The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-03 00:00:00

J)OVER and BRISTOL RAILWAY,
in continuation of_the South Eastern Railway, from Reigate
to ittistol. Upon the Narrow Gauge.
- - (Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,500,0001, in 75,000 Shares, of 20/. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.

PEOVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Right lion. Lord Rossmore, the Dell, Windsor
The /ion. William M. Dawson, Parkstone Lodge; Poole, Director of
the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
The lion. Edward Stafford Jerningham, Director of the London and

Nottingham Railway
Lieut.-Col. the Hon. J. C. Westenra, M.P., Director of the East and
West Junction Railway, and of the Brighton and Cheltenham Di-
rect Railway
Sir William B. Johnston, Bart., Director of the Chepstow, Forest of

Dean, and Gloucester Railway
Admiral Ayscough, Prospect-place-house, Southampton, Director of
the Birmingham and Leicester Railway, and South and Midland
Railway
Admiral Sir George Sartorius
Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Director of the York and Lancaster

Railway
William Collins, Esq., M.P., Warwick
A. K. Baker, Esq., Longfurd-house, Cheltenham Directors of the
John W. Hughes, Esq., Gloucester ißristol and Bir-
George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, mhigham Railway
The Worshipful the Mayor of Dover
Henry Butcher, Esq., the Mayor of Devizes
Daniel Niver, Esq.
Edward Poole, Esq.
William Henry l'ayn, Esq. Town Councillors of Dover
Edward Seward, Esq.'
The Rev. Just Ilenry Alt, Enford, Wilford, Director of the Manches-
ter, Southampton, and Pool Railway •
Charles Dickson Archibald, Esq., Itusland-hall, Lancashire, Director
of the South Staffordshire Railway
J. It. W. Atkinson, Esq., Elmwood•houso, Leeds, Director of the
Lancashire and North Yorkshire, and North Eastern Railways
George Addison, Rsq., Bradford, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway
Joins Anderson, Esq., London, Director of the Tring, Reading, and
Basingstoke Railway
Joseph Acton, Esq., J.P., Wigan, Director of the Manchester and
Wigan Railway
William Aserott, Esq., the Willows, Bury, Director of the Stafford-
shire Potteries, Liverpool, and Manchester Direct Railway
Joseph Austin, Esq., Heddingley-hill, Leeds, Director of the Leeds
and York Railway
William Ackroyd, Esq., Weetbourne Lodge, Gilley, Yorkshire, Di-
rector of the East and West Yorkshire, the Midlands and Thirsk
Junction, and Leeds and York and Midland Junction
Jjunes Beech, Esq. Grosvenor-place, and Brandon, Warwickshire,
Director of the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway
Cecil Brook Boothby, Esq., Ashbourne-hall, Derbyshire, Director of

the South Union
William Gabbett Beare, Esq., Porchester-placo, Connaught-square,
Director of the 'Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union Railway
John Boulton, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Birmingham, Lich-
.

