The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-04 00:00:00

IMPORTANCE OF THE LINE

It will be perceived that the line now proposed, from Paris to Stras-
burg, passing through Meaux, Chalons, and Nancy, must establish
an international communication, traversing the richest and most
industrious provinces of France, and commercially uniting England,
by the port of llavre and the Preach metropolis, with Austria, Ba-
varia, the manufacturing province of Alsace, Switzerland, and the
Rhine ; bringing into readier and closer intercourse, not only France
and Germany, but Great Britain and the whole Continent, the city
of Strasburg being already the point of departure for travellers from
and to the Germanic Provinces, and the point to which the national
railways of Germany are intended to converge.

RESOURCES OF THE COUNTRY TO BE TRAVERSED-PRO-
BABLE EXTENT OF TRAFFIC.

No doubt can exist as to the great extent of traffic to be anticipated
from the construction of this line. The report of M. Correard, an
eminent civil engineer, which will be deposited at the office of the
Company for reference, has been obtained, and in this it is announced
that the agricultural, commercial, and manufacturing resources
of the provinces bordering or within easy distance of the line, are
those of fifteen of the richest provinces in France—viz., Seine, Seine
et Oise, Seine et Marne, Aisne, Ardennes, Marne, Aube, Haute-Marne,
Meuse, Moselle, Meurthe, Vosges, Haute-Saone, Haut-Rhin, and Bas-
Rhin, abounding in forests, mines, collieries, iron works, mills, and
factories, as well as in rich vineyards, and various agricultural pro-
ductions. All of these provinces import much of what they consume,
and have abundant surplus produce to export. The interme-
diate traffic on this route is considered to be greater than
in any other part of France, the total annual trade being estimated
at 100,000 French tons between Strasburg and Paris; while that
between and among the various localites enumerated embraces
double this amount. The total population is about six milllions and
a quarter, and the total land revenue 320,000,000 f., or 12,800,0001.,
double that of the whole kingdom of Belgium.

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PRELIMINARY CONDITIONS OF INVESTMENT.
The amount of capital intended to be raised at present is
60,000,000 f., or 2,400,0001., in nearly equal parts, in England and
France. The deposit to be 50f. or 2/. ;on payment of which receipts
will be granted by the respective bankers of the Company, to be
exchanged for certiflcates of shares at the Company's Office in Lon-
don, when the contract shall be ratified. The remaining instalments
will only be called for at intervals of not less than three calendar
months, at the rate of 21. each ; the first instalment not to be called
for sooner than three months after the passing of the law constituting
the Company. After full payment of the amount due in respect of
his shares, each Shareholder will have the option of receiving cer-
tificates payable to bearer.
INTEREST AND PROFIT ON INSTALMENTS
The instalments will bear interest at 4 per cent. from the dftteof
tha paceingpf_the Taw, -until the Company shahirc
and such ShareliOTiVra ;army pay their calls lu Lindon will be en-
titled to any profit accruing from the assumed exe7tange at 25f. per 11.