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London, England, 1845-10-23 00:00:00

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Captain Charles M. M. Wright, R.N.
Edward Holttum, magistrate of the City of Canterbury
Thomas Robinson Williams, Esq., Director of the Patent Woollen
Cloth Company
Reginald Read, Esq., M D., St. John's-square, London
The Rev. Samuel Andrew, Lincoln College, Oxford, and Highgate
John Kerschner, Esq., Middle Temple
Augustus L. Lobach, Esq., Brook-street, Grosvenor.square, and
Sidmouth, Devon
William Eccles, Esq., Old Broad-street, London
Lewis Mame, Esq., Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk
William Downing Bruce, Esq., 18, Charles-street, St. James's.
square, Director of the Leeds, Fleetwood, and Liverpoil, and
Direct Western Railways
Abraham Betteridge, Esq., Devonshire-terrace, Camden-villas,
Director of the Great Grimsby, Lincoln, and Midland Junction
Railway
Edward Whitfield, Esq., M.D., Marine-parade, Brighton
George Simpson, Esq., Bedford-street, Bedford.square, Director oi
the Sligo, Donegal, Tyrone, Londonderry, and Belfast Junction
Railway
Captain C. H. Whitfield, Arundel-street, London, Director of the
South London Suburban Railway
James Renshaw, Esq., Erith, Kent, Merchant, 3, White Hart-
court, Lombard street, Director of the South Stafford Railway
John Britten, Esq., Basinghall.street, Member of the Corporation
of London
Dr. William Wilson, 3, Devonport-street, Sussex-square
Rees Price, Esq., Tyne Hall, Great Ilford, Essex, Director of the
Cheltenham, Oxford, and Brighton Junction Railway
Robert Hancorne, Esq., 4, Euston-square, Director of the Hereford
and Merthyr Tydvil Railway.
Henry Kirk, Esq , Gloucester-place, Dorset-square.
Henry James Meller, Esq., Clifford's Inn.
James Cockell, Esq., Bernard-street, Russell-square.
Aldbor• ..h Henniker, Esq., Gray's Inn and Copthorne Bank,
Suss
Willo Marshall Smithson, Esq., Canterbury, Director of the
Dov •nd Canterbury, and Bristol and Dover Railways
Edward Wootton, Esq., Magistrate of the City of Canterbury
Nathaniel Jonas Maynard, Esq., Magistrate of the City of Canter-
bury

PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT,

]4IDI.AND
1

COUNTIES
RAILWAY.

From Nottingham to Syston,
(Provisionally Registered.)

JUNCTION

~
A prospectus,"
with the names of a most Influential Committee, and
other details, will appear in a few days. The line will connect the
Pontefract, Doncaster, Worksop, and Mansfield Junction, with the
South Midland Railway.

SOLICITORS.
William Unwin, Esq, ; William 'tickley, Esq. Sheffield.
LONDON AGENTS.
Messrs. Thompson and Debenham, Salters'-hall, St. Swithin's-lane.

rtELnt 'NARY ANNOUNCEMENT.
(Registered Provisionally).

D IRECT licISEPENDENT- . KENT, SUR-
REY, AND SUSSEX UNION RAILWAY.

Capital 1,500,000, in 75,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21 2s. per Share.

PROSPECTUS OF THE

Temporary Offices —Queen•stieet Cha'mbers, Queen-street, Cheapside

John Pont, Esq., Canterbury, Director of the Bristol and Dover

Railway
David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland-hollow, Derbyshire
Charles Bleaden, Esq., Coulsdon-court, Surrey
Quintin Burns Hair, Esq., Tunbridge Wells
Andrew Clark, Esq., Southwark
Dr. William Birmingham Costello
A. A. Fry, Esq., Temple, Director •f the Rugby, Derby, and
Manchester Railway
Edward Horatio Day, Esq., Brixton.hill

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.

CHAIRMAN—Thomas Carlisle, Esq.
DEPUTY-CHAlRMAN—Frederick Harrison, Esq.

A. Betteridge, Esq.
William Case, Esq.
Stephen Hutchinson, Esq.

P. Bennett Lucas, Esq.
Alexander Prince, Esq.
Reginald Read, Esq.

R. Laden, Esq. Francis Smith, Esq.
Major James 0. Llndham, K.H. Henry Wardle, Esq.
ENGINELR—CharIes Blunt, Esq., C.E.
STANDING CDUNSEL—John WOubrey, Esq.

