The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-10 00:00:00

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P 14 Boats Bonus is 65 (5) Assured
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r 1837 £217 15 1 £lO9 011 £l6 • 4,X44.5
I 1838 192 3 0 87 1 4 13 11 2 395 11 1 01000 3 4 1639 165 11 10 74 1 9 11 10
3 1 346 2 3
1840 116 7 6 64 •15 718 le 296 13 4
1841 11l 6 48 10 • 710 4 247 4 6
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The
of the present year.
F. FEIGUSON CAILROUX, Secretary.
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PROSPECTUS OF THE
I RISTOL AND POOLE HARBOUR RAIL-
WAY COMPANY.
Capital, 1,009,0001., in 51,000 shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per share.
(Registered Provisionally.)
lir PATRONS AND SUPPORTERS.,
, E. Doughty, Bart. Upton House, Dorset
John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge Erle Drax, Esq., 3r.r., Charborough
Park, Dorset
J. Weld, Esq., Lulworth Castle, Dorset
Colonel John Michel, Dulish House, Dorset
Win. Cartwright, Esq., proprietor of collieries in Monmouthshire and
Glannorganslaire.
M. B. Ashford, Esq., Babcary, Somerset.
ACTING COMMITTEE.
HENRY STRETTON, Esq., Rams
Major... B. Home, Army and Navy Clubgate, Chairman.
John Gray Wilson, Esq., Westbourne Grove
Colonel_ William Mainwaring Sloane, Seymour-street
Gilbert M`Queen, Esq., Great Coram-street, Russell-square
--I:nomaa Peers, Esq., 1, Lamb's Conduit-place
GiergeChlsman, Esq., Dalston, Middlesex
Sir James Caleb Anderson, Bart.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Frederick
(With power to add to their number.)
William Hamilton, E sq., 59, Gloucester-place
Fees puce,Esq., 11,1)., Tyne Hall, Great Ilford, Essex
kltt• r' C. New on, Bruton-street ; and Lugwarden, Herefordshire
Inas Ottery Rayner, Esq., M.D. F.S.A , I, Matthew's Place,
Cambridgeelsl,easathacigato •
C._Davi
Major J. ICU, Guernsey
13Edenwjaaminrdneadt.key',Escisq7,27, Gloucester-terrace, Kensington
J. Johnson Canterbury
Davies-street, Berkeley-square
0.,,--„fst'„scla The Dells, Stoke Newington
as: -Len. South-place, Euston-square • and 64, Pall-mall
, 1111- Crofts, Esq,, Hamilton-square, Birkenhead, Cheshire
oi Britten, F.
Basinghall-street
eat. Charles T. Hill, R.N., Queen's-square, Bristol
4-t'Jerzy Lyster, Esq., Spring-terrace, Wandsworth
Ptain lllPPisley, Somerset-street, Cavendish-square
C. O'Connell, Esq., Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square.
LONDON BANKERS.
London and County Bank
The London Joint-Stock Banking Company.
COUNTRY BANKERS.
Messrs. Stuckey and Co.
National Provincial Bank of England
Messrs. Ledgard and Co., Poole
Messrs. Bastard and Co., Blandford.
ENolNEEa.—George Rennie, Esq.
SECRETARIES (pro. tem.)—Messrs. Castleman and Kingdom.
SOLICITORS.
Gilbert Stephens, Esq., IS, Northumberland-street, Strand.
Messrs. Castleman and Kingdoms, Wimborne.
Since issuing the former prospectus, the Committee, being deter-
mined to proceed on the surest grounds, and anxious for the ultimate
Success Of the undertaking, have made further and more minute in-
quiries into the remunerative traffic to be expected on this line ; and
they are warranted in stating that, the result of such inquiries has
greatly exceeded the expectations upon which they grounded their
former prospectus.
