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London, England, 1836-10-08 00:00:00

MONAIOUTHSHIRE IItON AND COAL
COMPANY.
Capital, £300,000, in Shares of £5O each.
Deposit, Si. per Share.
No Call to exceed 21. 10s. per Share, nor to be made at inter-
vals of less than Three Months.
Expected Returns, as proved by the Prospectus, and by the Re-
port of two eminent mineral Surveyors resident in Monmouthshire,
811. per cent. per annum, at the present prices of Iron.
Applications for the Reserved Shares may b• made to George
Ross, Esq., 3, Copthall-buildings, Throgmorton-street ; Messrs.
Rickards and Walker, 29, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London; or at the
Company's Office, Harrington-place, Bath.
Dated October 1, 1836.

pIASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY
A ' COMPANY, Incorporated by Act of Parliament, for making
a RAILWAY from LONDON to NORWICH and YAR-
MOUTH, by ROMFORD, CHELMSFROD, COLCHESTER,
and IPSWICH.
FIRST CALL OF 1/. PER SHARE.

Notice is hereby given that the Directors have, in pursuance of
the powers given them by the Act of Incorporation, made a FIRST
CALL of 1/. per SHARE, payable on or before the 26th of No-
vember next. And the several Proprietors of Shares in the Capi-
tal Stock of the Company are hereby required to pay the said Call,
on or before the appointed time, to one or other of the following
Banking Houses :
The London and Westminster Bank, Throgmorton-street, or any
of its Branches
Messrs. Lemon and Co
Messrs. Sparrow and Co.
Messrs. Mills and Co Colchester
Messrs. Bacon, Cobbold, and Co Ipswich
Messrs. Alexander and Co.
Messrs. Harveys and Hudsons Norwich
The East of England Bank Yarmouth
The Liverpool Bank
The Borough Bank
The Manchester and Liverpool District Bank Manchester
The National Provincial Bank Bath
The National Provincial Bank ...Birmingham
Messrs. Fryer, Andrews, and Co.
Messrs. Brodie and Co Salisbury
The Wilts and Dorset Banking Company Ditto
The West of England and South Wales District Bank Bristol
The West of Scotland Bank Edinburgh & Glasgow
Sir Robert Shaw, Bart., and Co. . Dublin
By Order, J. C. ROBERTSON, Sec.
Office, No. 18, Austin-friars, Oct. 8, 1836.

T,ONDON, ROCHESTER, and CHATHAM
RAILWAY, through ESSEX.
Capital 200,000/., in 4,009 Shares of 501. each.
Deposit 21. per Share.
rßovisiosni, COMMITTEE.
Sir Robert Alexander, Bart. Richard Hall, Esq.
George Baker, Esq. Lawrence Hevworth, Esq.
Henry Bosanquet, Esq. Thomas Robertson, Esq.
William Gunston, Fsq. John Forbes Royle, Esq.. F. L. S.
Henry Luard, Esq. Major W. F. Williams, K.H.
With power to add to their number.
BANKERS—London and Westminster Bank ; Messrs. Jefferys 'and
Co., Chatham ; Messrs. Scott, Hayward, and Co., Gravesend
and Dartford.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Blunt, Roy, Blunt, and Duncan.
ENGINEER—John Braithwaite, Esq.
SECRETARY—W. S. Toone, Esq.
Various plans have been at different times brought forward for
forming a Railway communication along the Kentish shore of the
Thames between the metropolis and the city of Rochester, and the
great naval and military establishments at Chatham and Sheerness ;
but owing to the very hilly character of the country, the deep cuttings
and embankments necessary for the formation of a line of practicable
gradients, and the enormous expenditure of capital which would con-
sequently be requisite, they have all been either abandoned or sur-
vive with but slender hopes of success. The line now submitted
to the public is wholly free from every such difficulty. Without a
single tunnel, and without any high or extensive embankments, it
will run on excellent gradients the whole way, and though taking
what may at first seem a circuitous course, it will, in fact, be little
longer than a straight line between the two termini. It will com-
mence on the northern shore of the Medway, opposite to Rochester
and Chatham, at a point conveniently accessible to steam-boats, and
going round the chalk hills (through which the Thames and Med-
way Canal Tunnel is cut), proceed along the southern bank of the
Thames as far as Milton, next Gravesend, where a short steam ferry
(of less than ten minutes' transit) will connect it with West Til-
bury, on the Essex side of the river, whence it will pass inland by
Gray's Thurrock to Ockendon, where it will fall into the Thames
Haven Railway, which joins at Rumford the Great Eastern Coun.
ties line to London.

From thus taking advantage of the Eastern Counties and Thames
Railways for about 17 miles of the whole distance, and from the
great ease with which the other parts of the line may be executed,
the entire expense of completing the London, Rochester and Cha-
tham Railway through Essex will not amount to one-fifth of the
cost of any line that could be executed along the Kentish side of the
river. The distance from Rochester and Chatham to the metropo-
lis by this line will be 32 miles, which will be traversed with ease
in an hour and a half ; the distance by the present high-road is 31
miles—the time of travelling never less than three hours.
From Gravesend, passengers by this railway may reach London
within an hour ; by the steam-boats they cannot reach it with the
tide in less than two hours, and with an adverse tide in less than
throe hours.

From estimates of the probable revenue, which have been very
carefully prepared, and are founded entirely on the basis of the ex-
isting traffic, it appears that there would be an annual return from
passengers of 62,4071. 18s. 7d., and from goods of 17,0091. 17s.
The surveys are completed, and every other necessary preparation
is making for applying to Parliament for an Act of Parliament in
the ensuing session.
Applications for Shares may be addressed, post paid, to the Se-
cretary, at the Office of the Eastern Counties' Railway, 18, Austin-
friars, London.