The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-25 00:00:00

TUNBRIDGE and RYE HARBOUR DIRECT
RAI Al
At an adjourned Meeting of landed propriefOra and others locall
interested in the above line. held at the 801 l Inn, Cranbrook, Oc-
y
taber 20,

T. L: HDGES, E., in ;
It was moved by the HoOn. Captain Knee, andtheChair seconded by T. G.
3foNrextquv, Esq., and carried unanimously;
" That a railway from Tunbridge, via, Paddock-wood, to the town
and port of Rye, passing to or near the parishes of Brenchley, Hors-
Monden, Goudhurst, Cranbrook, Bennenden, Hawkhurst, Sand-
hurst, Rol vendee, New-enden, Northeain, Beckley, Peasemarsh, Iden,
Playden, and Gulldford, is desirable."
It was moved by A.. 1. B. HOPE, Esq. M.P. and seconded by R.
TOOTII, Esq.; and carried ;
" That the line, as explained by Mr. Giles, passing to the north-
east side of the town of Cranbrook, is the best line to be adopted."
Moved by T. G. MONYPENNY, Esq. ; and seconded by W. P. Lamb,
" That the followin Esq.
g gentlemen be added to the Provisionalon Com-
mittee :—The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Beresford, the li. Capt.
J. w. King. R.N. ; Thomas Law Hodges, Esq. • Alexander James
Beresferd Hope, Esq , M.P„. Thomas Walton Roberts, Esq. ; Major
Curteis • Captain Michael Twedie ; Sackville Phelps, Esq. ; George
French, Esq. : Edward Poynder,
;and Thomas Twisden
Hodges, Esq.
Lord Beresford having been called temporarily to the chair, the
thanks of the meeting were given to the Chairman, Thomas Law
Hodges, Esq. G. A. LAMB, Secretary.

WORCESTER AND MERTHYR TYDVIL
JUNCTION RAILWAY.

The Committee of Management inform the Applicants for Shares
in this Company that the Letters of Allotment have been issued,
but that; owing to the large number of applications, the Committee
have been obliged to refuse many most respectable persons, and in
all casa greatly to abridge the number applied for. The Com-
mittee trust that this explanation will be accepted as an excuse by
all applicants who have not received allotments.
By order, WM. BORROW; Secretary pro tern.
Dated 25th 0ct.,,1845.

CAMBRIDGE AND LINCOLN EXTEN-
SION,v and LINCOLN, YORK, and LEEDS JUNCTION
RAILWAY, with a Branch to Doncaster.
Notice is hereby given, that the Allotment of Shares in this under-
taking is now completed, and the Directors of the Company regret
that it has net been in their pewer to meet the wishes of all the al>.
plicants for shares, but they have endeavoured to make the allot-
ment with due impartiality and discrimination out of the numerous
body who applied.
The Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement, will Lie
for Signature at the offices of the Company, both in London and in
Leeds, ou Monday, the 3d of November nest, and the five following
days, between the hours of Ten and Pour, when and where the Scrip
will be delivered to the shareholders.
Due Mice will be given of the other places and times the deeds
will Us for signature.

By order,
I, Guildhall Chambers, Basinghall GEORGE S. DYER, Secretary.
-street, London.

B ELGIAN GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY
COMPANY.
Capital 1,730,000/., in 87,500 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. per Share.
DIRECTORS.
Sir John Nicoll Robert Campbell, K.C.H. depuzy-chairman of the
Peniusniar and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, Chairman
Henry Bainbridge, Esq. banker
Francis Frederick Clossman, Esq. chairman of the Great Luxem-
bourg Railway Company
Shelford Fitzwilliam, Esq. director of the Essex and Suffolk
Railway company.
John Howel, Esq. director of the Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Freston
Itailway Company.

