The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-22 00:00:00

Messrs. Stevens, Wilkinson, and Satehell, Queen-street, London

John Symons, Esq., 33, Old Jewry, London.
William B. West, Esq., Wexford.
The proposed Railway will complete the chain of communication
between London and the south and west of Ireland, by route of the
Great Western and South Wales Railways to Fishguard, or St.
David's Head, from thence to the harbour of Wexford (being the
narrowest part of St. George's Channel), where the projected Rail-
way, uniting the important ports of Wexford, New Ross, and Water-
ford, will commence, and passing through the towns of Taghmon,
Mullinavat, and Carrick-on-Suir, will there join the Waterford,
Limerick, and Cork Railways, which have on this portion of their
line the towns of Clonmel, Cahir, Cashel, Tipperary, and Kilmallock ;
and leaving them at Charleville, the Wexford, Waterford, and
Valentia Railway will proceed through the towns of Dromcolliher,
Newmarket, Castle Island, and Killarney, with a short branch to
the important port and county town of Tralee,—it will then pass
onward in the vicinity of Castiemain, Milltown, Killorglin, and Caller-
clveen, and terminate at the spacious harbour of Valentia.
By the same speed now maintained on the " Great Western Rail-
way," the journey from London to Fishguard will be performed in
five hours—the passage thence to Wexford in four—to Dublin in two
—thus completing the distance to Dublin in eleven hours, and accele-
rating the English mails, to the interior, thirty hours earlier than by
the present arrangements. . _ _

It will be readily seen by an inspection of the annexed map, that
the whole line, when completed, will greatly facilitate the inter-
course between Great Britain, Ireland, and America, as, by means of
it, Valentia Harbour, a port of great importance, being brought
within thirteen hours of London, must become a packet station,
where vessels would avoid the delays of adverse tides and winds in
the Channel, and save at least 990 miles of the most difficult part of

the voyage to America, which would then be accomplished with ease
and regularity (via Halifax) in seven days from Valentia, and eight
days from London.
The proposed railway will also afford" a new and convenient open-
ing for the transport and wile of the produce of the country through
which it passes, by a safe and expeditious means of transit to every
part of the kingdom, and the fact that a great portion of the traffic
between London, the West of England, Wales, South and West of
Ireland, and ultima`ely of America, must exclusively flow into this
line, as the great highway between these countries, will he at once
sufficient to chew that the increase of traffic will greatly exceed the
ordinary rate of computation, and that the return upon the capital
invested will be-very ample.

This line will pas; thr,;ugh or near twenty towns, having on each
side a fertile country, containing a populatioq of two millions and up-
wards, to the whole of which it will afford railway accommodation :
—it will intersect the inexhaustible coal-fields of Duhallow (com-
puted by the Railway Commissioners to be the most extensive in the
United Kingdom)—the valuable limestone and marble quarries at
Dunkit, Pilltown, 3litchelstown, and Killarney,—and the lead and
copper mines near the latter (all on the line). The slate quarries at
Valentia, the finest in the world, have been selected for supplying the
roofing to the new Houses of Parliament, and being extensively
worked by an English company, mill add to the traffic of the line.
In addition to the income derived from the mineral traffic, a very
large source of revenue may be anticipated, from the line considerably
cheapening the transit of the staple articles of the Irish export trade,
which are raised in large quantities in the districts close to the course
of this Railvay, the daily produce of the fisheries along the West coast,
Nymph Bank, Rilmore, and Wexford, and the immense nuantity of
live stock, corn, butter, and other agricultural produce, immediately
available and requiring transmission,—added to'whleh, the numerous
and extensive malting houses and flour mills along the line will con-
tribute largely to the traffic, and prove equally beneficial to the
country and the Shareholders.

When it ie considered that this railway will form an important por-
tion of a great national project, which must ere long be accomplished,
—that of establishing a direct chain of communication between Eng-
land and America, through South Wales and the South of Ireland,—it
may reasonably be assumed, that, independently of its present su-
perior local advantages and public utility, it will, in a prospective
point of view, secure to itself the largest trade, and prove one of
the most remunerative lines as yet proposed in Ireland.
A portion of the shares are reserved for parties locally interested,
and the remainder will be allotted to those giving unexceptionable
references, and no application will be attended to unless accom-
panied by a London reference. Powers will be taken in the Act of
Parliament to limit the liability of the Shareholders to the amount
of their shares, and to allow interest at 41. per cent. per annum on
the deposits.
Prospectuses, with Plans and Forms of Application for Shares,
may be obtained from the following Stock and Share brokers :
Messrs. Mullens and Marshall, Lombard-street, and Messrs. Carden
and Whitehead, Threadneedle-street, London; Messrs, A. and S.
Boult, and Mr. Thomas Crewdsen, Liverpool ; Messrs. Boyle, Low,
Pym, and Co., and Bruce and Symes, Dublin ; Mr. Graves, Man-
chester; Messrs. Hirst and Brooke, and Mr. James Jameson, Leeds;
Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol; Mr. Samuel Eyre, Derby; Mr. W.
Smith, Glasgow ; Mr. James Pringle, Edinburgh ; Messrs. Hopwood
and Palmer, Plymouth ; and also of the Bankers anti Solicitors of the
Company.
Company's Offices, 33, Old Jewry, London.
TO TUE PROVISIONAL dOMMITTRE..

