The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-21 00:00:00

EXCURSIONS TO THE SEA SIDE.

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Tickets. available for TWENTY-EIGHT DAY 4, are issued by the
ordinary trains of the Company. The First-Class are available by
any train, and the Second by such trains as have second-class car-
riages attached, to Harrowgate, Scarborough, Whitby; Flley, or
Bridlington.
ARROVVCIATE and Back, for each Passenger—First Class, 435. ;
Second Class, 325. tid.
SCARBOROUGH and Back, for each Passenger—First Class, 513. ;
Second Clan, 351.
wHITRY and Back, for each Passenger —First Class, 51s. ; Se-
cond Class, 355.
FRAY and Back, for each Passenger—First Class, 51s. ; Seeond
Class, 355.
BRIDLINGTON and Back, for each Passenger—First Class, 515.;
Second Class, 355.
These Tickets are not transferable, nor will they be available for
the Return Journey unless they have been endorsed at the Booking-
oflce of the Station on the day of returning. Passengers to all the
abovelby Places, except Ilarrowgite. are at liberty to break the journey
rematniug one night at York, either going or returning.

IRISH TOURIST TICKETS.
Available for ONE MONTII, will be issued at the following prices :
Ist Class. 2d Class.
Prom T.0n,b)..4
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..... £6 10 0 .... X 5 5 0
5 15 0 .... 4 15 0
" Birmingham, Leamingion:a.nd
Coventry. • •
And from the other principal stations at proportionate fares.
for One
tickets (which in no case' are transferable) will he available
Month from the date of issue. They will enable the holders
proceed to.Ohe-Ater,iltenc9_ to llangor, llolyheall, and Dublin.
from Dublin to (ork, situate' on th© pieliffEinue-itiver 1.06. atilt-
Within ten miles of the celebrated Harbour, Dockyard. and Naval
Station of Queenstown (Cove) ; from Cork back to Mallow, and
thence by the Killarney Junction Railway to the far-fzinied
LAKES OF KILLARNEY.
The Tourist can remain as long as convenient to himself at Chester,
,Bangor (for the inspection of the Britannia Tubular Bridge), Holy-
. "ad, Dublin, Cork, and Killarney ; the only condition being, that his
return to the Station at which he tcok his ticket must be not later
titan One Month from the date of his departure therefrom.
Supplemental Tickets for CONNEMARA, GLENGARIFFE, the
GIANT'S CALNEWAY. and other places of interest, are issued at
Itedliced Fares to Visitors holding " Irish Tourist Tickets."
General Manager's Office, Euston Station, June, 1856.

SITTINGBOURNE and SHEERNESS
RAILWAY COMPANY.

IncorporatedBo,oool
8, in ,000 Shares ofParliament 10/. each. Deposit 21,
per Share.

