The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-05 00:00:00

J. CHESTER and MANCHESTER
DIRECT RAILWAY, with a BRANCH to BIRKENHEAD.
Notice is hereby given, that the COMPANY'S OFFICES are RE-
MOVED from 29, MOORGATE-STREET, to 1, ROYAL EX-
CHANGE-BUILDINGS.—By order,
A. BARRETT, 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 nuumfactiving districts.
The distance from Bury, and consequently from all places eastward of
that town to Peterborough—the pobio at which so many Lines pass-
ing from the south and cast 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 pe issued immediately.
ROOPER, BIRCH, and INGRAM,
6a, Lincoln's Inn-fields.

SHREWSBURY, HEREFORD, and FORT.
WALES RAILWAY COMPANY.
COMAUTTEEOFMANAGEMENT.

Sir Robert Price, Bart., M.P., Chairman
W. D. Christie, Esq., Deputy Chairman
W. G. Ilayter, Esq., M.P., Director of the Great Western Railway

Company
J. H. Levin, Esq.
E. E. Molyneux, Esq.
A. T. T. Peterson, Esq.
David Pugh, Esq.
C. Temple, Esq., Q.C.
W. Tothill, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway Company
L. Vigurs, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway Company
Offices, 449, West Strand.
Seifaceroas--Messrs. W. 0. and W. Hunt, 10, Whitehall.
The Committee of Management have determined, with
the branch the wers
given them by the deed of the Company, to relinquis
from Ludlow to Newtown, which will form a necessary part of the
Worcester and Port Dynllaen line projected by the Great Western
Railway Company, and to reduce their proposed capital from
1,250,0001. to 1,000,0001.
As the new standing order of the House of Lords will require 10
per cent. of the proposed capital to be deposited, the Committee have
also determined, in order to obviate the necessity of a further call on
Shareholders before going to Parliament, to distribute the capital
into shares of 251., deposit 21. 12s. Gd. ; allowing holders of the pre-
sent 501. shares to receive twice as many 25/. shares, orna mes any smallethe
r
number they may wish (subject to approval of the by
Committee where their shares were not originally allotted to them),
or if any should wish to withdraw, returning them
21. the deposits of
15s. per share which have been paid tip.
All holders of scrip certificates, or of bankers' receipts, are requested
to forward the same to the Secretary on or before Saxuana.T.the 20th
of September, and to state at the sane time their wishes with respect
to new Shares, by letter in the form below. All holders of Shares
not originally allotted to them, failing to transmit their scrip
cert-
cates on or before that day, will forfeit all benefit of their Shares, and
original Shareholders, failing by the same day to transmit their scrip
certificates or bankers' receipts, will forfeit their right to an additional
*umber of Shares. Where the scrip certificates er bankers' receipts
are forwarded by ipost, the letter should be registered at the post-
office ; the Secretary will acknowledge their receipt.
he Shrewsbury and Hereford line will be made in corial co-
opTeration with the Great Western and South Wales Companies;. and
the Committee are happy to be able to announce that the surveys Are
being actively proceeded with.
Six, —I hereby transmit scrip certificates of the Shrewsbury,
.Here-
ford, and North Wales Railway Company, Nos. [or a bankerl.
receipt for shares,) and I desire to have 251.
shares in the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway Company, under-
taking to pay the additional sum required to make a deposit of
.2/. 12s. Gd. on each of these shares, and to sign the subscribers'
agreement and Parliamentary contract when required, [or, to receive
back the deposits which have been paid.]
Usual signature . •
Name in
Profession or Business ..... • . • ...•
Address.•
Reference • • .. • ••• •• • • • •• • • ••• • • • "
[N .B. reference is required only in cases' where persons apply in
respect of Shares not originally allotted to them ; but in those cases
Ls indispensable.]
By order of the Committee of Management,
CONWAY ROSE, Secretary.
449, West Strand, Sept. Ist, 1845.

PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.
SALISBURY and SWINDON EXTENSION
L... 7 of the WILTS, SOMERSET, and SOUTHAMPTON JUNC-
TION RAILWAY from Salisbury, by Amesbury, the Vale of Avon,
and Marlborough, to Swindon, making a perfect communication, on
the broad gauge, between Southampton, Salisbury, Swindon, Glou-
cester, and Cheltenham, and forming a complete line of railway to
all parts of North and South Wales, the manufacturing and mineral
districts, Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool.
Capital 7000001., in 28,000 Shares of 25/. each.
Deposit 21. 15s. • per share.
The Directors of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Junction
Railway Company having completed the whole of their arrange-
ments, and having beets compelled to refuse at least three-fourths of
the applications for shares in their line,, have had their attention
forcibly and repeatedly called to the necessity of a direct communi-
cation between Salisbury and Swindon, the station on the Great
Western Railway, by which a connexion would be most advantage-
ously formed between Southampton, Gloucester, Cheltenham, and all
parts of England. After most mature deliberation, they have re-
solved to recommend to their shareholders and the public the Immo.
diate carrying out a railway to effect this object, which will be most
desirable, as a completion to their own line, and highly advantage'.
ous in a pecuniary sense and on public grounds. Tthey have directed
all the necessary surveys to be made, so as to apply o
the ensuing session, at the same time as the Wilts, Somerset, and
SonthaMpton Junction Railway, with a view to the ultimate amal-
gation of both lines under one management.
In the allotment of shares, preference will be given to the holders
of Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Junction Railway shares, and
every original shareholder in that line may, on production of his
Scrip Certificate, receive an allotment of a similar number of Salis-
bury and Swindon Extension shares. The holders of Great Western,
and of Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth shares will also have a pre-
ference, provided applications be made on or before the 10th Sep-
tember.
Applications may be made in the following form to the Provisional
Committee, at the Offices of the Company, 26, Gresham-street, or
through the following brokers :
Manchester—l Vin. Marshall, 5, Town Hall-buildings
Liverpool—Schultz and Carr, 2, Exchange-buildings
Leeds—Read, Broadbent, and Co , Hirst and Brooke, Whalley and
Thompson, and George Heaps and Co.
Sheffield—James Senior, Richard Muncaster, and George Eadon, jun.
Hull—Brady and Staniforth
York—William Jackman and Co., and Thomas M'Kinnon
Halifax—F. C. Spencer
Dewsbury—John Brooke
Exeter—Thomas Sanford
Edinburgh—Hugh Munro and co.,DaTid Kinnear, andChtUt.Cowper
adford—John Pollock and Co.
Blackburn—Thomas Boardman
N. B. SHERIDAN, Secretary.
London, 29th August, 1845.
_ _

