The Sun.
London, England, 1835-10-14 00:00:00

YORK CO'
ThOgmas The Right Hon. the L
Backhouse, Esq.
Atr. George Baker
Thomas Barstow, Esq.
'Francis Cholmeley, Esq.
William S. Clarke, Esq.
(;eorge Clough, Esq.
William Cooper Esq.
Mr. Robert CoOper The Hon. .1. C. Dundas, M.P.
Chia. Heneage Elsley, Esq.
Wm. 11. Ilearon, Esq`
notham, Esq.
(3eorge Hudson, Esq.
George Jennings, Esq.
John H. Lowther, Esq., M.P.

MMITTEE.
.nrd Mayor, Chairman.
William Oldfield, Esq.
Thomas Price, E.,m.
Rdward Prtst, Esq.
John Simpson, Esq.
Enstaehius Strickland
Hobert Swann, Esq.
John Swami, Esq.
George Swann, Esq.
Samuel Tuke, Esq.
John Tweedy, Esq.

SOLICITORS.
Robt. Davies, Esq., Town Clerk
Messrs. Blanchard and Richard-
son

_ .
EDINBURGH COMMITTEE.
Sir, p Izi, ~, The Lord Provost.
•- • " ultintnond, Bart. Sir James G. Craig, Bart.
Ilaillie Thom. n.:.ison
Baillie APFarlane ‘"Ile Douedg
J°hn L ' `°n Bailie M'Laren
ear-nouth, Esq.
joh° c tlapperton, Esq. William Henderson, Esq.
hnmas
ockburn, Esq. John Blackwood, Esq.
John Waugh, Esq.
Alex" rider Monypenny, Esq. James Whines, Esq.
I2ichard Crawshay, John Russell Esq.
NORWICHE COMMITTEE.
John Baker, Esq., Acle
Almothy Steward, Esq. William Cooper, Esq.
j.anuel Shalders Bere, Esq. 11. M. Bacon, Esq.
elm Cozens, Esq. Mr. William Freeman
ttioratio Bolingbroke, Esq. Mr. Dodshon Blake
e,lin Marshall', Esq., Sheriff
.'.,el!ardsoLicyroas.
Shaw, Esq., Alderman Roger Kerrison, Esq.
David Hill E
Hem. ) s' sq' 'John R. Staff, Esq.
~, 3' -lartineau, Esq.
'ftesrxxs AN TREAsuaxits—Sir James Cockburn, Bart.; John
Masterman, Esq.
$A STAN ZINC CO ll NsEL—The Hon. James Stuart Wortley.
14"0
-s—Messrs. Masterman. Peters, and Co.; Messrs. Sir
James Esdaile and eo.
Sor•lClTOßs_Messrs. Vizard and Leman, Lincoln's Inn-gelds.
'PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS Messrs. A. and R. Mundell.
ENGINEER—James Walker, Esq., F. R. S.L. and E.
Office of the Company, 56, Lombard-street.
ullkpldication will be made to Parliamen.t in the next Session for
Act to enable the formation of this Railway..
the e country, from its level nature, is peculiarly favourable, and
will ,et
l,rnse will be propertionably small. The average inclination
e 1
in 828.
iio.`"' .Lill open the most ready communication to the north and
la western parts of England, as well as Scotland, and will form
.trind trunk to receive auxiliary communications on all sides.
Z:!!F
distancedi to York will not exceed the mail coach road, and
in performed with ease in ten hours, the passengers travelling
d'''',g. this road greatly exceed those on any other road from Lon-
,ttliT, whether by posting or by stages. The immense supplies of
mal and other food coming from the north and east to the me-
gr°P°lis will be brought in a much improved condition, and at a
aaleati I,y reduced. expense, as will also the merchandize from Leeds
I,,Lne manufacturing districts.
after n cost of this -Railway will be under 3,000,0001. The income,
exceed deducting all expenses, will on the most moderate calculation
i,, 4C94/. per annum, paying 14 per cent profit.
thrt, -,,r().:( will commence near Shoreditch Church, and proceed
Yoriuig" Bishop's Stortford, Cambridge, Lincoln, and Selby, to
c();At Selby it will join the line to Leeds, and at once open a
cmanication with that most important district.
il)plications for Shares of 100/. each (if by letter, post-paid)
Ibe made to Messrs. Vizard and Leman, Lincoln's Inn-fields :
.1. !{), the Secretaries, at 56, Lombard
-street, where also a more
-Tied and full prospectus may be had.
11 Deposit of 3/. per share will be required to be made to Messrs.
theas,terman and Co., or Messrs. Esdaile and Co., London ; or at
terhrtnpany's Bankers, at York, Lee4s, Doncaster, Lincoln, Pe-
t.--"r°4gll, Carnbridge, Hertford, Norwich, Yarmouth, Manches-
er'
Liverpool, Edinburgh, and Glasgow.
CHARLES ROWCROFT, -
SEPTIMUS HODGU

