The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-17 00:00:00

SOUTII-EASTERN RAILWAY.
REMOVAL of RESTRICTION against OPENING the
TUNBRIDGE WELLS and HASTINGS and ASHFORD and
HASTINGS LINES; REVIVAL and GRANT of COMPULSORY
POWERS for PURCHASE of LAND; ALTERATION of ROAD
sad LEVELS ; STEAM-BOATS.
Notice is hereby given. that application is intended to be made to
Parliament in the ensuing Session, for: leave to bring in a Bill to
repeal or alter so much of an Act passed in the ninth year of the
reign of her present Majesty, intituled "An Act to authorise the
South-Eastern Railway Company to make aßailway from Tunbridge
Wells, to join the Rye and Ashford Extension of the Brighton, Lewes,
and Hastings Railway near Hastings." as enacts that it shall not be
lawful for the said Company to open for public purposes the Railway
by that Act authorised to be made until the Railway from Hastings
to Ashford shall have been completed. And it is also intended I*
the said Bill to authorise the said South-Eastern Railway Company
to alter the levels of the last-mentioned Railway from, at, or near a
Point on such Railway, marked twenty-three miles and four furlongs
on the plans referred to in the last-mentioned Act, to two of the junc-
tions of the said Railway with the line of the Hastings, Rye, and
.Ashford Extension of the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway,
one ofsuch junctions being near Leltham Farm, in the parish of Guest-
ling, in the county of Sussex, and the other of suchjunctions being at
Lidttam Hill Farm, in the same parish and county, which alterations
will be wholly situate in the several parishes of Westfield and Guest-
Rig, in the same county.
And it is also intended by the said BM to repeal or alter so mach
of an Act passed in the eighth and ninth years of the reign of her
present Majesty, intituled " An Act to enable tne Brighton, Lewes,
and Hastings Railway Company to make a Railway from Bulver-
hithe, in the county of Sussex, to Ashford, in the county of Kent," as
enacts that no part of the railway thereby authorised to be trans-
ferred to, or authorised to be made by, the South-Eastern Railway
Company, shall be opened to the public, nor any toll taken in respect
thereof, by the South-Pastern Railway Company, until the comple-
tion and opening of the portion of the same railway and works which
lies between a point in the parish of St. Leonard and the station
intended to be made in the parish of the Holy Trinity, Hastings, and
to revive, in respect of that portion of the line from Bulverhithe
aforesaid to Ashford aforesaid, which is situate between the point at
Hastings marked one mile and five furlongs upon the plans referred
to /a such Act, and the point near the River Bother, at Rye, marked
twelve miles seven furlongs upon the same pleas, the expired powers
of such Act for the Compulsory purchases of lends and houses.
And it is also intended by the said Bill to enable the Company to
alter and alter the levels of the turnpike road leading from Play den
to Rye, for the distance of 250 yards or thereabouts, in or near the
town of Rye, in the parish of Rye, in the county of Sussex, for more
conveniently and commodiously carrying such turnpike road over the
Railway authorised by the last-mentioned Act, and to purchase lands
and houses for the purpose by compulsion or agreement, which said
alterations, and the lands and houses so to be purchased as aforesaid,
will be wholly situate in the said parish of Rye.
' And it is also intended in the said Bill to authorise the said South-
Eastern Railway Company to alter the levels of the last-mentioned
Railway from, at, or near a point on such Railway marked five
miles and seven furlongs on the plans referred to in the last-men-
tioned Act, to a point on such Railway marked seven miles on the
said plans, which idte:ation will he wholly situate in the parish of
Guestling, in the county of Sussex.
And it is also intended by the said Bill to authorise the SOith-
Eastern Railway Company to purchase, by compulsion or agree-
ment, certain lands and houses in the parish of St. Mary Magdalen,
Bermondsey, in the county of Surrey, for the purpose of conveying
the same to the Corporation of the Warden and Governors of the
Free Grammar School of Queen Elizabeth of the parishioners of the
parish of St. Olave, Southwark, pursuant to the provisions of an
Act passed in the tenth and eleventh years of the reign of her pre-
sent Majesty, intituled "An Act to enable the South-Eastern Rail-
way Company further to widen the London and Greenwich Railway
and to enlarge their London-bridge Station."
