The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-20 00:00:00

William A. S. Westay, Esq„ Hyde patk• place, London
Nicholas Ee.q. Killingwolt.h. I•lewcza,t e- upon-Tyne.

ENGINF.ERS.

116 boo. Stephomon, Esq.
T. E. Harrison, Esq.

SOLICITORS.
Mcssrs. Burcbdl, Kilgcur, and Parsons, 47, ParNalntnt-street,
London
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" Henry Toogeod, Esq. 2f2, Parliament street
Messrs. Rawstone and Nilsen, Preston,
SZCIIETARr.—W. H. Ingram, Esq. •
The attention of the Provisional Directors having bens called to
the inn.ortance of mating an extension to the town of Ripon, they
have determined to construct a Israr.ch from a convenient point on
their main line to the town of Ripen, where it will jails the Leeds
and Tbirsk line.
The Provisional Directors have at once consented to adopt this
snggc•stion, considering that this branch will open a means of railway
communication to a very rich and important district, and will afford
a valuable addition to their original scheme.
The country through which this Frio is intended to pass is ex-
tremely favourable, and the expected traffic will amply compensate
for the additional outlay.
The capital required for constructing this extension will be raised
by the issue of additional shares, which will be divided amongst
the holders of she Original Scrip as soon s,s the Directors are able
to make the necessary arrangements for that purpose.
By order of the P.nard,
W. 11. ING II AM, Secretary.

GREAT WATERFORD, KILKENNY
LONG FORD, AND SLIGO RAILWAY.
(Registered Provisionally.)
Pursuant to the 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 110.
Capital, 1,000,0001., in Shares of 23/. each.
Deposit, 2/. 123. 6d. per Share.
PROVIEIONAL COMMIIILE.

Lictetenant-General the Right Hon. Lord Bloomfield, (.C.B.
Nensgh, Tipperary
Lord Steplien Chichester, Orineau, Ant Jim
The Eight 1-lon. Lent Edward Chichester, Li, Cheshamplace, ant
Oak(leld, Donegal, (Erector of the London and Exeter Direc
Railway

Lieutenant. Colonel Nathaniel Cameron, Dan.y_Graig, near Swan.
Glamorganshire
The Hon. Francis Henry Needham, Ikforne.park, Newry, director
of the Hull and Holyhead, the Newry and Carlingford, and the
Lincoln and Northampton Railways
Sir James Doriclas Hamilton Hay, Bart., Rose Croft, Surrey
Sir William Ogilvie, Bart. Brompton
:'Sr James Eyre, Bart. Lower Brook-street,,director of the Ports-
mouth and Langston Dock Company
Parer, Count D'Alten, J.P. Grenanstown, Nenagh
Frederick Led will, Esq. J.P. Dunard, Roscrea
Micl.aal Lethalll, Esq Dairies
John Park in,on, Esq. F.R.S. director of the South Midland, and
Rareq. Darby, and Manchester Railways
C. D. ArellihaN, E. F.R.S. Rutland-hall, Lancashire, and Re-
gent's.park, director of the Birmingham and Lichfield Railway
R. M-B:ain, Esq. director of the Great County Down Railway
F. Carcitl, Esq. director of the Newry and Enniskillen Railway
William Kirkpatrick, Esq. director of the Newry, Armagb, and
Londonderry Junction
A. C. Jeffry, Esq. Liverpool, director of the Newry and Carling-
ford Railway
George H. Thompson, Esq. Greenwood Park, County Down
Edward Ward Jackson, Esq. merchant, Liverpool, director of the
Leeds and Liverpool Direct Railway
W. Douglas, Esq., merchant, Liverpool, director of the London
and Edinburgh Railway
J. Irvine, Esq., merchant, Liverpool, director of the Oxford and
Cheltenham Railway
Captain Edward Smith, R.N. Greenwich
Major Wornum, 11.E.1.C.5., Cheltenham
George Spry, Esq. Surafton, Surrey, director of the Portsmouth and
Langston Dock Company
Jahn M. Cottle, Esq. Leamington, director of the Direct Birming-
ham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
Major Arnsinck, director of the Direct Northern Railway
William Gibb, Esq. Manchester, director of the Birmingham, Ox-
ford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
John Onions, Erq. Breseley, Salop, ironmaster, director of the
Dudley, Madely, and Broseley Railway, of the Grand Junction
and Cambrian Railway, and of the London and Dublin Approxi-
mation Railway
S. E. Sieben, Esq. Manchester, director of the Leeds and Liverpool
Direct Railway
John Boyd, Esq. magistrate, Seneschal of Newry
John Thorn, Eq. Bioseley, director of the Grand Junction, and
London and Dublin Approximation Railways
W. H. Cooper, Esq. Shrewsbury, director of the Birkenhead, Bir-
mingham, and Brighton Union Railway
D. W'. Whitehead, Esq. Manchester, director of the Direct Bir-
mingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
Henry Keate, Esq. Shrewsbury, director of the London and Dublin
Approximation Railway
Alexander John Gordon, Esq. Linley Hall, %Vest Broseley, director
of the London and Dublin Approximation Railway
William Birmingham Costello, Esq. Wyke House, Brentford,
director of the Direct London and Exeter Railway
Robert Medill, E.g. merchant, director of the B:rkenhead, Bir.
mingham, end Brighton Union Railway
Isaac Taylor, Esq. Monkmoor, Shropshire, director of the Direct
Birmingham, Oxford. Reading, and Brighton Railway
James Millman Coley, Esq. Bridgenorth, director of the Cambrian
and Grxid Railway
Robert Baugh Blakemore, Esq. director of the Shrewsbury, Wol-
verhampton, and South Staffordshire Railway
Richard Lambert, Esq. Leyston.hall, Sudbury, director of the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway
Henry Diiiley Cockbutn, Esq. Woolwich, Kent, director of the
Swansea and Loughar Railway
William Henry Kebbel, Esq. Glebe-house, Kilby, Leicestershire
John A. Layard, Esq. 40, Keppel.street, ltussell.equarc, director
of the Hull, Birmingham, and Swansea Junction Railway
Henry S. Coleman, Esq. provisional director of the Great Leeds
and London Direct Railway, and of the Direct Manchester,
Leeds, and York Railway
(With power to add to their numbers.)

