The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-07 00:00:00

SOLICITORS.

Thomas Richardson, Esq., Uttoxeter ; Phillip Hubbersty, Esq.
WirkSWOrth.
LOCAL AGENT—John J. Wise, Esq., Ashbourne.

PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS Messrs. SildlOVr and Kingdon, 6, New
Palace.yard, Westminster.
SECRETARY (pro tem)—Thomas Richardson, Esq.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
The Hon. and Rev. Augustus, John Bloor, Esq.
Duncombe i William Cantrell, Esq.
John. Chambers, Esq. Charles Walker, Esq.
Thomas Bishop, Esq. William Hurd Wood, Esq.
Joseph Wyles, Esq. T. Richardson, Esq.
John Keys, Esq Thomas Walker, Esq.
Joseph Wass, Esq. John Earp, Esq.
PROSPECTUS.

This undertaking is designed to supply the wants of an exten-
sive mineral and populous district, the claims of which to railway
accommodation base long bee recognised, and various projects
brought forward to secure the local traffic which is admitted to be
sufficient to support a railway ; this line will not only accomplish
that desirable object, but also possess the advantage of forming a
direct communication, by the shortest possible route (in connexion
with existing and projected railways), between two of the most
important divisions of the kingdom.
It is intended to commence by a junction with the projected
railways that will centre at Uttoxeter, fromu which town it will
proceed by Rochester to Ashbourne, Wirksworth, Cromford, Mat-
lock (where it will join the Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock
Railway), and thence to or near Chesterfield, forming a junction
with the North Midland Railway, thereby giving to Ashbourne a
direct communication with London by Uttoxeter, and will confer
similar advantages to Wirksworth and other towns on the line, by
means of the Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock Railway, via
Derby.
The line will be about thirty-five miles long, and the most direct
communication that can be formed between Sheffield, York, Leeds,
and other populous manufacturing towns of the north and the
north-east of England (by means of the projected railways that will
diverge from Uttoxeter) with the Staffordshire Potteries, Stafford,
Shropshire, the densely-populated districts of South Staffordshire,
Southampton, Bristol, the West of England, and South Wales.
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intense heat, and is highly approved of both for domestic and manu-
facturing purposes.
The line will pass several valuable quarries of Derbyshire marble
which is extensively wed in all parts of the kingdom ;
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numerous lead-smelting works and rolling m Its, producing large
quantities of pig and sheet lead. It will afford an inexhaustible
supply of lime for the highly cultivated land on the banks of the
Dove and Southward. It will open the Derbyshire mines to the
Zinc Smelting Works in the neighbourhood of Cheadle, and will
afford a direct communication with Sheffield for the articles manu •
lectured at those works, which at present are carted to Derby,
distance of more than twenty miles.
Already a large cattle traffic exists with the north, which will
unquestionably be greatly augmented by the facilities of this rail-
way, large importations of Scotch and Yorkshire cattle will be
brought for fattening on the luxuriant pastures of the Dove, tak.
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The iron furnaces of South Staffordshire consume annually more
than half a million tons of limestone : some estimates make the
quantity exceed a million tons. It is well known that the iron-
masters give a decided preference to the limestone at the south of
the Peak, ever any other that has hitherto been tried; the very
great fusibility of this stone rendering it peculiarly suitable as a
flux for reducing the stubborn iron ores of South Staffordshire, and
were it not for the dilatory and expensive means of transit from
Frogball, it would now be used to the total exclusion of all ether
kinds. The proximity of this railway to the iron district, the tact
of its entering the limestone range at the most southern extremity,
and the advantage of excavating the stone immediately on the line
of rails, cannot but ensure to it a very large share of this enormous