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

Miles
By Rugby... •• • 147 By Rugby • •
By Tamworth.... • • 117 By Tamworth

Saving 30
Leicester to Birmingham.

Mlles.

RICHARD TILL, Secretary.
Office, Guildhall-buildings, London, 24th September, 1845.

Deposit, 21. 2s. per Shitr-e:

No Shareholder to be liable beyond the amount of his Subscription
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Hon. F. H. F Berkeley, M.P., Chairman, Director of the London,
Hounslow, and Western Railway Company
William Alfred Hill, Esq., Deputy-Chairman, also Deputy-Chairman
of the Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham Railway Company
Sir Jelin Osborne, Bart., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing-
stoke Railway Company
Sir Henry Richardson, Knight, Chessel, near Southampton Lord of
the Manors of Chipping Barnet and East Barnet
The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne, Belle Hatch House, Henley
William Wilberforce, Esq., James-street,, Buckingham-gate, and
Highwood House, Highwood Hill, Hendon
Samuel Dendy, Esq., Montague-street, Russell-square, Lord of the
Manor of Hendon
Lieut.-Colonel Mlles, Porchester House, Bayswater
William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Director of the Italian and
Austrian Railway
Josiah 'reale, Esq., Gray's Inn
Major Lindam, K.H., Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and
Central Wales Railway Company
Henry Beckley Richardson, Esq., F.S.A., Director of the Colchester,
Cambridge, and Harwich Junction Railway
Rowland Hill Mackenzie, Esq., M.D., Mortimer-street, Cavendish-
square
Henry Chaytor, Esq., Clervaux Castle, Darlington, Director of the
Warwick and Worcester Railway
Thomas Hemming Johnson, Esq., Older's Hall, Hendon, Middlesex
Thomas Priestley, Esq., Principal of Mill, Hill Grammar School,
Hendon, Middlesex
The Rev. H. J. Crump, Mill Hill, 'Tendon, Middlesex
Captain Grover, R.N.
Captain soh Tunes, H.C.S., Wentworth House, Mill Hill, Hendon,
Middlesex
The Rev. Bartholomew Nicholls, M.A., Incumbent of St. Pail's,
Mill Hill, Hendon, Middlesex
Mr. William Ward, Underhill, Barnet
Mr. Bruce Johnson, Finchlay
William Christopher DanielDeighton, Esq., Fellow of Queen's Collage
Cambridge, Holloway
Ralph Allen Frogley, Esq., Hounslow, Director of, the Laudon,
Hounslow, and Western Railway
Colonel Taylor White, Hadley-green, Barnet
Abraham Scott, Esq., Hadley Priory, Barnet
W. J. M‘Gwire, Esq., 74, St. James's-street
W. Prosser, jun., Esq., 36, New Broad-street, City
James Berington, Esq., East-street, Hoxton
George Freeman, Esq., Grange House, Leeds
Richard Cowley Polhill, Esq., Director of the London, Hounslow, and
Western Railway Company
George Godfrey, Esq., The Elms, Hutton, Essex
Robert Wright Woo, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and
Basingstoke Railway Company
Alexander Prince, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing-
stoke Railway
Peter Graham, Esq., Angelo Villa, Gloucester-read, Regent's Park
William Henry Halpin, Esq., 23, Grafton-street, Fitzroy-square
Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and
Basingstoke Railway Company
Charles Green, Esq., Director of the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and
Central Wales Railway Coml.any
J. N. Nicholay, Esq., Oxford-street
John Godfrey B. Hudson, Esq., Director of the Central .Termilus
Railway Company
The Rev. G. A. Walker, Alvisthorpe Parsonage. Wakefield, Diree •
tor of the Wakefield and Bradford Railway Company
(With power to add to their number.)
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
The Hon. F. H. F. Berkeley, M.P., IV. H. Halpin, Esq.
Chairman Richard Cowley Polhill, Esq.
William Alfred Hill, Esq., Deputy- Alexander Prince, Esq.
Chairman George Freeman, Esq.
Major Lindam, K.H. George Godfrey, Esq.
Henry Beckley Richardson, Esq., Robert Wright Wood, Esq.
F.S.A. Charles Green, Esq.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—Francis Whishaw, Esq., C.E., Brook Lodge,
Hendon.
ACTING ENGINEER—J. Bailey Denton, Esq., 10, Gray's Inn-square.
BANKERS—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths,
JOINT SOLICITOUS.
Edward Elkins, Esq., 59, Newman-street, Oxford-street
G. P. Hill, Esq., 211, Soho-square.
Local. AGENTS,
Henry Hammond, Esq., solicitor, Wentworth Lodge, Finchley
• John Hughes, Esq., solicitor, 'Whetstone.
ECAZTABY (pro tem.)—A. Doull, Esq.

This railway will connect the important anti hitherto neglected
town of Barnet with the London and Birmingham and the Groat
Western Railways, at or near llcasdon-green ; with the Northern
and Eastern and the Eastern Counties Railway, at or near Totten-
ham ; and the proposed Direct London and Manchester, and the Lon-
don and York Railways.

