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

THE EASTERN COUNTIES, BARKING'
and THAMES JUNCTION RAILWAY, and COAL and
L'OASTINO DOCK, with STEAM-BOAT WHARF.
(Registered Provisionally.)
Capital, 500,0001., in 20,000 Shares of 25/. each.
. Deposit, 21. 128. 6d. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Lord Ceorge Lennox
('omit Bathy-any
The Honourable F. 11. F. Berkeley, M.P.

'rue Honourable A. F. Berkeley, Fantingdon, Sussex
sir Edward Pyna, Bart, Clifford-street
i'aptatn the Hon. John Arbuthnot Keane, Army and Navy Club
The Ilobottrable Adolphus Capel
James Adam, Esq., Thames-street
ti my Wecch Burgess, Esq., Temple Park, Hampstead, Director
of the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway, and Goole, Don-
caster, and Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Great Grimsby Rail-
way, and of the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford Railway
Buriness, Esq., Stratford-grove, Essex, and 64, Cornhill,
Director of Stafford Potteries, and Liverpool and .Manchester
Direct Railway
j, ha James Cavan, Esq., 7, Charles-street, St. James's-square, Di-
rector of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway
('::plain James Edward Carnegie, Somerset-street, Portman-square,
and 'Down Hall, Inverness, Direttor of the London and. Exeter
'railway

23 Dormer, Esq., 31, Hans-place, Sloane-street, Chelsea, Director
the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend, and Exeter,
Dorchester, and Weymouth Railways,
I•ll,,nas Ferranti Dearden, Esq., Rochdale, Director of the Eastern
,Inities Junction, and Southend and Staffordshire Potteries
Railways •
aptain :Seth N. Fisher, Director of the Warwick and Worcester
Railways _

Pry. H. R. Fowler, Manchester-square, Director of the York and
Lancaster Railway
C,,ptlin Farrington, lt.N. West Cowes
Ttlqinas Finlay, Esq., 69;Cambridge-terrace, Edgware-road
Twistleton Graves, Duke-street, St. James's, Director of the
British Mutual Life Office
tin Holmes, Esq., St. James's-street, Director of the York and
iztacastcr, and Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railways
- Harley, Esq., 11, Benlomond-place, Stockwell
,nias Hodges, Esq., Connaughton-terrace, Hyde-park
::oinas Hawker, Esq., New Broad-street
Kempc, Esq., Teign Villa, Teignmonth, Leven

). B. Major, Esq., Albert-terrace, Knizhtshrichre
• cilaniei ogle, Esq., Heath-lane Lodge, Twickenham, Director of
the York and Lancaster and Eastern Counties Junction, and
Fotithend Hallways

lexander Macdonald Ritchie, Esq., Director of the York and Lan-
caster Railway
.4:ones Reed, Esq., Northbury House, Barking
T. Robinson, Esq., Barking
William Shaw, Esq., Director of the London and Birminzhiun Ex-
tension, awl South and Midlands' Junction Railways, and Managing
Director of the Royal Farmers' and Gardeners' Fire and Life and
i'l it Irsurance Company
L. W. Tuson, Esq., F.R.S., 10, Russell-place, Bedford-square
James Vicker, Esq., Markham, Director of the Armagh, Coleraine,
rand I'ortrush, Sligo and Shannon, and Dorking, Brighten, and
Arundel Atmospheric Railways
Colonel Verner

(With power to add to their number.)
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Henry Beech Burgess, Esq. B. D. Major, Esq.
Miles Dormer, Esq. William Shaw, Esq.
John Holmes, Esq. Charles Waite, Esq.
Nathaniel Ogle, Esq." Captain Fisher.
CONSULTING ENGINEER —COI. Landman, F.S.A., M.I.C.E.
ENGINEER—George Montgomery Lewis, C.E.
BANKERS—Commerclal Bank of London.
Soucrroas—Messrs. Reed and Robinson, 31, Moorgate•street.
PARI lAMENTARY AGENT—Thomas 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
.iiatoft daily ocdTsrr!ng accidents on the River Thames. With a view
to abate, if not altogether remove an evil of enormously growing
nagnitude, the dangerous navigation of the river, the present project
iv oft 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 which this great and
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 sAccted in every way adapted for the object contemplated; and
which not only combines facilities in no ordinary degree, for coal and
coasting vessels to enter at all times of the tide, at a distance far re-
moved trim the Pool (about three miles below Woolwich), hut also at
a locality, by the aid of a railway, from which the various prpduce
may be transmitted within half an hour Into the very heart of the
Cif}'.

