The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-28 00:00:00

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This railway is brought forward with the general concurrence and
approval of the country and towns through which it passes. It is
now the universal opinion that this line is absolutely required by the
district, and that without it the trade of this portion of the country
will materially suffer, and consequently the value of property be
depreciated by the competition of those neighbouring towns to
which the great advantages of railway communication have been
granted.
Provision will be taken in the Act to allow four per cent. interest
on the deposit and calls until the line is constructed.
Powers will be taken in the Act to drain the marsh lands of the
valley through which the line passes. •
Applications for Shares to be made to the Committee of Manage-
melt, at the Offices of the Company, No. 2. Nicholas-lane, Lom-
bard-street and Mr. J. W. Soott, share-broker, &c., 3, Bartholo-
mew-lane, London ; to Messrs. Fisher, Lucas, and Steward, and
Mr. Samuel Palmer, of Great Yarmouth ; and to Messrs. Margit-
son and Hartcup, of Bungay, in the following form, viz. :
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Committee of Management of the Waveney Valley and
Great Yarmouth Railway Company,
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot to me Shares of 201.
each in the above Company, and I undertake to accept the same,
or any less number, and to pay the deposit of 21. per Share, and
en..iage to sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agree-
vaent in respect of the same, when required.
I am, Gentlemen, your obcdisnt servant,
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DIRECT LONDON AND EXETER RAIL-
WAY COMPANY.
With extension hereafter to Falmouth and Penzance, through
Hammersmith, Turnham-green, Brentford, Isleworth, Hounslow,
Staines, Egham, gagshot, Ascot, BfackuLal, Wokingham,
Ein‘sclere, Andover, Salisbury, Shaftesbury, Sherbourne, Yeovil,
Crewkerne, Axminster (with branch to Cranbonrne, Blandford, Dor-
chester, Bridport,.Axminster), and Honiton, to Exeter.
Capital, 3,000,000/., in 120,000 Shares, of 251. each.
Deposit 1/. 7s. 6d. per Share.
With power to raise 1,000,0001. more, if necessary.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Vic. c. 110.)
OFFICES,. No. 52, REGENT-STREET, WATERLOo-PLACE,
Adjoining the County Fire Office.
PROVISIONAL CO3IIIITTEE.

The Right Hon. the Earl of Mexborough, Dover-street, Piccadilly,
Director of the Direct London and Manchester Railway..
The Right Hon. Viscount Sidrnouth, Upper Otters', Devon
Lord Henry Loftus, ISelgrave-square
Sir Henry Hervey Bruce, Bart., Montague-square, and Down-hill,
Londonderry
Sir George Rich, 43, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square
J. R. Phillirnore, Esq., LL.D., 42, Clarges-street, Chancellor of Salis-
bury
Juts David Chambers, Esq., Recorder of Salisbury
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, 19, Clifford-street
The Hon. A. Cape], Theyden House, Essex, and Park-street, Grosve-
nor-square
Charles William Spicer, Esq., 28, Portman-square
G. Thompson Jacob, Esq , Blandford, Magistrate, and Deputy Lieu-
tenant for Dorset
W. s'. A. Delane, Esq., Bracknell
IL H. Hnngerford, Esq., Dingley Park, Market Harborough, and
Dover-street, Piccadilly, Director of the Leicester and Bedford
Railway
Francis Davvion, Esq., Grosvenor-street
Richard Francis Power, Esq., 73, Eccleston-squsre, and Long-
Orchard, Tipperary
Lieutenant-Colonel P. W. Pedlar, Nutley House, Devon
Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlborough-place, St. John's Wood, Di-
rector of Great Eastern and Western, and Manchester and Birken-
head Continuation Company
The Hen. henry savile, Dover-street
A. W. Hillary, Esq., 66, Cadogan-place
IV. L. Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex, Director of the Oxford, South-
ampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Company
George Evans, Esq., Milbury-terrace, Regent's Park
Francis Lloyd, Esq., Temple, London, and Bingley House, Bir-
mingham
William Thomas Davies Lhoyd, Esq., Anglesey •
R. S. -Blundell, Esq., 18, Low, r Seymour-street
Joh., Allan, Esq., Gloucester-terrace, Kensington.
William Basnlngilun cestello, Esq., M.D., Wyke House, Brantford
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
John Allen, EN., Gloucester-terrace, Kensington
Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlborough-place, St. John's Wood, Di-
rector of Great Eastern and Western, and Manchester and Birken-
head Continuation Company
George Evans, Esq., Milbury-terrace, Regent's Park
A. W. Hillary, Esq., 66, Cadoesin-place
W. L. Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex, Director of the Oxford, South-
ampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Company
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, 19, Clifford-street, Director in
the County Fire Office
Charles William Spicer, Esq., 28, Portman-square
H. 11. Hunger:4)rd, ssq., Dffigley Park, Market Harborough, Director
of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
(With limited power to add to their number.)
.Exotsizza—John Braithwaite, Esq., 4, Trafalgar-square, Engineer
of the Eastern Counties Railway
BANKERS—Messrs. Currie and Co., 29, Cornhill
Getsiclroa—D. E. Colombine, Esq., 8, Carlton Chambers, Regent-street
The applications for Shares being so numerous, the Committee do
not think it necessary to daily advertise the full Prospectus, but they
ties;re to state that they intend to convey heavy goods such as iron,
coals, &c., from place to place, for which separate trains will be al-
lotted.