The line, in its course, will unite the town of Barnet with
'Whet-
stone, Totteridge, Highwood Hill, Mill Hill, Finchley, holder's 11111,
Gutterhedge, Kingsbury, Neesdon,
Wilsdon, IVilsdon Green. Holsdon Green, Kensall Green, Westbourne
Green, Maids. Hill, Kilburn, Hampstead, West End, Highgate, Crouch
End, Hornscy, Muswell Hill, West Green, Tottenham, Edmonton,
Chinford, Stamford Hill, Stoke Newington, Newington Green, Clap-
ton,Hendon, Burrows, Golder s Hill,
Highbury, Holloway, Kingsland, Layton, Stratford, West Ham,
Bow, Bromley, Bethnal Green, Limehouse, Iloxton, Homerton,
Hackney, Shacklewell,
Islington, St. Pancras, Shoreditch,
Blackwall, Euston-square, Paddington, Kensington, Hammersmith,
Brompton, Fulham, Chelsea, &C. ; connecting those places with the
various railways named, and all those south of the river Thames.
The distance from the town of Barnet to the station of the London
a 5
miles. nd Birmingham Railway, at Euston-square, by this route, will be
1
The length of the main line, from the point of junction at Totten-
, ham to the London and Birmingham Railway, will be 11 miles ; and
the length of the branch line to Barnet, will be 4% miles. From the
junction with the Birmingham Railway to Chipping Barnet, 9%
miles • from the Decoy (near Brent-street, Hendon), on the proposed
Barnet and North Metropolitan Junction Railway, to the Northern
and Eastern Counties Railway, by Stamford-hill, 6i miles.
There are no engineering diflicultiesthroughout the entire distance.
The line will proceed beyon4 the range of the Highgate and Hamp-
stead Hills, and the branch from the main line to Barnet will follow
the valley of the river Brent to the intended station at Barnet ; thus
the expense of construction will be less than any other metropolitan
line of railway, for the above reason, and because it will pass through
an agricultural district, avoiding all ornamental property acd large
collections of houses and buildings.
Upon the completion of this railway, a large and daily-increasing
population, resident beyond the limits of the metropolitan omnibuses,
will be largely benefited, and land and agricultural produce, hitherto
affording an inadequate return to their cultivators, will be quad-
rupled in value.

The ancient, populous, and once-flourishing town of Barnet, too,
will now have a railway communication of its own, without depend-
ing upon the caprice or uncertain goodnature of any company who
may hold out a prospect of a branch, in future times, from some of
the trunk lines now contemplated.
An ample return of profit to the investments of shareholders may
be safely anticipated, and will arise from the following Semmes,
amongst others :

1. From the conveyance of passengers.
2. From the carriage of goods and merchandise from the City and
Docks, &c., to the several railways which are intersected by this
line, avoiding the delay and excessive cost of conveyance through
London ; also from the conveyance of cattle, &c., more particularly
during the period of the large Barnet fairs.
_ .

34.Froni the conveyance of coal, both inland and seaborne fuel,
and other commodities of general consumption, the great expense
of which has long been felt by all classes as a most grievc,,,, ev,..
The Committee of Management reserve to themselves the power
of adopting, upon this line, locomotive power, or Presser's Railway
guide and safety wheels, as may be deemed expedient,.
Applications for Shares in the form annexed (and eommuni-
cations from persons desirous of promoting the objects of the Com-
pany), may bo addressed to the Secretary, at the Provisional Offices
of the Company, 59, Newman-street, Oxford-street; to the Joint
Solicitors, Edward Elkins, Esq., 59, Newman-street, and G, p
Hill, Esq., 21x, Soho-square.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SMARM
To the Provisional Committee of the Barnet and North Metropolitan
Junction Railway, 59, Newman-street, Oxford-street, Loudon.
Gentlemen,l request that you will allot to me Shares of
201. each in this Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the
samp, and to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that
may be allotted to me ; and I undertake also to execute the Parlia-
mentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when. required.
Name in full ••• • ..
Residence
Trade or Profession ••.. • ...... ..................
Name, Residence, and Profession or Trade of Referee..

BARNET and NORTH METROPOLITAN
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
At a public meeting of the inhabitants of Barnet and its vicinity,
convened by a requisition, numerously signed and duly published,
held at the Victoria Hall, Union-street, Barnet, the 17th day of Sep-
tember instant, _ _

