The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-16 00:00:00

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

James Stoddart Douglas, Esq., M.P., Chilston Park, Lenham
George Dodd, Esq., M.P., Grosvenor-place, London
John Humphrey, Esq., M.P., Alderman or London
Henry ShoN'ell )tarsham, Esq., Captain R.N., Hoyle-place,

3laidstone, J.P. for Kent
Win. Wriothesley Turner Baldwin, Esq., Steele-hill, llarrietsharn,
J.P. for Kent
Edwin Stacey, Esq., Mayor of Maidstone
Colonel Middleton, commanding Cavalry Depot, Maidstone
John nollingworth, Esq., Turkey Mills, Maidstone, director of the
Kent Fire and Life Assurance Company
John Mercer, Esq., Maidstone, treasurer of the county of Kent, and
director of the Kent Fire and Life Assurance Company
RichAril Thomas, Esq., Nyhorne House, Hollingbourue
John Tweils, Esq., Gracechurch-street, bunker
Char:es Hopkinson, Esq., Regent-street, banker
George Prentis, Esq., Maidstone, and the Warren, Ightham
Henry Golden, Esq., Maidstone
Robert Titsell, Esq., East Mailing, director' of the Kent Fire and
Life Assurance, Company
Cornelius Butler, Esq., Ingatestone, Essex, director of the Eastern
Counties Railway.
Thomas Chitty, Esq., 8, Upper Gower-street, .director of the Leices-
ter and Birmingham Railway
Charles Robert Colman, Esq., Irongate-wharf, St. Katherine's, di-
. rector of the South Midland and South Union, Man Chester, and
I'otterics Railways
William Richardson, Esq., 6, Charlotte-street, Bedford-square, De-
puty-Chairman of the Wexford and Valentia Railway
John Knill, Esq.; London Bridge-wharf, director of the Worcester
and South Wales Junction Railway
John Atkinson Bolger, Esq., Brighton
Thomas Nunn Gladdish, Req., Belvidere-road, Lambeth, and Pet-
tinge Ash, Kent
William White, Esq., Cheapside, and Blackheath
Henry Allnutt, Esq., Ivy Mills, Maidstone
Walter Hills, Esq., Maidstone
Rev. Samuel Wyatt Cobb, Rector of Ightham, J.P. for Kent
(With power to add to their number.)
MANAGING COMMITTEE.
George J. A. Bolger, Esq.
John C. It. Colman, Esq.
Charles 'William Richardson, Esq.
Thomas John Kull', Esq.
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William White, Esq. C. Butler, Esq.
gßobert Tassel], Esq.
George Prelate, Esq.
Mercer,Jolll:ltnrayiGn M°iste:n'
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Cor ti.Nt •ENGINEER—John Braithwaite, Esq.
• ENGINEER—J. W. Bazalgette, Esq.
BANKERS.

Messrs. Spooner, Attwood, and Co., Graceehurch-street, London
Me.3srs. Charles Hopkinson and Co., Regent-street
'Messrs. Mercer, Randall, and Mercer, Maidstone.

SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Wiltles and Son, Maidstone
Messrs. Pearce, Phillips, and Winckworth, St. Swithin's-lane, London.
SEcarrfair—Graham Simeon, Esq.
SusvEyoas--Messrs. Beadel and Foulkes, Graham-street.
Temporary offices, No. 1, Coleman-street-buildings, Moorgate-street.

