The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-08 00:00:00

REDUCTION OF FARES.

SOUTH-EASTERN AND CONTINENTAL
STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.—BEST ROUTE to BELGIUM
and GERMANY, via DOVER and OSTEND.—The South-Eastern and
Continental Steam-packet Company's splendid fast iron steam-ships
PRINCESS MARY and PRINCESS MAUD, carrying the English
and Belgian malls, and performing the passage in four hours and
half, leave Dover for Ostend every Sunday, Monday, Thursday, and
Friday, and return to Dover ox Monday, Tuesday, Friday, and Sa-
turday.

Departures Prom Dover :
Sept. 8, at Noon. Sept. 21, at 11 45 A.M.
Sept. 11, at 9 A.M. Sept. 22, at Noon
Sept. 12, at 5 A.M. Sept. 25, at 8 A.M.
Sept. 14, at 6 30 A.M. Sept. 26, at 5 ♦.M.
Sept. 15, at 7 A.M. I Sept. 28, at 7 ♦.M.
Sept. 18, at A.M. Sept 29, at 7 30 A.M.
Sept. 19, at 10 A.M.
On the Bth, 2I Et, and 22d, the Steamers will wait the nrrival of the
morning train from London.

Luggage, parcels, &c., expeditiously forwarded

Fares—Saloon, 155.; Fore-ca Lin, 10s. ; -Children, 7s. Gd.
For particulars apply at the South-Eastern Railway. station, Lon-
don-bridge ; and to John Hayward, jun., Dover.
Sept. 5, 1845.

CIO UT 11-EASTERN RAILWAY.
The Directors think it desirable to state that they sometime
sincd instructed liar. • Stephenson to prepare for Parliament in the
next session a complete system for supplying railway communi-
cation with the whold of Kent. It is proposed to provide direct lines to
Tunbridge, Maidstone, Gravesend, Rochester, Chatham, Faversham,
Canterbury, and Dover. surveys have been for some weeks in
progress, and the whole selienie will ba very shortly in a complete
state. JOHN KIRKLAND, Chairman.
South-Eastern Railway-office, July 26, 1845.

MIDLAND RAILWAY COMPANY.
NEW 401. SHIRES.

The HOLDERS of SCRIP CERTIFICATES for the NEW 401.
SHARES in the additional Capital Stock of this Company, are re-
quired to transmit such certificate to the Secretary at the Company's
Office at Derby, on or before SATURDAY, the 13th day of September
next, with their Nailles; Professions, and Residences distinctly writ-
ten, in order that the same may be entered in the Share Register of
the Company.
Shareholders to whom Scrip has not been issued will he duly re-
gistered as they now stand in the Books of the Company ; and all
Shares not claimed by the actual Holders of Scrip Certificates on or
Dfiftraßunlenlatit 6^,virofLieritrtivru mCkfreanylatotTela.
Receipts for the Scrip will be given, and on the completion of the
Registry they will be exchanged for Certificates under the Seal of
the Company

GEORGE HUDSON, Chairman of the
Board of Directors.
JOHN ELLIS, Deputy Chairman.
By order, J. F. BELL, Secretary.
Derby, Aug. 19, 1845.

