The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-18 00:00:00

SECRETARY—MUCUS Lewis Hill, Esq.

The object of this line is to connect the important ports of Galway,
Belfast, and Newry, and to transect the midland counties of Ireland,
and which will be materially facilitated by the Ulster Extension and
Newry and Enniskillen lines, which have just passed the Committee
of the House of Commons.
Commencing at Galway the line will pass through or near the fol-
lowing important places :—Tuam, Castleblakeney, Mount Talbot,
Athleague, Roscommon, Lanesborough, Longford, Newton Forbes,
Eiphin, Carsick-on-Shannon, Belturbet, and Clones, where it will
form a junction with the Newry and Enniskillen Railway, thus form-
ing a direct communication between the ports of Galway, Belfast,:and
Newry. It will at the same time afford, in connexion with other
lines, accommodation to the counties of Limerick, Clare, Galway,
Mayo, Roscommon, Longford, Leitrim, Fermanagh, Cavan, Monag-
han, Londonderry, Antrim, Armagh, and Down, and passing by or
near to the Arigna iron mines, and the great coal and limestone fields
in Connaught, it will essentially promote the agricultural and com-
mercial interests of those places.
It will also complete an important chain of railway communica-
tion between the portof Galway in the west (one of the most capa-
cious in the United Kingdom, and which must, ere long, become a
packet station forsteamers to and from America, &c,), and the ports
of Belfast* and Newry on the north-east, where there are constantly
steam-packets proceeding to Glasgow and the ports on the western
coast of Scotland, and which will be brought into cheap and rapid
communication with each other.

It is to be observed that whilst almost every other line of railway
hitherto projected diverges from Dublin, no line is as yet proposed
which intersects the inland counties. By crossing, as it will, other
main lines, it will be a feeder to them, and it will, in return, receive
from them a considerable amount of traffic in passengers and mer-
chandise.

A preliminary survey of the district is being made; the line will
pass, for nearly the entire length through the table land of Ireland,
BO that the gradients are particularly favourable ; there will, more-
over, be no tunnelling, nor any engineering work of difficulty. From
the estimates which have been made, it is confidently expected that
a return of 10 per cent. on the capital will be realised. The act of
incorporation will limit the liability of the shareholders to the amount
of shares which they may take.
Applications for Shares to be addressed to the Committee, at the
Company's Offices, 65, Moorgate-street, London, or to the under-
mentioned Brokers:—Mr. Anthony Lawrie, Liverpool; Mr. May,
Liverpool; Messrs. Brady and Staniforth, Manor-street, hull; Mr.
S. Grindrod, Manchester; Messrs. Cardwell and Co., Manchester ;
Messrs. Watson and Co., Leeds; Messrs. E. King and Co., Leeds;
Mr. Luke Arnold, Bristol ; Mr. George Edwards, Bristol ; Messrs.
Tyeth and Wills, Plymouth; Mr. Robert Allan, Edinburgh ; Messrs.
M'Ewen and Auld, Glasgow ; Mr. Andrew Brand, Glasgow ; Mr.
William Gordon, Aberdeen; Boyle, Low, Pim, and Co., Dublin;
Messrs. Curtis and Power, Dame-street, Dublin ; Messrs. Bruce and:
Symes, Dublin; and Robert Charles Forster, :Cork ; of whom Pro-
spectuses may be had.