The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-22 00:00:00

JOINT SOLICITORS,

Messrs. Hook and Oldershaw, 7, Tokenhouse-yard
Messrs. C. T. and A. Jenkinson, 76, Cannon-street, City
LOCAL AGENTS.
Birmingham.—W. H. Reece, Esq.
Boston—Messrs. Holloway and Harwooi.
ENGINEERS.
Sandiforth F. Griffin, Esq. C.E.
A. A. B. Bennet, Esq. C.E.
ARCHITECT AND SURVEYOR—E. N. Clifton, Esq. Tokenhouse-yard
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—Mcssrs. Sudlow and Kin;tion, 6, New
Palace-yard

SECRETARY.—James Elliott, Esq.
Offices of the Company, 26, Moorgate street, Lcndon.
PROSPECTUS.
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This line is designed to open a direct communication between the
towns of Birmingham and Boston.

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The advantages to be derived by a rich, progressing, and popul,us
town, such as Birmingham, the great manufacturing centre of the
kingdom. having a direct communication with a port on the eastern
coast facing the Continent, and that point the nearest to it by geo-
graphical position, need but to he mentioned to be app-eciated.
The name of Birmingham speaks for itself; the capacity and
value of Boston as a commercial port is daily increasing, and re-
quires but little enterprise to enable it to compete with some of our
best por:s.
It Is proposed that th!s line should commence at Leicester, where
it will form a centinuation of the direct line from Birmingham to
that town, and proceeding by or near Melton Mowbray, Corby,
Folkenham, and Donnington, terminate at Boston ; thus affording a
direct communication between Birmingham and its important maim-
factoring districts—Rugby, the great centre of England, and llostcn,
their nearest seaport, which eventually must command the traffic
of the districts with which it is in connexion and the opposite
ports of the Continent.
A glance at the map will show how this line is fed, and the towns
in its neighbourhood supplied by railway accommodation by the in-
tersecting lines ; but in the event of the London and York line not
obtaining Its act, it is proposed by this company to construct a
branch to Grantham.

The country is easy, presenting few or no engineering difficulties.
Another advantage held out by this project Is the improvement of
the harbour of Boston, whereby it will be restored to that eminent
position it formerly held among thz ports and harbours of the
kingdom.

The usual power will be taken by the Act to allow interest at 4
per cent. per annum after passing the Act, on he amount of the
subscription paid up. No subscriber shall he answerable ior more
than the amount of his deposit until the Act be obtained and Mtn
not beyond the amount of his subscription.

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Appficatlon3 for shares, in the usual form, and prospectuses,
to be made to the solicitors of the Company, 7, Tokenhouse-yard,
and 76, Cannon-street, City; at the offices of the Company, 26,
klcorgate-street ; and to the following stock and sharebrokers

Loneitt--Mr. Edward Newtot, Bryant, 16, lhroginorton-street ; Mr.
William Podwell, 22, Throgmorton-street; Mr. A. Syin, Token-
house•yard ; Mr. J. S. Pidgeon, 10, Warnford-court, Thrograorton-
stri et.

THE BIRMINGHAM, NOWINGLIAM,
GA INSBO RO ITO IL AND DFLL RAILWAY.

Capital 1,600,0001., in 80,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21.25. per Share.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Viet., cap. 110.)
rrovissoNAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Combermere
The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Ingestre,
The Right lion. Lord Charles Beauclerk, Chesham-place, Belgrave-

sqnare
The Right Hon. Lord Thomas Pelham Clinton
The Right Hon. Lord E Chirhester
The Right Hon. Lord Stephen Chichester
The Right Hon. Gcorge It. Dawson
The Hon. Captain Percy Evans Freke; 3, Belgrave-square
The Hon. Cecil Lawless
Sir J3roes B. 11. Hay, Bart., Rose Croft, Surrey
Sir William Lowthorp, Hull
William R. Collett, Esq., AL?. •
Thomas Bateson, Esq., M.P.
Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P., Birmingham
Gc,orge Frederick Muni; Esq., M.P., Birmingham
The Worshipful the Mayor of Hull
C. S. Foster, Esq., High Sheriff of Staffordshire
G. B. 7 horneycrott, Esq., Shrubbery and Bradley Ironworks, Staf-
ford • hire, chairman of the Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South

