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

THE SUN', LONDON, MONDAN

No railway, either mule, or being made, or projected, will serve
the purposes which this important and favoured line will serve.
The country it will pass through possesses a population exceed-
ing 150,000. It leads to marine watering places of much resort—
Weymouth, Lyme, and Seaton on the English Channel shore, and
Linton, Minehead, and Blue Anchor on the shore of the Bristol
Channel. Taunton, which may now be considered the county
town of Somersatshire, has always been the market and trading
town of the country northwest of it, including Watchet and its
surrounding district ; the route to which, from London and the
north, is through Taunton.
A well remunerating passenger traffic may hence be expected.

The country also contains between 80 and 100 mills and fac-
tories, many of which are worked by steam in aid of water-power,
and many more of the proprietors will avail themselves of steam.
power when coals shall be procurable at a reduced rate by this
railway. The millers are most desirous of having the markets of
South Wales opened to them. Several influential coal proprietors
of South Wales are members of the Provisional Committee.
The country also possesses several extensive lime quarries, for
manure; the lime is burnt with culm brought from Wales ;
the conveyance both of the culm and lime is at present attended
with much expense to the agriculturist. The line will also be of
high importance to this agricultural district by opening to it the
markets of Taunton, Tiverton, South Molton, Barnstaple, in the
north of Devon, Exeter, and London. The towns of Taunton,
Ilminster, Chard, Crewkerne, Beaminster, Broadwindsor, Brid.
port, Axminster, Charmouth, and Lyme Regis, will be connected
by the line, and derive from it supplies of coals, culm, timber, dry
goods, and other articles of import. The line will afford to those
towns and their populous neighbourhoods, increased facilities of
communication with other lines of railroad.

The usual prevalence of westerly winds during the winter months
is so great as to render the passage round the Land's-end very un.
certain. The facilities offered by the proposed railway will obviate
such uncertainty, save many hundred miles of dangerous sea pas-
sage, and more than compensate for the charges attending reship-
ment at Bridport from Watchet, particu'arly in the article of
Welsh coals, cow in great demand in and about London for steam-
engines, steam-boats, and other purposes.
The harbour of Bridport admits vessels at spring.tides of 350
tons burthen; it receives large supplies of coals, culm, fl..x, hemp,
Baltic and American timber, iron, slate, tallow, staves, arid nu.
merous other articles ; which, in the aggregate, last year, amounted
to nearly 40,000 tons, a large portion of which consisted of flax
and hemp, for the numerous manufactories of yarns, sailcloth,
sacks, nets, lines, twines, and linen goods, which when wrought
would pass along the line to the two ports, for shipment, or to
other railways.

The harbour of Watchet, at spring.tides, admits vessels of 200
tons burthen, and carries on an extensive and important daily trade
with the ports of Tenby, Llanolly, Swansea, Neath, Cardiff, New-
port, and Merthyr Tydvil, in coals, culm, corn, flour, and other
provisions, cattle, sheep, salt, timber, slates, iron, and other articles
of merchandise ; employing twelve vessels belonging to the harbour
regularly and exclusively; one trading with Liverpool. It has
also a considerable corn, malt, flour, and goods trade with Bristol,
and employs therein several vessels regularly
Both the harbours are capable of being much improved, and
belong to proprietors able and willing to improve them to meet the
increased wants of the community,
The port of Watchet, as it is, has the largest and most Important
trade on the English side of the Bristol Channel. This Railway
will increase that trade fourfold, and therewith its own prosperity.
The shore contiguous to Watchet exclusively abounds with lime
of the most celebrated description, both for water-works and ex-
terior building, being the same as the universally known and cele-
brated Aberthaw lime, which also is on the directly opposite coast;
and at and around Watchet are extensive corn and flour mills,
paper mills, and clothing mills.

The foregoing facts show that the line must have a very exten•
sive goods traffic.

It is not Intended to put forward Watchet as a packet station
either for Ireland or South Wales; nor does this measure require
such aid. No portion of the coast of the Bristol Channel, east of
Ilfracombe, can have the slightest pretension to be, or be
made, a packet station. In the first place, it is obvious that
the railway in actual progress from the Government Dockyard
at Pembroke (or Hobbe's Point, 100 miles further down the Bris-
tol Channel) will take all the packet trade from the south of Ireland :
Liverpool takes Dublin;whilst Ilfracombe ( 50miles west of Watchet),
and Swansea (directly opposite to Ilfracombe), maintain a regular
steam. packet passenger and goods traffic; and in the second place,
all the harbours on the English side east of Ilfracombe are dry,and
for a great length, at low water, the shores being very flat, and to
construct a harbour on them, to admit large class steamers and to
land passengers at all times of the tide, would, if not impracticable,
cost an enormous sum. To hold out expectations that either of
them might be such packet station, would for the above reasons be
delusive.

