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

THE BELGIAN GRAND JUNCTION
RAILWAY COMPANY.
Capital, 1,750,000/., in 87,530 Shares of 20/. each.
Deposit 2/. per Share.
DIRECTORS.
Sir John Nicoll Robert Campbell, K.C.H. Deputy-Chairman of the
Pcninsulailnd Oriental Steam Navigation Company, Chairman
Henry Bainbridge, Esl. banker.
Frederick Francois Clossmann, Esq. Chairman of the Great Luxem-
bo-:rg Railway Company
William Shelford Fitzwilliam, Esq. Director of the Essex and Suffolk
Railway Company
John Howell, Esq. Director of the Liverpool, ormskirk, and Preston
Railway Company

EtANKFItS.

In London—Messrs. Puget, ialnbridges and Co., St. Paul's Church-

yard.
In Liverpool—The Commercial Bank of Liverpool,

In Brnss3is—The Sectße Generale.
SOLICTORS—Messrs. Lawrence and Flews, Bucklersbury.
ENGINEERS—Sir John Macniell, L.L.D. F.R.S. and James Thompson
Esq F.R.S.E. M.R.I.A.
BELGIAN ENGINEER—MOnS. Desire Joseph Marshal:
SECRETARY—H. C. Hastings,. Esq.
The.Direters have for some time past been in direct communica-
tion with the Belgian Government, and they have entered into a
preliminary arrangement, under date of the 27th of September, 1845,
with the Minister of public Works, by which the Minister grants to
them the preference for the concession of a a railway, to be called the
"Grand Junction," and engages to conclude with the Directors a
provisional contract, previously to submitting the " Projet de loi "
for royal approbation, and alio to apply for the sanction of the Legis-
lature. •r - • • -
The valuable and important ironworks of Couvin will also, under
the same aireement, be ceded to the Company,
The Belgian Grand Junction Railway will directly connect the
provinces of Brabant; lfainaelt, Liege, Limbonrg, sad Namur, with
each other, and with the Government lines of railway, as also with
the several lines of Liege anti Namur, -Landen and Hasselt, Louvain
and Jemeppe, Sambre and Meuse, and the Great Luxembourg
_ _

Mons. 2Threbal, the eminent Belgian engineer, has carefally sur-
veyed the linr, and Ills deposited the neces;ary plaits, sections, and
estimates with the Belgian Government.

31r. Jam•zs,Thomsop~;
one of the Company's engineers, has also
gone over the line, aria'reports most favourably upon the peculiar
facilities for the constractiou of the railway, and the entire absence
of all engingerilig difficulties.
The Chairman and two of the Directors have carefully traversed
the whole ff the line, and have received the most positive assur-
ances of support from the local authocities and landed proprietors.

The provinces which the railway will uuite were found by the
census of 1844 to comprise a population of 2,188 551, and the dis-
tricts which it will traverse are situated in the heart of Belgium,
and comprise an area of 16.3 square miles. The entire length of the
Belgian Grand Junction Railway will be 108 English miles.
This portion of the country is emphatically termed the Granary of
Belgium, and, in addition to its vast agricultural produce, is rich in
ironstone, load, marble, stone, and slate quarries. It has also nume-
rous distilleries, extensive breweries, ironworks, and large manufac-
tories of porcelain, glass, paper, Beetroot, sugar, gunpowder, Bte.
The great coal-fields of Charleroi and Liege, which are the most ex-
tensive in Belgium, will, by means of this line, be enabled to supply
all parts of the kingdom at a very reduced rate.
The Government lines already completed, as well as the several
private lines now in course of construction, will necessarily be the
feeders to the Grand Junction line, as it will unite with the whole of
them, and will traverse a di trict destitute of all water communica-
tion, and very imperfectly supplied with roads ; whilst the invariable
rule of the Belgian Government, not to permit any competing lines,
must necessarily ensure to this Company the entire trafac of the
country through which this line will pass.
Tables, calculated with reference to the present amount of traffic, have
been carefully and accurately prepared ; and, upon the improbable as-
sumption that there will be no increase when the Grand Junction
Railway is constructed, the shareholders would even then receive a
large interest on their capital. But, as in all cases, and more parti-
cularly in Belgium, increased facilities of communication have been
accompanied by a great increase of traffic, there can be no doubt
that the Grand Junction Railway Company wall pay a considerable
dividend to the share: adders.

