The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-22 00:00:00

THE WEST MIDLAND, MANCHESTER,
AND SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY, AND SWINDON AND
BtS.MINGHAM JUNCTION,
Being an extension of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,200,0001., in 60,000 shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per share.
PIOVINONAL COMMITTBE.
Lord George gaget, Uxbridge House
Major Beresford, M.P.
William Bulkoley Hughes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid-
laud, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Riehard Price, Esq., M.P., Director of the Welsh Midland, and
Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways
David R. Ross, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Belfast, Director of the
London and Manchester, and Soath and Midlands' Junction Rail-
ways
Sir John E. De Beauvoir, Bart., Chairman of the London and Bir-
mingham Extension, and .Director of the South and Midlands'
Junction Railways
Sir. William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire, Director
ofthe South and Midladds' Junction Railway
Sir George William PresCott, Bart., Theobalds, Herta, Director of
the Chester and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junc-
tion Railways
Sir William Wynn, Maesynewadd, Chairman of the North Wales,
and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, Director of the Direct Western
Rail way
Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London, Director of the London
and Mancheater Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
Sir William Twysden, Bart., Director of the Chepstow and Forest of
Dean Railway
William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., Alderman of Lon-
don, Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation,
and London and Greenwich Railways, loc. &c.
Thomas Sydney, Esq., Alderman and Sheriff of London, Director of
the London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' June-
lion Railways
Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the Lon-
don and Westminster Bank, and Namur and Liege, and South and
Midlands' Junction Railways
John Kinnersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the
London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South and

Midlands' jrniceen Railways
Donald Maclean, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Trent Talley Con-
tinuation, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
Major Oliver Lindam, K.H., Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberys-
twith, and Central Wales, and Director of the South and Midlands'
Junction Railways
Major-General Parlby, C. 8., Rutland-gate, Director of the Worces-
ter and Crewe, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Captain James Patrick Macdougal, late Bengal Royal General Staff,
Fir-grove, North Brixton, Director of the Chester and Forest of
Dean, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways, &c.
Captain Alexander Hamilton Carle, Royal Artillery, Reform Club
John James, Esq., Secondary of the City of London, Director of the
Legal and Commercial Insurance Company, the Great Western of
Bengal, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Robert Henry Lyndam, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth
Railway
Major Jelf Sharp, Deputy-Chairman of the Thames Embankment
Railway
Richard William Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Man-
chester, and Derbyshire and South Staffordshire Railways
William Fechney Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave•square, Direc-
tor of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
Peter Morrison, Esq., Managing Director of the Britannia Life Insu-
rance Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
James Clay, Esq., Brompton, Director of the Furness and White-
haven, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Col. Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, Director of the London and
Birmingham Extension, and South and Midlands' Junction Rail-
ways
William Shaw, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment, Manag-
ing Director of the Farmers' Life Insurance Company, and Di-
rector of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Richard Carpenter, Esq , Magistrate of the County of Middlesex,
Deputy-Chairman of the London and Birmingham Extension, Di-
rector of the Leicester and Bedford, and South and Midlands'
Junction Railways
G. W. Killett Potter, Esq., Secondary of the City of London
Lieut.-General Sir Lewis Grant, K.C.8., 31, Harley-street

John Jennings, Esq., Elm-grove, Hammersmith
William S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Director of the
Oxford, Witney and Cheltenham, and South and Midlands' Junc-
tion Railways
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., PALS., 8, Upper Hyde-park-street
William Singleton, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds,
and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of the Britannia Life Insurance
Company, and Derby and Stafford, and South and Midlands' Junc-
tion Railways
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manchester
and Birmingham Railway
Daniel Penton Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Manches-
ter Railway
Richard Parish, Esq., Bank House, Wordsley, Staffordshire
Samuel Parish, Esq., 'Wordsley, near Stourbedge, Staffordshire
John Anderson, Esq., E.1.C.5., Director of the Church of England
Life Insurance, and South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Henry Lewis Smale, Esq., Willoughby House, Tottenham, Director
of the London and Dover, and South and Midlands' Junction
Rail ways
James Reeves, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Direct,
and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
John Cash, Esq.
Henry Wright, Esq., Brunswick-square, Director of the Warwick
and Wrcester, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
John Castendick, Esq., Lewisham
Robert Richards, Esq., Inner Temple,-London, Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
George R. Colman, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junc-
tion, and Northampton and Banbury Railways
William Paxton, Esq., Langford, near Bicester, Director tif the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
William Bardgett, Esq., Winchester House, Broad-street, Director
of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Con-
tinuation Rallwa
John Blackburn, Esq., Leeds
Peter Fairbairne, Esq., Leeds, Vice Chairman of the Leeds and York
Railway
J. D. Hopkins, Esq., Bedford-square, Director of the Loudon and
Birmingham Extension Railway
Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Old Palace, Richmond
James Durness, Esq., Leytonstone, Essex

