The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-02 00:00:00

ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning, Noon, and Night, thereby insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION at ONE CHARGE.

LONDON and WESTMINSTER- BANK.
The Directors hereby give notice that a DIVIDEND of 31,
per cent., upon the Paid-up Capital of the Company, being after the rate
of 6 per cent. per annum, will be payable on and after the 10th day
of September next, at the Bank, Lothbury, without deduction for
income-tax, which will be paid by the Bank.
By order of the Board,
JAMES WILLIAM GILBART, General Manager.
Lothbury, July 30, 1845.
The Transfer Books will be closed from the 18th August to the
10th September.

Q OUT 11-E A S TERN RAILWAY.
1.._7 REDUCTION OF FARES.—EXPRESS TRAINS.
On and after the Ist of SEPTEMBER NEXT the ,fares on this
line will be as follows :
Between the London and the Dover and Folkestone Termini—
Express Trains, Ns. Other Trains—First Class, 15s. ; Second Class,
10s. • Third Class, 6s.
The intermediate fares will be in proportion.
From the same date, DAY TICKETS will be granted at the fol-
lowing fares :
London to Dover and Folkestone and back—Express Trains, 275.
Other Trains—First Class, 225. 6d. ; Second Class,' 15s. ; Third
Class, 9s.
To intermediate stations in proportion.
Tickets issued on Saturday will be returnable on Saturday, Sun-
day, and Monday ; those issued on Sunday will be returnable on
Sunday and Monday.
Periodical Tickets will be charged for as under :
I let Class. 2d Class. let Class. 2d Class.
One Month • ... &.12 X 9 Six Months • .X 35 .• • ... £25
Two Months .... 20 14 Twelve Months 50.... • • 32
Three Months .. 25 l7
By order

London Terminus, August 18, 18,

the Board,
W. O'BRIEN, Secretary.

SQOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY. - PLEA-
SURE EXCURSIONS between the Bricklayers' Arms or Dover
termini, and all stations except London-bridge, at one fare there and
back, continued from Monday, September 1, 1845, and every Satur-
day and Monday until further notice. On theabove-named days
excursion tickets will be issued for the following trains;—

DOWN TRAINS.
6 45 a.m 3d class only, from Bricklayers' Arms
9 0 a.m. Ist and 2d class only, from London Bridge
4 0 p.m. Ist, 2d, and ad class, from Bricklayers' Arms
5 30 p.m. Ist and 2d class only, from London Bridge
UP TRAINS. •

6 0 a.m. 3d class only, to Bricklayers' Arnie
4: 45 a.m. Ist and 2d class only, to Bricklayers' Anna
4 15 p.m. Ist, 2d, and 3d class, to Bricklayers' Arms
6 30 p.m. Ist and 2d class only. to London Bridge
Fares between London and Dover and back:-
Ist class, 15s. ; 2d class, 10s.; 3d class, 6s.
And between the intermediate stations in proportion.
Excursion tickets are available only to return by the Excursion
trains on the same day they are issued, or on the following Monday,
When issued on the previous Saturday.
0.8. Excursion tickets are not issued to or from one Interme-
diate station to another

By order,

W. O'BRIEN, Secretary.

SOUTH-EASTERN and CONTINENTAL
STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.—To PARIS and the SOUTH
of FRANCE.—Sea passage in less than two hours.—Shortest route,
vlr South-Eastern Railway, in conjunction with the Folkestone and
Boulogne steamers. The celebrated new iron steam ships of the
South-Eastern and Continental Steam Packet Company. QUEEN of
the FRENCH, and QUEEN of the BELGIANS now leave Folke-
stone and Boulogne every day from each port. For time and tide
bills apply at the South-Eastern Railway-office, London-bridge; or
to Mr. Faulkner, Folkestone.

REDUCTION OF FARES.
SOUTH-EASTERN AND CONTINENTAL
STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.—BEST ROUTE to BELGIUM
and GERMANY, via DOVER and OSTEND.—The South-Eastern and
Continental Steam-packet Company's splendid fast iron steam-ship
PRINCESS MARY, carrying the English and Belgian malls, and
performing the passage in four hours and a half, leaves Dover for
Ostend every Thursday and Sunday morning early, enabling tra-
vellers to leave Ostend by the early trains, and returns to Dover en
Tuesdays and Fridays.
Departures from Dover :
Sept. 4, at 930 ♦.M. Sept. 18, at 9 ♦.M.
Sept. 7, at 11 45 A.Y. Sept. 21, at 11 45 A.Y.
Sept. 11, at 9 A.M. Sept. 25, at 8 ♦.x.
Sept. 14. at 630 A.M. Sept. 28, at 7 A.M.
Luggage, parcels, &c., expeditiously forwarded.

