The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-12 00:00:00

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Pierce Somerset Butler, Esq., M.P., 3, Queen-square, Westminster.
W. Hastings Greene, Esq., Regent-street.
F rederick Goddard, Esq London, and Parade, Brighton.

Hon. William Gore, Wilton-crescent.
F. W. Hamilton, Esq , Gloucester-place, Portman.square.
F. Lloyd, Esq., Birmingham.

Edward Scar], Esq., eew-green.

William H. Bonlion, Esq., Ifayor of Teront• and M.P.P.
Isaac Buchanan, Esq., Toronto.
William Cayley, Esq., Toronto.
William H. Draper, Esq., M.P.P., Toronto.
William C. Gwynne, Esq.. Toronto.
William B. Jarvis, Esq., Sheriff of Home District, Toronto.

Samuel P. Jarvis, Esq., Toronto.
George P. Ridont, Esq., President of the Board of Trade, Toronto,

Charles Small, Esq., Clerk of the Crown, Toronto.
With power to add to their number.
STANDING CoassEL—Charles F. F. Wordsworth, Esq., Temple.

SOLICITOR IN ENGLAND—WiIIiam Sim, Esq., 8, King's Bench-walk,
Temple.

COUNSEL AND SOLICITOR IN CANADA-JOhR W. Gwynn, Esq.

Toronto.
BANKERS.
Messrs. lianburys, Taylor, and Lloyd, Lombard-street
Messrs. Cooks, Biddulph, and Co., Charing-cross.
The Bank of British North America, Toronto.,
SECRETARY—W. T. Smith, Esq.
ENGINEER—John Valentine, Esq.

The object of this undertaking is to coistruct a Railway commu-
nication, under the powers contained in a Provincial Act of Incor-
poration, between Lakes Ontario and Huron, and is imperatively
called for by the annually increasing traffic between these great out-
lets of commerce, and by the unprecedented growth in the population
of the territories benefited by the proposed Line.
The projectors confidently introduce this project to the British
public as one in which the commercial interests of the most impor-
tant colony of the empire are involved, and as one which presents a
secure and permanent investment for capital within the dominions of
the crown of Great Britain, in a country governed by the law of
England, and teeming with resources inferior to none of the most
favoured of the States of the American Union.

To the capitalist as an investment, to the merchant in the exten-
sion of trade, and to the patriot who regards colonisation as the best
means of extending the dominion, increasing the wealth, and pro-
moting the prosperity of the empire, this project offers advantages
superior to any that are to be found in a foreign country.