G. N. Wright, M.A.. Coed Celyn, Denbighshire, And Lonadale-square,
Islington
Stephen Lewis, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway
Martin Furness, Esq., Director of the. Newark and Sheffield Railway
William Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Lincoln, York and
Leeds Railway
Edmund Phillips, Esq., Avon House, Melksham, Wilts, Director of
the South and Midlands Junction Railway
Charles Thomas Ward, Esq., Luton Hoo, Beds, and Clopton House,
Stratford-on-Avon, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway •
Joseph Brook, Esq., Greenhead, Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds,
Dewsbury, and Manchester, and Huddersfield and Sheffield Junc-
tion, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
George Henry Brook, Esq., Edgulin-lodge, Huddersfield, Provisional
Director of the lluddersfleld, Halifax and Bradford Union Rail-
way, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Captain Hitching, H.E.1.C.5., Queen Anne-street, Cavendish-square,
Director of the Birmingham and Oxford, and South Midlands'

Junction Railways
James Beech, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place, and Brandon Lodge, near
Coventry, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Rail-

way
William Watson Prole, Esq., Thurloe-square, Brompton, Director of
the Jersey, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Thomas Cleobury, Esq., 30, Sackville-street
Major Walker, K.H., Director of the London and Manchester Direct,
and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Frederick James Hall, Esq., Torrington-square, and Alfreton, Derby,
Director of the Trent Valley Continuation, and South and Mid-
lands' Junction Railways
7. R. W. Atkinson, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford, and
South and Mlllands' Junction Railways
Joseph Underwood, Esq., The Hall, Blackheath, Director of the Me-
tropolitan Life Insurance Company, and Director of the London
and Birmingham Extension Company, and Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
N. A. Hill, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith and
Central Wales, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Chairman
of the Church of England Life Insurance Company, and Director
of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Colonel Fitch, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
Richard Dutton, Esq., Director of the Lincoln, Tork, and Leeds
Railway, Director of the Legal and Commercial Life Insurance
Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
Captain C. W. Tyndale, Director of the South-Eastern and South
and Midlands' Junction Railways
Frederick Jones, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Director of the Warwick and
Worcester, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
John Englis Jerdein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester,
Rugby and Southampton Railway
William Morley, Esq.' Blackheath
William Lee, Esq , Director of the Gravesend and Rochester, and
Essex and Suffolk Railways "
Thomas Gooch, Esq., Director of the South ant Midlands'
Junction Railway
J. Harvey, Esq., Rush-hill, Surrey - .

John Wh-e'elton; Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Thomas Collingridge, Esq., Highgate, Middlesex
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
C. Waite, Esq., Willesden, Middlesex
R. W. Wood, Esq., Lodge-place, St. John's Wood, Director of the
North Metropolitan Railway
William Slark, Esq., Directoi of the Guarantee Society
FrederickCollingridgei Esq., Thurlow-square, Brompton

