The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-25 00:00:00

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Hon. F. IL F Berke Chairman, Director of the London,
Hounslow, and Western Railway Company
William Alfred Hill, Esq., Deputy-Chairman, also Deputy-Chairman
of the Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham Railway Company
Sir John Osborne, Bart., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing-
stoke Railway Company
Sir Henry Richardson, Knight, Chessel, near Southampton Lord of
the Manors of Chipping Barnet and East Barnet
The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne, Belle Hatch House, Henley
William Wilberforce, Esq., James-street, Buckingham-gate, and
Highwood House, Highwod Hill, Hendon
_SamanuelDendy,Esq., Montague-street, Russell-square, Lord of the
mor of Hendon

Lieut.-Colonel Gillies, Porchester House, Bayswater
William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Director of the Italian and
Austrian Railway
Josiah Heale, Esq., Gray's Inn
Major Lindam, K.H., Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberystvrith, and
Central Wales Railway Company
Henry Reckley Richardson, Esq., F.S.A., Director of the Colchester,
Cambridge, and Harwich Junction Railway
Rowland Hill Mackenzie, Esq., M.D., Mortimer-street, Cavendish-
square
Henry Chaytor, Esq., Clervaux Castle, Darlington, Director of the
Warwick and Worcester Railway
Thomas Hemming Janson, Esq., Older's Hall, Hendon, Middlesex
Thomas Priestley, Esq., Principal of Mill Hill Grammar School,
Hendon, Middlesex
The Rev. H. J. Crump, Mill Hill, Hendon, Middlesex
Captain Grover, R.N.
The Rev. Bartholomew Nicholls, M.A., Incumbent of St. Paul's,
CamptiadidnleJsochxn lanes, H.C.S., Wentworth House, Mill Hill, Hendon,
Mill Hill, Hendon, Middlesex
Mr. William Ward, Underhill, Barnet
Mr. Bruce Johnson, Finchley
William Christopher Daniel Deighton, Esq., Fellow of Queen's College
Cambridge, Holloway
Ralph Allen Frogley, Esq., Hounslow, Director of the London,
Hounslow, and Western Railway
Colonel Taylor White, Hadley-green, Barnet
Abraham Scott, Esq., Hadley Priory, Barnet
W. J. M'Gwire, Esq., 74, St. James's-street
W. Prosser, jun., Esq., 36, New Broad-street, City
James Berington, Esq., East-street, Hoxton
George Freeman, Esq., Grange House, Leeds
Richard Cowley Polhill, Esq., Director of the London, Hounslow, and
Western Railway Company
George Godfrey, Esq., The Elms, Hutton, Essex
Robert Wright Wood, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and
Basingstoke Railway Company
Alexander Prince, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing-
stoke Railway
Peter Graham, Esq., Angelo Villa, Gloucester-road, Regent's Park
William Henry Halpin, Esq., 23, Grafton-street, Fitzroy-square
Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and
Basingstoke Railway Company
Charles Green, Esq., Director of the Gloucester, lberystwith, and
Central Wales Railway Company
J. N. Nicholay, Esq., Oxford-street
John Godfrey B. Hudson, Esq., Director of the Central Terminus
Railway Company
The Rev. G. A. Walker, Alvisthorpe Parsonage, Wakefield, Dire°.
tor of the Wakefield and Bradford Railway Company
(With power to add to their number.)
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.

The Hon. F. H. F. Berkeley, M.P., W. H. Halpin, Esq.
Chairman Richard Cowley Polhill, Esq.
William Alfred Hill, Esq., Deputy- Alexander Prince, Esq.
Chairman George Freeman, Esq.
Major Lindam, K.H. George Godfrey, Esq.
Henry Beckley Richardson, Esq., Robert Wright Wood, Esq.
F.S.A. Charles Green, Esq.
Corrsumtro ENGINEER—Francis Whishaw, Esq., C.E., Brook Padge,
Hendon.

ACTING ENGINEER—J. Bailey Denton, Esq., 10, Gray's Inn-square.
BANKERS—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths,
JOINT SOLICITORS.
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Edward Elkins, Esq., 59, NewmaZ;treet, Oxford-street
G. P. Hill, Esq., 21A, Soho-square.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Henry Hammond, Esq., solicitor, Wentworth Lodge, Finchley
John Hughe9, Esq., solicitor, Whetstone.
SECRETARY (pro tern.)-1. Doull, Esq.

