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

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SNARES.

Te the Provisional Committee of the Worcester and Leominster
Railway.

Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to mo shares of
201. each in the a'dove railway; and I hereby undertake to accept
the same or any less number you may allot me, and to pay the
deposit of 21. 2s. per ►hare thereon, and to sign the Parliamentary
Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
Dated this day of September, 1845.
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WORCES MR. AND LEOMINSTER
RAILWAY COMPANY.
5, Gresham-street, Bank, October 9, 1845.
No farther Application for Shares in this Company will be
received after MONDAY, 13th inst., in London, and WUDNiSDAY, the
15th, from the country. By order,
JOHN HUGHES, Secretary.

OALAIS, DUNKIRK, and BRUGES JUNC-
TION RAILWAY, counecting the Mies already in operation
between Bruges, Ghent, Btas,ell, Malines, and Antwerp.
Capital 18,750,000 francs, or 750,0001. sterling, in 37,500 Shares of
201. each.
Deposit 21. per share.
DIRECTORS.
FRENCH AND BELGIAN.
M. le Comte Frlant, General et Aide-de-ramp du Rol
M. le Baron de Clarac, Proprietaire, Ancien (Meier Superienr de
Cavalerie, Secretaire et Administrateur du Chemin de Fer de Tours
a Nantes
M. Cordler, Depute, Inspecteur Divisionnaire des Ponts et Chaus-
sees, President du Conseil d'Administration du Chemin de Fer de
Cherbourg
M. Antonio de Serradilla, Colonel d'Etat-Major
M. N. T. Micard, Administrateur du Chemia de Fer de Strasbourg
31. Collin Lefebre, Ingeneur Civil, Entrepeneur des Ponta et Chang-
sees du Gouvernement
M. P. J. Wayez, Governeur de la Province de Rainault, Brussels
31. Femmernaan, Brussels
M. J. B. Thibon, Brussels.

ENOLL3H.

The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Chairman of the York and
Lancaster Railway, 4, Parliament-street

William Ormsby Gore, M.P., Chairman of the Shrewsbury, Wol-
verhampton, Dudley, and Birmingham Railway, 66, Portland-
place, and Portlington-hall, Oswestry, Salop
Colonel Fitch, Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension Rail-
way, York-terrace, Regent's-park
William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S , &c., Alderman of
London, Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead, and London
and Greenwich Railways, Brunswick-square
Thomas Sidney, Esq., Alderman of London, and Sheriff of London
and Middlesex, Leyton, Essex

Captain Thornhill Warrington, 66, Upper Berkeley•street, Portman-
square
James Reeves, Esq., Leyton, Essex, Director of the London and Man-
chester Railway
William Petrie, Esq King-street, Portman-square
John Inglis Jerdien, Esq., Director of the Manchester, Rugby, and
Southampton Railway, No. 2, Adams-court, Broad-street
Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of the Birmingham and London Rail-
way, 1, Princes-street, Bank
(With power to add to their number).

BANKERS IN BELGIUM—Messrs. Prosper et Rene .Spitaels et CO.
BANKERS IN ENGLAND—The London Joint Stock Bank.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—Sir John Macneil, LL.D. and F.R.S.
ENGINEER—WiIIiam MulUngar Biggins, Esq.
SoLICITORS—Messrs. Potter and Collingridge, 5, Basinghall-street.
SEcutrAar—Philip N. Scanlan, Esq.
COMPANY'S OFFICES-37, Moorgate•street (East Side).
This Company has been formed for the purpose of opening a line of
railway communicatio4. between Calais and Bruges, passing through
Important districts of France and Belgium containing a population of
above 600,000 inhabitants, and forming a junction with the State
Railway at Bruges, which has now become the most direct route to
the interior of Belgium, Germany, Prussia, and the countries east
of the French frontier.
In laying before the public the prospectus of this proposed line, it
may be mentioned as one of its principal advantages, that it will
reduce the passage from London to Brussels, now occupying
twenty-four or twenty-six hours, under the most favourable circum-
stances, and'often thirty or forty, to twelve hours, rendering it prac-
ticable to make the journey with ease in one day, and at two-thirds
of the present expense. The long, tedious, and uncertain sea voyage
will also be avoided from Dover to Ostend, which, to travellers gene-
rally, and particularly to ladies and invalids, is exceedingly dis-
agreeable, and often attended with serious consequences.
It can hardly admit of a question, that the principal part of the
passenger traffic between tho two capitals, London and Brussels, to-
gether witk the passenger traffic of the populous cities of Antwerp,
and Ghent, the latter being the Manchester of Belgium, and the im-
portant towns of St. Nicholar and Tierlmond, will be, under these
circumstances, drawn into this channel; and another imprtant ad-
vantage to the public, and source of revenue to the Company, will be found in the transmission of the Belgian, German, and Prussian
mails, which are now conveyed by steamers from Dover to Ostend,
at a very considerable expense, and with much less certainty and ex-
pedition than if transmitted to Calais, a sea passage of only 24 miles,
and usually made in two hours.
The traffic and expenditure may be fairly estimated as follows :
From 50,000 passengers, who, according to the recent re-
turns from Ostend and Antwerp, annually visit the Conti-
nent and return by this route, say, from each, on an ave-
rage, 10s. each way
X 50,000
For the transport of mails from the respective Oovernmenta 10,t.00
Local traffic in goods and passengers
50,000

Deduct the expenses of working the,ooo
line, calculated at ...• l3o£loooo

Thus leaving a profit of 10!4 per cent. to the shareholders,£B o;erth
every respect of a consid,:raldo increase annually in the traffic,
has been by experience pawed to be. the result on all the other lines
in operation in Belgium, a., well as other countries.
The projected railroad would pass through a perfectly level tract
of country rich in agricultaral productions, presenting no natural
impediments to its construction, and would require neither tunnels
nor viaducts ; and the only bridges necessary would be the spanning
of a few dykes. Thus the construction would be unattended with
heavy expense, and its working, when completed, of the same eco-
nomical character; for, as experience has shown, the most consider-
able item is working a railway is the supply of coal for the locomo-
tives ; the proximity to the port of Dunkirk, and the easy access to
the Belgian coal fields, obviate this difficulty.
This line, which has been already examined by an eminent engi-
neer, will be about sixty miles in extent from one extremity to the
other ; will connect in its route the towns of Calais, Gravelines, and
Dunkirk, in France, with Furness, Nieuport, and Bruges, in Bel-
gium ; thus securing a very important local traffic in goods and pas-
sengers, independent of the fereign.tratfic before alluded to, placing
the possibility of its paying beyond all doubt.
Arrangements are in progress and strongly supported bypersons of
the highest influence both in Belgium and France for obtaining the
consent of the Belgian and French Governments to the above line ;
and as it is obviously the intention of the latter Government to en.
courage the formation of a continuous line of railway round the
coast, little doubt is entertained by the Directors of such applications
proving successful.

Application for prospectuses and forms of application may be made
at the Company's offices, and the offices of the solicitors, 5, Basins-
hall-street; and to the following brokers:—
London—Messrs. Pepperconie Broad-street

Manchester—Messrs. Cardwell and SoWs; and Messrs. Green and
Loetwood
Liverpool—Messrs. T. Ceglan and Sons
Bristol—Messrs. Edwards and Co.

Leeds—Thomas M. Lee, Esq., Harvey Hirtln, Esq., and Mums.
Bell and Ledger
Bull—Afessrs. Flint and Tootal
Exeter—Thomas Sandford, Esq.
Plymouth—Mee. rs. Hayward and Palmer.