The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-20 00:00:00

Charles Heneage, Esq.
Stephen Isaacson, Esq,
William 111`Guire, Esq.

The Hon. Percy Ausustu.s Evans
Freke
Sir George Rich
Lieutenant-Colonel Dickson
Lieutenant-Colonel Hutchinson,
E.1.C.5., Madras Establishment
ENGINEER—John A. Galloway, Esq., CZ
STANDING COUNSEL.
William Burge, Esq., Q.C.
Henry James Meller, Esq.
SOLICITOR—Thomas Pryer, Esq.
BANKERS—The Union Bank of London
SECRETARY—CharIes Pridham, Esq.
The proposed line, which will be about 250 miles in length, has
for its object the connexion of the wealthy and populous city of
Madras, at which nearly the whole trade of the Coromandel coast is
concentrated with the equally rich, populous, and important dis-
tricts of Nellore, Cuddapah, North and South Arcot, Vellore, &c.,
and the mountainous district called the Eastern Ghauts, lying to the
north-west, and will afford increased facilities for the export of cot-
ton, coffee, sugar. tobacco, silk, opium, gum, senna, dyewood, cassia,
&c., lac betel-nut, spices, saltpetre, rice, firewood, charcoal, iron,
copper, coal, hides, corn, and various sorts of grain, wool, indigo,
&c., and the imports of treasure, salt, ice, manufactured and other
goods.

John Taylor, Esq. -
Francis Wemyssi Esq.
Captain Reynolds
J. H. Hardinge;' Esq.

Applications for shares, in the usual form, may be addressed to the
Solicitor, or to the Secretary, Charles Pridham, Esq., at the
Offices, Gresham-rooms, Basinghall-street, of whom, detailed pro-
' spectuses and plans may be obtained, and to the following brokers :
Mr. T. N. Brown, 17, Throgmerton-street, and Mr. Thurston, 6,
Tokenhouse-yard, London ; Mr. Anthony Shiell, 43, Princes-street,
Edinburgh; Mr. Jamieson,' and Messrs. H. and C. Beardhaws,
Leeds; Mr. Fernyhaugh, and Mr. John Brewer, Manchester; and
Messrs. Reynolds and Son, Liverpool; Messrs. Low and Tun-
stall, Bristol ; Messrs. Jackson and AVG ovran, Glasgow ; Mr. Thomas
Mifithorpe, Edinburgh; Mr. Pearson, Birmingham; Mr. W. Miles,
Worcester ; Mr. T. Owen, Bradford ; Mr. T. Sanford, Exeter ;
Mr. R. Richardson, Halifax; Messrs. White and Son, Leamington
and Warwick ; Messrs. Brown and Clarke, Coventry ; Mr. Bowden,
Hull ; Messrs. J. and N. Balme, Gloucester ; Mr. Percy Bolger, Gard-
ner-street, Dublin; Mr. C. Forster, Cork; Messrs. Tyath and Lus-
combe, Plymouth ; Mr. W. W. Dickenson, Newcastle-on-Tyne ; Mr.
Munday, Bath ; Mr. C. Wales, Sheffield ; Mr. J. Clarke, Southamp-
ton ; Mr. James Butchard, Huddersfield ; Mr. S. R. CatUey, York ;
Mr. James Wilson, Houndsgate, Nottingham ; Mr. M. B. Cowderoy,
Reading ; Messrs. Elgood and Harrison, Leicester ; and Mr. William
Oliphant, Perth.

LIVFRPOOL AND PRESTON, MANCHES-
TER AND SOUTHPORT RAILWAY.
Under the sanction of the following Noblemen and Gentlemen of the
neighbourhood, and landowners on the lines, viz.:-
-The Earl of Sefton
The Lord Lilford
Lord Francis Egerton
Sir Thomas Joseph de Trafford, Bart.
Charles Searisbrick, Esq.
Charles Standish, Esq., M.P.
Edward Stanley, Esq.
-William Halton, Esq.
William Gerard Walmesley, Esq.
William Ince Andertou, Esq.
Trustees under the will of the late Ellis Fletcher, Esq.
(The Undertaking is Provisionally Registered.)
The Capital, 1,600,000/.., In 80,000 Shares of 201. each,
Deper.,it 21. 25. per Share.
Pkovistorier. COMMITTEE.
Thomas /3:artes, Esq., Manchester
Reece P,evan, Esq., Wigan
Jame,' Branker, Esq., Liverpool
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Hardman Earle, Esq., Liverpool
Robertson Gladstone, Esq., Liverpool
Charles Pascoe Greafell, Esq., Belgrave-square
Ralph Greenough, Esq., Southport
Henry Houldsworth, Esq., Manchester
James Lees, Esq., Brookville, Manchester
Samuel Lees, Esq., Martindale-lodge, Southport
Ralph A. Thicknesse, Esq., Beech-hill
Samuel Newton, Esq.,'Atherton
John Lancaster, Esq., Ince-in-Mackerfleld
Christopher Morris, Esq., Wigan
Richard Pennington, Esq., liindley
Theo. Woolman Rath done, Esq., Allerton Priory
William RotheraM, Esq., Liverpool
Peter Rothweil, Esq., Bolton:
William mil, Esq., Crescent, Salford
Joseph liornby, Esq., Liverpool
'James Hodgkinson, Esq., Mouton
Jo,lan Woodcock, Esq., Wigan
ilerman Walmesley, Esq., Wigan
John Walker, Esq., Manchester and Southport
John Craven, Esq., Keighley
William Gidlow, Esq., Ince
(With power to add r 0 their numbers).
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.

