The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-20 00:00:00

rriHE GREAT GRIMSBY, 'mum,
HOItN-
CASTLE, LINCOLN, AND MIDLAND JUNCTION RAIL-
WAY.

(rrovisionally Registered.)
The Allotment of Shares being in course of issue, the Committee
take this opportunity of informing parties who do not receive letters
of allotment, that, owing to the unprecedented demand for shares
beyond the number at their disposal, they have been compelled to
overlook the wishes of a very numerous and highly respectable class
of applicants, who are requested to accept this notice as a reply to
their individual letters.

By order,
THOMAS COXITEAD, Secretary.
Offices, 6, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street,
20th Oct., 1845.

GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY OF
FRANCE.

(LAFFITE'S COMPANY.)

The holders of English allotments who have not received the
Circular Report of the Directors, dated 17th instant, may receive a
copy of it by applying at the office, No. 62, King William-street,
City. The forms are ready, which require to be signed for the pur-
pose of receiving the constituted shares, together with the amount of
the surplus of the deposits.
18th October, 1845

ED. AIME, Sec.

BRIGHTON and CHELTENHAM DIRECT
_ RAILWAY.
. .

Notice is hereby given, that the Allotment of Shares in this Com-
pany is completed, and letters posted. The Committee feel much
pleasure in informing the public of the great support they have received
in this undertaking, and they regret that, in consequence of the im-
mense number of applications, many highly respectable and influential
claims have unavoidably been left unsatisfied. Those parties, there-
fore, who do not receive letters, are requested to accept the above as
the apology of the Committee.
By order, FREDERICK PENNY, Secretary.
Company's Offices, 34, Moorgate-street, Oct. 18, 1845.

PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.
ATIILON E AND SLIGO JUNCTION
RAILWAY.
(Being an Extension of the Dublin and Galway hallway.)
FIRST DIVISION-ATHLONE TO ROSCOMMON.
Capital 200,0001., in 10,000 Shares of 20/. each.
rn 2/. per Share.
(zi-o Subscriber to be liable beyond the amount of his Shares.)
MANAGING COMMITTEE.
Fitzstephen French, Esq. M.P. Chairman
Right Hon Lord De Freyne
William Ormsby Gore, Esq. H.P.
The Deen of Whin
Sir Joseph Durke, -
John Vance, Esq. Merrion-square, Dublin
Robert Henry French, I:sq. Rutland-square, Dublin
Ii amilton Gorges, Esq. Low on-street
Henry Mauns7ll, Esq Landsend, county Dublin
Richard Burton, Esq. county Dublin
Jolla Parkinson, 'Esq. F.R.S. SO, Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park
William Lechmere Whitmore, Esq. the Grove, Stanmore, Middlesex
Patrick A exander Reynolds, Esq. 23, Sussex-gardens, Hyde-risk,
and 10, Cornbill
John Campbell, Esq.Danostleld, county Dublin D,...,
:1‘ eters of the
Daniel 11. Ferrall, Esq. Beechwood rish Great Western
R. Pcnnefather Lloyd, Esq. Herbert-place, (Dublin to Galway).
Dublin,
EsoiNEEn--Sir John Macneill, LL.D. F.R.S.
BANKE.D.3.
The London Joint-Stock Bank, Princess-street, London
Messrs. Bained and Co., Liverpool
The Bank of Ireland, and the National Bank of Ireland, and their
brancheS.

_ SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Barrington, Son, and Co. 10, EV-place:Dublin
Mr. Peter M`Keogb, 5, Beividere-place, Dublin
Messrs. Fladgate, Young, and Jackson, 12, Essex-street, Strand,
London.

