The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-25 00:00:00

To the PrOVlSiOrial Ph eet.)rs of the North-Western Trunk Railway

3, Abchurch-lane, London.

Gentlemen—l request you to allot me Shares in the North-
Western Prank Railway; and I undertake to pay the Deposit of
2!. 10s., and all further calls upon the same, or such lesser number
as you may allot to me, and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement
And the Parliamentary Contract when called upon to do so.
Dad this day of , 1845.
I am. Gentlemen, your obedient humble servant,
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PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT.
DIRECT SHEFFIELD AND MACCLES-
FIELD RAILWAY,
Forming Junctions with all the great and important Railways in
Great Britain.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 600.i.G01., in 30,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 2/. 2s. per Share.

This important line, commencing at the terminus of the Man-
chester and Sheffield Railway, in the populous manufacturing town
of Sheffield, will proceed in a direct course, by or through Hope,
Hathersage, Castleton, Chapel-en-le-Frith, and Whaley (the great
canal-port of the Potteries), to the terminus of the projected Man-
chester and Macclesfield Railway, at Macclesfield, the total length of
the line being nearly thirty miles.
This junction stands in the very centre of the entire railway sys-
tem of England, and will complete the chain of railway communi-
cation between the river Humber, the towns of Sheffield and Mac-
clesfield, the Staffordshire Potteries, the Salt `Niches of Cheshire, the
City of Chester, Liverpool, and Birkenhead, Bangor-Ferry, and the
Harbour of Holyhead. All the necessary arrangements are in pro-
gress to proceed to Parliament at the ensuing session.
A detailed prospectus, containing the names of an influential Pro-
vjsioual Committee, &c., will be published in a few days.
Meantime applications may be made to the Solicitors, Messrs.
lattarns and Fry, 62, Mark-lane, London ; and G. A. Coleman, Esq.,
2, New Inn, Strand. By order,
GEORGE F. HIRE, Secretary.

GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY,
Forming a connecting line between the Midland and Grand
Junction Railways, with a Branch from Derby to Asliby-de-la.
Zetich.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Sir John Edmund De Beauvoir, Bart., Connaught-terrace, Hyde

Park
Francis Valentine Lee, Esq., Chester-place, Regent's Park, Director

of the Eastern Counties Railway
William SiMpson Potter, Esq., 7, Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Di-
rector of the Oxford, Gosport, and Southampton Railway
Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq., Carlton House-terrace, Chairman of the

Irish IlOrth Midland Railway
James Beech, Esq., the Shawe, Staffordshire, and Brandon Hall,

Warwickshire -
Barnet Laurence Phillips, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park,

Director of the Direct Western Railway
Valentine Knight, Esq., 3, Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, Director

of the Dendre Valley Railway
Henry Garrett Key, Esq., Director of the Newport and Abtrgaveuny

Railway
Hugh Henshall Williamson, Esq., Greenway Bank, Newcastle-under-
Lyne, Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Stafford
John Robinson, Esq., Sllcoats Cottage, Wakefield, Director of the
Bradford, Wakefield, and Midland Railway, and of the Leeds, York,
and Midland Junction Railway
Stephen Hutchinson, Esq., London Gas Works, Vauxhall
Henry Cave Leahy, Esq., 5, St. James's-square, Director of the
Great Welch Junction Railway
John Shaw, Esq., Wolverhampton. Director of the South Stafford-

shire Junction Railway
Daniel M`Mahon, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the Derbyshire,

Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway
Samuel Walker, Esq., Wolverhampton. Director •f tho South Staf-

fordahire Junction Railway
Thomas Timmins, Esq., Wolverhampton
Thomas Randle Andrews, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the
Shrewsbury and Grand Junction Railway
William Griffiths, Esq., Park House, Wellington, Salop, Director of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway
Herbert Broom, Esq., Kidderminster, and Essex-court, Temple

. . ,
Caleb Norris, Esq., Lancaster-place, Strand, Director of the Rioter,
Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway
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John Hayes, Esq., South-fields, Leicester
Charles J. Mason, Esq., Fenton, Staffordshire Potteries, Director of

the South Union and Birmingham Junction Railway
Joseph Henry, Esq., South-street, Finsbury, Director of the London,
Hounslow, and Western Railway
Edmund Gulson, Esq., Clonmel, Ireland, Director of the Coventry,

