The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-27 00:00:00

CHEPSTOW, FOREST OF DEAN, AND
lJ GLOUCESTER JUNCTION RAILWAY,
Through the Forest of Dean (with Branches to the Collieries, Iron
Works, and River Severn). to join the Gloucester and Birmingham,
Gloucester and Bristol, intended Cheltenham, Oxford, and London
direct, and Gloucester and Aberystwith Railways.
(Registered Provisionally, according to the Act of 7 and 8 Victoria,
Chap. 110.)
Capital 600,0001., in 30.000 shares, of 201. each.
Deposit 21.2 s per Share.
No Shareholder to be liable beyond the amount of his Shares.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
W. P. Andrew, Esq., Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square, Director
of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway
Joseph Bailey, Esq., M.P., Glanusk Park, Breconshire
W. F. Beadon, Esq., Director of the Essex and Suffolk Railway
James Beech, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-piace, London, Director of the

Leicester and Tamworth Railway 4
C.lt.Cleman, Esq., Irongate Wharf, Director of the South Mid-

land , Railway.
Crawshay, Esq., Carfartha, Glamorganshl re, and CaTer-

sham Park, Berishire-
Edmund Francis Dayrell, Esq., of Liffingstone Dayrell, High Sheriff
of Buckinghamshire, and Director of the Buckinghamshire
Railway
Joseph Davis, Esq., Chepstow, merchant
W. S. Fitzwilliam, Esq„ Broad-street, London, merchant, Director

of the South Midland Railway
Edward Hall, Esq., Director of the South Midland and Northampton

and Cheltenham Railways
William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., Alderman, Chairman of the
Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, Director of the London
and Greenwich Railway Company
Sir W. B. Johnston, Bart, Hilton, Aberdeenshire
George Lawton, Esq., Ditchleys, Essex, Director of the South Mid-

land Railway -
William Strahan, Esq., Banker, Fleet-street, London
Sir William Twysden, Bart.
Major White, 105, Pall Mall, Director of the Northampton, Banbury,

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and Cheltenham Railway
John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, Tunbridge, Kent, Director of

Leicester and Bedford Railway
Sir William Bacon Johnson, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire
Captain James P. Macdouhall, Fir Grove, North Brixton
• With power to add to their number.
ENGINEER—WiIIiam Gravatt Esq , F.R.S.
LONDON BANKERS.

Messrs. Strahan, Paul, and Co., Strand ; and Messrs. Glyn and Co.

- PROVINCIAL BANKERS.
Messrs. Bailey, Greatrex, and Co., Monmouth and Abergavenny
The West of England and South Wales Banking Company and

Branches
Messrs. Bromage and Snead, Chepstow
The Monmouth and Glamorgan Banking Company and Branches
Messrs. Williams and Sons, Newport
The Gloucestershire Banking Company and Branches
The County of Gloucester Banking Company and Branches
The National Provincial Banking Company and Branches
STANDING COUNSEL—WiIIiam Hughes Hughes, Esq., Temple, London
SOLICITOR—Mr. W. T. H. Phelps, Newport, Monmouthshire
LONDON AGENTS—Messrs. a Beckett, Son, and Sympson, 7, Golden-

square
LOCAL AGENT'S..
Chepstow—Messrs. Baldwin and Morgan
Gloucester—Messrs. Ellis, Elliott, and Swann, solicitors
SECRETARY-Wm. Protheroe, Esq., 10, Old Jewry-chambers,London

This railway is intended to connect the South Wales Railway at
Chepstow with Gloucester, Cheltenham, and Birmingham, with the
projected Cheltenham, Oxford (and London direct), Gloucester, and
Aberystwith, Northampton and Cheltenham, and Manchester and
Southampton Railways ; thus forming an uninterrupted line of com-
munication from the South of Ireland, through Flshgard and Milford
in Pembrokeshire, to Gloucester, Cheltenham, Oxford, and London
direct, Southampton, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, and the
North of England, by a less circuitous route than can be effected by
any of the projected plans for crossing the Severn below Gloucester,
thereby avoiding the difficulties which must necessarily be encoun-
tered in such an undertaking, and affording the important towns and
districts upon the intended lines that accommodation which their im-
portance entitles them to.
The whole of the traffic upon the South Wales line passing to the
Eastward of Chepstow will be carried on this line ; added to which
the coal and mineral traffic from the Forest of Dean (which, from
the Eastern side to Gloucester, has been estimated upon authentic
documents and information, at upwards of 300,000 tons ; and from
the Western or Lydney and Chepstow side the same amount of traffic
may safely be calculated upon), amounting to 600,000 tons per an-
num (the produce of the Forest alone), must be carried upon the line,
independent of the local passenger traffic and an extended trade in
the produce of the Forest, which will necessarily follow the facilities
offered by the proposed railroad.
The revenue from this source alone will give a very handsome di-
vidend upon the capital to be expended, which is expected will not
exceed throe-fourths of the intended capital.
It is proposed to make branches to the Collieries and Iron Works
in the Forest, to the present or any new Ports which may suggest
themselves on the Severn; and to make the River Wye, at Chep-
stow,
attendant tofupoanyn size
navigation
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of the Severn, consequent upon the rocks and shifting sands in that
river.
It is intended to build a bridge across the Severn at Gloucester,
which will in no way obstruct the navigation; and the proposed
Gloucester and Aberystwith Company will no doubt be ready to join
this Company in the expense, if they obtain their Act. The cost of
the intended line from Chepstow to Gloucester, including the bridge
at Gloucester, and the one over the River Wye, at Chepstow, to join
the South Wales, with branches to the Collieries, Iron Works, and
the Severn, is not expected to exceed 450,0001., but it is intended to
provide a capital of 600,0001. to meet any contingencies which may
arise.