The expeiise of construction, and the subsequent expenses of work-
ing the line, are very much less than in English railways ; and it is
an lamer. ant feature that the enormous outlay incident to a Parlia-
mentary contest in England is avoided.
A considerable saving will also be effected in the cost of iron, and
of the locomotive engines and traffic material, which will be manufac-
tured at the Cousin works;. and the Company have, therefore, the
peculiar advantage of being independent of a supply from any other
quit ter, and free from the delay and disappointment consequent upon
the presont increased demand.
The grant will be for ninety years, and the Act will provide that
the railway shall, for the whele term, be exempt from all rates and
charges whatsoever, whether local or national:
By the law of Belgium, this Company will be constituted a
SociCite Anonyme, and the liability of each shareholder will be
limited to the amount of his respective shares.
A second payment of 2/. per share will be required one month after
the Concession shall have been ratitled by, the Chamber, and the
subsequent calls will be made at such periods as the Directors may
determine.

An accountable receipt will be given to each subscriber on pilyment
of his deposit, which receipt must be exchanged for certificates for
shares, at the office of the Company, within twenty-one days after
the first appearance of an advertisement requiring such exchange ;
such advertisement to be inserted once in the London Gazette, and
three times in each of two daily Morning London newspapers. The
non-compliance with this condition will entail on the subscriber the
forfeiture of his deposits.
Notice of calls will be given by advertisement in the London Ga-
zette, and two daily Morning London newspapers ; and if any call on
any share shall remain unpaid for twenty-one days after the day
named, the shara shall becomeabsolutely forfeited.
Interest at the rate of 41. per cent. per annum will be paid upon
the amount of capital paid up, such interest to b calculated from the
time of obtaining the Act of the Legislature until th• opening of
the line. .- _

All points of detail will, under the terms of the Convention and
Act, be settled between the Belgian Government and the Directors;
and it is one of the conditions on which the shares will he appor-
tuned and accaptcd, that the subscribers confide to the Directors full
power to make such arrangement with the Belgian Government with
respect to any alterations or modifications of the line, and of the
terms of the grant, as they may think expedient for the furtherance
of the interests of the Company.
Applications for shares, in the subjoined form, to be made to the
Secretary, at the Company's Offices, No. 64, Old Broad-street; to
Messrs. Lawrance and Mews, Solicitors, Bueltlersbury ; and to the
following Sharebrokers :—Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Thread-
needle-street, London ; Messrs. Bradley, Ford, and Parker, Man-
chester ; Messrs. H. Davies and Co., Liverpool ; Messrs. Chantrell
and Boyes, Leeds ; Messrs. Wilkinson and Earle, Hall ; Messrs.
Buchanan and Aitken, Glasgow ; Messrs. Oswald, George, and Co.,
Aberdeen; Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, Dublin ; and Messrs.
Dowling and Howden, Edinburgh.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Directors of the Belgian Grand Junction Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me shares of 201.
each in the Belgian Grand Junction Railway Company ; and I agree
to accept such shares, or any smaller rannber you may allot to me,
and to pay the deposit thereon, and to execute the deed of settlement,
and all other neces:ary deeds, when required.
Dated the day of 1845.
Signature, with Christian Name, at full
length..
Reel• - • • • • • ... • • • •
Profession, Trade, or other Description....
Reference, with Christian and Surname,