And it is also intended in the said Bill to authorities the South-
Eastern Railway Company to cross, divert, alter, or stop up tempo-
rattly or permanently all such turnpike roads, parish roads, foot-
ways, streets, and other highways, rivers, streams, sewers, pipes,
canals, navigations, bridges, railways, or tramway s, withiu the
parishes aforesaid, or some of them, as it may be necessary so to
cross, divert, alter, or stop up for any of the purposes aforesaid.
And it is also intended by the said Bill to vary or extinguish all
existing rights and privileges connected with the lands proposed to
be purchased or taken for the several purposes aforesaid, or which
would in any manner impede or interfere with the several objects
aforesaid, or any of them, and to confer other rights and privileges.
And notice is hereby farther given, that plans and sections of the
Raid intended alteration of the turnpike rold from Playden to Rye,
and of the lands and houses to be taken for the purposes thereof, to-
gether with a book of reference to such plans, containing the names
of the actual or reputed owners or lessees, and of the occupiers of
sack lands and houses ; also, amended sections of so much of the
said railway from Bulverhithe to Ashford as lies in the said parish
of Guestling between the points aforesaid, showing the levels thereof
as proposed to be altered ; and also amended sections of so mach of
tke said Railway from Tunbridge Wells to join the Rye and Ashford
Extension of the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway, as lies in
the said parishes of Westfield and Guestling, between the points
aforesaid, showing the levels thereof as proposed to be altered ; and
also a copy of the notice for the Bill as. published in the "London
Gazette," will be deposited for public inspection, on or before the
30th day of November instant, with the Clerk of the Peace for the
county of Sussex, at his office at Lewes ; and a copy of so much of
such plans and sections as relates to the several parishes in which
the said alterations are proposed to be made, together with a copy of
such " Gazette " notice as aforesaid, will be deposited on or betore
the said 30th day of November instant with the parish clerks of such
parishes respectively, at their respective residences.
And notice is hereby further given, that it is also intended in the
Said Bill to take powers to enable the said South-Eastern Railway
Company to contribute and subscribe, eith r out of their corporate
funds or out of any capital to be raised for such purposes, a sum or
sums of money towards the maintenance or establishment of steam
communication between the several ports f the counties of Kent and
Sussex approached or to be approached by the South-Eastern Rail-
way, or any present or future bra ches thereof, and the various ports
on the Continent of Europe : an I also to charter or hire, purchase
or construct, ant to use, maintain, and work steam-boats, or other
vessels, and to enter into any contracts or agreements with any
steam-packet company, or any other persons having, or making, and
navigating steam-boats and oth r vessels with reference to the es-
tablishment of steam-boats and packet communication with the Con-
tinent, and to take tolls and fares in respect of such steam-boats or
Other vessels.
And it is also proposed in the said Bill, and so far as may be
deemed requisite for the purposes thereof, to alter, amend, repeal,
enlarge, or extend the powers and provisions of the hereinbefore
mentioned Acts, and also of the several Acts of Parliament herein-
after mentioned (that is to say), the several Acts following, directly
or indirectly relating to or affecting the South-Eastern Railway Com-
pany,: which Acts (local and personal) are distinguished in the
Queen's printer's copies thereof as the 6th Wm. IV., cap.st
Vict., cap. 93; 2d Vict., cap. 42 ;2d and 3d Viet., cap. 79 3d Vict.,
tap. 46 ; sth Viet., seas. 2, cap. 3 ; 6th and 7th Viet., cap. 51 ; 6th and
7th Vict., caps. 52 and 62; 7th Viet., cap. 25; 7th and Bth Vict.,
cape. 69 and 91 ; Bth and 9th Vict., caps. 167, 186, 197, and 200 ; 9th
Viet., caps. 55, 56, and 64 ; 9th and 10th Viet., caps. 305 and 339 ;
10th and 1 ith.Vice, caps. 104 and 230.
Dated this 10th day of November, 1848.
TILLEARD, SONS, and FREEMAN, Old Jewry.

CHARING-C R S S-B RIDGE.
