The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-30 00:00:00

I. The Jesuits.
11. Willis's Dashes at Life.
111. Mary Queen of Scots.
IV. 3fackay's Legends of the Isles.
V. The Bokhara Mission.
VI. Dr. Arnold.
VII. Critical and Miscellaneous Notices—University Intelligence.
London : Joha Mortimer, Adelaide .street. Oxford : Vhicen,
Cambridge : Deightons.

PRESTON and WYRE RAILWAY, HAR•
BOUR, and DOCK COMPANY.
Notice is hereby given, that a SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING
of the PROPRIETORS of the PRESTON and WYRE RAILWAY,
HARBOUR, and DOCK COMPANY, will be held at the Offices of
the Company at Fleetwood, in the county of Lancaster, on WED-
NESDAY, the 10th day of September next, at Twelve o'clock at noon
precisely, for the purpose of considering and assenting to, or dissent-
ing from, a proposal that the Directors of the Company shall be
authorised to take such measures as they may be advised for apply-
ing to Parliament to obtain the necessary power to enable the Com-
pany to make, construct, and maintain a railway from the Preston
and Wyre Railway, at or near Fleetwood•on-Wyre, in the county of
Lancaster, to communicate with the Lancaster and Carlisle Rail-
way, at or near Lancaster, in the said county, with all such works
and conveniences as may be deemed necessary in connexion there-
with. By order of the Board of Directors,

H. BAZETT JONES, secretary,
Offices of the Company, Fleetwood, Aug. 22, 1445.

IVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, and NEW-
./ CASTLE-UPON-TYNE JUNCTION RAILWAY.

The Committee of Management beg to announce to the applicants
for Shares in this undertaking, that fhe allotment is completed, and
that the letters of allocation have been this day posted. Thp at
the same time beg to express their regret that in consequence of the
very numerous applications that have been made, they were com-
pelled in every instance to reduce very considerably the claims of
those parties whose applications were entertained, and in many cases
to reject altogether the names of numerous applicants of the most
undoubted respectability.

The Committee trust that those persons who do not receive
letters of allotment will accept this explanation as a sufficient
apology for their requests not having been complied with.
By order,

W. K. INGRAM, Secretary,
22, Parliament-street, Angust 29, 1845.

EAST AND WEST OF ENGLAND JUNC-
TION RAILWAY.
FROM NORTHAMPTON TO CHELTENHAM.
Broad Guage.
The Committee of Direction beg to announce that the letters of
allotment have this day been posted.
They beg to express their deep regret at having been compelled to
reject the claims of so many thousands of applicants of undoubted
respectability, and to curtail in nearly every instance the claims of
those parties whose applications were entertained.
This course of proceeding was rendered unavoidable by the un-
precedented number of applications which had been received.
By Order,
ROBERT WATKINS Jun., Secretary.
Offices, 35, Charing Cross.

