The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-15 00:00:00

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PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.
GREAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT
RAILWAY.
By a Junction with the Eastern Counties Railway at Bedford.
Distance, 120 miles.
Capital, 2,500,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 2'. 12s. 6d. per Share.
?Lament to the Standing Orders of the Home of Commons.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.
The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne
The Lord Stephen Chietester, Ormeau, Belfaitc and Arnar and Navy

Club, London
Sir Robert Alexander, Bart., Charles-street, Manchester-squaro
Vs William Twisden, Bart., Dorset-street, Portman-square, Director
of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction. and
Lrewash "Valley Extension Railways
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Parthenon Club, Director of the
Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction, and of the
South and Midland Junction, and West Midlands Thallways
lr John Osborn, Bart. Earl's-court, Brompton
Sir John Key, Bart., 9,king's Arms-yard, Alderman of L 07141011, Di-
rector of the Manchester and Loudon, and of the Direot Liverpool
and Leeds Railway
•aptain Frederick Polhill, M.P. for Bedford
Major-General Sir Robert Barton, K.C.11., Director of the York and
Lancaiter Railway
tjor-General Thomas Morgan, Singleton-house, Torquay
Major-General Wright, Royal Enzineers, Gloucester-place, Portman-

square
Ackroyd, Esq., Westbourne Lodge, Otley, Director of the
East and We York, Liverpool and LeeJs Direct, and Lectli and
Carlisle thillways
Thomas Al,,xander, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian, and
Trent Valley Continuation Railways
Francis Rimes Alliott, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Amber.
gate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction, and one of
the Provi,:lonal Committee of the Nottingham and Galnsborough

Railway Companies
Henry Ambler, Esq., wonted spinner And manufa2turer, Wetkinson-
hail, neir Halifax, areeter of the West Yorkshire Railway, and
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Liverpool awl Lee:l3 Direct Railway.
C. H. Anflorson, Esq., Upper Clapton, Dirastor of the South "Midland

Railway
Gorge Ashlin, T 131., Director of the Ltverpool and Neweastle-npon-

Tyne Railway
Mel-rani Armitage, Esq., Huddersfield And Great Grimsby, Director
of the :.lfamhester and Great arlmyby, and Neighley, HaMal and
Huddersfield Junction Railways
The Rey. Charics Edward Arrn:itrong. lienviworth
Joha Ahmander iyic tneli, Ean., Brandon-cottage, Bristol, Director of
the Oxi-rd. and Worcester Extension Railway
Charles Bantimi, jun., Esq., Director of the Hall and Barnsley. and

Leeds and Carlisle Railways
Bardgett, Esq., Winchester-huazc, Broad-street, Director of
the Italian and Austrian, and the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford
Railways
William Banks, Esq , Honey-lane-mrxket, Director of the Manches-
ter and Rughy Direct Railway, via Ditacclesileld
John Dyng Bant,s, Esq., Stockwell, Surrey
Fe,chney Black, Esq, Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Direc-
tor of the Italian and Austrian, and E>outh and Midland Junction

Railways
Weech Burgess, Esq., Temple's-park, Hampstead, Director of
the Goole, Doncaster, and Sheffield, .Ashton-under-Lyne, And Great

Grimsby Railway
Charles Salisbury Butler, Esq.,the Lodge, Upper Clapton
Josiah Bun-owes, Esq., Castle-house, GDmersall, mar Leeds
Thomas Burnley, Esq., Gomersall, near Leeds, Director of the Leeds
and Brest Riding Junction Ikaiiway, and of the Liverpool and Leeds

Direct Railway
Samuel Bateman, Esq., Croft-house, near Bradford, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct RathVeY
Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Selby

