The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-04 00:00:00

rpm: EASTERN COUNTIES, BARKING'
and THAMES JUNCTION RAILWAY, and COAL and
C7OASTiNG DOCK, with STEAM-BOAT WHARF.
(Registered Provisionally.)
Capita!, 500,000/., in 20,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 2/. 12s. 6d. per Share.
•
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Lori George Lennox
C,dnit ilathyany
The Honoarable F. IT. F. Berkeley, M.P.
Tha lion/affable A. F. Berkeley, Funtingnon, Sussex
Sir Edward Pym, Bart , Clifford-street
Captain the Iron. John Arbuthnot Keane, Army and Navy Club
The Honourable Adolphus Capel
James Adam, Esq., Thames-street
Henry Weech Burgess, Esq., Temple Park, Ham; stead, Director
of the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway, and Goole, Don-
caster, and Shen:cid, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Great Grimsby Rail-
way, and of the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford Railway
James Buriness, Esq., StrattOrd-grove, Essex, and 6-1, Cornhill,
Director of Stafford Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester
Direct Railway
John James Cavan, Esq., 7, Charl,s.street, St. James's-square, Di-
rector of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway
Captain James Edward Carnegie, Somerset-street, Portman-square,
and • Down Hall, Inverness, Director of the London and Exeter
Railway
Mlles Dormer, Esq., 31, Hans-place, Sloane-street, Chelsea, Director
of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend; and Exeter,
.Dorchester, and Weymouth Railways,
Thomas Ferranti Dearden, Esq., Rochdale, Director of the Eastern
COnnties Junction, and Southend and Staffordshire Potteries
Railways
Captain Sells N. Fisher, Director of the Warwick and Worcester

Railways
Rev. H. It. Fowler, Manchester-square, Director of the York and
Lancaster Railway
F'ap trip Farrington, R.N., West Cowes
'Thomas Finlay, Esq., 69, Cambridge-terrace, Edgware-road
Captain Twistieton Graves, Duke-street, St. James's, Director of the
British Mutual Life Office
John Holmes, Esq., St. James's-street, Director of the. York and
Lancaster, and Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railways
Thebills Harley, Esq., 11, Benlomond-place, Stockwell
Thomas Hodges, Esq., Connaughton-terrace, Hyde-park
Thomas Hawker, Esq., New Broad-street
m Kempe, Esq., 'feign Villa, Tei gnmouth, Le von
is. it. 114,,r, Esq., Albert-terrace, Knightsbridge
_Natilani‘l Ogle, Esq., Heath-lane Lodge, Twickenham, Director of
the York and Lancaster and Eastern Counties Junction, and
sjuthend Railways
AS.I,-.Ka.nder Macdonald Ritchie, Esq., Director of the York and Lan-
caster Railway
James Reed, Esq., Northbury House, Barking
William Shaw, Esq., Director of the London and Hirminnutm Ex-
tension, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways, and Managing
Director of the Royal Farmers' and Gardeners' Fire and Life and
l'huil Insurance Company
F.. W. Tusor, Esq , F.R.S., 10, Russell-place, Bedford-square
.Tantes Vicker, Esq., Markham, Director of the Armagh, Coleraine,
K-and rortru4h, Sligo and Shannon, and Dorking, Brighten, and
Arundel Atmospheric Railways
Colonel V eraser
(With power to add to their number.)
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Henry Beech Burgess, Esq. B. D. Major, Esq.
Milos Dormer, Esq. • William Shaw, Esq.
John Holmes, Esq. Charles Waite, Esq.
Nathaniel Ogle, Esq. Captain Fisher.
CGNSULTINO ENGINEER —COI. Landman, F.S.A., M.I.C.E.
ENGINEER—George Montgomery Lewis, C.E.
11ANKERS—Commercial Bank of London.
SoLiclTOns—,;'caws. Reed and Robinson, 31, Moorgate-street.
PARLiAmENTAsit 11PENT-GE Baker, Esq., Spring-gardens.
The attention of the public and of the Civic authorities of this great
metropolis, through the powerful medium of the public press, has
upon -several occasions been excited by the detail, of numerous and
almost cl:tily occurring accidents on the River Thames. With a view
to abate, if not altogether remove an evil of enormously growing
magnitude, the dangerous navigation of the river, the present project
is put before the public.
_Although the chief cause of this danger is acknowledged to be the
blocking up the navigation, by the numberless tiers of colliers and
their attendant barges, and their ingress and egress to and from their
;station, still no efficient remedy has hitherto been proposed.
It is admitted by all that the only mode by wbiCli this great and
dalt,,:erous nuisance can be removed is by a dock, at a considerable
distant', from the Pool, and a suitable and most convenient site has
been sdet-ted in every way adapted for the object contemplated; and
which not nnly combines facilities in no ordinary degree, for coal and
coasting vessel., to enter at all times of the tide, at a distance far re-
moved from the Tool (about three miles below Woolwich), but also ar
a locality, by the aid of a railway, from which the various produce
may be transmitted within half an hour into the very heart of the

,City.
It Is proposed to construct a dock at a point in that part of the
rivet, lour and a halt miles below Blackwell, called Gallon's Reach,
and the2ce to carry a railway four miles long, through East Ham,
melee-, end West Ham, to the Eastern Counties Railway at Strat-
terd, where fa:: will join the Northern and Eastern Railway, and form
te central point fre'n which goods iney be transmitted to the various
parts of the country which those railways traverse, and to London.
The spot at which the dock and works will he constructed has been
seleeted as being a part of the river where, at the fewest state of the
tide, there will always be a sufficiency of water to permit the Ingress
and egress of vessels, as a reference to the Admiralty charts Yrjit
-demonstrate ; by this arrangement they will be enabled to discharge
-their cargoes, leave dock, and take in ballast (which is in the imme-
cliate vicinity where the Trinity House dredge is genereely working),
niamost before they could have even reached ebeir ordinary et.qtion in
jhe peel, as at present. The great saving in time, thus effected, it
eneriifeet, will be of the utmost consequence and e4ventage to the
~,vaere of these vessels ; and, by materially decreasing the costs,
would enable them to supply the consumer at a much less rata than
at present.
This 'Wended also 10 erect a sea-wall and wharf, 1,500 feet long,
for the accommodation of passengers by steam-packets and other
vessels passing to and fro. The economy of time thus effected will
be very considerable ; for, by the ald of this railway (bringing Shore-
ouch end the Intended terrninus at Finsbury within twenty minutes);
nearly three-quarters of an hour will be saved Oyer
every other mode
of conveyance.
It Is inore,over to be remarked, that from this spot Heitieesend can
be reached in forty minutes, consequently the time consumed, them
Finsbury to Gravesend, by this route, would be about one hour.
As the I:aetern Counties Railway will be united to all the other
great trunk lines, by means of the Northern and Southern Connecting
Line just projected, it may be justly said that the Ste/MI-Whet
Wharf now proposed will be the only metropolitan continental Ofe
anima.
Iv the construction of this railway, with its very important adjunct,
et coal told coasting dock, a most valuable addition will be made to
me Eesteen Counties revenue, by calling into existence a traffic
.eveiee,„eder any other circumstances, could not be created ; thereby
developing
e: the proprietors of that extensive line, that its caps-
miles have hi„:erto lain dormant, and only required the necessary
es with a dock to secure to it a national depot
extension to the Tint:: disseminated
globe to be , through the
for produce from all parts the
of the parent line.
numerous and increasing extenje'n
The carriage of coal alone would .:nld no insignificant sum to the
hitherto declared dividends of the Eastel.7l Counties, when it is con-
sidered that more than two-and-a-half millions of tons ere annually
Imported into the port of London, which runt:runt Would be greatly
MUM
increased by means of the facility of railway transmission
afforded.
It may be proper to remark that it would be dleilcult to find, so
near the metropolis, four miles course in every geese ee eligible for a
-railway, so free front obstruction, and so cheap of constreictiot, that
ehe coal traffic of itself would yield an ample return for the ollti.ar's
Proseectuses, plans, and forms of application for shares, may be had
of the solicitors, 31, Moorgate-street, London, and of Mr. D. 1u
Major, 27, Change-alley, Cornhill, London; and to those parties ap-
plying from the country, to D. B. el., they will be forwarded by
post. References will be required.
To the Provisional Committee of the Eastern Coanties, Barking, and
Thames Jenction Railway, and Coal and Coasting Dock, with
teteamboat 'Wharf.
eleelleintet, - -I request that you will allot me Andes
2e/ eaelm, in the above 'undertaking ; and I hereby engage to accept
the saw, or any less number that may be allotted me, and to pay
the deposit of 2/. 12s. 6d. per share, and all future calls thereon, and
to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement
when required.

Dated this

day of 1845.
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DEPASTURE OP EAST AND WEST INDIA MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, Ocr. 3.—The Tagus, Captain Brookes, be-
longing to the Oriental Company, left the dock at three
o'clock this day, with the East India and China mails, which
-will be re-shipped at Malta, on board the Company's steamer
Iberia, and proceed onwards to Alexandria. The Tagus will
'.then make voyage for Constantinople, with a full and valuable
(cargo of bale goods, and 62 passengers. The West India
royxl mail packet the Tay, Captain Sharp, left the river ves-
tertief. at four POI, with the South American and West
India Nails, in charge of Lieutenant James, the Admiralty
agent. Ile Tay has 107 passengers and a general cargo of
goods, inziyding a large quantity of potatoes for the West
India markets; also 550 bottles of quicksilver, and 150/. in
money. The homeward bound mails are daily expected
from the West Indies,