Staffordshire Junction Railway
Michael Grazeb:ook, Esq., Stourbrklr,c, chairman of the Staffordshire

iron trade
Thomas Bagnall, Esq., Goldshill Iron works, Staffordshire
W. 11. Alien, Esq., Leadenhall-street, London
John Aston, Esq , Birmingham
ederick Pratt Barlow, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway
James Beech, Esq., Brandon-lodge, Warwick
William Broackes, Esq., Cork-street, Burlington-gardens
Major Frederick lirownlow, United Service Club
William Chance, jun., F.sq., merchant, Birmingham
Robert Chapman, Esq., Director of the Cambrian and Grand June-

tlon Railway
George A. Hamilton Chichester, Esq., Chesent-place, Be%Tare-

square
Frederick Clarkson, Esq., Doctors'-connnons, London
Henry Crane, Esq., Nirolverlitun;don
Anthony Dickson, Esq., Erdington-house, Bcrwlckshlro
Henry R. Downman, Esq., Director of the Cambrian and Grand

Junction Railway
Duncan Dunbar, Esq., East India-road, Director of tho London

Doci Company
Ilenry John Enthoven, Esq., Director of the Dutch Rhenish Railway
James Peard Ley, Esq., Seaton Ironworks, Whitehaven
Samuel Wilfred Lucas, Esq., Sandhill-hosse, Birmingham, Director
of the Direct Birmingham and Leicester Railway
William "Mathews, Esq., Edgbaston, Birmingham, and Corbyns-hall
Ironworks, Director of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhamp-
ton Ital!way
Thomas Hackett Massey, Esq., Oxforl-sq ~are, London
Robert Marsden Massey, Esq., Oxford-squar:, London
David Montague, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester and South-

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ampton ltAllway
Will:am Morgan, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Gloucester

Railway
P. 11. Martz, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the South Staffordshire
Junction Railway
Francis Parker, Esq., Manchester
Archibald F. Paul, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway
William Watson Prole, Esq., Thuilow-square, Brompton, Director of
the Grand Junction and Midlands Union Railway
John Gibson Reeves, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Direct Bir-
mingham and Leicester Railway
Frederick Ricketts, Esq., 1 irector of the Great Western Railway
John Shaw, Esq., Wolverhampton ,
Charles Shaw, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Direct Birmingham
and Leicester Railway, and Director of the Bristol and Bir-
mingham Railway
Henry Symonds, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway
Thomas Timmins, Esq., Wolverhampton
Charles Augustus Tulk, Esq., Totteridge-park, Hants
Samuel Walker, Esq., Ablow-house, Wolverhampton, Director of
the South Staffordshire Junction Railway
William Watson, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Exeter Railway
John Webster, Esq., 35, Meeklenburgh-square, Director of the
Great Griinsby and Lincoln Railway
Henry Wright, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and
Southampton Railway
John Brearley Payn, Esq., Pirmingham
Samuel Re:crick, Esq., Handsworth Hall, Staffordshire
Robert Peasegood Sleight, Eq., Hull, Provisional Director of the
Hull and Holyhead Rail- ay
Ayre, sen., Esq., Hull, Provisional Director of the Lynn and

Ely Railway
Joseph Ayre, Esq., Hull
Wakefield Pim, Esq., Hull, Provisional Director of the Hull and Lin-

coin Railway-
Dr. Bell Fletcher, Birmingham
Benjamin Bartleet, Esq., Birmingham
Thomas Clark, Esq., Wolverhampton
James Shaw, Esq., mcraiant, Birmingham
C. S. Coitcrill, Esq., magistrate,
Walsall, Director of the South Staf-
fordshire Junction Railway
Benjamht Gibbons, Esq., Shut-entl, Dudley, Director of the South
Staffordshire Junction Railway
John Neve, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the South Stafford-

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shire Junction Railway
Samna Underhill, Esq., Wolverhampton
(With power to acid to their number)
settarrons.

Messrs. Edwards, Mason, and Edwards, 8, Moorgate-street, and De
Lthay-street, Westminster ; and
Messrs. Motteram and Knowles, Birmingham.
ENGINEER IN CIITEF—SIP John Rennie, F.R.S.
ACTING ENGINEER
NE—KW. l'urdon, Esq.
Bits.

The Birmingham Banking Company, and Messrs. Attwoods, Spooner,
and Co., B!rmhig!lam.

