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LONDON (WATFORD) SPRING WATER
COMPANY—to be Incorporated by Act of Parliament—
Which will limit the liability of the shareholders, and in respect of
which the Hans, Sections, and Books of Reference have been duly
deposited in compliance with the Standing Orders of Parliament.
(Provisionally Registered under_the Act 7 & 8 Victot.l44o. 110.)
Capital 406,006/.ini6,000 Shires of 251. each,
Of which 11.75. 6d. per share will be payable on signing the Parlia-
mentary Contract, and no further call will be made until the Act has
been obtained.

AUDITORS.

Ralkes Currie, Esq., M.P., 29, Cornhlll, and Hyde-park-terrace.
Henry Thomas Rope, Esq., 116 Piccadilly, and Deepdene, Dork-
ng, Surrey

DIRECTORS.
Colonel Michael Edward Bagnold, 28, Hamilton-terrace, St. John's
wood.
George Hinton Bovill, Esq., 19, Abchurch•lane, and Wimbledon,
Surrey.
Thomas Dakin, Esq., 23, Abchurch-lane, and Hornsey.
Walpole Eyrs, Esq., 22, Bryanston-square.
James Lawrie, Esq., Cousin-lane, Upper Thames-street, and Cam-
brian-villa, Hackney.
Thomas Hayter Longden, Esq., Tokenhouse-yard, and Enuismore-
place, Prince's-gate, Hyde-park.
Benjamin Oliviera, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., 8, Upper Hyde-park-
street.
James Ponsford, Esq., 24, Palace-gardens, Kensington, and Hack-
s% ood.park, Hants.
Sir Robert Price, Bart., M.P., 11, Stratton-street, Piccadilly, and
Foxley, Herefordshire.
William R. Robinson, Esq., 21, Austin-friars, and Hill-house,
Acton.
James Warren, Esq., 95, Houndsditch, and Capel-house, Enfield.
(With power to add to their number.)
ENGINEER.
Samuel Collett Homersham, Esq., 19, Buckingham-street, Adelphi,

SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Maltby, Robinson, So Jackson, 7, Bank-buildings, Lothbury
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.
Messrs. Law, Holmes, Anton, and Turnbull, 18, Fludyer-street
Westminster.