A reference to the map will show the self-evident importance of
this line as essential to the perfecting the great project of the South
Wales Railway Company (who have obtained their Act of Parlia-
ment for a railroad from Fishguard and Milford Haven to Chepstow)
n connecting it with the principal railways of the kingdonl, at
Gloucester, and making it the direct road to Lcndon, via Cheltenham
and Oxford, for effecting which projects are now before the public
with most influential support. The line is twenty-six miles in
length, has no engineering difficulties; the gradients and curves are
extremely good, and works light.

It may with very great confidence be asserted, that there is
scarcely a short line of railroad in the kingdom which offers
greater advantages to the Shareholders than the present. Pro-
vis'on will be made in the Act of Parliament which will be applied
for in the next Session to limit the liability of the Shareholder
to the amount of his Shares, and to allow four per cent. on the
calls.

Applications for Shares to be made to the Solicitors, or to
Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Threadneedle street, and Messrs.
Backhouse and Co., No. 4, Angel Court, Throgmorton-street, Lon-
don ; Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham ; Messrs. Tate
and Nash, Bristol ; Mr. Thomas Evans, Bath ; Messrs. Bradley,
Ford, and Parker, Manchester; Messrs. H. Davies and Co., Dale-
street, Liverpool ; Messrs. Chantrell and Boys, Leeds ; Messrs. Wil-
kinson and Earle, Hull i and Nem. Labertouche and Stafford,
Dublin.

