The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-02 00:00:00

John Dowling, Esq., Mayor of Gloucester
David Mowbray Walker, Esq., Alderman of Gloucester
Thomas Jenkins, Esq., Gloucester
Arthur Hammond Jenkins, Esq., Alderman of Glourrester
Richard Hodges Carter, Esq., Gloucester
John Cooke, Esq., The Chase, Ross
Thomas Beale Cooper, Esq., Bingeworth, Evesham
Thomas Full James, Esq., Hastleld Court
George Jones, Esq., merchant, Gloucester
Samuel Hitch, Esq., M.D., Gloucester
Samuel Baker, Esq., Lypiatt Park, Gloucestershire
William Philip Price, Esq., Tibberton Court, Gloucestershire
Charles Barton, Esq., Wellclose House, Gloucestershire
E. G. Stone, Esq., Chambers Court
Joseph Yorke, Esq., Forthumpton
E. J. Woodhouse, Esq., merchant, Gloucester
Dr. Strong, The Chase, Ross
A. H. Phillpotts, Esq., merchant, Gloucester
Charles Walker, Eeq., merchant, Gloucester
Robert lleane, Esq., merchant, Gloucester
John Forster, Esq., merchant, Gloucester
Edward L. Kendall, Eaq., merchant, Gloucester
George Davison Moffatt, Esq., banker, Gloucester
Charles F. Cliffe, Esq., Gloucester
Thomas C. Avery, Esq., Gloucester
W. H. Evans, Esq., merchant, Gloucester
Caleb Trotter, Esq., Gloaecster
Henry Fox, Esq., merchant, Gloucester
COMMUTE'S OF MANAGEMENT.
Sir ROBERT PRICE, Brat., M.P., Chairman
&SMITE, BAKER, Esq. 2 Vice-Chairmen
WILLIAM LEWIS, Esq.
W. G. Hayter, Esq., M.P. Mr. George Anderson
R. F. Gower, Egg. Henry Horn, Esq.
F. P. Barlow, Esq. John G. Freeman, Esq.
L. Vigurs, Esq. George Croose, Esq.
F. Rufford, Esq. B. Morris, Esq., M.D.
T. N. Foster, Esq. D. M. Walker, Esq.
R. Yapp, Esq. A. H. Jenkins, Esq.
Mr. William Stallard R. H. Carter, Esq.
Mr. Henry Webb George Jones, Esq.
ENGINEER—J. K. Brunel, Esq.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Cox, Biddulph and Co.
"sies-rs. Martin, Stones, and J. Martin} London
City and County Bank, Worcester
National Provincial Bank, Worcester
Messrs. Hoskins, Morgan, and Hamp, Hereford
Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford
Messrs. Matthews, Phillips, and Co., Hereford
Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester
County of Gloucester Bank, Gloucester
National Provincial. Bank, Gloucester
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. W. 0. and W. Hunt, 10, Whitehall
Mr. F. T. Elgie, Worcester
Mr. F. L. 13°denham} Hereford
Mr. T. Evans
Messrs. Whitcombe, Helps, and Co., Gloucester.
SECRETARY (PRO TEM)—Mr. Thomas Phillpotts. jun.
It Is proposed that the course of this line shall be from the Wor-
cester station of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Rail-
way to a point near Malvern, where the line will be divided into two
branches ; the one branch proceeding through or near the parish of
Bostbury (from whence there will be a branch to Ledbury) to Here-
ford, where it will run into the station of the Great Western Com-
pany's Monmouth and Hereford Railway, and the projected Hereford
are' Shrewsbury Railway.
The other branch will proceed from the point of division near Mal-
vern straight to Gloucester, and will join the Gloucester and Dean
Forest Railway near that city.
This line will pass rather more than half a mile below Great Mal-
vern, and not far distant from the town of Upton-on-Severn, both of
which places are at present entirely shut out from the benefits of rail-
way communication.
The country has already been inspected, under the direction of the
engineer, and it is found that there are no engineering difficulties of
a serious character to be overcome ; and indeed the greater portion of
the line presents a course extremely favourable for a railway, the
gradients being very easy.
Near the point of division at Malvern the Hereford line will cross
a portion of the Malvern range by one or more tunnels; but the
whole length of the tunnelling will not much exceed one mile. From
the other side of Malvern to Hereford the surface of the country is as
favourable as could be desired.
The Gloucester line, from the point of division to its terminus, will
pass through a country peculiarly favourable, the surface being
throughout nearly one continuous level.
With regard to the immediate local advantages offered by the
proposed railway, it will effect the most direct communication be-
tween the cities of Worcester and Hereford, and Gloucester and
Worcester, and between those cities and the delightful watering place
and favonrite summer residence of Great Malvern, to which it will
also give an easy and expeditious access from other popolous but
more remote districts.
The important market town of Ledbury, with the rich corn, fruit,
and hop district around it, will also be brought into closer and more
profitable, connexion with the three cities ; and it cannot fail to make
a con dderable addition to the traffic between Worcester and the Port
of Gloucester.
The facilities presented by the proposed railway for increasing and
developing traffic in a more general and national point of view, are
of a very extended character. Joining the Forest of Dean and Mon-
mouth Railways, it will afford a ready means of transit to South
Wales, and by its junction with the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver-
hampton line, and with the projected line to Port Dynnlaen, it will
give railway communication with the manufacturing and mining
aistricts of the north of England—especially of South Staffordshire
and Worcestershire, and also with North Wales and Ireland; and by
means of the Great Western Railway, which ft joins at Gloucester, it
will complete an unbroken broad gauge line from Wolverhampton to
Exeter in the one direction, and from Pembroke to Wolverhampton
in the other. It will effect a considerable saving in distance between
the port of Gloucester and Wolverhampton, and all parts of the north ;
it will be the nearest possible route from the extreme west of Eng-
land, and from South Wales, to all places north of Wolverhampton.
The enumeration of the places and districts to be traversed by the
proposed line, and a description of its course, sufficiently indicate that
it may fairly be expected to command a remunerating amount of
traffic

