The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-21 00:00:00

By order,

7, Tokenhouse-yard, London, Oct. 18, 18ED*ARD FILLER, Secretary.4s.

PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.
ATHLONE AND SLIGO JUNCTION
RAILWAY.
(Being an Extension of the Dublin and Galway Railway.)
FIRST DIVISION—ATHLONE TO ROSCO3IMON.
Capital 200,0001., in 10,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. per Share.
(No Subscriber to be liable beyond the amount of his Shares.)
MANAGING COMMITTEE.
Fitzstephen French, Esq. M.P. Chairman
Right Hon Lord De Freyne
William Ormsby Gore, Esq. 11. P.
The Doan of Elphin
Hugh Bartell, Esq. Straffen, county Kildare
Sir Joseph Burke, Bart. Fairfield.
John Vance. Esq. Mertion-square, Dublin
Robert Henry French, Esq. Rutland-square, Dublin
Hamilton Gorges, Esq. Leeson-street
Henry Mailman, Esq Laudsend, county Dublin
Richard Burton, Esq. county Dublin
John Parkinson, Esq. F.R.S. SO, Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park
William Lechmere Whitmore, Esq. the Grove, Stanenore, Middlesex
Patrick A exander.Reynolds, Esq. 23, Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park,
and 16, Cornhill
John Cain; bell, Esq. Dsuicsfleld, county Dublin
Directors
Daniel H. Ferran, Esq. Beechwood Irish Gre of theat Western
R. Pennefather Lloyd, Req. Herbert-place, (Dublin to Galway).
Dublin,

ENGINEEB—SLr John Macneill, LL.D. F.R.S.
BANKERS.
The London Joint-Stock Bank, Princess-street, London
Messrs. Bunted and Co., Liverpool
The Bank of Ireland, and the National Bank of Ireland, and their
branches.

SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Barrington, Son, and Co. 10, Ely-place, Dublin
Mr. Peter M'Keogh, 5, Belvidere-place, Dublin
Messrs. Fladgate, Young, and Jackson, 12, Essex-street, Strand,
London.

PARLIAMENTARY AGENT.
William Bryden, Esq. 4, New Palace-yard, Westminster.
SECRETARY—Robert Plunkett, 48, Dame-street. Dublin.
LONDON AGENT —James Bryden, Esq. 19, Moorgate-street, London.

The many and important:commercial advantages presented by a
junction line of railway between the north and south of Ireland, give
the promoters of the projected line from Athlone to Sligo, with a
branch to Ballina, the most unqualified confidence in its success.

The proposed line, as regards both public interest and private
speculation, will very much surpass any other that has been pro-
jected from Sligo to Dublin—first uniting with the Dublin and Galway
at Athlone, it will pass in a direct line to Sligo, having a branch to
Ballina, thereby affording railway communication to the great fair
and market towns in the counties of Roscommon, Mayo, and Sligo,
and terminating at the important seaport and garrison town of Sligo,
where it will also unite with tke line to Enniskillen, and thus form a
junction between the northern, southern, and western lines, opening
a continuous and the most direct railway communication between
the great commercial and manufacturing towns of the province of
Ulster, and the cities of Cork, Limerick, Waterford, and Kilkenny,
and with Galway, and the other large towns and seaports in the
south-east and west of Ireland, and also giving to the counties of
Sligo, Mayo, and Roscommon, a line of railway to the metropolis.
The Athlone and Sligo Junction will receive the full support of the
Directors of the Great Southern and Western, and the Dublin and
Galway Railway Companies. Forty miles of the Great Southern and
Western Railway from Dublin to Portarlington are nearly completed,
and will be opened to the public in June neat..
At this advanced period of the year the 'difficulty of complying
strictly with the standing orders of Parliament renders it advisable
to undertake, in the first instance, but one division of the line, viz.,
that from Athlone to Roscommon, bein;; a distance of twenty English
miles ; for which purpose a capital of no more than 200,0001. will be
required.
The line from Athlone to Sligo is but seventy-twe miles in length.
It will pass through or near the towns of Knockeroghery (at which
the second largest sheep fair in Ireland is held), A thleague, Mount
Talbot, Rathgar, Roscommon (one of the largest inland markets in
Ireland), Lanesborough, Elphin, Croghan (celebrated fair town),
Frenchpark, Boyle, Castlerea, Ballaghadereen, Ballymote, Tabber-
corry, Colooney, Ballisodare, to Sligo. The preliminary surveys
have been made, and the engineer, Sir John Macneill, reports very
favourably upon the gradients and facilities of construction.
Advantages so important as those referred to cannot fail of giving
the greatest encouragement to a line of railway which must, from
passenger traffic alone, return an ample per ccntage on the outlay of
capital.
It should also be borne in mind that the proposed junction line
will not only give to the north of Ireland direct and immediate rail-
way communication with the south, east, and west, but will like-
wise open to the great manufacturing towns of Scotland similar ac-
commr;dation.

