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NORWICH UNION LIFE INSURANCE
SOCIETY.
Capital, 2,162,824 L 93. sd.
PUSIDENT.—Lient.-Gen. Sir It. J. HARVEY, C.B.
SXciarraxv—Sir SAMUEL IRIGNOLD, U.P.
LONDON AGENT - C. J. BUNYON, Esq.
This Society has been established Furty-seven years, during which
period it has issued 29,344 Policies, and paid to the representatives of
1,558 deceased members upwards of 4,431,0441., and 1,934,3421. ster-
ling has been assigned by way of Bonuses.
To meet existing engagements, the Society possesses funds amount
ins to nearly Two Mitzto:ss Two HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS
STIRLING.
There is no Proprietary to divide with the Assured the profits of
this Institution, which is one of thevery few purely Mutual Insurance
Oases.
The Rates of Premium are below those of most offices, aml, at the
age 0f45 and upwards, not less so than 10 per cent.—a benefit in
Itself equivalent to an annual Bonus,
One-half of the first live annual Premiums may remain as a per-
manent charge upon the Policies granted for the whole duration of
UAL _ _ _ _

charge is made for Policy Stamps.
Annuities are granted upon favourable terms.
The rates for Survivorship and Special Contract Insurances bare
been lately greatly reduced.
Chief Offices—Surrey-street,}Toryvich, Audi, Crescent, New Bridge-
Street, Blackfriars, London.

PURSUANT to au Order of the High Court of
Chancery, made in a cause, Thomas Shepherd, plaintiff. John
Peirse Kennard and others, defendants, the creditors of THOMAS
SHEPHERD, late of Newington-terrace, in the county of Surrey,
Esquire, who died in or about the month of May, 1853, are, by their
*elicitors, on or before the 19th day of August, 1856, to come in and
grove their Debts at the Chambers of the Tice-Chancelier Sir Richard
Kindersley, No. 3, Stone-buildings, Lincoln's-inn, Middlesex,
or, in default thereof, they will be peremptorily excluded from the
benefit of the said Order.
Friday, the 22d day of August, 1856, at Twelve o'clock at noon
at the said Chambers, is appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon
the claims.
• Dated this 12th day of July, 1856.

CIIAS. PUGH, Chief Clerk.
JAMES HOOKE I, Solicitor for Plaintiff, 8,
Bartlett's-buildings.

THE.
CALCUTTA and SOUTH-EASTERN
RAILWAY COMPANY.

Provisionally Registered. -
To be Incorporated by Act of Parliament.
Capital, One Million, in 60,000 shares of 20Z., with power to
• ticrease. A Deposit of Two Shillings per Share.

DIRECTORS.
Chairman—Arthur James Lewis, Esq., Director of the Bom-
. bay, Baroda, and Central India Railway Company, Guest-
. ling Lodge, Hastings. •
Vice-Chairman—Sir T. H Maddock, M.P., late Deputy-Go-
- yernor of Bengal, and Director of the Scinde Railway Corn-
' Pany, Union Club.
Charles parber, Esq Lloyd's, and Chamberlain's Wharf.
*T• rortlseue Harrison, Esq. id Calcutta), 14, Cambridge-
square, Hyde-park.
James Mitchell, Esq., Director of the Crown Insurance Com-
pany, 8, Portugal-street, Grosvenor-square.
John Carnac Morris, Esq., F.R.S. (late Madras Civil Ser-
vice), Mansfield-street, Portland-place.
Hoary Haringtou Thomas, Esq.,' late Bengal Civil Service,
' Oriental Club.
(With power to add to their number.)
BIN MS—London and Eastern B tnkino• Corporation, 27,
Cannon street, City; 136, Westbourne•terrace ; and 44,
Mark-lane.
SOLICITORS—Howard Dollman and Charlton, 141, Fenchurch
street • I