Nuneaton, and Leicester Railway
William B. Costello, Esq., Wyke Haase, Middlesex, Director of the
Direct Lond,,n and Exeter Railway
Martin Sttrtly, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park, Directer
of the Direct Western, Dablin and Belfast, and London and South
Essex Railways.
Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brembo Iron Works, Wrexham, North
Wales, and Cannon-street, Director of the Oxford, South-
ampton, Gosport and Portsmouth, and Direct Western Railways.
Thomas Wynne, Esq., Longton, Staffordshire, Director of the South
Union and Birmingham Junction Railway
henry Dodson, Esq., Suffolk House, Upper Tulse-hill, Director of the
Grand Junction, Great Western, and South-Western Junction
Railways
Esq., the Lodge, Market Drayton, and Con-
Joseph Loxdale Warren,
sail Hall, near Cheadle, Director of the Manchester and Liverpool
District Bank, and Director of the Cambrian and Grand Junction

Railway
Alfred Brodie, Esq., Upper Montagu-street, Montagu-square -
Robert Chaplin, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Edward Mammatt, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
John Beavington, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
T. S. Kirkland, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Thomas Cantrell, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
William Mathew, Esq., Staunton Harold, Lessee of the Staunton
Harold Coal, Lead, and Lime Works
Joseph Bostock, Frsq., Breedon-on-Hill, Lessee of the Breedon Lime

Works
James Reeves, Esq., 150, Cheapside, Director of the Direct London

and Manchester Railway
Harvey Wyatt, ,Esq. Acton-hill's Stafford, Director of the Trent
Valley, Midlands and Grand Junction Railways, and of the Dudley,
Madeley, Brossely, and Iron Midge Railway
Benjamin Payne, Esq., Leicester, Directer of the Rugby, Warwick,
and Worcester Railway, and the Leicester and Birmingham Direct

Railway
Thomas Farmer Cooke, Esq., Leicester, Director of the Rugby, War
wick, and Worcester Railway, and the Leicester and Birmingham
Direct Railway
John Carter, Esq., F.R.A.S., Park Lodge, Stockwell, Director of the
Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Junction Coast Railway
Joseph Carrington Ridgway, Esq., Roehampton Lodge
Edward Tylecote, Esq., Great Heywood, Staffordshire
William Field, Esq., Rugeley, Staffordshire
Samuel Ginders, Esq., Ingestre, Staffordshire, Agent to the Right
Hon. the Earl of Talbot, K.G.
B. S. J. Winterton, Esq., Sketchley Hall, near Hinckley, a Magis-
trate of the County, Director of the Coventry, Nuneaton, and

Leicester Railway
Captain Macdougall, Fir Grove, North Brixton, Director of the Direct
Western Railway
James Lamb, Esq., Hyde Park-square
James Morrison, Esq., St. Mary-at-hill, Director of the Bridgewater

and Minehead Railway
C. H. Rogers Harrison, Esq., Upper Montagu •street, Montagu-square
George Augustus 31.`Dermott, Esq., Chesterton Hall, near Newcastle-