SOLICITOR—U. 3. Lloyd, Esq., 49, Doughty-street, Bedford.row,

London.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Ser;vens and Young, Hastings
Messrs. Martin and Sons, Battle
Messrs. Barclay and King, Mayfleld
W. D. Cooper, Esq., Lewes
Robert Walker. Esq., Canterbury
Messrs. Carnell and Gorham, Tonbridge.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—Messrs. Jones and Walmsley.
BANKERS IN LONDON.
The London and County Joint-Stock Bank
Sir John William Lubbock, Bart., and Co.
DISTRICT RANKERS.

The Branches of the London and County Joint-Stock Bank al
Tunbridge, Tunbridge Wells, Lewes, and Brighton.
At Halting—Messrs. Suzan, Hilder, and Co.
SECRETARY—Henry L. Freund, EN.

This line (which will be constructed on the atmospheric principle,
without a tunnel, or the possibility of collisions), is intended to com-
mence in the Borough, near London-bridge, taking a direct course to
Camberwell, where it will divide, and take the following routes,
viz. :—The Kent branch, through the populous parishes of Peckham,
l'eckham Rye, Lewisham, Bromley, Orpington,Chelsfleld, Shoreham,
Otford, Kempsing, Seal, Wrotham, Town Malting, East Mailing,
Ditton to Maidstone; the Surrey and Sussex branch, through Brix-
ton, Brixton-hill, Clapham, lialham-hill, Tooting, Mitcham, Mor-
den, Cheam, Ewell, Epsom, near Leatherhead, Headley, Mickleham,
Dorking, Capel, Reaper, Wareham, Horsham, Nuthurst, West Grin-
stead, Asharst, Enfield, Wiston, Steyning, Bramber, Lancing, Somp.
ling, Broadwater, and on to Worthing.
It is also intended that power be applied for in the Act of Parlia-
ment to construct branch lines from Wrotham to Sevenoaks, from
Peckham-rye to Dulwich and Norwood, and from Clapham to the
South-Western Railway, thereby accomplishing the most desired ob-
ject of giving that company a City terminus.
It is satisfactory to find, from strict calculations, that the passen-
ger traffic alone arising from the densely-populated parishes through
which this line will pass (hitherto unsupplied by railway) will give
this a decided advantage over all other projects, and secure a profit-
able return. The names of a most influential and powerful Com-
mittee, together with the plans and prospectuses, entering fully into
detail, will be published in a few days. In the meantime, applica-
tions for shares, forms, and other information, may be obtained of the
solicitors, Messrs. Garrett and Co., Queen-street-chambers, Queen-
street, Cheapside, London ; or to Mr. M. Coston (broker), 5, Bank-
chambers, Lothbury, London.

SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING OCTOBER 23. 1845.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