It will supply to the port of Gloucester important and`balky articles
of expert, drawn from the mining and manufacturing district of
South Staffordshire and Worcestershire ; and will still further deve-
lop the resources of those districts by increased facility of communi-
cation with their natural port. The importance of this branch of the
traffic can scarcely be over-estimated : in one portion of the district
alone—viz., between Wolverhampton and Stourbridge, there are
about 100 blast furnaces in work, producing nearly 500,000 tons of
pig iron annually, and It is admitted that the want of railway facili-
ties have hitherto greatly hindered the development of an important
export trade from this district. The works at Droitwich and Stoke
Prior can furnish any quantity of salt. The carpet manufactories ;of
Kidderminster, the iron and glass works at Stourbridge, Dudley, and
their populous neighbourhood, will also supply an important amount
of traffic—certainly far beyond that now carried on with the present
insufficient means of transit between those places and the district to
be affected by the proposed line.
The Hereford branch of the line offers to the agriculturists of the
counties of Hereford, Radnor, and Brecon the advantages of cheap
and ready means of access to their principal markets. It will be an
important advantage to them to have their cattle, corn, hops, fruit,
wool, and other produce, speedily- and cheaply conveyed to the great
3narkets of Worcester and Birmingham, and the towns in the centre
of the great manufacturing population e Staffordshire and Worces-
tershire ; the advantages, too, will be mutual, as the line will afford
equal faci:ities for the conveyance of the mineral and manufacturing
yroduce of the north to the rural districts.
The
n population of the districts affected by the proposed line, rec-
vm g from Wolverhampton to Gloucester on the one hand, and from
fl same place to Hereford on the other, is not less than 400,000 ; and
aa the
position of the country traversed, the line must be fed by
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it ',rest at 4 per cent. per annum
will be answerable for more than the amount of
his deposit of 21.25.
r share until the Act is obtained, and then not beyond the amount
Of his subscription.
Prospectuses may be had of the respective solicitors,
or at the
London Offices of the Company, 449, West Strand, London.
Oct. 1. 1815.

WORCESTER, HEREFORD and GLOU-
CESTER RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management, in con:equence of receiving daily
trirplieations for shares in this Company, beg to state th it the lists of
applications have been closed for some time. The allotment is now
in progre4, and the letters will be issued as soon as the requisite
examination has taken place. The Committee regret that the
number of shares applied for having so greatly exceeded the number
At their disposal, they will be compelled in all cases greatly to mime
this number applied rid', and to omit entirely many applications from
reipectable parties to whom they would otherwise have been desir-
gni to make allotments.
By order of the Board,
ROBERT PRICE, Chairman
SAMUEL BAKE, }
Vice-Chairmen
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&reap let October, 1845.

NORFOLK RAILWAY.
NORWICH and BRANDON NEW SHARES.
The holders of Serif) Certificates of the Norwich and Brandon New
Shares are required to send them to this office for Registration on
or before the 7th day of October next.
Proper forms for the registration of the shares may be had on ap-
plication at the office, Guildhall-buildings, London.
By order, RICHARD TILL, Secretary.

CAMBRIAN and GRAND JUN e
RAILWAY,
Connecting South Wales with Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester,

and the North.
Notice is hereby given, that no further Applications for Shares can
now be received.

JOSEPHUS FERRIS, Secretary,
12, Nicholas-lane, Oct. 1, 1845.