WOLVERHAMPTON, CHESTER, AND
BIRKENHEAD JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Victoria, c. 110.)
Capital, 1,000,0001.. in 50,000 Shares of 20/. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COM3IITTER.
The Right Hon. Lord Suffield, Gunton-park, Norfolk
Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.B. London, director of the East India Com-
pany
Edmund Turner, Esq. M.P. Truro
Sir John E. De Beauvoir, Bart. 6, Connaught-place, Hyde-park
John Rawson, Esq: J.P. Stoney Royd, Halifax, director of the Leeds
and Liverpool Direct Railway
Thomas A. Dale, Esq. Birkenhead, and Malvern-house, Cheltenham
Sir John Key, Bart. chairman of the Mauritius, and director of the
Direct Western and York and Lancaster Railways
Matthew Harrison, Esq. Chester, director of the North and South
Wales Bank
Jelin Kinnersley Hooper, Esq. Alderman of the City of London
Henry Arnold Homer, Esq. Leamington
Edward Cooper. Esq. Henley in .Arden, Warwickshire, director of
the South Staffordshire Railway
Thomas Harris, Esq. ilighfield House. Edgbaston
John Knowles, Esq. Burnley, director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Balinse/
Admiral J. Ayscough, Southampton, director of the Portsmouth and
Chatham Railway
Joseph Rogers Clarke, Esq. Stoke Newington, London
Thomas 110, Req. Tulso Hill, Surrey, director of the Blackwell
Railway
William Shadbolt, Esq. Croome's-hill, Greenwich, chairman of the
London aed Greenwich Railway Company, and director of the
London Joint-Stock Bank
Emanuel Cooper, Esq banker, 29, Lombard-street, director of the
Waveney Valley, and Great Yarmouth Railways
George Hanby, Esq. magistrate for the county of Norfolk and borough
of Great Yarmouth, director of the Wavelet:3, Valley am 4 Great
Yarmouth, Great Grimsby, Lincoln, Louth, Horncastle, and Midland
Junction Railways
Thomas G. Davies, Esq. Bellefield-house, Staffordshire, director of
the South Stafford:4llre Railway
Robert Fisher, Esq. Highbury-park
Charles Bleaden, Esq. Coulsden-court, Chairman of the Licensed
Victuallers' Insurance Society, and director of the Direct Western
Railway
Peter Bruce Turner, Esq. London
Hugh Francis Burman, Esq. Henley in Arden, Warwickshire
Robert Wrightson, Esq. Highgate, near Birmingham
Samuel Palmer, Esq. late Mayor of Great Yarmouth, eating director
of the Great Grimsby, Louth, Horncastle, Lincoln, and Midland
Junction Railway Company
Thomas Pemberton, Eel. ironmaster, Wolverhampton
Waller Augustus Lewis, Esq. Wolverhampton
Edward Nelson Alexander, Esq. Halifax
Holden Ilaniterton, Esq. Halifax.
J. Reginald Riddell, Esq. Pycullah-house, Eufield
Samuel Haines, Esq. Birmingham
W. Lawrence, Esq Brixton, Surrey
Daniel Watney, Esq. Wandsworth, Surrey
Thomas Reginald Kemp. Esq. Abchurch-lane
Thomas Head, Esq. M.D. Hanley
Thomas Hackett Massey, Esq. 3, Oxford-square, London
Francis Parker, Esq. Great Yarmouth
Williern Bradley, Esq. Manor Oaks, Sheffield
Robert Frederick IVelchman, Esq. Southern
Richard Spraegett, Esq. Southern
Henry hyley, Esq. Birmingham
Robert Jones Hughes, Esq. Plas Llangoed, high sheriff of Anglesey
Samuel Bankart, Esq. Leicester
Thomas Bailey Rose, Esq. stipendiary ma
shire for the Stafford-
shire Potteries, and director of the Staffordshire' Potteries and
Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways
Theophilus Hodges; Esq. Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park, London
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq. Bryanston-street, Poranan-square,
London
William Simpson Potter, Esq. Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, London
