The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-28 00:00:00

The Provost of Inverness
The Provost of Elgin
The Provost of Nairn
The Provost of Cromarty
Andrew Belford, Esq., of Glentintalg
Donald Cameron, Esq., of Lochiel
Sir Duncan Cameron, of Fassfent, Bart.
Arthur Cant, Esq., of Millfield
J. P. Clark, Esq., of Fingask
Alexander Cumming, Esq., merchant, Inverness
Duncan Davidson, Esq., of Tulloch
Patrick Dewar, Esq., banker, Nairn-
John Ferguson, Esq., wine merchant, Inverness
Alexander Forbes, Esq., chemist, Inverness
James Forsyth, Esq., merchant, Inverness
George France, Esq., Wester Lovat
Robert Fraser, Esq., Brackla
Simon Fraser, Esq., merchant, Inverness
Donald Fraser, jun., Esq., merchant, Inverness
E. S. Gordon, Esq., advocate, Edinburgh
General W. A. Gordon, of Lochdhu, C.B.
Donald Grant, Esq., dean of guild, Inverness
Patrick Grant, Esq., county and sheriff.clerk of Inverness-shire
Thomas Houston, Esq., Kintradwell
Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, of Grange and Fountain Hall, Bart.
John Macewen, Esq., merchant, Inverness
Neil Madlean, Esq., factor on tho estates of Kuravock, Cantry, &c.
Cluny Macpherson, of Cluny Macpherson
Major Macpherson, of Glontruim
Major D. Macpherson, Inverness
James Macgregor, Esq., factor for Lord Ablnger and others
John Mackay, Esq. banker, Inverness
Dr. John Mackenzie, Kinellan, Commissioner for Sir Kenneth Mac-
kenzie, of Gitirlock; Bart., and for Colonel Hugh Baillie, of Red-
castle, M.P.
William Mackenzie, Esq., of Muirton
Colin Lyon Mackenzie, Esq., of St. Martins
Mackintosh of Mackintosh
William Mackintosh, Esq., of Geddes, Convener of the County of

Nairn
George Mackintosh, Esq., yr. of Geddes
Charles Mackintosh, Esq., of Aberarder
John Mackintosh; Esq., wood merchant, Nairn
Colonel D. Macpherson, Burgle House
John Malcolm, Esq., senior bailie, Nairn:
David Munro, Esq., of Allan
Archibald Hill Rennie, Esq., of Ballilisk
Arthur J. Robertson, Esq., of Inches
Bailie D. Rose, Inverness.
Hugh Ross, Esq., of Cromarty
John Bethune Ross, Esq., advocate, Edinburgh
Colonel John Gray Ross, of S'rathgrave
John Ross, Esq., Berbice Cottage, Inverness
William Simpson, Esq., merchant, Inverness
Andrew Smith, Esq., senior bailie, Inverness
Thomas Smith, Esq., merchant, Inverness
Captain J. Stewart, of Lesmurdie, Elgin
James Suter, Esq., Inverness
Charles Waterston, Esq., manager, Caledonian Bank, Inverness
With power to add to their number.
AcTigo ENGINEER—Joseph Mitchell, Esq., F.R.S.E.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Martin and Roes, Edinburgh.
Messrs. G. and P. Anderson, and C. Stewart, Esq., Inverness

SANKTILO.
The Caledonian Bank, Inverness, and its Branches.
The Union Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh.
. Do. do. Glasgow.
Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, Tritton, aid Co., London.
Manchester and Liverpoool District Bank, Liverpool.

In submitting to the public a scheme for the construction of a rail-
way along the south shore of the Moray Frith, and connecting the
towns of Inverness, Nairn, Forres, and Elgin, the Committee con-
sider that there is no situation in Scotland which affords a more cer-
tain prospect of profitable Investment.
The coe ntry through which it passes is nearly a perfect level. The
length of the line, with the branches to the ports, is 444 miles. The
main line passes from Inverness to Elgin, through the towns of Nairn
and Forres. The whole adjacent district is rich and fertile, and con-
talus a large and thriving population. It includes ten of the most im-
portant market towns of the north of Scotland, in which at least fifty
considerable markets are annually held.
Within this district, also, and branching off to the south of the
main line, Its the fertile valleys of the Spey, Findhorn, and Nairn,
and the Great Glen of Scotland, between which and the different
towns along the line, and the sea-ports, there is an extensive and
daily increasing intercourse.
This district is so situated, that all the main highways tYom the
north and west, including those by the ferries of Kessock and Fort
George, centre upon it. Besides the ports of Inverness, Nairn,,
Findhorn, Burghead, and Lossiemouth, it comprises the basins and
quays of the Caledonian Canal, and the military station of Fort
George.
Along the main line from Inverness to Elgin, besides a large pas-
senger traffic, by posting and private conveyances, there are eight
daily coaches (four each way). The traffic must be greatly increased
when a more rapid communication is opened up between the termini
and the intermediate towns and villages.
Another and large additional traffic will be brought upon the line
by the London, Leith, and Aberdeen steamers, which call at Lossle-
mouth arid Burghead, landing their passengers for Inverness, Nairn,
and the country beyond, at either of these ports, instead of taking
them, as at present, by the circuitous route to luvergordon, where
they are detained for several hours.
The line will also afford great additional facilities to the trade which
has hitherto been carried on by a steamer and sailing vessels, plying
between the Moray and Nairnshire coast and the Little Ferry in
Sutherlandshire, as, on the opening of the railway, regular and
efficient steam communication between these points and others on
the Sutherland and Caithness coasts will necessarily be established.
By these arrangements, in addition to the existing traffic by land,
and that carried on by steamers to Inverness, the greater part of the
traffic, both in goods and passengers, from Inverness to Sutherland
and Caithness, will be brought along the line.
The inquiries into the traffic, which have been carefully made, show
the following results :
The annual number of passengers of all sorts, and doubling those by
coach and other conveyances, between Inverness and Elgin, and
the towns along the line, according to the Parliamentary rules,
amount to 87,640, which, at the average of 4s. for each passenger,
yields ••.• . • • ....... ...... ........ •• • • .£17,528 0 0
For mails and small parcels, &c •.•••• • • • • • ••• • • 2,024 0 0
Tre probable revenue arising from the transport of car-
riages, gigs, horses, dogs, &c., taken at an average of
only three per cent on the passenger traffic, the per
centage usually taken in similar lines being five, yields 525 0 0
Cattleand sheep. ••••••••-•••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • GOO 0 0
General merchandise, heavy goods including stone
from the Quarries in Morayshire and Nairnshire to
the west, timber, farm produce, coals, manures, fish,
spirits, &c. •••• • • • • • •
Goods traffic on the Branches ••• • . • ..... ....•
Passenger traffic on do ••• • • • •

