The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-15 00:00:00

-

169, to Ostentl9B, to Dunkirk 77, to Calais 75, to MarlOto
42. The present distance to Hull from the Pool was' 262, to
Rotterdam 214, to Antwerp 210, to Osend 139, to
Dunkirk 118, and to Calais 111. The Crouch at kor
water was deep enough for the navigation of the largest col-
liers, hut it was said that an improved access at the mouth of:
the river would be an advantage. The committee had;.,
however, been informed by pilots, and at the Trinity Board,.
that such an objection only arose from the want of a good'
ei,t4enel being buoyed off. The river being now used
otii; by ships of unimportant burden, no pains had been taken
resuenting it. It was not intended to have docks; but,
as the s,liore was steep on this side, by continuing the line
into 15 it'et of water, by means of a pier, colliers might
tranship their coals into waggons adapted to the rails, and
which would also travel upon the ordinary road without on.
loading, which system had been also proposel on
the London and York line ; such waggons could be taken off
the line at a point the most convenient. The Provisional Com-
mittee depended a great deal upon the traL'lo of coals from this
branch to the east of London, thus avoiding many of the pre-
sent heavy charges, and also the delays so constantly occasioned
to vessels on the Thames. As he had before sk;id, the line
crossed the river Lea and the Regent's canal, and at convenient
points ; coals might be supplied by these means to ti:e parts
north of the line. With regard to Barking, there was a con-
siderable fishing trade carried on; there were a great mAny
populous villages down the line to that point, the inhabitants
which would, to a great extent, take advantage of railway'
communication. From the Crouch there were great facilities
for communication with many parts of the Continent, and that
river being by rail only 40 miles from London, an express train
might gain in an hour that point on the coast at present only
attainable by a- very long and circuitous voyage. To Ostead
and other places there would be a considerable saving of time,
though the distance might not be shorter. He need hardly say
that the terminus being in Fenchurch-street was a great advan-
tage to an agricultural district; nothing could be more con-
venient than a station there.

Mr. JAMES GILES moved and Mr. KELWORTH seconded
the first resolution in favour of the line, which was put and
carried unanimously.
Mr. TYERMAN adverted to the great benefit to the agricul-
tural interest that must ensue, by affording a quick and cheap
conveyance of the agricultural produce, in which this county so
richly abounded. At Crouch there would to a commodious
place for embarkation and debarkatien.
After some observations from Messrs. Rankin, Keyes,
Comfort, Taber, Lucas, Giles, Baker, and others, thanks were
given to the deputation for their attendance and explanations.
TILE RICHMOND RAILWAY.--The royal assent hav-
ing been given to the Act empowering a Company to
make a railway from Richmond to the Falcon-bridge,
Battersea, where it. is intended,to join the South-Western
Railway, surveyors have for several days past been ac-
tively engaged in marking out the line, and estimating
the value of the various properties through which this
line will pass. According to present arrangements,, the
railwsy will be commenced in the Broadway, Richmond,
where a handsome terminus will be erected. It will
then run nearly parallel with the Richmond- road, as
far as East Sheen, leaving Kew a mile-and-a-half dis-
tant on the left. It will afterwards cross Barnes--
common, having a station as near to the high-read
leading to llammersmith-bridge as convenient, and run-
ning alongside the Upper Richmond-road, will cross Put-
ney high-street by a cutting of from twelve to eighteen
feet in d,pth, over which a bridge will be thrown to
continue the old thoroughfare. This cutting will be
continued to North-fields, Wandsworth, where a viaduct
will be commenced and cart ied across the road leading
from Wandsworth to Putney, through a row of houses,
called Point Pleasant, across some marshy land to an
extensive osier bed. here the excavation will have to
be carried eighteen feet deep before a foundation can
be obtained liar the viaduct, and in consequence of the
tides overflowing this part, it will be the most difficult
undertaking on the whole line. Continuing the viaduct,
a double-arched bridge will cross the Wandle, after
which the works, meeting with little engineering diffi-
culty, will be rapidly continued to their termination at
Falcon-bridge, Battersea, where men are already at
work. There will be stations at Putney and Wands-
worth, and the whole line will be opened on the Ist of
May next.
