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pedition than if transmitted to Calais, a sea passage of only 24 mileE
and usually made in two hours.

The traffic and expenditure may be fairly estimated as follows :
From 50,000 passengers, who, according to the recent re-
turng from Ostend and Antwerp, annually visit the Conti-
nent and return by this route, say, from each, on an ave-
rage, 10s. each way •••••• • • •• •• ••. • ....... • .... £30,000
For the transport of mails from the respective Governments 10,,00
Local traffic in goods and passengers .

XllO,OOO
Deduct the expenses of working the line, calculated at .... 30,000

.£BO,OOO

Thus leaving a profit of 10% per cent. to the shareholders, with
every prospect of a considerable increase annually in the traffic, as
has been by experience proved to be the result on all the...other lines
in operation in Belgium, as well as other countries.
The projected railroad would pass through a perfectly level tract
of country rich in-agricultural productions, presenting no natural
impediments to its construction, sod would require neither tunnels
nor viaducts ; and the only bridges necessary would be the spanning
of a few dykes. Thus the construction would be unattended with
heavy expense, and its working, when completed, of the same eco-
notnical character; for, as experience has shown, the most consider-
able item is working a railway is the supply of coal for the locomo-
tives ; the proximity to the port of Dunkirk, and the easy access to
the Belgian coal fields, obviate this difficulty.
This line, which has been already examined by an eminent engi-
neer, will be about sixty miles in extent from one extremity to the
other will connect in its route the towns of Calais, Gravelines, and
Dunkirk, in France, with Furness, Illeuport, and Bruges, in Bel-
gium ; thus securing a very important local traffic in goods and pas-
sengers, indepeadent of the fereign traffic before alluded to, placing
the possibility of its paying beyond all doubt.

Arrangements are in progress and strongly supported by persons of
the highest influence both in Belgium and France for obtaining the
consent of the Belgian and French Governments to the above line ;
and as it is so obviously advantageous to the former Government
to encourage the formation of a line, bringing two such important
capitals as Brussels and London within ten hours distance of each
other, and the intention of the latter to encourage the formation of a
continuous line of railway raund the coast, little doubt is entertained
by the Directors in Belgium, France, and England, of such applications
proving successful.
In the event of the applications proving unsuccessful, the deposits
will be returned, with the exception of a charge on each share, not
exceeding live shillings.

Application for prospectuses and forms of application may be made
at the Company's offices, and the offices of the solicitors, 5, Basing-
hall-street; and W the following brokers:

London—Messrs. Peppercorne, Broad-street
Manchester-,Messrs. Cardwell and Sons ; and Messrs. Green and
Lockwood
Liverpool—Messrs. T. Ceglan and Sons
Bristol—Messrs. Edwards and Co.

Leeds—Thomas ?I. Lee, Esq., Harvey— Mirfin, Esq., and Messrs.
Bell and Ledger
Hull--Messrs. Flint and Tootal
Exeter—Thomas Sandford, Esq.

Plymouth-31es rs. Hayward and Palmer.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Directors of the Calais, Dunkirk, and Bruges Junction

Railway.

Gentlemen—l request you will allot me Shares of 201.
each in this Company, and I undertake to accept the same or any
less number that may be allotted me, and to pay the deposit thereon,
and I undertake also to execute the Subscribers' Agreement, or any
other document that may be necessary, when required.
I am, Gentlemen,
Christian and Surname
Profession or Calling.
Mace of Residence ......... ........ .
Reference.... ......... ............
Usual Signature.....— .........
N.B.—To save trouble, no application will *:e attended to unless
accompanied with areference to one of tbe director;, a banker, Stock-
broker, or mercantile hoes= of known respectability.

CALAIS, DUNKIRK, AND BRUGES
JUNCTION RAILWAY.

Notice is hereby given, that no further applications for shares wit
be received in this Company after THURSDAY, the 16th instant.
By order,
PHILIP N. SCANLAN, Secretary
37 Ifoorgate-street, Oct. 13.1845.

EASTERN COUNTIES JUNCTION, and
SOUTHEND RAILWAY,
forming a direct communication between England and Belgium,
and Holland and the Rhine, from the Essex Coast ; wth a
Branch (via Tilbury) to Gravesend, and a Branch to the River
Crouch.

