The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-17 00:00:00

DUDLEY, MADELEY, BROSELEY, and
IRONBRIDGE, and SHREWSBURY and BIRMINGHAM
AMALGAMATED RAILWAY COMPANIES.
It having been intimated to the Committee that doubts were en-
tertained by some parties whether, in consequence of the reduction
of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Shares from 50/. to 251. each, a
corresponding reduction was not intended to be made in the de-
posits,

Notice is hereby given, that no change whatever will be made is
the same, but that the full deposit of 21. 10s. will be considered as
having been paid on each of the two (2) Shrewsbury and Birming-
ham Shares intended to be given for three Shares in the Dudley and
Madeley Company. By order,

GEO. KNOX,
Secretary to the Shrewsbury and Birmingham.
W. S. DARKIN,
Secretary to the Dudley and Madeley.
January 15, 1846.

BOSTON, NEWARK, AND 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 Railway,ls
Dist/knee . • •• • • 80% miles Distance .• . ...... . 92 miles
Heaviest gradient .. lin 120 Heaviest gradient. • • lin 84
Tunnelling. • .. 1,024 yds. Tunnelling..• •..• • • • 9,550 yds.
The line from Grantham to Bos- By opposing lines,
ton, by Boston, Newark, and
Sheftl"ld Railway, is

Distance ....
Heaviest gradiant
Tunnelling ••• • • • 528 yds. Tunnelling
The line from Nottingham to Bee- By opposing lines,
ton, by the Boston, Newark,
and Sheffield Railway, and for
14% miles over the Midland
Counties, Nottingham and Lin-
coln line, which is now con-
structing, is
Distance .......... 55 miles Distance • •••• • • • • 51% miles
Heaviest gradient .. lin 165 Heaviest gradient • • lin 88
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% 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 enormous 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 imontruvertible basis.
Mansfield, Jan. 15, 1846

JOHN DENNISTON, Secretary.

HUNTINGDON, ST. IVES, WISBECII and
SUTTON UNION RAILWAY COMPANY.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 450,0001., in 18,000 Shares of 251.
Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
William Astell, Esq., M.P., Chairman, Everton House, Biggleswade
W. D. Christie, Esq., M.P., Deputy-Chairman, 3, Eccleston-street,
Chester-square
Charles Harnett,
Esq., Stratton Park, Beds
Robert Beart, Esq., Godmanchester
C. R. Bigge, Esq , 19, Bryanstone-square
Charles Cullege, Esq., March
John N. Foster, Esq., Wit. Andrew's, Biggleswade
William Hogg, Esq., Blggleswade
Adderley Howard, Esq., Long Sutton
Hugh Jackson, Esq., Wisbech
Richard Kelley, Esq., 5, Cleveland row
Lohert Lindsell, Esq., Fairfield, Biggleswade
Henry 011ard, Esq., Walsoken, Wisbech
Captain Robert Page, Charlton House, Somerton
William Pinney, Esq., 30, Berkeley-square
R. H. Purcell, Esq., Cambridge-street, Hyde Park
Peter Purvey, Esq., Kimbolton
Captain Edward Heathcote Smith, 10, Melcombe-street, Dorset-sq.
William Thompson, Esq., Sheffield
Philip Tillard, Esq., Godmanchester
Charles Veasey, jun., Esq., Huntingdon
William Wells, Esq., Holum-wood, Hunts.
ENGINEEB.B.—Joseph Gibbs, Esq., and Messrs. J. B. and E. Birch.