under-liine
Tnlloh Fraser, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square
Wm. Clode Braddon, Esq, Regency-square, Brighton
George Parbury, Esq., Mansfield House, Russell-square
John Lowe, Esq., Norfolk-crescent, Hyde Park
John Griffith Frith, Esq., Chairman of the Londonderry and Cole-
raine Railway
Major-General Parlby, C. 8., Rutland-gate, Director of the Loudon,
Bristol, and South Wales Railway, and Manchester and Rugby
Railway
John Anderson, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway, and Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
Samuel Griffiths, Esq., Penn Fields, Wolverhampton
Henry Turner, Esq., Brewood Hall, Brewood, Staffordshire, Director
of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
Henry Scott, Esq., Banker, Waterford, and 17, Pall-mall
Lewis Adamis, Esq., Basford Hall, Stoke-upon-Trent
Thomas Miller, jun., Esq., Banker, Leicester.
BANKERS—The Union Bank of London.
STANDING COUNSEL.
Charles Howard Whitehuret, Esq., Q.C.
J. Mee Mathew, Esq., F.S.A.
ENGINEER—J. U. Rastrick,ES4l.
ACTING ENGINEER—Robert Nicholson, Esq.
SoLterrous—Messrs. Watts, Galsworthy, and Galsworthy, 19, Ely-
place, Holborn
SECRETARY—SamueI Stanway, Esq.
The first line of the Grand Trunk Railway will commence at the
Loughborough station on the Midland Counties line, and pro-
ceed through the Vale of Sheepshead, to Pegs Green Colliery,
near to the terminus of the Leicester and Swannington Rail-
way, and from thence through the coal-fields of Swannington
and Cole-Orton to Ashby-de-la-'Louth. It will thence proceed across
the Moira Coal-field and through the rich agricultural districts of
Seal, Clifton Campville, and Edingale, to the Birmingham and Derby
Railway, which it will cross near to Elford Park Farm, and thence
traverse the Valley of the Tame until it reaches Alrewas, where it
will form a junction with the branch of the Trent Valley line now in
progress of making. At this point it also meets the proposed South
Staffordshire line, by which means it reaches Lichfield, and by means
of one of the proposed lines it will afford communication with Bir-
mingham.
From Loughborough the line will be further continued to it sfordby
on the Syston and Peterborough Railway, now in progress, and by
means of this latter line, a direct intercourse will be opened with
Melton Mowbray and the various towns through which that route
passes to Peterborough.
By means of its junction with the Trent Valley line at Alrewas the
Grand Trunk reaches Colwich, and there meets the proposed North
Staffordshire line, which proceeds through the heart of the Potteries
to Newcastle-under-Lyre, Leek, and Macclesfield. By means also
of the same Trent Valley line at Alrewas the Grand Trunk pro-
ceeds through Rugeley to Stafford, thus completing its route, and
forming a connecting line between the Midland and Grand Junction
Railways. This branch of the Hee was formerly surveyed by Mr.
Rastrick, and approved of by him as a canal communication, se that
no engineering difficulties exist.
The second line of the Grand Trunk Railway will commence at the
Derby station, and taking the course of the Derby Canal proceed to
Chellaston, where there are extensive plaster-works, and thence

by Swarkestone to the river Trent, which it will cross near to
the ferry at Weston Cliffe, and so proce• d to Kings Newton
and Melbourne. From the latter place it will pass by the
village of Wilson to Breedon-on-the-Hill, where there are extensive
lime-works, and thence proceed by Staunton Harold, connnunicat-
ing by a branch line with the lead, lime, and coal works there ;
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th-enCe by the Lount Colliery to Worthington 'tough, where it will
follow the line of the Cole-Orion and Swanningtou Railway until its
junction with the first line of the Grand Trunk at or near the Pegs
Green Colliery, and so proceed from thence to Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
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As a line for traffic, the Grand Trunk kingdom.
transit to the Leicestershire, Staffordshire, and form the most direct
coal fields, to the Burton breweries, to North and
Shropshire iron and
Ireland to Scotland, and all parts of the north, and tontWirales, and
southern, and western parts of the empire. It will alsole eastern,the
nearest and most direct communication from the east to the be
north-
western manufacturing districts, as well as become the -
from all parts of the kingdom to the midland counties of irnenaita route
The mineral resources are of the very highest order. d.
coal-field is inexhaustible, whilst the coal-beds at Staunton Hard
Moira
alone comprise the finest quality of Kennel to a depth of seven feet,'l
with a super stratum of main coal to a depth of six feet. The
sub-
stratum is yet to bo worked. There are beds of Kennel and main
coal at Cole Orton of equal quality, though nit of equal depth with
those of Staunton Harold, whilst the main coal at Swannington is un-
rivalled, being, in fact, the bowl of the Leicestershire and Derbyshire
coal strata. It is needless to describe the beneficial results which
must arise from this opening of the midland coal district to the Lon-
don and southern markets.
At Staunton Harold and Calks exist rich veins of lead ore, now in
full course of working.
The properties of the Breedon, Staunton Harold, and Ticknall lime
are so well known to agriculturists and others, that an extension of
traffic for so valuable a commodity into mre remote districts must
be of the utmost importance to the practical farmer.
In approaching the Trent, on leaving the lime district, the Grand
Trunk will fall in with most valuable quarries of millstone grit, ser-
viceable for paving and building purposes, and for which a ready
market would be found along the line. The country also abounds
in gypsum, of which immense quantities are used in Birming-
ham and elsewhere : these markets will thus become oper.ed for the
quarries at Chellaston.
A new and extensive outlet will also be opened for the earthenware
of Wooden Box and Griesley Potteries.

