The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-20 00:00:00

LOCAL AGENTS.

At Devizes, Henry Gilbert, Esq.
At Tronbrid;re and Bradford, Messrs. Stone and Rodway
At Bath, Messrs. Batehellor, Harford, and Staunton
At Bridgewater, Messrs. G. S. and J. R. Poole
At Tiverton, T. L. T. Bendel', Esq
At Truro anti J. A. Toms, ESQ.
At Penzance
At Falmouth
The object of this line is to effect a direct communication between
London and the Land's End.
In a national point of viewd such a line is indispensable. With
the advantage of a direct
western extremity of the
railmad,Falmouth, from its position at the
kingdom,o would undoubtedly long since
have been the principal port
that coast. With the advantage of
at least ISO miles of heavy road, pine, has attained its high po-
sition as a Packet Station.
ampton, with far less natural ad-
vantages, has, since the openingio tofthe South-Western Railway, in-
creased its imports from 200 mo
-)00,0001. per annum. At Bris-
tol, before the opening of the G reatWestern Railway,
End as an investment for the imports
were declining ; since then they have
The merits of a line to the Land's very
considerablytmerea."4.
ca-
pital, it was not left to the present Con to discover. The Great
Western and Bristol and Exeter Railway having having already reached
Exeter, it has been in cont;emapnidativoaarito extend that line to pat_
thu ;us other projects have been
mouth by way of Plymouth
set on foot on the convictionrailway. . ;us of
must be reached by
The object of this prospectus is to shertliat no other line than the
present can ultimately satisfy the exigencies
of the country in regard
to this, its most important outport—" the natural Packet Station .f
the empire."
The present project is distinguished by this—that it is direct. It Is
as nearly as possible a straight line from London to the Land's End.
The London, Bath, and Bridgewater Company having am alga.. a
:
mated with this Company, the immense local influence commanded
by them will now contribute to the great national object of a direct
line ; while means have been taken for securing the traffic and afford-
ing all the accommodation contemplated by that Company.
The Direct Western availing Itself of the (treat Western Railway
so far as Reading, pursues its course by or near Newbury, Hunger..
ford, Great Bedwin, Marlborough, Devizes, the manufacturing dis-
trict of Trowbridge (from which a diverging line will be carried by
Bradford direct to Bath), Westbury, Frome, Shepton Mallet, Wells
(from which another diverging line will be taken to Bridgewater),
Glastonbury to Taunton, being shorter by about thirty-two miles than
any existing or projected railways between these points, and without
a. tunnel. Prom Taunton the Bristol and Exeter Railway (now
leased to the Great Western) Is traversed to Tiverton, whence it is
proposed to carry this line direct to the Land's End, Falmouth, St.
Ives, and Penzance, being shorter by about sixty miles than the
Istelyproposed line by way of Plymouth, and effecting, lathe whole
distance from London to Falmouth, a saving of-about ninety miles.
With respect to the traffic between London and Tiverton, it is
needless to say more than that there Is already thorough traffic mei-
tv juitify t/19 contraction of this portion of the Direct Wee-

