The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-29 00:00:00

ANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE NORTH
1.4 EASTERN RAILWAY, ER0.31 SKIPTON TO YORK.

The Directors beg to state, for the information st their share-
holders, that the additional shares created In this Company will be
allotted to each (approved) scrip holder, in the proportion of one
additional share for every three original shares new held by them,
and the shares in the Lancashire and North Yorkshire Railway
Company, placed at the disposal of this Company, in the same ratio.
The Allotment is now in active progress, and the Letters win be
issued with as little delay as inssible. The Directors are also glad
to be able to state that this will complete the arrangements for pro-
secuting the announced extension of the line to York, and that the
Parliamentary plans and sections for that purpose are in a forward
and satisfactory state. - .

By- o.7cr,
ANDREW PATON, Secretary.

Manchestor, 23d October, 1845.

QTAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES and LIVER-
POOL and MANCHESTER DIRECT RAILWAY.
R. E. Heathcote, Esq. Chairman.
C. Randall, Esq. Deputy-Chairman.
Notice is hereby given, that the Subscribers' Agreement and Par-
liamentary Contract of this Company will Lie for Execution by the
Shareholders from Ten o'clock, A.M., to Four o'clock, P.M., on the
days and at the places following :
Manchester—At the offices of the Company, No. 1, Hope-street,
Piccadilly, on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday, the 28th and
29th days of Oct. and lst day of Nov.
Staffordshire Potteries—At the office of Mr. J. A. Stevenson, soli-
citor, Stoke-upon-Trent, on Thursday and Friday, the 30th and
31st days of Oct.
Liverpool—At the Waterloo Hotel, on Monday, the third day of No-
vember.
London—At the London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill, on Tuesday,
Wednesday, and Thursday, the 4th, sth, and Gth dal s of No-
vember.
The bankers' receipt for the deposit must be delivered up, and in
exchange scrip certificates will be given. Ally party unable to at-
tend, must execute a power of attorney, authorising the Secretary
to sign for him, which power will, on the application of the party,
and at his expense, be prepared by the solicitors to the Company,
and no person who was not an original applicant will be allowed to
sign.

J. C. KEMP, Secretary.

1, Hope-street, Piccadilly, Manchester,

Oct. 21, 1845.

WORCESTER and LEOMINSTER RAIL-
WAY, via BROMYARD, communicating with the Great
Eastern and Western Railway.
At a public meeting held at the Falcon Hotel, in the town of
Bromyard, on Thursday, the 23d day of October instant,
JOHN BARNEBY, Esq. M.P. in the Chair;

Moved by WILLIAM BARNEBY, Esq. Clater-park ; seconded by PETER
WARBURTON, Esq. High Bailiff of Bromyard, and carried unani-

mously--
Ist. That this meeting highly appreciates the liberal spirit in
which the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company has re-
sponded to the appeal addressed to them, in a memorial signed by
the most influential landed proprietors and others interested in this
locality, by affording their prompt and zealous aid in forming and
supporting a line of railway from Leominster by this town to unite
with the Great Eastern and Western Railway near the city of Wor-
cester, but for which prompt response and aid this locality would
have been deprived of all direct railway communication, the Welsh
Midland Company having, though inemorialised, abandoned it, and
the Great Western Company having declined to include it in any of
their schemes ; and that the warmest thanks of this meeting be con-
veyed, through the Chairman, to the Great Eastern and Western
Railway Company for the valuable accommodation which the pro-
posed Worcester and Leominster Railway is calculated to afford to
the town and district of Bromyard.
Proposed by JOLINKEMPSON, Esq. ; geconded by WILLMAR ECKLEY,

Esq., and carried unanimously,
2d—That this meeting comprising as it does a large body of the
landowners and residents upon the intended line of the Worcester
and Leominster Railway, is resolved to give its strenuous aid to the
Directors of that Company in carrying the Bill through Parliament
in the ensuing session, and that a Local Committee be formed for
that purpose, and that these resolutions be published in the Hereford
and Worcester papers.

Moved by JOSEPH STINTON, Esq., and seconded by HENRY JAMES,

Esq., Mayor of Leominster,

3d—That the thanks of this meeting be given-to the Chahman for
his able conduct in the chair.
Bromyard, Oct. 23, 1845.

