The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-14 00:00:00

THE DIRECT LONDON AND HASTINGS
RAILWAY, HARBOUR, PIER, AND DOCK COMPANY,
with Branch Railways to the Town and Port of Rye, and from Tun-
bridge Wells to Lewes.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21.2 a. per Share.
Temporary Offices, New Adelphi Chambers, John-street, Adelphi,
Loudon.

PROVISIONAL CO3LIIITTEE.
John Jones, Esq., Kirkstall, near Lulls, director of the Isle of Ely,
Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Junction
Henry 011ard, Esq., Walsoken, near Wisbeach, director of the Isle of
Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Junction
John Whitwell, Esq., Wisbeach, director of the Huntimgdon and

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Wisbeach Union Railway
David Wheatcroft, Esq. (German, Wheatcroft, and Sons), Reiner
Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough, director of the Cambridge and Lin:

coin Extension
Joins Robson, Esq., Hetton, Durham, director of the Direct Western

and Isle of Ely Railway Company
Richard D,Emes, jun., Esq., Knaresborongh
James Shaw, Esq., Salford, Manchester, directs of the Direct Chu,

ter, and Direct Western Railway
Mathew Benjamin Robson, Esq., Sherburn Grange, Durham
Themas 'remind Dsarden, Esq., Rochdale, director of the Stafford•

shire Potteries and Liverpool Railway Company
Captain C. F. Parkinson, Ardwick, Mancheater, director of the Man.

chester and Southampton Railway Company
C. J. 5. Walker, Esq., J.P., Manchester, director of the Rugby and
Manchester, and Direct Chester and Manchester Railway Company
James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Salford, director of the York and Man-
chester, and Direct Western Railway Companies
Henry Farrington, Esq., York-place, Manchester, director of tke
Manchester, Wigan, and Southport Railway Company
James Clarkson, Esq., Cheethsuu-hill, Manchester
John Ileltord, Esq.,: Rusholme Hall, Manchester, director of Re-
rulngton's London and Manchester Railway
Rev. T. S. Mills, Littleborough, magistrate for the county of Lancaster
Thomas Hamilton, Esq., Rusholme Hall, Manchester, director of the

Leicester and Tamworth Railway
litdward Norris, Esq., Clalrville Manor, Manchester, director of the
Direct London and Manchester Railway Company
Samuel Phillips, Esq., Chester-terrace, Regent's Park, and Levant

House, St. lieien's:placa
John Upham, Esq., Clarges-street, Piccadilly, and Frederick-place,

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Clifton, Bristol
Daniel Ebbets, Esq., 16, Mincing-lane, London
James Parsons, Esq., Arwerlinide, Falmouth
George E. Upham, Esq., 3, Cambridge-street, Hyde Park
William Sprott Boyd, Esq., Cleveland-row, director of the Thames
Embankment, and Hull and Swansea Railway
Warren Stormes Hales, Esq., Gresham-street, director of the Oxford
and Worcester Extension
Joseph Clowes, Esq., managing director of the British and Foreign
Gas Meter Company
Thomas James Arnold, Esq., Sergeant's Inn, Fleet-street
Frederick Collingridge, Esq., Tbtirloe-square, Brompton
Charles Robert Collman, Esq., director of the South Midlands Railway
John Brocke Walbancke, Esq., director of the South Midlands
Major-General Brooks Parlby, C. 8., Rutland-gate, Hyde-park
William Slark, Esq., Crieklewood, Middlesex, director of the Guaran-

tee Society
Robert Richards, Esq., director of the Birmingham and London Ex.

tension Company
Alexander Davis, Esq., director of the Great Welsh Junction Railway
Major David Fitzgerald, Pall-mall, and Valentia, Ireland, director of
the Reading and Reigate, and Grand London and Dublin Approxi-

mation Railways
Frederick William Caldwell, Esq., boundary-house, St. John's-wood,
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director of the Liverpool, Ormskirk and Preston Railway
Charles C. Mactavish, Esq., 22, Rutland-gate, Kensington
Thomas Roberts Thelluson, Esq., 16, Hyde.park-street
Richard Clay, Esq., merchant and shipowner, Great Winchester-
street, director of the Barnsley and Goole Railway
John Downes, Esq., Bedford-place, Russell-square
John Stewart, Esq., Portman-square, director of the Thames Em-
bankment Company
eremer, Esq., Barnes, Surrey, and Mincing-lane, City,
director of the Northern and Southern, and the Grand Trunk
Railways
Richard Power, Esq., Long Orchard, and Eccleston-square
The O'More, Cloghan Castle, high sheriff of Roscommon, director of
the Grand London and Dublin Approximation Railway
Charles Frederick, Esq., director of the Manchester and S.uthamp-
tcn Railway
John Chancellor, Esq., Hyde-home, Battersea
James Troup, Esq., Hastings, director of the Direct Western Railway
Company
W. B. Chorley, Esq., Tremadoc, director of the Direct London and
Holyhead, and forth Dynllaen Railway, and Slate Quarries, Flee-
tiniog
William Pritchard, Esq., Doctors'-conmions
Richard Dewe,s, Esq., Knaresborough.

