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. 11. Reece, Esq.
Boston—Messrs. Holloway and Harwood.
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—Messrs. Sudlow and Kingdon, 6, New
Palace-yard

SECRETARY.—James Elliott, Esq.
Offices of the Company, 26, Moorgate street, London.
PROSPECTUS.
This lino is designed to open a direct communication between the
:owns of Birmingham and Boston.
The advantages t 9 be derived by a rich, progressing, and populous
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, used but to be mentioned to be appreciated.
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 ports.
It is proposed that th:s line should commence at Leicester, where
it will form a cAntinuation 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 manu-
facturing districts—Rugby, the great centre of England, and Boston,
their nearest seaport, which eventually must command the Datil*
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 the 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 the amount of the
subscription paid up. No subscriber shall be answerable for more
than the amount of his deposit until the Act be obtained and then
not beyond the amount of his subscription.
Applications 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,
Moorgate-street ; and to the following stock and siwrebrokers :
London—Mr. Edward Newtot, Bryant, 16, Throgmorton-street ; Mr.
William Rodwell, 22, Throgmorton-street; Mr. A. Sym, Token-
house-yard ; Mr. J. S. Pidgeon, 10, Warnford-court, Throg,morton-
street.

THE BIRMINGHAM, NOTTINGHAM,
GAINSBOROUGH, AND HULL RAILWAY.
Capital 1,600,000/., in 80,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21.25. per Share.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Viet., cap. 110.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Combermere
The Right lion. Lord Viscount In,gestre, M.P.
The Right Hon. Lord Charles Beauclerk, Chesham-placa, Belgrave-
square
The Right Hon. Lord Thomas Pelham Clinton
fhe Right Hon. Lord E Chichester
The Right lion. Lord Stephen Chichester
The Right Hon. George R. DaWSOII
The Hon. Captain Percy Evans Freke, 3, P.elgrave-square
The Hon. Cecil Lawless
Sir James D. H. Hay, Bart., Rose Croft, Surrey
Sir William Lowthorp, Hull
William R. Collett, Esq., M.P.
Thomas Bateson, Esq., M.P.
Richard Spooner. Esq., M.P., Birmingham
George Frederick Muutz, Esq., M.P., Birmingham
The Worshipful the Mayor of Hull
C. S. Foster, Esq., High Sheriff of Staffordshire
G. B. Thorneycroft, Esq., Shrubbery and Bradley Ironworks, Staf-
fordshire, chairman of the Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South

Staffordshire Junction Railway
Michael Grazebrook, Esq., Stourbridge, chairman of the Staffordshire
iron trade
Thomas Bagnall, Esq., Goldshill Ironworks, Staffordshira
IV. 11. Allen, 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 Brownlow, United Service Club
William Chance, jun., Esq., merchant, Birmingham
Robert Chapman, Esq., Director of the Cambrian and Grand Junc-
tion Railway
George A. Hamilton Chichester, Esq., Chesent-place, Belgrave-
square
Frederick Clarkson, Esq., Doctors'-commons, London
henry Crane, Esq., Wolverhampton
Anthony Dickson, Esq., Erdington-house, Berwickshire
Henry R. Downman, Esq., Director of the Cambrian and Grand
Junction Railway
Duncan Dunbar, Esq., East India-road, Director of the London
Dock Company
Henry John Enthoven, Esq., Director of the Dutch Rhenish Railway
James Peard Ley, Esq., Seaton Ironworks, Whitehaven
Samuel Wilfred Lucas, Esq., Sandhill-house, 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 Railway
Thomas Hackett Massey, Esq., Oxford-square, London
Robert 'Marsden Massey, Esq., Oxford-square, London
David Montague, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester and South-
ampton Railway
William Morgan, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Gloucester
Railway
P. 11. Muntz, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the South Staffordshire
J unction Railway
Francis Parker, Esq., Manchester
Archibald F. Paul, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway
William Watson Prole, Esq., Thurlow-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., Director 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

