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

THE CHESTER AND MANCHESTER
DIRECT RAILWAY.

fltice is hereby given, that the Parliamentary Contract and Sub-
scribers' Agreement are now lying for execution at the Company's
Office, No. 1, Royal Exchange Buildings, London, between the hours
of Ten and Five o'clock in the day, when, upon signature of the deed,
the Banker's Receipt will be exchanged for Scrip.
By order, A. BARRETT, Secretary.
Sept. 12, 184.5.

LONDON, SALISBURY, AND YEOVIL
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
At a Meeting of the inhabitants of the borough of Salisbury, held
at the Council Chamber, on the 9th day of September, 1645, in pur-
suance of a requisition to the Mayor ;
E. E. P. KELSEY, Esq., Mayor, in the chair;
It was proposed by W. ANDREWS, Esq., seconded by ROBERT
SQVARET, Esq., and resolved unanimously,
That this meeting pledges itself to support the scheme for extend-
ing the line of communication from the South-Western line at
Basingstoke, to Salisbury, Yeovil, and Exeter, as proposed by the
South-Western, London, Salisbury, and Yeovil, and Exeter and
Yeovil Companies. E. E. P. KELSEY, Mayor.

THE GREAT NORTHERN AND SOUTH-
ERN DIRECT RAILWAY FROM HUDDERSFIELD TO
DERBY.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,b000,000/., in 75,000 Shares of 201.
Deposit, 21. 25. per Share.
(In compliance with the Standing Orders of Parliament.)
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Mastermann and Co.
Huddersfield—The West Riding Union Banking Company.
ENGINEERS.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—J. U. Rastxick, Esq.
♦CTING 2NOINEER.

Bowe riots —Messrs. Bettye and Clay, and Mr. Robt. T. Robinson,
Huddersfield.

LONDON Aozere—Sfessrs. Sudlow, Sons, and Torr, 20, Chancery-lane.
The object of this railway is, in conjunction with the intended
lines from Huddersfield to Halifax and the North, to connect, in the
most direct route, the important and increasing manufacturing
towns of Huddersfield, Halifax, Bradford, and Keighley, with the
metropolis and south of England, and at the same time to complete
the intended chain of railway communication from Glasgow and the
north, by the shortest and most direct route, with London, and from
the south to Glasgow, and other parts of Scotland.
It is intended to commence by a junction with the Huddersfield
and Sheffield Railway (for which an Act of Parliament has already
hoe, obtained) at or near Holmfirth. and to proceed from thence
through the last-mentioned place to Woodhead, and across the Man-
charger and Sheffield Railway there, thence to or near Athersage,
Nether Palley, Froggatt, Bubffell, Bakewell, Matlock, Cromford. and
to follow the course of the River Derwent to its junotlon with the
North Midland Station near to Ambergate, and from thence to Helper
or Derby.
The present route from Haddersfield to Derby is very circuitous,
being now 81 miles, whilst by the intended line the distance between
those places will be reduced to 51 miles ; and will also be the most
direct conununication that can be formed between Glasgow, Carlisle,
nettle, Sk'pton, Caine, Keighley, Halifax, Huddersfield (by means of
the projected railway,) and the counties of Derby, Nottingham,
Leicester, Northampton, Bedford, and London.
It will open the extensive and celebrated stone quarries and coal
in Ines of West Yorkshire, and afford an inexhaustible supply of coal
and steno to the 'Midland and Southern Counties, and at the same
time open fresh markets for the products of the celebrated Derbyshire
mines,—the cost of which, from the increased facilities of direct
transit to be of by this railway, will be materially lessened ;
ltd at the same time the markets of the manufacturing towns of
West Yorkshire will be rendered infinitely more accessible for the
Oen', wool, cheese, and other productions of the extensive and fertile
agricultural districts of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, and the south.
The survey of the line has been to a great extent completed, and
correct estimates of the expenditure and return are in preparation.
There are no engineering difficulties in any part of the line which
have not been repeatedly surmounted in other cases, whilst by far
the greater porti,:n of the southern part of the line will be constructed
at am unusually small expense.
Powers will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow interest at
41. per cent= per annum on the deposits, and preference in the al-
lotment of shares will be given to the proprietors of the land through
which the line will pass, and to the shareholders in the Huddersfield
end Sheffield, and Huddersfield, Halifax, and Keighley lines.
The 'felines of a large and influential Committee, with a detailed
prospectus, will shortly be published.
All communications relative to the line, as also applications for
sharer (In the form below), accompanied by a satisfactory reference.
may be made and addressed to the Solicitors, at whose offices every
neee.,ssary information will be given.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

To the Provisional Committee of the Great Northern and Southern
Direct Railway from Huddersfield to Derby.