COMMITTER OF MANAGEMENT.
Major Fitzgerald James Troup, Esq.
William Creruer, Esq. Warren Stormea Hale, Esq.
Samuel Phillips, Esq. William Slarke, Esq.
Daniel Ebbetts, Esq. William Pritchard, Esq.
(With power to add to their number.)
CONSULTING ENGINEER.
ACTING ENGINEEIIS—W. Rider, Esq. • Mr. George Smith.
SouctTons—Nessrs. Potter and Colliuridge, Basiughall-street.

PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.
Messrs. Cameran and Bain, 18, Parliament-street
SECRETARY—Thomas A. Corlett, Esq.
BANKERS—London and.Westniinster Bank.

The formation of this Company has originated with gentlemen
having extensive local interests, for the purpose of efecting direct
railway communication between London and Hastings, using a por-
tion of the existing railways to complete the most direct line, as well
as assist in extending railway accommodation in the south-eastern
district, " and.will be the only direct line under local management
between London and Hastings." The line will be constructed for
working either with atmospheric power or locomotive steam-engines,
as may be proved to be most advantageous previous to the perma-
nent way being laid.
It is also proposed to make a line of railway from Tunbridge Wells
to Lewes and Brighton, by a junction with the coast line at Lewes,
and thus open lines of communientien with the populous towns in
North Kent and the southern coast.

It Is further contemplated to establish a branch to the town and
port of Rye, or to connect the Direct Hastings line with the Hastings
and Ashford coast line, for which an Act was obtained last session.
To the inhabitants of Tunbridge Wells, Maidstone, Rochester,
Chatham, Sheerness, Gravesend, &c., it will afford direct and speedy
access to Hastings, Brighton, Eastbourne, Worthing, and the neigh-
bottling seaports, as well as the eastern and western parts of Sussex.
To the inhabitants of Hastings and St. Leonard's the advantages
to be derived from the formation of this line will be evident. Bring-
ing the Metropolis within a two hours' journey, it must of necessity
greasily increase the already well-established reputation of those
ustly-celebrated watering-places, and bring to them an increased
number of visitors, who are now deterred from residing there by rea-
son of the absence of railway accommodation.
To the inhabitants of Lewes and Brighton the advantages are pro-
portionately great. Passing, as the proposed line will do, through a
great agricultural district, it will give increased facilities for the
transport of the produce of those districts.
In 1806 that eminent engineer, the late Mr. John Rennie, pro-
jected a harbour and dock, at Hastings; and subsequently, Mr.Cubitt,
C.E., and Mr. Brooks, C.E., surveyed the coast, and projected har-
bours in the same situation; there can be no doubt a considerable
portion of continental traffic must pass from Hastings to the opposite
ports on the French coast, the direct line between London and Paris
being through Mastings.
The existing trade and fishery of Hastings is ample to pay five per
cent. on the coast of the harbour, pier, and dock, and the natural
result of such accommodation opposite so many ports on the French
coast, must be that of threefold increase.
Strict attention to economy will be given in the expenditure of the
eapital, thereby guaranteeing to the public low charges for the con-
veyance of passengers and goods, and there can be no reasonable
doubt, that when the traffic is fairly developed, the full rate of 10 per
cent. will be paid, and a surplus left for branch lines, or a reduction
of fares. - _

In drawing attention to the merits of this undertaking it should be
observed that the formation of a trunk line between the metropolis
and Hastings, one of the most healthy and fashionable watering-places
in the kingdom, which is increasing in estimation the more its valua-
ble resources are developed, in addition to the formation of a harbour,
pier, and dock—the great improvement in steam navigation—the
establishment of railways between• Paris and the ports on the Freneh
coast opposite Hastings, " render this on. of the most important, as
well as direct lines of communication between London and Paris," as
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and the lines are under
servey, for the purpose of depositing plans, Sze., previous to the en-
suing session of Parliament.
The liability of the 'Shareholders will be limited to the amount of
their subscriptions, and in allotment of shares, a preference will be
given to landowners on the respective lines ; and power will be se-
cured in the Act to allow 4 per cent. on paid-up capital previous to
opening the lines.