Tho Provisional Committee have collected the most accurate sta-

tistics they have been able, from authentic sources, of the transit
both of passengers and goods on the present tedious and circuitous
route by Lake Erie, which, they are happy to find, justifies them in
expecting a certain and large return for the capital to be invested.
The ordinary time which is now taken by a steamer to go from
Detroit, on the St. Clair, to Buffalo, in the summer, varies from 36 to
48 hours ; and in the months of September and October during which
months the navigation of Lake Erie, from its great shallowness,
exposed position, anti had harbours, is extremely tedious and dan-
gerous), tom 48 to 72 hours; whereas the traveller from Detroit by
way of Goderich and the proposed line, during all the period of the
navigation on Lalie Ontario, will reach Buffalo in 22 hours; Rochester
in 27 ; Oswego in 41 ; Kingston in 43 ; and Montreal in 63 hours.
To travellers between the Atlantic Ocean and the extensive terri-
tories on Lake Michigan and the Mississippi, the proposed line will be
of gi eater importance, for Goderich is nearer than Detroit to Lake
Michigan by 120 miles, and Buffalo may be reached ftom Goderich,
by the proposed line, in eleven hours.
The Railway will commence at the City of Toronto, the chief town
of Western Canada, which has at present a population of about
19,000 souls, with the best Port on the upper part of Lake Ontario,
and surrounded by the most populous and flourishing district in the
Province, and will pass through an exceedingly favourable line to
the Port of Goderich, the best harbour en the Canadian shore on
Lake Huron.
The proposed Line shortens the distance between Lakes Ontario
and Huron by 270 miles, and avoids the circuitous, and, at some
periods of the year, dangerous navigation of Lake Erie, and will form
the cheapest, most direct, and expeditious communication between
the wealthy and populous States bordering on the Atlantic, and the
territories intersected by the two great canals lately constructed in
Wisconsin and Illinois, to connect Lake Michigan with the Missisippi.
There are no engineering difficulties on the line, there being a
gradual ascent from Toronto for the distance of thirty miles ; and
the remainder of the line Is almost upon a dead level.
The railway will be constructed of wood (which can be procured
upon the whole line for the mere expense of cutting it), and which
can be indurated and protected from fire, rot, and insect, by a pro-
cess, the efficacy of which has been fully tested ; durability and eco-
nomy, therefore, to an unprecedented extent, will be combined.
Land, which in other lines forms so prominent a feature of expense,
can be procured at a cost not exceeding 4/. per acre; and all tun-
nelling and cutting, from the level nature of the country, will be
almost wholly avoided.
The proposed line being the direct communication between the
East, from whence the current of emigration to the Great Western
States issues, must of necessity draw to itself a passenger traffic to
an extent that is almost incalculable, and it is to secure this traffio
that the proposed line is projected.
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While Lake Ontario is ihe'natural channel for the transit of goods
westward from Montreal, the superiority of this route over that of
the Erie Canal, for the transit of goods from the States, is found in
the fact that the navigation of Lake Ontario is always open early in
April, and generally in March, and three weeks before the opening
of the Erie Canal, at Albany, and the facility of communication be-
tween Toronto and the wealthy and rapidly progressing commercial
cities of Oswego and Rochester, points out the advantage of complet-
ing the connexion with Lake Ontario by so cheap and expeditious
a route.

In the event of an arrangement being made, which there Is new
every reason to expect, for the conveyance of American goods in
bond across this portion of Canada, goods proceeding westward may
be afloat on Lake Huron before the opening of the port of Buffalo,
or of the Erie Canal at Albany, while passengers will be able to
travel by this route for six weeks longer in the year than by Buffalo
and Lake Erie, and it is reasonably to be anticipated that arrange-
ments similar to those made by the British Government for the con-
veyance of the mail through the United States to Canada will also
be made, on the completion of the proposed line for the conveyance
sf the American mail during eight months of the year.
The short history of railroads has not, perhaps, presented so
favourable a combination of circumstances, as the proposed. line
offers for the investment of capital. The facilities for the economical
construction of the road—the importance of the line itself—l he vastly
increasing traffic between the extremes united—and the increase of
the population upon the line which must follow the construction of the
road, cannot fail to insure an ample return to the shareholders who
embark in this undertaking.
A negotiation is in progress with influential gentlemen in Canada,
named in the Provisional Committee, interested in carrying into effect
the Act of Incorporation air• ady alluded to, and it is expected that,
in the course of a few weeks, this Company will have secured the
co-operation of the parties thereby incorporated. In the mean
time, applications will be received and allotments made of shares,
exclusive of a reserve for the colony of 3,000 shares.
By the provisions of the Registration Act, 7 and 8 Vic. eh. 110, the
amount of the Deposit is limited to 105. per 1001. on the amount sub-
scribed. This sum, and all calls which shall be made upon complete
Registration, will be invested in the names of Trustees ; and all ex-
penses preliminary to obtaining the benefit of the Act of Incorpora-
tion will be strictly confined to the amount of the deposit.
The project has been provisionally registered, and in order to carry
out the objects of the Company with the utmost security to the public,
it is intended that such a Deed of Settlement as shall be approved
of by the Counsel of the Company, shall be executed by the Share-
holders when called upon, and that the Company shall proceed to
complete Registration.
A more detailed prospectus, containing Statistical information, can
be had upon applying to the Secretary, at the Company's offices, 25,
Essex-street, Strand ; William Sim, Esq., Solicitor to the Company,
8, King's Bench Walk, Temple; Theodore Uzielli, Esq., 75, Broad-
street, City; J. W. S. May, Esq., Exchange-alley, Liverpool; James
Pearson, Share-broker, Birmin:ham ; Whalley and Andrews, Leeds ;
Schroeder and Ashlin, Liverpool ; and Roll and Powell, Manehes-
te: ; to whom applications for Shares may be addressed until the
16th instant, after which day the allotment will be made as early as
possible.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Directors of the Ontario and Huron Junction

Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will insert my name as a Sub-
scriber for Shares, or any less number that may be allotted
to me, in the Ontario and Huron Junction Railway Company, upon
the terms and conditions of the Prospectus ; and I hereby undertake
to accept the same, to pay the deposit and future instalments there-
upon, and execute such deed of settlement as may be approved of by
the Counsel of the Company.
. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
Name • • • • • • • • • ***********
Profession or Trade • • .... •• • • • • •• • •
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FIRE ESCAPES.
BENJ A 111 IN EDGING-TON, 2, Duke-street,
Southwark, has made Fire Escapes for the different Wards of
t e City of London. A pattern may be seen as above, or at 208,
Rick-cloths with poles complete, marquees, tents, site., new
and second-hand, in great variety.
Orders by post duly attended to.
Address ,Bentamin Edglngton, 2, Duke-street. Southwark.

PARIS and ST. QUENTIN RAILWAY.
The Holders of the Shares in this Undertaking, who are de-
sirous of having a preference in the allotment of the Shares of the
Charleroi and Erquelines Railway., must deposit their St. Quentin
Shares at the Paris and St. Quentin Railway-office, 211, King's Arms-
yard, London, for registration on WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, and
FRIDAY NEXT, the 11th, 12th, or 1311.1 instant, so that the Directors
may come to a decision as to what proportion of Charleroi and Er-
quelines Shares can be allotted to the holders of the Paris and St.
Quentin Shares.
The Directors avail themselves of this opportunity to state that all
the Paris and St. Quentin Railway Shares, upon which the deposit
had not been paid by those parties to whom they had been originally
allotted, have been re-allotted to other parties, and the whole capital,
amounting to 35,000,000 frs. (1,400,0001.) has been subscribed for.
CHARLES GRAHAM and CO., Agents.
20, King's Arms-yard, June 9th, 1845.

HARLEROI AND ERQUELINES RAIL-
WAY.
Connecting the Belgian, Dutch, and German Lines of Railway with
those of France, by ➢faubeuge, St. Quentin Creil, and Paris.

The concession of this Line has been obtained by this Company
from the Belgian Government, as by Royal Ordinance, dated 28th
May, 1845, for the Term of Ninety Years.
Capital, 13,000,000, or 520,0001., in 26,000 Shares of 500 fr. or 201.

each.
Deposit, 4/. per Share.
DIRECTORS.

M.M. Cordier, President Depute Inspecteur Divisionaire des Ponta et

Chaussees en retraite
De Haussy, Senateur
Tergelln Sigart, Banquier a Mona
G. Lebon, Ingenieur Civil, a ➢larchisnnc-au-Port
Margais De Dion, Proprietaire
Musias, Proprietaire
Delvigne-Durvizel, ➢fanufacturier, Proprietaire a St. Quentin
Henry Neville, Ingenieur Civil, I Paris .
Kysaeus, junior, Banquier
De Beaupuy, Proprietaire
Sir Joshua Wahnsley, Director of the Birkenhead and Chester Rail-
way, Liverpool
William Jackson, Esq., Chairman of the Birkenhead and Chester
Railway, Liverpool
Chas. Wm. Graham, Esq., of King's Arms-yard, London

RANKERS.
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co., London
Bank of Liverpool. Liverpool
Messrs. Kysaeus, junior, and Co., Paris.
M. Tregelin Sigart, Mons
ENGINEER-J. M. Bendel, Esq., F.R.S

SOLICITOR—W. Barradaile, Esq., 20, King's Arms-yard, London
Prospectuses will be ready for distribution on Wednesday, I ith
inst. Meantime, applications for Shares can be addressed to Messrs.
Charles Graham and Co., 20, King's Arms-yard, London.
To prevent disappointment, the Directors beg at opce distinctly to
state, that as a preference will be given to the Holders of the Shares of
the Paris and St. Quentin Railway Company ; and as a large part of
the Shares for this undertaking must inevitably be distributed in
France and Belgium, the Directors will have but a very limited
number placed at their disposal for the British public.

