The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-06 00:00:00

Joseph Ogdin March, Esq., Beech.grove, Leeds
George Peel, Esq., Horbury, near Wakefield, Director of the
Wakefield and Harrogate Junction, and the Bradford, Wake-
field, and Midland Railways
Sidney Roberts, Esq., Sheffield
John Robinson, Esq., Silcoates Cottage, near Wakefild, Director of
the Bradford, Wakefield, and Midland, and the Leeds, York,
and Midland Railways
E. W. Rudgard, Esq., Lincoln
Edward Rook, Esq., King-street, Leeds
James Reffit, Esq., Leeds

Edward Spence, Esq., Tilworth, near Hull, Director of the York.
shire and Glasgow and the Rugby, Leamington, and Warwick
Rail ways
Thomas Sidney, Esq., Sheriff and Alderman of London
Edw. Sidebottom. Esq., Piedwick-hall, Sandal Magna, Wakefield
Benjamin Smith, Esq., Duckmauton• lodge, near Chesterfield, Di-
rector of the North Derbyshire Union, and the Sheffield, Bux.
ton, Leek, and Potteries Railway
Richard Sully, Eiq , Sandon-place, Sheffield
William Starkey, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Leeds, York,
asal Midland Railways
Thomas Burdett Turton, Esq., Alderman of Sheffield
John Tall, Esq., Hull

John Taylor, Esq., Belle Vue terrace, Hull, Director of the Direct
Western Railway
George Turtoa, Esq., Bagden.lodge, Clayton West, near Hudders.
field, Director of the Bristol and Dove Railway
Joseph Turton, E,q., Brook-hill, Sheffield
Edward Vickers, Esq., Firs-hill, Sheffield
Benjamin Vickers, Esq., %Vest Cliff; Sheffield

James Wall, Esq Osgathorpe-hills, Sheffield, a Director of the

Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway
Joserh Wood, Esq., Sandal, near Wakefield, a Director of the

Wakefield and Harrogate Junction Railway
George Walker, Esq., Ovgathorpe Cottage, Sheffield
George Wall, E,q., Woodside, Sheffield
Rev. George Atkinson Walker, Alverthorpe, near Wakefield, Di-
rector of the Bradford, Wakefield, and Midland, the Leeds, York,

and Midland, and the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and Central Wales

Railways
John Ward, Esq., Machon Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Direct

Western Railway
ENGINEELIN.CHIEP-John Urpeth Rastrick, En, F. R.S.,

London.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Upton and Clapham, Leeds
Messrs. Smith and Wightman, Sheffield
BANKERS.
London Sir Richard Carr Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Co.
Leeds : Messrs. Beckett and Co.

Sheffield : The Sheffield and Hallamshire Banking Company
Wakefield : Messrs. Leatham, Tew, and Co.

Barnsley : The Wakefield and Barnsley Union Banking Company.

SECRETARY.—Henry Jubb, Esq,

The main line of this railway will be about fifteen miles in
length. Commencing at the Wortley Station, on the Sheffield and
Manchester Railway, it will pass through the town of Silkstou, and
near to
_Dodworth, accommodatiag the whole of that valuable
mining district with the most ready outlet for its celebrated coal to
all parts of the kingdom. It proceeds by Darton, Chapelthorpe,
and• Sandal, to Wakefield, where it will join the Leeds and Man.
chester, and the newly projected railways to Leeds and Harrogate,
and to Pontefract and Goole.