LOCAL AGENT.s
Hull—Messrs. Frost and Moss
Nottingham.—Samuel Maples, Esq.
SECRETARY-- EAWRI'd Hart Hart, Esq.
OFFICER—No. 1, Royal Exchange-buildings, London and
36, Upper Temple street, Birmingham.
It is proposed by this Company to establish a direct line of commu-
nication between Birmingham, Nottingham, Gainsborough, and Hull,
at the smallest outlay of capital, and with the leant possible injury to
existing interests. To effect this object, IIEC will be made of existing
or projected lines, as far as practicable, and the chain of communica-
tion will be completed by throwing out lines, where requisite.
Comrtimencing at Birmingham, it is proposed to use the Birmingham
and Derby Railway as far as Whitacre, whence a new line, about 29
miles in length, will be made,passnig through Ashby-de-la-Zonch and
Castle Donnington, to the Long Eaton or Sawley Station on the Mid-
land Counties Railway
The communication being thus perfect to .Nottingliam, it will be
carried .brward as far as Gainsborough, either by the imr,:iiosed Not-
tingham and Gainsborough Railway, or by a line spriniag out of the
line from Nottingham to Lincoln, for which an Act was obtained by
the Midland Counties Company during the last session of Parliament.
From Oainsborough this railway will proceed to Barton-on-the-
Humber, or New Holland, in the immediate vicinity of Hull, thereby
oderlog complete and entire the chain of ccahmunication between
Birmingilam and Hull.
By this project the advantages will result to the public of a
Direct line from Birmingham to Nottingham, •
19 Birmingham to Gainsborough,
and from Birmingham to Hull;
and by in,ans of the proposed South Staffordshire Junction Railway,
and the intended extension to Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Airewas,
direct line from Wolverhampton and Dudley to Nottingham, and
the other towns already enumerated.

The support of several companies will be enlisted in favour of the
like, which, together with Its own merits, will ensure its success in
Parliament.

As a considerable portion of the line of communication is already
made, or in progress, the time required -for the completion el this
great national undertaking will be materially shortened.
Independently of the advantages to be derived by a direct commu-
nication between the important seaport of Hull and the mining and
manufacturing districts of Warwickshire and Staffordshire, a large
traffic in timber, corn, metals, &c., may be confidently expected.
The revenue of the Company, in addition, will be derived from the
great thorough traffic from Birmingham and the midland counties to
Nottingham and Gainsborough, and the immense traffic from Bir-
mingham to Hull, the port at which the exports are shipped to Ham-
burgh, the German States, and the North of Europe ; and from the
conveyance of merchandise, agricultural produce, and cattle from the
southern, western, and midland counties.
A prelerence will be given in the allotment of shares to landowners
on the line, and other local proprietors, as well as to directors nod
shareholders in railways interested in supporting this undertaking.
No subscriber will be liable beyond the amount of the deposit
until the Act is obtained, and then not beyond the amount of his
subscription.
The usual power will be taken to allow interest at the rate of four
per cent. from the time at' payment upon each call until the opening
of the line. -
No applications will be attended to without a reference to a
member of the Committee, a banker, or the solicitors to this Company.
The Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contract must be
executed when the bankers' receipts are exchanged for scrip certifi-
cates, cf which due notice will be given ; and the deposits paid by
any party making default in the execution of those deeds will befor-
felted.
Plans and prospectuses, with forms of applications for shares,
may be had of the Solicitors, and of the following Stock and
Sharebrokers, viz.:—Messrs. Weill, Westropp, and Prinsep, 75,
Old Broad-street - Messrs. Preece and Evans 39, Lothbury ;
Mr. H. Pritchett, I, Royal Exchange-buildings; Messrs. Hitching and
'Harrison, 18, Thresdneedle-street ; and Messrs. reppercorne and Son,
2, Old Broad-street, London ; Messrs. Gardiner and Heap, Charles
M. Williams, and Messrs. Bradley, Forst, and Parker, Manchester;
Messrs. Watson and Co., and Mr. Samuel Phillips., Hull ; Messrs.
Davies and Son, Liverpool; Messrs. Rldsdale, Myers, and Co., Leeds;
Messrs. harp and Soo, Derby; Messrs. l'ott and Leviek, Notting-
ham ; Messrs. Wreford, Nicholls, and Wreford, Bristol ; and Mr.
James Robinson Lane, Birmingham.
FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Birmingham, Nottingham,

