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PUBLICATIONS.

THE UPPER INDIA RAILWAY
COMPANY.
TEMPORARY OFFICES, 6, ADAMS-COURT, OLD BROAD-

THE ENGLISH, SCOTTISH, and AUSTRA-
LIAN CHARTERED BANK.
To be Incorporated by Royal Charter, with limited liability.
Capital 500,0001. sterling, in 25,000 Shares of 201. each, with power
to increase to 1,000,0001. Deposit 41. per Share. •
DIRECTORS.
Wm. Ormsby Gore, Esq., M.P., Director of the London Joint Stock
Bank.
James Alexander, Esq., (firm of Redfern and Alexander, Attatrallan
Merchants)
Philip P. Blyth, Esq. (firm of Blyth Brothers, and Co.)
Andrew Caldecott, Esq. (firm of Caldecott, Sons, and Willcocks)
Charles Johnston, Esq., Chairman of the East London Water Works
Company
Thos. Wm. Laroche, Esq. (firm of Ralph Fenwick, Son, and Laroche,
Australian Merchants)
John Masterman, j un., Esq., London, Ranker
Ambrose Moore, Esq., Director of the London Joint Stock Bank
John Sanderson Rigge, Esq. (firm of Sanderson, Fry, Fox, and Co.,
Merchants).

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STREET.
(Provisionally Registered.)

Now ready, in. 3 yols.,
ANNETTE; A TALE.
By W. F. DEACON.
With a Memoir of the Author,
BY THE HON. SIR T. N. TALFOURD, D.C.L .
Colburn and Co., Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street.
,To be had at all the Libraries.

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To be Incorporated by Royal Charter or Act of Parliament, limiting
the liability of the shareholders to the amount of their Shares.
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Capital 1,000,0001., in 50,000 shares of 201. each, with power of
increase.
Deposit, Two Shillings per Share.
CHAIRMAN.

WEEK DAYS.

Sir John Campl ell, K.C.H., H.E.1.C.5., 10, Harley-street, Cann.
dish-square.
DIRECTORS.
'W. P. Andrew, Esq., H.E.1.C.5., Hogarth louse, Chiswick.

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George Lathom Br woe, Esq , Torrington... yore.
Major G asfuv, Bengal Engineers, late Executive Engineer, Fur-
ruckabad and Berielly Division.
Captain the Hon. G. F. Hotham, R.N., Director of the Brighton
Railway Company.
William Lowndes, Esq., Lowndes-square and the Bury, Chesham,
Wadham Locke Sutton, Esq., Hamilton-terrace, St. John's-wood.
Thomas Williams, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway.
(With power to add to their number.)
MANAGING DIRECTOR.
W. P. Andrew, Esq.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths.
Messrs. Bouverle, Murdoch, and Co.
SOLICITORS.

with power to add to their number.
BANKERS IN LONDON.
Messrs. Masterman, Peters, and Co.
The London Joint Stock ttaak.
BANKERS IN SCOTLAND.
The British Linen Company.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Hughes, Kearsey, and Co., London.
Messrs. Hunter, Blair. and Cowan, W.S
OFFICIAL AUDITOR.
J. E. Coleman, Esq.
BROKERS. , Edinburgh.
Messrs. Joshua Hutchinson and Son, London.
Messrs. Sheppard and Sons, London.
Messrs. Allan and Dunlop, Edinburgh.
SECRETARY (PRO TEM.)
John Wilson Pillans, Esq.
The vast tide of emigration which has recently flowed frets Eng-
land and Scotland into the Australian colonies, composed A
amountth, indi-
viduals possessing in the aggregate a large the
recent discoveries of their great mineral weal
their agricultural and commercial resources, render the extension of
end the
fecatnpital ea ;
se of
sound Banking Establishments, under cautious management, a sub-
ject of the greatest importance to the future welfare of those valuable
and rising colonies.
The English, Scottish, and Australian i,
--artered Bank has been
formed for the purpose of establishing banks of issue and deposit in
the principal towns of Australia; for conducting exchange opera-
tions ; for making advances upon bullion, gold dust, and other un-
doubted securities e-for gnu:W=4444 AT*
establishments of the company, and for et- '
usual banking business in the colonies.
The Directors have the satisfaction of announcing that the li9ye
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secured the co-operation of several influential parties in Scgrand,
with a view to place the business of the company
upon an extended
basis.

Messrs. Hodgson, Concanen, and Noyes, No. 5, Lincoln's Inn-fields,
Messrs. Sutton, Ommanney, and Prudence, Bas.nghall-street.

BROKERS.
Messrs. R. and J. Sutton, Royal Exchange.

