The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-24 00:00:00

PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT.

In a few days a fun prospectus winfbe issued, showing the import-
ance of connecting the above great trunk lines.
This is intended to be'effected by starting from Birmingham on the
proposed Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway, using the
Oxford and Rugby line to Hampton Gay; then forming a new line of
rails to the Slough Statiou of the Great Western Railway, and con-
tinning therefrom through Windsor, Sunning Hill, Ascot, and Bag-
shot, to the Farnborough Station of the South-Western Railway.

Further particulars may be had on application to G. Smith, Esq.,
solicitor, 24, Golden-square.

FXETER, PORCHES I'ER, AND WEY-
A MOUTH JUNCTION COAST RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Vict., cap. 110.)
Capital, 1,250,0001., in 62,500 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.
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PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Lieut -General Sir Robert Barton, K.C.IL, ➢foutague-place, Mon-
tague-square
Jacob Bell, Esq., Langham-place
George Brown, Esq., Guwer•street

John Carter, Esq., Park Lodge, Stockwell
John Carter, Esq., Dorset-place, Portman-square
John Chauntler, Esq., Friday-street, Director of the York and Lan-
caster Railway
Wiliam Colf,)x' Esq., Rax House, Bridport
W. S. Cross, Esq., New-court, Temple, Director of the Londcn
and Birmingham Extension Railway
Newton Crouch, Esq., Southampton-place, London, Director of the
York and Lancaster Railway
The Hon. Miles Dormer, Hans-place, Sloane-street.

Colonel Lothian Sheffield Dickson, Curzon-street, May-fair
Colonel Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, C. 11., Director of the Bide-
for I and Tavistock Railway
Peter henry Edlln, Esq., Director of the Warwick and Worcester

.Railway
Francis Ewart, Esq., Brick-court, Temple, Director of the Equity and
Law Life Assurance Companies
Captain S. N. Fisher. Junior Uaited Service Club, Director of the
Manchester and Birmingham Continua:ion Railway
Itisklor Fitzgerald, Mount Edgar, Sidinotith
John Foster, Esq., Barge-) ard, Bucklersbary
The Bev. H. Fellowes, J.P., Vicar of Sidbury
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Captain Sir Andrew l'ellett Green, It.N., K.C.11., James-street, Buck
inghant,gate, Director of the Bank of Australasia

Frederick James Hall, Esq., Torrington-square, Director of tho Trent
Valley Continuation Railway
W. Newton Harriott, Esq., o,lihain, Hante

Joslah Beale, Esq., Gray's Inn-square, Director of the Chelinstbrd
and Bury Railway
Th'mas Beathcock, Esq., The I.lermitage, Sidmouth

George Price Hill, Esq., Gawanbro House, Hampstead
F. B. Iloire, Esq., Lincoln's Inn

John Holmes, Esq., Liverpool, and St. James's-street, Westminster.
Director of. the Yorkand Lancaster Railway

William Bulkel,y Hughes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Welsh
Midland Railway

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Michael Eljali Dopey, Esq., Duchess-street, Portland-place, and
Lawn Cottage, 'Twickenham

Swynfen Jervis, Esq., Whitehall-place, and Darla.ston Hal, Staf-
fordshire, Director of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway, and
of tin Bideford and Tavistock Railway

Frederick *Jones, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Director of the Warwick and
Worcester Railway

Sir John Key, Dart., Alderman of London, Director of the London
and Manchester Direct Railway

Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, and Director of the Wor-
cester and South Wales Junction Railway, and of the London and
Birmingham Extension Railway

Richard. Kelly, Esq., Cleveland-row, St. James's, Chairman of the
New Ross,. Carlow, and Kilkenny Railways

Sie-erich C. Kreeft Esq., Billiter;square

William Ley, Esq., Director of the needing and Reigate Railway
L. Llewellyn, Esq., Ynis Penllweh, and Graig-Avon, Glamorgan-
shire "

Robert Henry Lindham, Esa., New-street, Dorset-square, Director
of the London and Birmingham Extension Railway
C. W. Lovesy, jun., F.sq., Charlton Kings, Cheltenham
William Alexander Long, juu., Esq., Wootton-under-Edge
J. Mee 3lathew, Esq., Gray's Inn-square, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway
Captain Matthews, R.N., Sidmouth Lodge, Sidmouth
Peter Morrison, Esq., Managing Director of the Britannia Life In-
surance Company, and Director of the South and Midland Junc-
tion Railway
Caleb Norris, Esq., Lancaster-place
The Mayor of Nottaitiham

George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, and Director of the Trent
Valley Continuation Railway
William S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Director of the
Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham Railway
John. Thomas Raworth, Esq., Leicester, Director of the South Union,
Leicester, and Birmingham Direct, and Tring, Reading, and Ba-
singstoke, London and Nottingham, and London, Bristol, and South
Wales Railways
Robert Rea, Esq., Exeter, and Cromwell Rock, Waterford