BANKERS.
In London—Messrs. Puget, Bainbridges, and Co. St. Paul's-church.
yard
In Liverpool—The Commercial Bank of Liverpool
In Brussels—The Societe Generale.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Lawrence and Plewa, Ducklersbury.
ENGEN/AR—Sir John Macneill, LL.D. F.R.S. and James Thomson.
Esq. F.R.S.E. M. R.I.A.
SECRETART—H. C. Htings, Esq.
The Belgian Grand Junction Railwayas will conimence at the several
points of Tirlerw.nt and Landen towards the north, and Huy, Namur,
Gosselies, and 2hatelineau (Charleroi) on the south, and will directly
connect the provinces of Brabant, Hainault, Liege, Limburg, and
Namur wir.4 each other, and the Government lines of railway, as
also with the several lines of Liege and Namur, Landen and Hasselt,
Louvain bon and Jemeppo, Sambre and Meuse, and the Great Luxem-
rg.

The provinces which the railway will unite were found by the
census of 1844 to comprise a population of 2,188,551, and the dis-
tricts which It will traverse are situated in the heart of Belgium, and
comprise an aiea of 163 square miles. The entire length of the Bel-
gian Grand Junction Railway will be 102 English miles, and the in.
variable rule of the Belgian Government not to permit any competing
lines, must necessarlly ensure to this Company the entire traffic of
theT counter through which this line will pass.
his portion of the country is emphatically termed the Granary of
Belgium, and, in addition to Its vast agricultural produce, is rich in
ironstone, lead, marble, stone, and slate quarries. It ism also nume-
rous distilleries, extensive breweries, ironworks, and AID manufac-
tories 'of porcelain, glass, paper, beetroot sugar gunpowder,
The great coal-fields of Charleroi and Liege, which are the most ex-
tensive in Belgium, will, by means of this lino, be enabled to supply
all parts of the kingdorn at a very reduced rate.
A considerable saving will be effected in the cost of iron, and of
the locomotive engines and tragic material, which will be manufac-
tured at the Couvin works ceded to this Company.
Applications for shares, and for prospectuses and maps, to be made
to the Secretary, at the Company's offices, 6,1, Old Broad-street; to
Messrs. Lawrance and Plews, solicitors, Bucklersbnry; and to th,,,
tbllOwing sharebrokers :—Messrs. Carden and 'Whitehead, Thread-
needle-street, London; Messrs. Bradley, Ford, and Par, Manchu-
Messrs. I. Davies and Co., Liverpool ; Messrs. Chantrell and
ter ;
Boyes, Leads; Messrs. Wilkinson and Earle, Nun; Messrs.Ftuch,_
an and Aitken, Glasgow; Messrs. Oswald, George, and Co., Aber-
dean ; Messrs. Labertouehe and Stafford, Dublin ; Messrs. Dowling
Edinburgh ; Messrs. Wreford, Nicholls, and Co., Bris-
tol i and to M
and Bowden, Edin
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TUNBRIDGE and RYE HARBOUR DIRECT
RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Frederick Lawrence, Esq. Registered Projector.
Capital, 500,0001., in Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share
Temporary Offices, 94, Cheapside.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Fleld-Marshal Lord Viscount Beresford, G.C.B. P.C. Bedgbnry.
park, Kent .
The Hon.-James William King, Capt. R.N. Angley, Cranbrook
Thomas Law Hodges Esq. Hemstead-park, Benonden, Kent
Alexander Bereaford Hope, Esq. ALP. Bed,gbary-park, Kent
Thomas Walton Roberts, Esq. Glastonbury, Kent
Capt. Michael Tweedie, Rolvenden, Kent
Edward Poynder Esq., Oakdeld-lodge, Hawkhurst
George French, Esq., Rixden, Hawkhurst, Kent
Sackville Hhelps, Esq. Tongs-wood, Hawkhurst
Major Cartels, Leasham-house, Rye
Thomas Twisden Hodges, Esq. Sandgate, Kent
Admiral J. Ayecough, Southampton
George Ballard, Esq. Sandhurst
John Bishop, Esq. Bodiam, Sussex
Beau Co. Cosine, Esq. Goldhanger, Essex, director of the Man-
chester, Oxford, and Southampton Railway, &c.
W. H. Collis, Esq. Handsworth, Staffordshire, director of the Stafford
and Shropshire Junction Railway
John James Conway, Esq. Liverpool, director of the Dover and Bris-
tol Railway
Robert Cook, Esq. Gainsborough