This Company is established to introduce Railways into Upper
India. The First Section, about 130 miles in length, commencing
at Allahabad, at the confluence of the Ganges and Jumna, will
terminate at Cawnpore. The future Sections will carry on the Line
to Agra, Delhi, Lahore, and the Indus.
Allahabad is an ancient and populous city, of great fame and im-
portance in the East. Crowds of Pilgrims resort to its sacred
shrines and temples—it is the entrepot for the traffic by the Steamers
and the larger Country Craft—and is one of the principal Civil and
Military Stations. Cawnpore is the largest Military Station in India.
There is, both by Steamers and Country Craft, a continucusqier-
manent water communication between. Calcutta and Allahabad.
The yearly tonnage of the Lower Ganges is 1,500,000, by the Country
Craft alone. The number of Passengers Is also very great. Deep
water ceases at Allahatosuliimcl,causivavgly, g is at this important
city that the real difficulty :and expenS'e-lif trafisit
banks of the Upper Ganges, and the sharp ledges of rock of the
Jumna, rendering the navigation by even the smaller Country Craft
slow and precarious.

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The insurance of merchandise and property from Agra to Allaba-
bad by the river route, in consequence of the danger and diffLulty of
the navigation, is as high as from Calcutta to Eugland, the distance
in the one case being 300, iv the latter 15.000 miles.
Above Allababad, notwithstanding the detective river navigation,
and the rude and expensive land carriage, which costs from 4d. to
Bd, per ton per mile, moving at the slow rate of ten miles in twenty-
four hours, there is an officially ascertained traffic of above 1,000,000
tons, and a land passenger traffic by various conveyances exceeding
100,000 pe- annum, besides passengers by boats, and abuut 300,000
travellers on fstot.

It is intended that the management of the company's affairs shall
he vested in a London Board, and that the Branch Establishments
in the colonies shall be conducted by properly qualified managers,
assisted by Local Boards. The selection of a Colonial Inspector will
receive the most careful att,ntion of the Directors.
The intercourse between Great Britain and Australia has now be-
come certain and regular, by the establishment of direct steam com-
munication with that country, and the [Armors in London will thus
be enabled to exercise an efficient control over the local managers of
the branches to be established in Australia.
The high ra' e of interest obtainable in Australia for advances on
good security, promises a profitable employment for the capital of
the Company whilst the impulse given to commercial undertakings
by the recent gold discoveries, will secure an ample return upon the
LvaorciaeluEs
sbtraabnlcishheins
eonftsbriness to be carried on by the Company at its
The great field open for this Company's operations may be under-
stood from the fact, that there are only two establishments in
England at present employed in conducting banking affairs with
the important colonies of Victoria and New South Wales, and these
are eminently successful, and are realising large profits for the share-
holders.
It appears from the last printed half-yearly report of the Bank of
New South Wales, dated 21st April, 1852, that the following results
have been realised by that well-conducted establishment.
7he Directors state that the profit and loss account will enable
them to declare, not only the usual dividend, at the rate of 10 per
cent. per annum, but an extra dividendh,avtethaenarahteavoef lcOarpreierdcetnhte.
for the half year, to be applied in aid of the extension of the capital.
In addition to the above the .Directors state that they have set
apart 5,000/. to defray the cost of freight and insurance on the ship-
Passed 2,495/. I4s. sd.
wholetmo e
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of
ctoh i ne
augmentationpfrreosme n Et noof
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tenhde furniture
reserved
ecyc, and the balance of pre-
fund;
ount
'iminary expenses to profit and loss account; and, after all these ap-
rpermoparlinstetidontos,biet
carried forward
ffroorwmatrhdetroepeonrtewthaeteethoonestam
foorf
equalisingl,73Bl. 7s. 7d,
fu-
ture dividends.
The Directors allude to the unparalleled circumstances in which
the Branch Bank, at Melbourne, has been placed by the gold dis-
coveries in the sister colony, and they recommend the creation of
2,500 new shares, of 201. each, for the increase of their capital. They
add that their stock of coin (notwithstanding the great extension of
their exchange business, involving a considerable accumulation of
funds in England), amounted to the large sum of 230,470/. 12s. 6d.,
being more than one-fourth of the whole amount held in the colonies
of New South Wales and Victoria. The Directors state in the report
Pof a quarter of
r immediate control,
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that having in view the great change in their financial affairs then
dsihz tttypbrnei teßanaptipitkeoarsweydidtbutoieey impose
wards eui upon them of bring-
a million sterling from this country.
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Having a great and navigab'e river connecting Calcutta and Alla-
kiabad, a Railroad would, by beginning at the latter city, and pro-
ceeding by Agra and Delhi to Lahore, establish a steam conamunica-
ton from Calcutta through the lertile and populous Dooab in the
North-West Provinces, `• oecupying the great line of Indian traffic
with Central and Upper As a." This is the great line of Military as
well as Commercial intercourse, more than three-fourths of the
Bengat Army being cantoned above Allahabad, and almost all emer-
gem. movements of troops and stores taking place to the north-west,
or in advance of that town. _ _

