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

►iIHE LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, AND
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE JUNCTION RAILWAY.
EXTENSION TO RIPON.
PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS.
George Hudson, Esq. M P. York
William Hutt, Esq. M.P. Gibside, Durham
Donald Maclean, Esq. II.P. Wilton Castle, Durham
Christian Allhusen, E,q. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, director of the
Newcastle upon-Tyne and North Shields Railway
George Ashlin, E q. Mark lane, London
James Burt, jun., Esq. Manchester, director of the Chester and
Birkenhead Reilwsy
William Chiltern, Est. Losiock.hall, Preston
T. R. Wilson Ffrance, Esq. Raweliga-hall, Lan sa.Nre
uhn Hartley, Esq Catteral-hall, Settle
Jonathan Bayne, Esq. Blomfield-road, Maida-hlll, London
Patrick Kilgour, Esq. Woodside, Aberdeenshire, and Hamilton.
terrace, St. John's- wood, London
William Nicol, E-sq. Liverpool, director of the Edinburgh and
Glasgow Railway
B. Oliveira, Erq. F.R.S., Upper Hide- street, London
Francis Parker, Esq, Manchester
Charles Turner, Esq., Ernie-head, Liverpool
Charles Wardell, Esq. Wcstbourne.terrace, Hyde Park-gardens.

London
William A. S. Westoby, Esq„ Hyde park- place, Landon
Nicholas Wocd, Esq. Killingwortb. Newcast e-upon-Tyne.
ENGINEERS.
Robert Stephenson, Esq.
T. E. Harrison, Esq.
SOLICITORS.

: Butchcll, Kilgour, and Parsons, 47, Parliament-street,
London
Henry Toogood, Esq. 22, Parliament-street
Messrs. Rawstone and Wilson, Preston.
SECRETARY.-W. H. Ingram, Esq.
The attention of the Provisional Directors having been called to
the inn ortanee of making an extension to the town of Ripon, they
have determined to construct a branch from a convenient point on
their main line to the town of Ripon, where it will join the Leeds
and ThirAc
The Provisional Directors have at once consented to adopt this
suggest'on, considering that this branch'will open a means of railway
communication to a very rich and important district, and will afford
a valuable addition to their original scheme.
The country through which this line is intended to pass is ex-
tremely favourable, and the expected traffic will amply compensate
for the additional outlay.
The capital required for constructing this extension will be raised
by the issue of additional shares, which will be divided amongst
the holders of the Original Scrip as soon as the Directors are able
to make the necessary arrangements for that purpose.
By order of the Board,
W. H. INGR AM, Secretary.

GREAT WATERFORD, KILKENNY,
LONGFORD, AND SLIGO RAILWAY.
(Registered Provisionally.)
Pursuant to the 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 110.
Capital, 1,000,000/.,-in Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 2/. 12s. 6d. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Lieutenant-General the Right Hon. Lord Bloomfield, (4.C.8.,
Nenagh, Tipperary
Lord Stephen Chichester, Ormeau, Antrim
The Right Hon. Lord Edward Chichester, 15, Cheshamplace, and
Oakfield, Doneg.4l, (Erector of the London and Exeter Direct
Railway

Lieutenant-Colonel Nathaniel Cameron, Dan.y.Graig, near Swan-
sea, Glamorganshire
The Hon. Francis Henry Needham, Morne-park, Newry, director
of the !Tull ant: HsAyhead, the Newry and Catlingford, and the
Lincoln and Northampton Railways
Sir James Douglas Hamilton Hay, Bart., Rose Croft, Surrey
Sir Willem Ogilvie, Bart. Brompton
Sir James Eyre, Bart. Lower Brook-street, director of the Ports-
mouth anti Langston Dock Company
Peter, Count D'Alton, J.P. Grenanstewn, Nenagh
Frederick Ledwill, Esq. J.P. Dunard, Roscrea
Mlct.ao Ledwili, Esq Thurles
John Parkinson, Esq. F.R.S. director of the South Midland, and
Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railways
C. D. Archibalst, E q. F.R.S. Rutland-hall, Lancashire, and Re-
_gent's-park, director of the Birmingham and Lichfield Railway
R.ME'ain, Esq. director of the Great County Down Railway
F. Cann]. Esq. director of the Newry and Enniskillen Railway
William Kirkpatrick, Esq. director of the Newry, Armagh, and
Londonderry Junction
t. Jeffry, Esq. Liverpool, director of the Newry and Carling-
ford Railway
George H. Thompson, Esq. Greenwood Park, County Down
Edward Ward Jackson, Esq. merchant, Liverpool, director of the
Leeds and Liverpool Direct Railway
W. Douglas, Esq., merchant, Liverpool, director of the London
and Edinburgh Railway
J. Irvine, Esq., merchant, Liverpool, director of the Oxford and
Cheltenham Railway
Captain Edward Smith, R.N. Greenwich
Major Wornum, Cheltenham
*George Spry, Esq. Surbiton, Surrey, director of the Portsmouth and
Langston Dock Comp:ny
Jvisn 'M. Cottle, Esq. Leamington, director of the Direct Birming-
ham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
Major Arnsinek, director of the Direct Northern Railway
William Gibb, Esq. Manchester, director of the Birmingham, Ox-
ford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
John Onions, Erq. Brese'ey, Salop, ironmaster, director of the
Dudley, Madely, and Broseley Railway, of the Grand Junction
and Cambrian Railway, and of the London and Dublin Approxi.
mation Railway
a E. Sichell, Esq. Manchester, director of the Leeds and Liverpool
Direct Railway
.