Gentlemen,—l hereby request that you will allot me shares
of 201. each in the above proposed railway ; and I hereby undertake
to pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per share thereon, or any lesser number
of shares which may be allotted to me ; and I also undertake to
execute the Parliamentary Contract and the Subscribers' Agreement
when required.—l am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
Name in full
Profession, Trade, or Occupation • • • • • • • • • •
Residence in full .. ••-•••••••• • • • • • • • • • • •
Place of Business (if any) • • • • • • • • •• • • • • • •
Name of Referee ••••-••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • •
Address of Referee •••-•••••••• • • • • • • • • • •

NORTII-WESTERN TRUNK RAILWAY,
witou C2tEWE DIRECT TO GLOUCESTER, passing
through ti,e TONYILi of Market-Drayton, Newport, Shiffnal, Kidder-
minster, Worcester, and Tewkesbury, forming the shortest and most
de.drable Communication between Liverpool, Manchester, and the
Northern Parts of England and Gloucester and the Bristol Channel.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,250,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 21. 10s. per Share.

•
(Being in accordance with the Standing Orders of the House of
Commons.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Tho Hon, Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney; 4, parliament-street, Whit e-
h all, Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway
noonay, Bart., Ashbonrn Hall, Derbyshire, Director of
the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester H dlway
John Moor, Esq., Tutbury, Staffordshire, Director of the Stafford-
shire Potteries and Manchester and Liverpool Railway, and of the
Derby and Manchester and Shropshire Mineral Railways
John George Norbury, Esq,, Mancetter House, Atherstone,
Oirector of the Leicester and Bedford and Shropshire Mineral

ways
Jeremiah Clarke, Esq., Macclesfield and London, Director of the
Direct London and Manchester and Shropshire Mineral Railways
Clement Tabor, Esq., Cornhill, London, Director of the London
and County Bank, and of the National Loan-Fund Assurance
Company
Reginald Kemp, Esq., Abchurch-lane, London, Director of
tho Chelmsford and Bury Railway
Shomas Bernard Badneley, Esq., Newport, Salop, Director of the

ihropihire Mineral Railway -
Altman4er Brodio Cochrane, jun., Esq., ironmaster, Holly Hall,
near fludiej, Director of the Dudley, Madeley, and Broseley

hallway
George 11. Fourdrinler, Esq., Hanley, Staffordshire Potteries, Direc-
tor of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
John Benson, Esq., Park-place Villa, Maida-hill, London
William Shaw, Esq., Managing Director of the Royal Farmers' Fire
and Life AtiStIrSTICE Company, Director of the London and Bir-
mingham Extension, and Warwick and Worcester Railways
Richard Lambert, Esq., Lyston Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk, Director
or the Cork and Fermoy Direct Railway
Ambrose giller, Esq., Lower Thames-street, and Upper Bedford-
place, Hmisell-4quAre, London, Director of the Oxford, Witney, and
eiz.itenhain Hallway
William Millington, Esq., ironmaster, Summerhill Works, Tipton,
StaffordAio re, 111 rector of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
William Holmes, Esq., St. George's-terrace, Kensington, and Kentish-

town
William Simpson Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, and
Lower ThAmes-street, Director of the South and Midlands Junc-

tion Railway
John Rawson, Esq., Stoney Royd, near Halifax, magistrate, and
Deputy-Chairman of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and Director
of the Manchester, Liverpool, and great North of England
Union Railway, of the Shropshire Mineral Railway, and of the
National Bank of Ireland
Joseph Charles Ridge, Esq., merchant, Manchester, Director of the
Lon:lon, Holyhead, and Port Dy-nll.len Railway
William Tomkinson Riley, Esq. =Meld Works, Bllston, Director
of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction
Railway
10-ispit Bull, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Staffordshire Pot-
teries and Manchester and Liverpool Railway
Igun‘s Stead,Bradf ,ord Yorkshire,Director of the Liverpool
and Leeds. and snropenre Mineral Railways
barnuel TuSor, Esq., Upper Thames-street and Hull, Director of the
Derby, Utt..-xeter, and Stafford Railway
William Wood, ZAI., Chetwynd House, Newport, Salop, Di-
rector of the Le€J4 and Liverpool Direct, and of the Derbyshire
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railways
Rdward Edwards, Esq., Ironbridge, Shropshire, Director of the
Dire,et Londen and Holyhead, and of the Dudley, Madeley, and
Itroreaey Railways
Rev. Matthew Yatman Starkle, Rector of Rushbury, near Church