This line of railway, commencing at Bristol, will open a direct
communication with Poole, passing through or near the important
towns and villages of Whitechnrch, Pensford, Clutton, Shepton
Mallet, Bruton, Castle Cary, NV incanton Stalbridge, Sturminster,
Newton, Shilllngston, Stourpain, Blandford, Spittiabury, Sturminster
Marshall, Wimborne Minster to Poole Harbour ; and thus, by means
of the Line of Packets intended to be established by this Company,
from that port to the Channel Islands and Cherbourg, and the rail-
ways now in progress from the latter place to the French capital,
and frond thence to Lyons, will co nplete the line of communication
by the most direct way, from Edinburgh to the south of France, thus
enabling that country to supply herself with many articles of com-
merce at little more than half the cost she at present pays, and leav-
ing a good remunerative profit to the Company and producer at home,
Among the various sources of traffic to be expected on this line.
the following are the most prominent :—The supply of the Govern-
ment with Coal from the Welch and Somersetshire pits, by
Means of the proposed line, for its different naval and steam
depots throughout the world. The Somerset pits, which aresb in
limber, yield, at present, about 2,000 tons per diem:,
but are
ca-
pable of yielding a much larger quantity ; and, supposing
tons were carried by the railway, at id. pe
dis-
tance of 40 miles for 300 days in the
ex
year,r, which is even less
than the Company have every reason to expect, ton a
it would yield a
net return of 100,0001., or 10 per cent. upon the estimated capi-
tal ; deduct then 40 per cent. for working the line, wear and tear,
and there remains the sum of 60,0001., or 6 per cent, per annum
On the capital. There can be no doubt of the demand of this
important article of general consumption. from the great dimi-
nution of price to the consumer by the costs of carriage being
reduced to Id. per ton per mile from the present cost, wh:ch is
from 6d. to 10d. The supply of the Channel Islands (population
more than 100,000), and of France, with the best species of
coal for the production of gas, as well as for the use of their
manufactures and for domestic purposes. This article, by means
of the various coal pits situated on the line, will yield to the
Company a very fine remunerative profit, and be of the greatest be-
nefit to the coal proprietor; as the coal necessary for the purposes of
gas can be obtained in very large quantities, and delivered at Cher-
bourg at one-third less than they are now giving for the same coal,
and which cannot, therefore, fail to be of equal benefit to the mer-
chant abroad, the producer at home, and the proposed Company.
Besides these two great sources of coal traffic, there is the supply of
the southern coast, and the different districts on the line, with coal
for domestic use, at a saving of from six to seven shillings a ton.
This is a circumstance that cannot fail to secure to the Company the
entire traffic, and be of the greatest benefit to themselves and the
public in general. In addition to this, the line will offer to the great
manufacturing city of Bristol a mere ready market for all those
articles of commerce of which France and the Channel Islands stand
so Much in need, and which are manufactured in great quantities at
that city, and as soon as the line is completed, tenders will at once be submitted to Government for the more speedy transmission of the
malls to the Channel Islands, by which a saving of more than
twelve hours will be effected, and to the North and North-west of
Great Britain a saving of twenty-four hours.
There is also very considerable traffic to be derived from the
Various stone quarries, iron mines, and clay pits on the line (the
Clay pits alone yielding more than 50,000 tons annually) ; sand from
the Isle of Wight, for the manufacture of glass, of which more
than 10,000 tons annually are used in Birmingham alone; the pre-
Sent mercantile traffic which now goes re= I the Land's End' to
the Western Ports ; the great agricultural, manufacture, and pas-
the from the rich and populous districts through which
line passes; and the traffic which must be thrown upon the line
resin the Welch iron and coal masters, as being the nearest and most.
direct outlet to the Continent for the produce of that country. In-
dependent of remuneration, this line ought to be looked upon as
great national undertaking and benefit, as it will do away with the
necessity for vessels now employed in the Dutch, Danish, Swedish,,
and /Wesley trades, bound to the western parts of England, going'
round the Land's End, by at once opening to them the harbour of
in the, world
Poole, which has been pronounced by eminent
.andecnagpnabele,
engineers to be one
of the best natural harbours
made accessible M vessels of the largest class
at a small
expense, of being
With perfect safety, and enabling them to seed their cargoes
to their different destinations In less time, andat
a less
expense, than at resent : by this means, not only will the
shipowner and the merchant be greatly benefited, but the
Company would derive an immense annual revenue from the
cargoes of northern produce thus landed at Poole, to be again dist ri-
buted, by means of their railway, to the different manufacturiii towns
throughout this country; and the passenger traffic that would natu-
rally follow so large a portion of mercantile traffic cannot fail to
Yield to the Company a very handsome return upon their outlay.
