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

This company is formed for the purpose of establishing direct
railway communication between the important ports of Hull,
Great Grimsby, and Southampton.
It is intended to effect this desirable object by the construction
of a line of railway, commencing at Lincoln, passing Grantham,
Oakham, Uppingham, near to Rockingham and Rothwell, and
joining the South Midland Railway between Market Harborough
and Northampton?; thus forming, in, connexion with projected
lines of railway from Hull and Grimsby to Lincoln, and from
Northampton to Southampton the connecting link in one uninter.
rupted chain of railway communication from Hull and Grimsby
to Southampton, Gosport, and Poole, and the whole of the sauth-
western coast of England.
It will also form the most direct route from Hull, Great
Grimsby, and the whole of Lincolnshire, Rutlandshire, Northamp-
tonshire, and part of Leicestershire, to Oxford, Banbury, Chel.
tenham, Gloucester, Bristol, Exeter, and the South and West of
England.

An inspection of the map will at once show the importance of
this undertaking, whether considered in a local or national point of
view, forming as it will an intimate connexion between London
and the South generally, with the fertile districts of Lincolnshire
and the adjacent counties, at present without railway accommo-
dation; while its value to the South Midland, the Northampton,
Banbury, and Cheltenham, the London and Birmingham Railwak
Companies, and the projected lines south of Northampton (to which
it will form a most profitable adjunct) must be obvious.
This line will also form junctions at Lincoln with the projected
line from London to York, also with the Leicester, Louth, and
Grimsby, the Nottingham and Lincoln, and the other proposed
lines running to Lincoln ; at Grantham with the Nottingham,
Vale of Belvoir and Grantham, and the Grand Union ; at Oakham
with the Syston and Peterborough ; also with the Boston, Stamford,
and Birmingham and London, and Manchester Direct.
One great and important feature in this railway is, that it does
not run parallel with, or in opposition to, any existing line of
railway.
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The ground has been surveyed, and found to be practicable, pre.
renting for the most part no engineering difficulties. _ . .

Satisfactory communications for mutual co.operation have been
opened with the several companies, whose interests will be affected
by the proposed line. In the meantime the Committee of Manage-
ment reserve power to amalgamate with any other company, or
deviate from the proposed line, or make such extensions and
branches as they may hereafter deem advisable.
The Subscribers will be held liable only to the amount of their
subscriptions, and power will be taken in the Act of Parliament to
allow interest at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum on all calls from
the passing of the Act.

In consequence of a great portion of the Shares having been
already applied for, the period for application must necessarily be
very limited.

Applications for Shares may be made in the annexed form to the
following Sharebrokers :—London : Mr. W. West, Capel-court,
Mr. Benjamin Rankin, Tokenhouse-yard ; Mr. Morton, 14, Ex-
change-buildings, Liverpool; Messrs. E. C. Hopps and Co., Leeds;
Messrs. Gibson and Dover, Manchester ; Messrs. John Pollock and
Co.. Bradford, Yorkshire; Messrs. Potter and Smith, York; Messrs.
Sohmes and Tripp, Bristol; Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer, Ply-
mouth ; Mr. T. Sandford Exeter; Mr. J. Wright, Birmingham;
Messrs. Sibary and Simpson, Hull; Messrs. Ironside, Sheffield;
Messrs. Mann and Son, Norwich; Mr. Joseph Ivey Baker, Chelten-
ham ; to the Secretary, No. 2, Guildhall-chambers; and to George
Smith, Esq., solicitor, 24, Golden-square, and No. 2, Guildhall-
chambers, Basinghall-street.
To the Provisional Committee of the Lincoln and Northampton
Railway Company.

Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me Shares in
the above Company, and I agree to take all such shares, or so many
as may be allotted to me, and to pay the deposit thereon; and to
execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement,
when required so to do.

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