This railway will connect the important and hitherto neglected
town of Barnet with the London and Birmingham and the Great
Western Railways, at or near Ilelsdon-green ; with the Northern
and Eastern and the Eastern Counties Railway, at or near Totten-
ham ; and the proposed Direct London and Manchester, and the Lon-
don and York Railways.

The line, in its course, will unite the town of Barnet with Whet-
stone, Totteridge, Highwood Hill, Mill Hill, Finchley, Holder's Hill,
Hendon, Burrows, Golder's Hill, Gutterhedge, Kingsbury, Neesdon,
Wilsdon, Wilsdon Green. Hoisdon Green, Kensall Green, Westbourne
Green, Maida Hill, Kilburn, Hampstead, West End, Highgate, Crouch
End, Hornsey, Muswell Hill, West Green, Tottenham, Edmonton,
Chinford, Stamford Hill, Stoke Newington, Newington Green, Clap-
ton, liighbury, Holloway, King,sland, Layton, Stratford, West Ham,
Bow, Bromley, Bethnal Green, Limehouie, Hoxton, Homerton,
Hackney, Shacklewell, Daiston, Islington, St. Pancras, Shoreditch,
Blackwall, Euston-square, Paddington, Kensington, Hammersmith,
Brompton, Fulham, Chelsea, &c. ; connecting those places with the
various railways named, and all those south of the river Thames.
The distance from the town of Barnet to the station of the Loudon
and Birmingham Hallway, at Euston-square, by this route, will be
15 miles.

The length of the main line, from the point of junction at Totten-
ham to the London and Birmingham Railway, will be 11 miles ; and
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lotifiththeebrnanireihnilningshatom aißaßrneht,,alyvill be 4% miles. From the
to Chipping Barnet, 93¢
miles ; from the Decoy (near Brent-street, Hendon), on the proposed
Barnet and North Metropolitan Junction Railway, to the Northern
and Eastern Counties Railway, by Stamford-hill, 614
There are no engineering difficulties throughout the entire distance.
The line will proceed beyond the range of the Highgate and Hamp-
stead Hills, and the branch from the main line to Barnet will follow
the valley of the river Brent to the Intended station at Barnet : thus
the expense of constriction will be less than any other metropolitan
line of railway, for the above reason, and because it will pass through
an agricultural district, avoiding all ornamental property and large
collections of houses and buildings.
Upon the completion of this railway, a large and daily-increasing
population, resident beyond the limits of the metropolitan omnibuses,
will be largely benefited, and land and agricultural produce, hitherto
affording an inadequate return to their cultivators, will be quad-
rupled in value. . .

The ancient, populous, and once-flourishing town of Barnet, too,
will now have a railway communication of its own, without depend-
ing upon the caprice or uncertain goodnature of any compaly who
may hold out a prospect of a branch, in future times, from some of
the trunk lines now contemplated.
An ample return of profit to tho investments of shareholders may
be safely anticipated, and will arise from the following sources,
amongst others :

1. From the conveyance of passengers.
2. From the carriage of goods and merchandise from the City and
Docks, &c., to the several railways which are intersected by this
line, avoiding the delay and excessive cost of conveyance through
London ; also from the conveyance of cattle, &c., more particularly
during the period of the large Barnet fairs
3d. From the conveyance of coal, both inland and seaborne Mel,
and other commodities of general consumption, the great expense
of which has long been felt by all classes as temost grievc•'r ay.,.

The Committee of Management reserve to themselves the power
of adopting, upon this line, locomotive power, or Presser's Railway
guide and safely wheels, as may be deemed expedient.
Applications for Shares in the form annexed (and communi-
cations from persons desirous of promoting the objects of the Com-
pany), may be addressed to the Secretary, at the Provisional Offices
of the Company, 59, Newman-street, Oxford-street ; to the Joint
Solicitors, Edward Elkins, Esq., 59, Newman-street, and G. P
Hill, Esq., 21A, Soho-square.