BARNET and NORTH MET ROPOL ITAN
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 110.)
Capital, 400,0001., in 20,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21.25. per Share.
No Shareholder to be liable beyond the amount of his Subscription
PROVISION AL COMMITTEE.
The Hon. F. TLF Berkeley, M.P., Chairman, Director of the London,
Hounslow, and Western Railway Company
William Alfred Hill, EVE., Deputy-Chairman, also Deputy-Chairman
of the Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham Railway Company
Sir John Osborne, Bart., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing-
stoke Railway Company
The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne, Belly Hatch House, Henley
William Wilberforce, Esq., James-street, Buckingham-gate, and
Highwood House, Ilighwod Hill, Ilendon
Lieut.-Colonel Gillies, Porchester House, Bayswater
William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Director of the Italian and
Austrian Railway
Josiah Heale, Esq., Gray's Inn
Major Lindam, K.H., Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and
Central Wales Railway Company
Henry lieckley Richardson, Esq., F.S.A., Director of the Colchester,
Cambridge, awl Harwich Junction Railway
Rowland Hill Mackenzie, Esq., M.D., Mortimer-street, Cavendish-
square •
Henry Chaytor, Esq., Clervaux Castle, Darlington, Director of the
Warwick and Worcester Railway
Thomas Hemming Johnson, Esq., Older's Hall, Hendon, Middlesex
Thomas Priestley, Esq., Principal of Min Hill Grammar School,
llendon, Middlesex
The Rev. H. J. Crump, Mill Hill, Hendon, Middlesex
Captain Grover, R.N.
Captain John Innes, H.C.S., Wentworth House, Mill Hill, Hendon,
Middlesex
The Rev. Bartholomew Nicholls, M.A., Incumbent of St. Paul's,
Milt Hill, Hendon, Middlesex
Mr. William Ward, Underhill, Barnet
Mr. Bruce Johnson, Finchley
William Christopher Daniel Deighton, Esq., Fellow of Queen's College,
Cambridge, Holloway
Ralph Allen Frogley, Esq., Hounslow, Director of the London,
Hounslow, and Western Railway
Colonel Taylor White, Hadley-green, Barnet
Abraham Scott, Esq., Hadley Priory, Barnet
W. J. M`Gwire, Esq , 74, St. James's-street
W. Prosser, jun., Esq., 36, New Broad-street, City
Janes Berington, Esq., East-street, Hoxton
George Freeman, Esq., Grange House, Leeds
Richard Cowley Polhill, Esq., Director of the London, Hounslow, and
Western Railway Company
George Godfrey, Esq., The Elms, Hutton, Essex
Robert Wright Wood, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and
Basingstoke Railway Company
Alexander Prince, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing-
stoke Rtilway
Peter Graham, Esq., Angelo Villa, Gloucester-road, Regent's Park
William Henry Halpin, Esq., 23, Grafton-street, Fitzroy-square
Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and
Basingstoke Railway Company
Charles Green, Esq., Director of the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and
Central Wales Railway Company
.1. N. Nicholay, Esq., Oxford-street
John Godfrey B. Hudson, Esq., Director of the Central Terminus
Railway Company
The Rev. 0. A. Walker, Altisthorpe Parsonage. Wakefield, Direc-
tor of the Wakefield and Bradford Railway Company
(With power to add to their number.)
COMMITTEE Or MANAGEMENT.
The Hon. F. H. F. Berkeley, M.P., W. 11. Halpin, Esq.
Chairman Richard Cowley Polhill, Esq.
William Alfred Hill, Esq., Deputy- Alexander Prince, Esq.
Chairman George Freeman, Esq.
Major Lindam, K.H. George Godfrey, Esq.
Henry Beckley Richardson, Esq., Robert Wright Wool, Esq.
F.S.A. !Charles Green, Esq.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—Francis Wishaw, Esq., C.E., Brook Lodge,
llendon.
ACTING ENGINEER—J. Bailey Denton, Esq., 10, Gray's Inn-square.
Be:cams—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths,
JOINT SOLICITORS.
Edward Elkins, Esq., 59, Newman-street, Oxford-street
G. P. 11111, Esq., 21e, Soho-square.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Henry Hammond, Esq., solicitor, Wentworth Lodge, Finchley
John Hughes, Esq., solicitor, Whetstone.
SECRETARY (pro tem.)—A. Doull, Esq.