Railway
Dr. Brigstock, Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester

Rail way
Joseph Browne, Esq., Bedford
James Brand, Esq., 9, New Broad-street, Director of the Cambridge
and Lincoln, and G,-eat Luxemburg Ratravay
John Blore, Esq., Tutbory, Director of the Tcan and Dove Valley,
the Derby and Gainsborough, the Shropshire MilleraißailwaYs, &c.
Job Bullivant, Esq., East Retford
William Butt, Esq., Sandiacre, Derbyshire
Robert Burton, Esq., merchant, Woodville, .Notts
James Butlin, Esq , banker, West Field- tome, Rugby, Director of
the Rugby and Huntingdon, and one of the Provisional Committee
oi'the Oxford and Birmingham Junction. Railway Companies
molar,: Biddle, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Richard 1.11:7 kin, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
John Fillingh,:ll2 Bishop, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Thomas Butt, E 64., merchant, Nottingham
Richard Bradley, Esq., Grantham, Direct or of the Amber-gate, Not-
tingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
William Bradley. Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Chairman of the Direct
Western, and Isle of Ely and Lincolnshire Junction Railways
John Fowler Burbidge, Esq., Mayor of Grantham, Director of the
Amber-gate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction
Railway
Jonathan Burton, Esq., merchant. Carrington, Nottinghamshire
Director of the 'Nottingham and Gahmborough Railway
William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., magimLrate, Hull, Director of the
Rugby, Warwick, and Leamington, ant: of the Liverpool and Leeds

Direct Railways
Thomas Challis, Esq., Alderman of London
John Carter, Ese., Knottingley
Thomas Carter, Esq., Tanshclf, Magistrate for tir Borough of Pon-
tefract
Charles CharnocNuEsq., Holmfield-house, near Ferrybridge
Millis Coventry:l'aq., Director, of the South and Midland Junction,
and Birminghant Extension Railways
B. Clements, Esq., Lowudes-square, Director •f the Western Ja-
maica Railway
Robert Cook, Esq., Elainsborongh, Director of the Manchester, Mid-
land, and Great Cltimsby, Gainsborough, Goole, and Isle of Ax-
holtne,,end the ebeach, Isle of Ely, and Lincolnshire Junction

ItfliWayS
J. Cottam, Esq., East Retford
John Cutts, Esq., Little Bardfield-hall, near Braintree, Essex
s
James Director of the Paris and Strasburg, Southampton,
Manchelister, and Oxford, and the Manchester, Rugby, and Mac.

clesileld Railways
W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the London and Birmingham

Extension
Henry Sherrard. Coleman, Esq., Crown-court, Old Broad-street
John Catmt, Esq.., Ncktingham
Thomas ?dark Caz ter, Esq., Woodgreaves-house, near Wakefield, Di-
rector of the Maqchecter, lluddersfleld, and Great Grimsby Direct
Railway
George Augustus 11 amilton Chichester, Esq., Oakfleld, Donegal, and
15, Chesham-plact , Belgrave-square, Director of the Grand Wales
Central, and Lomtan and Exeter Direct Railways
William Champion, .I":sq., Worksop
Cheetham,William merchant, Nottingham
Nathan Cooper, Esq, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Francis Dacre, Esq., Stratford, Essex
George Dennis, Esq., Director of the Rhondda and Ely Valleys Jane-
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tion Railway
Joseph Dent, Esq., 161111 ton-hall, Wetherby, Magistrate for the
North-west Riding of Yorkshire
A. A. Davenport, Esq., rirector of the Oxford and Worcester Exten-
sion, and Worcester Junction Railways
Joseph L. Davenport, 1.:8a., Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby,
and Manchester Railway
John Alleock Di ton, Esq., Burnley, Lancashire, Director of the Li-
verpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Richard Dransfield, Esq., Dalton, Huddersfield, Director of the
Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct,
and of the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Hallways
Edward Doubleday, Esq., F.L.S., Director of the Rugby, Warwick,
and Worcester Railway
Matthew Dawson, Esq., Pontefract
William Dawson, Esq., !Wakefield, Director of the Peterborough,
Wisbeach, Lynn, and Boston, and the Sheffield, Wortley, Silk-
stone, and Wakefield Railways
John Campbell Dicker, Esq., New-hall, by Neston, Director of the
Birkenhead and Holyhead, and the Birmingham, Oxford, and

