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London, England, 1845-10-14 00:00:00

rilE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 14, 1845.

GRAND JUN C fION, littEA't h ,
and SOUTH WES fERN 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/. ea*.
Deposit 2/. 2s. per share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.
Sir W. Young, Bart., Director of the Honourable East India Cojnpany
Major-General Parlby, Rutland-gate, Director of the Worcester said

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

Bucks
W. Bean, Esq., Tulse-hill, Director *l' the Erswash Valley Continua-

tion Railway
Charles Richard Bigge, Esq., 19, Bryanston.square, Director of the
Reading, Guildford, and litigate Railway, and Isle of Ely, Wis-
beach, and Lincolnshire Railway
Joseph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, Idinories, Director of the 'Mack-

wall Railway
Wm. Burton, Esq., Illackthorne
William W. Botterill, Esq., Swallow lions?, Burnley
David Beyan, Esq., Northampton
William Edward B qes, Esq., Alkerton, near Banbury, Director of
the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway
James Brand, Esq., 9, New Broad-street, Director of the Cambridge

anal Lhicoln, and Great Luxemburg Railway
James Burness, Esq., Leyton, Essex, Director of the Staffordshire
Potteries, and Oxford and Worcester Extension and Chester Junc-
tion Railways •
Messrs. Butler and Son, Wycombe
Rey. George Chetwode, Chilton-house, Vicar of Chilton; and Justice

of the Peace for P.ucks and Oxon
Thomas Camplin, Esq., Hearne-bay, Director of the Argus °Mee
Edward Turst Carver, Esq., ForestLodge,Tulse-hill, Director of

the North Wales and Nanitir 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 SOutha-Wpton Direct Railway.
Rev. W. Cleobury, Parsonage, Piddiugton, Justice of the Peace for

Bucks
Frederick Colingridge, Esq., Tharlow-square, Brompton
William Dclf, Esq., St. Mary's, Beccles
Henry Dodson, Es 4., Suffolk House, Tulse-hill, ➢irector of the Grand

Trunk Railway
Mr. Wm. Dossett, Princes Risborough
Samuel Douglass, Esq., Doctors'-commons. Director of the Hull,
Great Grimsby, and Southampton Direct Railway
Rev. Gregory 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
Mahlon and Braintree Railway
Rev. H. R. 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 the London and Wind-

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 Madden, 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 Hunt, Esq., Mayor of Wycombe
Wm. Jackson, Esq., Justice of the Peace for Wycombe
John Inglis Jerdein, Esq., 150, Piccadilly, Director of the crest
Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway
Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of the City of London, Pampa,

Streatham
Henry Garrett Key, Esq., Tulse-hill, Director of the Nerefori, New-

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 Lana, Esq., Alderman of Wycombe
Joseph Littlehales, Esq., Shaulston
William Freeman Lord, Esq., Greve-house, Brill
Rowland Nl.Kenzie, Esq., Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square, Direc-
tor of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, of the Cheltenham,
Oxford, and Brighton, and the Great Western Extension 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., Langford Farm
Jones Paxton, Esq., Bicester
James Parsons, Esq., Brill
William Parsons, Esq., Brill
Lewis Pocock, Esq., F.S.A., Montague-street, Russell-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 London
Alexander Prince, Esq., Lincoln's Inn-fields •
John Prestage, Esq., Wycombe
W. W. Prole, Esq, Thurlow-square, Brompton, Director 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. H. Simmonds, Esq., Gloucester Lodge, Croydon
William Slack, Esq., Crickelwood, Director of the Guarantee Society
William Matter, 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, Directer of Hull,
Great Grimsby, and Southampton Direct Railway
Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq., Broom Hall, near Dorkiag, 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-fields
Edward Hughes Thorpe, Esq., Bicester
Wm. Tredwo)l, 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., Brill
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 Loadoa and
Windsor Railway
Wm. White, Esq., Blackheath, Director of the Central Kent County
Railway
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Woodbury Down, Director of the Waveaey
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.
Hoary Dodson, Esq. S. H. Powell, Esq.
Samuel Douglas, Esq. Lewis Pocock, Esq., P.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., M.R.I.A.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Roy, Blunt, and Johnstone, Lotlibttry •
George Smith, Esq., 24, Golden-square.
RANKERS.
London—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith, Lombard-street
The Union Bank of London
Messrs. Cockburn and Co., Whitehall
Maidenhead— Messrs. Stephens, Blandy and Co.
Wycombe—Messrs. Wheeler and Sons
Bicester—Messrs. Tubb
Thame—Thomas Stone, Esq.
Leamingtou—Leamington, Priors, and Warwickshire Banking
Company.

