The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-17 00:00:00

BLAKELY ORDNANCE COMPANY
(I imitedt
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the List of Ap-
plications for Shares in this Company will be CLOSED on
MONDAY next, the 19th inst., for the Country.
By order of the Board.
JOHN HEALEY, Secretary.
Royal Exchange Buildings, June 17, 1865.

THE ALBERT-BRIDGE C OMPANY.
I noo porated by Act of Parliament 1861), and with
which the Battersea-bride Act is incorporated.
Capital £90,000, in 9,000 Shares of £lO each, with Power
to Borrow, £3O 000.
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Deposit £1 por Share on Application, and £1 per Share on
Allotment ; Calls of £2 each to be paid at intervals of
Three Months.
Each Shareholder is only liable for the amount of the calls
that may be due upon shares standing in his name.
DIRECTORS.

The Right Honourable the Earl of CADOGAN, Chair-
man.
Thomas Vaughan Morgan, Esq., Beaufort Lodge, Chel-
sea, Chairman of the South Kensington Hotel Company.
Henry Palfrey Stephenson, Esq., the Hermitage, Dup-
pas-hill, Croydon, Chairman of the Singapore Gas Com-
pany.
Capt. J. C. Fitzmaurice, Brighton, of the Great Northern
Railway, and of the London, Brighton, and South Coast
Railway.
George Masefield, Esq., Ledbury, Herefordshire.
BANKERS.
The Union Bank of London, Pall-mall East.
BROKERS.
Messrs. J. and A. Scrimgeour, 10, Old Broad-street,
London, E.C.
_ SOLICITORS.

Messrs. Mayhew, Salmon, and 30, Great George-
street, Westminster.
ENGINEERS.

Messrs. Ordish and Le Feuvre, 18, Great George-street,
Westminster.
AUDITORS.

Messrs. Cash and Edwards (Public Accountants), 13,
Token-house-yard, Lothbury ; and
Robert Cox, Esq., 30, Cheyne-walk, Chelsea.
SECRETARY.
J. W. King, Esq.
TEMPORARY OFFICES.
6, Great Queen-street, Westminster.
The Act of Parliament authorising the construction of a
bridge over the River Thames from Chelsea to Battersea,
with approaches thereto, received the Royal assent on the
25th July, 1864.
The bridge will connect Chelsea and Battersea, starting
from Cheype-walk at its junction with Oakley-street, and
terminate in the Prince Albert-road, Battersea, adjoining
Battersea Park.

It will be constructed on the most modern and improved
form of the suspension principle, with cylinder foundations,
and of a width of not less than 40 feet, giving a clear head-
way in the centre of 21 feet above Trinity high-water
mark, the abutments forming a portion of the proposed
embankments on the Surrey and Middlesex shores.
A responsible Contractor has agreed to complete the
bridge, ready for traffic, in eighteen months, for £82,000,
taking part payment in paid-up shares of the Company.
If required, the Contractor has agreed to collect the tolls
of the new bridge and Battersea-bridge (which will become
the property of the Albert-bridge Company), and keep the
two bridges in repair for the space of twelve months after
the opening of the Albert-bridge, and has authorised the
Directors to retain the sum of £4,000 to guarantee the
shareholders for the same period a minimum dividend of 5
per cent. per annum, after paying all costs, charges, &c.
During the progress of the Bill in the House of Lords
very satisfactory arrangements were entered into for the
purchase of Battersea-bridge by the Albert-bridge Com-
pany : viz., the Albert-bridge Company agreed to purchase
Battersea-bridge (the purchase to be completed on the
opening of Albert-bridge) for a yearly rent-charge of
£3,000 per annum. The tolls on Battersea-bridge are
yearly increasing. For the year 1862 they amounted to
no less than £6,153.
The tolls on the new Chelsea-bridge (free on Sundays)
for the year ending March, 1863, were upwards of £4,000,
and have been increasing, taking the corresponding month
of last year, at a rate exceeding £lOO a-month.
The situation of the bridge is peculiarly favourable for
traffic ; it provides for Chelsea, Brompton, Kensington,
and the West-end of London a shorter and better route to
Battersea Park, Wandsworth, Clapham, Tooting, Mitcham,
and other places south of the Thames.
The Act of Parliament also authorises the Company to
construct a new street from the King's-road, Chelsea (oppo-
site Oakley-street), to the Brompton and Fulham-road
(opposite Sumner-place), and a short road from the Lower
Wandsworth-road to the Queen's-road, Battersea, thus
giving a direct thoroughfare from the Cromwell-road, Ken-
sington, to Clapham-common.
The great advantage the Albert-bridge possesses over the
other metropolitan bridges is—
First,—The small sum for which the bridge will be com-
pleted : the approaches on both sides of the river being
already made, the Company will not be called upon to pay
compensation.
Secondly,—The very satisfactory arrangements entered
into with the proprietors of Battersea-bridge will give the
Albert-bridge Company a clear profit of £3,000 per annum,
after deducting a sum per annum sufficient for maintenance
of bridge and expense of collecting of tolls.
Presuming the tolls on Albert-bridge equal to the tolls
on Battersea-bridge, the shareholders will have a clear
income of 9 per cent. on their capital.
Application for shares may be made in the annexed form,
and must be accompanied by a deposit of £1 per share. If
no allotment be made, the deposit will be returned to the
applicant without deduction. Prospectuses may be ob-
tained from Messrs. J. and A. Scrimgeour, the Brokers of
the Company ; at the Union Bank of London ; from the
Secretary, at the Offices of the Company ; from the Engi-
neers ; and from the Solicitors.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Directors of the Albert-bridge Company.
Gentlemen,—Having paid into the Union Bank of Lon--
don, Pall-mall, the sum of , being £1 per share on
shares in the abovo Company, I request you will
allot me that number of shares, and I hereby agree to accept
the same, or any less number that may be allotted to me,
and I undertake to pay the balance of the deposit and calls
thereon.

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