The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-23 00:00:00

LOCAL AGENTS.

Galway—Captain F. O'Shaughneasy
Castlebar—Mr. Henry Murphy
Sligo—Mr. W. C. Tithe.
SzcurrAmr—Henry T. Stuart, Esq.

PROSPECTUS.

The object of this line of Railway is to complete the chain of coast
communication, and form n connexion with lines already established
or projected with reasonable hopes of success.
It Will eoinmince at'or near the city of Limerick, and taking a nor-
therly direction, proceed through the counties ofClare, Galway, Mayo,
and Sligo, terminating at Sligo, by a junction with the Sligo and Ennis-
killen Railway, and accommodating on its route the important cities and
towns of Limerick, Ennis, Gort, Loughrea, Athenry, Monivea, Tualm,
Ballinrobe, Caatlehar, Westport, Foxford, Bettina,- Kilalla, Swineford,
Streamstown, and Sligo, which town being connected with the north,
east, and south, by the different lines through Enniskillen, London-
derry, Coleraine, Belfast, Annuli, Newry, Dundalk, Drogheda,
Dublin, Wicklow, Wexford, Waterford, Cork, Killarney, Valentia,
Traloe, and Limerick, the establishment of this line will cause Ire-
land to present a completeness of locomotive communication wkieli
no other country in the world enjoys.
The country through which the proposed line travels is most fertile
in mineral and agricultural products ; it embraces many extensive
coal fields, whose advantages it will extend to all parts of Connaught
and Ulster; and intersecting, as it does, so many metropolitan lines
of railway, it will develops those advantages iu an equal degree to
the province of Leinster. •
The lead, iron, marble, and slate works on its route, will be
rendered available to the most distant parts of the island, and
perhaps not the least advantage, in a national peint of view, will be
the establishment of an intercourse between the population of the
extreme north and that of the extreme south, as well as placing the
trade of, and communication with, Scotland, within the easy reach
of all towns of any Importance in Ireland. Added to this the cer-
tainty that on the completion of the projected southern, eastern, and
western lines, the noble natural harbours on the Atlantic shore of
Ireland will become the British depots of American traffic, and most
probably the established packet stations for postal communication
between the two countries, it is impossible to over-rate the value of
tlds truly national
.projection.
The counties which this railway traverses abundantly supply the
English markets with cattle, pigs, Sce. This line, communicating with
so many ports, will afford the greatest facilities for the shipping of
this portion of trade, some idea of the extent of which may be formed
from the fact of upwards of five hundred fairs being held annually
in its immediate vicinity, among thorn, the fair of Balllnasloe, ac-
knowledged the greatest for sheep and cattle in the British islands.
It has been ascertained that the country presents great engineering
facilities for the construction of, a railway, and in communications
'Which have been received from the landowners along the line, the
greatest atrxil'tyls manifested for its completion.
The subscribers will be held liable only to the extent of their first
deposits until an-Act of -Parliament is obtained, and afterwards only
to the amount of their subscriptions.
Power will be applied for in the Act—and in the meantime Is
hereby given to the Committee—to alter the capital, IPnecessary; to
vary or abandon any part of the line, to make branch lines, or
to
entera into arrangements with any other company or companies ; and
nominate Parliamentary then
firste
contract
directorstretant subscribers'
The
agreement will be
ready for sign on payment of the deposits.ature
It will be seen t
lines, and will thusm
in the plan that the railway intersects many main
con-
siderable contribute to, and receive from them a "''' tt in Passen
Front the estimates that passenger
and
merchandise
traffic'
per cent. must bo realised on been made, a return of at least 10
Application for shares tom' the
eaPttal.
Sera in London and Dublin
be. made in the usual farm to the Solid-.
at the office of the Com a' to the Local Agents ; to the
the undermentioned broltePrsny,. ;0, Old Jewry
Cl...alSecretary,
lane, Conihill ; Mr. D. B. joi!essrs. Martin and lleseltia ; and
to
ne, Finch-
thony Laurie, Liverpool; Messrs itChange-alleY, Cornh
Hull ; Mr. Grindrod, Mane. ill Mr. A
radY and stanifort An_
; h, ;Manor-street,
Leads ; Mr. George Edwards, Bristol ; e"rs Watson
and Co.
Plymouth ; Mr. T. Sandford, Exeter; 11 • Messrs. Tyeth and
r. Robert All WilLs
Messrs. M`Ewen and Ault, Glasgow ; Mr. Willie an, Edinburgh:
deen ; Maim. Curtis and Power, Dame-street. Darnt...Gordon, Aber-
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D IRE-CT WESTERN RAILWAY
. (Upon the Broad Gauge),
From London to the Land's-end ; with Diverging Lines to Bath and
Bridgewater respectively.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., Director of the South Mid-
land Railway, Brookes' Club, St. James's-street
Sir Francis Duglale Astley, Bart., Ever's, -House, Pewsey, Wilts
Sir Henry Webbe, Bart., 10:5, Pall-mall
Frederick Hodgson; Esq., M.P.-for Barnstaple; 3, Carlton Gardens
Howard Elphinstone, Esq., M.P., 19, Eaton-place, London
Ralph Neville, Esq M.P. for Windsor, Hill-street, Berkeley-square
Charles Barry Ballwin, 31. P. for Totncss, 6, Parliament street
Hon. Percy Evans Freka, 3, Ceigrave-square
Thomas Nugent Vaughan, Esq., 32, Grosvenor-place, London
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the
Sheffield and Manchester and Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
Companies
Sir John Key, Bart., 9, King's Arms-yard, Alderman of the City of
London, Director of the Direct Manchester and London and Direct
Liverpool and Leeds Railway Company
Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Griffin's Wharf, Tooley-street, Alderman
of the City of London, and Director of the London and Westmin-
ster Bank, and of the Loudon, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidder-
minster Railway
Thomas Challis, Esq., 32, Wilson-street. Finsbury, Alderman of the
City of London
Edward Harrisson Barwell, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the North-
ampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Itailwa and Director of the
South Midland Railway
Joseph Armitage, Esq., Miln's Bridge House, Huddersfield, Deputy
Lieutenant and a Magistrate for the West Riding of Yorkshire,
Chairman of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
William Gordon Thomson, Esq:, 33, Gloucester-road, Hyde Park,
Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham, and
South Midland Railways
Donald Maclean, Esq., 37, Brunswick-square, London, Deputy
Chairman of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway
Thomas Lawrence, Esq., 3, St. Mary Axe
Philip W. Courtney, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, Loudon
Millis Coventry, Esq.,' Whitehart-court, Lombard-street
Barnet L. 'Philips, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, and
George-street, Mansion House
John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, Tunbridge, Kent, Director of
the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Boswell Middleton Jolland, Esq., Holderness House, near Hull,
Deputy Lieutenant and Magistrate for the East Ridiag of Yorkshire
Charles Robert Coleman, Eeq., Irongate Wharf
William Eales, Esq., Mincing lane, London, late Director of the
Devon and Cornwall Banking Company
