The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-05 00:00:00

TO the SHAREHOLDERS of the NORTH
WALES MINERAL RAILWAY COMPANY, and the
HOLDERS of SCRIP in the RIABON EXTENSION.
The DIRECTORS of this COMPANY have made arrangements
with the PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE of the SHREWSBURY and
HEREFORDSHIRE RAILWAY COMPANY, formed for the pur-
pose of constructing a hue of railway from Shrewsbury to Leomin-
ster, in connexion with the Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester.ltekte-
Bon, and the North Wales Mineral Lines, by which a portion of the
capital will be allotted to the Shareholders of this Company, in the
proportion of three 201. Shares to every five shares of 201. held in this
Company.
Shareholders desirous of accepting the same are requested to apply
by letter on or before the 10th day of May next, on which day the
Register will be closed. . _ .

The holders of Scrip in the Rttabon Extension will be entitled to the
like privilege in the proportion of three 201. to every ten Snares 01'10/.
held by them on transmitting their scrip.
Applications to be addressed to Robert Roy, Esq., Secretary to this
Company, Chester.
Chester, April 25, 1845,

WM. WARDELL, Chairman

MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM
CONTINUATION, AXD WELSH JUNCTION RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered pursuant to 7 and 8 Victoria, c. 110.)
Capital 1,300,0001. In 52,000 Shares, of 251. each.
Deposit it. 7s. 6d. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Right icon. Lord Viscount Comherinere, Combertnere Abbey,

NLtwicli, Cheshire
The lion. How Browne, Chester-street, Belgrave-sqaare, London,
Director of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway
Sir John E. De Beauvoir, Bart., London
Sir Henry Winston Barron, Bart., Ist.?., Director of Waterford anti

Kilkenny Railway
Slr William Lloyd, Bart., Bryn-Estyn, near Wrexham
Sir John Hare, Langham-place, London, Director of West End and

Southern Counties Railway
Robert Abraham, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's-park, London
Charles Bradley, Esq. Birmingham
Joseph Brown, Esq., Director of Trent Valley Continuation Railway
John Churchill, Esq., Bayswater, London, Director of the Treat Val-
ley Continuation Railway
W. J. Cross, Esq., King's Bench Walk, Temple, London
Major Morse Cooper, Wargrave, Henley-on-Thames
Captain Fisher, Junior United Service Club, London
John Foulkes, Esq., Aehtleld, near Wrexham
Henry Plumptre Gipps, Esq., Director of the Coventry and Leicester
Railway, and Trent Valley Continuation Railway
Samuel Giles, Esq., Manchester
Samuel Haines, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Leicester and
Birmingham Railway
William Hill, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Dublin and Drogheda
Railway
Roger Holinsworth, Esq., Birmingham
J. Douglas Hopkins, Esq., Bedford-square, London
Charles Knyvett, F.sq., St. James'-place, London
Cynric Lloyd, Esq., Pontryff3 dd Hall, Flintsaire ; and Brook-Street,

Grosvenor-square, London
H. W. Meredith, Esq., rentre-Bychan Hall, near Wrexham
Robert J. Mostyn, Esq., Calcot Hall, Flintshirs
F. R. Price, Esq., Bryn-y-Pys, Overton, Flintshire
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, London, Director of the Treat
Valley Continuation Railway
Joseph Shaw, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Eastern Union

Railway
Edward Sherman, Req., Director of the Direct Nertkero Railway
(London to York)
John Spooner, Esq., Gloucester-crescent, London
Robert Watkins, Esq., Director of the Brighton and Chichester
Railway.

With power to add to their number.
BANEKILS.
The London and Westminster Bank, Landon
Manchester—The Union Bank of Manchester
Wrexham—The Wrexham and North Wales Bant
ENGINETIS.
iir John Macneill, LL.D., F.R.S.,
William B. Pritchard Esq., CE., &c.
SOLICITOR—John Bothell, Esq., 7S, King William-street, City,

London
SECRETARY(prO Ent, Esq.