JOHN BARNETIY, Chairman,

NORTHERN COUNTIES (ROSS and CRO-
MARTY, SUTHERLAND, and CAITHNESS) DIRECT
RAILWAY.

Capital 1,500,0001., in 75,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
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I .
The Counties of Ross and Cromarty, Sutherland, and Caithness,
form, probably, tin largest and most important portion of Great Bri-
tain for which the benefits of railway communicatien have not yet
1, been secured. ,

In no part of the kingdom, considering their distance from the
capital, from the seats of manufacture, and from markets, have
greater improvements of all kinds been made of late years, than in
these counties. In arable and pastoral farming, the skill, enterprise,
and industry of the tenantry have placed them on a level with the
best agriculturists and store masters, and have obtained for their
corn, cattle, and sheep, the highest prices of the southern markets.
To the opening up of the country by the roads and bridges of the
Parliamentary Commissioners, executed within the last 40 years,
arc these Improvements chiefly attributable ; and their effect in in-
creasing the value of property in these counties is very remarkable.
No means can be so effectual for promoting anal stimulating their
further advancement, as by tile introduction of railways, whereby
the produce of these counties may be more rapidly and cheaply
brought into the manufacturing and consuming districts of the
kingdom.

To effect this most desirable end a Company is being formed, as
has been already announced, to execute a railway commencing at the
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county of

into Caithness, in the eastern portion of which the line will diverge
into two branches, terminating respectively at the towns of Thurso
and Wick.

The most direct practicable route, consistent with economy in the
execution and working of the line, and with the rights of all parties,
will be adopted throughout.

In compliance with the desire of several large proprietors in the
eastern district of the county of Ross, it has been determined that the
trunk or main line shall proceed to Invergordon and Tain, and thence
into Sutherland and Caithness.

It is also intended to combine with the execution of the railway,
and, in connexion with it, the enlargement and improvement of the
present harbour of Invergordon (by arrangement with the proprietor),
so as to make that anchorage, which possesses all the advantages of
the celebrated Bay of Cromarty (still, as in ancient times, the largest
and safest harbour of refuge on the east coast of Scotland), the port
not only for the counties of Ross and Cromarty, but also for all the
country northwards.
The mutual advantages to Invergordon and the whole country
in respect to those imports and exports which must still be sea-borne,
need only be alluded to to be appreciated. At no other place on the
east coast of Scotland, from the Frith of Tay to Duncansby Head
(the extremity of Caithness) could so good a harbour be possibly
formed, there being at Invergordon 11 fathoms water (close to the
present wooden jetty) at the lowest of spring tides, and perfect
shelter, with singular facility for ingress and egress from and to the
German Ocean ; and the expense of the requisite works will be com-
paratively very unimportant.
Besides the importance of completing, as is thus contemplated, an
unbroken line of railway transit for passengers and goods, and the
rapid transmission of the mail from the capital to th e northern ex-
tremity of Scotland, the county of Orkney and Zetland will thereby,
and with the aid of the powerful steamer about to be established be-
tween Thurso and Orkney, have a daily and speedy intercourse with
the main land of Scotland, onward to the manufacturing districts of
the kingdom, and to the metropolis. . _