One of the Directors of this Company, so far back as 1846, in a
work of his on Indian Railways,* stated that he had seen " no large
portion of territory present the like facilities for the introduction of a
Railway, as from Allahabad to Delhi."
" This line would have no rival, for the river Steamers; instead of
competing with it, would form a powerful basis, and keep up a con-
tinuous communication between the Railway and Calcutta, and
our great Military Stations and Magazines at Allahabad, Cawn-
pore, Agra, and Delhi, would all be in close communication with
each other, and, by means of the steamers, have a free and rapid
access to Calcutta."
Subsequently, the Indian Railway Commission confirmed, from
actual survey, the accuracy of this opinion ; and still more recently,
Major J. P. Kennedy, late Director of the Railway Department to
the Government of India, in his report to the Marquis of Dalhousie,
Governor-General, expressed himself as follows :—" Between Alla-
habad and Delhi there is no engineering question of difficulty what-
ever, as the beautiful flat bed (extending for several hundred miles in
the direction of the Line, in the Dooab between the rivers Ganges
and Jumna), with its numerous commercial towns, offers, perhaps,
the most singularly inviting district for laying down a railway that
can be found in the world ; free as it is from inundation, from hills,
from river-crossings, and road-crossings, in short, from any impedi-
ment, and a'most every ordinary source of expenditure in railway
construction." Slight as the while amount of labour is that would be
required to carry a single line of railroad from Allahabad to Lahore
and the Indus, it is the intention of this Company to proceed in a gra-
dual manner, opening short sections, having an important town at
either terminus.
The route consists of component parts, each complete in itself, pos-
sessing a local as well as a thorough traffic.
The present capital of the Company has been fixed at a sum which
will leave a sufficient margin for future contingencies, and the capi-
tal for future sections will be raised from time to time as may be
necessary.
From the paramount importance of this Railway to the good
government and prosperity of India, the Directors have every hope
of obtaining from the Hon. East India Company the same terms and
conditions as have been already accorded to similar undertakings,
the existing traffic securing a return on the capital invested far be-
yond the amount of any guarantee that could be required.
The Directors are hereby empowered to treat for and make such
arrangements with the Court of Directors and the Board of Control
as to them may seem beneficial to the Company, as well for securing
a guaranteed divioend from the East India Company, as in regard to
territorial concessions.

Application has been made fora Royal Charter of Incorporation
to limit the liability of the Shareholders in the English, Scottish, and
ustralian Chartered Bank, and the operations of the Company
will be commenced immediately on the charter being obtained. If
the charter he not granted, the deposits will be returned to the sub-
scril)ers in full.

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Power will be taken by the deed of settlement to be executed in
compliance with the terms of the charter to increase the capital of
the Company to 1,000.000/. ; and, if the capital be increased, the new
shares to bit created will be offered, in the first instance, to the
existing Shareholders, and to such influential parties in the colonies
as may be likely to extend the business of the Bank.
It is considered that the deposit of 41. per share will enable the
Directors to commence operations in an efficient manner, and on a
scale commensurate with the importance of the undertaking. An
interval of at least three months will intervene between all future
calls, none of which, it is exp cted, will exceed 21. per share.
Application for Shares may be made, in the form annexed, to the
Secretary (pro tem.), at No. 4, Adam's-court, Old Broad-street,
London ; to Messrs. Joshua Hutchinson and Son, 39, Lothbury ;
to Messrs. Sheppard and Sons, No. 28, Threadneedle-street, London;
or to Messrs. Allan and Dunlop, St. Andrew-square, Edinburgh.