Gentlemen,—l hereby subscribe for Shares of 25/, each
in the above undertaking, and I agree to accept that or any less
number of Shares that may be allotted to me, to pay the Deposits,
and sign the necessary Deeds.
Dated this Day of , 1845.
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WEXFORD, WATERFORD, and VALEN-
TIA RAILWAY, to join the WATERFORD, LIMERICK,
and CORK RAILWAYS.
Provisionally registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Vic., cap. 110.
Notice is hereby given, that no further applications for Shares in
this Company will be received after Monday, May 26th, instant, and
immediately afterwards the London Committee of Management will
proceed to allotment.
By order, JOHN SYMONS, Prov. Sec.
Company's-offices, 33, Old Jewry, London.

rrE GALWAY and BELFAST JUNCTION
RAILWAY COMPANY?
Capital £1,000,000, in 20,000 Shares of .£5O each.
Deposit £2 10s. per Share.
Provisionally Registered.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Lord Rossmore
Martin Joseph Blake, Esq., M.P. for Galway
Thomas Wyse, Esq., M.P. for Waterford

P. S. Butlei, Esq.,M,P.
John James Bodkin, Esq., M.P. Galway County, 41, Piccadilly
Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Pall-mall
The Very Reverend Henry Roper, D.D., Rector of Clones
The Rev. Charles Welsh, Clones
Major White, Director of the Belfast, Dublin, and Coleraine Railway
James Brand, Esq., New Broad-street, London
Robert Riddell, Esq., Bryanstooe-street, Bryanstone-squaro
F. W. Hamilton, Esq , Gloucester-place, Portman-square
Robert Forster, Esq., R.N., Director of Cork and Bandon Railway
William Gabbett Beare, Esq., Porchester-place, Connaught-square
Captain Ommanny, R.N., Upper Wimpole-street
Henry Lewis, Esq., Montague-street, Montague-square
Thomas Bermingham, Esq., 16, Tichfleld-terrace, Regent's Park
With power to add to their number.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—Sir John Rennie, F.R.S.
Am No ENGINEERS—Messrs. Leahy, M.I.C.E.L.

SOLICITORS—Messrs. Johnston, Farquhar,•,
and Leech, London.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—Messrs. George and T. W. Webster, Great
George-street.
SECRETARY—MUCUS Lewis Hill, Esq.

BANKERS—The Union Bank of London, the National Bank of Ire-
land, the Provincial Bank of Ireland, the Edinburgh and Glasgow
Bank, at Edinburgh and Glasgow; the Liverpool Bank, Liverpool ;
the Manchester and Salford Bank, Manchester.

The object of this line is to connect the important ports of Galway
and Belfast, and to transect the midland counties of Ireland.
Commencing at Galway the line will pass through or near the fol-
lowing Important places :—Tuam, Castleblaney, Mount Talbot, Ath-
league, Roscommon, Lanesborough, Longford, Newton Forbes, Elphin,
Carrick-on-Shannon, Beturbet, and Clones, where it will form a junc-
tion with the Newry and Enniskillen Railway, thus forming a direct
communication between the ports of Galway and Belfast. It will at
the same time afford, in connexion with other lines, accommodatior
to the counties of Limerick, Clare, Galway, Mayo, Roscommon,
Longford, Leitrim, Fermanagh, Cavan, Monaghan, Londonderry,
Antrim, Armagh, and Down, and passing by or near to the Arigna
iron mines, and the great coal and limestone fields in Connaught,
it will essentially promote the agricultural and commercial in-
terests of those places.
It will also complete an important chain of railway communication
between the port of Galway in the west (one of the most capacious
in the United Kingdom, and which must, ere long, become a packet
station for steamers to and from America, &c.), and the port of Bel-
fast in the northeast, whore there are constantly steam packets pro-
ceeding to Glasgow and the ports on the western coast of Scotland,
and which will be brought into cheap and rapid communication with
each other.

It is to be observed that whist' almost every other line of railway
hitherto projected diverges from Dublin, no line is as yet proposed
which intersects the inland counties. By crossing, as it will, other
main lines, it will be a feeder to them, and it will, in return, receive
from them a considerable amount of traffic in passengers and mer-
chandize.

A preliminary survey of the district is being made ; the line will
pass for nearly the entire length through the table land of Ireland, so
that the gradients are particularly favourable; there will, moreover,
be no tunnelling, nor any engineering work of difficulty. From
the estimates which have been made it is confidently expected that a
return of 10 per cent. on the capital will be realised. The act of in-
corporation will limit the liability of the Shareholders to the amount of
shares which they may take.
Application for shares to be addressed to the Committee, at the
Company's Offices, 65, Moorgate-street, London, or to the under-
mentioned brokers :—Mr. Anthony Lawrie, Liverpool; Mr. May,
Liverpool ; Messrs. Brady and Staniforth, Manor-street, Hull; Mr.
S. Grindrod, Manchester; Messrs. Cardwell and Co., Manchester;
Meters. Watson and Co. Leeds; Messrs. E. King and Co., Leeds;
Mr. Luke Arnold, Bristol ; Mr. George Edwards, Bristol ; Mr. Robert
Allan, Edinburgh ; Messrs. M'Ewen and Auld, Glasgow ; Mr. Andrew
Brand, Glasgow ; Mr. William Gordon, Aberdeen ; Boyle, Low, Pim,
and Co., Dublin ; snd Bruce, and Symes, Dublin, of whom pro-
spectuses may be had.