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

T'C'EStilitif"E:VENIN'G, SEPTEMBER 26, 144

dent to justify the construction of this portion of the Direct Wes-
tern :• that it will shorten the' distance from London to Tiverton
about 32 miles that it will traverse rich and populous agricultural
and manufacturing districts, and receive a large amount of traffic as
well from railways now in course of construction as from ethers pro-
jected, with every chance of success.
Ai to the traffic on the lower portion of the line, it is evident that
the vast number of merchant vessels continually detained in the
Channel by adverse winds, would effect an immense saving both in
insurance and time, by discharging their cargoes at Falmouth, and at
once transmitting them to their destination by means of this railway;
and therefore—without speculating on the extent to which the ports
on either side of the great promontory of the Land's End may, by
means of this railroad, attract the commerce respectively of Bristol
and Southampton ; to what extent the inexhaustible mineral wealth
of Cornwall, and the unrivalled agricultural resources of Devonshire
may be further developed, or the genial climate of Penzance and
Mount's Bay, " the Montpellier of England," attract a larger propor-
tion of winter visitants—it is obvious that this line will command a
traffic both in goods and passengers, from its western terminus, the
amount of which may be said to be without limit. A glance at the
map will makesit manifest that no competing trunk line can ever be
established between Tiverton and the Land's Eud. As between
Taunton and Reading, an inspection of the map will show a vast ex-
tent of midland distil it, comprising rich and populous parts of So-
mersetshire, Dorsetshire, and Wiltshire, now altogether destitute of
railroad accommodation.

Recurring- to the features of this project as a national work, ono of
the greatest in point of magnitude, of ♦ital importance in the event of
war, and of almost incalculable advantage to the general and packet
commerce of the kingdom; it may not be out of place to quote here
the following expressions of Sir Robert Peel. Speaking of the project
of a direct line from London to LiVerPool through the Trent Valley,
wliich bore much the same relatlbri to the Birmingham and Grand
Junction that this bears to the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter
Railways, he is reported to have said :—" I consider that the com-
munication between the metropolis and the great outports to be not
a question of hours, but a question of minutes." Of the necessity of this
particular line, Parliament has already expressed an opinion ; for in the
report of the Co►mnittee on the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth
line, which was promoted by the Great Western Railway Company,
it was stated that that Company had been required to pledge itself
not hereafter to oppose a direct line to Falmouth ; and it may be
further observed, that a proposed line from Plymouth to Falmouth
was last session rejected, on the ground that it might be supposed
to interfere with that great national object.
The survey of the line has been to a great extent completed, and
e( ere •t estimates of the expenditure and returns are in a state of for-
t% aratei s, and the whole will be ready for the next session of Par-
liament. . . .

It is sufficient, as to these points, here to state that there are no
engineering difficulties in any part of the line which have not been
repeatedly surmounted in other cases ; that the first portion will be
constructed at an unusually small expense ; that the undertaking
will meet with the cordial support, concurrence, and co-operation of
the landowners, and that the Directors are justified in asserting that
this will prove to be ont.tif the most remunerative railways in the
kingdom.
Powers will he taken in the Act of Parliament to allow interest at
four pounds per contum per annum on the deposits, and preference
in the allotment of shares will he given to the proprietors of the land
Pass, and to the shareholders in the
willand Exeter, and other railways connected
withtcr roeauttghilive.
the
wDitiiernricechitt Western
line
rstoeuteln ldistilt.

Applications for shares, In the form subjoined, to be addressed to
the solicitors to the Company, or to the Xceretary, or to any respect-
able broker In town or country

London, September 11, 1845.
FORM OF. APPLICATION.
To tho Provisional Committee of the Direct Western Itallway
Company.

Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 25/. each in
the above Company, and I undertake to pay the deposit of 21.125. 6d.
per sleare thereon, or on any less number you may appropriate to me,
and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Con-
tract when required.
Dated 1845.

