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

REDUCTION OF. FARES,

SOUTH-EASTERN AND CONTINENTAL
STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.—BEST ROUTE to BELGIUM
and GERMANY, via DOVER and OSTEND.—The South-Eastern and
Continental Steam-packet Company's splendid fast Iron steam-ship
PRINCESS MARY, carrying the English and Belgian mails, and
performing the passage in four hours and a half, leaves Dover for
Ostend every Thursday and Sunday morning early, enabling tra-
vellers to leave Ostend by the early trains, and returns to Dover .n.
Tuesdays and Frivays.

Departures from Dover :
August 31, at 8 A.m. I Sept. 18, at 9 • A.M.
Sept. 4, at 930 A.m. Sent. 21, at 11 45 A.M.
Sept. 7, at 11 45 A.m. I Sept. 25, at 8 A.m.
Sept: 11, at 9 A.m. Sept. 28, at 7 ♦.m.
Sept. 14, at 630 A.M.
Luggage, parcels, &e., expeditiously forwarded.
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On and afte;-the .I;it of September neat, there will be a great Re-
duction of Fans between Dover and Ostend, by the Princess Mary.
The Saloon fare will be 155.; and the Fore-cabin 10s.
For particulars apply at the South-Eastern Rallway-station. Lon -
don-bridge ; and to John Hayward, jun., Dover.

OUT H-EASTERN RAILWA Y.
LY The Directors think it desirable to state that they sometime
sines instructed Mr. Stephenson to prepare for Parliament in the
next session a complete system for supplying railway communi-
cation with the whole of Kent. his proposed to provide direct lines to
Tunbridge, Maidstone, Gravesend, Rochester, Chatham, Faversham,
Canterbury, and Dover. The surveys have been for some weeks in
progress, and the whole scheme will be very shortly in a complete
state. JOHN KIRKLAND, Chairman.
South-Eastern Railway-office, July 26, 1845.

DISS and COLCHESTER RAILWAY.—
The Shareholders in this Railway, who have not noti-
fied their wish to subscribe for Shares in the Norfolk Extension
Capital, according to the terms proposed in the Circular dated the
21st of July, are requested to apply at the Office of the Norfolk Rail-
way Company, at Guildhall-buildings, London, on the 3d day of
September, for the return of 15s. 6d. per share, the proportion of the
Deposit on each Share returned. The scrip certificates must be left
at the Office, with the name and place of abode of the owner, for two
days prior to the payment

By order,
RICHARD TILL, Secretary.

-ONDON; nOUNSLOW, and WESTERN
RAILWAY.

Notice is hereby given, that NO APPLICATIONS for SHARES In
this Company will be received after Mommit, let September.
By order of the Committee,
T: S. BROWN, Sec. pro. tern.
7, Walbrook.

Provisionally Registered.

WILTS, SOMERSET, AND • SOUTHAMP-
TON JUNCTION RAILWAY.

Connecting the English with the Birtatca Channel, and forrnine a
omplete communication, on the broad gauge, between Southampton,
Salisbury- ' Enz-
land and South Wales.
Bankers' Receipts may now be exchanged for Script Certificates, and
the Deeds now lie for Signature at the Company's Office, 26, Ore-
sham-street, City.
The Deeds will shortly be remoTed Into the country, of which du
notice will be given.
London, August 21, 1845

H. R. SHERIDAN, Secretary.

C HEPSTOW, FORE ST OF DEAN, AND
GLOUCESTER JUNCTION RAILWAY,
Through the Forest of Dean (with Branches to the Collieries, Iron
Works, and River Severn). to join the Gloucester and Birmingham,
Gloucester and Bristol, intended Cheltenham, Oxford, and London
direct, and Gloucester and Aberystwith Railways.
( Registered Provisionally, according to the Act of 7 and Victoria,

Chap. 110.)
Capital 600,0601., in 30.000 shares, of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s per Share.
No Shareholder to be liable beyond the amount of his Shares
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

W. P. Andrew, Esq., Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square, Director
of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway
Joseph Bailey, Esq., M.P., Glanusk Park, Breconshire
W. F. Beadon, Esq., Director of the Essex and Suffolk Railway
James Beech, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place, London, Director of the
Leicester and Tamworth Railway
C. R. Coleman, Esq., Irongate Wharf, Director of the South Mid-

laud Railway
William Crawshay, Esq., Carfartha, Gdamorganshire, and Carer-
sham Park, Berkshire
Edmund Francis Dayrell, Esq., of Lillingstone Dayrell, nigh Sheriff
of Buckinghamshire, and Director of the Buckinghamshhe
Railway

Joseph Davis, Esq., Chepstow, merchant
W. S. Fitzwilliam, Esq,' Broad-street, London, merchant, Director
of the South Midland Railway
Edward Hall, Esq., Director of the South Midland and Northampton
and Cheltenham Railways
William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., Alderman, Chairman of the
Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, Director of the London
and Greenwich Railway Company
Sir W. B. Johnston, Bart, Hilton, Aberdeenshire
George Lawton, Esq., Ditehleys, Essex, Director of the South Mid-
land Railway
William Strahan, Esq., Banker, Fleet-street, London

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Sir William Twysden, Bart.
Major White, 105, Pall Mall, Director of the Northampton, BanburY,
and Cheltenham Railway
John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, Tunbridge, Kent, Director
of
Leicester and Bedford Railway
Sir William ttacon Johnson, Ba. t., Hilton, Aberdeenshire
Captain James P. Macdouhall, Fir Grove, North Brixton
With power to add to their number.
Eprotxxxx—William Gravatt Esq , F.R.S.
LONDONVANKERS.
Messrs. Strahan, Paxl, and Co., Strand ; and Messrs. Glyx. and Co.

