The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-29 00:00:00

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY COMPANY.

The Directors of the Eastern Counties Railway Company, observ-
ing that, in the Advertisements of the Chelmsford and Bury Railway
Company, it Is stated that their particular line is supported and
sanctioned by the Eastern Counties Railway Company, have to an-
nounce that no such support or sanction has been given.
The Company's engineer, Mr. Robert Stephenson, has been in-
structed to examine the entire district, and to advise upon the line
of railway to be constructed through it, which the Eastern Counties
Railway Company must sanction as most conducive to public inte-
rest. By order of the Board,
A BULKELEY, Secretary.
Offices, London Terminus, Aug, 12.1045.

JAMAICA SOUTHERN, EASTERN, AND
NORTHERN RAILWAY,
FROM KINGSTON TO MONTEGO DAY.
()riles—No. 43, Moorgate-street.
Capital 1,500,0001., in 30,000 Shares, of SOL each.
Deposit 2/. per share.
A reservation of Shares for the Proprietary and others interested
in the Island.
The names of a most influential Board of Directors will be adver-
tised in the course of a few days.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street.
BANKERS.
Sir Claude Scott, Bart., and Co., 1, Cavendish-square.
Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., 29, Clement's-lane

The great difficulty, delay, and expense attending the transit of
passengers and goods from Kingston to Mentego Bay and the inter-
mediate ports, either by sea or land, is well known to all persons
conversant with the Island of Jamaica.

The average passage by steamer between Montego Bay and King.
ston occupies forty-four hours, and the costs, including expenses on
the route, amount to nearly 5/. each passenger, while the quickest
journey by land occupies three days, and the expenses, including horse
hire, reach nearly 201. By the railway the whole line will be traversed
in eight hours, at an expense not exceeding an average of 30s. per
passenger.

The difference in the freights between the Northern and Southern
sides of the island and England is such, that independently of the
saving of time, this railway will enable proprietors on the northern
side, after payment of the costs of transit, to ship their produce at
much less expense than at present, and will afford them the advan-
tage of shipping at all times from the very excellent harbour of
Kingston, instead of being confined, as they now are, to the exposed
ports of the east and north of the island.

The line will commence at a spacious quay, to be constructed at
Kingston Harbour, with a depth of water sufficient for vessels of the
largest tonnage employed in the export trade of the island ; at or
near to which point it is proposed to form a junction with the King-
ston and Spanish Town Railway, and proceed thence by or near Rock
Fort, Yallahs, Morant Town, Port Morant, Plantain Garden, Man-
chioneal Harbour, Port Antonio, Buff Bay, Annotto Bay, Port
Maria, St. Ann's, Duncan, Martha Brae, and terminate at or near
Montego Bay. By these means a line of intercommunication will
be formed between the most important and populous places, and
facility offered for carriage of the produce of the most productive por-
tion of the island.

Through the southern portion of the line, the physical features are
gentle elevations, almost parallel to the principal range of mountains
which run east and west, nearly the length of the island : the eastern
portion, from Port Morant to Plantain Garden, is almost level ; while
the northern runs through an exceedingly rich country, rising into
hills separate from each other by spacious vales. The whole of the
country traversed by the line abounds in the staple articles of sugar,
coffee, rum, molasses, ginger, pimento, and other spices, dye woods,
drugs, &c.: and as more than one-third of the land is still uncultivated,

the production of these articles will, by the increased facility for traffic,
be greatly increased ; and cotton, indigo, cocoa, &c., and dye stuffs, at
present unimported, will again be brought into extensive cultivation.
Timber of great variety abounds along the line ;—besides the pimento
tree, which flourishes spontaneously, there are mahogany, lignum
vita, ebony, Spanish elm, fine cedar, and other trees of enormous
bulk. The line will also bring largely into use the valuable palmetto,
and various other woods for agricultural and household purposes, and
cabinet works.