Secretaries.

4140 ND 0 N and BL-4CKWALL RAILWAY
and STEAM NAVIriATION DEPOT COMPANY.
eaPital 600,0001., divi::ted into 12,000 Shares of 501. each.
DIRECTORS.
FRFASERICK MANGLES, Esq.
JrsiklN NESBITT, Esq.
-EDWARD STEWART, Esq.
JOSHUA WILLIAMSON, Esq.
JOHN THACKER, Esq.
CHARLES E. MANGLES, Esq.
FRANCIS WILSON, Esq.
With power to add to their number.
TREASURER.-HENRY KINGSCOTE, Esq.
11,tetEes.—Messrs. LADBROKE and Co.
go ENGINEER.-GEORGE STEPHENSON, Esq.
Iterrons.—Messrs. I. and S. PEARCE and Co., and Mr.
'he • THOMAS BROWNE.
• r, principal objects of the undertaking are for conveying
AIsZ,,DS from the West and East India Docks, THE CONVEY-
',I,I3F PASSENGERS to and from the Docks and Black-
'e embarking and disembarking passengers to and from the
CoA4
,team-packets at Blackwell, and the LANDING OF
r'3/4 there, at all times of the tide with great facility.
froso-Clo94S.—lt has been ascertained that the cost of carrying goods
etse_h"le East and West India. Docks can be effected by railway for
Isost ,f of the present charge, which will ensure the carriage of at
1) two-thirds, if not the whole of the articles imported into those
otka.
PAs
eon, SENGERS.—At present there are 4,200 persons daily
sod eYed by coaches and omnibuses to the West and East India Docks
thaltlackwall, at the charge of 6d. each, in 40 minutes ; by the rail-
, Passengers will be conveyed in ten minutes. Previously to
ietornint,r of 4.. he Liverpool and Manchester railway, the average
bet er daily travelling on the road was 450, since then, the num-
lefethe'dri increased more than threefold. It may therefore be
ere
A-rsed on "', that the number of passengers will be considerably in-
-4 n• .I th.
°Pening will be made for an immense traffic over this r.ail-
of;
01 as it will become the most advantageous and profitable medium
nveyance from that point of the river, which may be consider
Ilenat.ural and most convenient maritime inlet in the metropolis.
•CltY Council and the House of Commons were during the last
Thes,n devising means of preventing accidents by steam vessels.
tntoLian has been pronounced by the harbour-masters and the
tiot, of steam-vessels as affording a remedy without the iuterven-
it°,, the city or the legislature, and without any compulsion.
titre la stated by the owners of steam-vessels, that the passage
e0n144111 the Pool is attended with such delay and heavy loss, from
toslrgol,li,eo:ll:(fliieted and sustained by' their vessels, as to amount, in
The Y instances, to 2001. or 3001. a vessel in the season, and that
rea,iily adopt Blackwell as the termination of their
lin-1- One of the most eminent engineers has stated that no
and °:,_road in the kingdom offers such prospects of success as this,
West-uen the enormous quantity of merchandise imported into the
40011,11, d.. East India Docks—the thousands of passengers that now
lie„ the road daily—the immense quantity of coal that would be
%leo ,P.red at Elackwall, and conveyed on the rail road, for con-
Nutton
in the vicinity of the termination of the rail-road—the
doe of passengers that would land at Blackwell from the ya-
tuer:;:eanaspackets—and the fact that facilities of communication
he —e tzaffic to a treble, and in some cases to a greater extent-
-
ell° ti*,ese things are taken into consideration it will be apparent,
tttito the most sceptical, that few undertakings embrace more
yhrtan advantages than the present.
gate number of passengers that go by water to Gravesend, Mar-
Ivan' 4nd Ramsgate, is 1,750,000 a year. By embarking at Black-
Pers,„! saving in distance of four miles will be effected, the voyages
avoid'eTed an hour less each way, and the dangers on the river
leered ". As regards Gravesend, one-fourth of the voyage will be
9tioterboth ways, and the passage performed in an hour and a
BlaThese great advantages will ensure the adoption of
den ',kali for embarking and disembarking in preference to Lon-
gsr,! dit may fairly be calculated that two-thirds of the passen-
riaLmuunting to 1,166,666 would prefer landing there. Car-
P 44, :onstructed so as to travel on common roads will convey
esit,tiut;,sers from Blackwell, to the termination of the railway in ten
• Com
eruuei,-;*--., In tile year 1833, 2,010,400 tons of sea coals were
eual ‘o "eurtion and it has been estimated that one-fourth of the
but, 111 Portie:, is consumed in the eastern quarter of the metropolis;
over taislsruir.ing that only one-eight, or 250,000 tons, would pass
. eailwaY, at the charge of Is. 6d. per ton, there would
.be
to tt!!tilie on this article alone of 18,7501. per annum, and a saving
greagte consumers of 2s. per ton. The coal would be landed at a
%w ea of time and expense, and without the injury it now
'Os in being turned over so many times.
*est / ESTIMATED SOURCES OF PROFIT :
230 ndia Docks, conveyance of two-thirds of
Last y 1920 tons of conveyance at Is. 9d. per ton £13,416 0 0
t„,n.oia Docks, of 45,C00 tons, at 2s
thi.;;e t°,l ........... 4,500 0 0
`yegrs conveyed in carriages to the East and
Pis?
et:
noirt-India Docks and e present
er being 4.300 daily)l, at 6d. l
each 39,237 10 0
a /lgers conveyed by steam packets to and from
"send, Margate, and Ramsgate, 1,750,000
„gar two-thirds of whom, it is calculated, will
ekcark and disembark at Blackwell; carriage at
Ceaii,,eaeh ........
enst.en'nded at Blackwell for the consumptioriof the
I,,Per at
the metropolis, 250,000 tons; at Is.6d.
-more, - ••• . ; ...... 18,750 0 0
..
rail, timber:4;e: . ......... on the
ay
10,000 0 0
.......... „