PROSPECTUS of the YORK and LANCAS-
TER RAILWAY.
Capital, 1,600,0001., in 32,000 Shares of 501. each.
Deposit, 2/. 10s. per Share.
Offices of the Company, Palace Chambers, St. James's-street,
Westminster.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Sir Thomas Woollaston White, Bart., Walling Wells, Notts, and
Bewerley, Yorkshire
Sir Henry Webb, Bart, 105, Pall-mall, London
Hon. Octavius Duncombe, 3f .P., North Riding, Yorkshire
Philip Henry Howard, Esq., M.P. Carlisle, Corby Castle, Carlisle
William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P., Anglesey
The Hon. D. Kinnaird Pulteney, 4, Parliament-street, Whitehall
Sir John Hare, 11, Langham-place, London, Director of the Liver-
pool and Leeds Railway
Richard Alc3ck, Esq., Grassington House, Grassington
John Chauatler, Esq., Friday-street, London
Nathaniel Cooke, Esq., Bayswater, Director of the Nottingham and
Boston Railway
Daniel S. Crouch, Esq., Inner Temple, London
Joseph Dent, Esq., Ribston Park, Wetherby
Henry Farington, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Wigan Rail-
way Company
John Holford, Esq., Rusholm Hall, near Manchester
Joseph Holdsworth, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Midland
Railway
Hanley Hutchinson, Esq., Grassfleld House, Pateley-bridge
John Manwaring, Esq., Eagle Hall, Pateley.bridge
William John Norris, Esq., Bedford-place, London
A. Macdonald Ritchie, Esq., Middle Temple, London
John Yorke, Esq., Bewerley Park, Pateley-bridge
Charles Wood, Esq., Park-terrace; Chorley, Lancashire
Richard Kelly, Esq., Chairman of the New Ross, Carlow and Kil-
kenny Railways, 6, Cleveland-row, St. James's
Pierce Somerset Butler, Esq., M.P.
F. W. Hamilton, Esq., 59, Gloster-place, Portman-square
Thomas Meynell, Esq., Kilvington Hall, near Thlrsk, Yorkshire
Edward Norris, Esq., 3lancheSter, Director of the Direct London and
Manchester Railway
Nathaniel Ogle, Esq., Heath-lane Lodge, Twickenham
BANKERS.
London—The London and Westminster Bank
York—Messrs. n .Clough, and Co.
Settle—Mess AikfTheatks
Lancaster—Thiofsvicaster Banking Company
Liverpool—Thelityal Bank
Soucrross—bidlitr. Chatuatler and Westwood, 5, Gray's-inn-square,
London.
LOCAL AGENTS.

G. H. Seymour, Esq., York
Messrs. Higgln and Maxsted, Lancaster
Matthew Gill, Esq., and Richard D'Ewes, jun., Esq., Knaresborough
F. Pearson, Esq., Kirkby Lonsdale
Sacirreirr—Samuel Holdsworth, Esq., Sowerby-bridge, Halifax.
The railway will proceed from York to Lancaster (about 72 miles)
by the most direct practicable route, and pass near Knaresborough,
Harrowgate, Long Preston, Settle, and many other important places.
The counties of York and Lancaster comprise a population of
3,500,000 persons, and are, perhaps, the most wealthy and populous
divisions of the kingdom. The roads between York and Lancaster
are mostly carried over the tops of hills, and, in winter, are nearly
impassable ; this line will pass along the valleys, and the journey,
now rarely made, by coach, within twelve hours, may be performed,
on the railway, in two hours and a half.
It will provide facilities of access to all the great manufacturing,
mining, and agricultural districts of the north of England, to the Isle
of Man, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales ; to Ilamburgh, by connecting
Morecombe Bay and Fleetwood Harbour on the west coast with the
port of Hull on the east coast; to the lakes of Westmoreland and
Cumberland; to Harrogate, celebrated for its unrivalled sulphur,
mineral, and chalybeate springs; and to the important intermediate
districts between York and Lancaster, which abound with valuable
