The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-26 00:00:00

KENT RAILWAY.

Office, No. 76, Cornhill, Dec. 22, 1836.
Extract from the report of the Committee of the Hous
of Commons of the 10th of May, 1836 :--
" That the engineering evidence on the northern line, or
Kent railway, did not establish a case in detail before your
Committee ; but it appears to be a line which, as connect-
ing the port of Ramsgate and other large towns in the
north of Kent with London, and showing public advan-
tages may for such purposes entitle it to consideration here-
after, provided it could be shown that such a line may be
accomplished without insuperable engineering difficulty."
The Directors of the Kent Railway, in referring to the
above extract from the report of the Committee of the
House of Commons last session, are happy to inform the
pUblic that by the skill and perseverance of the engineer,
Mr. Walker, the engineering difficulties alluded to have
been completely surmounted.
The line both to Ramsgate and Dover has been laid
down with great. care, and after the most mature delibera-
tion, and it comprises a communication between the metro
polis and the most populous tawns in the county of Kent.
It is demonstrated that it is only by the carriage of pas-
sengers that railroads can be profitable. and the estimated
number of passengers that will avail themselves of the Kent
railway to pass between Dover, Ramsgate, and the inter.
mediate towns to the metropolis, enables the Directors to
have the highest confidence in the undertaking as a profit-
able and secure investment.
The South-Eastern Railway Company, who obtained an
Act last session, find it necessary to apply to Parliament
for liberty to amend their line. If that line is the only one
from the metropolis to the coast, the inhabitants of Green-
wich, Blackheath, Woolwich, Dartford, and their vicinities
will be precluded from partaking of the advantage of a di-
rect communication with toe metropolis and the coast, and
the other towns in the country, by a ra!lway.
The South Eastern, Railway will have for tunnels, one
of them 2.706 yards long; a second, 1,600 yards ; a third,
1,040 yards ; and a fourth, 528 yardq, making a total of
5,874 yards of tunnelling ; whereas the Kent line does not
require more than 2,200 of tunnelling altogether, and those
divided into four short tunnels. The South Eastern line
shows three inclined planes, to be worked by assistant en-
gines, upwards of seven miles in length in the whole,
whereas the Kent line has no inclined plane a short one
at the commencement in Greenwich, 660 yards long. The
Directors of the Kent Railway, in comparing their line
with the South Eastern, feel confident that it shows a
better working line—a line more beneficial to the public at
large, and one that will be infinitely more profitable to the
proprietors.

The new University Club-house in Pall Mall, be-
gins to give tokens of forming one of the handsomest edi-
fices in the metropolis.
We arc happy to have it in our power to state that
his Majesty's Government have appointed a Consul to watch
over British commercial interests in Servia. It will be
peculiarly gratifying to the public to know that the impor-
tant duties of this office have been confided to Colonel
Hodges, whose high professional reputation, straightfor-
wardness, and firmness of character, combined with the
nest conciliatory manners, are the surest guarantees for
t h efficient discharge.—Morning Chronicle.