The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-29 00:00:00

T A R PACKETS
Clrawsend and London, by way of the 131ackwall Railway,
al-(2lilinz the tan z,ers of the Pool, an saving one hour in time.
ONE PAYMENT TUROUGITOUT, ,I7I'ENCE and IiPTE:FrIVCE

Boat and Rail 'mended.

Ralf Terrace Pier, Gravesend,
Ralf Nine, Half-past Twelve, Two, Feu, and Half-past Five.
Surdays, Seven, Half-past Nine, Four, and Half-past Five.
Ten, Eleven Brunswick Wharf, Blackwan,
, Twelve, Three, Tear. and Six Sunday's, Tee, Eleven,
and Three
The Trains start one quarter of an hour before each of these times.
NB. Passengers' luggage conveyed to and from the Trains at
ackw without charge.
heir s Wharf, Woolwich, Quarter-past Ten, and Quarter-past Twelve,
returning from the Terrace-pier every Evening at Half past Five.
Twelve, Six, or:Three Months' Tickets, available in all the Packets
pof the Star and Blackwell Companies, at the undermentioned rates,
ackets had at the Star Offices and of the Captains on board the
:—To or from .11l ckwall, Twelve Months, 5/. is. ; Six
at"tin.,l 3s. ; Three Months, 21. 2s.
ice, Gravesend, Oct. 4, 1844.

DIRECT NORTHERN RAILWAY, from
LONDON to YORK.
, The Provisional Committee have the satisfaction of announcing
In the subscribers, that the deposits on shares, and the signatures
to the Parliamentary deeds, have been secured to an extent ex.
ceeding. that required by the Standing Orders of Parliament.
The Committee congratulate the subscribers on this result, in
w„hich they recognise the public approbation of the principle of
cirect communication on which this undertaking is based.
of Having thus made good the position of the Company in respect
finance, the Committe will proceed to follow out their commu.
nieations with the interests locally connected, and with the nor-
thern.. districts of England, and with Scotland, whose convenience
the completion of the undertaking will so materially promote.
Sy order of the Committee,
WILLIAM AMSINCK, Secretary.
Direct Northern Railway Office, 64, Moorgate.street.
London, Oct. 25, 1844.