minerals, and raise vast quantities of live stock and agricultural pro-
duce. Many places near the intended course of the line are known
to possess inexhaustible supplies of lead, iron, slate, limestone, free-
stone, and other useffil minerals, but these are now comparatively
unavailing, from the great cost of coals and carriage. The railway
will rapidly develop these sources of prosperity, byintroducing coals at
a low price, and providing cheap carriage for mineral produce of
every kind; it will also furnish a most desirable means of transit for
passengers and merchandise to and from every part of the king-
dom, and a cheap conveyance for immense quantities of live stock
and agricultural produce from the rural to the manufacturing
and mining districts. Many completed and projected railways will
Intersect this line, and greatly facilitate traffic and intercourse in
every direr:tem : with th. Diroota, of thcac aailwitys, and of various
others which have a station at York or Lancaster, the Committee
will endeavour to make arrangements likely to prove mutually bene-
ficially, and they have much pleasure in stating that the landowners
along the line are extremely favourable to the undertaking, and con-
sider it will materially augment the value of their possessions and
prove advantageous to the country and the shareholders.
It has been fully ascertained that the proposed line presents but
few engineering difficulties, and that, although it will pass through
some very hilly districts, it may be constructed along valleys, and
with favourable gradients throughout nearly its entire course. The
liability of the shareholders will be restricted by Act of Parliament
to the amount of their subscriptions, and power will be applied for
In the Bill to allow interest at four per cent. per annum on all calls,
from the passing of the AcPto the opening of the line.
Applications for shares may be addressed, in the form annexed, to
the under-mentioned brokers, viz. : Messrs. B. and M. Boyd,
Princes-street, Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Threadneedle-street,
and Messrs. Wells, Westropp, and Prinsep, 75, Old Broad-street,
London ; Messrs. Greystone and Earle, York; Mr. Thackray, Har-
rogate ; Mr. Joseph Nelson, Settle ; Mr. W. Welch, Lancaster ;
air. Anthony Laurie, and Mr. May, Liverpool ; Mr. Peter Leices •
ter, and Messrs. Cardwell and Co., Manchester ; Mr. James Pear-
son, Birmingham ; Messrs. Joshua Wood and Son, Messrs. Watson
and Co., and Messrs. E. King and Co., Leeds ; Messrs. Brady and
Staniforth, Hull ; Mr. J. A. Rutchart, Huddersfield ; Mr. Hervey,
Halifax ; Mr. Nightingale, Wakefield ; Messrs. Samuel -Hutchin-
son and Co., Bradford ; Mr. Luke Arnold, and Mr. George Ed-
wards, Bristol ; Mr. G. R. Gliddon, and Mr. Thomas Sand-
ford, Exeter; Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and Co., Chelten-
ham ; Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer, Plymouth ; Mr. Robert
Allan, Messrs. Hugh Munro and Co., Mr. David Kinnear, and Mr.
James Pringle, Edinburgh; Mr. W. Pringle, Leith ; Messrs. M'Ewen
and Auld, Glasgow; Mr. William Gordon, Aberdeen, of whom pro-
spectuses may be had; or to the Provisional Committee, at:the offices
of the Company, Palace Chambers, St. James's-street, London.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the York and Lancaster Railway
Company.
Gentlemen,—l request you will:allot to me Shares of 501.
each in the abovemtmed Company, and I hereby undertake to pay
the deposit thereon, and to execute the necessary deeds when-
required.