The Deposit to be paid on the allotment of Shares will be Two
Shillings per Share, being after the rate of Ten Shillings per cent.,
the amount prescribed by the Act 7 and 8 Vict., c. 110.
A Deei embodying the Provisions required by that Act, and such
as the Directors may consider proper for the regulation of the Com-
pany, and for carrying out the objects in ♦iew, will be prepared ;
and if any Shareholder should fail to execute the same for One
Month after the publication of a notice in the " Times" newspaper,
calling on the Proprietors so to do, his Shares, with the Deposits
paid thereon, will become forfeited to the use of the Compnny.
Application will be made for a Charter of Incorporation or an Act
of Parliament, limiting the liability of the Shareholders to the
amount of their Subscriptions.
Applications for Pro-pectuses and Shares may be made to the
Brokers of the Company, Messrs. R. and J. Sutton, Stockbrokers,
Royal Exchange, in the form annexed, on or before the 16th inst.
* " Indian Railways." By an Old Indian Postmaster.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the D_rectors of the Upper India Railway Company.
I requet you will allot to me Shares in the capital of the
above-maned Company, and I hereby engage to hccept the same, or
any less number, on the terms of the prospectus, and to pay the
amount thereof', and sign the Deed of Incorporation as and when
required by the Directors, and subject to their rules and regulations.
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[PRICE SD.