`SALISBURY and SWINDON EXTENSION
kJ of the WILTS, SOMERSET, and SOUTHAMPTON JUNC-
TION RAILWAY, from Salisbury, by Amesbury, the Vale of Avon
and Marlborough to Swindon, making a perfect communication on
the broad gunge between Southampton, Salisbury, Swindon, Glou-
cester, and Cheltenham, and forming a complete line of Railway to
all parts of North and South Wales, the manufacturing and mineral
districts, Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool.
Capital, 700,000, in 28,000 shares of 251 each.
Deposit 2/. 15s. par share.
To the Provisional Committee of the Salisbury and Swindon Eaten-
of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Junction Railway

Company.
Gentlemen, —I request that you will allot me
shares in the above railway, and I agree to accept that or any lees
number that you may please to allot me, and I undertake,to pay the
deposit of 2/. 15s. per share on the same, and to sign the subscribers'
agreement, and the Parliamentary contract when required.
Dated this day of 1845.
Name in full •. • •
Residence
Place of Business (if any)
Trade or Profession • •
Reference ••• • •
Usual Signatures ••• • . • ••• • • • • •••• • • •
Nos. • • Fives Scrip (If any) held by me
Noe... Tens
in the Wilts, Somerset,.
A -.
and mutnamptonJunc-
tion • Twentys maiway.

London, B.Pttsibe 1, 140,

LYONS and AVIGNON RAILWAY.
(COMPAGNIE SEBASTIANI.)
REPORT TO THE ENGLISH SUBSCRIBERS.
OztaLEmEN,—Vire regret our not being able to report that we have
succeeded in our efforts to obtain for you the objects of our Associa-
tion ; our best energies have been devoted to the subject, but from
the altered state of the circumstances which has now arisen, our
Company, as at present constituted, is not in a position to compete
for the Lease.
At the time our Company was farmed, it was understood that the
Government would provide the land for the line and stations, and
possibly would undertake the earthworks. The capital we then
proposed (60 millions of francs), was considered sufficient to provide
all that the Company, under that state of circumstances, would have
required ; but after much doubt and delay, the Government have at
length determined that their lessees shoull undertake the purchase of
the land, as well as the entire construction and working of the Rail-
way. The Bill has now passed the Chambers in that form, and has
fixed the Capital at 80 millions (irrespective of the Grenoble
Branch).
Having, as we interpret our engagement to the Subscribers,
neither power to undertake on their behalf the purchase of land, nor
adequate funds for that larger purpose, we are under the necessity of
announcing the dissolution of the present Subscription, and we have
n
accordingly only further on this head to inform yon, that we
d
hold the deposits subject tq the order of the several Subscribertsau, aont.
ready to be immediately returned in exchange for the letters o
ment and banker's receipts.
attentio of the
We would now invite you"
adopted f o
statutes, which have been framed and the
proposed line.ation
You
a new Company for making and worme g
nr te hecorepgyul of
gin Ily d
ter as tht which we on a propose
respects of the same theme
and the powers vested in those who
will observe, that it is mainly under the same direction, and in many
The capital is necessarily larger,
have the conduct cnlar to articles 4-22-23
of the undertaking of a much more general charac-
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ter. lye desire to refer you in parti
We are empowered to offer to each Shareholder in the former
Company who shall, on or before the 20th of September next, and
in the manner we are about to mention, declare his option to accept
them, the same number of Shares in the new Cothpany as he holds
in the original Company, with or without one additional Share in
respect of every five oeiginal Shares, and in order to facilitate the
necessary arrangements, we have prepared such forms as will enable
the Subscribers to express their wishes with convenience. They arc
,that Aii.liet.haenedveTnhtroeef
receivingo'cloe.k P.M.
at
ready, and may be applied for at 62, King William-street, City,
o'clock,be-
twWeeenbEeglevtoenaddthis office no com-
munication respecting any particular allotment of Shares in the
Original Company on or before the 20th of September next, the de-
posit thereon will be held subject to the order of the party entitled to
it, and it will be entirely out pf our, power to extend beyond elle
above-mentioned day the option which we have secured for the pre-
sent Proprietors to join the new Company.
It is right .we should express our continued 'confidence in the
merits of the undertaking, and our recommendation to the Sub-
scribers to renew their investments in the new Company.
We are, Gentlemen, your very obedient ServHAPants,
. J. C LTN.
CHARLES DEVAUX.
J. MOSS.
J. MASTERMAN, jun.
M. trZLELLI.