The average number of vessels detained in this trade in going
round the Land's End amounts, from the most authentie sources, to
about lour thousand, each vessel averaging a detention of II ye days,
..44 average tonnage of these vessels amounts to 130 tons, which
would give six men to each vessel, working after the rate of 601. per
Month, which would give, for the number of days detained, 101. to
each vessel: this, multiplied by the number of vessels, viz., 4,000,
Would give the sum of 40,0001., which will be entirely saved by
means of ibis line. This is independent of the loss of life, destruction
" Property, expense of insurance, and loss of time, which would
all be saved by the projected rail, the statistics of which, did space
allw, would make every one look upon the present undertaking,
slot only as one of but one of great national great local importance,
benellt.
The advantages have len
present Coin in the
Company have g
determined to bring them into play
most full and efficient manner. eeTnhkeneoxvrPne
of storage at Poole as
expense
ed appreciated, and the
well as the ;mit dues are less than at any port in the kingdom • so
that the merchant would be enabled cods there at a 'less
expense than at his ow to keep his g
voyages far every three from and, by means of
rt. He would be enabled to perform five
the speed rom the northern parts,
y communication by the electric telegraph
and the rapid
travelling of the
be afforded, A caretlil • present day, many advantages and conveniences will
preliminary
survey having been made by the Company's- surveyor, the line has beena pronounced to present less than the ave
rage engineering difficulties, about thirty miles being through a rich,
alley. The harbour of Poole has also been sur-
"reybecii.eaapnadbtlelieofbra:mat the mouth of the harbour has been pronounced
to
opening to vessels ofqvhael
athworld.
, arid is now actually being removed ; thus
commodious harbours inigegest tonnage one of the safest and most
These are a few of the
jected line the Commit.atenetages offered to the public by the pro-
cellence amid legitimacy of the impressed with the sense of the ex-
upon ascertained facts and undouTdertaking, and basing their views
ranted in offering to all applicants for a
ehvairdeesntehee, ffeoelllotwh rigsceol vnedsi
twi
Viz. : That no party taking shares anrs,
liable Oh ease ot failure of thearea in the said Company shall be
five shillings per share, unless Company) to a larger amount than
General Meeting of the Shareholde
a greater sum shall be sanctioned at a
In case the Company fail at any rs called for that purpose; so that
being culled, the Committee period of tie prior to such Meeting pledge themselves
share instead of 21. 25., and a proportionately to return 11. 17s. per
Accounts of the Company, upon
inspection,
larger amount if the
n_Pec on, show a lens expenditure.
At the first general meeting the shareholders the Committee
Will produce an account, „signed by the bankers, of the several sums
received by them on account of the Company,l b
the shareholders that the amount subscribed m
tr
lie 3; vl
thearr ahnatni ndg, toof
the baiikers, minus the ss. per share.l The future plans of the Com an •
wll be laid before the share-
holders at their first general
meeting and everything submitted to
their investigation and approved.
Fun XL OF A PPLICATION • FOR SHAMES.
To the Provisloual Committee of the Bristol and Poole Harbour
Railway Company.
I request that you will allot to nne each in the shares of 20/.
above undertaking, agreeably to the prospectus
agree to accept such shares as may be allotted me on the terms above
Mentioned, and also to pay the deposit thereon, and to sign the Par-
lianielitary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement, when required.
Dated the day of 1846.
Name .. ..
Residence • • 9' • •
Trade or Profession ...
Reference ..... •
Addres of Referee • • •
„ ts**** Applications for shams may be made,s in the above form, at
ttl office of the Company, 55, King William-street,City; Gilbert Ste-
/)"6", Ran, 13, Northumberland-street, Strand ; Messrs. Oastlernan
!tnd Kingdon, solicitors, Wimborne ; T. Hyatt, Req.. solicitor, Shed-
!On Mallet ; S. Smith ,Esq., Blandtbrd ; guld M. E. Wald], Mall so'
/leiter, Poole,