The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-16 00:00:00

THE PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL
BENEFIT ASSOCIATION AND BENEVOLENT FUND.
Notice is hereby given, that the FIFTH ANNUAL GENERAL
MEETING of the BENEFIT DEPARTMENT of this A SOCIA-
TION will be held at the London TWICTII, Bishopsgate street, on
MONDAY NEXT, Jan. 19. The chair will be taken at six o'clock pre-
cisely.

By order of the Board,
GEO. THOMAS, Chaim an.
THOS. MULLINDER, cretary.
42, Moorgate-street, Jan. 15, 184.

BOSTON, NEWARK, lUD SHEFFIELD
RAILWAY.
The Committee of Direction beg to inform the Shareholders that
the requisite deposits with the parish-clerks, Private Bill-office, &c.,
have been made, and the whole of the notices served in compliance
with the Standing Orders of Parliament.
The value and importance of the line being universally admitted,
the COmmittee beg to submit the following tabular statement, from
an examination of which the public will be able to julge how far the
engineering merits of this line will bear comparison with the other
schemes intended to accommodate the same district:—
The line from Boston to Shef- By opposing lines which omit
field, through Sleaford, Newark, Newark,

and Mansfield, by the Boston,
Newark,and Sheffield itailway,is
Distance . Boy, miles Distance .• ••• .• 92 miles
Heaviest gradient .. lin 120 Heaviest gradient. • • lin 84
Tunne11ing.......... 1,024 yds. Tunne11ing.......... 9,550 yds.
The line from Grantham to Bos- By opposing lines,
ton, by Boston, Newark, and

Sheila ld Railway, is
Distance ..
Heaviest gradiant .. lin 165 Heaviest gradient
Tunnelling .• • • 528 yds. Tunnelling • • • • •
The line from Nottingham to 808- By opposing lines,
ton, by the Boston, Newark,
and Sheffield Railway, and for
14.,;4 miles over the Midland
Counties, Nottingham and Lin-
coln line, which is now con-

28Y, miles
1 in 88
.. 1,320 yds.

structing, is
Distance .......... 55 miles Distance .
Heaviest gradient .. lin 165 Heaviest gradient
No tunnelling. Tunnelling ••• • •• 2,024 yds.

From an examination of the preceding, it will be seen that the
line of the Boston, Newark, and Sheffield Railway, as a communi•
cation between Boston and Sheffield, while it connects Boston and
Sleaford with Newark, which the others do net, has the advantages
over its opponents of 11 ij miles in distance, 8,408 yards in tun-
nelling, and of a gradient of 1 in 120, instead of 1 in 84, thus effect-
ing an enormons saving in capital.
On the two other routes compared above, the advantages as to
gradients and tunnelling greatly preponderate on the same side, that
of the Boston, Newark, and Sheffield Railway ; and these, according
to a principle lately most prominently announced by a great railway
authority—" that the best railway is not always the shortest, but
that which works best "—much more than compensates for its greater
length of about three miles.
Besides, there are fourteen miles and a half of the route from Not-
tingham to Boston, via the Boston, Newark, and Sheffield Railway,
already In the course of construction by the Midland Company,
thereby rendering it necessary for the opposing lines to make eleven
miles additional railway with very heavy gradients, In order to save
three miles and a half in their distance, as compared with the Boston,
Newark, and Sheffield line.
A more minute statement of the comparative merits of these lines,
which is now preparing, will, it is confidently anticipated, set at rest
all doubts as to the superior engineering merits of the Boston,
Newark, and Sheffield Railway, over its rival schemes, and establish
its Parliamentary claims on an incontrovertible basis.
JOHN DENNISTON, Secretary.
Mansfield, Jan. 13, 1846.