Charles Downes, Esq., Warwick-street, Charing-eross, Director of
the South Midland Railway
Martin Stutely, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terrace. Regent's Park, London,
Director of the Dublin,
.Belfast, and Coleraine, and the South
Essex Railways
Francis Ede, Esq., 34, Great Winchester-street
John Griffith Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Director of the Londonderry
and Coleraine and the Londonderry and Ermiskillen Railways
John Addis, Esq., Rotherhithe and Mark-lane, London, Director of
the Central Terminus Railway, and of the Licensed Victuallers'
Fire and Life Insurance Company
James Renshaw, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street, and West
Heath House, Erith, Kent, Director of the South Staffordshire
Railway
Thomas Drane, Esq., Pall-mall, and St. Mary Church, Devon. Direc-
tor of the Bridport and Exeter, and Goole and Doncaster Railways
Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brembelronworks, Wrexham, and Cannon-
street, London
H. G. Atkinson, Esq., Upper Gloucester-place, Regent's Park
George M`lntosh, Esq., 127, Seymour-street, Portman-square
Frederick Solly Flood, Esq.. Alpha-road, Regent's Park, London
Major White, 105, Pall-mall, London, Director of the South Midland
Railway
Charles Bleaden, Esq., Coulsden-Court, Surrey, Chairman of the Li-
censed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company
I. G. Hammack, Esq., Essex House, Mile-end-road, Director of the
Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company
Patrick Fras. Johnston, Esq., Great Cumberland-place
Joseph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, Minorics, Director of the London and
Blackwell Railway Company
W. D. Bruce, Esq., F.S.A., 17, Charles-street, St. James's, and Ripon
Cuthbert Woodstock, Esq., Grove-road, North Brixton
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanstene-street, Portman-
square, Director of the Exeter. Dorchester, and Weymouth, and
the Great Western Extension Railways'
George Hammond Whalley, Esq., 30, Pall-mall, London, Assistant
Tithe Commissioner
William Hagan, Esq., 60, Baker-street, Portman-square
William Breynton, Esq., Montpelier, Cheltenham, and Temple, Lon-
don, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth Railway
Richard Harris Purcell, Esq., Cambridge-street, Hyde Park, Lon-
don, Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Railway
Company
Philip Baker, Esq., Euston-square, London, Auditor of the London
and Blackwell Railway Company
Charles James Heath, Esq., 6, London-street, Mark-lane
Captain E. N. Trowbridge, R.N., 11, Eaton-square
Anthony Ridley, Esq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury, a Director Of the
St. Katherine's Dock Company
William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square
Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., Clopton House, Warwickshire, and
Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire
George Payne, Esq., Sulby Hall, Northamptonshire, and Charles-
street, Berkeley-square
James Beech, Esq., Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, and Grosvenor-
place, London
Nicholas Philpot Leader, Esq., Dromagh Castle, county Cork, Union
Club, Trafalgar-square, Director of the Killarney Junction Rail-
way Company
Samuel Baker, Esq., Lyppiat Park, Gloucestershire, and London
William Congreve Russell, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Di-
reetor.of the Warwickshire and London Railway
Henry Bradley, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire
John William Yerbury, Esq., Belcombe House, Wiltshire, Captain 3d
Light Dragoons
Robert Main, Esq., Ravensbourue Park, Lewisham, and Trinity-
square, London
Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsall House, Retford, Nottiughamshire
John Gillyatt Booth, Esq., Crouch Hall, Hornsey
Major-Gen. Martin White, Marlborough-buildings, Bath
Rev. T. Harvey Ashworth, Burlyrts House, near Newbury, Barka
Col. Burslem, Harwood Lodge, Newbury, Berks
Major Kirwan, Great Pulteuey-street, Bath
Rev. Dr. Godfrey, Grosvenor-place, Bath
Edward Cooper, Esq., Staverton, Wilts, Magistrate of the County
Henry Toogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse, Wilts, Magistrate of the
County . . . .
Rev. Chas. Fras. Bamfylde, Rector of Dunkerton, near Bath
Richard Mortimore, Esq., Chippenham, Wilts
, George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, Director of the Bristol and Birming-
ham Railway Company
R. Wootten, jun., Esq., Banker, Oxford, Director of the Buokingham-
shire Railway and Wolverton Junction
Richard Mortimore, Esq., Kingsmill, Collumpton
Rev. John Sydenham, Collampton
Rev. R. A. Roberts, Rector of Keutisbere, Collumptoa
Charles Justice, Esq., Collumpton, Devon
Richard Marker, Esq., Ufculm Cottage, Tiverton
Colonel Henry Duadas Campbell, North End House, Portsmouth
George Pearce, Esq., Bradninch House, near Collumpton
Wm. H. Holcomb, Esq., Chilton, Hungerford, Chairman of the Berks
Union Banking Company
William Halcomb, Esq., Marlborough, Manager of the Wilts and
Dorset Bank
Captain W. G. Maclean, R.N., Taunton
Robert Parsons, Esq., Taunton
John Dalzell, Esq., Wallingford, Berks
Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
John Kerle Ilabertleld, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
James Troup, Esq., Hastings
Leamington, Director
of Coventry and Leicester Railway
Joseph-Knight, Esq., Leicester, Director of South Midland and North-
ampton, Banbury and Cheltenham Railways
John Newton Mappin, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Midland Railway Company.
John Ridgeway, Esq., Cauldon-place, the Potteries, Staffordshire,
Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway
James Burt, jun., Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and
Southampton Railway
Edward Norris, Esq., Clairville, Manchester, Director of the Direct
London and Manchester, and North Cheshire Railway Companies
Joseph Nadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and
Wigan, end -Manchester and Southampton Railways
James Ogden, M.D., Salford
Sir William Lowthrop, Hull, Magistrate for the East Riding of York
and for the borough of-Hull, Chairman of the " Hull and Barnsley"
Committee, and Member of the acting Committee of the "Liver-
pool and Leeds Direct Railway Companies"
John Holford, Esq., Rusholm Hall, Manchester
C. H. Jones, Esq., Huddersfield, Deputy Chairman of the Hudders-
field and Sheffield, and Director of the Halifax and Bradford
Union Railway
Charles Bamford, jun., Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley
Junction -
John Lillie, Esq.. Manchester; Director of Manchester and South-
ampton Railway
John Robson, Esq., Hetton-le-Hole, Durham
Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Sheffield and
Manchester, and Chairman of the Manchester, Birkenhead, and
Midland Railway Companies
Isaac Holmes, Esq., Liverpool
Wm. B. Newbery, Esq.. Manchester, Director of the Dudley and
Iron Bridge Railway Company
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C. Appleby, Esq., Broomhill, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and
Swindon
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Manchester Railway Company
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Rotherham, and Chesterfield Life Assurance-office
Wm. Thompson, Esq., Upperthorpe, near Sheffield, Director of the
Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
Adderley Howard, Efee, Sutton Wisbech, Director of the East Coast
Railway Company
Captain Bowker, R.N., Devonport
H. S. Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Di-
rect Railway

