The Sun.
London, England, 1835-10-23 00:00:00

William Borradaile, PROVISIONAL.
John Brother!, E.
John Moron,
oenn,r Henry Jones.
sg.
Ca •
Johp
!liehard Digby Neave, EA.
Robert Page, Esq.
Charles Perkins, Esq.
Thomas Phillpotts, Esq.
' (With power to add to their Number.)
BaNxisfts--Messrs. Spooner, Attwoods, and Co.
.ENGINEER—George Landmann, Esq.
Souccroa—James Valiance, Esq.
ECRIITA RY—William Green, Esq.—Office, No. 76, Cornhill.
The town of Gravesend and its neighbourhood has lately been
growing in public estimation, and is now become so constant a re-
sort of persons from the Metropolis, that there is no doubt that an
increased facility of communication by a Railroad would be highly
advantageous to the Public and profitable to the Proprietors.
It is prOposed to extend the London and Greenwich Railway to
Gravesend. and thus reduce the time of travelling from London-
bridge to Gravesend to less than one hour ; this cannot fail to be
found highly acceptable to those persons who are interested in the
tommerce of the port of London, or in the arrival and departure of
steam-vessels and foreign mails.
The number of persons who have visited Gravesend during the
present year is estimated at between 800,000 and 900,000; and
when the additional inducement of a Railway shall be presented to
the Public,
there can be no doubt but the intercourse between Lon-
-60, Gravesend, and the neighbouring towns will be considerably
increased.
The sources of revenue have been carefully and minutely exa-
mined, and are such as to justify an opinjonthat the annual- income
will be equal to that of any similar undertaking.
The plans and surveys of this line of railway, together with the
!Eimates of outlay, are completed ; and the proposed gradients
have been pronounced by scientific persons as the best calculated to
combine the greatest speed and the least possible wear and tear.
Applications for Shares to be addressed to the Secretary, at the
ce, as above (if by letter, post paid).

SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY.
LONDON TO BRIGHTON,
• 314, Croydon' Oxted, Worth, Lindfield and Clayton, with a corn-
mVlication from Oxted with Tunbridge, Tunbridge Wells,. and
• the
r, Weald of Kent, and to be extended to Dover.
1,400,000/., in Shares of 50/. each, Deposit 21. per share.
¶RUSTZSS.
Herbert B. Curteis, Esq., MP. David Salomons, Esq.
J. Minet Factor, Esq., M. P. I John Twells, Esq.
PIICITISIOItAL COMMITTEE.
C. C. Cavendish, M.P. Edward Graham, Esq.
'''xerhert B. Curteis, Esq. M.P. Burwood Godlee, Esq.
Elphinstone, Esq., .M.P. Edmund Halswell, Esq.
_ Minet Fector, Esq., M.P. John Langford, Esq.
Frederick North, Esq., M.P. Horatio Leggett, E!
/1011. General St. John
Edward Barnard, Esq.
James Burton, FA David Salomons,
Decimus Burton, Esq. John Shewell, Esq.
Robert Clutton, Esq. Henry Shirley, Esq.
,Captain Cole Robert Trotter, Esq.
Thomas Cooper, Esq. John Twells, Esq.
,
• C. Moreton Dyer, Esq. Thomas W. Tyndale, Esq.
Robert Gear, Esq. Henry Wrench, Esq.
With power to add to their number.
Engineer—H. R. Palmer, Esq., F.R. S.
Solicitors—Messrs. Clutton and Fearon.
Office of the Company, No. 98, Gracechurch-street.
This is not only the shortest and most direct practicable line
toe Brighton, but it has also the advantage, for the first twenty
miles out of London, of a joint communication with the counties
of Sussex and Kent, thereby offering a double source of profit for
that part.
From its termination, at the Northern entrance to Brighton,,
it is proposed to extend it to Shoreham, and, from a conve-
nient point on the line, to carry a Branch by way of Lewes, to
Newhaven, securing thereby the commercial advantages of the two
harbours without the necessity of lengthening the line for passen-
gers to Brighton.
From Oxted the Kentish line proceeds direct to Tunbridge and
Tunbridge-wells, through a country particularly well adapted to
such a work ; and the proposed continuation to Dover, through
Ashford, is direct and easy.
The advantages of effecting these two great .objects by one
expense of management, and one outlet common to both, are
obvious.
Branches will hereafter be carried from the main line to se-
veral important neighbouring towns, but in the meantime it is
anticipated that the Depots at Tunbridge and Tunbridge-wells
will be points of arrival and departure for Hastings, St. Leonard's,
and the South-eastern Coast, and will secure the traffic with those
districts.
The survey has been completed, and the Parliamentary No-
tices will be given in due time.
and for the remaining Shares may be made to the London
a Westminster Bank, Throgmorton-street, and Waterloo-place ;
Messrs. Spooner
Attwoods, and Co., Gracechurch-street ; Messrs.
Moss and Co.,
Bankers, Liverpool District Bank, Manchester;
Messrs. Smith, Hilder, and Co., Bankers, Hastings ; Mr. Thomas
Coglan, Share-broker, Liverpool ; Messrs. Clutton and Fearon,
Crown Office-row, Temple, and High-street, Southwark ; or
to the Secretary, at the Office.
19th October, 1835.

Captain Pringle, R.
John Smith, Esq._

J. S. YEATS, Secretary.

SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY.
The APPROPRIATION of SHARES will be made on
RIDAY, October 30th. No applications fur Shares will be re-
ceived after Thursday the 29th instant.
By Order, J. S. YEATS, Secretary.
Railway Office,
93, Gracechurch street, Oct. 21, 1835.

'PASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY, from
74--4 London to Ipswich, Norwich, and Yarmouth, commencing
in High-street, Shoreditch, passing through Bow, Stratford,
Ilford, Romford, Brentwood, Ingatestone, Chelmsford, Witham,
Kelvedon, Colchester. Ipswich, Eye, and within an available dis-
tance of nearly every place of importance in the counties of Essex,
Ruffslk, and Norfolk. Capital £1,500,000, in shares of 251.,
deposit 1/.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Henry Bosanquet, Esq. John Herapath, Esq. •
John Brothers, Esq. Charles Hood, Esq., F.R.A.S.
Frederick Burmuster, Esq. Samuel Jones' Esq.
Rev. John Chevallier, M.D. Henry Luard,Esq.
' Charles Clark, Esq. Richard P. Pritchard, Esq.
W. C. Crawford, Esq. Captain A. Procter
Captain Thomas Crawford Thomas Robertson, Esq.
Lord Charles Fitzroy, M.P. William Tate, Esq.
tankers—London and Westminster Bank, 37, Throgmorton-street,
and 12, Waterloo -place.
Standing Counsel—William Harrison, Esq.
• Relicitors--Messrs. Blunt, Roy, Blunt, and Duncan, and William
Dimes, Esq.
- Engineers—Charles Vignolles, Esq., F. R. A. S., M. I. C. E., and
John Braithwaite, Esq.
Secretary—J. Clinton Robertson, Esq.
Bankers and Agents in the country :
Yarmouth ...
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Bankers. Agents.
Norwich .• M[Messrs. Sewell, Blake,
Messrs. Gurney and Co. Keith, and Blake.
hiss ... Messrs. Taylor lnd Son.
te ............. .. Messrs. Gurney and Co. Thomas French, Esq.
arleston Messrs. Carthew and
am I
Fr rn ham I Messrs. Gurney and Co. [
g Son.
~.41-Y St Ed-,
—und'•
s
Woodbridge-. Messrs. Alexanders and C 0.... Rolla Rouse, Esq.
Ipswich c' Messrs. Alexanders and C0...1 J. Chevalier Cobbold,
S /Messrs Bacon and Co
nadleigh
Colchester Messrs. Mills, Bawtree, & Co. William Spglilnagn,dEsqnd
Chelmsford I Messrs. Sparrow and Co. IMMrss: p
Itomford
Stratford
/C.ing's Lynn Messrs. Gurney and Co.
Bo t Messrs. Holloway and
8-°n ........ National Provincial Bank
Among the wealthy districts of England which are yet strangers
to railway conveyance there is, perhaps, none where it could be in-
troduced with greater advantage than that portion of the eastern
coast of England which comprehends Essex, Wolk, and Norfolk.
These counties are remarkable for presenting the greatest conti-
nuous extent of level country in the whole kingdom; a circum-
• Stance which pre-eminently fits them for participating in the bene-
fits of the railway system. - They include some of the richest and
most cultivated portions of England—those portions from which
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the metropolis draws its chief supplies of corn, flour, malt, cattle,.
i heep, pigs, poultry, vegetables, &c. They have also an extensive
iiaa boundary, and supply nearly the whole of the fish consumed in
he metropolis.
~, The railway which it is now proposed to construct through
!4cae counties will follow, as nearly as practicable, the main stream
in, which the traffic of the district already runs. In consequence of
Ins` very level character of the country there will not be a single
Vane' required, nor even an 'embankment of more than 30 feet
!ugh, and the greatest rise in any part of the line will not exceed 1
in 400 feet. The line, too, at the metropolitan end, will interfere
with no important buildings, though it will advance much farther
Into the heart of the city than any of the other railways now in pro-
gress.
Forming, as sueh a railway will do, the principal and favourite
Medium of transport for more than a million of people, (including
the portion of the metropolitan population connected by business
I,lld by family ties with the eastern counties)—passing everywhere
"'rough a country not only yielding much, but requiring much in
tilt 4ra—touching at many large and well frequented markets—and
profi may:
having no canals or other railways to compete with, it will be con-
'lvy to all experience if it does not pay well. The question of t
however, be considered as placed beyond every reason-
able doubt, by the following summary of the estimates of expendi-
ture and revenue, which have been prepared with great care, and
Will in due time be verified to the satisfaction of Parliament.
Present Expense by
Expense. Railway.

}3ranch A. Passengers by Public Con-
vevances £172,245 £121,677
Parcels by ditto... 24,335 24,335
Mail Bags by ditto 6,164 5,000
------ B. Passengers by Private Con-

97,219 17,962

veyances
C. Merchandise and Provisions
conveyed by Land ...
D. Corn, Flour, Malt, &c.,
conveyed coastwise
E. Cattle, Sheep, Lambs, Pigs,
Poultry, tcc., conveyed
by land ..
P. Coals and Manure...
-------- G. Fish

396,824 193,412

79,854

.19,909

27%468 157,053
74,172 18,493
40,000

£1,124,281 £632,841

the Railway to average two-thirds of the exist-
ins' traffic, that will give 421,894
D e"et annual Expense of Working the Railway

Clear Resiaue
Whiclr will allow a dividend of near 15 per cent cn the capital
of -€1,600,000, without taking into account the great increase which
the Railway will, in all probability, occasion in the general trade of
the district.
_APPlieatitisis for Shares tobe made (if by letter, pOst paid) to the
Secretary,
or to any of the Bankers or Solicitors to.the Company.
Prost:um> and any further information desired may be obtained
at .the
nipany's Office, 18, Austinfriars.
J. C. ROBERTSON, Sec.
Eastern Comities Railway-office, Austinfriars,
London, Oct. 21.