Railways having the advantage of foreign traffic as an auxiliary,
are always the most profitable—no projected line could be more op-
portunely circumstanced in that respect than the proposed Grand
Junction, forming, as it will, a link between the northern and
southern railways, it must, independently of local resources,, have a
constant stream of passenger traffic from the parent lines at either
end, and eventually be found one of the most profitable, as well as
the most useful, undertakings in Ireland.

Few lines of railway are possessed of greater local advantages
Sligo, a considerable and rising seaport town on the N. W. coast at
the one extreme, supplies the whole of the interior, as far as Athlone,
with the products of the western world. Its fisheries and that of
the neighbouring coast are among the best in Ireland. The salmon
fishery at Ballina, and the deep sea-fishing of Sligo and Inver Bays
would alone yield considerable revenue. Athlone, at the other
terminus, is a garrison town of the greatest importance, in the very
centre of Ireland, from whe►see it must be an object to have railway
communication with the garrison's of Boyle and Sligo; there cannot
therefore be a doubt of the line obtaining the entire support of the
Government. _

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Roscommon is one of the most fertile counties in Ireland ; it
abounds in agricultural and mineral produce, and has a population of
253,591 inhabitants. Its great fairs are well known—their staple,
the finest horses, horned cattle, sheep, and pigs, in the United King-
dom, will be conveyed by this line to the Dublin and English mar-
kets ; and while the farmers will thus have a ready and cheap means
of transport for his stock to the best markets, lie will, in like manner,
be enabled to supply himself with young stock from the fairs of the
south, east, and west. Large quantities of bacon are cured annually
in the towns of Roscommon, Castlerea, Boyle, sec., and it only re-
quires the advantage of railway communication to develop the many
industrial resources of the county.
Application for shares to be made to the secretary, 46, Dame-
street, Dublin ; and Messrs. Laurence, Cazenove, and Pearce, Auc-
tion Mart, London.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
ATHLONE AND SLIGO JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Capital, 200,0001., in Shares of 201. each. First Deposit, 2/. per Share.
No Shareholder to be liable beyond the amount of his shares.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot to me shares in this
undertaking ; and I agree to take the same, or such of them as may
be allotted to me, and to pay the deposit of 2/. per share thereon, and
sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when
required.
Dated this day of 1845.

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To the Provisional Committee,
48, Dame-street, Dublin.

THE SOUTHERN JUNCTION RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 750,0001., in 37,500 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. each.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Portarlington •
Lord Dunboyne, Belle Hatch-house, Henley-on-Thames
Lord A. Cunningham, Mickleham-hall, Dorking
The Hon. Robert Gore, 31. P., 21, Wilton-crescent
Sir James Annesley, Bart., Albany
Sir Hour, Lambert, Bart. Aston Rowant, Oxon
Sir William Drummond Stewart, Bart., Uurthley-castle
William Hughes Hughes, Esq. Alderman of London
The Hon. W. M. Dawson, Parkstone-lodge, Poole
Thomas Challis, Esq., Alderman of London
The Hon. Stafford Jerningham, 44, Brookstree
John Inglis Jerdein, Esq. 150, Piccadilly
Charles Heneage, Esq. Cadley House, Lincolnshire
Major Moore, director of the London and Nottingham Railway
R. W. Wood, Esq. Lodge-place, St. John's-wood
Archibald Douglas Stewart, Esq. Grand Tully Castle
William Shark, Esq. director of the Guarantee Society, Cricklewood,

