The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-12 00:00:00

ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—TRENcII PLAYS.

Continuation of Mademoiselle Plessy's performances ; and second ap-
pearance in this country of Monsieur Regnier (of the Theatre
Francais), whose engagements will positively terminate at the end
of the present Month,

THIS EVENING

Will be performed an admired Comedy, entitled CHACUN DE
SON COTE. La Baronne de Valliere, 3ldlle. Plessy.
To oonclude with a New Comedy, entitled LE 'MARI a la CAM-
PAGNE. Ferdinand Colombet, Monsieur Replier Ursule, Ma-
demoiselle Plessy.
Boxes, 6s, ; Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. Doors
will be opened at Seven o'clock, and the Performances commence
at Half-past.

ASTLEY'3 ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
PROPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY.
Mr. BATTY, ever anxious to retain the patronage that has been
so bountifully bestowed on this Establishment, feels a degree of plea-
sure irk announcing the greatest combination of Foreign Equestrian
Talent that ever appeared in the Metropolis, he having engaged the
whole of M. Tournaire's Company of French, German, and Italian
Artistes, and the entire Stud of highly-tutored Horses. The Com-
pany embrace the following distinguished Professors :-31. Benoit
Toumaire, M. Ferdinand, M. Francois, M. Ernest ; Signors Angussi
and Rinaldo; M. F. Klatt; 3lesdames Louise Klatt, Hubor, and
Popowitz; M. Popowitz, the French Clown ; Herr Hubor, the Dutch
Grotesque. This talented Corps will make their First Appearance

THIS EVENING,
When will be produced an entirely New Spectacle, entitled THE
GODOLPHIN ARABIAN ; or, The .Itace-horse of the Desert.
Dramatized expressly for this Theatre, by W. Moncreiff, Esq.
The Arab Horse trained by Mr. Smith.
Box-office open from Eleven till Five.

BIDEFORD AND TAVISTOCK RAILWAY,
WITH BRANCHES TO BARNSTAPLE AND CREDITON.
(Registered, provisionally, pursuant to Act 7th and Bth Victurar,
Cap. 110.)
Capital 630,0001., in 26,000 Shares of 25/. each.—DeposL £l, 7s. 6d.
per Share.
COMMITTIE OF 3IANAGEXENT.

Joseph Brown, Esq:-,l;i7Ce-t-o-r-oi-th7-Trent Valley Continuation and

Holyhead Junction Railway.
Edward Turst Carver, Esq., Director of the Great Munster and Na-

mur and Liege Railways.
John Churchill, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continuation and

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Holyhead Junction Railway.
Captain Fisher, Junior United Service Club, London, Director of the
Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and WeLSh Junction
Railway.
Frederick James Hall, Esq., Torrington-square and Lincoln's Inn.
Swynfen Jervis, Esq., Chairman of the Diss, Beccles and Yarmouth
Railway, and Director of the Armagh and Coleraine Railway.
Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of the City of London.
Stephen Lewis, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway.
Donald Maclean, Esq., late Chairman of the London and Brighton
Railway.
Thomas Hammond Tooke, Esq., Blackheath.
(With power to add to their number.)
BANKERS.

London—The London and County ,Toint-Stock Bank ; and Messrs.
Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clement's-lane.
Bideford and Torrington—The National Provincial Bank of Eng-
land ; and the Agricultural and Commercial Bank.
Barnstaple—The West of England Bank.
Okehampton—The National Provincial Bank of England.
Tavistock—Messrs. Gill and Bundle; and the Devon and Corn-
wall Banking Company.

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ENGINEERS.
Messrs. Rice and 'Thomas Hopkins, Members of the Institution 01
Civil Engineers.

SOLICITOR.
Hugh Terrell, Esq., 30, Basinghall-street, London
LOCAL AGENTS.
Messrs. Burd and Son, Okehampton.
Henry Hawkes, Esq., ditto.
James Rooker, Esq., Bideford.
SECRETARY (PRO TEM.)