John Rawson, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant of the West Riding of York-
shire, and J.P., Stoney Loyd, Halifax, Director of Rosamel's Great
Northern of France Railway, of the Manchester, Liverpool, and
Great North of England 'Union Railway, and of the National Bank
of Ireland

Robert Richards, Esq., Inner Temple, London, Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
J. Reginald Riddell, Esq., Byeullah House, Enfield, Director of the
York and Lancaster Railway
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Bryanston-street, Portman-square,
Director of the Galway and Belfast Railway
4. Carrington Ridgway, Esq., Roehampton Lodge, Surrey
W. Digby Seymour, Esq., Doughty-street, Mecklenburgh-square
William Sloane Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Chairman
of the Church of England Life Insurance Company
Henry Lewis Smale, Esq., Willoughby House, Tottenham, Director
of the South-Eastern Railway
Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq., Deputy Governor of the Union Bank of
London, and Chairman of the Irish North Midland Railway
Henry Savage, Esq., M. 8., F.R.C.S., Dorset-place, Dorset-square,
Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
John Whcelton, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, Director
of the Leicester and Bedford Railway, and of the Taw Yale
Railway
Robert Wynne Williams, Esq., 29, Bedford-place, Russell-square.
Henry Wright, Esq., Brunswick-square, Director of the Birming-
ham and Brighton Direct, and South Midland Junction Railways
Sir William Wynne, Chairman of the North Wales Railway, Suffolk-
street, Pall-mall
(With p )wcr to add to their number).

CONSULTING ENGINEER—Sir John Macnell, LL.D., 1.R.5.,

ENGINEERS.
Messrs. Rice and Thomas Hopkins, M.I.C.E.
Messrs. Gough and Routnieu.
SURVEYORS—Messrs Shuttleworth and Sons.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Chauntler and Westwood, 8, Gray's Inn-square
Edward Strick, Esq., 10, Doughty-street.
SECRETARY—D. Bartie,lq.

RAMESH&
London—Messrs. Martin, Stones, and Martin, Lombard-street
The London and Connty Bank, Lombard-street
Southampton—Messrs. Atherley, Fall, and Atherley
Weymouth—Messrs. Mott and Pearce.

LOCAL AGENTS.
Weymouth—Gtorgc Arden, Esq.
Bridport—E. Nicholetts, Esq.
Sidmouth—Edwin Church Everitt, Esq.

This railway is intended to commence at the cast part of the city
of Exeter, neat St. Sidwells, and after passing through Topsham,
with a fork at Woodbury by Lympstone to Exmouth, will proceed, in
an easterly direction, towards Sidrnouth, and thence, near Colyton,
Beer, Seaton, Axmouth, Lyme Regis, and Charmouth, to Bridport.
At Bridport the line will divide, taking the course direct to Dor-
chester, to join the Southampton and Dorchester Railway, and the
other, passing near Bridport harbour and Abbotsbury to Weymouth.
At Exeter, junctions will be formed with the Bristol and Exeter and
North Devon Railways, and at Exmouth with the South Devon, by
means of their steam ferry, thus making the most direct route to
Plymouth from London. Also at Dorchester and Weymouth it will
be connected with the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth, as well as
with the Dorchester and Southampton at Dorchester.
It will be seen, on referew.e to the map, that by forming a junc-
tion with the lines of coast railway that have already been con-
structed or commenced from Exeter westward, and from Dorchester
eastward, and by following the coast as nearly as is practic4ble. be-
tween its termini, this line will effectually complete a railway com-
munication from Dover to the Land's End, an undertaking in itself
of great national importance, and likely to meet with the cordial sup-
port of the Government.

...
In fixing the course which this Railway will take, it has been the
careful consideration of the Promoters to project only such a Line as
will afford the greatest facility of communication to the populous and
important towns and fashionable watering places which are situated
on and near that part of the Coast which this Railway is particu-
larly meant to accommodate; whilst, at the same time, the Agri-
cultural, Manufacturing, and Commercial Interests of this part of
the Kingdom have been equally studied.
This Line will also open such additional means of communication
to the Port of Weymouth, the large Manufacturing Town and Har-
bour of Bridport, and the Harbour of Lyme Regis, as must even-
tually replace them In that high position, when compared with the
other Ports of the Kingdom, which they formerly held. The Water-
ing Places of Exmouth, Budleigh-Salterton, Sidmouth, Charmouth,
Lyme-Regis, Weymouth, &c., will be thus thrown open to every part
of England and Wales, and accommodated with that facility of ac-
cess which they alone require to place them on an equal position
with other favourite places of resort, for which the picturesque In-
land And bold Coast-Scenery of Devonshire and Dorsetshire is pre-
eminently proverbial, and justly entitles them to hold.
The following extract from the Report of the Select Committee of
the House of Lords on the " Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Rail-
way," made on the 18th of June, 1845, will show the sense enter-
tained by that body of the importance of a line of railway in the di-
rection proposed by the present Company :—" In making their re-
port, the Committee feel it their duty to state that the great diffi-
culty with them, in deciding on the Bill referred to them, had arisen
from the fear they entertained whether, in allowing the Great
Western Railway to come down to the sea at Weymouth, or even be-
low Yeovil, they might not be creating a difficulty as to making a
railway in the most desirable manner to Falmouth, the mast westerly
port in the Channel." _ _ _

The great importance of this railway may be further estimated,
from a consideration of the fact that the lecal population which would
be benefited by its construction exceeds two hundred thousand
persons.