The prolongation of a railway from Inverness to Thurso on the
one hand; and the admirable roadstead and harbour of Scrabster,
which, from its natural position—admitting of vessels entering and
departing with any wind—would, in connexion with the railway,
command the Baltic and North American trade ; and, on the ether,
to the important and rapidly-improving town of Wick, the capital of
the northern herring and deep sea fisheries, which require only such
a stimulus as the proposed measure will supply to Increase their value
incalculably, by affording the ready and certain means of conveying
their products into all parts of the country, is obviously an under-
taking of the greatest national importance, embracing the develop-
ment of the natural resources of the northern counties and their ex-
tensive sea coasts, the continued prosperity and wealth of their in-
habitants and the general trade, and, it may be hereafter, even the
additional security of the empire.
The most populous district in proportion to its extent in Rosa and
Cromarty, and until late years (considering its capabilities) the least
improved, is that lying between the Muir of Ord on the south and
the town of Cromarty on the north, commonly called "the Black
We." For the benefit of this district, a line is intended to be made
from the point which may be found most desirable as a station with
reference to the towns of Cromarty and Fortrose, and the harbour of
Invergordon, to join the main line at the Muir of Ord, with a short
branch to the nearest good station on the north side of the Ferry of
Kessock.
The Muir of Ord being now the place where the greatest and roost
frequent stock markets in Scotland, north of Falkirk, are held, it is
of great importance to the western Highlands of Ross-shire that
their communication with the Muir of Ord, as well as their access
to the main line of railway, should be facilitated ; and it is, therefore,
contemplated forming a branch line from tile /sluir of Ord to the
upper part of the valley of Strathgarve, being the nearest point to the
Lows at present accessible by a railway, and accommodating, at the
same time, the extensive districts of Ross-shire lying to the north,
west, and solth-west of Strathgarve.
The preliminary survey of the main line has been completed. Its
whole length is about 150 miles, and the greater portion of it is of
easy construction.
The proposed capital is considered adequate to cover every expense,
including the completion of the harbour at Invergordon ; but should
additional capital be found necessary for the proposed branches,
power will be taken to raise it.
The principal proprietors have already offered the land and the
building materials in the neighbourhood of the line, free from all
charge, for the purposes of the railway.
Not only will they, and the northern counties generally, benefit in-
calculably by the completion of the work, but the shareholders may
expect a fair, and in no long time, ample return for their investments
in a line which has not, and can never have, a rival.
Interest at 4 per cent. will be allowed on all calls paid up, and the
Act Incorporating the Company will provide that no shareholder shall
be liable beyond the amount of his subscription. Until the Act be
obtained the liability of the subscribers will be restricted to their
actual deposits ; and of these there shall not, in any event, be ex-
pended a larger sum than ss. per share without the express authority
of a general meeting of the subscribers.
The names of the Provisional Committee (embracing `those of the

principal proprietors in the north) will be speedily published ; but
meanwhile it may be stated, that the support tke present undertaking
has already received from individuals fully able to accomplish this
most important work, leaves no doubt of its complete success.
The acting engineers will be Joseph Mitchell, Esq., F.R.S.E.,
M.1.C.E., Inverness ; Allan Stevenson, Esq., Engineer of the
Northern Lights' Commissioners, Edinburgh ; and J. F. Bateman,
Esq., C.E., Manchester; with Thomas Page, Esq., M.I.C.E. West-
minster, as consulting engineer.
A minute survey has been ordered of the whole line, and, when
completed, a map of it will be published ; meanwhile, copies of the
prospectus, and of the form of application for shares, will be obtained
at the National Bank of Scotian t, or any of its Branches, and at the
offices of the London and Westminster Bank, and of Messrs. Glyn,
Ilallifax, Mills, and Co., Lombard-street ;lor from any of the following
gentlemen, to whom communications and applications for shares, in the
form annexed, may be addressed, viz. Mackenzie, Esq., of
Muirton, W.S., Edinburgh; James Sutherland, Esq., Provost of
Inverness ; Patrick Grant, Esq., County Clerk of Inverness ; Hugh
Innes Cameron, Esq., Provost of Dingwall ; Crawford Ross, Esq.,
Cadboll by Fearn ; David Ross, Esq., Commissary Clerk of Ross-
shire, Tain ; George Gunn, Esq.. Factor of Sutherland, Rhives, by
Golspie ; George Sutherland Taylor, Esq., Golspie ; Robert Hors-
burgh, Esq., Factor of the Reny Country, Tongue ; William Manson,
Esq., Thurso ; Peter Wilson, Esq., Town Clerk of Wick ; and Messrs.
Cameron and Bain, 18, Parliament-street, Westminster.
Scrlpholders of the Perth and Inverness; the Aberdeen and In-
verness; Inverness and Elgin; Elgin, Banff, and Aberdeen; and
Caledonian Northern Direct Railway Lines, arc requested to specify
this in their applications.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Directors of the Northern Counties (Ross and
Cromarty, Sutherland, and Caithness), Direct Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot to me shares of 201. each
in the above undertaking, and I hereby agree to accept the same,
or any less number that may be allotted to me ; and I undertake to
pay the deposit and all future calls thereon ; and also to sign the
Subscribers' Agreement and the Parliamentary Contract when
iequired.
I hold the Scrip for

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HUGH DINES CAMERON, Sec. pro tem.