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London, England, 1845-10-23 00:00:00

PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT.

THE EilffEbTLigbblX,---dii-ANTHAM,
AND NORTHAMPTON RAILWAY, by way of Oakhain
and Market Harborough, and thence to Northampton, by the pro•
jetted South Midland, with extension to Gainsborough.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 20/. each.
Deposit, 21.25. per Share.
(With power to increase the capital.)
Liability limited to Subscription.
This line will also be a feeder to the several projected lines to
Great Grimsby.
A detailed prospectus will shortly be published. Communications
may be addressed to the Secretary, J. Browne, Esq., 7, Whitehall
place, London.

TILE LEICESTER, MELTON MOWBRAY,
and SPALDING JUNCTION RAILWAY, giving, with other
formed and projected lines, the nearest route from Birmingham,
Coventry, and Leicester to the Eastern Coast, and a communication
from Birmingham, via Nuneaton, Leicester, and Melton Mowbray,
to Spalding.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Offices, 4, Trafalgar-square, Charing-cross.
Capital 500,0001., in 25,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.

Wynn Ellis, Esq. M.P. for Leicester, director of the Brandon and
Spalding Railway
William Corbet Smith, Esq. Bittleswell-hall, High Sheriff of Leices-
tershire
The Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P. Chairman of the Northampton, Ban-
bury, and Cheltenham Railway
The Hon. Major C. Napier, Rugby, director of the Peterborough and
Nottingham Railway
General Johnson, M.P.
William Collins, Esq. M.P.
Ralph Etwall, Esq. M.P.
Thomas Wakefield. Esq. Nottingham, director of the Brandon and
Spalding Railway
Matthew Gisborne, Esq. Walton-hall, Derbyshire
Joseph Ellis, Esq. Glenfield-lodge, Leicester
Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.B. director of the East India Company
Sir Edwin Pearson, F.R.S. Gloucester-terrace, Regent's-park
Ambrose Moore, Esq. Milk-street, Cheapside
Josiah Wilson, Esq. Stamford-hill
George Meek, Esq. Russell-square
Jobn Clement Ruding, Esq. director of the National Bank of Ireland
Francis Valentine Lee, Esq. director of the Eastern Counties Railway
Richard Heaviside, Esq. Brighton
William Ettwall, Esq. Longstock-down, near Stockbridge, director
of the Southampton and Manchester Railway
William Shadbolt, Esq. chairman of the Greenwich Railway Com-
pany
T. E. Bigge, Esq. Bryanstone-square
Captain Gustavus Evans, R.N. Headley-grove, Surrey, director of the
Nottingham. Birmingham, and Coventry Railway
Valentine Knight, Esq. Cornwall-terrace, Regent's-park
Samuel Kempson, Esq. Little Sutton, Sutton Coldlicid, Warwick-

shire
Frederick Pearson, :Esq. Piccadilly
Fraser B. Henshaw, Esq. Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square,
director of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Manchester

Railway
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq. Woodberry Down, Stoke Newington, director
of the Erewash Valley Railway
Herbert Ingram: Esq. Swinshead-abbey, Lincolnshire
John Tathan Banks, Esq. warden and magis-
trate of Louth, Lincolnshire
William Gresham, Esq. Aderman of Lin- Provisional Directors
coin
of the Great GrimS-
Samuel Trought, Esq. Louth, Lincolnshire
by, Louth. and Lin-
William Ward, Esq. M. U. Horlicastie colu Railway.
Edwin Cadman, Esq. Westbourne-house,
Sheffield, director of the Isle of Ely, Wis-
beach, and Lincoln Railway
The Rev. J. B. Hildebrand, rector of Saxby, near Melton-Mowbray,
Leicestershire
John Thomas Raworth, Esq. Leicester, provisional director of the
South Union Railway
Nathaniel C. Stone, Esq. Rowley-fields, near Leicester
John Eames, Esq. Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire
Frederick Cayley Worsley, Esq. Imberhorne-house, Sussex, director
of the Nottingham, Birmingham, and Coventry Railway
John Smith Mansfield, Esq. Essex-court, Temple
Charles Hance, Esq. Alexander-square, Brompton
Thomas Bridges, Esq. Marwood-hill, Devonshire
Thomas Bent, Esq. M.D. Derby
Douglas Fox, Esq. Derby
John D. Cooper, Esq. Ashhourne, Derbyshire, director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway
Henry F. Gisborne, Esq. Derby, director of the Tatnworth and Lei-
cester, Coventry and Nuneaton Railway
John Ilamp, Esq. Cation, Derbyshire
Joshua Harding, Esq. Rosiiston, Derbyshire
Nathaniel Nadin, Esq. Stapenhill, Derbyshire
J. Nadin, coal proprietor, Newhall and Swadlincote Collieries, Derby-

shire
R Sherratt Tomlinson, Esq. Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire
Charles James Mason, Esq. Fenton, Staffordshire
J 05.1% Nunneley, Esq Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire
William Little, Esq. Peterborough, director of the Peterborough and
Nottingham Railway
I. P. Bainbrigge, Esq. Derby, director of the Derby and Crewe
Rail way
J. C. Williams, Esq. M.D. Nottingham
Henry Smith, Esq. Gainsborough
William Lister Sharp, Esq. Gainsborough, director of the Derby and
Great Grimsby, and of the Cambridge and Lincoln Extension
Railway.