-.DIRECT BIRMINGIIAM, OXFORD,
READING, and BRIGHTON ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY.
( aegistered provisionally, pursuant to the 7th and Bth Viet., c. 110).
Capital 2,000,0001., in shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Howard Elphinstone, Esq., M.P., Lewes, Director of the Windsor,
. Staines, Brcntford, and London Atmospheric Railway
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Chairman of the Isle
• of Ely Railway, Director of the Manchester and Sheffield Railway
James Gadesdcn, Esi., Ewell Castle, Surrey
11, S. Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Isle of Ely Railway
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Westbourne House, Sheffield, Director of the
Isle of Ely Railway, •
John Blunt, Esq., Upper Bedford-Place, Director of the London
Docks, and Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway
W. P. Andrew, Esq., Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square, Director
of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway, and Di-
rector of the South Midland Railway
Major J. R. Wornum. H.E.I.S.C.S. Leamington
Henry Wright, Esq., Brunswick-square, Director of the London and
Birmingham Extension Railway, and Director of Warwick and
Worcester Railway
John Ward, Esq., Sheffield, Director of Sheffield, Rotherham, and
Chesterfield Fire and Life Insurance Company
Thomas Kidley, M.D., Sheffield
John Armitage, Esq., Chairman of the Huddersfield and Sheffield
Railway
D. R. Ross, Esq., M.P., Rostrevor, Ireland, Director of the London
and Manchester Direct Railway
George Hammond Wholley, Esq., Pall-mall East
Alexander Andrew, Esq., Kensington
John Fawcett, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely Railway
Charles Appleby, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Man-
ehesterliailway
John M. Cottle, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington, Director of the
Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester Railway
William Hunter, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington, Director of
the London, Bristol, and Bridgewater Railway
Captain Tringara, R.N., Solihull, Warwickshire, Director of the
London, Bristol, and Bridgewater Railway
George 13. Banbury, Esq., Leamington, Director of tho Warwick and
Cheltenham, :and Director of the Coventry, Nuneaton, Birming-
ham, and Leicester Railway
The Rev. J. R. Fowler, Esq., Blanchester-square
C. R. Itigge-, Esq., Bryanstone-square
W. S. Fitzwilliam, Esq., Broad-street, London, Merchant, Director
of the Essex and Suffolk Railway, and Director of the Chepstow,
Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway
Axd a powerful local support.
It is proposed to commence this line of railway at Birmingham, at
a point contiguous to the railways from the north, and to proceed
thence to or near Henley-in-Arden, Stratford-on-Avon, Shipston,
Chipping Norton, Woodstock, Oxford, Wallingford, and Caversham,
crossing the Great Western Railway at Reading, thence continuing
in a direct course through or near Oakingham to Farnborough,
where it will cross the South Western Railway, and proceed through
or near Guildford, crossing the London and Portsmouth Atmospheric
Railway, and continuing through or near Godalming, and Horsham.
to Brighton and Shoreham, thus connecting the great manufacturing
districts of Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cheshire, Nottinghamshire, Der-
byshire, and Leicestershire; the iron and coal districts of Shropshire,
Staffordshire, and Warwickshire; the Potteries„ the salt-works of
Droitwich, and the entire north of England and Scotland with the
southern districts; and perfecting a direct line of communication
between the Irish Sea and the Bristol Channel with the English
Channel, at its most important and convenient point.
By this railway the most direct channel of communication via Di-
eppe or 'Havre, with Paris, the whole of Central Europe, and the
Mediterranean, will he effected.
By the junction of this line with the Portsmouth Atmospheric Rail-
way at or near Guildford, :the very important port and arsenal of
Portsmouth will be placed in direct communication with Birming-
ham and the whole of the manufacturing districts.
The communication between the important districts accommo-
dated by this line, is now carried on by a very circuitous route, sub-
jccting it to great delay, which will be entirely avoided ; and this line
of direct communication between termini of the utmost importance,
without change of carriage between Birmingham and Brighton, and
its consequent expense and loss of time, will also afford great local
accommodation to the fertile, populous, and wealthy districts which
are traversed by it.
To Berkshire, Surrey, and Sussex, to which sea-borne coal is now
imported at great coast, and with much uncertainty, Staffordshire
and Warwickshire coal may be conveyed by this railway at a great
reduction in price.
The products of the manufacturing districts will, by this line, find
the most direct communication with Paris and central Europe ; and
the interchange of stone, lime, tiles, cattle, wool, grain, malt, and
hops, and all the produce of the districts traversed by this line, will
be greatly facilitated.
The intercourse already existing between the proposed termini of
this line is very considerable, notwithstanding the circuitous and
necessarily expensive route ; but considerable as it is, it must be
evident that such intercourse, whether for business or pleasure, will
be greatly promoted by the construction of this direct railway com-
munication.
There can be no doubt, that important as this line will be found as
a channel for the traffic between the termini, it will derive a great
profit from the traffic of the Northern and Midland Counties, and
the Continent, whilst the railways converging at Birmingham, those
lines which this will Intersect, and the new lines now constructing
along the coast, will afford communication with the entire of Eng-
land.
The distance and time that will be saved by this railway are as
follows :

Miles

Distance by the existing railway
from Birmingham to London • • 1123 Time occupied
Distance from terminus of Bir-
rhingham Railway at Euston-
square to the terminus of Brigh-
ton Railway at London-bridge • • 4
Distance from London to Brighton
by the existing railway

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