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This Company has been formed for the purpose of constructing a
jroaiitlisivnagyt front le.osudoounth
Canterbury, and a branch railway from Ightham, near Sevenoaks, to
Tunbridge.
The main line is intended to commence by a junction with the
reereth
London and Croydon Railway, near New Cross, passing through
Lewisham to Bromley, from thence through Otford, near Sevenoaks,
Ightham, Town .Malling, East Maine, and Ditton, to the town of
Maidstone; having a Principal station there near Week-street, In
front of the Seselous-house and county gaol, from thence passing
through Hollingbourne, Harrietsham, Lenhatn, and Charing, to
Ashford.
The line to Tunbridge will branch from Ightham, and take the
course of the valley by West Peckham and Hadlow to Tunbridge,
communicating with the South-Eastern Railway from Tunbridge to
Tunbridge Was.
The whole length of the lines to be constructed will be sixty-tour
miles.
The country has been carefully surveyed, and, with the exception
of a tunnel through the Chalk-hill, near Otford, the works are not
of an expensive character, and the lines are free from curves or gra-
dients of an objectionable nature.
The line will be laid down so as to be adapted to the locomotive or
atmospheric principle, which ever mode of propulsion it may ulti-
mately be found most advisable to adopt.
By reference to the map of Kent it will be perceived that the lines
of the proposed railway are those indicated by the natural features
of the country ; that such railways are calculated to effect in the
most advantageous manner the great objects of direct n through"
communication between London andYolkestone and Dover, and be-
tween London and Tunbridge and Tunbridge Wells, taking the nearest
pr .cticable line to Beentley, Sevenoaks, Maidstone, Lenhain, and
Ashford, and by a cemparatively trifling expense in forming a short
braneleilmn Weetwell, to join the present railway from Ashford to
Canterbury, at Wye, placing the city of Canterbury, and the whole
of the district emninunicating with that city, within a few miles in
dist:tnee and a few minutes in time as near to London as could be
effected by the outlay of a vast sum in the construction of a separate
railway to Canterbury, affording also themeans of railway commu-
nication between Canterbury and Maidstone (the county towns of
East ;sod West Kent), and the other principal towns, and generally
throughout the co lay.
In further explanation of the merits of the proposed lines, it may
be noticed that Maidstone, the county town of Kent, is situate lit
the centre of the county, on the river Medway, contains the county
gaol, courts of justice, cavalry depot, and various other public esta-
blishments ; that the assizes and sessions are held at Maidstone, and
that the county business generally is there conducted ; that by means
of the.central situation of Maidstone, and the advantages of the navi-
gation of the river, a very large wholesale business
numer is carried
son
there ; that the town and immediate vicinity contain ous an
extensive paper manufactories, mills, breweries, iron founderies, and
other works, and that the district surrounding Maidstone comprises
the most extensive bop and fruit plantationw s innes set railway
purpose of reducing the distance betsvoen London and Folkestone
and Dover, and between London and Maidstone, has been fully
admitted ; and the want of railway communication between Bromley,
Sevenoaks, Wrothain, and other principal poxes in the centre of the
county, not only with London, but with the ell)" largonterbary 21114
Meidstune, bile been of serious to eery portiOn of the
county: And it has been thought meet ittleisnblO fOf this interests of
the county and the public, that a' measure of such total its
.ad well as general importance should be undertaken by a Company
tbrnee.l for the express purpose of carrying out the project ; uninflu-
enced by any conflicting interests, and comiecled with, and as far as
practiceble identified with, the county. It ha. also been considered
advisable that this measure should be supporteti entirely upon its owls
ReFits, wi/boat ettemnting to engross the trafte, el the northern side
°I theOlintx; 01; ;0 linpole the construction el railways which
that portien pfl.ll4"ccvity nuly 04eidee n 4 s.Vi.nrr tbe their 4qt -tht.:.!
plOdatlOn. tiiis linpregsien, seyeilit lefiren:. •eVicfeitt`lW'lstla
neer -taidstesie, have, with this general sanction and support of tho
s'i;tors Intiees>ed in. the measure, and o the inhabitants
14:44i1,We5, Wog el influential body offcapitalbts in the
formation o'ffideVositeeldiy', tii:)the fall ilitclition of ewe-.
•in; °tit,
the project as a measure for he Atilt 'elf ttic'eOtnity
feeling confident that the very great traffic which this railway inuit
eiecesS4rily command will enable the proprietors to provide every
acConimodation the public can require at a very moderate charge,
sun silll also affertt a very liberal remuneration for the amount of
to te iteiested in the widest:Lanni.
The ProVistaiai CoMineftee ii %t liti:teeen to anticipate any effec-
tual opposit!on to a Measure so obviously beneficial, and so generally
and powerfully sepported by those best qualified to form an opinion
of its merits, and most interested in carrying it into effect.
Peseenelne! Pewee will be to en la the Act of Parliament to anew
1et14.4P-0-4,e4 Fon: te.r ailsesta on dePeelf, las eveti.ee 4(4
Inter:: Calls, 6410 altr, r't‘te'li44!lllt6fitilkh6;A,..o.llll.ol tti6 oPeriiii
of the railway, And its will nYnnu4k4c4b4 tag
aWow
of his subscription.
Applications for shares to be made in the usual form, lathe Secre-
tary, at the Company's office, No. 1, Coleman-street-buildings, Moor-
gate-street, London; to the Solicitors; or to the following Stock and
Sharebrokers :—Mr. John Wagg, 4, Shorter's-court, Throgmorton-'
street, and Messrs. Edward Ellis and Co., 53, Threadneedle-street,
Lallen • Meesse. cetneron, Cazenove, and Taunton, Liverpool ; and
Id I esirt. L IL. Watson, Tootali and Barff, Ueda: