The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-11 00:00:00

ANTI-DRY-ROT COMPANY.
KYAN'S PATENT,
For the PRESERVATION of all TIMBERS, CANVASS, and
CORDAGE, from DRY-ROT and DECAY.
Constituted by Act of Parliament.
Notice is hereby given to the Shareholders of this Company, that
the LAST INSTALMENT of FIVE POUNDS per SHARE
becomes due on the Ist February, 1837, and they are requested to
pay the same into the Banking-house of Messrs. Vere, Sapte, and
Co., Lombard-street, on or before that day. Shareholders are re-
quested to brioe or send their present Certificates of Shares, with
the Bankers' Receipts, for the purpose of being registered in the
books of the Company, according to the provisions of the Act of
Parliament, when new Certificates will be issued, previous to the
General Meeting, which will take place on Wednesday the Ist
March.

Interest, at the rate of 5/. per cent. per annum, will be charged
on all Shares after the Ist February on which the Instalments are
not then paid, and the holders of such Shares will not be entitled
to receive any dividends, or vote at the General Meeting, until the
instalments and interest are duly paid.
By order of the Board,
CHARLES TERRY, Secretary.
2, Lime-street-square, Dec. 31, 1836.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
EXTRACTS from PART 11.
Of " The Anti-Railroad Journal ; or, Railroad Impositions
Detected."
It is not, therefore, too much to anticipate a similar termination
to the minor Great Western Railway from Bristol to London ; for,
tmay though probably it reach as far as Bath from Bristol, after hav-
ing, like a mole, explored its way through tunnels, long and deep,
the Shareholder; who travel by it will be so heartily sick, what with
prospect
foul air, smoke, and sulphur, that the very mention of a Railway
will be worse than ipecacuanha, especially when the only
they can find the least cheering in the midst of all this derangement
of their stomachs, will be a granite tramway, actually in operation,
alongsidebl • of their own dose of ipecacuanha, ready to follow up the
black draught, so as to get rid of every particle of obstruction with
which the bottoms of their pockets might be otherwise afflicted.
True it is, that though the last 40 miles from Reading to London
will not require quite so much mole-like engineering as through the
first 13 miles to Bath et for the gratification of Mr. Brunet, who
Bubble
throuh
InaY
wish to tunnel more successfully for the Great Western
dry land, than
throughhs hitherto rewarded the iugenuity and
talent of his father through wet land,
tsand aqueducts, through
skill and dexterity in the shapeskill of viaducts and aqueducts, through
which the Shareholders will find, as well as Mr. Brunel, solicitors,
all the
and Others, Of
"undoubted talent and activity," that the aqueducts
superriets will doubtless form capital ducts to carry off
)3 Cash of the Shareholders.
ut to be serious--for in a question where so much is to be lost
by one t
mu t par y, and nothing to be gained by another, even ridicule
sbe economised since it should be borne in mind, that
the
unless ;
parties who have concocted the minor Great Western
Railway w
bubble ere conscious that they were putting forth nothing but a
line would that thewhole
line they ought to be able to show
f even one per
pay a liberal profit, and not fall short o .
..
eseetnett profit, so as to induce the most cautious capitalist to sub-
that th r else they must be willing to labour under the imputation
miscalculation have miscalculated the traffic of the load ; and as such
the could not be the result of ignorance, if founded, as
assert, on
It" Stamp off u of malice
prepense.
- ice returns," it must have been the re-
New, toP
have arrived at
the truth, . prove, that they might, if they would,
facts:_. it is only necessary to draw attention to the following
besides lot 1
of
total income in the waggon department for the first Great
western Line of orange, I exclusive of the canal and coasting trade,
nstarit andtrunio lemons, enough to keep the whole tribe of Israel in
fruitsofthe eivnillennePinheilpot...lane,. the grand mart for the Seville
. Deduct for catti ...
. ers, is estimated to be .............. ,015
. £143
Ditto par__, e included ....
reels and posting, ditto
---- 82,176

Total fo
Consequently the total' goods alone R. 61,337
at 414-cl. per ton per railetl,‘fmatitY of goods estimated to be conveyed
being 8,000 tons more
than end to end will be about 28,864 tons,
vehicles on the Birmingham whole of the traffic from similar
latter is far more productive
n the Bristol Line.
than the it is notorious that the
But, granting that the
tons of goods, still the assn projectorsetti have
least three-fourths, evenme 'F, 35,750, must be reduced at
not. over-credited 8,000
and owners of cattle will, out of cograltr to be possible that Bubbles
throw away their own profits more liberally than they have proved
willing to bestow them on the Manchinesodtereaonid Liverpool Line,_ af_ter
more than three years trial of that
e
very few horned-cattle, if any at all, havbeconveyance. In t-ct
as few sheep, because it is impossible to conveenvcarri such a natilm( alsuitaet
rates sufficiently low to pay, for reasons assigned 6
the estimate for
the Birmingham Line.
From the total income, therefore, of 143,515/, will be deducted
26,813/. for cattle over credited, thus reducing the nett income to
11,702/. ; and if from this be abated the expenses, in the ratio of
73ii per cent. of the income, as on the Manchester Line, say
85,880/„ it leaves a gross profit of not snore than 30,822/., which,
Upon the estimated 3,
capitalof 000 P " 000/ is about one per cent.
But, as the
cost of construction would more likely reach
4,000,000/., the gross profit would not be more than 6-Bths per cent.
But
it is not pretended that even this traffic can be obtained
without superseding every other interest, and bidding defiance to
any velocity or economy equal to what is now so fully established on
many
of our canals; and notwithstanding there is one water line