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THE THAMES EMBANKMENT AND
RAILWAY JUNCTION COMPANY.

Provisionally ll.egi;tered.
Temporary Offices, No. 32, Charing-cross.
Capital 1,800,0001., in 90,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 24.,
ruoVISIONAL COMMITTEE;

The Earl of Devon
James Ackers, Esq., M.P.
Ph lip Anstruther, Esq., Late Colonial Secretary of Ceylon
John Anldjo, Esq., Noel House, Kensington
B. Baines, Esq., Director of the Croydon Railway Company
C. B. Baldwin, Esq., M.P., Director of the North Devon Railway
Company
Joseph Bishop, E-sq., Director of the Blackwall Railway Company
W. Sprott Boyd, Esq., Cleveland-row, St. James's
J. Bowring, LL.II, M.P., Director of the Blackmail Railway Com-

pany
Edward Henry Chapman, Esq., Leadenhall-street
John Chevalier Cobbold; Chairman of the Eastern Union Railway
Sir Archer Denman Croft, Bart.
J. N. Daniel, Esq., Chairman of the Blackwall Railway Company
Charles Downes, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
Sir James Duke, 31. P. and Alderman
Howard Elphinstone, Esq., M.P.
James Esdaile, Esq., Director of the London and South Essex Railway
Company
Thomas Farncomb, Esq-, Alderman
Right lion. Sir Augustus Foster, Bart., New-street, Spring-gardens
Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, Bart., Queen-square, Westminster
W. Haigh, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Blackwall Railway Company
W. P.. Hickson, Esq., Director of tin London and South Essex Rail-
way Company
Jonathan Hopkinson, Esq.
John James Hope Johnstone, Esq., M.P.
Captain B. M. Kelly, R.N., Director of the Brighton Railway COM-

pany
James Leman, Esq.. Lincoln's Inn-fields
F. 3facnaghten, Esq., Director of the London and South Essex Rail-

way Company
Sir William Magnay, Bart, and Alderman
Ross I). Mangles, Esq., M.P.
John Martin, Esq., K.L., All Sop's-terrace, New-road
James Matheson, Esq., M.P.
Sir William Molesworth, Bart.
David Ogilvy, Esq., Director of the London and South Essex Railway
Colonel Reid, 2d Life Guards
Major-General Sir James Reynett,
Major Jelf Sharp
Andrew Spottlswoode, Esq.
Patrick Maxwell Stewart, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the London and
Westminster Bank
John Stewart, Esq., Portman-square
Sir George Strickland, Bart., M.P.
Captain C. W. Tyndale, Director of the South-Eastern Railway
P. A. Taylor, Esq., Croydon
Hon. Charles P. Villiers, M.P.
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Chairman of the Croydon Railway Company
Thomas Wyse, Esq , M.P.
With power to add to their number.
PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS.
CHAIRMAN—The EARL of DEVON.
VICE CHAIRMEN
Patrick Maxwell Stewart, Esq., M.P.
ajor Jelf Sharp.
Philip Instruther, Esq.
Wm. Sprott Boyd, Esq.
John Bow•ring, LL.D., M.P.
Sir A. D. Croft, Bart.
J. N. Daniell, Esq.
Howard Elphinstone, Esq. M.P.

Capt. B. 3f. Kelly, R.N.
W. E. Hickson, Esq.
Sir William 3fagnsy, Bart.
cx)t. C. W. Tynislo
The Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P.
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq.

EsoiNzza—Thomas Page• Esq.
SomeiToas—Messrs. Bridges and Mason, Red Lion-square.
ARCHITECTS AND SURVEYORS—Messrs. Fowler and Austin.

BANKERS.
The London and Westminster Bank
The Union Bank of London
The Commercial Bank of Louden

PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.

Hugh Tnnes Cameron and George Bain, Esqs., 18, Parliament-street
Joseph Parkes Esq., 21, Great George-street
SECRETARY (pro tem.)—E. W. Williams, Esq.

PROSPECTUS.

This:Company has been formed by the Union of the Promoters
of the Thames Embankment and Atmospheric Railway Company
with the Promoters of the Thames Embankment and City Railway
Company.