MANCHESTER AND SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY.—It iS
intended to begin near the Southampton Docks, and
thence by Redbridge on Southampton Water, Romsey,
Stockbridge, Andover, Ludgershall, Marlborough, Swin-
don, Cricklade, and Cirencester, to Cheltenham, where
it is to join the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway.
The effect will be to reduce the distance front' South-
ampton and Birmingham sixty-four miles, to Manchester
and Liverpool seventy-seven, and to Chester eighty-
three, besides which it will save fifteen miles between
Swindon and Cheltenham, and eighteen between Ciren-
cester and Cheltenham. One of the most interesting
facts in connexion with Southampton, and one of the
most pregnant proofs of the vast benefits which
may accrue from railway accommodiation, is the
vast increase of the trade of Southampton ; for
whereas the exports of Southampton in 1832
were only of the declared value of 62,1631, in
1845 they will exceed 3,000,000/, while the number of
passengers embarking and disembarking for foreign
ports is 10,000 in each year. The connexion of this hoe
with the port of Southampton will of course create a
most valuable traffic, but there is also a considerable
local traffic between the towns of Andover, Stockbridge,
Rowe), Redbridge, and other towns in West Hemp-
shire with Southampton, which is now the great port of
that district, and which with its increasing resources is
calculated to become the port for a great part of the
south of England. The great obstacle at present to ves-
sels unloading goods at Southampton is, that they can-
not obtain return cargoes ; but the present line will give
them Recess to those districts which will provide the re-
cpiisite supply, and so greatly extend the trade of the
1)01 t.--I?ailway Retold.
BRIGHTON, LEWES, AND HASTINGS (HASTINGS, RYE!
AND ASHFORD EXTENSION).—On Friday the Brighton and
Hastings Ashford Extension Bill received the royal assent.
The confirmation of the fact received here on Saturday oc-
casioned a most lively feeling of congratulation in the breasts of
every one connected with the trade and prosperity of the
borough. The joy of the inhabitants was expressed in every
outward form, the town band paraded the streets, the church
bells were rung, boys and men . huzzaed, and the
tradesmen met and toasted " Success to the Rail-
way" at railway speed. By the passing of this Act of
extension the full hopes and wishes of the inhabitants are
constmonated. A new era is about to dawn on us. By the
completion of this line, direct communication will be opened
with the whole of the pleasure towns of Kent. From the
progress of the works between this place and Brighton there
is little doubt that the line will be opened by March next
as far as Bopeep. The completion of the remainder of the
line to Ashford will rest with the South-Eastern Company,
the Bill with all it powers as obtained by the Brighton and
Hastings Company being handed over to them. The Act
expressly provides that the tunnels into the Priory and the
whole line shall be commenced simultaneously, that the line
shall be completed Is ithin three years after the passing of the
Act, and that if it is not completed in that time no interest
shall be payable on any part of the South-Eastern capital until
it is completed. This is an assurance of a speedy realisation of
our hopes. By it Rye harbour, which will be doubtless much
improved by the expenditure of 10,0001., will be made avail-
able to us ; and ultimately we may entertain hopes of seeing'
permanent harbour here.—Brighton Guardian.
CHELTENHAM AND OXFORD.,—The committee of this un-
dertaking met on Saturday, at Cheltenham, when Mr. Brunel
gave a detailed account of his survey of the line. Captain C.
B. I indsay was appointed Secretary. It was announced that
the deposits on the proposed capital (360,0001.) had been paid
to the amount of 80,0001., had been invested in Exchequer-
bills, and that the plans and sections were in a state of for•
w ardness.
CHELMSFORD AND BURY.—This Company have deter-
mined to extend their line to Thetford, so as to give the nearest
and most direct communication between London and Nor-
wich, a ithout diverting the traffic from its old course.
CALEDONIAN.—Last week, on the commencement of the
works, orders were given by Mr. Wilson, superintendent of
the work, for the erection of a number comfortable houses
at Evanhead, far the accommodation of the workmen employed
on the line, which are nearly finished.