Reading Railways
Henry Dunn, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Manchester, Hudders-
field, aid Great Grimsby Railway
Francis Ewart, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey-

mouth Railway
John Elliott, Esq., Townhead-house, Rochdale
Lieut.-Col. Fitch, 36, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Managing Direc-
tor of the York and Lancaster Railway
Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Ex-

tension Railway
Solomon Foster, Esq., 3fansfield, Director of the Nottingham, Mans-
field, and Midland Junction Railway
Martin Furniss, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Erewash and Shef-

field Railway
John Griffiths Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Chairman of the London-
derry and Coleraine, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways
William Fisher, Esq., Amcotts-house, near East Retford
James Fotherglll, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Richard W.Fitzpatrick, Esq., barrister-at-la,w,Gloncester-road, Hyde-

park-gardens
George Green, Esq., Pontefract
James Gilbertson, Esq., Alderman, and Magistrate for Hertford
William Gibson, Esq., Glasgow
R. P. Gipps, Esq., Director of the Coventry and Nuneatox Railway
Charles Goldsmith, Esq., Friday-street, Cheapskie
William Gordon, Esq., M.D., F.L.S., Director of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct Railway
Henry Swan Graves, Esq., Ely Bank-lodge, Halifax
John Gully, Esq., Ackworth-park, Ackworth
Wiliam Gibbs, Esq., Camberwell, Director of the South Metropolitan

Cemetery Company
William Gill, Esq., Riclnnond, Yorkshire, Director of the Leeds and
Carlisle, and Northumberland and Lancashire Railways
John Godber, Esq., lincknall Torkard, Nottinghamshire, Director of
the Amber-gate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction,
and Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway Companies
Thomas John Green, Esq., Mayor of Bedford
Richard Hall. Esq., Carnarvon-hall, Stratford, Director of the Strat-
ford and Thames Junction, and North Woolwich Railways
R. F. Hall, Esq., Wiseton, near Bawtry
S. C. Hall, Esq., F.S.A., Inner Temple, Director of the Erewash
Valley Extension and West Midland Railways
W. H. Halpin, Esq., Director of the Ti ing Reading, and Basing-
stoke, and Sheßeld and Macclesfield Railways
Robert Hull, Esl.. M.D., Norwich
Samuel Hammond, Esq., Leeds
John George Hammack, Esq., Director of the Direct Western, and
the litetropOlitan Junction Railways
William Hepwcath, Esq., Pontefract, a Deputy-Lieutenantaad J.P.
for the West RiciZng of Yorkshire
John Mason Flepwm th, Esq., Eden-place, Ackworth, J.P. for the
West Riding of Yorksh.lre
Joshua Hepworth, Esq., Bogerthorpe-hall, Badsworth
Thomas Heels, Esq., Skipton Castle, Skipton, Director of the Lanca-
shire and North Yorkshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire North
Eastern, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways
John Dip Imes, Esq., East RetfOrd
Robert ilerries, Esq., East-street, Leeds, :Director of the Liverpool
and Leeds Direct Railway
Director of the Rugby, Derby, and
Charles Holbrooke, Esq. Derby,
Manchester
John Howard, Esq., Royal Foundry, Redford
Thotna3 Haigh, Esq., Wakefield, late High Constable of Wakefield
John Hardy, jun., Esq., banker, Grantham, Director of the Amber.
gate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
John Harris, Esq., Springfleld-house, near Bedford
Charles Higgins, sen., Esq. St. Cuthbert's, Bedford
Geerge Higgins, Esq., Bedford
The Rev. Charles Walter Hudson, Rectory, Saundby, near Gains-

borough
George Hurst, Esq., Bedford
John Midge, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and DI--
rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway
IVm. Empson Jalland, Esq., Holderness House, near Hull, Director