This railway will connect the important and hitherto neglected
town of Barnet with the London and Birmingham and the Great
Western Railways, at or near Holsdon-green ; with the Northern
and Eastern and the Eastern Counties Railway, at or near Totten-
ham ; and the proposed Direct London and Manchester, and the Lon-
don and York Railways.
The line, in Its course, will unite the town of Barnet with Nheiltl,-
stone, Totteridge, Highwood Hill, Mill Hill, Finchley, Hm
oer,s V
Hill,
Hendon, Bu-rows, Golder's Hill, Gutterhedge, Kingsbury, Neesdon,
Wilsdon, IVils:lon Green. Holsdon Green, Kensall Green, Westbourne
Green, Maids Hill, Kilburn, Hampstead, West End, Highgate, Crouch
End, Hornsey, Muswell Hill, West Green, Tottenham, Edmonton,
Chinford, Stamford Hill, Stoke Newington, _Newington Green, Clap-
ton, Highbury, Holloway, Kingsland, Layton, Stratford, West Ham,
Bromley, Bethnal Green, Limehouse, Heaton, Homerton,
Hackney, Shacklewell, Dalston, Islington, St. Pancras, Shoreditch,
Illackwall, Euston-square Paddington, Kensington, Hammersmith,Brompton, Fulham, Chelsea, &c. ; connecting those places with the
various railways named, and all those south of the river Thames.
The distance from the town of Barnet to the station of the London
and Birmingham Railway, at Euston square, by this route, will be
15 miles.
The length of the main line, from the point of Junction at Totten-
ham to the Londan and Birmingham Railway, will be 11 miles ; and
the length of the branch line to Barnet, will be 4% miles. From the
junction with the Illrinlngharn Railway to Chipping B trued, 9%
miles; from the Decay (near Brent-street, Hendon), on the proposed
Barnet and North Metropolitan Junction Railway, to the Nortnern
and Eastern Counties Railway, by Stamford-hill, 614 miies
There are no engineering difficulties throughout the entire distance.
The line will proceed beyond the range of the Highgate and Hamp-
stead Hills, and the branch from the main line to Barnet will follow
the valley of the river Brent to the intended station at Barnet ; thus
the expense of construction will be less than any other metropolitan
line of railway, for the above reason, and because it will pass through
an agricultural district, avoiding all ornamental property and large
collections of houses and buildings.
Upon the completion of this railway, a large and daily-increasing
population, resident beyond the limits of the metropolitan omnibuses,
will be largely benefited, and land and agricultural produce, hitherto
affording an inadequate return to their cultivators, will be quad-
rupled in value.
The ancient, populous, and once-flonrishing town of Barnet, too,
will now have a railway communication of its own, without depend-
ing upon the caprice or uncertain goodnature of any company who
may hold out a prospect of a branch, in future times, from some of
the trunk lines now contemplated.
An ample return of profit to the investments of shareholders may
be safely anticipated, and will arise from the following sources,
amongst others :

this
of
f conveyance through
1. From the conveyanco of paSseillerS• from the City and
2. From the carriage of goods and merchandise
line, avoiding the delay and excessive cost
more particularly
London ; also from the conveyance of cattle,&e.,
Docks, 84.:., to the several railways which are intersected by
during the period of the large Barnet fairs.
3,1. From the conveyance of coal, both inland and seaborne,
fuel,
eatexpense
and other commodities of general consumption, the g
Management,_.
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of whichch has long been felt by all classes as a most grievous es 11 . r
The Committee of Management reserve to themselves the pone of adopting, upon this line, locomotive power, or Presser's Railway
guide and safety wheels, as may be deemed expedient.
Applications for Shares in the form annexed (and communi-
cations from persons desirous of promoting the objects of the Corn-
pany), may
Ebe addressed to the Secretary, at the Provisional Offices
Solicitors,
i, and G. P.
of the Compdwardany, 59, NP.ilans,
ewman-street, Oxford-street • to the Joint
BBL Esq., 21A, Soho square. Esq., 59, Newman-street,

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To the ProvFisOioltnla
Junction Railway, 59, Newman-street, Oxford-street
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me ' •
s of
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hate 201. each in this Company, and I hereby undertake to
a Scce
sainc., and to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any let p the
,' number tha
may be allotted to me ; and I undertake also to execute the Parlia-
t
mentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
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