George Peppercorne, Esq. London, and Bexhill, Surrey
Josiah Challinore Esq. Nonnanton, near Derby
E. Hyde Clarke. Esq. Hyde Hall, Cheshire, and Tickford-park Beds,
director of the South Midland Railway
William Gambier, Esq. Sacombe-park, Hertfordshire, director of the
Portsmouth and Chatham Railway
George tiobinscn, Esq. director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction, '
and the Great Leeds Railways
Thomas Upfill, Esq. Edgbaston, Warwickshire, director of the
South Staffordshire Railway
Edward Middleton, Esq. Edgbaston director of the south Stafford •
shire Railway
Captain Walter Unett, 3rd Light Dragoons, director of the Dover and
Brighton Railway
Benjamin Smart Fowler, Esq, Alder-house, near Tamworth, director
of the Northampton, Banbury and Chester, and Leicester and Tam-
worth Railways
George Gamble, Esq. Gainsborough, director of the Nottingham and
Gainsborough, and Wolverhampton and Birmingham and Notting-
ham Railways
F. B. Garty, Esq. 9, Chepstow-place, Camberwell-new-road. Surrey,
director of the Birmingham, Oxford, Reading-, and Brighton and
Coventry, Banbury, and Oxford Junction Railways
James }letter, Esq. ironsnaster, Bilston, director of the Shropshire
Mineral Railway Cempany
Henry Homer, Esq. M.D. Leamington
I. M. Cottle, Esq. Leamington, director of Coventry and other
Railways
John Haddon, Esq. Leamington, director of Coventry, Nuneaton,
and Leicester Railway
David Dugdale, Esq. Burnley
Jeremiah Sharp Browne, Esq. Carlton-place, Halifax, director of the
Leeds and Liverpool Direct Hallway
A. Alexander, Esq. Wellsferd-home, director of the Worcester and
Warwick, and Eastern Counties Railways
John Ashwell, Esq. Longton, Staffordshire, director of the Peter-
borough and Nottingham Railway
George Young, le q. Longton, Staffordshire, director of
the Shropeillre Mineral Railway
Thomas Goddard, Esq. Bank-house, Longton, director of the North
Western Trur.k Railway
Henry Mayhew, Esq. Shrubberies, King's-road, Parson's-green,
Fulham .
Jenies Glover, Esq. Loaglon, Staffordshire, director of the South
Union and Ilirrein,ghane Junction Railway
Robert Foreman, Esq. Hanley, director of the Teen and Dove Valley,
and Dertle. Gainsborough, and Great Grimsby Railways
sice!sleh Stocks, Esq. Shiblen -hall, director of the East and West
Yorkshire, and Leeds arid Carlisle, and Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railways
B. W. Spurgeon, Esq. Derby
John Alcock Dickson Esq Bu"
siotnes, es.r pole-street, Cavendish-square, London
.1 hn Thompson, Esq. Aid% rrnan of Wigan, d reeler of the Birken-
head and Holyhead, tee Manchester and Wigan, and Liverpool and
Leeds Direct Railways
Jol n Lord, Esq. Standish Hall
!gan, director
isepirow,f;elißal
ua Blackburn,
( horley, and Liverpool, the Manchester
I iverpool, and the Wigan andlirti and Wigan, the Leeds and
Je( Edens, Eyq. Northampton, director orniteinhe
end London Direct Railway
IV Diem Deakin Whitehouse, Esq. Studley, Warivik
the Warwickshire ands London Extension, and. NeVosriclicrset'erdiJrcucuteotrioonf 1 aiiways
Ale ahem Jubb, Esq. Halifax, Yorkshire, director of the Keightcy,
I alifax, and Huddersfield Railway
Tit mac Hague Brenton, Esq. Shipton, dinctor of the Leeds and
Li-
erpool Direct, and the Re ehley, Hallo:, and Hullers/10d Rall-
y ay'S
Th. Inas Henr Waler, Esq. B'urtert-lentse, new Langton, Stafford-
, Ire, direo or o. the Sout 17n,,,1 ani Birmingham Junction
1: ilway
er s Adams, Esq Wetlands, near v.: ca ,ile-under-Lyne, Stafford-
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