FORM OF APPLICATION.

To the Directors

Gentlemen,—l request you will insert my name for shares of2ol.
each, In the capital stock of the above Company ; and I hereby under-
take to accept that, •r any less number of Shares that may be ap-
propriated to me. And I further undertake to pay the Deposit and
Calls when required, and to conform to the statutes of the Company,
and to all regulations duly authorised by the Laws of Belgium, and
to execute all deeds as and when I may be called upon to do so.
I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
Christian and sirname in full • • • •• •
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Date this day of
Witness to signature,
Address.

CHARLEROI AND ERQUELINNES
RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that sto further applications for Shares in
this Railway will be received after MONDAY NEXT. the 16th inst.
CHARLES GRAHAM and CO., Agents.
20, King's Arms-yard. London,
13th June, 1845.

RAILWAY from ST. QUENTIN to MAU-
BEUGE, and to the BELGIAN FRONTIER.
Capital 30,000,000 f., or 1,200,0001.
Deposit 50f., or 21. per Share.
PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS.
M. J. Cordier, Deputie President, Inspecteur divisionaire des Ports
et ehausseeq en retraite, Inspecteur-General dce Tral eaux
M. De Haussy, Senateur
M. Tercelin Sigart, Banquier, al Mons
M. G. Lebon, Ingenieur Civil, a Marchienne au Pont
M. Le Marquis de Dion, Proprietaire
M. Musias, Proprietaire
M. Delvigne Durozal, Manufacturier, Proprietaire, I St. Quentin
3f. Henry Neville, Ingenieur Civil, a Paris
M. Kysaeus, Jenne, Banquier, a Paris
M. De Beaufray, Proprietaire
Sir Joshua Walmsley, Director of the Birkenhead and Chester Rail-
way, Liverpool
William Jackson, Esq., Chairman of the Birkenhead and Cheater
Railway, Birkenhead
Charles William Graham, Esq., of King's Arms-put, Lendon
BANKERS.
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co., London
The Bank of Liverpool, Liverpool
Kysaeus, jan., and Co., Paris
31. Tercelin Sigart, Mons.
ENGINEER— J. M. Rendell, Esq., F.R.S.
SOLICITOR—WiIIiam Borrodaile, Esq., 20, King's Arms-yard.
This line of railway will form the continuation of that from Paris,
Creil, and St. Quentin, to the Belgian frontier, and when completed
will join the Charleroi and Erquilinnes Railway.
In offering this undertaking to the public, it is important to re-
mark that the Belgian Government ceded to the above-mentioned
Directors, by Royal Ordinance of the 28th May last, the branch line
of railway above referred to, from Charleroi to Erquilinnes (the
French frontier), and consequently tbis line from St. Quentin to
Maubeuge will give a direct communication by railway from the
Seine to the Rhine—from Paris to Boulogne.
These facts are sufficient of themselves to establish the importance
of the St. Quentin and Maubeuge line, which has been carefully sur-
veyed, and offering no engineering difficulty will be promptly exe-
cuted.

Prospectuses will be ready for distribution on Thursday, the 12th
instant ; meantime applications for Shares can be addressed to
Messrs. Charles Graham and Co., 20, King's Arms-yard, London;
Messrs. Plill, Fawcett, and Rill, 29, Threadneedle-street, London ;
Messrs. D. and T. B. Neilson, Liverpool.
FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Directors.
Gentlemen,—l request you will insert my name for Shares of
201. each in the capital stock of the above-mentioned Company, and
I hereby undertake to accept that or any less number of
Shares that ma}• be appropriated to me; and I further undertake to
pay the deposit and calls, when required, and to eonform to the
statutes of the Company, and to all regulations duly authorised by the
laws of France, and to execute all deeds as and when called upon so
to do.—l am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant.
Christian and Sirname (in
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Witness to Signature
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