Charles Goodwin Bateman, Esq
The objects of this undertaking are to unite the Bristol with the
English Channel, and to afford a direct, speedy, and cheap communi-
cation between the three centres of population- in Devonshire, :viz.,
Bideford and Barnstaple on the north, Plymouth and Devonport ou
the south, and Exeter on the east ; and to supply to the inhabitants
of the districts through which the lines of Railway will pass the
advantages of manure, coals, and general merchandise, at an im-
mense reduction of cost, and the means of conveying their agricul-
tural produce, timber, and other goods to the best markets.
The Railway is intended to commence at the Town and Port of
Bideford, and to proceed by the town of Okehampton to the Borough
of Tavistock, where it is to communicate with the branch of the
South-Devon Railway, which is to be made from Plymouth, and
for which a Bill is now before Parliament. A branch will connect
the populous and flourishing Borough of Barnstaple with the main
line, and another branch will pass from the main line through Bow,
and join the Exeter and Crediton Line at Crediton. The length of
the main line will be about forty-two miles, and of the branches
about twenty-three miles; making together sixty-five miles.
Estimates of the traffic have been prepared by competent parties,
and the result is, that, after allowing a deduction of forty per cent. for
the working expenses, the net returns are calculated to amount to
more than six per cent. per annum on the required capital, without
taking into account several future sources of income which the Rail-
way will create.
The Port of Bideford, on the Bristol Channel, which has been se-
lected fur the commencement of the Railway, already possesses a large
and increasing trade. Its imports of limestone, calm, coals, and iron
from Wales are very considerable ; whilst there are also large imports
of foreign timber, and general merchandise from more distant parts,
and exports of potters' clay, agricultural produce, &c. At the other
end of the line are the important towns of Plymouth, Devonport,
and Stonehouse, with the Naval Arsenals, and a population (includ-
ing their suburbs) of 100,000 inhabitants, dependent, in part, for
their supplies on the district through which the railway will pass.
The intermediate towns of Torrington, Okehampton, and Tavistock
are the centres and markets of large agricultural districts, the produce
of which will be greatly enhanced by the abundant and cheap supply
of lime which this railway will afford.
Between Torrington and Okehampton there are almost inexhausti-
ble beds of potters' clay and pipe clay, large quantities of which are
now sent to Bideford, for exportation to Liverpool and other places ;
and those quantities would be very greatly increased by this cheap
medium of conveyance. Great facilities would also be thus afforded
for the transport of the valuable timber which abounds on the banks
of the River Torridge, and which can at present scarcely be brought
to market on account of the expense of conveyance.
In the neighbourhood of Okehampton, and extending towards
Tavistock and Launceston, are extensive beds of limestone and
numerous lime-kilns, which will receive their supplies of culm by
this railway from Bideford ; and from those lime-kilns, as well as
from Bideford, the whole district can be well supplied with lime,
whica is almost the only manure used by the agriculturist' in
the neighbourhood. There are also valuable slate quarries and
mines of copper ore, manganese, &c., the products of which will be
thus conveyed for exportation. About three miles from Okehampton,
and near the proposed line are granite torrs or hills of great value,
the granite being nearly white in colour, and capable of receiving a
high polish. Nothing but this Railway is wanting to enable parties
to export many thousands of tons of this beautiful material for Lon-
don and elsewhere.
Many parts of the district, particularly the neighbourhood of Oke-
hampten, possess advantages for the employment of capital, which
this Railway will tend to call into action, there being inexhaustible
powers of water for propelling machinery, which have been hitherto
unemployed from the want of communication with the sea. The
woollen trade is already partially carried on in the neighbourhood of.
Okehampton ; but a very great extension of its operations may be
flaky anticipated, when a facility of intercourse is obtained.
The branch to Crediton will open, by means of the Exeter and
Crediton Railway, a commurecation between the nortikrn and
western parts of the county and Exeter, where the assizes and ses-
sions are held, and the chief public business of the county is trans-
acted, and from whence passengers can proceed by railway to
Bristol, London, and the north of England, as well as to the much-
frequented watering-places of Dawlish, Teignmouth, and Torquay.
The great importance of this railway to the landholders and general
population in the central parts of the county through which the line
will pass, will appear from the fact, that the price of lime will be re-
duced to them 40 per cent., and of coal 50 per cent.
The local population which would be benefited by the construction
of this railway exceeds three hundred thousand persons.
The Railway may be justly regarded as not merely a county, but a
national undertaking, as it will tend to shorten and facilitate the
communication between the great naval port of Plymouth and the
southern shores and central and eastern districts of Devonshire with
Ireland and Wales ; the distance by sea from Bideford to Swansea being
not more than forty-two miles. When the South-Wales Railway is
constructed, travellers may go from the south of Devon to Bideford
by this Railway, cross nom thence to Swansea by steam-packets,
and-proceed by the former Railway to Fishguard (where a great Irish
packet-station is to be established), and to Pembroke Dockyard and
Milford Haven.
The country through which this line of Railway will pass is pecu-
liarly favourable in an engineering point of view for ita construction.
The surveys will be forthwith completed by the Company's Engineers,
who are well acquainted with the district, having surveyed the
country in 1831 and 1832, and who are confident, from long expe-
rience, that the proposed capital will be amply sufficient for the con-
struction of the Railway, which is intended to be a single track of
rails, of the same gauge as the Great Western, Bristol and Exeter,
and South Devon Railways, with sidings or passing places at the sta-
Bons, and a double track on part of the main trunk.
The landowners on the line are extremely favourable to the pro-
ject and are anxious to have a railway communication opened, which
is calculated so materially to benefit their estates ; many of them
have already signified their intentions of becoming Shareholders i❑
this Company. In the allotment of the shares preference will, of
course, be given to parties who have a local interest in the under-
taking.
Power is intended to be reserved in the Act of Parliament, which
is to be obtained for making this Railway, to allow interest on the
deposits and calls paid on the shares, at the rate of 4 per cent. per
annum, until the opening of the whole line. No subscriber will be
liable beyond the amount of his shares.
The Prospectus and the Form of Application for Shares may be
obtained from the Solicitor, Local Agents, or Secretary.
Applications for shares to be forwarded to the Solicitor, 30, Basing-
hall-street, London.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Bideford and Tavistock Rail

way Company.

Gentlemen,
I request that you will allot to ins Shares in the above
Company ; and I hereby undertake to accept the same, or such less
number as may be allotted to me, and to pay the Deposit thereon ;
and also to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers'
Agreement when called upon so to do.
Dated this day of , 1845.
Residence. . •
Trade or Profession (if any) •••••• • • • • • •
ReferencE . •• • • •• • • ........... .....

Now ready, in 3 vols.,
MR. D'ISRAELI'S NEW WORK;
" SYBIL ; or, THE TWO NATIONS."
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.
To be had of all Booksellers, and at all the Libraries throughout
the Kingdom.

ZiEW WORK BY M. MICHELET.
Just ready,
PRIESTS, WOMEN, and FAMILIES. By
J. MICHELET, Member of the Institute of France, &c.;
Author of " The History of France," &c. Translated from the
French (third edition), with the Author's approbation, by C. Cocks,
Bachelier 2s Lettres, and Professor (brevets) of the Living Languages
in the Royal College of France.
London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman.

THE WEATHEIL—SIIN OFFICE, MAT 12.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 44 ; Highest, 55; Noon, 53.
BAROMETER, 29.82.—W1ND, N.
Nom—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and
" Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the
thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All
the other observations ard made at noon.

lIIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TIIIS DAY.
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