On and after the lit of September next, there will be a great Re-
duction of Fares between Dover and Ostend, by the Princess Mary.
The Saloon fare will be 155.; and the Fore-cabin 10s.
For particulars apply at the South-Eastern Railway-station. Lon -
don-bridge ; and to John Hayward, jun., Dover.

SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.
The Directors think it desirable to state that they sometime
since instructed Mr. Stephenson to prepare for Parliament in the
next session a complete system for supplying railway communi-
cation with the whole of Kent. It is proposed to provide direct lines to
Tunbridge, Maidstone, Gravesend, Rochester, Chatham, Faversham,
Canterbury, and Dover. The surveys have Leen for some weeks in
progress, and the whole scheme will be very shortly in a complete
state. JOHN KIRKLAND, Chairman.

South-Eastern Railway-office, July 26, 1845.

CHESTER and MANCHESTER DIRECT
RAILWAY.
With a Branch to Birkenhead.
(Provisionally Registered).
Capital 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. cash.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Colonel the Hon. LEICESTER STANEIOPE, Ashburnham House,
London, Chairman
Major JOHN T. CROFT, Regent-street, London, Deputy Cludrinan
David Ainsworth, Esq.; Manchester
Samuel Barton, Esq., Didsbury, Manchester
Hugh Beaver, Esq., Manchester, and Glyn Garth, Anglesey
John Burgess, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester
James Farish, Esq., Lancaster-place, London
Major Ford, of Bodiondet, Carnarvonskire
Lieut.-Colonel Henry Haumer, Bear-place, perks, and 7, Devon-
shire-place, London
Fraser B. Henshaw, Esq., Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square,
London, a Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle
Junction Railway
Captain Sir John R. Hilton, R.N., Isle of Wight
J. Hartley Higson, Esq., merchant, Manchester
Lieutenant-Colonel Hutchinson, 8.E.F.R.5., Director of the College
of Civil Engineers
T. D. Johnson, Esq., Aldermary Churchyard, London
John Joseph Keene, Esq., St. John's Wood, London, Director of the
National Provincial Bank of Ireland
W. King, Esq., Director of the Freemasons' Life Assuranee Com-
pany
George Peter Livius, Esq., the Grove House, St. Cutkbert's, and
Cauldwell Priory, Bedford - - •
Horace W. Meteyard, Esq., 8.C.L., Middle Temple, and Chathant-
place
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F. 8.5., Uppir Hyde Park-street, London, a
Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction
Railway
James Orrell, Req., Culcheth Hall, Kenyon . .
James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Manchester
David Price, Esq., Manchester
Major James Waller, K.H., St. James's-square
C. J. S. Walker, Esq., Longford, near Manchester
Sir George William Prescott, Bart., of Theobalds, Herta.
(With power to add to their number.)
ENGINEERS.
Sir John Rennie, F.R.S.
George Remington, Esq., C.E.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., London
National Provincial Bank of England, Manchester
SOLICITORS.
London—Messrs. Sir George Stephen and Hutchinson, 29, Moorgate-
street.
Manchester—Messrs. Higson and Robinson, Cross-street R. B. B.
Cobbett, Esq., Marsden-street.
Lock'. AGENT—Chester—John Walker, Esq.
SECRETARY—A. Barrett, Esq.
The Committee of Management hereby give notice that no further
applications for Shares can be attended to, and that they are now
engaged in an examination of the applications received by them.
The allotment will be made immediately after this examination has
been completed.

By order,
A. BARRETT, Secretary.
29, Moorgata-street, September 1, 1845.

Provisionally Registered.
TILTS, SOMERSET, AND SOUTHAMP-
TON JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Connecting the English with the Bristol Channel, and forming a
omplete communication, on the broad gauge, between Southampton,
Salisbury, Bath, Bristol, and every other town in the West of Eng-
land anti South Wales. _ . ,

Bankers' Receipts now be exchanged for Script Certificates, and
the Deeds now He for Signature at the Company's Office, 26, Gre-
sham-street, City.
The Deeds will shortly be removed into the country, of which da
notice will be given.

London, August 21, 1845,

H. R. SHERIDAN, Secretary.

ELY and BURY ST. EDMUNDS RAILWAY.
A Company is in the course of formation for the construction
of a RAILWAY from the City of ELY to the Town of BURY ST.
EDMUNDS.

