The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-29 00:00:00

An RIG HTON, LEW ES, TUNBRIDGE
ALP WELLS, GRAVESEND, AND EASTERN COUNTIES
JUNCTION RAILWAY, with Branches to Chatham and-Maidstone,
Capital, 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21.25. per Share.
(Provisionally Registered pursuant to 7 and:B Viet., c. 110.)
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Sir John Key, Part. . Wm. Kuper, Esq.
The Mayor of Gravesend
John Brough, Esq.
T. M. Cleobury, Esq.
Nath. Cumberlege, Esq.
H. C. Curtis, Esq.

John Kerschner, Esq.
S. H. Powell, Esq.
W. White, Esq.
R. W. Keate, Esq.

BANKERS.
Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co Clement's-lane.
Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, and Co. Charing-cross.
At Lewes—Messrs. Molyneux, Whitfield, and Co.
CoNsurrixa ENGINEERS—Sir John Macneill and Jas. Thomson, Esq.
ENGINEER—B. Albano, Esq. and Wm. Laxton, Esq. C.E.
SOLICITOR—In London—George Smith, Esq. 24, Golden-square, and
2, Guildhall-chambers, BasTnghall-street.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Coombe and Sharbuid, Town-hall, Gravesend
Messrs. J. and E. Blaker, Lewes.
SECRETARY—Mr. James Ellen.
Offices, 11, Adam-street, Strand.
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The object of this undertaking is to bpen a direct line of railway
to connect the Northern, Eastern, and South Essex Railways, by
means of a steam-ferry from Tilbury Fort to Gravesend, with Tun-
bridge Wells, Lewes, and Brighton.
It is contemplated to proceed from the Eastern Counties Railway
at or near Marlow station to Tilbury, crossing the river by a steam
floating-bridge to Gravesend. passing by Cobham, Snodland, Mail-
ing, and Hadlow, to Tunbridge, thence by the South-Eastern Railway
to Tunbridge Wells, passing Uckfield to Lewes, and thence joining
the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway to Brighton. -
An inspection of the map will clearly show the great importance of
this railway, whether considered in a local or national point of view,
forming, as it will, a most useful chain of local communication for
the fertile and populous tracts through which It passes.
It will bring the Northern and Eastern Counties, the month of the
Thames, and North Kent, into direct communication, by way of
Brighton, with Dieppe and Havre, and thus form, in conjunction
with the railways now in progress on the Continent, the shortest
possible route to Paris and the Mediterranean.
By this railway the large population of the north-eastern coun-
ties, numbering nearly two millions, will have a direct and easy com-
munication with the whole of the populous and important counties of
Kent and Sussex, without going round to London, and thereby
avoiding the inconvenience arising from the unconnected lines north
and south of the metropolis.
The utility of this line to the naval and military service, both in
times of peace and war, for the conveyance of troops and stores, is
evident.

With the existing railways and those now in progress in Kent and
Sussex, a most complete system of local communication will Le
effected ; and as such, the project has been received with the most
distinguished approbation and pledges of support from the principal
proprietors altng the line, and the corporation of Gravesend have
promised their entire sanction to, and will cordially support it.
The ground has been carefully surveyed, and found to present no
difficulties to the formation of a good working line.
The existing local traffic has been 'ascertained to be amply suffi-
cient to fulfil the requirements of the undertaking ; but a large ac-
cession of valuable traffic cannot fail to be the result of the increased
accommodation thus afforded to the public, and rendering the und.r-
taking one of the most important as well as productive lines of rail-
way in that part of the country.
The Committee reserve power to themselves to form branches from
Snodland to Chatham and Maidstone.

