The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-22 00:00:00

BANKERS.

Messrs. Rogers, Olding, ■nd Co., Clement's-lane ; Messrs. Cocks,
_. .

Biddulph, and Co., Charing-cross.
CONSULTING ENGINEERS—Sir John Macneil and James Thom-

son, Esq.
ENGINEERS —B. Albano, Esq., M.1.C.E., and Win. Laxton,

Esq., C.E.
SOLICITOR IN LONDON—George Smith, Esq., 24, Golden-square,
and No. 2, Ouiljhall chambers, Basingball- street.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Coombe and Sharland, Tewn.ball, Gravesend
Messrs. J. and E. Blaker, Lewes.
orary Offices, No. 2, Guildball.chambers, Basinghall-street.

The object of this undertaking is to open a direct line of rail-
way to connect the Northern, Eastern, and South Essex Railways,
by means of a steam ferry from Tilbury Fort to Gravesend, with
Tunbridge Wells, Lewes, and Brighton.
It is contemplated to proceed from the Eastern Counties Rail-
way at or near Harlow station to Tilbury, crossing the river
by a steam floating bridge to Gravesend, passing by Cobham,
Snodland, Mailing, and Hadlow to Tunbridge, thence by the South.
Eastern Railway to Tunbridge Wells, passing Uckfield to Lewes,
and thence joining the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway to
Brighton.
An inspection of the map will clearly show the great import.
ance of this railway, whether considered in a local or national
point of view, forming as it will a most useful chain of local com-
munication for the fertile and populous tracts through which it

passes.
It will bring the Northern and Eastern Counties, the mouth of
the Thames, axld North Kent, into direct communication, by
way of Brighton, with Dieppe and Havre, and thus form, in con-
junction with the railways now in progress en the Continent, the
shortest possible route to Paris and the Mediterranean.
By this railway the large population of the North Eastern Coun-
ties, numbering nearly two millions, will have a direct and easy
communication with the whole of the populous and important
counties of Kent and Sussex, without going round to London, and
thereby avoiding the inconvenience arising from the unconnected
lines north and south of the metropolis.
The utility of this line to the naval and military service, both in
times of peace and war, for the conveyance of troops and stores, is

evident.
With the existing railways, and those now in progress in Kent
and Sussex, a most complete system of local communication will be
effected; and as such, the project has been received with the most
distinguished approbation and pledges of support from the principal
proprietors along the line, and the Corporation of Gravesend have
promised their entire sanction to, and will cordially support it.
The ground has been carefully surveyed, and found to present
no difficulties to the formation of a good working line.
The existing local traffic has been ascertained to be amply suf-
ficient to fulfil the requirements of the undertaking; but a urge
accession of valuable traffic cannot fail to be the result of the
increased accommodotion thus afforded to the public, and rendering
the undertaking one of the most important as well as productive
lines of railway in that part of the country.
The Committee reserve power to themselves to form branches
from Snodland to Chatham.

The liability of the shareholders will be restricted by Act of
Parliament to the amount of their subscriptions, and power will be
applied for in the Bill to allow interest at 4 per cent. per annum on
all calls, from the psssing of the Act until the opening of the line.
Applic ttions for prospectuses and also for shares may be
addressed in the usual form to George Smith, Esq. Solicitor, 24,
Golden-square, and No. 2, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street ;
Messrs. Coombe and Sharland, Gravesend , Messrs. J. and E.
'Maker, Lewes; to Messrs. Field, Son, and Bayley, sharebrokers,
Warneford-court, Throgmorton.street, and to Messrs Limb; and
sons, sharebrokers, Change-alley

PRELIMINARY NOTICE.
r fIE EXETER, TIVERTON, AND MINE•
lIEAD DIRECT RAILWAY, with extension from Minehead
to Ilfracombe. _

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,600,0001., in 64,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
This railway will pass from the city of Exeter, through the
rich valley of the Exe, via Silverton and Bickleigh, direct to
Tiverton, one of the chief towns of this important district, and
formerly the principal market and manufacturing town of the west
of England. It will administer largely to the prosperity of this
rich and productive country, and will pass from Tiverton, by Ila.np-
ton, Dulverton, and Dunster, to the port of Minehead in the Bristol
Channel, opposite Landaff, Swansea, and Cardiff, from whence the
produce of the rich mines and qttarries of Merthyr Tydvil, Ponty-
pool, and Newport, in Wales, can be tansferred by the shortest
route to the English markets. From Minehead it will pass by
Perlock and Combe-Marten to the much-frequented watering-place
of Ilfracombe, where it unites with the Barnstaple and Ilfracombe
Railway. At Minehead it will also join the Bridgewater and Mine-
head Railway, to which it will serve as an important feeder, connect-
ing the towns on the north coast of Devon directly with the great
western trunk railroads passing from Loudon to the Land's End. It
will also form a very short and direct junction of the Bristol and
English Chann
A tame valuable and important line; 0 the country which it will
traversccould not bc. projected. A list of the Provisional Committee
will be publishei in a few days ; and in the.,mcantime further infor-
mation may be obtaitwd, and applications for shares may he made
to, the solicitors; Messrs. Elraslie and Preston, 47, Moorpte-street,
London, or at the CompaDy'd OffiGifo, No, 37, Gre51•454-ztreet, City,