The Line will commence :by a Junction at Ely with the Eastern
Counties, Lynn and Ely, and Ely and Huntingdon Railways, and
will terminate at Bury by a Junction with the Ipswich and Bury
Railway.
Its object is to preserve the mercantile connexion which has for
generations subsisted between the county of Suffolk, the town of
Bury, and the Port of Lynn, and to afford to Ipswich, Colchester,
and Bury, and all that portion of the kingdom, a direct communica-
tion with the manufacturing districts.
The distance from Bury, and consequently from all places eastward of
that town to Peterborough—the point at which so many Lines pass-
ing from the south and east to the north and north-west converge—
will, by the Ely and Bury Line, be ten miles shorter than the route
to that City by way of Cambridge.
A detailed Prospectus will be issued immediately.
ROOFER, BIRCH, and INGRAM,
63, Lincoln's Inn-fields.

WAVENEY VALLEY AND GREAT
YARMOUTH RAILWAY.

WITH A BRANCH TO HALESWORTII.
• Capital 400,000/., in 20,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. per Share.
(Registered provisionally, pursuant to 7 and S Vict., cap. 110.)

TRENT VALLEY RAILWAY.
Company's Offices, 68, Osorge-strect, Manchester, August
21, 1845.

CONTRACT POR SLEEPERS.
The Directors of the Trent Vulley Railway Company will meet at
these offices on SATURDAY, the 13th of Septamber next, at Two
o'clock, for the purpose of receiving TENDERS for SLEEPERS, of
the quality and in the quantity following :—The number required
will be about 200,000. Tney are to he of good sound Baltic timber,
from either Memel or Dantzic, to be cut diagonally, so as to make
either two or four sleepers, from a square balk. No balk or log to be
less than either 9'2i ;inches or 1314' inches square before It is sawn
either into two or four sleepers, and no sleeper to be less than 9 feet
in length. The logs to be straight and square, and the diagonal cut
made true. Each.. sleeper to be sawn, or otherwise brought to ,a
parallel breadth on its face, of not less than 12 inches, so as to leave
the edges at right angles to the face, as shown by tho drawing, which
may be seen at the offices of the Company's engineers, Great George-
street, Westminster. Any :sleeper not agreeing with the foregoing
description *lll not be received. It will be required that the sleepers
be delivered on the banks of the • Oxford, Staffordshire, and Worces-
ter, Birmingham, Coventry, Trent and Mersey, and Oxford and
Worcestershire Canals, or of any of them, in such proportions, and
at such points, as may from time to time be directed. The deliveries
to commence on the Ist of January, 1846, and to be continued uni-
formly at the rate of twenty thousand per ,month, until the whole
number is delivered: The Directors do not bind themselves to
accept the lowest tender. Stcurity will' be to:Mired for the due ful-
filment of the contract, the names and address of the proposed
sureties being annexed to the tender. Payments will be made by
bankers' draft at two months for each month's delivery, if approved
by the engineer ; any faulty or defective s:eepers which may be
found being deducted from the subsequent payments. Parties wish-
ing to offer any other description of sleeper are at liberty to tender,
describing its form and dimensions, the name of the wood, and
whence it will be obtained. Tenders must be delivered on or before
the day, and previously to the hour, above named, addressed to the
Secretary of the Company, and endorsed "Tender for Sleepers."
By order, _ ,

E. J. CLEATHER, Secretary.

GLASGOW, STRATHAVEN, AND
LESMAHAGOW DIRECT RAILWAY.
Capital, 350,0001., in 14,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 3/. per Share.
PEOVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. the Eat' of Eglinton and Winton, Chairman
Lord Belhaven and Stanton, Deputy Chairman
P. M. Stewart Esq. M.P.

,
Directdr of 'the London and Birming-
ham Railway
Patrick Grahame, Esq , of Limekilns
Alexander Donnie, Esq., of Crossbasket, Director of the Scottish
Central Railway
J. P. Westhead, Esq., Chairman of the Manchester and Birmingham
Railway
David Waddington, Esq., Deputy Chairman of ditto
John Kerr, Esq., of Shields
Alex. Grahame, Esq., of Capillyi Directors of the Glasgow,Barrhead,
Alex. Allison, Esq., of Picton I and Neilston Direct Railway
John Sligo, Esq., of Carnyle, Director of the Edinburgh and Glasgow
Railway
William Whitmore, Esq., Director of the Greenock Railway
James Tasker, Esq., Director of the Greenock and Clydesdale Junc-
tion Railways
William Gibbie, Esq., of Halburn
Alexander Hunter, Esq., W.S. Directors of the Glasgow,
Patrick Grahame, Esq., of Robshill
Kilmarnock, and Ardros-
Andrew Brown, Esq., of Clerkhill and
san Rail
Hillhouse way
John Hamilton, Esq., of Dunfillan, Merchant,Glasgow
Donald Smith, Esq., Banker, Glasgow
James Grahame, Esq., of Fereneze, Deputy Chairman of the Glas-
gow, Barrhead, and Neilston Direct Railway
(With power to add to their number.)
BANKERS.
The British Linen Company
The Western Bank of Scotland
The London and Westminster Bask
The Union Bank of Manchester
The Royal Bank of Liverpool
ENGINBIE—NeiI Robson, Esq., St. Vincent-street, Glasgow.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Campbell and Tennents, 40, George-square, Glasgow.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT.
G. H. Lang, Esq., 37, Great George-street, Westminster.

