The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-30 00:00:00

GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES.—Messrs.
HORTON and CO., Watchmakers and Jewellers, 30,
Ludgate.street (opposite Messrs. Everington and Co.), offer to
their Friends and the Public their celebrated Watches, of work-
manship the highest class of excellence, at the following prices :
The Vertical Movement in Gold Cases—. £5 5 0 to£lo 10 0
Do. Do. Do. in Silver Do.— 2 00 to 4 0 0
The Horizontal Do. in Flat Gold Do. 7 70to10 10 0
Do. Do. Do. in:Flat Silver Do. 3 30 to 4 0 0
Ladies' Lever Watches, sold Cues and
Gold Dials , .... 13 13 oto 16 16 0
Gentlemen's Do. Do. Do., Enamelled
Dials l3 13 0 to 18 18 0
Do. Do. in Silver Cases, Do 5 50 to 6 6 0
A Warranty for Twelve Months.

N.B. A Large Stock of Elegant and Tasteful Jewellery, Ladies'
Silver Card.cases and Vinigrettes, Gentlemen's SnufT.boxes, and
a greet variety of other Fancy Articles, at prices immensely below
the usual London chines,

WILTS, SOMERSET, and WEYMOUTH
RAILWAY.
Otticeo of the Company—Trowbridge, Wilts; and Great Western

Station, Paddington.
Capital 1,5g0,000/., in Shales of 601. each. Deposit, 21. 10!.
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payable on each Share.
rntereit guaranteed on the Shares at Four per Cent, per Annum,

by the Great Western Railway Company.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Oran:maw—WALTEß LONG, Esq., M.P.
Antrobus, Sir Edmund, But. Ludlow, H. G. G., Esq.
Awdry, Sir John Macdonald, Captain
Baskerville, Henry Viveash, Esq. Maskell, the Rev. William
Bennett, Lientenant-Celonel Matravers, William, Esq.
Bennett, Rev. Henry Miles, John William, Esq.!
Bouverie, the Hon. Admiral Mildmay, Paulet St. John, Esq.
Brodie, William Bird, Esq. Olivier, Colonel
Butcher, Henry, Esq., Jun. Pain, George, Esq.
Campbell, JohnlHenry Esq., M.P. Phipps, Colonel
Colston,.E. F. Esq. Phipps, Thomas Hele, Esq.
Clark, John, Esq. Phillips, John Ledyard, Esq.

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Clark, Thomas, Esql
Cooper, Edward, Esq.

Edmonds, Ezekiel, Esq.
Everett, Joseph, Esq.

Figher. the Rev. Canon

Festing, M.J. Esq.

Orubbe, Major

Gouldsmith, Jesse, Esq.
Halter, W. G. Esq., M.P.
Heathcote, the Rev. Thomas
Hetley, Henry, Esq.
Hetley, Richard, Esq.
Hoare, Sir Hugh, Bart.
Hobhouse, Right Hon. Henry
Hollond, Robert, Esq. M.P.
Hood, Sir Alexander, Bart.
Horner, Rev. John

Powell, Alexander, Esq.
Ravenhill, John, Esq.

Hussey, Ambrose, Esq., M.P.
Jacob, John Henry, FAq.
Knatchbull, W. F„ Esq.
Locke, Wadhain, Esq.
Locke, F. A. S., Esq.
Lopez, Sir Ralph, Bart, M.P.

Rooke, Captain
Samborne, Samborne P., Esq.
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Scobell, Captain G. T. R. N.

(Sheppard, George, Esq.

Sheppard, Wm. fiulbert, Esq.

Slade, Frederick William, Esq.
Sloper, G. E. Esq.
Smith, the Rev. Alfred
Stancomb, William, Esq.
Stancomb, John, Esq.
Squarey, Charles, Esq.
Thring, Rev. 1. G. D.
'Thring, the Rev. Dr_
Thring, Theodore, Esq.
Trinder, Charles, Esq.

Tylee, T. P., Esq.
Ward, John, Esq.
White William Lambert, Esq.
Wyndham, William, Esq.
Wyndham, Charles, Esq.
Wyndham, Rev. J. IL

ENGINEER-1. K. BRUNEL, Esq.

This Company has been formed by the principal Landed Pro-
prietors, Manufacturers, and others, interested in the prosperity of
the counties and of the towns through or near to which the in-
tended Railway is to pass. It is projected for the purpose of con-
necting the great agricultural, commercial, and manufacturing
districts and towns of Wiltshire cud Somersetshire, with each other,
and with the towns of Dorchester, Weymouth, and Bridport, and
the whole of them with every part of the Kingdom, by means of
a Junction with the Great Western Bailway, and with ether lines,
either already existing or about to be immediately constructed.
To effect the above purposes, it is proposed to construct a line
from the Great Western Railway, from the neighbourhood of
Corsham, through Melkaham (with branches to Devises and
Bradford) to Trowbridge and Westbury, whence one line passes
through Warminster, and the Valley of the Wily, to Wilton and
Salisbury, and the other diverges to Frome, Bruton, Castle Carey,
Yeovil, Dorchester, Weymouth and Bridport.
The length of the direct line, from the Great Western Railway,
to Salisbury, will be 27i miles; from Melksham to Devizes, seven
miles; from Staverton to Bradford, two miles; from the point of
Junction at Westbury (which is 151 miles from Corshaws) to
Yeovil, thirty-two miles, and from Yeovil to Weymouth,ttwenty.
seven miles. The distance to Eridport will be about ten miles
from the main line between Y. evil and Dorchester.

