The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-31 00:00:00

Chairman-Sir RICHARD BULkELE—Y—.I'HILIPS PHILIPS,

Bart., M.P., Picton Castle, Pembrokeshire. -
The Committee of Mananagement have the satisfaction of stating
that most advantageous arrangements have now been concluded with
the Saundersfoot Railway and Harbour Company for the use of their
line, harbour, and other works, which will considerably lessen the
estimated cost of the proposed undertaking, and ensure the supply of
every material for the works at a very reduced price.
The new works will now consist only of a short branch of about
three-quarters of a mile, to effect a junction between the Saunders-
foot and South Wales Railway and another to the harbour of Saun-
dersfoot, with a line of about six miles to the favourite watering-
place of Tenby. That part of the Saundersfoot line which will be
used for the present railway can be adapted at a very moderate cost,
and without interfering with the existing valuable coal line and
mineral traffic ; and the present Company will enter into the receipt
of the profits derivable from this source immediately on the Act being
obtained, thus securing an immediate return to the shareholders.
The requisite notices of Mention to apply to Parliament In the
ensuing session are prepared, and will be at once advertised, as
required by the standing orders of the Houses of Parliament, and the
surveys, plans, and sections are in a sufficient state of forwardness
to ensure their deposit early In November.
The consent of nearly all the landowners on the line has been as-
sured, the project is warmly supported by the mayor, corporation,
and inhabitants of Tenby, and there is every reason to believe it
will receive the sanction of the South Wales Railway Company; so
that it is expected the measure will be entirely unopposed.
For further particulars the public is referred to the prospectuses of
the Company, which may be obtained of the solicitors and local
agents ; and of Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Threadneedle-street,
London ; Edwards and Son, and Wreford and Co., Bristol ; Beau-
mont and Langworthy, Exeter ; J. Woods, jun., Liverpool ; J.
Fernyhough, Manchester ; and James Jamieson, Leeds.

SOLICITORS.
Messrs. N. Stevens and Fearon, 1, Gray's Inn-square, London,
LOCAL AGENTS.

Messrs. Evans, Powell, and Mathias, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire
John Gwynne, Esq. Tenby.

BANKEII9.
Dennison, Heywood, Kennards, and Co., 4, Lombard-street, London
West of England and South Wales Banking Company, Bristol
Messrs. Wilkins and Co., Haverfordwest.
SECRETARY—George Score, Esq.

NORTHERN COUNTIES (ROSS and CRO-
N! ARTY, SUTHERLA.ND, and CAITHNESS) DIRECT
RAILWAY.

Capital 1,500,0001., in 75,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
The Counties of Ross and Cromarty, Sutherland, and Caithness,
form, probably, the largest and most important portion of Great Bri-
tain for which the benefits of railway communication have not yet
been secured.
In no part of the kin,edem, considering their distance from the
capital, from • the seats of manufacture, and from markets, have
greater improvements of all kinds been made of late years, than in
these counties. In arable and pastoral farmitig, the skill, enterprise,
and industry of the tenantry have placed them on a level with the
best agriculturists and store masters, and halm obtained for their
corn, cattle, and sheep, the highest prices of he southern markets.
To the opening up of the country by the ro Is and bridges of the
Parliamentary Commissioners, executed wit in tile last 40 years,
are these improvements chiefly attributable ; Ind their effect in //1-
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creasing the value of property in these countl is very remarkable.
No means can be so effectual for promoti 4 anti stimulating their
further advancement, as by the introductirm of railways, whereby
the produce of these counties may beMnore rapidly and cheaply
brought into the manufacturing all,' consuming districts of the
kingdom. ,
To effect this most desirable end ;,;t Company is being formed, as
has been already announced, to eaecsate a railway commencing at the
terminus of that which may be fit ,st completed to Inverness, and
thence proceeding northward, by D ingwan, through the county of
Ross, and by or near Bonar, along . the south or Latrg side of the
River Shin into Sutherland, and tlelough that county, by Allehintoul,
into Caithness, in the eastern porilb en of which the line will diverge
into two branches, terminating ref4eeetively at the towns of Thurso
and Wick.
The most direct practicable route, consistent with economy in the
execution and working of the line, am3/4 with the rights of all parties,
will be adopted throughout.
In compliance with the desire of sei trot large proprietors in the
eastern district of the county of Ross, it ht.'s been determined that the
trunk or main line stall proceed to Invergk rdon and Tain, and thence
into Sutherland and Caithness.
It is also intended to combine with the execution of the railway,
and, in connexion with it, the enlargement and improvement of the
present harbour of Invergordon (by arrangement with the proprietor),
so as to make that anchorage, which possesses all the advantages of
the celebrated Bay of Cromarty (still, as in ancient times, the largest
and safest harbour of refuge on the east coast of Scotland), the port
not only for the counties of Ross and Cromarty, but also for all the
country northwards.
The mutual advantages to Invergordon and the whole country
in respect to those imports and exports which must still be sea-borne,
need only be alluded to to be appreciated. At no other place on the
east coast of Scotland, from the Frith of Tay to Duncansby Head
(the extremity of Caithness) could so good a harbour be possibly
formed, there being at Invergerdon 11 fathoms water (close to the
present wooden jetty) at the lowest of spring tides, and perfect
shelter, with singular facility for ingress and egress from and to the
German Ocean ; and the expense of the requisite works will be com-
paratively very unimportant.
Besides the importance of completing, as is thus contemplated, an
unbroken line of railway transit for passengers and goods, and the
rapid transmission of the mail from tke capital to the northern ex-
tremity of Scotland, the county of Orkney and Zetland will thereby,
and with the aid of the powerful steamer about to be established be-
tween Thurso and Orkney, have a daily and speedy intercourse with
the mails land of Scotland, onward to the manufacturing districts of
the kingdom, and to the metropolis.
The prolongation of a railway from Inverness to Thurso on the
One hand, and the admirable roadstead and harbour of Scrabster,
which, from Its natural position—admitting of vessels entering and
departing with any wind—would, in connexion with the railway,
command the Baltic and North American trade ; and, en tile other,
to tile Important and rapidly-improving town of Wick, the capital of
tke northern herring and deep sea fisheries, which require only such
a stimulus as the proposed measure will supply to increase their value
incalculably, by affording the ready and certain means of conveying
their products into all parts of the country, is obviously an under-
taking of the greatest national importance, embracing the develop-
ment ef the natural resources of the northern counties and their ex-
tensive sea coasts, the continued prosperity and wealth of their in-
habitants and the general trade, and, it may be hereafter, even the
additional security of the empire.
The most populous district in proportion to its extent in Ross and
Cromarty, and until late years (considering its capabilities) the least
improved, is that lying between the Muir of Ord on the south and
the town of Cromarty on the north, commonly called " the Black
Isle." For the benefit of this district, a line is intended to be made
from the point which may be found most desirable as a station with
reference to the towns of Cromarty and Fortrose, and the harbour of
Invergordon, to join the main line at the Muir of Ord, with a short
branch to the nearest good station on the north side of the Ferry of
Kessock.
The Muir of Ord being now the place where the greatest and most
frequent stock markets in Scotland, north of Falkirk. are held, it is
of great importance C. the western Highlands of Ross-shire that
their communication with the Muir of Ord, as well as their access
to the main line of railway, should be facilitated ; and it is, therefore,
contemplated forming a brands line from the Muir of Ord to the
upper part of tile valley of Stratligarve, being the nearest point to the
Lews at present accessible by a railway, and accommodating, at the
same time, the extensive districts of Boas-shire lying to the north,
west, and south-west of Strathgarve.
The preliminary survey of the main line has been completed. Its
whole length is about 150 mlles, and the greater portion of it is of
easy construction