Gainsborough, and Hull Railway CampanY.
I request yon will allot me shares of 201. each in the capi-
tal of the above-named Railway; and I will accept the same, or
any less number, and pay the the deposit of 21. 2s. per share, and
sign the 'Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when
required.
Dated this day of 1845.
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THE N GHAM, NOTTINGHAM,
Axn Iwo,

1,;,1!,:z1c;on fur SLac,-., in in;s Con*any »fn. l•
MONDA v, the 27th In:;:ant.
EDWARDS, BIAS 0111", and EDWARDS, 8, Moorgate-Oreet
MOTTERAM 4a4 I;l4TOWlarso, Binaingham.
Oct 10 1845 •

'["klE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT
L RAILWAY, via ABINGDON, WANTAGE, lIUNGERFORD,
and LUDGERSHALL. _

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 1,200,0001., in 48,009 shares of 25/. each.
Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per `hare.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. Lor.l Viscount Dillon, Ditchley-park. Oxon
The Right Hon. Lord Sufilel I, Gunton-park, North Waisham
The Right lion. Lord Ressmore, the Dell, Windsor
The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne, Belle Hatch-house, Henley
The floe. Robert Gore, 11. N., 31. P., 21, Wilton-crescent
The Bon. William M. Dawson, Parkstone-lodge, Poole, Director of

the. Manchester and Ilmtby Direct Railway
The Hon. Edward Stafford jerningliam, Director of the London and

Nottingham Railway
Sir William Drummond Stewart, Bart.
Sir John Key, Bart., King's Anns-yard, Alderman of London,
Director of the Direct Manchester and Loudon Railway ,
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, United Service Club
E. F. Dayrell, Esq., Lillingston Dayrell, igh Sheriff sf Buckingham-
shire, Chairman of the Minehead and Bridgewater Railway
James Macmillan, Esq., Southampton, Director of the Worcester,

Warwick, and Rugby Railway
Frederick William Seymour, Esq., Carlton-gardens, Director of the

Dover and Bristol Railway
Henry D. Erskine, Esq., Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, and Kirby
Dale, Yorkshire, Director of the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway
Major Moore, Queen Anne-street, Director of the Brighton and
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Cheltenham Direct Railway
Major Graham, late Scots Greys,l6, Grove, Clapham
Bunttry, Esq., Leamington. War.vlckshire, Director of the

Coventry arid itralijhester Rfdlway
The Rev. IL R. Fowler, Felton, near Bristol, and 7, Manchester-
square, Director of the Ithond:la and Ely Valleys Junction

Railway
James Gernon, Esq., 13, Conduit-c`reet, Vice-Chairman of the Gal-
.

Ivay aid Ennis Grand Junction Railway
Archibald Douglas Stewart, Esq., Grandtully Castle
Robert Bell, Esq., Manor-house, Chiswick, Director of the Dover

and Bristol Railway
Joseph Bull, Esq., Manchester
Thomas Ferrand Deaden, Esq., Rochdale
Charles Haigh, Esq., Rochdale
Charles Well.ind, Esq., Liverpool
James Shav, Esq., Pendleton, Manchester
The Rev. F. K. Hall, D.D. Rector of Fulborne, Cambridgeshire
Thomas Dowglas:e, Esq., IMarlborough-place, St.-
John's-wood Directors of the
E. S. Blundell, 'Esq., 18, Lower Seymour-street !diva Lou-
W. L. Pope, Esq.. Woodford, Essex don and Exe-
G. W. Evans, Esq., Mllbury-terrace, Regent's-park ter Railway
Vvraller Shairp, Esq., Sussx-gardens, Hyde-park,
John Allen,Esq. 12, Glouc ster-t.n ace, Kelliington
Francis Rouse, Esq., Ul.,,er Montague-street, Montague-square
Francis Ewart, Esq., Temple, Dir.ctor of the Equity and Law
Life Assurance Company, and of the EXeter, Dorchester, and
Weymouth Railway
William Gambier, Esq., Sacombe-park, Herts
Benjamin Swan, Esq., Jermyn-street, St. James's
Nehemiah John Reed, Esq., R.N., Marlborough, Director of the