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the South Staffordshire Junction Railway
William Watson, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Exeter Railway
John Webster, Esq., 35, Mecklenburgh-square, Director of the
Great Grimsby and Lincoln Railway
Henry Wright, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and
Southampton Railway
John Brearley Payn, Esq., Birmingham
Samuel Kewrick, Esq., Handsworth Hall, Staffordshire
Robert Pcasegood Sleight, Esq., Hull, Provisional Director of the
Hull and Holyhead Railway
William 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 Bartlett, Esq., Birmingham
Thomas Clark, Esq., Wolverhampton
James Shaw, Esq., merchant, Birmingham
C. S. Cotterill, Esq., magistrate, Walsall, Director of the South Staf-
fordshire Junction Railway
Benjamin Gibbons, Esq., Shut-end, Dudley, Director of the South
Staffordshire Junction Railway
John Neve, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the South Stafford-
shire Junction Railway
Samuel Underhill, Esq., Wolverhampton
(With power to add to their number).
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Edwards, Mason, and Edwards, 8, Moorgate-street, and De-
lahay-street, Westminster ; and
Messrs. Motteram and Knowles, Birmingham.
ENGINEER IN CHIEF—Sir John Rennie, F.R.S.
ACTING ENGINEER—W. 11. PUrdOD, ESQ.
BANKERS.
The Birmingham Banking Company, and Messrs. AttwOods, Spooner,
and Co., Birmingham.
LOCAL AGENTS
Hull—Messrs. Frost and Moss
Nottingham.—Samuel Maples, Esq.
SECRETARY—Edward Hart hart, Esq.
OFFICES—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 least possible injury to
existing interests. To effect this object, use will be made of existing
or projected lines, as far as practicable, and the chain of communica-
tion will be completed by throwing out new lines, where requisite.
Commencing 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, passing through Ashby-de-la-Zouch and
Castle Donnington, to the Long Eaton or Sawley Station on the Mid-
land Counties Railway
The communication being thus perfect to Nottingham, it will be
carried forward as far as Gainsborough, either by the proposed Not-
tingham and Gainsborough Railway, or by a line springing 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 Gainsborough this railway will proceed to Barton-on-the-
Humber, or New Holland, in the immediate vicinity of Hull, thereby
rendering complete and entire the chain of communication between
Birmingham and Hull.
By this project the advantages will result to the public of a
Direct line from Birmingham to Nottingham,
99 Birmingham to Gainsborough,
and from Birmingham to Hull;
and by means of the proposed South Staffordshire Junction Railway,
~a the intended eetcosmeo to Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Alrewas, a
direct line from Wolverhampton and Maley Io ismtingnom, anu
the other towns already enumerated.
The support of several companies will be enlisted in favour of the
Bee, 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 of 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 largo
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, theport 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 preference will be given in the allotment of shares to landowners
on the line, and other local proprietors, as well as to directors and
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 tile time of 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, of which due notice will be given ; and the deposits paid by
any party making default in the execution of those deeds will be for-
feited.
Plans and prospectuses, with forms of applications for shares,
may be had of the Solicitors, and of the following Stock and
Sharabrokers, viz.:—Messrs. Wells, Westropp, and Prinsep, 75,
Old Broad-street ; Messrs. Preece amid Evans 39, Lothbury ;
Mr. 11. Pritchett, 1, Royal Exchange-buildings; Messrs. Hutchins and
Harrison, 18, Thre!dneedle-street ; and Messrs. Peppercorne and Son,
2, Old Broad-street, London ; Messrs. Gardiner and heap, Charles
M. Williams, and Messrs. Bradley, Ford, and Parker, Manchester;
Messrs. Watson and Co., and Mr. Samuel Phillips, Hull ; Messrs.
Davies and Son, Liverpool ; Messrs. Rldsdale, Myers, and Co., Leeds;
Messrs. Earp and Soo, Derby ; Messrs. Pott and I.:wick, 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 you will allot me shares of 20/. each in the card•
tal of tha above-named Railway ; and I will accept the same, or
any less number, and pay the the deposit of 2/. 2s. per share, and
sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when
required.
Dated this

1845.

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THE BIRMIN GI-I AM, NOTTINGHAM,
GAINSBOROUGII, AND HULL RAILWAY.
No Application for Shares in this Company can be received atter
MONDAY, the 27th instant.
EDWARDS, MASON, and EDWARI)S, 8, Moorgatc-street
MOrfERAM and KNOWLES, Birminesin.
Oct. 10, 184 i.