Name in full •.•• •• • • ••.•e••• •• .
Residence-- ....................
Trade or Profession
Place of Business (if any) ......
Signature.... .... • ........ ........

READING AND REIGATE RAILWAY,
connecting the GREAT WESTERN, SOUTH WESTERN,
LONDON and BRIGHTON, and SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAYS.
Provisionally registered, pursuant to 7 & 8 Viet., c. 110.
Capital, £600,000 in 30,000 shares of £2O each.
Deposit, £2 2s. per share.
PROVISIONAL CONNITTZE.
Viscount Chelsea, M.P. for Reading
Charles Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P., 6, Parliament-street
John Humphery, Esq., M.P., and Alderman of the City of London
Sir James Carmichael, Bart., 40,_ Sussex-gardens
Sir William Young, Bart., Director of the East India Company
Sir James Eyre, Bart., Lower Brook-street, Grosvenor-square
William Sprott Boyd, Esq., Cleveland-row
Daniel Mildred, Esq., Banker, Nicholas-lane
Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq., Carlton-terrace, and Broome Hall,
Dorking
Daniel Watney, Esq., Wandsworth, Surrey
William Strahan, Esq., banker, Strand, and Ashurst, Dorking
Le Marchant Thomas, Esq., flillingbear Park. Wokingham, Berko
Major David Fitzgerald, Pall-mall, and Valentla, Ireland
Colonel Robert Douglas, R.A., United Service Club, Director of the

Bideford and TavistoCk Railway
MAjor Jelf Sharp, Twickenham, Deputy Chairman of the Thames
Embankment Company
Major Oliver Lindam, K. 11., Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberystwith,
and Central Wales Railway
Charles Dickson Archibald. Esq., F.R.S., Rushland Hall, Lancashire,
Director of the Tean and Dove :Valley Railway
Major Mores Cooper, Wargrave, Berks
Captain G. Evans, R.N., Headley Grove, Dorking
James Garrard, Esq., Pinner, Middlesex
John Leveson Gower, Esq., Bill Hill, Wokingham, Berks
James Hartley, Esq., Leadenhall-street, Director of the Peninsular
and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
James Hayward, Esq., Wokingham, Berks
Thomas Neale, Esq., Banker, Reigate
Thomas Neale. jun., Esq., Reigate
Samuel Relf, Esq., Reigate
Captain Hodges, Connaught-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of the
Leeds and Carlisle, and Manchester and Direct Rugby Railways
John Jackson, Esq., Upper Belgrave-place, Eaton-square
Charles Johnson, Esq., Hennerton House, Berke
John Keene, Esq., Director of the National Bank of Ireland
John Weldale Knollys, Esq., Reading
William Ley, Esq., 40, Gloucester•place, Portman-square
Donald Maclean, Esq., 37, Brunswick-square.
David Mocatta, Esq., F.S.A., 32, Brunswick-square
Peter Morrison, Esq., Managing Director of the Britannia Life-office
Edward E. Molyneux, Esq., Inner Temple, Director of the Shrews-
bury and Hereford Railway
John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., 80, Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park
Lewis Poeock, Esq., F.S.A., 29, Montague-street, Russell-square
William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Chairman
of the Church of England Life Insurance Company
John Southgate, Esq., Pebble Coombe, Reigate
Thomas Stevenson, Esq., F.S.A., 37, Upper Grosvenor-street, Gros-
venor-square
James Joseph Wheble, Esq., Bulmarsh Court, Reading, Berke
John Wheelton, Egg., Meophain Bank, Tunbridge, Director of the
Leicester and Bedford, and Leeds and Liverpool Railways
William Lecluncre Whitmore, Esq., 17, James-street, Buckingham-

. _
gate
Henry Wright, Esq., Brunswick-square, Director of the Warwick and
Worcester Railway
(With power to add to their number).
• ENGINEER—SamueI Hughes, Esq., C.E.
SoLlurroxs—Messrs. Richards and Rogers. Reading.
ux.ingitain—J . L. Roberts, ESQ.
Dorking--Mark Stnallplece, Esq.
Reigate—Thomas Hart, Esq.
Bracknell—Charles Cave, Esq.
Bagshot—John Mears, Esq.
KIIIgBIOM—R. F. Bartrop, Esq.
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Masterman, Peters, Mildred, and Co.
Reading—Messrs. J. and C. Simonds *d Co.
Reigate —Messrs. Nash and Neale.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.