LOCAL AGENTS.
Maidenhead—James Smith, Esq.
High Wycombe and Princes Risborough—Ckarles HAMM M.
Illcester —Richard Maley, Esq.
Oxford and Brill—John Looker, Esq.
Windsor—C. S. Voules, Esq.
Banbury—Themas Guliver Judge, Esq.
HONORARY SECRETARY, pro. tem.—John Southgate, jun., But.
Offices of the Company-2, Charlotte-row, Mansion House.
The great importance of the above line of railway, not exceeding
64 miles in length. will be immediately seen by referring to-the map.
It commences at the Farnborough station of the South-Western Rail-
way, crossing the Great Western line between Slough and Maiden-
head, and terminates on the Oxford and Rugby line of railway at
Heyford, beyond Oxford, on the route to Birmingham, accommo-
dating in its course, Bracknell, Sunning-hill,Bagshot, Ascot, Windsor,
Great Marlow, High Wycombe, Princes Risborough. Thome,
Bicester, and many other places at present without railway com-
munication.
It will form the most direct roate from London to Banbury, War-
wick, and Birmingham, and by the Grand Junction Railway t Man-
chester, Liverpool, Lancaster, and Carlisle, and by the Caledonian
Railway to Glanow and Edinburgh ; also from Crewe to Chester,
Birkenhead, and Holyhead, thus opening the most direct communica-
tion with Dublin.
It will also by the branch to Oxford, hr • connexion with the
Cheltcnhatn and Oxford line, form the most direct roate to South
Wales, Waterford, and the south of Ireland, as well as by the Ox-
ford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton line to Worcester, and come-
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 will save 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 it 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 transit, to London, must be added that of cell-
necting them with the South-Western and the Reading and Reigate
lines, affording passengers an opportunity of proceeding to -Soutk-
ampton, Portsmouth, Isle of Wight, Dover, Brightou, and all adja-
cent places, without the necessity of passing through Om metropolis,
thereby saving much time and inconvenience.
It will be seen from the foregoing facts that the formation of this
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 route to London. It is not, therefore, too much t ex-
pect that, independently of a great local traffic, there will be also as
immense through traffic brought on this line, which must pay at
least 10 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
enormous outlay it continues to l•ay 15 per cent.
Shareholders in the Grand Junction, Great Western, south
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, whioh,
from the nature of the ground to be gone over, is not expected to
exceed two years.

The Committee have decided, in compliatre 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 important
places.
Application for shares may be made, in the annexed form, to the
following sharchrokers :—London : Mr. W. West, Capel-court ;
Mr. Benjamin Rankin, Tokenhouse-yard ; Mr. M. L. Pritchard,
and Mr. Itranekner, Liverpool ; Messrs. Cardwell and Sons, Messrs.
Green and Oldham, and Messrs. Gardiner and Heap, Manchester ;
Messrs. Potter and Smith, Leeds; Mr. Andrew Moffat, Edinburgh;
Mr. A. Brand, Glasgow ; Messrs. Bruce and Symes, Dublin ; Messrs.
Graystone and Earle, York ; Messrs. Sohines andiTripp, 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 Junction Company,

Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me shares is
the above Company, and I agree to take all such shares, or so many
as may be allotted to me, and to pay the depesit thereon, and to exe-
cute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when
required so to do.

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GRAND JUNCTION, GREAT WESTERN,
and SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY JUNCTION.—At a
Public Meeting of the Inhabitants of Bicester, held ,Oct. 3, 1846,
the following Resolutions were passed :
"That a line of Railway through Bicester, 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 town and its vicinity."
" That the line of railway to be called the Grand Junction, Great
Western, and South-Western Railway Junction, appears to this
meeting the most comprehensive scheme, and as affording to the
tow_ of Eicester and its neighbourhood every facility required. This
meeting :,,ordieUy co-operates with the Brotsional Compaittee of the
above Railway:"_

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