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

SOLICITORS.

Thomas Richardson, Esq., Uttoaeter ; Phillip Hubbersty, Esq,
Wirksworth.
Local. AGENT—John J. Wise, Esq., Ashbourne.

PARLIAMENTARY A GENTS —Messrs. Sudlow and Kingdon, 6, New
Pa!ace•yard, Westminster.
SECRETARY (pro tam)—Thomas Richardson, Esq.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
The Hon. and Rev. Augustus John Bloor, Esq.

Duncombe
John Chambers, Esq.
Thomas Bishop, Esq.
Joseph Wyles, Esq.
John Keys, Esq ,

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William Cantrell, Esq.
Charles Walker, Bsq.
William Hurd Wood, Esq.
T. Richardson, Esq.
Thomas Walker, Esq.

Joseph Wass, Esq. 1 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 have long bees 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 ad•antage 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, from which town it will
proceed by Rochester to Ashbourne, Wirksworth, Cromford, Mat-
tock (where it will join the Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock
Railway), and thence to or near Chesterfield, forming a junction
with the North Midland Railwar, thereby giving to Ashbeurne a
direct communication with Londo❑ by Uttoxeter, and will confer
advantages to Wirksworth and other towns on the line, by
means_ of the Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock Railway, •ia
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
r
north-easttheßristol,
densely-populated
of England (by means of the projected railways that will
diverge from Uttoxeter) with the Staffordshire Potteries, Stafford,
Shropshire,
the
l;West of
England districts
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South Staffordshire,lvaie..
Southampton
It is quite superfluous to notice that the through traffic, both In
goods
and passengers,
The goods by the various railways which will concen-
trateg to a focal point at Uttoxeter for Sheffield and the north, will
be
goods traffic between Sheffield and the South
to
ce linet o willa
few cross
of
h Staffordshire ironworks is very great. The district is destitute
of water communication, with the exception of the Cromford
Canal, which
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prominent angl es,
resourcesand iit is i s
of onl y
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advert th
the
country to show the magnitude of the local traffic.
The price of coals on all parts of the line is very high, being
carted a distance of 10 to 15 miles. The cost of this indispensable
artiee of consumption will be retticed nearly one half. The
northern portion of the line will be cheaply supplied from the col-
lieries which abound on the North Midland Railway, and the
town of Ashbourne and the locality (as to price) will be almost
placed in immediate contiguity with the Cheadle Coal Field, where
extensive mines of the Yard coal are worked, which produces an
intense
paut
The line will pass several valuable quarries of Derbyshire marble
which is extensively u,ed in all pasts of the kingdom ; and also
numerous lead-smelting works and rolling m ll*, producing large
ia:ie heat, and is highly approved of both for domestic and manu.
f poses.
quantities of pig and sheet lead. It will afford an inexhaustible
supply of lime for the highly cultivated land on the banks of the
for the articles mann
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
'actured at those works, which at present are carted to Derby, a
distance of more than twenty miles.
Already a large cattle traffic exists with the wall) , 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-
ing in return to the markets of the manufacturing towns, the corn,
cheese, wool, and other produce of the extensive and fertile agri-
cultural district which surrounds the Staffordshire terminus of
this railway. It will bring the already large cheese and cattle fairs
of Uttoxeter and Ashbourne into greater importance.

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, over any other that has hitherto been tried; the very
great fusibility of this stone rendering it peculiarly suitabie 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
Froghall, it would now be used to the total exclusion of all other
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

TUE CENTRAL SUSSEX ; or, SOUTH.
A IVIPTON. PORTSMOUTH, CFIATHAM, and
SHEERNESS DIRECT RAILWAY.

Depot.it, 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
1,500,0001, 60,000 Shares of 251. each.
(Provisionally Registered.)
SOLI C ITO RS .
James, Esq., 5, Basinghall-strect, City.
Henry Padwick, Esq., Horsham.

The object of this line is to establish a direct and rapid commu-
nication between the great naval and military depots at Ports-
mouth, Chatham, and Sheerness, as well as to afford to the Cen.
tral districts of Sussex increased facilities of intercourse with the
adjoining counties to the eastward and westward.
Commencing at the Bishops Stoke station of the South-Western
Railway, this line will proceed in an easter:y direction to Bishops
Waltham, Petersficld, Midhurst and Petworth, at which place it
will unite with a branch from Portsmouth. The main trunk will
teen continue by Petworth to Horsham, where it will fall into the
Crawley and Horsham branch of the London and Brighton Rail-
way. Making use of that branch, it will proceed from Crawley to
East Grinstead, and thence in a north.easterly direction till it
meets the South-Eastern Railway at the Fonbridge station, at
which point the Brighton. Lewes, and Tonbridge-wells Railway
will join, so that this rrojeA will also be an extension of that
scheme to Rochester, Chatham, New Brompton, Sheeerness, and
Gravesend; then continuing in the same direction i: will fall
into the Maidstone and Rochester line, at Lower Mailing, which
takes a direct course to Rochester and Chatham. The Ports-
mouth branch will leave the trunk line at Billingshurst, and pass
through Putborough direct to Chichester, and reach Portsmouth
by the Chichester and Portsmouth Railway.