The extended North Devon line of railways will serve the port
of Ilfracombe and its packets. _

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A survey has been made by the engineers, who hare reported
that the line is easy of construction, and will not interfere with any
park.

It affords great satisfaction to the promoters to be enabled to
announce that the directors of the Bristol and Exeter Railway
Company have promised to give this measure their favourable con-
sideration, and the promoters entertain a sanguine expectation that
it will receive their support.
. .

The neighbouring landowners and gentry are favourable to the
measure, and all the merchants and traders both at Watchet and
Bridport, as well as the prineipal coal proprietors in South Wales,
and all persons throughout the line, entertain a high opinion of its
merits, and earnestly desire it.

. .
Many extensive landowners on the line, whose names do not
appear on the Provisional Committee, have yet expressed them-
selves as fricngls to the measure.
The Act will be applied for next session, and the liabilities will
be limited to the amount of subscriptions, and interest at four
per cent, will be paid on all calls from the time of payment until
the opening of the line.

An early allotment of the shares will be made, and the usual
Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contract must be exe-
cuted by the Shareholders when called upon.
Applications for shares to be made, in the form annexed, to
Messrs. Keddell, Baker, and Grant, 34, Lime-street ; to either of
the solicitors in the country; Messrs. George Burnand and Co.,
Cornhill ; John Mocatta, Esq., Copthall-chambers ; H. J. Barker,
Esq., Tokenhouse-yard ; John Brewer, Esq., New Market-hill, Man.
chester ; Messrs. Francis and James Mill, Liverpool; Messrs.
Wreford, Nicholls, and Co., Bristol; or John Bannehr, Esq.,
Exeter.
Taunton, Sept. 29, 1845.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
Bristol and English Channels Direct Junction Railway.
I request you will allot to me shares in this under-
taking, and I agree to take the same or such of them as may he
allotted to me upon the terms stated in the prospectus, and to pay
the deposit thereon, and sign the Parliamentary Contract and
Subscribers' Agreement when required.
Dated this day of

, 1845.

Name .......
Residence .
Profession or Occupation

Reference 1
Name
Address
To the Committee of the Bristol and English Channels
Direct Junction Railway Company.

BRIGHTON, LEWES, TUNBRIDGE
WELLS, GRAVESEND, and EASTERN COUNTIES
JUNCTION RAILWAY, with branches to Chatham and Maid.
stone.

Capital 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and S Vic., c. 110.)

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.

Sir John Key, Bart. Wm. Kuper, Esq.
The Mayor of Gravesend John Kerschner, Eiq,
John Brough, Esq. S. H. Powell, Excl.
T. M. Cleobury, Esq. W. White, Esq.
(With power to add to their number).

PRELIMINARY NOTICE.
MITE EXETER, TIVERTON, AND MINE-
11_ HEAD DIRECT RAILWAY, with extension from Minchead
to Ilfracombe,

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,000,600/., in 64,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, '2l. l2s. 6,1. per Share.

This railway will pass front the city of Exeter, through the
rich valley of the Exe, via Silverton and Rickleigh, direct to
Tiverton, one of the chief towns of this important district, and
formerly the principal market and manufacturing town of the west
of England. It will administer largely to the prosperity of this
rich and productive country, and will pass from Tiverton, by Bainp-
ton, Dulverton, and Dunster, to the port of Minchead in the Bristol
Channel, opposite Landaff, Swansea, and Cardiff; from whence the
produce of the rich mines and quarries of Merthyr Tydvil, Ponty-
pool, and Newport, in Wales, can be transferred by the shortest
route to the English markets. From Minehead it will pass by
Porlock and Combs-Marten to the much-frequented watering-place
of Ilfracombe, where it unites with the Barnstaple. and Ilfracombe
Railway. At Minehead it will also join the Bridgewater and Mine-
head Railway, to which it will serve as an important feeder, connect-
ing the towns on the north coast of Devon directly with the great
western trunk railroads passing from London to the Land'i End. it
evil! 0150 form a vary short and direct junction of the Bristol and
English ktk•ls,
A mote valuable: and in4;ortant line to the country which it Will
traverses not. be projectel. A list of the PrnvisicTi:;: Committee
will be publishyd in a few days ; and in the meantime further infor-
mation may be obtained, and applications for shares may be made
to, the solicitors, Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street,
London, or at the Company's OM" No. 37, Orezimuultreet, City.