Samuel Swann Brittain, Esq., Sheffield reed n. of the East and West
of England Railway Company
terrace, Sheffield, Vs ictor of the
John Fawcett, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Wakefield and Har-
Will
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John Johnstone Hamilton, Esq., Liverpool
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William 'Hunter, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington
Rev. H. A'. Cottle, Vicar of Watford, Northamptonshire
DThaaovinTid Price, Esq., Manchester
Major Wornum, Clarence-square, Cheltenham
Edward Hall, Esq., Westbank House, Macclesfield, Director of the
South Midland and the Northampton and Cheltenham Railways
Henry Hubbersty, Req., Hull
John Ostler, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Janetion
Henry Shaw, Esq., Fetter-lane
Henry Sayer, Esq., Commorcial-road, TAinehouse, merchant
John Mee Mathew, Es 4., Gray's Inn-square, Assistant Tithe Com-
miSsloner
John Norton, Esq., Moat House, Brentwood, Essex
William John M`Guire, Esq., Hampton Court
'John Gray Wilson, Esq., Oxford-terrace
Capt. J. P. Macdougall, Fir Grove, North Brixton, Surrey
W. J. Lefeuvre, Esq., F R.S.,Aiderman and Magistrate ofSouthampton
-Thomas Chas. Harrison, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's Park
G. B. Bunbury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the
Coventry and Leicester Railway
Captain Tringham, R.N., Solyhull, Warwickshire
William Jonson Neale, Esq., King's Bench-walk, Temple
James Whitney, Esq., Shrewsbury
Henry Paul Harwood, Esq., M.D., Sheffield
(With power to add to their number).
A further list of influential names will shortly appear.
Beasxsxs--Messrs. Curies and Co.. Cornhill, London.
JOINT SOLICITORS.

