The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-18 00:00:00

BANKERS.

Messrs. Rogers, Olding, Ind Co., Clement's-lane ; Messrs. Cocks,

Biddtt'ph, and Co., Charing-cross.

CONSULTING ENGINEERS-Sir John Macneil and James Thom•

son,
ENGINEERS--B. Albano, Esq., and Win. Laxton,

Esq., C.E.

SOLICITOR IN LONDON —George Smith, Esq., 24, Golden-square
and No. 2, Guil.lhall chambers, Basinghall street.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Connate and Sharland, Town-hall, Gravesend
Messrs. J. and E. Maker, Lewes.
Temporary Offices, No. 2, Guildhall chambers, Basinghall-street.

The object of this undertaking is to open a direct line of rail-
way to connect the Northern, Elstern, and So ith Essex Railways,
by means of a steam ferry from Tilbury Fort to Gravesend, with
Tunbridge Wells, Lewes, and Brighton.
IL is contemplated to proceed from the Eastern Counties Rail-
way at or near Harlow station to Tilbury, crossing the river
by a steam flow ing.bridge to Gravesend, passing by Cobham,
Snodland, Mailing, and Hadlow to Tunbridge, thence by the South-
Eastern Railway to Tunbridge Welts, passing Uckfield t• Lewes,
and thence joining the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway to
Brighton.

An inspection of the map will clearly show the great import.
once of this railway, whether considered in a local or national
point of view, forming as it will a most useful chain of local com-
munication for the fertile and populous tracts through which it
passes.
It will bring the Northern and Eastern Counties, the mouth of
the Thames, at:d North Kent, into direct communication, by
way of Brighton, with Dieppe and Havre, and thus form, in con.
junction 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
communication 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 along 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 trallic has been ascertained to be amply suf.
ficient to fulfil the requirements of the undertaking ; but a large
accession of valuable traffie cannot fail to be the result of the
increased accommodotion thus afforded to the public, and rendering
the undertaking one of the most important as well as productive
lines of railway in that part of the country.

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The Committee reserve power to themselves to form branches
from Snodland to Chatham.

The liability of the shareholders will be restricted by Act of
Parliament to the amount of their subscriptions, and power will be
applied for in the Bill to a►low interest at 4 per cent. per annum en
all calls, from the passing of the Act until the opening of the line.
Applicitions for prospectuses and also for shares may be
addressed in the usual form to George Smith, Esq. Solicitor, 24,
Goldeu-square, and No. 2, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street ;
Messrs. Coombe and Sharland, Gravesend , Messrs. J. and E.
Walter, Lewes; to Messrs. Field, Son, and Bayley, sharebrokers,
Warneford-court, Throgmorton-street, and to Messrs Harris and
Sons, sharebrokers, Changa-alley

PRELIMINARY NOTICE.
MHE EXETER, TIVERTON, AND MINE-
HEAD DIRECT RAILWAY, with extension from Minehertd
to Ilfracombe.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,000,6001., in 64,000 Shares of 25/. each.
Deposit, 21. 12s. 61 per Share.
This railway will pass from the city of Exeter, throt4;h the
rich valley of the. Exe, via Silv,•rton and Bickl:•igli, direct to
Tiverton, one Of the chief towns of this important district, and
formerly the principal market and mannfactui ing town of the west
of Engla d. It will administer largely to the prosperity of this
rich and productive country, acid will pass from Tiverton, by Hamp-
ton, Dulverton, and Dunster, to the port of Minehead in the Bristol
Channel, opposite Latvian', Swansea, and Cardiff, from whence the
produce of the rich mines and quarries of Merthyr Tydvil, Bonty-
Pool, and Newport, in Wales, can be transferred by the shortest
route to the English markets. From Minehead it will pass by
Porlock and Combe-Martin to the much-frequented watering-place
of Ilfracombe, where it unites with the Barnstaple and Ilfracombe.
Railway. At Minchead it will also join the Bridgewater and Mine-
head Railway, to which it serve as an important feeder, connect-
ing the towns on the north coast of nevelt directly with the great
western trunk railroads passim; from London to the LanWs End. It
will also form a very shert and direct junction of the Bristol and
English Channels.
A mme valuable and important line to the country which it v.lll
traverse could not be projected. A ikt of the Provisional C'ariarit tee
will be published in a fire,- Jays ; and in the me.nitime torn, joil„._
illation may he obtained, and applications for shares may be made
to, the solicitors, Messrs. Ehnslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street,
London, Or at too Cewpany's Otrico, No, 37, Gresham-street, City.