DkNKtRS.

London—Messrs. Spooner, ATt;ood,and Co.
Birmingham—Messrs. Attwoods and Spooner
Manchester—The National Provincial Bank of England
Liverpool—Liverpool Union Bank
Duldin-13ank of Ireland and its Branches, the Provincial Bank of
Ireland and its Branches, and the Royal Bank
Ile!fast—Northern Banking Company and its Branches
CoxsourtNo Esucver.a— Sir John M'Neil, LL. D. and F.B.S.
SOLICITORS.
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In London—Thomas Nies, Esq.,:),COPthall.court
In Dublin—Messrs. F. G. Tinkler and Robert T. Cummint, 9,
Upper Gloucester street, and I I , D'Olier.street.
PARLIX:UENTARY :TEXT—George Lewis Smyth, Esq. 2, Derby.
street, Parliament street.
SECRETARY—S. T. Jones, Esq.
The length of this line will be SO miles, serving as a direct
main trunk connexion and continuation of two other important
lines ; one in the course of formation, viz.—from Kilkenny to
Waterford, and the other, the Midland Great Western Extension
to Sligo—of whose success next session the requirements of the
country and the intrinsic excellence of that project forbid any
reasonable doukt being entertained. The aggregate of the ttree
lines will be about 170 miles, traversing, almost in a straight
course., the entire centre of the island, from its principal port
on the North-wear, to its principal port on the South-east ;
intersecting, ditricts whose teeming fertility is proverbial even in
Ireland, and opening up Somers of mineral and manufacturing
wealth hitherto neglected, or discredited; because deprived of
those facilities es: enlist to their profitable development, which it is
the object of the present undertakiug to supply.
Interfering with no existing interests, and not susceptible ofbeing
itself menaced by future schemes, the Greet Waterford, Kilkenny,
and Sligo Railway appeals to public consideration on grounds more
important than probably anything of a like nature yet broached in
Ireland. %%Plena the slightest Increase, the present traffic would
guarantee an unusually lucrative return upon the investment of
the capital raped for; aid such is the peculiar nature of the
country, that the completion of the line must be productive of
vast advantages to the nation generally, in furnishing an inex.
haustible home supply of costly and indispensable commodities of
universal consumption row circuitously imported over Sea;
while it must also hold out irresistible inducements for the loca-
tion, along its route, of British and foreign enterprise, wealth,
and skill.

This is the only line in Ireland embracing the principal—
almost the exciusive—seats of native coal and iron. At the
southern terminus of the eighty miles about to be con-
structed, coal in illimitable quantity and of the finest quality
abounds ;--at the northern terminus the same may be said of
iron, though ibr want cf the means of smelting, the ore
11:-.s been turned to :line or no account on the spot, and of course a
market at a distance is unattainable by present modes of conveyance.
The advantages of thus bringing these coal and iron mines into
justa position nccd not be enumerated ; and it would be equally
superfluous to die( II on the pecuniary inertia of a line which, in i
addition to the distinguishing feature just mentioned, aecemmo.
rates an agricultural interest surpassing that of any area of the
same extent in Ireland.