(AMENDMENT of ACTS, POWERS to ALTER AUTHO-
RIZED APPROACHES, and to make IMPROVED' APPROACHES
on the SURREY SIDE, to LEVY TOLLS, to RAISE FURTHER
MONIES, and for other purposes.)
Notice is hereby given, that APPLICATION IS intended to be
Made to Parliament, in the ensuing session, for leave to bring in a
BILL to repeal and to alter, amend, and enlarge some of the powers
and provisions of the Act passed in the session of Parliament held in
the 6th and 7th years of the reign of King William the 4th, intituled,
"An Act for building a foot-bridge over the river Thames from
Ilungerford-market, in the parish of Saint Martin-in-the-Fields, 'ln
the county of Middlesex, to the opposite shore, in the parish of
Lambeth, in the county of Surrey, and for making suitable ap-
Preaches thereto ;" and also of the Act passed in the session of
Parliament held in the 6th and 7th years of tke reign of her
Present Majesty, intituled, "An Act to amend an Act relating
'to the building of the Hungerford and Lambeth Suspension Foot-
bridge, and for granting further powers to the Hunger-
ford and Lambeth Suspension Foot-bridge Company;" and also
of the Act passed in the session of Parliament held inthe., !en
and 9th years of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled
Act to amend the Acts relating to the Hungerford and LaMbeth
Suspension Foot-bridge Company, hereafter to be called ' the Char-
ing-cross Bridge Company,' and for granting further powers to the
'said Company ;" in which Bill it is intended to insert powers to vary
or alter the approachesto the said bridge, and other works autho-
trized to be made by the said last mentioned Act, and to make a
new or improved street or approach to the said bridge, to commence
on the south or south-east side of the Belvidere-road, in the said
parish of Lambeth, otherwise St. Mary, Lambeth, in the said
:county of Surrey, opposite to the present Surrey side approach of or
to the said bridge, on the north or north-west side of the said road,
at or near the point marked A on the plans of the said works, to be
deposited as hereinafter mentioned, and to pass thence to and into
Manners-street, in the said last mentioned parish, and from thence
across Manners-street to and into the York-road, in the same pa-
rish, and to terminate in the same road between Vine-Street and
Sutton-street, at or near the point marked B on the said plans, all in
the said parish of Lambeth, otherwise St. Mary, Lambeth.
' Aid it is also intended to insert in the said Bill other powers for
the improvement of the approaches to the said bridge on the Surrey
side thereof, and for facilitating the access thereto, and to the works
of the said Bridge Company from the Waterloo Station of the Lon-
don and South-Western Railway, and &bailor improving the various
works and conveniences belonging to or connected• with the said
bridge on the Surrey side thereof, and for facilitating the access to
10ach bridge and works, as well from the River as from the said rail-
briLsetatiluu. and the streets and rlaces on the Surrey side of the said
And it is alas intended to insert in the said Bill powers to widen
and extend and to alter the levels of the existing roads, avenues,
and approaches to the said bridge, and of the several streets, roads,
andr ways crossed or traversed thereby, or by the said proposed new
Bt
eet or approaches, all which said approaches, streets, roads, ways,
avenues, communications, and other works, to be autherised by the
said Bill, are situate, or will be made within the said parish of Lam-
beth, otherwise
And is it Marc Lambeth, in the county of Surrey.
also intended by the said Bill to take powers to make
lateral deviations
" from the line of the said street, approaches, and
works, to t
• e extent or within the limits defined upon the plans
hereinafter
alter, rmeationed
; and also powers to stop up, cross, divert, or
whether temporarily or permanently, all such streets, roads,
highways. passages, and places within the said parish, as it may be
necessary to stop up, cross, divert, or alter, for the purposes of the
said street, approaches, and works, or any of them.
And it is also intended by the said Bill to take powers for the pur-
chase, by compulsion or otherwise, of lands, houses, and other here-
ditaments, for the formation of the said street approaches and other
purposes to be authorised by such Bill ; also powers to purchase or
extinguish the rights of all ecclesiastical and other bodies and per-
sons in such lands, houses, and hereditaments. and to alter, vary, or
extinguish all other existing rights and privileges in any manner
connected with such lands, houses, and hereditaments, or which
would in any manner impede or interfere with the constructi,,n,
maintenance, and use of the said street, approaches, and works, or
which it may be-necessary to alter, vary, or extinguish, for the fuller
and more complete use and enjoyment of the existing or proposed
approaches to the said isidge.and works connected, or to be con-
nected therewith, and also powers to confer, vary, or extinguish other
rights and privileges.