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Chairman—The Right Hon the Earl of _Mornington.
Deputy-Chairman—Robert A. Riddell, Esq.
Sir Henry Webb, Bart. Miles Dormer, Esq.
Wm. Bulkeley Hughes, Esq. M.P. Herbert Ingram, Esq,
William Bradley, Esq. John Nixon, Esq.
Gideon Colquhoun, Esq. A. Macdonald Ritchie, Esq.
W. A. Campbell, Esq. W. Alexander Thomas, Esq.
Nathaniel Cooke, Esq. Joseph Underwood, Esq.
John James Cavan, Esq. William Wright, Esq.
Charles Grant, Esq.
At a meeting of the Committee of Management,
GIDEON COLQUHOUN, Esq. In the Chair,
A letter from the Right Hon. the Earl of Mornington and Lord
Viscount Wellesley addressed to the solicitors to the Company,
was read.

Resolved—chat the Right Hon. the Earl of 3lornington an!
Lord Viscount Wellesley be added to the Provisional Committee.
Also, Resolved—That the Right Hon. the Earl of Mornington be
Chairman of the Committee of Management, and Robert A. Riddell,
Esq., be Deputy-Chairman.
The Committee of Management have the satisfaction of stating,
that the Allotment of Shares is proceeding with all the expedition
that the immense number of spplications will admit of, and that
Letters of Allotment will be shortly issued. In the meantime the
engineers and surveyors are actively engaged in their duties, and ail
other preliminaries are progressing for the purpose of applying for
an Act of Parliament in the ensuing session.
MINET, and SMITH, 5, Laurence Pountney-place.
CHAU.NTLEA and WESTWOOD, 8, Gray's Inn-square.
Oct. 14, 1845.

PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.
PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT.

CAMBRIDGE and COLCHESTER
RAILWAY.

Capital 800,000/., in 40,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Aare.
This Company has been formed for making the above line of rail-
way, and a list of the Provisional Committee, containing most influ-
ential names, will appear in a few days.
This railway will commence at the University town of Cambridge,
and proceed from thence to Colchester, passing through or near the
towns of Linton, Haverhill, Great Yeldham, Hedingham, and Hal-
stead, proceeding by Thorp and {Feeley to Walton-on-the-Naze.
On reference to the map, it will be seen that this line will pass
through a part of the country at present unprovided with railway ac-
commodation, and bring the town of Cambridge in close connexion
with Colchester and the fast improving seaport town of Harwich,
and by means of the railways already formed and proposed to be
formed, will open a communication with Yorkshire and all parts of
the North, with Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, Manchester, Liver-
pool, and other large manufacturing towns, and the rich mineral dis-
tricts of Staffordshire, the important towns of Birmingham and
Worcester, North and South Wales, and by the Northampton, Ban-
bury, and Cheltenham Railway, with all parts of the west of Eng-
land, as well as opening a direct communication to the important sea-
port towns on the eastern coast.

- A considerable Parliamentary grant having been made to improve
the harbour of Harwich, a Company has been formed to make large
and commodious docks at that place, and from the fact of Harwich
being directly opposite the ports of Holland (thus bringing it in com-
munication with the railways in Germany), there is no doubt bat
that Harwich will •become a first-i ate seaport town for extensive
commercial and passenger traffic, and will be a powerful feeder to
this line.

The town of Colchester is also a seaport, from which coals and
goods in large quantities are supplied to Halstead and the adjacent
populous towns and villages., and goods, flour, malt, &c., in large
quantities are shipped (supplied from the district through which this
line is proposed to pass) to London and other places.
Therefore, this line will open a communication much needed, and
there cannot be any doubt but that the undertaking is one of great
importance, as affording railway accommodation to a large and
populous district of country through which it will pass, and that it
will pay a good rate of interest on the capital invested.
From Colchester the line will proceed to the fast-improving and
much-admired watering place, Walton-on-the-Naze, passing through
Thorp and Weeley, and thereby afford railway accommodation from
the midland counties to that place of summer resort for sea-bathing.
Power will be applied for to allow 4/. per cent. on deposits and all
calls until the line is opened.
Prospectuses and plans will be forthwith ironed, and, in the mean-
time, applications for shares may be made to the Solicitors, George
Weller, Esq., 8, King's-road, Bedford-row, London ; George Pell,
jun., Esq., Welford, Northamptonshire ; and George Cooke, Esq.,
Northampton.