John Boyd, Esq. magistrate, Seneschal of Newry
John Thorn, Esq. Broscley, director of the Grand Junction, and
London and Dublin Approximation Railways
W. H. Cooper, Esq. Shrewsbury, director of the Birkenhead, Bir-
mingham, and Brighton Union Bailway
a W. Whitehead, Esq. Manchester, director of the Direct Bir-
mingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
Henry Keate, Esq. Shrewsbury, director of the Lendon and Dublin
Approximation Railway
Alexander John Gordon, Esq. Linley Hall, West Broseley, director
of the London and Dublin Approximation Railway
Wilharn Birmingham Costello, Esq. Wyke House, Brentford,
&vector of the Direct London and Exeter Railway
Robert Medill, E•q. merchant, director of the Birkenhead, Bir-
mingham, and Brighton Union Railway
Isaac Taylor, Esq. Monkmoor, Shropshire, director of the Direct
Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
James Millman Coley, Esq. Bridgenorth, director of the Cambrian
and Grand Junction Railway
Robert Baugh Blakemore, Esq. director of the Shrewsbury, Wol-
verhampton, and South Staffordshire Railway
Richard Lambert, Esq. Leyston.hall, Sudbury, director of the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway
Henry Dinley Cockburn, Esq. Woolwich, Kent, director of the
Swansea and Loughar Railway
William Henry Kt'bbel, Esq. Glebe-house, Kilby, Leicestershire
John A. Layard, Esq. 40, Keppel.atreet, Russell-square, director
of the Hull, Birmingham, and Swansea Junction Railway
Henry S. Coleman, Esq. provisional director of the Great Leeds
and London Direct Railway, and of the Direct Blanchester,
Leasts, and York Railway
(With power to add to their numbers.)

BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Spooner, Attwood, and Co.
Birmingham—Messrs. Attwoods and Spooner
Manchester—The National Provincial Bank of England
Liverpool—Liverpool Union Bank
Dublin—Bank of Ireland and its Branches, the Provincial Bank of
Ireland and its Branches, and the Royal Rank
BeLfast—Northern Banking Company and its Branches
CONSULTING ENGINEER—Sir John M'Neil, LL.D. and F.R.S.
SOLICITORS.
In London—Thomas Nias, Esq., 5, Copthall.court
In Dublin—Messrs. F. G. Tinkler and Robert T. Cummins, 9,
Upper Gloucester-street, and 11, D'Olier.street.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT—George Lewis Smyth, Esq. 2, Derby_
street, Parliament-street.
SECRETARY—S. T. Jones, Esq.
The length of this line will be 80 miles, serving as a direct
main :rank connexion and continuation of two other important
lines ; one in the course of formation, viz.—from Kilkenny to
Waterford. and the other, the Midland Great Western Extension
to Wien— of whose success next session the requirements of the
country and the intrinsic excellence of that project forbid any
reasonable doubt being entertained. The aggregate of the three
lines will be about 170 miles, traversing, almost in a straight
course, the entire centre of the island, from its principal port
on the .North.wesr, to its principal port on the SoutiLeast ;
Intersecting districts whose teeming fertility is proverbial even in
Ireland, and opening up ,I:Arees of mineral and manufacturing
wealth hitherto neal,:..:red, or discredited ; because deprived of
those facilities to their profitable development, which it is
the IT:Wee the present undertaking to supply.
Interfering With no existirg interests, and not susceptible of being
itself menaced by future schemes, the Great Waterford, Kilkenny,
and Ship Railway appeals to public consideration on grounds more
impars..nt than probably anything of a like nature yet breached in
lre'.and. 'Without the slightest increase, the present trafficinntrestinn
investment
rulodf
'guarantee an unusually lucrative return upon h
the capital called for ; and such is the peculiar nature of the
country, that the completion of the line must productivefurnishing
ean of
east advantages to the nation generally, in
inex-
haustible home supply of costly and indispensable commodities of
universal consumption now circuitously imported over sertwhile it must also hold out irresistible inducements for the
loca-
tion, along its route, of British and foreign enterprise, wealth,
and s''.l 11.