And it is intended in the said Bill to insert powers for the exten-
sion and enlargement of the period limited by the said second men-
tioned
Act for the sale by the said Company of the superfluous lands
of which they may be seized under the provisions of the said first-
mentioned Act, and to authorise the Company in the meantime, and
until such surplus lands shall be sold, to let the same in such manner
and upon such terms as they shall think proper.
And it is also intended by the said Bill to authorise the said Com-
pany to levy tolls, rates, or ditties, and to alter the existing tolls,
' rates, or duties, authorised to be levied by the said herinbefore men-
, tinned lets, or some or one of them, and to vary or extinguish the
existing exemptions from the payment of tolls, rates, and duties, and
to confer other exemptions from the existing and intended tells, rates,
or duties.
And it Is also intended by the said Bill to authorise the said
Company to raise money, either by creating new shares, or by bonds
or debentures, or on mortgage or otherwise of the tolls and duties to
be levied and collected under or by virtue of the powers and with°-
. rftles contained in the said hereinbefor• mentioned Acts, or some or
• one of them, or to be contained in the said Bill, or by all or any of
such means.
And it is intended to insert in the said Bill such powers and
provisions as are usually inserted in Bills of a similar nature, and
such other powers and provisions as may be thought necessary or
expediest.
And it is also intended by the said Bill to repeal, vary, alter, or
amend the
Which it powers or provisions of any Act or Acts of Parliament
may be necessary to repeal, vary, alter, or amend for effect)
or any of the objects and purposes to be authorised by the said
13111, or the Powers and provisions of which would interfere with the
exereiseof the powers to be conferred by such Bill.
And notice is hereby further given, that duplicate plans and sec-
tions of the said pro d street, approaches, and other works, toge-
ther with books of reference to such plans, and a copy of this notice
published in the "London Gazette," will, on or before the 30th
day of November instant, be deposited for public inspection with the
Clerkof the Peace for the,county of burreY, fa his office, at Lambeth,
and that, on or before the same 30th day of November, a copy of the
said plans, sections, and books of reference, and also a copy of this
notice as published in the " London Gazette," will be deposited with
the Parish Clerk of the said parish of Lambeth, otherwise St. Mary,
Lambeth, at his place of abode.
Dated this 14th day of November, 1848.
JOHN WOOD, Falcon-street, Solicitor for the Bill.

GRAVESEND via BLACK\VALL RAIL-
WAY, and STAR and BLACKWALL PACKETS.
Railway and Moat included in one Payment.
Fares, to or from London.
Fore Cabin and Secona Class Railway, ONE SHILLING ;
Saloon and First Class ditto, ONI4 SHILLING and SIXPENCE.
To or from Rlackwall or Intermediate Piers,
Fore Cabin........ 91. Saloon ••• • .. Is.
No other Packets call at the Grays or Greenhlthe Piers.
FROM TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND.
Week Days, at 8, 834., 9%. 11%, 1, 23:x, and 5.
Sundays, at 8%, 1134, 1, 235, and 5.
FROM BRUNSWICK WHARF, BLACXW
Week Days, at 9%, 11, 12, 1 !,4 3,4, and 5.
Sundays, at 934, 11, 13%, 3%, and 5.
The TRAINS starting one quarter of an hour before each of these
times.
Passages marked * are run direct, the Packets not being per-
mitted to stop at Piers or for Boats.
Omnibuses from Fenchurch-street Station to all parts of London
every quarter of an hour.
BOAT TICKETS.—TweIve Months, 41.45. ; Six Months, 21. 15s. ;
Three Months, 11. 155.; to be had of the Collectors on board the
Packets ; Mr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend ; or of Mr. Saunders,
Brunswick Wharf, Madman.
Passengers' Luggage conveyed to and from the Packets and Rail-
way, at the Brunswick-wharf, without any charge. The charge for
Porterage at lenchurch-street is Id. for small parcels, and 2d. for
lute parcels.
November 7, 1848.