The liability of the Shareholders will be restricted by Act of Par-
liament to the amount of their subscriptions, and power will be a?-
piled for In the Bill to allow interest at four per cent. per annum on
all calls, from the passing of the Act until the opening of the line.
Applications for prospectuses, and also for shares, may be addressed
in the usual form, to the Secretary, at the Office of the Company, 11,
Adam•street, Strand ; George Smith, Esq., solicitor, 24, Gulden-
square, and 2, Guildhall Chambers ; Messrs. Coombe and Sharland,
Gravesend ; Messrs. J. and E. Blakcr, Lewes ; and also of the fol-
lowing sharebrokers :
Messrs. Field, Son, and Bayley, Warnford-court, Throgmortcn-
street, London
Messrs. Harris and Sens, Change-alley, London
Mr. M. L. Pritchard, Liverpool
Messrs. Gardiner and lkap, Manchester
Mr. Isaac Ironside, Sheffield
Messrs. Hirst and Brooke, Leeds
Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer, Plymouth
Mr. J. B. Mundy, Bath
Mr. A. Moffatt, Edinburgh
31r. Wright, Birmingham
Messrs. Peet and Son, Nottingham
Messrs. Sohms and Tripp, Bristol
Mr. Brand, Glasgow
Mr. Joseph Clark, jun., Southampton
Mr. John Pollock, Bradford
Messrs. Tihary and Simpson, Hull.

RIGHTON, LEAVES, TUNBRIDGE
111. WELLS, GRAVESEND, AND EASTERN COUNTIES
JUNCTION RAILWAY, with Branches to Chatham and Maidstone.
The Managing Committee beg to give notice that no Applications
for Shares will be received after MoNnsv next, the 3d November.

They have much pleasure in stating that the engineers are pledged
to complete the surveys of the whole line to be formed by this Com-
pany- between the eastern counties and Tunbridge, by which the
connexion with Brighton will be contpleted, and also the branches
to Chatham and Maidstone, in sufficient time for making the ne-
cessary deposits required by the standing orders.
By order,
JAMES ELLEN, Secretary.
11, Adam-street, StrAnl, Oct. 28, 1845.

THE LEICESTER, MELTON MOWBRAY,
and SPALDING JUNCTION RAILWAI , giving, with other
formed and projected lines, the nearest route from Birmingham,
Coventry, and Leicester to the Eastern Coast, and a communicatim
from Birmingham, via Nuneaton, Leicester, and Melton Mowbray,
to Spalding.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Offices, 4, Trafalgar-square, Charing-crass.
Capital 600,0001., in 25,000 Shares of 201. eack
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
PIOTISIONAL COMMITTEE.

"fit'ynn Ellis, Esq. M.P. for Leicester, director of the Brandon and

Spalding Railway
William Corbet Smith, Esq. Eittleswell-hall, High Sheriff of Lelces

tershire
The Hon. C. P. Tißiers, M.P. Chairman of the Northampton, Eau

bury, and Cheltenham Railway
The Hon. Major C. Napier, Rugby, director of the Peterborcugh and

Nottingham Railway -
General Johnsen, M.P.
William Collins, Esq. M.P.
Ralph Etwall, Esq. M.P.
Thomas Wakefield, Esq. Nottingham, director of the Brandon and

