ironworks, Director of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhamp-
ton Railway
Thomas Hackett Massey, Esq., Oxford-square, London
Thomas Davies, Esq., the Austins, Ilandsworth, Staffordshire, and
Crookhay Iron Worls, West Bromwich
Robert Marsden Massey, Esq., Oxford-square, London
David Montague, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester and South-
ampton Railway
William Morgan, Esq., Director
.of the Bristol and Gloucester
Rallyeay
P. H. Muntz, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the South Staffordshire
Junction Railway
Francis Parker, Esq., Manchester
Archibald F. Paul, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway
William Watson Prole, Esq., Thurlow-square, Brompton, Director of
the Grand Junction and Midlands Union Railway
John Gibson Reeves, Esq., Birmingham
Frederick Ricketts, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway
John Shaw, Esq., Wolverhampton
Charles Shaw, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Direct Birmingham
and Leicester Railway, and Director of the Oxford, Worcester,
and Wolverhampton Railway
Henry Symonds, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway
Thomas Timmins, Esq., Wolverhampton
Charles Augustus Tulk, Esq., Totteridge-park, Herta
Samuel Walker, Esq., Ablow-house, Wolverhampton, Director of
the South Staffordshire Junction Railway
William Watson, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Exeter Railway
John Webster, Esq., 35, Mecklenbnrgh-square, Director of the
Great Grimsby and Linooln Railway
Henry Wright, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and
Southampton Railway
John Brearley Payn, Esq., Birmingham
Samuel Kearick, Esq., Handsworth-hall, Staffordshire
Robert Peasegood Sleight, Esq., Hull, Provisional Director of the
Hull and Holyhead Railway
William Ayre, son., Esq., Hull, Provisional Director of the Lynn and
Ely Railway
Joseph Ayre, Esq., Hull
John Wells, Esq., Hull
Wakefield Pim, Esq., Hull, Provisional Director of the Hull and Lin-1
coin Railway
Dr. Bell Fletcher, Birmingham
Benjamin Bartleet, Esq., Birmingham
Thomas Clark, Esq., Wolverhampton
James Shaw, Esq., merchant, Birmingham
C. S. Cotterill, Esq., magistrate, Walsall, Director of the South Staf-
fordshire Junction Railway
Benjamin Gibbons, Eaq., Shut-end, Dudley, Director of the South
Staffordshire Junction Railway
John Neve, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the South Stafford-
shire Junction Railway
Samuel Underhill, Esq., Wolverhampton
John Barker, Esq., Chillington Ironworks, Wolverhampton, :di-
rector of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway
Christopher Musgrave, Esq., Lord of the Manor, Birmingham
John Dixon, Iron Master, Wolverhampton
Charles Greatrex. Esq., Walsall, director of the South Staffordshire
Junction Railway
(With power to add to their number).
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Edwards, Mason, and Edwards, 8, Moorgate-street, and De.
I.shay-street, Westminster ; and
Messrs. Motterarn and Knowles, Birmingham.
ENGINEER IN CHIEF—Sir John Rennie, F.R.S.
Amnia ENGINEER—W. H. Pardon, Esq.
BANKERS.
The Birmingham Banking Company, and Messrs. Attwoods, Spooner,
and Co., Birmingham.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Hull—Messrs. Frost and Moss
Nottingham—Samuel Maples, Esq.'
SECRETARY—Edward Hart Hart, Esq.
OmeEs—No. 1, Royal Exchange-buildings, London ; and
36, Upper Temple street, Birmingham.

It is proposed by this Company to establish a direct line of commu-
nication between Birmingham, Nottingham, Gainsborough, and Hull,
at the smallest outlay of capital, and with the least possible injury to
existing interests. To effect this object, use will be made of existing
or projected lines, as far as practicable, and the chain of communica-
tion will be completed by throwing out new lines, where requisite.
Commencing at Birmingham, it is proposed to use the Birmingham
and Derby Railway as far as Whitacre, whence a new line, about 29
miles in length, will be made, passing through Ashby-de-la-Zouch and
Castle Donnington, to the Long Eaton or Sawley Station on the Mid-
land Counties Railway
Ihe communication being thus perfect to Nottingham, it will be
carried 4brward as far as Gainsborough, either by the proposed Not-
tingham and Gainsborough Railway, or by a line springing out of the
line from Nottingham to Lincoln, fur which an Act was obtained by
the Midland Counties Company during the last session of Parliament.
From Gainsborough this railway will proceed to Rarton-on-the-
Humber, or New Holland, In the immediate vicinity of Hull, thereby
rendering complete and entire the chain of communication between
Birmingham and Hull.
By this project the advantages will result to the public of A
Direct line from Birmingham to Nottingham,
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and from
ZyotuochNanottid Alrewas, a
Birmingham to Gainsborough,
Birmingham to Hull;
and by means of the proposed South Staffordshire Junction Railway,
ngham, and
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the intended extension to Ashbdy-Ddeu-diale-
ompanies will be enlisted in favour of
The support of several c
' from Wolverhampton an
ensureits success in
tdahlriedeocttthhler towns already enumerate
line of communication is already
Parliament.
As together with its own merits, will the
As a considerable portion of the
confidently expected.
made, or in progress, the time required for the completion
of this
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manufacturing districts of Warwickshireagg l
ar
great national undertaking will be materially shortened.
Independently of the advantages to be derived by a direct corium-
Mention between the Important seaport of Hall
and Staffordshire, dthe
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traffic in timber, corn, metals, &c., may be c
The revenue of the Company, in addition, will be derived from the
great thorough traffic from Birmingham and the midland counties to
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Nottingham and Gainsborough, and the immense traffic from Bir-
mingham to Hull, the'port at which the exports are shipped to Ham-
burgh, the German States, and the North of Europe ; and from the
conveyance of merchandise, agricultural produce, and cattle from the
southern, western, and midland counties.
A preference will be given in the allotment of shares to landowners
on the line, and other local proprietors, as well as to directors and
shareholders in railways interested in supporting this undertaking.
No subscriber will be liable beyond the amount of the deposit
until the Act Ls obtained, and then not beyond the amount of his
subscription.
The usual power will be taken to allow interest at the rats of four
per cent, from the time of payment upon each call until the opening
of the line.

No applications will be attended to without a reference to a
member of the Committee, a banker, or the solicitors to this Company.
The Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contract must be
executed when the bankers' receipts are exchanged for scrip certifi-
cates, of which due notice will be given ; and the deposits paid by
any party making default in the execution of those deeds will be for-
feited.

Plans and prospectuses, with forms ofapplicatlons for shares, may be
had of the Solicitors, and of the following Stock and Sharebrokers,
viz.:—Messrs. Walls, Westropp, and PrinseN 75, Old Broad-street ;
Mr. H. Pritchett, 1, Royal Exchange-buildings; Messrs. Hitchins and
Harrison, IS, Thre Idneedle-street ; and Messrs. Peppercorns and Son,
2, Old Broad-street, London ; Messrs. Gardiner and Heap, Charles
M. Williams, and Messrs. Bradley, Ford, and Parker, Manchester;
Messrs. Watson and Co., and Mr. Samuel Phillips, Hull ; Messrs.
Davies and Son, Liverpool ; Messrs. Ridsdals, Myers, and Co., Leeds ;
• Messrs. Earp and Son, Derby ; Messrs. Pott and Levick, Notting-
ham ; Messrs. Wreford, Nicholls, and Wreford, Bristol ; and Mr.
James Robinson Lane, Birmingham.