The following towns will receive railway accommodation by this
line :—Chatham, Rochester, Caxton, Lower Mailing, Addington,
Plaxtall, Tunbridge, Penshurst, Cawden, East Grinstead, Cor_
hampton, Horsham, Itchingfield, Billinghurst, Wisborough Green,
Til!ington, Petworth, Midhurst, Petersfiekl, East Mean, bison
Stoke, Bishops Waltham.
And by the Portsmouth branch :—Pulborough, Chichester,
Emsworth, Havant, Portsea, and Portsmouth.
A reference to the map will show that this line, if carried into
effect, besides affording to the rich and extensive district of central
Sussex a lateral railway communication, with which it is at pre-
sent wholly unprovided, will establish the most direct means of in-
tercourse between the whole of the south of England, from the Isle
of Wight, westward, irciuding the great cities and ports of Ports-
mouth, Southampton, Salisbury, Poole, Weymouth, Dorchester,
Exeter, Plymouth, and Fal.nouth, which will be connected by
various projected lines, and the rich and populous county of Kent,
with its important towns of Maidstone, Rochester, Chatham, Sheer.
ness, Canterbury, and Dover,—being even more direct by thirty-
one miles that the coast line between Dover and Southampton ;
uniting, also, the much.frequented watering.places of the Kentish
coast, from Herne Bay round to Folkstone, with those of the Isle
of Wight, and the coasts of Dorsetshire and Devonshire; and,
above all, bringing the great arsenals of the kingdom, Plymouth
included, into direct intercommunication and close approximation.
It should be observed, that this railway will also prove a far
more direct means of communicaticn than any existing line be-
tween the Arsenals of Woolwich and Deptford on the one hand,
and Portsmouth en the other. By means of the Brighton Railway,
as far as Horsham, and thence by the proposed line to Portsmouth,
troops, seamen and naval and military stores, may be conveyed be-
tween these great arsenals with a saving of 21 miles above any
existing railway, especially affording immense convenience to the
troops constantly passing out to the East Indies and other colonies,
by the avoidance of the circuitous and tedious navigation from
Gravesend. In this point of view, this line will prove of essential
value to the Government, and must be regarded in the light of a
great national undertaking; and, moreover, cannot fail of proving
highly remunerative to the shareholders.

The opportunity will be afforded, by means of this railroad, of
establishing the electric telegraph between the most important
naval and military depots of the kingdom.
As regards local traffic, this line will not compete with any
existing railroad, but rather prove beneficial to all; and by means
of the various lines already projected from London, Dorking,
Guilford, and other parts north, to the coast of Sussex, which will
cross the proposed line, this latter will afford a direct access from
the central district of Sussex to all parts of the kingdom.
The merits of this line, already set forth, are greatly enhanced
by its peculiarly direct character—by its remarkable facilities of
construction, and by its •ery slight interference with ornamental
property.

The entire length of the line will he 111 miles, of which 19
miles are either already made, or about to be constructed by other
companies, leaving 92 miles to be laid down by the " Central
Sussex, or Southampton, Portsmouth, Chatham, and Sheerness
Direct Railway Company."
The usual power will be taken in the Act of Parliament to
allow interest at 4 per cent. on all paid-up calls from the passing
of the Act until the completion of the line, and the liability of the
shareholders will be limited to the amount of the subscription.
Until an Act of Parliament shall be obtained, the affairs of this
Company will be under the control of the Committee of Manage-
ment for the time being, to whom power will be given to allot the
shares, and to apply the funds of the Company in payment of all
the expenses incurred in its forthation, and in the preparation of
the plans and sections to be submitted to Parliament.
Power will be applied for in the Act, and in the meantime is
hereby given to the Committee of Management, as above, to raise
any additional capital, to abandon any part of the line, or make
branch lines, to enter into any arrangements with any other
company or companies, and also nominate the first Directors of the
Company. . _

All communications with reference to this line, may be addressed
to W. B. James. Esq., solicitor, 5,
Basinghall.street, London; or
to Henry Padwick, Esq., solicitor, Horsham.