John Mercer Durrant, Esq. Theobala's, Hawkhurst, Kent
Thomas Mercer Durrant, Esq. Attwaters, Hawkhurst
Thomas H. Evans, Esq. Mayor of Carnarvon, director of the London
and Holyhead Railway
John Hilder, Esq. Old-place, Sandhnrst
Sir Wm. Bacon Johnston, Bart. Hilton, Aberdeenshire, director of
the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Railway
William Phillips Lamb, Esq. Ockham-house, Sussex, director of the
Dover and Bristol, and Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction
Railway
Rev. 0. A. Lamb, D.D., Iden, Sussex
James Macmillan, Esq. Southampton, director of the Southampton,
Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railway
Thomas Gybbon Monypenny, Esq. Hole park, Rolvenden, Kent,
director of the Dover and Bristol Railway
E. W. Morris, Esq. Pembury, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, director of the
Great North and South Wales Railway
Francis Reeves, Esq. Delmonden, Hawkhurst
George Smith, Esq. the Lambs, Staffordshire
Robert Tooth, Esq. Swift's-place, Cranbrook, Kent
Wm. Bestow', Esq. 20, Surrey-place, London, director of the Com-
mercial Life Assurance Company, and Worcester, Warwick, and
Rugby Railway
Robert Bestow, Esq. Surrey-place, London, director of the Com-
mercial Life Assurance Company, and Worcester, Warwick, and
Rugby Railway
J. Benson, Esq. Park-place aTlas, 3faida-hill West, director of the
Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway
Thomas Ferrand Dearden, Esq„ Rochdale
John Blunt, Esq. director of the Lend u Decks Company, and Great
Eastern and Western Railway
Alfred Bush, Esq. Queen-square, Bath, director of the Great North
and South Wales and Worcester Railway
Captain F. Chamfer, Malkin-street lielgrave-square, director of the
Hazebronk and Famponx Railway
31. Clements, Esq. 69, Lowndes-square, director of the Great Leeds
and London Direct Railway
Henry Cornfoot, Esq. 6, Copthall-court, director of the Commercial
Bank of London
lilies Donner, Esq. 31, Han.,-place, Sloane-street, director of the
Great Welsh Central, Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth, South-
end mid Eastern Counties Junction
Edward Evans, Esq. Stones-end, Borough, director of the Commer-
cial Life Assurance Company
D. T. Johnson, Esq. Aldermary-churchyard, director of Remington's
Direct Manchester Railway
A. 31'Moran, Esq., Cambridge-street, Hyde-park, director of the
Grantham, Nottingham, Leicester, and loth Midlands Jnnetion
Major-General Parlby, C. 8., Rutland antte, Hyde-park, director of the
London mid Manchester Railway
James W. Peppercorn, Esq. Old Broad-street, director of the Haze-
brouk and Famponx Railway
R. 3f. Preece, Esq. Lothbury, and 24, Park-square
James Reeves, Esq. Leyton, director of the South Midlands Junction,
and Directondon and Manchester Railway
Francis noose, Esq. Upper Montagu-street, Montagu-square
James Russell, Esq. Gloucester-place, Portman-square, director of
the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton and Tring,
Reading, and Basingstoke Railways
James Saynes, Esq. Great Dover-street, Borough
Edwin Smith, Esq. 51, Great Ormond-street, director of the Avon and
Severn Railway
John Taylor, Esq. Ifoxton, director of the West-End and Soutkern
Counties Railway
Thomas Wakefield, Esq. director of the Dover and Bristol Railway
(With power to add to their number).
BANKER—Commercial Bsta.:: of London, Lothbury.
ENGINEERs— Francis Giles, Esq. and Alfred Giles, Esq.
STANDING COUNSEL.—Francis Barrow, Esq.
SoLicrroxs—Metsrs. Elinslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street,
London.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Messrs. Willis and Neve, Craubrook
Mr. John Elliot Wilson, Cranbrook
Messrs. Beecham and Upperton, Hawkhurst
SECRETARY—E. A. Lamb, Esq.
PROSPECTUS.
This line will pass in a direct course from Tunbridge, via Paddock-
wood (thus connecting itself with Maidstone), through the parishes
of Branchley, Iforsmonden, Goudhurst, Cranbrook, Benenden,
Hawkhurst, Sandhurst, Rolvenden, Newenden, Northiam, Peas-
marsh, Beckley, Iden, and Playden, to the town and harbour of