Pretpectuses and plans of the line, with forms of application for
shares, may be had at the Folicitors, at the temporary offices of the
company, and at the following sharebrokers

London—J. Bates and Co
Liverpool—T. Coglan and Sods
Manchester—Cardwell and Sons, and Green and Lockwood
Bristol—Wreford, Nicholls, and Co.
Leeds—Thos. M. Lee, Hervey Miro!), and Bell and Ledger
Glasgow—:Aitken and Buchanan
Exeter—Thomas Sandford
Hull—Flint an -I Tootal
Plymouth—Hayward and Palmer
Birmingham—John Wright and J. Collis
Edinburgh—Robertson and Co., and ill‘Cullana and Co.
Huddersfield—Wilson and Hollawell
Worcester—Thomas 11. Wheeler
llalifax—James Hervey

• FORM OF APPLICATION.
T• the Provisional Committee of the Direct London and Hastings
Itailway,Harbour, Pier, and Dock Company.
Gentlemen,--I request that you will allot me shares of 901.
each in the above Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the
same, or any less number that may be alloted me, subject to the re-
gulations
Company, and to pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per share,
and to
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execute
the
necessar
deeds when required.
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necessary
deeds
in full
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Prof,ssion or business (if any), and address
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Address of referee . .
Date
Signature of applicant • • • .

LIVERPOOL AND DER B y DIRECT
RAILWAY, and LIVERPOOL an MANCHESTER,
GRAND JUNCTION, and MIDLAND COUNTIES RAIL-
WAYS JUNC

(Provibionally Registered pursuant to 9 and 8 Vict., cap. HO.)
Capital 1,400,0001., in 56,000 Shares of 25/. each.
Deposit 2/. 12s. 6d. per Share.
Lord George Lennox, 33, St. James's-street

The Count Bathyany, 5, Audley-square
The Hon. F. H. F. Berkeley, M.P., 6, Spring.gardens
The Hon. A. F. Berkeley, 6, Spring-gardens
The Hon. A. Capel,Eoping._

Wynn Ellis, Esq., M.P., 30, Cadogan-place, attd Ponsbourne-
ir:
mah t, &c., &e., Gloucester-place, Portman-
piaorrk. Hen eerrtafoi rdls vhri

square
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, 19, Clifford-street, Director of
the County Fire-office
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire, Di-
rector of the Chepstow and Forest of Dean Railway
Sir Jamrs Eglintcn Anderson, M.R.1.A., 11, New Burlington-
street
Admiral Ayscough, Prospect-house, Southampton, Director of the
South and Midlands Junction, and Cambridge and Lincoln Ex•
tension Railways
Colonel Wm. M..inwaring Sloane, Air-street, Piccadilly
Major Oliver Lyndham, K.H., 8, New-street, Dorset-square,
Chairman of the Gloucester and Aberystwith, and Director of
the Thames Valley Rai!wept
Major Taylor, Ratcliffe Hall, near Nottingham, Director •f the
West Midland, the Nottingham and Mansfield, and Hereford
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and Merther Tydvil Junction Railway
Major T. F. Croft, 15, Regeut.street, Chairman of the Metro.
politan Grand Junction, and Director of the Direct Manchester
Railway
Major William Snow, Old Cavendish.street, Cavendish square
Major Waller, Dpputy.Chairman of the South and Midlands, and
Director of the Thames Valley Railways
Richard Carpenter, Esq., Deputy. Lieutenant of the County of
Middlesex
Captain Seth N. Fisher, Director of the South and Midlands, the
London and Birmingham Extension, and Erewask Valley Rail-
ways
Captain Farrington, East Cowes, Isle of Wight
Captain Thomas Gould, Junior United Service Club

John Anderson, Esq., E.1.C.5., Director of the Oxford and Wor.

tester Extension and Chester Junction Railways
Atkinson, Esq., M.D., Director of the Midland, Barnsley, She.
geld, Leeds, and Bradford Railways
John layng Banks, Esq., Lansdown-road, Stockwell, Surrey, Director
of the Great Leeds and London Direct, and the Cheltenham, Oxford,
and Brighton Railways
John Barber, Dq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberyatwith

Rail WAY
Joint Bar:.,er, Esq., Leamington Priors, Warwickshire
Wm. Bardgett, Esq., Winchester-house, Broad.street, Director of
the Italian And Austrian, and the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford
Railways
Captain Baron, High Sheriff of Berks
Henry George Beantlsh, Esq., 16, Kensington-:quaro