LIVERPOOL AND DERBY DIRECT
RAILWAY, and LIVERPOOL ants MANCHESTER,
GRAND JUNCTION, and MIDLAND COUNTIES RAIL-
WAYS JUNCTION.
(Provisionally Registered pursuant to 7 and 5 Vict., cap. 110.)
Capital 1,400,000/., in 56,000 Shares of 254 each.
Deposit 2/. 12s. 6d. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
George Lennox, 33, St. James's-street
The Count Bathyany, 5, Audley-square
The Hon. F. 11. F. Berkeley, M.P., 6, Spring-gardens
The Hon. A. F. Berkeley, 6, Spring-gardens
The Hon. A. Capel, Epping.
Yynn Ellis, Esq., M.P., 30, Cadogan-place, and Ponabourne-
park, Hertfordshire
irJohn Osborn, Bart., Earl's-court, Old Brampton
sjor.General Wright, &c., &c., Gloucester-place, Portman-
square
Brigzdicr-General: Sir Henry Pynn, 19, Clifford-street, Director of
the County Fire-office
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire, Di-
rector of the Chepstow and Forest of Dean Railway
;ir James Eglintcn Anderson, M.R.1.A., 11, New Burlington-
street
kdmiral Ayscough, Prospect-house, Southampton, Director of the
South and Midlands Junction, and Cambridge and Lincoln Ex-
tension Railways
Monet Wm. M.Anwaring Sloane, Air-street, Piccadilly
Ilajor Oliver Lyndliam, K. 11., 8, New-street, Dorset-square,
Chairman of the Gloucester and Aberystwitb, and Director of
the Thames Valley Railways
Major Taylor, Ratcliffe Hall, near Nottingham, Director of the
♦Feet Midland, the Nottingham and Mansfield, and Hereford
and Mealier Tydvil Junction Railway
Major 'l'. F. Croft, 13, Regei,t-street, Chairman of the Metro-
politan Grand Junction, and Director of the Direct Manchester

Railway
Major William Snow, Old Cavendish-street, Cavendish square
Major Waller, Deputy-Chairman of the South and Midlands, and
Director of the Thames Valley Railways
Richard Carpenter, Esq., Deputy. Lieutenant of the County of
Middlesex
Captain Sth N. Fisher, Director of the South and Midlands, the
London and Birmingham Extension, and Erewash Valley Rail-
ways
Captain Farrington, East Cowes, Isle of Wight
Cai.tain Thomas Gould, Junior United Service Club
John Anderson, Esq , E.I. C.S., Director of the Oxford and Mr.
crater Extension and Chester Junction Railways
Atk.nson, Esq., M. D., Director of the Midland, Barnsley, Shef.
field, Leeds, and Bradford Railways
John Byng Banks, Esq., Lansdown-road, Stoel:well, Surrey, Director
of the Great Leeds and London Direct, and the Cheltenham, Oxford,
and Brighton Railways
John Barber, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith
Railway
John Barber, Esq., Leamington Priors, Warwickshire
Wm. Bardgett, Esq., Winchester-house, Broad street, Director of
the Italian and Austrian, and the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford
Railways
Captain Baron, High Sheriff of Reeks
Henry George Beamish, Esq., 16, Kensington-square
Joseph Beioley, Esq., Stanhope-street, Pork-place
Henry Vs'ecch Burgess, Esq., Temple-park, Hampstead, Director
of the Sheffield, Buxton, Leek Potteries, and Crewe Railways
J. Benson, Esq., Park.place Villa, Male a.hill, Director of the
Staflordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway
Charles Bleaden, Esq., Colesden-court, Surrey, and Adelaide.place,
London-bridge '
John Blare, Esq., Tutbury, Director of the Cambridge and Lin.
coln Extension Railway
John Filliogham Bishop, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Wol-
verhampton, Birmingham, and Nottingham Railway
William Sprott Boyd, Esq., Cleveland-row
Joseph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, Minories, Director of the Blackwall
Railway
J. B. Brown, Esq., Oxford-square, Hyde-park
Samuel Bryan, Esq., Northampton
William Cantrell, Erq., Worksworth, Director of the Ambergate
and Nottingham Railway
John Casterdick, Esq.
J Chatterten, Esq., Derby
lhomas Mortimer Cleobury, Esq., Acton, Middlesex, Director of
the Thames Valley Railway
Edward Hyde Clarke, Esq., 18, Clarendon square, Leamington
Priors, and Hyde.hall, Cheshire, Director of the Tean and Dove
Valley Junction Railway, &c.
James Clift, Esq., Bloomsbury-square, Director of the Manchester
and Rugby Railway
Nathan Cooper, Esq., Mansfield
William Cramond, Esq., Derby
Dunbar T. Cother, Esq., Temple, Director of the Welsh Midland
Railway
Millis Coventry, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands Junc-
tion, Birmingham Extension, end Great Leeds and London
Direct Railways
Robert Chadwick, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby, Gains.
borough, and Great Grimsby Junction Railway
The Rev. W. S. Cursh am, Esq., Bridge-house, Mansfield, Notts, Di-
rector of the Leeds and Mansfield, and the Nottingham, Gainsbo-
rough, Pontefract, and Mansfield Railways
Arthur Agard Davenport, Esq., Director of the Thames Valley,
Great Leeds and London, Oxford and Worcester Extension,
and Worcester Junction Railways
Francis Dacre, Esq., Stratford, Essex, Director of the Great
Leeds and London Railway
The Rev. John Dobie, M. A., Magistrate of the County of Lan.
caster