Warren Stormes Hale, Esq. Gresham-street, Director of the Oxford
and Worcester Extension
Grove Key, Esq.
Thomas Yates Hunt, Esq., Brades, near Birmingham
Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds, Director of the West Riding Junction, and
South Midlands' Junction Railways
W. Lee, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-sqtetre
Robert Power, Esq., M.D., Queen-street, May-fair
Admiral J. Ayscough, Prospect-place House, Southampton, Director
of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Joseph Thompson, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton and
South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Major Grubbe, Eastwell House, Potterne, Wilts, Magistrate of the
County, and Director of the South and Midlands'Junction Railway
Captain Seth N. Fisher, Director of the Warwick and Worcester, and
South and Midlands' Junction Railways
T. G. Norbury, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Redford Railway
Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continua-
tion, and eouth and Midlands' Junction Railways, and of the Legal
and Commercial Life Insurance Company
William Hallett, Esq., Kemp Town, Brighton, Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
John Brocke Walbancke, Esq., Directo: of the South and Midlands'
Junction Railway
Captain Hamilton Earle, Royal Artillery
William Lee, Esq., Director of the Reading Railway
Henry Savage, Esq., Dorset-place, Dorset-square
William T. Thornton, Esq., Berkeley-street, Portman-square
John Dennis, Esq., Director of the Erewash Valley Extension Railway
Joseph Crockett, Esq , Alderman of Devizes, and Director of the
North Wilts Banking Company, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
John Helbert Helbert, Esq., Gloucester-place, London, Director of
the Leicester and Birmingham Railway
Rey. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Herefordshire
Thomas Chitty, Esq., Gower-street, London, Director of the Rugby
and Worcester Railway
William l'cppercorne, Esq., London, and Bexhill, Sussex
Captain T. Hodges, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park, Director of the
Leeds and Carlisle Railway
F. Duffield, Esq., Bolton House, near Bradford
Rev. F. R. Hall, D.D., Rector of Fulbourne, Cambridge
John Barnett, Esq., Coroner for the County of Gloucester, Director
of the Oxford and Cheltenham Railway
William Spooner, Esq. Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, Director of
the Newcastle and Liverpool Railway
Alexander Prince, Esq., 14, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Director of the Bar-
net North Junction Railway
James Lees, Esq., Delph, Saddleworth, near Manchester, Director of
the Saddleworth Banking Company
(With power to add to their number).
BANKERS—The Commercial Bank of London.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—Sir John Memel', LL.D., F.R.S.
ACTING ENGINEER—WiIIiam Mullingar Higgins, Esq., C.E.
SoLterros —W. B. James, Esq., 5, Basinghall-street.
LOCAL AGENTS.

It appears that England will be divided longitudinally by four great
will become so many main trunks, intersee-
lines of railway, which
communication with the intermediate dis-
tricts, with packet stations, and with sea-port towns. The more
tug sad intersected by numerous lines, both transverse and oblique,
opening rapid and ready
which is also the longest, originating at Newcastle-
easterly of these,
upott-Tyne,
London, whence all places are accessible.
The be said to terminate in
and passing through York, Peterborough, and Qambridge,
The second line, counting westward, is more tortuous, and has also
a common northern terminus with
This line, descending the Ere-
the preceding, by which its ad-
vantages are materially restricted
wash Vale, and passing through Rugby and Oxford, becomes a South-
ampton line by falling into the South-Western
more the most westerly, is still The third longitudinal line, er Railway at Basing-
stoke.
de-
fective la design than the preceding; employing the steep and narrow
railway- called the Birmingham and Gloucester as its first link, it
traverses nearly In a right line the least populous and most undulating
parts of Gloucester, Berks, Wilts, and Hants ; and, properly speaking,
has no independent terminus.
A large longitudinal section of the kingdom—the West Midland
e'tprrunenseeknnli
district—a district inviting a similar species of accommodation from
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luinnep.rovided with a chief
Birmingham a
ue.; and it is contemplated to remedy this deficiency by the
Adopting
land, Manchester,
line through or near to Str
, and soustila northern terminus of the West Mid-
aampton Railway, it is proposed to carry
Stow, lcorthleach, Fatrrord, afford-on-Avon, thence between Moreton,
merge in the South and Midlandnde
line
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terminus,
with the. South
and Midlands, by means of which it opens a trienotEtteat tion hitherto su;gested with the harbours or most direct
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church, Poole, and Southampton. At its northern terminus,Weymouth, Christ-
mlngham, it communicates with a series of lines, protected, ,,,BrIQr.
areas, or completed, which will form the most direct 1111,, thilat-ca -
ever be constructed between the southern ports of England and rho
great manufacturing districts.
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