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Hugh /nnes Cameron and George Bain, Esqs., 18, Parliament-street.
sscuirrAit (pro tern )—Digby rowan, Esq.
' Temporary Offices, No. 1, Old Jewry.
For particulars see the prospectus and map, which may be obtained
at the temporary Offices of the Company, No. 1, Old Jewry, or from the
Exeter
ecmarch and Withington, Manchester ; Messrs.
Solicitors, Parliamei3itfarr.ycooriuLs,ocilailriAnignegnhtans, or
Mr.the followingieiisoll Share-
brokers :—Messrs. Sutton and Gribble, Exchange,
; Mr. Nightingale, Wakefield ;
London ; Messrs.
Tate and Nash, Bristol ; Mr. J. N. Bans, Gloucester ; Mr. Thomas
; Messrs. Pilians and Home,
ahnle and Stafford, Dublin.
BpSooainnlgdireo3rd3,.,i'eßsEsiirswie.son, and Bingley, Leeds
Messrs. Grayson and Earle, York; Messrs. Flint and Tootal, Hull ;
Messrs. Eyre and Shaw, Derby ; Mr. W. J. Eaglesfleld, Leicester;
EMdernbrsu'rgjh.
I:FeaoeitValt3;fdOesFSsorsnACLNPaobeLtltrCit°nAguhTe lON FOR SHARES.
3'7,,1. and f undertake to accept the same, or any less
To the Provisional Conunittee nthoe Reading and Reigate Railway
the deposit of 21. 2s.
shares of 201. each
ewCitBoolilmall.e:ntyto.mepay
per share,. and all future calls thereon, and to execute the Sub.
iiinuGmtleilsetrißeallin Tv
scribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contract when required.
Name in full .............
Profession ........... ••. • • • ...
.
Residence.... • .... ...........
you may appropriate ryluoui
Reference in ffi11.............- • ..
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Dated this day of

READING AND REIGATE RAILWAY.
Notice Is hereby given, that NO APPLICATIONS for
SILUtES will be RECEIVED after To-Mointow
(Wednesday), the
24th Inst.
By order of the Board,
DIGBY FOWELL, Secretary (pro tern.)
Offices, 1, Old Jewry, Sept. 23, 1845,

PART of , WISBECH, PETERBOROUGH,
and MIDLAND COUNTIES UNION
RAILWAY. NGII"'

(Provisionally Registered.)
.apital, 300,0001., in Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. ss. per Share.
No Shareholder to be liable beyond the amount of his subscription.