EA NKE2I.B.

London—The Commercial Bank, Lothbury
Bicester —Messrs. Tubb and Co.
Woodstock—Messrs. Gillett and Tawney
Witney—The London and County Bank

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GREAT NORTHERN of FRANCE
RAIL WAY.
RORAMEL COMPANY.
The Provisional Committee roiliest a Meeting of the Shareholders
at the London Tavern, Bishopsg.ate-street, on TUESDAY NEXT, the
2.c1 September, at One o'clock precisely.
By order of the Provisional Committee,
E. L. DE PREY, Secretary.
63, MOOrgata-street, August 29.

PARIS AND LYONS RAILWAY.
(GANNERON'S LINE.)
Notice la' hereby given to the Shareholders that, prior to presenting
to the Fremlß Government the tender for the lease of the line, and in
conformity vrith the stanites of the Company, the further stun of 1/.
per share is rewired to be paid on or before WEDNESDAY, the 17th of
September next, to the Company's London Bankers, Messrs. Smith,
Payne, and Smith, 1, Lombard-street
The Scrip Certitlce•tes must be ,oroduced at the time of payment,
and a receipt for the additional If. will then be given. The Shares
on which this call of is not paid, as above required, will he re-
allotted immediately after the 17th ce September, and the deposit
will be paid to the original parties.
By order of the Committee,
WILLIAM VILLESBOLiNET,
EDWARD FILDER, 1 Secrets; tea pro tem.
Offices, 7, Tokenhonse-yard, London, August 29, 1845.