BROKERS.
Messrs. Joshua Hutchinson and con, 29, Lothbury ; and
Messrs. Laurence; Son, and Pearce, Bartbolome7-lane.
SECRETARY—Mr. G. P. Stoddard.
. Temporary Offices-141, Feuchurch-street.
The Calcutta and South-Easters Railway Company is de-
Viled to connect Calcutta, by rail, with the important dis-
_ric„ta lying to the south-eastward of that city, and of Uhl-
_Th4'ely extending the line to Chittagong, • Arracan, and the
Pflacipal places in the Burmese territories Its immediate
object, however, is to connect Calcutta. with thee head
of the Mullah River, a distance of about 26 miles, over a
°ountry Presenting a dead level, and to construct Wet Docks
tt,9,, `connection with the rail, at the last-named place. Until
iFi„ -pion of the undertaking is completed and in work, it
v ulliided to commence any of the more extended opera-
Tbe quo
Ana. o „.01' opening a new communication from the
the Nirof Calcutta has for a considerable time past
gaged the serious attention of all connected with the Go-
Ma:lent or the Commerce of India. The Conimittee of the
Bengalla„
Chamber of Commerce addressed the Government of
—.4lfal on the subject on the 27th of March, 1853, pointing
°,l•t the
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difficult and dangerous state of the navigation of
tile
tendßiver Frer —°°guiY,which threatens at no distant period to
Veal-a Recess to
es the Port of Calcutta altogether imprac-
ia-,e for anysels but those of the smallest twi-
get," and calling attention to the practicability of open-
Mutlaahtwa communication to the sea by means of the
river, the Committee proceed to state, " the
ifinotrance of which is about 50 miles to the eastward of the
4..2gb1Y, and to be approached from the sea without any ma-
rm.l difficulties of navigation. At the distance of 23 miles
Irorn its mouth it has a good sheltered anchorage for
vessels of the largest burthen. Its tides never run more than
three to four miles an hour, and.the flood-tide is never accom-
panied by a bore. It has in the shallowest part three and a
half fathoms of water at the lowest side, and in many places
ts depth varies from six to nine throughout its course from
the sea to within 25 miles of Calcutta, thus offering facilities
kfoog navigation superior to those that ever existed in the
y.a
:The hi
answer to this application was the a
v ppointment by the ernraent of Bengal of a Committee to report on the state
of the Hooghly ; an order to Lieut. Ward, of thi Honourable
_•;,PelPany's surveying vessel Krishna, to proceed to survey
lih
use Alutlah, and report upon its present state, and as to
u_avndeetrgeorniet any had
ad since the last survey, 14 years previously,
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material changes ; and instructions to Colonel
_Aker, the consulting engineer to the Government of India,
ermine the country between Calcutta and the head of the
with the view -of asceitaining the practicability
„,auct the expense of a railway between the two places.
4110 Directors are in possession of copies of the Reports of
the above-named officers, as well as one of the official charts
and surveys made in connection with them. The Report of
the Hooghly Committee states " that the River Hooghly has
de,teriorated up to the present time ; that that 4eterionttiou
has been gradual, and caused by the shoaling and contraction
et its deep channels from accumulations of silt, and, that,
nn-
dtr the present condition of the river, the deterioratio,n, will
bLe Progressive."' Lieut. Ward reports that he found the Mu
44h had not changed since the last survey in 1839 ; that the
least water in the channel is four fathoms at low-water spring
tides
(with a rise of fourteen feet, which would give 38 feet,at
kaighlawrgaetsetr)t,oannn(!gtehat there is nothing to prevent vessels of
proceeding up the river at a 1 times." Col.
13aker'a reply is of an equally satisfactory character. The fol-
io
wing extracts from his official report, dated Aug 26, will
show the entire absence of engineering difficulties :—" I have
tinet 13; h personal examination as the season admitted of the
lying between Calcutta and the head of the Mutlah
River, and have satisfied myself of the- pprfect practicability
of establishing a communication between these two points by
means either of a railway or a ship canal." "About the 21st
mile the dine would cross Telly's Canal by a girder-bridge,
,11151 the necessity to provide head-room for boats navigating
.
Ai channel will probably occasion the only gradient excep-
tional to a dead level along the whole engineer-
ing grounds. I have no hesitation in stating my preference for
the ral way_
RShiPS may navigate the Mutlah for a third less than the
2?feeghlY now demands. Take, for instance, a vessel drawing
t water off Calcutta To get to sea, she must take the
top of the springs, and would require, during the north-east
monsoon,during
t i e
,threedays' steam hire, at C. R.Q. 350 per day, and
south-west, five days ; which would give for the
Qh47" Be. 1,050, and for the latter C. Its 1,750, to
