The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-23 00:00:00

CENTRAL RAILWAY OF FRANCE.
LE CONTE'S COMPANY.
The Company which has become the lessees of the above railway
having been finally constituted in France by Royal Ordonnance,
dated the 13th April, 1845, the holders of memorandums for one-
fourth of a share in Le Conte's Company for the above railway, are
hereby requested to present them in parcels, of not less than four,
to me, at No. 62, King William-street, City, London, to be ex-
changed, every complete number of four such memorandums for one
integral share in the constituted Company. The deposits represented
by memorandums, not so exchanged within fourteen days after the
publication of this notice will remain as cash in my hands, at the dT-
posal of the holder, but without any claim by him to any interest in
the constituted Company in respect thereof, in conformity
with the
tenor of the said memorandums.
By order;
Dated 21st July, 1845. ED. AIME.

Capital 3,000,0001., in
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, ifnSnhcazes of 500 francs, or 201. each.
GREAT LUXEMBOURG COMPANY.
or 21. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
BELGIAN.
Monsieur Francois d'Hoffschmidt, of Resteigne, Ancien Depute,
Commissaire Royal de PArrondissement de Bastogne, Chevalier de
I'Ordre de Leopold et de la Croix de Fer.
Monsieur Nicolas Berger, President du Tribunal Chef-Lieu de la
Province de Luxembourg a Arlon, Ancien Depute, Chevalier de
l'Ordre de Leopold, et Administrateur de la Societe d'lndustrie,
Luxembourgeolse.
Monsieur Emmanuel Vandewalle, Ancien Negociant at Bruxelles.
Monsieur Jules Le Jeune, Directeur de !a Banque- d'lndustrie at
Antwerp.
ENGLISH.
Sir W. Magnay, Bart., late Lord Mayor and Alderman of London.
F. F. Clossmann, Esq., Director of the Sedan Railway, &c., &c.
John Masterman, Jun., Esq., Director of the Northern and Eastern
Railway.
Thomas Henry Pluck, Esq., Chairman of the Sedan Railway, and
Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway.
Richard Heaviside, Esq.. Brighton
Henry Symonds, Esq., Director of the Crest Western Railway
Charles Lyall, Esq., Director of the. Irish North Midland and the
Aylesbury and Thame Railway
Wm. Evans, Esq., late Sheriff of the City of London and Middlesex,
and Director of the London and Courty Joint-Stock Bank, Loudon
James Henry Attwood, Esq.
James Brand, Esq., Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln Railway
William Crake, Esq. •
Robert Watkins, Esq., Director of the Chichester and Brighton
Railway
(With power to add to their number).
Basitras IN LONDON—Messrs. Masterman, Peters, and Co.
BBAANNLERass
BLlvursasrEerst—m3elsessx fr.o.ssmaartdoiet
Co.
IN J. 1 and Son.
Somerrons—Messrs. Reed and Robinson, 31, Moorgate-street.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—JOSepII Locke, ESQ.
ACTING ENGINEER—F. N. Dudot, Esq.
SECRETARY—George W. Hills, Esq.