Stratton
Charles Merritt Itigg, Esq., M.D.. York-place, Portman-square,
Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
gov. Thomas Humphreys, Bishops Castle, Director of the Shropshire
Mineral Railway
James McMillan, Esq., Matichester-huildings, Westminster
(I,e3rge Young, Esq., Foley House, Longton, Staffordshire Potterieel
Sample/1i Bridilwood, Esq., Spratslade House, Longton
William Ottey, Esq., Longtou
John Ashwell, Ese., Longton, Director of the Nottingham and Gains-
borough, and Staffordshire Potteries, Liverpool and Manchester
Railways
Wilt:em George, Esq., Weston, near Mach-Wenlock
Thorfuo Goddard, Req., Bank House,Longton, Staffordshire Potteries
Weaver Lewty, Esq., Wilden Iron Works, near Stourport,
Director fthe Dudley, Madeley,
Thomas and Broseley Railway.
Thomas Lamb: Murray, Esq., George-street, Hanover-square, Di-
rector of ltosam,-:rs Great Northern f.ailway, of the National Bank
Not' Ireland, and of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
Esq., John-street, Bedford-row, London, Director
eph Thompson,
of the London and Brigi,lon, Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire,
=and Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation Railways
BANEEas.
Norm. Rogers, Old'ng, and Co., Clement's-lane, London
the London and County Bank, Lombard-street, London
.11 e. Adams, Warren, and Co., Shrewsbury and Market Drayton
The ,
4hropskire Banking Company, Shiffnall
tion
The al ITovincial Bank of England, Newport
Messrs. Farley and Turner, Kidderminster
Messrs. Farley, Lavender, and Co., Worcester
The Gloucestershire Banking Company, Worcester and Tewkesbury
SOLICITORS.
Ingleby Thomas Miller, Esq., 3, Abchurch-lane, London
nund Garbett, Esq., Wellington, Salop
William Billiton, Esq., Kidderminster
*jibed Brown, Egg. LOCALaI. AGENTS.
William Burdett, Esq., ManheSteT
Charles G. Brown, Esq., Bilston
Thomas Griffin, Esq., Chelton, Staffordshire Potteries
Thomas Bernard Baddeley, junior, Esq., Newport.
SscarrAar—J. Stevens, Esq.
Temporary Offices, 3, Abchurch-lane, London.
This line of Railway will commence at the junction of the Man-
bester and Birmingham, Chester and Crewe, and Grand Junction
Railways, at Crewe, in the county of Chester, and proceed from
thence through or near the towns of Market Drayton, Newport, and
Ahlifnal, In Shropshire, thence through the flourishing town of Kid-
e.:,nuinster, to Worcester and Tewkesbury, and to the Bristol Rail-
way' at Gloucester. By this means it will form the most direct
route rro:n Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Hull, and Chester to the
hoportant ;vets of Gloucester and Bristol, indeed the most direct
tine from the oorth of England to the Bristol Channel. It will, also,
to conjunction wtii: the proposed Hereford and Worcester, and Swan-
sea, merthyr.Tyth,ii, And Hereford Railways, form the most advan-
tageous route from Swansea and the iron districts of South Wales,
to Liverpool, Manchester, and NMI.
The line will cross the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway at
Shiff'nal, and the Shropshire Mineral Railway and the Trent Valley
llnion at the thriving town of Newport. It will form a junction
with the two latter railways at Newport, whereby persons and lug-
gage may be conveyed to Stafford, Derby, the Midland Counties,
'lltaffordshire Potteries, Sheffield, and Hull; and, In addition to the
earriage of heavy goods from Bristol, Gloucester, Worcester, and
ILiciJerraluster, to Manchester, Liverpool, the whole of the north of
BnglauJ, and Scotland—will secure a large passenger traffic in the
district thi.augh which it passes.
Thu proposixl railway will be about 87 miles in length, and be-
tween the two termini of Crewe and Gloucester, will save in distance
at least 20 miles, and the Journey can be accomplished, at the pre-
sent rapid rate of travelling, in about two hours. This project as a
}unction has, connects Itself with some of the most Important rail-
ways in the kingdom. It also skirts the large, extensive, and densely
populated iron districts of Shropshire and Staffordshire, and in its
rich
course passes through a agricultural country. It must, there-
fore, 1s obvious that there
will be a sufficient traffic to pay a high
rate of interest on the capital required.
There are no engineeringiffieultles in the country through which
the line Is intended to pass,the whole being nearly on a level, and
ou reference to the mapofrountry, taken from the Ordnance survey,
which accompanies the prospectus, the line win appear straight, and
will at the same time show the superior advantages it possesses, and
at
by any existing or projected lines,
it cannt be surp..d
between
the same teormini.
/t not interfere with any ornamental Property, and no tunnel-
ling will b.' required.
The llah:h;les of the Shareholders will be limited to the amount of
their subscriptl.2lls, and interest will be allowedyren ont the deposite and
the lino.s to the opening or
farther calls, fromdate of the several
pa
__lolicitors and
peospastusee, with Map: and Forms of Applicatl n Shares,
be had from the Secretary on application at the°t for
-""
of the Company, 3, Abchurch-lane, London; from the Soli" °Me"
Looal Agents ; also from the following Brokers, via,
2, Birchin-lane, London ; Mr. Andrew Milligan, 2, Lowrtihtea-sttsLeoerti:Bolur.-
ke,thedd ; Mr. E. 11. Collis, Birmingham ; Mr. W.
George, Liverpool ; Messrs. Sohmes and Tripp, Bristol Messrs.
hurley Turley and Cooper, Leeds ; and Messrs. Green and Oldham, Man-
be
aster to whom Applications for Sres may be addressed. It win
be necessary that reference be made toga
Banks!, ilollcitor, or person
vf responsibility.