This is the only line in Ireland embracing the principal—
almost the exclusive—seats of native coal and iron. At the
southern terminus of the eighty miles about to be con-
•structed, coal in illimitable quantity and of the finest quality
abounds ;—at the northern terminus the same may be said of
Iron, though for want of the means of smelting, the ore
has been turned to little or no account on the spot, and of course a
market at a distance is unattainable by present modes of conveyance.
The advantages of thus bringing these coal and iron mines into
Juxta position need not be enumerated ; and it would be equally
superfluous to dwell on the pecuniary merits of a line which, in
addition to the distinguishing feature just mentioned,accemmo.
dates an agricultural interest surpassing that of any area of the
lame extent in Ireland.

Commencing at the Watertird and Kilkenny terminus, in the
latter city, the line will pass, almost midway, through the great
grazing and corn-growing districts of the Queen's and King's
County, Westmeath, and Longford, touching at or near all their
principal towns, namely—Freshfield, Ballyragget, Durrow, Belli.
nakill, Abbeyleis, Ba'leyrowan, Mountrath, Maryborough, Mount.
tnellick, Purtarlington, Geashill, Tullamore, Phillipstown,
beggm, Clara, Moate, Ballymahon, and Longford. The population
is unwell's of (me million and a quarter, more than one-half of the
inhaiNttants of the towns being engaged in trades and manufactures.
Bence the passenger traffic, computed with great care, has been
moderately estimated at 90,3371. per annum ; while the live stock
Of the district was valued in 1841 at 3,639,035/. the conveyance of
which must devolve upon this Company. A vast increase in both
these items may with certainty be anticipated, for the following,
among many other reasons:—

Ist. By the junction at Longford with the Midland Great Wes.
tern Extension, much of the produce of Sligo, now going a 354
toile voyage to Liverpool, and much wore that hardly pays the cost
of rearing, because of the isolated position of that county, must
come along this line, directly communicating with so fine a port as
Waterford, the nearest to Bristol, and to the profitable markets of
the southwest of England. All writers on the capabilities of Ire.
land have enforced the necessity of throwing open Sligo to such in •
tercourse a, is here offered, and the recent data of the "Times"
Commissioner more than confirm the propriety of such suggestions.
2d. Being met at Longford by the Limerick and Belfast Union,
which, like the majority of the Northern railways, finds a common
focus at Clones, the principal markets of Ulster, Central Leinster,
and the East of Munster, are rendered mutually available by this
line. And,
3dly. No line of any considerable length can be constructed in ,
Ireland without becoming, in a greater or less degree, an auxiliary
to tins line ; nor can any be projected to its material detriment,
unless running from precisely Parallel terminus to terminus.
the Suitability of the proposed 80 miles, for engineering pur.
poses, may be gathered from the fact, that the line w ill cross both the
Grand and the Royal Canals, the summit level of the former being
279, and of the latter, at Mullingar, only 322 feet above the level
of the sea, and few elevations along the whole route are greater.
jr Longford county, on the Roscommon and Sligo border,. the
line slightly skirts Lcrigh Allen ; while the Midland Great Western
Extension, immediately after, enters the valley of the Arlan*, the
history of the iron-works on whose banks se long and fatally in.
fluenced industrial enterprise in Ireland, though happily even
there prosperity is now rapidly becomingmatno f the ironfea.Theetratohri-s
dinary abundance and unequalled excellence
district are a matter both of history a
ndpresent notoriety. Tso
for smelting
c-nturies ago, when charcoal could 6e procured
formed a large article of export to ridon , being prized
clsdf* cables,edaswe itow
viz -0 S*gdisb and Russian iron-ousel only for steel,