k duet for 115,070 0 0
pensei
...annual repairs, salaries, and current ex-
.. 35,000 0 0

~, Net profit per annum £80,070 0 0
to cl:s,.eapital stock of the Company has been increased to 606,009/
havi_uivided into 12,000 shares of 501. each, in consequence of its
than been
determined to extend the line further into the City
as so' v, as at first contemplated.
nPosit of 3/, per share to be paid into the hands of the bankers,
s_. as the Shares are allotted.
irtr_ubs.eibers not to be answerable beyond the amount of their.
ibe rctive shares, and it is contemplated that no further call will
bZlirted until the Act of Parliament is obtained; nor will the
aat4:3 upon the Shares be chargeable with the expenses of. any
A }Tent aPplications to Parliament connected with this subject.
for Toakilil will be prayed for in the ensuing
.Session of Parliament,
Ilartiero ng the London and Blackwall Rail-road ; and, from the
Tr us arid solid advantages to be derived by the public there-
be
00' doubt is entertained but that the Act of Parliament will
A ...‘4,l.ned..
ta'4l3lleations for Prospectuses and Shares to be made to. the.
at th:4, Alessrs. Ladbroke, Kingscote, and Co., Bank-buildings t.
No. 16, Bishopsgate-strcet Within ; or
to
--with. Solicit Messrs. I. and S. Pce, Phillips, and Bolger, S •
eh 4 s lane MTh Brown- No. 13, Rood-lane, Fen-
tll:ll' 1- sat
iewe at
3:a :fide e s 'r. omas,
Itaiiwa•
-°"c
c., WINFIELD, Acting Sec.
ces7 No. 16, Bishopsgai e—street Within.