The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-21 00:00:00

SOUTH-EASTERN CANTERBURY,
RAMSGATE, and SANDWICH RAILWAY,
Joining the South-Eastern Railway at ASHFORD.
Capital, 500,0001., in 20,000 Shares of 251. each.—Deposit
per Share.
PROVISIONAL DIRPCTORS.

George Beauelere, Esq.
Robert Willis Blencow, Esq.
M. A. Goldsmid, Esq.
Edmund Halsewell, Esq.
With power to ad/
LOCAL CO'

RAMSGATE.
Richad Tomson, Esq.

Captain Hutchinson, R.N.
John Cutler, Esq.
Thomas Turner, Esq.
Charles Ince, Esq.
Joseph Marsh, Esq., R.N.
Mr. George Hinds
. .

Colonel Hodgson
Captain Pringle, R.E.
John Shewell, Esq.
John H. Turner, Esq.
Id to their number.
/MMITTEES.

Mr. Frederick L. Crow
ENGINEER—BewieI
CONSULTING ENGINEER--Wil
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Clutton
Fennell.

CANTERBURY.
William Mount, Esq.
George Buckley, Esq.
Henry Cooper, Esq., Alderman
John Brent, Esq.
Mr. John Pout
Mr. Edward Wootton

ze Blackburn, Esq.
Liam Cubitt, Esq., F.R. S.
and Aaron; Messrs. Faux and

SECRETARY—J. S. Yeats, Esq.
An Act having been obtained in the last Session of Parliament
for the formation of a Main Trunk Line of Railway from London
to Dover, passing through the centre of Kent, affording facilities
of communication, by means of branches, to the principal towns
and watering places in the county, the present Company is formed
in connection with that of the South-Eastern Railway, to construct
a line from Ashford to Canterbury, Ramsgate, and Sandwich.
In bringing forward this measure, it is right to advert to two
projects which are before the public—viz., The Kent Railway and
the Central Kentish Railway, proposing to construct integral lines
from Greenwich to nearly the same points.
ti The length of the Kent Railway, from Greenwich to Ramsgate,
is 70 miles 11 chains; that of the Central Kentish Railway to
Sandwich, is 80 miles 55 chains.

Without entering into the merits or demerits of either of these
Lines, it is sufficient to notice the improbability of the Legislature
sanctioning a second Line to Dover or to Ashford, after having
granted in the last Session an Act to the South-Eastern Company
for the formation of a Railroad to both those towns, and the pro-
bability of its rather encouraging the formation of Linesproceeding
from main trunks for which Acts have already been obtained.
The course adopted is by the Valley of the Stour, which presents
every facility for the formation of a Railway.
The distance from Ashford by Canterbury to Ramsgate, by this
Line is 28 miles 73 chains, and the Branch to Sandwich is 4 miles,
27 chains. The gradients are of the most favourable description, in
no case exceeding 1 in 330, or 16 feet per mile, and two-thirds of
the whole Line are level.

The cost is only about one-fourth of that of an independent Line
from London.

The journey from London to Canterbury by the South-Eastern
Railway will be performed in three hours, that to Ramsgate and
Sandwich in about three hours and a half.

A junction will he made at Canterbury with the Whitstable Rail-
way, by means of which the Northern Coast of the County will be
connected with Ashford, Tunbridge. and the Weald of Kent ; and
by the South-Eastern Brighton Line a communication by Railway
will be opened between Ramsgate, Canterbury, and Brighton.
The Provisional Directors, in presenting this Line to public no-
tice, invite attention to the following facts :
That only 334 miles of Railway are required, and that the same
may be obtained at an expense not exceeding 500,3001.
That the unnecessary intersection of the country by long lateral
Lines is altogether avoided.
That no engineering difficulties or interference with ornamental
properties occur in the line.
That the communication with Canterbury, Ramsgate, and Sand-
wich is furnished by means of Railways which have already received
the sanction of Parliament.

The Provisional Directors have the satisfaction to announce that
the Plans and Seitions have been deposited, and the standing orders
of Parliament complied with.
The Prospectus and further information may be obtained of
Messrs. Clutton and Fearon, Temple ; and Mess, s. Vaux and
Fennel, Bedford-row ; and at the following Agents in the coun-
try, viz. :
Messrs. King and Snowden, Messrs. Shipden and Ledger,
Ramsgate Dover
Mr. D. Sladden, Canterbury Messrs. Brockmen and Watts,
Mr. W. H. Waterman, Ashford Folkestone

Messrs. Newington and Sten- Mr. Cardwell, Manchester
ning, Tunbridge Messrs. Reynolds and Son, Liver-
Mr. C. Willis, junior, Cran- pool
brook Messrs. Ridsdale, Leeds.
Applications for Shares must be made to the Secretary, at the
South-Eastern Railway-office, Coleman-street, London, on or be-
fore Monday, the 23d instant, when the Shares will be allotted.
London, Jan. 10. J. S. YEATS, Secretary.

Sir Augustus Clifford left town on Saturday last,
with the Duke of Devonshire, for Panshanger and Chats-
worth.

THE MIDDLESEX REFORM DINNER.—A good
deal of confusitin took place yesterday in the committee-
room of the Middlesex Reform Dinner, in consequence of
the rush for tickets. We understand that there were ap-
plicants for seventeen hundred beyond the number that
can be accommodated in Drury-lane Theatre. Some of the
stewards even, who had neglected to send for their tickets
at the proper time, found to their disappointment that they
had come rather " too late for dinner," as their tickets had
been disposed of to other applicants. We understand no
more tickets can be issued. It will be seen by the list of
stewards, which we publish in our advertising columns. that
a considerable accession has been made to that already
numerous and respectable list.
LAW APPOINTMENTS.—We understand that Mr.
Baron O'Loghlen is to be Master of the Rolls ; the Attor-
ney-General, Baron of the Exchequer ; Mr. 'Woulfe, At-
torney-General ; and Mr. Maziere Brady, Solicitor. Mr.
Pigot is mentioned as likely to succeed Mr. Brady as Ad-
vising Counsel to the Chic!' Secretary, This arrangement
only waits the King's sanction.—Dublin Evening Post.
The first meeting of the Royal Institution for the
session was held yesterday evening, when Mr. Farraday
delivered a lecture on the theory of M. Massoni, respecting
the existence of one general law which should account for
the various phenomena of gravitation, attraction, and elec-
tricity. A crowded theatre was attracted by the interest
of the subject, and the Learned Lecturer was loudly cheered.
The carnival at Vienna is expected to be very gay.
The first ball at the Palace was to take place on the Bth ;
on the following Tuesday the Marquis de St. Aulaire, the
French Ambassador, was to give a grand entertaiment, and
the Turkish Ambassador was to give a similar one on the
Tuesday followin,;.