The inhabitants of Barnsley will also be accommodated by a
branch to that town, from the main line, giving them direct and
easy communicistion with the north and south.
The distance from Leeds to Suffield by this line, and its con-
nexions northwards, will be only thirty.two miles; by the present
route it is thirty-eight miles. The distance from Wakefield to
Sheffield by this line will be only twenty-three miles ; it is now, by
way of Normanton, thirty.one miles ; and by way of Oakenshaw,
twenty-eight miles, between two and three of which are by mud.
bus. Besides this saving of actual distance, the tedious stoppages
at Masborough and Normanton, the delays of which are often equal
to twenty miles of travelling, will be avoided,
A careful survey has been made, by an experienced surveyor,
who reports that the line from Wakefield to Siikston will
run with easy gradients nearly on the surface of the ground for
the greater part of the way ; and that the only work of any mag-
nitude will be a tunnel, about six hundred yards long, at Woolley.
common, which will occasion in the approach to it from Wake-
field an ascending gradient of 1 in 108. The works between
Silkston and Wortley are of a heavier character, but in no
part will the gradient be more than 1 in 112. The ruling
gradient will be about 1 in 180.
This undertaking, in connexion with other railways, is in-
tended to accomplish the following very important objects :—First,
a direct line of communication between London and Leeds, the
Northern Counties and Scotland. Secondly, the opening of the
extensive and valuable coal-fields of Silkston, Dodworth, Barns.
ley, and the adjacent districts, to the manufacturing and other
towns of Yorkshire, the ports of Hell, Selby, Goole, Great
Grimsby, and Boston, and also to the Metropolis, and the Mid-
land, and Western counties. Thirdly, the accommodation of the
inhabitants of the places through which this railway will pass,
with those facilities of conveyance for passengers, of
which, from the almost entire absence of good roads,
as well as railways, they have hitherto been destitute.
An examination of the Map will show how well these objects
will be attained by means of this railway. At its northern termi.
nus, Wakefield. it will be connected with the Leeds and Manches-
ter Railway, continued to the Midland and the lines extending
from it to the north and east, with the projected Wakefield and
Harrogate and Wakefield and Leeds lines (the latter a branch of
the Leeds and Dewsbury from Churwell), and through it with
the Leeds and Thirsk, the Leeds and Bradford, and other railways,
to the north-west and Scotland. And at Wortley, its southern
'errninus, it will be connected with the Sheffield and Manchester
Railway, the projected Manchester, Midland, and Great Giimsbv,
and the Sheffield and Lincolnshire lines, the Sheffield and Great
Grimsby Railway, the projected Sheffield and Chesterfield Railway,
and the various new projects from Sheffield to the northern parts of
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and the west.
The quantity of coal which this railway will make directly
accessible to all parts of the kingdom may be estimated from the
following statements given in evidence before a Committees of the
House of Commons :—The township of Barnsley contains 2,010
acres of coal bed, Barughs 5,080 acres, Dodworth, 6,219 acres,
Silkston, 4,040 acres. The quantity of coal in the Silkston main
alone is thirty.seven millions three hundred and fourteen thou-
sand tons, and the quantity likely to be raised from the entire dis-
trict through which the railway will pass, is not less than seventy•
eight millions of tons.

Pits raay be sunk close by the railway, and will require only
an engine to lift the coals perpendicularly, and pour them into the
trucks.

In addition to this, an opportunity will be afforded of turning
to better account a bed of ironstone underlying a space of 5,080
acres.

The construction of this railway would so cheapen the transit
of coal to York, Hull, and all intermediate towns to the north
and east, and westward to Glossop, Ashton, Manchester, Stock-
port, and other towns in Cheshire, that the owners of this ♦alu.
able mineral would be able successfully to compete with those of
Durham and Lancashire.

The inexhaustible mineral traffic which will thus be developed
—the means which this railway will afford of improved transit be.
tween Leeds and Sheffield, so long a desideratum to the inhabitants
of these, the two largest towns in Yorkshire—the opening of direct
railway communication with Barnsley, from which that important
manufacturing town has hither o been excluded—its con.
nexion with the line projected to Harrogate, whither
so many thousands of visitors annually resort in pur.
suit of health and pleasure, constitute a summary of
advantages which cannot fail to recommend this project to
public favour and support. It is calculated that the traffic in
minerals alone will yield a lucrative return to the Shareholders ;
while the extraordinary increase of travelling which every ad-
ditional facility creates, and the surprising influx of trade which
every new railway brings to the district through which it passes,
adding largely to the profits of the undertaking, render it pro-
bable that the advantages which will actually be realised by this
project will exceed the most sanguine expectations of its pro.
moters.

Applications for Shares may be made, in the subjoined form,
to the Solicitors ; and also to Messrs, Ridsdale, Myers, and Bailey,
Messrs. Smith and Perfect, Messrs. John Everard Upton, Share.
brokers, Leeds; Messrs. Ridsdale and Rogers, Sharebrokers,
Wakefield; Messrs. Garton and Wright, Mr. George Eadon,jun.,
and Mr. John May, Sharebrokers, Sheffield ; Messrs. C. Wilkin.
son and Earle, Sharebrokers, Hull; and Messrs. Peet and Son,
Sharebrokers, Nottingham.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

To the Provisional Committee of the Sheffield, Wortley, Silkston,
and Wakefield Railway Company.

Gentlemen,—l request you to allot to me shares of
25/. each in the above.named Company, and I undertake to accept
the same, or such less number as you may appropriate to me, sub-
ject to the regulations of the Company, to execute the Parlia-
mentary Contract and the Subscribers' Agreement, and to pay,
when required, the deposit of 2/ 12s. 6d. per share.

I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
Name (in full)
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Profession, trade, or occupation
Residence (in full)
Place of business (if any).. .....
Name and address of Referee
Date

THE SHEFFIELD, VORTLEY, SILKSTON.
and WAKEFIELD RAILWAY.