COMMITTEE OP MANAGEMENT.
Chairn an—Wynn Ellis, Esq., M.P.
Deputy-Chairman—Josiah Wilson, Esq

Thomas Wakefield, Esq.
Ambrose Moore, Esq.
Francis Valentine Lee, Esq.
John D. Cooper, jun., Esq.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—CharIes Fox, Esq.
ENGINEER—John Hughes, Esq.
The London Joint-Stock Bank,BANKERS.
Princes-street
Messrs. Pa'ets and Kirby, Leicester
Pare's Leicestershire Banking Company, Melton-Mowbray
The Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Company, Spalding
Messrs. Evans and Co., Derby
The Burton Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent.
SoLimo/is—Messrs. Lacy and Bridges, 19, King's Arms-yard, Cole.
man-street ; Abraham Bass, Esq. Burton-upon-Trent.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS —Messrs. Dyson, Hall, Parkes, and Coates,
Parlizment-street.
SECRETARY—WiIIiaM Ranyard, Esq.

John Smith Mansfield, Esq.
George Meek, Esq.
Capt. Gnstavui Evans, R.N.

The first object of this line is to connect the town of Birmingham
Coventry, and Leicester, with the eastern coast by the nearest route,
and to supply All important link of communication between the town'
of Spalding and the eastern coast with the Western and 311dland
districts.
Commencing at the Spalding station of the Norwich, Dereham,
Lynn, and Holbeach Railways, the line will proceed by Bourn,
Witham, Castle Bytham, South Wytham, and Wymondham, to a
point on the Syston and Peterborough line of railway near Melton-
Mowbray, thus forming, by the Syston and Peterborough and Mid-
land Counties Railway, an almost direct route to Leicester, and
thence to Coventry and Birmingham by the proposed Coventry,
Nuneaton, Leicester, and Birmingham Railway.
The projected line will form the most direct communication be-
t. ten the eastern and midi and districts of the kingdom, and will, by
means of the proposed lines across the county of Leicester, via Bur-
ton-upon-Trent, to Stafford, bring the markets of Lincoln, Norfolk,
Shropshire, and North Wales, nearer to each other by many miles
than any other line of railway_
It will form, with other projected railways, an almost direct line
across the kingdom, from Yarmouth, via Norwich, oil the east, to
Aherystwith, via Newton and Shrewsbury, on the west.
The entire length will not exceed thirty miles. There is no tunnel-
ling, cutting, or embanking of any importance necessary ; the line
from Bourn to Spalding, a distance of about twelve miles, is very
level, and may be constructed at a small cost.
It will secure the advantages of railway communication to a tract
of country at present destitute of this accommodation, besides open•
ing out sources of trade undeveloped for want of the means of transit.
The central midland districts have felt greatly: the want of direct
communication with the coast; and this line will at once supply the
deficiency to the greater part of Staffordshire and Leicestershire.

It will afford a transit for the Staffordshire, Derbyshire, and Lei-
cestershire coal into districts heretofore entirely dependent upon
supply from the north at high prices: it will also secure the advan-
tages of an unlimited supply of lime from the Leicestershire works,
to the agricultural districts of Lincoln, which are at present only
supplied at very high rates; and, in return traffic, the midland dis-
tricts will obtain the advantage of a direct transit for the stock and
agricultural produce of Lincolnshire and Norfolk.
Several proposed lines of railway converge at Spalding., which is
the nearest point on the eastern coast for the midland counties, and
connected by the River Welland with the German Ocean.
The proposed capital will be sufficient for the construction of the
necessary works and every subsequent expense ; and the income
derivable from the traffic in passengers between Birmingham, Co-
ventry, Leicester, Derby, Melton, Spalding, and Boston, the trans-
port of corn, cattle, and other produce of tlto great agricultural
districts through which the line passes to the principal consuming
districts, and of coals, lime, and staple commodities for the inland
districts, will be sufficiently ample to warrant the outlay.
The Parliamentary surveys have been commenced, and are now
in active progress, and contracts have been entered into which en-
sure sufficient time for compliance with the standing orders.
Forms of application for shares, plans, and prospectuses may be
had of the Solicitors ; also at the offices of the Company, 4, Tra-
falgar-square, Charing-cross, where applications for shares, accom-
panied by respectable references, may be addressed to the Provi-
sional Committee.

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