The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-15 00:00:00

TANDARD LIFE AS SURANCE
COMPANY

Established 1825.
Edinburgh-3, George-street.
London-82, Kin; William-street.
LONDON BOAr.D OF DIRECTORS.

The Right lion. Lord Ernest I James Gadesden, Esq,

Bruce, M.P.
Sir Jamos Eyre, M.D.
Matthew Forster, Esq., M.P.

William Haigh, Esq.
Edward Thomas Whitaker, Esq,
George Frederick Young, Esq.

DIVISION OF PR-OFITS,
FINAL NOTICE.

This is the year in which the third division of the Company's pro-
fits falls to be made. The necessary investigation is now in progress,
and all persons assur:ng before 15th November next will share in
the division.

PETER EWART, Resident Secretary.

$2, King Wllliam.street, Oct. 15, 1845.
WIREWAS El VALLEY EXTENSION, AND
jEI ROCHDALE, BLACKIWI:N, AND EAST LANCASHIRE
JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.
Notice is hereby giv en, that no further Applications for Shares in
this Company can be received after Tins° DAY, WEDNESDAY, tho
1513 October, immediately after which the Allotment will take place.
By order, STILLINGFLEET LOCKEB, Secretary.
44, Fins-bury-circus.

DUDLEY and BIRMINGHAM JUNCTION
RAILWAY,
Cwilb:ning the broad and narrow gauges, in continuation of the

Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton line.
Capital 200,0001., in 8,4J00 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 10s. per Share.
(Provisionally Registered.)
This line will commence at the station of the. Oxford, Worcester,
and Wolverhampton Railway, at Dudley, and run into the line of
the Grand Junction Company near to Birmingham. It will traverse
or pass in the immediate vicinity of the following populous manu-
facturing towns and places, viz., Great Bridge, Swan Village, Old •
bury, West Bromwich, llandsworth,. and Smethwick, and In its
course it afford railway accommodation to a manufacturing and
mining population of upwards of a quarter of a million.

The naives of the places of the proposed termini, and the above
indication of the course of the intoided line, must abundantly sa-
tisfy every one that it presents the certainty of a lucrative traffic
both in goods and in passengers. It is almost unnecessary to speak
furtlur o( so plain a necessity as that of railway accommodation for
such a distlict.

The wonder would be that the proposed line had not been esta-
blish d rang before, were it not ter. one very obvious and very poten-
tial reason to which it is owing that this rich district has hitherto
been suffered "fo remain destitute of railway accommodation. The
district has been up to this time deprived of the benefits of railway
means of transit because it was one of the richest farms of. the
Birmingham Canal Company ; and it is to overcome the depressing
influence of such a destitution that the present plan has been pro-
jected.
The intended line will not interfere with any existing line of
railway, but it will materially extend the usefulness of the several
lines about to be connected with Dudley, and in particular that
great mining district trunk line, the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver
hampton Railway, as also the Shrewsbury and Swint Staffordshire
Junction; besides, it will afford to the populous districts around
Dudley and Birmingh:an the direct benefits of fair and liberal corn-
petition in passenger conveyance and in the transit of their industrial
prolucts to their Jincipal market.
The number of omnibuses, coaches, and swift canal packet-boats-
continually travelling between the termini, afford the stronge st as
surance of the prospect of a lar. e passenger traffic : while the bulky
nature and vast extent of the mining and in,nufacturing produce of
this well-known district equally vouch for that in goods ; and the
whole leaves no doubt but that the financial returns of such an un-
dertaking must yield an ample remuneration for the capital ex-
pended.
In an engineering point of view, it has been ascertained, by careful
surveys, that the line is highly favourable, and presents not the
slightest difficulty, so that altogether there is probably no lime of rail
way now before the public so much entitled in every way to the
favourable consideration of the parties locally interested, or of
capitalists in general. The former have already evinced the warmest '
interest in the proposed line ; and indeed it is mainly owing to
urgent local suggestions that the projected railway has been under-
taken.

No further call (beyond the deposit) will be made until the Act
shad be obtained ; and power will be applied for in much Act to
allow latercst at four per cent. per annum on the deposits and
calls from the date of each payment until the opening of the line.
An Influential Provisional Committee will be published in a
few days.

Applications for shares may be addessed to
Mr. F. T. ELGIE, Solicitor, Worcester, or
} Joint Solicitors,
Mr. JOHN BOLTON, Solicitor, Dudley,
Oct. 7,184 g.