Notice is hereby given, that no further APPLICATIONS for
SHARES in this COMPANY can be received after THURSDAY,
the 9th day of October instant, immediately after which the al-
lotment will take place.

By Order,

HENRY JUBB, Secretary.

THE DIRECT LONDON, PORTSMOUTH,
(Pr
AND CHICHESTER, AND DIRECT PORTS3IOUTH
AND CHATHAM RAILWAY, via REIGATE.
Capital, I
'7°"ovisionally Registered.)
~ in 85,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISION/LI. COMMITTLE.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Egmont, of Cowdray Park, Sussex
Colonel George Wyndham, of Petworth House, Sussex
Tile Hon. and 11ev. L. Vernon Harcourt, of West Dean, Sussex
The Right Hon. Lord de Lisle, of Penshurst, Kent
Tile Right Hon. Lord Pelham Clinton, of Carleton Villas, Metals- hill
The Right lion. Lord Ressmore, of the Dell, Windsor
Sir Charles William Taylor, Bart., of Hollycombe House, Sussex
The lion. Robert Gore, M.P., of 21, Wilton-crescent
The
ht. Stafford
llain
JMe rni ngh
M.
Dawson,
alll, B o Pooleek st ree Lodge,
Dorset
The
The Hon. Percy
i'reltkea'rt3, B 7
etligrersago-usr(ll7ea-rse
Sir William
Young,
treet, Hyde Park, Director
of the East India Company
Sir .lames Eyre, of 11, Brook-street, Grosvenor-squaredis
Sir James Carmichael, Bart., of 40,
Sir Robert Schomburgli, of New KingsSut
ofEaton-place, Director of the
Howard Elphiestone, Esq., M.P., solei, xga
Surreyr e!
Direct Western Railway
Company, the Thames Embankment
Company, &c.
William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq.,
land Railway
M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid-
Robert Wynne Williams, Esq., Director of tile Nottingham and Gains-
borough Railway
Lee Steere, Esq., of Jey's Park, Surrey
Captain Charles Shirley, of Midhurst, Sussex
Lieut.-Colonel Eden, I, Lowndes-street, Itelgrave-square
Andrew Spottiswoodc, Esq., of Broom Hall, Surrey
Admiral John Ayscough, of Prospect-place House, Southampton
Launcelot Archer Burton, Esq., of Woodlands, Emsworth, Halite
Charles Dixon, Esq., of Statistead Paris, Sussex
Archibald Douglas Stewart, of Bruton-street
E. T. Dayrell, Esq., 14, Old Cavendish-street, High Sheriff of Buck-
inghamshire
Colonel Henry Dundas Campbell, of North-end House, Portsmouth,
Deputy-Lieutenant for Hants
Major Snow, of 4, Old Cavendish-street
The Rev. Henry Garrett Newland, of Westheurne Rectory, Sussex
Francis Lysons Price, Esq., of Sydenharn, Kent, Director of the
Shropshire Mineral Railway
James Beech, Esq., of Brandon Hall, Warwickshire
George Grantham, Esq., of llarcombe-place, Sussex
Charles Hurst, Esq., of Mielhurst, Sussex
George Harrisen,:Esq., F.S.A., Director of the Hull and Holyhead
Frederick Clarkson, Esq., of Tottenham, s Directors of
Robert Chapman, Esq., of 1, Park-place, Regent's I the Great
} Park, Manchester
William Watson Prole, Esq., of Thurlow-squared Railway
Brampton, J Company
John Weston, Esq., 28, Woburn-square, Director of the Great Man-
chester Railway
Thomas Chitty, Esq., of 8, tipper Gower-street, Barrister-at-Law,
Director of thoTtininAham and Leicester Railway Company
John Rawson, Esq., Stoney Royd, Halifax, Deputy-Lieutenant for the
West siding of Yorkshire
James Reeves, Esq., Leyte'', Essex
John rapper, Esq., f Hold House, Surrey
Stephen Loudell, Esq., of Lindileld, Sussex
George Barker, Esq., of Stilland, Sussex
James Ilitchins, Esq., of Lincoln, Director of the Manchester and
Swithampton hallway Company
LThsaernw.iunseasl:ocoenNeelat.ke,
Pocock, Esq., ooffAßlocingtatitget,tes-ustrrreeeyt, Russell-square
Esq., of Reigate Surrey
Thomas Neale, Esq., jun., of Reigate,Reigate,
Surrey
John Lucas, ofEleBsq,.,Ewi . o
Varrtf
Itliaidlih-huirslLifaslemere
Thomas Row';‘' Sussex
Surrey-street, Director of
Edward Doubtlay, Esq., F.L.S , o
the Rugby, arwick. and Worcester Railway
F.S.A., of Croydon
Matropolligt julttiVll CompanySnrrey, Director of the