field, and Manchester Railway
Thomas Byrom, Esq., Alderman, Wigan, Director of the Manchester
and Wigan, and the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction
Railways
George Brown, Esq., Twining-park, Worcestershire
Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway
Robert Bell, Esq., Manor House, Chiswick, Director of the Great
Eastern and Western Junction, and London and Nottingham
Railways
Robert S. Butterfield, Esq., Bradford, Yorkshire, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
• Luke Rutter, Esq., Alderman, Dublin, Director of the Galway and
Kilkenny; and Cork and Waterford Railways
William Clode Braddon, Esq., Regency-square, Brighton
Christopher Bentham, Esq., Birkenhead, Director of the Cheater and
Birkenhead Railway, and of the North and South Wales Bank
William Byrom, Esq., Oldham, Director of the Oldham Districts, the
Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction, and the Birken-
head and Holyhead Junction Railways
Thomas Chitty, Esq., Gower-street, Director of the Central Rent
Railway
Joseph Charles Cohen, Esq., merchant, Birmingham
John James Conway, Esq., Liverpool
John Carmichael, Esq., Cork, Director of the Cork and Waterford
Railway
William Henry Collis. Esq., Handsworth, Staffordshire, DireCtor of
the Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway
Thomas Cocksey, Esq., Atherton and Bolton, Director of the Man-
chester and Wigan Railway
William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., Hull, Director of the Rugby, War-
wick, and Leamington Railway
William Clifford, Esq., Hull, Director of the Lincolnshire and Eastern
Counties Railway
William Caldwell, Esq., Alderman, thee-hall, Wigan, Director of the
Staffordshire Potteries, Liverpool, and Manchester Direct Railway
Henry Coe Coape, Esq., Goldhanger, Essex, Director of the Man-
chester, Oxford, and Southampton Junction Railway
John Townshend Compton, Esq., Wedhampton, Wilts, Director of
the Manchester, Southampton, and Poole Railway
Captain F. Chamier, Haikin-street, Belgrave-square, Director of the
Fampoux and Hazebrouck Railway
Henry Toogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse Bradford. Magistrate for
Wilts and Somerset
John Campbell Dickers, Esq. New Hall, Neston, Cheshire, Director
of the Birkenhead and Bois:head, and the Rugby, Derby, and Man-
chester Railways
Thomas Davies, Esq., the Austins, Handsworth, Staffordshire, Di-
rector of the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway
W. T. S. Daniel, Esq., Recorder of Ipswich
Miles Dormer, Esq., London, Director of the Exeter,. Dorchester,
and Weymouth Coast Railway
John Doughill, Esq., Lockwood, Huddersfield
Joseph Dowson, Esq., merchant, Lambeth
Thomas H. Evans, Esq., Mayor of Cameroon
Henry D. Erskine, Esq., Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, and Kirby
Dale, Yorkshire, Director of the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway
George Edwards, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Birmingham,
Lichfield, and Manchester Railway
John Edwards, Esq., Chester, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway
William Edwards, Esq., Aston Furnaces, Birmingham, Director of
the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway
Captain Gustavus Evans, lt.N., Headly-grove, Reigate
John Finn's, Esq., merchant, Dover
Charles Fitzgerald, Esq., Charles-street, St. James's, Director of the
London and Nottingham Railway
Webster Floekton, Esq., Weybridge, Surrey
Bell Fletcher, Esq., M.D., Birmingham, Director of the Birmingham,
Lichfield, and Manchester Railway
Benjamin Franklin, Esq., 5, Marley-street, Cavendish-square, Di-
rector of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton
Railway
William Tulloh Fraser, Esq , Gloucester-place, Portman-square,
Director of the Dorking, Brighton, and Arundel Railway
Charles Hay Frewen, Esq., Brickwall, Northiam, Sussex
William Fitzgibbon, Esq., 21, Cambridge-street, Connaught-square,
Director of the Cork and Passage and Cork and Bandon Railways
Major. Grubbe, Eastwell-house, magistrate for Wilts
William Gambier, Esq., Sacombe-park, Iterts
Captain Goulde, Charles-street, St. James's
Capt. Frederick Gregory, Esq., Seacombe, Cheshire, Director of the
Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway
Henry Francis Gisborne, Esq., Derby, Director of the South Stafford-
shire Junction, the Derby and Crewe, the Macclesfield and Lich-
field, and the Leicester and Tamworth Railways
John Griffith Frith, Esq., merchant, Austin-friars, Chairman of the
Londonderry and Coleraine Railway
James Gernon, Esq., Coaduit-street, Bond-street, Director of the
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate, Manchester, Oxford, and South-
ampton, and Cheltenham and Brighton Railways
William, Gatliff, Esq., merchant, Leeds, Director of the West York-
shire Railway
Joseph Gill, Esq , Potter Newton Mount, Leeds, Director of the Leeds
and York and Midland Junction Railway
John Hall, Esq., Bull, Director of the Hull and York Railway
William Holliday, Esq., Chad Valley, Edgbaston, Director of the
Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway
Samuel Haines, Esq . Chad House, Edgbaston, Director of the
Leicester and Tamwortk Railway
William Horatio Harrison, Esq., Sunbury, Director of the Leicester
and Tamworth and South Staffordshire Junction Railways
William Wilkes Hill, Esq., Beeston Hall, Leeds
Lewis Hoffman, Esq., Temple, Director of the Nottingham and South
Staffordshire Railway
Janice Inglis, Esq., M.D., Halifax, Director of the Manchester,
Southampton, and Oxford Junction, and the London, Holyhead. and
Port dyialaen Railways
John Johnson, Esq., R.N., Birmingham
Kensington Lewis, Esq., Worcester-park, Surrey, Director of the
Cheltenham, Oxford and Bright,* Junction, and the Lynn, Wis-
beach, and Peterborough and Midland Counties' Railways
John Lowe, Esq., Norfolk Crescent, Hyde-park
William Phillips Lamb, Esq., Ockham House, Sussex
Edward Augustus Lamb, Esq., Westfield, Battle, Sumac, Director of
the Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway
Darnton Lurton, Esq , Potter Newton Hall, Leeds, Director of the