INCOME WITHOUT RISK.
THE LONDON GENUINE TEA COM-
PANY, established Nov. 5, 1818, at 23, faidgate-hill, are
now filling im their Lists of AGENTS ; and Persons cleairous of such
an appointment, by which many have derived considerable incomes
without risk during the last twenty-six years, are requested to
-apply to the Company, at ,their Warehouses, 2, Latium,' Pountney-
• hill, London.

JOHNSON'S PA' TENT TRAVI3LLING
BEDS, requiring neither straps nor lacing. —The attention of
the Nobility and Gentry about to visit the Continent is s olioited to
JOHNSON'S Portable Folding Hinged Bedstead, weigilling only
bOlbs., which, with the bedding, is pa.:!ked in a small waterproof va-
lise or imperial. Johnson's Improve, I Portmanteau will h.e found
the most convenient and economical al It cle yet offered to file pub-
11c, Combining all the advantages ofa ports naiileau, hat-case, as, I bag.
Can be had only of E. Johnson, Patel.' tee, 160, Piccadilly.

MARQUEES, TEN I'S, RICK- CL 0 Til.,S,
FLAGS, &c.
THOMAS EDGINOTON and CO., No. 17, Smillitlekl-bars, and
Old Kent-road, respectfully inform the nobility, gentry, an d agricul-
turists, that they have on sale a large assortment of Waterproof
Rick Cloths, Marquees, and Tents, of all dimonsionii, ready for de-
livery, at a moderate price; also, for hire, a number of spacious Mar-
quees, with boarded floors, elegantly lined, adapted for Fetes, balls,
dialler and supper parties, horticultural societies, &c. Netting for
*merrily fruit trees.
Address, Thomas Edging'ton and Co., 17, Smithfield -bars.

London-3fessrs. J. Peppercorne and Co., 9, Old Broad-street • Mr.
W. B. ilarri,on, 8, Barll-diambers; Mr. Thoe.lltuabury, 4, Angel-
court.

Liverpool—Messrs. Mills and Co-., And Messrs. Nelson.
Manchester—Mess-I*A. ilofiglilaninilid LOW, and Mr. Wm. Marshall
Ilull—Messrs. CoHinson and Flint
Leeds—Messrs. Watson and Co.
Stratford-on-AvVoti=3fr; Yyilil uli. Dolton
Exeter—Mr. 'l:limn:Ls Sanford • .
Plymouth _Messrs._' and Palmer
Bl=lngham-31r. Willis, and Mr. John Wright.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the South and Midlands Juncti,
Railway.
(.102tlern;11,---1 request that you will allot to me Shares of 20. L.
each in this Company, and I undertake to accept the same, and t, pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that may be allotted
to me ; rand I undertake also to execute tho Parliamentary contract
and Subsc.-ibers' agreement when required.
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GARDENING FOR THE MILLION !!!
GLENNY'S ORIGINAL GARDEN NEWS-
',Arra-. The Gardener's Gazette"--now indispensable to all
Gardeners, Amateur and Professional, is published every Saturday,
stamped, price 6d.
GLENNY'S GARDEN ALMANACK (the original one), price Is.,
embellished, will appear with the other almanacks. Advertisements—
Ten lines or under, 10s. 6d. ; whole page, two guineas.
GLENNY'S GARDENING FOR THE MILLION; a complete
Manual for Amateurs and Cottagers, in one small pocket volume,
now publishing, price 6d.

• Office, 2, Tavistockstreet, Coventgarden.
Mr. Glenny has combined with his horticultural pursuits the busi-
ness of valuing, purchasing, and selling by auction or otherwise,
farms, gardens, nurseries, and their several stocks and produce,
piing, bulbs, dowers.