The proposed capital is considered adequate to cover every expense,
including the completion of the harbour at Invergordon ; but should
additional capital be found necessary for the proposed branches,
power will be taken to raise it.

The principaL proprietors have already offered the land and the
building materials in the neighbourhood of the line, free from all
charge, for the purposes of the railway.
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Na only will they, and the northern counties generally, benefit in-
calculably by the completion of the work, but the shareholders may
expect a fair, and in no long time, ample return for their investments
In a line which has not, and can never have, a rival.
Interest at 4 per cent. will be allowed on all calls paid up, and the
Act incorporating the Company will provide that no shareholder shall
be liable beyond the amount of his subscription. Until the Act be
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obtained the liability of the subscribers will be restricted to their
actual deposits ; and of these there shall not, in any event, be ex-

pended a larger sum than ss. per share without the express authority
of a general meeting of tho subscribers.
The names of the Provisional Committee (embracing 'those of the
principal proprietors in the north) will be speedily published ; but
meanwhile it may be stated, that the support the present undertaking
has already received from individuals fully able to accomplish this
most important work, leaves no doubt of its complete success.
The acting engineers will be Joseph Mitchell, Esq., F.R.S.E.,
M.LC.E., Inverness; and J. F. Bateman, Esq., C.E., Manchester;

with Thomas Page, Esq., Westminster, as consulting

engineer.

A minute survey has been ordered of the whole line, and, when
completed, a map of it will be published ; meanwhile, copies of the
prospectus, and of the form of application for shares, will be obtained
at the National Bank of Scotland, or any of its Branches, and at the

offices et the London and Westminster Bank, and of Me-era. Glyn,
Hallifax, Mills, and Co., Lombard-street ;lor from any of the following
gentlemen, to whom communications and applications for shares, in the
form annexed, may be addressed, viz. :—William Mackenzie, Esq., of
Muirton, W.S., Edinburgh; James Sutherland, Esq., Provost of
Inverness ; Patrick Grant, Esq., Cdunty Clerk of Inverness ; Hugh
Innes Cameron, Esq., Provost of Dingwall; Crawford Ross, Esq.,

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Cadboll by Fearn ; David Ross, Esq., Commissary Clerk of Ross-
shire, Thin ; George Gunn, Esq., Factor of Sutherland, Rbives, by
Golspic ; George Sutherland Taylor, Esq., Golspic ; Robert Hors.

burgh, Esq., Factor of the Reay Country, Tongue; William Manson,
Esq., Thurso ; Peter Wilson, Esq., Town Clerk of Wick ; and Messrs.

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Cameron and Bain, 18, Parliament-street, Westminster.
Scripholders of the Perth and Inverness ; the Aberdeen and In-
verness; Inverness and Elgin; Elgin, Banff, and Aberdeen; and
Caledonian Northern Direct Railway Lines, are requested to specify
this in their applications.

FORM OF APPLTCATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Directors of the Northern Counties (Ross and

Cromarty, Sutherland, and Caithness), Direct Railvay.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot to me shares of 201. each
In the above undertaking, and I hereby agree to accept the same,

or any less number that may be allotted tome ; and fu. ndertal:o to
pay the deposit and all future calls thereon ; and also to sign the
Subscribers' Agreement and the Parliamentary Contract when
required.

I hold the Scrip for

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