LONDON, BRISTOL, AND SOUTH WALES' DIRECT.
MARLBOROUGH, Ocr. 21.—A public meeting of the inhabi•
tants of the borough of Marlborough, convened by George
May, Esq , the mayor, in compliance with a requisition very
numerously signed, was held yesterday, at the Town-hall,
for the purpose of taking into consideration the best means to
be adopted for promoting the proposed line. The Company
was represented by N. Giles, Esq., the Rev. Sir Erasmus
Wilson, Bart., rector of Marlborough, General Parlby, and
other members of the Direction ; and there was also present
a large assemblage of the landowners, gentry, and inhabitants
of the district.
Mr. REEVE was voted to the chair, and in opening the
proceedings of the day, observed that it was on all sides ad-
mitted to be most desirable that a direct communication by
railway should be accomplished between Marlborough and
the other towns on the old western line and London; and
when a bond fide proposal was brought forward to effect that
great object, it was incumbent on them all. to put their
shoulders to the wheel, and endeavour to carry it. The line
proposed was undoubtedly a good line for Marlborough, for it
gave it a direct communication with the metropolis; and,
what was equally important, with Bath, Bristol, and the
whole of South Wales. One railway had been already pro-
posed which would afford to Marlborough a communication
with Manchester and Southampton—the Direct Manchester
and Southampton, which would cross Marlborough, and
which at a previous meeting had met with unanimous sup-
port—he meant the Direct London and Southampton line.
And if they obtained the two lines—the cross line and the
direct line— the town would be very well off and its former
prosperity would return.
The Rev. Sir E. Wii..soia then rose to move the first resolu-
tion. If the inhabitants. of Marlborough felt sufficiently the
advantages of railway communication, to induce them to give
their cordial assent to the Manchester and Southamp-
ton, how much more strongly must they be impressed
with the advantages of the present scheme, which gave
to the inhabitants of Marlborough the benefit of a direct
railway communication with the metropolis? The London
Bristol, and South Wales line spoke for itself.
It commenced in London, passed on by the Great Western
line as far as Hungerford; from thence it proceeded to Marl-
borough; thence to Caine, having between these two towns
a short branch to Devizes.—(Hear, hear.) From Caine the
line would go on to Chippenham, where again it united with
with the Great Western, which it crossed ; from thence it
proceeded, by way of Chipping Sudbury, to the Aust-passage,
which it was proposed to cross by a bridge, and, upon the
other side it would unite itself with the South Wales line,
which was the line of communication between London,
and, in fact, England and Ireland. The Great Western
Railway, having taken its course round by Swindon,
instead of adhering more closely to the old coach
road, had left the towns of Hungerford, Marlborough,
Caine, and Devizes to take care of themselves—the
line of communication between them and the metropolis on
the one hand, and Bristol and Bath on the other, having
been cut off. In the last session of Parliament a Bill had
been passed for constructing a branch line from the Great
Western to Newbury, but Parliament, in granting that
line, insisted that it should be carried on as far as Hunger-
ford. The present scheme, however, did not propose to
stop the -e, but completely to fill up the gap the Great
Western Company had left, and to extend the advantages
of railway accommodation to Marlborough, Hungerford,
Caine; and Devizes (Hear, hear.) It was to take the
direct and old-established line of communication between
Bristol, Bath, and London, and it was the only one proposed
that came near the town of Marlborough.—(Hear, hear.)
No other company had come forward to supply the country,
and comp!y with the wishes of the people of that town, and he
wished to impress upon them, that any proposal to give
railway accommodation to Marlborough on the part of any
company which might henceforth be made, would not have
the same claim upon the attention of those locally interested,
as if it had been made before. In this age of railways,
any town in the kingdom, however flourishing, it might
be, must, if it had not the advantage of direct railway
communication with London, soon sink into nothingness.
He had, on a recent occasion, told Lord Bruce that if a
line were constructed which should place Marlborough
on a fair footing with other towns in the kingdom in
this respect, it would live, but without it, it must
sink into the position of a petty village.—(Hear, hear.)
Caine was circumstanced similarly to Marlborough, and,
at a meeting held in that town on the previous
day, resolutions in favour of the proposed line were
unanimously agreed to ) The direct communica-
tion the line would give from and to Bristol was most im-
portant, as it would bring the traders from that port direct
to the markets of Wilts and Berks, without their being
compelled to go many miles round for railway accommoda-
as at present. One tradesman of Caine would contribute
alone 1,500/. a year, taking the estimate on his present
trade; but, looking at the beneficial change which direct
railway accommodation would certainly occasion, he did not
doubt that he would be enabled to bring traffic to the line to
double that amount. Coal was a most important item of
household expenditure, especially to the poor, and by means
of this railway they would be enabled to bring up coals from
thence to Marlborough at an expence for carriage, as ho was
told, of only 2s. a ton.—(Hear, hear.) As was suggested to
him by a gentleman in the room, they might be delivered for
13s. 4d. a ton.
Mr. REID, of Marlborough, offered to contract for any
quantity of coals, provided the railway was made, at 13s. 4d.
a ton delivered.
Sir E. WiLsost—The proposed line was almost
_perfectly
straight from the Aust. passage to the junction at Reading.
The Welsh traffic would, doubtless, take the shorter and
more direct line, and it followed, therefore, that that traffic
would come to the South Wales line. It was supposed by
some that the Aust- passage was an impracticable project.
But the bridge across that passage was now to be erected by
the Liverpool and Bristol Junction Railway Company, who
had subscribed the money for it, and who would carry
it into effect. The bridge was neither to be
a chain nor a swing bridge, but a fixed bridge,
in every way sufficient for the purpose of railway traffic.
The member for Bristol, Captain Berkeley, was with them.
He was, in fact, their deputy-chairman ; and they might
reasonably conclude that they had with them the interest of
the Berkeley family; and yesterday, at Caine, they had the
declaration of Lard Shelburne, that finding his constituents in
favour of the line, he would support it. They had not yet
heard that the two members for Aylesbury had declared in
favour of it ; but he trusted that when they should be made ac-
quaintedwith the statement of Lord Shelburne, and the general
wish of their constituents, that they would follow the Noble
Lord's example. They had a right to assume that Lord Shel-
burne's declaration embodied also the sentiments of the Mar-
quis of Lansdowne, and if the members for Marlborough
and the Marquis of Aylesbury would attend in like mad-
ner to the wishes and requirements of their constituents and
their tenantry, there would be three influential supporters
of the bill in either House, and it would, without doubt, be
carried—(Hear, hear). One of their members was the Vice-
Chamberlain to the Queen, and the other was a Lord of the
Treasury; and with their support, together with that of the
friends they could command, the line must be carried.
Many of the most important land-owners on the line had
also expressed themselves in favour of the line. There was,
therefore, nothing to alarm the promoters of the scheme:
they proposed the shortest and most direct line from London
to the Fishguard 'and Pembroke docks; they had the money
ready to carry it out. The worthy baronet concluded by
moving the resolution.
T. HALCOMBE, Esq., seconded the resolution.
General PARLBY also spoke in favour of the line.
Tmastas Soirrit, Esq., supported the resolution, and was
sure the. House of Commons could never commit so gross an
injustice to the inhabitants of Marlborough as to refuse its
assent to a body of capitalists carrying out a work of such
great national benefit.
• The resolution was carried unanimously.
Mr. HAYWOOD the son of the agent of the Marquis of
Aylesbury, said that his father was unavoidably absent from
the meeting, but he felt great interest in the question, and
he was enabled to assure them that the Marquis was most
anxious to serve Marlborough ' • Lord Bruce and Lord Ernest
had also the same feeling, and he was sure they would sup-
port any scheme which, on consideration, they might con
cider calculated to benefit the neighbourhood.:
Mr. HARRIS, of Caine, complained of the great loss he and
other traders suffered from the absence of direct railway
accommodation, and the insufficiency of the accommodation
afforded by the Great Western Railway. Ile had seen the
steward of the Marquis of Lansdowne that day, and was in-
formed by him that the noble lord would support any line
that would benefit the inhabitants of the locality, and tend
to the public good.
A resolution, expressing the approbation of the meeting in
the proposed scheme was passed, and petitions to both Houses
were adopted in favour of the Bill.

