The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-22 00:00:00

SUPPLEMENT TO THE MORN !VG SUN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22 1845.

No railway, either made, or being made, or projected, will serve
the purposes which this important and favoured line will serve.
The country it will pass through possesses a population exceed-
ing 150,000. It leads to marine watering places of much resort—
Weymouth, Lyme, and Seaton on the English Channel shore, and
Linton, Minehead, and Blue Anchor on the shore of the Bristol
Channel. Taunton, which may now be considered the county
town of Somersetshire, has always been the market and trading
town of the country north-west of it, including Watchet and its
surrounding district; the. route to which, from London and the
north, is through Taunton.

A well remunerating passenger traffic may hence be expected.
The country also contains between 80 and 100 mills and fac.
tories, many of which are worked by steam in aid of water-power,
and many more of the proprietors will avail themselves of steam.
power when coals shall be procurable at a reduced rate by this
railway. The millers are most desirous of having the markets of
South Wales opened to them. Several influential coal proprietors
of South Wales are members of the Provisional Committee.

The country also possesses several extensive lime quarries, for
manure; the lime is burnt with culm brought from Wales;
the conveyance both of the culm and lime is at present attended
with much expense to the agticulturist. The line will also be of
high importance to this agricultural district by opening to it the
markets of Taunton, Tiverton, South Mouton, Barnstaple, in the
north of Devon, Exeter, and London. The towns of Taunton,
Ilminster, Chard, Crewkerne, Beaminster, Broadwindsor, Brid.
port, Axminster, Charmouth, and Lyme Regis, will be connected
by the line, and derive from it supplies of coals, culm, timber, dry
goods, and other articles of import. The line will afford to these
towns and their populous neighbourhoods, Increased facilities of
communication with other lines of railroad.

The usual prevalence of westerly winds during the winter months
is so great as t• render the passage round the Land's-end very un-
certain. The facilities offered by the prcposcd railway will obviate
such uncertainty, save many hundred miles of dangerous sea pas.
sage, and more than compensate for the charges attenoing re-ship-
ment at Bridport from Watchet, particularly in the article of
Welsh coals, now in great demand in and about London for steam-
engines, steam-boats, and other purposes.
The harbour of Bridport admits vessels at spring-tides of 350
tons burthen; it receives large supplies of coals, cuim, flax, hemp,
Baltic. and American timber, iron, slate, tallow, staves, sad nu.
merous other articles ; which, in the egg' egate, last year, amounted
to nearly 40,000 tons, a large portion of which consisted of flax
and hemp, for the numerous manufactories of yarns, sailcloth,
sacks, nets, lines, twines, and linen goods, which when wrought
would pass along the line to the two ports, for shipment, or to
other railways.
The harbour of Watchet, at spring.tides, admits vessels of 200
tons burthen, and carries on an extensive and important daily trade
with the ports of Tenby, Llanelly, Swansea, Neath, Cardiff, New-
port, and Merthyr Tydvil, in coals, culm, corn, flour, and other
provisions, cattle, sheep, salt, timber, slates, iron, and other articles
of merchandise ; employing twelve vessels belonging to the harbour
regularly and exclusively ; one trading with Liverpool. It has
also a considerable corn, malt, flour, and goods trade with Bristol,
and employs therein several vessels regularly
Both the harbours are capable of being much improved, and
belong to proprietors able and willing to improve thorn to meet the
increased wants of the community,
The port of Watchet, as it is, has the largest and most important
trade on the English side of the Bristol Channel. This Railway
will increase that trade fourfold, and therewith its own In asperity.
The shore contiguous to Watchet exclusively abounds with lime
of the most celebrated description, both for water-works and ex-
terior building, being the same as the universally known and cele-
brated Aberthaw• lime, which also is on the directly opposite coast;
and at and around Watchet are extensive corn and flour mills,
paper mills, and clothing mills.
The foregoing facts show that the line must have a very exten-
sive gocris traffic.

It is not intended to put forw.ud Watchet as a packet station
either for Ireland or South Wales; uric does this measure require
such aid. No portion of the coast of the Bristol Channel, east of
Ilfracombe, can have the slightest pretendon to be, or be
made, a packet station. In the first place, it is obvious that
the railway in actual progress from the Government Deck.yard
at Pembroke (or Hobbe's Point, 100 miles further down the Brie.
tot Channel) will take all the packet trade from the south of Ireland :
Liverpool takes Dublin;whilst Ilfracombe (50mi1es west of Watchet),
and Swansea (directly opposite to Ilfracombe), maintain a rcgulzr
steam-packet passenger and goods traffic; and in the second place,
all the harbours on the English side east of Ilfracombe are dry, and
for a great length, at low water, the shores being very flat, and to
construct a harbour on them, to admit large class steamers and to
land passengers at all times of the tide, would, if not impracticable,
cost an enormous sum. To hold out expectations that either of
them might be such packet station, would for the above reasons be
delusive.