Until the Act of Parliament be obtained, the affairs will be under
the control of the Committee of Management, to whom power is
given to allot the shares and apply the funds of the Company in
payment of all proper expenses in the formation of the Company and
otherwise.
Power will be applied for in the Act, and in the meantime the
Committee of Management take power, to alter or extend the lines,
to make branch lines, to abandon any part of the line, to raise addi-
tional capital, and to enter into arrangements with any other Com-
pany or C'Nupanies.
Application for shares must be made to the solicitors to the Com-
pany, Messrs. Watts, Galsworthy, and Galsworthy, 19, Ely-place,
Holborn, Loadon ; to the Secretary, at the Offices of the Company,
3, Adelaide-place, London-bridge ; and to the following
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Messrs, Keen and Hand, Stafford
Thomas Bolton, Esq., Wolverhampton
E. Kem Jarvis, Esq., Hinckley
Messrs. Koary and Sheppard, Stoke-upon-Trent
Thomas Piddock, Esq., Asithy-de-la-Zouch
F. J. Hamel, Esq., Tamworth
John Perks, Esq., Burton-upon-Trent
Beauvoir Brock, Esq., Loughborough
Charles 2riesley, Esq., Lichfield
Messrs. Moore and Gregory, Leicester.
Also to the following :

SHAREBROKERS.
London—Messrs. Hill, Fawcett, and Hill, Threadneedle-street
Messrs. -Harris and Sons, 'Change-allay
Bristol-11:11e.s.s.r.
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TP°°l--Me"rs• Townley and Whitehead
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Messrs. Weatoerburn and Jennings. Birmingham—Mr. J. B. Lane
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Jamieson
Newcastle—Mr. W. W. Dicitiumn
Bradford—Mr. William Mason
Sheffield—Messrs. Bardwell and Sens
Hull—Mr. Francis Stamp
Wakefield—Mr. S. H. Armitage
Nottingham—Mr. C. Spencer
Worcester—Mr. W. Miles
York—Messrs. Grayston and Erle
Blackburn—Mr. Thomas Boardman
Southampton—Mr. Joseph Clark, jun.
Exeter—Messrs. H. Beaumont and Co.
Edinburgh—Mr. Charles Cowper, 30, St. Andrew's-square
Cheltenham—Mr. James Stokes
Leicester—Mears. WillMws aria Sanderlana Messrs. Eagletleld
And CO,

PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.
F. EIC and MANSFIELD RAILWAY,
forming a Junction between Boston and Holyhead, and
uniting, by a direct line, Lincolnshire, Derbyshire, and Nottingham-
shire, with the Counties of Chester, Lancaster, and Stafford.
Capital 600,0001., in 30,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Right Hon. Lord Rossmore, Lord-Lieutenant of the county of
Monaghan
The Hon, Francis Curzon, Barrow, Derbyshire
Sir William Magnay, Bat t., Alderman, and late Lord Mayor of Lon-
don ; a Director of the Great Luxembourg, and of the Direct
London and Holyhead, and Port Dynllaen Railway Companies
W. Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., Alderman of London,
Chairman of the Birkenhead, Chester, Meld, Rhuabon, and Vale of
Llangollen ; and of the Great Western, Southern, and Eastern
Counties Railway Companies
Charles Dickson Archibald, Esq., F. 8.5., Rushland Hall,
Lancashire, and Regent's Park, London ; Director of the South
Staffordshire, and of the Tean and Dove Valley Railway Compa-
nies ; and on the Committee of Management of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct Railway Company
J. R. W. Atkinson, Esq., Elrnswood House, Leeds, Director of the
Leicester and Bedford Railway Company
James Bowns, Esq., merchant, Mansfield
Richard Broomhead, Esq., Mansfield
Joseph Brown, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Erewash Valley Ex-
tension, and a Director of the East and West of England Junction
Railway Companies
William Chadwick, Esq., a Director of the Erewash Valley, and of
the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport,and Portsmouth Railway Com-
panies
John Chambers, Esq.; the Hurst, Alfreton
John Churchill, Esq., a Director of the Manchester and Birming-
ham Continuation, and of the Oxford, Southampton, and Gosport
Railway Companies
Nathan Cooper, Esq., Mansfield
The Rev. T. L. Cursham, D.C.L. the Vicarage, Mansfield
The Rev. William Cursham, Mansfield
John Dodsley, Esq., Skegby Hall, Skegby
Thomas Dowgiasse, Esq , St. John's Wood, a Director of the Great
Eastern and Western Railway Company
Robert Forman, Esq., Abbot's Hill, Derby
Solomon Foster, Esq., Mansfield
Smith Fowler, Esq., Nottingham
Martin Furniss, Esq., Mansfield
Frederick Hewitt, Esq.; Clapham, Surrey, a Director of the Erewash
Valley Extension Railway Company
Thomas Kirkland, Esq., Mansfield
George Lawton, Esq , Ditchleys, Essex, a Director of the South Mid-
land Railway Company
Stephen Lewis, Esq., a Director of the South Wales, and of the Man-
chester and Rugby Railway Companies
The Rev. William Linwood, M.A , Mansfield
C. Lowden, Esq., Director of the Richmond Railway Company
George Miller, Esq., Mount street, Grosvenor-square, a Director of the
Manchester and Rugby Railway Company, and of the Central Rail-
way Terminus Company
Thomas Minnett, Esq., merchant, Mansfield
Ambrose Moore, Esq., a Director of the Dendre Valley Railway
Company
The Worshipful the Mayor of Nottingham
John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., Scc., Cambridge-terrace, e-terra , Hyde Park ;
e Northampton,
a Director of the Irish Great Western, and of the
Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway Companies
George Perry, Esq., Mansfield
John Pickersgill, Esq., Tavistock-square ; a Director of the Birken-
head, Chester, Mold, Rhuabon, and Vale of Llangollen, and of the
Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire Junction Railway Companies
Thelu Rev. Clement BoYds, Esq., Rochdale, Chairman of the Preston and Wyre
Railway Company
M.
Rowles,
John
Esq., l'oo Poole,
J. ansficki
Joseph Shaw, Esq., Huddersfield ; a Director of the Manchester and
Birmingham Continuation, and of the Huddersfield Railway
Companies
Brook-street, Grosvenor-square ; a Di-
wNeorttuinrthokam.
rector of the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth
Robert
Iv R. !iti Company
I.Vaiylkinson, Esq., a Director of the Erewash Valley Extension
Thomas
WWatakkinefise,lEd'elE.7lLo'
and South Midlands Junction Railway Companies
13. B. Williams, Esq., Wyndham-place, Ilryanstone-square ; a Di-
rector of the Landon and Manchester Direct Railway Company
(With power to add to their number).
COMMITTEE OF DIRECTION.
WILLIAM HUGHES HUGHES, Esq., Alderman, Chairman.
CHARLES DICKSON ARCHIBALD, Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
The Right Hon. Lord Rossmore Thomas Dowgiasse, Esq,
Sir William Magnay, Bart. Frederic Hewett, Esq.
J. R. Atkinson, Esq. John Parkinson, Esq.
Joseph Brown, Esq. John Pickersgill, Esq.
William Chadwick, Esq. Robert Watkins, Esq.
The Rev. T. L. Curshaw, D.C.L.

BANKERS.
The London Joint-stock Bank ; the Union Bank of London
The Nottingham and NottinghapAshire Banking Company, Notting-
ham and Mansfield
North and South }Vales Bank, Liverpool
Messrs. Clement Itoyds and Son, Rochdale
Messrs. Fowler, Gaunt, and Co., Leek and Congleton
The Ashbourn Union Bank, Ashbourn and Uttoaeter.
ENGINEERS—Messrs. J. B. and E. Birch.
SOLICITORS.
John Bethell, Esq., 78, King William. street
I'. A. Burrell, Esq., 1, White Hart-court, Lombard-street.
SECRETARY—Ernest Charles Jones, Esq.
PROSPECTUS.
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Nottinghamshire, with the counties of Chester,
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ter, Lancaster,Bostonis pa
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jected