3A RA,
Communication with
Capital 2,500,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 501. each.
Deposit, 21. 10s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
the Right Hon. the Earl 'o John Harley, Esq.
- arendon. • Robert Hollond, Esq., M.P.
The Right Hon. the Earl o Philip Jones, Esq.
Jersey.
Edward B. Laurence, Esq.
•rh Earl of Desert. David Lewis, Esq.
'll Lord Viscount Emlyn, M.P. Stephen Lewis, Esq.
_The Lord Viscount Ingestre, M P. David Morris, Esq., M.P.
The Lord James Stuart, M.P. Francis Mowatt, Esq.
the
, on. Robert S. Carew, M.P. John William Miles, Esq.
'lon. Robert H. Clive, M.P. Sir Jahn Morris, Bart.
air if.
N_V.. Barron, Bart., M.P. Sir John Owen, Bart., M.P.
BadeY, Esq., M.P. Colonel Owen.
Itajor Boyd. Sir H. Palliser Palliser, Bart.
StarP. P. Barlow, Esq. Archibald Paull, jun., Esq.
t•
• .Ing Benson, Esq. Sir R. B. Philipps, Bart., M.P.
el Sir William Cox. Edward Harris Phillips, Esq.
:7!lllins Chambers, Esq. Thomas Powell, Esq.
.. William Chambers, jun. Esq. Charles A. Pritchard, Esq.
4 • Colby ES
g. Thomas Prothero, Esq.
Sir
Davies, Esq., M.P. Frederick Ricketts, Esq.
R_T.• Esmonde, Bart., M.P. Nicholas Roch, Esq.
owSia Forman, Esq., M.P. T. N. Redington, Esq, M.P.
r Fothergill, Esq. Charles Russell, Esq., M.P.
Ak John Guest, Bart, .P. Rees Goring Thomas, Esq.
7°l Lewes Gower, EsqM. John Henry Vivian, Esq., M.P.
:IFrederick Gower, Esq. N. Edwards Vaughan, Esq. 0w Gwyn,
Louis Vigurs, Esq.
etn, G Hayter, Esq., M.P. Lloyd Williams, Esq.
o:l,tlt.i.vikaFi..vHeya:tEsong,. R.N., M.P. J. P. de Winton, Esq.
ILloyd Vaughan Watkins, Esq.
b°n7 Hill, Esq. William Williams, Esq.
(With power to add to their number.)
Erratic/inn—l. K. Brunel, Esq.
13sNKEas—Messrs. Glyn, Hallifax, Mills, and Co.
O,OI:SoLICITORSI—.Messrs. W. 0. and W. Hunt, 10, Whitehall.
he line leaving the Cheltenham and Great Western Railway
4.,u'd Pass in the immediate neighbourhood of the Forest of Dean,
4 within an easy distance of 'Monmouth to Chepstow, Newport,
era beardiff; thence by the valley of the Ely to Neath and Swan-
k), Y Llanelly, near to Carmarthen, beyond which it would
Z"Ms southward to Pembroke and Milford Haven, and in a
rethward direction to Fishgnard, whence a communication with
...south of Ireland would be effected in six hours.
or one-half the distance of the proposed line the works will be
11-ZadcfthlY easy, and for 60 miles nearly upon a level. The re-
nder of the line can be made without any peculiar difficulty or
any great expense.
0 4n estimate has been made of the expected traffic. The greater
z:4°Partinn of the passenger traffic has been obtained in the usual
tranihner h
has frbeenom thcaref ule Stamly ascertainedp-office Returns.by competent The remapersons,inder of
and
the
the charge for conveyance estimated on a moderate scale; and the
ITsnoters confidently expect, when the various lines of railway
~,,°* 17'0.1ected in the south of Ireland shall be completed, that the
Cli°oll,rnit: here stated will be considerably exceeded. The result is as
Existing Expected
$ From Passenger Traffic. Traffic. Traffic.
bY St *
Y Sta, C
oa ch es..'
o,ro eara Boats :
Ilewisort to Bristol
Cardiff
.........
Swansea "
Ter)ll ... "
Carntarthen ...
RaVerfOrdWeit.
Waterford
Cork .
Dub1in'........
" ....... "
ng, Private Conveyances, and Vans
bY Irish traffic nowgoing via One third of
ILL'orpool " present
...........
....... number,

[LWAY; giving a Direct
the South of Ireland.

One third of)
existing traffic'

Two-thirds
of existing
traffic.

45,970

10,700

22,000

kstiblating the railway increase at only doubt
the
_ Passenger traffic will amount to . '''''
,'roro Goods : `-opper
NI, v., Zlne, Tin plates, Manufactured Iron, &c.s 27,900
_0
battle
10,000
°°,l, Lime, Slate, Ores, and Heavy Good u i 0
tit% ' 4,14 other Live Stock
trai •R„ .
55,000
,t, Merchandise
Z 1 30 ,40 0
Rorie. 4) Goods Traffic
17,910
Coneel'Lbtlagee &c.
15,000
parcellance of
es
abouts,ooo Mails ...

£127,930
,! this sum,

.........£458,8..

Cross
bedu Receipts I
I:thin:P;neY perequal
to cent. for expenses of Work-
-h,

£422,170

108,868

There
)plual remains a net profit of £253,302
Ibrspeci° oPwards of ten per cent. on the proposed capital.
1Y ~,tUses, with plans
Coma,my be hadapplications for.s ares
wk-."ressed to the ittee of Management; or the solicitors,
Theuqehall
; or Messrs. Wolfe, Brothers, Change-alley, Cornhill.
Percent --'4l Power will be taken by the Act to allow interest at 41.
no sObee,it annum on the amount of the subscriptions paid up, an
ni"r Will be answerable for more than the amount of his
not be.; 21. 10s. per share until the Act be obtained, and then
NI the amount of his subscription.

S°lThiTT.. WALES RAILWAY.
iry thi Notice is hereby given, that APPLICATIONS for SHARES
IlovergbeitrAnieLWAT cannot be received after FRIDAY;
The p the let of
Igity ate armunentary Surveys are completed, and the other necee.
14 ate being taken to enable the promoters to apply for a
next session for the whole line.—By order of the Committee,
Oct.,
28, F
18EDERICK G. SAUNDERS, Assistant-Secretary.
R 44.

OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVER-
HAMPTON RAILWAY.
C4Pital, 1,500,000/. Shares, 50/. each. Deposit, 21. 10e.
coresurres OF MANAGEMENT.
Frederic Pratt Barlow, Esq., London,
Directors of the. Great
'ulas Richard Guppy, Esq., Bristol, Western Railway
a'/
nin• -us Esq., Reading,
Company.
ohn'ara Tothill, Esq., Bristol,
oltogets, Esq., Chester.
fir Mr, ,ftree B. Thorneycroft, iron master, Wolverhampton!.
djebn Barker, iron master, Wolverhampton.
kr. Walker, merchant, Wolverhampton.
", Perks, edgetool-manufacturcr, Wolverhampton.
Ilthritud
j.rnarTgetrEs,
E.q.,i./t,fayor of Dudley.
Dudley.
Mr, w.,,Q.sePh Bramah, iron master, Dudley.
Mr. tenTaamir! Mathews, iron master, Corbyn's Hall, Kingswin.ford.
Iticl oster,
Jana m Gibbons, iron master, Shnt.end House, Kingswinford.
iron master, Stourton Castle, Stourbridge.
.
214e1 Grazebrook, Esq., iron master, Audnam, Stourbridge.
joe'vcard Hickman, Esq., Clay Works, Stourbridge.
Arr7PPrlCing, Esq., Stourbridge.
horn Francis Rufrord, banker, Stourbridge.
otBlrfloox Lea, Esq., A stley Hall, Kidderminster. 4llbl:urge Hooman, carpet manufacturer, Kidderminster.
SkeY, Esq., Spring-grove Bewdley.
Vlnitirch Ealdwin,ironfounder, Stourport.
4117.4wF.a'r'Lekerw,i Es
.q., Mayor of Worcester.
John
—II% Esq., High Alderman of Worcester,
Worcester.
'Geo 'lllam Stallard,jun., wine-merchant, Worcester.
kJ-It 11' Hudson, Esq., Wick, near Pershore,
ii"°lnaa W. Foster, merchant, Evesham.
Mr. ",OberGl3, merchant, Moreton.in-the- Marsh.
Beaman, merchant, Stow-on-the- Wold.
With power to add to their number.
ENGINEER—I. K. Brunel, Esq.
BANKERS,
Messrs. Spooner, Attwoods, and Co., London.
Messrs. Ruffords and Wragge, Stourbridge.
TIME CORRESPONDENTS.
City at:d County Bank, Worcester
The Roya3 Bank, Liverpool
The Union Bank, Manchester
The Yorkshire Banking Company, teecii
The Yorkshire Banking Company, Hull
Attvroods Spooner, and Co., Birmingham
he West of England Bank, Bristol
Messrs. Sanders, Barnes, and Ce., Exeter.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. W. 0. and W. Hunt, Whitehall, London.
Mr. Robert Rising,
Mr. Fred. Thomas Elgie, 1 Worcester.
The CO SECRETARY-14h. Noel T. Smith.
h MVITTEE of MANAGEMENT of this COMPANY
trioll determined to take the DIRECT LINE from Oxford to
L°2'a°rcester (being the line upon which the Government Commis'
rs for
reported in the year 1840), in preference to the
ki",, round by Banbury, by which there will be a saving of eleven
_es in distance; an arrangement bas been this day entered Into
'nth the Great Western Company, by which that Company have
l'Antagreed to lease the line in perpetuity, at a rent equal to 3i per
• on the above capital, with half surplus profits, and with a
podther arrangement for payment of the interest on any capital
such sum borrowed under the powers usually contained in
,ailw
aY Act of Parliament, not exceeding 250,0001.
+merest on the Deposits will be allowed at the rate of 41. per
tollt. per annum, from the time of payment into the Bankers' hands.
„ ProaPectuSes, with Plan, may be had of the Solicitors to the Com.
rant
Inarrnary Walk, Worcester, October 2e, 1844.
XFORD, WORCESTER, and WOLVER-
HAMPTON RAILWAY.
ZNotice is hereby given, that the period fixed for receiving Appli-
itl°,lB for Shares In this Company having expired, and those Ap-
cathnli far exceeding the number which the Committee have to
allotCO
, a FINAL ALLOTMENT will be made at the Office of the
acat.
4'parlY at Worcester, on FRIDAY, the Ist day of November
1, °u3oul
erroaa—W. 0. and W. Hunt, Robert Rising, Frederick
las Elgie.
Worcester, October 24, 1844.

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tth
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