The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-09 00:00:00

PROSPECTUS OF THE

111 RIGIITON. %Y ES, TUNBRIDGE
WELLS, GRAVESEND, and EASTERN COUNTIES
JUNCTION RAILWAY, with a branch from or near Wrotham to
Chatham.

Capital 1,000,000/., in 50,000 Shares of 20/. each.
Deposit 2/. 2s. per Share.

(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Vic., c. 110.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.

Sir John Key, Bart. Alderman, Director of the Exeter, Dorches.

ter, and Weymouth Railway
John Saddington, Esq., Mayor of Gravesend
Medhurst Troughton, Esq., Alderman of Gravesend

Thomas Palister, Esq., Alderman of Gravesend
Tisdell, Councillor of Gravesend

Jeremiah Roaher, E q , Rosherville, near Gravesend
John Brough, E•q., Herne Bay

Nathaniel Cumberlege, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's-park, Director
of the Leeds and Huddersfield Railway
Thomas Mortimer Cleobury, Esq., Acton, Middlesex, Director of
the Sheffield and Nottingham Railway Company
John Mortimer, Esq., Peppingford Park, Maresfield

John Burgess, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester, Director of the
London and Manchester Railway
Thomas Camplin, Esq., Herne Bay
W. A. Campbell, Esq , Wanstead-park
Charles Goodwin, Esq., Battersea

F. ♦'V. Hamilton, Esq., Gloucest,r.place, Portman.square, Director

of the York and Lancaster Railway Company
James Harmer, Esq.. Ingress Abbey, Greenhithe, Kent

William Kuper, Eeq., Director of the Grand Junction, Great

Western, and South Western Railway
T. R. Kemp, Esq., Director of the Blythe and Churnet Valley,

and Macclesfield and Lichfield Railways
John Kerschner, Esq., Middle Temple-lane
Edward Lacey, Esq., St. Paul•s.churchyard, and Gravesend

Jonas Levy, Esq., 55, Tavistock-square
H. C'. Leahy, E q., St. James's-square. Director of the Direct Bir-
mingham and Brighton, and Gieat Welsh Junction Railway

R. 11. Lewis, Esq., 12, Upper Montague-street, Director of the
Cheltenham, Oxford, and Brighton Railway
John Wheeley Lea, Esq., Worcester, Vice-Chairman of the Se.

♦ern Commission
The Hon. Captain Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Chairman of the
York and Lancaster Railway
Edmund Pallister, Esq., Gravesend
S. H. Powell, Esq., Director of the Leeds, York, and Midland
Junction Railway
E. R. Simmons, Esq., Gloucester Lodge, Croydon
Walter White, Esq., Fitzroy-square, Director of the London and
Wind,or Railway
J. D. Williams, Esq., Milton-street, Dorset. square
(With power to add to their number).

COMMITTEE OF IMANAGEMENT.
Sir John Key, Bart. Wm. Kuper, Erg.
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, Ind Co., Clement's-lane ; Messrs. Cocks,
Bidduiph, and Co., Charing-cross.
At Lewes—Messrs. Molyneux, Whitfield and Co.
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CONSULTING ENGINEERS—Sir John Macneil and James Thom.
son, Esq.
ENGINEER--Wm. Laxton, Esq., C.E.

SoLicrros IN LONDON—George Smith, Esq., 24, Golden-square.

LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Coombe and Sharland, Town-hall, Gravesend

Messrs. J. and E. Blaker, Lewes.

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 Wrotham 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 or 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.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of tiro Staffordshire and North
Midland Junction Railway,
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of
95/. each in this Company, and I un':.ertake to accept the same, and
to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that may be
allotted to me; and I also undertake to execute the Parliamentary
Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
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Address of Referee
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GREAT INDIAN PENINSULAR
RAILWAY COMPANY.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE Or MANAGEMENT.
CHAIRMAN—The lion. John Stuart Wortley, M.P.
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—W. J. Hamilton, Esq., M.P.
Frederick Ayrton, Esq., late of the East India Company's Service
Major General Briggs, many years employed in high political and
civil situations in India
Major Clayton, Bengal Cavalry
The Right Hon. G. R. Dawson
J. Q. Frith, Esq. (firm of Frith, Wallace, and Co.), Deputy-Chair-
man of the Enniskillen and Londonderry Railway
Captain Gresley, late in civil employ in the Nizam's country
William Gladstone, Esq,, firm of Thomson, Bonar, and Co.
James Briscoe Grahaln, Esq., late of Bombay
John Harvey, Esq., Commercial Bank of London
Swynfen Jervis, Esq., Director of the London and County Bank,
Lombard-street
John Peirse Kennard, Esq.
Robert W. Kennard, Esq., Deputy-Chairman, Northern and East-
ern Railway Company
John Malleson, Esq., Director of the Armagh and Coleraine
Railway
Major Moore, late Military Secretary, Hyderabad
Richard Paterson, Esq., Chairman of the Northern and Eastern
Railway Company
William Ambrose Shaw, Esq., many years resident in India
Major-General Trewman, Madras Establishment
Melville Wilson, Esq., Director of the Alliance Assurance-office
T. Williamson, Esq., late Revenue Commissioner of the Deccan
Bombay