The extended North Devon line of railways will serve the port
of Ilfracombe and its packets.

A survey has been made by the engineers, who have reported
that the line is easy of construction, and will not interfere with any
park.

It affords great satisfaction to the promoters to be enabled to
announce that the directors of the Bristol and Exeter Railway
Company have promised to give this measure their favourable con.
sideration, and the promoters entertain a sanguine expectation that
it will receive their support.

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The neighbouring landowners and gentry are favourable to the
measure, and all the merchants and traders both at %ratchet and
Bridport, as well as the principal a•al proprietors in South Wales,
and all persons throughout the line, entertain a high opinion of its
merits, and earnestly desire it.
Many extensive landowners on the line, whose names do not
appear on the Provisional Committee, have yet expressed them_
selves as frienis to the measure.

The Act wilt be applied for next session, and the liabilities will
be limited to the amount of subscriptions, and interest at four
per cent. will be paid on all calls from the time of payment until
the opening of the line.
An early allotment of the shares will be made, and the usual
Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contract must be exe-
cuted by the Shareholders when called upon.
Applications for shares to be made, in the form annexed, to
Messrs. Keddell, Baker, and Grant, 34, Lime-street; to either of
the solicitors in the country ; Messrs. George Burnand and Co.,
Cornhill ; John Mocatta, Esq., Copthall-chambers ; H. J. Barker,
Esq., Tokenhouse- yard ; John Brewer, Esq., New Market-hill, Man.
chester ; Messrs. Francis and James Mill, Liverpool; Messrs.
Wreford, Nich.lis, and Co., Bristol; or John Bannehr, Esq.,
Exeter.
Taunton, Sept. 29, 1945.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
Bristol and English Channels Direct Junction Railway.

I request you will allot to me shares in this under-
taking. and I agree to take the same or such of them as may be
allotted to me upon the terms stated in the prospectus, and to pay
the deposit thereon, and sign the Parliameotary Contract and
Subscribers' Agreement when required.
Dated this day of , 1845.

Name
Residence
Profession or Occupation
Refer ence f Name
Address
To the Committee of the Bristol and English Channels
Direct Junction Railway Company.

LIVERPOOL AND DERBY DIRECT
RAILWAY, AND LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER
GRAND JUNCTION, AND MIDLAND COUNTIES RAIL•
WAYS JUNCTION. .
(Provisionally Registered pursuant to 7 and 8 Viet., cap. 110.)

MANAGING tOMMITTEI.
James Templer, Esq., Chairman.
Sr James Eglinton Anderson, Vice. Chairman.

Richard Carpenter, Esq,
Francis Dacre, Esq.
T. P. Healy, Esq.
G. P. Hill, Esq.

John Douglas Hopkins, Esq,
Thomas Paul, Esq.
EAlward Sankey, Esq.
Henry Savage, Esq.

Tho.nas Hawker, Esq. J Samuel Tudor, Esq.
A Prospectus, containing the names of the 160 Noblemen and
Gentlemen forming the Provisional Committee, may be had on ap-
plication at the offices of the Company, No 10, Old Jewry.chambers.
ENGINEER—SamueI Hughes, Esq., C.E.
ACTING ENGINEERS.
Richard Cromwell Carpenter, Esq. -
M. A. Gage, Esq.

BANKERS.
Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co.
The Commercial Bank, Lothbury.
SOLICITOR—Francis William Mount, Esq., 10, Lawrence Pountney-

lane, London.

LOCAL AGENTS.
Ilcrby—Mci•srs. Dunnicliff and Scverne.
KnutsfGrd—Htnry Wright, Esq.
Conglet on—John Wilson, Esq.
JOINT SLCRETARIES— Mt SUS. W. T. Hislop and James Oliver.

THE SALISBURY, BLANDFORD, AND
DORCHESTER JUNCTION RAILWAY.
CApltal 900,000/., in 36,0001. Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 2/.125. (id. per Share.

TRMINGHAM AND BOSTON DIRECT
pt. RAILWAY COMPANY,
Capital, 1,000,0081., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21.25. per Share.
(Provisionally Registered.)
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
The Right Hon. Lord Edward Chichester, Chairman.
Captain J. P. 31 actiougal, Vice-Chairman.
John Lowe, Esq.
James Lamb, Esq.
John Ranale, Esq.
J. Thompson, Esq., Tottenham
John Thompson, Esq., Great St.
Helen's

R. Atkyns, Esq.
H. Brown, Esq.
W. F. Black, Esq.
John Blunt, Esq.
Lieutenant-Colonel L. Dickson
A. W. Grevillo, Esq.
G. G. hay, Esq.