The Railway for which this Company has obtained a concession, will
join the main Belgian line from Charleroi to Namur and Liege, at
some point near or between the two former towns, and will run
through the whole province of Luxembourg, in the Direction of
Dinant, Neulchateau, and Arlon, to Luxembourg, with an extension
to Thionviile and Metz, at which latter city it will join the Paris and
Strasbourg Railway. The whole will be about 140 miles in length.
It will thus unite all the Belgian railways with those of France ; and
if the direction of the various great lines in those two countries, from
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Belgium to Lille, Valenciennes, Dunkirk, and Calais be examined, it
will be seen that the Luxembourg Railway will thus form by far the
shortest, and, consequently, the quickest and cheapest route from
those countries, and from England to Metz, Strasbourg, Rhenish
Prussia, the Rhine (South), Baden, Ww•temburg, and the ether im-
portant districts of the North-East and East of France. and of the
South of Germany, and also to the Eastern parts of Switzerland
and Italy. At its northern extremity, this railway must receive
a large proportion of the immense goods' traffic proceeding from
Holland, Belgium, and the other countries north, by the river Meuse
and the Belgian railways and canals which centre in that district
from Antwerp, Ostend, Brussels, Ghent, Bruges, and other Belgian •
provinces, and join those of France on one side, and oh the other
those) of Germany and Holland ; thus forming continuous lines of
communication with them all. Looking next to the south, a railway
is to be made (as a branch to the Paris and Strasbourg Railway)
from Metz to the extensive coal-field at Sarrebruck, and another is
projected to 3lanheim, on the Rhine. At Thionville and Metz, the
Luxembourg line will meet the large passenger and goods traffic on
the Moselle, to and from the Rhine at Coblentz, which the establish-
ment of steamers on the Moselle, is daily and rapidly increasing.
Much of the great transit trade now going by the Rhine through
Holland Is also likely to take this route through Antwerp or Calais,
in consequence of the great difficulty, delay, and expense of ascending
the Rhine between Strasbourgh and Bale.
There is likewise a considerable local traffic in passengers and
goods in the districts through which the railway will pass, and nu-
merous fairs are held there. They abound in timber, corn, wine,
mines of every description—iron, copper, lead, manganese, antimony,
&c.; rock-salt, limestone, plaster, slate quarries (which supply the
whole province, and export to a large extent to other countries)—and
they contain numerous tanneries, salt-works, and all the smelting
and other establishments to which mineral productions give rise.
There are 28 blast-furnaces in the province of Namur, and 41 in
that of Luxembourg, which all draw iron-ore from the Luxembourg
mines. Besides the local consumption of iron, about 70,000
tons are annually exported. On the other hand, Luxembourg
imports from Belgium large quantities of glass, manufactured
goods, colonial produce, spirits, zinc, marble, and building-stone,
coal, &c. The importation of coal from the Belgian coal-field, at the
north end of the line, and from Sarrebruck, at its southern extremity,
would increase to a very large extent, both for fuel and fur burning
lime, smelting ore, and other manufacturing purposes, as soon as an
improved means of conveyance is intrcduced; instead of the. present
slow and exilehsive- one of carting, which keeps that article at a high
price. One part of these disfricts Contains fine limestone, while the
other wants it ; and the slates would find a largely increased sale in
Belgium, Holland, and France. The wealth, fertility, and population
of the department of the Moselle, in which the southern terminus of
this railway will be situated, are too well known to need comment.
In 1828 a powerful Belgian and Dutch Company, called the
" Societe du Luxembourg," undertook to carry out the great national
objects—lst, of uniting the rivers Meuse and Moselle, and of thus af-
fording a perfect and continuous means of communication through
the whole length of the province of Luxembom g, by completing the
line of navigation from the Meuse at Liege to the Moselle, near Lux-
embourg and Troyes; and 2dly, of bringing Into active production
the great mineral wealth of this province, which had remained dor-
mant for want of proper means of conveyance. For these purposes
the Luxembourg Company Was endowed with a perpetual grant and
almost unlimited powers. In accordance with this project, the Com-
pany commenced operations at the Liege end, and proceeded
with great vigour and success, until all was stopped by the Belgian
revolution of IS3O. National jealousy or other circumstances
have since prevented the resumption of the scheme. The river
Ourthe, which flows into the Meuse, and was the commencement of
the proposed line of navigation, had, however, been considerably Company,im-
proved and an important local traffic,' amounting io
per annum, is now established there, from which the
has derived a handsome and Increasing return
fp aboutr vtedi
Luxembourg
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This Company had also obtained the
grant of three valuable mining localities, previous to the revolution
of 1830 ; namely, the grant of the lead, copper, and. iron mines at
Durbuy, of the lead mines of Maizeret, and of the manga-
nese mines of Main.
Several other grants had been applied for,
and were pending, but the matter has since remained in abeyance
from the circumstances already mentioned. The grant of Durbuy
extends over seven
of ironore had already been extracted previous to 1830, and about as
parishes, and 19,308 statute acres ; 24,000 tons
much iron in 1839 and 1840, when the works were resumed. In
1842 these mines were let for twenty years to another company,
who undertook to produce at least 1000 cubic yards of rough ore per •
