The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-26 00:00:00

IN ENGLAND,

Frederic Chamfer, Esq., R.N., Senior United Service Club, Director
of the Great Paris and Lyons Railway
James Watts Peppercome, Esq., No. 2, Old Broad-street
Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq., Deputy-Governor of the Union Bank
of London
William Strahan, Esq., Banker, Strand
George Whitmore, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the North Kent
Railway.
BANKERS—Messrs. Strahan, Paula, and Bates, 217, Strand.
SOLICITOR—E. Benham, Esq., 20, Austin-friars.
SECRETARY—W. Freeling Jerdan, Esq.
At a meeting of the English Shareholders in this Company, held
this day, at the offices of the solicitors of the Company,
ANDREW SPOTTISWOODE, Esq., in the chair;
the first report of the English Provisional Directors having been
read ;
It was moved by S. D. SCOTT, Esq. ; seconded by G. K. PoLLocK,
Esq. • and unanimously resolved—
. . . .

That the Directors' report then read be adopted, printed, and cir-
culated among the Shareholders.
It was moved by GEORGE PAUL, ESQ.; seconded by W. MOUNTFORD
NURSE, Esq. ; and unanimously resolved—

That the thanks of the Shareholders were eminently due and were
thereby presented to the Directors generally, and to Captain Chamier
in particular, for their strenuous and successful efforts to obtain the
concession of this important lino.
I t was moved by E. BENHAM, Esq. ; seconded by S. D. Scow, Esq.;

_ and unanimously resolved—
That the resolutions be published in the usual newspapers.
ANDREW SPOTTISWOODE, Chairman,

The Chairman having vacated the chair, it was proposed, seconded,
and carried by acclamation—That the thanks of this meeting were
due to the Chairman for his able conduct is the chair.
By order,
W. FREELING JERDAN, Secretary.

THE EASTERN COUNTIES, BARKING,
and THAMES JUNCTION RAILWAY, and COAL and
COASTING DOCK, with STEAM-BOAT WHARF.
(Registered provisionally.)
Capital, 500,0001., in 20,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
James Adam, Esq., Thames-street
Henry Beech Burgess, Esq., Temple's Park, Hampstead, Director
of the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway, and Goole, Don-
caster, and Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Great Grimsby Rail-
way, and of the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford Railway

John James Cavan, Esq., 7, Charles-street, St. James's-square, Di-
rector of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway
'iles Dormer, Esq., 31, Hans-place, Sloane-street, Chelsea, Director
of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend and Exeter,
Dorchester, and Weymouth Railways,

Colonel Robert Douglas, C. 8., RA., Director of the Bideford and
Tavistock Railway

Captain Seth N. Fisher, Director of the Warwick and Worcester
Railway

Rev. H. B. Fowler, Manchester-square, Director of the York and
Lancaster Ra►lway

Captain Twistleton Graves, Duke-street, St. James's, Director of the

British Mutual Life Office
John Holmes, Esq., St. James's-street, Director of the York and
Lancaster, and Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railways
D. B. Major, Esq., Albert-terrace, Knightsbridge

Nathaniel Ogle, Esq., Heath-lane Lodge, Twickenham, Director of
the York and Lancaster and Eastern Counties Junction, and
Southend Railways

Alexander Macdonald Ritchie, Esq., Director of the York and Lan-
caster Railway
William Shaw, Esq., Director of the London and Birmingham Ex-
tension, and South and Midlands Junction Railways, and Managing
Director of the Royal Farmers' and General Fire and Life and
hail Insurance Company
Charles Waite, Esq., Willesden, Director of the Great Western,
Southern, and Eastern Counties, and Ipswich and Southampton
Railways