add pilotage 700=2,450, and incidental expenses pro-
to sea. 50%Tore. Total C. Rs. 2,950, or 2951 to get her
By the tlah, one day's steam hire would suffice=
adding 300 forp4otwre--700 But say c. Rs. 1,000 in all, , an 6 there is the enormou; difference in favour of the Mutlah
°f e•
the s. 1,950, or nearly 2091.; foe each ship, to say nothing
• k e saving on insurance in proportion to diminution of
I"xxkaze &c.
I e
_ , therefore, the facilities of this river, combined with
B,mtable docks, are compared with the increasin-difficulties,
?..anugers, and delays of the Hooghly, it is obvious that the
blab must become the principal, and eventually, for ships
urden, the only Port of Calcutta. The opinion of the local
Government may be inferred from the fact that it has just
raided on the site for the railway terminus and public build-
.ags•
~,eiis no exaggeration to say that the traffic upon the first
Llen of the Calcutta aud South-Eastern line will be far be-
,,,nd that of any yet contemplated for India. Independently lq_the trade which must of necessity follow the opening of the
muatlah as the Port of Calcutta, with its enormous imports
" ePorts, exceeding four millions of tons per annum, there
the great and increasino• trade going on between Calcutta and
Eastern Districts' which passes through the head of the
that,lab, at all seasons, en route to Caloutta ; while, during
dry season, or for seven months of the year, when the
rNaddea rivers are impassable, the whole of the goods for ex-
tation from Calcutta come that way. Whether, therefore,
llutiah had been adopted as a port or not, a Railroad in
being
direction was urgently wanted, and could not fail of
vela& of the most remunerative character.
-The capital necessary for making a double line of Railway
t"rn Calcutta to the site on the Mutlah chosen for the public
Vlildings of the Port is estimated by Colonel Baker, in his
41•,, C,port to tbo authorities already alluded to at 'C. Rs.
0564,141, or equal to, about 556,4941., upon which sum that
officer calculates there would be a return to the shareholders
°tee:per cent. Colonel Baker also estimates the dividend
enthe capital to be expended on the Docks at 10 per
The return from the Railway is calculated upon
rhe .trade only to be looked for from tho Mutlah as a
t, and • independently of the ordinary traffic from
Zhae eastern districts of Calcutta already alluded to,
ieh, according to official returns, is set down
as equal
, -one million and a half of tons per annum. Taking
ale, latter into account, a dividend of 15 per cent. on the Abele capital may be confidently reckoned upon.
aThe Indian authorities in this country have been comma•
oated with:and the Directors rely with confidence on the
ab,Pport of the Home Government, and that every assistance
ly can desire will be most liberally granted by the Honour-
ble Court of Directors of the East India Company, including
tile free gift of all the land required for the construction of
the first section of the works, as also the use of Col. Baker's
purveys, the possession of which will enable the Directors to
commence the works at once, and without the heavy expense
and great delay which are Usually entailed upon undertakings
er this description:
It having been intimated to the Directors in the course of
their communications with the authorities, that the East In-
gle. Company would not at present grant any further guaran-
heti of interest to new railway undertakings in India, the Di-
rectors have refrained from soliciting a guarantee. Theyfelt,
laeWever that the prosecution of an undertaking of such
acknowledged public utility and importance as this, de-
la,anded alike by all classes of the community, ought not on
teat account to be postponed. Looking to t' e reception it
has already met with from the hands of the Government, its
iß,leat national importauce, and the strong expression of feel-
Th"'g en the subject displayed by the Bengal Chamber of Com-
-eree, coupled with the interest evinced by the late Go-
'tenor General of India, the Marquis of Dalhousie, and the
teertainty of success as a commercial operation, the Directorsd
-eeLassured that, should the East India Company be
'e &rant further guarantees of interest, this Company re.
the same favourable consideration as those railway
e°laPauies which have been already sanctioned.
00tUn,til a single lino of rail from. Calcutta to the Mutlah is
'eted and at work, a period which ought not to exceed
oaths from the date of commencement, it is intended
say ‘hall the shareholders shall receive interest upon all (tails made
to that time, at, the rate of 5 per cent. per annum.
,Applicationg for shares must be made accompanied by the
Oanany's bankers' receipt for a sum equal to 2s. upon every
me
aPnlied for; The 'deposit will forthwith be returned :la Mach shares applied for as may be allotted. A portion of
4° shares Will be reserved for India.
Norms
of application may be obtained at the Brokers' and
to or at the Temporary Offices of the Compapy,l4l,
!wßzok-litreet.