The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-22 00:00:00

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Lord Rossmore
Martin Joseph Blake, Esq., M.P. for Galway
Thomas Wyse, Esq., M.P. for Waterford
P. S. Butler, Esq., 31,P.
John James Bodkin, Esq., M.P. Galway County, 41, Piccadilly
Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Pall-mall
The Very Reverend Henry Roper, D.D., Rector of Clones
The Rev. Charles Welsh, Clones
Major White, Director of the Belfast, Dublin, and Coleraine Railway
James Brand, Esq., New Broad-street, London
Robert Riddell, Esq., Bryanstole-street, Bryanstone-square
F. W. Hamilton, Esq , Gloucester-place, Portman-square
Robert Forster, Esq., R.N., Director of Cork and Bandon Railway
William Gabbett Beare, Esq., Porchester-place, Connaught-square
Captain Ommanny, R.N., Upper Wimpole-strect
Henry Lewis, Esq., Montague-street, Montague-square
Thomas Bermingham, Esq., 16, Tielifield-terrace, Regent's Park
With power to add to their number.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—SW John RCM* F.R.S.
ACTING ENGINEERS—MessrS. Leahy, M.I.C.E.L.

SomaTous—Messrs. Johnston, Farquhar, and Leech, London.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—MMUS. George and T. W. Webster, Great
George-street.
SECRETARY—MUCUS Lewis Hill, Esq.

BANKERS—The Union Bank of London, the National Bank of Ire-
land, the Provincial Bank of Ireland, the Edinburgh and Glasgow
Bank, at Edinburgh and Glasgow; the Liverpool Bank, Liverpool ;
the Manchester and Salford Bank, Manchester.

The object of this line is to connect the important ports of Galway
and Belfast, and to transect the midland counties of Ireland.
Commencing at Galway the line will pass through or near the fol-
lowing important places :—Tuam, Castleblaney, Mount Talbot, Ath-
league, Roscommon, Lanesborough, Longford, Newton Forbes, Elphin,
Carrick-on-Shannon, Beturbet, and Clones, where it will form a junc-
tion with the Newry and Enniskillen Railway, thus forming a direct
communication between the ports of Galway and Belfast. It will at
the same time afford, in connexion with other lines, accommodation
to the counties of Limerick, Clare, Galway, Mayo, Roscommon,
Longford, Leitrim, Fermanagh, Cavan, Monaghan, Londonderry,
Antrim, Armagh, and Down, and passing by or near to the Arigna
iron mines, and the great coal and limestone fields In Connaught,
it will essentially promote the agricultural and commercial in-
terests of those places.

It will also complete an important chain of railway communication
between the port of Galway in the west (one of the most capacious
in the United Kingdom, and which must, ere long, become a packet
station for steamers to and from America, &c.), and the port of Bel-
fast in fhe northeast, where there are constantly steam packets pro-
ceeding to Glasgow and the ports on the western coast. of Scotland,
and which will be brought into cheap and rapid communication with
each other. .

It is to be observed that whilst almost every other line of railway
hitherto projected diverges from Dublin, no line is as yet proposed
which intersects the inland counties. By crossing, as it will, other
main lines, it will be a feeder to them, and it will, in return, receive
from them a considerable amount of traffic in passengers and mer-
chandize.

A preliminary survey of the district is being made ; the line will
pass for nearly the entire length through the table land of Ireland, so
that the gradients are particularly favourable; there will, moreover,
be no tunnelling, nor any engineering work of difficulty. From
the estimates which have been made it is confidently expected that a
return of 10 per cent. on the capital will be realised. The act of In-
corporation will limit the liability of the Shareholders to the amount of
shares which they may take.
Application for shares to be addressed to the Committee, at the
Company's Offices, 65, Moorgate-street, London, or to the under-
mentioned brokers :—Mr. Anthony Lawrie, Liverpool ; Mt. May,
Liverpool • Messrs. Brady and Staniforth, Manor-street, Hull; Mr.
S. Grindrod, Manchestee ' • Messrs. Cardwell and Co., Manchester;
Messrs. Watson and Co. Leeds; Messrs. E. King and Co., Leeds;
Mr. Luke Arnold, Bristol ; Mr. George Edwards, Bristol ' • Mr. Robert
Allan, Edinburgh ; Messrs. M'Ewen and Auld, Glasgow ; Mr. Andrew
Brand, Glasgow ; Mr. William Gordon, Aberdeen ; Boyle, Low, Pim,
and Co., Dublin ; gnd Bruce, and Symes, Dublin, of whom pro-
spectuses may be had.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Directors of the Galway and Belfast Junction Railway.
Gentlemen—l request that you will allot me shares of 501.
each, in the proposed Galway and Belfast June ion Railway; and
I undertake to pay the deposit and sign the necessary Deeds.
Dated the day of 1845.

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