The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-20 00:00:00

William Eales, Esq., Mincing-lane
Frederick %%Ulm Drewe, Esq., Woodlands-house, near Stowey,
Somerset
Joseph Gundry, Esq., Hyde-house, near Bridport, merchant and ship.
owner, Commissioner of Bridport Harbour
Robert Langham, Esq., Cottesbrooke, Northampton
John Hill, Esq., Fair ti eld-house, Lyme Regis, Dorset, merchant
William Tucker, Esq., Coryton-park, near Axminster, Devon
Thomas Hoskins, Esq., Haselbury, Plucknett, near Crewkerne,
Somerset
Thomas Fox, Esq., Beaminstcr, Dorset, Commissioner of Bridport
Harbour
William Loveridge, Esq., Paradise-lodge, near Chard
Charles Warre Loveridge, Esq., Crewkerne, banker
Benjamin Pearkes Gundry, Esq., Bridport, merchant
William Trevelyan Cox, Esq., Cheddington.court, near Beaminster
R. Walter, Esq., Coombe-head, near Chard
William Colfox, Esq., rtax-house, Bridport, merchant and ship..
owner, Commissioner of Bridport Harbour
Stephen Whetham, Esq , Bridport, merchant and shipowner, Corn.
missioner of Bridport Harbour
John Pike Stephens, Esq., Bridport, merchant and shipowner, Cora.
missioner of Bridport Harbour
John K,nway, Esq., Bridport, merchant
Thomas Colfox. Esql, Rax-house, Bridport, merchant
William Kinglake, Esq., Wilton-house, Taunton
William Beadon, Esq., Gotton-house, near Taunton
James Bunter, Esq., Taunton, banker
He:iry Hooper, Esq. (late Mayor of Exeter), architect, director of
the North Devon Railway, and Deputy Chairman of the Exeter
and Crediton Railway
Richard Carver, Esq., Taunton, architect, county surveyor for So-
mersztshire
James Carrol Wilcocks, Esq., Exeter, director of the North Devon
Railway, and of the Exeter and Crediton Railway
James Marsh, Esq., Alphington, Exeter, director of the North
Devon Railway
John Hancock, Esq., liaise, near Taunton
Henry Daubncy Harvey, Esq., Wiveliscombe, director of the
North Dever' Railway
Phillip Hancock, Esq., Ford-house, near Wiveliscombe
James Thomas Bcnedictus Notley, Esq., Coombe, Sydenham.house,
near Watchet
,leorge Notley, Esq., Chillington, Somerset
Joseph Hitchcock, Esq., The Grove, Taunton
H. D. King, Esq., Taunton
Stephen William Whetham, Esq., Bridport, merchant and ship-
owner, Commissioner of Bridport Harbour
Walter Eustace Gundry, Esq., Bridport, banker and merchant
Alfred Nieholetts, Esq., Woaderwell, near Bridport
Battiscombe, Esq., East Cottage, near Bridport, brewer,
Commissioner of Bridport Harbour
Thomas Ewens, Esq., Allington, near Bridport, merchant and ship.
owner, Commissioner of Bridport Harbour
William Ilounsell, Esq., Wykes•court, near Bridport, merchant
Richard Hayward, Esq., West Chinnock, Somerset, merchant and
flax-mill owner
John Hounsell, Esq., Bridport
Theophilus Miller Gunn, Esq., Bridport
James Brown, Esq., Burton, Bradstock, near Bridport
Joseph Hounsell, Esq., Bridport, merchant
Richard Tucker, Esq., Bridport, merchant
William Tucker, Esq., Allington-villa, near Bridport
Richard Turle, Esq., Taunton, merchant
Robert Parsons, Esq., Taunton, merchant
Thomas Powell, Esq., The Gacr, near Newport, Monmouthshire,
coal proprietor; a director of the Taff Vale Railway
Thomas Hughes, Esq., Kingshill, Newport
Franklin Meager, Esq., Swansea, Glamorganshire, of the firm of
M. I. Michael and F. Meager
George Bucknell, Esq., Crowcombe, near Watchet
John Southcomb Ling, Esq., Stogumber near Watchet
Henry Foote Ling, Esq., Stogumber, near Watchet
George Eters, Esq., Stogumber, director of the North Devon Rail-
way
John Williams, Esq., Buckland, near Farringdon, Becks
William Cockburn, Esq., Minehead, Somerset
Robert Hole, Esq., Alcombe, near Minehead
Henry Cadell, Esq., Stampford Brett, near Watchet
Frederick William Rossitcr, Esq., Williton, near Watchet
William Avery, Esq., Barnstaple, member of the Provisional Corn.