Edward Doubleday, Esq., F.L.S , Great Surrey-street, London,
Director of the Thames Valley Railway
George Dennis, Esq., Managing Director of the Great Leeds and
London Railway
Joel Edens, Dq., Northampton, Director of the Sheffield, Not-
tingham, and London, and the Midland and Eastern Counties
Railways
Richard Edensor, Road-Meadow, Ashbourne
Francis Ewart, Esq., Temple, Director of the Great Leeds and
London Direct Railway
George Evans, Esq., Milbury-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of
the Direct London and Exeter Railway
John Charles Fernihough, Esq., Rodney- street, Liverpool, Director
of the Sheffi Id and Potteries, and the Grand Junction Railways
Samuel Wright Fearn, Eq., Derby, Director of the Derby, Gains-
borough, and Great Grimsby Junction, and the West Midland
Railways
Benjamin Franklin, Esq., 5, Harley-street, Cavendish -square, Di-
rector of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Rail-
way

Francis Gamble, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Grand Union
and Nottingham and Gainsborough Railways
George Gamble, Esq., Gainsborougb, Director of the Grand tirniois
and Nottingham and Gainsborough Railways
William Gibson, Esq., Park-row, Nottingham, Director of the Grand
Union Railway
Thomas Gee, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Grand Union
Railway
John Grant, Esq., Northampton, Director of the Warwick and
Worcester Railway
Henry Glynn, Esq., Garden-court, Temple
Henry Francis Gisborne, Esq., Derby, Director of the South Staf.
fordshire Junction, the Leicester and Tamworth, and the Tying
Reading, and Basingstoke Railways
C. E. Green, Esq., Illandford-street, Portman-square, Director of the
Gloucester and Aberystwith Railway
Richard Greenhalgh, Esq., Car Bank, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Edward Gulson, Esq., Dublin, Director of the Grand Trunk Railway
Rcbert Hancorne, Esq., Euston.square, Director of the Metro-
politan Junction Railway
Francis Pike Hewitt, Esq., Nottingham
Thomas Hawker, Esq., I , New Broad-street
William Drury Holden, Esq., Locko-park, near Derby, and Green-
street, Grosvenor-square

Henry Holden, Esq., Chester
James Heygate, Esq., M.D. and F.R.S., Derby, Director of the
Derby, Gainshorough, and Great Grimsby Junction, and-Mac-
clesfield and Lichfield Railways
F. J. Hall, Esq., Torrington-square, London, and the Grange, Al.
freton, Director of the Bideford and Tavistock and the Erewash
Valley Railways
Thomas Hackett, Esq , Dnty, Director of the Groat Manchester
and Southampton, and the Warwick, Coventry, and Nottingham
Railways
F. H. Halpin, Esq., Erskine.street, Liverpool

W. H. Halpin, Esq., 23, Grafton-street, Fitzroy.square, Director
of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
J. G. Hammack, Esq., Essex- house, Mile-end-road, Director of
the Great Leeds and London and the Direct Western Railways
James Hollingworth, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby
and Manchester Railway
T. Piers Healy, Esq , Temple, Managing Director of the Direct
London and Exeter, and the Cheltenham and Brighton Rail.

