The Sun.
London, England, 1836-06-21 00:00:00

TO JAMES DUKE, ESQ.

FEELING anxious that the important office of
SHERIFF of LONDON should be filled by a citizen of
respectability, identified with its interests and connected with its
commerce, and who will discharge the duty of the office with firm-
ness and impartiality ; and having every confidence in your charac-
ter, we request you will allow yourself to be put,in nomination at
the (timing election, and we shall have great pleasure in giving you
our best-support—We are, yours, faithfully,

June 20../836. (Numerously si geed.
To the INDEPENDENT LIVERY of the CITY of LONDON.
GENTLEMEN—Ravin.- been called upon to offer myself for the
important OFFICE of SHERIFF of LONDON and MIDDDE-
SEX, by the foregoing requisition, conveyed in terms most flatter-
ing to my feelings, and signed by an influential body of Mer-
chants, Bankers, and Traders of the City of London, I feel it my
duty to express my sense of the high honour of such a requisition,
-
and to inform you that I cheerfully accede to your wishes to allow
my name to be proposed for Sheriff at the ensuing Election : and,
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will readily give opportunities for the expression of imbue
opinion,
by caliing county meetings whenever retolgitions, properly signed,
shall and I V;iil di3Y4tft Any best endeavours,
a
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stheintluentceofe ;
my WAN will extend, to improve the dis-
cipline of the gaols Within its
,itirisclidion, to foster and support the
charitable institutious of the metropolis, to uphold by every means
in my power the true dignity and genuine hospitality of this an-
cient and honourable office, and to discharge its duties with firm-
ness and impartiality.
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your most obedient 'Servant,
..11e.dalph:-.lane, City, June 20, 1826. JAMES DUKE.

BUILDING GROUND.
FOR SALE BY PRIVATE CONTRACT:
/CLOT of FIFTEEN ACRES of FREEHOLD
1111.. LAND, beautifully situated by the sea-side, and com-
manding extensive and picturesque land and sea views. The neigh-
bourhood is of the highest respectability. The estate is within a
few minutes drive of a large tharket town in South Wales, and is
every way suited to meet the wants of a respectable Avail), willing
to retire into 'the country.
For prrticulars app:y, postage paid, to Mr. Newbery, surgeon,
28, Wilton-place, Belgraye-square.
TIONCASTER, NORIZI MIDLAND, and
GOOLE RAILWAY, extending the North Midland, and
the Sheffield and Rotherham Railways, through Doncaster, to the
Port of Goole, and the Humber.

Capital 350,0001. in Shares of 501. each.
Deposit 2/, 10s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
(With power to add to their number.)
Henry Walker, of Clifton, near Rotherham, Esq.
Edmund Becket Denison, of Doncaster Esq.
George Clark Walker, of Doncaster, Esq.
William Vickers, of Firs-hill, Sheffield, merchant.
Samuel Jackson, of .Sheffield, merchant.
Samuel Clark, of filasbrough, near Rotherham, Esq.
David Cram, of Westfield-house, Doncaster, Esq.
W. Wilton Chambers, of the Clough, near Rotherham, Esq.
Wra. Ibbotson, of Endeliffe-hall, Sheffield, merchant.
John Marsh, of Sheffield, merchant.
Win. Chadwick, of Arksey-house, Doncaster, Esq.
Edward Vickers, of Western Bank, Sheffield, corn-miller.
James Hodgson, of Rotherham, corn-miller.
Thomas Linley, of Sheffield, wine and spirit-merchant.
John Wilkinson, of Sheffield, iron-merchant.
Thomas Wheatley, of Rotherham, corn-merchant.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—George Stephenson, Esq.
ACTING ENGlNEER—Frederick Swanwick, Esq.
PRINCIPAL -SURVEYOR—James Alexander, Esq.
Souctroas—Mason and Collinson, Doncaster ; .Henry Vickers,
Esq., Sheffield.
BANK E as—Sir W. B. Cooke, Bart„ Foljambe, Barker, and Co.,
Doncaster ; Yorkshire District Bank, Sheffield • Sheffield and
Rotherham Banking Company, Rotherham; Beckett, Blagdes, and
Co., Leeds; and Glyn, Hallifax, Mills, and Co., London.
There being no longer any doubt of the North Midland and the
Sheffield and Rotherham Railways receiving the sanction of Par-
liament in the Lines proposed by their respective Engineers, the
present undertaking (which has been kept back so long as any
such doubt existed) is now brought with cocfidence before the
public.
Its object is to extend those two Railroads b_y way of Doncaster,
down the fine valley of the River Dun, to the Port of Goole—and
so to give to Sheffield, to Birmingham, and the Staffordshire Pot-
teries,—and to Derby Nottingham, and the other manufacturing
towns of the Midland 'Counties, an expeditious and direct commu-
nication, by railway, with the Humber.
By an inspection of the snap of England, the singularly direct
communication which this Railway will accomplish between those
important towns and the Humber—and the greater facilities which
it will afford for general shipments, and more especially for ship-
ments to Scotland to the Continent—will be at once apparent.
Another object of the proposed Railway is to bring the limestone
of Derbyshire within the reach of the agriculturists Qast of the
Trent ; and, by conveying forward to the outliort, at a cheap rate,
the coal brought by the North Midland Railway from the-Valley
of the River Bother, and from Silk:stone and Groasbrough, to faci-
litate the supply of that mineral not only to the district lying
between the Trent and the Coast, where there is no home supply,
but to London and the South of England.
The town of Doncaster has long been celebrated for the extent
of its Corn market. Being situated midway between the manu-
facturing and agricultural districts, and being the central town upon
the proposed line of Railway, increased facilities will thereby be
afforded, not only for bringing grain to the market, but for carry-
ing it forward into the interior l and the circumstance of grain
being almost invariably brought to that market in sacks (and not in
the bii:l4), will ensure to the Railway a great proportion of the
traffic in that commodity.
A vast and enterprising population will be embraced within the
operat inns of this Railway.
The country through which It will pass is, for the greater part,
almost level, acid is peculiarly favourable for the construction of a
Railway, The cost will therefore be moderate—the rate of car-
riage correspondingly low—and the expedition very great. Its length
will be about Twenty-eight miles.
The subjoined is a statement of traffic expected upon the

Present
Traffic.

Estimated
Traffic on
Railway

Revenue.

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P4rsencrs (by Stage Coaches alone...—.
Goods by %V ter (from returns
tiken near Rotherham 123,05 1
Estimated quantity of Goods
Passing upon the navigation
np.Lo.y Rotherham, ,not
cludtst in the above Returns) 52,001
I.stimaied Tonnage en the
Turnpike Road
Parch and Miscellaneous.

71,,!/tiO

13 3.951 t)

Tcala,

2.20,0:0

Tons,

110.9,5

424,3f1i

32,P9J

1 M 2

£58,338
Deduct 40 per Cent. for Expenses

Net Income (being 10 per Cent. on Capital),„ £35,003
The above estimate is exclusive of the trate which may rea-
sonably be expected from the North Midland Railway, and the
important towns before alluded to, and is computed on a scale eon-
s:derably lower than the present rate of charges by land and water.
An Act is intended to be applied for in the next Session ; and no
further call will be made until it shall have been obtained,
Applications for shares may be trade to Thomas Rogers, Esq.,
9, Devonshire-square, Bishopsgate-street, London ; or to the Soli-
citors, Messrs. Mason and Collinson, Doncaster ; and Henry
Vickers, Esq., Sheffield; (or at the Craven Hotel, Craven-street,
Strand. )