(With power to add to their number.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE AT BOMBAY.

CHAIRMAN-J. P. Willoughby, Efq.. Chief Secretary to Govern-
ment, and Provisional Member of Council.

DEPUTY-Cnatessas—R. W. Crawford, Esq., firm of Remington,
Crawford, and Co.
Colonel Jervis, Chief Engineer, Bombay
Cursetjee Cowasjee, Esq., merchant, Justice of the Peace, asd

large landholder in Bombay and Salsette
S. S. Dickenson, Esq., barrister
Bomanjee Hormusjee, Esq., merchant, Justice of the Peace, and
large landholder in Bombay and Salsette
J. Smith, Esq., firm of Messrs. Nicol and Co.
J. H. Jackson, Esq., Civil Service, Commissioner of Sea Customs,
Bombay
Vikcajee Meerjee, Esq., many years farmer of the Government
Revenue, and also of the Hyderabad (Nizam's) Government dis-
tricts
H. H. Glass, Esq., Civil Service, Collector of Customs, Bombay
Jugonathjee Sunkersett, Esq., Justice of the Peace, and Member
of the Boards of Conservancy and Education
Captain Swanson, Paymaster of the Army, Bombay
Cursetjee Jemsetjee, Esq., firm of Sir Jemsetjee Jeejecbhoy, Sons,
and Co., and son of Sir Jemsetjee Jeejecbhoy
R. Spooner, Esq., Civil Service, Deputy Collector of Customs,
Bombay
Dadabhoy Pestonjee, Esq., firm of Dadabhoy and Muncherjee
Pestonjee, Justice of the Peace, and a large landholder in
Bombay
G. Farie, Esq., firm •f M'Vicar, Burn, and Co., Bombay
(With power to add to their number.)
PROVISIONAL SU:RV:FAUN', BOMBAY.

Acton S. Ayrton, Esq., of the firm of Messrs Ayrton and Walker,
solicitors to the Company in Bombay
TRUSTEES IN BOMBAY—P. W. Leget, Esq , Civil Service, Judge
of the Suddur Adawlut ; Jeejeebhoy Dadabhoy, Esq., firm of
Jeejeebhoy, Dadabhoy, Sons, and Co. ; R. Remington, Esq.,
firm of Remington and Company

CONSWLTING ENGINEER—Robert Stephenson, Esq.
MANAGER—John Chapman, Esq.
STANDING COUNSEL—Charles Buller, Esq., M.P.
STANDING COUNSEL IN BOMBAY—W. Howard, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. 'White and Borrett, 35, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London
Messrs. Ayrton and Walker, Bombay

BANKERS.
Messrs. Denison, Heywood, Kennards, and Co., London
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co., London
Messrs. Arthur, Heywoods, Sons, and Co., Liveipool
Bank of Bombay, Bombay.
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the last Mail, from their representatives in Bombay, advises of the
cordial co-operation there of the most influential parties, both
European and native, in carrying out the great objects which this
Company proposes to effect,
The prospectus of the Company has been approved and published
in Bombay, and the Committees of the Bombay Great Eastern
Railway, and of the Indian Railway Association of Bombay, both
of local origin (the former established for making a railway from
Bombay to the foot of the Ghauts, and th:, latter for promoting
railway communication with the interior of the peninsula upon a
more extended scale) have, with other influential parties,
formed themselves into a Local Provisional Committee, and are
taking active measures for the identification of the Interests of
their respective Subscribers with those of the Great Indian Penin-
sular Railway Company.

Copies of portions of the AdViCC6 from India aboN e referred t
may be seen on application to
The Solicitors and Broker, London
Messrs. Nicol, Duckworth, and Co., 1, Cook-street, Liverpool
J. Nicholson, Esq., 15, St. Ann's-square, Manchester
Messrs. Spurrier and Chaplin, Solicitors, Birmingham
James Watson ,Esq., South Frederick-street. Glasgow
William Williams, Browne and Co., Leeds