Date

IiTAVENEY VALLEY AND GREAT
YARMOUTH RAILWAY.
WITH A BRANCH TO HALESWORTH.
Capital 400,0001., in 20,000 Shares of 201. etch.
Deposit 21. per Share.
(Registered provisionally, pursuant to 7 and S Vict., cap. 110.)
COMMITTEE OF 31.IINAGEMEST.
Hon. Colonel George Anson, M.P., 25, Hill-street, Berkeley-square,
London
William Back, Esq., Stratford St. Mary, Suffolk
Calverley Richard Bewicke, Esq., Barsham House, Suffolk
Emanuel Cooper, Esq., Southwark
W. J. Crowfoot, Esq., M.D., Beccles
Richard Hammond, Esq., Great Yarmouth
Swynfen Jervis, Esq., Whitehall-place, London, and Darlaston Hall,
Staffordshire
John 31`Rae, Esq., Page Greenhouse, Tottenham
Hezekiah Martin, Esq., Great Yarmouth
Samuel Paget, Esq., Great Yarmouth
(kor4e Danby Palmer, Esq., Great Yarmouth
Wiliam Richardson, Esq., Charlotte-street, Bedford-square, London
iCiiliam Ayscough Wilkinson, Esq., Woodberry Down, Middlesex
Willi m Wilahere, Esq., M.P. for Great Yarmouth, Hermitage,
Ilitchin, Herta

ENoiralit—Joseph Locke, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Fisher, Lucas, and Steward,/
Great Yarmouth
Samuel Palmer, Esq.
Messrs. Margitson Hartcup, Bungay
Josiah Wilkinson, Esq , London
BA. Kras—London and County Bank, Lombard-street, London, and
its branches.
SECRETART.—M. E. Daniel, Esq.
A direct communication from Yarmouth to the Metropolis is of
the utmost importance to the port and trade of Yarmouth. The pre-
sent route by the Norwich and Yarmouth and Norwich and Brandon
Railw.,ys, now called the Norfolk Railway, conveys the Yarmouth
traffic to London round by Brandon, Ely, and Cambridge, to join the
Northern and Eastern Railway—a distance of 146 miles. The ter-
minus of the Norfolk Railway at Yarmouth is acknowledged to be
most inconvenient for the London trade, and the claims which it has
upon Yarmouth are confined to the communication with Norwich
And the western and north-western dist irts. A very large traffic
Deists between Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Beccles, Bungay, Halesworth,
Harlestone, and Diss ; and also between all those important towns
and Bury St. Edmund's, Stowmarket, Ipswich, and London. To
supply the wants of these districts the Waveney Valley and Yar-
mouth Railway is designed ; and it will shorten the distance between
Yarmouth and London twenty-four miles.

