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

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The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Chairman of the 'York and
Lancaster Railway, 4, Parliament-street
William Ormsby Gore, M.P., Chairman of the Shrewsbury, 'Wol-
verhampton, Dudley, and Birmingham Railway, 66, Portland-
place, and Portlington-hall, Oswestry, Salop
Colonel Fitch, Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension Rail-
way, York-terrace, Regent's-park
William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S , &c., Alderman of
London, Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead, and London
and Greenwich Railways, Brunswick-square
Thomas Sidney, Esq., Alderman of London, and Sheriff if London
and Middlesex, Leyton, Essex
Captain Thornhill Warrington, 66, Upper Berkeley-street, Portman-
square
James Reeves, Esq., Leyton, Essex, Director of the London and Man-
chester Railway
William Petrie, Esq , King-street, Portman-square
John Inglis Jerdien, Esq., Director of the Manchester, Rugby, and
Southampton Railway, No. 2, Adams-court, Broad-street
Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of the Birmingham and London Rail-
way, 1, Princes-street, Bank
(With power to add to their number).
BANKEILs us BELGIUM—Messrs. Prosper et Rene Spitaels et Co.
BANKERS IN ENGLAND—The London Joint Stock Bank.
Cortscurixo Eriotrarat--Sir John Macneil, LL.D. and I.R.S.

ExoiNma—William Mullingar Higgins, Esq.
Somerroas—Messrs. Potter and Collingridge, 5, Baainghall-street.
SlicaSTAsT—Philip N. Scanlan, Esq.
COmrarcr's OFFlcas-57, Moorgate•street (East Side).
This Company has been formed for the purpose of opening a line of
railway communication between Calais and Bruges, passing through
important districts of France and Belgium containing a population of
above 600,000 inhabitants, and forming a junction with the State
Railway at Bruges, which has now become the roost direct route to
the interior of Belgium, Germany, Prussia, and the countries east
of the French frontier.
In laying before the public the prospectus of this proposed line, it
may be mentioned as one of its principal advantages, that it will
reduce the passage from London to Brussels, now occupying
twenty-four or twenty-six hours, under the most favourable circum-
stances, and often thirty or forty, to twelve hours, rendering it prac-
ticable to make the journey with ease in one day, and at two-thirds
of the present expense. The long, tedious, and uncertain sea voyage
will also be avoided from Dover to Ostend, which, to travellers gene-
rally, and particularly to ladies and invalids, is exceedingly dis-
agreeable, and often attended with serious c-nsequences.
It can hardly admit of a question, that the principal part of the
passenger traffic between the two capitals, London and Brussels, to-
gether witk the passenger traffic of the populous cities of Antwerp,
and Ghent, the latter being the Manchester of Belgium, and the im-
portant towns of St. Nicholar and Tierlmond, will be, under these
circumstances, drawn into this channel ; and another important ad-
vantage to the public, and source of revenue to the Company, will be
found in the transmivilon of the Belgian, German, and Prussian
mails, which are now conveyed by steamers from Dover to Ostend,
at a very considerable expense, and with much less certainty and ex-
pedition than if transmitted to Calais, a sea passage of only 24 miles,
and usually made in two hours.
The traffic and expenditure may be fairly estimated as follOvri :
From 50,000 passengers, who, according to the recent re-
turns from Ostend and Antwerp, annually visit the Conti•
vent and return by this route, say, from each, on an ave-
rage, 10a. each way ................... ...... ......... £50,000
For the transport of mails from the respective Governments 10,000
Local traffic in goods and passengers ••••••••••• • •• • • • • • • 00,000

4ti0,000
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