of the York and Hull Railway
Boswell Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holder!) ess-house, near Hull, Magis-
trate for the Ea Riding of York and Borough of Hull, and Di-
rector of the Liverpe:d and Leef,s, and Hull and Barnsley Railways
John Jameson, Esq., Honey lane-market
Jameson, Egg., Shelton, Staffordshire, Director of the
Staffordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct
:always
Win. Jones Johnson, Esq., Bedford
Joseph Jones, Esq., Mayor of Hull, and Director of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct Railway
Thornaq Reginsll Kemp, Esq., Director of Use Blythe and Churnet
ValleyS, or "Macclesfield and Lichfield Railways
Jeremiah Kaye, Esq., Huddersfield and Great Grimsby, Director
• of the Manchester and Great Grimsby, and Ksighley, Halifax, and
Huddersfield J unction Railways
George K'ppax, Esq., Ordsall-villa, near East Retford
Mr. Samuel Knight, Pontefract
George Lawton, Esq., Ditchley's, Essex, Director of the Chepstow,
forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway
IL C. Leahy, Esq., St. JallieS'S-Mllare
Moses Edward Legg, Esq., Watling-street, London
Captain Henry Leech, Bedford
Charles Denton Leech, Esq., Bury St. Edmunds
Williain Ley, Esq,, 40, Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Direetor of
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the Reading and Reigate Railway
L. Stephens Lyne, Esq., Broad-street, Director of the Western

Jartalea Ralway
P. Bennett Lucas, Esq., Director of the Sligo an.i Shannon, the Ips-
wich and Southampton, and the Cork Passage and Kinsale
Railway
James Lamb, Esq., 25, Hyde-park-square, Director of the Scottish
Western, and the Direct Western Railways
John 'Art, Esq., Wood-street, Cheapside
Jamei -teeming, Esq., Bradford, Director cf the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct, and Keighley, Halifax. and Huddersfield Junction Railway
Samuel Lovell, Esq., merchant, Bedford
Captain J. P. Macdougall, Fir-grove, North Brixton, Director of the
Leeds, Fleetwood, and Liverpool, and Isle of Man Railways
John-B. Mann, Esq., Leeds
Thomas ilack:At Massey, Esq., Newark•upon•Trent, and Dedrord-
square, Hyda-park
Thomas 3PTurk, Esq., Hull
Williaut Mee, Esq., East itetford
W. R. Mesham, Esq., V.D., Bedford
tel,ert Mellingten, Esq Onicall-house, near East Rettbnl, Director
of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
Moorhouse Eel. larie-ville, Knottingloy, a Provisional
Director of the Sheffield,
Peter, Morrison, Esq., Dlrectorruof'fls;t'itactlaatisNl,l3llkleindelaidruilslaJilulacytion, and
e. Lyndon and Birmingham Extension
James Museroft, Esq., Pontefract, liagistra7,7
Pro-
visional Director of the Oxford and W'orCreatthere Borough,te, sto Pariovi
Chester Junction Railway
George Mackintosh, Esq., Upper Seymour-street, Portman
John- 31anwaring, Esq., Pateley-bridge, Yorkshire, Director- -ihe,
York and Lancaster Railway
Burnley, Director of the Liverpool
Ord Massey, Esq., Hawkes-house,
and Leeds Direct, the Blackburn, Chorley, and Liverpool, and
Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield .Tunction R.silways
Thomas Micklethwaite, Esq., Wakefteld
:iharles Middleton, Esq., Nottinghampaik
Joseph Nftail, anehester, Director of the Manchester and
Southampton, and the Leeds and Carlisle Railways
William Joseph Nash, Esq., Bedford .
John Norton, Esq., eorn's-s -aare Westminster, and Moat.
1, St. „ q
house,- Brolitwooa, Director of the Great Western Direct Rau.
R ay, &c.
Robert Newla:id, Esq., liempson-house, Bedtorabire
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