The object of thLs Railway is to connect South and North Wales,
the improving and important port and fashionable watering place of
Aberystwitb, Shropshire and Cheshire, &c., with Manchester, Lan-
cashire, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, the Potteries, Derbyshire, and tile
North of England.
Its course will be a continuation of the Manchester and Binning-

ham Railway from Crewe, through Nantwich, Whitchureh, Elles-
mere, Oswestry, Welshpool, Montgomery, Newtown, and Llanidloes,
terminating at " Cardigan Bay," and the Port of Aberystwith, with
a Branch flout Ellesmere to the coal-field of Rhuabon. Preliminary
surveys have been made, and it presents no engineering difficulties.
and is remarkably favourable fir cheap construction.
This line is especially called for by the local wants of the districts,
is not a competing line with any existing or proposed Railway, and
will be the only direct route thorn Shrewsbury, Ludlow, Leominster,
Hereford, Aberystwith,Machytilleth, Rhyader, Llanidloes, Newtown,
Bishop-Castle, Montgomery, Welshpool, Llanfylliti, Dolgelly, Llan-
gollen, Rhuabon, Chick, Overton, Oswestry, Ellesmere, Weer, Prees.
Whitchurch, Audiem, and Nantwich, to the Staffordshire Potteries,
Warrington, Manchester, and the whole of Lancashire and York-
shire, thus accommodating a population of not less than 300,000 indi-
viduals.

And, by means of this line and "the Trent Valley Continuation
Railway," it will give the only communication by Railway from
Market Drayton, Malpas, Wrexham, and Mold, with the above-
named districts and towns.

And, jointly with the " Trent Valley Continuation Railway," will
be the most direct line:from Oswestry, Wein, Ellesmere, Llangollen.
Overton, and Rhuabon, to Staffordshire, Derbyshire, and London.
It is a most important fact that Crewe, the Terminus of this line,
is the centre of five existing or proposed Railways, embracing the
immense locomotive establishments of those Railways, and the branch
from this line proceeds to the great iron-works and coal-field of
Rhuabon. Engineers and scientific men have fully established the
fast, that the coal of this district ts the finest iu Europe for the ins-
nufacture of coke, and by this Railway it will be brought directly to
the before-named locomotive establishments, and also be the means
of supplying the interior of Wales with coal, much better, and at a
lower price than at present. . _ •

It will greatly benefit the extensive agricultural population of
South and North Wales, the Yale of Clwyd, Shropshire, and Cheshire,
which will obtain a cheap and quick transit for their agricultural
produce to the Crewe establishments, and the manufacturing dis-
tricts of the Potteries and Manchester, including the whole of Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire, and also to Birmingham asst London.
The importance to the several counties through which this Railway
will pass, of access to the safe harbour of Aberystwith, cannot he
overrated. A great intercourse and interchange of commodities
must take place between the agricultural districts, the coal and iron
mines of Wrexham and Rhuabon, and the flannel manufactories of
Welshpool, Newtown, Sac., with Manchester.
Tile existing traffic is very considerable, and a glance at the ac-
companying map will show at once the great resources of this line ;
and, it is manifest, that it certainly must become one of the most
valuable and productive lines in the kingdom.
Power will be applied for to allow interest at the rate of 4/. per
cent. on all deposits and calls paid up, after the passing of the Act.
Applications for Prospectums, Plans, and Shares, may be made to

the 'Secretary, at the Oitee, 78, King 'William-street, City, London,
and the following Share-Brokers :—Thomas Allsop, Esq., 34, Corn-
hill ; Messrs. Barclay and Mercier, Shorter's-court, Throgniorton-
street, London ; Messrs Houghland and Leese, 51, King-street,
Manchester; John Wills, Esq., Royal Bank-buildings, Liverpool;
Messrs. Wellbeloved and Oastler, Leeds; Messrs. Edwards and ion,
Bristol; I. R. Lane, Esq., Birmingham ; or any of the other Local
Agents.