Middlesex
Benjamin Swan, Esq.
James Macmillan, Esq. Southampton, director of the Southampton,
Manchester, and Oxford Railway
William Pritchard, Esq. High Bailiff of Southwark
Lieutenant-Colonel Elrington, Wyndham-place
Major Jelf Sharpe, Twickenham
Major-General Brooks Parlby, C.B. Rutland-gate, Hyde-park
The Hon. George Dawson Darner, M.P., Tilney-street, Park-lane
James Reeves, Esq., Leyton, Essex
(With power to add to their number.)
ENGINEER—W. Rider, Esq.

SOLICITORS—Messrs. Potter and 6ollingriage, -5, Basinghall-street.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT—C. F. Waddy, Esq.
SECRETARY —Charles C. Sanderson, Esq.
BANKERS—The London Joint-Stock Ban.k.
LOCAL AGENTS
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Reigate—George Morrison, Esq.

The Southern Junction Railway is intended to form a communica-
tion between the Great Western Railway at Slough, and the South-
Eastern at Reigate.
It will afford the most easy access through the medium of the
Great Western Railway to the inhabitants of Reading, Maidenhead,
Windsor, Staines, Kingston, Epsom, and the principal intermediate
towns, to Dover, Brighton, Hastings, and the other watering-places
on the coast of Kent and Sussex.
Ireland, Wales, Liverpool, Birmingham, Bristol, and the manu-
facturing districts in the West of England will thus obtain a more
direct, less tedious and expensive communication with tho Continent
than by the way of London.
The length of line as proposed will be twenty-seven miles ; and,
leavese
no doubt of an
ample return for the investment of capital.f Passenger and mer-
cantile
after a careful examination, no engineering difficulty presents itself,
as it runs for more than half the distance on a level, and traverses a
country that must be greatly. benefited by this project.
The Company will be in a situation to deposit the Parliamentary
plans and sections in ample time for complying with the standing
orders, and enabling them to apply for an Act in the ensuing
session.
Th
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Applications for prospectuses and plans may be made, and forms
of applications for shares had at the offices of Messrs. Potter and
Collingridge, solicitors, 5, Basinghall-street ; of the Local Agents;
and of the following gentlemen :
London—Messrs. Peppercorne, 2, Old Broad-street
Liverpool—Messrs. Alston and Gage
Manchester—Messrs. Houghland and Leese, and Mr. William Mar-
shall
Hull—Messrs. Cellinson and Flint, and Mr. James Bowden
Leeds—Messrs. Smith and Perfect, and J. Young and Co.
Stratford-on-Avon—Mr. William Bolton
Exeter—Mr. Thomas Sanford
Plymouth—Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer
Birmingham—Mr. Collis and Mr. John Wright
Glasgow—Messrs. Tassie and Co.
Edinburgh—Messrs. Robertson and Co. and Messrs. M'Callum
and Co.
Huddersfield—Messrs. Wilson and Ilellawell •
Worcester—Mr. Thomas Henry Wheeler

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
THE SOUTHERN J UNCTION HA I LWAY.
Capital, 750,0 'N., in 37,500 Shares of 20/. each.
D posit, 2/. 2s. per Share.
To the Prov:sional Committee of the Southern Junction Railway.
Gentlemen.—l rcetvst that you will allot to me shses
of 20/. ea h in th's Co.npany, and I undertake to accept the same,
and to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that may
be allotted to m.'! ; aud I undertake also to execute the Parlitunen-
tarY Contrast and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
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