Commencing at the ♦Vaterf,rd and Kilkenny terminus, in the
latter city, the line will pars, almost midway, through the great
grazing and corn growing districts of the Queen's and King's
County, Wtstumath, and Longford, touching at or near all their
principal towns, n,mely—Freshfield, Ballyragget, Durrow, Ba
nakill, Abbeyltix, Baileyrowan, Mountrath, Maryberough, Mount.
melliek, Portarlington, Geasbili, Tullamorc, Phillipstown, Kit-
th.gg_in, Clara, Moats, Baliymahon, and Longford. The population
is upwards of oae million and a quarter, more than one-half of the
inhabitants of tie towns being engaged in trades and manufactures.
Hence the passenger traffic, computed with great care, has been
moderately estimated at 90,337/. per annum ; white the live stock
cif the district was valued in 1841 at 3,639,035/. the conveyance of
which must Cevolve upon this Company. A vast increase in both
these items may with certainty be anticipated, fur the following,

among !navy other reasons:—

Ist. By the junction at Longford with the Midland Great Wes.
tett) Et,:tc nsion, much of the produce cf Sligo, now going a 354
mile voyage to Livcrp,:ol, and much more that hardly pays the cost
of rearing, because of the isolated position of that county, must
comea;ong this line, directly communicating with so fine a port as
14-at-et-ford, the nearest to Bri.,tot, and to the profitable markets of
the south.we,.t of England. AII writers on the capabilities of Ire.
land base enforced-the necessity of throwing open Shgo to such in
tercoursc a, is here offered, and the recent data of the "Times"'
Cominissioncr more than confirm the propriety of such suggestions.
2d. Being met at Langford by the Limerick and Belfast Union,
thicti, like the majority of the Northern railways, Buds a common
focus at Clones, the principal markets of Ulster, Central Leinster,
end the East of Munster, are rendered mutually availab!e by this
line. And,
3,119. No line of any considerable length can Le constructed in
Ireland without becoming, in a greater or less degree, an auxiliary
to this line ; nor can any be projected to its material detriment,
unless running precisely parallel from terminus to terminus.
The suitability of the proposed E3O miles, for engineering pur-
poses, may be gathered from the fact, that the line w ill cross both the
Grand and the Royal Canals, the summit level of the former being
279, and of the latter, at I%lullingar, only 320 feet above the level
of the sea, and few elevations along the whole route are ,rea ter.
In Longford county, on the Roscommon and Sligo
border. the
line slightly skirts Lo•igh Allen ; chile the Midland Great
We:tern
Extells;fm, immediately after, enters the valley of the Arigna, the
liis:o-y of the iron-works on whose banks so long and fatally in_
uenced industrial enterprise in Ireland, though happily even
there prosperity is now rapidly becoming manifest. The extraor-
dinary abundance and unequalled excellence of the Iron this
district are a matter both of history and present
notoriety. Txo
c:nturies ag,-o, when charcoal could be procured for smelting, it
formed a large article of export to London, being prized as we now
prat Swedish and Russian only for mei, chat cables,

'THE LIVETZPOOL, MANCHESTER, AND .
A. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE JUNCTION RAILWAY.
EXTENSION TO RIPON.
PROVIMONd L DIftECTORS.
George Hudson, Dq. M P. York
William Hutt, Esq. M.P. Gibside, Durham
Donald Maclean, Esq ALP. Witton Castle, Durham
Christian Alltusen, EF.q. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, director of the
Newcastle upon-Tyne and North Shields Railway
George A.slilin, Eq. Mark.lane, London
James Burt, jun., Esq. Manchester, director of the Chester and
Birken:wad Railway
Ch:.yton, Esq. Losteck-hall, Prestcn
T. R. Wilson Ffrance, E.sq. Rawcliffe.hall, Lancashire
John Hartky, Esq Catteral-hall, Settle
Jonathan Hayne, Esq. Blernficid-road, Maida-hill, London
Patrick Kilgour, Esq. Woodside, Aberdeenshire, and Hamilton.
terrace. St. John's• wood, London
William Nicol, Efq. Liverpool, director of the Edinburgh and
Glasgow Railway
li. Oliveira. Esq. F.R.S., Upper Hide street, London
Francis Parker, Esq, Manchester
Charles Turner, Esq., Uncle-head, Liverpool
Char irs Ward,ll, Esq. Westhourne.teirace, Hyde Park-gardens,