This day, price Half-a-Crown, No. 111, of the rir HE SOUTH and MIDLANDS JUNCTION,
OXFORD and CAMBRIDGE REVIEW. ji and BICESTER, SWINDON, MARLBOROUGH, and SALTS-
CONTENTS:— BURY RAILWAY.
Capital, 1,280,0001., in 64,000 shares of 201. each.
at Life. Deposit, 2/. 2s. 6d. per share.
,e Isles. (Provisionally registered, according to 7th and Bth Vie., c. 110.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Hon. Captain William Gore, Director of the Great Western of
—University Intelligence. Bengal Railway.
.set. Oxford : Vincent. William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid-
land Railway
Richard Price, Esq., M.P., Director of the Welsh Midland Railway
HAR- David R. Ross, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Belfast, and Director of
London and Manchester Railway
-TING Sir James Duke, M.P., Alderman of London, Director of the Chel-
' Y, tenham and Oxford Railway
Sir Robert Wolesley, Bart., Cheltenham
Sir John E. de Beauvoir, Bart., Chairman of the London and Bir-
mingham Extension
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire
Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Herta, Director of the
Chester and Manchester Direct tailway
Sir William Hyde Pearson, Hanover-square
Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London, Director of the London
and Manchester Direct Railway
Sir William Wynn, Maesynewadd, Chairman of the North Wales
Railway
Sir John Hare, Bart., Langham-place, Director of the London and
Birmingham Extension
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, Bart., Director of the Direct
Western Railway
Admiral J. Ayscough, Prospect-place House, Southampton
Edmund Francis Dayrell, Esq., Lillingstone, Dayrell, Bucks, High
Sheriff of the County, and Director of the Bucks and Oxford and
Wolverton Junction Railway
Thomas Sidney, Esq., Alderman and Sheriff of London, Director of
the London and Manchester Direct Railway
Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the Lou-
don and Westminster Bank _and Namur and Liege Railway
John Kinnersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of
the Manchester and London Direct Railway
The Mayor of Buckingham
Donald Maclean, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Trent Valley Con-
tinuation
Major Oliver Lindam, K.H.. Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberyst-
with and Central Wales Railway
Richard Hartley Kennedy, Esq., Chairman of the Coventry and
Leicester and Warwick and Cheltenham Railways
Archibald Spens, Esq„ Manor House, Invereske, Director of the
Warwi„ck,and C,helUellutin Junction Railway, and of the Great
'externof-Ifengal
James Brancher, Esq., Chairman of the Liverpool and Bury and
Manchester and Bolton Railways
Major Morse Cooper, Director of the Great Western of Bengal Railway
Captain James Patrick M`Doughall, late Bengal Royal General Staff,
Fir-grove, North Brixton, Director of the Chester and Forest of
Dean, &c., Railway
Stephen Lewis, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the Waverney Valley and Great
Yarmouth Railway
George Lawton, Esq„ Ditchley, Essex, Director of the Manchester
and Birkenhead Contivation, and South Midlands Railway
William James Bailey, Esq., Shenley House, Bucks, Director of the
Bucks Railway
Joseph Brown, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Birmingham
Continuation
Peter Morrison, Esq., Managing Director of the Britannia Life Insu-
rance Company
Richard Heaviside, Esq., Director of the Great Luxemburg Railway
Joseph Gill, Esq., Chapel TowE, Leeds, Director of the Lincoln,
York, slid Leeds Railway
James Clay, Esq., Brompton, Director of the Furness and White-
haven Railway
Joseph Thompson, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton
Railway
William Fechney Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Direc-
tor of the Italian and Austrian Railway
William Cole, Esq., Bicester, Oxon, Director of the Wilts and Berks
Canal
William Shaw, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment, and Ma-
naging Director of the Farmers' Life Insurance Company
Richard Carpenter, Esq., Magistrate of the county of Middlesex, De-
puty Chairman of the London and Birmingham Extension, and
Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
John Stewart, Esq., Portman-square, Director of the East Indian
Railway
Colonel Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, Director of the London and
Birmingham Extension
Major Grubbe, Eastwell House, Potterne, Wilts, Magistrate of the
county
Edmund Phillips, Esq., Avon House, Melksham, Wilts
Captain Edward Dewey, Buckingham, Director of the Bucks and Ox-
ford and Wolverton Junction Railway
Charles Thomas Ward, Esq., Luton Hoo, Beds, and Clopton House,
Stratford-on-Avon
Vero Clarke Kemball, Esq., Chester-place, Hyde Park-gardens
John Helbert Helbert, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square
Edward Deakins, Esq., Bicester, Director of the Wilts and Berks
Canal
Frederick James Hall, Esq., Torringten-Square, and Alfreton, Derby,
Director of the Trent Valley Continuation
Major Waller, K.H., Director of the London and Manchester Direct
Railway
Captain Seth N. Fisher, Director of the Warwick and Worcester
Railway
Joseph Crcckett, Esq., Alderman of Devizes, and Director of the
North Wilts Banking Company
Colonel Fitch, York-terrace, Regent's Park
Joseph Underwood, Esq., the Hall, Blackheath, Director of the Me-
tropolitan Life Insurance Company, and Director of the London
and Birmingham Extension Company
W. A. Hill, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith and
Central Wales Railway
Robert Marriott Freeman, Esq., Stoney Stratford, Bucks, Director
of the Bucks Railway
William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Chairman
of the Church of ngland Life Insurance Company
Richard Dutton, Esq., Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Railway, and Director of the Legal and Commercial Life Insurance
Company
Captain C. W. Tyndale, Director of the South-Eastern Railway
Frederick Jones, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Director of the Warwick and
Worcester Railway
William Turner, Esq., Shipton-on-Churwell, Oxon
T. C. Norbury, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
John Reeves, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Direct
Railway
Thomas Gooch, Esq., Director of the Fidelity Guarantee Society
Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continua-
tion Railway, and of the Legal and Commercial Life Insurance
Company
John Anderson, Es 4., Director of the Church of England
Life Insurance
W. P. Courtenay, Esq., Temple, Director of the Legal and Commercial
Life Insurance Company
John James, Esq., Secondary of the City of London, and Director of
the Legal and Commercial Insurance Company
William S. Potter, Esq., Sussex Gardens, Hyde Park, Director of the
Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham Railway
William Hallett, Esq., Kemp Town, Brighten
William Singleton, Esq., Chapel Town, Leeds, Director of the Lin-
coln, York, and Leeds Railway
Robert Richards, Esq., Inner Temple, London
George Robert Colman, Esq., Director of the South Midland, and
Northampton and Banbury Railways
John arocke Walbanke, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
Henry Wright, Esq., Brunswick-square, Director of the Warwick
and Worcester Railway
John Fagan, Esq., Gloucester-road, Old Brompton
William Bardgett, Esq., Winchester House, Broad-street, Director of
the Italian and Austrian Railway
Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of the Britannia Life Insurance
Company, and Derby and Stafford Railway
William Paxton, Esq., Langford, near Bicester
(With power to add to the number.)

