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RECTORS.
Eight Hon. STEPHEN RDI
UMBOLD LUSHINGTON, Nor-
ton Court, Kent, Chairman.
Is. S. Magmas, Esq., Chatham, and 3, Adelaide place, Lon-
don-bridge, Deputy Chairman and Managing Director.
Edward. Henry Banks, Esq., Sheppy Court, Sheerness.
Frederick Leese, Esq., Neat's Court, Minster, Sheppy.
Richard Comyn, Esq., Queenborough, and 31, Lincoln's-inn-
fields, London.
CsPtaiDumergue, 12, Craven-hill, Bayswater, London.
ja"its—Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street, London.
ENGINEER—J. C. Birkinshaw, Esq.
SOLICITOR—James Ward, Esq., Sheerness.
33""a--G. S. Hgrbert, Esq., 73, Old Broad-street, London.
SECRETARY—S. J. Breeze, Esq.
11"1Poral7 Offices— 3, Adelaide-place, London-bridge ; and

High-street, Queenborough, Sheppy.
This company has been formed for the purpose of affording
railway accommodation to the Island of Sheppy, and at the
same time of improving the ordinary communication between
it and the nrdnland of Kent, by the erection of a bridge for
the common traffic.
The railway, seven miles and one furlong in length, will
commence at a junction with the East Kent line at Sitting-
bourne, and passing through Milton to the present Ferry over
the Swale, where the bridge is to be erected, will continue
thence through Queenborough to its termination near her
Majesty's dockyard at Sheerness. There will be no tunnel,
nor work of engineering difficulty, *and the lino will pass
over a country with most favourable eadients. The esti-
mated cost of the works, stations, bridge, land; and preli-
minary expenses is 84,00ei., and the directors have made
such agreements with Messrs. Jackson and Beane, the eminent
contractors, as will ensure the completion of the whole un-
dertaking at that estimate, and within 18 months of its com-
mencement, by which time the East Kent Railway will be
opened to Canterbury.
The Act of Parliament has been obtained with the consent
of all owners and occupiers of the land through which the
line will pass, and the expenses of a Parliamentary contest,
usually so destructive to future profits, have thus been hap-
pily avoided. In consideration also Of the facilities to be af-
forded to the ordinary road traffic by the bridge Parliament
bas consented to a free transfer to this Company of all the
rights, privileges, and property now belonging to the wardens
and jury of the King's Ferry. These concessions include a
free public-house, a toll-house, about 225 acres of land, and
many rights which will materially tend to the prosperity of
the Company.
The inconsiderable length of the lino to be constructed is
by no means commensurate with the magnitude of the ob-
jects it seeks to accomplish, some of which are of great
national importance. An inspection of tke map will at once
show that it is the last connecting link between all the great
Government dockyards and arsenals, and that it will supply
ready access to the fortifications which command the mouths
of the Thames and Medway, and which are, in fact, the bul-
warks towards the sea of the metropolis itself. It will con-
nect the fertile Island of Sheppy with the main land of Kent,
and open an easy communication between Sheerness and Can-
terbury, Deal and Dover, on the ono hand, and London,
Chatham, Maidstone, Woolwich, Aldershot, Portsmouth, and
Plymouth on the other ; aid it will form part of a direct
route to the Continent from the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk,

and Essex, via Southend.
The Island of Sheppy is itself rich in agricultural produce
of all kinds, and in the valuable oyster beds on its shores ; it
contains numerous villages, and the towns of Queenborough
and Sheerness, the latter already a place of much importance
from its well-known naval arsenal and dockyard, destined,
from the additional works in progress, to become the principal
naval station in the kingdom ; it possesses many beautiful
sites facing the German Ocean, and enlivened by the con-
tinual stream of shipping entering and leaving the river,
which await only the means of ready access, and the facilities
they are certain to create, to become very favourite resorts
of the denizens of the metropolis in pursuit of either health or
pleas-are.

Irrespective, however, of the traffic which overy railway is
found to originate, sufficient already exists, in connection
with other advantages indicated above, to hold out, upon a
careful computation, the promise of au annual dividend of 10
per cent. on the capital to be expended; and the Directors con-
fidently submit that the very moderate cost per mile of the
works, the almost total absence of preliminary expenses, the
locality of the railway itself, and the prospective traffic to
arise from its formation, afford reasonable and safe grounds
for the belief that their expectations of profit will be fully
realised.

A considerable portion of the shares is already subscribed
for, and application for the remainder may be addressed to
the Directors of the Sittingbourne and Sheerness Railway
Company., 3, Adelaide-place, Loudon-bridge ; or to G. S.
Herbert, Esq., broker to the Company, 73, Old Broad-street;
but no application will bo entertained unless a deposit
of 10s. for each share applied for be previously made with
Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., bankers, 67, Lombard-street,
London ; Messrs. Valiance and Co., bankers, Sittingbourne ;
Messrs. Day and Nicholson, bankers, Rochester ; Messrs
Hammond and Co., bankers, Canterbury ; Messrs. Hilton and
Co., bankers, Fevershans ; or with Mr. S. J. Breeze, at the
Company's office, High-street, Queenborough.
Forms of application for shares and copies of the prospec-
tus may be had at the Company's office, 3, Adelaide-place,
London-bridge; or of G. 8, Herbert, Esq., 73 Old Broad-
trsoto I

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