NORTH SOMERSET.—A contemplated line of railroad.
designated " Ploughman's line," is occupying a good deal
cf public attention in North Somerset. It is proposed to
make a line intersecting the country nearly midway from
north to south, forming a junction with the Great Western
at a convenient point between the cities of Bath and Bristol
(say at Keynsliam),. and another with the Bristol and Exeter
lat eovil, penetrating Alendip at or near Marsbury Dip,
and traversing centrally the Alendip coal fields. The ad-
vantages of this, over any other of the contemplated lines
are, that whilst it will afford a sufficiently easy route to the
metropolis, it will open a direct way to the manufacturing dis-
tricts, and the northern parts of the kingdom and South Wales;
and all will furnish a cheap channel of transport for the bulky
treasures of the Mendip mines southward, to an unlimited ex-
tent.—Hampshire paper.
WELSH MIDLAND..--SVTVeyS are now being made be-
tween Leominster and Kidderminster, and between Kid-
derminster and Birmingham, with the view of effecting a
direct communication between the mineral districts of South
Wales and the manufacturing town of the midland and
northern counties, that portion of the line between Leominster
and Kidderminster being already determined on, and it being
the intention of the Wel: h Midland to carry out the continua-
tion from Kidderminster to Birmingham in case no similar line
shall be projected by some other company acting in co-opera-
tion with them.
Mr. Charles Lawrence has been elected chairman of the
Grand Junction in the place of Mr. Moss, and Mr. Robertson
Gladstone deputy chairman.
The Manchester and Birmingham have it in contemplation
to construct a branch from their main line at Knutaford to'
the salt mines of Cheshire, affording accommodation to Stock-
port and Ashton, and supplying coal from the coal-field of
Poynton.
A new station is about to be erected on the Eastern Counties
line, at Hatfield Peverel, near Witham.
The Directors of the Grand Junction have determined on
making a further reduction in their fares. The fares will be
for travelling by select or express trains twopence farthi
acedper
mile. The fare for first-class passengers is to be red
be five farthings per mile; and the third class
one penny per mile.
twopence per mile ; the charge for second-class
formation of theing throughout the whole
South-
Western Railway, is proceed .
ary as__A ay next.
SALIsBu RY BRANCH
branch
lineo t'
tTol THE
Salisbury,OU T HW
from E S Ttre.._h.
extent of the line with the utmost expedition.
l, It is confi-
dentlyvery active progress ;
The
anticliated it will beopened
eeabcr.ai strongtyn'ehar Greatfereoffamohrottheuiwnilel be made to get this
Western line, on
preparations
line opened to Bath as early as the line to Bishopstoke.
The liberal wages offered to induce men to labour on the works
is likely to prove inconvenient to some of the agriculturists in
andth the oitti. e r
saidsid side for
rhf
attthb
the vicinity during the harvest.—Hampshire paper.
WISBECII.—A meeting was held at Wisbech on Friday,
to determine upon the most advantageous measures to be taken
for securing railway communication between Wisbech and
the metropolis and the manufacturing districts. The
meeting was very fully attended. The Mayor stated the object
of the meeting. Several speakers followed, and in the end a
Committee was appointed to carry out the views of the re-
quisitionits.
LYNN AND ELY.—This Company propose to extend their
line from Wisbech to Spalding, in Lincolnshire, with the view
of affording to the port of Great Yarmouth, the city of Nor-
wich, and the ports of Lynn and Wisbech, a direct line of com-
munication with the Northern and Midland districts.
paroyrptioornt oafertohsea NtVhheipteherarntJutoncwtioonrkßinagiltwona,y,isexerpendeitnegd
ftrooTbnehaAti opened for the conveyance of goods and passengers before
the close of the present ear.—Cumberland Pacquet.
CANTERBURY AND OVER RAILWAY.—The Directors of
this Company have determined on extending their line to Herne
Bay. The necessary surveys and estimates are nearly completed.
RAILWAY STATION AT Lzwes.—The Friars at Lewes,
which has been from time immemorial the resort of the judges
while on Circuit, has been purchased with a view to transform
it into the station for the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings line.