pSOVISIONAL COMMITTEE

John Humphery, Esq: M.P., Alderman of the City of London, DI-
Thomas Sidney, Esq., Alderman and Sheriff of London, Director of
Dl-
rector of the Central Kent Railway
RaStrick's Direct Manchester Railway
D. It. Ross, Esq., M.P., Director of the London and Manchester, and
South Midland RafiwaYs
George Denby Palmer, Esq., magistrate for the county of Norfolk,
and borough of Great Grimsby ; Director of the Waveney Valley,
anl Great Yarmouth, and the Lincoln, Louth, and Great Grimsby
Railways
Richard Hammond, Esq.,
magistrate for the borough of Great Yar-
mouth, Director of the WAVelley Valley Railway
Samuel Palmer, Esq , late Mayor of Great Yarmouth, Director of the
Lincoln, Louth, and Great Grimsby Railway
John King, Esq„ Director of the Lincoln, Louth, and Great Grimsby
Railway.
The Rev. 11. R. Fowler. 7, Manchester-square, Director of the London
and Nottingham Railway
W. A. Campbell, Esq., Director of the Wexford, Waterford, and Va-
lentia Railway
F. Barrette, Esq., Portland-place, London
Joseph Thompson, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton
Railway
Joseph Uaderwood, Esq., Norwich, and Blackheath Park, Kent, Di-
rector of the Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury
W. S. Potter, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
Ambrose Miller, Esq., Director of the Oxford, Cheltenham, and
• Gloucester Railway
'Major White, Pall-mall, Director of the Northamptom, Banbury, and
Cheltenham Railway .
Frederick White, Egg., R.N., Sheerness, Director of the Metropolitan
Junction Railway
George Parbury, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
Samuel Pocock, Esq., Bloomsbury-square, London
John Inglis Jerdein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby,
and Southampton Railway
Capt. Ileathorn, Director of the South Metropolitan Gas Company
it. Graff,
Esq., 5, Adam's-court, Old Broad-street, London
ft, C.;Colmaa, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct
Railway
Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
Henry Chator, Esq., Clervaux Castle, Darlington
James Morrison, Esq., Director of the Bridgewater and Minehead
RailwayW. C. Duppa, Esq., Director of the Canterbury and Dovor Railway 1
William G. Harrison, Esq., Hill House,
Upper Tooting, Surrey
George It. Pye, Esq., Lavenham, Suffolk
• 2
William Tulloch Fraser, Esq Director of the Manchester and Rugby
Direct Railway
(With power to add to their number.)
BANKERS.
London—The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury
Wisbeelf —Messrs. Gurney, Peckover, and Co.
Lynn—Messrs. Gurney, Cresswell, and Co.
ENGINEERS.
B. Albano, Esq., M Inst. C.E , and Win. Laxton, Esq., C.E.
SOLICITOII—IngIeby Thomas Miller,' Esq., 3, .Abchurch-laue, Loin-
.___

_ bard-street, London.
:SECRETARY PRO TEX.—W. 0. J. WOIIR.StOII, ESQ.
This line is intended to commence at the Port of Wished), by a
junction with the line of railway now forming from Lynn, and pro-
ceed by Thorney to Peterborough, there uniting with the brands of
the London and Birmingham Railway to Northampton, and the
Peterborough and Syston branch of the Midland Counties Railway,
forming a through line front Yarmouth, Norwich, Dereham, Swat&
ham, Lynn, and Wisbech, to Northampton, Birmingham, Derby,
Nottingham, and the whole of • the northern and western parts of
England. The entire distance being
completed in about 18 miles.
The Importance of this railway, though only 18 miles in length,.
will be at once seen by an inspection of the map, when the following
points will be self-evident.
1. That the port of Wisbech is the nearest sea-port for Birming-
ham, Staffordshire, and the Midland districts of England. '
2. That this line will open the whole of the manufacturing and
mineral districts of the Midland Counties and the Potteries to Wis-
hed), the nearest port for Belgium, Holland, Germany, and the nor-
thern States of Europe.
3. That by the formation of this line a direct railway ommunica-
Lion will be opened between the port of Wisbech, and the ports of
Southampton, Bristol, Gloucester, and Liverpool-
4. That this line will unite the Birmingham and Midland Counties
system of railway with those of Norfolk, communicating with Nor-
wich and Yarmouth.
Application for shares or prospectuses containing more detailed
particulars (which must be in the usual form, and in all cases accom-
panied by a reference .to a banker or to a member of the Provisional
Committee) may be made to the Provisional Committee, at the
offices of Mr. I. T. Miller, solicitor to the Company, or the following
Sharebrokers :--.3fessrs. Shewell and Son, Tokenhouse•yard ; Messrs.
Lyon 2, Birchin-lane, London ; Messrs. Maim and ' Son,. Norwich
Messrs. Crtiso and Son, L) nn ; Messrs. Peet and Son, Nottingham ;
Mr. Collis, Birmingham ; Mr. r. (, Spencer, Halifax; ainl HI,
Oar; Calve:4oW, Colcisater,