The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-25 00:00:00

SOLICITOR—G. L. Lloyd, Esq., 49, Doughty-street, Redford-row,

London.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Scrivens and Young, Hastings
Messrs. Martin and Sons, Battle
Messrs. Barclay and King, Mayfield.
SECRETARY (pro tem.)—Hear, L. Freund, Esq.
BANazits IN LONDON—The London County Joint-stock Bank.
DISTRICT BANNERS. _

The Branches of the Lotidon---alidCOUTity.Joint-stock Bank at Tun-
bridge, Tunbridge Wells, Lewes, and Brighton
At Hastings—Messrs. Smith, Hilder, and Co.
The object of this Company is to effect a direct eommunication,
by railway, between Tunbridge Wells and Hastings, and also be-
tween Tunbridge Wells and Brighton.

The Meting; line (about twenty-six miles in-length) will commence
at Tunbridge Wells, and run near Frant, Wadhurst, Lamberhurst,
Etchingham, Hurst Green, Robertsbridge, Whatlington, and Battle,
having its terminus at the western extremity of llastings.

The Brighton line (about twenty-two miles in length) will com-
mence at Timbridga Wells, and take a direct course to Brighton,
passing near Mayfield, liotherfleld, lickfield, Little Ilorsted, and
Lewes, where it will form a junction with the line, which is nearly
completed, between Lewes and Brighton.
The numerous visitors and inhabitants of the fashionable watering-
places of Tunbridge Wells, Brighton, and Hastings, will thus not
merely enjoy the means of rapid communication with each other by
railway—an advantage which ought to have been supplied to them
before this—but will also have, respectively, when the proposed line
from London to Tunbridge is formed, a continued and direct railway
to the metropolis.
The area embraced within these lines of railway is justly remark-
able for the variety and values of its agricultural produce, being one
of the most extensive hop districts in England, and not inferior in
general fertility to any part of the kingdom ; and when it is consi-
dered that the metropolis is the principal, indeed, it may almost be
said, the exclusive, market for its productions, the profits arising
from the conveyance of those productions alone must form (inde-
pendent of passenger traffic), a very large source of revenue to the
Shareholders. _ . .

Even from the already developed resources of the extensive,
wsaithy, and populous districts through which the Company's lines
will run, the most encouraging estimate of results may be justly en-
tertained, and when the Hastings Dock and Harbour Company
(which has already been provisionally registered) shall have carried
into effect the proposed improvements, the line from that town to
Tunbridge Wells artist become one of the most profitable in Englane,
as it will then be the great highway _of continental tourists. The
route from London to Paris, by Hastings and Dieppe, is decidedly
the most direct, as well as the mostinteresting, which a glance at the
map ef Europe will satisfactorily show.
To the towns of Hastings and St. Leonard's the greatest advan-
tages must acdrue from the establishment of a railway, bringing
them within two hours of the metropolis, and, through it, by the
groat lines of which it is the focus, connecting them with every por-
tion of the country. An immense increase in the number of their
opulent visitors must necessarily be the consequence, the climate of
that part of the coast of Sussex being universally considered equally
salubrious as the most favoured parts of Devon.
The Company have in contemplation the formation of a branch'
from tLe most convenient point on their Hastings line to Winchel-
sea and the town and port of Rye, or to connect that line with the
Hastings and Ashford coast line; either of which objects can be
carried out at a very moderate expense, and must consteerably in-
crease the valise of the principal project.
To the inhabitants of Lewes and Brighton, the advantages to be
derived from the Hastings line must be great. It will give increased
facilities for the transport of the produce of the districts through
which it passes, and will complete the railway communication be-
tween Canterbury, Maidstone, Chatham, Rochester, and other towns
in the county of Kent, and Brighton, Chichester, Portsmouth, South-
ampton, and other important towns in the western parts of the
country.
The existing traffic in passengers and goods (which must be ma-
terially increased by the establishment of railways) are too well
known to require a detailed statement in this prospectus, and can
not fail to secure to the shareholders a large interest on the capital
invested.

A preliminary survey of the country has been made, and no part of
it has been found to offer engineering difficulties of more than or-
dinary character.
The liability of the Shareholders will be limited to the amount of
their subscriptions, and in the allotment of shares a preference will
be given to landowners on the respective lines, and other parties
locally interested.
Power will be taken in the Act to allow interest at V. per cent.
per annum, on all calls, previous to the opening of the lines.
The Provisional Committee reserve to themselves the power of
making alterations in the line or branches, and of adopting the at-
mosphelc pri..ciple, if advisable. They arc also determined on giv-
ing strict attention to economy in the expenditure of the capital,
and will thereby be enabled to guarantee low charges for the con-
veyance of passengers and goods, and there can be no reasonable
doubt, that when the traffic is fairly developed, the full rate of 10/.
per cent. will be paid, and a surplus left for branch lines, or a reduc-
tion of tolls.

The strong feelings in favour of a direct line evinced on the part of
the public in Hastings and surrounding neighbourhood, the support
of the landowners a•:d agriculturists, with the numerous and strong
assurances received in favour of an independent Company, leave no
doubt of the successful issue of an application to Parliament for an
Act next session.