The mineral wealth of the country on the line Is very considerable
lead ore is extremely rich and heavily impregnated with silver;
whilst every variety of copper ore is found in abundance. Carbonate
of lime, valuable as manure, &c. of which Long Mountain is corn-
posed, will form a considerable item in the tables of traffic.

The peculiarly favourable circumstances attending the construc-
tion of this railway, render it highlyprobable, that a considerable por-
tion of the capital demanded will not be required, as every mate-
rial* necessary for its formation is to be found on the line, and should
the atmospheric principle of propulsion be adopted, the necessity for
cuttings and embankments will be generally superseded.
A gratuitous grant of the unappropriated land required for the
line, and the free use of all the timber, stone, &c. necessary for its
construction, will, it is expected, be ceded by the Legislative Assem-
bly ;—the mineral wealth which may be developed by the construc-
tion of the line, will accompany the grants of the land, and may be
leased to capitalists for the benefit of the shareholders.
Of the various imports, and the internal traffic, a satisfactory
estimate can scarcely be given. It will be sufficient to state, that
coals, fish, lime and salt, empty puncheons, shingles, bricks, hoops,
lead, timber, provisions, cattle, flour, tobacco, hardwares, and ma-
nufactures generally, form important sources of profit.
The working expenses of the railway will require but a moderate
per centage, and from all the circumstances already stated, and care-
ful inquiries into the traffic, there can be no doubt that this line of
railway will yield a very remunerative return upon the capital re-
quired.
The Committee propose to make provision in the Local Act for
the payment of 4% per cent. interest upon the amount paid upon
the shares from the passing of the Bill until the opening of the line.
Application for Shares in the annexed Form may be made to the
Provisional Committee, at the Offices of the Company, 43, Moor-
gate-street; and Messrs. Elmslle and Preston, solicitors, 47, Moor-
gate-street, London :
To the Provisional Committee of the Jamaica Southern, Eastern, and

Northern Railway.

Gentlemen, —I request that you will allot to me Shares of
501. each in this undertaking, and I undertake to pay the Deposit of
21. per Share upon the number allotted to me, and to sign such Deeds
as may be necessary, in furtherance thereof, when required.
I an, gentlemen, your obedient servant,

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* Wood is prepared nearly as hard as iron, and in that climate is
more durable.

JAMAICA SOUTHERN, EASTERN, AND
NORTHERN RAILWAY.
gins public attention was drawn to this Railway, several compe-
titors. have arisen for a Northern portion of the Line, viz.—that be-
tween Port Maria and Montego Bay; these sprung up during the
present ,month, in the order in which their names are here given :
The North Midland (second) Extension ; the Western Jamaica
Connecting Company, the promoters of which, changing its line from
the'South to the North of the Island, and dropping the word in
italics, calls itself the Western Jamaica ; and, lastly, the North
Jamaica. As none of these schemes, however, pretend to a King-
ston terminus, except through the problematical tunnel, or rather,
longitudinal mine, of the North Midland's first extension, under the
Blue Mount yin Range, they cannot be considered prejudicial to the
comprehensive completeness of the Southern, Eastern, and Northern
Line ; and as the same will efficiently supply all the wants of the
country through which it passes, no real competition need be appre-
hended from the pretensions of those who, seemingly without consi-
deration, venture so late into a field already occupied. It will be
borne in mind, too, that this line, as a whole, can be worked in a
better manlier, that is, snore usefully and economically under the
management of one company, than if it were cut up into several
petty parts, under the direction ofindividual heads.
And be it remembered that the usefulness or rather uselessness of
the above lines competing with this Company, consists merely in
connecting one bad port on the northern coast, with another on the
same side of the Island ; and that the freights from either of these
ports.will still be considerably higher than those at present charged
from the Southern, Eastern, and Northern's terminal port of King-
ston ; and it is calculated that when this line shall be in operation, a
fUrther redaction will be effected, making a diminution in carriage
and freights together of nearly 50 par cent.
, liCorgate-street, 25th August, 1845.

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