BANKEBS.
Sir Samuel Scott, Bart., and Co., 1, Cavendish-square; Messrs
Currie and Co., 29, Cornhill.
SECRETARY.—Benjamin Rankin, Esq. -
Temeonauv OFFICES.-39, Moorgate-street.
PROSPECTUS.
Application was made to the Legislature in the last Session of Par-
liament for an Act to incorporate a Company under the above
title, and the Bill was carried through the second reading of the
House of Commons by a majority of three to one ; 196 Members
voting in favour of the Bill, and 65 against it.
Subsequently the Bill with ten other Bills relating to the supply
of water to the Metropolis were all referred to the same Committee
of the House of Commons ; but owing to the Bill being taken up
the very last in order, it was not until Tuesday, the 14th of June
last, that the proceedings upon it could be commenced before the
Committee. In consequence of this delay the proceedings could not
be completed before the House of Commons was dissolved.
It is. therefore, now requisite to renew the application to the
Legislature in the next Session of Parlisment ; but the valuable
evidence given before the Committee in the last Session in faveur of
the undertaking and the Bill, although from want of time it could
not be completed, has been published by order of the House of Com-
mons in a Blue Book, for the use of Parliament and the public, and
cannot fail materially to facilitate the early obtaining of the powers
sought by the pt esent application.
The object of this company is to supply, at a cheap rate, the Inha-
bitants of the cities of London and Westminster, and the boroughs of
St. Marylebone and Finsbury, and the following places intermediate
between those and the source of supply,—namely, Barnet, Bushey,
Edgeware, Eistree, Finchiey, Hadley, Hampstead. Harrow on the
Ilill, Harrow Weald, Hendon, Kingsbury, Mill Hill, Pinner, Stan-
more, Sudbury, Totteridge, Watford, Whetstone, Willesden,—with
pure soft Spring Water, distributed through pipes constantly charged;
so that, by the mere turning of a tap, it may be got fresh from the
mains, without the intervention of a cistern, even in the top stories
of the highest houses.
The water will be procured at Bushey Meadows, near Watford, at
the foot of a vast range of chalk hills, through which an enormous
volume of subterranean spring water at present escapes in under-
ground currents to the sea. In 1840, Mr. Robert Stephenson, the
eminent engineer, after having made a series of experiments anti
observations on a shaft and borings that had been sunk in the
chalk in this locality, by Mr. Robert Paten, for the purpose of demon-
strating how copiously spring water can be thus obtained for the
supply of the Metropolis, reported, as his conclusion, " I am perfectly
convinced of the feasibility of the proposed plan, as far as regards
quantity ;" a conclusion thetembeeetteemionce, and investiga-
gaUen have confirmed. -eletiewicese
Professors Graham, Miller, and Hoffman, the eminent Chemists
appointed in 1851 by Government as a Commission to consider the
chemical quality of the supply of water to the inetropas, when
alluding to water from the chalk intended to be supplied from
itushey Meadows. thus express themselves in a report addressed to
the then Home Secretary of State, and dated the 17th of June last
year:—" The inhabitants of London appear to have within their
reach, in these chalk strata, a supply of water, which is asserted,
on good authority, to be inexhaustible, and which may be considered
as everywhere or an uniform composition and quality. e *
It contains absolutely nothing of organic origin c spate(' of further
alteration or decomposition, and is therefore wholly unobjectionable,
on the ground of organic constituents. Its clearness and brilliancy
also appear perfect, front the complete absence of suspended matter,
and are highly attractive. Possmsing at all seasons the mean ton-
t stature of the year, the same water has an agreeable coolness and
freshness, which might certainly be preserved in a great degree by
proper means of conveyance and distribution. The only other
quality desired in a town supply was softness. * * * The soften-
ing operation, by the use of lime" (proposed by Professor Clark
of Aberdeen, which frees the water from 2 grains of chalk per pint,
or 1 ton per million gallons, without leaving anything else in the
water in the place of the chalk,) " is applicable in all seasons to the
spring water, *hire* indeed adapts itself with singular felicity to
that process. * The chalk spring waters can thus be
commanded with certainty under 3 degrees of hardness. which
is probably the extreme limit attainable anywhere in England
for a great supply." The water of the present companies is
reported by the same authority to be about 14 degrees of hardness.
" The chalk spring water after being softened," resume the learned
Commissioners, "is an extremely pure water. It appears to be con-
derably t uperior even to the soft water from the streams of the Surrey
sands. The chalk water alone is uniform in its
ofweatexcellenceor atsea-
all
times, the sources of it lying beyond the influence her
son In the judgment of the Commissioners, this softened
over chalk
water is entitled, from its chemical quality, to a preference all
others for the future supply of the metropolis."
At Beshey Meadows the subterranean spring water can be abun-
dantly procured at a natural elevation of 130 feet above the level of
the Thamesin London. This water, after being softened, would be
pumped through pipes buried in the ground into reservoirs so covered
as to maintain the uniform temperature of the water at all seasons.
and situated on Stanmore Common at a sufficient elevation to cause
by gravity the water to flow through pipes into the district named,
and to rise to all the highest grounds and buildings.
At a charge of from one-third to one-half less than the charges of
the Grand Junction and West Middlesex Water Companies, a divi-
dend of 10 per cent. would be returned upon the capital expended to
carry out the undertaking.
The well-attested superiority of the quality of the water, the prac-
tically unlimited quantity at command, and the simple and cheap
stature of the works required to procure and distribute it, unite to re-
commend the undertaking to capitalists as the means for making a
safe and profitable investment. The suburban places already named
contain 60,000 inhabitants, entirely unsupplied by any Company. and
greatly in want of water ; while the urgent demand that exists in
the Metropolis for so pure and so cheap a water as that now pro-
posed to be supplied is obvious to every one. The Thames water,
even when procured above where the tide flows, and after filtration,
and wh n taken direct from the pipes of the consumers before
going into any cistern. has been proved to contain much dead and
decaying animal and vegetable matter, an average of 18 different
species of living animalcules, besides nearly the same number of
various kinds of fungi and other plants and organisms in every half
gallon of such water, to say nothing here of the number
after that there
most
is of each species. The spring water trom Watford,
careful examination, has been found to be quite free from these con-
' taminatioes ; and while the placing at a cheap rate a constant
supply of so pure a water within the reach of the inhabitants of the dis-
tricts of the Metropolis, and the 'unsupplied places before named,
cannot fail to confer an bnportaut and lasting benefit upon them, at
the same time it must tend to stimulate in the most effective man-
ner the improvements s ) much required in tile water supply of the
other districts. 'lhus the undertaking has a claim to the support of
every inhabitant of this great Metropolis.
39. Moorgate-street, December, 1852.
Applications for Shares to be made in the annexed Ferns, ad-
dressed to the Secretary of the Company, on or before Saturday, the
18th of December next, at the offices, 39, Moorgate-street, or to
Messs. JOHNSON, LONGDEN, and Co., Stockbrokers, Tokenhouse-
yard.r where prospectuses and forms of application for shams may be
obtained.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Directers of the London (Watford) Spring Water Company.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me Shares of 251.
each in this undertaking, and I agree to accept the same, or such less
number as you may allot me ; and I undertake to pay the deposit
of la Is. Gd. per share thereon, and to execute the Parliamentary
contract:and subscribers' agreement when required so to do.
Dated this day of 1852.
Name and Surname in full
Residence
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