This line of railway will leave the Glasgow, Barrhead, and Neilston
Direct Railway at a point to the west of Pollokshaws, and through
the parishes of Eastwood, Cathcart, Means, East Kilbride, Strathaven,
and Stonehenge, into Lesmahagow, with branches to Eaglesham and
other important places.
The district traversed by the line is thickly peopled with inha-
bitants engaged in manufactures and agriculture, and is rich in ex-
tensive fields of freestone, limestone, coal, and clay, and black band
iron-stone, and other minerals.
The line will be about 22 miles in length, and will afford the most
direct possible communication with Glasgow, Paisley, Pert Glasgow,
Greenock, Ardrossan, and the many other towns and villages with
which it will be brought into immediate connexion, by means of the
Glasgow, Barrhead, and Neilston Direct Railway, with its branches
and extensions. _

It is difficult to form a it'll estimate of the advantages of this line,
whether as respects passengers or minerals ; but in regard to the lat-
ter, it may be stated that at present the whole gas coal used in the
west of Scotland is brought from Lesmahagow by cartage at enor-
mous expense, and that the great Lesmahagow field, as yet not
opened up, is ascertained to be unsurpassed in the extent, the rich-
ness, and facility in working of its coal, irim, and ether minerals,
which, when brought into operation, will at once enrich the neigh-
bourhood of the line, and afford a handsome return to the promoters.
Applications for Shares may be made to the following Brokers,
viz. :—Messrs. Foulds and Cockburn, T. G. Buchanan, Mein, and
Cunningham, and Dennistoun and Jardine, Glasgow ; Robert Allen,
Edinburgh ; Thomas Forsyth, Liverpool ; George Harris, Manches-
ter ; and Messrs. B. and M. Boyd, 4, Bank-buildings, London,
CAMPBELL and TENNENTS, 40, George-square.
Glasgow, 27th August, 1845.

LONDON, HOUNSLOW, and WESTERN
RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given that no further applications for Shares can
be received. The letters of allotment will be issued in a few days.
By order of the C•mmittee,
T. S. BROWN, Secretary pro tem.
London, Hounslow, and Western Railway,
7, Walbrook, September 2, 1845.

CHELMSFORD and BURY RAILWAY.
STOWMARKET BRANCH.
(Registeredge Provisionally.)
The Committee of Management beg to inform the Shareholders
that they have .determined, under powers existing in the deed of
settlement, upon adding to their project a Branch from Lavenham to
Stowmarket, there to effect a junction with the Eastern Union Ex-
tension line, thus forming not only the most direct route to Norwich
hitherto projected, but, as may be seen b) an inspection of the map,
the shortest within the limits of practicability.
The Chelmsford and Bury Railway, •by means of its Thetford Ex-
tension, secures the traffic of the northern and western districts of
the counties of Suffolk and Norfolk, together with a large portion of
that of Norwich ; and by means of its Stowmarket Branch and the
connexion thus formed with the Eastern Union Extension and the
Waveney Talley lines (to both of which it is a most valuable co-
adjutor), It secures over forty miles of its length not only the re-
maining traffic of Norwich, but the whole of that of the' Important
port of Yarmouth, to which must be added the towns of Beccles,
Bungay, Harleston, Diss, and Stowmarket, with all the northern and
eastern districts of the above-mentioned counties.
• The great increase of traffic secured beyond the reach of competi-
tion by this branch would amply compensate for even an extrava-
gant outlay in its formation, The Committee, however, Lave great
pleasure in stating that, after a preliminary survey, the engineer has
reported the locality to be so unusually favourable for railway pur-
poses as to justify them in entertaining the confident hope that no
additional capital beyond that mentioned in their prospectus will bo
required for its construetion ; a more detailed survey, however, is in
teooutreheesolfiacroeihnoplldetelr37, the result orfywDoNehr.i‘.deh,rl 13wr
',:ill
AbeiE,
shortly Secretary.
Company's Company's Offices, 61, Moorgate-street, Sept. 1, 1845. -