(With power to add to their number.)
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Henry Beech Burgess, Esq. B. D. Major, Esq.
Miles Donner, Esq. William Shaw, Esq.
John Holmes, Esq. Charles Waite, Esq.
Nathaniel Ogle, Esq. - Captain Fisher.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—COI. Landman, F.S.A., M.I.C.E.
ENGINEER—George Montgomery Lewis, C.E.
BANKRits—Commercial Bank of London.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Reed and Robinson, 31, Moorgate-street.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT—Thomas Baker, Esq., Spring-gardens.
The attention of the public and of the civic authorities of this great
metropolis, through the powerful medium of the public press, 1110
upon several occasions been excited by the detail of numerous and
almost daily occurring accidents on the River Thames. With a view
to abate, if not altogether remove an evil of enormously growing
magnitude, the dangerous navigation of the river, the present project
is put before the public.
Although the chief cause of this danger is acknowledged to be the
blocking up the navigation, by the numberless tiers of colliers and
their attendant barges, and their ingress and egress to and from their
station, still no efficient remedy has hitherto been proposed.
It is admitted by all that the only mode by which this great and
dangerous nuisance can be removed is by a dock, :at a considerable
distance from the Pool, and a suitable and most convenient site has
been selected in every way adapted for the object contemplated; and
which not only combines facilities in no ordinary degree, for coal and
coasting vessels to enter at all times of the tide, at a distance far re-
moved from the Pool (about three miles below Woolwich), but also at
a locality, by the aid of a railway, from which the various produce
may be transmitted within half an hour into the very heart of the
City.
It is proposed to construct a dock at a point in that part of the,
river, four and a halt miles below Blackwell, called Gallion's Reach,
and thence to carry a railway four miles long, through East Ham,
Plaistow, and West Ham, to the Eastern Counties Railway at Strat-
ford, whore it will join the Northern and Eastern Railway, and form
a central point from which goods may be transmitted to the various
parts of the country which those railways traverse, and to London.
The spot at which the dock and works will be constructed has been
selected as being a part of the river where, at the lowest state of the
tide, there will always be a sufficiency of water to permit the ingress
and egress of vessels, as a reference to the Admiralty charts will
demonstrate ; by this arrangement they will be enabled to discharge
their cargoes, leave dock, and take in bal last (which is in the imme-
diate vicinity where the Trinity House dredge is generally working),
almost before they could have even reached their ordinary station in
the Pool, as at present. The great saving in time thus effected, it is
manifest, will be of the utmost consequence and advantage to the
owners of these vessels ; and, by materially decreasing the costs,
would enable them to supply the consumer at a much less rate than
at present.
It is intended also to erect a sea-wall and wharf, 1,500 feet long,
for the accommodation of passengers by steam-packets and other
vessels passing to and fro. The economy of time thus effected will
be very considerable ; for, by the aid of this railway (bringing Shore-
ditch and the intended terminus at Finsbury within twenty minutes).
nearly three-quarters of an hour will be saved over every other mode
of conveyance.
It is moreover to be remarked, that from this spot Gravesend can
be reached in forty minutes, consequently the time consumed, from
Finsbury to Gravesend, by this route, would be about one hour.
As the Eastern Counties Railway will be united to all the other
great trunk lines, by means of the Northern and Southern Connecting
Line just projected, it may be justly said that the Steam-packet
Wharf now proposed will be the only metropolitan continental ter-
minus.
By the construction of this railway, with its very important adjunct
a coal and coasting dock, a most valuable addition will be made to
the Eastern Counties revenue, by calling into existence a traffic
which, under any other circumstances, could not be created ; thereby,
developing to the proprietors of that extensive line, that its capa-
bilities have hitherto lain dormant, and only required the necessary
extension to the Thames with a dock to secure to it a national depot
for produce from all parts of the globe to be disseminated through the
numerous and increasing extension of the parent line.
The carriage of coal alone would add no insignificant sum to the
hitherto declared dividends of the Eastern Counties, when it is con-
sidered that more than two-and-a-half millions of tons are annually
imported into the port of London, which amount would be greatly
increased by means of the facility of railway transmission thus
afforded.
It may be proper to remark that it would be difficult to find, so
near the metropolis, four miles course in every sense so eligible for a
railway, so free from obstruction, and so cheap of construction, that
the coal traffic of itself would yield an ample return for the outlay.
Prospectuses, plans, and shares, may be had upon application to the
solicitors, 31, Moorgate-street, London, and to Mr. D. B. Major, 27,
Change-alley, Cornhill, London; and to those parties applying from
the country, to D. B. M., they will be forwarded by post. Refer-
rences will be required.

