The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-25 00:00:00

RAILWAY RETURNS.

RAILWAY TAAFFIC.-7 he following are the Total Receipts of Rail.
ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the
respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same
week in the previous year:—

•C
m
Week
Last VI 4
ending NAME OF RAILWAY. week. 6 •,.. 7,
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..5.
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X £
Oat. 18 Arbroath and Forfar •• .•••••.- .. •- .• 170 161
- Bristol and Birmingham . .... - ...... - -
17 Chester and Birkenbead .•• • • ...... .. 648 517
16 Dublin and Drogheda. • 785 642
21 Dublin and Kingstown ••••• • • • • ... • • 853 882
19 Dundee and Arbroath .••••••• • • • •• • • 324 299
18 Durham and Sunderland •• •• 810 908
18 Edinburgh and Glasgow . ... ..... ... 3,310 2,209
19 Eastern Counties and North Eastern • • 7,251 4,692
18 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ••• • • • 1,988 1,470
18 Glasgow and Greenock........ • •• •• 33 324
17 Grand Junction • • • • 15,377 13,837
18 Gravesend and Rochester.... -
- Great North of England ---•• • • • • - -
19 Great Western . •
- Hull and Selby - -
'--• Liverpool and Manchester .. ...... .. - -
18 London and Birmingham ......... - 22,635 16,983
19 London and Blackwall. ..... •••• • • • • 93 813
18 London and Brighton ............... 5,686 5,174
21 Londom and Croydon ......... • ... • . 1,627 1,59.5
- London and Greenwich ..... •.•• • • •• - --
18 Loudon and South Western . - ... •• • 7,266 6,869
19 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury ...... 995 939
17 Manchester and Birmingham........ 4,436 3,489
18 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc• • 7,192 5,962
18 Midland Counties ........... •••• • • • . 18,271 15,798
18 Newcastle and Darlington - .....• • . 2,886 1,169
18 Newcastle and Carlisle .......... •• • • 1,675 1,774
19 Newcastle and North 5hie1d5........ 457 376
17 North Union and Bolton and Preston 1,710 1,526
20 Paris, Corbeil, and Orleans • ......• • . 7,097 6,261
20 Paris and Rouen . •••.-•• • • • • • • 6,342 5,557
18 Preston and Wyre...... • • ... ..... .. 551 223
18 Sheffield and Manchester • ........... 1.196 868
18 South Eastern ••- - - .... ..
18 Taff Yale •••• • • • • ... -•••.•• •• • • •• 1,199 773
- Ulster . . • - 627
- Yarmouth and Norwich . ..... ...... - -
18 York and North Midland .

MIDLAND GR AND JUNCTION
RAILWAY.

A meeting of the Provisional Committee of this Com-
pany was held yesterday, at the London Coffee-house, at
eleven o'clock in the forenoon, which was very nume-
rously attended by gentlemen from several and different
parts of England, all of whom seemed to vie with each
other in their zeal in the project, and the proceedings
throughout were of a most animated character.

Wm. Melville Lomas, Esq , of Liverpool, was unani-
mously called to the chair; after which Wm. Burdett,
Esq., one of the solicitors o the Company, opened the
business by detailing the proceedings which had taken
place up to the present moment, in pursuance of the
carrying out of the undertaking from its first introduc-
tion to the public.
The usual routine resolutions, all of which were una-
nimously agreed to, were moved and seconded by R. A.
Riddell, Esq., John Holmes, Esq., William ICeily, Esq ,
New ton Crouch, Esq., J. Mannering, Esq., Capt. Twisle-
ton Graves, James Tracey, Esq., William Garrow, E q.,
J. R. Riddell, Esq , and Robert Causton, Esq.
William Purdett, Esq., Messrs. Elmslie and Preston,
and J. E. Bales, Esq., are appointed solicitors to this
Company • J. U. Rastrick, Esq , consulting engi-
leer ; and Oliver Byrne and A. B. Clayton, Esqs.,
acting engineers. On the motion of W. Darrow, Esq.,
seconded by Newton Crouch, Esq., N. J. Kempe, Esq.,
was proposed as secretary, on which the Chairman and
several other members of the Committee bore very flat-
tering testimony to the abilities and general eligibility of
Ar. Kempe. He was unanimously elected to the office,
Ind on the Chairman announcing his appointment, he
very appropriately expressed his acknowledgment.
For the information of the Company, the engineers
presented the following report