London and South Wales Direct Railway.
Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough
F. Walker Botterill, Esq., Burnley
Jaws Paxton, Req , M. )., Director of the Rugby and Manchester,
Hivi,lersfald, and Great Grimsby Railways
Thomas liiL:hant Rayner, Liiac.cotta4e, Birstal, near ds,l)l-
- of the Great Leeds, and London, Midland, and Thirsk, and

other Railway 1
Major Henry Lyster, 9, Spring-terrace, Wandsworth-road, Director
of the Lincolnshire and Eastern Counties Railway
J. Russell, Esq. Gloucester-place, Portman-square
James Scott, M.D., Grove End-lodge, St. John's-wood, Director
of the Hun and ILlyhead, and of the Bristol, Ilath, and Poole
Railways
WilllAm Doe Belcher, Esq., Mayor of Abingdon
John Hyde, Esq., jun., Alderman of Abingdon
John Temkins, Esq.
John Harris, Esq. Members of the Town Council, Abing-
Thomas Copeland, Esq. - don
Edwin James Trendell, Esq ,
John F!ng, Esq., Ahingden
George Cox, Esq., Abingl on
George Jackson, Esq., Abingdon
John Knight, Esq., Abingdon
Mr. Thomas Payne, jun., Abingdon
John Aldworth, Esq.,Frilford, Berks
William Caudwcll, Esq., Drayton, near Abingdon
William Dewe, Esq., Stonchill, near Abingdon
John Towle, Esq. } Members of the City Council, Oxford
It. C. Godfrey, Esq.,
James Morrell, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant of the county of Oxford,
Director of the Londo and Cheltenham Direct Railway
- Santuary, Esq., Kidlington, Oxon
Captain 11. Strong, Oxford, Director of the Oxford and Worcester

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Extension Railway
Rowland Mackenzie, Em., 68, Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square,
Director of the Tying, Readinl, and Basingstoke, an.l of the Chel-

teuham and Oxford Railways
Abraham Bauer, Esq., 9, Arthur-street West, King Witliain-street
Daniel Hanley, Esq., Oxford
William Seckham, Esq., Kidlington, Oxon
Charles Shilliugferd, Esq., Soiv.er Town, Oxon
Atha Williams Esq., Sinner Town, Oxon
Mr. Thomas ifyde, Oxford
Mr. Win. Thompson, Oxford
John Brightman, Esq , Regeney-square, Brighton, Chairman of the

Hounslow Railway
David Bryan, Esq., Northampton, Director of tha Eastern and

Midland Counties Railway
Charles Liddiard, Esq., Wantage
Mr. Henry James Palmer, \Vantage
Thomas Brown, Esq. West Lockinge, Berks
William Stone, Esq. Charlton, Berks
Richard Barnard, Esq. Charlton, Berks
Henry Hayward, Esq. Stirlings, Wanta,qo
James Staley. Erg. Wantage
Thomas Brown, Esq. Wantage
Mr. Charles Hart, tbundry, Wantage
Mr. William Beesley, Wantage
John William Palmer, Esq. Leteomhe Regh, Perks
Mr. J. Pottinger Palmer, Letcomhe Regis, Berke
John Blunt, Esq., Upper Bedford-place, Director of the London

Docks
William Bastow, Esq., Surrey-place, Kent-road, Director of the
Commercial anti General Life Assurance Assn,•iution
Robert Bastow, Esq., Surrey-place, Director of the Great Eastern

and Western Railway
John King, E , St. Jollies-wood, London, Director of the Somer-

setsliiralidatid Railway
/Teary Stock, Esq., Bcddgelert, North Wales, Director of the Great

}Astern and Western Railway
D. T. Johnson. Esq., Aldemary-churchyard, Director of the Direct
Independent Lonon and Manchester Railway
John 'Moor, Esq , Tutbury, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Man-

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ehester it,i!Trzy
T. A. Dale, I:sq., Malvern-house, Cheltetilvan, Direet,,r of the Bir-
kenhead and Holyhead Junction, and South Staffordshire and Pot-

teries Railways
Charles Johnston, Esq., Aldersgate-street, Director of the Lynn,

Thetford, and
Admiral Ayscoue•h, Southampton, Director of the Birmingham and

leester Railway
Frederick Charnier, Esq., R.N., Halkin-street, Bel,grave-square,
Director of the Northampton and Cambridge Railway
George R. Peripercorne, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex, Director of tha Rugby

and Warwl.cit Railway -
Thomas Sallteld, E.g. Huddersfield, Direct )1* of ll.e Manchester,
Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby, and Huddersfield and Liverpool
Direct Railway
Ch rtes Finch, Esq., Fisherton, Salisbury
General Wright, Gloucester-place, Portman-square
(With power to add to their number).
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.