The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-09 00:00:00

BIRMINGHAM and OXFORD JUNCTION
RAILWAY,
With a DIVERGING LINE through STRATFORD-ON-AVON, to
UNITE with the MORETON-IN-MARSH RAILWAY.
Capital 600,000!., in Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 2/. per Share.
Provisionally Registered, puruant, to Act 7th and Bth Viet., c. 110.

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Offices, 449, West Strand.
PROVISIONAL 'COMMITTEE.
The Mayor of Birmingham
John Adams, Esq., Sergeant-at-Law, London
J. T. Alston, Esq., Liverpool
W. C. Alston, Esq., Elmdon Hall near Birmingham
John Aston, Esq., Birmingham 7,
Robert James Atty, Esq., IngoOlipse, Stratford-on-Avon
F. P. Barlow, Esq., London
Matthew P. W. Esq., Great Tiw Park, Oxon
Colonel Charles Oldfield Bowles, North Aston Park
W. E. Boyes, Esti!, Alkerton, near Banbury
James Butlin, Esq., Westfield House, near Rugby
C. H. Corbitt,'Esq., Adminton
Walter Cowan, Esq., Offchurch Bray, near Leamington
John Crosthwaite, Esq., Liverpool
Sir George Dashwood, Bart., Millington Park, Oxon
William Dickens, Esq., Cherrington, near Shipston
Rev. John Ellis, Wooton, Henley-in-Arden
Edmund Darby Ford, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon
John Brtuiston Freer, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon
J. Gardiner, Esq., Southam
Darwin Galion, Esq., Edstone Hall, near Stratford-on-Avon
Robertson Gladstone, Esq., Liverpool
John Griffith, Esq., Alveston, near Stratford-on-Avon
J. Haddon, Esq., Leamington
W. Judd Harding, Esq., Baraset House, near Stratford-on-Avon
Lawrence Heyworth, Esq., Liverpool
Captain Hitchins, Idlicote House, near Shipston
Charles Lawrence, Esq., Liverpool
John Lechmere, Esq., Steeple Aston
George Lucy, Esq., Charlecote Park, near Stratford-on-Avon
Charles Mann, Esq., Leamington
William Marshall, Esq., Husbands' Bosworth, Leicestershire
William Mathews, Esq., Edgbaston, Birmingham
J. W. Miles, Esq., Bristol ,
Rev. Richard Morris, Eatington, near Stratfbrd-on-Avon
John Moss, Esq., Liverpool
P. H. Mentz, Esq., Birmingham
Rev. Charles rainier, Lighthome
J. G. Reeves, Esq , Birmingham
John Rich, Esq., Bearley
John Roskell, Esq., Bath
Francis Rufford, Esq., Bellbroughton, Bear Stourbridge
Charles Russell, Esq., M.P., London
Charles Shaw, Esq., Birmingham
Major-General Smith, Rugby
Gustavus T. Smith, Esq., Goldicote, near Stratford-on-Avon
John Staunton, Esq., Tidmington, near Shipston
Samuel Edward Steward, Esq., Leamington
Thomas Thomson, Esq., M.D., Mayor of Stratford-on-Avon
T. H. Thorne, Esq., Leamington
Rev. Henry Townsend, Hennington, near Shipston
George Richard Walker, Esq., Ileathfleld-house, Illetchington, Oxon
Charles Woodmass, Esq., Avonhurst, near Stratford-on-Avon.
(With power to add to their number.)
BANKERS.
Messrs. Robarts, Curtis, and Co., London
Messrs. Attwood, Spooner, and Co., Birmingham
The Birmingham Banking Company, Birmingham
Messrs. Miles, Harford, and Co., Bristol
The Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, and
the Warwick and Leamington Banking Company, Leamington
and Warwick
Messrs. Moss and Co., Liverpool.
The Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Company, Stratford-on-
Avon.

SOLICITORS.

Messrs Patterson, Haymes, and Hanbury, Leamington and Warwick
W. O. Hunt, Esq., and Charles Stevens, Esq., No. 10, Whitehall,
London
Messrs. Clay and Swift, Liverpool.

The object of this undertaking is to establish the most direct and
efficient railway communication that can be formed between Bir-
mingham and Oxford, connecting by the shortest possible route the
whole 'Knit, Lancashire manufacturing districts and sea-ports with
the south of England and its long line of coast in the British Chan-
nel. The existing lines afford but a very imperfect and circuitous
communication through London, and it is singular that the com-
peting lines of railway now before the public do not supply the de-
ficiency or provide for the objects now contemplated. Under these
circumstances, there can be no doubt that this railway will confer
essential benefits on the districts through which it is intended to pass,
as well as on the commercial and industrious classes of the north,
and a very cursory inspection of the map will satisfy the inquirer
that the line is so peculiarly situate as to command an unusually
large amount of through traffic, independent of its local resources,
which are very great.
It cannot fail to be observed, that the Birmingham and Oxford
Junction will save a considerable distance on the route towards the
coast, besides furnishing to Warwick and Leamington the most
direct railway communication for the traffic between those places
and Oxford, Reading, &c., while the cheapness of construction and
excellence of the gradients will enable the Company-to :convey pas— I
sengers and goods at very low rates, such as would not remunerate