"To the Chairman of the Ward of Directors of the Midland

Grand Junction Railway.
"Gentlemen,—As a preliminary observation, we may state
that the progress of the surveys are such as to ensure beyond
all doubt, in ample time, a comp:lance with the requirements
of Parliament. _ _

" The terminus of the railway will be on the west of the
Great Western station at Reading, and will cross the Thames
on the bridge by thfa Henley-road, passing along a perfectly
Hat country, to within one mile and a half from, Henley,
whence it will proceed between the hills at Druids' Temple,
(the Thames at these points being about 150 feet broad).
The line will then go near or through Great Marlow, and
between High and West Wycombe, describing a segment of
a circle with a radius of four miles.

" From West, Wycombe to Aylesbury the line is direct,
and the country flat. To the distance of about five miles
beyond Aylesbury, the course is through a valley in a direct
line, or nearly a dead level.
" An opening, then presents itself between the Quaintnn
and Pitchcot-hills, where a slight cutting will be found
necessary to enter into a level and continuous valley, through
which it is proposed to lay the rail, cutting the base of Zion-
house-hill and Claydon-hills to the east of Padbury, from
thence passing the River Ouse to a proposed station within a
quarter of a mile of Buckingham. From Buckingham it is
proposed to pass through Whittlewood Forest in a straight
line, the country here being highly favourable. After
passing the forest, the country through which the line is pro.
posed to be carried is in some degree interspersed with hills,
the valleys of which, however, with the assistance of slight
cuttings, may be made to connect so as to form a continuous
and easy line, until it connects itself with the London and
Birmingham Railway at the station at Blisworth, where
there is at present a branch line, about four miles long, into
Northampton, which continues on to Peterborough. here
will be the terminus of the projected line of the Midland
Grand Junction, and we cannot conclude our report without
_ _

observing that we have seldom witnessed a railway present-
ing, from one cnd to the other, fewer difficulties in the con-
struction of it.

" We are, Gentlemen, L
yßour very obedient servants,
"OLIVERNI: 1
A. B. CLAI4-ON,-')- Acting Engineers."
A long and animated discussion ensued respecting the
constitution of the Committee of Management, when the
'ollowing gentlemen were unanimously chosen, viz.:—
William Bradley, Esq. John Holmes, Esq.
C. Byrom, Esq. W. Kempe, Esq
Wm. Byrom, Esq. J. C. K'ngston, Esq.
W. Caldwell, Esq. W. M. Lomas, Esq.
B. S. Fowler, 1.,,q. R. A. Riddell, Esq.
Thos. Wynne, Esq. H. Taylor, Esq.
W. Garrow, Esq. Richard Kelly, Esq.
Captain Twisleton Graves A. M. M•Moran, Esq.

JOHN HoLmEs, Esq., suggested that, in order to faci-
litate the business of the Company, two Vice-Chairmen

should be appointed to assist -the-Chairman, which was
agreed to.
After some conversation, the Committee resolved to
defer the appointment of the Chairman and the Vice-
Chairman for the south.
NV. Melville Lomas, Esq., was unanimously elected
Vice-Chairman of the Company, for the purpose of pre-
siding over the business of the northern districts.
After a vote of thanks to the Chairman, the proceed-
ings, which were characterised throughout by great
spirit and unanimity, then terminated.