annum, and who are actively working the mines. The Luxembourg
Company receives a royalty or farm-rent of the tenth of the produce.
The grant of the Maizeret lead mines extends over 630 acres. From
the result of the borings and excavations made, these mines are con-
sidered very Valuable, and they have the advantage of being close to ;
the Meuse .river and to the high-road from Namur to Liege. The
concession of Bihain extends ovet 1614 acres, and promises to be-
ing , quite one of great value ; 600 tons of manganese had already been
extracted when the works had to be suspended in 1830. The cam"
Teeny hadalso already expl red several valuable mill
pro-
ducing baryte,(from one of which mines 530 tons were extracted,) rock-
salt, antimony, lead, copper, iron, and other minerals, of which it
had flailed for grants under the powers and intent ofits charter. A
large number of qearries were likewise 'opened by the Company, nut
continue to be worked. It possesses property in Brussels, including
a large mansion and prenlises, where its offices are situated.
In order to become possessed of the extensive localities.
powers granted to!
the Luxembourg Company, and thus to obtain the entire command of,
the intercourse and raining' property in that province and the ad-;
joining districts, this Company will have to purchase the shares andl
rights of the Company above-mentioned, including of course the:
canal, mines, and all its other property, interests and privileges, for!
the sum of 260,0001. As the railway will effect the purposes of con
veyance and communication through Luxembourg, for which the!
canal was projected, it is now intended (and it is in accordance withi
the charter) to complete the line of navigation only from the Meuse!
at Liege to La Roche; of which the estimated cost is under 400,0001. ; iw
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this means the railway and navigation cannot clash, as they will
start from and run through quite different districts. It will be reserved
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whether it shall be continued in any other direction. In the
meantime Ike local traffic alone will be sufficient to produce a hand-
some return on the capital to be invested, it being estimated upon a
careful and moderate calculation to yield a net profit of about eight
per cent. on the capital required. It may not be generally known,
that the Belgian canals give a net profit of from six to fourteen per
cent., and the Charleroi and Brussels Canal, which was conceded to
fteortiheet future
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company in 1826, is paying ten and a half per cent. on the capital.
In addition to the great mineral traffic above described, the canal.
will cross several extensive forests ; whence large quantities of tim-•
ber and wood will be sent for ship and house-building, fuel, and other'
purposes, for which it is constantly in great demand.
The concession of the railway is already obtained from the Go-
vernment, for a lease of ninety years from the date of its completion.
The other conditions are equally favourable. The tariff is about
thirty per cent. higher for passenger.; than that of the Belgian
railways, being about the same, both for passengers and goods
as that of France, while it is much more advantageous in many other
respects.
The Government Is to give, without charge, all the land required
for the railway, wherever it crosses the crown lands, and it is to use
its authority and influence to induce parishes and individuals to do
the same. No government or other tax or duty Is ever to be im-
posed is any rival line to
posed upon the railway,be allowed to start
from the Belgian railways in the direction of this one through
Luxembourg, for at least twelve years. The "concessionaires," or_
lessees of this railway, or their representatives are to have the pre-
ference of all branch lines which may hereafter be proposed in con-'
flexion with it. 'ed to be •
The cost of construction is expec considerably ender the.
• n lines, the best proof of 'which is to be found in
average of the Beige"
engages
the circumstance that the lovernment to release the lessees,
and t
to return them tie caution mosonaatoa
of
cost
oostay them for their ex-
penses of surveys,
&c.' if
theld exc dth now being made by the
Government engineers shou ee e average cost of 800,000
Belgian league (about 10,000/. per English mile), for a
francs per
with the land, earth-works and , masonry for
single line of rails, but
of the ail • r way is also likely to be very
a doable line. The working
cheap, to which a coal-field at each end of it, and the consequently
low price of coke, will much contribute. From all the circumstances
quiri yield into the treffi
c, there can be no already stated, and careful in
yill
doubt that this line of railway
a very handsome return upon
the capital required. •
consideration will be shown In the allotment, due c proprietors of,
shares in the adjoining
undertakings of the Sambre and Meuse, Lou-
vain
and Jemappe, and Nanmur and Liege Railway Companies,

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insert myname as a Subscriber
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To the Directors of the Luxembourg
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Company.
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for Shares of 500 francs (201.) each, upon the terms and
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accept the same, or any less number you may allot me, to pay the
deposit, and sigandn
theregulatingprospectus
all required deeds when I shall be called upon to do
so, and to conform to the statutes and regulations of the CoMpany.
I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
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Prospectuses and forms of application may be had at the Temporary
Offices of the Company, 61, Moorgate-street, where may be seen spe-
cimens of some of the mines.

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