EASTERN COUNTIES, BARKING, AND
THAMES JUNCTION RAILWAY, AND COAL AND
COASTING DOCK.

Notice is hereby given, that no further Applications fbr Shares in
this Ckanpany can be received after SATURDAY NEXT, the 25th inst.,
excep- from parties in the country, which will be admitted until
MONDAY, the 27th instant.

REED and ROBINSON.

31, Moorgate-street, Oct. 20, 1845

ELY end BURY" ST. EDMUNDS RAILWAY.
In ccnsequence of the great number of applications for shares
in :his Company which are daily received from all parts of the
country, the Provisional Directors feel it necessary to call the atten-
tion o I the Public to the following Clanse in the Prospectus, to the
terms of which they will, in allotting the shares, be compelled most
strictly to adhere :
" As, under arrangements entered into with the Lynn and Ely,
Ely and Huntingdon, and Lynn and Derehlun Railway Companies,
a large proportion of the capital has been appropriated to the holders
of shares in those Companies, a very limited number of shares only
is at the disposal of the Provisional Directors, and no application for
shares therefore c m be attended to, except ttom parties locally in-
terested and of the highest. respectability.
By order,
L. F. EDWARDS, Secretary pro tern.

NEWRY and CARLINGFORD RAILWAY.
MEETING IN LIVERPOOL.
-At a meeting held this day, at the Wellington Motel, Dale-street,
of Merchants, Traders, and other Inhabitants of Liverpool, interested
in the promotion of commercial intercourse between Liverpool and
the North-West and North-East of Ireland,
AUGUSTUS RADCLIFFE, Esq., in the Chair,
the following Resolutions, being duly moved and seconded, were
unanimously adopted;—
That Francis Carvill, Esq., a Director of the Newry and Ennis-
killen Railway, and of the Newry Navigation Company, having ex-
plained the merits of the Newry and Carltngford Railway, and the
accuracy of his statements having been corroborated by the personal
examination of the proposed line by three of our body now present,
we regard the said line as essential and indispensable to the full de-
velopment of the advantage/ likely to accrue to both countries front
a continuous and uninterrupted railway communication being open,'
from Carlingford lid), to the Irish Western C.tst ; and we herU'y
pledge ourselves accordingly to give our best support to the Newry
and Carlingford Railway.
It appearing from tine statement of the London Secretary, that ap-
plications for shares having already far exceeded the total number of
shares at the disposal of the Company—Resolved, that, no further
applications whatever be received after FRIDAY next, October the 24th
instant.
That in the allotment of shares a preference be given to holders of
scrip in the Newry and Enniskillen Railway, in conformity with the
terms of the prospectus of this Company.
• That a list of names of a highly influential Provisional Committee
having been read, the position of the Comrany is considered such as
not to require their publication in the newspapers.
I hat the following gentlemen constitute the Committee of Manage-
ment : . . .

Augustus Radcliffe, Esq. Birkenhead, Chairman
Francis Carvell, Esq. Vice Chairman
Richard Taylor, Esq. Pirken*.cad
Alexander Fostley, E- q. Newry
George Guy, Esq., Newry
John Bennie, Esq. Newry
James N. Holmes, Esq. Liverpool
(With power to add to their number.)
(Signed) A. RADCLIFFE, Chairman.
Liverpool, Friday, October 17, 1845.

through the towns which have bosh named, Hungerford and Ludgurs-
hall, to Salisbury, and thence to the south and western ports and dis-
tricts.
The survey is in a state of great forwardness, and will be com•
Noted in sufficient time to enable the Company to apply to Parlia-
ment in the next session ; and the promoters having received general
and most satisfactory assurances of support from the local gentry,
landowners, traders, and influential inhabitants, have reasonable
ground to anticipate the unobstructed passing of the necessary Act
for the formation of the Oxford and Salisbury Direct Railway during
the ensuing session.
Applications for shares and prospectuses to be made to Messrs.
Elmslle and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street ; to the Secretary, at the
offices of the Cempany, 37, Gresham-etreet ; and to the following
Brokers :—Messrs. Peppercorns, 2, Old Broad-street, Messrs. W
and D. Ewart, 13, Finch-lane, and Messrs. Preece and Evans,
Lothiamy, London ; Messrs. Alston and Gage, and Messrs.
Reynolds and Son, Liverpool ; Mr. John Duneuft, and Mr.
John O'Neil, Manchester Messrs. A. and C. lltadshitw, and Messrs.
Welibeloved and Co., Leeds ; Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol ; Mr.
James Pearson, Birmingham ; Messrs. Samuel Hutchinson and Co.,
Bradford; Mr. Wm. Miles, Worcester; Messrs. Ball, Brothers, anti
Co., Cheltenham ; Mr. Thomas Sandford, Exeter ; Messrs. Easty and
Sons, Southampton; Mr. Robert Allan, Edinburgh; Messrs. Black
and Co., and Messrs. Buchanan and Aitken, Glasgow; Mr. Win.
Gordon, Aberdeen ; ana Messrs. Bruce and Symes,

FORM OF APPLICATION.