an expensive line, but which are calculated to afford an ample return
for the small capital required for this undertaking.
The railway will commence by a connexion with the Grand Junc-
tion Railway at Birmingham, and, proceeding in nearly a straight
line by Warwick and Leamington, fall into the intended Oxford and
Rugby Line, near Fenny Compton ; the entire distance 11-om Bir-
mingham to Oxford will thus be about 62 miles.
The Stratford•-on-Avon line which will be constructed simulta-
neously with the line by Warwick and Leamington, will join the
main railway at or near to Kingswood. From Stratford-on-Awn to
Moreton-in-the-Marsh, by an improvement of the existing railway,
a distance of 14 miles, the communication through Stratford will be
complete to the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton line, at d the
Oxford, Reading, and the South of England.
It Is confidently believed that this extension of the Oxford line to
the Grand Junction Railway at Birmingham, taking Leamington and
Warwick in its course, will furnish such strong corroborative proof
of the public importance and necessity of the Oxford and Rugby
line (now promoted by the Great We'tern Company,) as to insure its
success in Parliament. If the broad gauge should be adopted, ar-
rangements have been made with the Great Western Company to
run dispatch trains between London and Birmingham in less than
three hours, and also to provide, at low rstes, means of conveyance
for every description of traffic, whether of passengers, carriages,
horses, cattle, or merchandise and minerals,
The Provisional Committee, however, promote this measure as one
of great national importance, and do not intend it to be contingent
in any degree on the success or failure of the Oxford and Rugby
Railway, but they will be guided in the final selection of the line,
In the principle of construction, and in the mode of working it, by the
evidence which may be adduced during the present session, and by
the result of the applications now before Parliament, as far as they
may appear consistent with the experience still to be obtained on the
relative merits of the systems.
They need only add in conclusion, that If the Oxford and Rugby
line is successful, the capital of 600,0001. will be ample, as the coun-
try has been carefully examined. No engineering difficulties exist,
and there will be no tunnel throughout the line.
The landed interests affected by the proposed railway are favour-
able, and the Bill will be applied for in the next session of Parliament.

BATHS of HOMB UR G, near FRANKFORT-
THE-MAINE.
The Mineral Waters ofOitst Homburg take their rise at the foot of the
Taunus mountains, two hunocill
springs, the redyards above the level of the sea.
To the original
lished in Germany, that reputationthere
a of which is so perfectly estab-
lished
from the intensity of the! have lately been joined flesh sources,
their and the energy oftheir
action in certain morbid cases
among the mineral waters of cases, have them to the first rank
The springs of Homburg are live in number. They have been
analysed by the celebrated
hetwcooProfessorthem, Liebig. Notwithstanding
d,fferences which existthe
they may be considered as the
same medicament diversely modified.
Their mineral principles re-
main the same, with no other difference than their quantities and
proportions. This affordstotthei physicians the highly valuable ad-
vantage of applying to
each
ing individual case the peculiar water best
adapted to it, and of modify
and progress of the complaint. the treatment according to the course
The internal use of these waters is of constant efficacy, above all
when drunk at their source, for then the vivifying air of the moun-
tains, the diversion of mind by the moving scene, and the abstrac-
tion from the cares of the world, concur in assisting the action of the
medicinal beverage.
The waters of Homburg are stimulant, tonic, alterative, and
aperient. They are suited to ali cases requiring an amelioration of
the disordered state of the stomachand other Intestines, by giving a
peculiar stimulus to these organs when necessary to excite the abdo-
minal circulation, to assist the secretory processes, and to regularise
nutrition and assimilation. Their great success has been recognised
to
in enlargements of the liver, affections of the spleen, in hypo-
chondria, jaundice, the hemorrhoids, and obstinate constipation. In
gout and all affections produced
derived
derangement of the digestive
functions, most happy results are
During the four years which have rivled from them.
y, the c e aTed since these springs first
up city Homburgh has greatly
improved. A new towh has
obtained their merited
growncelebrit
the side of the old, and
new hotels and private houses afford to visit
quired by invalids, and luxuries to be found in all the comforts re-
n the most favourite
watering places.
The forests, which surround Homburg like a rich
zone,
are pierced
with rides and drives by which the residents at the Baths may, with
ease and pleasure, visit the Feldberg, the Rock of Elizabeth Lutheee
Oaks, and all the picturesque sites of the Taunus, ,
thitonstrueted a nag.
The Directors of this grand Establishment have c
nificent Casino, which—by the beauty of its ar
lance of its distribution, and the richness of its deeorecture, the excel-
any building hitherto erected at any point on thetions—surpasses
Rhine. It contains splendid saloons for balls and banks of the
for the games of Trento et Quarante, and for Roconcerts ; rooms
Cabinet for reading, in which are most of the (Vette tables ; a
English, Russian, Belgian, and Dutch journals; a erman, French,
Divan for smoking, openingen to a fine terrace laid NvitCalree-room ; a
a grandning-room with a table-d'hate, served ~ , h asphalte, and
a-day, viz, at one and five o'clock. 'la Francaises twice
The excellent orchestra from the Theatre ne Ifent
times a day ; in the morning, at the Springs ; 1,, thee Performs three
the beautiful Gardens a the Casino ; and I„, afternoon, in
u the evening in the
grand Ball-room.
Concerts, Balls, and Fetes of every description succeed cacti other
without interruption.
The Directors shrink from no sacrifice to render
watering-
place as delightful as possible to its visitors, and to this
rented about 50,000 acres of forest-lands and Plains,
all
end have
game of every description, as well a reserve P
- ark for abounding in
the Grandees
Chasses at the close of the winter season. The Casino
is the only establishment of the kind that has
enjoyed
hitherto the
of Homburg,
privilege of remaining open all the year, and the continuation
ntinuation of Ps
tables for play, its halls, its concerts, and its hunting
Parties through-
out the winter-season, makes it attract a numerous and select so-
ciety from every quarter of Europe.
The Journey from London to Homburg, passing through
Mentz and Frankfbrt, is performed in 44 hours. The distanceC°logne'
Frankfort to Homburg is got over in one hour and a ti from
coaches and omnibuses run between these places every hour. Mat