Hardman Earle, Esq.
Joseph Hornby, Esq.
Robertson Gladstone, Esq.
William Rotherhtln, Esq,
James Branker, Esq,
John Crostllmaite, Esq.

Charles Pascoe Grenfell, Esq,
Henrrilouldsworth, Esq.
Reece Bevan, Esq.
William Hill, Esq.
James Lees, Esq.
Samuel Lees, Esq.

namcaas.
Messrs. Moss and Co., Liverpool
The Union Baz.k, Manchester
Messrs. Thomas Woodcock and Sons, Wigan.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Darbishire and Lewis, Manchester
Messrs. Woodcock, Part, and Scott, Wigan
Messrs. Clay, Swift, and Wagstaff, Liverpool.
ENGINEERS.

John Hawkshaw, Esq. Edward Woods, Esq.
This railway is designed to connect, by the shortest practicable
route, the port of Liverpool with Preston and other places to the
northward, and with Blackburn and other places to the eastward,
and to supply Manchester, Wigan, Bolton, Oldham, Stockport, and
other manufacturing districts in Lancashire, and the West Riding of
Yorkshire, the advantage of direct railway communication with
Southport and the west coast of Lancashire.
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One portion of this railway will diverge from the present line of
the North Union Railway at or near Farrington, and by forming a
communication with the Blackburn and Preston Railway there, will
accommodate the traffic both of Preston and Blackburn, and the
places beyond. From Farrington it will proceed by Ormskirk, and
thence past Kirby (where it will form a junction with the Liver-
pool and Bury Railway), and terminate at the intended new sta-
tion of the Grand Junction' Railway Company at Edge-hill, Liver-
pool, from whence there will be access to the north and south
docks, as well as to the Lime-street station in that town. This
portion of the main line will be twenty-four miles in length, and
will bring Liverpool within twenty-seven miles of Preston, and
thirty-three miles cf Blackburn. Another portion of the under-
taking will consist of a trunk line from Southport, passing St. John's,
In the village of Burscough, near which it will intersect and form a
junction with the line from Farrington to Liverpool, and proceed
thence through the Douglas Valley to Wigan, where it will a vail
itself of the North Union station in passing through the town, pro-
ceeding thence by Hindley, Atherton, Tyldesley, Ellenbrook, and
Worsley, it will form a junction with the Liverpool and Manch est er
Railway near Eccles, and with the Manchester, Bolton, and Bury
',Away in Pendleton.
By means of a junction with the Bolton and Leigh Ral^4 way at
Atherton, the advantages of this line will be extended to the town of
Leigh. The length of this trunk will be about twenty- eight miles of
new line, bringing Southport within thirty-three mil es of Manchester,
sixteen-and-a-half of Wigan, and twenty-six of 80l ton, and reduc-
ing the time occupied in the journey between Southport and Man-
chester from four hours to little more than one, and between that
favourite waterlog-place and other manufacturing districts in like
proportion; at the same time substituting for a dilatory and expensive
means of transport, the dispach and economy of a thorough railway
communication.

The line between Wigan and Manchester will pass through a popu-
lous district, possessing extensive manufactures ; and the coal-fleld
it will traverse and lay open to the manufacturing districts, as well
as to Liverpool, is second to none in this part of England in richness
and variety.
This railway will also afford Increased facilities for conveying the
produce of the abundant agricultural district, lying between the
River Alt and the Douglas, to the manufacturing communities of
Lancashire and Yorkshire.
Notwithstanding the present uncertain, dilatory, and expensive
means of access to Stockport, the numbers resorting thither era very
great, and rapidly increasing, and it cannot be doubted that the faci-
lities and economy in time, as well as money, of a direct railway
communication, would give rise to an accession of traffic far exceed-
ing the ordinary ratio of estimated increase.
The benefits resulting from the construction of these lines will be
obtained at a comparatively small outlay. The country throughout
is easy, and of a level character, rendering the works light, and the
gradients highly favourable. There are no engineering difficulties,
and the advantage of terminal stations, and access to and through
the principal towns, are already provided by the establishments of
the Grand Junction, Manchester and Leeds, North Union, and Liver-
pool and Bury Companies, whose cordial co-operation is guaranteed
by the participation of those Companies in the capital, and conse-
quently in the success, of the undertaking.