HULL AND HOLYHEAD DIRECT
RAILWAY COMPANY, via SHEFFIELD, MACCLES-
FIELD, and CHESTER.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 2,500,0001., in 130,000 Shares of 261. each
Deposit, 21. Its. 6d. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Right Hon. Lord Dnnboyne, Bell-hatch House, Henley-on-Thames
The Right Hon. Lord Albert D. Conyngham, K.C.H., Sandgate, Kent
Sir James E. Anderson, New Burlington-street
Sir Samuel Brown, Vanburgh Lodge, Blackheath, Director of the
Warwick and Worcester Railway
Sir George Rich, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square
The Worshipffil the Mayor of Macclesfield
Thomas Grimsditch, Esq , ar.P., Park Brook, Macclesfield
Thos. Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of London; Director of the London
and Westminster Bank
Henry Chaytor, Esq., Clervaux Castle, Darlington ; Director of the
Warwick and Worcester Railway
William Shadbolt, Esq., Chairman of the London and Greenwich
Railway
Robert Ward Gleadow, Esq., merchant, Hull ; Director of the York,
Hull, and East and West Junction Railways
Joseph Charlesworth, Esq., Lofthouse, near Leeds; Director of the
Wakefield and Harrowgate Junction Railway
J. C. D. Charlesworth, Esq., Chapelthorpe Hall, near Wakefield
William Fechney Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Di-
rector of the General Maritime Insurance Company
Thomas Broderick, Esq., Macclesfield
Richard Carpenter, Esq., Director of the London and Birmingham
Extension Railway
The Hon. Fitzhardinge Berkeley, M.P.
William G. Beare, Esq.,
Deputy Chairman of the Great Munster, and
Director of Rastrick's Direct Manchester, and of the Leeds and
Carlisle Railways
Henry Crichley, Esq., The Heys, Lancashire and Macclesfield
Thomas Sidney, Esq., Sheriff of London
The Worshipful the Mayor of Beverley
Thomas Norbury, Esq., Park House, Macclesfield
Thomas Itchenod Watts, Esq., Macclesfield
Matthew Whitehead, Esq., Park House, Selby; Director of the
Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway
S. J. Waley, Esq., 22, Devonshire-place ; Director of the Madrid and
Valenti& Railway
William Collins, Esq., M.P., Warwick
James Joseph M'Swiney, Esq., Director of the Wakefield and Har-
rowgate Junction, and the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Rail-
ways
John Snelling, Esq., 'Upton Hall, Northamptonshire
G. F. Gregory, Esq., Seacombe ; Director of the Staffordshire and
Shropshire Junction Railway, &c.
James Scott, Esq., M.D., Grove End Lodge, St. John's Wood
Rees Price, Esq., Director of the Irish Coast Railway, &c.
John piokerogni, E,ci. 31, pavistoek-square, Director of the Direct
Northern Railway, &c.
Elias Davis, Esq., Finsbury-circus
John Douglas Hopkins, Esq„ Bedford-square, London, Director of
the Birmingham Extension and Warwick and Worcester Railways
Charles 31. Rigg, Esq., York-place, Portman-square, London, Director
of the Shropshire Mineral Railway, &c.
W. Shaw, Esq., Director of the Farmers' Life Insurance Com-
pany, &c.
John Buckingham Pope, Esq., Cliffe Home, Crigglestone, near
Wakefield
George Walker Smith, Esq., Horbury Hall, Sheffield, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Railway
John Timm, Esq., Sheffield; Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Railway
William Stutter, EMI,' Wakefield ; Director of the Bradford and
Wakefield, and Hull and York Railways, &c.
William Gatliffe, Esq., Leeds
Captain S. W. Fisher, Director of the Manchester and Birmingham
Continuation, and Birmingham Extension Railways
James Astley Hall, Esq., Ashlield House, Newcastle
Lidale Elliot, Esq., The Beeches, Newcasle
Smith Wormald, sq., Tickton Grange, near Beverly
Geo. Harrison, Esq., Harleyford-place, Kennington
W. Hotharn, Esq., York
J. Alcock Dickson, Esq., Burnley, Director of the Liverpool and

