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ITALLETTE'S ATMOSPHERIC RAIL-
-IL WAY AND CANAL PROPULSION COMPANY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 300,0001., in 20,000 Shares of 15/. slob.
Deposit, 11. par Share,
Viz , Is. 6d. per Share on allotment (being the largest amount
allowed to be received previous to complete registration, under 7 and
8 Viol , c. 110), and the remainder (18s. Gd. per Share) immediately
on complete registration.

. . - PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS.
John Brightman, Esq. Geo. Lewis Hollingaworth, EKt.
Fronds Chambers, Esq. George Thomas, Esq.
Joseph Henry, Esq. Lieut.-Col. Williams, R.E.
• (Witk limited power to add to' their number.)
ENGINEERS—M.A. "Joliette and Lieut.-Col. Williams, R.C.
ROLICITORS—Messrs. Lane and Frideaux.
Ibti•KEits-31eaars. Williams, Deacon, and Co.
The chief objects of this Company are to carry ante effect a condi-
tional arrangement entered into with Mons, Haßette for the purchase
of his patent for all Europe, and to sell licenses to use it. •
The promoters confidently believe that the atmospheric system .t.
Mons. liallette Is the most perfect and economical that has been in-
vented for propulsion en rauwayt and canals, and In this opinion
they are supported by that of many eminent men of science and eat-
periciiced engineers.
By the arrangement entered into with the inventor, the deposit
will be more than will be required until a contract to use the
patent on a railway has been actually signed, and under any cir-
cumstances it is believed that 41. per share will be ample to carry out
Yully the objects of the Company. The risk, therefore, will be small,
whilst the profit by sale of licenses, &,-c., in the event of the superiority
of the invention being acknoivledged, =lst be immense.
A detailed prospectus, with form of application for shares. may be
had at the Company's offices, Winchester-house, Old Broad•street
or of Mr. J. H. Golding, broker, Warnford-court, Throgrnorton-atreett
London.

BELGIAN GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY
COMPANY.
Capital 1,750,0001., In 37,500 Shares of 241. each.
Deposit'2/. per Share.
DIIIBCTORS.
ilr John Nicoll Robert Campbell, K.C.H. deputy-chairman of the
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, Chairmaa
Hoary Bainbridge, Esq.-banker
Francis Frederick Clossman, Esq. chairman of the Great Luxeca-
bourg Railway Company.
William Shelford Fitzwilism;Esq. director of the Eiwx and Suffolk
Railway Ciampanv
John Ifovrel, Esq. director of the Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston
Railway Company.

BANKERS.
In London-3lesers. Puget, Bainbridges, and Co. St. Paul's-churl:-
yard
ru Liverpool—The Conimercial Bank of Liverpool
In Brus3els-7-The Societe Generale.

SOLICITORS—Mes.rs. Lal;:;ance anci Pleas, Bucklersbnry.
ENGIN/ISA-61r John Macneill, LL.D. F.R.S. and Janos Thorias‘nt,
Esq. F.R.S.E. 31.11.1. A.
SECRETARY—H. C. HaSUDS'S, ESQ. _

' The Belgian Grand Ju.ction Railway will commence at the several
points of Tirlemont and Landen towards the north, and Huy, Namur,
Gosselies, and Chatclineau (Charleroi) on the south, and will directly
connect the provinces of Brabant, llainault, Liege, Limburg, and
Namur with each other, and the Government lines of rallwly, as
also with the several lines of Liege and Namur, Landen and Hassell',
I.•ouvain and Jemeppe, Sambre and Meuse-, and by the Great Luxem-
bourg. I

The provinces which the railway will unite were found by the
census of 1844 to comprise a p-pulation of 2,188,551, and the dis-
tricts which lt will traverse are situated is the heart of Belgium, and
comprise an area of 10 square miles. • entire length of the Bel-
gian Grand Junction Railway will be 102 English miles, and the in-
variable rule of the Belgian Government notlo permit any competing
lines, must necessarily ensare to this Company the entire traffic of
the country through which ibis line will pass.
This portion of the country is emphatically termed the Granary of
Belgium, aud, in addition t., its vast agricultural produce, is rich in
Ironstone, lead, marble, stone, and slate quarries. It has also name-
rousdistilleriec, extensive breweries, ironworks, and la-ze manutac- s-
tortes of porcelain, glass, paper, beetroot sugar,; gunpowder, •Ste.
The great coal-fields of Charleroi and Liege, which ate the moot ex- ;
tensive in Belgium, will, by means of this line, be enabled to supply
all parts of the kingdom at a very reduced rate.
A. considerable saving will be effected in the cost of iron, and of
the locomotive engines and traffic material, which will be-manufac-
tured at the Couvin works ceded to this Company.
Applications for shares, and- for prospectuses and maps, to be made
to the Secretary, at the Company's offices, 64, Old Broad-street; to
Messrs. Lawrence and Flews, solicitors, Bucklersbury; and to the
following shs.tebrokers :—Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Thread-
needle-street, London; Messrs. Bradley, Ford, and Parker, Manches-
ter; Messrs. H. Davies and Co., Liverpool ; Messrs. Chantrell and
Beyer, Leeds ; Messrs. Wilkinson and Earle, Hull ; Messrs. Bucha-
nan and Aitken, Glasgow ; Messrs. Oswald, George, and Co., Aber-
and Howden, Edinburgh ;
deen ; Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, Dublin ; Messrs. Dowling
Messrs. Wreford, Nicholls, and Co., Bris-
tol; Messrs. Drury and Richardson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; and to
Mr. W. I). IThecler, Sheffield.
FORM OF APPLICATION' FOR SHARES.
To the Directors of the Belgian Grand Junction Railway.
Gentlemen, -I request that you will allot me shares of
201. each in the Belgian Grand Junction Railway Company; and I
agree to accept such shares, or any smaller number you may allot to
me, and to pay the deposit thereon, and to execute the deed of set-
tlement, and all other necessary deeds, when required.
Dated the day of 1845.
-Signature, with Christian Name at fall length •• •• •• • -
Residence
Profession, Trade, or other Description • •
Reference, with Christian and Surname, and Addreee.•

