The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-17 00:00:00

PROSPECTUS OF THE

EA T WESTERN RAILWAY
FROM

DUBLIN TO MULLINGAR AND ATHLONE,
(With a power of extension to Longford.)
Proposed Capital of 750,0001., to be raised in 15,000 Shares of 501,

each. Deposit, 2/. 10.3. per share.
No Shareholder to be liable beyond the amount of his Subscription.

PROTISIONAL COMMITTER.
John Gaynor, Esq.
James Hartley, Esq.
Captain Hatton, M.P.
James Digges La Touch; Esq.
Sir James Mahon, Bart.
/4. More O'Ferrall, Esq., M.l'.
Colonel A. Perceval
Thomas Richardson, Esq.
Hugh M. Tuite, Esq., M.P.
Joshua Watson, Esq.

Lord Castlemaine
The Lord Mayor
Charles B. Baldwin, Esq., M.P.
George A. Boyd, Eiq.
Joseph Cowper, Esq.
James Daly, Esq,
baniel Desmond, Esq.
Pitzstephen French, Esq., M.P.
Colonel Knox Gore, Lieutenant
of Sligo
Alderman Joseph Boyce
John Ennis, Esq. Directors of th e
Robert R. Guinness, Esq. Dublin and Cashel
James Perry, Esq. Railway.
Charles Wye Williams, Esq.
With power to add to their number.
ENGINEER —Sir John Macneill, LL.D., F.R.S.
BANKERS.

The tank of Ireland, the Provincial Bank at Athlone, the Lon-
don and Dublin Bank at Mullingar ; Messrs. Glynn and Co., Lon-
don ; the Royal Bank, Liverpool; the Manchester and Salford
13ank, Manchester.

PROVINCIAL BECRETA RT.
James 'Malley, Esq., 44, Upper Sackville-street.
ABSTRACT OF TRAFFIC.

Passengers, Parcels, Mails, rte: £54,662
Merchandise and Agricultural Produce
Cattle and Live Stock ...

£98,492
Deduct annual Expenditure, 40 per cent. .., 99,397

*Nett annual Income nearly Si. per cent. per annum £59,095

The proposed line of Railway is intended to diverge from the
Dublin and Cashel Railway at or near Lucan (unless a more suit-
Eb, le terminus can be procured), running by or near the towns of
Celbridge, Maynooth, Kilcock, Enfield, Cloward, Kinne.
v,_44, and Killucan, to Mullingar, and thence by Moate to Athlone,
a distance of 68 statute miles.

The line of country has been carefully surveyed under the direc.
lions of Sir John Macneill, and, according to an estimate made by
"irn, the cost of construction, including the necessary outlay for
stock, station.houses, &c., will not exceed 11,0001. a mile.
The Provincial Committee are satisfied that the estimate of their
enßitieer will be sufficient, as well on account of his high proles-
atonal character, and his completion of the Dublin and Drogheda
Railway within the estimate, as also because the country is pe.
enliarly favourable for the construction of a railway, both as regards
gradients and the total absence of tunnels, expensive embankments,
Or any other engineering difficulties.
The town of Athlone, from its military station, its central position
'being the thoroughfare from Ballinasloc and the West of Ireland
the metropolis), its situation on the River Shannon, where most
eatensive and important improvements are in progress, and from
whence no less than thirty towns can be reached by water eommu-
bleation makes it peculiarly adapted as a terminus for a Central
Trunk R
Tr '
, ailway, and fully justifies the conviction that a very large
lateral traffic will take place therefrom.
Some idea may be formed of the general traffics of the districts
embraced by the proposed railway by reference to the returns of the
Canal
Companies for two years previous to March, 1844, from
t aPPears that the number of passengers carried thereon ex-
ceeded
150,000,end and the receipts (excluding altogether the coach
caravan traffic) amounted to near 30,0001. per annum, and the
tthefor the same period amounted to 45,000/. per annum; while
he
number of pa<sengers travelling by the packet-boats on the
Grand Canal the vs=r t COO to 100 eQS in
the year 1837 ; and on the same canal the tonnage increased from
179,173'in the year 1827, to '215,910 tons in the year 1837.
A still greater increase has taken place in the trade from the
Shannon, as appears by the returns of the Inland Navigation
Company, whose boats carried for the undermentioned years :---.

In 1026 2,004 Tons.
1830 11,270
1836 47,289
In estimating the passenger traffic, the Provisional Directors
,""e taken for their data the Railway Commissioners' Report, and
their calculations have been principally founded on the returns
therein. But with such information before them, chiefly of an
"'keial nature, and having regard to the fact of there being, for
several years past, conveyances on the line of the proposed railway
capable of transmitting upwards of 300 passengers daily from either
terminus, the Committee consider it reasonable to double the traffic
I'P'sll all 'species of passengers, and to add one-third for lateral
;raine; and these calculations are short of the actual result of rail.
5Y statistics in England, or in this country, so far as the results
4te yet known,
The calculations respecting the cattle and merchandise traffic
by have been compiled from the Canal Returns, and those furnished
Morn enumerators employed sometime since for the purpose,
la a considerable deduction has been made as regards both species
trathe, upon the assumption that the proposed railway would
i:P• be used except for fat cattle, sheep, and pigs, intended for the
, üblin and English markets, and for those articles which, from
Men. value, would be likely to bear the expense of railway transit.
Communications have been received from several of the most
hfluertial landowners along the proposed line of railway, who
-4e Most favourable to the undertaking, and have promised to
r "kler it every support in their power.
The necessary plans and surveys, with all other preliminary
r°r.angements, will be ready so as to apply to, Parliament for a Bill
il4corporate the Company, early in the ensuing session ; and
4terest at the rate of 41. per cent., will be allowed to subscribers,
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"II their deposits, until the railway is completed.
t 4Pplications for Shares and copies of the Prospectus to be made
the Provisional Secretary, 44, Upper Sackville- street, and the
,4blin Brokers ; the Manager of the Provincial Bank, Athlone ;
the
i. Manager of the London and Dublin Bank, Mullingar ; Messrs.
'4Urence, Cazenove, and Pearce, London; Messrs. John Railton
Jaynes Sons, Manchester Samuel Wood, jun., Liverpool
Pearson, Birmingham ; and Messrs. John Boyce and Co.,
e 4 The increase in the traffic arising from Ballinasloe fair may
%t fairly estimated at 2,0001. per annum, the average number of
ti,ek sold there for three years previous to October, 1843, being—
lack Cattle, 10,397 ; sheep, 69,426.

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