CONSULTING ENGINEERS.
Sir John Macneill, LL.D. and F.R.S.
James Thomson, Esq., F.R.S.E. and
ACTING ENGINEER.—WiIIiam Mullingar Higgins, Esq.
SOLICITOR.—W. B. James, Esq., 5, Basinghall-street, London.
Local, AGENTS.—Devizes, J. W. Wall, Esq. ; Bicester, W. C. Tur-
ner, Esq. ; Woodstock, Benjamin Holloway, Esq.
Originating at Bicester, by a junction with the Oxford and Cam-
bridge line through Wolverton, in connexion with the Eastern Coun-
ties, the South and Midlands Junction will afford facility of inter-
coarse with the metropolis in one direction, with Stafford, the Pot-
teries, Binningham, Liverpool, and Manchester in the other ; near
Woodstock, close to which the projected line will pass, the Oxford
and Rugby and Oxford and Worcester Railways cross, presenting
opportunities of entering the two great railway arteries of the king-
dom—the Great Western and the London and Birmingham, the for-
mer at Dudcot, the latter at Rugby.
Proceeding to the manufacturing town of Witney, a line is crossed
communicating with the Stroudwater district of manufactures by the
Oxford and Cheltenham Railway, thence the projected line trends di-
rectly S.W., leaving Bampton to the east, until it reaches Lechlade,
a town seated at the efflux of the Thames and Severn navigation
with the River Thames, and where a considerable entrepot for mer-
chandise is established.
Keeping within easy distances at Farringdon, Cricklade, and High-
worth, it reaches Swindon, a rapidly improving vicinity. At this
principal station, where the broad gauge is crossed, the Gloucester
and Cheltenham line falls into the Great Western.
The intersection of the South and Midland Junction with the Great
Western at Swindon opens a most extensive and valuable communi-
cation with London eastward; Bristol, Bath, Gloucester, Chelten-
ham, Stroud, westward ; and, by the Gloucester and Aberystwith
projected line, with the whole of North and South Wales.
The agricultural district, of which Devizes and Marlborough may
be considered the centre, and Swindon, Hungerford, Andover, Salis-
bury, Wilton, Aylesbury, Warminster, Westbury, Melksham, Chip-
penham, Wootton Basset, so many points in the circumference, is
still wholly unsupplied with railway accommodation, a loss snore
severely felt here than elsewhere, because the whole passenger traffic
between London, Bath, and Bristol was formerly shared in by this
vicinity.
It is ono of the chief objects of this project to restore Salisbury,
Marlborough, and Devizes to that participation in internal commerce
and carriage of which they have been deprived by the opening of
the Great Western Railway ; and with this view the line proceeding
from Swindon will pass to the westward of Marlborough and east-
ward of Devizes, to btsth which places branches will be constructed ;
and thence in a direct line to Salisbury.
Here, again, the advantages of lateral as well as direct communica-
tion with all parts of the kingdom are concentrated. The Yeovil
Railway leads direct to Exeter, a line is projected to unite with the
South western at Basingstoke, and provision will be taken in the Bill
for continuing the project to Southampton and Poole.
This line of railway is recommended by considerable advantages :
the great number of towns through or near which it will pass—the
fertility of some districts—the manufacturing character of others, and
the'concentrated traffic of the different localities which it traverses. It
will complete direct communication between the principal places in
Lincoln and Norfolk—the ports and chief towns in the western and
southera counties; it will accomplish an important desideratum in
our inland intercoures, namely a direct connexion between Liverpool
and the north of England generally with the port of Southampton,
from which the East India steamers sail : it will afford equally easy
access to Falmouth, the foreign and West India packet station ; to
.he refuge harbour of Poole, and to Weymouth, the most secure road-
stead on the southern coast.
A preliminary survey of the whole line has been made, and the
engineer's report is highly favourable to the execution of the project.
It is expected that the works may be completed without cuttings of
costly depths, or tunnels of unpleasant or dangerous lengths; no pro-
spect of sincere competition presents itself in any quarter, end a large
and influential proportiou of the local interests have already approved
of the undertaking. The traffic has not yet been calculated ; but.
when the transport of coal and iron downwards, and of agricultural
produce in return are considered, any present estimate must fall far-
short of the revenue that may naturally be expected to arise.
There is one feature peculiar to this project, which, as it has ma-
terially influenced the judgment of the promoters, should be placed
distinctly before the public—lt is, that by this line alone the narrow
gauge lines of the north are immediately united with those of the
south, crossing the broad gauge at Swindon, without impediment or
inconvenience.
By means of this railway, therefore, a direct and uninterrupted
mode of transit and of transport is at once opened, not only with the
populous towns and ancient cities of the north and west, where the
nerrrow gauge universally prevails, but with those also in the
southern counties, which lie beyond the region of the Great Western
Railway.
Applicationi fur prospectuses, plans,and forms of application for
Shares may be made at the office of W. B. James, Esq., solicitor,
5, Basingliall-street ; also of mienmith, Esq., solicitor, Backing-
has:: ; and of the following gentle :—