WORCESTER AND SOUTH WALES
JUNCTION RAILWAY, via MALVERN, LEDBURY ,
and ROSS„

The Provisional Directors of this Company have the satisfaction
of announcing to the Shareholders that the traffic en the line ha s
been taken by experienced parties, the Parliamentary Surveys
made, and every necessary arrangement is in active progress to lu-
stre a successful application for. en Act in the next session of Par -
liament. By order, W. BORROW, Secretary.
7, Walbrook, October 20, 1845.

ripl-IE EASTERN COUNTIES, BARKING
1 AND THAMES JUNCTION RAILWAY, AND COAL AND
COASTING DOCK, WITH STEAM-BOLT WIIA.RE.
(Registered Provisionally.)
Capital 500,0001., in 20,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 21. 12s. 64. per Share.
PIOVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Lord George Lennox
The lion. F. H. F. Berkeley, M.P.
The Hon. A. F. Berkeley, Tuntingdon, Sussex
Sir Edward Pym, Bart. Clifford-street
The Hon. Captain John Arbuthnot Keane, Navy and Army Club
The Hon. Adolphus Capel
James Adams, Esq. Thames-street ,
Ileary Weech Burgess, Esq. Temple-park, Hampstead, director of
the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway, and Goole, Doncas-
ter, and Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Great Grimsby Hall-
way, and of the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford Railway
James Burners, Esq. Stratford-grove, Essex, and 64, Cornhill, di-
rector of the Stafford Potteries, Liverpool, and Manchester Direct
Railways
John James Cavan, Esq. 7, Charles-street, St. James's-square, di-
rector of the Eastern Counties, Junction, and Southend Railway
Miles Dormer, Esq. 31, Hens-place, Sloane-street, Chelsea, director
of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway, and
Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railways
Thomas Terrand Dearden, Esq. Rochdale, director of the Eastenz
Counties Junction, and Southend and Staffordshire Potteries
Railways
Captain Seth N. Fisher, director of the Warwick and Worcester
Railway
Rev. li. R. Fowler, Manchester-square, director of the Terk an'
Lancaster Railway
' Captain Farrington, R./P.-West Cowes
Thomas Finlay, Esq 69, Cambridge-terrace, Edgeware-road
Captain Twtstleton Graves, Duke-street, St. James's, director of the
British :Mutual Life-oflice
John Holmes, Esq. St. James's-street, director of the York and Lan-
caster, and Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railways
Thomas Harley, Esq. 11, Benlomond-place, Stockwell
Thomas Hodges, Esq. Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park
Thomas Hawker, Esq. 1, New Broad-street
Wm. Kempo, Esq. Teign-villa, Teignmouth, Devon
D. B. Major, Esq. Albert-terrace, Knightsbridge
Nathaniel Ogle, Esq. Heath-lane Lodge, Twickenham, direetor of
the York and Lancaster, and Eastern Counties Junction and South-
end Railways,
Alexander Macdonald Ritchie, Esq. director of the York and Lancas-
ter Railway
James Reed, Esq. Northbury-house, Barking
F. Robinson, Esq. Barking
William Shaw, Esq. director of the London and Birmingham Exten-
sion, and South and Midlands Junction Railways, and managing
director of the Royal Farmers' and General Fire and Life and Hail
Insurance Company
Tuson, E. W. Esq. F.R.S. 10, Russell-place, Bedford-square
James Vickers, i sq. Markham, director of the Armagh, Coleraine.
and Portrush, Sligo, and Shannon, Dorking, Brighton, Arundel At-
mospheric Railway
Colonel Verner

Richard White, Esq. coal and ship-owner, Sunderland
Robert Moon Watson, Esq. coal and ship-owner, Croxdale Colliery-

office, Sunderland
George Harrison, Esq. ship-owner, Sunderland
Augustus Collingridge, Esq. Regent-street, Pall-mall, director of the

Merchant Traders' Insurance Association
Villiers C. Villiers Surtees, Esq. coal-owner, Newcastle, director of
the Avon and Severn Railway
(With power to add to their number).
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Henry Nyeech Burgess, Esq. B. D. Major, Esq.
Miles Dormer,Esq. W. Shaw, Esq.
John Holmes, Esq. Charles Waite, Esq.
Nathaniel Ogle, Esq. Captain Fisher.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—CoI. Landinann, F.S.A. M.I.C.E.
ENGINEER—George Montgomery Lewis, C.E.
BANKERS—Commercial Bank of London.