ways
George Price Hill, Esq., Gowanbrze-house, Hampstead, Director
of the Thames Valley and Ercwash Valley Extension Railways
Isaac Holmes, Esq., Liverpool
John Douglas Hopkins, Esq., Bedford-square, Director of the
London and Birmingham Extension, and the Warwick and Wor-
cester Railways
Samuel Hurst, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the West Midland
Railway
Richard Edleston Hyde, Esq., Liverpool
Theophilus Hastings Ingram, Esq., Marton-house, near Skipton,
j.p., Director of the Lancashire and North Yorkshire, the
Manchester and Carlisle Direct, and the London and Liverpool
Railways
William Thomas Jackson, Esq., Tadcaster, Director of the Liver-
pool and Leeds, the East and West Yorkshire, and the Keighley,
Huddersfield, and Halifax Railways
Francis Jessop, Esq., Alderman of Derby, Director of the Derby,
Gainsborough, and Great Grimsby Junction Railway
Mr. Alderman Kelly, Director of the London and Birmingham
Extension, the West Midland, and the Erewash Valley Exten-
sion Railways
James Lamb, Esq., 25, Hyde-park square
James Lassetter, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railway
Richard Lassetter, Esq , Uttoxeter, Director of the Dub) shire,
Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railway
W. Margetson, Esq., Streatham

Thomas Hacket Massey, Oxford-square, Hyde-park, director of
the Great Leeds and London Railway
George More, Esq., Bow, Church-yard
William Mount, Esq., Canterbury, J.P.
John Molladay, Esq., Marble-hall, Warwick, Director of the
London and Birmingham Extension, the Exeter and Weymeuth,
and Erewash Valley Extension Railways
Peter Morrison, Esq,, Director of the South and Midlands, the
London and Birmingham Extension, and the Great Leeds and
London Direct Railways
William Eaton Mousley, Esq., Derby, Director of the Teen and
Dove Valley Railway
James Brabazon Murphy, Esq , Derby
T. C. Newton, Esq., Bruton. street, Berkeley-square, Director of
the Isle of Mon Railway
David William Nell, Eeq., Leeds
B. Oliveira, Esq., F. R.S , Upper Hyde-park-gardens, Dircctor of
the Thames Valley and Erewash Valley Extension Railways
Thomas Paul, Esq., Director of the Direct London and Exeter
Railway
Samuel Parsons, Esq., Sackville-street, Piccadilly
W. Pastow, Esq., Surrey.place, Director of the Oxford and Wor-
cester Extension and Chester Junction Railway
R, Joseph Parsons, Esq., Highfield-house, Mansfield
Lawrence John Parsons, Esq., St. John's College, Cambridge
George R. Pcppercorne, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex, Director of the
Chatham and Portsmouth Railway
Warwickß.
Railway
B.
iil)s
Brompten, Director of the Warwick and
Worcester and Thames Valley Railways
Samuel Pocock, Esq., Blooinsbury.square, Director of the Shef-
Philt'ay
it• Cowley Polhill, Esq., Esq., Director of the Rugby, Leamington, and
field and Macclesfield Railway
Tyne•tall, Ilford, Essex, Director of the
and Northern Counties
Eastern
Junction Railways, &c.
R. A. Riddell, Esq., Dime
d
Director of the Metropolitan Junction
Bees Price, Esq.,

Railway
IL B. Richardson, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading_,
and
Basingstoke Railway Company
Thomas L. Robinson, Esq. Banker, Croydon, Director of the
South London Railway
Robert Romi.ey Rea, Esq., 27, Surrey-street, Strand, and Water-
ford, Director of the Weymouth and Dorchester Railway
Robert Richards, Esq., Temple, Director of the South and Mid-

lands Railway
Jobn Rannie, Esq.

foomas Richardson, Esq., Derby, Director of the Staffurdshire and
North itlitiland Junction Railway, &c.,

John Reginald Ridded, Esq., Byculial,-hark, Enfield, Middlesex,
-Managing Director of the York and Lancaster Railway

William Robinson, Esq., hlanchester

lanes Russell, Esq , 37, Gloucester-place, Portman-square

Francis Roose, Esq., Upper Montague-street, Montague-square
John Saunders, Esq., Magistrate for the Borough ofDerby, Direc.