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

BRIGHTON, LEW ES, TUNBRIDGE
WELLS, GRAVESEND,' AND EASTERN COUNTIES
JUNCTION RAILWAY, with Branches to Chatham and Maidstone.
Capital, 1,000,000!., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
' Deposit, 21.25. per Share.
(Provisionally Registered pursuant to 7 andlS Viet., c. 110.)
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Sir John Key, Bart. Wm. Kuper, Esq.
The Mayor of Gravesend John Kerschner, Esq.
John Brough, Esq. S. H. Powell, Esq.
T. M. Cleobury, Esq. W. White, Esq.
Nath. Cumberlege, Esq. R. W. Keate, Esq.
H. C. Curtis, Esq.

BANKERS.
Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co. Clement's-lane.
Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, and Co. Charing-cross.

At Lewes—Messrs. Molyneux, Whitfield, and Co.
CONSULTING ENGINEERS—Sir John Macneill and Jas. Thomaon, Esq.
ENGINEER—B. Albano, Esq. M.I.C.E. and Wm. Laxton, Esq. C.E.
SOLICITOR—In London—George Smith, Esq. 24, Golden-square, and
2, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Coombe and Sharland, Town-hall, Gravesend
Messrs. J. and E. Blaker, Lewes.
SECRETARY—Mr. James Ellen.
Offices, 11, Adam-street, Strand.

The object of this undertaking is to open a direct line of railway
to connect the Northern, Eastern, and South Essex Railways, by
means of a steam-ferry from Tilbury Fort to Gravesend, with Tun-
bridge Wells, Lewes, and Brighton. ,

It is contemplated to proceed from the Eastern Counties Railway
at or near Marlow station to Tilbury, crossing the liver by a steam
floating-bridge to Gravesend, passing by Cobham, Snodland, Malt-
ing, and Hadlow, to Tunbridge, thence by the South-Eastern Railway
to Tunbridge Wells, passing Ucktleld to Lewes, and thence joining
the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway to Brighton.
An inspection of the map will clearly show the great importance of
this railway, whether considered in a local or national point of view,
forming, as it will, a most useful chain of local communication for
the fertile and populous tracts through which it passes.
It will bring the Northern and Eastern Counties, the mouth of the
Thames, and North Kent, into direct communication, by way of
Brighton, with Dieppe and Havre, and thus form, in conjunction
with the railways now in progress on the Continent, the shortest
possible route to Paris and the Mediterranean.
By this railway the large population of the north-eastern coun-
ties, numbering nearly two millions, will have a direct and easy com-
munication with the whole of the populous and important counties of
Kent and Sussex, without going round to London, and thereby
avoiding the inconvenience arising from the unconnected lines north
and south of the metropolis.

The utility of this line to the naval and military service, both in
times of peace and war, for the conveyance of troops and stores, is
evident.

With the existing railways and those now in progress in Kent and
Sussex, a most complete system of local communication will be
effected ; and as such, the project has been received with the most
distinguished approbation and pledges of support from the principal
proprietors alcng the line, and the corporation of Gravesend have
promised their entire sanction to, and will cordially support it.
The ground has been carefully surveyed, and found to present no
difficulties to the formation of a good working line.
The existing local traffic has been ascertained to be amply suffi-
cient to fulfil the requirements of the undertaking ; but a large ac-
cession of valuable traffic cannot fail to be the result of the increased
accommodation thus afforded to the public, and rendering the under-
taking one of the most important as well as productive lines of rail-
way in that part of the country.
The Committee reserve power to themselves to form branches from
Snodland to Chatham and Maidstone.

The liability of the Shareholders will be restricted by Act of Par-
liament to the amount of their subscriptions, and power will be ap-
plied for in the Bill to allow interest at four per cent. per annum on
all calls, from the passing of the Act until the opening of the line.
Applications for prospectuses, and also for shares, may be addressed
in the usual form, to the secretary, at the Oflice of the Company, 11,
Adam-street, Strand ; George Smith, Esq., solicitor, 24, Golden-
square, and 2, Guildhall Chambers ; Messrs. Coombe and Sharland,
Gravesend ; Messrs. J. and E. Blaker, Lewes ; and also of the fol-
lowing sharebrokers

Messrs. Field, Son, and Bayley, Warnford-court, Throgmortcn•
street, London
Messrs. Harris and Sens, Change-alley, London
Mr. M. L. Pritchard, Liverpool
Messrs. Gardiner and Heap, Manchester
Mr. Isaac Ironside, Sheffield
Messrs. Hirst and Brooke, Leeds
Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer, Plymouth
Mr. J. B. Mundy, Bath
Mr. A. Moffatt, Edinburgh
Mr. Wright, Birmingham
Messrs. Peet and Son, Nottingham
Messrs. Sohms and Tripp, Bristol
Mr. Brand, Glasgow
Mr. Joseph Clark, jun., Southampton
Mr. John Pollock, Bradford
Messrs. Tibary and Simpson, Hull.

BRIGHTON, LEWES, TUNBRIDGE
WELLS, GRAVESEND, AND EASTERN COUNTIES
JUNCTION RAILWAY, with Branches to Chatham and Maidstone.
The Managing Committee beg to give notice that no Applications
for Shares will be received after MONDAY next, the 3d November.;

They have much pleasure in stating that the engineers are pledged
to complete the surveys of the whole line to be formed by this Com-
pany between the eastern counties and Tunbridge, by which the
connexion with Brighton will be completed, and also the branches
to Chatham and Maidstone, in suMeient time for making the ne-
cessary deposits required by the standing orders.
By order,

• - JAMES ELLEN, Secretary.
11, Adam-street, Strand, Oct. 28, 1845.