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Leeds Railway .
Chairman of the Armagh, Portrnsh,
WailinidamCo.;e‘ralVnilekßinasiolwn'ayE, sB'.
Danielra stenchTe.Jrohßnaisltwona,y Esq., Director of Remington's London and
Wwillalaym,
Bze.
Watson Prole, Esq., Director of the Isle of Jersey Rail-
Robei t Chapman, Esq., Regent's-park, Director of the Great Man-
chester and Southampton Railway, &e.
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Westbourne-house, Sheffield, Director of the
Direct Western Railway
Joseph Graherm, Esq., Clapham, Surrey
Samuel Adams, jun., Esq., Colat-hall, Ware
William Cramer, Esq., Barnes, Surrey
W. H. ltavenhill, Esq., Pedwall House, SoMersetshire
William Ayrlin, Esq., Abbey-square, Chester
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Capt. Ogle Eaton- placr, Belgrave
John's Wood,
Director of the Somersetshire
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J. Clarke;Esq. m
, ac estield, Director of the London and Manchester
Railway
John Cook, Esq., Macclesfield
John Booth, Esq., Atacclestiod
Capt. T. C. Newton, Lugwardlne, Herefordshire, Director of tho Isle
of
Rev.ASiteanphßalensiownaylsaacson, Director of the Oxford, Cheltenham, and
Brighton Railway, &c.
Surrey, Director of the Sheffield,
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Fowler,ey, a n
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,a kManchester-square,
Director of the York and
Lancaster Railway
R. Williams, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Liverpool, the London
and Manchester, and the Leicester and Tamworth Railways
John Lilley, Esq., Worcester, Director of the Great Eastern and
Weetera Railway Company

A. B. Greville, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park

John Carter, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth
Junction Railway
John Williams, Esq., Kemp Town, Brighton
John Chapman, Esq., Langham-place
Samuel Hall Egginton, Esq., North Feiriby, Yorkshire
Joseph Amiable Skidmore, Esq., St. John's, Wakefield
Thomas Haigh, Esq., Wakefield

William Stewart, Esq., Horbury, near Wakefield
Valentine Knight, Esq., 3, Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, Direc-
tor of the Dendre Valley Railway
Ambrose Moore, Esq., Milk-street, Director of the Dendre Valley
Railway
John Egleton Money, Esq., Mayor of Doncaster

(With pmier to add to their number.)
ENGINEER—W. H. Smith, Esq., C.E. Adam-street, Adelphi.
BANKERS—London and Westminster Bank ; Union Bank of London.
SOLICITORS—L. Jacobs, Esq., 2, Winchester-buildings, Lcndon;
Messrs. Frost and Moss, Hull.

PARLIIKENTART AGENTS —Messrs. Yates and Turner, Great George•

street, Westminster,

Locit. AGErrrs—Samuel Higginbotham, Esq., Macclesfield ; Wm
Benson Beckett, Esq., Thorne and Doncaster.
SECRETARY—Wm. Tyler, Esq.