mittee of the North Devon Railway
Alfred Mir,iatt, E q , Broadlands- lodge, Taunton
John Williara Marriott, Esq., Taunton
Henry Alford, Esq., Taunton
John Eiles \Vhite, Esq., Taunton, brewer
Jonathan Payne, Esq., Norton, near Taunton, corn.factor and

mill-owner
William Middleton, Esq , Chard, brewer
S.lvanus Stephens, Esq , Bridport
William Manley, Esq Bridport
James Hayden, Esq. ) Flax-manufacturers,
Robert Turner, Esq. 3 Greenham mills, Crewkerne
James Hill, E,q., Chard
T':omas Llewellyn, Esq., Taunton
Thomas Stoats, Esq., Washford -mills and Hatchet, merchant

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and ship-owner
Wiliam Stowe, Esq., Watchet-mills, merchant and ship-owner
William Gimblett, Esq., merchant and ship-owner, Watchet
William G. Hole, Esq , merchant and ship-owner, Watchet
J. Wanshrough, Esq., t Paper-makers, Paper-mills, Watchet
John Date, Esq., and Bristol
William James, E q., Doniford, near Watchet
Henry George Hole, Esq„ merchant andship-owner, Watchet
Joseph Williams, Esq., banker, I,Vißison, near Watchet
Thomas Hats kes, Esq., land agent and surveyor. Williton, near
Watcher

(With power to add to their number.)
CONSULTING ENGINEER—C. B. Vignoles, Esq., F.R.S. A.
ENGINEERS W. C. My hie, Esq., F.R.S., Principal Engineer to the
New River Company; R. W. Mylne, Esq.
LONDON BANKERS.
Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph and Biddulph, 43, Charing-cross
Messrs. Currie and Co., 29, Cornhill.

COUNTRY BANKERS.
Stuckey's Banking Company, at their various branches
The West of England and South Wales' District Bank, at their
various branches
Messrs. Williams and Co., Bridport, Dorchester, and at their variou
bran ch cs
Messrs. S. and W. E. Gundry, Bridport, and at their various

branches
Messrs. H. It. and I. Badcock, jun., Taunton.
STANDING COUNSEL—A. W. Kinglake, Esq., 24, Old-square,
Lincoln's Inn.
SECRETARY—Mr. Charles P. Meryon.

SoLicyroas IN LONDON—Messrs. Keddell, Baker, and Grant, 34,
Lime-street.
PARLIANII:NTARY AGENTS—Messrs. Sudlow and Kingdon,
Palace-yard.

SOLICITORS IN THE COUNTRY.
Mr. Edwin Nicholetts, Briellion
Mr Baruch Fox, Beamister
Messrs. Roa,cliffe and Son, Stognmber, near Watchet.

LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Mr. Samuel Walter, Chard
Mr. Woodland, Tautaton
Mr. W. Bridge, Dorchester
Mr. F. Napier Bower, Wiveliscombe
Mr J F. Knight. Axminster.
The object of this Company is to establish a direct line of rail-
way for passengers, goods, and commercial, mining, and agricul.
tural produce between the harbour of Watchet on the Bristol
Channel, and the harbour of Bridport on the English Channel, and
provide means of inland transit for a large proportion of the pro-
duce at present necessarily sent by the dangerous and uncertain
passage round the Land's End, and at the same time afford to the
intermediate rich and populous districts ready and convenient rail-
way communication.
The direct line will be 48 miles in length, and will proceed from
Watchet to Taunton, and thence by Hatch Beauchamp, and by
Ilminster to Chard, and by Crewkerre and Beaminster to Bridport
harbour. A branch will proceed out of the line, about mid-way
between Watchet and Taunton, directly to Wiveliscombe. All
these towns ail their neighbourhoods are populous and opulent,
and many of them very much so, and the localities are remarkable
for their ri-lincss, fertility, beauty, and numerous resident gentry.
At Wiveliscombe this line will avail itself of the North Devon
Railway to Taunton, and also westward; at Taunton it will
enter the station of the Bristol and Exeter Railway, and thence
proceed to Mangerton, four miles short of Bridport, where it will
unite with the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth, one of the
Great Western lines of Railway, and thence proceed on that line
to Bridport Harbour.
It will also cross the proposed line from Yeovil to Exeter
about two miles west of Crewkerne.
The junction of the two Channels was long since deemed an im-
portant object. To effect it, surveys were successively made for w
ship canal by the late Mr. Rennie Mr. Telford, and other scientificmen, who concurred in the importance'. of such a work in a na-
tional point of view ; the designan it was matured, and in 18114 an Act
of Parliament was passed;
stands recorded as the opinions of
Mr. Yelled that
a the l and Captain Nichols,
canalcent.
on woulda
capitalafford
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remuneration to the subscribers of 16 j.(3 per
1,712,644/.
The SUM required for this work, being co much I than that
for the Ship canal ; the increased demand of a greatly increased
~.postflassAN.‘„, ltd the present vast commercial energies of the
ijliatrv7pla4 it manifest that goods may be conveyed by this
- railway - s than half the charge upon which Mr. Telford
and CaPtalti_ 'cols fbrmed their opinion.
The intim :line from Minehead to Bridgewater, will meet
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