The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-11 00:00:00

PROSPECTUS OF THE

BRIGHTON, LEWES, TUNBRIDGE
WELLS, GRAVESEND, and EASTERN COUNTIES
JUNCTION RAILWAY, with a branch from or near Wrotham to
Chatham.
Capital 1,000,000/., in 50,000 Shares of 20/. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and S Vic., e. 110.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Sir John Key, Bart. Alderman, Director of the Exeter, Dorches-
ter, and Weymouth Railway
John Saddington, Esq., Mayor of Gravesend
Medhurst Troughton, Esq., Alderman of Gravesend

Thomas Pa!lister, Esq., Alderman of Gravesend
Mr. -- Tisdell, Councillor of Gravesend
Jeremiah Rosher, Esq , Rosherville, near Gravesend

John Broi.gh, E q., Herne Bay
Nathaniel Cumberlege, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's-park, Director

of the Leeds and Huddersfield Railway
Thomas Mortimer Cleobury, Esq., Acton, Middlesex, Director of
the Sheffield and Nottingham Railway Company
John Mortimer, Esq., Peppingford Park, Maresfield
John Burgess, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester, Director of the

London and Manchester Railway
Thomas Camplin, Esq., Herne Bay
W. A. Campbell, Esq., Wanstead.park

Charles Goodwin, Esq., Battersea
F. W. Hamilton, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director

of the York and Lancaster Railway Company
James Harmer, Esq., Ingress Abbey, Greenhithe, Kent
William Kuper, Esq., Director of the Grand Junction, Great

Western, and South Western Railway
T. R. Kemp, Esq., Director of the Blythe and Churnet Valley,

and Macclesfield and Licl,field Railways
John Kerschner, Esq., Middle Temple lane
Edward Lacey, Esq., St. Paul's-churchyard, and Gravesend

Jonas Levy, Esq., 55, Tavistock-square
H. C. Leahy, E•q., St. James's square, Director of the Direct Bir-
mingham and Brighton, at.d Gieat Welsh Junction Railway
R. H. Lewis, Esq., 12, Upper Motitague.street, Director of the
Cheltenham, Oxford, and Brighton Railway
John Wherley Lea, Esq., Worcester, Vice-Chairman of the Be-

vern Comniibsion
The Hon. Captain Douglas Kinnaird Pultcney, Chairman of the

York and Lancaster Railway
Edmund PalliAter, Esq., Gravesend

S. H. Powell, Esq., Director of the Leeds, Yotk, and Midland

Junction Railway
E. R. Simmons, Esq., Gloucester Lodge, Croydon
Walter White, Dq., Fitzroy.square, Director of the London and

Windsor Railway
J. D. Williams, Esq., Milton-street, Dorset. square
(With power to add to their number).
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Sir John Key, Bart. Wm. Kuper, Esq.
The Mayor of Gravesend John Kerschner, Esq.
John Brough, Esq. S. H. Powell, Esq.
T. M. Cleobury, Esq. W. White, Esq.
(With power to add to their' number).
BANKER!.

Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clement's-lane ; Messrs. Cocks,

Biddulph, and Co., Charing-cross.
At Lewes—Messrs. Molyncux, Whitfield and Co.

CONSULTING ENGINEERS—Sir John Macneil and Jamas Thom.

son, Esq.
ENGINEER—WM. Laxton, Esq., C.E.

SOLICITOR IN LONDON —George Smith, Esq., 24, Golden-square,
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
M.. ~c Comae and Sharland, Town-hall, Gravesend
Dlessrc T ,11-1 1.7 inm•ter. Lewes.

The object of this undertaking is to open a direct line of rail-
way to connect the Northern, Eastern, and South Essex Railways,
by means of a steam ferry from Tilbury Fort to Gravesend, with
Tunbridge Wells, Lewes, and Brighton.
It is contemplated to proceed from the Eastern Counties Rail-
way at or near Harlow station to Tilbury, crossing the river
by a steam floating.bridge to Gravesend, passing by Wrotham 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 Brightom.
An inspection of the map will clearly show the great import.
ance of this railway, whether considered in a local or national
point of ♦iew, forming as it will a most useful chain of local com-
munication for the fertile and populous tracts through which it
passes.

It will bring the Northern and Eastern Counties, the mouth of
the Thames, and North Kent, into direct communication, by
way of Brighton, with Dieppe and Havre, and thus form, in con-
junction 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
communication 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 be
effected; and as such, the project has been received with the mast
distinguished approbation and pledges of support from the principal
proprietors along 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 suf.
&lent to fulfil the requirements of the undertaking; but a large
accession of valuable traffic cannot fail to be the result of the
increased accommodotion thus afforded to the public, and rendering
the uodertaking one of the most important as well as productive
lines of railway in that part of the country.
The Committee reserve power to themselves t• form a branch
from Wrotham to Chatham.

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 4 per cent. per annum •n
all calls, from the passing of the Act until the opening of the line.
Applications for prospectuses, and also for shares, may be ad-
dressed in the form annexed to George Smith, Esq., Solicitor, 24,
Golden-square; Messrs. Coombe and Sharland, Town.hall, Graves-
end ; Messrs. J. and E. Maker, Lewes ; and also to the following
Sharebrokers :—Messrs. Field, Son, and Bayley, Warnford.court,
Throgmortou-street, London ; Messrs. Harris and Sons, Change-
alley, London; Mr. M. L. Pritchard, Liverpool ; Messrs.
Gardiner and Heap, Manchester; Mr. Isaac Ironside,
Sheffield; Messrs. Hirst and Brooke, Leeds; Messrs. Hopwood
and Palmer, Plymouth ; Mr. J. B. Mundy, Bath ; Mr. A. Moffatt,
Edinburgh.

To the Provisional Committee of the Brighton, Lewes, Tunbridge
Wells, Gravesend, and Eistern Counties Junction Railway.

I request that you will allot me shares in the proposed
Brighton, Lewes, Tunbridge Wells, Gravesend, and Eastern Counties
Junction Railway ; and I agree to take all such shares, or so many as
may be allotted to me, and to pay the deposit thereon, and to execute
the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when re.
quired S 3 to do.

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