MP)LAND AND
ILTIIIRSK JUNCTION

Capital 600,0001., in (2P4,rwo voi s !soh
an ar
el I
sy
or/ e2gstls. t ee raecdh)....l3 e p
osit 2/. 12s. 6d.
per Share, in compliance with the standing orders of Parliament.
The objects of the Midland and Thirsk Junction Railway are three-
fold ;
to open pp and fully develop one of the richest fields of
Coal and Ironstone in the kingdom; secondly, to make a Trunk Line
of communication from South to North, between the Midland and
the Leeds and Thirsk Railways; and, thirdly, in conjunction with
the Midland at Oagenshavr, the Manchester and Leeds and the Wake-
field, Pontefract and Goole at Wakefield, the-Leeds and Dewsbury at
or near Howley Mills, the Bradford and Leeds at or near Calverley,
and the Leeds and Thirsk at or near Horiforth, to afford to the densely
populated and important manufacturing district through which the
line is intended to pass, the best facilities for the conveyance of pas-
sengers, merchandise, &c., to all parts of the country.
The intended line runs parallel with none of. the projected schemes
of last session, and cannot be said to interfere with any of them ; it
is perfectly independent, and imperatively called for.
The quantity of coal procured from different collicres now work-
ing in the Howden Clough and Cockersdale Valleys (which are on
the intended line of railway) is about 6,000 tons per week, and when
the railway now projected is formed, it is.believed that the average
supply weekly will be upwards of 20,000 tons, so that from this vast
and inexhaustible field of coal, occupying snore than 10,000 acres,
and averaging twenty feet in thickness (of workable coal) an unli-
mited supply of the best and cheapest coal in the kingdom will be
available for the Loudon market (via Goole), as well as the more
neighbouring towns of Wakefield, Leeds, Halifax, Bradford, Dews-
bury, Bingley, Keighley, Skipton, Otley, Harrogate, Knaresborough,
Ripon, &c., &c., where in most cases the reduction will be at least
one-half, and in the snore distant places much more than this amount
of reduction, and in all which places an abundant supply of good and
cheap coal is of the highest importance. The revenue to be realised
from this source alone, it is believed, will yield a most ample return
for the capital required.
Besides passing through the centre of this immense coal field, the
railway traverses a district affording accommodation to a population
of upwards of 335,000 inhabitants, and whilst affording every accom-
modation to this vast population, whose internal traffic must neces-
sarily be very great, it receives an additional indemnity from the
relative position in which it stands to other lines, so that for inter-
nal resources and external relations its advantages are almost un-
rivalled.
This line affords the most direct communication from North to
South, and will be a nearer route tram Huddersfield, Wakefield,
Manchester, South Lancashire, Cheshire, and all parts of the South,
to that much frequented watering-place, Harrogate, and will form a
most eligible line, with appropriate stations at Wakefield, Alver-
thorpe, Batley, Drighlington, Tong, Pudsey, Stanningley, Calverley,
and Horsforth. The length of the main line will be about sixteen
miles, and the branches six miles.
The project is warmly supported by the landed and local Interests,
and by a large body of mercantile and wealthy individuals in the
above districts, who, confident of a successfid issue, will use every
means for bringing the project before the Legislature next session.
The Company reserve the power of making an extension from
their line to Bradford, at the most convenient point for the convey-
ance of the minerals, &c., if adequate provision be not made by
another Company.
The liability of each Shareholder will be restricted to the amount
of his individual subscription, and interest will be allowed upon all
calls after the rate of 4 per cent. per annum from the time the Act is
obtained.

The names of an influential Provisional Committee will be adver-
tised next week.

Further information may be obtained of the Solicitors at Leeds
and Bradford, to whom application for shares, in the form subjoined,
may be addressed.—By order,

DUNNING' and STAWMAN, Leeds, Solicitors for the
CHARLES CLOUGH, Bradford, 5 Promoters.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

To the Provisional Committee of the Midland and Thirsk Junction
Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me Shares of 251.
each in this Company, and I hereby agree to accept the same, or
any less number that may be allotted me, and to pay the deposit • of
21. 12s. 6d. per share thereon, and also to execute the Parliamentary
Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
Dated this day of 1845.
Name in full •. SS
Residence.. 000
Trade or profession •••• • • .• • .• •• • • • .
Reference ..... .................
Prespectuses and forms of application may be had of Mr. R. M
Scholefleld, and any other respectable Stock and Share Agent in
Bradford, Leeds, &c.