JOHN HEY PUGET, Esq., of Totteridge, in the Chair;
It was proposed by J. SPENCER, ESQ. ; seconded by the Rev. J. D.
Tuorarsow, and carried unanimously--
1. That it is the opinion of this meeting that a direct railway
communication between the Northern districts of the metropolis and
the town of Barnet is of vital importance to its prosperity, and is now
imperatively called for.
It was proposed by BENJAMIN SMITH, ESQ. ; seconded by Mr. JOHN
HopzwELL, and resolved unanimously--
2. That this meeting having gut," considered the prospectus and
map of the line of the proposed Barnet and North Metropolitan
Junction Railway, and on comparing the same with the other pro-
jected lines, does most unhesitatingly declare that the proposed
Barnet and North Metropolitan Junction Railway will afford to the
town greater advantages than any line of railway hitherto proposed
to come in the vicinity of Barnet, it being the only one which will
atlird to the residents of the town the advantage of a station, and
that it deserves the support of the inhabitants and all others having
an interest in Barnet and its vicinity ; and that a petition be pre-
sented in favour of the line immediately upon the assembling of the
Houses of Parliament. And this meeting pledges itself to further the
views of the Company, and resolves that a Committee be appointed
o promote the object and sacure the interest of the town of Barnet.
That the Committee consist of
Benjamin Smith, Esq. Mr. Brunt
Mr. John Hopewell Mr. Spencer
Mr. George Bower The Rev. Mr. Stewart
Mr. James Hill The Rev. John Dawson
Mr. James Cooper Thompson
With power to add to their number.
It was proposed by the Rev. ALEXAND.EI!. STITAJIT, and seconded by

J. SPENCER, Esq., and carried unanimously-
3. That the thanks of the meeting be tendered to the Hon. T. H.
P. Berkeley, the Chairmat, and to the Deputy-Chairman, and the
other members of the deputation from the Barnet and North Metro-
politan Junction Railway Company, for the able manner in which
they have laid before the meeting the project of the Company.
It was proposed by W. HILL, Esq., and seconded by W. H.
4. That sraote of Minks be tendered to nhu Hey Puget, Eaq., far
WA iMpartbil al)d abi• conolloll4 thg c4str'
HiLrIN, Esq., and carried unanimonsly—

Saving.. 3O
Leicester to Birmingham.
Miles.

By the proposed Coventry,
By Rugby•• ••• • • • •• •
Nuneaton, Birmingham,
•• • • 49 and Leicester Railway....
By Leicester and Tamworth By Leicester and Tamworth
Extension to Binning'. Extension to Birming-
ham. .. • ...... •••••• • • • • • 35 ham ..........

5aving......., •• • • 14 Saving 2
The general traffic route from Liverpool to Leester is at resent
very circuitous, being not less than 160 miles, anicd taking foupr days
to accomplish, whhst, by means of the Leicester and Tamworth
Railway, the distance will be shortened, and goods conveyed at a
much cheaper rate in the space of a few hours.
The traffic report was equally gratifying—an immense quantity
of heavy goods are daily conveyed to Leicester from Liver-
Pool, the salt works of Cheshire, the Potteries, and the coal and iron
fields of Staffordshire and Shropshire, all of which must be increased
by the greater facilities of conveyance.
It was unanimously resolved that the most energetic measures
should be taken to carry the project into eff:ct, and aided by the
powerful influence of the Trent Vatey Company, with whom the
most beneficial arrangements have been made, the complete success
of the undertaking is placed beyond all doubt.
The capital for the Leicester and Tamworth Junction has been
subscribed, the Parliamentary deeds have been executed, and the
scrips issued.
Arrangements are now making for the allotment of shares in the
Birmingham Extension, in which due regard will be had to the
scripholders of the Leicester and Tamworth Junction Company.
The surveys, &c., are in such a state of forwardness as to ensure
not only the Leicester and Tamworth line, but the Extension to
Birmingham, coining before Parliament in the ensuing session.
By order, J. E. RA A :M(10N Secretary,
Coleman-street, Sept. 16, 1245.

_NORFOLK RAILWAY.
The Directors of this Company take the earliest opportunity
of acquainting their Proprietors that, acting under the advice of their
engineers, Mr. Robert Stephenson and Mr. Bidder, they have de-
termined upon applying to Parliament in the next sessien for powers
to make the following extensions and branches from the main line
of this railway :—lst. from Wymondham to Dies, and from thence
through Eye to Stowmarket, to join tha Bury and Ipswich line.
2d. From Reedham along the Waveney Valley through Beccles,
Bungay, Harlestone, and Dies to Thetford, to join the proposed Essex
and Suffolk line.
3d. From East Dereham to Fakenham and Wells.
It is proposed to appropriate to the Shareholders In the Diss and
Colchester and Wells and Dereham Companies part of the extension
capital according to the resolutions of the last general meeting, and
the remainder will be offered to the Proprietors of this Company
rateably in proportion to the numbers of their shares.
Due notice will be given to each Proprietor of the number of shares
allotted to him, and of the time and place appointed for payment of
the deposit. By order,

NOAY. RFOLK RAILW
NORWICH and BRAN NEW SHARES.
Toe holders of Scrip CertificatesDON of the Norwich and Brandon
New Shares, are required to send them to this office for Registration
on or before the 7th day of October next,
Proper forms for the registration of the Shares may be had on ap-
plication at the office, Guildhall-buildings, London.
By order, RICHARD TILL, SenTtary.

BARNET and NORTH METROPOLITAN
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
`Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 110.)
Capital, 400,0001., in 20,000 Shares of 201. each.