HUNGEMPORD.-A similar meeting was afterwards held at
the Town-hall at Hungerford, at which D. Allen, Esq., the
mayor, presided. Sir Erasmus Wilson fully explained the
merits of the proposed line, and the great benefit it would
confer upon Hungerford, Marlborough, and the other towns
through which it would pass. Resolutions pledging the
meeting to support the line were passed, and petitions to both
Houses of Parliament in its favour were unanimously agreed
to—Earl Caernarvcn and Lord Craven to be requested to
support the one to the Lords, and the county members the
petition to the Commons.

consider the expediency of accepting that offer, tFe
company separated without transacting any busi-
ness. Much inquiry has been made as to what will be done
respecting the new 40/. shares issued last year for making
the extension to Bishop Auckland, and improving the main
line. It is stated, in well-informed circles, that should Mr.
Hudson purchase the railway, the new shares will be called
in, and the deposit money of '2/. each, with interest, paid
to the holders of the scrip. A rumour prevails in the
town, that a formidable opposition will be raised amongst the
shareholders to selling the line at 301., or even 33/. 6s. 8d
per share.
It is proposed, we understand, to carry. the London and
Manchester Direct from Battle-bridge to Farringdon-street,
on the atmospheric system, so as to obviate the inconvenience
of noise and smoke.
The heading in the Kingston-hill Tunnel, on the Brighton,
Lewes, and Hastings line, has been carried through during
the past week.
Arrangements, it is understood, are in course of completion
between the Great Eastern and Western, who propose to run
a line on the broad gauge from Yarmouth to Swansea, with
another powerful company already established on the broad
gauge system, for providing complete railway accommodation
to the entire south of Wales. A deputation, headed by Mr.
Ward, M.l'., is now en route for Wales, with the view of ex-
plaining the advantages of the line to the ironmasters and
mineral merchants of the district.