Office of the Company, 2, Winchester-buildings, Great Winchester•
street, London. _ _

This railway will connect the North Sea with St. George's Channel,
and form a direct route from Holyhead to Hull. It wl,l commence
at Chester, where It will form a junction with the Chester and Holy-
head and Chester and Birkenhead Railway, and passing between
Northwich and 3iiddlewich to Macclesfield, Sheffield, Rotherham,
Doncaster, and Howden, by a junction with the Hull and Selby line,
it will proceed to Hull.
By the proposed line a saving of distance will be effected, between
Chester and Macclesfield, of 17 miles ; between Macclesfield and
Sheffield, 23 miles ; and between Sheffield and Hull, of 30 miles ;
making in the aggregate a saving of 60 miles between Chester
and Hull.
This line.will connect itself at Macclesfield with the Manchester
and Crewe; at Sheffield with the proposed Leeds, Wakefield, Barns-
ley and Sheffield, and also with the proposed line from Sheffield
through Gainsborough, to Great Grimsby; and at Howden it will
form a junction with the York and Selby, Leeds and Selby, and the
Great Northern Railways.

The direct transit with this line will afford between the ports of
Hull and Dublin, combined with the immense traffic arising from the
Baltic and Great Northern trade of Europe, the densely populated
and highly commercial and manufacturing districts of Sheffield, Mac-
clesfield, and the saitworks of Cheshire, together with the communi-
cation 'twill open for conveying the produce of the inexhaustible
mines of Wales across the entire kingdom, will render this line one
of the most lucrative and pre-eminently desirable for permanent in-
vestment.

It is no slight advantage in this undertaking that, whilst it forms
a connecting line with so many railways, it will not interfere with
any of those in existence, but will, on the contrary, afford additional
accommodation to their general traffic.

The surveys will be completed without delay ; and in the mean-
time it is reserved to the Committee of Management to make such
alterations in the line, or amalgamations with other companies, as
may be deemed most advantageous to the interests of this Company.
Power will be applied for to allow Intel est at the rate of four per
cent. on the calls from the passing of the Act to the opening of the
line, as well as to limit the liability of the shareholders to the amount
of their subscriptions only.

Prospectuses anal forms of application for shares may be had of
the Solicitors, and of the following brokers :—London, S. H. Ellis,
17, Throgmorton-street, and T. ITzielli, 75: Old Broad-street ; Liver-
pool, Messrs. Schroeder and Co., Asplin Highfield and Withers ; Ged-
des and Drinkwater, Manchester, Ridsdale, Hurst, and Ridsdale,
Messrs. Gardner and Heap, and Augustus Nairn ; Leeds, Messrs.
Whalley and Sons, Messrs, J. Young and Co., J. Smith, and Messrs.
Chantrell and Boys ; Bradford, William Tuke, Messrs. Smith and
Minton ; Halifax, Messrs. Crowther and Brook, James Harvey ;
Lancaster, W. Welsh ; Preston, T. Wren ; Birmingham, J. R. Lane
and James; Hull, Messrs. Wilkinson and Earle; Leicester, Messrs.
Williams and Sunderland ; York, J. Newburn, John Nutt, and
Messrs. Graystone and Earle ; Bristol, John Morcom, and Messrs.
Edwerds and Son ; Coventry, Messrs. Brown and Clarke; Chester,
John P. Maddock ; Sheffield, Messrs. Garton and Wright ; Hudders-
field, J. Andrews and Co., Mr. Gatliffe, Messrs. Wilson and Hells-
well ; Dublin, Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford ; Macclesfield,
Messrs. Brocklehurst and Co., and R. E. Hine.

N.B. No application can be extertained unless accompanied by an
unexceptionable reference.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

To the Provisional Committee of the Hull and Holyhead Direc

Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me shares in
In the proposed Hull and Holyhead Direct Railway Company ; and I
hereby agree to accept that or any less number that you may
please to allot me, and I undertake to pay, the deposit of 2/. 12s. Cd
per share, and all further calls on the same, and to sign the Parlia
mentary Contract when required.
Dated this day of
Residence
Place of Business (if any) ..........
Trade or profession . ...... .
Reference
Usual Signature

1845.