GREAT GIVE NDRAETH VALE and WELSH
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
(Prbvisionally Registered.)
PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT.
Thig railway is proposed to be made with a view to its forming a
junction in the most important part of South Wales with three other
projected tines, viz., the South Wa:es, the Welsh Midland, and the
North and South Wales, whereby communication will be formed with
North Wales and Ireland, London, Bristol, Gloucester, Worcester,
Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, and the whole of the northern
manufacturing districts, and also with the coasts of Devon and Corn-
wall, and will accommodate the following towns in the vicinity ofthe
line —Carmarthen, Landillo, Llangadock, Llandovery, Trecastle,
Brecon, Hay, Creekbowel, Abergavcnny, Merthyr Tydril, Swansea,
Neath, Lloughor, Llanuelly, Kidwelly, Laugharne, St. Clears, Narbeth,
Ilaverfordwest, 3lilford, Cardigan, Newcastle Emlyn, Pembroke,
li.r Majesty's Dockyard at Pater, and the fashionable watering-places
of Aberystwith, Tenby, Lanstephan, and the Ferry-side.
A prospectus, with a list of the Provisional Committee, will be
published in a few days.
All applications to be made to the undersigned Solicitors to the
promoters of the Bill.
WIRE and CHILD, 9, St. Swithin's-lane, London
VAUGHAN and BEVAN, Brecon.

WORCESTER, HEREFORD, AND GLOU-
CESTER RAILWAY, THROUGH MALVERN, WITH
A BRANCH TO LEDBURY.
(Registered Provisionally.)
Capital, 753,0001., in Shares of 20/. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PEOVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
W. G. HaYter, Req., M.P. /Directors of the Great Western and
R. F. Gower, Esq., South Wales Railway
F. P. Barlow, Esq.
L. "%rigors, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the South Wales Railway
Franele Rufford, Esi., Chairman of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wol-
verhampton Railway
T. N. Foster, Esq., Director of the Oxford, Worcester, ani Wolver-
hampton Railway
J. Crossthwaite, Esq., Liverpool
Lawrence Heyworth, Esq., Liverpool
John Roskell, Esq., Bath

John Rogers, Esq., Chester, a Director of the Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton Railway
William Lewis, Esq., Mayor of Worcester, a Director of the Oxford.
Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway
Edward Evans, Esq., Worcester, Alderman and banker
Richard Yapp, Esq., Worcester, Magistrate of the City, and Director
of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway
Thomas Chalk, Esq., Alderman of Worcester
Charles Augutus Helm, Esq., Alderman of Worcester
John Parker, Esq„ Lark-hill, Worcester
Mr. William StallXrd, jun., merchant, Worcester
Mr. Edward Wheeler, hop merchant, Worcester
Mr. Henry Southan, merchant, Worcester
Mr. Edward Giles, hop merchant, Worcester
Mr. Henry Webb, merchant, Worcester
Mr. George Anderson, Worcester
Mr. John Turley, Worcester
John Lilly, Esq., Alderman of Worcester, and china manufacturer
Phipps Vansittart Onslow, Esq., The Grimes-end, Alfriek
Gabriel Goodman, Esq., Upton-on-Severn
John Shapland, Esq., Mathon
Sir ilun;erford lloskyns, Bart., Harewood, Herefordshire
Sir Robert Price, Bart., M.P., Foxley, Herefordshire
Kedgwin Hoskins, Esq., M.P., Birch House, Herefordshire
Robert Pulsford, Esq., M.P. for Hereford
John William Miles, Esq., Bristol and Ledbury, Herefordshire, a
Director of the Great Western Railway Company
Edmund Burman Pateshall, Esq., Allenamore, Herefordshire
Francis Henry Thomas, Esq., Cowarne Court, Herefordshire
Colonel Thomas Powell, Hardwick, Herefordshire
W. George Beamish, Esq., Kensington-square, London, and West-
hide, Herefordshire
John Johnstone, Esq., Mainstone, Herefordshire
William James, Esq., Wilcroft, Herefordshire
Francis Ilamp, Esq., Bacton, Herefordshire
Henry Horn, Eq., 5, Upper Bedford-place, Russell-square, and Hare-

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court, Temple
John Gardiner Freeman, Esq., Rockfleid, Herefordshire
Marcellus Newton, Esq , Warham, Herefordshire
Thomas Lechmere, Esq., Fownhope Court, Herefordshire
George Croose, Esq., Burcott House, Herefordshire
Joseph Bird, Esq., Hampton, Herefordshire
Thomas Jennings, Esq., Highland Grove, Fownhope, Herefordshire
John Hollings, Esq., The Verzons, near Ledbury, Herefordshire
William Webb, Esq., Mayor of Hereford
Thomas Davis, Esq., Magistrate of Hereford
Richard Thomas Barra, Esq., Magistrate of Hereford
John Rogers, Esq., Alderman of Hereford
William L. Gillilad, Esq., M.D., Hereford
Edward Morris, Esq., M.D., Hereford
G. R. Terry, Esq., Hereford
Wm. Pulling, Esq., merchant, Hereford
John Kerr Hastings, Esq., General Manager of Herefordshire Banking
Company, Hereford
Charles Bulmer, Esq., Hereford
Mr. George Benner, Hereford
Mr. Charles Anthony, Hereford