- And also that Weymouth, which will be one of the termini of the
line, is about to become a great National Harbour of Refuge and
Packet-station, by the construction of a breakwater in Portland
Roads, in accordance with the recommendation of the Government
Commissioners, for which purpose a grant was made during the last
session of Parliament for commencing the works. The additional
population and traffic, which will thus be attracted to this port, will
be very considerable.

A preliminary survey has been made, and there are no peculiar
engineering difficulties. The length of the main line, from Exeter to
Dorchester, will be about fifty-two miles; and of the Forks, or exten-
sions, to Weymouth, and Exmouth, about sixteen miles ; making, in
the whole, sixty-eight miles of railway.
The sentiments of the landowners are favourable to the construc-
tion of a railway calculated, as this is, very greatly to benefit their
properties, and in the allotment of shares preference will be gi►en
to the applications of persons locally interested.
Estimates of the traffic have been carefully prepared by the pro-
moters of the line, from which it is evident that an ample re-
turn will be obtained for the investment of capital in the undertak-
ing. More detailed traffic tables will, however, be forthwith com-
piled, as required by the Committees of both Houses of Parliament.
The usual power will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow
interest at 41. per cent. on the amount of deposit and calls from the
passing of the Act until the completion of the line, and the liability
of Shareholders will be limited to the amount of their subscriptions.

Applications for copies of the prospectus, and for shares, may be
made to the Secretary, at the Company's Offices, 62, Moor-
gate-street ; to the solicitors and local agents ; also to the fol-
lowing sharebrokers :—Messrs. B. and M. Boyd, 4, New Bank-
buildings, and Messrs. Taunton and Bush, 26, Austin-friars, Lon-
don ; Henry Vatcher, Esq., and John Langworthy, Esq., Exeter ;
Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer, Plymouth; It. G. Carpenter, Esq.,
Taunton, Somerset ; Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol ; Thomas For-
syth, Esq., Liverpool; Henry Benton, Esq., Manchester; Messrs.
Rhodes, Leeds ; W. 11. Collie, Esq., and John Wright, Esq., Union-
passage, Birmingham; Messrs. Graystone and Earle, York; Wil-
liam Mason, Esq., Bradford, Yorkshire; F. Stamp, Esq., Hull;
Thomas Boardman, Esq., Blackburn!; Messrs. John Robertson and
Co., Edinburgh ; Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson. Glasgow ; arid
Messrs. Mewburn and Blakey, Halifax.
To the Provisional' Committee of the Exeter, Dorchester, and
Weymouth Junction Coast Railway Company.
I request that you will apportion me Shares of 207. each, in
the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway Company; and I
do hereby undertake to accept the same, or any less numberyou may
allot to me, and to pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per share and all future
calls thereon, and to sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscri-
bers' Agreement when required.
Dated this day of
Name in full • • • • • • • • • • • • •• • •
Residence • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • .•
Business or Profession
Place of Business (if any) .. • ..•
Name, Residence, andl
Profession of a Referee 3 ** • " '

, 1843.

EXETER,DORCHESTER, andWEYMOUTH
JUNCTION COAST RAILWAY.
Notice is herehrgiven, that no Applications for Shares will bele-
cetved after SATURDAY, the 27th instant.

Compaq's Offiees, 62, Moorgate-street, DAVID BARTIZ, See.
Sept. 20, 1645,

LONDON, SALISBURY, EXETER, PLY-
MOUTH, AND FALMOUTH RAILWAY.
The holders of shares in this Company (1835-6) desirous of enter-
ing into the arrangement with the Cornwall and Devon Central
Railway Company, proposed at a meeting held at the George and
Vulture Tavern, on Monday, September 22d Instant, arc requested
to forward on or before 27th SEPTEMBER instant, their shares to Mr.
Price, the Secretary, 6, Throgmorton-street, for the purpose of regis-
tration.

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FRENCH ADMINISTRATION.
Lieut.-Gen. Comte Colbert, Pair de France, Aid-de-Camp de S.A.R.
le Due de Nemours, President
M. le Marquis de Boissy, Pair de France, Vice-President
31. James Fazy, 3lembre do Grand Counseil Municipal de la Re-
publique do Geneve
M. Ernest Basset, Chevalier de la Legion I'Honnenr, Chef du Secre-
tariat du Domain Prive du Roi.
M. Petry and M. Desvoyes, Admiuistrateurs des Chemins-de-Per de
Tours é Nantes, and de Creil a St. Quentin
M. Gilbert Coubayon, Chevalier de Is Legion d'Honneur, Admistra-
teur du Chemin-de-Fer de Paris a Lyons
31. T. Pernot, Administrateur du Chemin de-Fer de Creil a St.
Quentin.