DIRECT LONDON
COMPANY.
AND EXETER RAIL-
WAYWith extension hereafter to Falmouth and Penzance, through
Hammersmith, Turnham-green, Brentford, Isleworth, Hounslow,
Staines, Egham, Bagshot, Ascot, Bracknell, Benneld, Wokingbam
Kingsciere, Andover, Salisbury, Shaftesbury, Sherbourne, Yeovil,
Crewkcrne, Axminster (with branch to Cranboume, Blandford, Dor-
chester, Bridport, Axminster), and Honiton, to Exeter.
Capital, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares, of 251. each.
Deposit 1/. 7s. R.
--• per Share.
With power to raise 1",0001, more, if necessary
uant to 7 and 8 Vie., C. 110.)
OFFICES, No. 52, REGENT-STREET, (Provisionally Registered, pursuant
, WATERLOO-PLACE,
Adjoining the County ire Office.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Mexborough, Dover-street, Piccadilly,
Director of the Direct London and Manchester Railway.
The Right Hon. Viscount Sidmouth TT
. PPer Ottery, Devon
Lord Henry Loftus, Belgrave-square
Sir Henry Hervey Bruce, Bart., Montague-square, and Down-hill,
Londonderry
Sir George Rich, 43, Lowndes-street, Eelgrave-square
J. R. Phillimore, Esq., LL.D., 42, cu.—
-ses-street, Chancellor of Salis-
bury
Jno. David Chambers, Esq., Recorder of Salisbury
gaPynn, 19, Clifford-street
TBirileHdoienr.-en
A.
cearpaell,Sir HenryHTheyednerny
House,
Essex,
and Park-street, Grosve-
nor-square
an-square
G.
aTrhleosm\pYsiollina
jmacSopbi,ceErsq, E,sßq.i,anakdfopredrtin
, Magistrate, and Deputy Lieu-
tenant for Dorset
W. F. A. Delane, Esq., Bracknell
H. H. Hungerford, Esq.,
Dover-street, Piccadilly, Director Lot the Leicester and Bedford
Dingley Park, Market Harborough, and
Railway
Francis Dawson, Esq., Grosvenor-street
ROrchard, Tipperary .. 73, Eccleston-square, and Long-
Lieutenant-Colonel Franciseuiatrenant.coionaPopw.e W.
Pedlar,Mutley House, Devon
Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlborough-place,
Di-
rector of Great Eastern and Western, and Manchester and Birken-
head Continuation Company
The Hen. Henry Savile, Dover-street
o,and Billow
House, A. W. Hillary, Esq., 66, Cadogan-place
Essex
W. L. Pope, Esq., Woodford, St. John's Wood, ,
Director of the Oxford, South-
ampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth
George Evans, Esq., Milbury-terrace, Regent's park
Francis Lloyd, Esq., Temple, Lonci Companyn
Bir-
mingham
William Thomas Davies Lhoyd, Esq., Anglesey
John Lyall, Esq., Chelsea
E. S. Blundell, Esq., 18, Lower Seymour-street
John Penhall, Esq., Springfield, Wandsworth-road
John Allen, Esq., Gloucester-terrace, Kensington,
William Birmingham Costello, Esq., M.D., Wyke House, Brentford
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
John Allen, Esq., Gloucester-terrace, Kensington
Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlborough-place,
St. John's Wood, Di-
rector of Great Eastern and Western, and Manchester and Birken-
head Continuation Company
George Evans, Esq., Milbury-terrace, Regent's Park
A. W. Hillary, Esq., 66,
Caelogan-Place
W. L. Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex, Director of the Oxford, South-
ampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Company
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pl 9, ynn, Cliff
ord-street, Director in
the County Fire Office
Charles William Spicer, Esq., 28, Portman-square
H. H. Hungerford, Esq., Dingley Park, Market Harborough, Director
of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
(With limited power to add to their number.)
II
ENGINEER—JeIin Braithwaite, Esq., 4, Trafalgar-square, Engineer
of the Eastern Counties Railway
BABANKERS—Messrs. Currie and Co.' 29' Cornhill
SOLICITOR—D. E. Colombine, Esq., 8, Carlton
Chambers, Regent-street
The applications for Shares being so numerous, the Committee do
not think it necessary to daily advertise the full Prospectus, but they
desire to state that they intend to convey heavy
goods, such as iron,
coals, &c., from place to place, for which separate trains will be al-
lotted.
Prospectuses and plans of the line, with f applications for
forms 0
shares, may be had at the offices of the company as above,
and of the
following stock and sharebrokers—viz,
Messrs. Sutton, Gribbla, and Sutton, Royal Exchange, London, also
John Langworthy, Exeter ; J. B. Munday, Bath ; Potter and Co.,
and Ridsdalo and Co., Leeds : Win. Moore and Co., Huddersfield ;
Eyre and Shaw, Derby ; Sibary and Simpson, Hull; Grayston and
Earle, York; Henry Billingliam, Wakefield; Hopwood and Palmer,
Plymouth ; Hall, Brothers and Co., Cheltenham ; w
W. Dickinson,
Newcastle-on-Tyne ; IY. H. Collis, Birmingham ;
Myers and Birkbeck,
Wm. Marshall, and Cardwell and Sons, Manchester; Muurd and
Co„ Edinburgh ; John R. Mann and Son, Norwich; A. W. Moffatt,
Ednburgh ; Luke Arnold, Bristol ; John Thomas Holland, Coventry;
Nottingham; and Thomas Crewd Watson, and Thomas Gra y,sona, Liverpool. Glsgow ; N
--°orth and Shepperly,
Liverpool
The following gentlemen are among those appointed as Local
Agents, in furtherance of the interests of the company, from whom
shares may also be
prospectuses and applications fer . obtained :
Shernourn
Egham- Thomas Harvey, Esq. e and Yeovil—George
Bagshot—John Mears, Esq. Haecock,Esq
--
Bracknell—Charles Cave, Esq. Crewkerne—Ttolet.Lowman E
, &I.
BI ndford
Wokingham—Franeis Soames, Esq. George Moooe, Esq.
a—
Salisbury—Henry Cooper, Esq. and_.,Dorchester— Gee, Cull,jun., Esq.
Brlaport
Messrs. Foot and Radcliffe HenryS. H. Gummer, Esq.
Bruton—Dyne and Son and H B. Fox, Esq.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Direct London and Exeter

,ainll.
joetrtmake
tehetonecessary legal docu-
ments, e to accept the same,
Railway Company
me, subject to the
shares, of
2 SGI
. eenatcl each, in the abovere
ments, and to pay, when required, the depesit thereof of 1/. 7s. 6d.
request s
Railway, that yo
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