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

FLY and BURY ST. EDMUNDS RAILWAY.
A Company is in the course of formation for the construction
or a Railway &sin the city of Ely to the town of Bury St. Edmunds.
The line will cnnmence by a Junction at Ely with the Eastern
Counties, Lynn and Ely, and Ely and klutitingdon Radways, and will
terminate at Bury by a junction with the Ipswich and Bury Railway.
Its object is to preserre the mercantile connexion which has for
generations subsisted between the county of Suffolk, the town of Bury,
and the port of Lynn, and to adord Ipswich, Colchester, and Bury,
and all that portion of the kingdom a direct communication with the
manufacturing districts.

The distance from Bury, and consequently from all places eastward
of that town to Peterborough; the point at which so many lines pass-
ing from the south and east to the north and north-west converge,
will by the Ely and Bury line be ten miles shorter than the route to
that city by way of Cambridge:
A detailed Prospectus will be issued immediately.
ItOOPER, BIM.; 11, and INGIt A M,
68, Lincoln's Inn-fields.

OXFORD, WORCESTER, and WOLVER-
HAMPTON RAILWAY.

The Royal Assent having been given to the Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhatnpton Railway Bill, holders of Scrip in that undertaking
are required to forward the same on or before the 20th September
next, to the Company's offices at Worcester, or at 449, West Strand,
London, with a Letter (the form of which may be obtained on appli-
cation at either office), requesting to be registered for their respective
shares. A'receipt will be given for the scrip, which receipt may he
exchanged for sealed certificates, on or after the 30th September next.

Shares, in respect of which no application fur registry shall be made
as above, will be registered in the names of the original subscribers,
after which they can only be passed by formal transfer, agreeably to
the Act, Bth Victoria, cap. 16
Aug. 16, 1845

A. T. SMITH, Secretary,

ESSEX and SUFFOLK RAILWAY COM-
PANY.

Registered Provisionally. .
From the Norwich and Brandon Railway at Thetford, by Bury St.
Edmund's, Layenhatn, Milford, Sudbury, Halstead and Braintree, to
the Eastern Counties Line at Chelmsford, and thence to the Port of
Maidon, with a branch to Cavendish and Clar.

Offices, 24, Illoergate-street, London, and Sudbury, Suffolk.
Capital, 1,000,0001. in Shares of 25/. each.
The Provisional Directors beg to inform the Shareholders, that
negotiations are In progress for a satisfactory arrangement with the
Eastern Counties and Norwich and Brandon Railway Companies,
the full particulars of which will shortly be submitted for their con-
sideration.

In the meantime, ppplications for Shares may be made to the
Company's offices, 24, Moorgate-street, or the solicitors, 1, Gray's
Initsquare,or Sudbury ; and to the following sharebrokers:—

_ . .
Messrs. Hichens and Harrison, 18, Threadneedle-street, London;
Mr. J. Jameson, Leeds ; Mr. J. °reeves, Liverpool ; Messrs. Card.•
well and Sons, Manchester; Messrs. Henry Beaumont and Co.,
Exeter ; Mr. D. 'Pane, Glasgow ; Messrs. Drury and Richardson,
.Newcastle-upon.. Tyne ; Messrs. E. M'Callum and Co., Edinburgh ;
Mr. John Wright, Birmingham ; Messrs. Collinson and Flint, Hull. •
Shareholders in the Eastern Counties, Northern and Eastern, and
Norwich and Brandon Railways, anti original subscribers to the
Norwich Direct Railway, will please to notify the same in their ap-
plications.
A preference will be given to them, as far as possible, in the allot-
ment. , • • By order,

R. MAPLETOIT, Secretary,

E,STERY COUNTIES RAILWAY COMPANY.

The Directors of the Eastera.Countlea 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 giver.
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,
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A BIJLKELEY; Seeretary.
Offices, London Termlnns, Aug. 12, 1845.

AMAICA, SOUTIIFAN,
Ftttni—KlisiliNTON TO MONTE(IO BAT.
OFFICE—No. 43, Moorgate-street.
Capital 1,500,000/., in 30,000 Shares, of 301. each.
Deposit 21. per share. •
A reservation of Shares for the Proprietary and others interested
In the Island.
The names of a most influential Board of Directors be adver-
tised in the course of a few days. .
SolactToas—Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-Street.
. ' BANEEII9:
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 Montego Ray and the.inter-
mediate, ports, either by sea or land, is- well known to all persons
conversant with the !Maud 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 WI. 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 aad north of the island.
The line will commence at a spacious quay, to be constructed at
Kingston Harbour, with a depth of water stifficient 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 thenceby or near Rock
Fort, Yallahs, Mot-ant Town, Port Morant, Plantain Garden, ran-
chioneal Harbour, Port Antonio, Buff Bay, Annotto Bay, Port
Maria, St. Ann's, Duncan, Martha Brac, 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 oftered 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 front each other by spacious vales. The whole of the
country traversed by tke 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 alone the line ;—besides the pimento
tree, which flourishes spontaneously, there are mahogany, liguam
vitae, ebony, Spanish elm, line 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 wenithof the country on the line is very considerable
lead ore is extremely rich and heavily impregnated with sliver;
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 highly probable, that a considerable por-
tion of the capital demanded will not be required, as every mate-
rial* necessary for its formation is to be fbund 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 laud 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 laud, 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 tentage, and front 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 414 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 Co npany, 48, lilwar-
gate-street; and Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, solicitors, 47, Moor-
gate-street, London :
To the Provisional committee of the Jamaica Southern, Eastern, and
N Railway.
Gentlemen, _r 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 ftwtheranee thereof; when required.
- i.am, gentlemen, your obedient servant,
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a Wocd is prepared nearly as hard as Iron, and In that climate is
more durable.

JAMAICA SOUTHERN, EASTERN, AND
NORTHERN RAILWAY.
Since public attention was drawn to this Railway, several compe-
titors have arisen for a Northern portion of the Line, viz.—that be-
tween Port Marla and Montego Bay ; these sprung tip 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 stone 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 Mountain 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 manner, that is, more usefitUY and economically under the
management of one company, than if it were cut upluto several
petty parts, under the direction of individual heads.
And be it remembered that the usefulness or rather uselessness of
the above lines competing wills this Company, consists merely in
connecting one bad port on the northern coast, with another on the
same side ofthe 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 reduction will be effected, making a diminution in carriage
and freights together of nearly 50 per cent.
43, Mnorgate-street, 25th Anifttst; 440.
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