Joseph liatofey, Esq., Stanhope-street, Park-place
Henry Weech Burgess, Esq., Temple-park, Hampstead, Director
of the Sheffield, Buxton, Leek Potteries, and Crewe Railways
J; Benson, Esq., Park-place Villa, Maida-hill, Director of the
Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway
John Blore, Esq., Tutbury, Director of the Cambridge and Lin.

coin Extension Railway
John Fillingham Bishop, Esq., Nottingham, Director of th• Wol.
♦erhampton, Birmingham, and Nottingham Railway
William Sprott Boyd, Esq.
Joseph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, Minories, Director of the Blackwall

Railway
J. B. Brown, Esq., Oxford-square, Hyde-park

Samuel Bryan, Esq., Northampton
William Cantrell, Esq., Worksworth, Director of the Ansbergate

and Nottingham Railway
John Castehdick, Esq.

John Chattertcn, Esq., Derby
Thomas Mortimer Cleobury, Esq., Acton, Middlesex, Director of

the Thames VaOcy Railway
James Clift, Eq., Bismmsbury-square, Director of the Manchester

and Rugby Railway
William Cramond, Esq., Derby
Dunbar T. Cother, Esq., Temple, Director of the Welsh Midland

Railway
Millis Coventry, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands Junc-
tion, Birmingham Extension, and Great Leeds and London

Direct Railways
Robert Chadwick, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby, Gains.
borough, and Great Grimsby Junction Railway
Cursharn, Esq., Bridge-house, 3lansneld, Notts, Director of
the Leeds and Mansfield, and the Nottingham, Gainsborough, Pon-

tefract, and 3fanstleld Railways
Arthur Agard Davenport, Esq., Director of the Thames Valley,
Great Leeds and London, Oxford and Worcester Extension,
and Worcester Junction Railways -
Francis Dacre, Esq., Stratford, Essex, Director of the Great

Leeds and London Railway
The Rev. John Dobie, M. A., Magistrate of the County of Lan.
caster
Edward Doubleday, Esq., F.L.S , Great Surrey-street, London,
Director of the Thames Valley Railway
John Dennis, Esq., Director of the West Midlands, the Thames
Valley. and the Erewash Valley Railways
Joel Edens, Esq., Northampton, Director of the Sheffield, NOt.
tingham, and London, and the Midland and Eastern Counties
Railways
Richard Edensor, Esq., Road-Meadow, Ashbourne
Francis Ewart, Esq., Temple, Director of the Great Leeds and
London Direct Railway
George Evans, Esq., Milhury-terrace, Regentl-Park, Director of
the Direct London and Exeter Railway
John Charles Fernihough, Rainey-street, Liverpool, Director of
the Sheffi Id and Potteries, and the Grand Junction Rail Ways
Samuel Wright Fearne, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby, Gains-
borough, and Great Grimsby Junction, and the West Midland

Railways
Benjamin Franklin, Esq., 5, Harley-street, Cavendish .square, Di-
rector of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Rail-

way
Francis Gamble, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Grand Union
and Nottingham and Gainsborough Railways
George Gamble, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Grand Union

and Nottingham and Gainsborough Railways
William Gibson, Esq., Park-row, Nottingham, Director of the Grand

Union Railway
Thomas Gee, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Grand Union

Railway
John Grant, Eq., Northampton, Director of the Warwick and
Worcester Railway
Henry Glynn, Esq., Garden-court, Temple
Henry Francis Gisborne, Esq., Derby, Director of the South Star.fordshire Junction, the Leicester and Tainworth, and the Tring
Reading, and Basingstoke Railways
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C. E.
uGcreesetenr, Esq.,
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Richard Greenhalgh, Esq., Car Bank, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Edward (Alison, Esq., Dublin, Director of the Grand Trunk Itailway
Robert Hancorne, Esq., Euston.square, Director of the Metro-
politan Junction Railway
Francis Pike Hewitt, Esq., Nottingham
Edward Anthony Holden, Esq., Aston-hall, Derbyshire, Magic.

trate of the County
William Drury Holden,_Esq., Locko.park, near Derby, and Green.

rand F.R.S., Derby, Director of the
jliaemDsntererseYrell3ityhjlgGdra:aitanevn:e:nEo°clrrgo:UqCg:hhtelpsatne.d Great Grimsby Junction, and Mac-
clesfield and Lichfield Railways
F. J. Hall, Esq., Torrington.square, London, and the Grange, Al.freton, Director of the Bideford and Tavistock and the Eyewash