In order that every attention may be secured to local interests, ar-
rangements are now being made to add the names of gentlemen of
influence and property i i the counties of Kent and Sussex to the
Provisional Committee.

Applications for shares, with a reference, may he made in the
form annexed, to the Solicitor, or to the Secretary pro. tem., at the
temporary Offices of the Company, No. 76, Basingliall-street, Lon-
don, and to the following Sharebrokers :—in London, Messrs. J. and
T. Moxon, Broad-street ; In Liverpool, B. P. Pemberton, Esq.,
Atherton-buildings ; in Manchester, Messrs. M'Lean and Dinwoodie ;
in Bristol, Messrs. Wrefard, Nicholls, and Co. ; in Leeds, Messrs.
Whalley and Thompson, Bank-street ; in Gloucester, J. N. Balme,
Esq. ; in Cheltenham, Joseph K. Baker, Esq.

To 11;e Provisional Committee of the Tunbridge Wells, Brighton, and
?Listings Junction Railway Company.

Gentlemen,—l hereby request you to allot me Shares in
the above Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the same, of
any less number that may be allotted to me, and to pay the deposit
of 21. 12s. 6d. per Share thereon, and to execute the necessary deeds
when required.

Name ...
Addreas
Profession or Business (if any)...... •• .

THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN
CONNECTING RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that no Applications for Shares in this
Railway will be received after SATURDAY, the 27th inst.
By order of the Committee of Management,
W. JENKINS, S•-eretary.
Temporary Offices, 47, Eastcheap, Sept. 24, 1845.

NOTTINGIIAM, BIRMINGHAM, AND
COVENTRY RAILWAY.
Uniting Warwick, Coventry, and Birmingham with Nottingham,
Newark, and Lincoln.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Offices— (temporary), 19, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street.
Capital 420,0001., hi 21,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Sir John Penniston Milbanke, Bart., Great Portland. street
William Collins, Esq., M.P. for Warwick
Michael Thomas Bass, Esq., Burton-upon-Trent
Major Croft, 15, Regent-street, Deputy Chairman of the Chester and

Manchester Direct Railway
Fraser B. Henshawe, Esq., Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square,
Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction
Railway
Major Waller, Y.H., Deputy Chairman of the South and Midlands

Junction Railway -
Lieutenant-Colonel Hutchinson, F.R.S., 15, Upper Montague-street,
Montague-square, Direct.,r of the College of Civil Engineers
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., Hyde Park-place, D rector of the
Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle Junction Railway
T. E.Bigge, Esq., 19, Bryanstone-square, Director of the Warwick

and Cheltenham Railway
The lion. W. E. Fitzmaurice, M.P. for Bucks, Cheshatn-street,
Belgrave- square
Henry Dann, Esq., 42, Duke-street, St. James's, Director of the
Shrewsbury, Worcester, and Crewe Railway
Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Harts, Director of
the South and Midland Junction Railway

John Clement Reding, Esq., Director the National Bank 01

Ireland
John Rawson, Esry.' Halifax, Deputy Lieutenant for Yorkshire, and
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Railway
The Hon. Colonel Leicester Stanhope, Ashburnham House, Chairman
of the Chester and Manchester Direct Railway
John Thomas Htworth, Esq., Leicester

Thomas Hackett, Director of the Great Manchester and

Southampton Railway
John Samlars, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Crewe Railway
John Fisher, Esq., Short-hill, Nottingham, and Watling-street,

London
Captain Horatio Thomas Austin, C.B.
Nathaniel Nadin, Esq., Stapenhili, Burton-upon-Trent

Capt. Gustavus Evans, R.N., Headley Grove, Surrey
Henry Francis Gisborne, Esq., Derby, Director of the Leicester and
ramwortit, and Derby, Gainsborough, and Great Grimsby Junc-
tion Railway
Edmund Sharpe, Esq., Swandlincote, Potteries
Sheldon Craddock, Esq., Leicester

John Gretton, Esq., brewer, Burton-upon-Trent
Ambrose Moore, Esq., Milk-street, Cheapside

James Arbouin, Esq., Mark-lame, Director of the London and York
Railway
Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.8., Director of the East India Company
I.leut.-Gen. Taylor, Clarendon-place, Hyde Park

George Ledwell Taylor, Esq., 45, IlYde Park-square
Douglas Fox, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Crewe Railway
Matthew Gisborne, Esq., Walton Hall, Derbyshire
Frederick Cayley Worsley, Esq., Imberhorne House, Sussex
John Taylor, Esq., Cross-street, City, Director of the Commercial
Bank of London
(With power to add to their number.)
sommons.
Messrs. Bass and Sweeting, Burton-upon-Trent.
Messrs. Lacy and Bridges, 19, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street.
Messrs. Sir George Stephen and Hutchinson, I, Exchange-buildings,
Royal Exchange.
BANKERS.
The London Joint-Stock Bank, Princes-street.
The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury, and 6, Henrietta-street.
Covent-garlen.

The Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashbourne Union Banking Company,
Burton-upon-Trent, and Ashbourne.
Messrs. Evans and Co., Derby.
ACTING ENGINEEa.—Elijah Galloway, Esq.
This line will commence at the Long Eaton station of the Midland
Counties Railway, and will proceed in a direct line to or near Castle
Donington, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Nleasham, and Market Bosworth to
Nuneaton; joining, at Market Bosworth, the Birmingham branch,
projected by the Tamworth and Leicester Company, and at Nuneaton,
the projected Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester
Railway, at the point where that line crosses the Trent Valley line.
Thus a direct communication will be formed between the important
towns of Nottingham, Newark, and Lincoln on the one side, and
Biriningham, Coventry, and Warwick on the other side, at the same
time supplying a rich mineral and agricultural district with railway
advantages.
A reference to the map will show that this railway will also com-
mand other collateral advantages.

There is no doubt that the proposed railway communication be-
tween Cheltenham and Warwick will t e effected, in which case the
proposed line will fill up the railway chasm at present existing be-
tween the counties of Gloucester and Worcester, and Nottingham
and Lincoln, and thus form a direct line from the Severn at Glouces-
ter to the Humber at Great Grimsby. An amalgamation of the Great
Grimsby and Sheffield Junction with the Grimsby Dock Company
being now determined on, a large amount of capital will be expended
in rendering Great Grimsby a port of the first importance ; and it
must be obvious that the traffic to that port, from the district south-
west of Warwick, will he vecy great.

The distance saved by the proposed line between Leamington,
Warwick, Coventry, and Nottingham will be about fourteen miles ;
and between Birmingham and Nottingham (by either of the projected
lines from Birmingham to Leicester) the saving will be about ten
miles. Being so much the shortest route from Birmingham to Not-
tingham and Lincoln, it must secure the traffic from Birmingham to
Nottingham, Newark, Lincoln, and the port of Great Grimsby ; and
by joining with the Erewash Valley Railway at Long Eaton, it must
command the traffic from Coventry, Warwick, and the district south
of those towns to :Sheffield, Leeds, York, and the north of Eng and
generally. It will also afford a direct commtualcation between Not-
tingham and the district bet era Warwick and Worcester, by means
of the projected Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby, and the Warwick
and Worcester Railway?.

The entire length of the line will be under thirty miles. The Com-
pany's Engineer has completed his preliminury survey, and has
made his report, that the character of the cowitry through which
the line is intended to pass is unusually favourable for engineering
purposes.
It passes directly through a very productive mineral district, in•
tersecting the Leicestershire coal-fields and lime-works, and will
afford communication north and south, to the Derbyshire Potteries.
With such an assured immediate and prospective amount of traffic,
the profits on the small capital required cannot fall to be highly re-
munerative.

Powers for all:tvrance of interest at four
capital will be taken, and the liability of sl
amount of their subscriptions.

per cent. on the paid-up
hareholders limited to the

TABLE OF DISTAN

Present Distances. About
Miles

CES.

By proposed
I Saving
Route, about

mEcHrs ELEGANCIES for PRESENTS and
USE, manufactured on the Premises, 4, LEADENHALL-
STREET, near the India House, London, Wholesale, Retail, and
for Export. Ladies and Gentlemen's Dressing-cases, in leather,
wood, and papier mach& from 100 guineas down to 255. Writing-
desks, 25 guineas down to 12s. Work-boxes, 20 guineas to 10s.
Ladies' Cabinet and Jewel-cases assorted ; Tea-caddies, the most
elegant in the world, 121. to 61. each, down to 7s. Gd. Ladies' papier
mache Work-boxes, 101. each down to 31. Netting-boxes, 355. to
235. Card-boxes, 5/. ss. to I Is. Set of Tea-trays, 20 guineas to
Bottle-cases, 30s. each. Companions, 2/. 10s. to 10s. Gd. each. Poll-
screens, 9!. the pair. Piand-screens, 50s. to 20s. the pair. Card-
racks, 40s. to 255. per pair. Note and Cake-baskets, 50s. to 20s.
each. Bagatelle-tables, 101. 10s. to 31. 10s. Leather Writing-cases,
containing a complete Dressing Apparatus, 15/ 10s. to 51. 10s. Pearl
and Fancy Card-cases, 31. 10s. to 10s. each. Ivory Hair-brushes, 4/.
to 21. 105. per pair. Splendid Cases of Seven-day Razors, 101. to
2/. 10s. the set. Ivory-handle and other highly-finished Strops from
255. to 3s. each. Wharneliff Penknives, Sporting Knives, and fancy
Scissors, 3/. to ss. each. Splendid Case of Agate, Pearl, and Ivory
Dessert-knives and Taiile-kniyes, from 421. to 4/. 4s. the case. A rich
variety of Plate, Itronze, Gilt, and Pallier Mache and Table Ink-
stands, from 61. to 7s. 6d. each.
The quality generally of Mechi's Manufactures-the elegance of
their display, and the rare combination of excellence and economy,
with a very extensive choice of Stock-will amply repay the trouble
of visiting his DepOt, 4, Lcadenhall-street.