The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-22 00:00:00

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.

Sir John Key, Bart. • Wm. Kuper, Esq.
The Mayor of Gravesend John Kerschner, Esq.
John Brough, Esq. S. H. Powell, Esq.
T. M. Cleobury, Esq. W. White, Esq.
(With power to add to their number).

BANKERS.
Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clement's-lane ; Messrs. Cocks,
Biddulph, and Co., Charing-cross.
CONSULTING ENGINEERS—Sir John Macneil and James Thom.
son, Esq.
ENGINEERS--B. Albano, Esq., M.1.C.E., and Wm. Laxton,

Esq., C.E.
SOL►CITOR IN LoNoort—George Smith, Esq., 24, Golden-square,
and No. 2, Guildhall chambers, Basinghall- street.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Coombe and Sharland, Town-hall, Gravesend
Messrs. J. and E. Blaker, Lewes.
Temporary Offices, No. 2, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street

The object of this undertaking is to open a direct line of rail-
way to connect the Northern, Eastern, and South Essex Railways,
by means of a steam ferry from Tilbury Fort to Gravesend, with
Tunbridge Wells, Lewes, and Brighton.
It is contemplated to proceed from the Eastern Counties Rail-
way at or near Harlow station to Tilbury, crossing the river
by a steam floating.bridge to Gravesend, passing by Cobham,
Snodland, Mailing, and Hadlow to Tunbridge, thence by the South.
Eastern Railway to Tunbridge Wells, passing Uckfield to Lewes,
and thence joining the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway to
Brighton.
An inspection of the map will clearly show the great import.
ance of this railway, whether considered in a local or national
point of view, forming as it will a most useful chain of local com-
munication for the fertile and populous tracts through which it

passes.
It will bring the Northern and Eastern Counties, the mouth of
the Thames, ar.d North Kent, into direct communication, by
way of Brighton, with Dieppe and Havre, and thus form, in con-
junction with the railways now in progress on the Continent, the
shortest possible route to Paris and the Mediterranean.
By this railway the large population of the North Eastern Conn-
t.n minims will have a direct and easy
communication with the whole or the populous sou
counties of, Kent and Sussex, without going round to London, and
thereby avoiding the inconvenience arising from the unconnected
lines north and south of the metropolis.
The utility of this line to the naval and military service, both in
times of peace and war, for the conveyance of troops and stores, is
evident.
With the existing railways, and those now in progress in Kent
and Sussex, a most complete system of local communication will be
effected ; and as such, the projeet has been received with the mast
distinguished approbation and pledges of support from the principal
proprietors along the line, and the Corporation of Gravesend have
promised their entire sanction to, and will cordially support it.
The ground has been carefully surveyed, and found to present
no difficulties to the formation of a good working line.
The existing local traffic has been ascertained to be amply suf-
ficient to fulfil the requirements of the undertaking; but a large
accession of valuable traflie cannot fail to be the result of the
increased accommodotion thus afforded to the public, and rendering
the undertaking one of the most important as well as productive
lines of railway in that part of the country.
The Committee reserve power to themselves to form branches
from Snodland to Chatham.
The liability of the shareholders will be restricted by Act of
Parliament to the amount of their subscriptions, and power will be
applied for in the Bill to allow interest at 4 per cent. per annum en
all calls, from the passing of the Act until the opening of the line.
Applications for prospectuses and also for shares may be
addressed in the usual form to George Smith, Esq. Solicitor, 24,
Golden-square, and No. 2, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street ;
Messrs. Coombe and Sharland, Gravesend , Messrs. J. and E.
Blaker, Lewes ; to Messrs. Field, Son, and Bayley, sharebrokers,
Warneford-court, Throgmorton-street, and to Messrs Harris and
Sons, sharebrokers, Change-alley

PRELIMINARY NOTICE.
Tao EXETER, TIVERTON, AND MINE-
REIAD DIRECT RAILWAY, with extension from illinehead
to Ilfracombe

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,600,0001., in 64,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
This railway will pass from the city of Exeter, through the
rich valley of the Exe, via Silverton and Bickleigh, direct to
Tiverton, one of the chief tONVIIS of this important district, and
foofrmerly the priacipal market and manufacturing town of the west
Englargi. It will administer largely to the prosperity of this
of
rich and productive country, and will pass from Tiverton, liy
ton, Dulverton, and Dimster, to the port of Mmehead in the Bristol •
Channel, oi,posite Landaff, Swansea, and Cardiff, front whence the
produce of the rich mines and quarries of
Merthyr Tydvil, Ponty-
pool, and Newport, in Wales, can be transferred by the shorteA
route to e English mare. From Minehead it will pass by
I'orlock and Combe-Marten k
to the much-frequented watering-Place
of Ilfracombe, where it unites with the Barnstaple and Ilfracombe
Railway. At Minehead it will also join the Bridgewater and Mine-
head Railway, to which it will serve as an important feeder, con
great
nect-
ing the towns on the north coast of Devon directly'wit the
wesern L•nk railras passng nto the Land's End. It
will u a
also form veroyd i short anddirect junction of the Bristol and
' English Channels.
A more valuable and important o the country which it will
traverse cauld not be projected. A list of the Provisional Committee
will be published in a few days ; and in the meantime further infaor-
mation may be obtained, and applications for shares may be mde
to, the solieitors, Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street,
London, or at the Company's Offices,
(o. 37, Gresliam-strect, City.