r 1 uir..j,ve I, parry into effect the re-
port of the Metropolitan Improvement Commissioners (itn reDrnary,
1844) recommending an embankment of the northern shore of the
Thames, between Blackfri ars and Westminster bridges, and preceding
reports of Committees of the House of Commons in favour of in-
creased facilities of traffic to relieve the narrow and over-crowded
thoroughfares which form the only existing communications between
the east and west end of the Metropolis.
This great public improvement has hitherto been delayed by the
difficulty of providing adequate funds from resources not interfering
with the general taxation of the country; but it has appeared to the
promoters of the present united Company that the object may low
be attained, and be rendered a highly profitable investment for
capital, by combining with it the additional advantages of railway
communication.
It is proposed therefore to execute the line of embankment founded
Os the plan of Mr. Page, according to the recommendation of her
Majesty's Commissioners for Metropolitan Improvements, and to
bs trrildetegtei
s;
Station, either
t that
hjaotintbhtyth e3og
combine with it a railway en the atmospheric principle from Hunger-
ford Market, or its neighbourhood, to the vicinity of London-bridge
and tho Bank, and theme to the Blackwall Railway near Fenchnrch-
bridge to be constructed for the object.
taking
litan Commissioners regarding the execution ancadmibe
effect without the sanction of Government. For the purpose of ob-
taining such sanction, proposals have been submitted to the Metropo-
litan great
variousaottthe
erear
existing
bridges,terminating o
ra t b London-
bridge oan dnoen;
work, and which the promoters expect win receive a favourable con-
sideration both from that board and the City authorities.
management carried
o of intoth
The levels of the embankment and railway will be so arranged as
not to interfere with the wharves. The point where the line will
diverge from the river side, to join the Blackwell Terminus, will be
determined by the comparative cost and utility of continuing by the
river side to London-bridge, or of forming a new street, adapted to
'the railway, parallel with the Thames.
The names on the Provisional Committee show that the various
Companies whose railways the Thames Embankment and Railway
Junction Company is intended to unite, will promote its progress ; and
the support of the public at large may be anticipated, for the following
among other important reasons.
IFt. A river-side terrace, equally striking in point of appearance
and utility, affording a spacious drive and promenade available for
the purposes of health and recreation, will be afforded to the public
without resort to the Consolidated Fund, while the most crowded
thoroughfares of the City will be at the same time relieved from part
of the vast traffic which now obstructs them, and by an improved
mod.: of railway transit, free from noise, smoke, and danger.
21. The improvement of the navigation of the River, andof the Me-
tropolitan sewerage, and the removal from the northern shore of the
unsightly and unwholesome accumulations of mud which now dis-
figure it.
3d. The connexion of the principal towns and seaports of the
southern and eastern coasts with the centre of the Metropolis.
An estimate has been formed of the traffic between the projected
termini ; but to avoid the appearance of exaggeration, the Provisional
Directors submit only the following general calculation, which shows
an ample return for the capital invested. Nobody can reasonably
gi omnibuses s
very and
largely other
doubt this return who considers the multitudes continually passing
carriages,
iraegpea reprising s nngd
in steam-boats,
r-ebmo a thet aCnidt ywoi
without
increased traffic that must accrue by the junction with the above-
mentioned railways, and their many projected extensions. When it
alf an hour, the savin
instead of, as at present, twenty minutes to h g
ust insure a power-
alone of valuable time to men of business, &c., m
is remembered also that the transit will occupy less than five minutes,
ful support to this undertaking.
foc'°utt'recnkoonrnitnt
The following table exhibits the immense traffic between the City

and the West End :
Steamers averaging 370 trlps per day •• 16,000 Passengers
Omnibuses ditto 2,120 journies per day • • 20,000 ditto
Cubs and private carriages, ditto 6,588 .• 13,000 ditto

49,000 ditto
.. 76,000 (lift*

Foot passengers, ditto

125,000 Persons daily.

If one-third only of the passengers by
steamers and carriages use the railway . 16,300
And one•eight of the foot passengers • • 9,500
And of those travelling to and fro, from the
different railways connected with the
Blackwell and London-bridge termini .. 12,200

The aggregate would be • . 38,000
Assuming that the improved mode of transit
will increase the number of passengers
about one-third (the usual calculation being
doduabyle!otrhe daily number
ive be 7:000.
An average of 3d. would g 6251. per
And deducting for expenses • • • 57,000

There would remain • • £171,125
Or above nine per cent. upon the capital. An increase, too, may
be reasonably expected ftom the traffic of the eastern and western
lines
of
railway crossing the River for communication with the
central terminus, for which ft Company has been formed, and with
which it is expected' that arrangements will be made satisfactory to
all parties interested.
Applications fir Shares may be addressed, in the annexed form, to
the Provisional Directors, at the temporary office of the Company,
32, Charing-cross ;to the Solicitors and Parliamentary Agents; mad
to the following Agents and Sharebrokers :—Messrs. R. and W.
lichens and Harrison, Threadneedle-street; Mr. H. J. Williams, 80,
Old Broad-street; Barclay, Allsop, and Mercier, Exchange-buildings;
Messrs. Mackenzie and Lawrence, 38, Condrill, London ; Messrs.
Forsyth and Pritchard, Liverpool ; Messrs. Johnstone and Bradley,
Manchester ; Mr. James Pearson, Birmingham ; Mr. Luke Arnold,
Bristol; Mr. Thomas Sanford, Exeter ; Messrs. Watson and Co.,
Leeds ; Mr. Robert Allan, and Messrs. John Robertson and Co.,
Edinburgh ; Mac Ewen and Auld, and Feulds and Cockburn, Glasgow;
of whom Prospectuses may be obtained. Such parties as are Share-
holders in the Blackwell, Croydon, and London, South Essex, and
Landon and Dover Railway Companies, are requested to signify the
same in their letters of application.

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FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
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TiIAMES E T and RAILWAY
Chairman.—The EARL of DEVON.
Shareholders in the Blackwall, the Croydon, the South Eastern
IIIIisCATNIOINMCOEMNPANY.
and South Essex Railway Companies, desirous of obtaining, Shares
in the above united THAMES EMBANKMENT and RAILWAY
JUNCTION COMPANY, are requested to name the Company in
which they have a proprietary interest, in their letters of application.
W4LJAMS, 6000417 pre tem .

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