Spalding Railway
Matthew Gisborne, Esq. Walton-hall, Derbyshire
Joseph Ellis, Esq. Glenfield-lodge, Leicester
Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.B. director of the East India Company
Sir Edwin Pearson, F.R.S. Gloucester-terrace, Regent's-park
Ambrose Moore, Esq. Milk-street, Cheapside
Josiah Wilson, Esq. Stamford-hill
George Meek, Esq. Russell-square
John Clement Muting, Esq. director of the National Bank of Ireland
Francis Valentine Lec, Esq. director of the Eastern Counties Railway
Richard Heaviside, Esq. Briuhton
William Ettwall, Esq. Longstock-down, near Stockbridge, director
of the Southampton and Manchester Railway
William Shadbolt, Est. chairman of the Greenwich Railway Com-
pany
T. E. Bigge, Esq. Bryanstone-square
Captain Gustavus Evans, R.N. Headley-grove, Surrey, director of the
Nottingham. Birmingham, and Coventry Railway
wlVEalscifeY W'
Valentine Knight, Esq. Cornwall-terrace, Regent's-park
Samuel Kumpson, Esq. Little Sutton, Sutton Coldfleld, Warwick-
shire
Frederick Pearson, Esq. Piccadilly
W.
fAt.hes
Wilkinson,WEllrkei
ns
Railway
Down, Stoke Newington, director
Herbert Ingram; Esq. Swinshead-abbey, Lincolnshire
John Tathan Banks, Esq. warden and magis--
trate of Louth, Lincolnshire
William Gresham, Esq. Aderman of Lin-
Provisional Directors
coin of the Great Grime-
Samuel Trought, Esq. Loath, Lincolnshire
by, Louth, and Lin-
William Ward, Esq. M.D. Horncastle
Edwin Cadman, Esq. Westbournc-house, cola Railway.
Sheffield, director of the Isle of Ely, Wis.
beach, and Lincoln Railway
The Rev. J. B. llLidebrand, rector of Saxby, near Melton-Mowbray,
Leicestershire
John Thomas Raworth, Esq. Leicester, provisional director a the
South Union Railway
Nathaniel C. Stone, Esq. Rowley-fields, near Leicester
John Eames, Esq. Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire
Frederick Cayley Worsley, Esq. Imberhorne-house, Sussex, director
of the Nottingham, Birmingham, and Coventry Railway
John Smith Mansfield, Esq. Essex-court, Temple
Charles Hance, Esq. Alexander-square, Brompton
Thomas Bridges, Esq. Marwood-liiil, Devonshire
Thomas Bent, Esq. M.D. Derby
Douglas Fox, Esq. Derby
John D. Cooper, Esq. Ashbearne, Derbyshire, director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway
Henry F. Gisborne, Esq. Derby, director of the Tamworth and Lei-
cester, Coventry and Nuneaton Railway
John Hamp, Esq. Catton, Derbyshire
Joshua Harding,. Esq. Roslistion, Derbyshire
Nathaniel Nadin, Esq. Stapenhill, Derbyshire
J. Nadin, coal proprietor, Newhall and Swadlincote Collieries, Derby-
shire
R. Sherratt Tomlinson, Esq. Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire
Charles James Mason, Esq. Fenton, Staffordshire
Joseph Nunneley, Ese Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire
William Little, Esq. Peterborough, director of the Peterborough and
Nottingham Railway
I. P. Balubrigge, Esq. Derby, director of the Derby and Crewe
Railway
J. C. Williams, Esq. M.D. Nottingham
Henry Smith, Esq. Gainsborough
William Lister Sharp, Esq. Gainsborough, director of the Derby and
Great Grimsby, and of the Cambridge and Lincoln Extension
Railway.

COMMITTER OF MANAGEMENT.
Chairs an—Wynn Ellis, Esq. M.P.
Deputy-Chairman—Josiah Wilson, Esq.
Thomas Wakefield, Esq. ' John Smith Mansfield, Esq.
Ambrose Moore, Esq. George Meek, Esq.
Francis Valentine Lee, Esq. Capt. Gustavus Evans, lt.N.
John D. Cooper, jun., Esq.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—CharIes For, Esq.
ENGINEER—John Hughes, Esq.
BANKERS.
The London Joint-Steck Bank, Princes-street
Messrs. Pagets and Kirby, Leicester
Pare's Leicestershire Banking Company, Melton-Mowbray
The Stamford, Spalding, and Bostan Banking Company, Spalding
Messrs. Evans and Co., Derby
The Burton Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent.
flomcfroas—Messrs. Lacy and Bridges, 19, King's Arms-yard, Cole-
man-street ; Abraham Bass, Esq. Burton-upon-Trent.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS —Messrs. Dyson, Hall, Parkes, and Coates,
Parliament-street.