Leeds and York, and Wakefield and Bradford Railways
Sir William Lowthrop, Pint., Hull, Director of the Leeds, Hudders-
field, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Direct Railway
John Lord, Esq., Standish Hall, Lancashire, Director of the Blaek•
burn, Chorley, Wigan, and North Union Junction Railway, and of
the Staffordshire Potteries, and Manchester and Liverpool Direct
Railway
James Lamb, Esq., 115, Hyde Park-square, Director of the Tring,
Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
Rowland Mackenzie, Esq., Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square,
Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and Cheltenham,
Oxford, and Brighton Railways
Thomas Gibbon Moneypenny, Esq., Hole-park, Rolvenden, Kent
Major Moore, Queen Anne-street, Director of the Brighton and Chel-
tenham Direct Railway
James Joseph M'Swiney, Esq., Sandal View, Wakefield, Director of
the Wakefield and Harrogate Railway
J. Mee Mathew, Esq., Assistant Tithe Commissioner, Director of the
Worcestershire, Derbyshire, and Staffordshire Railway
Captain Macdougall, Fir-grove, North Brixton, Director of the Read-
ing, Guildford, and Reigate Railway
John George Norbury, Esq., Mancetter-house, Atherstono, Director
of the Tean and Dove Valley, and South Staffordshire Junction
Railways
Joseph Norton, Esq., Clayton West, Huddersfield, Director of the
Huddersfield, Halifax, and Bradford Union Railway, and the
Wakefield and Harrogate Railway
Captain Ommaney, R.N., 2, Suffolk-place, Pall-mall, Dirodoe of the
Newcastle, Durham, and Lancaster Railway
George Parbury, Esq., alansfieldsHouse, Russell-Square, Director of
the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
William Peppercorne, Esq., Bexhill, Sulam, Director of the West
Midland Railway
Captain Thomas Rose, 58, Perchestelaterrace
William Raines, Esq., Temple, Director of the London and Notting-
ham Railway
Frederick William Seymour, Esq., Carlton-terrace, Director of the
Lynn, Wisbeach, Peterborough, &c., Railway
William Spooner, Esq., London, Director of the South Staffordshire
Junction Railway, and of the Liverpool. Manchester, and New-
castle-upon-Tyne Junction Railway
Henry Scott, Esq., 17, Pall-mall
S. E. Sichel, Esq., merchant, Bradford, Director of the Leeds, York,
and Midland Junction Railway
George Turner, Esq., Bunton Hill, Erdington, Director of the South
Staffordshire Junction Railway
Henry Taylor, Esq.' Alderman, 'Wigan, Director of the Manchester
and Wigan, and the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union
Junction Railwaym
George Turton, Esq., Bagden Lodge, Clayton West, Huddersfield
William Tinker, Esq., Conock, Wilts, Director of the Manchester,
Southampton, ant Poole Railway
George ThomaS Thompson, Esq., Dover, Coroner for the Cinque
Ports
John Thompson, Esq., Alderman of Wigan, Director of the Birkhen-
head and Holyhead Itftliway, of the Manchester and Wigan Rail-
way, and Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction Railway
John Taylor, Esq., Hull, Director of the Lincolnshire and Eastern .
Counties Railway
James Upflll, Esq., The Green, Herefordshire, Director of the Staf-
fordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway
George Unett, Esq., The Laurels, Handsworth, Staffordshire, Direc-
tor of the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway. and
the Lynn, Wisbeach, and Peterborough Railway
Thomas Bolman Upfill, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Birming-
ham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway
Major White, Pall-mall, Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing-
stoke Railway
Walter Unett, Esq., Captain 3d Light Dragoons, Maidstone, Director
of the Nottinstarn and South Staffordshire, and the Lynn,
Wisbeach, andTeterborough Railways
William Royden Watts, Esq., M.D., Birmingham, Director of the
Lincoln, Louth, and Great Grimsby Railway
Thomas Wakefield, Esq., London, Director of the Nottingham and
South Staffordslii re Railway
Smith Whyleck, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Staffordshire and
Shropshire Junction Railway
Robert William Watson, Esq., Dover
John Wheelton, Esq., Meophani Bank, near Tonbridge, Director Of
the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Sir William White, Director of the Stafford, Uttoxeter, was Derby
Railway
J. W. Yerbury, Esq., Belcombe-house, Wilts, Capt, Sd. Light Dra-
goons, Director of the Direct Western Railway,
CONSULTING ENGINEER—
ACTING ENGINEER—Edward Jairses Maude, ESQ., C.E.
BANE.:;ks.
London—Messrs. Rogers, Oldin:, And Co. ; the Union Bank
Bristol—Stuckey 's Banking :iompany
Bradford and Trowbriase—The Wilts and Dorset Banking Company
Dover--Messrs. Latham and Co.
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LOCAL SOLICITORS.
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Till: company has been formed for the purpose of constructing a
continuation of the South-Eastern Railway at Reigate,
lwi-Illeereby a direct Junction will be effected between the whole of the
south-eastern coast, including the portandßilrmutribonguhraomf Dzewraayn.d the
several ports and towns of Southampton, Gosport, Portsmouth, and
Bristol ; and, by means of the Bristol and
with
Gloucester, Worcester, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, and
the north of England. .
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From its proximity to the Continent, the port of Dover will always
bo the most accessible point of the English coast; an expeditious
communication therefore between that and the other ports, harbours,
and inland towns of the United Kingdom, must necessarily be regarded
as e, mat national advantage.
Dover 3,s at present the chief port of embarkation for Calais,
Boulogne, Ostend, and other continental towns, and the vast numbers
Already resorting there both on business and pleasure, will be im-
measurably increased when the railways of France, Belgium, Hol-
land, and Ot.pailay are fully brought into operation.
In addition to which, the Government Commissioners having
iielectod over as a Harbour of Refuge, and recommended the outlay
WA' 1 of 14500,000 e., it mullet fall of becoming a place of the