SOLTClTons—Messrs..Reed and Robinson, 31, Moorgate-street.
AGENT AT SuNDEALAND—Robert Browne, Esq.

PARLUALENTARY AGENT—Thomas Baker, Esq. Spring-gardens

The attention of the public and of the civic auth;ritles 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 daily occurring accidents on the river Thames. With a
view to abate, if not altogether remove an evil of enormously grow-
ing magnitude, the dangerous navigation of the river, the present
project is put before the public.
Although the chief cause of this danger is aekno,vledged 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 been hitherto proposed.
It is admitted by all that the only mode by which this great sad
dangerous nuisance can be removed is by a dock, at a considerable
distance from the Pool, and a suitable and most convenient site has
been selected, in every way adapted for the ebject contemplated ;
and which not only combines facilities, in no ordinary degree, for
coal and coasting vessels to enter at all times of the Vde, at a dis-
tance far removed from the Pool (about three miles below Woolwich),
but also at 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
river, four and half miles below Blackwell, called Galllon's Reach,
and thence to carry a railway four miles long through East Ham,
Plaistow, and West Ham, to the Eastern Counties Railway at Strat-
ford, where it will join the Northern and Eastern Railway, and form
a central point rrom which goods may he transmitted to the various
parts of the country which those railways traverse, and to London.
The spot at which the dock and works will be constructed has been
selected as being a part of the river where at the lowest state of the
tide there will always be a stifilciency of water to permit the Ingress
and egress of vessels, as a reference to the Admiralty charts will de-
monstrate ; by this arrangement they will be enabled to discharge
their cargoes, leave dock, and take in ballast (which IS in the imme-
diate vicinity where the Trinity House dredge is generally working),
almost before they could have even reached their ordinary station In
the Pool, as at present. The great saving in time thus effected, it
is manifest, will be of the utmost consequence and advantage to the
owners of these vessels ; and by materially decreasing the cost,
would enable them to supply the consumer at a much less rate than
at present.
It is intended also to 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
he very considerable; for by the aid of this railway (bringing Shore-
ditch and the intended terminus at Finsbury within twenty minutes)
nearly three-quarters of an hour will be saved over every other
mode of conveyance.

It is moreover to be remarked that from this spot Gravesend can
be reached in forty minutes, consequently the time consumed, from
Finsbury to Gravesend by this route, would be about one hour.
As the Eastern Counties Railway will be united to all the ether
great trunk lines, by means of the northern and southern connecting
line just projected; it may be justly said that the Steam-l'acket
Wharf now proposed will be the only metropolitan Continental ter-
minus. - - *-- . . .

By the construction of this railway, with its very important ad-
junct, a coal and coasting dock, a most valuable addition will be
made to the Eastern Counties revenue by calling into existence a
traffic which, under any other circumstances, could not be created ;
thereby developing to,ihe proprietors of that extensive line that its
capabilities have hitherto lain dormant, and only required the neces-
sary extension to tile navvies with a dock to secure to it a national
depot for produce for all parts of the globe to be disseminated
through the numerous and increasing extensions of the parent line.
The carriage of coal alone would add no insignificant stun to the
hitherto declared dividends of the Eastern Counties, when it Is con,
sidered that more than two and a half millions of tons are annualy
imported into the port of London, which amount would be greatly
increased by means of the facility of railway transmission thus
afforded.
It may be proper to remark that it would be difficult to find, so
near the metropolis, a four miles course in every sense so eligible
for a railway, so free from obstruction, and so cheap of constrnetloti,
that the coal traffic of itself would yield an ample return for the
outlay.
Prospectuses, plans, ana forms of application for shares, may be
had of the Solicitors, at the temporary Offices of the Company, 31,
Moorgate-street, London, and of Mr. D. B. Major, 7
2, Change Alle
Combat, London ; and of the following brokers :—Messrs. Geyt,.,
Edwards and Son, Bristol ; Mr. Geo. Smith and Mr. P. Leicester,
Manchester; Mr. James Jameson, Leeds; Mr. G. H. Gliddon,
Exeter; Messrs. Flint and Tootal, Hull; and Messrs. Thomas F.
Dickinson and Co., Newcastle-mxm Type.

EASTERN COUNTIES, BARKING, AND
THAMES JUNCTION RAILWAY, AND COAL AND
CO STING DOCK.
Th. Committee have much pleasure in announcing to the public
that they are fully prepared to go to Parliament iu the ensuing ses-
sion, and that they have received assurances of the most cordial sup-
from th„ .hip-owners and coal proprietors in Serfrolstle. 5W2,140"
rand, Shield=, and other districts in the north.
F. G. MARGARY, Seagull*.
31, lioorgateritreet, 27th Oct., 1845,