A most important mineral district, providing coals to all the
towns and surrounding country, is within eight miles of From.;
and, it is certain, that a very extensive and profitable trade will be
secured to the whole line by constructing a coal branch line from
Frome to Radstock (near to which some of the principal Somerset.
shire collieries are situated, yielding an abund Int supply for the
manufacturing districts, as well as for all the towns through which
this railway will pass), which measure is consequently to form a
part of the plan of this Company.
The line has been most carefully surveyed and laid down, by
Mr. Brunel ; and the principal landowners, with very few excep-
tions, have been seen, and are known to bo anxious for the success
•f the undertaking.
The country is for the most part unusually favorable far the
purposes of a Railway; the works are extremely light upon the
greater extent of it, and the construction of the line will be as
cheap as any which has been yet known of a similar extent,—not
exceeding an average of 11,0001. per —le s with easy gradients,
and well adapted to economical working in connexion with the
Great Western Line, and the Board of Trade expressed their pro.
viaioaal approval of this undertaking on public grounds.
Tables of the revenue hare been prepared, from a very accurate
and careful inveotigatien, of the present local traffic; and, after
making deduction of every doubtful source of trade, the annual
returns may be confidently estimated to produce a return of 6 per
cent. at least on the proposed capital, which has been proved, to the
satisfaction of the Great 'Western Directors, who have assumed it
as the basis if a recommendation to their proprietors for the
guarantee.
The existing traffic along the main and diverging lines, com-
prises, independently of passengers, extensive supplies of corn,
wool, cattle, coal, timber, and other goods, for the agricultural and
manufacturing wants of the district, and would, by the increased
facilities and diminished oast of transport afforded by Railway con-
veyance, be very greatly enlarged. The seaports of Weymouth
and Bridport will furnish ready means for obtaining a direct export
and import trade with all parts of the world. Weymouth, toe' is
a favourite watering.place, resorted to from all quarters, and in the
direct course to the Channel Islands.

It is proposed that the line should he worked by the Great
Western Railway Company, either under lease, or by such other
arrangements as may be mutually agreed upon between the two
Companies. The Great Western Railway Company have agreed
that they will, in consideration thereof, guarantee to the Proprie-
tors, Four per Cent. per annum, upon the paid up capital ; and
that an increase of one-half per cent. in proportion, to any dividend
of ono per cent. upon their own stock, exceeding eight per cent.,
shall be payable to the Proprietors of the Wilts, Somerset, and
Weymouth Railway, in addition to the guaranteed rate.
The capital will be raised in 30,000 shares of 501. each, upon
which a deposit of 91. IGs, per share will be paid upon subscrip-
tion, and no further call will be made previously to obtaining the
Act of Incorporation.

Interest, at the rate of 41. per cent, per annum will be allowed
on the deposit, and on all paid up calls, during the construction of
the line, and until the dividends are provided for under the
guarantee of the Great Western Railway Company.
If the Act should not be obtained, the deposit will be paid
back to the proprietors, without deduction. Application may be
made to Mr. John Saunders, at the Company's 01Lee, Trowbridge ;
also to the Secretary of the Great Western Railway Company, at
the Paddington or Bristol --Wiens ; or to any of the following
Bankers and Solicitors. Unexceptionable references must be
given, where the parties applying for shares are not personally
known or locally interested in the line.

BANKERS.
Landon—Messrs. Glyn, Halifal, and Co.
Bristol and Bath—Messrs. Mlles, Harford, and Co.; The West
of England Bank; Stuckey's Banking Company.
Salisbury—Messrs. Hetley awl Everett; Messrs. W. B. Brodie
and Co.
Warminster—Messrs. Everett and Ravenhill.
Devizes—Messrs. Hughes, Locke, and Co.
Frotne--Stuckey's Banking Company ; the Wilts and Dorset Bank.
Trowbridge—The North Wilts Bank.
Melksbam—The North Wilts Bank.
Bradford—The North Wilts Bank,
Shopton Mallett—Stuckey's Banking Company,
Bruton—Stuckey's Banking Company.
Castle Carey—Stuckey's Banking Company.
Yeovil—Messrs. Edmund and John Batten; the Wilts and Dorset
Bank.
Dorchester—Messrs. R. R. and 11. Williams.
Bridport—Gundry and Co. ; R. R. and H. Williams.
Weymouth—Eliot and Pearce.
Lyrae Regis—Gundry and Co.

London—Messrs. W. 0. and W. Hunt, 10, Whitehall.
Bristol and Bath—Messrs. Osborne's, Ward, and Cu,
Wilton—John Swayne, Fsq,
Warminster—S. F. Phelps, Esq.
Devizes—Messrs. Tugwell and Meek.
Frome—Alfred Whittaker, Esq.
Trowbridge--Messrs. E. Bush and Son.
Blelksham—Messrs. Awdry.
Bradford—Messrs John Bush and Son.
Shepton Mallett—Arthur C. Phipps, Esq.
Bruton—Harry Russ, Esq.
Castle Carey—Harry Ruas, Esq.
Yeovil—Messrs. Newman and Lyon.
Dorchester—Messrs. Stone and Symonds.
Bridport—Messrs. Templer and Son; is., Nlehollets. Esq,
Weymouth--Messrs. Henning and Andrews,
Lyrae Regis—O. D. O'Kelly Templer, Esq.
Y 01124 OP APPLICATION.
To the Committee of Management of the Wilts, Somerset, alai
Weymouth Railway Company.

Gentlemen,
I request that you will allot to me Shares of Fifty
Pounds each in the proposed Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth
Railway Company, on the terms and conditions of the Prospectus ;
and I undertake to pay the Deposit of 2/. 10s. each Share, and
sign the necessary Deeds when required.
Dated the day of
(N ma)
(Place of Abode.)

1644