PROVINCIAL RANKERS.
Messrs. Bailey, Greatrex, and Co., Monmouth and AbergavennY
The West of England and South Wales Banking Company and
Branches
Messrs. Bromage and Snead, Chepstow
The Monmouth and Glamorgan Banking Company and Branches

Messrs. Williams and Sons, Newport
The Gloucestershire Banking Company and Branches
The County of Gloucester Banking Company and Branches
The National Provincial Banking Company and Branches
STANDING COUNSEL—WiIIiam Hughes Hughes, Esq., Temple, London
Soucirox—Mr. W. T. H. Phelps, Newport, Monmouthshire
LONDON AoDNrs—Messrs. 3 Beckett, Son, and Sympson, 7, Golden-

share
LOCAL AGENTS..

Chepstow—Messrs. Baldwin and Morgan
Gloucester—Messrs. Ellis, Elliott, and Swann, solicitors
SECBETaaY—Wm. Protheroe, Esq., 10, Old Jewry-chambers, London
This railway is intended to connect• the South Wales Railway at
Chepstow with Gloucester, Cheltenham, and Birmingham, with the
projected Cheltenham, Oxford (and London direct), Gloucester, and
Aberystwith, Northampton and Cheltenham, and Manchester and
Southampton Railways ; thus forming an uninterrupted line of com-
munication from the South of Ireland, through Fishgard and Milford
in Pembrokeshire, to. Gloucester, Cheltenham, Oxford, and London
direct, Southampton, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, and the
North of England, by a less circuitous route than can be effected by •
any of the projected plans for crossing the Severn below Gloucester,
thereby avoiding the difficulties which must necessarily be encoun-
tered in such an undertaking, and affording the important towns and
districts upon the intended lines that accommodation which their im-
portance entitles them to.
The whole of the traffic upon the South Wales line passing to the
Eastward of Chepstow will be carried on this line ; added to which
the coal and mineral traffic from the Forest of Dean (which, from
the Eastern side to Gloucester, has been estimated upon authentic
documents and information, at upwards of 300,000 tons ; and from
the Western or Lydney and Chepstow side the same amount of traffic
may safely be calculated upon), amounting to 600,000 tons per an-
num (the produce ofthe Forest alone), must be carried upon the line,
independent of the local passenger traffic and an extended trade in
the produce of the Forest, which will necessarily follow the facilities
offered by the proposed railroad.
The revenue from this source alone will give a very handsome di-
vidend upon the capital to be expended, which is expected will not
exceed three-fourths of the intended capital.
It is proposed to make branches to th I Collieries and Iron Works
in the Forest, to the present or any new Ports which may suggest
themselves on the Severn ; and to make the River Wye, at Chep-
stow, the port of foreign export, where vessels of any size can enter
free from the dangers and difficulties attendant upon the navigation
of the Severn, consequent upon the rocks and shifting sands in that
river.
It is intended to build a bridge across the Severn at Gloucester,
which Will in no way obstruct the navigation; and the proposed
Gloucester and Aberystwith Company will no doubt be ready to jolts
this Company in the expense, if they obtain their Act. The cost of
the intended line from Chepstow to Gloucester, including the bridge
at Gloucester, and the one over the River Wye, at Chepstow, to join
the South Wales, with branches to the Collieries, Iron Works, and
the Severn, is not 'etpected to exceed 450,0001., but it is intended tO
provide a capital of 600,6001. to meet any contingencies which may
arise.
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A reference to the map will show the self-evident importance of
this line as essential to the perfecting the great project of the South
Wales Railway Company (who have obtained their Act of Parlia-
ment for a railroad from Fishguard and Milford Haven to Chepstow)
n connecting it with the principal railways of the kingdoniott
Clifaccster, and making it the direct road to London, via Cheltenham
and Oxford, for effecting which projects are now before the public
with most intittential support. The line is twenty-six miles in
length, has no engineering difficulties; the gradients and curves are
extremely good, and works light.
It may with very great confidence be asserted, that there is
scarcely a short line of railroad in the' kingdom which offers
greater advantages to the Shareholders than' the present. Pro-
vis on will be made in the Act of :Parliament which will be applied
for in tbe next Session to limit the liability of the Shareholder
to the amount of his Shares, and to allow lour per cent. ou the
calls. •

Applications for Shares to be made to the Solicitors, -or to
Messrs. Casden. and Whitehead, Threadneedle street, and Messrs.
Deckhouse and Co. No. 4, Angel. Court, Throgmorton-street, Lon=
don ; Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and co., Cheltenham ; Messrs. Tate
and Nash, Bristol; Mr. Thomas Evans, Bath; Messrs. Bradley,
Ford, and Parker, Manchester; Messrs. 11. Davies and Co., Dale-
street, Liverpool ;, Messrs. Chantrell and Heys, Leeds ; Mesirs. Wit-
/41150n and Earle, Hull; and Mears. Labertouche and Stafford,
Dublin.