To the Proyisional Committee of the Oxford and ialLsbury Direct

Railway.

- ..... .
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares i❑ the
above undertaking; and I hereby agree to accept the same, or any
less number which may be knotted to me, and also to pay the de-
posits thereon, and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement, Parlia-
mentary Contract, and all other necessary instruments, when re-
quired so to do. _ . _

I am, Gentlemen, your obedient Servant,
Name. in ..
Ite fidence • • .. •
Post Town ... . . ... . .
Ocelmatica
Ez.ference
Esu,d Sgilature .
• Dgted • • • •• • •
Elmslie and Preston 47, 31().,rgav:-strect, Emu:, .!.

TUE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT
RAILWAY.
No Application for Shares can be received after THUUSDAT MAT,
the 23r.1 instant.
The foilowing letter has been received from Samuel Charles Brees
Esq., the engineer to this Company, viz.:
"Stoke Newington, 18th October, 1845.
" Sir,—l have the honour to report, for the infonnation of the
Board of Directors, my return from Oxtbrd. Agreeable to their com-
mand, I made further examinations of the line of country, and have
engaged and given instructions to a large and efficient stall' of sur-
veyors and assistants to perform thesurvey. 1 have much satisfac-
tion in ad,:ing that my last visit has lk.en such as to warrant the
statonents mule by me at the meeting of the Provisional Committee
concerhing the elegibility of the line, and have no hesitation in saying
that the survey will be completed, and the rarliamentury plans de-
posited, by the 30th November.
"I have the honour to be, Sir,
" Your obedient servant,
" SAL'EUEL CHARLES DREES.,
"Engineer in Chief, Oxford and Salisbury Direct Rallivaj
" To Z. Hubbersty, Esq.
Secretary, Oxford and Salisbury Direct Railway."
By order of the Committee of Manus:Tam&
Z. nunnEitsTr, tivretarv.

BitiGilLON, LEWES, AND TO.\BRIDGE
WELLS DIRECT RAILWAY (HALLETT'S LINE).
Capital 350,000/.. in 17,500 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 23. per Share.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Shareholders not to be liable beyond the amount of their Shares.

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Chairman, Lord Alfred Hervey-, 31. P.
Howard Elphinstone, Esq. M.P. Stephen Lowden, Esq.
John Villiers :Shelby, Esq. . Edwa:li Beard, Esq.
Sir George Prescott, Dart. .chard Dutton, Esq.
Edwin James, Esq. William 11. ',Whetter, Esq.
Valentina Lc.e, Esq. Alexander Donavan, jun. Esq.
George Relade, Esq. George Donavan, Esq.
W. i. Potter, Esq. Jno. Langford, Esq.
James Reeves, Esq. :Nelson Kenward, Esq.
George 2clti eux, Esq. Thomas itadti,rd, Esq.
rr..dericA Seymoor, Esq. Jno. Taylor Hallett, Esq.
JOIGI Ken-War:l, Hag. William Kenward, Esq.
Thomas Wisden, Esq. William Nash, Esq.
Edward Churchill, Esq. J. Underwood, Esq.
Al2xauder Wright, Et q.
ENoixEsa—Sir John Lennie, F.R.S.
ACTING INGINEEN—WiIIiam lialletr, Esq.
SOLICITOR-1V B. James, Esq.
SECRETARY—F. H. lift'der, Esq.

RANKERS.
The Commercial Bank, Lothbury
Messrs. Molyneaux and Co. Lewes, and oubridge Wells.
LOCAL ACCNTS.
William Polhill Kell, Esq. Lewes
Robert Foreman, Esq. solicitor, lembridge Wells
Benjaniin Hall, Esq. masted 121,4 e, near 17:It:kid.
The Cowtnlttee of ;Niatiiigenictit beg to state th:.t the Allotment is
being proceeded with, and the letters will be issued without delay.
By order, 1,1:1:3/EIZICK 11. .NALDER, Secretary.
83, Bashighall-street, 15th uct.