THE NEW CRYSTAL PALACE.
The work of reconstructing the Great Exhibition
building at Sydenham is now being pushed forward
with great vigour, and that spectacle of well-ap-
plied labour which in Hyde-park excited such un-
qualified admiration is about to be successfully
repeated. Alreedy the site has been cleared, the
foundations to a great extent prepared, a vast mass
of materials collected on the ground, and even the
plan of the surrounding gardens and their embels
lishments roughly struck out. Great as was the
speed with which the cld building was reared, there
is every reason to believe that in this respect the
new will rival, if it does not eclipse it. The credit
of the nation for punctuality no longer acts as a sti-
mulus on the contractors, but they will, no doubt,
show themselves men of ;heir word, and they have
not only the experience of the previous undertaking
to aid them, but they work to a great extent
with the same hands, the same materials, and the
same proportions. The very bell that summoned
the labourers to their work—the crane that
that tested the girders in Hyde-park, are again at
their former use. Huge piles of materials, arranged
so as to he most available, are stacked in order along
the "ground.
There are long
columns, reviving, by
the paint tions oiOwen ntuprows of prostrateon them, recollec-
oscolouring. The doors through
which so vast a tide of
are deposited in a heap humanity swept last summer
onesees above the other, ready for
fresh service. One
girders, and other
window-frames, panelling, mountains of sasbbars,
x-°anterials, all bearing
gutters, railings,
,rn the traces of their late use, and apparently
teriorated in condition
° purpose, and asiatclowthede
destroyedtbreeremarkably
freby. There is
immense.. accumulation
away in a shed erected for the
in the
prrearocsefnetragfreomof tilhaytdeb_
park
kle
ism atsearidialti
permanent
small. In laying the foundations
character of the new structure is shopwronobry.
increased size of them, but the old the
and the rule of having everything a multiple of
24 are preserved. It is this principle which renders
the details of construction in such undertakings so
simple and economical, and which now, fully recog-
nized as it is, promises to yield the grandest results
to the science of architecture. While the actual site
of the palace has thus been cleared and prepared for
the superstructure, and while vast accumulations of
materials have been made, the working drawings have
also been completed, or nearly so, and a few days
snore will show the whole design growing to reality,
with a speed and certainty which the mechanical re-
sources of this country alone render practicable. It
is a gratifying feature of the new undertaking that the
more immediate direction of the work is confided to
Mr. Henderson, whose ill health was so severely felt
by the firm of which he is a member during the
struggle to be ready for the opening of the Exhibi-
tion. Mr. Henderson's great energy and practical
skill admirably qualify him for the task on which
he has entered, and he has in Mr. Cochrane,
who occupied the same position in Hyde-park,
a most effective foreman. Of the building which
they are about to raise, the main features are
sufficiently well known to justify a natural anxiety
in the public mind for its successful compietion.
There cannot be a doubt that the new Crystal Palace
will be a far more splendid edifice than the old,
though the wonder which the novelty of the latter
inspired may somewhat blunt our appreciation. The
site is magnificent, and commands a glorious pro-
spect, in which London, with her far extending
suburbs and her population of 2,000,000, forms but a
section of the view. Looking south-east even now,
the eye is carried over a smiling and variegated land-
scape without obstruction, as tar as its powers can
reach; but no conception can at present be formed of
the circuit visible from an additional elevation of 200
feet, and embracing within its ample verge, not only
the panorama of the metropolis, and the course of our
greatest river to the sea, but the Surrey hills, abound-
ing in natural beauty, and the rich lands of Kent, the
garden of England. Then it must be remembered
that the Palace itself will be not the least remark-
able feature of the scene, shining on its elevated
site, and made resplendent by having the sky as its
background. Crowning the ridge, it will be
conspicuous for many a mile, its towers, arched
transepts, and nave, finely breaking up and diver-
sifying its enormous dimensions. The monotonous
effect of the old building will be completely re-
moved, and it will rise into the air a noble temple,
dedicated to the innocent recreation of the people.
Tae grounds of Penge- park, which it immediately
overlooks, are nicely undulated, and the frontage,
which has a south-eastern exposure from the way in
which the land drops, will be elevated and command-
ing. An open colonnade on this side will run along
the whole length of the structure, and the arches of
the three transepts, recessed to a depth of 24 feet, will,
from their great height and the effect of shadow, be ,
singularly imposing. That in the centre will be 200
feet high, and it has just been proposed by Mr. Barry ,
to surmount the whole with three vast domes, the
loftiest rhino- 400 feet from the base. The work of ,
decoration has been commenced externally, the main
avenue, the spaces for some of the fountains, and the
line of terraces being roughly indicated. The
genius of Paxem will soon bring this part of the
undertaking into shape and consistency. Penge-
park is remarkably well adapted for the operations
contemplated, and there are some fine specimens
of timber already on the ground, which will
no doubt be turned to good and telling account.
Among the more striking features of this portion of
the works is a lofty tower with a tank at the top 50
feet 'quare, which it is proposed to construct for the
supply of the fountains, and which is to be so ar-
ranged that it can itself be converted into an immense
cascade. Of the internal decorations and other points
comprised in the company's scheme it would be pre-
mature yet to say much, for, though the plans con-
nected with them nave been so far matured, they will
probably undergo extensive modifications, as circum-
stances may dictate. Each department has been en-
trusted to the ablest men that could be found to take
charge of it, and they are all now busily engaged in
forming their several collections. Owen Jones and
Digby Wyatt are scouring the continent for the
materials of artistic embellishment and decoration ;
Professor Ansted is getting together a great series
of geological illustrations ; the section of natural
history is intrusted to the joint care of Professor
Edward Forbes, Mr. Waterhouse, and Mr. Gould,
assisted by Mr. Thompson, of King's College. Dr.
Latham has undertaken the ethnological department,
within a few
and the winter garden is, of course, the special
object of Sir Joseph Paxton's solicitude, who will,
canardens of the
doubt, do everything that a knight to bringlic!
down into the 19sh century, and
minutes' drive of London, the tabled
The last accession
Hesperides, without the dragon.
made to the company 'e stiff, and
valuable for them,
body, is Mr.
Belshaw, that most successful, active,a
superintendent of the, wutkin
since their commencaesmeantc7n details and obliging
commers
cial perhapscun t
rtyh.e mostiie
g of exhibitions
will fill his old position in the New Crystal Palace,
and exhibitors occualready coming
his special care. The
pying space there will be under
applications of this kind are
a considerable source of revenue.'
and it is expectedturn out
in fast, though a rent will be charged,
that this will eventually
whole, the dun ertaking of the Crystal Paw°
be re-
pithy is one which manifestly deserves to
vour and
ceived by the public with the greatest w°
eh -eh t'o see
which every philanthropic mind to
critical usatut ; in their
Viewed as a
successful. Yet, at this
operations, the directors should
rience of the Great
mind certain points which theicehitne bear carefully in
if not held stead-
Exhibition suggests, arid h
fastly in view, Their subscribed capital is
Zgood and nobly-intended
enterprise with
!ready contemplate an expen-
-500,000/.—theirdpla
thatn amount, and probably not much
may
diture far beyond
taoanhesterling. They will find that before
paid on this amount a large annual
any dividendaubnder 1,000
e uired for the expenses of maintenance.
the commercial value of their under-
d upon the patronage of the in-
takingus is
classes. To have that patronage the charge
ll
tly ase -
dBf ouurr ns
Theirt
ra admission ibsraieinogenrhe must be easily within the means of those
classes. Now, if the preliminary outlay is not very
carefully guarded, this will he impossible. The
humbler classes paid their shillings to see the Ex-
hibition, but that was once in a way, and because
the glories of the spectacle were fleeting. The
bare knowledge that a sight can be seen at any
time tends greatly to disarm curiosity ; and the
strict commercial character at the new undertaking
dissolves a considerable amount of that popular sym-
pathy which was felt tor a common effort, in weich
all made sacrifices to do homage to the dignity of
labour. The Great Exhibition was self-supporting,
but it was also, while it lasted, a great freewill offer-
ing. Some were paid, and rightly so, for what they
did ; but the majority contributed their time,
their skill, and their property gratuitously. Had it
taken place under the Mundy contract one may
fairly question whether the success achieved would
have been nearly so brilliant, and, even as matters
stand, with the great body of the work done by volun-
tary effort, and the whole world agog aboutthe splen-
dour of the spectacle, the surplus is only 150,0001.
English companies engaged in new undertakings

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