Messrs. Bell, Brodrick, and 11211, Bow Churchyard, London
Messrs. Rickards and Walker, 29, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London
Messrs. Haynes and Moore, Warwick and London
Messrs. J. V. and J. T. parting, 24, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London.
SECRETARY—Thornss Hosier Saunders, Esq.
ASSISTANT-SECRETARY—Charles J. Whalley, Esq.
LOCAL AGENTS.
At Devizes, Henry Gilbert, Esq.
At Troubridze and Bradford, Messrs. Stone and llodway
At Bath, .Messrs. Batellelior, Ilarford, and Staunton
At Bridgewater, Messrs. (1. 8. and J. It. Poole
At Tiverton, T. L. T. Itende.ll, Esq., and J. A. Toms, Esq.
At Truro
At Penzance
At Falmouth

The object of this line is to effect a direct communication between
London and the Land's End.
In tt national point of view such a line is indispensable. With
the advantage of a direct railroad, Falmouth, from its situation at the
western extremity of the kingdom, would undoubtedly long since
have been the principal port on that coast. With the advantage of
at least 280 miles of heavy road, that place has attained its high po-
sition as a Packet Station. Southampton, with far less natural ad-
vantages, has, since the opening of the South-Western Railway, in.
creased it, inverts from 200,0001. to 3,000,0001. per annum. At Bris-
tol, before the opening of the Greta Western Railway, the imports
were declining ; since then they have very considerably increased.
The merits of a line to the Land's End as an investment for ca-
pital, it was not left to the present Company to discover. The Great
3Vesteprirsd. Bristol and Exeter Railway having already reached
Exetdt,Witas been in contemplation to extend that line to Fal-
mouth by way of Plymouth ; and various other projects have been
set on foot on the conviction that Fahnouth must be reached by
railway.
_ . _

The object of this prospectus is to show that no other line than the
present can If timat?ly satisfy the exigencies of the country in regard
to this, Its most jmyrtant eutport.“ the natural Paidcet Station of
the empire." . •
The present project Is distinguished by this—that it is direct: It is
Is nearly as possible a straight line from London to the Land's End.
The London, Bath, and Bridgewater Company having anialga-
mate4 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 Great 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, From, 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 railways between these points, and without
a tunnel. From 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, Fahnouth, St.
Ives, and Penzance, being shorter by about sixty miles than the
lately protk,sed line by way of Plymouth, and effecting, in the whole
iistaaces
tfr oa7 mereosmLondon to Falmouth, a saving of about ninety miles.
With resrect tot
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