£31,145 0 0

The engineering wake of the line, from the unusually level nature
of the country, and its passing over a light gravelly soil, are of a very
simple character. There are no tunnels or viaducts, and the country
abounds in all the materials, with the exception of iron, necessary
for the construction of a Railway.
The capital has been set down at 300,000/., and the revenue, as
above stated, attar deducting the usual allowknce for working ex.;
penses, and assuming one-third of the capital to be borrowed, ac-
cording to the ordinary practice of Railway Companies, at the usual
rate of interest, shows a clear return of upwards of eight per cent.
It is proposed, in the first place, to lay down a single line of rails,
with the usual passing places, until the traffic shall be more fully de.
velopcd. The bridges are, however, to be built, and the land pur-
chased, for a double line.
Besides the advantages above enumerated, arising from the local
traffic, there are other and important sources of revenue, to which it
is proper to advert. The west end of the line will connect with the
Caledonian Canal, which originally cost 1,000,000/., and on the im-
provement of which 200,0001. are now in the co,'rse of being ex-
pended by Government. These improvements, which will be com-
pleted before the railway comes into operation, will greatly increase
the navigation, both of steamers and sailing-vessels, on the Canal,
along which, even at present, two steamers ply twice a week, while
a large and powerful steamer is to be placed, on the opening of the
Canal, in the direct Liverpool trade, The whole of this extensive
traffic tom Mesmer, Liverpool, &c., towards the counties of Banff,
Nairn, and Moray, must necessarily pass along the proposed Railway.
On the other hand, towards the east, the line will be continued by
the contemplated railway from Elgin to Aberdeen—thus connecting
all the towns and manufacturing districts on the west of England and
Scotland, through the Caledonian Canal, with the • rich agricultural
country to the east of Elgin, and onwards to the city of Aberdeen,
and other towns on the east coast of Scotland.
Besides constituting an important link in the direct east and west
communication of this part of the kingdom, the present railway must
of necessity form the northern outlet of the contemplated great direct
Central Railway from Perth to Inverness, in continuation of the
Scottish Central and Caledonian Railways, thus completing the
shortest possible line between England and the southern counties of
Scotland and the north ; and, from its position in this respect, the
Inverness and Elgin Railway will become the channel through which
will flow the whole traffic between the north and south.
The Capital will be divided into 15,000 Shares of 20/. each. The
Parliamentary Deposit of five per cent. to be paid upon the shares
being allotted, and the Subscribers to sign the Parliamentary Con-
tract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
Power will be taken to pay interest at four per cent. on the amount
of the subscription paid up till the line is opened, and no subscriber
shall be answerable for more than the amount of his subscription.
Application for shares to be made, in the form annexed, to Messrs.
G. and P. Anderson, solicitors, and Mr. Charles Stewart, solicitor,
Inverness, the interim joint secretaries ; to Messrs. Martin and Ross,
37, Castle-street, Edinburgh ; Messrs. Edward 3l`Callum and Com-
pany, stockbrokers, and Mr. William Clelland, stockbroker, Edin-
burgh; Mr. James Grant, writer, and Mr. George Gatherer, writer,
agents at Elgin ; Mr. William Selanders, writer, agent at Forres ; Mr.
Adam Davidson, town-clerk, agent at Nairn ; Messrs. Seton and
Reid, sharebrokers, Glasgow; Mr. J. Oliphant, sharebroker, Perth;
Messrs. Oswald, George, and Company, sharebrokers, Aberdeen;
Messrs. Scott, Carthorn, and Scott, No. 16, Throgmorton-street, Lon-
lon ; Mr. J. B. S May, sharebroker, and Messrs. Fraser and Tay-
leur, sharebrokers, I.iverpool ; Mr. Henry Wodehouse, sharebroker,
Manchester; Messrs. Grayston and Earle, sharebrokers, York; and
Mr. Jonathan Drewry, sharebroker, Newcastle.
FORM OF APPLICATION.

To the Provisional Committee of the Inverness and Eight Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me Shares, of 201. each,
in this undertaking, and I agree to accept the same, or any smaller
number that may be allotted to me, to pay the deposit thereon, and
sign the parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when
required.—l am, Gentlemen, your obedNaient
me servant,
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Profession
Address

N.B. It is requested that parties in, or connected with the North,
yaw intend to apply for Sharea, will do eo isithout