Rye, and it will embrace a large extent of adjacent country, at pre-
sent unprovided with, and much requiring the admitted advantages
of railway transit.
The length of the line will be about twenty-five miles, a great
portion of it will pass through a level country, and the remaining
part is free from any material engineering difficulty, or works likely
to require any serious outlay, and it is not expected to he necessary
to interfere with any re,idences or ornamental property.
The saving of distance to Rye, and all the other places embraced
by this line, will be considerable.
The capital required is estimated not to exceed 500,0001.
During the last session of Parliament application was made for
a similar line, partially embraeing the same country, when it
was shown in detail, by evidence produced before the Committee,
that the contemplated traffic, after deducting 401. per cent. for work-
ing expenses, would leave a large per tentage upon the invested
capital. That line was rejected on the ground that the beat direc-
tion had not been selected, but with an intimation that the rt of
Rye was e Allied to a direct railway communication with theirte-
rior of the country, in the best direction towards London. The pre-
sent scheme has been based upon this intimation, taking advantage
of the merits and defects which appeared upon that investigation,
and as it embraces a more populous and productive country, and
passes. in a more direct line to London, and will have the benefit of
better access to other and more numerous lines, the sources of traffic
are considerably increased, and there is every reason to believe, from
what passed during the last session, that the present plan will be
favourably entertained by the Legislature.
The chief object is to open the port of Rye to the full benefit of a
railway communication, through a populous and productive district,
in the direction of London, to the best point at which it can avail
itself of the existing and contemplated lines.
The imports of Rye, particularly coals, with lime and other
manures, are of great importance to the country through which the
line will pass, and a cheaper and better mode of transit will much
increase the demand for them, and give the opportunity of great im-
provement in the cultivation of the adjacent country.
A railway through the heart of the chief hop district of the king-
dom, also producing corn, timber, and hop-poles, and communicating
at its terminus with a great part of the important cattle district of
Romney Marsh, must be a public advantage.
The port of Rye is admitted to be the best outlet and quickest
rout to Paris and to other parts of the Continent, and there can be
do doubt If a direct railway should be made to Rye, with moderato
Improvemeat in the harbour, that It would be much adopted, particti-
cularly as a national and commercial conununication with France,
and ba,,persons travelling on business.
Applications for shares and prospectuses to be addressed to the
Secretary, at the offices, 94, Cheapside ; Messrs. Willis and Neve, sold lens,, .
Cranbrook ; Mr. John Elliot Wilson, solicitor, Cranbrook ; or
to- Messrs. Beecham and Upperton, solicitors. Hawkhurst; and
to the following Brokers :—London Messrs. Peppercorne anti Co., 2, Old Broad-street; Messrs. Preece and Evans, Lothbury ;
Messrs. Fryer and Co., 1, Birchiu-litne, Lis-erpool-31egsrs. Alston
and Gage ; Sfessrs. Reynolds and Son ; Mr. Joseph Brice, Man-
chester—Mr. John Duncuft ; Mr. John O'Niel, Leeds—Messrs.
A. end C. Beardshaws ; Messrs. Wellbeloved and Co. Bristol—
Messrs. Tate and Nash. Birmingham—Mr. James Pearson. Brad-
fbrd—liestrs. Samuel Hutchinson and Co. Worcester—Mr. William Miles. Cheltenham—Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and Co. Exeter—Mr.
Thomas Sanford. Southampton—Messrs. Easty and Sons. Edin-
burgh—Mr. J. W,.Lyon; 89, George-street ; Mr. Robert Allen. Gins-
gow-31essrs. Black and Co. ; Messrs. Buchanan and Aitkin.
Aberdeen—Mr, W. Gordon. Dublin—Messrs. Bruce and Byrnes.