It is intended to construct the terminus upon the best site as near
to Yarmouth-bridge as practictble. The line will communicate with
the quays, so as to take goods from the vessels on the river without
transhipment or immediate carriage, thus saving considerable ex-
pense. This railway will run to the town of Beccles, thence to Bun-
gay (with a branch to Halesworth), t Harleston, and Diss, commu-
nicating there with the Eastern Union Extension Railway, and by
aneans of that line to Stowmarket, Bury, Ipswich, Colchester, Chelms-
ford, and London. At Diss the railway will be within three miles
of the important market town of Eye, to which a branch may be ad-
vantageously constructed. In Its course to iteccles it will cross the
Lowestoft and Iteedharn line, and will afford the shortest communi-
cation from Lowestoft to London. The whole length of the main
line will not exceed thirty-three miles, and the branch to Hales-
worth will be about nine miles. The population of the district
through which it runs, taking the parishes within three miles of the
line, is upwards of 100,000, according to the last census. The valley
be one of the richest agricultural districts in Englmal ; it produces
large crops of grain, and abounds with rich pasturage, a very lar,;
rcrtion of the barley is malted at Harlestone, Halesworth, Bur,pty,
and Bc,cles, and supplied to the large London brewers.
The export of corn and flour from Yarmouth exceeds that of any
port in the kingdom, the average being yearly 435,690 quarters.
70,'00 tons of goods and 173,485 tons of coals are annually im-
pc rt.,:ct into Yarmouth to supply the wants of the district.
There are 574 registered vessels, comprising a tonnage of
50,375, bel aiging to Great Yarmouth, and 3,400 ships yearly enter
that port.
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Upwards of 100 vessela are employed in the mackerel fishery, and
200 in the fishery ; the capital tma.loyed in these trades ex-
cec,i, hal:a million of money.

In addition to the above, very many other fishing craft are em-
ployed 10 catching turbot, soles, cod, haddock, whitings, shrimps,
the greater part of which are sent to London ; and, as the fishing
banks of the North Sea present an inexhaustible supply of these com-
modities, and the metropolis an almost boundless market for cheap
and good fish, it may confidently be expected that the immediate
and permanent effect of a quick transit between the two places will
be a vast increase in this branch of traffic ; and tt. is anticipated that
large quantities of Scotch salmon will be landed at Yarmouth, to
avoid the tedious passage between this part of the coast and the
metropolis.

An immense quantity of live stock is sent from the district of this
railway to London, which, In the event of this line being made,
must pass upon it.
Yarmouth is increasing extensively as the watering-place of the
eastern coast. A great number of houses have recently been erected,
to accommodate the requirements of visitors during the season, and
many others of a first class are now in course of building.
The traffic on this line of road has been taken, and is estimated to
produce, independently of the fish carriage, a return of £39,483 0 0
To this add for fish traffic from Lowestoft, according
to the present quantity supplied to the London
market, calculated at a low rate
And for fish traffic from Yarmouth, according to the
lame data..

3,727 0 0

9,500 0 0

•••• • • • £52,710 0 0
•••• • • • 21,084 0 0

Leaving a net revenue 0f.... •••••• • • • • £31,626 0 0
which upon the capital of 400,0001. will make a return of eight
per cent
The distances will be as follows :
from Yarmouth to I)iss
St ,wrnarket
Bury St. Edmund's
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Colchester ....... ••• .. 71
Chelmsford ....
/9 London . • • • • ... 122
being twenty-four miles shorter than the route by the present Norfolk
Railway.
The traffic has been taken very moderately, and it stay be
fairly calculated that the amount will be very considerably increased
by increased trade (particularly in fish, cattle, and grain), when
the :cad is op‘ned, and the facilities 'lynch railways afford are
developed to a country hitherto unaccommodated with such ad-
vantages.
Tne line has been carefully surveyed, and no engineering difficulty
presents itself. It may be constructed very cheaply and speedily.
The Waveney Valley forms a natural level channel without a single
impediment; and where the line leaves the valley the cuttings are
not heavy, and are required for the necessary embankments in the
lower :Ands.