PARLIAIIENTARY AGENT
William Bryden, Esq. 4, New Palace-yard, Westminster.
SECRETARY—Robert Plunkett, 48, Dame-street. Dublin.
LONDON AGENT—James Bryden, Esq. 19, :Sloorgate-street, London
The many and important commercial advantages presented by a
junction line of railway between the north and south of Ireland, give
the promoters of the projected line from Athlone to Sligo, with a
branch to Ballina, the most unqualified confidence in its success.
The proposed line, as regards botk public interest and private
speculation, will very much surpass any other that has been pro-
jected from Sligo to Dublin—first uniting with the Dublin awl Galway
at Athlone, it will pass in a direct line to Sligo, having a branch to
Rollins, thereby affording railway communication to the great fair
and market towns in the counties of Roscommon, Mayo, and Sligo,
and terminating at the important seaport and garrison town of Sligo,
where it will also unite with tke line to Enniskillen, and thus form a
junction between the northern, southern, and western lines, opening
a continuous and the most direct railway communication between
the great commercial and manufacturing towns of the province of
Ulster, and the cities of Cork, Linierick, Waterford, and Kilkenny,
and with Galway, and the other large towns and seaports in the
south-east and west of Ireland, and also giving to the counties of
Sligo, Mayo, and Roscommon, a line of railway to the metropolis.
The Athlone and Sligo Junction will receive the full support of the
Directors of the Great Southern and Western, and the Dublin and
Galway Railway Companies. Forty miles of the Great Southern and
Western Railway from Dublin to Portarlington are nearly completed,
and will be opened to the public in June next.
At this advanced period of the year the difficulty of ,omplying
strictly with the standing orders of Parliament renders it advisable
to undertake, in the first instance, but one division of the line, viz.,
that from Athlone to.Roscommon, being a distance of twenty English
miles ; for which purpose a capital of no more titan 200,0001. will be
required.
The line from Athlone to Sligo is but seventy-two miles in length.
It will pass through or near the towns of Knockeroghery (at which
the second largest sheep fair in Ireland is held), Atilleague, Mount
Talbot, Rathgar, Roscommon (one of the largest inland markets in
Ireland), Lanesborough, Elphin, Croghan (celebrated fair town),
Frenchpark, Boyle, Castlerea, Ballaghadereen, Ballymote, Tablser-
corry, Colooney, Ballisodare, to Sligo. The preliminary surveys
have been made, and the engineer, Sir John Macneill, reports very
' favourably upon the gradients and facilities of construction.
Advantages so important as those referred to cannot fail of giving
the greatest encouragement to a line of railway which must, from
' passenger traffic alone, return an ample per centage on the outlay of
' capital.
It should also be borne in mind that the proposed junction line
will not only give to the north of Ireland direct and immediate rail-
way communication with the south, east, and west, but will li`ae-
wise open to the great manufacturing towns of Scotland similar ac-
commodation.
Railways having the advantage of foreign traffic as an auxiliary,
are always the most profitable—no projected line could be more op-
portunely circumstanced in that respect than the proposed Grand
Junction, forming, as it will, a link between the northern and
southern railways, it must, independently of local resources, have a
constant stream of passenger traffic from the parent lines at, either
end, and eventually he found one of the most profitable, as well as
the most useful, undertakings in Ireland.
ew lines of railway are possessed of greater local advantages.
Sligo, a considerable and rising seaport town on the N. W. coast at
the one extreme, supplies the whole of the interior, as far as Athlone,
with the products of the western world. Its fisheries and that of
the neighbouring coast are atmalg the best in Ireland. The salmon
fishery at Ballina, and the deep sea-fishing of Sligo and Inver Bays
would alone yield considerable revenue. Athlone. at the other
terminus, is a garrison town of the greatest importance, in the very
centre of Ireland, from whence it must be an object to have railway
communication with the garrisons of Boyle and Sligo ; there cannot
therefore be a doubt of the line obtaining the entire support of the
Government.
Roscommon is one of the most fertile counties in Ireland ; it
abounds in agricultural and-mineral produce, and has a population of
253,591 inhabitants. Its great fairs are well known—their staple,
the finest horses, horned cattle, sheep, and pigs, in the United King-
dom; will be conveyed by this line to the Dublin and English mar-
kets ; and while the farmers will thus have a ready and cheap means
of transport for his stock to tile best markets, he will, in like manner,
be enabled to supply himself with young stock front the fairs of the
south, cast, and west. Large quantities of bacon are cured annually
in the towns of Roscommon, Castlerea, Boyle, &c., and it only re-
quires the advantage of railway communication to develop the many
industrial resources of the county.
Application for shares to be made to the secretary, 4S, Dame-
street, Dublin; and Messrs. Laurence, Cazenove, and Pearce, Auc-
tion Mart, London.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
ATHLONE AND SLIGO JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Capital, 200,0001., in Shares -of 20/. each. First Deposit, 2/. per Share.
No Shareholder to beliable beyond the amount of his shares.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot to me shares in this
undertaking ; and I agree to take the same, or such of them as may
be allotted to me, and to pay the deposit of 21. per share thereon, and
sign the
edParlramentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when
Dated this day of

1045.

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