Valley Railways
Thomas Hackett, Esq., Derby, Director of the Great Manchester
and Southampton, and the Warwick, Coventry, and Nottingham

Esq., Essex-house, Mile-end-road, Director of
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Graften-street, Fitaroy-square, Director
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T. Piers Healy, Etc' , Temple, Managing Director of the Direct
London and Exeter, and the Cheltenham and Brighton Rail.
a,Erg., R
of the Tring, Reading,
ways
George Price Hill, Esq., Gowanbrre-house, Hampstead, Director
of the Thames Valley and Erewash Valley Extension Railways
Isaac Holmes, Esq., Liverpool
James Hopkins, Esq., Bedford-square, Deputy-Chairman of the
Exeter and Weymouth, and Director of the Warwick and Wor.

Marton-house, near Skipton,
tester Railway
Samuel Hurst, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the West Midland
Liveßailway -
J.l'., Director of the Lancashire and North Yorkshire, the
Manchester and Carlisle Direct, and the London and Liverpool
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William Thomas Jackson, Esq., Tadcaster, Director of the Liver-
pool and Leeds, the East and West Yorkshire, and the Keighley,
Huddersfield, and Halifax Railways
Francis Jessup, Eaq., Alderman of Derby, Director of the Derby,
Gainsborougb, and Great Grimsby Junction Railway
Mr. Alderman Kelly, Director of the London and Birmingham
Extension, the West Midland, and the Erewash Valley Exten-
sion Railways
James Lamb, Esq., i 5, Hyde-park. square
James Lassettcr, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railway

Richard Lassetter. Esq , Uttoxeter, Director of the Derb) shire,
Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railway

W. Margetson,Eaq., Streatham

John Molladay, Esq., Marble-hall, Warwick, Director of the
London and Birmingham Extension, the Exeter and Weymouth,

and Erewash Valley Railways
Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands, the
London and Birmingham Extension, and the Great Leeds and
London Direct Railways
William Eaton Mousley, Esq., Derby, Director of the Teen and

Dove Valley Railway
T. C. Newton, Esq., Bruton- street, Berkeley-square, Director of

the Isle of Man Railway
David William Nell, Esq., Leeds
B. Oliveira, Esq., F. R.S , Upper Hyde-park-gardens, Director of
the Thames Valley and Erewash Valley Extension Railways
Thomas Paul, Esq., Director of the Direct London and Exeter

Railway
Samuel Parsons,Esq., Sackville.street, Piccadilly
W. Pastow, Esq., Surrey-place, Director of the Oxford and Wor-
cester Extension and Chester Junction Railway
R. Joseph Parsons, Esq., Hightield-house, Mansfield
Lawrence John Parsons, Esq., St. John's College, Cambridge
George R. Peppercorns, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex, Director of the

Chatham and Portsmouth Railway
R. B. Phillipson, Esq., Director of the Rugby, Leamington, and

Warwick Railway
R. Cowley Polhill, Esq., Brompten, Director of the Warwick and
Worcester and Thames Valley Railways
Samuel Pocock, Esq., Bloornsbury.square, Director of the Shef-

field and Macclesfield Railway
Rees Price, Esq., Tyne•hall, Ilford, Essex, Director of the
Eastern and Northern Counties Junction Railways, &c.
R. A. Riddell, Esq., Director of the Metropolitan Junction

Railway
H. B. Richardson, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and

Basingstoke Railway Company
Thomas L. Robinson, Esq. Banker, Croydon, Director cf the

South London Railway
Robert Romi,ey Rea, Esq., Waterford, Director of the Weymouth

and Dorchester Railway
Robert Richard; Esq., Temple, Director of the South and Mid.

lands Railway.
John Minnie, Esq.
Thomas Richardson, Esq., Derby, Director of the Staffordshire and
North Midland Junction Railway, Ste-
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Fortthan-square
Francis Roose, Esq., Upper Montague-street, Montague-square
John Saunders, Esq., Magistrate for the Borough of Derby, Direc-
tor of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Rail-

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131 4, Dorset.piaee, Dorset square, Director of
the Oxford and Worcester Extension and the Erewash Valley
W. Shaw, Esq., Director of the Warwick and Worcester and Ere.

wash Valley Railways
George Thomas Smith, Esq., Oakham, Director of the Peterbo.

rough, Wisbeach, and Lynn Railway
William Smith, Eq., Clipton, near Mhbourne, DirectOt of the
Derby, Stafford, and Worcester Railway
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