THE EXETER,DORCHESI'ER, AND
WEYMOUTH JUNCTION COAST RAILWAY,
AND THE BRIDPORT AND EXETER RAIL-
WAY.
TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE DORSET COUNTY CHRONICLE, AND
SOMERSETSUIRE GAZETTE.
Sir,—ln troubling you with a few remarks on these two
projected lines of railway, I think I ought to state that lam
a large shareholder in the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey-
mouth, and that I am a considerable landowner in Dor-
set shire.
In Trewman's Exeter Flying Post, of Thursday last, is
contained a statement that the Bridport and Exeter line " is
intended to complete the only link required in the great line
of railway on the southern coast." If such is the intention
of the promoters of that scheme, it is quite clear that it can
never be realised, because the present termini of the Brid-
port and Exeter line is at those two places only, leaving a
country of twenty-two miles on the coast between Bridport
and Weymouth, and sixteen between Bridport and Dorches-
ter (the terminus of the Southampton coast line), and surely
this is a link which will require to be filled up, and a most
important one.
That the public may not be misled, I think it my duty,
Sir, through the columns of your widely-circulated paper, to
state that the termini of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey-
mouth Railway will be at Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey-
mouth ; and at the two latter very important towns, it will
join the coast line from Southampton, and therefore this line
will, in fact, " complete the only link required on the
southern coast."
It is not reasonable to expect that the promoters of any scheme
(whether a complete or a very incomplete one) will misrepre-
sent it, but to call a line of railway commencing at Bridport,
and terminating at Exeter, a coast line, or to say it is in-
tended to complete the line on the southern coast, whilst
leaving a distance of twenty miles and more between Brid-
port and Weymouth and Dorchester, is advancing what
very few persons will believe, although repeated in the
Exeter Flying Post, or any other flying post, every day in
the year. Facts are stubborn things, Sir, especially when
connected with projected railways.
I became a shareholder, Sir, in the Exeter, Dorchester, and
Weymouth Railway for several reasons :—First, because that
line will, in fact, complete the line of railways on the southern
coast by a junction with the Southampton line at Dorchester
and Weymouth; secondly, because in its route it will in-
clude the two important towns of Dorchester and Weymouth,
as well as Bridport, Charmouth, Lyme Colyton, Axmouth,
Sidmouth, Exmouth, and all other places on the coast to
Exeter; and thirdly, because I am strongly of opinion that
neither Government nor any Parliamentary Committee will be
induced to adopt or countenance a line springing up about
midway, and traversing part only of an integral line, to gratit'y
the inhabitants of a particular locality with whom it may
have originated, and whether I am right in this belief re-
mains to be seen as to the towns of Honiton and Axminster,
where the Bridport and Exeter proposes to run by two branch
lines. These places are far away from the coast, and will
shortly be reached by a direct line through those parts of
Dorset and Devon.
If you will find a corner for these remarks in your valuable
columns, your will greatly oblige, Sir,
A VORSETSHIRE LANDOWNER.
London, October 20, 1845.
P S. I ani just informed that the promoters of the Bridport
and Exeter contemplate a landslip at Bridport, whereby that
town may some morning be discovered very near Weymouth.

CHATHAM, OCT. 24.—The Meander, 46 gins, in
' dock, fitting for commission, has had the whole of the copper
taken off her bottom, and has been recaulked and eoppered,
The and is now ready for the pendant. Retributionste!toit
frigate, Captain S. Lushington, has got
her lower rigging
over the masts-heads, and is fast progressing in her equirre2,t
for sea. Several hands from the dock-yard have entered fur
her. Lieutenant Hall, and a party of Marine Artillery, con.
sisting of about thirteen men from Portsmouth, are expected
for this vessel, and also a party of Royal Marines, consisting
of about eighteen men, will join this frigate in the course of a.
few days. The Hague, 72 guns, and the F.urotns, 42, are
ordered to be fitted with screw-propellers for steam guard.
ships for the protection of the River Medway: the former
vessel is to be sent to the River Thames to befitted by con-
tract; the latter ship will be fitted at this yard, and will be
immediately taken in hand, and shipwrights are to be hired;
for that purpose.
THE NEW EXCHEQUER OFFlCES.—Yesterday the
new Exchequer offices, in Stone-buildings, were opened for
the first time since their erection. The masters of the Ex
chequer assembled, and some of the other officers transacted
business. The whole of the establishment will not be pod-
sessed of the various offices until Saturday.