DIRECTORS.
Right Hon. STEPHEN RUMBOLD LUSHINGTON, Nor-
ton Court, Kent, Chairman.
L. S. Magnus, Esq., Chatham, and 3, Adelaide place, Lon
don-bridge, Deputy Chairman and Managing Director.
Edward Henry Banks, Esq., Sheppy Court, Sheerness.
Frederick Leese, Esq., Neat's Court, Minster, Sheppy'.
Richard Comyn, Esq., Queenborough, and 31, Lincoln's-inn.
fields, London.
Captain Dumergue, 12, Craven-hill, Bayswater, London.
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ANKER.s—GIyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street, London,
ENOINTER—J. C. Birkinshaw, Esq.
BR SOLICITOR—James Ward, Esq., Sheerness. • •
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-Ult"—Or. S. Herbert, Esq., 73, Old Broad-street, London.
SECRETARY—S. J. Breeze, Esq.
TemporarY Offices— 3, Adelaide-place, London-bridge ; and
High-street, Queenborough, Sheppy.
This company has been formed for the purpose of affording
railway accommodation to the Island of Sheppy, and at the
same time of improving the ordinary communication between
it and the mainland of Kent, by the erection of a bridge for
the common traffic.
The railway, seven miles and one furlong in length, will
Commence at a junction with the East Kent line at Sitting-
bourne, and passing through Milton to the present Ferry over
the Swale, where the bridge is to be erected, will continue
thence through Queenborough to its termination near her
Majesty's dockyard at Sheerness. There will be no tunnel,
nor work of engineering difficulty, and the lino will pass
over a country with most favourable gradients. The esti-
mated Cost of the works, stations, bridge, land, and preli-
minary expenses is 84,000/., and the directors have made
such agreements with Messrs. Jackson and Beane, the eminent
contractors, as will ensure the completion of the whole un-
. dertaking at that estimate, and within 18 months its com-
mencement, by which time the East Kent Railway will bo
opened to Canterbury.
The Act of Parliament has been obtained with the consent
of all owners and occupiers of the laud through which the
line will pass, and the expenses of a Parliamentary :contest,
usually so destructive to future profits, have thus been hal).
pily avoided. In consideration also of the facilities to be af-
forded to the ordinary road traffic by the bridge Parliament
has consented to a free transfer to this Company of all the
rights, privileges, and property now belonging to the wardens
and jury of the King's Ferry. These concessions include a
free public-house, a toll-house, about 225 acres of land, and
many i ights which will materially tend to the prosperity of
the Company.
The inconsiderable length oi the line to be constructed is
by no moans commensurate with the magnitude of the ob-
jects it seeks to accomplish, sovue of which are of great
national importance. An inspection of the map will at once
show that it is tho last couvecting link betweep all the great
Government dockyards and arsenals, and that it will supply
ready access to the fortifications which command the mouths
of the Thames and Medway, and which are, in fact, the bul-
warks towards the sea of the metropolis itself. It 'Will, cou-
nect the fertile Island of Sheppy with the main land. of Kent,
and open au easy communication between Sheerness and Can-
terbury, Deal and Dover, on the one hand, and. London,
Chatham, Maidstone, Woolwich, Aldershot, Portsmouth, and
Plymouth on the ether ; and it will form part of. a direct
r aute to the Continent from the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk,
and Essex, via Southend.
The Island of Sheppy is itself rich in agricultural produce
of all kinds, and in/the valuable oyster beds on its shores ; it
contains numerous villages*, and the towns of Queenborough
and Sheerness, the latter already a place of much importance
from its well-known naval arsenal and dockyard,•destined,
from the additional works in pi:ogress, to become the principal
naval station in the kingdom;- it possesses many beautiful
sites facing the German Ocean, and enlivened by the con-
tinual stream of shipping entering and leaving the river,
which await only the means of ready iccess, and the facilities
thoy are certain to create, to become very favourite resorts
'of the denizens of the metropolis in pursuit of either health or
pleasure. •
Irrespective, however, of the traffic which every railway is
found to originate, sufficient already exists, in connection
with other advantages indicated above, to hold out, upon a
-careful computation, the promise of an annual dividend of 10
per cent. on the capital to be expended; and the Directors con-
fidently submit that the very moderate cost per mile of the
works, the almost total absence of preliminary expenses, the
locality of the railway itself, and the prospective traffic to
arise from its formation, afford reasonable and safe grounds
for the belief that their expectations of profit will be fully
realised.
A considerable portion of the shares is already subscribed
for, and application for the remainder may be addressed to
the Directors of the Sittinghourne and Sheerness Railway
Company, 3, Adelaide-place, London-bridge ; or to G. S.
Herbert, Esq., broker to the Company,
73, Old Broad-street;
but no application will be entertained unless a deposit
of 103. fur each share applied for be previously Made with
Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co. bankers, 67, Lombard-street,
London ; Messrs. Valiance and Co. baukers, Sittingbourne ;
Messrs. Day and Nicholson, bankers, Rochester ; Messrs.
Hammond and Co., bankers, Canterbury ; Messrs. Hilton and
Co., bankers, Feversham ; or with Mr. S., J. Breeze, at the
Company's office, High-street, Queenborough.
Forms of application far shares and copies of the prospec-
tus may be had at the Company's office, 3, Adelaide-place,
Londot%-bridgo; or of G. 8, Herbert, Esq., 73 Old Woad-
trot. a