The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-18 00:00:00

COUNTRY RANKERS.

Stuckey's Banking Company, at their various branches
The West of England and South Wales' District Bank, at their
various branches
Messrs. Williams and Co., Bridport, Dorchester, and at their variou
branches
Messrs. S. and W. E. Gundry, Bridport, and at their various
branches
Messrs. H. It. and I. Badcock, Jun., Taunton.
STANDING CouNsuL---A. W. Kinglake, Esq., 24, Old-square,
Lincoln's Inn.
SECRETARY—Mr. Charles P. Meryon.

SOLICITORS IN Lorinow—Messrs. Keddell, Baker, and Grant, 34,
Lime-street.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—Messrs. Sudlow and Kingdon,
Palace-yard.
SOLICITORS IN THE COUNTRY.
Mr. Edwin Nicholetts, Bridport
Mr. Baruch Fox, Beamister
Messrs. Rowcliffe and Son, Stogumber, near Watchet.

LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Mr. Samuel Walter, Chard
Mr. Woodland, Tauaton
Mr. W. Bridge, Dorchester
Mr. F. N'apier Bower, Wiveliscombe
Mr. .1 F. Knight, Axminster.
The object of this Company is to establish a direct line of rail-
way for passengers, goods, and commercial, mining, and agricul.
tural produce between the harbour of Wutchet on the Bristol
Channel, and the harbour of Bridport on the English Channel, and
provide means of inland transit for a large proportion of the pro-
duce at present necessarily sent by the dangerous and uncertain
passage round the Land's End, and at the same time afford to the
intermediate rich and populous districts ready and convenient rail-
way communication.

The direct line will be 48 miles in length, and will proceed from
Watchet to Taunton, and thence by Hatch Beauchamp, and by
Ilminster to Chard, and by Crewkerne and Beaminster to Bridport
harbour. A branch will proceed out of the line, about mid-way
between Watchet and Taunton, directly to Wiveliscombe. All
these towns and their neighbourhoods are populous and opulent,
and many of them very much so, and the localities are remarkable
for their richness, fertility, beauty, and numerous resident gentry.
At Wiveliscombe this line will avail itself of the North Devon
Railway to Taunton, and also westward; at Taunton it will
enter the station of the Bristol and Exeter Railway, and thence
proceed to Mangerton, four miles short of Bridport, where it will
unite with the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth, one of the
Great Western lines of Railway, and thence proceed on that line
to Bridport Harbour.
It will also cross the proposed line from Yeovil to Exeter
about two miles west of Crewkerne.
The junction of the two Channels was long since deemed an im-
portant object. To effect it, surveys were successively made for v
ship canal by the late Mr. Rennie, Mr. Telford, and other scientific
men, who concurred in the importance of such a work in a na-
tional point of view ; the design was matured, and in 1824 an Act
of Parliament was passed; and it stands recorded as the opinions of
Mr. Telford and Captain Nichols, that the canal would afford a
remuneration to the subscribers of 16 34 per cent, on a capital of
1,712,8444

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The sum required for this work, being so much less than th:-:t
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for the Ship caul ; the increased demand of a greatly increased
population, and the present vast commercial energies of the
country, male it manifet that goods may !3e conveyed by this
railway at far less than half the charge upon which Mr. Telford
and Captain Nichols lbrmed their opinion.
The intended line from Minehead to Bridgewater, will meet
and cross this line near Watchet, _____

PRELIMINARY NOTICE.
rrillE EXETER, TIVERTON, AND MINE-
1. HEAD DIRECT RAILWAY, with extension from Minehead
to Ilfracombe.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,000,6001., in 64,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
This railway will pass from the city of Exeter, through the
rich valley of the Exe, via Silverton and Bickleigh, 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 Ramp-
ton, Dulverton, and Dunster, to the port of Minehead 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 -10 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 Lani's End. It
will also form a very short and direct junction of •the Bristol and
3ngilish Channels.
A mo,e valuable and important line to the country which it will
traverse could not be, projectod. A list of the Provisional 'Committee
-will be published in a few days ; and in the meantime farther 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 t 1 Corupany'o Offices, NV. 37, Gresham-street, City.