is proposed to construct a dock at a point in that part of the
rig er, tour and a halt miles below Blackwall, called Gallion's Reach,
and thence to carry a rai,lwtoaythfeotrirasitnelles long,, through East Ham,
Pliistow, and West Hain
Eastern
sßailway at Strat-
fi‘rd, where it will join the Northern anril'o Railway, and form
a centrr.l point from which goods may be transmitted to the various
pait9, of the country which those. railways traverse, and to London.
The spot at which the dock and works will be constructed has been
.elected as being a part of the river where, at the lowest state of the
I;de, there will always be a sufficiency of water to permit the ingress
rd egress of vessels, as a reference to the Admiralty charts will
demonstrate ; by this arrangement they will be enabled to discharge
heir cargoes, leave dock, and take in ballast (which is in the imme-
i late vicinity where the Trinity House dredge is generally working),
,ihnost before they could have even reached their ordinary station lit
Pool, as at present. The great saving in time thus effected, it is
m2nifest, will be of the utmost consequence and advantage to the
,0.-niers of these vessels; and, by materially decreasing the costs,
wmull 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,
the accommodation of passengers by steam-packets and other
passing to and fro. The economy of tine thus effected will
1-o• very considerable; for, by the aid of this railway (bringing Shore-
.litch end the intended terminus at Finsbury within twenty minutes),
!,,arly three-quarters of an hour will be saved over every other mode
eonveyanec.

its moreover to be remarked, that from this spot Gravesend can
be re;iched to forty minutes, consequently the time consumed, from
_Fins,tutry to Gravesend, by this route, would be about one hour.
As the 'Eastern Counties Railway will be united to all the other
veat trmik lines, by means of the Northern and Southern Connecting
line just projected, it may be justly said that the Steam-packet
ll'horf now proposed will be the only metropolitan continental ter-

By the construction of this railway, with its very important adjunct,
coal and coasting dock, a most valuable addition will be made to
the Eastern Counties revenue, by calling into existence a traffic
kvilich, under any other circumstances, could not be created ; thereby
:evetoping to P.m proprietors of that extensive line, that its cepa-
litics have 'nitherto lain dormant, and only required the necessary
tollsivi' CO the Thames with a dock to secure to it a national depOt
Pro"..ucc from all parts of the globe to be disseminated through the
'nr:,,rotts and increasing extensions of the parent line.
rhe carriage of coal alone would add no Insignificant sum to the
nviierto declared dividends of the Eastern Counties, when it is con-

acretl that more stl'an two-and-a-half millions of tons are annually
aported into the port of London, which amount would be greatly
:treased by means of the facility of railway transmission thus

It may be proper to remark that it would be difficult to find, so
noar the metropolis, four miles course in every sense so eligible for a
so free from obstruction, and so cheap of construction, that
Cll4 coal traffic of itself would yield an ample return for the outlay.
-.2ros act:lll3es, plans, and forms of application for shares, may be had
to the solicitors, 31, Moorgate-street, London, and of Mr. D. B.
Major, 27, Change-alley, Cornhill, London; and to those parties ap-
plying from the country, to D. B. M., they will be forwarded by
i,ort

References will be required. -
the Provisional Committee of the Eastern Counties, Barking, and

`amines Junction Railway, and Coal and Coasting Dock, with
'Steamboat Wharf.

Centleinen,—l request that you will allot me shares of
231 each, in the above undertaking ; and I hereby engage to accept
the same, 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.

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1845.

DEPARTURE OF EAST AND WEST INDIA MAILS.—
SouTuAmrrox, Ocrr. 3.—The Tagus, Captain B
be-
longing to the Oriental Company, left the dock at
s ,
three
o'clock this day, with the East India and China mails, which
will be re-shipped at Malta, on board the Company's st
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
royal mail packet the Tay, Captain Sharp; left, the river yes-
terday, at four P.M. with the South American and West
India mails, in charge of Lieutenant James, the Admiralty
agent. The Tay has 107 passengers and a general cargo of
goods, including a large quantity of potatoes for the West
India markets; also 550 bottles of quicksilver, and 1501. in
looney. The homeward boupd mails are daily expected
From the West Indies.